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JAS. H. COSGROVE, .. Editor. NATCHITOCHES ATrUIDAY - - - - July 18, 1874. Advertising Itates. SQUA!11.l, 8 e I 8 I sqnt;ue .... 4 011 6 501 10 ut l15 0) 20 00 '2 sq arev... 7 ol (11 00 15 00) 2' (01 t25 I. 3 squares... i000 13 00 18 00 23 00 30 01 4 attlares... 1400 IS Ol) 2 04 :to 00 35 00 5 equar s... 1700 24 00 27 00 35 Ol .40 (H) 6 Mqular.;s... 284l0 21 00 32 0) 4)) !1) 45 IN) 7 rq'lrns... 27)m 7 0 :i6 n00 5 00 701 00' 8 sNqares... 20i 00 30 00 40 on 65 0() 'Al 0I) 1) isqluarea... 3100 35 00 50 J 00 57 001105 00 15 squAren... 451H) 00 i 0 7) (1 o 100 ( 14 l5 2i0 sqauares... 0 00 8 00 i1 , I, 1'1e5 15)1 01 Transirnt advertisnentM $1.50 per square of Is lin,. Rrr.vieoi. first. insertion. Eaeh stbse. quent insertion 75 rents per square. Rates of Subscription. fhae Copy one year..................3. Olne Copy six montl ....................... 50 (Payable in advance.) OUR JOBa o UPIC is stPplied with great variety of type, and work in this, dep:arl. ment performed with neatness and at modeor ate prices. Terms, CASIK on delivery of work. Appoint Delegates to attend the Convention to be held in Alexandria, Tuesday, September Ist, 1874. The Committee of SEVENTY will meet here at 10 o'clock A. M., on Monday the 20th inst. A full attend ance is desired. 31. .. CUNNINGHIAM. Chnirman. OUR PACKE'r.-It was again our pleasure to meet the officers of the steamer Bart Able, at Grand Ecore on Tuesday last, and our hearty thanks are due them for appreciated favors. Capt. Sinnot is looking in fine health and has nailed his flag to the mast for our trade. Our old friend Hamilton, (not old with years George-no far from it, you are in that as the smiling infant-but as we,are poor in similes, we refer you to Slhtkespear's Seven Ages of Man for full particulars of thd infant,) looked as usual "jam up." We thank him kindly for that file of late New Orleans and Eastern papers. Railroad. Col's. Edwards and Kellogg visited our town last week, and submitted a proposition to a meeting of the citi tasns, which will be found in another column. At present we have not fully settled in our mind the question of the donations asked. We are in favor of a Railroad, but are not exactly ready to favor the donation part of tihl business. That our people should fully under stand the matter, wt, give them a few figures which show that the cry of only 2300,000 is not eractly the whole amount we are called upon to donate. It is, at 'all events, best we should understand and know fully what we are doing,'and what we are to pay in this matte.' The Railroad Company ask from the Parish in 20 year bonds, bearing 7 per cent interest, $200.000 7 per cent interest for 20 years on that smont would be 280.000 The city is also asked to donate 100.000 Interest for 20 years at 7 per cent would be 140.000 Collectors commissions to assess andcollect, the whole amount would be 108.000 $828.000 Making a total of eight hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars for a three hundred thousand dollar do nation-a small amount to go in on, but a big one to come out. But at the same time the incalcula ble benefit derived from the Railroad, must not be lost sight of-the popula tion-the wealth that would flow into the Parish. We will refer to the matter again next we~ek, and in the mean time we demand that this Railroad question sball not be made an issue for the acceptance or resignation of the Po lice Jary--there is plenty of time and our assuranees to the managers who have asked us for this donation, that we wdil give the amount, is as amply ansufficient as theirs of building the road-simply a question of honor, and we consider ours as good as theirs. The Republican party in Louisiana afraid of being detected in its true characeter; that of public plunderer., is trying to tura away its negro su premacy face from publie game. Is not this something like the immortal Prentis iad of Jones, who went to bed drunk and turamed over, lest his breath might betray him to his wife. Mrs. Jones not to be taken in, in such a manner, enelanied, "you need'nt :turn ever Joese, youea are drunk eltB through." Thanks to our ever generous friend Mr. Emile Cloutier, for appreciated kindness. To Outr Colored Citizens. / We desire to address a few words to our colored fellow-citizens, which we wish them to carefully read and weigh, and if our reasoning and ad vice are correct, they will be but do ing their duty to the country and pos terity, to pay heed to, and act upon them. You have been tiow six years con nected with the great Republican par ty, the party to whon you thought you owed allegiance, fironl the fact that they had been instrumental in achieving your freedom. We will not stop to argue the pros and cons of that question, snlfice it to say that the Ilepublican party was in power at the time the issue was raised of the right of a State to secede, and as a material of war, you were used to in sure success to those who argued against State rights, with the same intents and feelings with which the northern l)emnocrat, the Foreigner or in fact, the very horses and mules drawing their guns and trains were. It is with t he same motive that drown ing men grasp at straws, that in hours of great trials a government uses all the material it can command. Such, and such only, was the reason '-ou were used, and for that te, the boon of freedom was given you ; nor will we say ought of this, the usefullness you might be put to, to save the Union, as they termed the issue of the war, was certainly offering upon your part, a good and sufficient remunera tion for your freedom. You may not understand it, but to be citizens you should, that govern ments are for the mutual good and the mutual protection of individuals, a simple compact for such good and protection,,and when such govern ments fail or neglect to afford the requirements agreed upon, it natu rally lapses into a community of citi zens without a special bead. Such a state or condition of the people is termed chaotic. The Republican party has taught you an entirely different idea. The first step was to give you a lesson to tally inconsistent with liberty in the abstract, and which tended and is used simply to promote either revo lution or the private ends of political leaders; and that lesson was, seret and oath bound clubs, which has tend ed to completely demoralize you. You are its true, ignorant, and being so, are easily imposed upon. You are more to be led by appeals to your .passion, than to reason, from our knowledge of your character we know you to be, and we say it without eith er the intention to compliment or cajole you, but simply to give our honest opinion, as a race, docile and desiring to do and be good if you knew how, a life ofslavery has taught yeou to believe that liberty means la ziness. But you have among yon many bad, very bad colored men, and we are sorry to say that their infnlu enee over you for any end, is great. These men are bitter and uncompro mising, and the smattering of knowl edge they have obtained in their in tercouse with worse white men, of whom we will speak further, has only tended to destroy what little common sense they at first possessed, and to make them brutlal, domineering and reckless, that they have imparted this spirit to the mass of colored men is apparent, by the swagger and inso lence adopted by many, the street threats and armed parades we have seen here in our city; and in the for bearance and quiet submission of the white people, you have been led to believe they were in fear of your power. The "gang" of white men who have been your acknowledged leaders, are as you know yourself, without character or responsibility men without ideas, except that of gain, and to use you for that purpose they have pandered to all the weak points of your nature-fed your pas sions with tales of brutal slave own ers- with pictures of burning cabins, bleeding backs, an'dl all such "bug bear" argument as only the extreme ignorant can be made listen to; ex cited your prejudices by such stories nwe would return yon to a worse bondage than slavery, should we suc ceed, using for this ends thousand elap-trap expressions to convey to your untutored mind, what demons in humnan shape must any man be who was not a Republican, and a Republi-1 can as they judged he should be. The character and standing of these men are well knoiwn to you, they are in your midst and with the direct cornm munication you have had with them for the past six years, can you lay your hand upon your heart and msy, that one practical beneit has acern-i ed to you fromit? Have you had goodlI schools and competent teachers? Hiave you well built and neat church es, attended by pious and Ood-loving congrcegations? Have you comforts- 1 ble homes-farms teeming with plen ty-barns overflowibg with the fruits of your hard earned toil! Have you officers who, by the enforcement of the laws which yourselves enacted, drive out crimo from the land-pro tect your stock and throw around your lives and property, the mantle of protection ? No! a thousand times no! Your schools are frauds, your children growing up in ignorance, your churches the scenes of bloody brawls, your barns and cribs empty, your little farms barren wastes, your stock stolen am~ your very lives in danger from the miduight thieves and assassins to whom alone the laws seem to give protection. It is idle to say that Providence has had a hand in the matter. Then why is it Vir ginia, North Cara CGeorgia, Ala bama, Arkansas, 'laTs, Tennessee, Missouri and Kentucky, all Southern States,. and gro~u lug in a measure the sanme staple as ourselves, are not in the same condition as Louisiana, South Carolina and Msissieppi; The root of all our adrersitI has been the rale of the radical party, this and nothing else. Fronm your toil comies the tax : you are consumers and poor plroducers, and all you eat and wear must be paid for by, your hard labor. The property owner is assessed with. the taxes and you in the nmanner of trade and contract; nmst pay them for the income from your tilling his land is all he has, and high taxes means low wages-:infmthat is to you nakedness and starvation. Thus you see how your own acts reach you through us. Now we know that you will admit this and we desire to close this article with a little plain talk and as it will be the last, we desire you to take it as a warning and act accordingly. The white people intend to carry the State election this fall, this inten tion is deliberate and unalterable, from the fact that their very existence depends upon it, and that you may enjoy the blessings which will naturally follow such an event, blessings made doubly sweet when you know you were part ly instrumental in bringing them about ;twe desire your co-operation, and we simply ask you, will you as sist us in redeeming your State from tihe degradation and ruin she now is in, or will you follow still the advice of those who have placed her thus Take time to answereu it, and let your mind, should you decide affirmative ly, be at rest for your future welfare and happiness. We propose to do for you more than any party has yet done for you, on the other hand should you imagine that the teaching of your former rulers is correct, and you elect to attempt, for it will only be ad attempt, to continue thieir rule then you must take the consequences. For we tell you now, and let it be distinctly remembered that you have fiir warning, that we intend to carry tle Stalte of Louisiana i. November next, or she will be a Mlilitary Terri tory. QUgSTION OF TIl' RESPONSIBILITY OF Ax OATn.-We see with surprise, tile oath attached to the settlement by thle Parish Treasurer, Joes. Ezer nack, is certified to by IW. H. Boullt as "Deputy Parih Tresaurver," an of ficial position we venture to say, un heard of by even the compilers of the Code. The law does not provide for Deputy Treasurers, no more than it does for Deputy Judges, and Deputy Presidents of the Police Jury, and the law emphatically says, "the Trea surer shall certify to the correctness of thg statement unler oath." The ques tion naiturally arises, his WV. H. Boullt'uoath any legal significeance at all, and we venture to assert, it has not. He can swear to any thing for anothler man, as proxy oaths are in no manner regarded as binding in law. Committee of Seventy, while you are looking up these matters give this your attention, and see if you cannot at least protect the citizens from the evils which might attend a proxy cer tification of a Treasurer's settlement" And as these men seem to possess cheek beyond shame, you had better, once for all, give them a shaking warn uing, that such brazen, illegal conduct, will no longer be tolerated. Our Friends Abroad. MxtAn, Texas, July 13, 1874, Gentlemen :--Havipg learned from a wagoner that tl!ere was a probabili ty of having trouble in your section * * * I write to ask that you will in form me by return mail as to the true state of affairs. Should the "ball be gin to roll" we of this section might reader some aneistance. Let me hear from you. *** At this season of the year the know ing young man stands ont in the moonlight and tenderly says: "Ask me anything else, dearest, but don't -don't entreat me to sit down and wait a few minutes. Jane, those steps have just been painted. I've been there before." Political Reflection. Have the people of this Parish se riously reflected upon their true situa tion-upon the political condition of the State ; the status of the party who have had possession of all the bran ches of government ; Executive Leg isllative and Judicial; and the char acter of the men who bare filled all posts of honor, profit and trust, for the past six years ? The responsibi lity represented by the leaders in the so-called Republican party, so-called from the fact that the Northern Re ~publlicans totally ignore them as part or parcel of the National or ganization, amounts to simply noth ing and the character of the men conducting State afflirs, Legislating upon the property and liberty of the white race of this State, is as base as their purposes. We are led to these reflections when we think of the terrible condition of our people and begin to devise ways and means by which the evils now ex isting may be mitigated or entirely overcome ; at the risk of lrbing con sidered violent in expression, we can at this moment see but one road out of our pre ent ditliculties and terrible as that method is, the mind of the true patriot will at once recognize the jesuitical policy as being applicable to our situation, the ends justifying the means. Kellogg, whose character for promlisiº,f is as fertile as it is sterile ofexecution, has signified his inten tion of having a good legislature this year, in what way he will accomplish this much desired result, he sayeth not; by, we suppose, some means known only to himself, and we are at the same time equally uncertain of the men whom he will select to com pose a body which lie may consider a "good" General Assembly ; and we are constrained to believe from the past history of the individual, that his meaning of "good" when applied to men has entirely different signifi cance from that laid down by modern lexicographers. With him, all that legislation which tends to promote party ends, even at the cost of the destruction of the material interests of the white race, would, not only be considered good, but advancing farth er in the degree of comparison, the best legislation. To prove which we have but to refer to the prolific promises of the Republican party in Louisiana for the past ein caats and the barren results of them. All legislation has been, and will be, when controled and shaped by Kel logg and his minions, intended to r promote party ends, and party ends with them means indridual qoils. We are fully aware that we would be wasting words to tell our people that no confidence, can be placed in the assurances of the Radical leaders with whom the destinies of our State have been identified since 1868, and who in that time have so nearly des troyed us. But as ocular demonstra tion will always be more convincing than theoretic argument, no matter how true that theory is, we have but to point to the men in our midst who are the representatives of the class of individuals that are supreme in pow er. We enjoy, if we may be allowed to use that pleasurable term, the ac quaintance of these men and we pos sess a knowledge of their conduct in the administration of the affairs of our parish. Boullt, Myers, Blunt, Lewis, SHornsby and sunch characters are good representatives of the element in our Scapitol of those individuals who make laws, who execute laws and who judge of them; no better-worse if anything. With this knowledge of the char acter of the Radicals with us, of their past conduct, and of such men who have lately joined them, can we place any faith in the goodness of the ma terial that Kellogg's new General As semblywill be composedof Shall we quietly wait the tide of events and give one more trial to men who have been judged and condemned ? We will answer the question for ourselves. It is impossible fo'r them to effect any good for the white people'of oar State; their interests, ifthcy have any beyond personal concern, are in no way identified with ours, and what will be good and living legislation for them, will be bad and death to us. Their prejudices imbibed from their education will last them through life. We are not willing that any. member of the Radical party in the parish of Natchitoches should represent us in the General Assembly or be placed in any position of trust, either State or Parochial, for we know them to be Lcorrupt and would in the future be the iobbers they have been in the past. Now the question is, how shall we redeem our Parish and State t All the means by which the colored ele mcnmet could be neutralized for good, have been exhausted, and upon the white vote alone depends the solu tion of the difficulty and we insist upon the thorough organization of that class of our people, with the distinct understanding that property and in telligence shall rule, and success is certain. A Warning. It has been evident since the resig nation of the Police Jury on the 6th inst., that the leading Radicals are under the impression the feelings of the people can be allayed 1. the ap pointment of such men as have here tofore borne the name of good citi zens. We are strengthened in this opinion by all the acts of those lead ers since the mnovement to effectually destroy corrulptiol in our midst bep::n. The game of bluff, which has n~l, them been so successful before. was found to be totally inadequate to an swer the purpose, and it seems the mass of the colored men who are controled by these adventurers, are much better posted with regard to tile feeling and conduct of the white people, as witness their refusal to at tend the Grand Bolster Jubilee on the 4th. It would be well that they should have some ocular demonstra tion, if their reasoning birwers are so blunted, that the white peop) are ter riluly in earnest and are . termined to name the parties 'wl shall in fu ture legislate on their property. It is a fixed question of principle upon which we are acting, and the founda tion of that principle is, honest and capable men must and shall be the only recipients of ofilce, and the scalawag and negro leaders here should be made to distinctly under stand it. In working to this end we named at a Mass Meeting, four honest and representative men to fill the impor tant trusts of Police Jurors, and it is useless to have any others appointed, and such action on the part of the Radicals would.be a waste of time, and might tend to precipitate matters. So the gentlemen (?) who compose the leading element of the Republi can plunderers here, can take warn ing, or if they choose can act for them selves. But we give theta fair play when we tell them, do not try the temper of the people too far ! The future of Natchitoches looks to our minds clear and bright, should the policy indicated be closely follow ed. Some suggestions may not be amiss at this moment, with regard to what spirit should animate our citi zens to that end. Some of our truest nien have said if we should demand the instant re moval from office, or suspension in such a manner as to deter tlfem from dqing evil, of D. H..Boullt, Tax Col lector, HI. C. Myers, District Judge, and the entire School Board; we might place ourselves in the light of being dictatorial. . We have, let it be observpd, al ways heard the "might," eip~rlessed as if with doubt; seemtingly a ,desire to draw from the public an expression of opinion on the point. After con versations with our leading citizens, we think we can state their true feel ings on the situation, and in a meas ure reflect their opionions as to future action. SIt is conceded that we have but removed ome of the means which has effected by some "grand cause," a mine of trouble and plunder of our people by vile means, but still there remains that same body of in dividuals who have handled these "means" for base purposes, and un less they are removed we are likely at any time to have a repetition of the acts thathave called for such protest as we are just making, and it is the opinion .that all parties who have been the cause, and we know the men, of the state of affairs as have existed, should be required to immediately re sign, or be removed. We of the Parish of Natchiteches, have borne longer and more patiently, the conduct of our public oflicials, than any other people in this State weould have dreamed of submitting to. Let it not then be said that when we were at last aroused, we failed, from fear of being considered dictatorial, of achieving permanent good. Let us remember those who will form opinions contrary to what we consid er our rights, and that those persons in no way represent in any manner, questions of principle. We have long been dictated to, and represent ing the material interest of a commu nity must assume that righlt which is consistent with all principle of being exacting, even at theim risk of being considered dogmatical;.for good eiti zeus bent on a permanent and lasting reform in government, should in no way listen to and be swayed by the opinions of men who, nearly always Sfront liccuniary interest of thl too ielat, advise a comprormise with t,,. corrupt anld tyranieal pasties who are being assailed for that pisypose. May and nrighlt, :are but poor and. iliaries to use in argument when de fending men for future conduct, whose past acts have been so oatrageou . these leading spirits in our midst. All criminals are entitled to acquittnzee upon such a plea Uas that, and lags to enforce purity in society, vYhea put to such test; be those enactments human or Divine, are d(lead letters and void of enforcemelnt. To saw up, Boullt, iMyers and Blunt, ar , known to be the suHirem ounianaderi's of the gangl,, who have feasted upon the bolyi piolilic, and through their influence, by their ad. vice, and with their conselnt, has all this phlunderinlg been done; then why should we hesitate to apply the rule adopted by our mass meetiugs to them, do we fear their power or opinions? (Certainly not. Then in the fame of the white people of our parish, let their resignation or removal be de. rnanded and required. iON Q[IXOTE COLLECTOR SLOPES! $4366 35 of the People's Mon. ey Gone ! REDOND\ TIlE RADICAL, LEWVES US I THE S[IJS, The Bond a Straw ! It will be remembered that last week in an article, we alluded to the tenor of the speech mado by W. l[. Redmond, the City collector of Natch itoches, in which speech lie alluded to his having been charged with be ing a defaulter, and denounced that charge as being tilse. This we can now see was but another exemplifi cation of the "wincing of the galled jade;" for upmon the examination of his affairs by a committee appointed by the city administrators, he was found to be in arrears $4366.35, ac cordiag to his omen books, that amount will probably be largely increased when a thorough examination has been had into the receipts hIe has is sued, the collection of Quarantine Taxes, &e. His bond is said to be worth less, from the fact that the par ty's sureties are not worth the amount expressed, and the bond, by reason of neglect, has not been recorded. Se the tax payers and citizens of Natchi toches, are left in the suds. Red mond left for parts unknown lst week, and although Ihis absence was noted within a day or two after, en quiries as to where lie was, were qui eted by the assurance that lie had gone fishing. No steps have bees taken for his apprehension, although lIe is now known to have absconded. This is another telling argument against the Radlieal rulers here, as this man was a particular pet of Blunt, Myers, Bouzllt and Lewis, the grand thieving quartette and mana gers in general of all the villainies perpetrated on our people. We opine Redmond has gone te New Orleans to confer with his friends, and entertain King Kellogg with the cock and bull story that "the oflicials are being persecuted in Natehitoches, because they are Republicans." Citi zens of'Natchitoches ! who is respon sible for this, and whiat~ re you going to do about it? Why stand yon with folded arm while the vile miscreants who ae the responsible parties, are quietly smiling at your discomfiture. YeM know the men, and you deserve lat the name of cowards if you submit one instant longer. Mass Meeting m Sabime MANY, July 14th, 1l87I. At a Masss Meeting of thie citirilS of the Parish of Saine, assembled is Many on the 1t day of July, alter the object of the meeting was exl.laiu ed by Mr. Edmund Duggan, Presidest of the Police Jury, Capt. C. C. Nash was called to the chair and Mr. F. C Gay appointed secretary, a committa was appointed to draft resolutions. /" Whereupon the following wr , unanimously adopted: Resolved, By the people of the Par ish of8abinein Mass Meeting waet bled, that we have witnessed with th [greatest sympathy and anxiety th 1.great popular nmovement inaugunral. in the Parisl of Natchitoches on the part of that deeply wronged and iao oppressed people to rid themselves d tihe official abuses to which they ha"e been subjected, and that we do here ! by tender them our hea-tgv assistance aRnd co-operation should jihe same !needed in carrying out their bad. !able objects. C. C. NASIH, Chairman. F.C. GAY. Secretary. . . .. . ,,,t- .,,,- o4 -- ... "For a young woman to begin tO : pick linit off a young man's coat c4* lar" is said to be thee tir.t symptOS that the young tmu 1i in pt-il.