The Telegraph-Bulletin du lieu suivant : Monroe, Louisiana • 2

MISCELLANEOUS. The Supreme Court Judges. florae ffnlkim. An Absurdity. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in this Slate, otherwise than for the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.

Art. 5, Constitution of 1879. Its (the government) only legitimate end is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty and' property. When it assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression. Art.

1, Constitution of 1879. From those extracts it would appear that a citizen of Louisiana would have the right to choose his own calling and pursue it where he pleased and just as long as he pleased. Mr. Parlange, a State Senator, thinks differently and has introduced a bill in the Louisiana Legislature making it a penalty for enticing laborers or servants, or to employ servants of others, etc. It is wrong for laborers to contract debts under a promise of pay by service and then abandon their creditor.

It is equally wrong in the creditor to permit indebtedness. If he does he must protect himself in the Courts as other creditors. It is hardly possible for such an absurd measure to pass or be approved if it should. Slavery has been constitutionally disposed of, peonage has no legal standing and imprisonment for debt is a memory of the past. The End of Immigration.

London Saturday Review. The idea is now ingrained in the American mind that the one great desideratum is an increase of population. This idea will survive the circumstances which gave it birth, and then the Americans will awaken to a sense of improvidence that is now taking no thought of the morrow. It may be objected that the time is far distant when the population will be too large, and when, therefore, the growth of population may threaten the institutions of the country with danger. But is it so? As we have already pointed out, iu another eight years the population of the United States will probably nearly equal the populations of France and the United Kingdom added together; while in another ten years, if the rate of growth is maintained, the population of the United States will probably equal that of Russia, and, unless some great disaster occurs to check the rate of growth, in another fifty years it will have reached an enormous magnitude.

Already the population is dense in parts of the older Eastern States. And when it is borne in mind that the system of cultivation tends to exhaust 3he soil, while, also, as we have said, the desire to increase the population is an overmastering one in the American mind, it is highly probable that the dangers attendant upon overpopulation will come sooner than is now anticipated, especially if the competition or other raw material producing countries should increase very rapidly, and should threaten American supremacy in the Euiopean markets. Nor is it only the United States that have to dread this difficulty. European populations are multiplying in confidence that emigration is always available for those who can not live at home. But what will be the consequence when the United States are closed to the intended emigrant? Vennors Predictions.

Vennors Weather Bulletin for May. Out of the 13 long-range and general predictions which I have given forth and caused to be published in the leading newspapers of the day, and in my yearly almanacs between the years 1875 and 1882, only two have been seriously out or astray witli respect to the summer season. This statement is not an empty assertion, but on the contrary, one that is capable of proof. For the verification of these predictions does not lie in my own translation of them, but in each case has been gathered from the telegraphic reports of the day, and just as these have appeared iu the daily journals in which the predictions were first published. Having said this much on bygone forecasts 1 desire now briefly to give a short, but comprehensive outline of what, in mj' humble opinion, are likely to be the most remarkable features of the summer and autumn of the year 1882 First A season that will well merit the designation of cool to cold and wet generally.

Not that there will not be terms of snmmer warmth and even intense heat for periods, but rather that these last will appear in the retrospect as of but comparative insignificance, or as the exceptions to the general rule. Second.1 The season will be marked by not only great precipitation, but by a mugginess of atmosphere gener-ally, caused by the reeking condition of the earth and the long continuance of clouded sky. This will result in periods of extreme sultryness and heavy weather, during which the thunder and hail-storms will occur. In other words, the summer will bo the reverse of clear and dry. Third There is a likelihood of June and August frosts in Northern.

Western and Southern sections, and a general cold wave may occur toward midsummer. Fourth The autumn months will continue moist. September will probably give rains and floods in Western Canada and in western and southern sections of the United States. October will be much the same, with early cold and snow falls. November will begiu the winter of 1882-83 a winter likely to be memorable on account of its exceptionabiy heavy snow-falls and very cold weather over the whole Northern hemisphere.

That a cold and wet summer is invariably followed by a cold and stormy winter, is a truth now. so well proven and borne out by the testimony of past records that we can not lightly' put it aside; and if we have good and sufficient grounds for predicting the former as we most assuredly have at this time it is but right that we should warn the people of the latter in good season. Fifth and last The approaching season will probably be the first of a couple of wet summers, and as 1882 is so is 1883 likely to be. But here we must stop for the present. Henry G.

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LIPPINCOTT Booksellers, Stationers and Printers, 1 1 5 and 7 17 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press thus describes the Supreme Court: What a jolly old set! There was the Chief ustice, with his gray Lair, thick and stiff, and whiskers jusi the same, a big nose and a big mouth, wrapped iu bis black silk gown, but looking very much like a Chief Justice. On his right, oldest in commission of any one on the bench, is Justice Miller, round and fat and 64, a little blad and eloselv-shaven face. On the bench be is as cross as a hatchet, for he hates circumlocution and shams; but off the bench he is as jolly and kind and gentle as any man you ever saw. On the Chief Justices left, is Justice Field, appointed as a Republican, but now a pesky old Democrat.

He is tall, baldheaded, spectacled, full-bearded, with a Jewish cut cf of countenance. Smart he is too, as all the Fields are. He writes strong oppinions and is popular. He is a most entertaining companion and a great traveler and scholar. Justice Bradley is the next in point of rank a thin, refined, eloselyshaven, grayhaired, scholarly, judicially looking old gentleman, who doesnt seem to have much to say to any one.

ustice Harlan, fourth in rank (excepting, of course, the Chief Justice) is a specimen Kentuckian --a giant in his way. Big body, big head, big bands, big feet, long legs, long arms and long beaded, without a doubt. He is at least six feet six inches in height. Judge Harlan was a strong acquisition to the bench, and is popiv lar on the bench and off. Chew tobacco, did you say well 1 should think so, and he knows a glass of Bourbon when he tastes it.

There is cot much known of Justice Woods He is a grizzly, slouching man, whose personal bearing and appearance are not at all striking. Justice Stanley Mathews is self-poised, dignified and fine looking. He is quiet in his intercourse, and does not seem to care to extend Ins acquaintance. Justice Gray is a tall, peppery old bachelor, who snaps up everybody, and had rather quarrel than win a cause. When lie first came on the bench here lie was nearly killed with heavy eating and drink, but that time is over.

As the old judges are very tenacious of the rights of seniors, he is not like-to be popular. Justice Blatchford, the last appointment, looks like George W. Cliilds, and is, therefore, clean, genial, affable, well dressed and kindly natured else looks do not count. Troubled Tensas. New Orleans States.

Mr. James S. Matthews, clerk of the Tensas district court, and Mr. E. C.

Saxe, who have been stopping at the St. Charles Hotel, upon be in asked as to the present condition of their parish and prospects after the overflow, said that two-thirds of the parish are now out of water, and peo-pie are busy planting, and will coir tinue to do so until about the first of June. The prospects of course de-pend upon contingencies. As there were twelve breaks in the levee along the parish front the amount of planting will depend in a great measure upon what water they get at the present rise. The acreage is already decreased at least one-third and will probably be lessened yet by the second rise.

The gentlemen concluded by remarking that if Tensas made one-half as much cotton as it did last year, it would do all that is expected. St. Joseph has been five feet under water, but is now dry but the outlook for business is not any too brilliant. James Vick, the famous seedsman of Rochester, who was a playmate of Charles Dickens and set type beside norace Greeley, died on the 16th inst. of pneumonia.

Seven steamers landed 7741 emigrants at Castle Garden, New York, on the 15th inst. MARKET REPORT. Corrected weekly by A. G. Breard.

Monroe, May 23, 1882. GROCERIES. Flour OOiWlO 00 Sugar 1012 tee 12io ea Molasses 751 00 Lard, tierce 15; keg 10 Corn meal 5 03 Pork 22 00 Pork, d. Bacon, c. 13 lbuus grain, etc.

Corn 20 1 37 Bran 1 75 Hay, ton 33 00 MISCELL VNKOUS. Starch 1820 Lime a 50 Cement 3 754 (X) Nai's 5o5 50 1 4 rjct 50 8hot, sac 03 Powder, lb Jo COTTON. Good ordinary Low middling jj Middling Good middling New Orleans, May 23, IS82. Good ordinary jjv "-11 Middling jo Good middling WHL. T.

ATKINS, Editor. WM. H. GAYLE, Proprietor. MONROE, MAY 24, 1882.

The State Debt. The spirited discussion of the best way to pay the State debt is really amusing. The treasury is empty, State warrants ranging from 40 to 83 cents, and one-third of the arable land under water and exempt from taxation until December, 1883. What can there be on hand in the near future to meet any engagement? Why not tell the creditors frankly that the State will not be able to pay them anything until the government shall rebuild the levees aud hold the Mississippi in its place; until Providence shall bless the people with good crops and a paying price and until that Beard of Equalization is established with a capacity to expand a six mills tax into a fifteen mills revenue? All those things are possible. They arc grounds for hope.

They may be deferred we expect they will be. We pity the creditors, for it will make their hearts sick. But it is our opinion, and we believe time verify it, that the child now in the cradle will mature and decline with this same old debt hanging over him Star Route Cases. The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia returned a new batch of presentments on the 20th inst. against Thomas J.

Brady and other Star thieves. The first present ments were dismissed by the Court after a trial of the motion to quash the second are to be dismissed at the request of the United States attorney, and the third will, we presume, go where the woodbine twineth in due course of time. The lawyers are too distinguished and the mistakes are too frequent to stand together. There is too much fuss for so little wool, Mr. Dorsey can be called and not answer.

Col. Ingersoll can ask it as a favor that Mr. Dorsey may be called again, and can excuse it by saying that he knows that Mr. Dorsey has been in the city for ten days. The Judge orders Mr.

Dorsey to be called again. The Marshal obeys and Mr. Dorsey rises in the courtroom and creates a seusation by am swering here. It may all be per fectly sincere and consistent with the course of procedure in Washington city, but it does not look so, and if Mr. Brady and his associates are finally discharged with the thanks of the court we shall express no surprise and feel no disappointment.

Tbo Caucus. It has become a custom for the members of political parties in deliberative bodies to come together, exchange views and agree upon a line of conduct. Dispatch of business is assured and valuable time is utilized No party man can be injured by it as no one acts for himself, but for the party of which he claims to be a part. If a majority is opposed to his way of thinking it becomes his duty to submit. Mr.

Ducketts resolution, that all measures relative to legislation be decided in caucus, was altogether proper and in accordance with usage. The heated discussion to which it gave rise and its final defeat by a vote of 48 to 32, on a motion to ad. journ without day, shows want of unanimity in the Louisiana Legislature and excites apprehensions that the time will bo frittered away as formerly in a family quarrel for no other purpose than to defeat needful aud urgent measures. An agreement has been closed between Col. John Scott and E.

R. Dangers, manager, and the authorities of the city of Shreveport and Bossier parish, to add a wagon and foot bridge to the railroad bridge to be constructed over Red river at that point for the Vicksburg, Shreveport aud Pacific Railway. Ethics teaches that if you do a favor forget it, if you receive a favor remember it. Is it not about reversed in the affairs of life nowadays A Legislature ought to be an assemblage of wise men. Ought to be and is, what a difference A.

F. Wilde, chief of the United States secret service at New Orleans, on the 16th day of March last, shot and killed A. A. Weeks, a 13-year old boy accidentally, so it was claimed, and was a few days since acquit-ed. The testimony went to show that young Weeks, together with two or three other children, were amusing themselves on the banquet at the time of the shooting, and this fellow Wilde, who must be excediugly wild and reckless, had the audacity to stand up before the jury and confess that he was only amusing himself by firing bis pistol.

When persons amuse themselves by their promiscuous indulgence in a favorite sport, distance indeed lends enchantment to the view and a brick wall between also offei'3 enchantment well as security. The Nashville Conference, having decided to elect five new Bishops, an election was had on the 16th, and resulted in the choice of Rev. A. W. Wilson of Maryland Rev.

Linus Parker of Louisiana; Rev. A. G. Ilavgood of North Carolina Rev. J.

C. Granbcrry of Virginia; Rev. R. K. Hargrove of Alabama.

The Rev. Mr. Haygood declined the honor conferred and the conference resolved not to fill the place. The other four wore ordained on the 18th inst. West Side Itemlets.

BY PLEASANT RIDERIIOOD. Spring poems and vegetables are considerably chilled by these cool mornings. Its a pity winter couldnt find something better to do than hanging round, here all the year, lingering in the lap of May. Tn the spring the young mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts of fishing. (Tennyson improved and corrected.) And when he doesnt get a bite in the Shinny lie catches a dollars worth of perch at the fish-boat.

In spring the housekeepers fancy lightly turns to thoughts of dusting and fussing and scrubbing and beating carpets, and the most miserable object on earth is the average man during a jolly spring cleaning. lie loafs around from one disordered room to another, with hands in pockets and unshod tears in his eyes, and longs for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some desert isle in mid-ocean, where women and scrubbing brushes are not, where soap suds cannot enter nor brooms torment. The other day a west side gentleman, being inspired by the beauty of bis surroundings, the green trees, the smiling flowers and the sparkling river (and by the huckleberry pie he had for dinner) gazed abstraetedh-at the blue 6ky, and began a sentimental apostrophe to the season. He had just got as far as Hail, glorious Spring! hail, ethereal May, rosebud month of the year, hail, hail, when his very much better half screamed: Youd better come split up some kiudling and make a fire, instead of standing out there hollering for it to hail! Ills inuse took wing and he took an ax. Domestic Aspects of tlie Tariff.

Speech by Sunset Oox.j The little girl cannot play with her doll, nor the hoy with his top, nor the mother wash her offspring with soap, except at an expense of from one-third to one-half of the cost for the domestic privilege. Laughter. If the mother gives her child castor oil. she pours down 148 per cent, ad valorem, laughter if the child does not enjoy' the dose, there is a 15 per cent, bowl as the recipient of the contents of its tender stomach. And though she wash it with nitre and take to it much soap, yet the enquiry is marked before me, saith tbe Lord, for the soap is taxed 40 per centum God help the child! Mr.

Townsend, of Illinois How about candy? Mr. Cox, of New York lam coming to that in a moment, my honey. Great laughter. if she wraps the little dear in a plain bleached cotton night shirt, it has a nightmare of cents per square yard specific. Laughter.

When the child awakes iu the morning fretful, she combs its little bead at 35 cents advalorem, laughter if she would amuse it, she rolls it over a Brussels carpet at 90 cents per square yard, or gives it confectionery made of refined sugar at 4 cents a pound tax, and 25 per cent, advalorem if it tears its little pantalets, the gentlemen from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelley) sews them up with spool thread taxed at three-quarters of its value. Laughter. Why, if she used a shingle to bring the little toddling wee thing to its senses, as the honorable gentleman can recall, tbe cost would be enhanced at the rate of 17 per cent, taxation. Laughter.

If the youngster lias a patriot inclination on our Fourth of July, his fire-crackers are taxed as a patriotic luxury at 1 extra a box, aud the bunting which furnishes the flag, though but 23 cents a pound, 121 per cent extra, while the band plays on instruments taxed at 30 cents. She takes him to the menfgerie to study natural There is the zebra, symbolic of a mixed advalorem and specific, (laughter, and the stately giraffe, high protection, the royal tiger, and unicorn of Iloiy Writ at 20 per cent. And the procession of elephants! Everyone 20 per cent. True, Jumbo, for purposes not to be mentioned, is excluded by the affidavit of a consistent protectionist! but the chain that holds his huge legs binds the monster is protective chains Laughter. 1 The London Iron Journal says: There are many articles in which several countries are a long way ahead of us.

An example is to be found in the superiority of the tools which are now so largely imported into this country from America, and which, while remarkable for their quality and finish, are much less costly than those of English production. Said Brown: The day I married I quite chewing tobacco, and I tell you it was pretty bard on me that day but the next day I was all right agaiu. Ah! hows that? ell, the next day I commenced chewing again. Jay Gould is president of 10,000 miles of railroad. Facts and Fancies.

They say that Memphis will celebrate Mardi Gras next year on a grand scale. The Chalmers-Lyneli district in Mississippi winds in and out along the river 500 miles. Millions of grasshoppers are working on the young corn in Williamson County. Tennessee. The peach crop is all right, and the only fear of Delaware peach-growers is that the yield will be too great to be profitable.

A negro woman is in jail at Selma, awaiting trial on a charge of literally chopping her child to pieces with a sytlie blade. Wisconsin claims a baby with six arms. Tennyson had probably heard of this curiosity when he wrote his song: Hands all round. There are many rooms in Mr. W.

H. Vanderbilts new Fifth avenue house which have cost from 30,000 to 40,000 each for frescoing alone. Congressman Calkins, of Indiana, has introduced bill for another arctic expedition. We are in favor of the bill, on condition that Mr. Calkins will go with the expedition.

The widow of a man killed by the cars while iu an intoxicated condition has obtained damages amounting to 2,800 from three saloon-keepers in Elgin, who had sold her husband liquor. It has been decided by the Probate Court that the erasures which occur in the will of Henry W. Longfellow are to be considered as uo part of that instrument, and the interlineations are of no effect. This view is based upon the principle that the man who makes a will can only alter it by a codicil. For many years, the charge has been thrown in our teeth, that the summary operations of Judge Lynch have been almost entirely confined to the Southern Slates.

But this reproach can no longer be used against us. According to the Memphis Avalanche, the Judges heavy docket is now north of Mason aud Dixons line. Since January last, he has executed sixteen criminals in the Southern Stales, nineteen in the Northern States, and six in the tier States. 1 1.