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Cljflorliilnlrlfgisfrr. CONYEBB.GA., THURBDAY NOV 30, IS7(>. “ solid sense! ♦♦♦- THE LOUISIANA OUTRAGE NOT 'lt) BE CROWDED THROUGH STRONG REPUBII3AN ORGAN PROTESTS IN ADVANCE. The “Bulldozered”* Parishes. The Abiurd.l’lfH of Intimidation Exposed. | From the Chicago Tribune {Rep )'] If we can jt>t nt the difficulty in Lou iHium correctly, the dispute ischiofly over five parishes or counties, and whether ihe returns ol these shall l* counted at all, or, if counted, how they shall he counted It is alleged that these five parishes had a large registered vote, three-fifths or two thirds of which was Republican ; but that on election day the greater part ol the colored Republicans, being intimi dated by tho White-Liners, ran off and did not vote, while the Confederates re mained and voted. The following fig ures will illustrate the situation, which gives tho result of the vote in 1874 as well as in 1876. The 1874 vote was said to be full and fair for both sides : Vote tn 1874. Hem. ma Parishes. Vem. Rep- 187. E. Feliciana 8-17 1,(588 7,763 W. Felician.a 601 1,360 466 E. Ituton Kongo ..1,666' 2,446 Morehouse, ......... 664 1.017 Ouachita, 766 1,674 1,071 Total 4,3*4 fi,185 4,471 At the election in 1874 these parishes gave a Republican majority for State Treasurer of 3,WM. They now give a Democratic majority ol 4,4(7, which ex ceeds the Democratic vote cast in 1874. The Democrats admit that, had the Re publican vote been polled, the Republi can would have had a large majority. Now the controversy stands : On the ore lund the Democrats insist on the yde being counted in exact accordance with the number of tickets cast; on the other hand, there are two propositions; 1. That the voto of these parishes he whol ly disregard'd and thrown out, on tl e grounds of intimidation, by the Canvas sing Board. 2. That the vote polled be counted, but that the Cavassing Board reckon also as polled the votes of those absenting themselves from fear of bodily harm. The average Northern voter has no precedent for such a oondition of things as this. In the fiist place, deadly intimidation is not known at the- North, and in the next plaoe it will bo difficult lor a Northern man ol any party to un derstand how 2,000 voters of one party in a county can be so sucoesafu’ly “intim idated'’ by 1,000 as to bo unable to ap proach the polls, though the latter were protected, or supposed to be, by the United State Supervisors. It will be difficult to persuade the people of any Northern county that the minority, num- bering 900 voters, could so intimidate the majority in East Feliciana, number ing 1,800, that none ol the latter dare show themselves at the polls. Nevor thcless, it is certain that the negroes did not vote lor some reason. We assume that those who did voto were legal vo ters, and know ol no right recognized by any law ol any State where the votes ol legal voters, lawlully polled, can be rejected and they disfranchised. We do not believe, therefore, Is at the moral sense of the American people will con sent to or tolerate that the election of a President of the United States shall be determined and decided by throwing out the votesof several thousand of legal voters, legally polled in any State of ti e Union, We take it, theretore, that the votes actually polled in these five ‘bull dozered’ parishes of Louisana will be counted, no matter what may be the •res dt produced upon the election by so doing. It the fact be as stated, and we havo tried to conate them fairly from the etatonnent of both sides, the Republicans of Luwieana and of the country have to bear tlie consequences of the panic, which seems to have so stticken the colored voters in these five districts. We look upon it as a calamity, because we know of uo legal remedy. Theie is no precedent known to any election ftnv then we ever heard of where the votes *if persons not voting, and not offering to vole, can bo counted, no matter how strong may lie the- presumption that if such totea had been polled they would have changed the result. In 1874, the Democrats elected at least fifty members to Congress in Republican districts be cause Republicans stayed away and did vote. For the same reason tl e Demo crats elected the Governors of several States, and a majority of the Legislature in several States in 1 *74. No such thing as offsetting the vote actually polled by that not polled has ever been reorganized at any election in any State in this coun try. Evin in the desperate conflict in Lou'stana four years ago both parties claimed the election, hut both parties as sumed the vote counted to have been polled. It is claimed by tlte Democrats that their party will have a majority of the whole vote of the Slate, over and above their vote iu these parishes) but, while this ought to settle the matter, it may not do so, if the counting of the non pol'ed vote he insisted upon by the other side. If, however, the Democrats do not have a majority except by counting the votes in these five parishes, and the result in the State depend on their being counted or not counted, then the issue will be a direct one, and one upon which the country will promptly reach a judg ment, and no Canvassing Board will daro attempt to put the judgment cf the na tion at defiance ; and the American peo ple will never engage in a civil war to uphold the counting of votes never oast or offered to bo cast, or to reject lawful votes legally cast and recorded on the poll lists. WHO WANTETH A MULE ? Cheap for cash! Good for dyspepsia! If any man wants a mule, we’ve got one bad. A nice inulo. That is, two hair-covetcd flat stove pipes, with hair on endwise, ami a lot ol skin, bones and kick as running gears. When in California, a friend said mule was good for health. That it we would ride a mule two hours every morning it would be good for the health part of us. A friend never would lie to a man. Of course not. Our mule came from Kentucky. Ibe is a duu-colored whelp, with a tail big gest at the little end like a lager-bier nose. lie has little feet. You'd think more than five hundred of ’em, when they nre,up for exercising his final hind enuost. Jlis feet are no dead heads ! lie hath ears to bear. lie is an eari table cuss. Ilia head is like the national debt, somewhat big, and the first tiling he cares for. One day we went forth to ramble. On top of that mule we went out for exercise. Rode in a saddle. The motion was regular if not gentle. At Union square wo wanted to turn and ride down Fourteenth street, so our wife could see her husband's horsemanship. Mule wanted to go the other way. Under the shadow of Lincoln's liu-nu ment he halted. Gently we urged him. His tail flew up. Ilis ears wrinkled to each other. His hind end sovt of fried to kisa the clouds, and we slid down to rest, not in bis chest, but against his oars. Again he ascended skyward, in part, and we got off in front. Whoa, mule! Good mule. In haste got we on again. With ears waving like the flap of s wide brim palm leaf hat, he moved on. Just then several bad boys laughed a loud laugh, partly in uuison, but more in derision. We touched his tickle section with a spur, then got off. Got off about twenty feet, and in a reversed position. Who wants to buy a nice mule lor ex e'uise? Never minding two suspender buttons and a quizzeued hat, we got on top of mute. An infernal policeman came along and said he’d take us in if we didn’t refrain from drawing a crowd. The mule started joyfully. Walked two rods. Then stopped to go his own way. Then he twisted his all-four feet into a bunch like asparagus. Humped his spi nal column till our saddle seemed bal anced on a bitching post. How’s that for high t Then he pointed at some thing like thunder with the healthiest pair of hind legs a pet of the devil ever had, and we went up, turned a somer sault, and landed on a cart laden with ashes. Even as Goliah shot a stone into Pavid, so shot mule into air. Nothing like mule to help a man up in the world. Concluded uot to ride. Concluded to wallop mule. Policeman said none of that. Mule pointed his tail over towaid Btrgh’s office, where cruelty to animals is prevented. But there is no office to prevent mule being cruel to man. We tied his ears together with a wire, and with the aid of two good Samaritans mounted mule. He paused. We asked him mildly to get up. lie got up, but a little too far behind for comfort, lbat is, to us. Then we flip-flapped over his head, going between his ears, like as a fellow on a bender would run a toll-gate. Were a man only beef-steak, w hat a help mule would be I We led mule around a corner to a tin shop. Wired his tail fast to both hind legs. Agonised ourself into the saddle. Spoke kindly to mule, but in vain. He dropped one ear, then to left shoulder shifted the other. The ho looked to see why he cpuld not a tail unfold. The wire— the wire ! Ha, ha! mule! He tried to kick, but couldn’t get the hang or the hoist of it. Then he looked to right as if to reach his disgusted gaze clear to the latter end. We smiled. We suggested, that he move on, and not staud on the corners 1 Then he shoved about three feet of ears to the front ob lique, and gazed crookedly to the rear by the left flank to see why his tail was not a wire pu ler. Then he lifted up his voice ai.d wept. Hut Bitch a weep— 'Father, dear lather, come home/' Then lie breed his ears in the shade or each ether and hoisted vigorously upon his too milch confined tail. Ihe thing was fast at both ends. He lioMt-j ed, hut ir, vain. Then tor the first time in his life, he seemed to regret lie had not had it made smaller at the small eiul so it would slip out 1 We smiled at his emhari assment. We asked him to hie gently on. Hut not a hio. He had higltcd us enough before! t hat s what we told us. Said we with the deep plowing philosophy of one who knows all about farming— ‘O mule! take your time. We are in no lmrry to hasten.’ Then he winked with both cars boll, wiys, and drew his little feet and wiiy tail under him, like a sutler taking his rest, and laid down ! In n second, with ungodly vehemence for one so young, he laid himselt with vigor down, and rolled over. Of course we got off 1 He got up. We got on. He got down and got over! We got off again. Then he got up and we got on, and he got down and rolled over again. Then he got up. Then w e looked at his tail. It was an chorcd ! Then we looked in his eye Mis mild eye, so fall of dark brown in nocence* It seemed like one asleep, and the other eye shoost the same. We pul the end ol finger one gently into, but no response. He seemed subdued. ihen we got on again, and he got down, and rolled over j ist as we got oft. Then wo asked a boy to hold the mule, and not start with him till wo re<- turned, and we would compensate him with twenty dollars, if hed wait right there with the mule. He said he would. He looked like an honest boy. That was three days ago. Yesterday he w; s there. A little brother brought him a few meals. He’ll wait for the twenty dollars, Perhaps mule may like that idea'! Perhaps he will move ou .next time ! But if any man wants him, lie is for sale cheap. He is a good mule.— “BkHJK" PoMhBOY. Interesting Facts. The following curious fac s are not g< nerally known.: It a tallow candle be placed in a gun and shot at a door it will go through without sustaining injury ; and if a mus ket ball be shot into water it will not only rebound, but flatten. If fired through a pane of glass it will make a hole the size of the ball without crack ing the glass ; if the glass be suspended by a thread, it will make no difference, and’t> o thread will not even vibrate. Cork, it sunk two hundred feet under water, will not rise on account of the pressure of the water. In the Arctic regions, when the thermometer is below zero, persons can converse more than a mils distant from each other. How to Get Along. Dou’l stop to tell stories in business hours. If yon have a place of business, be found there when wanted. No man can get rich sitting around stores and saloons. Never ‘fool’ in business matters. Have ordet, system, regularity, and also promptness. Do not meddle with business you know nothing of. Do not kick every one in your path. More miles can be made in a day by going steadily than by stopping. Pay as you go. A man of honor respects his word as he does bis bond. Help others when you can, but never give what you cannot afford to, simply because it is fashionable. Learn to say no. No necessity of snapping it out dog-fashion, but say it firmly and respectfully. Use your brains, rather Ilian those of others. Learn to think and act for yourself. Keep ahead rather than behind the times. It is related of Dr. Gath, in his last illness, when he saw lus fellow-doctors consulting together at his bed-side, that he raised his head from his pillow', and said with a smile : ‘Dear Gentlemen, let me die a natural death.’ - “It is strange," muttered a young man. as he staggeis home from a supper party, 4 how evil communications corrupt good manners. I have been surrounded by tumble’s all the evening, and now I ma a tumbler myself.” Scene in elocution : Student, trying to render a long sentence which contains the following: “ And half the other halt crying that hell was clutching at their hearts, fled,” etc. “ Professor, I can’t „ 0 through that entire sentence with one breath.” Professor —“ Go to ‘hell,’ then,” Student wilts. Gen Custer’s camp pet during the last Yellowstoue champaign was a fainousdog which had been given him by a Bismarck Judge- Ten days after the mssacre on the Little Big Horn the dog returned to Fort Lincoln, a distance of five hundred miles, in search of his matter. Silent Men. Washington never maden speech. In the zenith of his fume he olice attempted It, failed, and gave It tip, abashed and contused. In framing the Constulion ol the United Slates the labor j was almost wholly 'performed in Committee ol the Whole, of which George Washington was tho Chairman. He spoke/wioe du ring the Convention ; but his words were so few that thay could not filtly be term ed speeches. The Convention, however, acknowledged the master spirit, and his torians affirm that, had it not been for his personal popularity and the sincerity with which he spoke, the Constitution would have been rejected hy the people. Tlicmas Jefferson never made a speech. He couldn’ do it. Napolaon, whose ex ecutive ability was almost without a par allel, said that his greatest trouble was ; n finding men of deed rather than word*. When asked how he maintained his in fluence over his supervisors in age and experience, when commander in-chief of the army of Italy, he said ; “By reserve.’ The greatness of a man is not to be meas ured by the length of his speeches or their number. Salt -Its Uses. Hall’s Journal of Health thus sums up some of the upes of salt: It will cure sick headache, make cream freeze, make tne butter come, take ink stains out of cloth ot any kind, kill worms, make the ground cool; so it is more congenial cellery, cabbages, etc. It will cease the itching pain caused by irritating skin diseases, like hives ith, etc. It will produce vomitingjor stop it, as you like; and, we will add by way cf completing the list, for Dr. Hall, that it is also used to cheek hemmorrhages, more especially in pulmonary affections; it is also good tor stock, such as milch cows; when given in small quantities once a day it increases the lacteal flow ; and, indeed, it is good tor many other uses, the most essential of which is that of pttingit in oar victuals.—Don’t laugh ! But S' a salt is said to be the most effect ual in its action. THE He&isteill* PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, 'UY TilK ROCKDALE KEG I TER PUBLISHING CO. AT t’ONYEI'.S, GEORGIA. 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