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OPELOCXAS, SATI'BDAt, SOTKMBEK 23, 18ÏS.
POOR LOUISIANA!
In the injunction procured by the Uni
ted Stentes District Attorney from Judge
Dtuell wresting the proceedings of the
State Board of Canvassers who are en
gaged in the dirty of verifying and can
vassing the returns of the recent State'
election, we see complications arising,
which, whatever the decision of the
Court, cannot fail to give trouble.
It is almost impossible to see light
through the general euibrpglio of polit
ical affairs in Louisiana. Long years of
misrule have brought us to a point that
we hardly know it: we have any rights
at all, or, if we have, what power on
earth is géfng to secure them to usf We
voted under restrictions. The votes
were counted at the point of the bayonet.
The ballot boxes were guarded a« ballot
boxes never were before. Yet, now steps
in an india-rubber act of Congress whieh
has a wonderful pliability for fitting it
self to every possible contingency. In
fact it is a degree more elastic than the
Constitution, which has read in one part
of the Union to high honor and prosperi
ty, and read out the other to want and
suffering, and all manner of evil things.
Wte ^lppflfoe there is fctfll spoil enongh
left in Louisiana to keep it a "Debata
ble Land," though it seemed to us that
the locusts had smitten almost every
green germ. We presume w e will know
Indole the lapse of many days who are
to be the Powers to whom we must look
for the future of Louisiana.
Glorious Union ! Freedom of opinion !
Freedom of the ballot-box ! Freedom
to light and quarrel over the spoils?
Freedom to kick the boasted liberties of
a Republic into the very middle of a
despotism. Let's throw up our hats and
cry hurrah for theuext Governor, if he's
only strong enough to hold his own I
> irr i • \, ; s
T he S tate E lection.— No official
publication of the State election, nor'orf
the City election, has yet. reached us.
The election retnrns of the City have
been published unofficially, but may be
modified by the board of canvassers.
The entire fusion ticket is elected,
ceptfor Administrator of Improvem
—the conservative vote for this office
was divided between two candidates,
Maj. Burke and Gen. Beauregard, which
elected the Republican candidate, € q1.
James Lewis, colored.
* Greeley and the Fusion ticket are
about nine thousand ahead on the City
vote, but Kellogg ran ahead of his ticket
Mid Is only aboutthousand behind
McEnery; wbilePenuismorethau eleven
thousand ahead of Antoine.
The Republican ticket ha« a majority
in the couutry. parishes, bfifc Itardly
enough to elect it. Kellogg, howefer,
may get in, on account of Iiis large vote
in the City.
On account of thfeimichnnd protracted
litigation in thematter, it is uncertain
when it will finally be determined who
is to be our next Governor.
■■'JW, ■ ■ * -||
Nöt a Failure .—'TheCincinnati Com
mercial says : " The Liberal Repub
lican movement is nota failure. I,t has
liberalized the Republican party ,and fts
influence will temper the Administration
for the next four years for good. It has
alM tibefalked the Dtsrnorafcic party,
and put, out of the way forever uritatihg
issues au^dt^pta» tl^t Kere dangerous.
The missionary labor of the campaign
on both sides liai beeti excellent. Much
has been done in the removal of the as
perities of party differences, and in har
luonâeàJSg «f other days
over the questions of this day, toward
the homoifftftity o'Rhe American people
—a work of inestimable beuificence."
Dr. Asa Gray, the retiring President
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, has, according to
the reports of the proceedings thereof,
given a frank indorsement of the Dar
winian theory, without a. word of dissent.
He expresses the confident hope that
"the religious .faith which survived
without a shock.the notion of the fixity
of the earth itself, may equally outlast
the notion of the absolute fixity of the
spmes whifti inhabit it." So we came
from moaikeys to man, and we go from
man to—what 1
The post-office authorities of Great
Britain have resolved to introducealarge
number «tü
meut. "Fdriy*youngl\rfie^aW also to be
shortly placed on thfe eBthbRahnlenf of
the Savings Bank office, aotmthstanain g
tlWvfgÂtoas imrtewttif Hie CwwptroÄw,
who, in co^jjB|pu .witli the entire, staff,
feels "$iegrie^V dangers, moral and
official, which likely to follow f
adoption of so extraordinary a couife
The English House of Lords com
prises four princes of the blood, two
archbishops, tWettty-seven' ilitkcs, thir
ty-two mortises, we hundred and
sixty -neve« earls, thirty-six viscounts,
twenty-tonr ysitops/aud mm* liunâi^d
and eiglity-five barou«. ®
—«» a. 1.1 •»»*> i
A man in New York, who has just
got out of a law suit, wants to obtain
large framed picture of a cow, witirotie
« lient at the head aud the other at me
taU, pulling, and the lawyers, mean
while quietly milking.
Aalrisli editor at the West nîilfBy
wishes for a " hundred and sixty acre
lot of Spitzbergen frigidity, and an ice
««ewiaed grotto in the basement of the
Aurora Borealis."
Mankind has heeu learning for six
thousand years, and yet how few ha ve
learned that their feUow-befagg are as
gsed aa tbemétfves." ..
—.. i<a» '.. ■ . „1 ,
A Western editor placed over " Mar
riage^r-i cat representing a Jar#» tij,p,
sprung, with this motto; "The fep
«town—another uinnyhammer canght."
One of the Western railroads has a
female engineer of the, lieautiful blonde
order. She makes the. sparks fly.
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Courage is more likely to be pmiapt
than iiiiprudence is to be courageous.
THE OUTCR0P OF THE " RELIGION
OF Ul'MANJTY" AM) "FREE-LOVE"
DOCTRIN
lu the scandal« which that infamous
sheet (Woodhull &. Claflin's Weekly)
have circulated over the country, and
for wliicli the irrepressible sisters are
now in custody, we see the inevitable
results of that " religion of Humanity"
of which these two women are the Priest
esses. It is amusing at this time of day
to find in New York an indictment
against obscene literature. For very
many years that city has been the nu
cleus of scurrilous sheets, which the
post sowed broadcast over the land—pa
pers and periodicals which were a dis
grace to any community which tolerated
them. Of course eveiy case of scandal
was given in its most disgusting details,
but now the Woodhull has at last out
Heroded Herod. She has carried the
war to the doors of the most eminent
members of the community. The cele
brated preacher, Heuiy Ward Beechev,
some noted Brokers ou Wall street, and
several other respectable members of
community, find themselves dragged
before the public in a very disgusting
manner.
The Woodhull calls upon them to
throw off their borrowed garments of
christian morality and religion, and stand
up before the world as they are, her co
laborers in the sublime cause of Free
Love, and Positivism. We said, and we
repeat again, that all these offences
against decency, this Free-Love iniquity,
and bold denial of a God of the Universe,
is the natural outgrowth of Positivism,
or the religion of Humanity. Step by
step has it been drawing near us for
years, numbering in its ranks not only
the Godless men and women of every
community, but many- distinguished
scientists throughout the world. Let us
take a brief glance at this Positivist
problem. „
In philosophy it proposes organic unity
to the whole field of conceptions, either
in the material or moral world, and a
grand systemizing of all ideas. As a
polity it assumes to bring practical life
into full accord with the intellectual and
emotional, subordinating politics to
morals. Its religion (which is the key
note of the whole system) gives us the
worship of Humanity—of man, in his
human relations past, present, and to
come, as a substitute for God. The Pos
itivist denies a First great Cause, and
the immortality of anything but the
atoms whieh to build up our mortal
frames. He assumes to be the high
Priest of the Known, but the vast realm
of the Unknown, which is not visible to
the eye, and not reducible by any fixed
rule in his repertoire, is to him a land of
shadows which delude« the unwary.
What cannot be proved by human tests
is utterly worthless.
? The Free-Love doctrines sprang as
naturally from this belief as flame from
combustible materials.
The complex system of the Oneida
community, iBunadulterated Free-Love.
The "Confarreatis" of Mad. Clemence
Royal, where the woman takes as many
husbands as her fancy, or her circum
stances suggest, or EllenStorge's propo
sition, that man and woman should be
" hand-fasted " for two or three years,
at the option of the contracting parties,
casting from them the ridiculous idea
that the marriage contract is of Divine
ordinance, are all the offshoots of this
most pernicious doctrine.
Since man alone is God, why his wishes
make a law sufficient unto itself, let it
crop out into any extravagance whatso
ever. Marriage is a bondage, therefore,
marriage must give place to some more
accommodating tie.
There are good, time men who are dis
ciples of this religiori of Humanity, men
who believe in the perfectibility of the
species, and whose lives are spent in
philanthropic labors. But for one such
men as John Stuart Mills, you will find
thousands of the Woodhall species
though, perhaps rather more dqaept jn
their avowals. The doctrine inculcates
licence by its denial of a SupremeBeing,
and the moral restraints which grow out
of His government. Positivism is uiir
happily more rife among us than an un
observant person would suppose, ït
comes out in the most unexpected times
and places. We have detected it in
strange guise in some of Henry Ward
Beecher's lecture*, and in a late sermon
of the Rev. J. Frothingljam'so^tîfe folly
of prayer, it crops out in unadultered
JaSSt*«, Ufr ^obscene Victoria
Woodhull, ha« possibly given it a slight
fillup in this country, from having rushed
on too rapidly to the end. But
merely anticipated the natural sequence
of a doctrine which sets morality and
religion at defiance. The doctrine passed
through the alembic ©f a filthy mind,
and came out rather too strong for the
popular palate, But jn our opinion, it is
not only " Woodhull 6c Chimin's Week
ly" which should be suppressed, noï
WobdlniÜ & Claflin who should be ppt
in limbo, but greater Teachers of evil,
who, under tfw? gafse p£ christians, and
even irt the pulpit? ASP mowing jtfre seeds
of the vile doctrine ovfrfche
, Editorial Insanity .— 1 There is a vol
ume of truth in the following from the
pen of a ceiWSPPftdpM of the Chicago
Tribune :
Unquestionably, there isa well-detined
insanity in respect to journalism, and
thaf. which may grow out of it. Many
men jpdined to the proiession learn
nothing b f pxperience of others, or
-by their own. They betters they can
accomplish miracles ; that tney dan push
aside general laws and circumstances in
the «£eeution of their pn>jocts. Failure
... i ., Thçy
James
of disasters, aada^er
ttoUf* of Iii« unfitness for a newspaper
manager, built a# A? ipost profitable
daily in America.
It appears to me that there is a fatal
fascination about scribbling coiubineil
with printers' mk. He who has once
dim«« mto & «in scan ely be persuade<l
to leave it off, though prudence, penmy
pd mUcy urge him to tiiat ejyJ, T w e
hardly ever met a man once in the Vnit
ing, however luimbi« 1 his position, who
was uot convinced, if he had an oppor
tunity,, ijiajt h^ eouhl make^a great news
paper. Aud, if he tau persuade any one
possessed of means to lieh» hjpi, lie is
very likely to contract a debt he is uu».
Me to discharge. The more he doe« not
succeed, the more lie,is sure he deserves
to, and he ha« an exceeding facility in
discovering evenr cause of his non-suc
cess, except the right one,
A Wisconsin editor speaks of a wind
which " just sat on its hind legs and
howled.'
Manufacturing «» Orleans.
COTTON SEED OIL CKCSHIN« — ITS LEAD
ING INDUSTHY.
I Prom the Ne w Orleans Times.]
The unrivaled rfver secures to New!
Orleans advantages which are only now
«eonMcncing to attract the attention of
the largest capitalists of Europe, the i
North and West, and oui' otto people j
are becoming daily more confident in j
the future expansion and growth of |
this great port for commerce-and manu
facturing.
That New Orleans must largely ex
pand and grow very rapidly as the
facilities of transportation with the in
terior increase, there cannot be any
doubt. When we shall have secured
to a proportionate extent railroad con
nections, such as some of the second
class interior cities of the North, East
or West have now, who will or can
measure the growth and prosperity of
New Orleans within the next few years.
Our cotton receipts are daily increas
ing by reason of the railways and the
steady great highway, our unparal
leled Mississippi River. So also the
grain and tobacco, which heretofore
were largely diverted, are now all com
ing back to us. And when, with the
sugar and rice crops enlarged, and the
production of oil and cake from the
cotton crop that comes totliis port alone,
our city will offer the most available
port for imports as well as experts.
With these natural exchanges, give us
the monopoly of the commissions that
are now controlled largely by New
York.
Our manufacturing industries must
increase, and will rapidly multiply as
apital accumulates here. Their suc
cessful development is a future certain
ty. As an evidence of this, we cite the
extensive cotton seed oil mills, which are
now in successful operation. This in
dustry, though yet injits in fancy, has al
ready reached a peciuiur importance and
large proportions. We have now near
ly three-fourths of the entire crushing
capacity of the States. Time has dem
onstrated that this is the best locality
for the successful prosecution ot this
important industry, both as to collec
tion of the raw material and the easy
distribution of the products, to the
best markets of the world.
Only fancy the products of cotton
seed to become equal to the extent of
cotton actually produced now per an
num, and you will have as its result
a value nearly that of our " vegetable
wool" crop—cotton—itself. One city
in England—Hull—has alone about
seventy-eight mills engaged in this line
of manufacture, and a crushing capaci
ty of from two to three thousand tons.
That New Orleans will exceed it in
time, no doubt can be entertained, be
cause the products of the seed are in
unlimited sind universal demand. The
oil, on account of its excellence, is su
perseding sperm, lard, and even olive oil
for domestic purposes, all over the
world. Every day it becomes more
popular, because of its excellence and
cheapness. As a crop, it is far more
certain than 'any other oleaginous vege
table, and its growth by the planter of
cotton is made without any additional
cost. Its oil must, therefore, continue
to be the cheapest, and consequently
the most extensively used everywhere.
The cotton seed oil cake, besides the
seed cotton and hülfe, as an article of
superior cattle food and fattener, is
not excelled in the vegetable kingdom ;
and as a simple, reliable and cheap fer
tilizer, the demand by England alone
exceeds our entire production. Our
city mills consume all the supplies of
seed sent here, and the demand is con
stantly on the increase. Why do our
planters not husband their seed by shel
tering it, and shipping it after the crops
have been laid by ? The prices are
fair, and the^lemand unlim ited.
S hooting A ffray in J ackson P ar
ish .—-We copy as follows from the Ver
non Standard of the 9th :
A difficulty occurred here on last
Tuesday between Ohas. W. Allen, Win.
J. Allen, Allen Greene and his son,
Clias. J. Greene, which resulted in the
shooting of C. W. Allen and both of
the Greenes. C. W. Allen was shot
first by Allen Greene through the left
thigh, just above the knee, and also
through the right leg, breaking the
bones of the same and shattering theni
badly. His wounds are very painful
and serious, but are not thought to be
fatal. Both of the Greenes were shot
in the head but their wounds ate not
considered dangerous.
The law officers, Sheriff Huey, his
energetic Deputy, M. Dickerson, and
Chief Constable S- P- Colvin, imme
diately threw themselves in the breach
between the parties, and did their duty
nobly for law and order. Warrants
were immediately issued for the arrest
of the parties, and tlitsy were promptly
appreliended, and early on Wednesday
morning brought before E. M. Graham,
Parish Judge. An examination of the
facts in the ease was waived by all par
ties, and they were bound over to ap
pear tyefee the next District G'purt for
this parish. 0, W, Allems bond was
fixed at $§00 ; Allen Greene's $3000 ;
W. J. Allen's, $800 ; and C. J. Greene's,
$300,
United States troops were sent for by
the Greenes immediately after the affray,
who arrived here early Wednesday
morning.
This much to be regretted affair
caused intense excitement here for a
short time, but the nrompt interference
of«thelaw officers sqou restored quiet.
C. W. Allen and W. J. Allen are sons
of our worthy fellow-townsman, Capt.
J. Y. Allen, and stand high in this com
ip unity. CoL Green e andC. J. Greene
are also citizeufj pf this parish, and
well known.'
As this affair is to iudergp exainina
tion before the cqwrt 3, injustice to all
parties, we forebear giving the particu
lars ;is th ey have come to us.
P opular E rrors .—It is a popular
error to think that the more a man eats
the tatter and stronger he will become.
To believe that tfie more hours children
study the faster'the^ learn, l'o con
clude that, if exercise is good, the more
violent it is the more good is done. To
imagine that every hour taken from
sleep is an hour gamed." To act on the
imagine that wlfitfevei rei&edy
causes o»e to feel immediatly better
is good for the system, without regard
to more ulterior effects. To eat with
piit an appetite ; or to continue after
ji, gftti8$ed, merely to gratify
the faste. Tb egt ß h§adar sppppr for
the pleasure experienced diïfiug ' the
brief time it is»passing down the throat,
at tlie expense of a whole night of dis
turbed sleep and weary waking in the
joining
Quaint Eimtafïis .— Quami; epitaiihâ
have, frpm time immemorial, dnttieidt
the attention of men, but we doubt if
the whole long list that has been ex
liunied from the past can furnish
erùiiw, et puncfuatiw
fQu pass b^my Grave, Here
mam
23nd
by good
.. .. orouu;;;
mends; not taking their advice, was
fe n A' <l S tilS Ala. River,
ine 5WM1, of M 1855 ; ÎSow I warn all
— -
ilI T -Ä tlfis River,
see how I am fixed in this watery gsaye 1
I have got but fèw friends to mourn.
[Montgomery Adve rtser.
Eafidell vs. Pickwick has been out
done 111 a recent feiigljs)? l»reach-of prom
ise case where I O L wâs introduced
among the correspondence ; the middle
letter being raid cipher—" I sigh for
you. 1
Never indulge in a spirit that belongs
to the ludicit»us 111 matters that apner
tain to the ©oucerns of the soul.
idal to be Iguored-
.ation with Deacon
The Sc
Conversation
Hudson, of Plymouth Church
[Snmliiy Mercury.] "
Reporter—I want to know how Broth
er Beecher takes this Woodhull affair.
Deacon Hudson—Ho ain't going say
anything about it. He's going to cut
the whole thing and let it go.
Reporter—So ?
Deacon Hudson—Yes. I saw him
to-day and lie said he intended to take
no notice of it.
Deacon Hudson added to this that no
matter how many circumstances Mrs.
Woodhull adduced in support of her
charges, Mr. Beecher would refuse to
take any notice of them.
Reporter—But, Deacon Hudson, will
Mr. Beecher not take the trouble to re
fute these charges when they are made
circumstantially?
Deacon Hudson—No, I don't think
Brother Beecher will take the trouble.
Y #u see we know him, and we don't
propose to take anything that a woman
like Woodhull says against him. 1
know Victoria Woodhull as well as Bro
ther Beecher docs, and she never told
me anytliing about it. I think it is
blackmail. She wanted him to pre
side at that free-loving meeting, and he
wouldn't, so she came down on this
Tilton thing."
Reporter—Well, Brother Hudson, do
the Plymouth church flock intend to
stand by Mr. Beecher ?
Deacon Hudson—Of course we do.
We know him, and we will support
him.
Reporter—Then the congregation
won't take the case up ?
Deacon Hudson—Not a bit of it.
H oav R attlesnakes B ite .—A writer
in " Chamber's Journal" contradicts a
popular belief as to the manner in
which snakes bite and inject their poi
son. He says :
" I can only speak for the rattlesnake,
it is true ; with every other venomous
reptile the orthodox accounts may be
correct, but the rattlesnake does not
send its poison through its fangs. It
is always said that the two fangs, which
answer somewhat to the human ' eye
teeth,' are hollow and perforated
at the bottom, and that the poison
flows from the reservoir through this
canal to the point of the fang, «and
thence into the wound. The rattle
snake's fang is certainly hollow, but
the point is solid, and the poison-bag,
to use a very homely simile, may be
compared in its position to a gum boil ;
when the animal strikes the pressure
instantly causes a drop of venom to
run down outside the tooth into the
puncture.
" I dare say this will be controverted,
and I therefore at once give an authori
ty to be referred to. Mr. W. R. Morley,
chief surveyor of the North and South
and United States Central Railways,
running through Colorado and New
Mexico, is a skillful naturalist, who
has killed several hundred of these rep
tiles, has carefully examined them, and
has made them bite when in a position
to watch them, and he can speak from
more experience than almost any living
man, that the poison is injected in the
manner described. This accounts for
the tact that rattlesnake bites are some
what harmless when the sufferer is bit
ten through cloth ; the poison is ab
sorbed by the material, and never finds
its way into the flesh at all."
A H appy E ditor .—The happiest
newspaper man in the country is at
Buffalo, Missouri, according to one who
has seen him, and who writes : " Mr. A.
W. Carson publishes the country paper,
which is called the Reflex. Carson is
better contented and more philosophic
than an any other printer I ever saw.
He sets his own type, writes his own
editorials, uses a Chicago inside, lias
plenty to eat, digests his food well,
sleeps sound, and tranquilly looks on
the scramble in which the world is en
gaged with a profound indifference as
to whether school keeps or not. He
never duns a subscriber, as his list is
too small to incur auy useless risk of
losing one. He never asks a man to
subscribe, for fear of increasing the
amount of pressworlc he has to do. He
has no ambition for office, because he
expects to die an honest man ; and he
don't want to get rich, because it is so
harrassing to take care of a large prop
erty, aud so tight a squeeze for a
humped camel to pass through the op
tic of a cambric needle. So 'Kit,' as he
is playfully called by the Buffalonians,
with whom he is a great favorite, goes
on in the even tenor of his way, observ
ing a majority of the Ten Command
ments, printing his paper regularly,
reaping his annual spring harvest of
stuu-horse bills, and enjoying life in a
sensible, rational manner."
S hakespeare a P rinter .—Shakes
peare has successively had to sustain
the character of a schoolmaster, law
yer, soldier, sailor, farmer, surgeon and
a dozen other trades and professions,
and has been proved satisfactorily to
the miuds of several writers to have
been versed in alchemy, botany, music
and all the ologies. But it lias remained
for Mr, Blades, the eminent Caxtouian,
to prove that Shakespeare was one
of lus own craft—a printer. In the vol
ume just issued by Messrs. Trabner it
is clearly shown that Shakespeare, when
he first arrived in London, called upon
his own fellow-townsman, Field, who
had married the daughter of Vantrol
|ier, a printer, and had succeeded him
in ' his business. Here, thep, Shake
speare, as press reader or as shopman,
or as both, remained four years, and
became master of the ternis "reprints,"
"fitleTpages"preface," .typo," " 11011
pareij," " broadside," locking-lip,"
"register" and " printer's devil," all of
which are to be found in his works.
A B eecher E xhortation .—^) lazy
old men ; O non-ambitious middle-age
men ; 0 dainty, melancholy, seutimeu
tal young men, who are talking about
lifp'g being almost done, shake the
bough of the trep again ! Briug down
more-fruit. Open the ' furrows once
more. Cast in the seed of new endeav
ors. Live again ! for you arc active on
ly when you are thinking, planning, ex
ecuting, _ bearing, suffering. Never
Live on. Live forward, sloughing sins,
sloughingcrhnes, and tfie memory of
them, if they hohl you down. Stretch
out hands of aspiration. Reach after
lie# thoughts and aspirations. It is
iîevertoôîatie to^eap. flo throijgh life
with the reaper's song in your mouth ;
and when you die, carry your sheaves
with you to Heaven.
A fpcently employed local editor on
stove one col3 night last Véek dud
warmed himself. "See here, old fel
low," said he, finally, hadn't you better
go home f The " old fellow " glared
bvthe shPuldéA ' to lead ]iim orit, fre
inarking that ft was rio place for loafers.
"'See here,' yoüng man," roared the old
wfoHow,«youwho
—»«'re talking to. My panic js .-—> ,
hud 1 am one of ** «WletO® ot this
om ^ ...
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ESL, JntVaSShofe
An accident ajt Lppg prancli is thus
reported by a lady correspondent, i One
day last week Miss Bolt, from Boston,
was sitting at our table ; she had a love
ly toilet during dinner; biit she sneezed,
whew lo! the half of the waist of her
dress ripj>ed out, and mamma had to
put her lace shawl around her.
dress was made with one of these
gle-thread machines, and the lady being
quite "snug" in her figure, the sneeze
broke that thread.
,
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Election Returns of the Parish of St. I. an dry, Showing the Number of Votes Received by Each
Candidat«» from President to Police Jurors inclusive, at Each Polling Place in said
Parish, at the Election held on Monday, November 4th, 187a.
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President
<, HoliACE (jEKELliV
" i U. S. Cr It a NT
Congre »» nt I- ar « e | A.^heuioan
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District - - "(J. B . Pkice
CioTcrnor- - . ( JOHK McEseky
... „ j Wm. Pitt Kellogg
Lieutenant «or- 5 1jav „ )so n B. Pkn.n
crnor- - - " j c. o. Antoine
Secretary of State- S samtri.l Ak.usteah
) P. G. Desi.onde
Auditor- - - -jJames Graham...
) <!. W. Clinton
Attorney <ic«ernl- ^ H. N. Ouden
« . ) A. P. Fields
Sup't. Public Edii- r j» M l cshek
" i William Ci. Bbowk
State Senator
C T HOR . c. A ndeuso:
" '*< J. M. MooitE
(A. F. R iakd
Kcpi'CMentatirCH- -
Isaac t. Littei
Lewis I). Prescott
A. L. Demo
J. L. Mobüis
Joseph Chenie
J. A. McMillan....
T. H. Thompson.
Cornelius Donato
E. I). Estilette
B. II. gantt
John I. CJakdinek
James Webb
L. B.Cunv.
C. Mokniunvkg. .
C. E. Nash
J. J. BeauciTami
Lucien Daiîiiv
J. M. Milsted
G. C. Wolfe
Jules Godeau...
Camille Melançon
E. M. Pli ice
John E. King
J. J. Mobgan
G. W. Hudspeth..
•! A. Garrigues
i Albert Lastb apes
Clerk Dint. Court- j W. A. Robertson..
Jos. I). Richard..
( II. M. Dunbar
C. C. Duson
< E. O. Hayes
| J. M. Thompson
yves viihunè
- Yves D'A VV
i H. Haves
D. P. C. Hill..
Dixtriet Judge- -j
Dintrict Attorney-/
Pai'inh Judge- -
Sheriff
Itriorder
Coroner
Police Jury
C Jas . I). Cou;
"jA. T. Cum mings
( Jacob Ehrhardt..
t. C. Chachere
T. S. Fontenot
John Roy
Don Louis Rich au»
J. L. Estorge
B. s. Mudd
Homer Dubio
D. B. Hayes
D. H. quirk
W. B. Reynolds. .
T. Fontenot
W. C. Johnson...".
V. Boutte
François Savoie. .
k. Whittington
John Slums
S. Pre, jean..
C. Perrodin
S. Cart
J. P. Smith
F. Franchebois
Jean Castille
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Praying for Things.
No prayers can be expected to extract
another wish or thought Or expression
of feeling from a Beiwg who is beyond
all these lines, and who lias put these
thrilling worlds between Himself and
His creatures, piled these Ossas on these
Pelions of intention, and fairly exhaus
ted the possibilities of care in what is
already provided. He who begins to
see how much he has, can not in con
science ask for more. To have the
smallest appreciation of the wealth of
the supply is to see reason sufficient for
being dumb. And so we find what
we should expect to find, a decline of
prayer with an increase of knowledge.
As people understand the meteorology
ana climatology they perceive the use
lessness of prayer for rain. As they
understand the strict connection be
tween the harvest and the seasons, they
cease to pray for good crops. As they
understand the intimate dependence of
human health on sanitary precautions,
they abate their precautions, they abate
the fervency of their petitions for long
and wholesome life. As they under
stand the necessary affiliation of the
physiological and the phychological
laws, their prayers for an amiable tem
per and a kind heart become weak and
mi'reiiucait. A visit to the office in
Washington, where the clerk of the
weather sits with his subordinates
about him, catching the whispers of the
wind from the four quarters of heaven,
counting the rain drops that fall on a
continent, weighing the atmosphere
from sea to sea and from lakes to gulf,
and making these flying, illusive wit
nesses tell whether it will be wise for
the people of New York or San Fran
cisco to take umbrellas down town with
them the next day, will satisfy the most
devout mind that supplication for a
sudden supply or cessation of showers
will be ineffectual. A visit to the bu
reau of Vital Statistics, where the cur
rents of disease are traced in their
flow over large reaches of territory,
and the private correspondence between
sanity and sewerage, death and dirt,
fever and fetor, cholera and uncleauli
ness, is established with the nicety of
mathematics, will pppyipqe the* saint
that the death-rate is liot likely to be
modified coiisiderably by the most fer
vent désire (Jodwàro. Tlie prayer for
fresh accessions of temperance, honesty,
peacefulness, sinks into silence before
the fapt that vices and crimes too obey
their laws j that outbreaks of personal
distemper accompany changes in the
money market; that social morality
follows the line of national prosperity
which rises and falls with tlie fluctu
ations of tlie seasons ; that social dis
orders have their method ; that sins
can be reduced to an average : that a
skillful actuary \irili, from given drita,
compute wifh much Mcuiacy the' prob
able number of murders and suicides
for the next twelvemonth, vice and vir
ture not being gifts dependent 011 the
favor of a benefactor, but qualities
wrought into the texture of the world,
prayer— —
infidelity, like vice, has its causes, w hich
must be removed before it will disappear.
The " Age of Reason" in France, with its
appalling excesses, was 110 inspiration of
the devil, but au inevitable Misait of |he
abominations of the Church, which
were again an inevitable result of t^ie
abominations of the State, which agftih
were an inevitable result of an ancient
but outworn theory of the rights of
kings. Prayer is thus seen to be out W
is ifiôperafivfe WecauSe it is unnecessary.
For* every prayer that reasonable mor
tals can make an answer is already
provided, answer^ to prayer bmng
worked into the substance of life, • The
compart iniiverse, in mcf, is an orgâ^
izeu' rpspouse tp "thé suppÜvafipns of
in'èn aii inèxliaustible storehouse of
Adaptations, the key : whereof is placed
hafflfy |-hp perfect
being cqujd pot reply p) Iuuqan be.
seeching nirire'siifficlently than He has
done nlreadv, He has even anticipated
""^»1»»?!»! «•N»«'» C . W1 :
^ ys la y u hidde.i at their feet
pCtiuv'"» ji f .Ii t > y
uren ba<l need *
asked
Him, and furnishing them centuries
long in advance, with every imaginable
means pf Hatisfaction. They fancy
their' petitiouR are au*wered directly
by Him when they draw on sonic hith
erto uudiscovered treasury, that bad al
ways lain biddeu at their feet ; thev
faiicy that He has just begun to speak
liecanse they have just begun to listen.
[Sermon by O. B. Frothingliam,
The horse disease—Catarrh.
The Umbrellst China Tree.
(meli a umbrella.)
Wo have been told that this tree orig-
inated at the place of the late ex-Gov
ernor Burnett, near San Jacinto, inTex
that many years ago, in the winter
time, 011 reaching home from an excur
sion 011 horseback, lie thrust the stick
which he had used as a whip into the
ground near a spring. The whip grew,
was protected, and became a beautiful
tree of a strange and peculiar form, and
this is the parent of the Umbrella China
trees now common in cultivation in
many portions of Texas. Its characters
are constant, and so marked that any
one at a distance can distinguish it from
the common China tree even at a glance.
It preserves these characters when grown
from the seed. At the distance of a few
feet froui the ground it sends forth nu
merous branches, the lowest of which
are more horizontal than those imme
diately above them, until the uppermost
limbs are nearly vertical—the whole,
when in full leaf, forming an umbrella
like head of remarkable symmetry and
beauty. The ends of the outer leaves
project more or less over the bases of
those beneath them, like the shingles of
a roof, forming a shade of the darkest
green. The rays of the sun cannot pen
etrate them, and they even afford pro
tection from a moderate shower.
Of all our deciduous trees, it is cer
tainly the most beautiful. It« dark
green leaves, and shape so different from
other trees, will always give it a marked
and fine appearance in the landscape.
It is very hardy, and a very rapid grower
when placed in soils of moderate fer
tility.
Should it maintain its character, which
it has already done for many years, bpt
it constitute a new species under the
name of Melia Umbrella. Its characters
are so marked that any one can distin
guish it from the common China tree
even in the winter, which is not the case
with many admitted species of trees.
May not the work of creation be »till
going on of both plants ;ipd animals,
from progression to progression, and
still the work be so gradual as to fail to
attract the attention of short-lived mor
tals ! This view does not detract in the
least from the dignity and power of the
Almighty, but it rather ought to increase
oui- adm.U'ation of him for giving birth
to n»\Y forms to render the earth more
delightful and pleasing to us. Such a
creation, or form, is the Umbrella China
tree.—[Rural Alabaniian.
K illing C riminals .—Dr.Paul F. Eve,
of Nashville, lias written a pamphlet to
prove that hanging is not oply unpleas
ant, but ppsiti'v ely inhuman as a means
of qeath- The doctor contends that it
is an exceedingly difficult matter to dis
locate the human neck, and that this
eyent rarely happens in ordinary hang
ings, the victimdyinggradually of stran
gulation. What is worse tlie conscious*
ness of the criminal is upt suspended by
tlip fa|l and ^ sufpjrs terribly during
the period—from seventeen to twenty
seven minutes—he is engaged in shuff
ling off his mortal career. Indeed, the
doctor thinks that, with the exception of
crucifixion, hanging is the most p;\n\fnl
of all deaths. Dr, Eye is doubtless right
iu many of his, deductions. Hanging is
a beastly" way of killing a criminal, even
when artistically doue by a sheriö who
understands his business and never loses
his presence of m ind. But when the job
is bungled, as it is three times out of
five, hanging is horrible, inhuman and
disgustiug. Th" object benig sim ply to
kill thé prisoner and get him out ot the
way, it would seem that science ought
to provide some simpler, quicker and
more hUmane method than that pf chok
ing him to dcatfi. Dr. Eve suggests as
a substitute to.y $ie Altera modification
of the «Spanish garotte, fitted w ith a
spring so constructed as to drive n knife
into the neck, severing the spinal chord
and producing instantaneous death.
This would be a decided improvement
011 the hatter, put a powerful galvanic
battery, producing lupuless d<;ath wrth
the swiftnesaof alightnmgstroke, would
be better still, But beatot all would be
the abolition of the death penalty in all
its tonus.—[St. Louis Democrat.
A poor but pious young nian apolo
gized the other evening, while making
a call, for the muddiness ot his boots,
saving be had not taken a carriage, but
Mid -'walked hit wiflj eoipmendabo
economy." He was grieved when the
lovely being whom he adores inquire«
why he did't " as k Mr. E cononomy m.
A bad style of arithmetic—Division
among families.
The Original "Camille."
Nestor Roqueplan, iu his Parmne
records a visit made to the tombs of
certain celebrities, and among others to
that of Mane Duplessis, the original of
the "Dame aux Camélias," who», it
seems, he had known intimately in all
t he phases of her life—first as a street girl
munching apples on the Pobit Neuf,
and afterward as a gay lady, regardless
ot expense. W ith a pitiless hand he
strips ott the romance which music and
song have wound around a life really
so wild and mercenary, aud shows tho
woman in her true colors—first, as a,
grisette of the Quartier Latin, grateful
for the gift of a few fried potatoes
from
of the dance gardens in quest of rich
victims ; and lastly the depraved Par
isian Lorette, dying, it is true, of con
sumption, but otherwise as different
from the Traviata as darkness from
light. Here is the analysis of the, char
acter of this woman who has been made
the ideal of a romancer, and whose sins
have been condoned by so many pure
hearts weeping over her imaginary
woes and sacrifices for affection's sake :
Maria Duplennin was remarkably
pretty—tall, well made, ignorant, with
out wit, but cunning. A Norman peas
ant, she invented a genealogy and an
historic name. She lied liberally, and
was in the habit of saying that ' lies
whitened the teeth.' About her there
was nothing of the woman whom the
imagination of a romancer invested
with her name." He insists that the
only truth in the history of the Dame
aux Camélias was the fact that she diwl
of consumption ; and he relates, »»
characteristic of the woman, that lier
last appearance iu public was at the
theatre of the Palais Royal, when she
was so near dying that two liveried
lackeys had to lift her in aud out of tlie
theatre.
Yet she was such a celebrity in her
way that the year after her death it
was the fashion of the women who em u
lated her career to make a pilgrimage
to her cemetary and to strew camélias
over her grave. A sad aud touching
commenter}-, however, is given in the
statement of the fact that when she
died, out of all her numerous lovers and
admirers but two men had the hardi
hood to follow her remains to the tomb,
which her poet-lover celebrated by
verses addressed to them praisiug their
fidelity. Seldom has it hanpened that
a woman so utterly worthless lias in
spired so much tender pity and gained
so undeserved a reputation.—[Edwin
De Leun iu " Lippincott's."
A G host S tory .—A correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette, writing from
Portsmouth, O., reports a prodigy' worth
noting. As the story goes, Mollie Sul -
livan, a courtesan, recently died in
Portsmouth, and after death a German
woman living hard by called publie at
tention to the astounding fact that
Mollie's ghost could be seen from the
street seated behind one of the windows
of her former residence. Soon thou
sands of people had visited the spot,
and looking up from the street had
seen the apparition. The cotTespon
dent of the Gazette has seen it also, as
from one point of view it showed only
as the general outline of a face, the
flow of the hair and the curve of the
eyebrows being well defined, whib
from another, distant from it about
fifty feet, he could see the color
of the dress—«lark ground work with
white sjHits—a bow or locket on tho
bosom; the posture that of a person
sitting nearly facing the window, and
some person or thing standing beluiiu
her at tho right of the picture. The
pane of glass has Ix-en removed, ont
does not seem to differ from any other
pane, nor can the likeness be seen twnt
within the room. As it issupposeu tnat
Mollie was murdered there is great ex
citement fn town, and strenuous en
deavors are made to find out who tue
iterson standing behind her may be.
The glass should becareluUy examined,
as it may show something new con net t -
cd with the art of phot ography.
A correspondent of the Ceylon Obser
ver calls attention to a famous rose-tree
growing on the Dora gall estate, Han
tanne district. He says it is eighty feet
in circumference, fifteen feet high, ami
is bearing at present, at least two thous
and roses.
An Artesian well in Lincoln, Nebras
kn, is ho that it will clrav\ ;v
tin cup toward it. That's nothing,
though, for a Hinall black bottle will ot
teu draw a whole crowd toward it.