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THE LOUII8 ANIAN. . PUBLISHED THURSDAYS & S UDAY&S OrrFce 114 CAROnDELET ernrwr; NEw OLEm.xs LA. Wn. . UIOW., Editor tad hPbliser, A. M. C. MA88ENA, Solicitor, and Fashion and Literary Contributor. OUR AGENTS. MIMISSIPPI :-Daniel E. Young, Greenville. LOUISIANA :-John A. Washington, Black Hawk, Concordia Plarirh; Hon. G. Y. Kelso, Alexandria; Antoine & Sterrett, Shreveport DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA :-James A. D. Green, Washington City. ILLINOIS :-Lewis B. White, Chicago. KENTUCKY :-Dr. B. A. Green, Louisville. NOTICE. -. "All communications must be addressed "Editor of the Louisianian," and anonymous I letters must be accompanied by the name of the ] writer, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. We are not responsible for the opinions of our contributors. THURSDAY MAY 4, 1871. OUR CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT IN 1872. ULYSSES S. GRANT. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Patrons of TaH LorI'rsAIAS, when re- newing their subscriptions,should be care- ful to ahlwary state the place where the paper is mailed; and the same care should be exercised when a change of location is desired. By particularly attending to this, our mailing clerk will be relieved of a great amount of extra labor in hunting through the hundreds of names upon our booiks before the name requircd can be found and the alteration made; where- as, if the full address is given, he has only to consult his alphabet of towns to turn direct to the name upon the subscriptionl book. A little care saves much labor. THE NEW ORLEANS LIMES. Tam NEw Om..rss Tnmn by far the best edited democratic journal of this State has in its last Sunday issue this editorial paragraph: "Grant's friend Juarez has a fair chance of re-election. He shoots every- body who suggests an opposition ticket and won't allow any other tickets at the polls than his own. Possibly the hint may be profited by in this country." Now what can be the advantage of this gratuitous insinuation of Grant's dispo- sition to translate the paper ballot into a leaden bullet ? Does not the Times know that the cry of "wolf" has sometimes ended with the devouring presence of the wolf? Were (Gen. Grant to bccome the usurper and tyrant the Times foreshad- ows of him, the Times and Southern journals of its class would be more to blame for the calamity than the tyrant himself. All such articles are naturally provocative of tyranny. Amid profound peace except where it is broken by the mid-night report of the Ku-Klux pistol fired at the women and children even of the negro and his white friends-the Times talks of the poqssibility of one poli- tical party resorting to force to carry an election against its opponents. In a State where the rilpest and best fruits of reconstruction have been laid in the lap of the public-when the State credit is good, industrial enterprises are being re- vived, social order restored and general progress is being made, we find a journal claiming to be a friend of the Southern people employing every art of the dema- gobgue to fire the Southern heart against the national •administration. Had this insinuation been provoked by some overt act of the President or were there at this particular time causes of irritation in the Southern mind, we might account for these expressions as being the national echoes awakened in the press to satisfy the public feeling. But there'is absolutely nothing to justify such lang- uage as we have quoted from the Tintes. As proof of this we need go no further than to the top of the same editorial ulumn. The New Yotrk World represent. ing the most influeancial ring of the Northern demoeracy is bitterly taken to task for o;in the advice of a friend and peae-maker to its Southern allies, end the T"mes spurns the counmels of its friend with even more vehemence than it denounces the prospective tyranny of its enemy. Now we would ggemt to the Times that there is a better way than this, Denueiations of Prident Grant can do him nohar and they eurtainlydothe southen peiae gno ood. Depremiaion of the Northern demooraey by aouther journals are only calculated to render the Northern leaders of the democratic party indifferent at once to Southern opinions and Southern interests, Why not honestly and fairly accept the situation? The North whether democratic or republican must always exert a con- trolling influence in the politics of the republic. The wealth numbers and gen- eral culture of the nation are theirs, and it has never been known in the history of the world that petulence, prejudice and poverty were matches for them. The Times has no right to'drag a re luctant people into this arena of unequal combat. What the Southern people want is a return to the era of good feel- ing between the different sections of the country. The South this year has raised the largest crop ever known, and our fair Crescent City might do a larger business than she ever did all over the world if its journals would only cease those im- potent threats and that mendacious op- position which have been the main causes of keeping capital ahd enterprising men aloof from us. There are a thousand reasons to bring men of wealth;character and intelligence among us but such journals as the 7'mes have erected a barrier of political hate and social ostracism so high that few men laden with any other worldly inter- ests than a carpet-bag can surmount it. And yet the Times is not happy; nor will it ever be while it attempts to raise the ghost of Calhoun to put down the 15th Amendment. A living negro chim- ney-sweep is better than the greatest of dead statesmen at the ballot-box and the Times will yet learn that it can never secure the best interests of the whites of the South, till it does full justice to the blacks here and their white friends in the North. CONSISTENCY-THE RUINS. Alforeigners are puzzled when called upon to make a fair comparison between our republican theories, and our oli- garchical practices. From the hour of Mr. Lincoln's proclamation of emancipa- tion, our country has been "the observed of all observers." Cynical aristocrats, proslavery sceptics and the ardent Re- publicans in Europe have all turned their honest gaze upon us, each making his wish the "father to his thought." The Republican in pointing from the old world to the new, is never at a loss for such illustration of the people's capacity to take care of themselves as great revolutions furnish. In fact it is not difficult for him to prove tl it all the great men of the war and of reconstruc- tion brought upon their garments the wholesome smells of industry, and mani- fested in their habits the simple effects of republican training. And yet it must be admitted that our very best examples of plebeian'greatness have suffered by a comparison with the aristocrats of Europe in respect of that robust manli- ness which is at once the ornament and the pride of tile aristocrat, in dealings with the common people. In France or England a man takes rank according to his merit. A negro is not less a prince because he is black. The negro orators, preachers and ar- tists walk in supreme contentment, at- tended by the honors of their professions among the purest and best of their class. It is only when the republican light of America fElls . upon the countenance of the colored 2 man that every true testTof manhood is dropped, and the whites, dis- ciples of North and Glidden put on the spectacles of prejudice to discover a man's brains, in his hair, while his virtue is settled by the color of his skin. It is strange that the evils of this pre- judice-the injustice of the proscription therefrom resulting are not better un- derstood by our white friends in this country. The negroes cast 800,000 bal- lots at the polls and any hope of their disfranchisement is as delusive as the desire to reduce them again to bond. age. And yet the tremendous mistake is being made of receiving the votes of these negroes in the interet of white of- fice holders on Saturday and ostra, cising them on Sunday. And then the manner of doing this is so infinitely mean that disgust is excited even more than our indignation. W'ho can describe the feeling of self- contempt a white minister must feel who while he preaches that with God there is '"no respect of person," at the same moment asactions by his preance and his aleanee on the subject the proscrip- tire pew for even intelligent well dressed and well educated colored people? But it is said "the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light," and therefore we turn in surprise to the politicians to flnd them keeping up the same senseles distine- tionsor givingeountenance to those who do. We hnow restarants for inigne where they will not aeconodai t color- ed people which are constantly ptrcoi- ed by soame of rpolicimss who boast badly of their desire to emsinths possession of every right and privilege. Now when the fact is added that in many cases the patrons of these pros- cribing saloons are law makers, and it is remembered that we have laws upon the statute book placed there by their assist- ance against this outrage upon our manhood, the case assumes a still more serious aspect. Let us take the case of "TnE Runs" at the Lake. It is susceptible of the most abundant proof that the proprietor of that restaurant refuses to accommodate colored gentlemen, and yet it is equally easy to show that his place is sought af- ter by many of the very men who in patronizing him are bringing contempt upon their own efforts at legislation, and fostering the violation of the laws of the State. Now this question, destitute of this moral aspect, it seems to us that consid- erations of expediency should settle the matter in favor of ordinary fairness. Is it fair that the wealthy culture and vir- tue of our wives, daughters and ourselves should be forced into association with opposite qualities for no other reason than the color of our skin ? Do not our white friends feel that there is something due them as to the character of their colleagues ? They cannot force us into thrs3 degrading conditions without sharing some of the odium which at- taches to their victims. If the better class of colored people are esteemed as no better than the worst, and they are compelled to herd with the worst, it will not be long before white republicans will deserve to be esteemed as no better than any negro by his enemies, and not even as good by those who used to be his friends. Social equality ! No. We want nothing of the kind, all we want is consistency in our legis!ators and justice to our race. STONES AND THE STANDARD. What is the matter with our neighbor, the New Orleans Standard? It used to move with the steady pace of party fideli- ty, and speak the sober words, and in the subdued tones of a journal, seeking a livelihood. We have often been com- pelled to admire the caution with which it selected between some political sylla and charybdis in search of the political philosopher's stone; and we fear our neigh- bor has found that stone, if we may judge from the way he has been throwing it recently. David's stone, if we may be allowed the change of comparison, was nothing to this missel of our neiglb )r's. At one time his pacific disposition to- wards certain persons high in official po- sition was so striking as to make us be- lieve him to be the very apostle of peace. All his articles were suggestive of broad brimmed hats, collarless coats and drab pantaloons; and we doubted not only that he hail a stone or a sling, or a disposition to use either, but we even questioned the possibility of his ever getting into beli- cose society. But our admiration for the pacific tendencies of our neighbor has been struck dumb at the very height of its towering enconium s. O ir neighbor has been to our great brook, the Mississippi, or at least he was seen near it, and, we suppose, furnished himself with stones, some say they were granite stones, and be has procured a sling of red tape, it is hinted, and Mechanics' Institute has been shaken under each weekly sling of the Standard's mighty arm. We hope we will not be understood as objecting to the sport. It is a battle of giants, and we pigmies must stand from under. But there are some features in the contest which have compelled our distant and admiring attention. In the first place, we have noticed a roundness, and smoothness, and weight about these weekly missels which we can not swear to be characteristic of the old 8tSmddm period. We have been told they were dug out of some sort of Prr, and that in consequence of there being pre- cious stones they had to pass through the Customhouse. But, however this may be, one thing is certain, the slinger does his work with a glorious recklessness worthy of amamsment, His aim is made at marks without may ritermne to their sise: a lame foot is fired at with as deliberate an aim and with as vehement a jerk a head. We remember ce mimel about the accident to a esrtair aeeil's 'foot" being scribaenble in "toto" to the effort of that official to "kick" another oisI "out of office," and we have alwaya been too sceptical to classify even these stones as belonging to the old Standard period, be- cause both of the keeness of the pun and the heartlessness of the joke. In the sesomd place, we have been e- amining our neighbor'* general armor and we have been forced to the eoaelusio• that the new dress in somewhat too large for the old form-we have been told, how- ever, that that dificulty has bern Irein- died by the additio of a new Sgme inside the new drss sad this fi as ed ws s theam .ii that bugiuubne may after all be a profitable business -at least for a time, and so we beg in the business in a small way by throw- ing just a little sand-the stones we know lie deeper, and time may improve our method of reaching them,and should occa- sion require, we hope to profit from the Standard as to the best way and time of throwing our stones. Let us, in the last place, congratulate our neighbor upon the advantage of a bellegerant disposition. We have had the new experience of looking with inter- est for the Standard. We wish to know what can be said on all sides, and if for the present Goliath is somewhat reticent and like Achilles sulking in his tent, we at least know what is going on in the camp of David, and having all the i nfor- mation on our side, we can the more easily make up our mind when the op- posing forces join battle in earnest. Till then let these missels of personality es- cape, if they must, it may be they will all be fired and gathered up in time to leaAe a clear field for the coming contest of great principles when men will be for- gotten in the absorbing interest of our great cause. IBWThe J. M. Turner mentioned in our last, is not the Rev. John Turner, but Mr. Turner of Missouri. g'Governor Warmoth leaves the Ci- ty to-day on a brief visit to the north. iMOn Tuesday evening the weath- er almost suddenly changed; rain set in accompanied with much thunder and lightning. Since then it has been show- ery and raining with little intermission. The effect of these floods will be benicial in cleansing our streets and gutters, and cooling the atmosphere. WUpon the recommendation of Ad- ministrator Lewis, from the Special Com- mittee recently appointed to investigate the complaint preferred by Captain Oc- tave Ray against Recorder Staes, the City Council dismissed the case. aSThe Republican will permit us to correct an error in Tuesday's issue. Mr. Bell, one of the two candidates for admis- sion to practice in our State Courts, is a colored man, and we know no reason un- der the sun, why any effort should be made to ereate the impression that he is not "guilty of the color of a skin," unless it is to prove that his not being a negro, accounts for Mr. B4 easy admission to the United States District Court. If this is the way we are to interpret the men- tion of this idea, the sooner we know it the better. sNmsANcE . The City Conuc I at th. i" meeting on the evening of May 2. passed a resolution directing the City Attorney to take steps to abate the nuisance created by a whiskey distellery on St Ferdinand street. There is just such another that deserves attention Messrs Adminstrators. That beer manufactory on Prieur street between Grarier and Perdido streets, habitually lets out its lees, and swill into the street gutter, which is never sufficiently open to permit them to run off; and theconsequence is they ferment in the sun and rot there, emitting a most intolerable stench among the neighbors around. We make mention of the fact and believe that this is all we need do now. l'The question of the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine to the German Em- pire has formally come up in the Par- liament of Emperor William ; and there now appears'in true earnest some of the meaningof the Prnssian triumph over France. The annexation of these power- ful and commanding fortresses is de- declared in the German Parliament to be "necessary to give Germany a bul- wark against the recurrence of French aggression." Count Bismarck not long since declared that the terms demanded by Germany "is not a peae, but a trae." He anticipaters a renewal of the confiet by France at the earliest possible moment andso his whole policy towards France is not only to denude hernow in her prostration, of those elements of strength those commanding positions which she holds on the German frontier, but to absorb them into the German Empirs, andhold them s teruibl meaces to France in lsy belligeSent atitad she may cheese to assume in the ftmar The addition of the two millions of possibly discontented inhabitant of these places, reates a difeialty which in no way app•ls the cool calculation of German statemen. They will hold the provinces, nd endeavor to coneiliate the inhabitants, if they will be comforted -well-but if they redruse-the Ger- mmwa illnertbs hold themb The oportauities are too fuvorable and the advantages too great, not to bhe seiued and turned to the best aoeouQ t by Ger- many. -Henry Wad Doechr eny it will CON=[RCIAL Wmassamr, May 3-11:30 A. M. Corro--Rainy weather added to small offerings of desirable lists has interferred with the movement, and notwithstanding the good demand, we hear of sales of only about 500 bales thus far. A list of strict Low Middling, even running, brought 141c., and a fair style of Mid- dling 14cc. Yesterday's business embraced 5300 bales. The market closed as follows: Avenge Exchange Lists. Figaures. Inferior........... 7 8 - Low Ordinary......... 9 OOrdinary .......... 1g1 11 Good Ordinary........ 1is Low Middling....... .1 1 1 Middlinc g ......... 14 141 Strict Middling........ -15 - Good Middling.... .15 15 15y -"Darling it's bedtime. All the little chickens have gone to bed." "Yes, ma- ma, and so has the old hen" FOPF COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. A. T. 8elover, Principal. Prot Wm. Bartlett, an old teacher from Washington, stopping at the City Hotel, now engaged at the Public works N. O. Custom Hoare, having visited the above Institution, and finding it in a prospeous ondition, which Prot Selover soon demonstrated in brief the rapid and systematic progress of his pupils. All who have examined the pupils books in penmanship, pronounce them pre-eminent Prof Bartlett will give a series of free lectures an phonetic short- hand writing, with the view of forming a class which he proposes to teach in a few practical lessons, for a small sum. aWrFirst lecture will be given May 5, at this Institution at 8 o'clock P. 6. The Public are invited to attend. EMPIRE MUTUAL LIFE NMSURANCE COMPANY. of tb .Lty of •sowR frZ NO. 139 BROADWAY. Gao. W. Smith. Vice Prest. G. itolo &a br. Presl., L II. Waters. Actuary Sidn W. ou Secy, Everett Capp. Spt Agencs. K Mercy. Mle. Eiamr., Agents. Ke1r Orlbans. • r~mrcm & AAxeuar MRS. A. M. PARRISH FIRST PREMIUM SHIBT MAKER, NO.1l1 CANAL STREET, New Orleans, La. Particular attention paid to the manu- facture of Gents' Underclothing; also Base Ball Club and Firemen's Uniforms Made to order. BRANCH OF THE NEW YORK Emporium of Fashion FOR LADIES. ktprnlteld byl I. A. Gesdtlet Ik LLE.Linmlc . hrariski gods OF ALL KINDS, FROM HEAD DRESS TO HOSIERY, SUITS IN GRFAT VARIETY, Wrappers Single or Double, Underclothing of every descrption, Night Dremes, Trail and Walk- ing Skirt., Chemise, Drawer, Scks, Over- Skirts, Apros, ha, e. Orders taken for wedding Outits, Childrens and Infants' Wardrobes, BSits and Deames in the Lateet 8tyles, and spplied at bort notice. -- The TRADE supphed at New York prices. Sample Room, No. 21 Carnal St., AT MRS. A. M. PARISH'8S FllST FIZEiE Ia? IuAmlt T. e Ordmnrwepeatfy solsdh mr. A. OOodAIZ, Mrs. L . ILNCOLN. THE PEOPLES COMMERCIAL COLLEGE I 8••TRAIGHT TIVEr•vITY. Located over the Freedmeas asving Bmank 114 remadels SLt. em n adr oag swmms so vJtao•sa. The old sad yoing san eester a tbhi l1.4- taMeio ayday,aodimeMse msidelasgad to ruesaroo.Thedesiguetbs JMtpilot , sto fanish opportbaebe tl•es wi.aing a rpita, through sad - hml as medba- s, Afty to eme hi t pem Gi. se•d bydmdemb, bythlagthe uM sinm l h waeo u ~ dks ni Inry h•, who have estiuly -g thed ir odama~os now have the oppsrteall be quany temi- sev..e feor almet say pedhaes t Ss, F, Luther dM e 5 a nt b Csl- ege, or alm Wha A t ases WALTAM WAI THE BALANCE WHEEL WALTrAM WATSI * 4 time second, 240 times a minte, 14.400 times a hour, 345,600 times a day. 2,419,200 times week, 10,368,000 times a mokh, 196,144,000 times a year. MORE IS EXPECTED OF A WATCI TIIANANY KINVD OF MA CHINER• R mut not only rum at dy, b eld night; adil on weekdfai but na daoq and e di - must run hanging up or lting dowyar, doen or right side up. A tmieet k nminp the wearer sits down or stead up, When A, a or rides. In ad, it is spced to do ea d d times, in eey place and in hrpy pestioa. A Genuine Waltham Watch wi fulfil all these requinrse a I wod e a day, it will faithfully tik wo you a and twenty-six million times i a year, w even requiring ash oil all tat time. A Genuine Waltham Watch oourvni 5 Sprng, 9 whseert, 51 cres, and s9 olher making amageinr 136 ase te pl ecs. al <aeassasI e WIalthma Watbehes wa rrse mevea Tao mxra Zosmnat n Tas wvin aswa, Ts You, swm ZAAD LAsV iam ;ai&m Evory part of a Waltham Watch is mde b machinery, Themachinerynad in making a movement of a single watch coast over a e. dard housand Dolrs, yetwe sell these WaIth in a solid Silver Hunting Case, for $1t h same watch could not be made by hand at A nished aperfectly for Tm Tyas a moa. A Genuine waltham Watch Is hterhoagable, like a psingleld rise, th is, any partof oea Watch is eactly like Go ame part ianother ; and if te Watchs one grade were taken apart, ab the am wheels, springs, &o., wese mired together, t watches could be made by ptting these pu together again, withuot any reference It tes former combination- This is a GREIAT ADVANTAGE; For, ifany part of Walthae Watch is I.md we can always replace it at a A Waltrham Watols WILL RUN FAITHFULLY FOR MANY YEARS We sell these Watches, IN SOLID SILVER HUNTING CASES -$11 IN SOLID GOLD HUNTING CASESL 6 We have prepared an ILLUSTRATED P3IS LIST, which describes the various grades of Watch dndetail, gives the weight and quality o th Canes, atnd all other formation aeossary tr would send for it before o•dering a Watch. Wraefer a s fy Aios. Plessm paumI me, m our sd Pis I (Sign nam e aoo d addres is WITHOUT IXPIhLI, stural thts e Waasse We he sen t out over Ru. lcusd ofw Watches pon these ienlts, and ha*ls been asked, to refd the mea ytrua ta ieeded the mosey m ows, W WnA es 30 ges aiss , ra r o m a we wasw-s u as a 10.w r lbed . waes r w thoeese l stBa et for Brean or Gemr Savr). Tihe W51 DoWAIDa Co. j u o pori and agher ik MinifOL jithtesWo~ifb *wo te
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THE LOUII8 ANIAN. .
PUBLISHED THURSDAYS & S UDAY&S
OrrFce 114 CAROnDELET ernrwr;NEw OLEm.xs LA.
Wn. . UIOW., Editor tad hPbliser,A. M. C. MA88ENA, Solicitor, and Fashion andLiterary Contributor.
OUR AGENTS.
MIMISSIPPI :-Daniel E. Young, Greenville.LOUISIANA :-John A. Washington, Black
Hawk, Concordia Plarirh; Hon. G. Y. Kelso,Alexandria; Antoine & Sterrett, Shreveport
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA :-James A. D.Green, Washington City.
ILLINOIS :-Lewis B. White, Chicago.KENTUCKY :-Dr. B. A. Green, Louisville.
NOTICE.-. "All communications must be addressed
"Editor of the Louisianian," and anonymous Iletters must be accompanied by the name of the ]writer, not necessarily for publication, but as anevidence of good faith.
We are not responsible for the opinions ofour contributors.
THURSDAY MAY 4, 1871.
OUR CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT IN 1872.
ULYSSES S. GRANT.NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Patrons of TaH LorI'rsAIAS, when re-newing their subscriptions,should be care-ful to ahlwary state the place where thepaper is mailed; and the same care shouldbe exercised when a change of location isdesired. By particularly attending tothis, our mailing clerk will be relieved ofa great amount of extra labor in huntingthrough the hundreds of names uponour booiks before the name requircd canbe found and the alteration made; where-as, if the full address is given, he has onlyto consult his alphabet of towns to turndirect to the name upon the subscriptionlbook. A little care saves much labor.
THE NEW ORLEANS LIMES.
Tam NEw Om..rss Tnmn by far thebest edited democratic journal of thisState has in its last Sunday issue thiseditorial paragraph:
"Grant's friend Juarez has a fairchance of re-election. He shoots every-body who suggests an opposition ticketand won't allow any other tickets atthe polls than his own. Possibly thehint may be profited by in this country."
Now what can be the advantage of thisgratuitous insinuation of Grant's dispo-sition to translate the paper ballot into aleaden bullet ? Does not the Times know
that the cry of "wolf" has sometimesended with the devouring presence of the
wolf?
Were (Gen. Grant to bccome the
usurper and tyrant the Times foreshad-ows of him, the Times and Southern
journals of its class would be more toblame for the calamity than the tyranthimself. All such articles are naturallyprovocative of tyranny. Amid profoundpeace except where it is broken by themid-night report of the Ku-Klux pistolfired at the women and children even ofthe negro and his white friends-theTimes talks of the poqssibility of one poli-tical party resorting to force to carry anelection against its opponents. In aState where the rilpest and best fruits ofreconstruction have been laid in the lapof the public-when the State credit is
good, industrial enterprises are being re-vived, social order restored and general
progress is being made, we find a journalclaiming to be a friend of the Southern
people employing every art of the dema-
gobgue to fire the Southern heart againstthe national •administration.
Had this insinuation been provoked bysome overt act of the President or werethere at this particular time causes ofirritation in the Southern mind, we mightaccount for these expressions as being thenational echoes awakened in the press tosatisfy the public feeling. But there'isabsolutely nothing to justify such lang-uage as we have quoted from the Tintes.
As proof of this we need go no furtherthan to the top of the same editorialulumn. The New Yotrk World represent.
ing the most influeancial ring of theNorthern demoeracy is bitterly taken totask for o;in the advice of a friend
and peae-maker to its Southern allies,end the T"mes spurns the counmels of itsfriend with even more vehemence than itdenounces the prospective tyranny of itsenemy.
Now we would ggemt to the Timesthat there is a better way than this,Denueiations of Prident Grant can dohim nohar and they eurtainlydothesouthen peiae gno ood. Depremiaionof the Northern demooraey by aouther
journals are only calculated to render theNorthern leaders of the democratic partyindifferent at once to Southern opinionsand Southern interests,
Why not honestly and fairly accept thesituation? The North whether democraticor republican must always exert a con-trolling influence in the politics of therepublic. The wealth numbers and gen-eral culture of the nation are theirs, andit has never been known in the history ofthe world that petulence, prejudice andpoverty were matches for them.
The Times has no right to'drag a reluctant people into this arena of unequalcombat. What the Southern peoplewant is a return to the era of good feel-ing between the different sections of thecountry. The South this year has raisedthe largest crop ever known, and our fairCrescent City might do a larger businessthan she ever did all over the world ifits journals would only cease those im-potent threats and that mendacious op-position which have been the main causesof keeping capital ahd enterprising menaloof from us.
There are a thousand reasons to bringmen of wealth;character and intelligenceamong us but such journals as the 7'meshave erected a barrier of political hateand social ostracism so high that fewmen laden with any other worldly inter-ests than a carpet-bag can surmount it.And yet the Times is not happy; norwill it ever be while it attempts to raisethe ghost of Calhoun to put down the15th Amendment. A living negro chim-ney-sweep is better than the greatest ofdead statesmen at the ballot-box and theTimes will yet learn that it can never
secure the best interests of the whites ofthe South, till it does full justice to theblacks here and their white friends in theNorth.
CONSISTENCY-THE RUINS.
Alforeigners are puzzled when calledupon to make a fair comparison betweenour republican theories, and our oli-garchical practices. From the hour ofMr. Lincoln's proclamation of emancipa-tion, our country has been "the observedof all observers." Cynical aristocrats,proslavery sceptics and the ardent Re-publicans in Europe have all turnedtheir honest gaze upon us, each makinghis wish the "father to his thought."
The Republican in pointing from theold world to the new, is never at a lossfor such illustration of the people'scapacity to take care of themselves asgreat revolutions furnish. In fact it isnot difficult for him to prove tl it all thegreat men of the war and of reconstruc-tion brought upon their garments thewholesome smells of industry, and mani-
fested in their habits the simple effectsof republican training. And yet it mustbe admitted that our very best examplesof plebeian'greatness have suffered by acomparison with the aristocrats ofEurope in respect of that robust manli-ness which is at once the ornament andthe pride of tile aristocrat, in dealingswith the common people.
In France or England a man takesrank according to his merit. A negro isnot less a prince because he is black.The negro orators, preachers and ar-tists walk in supreme contentment, at-tended by the honors of their professionsamong the purest and best of their class.It is only when the republican light ofAmerica fElls . upon the countenance ofthe colored2 man that every true testTofmanhood is dropped, and the whites, dis-ciples of North and Glidden put on thespectacles of prejudice to discover aman's brains, in his hair, while his virtueis settled by the color of his skin.
It is strange that the evils of this pre-judice-the injustice of the proscriptiontherefrom resulting are not better un-derstood by our white friends in thiscountry. The negroes cast 800,000 bal-lots at the polls and any hope of theirdisfranchisement is as delusive as thedesire to reduce them again to bond.age. And yet the tremendous mistakeis being made of receiving the votes ofthese negroes in the interet of white of-fice holders on Saturday and ostra,cising them on Sunday. And then themanner of doing this is so infinitelymean that disgust is excited even morethan our indignation.
W'ho can describe the feeling of self-contempt a white minister must feel whowhile he preaches that with God there is'"no respect of person," at the samemoment asactions by his preance andhis aleanee on the subject the proscrip-tire pew for even intelligent well dressedand well educated colored people? Butit is said "the children of this world arein their generation wiser than thechildren of light," and therefore we turnin surprise to the politicians to flnd themkeeping up the same senseles distine-tionsor givingeountenance to those whodo.
We hnow restarants for inignewhere they will not aeconodai t color-ed people which are constantly ptrcoi-ed by soame of rpolicimss who boastbadly of their desire to emsinths
possession of every right and privilege.Now when the fact is added that inmany cases the patrons of these pros-cribing saloons are law makers, and it isremembered that we have laws upon thestatute book placed there by their assist-ance against this outrage upon ourmanhood, the case assumes a still moreserious aspect.
Let us take the case of "TnE Runs" atthe Lake. It is susceptible of the mostabundant proof that the proprietor ofthat restaurant refuses to accommodatecolored gentlemen, and yet it is equallyeasy to show that his place is sought af-ter by many of the very men who inpatronizing him are bringing contemptupon their own efforts at legislation, and
fostering the violation of the laws of theState.
Now this question, destitute of thismoral aspect, it seems to us that consid-erations of expediency should settle thematter in favor of ordinary fairness. Isit fair that the wealthy culture and vir-tue of our wives, daughters and ourselvesshould be forced into association withopposite qualities for no other reasonthan the color of our skin ? Do not ourwhite friends feel that there is somethingdue them as to the character of theircolleagues ? They cannot force us intothrs3 degrading conditions withoutsharing some of the odium which at-taches to their victims. If the betterclass of colored people are esteemed asno better than the worst, and they arecompelled to herd with the worst, it willnot be long before white republicans willdeserve to be esteemed as no better thanany negro by his enemies, and not evenas good by those who used to be hisfriends.
Social equality ! No. We want nothingof the kind, all we want is consistency inour legis!ators and justice to our race.
STONES AND THE STANDARD.
What is the matter with our neighbor,the New Orleans Standard? It used tomove with the steady pace of party fideli-ty, and speak the sober words, and in thesubdued tones of a journal, seeking alivelihood. We have often been com-pelled to admire the caution with whichit selected between some political syllaand charybdis in search of the politicalphilosopher's stone; and we fear our neigh-bor has found that stone, if we may judgefrom the way he has been throwing itrecently.
David's stone, if we may be allowedthe change of comparison, was nothing tothis missel of our neiglb )r's.
At one time his pacific disposition to-wards certain persons high in official po-sition was so striking as to make us be-lieve him to be the very apostle of peace.All his articles were suggestive of broadbrimmed hats, collarless coats and drabpantaloons; and we doubted not only thathe hail a stone or a sling, or a dispositionto use either, but we even questioned thepossibility of his ever getting into beli-cose society. But our admiration for thepacific tendencies of our neighbor hasbeen struck dumb at the very height ofits towering enconium s.
O ir neighbor has been to our greatbrook, the Mississippi, or at least he wasseen near it, and, we suppose, furnishedhimself with stones, some say they weregranite stones, and be has procured a slingof red tape, it is hinted, and Mechanics'Institute has been shaken under eachweekly sling of the Standard's mightyarm.
We hope we will not be understood asobjecting to the sport. It is a battle ofgiants, and we pigmies must stand fromunder.
But there are some features in thecontest which have compelled our distantand admiring attention.
In the first place, we have noticed aroundness, and smoothness, and weightabout these weekly missels which we cannot swear to be characteristic of the old8tSmddm period. We have been told theywere dug out of some sort of Prr, andthat in consequence of there being pre-cious stones they had to pass through theCustomhouse. But, however this maybe, one thing is certain, the slinger doeshis work with a glorious recklessnessworthy of amamsment, His aim is made atmarks without may ritermne to their sise:a lame foot is fired at with as deliberatean aim and with as vehement a jerk ahead. We remember ce mimel aboutthe accident to a esrtair aeeil's 'foot"being scribaenble in "toto" to the effort ofthat official to "kick" another oisI "outof office," and we have alwaya been toosceptical to classify even these stones asbelonging to the old Standard period, be-cause both of the keeness of the pun andthe heartlessness of the joke.
In the sesomd place, we have been e-amining our neighbor'* general armorand we have been forced to the eoaelusio•that the new dress in somewhat too largefor the old form-we have been told, how-ever, that that dificulty has bern Irein-died by the additio of a new Sgmeinside the new drss sad this fi ased ws s theam .ii that bugiuubne
may after all be a profitable business-at least for a time, and so we begin the business in a small way by throw-ing just a little sand-the stones we knowlie deeper, and time may improve ourmethod of reaching them,and should occa-sion require, we hope to profit from theStandard as to the best way and time ofthrowing our stones.
Let us, in the last place, congratulateour neighbor upon the advantage of abellegerant disposition. We have hadthe new experience of looking with inter-est for the Standard. We wish to knowwhat can be said on all sides, and if forthe present Goliath is somewhat reticentand like Achilles sulking in his tent, weat least know what is going on in thecamp of David, and having all the i nfor-mation on our side, we can the moreeasily make up our mind when the op-posing forces join battle in earnest. Tillthen let these missels of personality es-cape, if they must, it may be they willall be fired and gathered up in time toleaAe a clear field for the coming contestof great principles when men will be for-gotten in the absorbing interest of ourgreat cause.
IBWThe J. M. Turner mentioned in ourlast, is not the Rev. John Turner, but Mr.Turner of Missouri.
g'Governor Warmoth leaves the Ci-ty to-day on a brief visit to the north.
iMOn Tuesday evening the weath-er almost suddenly changed; rain set inaccompanied with much thunder andlightning. Since then it has been show-ery and raining with little intermission.The effect of these floods will be benicialin cleansing our streets and gutters, andcooling the atmosphere.
WUpon the recommendation of Ad-ministrator Lewis, from the Special Com-mittee recently appointed to investigatethe complaint preferred by Captain Oc-tave Ray against Recorder Staes, the CityCouncil dismissed the case.
aSThe Republican will permit us tocorrect an error in Tuesday's issue. Mr.Bell, one of the two candidates for admis-sion to practice in our State Courts, is acolored man, and we know no reason un-der the sun, why any effort should bemade to ereate the impression that he isnot "guilty of the color of a skin," unlessit is to prove that his not being a negro,accounts for Mr. B4 easy admission tothe United States District Court. If thisis the way we are to interpret the men-tion of this idea, the sooner we know itthe better.
sNmsANcE . The City Conuc I at th. i"meeting on the evening of May 2. passeda resolution directing the City Attorneyto take steps to abate the nuisancecreated by a whiskey distellery onSt Ferdinand street. There is just suchanother that deserves attention MessrsAdminstrators. That beer manufactoryon Prieur street between Grarier andPerdido streets, habitually lets out itslees, and swill into the street gutter,which is never sufficiently open to permitthem to run off; and theconsequence isthey ferment in the sun and rot there,emitting a most intolerable stench amongthe neighbors around. We make mentionof the fact and believe that this is all weneed do now.
l'The question of the annexation ofAlsace and Lorraine to the German Em-pire has formally come up in the Par-liament of Emperor William ; and therenow appears'in true earnest some of themeaningof the Prnssian triumph overFrance. The annexation of these power-ful and commanding fortresses is de-declared in the German Parliament tobe "necessary to give Germany a bul-wark against the recurrence of Frenchaggression." Count Bismarck not longsince declared that the terms demandedby Germany "is not a peae, but a trae."He anticipaters a renewal of the confietby France at the earliest possible momentandso his whole policy towards Franceis not only to denude hernow in herprostration, of those elements of strengththose commanding positions which sheholds on the German frontier, but toabsorb them into the German Empirs,andhold them s teruibl meaces toFrance in lsy belligeSent atitad shemay cheese to assume in the ftmar
The addition of the two millions ofpossibly discontented inhabitant ofthese places, reates a difeialty which inno way app•ls the cool calculation ofGerman statemen. They will hold theprovinces, nd endeavor to coneiliatethe inhabitants, if they will be comforted-well-but if they redruse-the Ger-mmwa illnertbs hold themb Theoportauities are too fuvorable and theadvantages too great, not to bhe seiuedand turned to the best aoeouQ t by Ger-many.
-Henry Wad Doechr eny it will
CON=[RCIAL
Wmassamr, May 3-11:30 A. M.Corro--Rainy weather added to small
offerings of desirable lists has interferredwith the movement, and notwithstandingthe good demand, we hear of sales ofonly about 500 bales thus far. A list ofstrict Low Middling, even running,brought 141c., and a fair style of Mid-dling 14cc.
Yesterday's business embraced 5300bales. The market closed as follows:
Avenge ExchangeLists. Figaures.
Inferior........... 7 8 -Low Ordinary......... 9OOrdinary .......... 1g1 11Good Ordinary........ 1isLow Middling....... .1 1 1Middlinc g ......... 14 141Strict Middling........ -15 -Good Middling.... .15 15 15y
-"Darling it's bedtime. All the littlechickens have gone to bed." "Yes, ma-ma, and so has the old hen"
FOPF COMMERCIAL COLLEGE.A. T. 8elover, Principal.
Prot Wm. Bartlett, an old teacherfrom Washington, stopping at the CityHotel, now engaged at the Public worksN. O. Custom Hoare, having visited theabove Institution, and finding it in aprospeous ondition, which Prot Seloversoon demonstrated in brief the rapid andsystematic progress of his pupils.
All who have examined the pupilsbooks in penmanship, pronounce thempre-eminent Prof Bartlett will give aseries of free lectures an phonetic short-hand writing, with the view of forminga class which he proposes to teach in afew practical lessons, for a small sum.
aWrFirst lecture will be given May 5,at this Institution at 8 o'clock P. 6.
The Public are invited to attend.
EMPIRE
MUTUAL LIFE NMSURANCE COMPANY.of tb .Lty of •sowR frZ
NO. 139 BROADWAY.
Gao. W. Smith. Vice Prest. G. itolo &a br.Presl., L II. Waters. Actuary Sidn W. ouSecy, Everett Capp. Spt Agencs. K Mercy.Mle. Eiamr.,
Agents. Ke1r Orlbans. • r~mrcm & AAxeuar
MRS. A. M. PARRISHFIRST PREMIUM
SHIBT MAKER,NO.1l1 CANAL STREET,
New Orleans, La.
Particular attention paid to the manu-facture of Gents' Underclothing; alsoBase Ball Club and Firemen's Uniforms
Made to order.
BRANCH OF THE NEW YORKEmporium of Fashion
FOR LADIES.
ktprnlteld byl I. A. Gesdtlet Ik LLE.Linmlc .
hrariski godsOF ALL KINDS, FROM
HEAD DRESS TO HOSIERY,SUITS IN GRFAT VARIETY,
Wrappers Single or Double, Underclothing ofevery descrption, Night Dremes, Trail and Walk-ing Skirt., Chemise, Drawer, Scks, Over-
Skirts, Apros, ha, e.
Orders taken for wedding Outits, Childrensand Infants' Wardrobes, BSits and Deames in theLateet 8tyles, and spplied at bort notice.
-- The TRADE supphed at New York prices.
Sample Room, No. 21 Carnal St.,AT MRS. A. M. PARISH'8S
FllST FIZEiE Ia? IuAmlt T.e Ordmnrwepeatfy solsdh
mr. A. OOodAIZ,Mrs. L . ILNCOLN.
THE PEOPLES COMMERCIALCOLLEGE I
8••TRAIGHT TIVEr•vITY.Located over the Freedmeas asving Bmank
114 remadels SLt.em n adr oag swmms so vJtao•sa.
The old sad yoing san eester a tbhi l1.4-taMeio ayday,aodimeMse msidelasgadto ruesaroo.Thedesiguetbs JMtpilot ,sto fanish opportbaebe tl•es wi.aing arpita, through sad - hml as medba-s, Afty to eme hi t pem Gi. se•d
bydmdemb, bythlagthe uM sinm l
h waeo u ~ dks ni Inry h•,who have estiuly -g thed ir odama~osnow have the oppsrteall be quany temi-sev..e feor almet say pedhaes t Ss,
F, Luther dM e 5 a nt b Csl-ege, or alm
Wha A t ases
WALTAM WAITHE BALANCE WHEEL
WALTrAM WATSI
* 4 time second,240 times a minte,
14.400 times a hour,345,600 times a day.
2,419,200 times week,10,368,000 times a mokh,
196,144,000 times a year.
MORE IS EXPECTED OF A WATCITIIANANY KINVD OF
MA CHINER•
R mut not only rum at dy, b eld night;adil on weekdfai but na daoq and e di- must run hanging up or lting dowyar,doen or right side up. A tmieet k nminpthe wearer sits down or stead up, When A, aor rides. In ad, it is spced to do ea d dtimes, in eey place and in hrpy pestioa.
A Genuine Waltham Watchwi fulfil all these requinrse a I wod ea day, it will faithfully tik wo you aand twenty-six million times i a year, weven requiring ash oil all tat time.
A Genuine Waltham Watchoourvni
5 Sprng, 9 whseert, 51 cres, and s9 olhermaking amageinr 136 ase te pl ecs.
al <aeassasI e WIalthma
Watbehes wa rrse mevea
Tao mxra Zosmnat n Tas wvin aswa,Ts You, swm ZAAD LAsV iam ;ai&m
Evory part of a Waltham Watch is mde bmachinery, Themachinerynad in making amovement of a single watch coast over a e.dard housand Dolrs, yetwe sell these WaIthin a solid Silver Hunting Case, for $1t hsame watch could not be made by hand at Anished aperfectly for Tm Tyas a moa.
A Genuine waltham WatchIs hterhoagable, like a psingleld rise, this, any partof oea Watch is eactly like Goame part ianother ; and if te Watchs
one grade were taken apart, ab the amwheels, springs, &o., wese mired together, twatches could be made by ptting these putogether again, withuot any reference It tesformer combination- This is a
GREIAT ADVANTAGE;
For, ifany part of Walthae Watch is I.mdwe can always replace it at a
A Waltrham Watols
WILL RUN FAITHFULLY
FOR MANY YEARSWe sell these Watches,
IN SOLID SILVER HUNTING CASES -$11IN SOLID GOLD HUNTING CASESL 6
We have prepared an
ILLUSTRATED P3IS LIST,which describes the various grades of Watch
dndetail, gives the weight and quality o th
Canes, atnd all other formation aeossary tr
would send for it before o•dering a Watch.
Wraefer a s fy Aios.
Plessm paumI me, m our sd Pis I
(Sign nam e aoo d addres is
WITHOUT IXPIhLI,
stural thts e Waasse
We he sen t out over Ru. lcusd ofwWatches pon these ienlts, and ha*lsbeen asked, to refd the mea ytrua ta
ieeded the mosey m ows,
W WnA es 30 ges aiss , ra r o m a
we wasw-s u as a 10.w r
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