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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16


@r The Federal Council Of s~itzer.
land, it is said, has just proposed to the
State Of Southern Germany to form a con-
federation, in which the Swiss counties
would enter as members. Switzerland is
afraid Of the absorption ofSouthern Ger
many by Prussia, and tries to coniure an
event which would place the latter at her
door BY the formation Of an homogeneous
confederation between Bavaria, Baden and
herself. If The proposition Of the Federal
Council is accepted, Southern Germany
will then form as powerful power as
Prussia, and the equilibrium Of Central
Europe will be maintained.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

M~ R, 9. Hetherwick and B. C. Duke
are just up from the City on the St. Nicho.
sss, having been there some time iu making
selections and purchases of merchandise
Tor their new establishment, just opening
in Bogan's buildings, late Heyman's store ;
and We take pleasure in calling attention
TO the fact. The former is one Of our ner.
chants in other days, and bis partner has
been clerking in our town since he was a
boy. Their advertisement will be found in
the proper column.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

been hung under them have been liter
ally murdered. All who were engaged
in the trial of the "assassins," as they
were called, are guilty of taking the
lives of men and women in a manner
known to no law or Constitution under
the government. We do not mean on
ly Joe Holt, for whose soul the Devil
had a bill of sale for scoundrelism gen
orally long before he was guilty Of sub
ornation of perjury to procure tile
conviction of persons whom an impair
tial jury would doubtless have found to
be wholly innocent of the crimes charg-
ed against them. We mean all who
had anything to do with the illegal and
disgraceful proceedings from the day
the trial commenced until the day
when, with an indecent haste unknown
before in the annals of crime, the un-
fortunate criminals (and one of them a
woman) were hurried to the scahold
and consigned to a culprit's grave
The decision cannot bring them to life,
nor can the stain ever be effaced from
the national escutche0n.
AS a necessary consequence of this
decision a military commission sitting
at Richmond on the life of q citizen
was Immediately dissolved by order of
the President. We presume that DR..
Mudd will now be released on writ of
habeas corpus-Dr Mudd whose only
crime, even under the Interpretation of
Holt himself, was the exercise of his
profession In setting mans broken
leg. Surratt, too, can only be tried by
q jury, and no evidence yet adduced,
even with all Hollis perjured witnesses,
could ever convict him of any crime
before any impartial jury in America.
We certainly breathe a little easier
now that this important decision has
been made. A few more like it, and
there may be some hope that Constitu-
tional liberty in America may yet be
saved in spite of the revolutionary at
;empts Of the dominant party to SUBJ
7ert it.
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B. Pomeroy and ]. Morissey.

| The Radical papers are making a great
ado over his election by majority Of
thousands. Let US see . little.
Whgand what is Morrisseyf
He is a stout, good looking Irishman,
of about forty-fve. His weight: about
one htndred and eighty-fve pounds. He
has . good head, a cleaf brain, q deep,
earnest; fearless brown black eye; speaks
slow and earnestly; he is about FIVE feet
eleven inches high, broad shouldered, deep
chested, strong Of muscle his hair is q
beautiful glossy black, slightly wavy, worn
reasonably long, and Aecked with few
gray sentinels his beard and mustache
are worn full he dresses In fatftiess Black
broadcloth, wears a single diamond bosom
| pin worth FIVE thousand dollars, q large
|siguet ring, and large sleeve. buttons, stud
ded With diamonds; he is wealthy; he is
liberal to the poor, giving thousands Of
dollars yearly to objects ofeharity he pays
a hundred cents on the dollar for all he
owes; lie champions the poor and defence.
less he moves in the best society OF New
York be is clearheaded business man,
with broad. liberal, national views.
Morrissey owns faro banks and sits be-
hind the table to deal the cards for Others
to bet on. We do'not see that it is worse
to sit behind his table than for Thad
Stevens, Dick Yates, Tim. O. Howe, and
other leading Republicans to sit before it
and bet on the cards as Morrissey deals
them out.
He never stole spoons, watches, and dia-
mond jewelry for his wife as Ben Butler
has. When he fought with HeeIan, he
did not pick his pockets, or insult his
sister or mother as the Brute Butler insult. |
ed the women Of the South who were
robbed by his orders and ravished by ne
groes and drunken whites with his consent,
in retaliation for their expressing their
disgust at his venalities.
He never stole cotton as did Banks, and I
Others Of the God and Morality thieves.
He never allowed men to be murdered,
slaughtered and captured rs Banks did
Northern men on Red River in his crusade
for cotton and niggers
He is not rotten with that most foul,
nasty, sinking, and body.destroying disease
which is the penalty for indulging in licen-
sfousness, as is Morton, of Indian.
lie is net gutter drunkard, ~ is Yates,
If Illinois.
He is not raatlsg, canting, blasphe.
nous, bell-deserving tenement OF hate, ip-
aorance, selashness and hypocrisy, as is ,
of Tennessee.
When in fight he never went out of ,
'ack door, like peas from tin scoop,
With his shirt fiuttering in the breeze, a Ia :
Vashburn at Memphis. ! :
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r
m. The new Board of Councilmen met
on Monday night, at the Mayors Office in
the Town Hall, and elected Samuel Fellows
Constable, Wharfnger and Collector; and
Mires Rosenthal Treasurer for the year
1867. The balance sheet of the Treasury
shows the sum of $725 on hand and no
debts due. A contract was entered into
with Capt. J. +. Utz for building a new
fence OF the best cypress wood around the
Town Square. A new hog law was passed,
which we publish elsewhere. Henceforth
we will regularly publish all the proceedings
of the Board.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

GEN. SHERIDAN's REpoRr.-1he Rio.
Grande Courier, Of the 9Th, says under
the head Of funny !"
It is hard to realize o more ridiculous
statement than the one made by the Com
handing General Of the Department Of
the Gulf, in bis dispatch of Dec 10, 70
Gen. Grant, that the English and French
merchants were at the bottom of all tbs
troubles in Matamoros and Tampico. The
veriest tyro in Mexican matters Nnowe
that resident foreigners have no sort Of
influence upon the political affairs Of Mex
co. and that any attempt to interfere with
them would be--on account Of the in
stinctiye jealousy Of the Mexican charsc-
ter-to the highest exteEt dangerous to
themselves. If, during the recent troubles
in Matamoros, Canales listened 10 the
representations Of tie, merchants, it WAS
only because he considered that Ais in.
terest jibed with theirs, and, when il
ceased to, he left them to their fate.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

TIVE are glad to know that our
citizens have started subscription
list, for the purpose of purchasing a
complete and fine set of brass instru-
ments, for our boys of the Alexandria
Brass Band, whose instruments were
spirited away a la Butler during the
war. A few dollars are yet needed to
make up the necessary sum, and we
earnestly hope no one will be modest
in standing back in this laudab1e enter
prise. Let's have the music by all
means.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

S@- A member Of the "God and morali-
ty party" who went down South as a
teacher Of the benighted, has been arrested
IN Texas, for clipping with negress, mar
RED woman, and for inducing her to commit
theft. Such are some Of the great moral
IDEAS which the Aboltionists propose to
leach the southern people.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16
Attempt to Steal a oorpsa,
THREE MEDICAL sTuDEsrs Arrye -us
BODY OF YOUNG LADY--rHEY AZ, $ AO
BY TIE FATHER OF THE "suBJEcra 'aot
From the Cleveland Plaindealer no...,
1877

I exciting affair occurred at ! - s.
cemetery on the Western Reserve a. y
day night last. We have been pe,m; soa;
to publish the particulars Of the casa - ~.
vided We suppress names and location pse J
wealthy resident in the vicinity lost Ia
y and only daughterfSst week n6der W. y.s
liar circumstances. She was a yonns /. i
about sixteen years Of age, and had sis.
presented the very picture Of robust ha.st
One'day size Returned home from s sss,!,
and after chatting pleasantly aboGE 'y \.
house for few moments, suddenly co 81
planned Of dizziness and languor, is q Is
slant later sinking down upon the sat. =. y
expiring. Shorty after the young lad, ~ ~.
been inferred, vague rumors reached u &
fathers ear that some medical atndss.s
whose curiosity had beer greatly excitAd l.
the circumstances attending her death ~
who were anxious to learn, through nv ~
mortem examination, the cause thereof rs ~.
intending to resurect the body on a ce es,;s
night. Both Mortified and enraped Al IS
bare idea though scarcely creditine the t,,,i
OF the report, the father armed himself I'M
double-barrcled fowling piece and station N
ed himself near his daughters grave, on ~ n,
night In question to guard it against ~
threatened violation. -
A monument, over which drooned, II.
weeping willow, hid him from view, While
rom nis place Of concealment he could az
any object that might approach the prass.
owing to the bright moon that sailed ove,
head. Nine, ten, eleven, twelve o,closi
came, and no resurrectionists. He bern
to think that his credulity had got the Ia.
ter Of him, and that, after sill, bis dsupbts,.
would be allowed to rest in her grave, Vhsi
footsteps were suddenly heard approacbin.
Crouching down closely beside the NOM.
ment. and peering cautiously out, he Nj
Mortified at seeing three men approach. and
halt by the grave Of his loved one. Thew
were provided with picks, shovels, ron.
and q large oilcloth sack. Their horrid q.
ject could not be mistaken, when twod
them commenced to dig into the pra;e:
The fathers blood almost froze in his yains
1t the sight, but he was firm in his deter.
nination to wreak vengeance on the wodId.
'e body-snatcher. Cooking both barrels i
lis gun, and taking deliberate aim, he al.
charged both of them at the meii who ver.
ligging, at the instant their bodies wen,
closely together. One Of the men fell Is
ne grourd, but was quickly raised up 81
he Others, who hurried him from the cems.
cry as quickly as they could-one Of then
Imping as though badly hurt. The three
hen rode away in wagon. The fathe.
i'd not give chase. thinking that he hsd
them enough for their conduct
ne affair has caused great excitenscnt il
he vicinity.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

Ss Simon Cameron has received the
caucus 9 nomination OF the Mongreh for U.
.. oehator from Pennsylvania. Old Thad.
otevens vas distanced in the race.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

Ey We call the particular attention of
sugar planters to the advertisement of
'Pattison & Cage, of the Parish Of La
fourche. This exceedingly simple and eff
cient apparatus has produced quite revo-
luton in the manufacture of sugar in our
State, and we would recommend all plan.
ters who have not yet availed themselves
of this invaluable invention, to order one
Immediately. The names of the referees
mentioned in their advertisement, are
those Of the most experienced planters of
The State.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

Sa- Our regular weekly packet, st.
Nicholas, arrived at our wharf few hours
behind time, but loaded to the guards with
freight and fine passenger list She goes
down ut 5 o'clock this afternoon. We
were furnished full files of all the city dailies
by her officers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

Ss~ The new mail arrangement, which
we mentioned last week, has already auker.
ed and bids fair to be nuisance No. 2. No
mail since last Thursday has reached here
although two fine steamers have left the
City on regular mail day the Alabama on
Thursday and the st. Nicholas on satur.
tlav.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16
Articles OF Impeachment.

| The following are Representative Newell.
articles Of impeachment
|. Immediately upon entering the dot;e,=
OF bis office, without consultation WITH tbe
making power. legislating for the South.
ern States in the most autocratic manner.
2. Assuming powers which Congress oul,
can exercise, and laying down laws "a
whole sections of country, in fact making
and unmaking statutes for the people &
the United States.
). Assuming to decide who are and who
are not citizens Of the United States, sDd
excluding loyal men fromthe right Of suf
frage.
4. Authorizing unpardoned rebels to e..
erclse the same right.
5 Harding over the rebel States "a ]
disloyal men and putting loyal men under
their tyrannical sway.
8: Elevating the rebels who had fousht
to destroy the Union, and putting down
loyal men who had fought to preserve Il
7. Appointing men Governors Of State
whose hands were yet red with the blood
OF slaughtered Union citizens and sol. /
diers.
8. For letting loose rebels in New o..
leans upon legal and peaceable asseembl,
OF loyal men, resulting in massacre. such
as troze the heart Of the North with horror
and dismay, and caused every loyal South.
ern heart to utterly despair Of his countrr
8. For safterward shaking the bloojy
hands ofthose murderers in the receptios
room Of the Presidential mansion. vhia
be complimented them upon the mannsr
in which they had executed his programme
for wiping out loyalty at the South.
10. For denouncing this BODY as !
usurpation. .si'f
IL. Not satisfied with exciting the ms
sions Of the mob against the lawful authoi.
ty of Congress through the press. by III.
limitations Of himself and his satellites but
descending to the arena Of stump orator.
in this and other cities, and deliyer;ns
harangues calculated not only to excite !
breach Of the peace, but a revolution. al
the Government itself.
II. On pretence Of laying the cofrlss
stone OF monument to deceased state..
man, repeating those harangues 1t ever
point on his route, the only object d
which was to bring the Congress Il he
United States into comteuqt and deridon
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

FRANCHISE IN MARYLAND.-Says Bal
tlmofs dispatch, of the 9Th:
Inc movement in the Legislature to set
ASIDE the present city government, and or
der new election for the purpose of re-
moving all disabilities from the now d;..
franchised portion of the people of the
state, by the passage Of general act Of
and by the enactment Of a less
stringent restrict law, gives great pleasure
to the opponents Of the existing city gov
ernment. A new constitutional conyen-
s'on will speedily be called, and the present
constitution materially altered.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

n@- John b. Smith, well known TO our
community as a good and efficient gun
smith, has opened his shop in our sister
town of Pineyille and is fully prepared to
receive calls i'm his line
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

WB B. Glatt, q good and experienced
workman, gives notice that he is pre-
pared to do ali kind of Wagon work
and build and repair cisterns.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

q A fine lot of mules, wagons,
and farming utensils will be sold, at
public auction, at the Court House door,
on next Saturday. See advertisement.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

II Our citizens will be regaled, this
week, with two fine entertainments at
the Ice House Ball Room. Tonight
the Amateur Minstrels give one of their
unique and spicy entertainments, and
we bespeak for them crowded audi
ence. On Friday Mr.. William Davis,
80 well known as one of the leading
actors of our Theatre in ante belluns
days, under the management of the late
and lamented James S. Charles, will
give q dramatic and musical entertain
snent, kindly induced to do so by
large number of our citizens who have
rendered him o complimentary testi-
monial on the occasion. Noone should
miss such intellectual treats.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

hr We have been luxariating in real
May weather for the last four or five days.
Our OLD thermometer has planted st IS,
aud seems determined to stick it out for
some time. So mote it be.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

Map 3. De Sofa, who has been reared
and raised behind the counter of some Of
the best merchantile houses of our country,
has opened on his own hook. He is just
from New Orleans with his stock of new
goods of all kinds and sorts. Our people
can find him at bis new establishment lust
opposite the Town Hail. If experience in
business, and industry and energy are any
recommendations, he is certainly bound to
succeed in our community,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

na- P. I. Kerrigan offers his valuable
Town property for sale. We refer inter-
ested parties to his advertisement.
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q We are reluctantly compelled to
delay the publication of the Police Jury
proceedings until our next issue,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

fS Mrs. Jarreau gives uotice, in oul
columns, that she is prepared to &C
comodate q few day boarders.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

@- We are under obligations to the
Alttle Stephens, Alabama and Elnora for
paper fayors.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

Va We never saw the river fall so rap.
!, ,aiy. AS far as heard from above it is fall
ling very fast.
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Radical Rum.

An0 Ahuuhoi ouyS IHc IN. L. w ora
which was once prominent temperance
organ, prints despatch from its Washing
ton correspondent gravely proposing that
"the government shall take possession o.
all the (whiskey) distilleries in the United
States, and do all the manufacturing. >
The "model republic" is thus to stand
among the governments Of the earth as the
great national "rum-mill." There are OBJ.
jections: Government, when brought to
the Capitalization point proposed by the
Radicals, will have quite enough to do in
experimenting the telegraphs, the insurance
companies, the Tribune, and other ''asso-
Citations" and the Freedmen's and Tribune
Bureaus in the South If the govern:
ment, too, gives countenance to the produc-
ton of whiskey, the Senate will hardly dare
to try to diminish its consumption in the
Capitol, as special resolution in that body
tried to do last winter. The cloak and
committee rooms attached to the Senate
and the House will become public instead
OF private bar-rooms. Banks can be as
drunk as he pleases in Portland, and no
investigating committee from Maiden will
challenge his right to imbibe government
Indeed, the millennium is very
near when the government not only makes
good wholesome laws for the people, but
also manufactures frst-class whiskey. The
only way to prevent frauds upon the revenue
is, not to make the government a distiller,
ont 70 reduce the duties SO as not to offer
> positive premium to all sorts Of fraud.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

ne Virginia and Kentucky have reject
ed the amendment.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

tA- Albert Pike, it is said, has become
associated with the editorial department Of
the Memphis Appeal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16

a@. The New Ira and National, on
thsir down trips, had full loads OF cotton.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-01-16
w We would earnestly remind a

w We would earnestly remind a
large number of our patrons, that they
are now running over four months into
a new years subscription of the DEM
ocRAT, 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 and
see us.
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Our Town.

| The elections for Mayor and Council
men recently held, have completed thu
formation of the Government IF the
Town, and we have thought it Oh op.
perfume moment to publish the sub.
stance of the Act Of Incorporation o,
Alexandria passed in 1852.
The ground included within the cor.
porate limits is the eighty-one squares
comprising the Old Town, and the
squares in the upper suburb numbered
from six to twenty.nine inclusive
those represented by the first five nun
bers having long ago disappeared.
The election Of Mayor and five Couh-
cilmen is required to be held in the
Court House at Alexandria Under the
supervision Of the Clerk of the District
Court, who is also required to advertise
the electors of the time dplace when
and where such an election is to be
held. The Judges of election, pre-
viously appointed by the Clerk, are re-
quired to make and sign certificate to
the Mayor and Councilmen elect, de-
claring their election for the term of
one year, and this is the only authori-
cation or commission which they re.
quire to enable them to discharge their
official duties.
They must Of course take the usual
oath of office. The Mayor is also COM
missioned by the Governor Justice
of the Peace, or according to an amend
ment Of 1857, a Judge of an Inferior
Court, which gives him cognizance of
other matters besides the violation of
the Town ordinances. But of these
last, he has cognizance ef,vate oTcii. In
the language of the Act it is his " duty
to see that the laws and ordinances of
the Board are duly enforced, and to
that effect by virtue of his Office he
shall have full and exclusive power and
authority, to try all offences against,
II violations Of the same upon a simple
D. Il Il .
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l
tltion and exhibits ought the said
l.. P. Milligan to be discharged
from custody, as in said petition
prayed?
8. Whether, upon the facts sta.
ted in said petition and exhibits
the military commission mentioned
therein had jurisdiction legally TO
try and sentence said Milligan, in
manner and form as in said petition
and exhibits is stated?
AS regards the disposal of the
case before the Court the Judges
unanimously agreed that Milligan
was entitled to the writ of habeas
corpus; that he ought to be dis
charged from custody; and that
the military comm; ssion which tried
him had no jurisdiction of his case.
The opinion of the Court was deliv.
cred by Judge Davis. But a dis.
senting opinion delivered by Chief
Justice Chase, with whom agreed
Judges Wayne, Swayne and Miller.
differed from the majority in their
assertion that Congress has no au-
thority, under any circumstances,
to authorize military commissions
to try civilians.
After the statement Of facts the
opinion disposes of the objection