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LEON JASTREMSKI, Editor and Business Manager. R$ tii BATON ROUGE, JUNE 26, 1Si0. ac FOR PRESIDENT, at W. S. HANCOCK, Al Of Pennylvannia. a FOR VI('E-PI:ESIDE;T, T WILLIAM E. ENGLISH, de OF INDIANA. El Democratic State Central Committee. Ii FI' The follohwinlg ;u;u-, unittee, hay \,r beulin uppointeo,t 1,, tL, Stare t'entrial (,llllluiiltti. oi tleit 1)K:.u,rlat l rry :paty I). Varrenl llickw .l..John Fit,:a,;'ck .1. 1). Ilil ...........Arciialt M itcl le;i th .1. R. A. (.iutlhr -a --x..... . iB. OOltz ha Th'los. I)tl.................Edgar Leschie ij Mhurnice .1. Hlart........T. I. WVilkilsoz g .J:iiieSi I ilagal ............ AllI li 'Tihat a , 11. 1. Mlarsito....... Iolbt. ].iclhilrdtlsol -Leon Ja treliski. u W'. ]1. Koolitz.......... . Joseph Collins A. 1itchlell ............Maurice J. Ii:rt J. H. Hill.......... ...J.ohin Fiteatrick Ie .iluie Hagiani..........I). . liriekwell gn Tihomas. )lffty. ha IIEG1';Ifl;.Vlt'N A.It iY., TrO (COi.%11tTEI:. .1. R. A. (:nuthreauix .....-ii. CL. Birowi ti Holmp Clark.................. Armallit Ihiugl Caini.........- ......J... If. Hill E. C. Tobhlllea ........Robt. Blrewster : A. S. Bek. CIl .I. III EUSTIS, Pre.ident. DEMOCBRACY IS ETERNAL Judg: loadley, the temporary Chairman of the Cincinnati Conven tion, in calling the representatives of the l)emocracy to order, said th:.t neither the defeat nor the success of the nominees could affect the integrity of the party, for, said he, "Democracy is Eternal." The -past has demonstrated the truth of his assertion. Political par ties in this country, based upon the false principles suggested, by the ex pediency of the hour, have, from time to time, swayed the masses and placed the sceptre of government in the hands of their leaders. Confronting the divers theories and their advocates, the principles of true Republicanism, at times crushed to earth, have arisen more powerful than ever, after every contest. The Democratic party impressed with the conviction that all men are equal before the law; that a stable government cannot exist unless it re poses upon the consent of the gov erned, in consequence of which the right oflocal self-government is in dispensable to ensure religious free dom, and the enjoyment of the cus toms appertaiining to each State and locality, has kept with within its ranks all men, who, knowing the rights which God has given to every human being, dare maintain them. The Democratic party while adher ing firmly to its fundamental princi ples has had the wisdom to remain within certain lines of. demarcation, while it has kept pace with the pro gressive march of civilization. It is because.of this characteristic trail that citizens opposed to the ultra or radi cal views of demagogues have sought refuge, in the hour of danger to the liberties of the Nation, under the broadfolds of tha.banner ot Democra .\fter twenty years of the blighting rule of a political association whose acts have been prompted by sectional hatred and an entire disregard for the < Constitutional rights of the people. After many years of bloods.hed, strife, anarchy, and latterly the installation of a President who had been defeated at the polls, whoso tounre of office was derived from a pejl:ured electoral collmission, one of whose members is the chosen candidate of that party for the Presidency, the "Eternal 1)e iocracy," the guardians of the Con stitution and Liberty, present to the suffrages of the American lpeople their standard bearers, both men "without liar or reproach," unsullied patriots whose very names are a guarantee of a faithful performance of duty. Who can doubt the response of the people? 'T'ho announcement that (;enl. W. . lHancock ha~d receiV.ed the nomina tion on the second ballot caused the wildest enthlusiasmn. ('heers after cheers of gladdened cpeoplh rent the air. (;Greeunbackers, Inudependents andi D)emocrats congratulated and cia braced one another over the glorious< news. His nomination, beyond alI doubt, will harmonize the difftreint factions in our parish, and in Novem- I ber next, the parish of East Baton Jouge will go solid for Hancock. ! ENDOESING THE FEAUDULENT DEOISION. In the nomination of Garfield the Republican patty have done more than to overlook the dishonest trans actions with which his name is inter woven, namely the Credit Mobelier and the De Golyer pavement swin dlers, but they have presented to the American people as their candidate a man who stood prominently for the infamous decision by which Samuel J. Tilden, who had received 250,000 votes more than Hayes, was declared defeated for the presidency by ONE ELECTORAL VOTE. To vote for Garfield is to sustain him in his count of Louisiana and Florida for Hayes, and to sanctify the returns declared by J. Madison Wells, Tom Anderson' and the other unblush ing villains of his returning board. Will the American people record I themselves on the pages of history as z having elected a man guilty of con c summating this iniquity upon popular I" suffrage which has affixed upon the S National escutcheon the darkest " stain that could possibly be spread upon it. Centuries will succeed one another, .t but future generations will in turn k read of the shameful transaction which 11 gave their ancestors a president who had been defeated at the polls. A bold usurpation, a revolution by the force of arms, led by ambitious tt men would not have cast dishonor r upon the Republic, but the votes of eight men selected by Congress and sworn to respect the popular will and Sthe honor of the Nation, given against public evidence and stern facts, will appear as the most glaring act of per t jury and fraud ever perpetrated. Everyman who votes for Garfield, ,t will aid in proclaiming as correct t the count of Louisiana's vote in 1876, e rendered by Mad. Wells' returning , board. He can leave that sad record to his children, that in 1880, he ne dorsed at the polls, Garfield, one of e the perjured members of the Electoral Commission. e His Credit Mobilier and De Golyer . pavement swindles, are but crosses e of honor as compared to the infamous , vote he gave against the people of , Louisiana and Florida and the good name of the Republic. 1 The question is simply whether the e perpetrators of the great crime against popular sovereignty will be sustained I by the people, or whether the seal of public condemnation will be affixed 1 them just as it has already been done upon Madison Wells and Tom An Sderson. SHOWS FOR ITSELF, The Claiborne Guardian gets off the i followinggood hit at the summer liars: A mare near Moberby, Mo., is en-1 titled to the blue ribbon if there is any particular distinction in bringing three Scolts into the world at a birth. One of these colts was a mule, the other I .two horse colts. It is true that thlei mule and one of the horse colts are dead, but thile mare and other colt are Salive to show for themselves. The .story and the proof remind us of an I anecdote that we have heard our es- < teemed friend Judge R.C. Drew tell with much gusto. One Bill Wamble told that he Ihad a horse that had frequently climbed a tree. His offer I to swear to tile fact was not consid- r ecred sufficient, when to clinch the matter he said: "Well, gents, if you don't believe me, right out there in my lot is the tree to show for itself."' The Richland Beacon hits tile nail on thie head in giving exprcssion to the following sentimnt t: "lShowing kindness to prisoners by visiting themn and trying to alleviate their physical t or mental suffering, is an exhibition 1 of christian benevolence that is com mnandable; but the imaudlin sentiment- II ality that willmake heroes ofthe worst a class of criminals, and demand that o they be tum ned loose 'lupon tihe com munity, as in the casesof the negro ( who murdered and robbed a lady in her room and the Italian who murdered his young wifc.(both in fi New York), is a crime against society e for which there is no excuse. _-l An exchange truthfully remarks: "W'lhen a farmer picks up a home paper and sees every reliable business t firm represented in its columns by good hlealthy advertisements, hlie says t to himself at once, 'that is a business place: thie merchants arc energetic, wide awake and up to the times, they are trying to build up their town and enhance the interests of the surround ing country. They deserve a little patronage and they shall have mine." Josh Bilhlngs hits off a large C class of young men when he says: "I have seen men so fond of argument Ii that they would dispute with a guide o: board at the forks of a country road about the distance thie next town. o0 What phools!" a T BACK TO THEBLUE BLOOD OF THE PATBIOIAN. e The last number of the Patriot e Democrat contains a communication - signed Ciris, wherein the writer - charges to the account of Universal ,r Suffrage, the abuses existing in the i- Government of the American Repub e lic. "It cannot but be wrong," he e says, "that men who have no proper e ty or education, foreigners who come i. here only to make money with the in 0 tention of going elsewhere to spend d it, men who are strangers in our SI midst, should elect our rulers and law makers." 1 Will Civil tell us from whence have d come the fifty millions of people, who e to-day inhabit magnificent cities and 3,. towns,linked to one another by bands t- of steel, spread from ocean to ocean, where a hundred years ago roamed d but the Red Man in the virgin forests s and jungles of North America? He says further, "thus we see that r the scum of Europe, the paupers, the e beggars, the criminals, adventurers it of every description, as soon as they d become naturalized citizens of Amer ica are allowed by our laws to dictate r, to us who shall be our rulers and who n shall make our laws." h Has "Civis" forgotten that the bulk o of the emigrants who originally set tied the colonies, were composed r of the very element that he is pleased s to call "the scum of Europe;" and r that the mother of States and states f men, Virginia, with her proud F. F. I V's grew from the very seeds which d he now holds in contempt. And the it story of Virginia is the story of every 11 other State. Look at the far West, into who whose bosom is pouring the stream of those adventurers! Where 1, the tents of the miner's camp were t seen yesterday, to-morrow, as if by º, magic, will arise the beautiful g city of gorgeous structures and lI edifices-an oasis of civilization in the once arid desert ! f TIAT is the work of UNIVERSAL 1 SUFFRAGE ! In the hamlet, in the crowded centres of old Europe, where r education and wealth cling to the old s idea that the sceptre of government s belongs to them can be heard the f tramp of numberless and constantly increasing battalions of armed men. Why, in God's name, are these mil a lions of soldiers taken from the fields t and the workshops ! Is it not to pre serve in the hands of the few the con trol of the many i Through the forest of gleaming bayonets and sabres the masses of the Caucasian race from whence the American people have sprung, hear that the Land of Liberty is here, where the son of the Plebean is the equal of the son of the Patrician. Here in the United States the strong arm of industry wins the respect of fellow men and leads oftimes to wealth and station. Here, they have been told that a Tennessee tailor boy educated himselfand rose from stationto station in life till he became the Chief Magis trate of the Nation. Ciris would destroy this. He who holds the dollars, would be tihe Patri cian and rule the land. Wealth and educatioh can take care ofthemselves. What protection will you give to the masses against the arrogan:mce of the most fotbrtunate classes, if you rob the other of the ballot ? Ah! well do we remember 1861. It was then held to be tlhe dut5 of eery i, a to march to tile front of battle, even those "who have no property or education." W\is it to establish and perpetuate at favored class in this country? The poor co, script was lit tle short ofa criminal, while he was being dragged away from his moun tain or valley home, from his wife and his little ones, to defend the property and the institutions of the educated of the South. His blood belonged to the State that ('iris would have deprive him of the right to raise a voice in governing. We believe that all men are born free and equal, in this that the imbe cile or the corrupt sonsof the wealthy and educated are no better than those like hint who spring from the humbler classes. The good and the virtuous are found as well in the cottage as in the mansion. A I)emocratic govern ment recognizes these indisputable facts and accords to every human be ing the samne standing and the same rights before the law. The evils that Uni\versal Suffrage may bring, are in time cured by Uni versal Suffrtage itself. It is the attekmpt to stitle its voice, that carries with it the abuses of which Ci'is complains. It requires force to imaintain in the hands of the minority the government 1 of the majority. Was it not by the disfranchisement 1 of those who had fought for the stars and bars, and by the ruthles inter- I E ference of Fedeiil ibionetts ' in 'eo, local affairs, that our people were op pressed and robbed. And that a pre " mium was offered to those who would a sacrifice honorandprincipleformoney r and power? I1 Despite Universal Sufrage, since e the bayonet has been withdrawn, is - there not a steadyimprovementgoing e on in our internal affairs; and is not - the current of public sentiment rolling e against those who dare do wrong? - The day is at hand when a govern I ment as perfect as it is in the power r of man to create will be established I in this country. Let wealth and education, combine e to furnish schools and workshops to a the children of the poorer classes, so I that the majority may be rendered s more intelligent and industrious. L, That is by far a better, more righte d ous, and more enlightened a remedy s than to deprive them of the ballot. Let us labor to maintain the supre .t macy of Democratic principles, which e are based upon those natural rights s that man acquires at the cradle to end F only at the grave. In despotic Russia, the spirit of the e age that demands Universal Suffrage, o is bringing thousands of men to the axe of the executioneer and the frigid k deserts of Siberia. Will free America attempt tomarch 1 back towards a government in the I hands of the few! To do this, is to I keep open an unceasing conflict be - tween the several classes of society. It would be unwise, selfish and un just to create such an order of things. B In fact, it would not be long, before the masses groaning under the inso lent rule of the privileged classes e would say with Patrick Henry: "Give us Liberty or give us Death." THE SUPREME COURT DEOISION. Private letters received from New Orleans, evince the deepest dissatis faction at the recent decision of the Supreme Court, which sets aside the Constitutional limitation and author izes the levy of an additional tax of I five mills to pay interest and princi pal on Premium Bonds, over and above the ten mills stipulated by the Constitution. If such a decision canhold, 'tis use less to have Constitutional limitations or Constitutions. As a Supreme Court created under its provisions assumes the power to set aside the organic law of the State. Thus can the people of a State or municipality be overburthened with taxation at the simple decision of one man. We won't blame the citizensof New Orleans if they don't submit to this outrageous exaction. A PRESS AsSOcIATION. How would it do to get up a press association in Louisiana We have been reading an account of the prere grinations of certain Arkansas editors who of course had their hats chalked by the whole souled railroad mag- 1 nates and rid free all over the Union i a'most. We yearn for one of those 4 free rides for ourself and the •madam. If we had a press associa-] tion perhaps the opportunity would offer. Seriously, it might be of ad-i vantage for the editors and publishers of the State to come together in an or ganization for mutual benefit. Will not some of our brethren express an opiniont--Claiborne Guardian. The suggestion of our contemporary is an excellent one. We believe that much good will accrue through such an organization. Rules can be adopted which will materially advance the a pecuniary interests of the press by e preventing a competition detrimental i to all. Blesides which, the press through its acciditedl representatives ' could do much to prevent the passage of such laws, for instance, as the one referring to Judicial advertisements, which the legislature came near en acting at its last session. The tone ofjournalism will be improved and i usuages adopted that will render the l profession what it should be,one of the a most honorable. Friend Hayes, you ii can put us down as one who will at- I tend the meeting whenever and where- " ever it may be called. If the CAPITOIIAA continues to im prove it will soon be the best paper t in the State. In its new garb Gen. n Jastremski's paper looks as" neat as a t< new pin, and is full to overflowing of a "good reading." After the removal , of the Chliital every Louisianian should subscribe for this valuable pa per, and in order to get the run of af a'irs it would not be a bad idea to be- 1 gin now.--Claiborne Guardian. The above compliment,coming as it t does from an editor of such recognized t ability as Col. Hayes, will certainly be an incentive to us, to strive to oe- t cupy an honorable position among the patriotic journals of the State,| prominent among which stands the te Claiborne Guardian. i1 The people of Bosser p sihm are to have an election to detaetah tle loia tion of their Courthouse. Y A little son of Judge Delopey, of Providence, was out on the lake e ski two weeks ago, when a stem orpche a on, and fearing the skiff would 4$ j~aped into the water and tried tq4+i ,t ashore. His father swam out to rosue him, but before he could reach him the little fellow drowned in sight of both his parepts. Sad indeed. At Rayville, says the Beacon, another r jail-delivery was attempted last Monday d night. The outside door of the cell in which Mary Jane Henderson was con e fined was left unlocked, and the would o be jail breakers partly broke off the O plate of the lock of the inner door by a prying, and forced the bolt back, but not sufficiently to open the door. We learn that they were surprised in their work and warned away. This is a very S serious offense, and efforts will no doubt be made to discover and bringthe of fenders to justice. h The Colfax Chronicle gives a practical a illustration of the administration of jus tice in its vicinity, in the following terms: "We have a pair of colored of cials in the First Ward of Grant parish, in Charlie Thomas, Justice of the Peace, and J. O. Butler, Constable. Thomas advised an old colored man, Wm. Allen, to bring suit to eject a laborer off his place for not complying with his con tract, and when the ease came up before e him he mulcted old man Allen for the s costs, because nothing could be made - out of the other pasty. Butler, it seems, considers his office as giving him the right to bulldooze the balance of the colored people. His wife got into a 6 quarrel with the wife of old ,man John B Jackson, whereupon Butler, instead of - trying to keep the peace, instructed her a to pitch in and whip Jackson's wife. D This pair do credit to the school in which they learned polities, and afford a shin ing example of the effects of Radicalism in the State of Louisiana. Their inca pacity and overbearing ought to serve r as a warning to the colored people not to elect igdioramuses to office. Ignorance is always insolent when clothed with brief authority." A SnOOTING SCHIAPE,.-We are inform ed that Chipman, Second Justice of the f Peace, was badly beaten by a colored man whom he tried to arrest. His hon 1 or repaired to the colored man's cabin and informed him of the object of his visit.' The accused, refusing to obey the warrant and getting demonstrative, the Judge pulled out a revolver and fired three shots at the prisoner, but without I effect. The colored man charged on his a honorable assailant with a heavy stick, r and broke several bones of his honor's body.-St. Bernard Eagle. r The Marksville Bulletin says: "We have learned this week that caterpillars have been found in the cotton fields on the bayous, but we hope and believe that no damage will result from their appearance even thus early. The con dition of the weather has much to do with the development of this devilish little worm, and with a warm and dry season from now on, no injury will come of their appearance." From the Minden l)emocrat, we learn that at a meeting of the citizens of Bos sier parish, held at Bellevne last week, it was decided to remnove the parish site to some more accessible point in the par ish. RIed Lahd, Collinsburg, and Mrs. Canes' place were suggested. Public sentiment seems to favor Mrs. Canes' place, opposite Shreveport. Spencer R. Thorpe, Esq., of Avoyelles, is being urged with great warmth by our Markavillo contemporaries as a candi date for Congress from this district. It affords us great pleaasnre to learn thalt so able and worthy a competitor as Mr. Thorpe is entered by the Avoyclles Democracy. Thus far, the district can not but be faithfully served by any one of the gentlemen mentioned. There is a movement on foot for a mail service reform up about Natchito ches, and the Vindicator says it is sadly needed. The Louisiana Baptist Convention will assemble at Keachi, DeSoto parish, Friday, before the second Sabbath in July. Smie excitement, says the Sentinel, was occasioned in Bayou Sara over a case in which the wife of Scott I)oug las, a negress, was charged with poison ing her husband. It seems that Scott had incurred.the displeasure of his wife some days before, and onThursday even ing, shie fixed np a drink in which was a large quantity of quicksilver, which, it was also found out, she had obtained by scraping the back of a looking-glass. When Scott returned from his work, his lady proffered himn the glass containing the mixture, lInt by a sign front a wc man standing near, he was induced not to drink it. Mrs. DI). was niot to be out done in her attempt at murder, andl the following morning, offered the mixtur.' again and it was taken, inot with any serious result that we. .'n I' learn. Mrs. I Douglas is now in tihe elaholose. Mr. Tlhos. Hlickman is now engagmezi taking thie census. We are told that ihe finds the generally-accepted idea as to the population of given districts in the parish incorrect. Notablyl, in one in stance, :la district in the second ward, generally supposed to have a population of about four hundred, has been found to contain something near seven hun dredm. It is estimated the entire popu s counter 0i ~ husband, Dew S1 4-nil" ,iing' house, and with a knife in ha, niet tue xas on ,:ish is t of thrae h rcombsutshed; ki into and Suh ' ed ten or a dedozen severe etat, Susie t Dorsey, the worst being In the left e thigh, and several on her back. After ir being cut, she walked ocveral blocks to Dr. Fisher's office, and that gentdeman gave her proper at;ention. Sara:Sibh escaped, but will doubtless be esroted. It is the opinioofed r.into sher that the' wounds are not fatal. The ony pitnict that the fa dithloess husband did aeie SDorsive his just deserts in : the left Shave the wounds to seuer." A negro ma nice, d Pink Colemaq, living near Greenwood, near the Texas of Caddo parish for a murder onlypity in 1878. The man has several ti been arrested for ti# murder, but al e ways managed to escape. e The coal mine on the Sabine riv le been abandoned by the parties wh worked it, as the coal no longer buns well enough to make it wortfi their while. a The Pointe Coulpee Record says tbat Mr. Francois Prevost, a white man,'was killed by lightning, at the Chenal, on last Thursday week at noon. Deceased was sleeping under a pecan tree, when a h thunder storm came up. The bolt struck the tree near its top, followed down the n trunk of the tree, and killed Ptevostr who was lying under, his head resting e on some of the roots of the tree. o The body of a mulatto man was found! e floating on Red River, neqr Shreveport,. it on Saturday, with several wounds on the bead. Foul play is suspected. Rtr mor says he was murdered by a party at e Long Prairie, some distance above here, d and throwd into the river. That was a wise colored man, who 9 in speaking of the happiness of mar e ried people, said: "Dat ar' pends e altogedder how dey enjoys deselves.& i The Chia Inter-Ocean, the most I radical of all the Radical papers, c, doesn't take kindly to Garfield's 'I nominaton.. ' FOR S.A.L I rlTWO GOOD MULES, for Cash or arrpoe seuority. Will exchange for geop ore. Apply at this oee. Jane34 3 Kiaulow Ermmaee i Atlther lot of tbhi nies heaidom and ex. cellrnt Oil, at Family Grocery of juae24 . JOSHUIA BEAL. Lemons, Lemons. RECEIVEn YESTERDAY, per steamer Wilson, 3 Boxes Extra Large, Fancy Lemens. Fine Fruit, and Cheap at 30 cents per dozen. junel8 JOSHUA BEAL. Creen A Black Tea. IMPERIAL TEA, Excellent Quality. YOUNG HYSON TEA, Excellent Quality.. GUNPOWDER TEA, Besat Quality. OOLONG TEA, Bet quality. ENGLISH BREAKFAST tBA,Best Qul'ty At Family Grooery of june17 JOSHUA DEAL Flour, Flour. My Stoak of Flour is all Fresh Ground and adapted to' rat.elaas Family use. Prices and samples furnlshed on application. jnne 17 JOSHUA BEAL. AT BEAL'8. INE SlU6AR.CURED HAMS-Star bran d BACON H OLDERS-As good as comes South. TABLE VINEGAR-Pure White Grape. BAKING POWDERS-Dr. Price's, Cream brand. HULLED CRACKED WHEAT-Fine as silk. Received this day and for sale at family gro. cery of jelo JOSHUA REAL. II OR A Blessing in Every H1OTo lsoI-DI :'tý UNRIVALLED IN EVERY PARtCULAR! THE CHAMPION MONITOR Cooking Stoke ! T|Fi l E ANI)SO)2IET T)ESTFI MtIIIEDI) tIE11JANDSO)\,) EST I)EST' INISHEI> and easiest iamaged ('oking Satw'y in the world. t will burn aitlher coal or wood. By a wonderful invention one An light a fire without kindling wood of any kid. In fifteen rinuteN after lighting a fire the 4ftve is ready to do better work than y othl in use. Canl around at my tore, on Main .taet, and exaamimn this wonder. Great pirasure ill he taken la exhibiting Its merits. M. . WILLIAMI. FINE WALTHAM WATCIF4. m intmid gllH case, from N ep at JOit JOHNu NX'S.