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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24
MI. Bull Speaks.
THE TREATY FOR THE sErTL.xEST. or THE
ALABAMA CLAIMS. ae
From the London Times.l

Considerable importance must be attach
ed to the manner in which the various
claims are submitted to the commission.
IT an unlimited investigation were to be
held in each case we should have the pros
pect OF on interminable series of trials for
damages, and the labors ofthe commission
ers might never be concluded. According
y, it has been wisely determined that the
commissioners shall form their decision
upon such evidence and information only
as shall DO furnished by the two govern.
ments. Every statement or document
presented to them under this authority
they will, however, be bound to receive,
and also, ifrequired, to hear one person on
each side, as the counsel or agent of such
government. Here, again. when we re-
member the many points Mr.. Seward has
brought forward ut various times, this may
seem somewhat too elastic q permission
yet it would, no doubt, have been difficult
to refuse to either government the power
Of submitting any information they may
think relevant to their case. The evidence
and the documents thus authenticated BY
the two governments will of necessity be
in . great measure condensed and arrunr.
ed. Though the commissioners will be
bound to peruse it, they will not be found
to treat 1t all as relevant it is not perhaps
unreasonable to expect that they will have
succeeded in deciding upon every claim
within the two years within, by the terms
Of the convention, they are required to con-
clude their labors. All claims are to be
presented within six months from the day
Other first meeting, except in special ca
ses, for which three months more may be
allowed. Compensations arc all to be paid
within eighteen months of the decision.
1t only remains to mention that the two
parties make solemn declaration that the
proceedings of the commission shall be
considered final settlement of all claims
since 1863.
Such, we believe ore the main outlines
OF this Convention. Even if it should be
less successful than we anticipate it will
remain as an indisputable monument oil
the readiness of the British government to
make every possible concession, not only
to international obligations, but to the sus-
ceptibilities of high-spirited people. |
Further than this it is impossible for us to |
go but impartial! opinions will, we are con-
ident, acknowledge we have here offered |
all that equity can demand and we are
equally confident that the United States |
Senate is incapable of demanding more.
We shall await with interest the discussion |
" the convention BY the legislative bodies
If the two countries.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

BAKING SODA!-CooKING SoDA!!-
Pure English Newcastle can be pro-
cured at H. ST. JOINS ut the Same
price that is paid for COMMON I,rruRE
SODA 30 frequently palmed OF on the
public by ignorant dealers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

q We have been furnished with a
full copy Of the "Report of the Boeuf
and Cocodrie Navigation Company
furnished the Company by its Engin-
geer, and regret being forced to delay
its publication till our next issue.
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70 The officers of the steamers Ma
tional, Frolic, Dora, Gray Eagle, Even
ing Star, Era No. TO-, B. L. Hodge No.
2. and "Stonewall" have furnished the
Democrat Office with papers, for
which we-return many thanks.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

When may ship be said to be foolishly
~ lover When she is attached to buoy.
When madly love! When she is ankering
AFTER heavy swell. When ambitiously in
love? When she is making fora pier.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

r@- A poultice of onions, applied morn
ing, noon and night, for thlea or four DAYS
it is claimed, will cure ieloa, no matter
how bad the case.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

" The weather has again been,
nearly the whole of che past week. the
most horrid on record. Our. planters
are fully month behind work, and
there seems tosbe no end to this kind
Of weather.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24
ANOTHER HOMICIDE.

The steamboat Gov. Allen came in
yesterday, and shortly after she landed
a difficulty occurred between the first
and second mates, when the latter
drew a pistol and shot the former.
The ball took cffectin the head and the
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

B The River has fallen about four
teen inches since our last, is now on
stand, aud weather permitting, will be
falling by the time our readers see
this.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

What is that which the rich man wants
the poor man has, the miser spends, and
the spendthrift saves? Nothing.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24
Preparing the Ground for PLANTING
Cotton

Here is IN article from the Vicksbusx
Times. containing matter of especial intss.
est to large class OF our readers
Nj. Editor-As the time appeoachee for
this important work, wish to call TIE g.
teotion Of those engaged in it 70 an erpr
which prevailed before the war to . greater
extent than any fallacy where was 30 much
depending on its correction. Il wa =
saver OF time, and was not visible to thu
eye, thought the results where alvey, felt
but never attributed to theright cause. Il
was that practice Of leaving to the center
OF the cotton ridge hard ground for the cot.
ton to take root in. OF an the crona
grown cotton requires the deepest and mel
lowest sol! to root, in having long top
root. which runs deep into the ground
How perfectly absurd TO suppose it eouId
penetrate hard soil and give more nntri.
ment to the stalk and iN branches and
fruit than it would in the we'll pulvssissd
and deeply plowed ground. Cotton bas
but few lateral roots, and draws ito sastea.
ance from the depths Of the earth rather
than the surface, and it must be aided by
tho intelligent planter reaching theee
sources OF supply. But to prove the folly
and absurdity OF this Practice so univef-
sally believed in, and I viii give few
facts.
In 1885 the writer had allowed an i'm,
msnse bank Of cotton seed to collect az
his Clubhouse, asd not having time 70
spread it on distant parts of the Geld, he
had It hauled on 16 acre cut close by.
which had been cultivated for fifly ycafs.
Some OF the best teams were put on this
cut and plowed in the middle Of the row,
% deep q furrow g possible. Then the
seed was thrown in this furrow, and filed
IN to the top /; be then had the ridees
thrown mp with this rotted cotton seed in
the center. This Was Ill done in March.
About the Let Of April the cotton wss
planted in the usual way. with many mis-
givings amongst the laborers ~ to The re-
suits. and the overseer said that the. cot
ton would; die out. When the top root
reached the cotton seed beneath, the cot
ton grew o,t beautifully, was the Grst to
bloom, the FIRST to mature and the irst to
open and on the first OF September We
gathered fifteen hundred pounds Of seed
cotton to the acre, and picked it again Let
October, when we gathered fifteen hundred
pounds more to the acre, and had another
picking from it Of some three or four humid
red pounds to tho acre in December, max
ing yield Of near n bales.
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A QUEER WnL.-Singinq for NIL.
Iions.-The Vienna journals give curious
will left BY rich eccentric octogenarian
named Stanislas Pltzmary, who lately died
on his property, near Presth. After be-
queathing pensions to all his old servants,
and aims to- the poor, he sets down an ex-
traordinary clause iastituing as his uni
versal legatee NJ. Francois Lott, Hungar-
ian by origin, and notary by occupation in
little town near Vienna. But the tesla
tor annexes one condition ''My prosper.
ty," he wrote, will belong to nj. Lott,
when he shall have sung either at La Scala
in Milan, or the San Carlo, in Naples, the
parts of Othello, in the opera of that name.
and that of Elvino. in the Somnambula,-
1 do not dispose Of my wealth in this man.
ner for the sake Of being thought an origi.
nal, but, having been present four years
ago at an evening party in Vienna, / heard
this gentleman sing cavatina from each of
those operas with beautiful tenor voice.
Therefore believe him likely to become an
excellent artist. In any case, if the public
Kisses him, he can console himself easily
with three millions of forms (.e3O0, OOO],
which leave him." NJ. Lott is at Naples
for the last month, preparing to carry out
the wishes of the deceased. The notary il
not forty, has well-turned voice, and
works night and day to learn as quickly as
possible the two parts, with their pronun-
citation and singing. He will probably
make tiasco, but the property is well worth
the hazard.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

b. Remember. that the "Stoncwau"
goes down to-day at IL NJ.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24
Blaokwood's Magazine.

We have received from the Leonard
Scott Publishing Company, New York,
the January number of Blackwood's
Magazine, more than usually inter
esting number. Its table of contents is
the following:
/. Historical Sketches of the reign of
George II, No. 8. This is an exceed
ingly interesting sketch of the Life and
writings of Bishop Berkeley.
r 2. The Fifteen Louis-D'Or of Beau
marchais.
8. Doubles g. Quits, Part 8; con-
tinuation Of this interesting story.
d. Kinglake's History of the Crimean
war.
S. Christian Missions to India.
6. Seats and Saddles.
Z. Statistics of the Campaign.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

- which senator wears tho largest hat ?
The one With the largest head.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

TRY ST. JOHNS COUGH EXpEC.
: u ToRANr..
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24
The New Constitutional Amend
ment.

At last accounts the new amendment
was about to pass both Houses of tht
Congress of the United States, anG
doubtless before this it has been pro.
iposcd to the Legislatures of the severa,
States for their ratification. Whether
it will meet success in the necessary
three-fourths of the States is rather
doubtful. Several of the Legislatures
of the Northern States are bitterly
hostile to negro suffrage in any form,
and at the South the Legislatures OF
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and
Georgia will reject it, while Virginia,
| Mississippi and Texas are not yet in a
condition to pass on the question. We
presume, however, that the necessary
appliances will be brought to bear, and
that. every effort will be made by the
Radicals to carry their pet measure
through.
The substance of the new amendment
is that no State shall make any dis
tinction in comforting the right of suf-
frage on account race, color or pre-
vious condition. 1t is useless to stop
to enquire where Congress got author
ity for establishing uniform rule of
suffrage in the different States, since
the Radicals admit that all their impor-
tant legislation is enacted "outside of
the Constitution" If.only the Con-
stitution is in the way, that is an OBJ
stacle which it is very easy to over
come. Neither is it altogether very
obvious why such an amendment is
necessary. By more easy process
negro suffrage has already been estab-
lished in the Southern States, and
there are too few negroes at the North
to make the question one of any prac-
teal operation.
But this whole question of the
amendment carries with it a piece of
deception on par with all previous
Radical legislation. It was given out
that with universal negro suffrage was
to be coupled universal amnesty and
universal white suffrage. But, while
the Radicals make constitutional
provision to secure suffrage to her me-
groes forever, no effort is made to re-
peal the obnoxious laws which deny
The right of suffrage to thousands of
,he best men in the country. They tell
IS to consent to negro suffrage, and
hat once secured, the reimbursement
IT the white man is to be subject for
uture consideration, to be granted only
n case it shall not interfere with Radi-
'al and negro supremacy. In the
meantime Congress takes care to re-
move the political disabilities only of
hose who will consent to enter the
anks of the Radical party. Congress
s to be used to Radicalise the South by
means of its discretion in the removal
It disabilities from those who have
,een DISTINGUISHED.
1t is not beyond the range of proba-
'ility that the Radical Congress is
eckoning without its host. The pop
lar opposition to negro suffrage at the
forth may yet break out in open hos
llity to party which attempts to force
on the Northern States, against the
'ill Of the people. h
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

" We invite special attention to
the advertisement of the Steamer Ger
ard B. Allen to be found in our col
umns. A new era in trade and steam
boating has dawned on us of the Red
River Valley, and this steamer is one of
the pioneers in this new undertaking..
Certainly its vast Importance and the
many commercial advantages, which
will unerringly follow it, are of two Sc
rious mature to be briefly ovcrlookedby
cur merchants and planters. Hence
we undertake to guarantee fair and
impartial chance and trial to the par
ties engaged in it. Annexed we give
an extract from the st. Louis Democrat,
OF the 18th inst, touching this same
m after:
"The departure of the steamer Ger
ard Allen, on Saturday, for Red River
was an event of unusual importance.
She has full cargo, including a con-
siderable number of wagons of St.
Louis manufacture, which are to be
delivered at Shreveport and other
points on Red River. This trade is at
tracing the attention OF wealthy St.
Louis boat owners, and it is probable
that there will be one boat per week
from this out. The H. NJ. Slireye, ar
excellent boat for the trade, is now on
berth for Shreveport and will have dis
patch. Tho distance from St. Louis to
The mouth OF Red River is 1929 miles
From St Louis to Shreveport the dis
lance is about the same as to New Or
leans. The round trip is expected to
20 made in 30 to 25 days. The st.
seuis and Red River packets confident
J. expects to be heavily freighted for
It. Louis with Red River cotton, be-
ides which there are many other pro
lucts OF that country which will find
heir way to this port"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

New ORLEANS, FEBRUARY 1e.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-24

u 1t is rather good joke on the
carpet-baggers, who never cease harp
ing on the lawlessness of the people of
Rapides, that the General in Chief of
the U. s. Army, the man who did more
than any other to bring the late war to
a successful end, could ride about in
the highways and by-ways of our pa
lish with scarcely single attendant,
and yet escape not only with his life,
but with the qualification that every
body treated him with the greatest
civility. The General was rather
amused ut the pusillaniInity of the
Radicals who advised him to keep away
from a parish where he has so many
warm friends. 1t is only the wicked
who "lee when no man pursueth."-
The carpet-baggers are afraid for their
lives because they are conscious that
they have SO outraged the people as
justly to have forfeited them.
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pranches, and they have now as COM
plete stock of foreign and domestic
Hardware as can be found in the conn
try. OF course all this requires work,
energy, management, prudence and
care, and these qualities the Messrs.
Rices have called into play to aid them
in taking the lead in their department
OF commerce. They are quiet, unas-
Stunning gentlemen, polite and courte-
Gus in all their transactions, prompt
and faithful in executing all their con-
tracts. Success, that prize for which
every one aims, and like Caesar, they
may exclaim, Veai, sVidi, Wei! Here's
good example, an example the South
will be benefited by our following
Let every man do something for the
Fair. Who raised the largest sweet
potatoe, the finest corn, the fattest
pigf What lady has done the best
needle work, embroidery, knitting,
weaving, or made the best breadf-
Where's the boy under twelve years of
age that writes the best landi Work
together and make this Fair a memo
rable one. To slightly alter an old
saying, External vigilance is the price
of success"
Let us then be up and doing,
With heart for any fate:
Still achieving, still pursuing
Learn to labor aud to wait"
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,a, Why y =, g ~
ears. and LeALL. 81.
see not. NJ.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-28

In considering the subject of the Death Pen
atty, it will not do to leave out of account the
number of cases in which the convict antici-
pates final legal action 10y committing suicide.
as pickey did in New-Jersey, last Thursday.
We admit that if we look for a bad motive (and
the motives of men in such extremity may
well be various and ill-defned) we shall prob
ably be forced to conclude that some vague
notion of still cheating the law may influence
the self-executOner, and that, in this way, he
true, but the only one within his power. There
is. too, in the act q Self-asserti0n, and con-
temptuous defiance of the worst which the re-
vengeful hands of society can accomplish.
Again, the impatieuce of desperation must be
admitted-the eager anxiety to have all over
as soon as possible. Chiefly, however, the
dominant feeling probably is to escape the
ignOminy of public execution, which brings
us at once to the logic of the whole matter;
for admitting that we have the right to an eye
for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, can 1t be
fairly asserted that we have right to any
thing more The shame, the contumely, all
additions to a punishment which should be the
simple extinction of an offensive life. If any
one can tell us why, this being the true object
of hanging, the doomed should not DC supplied
with poison, ropes, and razors, we are quito
ready to consider the statement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-28
npwvoRK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, DECEMBER %, 1869

reached, even to the date of this trial. ms
will be new doctrine to Wall street. Hitherto
the foolhardy outsider who bought stocks on o
margin took all kinds of risks, and practi-
cally left his money and his bargain to the
tender merces of one whose interests became
opposed to his own If the broker sold heav-
lily to such customers, it was not desirable 10
him that the stock should rise before he had
to settle with them, and he was likely, III or
der to prevent this, to throw the stock he was
holding for them upon the market. But II the
stock did decline, as soon as it seemed prob
able that the fall would absorb the margin
the broker sold out his customer In this pretty
game of heads win and tails you lose" the
broker held all tie stakes and acted as their
owner. This decision may possibly give GUS
toner some rights that the gentlemen OF the
street will have to respect. Yet if any light
headed individual imagnes he can now buzz
around their webs with any measure OF security,
his prudent friends should apply for writ OF
de lunatico befor, he has irrcvocably involved
himself in new nesheS of destruction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-28

We are to have an election for a new Re
publican General Committee in the several
Assembly districts of orr City tomorrow
"wednesday evening and we ardenty hope
to chronicle the choice of a Committee that
will unite and invigOrate the party that sus-
tains our present honest and worthy National
Administration. To this end, we exhort every
Republican who has been duly enrolled to ex-
ercise his privilege of voting, and to be sure
not TO cote for any one Uho does
the bidding of the Idmmany Ring. We
are entirely willing that Messrs. Sweeny,
Tweed, and A. Oakley Hall should run
their own machine as they may see fit; but
they habitually buy and use persons who hold
positions in our Republican organizations and
this we cannot regard as justified by the rules
of honorable political strife. AT all events,
persons who allow themselves to be SO bought
and used ought to be dismissed and excluded
from the trusts they abuse; and we exhort
every true Republican to take care that none
of Tammany's famiiars be elected to our next
General Committee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-28

s,,u races IN the courts and IN the newspapers =-=
Jerome Bradley has been committed for tho Du'cnoSS
County bond robbery. - Nearly all the ci'h courts
adjourned yesterday ont OF respect 10 tine lae D' "
tom 49, sick boy years old.s SAID to have Deeh pun
INTO tho street 70 by the woman with whom he lodged
- Mrs Maria white found dead IN hallway III
Charlton.st is supposed to have been murdered -
Mr. Lorard believes that the report OF the oSS ol 'o
Meteor is false === Several assassinatons nave oo
Cured at Jamaica and Ll0yd's Neck, Long Island
Councilman sacom has been appointed warden Oh 'ie
City Prison. place Of James h Coulter e'co'cu oOo
Ips,icc - 4 dead man. supposed to have committed
suicide was found ON sunday nj orange Mountain n j.
= Gold 1903. 1926, i2oi Temperature a. A. AZ Do
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-28
WHAT THE PEOPLE SHOULD DO rs To
FRAMING.

Nine-tenths of the People of the United
States want the Franking Privilege abolished !;
the Postmaster General urges it every thing
conspires to favor it, ercept that the only two
or three hundred persons on earth who derive
any advantage or consequence from 1t are ju st
those whose votes will decide the question.
There are many honest, faithful men in
Congress, vi whom there is none truer or nober
than John Hill of New-Jersey. He urged the
abolition of Franking in forcible speech
eighteen months ago, and has kept at work on
the right side ever since He thinks the
People have somewhat to do in the premises,
and, just before leaving home for his Winters
work, wrote the following timely letter:
10 he Editor Of The Press.
DEAR SIR: Some Of my constituents as meet them ask
me the question "If Congress Ia not going do some
thing In regard 20 the Frankng Privilege either 10 do
away with entirely restrict It's use a. My reply has
been that attempts have been made during the NLth
Congress. first to abolish entirely but without
and then abolish tho FrInking Stamp. which
compllshed.
My views on this whole subject are well known to my
constituents having been given in full in tho House OF
Representatives and 10 the country. have no
reason alter them. II had my way, and could ac-
compllsh IT, would do away with it entirely, aud thus
Of the Frankng Privilege would stop the printing
hundreds OF thousands OF dollars worth of books that
can be- dispensed with, the Government hundreds
OF thousands of dollars In the Postonice Department
paid out for carrying tuns OF free documents, &c. in
tho mails; and In the end millions OF dollars would be
saved Almost every year she PostmaserGenera recon-
meDds ab0shng restricting the OF the frank, but
10 s UNDECIDED. know not what may be the opinion OF
the present Postmaster General. II he should recon-
mond It be abolished II would doubtless receive the
Same attention II has heretofore.
Now, have thought II petitions could be circulated
through this district. signed generally by ALL and crcu
lated hrough the county and sent TO the members
OF Congress OF the several districts, TO be presented by
them to the House. II would have more weight and
greater effect than any other method oI getting this
matter fairly directly before Congress These peti
tons would be referred totthe Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads," and from the complexion of
that Committee. Ia my opinion II would not be long be
fore bill would be reported to tho 81 use. backed Nv