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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-09-19

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than any other stove. They are now used
by hundreds of families III New Orleans,
who find them not only the most economic
cal, but indispensable, as every housekeep-
Ier can easily do her own cooking, indepen-
dent ofservants
Liberal terms offered to the country
trade. Refer to General Frank Gardner,
Judge Charles beaumont, Rev, Mr.. Hall
and G. Cavaroe, Esq, among many other
we'll known New Orleans gentlemen who
are using these stoves, which are on exhi.
bition and for:sale at
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, 1866-10-30
THE BRITISH WESTINDIES
BY VIM. G.. SEWELL.
CHAPTER III.
THE GOVERNING CLASSES OF BARBADOS.

Bridgetown, Barbados 1859.
In comparing the commerce of the British West India colonies I'M
der freedom with their commerce under slavery, it has been broadly
stated that in 1881, the sugar exports amounted to four million cwt, and
in 1857 to three million cwt; and upon this ground the deterioration of
all the colonies is asserted. While 1 do not deny the fact ofa diminished
expectation of the staple product, I must dispute the conclusion to which
it has given rise. It's altogether unfair to group the Islands for any
such purpose-as unfair a IS it would be to class half a dozen Mexican
departments with Texas, and judge ofthe condition of Texas by the average
prosperity ofthe whole. The West India islands differ essentially one from
another. Evils which combined toinure omhavente xstedi another; and
while some, under the emancipation regime, have VIGOROUSLY fallen off in
their trade. others have as VIGOROUSLY progressed. We have given due
credit to the alledged disastrous effects of emancipation without attempt.
ing to account for the phenomenon that Barbados, for example, is inf
ntely more prosperous now than she ever was in the pamiest days of
slavery. This factor fact I expect to prove it-has induced me to
look more closely than I otherwise should have done into the past and
present condition of this island to examine the relations of her landed
aristocracy and her people as landlord and tenant, master and servant,
planter and laborer; to compare slave labor with free labor, and the civil
and soial condition of the island under one system with it's civil and
social condition under the other; and to explain, if possible, the causes
that have increased Barbadan resources, and have contributed so greatly
to Barbadian wealth.
, 1866-10-30

I will admit at the outset that | have no sympathy with the argu.
ment of the AbOitOnists, that the question of emancipation is one in
which the black race are to be only considered, or that "depreciaion of
property is as nothing compared with a depreciation of morality" L
ably by commercial rules; for whatever phianthropBts may say to the
contrary, it seems to me very evident that a system which would bring
inevitable ruin on that portion Of a population which controls the ee-
ments of civilization can not contribute to the moral or material progress
Of a country.
Those who have searched for the truth, and have patiently and with
unbiased Judgment unraveled the thread of West Indian difficulties, can
not fail to have remarked that, long before the Emancipation Act was
passed, the sugar estates had reached the acme of their prosperity, and
had commenced steadily to decline. The embarrassmens of the pro-
pnetary In those days were owing to heavy membranes, to want of
capital, to extravaganza. mlSmanagement, and absenteesm. But what
ever the cause, in whole or in part, it is sufficient to establish the fact;
and scores of Parliamentary bue-books will furnish particulars to those
who are curious in such matters of the chronic distress of West India
planters. We find, for instance, that in 1892, before the abolition of the
twenty years III estates had been sold for debt. Again, in 1907, the
same body reported that in the five years preceding the abolition of the
slavetrade 65 estates had been abandoned The complaint of the plan
ters then was that the old islands were unable to compete with the new
British Grown, and they endeavored to secure a protective tariff in the
British market. Another grievance was the abolition of the slave trade.
On this account the planters were unable, rs they said, to compete with
the foreign colonies, and we find them again before Parliament pleading
"that the West Indies ar now and have been for some time past labor
ing under multiplied difficulties and embarrassments " In 1881 a con-
yenion of delegates from all the West India colonies met in this very
island upon the basis "that a unanimous expression of the sentiments of
the eolonists on the present alarming and depressed state of the West
Indies would tend to impress more strongly on his maeays government
and the Parliament of England the very urgent necessity which exists
for immediate and substantial relief to save them from impending ruin. y
It was the policy of the planters at this time to prove the expense Of
slave labor, and to show that, without the s~lave-trade, they could not
produce sugar as cheaply as it was produced in those islands where the
traffic was not prohibited. In the Parliamentary bue-books of the day
cost of slave labor, and, among other items of this expensive system, one
which fixed the average number of nonefective slaves on an estate at
80 and 40 per cent, was strenuously urged. A few years afterwards,
when the emancipation excitement was at its height and the planter
, 1866-10-30

med at forskafe de Fanger, som hensidde
over 4 Tiger i Arrest, ct Maaltid at Suppe
og KIDD ON Sondagene, medens Kosten
hidtil u~delukkende har bestaaet af kogt
Magismeel og Slid og tildeels Biskoiter.
Han haabede, at denne Forandring MATTE
kunne tage Begyndelse fra 1ste October
d. A.
Fernandez, der veeg sit Sede, anbefa-
lede Tilstaaelsen af saadant Extra-Maaltld,
der allerede var hiemlet i en- Bestemmelse
i Diet oprindelige Reglement for Arrest
huset, som var bleven vilkaarligen standset
under U~rolighederne i 1848 da Arresthu-
set blew overfyldt.
2det Medlem for Frederiksteds Land
District (Knight) bem@rkede, at dette Ar
rangement muligen Wide fo%ranledige en-
For6gelse i Arrestanternes Antal, og at
Maismeel og Slid hayde vaeret Arbeidernes
~udelukkende F0de forinden 184S.
Fernandez meddelte, at der i den senere
It'd har visit sig Aftagende i Antallet at
Ranger i st. Croix Arresthuus.
Derefter overgik Sagen til 2den Behand-
ling.
10. 1ste B~ehandling af Bevillingsforslag ad
Budgettet Post E. (Bygnings og andre
ubestemte Udgifter)
Gouverneuren bemerkede, at denne
Post var af allie den vigtigste, og Wide I'D
fordre Raadets serdeles Opmerksomhed.
Specification over de forskjellige Arbeider
vii bliye henlagt paa Bordet.
Efterat here Medlemmer havde yttret
sig over Sagen, foreslog 1ste Medlem for
Frederiksteds By (Sarauw), at Forslaget
overgik til Behandling at ct Udvalg bestaa-
ende af 3 Medlemmer for begge Jurisdic-
tionerne.
Forslaget vedtoges af Raadet, eensstem-
migen med Is StemuIur, Ug bleve cfter-
navnte MedIemmer udnavnte:
, 1866-10-30

1ste Medlem for Frederiksteds BY (Sa-
rauw) foreslog, at For6gelsen t~ilstaaes som
ct personligt Tilleg, hvilket Gouverneu-
rem admitterede.
Forslaget overgik til eden Behandling.
7. 1ste Demanding af Bevillingsforslag ad
Budgettet. Udgifts Post D. IL: (Sund-
hedsvasenet.)
Efter nogle Bem@rkninger at Gouver-
neuren og 2det Medlem for Frederiksteds
Landdistrict (Knight) betraffende Anspt-
telsen af en- Dyrlage i Frederiksteds Juris-
diction, overgik Sagen til 2den Behandling.
s. 1ste Behandling af Bevillingsforslag ad
Budgettet. Udgifts Post D. 10: (Fat-
tigv@senet
1ste Medlem for Frederiksteds By (Sa-
rauw) bem@rkede, at der var indl0ben en-
Oversight we'd Ansettelsen at Fattigunder-
st0ttelsen for Frederiksteds Vedkommende
idet han ansaae $1,45O tilstrakkeligt.
Sagen overgik til eden %Behandling.
g.. 1ste B~ehandling af Be~villingsforslag ad
Budgettet. Udgifts Post D. 10: (Feng-
selsv8senet.)
1ste Medlem for Frederiksteds By (Sa-
rauw) anbefalede, at Udgifterne we'd Fang-
~selsvesenet fremtidigen aldeles adskilles
fra Udgifterne we'd Politivasenet, saaledes
at hver Branche wiser de samme vedkom-
mende Udgifter. Han ansaa L0nnen til
Underbetjentene i Frederiksted a $40 maa-
nedlig, for ringe, og anbefalede, at samme
ansettes til $12 pr. Manned, da de We'd
kommende tillige forrette Nattevagttjene-
ste endvidere at Oplukkerpengene s cents
pr. Arrestant oph6re.
Gouverneuren havde Intel imod en- yder-
ligere Adskillelse af Udgifterne we'd Fang
sels-Vesenet fra dem we'd Politivesenet.
Han henledede Opmerksomheden paa,
81 1~~ f~+esl""oao For0Selse / Udgiftcrne
til F@ngselsvasenet naVnligen har til Ole
, 1866-10-30
FOR ST. CROIX.

wi oNDAY THE 18TH SEPTEMBER 1866, 12
o'clock noon, the Colonial Council held an
ordinary meeting. All the members were pre-
sent with the exception of the End member for
Christiansted's town (Pontavice) and the 2nd
member for Christiansted's country district
(Ratcliffe), who had announced their being
prevented to meet.
The minutes for the last meeting were read,
whereupon the Council proceeded to the order
of the day.
l. 1st discussion of the Money Bill to the Bud
get l%666-67, item c.: (the Colonial Coun-
cil,)
His ExcellencY the Governor referred to the
motives respecting the proposed reduction Of
the expenses, and stated, that he would lay
, 1866-10-30

1ste Medlem for Frederiksteds By (Sa-
rauw) med 9, 1ste Medlem for Christian
steds By (Clindinen) med s, og 2det kon-
gevalgte Medlem (Meincke) med 7 Stem
mer.
IL. 1ste Behandling af Bevillingsforslag ad
Budgettet, Post F. Neie af en- Skonnert
som Post og Transport-Fart0i imellem
de dansk vestindiske Ger, indtil en- Damp
skibsforbindelse kan blive gjenoprettet,
Halvdelen)
Da Ingen begjerede Ordet, blew sagen
eenstemmigen ~overgivet til 2den Behand-
ling.
M6det hevedes Kl. 4.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12
The HeSgie Murder Case.

A correspondent of the Syracuse COur-
Ter gives the following account of the
trial of Mrs. Heggie, at Cortland, for the
murder of her two daughters. The par
ties resided in ToEpkins county, and the
trial was had in Cortland for the reason
that no jury could be secured in the
county where the alleged crime was
committed. The murders were commit
ted at Ithaca, some two years since. On
Tuesday morning, the prisoner, Mrs.
Heggie, was brought into court, a fee
BILE, pale, haggard AID tremulous wo-
man, having been incsrcerated for over
two years. She is rather prepossessing
in appearance, with high, full fore
head. blue eyes, and firm, arched mouth.
1t appears that on the 18th of June,
1864, Charlotte Heggie and Mary Heggie,
two beautiful and highly accomplished
daughters Of Isaac Heggie, were living
at home with their father in Ithaca.
Mrs. Heggie was the mother of fourteen
children, was pleasant woman, and of
high nervous temperament, and of late
years conceived the deluslon that her
two daughters were trying to usurp her
household. Her home was her heaven,
and her husband her pride, and the de-
lusive usurpation operated so much up.
on her that she treated her daughters
with disrespect, and their neglect of her
and her husbands GOODNESS to her, and
his increasing attention to his children,
drove Mrs. Heggie to desperation, which
at times exhibited itself in the most
cruel form. Mary died suddenly. No
one suspected her then Of being poison
ed. A year after, Charlotte died in the
same manner, and from the fact that
Mrs. Heggie purchased arsenic on Fri
day, Saturday and Monday, at three
drug stores in Ithaca, during Charlotte's
illness, Mrs. Heggie was suspected and
arrested after Charlotte's death and bur.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12
miscellaneous Items.

AT recent gathering of the demo
cratic managers of Ohio, Wallandighau's
proposition to stump the State was re
spectfuRy declined. They had had
enough Of that on former occasion.
The ladies throughout Italy are
forming societies of succor, like our san
itary circles or soldiers aid societies in
the United States. They are Immensely
popular. They are already preparing
bandages and lint, and gathering hos
pital supplies for the day of need.
The Memphis Appeal expresses the
confident "belief that few other than
persons not native and to the manor
worn, will participate in any demonstra-
ton of rejoicing or other celebration of
the coming Fourth of July"
Conference committees have fixed
up the resolution for the representation
of the United States at the Paris exit
bition, and the freedmen's bureau bill.
and both these measures are now through
both houses of Congress and await the
Presidents signature.
--latest accounts from Mexico repre-
sent that Bagdad had been evacuated
by the Imperial forces, and that the Lib
erals had taken possession. Matamoras
is in state of seige, and the Imperial
commander has sent for Gen. Getty to
take care of all the American residents
after the surrender of the city, which he
contemplates, to the Liberal army.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12

TUE LAST FENIAN ALARM IN CANADA
The telegraph last week announced a
collision between the Canada militia
and a party of Fenans at Pigeon Hill,
the site of the late Camp Sweeney. The
authentic details of the affair, as sup
piled by mail, are as follows;
"The picket guard of the volunteers,
hearing a mysterious noise short dis
lance from them, fired in the direction
of the supposed enemy, which had the
effect to alarm the whole camp, which
formed line OF battle and advanced to
meet the invaders. A skirmishing par
ty was then ordered forward and the
enemy was discovered lying dead, the
result of the first fire of the pickets. The
enemy proved to be two harmless cows,
who were wandering about in search of
better pasturage. Such mistakes are of
so frequent occurrence that the people
in the vicinity say that they would "a
Their subsist the entire Fenian army than
endure the blunders of these volunteers
for three months"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12
RUTLAND HERALD.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1866.


The eagerness of the freedmen for ed
ucation, and the efforts of selfsacrific.
ing men and women of the North for
their instruction, have already produced
q significant effect upon the late slave
owning class of the South. In the
changed relation existing between the
whites and blacks 1t is important TO the
former that their laborers should be as
intelligent as common education can
make them. Some of the most thought
full and liberal whites are discovering
this truth. Others land the greater
number) reason after the following fash
ion :-'the negroes are anxious to be ed
ucated; if we do not instruct them,
the Northeners will, and will Undue
them with their peculiar political ideas.
The negroes will moreover feel deep
gratitude to, and be Influenced by, those
who impart 10 them the instruction they
so much crave. Therefore, it is best for
us to take the work Off the hands of the
Northeners and educate them ourselves"
1t matters little that self.interest, or
jealousy Of the North, dictates this
course to them; it matters little by
what process of reasoning they arrive
at the conclusion that they ought to in
struct the freedmen, so long as they
do it.
At nearly all of the religious Conven-
tons recently held in the Southern
States, steps were taken for the educa-
ton of the freedmen, each sect provid-
ing for the religious and secular ilstruc-
ton of the colored members Of their
church. Among the Jealous leaders in
this movement is the bishop OF the Epis-
copal diocese of Tennessee. In South
Carolina, Gov. Orr and some OF the most
prominent citizens of Charleston are
urging the establishment of the common
school system for the freedmen: in Ala
bama, ex-Gov. Moore and others are
moving in the same direction, and pub
lie meetings are being held in different
sections of Mississippi to inaugurate
measures for the instruction Of the
blacks. If this movement is carried on,
an effectual solution of the difficulties of
the new situation" will have been
reached.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12

ial. Mary was exhumed, and an analy-
sis of chemitts revealed arsenic In the
stomachs of Mary and Charlotte.
Indignation ran so high against the
prisoner In Tompklns county that a null
Jury could not be empanneled, and the
venue changed TO Cortland. The case
made against the prisoner was strong
circumstantial one. In the case OF Char
lotte, strong doubts were raised. Her
liver was affected by disease sufficiently
to cause death, while it Is known that
arsenic will only operate upon the stom'
ach and bowels. Further Charlotte had
Just released a young man, ut his own
request, from an engagement OF mar
rlage and was melancholy over it, IL
was proved also that nearly all the fam
ily had purchased arsenic for one pur-
pose or another, perhaps to "whiten'
themselves, for rats, or TO feed each
other, as there appeared to be an eternal
dissension in the family In some way
Mrs. Heggies ancestors were proved TO
have been deranged. Mr.. Heggie was in
Court, but took no action, unless "on
the sly" with the prosecution. A
daughter, about fourteen years old, sat
near her mother, but looked at her in Il
scornful manner. Mrs. Heggies broth
er defends her, and his wife and other
relatives manifested the greatest atten-
ton and tenderness for the prisoner.
They believe her to be Il wronged aud
neglected woman, and that if she is
guilty, insanity prompted her to commit
the wicked deed. Mrs. Heggie was con-
yicted by the jury.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12

LAwLEssNEss IN MIssIssIPPI.-Even
the correspondent of the New York Her
aid with Generals Steedman and Fuller
ton, who has hitherto taken great pains
to disparage the Freedmen's Bureau and
praise the South, Is compelled to admit
that Mississippi is in a state of semi
anarchy and therefore unit for read
mission to her ancient rights under the
government. He cites one case of a
freedman who appeared before Gen.
Steedman at Grenada, whose ears had
been cropped off and who was other
wise UNANIMOUSLY manned on mere sus-
piCion of holding improper intercourse
with q white woman, which the negro
strongly denied. In regard to the muir
der of Lit. Banding of the Freedmens
Bureau, who was shot at Granada on the
Goth of April by three assassins who
called him out of his house in the even
ing, Gen. Wood has done nothing but
Offer a reward for the arrest of the muir
derers. There are no troops at Granada
and the correspondent says:
"The town at the present day remains
under the influence of a reign Of terror
established by band of outlaws who
were guerillas during the war, and have
been house thieves and robbers ever
since whose supposed leader is Bill For
rest, brother of General Forrest OF the
rebel service. The tyranny exercised by
these men is so great that respectable
citizens dare hardly walk the streets af-
ter nightfall, and few venture oGt either
by night or day without being armed.
They seem to have regular organiZa-
ton among them, and at set times vir-
tually take the town. Merchants close
their stores and business is suspended
while these rutfians go on a tearing
drunken spree This was the case even
before the war, and has continued since.
1t is to this band that the murder of
Lieutenant Banding is ascribed. No
cause for or provocation to the deed has
ever transpired."
A leading citizen who expressed
strong indignation at the murder OF 1t.
| Blanding, was waylaid in the streets by
Bill Forrest and dubbed within an inch
of his life, several ribs and an arm being
broken. A fine of $50 was the only
punishment inflicted on the rufiian.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12

The WAR IN EURoPE.-War has been
formally declared by Prussia and Italy
against Austria. Prussia is overrunning
Saxony and several other German states
at will and unresisted, and has cap
tured Dresden. She has also invaded
Upper Silesia, belonging to Austria, and
seems to be gaining material advantages
by her celebrity. The movements of the
Austrian troops, however, are carefully
concealed, and it is.quite likely they are
doing more than they appear to be, The
Austrian army of the south will be kept
busy by the impulsive Italians, who have
crossed the MinciO and propose to pitch
IN at once. While the continent is racked
by the war excitement, England has a
first class ministerial crisis. The gov
eminent has been defeated on the re-
form BILL and the Queen has to choose
between new ministry or a new parlia-
ment.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12

CONNECTICUT LEGIsLATURE.-The Con
necticut Legislature finally adjourned
Saturday morning, Gov. Hawley max
ing brief address to the members in
joint convention before they separated.
The Derby and Harlem railroad project,
designed as rival to the New York and
New Haven, railroad, after having sue
ceeded in the House, was killed in the
Senate; and the bill making eight hours
legal days work, which passed the
Senate, was lest in the House. A reso-
luton to raise the Governors salary to
$4,000 passedtboth branches, as did also
bill to establish a Homeopathic Hos
pital, and appgopriating $40 600 therefor,
provided the friends of the enterprise
shall raise an equal amount.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12

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persons who have been permanently cured a@
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mendations.
Ihls medicine is purely vegetable, and zoo
not contain either - Mercury. AlOes GaI'
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Sold by all Druggists. Price one dollar Pc
bottle. Ask for Van Buskirk's Great German
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sent to any advertised agent. or to the PEopfls'
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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12

RATHER FoRGETFUL.-There is le-
gend that one day woman went to
Brigham Young for counsel touching
some alleged oppression by an officer of
the church. Brigham, like true poll
'tician assumed to know her; bGt when
it became necessary to record her case,
hesitated, and said LET me See, sister
~ forget your name" "My name"
was the indignant reply; "whg, l am
your wife," "When did mary you 2"
The woman informed the president"
who referred to an account book in his
desk, and then said, ''Well believe you
are right. knew your face was Gamil-
tart"