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C710 A-3ý. RACIAL) TIE WORLD IS G-OVERBNED TOO UoCH- . (PTISE VOL. 311 ALEXANDRIA; LA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1876. N.37. The Democrat. 'i'if 1)E11 \r)C Ii y i~t pa\,lished Wee~!k ly, at "'.t;!L I)DOL.rAwS4 per annnn T''o I) ILIA"S %NI) FNIFTY UihNTS for *ji Ic.lth+, I' AY A Tl IN AD VA N G' N o suhqscription taken for I 1e+: IeriocI than six months. ADpr TIipiTF:VT inserted at the rate of OE Da)tt.T tI p)er sqjnare for the firat jjierti.' anflf FIrrr CENTS for each miuaqWieie t one. ElGTrr lines or leas, (RIIErVER) consti tute a sq :larC. Oirru.ºaY Notices, Mnrriages, Pnblic msetings, Cards of Tlhuanuks, etc., to Ue paid for asi advertisemients. t-t pRdnv.ºr. C..tuts, wrhen admis #Ihle, ch: rV.I uloduble the usual adver tjeiut. rut'". MISCELLANEOUS. 32 4. E?.TB T 0R Y. Parish, J011N O911OAt'i,.......D)istrict Jntdge Il L. I) IItREF,..........Parish Jndge W. C. . c0llP*[YEPY,......Parish Att'y LEVI VELLS, ....... Clerk of Court 1. C. PAUIT L, ................ .Sherift W. H. .IMONS -i,............Recorler H. g'. BuuttGaS,..Assessor & Collector Police .JIrnrs: JAIIES R. ANDEWS,... ..President J. A. WILLTAMIS, A. It. C. 1)E "N, HI. F. LAMIIRIGIIT, J.1. II. SORRELL. H. M. t. \1.LT... ...Clerk Police Jury J . I.BIIE'T,....1Prish Treasurer Town. EDI)UARl) WEIL,............Mayor' ('Crunc ilnicn: J. ;a)r'T) IF,........First Wnrd E. It. liiit'4 \T,.......S.cud Wiardl M. lH{ENTFIl.1, ......Third Ward M. L'! i ............Poirth Ward W. W. Wiirrroivro'a.,..Fifth WVard T1'. (': 1\\'!,Y... '1 irtsh: Ill anu l CoIlletor A. 111,L I ._..C"o nitr''ller and See'ry I~t. 'I I" ': ...............Tresurer 1). P. 9 I'\ W`FORDti) ..... Whartinger 1 /ý I JE WVELEIRS -DEALEIS IN Gll. PIlII1 DII Cfl!IID6ll. CUTLERY & NOTIONS1. and 2:A G2<OY OOD AGENTS FOR Singer ! TVileon ! EBuool.-eye ! SWING 'ACH:NES. R. G-. M AlDDOX GENERAL Commission and Forwarding MERCHANT -and dlhip ping Agent UPPER WAREHOUSE, ALEXANDRIA, LA. COTTON, SUGAR, MdOLASSES ANTi General Merchandlze of all kind stored HENRY FORENAN, FASHIONABLE BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Jackson Street D)ETWUFIP3 * Second aid Third. W /ORI IN MY VYline executed with NEATNESS and DISPATCH. TERMS - CASH!i & V ALLELY, GENERAL COLLECTOR : ALEXANDRIA, LA. DAILY REPORTS MADE WHEN RE. r...,quired. Returns as soon as col MISCELLANEOUS. P. H. OSWALD FRONT T - Between MURRAY and JOHNSTON. Old stand of Jas. W. Osborn, WHOLESALE and RETAIL DEALER IN DRY GOODS. -and FAMIL GROCERIE8!I -also ILANTATIDN SII'IIES Wines and Liq nors - home madle and ilmpor ted; HIardlware, Tin wAre, Crockeryware and Que ns ware. TOBACCO of all kinds and gradles. Hats, Boots Shoes, Slippers. Hosiery, a complete assortment. Gents' Furnishing Goolds, etc. CROP AlDVANXCES made to good and working men. BAG GIN( and TIES. W Cotton, Hides, Wax, Tallow, Peltries-old iron, copper and brass purchased at HIGHEST imarket RATES and for CASH. He keeps a full and well selected stock for the Planter, Farmer, Laborer - and - CHEAP FOR CASH! ECLIPSE STABLE! TELS, T.IYLOR, - - - Proprietor cn:uSF:R O ''illRI) and I)KSOTIO STREETS, ALIXANI)RIA, LA. C[ARIRRIAGER, B lUlGGIES and HIORSES TO LET. HORSES KEPT by the DAY, WEEK, MONTH The STABLE is the TLARGEST and MOS'T COMFORTABLE in the STATE. 7Pnrticunlar attention paid to HORSES left on KEEP, or for SALE. To Drovers! SPLENDID MULE PENS Will rent STALLS by DAY or WEEK FOR HORSES HORSES, CARRIAGES, BUGGIES and HARNESS AZ .IY A 1 on HAsVX) FO9i? 28.LE SAM'S - and - B ~A.R R~tOO 1W 5 CORNER OF SECOND 4J- DE SOTO STS. ALEXANDRIA. * THIS IS TO INFORM MY FRIENDS L. Iand the public generally, that I haYe op ned, on DeSoto street, a FIRST-CLASS /BOARDING HOUSE, where hoard cat be had by the DAY, I WEEK or MONTH, on the MOST REA SONABLE TERMS. MEALS served at all hours of the DAY or NIGHT. f7 Attached to the Boarding Rouse, is b BAR BOOM, where the choicest WINES, LIQU9RS and CIGARS! can ALWAYS be found. E Don't forget JACK, at SAM'S old Stand. March 1-ly. SAM FELLOWS. 1Moeoses Rosenthal DEALAR IN DR Y GOODS, GROCERIES, HOSIEPRY, HARDW ARE, OUTLERY, ETO., FRONT ST., A. B . PINIUST' OLD STAND, ALLEAMDRI AL, LA. MISCELLANEOUS. SEEND TO D HENRY ST, JOHN FOR T C 0 STOCK of GARDEN SEEI)D- C FRESH and RELIABLE, from the BEST GROWERS on the American Continent. I CAN S SUPPLY DEALERS ON GOOD TERMS. S 11 1,OOKHIT 7: FOR OLD SEEDS. THERE IS A LARGE STOCK OF THEM IN KANSAS CITY, BURLINGTON, QUINCY, CHICAGO, CINCINNA TI' and' other places, which WILL BE FMCWED on the SOUTHERN t MARKET1 THIS SPRING. BUY YOURISEED FROM RELIABLE DEALERS and OLD ESTABLISH ED HIOUSES - IIHENRY ST. JOHN. Feb. 9, 1876. DO YOU WANT' -TO DO ANY PAINTING? -IF SO TIl C nii S ITII I1 1 ITI! READY MIXED PAINTS [In 1 pound cans, all ready for use. SBLWACK', 1 IIITE, GREEJN, SLATE, r DR.'1B, RED. F)l SAt E Y HENRY ST. JOHN.i fly 'Spar iand Girardey.! TILE "TEXADA" PLANTATION, IN THE PAliIl!I OF RAP IDES. IN THE MATTER OF TILE BANK RUPTCY OF THE BANK OF AMERICA. United States District Court of Ameri ca for the District of Louisi aua.-No. 1511. Y PLACIDE J. SPEAR AND C. E. GIRARDEY, AUCTIONEERS TIIURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1876, at 12 o'clock MI., at the Merchants' and Ano tioners' Exchange, on Royal, between Canal and Customhouse streets, in the City, of New Odeaner -will be sold at public auction, by and in pursuance to a decree from tihe Hon. E. C. Billings, S Judge of tme United States Disrnict Court for the District of Louisiana, dated March 25, 1876, and rendered in time above entitled matter, the following ' described property, to-wit: 4. A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND, together with the buildings and in provements thereon, known as time Texada Plantation, in the Parish of . Rapides, containing about 800) acres of land frontimng on the northern bank of Boyou Rapides, bounded above by the IHope plantation or lands belonging to the lite Mrs. Rosanna Henderson, or assigns, and in thq rear by government or public lands. s Terms and conditions for the Texa~a plantation-One-third cash, and time residue of the purchase payable in, one and two yeals, the deferred payments to be represented by notes of equal amounts bearing interest at eight per cent per annum from date till paid, wiulh special mortgage on the property sold and vendor's lien, time clause of S five p t#4es for attorney's fees ii case ' Ormdicmal proceedings for time recovery oI1ayment of said note or any portion thereof. m, The taxes ofI876,-payable in 1877, on all the above properties to be paid t, by the purchasers over and above the L- price of adjudication, it Acts of sale before Theodule Buisson, as notary public, as tbe expease of the purchasers. April 5-tds. ThW1LO. Mc OTntyre. SOUTHWRSTErE 1 Iiis llriII iITII!lli UIIlCY AGENT POR THE GINCINNATIHIPE FOUNDRY CINCINNATI, OHIO. AGENT FOR Doiglas' Celebrated Boek, Job & News Printing TIks, Guaranteed to beauperior to any other Ink made, nef seTld at the same price. ' Office-No. 12 Commercial Place oetical. DARK BELOW, BUT LIGHT ABOVE. 13i` A. F. P. Through the mists of shadows dreary, O'er the dark and stormy. sea, Came a voice of heavenly music, Floating through the gloom to me; "'Twas a voice of wondrous sweetness, Bringing words of, hope and love, Whispering to mny troubled spirit, "Dark below, but light above." Often when life's shadows gather Round my weary, troubled soul, Comes thatiQlice of 1lgel music,, Whispering, I am near the goal. Telling me in softened murmurs, Bringing words of hope and love, Saying to my doubting spirit, "Dark below, but light above." Soon I'll near those golden portals, Soon I'll cross life's troubled sea, Whence that voice of music floating, Came and whisperedl hope to me. Then in Ileaven's.own liglht voioaxvn, In that Sunlight of God's love, Shall I find that saying TItrUTFOL, "Dark below, but LIGHT ABOVE." Stales flights. h UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ON t ROME RULE. h a "No' lltical dreamer was ever c wild cnohgh to- think of breaking h down the lines 'which separate the i States and of compounding the Ame rican people iptoone common mass," was a declaration which Chief Jus tice ](arshall would scarce!y have s made had he lived to the present t day, and been cognizant of the Con- t gressional legislation of the past ten a years. He believed, with the fra- v mers of the Federal Constitution and a other statesmen of the day, that the r, recognition and protection of the re- ( served rights of the States was abso-f Ittely essential to the preservation r and perpetuation of our republican , institutions and the Union, Of late years, however, through f the teachings of extremists North I and South, many unthinking Repuhi licans have come to take a diametri t (ally opposite view. They undrler-t Istand "State rights" to be svynony mous with "thie right of secession" an1d iinimcal to the union of the t States. Federal legisl:ation for the last ten years has tended steadily to- t ward the obliteration of Stnte lines i and the centralization of rower in the t SGeneral Government, iand the cor- t ruption now daily exposed is but the natural and inevitable result. The , opinion of the Supreme Court, there fore, in the Louisiana and Kentucky cases, coming, 'as it does, at a time, when public attention is mote par ticularly directed towards govern- t mental affairs, must be productive of I great good. .By reverting to funda mental principles and to ancient landmarks it destroys the fallacious and centralizing theories of later years, and lays before the people in tclear, plain and concise language a correct and authoritative exposition of the respective rights and duties of the State and Federal Government. Chief Justice Waite's opinion is im portant, not from novelty of doc ,trine, for that is as old as the Gov - ernment itself, but because of the f tendency it will have to eradicate the f false notions that have latterly been f implanted in the minds of the people Sby the Republican leaders, to the peo r ple's detriment and the imminent t danger of our free institutions.-[N: a Y. World. e ONE ACRE BETTER THAN TWO.-It Sis better to raise one hundred bush r elsa of corn on 'one acre of ground , than fifty. The yield could be don ' bled on nearly every acre of ground iid cultivation in the West. What is r wanted is deeper plowing and better preparation of the soil, and more tho rough after cultivation. This skim Iming over the ground is one of the Sgreat evils of Western farming. Plow deep and then 'cross-plow deep, e and you prepare fobd ahd moisture for the plahts, and enable them to - resist'the'droughts, atd make them laugh and tlfrive and bear abundant ly. Many farmers plow but a few I inches deep and get small yields. They have so much ground to 'work r that none of it is well worked. Bet I ter by far to caltivate only half as much and cultivate it better and get far more than bjr the slip-shed sys tem of farming too 'generally follow ed. It is better to thin out the plants and kee'oftbli te weeds, and -S cultivate fifty acres as they should be cultivated than to give a "lick and a promise" to abundred acres. It is tr better to harvest the same' yield off of one acre than togo over two acres for it. This isierfime that our rca te ders should think of the~e matters. -tColema's Bural. 1How Billings Was Appointcd. The whole country was shocked A vhen the President appointed E. C. Billings United States District Fudge for the District of Louisiana, and disgusted when the Senate con armed the scandalous appointment. K The infamous character of Billings Sof vas well known in every State of the Union, and his connection with Dn-. rell and his participation in that tl worthy's great crime against Louisi- D ana were honsehold stories. It was difficult to-understand the shameful r action of the President in making t such an appointment, and there were s4 whisperings abroad of corrupt influ- p enccs having been used. Col. Gee. t Williamson, the present Minister to Central America, and the Republican in Louisiana who most commands a the confidence and respect of the people, was an applicant for the va- s cant District Judgeship. He visited the President in Washington, and on his return to New Orleans, and sub sequently to his home in Caddo, he fold his friends here and there that " his nppointment was assured. We d are aware of the fact that while in Shreveport he was daily anticipating his appointment. Instead of Wil lianimson however, the President gave us Billings; and the reason of it, un intelligible then, is very clear now. Billings was appointed at the in- e stigation of a riong organized to ob- i tain his appointuent, the chief mem bers of which were West, Babcock and Porter. While the appointment v was pending and when it was gener ally believed that Williamson would receive it, Billings approached Jim Casqy and pro'posed to put up forty five thousand dlollars for the appoint went. His proposition was that Ca sey should receive fifteen thousand dollars; West a like sum, and that fftceen thousand should be divided between Babcock andl Porter; in con sideration for this money the qunar tette were to influence the President to make the appointment and tile Scnate to confirm it. The investiga tion business was just then being talked about, and. Casey, irresolute hlinsel f, submitted the proposition a to Babcock and Porter. This pair immediately jumped at the proposi tion; but Casey hesitated still, and they parted without coming to an understanding. At one o'clock that night Babcock and Porter, eager to engage in the dirty business, visited Casey at' his room, and vehemently urged him to close the conmpact with Billings for the $45,000, affirming that they were certain they could have the appointment made. Casey, however, finally declined to have anything to do with the matter. He told tbphem he had a good thing in New Orleans and did not care to run the risk of engaging in so unsafe a business. Nevertheless the appoint ment was subsequently made, and there can be no doubt that it was paid for, and that it was obtained by a ring of which Babcock, West and Porter were the leading spirits. Whether the whole sum of $45,000 was given to Babcock, West and Porter, or whether Casey's refusal to be a party to the transaction saved Billings fifteen thousand dollars, our information is not thorough enough to enable us to state. But all the facts of the case can be made per fectly clear and satisfactory to a com mittee of investigation, as the evi dence is at hand. There is not the shadow of a doubt that the purpose of the President was to -appoint Williamson to the District Judgeship, and that Billings bought 4ip tue President's favorite fov $45,O00 or some other large sum. Corrobastive of our statement is the fact that, while the appointmedt of Durell's successor was still in doubt a prominent conservative Republican member of the New Orleans bar ap proached bne of the leaders of the party here to solicit his influence in olbainingthe appointment, and the Radical cqiqf very candidly told him that his chances for obtaining the judgeship depended entirely upon how much money he was able or will ing to put up on it. The remarkable statement we have made in this article is, beyond sues tion literally true and it can and will I be established to the satisfaction - of I any honest committee appointed to I investigate the matter, The evi i dence can be had,and it is unexcep ' tional.-]N. O. Democrat. --THE estate of the late Frank P. [Blair, ji-., i valued at $500. Eloquent Appeal, th - of A DENUNCIATION OF THE RETURNING re BOARD AND A RALLY TO In THE PEOPLE. P th At a mass meeting of the citizens F of Jackson Parish, Honorable E. E. th Kidd, the eloquent Representative .i of that Parish, made an exhaustive a speech, reviewing the action of the R late Legislature, and concluded with P the following strong appeal to the sr Democracy to rally for the approach- N ing fight: He said that there was no doubt cl that the failure of the General As g sembly to abolish the Returning tl Board had caused much despondency m throughout the State. When hlie had tl told the people that this was wrong, i, and that the Returning Board would It not be in the way, he had been an r swered with the old proverb, "What tl has bcen dclone may be done again." w But this saying, hlie said, referred to n, virtuous action, and not to deeds of t( tyrants. It was by continual acts of al wrong and oppression that tyrants d laid the foundation for their own o destruction. g, The last Returning Board went too o far; its moral support, based upon I loud declarations *ofan unfair and n intimidating election on the part of g the Conservatives, was knocked high- li er than a kite by the Wheeler com- t! mittee. The terrible satire pro- tl nounced upon it by the reversing I decision of that committee had seal- r ed its doom. Captain Kidd said a with emphasis: "Let no Democrat ac cept aposition1 on that board," let the C infamy die with the infamous. All t we have to do is to go to work and c honestly carry the election, as we can r do, and there will be no fears for the c ultimate results. Above everything, b we must avoid lujke warmness and v despondency; no man ever yet ac- a cormplishlied anything who began with p a desponding heart. Only weak v minds look upon the future through t a dark veil. When the sun goes I -down, still let us gaze upon the c heavens where God 'writes light and I hope in characters of blazing dia- I inonds; and if clouds obscure these, r remember that clouds do pass away. e He said: Fellow-citizens, I have seen I it sonlewhere stated that far towards I the Nortbern pole there is a spot so a elevated that upon its lofty summit c the sun never sets, while all else is t Iwrapped in gloom eternal sunshine rplays around its towering height. c Whether or not this be a physical fact, yet how grand and suggestive I Sis the thought? To those who dwell in the low plains of despair the sun of Louisiana's prosperity has already I eceased to shine, but for those who occupy hopes sublime and elevated, that sun still brightly glows, and by the help of the blessed God it shall never go down. We must not de nspair. Home, family, friends, the children who cling around us asking, may be, for bread, everything, reli , gion itself, demands that in the com ing campaign we shall make one O grand, one last and desperate strug r gle to regain the liberty we have lost I -the liberty that enables freemen elsewhere in the land of Washington Sto live under the government of b their choice. From this day forth, e let every one of us, old and young, swear by the memories of the past, by the blood of the fathers' that we, too, will be free. When we behold this high determination throughout the State; when we know our breth rt en are thus fired for the fight; then we can gladly shout Cease Louisiana, cease to sigh, 5 For thy redemption draweth nigh. e And when the battle is over; when it i. has been bravely fought and honestly *e won, as it will be; then no Returning )f Board, though backed by hell itself, >t can alter the result. ,- The Burial Question in England. eC - a The question of the rights of dead Ie Dissenters in the church-yards of m England is as much a speciality with ie that worthy Welsh member, Mr. Os r, borne Morgan, as the ballot was with Li- the historian Grote, and afterward with Mr. Berkeley, of Bristol. The re grievance he seeks to mend is real, a.. though some prosaic people are in ill clined to look upon it as a sentimen of tal one. Dissenters, as you are to aware, have the right to bury their ri-.dead in the.church yards of the es P- tablishment. The theory being that the Church is for all the people, p. whether they agree with its doctrine or not. it nkituraly fodlows that where there is but one church-yard subject of whatever faith have the right to repose in it. But the Church of Eng land has long imposed, abd still im poses, a very odious condition - upon this right. A Methodist' tar Inde pendent may, indeed, be buried Ia the church=yard; buit if he' i'sa bb ried, it must be with thei reguar IChuirch of 'England services. the Rector of the Parish, in short, muast perform the ceremonies of the laest sad rite at the altar and At the graik1. Now the Dissenters do not find this soothing to their consciences. They claim that with the right of burial goes that of the religious form; and they seek for a law which, will poier. mit their own ministers to attend I their own dead and consign them to Simmortality after their own fashion. i It would seem to be 'a very simple matter of justice; but' he who thinks that any question of public policy whatever is simple in England does Snot know the country. It is a mat f ter of fact that so far Parliament has f absolutely refused to grant the right B desired by the Dissenters; and the ' other day Mr. Osborne Morgan's bill securing it was rejected ini the House Sof Commons by a vote of 279' to 248. 3 In vain was it shown that in very I many boroughs therewas but a sin f gle church-yard, that of the estab. - lishment; that in many cases of - these there was' ample room for al Sthe dead of, the borough; that. the g Dissenters in' many cases absolutely -refuse ,to have their dead buried I with the Church ritual. In vain was it pointed-out that the e Church claims to be Nationial,. thats II the lands of the chirch-yhrds is d comnmon parish property, and the n right of interruent in it not one con e ceded by the Church, but san'tioner , by law. Even the'Premier, usually dI very quick to see when his followers -are niskig atmisitake, and not less h prompt in turning the tide th other ki way, chose to look on Mr. Morgan's h bill as an attack uipon the connection a between Church and State Oialn e obseirvers can not fall, on. the, other d band, to see that the measure, if L- passed, would strengtlihn rather than a, weaken the Church. Now it exer c. cises an arrogant and odious power n in th 'matter, t-ereby disgusting all Is people who respect equality of rights o and a spirit of fair pray: Truly says it one of the papers that ''the. eal peril s to our State Church ies within, not e without her bulwarks;" but 'a refusal t. of justice to those beyond her pale. ti only serves to ihake them' the indi .e rect and unwilling allies of the foes: 11 whose shelter is in her sanctuaries, n -[London Correspondence Boston y Post. -WHEN J. P. Benjamin and Chan. dler were in the Senate together, the llformer, in one of his speeches, quot ed Edmund Burke. Chandler did not like the sentiment, and, as he was just recovering from one of his habit ual attacks of vertigo, he rose in his place and deetared that Burke never utter'ed such ah spinion. Benjamin smiled and nothiTihbre, ti rpeet s ed the sentidi~eutl. itnllor idr* again, and 'lurid wft~i~fage, desidnued >n the sentiment again 'as will zi T11ho of orator, and said he 'had krown Ed hmdhd Burke for many ears, and' - that he'never uttered the language. g attributed to him. But when told , that Bejiiamin was quoting the great Id English statesman and not the New Ut IIanipshlire politician, Chlindler wan h led to the cloak room by a page, and there remained until his.,nerves were quieted. One other incident, whicit is quite as appropriate as the above, was as follows: One Sunday, when it Grant was a captain and stationed at ly Detroit, he was passing In Jefferson' cg Avenue with two or three bottles tied if, up in an old bandanna (probably medicine from the barracks,) and at the particular moment when he was passing a certain church the congre gation suddenly made its exit, the ad effect of which was to startle the of coming President so that h& droppqd .th his bottles, and, as the medicelo spread itself over. the sidewalk, the th young captain marched straight Lrd ahead and looked as digpiged as an 'he ofieer on drill parade. The biuz of - al, hilarity which followed can be imag in- ined.-[Baltimore Gazette. en are -WHrc the Turkish census-tak der ers go about they don't ionimt women es- at all, They put down -ailot of ci hat phers, and let it goa t that. Ple' -Thu foilowiag.is a ne rendi 'ineation: "Cry havoc d lst. -4,alip that ere Secretary of W}a-'.