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"RBEPU'BLICAN AT ALL TIMES. AND UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES."
VOLUMIE 2. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1871.
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, .NTINE. CAIo,
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nt. Gt. RlOWN,---Editor.
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PRIO~PECTUS
CF THE
I:. l, :vr to establish another
r;.", ...i;al in New Orleans,
t. , ·,.. of the LorISIANTL ,
S n'ec essity which has
I..,.. _: ..: ,i ,mitimes painfully
f In the transition state
" ~. in their strugglingefforts
t.h:.t 1,,-itin in the Body
": ,' -,v ., i.(ve to be their
r. I".:r. :i;.t much infor
L.i. . 'iI .. ,encouragement,
I -lr r,,,,f havc len lost, in
. .,' the lack of a medium,
h :i tlhusedeficiencies might
1 I. We shall strive to make
: '.r \' ;t d, s, tum in these
POLICY.
:.tto indicates, the Lor
L - ll be " i r, i,'icm at ,ll
. . the .'curity and enjoy
. : ' ,rd, , i.i lil,berty, the abso
S' f ;lU mn I,.fore the law,
ili..r!id. di.trib1ii,n of hlion
i !,,.tr". ..:ge to ,:11 who merit
la f allying animosities, of
t. . il memory of the bitter
" :ting liharmony and union
S I,;-s and between all in
:- ' -hll a;dvocate the removal
1.. di ailii:°s .foster kind
" i ,,r,,nce, where maligui.'f
r, :ut re.igned, and seek for
l tice where wrong and
S' ilel. Thus united in
jI j ct. we shall conserve
-t±, elevate our noble
. i:nle position amon
,, te development
. .; " urces, and secure
"f the mighty changes
v ,L]:1 condition of the
(',untry.
i .:t there can be h1o true
':'~ 'npremaey of law,
:trict and undiscrimi
.-:ration of justice.
T .\XATION.
,rit thie doctrine of an
.i.n of taxation among
. td collection of the
.":.v: in the expendi
:LL..y;I with the exigen
": 's,,,,r Colulnty and the
"-:,I very legitimate obliga
];bUC.ATION..
tai- n the carrying out of
'::-" the act establishing
' L,:i ,cho- system, and urge
' u :'it duty the education of
.. dvitdly connected with
" .liht,.nment, and the seen
. 'lity of a Republican
FINAL.
"",`i manly, independent,
S ..:;"~unduct, we shall strive
-""' C pI, lr, from an el)hem
:. , p',urary existence, and
'."up.u a Ila.sis, that if we
'tu. a,w, " we shall at all
S rve " succeses.
ALIIERT EYRICH,
otiler and Statlioner
'1 C-ŽLNL STREET.
POETRY.
ANOTHER YEAR.
BT NORAE PERRY, IN JANtARY "OGALA.T."
"Another year," she said, "another year.
These roses I have watched with so much
care,
Have watched and tended without pain or
fear,
Shall bud and bloom for me exceeding
fair
Another year," she said, "another year."
"Another year," sh ,ldw "another year,
My life perhaps may bud and bloom
again,
May bud and bloom like these red roses
here,
Unlike them, tended with regret and
pain
Another year perhaps, another year."
"Another year, ah yes, another year,
When bloom my roses, all my life shall
bloom;
When summer comes, my summer too'll
be here,
And I shall cease to wander in this
gloom
Another year, ah yes, another year."
"For ah, another year, another year,
I'11 set my life in richer, stronger soil,
And pru;ne the weeds away that creep too
near,
And watch and tend with never-ceasing
toil. -
Another year, ah yes, another year."
Another year, alas! another year,
The roses all lay withering ere their
prime,
Poor blighted buds, with scanty leaves
and sere,
Drcooling and dying long before their
time -
Another year, Alas ! another year,
Anid h, aiiother year, another year,
Low. li," the blighted dying buds, she
lay.
I Wh,1 e voice had prophesied without a
I-ar,
Whoe hand had trimmed the rose-tree
da1y by day;
I To blo, another year, another year.
1 NEWSPIIER BLINDER.
It devolved upon a certain re
porter, upon a country paper, to
write for the same edition, an ac
count of the presentation of a gold
headeld cane to the Rev. Dr. Jones,
the clergyman of the place, and a
patent hog-killing and sausage mak
ing machine, which had just gone
into operation. When the foreman
of the composing-room received the
two locals, he cut them into small
pieces, as usual, for distribution
among the r Pe setters. A mistake
must have been mnsde in numbering
the "copy," for when the paper went
to press, the two reports wetr mixed
min ,cn a frightful manner, that the
following, or something like it, was
the result:
"Several of Rev. Dr. Jones' friends
called upon him yesterday, and after
a brief conversation the unsuspi
cions hog was seized by the hind
legs and slid along a beam until he
reached the hot water tank. His
friend explained the object of their
visit and presented him with a very
handsome gold headed butcher who
grabbed him by the tail, swung him
around, slit his throat from ear to
ear, and in less than a minute the
carcase was in the water. Thereupon
he came forward and said that there
were times when the feelings over
powered one, and for that reason
he would not attempt to do more
than thank those around him for
the manner in which a huge animal
was cut into fragments was simply
astonishing The doctor concluded
his remarks, when the machine
seized himi and in less time than it
takes to write it, the hog was cut
into pieces and worked up into de
licious sausage. The occasion will
long be remembered by the doctor's
friends as one of the most delight
ful of their lives. The best pieces
can be procured for fifteen cents a
pound, and we are sure that those
who have sat so long under his
ministry will rejoice that he has
been treated so handsomelv."
The entire congregation of Dr.
Jones's church stopped taking the
paper immediately.
-"Father, do ships make nails ?"
"No my son-why do you ask ?"
"Why, cos I heard our captain say
that the ship had made two tacks
within the last half hour."
The Middle of the Year.
"There is a father with twice
six sons ; these sons have thirty
daughters apiece, parti-colored,
having one cheek white and the
other black, who never saw each
other's face, nor live above twenty
four hours."
The problem of Time is most dif
ficult to solve ; all nations adopt
some particular year as a chronolo
gical basis.
Our Christians era dates from the
time when Christ was born, but was
not introduced as a basis of reckon
ing until the Sixth Century. Some
chronologists reckon the year be
fore the birth of Christ, while others
compute from the actual year our
Saviour was born.
The Romans adopt the year, and
even the day, which history assigns
as the date of the foundation of
Rome.
A change was effected in the
calendar by the two first Caesars,
which was afterward slightly altered
and still forms the standard for
computing the length and divisions
of the year.
The Olympiade or Greek mode
depended on chronological groups,
each four years in length, and
which began in commemoration cf
an event connected with the Olym
pic games.
The Mohammedan era dates from
the flight of Mohammet to Medina,
and is known as the Hegira or fight.
The creation of the world has
been adopted as the commencement
of a universal era,; but authorities
do not agree as to the number of
years which elapsed between that
event and the birth of Christ, there
being one hundred and forty dif
ferent computations of this interval.
The earliest calenders, as the Jew
ish, the Egyptian, and the Greek,
did not place the commencement of
the year at this point, that is in
January. It was not done till the
formation of the Roman calender,
usually attributed to the second
king, Numa Pompillius, whose reign
ended 627 B. C. Numa added two
new months to the old ten, and
called the first Januarius, in honor
of Janus, the deity supposed to pre
side over doors, who might very na
turally be supposed to have some
thing to do with the opening of the
year.
This deity was represented as a
man with two faces, one looking
backward and the other forward,
implying that he stood between the
old and the new year, with regard
to both.
On New Year's Day the Romans
sacrificed to Janus, a cake of new
sifted meal, with salt, incense, and
wine, and all the mechanics began
something of their art of trade; the
men of letters did the same as to
books, poems, etc., and the consuls,
though chosen before, took the
chair and entered upon their office
this day.
The ancient Jewish year opened
with the 25th of UMarch, and in
England it was not until 1752 that
the first of January became the
initial day of the legal year.
In Scotland the change was made
in 1600 by a decree of James VI.
It was effected in France in 1564,
and in Holland, Protestant Ger
manDy and Russia in 1700, and in
Sweden in 1753.
According to Verstegan, this
month was originally called by the
Saxons, Wolf-monat, that is Wolf
month, still later, the month wua
called by the same people A~fler
Yale, that is after Christmas; while
we retain the Saxon names for the
days of the week we have entirely
abandoned those of the months.
The institation of Christmas box
es is umdoubtedly akin that of New
Year's gifts, and like it has descen
ded to us from the times of the an
cient Romans, who at the season of
the Saturnalia, practiced universal
ly the custom of giving and reeeir
ing presenta.
The fathers of the Church de
nounoed the observance ·on the
grounds of pagan origin, but by
omne means have the anrdit oforigi
nating the practice from the name
Christmas--Mass, from the Latin
micto, to send.
There-are various customs of bid
ding adieu to the old and welcom
ing the New Year, some sportive,
others serious, others in which both
the mirthful and serious are inter
mingled. By some it is fired out,
and the New Year fired in, by a dis
charge of fire-arms; others open the
house door at twelve o'clock, that
one n; . l\t esdha other come
in. At *(Mirghead, in
Scotland, the evening is celebrated
by burning of the " Clavie."
In the island of Guernsey it used
to be the practice of children, to
dress up the figure of a man, parade
with it, and then bury it by the
seashore, or in some retired spot.
The English dissenters had mid
night service, and gave welcome to4
the New Year with prayer and songs
of praise.
Charles Lamb says of New Year's
day, that no one of whatever rank
can regard it with indifference. He
says:
"Of all sounds of all bells, most
solemn aad touching, is the peal
which rings out the old year. I
never hear it without a gathering
up of my mind to a concentration
of all the images that have been
diffused over the past twelve
months; all I have done or suffered,
performed or neglected in that
regretted time, I begin to know its
worth, as when a person dies. It
takes a personal color; nor was it a
poetical flight in a contemporary
when he exclaimed:
• I saw the skirts of the departing year."
We will quote two of the exquisite
lines upon the beautiful custom of
rINVIca(; OUT THE OLD TEAR.
'" Ring out. wild bells, to the wild sky
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night ;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring happy bells acr'ss the snow:
The year is going, let him go:
Ring out the false, ring in the true." t
[From the Plaquemines Republican.] B
Senator Butler Attacked by ,
Algerine Corsairs. I
--- a
'11E FIFTH DISTRICT A::D SREATOR
UTTLER. c
At a large and enthusiastic meet- a
ing of the Algiers Radical Repub- 11
lican Club, on motion of Captain g
Winm. L. Loan, tle following resolu- I
tions were unanimously adopted: v
"Whereas, Edward Butler, State c
Senator representing this District, o
was elected mainly upon the ground ji
of his pledged hostility to the cor- ii
rupt administration of Governor I
W armoth; and whereas, his actions a
in accepting a place upon the bogus ii
State Committee, and in his advo- F
cacy of and voting for P. B. S. t
Pinchback as the successor to our t
late lamented Lieutenant Governor,
Oscar J. Dann, thus supporting a 1
man who, by his own confession, I
uses his oficial position to further r
his private fortune, and whose past
course has shown how utterly uafit f
he is to support the dignity of z
Lieutenant Governor of a great 1
commonwealth, prove that the 1
opinions of Senator Butler have
been materially changed while those
of his constituents have maintained
unalterable, be it
Resolved, That the said Edward
Butler has entirely lost the confi
dence of the people of this district,
and we do hereby call upon him to
resign the position of State Senator
be now holds.
Reeolved, That the people of the
perish of Plaquemines be notihed
of these proceedings, and requested
to endorse them, and that these re
solutions be published in the Na
tional Rpdublican.
After speeches by Mesras. Villere,
Dumont and LaTourette, the club
adjourned.
Theabmpemieu meeaustarts
with a base mad duiurte li. Sen
,ator Butter rin no sense an anti
Sadmitrtion eend~dos-e the
c contrary, the eonvention that nomi
nated, and the electors who voted
for him, were all supporters of War
moth and his administration, and
so remain even unto this day.
The candidates of the anti-ad
ministration party were C. C. Pack
ard, in Plaquemines, and one Camp,
in Algiers, who in consequence re
ceived a Waterloo defeat, and who
both left their country for their
country's good, and were left out
side the Senate, for their own and
that of the State. Laus DIo.
But the impudence of the above
resolutions is also absolutely sub
lime. Three old women, and no
bodies; who represent nothing, but
their vile and insignificant selves,
and they could represent nothing
worse, if they represented Pande
monium; get together in some dark
chamber or five cent grocery in Al
giers, and in humble imitation of
the three tailors of Tooley street
who commenced a proclamation with
-"We, the people of England,"
draw up the above resolutions, cal
ling upon Senator Butler to resign.
. Now, Senator Butler's represen
tation of Algiers, through the machi
nations of these very men is little
more than nominal; at the last
election, if we recollect a right
about seventeen hundred votes
were cast in Algiers, and of which
Senator Butler only received about
one hundred and fifty,.... the rest
being given to,....not cast for
Camp, the candidate of these same
men at the aforesaid election, and a
min every way fit to represent them;
which in a word, sums up our pro
found contempt for him and them ,
and means more than a thousand
Philippics,had Justice been reversed
but by some political legerdemain,
only too well understood by Packard
and Company ; the result was sub
stantially as stated above, and for
any further information upon the
subject, we refer to Captain Edge
worth, who however would hardly
like to be put upon oath, as to cer- 1
tain, not very harmless pleasantries
.. perpetrated upon the ballot
box at the police station, in Algiers,
on the night of the election and
which were fully exposed in the t
Legislature, in the contest for Buch
anan's seat therein, and which can
now be proved, if necessary, by
competent testimony.
Now, with due reference, to the
above curious facts, we say that But- c
ler does not represent much in Al
giers, but it is equally certain that
Packard, Villiere and Dumont, do t
in no sense, nor under any possible 8
circumstances, represent the people t
of Algiers, and Senator Butler has 1
just reason to believe, that his action
in voting for Lieutenant Governor
Pinchback, meets the unqualified
approval of an overwhelming major
ity of the aru. people of Algiers,
probably of all, except the scum and
the offscourings of society and the
three old women above referred to.
So much for Algiers, and now for 1
Plaquemines, glorious invincible, old
Plaquemines. In this parish, if we
recollect maright, Butler received I
over twenty-seven hundred bona-2
fide votes, and he as fully represents
now the electors who cast those
votes as hedid then and as far ai
we are able to learn, and our sources
of information are first rate; the
whole of those same electors fully
approve and applaud his action In
voting for Pinchback, which fact will
be fully demonstrated, as soon as
meetings ean be called to take the
nIecessaery action in the premises,
but had Senator Butler voted for
Coupland or any member of the
Customhouse clique, he andoubted
ly would have been called upon to
in by his constituents in this
parish, who fully approve and ratify
his action at the late election, gti
a full and individed support to
Warmoth sad his administrtion,
and are moreover fully prepared in
November, 1872, to proclaim
through the ballot-box, in tones
thunder, their utter condemnation
of the OCustomhouse clique and all
who sstain them, evem bheked by
U. S. Troops and Ostlin guns; for
there is in this free omfry soe.
thing stramgr even tha ther, to
wit: the enlightened public opinion
of the State which is too strong to
be frightened; too pure to be mis
led, and which alike condemns the
Yankee Packard for his meanness
and the Southron Carter for his
treachery, and which will soon con
sign both to that insignificance and
and obscurity, from which they rose
by a strange freak of fortune and
to which they will be returned, by
a solemn fiat of justice.
SI WALTEtR S(TF'S LAST TEAllS
Even now, when he has been so
long at rest, and a new generation
has arisen, and new fames fill the
world, it is impossible to think of
the tragedy of Scott's declining
years without a poignant and per
sonal sorrow as over the fate of a
dear friend. Suddenly the misfor
tune came-the enormons losses
and debts-and he put the great
heart and the great shoulders to
the tremendous struggle. The
beneficient genius that had so long
gayly played only to delight the 1
fascinated world was in a moment
wrestling desperately with death for
honor and existence. He owed
nearly six hundred thousand dol
lars; and of this vase sum, by stren
nous and relentless toil, breaking
his heart and consuming his brain,
he paid within four years consider
ably more than half. Alas! he paid
with his life and with his mind.
The cloud fell thicker and more
heavily. His wife died; everything
failed but his own heroism, and the 1
love and pity of mankind. There -
are glimpses in the memoirs of that
time-glimpses inexpressibly sad-
of the dying man in Italy, at Naples,
upon the Campagna. It is only
the shadow of the stalwart Scott.
He site for houra gazing upon the
sea; he moves restlessly about, he
repeats, in a tone so mournful that
the heart breaks to hear, snatches
of the old, old ballads that his youth
loved, and which are dear to all
men who speak his language be
cause he loved them. Then he
comes home to die. Gentle as a
child, he was unspoiled by the flat
tery of a world. Through the mists
of a fast fading mind looks out that
true and tender manhood which is -
forever memorable. "Be a good
man, my dear," he whispers, to his
son-in-law, Lockhart, and on a soft
September afternoon, thirty-nine
years ago, with all the windows
wide open, and the gentle ripple of
the Tweed murmuring upon the
air, while his children knelt around
the bed, Walter Scott died, "and
his eldest son kissed and closed his
In his case that prayer which we
quoted of one of his successors was
fuifilled - "May love and truth
guide such a man always!" For of
any man who ever held so large a
place in the heart of his contempo
raries and their children, and who
had so great a power, conld it be
more truly said then of Sir Walter
Scott, that he was guided always by
love and truth!"-Harp"r's Maga
uie.
Tax Rxcn A r THE PooL--What
is wealth? Wealth is whatever men
can realize from Natmre for their
sustemnance and enjoyment. labor
is what realises it. Prudence saves
from it, and the savings become
capital, which helps to extend and
multiply the operations of labor,
and thus cresates more scpiltal. The
wealthy sre composed of those who
have inherited propty from others
those who have acequired it aesiden
tally, and these who have realised
it for themselves. The poor, in like
manner, are eomposlmd of those who
h..einherited poverty from others,
thoee who have become poor by a
sidma, and tohes who hve brought
upo themselvesa The moat
is by idissum A man will not
work; he seahas no wealth; heis of
work. r r h mqudr inom
!ikdlumanuu tm a _ it
Ihas ever bna,- ib ty.-That
!omly oem d y rumm y.
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Two 7 9 '12 20. 35
Three 9 1 90 35 50
Four 15 2S 35 . m 70
Fire O2 35 45 60 85
Six 14 42 50 70 100
1 Column. 45 80 190 175 250
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insertk.
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Funeral Notices printed oa shortest no
tice sand with quickest dispatch.
f, Circulars, Programmes, General
Badness Cards, Posts, ete, etc., guar
&nteed to give gensal stishation to all
who may wish to secure our seices.
P-R PB I SZOMA1 L.
JOHN B. HOWARD.
LAW OFFICE,
2S St. Charles Street 26
New Orleans.
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State.
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LAW,
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Criminal business in the State and United
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