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ST. LANDRY DEMOCRAT.
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0PK1.0USAS, SATl'BD.VV, MAY 25, 1878.
...Menneiito
Minmm«
Col. B. M. Harrod Cliief Engineer of
the State and Major H. B. Richardson,
Assistant, arrived in the parish yester
day, for the purpose of making the
necessary arrangements for a complete
survey of Bayous Courtableau and
Têche, with a view to the removal of
the bar at Little Devil and other ob
structions to navigation in the Bayou
Courtableau and tiie construction of
such works as will insure permanent
navigation in Bayou Têche. We are
pleased to see the present government
paying some attention to works of Iii
ternaV Improvements in St. Landry.
We had the pleasure of meeting in
our town, during the present week, Hon.
Hobt. M. Lusher, State Superintendent
of Public Education. Mr. Lusher is
making a personal inspection of the
schools throughout the entire State.
He carefully examined the books of the
President, Secretary and Treasurer of
the School Board, and those schools
now in session. He expressed himself
as well satisfied with the energetic
efforts made by our officers in behalf of
the public schools of the parish ; and
last but not least as agent of the Pea
body fund made an appropriation to
one school from that fund and promised
similar appropriations to all graded
schools in the parish with an average
daily attendance of over one hundred
pupils. Mr. Lusher left us on Wednes
day on the steamer Minnie for Simrns
port, from which point he will con
tinue his inspection through the Nor
ern parishes.
What arc the Representatives
of the Democratic Party
in this Parish Doing ï -
We have since our first issue been
advocating the organization of some
action on the part of our executive
committees, which would insure .a call
for all Democrats in the parish to meet
in convention.
We trust before our next issue some
action will be taken by the committees.
The Democrats of St. Landry demand
and intend to have this year one con
vention composed not of rival politi
cians, but of delegates fairly elected
from the entire Democracy of the parish.
We trust both committees will unite
and carry out their wishes, and thus
prevent a recurence of the disasters of
the last campaign.
The Crops in St. Landry.
The farmers of this parish are of one
opiuion on the subject of the season.
Never was spring more favorable for
the breaking up of the land, the sowiug
of seed and the cultivation of the young
plant. Com could have been sown
with success in January and by this
time would be making ears. As it is
we have none so far advanced, that we
know of except in small patches planted
for roasting ears. While the warm
weather set in early, the dry season
with few good showers has enabled the
planters to cultivate their crop with
great advantage, to destroy the grass
as fast as it made its appearance and to
keep the soil mellow and in tip-top
condition. .
The corn crop (and by the by we feel
a particular interest in this crop) never
looked richer and more promising.
While we are not furnished with
statistics on which to base a correct
opinion, if we aré to judge of the whole
parish by what we have seen in those
parts we have visited, the acreage in
corn this year is larger than we ever
have known it. Our people have their
eyes open and have found out it wont
pay to raise cotton and buy meat and
bread from the West. This is just as it
should be, and we hope the conviction
will grow stronger day by day, until
St. Landry instead of importing thou
sands and thousands of pounds of pork
and cargoes of corn, will not only sup
ply the home consumption but raise
enough to export to other less favored
States.
Our cane crop is also very good. The
cotton we have seen, while it shows a
good stand looks somewhat backward.
We regret to state that since our last
issue we have experienced a storm of
considerable severity. Some rain fell
on Saturday. On Sunday night it came
down in torrents, accompanied by a
terrible wind and amounting in portions
of the parish to a tornado. We learn
that south and north of this point houses
were torn down, trees nprooted and
fences prostrated. The corn was bent
down a good deal. It is too young
iiowever to have been much injured.
It rained again on Monday and the
weather ever since has been on the
showery order. As the old darky said
" the more rain the more rest, no ntassa
the more rain the more grass." We
will certainly realize the latter, and our
farmers will have to be up and doing to
get ahead of the grass. The signs are
so promising for a large crop, we hope
the tillers of the soil will not lack cour
age, but work on and ever with their
whole heart and soul.
it London, Con., has a sensation in
the way of a sait for breach of promise
brought by a divorced woman against
ner former husband, who refuses to
warty ber again.
motta
VOLUME 1.
OPELOUSAS, LA., SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1878.
NUMBER 19.
District Court.
We did not publish abstract of busi
nPgs transacted in Court last week
_ ___
Our last abstract closed on Wednesday
May 8th.
On Thursday Court met at 9 o'clock
No. 12673, return day of commission ex
tended to 13th inst. 12668, amended
petition filed, tried by jury waived, con
ditionally and case fixed for the 17th
12691, default. 12079, order granted to
take testimony of witnesses, returnable
May 13th. 12677, default confirmed
12678, default confirmed. 12690, default
12559, judgment for plaintiff personally
against 0. H. Violet, husband, dis
missed as to A. Dejean, wife. 12674
new trial granted, exceptiou filed and
fixed for the 13th inst. 12682, continued
by consent.
Friday May 10th Court met at Î
o'clock. 12698, default. 12676, retur
day of commission extended to Friday
the 17th. 12688, same order as in 12676
13690, same order as in 12688. 12683,
same order as in 12690.
The morning hour having expired
No. 12645, Stephen W. Osborn vs. James
O. Chachere et als was called and a jury
empannelled. The trial was then pro
ceeded with until 7 o'clock p. M., when
Court adjourned until the following
morning at 9 o'clock.
On Saturday morning the followin
business was transacted during the
morning hour: No. 1799, State vs. II
Milspangh, carrying concealed weapons,
sentenced to pay a fine of $5-00 and
costs of prosecution and in default there
of to go to jail for 10 days. 12582, ap
plication of defendant for commission
to take testimony under commission
tiled. Objected to by plaintiff and filed
and fixed for a hearing for Monday
the 13th.
The jury commissioners were ordered
to draw 30 additional jurors for the 4th
week, said jurors to be called to appear
on Thursday morning at 9i o'clock a. m
The case of Osborn vs. Chachere et
als was then resumed and continued
until 7 o'clock p. m ., when the jury was
discharged and Court adjourned until
Monday May 13th.
Monday May 13th Court met pursu
ant to adjournment. No. 12635, motion
of defendant to file amended answer
objected to by plaintiff, submitted and
taken under advisement by the Court
12674, testimony of iwo witnesses for
plaintiff taken by consent in open Court
subject to all legal exceptions when
offered. 12645, Osborn vs. Chachere et
als was then taken up, evidence closed
and at 7 o'clock, court adjourned and
jury dismissed until 9J o'clock on Tues
day. During the morning hour of Tues
day the following business was trans
acted : 12673, return day of commission
extended till Saturday the 18th. 12635,
motion to correct clerical error in origi
nal petition allowed and amended an
swer submitted the previous day al
lowed to be filed. 12693, default vs. all
parties. 12689, default. 12676, continued
by consent. 12688, answer for one de
fendant ; default vs. the other. 12696,
judgment by default made final. 12582,
application for commission to take tes
timony filed previous day, taken up,
argument opened and left open to be
resumed on the 15th. 12645, S. W. Os
born vs. J. O. Chachere et als. The
arguments of this case was taken up,
E. T. Lewis opened the case for plaintiff.
He closed at 4 o'clock in the evening
and was followed by Judge B. A. Martel,
who concluded his argument about 7i
o'oclock. The case was closed for plain
tiff by Thomas H. Lewis. The jury
were then charged by the Court and re
tired about 9 o'clock. The Court hav
ing waited until 12 o'clock on the jury
adjourned until Wednesday morning at
9 o'clock.
On Wednesday at opening of court,
argument in 12582 was resumed and
commission ordered to issue returnable
on or before the 24th inst. 12674, ex
ception overruled and jurisdiction main
tained. 12645, Osborn vs. Chachere,
about 10 o'clock the jury appeared in
Court and through their foreman M. G.
Wilkins tendered the following verdict :
" We the jury in this case do submit to
your Honor this our verdict, That S. W.
Osborn, plaintiff, pay J. O. Chachere
$400 for improvements made on the
land now in contest and after so doing
that S. W. Osborn be put in fall posses
sion of said land now in contest," 12635,
case taken np, statement of facts closed
and judgment for defendant.
On Thursday May 16th, Court met at
9 o'clock. 12688, ret urn day of commis
sion extended to May 24th. 12684,12685,
12686,12687, default vs. all the defend
ants. 12689, answer filed. 12650, trial
resumed, evidence cjosed and case left
open to be argued.
On Friday May 17th, commission
granted to take testimony of the State
Treasurer, returnable on or before May
27th in the following pases viz: 12684,
12685, 12686, 12687, 12688, default con
firmed as to defendant Morris. 12694,
default vs. all parties. 12693, exception
filed and fixed for hearing. 12582, an
swers filed for defendants. No. 12668,
Bernard J. Sage vs. Wm. S. Evins, was
called for trial and a jury empanneled.
Case was then proceeded with until
7 o'elöck p. m ., when Court adjourned
until Saturday at 9£ o'clock p. m .
On Saturday the case of Sage vs.
Evins, was taken up and proceeded
with ontil 5 o'clock when Court ad
journed until Monday May 20th.
On Monday during the morning hour,
return day of commission in 12673, was
extended to Saturday May 25th. 12683,
answer filed and commission issued re
tamable on or before the 25th May.
Sage vs. Evins, was then called. It
was found owing to great rains of Sat
urday night and Sunday sight that 3 of
the jurors were absent. After waiting
until 11 o'clock, the absent jurors not
having arrived, Court adjourned until
the next day at 9 o'clock.
On Tuesday during the morning hour
an answer was filed iu 12674, default
confirmed in 12694.
The case of Sage vs. Evins was then
called and the jury being all present
the trial proceeded with and continued
during the entire day. This case will
probably occupy the Court the balance
of the week. Court will adjourn for
the term soon after this celebrated case
is finished.
Laws of Mississippi to Suppress
Vice.
[Correspondence N. o. Christian Advocate.]
Are not these an improvement on the
famous "Blue Laws" of Connecticut:
Mr. Editor : That you and your
readers may know what Mississippi has
done, through her laws to suppress vice,
I will briefiy refer to some of them :
She lias a law which punishes any
one who is drunk, or any one who pro
fanely swears, in a public place, in the
presence of three or more persons, and
it is made the duty of justices of the
peace to arrest and infiict the punish
ment upon offenders.
Any officer of the State who is con
victed of one single act, while under
the efi'ect of intoxicating liquor shall be
removed from office, which is not un
common to see practically enforced.
Gaining of any kind (except horse
racing and shooting matches) is pun
ishable. Public officers who lend pub
lic money to bet are liable to be broken
of their offices. Keeping for sale or
selling lottery tickets, and all gift en
terprises, are indictable. Betting with
a minor is a felony. Owners of houses,
.and even vacant lots, who permit gam
ing therein or thereon are indictable if
they do not inform against the offender
The laws for, retailing liquors are
very stringent. The keeper ot' a licen
sed liquor shop is indictable if he per
mits any riotous or disorderly conduct
or sells to a drunken man, or sells to a
minor, or permits drunkenness in his
house ; and the owner of the house who
permits retailing in it without license is
liable to indictment if he does not in
form against the offender.
The carrying of deadly weapons is
also an offense, and punishable before a
justice of the peace or circuit court.
Selling deadly weapons or cartridges to
drunken men or minors—parents, teach
ers or guardians allowing children, pu
pils or wards to carry deadly weapons—
are contrary to law and punishable.
The laws against vagrancy are also
stringent. All gamblers, all able-bodied
persons who have no visible means of
support, all prostitutes, and all keepers
of houses of prostitution, and all beg
gars able to work, are by law held to be
vagrants, and punishable as such.
The Sunday laws are equally strin
gent. No shop or store of any descrip
tion is allowed to kept open on Sunday,
nor auy sales of goods, wares or mer
chandise allowed on Sunday ; nor any
work done on Sunday (unless of charity
or necessity,) nor hunting with guns, or
hunting with dogs, nor fishing in any
way is allowed on Sunday. Wilfully
disturbing any congregation assembled
for public religious worship, at any
time or place, is also indictable. All
contracts made on Sunday are void, and
cannot be enforced. Speaking or writ
ing words deemed insults, and calculated
to lead to a breach of the peace, is in
dictable.
These are a few of the many Riws of
Mississippi having for their object the
suppression of vice, the advancement of
morals and the preservation of good
order.
Take it all in all, the criminal code of
Mississippi is not surpassed by any in
the Union. A Subscriber
Returning: Prosperity.
[New York Herald.]
The astonishing feet that our exports
during the past year exceed our imports
in value by over $200,000,000 calls at
tention in value by over $200,000,000 calls
attention to the other fact that the
country is suffering, not from poverty,
but from a phethora of everything really
valuable, combined witli a lack of mark
ets for the disposal of the surplus. A
nation which has more factories, more
machinery, more skilled laborers, more
railroads, more agricultural produce,
more land in cultivation, more animals
to work it and more labor-saving con
trivances tfian it ever had before, and
more in proportion to population also
than it ever had, cannot be called poor.
Official figures show that the increase
has been greater in the seven years
since 1870 than in the ten years between
1860 and 1870, which everybody cites as
years of high prosperity. The aggre
gate quantity of land under cultivation
ias increased from 90.000,000 of acres in
1870 to 120,000,000 ind877; that is to say,
we have 30,000,000 acres more under the
plow in 1877 than in 1870. The follow
ng table shows the number of animals
and amount of produce in 1870 and 1877 :
1877. 1877.
Number of horses 7,145,370 10,329,700
Number of mules 1,125,415
No. of milch cows 8,935,332
No. of oxen ijnd cattle.. 14,385,270
Number of sheep 28,447,961
Num ber of swine ,,,. 25,134,569
Bushels of wheat 235,384,700
Bushels Of corn..'. 1,094,255,000 1,340,005,000
Bushels Of oats 247,277,400 405,200,000
Bushels of barley 20,293,400 35,600,000
Bushels of rye 15,473,000 22,100,000
Pounds of tobacco 250,628,000 480,000,000
Bnshels of buckwheat.. 9,841,500 10,500,000
Tons of hay 24,525,000 31,500,000
Cotton in 1878 the largest crop since
I860; , .
Coal—29,000,000 tons mined in 1870,
and 47,000,000 tons in 1877.
1,637,500
11,300,100
19,223,300
85,740,500
32,262,500
360,000,000
Hampton to be Re-Elected .—What
little opposition there was to the re
nomination of Governor Hampton has
died ojjfc £>nd his re-election is as certain
as his renomination. The hypocritical
politicians who considered him too lib
eral and generous have been silenced by
the voice of the people. Tart words
and rude jeers had an effect diametri
cally different from that which was ex
pected. The heart of the people is true,
and the time has not come when politi
cal capital can be niade by carping at
Gevernor Hampton.—[Charleston News
and Courier.
We find the following in one of our
exchanges. Jt is a humorous but keen
hit at a fashion of diess for thé street
by the fair sex that is frequently the
subject of wondering comment by se
date men : s
" One of two young ladies who re
cently visited the city from the country
wrote home as follows : " We attract a
great deal of attenshun promenadin the
streets like other ladys, and holden np
our close. Nobody isn't nothin nowa
days which don't hold up their close,
and the heir you holds 'em the more at
tenahun you attracts."
Front the Capital.
packard's consulship—confirmation
delayed, but sure.
argument of senator eustis in favor
of increasing the river and
harbor appropriations.
[Special to tlie n. o. Democrat.]
Washington , May 15.—Packard's
name came up to-day in executive ses
sion, and Kellogg moved to suspend the
rules and confirm him, but objection
was made on the Democratic side, and
the nomination went over to the next
executive session. There is, however,
little doubt of his ultimate confirmation.
Senator Eustis made an argument to
day before the Senate Committee on
Commerce iu favor of his amendments
increasing the river and harbor appro
priations for Louisiana.
Brulatour will soon be appointed
secretary of legation to Brazil, vice
Edwards resigned.
potter's resolutions.
the republicans in caucus over the
matter.
they will prepare an address to
the country—the resolutions
characterized AS mischiev
ous and revolutionary.
New York , May 15.—A Washington
special to the Evening Post says : At a
quarter to 3 o'clock the Republican
members were still in caucus. A com
mittee was appointed to prepare an ad
dress to the country, which will be
made public to-night. It alludes to Mr.
Potter's resolutions as very mischevious,
and the first step in a cunningly pre
pared movement to unseat President
Hayes, aud to revive the passions which
existed throughout the country for sev
eral months after the presidential elec
tion.
The speakers in the caucus have all
taken the ground that Democratic lead
ers have resolved to get President
Hayes unseated if it can be done. Mr.
Banks characterized the movement by
Mr. Potter as revolutionary.
the wise man of the herald airs
his views.
New York , May 15.— The Herald
says: Mr. Potter's resolution still hangs
tire, and if he should ever succeed in
getting it passed, it will be so tight a
squeeze as will deprive it of all moral
efiect.
As a piece of strategy this resolution
is a bluntler in every way, and from
parliamentary blunders on the floor of
the House, it rises into an immense
Democratic blunder, to begin a move
ment which reunites the Republican
party.
The Republicans were previously
scolding at the President and quarrell
ing among themselves, but Potter's
resolution brings them into a compact
phalanx.
This foolish attack on Mr. Hayes'title
rallies the Republican party to his de
fense, and is the greatest boon which
could have been conferred on a Presi
dent who has so long been at logger
heads with his own party.
hon. a. ii. stephen on the potter
resolutions.
Washington , May 15.— Hon. Alex. H.
Stephens, who is absent from the House
on account of illness, has addressed a
letter to Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, ad
vising him not to move the previous
question upon adoption of the résolu
tions of investigation, and to allow them
not only to be discussed, but to accept
all the amendments that may be offered
by the Republicans.
Mr. Stephens is not opposed to the
fullest investigation of the electoral
frauds charged in the Potter resolutions,
but is of the opinion that such ihvesti
gation should have the largest possible
scope.
the democrats united in support of
the potter resolutions.
the radical filibusters weakening,
the louisiana supreme court
and the anderson case—evi
dence in hands of the
investigators.
Washington , May 16—Notwithstand
ing differences of opinion among Demo
crats as to the expediency of the inves
tigation programme, there is no longer
any doubt that the movement will be
sustained by the party as a whole. The
caucus committee has assurance that
any programme it may be necessary to
adopt on the floor will be supported by
the party.
The South and the Presidential
Fraud.
[From the New York World.]
We can easily 'understand that our
esteemed cotemporary, the Sun, may be
embarrassed in the work of bringing
about a thorough, searching and im
partial investigation of the frauds
which, as we believe, were committed
in Florida and Louisiana at the time of
the Presidential election in 1876. For
our esteemed contemporary in Novem
ber-of that year laid down fully and
earnestly the doctrine, never accepted
by the World, that there is no power
which can go behind the certificates of
a State given to certain persons as
Presidential electors. And as the Sun
neither is nor claims to be a Democratic
journal we have no reason of course to
expect that it will do justice to the mo
tives or the conduct of the great body
of the Democratic voters of the Union.
But it seems to us nevertheless that
even from the point of view of such a
Republican as Senator Conkling, with
whom we understand the Sun to agree
in bis views as to the status and charac
ter of the present Republican Adminis
tration, it is very far from just to charge
the Democratic masses of the South, as
the Sun now does, with treason to the
country and with a deliberate desire to
destroy by fraud "the Government
which "the Southern armies were un
able to over-" throw," because the South
has shown itself willing to recognize
the Administration of President Hayes
as a lawful authority. Mr. Charles
Francis Adams—who can hardly be
thought to be a sympathizer with those
whom the San vehemently denounces
as " Southern rebels now yelept Demo
crats"—has recently expressed his con
viction thot no assault ought now to be
made upon the title of President Hayes,
and if we are not mistaken a member
of his family has even gone so far as to
accept a Federal office under the exist
ing Administration. The World has
brought oat prominently before tire
country the fact that Senator Conkling
has been in possession, ever since the
Presidential election in 1876, of infor
mation which leads him freely to de
nounce the President and the Adminis
tration as guilty accomplices either be
fore or after the fact in the frauds
through which the Hayes electors in
Florida and Louisiana obtained those
State certificates which the Sun elabo
rately maintained in November, 1876,
must be accepted as final and conclu
sive. But Senator Conkling is not
Southern Senator, nor is lie a Demo
crat. If be possessed this information
in November, 1876, and has failed ever
since to bring an open accusation
against the President and the Adminis
tration on the strength of it, surely it
is against him and not against the.
" Southern rebels" that the Sun should
direct its wrath. What part has the
South really borne in the history of the
Hayes Administration? Certainly the
South did not nominate Mr. Hayes.
Certainly the South did not elect Mr.
Hayes. Mr. Hayes was supported in
his Presidential canvass by the whole
power of the detestable Administration
of President Grant, and the South con
tended against him not simply to win a
political victory, but to secure itself
from political degradation and from so
cial anarchy. How solidly it supported
the candidacy of Mr. Tilden we all
know. How wisely, no just aud candid
American ever should forget. Taunted,
provoked, irritated on every side by the
unscrupulous emissaries of an Adminis
tration of which Senator Conkling was
a trusted counsellor, the people of the
South went through a canvass which
for them involved the issues of political
life or political death, without uproar,
disturbance or confusion. When the
canvass ended, it appeared that Mr.
Tilden was chosen lawful President of
the United States by 196 electoral votes
out of 369, being a clear majority of 23
over his Republican competitor. Of
these 196 votes the Southern States cast
131, the Northern States only 65. In
the East a single phalanx of three con
terminous States—Connecticut, New
York and New Jersey—stood for the
Constitution and the sovereignty of the
laws with the solid South ; in the West,
Indiana alone. What followed? Un
der the protection of Grant's adminis
tration, of which Senator Conkling was
a trusted counsellor, tlte people of two
Southern States, Florida and Louisiana,
were deliberately robbed of their votes
for the Democratic electors, and the
machinery was set in motion which re
sulted iu the Electoral Commission and
eventually in the inauguration of Mr.
Hayes. The Democrats of the South
protested agaiust the outrage perpe
trated upon the electoral franchise, in
all imaginable forms. They looked—as
had they not a right to look?—to the
leaders of the Northern Democracy and
to the candidate whom they, the people
of the South, had elected, to uphold
the threatened sanctity of the ballot
and see justice done. They looked in
vain. Were they to assume the initia
tive of civil war for the assertion of re
sults achieved by their peaceful ballots.
Had they desired disunion rather than
union ? strife rather than peace, then
was the time to have shown it. They
did not desire disunion, they desired
union. They did not desire strife, they
desired peace. When Northern Demo
crats accepted the decree of the Elec
toral Commission from Senator Conk
ling and President Grant against the
earnest but solitary warnings and. pro
tests of the World, the Democrats of
the South saw the Federal power once
more confided to a Republican Adminis
tration, but not by auy act of theirs!
In their local governments they asser
ted without bloodshed that sanctity of
the ballot which Northern Democrats
shrank from asserting iu the Federal
Government. The people of Florida
and of Louisiana could only help to
elect Mr. Tilden President. They could
not make him President if he would
not accept and maintain the title which
they had given him. But the people of
Florida and Louisiana, like the people
of South Carolina, without the help of
the candidate whom they had chosen
to the Presidency did maintain the
titles which they had given by their
votes at the same time to Governor
Drew and Governor Hampton and
Governor Nicholls. Nay, when all had
been surrendered at Washington, the
Democrats of the South in the House,
not holding the doctrine maintained
by the Sun in November, 1876, put on
record one last expiring assertion of the
rights of the House and of the truth of
history in their formal declaration that
Mr. Tilden and not Mr. Hayes had been
lawfully chosen to the Presidency in
that same month.
Once established in power against the
will of the South and by the active
efforts of Republicans like Senator
Conkling, Mr. Hayes disappointed the
expectation of such Republicans by re
fusing to treat the South as the Sun
now says the South ought to be treated,
as a conspiracy of rebels bent on over
throwing the Government of the Union.
He accepted the supremacy of the laws
and recognized the local rights of all
the States. Why should the South have
refused these blessings from his hand,
since the hand whicb the South had
chosen to secure to it these blessings
had faltered and failed in the supreme
hour? Is the South the worse to-day
for its acceptance of these blessings?
Is the country the worse?
What would Republicans like Senator
Conkling and journals like the Sun now
have of the Soqtli ? Senator Conkling
declares that he " knows" how the South
was defrauded of the force of its true
Presidential votes in 1876. What South
ern voice, what Democratic voice, has
been raised except to bid him speak and
tell the country what he knows? Tfhe
World has seen with cordial satisfaction
the step taken by Mr. Daly in the As
sembly at Albany to enforce this de
mand upon Senator Conkling, a witness
not to be suspected, as a Democratic
witness or a Southern witness might be,
of personal interest in the demonstra
tion of the great wrongs done in 1876 to
the South and to the Democratic party.
When New York has made this call
upon her Republican Senator, the in
ventor of the Electoral Commission,
and her Senator has answered it and
proofs to damn the Republican Adminis
tration at Washington into "infamy"
are laid by him before the country, it
will be in order for the great Demo
cratic South to consider the ways and
means of asserting the justice of the
nation.
Southern Farming .—How to ruin a
farmer and his farm—Plant the farm in
cotton and corn, year after year, burn
all the stalks and trash, never put back
anything which grows on the laud, let
all the manure go to waste in unsightly
heaps, plow hill-^ideç about'two inches
deep, sô as to wash away the dirt and
give you a çlean field. Do all these
things, get in debt aU you can, drink
lots of bqst-héad, cfyeW two plugs a
week of flat tobacco, visit the race track,
saloon and ten-pin alley every ohanee,
then waste as much time as possible In
other ways, and if you and your farm
are not ruined, consult the devil for
farther a dvice.-ÇArka nsas Grange.
The Washington Post tells a story to
the effect that Schurz, when called upon
for his campaign assessment of $500,
told the committee to call on him for
two speeches, at $250 a night. His
regular price was $300, but he was will
ing to knock off $50 in consideration of
the hard times and the necessity for re
trenchment in all the departments.
Official.
the state apportionment.
Rooms State Central Committee,
Democratic-Conservative Party.
New Orleans, May 14,1878..
At a meeting of the State Central
Committee of the Democratic-Conser
vative party, held in New Orleans on
the first May, 1878, the following reso
lutions were adopted :
Resolved, That the convention of the
Democratic-Conservative party of Lou
isiana be held on the first Monday of
August, 1878.
lîesolvcil, That a convention of the
Democratic-Conservative party of Lou
isiana be held at Baton Rouge for the
purpose of nominating a candidate for
State Treasurer and members of Con
gress for the various congressional dis
tricts of this State.
lîesolved, That the apportionment of
representation in said convention shall
be one delegate for each two hundred
votes east for the Democratic-Conser
vative candidate for Governor in 1876,
and each fractional number less than
200 and exceeding 100 shall be entitled
to one delegate.
Resolved, That inasmuch as in certain
parishes dissensions existed during the
last campaign, whereby opposing fac
tions nominated double sets of officers
which resulted in the loss of several
members of the Legislature ; aud inas
much as these dissensions if continued
will seriously jeopardize the Democratic
prospects in certain localities, that the
president of the State Central Com
mittee be and he is hereby authorized
to call a convention and make all nec
essary arrangements to the holding of
the primaries in auy parish, or ward
of the city of New Orleans, in which
the antagonistic factions refuse to uuite
in a convention, within forty days of
the holding of the State convention.
Resolved, That the State Central
Committee recommends the adoption of
a rule by the convention that the num
ber of delegates on the floor, represent
ing each parish and ward of tue city,
shall not exceed the number of votes to
which such parishes or wards are en
titled.
In accordance with the first and sec
ond resolutions, a State Convention of
the Democratic-Conservative party is
hereby called to meet at Baton Rouge
on the First Monday (fifth) of August.
Iu accordance with the third resolu
tion the several parishes and wards of
the city of New Orleans shall be entitled
to the following representation, to-wit :
PARISHES.
Ascension
Assumption
Avoyelles
Baton Rouge, East..
Baton Rouge, West..
Bienville
Bossier 4
Caddo 9
Calcasieu 7
Caldwell .
Cameron
Carroll .East \
Carroll, West )
5
10
Catahoula .
Claiborne
Concordia
DeSoto
Feliciana, East.
Feliciana, West.
Franklin
Grant
Iberia
Iberville
Jackson ,...
Jeffeftiou
Lafourche
Lafayette 6
Lincoln 5
Livingston 4
First Ward 10
Second Ward 12
Third Ward 14
Fourth Ward
Fifth Ward 10
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 9
Eighth Ward 7
Ninth Ward 10
Madison 2
Morehouse 7
Nachitoclies y
Ouachita 9
Plaquemines 4
Pointe Coupee 5
Rapides 8
Rett River 2
Richland 5
5
Sabine).
St. Bernard 2
St. Charles l
St. Helena 3
St. John the Baptist..4
St. James 5
St. Landry 19
St. Martin 5
St. Mary 7
St. Tammany 3
Tensas 2
Terrebonne 7
Tangipahoa 5
Union 8
Vermillion 5
Vernon 3
Washington 3
Webster 4
Winn »
Tenth Ward 12
Eleventh Ward 11
Twelfth Ward 5
Thirteenth Ward 3
Fourteenth Ward 1
Fifteenth Ward 4
Sixteenth Ward 1
Seventeenth Ward 2
All Democratic-Conservative papers
throughout the State are requested to
publish the above.
I. W. Patton, .
Chairman Democratic Conservative
State Central Committee.
Compliment to Hon. J.
Acklen.
H.
I From the Lake Charles Echo.]
We have watched, with particular
interest and pleasure, the course of our
Representative in Congress, the Hon.
J. H. Acklen, since he secured his seat
from which he was so fraudulently
kept until recently.
Through the disinterested, persistent
and untiring exertions of Gen. L. Sew
ell, who was thoroughly conversant
with all the facts of the case, Mr. Ack
len was made to understand just how
matters stood, aud uo sooner was he
seated, than we find him taking active
and prompt steps to relieve us of the
foul oppressions and inquitous persecu
tions that we have been subjected to
for twelve long months. Twelve
months that have covered more actual
losses, more real pecuniary distress,
more privation of the necessaries of
life, and more wanton, profligate and
arrogant disregard of the vested rights
of citizens, than was experienced in
this parish during the four years of fhe
late war.
To his efforts do we owe the presence
ot Messrs. Adams and Hale, special
agents, sent to investigate the condi
tion of things here, and to report them
as they find them. And we cannot but
hope, after witnessing, for one week,
their patient, pains-taking and search
ing inquiry into subjects brought before
them, that they mean what they say.
It anything wrong has been done to
find it out and, when found, to report it.
Joseph H. Acklen, in the name of the
people of the parish of Calcasiew, we
thank you tor the chivalrie manner in
which you have espoused our cause;
and W£ fetîl that though you are Bower
ies» to have restitution made for the
property wrongfully, and by force,
wrested from us; although you cannot
obliterate the anguish of the auxious
fathers in seeing taken from them the
• £ ™ eai » 8 % which they were to fur
nish bread to their helpless wives and
famishing children ; although you can
not wipe out the harsh feelings engen
dered by the more harsh accusations
and tyrannical exactions of an unscru
pulous Government Agent, you can and
will, when the record is laid before you,
demand that Congress take action in
this matter. We feel that in you we
have a champion " Sang peur et sans re
proche, who has the ability to find out
where the responsibility lies for all
these wanton and illegal acts, and the
nerve to see that the offender is brought
to the bar of public justice.
For twelve long months have we been
trying, without avail, to get some re
cognition of our rights as American
citizens from the Dictator, M. A. Carter.
For eleven months have we been try
ing, without avail to get some relief
through the Federal courts, and now as
a last resort, we appeal through you to
the highest tribunal in the land, to the
House of Representatives of the people
of the United States,,
♦ ■ i''i ■
A conntry exchange explains that it
was " spring poultry/* and not " poetry,"
that it agreed to take in exchange lor
subscriptions.
Henry S. Moss.
[Courier Journal May 8th.]
The unfortunate subject of this notice
died last evening about half-past seven
o'clock. The public can not soon forget
the startling surprise, the appalling
shock, produced a few weeks since by
the announcement that Henry S. Moss,
a prominent Main-street merchant, was
known to have forged the names of
many men, some of them his best
friends, to many pieces of commercial
paper. No event for many years has
produced a greater sensation. Mr. Moss
was a native of Glasgow, Ivy., and had
lived in Louisville a quarter of a cen
tury. He was well born, well raised,
well connected with an extensive kin
dred of most worthy and respected peo
ple. He had been for years past elected
and re-elected to the Board of Alder
men of the city of Louisville. His hold
upon his constituency was their confi
dence in his integrity and courage. He
possessed none of the arts of the dema
gogue, and his career as alderman was
in advocacy of economy and hostility to
:ravagance and waste of the public
treasure. His standing, both in Louis
ville aud his former home, was that of
aman of sensitive honor and courageous
truth. His habits were those of perfect
sobriety and abstemious simplicity.
That such a man, at the age ot fifty
eight years, should commit a great
crime naturally produced the great shock
felt by the public a few weeks since.
But the case has now assumed an un
alterable new phase. When all other
friends had fallen away or stood ap
palled at the enormity of apparent
crime, a faithful wife, warmed by public
denunciation and moved to greater ex
ertion by her loneliness, declared that
her husband was not a dishonest man,
but afflicted with a diseased brain ; that
what seemed to be crime was the irres
ponsible act of a lunatic ; that he had
not been sane or responsible for a year
past. She demanded an inquiry, and on
Saturday last it was holden in the Jef
ferson Circuit court before Judge Jack
son and a jury, and it was tlieu estab
lished and placed of record that Henry
S. Moss was a lunatic, and had been for
a year last past. This judgment was
based upon the testimony of leading
physicians and learned experts in men
tal diseases, such as Drs. Chiplev and
Williams, of Cincinnati ; Rogers, Hewett
and Bell, of Louisville ; and Forbes, of
the Anchorage Asylum. They said his
brain had beeu long diseased, and that
he was theu dyiug of the malady. Al
eady the consummation has been
reached. In all this sad affair we are
glad we find this one point upon which
we can congratulate his family aud
many fosmer friends ; that it is now es
tablished beyond all dispute—nay, be
yond all wish to dispute—that Henry S.
Moss leaves an honest and vindicated
name to his posterity—a name over
which they may weep for his misfor
tunes, but need not blush nor be ashamed.
A very simply method of postal de
livery is said to prevail iu a Spanish
provincial town. Those who expect
etters come to the post-oftice and form
a queue. The postmaster then hands
all the letters he has received, in a
basket, to the first comer, who looks
through them liesurelv, takes his own,
if any, and passes the basket to the
person immediately behind him, aud
this goes on till the basket is emptied or
the queue exhausted.
" We have got to practice the most
igid economy at such a time as this,"
emarked a man the other day to a
crowd on the sidewalk. "I have stopped
all the papers for which 1 formerly sub
scribed, and don't buy candy toys, and
such trumpery for the children ; times
are hard. Come in boys and take a
drink."
Instead of setting up nights and wear
ing the down on her cheek off on some
fellow's vest, an Indiana girl has during
the last year made $600 by cultivating
broomcorn.
CANDIDATES.
For Sheriff.
Me. Editor :—You will please announoe my
name as a candidate for re-eleotion to the offieo
of Sheriff of St. Landry, at the election in
November next. Subject to the nomination of
the Democratic Convention.
C. C. DUSON.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Notice !
We the undersigned committee appointed at
the last meeting of the Board of School Direc
tors, request all holders of school warrants,
issued previous to 1877, to hand them in within
the next ten days, to Mr. Ealer, President of
the Board or to such other parties as they may
select and notify us of their warrants for ex
amination by this committee, who are to pasa
upon their validity and make recommendation«
to the Board, as to payment or non-payment of
the same. - C. C. SWA YZE, )
L. SKINNER, > Committee.
8. BIRROTTE, >
May 25
Ice Cream Saloon.
The undersigned has opened an Ice Croani
S11 loon, corner Main and Bellevne streets, whero
ICE CREAM,
SODA WATER,
AND PASTRY
of nil kinds will be kept always on hand and ot
the best quality.
Ladies will find my Saloon cool and pleasant
with polite waiters in attendance.
May 19-tf CHARLES P. GORDON.
JUDICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
OTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.
PROBATE COURT. PARISH OF ST. LANDRY,
No. 3987.
ESTATE OP PIERRE DERBANNE.
Whereas, Marcelite Guillory of the parish of St.
Landry has applied by her petition to be ap
pointed administratrix of the estate of Pierre
Derbonne, deceased late of the parish of St.
Landry.
Therefore, any person intending to make op
position to said appointment, will file the same
in writing in my office, inthetownofOpelousas,
within ten days from the present notice.
CIL!
may 18-lilg
JAMES O. CHACHERE, Clerk.
piBI.It SALE.
ESTATE OF BENJAMIN A. SMITH.
By virtue of an order of the Hon. the Probate
Court, of the parish of St. Landry, there will be
sold at public auction, to the highest bidder, by
the undersigned administrator, or any duly
qualified auctioneer, at the last residence of the
deceased, near Grand Coteau, parish of St. Lan
dry, on TUESDAY, June 11th, 1878, the following
described property belonging to the estate or
Benjamin A. Smith, deceased, to-wit:
1. One tract of land with all the buildings
and improvements thereon, containing about
three hundred arpents, bounded north by Bayou;
Bourbeau, east by land of widow Jean Dugal,
south by land of Dr. E. M. Millard and west by
lands of the convent of the Sacred Heart and
the St. Charles College.
2. Two hundred acres of land, situated in the
E,irish of St. Martin, bounded north by James
leans and others, south by H. Smith, east and
west by W. E. Walker.
Also a claim against the United States Gov
ernment, which will be sold forcasli.
Terms aud Conditions.—One-third of the pur
chase price to be paid cash on the day of sale
and the balance in two equal and annual in
stallments from day of sale, purchasers to fur
msli their promissory notes, with good solvent
personal security in solido, for the credit portion,
payable to the order of purchasers, and to be
endorsed by them in blank. Said notes to bear
eight per eent annual interest from day of sale
and the property to remain specially mortgaged
aad the vendor» privilege to be retained there
on until full and entire payment of the princi
pal and interest of the notes given for the pur
chase priee of the same.
The tract of land No. I, with improvements,
not to be delivered before 1st January, 1879, and
the growing crop thereon reserved.
L. J. GUILBEAU,
May 11-56 Administrator.