The Democrat.
S. U BIOISAT,.............. EDITOR
OFFICE-CORNEB OF
SECOND & JACKSON STS.
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ALEXANDRIA.,LA."
Wednesday, ........May 26, 1875.
TO 5EW SUBSURIBERS !
OUR FRIENDS and subscribers will be
pleased to hear that we have perfected
arrangements with the publishers of
tihe INDUSTRIAL RECORD of St.
Louls, whereby we are enabled to fur
nish the DEMOCRAT and the INDUS
TRIAL RECORD, (both weekly,) for
the low price of $4.50. We make this
offer for the purpose of largely increas
ing our circulation. Those who have
been In the habit of subscribing for a
foreign paper instead of that published
In their own Parish, can now have both
for the price of one. The INDUSTRI
AL RECORD is an Agricultural, Me
chanical and Family Newspaper, of six
teen pages, full of choice reading, mar
ket reports, &c., costing alone $1.50 per
annum. We want the subscription of
every farmer, merchant and mechanic
in. the Parish for this spendid ofler.
NOW IS JUST THE TIME TO BEGIN.
Our Packet.
The Packet of our trade, the Bart.
Able, which by this time has settled
the public mind down to her merits,
her usefullness and her commercial
punctuality, still hangs on in her
own and legitimate trade, despite the
Summer dullness and coming scarci
ty of freights. This very fact; now
that nearly all the boats have left
for more genial climes where money
can be made, should cement her and
her owners firm into thd affection of
our people, and now more than ever
keep every pound of freight for her.
Now that the cream business has de
parted, all the little odds and ends
should fall to her share, and thus she
can live and fight it out the entire
season, dead low water not interfer
ing. Captain Sinnott has the best
boat, perhaps ever in this trade,
knows it and feels equal to the task
of making her all the public can re
quire, but then that public must cher
ish these merits and stick to her.
Card rates are surely cheap enough
for all liberal and enterprising people
particularly when they consider the
great good in all respects, which
flows naturally from the punctuality
and regularity of a Packet. In the
Bart. Able, under her present man
agement, they have all this and more
too, and we feel we are doing a pub
lic duty and a great good when we
here once more direct attention to
what we have so often stated to our
planters, merchants and travellers.
Let the Packet system be fostered,
cherished and protected.
Homucar.--A ight, difficulty or
affray took place at or near Loyd's
Bridge, in this Parish, on last Fri
day, between P. M. Richardson, a
citizen of Bayou Bcrmf, and J. D.
Thompson, a stage driver in the em
ploy of Colonel McGinnis, which re
saulted in the instant killing of the
latter. Richardsoen has been arrested,
and as we write is in the Parish
Prison, awaiting a preliminary exam
ination, which must take place at
any moment. As in all such cases
rumors are aflaat and rife in regard
to this sad affair, but we refrain from
any expression of opinion for or
against the prisoner, and await the
will of the law in the matter.
-Da. HENRY ST. JouH offers to
the market a fine and choice lot of
seasonable articles for the present
Summer season. Many of these are
of his own manufacture, and all the
best and purest ever brought to this
market.
-THE Councilmen of ourTown in
tend converting their room, recently
vacated by Levin, into an office for
their sittings, and as one for the May
or and Constable.
-Bivza falling yet at a slow rate,
with ample water everywhere in it
for the navigation of the few boats
yet left in the trade.
-THa'nds to the Bart, Able, Maria
Louise and the News Agent of the
Bart. Able for late New Orleans pa
pers.
-THERE must be "crooked" whim
key in Alexandria, judging by the
way it effects the men who drink it,.
-M1. KELLOGG has cancelled the
Ibonds of Johi DeLacy, late Sheriff
of RapideC,
BRBCKINRIDGE.
John C. Breckinridge has died at
the age of fifty-four* When we re- s
member that the last ten years has t
been spent in complete retirement,
we shall properly estimate the vigo- I
rous intellect that could promote its (
possessor so young in years to the t
various positions held by him. A (
member of the lower house of Con- t
gress-Vice-President of the United
States-Senator-candidate for the
Presidency before he was forty- I
Major General in the Confederate ar
my-Secretary of War of the Con
federate States of America-what a I
list of brilliant positions for one man,
and all filled with acknowledged
ability.
The Democrat gave In its issue of
July 4, 1860, a description of the man
and his career and oe reproduce it
now as the wreath we lay upon his t
grave:
" a * a *
He is a Virginian by descent, a Kentuc
kian by birth, and the offspring of com
mingled virtues, both head and heart, of 1
an exalted character. There is no page of
hisrory of his American ancestry that
bears the shadow of a stain. They had I
morality to guide, wisdom and learning to
control and piety and patriotism to stimu
late them. They have been identified
with every worthy enterprise. and there
never was made a call upon the chivalry
of a Breckinridge that he failed to res
pond to it.
The grandfather of our standard bearer
was the first Senator from the State of
Kentucky and was the author of those
well-known resolutions of 1788-89--the
ground work of that Democracy which
John C. Breckiuridge has advocated and
sustained with such consistency and
ability.
The favorite of Southern Democrats had
the advantage of the best home and aca
demic instruction. He was a graduate of
Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, of
Princeton College of New Jersey, and af
terwards of the Law Department of Tran
sylvania University at Lexington, the seat
of his native county, Fayette. He took
high rank at the bar of that city which
was then remarkrable for the talents of its
members.
He served in the Kentucky Legislature,
was a Major of Kentucky volunteers in
the war with Mexico distinguished for his
generous treatment of the men under his
command and especially for his watchful
care of the sick and hisprofessional advice
given gratuitously to soldiers in difficulty.
In 1851 he was elected to Congress from
Henry Clay's District, strongly Whig as it
was, and in spite of the oppobition, and
I was recognized as a leader. Two years af
terwards the Whigs of the Ashland Dis
trict vowed a solemn vow, that he should
not be returned. Their most astute poli
tician, ex-Governor Letcher, who had van
Squished his antogonist in every encounter
for thirty years, and who was believed to
be invincible, was called to the field
against Breckinridge. The contest was a
memorable one and aroused an intense in
terest throughout the Union. Our young
hero met the political giant without hesi
f tation, invited him to the discussion of the
questions there at issue. and proved the
r victor in every encounter. The result was
that he was returned by an increased ma
jority, and served until March '55. Dn
ring this last session President Pierce ten
dared to him the Ministry to Spain in
place of Soule, but he had reasons for de
Sclining.
At the Cincinnati Democratic Couvcn
tion of 1856 Breckinridge was nominated
for the Vice-Presidency by acclamation,
and his popularity in the West and in
Pennsylvania, and the judicious and ele
gant speeches made by him in that cam
paign, contributed vastly to the fortunate
supplresslon of Fremont and his Black Re
- publican followers. In Pennsylvania (as
we know in part from personal observa
tion) Breckinridge was welcomed in that
- campaign with the greatest enthusiasm,
and nowhere in the North has his infu
ence and popularity taken deeper root
Sthan in the Keystone State.
As a Presiding Officer Major Breckin
ridge has displayed great ability. His
readiness in settling points of order and
his uniform dignily and urbanity have had
a marked influence. His form, bearing,
grace and singularly felicitous style of
speaking will command respect as well as
in the most intellectual and able legisla
tive body on earth, as our U. 8. Senate, as
in the most tumultuous gathering of the
-people.
At the late session of the Legislatnre of
Kentucky he was elected a member of the
'United States Senate for six years from
March 1,1861.
THE COURT.-The District Court
has been in session the whole of last
rweek, still principally engaged with
Scleaning up the Criminal Docket,
and which like the second week of its
Sterm, has been successful in finding
"Guilty" once for every three times
"Not Guilty," has reverberated with
in the bleached and sacred walls of
that palladium ofjustice. This fact
may appear strangely mysterious to
the aninitiated outsider, and perhaps
needs some explanation on our part,
as that argus-eyed sentinel on the
tower of the public's rights, but we
rather just now pass and can't rise to
explain. We merely jot down stub
rborn facts and leave the practical
conclusions to others, resting the
case right here.
--Tarx Colossal Bronze Statue of
SVictory which stands in the Park, at
Lowell, before the tomb of the first
Ssoldiers that fell ih the revolution, is
a lasting and beautiful tribute of art.
It is one of t.e first objects sought by
strangers visiting our sister city,
which indeed many visit purposely
-to see this elegant object of high art.
It was obtained from the King of
Bavaria by Dr. J. C. Ayer, to whom
his majesty was especially gracious
in acknowledgment of what his rem
edies are reputed to have done for
the suffering sick. It was donated
by the Doctor to the City of Lowell
as a permanent and speaking emblem
of the victories both of Science and
Arm s.-[Hagerstown (Maryland)
Press.
--Tus beautiful tribute to the
memory of the great and lamented
Breckeniridge, which we publish else
where, is from the Cincinnati En
quirer, and is certainly a sperited and
felicitous tribute to that great man,
who has died an alien in his own pa"
tiver land,
THE PiBLIC SCHOOLS.
We reluctantly allude once more,
and for the last time, to the impor
tant and vital interests which should
cement this community as an ada
mantine rock together. And surely
our parents should by this time feel
the tinge of shame blanch their
cheeks, when we are forced to remind
them of their criminal neglect to their
true interests and the sacred interests
of their children. These may be
harsh words for us to use, but they
are hallowed by truth and consecra
ted by ?acts, stubborn facts. We re
peat, for the hundredth time, that
thousands of dollars are wrenched
from us as a school tax, especially for
the educating of our children, as well
as those of the non-taxed blacks, and
that we have never shared these pre
tended benefits, and that we are alone
to blame in the matter and are really
co-criminals in the neglect. What
d6es it amount to for us to know un
palatable facts, play chin music over
the iniquity, groan, croak, and hang
ingly talk over it at the street cor
ners and bar rooms, if we are always
cowardly prepared to renew our sub
mission to the iniquity and take a
fresh lease in the buncomb line?
Can't our people stop all their -theo
ries in the talking line, give us less
gab and come down to action, duty
and practice. Where there is a will
there always is a way, and with a will
in the cause we have so often advoca
ted, we are sure the good we antici
pate from proper motive acts will
surely spring.
The schools here, as it is but too
well known, are a farce and a reproach
to any civilized community, having
been under the control exclusively of
bad, ignorant and selfish politicians
of the dominant party from the sur
render to this hour. They are now
under the same control, having just
been renewed in that line, without an
effort on our part to checkmate the
evil, or ask that honors bp made
easy. Here's the blame, here where
the fault lies, and we are the real
criminals ceught napping on our
post. And surely we can't blame
the faithful ones here if they have
the crafty sense to take advantage of
the situ'ation, and grab every inch of
the prize, which we refuse to reach
for. The remedy we preach, and on
which we drop our curtain is plain,
and the sooner it is sought the better
for all the children of the Parish,
" and if our people can't see it, why we
are not going to rehash it here. If
they have any doubts in the matter,
and want redress and can't find a
starting point, and are willing yet to
do good if put on that track, we
promise them that we can point them
the way, and are willing to do it. A
call on us can satisfy all doubters
and well-wishers.
OcU POST MASTER.-The long ago
ny is over-Grant has relieved the
anxious ones,-the child is born, and
his name is John DeLacy. And
what do we think of it ? what have
we to say about it? Well, readers,
friends and fellow-sufferers, for this
time you will have to bear with the
Democrat-man and let him think
heap and say but little. It is not
much of our funeral on strict grounds
interests others equally, if not more
than this Editor, and hence we shall
neither do all the weeping, snorting
or cursing, but leave it, one time, to
our patriots to adjust, and in our ver
dant modesty take a back seat on the
stool of reform and Wheeler-ing
principles. Let that galled jade con
tinue to wince, our withers, can't be
Swrung on the present situation, as we
turn our back on it.
T THE CRoPs.-The last week has
>been a fine one for the crops of the
SParish of all sorts and kinds. Three
,fine, genial showers of rain, just as
Swas needed, have been their dispen
Ssation. All are up to work, corn is
>everywhere maturing to a fine stand,
Scotton has all been chopped to an
I equally fair stand, whilst the cane
Sbids fair to equal any, planted since
the surrender. Take the tout ensesm.
ble the crop prospects are brighten
F ing and bid fair, with no untoward
Sdrawbacks, to yield an abundant
t harvest.
-THE press of Philadelphia pub
Slished two hundred dispatches, on
the 20th inst., covering all points in
the wheat growing counties of New
York State, showing the present con
Sdition and prospect of the crop.
These dispatches show that it has
been injured to such an extent by the
cold weather and wet spring that the
. yield will prove not more than half
an average.
-JUDGE HIAWHINS, of New Orleans,
lhas dismissed the case of Moncure
vr. Dubuclet et al, for the possession
of the office of State Treasurer, on
the ground that said court had no
jurisdiction, as the contest was for a
constitutional of~ic.
-LEV;VN was ahead of time last
week, and got installed into his new
headquarters before our appearance
last Wednesday morning. He is now
fully under new headway and caters
to all alike on his niw platform.
THE ENTERTAINMENT.
The entertainment for the benefit
of St. James': Church, under the guid
ance and patronage of the Ladies of
that Congregation, came off Wit'h
eclat and merited' success, on last
Thursday night.> And in using these 1
words of praise, we wish to be un
derstood as not dipping our pen in i
the flatterer's ink, but are merely ac- I
cording praise where true merit has
carved it. The fine Hall of the Ex. I
change Hotel, with its well arranged I
stage and scenery, presented a truly
beautiful and picturesque scene on 4
the night in question, and one which I
we have rarely seen equalled and
never surpassed. The beauty, the
fashion, the elite of Town'and coun- I
try were there, and surely a more
decorous and gifted assemblage have
rarely revelled in the festive halls of
Rapides before, and we are glad to
assert that occular demonstration
drops this praise from our willing
pen.
The performance of the Charades,
light Vaudevilles, the music, both in
strumental and vocal, had for repre
sentatives the very recherche of our
matrons, young ladies, girls and
young men of the Parish, and hence
could but be as.we depict it, a pleas
ing, entertaining, intellectual treat,
yielding financially ahandsome sum.
All seemed up to the importance of
the occasion, and some really excelled
in their parts, the more practiced
and regular performers of the day.
At the risk of jealously displeasing
the many who did really well, we
must be excused for extra mention
of the performances on the Piano, and
still more specially that chef d'oeuvre
of two songs, which hit like a charm
on the whole audience, and fell like
a Jenny Lind bomb in their midst.
Really too much praise cannot be
lavished on the toutensemble, and we
only wish we could have more and
oftener such reunions.
-IT grows more and more evident
every day that the reign of the
"bloody shirt" is ended, and that the
party which hopes for success in the
next National campaign must find a
more popular issue than that of fight
ing the war over again. The ex
tremely sensible speech of ex-Presi
dent Jefferson Davis at Houston has
had an excellent effect at the North.
The Utica Herald says truly of it:-
"It is the duty of every loyal citizen
to accept the words of Jefferson Da
f vis, as uttered in all sincerity, and as
representative of the revived patriot
ism of the whole Southern people.
It should be the regret of all, that
the day of such an understanding has
been postponed so long. We are fast
drawing near to another great Presi
dential campaign. Certainly the ha
tred and the bitterness which have
followed their introduction into for
mer political canvasses will have no
proper place in those of the future.
There will be no Ku-Klux to con
vince the Northern voter that the new
war is worse in its crime than the
one which preceeded it. There will
be no Force bill, to compel the South
ern people to think that the North
meant only repression and violence,
when it promised complete and per
fect restoration to the Union. There
will not even' be a Louisiana, if we
may trust present indications, to
compel the belief there there is no
virtue among public men of either
side in the Southern States. Elimi
nating all these features from the
canvass before us, and we have abun
dant assurance that, whatever its
event, it will be followed by a closer
fellowship between the North and
South."
-J. D. TaoMPsoN, whose sad
death we notice elsewhere, was a na
tive of Virginia and about 38 years
of age. He was a man of good par
entage and antecedents, of some cul
tivation and withal well reared and
of good habits. With us here in
TowN, where he was well known, he
was well thought of and liked and
considered a good man and upright
citizen. . He received, through the
i kind attention of H. K. Gordon, at
t Loyd's Bridge, a decent burial, and
all proper care to his remains before
they were placed in their last resting
- place.
k-AnLn Lunsford, an old and well
known steamboat stewart in our
-trade, died in New Orleans on the
12th inst. We knew the de ased
long and well, and considere~ him
endowed with many fine qualities; he
was of a retired disposition, of quiet
manners and withal a good man.
The flags of the steamers at the low
er landing were at half-mast all day
,out of respect to his memory. He
Swas aged 45 years.
-CHARLE Drown is now head
clerk ol the Colonel A. P. Kouns,
which boat passed up. on Saturday
morning, filling up the void left by
the retirement of the La Belle. A
I package of late New Orleans papers
rfell to our lot as a consequence of
Sthis change.
-RnBrxoG it in-John DcLacy in
the Post OrHee,
DBATH OF MRS. GOV. HAMS.
We are grieved once more to re
cord the sorrow and' deep affliction
which have befallen the family of
our former respected fellow-citizen,
ex-Governor Hyams, in the loss of
his estimable and beloved wife. But
a few short months since the great
Reaper darkened and saddened his
happy household in the loss of
daughters and sons, and now that
grief has been tenfold aggrieved in
the loss of the most devoted of wives,
of one of the purest of women, and of
one of the most affectionate of
mothers.
Mrs. Hyams was a resident of our
Town for over fifteen years, a neigh
bor of ours in the days of our youth
and early manhood, and we have
reasons for knowing she was pos
sessed of all the rare qualities of
head and heart, accorded to her in
the eulogies now wreathed to her
memory. She died, at her home in
New Orleans, at midnight, on the
14th inst. Mrs. Hyams was the
daughter of Dr. Isaac Smith, a dis
tinguished politician of our State
and formerly President of its Senate,
and a descendant of John Blair
Smith, the brother of Samuel Stan
hope Smith, the grand-father of John
C. Breckenridge.
-FERGUSON & SCHNACK are deter
mined'not to be outdone in their
commendable efforts to bring to our
market every new invention conduc
ing to the usefullness and wants of a
people, who must be economical and
time-saving in their households.
They have now, and offer for sale for
one dollar, the "American Family
Fruit and Jelly Press," which is
needed in every family as an article
of the greatest economy, and as a1
great substitute to the old means of
extracting juice from fruits, which
has been handed down to us by our
old grandmother, as straining through
a cloth. They have a patented sub
stitute in place of the fogy-worn
cloth, and can supply every family in
Rapides with it.
-HARD times, dull times, fly times
the ides of the "dog days" are upon
us and all are feeling their merciless
grip. All these unpleasant dispen
- tions strike hard on an Editor in
search of subject matter to write
about, as well as on common folks,
and hence he must ask them to tread
lightly just now on his imperfections
- in the line editorial. When the oc
casion offers and the mourners need
crowding we will be on hand and do
our duty. Till then bear with us
t readers, and look to our old scissors
S fpr reading help,
--GOFFE's Hay Press has been bu
- sy all of last week, pressing out his
e hay for shipment to INew Orleans.
- The showers of last week have retar
, ded the Mowers, but the Press has
done a good week's work. A ship
Sment of one hundred bales go to the
rCity to-day by the Bart. Able. We
Sbespeak a good word for Rapides'
I new undertaking from our confreres of
- the New Orleans Press, and a fair
trial from consumers.
-BEsIDES two-thirds of the audi
ences, Alexandria's contribution to
Sthe Entertainment of Thursday, was
given in the persons of our young
friends, Charlie Goldenberg and Isaac
Sackman, and last, though not least,
r Jack Goulden's fine Band, aided bya
-few Amateurs. The comic songs
were admirably rendered,. and indi
-cated but too plainly where the laugh
should come in.
--WILLIE COLEOUN passed up, on
the Bart. Able on Monday, on his
way home. He has been granted a
new trial, is under bonds and will
make a far better showing in his next
trial. We begin to believe that he
has been persecuted by the bad ones
of his own party, and merited a re
hearing.
-e -KELLOGG, the other day while
out driving with Packard, collided
t with the vehicle of another person,
e and overturned both buggies. The
t lady, who accompanied her husband
Sin one of the buggies, was severely
0 hurt. The two Radical chiefs es
i caped scot-free.
1 -CHARMING how they combine the
r pursuits of Solon and Agricola in
Texas. As for instance: "Judge
----, of the Superior Court, split
three cords of wood, killed and clean
e ed a hog, and picked four quarts of
t blackberries after the adjournment of
Court yesterday,"
-THE Town authorities intend
Sproviding new quarters and more
commodious ones for thie Hook and
Laddei boys, and also giving extra
] accommodations and rooms to the
p, butchers. These things were needed
g and will be appreciated by the parties
p concerned.
-P. H. OSWALD is just back from
the City, with a select and replen
ished stock of everything in his line,
and is, as ever, ready and willing to
Sreceive the calls of his friends and
customers.
JOBN C. BRECKINRIDGtE.
In the death of John C.,Breckin
ridge the country is called upon to
mourn the o1ss 'of a brilliant intellect
and a gallant, noble and chivalrous
man. Descended from a family dis
tinguished in the annals of Virginia
and Kentucky, he more than sustain
ed its traditional fame. When bare
ly thirty years of age he took his seat
in the House of Representatives at
Washington, and there in a fe w
months attained the distinction of
being one of the finest orators who
had ever risen within its walls.
When but thirty-six years old-just
constitutionally eligible - he was
honored by being chosen to the sec
ond office in the gift of the American
people-that of Vice-President of the
United States. Tne former genera
tion of Democratic politicians will
recall him in memory as he was at
that time, and when he arose in the
Democratic National Convention at
Cincinnati to accept the nomination
which had been tendered him. He
was a perfect specimen of manly and
physical beauty. His features wvere
classical-; his head nobly intellectual,
and his figure was at once elegant
and commanding. His voice had the
silvery clarion ring that reminded
old Kentuckians of Henry Clay in his
youth, whom, in many respects, Gen
eral Breckinridge strongly resem
bled. There never was an instance
in the history of this country where
a citizen was so rapidly advanced on
the ladder of political eminence!
Almost at a bound he had vaulted in
to that chair which other able states
men had devoted a lifetime to secure
and failed in obtaining. In 1857
what a splendid future was apparent
ly before the then Vice-President!
He was- admired and idolized alike
by both sexes. He was the favorite
son of Kentucky, and from the Ohio
River to the borders of Tennessee,
from the mountains of Virginia to
the Mississippi, he was pre-eminent
in the popular affection. Upon no
man had fortune so early in life been
so profuse in her gifts.
With an important exception we
can say, as Macauly said of Lord py
ron: All the fairies had been bidden
to his cradle-one had brought an
cestral eminence; another great men
tal intelligence; another physical
beauty, and a fourth every social
charm and attraction. No malignant
elf, as in thee case of Byron, who hav
ing been uninvited,from spite bad
contrived to mingle a curse with ev
ery blessing. If the close of his life
failed to realize the bright anticipa
tions of his youth; if his sun finally
set under the clouds of disappoint
ment and apparent popular neglect,
it was owing to no fault of his own,
unless it is a fault to be true to one's
honest convictions. When the civil
war broke out John C. Breekihridge
was a member of the United States
Senate, just elected, having six years
to serve. This splendid position he
voluntarily relinquished, in order to
share in the dangers of the Southern
Confederacy, whose people he be
lieved to be in the right,
What man among them all sacri
ficed more than did John C. Breck
enridge when he took that which was
to be the fatal step of his life? He
appreciated the momentous responsi
bility, but he believed it was the
path which honor required, and he
fearlessly pursued it. In all the
great battles of the war which were
fought west of the mountains, from
the river to the gulf, General Breck
enridge was a conspicuous figure,
He was the Chevalier Bayard of the
South, When its cause was lost he
returned to Kentucky with a consti
Stution shattered by the exposures of
I war, and with all hopes of National
Sdistinction gone. He was simply a
Ssplendid wreck and monument of the
Sfraternal strife. It was a graceful
Scompliment which was paid him the
other day when he was visited by
Vice President Henry Wilson, who
was a Senator when he occupied that
I position, Political asperities were
,forgotten, andthe meeting was affec
3 tionate and touching between the
I present and former Vice-Presidents.
I'The tidings of his decease, as they
- flash over the telegraph wires, will
fall with leaden weight upon the.
people of the South, ant will be read
Swith unfeigned regret by all classes
in the North, who will deplore that a
once bright star has vanished frever
t and is no longer visible from the
shores of time,
f -THE last on d~t about Bean, who
defeated Moncure by destroying the
returns from De Soto Parish, has
I him in New Orleans and dangerously
Sill. Of course those who employed
Ithe luckless man to do the dirty
r work, now utterly repudiate him.
1 -THE appointment of a cadet to
West Point, by Gen, R. L Gibson,
has been' bestowed on Thomas J.
Lewis, of Orleans, and the appoint
Sment to Annapolis upon ErnestWil
. kinson, of the Parish of Plaquemines.
-TAKI NG Mr. Kellogg for author
ity, there has been funded $2,854,000
of the bonds named in the sueple
mental funding bill,
PEN AND c8iss1 I n
--Wyar should ihail-bostj it
she ?
-SEE advertisement Fo0ter's,_
ond Texas Drawing postponed fo '
few days. ,
W--W see that Levin to his Varie
ties has added a fine and splendid lot
of artichokes, the best and ftiestveg.
etable cultivated in Rapides,. z.
-REFERBIECE is demanded to thV
Charter of the "Bayou Boeuf and
Red River Plank Road Company,"
which we publish elsewhere.
-A MEDIUM woman now says that:
Charley Ross is in heaven. This acv.
counts for the non-success of the de
tectives, who know nothing of such
a bourne country.
-On dit there was at full caucus
of the Customhouse party, held in
the Granite building in NewOrleadls
on Thursday last, when all the lead,
ing lights were present, including
Warmoth. At that caucus Tom An
derson was definitely settled upon
the candidate for Governor.
-N I N pages, seventy-two col.
umns, of the New Orleans Republi
can, of May 22, are taken upr with
the lists of those who owe taxes bof
this year to the City of New Orle ai
with the numbers of their respective
bills and the net amount owing by.
each,
-Hox. Jesse D. Bright, one of the
old regime of Democratic Senators,
in the days when giant intellects had
not been superceded by pigmies, di}4 .
in Baltimore on the 20th inst., 't iu
a coincidence that he should iiavre
died so soon ofter Breckinridge.-_I
They were both Kentuckiane, warma
friends personally and politically.
HEAD-ED OFF.-Governor Weston,
of New Hampshire, and four outo
five of his Council decide that the.
votes cast for "Nat" Head, Republi
can candidate for the State Senator
from the Second District, are to by
treated as blanks, claiming that hs
name is Nathaniel. They also threw
out the vote cast for the Prohibition
candidate for State Senator, declaring
him ineligible on account of not hav
ing been a resident of the State as
long as the law prescribes. This
gives the two disputed seats in the
Senate to the Democrats.
-Tars is the encouragement given
by the Indianapolis Journal to aspir.
ing youth: "Demosthenes-Feeble
Imitators Appear in the Forum
They Rant, Roar and Paw the Air
What was Called the 'Grand Inter
State Oratorical Contest'-Callow
Youths Prance Along the Rostrum
and Incidentally Refer to Cicero and
others-Adam, Five, Tubal Cain,
Nineveh, Rome, Herodotus, Constan
tinople, Napolean Bonaparte, Confu
cius, and Other Places Mentioned-
A Sucker Finally Succeeds in Swalt
lowing the Bird."
-Tr e funeral of John C. Brecken
ridge took place, at Lexingto ΒΆ
the 20th ishat. It was attenderby
an immense throng of'people axious
to pay the last sad honors to the
memory of a great and.good mas.
The officers of the State1 headed by
Governor Leslie, were present in:
body, as were Senators Stevenson
and McCreery, and many other dis
tinguished men. The funeral wa8'
conducted by the Knights Templar,
of which General Breckenridge was
an exemplary member. No such out
pouring of people has been witness~i
since the death of Henry Clay.
8Ui'etakAs FIner KzowraGno on iv
corc--Sherman returned to the t*S?
and ina March visited his brother, John
Sherman, who took himi to see Mr. Liucoln.
"John walked up,n he wIts ibe*l
hands and took a obair near Lineola, 1old.
lng in his bands some papers referring to
mmor appointment.. He tawed to me
and said, "Mr. President, my brother, Col
onel Sherman, whris just ap from LouleL
ana. He may giveyoe y some iniforaatlb
you want." MAh" says Mr. Lincoln
"how are they ettintlg along down there?
I said, 'they think they are getting alon;
swimmingly, they are preparing for warr.
"Oh, weisaid e, "I gunees we willtM
age to keep honse." I twas silenced said
no more to him, and we soon left, .I was
sadly disappointed, and remember that I
broke out on John, daning the polit,
eiase generally, saying, 'ou have got
things in a hell of a fz, -and yo may set
them out asbest you eln," ddding tR
"the country was sleepiag on a volcano
that might burst forth at any moment, hut
that I was going to 8t. Louis to take care
of my family, and would have nothing
more to do wi-h lt.-Froim the Memoire
of General W. T. Shetmanso.
-THa Reverend Mr. Bartol, of
Boston, seems t-htllb broken out
rather unexpectedly when he told hiP
congregation, "If we would have no
monsters about us in the community,
let not idiots or insane pair, or scrof*
ulous or consumptives, those soaked
in alcohol or conceived in lust, enter
ling the world diseased in body or
mind, or overweighed with any pro.
pensity of passion, be allowed to
marry, any more than we would have
a nursery for wolves and bears, or
cultivate poisonous ivy, deadly night
shade, or apple-fern in the inclosures
of our houses, our yards and felds.
Society, by righteous custom, if not
by statute law, has a right to pre
vent, to forbid the multiplication of
monstrous specimens of humanity.
That mewling, puking, droolig, wail.
ing baby ought not o, exist; it is no
blessing, bt a ptrse of nature nd
God on the misdoing of men and
women ."