The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-05-26

ern0r, remains here in the interest o
Hamilton party and early reconstruc
ton until the election is ordered.
Col. l.. C. Norrell, of Pass Christian
Miss. visited the President to-day.
Election day in Mississippi and Texa
will not be named until after the Vir
ginia election, though both will proba
bly, occur in August. Norrell has an
nounced himself as candidate TO
Governor of Mississippi. He will sus
tain the Administration, and advocate
the reconstruction laws of Congress
but is opposed to the proscriptiye fea.
lures of the Mississippi constitution
Norrell will soon publish a list of his
appointments, Judge Lewis Dent, the
Presidents brother-in-law, will assist
in the campaign.
The President has assigned to
Southern Indian Superintendency-
Choctaws and Chickasaws-Breve
Major j. NJ. Craig; Creeks, Capt. G.. s.
Olmstead; CherOkees, Capt. Warren.
There was full Cabinet meeting to-
day.
Two negroes have been appointed to
clerkships in the Revenue Department
and the Police Commissioners have APP
pointed negro police.
Judge Bassett. the negro Minister to
Hayti, visited the State Department to-
day, and wilfreceive his instructions in
a few days.
Commodore Westcott has been de-
tached from the Pensacola Navy Yard.
Douglass, the negro printer employ
ed by Clapp, applies to Simon Wolf
Register OF Deeds, for clerkship, saw
ing that in consequence of the combin-
atoms entered into by the printers
unions throughout the country, he is
unable to get employmenta as printer.
Simon Wolf responds favorably to
Douglass application concluding thus:
81 am particularly happy in being the
means of encouraging you, for as a de-
scendant of q race equally maligned
and prejndiced have a feeling of COM
mon cause, and who can forcee but what
the stone the builders may become the
feadstone OF our political and social
structure"
Grant proclaims that the eight-hour
law involves no reduction of daily com
pensation.
WASHINGTON, May 21.-The most
ponement OF the Texas election gives
great satisfaction to the extreme Radi-
Gals. They see no chance now of de-
feating Hamilton, and want time to
educate the negroes up to their work.
An effort will be made to induce the
President to reconsider. The Repnb-
licans say it is necessary that military
authority should prevail in Texas for
some time to come; that the people
need to be taught lesson; that they
must learn obedience; that no people
are fit for self-government who have
not learned obedience to law and or
der; that this is what Texas needs, and
what Grant means to teach them, and
that a reign of martial law for some
time to come will have a wholesome
influence on the people of that Com
mOnwealth.
WASHINGTON, May 22.-lt is now
certain that both Mississippi and Tex
as questions will be held in allegiance
until allegiance until after the Virginia
election, which occurs July 6.
There will be three negro candidates
for Congress from Virginia, whom the
Conservatives will largely support.
The Herald has the following:
MIR. La Rientrie, formerly Vice Con-
sui at Havana, who has just returned
from Cuba, had a lengthy interview
with the President, yesterday, on the
of affairs in Cuba. He tells
quite a different story from that SO
persistently related by dispatches of
Admiral Hoff to the Navy Department..
This probably arises from the fact La
Rientrie has been in the interior of the
island. aud has had the opportunity of
observing the doings of the insurgents
himself.
He informed the President that if the
leaders Of the Cubans pursued their
present course, they would certainly
succeed, and this was admitted by the
Spanish authorities. The harassing
policy adopted by the Cubans, avoid
ing open fight, and keeping the Span
ssh army following them was operating
lisastrously upon the latter. Numbers
lie on the march, of which no mention
IS ever made, while hundreds are be-
ing cut off by disease.
La Rientrie informed the President
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If the Cubans In various engagements
or skirmishes which have taken place,
Ire mere exaggerations-al almost entire
y devoid of truth. Upon being ques-
,ioned as to the prospects of ultimate
success, of the Cubans in securing their
Independence, La Rientrie replied that
hat depended altogether upon the
ability of Spain to keep reinforcing the |
Spanish army in Cuba. The present
army there would soon be so far reduc-
ID as to be Intellectual for even pursu-
ng Cuban bands from place to place.
The Cubans were still expecting aid
from the United States. The leaders
IF the revolution regard our Govern
nent as sort Of natural ally. La
Rientrie says the President listened
very attentively to his narrative, fire.
luently interrupting him to ask ques-
ions.
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