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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-10-24

Another tract Or parcel of land situa-
Ted, lying and being in the same Parish
and State, fronting on the same Bayou,
bounded on two sides by lands of j. r.
Williams and by lands of Fl. S. Sprigg,
.eeelng on the right descending bend Of
Bayou Robert and containing 90 20 100
/; acres. The two tracts commonly
Known 4 as the Anandale Plantation.
Seized in the above entitled suit to
satisfy said writ. @
" !, lERMs OF SALE:HCAsH in United
otates treasury notes with benefit OF.
appraisement.
n, po esas will not be given until
} Ille ll l't OF January next, there being q
lease Of the place for this year. ..' =
a JAMES R. Andrews,
!, Sheriff.
q sheritf's Office, Alexandria, LOUISE
ana, September 18th, 1866.
sept 26 tbs. Printers fees S31 so.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-10-24

For Sale.
TWENTY THOUSAND acres Of yalu d.
i able Pine Woods land. With some I'M
provements, near Alexandra, Ia, north
side OF Red river. For terms, etc., apply
to HIS. Losee, Esq. at Alexandria, Bo-
CANS buildings, Front Street.
!. GEO. L. WILSON.
io April 18th, If. i fs.5s Il
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-10-24
Alexandria Advertisements.

D E N 7 A + N OF / G E.
|nOCTOR b. "A. KENNEDY.
~ Dental Surgeon, graduate of the Bal.
timore College Of Dental Surgeons, having
concluded to locate permanently in Alexan-
dria, respectfully tenders his professional
services to the citizens and country gener-
ally. He is prepared to perform, on the
latest and most approved principles, all op-
erations in his profession in superior
manner: ~ az .tss,aS.,
He inserts teeth, on the atmospheric
principle, on gold plate, from one to an en-
tire sett. Also on vulcanite hard rubber,
which is preferred by many, and costs less.
Cleaning, plugging ant. extracting done on
scientific principles. Having bracticed
over twenty-three years, he hopes to be
able to please all who may favor him. with
their patronage.
CHILDRHNS TEETH ATTENDED, no,
Office in IRVING'S BRICK Bull
DING, over j. FRASER,S Store.
septl9-tf., @s a's IS !
q WET OPOPONAX FROM
~ MEXICO! New, very rare, rich
and fashionable perfume. The fin
est ever imported or manufactured
in the United States. Try it and
be convinced. s.T
sa b. Z. SMITH & Co.,
sept 10 BIN New York.
MOTT G E.
T1HIS Is to inform my friends and the
j public, generally, that / am again sell
ling goods Y - sS 5l- ~
In my Own Store,
which was very nearly washed away by The
last overflow. Ihaye a fine assortment Of
good and substantial goods, but keep no
liquors, nor +, any unnecessary trash
The following is a list Of some of the
leading articles which will always be found
in my Store and at cheap rates, viz: eie
Bleached and Brown Cotton, from u to
12-4 wide; Calicoes, Hosiery, Ready .
as Made Clothing, Hats, Boots, and .,.if
Shoes, Hardware of every 81
~ w Description, Crockery -''..se
i.f and Glass Ware, l s2seiAis
at 81 : Saddlery, Gro s
ass :t, ceries,
Hams
s.'s s Middlings,
q! la 9.i O Breakfast Bacon, q
/ a3i Shoulders, p ork,, ls ,s.3
Candles, Soap, Lard,
Lard Oil, Coal Oil, Rubber
Betting, from 2 to IA inches vide,
and a great many other articles too
to put into an advertisement
II am constantly receiving goods from
New Orleaus, New York and Boston,
Although the credit system is tolerably
well played out, and l want it understood
that 1 can't gige day credit get, having
myself for twenty-six years
through fires, wars, floods and thousand
other misfortunes, | can get q short ac-
in the way Of Credit at the
Factories, which enables me to keepa good
stock on hand. Please call and examine
ior yourselves. ~. IS. s..
augl-tf. S. W. HENARIE.
q WIGS T0NS0RIAL SALOON
SHAVING. HAIR DRESSING AND
SHAMPO0NING!
t4z4
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24
RESJlIP

They say that the Resumption bill is to be
killed in the House, and that 'me who vote ia
do it will shelter themselves Ter protest OF
hostility to the President or dixie to intrast
so much power to Secretary McCulloch. Such
a pretext, If set up, will be cheat-thcre is
not a scrap of sense in it. The Secretary
powers are awlul--he can make rich OF
poor in an hour-but only because our Circu'
lating Medium has no fixed, determinate value.
return TO Specie Payments would at once di'
vest him of nine-tenths Of his pecuniary power.
Make Gold the legal standard Of value, and the
Secretary Of the Treasury is a shorn Samson
thcnceforth; but, let Suspension continue, and
he can make or mar whomsoeyer he viii.
II saddens us 70 hear usually sound and
capable legislators like Mr. Kelley, Of Pa, talk
Of rcsuming Specie Payment five to ten years
hence! 1t seems to Us like man resolving that
he will be honest, or woman that She will be
yirtuous, after lc75. il is difficult Ia compute
the present value Of such prospective integrity.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS -.

John Cahill was convicted yesterday IN the
Court Of General Sessions of the shooting OF Police
Officer Duryca found guilty OF murder in the second
degree and sentenced to the State Prison Tor the tenn
Of his natural Life.
A case of suicide, the cause Of which seems
TO have been uDrequed love, occurred last evening ia
Brooklyn; young German shooting himself dead oy
pistol which he discharged against his temples,
The Tennessee Union State Convention ex-
pressed itself freely to is estimation of the State az
National Government and listened to speeches NON
several gentlemen of cminence.
The LocOfocos in jersey City approve the
course of the President and will publicly say 50 III
meeting be held place not yet designated, on
Monday evening.
A casualty took place on the New-JerSey
Railroad yesterday. near East Newark. demOis hing
Two locomotives and seriously ipjuring several men,
The steamer Winchester was burned 10 miles
from Wilsvc Va. on Thurdey, and loss Of 20 lives
- reported among other shocking particulars.
The I4th Commencement Of the NewYork
Ophtbamlc School and Hospital occurred last evening
and the occasion was one Of great interest.
locomotive engine boiler blew Up al jersey
City last night while standing the track OF TIC Erie
Railway. fireman was badly Lurt.
BY a special dispatch from Philadelphia 1t ap-
pears that the Democrats Of that place aIo to DC
counted in on supporting Mr.. johnson.
John 5. Pearson, for the murder OF Walton
Gregory Van Burenyille n. Y, last September was
hanged at Goshen. n. V, yesterday.
The systematic robberies Of the Erie Railroad
have been probably ended. by the detection OF the
guilty parties yesterday.
A brutal murder occurred III Cincinnati on
Thursday night. the murderer and the murdered both
being prominent citizens.
Gen. Logan has stated that the use OF his
name by the Fenians at Pittsburgh unauthorized
by him.
Bayard Taylor delivered his lecture last even.
ing in the Cooper Institute Russia and the Russians
The steamer Gilmore sunk near Louisville Oh
Thursday, and a loss enSred OF upward of $1,000
God was sold freely by the Government ycS'er-
dsy and closed l36sda6! Government e,urties were
lower the Stock Exchange upon the currency issues After
the Board 100 bid for 5000 The market Tor State bonds
aud Railway mortgages not active Railway shares
opened firm at Wednesdays rates. steady during the
Lrst call and lover mIne diatey aer ard and offered freely
Ut the decline. AT the Second Board the market d..
with small amount Of business Money among stock house,
per cent aud upon stocks borrowed per cent allowed
TIE sales OF gold have disturbed cal loans and good many
lave been put Up from 10 per cent IL commercial pa
per change EXCHANGE is held with hfnues, and
buyers operating freely.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24
A WORD FOR RAILROADS.

The Railroads of this country are seeing hard
times. few are doing well enough but the
great majority are not. Tho close Of the war
has cut off part of their business, and drawn
away a part to nayigable waters. People hate
TO pay higher fare or freight, yet exact twice
as much for Fuel, Timber, Iron, Labor, &C.,
&C., as was formerly paid. Then the taxes
are very heavy, and the Railroads are saddled
with an undue share Of them. The assessors
who raise railroads to $50, 900 per mile, and
put farms down to a third of their cash value,
will stand a good chance for reelection. So
we calculate that a good many railroads will
pay no dividend this year, unless they borrow
them.
We suggest that this is a good time to cut of
Free Passes in the lump. Retrenching them
will never amount to anything-they should be
utterly abolished. When person travels on
the business Of the road, let him pay his fare
and charge it,. Knock the whole dead-head
system stiff, and railroads generally would pay
one per cent. more dividend than they now do.
Do Mt wait for legislation-theTe is no need OF
if. Let us hear soon of a General Railroad
Convention and final abolition of all Free
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24

shall yote-these and none other-and we Will
bring tie great body of the Blacks. and Of the
friends of Impartial Suffrage, to settle the whole
controversy on that basis. Why, then, fater
with the question Why not meet 1t manlully
V. Mr.. Field propounds the rule, 1.-The
able bodied only bear arms; the able-minded
only should vote" The Blacks and their cham
pons will cheerfully abide that rule. Establish
it, excluding every Black and White who, on a
fair scrutiny, are found to fall below the stand
ard. and We ask no more. But how does tins
Justify our present rule (New-York's, not South
Carolna's) which allows a grossly-ignorant,
half-witted White to vote, but denies the prlyl-
lege to a Newton or Webster if he be poor
and Black
VI Mr.. Field points US to the new constitu-
tional proviso that Congress shall have power
to maintain Universal Freedom by proper en-
actments. But suppose these enactments should
be vetoed so soon rs passed and our Fields and
Stewards theleupon hold meetings to endorse
the Veto, what does the power amount tot
Unless the People stand behind Congress, and
encourage it to enforce this provision, it will
remain dead letter.
VII. But the Address tells US that " the men
and women of the South are of like sentiments
and instincts with ourseIreS which we will
think of. This, certainly, is true; that the
Southern Conventions and Legislatures are act
ing under the strongest possible inducements to
deal just as kindly with their Blacks as they
can; vet up to this hour, not one of them has
done even so much as the Address thinks they
ought to do. Loyal, reconstructed Tennessee
has killed hundreds of negroes this year; but no
jury has yet convicted o White for felony.
Nay; we are confident no jury i'll oil the South
has, within year, sentenced White TO con-
dgn punishment for any outrage whatever OIL
q Black.
We have this week heard from North Caro-
lima and Texas-each of them anxious for speedy
restoration. One of them is trying 70 let Blacks
testify in courts in cases where Black is a
party: but if a Black sees one White rob and
murder another White, his lips are judcially
sealed, though the crime should thereby 60 I'M
punished. And this is a fair specimen Of the
sentiments and instincts which distinguish
the Southern Whites generally. If Mr.. Field
says they are his also, OF like " them, We must
acquieSce.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24

Tie Erening Post is swerved from its intense
devotion to President JohnsonS works and
ways by his speech Of the 22d. Amid much
that is unjust to Congress, 1t says:
"For the shocking and uuseemly iDputatiop Mr.
johnson chose to bring against Messrs. Stevens.
Symuer and others opposed to HE policy that theic
intention was TO noite assassination trust that hs
will make haste to apologize not merely to them. but 10
the country, which he has most grievOusy insulted
Such words as he uttered on that head would not DO
tolerated In the hastiest stump speech They too
ijuiged and impulsivc for US TO think or write
patiently about them; and we count il slight MIS-
fortune for the nation that its chief magistrate should
have spoken in this STYLE
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24

year each, over and beyond their former sala'
rics--or, in other words. $ll,50C year each
to two petty criminal judges of New-York'
while the Chief Justice Of the United States Is
but paid 50, 600 per annum
We ask that this Act may be repealed, ir
manner abolishng both the increased pay and
extended jurisdiction-for certainly two officers
who could be parties in interest to so gross a
fraud are not entitled to receive, by enactment
of the Legislature, powers infringing on the
Jurisdiction and rights to which their six remain
ing associates were duly elected. 1t is not
enough to declare that the provision Of the bill
only intended to cover total salary of
So, 500 in each case; but the extended jurisdic.
ton should be repealed also, as an evidence that
the Legislature reprobates the conduct Of two
wearers of the Minor Ermine who could lend
themselves, or offer t. receive benefit from, any
such juggling and dishonest wording OF
statute.
The bill was passed last session under the plea
that the appointment of the two Justices OF the
Special Sessons-one q Tammany Democrat, the
other member Of the Union party-would tend
to equalize the balance Of criminal power be-
tween our two chief political organizations; but
moments thought will show that such cannot
be the effect. The men who keep groggeries,
bagnioS, gaming deus, baggage smashing shops,
repositories of stolen goods and so forth, are not,
as general rule, supporters Of the Union party.
All the classes who can be coerced in political
action by the criminal power. are chiefly of the
lower strata Of the Democracy; and the effect
of the bill is merely to exOrbitantly increase the
pay Of the Union Justice, while equally increas-
ing the pay and giving the whole lower crimi-
nal power Of the city for political use to his
Democratic associate.
We ask in the name Of justice, decency and
good faith that this bill of fraud in regard to our
Court of Special Sessions may be expunged,
pure aud simple, from the statute book; for
while the remaining six Police Justices may be
no better than they should be-and certainly
are Motive have against them no such damning
evidence of colusiye subterfuge and fraud as
may be found in the bill of last year in
regard TO the Court Of Special Sessions.
syiinst the two presiding magistrates of that
tribunal. The Judiciary Committees Of both
Houses should give this matter their prompt
attention: and should the Committee Of the
Assembly be "ixed all right as is the boast
here of the Tammauy leaders-a boast we do
not bclicye-then Mr.. Speaker Tremain would
do well to take the repeating bill out of their
hands and refer it to the House in Committee of
the Whole.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24
OUR FOREIGN TRADE AND THE
TARIFF.

In to-day's Supplement we give an instruc-
tive, condensed statement Of our Foreign
Trade and its bearings Oh the vexed Tariff ques-
ton. There is much discussion and citation OF
opinions on the supposed advantages Of leaving
international trade to the natural operation of
the laws of production and transfers but what
ever may be the theoretical benefit of unre-
strained trade. its practical working is evidently
ruinous to us as a people. We can conceive OF
O time so remote, when men and nations, in q
kind Of millenial community of labor and COM
merce, may be governed by the Christian law
of doing unto others as they would be done by.
and it may do no harm to advocate the extern
sion Of the rule to the limit Of Prudence; but 80
long as individual avarice and national selfish.
ness prevail, it will be well TO provide tariffs
and custom houses, as well as bolts, bars and
police. AS for the pacific and cyilizng infu.
ence Of international commerce, We have recent.
ly had rich specimen Of it in British Neutrali'
ty; and, if peace is TO be maintained with otheI
nations, we submit that an intelligent volunteer
system, coast defcnses and independent manu-.
features, are much more efficient ard cheaper
means than large importations. The English
newspapers, manufactures, and their jobbers OF
this side have been. and are, insdously trying
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24

Hare is funny item from the Cambridge
University letter OF The London Rerie,c, a Sec
ond-rate poltico-li;erary weekly keeping an
Town correspondent at each of the two En-.
glish Universities
"Thc vicc.C hanceiur has ct length announced to the
Senate that Mr. Henry Yates Thompson. ete Scholar
Of Trinity College has offered 10 endow ectureship
Harvard College Cambridge, Massachusetts, United
States. for the purpose OF procuring one course OF lee
every two years in this University by an Ameri
can the history. literature and institutions OF the
United States Of America. The President and Fellows
Of Harvard College to appoint the lecturer and the
Vice Chancellor here IL 10 have power OF veto far
as the Individual ~ concerned. Mr.. Thompson will
give in perpetuity 5000 United States Government
Bonds from which a biennial Income Of about $40
will accrue In order 10 give the thing trial. he will
pay down at d 10 for course OF Lectures in the
present year and n il is found not To answer tho Sen.
ate can then lot the thing drop
The proposal ELECTS the following perfectly
English comment:
1T IS a wild scheme end harm hight come OF Il. for
there is something irresistbly tempting in the idea Of
an American lscturinc on his Institutions and one
can imagine the ferment it would create among the
undergraduates For one sincerely hope IL NAV not
be received with favor by the Senate. Among other
reasons nothing can be more dangerous than TO estab.
lisi strong political feeling 10 younger members.
Considering tie large number OF hlgh-splried young
men we have among iGst emerging rom bOyh0od. to
allow such course 0i lectures 20 be delivered would be
to put light to gunpowder unless the lecturer were
gifted with superhumnn-certainy with prefer Ameii-
can-prudencc. content 10 make his lectures
poor and passoness retrospoots emasca,ed Of oil that
might render of this kind 50 interesting to a
lees niammable audience"
Ii viii occur to a rejecting mind that Young
England of the upper class must be in an
inhammablc state, if lectures on she "hstory,
literature and institutions Of thc United States
are deemed dangerous" We suppose it is
still considered sac to discuss the Republics of
Greece and Rome, inasmuch as they have been
Cor some time dea..
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24

They held a "Union State Convention in
Nashville on the 22d, to endorse the Pcesi-
dents policy" but more especially his lata
Veto, and demand admission into Congress.
and resolved, among other things,
"That they are prepared to all in aifording to freed
persons of color such protection shall secure to them
ell the blessings efaW and order, ard OF conceding Ia
them all civil and political rights compatible with the
best interests Of both races. insisting however thai
this subject belongs erelusirely TO the people Of The S
and hdt The same has Not been troagered 70 Ceayress
These gentlemen forget that the ConStitu-
ton has recently been amended, so as to abol-
ish and prohibit Slavery, and provide that
|" Congress shall hare porcr to enfore, Mis pro.
oisiOn By appropriate legislation" Had they not
better procure copy Of the Constitution as
amended?
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24

In the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Fessenden
moved to take up the concurrent resolution
passed By the House on Tuesday against the adj
mission of Rebel claimants to seats in Congress
till Congress itself shall have declared the
Rebel States entitled TO representation. MIR.
Sherman opposed tie motion in speech which
will excite the surprise Of those who re-
Gently advocated his reelection as a Radical.
Ny FeSscnicn replied with force and point, and
carried the motion nv % TO 10; seven Senators
formerly supposed TO be Republicans, voting
with Mr.. Sherman and the Coppcrheads in the
negative. M Fesscndcn then took the floor
on tie resolution, and delivered an address
which We commend to general attention.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24

barger then explained that an informal vote had
once been taken upon tbs express understanding
that it was not to be final; and MIR. Dawes showed
that Mr.. Voorhees, nominal majority turned
out to consist Of fraudulent votes. Nobody but
Mr.. Voorhees, fellow-Copperheads will douba
that the decision Of the House was a Just one on
the merits of the case. The charge that It was
based on partisan grounds, was the expiring
effort Of q man who knew himself in the WRONG.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24

We reprint in this mornings Supplement the
remarkable speech Of President Johnson, deliv'
cred on Thursday evening, as it may not
otherwise reach some of our Out-of-town sub
scribers. We were compelled, yesterday, to
pTir; it in postscript, as il did not reach us in
time for the first edition Of the paper. After it
was put upon the wires at Washington, for
Transmission to this city, orders were received
for its suppression. and it was not til about
o'clock that this order was revoked. The
delay made il impossible for us then to put it in
type before our usual hour Of going to press.
As the Government finally thought proper 10
permit its publication. we give it the advantage
of the wide circulation of The TRIBUNE.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24

THETA DELTA CHI FRATERNIrY.-the pro-
cecdnes Of the Annual Convention Of tbs large and
aourshus Society closed yesterday at tho aor House
In the evening fine GRAFTON was delivered at the Fs-
teenth st. headquarters by VIM II. Newman of Troy.
mon the Late Confederate Cabinet The lecture
which occupied an hour and half ia is delivery. Wa
mainly devoted to an expose of the State secrets Of @
genera administration of the late Confederate Governs
zent. and was Q most charming and instructive di<
course. Col George ID. Kellogg presided. assis.sd by
Col yrosn and W. L. Storer as Nice. Presidents Aftes
the Grafton, delegates IRON tA several College Cha
yer 8 residence, in tLis citS.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-24

The Montreal Gazette Of the 2lst divu.ge,
that the Executive Council, at its meeting on
the day BEFORE gave large share OF its atten-
ton to the question Of defense, that being now
regarded as Of great moment
The paper (ssmioftcial) adds that "the next
Canada Gaz<ae will contain important prOclama-
tons in regard 70 the in-shore fisheries Of Can-
ada warning the United States fishermen that
after the Eth of March next the provisions Of
the law existing previous to 1854 will again
come into force"