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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01
The Exchange Hotel.

Finding it impossible to rel It il
ON satisfactory terms, its propr etol
our well-know and popular lei low
citizen, DIR. James S. Fish, L;G, de
termined, Ito use a slang pin ase,
on running the above fine house
himself, and he is doing it at a rae
ing pace.
We have just returned from New
Orleans, making the trip on the nn.
surpassed steamer Hodge and we
stopped whilst in the city, at one OF
the most popular, though not one Of
the most fashionable public houss IS
in it, and neither on the boat or in
the hotel, was more satisfactOry
bill of fare presented at every meal i,
than the Exchange Hotel now fur
nishes daily to it's guests-true, the
variety is not quite so great, but
every thing necessary for good and
even luxurious living is to be found
on the table, well cooked and served.
up, and with prompt and skilled at
tendance. Some time ago we re-
fered to the extensive changes and
improvements, which Dr. Fish had
made in this large and well planed
building and promised to give "a
more elaborate description of them,
which we shall endeavor to do be-
fore long, expressing our belief i'm
the mean time, that the Exchange.
Hotel, relieved of theincubus which
SO long weighed it down, is now in a
fair way to go ahead and prosper,
as in times of yore. So mote it be.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01

personal VS.. POLITICAL PoPU-
LARITy.-There is not perhaps in
the State of Louisiana, certainly not
to our knowledge, a stronger. proof
of the preponderance of personal re.
gard over political feeling than is
shown in the Tenth Senatorial Dis
trict, composed of the parishes CT
Cameron, Calcasieu, Lafayette and
st. Landry, where Gen. Thomas G.
Anderson, has just been reelected
State Senator, by a constituency
which he has represented in the
same capacity for a number ofyears
past. AT the late election unusual
and stupenduous efforts were made
to defeat him, one of the most pOpu-
and talented men in the demOcra.
tic ranks, and a regularly nomina-
ted Republican candidate, a colored
man Of great influence in his class
ran against him-but it was of no
use, the masses believed in, and
loved Tom Anderson and Tom An.
derson they elected.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01
Captain Heinn and His OFF,
GERS.

In another place we copy from
the New Orleans Times, a card OF
thanks, from the passengers of the
ID. L. Hodge, ON her second up trip
this season, and among them will
be found the names of some of the
best known, and most respected
citizens of Rapides. These testi.
monlals are often nothing but a
transltory puff, obtained from pas.
sengers merely by asking, but in
the present instance, the whole
travelling public of Red River will
testify, that it is simply a just and
deserved tribute, to one of the old
est most accommodating and most
competent steamboat commanders
in the South, aud one that has been
in our recollection repeated time af-
ter time. Good masters it is said.
makes good servants, and SO it
might be said that a good Captain
either makes good officers, or has
the luck of getting them ready.
made, and keeping them afterwards,
for on Captain Heinn's bouts chan.
ges do not take place often, and Oh
the Hodge thus at present are to be
seen most Of the competent and at
tentive officers, who have been at
tached to her for some time past,
and who i'm connection with the
Captain, have made travelling on
her so comfortable and safe.
Captain Jno. G. Libano, the chief
clerk, has, as we said a week or two
back, only recently madD his debut
in this trade, but, as we had an OPP
portunity of seeing, he appears to
be already fully posted up, and in a
fair way to be, as We prophecied he
would, fnlly as popular as any of
his predecessors.
Messrs. Joiffron and Reeder are
still at their posts, prompt and
polite as ever, and were assisted in
the last trip, by Mr.. Osgood,
known every where Oh old Red, as
a master in lis craft. The portly
pair Messrs. Hardesty and Delano
still preside over their respective
departments, and furnish to hungry
and thirsty passengers the choicest
of solids and liquors, and ilr- short
every appliance and requisite of
comfort and enjoyment to be found
ON boat, is most literally supplied,
constituting. altogether for Captain
Helm and his associates a CT aim Oh
the support of the public which
ought not, and we believe VIII not,
ha disraOardad
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01
Hon. w Jasper Blackburn

During our late visit to'the' city
we had the satisfaction of hearing
in tie Senate Chamber, of what the
Picaynne calls the "Bayonet Legis.
lature," an eloquent and character,
istic speech from our confrere, edi
tor of the Homer Iliad, and Sena
tor from Claiborne Parish, iu which
he literally excoriated an editor or
writer, in the New Orleans Times.
Mr.. Blackburn is the Chairman of
the Senate committee on printing,
and has introduced a bill OIL the sub
ject, which the Times calls infamous
and denOunces the Trainer, as the
abettOr of a contemplated fraud on
the public. Pretacing his remarks
by a stinging repartee, on the i'm
pudence of a paper exclaiming
against unjust and odious favor
itism, who had just finished a con-
tract awarded to it OH precisely
those grounds, for printing registra.
ton blanks, at a price double or
tribe its worth. nt 3 i' O.
Mr.. Blackburn proved that the
bill cut down the price of public
printing in New Orleans from Is to
20 pr cent. whilst he justified he ac-
ton in proposing, that official pa.
pers should be appointed in the sew
eral parishes, by the well known and
undeniable fact, that Republican
journals were generally prescribed
throughout the State, and if left to
compete unaided BY party legisla-
ton, would be literally starved out.
He (Mr. b. made this explanation on
public not personal grounds, as he
cared not a straw what any paid O.
pensiOned ink-slinger said about him
being perfectly satisfied he could
repay him in his own coin, a belief
in which we, aud We think all who
listened to him, fully conceded. We
were glad not only to hear this dis.
tinguished gentleman and powerful
advocate of white mans right, to
be a Republican in a free country.
but also to see him look so hopeful
and well, bearing no outward or visi.
bic sign of the critical condition TO
which he was not long since reduced
by the bullet of an assassin, but
rather the appearance OF being
ready and able to meet any foe that
might approach him, either in the
fOram or the field.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01
SPECIAL NOTICE.

We call particular attention to
the rule we have adopted relative
to advertisements and subscriptions.
All judicial advertisements will be
charged at the legal rate of 81, per
square for each insertion and must
be paid for after the first insertion,
they or will be taken out. Subscrip-
tiOnsland transient advertisements
payable invariably in advance.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
OF THE
state and p air 8 Ii
ALSO,
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
OF THE aE HHf ii.
PARISHES OF GRANT AND VERNON
TERMS /:

THE GAZETTE is published Weekly
at Three Dollars per annum 81 OO
for six mouths. One Dollar for
Threee months.
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
ADVERTISEMENT inserted at the
rate of S1,O0 per square for the
first insertion and 30 cents for
each subsequent one.
EIGHT lines of BREWER or space
of one inch constitutes a square,
and any number of additional
lines over four counts as a square,
and less than four as u halt
square.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01
PARTICULAR NOTICE.

Particular Notice is called to the
fact that 10 one except the present
Editor and co-Proprietor of the Ga
-ette il authorized to collect, or ar
range any of its past or present dues
This arrangement was made with
the former proprietor, by written
contract, therefore no receipt is
good signed by any one else.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01

- During the past, week we
have experienced another of the fire..
quent intensely cold spells, which
have made the present winter SO
far, the most severe in the aggregate
which we in an experience of forty
years in the South have ever wit
messed. ',17 n
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01
Joe Hatch Klu.Klux,

Who is it in this parish, or il
Vernon or Grant, that does no
know, or has not heard of Captain
Joseph T. Hatch, commonly known
as Joe Hatch, born we believe, ant
at any, rate raised in Rapides ant
for many years one of her most re
spectacle citizen. He is however
not respectable now, because he il
a Republican and that IN these
parts is the sin that is never fOrgiv
ell, the objectionable, never to be
atoned for crime. We used TO bt
when we both lived OH Bayou Ra
pides or rather when We lived on
Bayou Rapides and he OH Bayou
Cotile a neighbor of Joe's, but lat.
erly,, that is since the war we have
lost sight of one another, meeting
only enthusiastically, and actual.
ly when we came together in New
Orleans the other day we did not
know whether Joe was a Democrat,
a FusiOnist, a Republican or id
low down Radical. Well we met as
said before in the Crescent City.
and chatting about the past we
gradually came to the present, and
discovered that OH most thing as
regards politics We thought some
what alike. And then our old friend
Captain Joe. pulled out-nota peck.
ct pistOl-but two letters OH us, one
from another joe, surnamed Moore,
and the other from an individual
whose name we have forgotten, but
who, we believe is a clerk for Cap.
tain Hatch. Who and what Joe.
Moore is every body about here
knows and so we will proceed to tell
what he told Captain Hatch as near
as we can remember. ,r
Let us premise by stating that as
VIC understand Joe. Moore is a part.
ner of Joe. Hatch in a store located
in the Parish of Vernon, from which
at the time of the occurrences about
to be related, Mr.. Hatch was absent
in New Orleans buying goods. The
letter we have already referred to
from Mr.. Moore was in substance
that some nights before the date,
the store had been surrounded by a
number of men concealed by the
darkness and repeatedly fired into
with rifles or other bullet discharg-
ing fire arms, until most of the
crockery, glass ware and other
fragile merchandise was destroyed,
and the dry goods and other arti.
cles pierced with bullets in many
places, and most seriously damaged.
The letter of the other party to Cap
tain Hatch corrObOrates all this, and
adds that notice had been given
that if what had been done was not
sufficient to move him from local
ity where his longer residence was
not agreeable to the actors in this
midnight and dastardly outrage,
the torch ,coutd be applied and all his
property reduced to ashes, and also
most urgently advised him not to
return to neighborlloOd where his
life would be in constant and i'm
danger. We have thus de-
tailed as nearly as we can remem-
Der the substance of the two
letters shown us by Captain
Hatch and if we have given "a cor.
rect version of the facts it must be
admitted that Vernon has among
her population some pretty brick
and that the exploit mar
rated was quite a Smart affair.
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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01
Notice.!

All persons owing the Gazette for
subscriptions or advertisements, are
requested to call and settle with the
present cO-prOprietOr, L. G. Comp
ton, who alone is authorized to col,
lcct and receipt for all back dues.
GEO. Y. KELSO.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01

u BY accident the card Of that
veteran in his line, Nelse TAYLOR.
was left out last week, but appears
again today corrected and revised
according to instructions.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01

~ We have again to thank Hon.
j. B. West, for. valuable and inter
esting public documents, among
which are reports of the Ku Klnx
trials and of the. Indian Commits
sloners, both deeply intert sting.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01

s e Look out for the Big Show
to-day. ,- ss lsFl .it's %
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01

~ The River is rising.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-16
kOofers.
E0HN McNELLIs
SLATE EOoFEB,
| N ORD NANCE for the issue II city b

A ORD NANCE for the issue # city bonds, &c
n provide for the payment of the costs dam
a es aud expenses of constructing au building q
sewer in bird street, from Port avenue to T'um-
bull street.
De it ordained by the Mayor and City Council Of
the city Of Fl zabath
s. cti nj "h-t four bords Of the city of Eliza
bath. call I" Improveme't bonds + the city OF
Eli abeth." be is ued In authorization Of the COL
lection of the as eesn' ents to be made for thu
payment of the costs, q m ges and exrensfs :
constructing AMI building . sewer in Third
street q ON Port avenue 10 Trnpnhull street, un.
der aud In pursusnce of an ordinance du passed
by the .'i.y Council Of the ri yf Eliz sheth. sp-
prov, d by the Mayor on the It'll day of June,
1871.
aid bonds each to besr date on the first dsy Of
Dscem'r one thousand EIGHT hundred and So eDty-
three t. be- conditioned for the nayment Of the
nrircip sum of one thousand d. Ilara each in six
years from + dat thereof vt T. e Farmer Lean
AID 'rlet company In the city Of New Work, vii h
interest her on at the rate of seye1 Per cen.um
Jer annum, payable semi-annra ly on the first
days If December and June in each and every
ys'r. on the present ii of corpons for the
amount the Testament of interest due Their ~
at time the same is psva' 10 the coupons to
be att chea tn .ch bod when issued.
Passed December 1878.
Ww. n. JENKINS,
President of City Council.
j. 8gIPLE, City Clerk.
Approved Decembe- 10, 1873.
wM. A. CoURSEN. Mayor.
dis 2ws
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-16
Oswego asks for a marine hospital.


A large influx of well to do German
immigrants is reported in Missouri
This "open winter" has frozen two
men to death near Stevens Point,f Wis
consin.
Every one is emphasizing General
Towards initials when they speak OF
him.
Cincinnati burglars are entering upon
their winters work-and into other PEG
pies houses, with zest.
Southern journals are scandalizing
their readers by telling them the paper
which circulates best in that region is a
paper of tobacco
The man who called Titusville ga
commercial grave yard" would strike
something besides oil should he happen
into that outraged town.
How strangely historians lead us as
tray. Now here is Washington Irving
and wife just arrived in San Francisco
via the steamer from Panama.
For Mr.. Blaine's consolation the
Memphis Avalanche tells him that Hen.
ry Clay was Speaker twelve years, and
then was not made President either.
Robert Collyer talked to the people
of Cleveland the other night on "Clear
Grit, and they exemplitied his teach.
ings by sitting the lecture out.
The La Crosse Democrat wonders how
q neighboring editor managed to buy
ten thousand dollars worth Of newspaper
stock, because he never was in Congress
nor owned q brewery.
Another case of brutality vt sea in the
San Francisco courts Fred. Hammond,
seaman, sues the master and mate of
whaling ship Alaska for five thousand
dollars damage for injuries received at
their hands.
The inhabitants of Colfax township.
Mo-, have resolved not to pay any taxes,
not to bid for each others property ii
offered for sale by the collector, and
not to allow any "outsider" to bid
therefor.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-16
The MuHpt RE 5 OF j oNpoN.

The following, from the Pail Mall
Gazette, displays the local popular esti
mate of the London police force :
Sir You were good enough on a
former occasion to permit me through
your columns to protest against prac-
tice INDUCED in by young and uneZ-
perienced mnrderers of hacking and
mutilating the remains of their victims,
and thus naturally exciting in the
breasts of the public disgust not gem
orally awakened by simple assissina-
ton artisticaly effected without undue
violence, aud with proper regard for
the feelings of survivors. venture,
therefore. on behalf of growing and
important class-the murderers OF Lon
don, in whose reputation / shall ever
feel the deepest interest, havingpents
some of the happiest days of my life in
their society-to trespass again on your
kindness while beg the public to be-
lieve they have no hand whatever in
practice which, it appears from certain
remarks made by DIR. Lancaster at an
inquest held on Monday, prevails in the
neighborhood OF the Regents Canal of
taking out of that convenient receptacle
the bodies of murdered persons or sui
cides, robbing them, and depositing
them again in the water. A more corr
tempiible form of crime cannot be con-
ceived than the system referred to and
I would implore the public to believe
that no murderer worthy of the name
would so far demean himself as to rob
the remains of one in whose removal to
better world he had borne part. So
far from the London murderers, AZ
rule, approving this practice, they
would, feel assured. willingly admire,
and for whom, indeed, they are begin
ming to feel sincere affection) every
assistance in bringing to justice the low
sconndrels who thus disgrace the Grim
inal classes. I need only point to the
neat and peaceful manner in which
babies are now despatched, and their
bodies (packed in lime) deposited un-
der the very noses of the police, to
prove that murderers not only know
how to perform disagreeable duties in
an orderly fashion, but that there is an
openness in their proceedings that
speaks volumes for the nobility of their
nature.
l am, sir, your obedient servant,
A RETIRED MURDERER.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-16

NEW CARRIAGE
~ AND
WAGON MANDATORY,
Corner Of Morris and Union avenues.
CARRIAGES AND WAGONS
OF every description manufactured in the
rest manner at the lowest prices.
General blacksmithing department will be
inder the immediate direction and supervi-
aon Of
JAMES A. LITTLE.
@. @. HARRISON,
Mechanic Of large experience, will attend
0 the wheelwrighting and manufacture OF
'ehicles,
]. 3. PRICE.
A skinful painter, will have charge of the
-ainting.
ALI orders for trimming wagons, coaches,
arriages, ETC., will be promptly attended to-.
They flatter themselves that with their ex-
,erience, they will be able to merit large
hare of public favor.
They invite call, guaranteeing satisfaction
to all.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-16
PIANOS.


Celebrated plAnus al greatly reduced rates, are
conceded to be equal to any made. Ths cheapest
first class Plnnssin the market: oil material used In
their construction thoroughly seasoned. All their
Instruments warranted Ave years. AlEo agent for
he werld renowned
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-16

TNo THE PUBLIC.
Tho subscriber has q variety OF Furni
ture and House Furnishing Goods which ht
is selling chesp. The u lie are inUt, d t.
Famine. Quick Sales and small Profits it
ever my motto.
1 SELL BLACK WALNUT CHAM
BIER SUITS, 10 Pr CEs. ..... ss5 90
IMITATION BLACK WALNUT
CHAMBER SUITS. 80 oC
FINE ENAMELED CHAMBER
SUITS. Observation-Disclosures. 80 90
BLACK WALNUT EXTENSION Ia
BLES. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10 OF
BLACK WALNUT WORK TABLES. 2 81
EXCELSIOR MATTRESSES. ....... 4Ot
STRAW MATTRt $50 .... 8 90 TO s OF
HUSK MATTRE. SES. ......4 90 TO 8 OF
And everything in proportion.
UpHoLsTEBINa AND REPAIRING
NEATLY DUNE.
JAMES SAWYER,
No. 1O3 BROAD STREET, ELIZABETH.
o29 If
ENnhDER.oK THIEL.
tsacoesror TO COOK THIEL.,
No. 50 SCOTT PLACE.
Opposite the City Market. West side
FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE.
Particular attention given to repairing all kinc
If Furniture.
CARPETS BOUND AND NEATLY LAID.
N sttresses clrsaed. Flied and Made New.
Upholstering In gil its branches.
sus0
G A. FULTON,
KEROSENE OIL AND LAMP STORE,
No. 1877 Broad street.
Burning Oils Of every description, war
ranted.
A complete assortment Of Lamps, Globes
Lanterns, Shades, Chimneys, &c.
Ankads Of repairing attended To.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-16
WEBER PIANOS.

Which are acknowledged to be superior &c and
othere IN use for durability aEd great povera ny
90 ness OF tone, combined with deeAus u touch,
nahing tkenI the most perfect Instruments made
The subscriber having had twenty years experience
making and furnishing pianos, 10 prepared 10
pair and refnish old pianos
Tuning done by C, the best tuners II hev
York. AL worn warranted Pianos boxed and
shipped. Pianos carefully removed. Old Pinnob
TAKEN III exchange. Anordersleft 1t L. +. illisms
or through the office will receive prompt attention.
Any person purchasing piano through the I'm
derslghed rely getting plane thai will last
made out oil thoroughly seasoned material, from
nifty 70 one hundred dollars cheaper than You can
purchase them In New York at the same time DO
not run the RISK CT getting poor instrument.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-16
REFEEENoRs

T. B. BUDD, ~ Morris avenue.
A. W sMlTH, cor. cherry and Orchard streets.
I. u. SMITH, ROselie
Nj. W. Falsely, Broad street. s
A. 4. PAhkh URST, StileB street..
WILLIAM GASION, stiles strset.
JANIS II. sAYRh, Morris avenue,
Rev. DR. 8. A. CLARK, 1856 Pearl street.
Dr.. y. ID. GRIEk Railway avenue.
b. J. 5PALDlNG, Washington avenue.
j. BhOhAM, East Grand street.
l.. CHEs1NUIWOOD, Ia Elm street
!. y. WHITE. Is EiIo fo7y
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES,

Richard Botticher was murdered in t,,
streets or st. Louis, last week. by BENJAMIN
CronenbolA, to prevent him from marrying Iii.
(Cronen5old's) sister
The Indians recently made a raid into tbe
Nuece5 Valley, not far from Corpus Christi.
Texas, killed twenty-four persons, and run of
a large amount Of stock.
Statistics have been complied showing
that the total loss Of life on the grea. lake.
this season from other than natural causes
was 1913, Of which 1863 resulted from drown
lng, % from accident, and / from burning.
"A party of despera1oes who had robbed a
store in Cas- county, no.. were followed bv n
party OF ~citizous, who, instead of capturing
them, inGloriously surrendered 10 the robbers.
but were released on promise that they would
IN future abstain from circulating reports
prejudicial to the bandits.
-Dayi1 NJ. Kimball. OF Boston, killed his
wife and step-daughter the other day. and
then killed himself.
-Cicalla, the scting Mayor Of Memphis
during the epidemic, has been indicted by the
grand jury for larceny.
Tho total damage occasioned by the lake
disasters during the present year amounts to
S3,9I6,0OO, or nearly 81, 600, 600 more than last
year. The number of vessels to which acci-
dents occurred during the year we're 1918 an
against us ia 1872.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-12-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL,

Secretary Of War Belknap was married a.
Harrodsburg, Ky, N the 18th inst, to Mrs
A.. L. Bowen, of Cincinnati.
Judge Mark W. Delshay, of Kansas, has
resigned, and Senator Crozier has been in
dorsed for the position.
President Grant, in a conservation the
other day with a number of prominent gen.
tlemen, declared emphat;cally that there twill
be no war with Spain"
A Paris dispatch says the resignation OF
Minister Sickles was based on the fact of the
Washington Government negotiating directly
with Spain. and overlooking him.
CAPTAIN General Jovellar has issued al
address to the people of Cuba concerning the
delivery of the yirginius. 1t is little else
than a humble petition to them to permit the
surrender of the vessel, which is all eloquent
commentary on The strength Of Spanish au.
thority in that islaud.
President MacMahon has committed the
sentence of Marshal Bazaine to twenty years
seclusion.
A delegation of colored men from Louisi.
ana called on the President a few days ago,
and were assured by him that Congress would
pass some Civil Rights bill securing to thei,
race all the legal privileges that belong tc
freemen.
The report of the Secretary of War to
the Freedmen's Bureau, show an unexplained
deficiency of nearly $500, 900 in the account,
of Gen. Howard.