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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-10-12
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e@. We are authorized to announce
WILLIAM A, STEWART

e8r We are authorized to announce
WILLIAM A. STEWART
.sa candidate for District Attorney for the 18th
Judicial District composed Of the parishes Of ka-
n;des and Avoyees, subject to the decision OF the
rpsonle at the ballot-box in November next.
tM We are authorized to announce that
C. w. BOYCE
n an independent candidate to represent the parish
Of Rapides in the next Legislature.
s@- We are authorized to announce that
j. A. NEWELL
Il an Independent candidate for the Office OF Clerk
ofthe District Court for the Parish Of Rapides.
~ We are requested to announce
WIN. L.. GRAY
"A candidate for the Office of Sheriff Of the Parish
Of Rapdes, at the ensuing November Election.
e4- For Sheriff, Parish Rapides,
ELIJAH R. CROSBY,
subject to the will of the people at the neat Noyem
4, Der election.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-10-12
Important Notice
TO SUGAR PLANTERS!
REFINERY, AND BISUL
puHTE nE IIafE LHnpKO


PHITE or LIME WORKS.
New ORLEANS, 2sth Sept, 1859. Z
THE very liberal patronage Of which have been
j the honored recipient, at the Sugar Planters
hands, for my Bi-Sulphite of Lime, has
stimulated me to further efforts to expand che area
ofmy business.
The extent dimensions, and perfectibilty Of the
machinery employed at my Works. the quantity
and quality of the materials on hand, the economy
and facility Of labor which have lately introduced
there the determination have taken this year to
devote all my time, attention, and energy to their
interior management; all combined, place me in
the position Of being able to supply any qs,antity
of Bi-Sulphite of Lime that may be required for
the consumption of the State and of lower;,,g the
pr'ce Of this insahscble chemical agent One Dollar
per Barrel! a
shall, therefore, from this date to the end Of
the season, sell my Bi-Sulphite af Lime, of to 10
degrees Beaume, at FIVE DOLLARS PER BAR.
REL-Fsss of Drayags.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-10-12
7. A. NEWE EEL
n We are requested to announce

Il an Independent candidate for the Office OF Clel
Of the District Court for the Parish Of Rapides.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-10-12

Groceries,
all Of which will be sold at regular and low prices
have also a very large and handsome assoft-
ment of @f<
CLOTHING AND HATS,
which am selling at New Orleans prices.
Sept, rs, 1853. S. W. HENARlE.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-10-12
m- We are authorized to announce that

n an independent candidate to represent the parish
At Rapides in the next Legislature.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-10-12
WIN. l.. GRA,

"a candidate for the office of Sheriff Of the Parisl
Of Rapides, at the ensuing November Election.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-10-12

ton with any. make this statement simply that
your readers may bgat perfect liberty to take my
sentiments at whatever value they may choose to
receive them. Yam Democrat ard an ardent
advocate for the perpetuity it's principles, de-
sire the election of the Democratic State ticket
with your honorable neighbor at its head. The
election of COL Moore as Governor, will save our
party. He will 60 into the Gubernatorial chair,
with character for inAexible honesty and frmness
equal to that Of any man in the Union. He will
go in without entanging alliances, personal OF
political. He will 20 in untrammeled BY favoritisn
or associations. His appointments will be based
on sound Judgment and disposition to elevate
the party Baton Rouge viii be no longer the focus
10 which all the butterfly and humming bird politi.
clans Of New Orleans will congregate An iron
will aud astrong mind will destroy the power Of
those political chameleons who by panderng to the
vanity ofa yielding executive have for years shaped
the policy of The state government. Col. Moores
ample means would, independent of his high char.
aetes, preserve him from appliances, which have
had heretofore the tendency to lower the standard
Of executive character and independence. Every
Democrat will be able to appeal to him personally
for right and justice. Let him come up with his
Democratic record clear and there viii be no need
for cringing and bowling to any outsider Walk
up to the Captains Office" if you have any business
with him, will be the orders. No fawning Ior
aattery necessary--the lustre of the Satellites will
be lost in the blaze Of thh Planet-if you want to
see Gov. Tom Moore, all you will have to do will be
! to ask for him.
The FIRST Democratic Governor Louisiana ever
had was Alexander Mouton, and although we
hare had four Democratic Governors since, they
have failed to reach his altitude IN Democratic es
tks H. uaSF
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-10-12

ELHJA H IL. CKOSBK,
subject to the will of the people at the next Novem-
Der election.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

TEA PLAsTs.--Twenty-four tea plants have
just arrived at San Francisco from China, in
a growing and healthy condition. They are
the im peftaticn Of Messrs. l.. Clark, of Conn,
and 3. L. Silver, of Philadelphia, who pro-
pose exhibiting them at the State Fair, in
order to introduce them to the notice of ag-
riculturists. 1t is the opinion Of these gem
item that tea can be proftably cultivated in
this State and further, that by so doing our
people can be furnished with an article de-
serving the name of tea for be it known that
not one-fourth of all the tea prepared in
China escapes injury in its curing, while very
little of the extra quality ever reaches Eng
land, America or France. Russia, however,
fares better in this respect, the article being
conveyed overland, none but the best quality
is sent into that market. A traveller in Rus
sia, recently asserted that the serfs of that
country would refuse, as being unfit to drink,
what in America would be denominated
No. article Of tea. That the soil and cli-
mate Of California are adapted to the grow
ing Of the tea plant, we think is very gener-
ally conceded. The principal objection
urged to its saccessful cultivation is, the
great amount of labor required in the curing
of tea, and the high wages obtained by all
branches of Industry in California. This
obstacle, it is very likely, will be overcome
by the Introduction of machinery. In China
every thing is done by hand, while in Amer
ca this rule is reversed-everything being
done by machinery. Added to this, it is gem
orally conceded by persons familiar with the
matter, that this staple article of commerce
cannot only be cured cheaper by the intro
duction of mechanical skill, but better cured
also. This fact was demonstrated by the
Assam Tea Company, of London; this Com
pany's factory having for some time been
under the direction of Philadelphia Quaker
named Spenser Bonsall, and who designed
and invented machinery by which the tea
was made far superior to the Chinese article.
Unfortunately the Company became involv-
ed, and finally insolvent, in consequence of
outside speculatiens, and failing to provide
funds for Mr.. B., he abandoned his post and
returned to Philadelphia, where he now is,
taking with him the secret of his invention.
PetazumaJuwnal.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

SeHae eastern papers delight to sacrifice
their respectability for the pitiful sport of
gulling the public, thus bringing the whole
press into disrepute. Very lately "sell,"
to use their own elegant phrase, was perpe-
trated by New York paper on large num-
Der OF persons by the publication of partic-
ulars of the fail of an aerolite, OF meteoric
stone. Now Kentucky journal tells impos-
slble things of one James Steavens, who is
said to have thrust pins, knives and avis
into and through his feet, arms, legs and
checks, in the presence of most respectable
witnesses, and yet exhibited on his person
the next morning no marks of these extra
ordinary mutilations.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

A COLLEGE OF THE RIGHT SoRT.-We learn
from the Alameda Herald that there is about
to be established at Healdsburg, Sonoma
county, an Agricultural and Mechanical
University of the State of California The
institution is undertaken by joint stock
company, with capital of $4,000, and a
building is to be erected, the dimensions OF
whfch are so by Is feet, three stories high,
with an observatory for the use of astronom-
ical classes. There will be connected with
the institution a farm of one thousand acres
Of excellent arabic land. Students will be
admitted at the rate of 1925 for term of
forty-four weeks. They will be required to
labor four hours each day, for which they
will be allowed one half of the scholarship
fee. They will be taught general knowl-
edge of mechanics and the use of tools, so as
to prepare them to pursue the various trades
known among US, and they will also be in
structed in scientific farming. Pupils thus
instructed will be fitted to enter at once on
a useful and profitable career; the world will
want their services. For private institu-
tion, the Healdsburg Agricultural and Me-
chanical University is very well, and very
praiseworthy; but when shall we have one
on similar plan under the care of the
State, and to which the mest advanced pu-
pills from our public schools can be admit
ted2 So far as this matter of education
goes, the State would do well to initiate an
cient Sparta, and take her children under
her own charge.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

GUIDE BoARDs.-It is very possible that
the politicians of Nevada county have never
thought upon the subject of roads, or guide
boards to reads, for politicians are remark
ably oblivious to all matters of earthly util-
ity. They prefer to flourish away about the
abstract rights of man, and all that sort OF
thing, and never condescend to bring their
majestic energies down to the level of sub
qunary considerations; bat we, who are
poor mortals, without the adventitious aid
of horses and mules, have a right to reach
above our sphere and ask--"Why have we
no guide boards?' The absence of them in
the mountain regions, where there are
so many diverging roads, and where dense
forests prevent the observation of landmarks,
is often the cause of extreme annoyance 10
travellers ignorant of the topography of the
country they are traversfng frequently
the stranger walks or drives several miles in
the wrong direction, takes some roundabout
way or some finely opening route that ter
inmates in brush-heap or at the edge OF
some deep diggings. As nearly all our
mountain roads, like those of the lower
country, are extremely dusty, these accident
al pro7ongations of a journey are doubly an
nesing, both to man and brute, and cause
fearful arnount of profanity and physical
discomfort. We can think of no way in
which the county Supervisors could make
themselves so usefal, as by having erected
at every crossing or fork of 3 road plainly
lettered guide boards, telling the weary
traveller where he is going and how far off
is his destination. The expense Of such
public convenences would be incon derable,
and we think the Supervisors have perfect
right to provide them. The people woal&
certainly applaud them for doing it, and
every dusty wanderer bless them in a man.
ner different from that in which they are
sometimes blessed now. The proprietors Of
tor roads and bridges are generally accom-
odating enough to erect guide boards, and
for this they win daily thanks. Willnot our
excellent board of Supervisors take this
subject into consideration, and instruct the
different road overseers to comply with the
public wish? seEgl
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13
SPANISH TzsArEn.-They have a Spanish

SPANISH TzEArER.-They have Spanish
theater at San Jose, where good acting and
danciug is done, according to the Tribune,
which paper thes speaks of the prompter:
The feature of Spanish theater is the
prompter, whose station is under the stage,
in the frout part. A hole is cut in the stage,
in the center of the foot-light range, through
which he thrusts his head and shoulders, and,
protected by small screen, from the view
of the audience, he reads the entire play
from the book or manuscript, in a monoto~
uoas tone, followed by the performers, at the
distance of 6ve or six words. In some the
aters we have visited (theugh not in this one1
this fanctionary speaks as loud as the per-
formers, and the effect to the unaccustomed,
is strange jangling jargon, disagreable and
almost incomprehensible, as the prompter
and actor are both speakinga 1.-THE same. time,
but not the same words.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

PREMIUMS are offered on the following mi
ming products and implements by the Agri-
cultural, Horticultural and Mechanics Soci-
ETY. of the Northern District of California,
whose first annual fair commences at Ma
rysville on the 30th inst. Specimens of gold
quartz, gold quartz amalgam, bullion, coarse,
scale and dust gold, amalgam, silver ore,
silver bullion, cinnabar, quicksilver, copper
as, copper, copper ore, iron, platina, chromi-
um, gypsum, nikal, antimony, asphaltum,
coal, magnetic iron, lead, bismuth, sulphur,
bitsmen, agates, chalcedony, salt, mineral
waters, marble, granite, bahrstones, petri-
factions, fossils and ignite Models of quartz
amalgamator, quartz crusher, tunneling ma
chine, mining pump, water wheel, rifle box,
sluioe box, slaice rake, sluice fork, mining
pick, drilling machine, blasting apparatus,
and hydraulic apparatus. All articles should
be entered at the Office in Marysvlle by the
29th instant. They can be taken from Marys-
Vile to the State Fair at Sacramento, which
commences on the 18th of September.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13
The Avtlmnlie 2ress.
B.. p. AVERY. EDITOR.
New USE FOR BALLOONS. the IA

New USE FOR BALLOONS. the IA
nous correspondent of the London Times,
writes that GODDARD, the aeronaut, has made
balloon ascension at Castenedolo, for tire
purpose of exploring the position of the en-
emy at Chiese. He rose to a height of 500
or 700 yards, stopped minute or so, and
then descended again with as much regular
ity as in ascending. 1t is thought the ball
loon may be cnaae available for extensive
military observation, and the GODDARD broth
ers are to make further experiments. At
tempts were made daring the time of the
first Napoleon, but no successful results at
tained,as aeronautic science was then in its
infancy.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

The Golden Era, the pioneer of literary
papers on the Pacific, still makes its regela,
weekly appearance and maintains its popu.
larity. We do not find time to read muck
of ts'solid columns, but occasional glimpses
at them show that it keeps up its old char
actcr. The last number contains az anima-
ted description of the death of Pizarro, from
the pen of Dr. Wooster.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

1t is proposed to unite New York and
Brooklyn under consolidated metropolitan
county government, the separate municipal
governments of the two cities not to be dis
turbed, nor any question affecting their sep
arate taxation TO be raised. The Herald
pronounces the plan feasible, advantageous
and of probable accomplishment.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

THE OVERLAND MAL.-Statistics given in
the st. Louis Republican show that the great
overland mail via Los Angeles is rapidly in
creasing in Importance. The whole number
OF letters sent to California by it for the
months of April, May and jane, was 80, $50
whole number received at ST. Louis during
the same period, 33, ,22s The total postage
on these letters amounted to 5,649. SO.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

Blondn has made second trip across the
Niagara on tight rope, returning with a
sack drawn over his head and body, and tar-
ming summerset when midway. He now
proposes to trundle a wkselbarrcw across
the rope, and will probably do it. Amid all
the feats of useless daring this stands nearly
unparalleled. The only value of such per-
formances as Blondin's and Sam Slick's, and
those of the French athletcs who exercised up
on arope suspended from au..ascending balloon
is to exhibit the varied capabilities of man,
and to prove how little is impossible to firm
nerves and a resolute will. Yet persons
equal to such deeds of ofphysical boldness may
not have the courage to dare moral danger
in the performance of right actions.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

The Placerville Observer has the following
item, which indicates the beginning of
great trade with Utah ess5
On Thursday last 255 head of mules, be-,
longing to Perry Co., of Salt Lake, passed
through Grizzly Flat en- route for the valley.
These mules are portion of drove of Eve
hundred which were brought through to
Salt Lake last Fall. We believe they have
been brought hither for the purpose of pack.
ing and hauling merchandise to Utah.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

1t is reported that the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company have purchased the Collins
steamers Baltic, Adriatlc and Atlantic, and
that after the lst of October the service on
the Atlantic side will be performed by the
Panama Railroad Company with the Adri-
attic and Baltic.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

PRlNTERs.-T typographers of New Jer-
sey boast that there is not single member
of their craft in the penitentiary of that
State, and but one in the State Legislature
We believe there are some printers in both
houses of Congress, who got there, no doubt
by keeping bad company.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

A surprising discovery has just been M ade
at Berlin. DR.. Pertz, of the royal library,
has just ferreted cat the manuscript Journals
Of two Genoese navigators, Teodosia Doria
and Ugolino Vivasdi, who succeeded in sail
ing roand the Cape of Good Hope in 1890
that is, 207 years before Vasco de Cana.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

The NEwsPAPER.-In his sermon on Min
isterial Education, before the Arkansas Bap-
tist State Convention, Elder Watson says
"ln the 'bill of family expenses, the newspaper
occupies place by the side of such indis-
pensables as coffee, Smiths Tonic Syrup,
Godfrey's Cordial, McLancs Pills, and Bun
yans Pilgrims Progress!"
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

The Quincy Argws says that about twelve
hours work will finish the Plumas Court
House, SO it is safe to predict that the work
will be done within the next sixty days
providence permitting.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

w F. Stewart has given up the editorial
charge of the Placerville Obserucr, and that
paper has been transmogrifed into q Demo
cratic paxtizan sheet.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

Robert Murray of Trinity county goes u
San Quentin for one year, for attempting to
have an incestu oas marriage coasummated
between himself and his niece.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

The Petaluma Journal boasts of the Fine
new cider, made from apples grown in So
noma county, which its editor has had pre-
sented to him by Fine fellow who appreci-
ates the value of the press as a medium for
the expression of good things.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

An arrangement has been entered into be-
tween Commodores Vanderbilt and Garrison,
by which passengers bound to France from
California can be ticketed through from San
francisco to Hayre, via New York,
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

Citizens of Piumas county are about or
ganizing an Agricultural, Mechanical and
Mining Associations.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

The price-of real estate at Vallejo has gene
up lately, in consequence of the prospecs OF
that place becoming a railroad terminus.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

The Northern and State Telegraph Com
panies at Marysville have greatly reduced
their tariff Of charges.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

The government of Japan refuses to send
ambassadors to England, but will maintain
its promise to send them to the United
States.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13
flor the Press.
A SPRING SIGH FOR HOME.

For the Press.
A SPRING SIGH FOR HOME.
IN THE STYLE OF BURNS.
Now violets bloom on Berkshire braes,
An Berkshire woods are green;
The young May moon now hings her horn
Ger ilka wimplin stream.
Wee daisies white, the lee lang night
Play bopeep through the grass,
An snowdrops sweet annoint the feet
OF early skelpin lass.
The swallow twitterin' round the byre
Awakes the merry morn;
The lark to sip the early dew
Gaes binkin through the corn.
Sweet Glover banks perfume the air,
Sweet birds attune the breeze,
Sweet buds an f1ewers are beckonin there
To golden killed bees.
On! There's my hame, my dear, dear hame-
But hame no mair for me;
Yet when 1 die Oh let me lie
Beneath some Berkshire tree.
HoUsAToNIc.
Cherokee, May 10, 1859.
The hydraulic press., 1859-08-13

Phil. Moore has been commissioned by
COY. Weller as Brigadier General.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-02-09

THE REASON WHY BROTHER Dickson
LEFT THE CHURcH.-Mr. Dickson a
colored barber, was shaving one of his
customers. a respectable citizen, one
morning. when a conversation occurred
between them respecting Mr.. Dickson's
former connection with colored church
in that place.
i believe you are connected with the
church in--street, Mr.. Dickson
said the customer.
No. sab, not at all
What are you not member of the
African Church.
Not dis year. sah.'
why did you leave their communi-
ton, Mr.. Dickson-if I may be per.
mited to ask 2
why, | tell you. sah,' said Mr..
Dickson, strapping concave razor on
the palm of his hand it was just like
dis. LINED dat church in good faif.
l glib ten dollars toward de stated
preaching OBJ de Gospel de fus' year,
and de peepel all call me Brudder Dick
son. De secon year my business not
good, and only glib five dollars. Dat
year de church people called me Mr..
Dickson. Dis razor hurt you, sab .
NO the razor goes very WE'LL
We'll, sab, de third year l felt very
poor, sickness in my family, and didn't
glib muffin for preaching. Well, sab,
after dat dey call me Old Niger Dick
son, and left 'em.'