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13, 1879 CONGRATULATORY. It is with profound joy that we congratulate the people of Louisiana upon the organization, at the City Hall, of the General Assembly of the State ef Louisiana, elected by them The serere illness of the editor of this paper (being confined to his bed) has prevented a befitting notice oat morning columns of this i portent event. We counsel this people, in i tience possess ye your souls, giving ne recognition to the lawless assem Wage convened at Mechanics' Inati tuts; let your sympathies, your means, your every lawful help be given to your legally elected Legis lature in all their lawful acts. Give ne heed to violent and inflammatory speeeh. Be it yours in quietness and determination to stand by the right, and demand that right before the If we are not living under the reign ef law.

we can at least be annul of living under the reign of proclamations, tempered with tin bayonet, and seasoned with an infu sion of Gatlin guns. proclamation from Mr. Percy Bysshe Shelley Pinchbeck was the last up to about an near ago. Another may be impending, or may have already been launched before' the completion of this sentence. Mr.

Percy Bysshe Shelley Pinchbeck Phodbus, what a name to fill the sounding nrump 01 prociamatory clangor will nave it, and will tolerate no denial, that he is the anointed and consecrated Mum bo Jumbo of the disjointed political situation. He will have it, and will take no denial, that things must be righted up under ma incentive auspices, ox that other wtoe chaos must come again. The throat, it strikes us, Is rather late, coming, indeed, after the event. For greater chaos than we have now it might puzzle even the most fertile Radical ingenuity to contrive. Howbeit, if the Mississippi River were the Bio Grande, we could not doubt the real authorship of such a proommslion, persuaded aa we would be that Gen.

Cortina had crossed over in a night raid to surprise a peaceful population with a pronunciamiento aecianng uss inexorable purpose to set affairs in order after the Mexican border bandit fashion. And the right of the Mexican bandit chief would be iust as legitimate as that asserted by Mr. jrinchbac. Some years ago, girls on skates con ststated the advanced guard of torn boyiamin the fashionable society of New York city and its vicinity. But padptea is the order ef the day, and THflililliiii the motto with female Skates are already logydom, and voted are now the Tfriatt SChiettAuuiit is in that line of fpjteftical gymnastics.

So that in Beeekryn, the city of churches, it nothing uncommon, on any bright morning, to see a crowd of girls, from eight to fourteen years of age, mounted on stilts and striding about te the mamma or netaer eoenidow. at elevation a little lower than the steeples. Truly, they are of the We had the pleasure of a call yesterday mornins from Mr. G. Warren Lewis.

the East Texas Herald, published at oekett. Houston eounty Mr. Lewis stopping at the City Hotel, and will remain in New Orleans for a few days. The Jaefflttoa of the Plsay job r'pediatMsotty. THE CAUSE OF THE PEOPLE.

us sneak plainly to our readers to day. Let us define the position of this people as we understand it. Let us ask of them who do we wora ior i And let us answer the question as we know the answer will come from the aching hearts of the oppressed and down trodden. Fellow citizens, you must realize fully and unequivocally that your every effort is for the general salvation that you have no master whose hand you must lick because he has offered you a crust no servant whom you must reward because he has done his duty. You must rise far above the groveling acknowledgment of a sense of obligation to an Executive who proposes to fulfill the obligations of hie high office.

You must place your interests only in the scale with justice and right never In the scale with any man's personal ambition. You must realize that you are hundreds of thousands and that he with ambition is but one man. You must realize that your acts, your exertions, affect the happiness of millions yet unborn that if these acts are all for the general welfare, your and their happiness is the fruit that if those acts are to insure the gratification of one man's ambition, you and they are cursed as a consequence. The clog that has hung around your necks, retarding you at every step, has been the impression produced in influential quarters, as well as upon some of the people themselves, that the struggle we are passing through is for Warmoth on the one side and Kellogg on the other that the people had subordinated every other consideration to the gratification of a man, or that they had come to estimate the strength of a man as greater than their own. Bad men, on both sides, in our midst, have worked for the consummation of the boundless ambition of these men, because it would pay to thus work.

Corrupt presses on both sides have helped in the diabolical work. The Times has spared no pains to force Warmoth down your throats the Republican papers have sat at the footstool and licked the feet of Kellogg; and we, the people, have been, and are accused of sacrificing State to either or both of these men. Can there be a viler slander if it be asserted a more unfortunate circumstance if believed Rise, then, in your majesty and let the world see that your work is for yourselves, that all the Warmoths and Kelloggs on earth (and happily there are few) cannot sink you into the muddy pools of their ambition that you have higher aims, higher duties, and a higher determination that you struggle for law and order for justice and right, and will thus continue to struggle until the bayonet prevents. You are now sending a large committee of your most honorable and influential men to Washington to appeal for law and order, justice and right. It is meet that the world shall know that in this interest only do they go there, and not to elevate or pull down any ambitious man on our soil.

THE 8ITUATI0N. When the case of Kellogg vs. Warmoth and others was first carried before the United States Court, we felt that the gravest of issues had come upon this people. We were shocked to find that there was a means through which designing politicians could attempt to stab a sovereign State in its moat vital part, and we gave expression to our abhorrence of the act. But we counseled our people to be calm and self possessed not to fly to pieces under a useless and even dangerous excitement bordering on frenzy itself.

We were sure we saw blunders being committed where blundering was unpardonable; we felt that it was the result of the cruel subordination of the great interests of a people to those of a few; and we felt that the burden that was threatened to be imposed would require all our energies to resist, without the self imposition of more. We wanted our people to feel truly and thoroughly that thrice armed is he who hath his quarrel' just" And to day we feel more satisfied with our course. A great, a damning wrong has been heaped upon a long suffering people a wrong which nothing but brute force can sustain, and it behooves that people to calmly and persistently resist it by every peaceable means at their control. If Mr. Kellogg knows any one thing connected with this election business, be certainly knows that the Board which has declared the body now sitting at Mechanics' Institute the Legislature of Louisiana, had not, and has not, any official data on which to base its return.

Before the world, then, the act of declaration of that body as the choice of this people, as legally elected, is a fraud; and its fixation on the body politic can only be by the violence which has thus far sustained it. A clear consequence, then, is that if Mr. Kellogg becomes Governor under the acts of this utterly illegal body, he, too, will rule through force while proclaiming for the purity of the ballot! But lot us still hope that the majesty of State law will yet assert itself to confound those who have come here to smother it up for selfish uses. Let us nrhamsl every effort to avert the calamity of calamities the ovarahadowinfF infliunM at flFtiWiiil power. A legitimate, an intelligent effort in this direc tion, is the organization yesterday of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana in the City Hall building.

Therein is the echo of the late expression of the popular will; therein is same hope for law and order therein are soundings on to which a long tossed ship of State may cast an anchor hopefully. From the deep, dark, raging sea which seethes and boils at Mechanics' Institute, but one hollow voice comes up to grate upon the ear of a long tortured people and that voice cries, wreck, ruin and eternal woe RETURNS WITHOUT WARRANT OP LAW. The unblushing audacity with which Messrs. Lynch, Longstreet, Hawkins and Bovee have certified to and published swift assertions in the name of election returns, is one of the latest and most melancholy proofs of the corruption and demoralization of the times. These men acted under a State law.

All their authority was derived from this law. They took their oath to faithfully observe and carry out this State law, and their returns pretend to have been made under the State law. But every important feature of the law was disregarded. The only returns they had any right to canvass were returns sworn to by the State Supervisors and sent to the Governor, as provided by sections 53 and 54 of act 1870. The act reads The Governor shall at such meeting open, in the presence of said returning officers the statements of the Supervisors of Registration, and the said returning officers shall, from said statements, canvass and compile the returns of the election in duplicate." The only returns that can be canvassed, therefore, are the returns made by the State Supervisors of Registration.

Did Lynch, Longstreet and Hawkins have any such returns in their possession? They did not. Were they authorized to count any ballots not counted and sworn to by the commissioners of each poll and by the Supervisor of Registration They were not. Their duties are clearly defined by sections 54 and 55 of the Act of 1870, and no authority for their extraordinary course can be found in the law. And yet these men have dared to certify that their statement is a correct compilation of the votes cast. At the time they made their statement, they knew it was not a correct compilation of the votes cast.

Marshal Packard, in his Washington telegram, states that these voracious Returning Officers counted the affidavits sent in by the United States supervisors that they considered every affidavit, without knowing whether it was true or false. In doing this unwarranted thing, these honorable Returning Officers disregarded the law which they had sworn to faithfully observe and carry out. Section 16 of the law under which they acted expressly prohibits any person from voting in this State who had not been duly registered as a qualified voter in acoordace with law." Sections 23,54 and 55 expressly confine the returns to the ballots in the ballot box. How then could these compilers of votes say that affidavits made who knows where, and who knows how that certain makers of cross marks who refused registration, were votes cast These sworn returning officers, in utter disregard of their oaths and the law, have compiled thousands of votes that were not cast, and have refused to compile other thousands that were cast. They have thrown out entire polls, according to their own arbitrary pleasure.

The election law of 1870, vile as it is, does not sanction any such conduct as this. They could not throw out any poll unless it was on the sworn statement of the Supervisor, Assistant Supervisor, or commissioner of election based on the affidavits of three or more citizens, that a fair an? peaceable election had been prevented at that poll on account of riot, tumult, acts of violence, intimidation, armed disturbance, bribery, or corrupt influ These, according to sections twenty nine and fifty, are the only grounds on which the vote of any poll can be refused, to be counted. They cannot consider any cause except what have been enumerated in the statute, that is, riot, tumult, acts of violence, intimidation, armed disturbance, bribery or con put influences. If, after a fair and full investigation, the said returning officers shall be convinced that said riot, tumult, acts of violence, intimidation, armed disturbance, bribery or corrupt influence did materially interfere with the purity and freedom of election at such poll or voting place, or did prevent a sufficient number of the qualified electors thereat from registering or voting to materially change the result of the election, then the said returning officers shall not compile the statement of the votes of such poll or voting place but shall exclude it from their returns." The law allows votes to be excluded in certain contingencies; bat in no event does it allow votes to be counted that have not been cast. And' votes of these polls can only be excluded when the supervisor or commissioner of election has made a based on the affl that a fair i the ground or bribery, or of violence, or tumult, But Messrs.

Lyncl dence before them, because they h1 no legal returns to canvass and compile. As State officers, acting under a State law, they could not legally canvass or compile returns made by United States Supervisors. Nor could they under the State law exclude or receive any votes on evidence furnished by officers of the United States. How, then, can Messrs. Lynch, Longstreet, Hawkins and Bovee, truthfully and honestly say their statement is a correct compilation of the votes cast, when they have counted votes that were never cast, and have wrongfully excluded others that were cast? These returning officers have deliberately made themselves parties to an infamous conspiracy to defraud the people of Lonsiana of their dearest rights, and have published to the world over their own certificates a most stupendous falsehood.

AMUSEMENTS. St. Charles Thkatke. The per Maggl. ability.

lualities, as the nightly i he performance kot the 1 juggling by the seeing one thing too long. Varieties Theatre. To night Mr. Pygmalion and Galatea," and should not be leglected by playgoers. Entertainment Postponed.

The ionctrt to be given by M'Ue Srabenrauch, at Minerva HaU, la postponed to Monday evening The Coming Show. P. T. Bamum las been Justly named the prince of showmen, ind hlBrepuUtloii in that respect ia aa wide as eets a clever talent In an amusing line, there is Board and Lodging. Attention is I card of Mrs.

M. A. Revely. The ST. MICHAEL'S FAIR.

(Approved by French Physicians.) sale by QrEYHOl'ZB BOI8, orner of BlenylUe and Old Levee streets. LAURENT LACAB8 AGNE, on the opposite side of the street. No. 7 tf lm HUGH MCCLOSKET. DOUBLE SPIRAL OOGS, sat METAL JOURNAL CASINGS, no voice instantly exclaims, Barn am should here it!" A cosmopolitan.

In the rounds of his do no In ion, discovers a curiosity in the wilds of the to him." It is thus Mr. Barnum has become a focal centre to which Is attracted everything essential to a first class exhibition. No wonder then, that he baa gained the distinctive title accorded him. or that his show, which win appear In this city on the 18th far excels any other ever offeied to the patronage of the The Strakosch Concerts. There was a Urge sale of seats for the Patti Mario concerts yesterday at Gmnewald'a The sale win oontinne to day, and we would advise our citizens who intend going to make early application DECEMBER 12, 7 P.

M. Daring the Fair contest for a Vine Horse and Buggy will take place at the Hibernian Table, among the follow Major W. H. Manning, George Smith, John McPhelin. George W.

Byrne, Esq. B. Gal Tin, Esq. Thomas O'Keef Jr. Br a8T.MlCHAEI8 TABLE, By Mrs.

J. Lincoln, Mrs. J. Eealy, and Mrs. Aaaurrairrs: Misses Kent, Galvin, Creagh and Bosnian.

STAB TABLE, By Mrs. Donegan. assisted by Miss Bums and ROBERT E. LEE TABLE, By Mrs. Thompson, assisted by Mrs.

Quirk, SHAMROCK TABLE, By Mrs. Camber, assisted by Miss Broderlok and other young ladles. THE SCHOOL TABLE, By Mies J. Warner, assisted by Misses A. Bonis and M.

Bnnls, Mrs. Molrey, and Misses M. Spence, R. Macfee and Sablna Clark. ERIN GO BRAGH TABLE, By Miss M.

Haggerty and Miss K. Murphy. Misses Tobin, Kelly, Rogers and Oolgan. MARRIED. WM.

H. McQOITHY. AU I good standing are respectful Secy. ty, on Thursday. December The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend bis funeral This (Friday) After noon, at 2 o'clock, from the corner of Constance, and Deiord streets.

dEUsabet GRACE On Wednesday, 1 Jobbing done wi th dUpaich Prompt andper Orders' leftet shopTor BecSS MvSSSS Exchange, corner St Charles and ravier streets, promptly attended to, and all orders addressed plainly and put In the city post office boxes will SHKISTMAM Republished in oonsequenee Aprons, Alpacas, 'A Collars, Cuffs Corsets, Camisoles, Exquisite Embroideries, Empress Cloths, Boo Fans, Fan, Flannels. Fancy Fixings, Handkerchiefs, Hoops, Hosiery, Honey Coml Initial Infants' wear, Imitation Laces, Josles, Jackets, Jeans, Japanese Iks, Kureheedt St King's Standard Trimmings, Knit Seeds, Lovely Laces, linen Sets, Lin Collars, Linens. theirs. Mourning Goods. Opera Cloaks, Opera Cloths, Opera Kids, Opera Pantys, Piques, Purses, Parasols, Velvets, Val Laoes, Val Collars, i Wallet, Woolens, Wlgons plalted, Window Fa Xeulsite Holiday Presents, Xtremely Cheap.

Zebra Scarfs, Zlg Zag Braids, Zepb.yr.fc pleasure is to purchase your presents previous te the paucity that is sure to prevail in a short Prepare yourself, then, with plethoric purses prominently proclaimed and pre eminently prepared to present to purchasers plans for parting with a portion of their "plenty" or pin money," plaee where Holiday Presents" for everybody, ont Grandpa to the Baby, are for sale extremely cheap. ia adpit LOUISIANA JOCKEY CLUB. FALL MEETING, 18T3. heats, three best In five, fc FOB CLUB PURSES MADB AT THE JUDGES' STAND INSURANCE. LOUISIANA EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Chartered by the State of Louisiana. Quilts in Quantities, Quick sales. Ribbons, Runnings, Reps, Repellents, silks. Satins, Sateens, Scarfs, Sacques, Trimmings, Towels. Tweeds, Twills, Tameees, Umbrellas, Under Vests, Under Sleeves, Undc yen will then be bap pp py.

NOTE, As a favor to oar friends, we will state that BRABELMAN A ADAMS'S CASH HOUSE, Through BUls ef Lading given to all psinTs, via Cairo, AT THE LOWEST BATES, on first class steamers, leaving daily at 5 P. M. No detention on account of ice or low water. Oeueral Agent. dlO lmKAM2dp 26 CsrondeletJ street.

NY BLACK SILKS. succeeding the nUclpated induced Mr. Brown, my heavily in BLACK dispone of the surplus. these goods at their notice of the following accordingly: sra surplus," but for GOODS, SHAWLS. CLOAKS, lave been reduced from former KREEGBR, FURS, dIS lt2dp JUST RECEIVED FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, TEN THOUSAND NOVELTIES LADIES' ORNAMENTAL CLOTHING, Consisting of every variety of 31 LK SCARFS and FICHUBS for the neci i the Richest and most Choice Colorings.

of the above Goods are bought low and wi accordingly. KREEGBR, Carpet and rtain Warehouse Importer and Dealer, Whole OS, of aU kinds and quanta White, Checkered and Cocoa SHADES. Table and Plant Furniture Stuffs, BrocateUes, Cotalinee and Terries. Plain and Striped, Worsted and Silk Furniture Covers, Cretones, Gimps, Fringes, da 7t2d'p PTH YBAB contains above VOLUMES of READING added as received. Bound volumes of the Magazines regularly adoed and the newest Publications from the London, Paris, New York, Boston, lttbbaby ckntreh.

Our FRENCH DEPARTMENT will always sgt tmadpeuWedAFri ELEIN A undersigned isnow prepared following very low rates, vis: contained in each boat's WHOLESALE AGENTS. CANTRELL St COCHRANE' RARE SH IDE MAES, IT Tchou pitoulas Street, LOUISIANA MUTUAL INSURANCE profits in CASH with parties in. Insure Fire, Marine and River Risks, at heir marine losses, either in New Orleans fork, Liverpool, London, Havre, Paris a Joseph Beyle. CLOSTKRMANN BAYLE, FRENCH, ENGLISH and GERMAN GOODS. TION TRADE, and defying aU competition from the fact that one of the partners is constantly in Europe, thereby enabling the house JOHN S.

DUNHAM'S GEO. W. TAIT A IMPERIAL SALOON, Sumptuous Lunch set dally, from half past HOUSE DISEASE. Dr. C.

F. BROWN'S YOUNG AMERICAN LINIMENT, A sure cure for the HORSE EPIDEMIC, it baa For sale by WHXRLOCK. FXNLAY W. B. SBAtTDCK CO, mmmmrn earwet NEW YORK.

SIOHT AND TIME BILLS BUS If ''LA MATEESELLE." CHILDREN'S ENDOWMENT AND 1 DENCE ASSOCIATION, children and i i. apply at the office ef J. CAVAROC, I MAH AAS K. F. MIOTON.

WH.TE, DANli JAB. D. EDWa ail, 24, and its Freat street, 31 13, S3 and 37 Delta street, COPPER, BRASS, IRON and SHEET WORK, of every descriptfc ALso of the Best and moot Improved STEAM TRAINS ft and hg1 OH Onpa; Sheel panders. Steam Syphon Pumps, Well sad tern Pumps, Drove Well Pumps aad pta nod Water Gauges, Copper Sagar Balances, Sheet Lead, niwlm Brass Tubes, Iron Wire Cloth, 1 gal Wire Cloth, Copper, Brass aa Agents for WROUGHT IRON PI PE, for Steam, IRON FITTINGS FOR PIPR, all suss. WEBSTER COMBINATION WRJtNCH, Which we are prepared to furnish at.

New Teal prices, either by the single Wrench, at bya Sole Agents for the CAMERON SPECIAL 8TKA1I WTaTjO Adapted for the use of Sugar Heusr Betas Breweries, Steam boats, steamships eat Baf roads, etc. We are selling these Pumps at tat manufacturers' prices in New York, sansaa freight, etc. Bole Agentefer the AMERICAN BOLT COMPANY. Manufacturers of Machine Bolts, Nuts, Waav ere, Wood Screws, Bridge Bolts, Bolt Ends, eta. We can supply dealers, In quantities, at a We also have the agency ef ROOT'S PORTABLE FORGE, tor Boilermaker ant SPENCER'S TUBE CLEANERS and FLUI i BRUSHES.

BROWN'S PATENT STOP VALVES, tor Water Works, etc This Valve gives a (Brest The' TUBULAR BARROW AND TBUCX MANUFACTURING COMPANY. These Baa rows are made of metal, the frames and handlea of tubing and the braces, tray and wheel ef wrought iron. They combine great strong, durability and lightness, gad apeciauy adaptsi We are prepared to famish these Barron ta only to delude purchasers into buying the i worthless Extinguisher. We are also Agents for the '1 ABHTOt PATENT and RICHARD SO It PA TENT LOCK UP SAFETY VALVES The COLUMBIA STEAM REGISTER 150 CI. W.

W. GOOD YN, this line. IsSOLE HICKS A WELKERS'8 PATENT A CUT OFF, for Cisterns, to which the aaas ttj builders is spedany invited. mn 11 BOST1CK SEYMOUR HARDWARE, METALS, IRON, FTTEfJ STOVES, TTJTWABE, THfNEBSf STOtEffl mwmm enTBoUerlTonj Galvanised BassteS MeteL Sheet Copper. Pig Lead and For Graff A Go's a TS5Rew England MaaTtfaotexhsg Liisnjaajj.