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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17


arious reasons are confident Of suc-
,ess. This would seem as if there
vas an attempt to play the role Of
Radical by appointing
o place set ofmercenaries who will
ight on either side for spcils and yet
claim 10 be Democrats. Again the
tyranica1 despotism which Grant has
inauguraisd in North Carolina
his tool-holden-out Radicals,
Radicalism, if such thing be possi-
bic. His change Of officials instead
Of helping his party in New York |
has created most profound disgust
among the Radicals and they freely
admit that it will increase our mac
iority 10000. So that itremains be-
tween Grants desire to cripple Sena-
ator Fenton in his Presidential aspi-
rations, if he has any, and the charge
that the Establishments of Tom MUIR
ply, his dinners, horses and etcete-
ras, especially the etcetera, which
was the all powerful motive that in
duced him to do SO insane trick as
to openly attack as able q man and
shrewd and active q politician as
Senator Fenton. I await the an
nouncement Of Murphy's appoint
ments when I can very easily deter
mine whether Grant is playing the
role of conservatives in the North
while playing extreme Radical at the
South-by an infusion of renegade
Democrats into places in government
employ at New York under the man
agement of jolly Tom Murphy OF
whether the friends of Fenton are t.
be ostracized, which will settle beyond
question: Why did Grant remov'
the Collector, and General Merritt
naval officer, Fenton's particula
friend? I shall have something spi
cy with regard to this New Yorl
middle in a few days. Isee itstate'
!; in the papers that the workingmel
of San Francisco threaten to presen
as candidate for Governor tn
name of Philip A. Roach. A bette
selection could not be made, nor
more popular one. Mr.. Roach's oil
friends in this city would be glad,
: his duties editorially would permit
3 to have the pleasure of welcoming
Q him here as California's representa-
a tive, though doubt very much If b
9 would feel it much of q compliment
i to be sent among the dunderhead
t who make our laws. Forney's Chron
: icle of to-day has the following: c
8 course it is not true that Mrs. Lincol
y will refuse the pension voted to he
e by Congress, and SO warmly adyoca'
e ed by Mrs. Grant of course no
t. The same paper says: "The onl
e States South in which the Republ
s. cans are in danger is where they .
re not take bold and radical ground
II Bold Radical ground means suspend
II ing the writ of Habeas Corpus al
le ordering military commissions to 8
le backed by United States TROOP
IL They have taken bold Radical groul
al in North Carolina. Nuf sed-
,g TREBLA.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17
ST. LANES CHURCH SERVICES

HIVINE SERVICE EVERY SUN
day except the second Sunday OF
each month, in the Town Hall, at Ios
o'clock A. Nj.
The first Sunday in each month is
appropriated for the celebration OF the
HOLY COMMUNION, upon which
DAYS Morning Prayer will be said with
the Sunday School at 8 A. NJ. Litany
and Communion at 10 A. NJ.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17

~ We have in our Office, for more
than week, sugar cane with eleven
red Joints. 1t is of the growth of 1870,
and is from Experiment, the plantation
Of our fellow -townsman, $. X. johnson.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17
Common Sense.

The plainest dictates OF common |
sense induce all rational being, in Sc
lecting between evils, to choose the
lesser. Not to choose at al, is ineyl. |
tably to select the greater.
There are many good citizens OF this
State sshivering on the brink" ofPo-
litical action-waiting, Micawber like,
for something to "turn up"-because,
forsooth, what has already turned up
don't exactly suit their taste. There
are many former Wings wlaoe dislike
the name of Democrat, and some fair
minded Republicans with stronger pre-
iudices of the same sort, and yet they
frankly concede the crying necessity for
prompt and decisive action OF some
sort, to arrest the mad career OF the
party in power; to save the State and
their posterity fiom beggary, with .
loss of all that Amerscans have thought
was meant by liberty. Then, we ask,
| in the name of common sense, what
1 shall be donei What can be and must
he donef
Neutrality in politics is as unprotit-
able as in war-it bears either no fruit
or bitter fruit. When your house is
on FIRE, it is too late to object to the
construction of the engine, which Il
alone within your reach to extinguish
it. We say then, In this matter OF the
coming elections, exercise the same
prudence and common sense that
guides YOU in your every day business
Don't CRY hopeless because once
twice, thrice or q dozen times beaten
Up! Act! Join the ranks OF the ONLY
!. Organization that has any shadow o
, hope against Radicalism. You >aoio
!, in the bottom of your soul, "a thor
oughly the Vaccinations of the enemy
!, as does the oldest Democrat, and yot
a will suffer the consequences OF defea
as he deeel
I'VE ask no better advocates OF on
e cause than the pitlless tax gather, WIN
: is now daily wrestling from our har.
earnings, q per centage that has a!
ready rendered real estate unSaleabi
l. in this city, and is driving millions Q
II CAPITAL, sorely needed, from our midst
y We sincerely believe, that with
g proper government, Louisiana n q
d higher hopes of future prosperity tina
> ever know in her history. A spirit en-
- terprise, which is cordially welcome
1t by the Democracy, has been aroused
lg and needs only to be prudently direc
!, ed, to secure us golden harvest
= Hundreds and thousands Of men al
1T now acting with the Democratic part
,e whose whole life, like yours, has be-
la constant warfare against rs al
VI their rights and counsel is as distinct
n recognized by all, as are those of I
at Oldest Democrat. Remember, tn
those who are not for us are against
II and act! act! actin. o. Democr'
h
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17

E The heat in England this sum-
mer has been three degrees above the
average of the last fifty years, AT VI
emma lately all the theatres closed on
account Of the excessively hot wertiler.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17
SPLINTERS.

Advice to tue farmer-Keep your
open.
II your bcotmaker sends boots home
You cant walk in, you should walk lns
to him.
Once when a bad man died, q savage
wit being appraised ofthc event, obsery.
ed that the average value OF mankind
was sensibly raised.
A tallow chandler said he didn't
mean any iispnragement to the sun
when lie said that his candles were tho
best lights ever invented.
A man out West, nearing that dry
copperas put in bed OF ants would
cause them to leave, put some IN bis
mother-in-lawss bed to SEQ ii she would
60. He says she was there at last as-
counts.
0nSa tombstone in = churchyard in
Ulster is the following epltaph Erect
cd to the memory Of John Phillips, ac-
cidentally shot a. . mark of affection
by his bi other.n
81 never shot bird in my life," said
a gentleman to An Irishman, who repli-
ed: ~ never shot any thing in the
shape of bird but q squirrel, which l
killed with o stone, and it fell into the
river and was drowned
Remember, Mrs. b. said Robus,
| in a fiustcr, one day, /" that yon are the
weaker wesley "May lie sou ret0rt-
ed the lady, " but ri take care you
stan't forget that the weaker vessel
may have the stronger spirit in it."
/ A drunken soldier in Detroit amused
himself one hot day by cutting on ca
nine caudalities with sickle. He was
knocked down just ss lfe had harvested
his ninety fourth tail-that OF three
hundred-dolla pointer.
. A young lady from the rural districts
went to Des Moines to see an elephant.
In the street-cars the conductor said 70
, her: "Miss, your fare" "Well, il
+ am" she replied, al don't want any
+ more of your impertinence."
A young man who took some severe
? Lessons from the faro-bankers of this
! city last winter has lately been Initial
t ing his friends into the mysteries Of the
game at Pittsburg, Penn. 1t cost one
r man $500 to see how it was done.
i At Kingston, Canada, dry goods
clerk was recently accommodated witl
a the loan of revolver to blow cut his
f brains with, in order to spite lad,
|! who had rejected him and married an
a other. On sober second thought, IL
a sold the revolver and got drunk.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17

E"Down with the party that re-
fused simple justice to the men VINO
fought for the Union ~ is one OF the
cries raised in the North against the
Radicals.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17
Ale,apdria. at The Court House, on Satnrda!

SEPTEMBER 8, 1870,
For the purpose of organizing the
DEMOCRATIC PARTY for the the APP
nroaci,ing election, and for the selec-
tjon of Delegates to the Democratic
State Convention to be held in New
Orleans on the 18th of September 1871.
And also Delegates to the Congresslon.e
al Convention for the nomination OF
a Democratic candidate for the 4th
Congressional District. =,
All Conservative citizens, and al
opposed to-the present Radical Parey
are invited to attend.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17
Sinking Slowly.

Diseases that progress Tapioly 10
crisis are not the only ones to be dread
ed. Canker or dry rot does not blast
a tree as suddenly as stroke of light
ming, but unless arrested, it destroys it
as certainly and in like manner chron-
ic debility, although it does not kill
with the swiftness of yellow fever, is
as sure to sap the springs of life event
ually as any ocute disease, if not check
ed by invigorating medication. There
is something inexpressibly touching in
the spectacle of premature decay
Languor, pallor, emaciation, depres-
sion of spirits, and distaste for exer-
ton, are its ordinary symptoms, and
they should be promptly met by tonic
treatment. The best invigorant and
exhilarant that can be administered in
case of this kind is Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters. The stimulating principle
of the preparation rouses the dormant
energies of the system, and the strength
ening and regulating properties give a
permanent and healthful impulse to
the vital forces thus brought into play.
The failing appetite is re-awakened,
the process Of digestion and assimila-
ton are quickened, the quality of the
blood is improved, the secretions be.
come more natural, and every organ
that contributes to the nourishment- o.
the body undergoes salutary change
By these means the repair of tho phys
ical structure is effected and it's healtl
, and vigor restored. In no class Of dis
eases has the benifcent operation o
, the Bitters been more marked ant
, striking than in those characterized b,
general debility and nervous prostra
ton. Ladies affected with these all
ments find in this most wholesome 9
all tonics and correctives the safest an
9 surest means of relief. 1t is strong t
q restore and powerless to injure. iSuc
o is the uniform testimony Of "clouds
q Witnesses
ILLS THAT FLESH is HEIR To.-Scrt
y fula or Kings Evil, Rheumatism, Net
n ralgia, Swelling Of the Glands and Il
>. Joints, Eruptions Of the Skin, Secont
l. airy Syphilis with all its train of evil
Impure Blood, Female Diseases, Lo
:, Spirits, Liver Complaint, Nervousness
:. Sc, Sc, fall to the lot of mankind.
:. But, happily, they have their antidos
~ DR.. TUTT's SARsAPARILLAa and QUEER
eI DELIaHr possesses the qualities to e
or pei them from the system, restore pc
a feet health, and produce happine'
,f yhara a1l-was misery
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17

THE PRETTIEsr WOMAN IN NEW
YoRK.--Miss K, well known in our
fashionable society for her distingae ap-
pearance and beautiful complexion,
was once a sallow, rough-skinned girl,
chagrined at her red, frecked face. She
pitched into Hagan's Magnolia Balm,
and is now as pretty in complexion as
she is charming in manners. This ar
ticle overcomes freckles, tan, sallow-
ness, m6th-patches, ring-marks, ETC.,
and makes one look ten years younger
than they are. Magnolia Balm for a
transparent complexion, and Lyons
Kathairon to make tie hair plentiful
Iuxuriant, soft and delicate, have nc
rivals. The Kathairon prevents the
hair from turning. gray, eradicates
dandruff, and is the best and cheapest
dressing in the world.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17

Ey Our thanks are due to the Tidal
Wave, Era No. 9, Bradish johnson, r.
j. Lockwood, Julia A. Rudolph, Fla
villa, Rapides and 18th Era for late
papers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17

THE WESTMINSTER REvIEw.-Our
thanks are due the Leonard Scott Pub
fishing Company, New York, for the
July number of the Westminster Re-
view. This number con tains:
/. Unpublished Letters of Coleridgej
2. Indian Taxation; 3. The Nationali.
ty Question in Austria; 4. The Future
of the British Empire; S. Shelley; 6
Colonial and American Pauperism 2
Roman Catholicism; 8. Con temporary
Literature. The last article is as usual
deeply interesting, embra cing sketches
of all the new books in the whole range
of Modern Literature. The four Re
views and Blackwood's Magazine ma.
be all obtained for the low price Of tif
teen dollars per annum.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17

~ The Radical State Convention
met, a few days since, in New Orleans,
and organized by electing Oscar j.
Dunn negro, President, over Henry
Clay Warmoth, c. B. The vote stood
for Dunn 81, Warmoth 43. After re-
counting the beauties of Radicalism
pronouncing eulogies on a dead dele.
gate and working off extra steam gen.
orally, they made nominations for State
Treasurer, Auditor and Congress TO,
the three first districts and then ad.
iourned. The same fellows now filling
those Offices were, of course, renomi
mated.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17

il at JULIUS LEyltN's'
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17

TA raseally bachelor calls the
friendship of two women "i"ass"
plot against third"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17

~ We have had another week of
continued showers. From two to four
day has been the average in Alexan-
dria, and in the country nearly as
much. We are certainly having too
much of a good thing. Cotton has
been much retarded in opening by
these constant rains and forms are
shedding more or less. But better,
finer and more well-bolled crop never
was seen. On many places picking,
with the trash gangs, has commenced
on small scale. We can hear of ten
and fifteen open hollis to stock in
many localities.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17
4 MASS MEETING

OF THE CITIZENS OF
RAPID S PAR IS III
WILL BE HELD IN
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smoke there is not considerable lire.
When Grant appointed Tom Murphy
Collector of Customs at New York it
was given out by the Presidents
friends that it was done in the inter-
est of his party in order to carry that
State for the Radicals, and Tom Muir
ply was to manipulate certain ele-
ments to that much desired result.
Some charged that Grant was going
to make change of base and throw
himself, his wife's relations and all,
into the arms of the conservative
Radicas-whoever they are. Sena-
tor Fenton's friends said it was base
} change and done to injure the Sena-
tor, as Grant looked upon him as
strong rival for the Presidential nom
nation in 1872. The Democratic
= and some Radical papers, knowing
the Presidential weakness charged
! that Tom Murphy's genial manner
|, his good old Bourbon, his excellen
), table, his fast horses and q something
n about a cottage at Long Brancl
thrown in was the bait which caugh
s the porpoise-Grant. Before tn
u Senate in Executive session Senate
n Fenton, who opposed Murphy's COZ
$ firmation, proved conclusively tbs
. . Murphy's Radicalism was only ski
% deep, yet Senator Conkling, the oil
to er New York Senator, with Graz
= = and the administration at his bat
ce confirmed the Presidents jolly frien
To-day out Of the 5000 loyal a
plicants for a chance to share Il
~ pickings in the New York Custo
~ House with Mr.. Murphy, there are
m number, large number, OF Dem
N. Gratis, so-called Democrats, who
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-17

their homes, and such means of
torture as we're known only in the
most barbarous ages were Iesorted
to to extort confessions from some
of the best and most peaceable men
| in the State. And for fear that the
Radical work could not be thor
oughly done with the means at his
disposal, Holden obtained from the
Infamous President of the United
States the use Of enough troops te
force, as he thought, a sovereign
State to cast her vote for her op
pressors and prosecutors. But they
overdid their work, as men as NEAR
and as stupid as they generally do
Every act of cruelty but stimula
ted the Democracy to renewed ex
ertions to release themselves iron
their filthy grasp. They did no
stop to enquire whether they woul'
be permitted to vote or whethe
!. their votes would be counted afte
the election. They perfected
thorough organization and brough
levery man to the polls. They at
stained from all violence or sem
! blance Of violence. The only out
RACES committed at the polls wer
committed by Holden's men, an
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-10
THE NEWSBOyS NOME.


~ AhbIlNG VIII be held this evening at Concert Hall
lor the purpose OF putting before the public the
viaiihs OF the Newsboys' Home Through the me-
ulun OF such an institution as this an immense
alount OF good can be done In behalf OF a class OF
V"nuren VINO are particularly deserving The news
uoys are generally intelligent and Industrious, but
thelr mode OF life puts them I'm the way OF many
temptations, and large majority OF them know
nothing OF the comforts and restraints OF home but
are turned out upon the streets at time OF life
When they are particularly impressonabe to good or
evll Influences. Newsboys' Home that will pro-
Vlue them with substantial food and comfortable
lodgings, and encourage them In habits of economy,
10 say nothing OF the moral and religious influences
that will be thrown around them, cannot
out have beneficial effect In training
them up to be useful and honorable men, and In re.
claiming them from the evil effects OF the Wild life
OF the streets. Mr.. Charles GIBBONS will this even
ing give history Of the efforts that have been made
IN behalf OF the newsboys OF this city, and will show
what yet remains to be done. Mr.. Gibbons will be
Followed by Mr.. Tracy, OF the New York Lodging
House for Newsboys, and Mr.. Dupuy OF the New
York Chdren's Aid Society, who will describe the
workings OF their respective institutions and demon
strate their Importance to society. Rev. Phillips
Brooks, who, during his residence In this city
labored with much success in this particular field,
VIII deliver an address, and the meeting will un-
doubtedly be one OF unusual interest There will be
M charge for admission and no collection as 1t is
desired merely, on this occasion, to impress our
phlanthropc citizens with an idea OF the import
ance OF the Newsboys Home and the extent OF the
benefits that are likely to result to society from It.
We sincerely hope that there Will be large attend
ance, ard that the meeting will result in some prac-
tical good to the newsboys.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-10
CORPORATION TAXES

The yearly revenue of Pennsylvania in round
numbers amounts to five million dollars. OF
this sum more than three millions are raised
from the various corporations doing business
in the State, principally by the taxes on their
capital stock, income, gross receipts, and ton
mage. This system, by which the load of
taxation is taken from the backs of the peo-
pie and put on the broad shoulders of the
monopolists of the Commonwealth, is the re-
suit of the fixed policy of the Republican
party in this State For instance, the Demo
cratic State administrations raised nearly one
million and half per. annum by direct tax
on real estate. In 1866 this was lifted from
the people, and a new tax on the gross re-
ceipts of transportation companies imposed.
The revenue derived from this source,
together with that arising from the gradual
increase in the amount realized by the State
from other corporation taxes, has more than
made up what was remitted to the people by
the abolition of the tax on real estate. These
transportation companies have ''constitu-
tional scruples" on the subject of the pay
ment Of the taxes on tonnage and gross re-
ceipts, and ever since they were respectively
imposed-1864 and 1S6G-appeals have been
laken by the companies from tho taxation as
hxed by the Auditor General and State Trea-
surer, and the litigation still continues. The
companies are afflicted with desire. to aid in
the fulflment of great public policy-the
advancement of Interstate commerce
and taking broad, statesman
like view of the matter, they have do
cided that these taxes, in part, burden com
merce between the States, and therefore, in
the interest of the public, they decline pay
ing large proportion of them The tonnage
tax is from two to five cents per ton, and that
on gross receipts is three-fourths of one per
centum. The transportation companies say
that they can only constitutionally be charged
with a tonnage tax on freight both taken up
and delivered within Pennsylvania, and that
none can be imposed for freight consigned
from or 10 places outside of the State. They
also claim that SO much Of their gross receipts
MS is derived from freight charges on this
Interstate commerce is likewise by force of
The Constitution exempt from taxation.
There is due the State for one single year
tl8G8) from only three companies Penn
sylyania Central, Philadelphia and Reading,
Rnd Delaware, Lacltawanna, and Western
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-10
THE ANNEXATION or SAN Do
DJMOn


Ir is positively asserted that a treaty for the
annexation of San Domingo to the United
States has recently been negotiated, and that
il will probably be sent to the Senate to-day.
The stipulated amount of the purchase
money is 81 800 900, which is to be used for
the liquidation Of the debt Of the new acqui-
sition, and our Government is to acquire not
only general title to the territory conveyed,
but absolute ownership of all forts, docks,
custom-houses arsenals, and other public
buildings. much better bargain has been
made in this case than in the purchase of the
Danish West Indian possessions, and if we
are to "enlarge the area of freedom" any
where in the Antilles, perhaps the most availa-
BILE spot they contain has been chosen. The
treaty stipulates that our new col
ored fellow-citizens are not to gain
the great Southern blessing of estate Rights
Immediately after annexation, but their coun-
try is 10 be held as territory until such time
as Congress shall provide for its formal and
complete admission into the Union. Its in
habitants will thus enjoy needed opportu-
nifty for obtaining gradual instruction in the
American system of government. They have
hitherto been too strongly disposed to adopt
the JEFF. Davis style of rebelling when the
results of elections were not satisfactory, and
Of seeking to have their own way generally,
without regard to the rights of their neigh
bors, but after they get some of this nonsense
knocked out of their heads they may become
very faithful and useful citizens. Of the
utility of their soil, under proper culture, to
the Union, there can be no doubt It's adap-
tation to the growth of coffee and sugar would
alone render it desirable acquisition, and if
peace and order are established within its
boundaries, it will, by diminishing American
dependence upon foreign nations for these
indispensable articles, prove valuable addi-
ton to our industrial and commercial re-
sources.