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E. R. BIOSSAT .............. EDITOR OFFICE--CORNER OF SECOND AND ELLIOT STS. Our Agents. Thomas Mcintyre,....... New Orleans J. Curtis Waldo,........ " " S. M. Pettengill & Co.,.....New York ALEXANDRIA. LA." Wednesday........Aoril 15. 1874. Ii' We rgcret to announce that our bully li;tle St. Mary has again lhad a8me nIl)elt,(:cas:!ll !e.A, in a Ilsilness point of view, and failed to come to time on Monday. Our other Packet, thie Lessio Taylor, i command ol'tWo vetei as, Jobn HtIo;n Pad Di-k Sin no.t. nit;) CIh;nlie Drown Torn. Dow ty and young Compere as cldi·rs, reached homne early Monday and goes down itneta-lly (his day at 1" Pi. W'ithont di:par,getenut to the perfect crow of thu Lessie, we must be ex cased for expressing the speci:al pleas ure of oar community, on once more casting eyes on good tld John Heinn again treading the hlrricanle ro of of s peerless a packet. Success to ode and all of the concern. W'As 'we hi;ted in our last, the Patrons of Hnsbnudry have organized a Grange in the land of Rapides. As a matter of record, of lasting good to our Parish we trust, of courtesy to our planters and our fair country women, the Democrat of its own volition and free will performs the pleasant task : J. H. Byneon, Worthy Master; T. Spence Snuih, Secletary; J. W. Pres cott, Worlthy Overseer; E. M. Wells, Worthy Steward; J. C. French, Asst. Steward; F. So;p, Lectnrer; Joseph Fellows, Clhpilain; D. W. Hynson, Keeper Onler Gate. Mrs. Fannie M. Wells, L:dly Assi. 1ieward; Mrs. Kate Hynson, Ceres; Miss Nellie Fellows, Flora; Mrs. Clara H. Flower, Pomona. 7F Alexandria, in a nautical point of view, presents the appearance of an other Venice. Old Red as placid and nearly as wide as Como's lake, is now whitened by the full rigged -sails of many a gay gondola, and the sports of the bold sailor boys are many and exciting. The little mosquito fleet composed of the Bibernian, Bernice, Black Cloud, Kate Henderson, "One Armed Lewis," Laura C. Singer, Fly ing Dutchman and the :Pineville flo tilla, are sufficient to give any one fun and frolic, and enjoy a life on the Ocean Ware. rccz~- wo-- -^~ 1 The Connecticut State election has resulted in the defeat of the Radi cal party, horse, foot and dragoon, and a genuine trinuplh of "dead democra cy." The whole State ticket, from Governor down is democratic, and the Legislature ablo, whi.ch insures a dem ocratic. U. 8. Senator, in place of Buck iugham, Radical. In Ohio and Indi ana the local elections have all gone overwhelnoingly the same way. r,' W. C. McGimpsey, a young, tal ented and worthy member of the Alex andria Bar has been commis.sioned as i)ist!ict Attorney Pro. Tern. for our Parish. We are pleased to make the announcement, and can't but thank Kellogg for this small tfavor. lie has the dead wood on its just now, being de facto, and in justice to ourselves and in behalf of our rights we must bow the cap to Gesler. r 'This, our Congressional District, as newly kangarooed, is composed of the following Pmaishes: Rapides, Ver non, Sabine, Natchitoches, Grant, WVinn, Red River, De Soto. Caddo, Bossier, Welbater and Bienville. Democratic plumb to tihe back bone if the Counting Board don't will it oth orwise. I7 We have rumore ofanotherchar -eteristic entute8 at irrepressible Col far, which goes to prove all we ;hbave believed and said of negro-radicalism in that fatal spot. When it reaches us in shape and particulars we will give the public the benefit of it. ' Shreveport is to have a taxed louxury in the shape of a $685,500 Par- I ish Jail. i The Same Old Tune. From the New Orleans "Iepublican, of the 5th, we copy the following por tion of an editorial under the heading of "The State Library," and do it to again convince our good people of Ra pides that on all and every occasion, with or without semblance of cause, a the shafts, malignant and poisoned, of the Official Journal are always darted at us, and. which is convincing proof that Radicalism is ever gln:ling over onr miiforl uiiies itl defiaming onr hn ored name atld ipast reword. ''lhl( allti cle t hidch t.enppend is silliitcnt proof to show the itiuIIutioS an1d iICle seil 1110-1 tives or Ihe lpar ty iii power.. Thi Eldi or coul hd not a,;y a lt:illto Int a fair vwon,'n, which ithe Dheiocriat with knightly g, halutry endorses, oil the oc e'sioii of her a!ppointmenl to an office, wl'ic; her worth and inatllige!nce must adorn, tIIn it needs (ii the helter for his ii.lio.ii't anl flemlnish aims, lihe mnuAl h'eoa-like deCsecral tide grave of ti,e dead. Poor anad good Hleury Bar low, who had not an enemy in Rlapides but himsell; must have turned over a hundted limes in his grave, wllhee this fouel calumny was uiced ;i agaiast a people who never harmed him. "The Ku-Kliis of Alexandiia doomed him to dealtl," says thie defamer, and to this the lie will be hissed iuno the cars of the monster by the widow of the la mented Judge: The appointment of Mrs. Barlow, a lady of worth and intelligence, as as sistant State librarian, not only reflects credit upon the tine discriminating pow ers of Mr. Deslonde, our unpretentious Secretary of State, but does honor to his head and heart. Mrs. Barlow is the widow of Judge B:arlow, a native of Louisiana, who, in 1868, lost his life in Alexandria in defending Republican priniilple's. Always devoted to the cause of the Union he finally became a Republicin, and for exercising the right of a hI'emian the Ku-Klux Denioc raw of Alexandrla doomed him to death, little caring what became of the widow antd orphain left to mourn his loss. Sinceo the death of her huisband Mrs. Barlow lids mhtlaitainedl herself and danghrer,:;lt interesting little girl about eleven years old, principally hy teach ing schiool. She vi-iied Washington hist winter a year ago, anl through her acquaintance with General SkLerman and other dlistingui hed men living there, was introdulced into the best dir cle of society, where her intelligencee Iand sprightly and accomplished man tiers won for hei the esteem and atten tion of all who came in contact with l her. RACE:s.-We are pleased to announce that Cullen 6 French, the encrgetic, tgd go-ahead lessees of the fine 1;ace Course, ol the Rapides Agricultural Fair Association, have inaugurated two good days' sports, which will take place as per progranime published else where. We are certain all true lovers of the turf and our people generally. will attend. and give countenance to this noble sport, proverbially acknowl edged to be old England's national in stitution. Much work, has been done and heavy expenses incurred to make the Race Track perfect and in com plete order, arit the present two daysn races are but the commencement of a series of entertainments apd pleasure ble sports already mapped out by the lessees and the directors of thie Asso elation., Ei In the proper place will be fonnd an official advertisement of the Ra pides Agricultural Fair Association. The pnblic will be gratified to learn that this well managed ad highly ben eficial Associatior,, is on the high-road to usefuluess anld snecess, and under] its newly elecied diectors gives full promise for euergetic conltintutuion .,f thie ell marked anOd defined llaia of its itst Grand "air. Aided and ably ansisted by its forer dirce.ioSy, as well as the l;ajority of its sharehold ers, to enhanuce the wellare and Inatiou al interests of the people of Upid) , will be its first and sole objects,, and1 we trust, sincerely and honestly, it will be smiled on as a slrictly home institution. i' The Stenoamer Selmna, a fine steamboat anl well offlered, is making weekly trips between New Orlean us and I Shreveport. Iler days and hoars of e departure will be ascertained on read ing her card in our to-day's issue. uI@ Judge A.A. Atocha, who was here with Banks on his first raid, has t been appointed by Ke!loggjudge of a new criminal Court, for New Orleans, I manufactured by the recent Kangaroo' t Legihlatute. Dashes. Here and There. -W We have reliable authority for - stating that the Memphis.lawyers 'are g so hard uip that they cannot afford even o paper collars any longer. -Still sotie cloudy mystery as re Sgairds the ousting of Snellings and Cs born from the Police Jury of our Par f ish-timo and Kelso's freaks must be waited for before we can further an nonuce any definite result in the to us important affair. -The Pacifics, the.bold fire boys of ou, Town, had their anneal election of Soficers, at their Head Quarters in the STown Hall, on th e' 6th inst. The following were the selections made : President, J. W. Osboro; Vice President, J. J. Petermao; Secretary, Moses Mayer; Treasu er, Moses lRosen thal; Foreman, W. S. Mltdg.; 1st Assis tant, J. A. Williams; 2d Assistant, Willie Leckie; Custodian, Paul Kaiser. -Agnin our friends of Caucasia have walked into the afllctions, without gauntlets, and sans cerenconie, of our Honorable Judge of this, the ninth ju dicial District, and have pulled out the documents on his honor, in tie shape of extracts fromn a Briefl'o a now M. C., by name Robert S Hale, the counsel of the United Slates before the mixed commission at VWashiungon. Pay E 5 of that nice -documnent a tale unfolds, which must bring some sort of tinge to almo.-t any cheek and-but it is not the Democrat's funeral! -=The weather and glorious "old Red," just at this particular tinme im portant institutions in our midst, have been as coquettish as a maiden of sweet seventeen and fila more stubborn. The first has smiled on us three full days with snnbeuns glittering and hopeful of better beha ior; then again old pluvins, on a clot t beeder, has drenched and flooded the ii hole face of the earth just as a s1,itefut drawback on all worki-g mankind Ieelo below. The second, al'eir (hllitig ten inches, as we announced in) our last, shot up on a new rise in answei to tlle Hlood, to the tune of full nine inches, and as we are striving to record this weekly status, it has receded again over 15. inches. Hard to keep pace with two such ratkes. -Our Ch'aieasiant friends have poked a mild thrust under the ribs of our Po4st Oflice htere, or eathler s it, is under the present reglite of Africa'a.sable so ion. Well, we ca,'t thake up our No" 2 .Fabe'. in behalf,.of the concern, and i waitu much in its defence, but think I some little palll..tion should be thrown in. for the Goveinment, shop. It has:1 been inaugurated since February 12th and take it all in all with the material at hand, they have maungedl fairly tail; received, opened and delivered the mails, and given as much forced satis tion as we poor fellows here have a right to expect from Uncle Stun's beef eaters. To this exlent and no further" does the Democrat say,: pretty well done for Africa! -The mail Contractors of Uncle Sam are well paid and very important per sonages, and more or less ate wheels within the wheels of the all potent ting of the reigning dynasty, and shou4d have > due justice done them. The Democrat ( has all the tinme meted out this virtue to tihe present Contractor from ntRed River. Landing to Shreveport, simply because hlie eminently deserved it and was all the time and on all occasions a up to timne and facing the music. lnt e to keep on the sa.me line ofjustice and I fair play, tihe Democtlt must now step I a sitle fiora the well beatlen tiack, an ol i pitch inl a mil woroid of complaint a ngai.ul iLlis same well munaged and deserving concelr, and still morVe mild ly Ipochiul thi, Lhetle is senlie screw loose, some hinge unttgreased of lite; in C a swold the tubciio tlure not ierved so well as thely hIave been zutd have some right in mai ing ns a medium of com plaint. Of late we only receive three mails am week, instead of l'six as due as, and several times hIas 0et third mail n ot the week been missing and the coach tIt ted up in tile Post Orice, fit~st, early, lively iand as empty as our vest pock- rI ets! With our tlends above us the b complaints are f~ir more loud and well I merited; they have received very little or no paper mails for six weeks, and it is asserted that this mail matter is ly ing around loose o'p all the line, be tween this and the Monuth of the riivter, and we knbw' several bags are well S stored in our warehouses, and have been lor over three weeks. ''This mat terl needs remedy and let the right ofti- p cials are to it and that at once. Sustain the, Sinking Siytelv Tr ,The flashes of excitement pro#luced b y the atmutants in e~tinary, use, are a fllowed 'by a reaetion. that is always more or less injurious. ,Jiist as the darkness, illuminated for a monu t by thy lightning's glare, becomes appar ently blacker then everr af the flash e is over, so the mental groom and phy sical debility that vanish temporarily s under the influence of a dram, return with a ten-fold intensity when the first transient effect ceases. Yet phy sicians habitually prescribe the liquors of commerce for patients suffering from bodily weakness and tiental despou dency. The trune remedy in such cases is a puie stimulant medicated with the finest tonics and alteratives which the Svegetable kingdom affords, and Hos - toeier's Stomach Bitters is the only preparation at present known which thoroughly meets the emergency. The effect of this popular restorative is contiuuous. Each dose taken invigo raies the vital .energies and the brain, and its prolonged use will unquestion ably coure any case of debility, bypo choudlia, or mental torpidity that does not ai ise Irom organic causes beyond f the teach of medicine. It is, in the strictest sense of the word, an invigo. iraiitig and regulating cordial. If the I nerves are tremulus and relaxed, it b, aces them ; if the bowels are consti pated, it relieves them; if the liver is torpid, it promotes activity in that or. gan ; if the mind is gloomy,' i clears away the clouds; if the aippetite is poor and digestion a slow and painful operation; it creates a relish for food and enables the stomach to convert it into hoeatalal ahlnent. Moreover, it t is a specj]ic for a large number of ali- a nienls, some of which are particularly prevalent in the damp and chilly weather which we so often experience in mid winter. Among these may be met'iioned iheumatism, chills and fle- I ver and all the morbid conditions of E t he digestive and secretive organ u s stipe.iidanced 'by sudden clhanges of iemperatuie and the inclemencies of the season. PAciric BALLr..-No sooner hiad o noble Padcifi Fire Boys re-organized for another year, than they, resolved to do the deceai thing andtrflpr;it on the light ;f,taic toe. A. glamnce at their card, amorig oriew naldvertisemieits o! th ii week, will.-sow plainly their good in Itentiont,and u('ase opr Town' to, be proud of hii-, their elder right arim of defence and protection. ° !"i7 The recent Jury, drawing in Rap ides, which we had occasion to inter view, in the. mildest- form possible, has i turned up all alonce to be a bart faced farce wh0ich everybody now believes n and ;knows and cries aloud against. o In fact open threats are now made that l we are to have no Jury in May. So o we go. 1: WThe Misissippi levees are breadl- e ing way and overflowing the whole l; country, thus bringing at ter ruin to an c already impoverished people. The La- t1 fourehe comutry, Bonnet Carre, Baton ' Rouge, Waterloo, BLyo Sa:ra, and GraLnt Levees have all given way and the whole of the earth is overflowed and under water. a ar Notre nra-i and aeccomplished Ton sorial Artist, Leon Dessius, whose flue . estlablishment is still at thle Exchange ' Iotelb , coltinues to be nmnarch of all t< he survei,F and withlout a rival serves a I his uumtrious clie;1ielle alfiter the most i approved fhshliou of thie luxnrious am t. P The Thespianll performance, to which we b iefly allnded last week, to p come off for the beuetit ol the Sisters I Mercy, is in full way of flattering pro gress, and due notice will be given of d the uighLt and the programme of the pieces. 'II.t. T. Burgess, our new Post o0 Ma.ter, reached here Monday, on the c Lessle Taylor, and we hope are thbls reaches our numerous readers, he will be fully installed and in perfect work inug harness. t liW Many tlanks, in the absence of our regular exchanges, for late New Orleans papers. to. the o8ficer, of the Selma, Lessie ''Taylor and Texas. st "'WDe wberries are plentiful and ri peunlg fast. The Democrat's brigade h ;are waiting for picking orders, IM Advertisement., ad - ALxAoniA, LA. Drw -tpril s I leag, pilase, the insertion of a lie or 6o i'n your columns, to assert nmy 'l right as an 'indivdual and a ci'izen, and to repel the aldacity anld4ibpertinence of one of the servants of the public, " whose during effrontery .nd des) ,a 1e y tyranny I can no longer toleriae. a For some time past, complaints have e been made, and expressions of dissatis. r- faction and contetnptlhave been uttered 's by several citizens against the shame. D ful misrule and general mnismanage. ment of the Public Schools of thlis Par. , 1h, espeti.:lly of the coloi'ed school i1 e t-'owl., and of the utter ins!gnileanee nand uiti;aeCs of the Teachler who now si:yles hiim-el ' ",Principal of the Alex q,urltit Sclihool," and I, among others, found occanion to deltain my childrel i, ontuthiat school, anid fthose of my si. -ei, 9 e9 whomn i1 tale 'the giardilin. ship, chooaing rather to send tlhei, to a ptivate school wher.their.morals mlight b, be Wesercved from contamination until - lbetiec stateof things eieted; and a t.ilhnge whs made-for the better in the a government of the Public School here. d It seems that on this'account the'Prin. P eiptp, (as he styles lhimself,) wvith others of his class, hasie een filt"t iti' ke thie e children thatwere so detained sind sent tto a, private school the butt of their _ malice and the targetat which to shoot theii venom and spite, and to make thriats of hiinderig teheir re-admiittnce ,lo the lchool. We cared notiiing-f6r sl tiese threats, h re i. itd e'ifit2, s ferent to repbots tntilla few days ago, 1 hen a lady teacher took charge of.the I girls of that school, .4I a child from t my house on beifi ' 6htf'there .,as re t mutided home with the tollowing 4tote addressed to her mother: ALEXANDRIA, LA., Public School, April the 2d, 1874.1 Mrs. Thiles--All children that have absenited or been taken away from this school for nimonths past and did not ap-. pea;, here a ,ie beginning of this year o,- terln has been by ine marked Absen t<rs a id tih ir places has been ill led Iatid as we have more th:an we can man ,'e we e .:ll not therefobre take any chil. drefn ai g$lslltat are iit ourt itt ,Roll, at!d frIaifttra has been iiwaV ~ohietiine her seat is filled and I wili not accept her. A. J. GRINSTEAD, P1rincipal Teacher Alexandria School. So wrote the Principal, Mr. Editor. I alm not very learnl-ed, antl therefore sh:ll nlot trouble ufyself in criticising the new Granluar which you will per Seive he ked in his note-the plural I ouns which ought to have bet i follow ed "be -l ail verbs, and tile uiserable t onsI mncion of selntences, nor the lark ofi pumi. iltlionll frotm lheghltuing t end. 'T'hese I leave to 'abler hands and- to the public generally to jItge ror the[!i sat eE of tihe competence of the "Prin tip*al: -ef- -..th i eaAedaiia School." I have only to say that he overleaped his bounds, and by that act committed a nli deinePinor, and otferud an insult and ole,)ce wh;ich I do not intend to over loot;. I have examined -the whole code oi I,:as for the regulation of Pnbliu ld't!u:,iion in Louisiana, and Icik.asea no at Iorhi, yt gvc o0 an"y teacher what ever to reluCe to admit a child to a Pub lie sthool. Oil tlie conitrary, l'begtto cLte Se-iion 45 of Laws of Louisiania, .ow iii force, for the organization ana s))il',ri of Public Education: '-Be i i'u! heCr enmeteIl, etc., Tihat auy Ollit e, Shool, Municipal, Parish or. 8i ,e, or aniv Tea'cher of any Pubhli 8vhiool, who .shall refuse to receive into anv sclooel anly c'hilhl between the ages os ix and twenty one yearn, who shll be l.t.wiuIly etstledl to admission into lie s.alec, and thaill comply with such' r'ale., .ilad regilhtionls :Is may be pre-: .enleud bhr ihe Board of School Direo. tor, anid(l 'thie Sae Board of Education " c-):l1 be deemed guilt.y of mnisdemeanor, a!d ,ijpoi) onl-ictiotn ihereof shallbhe lie e)o" -e4 ihaill one hundred uao llio , ';.i. iive Ilhntdied ldollars, aaid," i,ll't-iso-'lment id pe .eParish Jail for nal ; le.-, ,hamu otte mnon i nor mofrd'thaa4shx loulthls, and all such cause shall hai ip'eference beoe oilther c:iuriunal ciases it)O) tile docket bei'ore which it shj,:l be Ibroigl'i; miid : uelCht perron so offend-.. i)ag 5h:Ji tlllSO be liatble to an aetionl fto da:,nges by the parent or guardian :of the child so retuied." I sholl ther'efore tIake immediatestF' in tilia miter, for I, for one, am tfiri of ihc, ignorance that is governing tbe:: oiilaary, and of these domineering $ norin!luies under whose control ttit lf"li .1has:, unfortunately frsll sod am folly prepared to prove ,and ai- . teln every asserttlon I have herse wil Yours very truly, . -- - W.1, L 5 [L -R 2p" Mail ilnreM all of a auijlcqff stnle order of the day. High 'ifr the given excuse, but we can't: it ns a good and valid one, and a1 hold some one gm-ievonslv to bliliC. I More a lionU, -.