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The Democrat. H. t. BIOSSAT, ..............EDITOR OFFICE-CORNER OF SECOND & JACK~SON S'rs. Our Agents. ThomaR McTntyre........New Orleans J. Curtis VWahld......... " " S. M. Pettengill & Co......Noew York Geo. P. Rowell & Co.,..... " Rowell & Chesman,.....St. Louis, Mo ALEXANDRIA, LA." Wedmesday, - - April 4, 1877. -OUR citizens will have an oppor tunity afforded them on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights of this week, of making the Tour of Europe and visiting the Centennial Exhibi tion at a small expense of time and a nominal expenditure of money. Frost's Cosmorama, advertised in our columns, presents views of the principal cities of Europe, showing their notable buildings, palaces, works of art and other objects of in terest with a fidelity to life so great that one may readily imagine them selves viewing the veritable scenes from a height through a glass. It introduces one to the principal feat ures of the Great Exposition, shows them about the grounds, takes them in the buildings and makes them ac quainted with exhibits of special in terest, including many of the most famous pieces of statuary in the art gallery, which are shown in such clear relief, that one is lead to doubt the evidences of his senses and think he sees the marble before him. Al together the treat to the senses com bined with the instruction imparted by this entertainment, is such as to well merit a liberal patronage. --SAM of Sam's, though he runs two houses, has a speciality at his DeSoto street establishment, which is attracting special and deserved at tention. We mean his Restaurant and Boarding House, where the stranger, the wayfarer and the Town muck can get a square meal at all hours of the day and night. Sam is a good commissary and keeps his larder well supplied with all the lux sries of the season, and is receiving as an endorsement of his good man agement the lion's share of patron age here. -PACIFIc Fire Company No. I held their annual election on Monday night, for oftlcers. The fo:lowing was the result: President--J. M. Barrett, Vice-Presid~ent-Jonas Rosenthal, Treasurer-Moses Rosenthal, Secretary-Moses Mayer, Foreman-John J. Ferguson, let Assistant-Henry Heyman, 2nd Assistant-William Leckie, Custodian-William Rexer. -LroPOLD GEHR, Family Grocer, under the Town Hall, is not unmind ful of the mission he has assumed for a living, and constantly keeps his varied stock of eatables fully sup plied to meet the wants of a large number of customers. What you can't get from him in his line, can't be had here or purchased in New Orleans. -THa Oxford and Cambridge great rowing race, which occurred on the 25th ult., resulted in a dead-heat. The New York World told about it in an Extra, and laid a full account of it to the public, at 9 o'clock in the morning, New York time, thought it was rowed on the same morning at 8:30 London time. That beats our institution quite handily. -BAER h MANN, of which exten sive commercial establishment A. Heyman is chief manager, have ex tended their already large store some forty-five feet in depth by its full width, and have it already jammed and filled with a large, select and choice assortment of seasonable goods, wares and produce. -Wi were in for it again last week with avengeance; from Monday noon to Saturday evening without a mail, and of course no boat. We had the telegraphic institution to fall back on, but she, as usual, could not muster us a tick of news. These ills we can't care, hence we must endure them. -Ouu eating democracy is once more to the front, corniced off with a big turkey gobbler-and it came as our Easter gift from a valued and Democratic friend, and our gobbler, like our friend's democracy, will not bear discount. -Gov. Nicholls has appointed Pinchback a member of the State Board of Education. A good ap pointment, but long delayed. Keep it up now. -A rBozEr can of fresh oysters from a friend, and then fried a la Delmonico for an Easter breakfast, i.s urert, an.t ra. onplkstbl. btvalvy. PRECEDENTS. I The situation in Louisiana to-day differs in no important particular li from the Baxter-Brooks contest in P Arkansas, and the Coke-Davis con- Iti test in Texas in 1874, and if Mr. a Hayes is looking for precedents to ii support "Southern policy" be will a find them in the action of President fi Grant in those two eases. We ask tl now no more than the people of those States asked then and had li granted to them-"hands off." "An h open field and a fair fight." It will he remembered that in Arkansas e there was great danger of a real, live n civil war, for Brooks was supported g to some extent, and that Little Rock a was filled with the armed forces of 11 the rival claimants and that there a was an actual conflict in which men I were k;lledon both sides, and that f I all law and order in the State was at i an end, and chaos reigned supreme a for weeks. During all this time a Brooks, the radical claimant, wasd making frantic appeals to President s Grant for aid which was refused.I Just at this time the President hadt adopted a "Southern policy" of hist own, and to his credit be it said, he had the manhood to carry out thatE or any other policy after he hadA adopted it. About the same time the people of t Texas held an election and elected I -Richard Coke, Governor. The de- I B feated radical candidate - Davis re-4 2 fused to give up, got together an armed body of supporters and forti led the State House at Austin. The' t whole State was in an uproar and a t conflict was imminent. Both sides II were at the same time in armed oc It cupancy of different portions of the k capital building, the sentinel of one i" side was placed at the top and of the I- other at the bottom of the steps, and I the spiked cannon is now in front of o the building that was to inaugurate civil warin Texas. Davis was also during the whole of this time impor tuning President Grant for troops to support him and his government. As in the Arkansas case they were refused and both radical State Gov. ernments went down. Asthe result e of President Grant's Southern policy in those two States, the one is the most prosperous State in the Union sto day, and the other is second to snone of the others. Peaceand order are rigidly enforced, the rights of all classes are closely guarded, and happiness and content have taken the place of strife and discord. So it will be seen that the proposed 1 "Southern policy" of Hayes is no 4new thing, andthat while Grant may g not have obtained a patent for the invention he is even now entitled to file his caveat. Grant was man enough to carry out his policy, and when after that he had to deal with the Revolution in Louisiana of the 14th of September, 1874, he did not dilly-daily about that, but promptly put down the McEnery Government wrlich had followed the Arkansas and Texas precedents, whatever may have been his reasons for his change of policy. 3 Now all we ask of Mr. Hayes is to B keep oft his "boys in blue" and let us settle our little family difficulty with e the pretender Packard in our own u way. We don't care a fig for the t soldiers in New Orleans, and the two V war ships in the river if he will tell them to mind their own buainess and not interfere in any event. We pro pose this compromise to him and hisl Commission. Let them say that they will be umpires, and allow us three days to settle the dispute. If at the end of that time twenty.five men have been killed, and if there is a vestige of the Packard government left in the State, the White Leaguers and Bull.dozers (so callel) will en list in the Packard militia, and pledge their "lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor" to maintain his authority against all comers. --THE Washington correspondent I of the Baltimore Sun says that ex President Grant, in a late conversa * tion, remarked that "if he had not kept troops in South Carolina, Flori da and Louisiana the Democrats t would have had no trouble in secur y ing all of those States." This Is a a very candid admission on the part of e Mr. Grant. But it is, nevertheless, II a fact that the people have known it all along. Troops and Returning s Boards did the business; and now 'e the ex:President has the effrontery to insult the country by glorifying in the results of his dirty work. The same correspondent telegraphs that Grant "thought the appointment of a commission to go to Louisana was a very good thing, and he expressed ! the belief that the result of it would be the recognition of Packard."-. Very likely; he no doubt believes it dj will be 8 to 7 again. --ELrza PuisrTOx has been heard from-she is willing to compromise for a silk dress-some of our loyal chaps here stand on higher figures. --TH pea nut commission of Ru therfraud a Co, are is route for Pack ~.afd'se'Aer. .. LTING A8 A FINE ART. Packard bids fair to rival Kellogg E in the fine art of lying, and Billy Pitt was never known to tell the L truth, and for good, downright hon- ii eat lying, lying by wholesale and ly- a ing by retail, lying by detachments h and lying by detail, he has hereto ti fore been sui generis. It may be ii that Packaed has had so much to do o with Kellogg that he has become a e liar by absorbsion, as Prentiss said ti he gotdrunk from McNutt. We had c unbounded respect for Kellogg's tal- a ent for lying, and had built for him a n metal statue adorned with all the v graces of architecture, and it wasg our wont while in pensive moods to s lose all thought of worldly cares in h an enraptured contemplation of his t booked no'e which sot sentinel to so fine a mouth for lying. Our fancy 1' has lingered around every lineament t of that classic countenance, and our mind's fingers have played in loving c dalliance with the curly locks that surrounded that brain so prolific in suggesting lies to that facile mouth c that rolled big lies, huge lies, gigan-t tic lies like sugar-plums, around and Z ovor that oleaginous tongue that spat them out with such unction. As an adept Professor in the Fine Art of Lying, Kellogg was our model and no burly, thick lipped andrhi-t noceros skinned Packard shall take his place upon the pedestal with our consent. The occasion for these remarks is the recent proclamation of Packard, the pretender, in which he says that the Nicholls Government is only sup- . ported by the rich and aristocratic oligarchy in New Orleans, and his as Ssertion of his ability to call all the laborers from tile fields to the sup- i Sport of his bastard government. Jack Falstaff, the first professor of t the fine art of lying, with his "men Sin buckram" was but a tyro in the Sart beside Packard. He required some foundation to lie upon, but SPackard first lies the foundation into existence and then builds the super structure of lies. It is true that all the property holders and tax-payers, t not only in New Orleans, but in the rentire Sslat, do recognize and support the Nicholls government, but that they are the only ones is not the fact. SThe laboring classes whose animosi r ties he would arouse in his commu f nistic efforts are and recognize 1the fact that they are as much inter n ested in the maintainance of the Ni t cholls government as the rich, for 1the reason that theirliving and pros Sperity depend upon peace and order and an enforcement of the law, and Sthey know that the Nicholls govern Sment can alone give them these bles sings. When Mr. Packard threat I ens to get up a first class Commune I and wage an agrarian war against Scapital and property, he knows bet t ter than anyone else that he could not get five-hundred negroes to sup t port him in that scheme out of tile g whole State. In this Parish he poll r ed a vote of 1629, mostly colored. B We will give him any odds he may ask, and bet him that he cannot gel ~ the odd twenty nine to go to New * Orleans or even come to Alexandria with arms in their hands to support his government Apd not because p they are all cowards either, but be , cause they love peace and quiet, and I are ready to support the government that will give it to them without their - having to fight for it. Packard is a fraud as well as a liar, and no body I knows it better than himself. I -MosT of close thinking people here, who supported. and voted for the Nicholls ticket, begin to believe that the Legislature as well as the Executive, are and have been too cautious, and that this cautiousness borders on slowness. And further * they believe that we have fallen on a simple change of men and not measures. As an instance the sum of $115,000 has been appropriated for t the per diem and mileage of members - and surely that is an awful sum and smells of old time carpet-bag legisla t tion. We are frank to admit that there is too much truth in these just complaints, and hope our Legislature will yet cure these evils. Then again a is it not really inexcusable that they .f should not have long since elected a , United States Senator, instead of n balloting at least sixty times for ev g ery man claiming to be a "Conserva ~ tive" in the broad land of Louisiana. And yet again there has been too g much delay, too much policy and owl e wisdom in organizing the State Gov ,t ernment. Let us hope that from a this out the right blows will be dealt, a and that fu.ure ones will ripen into d solid success and ripe statesmanship; d never too late to get right. --THruR are said to be at least forty applicants for Collector of the Port of New Orleans. The number d is pretty fairly divided among the straight Republicans, assistant radi d cals, them fellows known as "Con servatives" and a few solid men of large and liberal views. A huge I- amount of pap-expectations are banked here on Eapides' groat COMMUINICATION. o EDITOR DaxoclaT- fl It is but natural that the people of S Louisiana should manifest exceeding d impatience at the delay in the settle- p ment of the Louisiana case. Every s hour of postponement subtracts from r the substance of an already impover- b ished people; it blights the growth tI of confidence, prostrates business, i checks enterprise, obstructs opera- p tions in town and country and ex. ( cueses idleness, while the anxiety and l1 suspense are hardly endurable. We I must remember, however, how much t we have at stake, how much we have r gained in the face of adverse circum- t stances, by courage and patience, and p how much more we are likely to gain ii by patience in holding firmly. Nor c should we forget how much we may a lose by rashness and hasty impa- I tience. It is certain that at the word I of command the Nicholls battalions r could storm the State House, and, in I a few minutes, wipe the Packard I Government with all ot its officers e out of existence, but it is equally cer E tain that the act would cost us the c Nicholls Government, and, indeed, I no one could tell how much else it i would cost us and cost the country. Yet, if it were attempted to set up Mr. Packard as Governor over us, the people of Louisiana would not count the cost, and would unhesita tingly prefer a state of actual war to the slow torture and legalized rob bery of the Packard Government. 1We should not allow our impatience make us lose sight of the main ob ject for which we have contended; nor should we sacrifice that object, now so nearly gained, in a fit of blind fury. It is well known that the Pres idential question was a matter of secondary importance as compared f with the State issues in the late cam a paign. The great and all-absorbing e question in Louisiana was that of lo Scal self-government-the right so t long denied, of electing our own offi cers and legislators, and the right to install them and keep them in office, 1 and the only real interest the people ' of this State had in the national con e test was whether or not a President t should be elected who would remove t Federal interference and guarantee to them the right to rule themselves. It is also well known that Mr. Tilden was the representative of the bond e holding, railroad and other interests which were adverse to the interests of Louisiana; and the Democratic r )platform, framed by Eastern and I- Northwestern Democrats with a spe r cial harshness and hostility toward d the South, received a necessary but reluctant support from the South. We had every reason to believe, from Mr. Hayes' absolute si:ence du e ring the canvass, and the Morton. t Blaine and Bob. Ingersoll style of conducting the Ceampaign, that in d spite of the noble sentiments in Mr. SHayes' letter of acceptance, Grant's e policy of hate and intolerance toward - the South, and Federal interference i. in State affairs, would be continued Y if Mr. Hayes were inaugurated. Our Smain oblject was to secure the State SGovernment and home rule by the a election of the Nicholls ticket. We t did elect Nicholls by a large majori e ty, but found ourselves confronted - with the trickeay and treachery of d our unscrspulous Returning Board, tI while the Presidential contest was it r self thrown into confusion and doubt a by the same agency in this State and V by similar Returning Boards and Canvassers in other States. In due time we inaugurated and established e the Nicholls Government in spite of r the pretended government of Mr. e Packard, set up in and confined to a S single building. The Nicholls Gov o ernment has now been in existence ' and active operation, over the whole ' State, for three months. It is per n feet and complete in all its parts. It is self sustaining and will be maio Stained at any and all hazards. It r will and must be maintained in its entirety without compromise or dis d honorable concession. Louisiana is Ssafe in trusting her affairs to the firm Lt and vigorous hand of Governor Ni t cholls. He has thus far, though be. e set by many dangers and and over n whelmed with a multitude of coun y sellors, acted upon his own sound ajudgment, stepping firmly forward in the constant entrance, day by day, Stoward the high ground of perma nent government and undivided con ' trol of the State. o This is the point we have aimed at r for many years. Give us home rule r and we may safely, in the present at n titude of the country, trust national t afairs to take care of themselves. o Give us our State government in all i of its parts, with the responsibility of the officers to the people who elec ted them, and confidence will come e back, our exhausted resources will .recuperate and prosperity will re. eturn. We tmust not forget how much iwe owe to President Hayes, and that .it is our duty to strengthen his fhand in the contest which he will have with his own party. We had no right to expect any aid from Mr. ' Hayes, but "a pleasure that comes it nalooked for is thrice welcome... t. Hayes ,broke hie long alenee only at his inaugural, and 'then, to the surprise of the country, he went further in friendship toward the South than Mr. Tilden could have b dared to do. He and his friends c promise local self-government to the e Southern States and.material aid in c rebuilding their waste places. He p has verified the utterance of his let- ii ter of acceptance and the words of e his Inaugural as far as possible at present. He has appointed a liberal f Cabinet, and thrown down the gaunt- a let to the extremists of his party.- t He is making large sacrifices to help t the South, and he has a right to ask r reciprocal sacrifices on the part of a the South to strengthen him in his t policy. It is not to be expected that v he is to utterly ruin himself to save v us. We must consider his situation e and make allowance for his delays. t Louisiana should of all other States I if she secures her State government, I render the President every aid in her I power in carrying out his policy, and I it may be that she should choose a I Senator who will not only be receiv- t ed by the Senate but who will be ao- C ceptable as a friend and supporter of t Mr. Hayes' administration. There I is no compromise in this. Our object i was and is to secure the recognition c and maintainance of the Nicholls t Government. If Mr. Hayes is our t friend and help in this, we may well afford to help him in the Senate where I all of his appointments must be con- t firmed. *. * t KELLOGG AT Ill8 OLD GAME. The ex-usurper, Mr. Kellogg, who is now trying hard to usurp a seat in , the U. S. Senate to again misrepre I sent Louisiana is yet calm and serene at his old favorite game of a cham f pion liar. He took a fresh brush at I it in Washington, a few days since, - and here is the way Congressman I Ellis, a Democrat, takes him down: WASHINGTON, MARCH 26.-Kellogg lied as usual. Hayes said to me, - "In South Carolina there seems to be one Supreme Court whose legali ty is conceded, while in Louisiana you have no Supreme Court whose authority is .undisputed." His re. t mark was oneof inquiry, and applied e equally to the Nicholls and Packard S0.ou rts. - I hope our people will, by no act n give a coloring of acceptance of any decision of Louisiana matters by the s Commission. We must prepare to S resist the decree if it is unfavorable. TiThe House is unquestionably Dem I ocratic, and will never give one dol lar for the army until our people are I free. Patience and a boldl assertion of our rights will bring us victory in the end. E. JOIIN ELI.S. S-WE notice the name of Torn Ac derson figuring as one of the ninc , teen names called every day to make up the pretended quorum in Pack ard's Senate. In this connection it Sis instructive to read the following j extract from the proceedings of the e Returning Board in its session of j Friday, November 24th, 1876. r Geu'l Anderson- * * I told e him (the Supervioor of Lafayette,) that I would be glad to see the re e turns from that parish, because it e was one of the parishes of my dis Strict, and to see the result. 1 know I am defeated, and even if I was re turned by this Board, I would not ano cept zt. Iwas fairly defeated. Comment is useless. t -A bright mulatto fellow, who d has been a waiter at the Exchange I Hotel for the past two months, was e arrested on Monday by two deputy d sheriffs of Red River parish and ta f ken to Coushatta on the Maria r. Louise. He stands charged with a killing a negro, hence the arrest. --Fonur members of the Packard a Legislature, counted in by the Re turning Board, have deserted and t gone to the Nicholls Legislature; they are D'Awy of St. Landry, Day ries of Pointe Coupee, Romeroof Iberia and Ross Stewart of Tensas. -Mr. Hayes as he whines about s "my Southern policy" asks us to Shave patience. As there is nothing - else for us to have, we must put up * with better. -. -CHARLEY FosTER and Stanley d Matthews, the vouchers for Hayes, n are making themselves very prudent , ly scarce. -Ma. Hayes' milk and mush ad ministration, in and around Louisi. t ana, is being stirred with too many se spoons. t -PROCRASTINATION has always il been considered ths thief of time, - and it is now fitting that it should be l the pet of Rutherfraud. -As usual we are obliged to the e Packet's clerks for the latest New 11 Orleans papers* --REMEMBER that the ever puno h tual Bart. Ablegoes down this day t at sharp noon. i1 -TnE status quo-tations of Pack 4 ardistoc~, with the assistant radicals r. here, are not as high as they were. - . -Tan Prince of Wales has. beeh re rt~ifted Grand Master of awonk.; ALL OF IT. , The trade and traffic, which has v been going on for poor Louisiana, we in could never understand succinctly t enough to write about, till we by r chance read the following plain ex- i pose from the Chicago Times. Read I it and you will be well posted on the I embroglio: a "A week or two before the 4th of ( March it became evident to the Hayes a men that the Democrats had it in a their power to defeat the count, and i that they intended to do so. Ap- s peals were made to. Southern men, a and after several interviews devoted ' to preliminaries, a formal agreement t was drawn up in writing. It was di- i vided into articles. Article one ( ei .umerated the parties to this con- I tract. On the part of Nicholls ap g pears E. A. Burke; on the part of r Hampton, General M. C. Butler; for t Hayes, Senator John Sherman, Chas. 6 Foster, James A. Garfield and Stan- a ley Matthews. Article two pledges a the signers upon their personal hon- r or as gentlemen, to abide by the terms of the compact. Article three provides, in, careful legal phraseolo- I gy, what shall be done upon the part of the signers for Nicholls and Hamp ton; that peace shall be secured in their States, no social ostracism, no violation of rights of property, im munity for political offences; that there should be no political prosecu. tions in courts, crimes excepted. There was a deal of argument on putting in the expression "crimes excepted;" but it was finally agreed that it should be inserted. The Hayes men, in turn, pledged that as soon as the count was completed and inauguration over the troops should be at once withdrawn from Louisiana and South Carolina. It was also fur ther pledged that the troops, when withdrawn, should not be returned. There was a final clause reciting that the Hayes people bound themselves to all the above mentioned as their part of the compact, providing a cer tain list of Southern men, mention ing names, who acted with the anti filibusters, should assist him in bringing the count to a final and suc cessful completion. This agreement was made out in triplicate. One copy was sent to Hampton, the second to Nicholls and the third was kept by the signers. A pledge of secrecy concerning the compact was also made. It was intended at first to ask Grant to sign it, and have him withdraw the troops after the count was completed. Then it was thought. not proper to have him attach his name to such a compact. It was alsn thought not best to have lMayes sign Its as the document was sign.ed, with his approval, by his most trusted friends. Grant gave his word as a soldier and a gentleman for flayes to have the troops withdrawn as soon as the count was completed. tle dlid order General Augur, in New Or leans, to withdraw the troops. Without the compact fully describ ed above, there would bave been no I wavering of Southern votes. This Scompact was shown around to South ern men who could be trusted. Fur ther than this, Charles Foster had two letters from Governor Hayes upon the subject. The first letter was a very brief one, written to Fos ter after he had made his speech up on the floor, expressing his belief in the necessity and certainty of a new and better policy toward the South. This letter was not more than a do: en lines in length. It said that Fos ter's speech correctly outlined Hayes' policy, and that it was cordially ap proved. After the formal compact was made a copy of it was sent to Hayes. He, therefore, wrote another j letter to Foster fully approving and . indorsing the compact as made for I him hy John Sherman, Stanley Mat ;thews and others. Foster used both - letters to assure Southern men of f Hayes' intention to do the right thing by them-in fact, give them all they could hope under Tilden. The formal compact was finished on Sthe Saturday of the week prior to the Scompletion of the count. It will be P noticed upon glancing at the record that upon this day, for the first time, the filibusters failed in their attempt to secure a recess. The compact was Sthe cause of this. It appears that beyond two letters written to Foster, both Foster and Stanley Matthews 1- wrote personal guarantees that they i- signed themselves. The occasion of y this was John Young Brown's walr ering in his adhesion to the anti fili. busters. He alone of the Kentacky delegation voted with the anti-ob e structionists. When he received that memorable dispatch from some twen tyfive of his most intimate friends, e upbraiding him for his course, Brown r went to Foster for further assuran ces. He said he was running a risk of ruin and ostracism if he were Smistaken. Foster not ornly gave him 7 personal assurances upon the floor, but he also visited his room that . night, where both he and Stanley SMatthews wrote oat for Brown a per sonal gualantee that the South should have all the compact calledl S*;r. On the Satun;day sight follow . tag the caa-,s 8radnl Gibi called upon Gef eral stNt, i-'the dent's room, on the S6bate si2j was the-closing night of Gran7 ministration. .He Was busy el bills when Gibsoif'came in. '(j reminded Grantthat he 'had ised to wlthdraw the troops fr , New Orleans. Grant said that i had already done so by issuance of as most peremptory order. "But," salit Gibson, "the Secretary of War know., nothing of such an order." 'qo,-& should he?" said Grant. "I did n issue the order through him, but:' sent it through the 'General ofi ! army direct." "But," said Gibso,, "the order has not been obeyedaitu they deny in New Orleans evenD the it has been received." Said Genet&d Grant: "I cannot understand that.. I made the order as peremptory as possible." The fact that Augur did not receive the order fully substan. tiates the statement that Senator Sherman, a member of the incoming administration, persuaded his broth. er to withhold the order until the new administration came in." PROCLAMATION BY FRANCIS T. NICHOLLS, GOVERNOg Of .: 4 THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, New Orleans, La., March 24, 1877. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF LOU.. ISIANA. The State Government being now complete in all its branches, and in the full performance of all its fune. tMons, it becomes the duty of the people of Louisiana, to promptly dis charge their pecuniary obligations to.; it, in order that all just claims against it may be punctually met. To the ordinary motives inducing the payment of taxes, is now added that of evincing, by such payment, confidence in the strength and sta. bility of that Government, and a just appreciation of the fact that it is the"i one chosen by the people. The evidence already received on this point is entirely satisfactory,.k and I confidently expect a continun ance of the same patriotic action., throughout the State. The people :. of Louisiana may rest confidently as-. ,,r sered that the Government, of which : they have chosen me the executive head, will not be imperiled or im paired by any compromise of their :" rights. The Government, being now a 8fix- i ed fact, I desire to publicly acknowl. edge the services of, and to thank, on behalf of the people of Louisiana, the patriotic men who, on the 9ldt day -f .January, 1877, responde.l to the call of the civil authorities of this State, ' to prevent illegal attempts to oru them from their legal I~5es5sion of the court buildings, ant who have since quietly, thoroulghl'y and most patiently performed their duti s. there as citizens. I desire to say that their grent 'eivices aire fully ate. preciated, and that, in due time, I shall seek occaision to m:ke mansifest : the feehling of the people on this suL ject. Given under my hand and the seal of the State of Louisiansa, at the city of New Orleans, the day and year above written, and in the one hun dred and first year of Ihe lundepen- . dlence of the United States of Ame rica. FRANCIS T. NICt;oJl.s, Governor of the State of Louisiana, By the Governor: OSCAR ARROYO, Asest. Secret'y of State. -THE RAINBOW in the sky is a sign of God's promise that the world should not againe be destroyed by wa ter; and viewing the tenacity with which men hold on to life, it is sur prising to all how recklessly they snap the links one after another, by paying no heed to the derangement of their constitution, because they are so light as to soon wear away. Mistaken delusions! If one of the parts of our delicately complex or ganism be injured, it throws greater : strain on the others and all suffer. Wishing to maintain the animal economy in a healthful state and to restore lost power, we have only to use the celebrated~HloME STOMtca BITTERS. -WILLIAM ALIUNDE WHEELER,. tLe great Louisiana Adjuster, de clines to serve on the mush-and-milk commission. The last heard of it, it had been alated after this fashion: Wayne McVeigh, of Pennsylvania, and a son-in-law of old Simon Came. ron, ex-Governor Brown of Tennes see, Judge C. B. Lawrence, of Chica go, John M. Harlan, of Kentucky, : and Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecti-. cut. This is a full stocked flush Sagainst us, and worse than the 8 to I - cheat. -Is IT POSSIBLE, that one will he so foolish to suffaer from Cataith :"na r the Head, bad smells in Nose and. JThroat, when by this new antiseptic Sprinciple, Dr. J I. H.-McLean's Cat arrh Snuff, you can be cured. *Trial i Sboxes, by mail, only 50 cts. Dr. J. H. McLean, 314 Chestnut, St. Louias. Mo. j -IT is now said ..that' the exact-. Scolor of Fred. Douglas' complaeiC#, " Ito a b meafremIsE