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DEMIO CRAT. B. R. BIOSST,..............EDITOR OFFICE-CORN ER OF SECOND & JACKSON STS. OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE TOWN Our Agents. Thomas McTntyre, .......New Orleans J. Cnrtis Waldo, ........." S. M. Pettengill & Co.,.....New York Geo. P. Rowell & Co.,..... " Rowell & Chesman......St. Louis, Mo ALEXANDRIA, LA. WEDNESDAY, - - OCT. 17, 1877. NOTICE, We have many subscribers in ar rears-some of them to a considera ble amount; we have reminded them often of the fact, and every DEMO CRAT they receive costs us just so much cash, for there is no credit in the printing business. Again we ask all of them to come to our relief, as this is the season of the year when they all can pay. Though what each one owes is small in amount, could easily be paid, still the aggregate is large, and is justly our due. --Tae Jetties constructed over the bar, below Town, are practically a complete success and a great help to navigation. That bar, previous to the work, was the worst and most obstructive on the river, calling only for two feet scant, and now the heave of the lead sings out four feet full. Surely, an interested people must remember this kind of work and enterprise on the part of the Pool Line, and must accord to them great credit for this new born zeal and energy in making a dead low river, in a particular spot, navigable to all their boats. -SevEnAL issues back of the DEmocaT, we stated that our butch era were retailing fresh beef at ten cents a pound, and a few days back that jolly butcher, Sackman, halted as about it and really convinced us that we had committed a grave, but nnintentionable error against his fraternity. So we take it all back, and now state that they are all re tailing choice beef at only eight cents a pound, which leaves them a fine margin for solid profits, and that they all intend to serve the public at these rates. -We learn that a number of our young Israelite friends, on last Sab bath, were convened together, and organized a "Young Men's Hebrew Association," the cardinal principles of which are Sociability and Friend ship. The following members were chosen officers: Ben. Welil, President. J. Caspar, Vice-President. Louis Malachowsky, Secretary. C. P. Oswald, Treasurer. -THE members of Rapides Grove Lodge No. 1, a colored Association of our Town, gave a Ball at the Town Hall, on last Thursday night, and al, passed off pleasantly and success fully. -THE yellow fever is still raging at Fernandina-two Sisters of Mer cy have died there with the fell scourge, but two others of these sainted women have gone to take their places. --S~A. PINces and young Jake Irving, both our advertisers, have separate and distinct stalls in the Market House, and are getting their sharr of patronage for their line roasts and juicy steaks. -Ox Tuesday, November 6, ten States will hold elections. They are New York, New Jersey, Massachu setts, Maryland, Virginia, Missise sippi, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wis consin and Nebraska. --START, Mr. Sanford's brown flly, 3 years old, has won the first Welter handicap at the New Market second October meeting, beating twelve competitors. The betting was twelve to one against Start. --OLD "Antonio," our good old fellow-townsman, has lost a fine, gold bracelet, and will give a suitable re ward for it. delivery to him. -GOVERNOB Nicholls has gone North on a health tour. Lieutenant Governor Wilts now wields the baton of State. --You have trouble to gather au tamn leaves in Texas, becanse all the beat trees are in daily use to cure men of horse stealing. -Tas debt of the United States, lees cash in the Treasury, is now $3,095,26,676. PLAIN TALK. We have grown old In our journal istic duties, and the older we get we 1 find from mistaken experience, that I our contributors, our friends and pa trons, are losing sight of the duties of a journalist. Our paper political ly is a Democratic one in the true sense of the honored term, and we i never deviate from that path in al- 1 lowing its tenets attacked, but still it is a paper devoted to the true in terests of the Parish, and has friends I and patrons, who have a right to dis. 1 agree with us in many views, and i further a right to the free use of our columns to make known their senti ments, their opinions and their ideas of men and medsures, who are en- 4 trusted with public duties in our Pa- 1 rish. This, we hope, is a plain an- I swer to our communicant, "Fair ] Play," assuring him that "One of i the People," whose communication E he finds fault with is a gentleman, a I large tax payer, a life-long patron i and friend of ours, and had a perfect I right to the use of our col- i umns, and moreover, is perfectly responsible for his acts and words therein expressed. But this does 1 not argue, that we coincide with him 1 in all he writes, though we have i great regard for his opinions. None 1 of us are free from imperfections, I from prejudice, and it is only by a comparison and expression of our views, that we can arrive at some ] safe conclusion. Again for the thousandth time, re peating and reasserting our honest 1 opinion, our firm conviction of the grand and arch infamies, forgeries I and perjuries of the Returning Board, which have forced on the people of this country a fraudulent President, who in turn has rewarded every mem- 1 ber cf the Board, as well as its Sec- 1 retary with fat offices in the New Or leans Custom House, we shall now proceed to have our say, our authen tic talk about the main intention of i both communications from "One of the People" and "Fair Play." We shall preface these few plain I words with the expression, that we write knowingly on the subject; and I do it purely to set the public right 1 towards a good official, who we be lieve and know to be correct and hon estly disposed to settle with the State for every dollar he has collected. Too much, a great deal too much in justice has been done, thus far in this matter, to Mr. Burgess, the late Tax Collector, and now that the op. portunity has been forced on us, we shall certainly see that justice and fair play is extended to him, and that he be judged by his acts, his own official acts, and that the hercu lean sins of the Returning Board, be cause he has marital links existing with its head, be not permitted to soil his robes or prejudice his case. In words as plain as language can convey them, and as plain as type can print them, we know and we here affirm it, that Mr. Burgess has ten dered, and anxiously offered a full and-fair settlement of his collections to the Auditor, and that the Auditor was willing to make that settlement, considering it just and ample, uoti that red tape, honeycombed with punctilious prejudice and foolish business traits of another Bureau of the State Department thwarted this settlement and prevented it. Surely Mr. Burgess could not have done more, offered less, and we now know and are convinced he is not in the least responsible for the childish turn the matter has been permitted I to take against him. In the last few weeks, we learn, that suit in the District Court has been ordered against him and his sureties, and that it has been insti tuted by the District Attorney, and such being the case we believe pub lic opinion in the matter, whieh in this article we desire to post as to the true facts, should be stayed and let the State here, through its effi cient District Attorney, get as good terms out of Mr. Burgees judicially as he offered in person to the Audi tor. But, above all, let it rest on its real merits, and stop all talk of pros eention and persecution. Deal fair and rigidly and rightfully with one whose acts demand justice and fairness. CEW DOZEN OLD RYE- SEVEN YEARS OLD. PRICE $1.50 PER BOTIZLE. FOR SALE BY HENRY ST. JOHN -Evuar member of the Returning Board, their Secretary, the notorious Able, with many kinfolks, and a few special pets thrown in for Zagniappe, have snug and paying positions in the Custom House. We have an idea that the United States Senate will soon lift some of them out of their official boots. -TaHE old man of the Demoorst, on Saturday evening, received a nice pumpkin pie from a sweet and love ly girl, and had a delicious repast of it, -Tah Fire Boys, who so succees fully ruan and handle "Lizzsie," had a wash on Wednesday. SCHOOL MATTERS. ' A correspondent of ours, a few weeks ago gently overhauled our of t ficient, and we believe well meaning t School Board, about publishing their o doings, and from what we learn our g devoted self was hauled over the r coals in no very complimentary i terms about it. Well, we are used to I these unmerited criticisms and can g afford to smile at them, if the Board a can afford to do it at the cost of pub- I lie opinion; for be it known that well t meant and well directed public opin- I ion is master of us all. c We should not have alluded to this g matter again had not a recent official t publication in the New Orleans Dem ocrat upset all we, and the public r had heard, as rumors only, of the I Board's settlement with Mr. E. J. e Barrett, the late Treasurer. And a right here the shoe pinches the over- I sight and neglect of the Board in not J letting the public know of their acts, J and right here the recent publication 1 fixes all into chaos, and gives the I unposted public a chance to carp, to grumble and to find fault. For one we are free to state, that though this c publication mystifies things, yet we a feel convinced that the late Treasu- I rer has made a fair and honest set- s tlement with the present School a Board, and that when the matter is C properly sifted all will be right. But as there exists in this official e publication in the New Orleans Dem- I ocrat, and the settlement of the late g Treasurer, a serious discrepency, we feel bound to publish it, and give an I opportunity to the parties interested to explain this mystery of figures. Here is the discrepency in a few words: the late Treasurer settled with the Board here, so welearn, and brought the Board in debt over a thousand dollars, and that official publication states that for the 1 Parish of Rapides the sum of r $15,936,92 were her receii is of school monies, and that only the sum of $10,784,13 was disbursed. Here is c the discrepency unaccounted for of the sum of $5,152,79. That master of us all, public opinion, demands t that this serious difference in figures t be explained and rectified COIIMMNIJC&TION. EDITOR DEMOCRAT A communication from "One of the People," in the last number of your paper,- has in some degree sur- i prised many of your patrons, among I whom I number myself for many long years, and I must protest against a certain portion of it, which was intended to reflect, and to reflect unjustly, on the late Collector of taxes in tis Parish. That portion of I it about the Returning Board, I can find no fault with, hut on the contra ry endorse every word, because their crime is a fixed one, and has lassed into fraudulent action and govern ment, and every man in this broad land has been touched by it. But, Mr. Editor, I really think, and express thlis thought to you can didly and freely, that the ungracious lick at the late Collector of this Par ish is unpardonable, unjust, unmeri ted, and should never have been printed in your columns, for the in sinuation about the Collector is real ly in bad taste, and to say the least ofit, unfair and unmanly. I could easily prove all this assertion, but as I the matter has been forced, through error and prejudice, in the Courts, Ishall forbear, and will not trespass further on your spare columns, and ask one and all to wait for the wagon, and my word for it, the Collector will come out with clean hands as an honest and faithful official. FAIR PLAY. -WILLtIu Owans who was con victed of murder, without capital punishment, at the last term of the District Court, and who has since been granted a new trial, has now applied to the District Judge for a change of venue. Judge Blackman having recused himself in the case referred the application to Robt. P. Hunter, Esq., who originally tried the case, and granted the new trial. The case will come up, therefore, be fore Judge Hunter, acting Judge in place of the recused Court. -JAcK GOULDEI., Alexandria's fa vorite and popular house and sign painter, has complained to us that the Gazette, of Saturday, has entire ly misrepresented his intentions in a business point of view, and asks us to state that he is not going to be absent fiorm Alexandr;a until Janu aiy. He is here at his post and ready for all jobs in his line, and will be pleased to attend to all work en trusted to him. -THE C. H. Durfee, the Packet, r in place of the Bair. Able, has been thrown out of regular time by the cossed low water, but yet makes ,weekly trips, and will soon wheel in I to her regular leaving day, Since our last she has been here, with a Sgood trip and departing down from here with what cotton she could take out on the water. S-THANKS to the W. J. Behan for our two regular -packages of papero, O1IO DIEMOCRATIC. The recent State election in Ohio, the giant State of the West, the third Slate df the Union, the home E of Mr. Hayes, has resulted in a grand, sweeping and complete victo- e: ry for the Democratic party. The p issues were fairly drawn up, the a Democrats in the contest were ag- a gressive and plainly out-spoken re about the Returning Board-Centen- h nial fraud, and fought every inch of b the grand contest on principles, Democratic principles, and have ' come out of the contest with victory, fi grand and substantial, gracing all b their banners. n This Democratic victory is, we a repeat, a decided and thorough one. ti We have elected a Democratic Gov- a ernor by over 30,000 majority; have n a majority of 15 in the Senate and a fi majority of over 25 in the House. s Just think of it, a Democratic ma- t: jority on joint ballot of over 401 h Thus we secure, beyond doubt, a b United States Senator in place of a Mr. Hayes' bosom friend, Stanley o Matthews, and a worthy Democratic I companion in the United States Sen- a ate for the old veteran and tried t Democrat, Allen G. Thurman. It l sounds like old Democratic music g at that, to record the great State of a Ohio with two Democratic United ii States Senators, and her State Gov ernment and both branches of her C Legislature in the hands of the a grand and true old Democracy. e H ARDTNER WORKS TO PLEASE, TO FIT-and HIS Boors AND a SHOES ARE AN ORNAMENT TO ANY d DECENT FOOT. A WORD TO TH'I UNRMPLOYED.-Our i1 atlention has been called to a new cook- n ing utensil, recently invented, which f makes baking a pleasure, instead of a d!readed necessity; the inventor of which has conferred an everlasting a blessing upon every hou2ekeeper. We r refer to the Patent Centennial Cake and q Bread Pan, with which, by simply rai- a sing a hook, you can remove the sides e ot the pan from the cake instantly, without breaking or injuring It in the least, thus enabling you to ice and frost it while warm. To remove the tube in f the center, insert a knife in the slot in a the top of the tube, and simply give it y a half turn, and it will drop out. It is c also p1iovided with a slide on the bot torn, so thai, when you remove the tube you can close the hole, making a pan 11 with pl;in bottom, for buking jelly and pl.au cakes, pudding, brea.u, etc., thus t pra'ctic:ally giving yoi two pans for the pr:ce of one. The Cen;ennial Cake Pan is blythly 'ecomnm.uded by the ladies as being the best and most convenient pan ever Introduced. They are male of Russia iron, are more duarable, and will bake your cakes more evenly and a I much Itiher brown than you can bake I thel in the old-ifashioned tin calve pans. t These goods are sold exclusively through agents to fa.milies, and every housekeeper should by all means have themu. A splendlid opplor unity is of.l ed to some reliable lady or gentleman canvasser of this Parish to 5ecure the I agenlcy for a pleasant and profitable bu.ihless. For terms, territory, etc., w'ite to L. E. BRowN & Co., Nos. 214 and 216 Elm street, Cinlcinnati, Ohio. -AN old man about 55 years qf age, name unknown, but who wasi remembered here by some of our I people, as a Confederate scout dur ing the war, was found strolling I around Town, destitute and sick, ! and taken into the Exchange Hotel l by our Mayor and some four or five 1 of our good Samaritani. His sick ness proved to be a fatal one, for the poor unfortunate died a lew hours I after receiving a good resting place at the hands of his stranger friends. He was decently buried at the Par ish's expense, and he was followed to God's Acie in Pineville by a few big hearted and benevolent of our Town people. -A vours man named Boehner, the ginner of the Marsh Brothere, met with an unfortunate and serious accident, while attending to his dn ties on Saturday. His left hand and arm were caught in the saws of the gin, and were considerably sawed and torn up. He has proved himself under this heavy afiliction to be a brave and courageous man, and is standing his sufferings like a hero. No fears are entertained of his ulti mate recovery, but he may lose the active use of the crushed and bruised limb. -TaE Crown Prince of Prussia is now put down as an opponent of Bis marck. He has lately had the hon esty and statesmanlike foresight to declare that he would favor, in the Sinterests of peace, the surrender of -Alsace and Lorraine to France, in consideration of an indemnity wor thy of the concession and the dis mantling of the fortress, which the Germans themselves have so materi ally strengIhened, on the French side of the Rhine. ~ -GOVERNOB HENDRICKS, VCe President elect of the United States, .returned home from Europe just in Stime to hear the Democratic thunder from Ohio, and hear her Democratic yeomanry assert in thunder tones, Snot to be mistaken, that the home of e Mr. Hayes don't confr.n his fraudu lent, Returning Board title to the Presidency. It m ust have been r cheering, sweet music t Oir honored 4 and gallant Hendricks.L TOBIAb ON A RAMBLE. C ALEXANRDIA, ai Oct. 15, 1877. hi DEAR DEMOCRAT-- t I have just returned from a'rather w extensive ramble through the greater it portion of our grand old Parish and as a part of Grant, and thinking that it ij may be entertaining to your many w readers to know what I saw and n, heard, I propose to give them the al benefit of my week's travel. o CHENEYVILLE AND THE CROPS. b With a nice pair of horses and buggy tl from Col. McGinnis' ocmplete sta- w bles, I started last Monday for Che- jp neyville which place I reached after i an easy drive of thirty miles. I no- n ticed the crops closely as I passed, A and I am sure I never saw finer cane h nor better prospects for a sugar crop o from the plant cane, than are to be u seen all along the road. The only it trouble is that none of the planters n have any stubble, and the crops will 13 be short because they will have to h save their seed cane for next year tl out of their plant cane of this year. ft I think the cotton crop of the Parish, 1j and I have seen it nearly all, both in a the hills and on the low lands, will n be more than a good half crop. A si great deal of it will be wasted as it is t4 all open, and the hands can not pick 'I it but fast enough to save it all. h Everthing looks flourishing around a Cheneyville; the people are in good C spirits, and there is a happy, content- t. ed look about them in remarkable si contrast to the uneasy and unsettled appearance they used to have in the tL days of radical rule. Indeed, I no- a ticed this to be the case wherever I S have been in this Parish. Improve- It ments are being made, ditches dug, ti fences put up, and the bayou places d about Cheneyville are taking on a somewhat of their ante bellnun ap- 5 pearauce. Four years of peace and a quiet will make our bayou lands, ri what they once were "the fairest that 0 e'er the sun shone on." Nowhere in si the world are to be found a more g hospitable and generous hearted peo a pie than those around Cheneyville, w and in these qualities they are rt valled by all our people wherever one t may go. One result of my trip has a been to confirm me in the pride I 0 have always felt in my native Par- Y ish, and like the old Romans, I carry o that pride with me everywhere. COLVAX AGAIN. t Returning from Cheneyville and staying one night at home, I started t off again on Wednesday for Colfax a and the "Free State of Grant" which t place I reached late that evening, f having some mote business before r the Conot of Loreunzo Smith the next t day. I had said in my last that c there were but eleven houses, and as t I drove in I counted them to be sure [ that I was right. I found that I had 2 unioientionally wronged Colfax out of two houses, and I desire to make the amnende honorable. I mentioned mny plan to abolish the Parish to some of the citizens, and I find them opposed to it. This I was prepared to expect. They are, however, will ing to swap us Big Creek for the neck of Rapides on this side of Red River that runs up opposite Colfax. And they say that that portion of Rapides neither votes nor pays I tnaxes. I call the attention of the -Assessor and Collector to that state- t ment. All around the town is a cot Iton patch which. comes up to the very back doors of the houses. I am a ,still for blotting out Grant Parish, - and giving its teritory back to the I parishese from which it was taken.i The formation of the Parish was one of the worst jobs of radicalism, and I hope to see our next Legislature un do the work, and can discover no other reason for their nobt doing it, than that it may injure the private interests of a very few persons. The people of the hills get their supplies I and bring their /cotton to Pineville, and it will benefit them. A LA JENKINS. Coming down from Grant I found Smyselfjust in time to attend a liarty given by the young gentlemen of Co tile and the River, at the residence of Mrs. Patrick, and your correspondent having "gotten himself up in style, started for the handsome pinewoods residence aforesaid in company with a gay and merry crowd of young folks who were all full of eager an -ticipation. I found Mr. Sam Heha I rie's String Band on hand to furnish the music for the occasion, and soon the bellesand beauxns commenced to fill Mrs. Patrick'es spacious parlors. . It is seldom that Mr. Jenkins ever . finds gathered together so many fair Swomen and brave men as graced this .occasion with their presence. As I e gazed upon them in the giddy whirls of the waltz, and the stately grace of the lancers, I again felt proud of our - Parish, that can beat all creation for Spretty girls and gallant men. The Sdancing was kept up until daylight, cand the boys went home with the s, girls in the morning. SPBING CREEK CAMP marETIeG. SThe Camp Meeting at Spring Creek Sbeing in fbll blast, I took that way to come home from Cotile, and found a large crowd assembled on the Camp Ground from all directions for W thirty miles around. The grounds are well chosen, and many persons have built small houses or tents, as they call them, into which they move with their families during the meet ing. The ministry was well repre- 1 sented by Revs. Cooper, Parvin, Bil- It lingsby, White, Scurlock and Keener, at with perhaps some others whose names I did not learn, and they were ably assisted by a very efficient board a of Deacons or Supervisors whose bi business it is to see to the order of W the Camp Grounds. Great interest si was taken in the services, and to PI judge by the numbers of those who iS went up to be prayed for, the present lo meeting will be a very successful one. lii A noticeable feature of the Camp ol Meeting is the evident earnestness to of everybody. It is not hard to trace in up the influence of the annual meet- P1 ings on the community, and there is 5l nowhere in this Parish a more order. G ly, quiet and law abiding neighbor- di hood in this or any other Parish, et than that of Spring Creek. The ef- ti fects of a good government are clear- re ly to be seen there, as they are pi wherever I have been, and one sees li new homes, new fences and increa- b sing evidences of prosperity and con- SE tent everywhere on Spring Creek.-- tI They were expecting the Camp p Meeting to last until Wednesday, if P not all this week. A trip to the Camp Grounds is well worth the e trouble of getting there. f SPRING CREEK AND THE SCHOOL BOARD. S I heard some complaint about h there not being a representative from cl all that section of the Parish on the ol School Board, and as it is one of the E largest and most thickly, settled por- st tions of theParish, having f9ur hun- cl dred voters as they tell me, and as pi many or more school children, it p; seems to me that the complaint is fr well founded. I don't know who is pl responsible for the neglect, but it m ought to be corrected at once, if pos- ji sible. The parents out there take de great interest in educational matters, and while they are to some extent tl well provided for by the present A Board and have efficient teachers, p they are entitled by their numbers i, and influence to direct representation a on the School Board. I merely give ol you their cause of complaint in their j own words, and hope that the mere a statement of it will induce somebody tl to see to the matter. I find that the DEMOCRAT is ex- si tensively read all over this Parish, , and the approval of its position upon D the questions which have been be- t; fore the people is unanimous. It is regarded everywhere as a good and i true home paper, and, Mr. Editor, I h congratulate you upon the hold you a have in the good opinion of the peo ple for whom you have worked so r zealously and well. a Yours Truly, i TOBIAS. THE JI! LAW, ii The new Jury law, passed at the last session of the Legislature, and 1 which is now in force, contains the 'I following two sections, which we deem of sufficient interest to publish: I1 Sac. 8. Be it further enacted, ete., Ii That it shall be the duty of each per- I son drawn and siummoned, to attend as a juror pnnctually and for the time for which he is so drawn; and the Dis- 1 trict Judge shall have the right to en- , force said attendance by a ine on the delinquent juror of not less than twen ty nor more than one hundred dollars and imprisonment in the parish jail for not more than seven days, or both, in his discretion. The jurors who attend I and serve shall beexempt from road a duty, during the year in which 'they shall serve as jurors; and those jurors who live more than seven miles from c the courthouse, and no others, shall be entitled to demand and receive irom the parisheb treasury one dollar per diem for each day's actaal attendance upon i the court; and the several Clerks of ( the District Courts shall, upon the demand of each of such jurors at the a close of his term of service, issue to u Ihim a certifieate of attendance for the amount to which hie may be entitled. SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, etc., That in all civil cases in which a jury may be prayed for and allowed, it shall be the dty of the party praying for the jury to deposit with the Clerk Vof the court twelve dollars as jury t costs, and nojary shall be ordered in f any civil cases unless the said cost is paid; provided, that in cases in which the Judn ex officio shall order a jury , in a civil case, the plaintit' shall ad vance and pay to the Clerk the Jury costs of twelve dollars, which shall Sfinally be taxed as costs against the g party cast In the suit. In case the plaintiffdoes not advance the costs so ordered, the cause shall be -continued to the next term of the h coqrt; and should he fail to advance the said costs by the next term of the I n court, the Judge shall dismiss the case 0 as in case of nonsuit. At the elose of L each jury term of the District Court, the Clerk shall pay over the total civil r jury tax for the term to the Parish ir Treasurer, and this fund shall be ex l pended for no other purpose than that for which it was deposited; provided, nothing herein shll be so construed Ias to require by any party payment of zue sajury costs more than onee. L HoNEsT John Sherman and his 750 Washington clerks, who went to SOhio to vote have come to griet. The old war horse of Democracy, Thurman, is now strutting around smilingly with the sdalp of John k Sherman dangling at his belt. y -Wannov and his bride have d returned to the United States from ie their European bridal tour; WA8HINGTON CORh888lIBONICe. WASiHNoToN, ) Oct. 8, 1877. EDITOR DEMOOBRAT The first number of the 'a Union was issued here on the 4lg It is a daily paper and has a thrifty and stable look. Its somewhat proe tentious title may deceive some into a belief that it is not a party paper, but the contents of the first issue will speedily dispel any such delu sion. It is simply a Republican pa per supporting the Administration in all its measures, but clearly not looking beyond the party. Its pub. lishers are wiser than other frlends of the Administration, who expect to see made from the ruains of e;ist ing parties a "Hayes party." The paper does not assume airs of organ ship, and has in its first issue no Government advertisements. A few days since, A. M. Clapp, late Gov ernment printer, assumed control of the National Republioan, and will run it as an advocate of "genuine re publicanism," meaning in- opposi tion to the Administration. Thus both sections of the party arerepre sented, and quite ably, at the Na-' tional Capital Long may both' pa pers live to extend confusion in the party. Prosecuting oecers of the. Gov ernment here. have taken courage from having convicted Ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Sawyer of having knowingly paid a fraudulent claim, and are now pushing the trial of one Witoweki and a Penisylvania Ex-Congressman for presenting and securing payment of another suph claim. The good effect of punishing parties guilty of these things is ap parent. The frequency with which fraudulent claims are known to be presented and paid raises in the minds of officials and the ipublie un just suspicions as to other and more deserving ones. It is also said the Grand Jury of the District will present one or more Army Officers for fraud" in securing payment, for a consideration, of a large amount of money to parties for a sham article for the preservation of Army clothing. Doonn Piatt of the Sunday Capital, is the accuser, and Quartermaster Refus Ingallh is the party eccused. Piatt wis in the "ring' and says be did not get his share of the stealings. These things with a forgery case in the Interior Department, and a rumored defalca Lon in our Post Ole, of which no particulars are known, and the start ing of a new Republican paper, are ho''ors enough for one letter. Let as turn to pleasanter subjects. The streets of Washington are al ready filling up with the- iniiiner able casavan that precedes hbe com ing of the great body of Congress dheb. Extraordinary interest is felt in the next session, and the comere are more numeroeaus than usual. More members are engaging houses ithan at any time sinuc ib he war. Theri'e will be many "openho'iqees" this winter. The lobbyist will be here. The did politicin will be here fromevery section. The Wash ington property holder willmopre nearly meet the interest on. his mortgages than for many years nd here and there, let us hop, a lsa will be able to pay his taxes. . ' Of private enterprises to come be-I fore Congress the Texas Ptlfio Railroad will have the ri6'tare Iof attention. Government L to that road will be advocat f4:i opposed by leading men: of both parties. His health permitting, A. H. Stephens will assume the lea in the House, of the.e favpring jb enterprise. The wide-spread oppo sition to any aid whatever will,:i is ssaid, be in a measure neutralized by Sthe submission of a plan with les objectiobable features than in- any Sprevious scheme. This seems to be t due to the Government, if it i to grant aid, and to be good poly on:. ythe 'pnrt of the Company, as none of Sthe old fashioned Union and Central b Pacific plunder bills, would have a y momenl's chanceof success. -,. The Mexican lobby will be here. Ssome of is here already., I have be 0 fore tried to speak of this sorrupt e combination as it deserves, but e words fail. *It brings Meni s and I indians into Texas to. plunder a L murder our citizens, itsends outlaws Ia and adventurers into Mexeo to pro yvoke strife, all for the purpoer:of ii provoking war between the1Jnwo a I tions. And the prim ezpeoted are t the mining wealth ororthern Mu c, ico and the enforced payment. by . Mexico of uncounted milloions of be ogas "claims" ofspseoulators. C6u gress willgive to thisnmad and wick 1 ed scheme the consideration it to deserves. ht. Secretr$ Sherman's amisstate y, ment of the publio debt for Sap dl tember shows a reduction of about ln four millions. NIIMO. HT3aDTtLra AT BIS Boo'tAW) ne J. SHOE. SHOP PUBCHASB7S0 VOI BUT SUPERIOB LBATHEB.M Pun S -OUT lONE UT GOD WO~iQiN-I FO SH. - .