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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29


Dg The July number of Demorest's
Monthly Magazine has an unusually
large and elegant display of the
Summer Fashions, with over sixty IL
Illustrations and two steel engravings
together with it's entertaining Itera-
ry matter, popular music, and othe,
beautiful features, and so elegantly
and artistically got up as to make il
emphatically the model Magazine.
Demorest has also outdone al
others in his liberal offer Of valuable
premiums. A new and extraordina
ry list is given in the July numb~
which is very attractive, among which
is fine and valuable parlor chrome
printed in eighteen colors and WORT
$500, to be given as a premium t,
each subscriber. Yearly, So 90. Al.
dress Demorest's Monthly, S39 Broad.
way, New York.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

BEGINNING IN THE WoRLD.-Many
an unwise parent lives sparingly and
labors hard all his life, for the purpose
of leaving enough to give his children
start in the world, as it is called.
Setting young man afloat with mon
ey left him by his relatives, is, like tie
ing bladders under the arms of one
who cannot swim, ten chances to one
he will lose his bladders and go to
the bottom. Teach him to swim, and
he will not need the bladders. Give
your child a sound education, and you
have done enough for him. See to it
that his morals are pure, his mind cul-
tivated, and his whole nature made
subselvient to the laws which govern
men and you will have given what
will be of more value than the wealth
of Indies. To be thrown upon ones
resources, is to be cast into the very
lap of fortune, for our faculties then
undergo q development, and display
an energy of which they were prcvi-
ously insusceptible.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29
The Living Machine.

Injure the main spring of % watch and
every portion Of the works becomes disor-
dered The human stomach is to the hui
man system what that elastic piece of met
al is to q chronometcr. 1t influences the
action of the other organs, and controls, to
q certain extent, the whole living ma
chine. The comparison may be carried
further: for as the weakness or other i'm
projections of the main spring is indicated
on the face of the time piece, SO also is the
weakness or other disorder of the stomach
betrayed by the face of the invalid. The
complexion is sallow or faded, the eyes are
deficient in lustre and intelligence, and
there is d worn, anxious expression in the
whole countenancc which tell us plainly
as written words could do, that the great
nourishing organ whose office it is to min
lister to the wants of the body, and to sus-
tain and renew all its parts, is not per-
forming its duty. 1t requires renovating
and regulating, and to accomplish this end
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters may be truly
said to be the one thing needfuI. The bro
ken main spring of a watch may be re-
| placed by a new one, but the stomach can
only be repaired and strengthened, and
this is one of the objects OF the famous
vegetable restorative which for eighteen
years has been waging asuccessful contest
with dyspepsia in all climates. AS spe-
ciiic for indigestion it stands alone. When
tho resources of the pharmacop9ia have
been exhausted, without, at best, doing
moro than mitigating the complaint, q
course of this wholesome and palatable
yet powerful, stomachic effects perfect
and permanent cure. In all cases of dys
pepsia the liver is moro OF less disordered
and upon this important gland, as well az
upon the stomach and bowels, the Bitter
act with singular distinctncss, regulating
and renvigorating every secretivo ant
assimilating organ on which bodily ant
mental health depend
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29
Maddening Mechanism of Thought,

Our brains are seyenty-year clocks
The Angel of Life winds them mn once
for all, then closes the case. and oives
the key into the hands of the AnGel 81
Resurrection. Tic-tac! tic-tac! 90 tho
wheels of thought; our will cannot
stop them; madness only makes them
go faster; death alone can break into
the case, and Selling the ever swingin.
pendulum, which we call the heart. sis
lence at last the clicking of the terrible
escapement we have carried so lone
beneath our wrinkling foreheads. IL
we could only get at them, as we lie
on our pillows and connt the dead beats
of thought after thought and image af-
ter image jarring through the over
tired organ! Will nobody block these
wheels, uncouple that pinion, cut the
string that holds these weights. blow
up the internal machine with gnnpow.
der? What passion comes over n.
sometimes for silence and rest--that
this dreadful mechanism, unwindino
the endless tapestry of time, embroid,
cred with spectral figures of life and
death, could have but one brief holt
day Who can wonder that men
swing themselves off from beams in
hempen os7-that they lump off.
from parapets into the swift and pur-
Cling waters beneath ?-thatsthey take
council of the grim fiend who has but
to utter his own peremptory monosyl-
liable, and the restless machine is shiy.
cred as a case that is dashed upon n
marble floor? Under that building
which we pass every day there are
strong dungeons, where neither hook.
nor bar, nor bed cord, nor drinking
vessel from which snap fragment
may be shattered, shall by any chance
be seen. There is nothing for it, when
the brain is on fire with the whirling of
its wheels, but to spring against the
stone wall and silence them with one
crash. All, they remembered that
the kind city fathers-and the walls
are nicely padded, so that one can take
such, exercise as he likes without dam
aging himself. Ifanybody wonld real
ly cOntrive some kind Of lever that
one could thrust in among the works
of this horrid automaton and check
them, or alter their rate of goinr. wh-.
would the woria give for the dSssvoye.
W -acn are very apt to try to get at
the machine by some indirect system
or other. They clap on the brakes by
means OF opium, they change the mad
dening monotony of the rythm by
means OF fermented liquors. tits be-
cause the brain is locked up and we
cannot touch its movements directly,
Mat we thrust these coarse tools
through and crevice by which they
may reaeh the interior, alter its rate of
going for awhile, and at last spoil the
machine. l[Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29
Epitaph of the Radical Party.

Recently there appeared an article
from the racy pen of the correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial, in which
the present demoralized condition of
the Radical party in the Congress at
Washington was most graphically des-
cribed, and its speedily approaching
defeat and destruction confidently pre-
dicted. 1t only remains to add that
the Commercial, as many of our
readers already know, is q Republican
paper in its politics, and that Gen.
Piatt. the Washington correspondent
in question, was a General in the Radi-
cal army during the war, and processes
now to be a Republican in his princi-
pies. The following are the closing
lines of the article referred to:
The late Republican party is the
dreadest dead thing above ground.---
And if the surviving friends wish to
retain for it any feelings of respect,
they will hasten its funeral. Upon the
melancholy tomb let us ,inscribe this
epitaph:
DIED,
After brief but brilliant career, the
late Republican Party,
BORN
OF patriotic impulses, it bnilt huge
navies, organized vast armies, and
through long campaigns, with
bloody battles,
Saved the Nation from the jaws of
He'll. It's immediate cause of
dissolution was Trichinia,
Certain vermin known as
Thieves, Plunderers and Protectionists
ate into its Vitals,
Causing dreadful nausea, a bad
smell, and sudden death.
D. =.
zee CREAM
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

A WIst OLD DoG.-The Portland
Press telk some remarkable stories of
a dog thai belonged to Mr.. Skillirgs,
of Bangs Island, in Casco Bay:
When desirous of change of life, he
would swim to Portland, distance Of
over two miles, and, after passing
week visiting, return. He would some-
times be found at Commercial wharf
by Mr., Sldllings, after several days,
absence, fitting in his boat, in which
he had conc to town, and awaiting Mr.
Skillings' toming on board to take him
home. III had accompanied Mr.. Skill
ings, at vsrious times, TO Watts Lodge
near Richmond Island, seven miles
from Bang Island, on cunning excpr-
sions after fowl, and he was most
excellent retriever.
On one OCCASION, as the dog was get
ting old, Nh. Skillings- left his house
without hin, and, as necessary for sea
fowl cunning, before daylight. The
dog, finding his master gone, swan to
Cape Elizabeth to some part of the
shore, which required nearly swimming
a mile, and went to Cape Elizabeth
Lights, distance of 6 miles more,
where he remained until Mr.. SkiIlings
passed in his boat, on his return, when
the dog SWAN to the boat, was taken
aboard, anil returned home with his
master. On another occasion, Mr. s.
shot two sea fowl while he was stand
ing on top Of Bald Head, eighty feet
above the sea. The dog made direct
ly for the water, by running down
until he approached the precipice thir
ty or forty teet above the water, when
he leaped il, seized the two fowls and
swan with them around to tie cove
A common excursion for him in his
latter days was to swim to House Is
land, merely to play with the sheep,
which though play to him, was a great
worry to them, for they in their fright
would make for the water, and too
many of item being drowned, the
owners werp compelled to shoot him.
People who are curious in such mat
tiers may discriminate as they please
between inaict and reason, and how
much less than reason was shown in
some of CHI above cases. It is well
suggested, However, that high dog
instinctappelrs more elevated, at least,
than low oder of human reason.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

FORTUNE, CofEsTMENT.-F Fortune is q
fictle jade who dten rejects those who are
the most anxioul to solicit her favors, but
who more frequetly bestows her bounty
OF the unworthyhnd INSCRIPTIONS. AM
btion is fierce lad uncomfortable steed,
tlat bears its ridr on the high road to
Feferment butyery often thrown him
vith such fall tat he cannot recover.
Gontentment, hofeyer, is the philosophy
|of life, the princihl Ingredient in the cup
|of happiness, a commodity that is under
valued in consequence of the very low
price at which it On be purchased.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

One of most singular sights growing
out OF the late war, is a continuous line
of peach trees of nearly fifty mil@ in
length, around Petersburg, and end
ing toward Richmond. They are
growing from the breast-work THROWN
up by the Confederate army, am are
the only legacy left by the pom fell
lows who were on the front line. sHav-
ing eaten the fruit while on piclat du-
ty, they cast the seed aside, aM now
they appear in ore continuous line OF
forty-five miles Of beautiful trees
which yielded an abundant cbp last
year. Exchange.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

r@- A little bG had q colt and
dog, and his generosity was often tried
by visitors askint him to give them
one or both of hi. pets.
One day he toll a gentleman present
he might have his colt, reserying the
dog, much to the surprise of his mother,
who asked:
"Why Jacky, Why didn't you give
him the dog?"
"Say nothin,' say nothin,' mother;
when he goes to let the colt, I'll SET
the dog on him."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29
CODA WATER
~ at JULIUS LEYIN'S.


" Ladies desire what mon ADMIRE
and this little thing is Beauty. What dc
we say is beautiful? A transparent com
plexion and a luxuriant head of hair
What will produce these9 Hagan's Mag
nolia Balm will make any lady of thirty
appear but twenty; and Lyons Kathairor
viii keep every hair in its place, and make
it grow like the April grass. 1t prevent:
the hair from turning gray, eradicates
Dandruif, and is the finest Hair Dressing
in the world, and at only half ordinary
cost. If you want to get rid of Sallow
ness, Pimples, Ring-marks, Moth-patches
ETC., don't forget the Magnolia Balm.
Pineville has produced the frs
Water Melon of the season.
8,r--~~~>--->~---
esTRAWBERRY PLANTS-FOT
r ON ar
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

u The clitor of the Augusta tArk.)
Sentinel certainly ought to procure
numerous additions to his subscrip-
tions. Hearhim:
"We bartes here at our office. Wood
will pay for our paper-feathers will
too. Or has anybody got a left-hand-
ed sloe-knife or fuzzy bladed bar
low or a wife or anything else of that
kind, that hs wishes to trade for q
newspaper Come right along, if you
haw-yOu are our man. This is the
place to get yflr money back"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

EYDr. Henry st. John has added to
his Drug Emporium q splendid Soda
Fountain, and from this out, will serve
to his patrons the purest, best and
coolest of Soda Water. His syrups
are all of his own manufacture, as well
as the Soda Water, no better recon-
mendation could be given than this
fact.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29
What Has Been.

We care not what evil man has
done provided his repentance is
sincere, and he is endeavoring to
live an upright, honorable conscien-
tious life. Instead of looking back
ward twenty or thirty years and
tracing out every misstep, every
crime, and laying them to his
charge, the question should be,
"What is he now? What character
does he hold at the present time?"
IF you find that his repentance is
sincere, and that he laments his
past errors, yOn should take him
by the hand, cheer him on his way.
and give him a hearty God-speed.
We are not DESTROYS of being class
ed among the friends of those who
would rake up past sins and vices
only to condemn one who is res
olved to do better. Many a one is
driven back into threefold error,
who might have been an ornament
to the society in which he moves, a
pride te his friends, a blessing to
the world at large, but for the dis
position to bring into light every
iniquity. Are there any of us so
strong that they may not fall !
Are there any so pure that temp
tation may not conquer? Human
virtue is negative quality at the
best. We all know what we are,
bnt none know what we may be.
AS the tide of life Gibbs and flows,
so do we.
A day may cloud tho hopes to which we
cling,
week may turn u beggar to king;
A month may circle in it's little span,
And turn a,virSin to Il courtozan.
a little charity to others short
comings, q great deal more scruti-
ny into our own misdoings; lit
tie faith in others better qualities,
and a great deal of doubt in our
own self-conceived virtues, and the
world, and those in it, would be
happier in the main, and our Judo
ment allied more closely with com
mon sense and common sympathy.
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DB@ In the last number Of the
Democrat, we published a letter
in opposition to the rail road from
an old and well known citizen Of
the parish. The high character of
the gentleman led us to depart
from our rule and to allow him to
express his Individual opinions
over his own signature. We do
not wish that other people should
take this instance as an unlimited
license to all to ventiIate their
opinions in opposition to q meas
ure which we are heartily support
ing. Besides, General Graham's
letter was a staunch rail road arti-
Gle. He wants the road as much as
any of us, but thinks the company
is able to build it without any more
money. But the company, com
posed of experienced rail road men,
knows that it cannot. IL the road
could be built with the funds on
hand, the parish would not be ask
ed to subscribe single cent.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29
NOTICED!

rHE ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF
1 the ALEXANDRIA INSTITUTE
for young ladies, will take place on
the evening of
Thursday the 30th day Of June,
at HALF PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK.
The FRIENDS AND PATRONS of the
Institute al G respectfully invited to at
tend.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29
RAIL ROADS FOR ALL.

stretching from Little River on the
North East to the Sabine on the
South West. While it is undoubt-
edly true that the richest and most
productive lands lie along the riv-
er and on the bayous, the lands in
the Pine Woods on both sides of
Red River contain many fertile
spots and produce q quality Of cot
ton equal to any that finds its way
to the market. Moreover these
lands are settled by an honest, III
dustrious and hardy class Of peo-
pie, whose rights are as dear to
them as those ofany wealthy plan
ter on the alluvlal bottoms. These
people have vote on the prOpos-
ed loan to the "Back Bone Rail
Road" and the question naturally
occurs to them, why should we tax
ourselves to build a rail road for
our wealthy Practitioners, so far
from our homes, and which promi-
ses no benefits to us?
The question is plausible one
and is entitled to a respectful an
swer. Our friends in the Pine
Woods are entitled to know what
good they are to derive from the
rail road before they can be expec-
ted to aid in building it.
In the first place we are all citi-
liens of common parish and are
interested in it's common welfare.
1t was the pride and boast of RAJ
pides before the war that she paid
into the State treasury more taxes
than any parish in the State OK
cept Orleans. Whatever benefits
one part of the parish benefits eve
ry part. We should have no petty
sectional feeling among us.
But, in the second place the
"Back Bone Rail Road" company
is pledged to build a road on each
side Of Red River to connect with
the main trunk, which will bring
every farmer in the parish within
easy railroad communication with
New Orleans. Steps have already
been taken to build the road on the
North side of the river to connect
with the main trunk at Alexandria,
and there is every prospect that
this stem will have penetrated far
into North Louisiana by the time
the main line is completed to Co.
tile. This will give our North side
friends the same rail road facilities
as the alluvial planters. Moreover
a stem is projected from AleXan-
dria to Waco, Texas, which will
pass through the whole Western
length of the parish. The Anna
coco and Sabine neighborhoods will
be comparatively as near to New
Orleans as Alexandria itself.
Now the company is pledged to
build these two stems. But the
stems can be built only by build
ing, the main trunk. IF the alluvial
planters get no road, then the Pine
Woods farmers will not get theirs.
Hence it will be seen that we have
a common interest, and that it is
the duty of all to vote for the loan
asked for.
In this connection we would
state that the line from Baton
Rouge to Ponchitoula is not the
main line, as has been asserted.
The company will build an air line
road from Baton Rouge to New Or
leans, % distance of only 80 miles.
The whole distance from AIeXan-
dria to New Orleans, is 1914 miles.
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A BRILLIANTTRIU New
np1aors ocrpoc,,o,,l,rt ,rn;toc VIC. n 6,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

A BEAUTIFUL CoMpLExIoN.-Dr.
IUTrs SARsAPARrLLA and QUEENS De-
LIGHT The GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER, ex-
pels all humors from the system : it
acts directly on the Depuratory or
gans the skin is one of the most
important of thes organs, and by the
use Of this Invaluable medicine it is
cleansed and rendered soft, fair and
healthy. Try it.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

~ The Natchez has knocked fits
out of all fast time. She must now
have the horns and be crowned cham
pion. She has made the best "a hours
run, also the beat time to Vicksburg
and st. Louis. Her time to St. Louis
is 3 days, 81 hours and SO minutes.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

D A rise in the river is reported
from above, but all from the recent
rains. Opposite this Town, we have
to report it falling yet.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

BeABWe thank the clerks of the Sell
ma, Bradish Johnson, Cherokee, Era
No. 10, La Belle, B. L. Hodge No.
and Texarkana for late papers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29
Episcopal Services for the Third
Sunday after Trinity.

NHORNING PRAYER, with the Sun
lYI day School-95 A. NJ.
Holy Communion Service, beginning
with the Litany-l01 A. nj.
Sermon on ST. Matt. XVI 1S.
An offertory will be asked for the
support of the Bishop of the Diocese.
The early Service will be at DR.. II.
st. Johns School Housc-the Commu-
MON Service at the Ice House.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

" The weather, four days of last
week, has been anything but fair or
good for the cotton crop. We are
having entirely too much rain in some
localities; corn and cane, however, are
certainly thriving under it-so far no
damage to the cotton, which from one
end of the Parish to the other, is as
fine as ever grew out of the ground.
Every where we can see blossoms, and
in many places bolls nearly full formed
We know of one planter who will have
open hollis by this day week. AS yet
we hear not a whisper of catapillar-
the out posts pickets of that brigade
cry yet, all safe.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

g A planter on Bayou Boeuf, in
this Parish, has a sheep, which is some
what of a curiosity. The sheep is one
year old, has a fifth leg projecting from
the body at the root of the tail, hang
ing parallel with the tail to within two
inches of the ground. At the knee
joint his legs divide and form two on
the extremities of each; there is per-
feet formed foot, SO that it has six feet
and legs part of the way and five legs
to the bodys
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

yWilliam Gilmore Simms, the dis
distinguished novelist, died on the
10Th inst, aged sixty years.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

u The word home-lovely to all
is perhaps never felt in the fullness of
it's peaceful beauty except bv tho s
homeless. ''lo
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

A BRILLIANT RIUMPH.-AN New
Orleans correspondent writes us as
follows: The victory gained by
Bucks Brilliant Cooking Stove at
our recent State Fair is one that
the manufacturers, Messrs Buck &
Wright and their energetic agent,
Henry Haller, No. 40 Camp street,
may justly feel proud. The trial
was thorough one, it had long
been anticipated and all the stoves
dealers had made their prepare
tons for it. The committee was
well selected and all agree that
they were high minded honorable
gentlemen. Twelve stoves entered
the ring, among them, the best
known stoves in the country, such
as Stewards, Charter Oak and
others. Over all Bnck's Brilliant
carried off the gold medal having
baked the best bread, in the short
est time, with less fuel. House
keepers who wish a reliable stove
tshould not forget Haller's address
-94 Camp street, New Orleans.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

II We re-publish, this week, the
"Appeal for the Allen Monument" sew
eral errors having occurred in the first
publication.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

~ Precisely at IL NJ. this day, the
8. L. Hodge No, 2, leaves for New Or
leans.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

u Let the Tax payers of Rapides
profit by the offer made by ''Pacifc
Fire Company No. ~ of Alexandria.
See their notice in another column.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

ES The Selma has been sold for the
.Opelousas trade.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-29

GTRAWBERRY PLANTS FOR
~ ssde by II ST John.