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SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1874.
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CLUB DIRECTORY.
JTBST yABD CENTRIL (Ätfe-JÖonier
feetjtemoùts and Whit® Streets. Moots : «vctf
Monday, at 74 o'clock. J. 0. Miller, Prea't,
George 0. Norcrosa, Secretary.
SECOND WARD ÇENTBAL CLUB—
Gcddes Hall, Erato between Baronne and
Carondelet. G. F, Glaudcp, Prceidaut, A.
Erilof, Socretary.
.ri -v • »
THIRD WARD CENTRAL CLUB-Clay
Qail, Pcrdido strcot, meets every Saturday
evening. C. F. Ladd, President, John Pul
lum, Secretary.
FOURTH WARD CENTRAL CLUB-Cor
ner of Conti and Tromo streets, meets evory
Monday evening. Robert Malrahn^ïiç.;)^
Chas.J^S^^^etàTy. r
FIFTH WARD CENTRAL CLUB—Jules
Lonabare, President, 0. P. Fernandez, Secre
tary.
' SIXTH WARD CENTRAL CLUB—
Claiborne - near Ursaline streets. B. F.
Jonbert, President, L. Lamaniore, Secretary.
TENTH WARD REPUBLICAN CEN
TRAL CLUB—First Street,, near Liberry
/street, J. A. Kyser, President; jaeets every
Tuesday.
THIRTEENTH WARD CENTRAL CLUB
Evening Star Hall, Cadcz between Camp and
Chestnut streets, A. Dejoie, President, J. B.
ffalony, Secretary.
SIXTEENTH WARD CENTRAL CLUB—
Claiborne Hall, Adam street, meets every
Saturday. John T. Claiborne, President,
H. McCrity, Secretary.
Ury.
SEVENTEENTH WARD CENTRAL CLUB
Corner Cambronno and Burth streets
3?. B. Stamps, President, F. Diebel, Secretary
TO THE POINT.
Oar friend H yams , of the Sugar
Planter, the official journal of West
Baton Bouge, thus significantly
characterizes the action of certain
parties who have been covertly and
selfishly opposing the seating of
Gov. Pinchback in the Senate of
the United States.
His utterances are to the point
and his closing prediction will find
its f ulfilm ent sooner than will be
eitbçrjpleasant or profitable to the
guilty parties:
"Congress haß adjourned and the vesed
question of U. S. Senator left unsettled.
It was olearly the determination of certain
men in the Senate of the United Status to
keep Mr. Pinoliback from his seat. That
he was fairly, squarely and honestly en
titled to it, every one knows, ènd upon
•very principle of. justice and fair play, he
■houla have had it If the present gov
ernment of this State is tho legal govern
ment it only had a right to elect a United
States Senator. If it is not the legal State
g o vernment, tfcen it hits no right (to ^exis
tence. Let the opponents of Mr. Pinch
back take either horn of the dilemma,
and they will be worsted. The secret work
ings of the cabal, who have fostered and
carried through this outrage, will yet bo
brou gh t to light and when that time^haU
to
arrive, we shall khow who have played
false to their duty and who are untrue
their party.
Among out new
we find the Agricultural and Me
chanical College Journal.
This paper is edited by tho Fac
ulty of the above named Institution
and is devoted to scientific and
practical education in Agriculture
and the Mechanic Arts. It pre
sents a neat appearance—the typo
graphical work having been d<*ne
by the Students of the College—and
contains much useful matter.^ We
welcome the Journal, and wish the
College the full measure of success
it deserves.
THE WHltE LEAGUE.—ITS
p SIoàlÉXIANOE.
the duty of th1 colored toteb.
Immediately after the close of
our civil strife, sprung, up a political
organization in some of the Southern
States, known as the Ku Elux, and
subsquently there was formed a
somewhat similar organization,
The Knights of the White Ca
melia." These were secret organi
zations, and neither justifiable in
their purposes, creditable in their
agencies, nor beneficial in their ac
tion to any class of the community.
They have now passed away to
find a successor in the White
League, a combination not secret,
and ostensibly neither as vicious in
its purposes, nor. as violent in its
agencies aa its predecessors. We
do not attach tho importance to
this movement, given to it, by
either its ■ friends or its enemies;
still it is-of sufficient strength, and
sor for significant of evil to the pub
lié quiet, if not to the rights of the
individual citizen, as to entitle it to
a fair and frank consideration at
our hands.' •• 4 "
I 6,0 The White League " is the
name selected by the Anti-Reptfb -
lican elements of tiouisiana, to
designate ! a political organization
thàl rests on the distinction of race
and color; ostensibly proposes to
iprotect the right's of the white citi
zeû, by organizing an exclusively
white man's party, and, - with such
an organization, to conduct the ap
proaching political campaign of the
Stàfe. In order to understand the
significance of the movement, we
will admit thé existence of certain
evils growing out of the character of
the laws and government of the
fîtatç. . {sineq 4îie era of reconstruc
tion, and wë concede that many
members of this organization, be
lieve not only that the distresses
complained of, are referable to the
dominancy of the Republican party
in the State, but, inclusively and
specially, to the dominance of the
colored over the white vote. We
farther concede that the same par
ties, entertaining the above men
tioned convictions, honestly but
erroneously believe that the remedy
and relief desired are to be found in
the withdrawal from the colored
voters of Louisiana, of the political
control, heretofore supposed to be
possessed by them over the State
government. Another class of the
adhérants of the White League,
while entertaining the purposes
above expressed and adopting the
indicated means for their accom
plishment, are actuated, not by
honest convictions, but by a bitter
and unreasoning prejudice against
the colored people, that will not
permit thein to see anything reason
able or creditable in the colored
voter, or anything legitimate and
equitable, in the exercise, by him, of
either the political or civil rights,
conferred and guaranteed by the
Constitution and laws. Thest
tlemen may be sincere but they are
qeither just nor generous in their
estimate and treatment of our race
Still another class, constituting the
noisy, vituperative demagogues of
the organization, are to be found in
the Leagne, who, without the frank
ness and simplicity of the first
nlftKg, and without the sincerity of
the second—with cruel purposes,
selfish ends, and ruthless and un
scrupulous means—propose to com
pass, not,tho good of the white
man, alone or at all, but the irre
trievable injury of the colored—
and all this, too, with a malicious
relish for the wrong doing first,
but finally and ihoh'c, for the per
sonal advantage, in office or gain,
that may accrue to themselves^
The white voters in Louisiana,
though in a minority, possess wealth
and intelligence to make them a
power not to be despised in
a political contest in whioh their
votes should be cast solidly against
us; and if, while according all our
rights, political and civil, and con
ceding the sincerity, honesty and
competency of the colored voters
they should nevertheless wage, un
der discreet leaders, and in a kindly
temper, a political contest against us,
we should be compelled to husband
our resources and use all our power
to successfully meet the issuo. But
none of those conditions of succcss,
exist sufficiently to render the
White League movemenV effectire.
Our white citizens do not generally
and heartily aocept this scheme, Ihe
temper of the journals advocating
it is proscriptive and bitter, calcu
lated to consolidate the whole Re
publican vote, white and colored, and
the leaders, thus far, have neither
tho nerve nor the discretion to carry
out this ill-advised and difficult
programme. The State at large
cann.pt .reasonably expect any ben
efit or relief; nor the friends of the
movement any success from tho
White League of Louisiana*
But we deprecate the action of
our white.fellow-citizens,who have
gone into this movement, because it
proceeds upon a misapprehension
of both tho causes and the, remedy
of our present embarrassment.
The bad., government, alleged to
exist, is the result, not of the dis
honesty or incompetency of the
voting classes, either white, or
colored, but at most, has coin'e upon
us, .merely because the voters have
failed to take duo interest in the
political management of the State:
leaving the . cliques and rings of
both parties to usurp their powers
in political affairs, and the remedy
lies not, in White or Black Leagues,
but in the kindly co-oporâtiôn of
both parties to tho contest, in an ;
honest endeavor for a belter condi
tion of things, and in the immedi
ate assumption, çnd exorcise, by the
individual citizen of each race, of
his du ties as a voter., - * L
The colored people, as such, have
made no organization upon the
basis of race, and seek no ends in
antagonism to tho rights of their
white brethren, but only such as
belong to the colored and while
equally und alike. We shall ex
ceedingly regret such organization
on the part of mi^î^êit'îind pre
juaîced Caucasian, as shall constrain
for our self-protection, a change
in either the tenipor or programme
herein indicated by us. We shall
stand firm, however, in the main
tenance, by all legitimate means >
of our rights full and equal rights as
American "citizens, but shall be
carcful not to assume the aggres
sive, unless forced to do so in
defence of life and rights, even more
precious than life. Prudence,
patience, fairness and pluck will
bring out all things fair and oven.
N. O. REPUBLICAN AND SEN
ATOR PINCHBACK.
Senator Pinchback is among his
again, and -returns with un
abated confidence not only in tho
ultimate success of his efforts to
secure a recognition, by the U. S.
Senate, of his rights to a seat in
that honorable body but full of hope
for the country and the groat Re
publican party.
The New Orleans Republican, in
noticing the arrival of Senator
Pinchback in the city, takes occa
sion to announce that he proposes
to canvasg the State, for the pur
pose of securing a re-election to the
U. S. Senate next January. This
statement is partially correct only.
There is no need for the re-clcction
of Governor Pinchback. Ho has
already, by a General Assembly,
whose authority is recognized here
and in Washington, by the domin
ancy and control of the laws made
by it, been duly and with great unan
imity elected for the term begin
ning March 4th, 1873. -Tho Act of
tha t Assembly in his election is as
unquestionable, legal and binding,
as any law that was passed by it
and is now obeyed by the citizens
of Louisiana. There ia no vacancy
in tho Senate, so far as Louisiana is
concerned, and the small dema
gogues who would like to see Gov
ernor Pinoliback resign, and have for
this and other evil ends done dirty
and unscrupulous work, will be dis
appointed. It is true that Senator
Pinchback, in the interest of the
public peaco and welfare, and of
the Great Party of Progress, will
visit every parish in the State, and
address his fellow-citizens; yet, it
will not be foi the purpose of con
troling the nominations to thé Gen
eral Assemly, but to vindicate the
wisdom of the Assembly, in his
original election, and to show who
are the time-servers and dema
gogues, to be dreaded ' in office,
whether Democrat or so-called Re
publican. He will meet with a cor
dial and grateful welcome, and we
anticipate, not only help to our
party, but to the State from his
canvass thereof.
»UNMANLY AND REPREHEN
SIBLE SENTIMENTS.
We havè of late more, than once,
been conscious of a feeling of con
tempt and indignatien at expres
sions made by both Democrats and
Republicans relative to tho conduct
of the approaching election and the
causes determining its results.
We have been pained to hear
Republicans suggest that elections
in certain parishes and districts
will be controlled fey the Registrars
of voters appointed therefor.
■ Others have said that the Re
turning Board would give complex
ion to the coming election, and it
was alleged that certain aspiring
gentlemen would meet with success
because they were fortanato
having the friendshipand ear of a
majority of tho gentlemen compos
ing this Board. And still others
have said that .the Governor would
have a potential voice, by his,power
under tho electioöJtWi.in determin
ing who should be nominated and
returned, even-if not who should be
elected. . \Y
, We have also found that tho pari
ties giving expression to such senti
iménts have* manifested a subservi
ent and sycophantic spirit* showing
». disposition tocouri and obtain
the favor of the supposed to be ar
biters of the political destinies of
Louisiana at any cost of either self
respect or personal independence.
On the* other hand we. have, not
unfrequenily and with a similar
feeling of disgust, heard our Demo
oratic feilow-citizens express simi
lar sentiments to thos already in
dicated relative to the issues oi.Uie
.¥aö "eie&i.oö;--£2ä the causes that
wotald determine them, but with tho
manifestation of a very different
spirit. Theso latter, so thinking
and speaking, have exhibited a bit
ter and depressed spirit in view of
the anticipated consequences of the
coming contest, and have exhibited
the' purpose, either to hopelessly
abandon the fight or to win it by
proscriptive means—by violence
and intimidation of the Republican
voter.
It is possibly a matter of simple
justice that wo should say, that
neither Registrars, Returning Board
or Governor are disposed to cheat
the people of the practical exor
cise of their right of franchise, or by
unfair means defeat the popular
choice in tho November election.
We must, in ordinary charity,
suppose that they heartily con
cede the right of the people to eloct
their own officers, and that no vic
tory, in individual cases, that cor
ruptly defeats the will of the voters
is worth the winning.
But these utterances are offensive
to us mainly because they are de
grading to the individual citizen
and insulting to the majesty of the
sovereign people. Whatever may
have been done, hero or elesewhero,
in the past to the contrary, for the
present and for the future, the peo
ple of Louisiana are going to elcct
their Representatives, and neither
Register?, Returning Boards or Gov
ernors, if disposed to thwart them,
will be permitted to do so. No
Black League or White League, no
fraud or counter fraud, will be found
necessary to compass this end, but
the quiet, manly effort of the voters
of the State of both parties and of
both races, expressed in the choice
Of candidates and in the ballot for
the men so chosen, is sufficient to
cover all our political needs, and to
protect all our political inter;
esta; and in the prosecution of this
work, the true men of country
must put under ban, the toaüyism
that whines and begs, equally, with
the r uffianism that seeks the same
end by bluster and threat.
HAVE WE A JUDAS AMONG
USf
Among the Scripturo characters,
Judaa Iscariot is conceded the bad
eminence of being foremost among
the traitors that have disgraced
humanity.
A disciple of the Divine Redeem
er one of tho twelve great Apostles
of the Gospel, he for thirty pieces
of silver, betrayèd his'Divine Mas
ter, to his murderous foes.
He was an affectionate and famil
iar villain, covering under tho ca
ressof a kiss, the deception that
contemplated death for its aim. i
Sordid, seeking money, the
love of which is the. "Root of all
evil," as the compensation for his
treachery and finally, filled with
remorse, he shows, what under the"
circumstances is a redeeming and
rare trait among his class—a de
sire to atone for his wrong ànd
avenge his betrayed Master by self
immolation. The occasion, the
surronnditrg'ö, and the results con
sidered no such treachery as this
bna ever heretofore shocked the
world nor can its like recur again.
Brtt Judas, the proto-traitor of his
race, baa had his imitators, who, in
feebler endeavors and with varying
success, have followed his example.
There are not a few who would
betray their party, the» country and
their race with a caress, and-under a'
protestation of good will. These
men, improving on Judas, not only
in that they seek gain, but the glory
of office and position , will not hesi
tate to Btrike dowa the leaders of
the people, undermine the social
and political fabric by discrediting
and destroying the mntùal trust
upon which the structure rests>-*ud
compass an • ignoble personal suc
cess at the sacrifice o? all the sano-,
titiës "àtd values that ennoble the
citizen and the man.
" In looking over the history Of
the political struggles, and noting
the conduct and character of some
of the actors therein, in Louisiana is
not tho resemblance to tho Prince
of Betrayors sometimes seen—and is
not tho question legitimately sug
gested: Have we a Judas among*
u3 ?
Wé letcre duv readers to make
fcke- applicatior, with the further
remark that our political traitors
do not, as a rule, seem either to be
susceptible of remorse for their
treache»y, or willing to atone for it
by eolf-abnogation or self-destruc
tion.
PICAYUNE SENSATIONS.
That compound of journalistic
whims—exhibiting the crudities
that spring from juvenility and
dotage—the New Orleans Picayune,
has given to its rospectabla and
venerable readers a vory elaborate
description of the organization of
what it is pleased to style " The
Black League." This mythical or
ganization ia composed of blacks
exclusively and purposes to absorb
all the rights, individual, political
and otherwise, heretofore supposed
to ba enjoyed by white citizens in
Louisiana; and is to give its first
exhibition of violence on this, to
day, the Fourth of July.
If we credit the sincerity of the
Picayune on this subject, as well as
on others, in which its ecccntric
views amaze tho people, wo should
be compelled to question tho sanity
of the editor. But,, in deference to
the supposed sense necessary to run
a journal for "the oldest and best,"
we will concede that the author of
this siily canard is sane—sanity
admitted, the Pic. docs not believe
its own statements, and "its fraud
can be accounted for only upon one
of tigo grounds.
Feeling its advocacy of the
Whito League will damage the
country, will probably defeat its
partizans—and not improbably and
justly creato an indignant feeling
in the white masses, that shall
react damaging 1 . y upoiT this time
serving and unscrupulous ßheet,
tho Picayune proposes to divert
attention from tho White League
folly and monstrosity, by falsely
charging that .the colored people
are organizing the Black League, a
party of race alone.
But another, less viciou3,' but
equdiy ignoblo ground, upon which
our saper-ycrvicsable and shifting
contemporary may have acted, is
alarm and envy at the progress in
popular favor and patronage of our
dashing sensational friend, the
Bulletin. The Pic— to a man up a
tree—is too juvenile to be mature,
and too old to be sprightly. We
cannot say what the forte of the
Pie is, but certainly it doe3 not now
possess any of tho qualities of an
attractive sensationalism. With a
mingled feeling of pity and con
tempt, we dismiss this subject.
A Virginian is under arrec -t for
pawning his wife's corsets for a pint
of whisky. He believed that tight
lacic;T would kill her.
A CARD
plaqtnbam I b&bvhxe T* amïsh L a., )
June 27th 1874 j
To the Editor of the Louisianian-~
I respectfully ask the use of a portion of
your columns for the purpose of removing
the impression which may have found
lodgment in the minds of those of your
readers who are the espeoial Mends of
Senator Pinchback, that in the recent
canvass in this parish, for the election of
a new Parish Executive Committee, the
faction of the Republican party with which
I have béen identified; "had proved sorfWse
to their profusions of, Repubiiponism,
that they made the .occasion aa, pppor
tunitj for impugning the public-character
of that champion Republican.
This imputation will receive the atten
tion whioh it deserves, from those Repub
licans in Louisiana, who, are aware of my
past .relations with. Senator Pinchback,
and its wilful and shameful falsity will be
affirmed hy those who know tie best,' and
who cannot tfe-feiaware ofnty unselfish
devotion toward my friend and benefac
tor. ••
The advent intp the Republican party
of Louieiana, oi the person who commu
nicates to yori over the signature ' of
Critic," does not entitle him to Bit.în
judgment on the äctt'fclltf oi'aid school Re
publicans; and it I «un rightly, i^naedr
the removal of this ornais will revçal. but
an unprincipled time-server, whose party
zeal is as changeable as his habitation. '
'After•having fêtenéd "ft" 1 the • fjßtströs
eloquenco of ••Critic" at a public meeting
held during the tanvaa), I was not greaiiy
astonished at this biased version of, the
contest, in hie communication .to your
influential journal. But I was surprised
that the facts contained in that notori
ously false communication, should be
made the subject matter of a great edito.
rial in the same issue.
To a Republican, whose devotion to
Senator Pinchback dates long interior
to that of thoso who are but his pretended
friends tc-day, thé allegation that an
anti-Deslonde faction was antagonistic to
Senator Pinclii&cyama which
could provoke only my contempt for him
who proclaimed it. Myself and friends
were charged With opposition to that
gentleman, while represented as his
warmest supportera, were those who for the
past six years have beon arrayed against
him, and who, except for prudential mo
tives; would execrate his name to-day.
From the time at which Senator Pinch
back 's name wa3 first placed in the
columns of the Iberville JVéics,. for the
highest office in the gift of the people of
Louisiana, I have beed the outspolcen
friend of my favorite standard -bearer,
while the language and actions of thoso
for whom "Critic," is tho apologist, have
been framed in hostility toward him.
During the recent canvass in this par
ish, I was necessarily absent a great por
tion of the time, attending to the duties of
of my position as division Superintendent
of Education. I addressed no public
meeting at eithor side of tho contest. And
I made no fight against Hon. P. G.
Peslondc but while I abstained from ac
tive participation in the convass, I recog
nized in the Wharton faction the true Re
publicans of Iberville, and opposed
to that faction I reoognized as well,
tho foes of the party whose success I
desire, those bitter personal enemies
of my own, who during the past
year have resorted to every outra
measure within their reach, to
geous
Äi
jrafore my recognition of the fac
tion falsely represented by your c6rres
pondont as in open opposition to Senator
Pinchback, was in obedience both to a
sense of manhood and the dictates of duty.
Arrayed against the true friends of
Governor Pinchback under the lead of
Senator Wharton, I detcted the men who
had prostituted the courts of the Parish
within the past year to subserve their own
nnholy purposes. And I unhesitatingly
ranged myself on that side whose recog
nized chief to-day was my generon^ de
liverer.
I owo to Senator Pinchback a debt of
gratitude which I shall never forget,
though I may never be able to pay it. I
was his friend, before I became his debtor
and at a time when Mr. Desiondo and his
present adherents in this Parish were
among his ioudest.defamers, and I will be
his friend, when Sir. Desiondo in the ad
vancement of his aspirations may again be
found among his opponents.
The charge that myself and other Be
publicans, have conspired to create dis
sension in the Republican party of this
parish is not entitled to serious notice.
Mr. Dejlonde is perhaps better aware
than any other republican in Louisiana of
the sacrifice which I would be ready to
make for the promotion of harmony in the
party of which I am an humble member.
He will find on instance of my disanter
osted devotion, in tho compromise by
which ha received his nomination for
Secretary of State.
In conclusion Mr. Editor I respectfully
take exception to the allegation of ' 'Critic,"
that at a certain meetiug in the Fourth
Ward of this Parish Senator Wharton
declares that he no longer supported
Pinchback for the reason that ho did not
consider the letter a republican, and that
I was a gilent listener to tho declaration.
This allegation is as calumnious as it is
fhtse. I was at tho meeting to which
reference is made.
Mr. Perkins, of New Orleans, was also
there. But the person who plays ' «Critic"
oa its proceedings was not in bodily at
tendance. And had Senator Whartcn
u tiered a sentiment so repugnant to my
expressed view* and I thought he waa in
dorsed in it by his followers from that
mo Kent I should be found standing alone,
the hist remaining sincere friend to Scnr
i. r Pinchback in IVrville
OEOiiUF. B. LOUD.
A GLOOM^PÇpSPECT.
"Now^î paid he,^I «jpl suppose myself
to be a Gentile, sind atpy death in some
wij.Ii#«, attu H n heaTen
all Christians desire when they talk of
"sitting down with Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob in the kingdom of God.* Well, tho
angel opens for ttë ' one ** 1hn ptttlj
gates of Paradise, and I am about to wait
in and take my place, when my eye rests
upon Jacob sitting there with his foor
wives, Leab, Kachel, Bilbah, and Zilpah,
with all their-children. I draw* back hi
disgust, and teUihaAogeUba t l c&u _aot
sit down near that old polygamSC"""* "
'•Well, lh*«*gél
another gate. But there 1 see DavfiPthtf 1
man after Göd's own'heart.' aSa SoIothot/
the man whom he endowed wifli
tial wisdom; I see tham. »it»»
wives ah3 Etguhpfds ftf 9 hfldrft>, -q "Wit*!
and worse,* I- tell the angel ; £ won't go In
there. Is. there np other place Jor me T'
''Oh, yes replies my divine , aoed^ctpi , ä
there i. s plenty of room for yon eMstäif
"for wthout are dogs, and socerers, ""anT 5
whote-mongers, and murderers, and adol«
ators, and whosoever loveth and maketb
a lie." I think that is the place that will
just suit such particular people, as yon 1"
And so I am obliged to pnfr up with the
society of God's favorites' or wfth that of
the devil's «aps^-Ctsan Pratts Address
to the Mormons. - *
SWIMMING.
Did you ever notice how long it
takes a boy ( a hair to dry, when be
has run away and, gone in swim
ming? It is painful to ' be' a boy,
with a mother who is constantly in
fear, lest you be brought home from
the river on a board. The boy is
commanded not to .go in swimming,
and he sweats. Wont, but he lies
like a little cuss. He tbinks be
will go in and not get his hair wet,
and tio one will, know it, but just
as he gets ready to come ont of the
water a big boy "ducks" him, and
then he swoars, and when he crawls
in the back window at 1C o'clock at
night, his mother, with a press*
board hid in the folds of her dress,
is the first obstacle he encounters.
Does sho believe him when he has
just been over to Immy Lynde'a
practicing with the "firstnine" of a
Sunday-school class ? No I She feefe
of his hair, finds it Wet, smells of it
and finds it inusty, and finds his
shirt wrong side out. Then sho
spits on her hands, and with the
press-board so works upon ins
tender sensibilities that he goes to
bed with his hand on his acbiag
heart, wishing he was a half-orpbap,
and ho dreams be is J} Bterfiwlfeel
boat, junning backward, and that
ho has collided with a bargo loaded
with bonzine,' and set it on fire.
The best way for a boy to get along
at this season of the year, is to have
his hah - shingled.
V * ■ »
Among the many things that Congres»
has Mied to do, there is none so serious
as its negloct to appropriate money for the
repair and improvement of the Mississippi
levees, so essential to the welth and pw**
parity of the whole South. The destruc
tion of these levees has, in maiîy respects,
been more distressing and disastrous to
businoss than all the ravages of the 1st«
war, and the Government, failing in its
duty, will keep the people along the line of
tha flood subjects of eharity for many yan
to come whereas a proper appropriation
made right after the war, to repair and
strengthen those levees, would have sarea
milli ons of money and hundreds of hw
that tho noglect has occasioned. The «•
bo under the direct control of the GenettI
Government, and not left to the capriceo
States lying along their ront. It o
come eventually, and every day ® _ J
only adds to the general depression un
dent to all such casualties as art ^
visiting the commerce of the Mis»i®|PP|'
and beside destroying some of the
agricultural lands, in the country.
thin is wrong, and the longer it is left *
remedied the more money it will
the end.—Cincinnati Trade List
The effect of mingling with new peopk
who have new methods of thought m e f
salutary. Always to see the same P*®
do the same way, produce« mental; iwr
tion. There are thousands of invalws
might be greatly oeaenwu sn a
from home, to mingle with stranger ^
ba touched with the *magnetism <»
great world as it courses in its aec
rounds.. And there aw mental u*«
who need the same ohange, to g® t
minds and hearts enlarged, andi s
little more of tho great light of Me
side influences are very valnable to
who at home have bee» well te®*® ^
healthful influeces in early youth,
they can avoid the snares and pit»'?
which many so blindly fall.—The
hold.
Follows who send stamped copte*
newspapers addressed person alJJ' t
one on the editorial staff of ajourna^
forget or noglect to mark wh» _ , ffl0C
wish especially seen, areuiecause ^
profanity, or rather won» m w •
swore. The journalist takes no del« ^
searching through the colum th
mncrs ho his seen days before,
I copies a« always