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£ ♦ ♦ "REPUBLICAN AT ALL TIMES, AND UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES." VOLUME 2. i NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1872. NUMBER 50. ie Louisianian. htlshed every saturday loffice 111 CaRONDELET BrBEET, N ew O kleass L a. b.G. BROWN,—Editor. uj- Tkbjw or Subsceiptiok: "*3; «TE*» $ ? 5j| , 1 «0 M ostsr 75 ; C opt 6 I^CircnlsM, Programme«, Genera ms Cards, Posters, etc., etc., guar j to give general satisfaction to all I, may wish to secure our services. PROSPECTUS OF THE jsijumssb. I is the endeavor to establish another mblican journal in New Orleans, e proprietors of the Locisianian, to fill a necessity which has along, and sometimes painfully— I to exist. In the transition state bonr people, iu their struggling efforts ii attain that position in the Body He, which we conceive to be their , it is regarded that much infor guidance, encouragement, nel ami reproof have been lost, in qnenco of the lack of a medium, gh which these deficiencies might |i applied. We shall strive to make i Locisianian a desideratum in these POLICY. |ii our motto indicates, the Loui Khali" Republican at all iwd unc~ " ircumstcmees" We ■11 advocate t enrity and enjoy at a! broad j;vü j:V.erty, the absö tte equality of all rnoa before the law, |n3 sa impartial distribution of hon : 6.'iil patronago to oil who . merit to. [Desirous of allaying animosities, of |ä»r*tiuc ihn inoinory of the bitter it,«' promoting knrmony and nnion mg all eluss'js and botweon nil in , we shall artvocato tTio removal fill politic;! disabilities , foster kind caadforbcarauce, whera malignity itesenhn ;.nt reigned, and seek for raws and jp-tico whero wrong and prevailed. Thus united in imms fin i objects, wcshall conserve îbest interests, elevate our noble I to an enviable position among Baiter States, by the development |fe illimitable resources, and secure ^ full benefits of the mighty changes 'Hie history and condition of the : and the Country. I Miming that there can bo no true r without the supremacy of law, |'i»ll urge a strict aud undiacrimi |*àg administration of justice. taxation. lethal!support the doctrine of an wblo division of taxation among ''daises, a faithful collection of the sum , economy in the expendi conformaWy with the exigen Stato or Country and the 8« of every legitimate obliga education. I * e «hall sustain the carrying out of ons of the act establishing '«anion sohool system, and urge I* 'P'ttaount duty the education of * ttnth, as vitally connected with Ik 0lrn en lightenment, and the seen I ">4 stability of a Republican aent. FINAL. _ 'generous, manly, independent, I - ; conduct, we shall strive L** 0 « paper, from an ephem tem P orai T existence, and E***« a basis, that if we "command," we shall at all "toerve" success. ALBERT l^llcr EYBICH, and Stationer CANAL STREET, Orkans, Louiaivna. 1 POLITICAL NOTICES. Rooms begulau republican state central committee, New Orleans, Jone 26, 1872. Caul for the ülxction or addiiionax delegate to the adjourned session of the Republican State Convention, to meet An>p»i 9, 1872, at the Mechanics' Institute, city of New Orleans, at 12 M., puniuant to. the following resolution, adopted by the State Convention,- held June 19,1872, at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to wit: Resolved, That the State Central Co mmi ttee be authorized to call upon the different parish organiza tions to double the number of their delegates |o theconvention to meet on August 9tb. I do iiersby issue this my call to the va rious Republican Parish Committees throughout the State to immediately take the necessary steps for holding eloctions for an additional number ot delegates to attend the adjourned meeting of the Re publican State Convention, to meet in Me chanics' Instituto, New Orleans, August 9. 1872. „ .... The object of this Convention is to no minate a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Ac counts. Attorney General and Represent!» tivcH ill Congress, find to troiiBRct such other business as may come before it. The additional representation in said Convention shall be as follows, viz: Parishes. No. of Del. Ascension * Avoyelles ® Assumption « • •• * Baton Rouge, East 4 Baton Rouga, West * Bossier £ Bienville £ Calcasieu * Cameron ^ 5 2 I 2 4 6 4 Catahoula Concordia Caddo Caldwell j Carroll * Claiborne j: De Soto j Feliciana, East * Feliciana, West * Franklin ~ Grant JJ Iberia * Iberville ® Jackson ~ Jefferson « Latayette 2 Livingston Lafourche Morehouse Madison. Natohitoches Ouachita ....8 ....6 ....2 ....2 ....4 ....4 ....4 ....4 ....2 Plaquemies Pointe Coupee Richland Rapides Sabine St. Bernard St Helena. St. John Baptist St. Martin St. Charles. St. James St. Landry St. Mary Tangipahoa Terrebonne Tensas Union Vermilliom Red River Vernon v 3t Tammany * Winn Washington Webster Orleans—First Ward Second Ward Third Ward. Fourth Ward. * Fifth Ward. •• •« Sixth Ward 2 Seventh Ward. « Eighth Ward j Ninth Ward.. » Tenth Ward ■••••* Eleventh Ward. ' * " „ Twelfth Ward. jj Thirteenth Ward 2 Fourteenth Ward Right Bank 4 An d I do hereby recommond that the various elubs throughout the State should immediately proceed to enroll their mem bers and to adopt by-laws providing that none shall participate in the business or elections of the primary organizations, except sueh as are enrolled members. By order of the Committee. HUGH J. CAMPBELL, President Republican State Central Com mittee Attest: o A " Wratxm G. B rown , Secretary. Republican papers throughout the State are requested to copy. TTEADQUARTERS STATE CENTRAL JtlCommittee Regular Repu blican PMty of Louisiana. No. 1ft Dryades Street, Now Orleans, July 9,1872. _ Thé State Central Committee of the Re gular Republican Party meets daffy at 1 iheeo heodqnartem Co-workers, and Mends from the city and parishes, are invited to calL Office hours from 10 o clock a. m. to 3 o'clock P. M. By order of the Committee. WM. G. BROWN, Secretary. Republican papers please copy. TT ALL FOURTH WARD R. R. » CLUB IT New Orleans, July " The following resolutions or George Jones, were unanimon Whereas, The Convention heM s* Baton Rouge on the 19th of June 1878, did no«w nateonsW. P. Kellogg, for;Govern»« this State, and, I, sah Whereas, said nomination was obtained through fraud, intimidation aÄd fsiKual interference, bronçh» about by S.R. B«k ard, Jas. H. Ingsihas», and Jas. F. Casey; and, Idnominaffons does not ex Of the delegates nor the press thé and, sss the Cen-netian refcsed to treat on terms of ewnttty s with tha JPinchback committee then assemUed il liston Roui àum by setting aside bé1t " ' Resolved, That W» the 4th WardR. R nominations made " mittee, and condei Convention. ' r ' Signed. B. C. HOWARD, President. A F lüche, Jr., Secretary. the Com of said AD8RESS TO THE REPUBLICANS AND PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA. * of Louisiana, No. 16 Dryades street ^ New Orleans, Jane 29, 1872. ) A convention of the regular Re publican party has adjourned to meet on the ninth of August next in the Mechanic's Institue, in the city of New Orleans. By a resolu tion of this convention, the basis of representation in the same has been doubled, and an election has been ordered for an additional number of delegates to the same, equal in number to the whole delegation al ready elected. The object in this is to afford an opportunity to all the people of this State who approve of the principles herein set forth to take part in the deliberations of the convention, and in the nomination of capable, honest and representa tive men, who havo their homes and interests in Louisiana, upon a ticket and platform of principles which shall secure the support of all the good people of this State. In the present confuscd and tran sition state of political parties we recognize three universal and pow erful sentiments, which run through the hearts of a large majority of the people of this State, without dis tinction of party. These are: First—A desiro for an honest, economical and stable government, administered by representative men of character and capacity, who shall be chosen without distinction from any official ring. Second—A conviction that the interests of all the people of this State are identical, and a desire for a growth of new political relations, which shall obliterate past class aud sectional animosities, and cultivate that muLual conciliation and good will which is essential to our com mon prosperity, and to the perman nent success of any political party; and Third—A growing recognition of the good policy and necessity of a closer alliance between the voters of the Republican party and that portion of the native population of the Stato which has hitherto ab stained from political affairs on ac count of differences created by the late civil war. With such a party, based upon such liberal and bene ficient principles, wc bclievo that the rights of the colored people would ne safer and better protected, the liberty of opinion and the po litical interests of the ex-Union sol dier, the Northern settler, and the old Union citizen, more cordially and completely secured and the in telligcnce and property of the State, and tho rights of the native Confed erate Southerner be better repre sented than is possible under any other practical combination. In these promises, we say to the Republicans of the State that in the organization and upon the basis presented by us, is their sole hope for electing apy Republican officers in the State, and for preserving their party. * The success of the Custom house stato ticket nominated at Ba ton Rougè is hopeless, and if the fortunes of the Republican par ty are attached to it, its defeat is certain. To demonstrate this, we call their attention to the history of the Packard-Customhouse convention at Baton Rouge, which has assumed to present candidates to the people of this State in the name of the Re publican party. Messrs. Packard, Casey, Herwig, Stockdale & Co. set out to control tho Republican convention called for August 9,1671, in the interest of their Customhouse ring, with a view of getting control of the State government at this election for them selves and their associates. To do this they conspired to control that convention. With this design they nought* and obtained permission to use thé Customhouse building, the marshals of the United States courts, and the forces ot the United States army. In defiance of all deccnçy and respect for public opinion, and to the great scandal of the national government, they convoked the con vention to assemble in a United States courtroom in the Costom house. They rejected all protests of their Republican fellow-citizens with tho imperial insolence and s of Eastern satraps. To sure of controlling the pri mary organization of the conven tion, and, in defiance of all known rules for the organization of such ies, Messrs. Packard, Casey and oo-conspirators undertook to " delegates, except such as they admitted, from a voice in the haughtiness < makes the public for one whole dayui or der that the lobby. a$ well as the floor of the convention, should be packed by their own partisans. To further intimidate and coerce the delegates, they filled the building with special deputy United States marshals armed for the occasion, To complete these - extraordinary preparations for a political conven tion and to emphasize the inaugu ration of this new style of con sulting tho wishes of the people, they obtained the necessary order from the military authorities and fortified tho closed Customhouse with Gatlin guns and garrisoned it with United States soldieis under arms. One hundred and ten dele gates to the convention, being., a majority, disgusted and indignant at these tyrannical proceedings, turned away from the Customhouse and assembled in Turner Hall. The State Central Committee appointed by that convention has by its au thority convoked the présent one. Ou tho nineteenth of June Mr. Packard and his partisans called a convention at Baton Rouge to nom inate candidates for the State offi ces. The Customhouse cabal could not keep good faith even with their own confederates. In order to se cure the nomination of the favorites of tlieiv own ring, and obey instruc tions from a "higher authority," they expelled from their convention all representative and independent men, and seated strangers, intru ders, carpet-baggers and proxies of their own creation, until their con vention consisted of Customhouse officials, internal revcuue tax collec tors and postmasters. Customhouso employes, who were elected as delegates to tho Baton Rouge convention wero openly threatened with dismissal from offi ce by United States Marshal Pack ard if they failed to voto as he dic tated. The lists of delegates elected as furnished to the State Central Committee by the parish and ward clubs wero suppressed by Mr. Packard for four weeks previous to the meeting of the convention, and the names of delegates were not allowed to bo made known to members of tho committcc. Lists of delegates pledged to the ring candidates wero manufactured iu the United States marshal's office and foisted upon the co nvention as thé regularly elected delegates. Lobby tickets wero issued, so that all access even to the lobby was denied to any but the partisans of Mr. Packard. Mr. Casey refused, in tho presenco of several woll kuown gontlemen, to assure his Customhouse employes that their places should not be imperiled if they voted independently of Mr. Pack ard's dictation. Mr. Packard and his instruments, when they dis covered that a majority of the convention favored union with the regular Republicans, substituted a fraudulent resolutions in place of the one really offered, by which such insulting conditions were imposed that union was made impossible. They refused all honorable offers of union with the regular Republicans for the sole reason that such com promise would intefei'0 with the Customhouse state for nominations. The President and secretary of the. convention were convicted in open session of fraudulently altering their own rolls. Credentials were withheld from legally elected dele gates unless they would pledge themselves to vote as Mr. Packard ordered them. Finally, by a series of fraudulent, corrupt and tyranni cal measures, they rammed the choice of a small Customhouse ring down tho throats of the convention in the place of able ano wollknown Republicans, who woro really their choice, drove away over one-half of their own members, and cut them selves off from tho whole body of regular Republicans, so that success under their lead, and with their tickct, is impossible. This convention, so constituted, in obedience to the will of its mas ter, James F. Casey, and his chief tool, S. B. Packard, nominated- an ex-United States collector of cus toms and a Johnson Democrat and a resident of Illinois for Governor, who was the defender of the mas sacre of 1866, who refused to em ploy a single colored man in the Customhouse and who refused to vote for Mr. Sumner's civil rights bill in tho United States Senate; a man who has never had a perma nent residence in this State, has never been indentified with the Re publican party and who is a sub servient creature of tho military ring at Washington. Their candidate for Lieutenant Governor is a Wilderness Senator, who last winter conspired with Customhouse men and Democrats to overthrow the Republican State government. We therefore say in all honesty and candor to tho whole body of Republican and colored voters in Louisiana» without to past differences, that the hope for the permanent preservation of their rights and the continued success of Republican principles rests in the thorough reform, the broader reorganization of the party and the more cordial relations with the native people of the state, to be attained under the leadership of this organization upon tho basis above sot forth. To the ex-Union soldier and the native Union Southerner we say that to preserve their interests from tho disastrous defeat which awaits the Customhouse clique, and also from tho inimical reaction threat ened by the restoration of old Democratic organizations and prej udices, and to do their part in wip ing out past animosities and further ing closer and more friendly alliance with tho old peoplo of the State, as well as to keep faith and discharge their obligations to the colored people who have stood so firmly and faithfully by tham, wo have opened the only safe and honest road for them and us to follow. To that large portion of that Southern people who have not hither acted with the Republican party, but who have earnestly dc sired a reorganization of political parties, to secure an honest, stable economical government, and who are willing to extend an earnest, full and cordial rdcognition of the newly acquired rights of tho col ored men, and also to accord them eqnal chances of advancement, man for man, according to their cliarac tor ability intelligence, we say, frankly and boldly, that a new era has arrived, which, if approached with the same candor and liberality on their side as on ours, will remove tho clouds that have lowered over us since reconstruction, conciliate all classes of our people, and restore our State to its ancient posperity, dignity aud independence. We, therefore, for the best inter ests of Louisiana, and all her peo ple, with an honest desiro to savo the just rights of all classes—to in auguratc an era of good fellowship between her citizens, and to restore to our State "a government of the people, for the people, and by the people," invite all who agree with the principles and sentiments above set forth to join in electing adition al delegates to the convention ad journed to August 9, and to assist in there embodying these principles in authoritative form, and in select ing the best men to carry them into execution. By order of the commiltee. statz at large. P. B. S. Pinchback, 0. F. Hunsaker, A. E. Barber, H. L. Swords, •John Parsons, M. H. Twitchell, E. C. Morphy, H. C. Meyers, N. Underwood. E.V. Leelerc. first congressional district. H. Mahoney, 0. Rey. second congressional district. Patrick Creagh, J. C. Oliver. third congressional district. G. -G. Fisk, A. R. Francis. FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. E. W. Dewees, R. Blunt fifth congressional district. W. Jasper Blackburn, A. B. Harris. HUGH J. CAMPBELL, President. War. G. Brown , Secretary. Will. H. Green , Assistant Secretary. Summer Resort. S TOKE 'S HOTEL, The undersigned take pleasure in an nouncing that they have completed the renovating, fitting up and supplying of their Summer Resort at Bay St. Lonip, and are ready to accommodate all who de sire to patronize them. The rates of Board ore: Per day $2 23 "week 15 00 " month 50 00 S. J. STOKES & CO. Bay St. Louis, July 1, 1872. A Weighty Rebuke .—A Clergy man once preached a very long ser mon from the text: "Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting." After the congregation had lis tenod about an hour, some began to grow weary and went out, others soon followed, groatly to the annoy ance of the minister. Whereupon he stopped in his sermon and said:— "That is right, gentlemen, a« fast, as you are weighed pass out." No one else passed out "Who. is he?" said a passer by to a policeman who was endeav oring to raise an intoxicated inde vidual, who had fallen into the gutter. " Can't say, sir," replied the policeman. "He can't give an account of himself." "Of course, not," sud the other. "How can you expect an account from a man who has lost his bal ?" HURRAH FGR PINl 'HBACK. ' tnou the ibekvillb new?. In hoisting the name of Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback, and declaring him our candidate for the gubernatorial nomination from the forthcoming Convention of the Republican party, we but give expression to the almost unanimous sentiment of the colored people of this State. Nor is Mr. Pinchbock less acceptable to those white Republicans who res pect him for his many fine qualities, than to those colored ones who rc him ior his devotion to his race. Tho success of our party is to us an objcct of higher considera tion, than tho agrandizement of any one of its favorite leader?. But victory will always perch upon its banners, when its command is en trusted to that central figure toward whom all eyes are involuntarily turned. That our candidate is the only man in Louisiana to-day, who is capable to consolidate the Repub lican party, will bo denied by no candid observer cf tho political sit uation. If we desiro to go into the campaign under a standard-bearer who will carry us, that standard bearer must be Pinchback. If we choQse to bo burdened with some political barnaclo whom we must carry, let us become the demoralized followers of some manipulator who wiU inspire our ranks with neither enthusiasm nor confidence. Under the able lead of Hon. P. G. Dcslonde, the Republicans of Iberville shall increase, for Grant and Wilson, their majorités of past years. And while we are yet troubled with the precccnce of a small cliquo of Customhouse hench men, whose leaders are in full ac cord with our leading Democrats, with Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback at the head of Our State ticket, the Re publican party of this parish would go to tho polls, a unit, on next No vember. In urging upon tho attention of the Republican party of Louisiana represented in Convention at New Orleans, on the ninth of next month, the claims of tho distinguished col ored man whose name is becoming a household word through the land, we emphatically disclaim any inten tion to establish, or countenance the establishment of a party whose distinguishing feature would be color. In the present anomalous condition of political society, any other course than the one we have selected, points tho way of defeat And we are of those to whom dis comfiture would be no less morti fying, because the unpopular leader to whom it was chargeablo was a white man. Nor should wc deem a victory under P. B. S. Pinchback any less, for the reason that oar standard-bearer was a man of a different race. It is not possible to ask a man to return borrowed goods, books, money, or anything elso, without putting in peril the beautiful friend ship on the strength of which he fleeced yon. He was a wise man who said to his friend wishing to borrow, "You and I are now good Iriends. If I lend you money and you do not pay it, we shall quarrel. If I refuse to lend you, I suppose we will quarrel If I refuse to lend you, I suppose we will quarrel. There are two chance? of a quarrel, and I think I will keep the money rather than run the risk of losing it and you." He had in miud the old saw: " I had my money and my friend, I lent my money to'my friend, I asked my money of my friend, I lost money and my friend." Coüldn't Fool Her .—Some ladies and gentlemen were taking a walk near a cemetery, when a ghost .ap peared. They all ran with the ex ception of one pretty widow,, who stood her ground tÜl the "ghost" got to her. She then wont for the spectre, and thrashed out of his dis guise a young' fellow who merely wanted to frighten the party. Leading her ^ victim back to the house, the widow cried—-"Can't fool wc—i have seen too many men in sheets, in my time ! - JUDGE ScOUM. McCunn, the judge of the Su perior Court ot this city who was last week convicted of corrupt con duct in office by a unanimous vote of the Senators—except Tweed, who was absent—died on Saturday last of a broken haart, as he himself said, and as indeed appears of the effects of chagrin combined with, thoso of the heat and attack of pneumonia. He was of a vain and cowardly nature,. and though so long ago as when he was at the bar and for these eleven years that ho has been on the bench, he was no torious as aman of thorough-placed dishonesty, he had held his head high among his ignorant compatri ots, aud his downfall before their eyes was too much for him. We at orce had from tho press, the guar dian of tho public morals, a singu lar outbreak. It praised McCunn's bright abilities, hi3 genial temper, his literary tastes, his industry, his large fortune, amounting to a hun dred thousand a year, and no doubt set several intending thieves won dering why they had deliberated in a world where such arc the rewards of virtue. That McCunn had been an unjust judge, had prostituted justice,- had been a standing dis grace to tho country of his adop tion and of baleful example to his fellow-Irishmen, that he had robbed right and left, hardly at all appeared from these obituary notice?, which on the other hand, informed us that he was a good son, and had mano rial estates in Ireland. The maxim de morluis is well enough, one would say, for people like its inventors, the ancient Romans, among whom there was a way iu vogue of making their public enemies into mortui whenever it seemed utile so lo do; but it has only a very questionable fitness for latitude, where, unless one of our public enemies shoots another one, it is rare that anything but overdrinking and overdrinking idterferes with their natural longe vity. It would bo monoy in the pocket of the taxpayer of this city if the newspapers would for ten years utterly forget this elastic maxim, and condole with country, and not next of kin, when the Fisks and McCunns evade justice by death.— N. Y. Nation. HUMOROUS. A jewel of an undo— carb-u ncle. The table of interest is the dinmr table. The gratest nutmeg ever known met with a greater. What nation produces most mar* raigs ?—Fascination. Mamma: "Now take your medi cine like a good girl/and when yoft get Well 111 buy you a nice dolly." Sick child: "Please, ma, hate it a Dolly Varden." K rssiNG. —A traveler says : "When an Idaho girl is kissed, she indig nantly exclaims, "Now put that tight back whero you took it from. And she makes you do it." A gentleman was threatening to beat a dog who barked intolera bly. Why," exclaimed an Irishman who was present, "would yott béat the poor dumb animal for sparkm' out?" A youthful novice in smoking tnrned deadly pale and threw his cigar away. "Oh, dear," he said, there is some'in in that cigar that's makin' me sick.*' "I know what it is," said his companion, pulling away. "What thon ?" "Tobaeker." "If I wero in California," said a young fop, in company tho other evening, "instead of working in the mines, I would waylay some miner with a bag of gold, knock oat Ms brains, gather up the goid,.fcnock out his brains, gather up tho gold, and run." * I think yen would do better to gather. ttp t&* brai&s/' quietly lady he •••" ■ " - * ► •