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The Democrat.' 3. L BIOSILT, ..............EDITOR OFFICE--CORNER OF SECOND & JACKSON STS. Our Agents. Thomas McTntyre,....... New Orleans J. Curtis Waldo,........---" " 8. M. Pettengill & Co.,.....New York Geo. P. Rowell & Co.,..... " Rowell & Chesman,.....St. Louis, Mo ALEXANDRIA. LA. Wedaesday. - - June 20, 1877. The Concert. Tomorrow evening there will be a Concert at the Exchange Hall for the I benefit of the Episcopal Church, I which will give our musical friends I another opportunity to enjoy a rich I treat. The Amateur musicians I whoso services are engaged for the I occasion represent some of the best musical talent we have and we can safely promise all who attend that they will be well repaid the price of admission. It is given for a chari table purpose, but the ladies and gentlemen who have it in charge, propose to give full value for the money they receive, and we guaran tee that those who attend will be well pleased with the performance. No charitable appeal has ever failed to be suitably responded to by our peo ple, and we predict that the Concert will be successful financially as well as in a musical point of view. A FEW DOZEN OLD RYE SEVEN YEARS OLD-PRIcE $1.50 PER BOTTLE. FOR SALE BY HENRY ST. JOHN. -OuR New Orleans mail, to us the most important of all allowed fa cilities, has been for the past three months regular, punctual and relia ble, furnishing us with Northern dates five days out and Western ones four days out. It is brought to Red River Landing by those finest and best of Packets, the R. E. Lee, Par goud and Natchez, and thence by stage here. But owing to a dead let down in the great Natchez with her stern-wheel substitute, we have been without the most important of these mails weekly, for the last three Mondays. The substitute, like all such steamboats, can't reach the Mouth of the River within 28 hours, hence the stage fails to get the mail on that trip, and thus we are de prived of it for 72 hours, it only reaching here with the Lee's mail leaving New Orleans on Tuesdays. We are consoled for all this in being informed that the great Natchez will wheel into line on the 1st of August next. -Now that the great steamer Nat chez has had to substitute a stern wheeler in her place, does it not come in place for our people here to consider themselves really fortunate and blessed to have such a Packet as the Bart. Able. Here we are in mid summer dullness and still she is with he. Put this, people of Alexandria, Pineville, and planters of Rapides, in your pipes and smoke it as a calumet of luck unparalleled, and one in which you can continue to bask in, if you will only stick to her in sun shine and storm. -WE have sly hints that the State and Parish Tax Collector is coming down to his work in fine style, and that he means business. This is as it should be, and every good man in the Parish should morally back him up. Everything depends on the close collection of the Parish Tax and none should be permitred to be penesioned on the delinquent list. That ought to be considered played for the future, and ll such made to pay up alike. -TuE proceedings of the Police Jury, which we gave officially and in full in the last issue of the Demo crat, have been carefully read in im portant quarters, and we can hear but one comment, that they meet with the approval of the people. It is a long time since we have had such a representative body acting for the Parish, and we trust at their July meeting, as they mature their workings, they will continue to act and legislate as they commenced in June. -HEMP jerking and dangling has been revived in Louisiana. The ball opened in Opelonsas Friday week with a solo on the gallows platform; and three danced off to Bades last Friday from a New Orleans prison stage. Bapides has one entry await ing for the Governor to appoint the Friday dance. -TsovT have commenced biting in Big Creek and at the White Sul phur Springs; now for some extra fishing excursions. -LoulsArrA's restoration has on richcd General Hood. A PROTEST AGAINST FINE PRINT. TI On behalf of a million pairs of eyes being ruined by the fine print Cc now so muck used by the leading Pi newspapers of America, we enter our tic solemn and earnest protest against a T( practice so ruinous to both publish-. TI ers and readers. There seems to be ed a rivalry among the papers to see es which one can crowd the most mat- jei ter into the smallest space and they th have succeeded in giving us a large b3 amount of news and entertaining E reading, but in such a shape as to be wi utterly useless at night and destruc- ce tive of the eyesight even in the day sc time. We would rather have less al matter in larger type. We can re- al member when primer type was used pi almost exclusively and when brevier a, was the smallest type used in the i2 newspapers; but now many of the t( I newspapers use nothing larger than w e brevier and the main part of the , reading matter is set up in nonpareil, o a pearl and sometimes diamond. The t' print of the New York Herald will r a ruin any eyes that are used in read- f e ing it at night and will strain them ,t when it is read in broad daylight.- v a We are fond of reading the Sun, but a t find it even worse than the Herald, ,f and have had to discard it almost en i. tirely. We look forward eagerly to t d the treat in store for us when we get e, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and yet we 1e are forced to deprive ourselves of a. reading many portions of it by the 11 fine print. Its editorial page is ;o mostly in primer, but the balance of to it is too fine and when we will read i o- it anyhow we put it away conscious 1 rt of the great strain on the optic ll nerves, and if we indulge in it at night we have neuralgia the next day. The St. Louis Times is no bet - ter in this respect and we have the CE same fault to find with all the papers XE at the head of journalism in the Uni ted States. Unless there is a change in this respect people will have for the pro tection of their eyesight to give up -ee reading newspapers entirely or the next generation of Americans will be distinguished by the weakness of ed their eyesight. We find by enquir nd ing among men fond of reading who are much younger than ourself that r the trouble of which we complain is let not confined to our individual expe rience, and we have no doubt if the matter was called to the attention of newspaper readers all over the land that they would join us in our com all plaint. We admire the enterprise of .he the newspaper men of this day in en deavoring to furnish the most read ri, ing for the smallest possible price, ae- but as paper is cheaper than eyesight and more readily supplied than the ail loss of it, we suggest a more liberal allowance of paper and the use of larger type. It would require more press work probably, but would not increase the cost of composition and let the four page papers give us eight pages and the eight page ones give at- us sixteen in primer, and certainly rn- In nothing less than brevier, if they lot want to show their enterprise in a to way that will not injure their read ate ers. Indeed, if necessary, let them as give us their papers in pamphlet or id- book form, so they are in larger type. ith A coal oil lamp and a newspaper is, three-fourths of which is in nonpa in reil type will bankrupt any pair of iet eyes in two years. There is a press in ing necessity for reform in this mat in, ter, but as ours does not happen to In- be one of the leading papers with its ten of thousands readers all we hope to do is to throw a pebble in the sea ote of journalism whose ripples may .ng reach outward to some of them who nd come to our assistance in a crusade as against fine print. in - ***ws - im OGERS' ENGLISH TABLE be and POCKET CUTLERY. ax LADIES' SCISSORS and OTHER be FINE GOODS KEPT BY HENRY ST. JOIIN. 'ed c "HOPE DEFERRED MAKES TEE to HEART SicK."--Who among us of adult life does not know it? We see ice the evidence every day; not confined in to city, town or village life, but on 1o- the plains, savannahlis and pasture m lands of the country. Anxious faces !ar meet us on the inland water routes, set in the cars, on legislative dfloors and It in the busy hives of industry. We ad hear the sigh, note the sallowness, bor see the restlessness, and observe the 3ir languor of the dyspeptic. If you sir wish to avoid the evils which indi ct gestion brings, and hope to become in like a tree of life, use the celebrated HOME STOMACH BITTERS. as -THAT was a sensible kind of tramp il who went up to the keeper of a conan ek try inn and asked for adrink of Ihquor, as he was exceedingly dry. The land lord said,' "Why don't you drink wa ter t It's plenty around here." "My Sfriend," said the tramp, with a depre catory shake of the head, "there are 20 indications that this is going to be a dry season. Don't you think that ha man beings should drink whisky and II- leave the water for the cattle ¶ Be ra merciful to the dumb oreation." He got the liquor. - - .-AIOTHERa new party will not be started for a day or two. TE MPER A NCE CELEBRATION. TI The United Friends of Temperance Councils 48 and 49 of Alexandria and jet Pineville, both flourishing organiza. gr tions, had ajoint celebration in the ge Town Hall on the evening of last tip Thursday, which was largely attend ht ed, and served to display the inter- bj est taken by our people in this sub- ce ject. Addresses were delivered in ar the order in which they are named, n( by Rev. C. Keener, Robt. P. Hunter, w Esq., and Rev. A. N. Ogden, which at were all appropriate and well re- h; ceived. They bit John Barleycorn ti some heavy licks which were duly P appreciated by the audience. They al - all commented on the marked im- ti I provement in respect to intemper- b ance since the societies were organ- w a Ized and sought to encourage them a B to continued efforts in the good e 2 works. fi e There was a Temperance Picnic a on the next day a short distance up t e the river, whither the party was car- t 11 ried by Captain Graham with his U fine new boat the John C. Rogers, ( n having a barge in tow. As the sky I - was thundering tents were carried It along, for which they soon had use, 1, as it commenced to rain and rained 1- all day. This seemed but to increase I %o the fun of the occasion, as the Tem- I at perance folks seemed to think they re ought not to object to a bountiful Df supply of cold water, even if the le supply did exceed the demand by is several "jugs full." We charitably of draw the veil over the appearance of Id the Pic-nic party as they returned to Is town that afternoon in the rain. ic Some of the young folks had a at dance that night at the Court House, xt which was slimly attended on ac It- count of the still prevailing rain, but he was very enjoyable nevertheless. rs We wish the U. F. O. T, continued ai- success and renewed prosperity in the year of their labor of love upon lis which they have so auspiciously en. ro- tered. up - -«*~~ ,he THE DAILY CITY ITEM.--This is the be title of a new evening paper publish of ed in New Orleans, the third number ir- of which is before us. C. W. Clark ho is the Business Manager, but the ,at names of the Editors are not given. is It is a neatly printed and well filled pe- twenty-four column paper furnished he for $8.00 per year. We should think of that there was a favorable opening in od New Orleans for such a paper as an m. evening journal, and hope to see the of Item succeed as it deserves to do. en- The other evening papers contain id- literally nothing but a few dispatches ce, and one feels after having bought one ;ht for a nickel, that he has thrown his ,he money away. We find the City Ites ral on the contrary full of entertaining of reading matter, and as the oldest )re Democratic nedspaper in the State 2ot we extend to it a hearty welcome into nd the field of journalism. -it -THE thunder and lightning Buck ive Board U. S. Mail Line comes in tri ily weekly ahead of time, and furnishes iey us with our Shreveport papers just na inside of six days. As a few months ad- and some years back, we used to re em ceive the same matter by the same or route 48 hours from the same places, pe. we fail in our progressive vision to per perceive where the "celerity" of the pa service comes in, but we live to learn of and when we do learn, we shall cer Stainly enlighten our benighted at- people. Sto ..M its -GEN. George A. Sheridan, spe >pe cial agent of the Post Oflice Depart sea ment, reached here on the BartAble, lay and had a business interview with rho Post Master DeLacy, and passed on ade up to Natchitoches and other points where the services of such an Agent have long been felt and needed. On LE his returf he will stop here long - enough to enquire into our postal ER grievances, and we feel assured he will remedy the growing evils with which we are being cursed. --THE Packet touched her Alex andria wharf before ten o'clock Mon see ied day morning, and considering the ap on proach of the dog days, had a fair trip. Her chief clerk, George C. ce Hamilton, isCaptain this trip, owing to the sickness of Capt. Sinnott, who esd remained in the city to "repair up." SAs usual the Bart. Able leaves this day at noon for New Orleans and all ' her-business landings. the Pon -THE Centennial Saw Mill is saw ing up pine logs faster than any Saw me ill in the Parish, having more power than the other mills. They have built a railroad track from the mp River, opposite their lumber yard, n- and land their lumber with speed or, and ease from their boats to the 2d- yard. -r -HALt the fools in the United States re- think they can beat the doctors at cur are ing the sick; two-thirds of them are ea sure they can beat the ministers In. preaching the gospel; and all of them nd know they can beat the editors run Be ning the papers. Ee -GEO. J. DUNCAN, one of the best of river reporters, now wields his be .pencil on the newT Journal, the City Item, THE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. This Association having for its ob ject to improve. the Cemetery lo grounds in Pineville, have been dili M gently at work since their organiza- tb tion three years ago, and in spite of pl hard times and a luke warm support of by the community they have suc- C ceeded in putting a substantial fence in around the grounds, and they have a now just completed a Sexton's house; ni with a view of having his constant ti attention and services. The work p has been done by a few persons, r though nearly every family in the tl Parish is interested, and the Assoct- ti ation proposes as we are informed, if ti those who ought to do so will contri- te bute, to lay the grounds out into v walks, to repair the neglected graves t and generally to ornament the Cem- t I etery so as to make it a suitable place e for the decent burial of the dead, b and a resort worthy of respect to t > those who are already sleeping there a _ their last sleep. At the last meeting a a of the Stockholders, Mrs. E. L. Mc Gimsey was elected President, Mrs. y E. M. Archinard, Vice-President, I Mrs. M. L. Grogan, Treasurer, and W. W. Whittington, Jr., Secretary. d Contributions may be handed or sent e to either of these officers who will I . turn them over to the Treasurer, or y dire.tly to the Treasurer, Mrs. M. I L. Grogan. .e We hope that those having rela tives and friends buried there will do y their share towards the improve )f ments of the Cemetery grounds, as ;o they are sadly in need of it, and no thing speaks so well for a comjunni a ty as the care taken of their dead. e, FINE STocK.-Everybody here with turf instincts or love for the noblest it of animals, will remember Emma, one of the finest trotters of Louisi ana, brought here by the late S. K. in Johnson, and so long driven by him )n through our streets, and so often ad n" mired by the crowd. For the last four years she has been in Kentucky ie the land of blue grass, Bourbon h- whiskey and race horses, on a "breed er ing excursion," but returned here on rk Monday, and had by her side two he beautiful blood bay fillies, respective n. ly three and two years old. The ed first is sired by that famous trotter, ed George Wilkes, and the latter by nk Goldsmith's Abdallah, a getter of in many winners. The old mare i~t an looking well, was stinted the past sea he son to Sterling, and will drop her lo. foal by him in a few days. We can in but be glad to see such stock return es to Rapides, and all amateurs and ne lovers of such pure blood stock, can is see them at the stable of ex-Mayor ,M Weil, who has this fine horse family in charge. t --COL. McGinnis of the Excelsior ite Stables, is certainly a live and pro to gressive man, and dent kill time like many here in snarling about hard ek times and all such croaker-lamenta ri tions. HIe moves along steadily and es with business earnest, and surely de t serves the increased patronage he is hs daily receiving. To keep pace to his re- increasing business, he has recently ne purchased one of Fairbanks' Mam es, oth Patent Scales, drawing six to thousand pounds, and has already he sdtationed them in the rear of his sta rn bles, and is now ready to weigh er all wagons, carts, drays and any ed other kind of vehicles with their con tents, and thus ascertain both for selling and purchasing the exact pe- quantity and weight of what is sold rt- and bought. For all this he simply le, charges twenty-five cents for each th weighing. We are sure that this is on a need, long missed and wantcd, and 2ts will be properly appreciated by all unt here. On - u -AND again another old time tal contemporary of the Democrat's has he launched a neat little bark on the ith rough waves of Journalism, away on the shores of the placid Pacific, and its first issue is before us in the ex- shape of a breezy, racy little Daily, on- hailing from San Francisco and p.calledthe Daily Echo, edited by one air of Louisiana's truest printers, J. M. C. Scanland. ng We shall gladly place this Jour. rho nal on our exchange list and wish it Sboth luck and prosperity. all -DA~N. W. VooRarIEs is going to stump the whole of the State of Indi ana, against old Morton for United States Senator. We predict it will be the hardest and fiercest contest nre ever engaged in, since the memora ble one of Polk and Jones in Tennees ley the see in 1842, and will bet our bottom d, dollar on the Tall Sycamore of the ed Wabash Valley. he -THE New York World has in vented the term "poet-lariat" to des Signate a horse thief versifier. Or- -JUNE, as we write, is having her ire shower sprees, and will we fear treat eam us to too much of a good thing. Ln- -THE first watermelons have come along, and paregoric is now in extra st demand. -THE District Court, Jury term, ty meets in Grant Parish, the first Mon day of next month. THE SUPREME COURT. G( This Court is now sitting at Ope lousas, and will go from there to ga Monroe in July, to try appeals from Hi the country Parishes. Both of these th places are out of the way and difficult te, of access. We formerly bad the pa Court here, and the point we are go.- t ing to make is that it ought to be eli moved back here by'our Legislature ed next Winter. We are of the opinion that one country term of the Su- re preme Court is enough and at any el rate it would be sufficient to locate V that term at one place for the same wi time, that is now given to the two ut terms. As a place for that one term se to be held in Alexandria, has the ad vantage over all others of being cen trally located, and easy of access all a the year, situated as it is at the head m of low water navigation. We have di besides this the advantage of having is the largest Hotel and Court-House h outside of New Orleans, both of them e' substantial brick structures. The a Red River Parishes whose appeals * now go to New Orleans, can all come here very readily by water, and thus a i relieve the City docket of the inter n ruption and burden of having to wait e t on the country appeals at their very b 1 busiest time. The Parishes of r Avoyelles, Rapides, Natchitoches, Q Red River, Bossier, Bienville, Clai- C borne, De Soto, Caddo, Winn, Grant, - Vernon, Sabine, Catahoula and Cald- i 0 well can reach Alexandria much eas ier, or about as easy as they can ei- C ,s ther New Orleans, Monroe or Ope - lousas. Ouachita, Richland, More i house, Madison, East and West Car rol., East and West Feliciana and h St. Helena can reach Alexandria with more ease by land and by boat from the North of Red River than they could Opelousas, and then a majority of them could reach Mon roe. St. Landry, Calcasieu, Pointe - Coupee, Cameron and adjoining par st ishes can reach Alexandria with more ease than they could Monroe or any other country place. The two Baton Rouges, the Teche and Coast Parishes ought perhaps to go to New Orleans, if their convenience is alone consulted, though there is no reason why all but the Parishes below and immediately around New ' Orleans should not be required to of come to Alexandria with their ap peals. We have everything needed to er make visitors comfortable while here in and it would be very appropriate for rn the place with these advantages as u( well as being the geographical center an of the State to be chosen as the place or for one country term. If it is nec ly essary to have two, we are entitled to the one held at Opelousas, by our advantages, our position and our or having had it taken from us under o- radical rule. It will require some ke energy on the part of our people, and rd principally on the part of our law a- yers, to have the Supreme Court sit ad here next summer. le is ISHING TACKLE-A GREAT - VARIETY. SPOON BAIT ly and OTHER GOODS IN THAT LINE. DEALERS SUPPLIED BY ix HENRY ST. JOHN. iy Ax HONEST RADICAL.-During the sa- reign of universal corruption, for ten gh years when Radicrlism was in full 3y bloom and absolute power, the late n- Attorney General, A. P. Field, was or considered the only honest man t among the whole crowd, and died Id with that reputation. The Demo ly crats being now in power have com ch menced to investigate, and so far Smany iniquitous secrets have leaked nd out. The widow of the honest "old all Roman" has come to our rescue, and with the documentb is showing up the buzzard crew, of which we are as now happily rid. The following is he one among many letters, of which she has preserved copies, and is ud proof positive of Kellogg's rascality he and venality: ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, STATE ly, or LouIsiraNA, nd NEw ORLEANs, ne July 19, 1875. HiC s Excellency W. P. Kellogg: SIr--The fact which you are aware has come to my personal knowledge of ur- your unparalleled attempt to tamper with the Judge of the Superior Crimi it nal Court, in the matter of his charge to the jury, forces me to address you Sthis official communication upon the subject. It is an act which of itself to should result in your impeachment for di- misdemeanor in office, being committed ed upon the occasion of the trial of a State official upon the gravest of charges. I rill am not prepared now to say to what est extent you have carried your Executive influence in furthering your bold and ra- evident intention of shielding your friends and partners in wrongs upon e- the treasury of this State, but rest as am sured I shall not be idle in ferreting out ;heall you have so zealously guarded from the eye of the public. If it be any com fort to you, lay the flattering unction to your soul, that not your high 9flcce in- shall save you, when the hour is come in which you shall account at the pub e- lie tribunal for your many violations of the high trust reposed in you as Gov ernor. I am your obedient servant, ier A. P. FIELD, Attorney General, State of Louislana. -HENDERSON TAYLOR, 8 well known citizen and distinguished law me yer of Avoyelles, aged 72 years, died tra at his residence in that Parish on the 4th of the present month. m, -THE Supreme Court is now in n- session in Opelousas; it meets in Monroe the first week in July. GOVERNOR S. J. TILDEi TALKS. W The Manhattan Club, New York, gave a parting reception to Governor Hendricks on his departure across El the waters. Among the many invi ted Democrats and gentlemen who 81 participated there and made short of talks, Sam). J. Tilden, the President D elect of these United States, deliver- gi ed the following: ti "Everybody knows that after the de recent election the men who were be elected by the people President and o1 Vice-President of the United States ol were counted out, and men who were h; not elected were counted in and o1 seated. C I disclaim any thought of the per- ei sonal wrong involved in this trans- vi action. Not by any act or word of ti mine shall that be dwarfed or degra- tI ded into a personal grievance, which ti is, in truth, the greatest wrong that ri has stained our national annals. To B every man of the four and a quarter p millions who were defrauded of the 0 fruits of their elective franchise, it o is as great a wrong as it is to me, t and no less to every man of the mi- t nority will the. ultimate consequences I t extend. Evils in government grow i by success and impurity. f They do not arrest their own pro. j gress; they can never be limited, x- 1 cept by eternal forces. If the men i in possession of the government can I in one instance maintain themselves t in power against an adverse decision t of the elections, such an example i will be imitated. Temptation exists I always; devices to give color of law I and false pretences on which to d found fraudulent decisions will not a be wanting. it The wrong will grow into a prac- 1 tice, if condoned. In the world's a history changes in the succession of governments have usually been the i result of fraud or force. It has been our faith and our pride that we had h established a mode of peaceful change to be worked out by the agency of the ballot box; the question now is id whether our elective system in the substance as well as its form is to be maintained. This is the question of questions until it is finally settled. There can be no politics founded on inferior to questions of administrative policy. It involves the fundamental right of the people. It involves the elective principle. It involves the whole sys to tem of popular government. The re people must signally condemn the or great wrong which has been done to as them. They must strip the example er of everything that can attract imita CC tions; they must refuse a prosperous C- immunity to crime. This is not all ed -the people will not be able to trust ur the authors or beneficiaries of the ur wrong to devise remedies, but when er those who condemn the wrong shall ne have the power, they must revise the measure which shall render a repeti Stion of the wrong forever impossible. t If my voice could reach through out our country, and be heard in its Jremotest hamlet, I would say be of T good cheer; the republic will live. TThe institutions of our fathers are ynot to expire in shame; the sover eignty of the people shall be rescued from this peril and re.established. he Successful wrong never appears so en triumphant as on the very eve of its ill fall. ite Seven years ago a corrupt dynasty as culminated in its power over the mil an lion of people who live in the city of ed New York. It had conquered or uo- bribed, or altered, and won almost m- everybody into acquiescence. It ap ar pears to be invincible. A year or ed two later its members were in the uld penitentiaries, or in exile. History nd abounds in similar examples. We up must believe in the right, and in the ire future; a great anti noble nation will is not sever its political from its moral ch life. ity -Sntnrr Robinson and Deputy Sheriff Taylor left for Baton Rouge i and New Orleans, on the last trip of the Bart. Able, and had in charge for the Penitentiary the prisoners sen tenced at the late term of the Dis aretrict Court. These were Alfred of Richardson, colored, sentenced to per two years for horse stealing, and Jim ii- Seigel six months for larceny. They rge had also in charge for the Lunatic SAsylum, the poor unfortunate and elf demented Billy Sheffield, a young for native of the Parish, and well known ted here, and old Mary Dial, a confirmed at crazy woman, who has been in Jail nthere for nearly four years at the exr Ile pense of the Parish, though she is nd really a resident of Vernon Parish. >ur It is really remakable that this un On fortunate woman should have been " palmed off on us by the authorities om of Vernon, and that we should be m- taxed to furnish shelter and suste Ito nance for their crazy people, and Ice still more criminal that she should Shave been permitted to linger in the of old hulk, so called our Parish Prison. ov at, -THe young men of the Parish na. and Town have inaugurated a Fourth of July celebration, which will be the filrst here since the late unpleasant hw- ness, and from those at the head of led this move, we can but expect there on vival of the olden time 4th of July doings. Their programme, else where to be read, gives a hint to the in public of what they may expect, and in we freely endorse this move and ex pect it to be crowned with success. WASHBISGTO C¢ORSESOg5e1lt WASRIROTOR, June 12, 1877. EDITOR DEIOtCRAT Tne President has just done a seu. sible thing appointing a Desocrat one of the Commissioners of this District. The people here are to a great extent dependent upon the sa. tion of Congress, and it is manifestly desirable that the local offices should be filled with men whose political opinions, are in harmony with these of the two Houses. Mr. Bryan, who has received the appointment, was one of two men suggested by Mr. Corcoran, the largest real-estate own. er of the District. In a late inter. view here General Butler was ex. tremely bitter in his comments on the fact that Mr. Corcoran seemed to have the ear of the President ia relation to District affairs. But Butler is a partisan, and spoke as a partisan. *With a debt of over $20,.. 000,000 and a real estate valuation of less than $100,000,000, and pat. ticularly without trade or manufat. tures, the property holders of the District have something besides pol. itics to think of. General Butler, by the way has just written a letter to Wayne Mo. Veigh, one of the President's Lou. isiana Commissioners. The letter has the vim and paint of everything that comes from Butler, and some. thing more than usual of scurrility and petty personal abuse. It is in. teresting only when we remember that McVeigh is not, and the Presi. dent is, the person that Butler is dri. ving at. It is well understood that war has commenced against the Ad. " ministration, and that General Butler 3 is doing the preliminary fighting. f The troops heretofore kept in Lou. isiana have been ordered to the i West. This is carrying out the 1 President's well known purpose not a to keep soldiers In any place where f their presence could be considered as s a menace to the people. Those in a South Carolina will probably soon e follow. The good old Democratio doctrine that the strength and per. I petuity of the Union of States de o pends upon the good will of all its r members, rather than upon the exer. - cise of force, has evidently a hold f upon the President. e There is much opposition from I- both parties to the a and taken by S the President in regard to Mexico, e and it will not be surprising if the 0 order to General Ord to cross the e Rio Grande with troops whenever he º- thinks it necessary, shall be modified. s Secretary Sherman has uniformily II expressed an idea that all queetions t as to losses incident to the war, by e citizens of the United States, should n be submitted to and passed upon by ll some Court, Board or Comuission e specially suthcrizeil for the purpose, - The talk of Blaine and others during 3. the last campaign about the doubllang u- of the National debt by payment of a "Southern claims" if Tilden was >f elected was bosh, and was Intended - only to affect the election then about e to take place. But the party of r- which Mr. Blaine was, up to the 4th d of March, arpader, has been paying I. millions of dollars yemuly of the o claims of Northern and Southern men s who lost property by reason of the war. These payments, so far as y they were made by the Treasery, I- have been stopped by the pretsent )f Secretary. He has an idea, as stated ur above, that all of them should be re It ferred for examination to some com. P- petent authority, having' fixed rules ur by which to decide them. There i ae a clamor of claimants and some of y their agents against this, but I be. 'elieve that the Secretary's plan, if he promptly adopted and put into ope. 11 ration, would result in benet to pro. al per claimants, and in loss only to thse who own or control frandalent or 'watered" claims. Heretofore one ' Court has passed upon some of these Sclaims; a Commission has passe4 upon another class; the Treasury up. Son other classes, et. ' Each of these . bodies has had its own rules as to d evidence, and the most contradlotory o conclusions were reached. The man Swho got pay through the Court for his cotton was refused by the Com d missiba any payment for his male.s, g and, through the Treasury, got half Sprice for corn and oats. Each body il was supreme in its sphere, and the i Commission and the Treasury arbi. is trarily decided upon the prices to be - paid as well as upon the facts in the a- oases. As there are many miilons in of dollars worth of these claims, pre. be sumably just, but which will bear e examination, Secretary Sherman's Id plan seems to be both just to the Id claimant and necessary for the pro. he tection of the Government. In Jus tice to the citizen, and for the hbonor sh of the nation, however, if former me. th thods of examination are to be on be perseded, the new ones should be t promptly created. NEMO. of e -A MAs bet that he could ride a fly-wheel in a saw mill, sad as his he widow paid the bet she remarked: id "William was a very kinLd hubasband, x- but he did not know maobh about fly us. wheels."