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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16

These facts, be it remembered. are
nublished to the commercial world, and
eagerly scanned by cotton operators
and manufacturers. On the 9th inst.
cotton was in New Orleans IA cents
minimum for ordinary to 10 cents
maximum for Middling.
We are aware that planters are IN
the habit of deluling themselves into
the belief that low prices Of cotton are
produced by some Juggling OF the oper-
ators. Throwing aside illusions what
do these facts teach7 The planter must
either give mp the cultivation OF cotton.
or he must cultivate it at less expense.
He cannot pay the present wages OF
laborers. These wages were cheerful
Inv given in the winter of 65-66, when
the hopes Of all were excited by the ru-
ling prices of the staple, and land was
commanding higher price for rent
than it wils now bring at an auction
sale. Rent has gone down cotton has
gone down-wages must 60 down in
like proportions. Now and then par
agraph is noticed in the papers profess
| sing to indicate the purpose OF the
freedmen to work no longer for wages
as hired laborers. We attach noimper-
lance to such idle assertions, buff they
would adopt the resolution and adhere re
to it infexibly, they would do the white
people Of thiscountry more good by
a Thousand years of such work as they
have done the past two years.
The blacks have been emanclpatHeo
from their benign slavery The whites whites
need to be emancipated from the thraE
| dom of routine. They need to bt
taught that something else can be rails
! ed than cotton, and that a white mans
'tlabor is worth quadruple the best lazy
freedman that ever followed pillow
The answer to such suggestionsiusllali!
is, that no other labor is now at hant
q than negroes, and that planters are j.
debt and must raise cotton, to pay with
for corn viii not answer, and potato
patches and pumpkins are still les
adapted to that purpose. 4tgfei
We do not propose to arg,e a sub]ec
SO complex in it's modern relations jus e :
..,,Enow, but we answer, that the plante
,l,who persists in hiring black labor a
,lthe prices paid for tive years past WI
end his daysby being q laborer hilnse'
, and the man who expects to get out q
, Adebt by raising and selling cotton a
nineteen cents D pound which cost
i twenty ceuts . pound to maize T. is
filter occupant Tor Bedlam than than i a 4s
! other locality. The former figure re
presents the present maximum paid !
sfNew Orleans, and planters ofths la'
gess experience and soundest Judsmef
i arree that cotton cannot be raised W
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Communication. L
Cheneyville October, 5th.

Mr.. EDITOR: ~
We we're not so orderly on Election
days as you state you were, in Alexan-
dria. Here the Freedmen met, in
. .::;ge numbers armed, drilled and mar : !,
cbed down to the Election. perhaps,
two hundred or more. Those, from
the lower part of the parish, ca, came e up
to the Election, drums beating and
colors flying, although the comman'
der of the District forbid it. You
would from appearances thought tn
Militia had been called out to drill o
fight instead Of voting at an election '
I do not know if there We're any arrest
for bearing arms on these days'
heard of none, nor has any notice bee
taken of it here.
54ss Z A CITIZEN,
Of Cheneyville, La,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16

w General Price familiarly known
as "old Pap and one Of the best and
most honered of Confederate generals,
died in st. Louis last week. Many q SO,
called will drop tear Of sincere regret
for the good old man. = ~
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Do it, if. you Dare.

Il seems uncomfortable why the Cor.
eminent should refuse to surrender tho
remains of the late Wilkes Booth to his
aged mother, especially as the remains
are to be taken up on account Of i'm.
ppavements to be made in the arsenal
grounds at Washington, where they ara
inferred. Whathas the assassin's moth.
er done that her tears must be treated
with such inhnnanityf Is she to Ia
held at all responsible for her sons
guilt It is not even limited that she or
Mr.. Edwin Booth, ever sympathized
with the deceased in his wicked act:
why should they be punished for his
misdeedl Has not the law been satis-
fledi Is not justice. content Or ore
we a nation Of savages, and yearn to
wreak an uudyiDg vengeance, now mp.
on the corpse even Of a legal victimi
Christianity, not to say a decent sense
Of propriety, demands that the aged
mother should not plead in vain for the
body Of her son. We were done with
it as soon as the breath was out Of il,
1t belongs to her who frst gave it birth
when it encased sinless soul. Give il
| up to her.
But stop. Horrible thought! Per.
haps Wilkes Booth is not dead at all,
Perhaps the stories industriousIy circu.
lated to that effect have substantial
foundation. Perhaps the midHighs
burial Of the corpse-perhaps all the
mystery and secrecy thrown around
THAT interment--weie only part and
parcel of a solemn farce played of up.
on confding country by the late Sec
retary of War, Mr.. Stanton, and his nm.
scrupulous "friend," detective General
Baker. Perhaps the one hundred
Thousand dollars reward paid to Bake,
and his associates were really handed
over under ''mistake" some other per.
son being shot instead Of Wilkes Boot
and some otlier corpse furtiyely buried
We are 10th to credit such romance
but this Withholding of the remain
(which could hardly be identified now
is exactly the kind of a movement L
keep such suspicious in active circula
ton. We do not credit one Of thes
|, thrilling surmises; but the world is f1l
1 Of people who will, besides those VIII
do. if such a fear to exhibit the allege,
!, remains can be fastened upon our Fed
. eral authorities. Common sense w0Nf
II say surrender the body at once, an
y 80 console the weeping mother in he
grief, and set at rest forever these sto
! ries about Booths escape and gran
! imposition palmed of upon the natiol
lin. Y. Times
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16

u The will OF Gen. Scott. just pro-
bated, leaves all his property to his
daughter, the wife, Of Col! Scott, his
other daughters having been preyions7
" given equal proportions. His pull
ask sword is begneathed To the Militia
rs Academy at West Point, aud the one
he wore in the Mexican war 70 his
grandson, Winfield Scott! - : - : =
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16

WmRLIoIG.-Just before the war, MI
Stanton chilled the slate lalnented " COR
rilla. "Why,' cried he, need we send to
Africa for the gorilla, when we (referring
to the arrival Of Mr.. Lincoln) have one 10
our midst?" a3 s3lt15. 49,,
ID 1889 Mr.. Forney styled Thaddeus
Stevens D ''villain at heart" i9e a's4
Now, Mr.. Stano alludes to Lincoln as
the s.sainted martyr, and Forney calls
Stevens q pure and matchless statesman.
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wItis really pitiable sight to tax

u lis really pitiable sight to take
a passing glance at the Mongrel buzz
yards and mendicant loyalists, since the
reception of the election news from the
great States of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
But q few days since they were bold,
defiant and sassy as free niger at a
race track; now they look meaner than
whipped ours and could be bought at q
slasiling discount. Well may they
shake in their knees, sneak from the
countenance ofeven their new made
brothers, and sigh that their reign OF
infamy will be swift and short. The
fat has gone forth, the hand writing is
on the fence, the unterrifed and unsub-
dued democracy have spoken in thun-
der tones, not to be mistaken, aud have
proclaimed this yet q white mans coun-
try. The people Of Ohio have said Sc
by $1,000 majority. The next thunder
will come from the Empire State ant
then caves and caverns will be in de-
mand. ;e4 SG f.llf &, Z
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16

ma. Col. Nixon. IF the Crescent, mas
been presented with two aligators by two
Of his johnson Islsnd friends, Messfs
Tom and Bill Harris, Of Red River Land
ing. The colonel says: IF the aligators
had reached the city little earlier, they
might have run for the convention, for they
Possess the requisite complexion OF ths
favored class, as we'll as the vuracity ant
the toughness Of hide Of the 'nendlcan'
loyalists,rn az, gg.ssyS,8 aIs t.
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, " The Kentucky girl. who has been
asleep for eighteen years, il to be exhibited
1t aeounty hir ID that State, along with
the big pumpkin and the calf with two
heads. eslt4a 81 s4as5
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16

/ THE GREAT PossUxs Whenever Thad
Stevens causes the telegraphto declare him
at deaths door, we know he is playing
possum. That dropsy ftbe chest has SUBJ
sided. He ia again well and busy over his
little schemes Il Is now announced that
he viii visit hs farnaee aud the Upper
Lakes. A. ssvage critic growls that he
p had better visit the fnrnaCe in commune.
ton with the losoer lake Il a.9 sssg 80
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16

II WoxAN ARRESTED BY lHs MILITaRy.-A
Government Inspector OF still houses vssl.
ted Miss Harper's neighborhood one night
last week and was 50 unfortunate as 70
have his horse stolen, Cci Lelb, sta!loneu
at Gallatin, was advised q tnis' ana lmm an
diately sent Q detachment 81 troops % ING
residence Of Miss Harper ana sook posses
ion Of q horse belonging 70 ner oro.per'
who was anon-combatant 10 the lase wal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16

II The fine steamer Elnora, Captain
J. f. Muse, will for the balance of the
season make weekly trips between
New Orleansand Alexandria. She will
leave New Orleans every Saturday
evening and go down every Tuesday
ut IL NJ. ,@...,... ~ ys,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16
Negro Jury Set Aside.

"Little Caz.," who used to be
limb of the law at the Alexandria Bar.
one of the first to volunteer in aid OF
the Rebellion so-called, and elected
Lieutenant, but did not stick long, is
now Judge of the Second Judicial
District in this State. We believe Mat.
Wells made him Judge near the same
time he made his former associate, Bill
Hyman, Chief Justice Of the State. But
n'importe, Caz., now Judge cazabat, has
lust set aside a Jury composed OF the
nations wards from the Parish OF st.
Bernard. In the local columns OF the
N. O. Times we find the following men
ton of it,, Body for Caz! a
On Monday last the 9TH inst, Judge
Cazabat of the Second Judicial District,
opened court in the Parish OF st. Ber-
nard according to law. When the
names Of the Jury composed Of white,
black and yellow elements} were order
ed to be called, Mr.. B. G.. Elliott, Dis
trict Attorney, moved that the panel Of
1.-The Jury be set aside, on the grounds
chat the jury had been drawn excla'
siyely from list furnished by the
Board Of Registry of voters, without
reference to the assessment rolls, from
which alone the jury is to be formed BY
| the laws of Louisiana. This objection
was sustained by the Court which gav'
| as an additional reason that the militia
nv order requiring the jury to be draw
| from the rolls of the Registry Office hat
not repealed, either expressly or impll
edly, the Louisiana law. relative to ju
ries; that the Court was in duty boun
to follow the law ofthis State, althoug
disposed to yield implicit obedience o
all occasions to military orders. In
Jury was accordingly discharged. 1t
: held by responsible gentlemen that, tn
8 Judge was entirely right in his ruling
!, and should have stated more bold
!, and independently that the formatio
j of juries is a subject which does NJ
: concern the Military authorities, an
8 that the command ofthe constitution
i all free nations, ancient and modern, j
and ever was: Cedant arma togo. 81
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A correspondent Of the New

CHANcxs.-A correspondent Of the New
York World, writing from Austria, says
g What freaks does not time as we'll as
fortune playl Fifty years ago one Prince
Metternich received the Golden Fleece Of
Charles the Bold Of BurgnDdy for putting
Austria into the sentry box Of the Holy Al
lance. To-day, another Prince Metternich
receives il for kicking that same sentry-bo
into tina Adriaticl" sss'i '.
If Lincoln should hurst his cerements
fifty years hence, he might b. as much sar
prised Ut the results * time, as George
Washington undoubtedly is at the present
complication. 45,.55 rs. &.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16

n6s- No oaan Is ever Indifferent to the
world ! good opinion until he has lost ID
claim 10 ii, ID ISL
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q Extensive ESTABLISHMENTS. In France
some 81 the mechanical establishments are
very extensive. The grensot Iron Works
employ 10, 900 people, and produce annually
tII0O6O tons Of iron. Tho Commentary
81 Chatillon FORCES Campagnien employs
5000 workmen. and has several FORCES 10
different pats Of France, producing annual
" 10000 tons Of metals. sPetin Gaudet
ct Cie,' . great steel manufacturing house,
have six different establishments, employ
5000 men, have steam engines aggregatille
5000 horsepower, and produce annually
so ,OOO tons If iron and steel. 4.
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Total SSo'ooo
or in round numbers, a million OF ba lss
We have not the tables by us to en-
able MS to make an representative es-
innate Of the whole crop. The curious
reader can amuse himselfby an attempt
to accomplish it, taking the eopjeetura'
increase Of the estimates Of the Depart
mnent Of Agriculture for the other States
as basis, if he chooses, but to exhibit
at one view the difference in the re-
suits of cotton planting now and in 1851
we subioin the product of that year O
the same States in bales OF same
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jTt1s ggpalisia,la 9emoerat,
ALEX NDRIA, L A.:
WEDNESDAY. OCT. 16, 1867

II We would earnestly remind a
large number of our patrons, that they
are now running over six months into
a new years subscription Of the DEM
ocRAr, and have so far failed or for
gotten to call at the Office and plank
down the dough. All such we hope
will take the gentle hint and come ane
zee us.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16

ssy The Cuba, W. Butler, Elnora
Lotus No 2 and Irene have furnished odt
Office With NV Orleans papers.
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THE DEATH OF GEN. PRICE. Sad

THE DEATH OF GEN. PRICE. Sad
Coincidence We copy the following
from the St. Louis Times, Of the 1st.:
Monday was . day Of mourning for
St. Louis, the funeral obseqaies 6 Maj.
Gen, Sterling Price and his daughter
in-law Celeste, wife Of Capt Celcus
Price being observed at the First Me-
tholist Episcopal Church South corner
Of washington Avenue and Eighth St.
The General died on Sunday morning,
at fifteen minutes past 2 o'clock, OF
Mexican dysentary; and the daughter
Of Gen. Thos. L.tPrice, of Jefferson city
and wife Of Capt. CELSIUS Price, son Of
Gen. Sterling Price, followed him at
midnight Of Sunday, Of complications n, ion
resulting from childbirth. Thus, with
lin the brief space Of one day, was CAPT
Price bereft Of a father, wife and child
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sge Since our last tile river has kept
fallingand We now have real low va
ter, The steamers are having mueh
trouble fighting the sand bars. All the
boats have met with considerable i'm
pediments from the Mouth to this place
From The head Of the upper Falls to
Grand Eeore, there is but three feet
scant ON several Of the bars. On 0. K.
bar bnt 90 inches water can be found.
The Elnora had TO unload, stored her
freight at Montgomery and returned 80
the City Oh Monday morning, We
learn the Butler is alsp hayingi trouble
at O. X, bal. Y..e ls2H p
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16

1--WE did not receive the letter of
our New Orleans correspondent, last
week, until we had gone to press. We
give it to eur readers in the present is-
sue, assuring them, thu ugi old, it will
he found interesting. The one for the
present week is also behindhand and
we must patiently abide the vexation
and pray for the institution. eae
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-16
IREW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE
NEW ORLEANS, OCTOBER 2, 1867.

4 q q
EDrroR Observation-Disclosures Of nig.a
gers who had registered in the city severaIl
months ago and had gone mp or down tine
river and across the Lake to work On the
plantations, wendell their way back on
Friday and Saturday to exercise the mag
nifcent privilege of voting The trip,
their board and incidental expenses must
have made pretty big hole in their cav
ings, and for whatq Simply deposlting .
dirty piece Of paper covered with unknown
hieroglyphics into a little box They had
expected committees Of white trash and
PROFESSIONS of sable damsels awaiting them
with carriages and drums and flies ana
flower garlands to show them the way to
the polls, whilst the unfortunate rebs
should be looking on in envions silence
whilst they made their maiden ovation at
"the palladium of Liberty" the ballot box.
Ignorant and brutal as the great mass OF
the negroes are, they could not help faith
oming the utter mockery Of such voting
With all the affected airs which radical
folly has impressed them with they cannot
but acknowledge the superiority OF the
Southern whites, and that they themselves
are but the tools of a set of miserable lying,
thieving scoundrels sent on by Congress TO
pander to the interests and power OF such
as Wade and the balance of that crowd
4 AS to the riot which occurred at Jetter
son city, on the upper limits OF New or
leans, the newspapers will inform you fui
ly. Accounts are contradictory with re
gard to the origin of the emeute, but be
lieve it is pretty well decided that tn
yunng man who was killed was intoxicated
, and that he was in fault. Be that as
, may, 10 less than ten minutes the streets
in the neighborhood of the disturbance
, swarmed with armed negroes, all seeming
ly under the guidance ofothers with sashe
round their waists and swords in thei
hands. Like all negro mobs they bega
shooting their lnuskets andrcvolvers indi'
, criminately before arriving at the poll
e and like all negro organizations their shot
J. were aimless and innocnous, for it is mo-
: pretty well ascertained that the yonn
j. man was shot after being oyerpowered b
II the poli,e, aud emptying his reyolvers,
: The police of New Orleans is no long,
Il what it was year ago. Then it was 9
It honor to belong to it--now when She
n mans bunmers and negro bootblacks a
y wearing the Crescent" on their breast
n o;.Lor ras,,a.to h;l;tv nnr dane
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-11

WE HAVE USED GALLIGaAN'S PILLS. AND FIND
w that they will do all that Is claimed for them, and
cLeerfully recommend them to public favor.
T. q. WATTS. Ex-Governor OF Alabama.
j. W. A. SANDFORD, Atty Gent Of Alabama.
ROBT DOUGHERTY, Judge Supreme Court Ala. u
From THOMAS j. JUDGE Judge Supreme Court.
have used GALLIGHAN'S PILLS on my plantation
for Fever and Ague aud find them all that s claimed for
them. thus. D. JuD1E.
montgomery. Ala. September %, 1885,
LownpEs COUNTY, Alabama.
GALLIGHAN'S FEVER AND AGUE PILLS will do.
They are decidedly the best medicine for Chs and Fe-
YER ever gave. would not be without them for nve
times the price. d. a. ahAnAm'
AhrERICUs April IL, 1867.
One box of GALLIGHANS PILLS cured me perfectly
OF Chills and Fever They are the best medicine for
Chll5 and Fever ever saw. A. G. DONALDSON,
Clerk Superior Court, Sumter County, Ga.
MONTGOMERY. ALA, July 9, 1885,
Messrs BLUNT HALE-GENTs: have used your
(iALLIGHANS PILLS on two occasions for Chflls and
ed to do They the best remedy for the disease that
have tried. consider them perfectly rellapie
Respectfully DANL SAKE,
Grand Sec Grand Lodge OF F. snd A. NJ OF ALABAMA.
ALBANY, Ga, March II. 1857.
have used GALLIGHAN'S PILLS in forty casesoi
Chls aud Fever with perfect success They are tie
best Fever and Ague Pill put up.
WHOLESALE IN CHARLESTON, BY
GOODRICH. WINEMAN B CO.,
No. 1853 Meeting street.
BLOUNT s. HALE,
PROPRIETORS,
Mayl4 emo Montgomery, Ala
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Baltimore HIarket.

BALTIMORE. October 8.-CoFFEE-Market quiet We
have only to notice sales of 200 bags low grade Rio At II
q l4,1c; I50 bags prime do 1880 gold
CoTroN-Remains Gull. No sales To-Day We quo'e
Midding Upland at 20c. .,
FLoUR-Our market was quiet to-day. There ls iar
INQUIRY but buyers are not disposed TO meet tho We've
of holders Sales confined to small lots for local wants.
includedwas 125 bbls fine at So. -
GRA1S-Receipts of Wheat to-day were composed Oh
1535 bushels white and $3.50 bushels red demand was
not SO brisk and prices barely firm as yesterday
though Quoably lower No sales OF white reporteo
though we there small lots taken at ez oo
o co; prime or cEolce. 1000 ousheis gooo W scuS
choice red brought 80 so IS; 800 bushels common
80 80 35 Corn-7O0 bushels white and $50 Duseeis
yellow were all that offered to-day. Sales lncluae
$50 bushels white at 81 IS; 600 bushels do III so 4oo
bushels yellow 81 49, Oats-52O0 bushels received; mar
ke unchanged Sales of 1900 bush ls good 10 prime ~
72c Rye-9O0 bushels received; demand good Nno
prices higher Sales of 750 bushels choice
81 o5 so bushels prime do 81 co. 90 bushels damp 81 ~
MoLAssrs-We report Bale OF cargo 800 hhds 4 erces
Cuba eI schr Jonas Smith, taken for ooing prices no'
given. II, ~, an
PRoy1sIoNs-Early in the day there was sale OF ~
casks rib Bacon Sides the trade at II subsequent
" held firm at IKE and for jobbng lots iSc bacon
Shoulders steady at lax l5c and clear rb Sides 1914
the market Mess Pork scarce and firm at 80 oo tor
Western Lard steady at H5ac for City, and ioc LOT
Western; latter in jobbiug lots
RIcE-yery little Offering. but no demand and prices
in absence of sales quite nominal
SALT-wth steady fair demand we quote ior iots from
dealers as before viz: Liverpool Ground Alum " 20
30; fine IS 20 per sack; Turks Island % 6O per
bushel for large and small quantities ftom store.
SUaAR-Market to-day y to &c better. We report
sales of 1900 boxes Cuba at le being on the basis OF
10 do pri,ae grocery Porto Rico lc 3O3 hhds 90 boxes
cuba Centrifugal, eI vsencia terms not trsnspirsd
WH1sKEY-Nohing reported and it is still difhcu 10
name prices.