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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-08-30

u Susan B. Anthony closed her
lecture, at San Francisco, on the even
ing of July II. amid shower of hear
ty misses for her reference to the Fair
case. The Bulletins report concludes
as follows: (Said Miss Anthony "You
say the women and the negro are not
parallel cases. The negro was down
trodden race, but for the women there
is no such necessity, for they are love
" and beloved, and the men will guard
them from evil. / suppose they will
guard their own wives daughters, and
mothers and sisters, but is every man
as careful to guard another mans wife,
daughter, mother and sisters 1t is not
a question of safety to women in gem
eral. 1t Is simply sis she my proper
ty9" But am told that if a woman
behaves with propriety she can travel
anywhere with safety. So she can, for
then she does not need to be guarded.
She guards herself. 1t is the weak
who needs strength. You have terri
BILE case here. Who protected Mrs.
Fair when she was a little child !
4 Loud hisses.] If all men protected all
i women, there woald be no Mrs. Fairs.
4 [Hisscs.] l tell you that where there
is one woman who is wanting in self
respect, fin dignity of character, in
propriety of behavior, who is not as
strong as God can possibly make her,
there are twenty vultures in the shape
of man to clutch her down. Ayoice !:
II believe it'll 1 know nothing about
the merits of the. Fair case but I do
know that woman never gets protcc-
ton at the hands of man except SO far
e as she protects herself. You women
J. WHO have kind brothers, and husbands,
}. and sons, I ask you to join with us in
! this movement, SO that womai can
protect herself"
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E We owe thanks, for late New
Orleans papers, to the officers of the
18th Era, Gladiola, Fleta, Tidal Wave,
C. H. Durfee aud Rapides.
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Ch Iholion,
Resolved, That the proceedings Of
this Jury be published in the Louisi-
ana Democrat and Rapides Gazette.
On motion the jury adjourned to
meet again on Monday, the 9th day of
October next. j. n. RHORER,
Attest: President.
j. MULcAHY, Clerk.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-08-30

~ BE sure to remember that the
Rapides goes down this evening.
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And he be required to give bond Tor
the faithful performance of his duty as
ferryman and keeping ferry in good
order in the sum of Five Hundred Dol
lars. to hold for the balance OF the IN
exnired term of the lease under which
he acquired the said Ferry from the
Police Jury on August goth, 1871.
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Total. 1886 Is
The report of the Finance Commit
tee was received and on motion was
approved, and the President is author
lied to draw warrants for the approved
accounts. The Finance Committee
further report that they examined the
accounts Of the Collector and Treasu-
rer, and find them correct as published
in the Rapides Gazette of the sth Of
July, 1871.
On motion of j. W. Bass,
Resolved, That Bayou Robert road
be let out by contract, and that sealed
proposals will be received by the Clerk
of tie Police Jury until the 9th day of
October next, for repairing and keep
ing in repair for the term Of one year,
the Bayou Robert road from the Cor
poration line of. Alexandria to Will
liams' Lane, all proposals to be accom-
panied by the names of two responsible
securities in the sum of One Thousand
Dollars for the due performance of the
work, and that the contractor be syn
tic of said road, and shall have the
right to call out the hands who are en-
titled to road duty on said road to work
six days in the year.
DIR. Bass gave notice to this Jury
, that in consequence of the fact that in
t many of the public roads Of this Parish
great damage is done by hogs roofing
! up the roads and filling up bitches,
l etc., that on the first day Of the mex!
r meeting of this Jury he will offer q
i resolution compelling all owners o.
0 hogs on the alluyial lands of this Par
ish TO keep their hogs OFF The public
road. :.
+ TIE FOLLOWING ARE THE PARISH Es
d INMATES FOR 1871:
e Court House rent, etc. --SlOOO W
e Jurors and Witnesses --.---- 1000 IN
officers, Clerks, Physicians,
Magistrates and Printers
n fees $500 O
n JaiIor,s fees $500 O
ell coroner,s fees 500 O
D Members of Police Jury------ $50 G
Repairipg Jail. 5000 0
Bridge and road purposes 1000 U
Sheriff, Magistrate and Con-
D. stable fees 1000 @
s. Special Court House taxi. 5000
Repairing and keeping in or
der the plank road. --.---- 1000
d. Coptiprent Fund. 1000 {
ed
as $3225O
ad Commissions of Collector and
rs treasurer. .--.-...-...--.. 4ool
nix Total .S362ol
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t The yellow fever is in Charles
ton. S. and the Board of Health
think it has assumed epedetaie fern.
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POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS!
ALEXANDRIA, La,
August 81, 1871.

ALEXANDRIA, La,
August 81, 1871. s
The Police Jury met at z ocloci' !.
NJ, according to call of the President
thereof. Present, j. N. Rhorer, Presl-
dent; Messrs. Bass, Clifton, Clements
and Barrett. =
On motion the Jury adjourned until
tomorrow morningat 10 o'clock.
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DUrY OF G1RLs.-When young girls
are vet sheltered.n the circle of dear
home, unknowing Of the deeper til
ais of life, is the best time for them
to begin learning the lessons which
will soon be needed if they take their
places as human beings, not as dolls,
upon the stage of life. There they
can teach themselves to repress the
ready frown, to do the unpleasant
service, to take the, place of the
wearied, perhaps invalid mother, to
cheer the beloved father with smiles
instead of discouraging him with
complaints, to instruct and tenderly
guard the younger ones, ali! how
! winning is the sunshine shed from the
presence Of such a daughter in the
household! How much richer, how
much purer is her happiness, than
hers who thinks only ofexacting SER
vice from others, OF havingsher OWL
wants and wishes fulfilled, no matter
at whose expense! How much lon
ger will the bloom of youth lingel
upon the cheek, and the light of in
nocent beauty beam from the eye!
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! A Card.

LEEsvILLE, VERNON PARISH, La,
August %, ISL.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT
.Sir:-I wisl, to give notice, through
your paper, that this Parish is fully
organized; the Court House and Jail,
are under contract, the town regularly
laid off into lots which l offer at low
figures. Emigration respectfully So
licited, L. +. SMART
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aud Petty Jury. .342 so
John DeLacy, for attendance on
District and Parish Court - -740 90
NJ. Moskourtz, juror ON inquest 2 90
r. O'Shee, hauling saw dust for
Court House-May term---.- 6 Oo
r. D. Nestor, constable fees l6 80
6 witness fees--.-- Az
THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNTS WERE DIS
APPROVED:
VIM. Randolph, Justice fees .-.s33 90
Thos. Severns. .-----.--.--- 5Q
VIM. P. L. Dier, constable fees: 00
j. Swan, Justice fees .------ 2 OO
John DeLacy, sheriff's services
in Police Jury contest n w
John DeLacy, Sheriff's services
I in.Police Jury contest -.-----159 90
Thos. Crawford, witness fees--- 60
VIM. Morris, witness fees ------ IS
VIM. V. Keary, contract of
bridge unfinished. ......----.549 w
The New York herald., 1871-02-20
The Church Service. Yesterday.

The most inveterate backslider could have
found no weather excuse for staying away
from church yesterday. Even rheumatism
must have failed him, for the skies were as
radiant and the air as bracing as the all-sus-
tanning glory of religion ITSELF The churches
were well filled in consequence, and the SER
mons were naturally much better than usual.
In fact, we may say that there was regular
dress parade of pulpits, and that our sectarian
leaders held high carnival of theology.
The Rev. Father Farrell, of st. Joseph's
Roman Catholic church, who some time ago
took occasion to say that the unity of Italy
was by no means blow at the holy Catholic
Church, stated In the course of his sermon
yesterday that he was not to be removed for
his remarks, as had been rumOrcd. We are
glad to see that the good father is not to be
martyred to q mistaken idea, and that
the strong Catholic opponents of Victor
Emmanuel can still see the injustice of
persecution for opinions sake. Rev. Mr..
Hepworth preached at his Church of the
Messiah on the marvellous goodness of God
in giving His only Son as sacrifice for US.
The Rev. G. G. Carpenter, of Boston,
preached at DR.. Bellows Church of All Souls
on joy and gladness as the essential parts of
a religiously inclined soul. He argued that
to be good is to be anything but miserable,
and that to worship God is to enjoy with a
light heart and face overfowing with
laughter--that unmistakable indication
of an easy conscience-the good things
that He lavishes upon US in the over
flowing joy Of His own heart. He argued that
Christ not only smiled and enjoyed mirth, as at
the wedding at Cana, but that He indulged in
puns, the most popular style of wit, and
made play on Peters name when he spoke
of that sturdy old apostle as rock. DR..
Chapin, at the Church of the Divine Pater-
nifty, preached to his usual large and
refined congregation on the text, "Bear
ye one another's burdens" and as a
fitting comment at the close, made q
stirring appeal for the sufferers in France.
DR.. Armitage at the Fifth avenue Baptist
church, also addressed large congregation
on the efficacy of prayer, in which he made
use of some very apt and beautiful smiles.
Brother Beecher made touching appeal for
France, or, rather he told the touching tale of
her distress, and then ordered the baskets to
be passed, and the way in which small coin
clinked and little crispy notes rustled in those
baskets was marvellous.
The New York herald., 1871-02-20

THE TENNESSEE. anxiety still contin-
ues regarding this vessel particularly in
Boston, where many of the friends and rela-
tives Of those on board reside. 1t is very
natural that they should feel uneasy after all
that has been said by sensational journals to
throw doubts upon the vessels safety; but the
old salts of that vicinity still think she is safe,
and we think with the old salts, who are better
able to JUICE than those who depend for exist
ence upon reading broadcast, with suitable
additions, rdmors and reports that have no
foundation whatever. When the steamer
arrives from St. Domingo without tidings Of
the Tennessee having arrived at her destina-
ton, then, and not until then, will i. be time to
think that an accident has occurred whereby
she has been delayed, and we trust that those
interested in the people on board will keep
their spirits up until there is some slight
reason to fear disaster
The New York herald., 1871-02-20

Peace or Revolution In Europe e--Queen
victoria's Circular TO Prussia and Bis
marck's snub to Britain.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria has made de-
cided movement with the view of Fastening
the arrangement of peace between Prussia
and France. BY special cable telegram
from London, which appears in our columns,
under date of yesterday, we learn that Lord
Lotus, the English Ambassador in Berlin, has
just read to Count Bismarck circular addressed
to the Prussian government by Earl Granville,
the English Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, In which the noble lord pleads as
volunteer In behalf of France for the cessation
of the war, and intimates that the Queens
government has been hitherto silent in the
matter from desire to avoid the appearance
of Interference between the belligerents, but
that just now, when Germany is on the high
tide of victory and has accomplished her objects
in the field, the Emperor's government can
afford to listen to friendly counsels calculated
to terminate conflict which is ruinous to
France and from which Prussia has herself
suffered very heavy, losses. Such, as win be
seen from our special telegram letter by cable,
is the sum and substance of the communication
which Lord Lotus read to Bismarck in the name
of the sovereign of England. The Prussian
Premier was sharp, short and decisive in his
action in the premises. He listened to the
reading Of the circular but refused to accept
the paper for official file. Count Bismarck
said that s'the Emperor's government permit
ted no foreign interference between Prussia
and France" Earl Granville's Cabinet docu-
ment classes, consequently, as waste paper in
Berlin, and 'sMr. John Bull' remains snubbed
as sort of insular intermeddler in other
mems affairs and under diplomatic correction.
Coincident with the above news we are told
that Prussia is engaged in the prosecution of
an active intrigue on the border fringes of
Italy, with the object Of insurng the
naturalization of Savoy in the event of
war being commenced in new direction,
and that the North German government has
been officially assured by Mr.. Odo Russell
that Southern Europe is being deeply agitated
toward revolutionary outbreak. The peo-
Piles coming to the front? Or is England
about to ally herself with Austria, the Teuton
democracy of the South, and continental radi-
calism generally against the power of German
Imperialism as it is expounded, OF controlled,
by Bismarck
The New York herald., 1871-02-20

THE MINERS STRIKE This morning the
Miners Benevolent Association make known
to the public, through the columns of the
HERALD, the causes which led to the suspen-
sion of operations in the Pennsylvania coal
mines The miners certainly make out a
good case, and if their statements are true
public sympathy must become enlisted in their
behalf. 1t is shown that at the commence
ment Of the strike the operators had surplus
stock of two million tons of coal on hand, and
the subsequent rise of two dollars ton has
already netted the snug sum of four million
dollars Wherever the fault concerning the
strike lies, no excuse can be found for the
sudden increase of freights by which the sea-
board is etfectually cut OF from It's coal sup
plies. About the most efectual manner in
which to regulate this matter is to repeal the
duty on coal then we shall hear less about
strikes. msnopolies and railroad combinations.
The New York herald., 1871-02-20
WITH SUPPLEMENT
CONTENTS OF TO-DAY,S herald.

PAGE. -
l-Advertsementa
2-Advertisemente.
3-Art Notes-Musc and the Drama-Musica Re-
Wew-Trgger Tournament-Farmers Grley
ances-Real Estate Matters-Court Calendars
Tor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
4-EditorialS: Leading Article, "M. Theirs and His
Regency In France-What win He DO With
Ht'-Amusement Announcements.
0-Eultorlal continued from Fourth Page-The
New French Government-News from PARIS
and the German Heaoquarters-The Peace
question in France-SpaIn and the United
States-views OF the Past-Busincss Notices.
6-The Joint High Commission: Questions for
Adjustment Between America and England;
the Alabama Claims; Free Navigation OF the
81. Lawrence; Canadian Claims for FenIan
Raids; Resume of all the Susjects Removal
OF the British Flag irom the American Con.
unent; Perpetual Peace and Friendship Be-
tween the English-Speaking Nations-The
Coal Miners Strike-Critlclsms OF New Books.
5-Advertisenents.
S-Religious: Yesterdays Spiritual Mama; the
Churches and the Congregations, the Services
and the Sermons the Coming Lent; Theology
OF All Kinds, Pungent, Philosophical, Poetic
Profound and Prophetic.
0-Religlous Continued IRON Eighth Page)-Ths
New Hamburg Horror-The Fatal Fire IN
Brookyn-Financal ana Commercial Re
ports-Marriages and Deaths.
1O-Peace or European Revoluuon-News from
Washington-The Joint High Commission
Shipping News-New Advertisements
The New York herald., 1871-02-20
The Herald as an Exponent of Church
Discipline.

The Herald Exponent of Church
Discipline.
We devote very large and most valuable
share of the HERALD columns every week
particularly on the mornings of Sunday and
Monday-to the publication Of matters which
pertain to religion, the grand, cardinal, saving
essential for man, both in the present and for
the hereafter. Our enterprise in this direc-
ton has produced the most beneficial results,
We have enabled many, very many, persons
to become better; returned sinners to the
sanctuary and lost sheep to the fold. The
churches have acknowledged our services.
One of the most prominent attestations of
the value of our Christian lay missionary
labor which has yet been afforded was given
in st. Gabriels Catholic church yesterday,
solemnly and from the altar, when the pastor,
Rev. Father Clowry. in announcing the com
mencement Of the holy season of Lent, next
Wednesday, and its penitential rules and regu-
lations, told the members of his crowded con-
gregation that they would find the Most Reve-
rend Archbishop's circular printed in the NEW
YORK HERALD of the day, Sunday, a copy of
which should be had and preserved in each
family for reference during the period to Easter
Sunday-a fine compliment to free, inde-
pendent and non- sectarian press.
The New York herald., 1871-02-20

he Will give rs = deeper faith, and when we
die We Will go to Him and to heaven, borne
upward by the angels, who sing Our
Father" And the power Of prayer received
amplidcation and illustration from the mouth
OF Rev. DR.. Armitage. Here are five of tho
leading ministers Of this city and vicinity, be-
sides Others less prominent, giving their
audiences pure and practical Christian pre-
cepts which ought not, and which cannot, with.
out incurring deep guilt pass unheeded by
them and by the thousands to whom we re-
preach their words to-day.
The New York herald., 1871-02-20

able outrages Of the elder Bourbons, nothing
of the frightful orgies and atrocities of the
first republic, nor of the follies Of the second.
or the buffooneries of the third, and nothing
of the usurpations or of the national disasters
and humiliations of the Bonapartes. But still,
as in Spain, the transition in France from the
government expelled to a new establishment
may be more than the work of day, or
month, or year. 1t has been said that Count
Bismarck was the guiding genius of General
Prim to that nomination of the Hohenzollern
which entrapped poor France to her ruin with
Louis Napoleon. Whatever may be the truth
concerning that affair, it is appa-
rent that the profound diplomatic ga
gacity of Bismarck is most strikingly
displayed in this concession to the French, at
this crisis, to choose their own government,
when, by simply recalling the Bonapartes or
the Orleanists, he could have settled all his
business with France in two or three days.
But he has chosen to settle with the French
people themselves, through gov ernment of
their own election, and in this settlement with
Bismarck, in the name of France, lies the
greatest difficulty Of M. Theirs in the formation
of his new government.
The Rhine province of Alsace, including the
strong and beautiful city of Strasbourg, and at
least very considerable slice Of the adjoining
province of Lorraine, will have to be given up
to Germany. There is no escape from this
sacrifice of ''the sacred soil" of France, and
there will be no escape for the govern
ment making it. What, then, will M. Theirs
do? He will, probably, first, with this As
sembly, make the sacrifices necessary for
peace with Germany, and then resign his
position, subject to the election of king or
president under new constitution. We have
no idea that the war will be resumed. It's
suspension has too far revealed the dreadful
exhaustion of France to suppose that this
Assembly will think Of resuming the struggle.
General Chapzy has said that France must
postpone her revenge and must now make
peace This weeks extension of the armistice
is granted for a treaty of peace. 1t is the task
now before NJ. Theirs and the Assembly. He
will, then, sacrifice himself in a treaty which
France cannot at once approves but, in thus
making himself the scapegoat for the sins of
his people, he will clear the way for the cleo
ton of king or president, who. while bound
by the treaty, can plead ''not guilty" Of the
dismemberment of France.
The New York herald., 1871-02-20

storm arise and there are any rocks and shoals
and quicksands to be encountered, 1t Is our
ponderous friend Tweed who will be the
victim.
1mpersonality, then, as far as practicable, in
the management of newspapers, as well as in
the thorny paths of craftsmanship, is grand
essential, ifnot controlling necessity. Unfor-
tunately for Journalism in this country, we
have not yet learned to appreciate that idea
and put it in practice.
The New York herald., 1871-02-20

SENATOR SUMMERS ILLNESS is so serious
that his physician informs him that he must
avoid all mental labor, and that he cannot re-
sumo his seat in the Senate for some time.
How the old halls will miss the ring Of his
deep voice, the fascination of his courtly
presence and the intrepid daring of his leader
ship With all his faults and follies of
craftsmanship Summer was the lion of the
Senate, whose roar had the genuine bass
about it, whatever the hide he wore.
The New York herald., 1871-02-20
Important Dispatches from Spain to
WashingtOn-Intcrnationa Settlement and
the Cuba Question.


Washinaton-Intcrnationa Settlement and
the Cuba Question.
By special cable telegram from London,
dated in the British metropolis yesterday, we
are informed Of the fact that the Secretary of
the United States Embassy in Madrid, who
had arrived in England few days previously
took his departure from Liverpool by mail
steamship on Saturday, bound fer New York
and Washington. The gentleman carries spe-
cial dispatches addressed by Minister Sickles
to President Grant on the subject, generally of
our diplomatic relations with Spain, and, par
ticularly, with reference to Cuba, in the past,
present and probable future Of the island
The United States Minister reports, in the first
instance, the very important fact that King
Amadeus government has settled the matters
of all outstanding American claims against
Cuba-claims arising from circumstances
attendant on the late insurrectionary
movement on the island-in q satis-
factory manner, and that the lateral issues
which were evolved during the colonial com
plications, and are still pending between the
ppduiou uuu 1AulCllOoA kOtCluAlCutc, VIII no
treated in the same spirit of equitable, friendly
conciliation, and thus furthered to an adjust
ment. This special intelligence is of very great
importance in itself, but better still-the sugar
plum part of our special despatch-we are
assured that the question Of the purchase OF
the island Of Cuba by the United States is now
received with a very considerable degree of
patience" by the Spanish authorities and that
his Majestys Cabinet is ''better disposed to
treat on the matter just now than the Spaniards
have been at any former peried," although
the point of sale or purchase or transfer OF
the territory is not exactly mooted in the
American dispatches which are in transit
to this country. The facts denote progress,
however, and go to prove-with others from
Great Britain-that we are rapidly approach
ing to the realization of an era of international
| arbitrament of many embarrassing subjects
The New York herald., 1871-02-20

THE COMING CARNIVAL in Washington is
creating some excitement about the country
and getting great deal of gratuitous adver-
tising. The entertainments offered are of
bewildering variety, and the affair will un-
doubtedly be great success, but it is some
what humiliating to know that all the ado is
about nothing more magnificent or heroic th an
the completion of wooden pavement on
Pennsylvania avenue.
The New York herald., 1871-02-20

IT Is STATED that the trunk railway lines
from New York westward have decided upon
a reduction Of their freight tariffs on Monday
(to-day) from one dollar and eighty cents to
one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred
pounds on first class, and proportionately on
others. Shippers may think that 'half loaf
is better than none,' and congratulate them
selves accordingly.