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w General Sheridan has issued Spe-
cial Orders No Is, in which he divides
the Parish of Orleaus into four Regis
tration Districts, and leaves the cleo
ton precincts as at present constituted.
He also appoints three commissioners
for each District. The names of these
appointees appear in the order. We
cannot form or express any opinion OF
them, their status on their fitness, for
the simple reason that in the entire list
OF names there isnot one we ever heard
OF before. So we must take it for
granted that they are the right men in
the right place.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17

Bss~ 1t is rather hard for us to keep
posted with the weather. The past week
we have been cursed-or blessed if you will
with considerable touch of all sorts and
yariations-cold, warm, very warm; pure
clear sunshine, windy, awfully so and
though last, not least, the awfullest and
biggest rain that ever dropped from the
clouds of Heaven. The same can be said
of the river. 1t has risen, been ON a stand +;
commenced falling fast and is again on a
stand. What next freaks from these two
Institutions, almost as big nuisances as the
institution, we must defer telling in our
next.
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Bishop. Winners Visit.

According to previous notice Bishop
Wilmer, of the Protestant Episcopal
Church recently, made an official visit
to the churches of his denomination in
this Parish. On the 4th and 5th he
preached at Cheneyville and on the 9TH
at Alexandria. At the former place he
confirmed five and at the latter eight
persons. At both places the congreea-
tons assembled to hear the distinguish
ed divine We're much larger than we
remember to have seen in any church
IN this parish formany aday. All seem
to have been well pleased with the
Bishops visit. In his sermons he aim
ed more at practical benefits, and the
instruction of his hearers, than at rhe-
torical display or oratorical effect.
There were, however, occasional tou-
ches of a genuine and lofty eloquence.
The choir performed its part of the ex-
ercises most admirably, and the cere-
monies of Confirmation, and the Com
munion, were exceedingly solemn.
With the exception of visit from
Bishop Lay, of Arkansas, in 1863, this
is the first Protestant diocesan visit to
Rapides since the last one made by the
lamented Leonidas Polk before the
war, andit served to recall wildly the
services of that noble patriot who sac
liHced his life in the conscientious dis
charge of his duty. The new Bishop
seems to be animated with the same
zeal in the discharge of his duty which
characterized his predecessor, and his
extensive learning and ardent piety
eminently fit him for the important Of
flee he has been called to ell.
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Negro Suffrage at the North.

! The tables are being turned ;na.s,
For many years our Northern bretbran nI S
been endeavoring, by Federal leo;sIa aase
and forcing public opinion new c6anaaaooa
to elevate the Africans of the South r. ~
rank Of citizens and to grant to them NJ :. .ae
right Of voting at the polls. Thew wa.s we
opinion that this class of our nonn, Nae y
occupied q rather humble grade IN tSa
scale of intellect, and that this pr .ae
privilege of voting once extented to fisa.s
would exert 2 miraculous influence II Ia
ing them up and enlarging their now ....' /
Nobody loved the poor African as tlevS;ss
What was mere color9 Their skin as. ~.
as God made it, and who had ripht -
object to it OF refuse to fraternizs - w;tS
them on that account9 Americans sho "l
be influenced by larger philanthfoht ~
more liberal and expansive christian;ty
and extend the protection and pnarants.,
the rights Of citizenship to persons ofrhs.
ever race or color Weexc1dde the Ind;sas' i
it is true, from the elective franchise ~.
they were wild men Besides, we had aens
them across the Mississippi to live and the ss
no longer isrmed part Of US The nepra
had long been denied the privilege Of sns
frage. 1t would please them in ihe ts.
relations to society upon which thew had
just entered and would perhaps make t ,r
Of them. All this was said to the Smtb ~
to the conquered, suffering South. Will.
the military bill was beinr concocted.s
bill which rendered the adoption of raore
suffrage, whether the South liked IL Or not
indispensable to the restoration Of t6s
Union. - eA0
Well! now that the South is about to
consent to the measure, what do we aee
taxing place in those manufactures Of
philanthropy and reform, the Northern
Legislatures9 What has just occurred il
the great Empipe State of the North AZ ite
capital where laws are madeq Reform has
been the watchword for some time mast II
that State. With q view to introduce
beneficial changes into it's Fundamentals
laws, the reformers had introduced h;li
calling for State Convention, and in that
bill, conformably to the advice which fla
Northern politicians of the Radical type
have long been giving with an oyerween.
ing solicitrde for their temporal salvation
to the people of the South, they introduced
q clause extending to the colored citizens
OF the State the inestimable privilege Of
suffrage, so indispensable to their elevation
in the social scale. When the bill came IN
to be passed on by the New York philan.
thropists, the Conservative Republicans
united with the Democrats in striking out
that very reformatory clause. Thew were
disposed unanimously to turn mn their
noses at it. It all at once did not suit
those notions of political ennalitv FIR which
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The State Seminary.

+ We call attention to circular published
IN another column announcing that the
State Seminary is ready to receive the ad.
ditional number Of State Cadets provided
for by a recent Act of the General Assem-.
bly,. Each parish is entitled to the same
number OF beneficiary cadets as members Of
the House of Representatives according to
the apportionment of 1859. Rapides is,
therefore, entitled to three, two of whom
are yet to be appointed by the Police Jury.
We would urge upon the members of
the Police Jury the Importance of exer-
cising the utmost care in the selection of
these who are to be educated at the ex-
pense OF the State Treasury. The Act is
clear in requiring that the beneficiary
should be in such condition as would
preclude the possibility of his receiving an
education in any other manner. It is
moreover, expected that he should possess
such mental and moral qualities as to make
him worthy recipient of the bounty be-
slowed upon him. If the cadet has not
sufficient natural talent to enable him to
reap the benefits of liberal Education.
the money spent for his use will be thrown
away. Wedo not see how the Police Ju-
~ can make proper selection without
thoroughly examining every candidate for
admission, and then choosing without re-
gard to any other consideration than fit
ness for the position. This is the more
necessary since the State retains a claim
on her beneficiary cadets, and requires that
they teach School for two years in return
for their education. The schools which
these State Students shall establish
throughout the State will prove powerful
adjuncts to the prosperity of the Seminary,
and to the dissemination of sound learning
among the people 1t is of the last impor-
fance, then, that their conductors should
be fitted for the task which lies before
them.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17

U Our Regular Weekly Packet, St.
Nicholas, showed her jack staff around
the bend early Monday evening. AS
usual she had a fine trip. She leaves
our wharf to-day at 10 o'clock A. NJ
Lovers OF fine spors can go down on her
and witness three days races on the
Metarie, and be back home on Monday
next.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17
Indian Account Of the Fort Phil.
Kearney Massacre.

The Helena (Montana) Herald Of March
7 contains the following account Of the
Fort Phil. Kearney massacre, as furnished
to some white men BY Indians who were
engaged themselves in the massacre.
They, the Sioux, were about 1000 strong,
all warriors without their families with them
reaching deep gully of ravine near the
Fort. The main body of the Indians were
stationed on the opposite side Of the defile,
lying close to the ground so as not to be
seen, while they sent small number Of
their best riders up near to the post, where
the Government horses and mules were
loose, and to stampede them. The CON-
mander Of the post sent out about 80 men
and officers to pursue the Indians and re-
cover, if possible, the lost stock.
The retiring small band Of Indians went
slow enough to encourage their pursuit, and
led their pursuers into the narrow de6le,
where hordes Of demons waited to DESTROY
them. The trap was successful ia every
particular. After the little command Of
troops had fairly entered the deep canon,
the Indians, lining the sides of the noun
tain on either side, raised and fred q vol
ley Of arrows and bullets, killing on the
spot all but seventeen of the soldiers and
every officer. These seventeen, though a
number Of them were wounded, the Indians
say, fought bravely, and killed some fifteen
or twenty Of their number, among them the
principal chief, before they were shot down,
But there was one of the brave boys in blue
whom neither their arrows nor bullets
would fell, though he had numberless sc.
we're wounds. He stopped up and fought
hand to hand until overwhelmed by their
closing in upon him and carrying him off
to their camp prisoner, where he was at.
forwards tortured to death. The savaees
say that aside from the force lining the "a
tai detiles they stationed six hundred Of
their picked young warriors near the post,
50 as to make sure Of its capture in case
the troops remaining within should march
out to the relief Of their comrades. But
this was not done, although they could
plainly hear firing from the post.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17
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The Connecticut Election.

From leading editorial in the Washing
ton lntelligencer Of the Sd inst, We copy
the following pertinent and suggestive com
ments OH "the lesson which the Connecticut
Election teaches :"
The South is under the compulsion Of
the sword. It has already flashed from the
scabbard in interference with civil rights.
Like the glittering steel Of Damocles, it is
suspended, as it we're, by single hair over
the entire people for in the possible con-
tingency in the future Of the crossing Of the
Rubicon by an American Caesar, then the
North may be forced to suceumb to what
OF edicts may be Illuminated at the lannon's
mouth.
The great battle of civil liberty and con-
stitutional government is now being fought
at the North. The South is under The iron
heel ofunlawful oppression, and the specta-
Gle of unprecedented wrong and outrage is
strongly attracting to the cause Of fraternal
union the noblest Of men the world over.
1t is to be seen whether cause 80 sus-
tanned can by any possibility berepressed or
overcome.
1t is not, however, the least apprehension
of impolitic acts in the South THAT causes
us to remark upon this general subject at
this time. If the South is q noble ex-
ample of yicarious suffering in an effort to
compass the great and sublime end of re-
stored Union, SO should the class Of poTiti-
clans in the North be willing to make per-
sonal sacrifices which, as compared with
those Of the former, are as small dust in
the balance. Old opinions, issues aud
party war-cries must be sunk to profound
depths. The contests in future must be
carried on as in New Hampshire, where
was initiated a most brilliant result, all cir
cumstances considered, for the cause Of re-
stored Union, before the glorious victory Of
combined Democrats and Conservative Re
publicans in Connecticut was achieved. 1t
portehded the deeds to come in the latter
state.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17

V We have received several copies
of the new Radical organ, started in
New Orleans bearing the name of the
New Orleans Republican and published
by S. L. Brown g. Co, No 81 st Char
les street. 1t is the old True Delta
revived again, the same old familiar
heading. It's editorials eyince ability
and fairness, and it is to be hoped, will
continue so unto the end. We shall
place it ON our exchange list.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17
New Magazines.

We are indebted to the Leonard
Scott publishing house, New York, for
a copy Of the Edinburgh Review for
January, and Blackwood's Magazine
for March. We are under many obli-
cations to this enterprising company
| for its remembrance of our Office 80
punctually on the appearance Of each
of its valuable republications. We de-
rive no little pleasure from the perusal
of the pages Of the foreign reviews and
can recommend them to all lovers of
solid reading matter as the best invest
ment that could be made of the same
amount of money. The Edinburgh,
The Foreign Quarterly, The North
British, The Westminster and Black
wood, representing every shade Of
British political sentiment, are furnish
ed at the low price Of A dollars for
each Review, and fifteen dollars Tor the
whole five.
We are indebted to General d. II.
Hill for the March number of his Mag
azine, "The Land We Love-" publish
ed at Charlotte, N. C. General Hill is
entitled to much credit for his laudable
efforts to establish first class family
Magazine devoted to the peculiar opin-
ions of the Southern people. We no.
tice much improvement in the charac-
ter and variety of the articles in this
periodical. In fact each successive
number seems to be an improvement
upon its predecessor. Among the more
elaborate pieces in the number before
us is an able article on Milton from the
polished pen of DR.. r. L. Dabney, the
learned author of the "Life of General
Jackson" The Gland We Love" is
now fixed institution and we'll worthy
the patronage of the Southern people.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17

W The B. Il. Hodge No 2 is herself
again. She reached here on Thursday
evening en- bon temps from the Crescent
City, and left on her downward trip
Monday morning. She intends making
regular ten day trips. She viii be here
on Saturday evening. Our old friend
Florence Findren does the dignity OF
the Office and remembered us on his up
trip.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17

SeA-Judge Handy, Of Mississippi, Is out
in two able letters arguing upon the uncon-
stitutiona!ity and illegality ofthe military
bill. He says the remedy Is in the su-
preme Court, and that the position that
such violation Of the rights VI . State M
der the Constitution. is beyond the super
vision Of the Supreme Court, appears TO be
scarcely less monstrous than the act Itself.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17

~ r. c. Weatherly s. Co., Cotton
and Sugar Factors and General Com
mission Merchants, l64 Common Street,
New Orleans. offer their services,
through our columns, to the public OF
Rapides. Both parties are well known
to most ofour people, and we bespeak
for them due consideration and renu-
lucrative share of public favors.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17

i~ The fine, large and commodious
Livery Stable, situated along side OF
Clark's Livery Stable, is offered for sale.
Any one desiring a profitable invest
ment these hard times, can find bar
gain by calling ON H. S. Losee Esq.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17

w We call attention to the business
card of Rice Brothers g. Co., "a and 95
Camp Street and 5s5 Magazine Street,
New Orleans. This establishment is
one OF the best and deservedly popular
ones in the City, and are meeting, as
they well merit, with large patronage.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17
D We are thankful to Auguste Jar
reau for Fridays Crescent.

1d~ General Forrest addresses a letter
to the Memphis Avalance, exposing an
adventurer named j. Nj. 1rotter, who is
going over the Southern States proposing
to organize relief and aid societies for the
destitute widows and orphans. The gen.
eral says:
In 1864, this man was trayersing the
States of Mississippi and Alabama on just
such pretense as the one now set up, and
on the complaint of parties that he had
frudulestly converted to his own use funds
aud property entrusted to him Tor the bene-
tit OF the destitute, | had him arrested, and
thorough investigation made into his con-
duct in the premises. The result was
utterly uufavorable to Trotter so much
SO, that | cannot withhold this expression
of my conviction that he is not trust
worthy in connection with any benevolent
purpose.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17
A Newand Grand Epochin Medicine,

Dr.. Maggiel is the founder Of new
Medical System! The quantitafians,
whose vast internal doses enfeeble the
stomach and paralyze the bowels, must
give precedence to the man who restores
health and appetite, with from one 10 two
OF his extraordinary Pills, and cures the
most virulent sores with a box or 80 Of his
wonderful and all healing Isalve. These
two great specifics Of the Doctor are fast
superceding all the stereotyped uostrums Of
the day. Extraordinary cures by Maggiel's
Pills and Salve have opened the eyes Of
the public to the inefRciency Of the $50
called) remedies Of Others, and upon which
people have SO long blindIy depended
Maggiel's Pills are not Of the class that are
swallowed by the dozen, and Of which eve.
~ box full taken creates an obsolute ne
cessity for another One or two Of Mag.
gels Pills suffice to place the bowels in
perfect order, tone the stomach, create
an appetite and render the spirit light and
buoyant! There is no gripping. and no
reaction in the form of constipation. II
the liver is effected, its functions are re-
stored and if the nervous system is feeble,
it is invigorated. This last quality makes
the medicines very desirable for tie wants
of delicate females. Ulcerous and eruptive
diseases are literally extinguished By tho
dislnfectant power Of Msggiel's Salye. In
fact, it is here announced that MAGoirLs
BILIOUS, DYsPEPr1c AND DrAHRHR4 PHls
cure where all others fail. While Tor
Burns, Scalds, Chilblains, Cuts and all
abrasions Of the skin MAoGIEL's SAVE is
infallible. Sold BY F. P. DucoNaE, No.
50 Charities street, New Orleans, and all
druggists, at rs cts. per box.
"CousTERFEIrs! Bay no more Maegiel
Pills or Salve, with little pamphlet inside
the box. They are bogus. The genuine
have the name Of J. Haydock on box with
name Of J. Maggiel, NJ. d. The genuine
have the Pill surrounded With white pow.
der"
F. ?. DUcoScE, No. 80 Chartres street,
New Orleans, is the Sole Agent for the
State Of Louisiana.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17

Ma. The institution has behaved so SO
the past week. Two mails have come along
and helped us amazingly. Thanks old nui-
sance
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s@s We are obliged to the Bart Able,
I. D. Hine, Live Oak, Starlight and st..
Nicholas for New Orleans papers.
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EASTER SUHDAY-CATHOLlC CHURCH.

Mass of Demonti for two sopranos, to
which base las been added by the Rev.
J. P. Bellier; seven sopranos, four altos,
four bases, with organ and full orchestra.
Office to begin at 9 o'clock.
Sale of the pews after Church
Conference.-The object of the collec-
ton is to raise the amount necessary to
rebuild the fence in front of the Church,
Presbytery and Convent; this fence having
been destroyed by the last overflow.
April 3, lS67-3t. J. P. BELLIER.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17

n8- Madame Patterson Bonaparte, now
In Baltimore, lives in clearinghouse.
She IS lively and elegant, though Seventy
eight Years Old.
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Yours Truly,
TIM. LINKINWATER.

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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-04-17

;. Sheriff Winters last evening arrested
Sergeant Hogan Of the 10th Regular Uni
ted States Infantry, stationed here, on sus-
p1elon OF being implicated in the murder
Of General Bankhead, on Saturday night.
Hogan is in Jail. He may have prelim
mary examination before a magistrate to-
day.
, 1867-07-02
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FOR ST. CROIX.
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3, Continued 1st discussion of the draft of
ordinance concerning a division of the Police
jurisdictions in St. Croix Scarborough in
by the 1st member for Frederiksted's town
(Sarauw.)
AS the Committees report on this case
could not be distributed among the Council
members before the present sitting, it was read,
the contents as follows
1.-The undersigned Committee appointed by
the Colonial Council to report on the Draft of
Ordinance for altering the division of the
Police jurisdictions in St. Croix and for sepa-
rating the functions of the Policemasters from
those of the Town-Judges in the same Island,
proposed by member Sarauw, having closely
examined all the different circumstances and
relations which in a case of such Importance
must be taken into consideration, begs to state
the following results of it's deliberations.
/, The Majority of the Committee, viz all
the members with the exception of the un-
dersigned Sarauw, feel convinced that it is
inadvisable to abolish the special post as
Policemaster for the Center district this
district comprises the most valuable sugar
estates of the Island and requires so much
activity on the part of the Police, that it
would by no means be a satisfactory ar
rangement to unite that district with the two
towns, admitting even that a Police Assistant
were to be kept at Kingshill.
2, If then the post as Policemaster for the
Center district must remain unaltered, the
result of the realisation of the other part of
the proposal, viz the establishment of two
special posts as Judge and Recorder and two
separate posts as Policemaster in Christian
sted's and Frederiksted's jurisdictions, would
be, that the Island got 5 judicial officials, each
with its special ofice-expenses &c, causing a
considerable increase of a permanent nature
in the expense for the public treasury. The
Committee must therefore consider this plan
unfeasible.
3, But we are of the opinion, that those difficult
ties that have been pointed out as being an
obstacle to a satisfactory discharge of all the
duties at present attached to the two posts
as Judge, Recorder and Policemaster in
Christiansted and Frederiksted, may in time
be removed, if those officials were directed
to keep of6cial-clerks selected from among