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The Citizens' Committee. , k INTERVIEW WITH GOVERNOR WARMOTI. a After calling on both Houses of the (: Legislature the Cornmi'tee of Citizens ap pointed at the Lafayette Square meeting, a visited Gov. Warmoth, and Mr. DI)eFeriet, c Chairman .of the Committee, presented a him with the resolution of the meeting. The Governor said he knew what the res olutions were, and addressed the meeting a as followsa: r Gentlemen-I am very glad to see you personally. I desire to say something however, relative to that meeting whose delegation you are. I do so in justice to myself and to the government which I rep resent. It is a fact, which is palpable to all of you, that I have. as Governor of this State. vetoed a great many bills, a very great many making subsides and grants to individual and to companies. Those bills. in a few instances, have been passed ov r my veto by the Legis!a'u e; for these acts of course, I am personally not responsible I neither do I believe that the Legislature, taken as a body are responsible, for them. It is true that. in a generalsense, they are responsible for their acts; but it is unfor tunately the case that there are a great many men in our Legislature, who are ig- Y norant ol the manipulations of logyiste. DMen, many of whom have been only re- Y cently enfranchised. They. of course, have to be taken care of; nay have to be nursed. they have to be taught and instructed, and I think, gentlemnn, that if you will give me the assurance of your support; if you will only give me the assistance which you ought to give from your standing in this z community. we shall be able to restrain these people from running into the exces ses complained of in these resolutions which I have already read. Let me make one complaint against you, gentlemen, as the representatives of those in whose behalf you appear. You charge the Legislature with passing corruptly bills looking to the personal aggrandizement of individuals and corporations. Let me suggest to you that those individuals and corporations are your very best people. For instance, this bank bill that is being lobbied through the Irgislature now. By the hardest kind of work we hare been able to defeat that bill twice in the House, I and now it is up again to be passed. Who z asedoing it? Your bank presidents. The t best people of the city of New Orleans are crowding the lobbies of the Legislature, continnally whispering into these men's ears bribes to pass this measure. How are we to defend the State against the inter position of these people, who are potent c in their influence in this community. Take another instance, the five million r bond bill passed through the Legislature I at its 'first session, providing for the issue I of bonds, the principal and interest of which were to be paid in gold to take up the city notes. 'T'hat bill I vetoed. By c whom was it lobbied through ? By your Carondelet street brokers, who crowded the halls of the Legislature and thronged q the avenues lending to the Capitol. taking C out member after member anRd suegesting bribes. That bill, as I say, I vetoed, and t the very next day the House of Represen tatives, possibly through the influence of which I have spoken, passed it over my head. T'Ihe bill went to the Senate. I walked into the Senate Chataber and saw nearly every prominent broker of the city engaged in lobbying that bill through the Senate, and it was only by-exposing the fact that one of their emnissaries had come into this very chamber and laid upon the t desk of my secretary an order for 50,000, that I was able to defeat it. Mr. Conway. the Mayor of your city, came here and offered nae any consideration to induce me F to sign this bill. Mir. Marshall J Smith, one of the dele. a gation-Governor, I would like here to a make a remark. Yin speak of the most respectable men of the city, and in the same breath state that these gentlemen have been offering bribes to you and to others. I consider the briber as bad, or worse, than the man he bribes. We have come here to day without respect to pautty. I admit that some of our own people, who have, in and out of the Legislature gone back on us, deserve the curses of the com munity more than those men who have passed these corrupt mn-asures, because, we expect nothing better from them. Our own people, many of them Democrats, de- J serve worse at our hands, still I must pro test against those to whomn you have re ferred being called thie most respectable partof the community. Gov. Warmothl-l Ihave thought it prop er, gentlemen, to make these remarks in your presence, because I have repeatedly asked the best citizens of this -tate to cnmeand counsel with me about these! matters I have sent them invitations but I have never been able to include them to lend me their aid and countenance. Politi cal differences have been so intense that I they have not thought proper to give me their assistance. When 1 say "respecta ble men," I mean those men whose names Dy like a flag in the public estimation. I say, if it is true that these bills have been torrptly passed, that they have been so passed by men who, froni their standing in this commanity, ought to have refraiued from a resort to such expedients. I have uetoed more bills, probably, than I any ten Governors who have preceded me. I have taken the ball by the borns, and vetoed measures introduced by my own party, because I thought their legislation going too 'ar. I have not received the ac.stance and support from you, gentle- 3 pcen, that I ought to have received. I am placarded in th: city, and spoken of in your press as a rascal. . az spoken of as no better than those whom yout aRV have I corruptly induced the passage of these i bills of which you complain and yet I have e invited you to assist me in defeating them, g and you have given me no support. 1 I vetoed sixteen bills passed last session I giving relief to this individual and to that, I, tio this corporation and to that-for pur- it poses of no public utility, amounting in p the aggregate to at least a million and a i half dollars. Have I been spoken of in your Democratic press, or in the press of this city, as entitled to praise for my con duct in this matter? No; when I am en gaged in prosecuting the Auditor, who has robbed the State ol a half million of dollars, " find two leading Democrat papers rep raesenting it to be merely ,,a fight between the Govrenor and the Auditor; a contest between two thieves, in which the public ,nought to take no part." I make this complaint to you as an in hivideal. I make it as a citizen of Lou asiana, whose interests are all here. Every dollar I have in the world is here invested - do not come here merely to make dollars t orposition, and then to leave. Icame haete to settle among you, and by accident r r have been elevated to the position I now I occupy. My ambition is to become a good C oficer. I want our support. If yonu will give it to me, if you, and the twenty-five r hundred citizens who were present at the 1 meeting which sent you here, would only r give your support to me, and to the honest 1 len of the Legislature, there will be no e dificulty in restraining iniprovident legis- a lation. I thir.k I have the right to ask it, and if you will give it I, will assure you many of the evils you complain of will be avoided. r Mr. Marshall J. Smith-For one, I ac- f knowledge the error. I feel that if your f intensioas have been sunch asyou now state S that I have been to blame, and in a great I many respects which I have observed. I perceive that what you have stated is per- I fectly correct. I have seen you veto bills of the most infamous character, and I have kept aloof. Though I have no ambition as a politician, I believe, for myself, it was our duty to give you support. I am sorry. Governor, you did not present yourself at this meeting the the other evening. There is a party forming in this city. who design to act against dishonest men of every politi cal shade and color. We intend "to hold a meeting, and to that meeting honest men. without respect of party or color, are wel come. I have been raised among those whom you call the "lately enfranchised," and I know they are a people who can be managed and governed in the right way if they only have confidence in those who try to influence them. There are many of them who are suffering as much in proportion from the burden of this taxation as we ourselves, for this money must come from out of the earnings of the laboring man. We intend to have a meeting of honest men, and to put our foot upon this corrup tion. Let me tell you, Governor \Warmoth. that the people are firm in this movement. You find around you here citizens, whose faces scarcely one of th'n will be recogniz ed by you as the face of a politician. We have come from our offices, and from our stores, and I, for one, state that, so far as my support roes, in all measures that are right and proper. you shall have it in f'u ture. The time has come, Governor, when you can make a name for yourself which will live for all time. We do call upon you to go forward with this work, and can relieve us from the burden of this debt, which will otherwise swamp us and our children, and our grand children. I Judge J. B. Cotton- .1I wish to say a word or two in explanation. We have waited upon you at the request of the citi zens of New Orleans, to ask your cordial co-operation in the measures we propose. It makes no difference in what channels we find corruption running, whether in the legislative hall, or in the City flail, or in any other department of the government, we ask the assistance of the Governor of the State in suppressing this evil. But there is another important question to which we direct your consideration. We ask your aid in preventing the Legis lature from passing those bills which we think oppressive. I mean the election bill; P mean the militia bill; I mean the registration bill, and others of that class. These bills, we think are wrong and op pressive. We think they deny to the citi zens of this State equal protection. We think they place too much power in the executive department of the government. Without enumerating all the objectionable features of these bills, I may say that they seek to encroach upon the judiciary and to abridge rights which, I feel sure. you will not allow to be curtailed. We call upon you, as the executive, to aid the people in preventing the Legislature from placing such extraordinary and unlimited powers, as these bills confer, in the hands of the executive. These are the rights we come to demand. We ask you, as humble citizens, to protect us in those rights which we have received under the constitution and under the law. There is no party question involved in this case. We do not come to pray for this man, or to screen that man ; but we come in the name of the.lionest men of the State. Goverior Warmoth-Relative to these matters, gentlemen, I would say I have not read the militia bill, nor the registra tion bill, nor the election bill, and I do not know what provisions those acts con tain. If they abridge the liberties of the citizen ; if they put the government of the State in the hands of one political party or the other, I shall certainly not sign them. But if, on the other hand, these bills are simply designed to protect all cit izens in the exercise of their rights; if they apply equally to all classes of the peo pie, if they do not conter improper powers on the officers holding the election, then, as an honest officer, I shall deem it right and just to sign them. This will be a m.,tter for consideration hereafter. I do not think, gentlemen, that you have had any ground, hitherto, to complain of my administration of the election laws in this State. The. ?pre-ent law provides for the Governor to appoint supervisors of regis tration, who appoint comnmissioners of election to receive the votes and make the returns. It is provided that the Governor and Secretary of State, etc., shall canvass these returns and declare the result. If elections have been improperly held it is r their duty to refer these questions to the judiciary for their settlement. There can be law passed which will take the rights of individuals out of the pale of the judiciary. You have nothing to fear in the militia bill. I do not know what it is, iut I would remind you that we have a militia bill now, and that the Governor has the power to organize every man of the State into the militia. I could to-day organize a militia of a hundred thousand men lust as well without another militia bill as with it. But I have not done it. Even intime of intense political excitement, when Re publicans-whether without cause, I will riot discuss in your presence, gentlemen believed their lives to be in danger, I did not call out the militia. It is true a great many people urged me to do so. I did not do it because I did not think it was right, and because I thought that whatever griev ances Republicans might have to complain i of, they might with confidence appeel to the bar of public opinion iu the future to be righted. Mr. Marshall J. Smith-You are the Governor now, but we don't know who may be the next Governor. lovernor Warmoth-But this law has been on the statute book for twenty-five years. Mr. Marshall J. Sm;eth-So it has, but not with the powers at prese;t conferred. Goe. Warmoth--I do not want i."? laws that are going to establish a des p~tism in this State. I shall be Gov ernor only a short time, I am not eli gible for election a second time by ex press provision of the Constitution, so I can have no object in passing these laws to re-elect myself. What I say to you is this: Whatever may be tihe pressure brought to bear upon me to induce me to sign these bills, they shall be considered, and executed if signed, so far as I am concerned, with perfect good faith, perfect honesty of purpose, and perfect regard to the in terests of the whole people. I think you have had no right to com"apin of tyranny on my partI i. the past, nor will you have any such cause of dis satisfaction in the future. Mr. Marshall J. Smith-One thing nore, Governor. You have mentioned that people offered you bribe; why were not their names madepublic, that the finger of scorn might be pointed at them ? Gov. Warmoth-I will give you one reason: Do you know a proposition of bribes is a matter of almost every day occurrence, and if I should come for ward and publish the man who offered me a bribe, what would be the result The Democratic press would attack me, and instead of giving me the cred it, would say I had made enough mon ey, and consequently did not care to make any more. The delegation then withdrew. i A poetically disposed country newspaper remarked that "it is com forting to know that one eye watches fondly for our coming and looks bright er when we come." The other local paper condoled in its next issue thus: •qIt grieves us to learn that our dotem poranry's wife has lost an eye." A Sketoh Founded Upon Fact. BY BEVERLEY. h - Ih 'ragedies in hig life rarely come fuT- a ly to the knowledge at the world. The II press reports a quarrel, a murder, and u the course of the law, while a proper ' delicacy for the feelings of the flamilies I hushes comment as to private circnm- P stances. Thus it was as to an affair of h that kind, which took place, some years 'I gince, not a thousand miles from our t own goodly city. Ellen Tresdoibwas F a lovely specimen of Southern girlhood. a All thought her worthy of the happy tl lot Dame Fortune cast her life in as ti the only daughter of a wealthy South- ii ern merchant, and the petted sister of e two most promising young men. g To say she was lovely comprises si vastly more than beauty of form and i face; for, to be tl.at, requires a pure ii attractive soul and a quick, bright e mind radiating the beautifully turned y features and clear smooth complexion. g Yet Ellen Tresdon was supremely s lovely. The home of the Tresdon's n was so inviting, with its Turkish car- n pets, luxurious seats, pictures, paint- It ings, statues, statuettes, and artistic g orlnmenlts, presientetd to youl so untl- f rally and easily by the graceful ho.pi- p tality of its inmates, that fiew crossed I its threshold without seeking it again and again. r Of this interesting family Ellen was the pet and darling, while Charles was the honor and pride-not that the youngest tailed to come in for fully his t share of love, but lihe was a mere boy, t' while Charles was the first born, the child of the bridal year, the link along r which father and mother loved to be 1 bore backward to the times when the P honeymoon was a soft, tender, beauti- e ful crescent arching their young lives I -a honeymoon which was taking all 2 the days of their limited lives to fill up. Aye, proudly they loved him, and well li they might, for he was all that ardent r love and.youthful freshness might be- E supposed to endow an offspring with. To Ellen he was an idol with whom, e until lately, none had contested for the e supremacy of her love. God has not t made women to live alone, or man ei ther, as to that; her being is incom- S plete, and needs to be merged into a stronger, grander life, and marriage t alone produces, by the twain united, a perfected humanity. Recently these a thoughts had been stealing through the ' secret chamber of Ellen's soul, and with them the manly form of Edwin Mott entered within its sacred arcana, and the finest chords of her heart had vi brated thrillingly to his touch. The first draught of love is to wo man's soul a nectar of new lite! An 1 elixir awakening every fibre of her be ing into exstacy. And as Ellen stood ( before a full-lengt~h mirror, where she C had paused to glance over the com-C pleteness of her toilet, Charles raised t his eyes from his book and beholding c in the face of his' pet an exquisite beauty, outrivaling even herself, lie I cast the book away and stepped to her I side. As Ellen's arm glided about his waist the glowing color suddenly rece ded from her cheeks, the head started from his shoulder and the beautiful eyes t took on a tender look of reproof. t " Oh ! Charles, is it possible that you c carry concealed arms? What need can my brother have for such deadly wea ponls." A slight flinsh came into the young man's face before the first reproving look those gentle eyes ever gave him, i but lie attempted to parry the direct question by light speech and laughing rejoinder. " Why, yet, you would not have me I less cautious for my very precious life c than other men. You must know that I value it more highly if my sweet sis does not." With these light words Charles tried to hush an answer with playful kisses, but Ellen would not. "hBrother you must at least listen to me. This thing is too important, may lead to too serious results. Remember when you had that dispute with David t Hodge you afterward' said' that it was well you were not armed, for had you have been you would have killed him c instead of soundly whipping him, as i you did. Oh! Clharles h1w different life would be to you now than it is, even had you evaded tIle law, had that t rash deed been done. How different it I would be to us all; what a black pall would rest upon the house thatthrough years has gladly resounded to your light, free step. Think what an inward shludder would creep into my soul as I clasped the hand of blood. Oh, broth- 1 er, put those weapons away, and leave God to care for the life lie has given, and even if it come to the worst, dear as you are to me, I would rather have you take death than human life. True, most persons wbuld call this an ultra view, but I cannot forget tile anathle mas of Jehovah against him who takes human life; and I would prdfer you to enter tie presence of God slain than the slayer. Murder-what a black gendish deed it is, yet the first men' perpetrated it under passion's madden ing power. Oh! brother, put those 1 arms away. To me the carrying of them smacks rather of cowardice than bravery. Granted, according to your ideas, that there may arise occasions when a weapon is necessary to defend I ond's life, yet surely the instances are :.re in the life of a man who is just, I Ilonorage and courteous with his fel- I low man, and r seems to me that true bravery would prefer ,o take so slight i a risk to thus branding itee:f with such evidences of fear.n 1 , Charles had never been dictated to i by his little pet, may scarcely advised. ] To her hie had ever seemed too nearly t perfect to need it; and now, although to appease her feaor, hlie took theinstra- Ii ment fro",l his persen and laid it aside it \vas to be resumed in the quiet of his room ere going upon thie street. Three evenings after this, that house so blessed, so happy, so sought after for years, was closed and darkened. The black pall had fallen upon it, and though the two 61d pcople bore up for the sake of tlleir boy, that 'none might say that they condemned him, the steel I was rankling in their hearts, and sore affliction. filled them for their only t daughter, who lay raving in wild de lirium, a burning fever scorching our life's vitality. Oh, what a change! their noble boy, their pride and hope, a murderer and refugee from justice,i and their idolized daughter at the gate I of death, a Charleds Tresdon and Edwin Mott, after a gay evening, with more than a usual amount of wine coursing through their veins and mounting to their i beads, quarreled ober a trifle; words became hot and insulting, and Charles, 1 mad with wine and hot words, 'drew I and fired and Mott, his companion and friend, fell dead at his feet; fell dead without a weapon about him, without I having raised his hand against him. An hour atterwards, Charles, pale and haggard, auinonnced his deadly crtrime o Elren, gnod she sank lifeless before hiln. He kutw hot then that a i terrible bright, other thai his crime, had entered her soul. She had just a decided to confide all to him, and ant li waiting his coming to share her great I happiness with him, when his pale, haggard face startled her from her. I sweet reverie to hear the curse upon v her house, and feel the double cures li upon her heart. Years have passed li since, but Ellen has never breathed a her double grief to Charles, and her d parents, by her request, have been si- a lent as to the revelations of delirium. o The old people did not long survive a the terriblq shock, and at their death, Ellen crossed the ocean, and now, she, a and Charles live in a foreign land, and t thongh their heads are silvered by hi time, neither has ever thought of lear- f ing the other, and the Italians say neev a er were two such seen; so tender, so t gentle and loving to each other, so in- a separable, yet so evidently saddened by some terrible loss, and never seek- c ing others, yet ever, when met, gently c courteous. All honor .and love them, yet the two are so evidently knit to- c gether by some great grief, that they a seem sufficient for each other, and r none intrude. The foreigner knows not that the sister dares not leave the r brother alone with his remorse and N grief. Oh, surely, murder is a dread- s ful thing, and carrying concealed wea- e poms a dangerous custom.-[New Or- t leans Times. I --ýý ýý-- C TELJ-FRA PI I1 WASHINscTON, Feb. 5.-Representa- a tive Hong, of Ohio, died of pneumonia c to-night. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The follow- I ing gossip was telegraphed North: Deep interest is manifested among Re publican leaders here in regard to th3 election of Texas Senators. General Reynolds is understood to claim the x Senatorship, in consideration for de-I serting Hamilton, when it is known I here that his change of front was the result of an order procured by Judge Evans from the President. Senator t Wilson and other Republican Senators express the opinion that Reynolds' election would be a great misfortune I to Texas. C. H. Blood, of tlrownsville, testified yesterday before the Committee on Commerce on revenue frauds, and sta ted that he knew that Worthington had defrauded the Government of large amounts while Collector at Browns ville.. Hoar is to be retained in the Cabinet. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Peter Wash burne. Governor of Yermont, is dead. The case of Hepburne vs. Griswold, brought from the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, involving the legal tender lay, was decided in the United States I Supreme Court to-day. Chief Justice Chase delivered the opinion of the Court sustaining the decision of the court below, and holding that a con tract made before the legal-tender law could not be discharged in United States notes. The opinion was very long, and discusses at great length the powers of Congress. It holds that Congress had no right to make govern men t notes a legal tender for pre-exist ing private debts. It does not touch t the question of contracts made since the law was passed. This opinion was concurred in by Mr. Justice Nelson, Justice Clifford and Justice Field. Mr. Justice Miller delivered the minority report, concurred in by Justice Swayne and Justice Davis, holding the law to be entirely constitutional, treating it philosophically, as an incident to the war power. The President has nominated Josephl P. Bradley, of New Jersey, and Wil liam Strong, of Pennsylvanju, ag Asso ciate Justices of the Supreme Court. Revenue to-day $847,000. Twenty-seven cases of yellow fever occurred on the Seminole. The fever is abating, the cases being milder. The Seminole leaves Key West for Ports. mouth. PARIS, Fob, 7.-7 P. m.-Henri Roche fort, editor of the Marseillaise, was ar rested at Beville in the eastern part of the city at an early hour this evening. His friends and partisans ard assem- i bling in great crowds in that quarter i of the city; and serious troubles are ex pected. PARIs, Feb. 8.-2 A. ~.-The trouble at Bellville are of a serious character the streets are filled with shouting peo ple, and barricading has commenced. A detachment of the Imperial troops arrived in the vicinity of thIe distur- I bance at 11 o'clock. PARIS, Feb. 8.--3 A. M.--Barricades 1 have been erected in the Re u dui Fan bourg de Temple, Rue St. Maur, Rue 1 Grange aux Belie Sand, and other streets in the vicinity of Belleville. The scene of the disturbances is near the Northern and Strasburg Railway stations. At 11:30 P. M. additional detachments of troops had arrived, but up to this hour no firearms have been used. The troops in the garrisons of tile city Ihave received orders to Ihold them selves in readiness to march at a mo ment's notice. Such are the precautions which have been taken by the police and the mili- I tary, that it is believed a riot will not be attended with any serious conse quences. PARIS, Feb. 8-7 A. x.-The troubles I at Belleville lasted all night, and have extended northward to the La Villette, the extreme northeastern arrondise ment within the fortifications. Thie troops have not yet resorted to I the use of fire-arms. The police are active, and many arrests have been made. Beyond the excitement which is ,:turally incident to such an occa sion, the rest of the city is entirely tranquil. The Government still continues tak ine preCauti9nhglt mea1res to prevent outbreaks elsewhere. PAmUS, Feb. 8.--8 A. M.-The police attempted to carry the barricade at Rue do Faubourg du Temple, and were repulsed with a.loss of one killed and one wounded. Barricades have been erected elsewhere. but are not defen ded. The troops are out in full force, but have not used arms. At this hour all puiet. Many persons have been arres ted, who are mostly boys under the in fluence of liquor. PARIS, Feb. 8-Noon.---Rochefort was arrested entering a political meeting. He made no resistance and no appeal to the crowd. When his arrest was rknown at the Iieeting the wildest scenes occurred. -Gustave Flourens, who presided, drew a sword and fired his pistol, de claring the insurrection had begun. Barricades were commenced, and the omnibuses and other vehicles from the neighboring stableswore appropriated to lhi; purpose. The Commissary of Police, who ac I companied the guard which arrested Rochefort, was carried off with the crowd and maltreated. Te jlistrict lying between ,thle .rue Fauboarg du Temple an;d the fortifica ion'se, a distance of aiout tW6 tiuites; is heliT by the riotersi; . The insurgents pillaged the armories at three o'clock this morning. Three I hundred arrests are reported. Gustave Flourens is in custody. This evening in the Corps Iegislatif. Keratry, liberal, demanded to know why Rochefort had not been arrosted before five thousand of his partisans had gathered, antsaid that it was not necessary that this meeting should he disturbed, apd the people participating aroused to violencef that the conduct of the Government was provocative of a disturbance. Tih ministry replied that an arrest at the chambers was forbidden, to avoid the scandal which his arrest here would have caused, that the friends of Roche- I fort were prepared to make the demon stration which they had made, and on this fact the ministry would rest the re sponsibility of what had occurred. LoNDoN, Feb. 8.--The Queen open-. ed Parliament to-day with a highly conservative speech. Rochefort's arrest, and its consequen ces, make a sensation. Tie rumors afloat that tile troops fired on the peo ple are discredited. PARIS, Feb. 9.-The disorders were resumed l:ast night at midnight in the vicinity of the former disturhance, and several additional barricades have ben I erected in the narrow streets. Thle troops still reserve their fire. The po lice made several charges, killing some of the insurgent leaders. Gustave Flourens is still at large. PARIS, Feb. 9--3 P. x.-The police and the military have the riot under control. The city at this hour is tran- - quil. All the editors of La Marseillaise F have been arrested. The printer re fuses to put the paper to press. The city is quiet to-night. A large police force are patrolling the streets. LONDON, Feb. 9.-An act of parlia ment is proposed to protect the foreign inventions sent to tile Workman's Ex hibition here. The merchants of Cork complain of a loss of plestige to that city by the transfer and shipment of all foreign mails, save one to the Channel ports. PARIs, Feb. 11.-The city is perfect ly tranquil. Gustave Flourens is still at large. The police announce the discovery of an extensive conspiracy against the Government. A great number of arrests were made last night and to day. It is stated the editors of the Marseillaise are implicated. A policeman in plain clothes was shot and killed last night by a me chanic. The Marseillaise reappeared to-day, and was eagerly bought. The bodies of several citizens, who were killed during the riots, are in the hands of the police, who refuse to give any information concerning them. MADRID, FEb. 11.--In the Cortes, to day, during a discussion on the navy, Admiral Topete said the navy could not be used to force a king on Spain. It is reported the Carlists are prepar ing for another insurrection. The Gov ernment is watchful. WASHInGTrx, Feb. 1I.-The Cabi net, to-day, had under consideration the recent assassination of American citizens in Havana, and decided to adopt additional measures for the pro tection of the lives and property of Americans in Cuba Official dispatches received at the State Department show that the assas sination of the three American citizens in Havana was wholly unprovoked. The American Consul telegraphs that the Spanish authorities have failed to discover the assassins. Farnsworth, of Illinois, a Radical, intends to present to the House, next week, a bill to remove political disa bilities from all persons whose State Legislatures have ratified the fourteenth amendment. Irritable Invalids. Indigestion not only effects the physical health, but the dispositions and tempers of its victims. The dyspeptic becomes, too, in a measure demoralized by his suffer ings. He is subjeot to fits of irritation, sullenness, or despair, as the case may be. A preternatural sensiti#eness which he cannot control, leads him to misconstrue the words and acts of those around him, and his intercourse even with thoto'neair. eat and dearest to him is not unfrequently marked by exhibitions of testiness foreign to his real nature. These are the mental phenomena of the disease, for which tihe invalid cannot be justly held responsible, but they ocecsion much household di.. comfort. It is to the interest of the home circle, it is essential to family harmony as well as to the resune of the principal suf ferer from a state not far removed from in ciplent insanity, that these symptoms of mental disturbance be promptly removed. This can.only be done by removing their physical cause, a derangement of the functions of the stomach .and its allied viscera, the liver and the bowels. Upon these three important organs Hostetter's Stomach Bitters act simultaneously, pro ducing a thorough and salutary change in their conditiou. The vegetable ingre dients of which the preparation is com posed are of a renovating, regulating and alterative character and the stamulent which lends activity to their remedial virtues is the purest and best that can be extracted from the most wholesome of all cereals, viz: sound rye. No dyspeptic chn take this genial restorative for a single week without experienefng a notable im provement in his general health. Not on ly will his bodily sufferings abate from day to day, but his mind will recover ra. pidly from its restlessli%_ and irritability, and this happy changm wvill manifest itsef in his demeanor to all around him. T'IMOTHY GRASS SEED-E AR LY JCorn--Buotton Onions. For sale by 6t. H. ST. JOHN Eugenic, sold the dresses she wore during her Oriental tour, 250 in number, with a great collection of hats and bonnets, at auction, Sfor the benefit of her orphan school, but they brought very small prices. The best dress of the lot, of rose colored satin, sold for $20. TRAWBERRY PLANTS---FOR Ssale by H ST. JOHN. - ., A human pig in Oswaego offered to hack himself so eat sixty common.r ized buckwheat cakes in ten minutes. He ate thirty-six in the first five mitntese, and Ififty-two in the entire time pfescribed. Before the Wager was made this pig had eaten half a pound of beefsteak, ten baked Spotatoes, and a can otfysters. ie would do to play Justice Greedy. DIED.-In Nei Orleans. on Thursday 10th inqt., at 1} A, t., of ,pbneumpnia, JU LIA WILSON, pnly ghild of Benjamin rnd iJlia.BalI Turner, aged eight months and fifteen days. Dr. IICHAI' GOLDEN RlEMEDIES.L Use these only and save tine, health and money 81.000ooo REWARI$! For any case of Disease inany stage which they fail to enr!! I: D R. RICHAU'S Golden Balsam, No. 1. cnres Ulcers, Ulceratedl Sore Throat and Mouth, Sore Eyes. Cutaneous Ernp. - tions, Copper-colored blotches, Soreness of the Scalp, Scrofula, &c.; it is the greatest Renovator, Alterative and Blood Purifier knAwn, removes all mercury from the sys tem, and leaves the blood purland healthy. it R. RICHAU'S Golden Balsam, No. 2, 2 cures Mercurial Affections, Rhenmaa2 tism in all its forms, and gives immediate relief in all cases. Price of either No. I or a 2, $5 per bottle, or two bottles 'for $9. tI D R. RICHAU:S Golden Antidote, a ra ri pid and radical cure for all urinary n derangements. Price $3 per bottle. D R. RICHAU'S Oolde, ElixirD'Amour, _ a radical cure for Nervous or General 3 Debility, in old or young; imparting ener- b gy with wonderfil effect. Price $5 per of bottle, or two bottles fos $9. it On receipt of price these remedies will tl be shipped to any place. Prompt atten- li tion paid to all correspondents. None , genuine without the name of"Dr. Richan's Golden Remedies, D. B. Richards, Sole u Proprietor," blown in glass of bottle. lii Address Dr. D. B. Richards, No. 228 Va. rick Street, New York. November 24, 1869-ly. GRAND 5. FANCY DRESS & MASQUERADEBALL -TO BE GIVEN- tl AT THE ICE HOUE HALL d -ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28th, 1870. Invitation Committee: F R. P. Hunter, Jonas Rosenthal F Reception Committee: F L. Rosenbaum, W. J. Calvit F Floor Mangers and Committee of Ar rangements: F W. W. Whittington, Jr., J. C. French, H. A. Biossat. TICKETS ..............::-.....$3 00 NO POSTPONEMENT ON ACCOUNT OF.,WEATHERI Ladies who have been unintentionally d overlooked by the Committee of Invitation of thetMasquerade Ball can get invitations a by applying to the ci Committee. =t. 1870_. JULIUS LETIN. JOHN J. PE$GU&S0N LEVIN & FERGUSON, C Watchmakers and Jewelers,u DEALERS IN Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Pla-t ted Ware, SECOND ST., (OLD POST OFFICE,) ALEXANDRIA, LA. .st P .np Stern , N]ear the French Mrket, 230 ROYAL ST., corDer ST. PHILIP, NJew Orleans. IL . Al. iAPELLA, Dantn Ix " ADRAIYN GO ODSDF, Hats sad Fancy Articles stI I uot-on PIPoesb tp Fe Ob 16-4m c o r $1000 BEWARD°. EDITOR DEMOCRAT--A CER tain man named JAns. K. PETERS, living in Natehitoches Parish, did murder i WHITFIELD MOSS, on Friday the , lst day of January, 1870,while working at the plow, or dear it, without any provoking 1 c Hase, and if any individual caling himself Iby the name of James K. Peters sboald I register himself Oin or about the town ofi Alexandria, please arrest him, as he was I guilty of deliberate murder. DNSCRIPTON ' le is a man about 25 years of age, fair compleiow, dark hair, height 5 feet 10 inches, black eyes, very light beard, quick spoken man, asd should he be arrested a reward of $1000 will be paid-for his arrtst and close confinement in Natchit.oehes. Expenses paid by the undersigned. ENOCH MOSS, H. R. McCLENDON FP 16, 1870-2t* NOTICE. r'AKEN UP by N. P. Mcutt, a I SORRELL BiORS", ten years old, 154 hands high, branded O in a circle on the left shoulder. Appraised by Win. Randolph and N. F. McNntt to be worth forty dollars in currency. The owner is Srequested to come forward, prove property, )pay charges and take him away or said borse will be sold in sixty days as the law directs. WM. RANDOLPH, J. P. Feb 9th-3t. Printer's Fees $6 00. B NOTICE. JUST RECEIVED AINIJ FOR SALE at Bfbossat's Warehonse-CHOICE WHITE CORN. INFORMATION STS WANTED of KEMP SCOTT KEN d GERY, who lived in or near Alex d andria in 1863. Any tidings of him or his whereabouts will be received AT THIS OFFICE. .,JUST SOFA.VEDD I A LARGE 8JCI8RTMENIT F LA S..dreth' Garden- Seeds. 'eob. 10-tf. TAIT & ]LAs EY. STANDARD YEMIODIQALB FOR 1870 e$blshktd by the Lnu ttl FPbish: ig Co., Neiw YorL Indispensable to allt esifoae of lbing well inforaed on the ;pEst sib jlets of the day. 1. THE sEDLNBvRst AR7EW.i SHIS is the.oldest of th eries. 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