The Donaldsonville chief (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-09-16 [p...

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You Know Hoeytis Yourself. Dear Nellie. Sunday night. you know. I hadn't much to say, And yet 'twas twelve o'clock or so Before I went away; You saw that half the time I watched The clock upon the shelf: .Oh, Nellie ! how , wished you might See how it was yourself I wants so to ,tell you What I've waited long to say, )ut heart and spirit failed me, My equrage died away. Now, ]Nellie, only listen- You roguish little eli' !- I'm sure yop'd pity me. at least, If you kpew how it was yourself. Excuse me. Nellie, darling, I've loved yvou long and well, Then let me keep this little hand, Nor all my hopes dispel: I've loved you more than all the world Can give of power or pelf-- But words are weak when hearts would speak; " You know 'tis yourself." I1cr lips but faintly quivering, Her shy glamre upward thrown- I gently drew her to my side, My beautiful, my own ! We sat there all the evening- "Twelve" came from the mantle shelf- The rest you must imagine, for " You know how 'tis yourself !" Nevada's Way. Ba.y~r d Taylor, in a letter to the X. X'. Tibupe fro; .Nevada, says: In walking out with a friend this morning, I came across a long beam projecting from the gable of a house directly over a deep ravine. There was a slight platform under it and a rope dangling from its end. " What a fearful place this is for a swing," I said. "Yes, so it is," said my friend, "and a man took a fearfiul swing there not four months ago." - How was that?" said I. "Why, thus it was: A man shot another in cold blood. He was ar- rested. tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hung. He was known to be a desperate vagabond, and an incendi- ary, and suspicions of many dark deeds were upon him. His chances of escape through executive clemency or legal technicalities were considered by many of our best citizens, who, on the whole, concluded to make a sure thing of it. They therefore went in a body to the jail, escorted the prisoner to this spot, and, after a solemn presen- tation of the facts in the case, they told him to prepare for death, and ad- justed the rope around his neck. No sooner was the knot secure than he swore a- California oatllthat no coward should have the glory of choking him to death, and leaped down the chasm. He came to the end of the rope before he did to the bo)ttom of the chasm, so choked to death at last." This little incident is scarcely wor- thy of mention, it being an affair of such common occurrence here, but, as one of the ordinary phenomena of a mining country, I have not felt at lib- erty to-omit it. Theatrical Anecdote. When Stephen Kemble was mana. ger in Newcastle, Eng., and the houses were rather flat, no less a personage arrived in town than the Prince An namboo, who offered his services for a very moderate consideration. Accord- ingly the bills of the day annonced " that between the acts of the play, Prince Annamboo would give a lively representation of the scalping opera- tion; he would also give the Indian war-whoop, in all its various tones, the tomahawk exercise and mode of feasting at an Abyssinian ban- quet." The evening arrived, and many people attended to witness these princely imitations. At the end of the third act his highness walked forward, with dinifled step, flourshing his toma- hawk, and cut the air, exclaiming : " Ha ha--ho ho! " Next entered a man with his face blackened and a piece of bladder fastened to his head with gum; the prince, with a large carving knife, commenced the scalping operation, which he performed in a style truly imperial, holding up the skin in token of triumph. Next came the war-whoop, which was a combina- tion of dreadful and discordant sounds ; lastly, the Abyssnian banquet, consis- ting of raw beefsteaks; these he made into rolls, as large as his mouth would admit, and devoured themi in a. prince- ly and dignified manner. Having completed his cannihal repast, lie flourished his tomahawk, exclaiming : -" Ha ha-ho ho!" and made his exit. Next day, in the middle of the market place, Kenmble espied the puis- sant prince of Anurniboo selling pen- knive.s, scissors and quills, in the char- acter •f a Jew pedlar. " What ! " said Kemble, " my prince, is that you ? Are not you a pretty scoundrel to im- pose upon us in this manner !" Moses turned rouid and with an arch look replied: "Prince ! I vash no prince, I vash acting like you. You vas kings, princes, emperors, to-night, Stephen Kemible to-morrow; I vash hunipugs, you vash huinpugst and all vash hiun- pugs." 't!e Memphis Appeal calls the at- fentiop of the ion. Horace Greeley to the fopi note, "in the hope that he will do justice, tough the heavens fall:" "Editors Appeal-Seeing the name of Horace Greely in the columns of your paper, I presume he is the same plderly genflma who, when in Texas, would tflp with tie feelings of a lone widow, wwp fii her husband in the war. The exact words he used was, " he canime to heal the wounds caused by the late war, and lie offered ile hhnd of f'powship, that all par- ties 'e rpeonciled.' As a modest woman, I did not accept hisproposal; although I intended to do so, had he pressed hts suite. He has failed to do so, however, and I have since learned that the gay deceiver has a wife some- W'here in the State of New- York. Please pass him around. Yours, WIDOW MALONE. A Voice friom Texas. The Houston (Texas) nulon, of re- cent date, brings forth facts and doc- uments in strong array to utterly de- molish one of the many slanderous charges which have been made against Governor Warmnoth by the unscrupu- lous political tricksters who seek his overthrow in order to gain their own selfish ends. This sterling voice from Texas will send consternation among the Governor's opponents, for "truth is mighty and will prevail," in spite of their attempts to stifle or gainsay it. We give the article complete: AN EXPLODED CHARGE AGAINST GOV- ERNOR WARMOTIH. We regret to see that our Republi- can brethren in Louisiana are not ex- empt from the evils that beset the party in most of the other Southern States. And while we know but little of the immediate causes of the present difficulties in our sister State, we may venture the remark that there, as in Texas, personal ambition and human selfishness enter largely into the pro- moting power.* And so far as the charges made by one party or the other are founded upon transactions in Louisiana, we can have little or noth- ing to say, as we are not familiar with them. But when one of the belliger- ents calls his witnesses fiont Texas, and relies upon testimony from this State to sustain his case against his umost-prominent opponent, it becomes our duty as a journalist and leader of the Republican party here to give such assistance as will enable the truth to appear. Among the most prominent oppo- nents of Governor Warmoth in Louis- iana is Col. Geo. W. Carter, the pres- ent speaker of the House of Represen- tatives, and until recently one of the Governor's intimate political friends. Mr. Carter was formerly a resident of Texas, and is well known to many of our citizens of both parties. This gen- tlemen published a card in the New Orleans Times of the 15th, in which he charges Governor Warimoth with acts committed in Louisiana, with which we have nothing to do, and it is not our purpose to allude to them. The Governor and his friends either can or ought to be able to refute them on the spot. But he revives an old charge of embezzlement against Governor War- moth, which was disproved and, as we supposed, set forever at rest in Texas in 1867. We copy from Mr. Carter's card: " Nor have I ever been indicted for cotton stealing since the war. * * My first acquaintance with this young mnan was in 186(, when he brought a letter of introduction to me and re- quested me to act as his attorney in an indictment then pending in the federal court against him for the embezzle- ment of public moneys, while acting as cotton agent in Texas." Now the fact that Judge Warm-oth, as he was then known to the people of Texas, was charged with the embez- zlement of public money, was well known here at the time, for the rebel papers of that day let no opportunity escape to heap abuse upon any Union mant, and more eslpecially one who had served in the United States army. Besides, the whole proceedings were in tihe District Court of the United States at Galveston, and remain to this day a matter of record. There the case stands--the accusation, the reply, and the proceedings which speedily led to the dismissal of the case on account of being entirely groundless. We have been at some pains to hunt up the cer- tificates which were made public at the time, and which entirely exonerated Judge Warmoth from the shadow of blame, even in the minds of his polit- ical enemies, who would have been highly delighted to make a point against a Union man, if possible, even at the expense of truth. The follow- ing appeared in the Galveston Bulletin about the first of June, 1867, and was extensively copied in the Southern pa- pers: " TuE EMBEZZLEMENT CASE.-.The following papers sufficiently explain that the case of embezzlement charged against Mr. Joseph R. Morris and Mr. H. C. Warmoth has been dismissed by the judge, and that both the judge of the court and the district attorney are fully convinced of the innocence of both these gentlemen: O(FFICE OF THE U. S. ATTOILNEY, Eastern District of Texas, Galveston. May 29th, 186. lion. H C. Warmoth, New Orleans: DEAR SIR--In the course of official duty here it has been my lot to pros- ecute yourself and Joseph R. Morris, of houston, for embezzlement of mon- eys of the United States, alleged to have been received while you were treasury agent here, in August, 1867. Upon trial of the case this day it abundantly appeared that no offense against the law had been committed, and his honor, Judge J. C. Watrous, instructed me to entera nolleprosequi. I did this the more cheerfully because the papers of the treasury department this day put into my hands from the special agency office here prove c(on- elusively that the matter in respect to which this prosecution was instituted was finally adjudicated by the military authorities in August, 186.5, and that you and Mr. Morris are above suspi- cion in the matter. Very truly, D1). J. BALDWIN, U. S. District Attorney. At the May term of the U. S. Dis- trict Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Galveston, Texas, May 29. At eleven o'clock a. jury was em- paneled to try Joseph Morris and H, C. Warmoth for embezzling twenty- one thousand dollars of government money. The witnesses for the govern- ment were heard, whelp I became sat- isfied that there was no case against defendants, and told the district attor- ney that I had not a particle of doubt of the innocente of these defendants, and that the t nusaction was perfectly legitimate; at ny rate, if the property 1 was really the property of the govern- ment. a suit could be brought against Mr. Morris for its value, but to pursue this trial any further was an act of the baldest injustice. I therefore recom- mended to the District Attorney to enter a nolle pros. The District At- torney rose and said that he was satis- fied of the innocence of the defendants, and that he held in his hand the papers of the treasury department which ac- quitted the defendants beyond the shadow of a doubt, and that he was glad that the defendants had been vindicated by the courts of the coun- try. The District Attorney entered a 'nolle pros., and the court adjourned. JOHN C. WATROUS, Judge, presiding. I, Levi Jones, clerk of the United States Court at Galveston, certify the above to be a true copy from the orig- inal, with the seal of court. LEVI JONES, Clerk. If the charges now nmade by Mr. Car- ter against Governor Warmoth are as destitute of.foundation as the one in- sinuated by him, as above copied, he must have a very weak case. For the people of Texas happen to know that the alleged embezzlement of public money in the cotton ca.se was a myth, and the prosecution of Messrs. War- moth and Morris was found in feeling of personal spite, and terminated in the triumph of the defendants and the discomfiture of the prosecutors. If Governor Warmoth has done nothing since 1867 that his enemies can take hold of to injure him. so that they are conlpelled to exhume this old exploded charge of embezzlement, he may be ranked among the purest men of the age. And when the strongest points urged against him are so frivolous as this, we naturally presume that the minor-charges are scarcely entitled to consideration. -0 -00-W Vague People. Have you ever suffered from the fearful infliction of vague people t To argue with them is to spend labor and strength in vain, like trying to make rope out of sea sand. Beaten off at every point, they settle down again into the old vague vapory credo. and it is like fighting with ghosts to attempt to convince themn of a better way. They look at you helplessly, assent losely to your propositions ; but when yon come to the necessary de- duction, they double back in a vague assertion that they do not agree with you, they cannot prove you wrong, but they are right; and you know then that the collapse is hopeless. If this meant tenacity, it would be so far respectable, even though the con- viction were erroneous; but it is the mere unimpressible fluidity of vague- ness, the imporssibillity of giving shape and coherence to a floating fog or a formless haze. Vague as to the basis of their beliefs, they are vaguer still as to their facts. These indeed are like a ladder of which half the rungs are missing. They never remember a story, and they cannot describe what they have seen. Of the first they are sure to lose the point and to entangle the thread ; of the last they forget, all the details, and confound both sequence and position. As to dates, they are as if lost in a wood when you require definite centuries, years, months. It is as much as they can do to remember their own birtlh- day; but they are never sure of their children's; and generally mix up names and ages in a manner that ex- asperates the young people like a per- sonal insult. Sith the Ibest intentions in the world they do infinite mischief. They detail what they think they have heard of their neighbors' sayings and doings; but as they never detail any- thing exactly, or twice alike, by the time they have told the story to half a dozen friends they have given cur- rency to half a dozen different chime- ras which never existed save in their own woolly imaginations. No repute is safe with them, even though they may be personally good-natured and anxious not to do any one harm ; but they are so vague that they are al- ways setting afloat exaggerations which are substantially falsehoods; and if you tell them the most innocent fact of any one you would not injure for words-say you own daughter or your dearest friend-they are sure to repeat it with additions and distor- tions, till they have made it into a Frankenstein which no one now can subdue. Besides this mental haziness, which neither sees nor shapes a fact correctly, vague people are so loose and unstable in their habits. They know nothing of punctuality at home or abroad ; and you are never sure that you will not stumble on them at meal-times at what time soever you may call. But worse than this, your own meal-times or any other times are never safe from them. They float in- to your house uncei tainly, vaguely, without purpose, with nothing to say and nothing to do, and for no reason that you can discover. And when they come they stay; and you cannot for the life of you find out why they have come at all. They invade you all times, in your busy hours, and on your sacred days, and sit there in a chaotic kind of si- lence, or with vague talk that it tires your brains to bring to a focus; but they are too foggy to understand any- thing like a delicate hint, and if you want to get rid of them, you must risk a quarrel and effectively shoulder them out. They will be no loss. They are so much driftweed in your life, and you can make no good of them for yourself or others. Ever when they undertake to help you, they do you more hann than good by the hazy way in which they understand and the inexactness with which they carry out your wishes. They volun- teer to get you by favor the thing you want and cannot find in the general way of business-say, something of a peculiar shade of olive green-and they bring you in triumph a brilliant cohalt: and if you trust to their un- controlled action in your affairs, you find yourself committed to responsi- bilities you cannot meet, and brought to the verge of destruction. They do all this mischief, not for want of good will, but for want of definiteness of perception ; and are as sorry as you are when they make "pi " and not a legible sheet. Their desire is good, but a vague desire to help is equal to no help at all, or even worse ; it is a positive evil, and throws you wrong by just so much as it attempts to set you straight. They are as unsatis- factory if you try to help them. They are in evil case and you are philan- thropically anxious to assist them. You think that one vigorous push would lift the car of their fortunes out of the rut in which it has stuck, and you go to them with the benevo- lent design of lending your shoulder as the lever. You question them as to the central fact which they wish changed; for you know that in most cases misfortunes crystallise round one such evil centre.which being removed, the rest would go well. But your va- gue friends can tell you nothing. They point out this little surperficial inconvenience, that small remeditable annoyance, as the utmost they can do in the way of definiteness; but when you want to get to the core, you find nothing but a cloudy complaint of general ill-will or universal run of untoward circumstances with which you cannot grapple. To cut off the hydra's head was difficult enough; but could even Hercules have decap- itated the Djinn who rose in a vol- ume of smoke from the fisherman's jar It is the same in matters of health. Only medical men know to the full the difficulty of dealing with vague people when it is necessary that they should be precise. They can localise no pain, define no sensation; if the doctor thinks he has caught hold of one leading symptom, it fades away as he tries to examine it; and, probe as he may, he comes to nothing more definite than a pervading sense of discomfort, which he must resolve into its causes as he best can. So with their suspicions; and va- gue people are often strangely suspi- cious and distrustful. They tell you in a loose kind of way that such or such a man is a rogue, such or such a woman no better than she should be. You ask them for their data--they have none; you suggest that they are mistaken, or at least that they should hold themselves as mistaken until they can prove the contrary, and offer jour version of the reputations asper- sed; your vague friends listen to you amiably, then go back on their charge, and say, "I am smre of it"-which ends the conversation. They rely on their impression, as other people rely on known facts, and a foggy belief is to them what a mathematical demon- stration is to the exact. In business matters they are simply maddening. They never have the necessary papers; they do not answer letters; they confuse your questions, and reply at randon or not at all; and tley forget all dates and details. When they go to their lawyer oin busi- ness, they leave certificates and drafts behind them ; locked up where no one can get at them ; or if they send di- rections and the keys, tell the servant to look for an oblong blue envelope in the right-hand drawer, when they ought to have said a square white parcel in the left. They give you va- gue conuissions to execute ; and ;you have to find your way in the fog to the best of your ability. They say they want something like something else you have never seen, and can- not give an address exact. But apart from the personal discomforts to which vague people subject them- selves, and the absurdities of which they are guilty, one cannot help spec- ulating on the spiritual state of folks to whom nothing is definite, and no question of faith clearly thought out. Convictions based on imagination, unsupported by facts or proofs, are as worthless in a moral as in a logical point of view; but the vague have nothing better; and whether as po- liticians or as pietists, though they are war• partisans, they are but fee- ble advocates, fond of flourishing about large generalities, but impos- sible to pin to any point and unable to defend any position. To those who must have something absolute and precise, however limited--one inch. of firmly-laid foundation on which to build up the remainder-it is a matter of more wonder than envy how the vague are content to live for ever in a halze which has no clearness ofoutline, no definiteness of detail, and how they can make themselves happy in a name, calling their fog faith, and therewith counting them- selves blessed.-Chimney Corner. Republican State Central Exec- utive Committee. Officers of the C(omnittee. P. B. S. Pinchhack, President. William Vigera, Recording Secretary. J. W. Fairfax, Corresponding Secretary. Members for the State at Large. Edward Butler, 8. 8. Sehmidt, Thompson Coakley, Elbert Gantt, John Parsons, A. W. Smythe, H. Riaby, James McCleery, David I'oung, F. J. Herron. First Congressional District. Hugh J. Campbell, H. Mahoney. Second Congressional District. A. E. Barber, James L. Belden. Third Congressional District. Thomas H. Noland, Geo. Washington. Fourth Congressional District. E. W. Dewees, Raford Blunt. Fifth Congressional District. A. W. Faulkner, A. B. Harris. Sale of Ferry! PARISH OF ST. JAMES. P UBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that I will proceed to sell at pablie auction in frorit of the Court-house, in St. .James Parish, the right to ferry as now established by law, at 12 o'clock M., on Saturday, the 24th day of OCTOBER, 1871 to be adjudicated to the highest and last bid- der for the tenn of one year. Tenrms-Cash on the spot in United States currency. OSCAR F. HUNSAKER, President Police Jury. 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Transcript of The Donaldsonville chief (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-09-16 [p...

  • You Know Hoeytis Yourself.Dear Nellie. Sunday night. you know.

    I hadn't much to say,And yet 'twas twelve o'clock or so

    Before I went away;You saw that half the time I watched

    The clock upon the shelf:.Oh, Nellie ! how , wished you might

    See how it was yourself

    I wants so to ,tell youWhat I've waited long to say,)ut heart and spirit failed me,My equrage died away.

    Now, ]Nellie, only listen-You roguish little eli' !-

    I'm sure yop'd pity me. at least,If you kpew how it was yourself.

    Excuse me. Nellie, darling,I've loved yvou long and well,

    Then let me keep this little hand,Nor all my hopes dispel:

    I've loved you more than all the worldCan give of power or pelf--

    But words are weak when hearts would speak;" You know 'tis yourself."

    I1cr lips but faintly quivering,Her shy glamre upward thrown-

    I gently drew her to my side,My beautiful, my own !

    We sat there all the evening-"Twelve" came from the mantle shelf-

    The rest you must imagine, for" You know how 'tis yourself !"

    Nevada's Way.Ba.y~rd Taylor, in a letter to the X.

    X'. Tibupe fro; .Nevada, says:In walking out with a friend this

    morning, I came across a long beamprojecting from the gable of a housedirectly over a deep ravine. Therewas a slight platform under it and arope dangling from its end.

    " What a fearful place this is for aswing," I said.

    "Yes, so it is," said my friend, "anda man took a fearfiul swing there notfour months ago."

    - How was that?" said I."Why, thus it was: A man shot

    another in cold blood. He was ar-rested. tried, convicted, and sentencedto be hung. He was known to be adesperate vagabond, and an incendi-ary, and suspicions of many darkdeeds were upon him. His chances ofescape through executive clemency orlegal technicalities were considered bymany of our best citizens, who, on thewhole, concluded to make a sure thingof it. They therefore went in a bodyto the jail, escorted the prisoner tothis spot, and, after a solemn presen-tation of the facts in the case, theytold him to prepare for death, and ad-justed the rope around his neck. Nosooner was the knot secure than heswore a- California oatllthat no cowardshould have the glory of choking himto death, and leaped down the chasm.He came to the end of the rope beforehe did to the bo)ttom of the chasm, sochoked to death at last."

    This little incident is scarcely wor-thy of mention, it being an affair ofsuch common occurrence here, but, asone of the ordinary phenomena of amining country, I have not felt at lib-erty to-omit it.

    Theatrical Anecdote.When Stephen Kemble was mana.

    ger in Newcastle, Eng., and the houseswere rather flat, no less a personagearrived in town than the Prince Annamboo, who offered his services for avery moderate consideration. Accord-ingly the bills of the day annonced" that between the acts of the play,Prince Annamboo would give a livelyrepresentation of the scalping opera-tion; he would also give the Indianwar-whoop, in all its various tones,the tomahawk exercise and modeof feasting at an Abyssinian ban-quet." The evening arrived, and manypeople attended to witness theseprincely imitations. At the end of thethird act his highness walked forward,with dinifled step, flourshing his toma-hawk, and cut the air, exclaiming :" Ha ha--ho ho! " Next entered aman with his face blackened and apiece of bladder fastened to his headwith gum; the prince, with a largecarving knife, commenced the scalpingoperation, which he performed in astyle truly imperial, holding up theskin in token of triumph. Next camethe war-whoop, which was a combina-tion of dreadful and discordant sounds ;lastly, the Abyssnian banquet, consis-ting of raw beefsteaks; these he madeinto rolls, as large as his mouth wouldadmit, and devoured themi in a. prince-ly and dignified manner. Havingcompleted his cannihal repast, lieflourished his tomahawk, exclaiming :-" Ha ha-ho ho!" and made hisexit. Next day, in the middle of themarket place, Kenmble espied the puis-sant prince of Anurniboo selling pen-knive.s, scissors and quills, in the char-acter •f a Jew pedlar. " What ! " saidKemble, " my prince, is that you ?Are not you a pretty scoundrel to im-pose upon us in this manner !" Mosesturned rouid and with an arch lookreplied: "Prince ! I vash no prince,I vash acting like you. You vas kings,princes, emperors, to-night, StephenKemible to-morrow; I vash hunipugs,you vash huinpugst and all vash hiun-pugs."

    't!e Memphis Appeal calls the at-fentiop of the ion. Horace Greeley tothe fopi note, "in the hope thathe will do justice, tough the heavensfall:" "Editors Appeal-Seeing thename of Horace Greely in the columnsof your paper, I presume he is the sameplderly genflma who, when in Texas,would tflp with tie feelings of a lonewidow, wwp fii her husband in thewar. The exact words he used was," he canime to heal the wounds causedby the late war, and lie offeredile hhnd of f'powship, that all par-ties 'e rpeonciled.' As a modestwoman, I did not accept hisproposal;although I intended to do so, had hepressed hts suite. He has failed to doso, however, and I have since learnedthat the gay deceiver has a wife some-W'here in the State of New- York.Please pass him around.

    Yours,WIDOW MALONE.

    A Voice friom Texas.The Houston (Texas) nulon, of re-

    cent date, brings forth facts and doc-

    uments in strong array to utterly de-molish one of the many slanderous

    charges which have been made against

    Governor Warmnoth by the unscrupu-lous political tricksters who seek his

    overthrow in order to gain their ownselfish ends. This sterling voice fromTexas will send consternation amongthe Governor's opponents, for "truthis mighty and will prevail," in spite oftheir attempts to stifle or gainsay it.We give the article complete:AN EXPLODED CHARGE AGAINST GOV-

    ERNOR WARMOTIH.

    We regret to see that our Republi-can brethren in Louisiana are not ex-empt from the evils that beset theparty in most of the other SouthernStates. And while we know but littleof the immediate causes of the presentdifficulties in our sister State, we mayventure the remark that there, as inTexas, personal ambition and humanselfishness enter largely into the pro-moting power.* And so far as thecharges made by one party or theother are founded upon transactions inLouisiana, we can have little or noth-ing to say, as we are not familiar withthem. But when one of the belliger-ents calls his witnesses fiont Texas,and relies upon testimony from thisState to sustain his case against hisumost-prominent opponent, it becomesour duty as a journalist and leader ofthe Republican party here to give suchassistance as will enable the truth toappear.

    Among the most prominent oppo-nents of Governor Warmoth in Louis-iana is Col. Geo. W. Carter, the pres-ent speaker of the House of Represen-tatives, and until recently one of theGovernor's intimate political friends.Mr. Carter was formerly a resident ofTexas, and is well known to many ofour citizens of both parties. This gen-tlemen published a card in the NewOrleans Times of the 15th, in which hecharges Governor Warimoth with actscommitted in Louisiana, with whichwe have nothing to do, and it is notour purpose to allude to them. TheGovernor and his friends either can orought to be able to refute them on thespot. But he revives an old charge ofembezzlement against Governor War-moth, which was disproved and, as wesupposed, set forever at rest in Texasin 1867.

    We copy from Mr. Carter's card:" Nor have I ever been indicted for

    cotton stealing since the war. * *My first acquaintance with this youngmnan was in 186(, when he brought aletter of introduction to me and re-quested me to act as his attorney in anindictment then pending in the federalcourt against him for the embezzle-ment of public moneys, while acting ascotton agent in Texas."

    Now the fact that Judge Warm-oth,as he was then known to the people ofTexas, was charged with the embez-zlement of public money, was wellknown here at the time, for the rebelpapers of that day let no opportunityescape to heap abuse upon any Unionmant, and more eslpecially one who hadserved in the United States army.Besides, the whole proceedings were

    in tihe District Court of the UnitedStates at Galveston, and remain tothis day a matter of record. There thecase stands--the accusation, the reply,and the proceedings which speedily ledto the dismissal of the case on accountof being entirely groundless. We havebeen at some pains to hunt up the cer-tificates which were made public at thetime, and which entirely exoneratedJudge Warmoth from the shadow ofblame, even in the minds of his polit-ical enemies, who would have beenhighly delighted to make a pointagainst a Union man, if possible, evenat the expense of truth. The follow-ing appeared in the Galveston Bulletinabout the first of June, 1867, and wasextensively copied in the Southern pa-pers:

    " TuE EMBEZZLEMENT CASE.-.Thefollowing papers sufficiently explainthat the case of embezzlement chargedagainst Mr. Joseph R. Morris and Mr.H. C. Warmoth has been dismissed bythe judge, and that both the judge ofthe court and the district attorney arefully convinced of the innocence ofboth these gentlemen:

    O(FFICE OF THE U. S. ATTOILNEY,Eastern District of Texas,

    Galveston. May 29th, 186.lion. H C. Warmoth, New Orleans:

    DEAR SIR--In the course of officialduty here it has been my lot to pros-ecute yourself and Joseph R. Morris,of houston, for embezzlement of mon-eys of the United States, alleged tohave been received while you weretreasury agent here, in August, 1867.

    Upon trial of the case this day itabundantly appeared that no offenseagainst the law had been committed,and his honor, Judge J. C. Watrous,instructed me to entera nolleprosequi.I did this the more cheerfully becausethe papers of the treasury departmentthis day put into my hands from thespecial agency office here prove c(on-elusively that the matter in respect towhich this prosecution was institutedwas finally adjudicated by the militaryauthorities in August, 186.5, and thatyou and Mr. Morris are above suspi-cion in the matter.

    Very truly,D1). J. BALDWIN,

    U. S. District Attorney.At the May term of the U. S. Dis-

    trict Court for the Eastern District ofTexas, Galveston, Texas, May 29.

    At eleven o'clock a. jury was em-paneled to try Joseph Morris and H,C. Warmoth for embezzling twenty-one thousand dollars of governmentmoney. The witnesses for the govern-ment were heard, whelp I became sat-isfied that there was no case againstdefendants, and told the district attor-ney that I had not a particle of doubtof the innocente of these defendants,and that the t nusaction was perfectlylegitimate; at ny rate, if the property1

    was really the property of the govern-ment. a suit could be brought againstMr. Morris for its value, but to pursuethis trial any further was an act of thebaldest injustice. I therefore recom-mended to the District Attorney toenter a nolle pros. The District At-torney rose and said that he was satis-fied of the innocence of the defendants,and that he held in his hand the papersof the treasury department which ac-quitted the defendants beyond theshadow of a doubt, and that he wasglad that the defendants had beenvindicated by the courts of the coun-try. The District Attorney entereda 'nolle pros., and the court adjourned.

    JOHN C. WATROUS,Judge, presiding.

    I, Levi Jones, clerk of the UnitedStates Court at Galveston, certify theabove to be a true copy from the orig-inal, with the seal of court.

    LEVI JONES, Clerk.If the charges now nmade by Mr. Car-

    ter against Governor Warmoth are asdestitute of.foundation as the one in-sinuated by him, as above copied, hemust have a very weak case. For thepeople of Texas happen to know thatthe alleged embezzlement of publicmoney in the cotton ca.se was a myth,and the prosecution of Messrs. War-moth and Morris was found in feelingof personal spite, and terminated inthe triumph of the defendants and thediscomfiture of the prosecutors. IfGovernor Warmoth has done nothingsince 1867 that his enemies can takehold of to injure him. so that they areconlpelled to exhume this old explodedcharge of embezzlement, he may beranked among the purest men of theage. And when the strongest pointsurged against him are so frivolous asthis, we naturally presume that theminor-charges are scarcely entitled toconsideration.

    -0 -00-WVague People.

    Have you ever suffered from thefearful infliction of vague people tTo argue with them is to spend laborand strength in vain, like trying tomake rope out of sea sand. Beatenoff at every point, they settle downagain into the old vague vapory credo.and it is like fighting with ghosts toattempt to convince themn of a betterway. They look at you helplessly,assent losely to your propositions ; butwhen yon come to the necessary de-duction, they double back in a vagueassertion that they do not agree withyou, they cannot prove you wrong,but they are right; and you knowthen that the collapse is hopeless. Ifthis meant tenacity, it would be sofar respectable, even though the con-viction were erroneous; but it is themere unimpressible fluidity of vague-ness, the imporssibillity of giving shapeand coherence to a floating fog or aformless haze. Vague as to the basisof their beliefs, they are vaguer stillas to their facts. These indeed arelike a ladder of which half the rungsare missing. They never remembera story, and they cannot describewhat they have seen. Of the firstthey are sure to lose the point and toentangle the thread ; of the last theyforget, all the details, and confoundboth sequence and position. As todates, they are as if lost in a woodwhen you require definite centuries,years, months. It is as much as theycan do to remember their own birtlh-day; but they are never sure of theirchildren's; and generally mix upnames and ages in a manner that ex-asperates the young people like a per-sonal insult.

    Sith the Ibest intentions in theworld they do infinite mischief. Theydetail what they think they haveheard of their neighbors' sayings anddoings; but as they never detail any-thing exactly, or twice alike, by thetime they have told the story to halfa dozen friends they have given cur-rency to half a dozen different chime-ras which never existed save in theirown woolly imaginations. No reputeis safe with them, even though theymay be personally good-natured andanxious not to do any one harm ; butthey are so vague that they are al-ways setting afloat exaggerationswhich are substantially falsehoods;and if you tell them the most innocentfact of any one you would not injurefor words-say you own daughter oryour dearest friend-they are sure torepeat it with additions and distor-tions, till they have made it into aFrankenstein which no one now cansubdue. Besides this mental haziness,which neither sees nor shapes a factcorrectly, vague people are so looseand unstable in their habits. Theyknow nothing of punctuality at homeor abroad ; and you are never surethat you will not stumble on them atmeal-times at what time soever youmay call. But worse than this, yourown meal-times or any other times arenever safe from them. They float in-to your house uncei tainly, vaguely,without purpose, with nothing to sayand nothing to do, and for no reasonthat you can discover. And whenthey come they stay; and you cannotfor the life of you find out why theyhave come at all.

    They invade you all times, in yourbusy hours, and on your sacred days,and sit there in a chaotic kind of si-lence, or with vague talk that it tiresyour brains to bring to a focus; butthey are too foggy to understand any-thing like a delicate hint, and if youwant to get rid of them, you must riska quarrel and effectively shoulderthem out. They will be no loss.They are so much driftweed in yourlife, and you can make no good ofthem for yourself or others. Everwhen they undertake to help you, theydo you more hann than good by thehazy way in which they understandand the inexactness with which theycarry out your wishes. They volun-teer to get you by favor the thing youwant and cannot find in the generalway of business-say, something of apeculiar shade of olive green-andthey bring you in triumph a brilliantcohalt: and if you trust to their un-controlled action in your affairs, youfind yourself committed to responsi-

    bilities you cannot meet, and broughtto the verge of destruction. Theydo all this mischief, not for want ofgood will, but for want of definitenessof perception ; and are as sorry as youare when they make "pi " and not alegible sheet. Their desire is good,but a vague desire to help is equal tono help at all, or even worse ; it is apositive evil, and throws you wrongby just so much as it attempts to setyou straight. They are as unsatis-factory if you try to help them. Theyare in evil case and you are philan-thropically anxious to assist them.You think that one vigorous pushwould lift the car of their fortunesout of the rut in which it has stuck,and you go to them with the benevo-lent design of lending your shoulderas the lever. You question them asto the central fact which they wishchanged; for you know that in mostcases misfortunes crystallise round onesuch evil centre.which being removed,the rest would go well. But your va-gue friends can tell you nothing.They point out this little surperficialinconvenience, that small remeditableannoyance, as the utmost they can doin the way of definiteness; but whenyou want to get to the core, you findnothing but a cloudy complaint ofgeneral ill-will or universal run ofuntoward circumstances with whichyou cannot grapple. To cut off thehydra's head was difficult enough;but could even Hercules have decap-itated the Djinn who rose in a vol-ume of smoke from the fisherman'sjar It is the same in matters ofhealth. Only medical men know tothe full the difficulty of dealing withvague people when it is necessary thatthey should be precise. They canlocalise no pain, define no sensation;if the doctor thinks he has caughthold of one leading symptom, it fadesaway as he tries to examine it; and,probe as he may, he comes to nothingmore definite than a pervading senseof discomfort, which he must resolveinto its causes as he best can.

    So with their suspicions; and va-gue people are often strangely suspi-cious and distrustful. They tell youin a loose kind of way that such orsuch a man is a rogue, such or sucha woman no better than she should be.You ask them for their data--theyhave none; you suggest that they aremistaken, or at least that they shouldhold themselves as mistaken untilthey can prove the contrary, and offer

    jour version of the reputations asper-sed; your vague friends listen to youamiably, then go back on their charge,and say, "I am smre of it"-whichends the conversation. They rely ontheir impression, as other people relyon known facts, and a foggy belief isto them what a mathematical demon-stration is to the exact.

    In business matters they are simplymaddening. They never have thenecessary papers; they do not answerletters; they confuse your questions,and reply at randon or not at all; andtley forget all dates and details.When they go to their lawyer oin busi-ness, they leave certificates and draftsbehind them ; locked up where no onecan get at them ; or if they send di-rections and the keys, tell the servantto look for an oblong blue envelopein the right-hand drawer, when theyought to have said a square white

    parcel in the left. They give you va-gue conuissions to execute ; and ;youhave to find your way in the fog tothe best of your ability. They saythey want something like somethingelse you have never seen, and can-not give an address exact. But apartfrom the personal discomforts towhich vague people subject them-selves, and the absurdities of whichthey are guilty, one cannot help spec-ulating on the spiritual state of folksto whom nothing is definite, and noquestion of faith clearly thought out.

    Convictions based on imagination,unsupported by facts or proofs, are asworthless in a moral as in a logicalpoint of view; but the vague havenothing better; and whether as po-liticians or as pietists, though theyare war• partisans, they are but fee-ble advocates, fond of flourishingabout large generalities, but impos-sible to pin to any point and unableto defend any position. To thosewho must have something absoluteand precise, however limited--oneinch. of firmly-laid foundation onwhich to build up the remainder-itis a matter of more wonder than envyhow the vague are content to live forever in a halze which has no clearnessofoutline, no definiteness of detail,and how they can make themselveshappy in a name, calling their fogfaith, and therewith counting them-selves blessed.-Chimney Corner.

    Republican State Central Exec-utive Committee.Officers of the C(omnittee.

    P. B. S. Pinchhack, President.William Vigera, Recording Secretary.J. W. Fairfax, Corresponding Secretary.

    Members for the State at Large.

    Edward Butler, 8. 8. Sehmidt,Thompson Coakley, Elbert Gantt,John Parsons, A. W. Smythe,H. Riaby, James McCleery,David I'oung, F. J. Herron.

    First Congressional District.

    Hugh J. Campbell, H. Mahoney.

    Second Congressional District.

    A. E. Barber, James L. Belden.

    Third Congressional District.

    Thomas H. Noland, Geo. Washington.Fourth Congressional District.

    E. W. Dewees, Raford Blunt.

    Fifth Congressional District.

    A. W. Faulkner, A. B. Harris.

    Sale of Ferry!PARISH OF ST. JAMES.

    P UBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that Iwill proceed to sell at pablie auction in

    frorit of the Court-house, in St. .James Parish,the right to ferry as now established by law,at 12 o'clock M., on

    Saturday, the 24th day of OCTOBER, 1871to be adjudicated to the highest and last bid-der for the tenn of one year.

    Tenrms-Cash on the spot in United Statescurrency.

    OSCAR F. HUNSAKER,President Police Jury.

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    Harper's Weekly deserves its primacy inthis class of publication, alike for the valueof its matter as the excellence of its illustra-tions. The spirited and telling pictorial sat-ires of Nast are a power in society, and aredictated in aid of ai sound public opinion, andagainst public wrongs and follies. The edi-torials on public aftrl''s are models of discus-sions, weighty and temperate, supporting highprinciples in an elevated tone and a ehastm-ed literary style.--xaminer and Chreoniet.

    HARPER'S BAZAR.Free from all political and sectarian discas-

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    This paper at the outest occupied a lfacenot filled ey any American periodical, andwon for itself a deserved popularity. It isreally the only illustrated chronicler of fash-ions in the country. Its supplements dloneare worth the subscription price of the piper.While fully mainti.ing its position as a mir-ror of fashionm, it also contains stories, iemns,brilliant essays, besides general and lIrson-al gossip. TInc publishers aplwar to havespared no labor or expense necessary telnakethe Bazur the most attractive jouriul thatcan posibly be made.-B-otlon ,aturday Eve-ning Gazette.

    TERMS FOR 1871.-Harper's Magazine, one year...... ;:.$4 00Harper's Weekly, one year..........4 00Harper's Bazar, one year.............4 00

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    VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.Tomake the Tribmne still more valuable to

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    !rint the chealwsst. and bIst edited wii klvnelwspaular in the coulltry. WVe have all the-advantages around us. \'e have great Dailyand S'emi-W\eekly edlitions: All theei tlaboruatiand intricate machinery of our establishii'nt-perhaps the most complete ill Alerica-is devoted to the purpose of makiug theWeekly Tribune the best ind elueais.t Iewn-paper in the world. The result is that weShave so systematized and expanded our re-

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    to the TrWlbne for one year 1ruys as mutchreading matter as though he fillhd a shelf ofhislibararv with fifty volumes, contain in tlhegreatest works in the language. 'The lorenof cheapness can no further go.

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    The Tribune is strong by reason of it1enormous circulation and great che lnpw-ss.It has long heien conceded that the 7'ibuniehas the largest circulation of any newspaperin the colutry. For years we have printedtwice as many paupers, perhaps, na all of theother weekly edttions of the cite dailies com-bined. This is why we are enblled to do our -.work so thoroughly and cheaply. The largerour circulation, the better paper we can make.

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    The Semi-Weekly Tribune(is published every Tuesday and Fridaybeing printed twice a week, we can, ofprint all that appears in our weekly edit'including everything on the subject of Aculture, and can add maech iatteretipgvalnuble matter, for which there Li •atticient room in the Weekly. The Sp a- iFly Tribune also gives, in the course o6fthree or four of the best and lateit pnovels, by living authors. The cost of tealone, if bought in book formu; would he fromsix to eight dollars. Nowiere else can suimnch current intelligence .d permnac~qtliterary matter he had at so chieap a rate asin the Semi- Wekkeg' r•ib.(rui.

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