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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-10-21

A PIT1ABLE SPEcrAcLE.-A woman
was arrested in the vicinity of Belair
Market in q drunken condition. On
~arresting her she screamed violently,
using the most fearful language, and
attracting hundreds of persons to her
as she passed along in charge Of the
officer. She was taken to the Middle
District Station, when it required four
or five policemen to convey her to the
cells. At the time Of her arrest she
had with her q bright looking child,
about fours Of age, which was kindly
picked up by a lady and carried to.the
Middle District Station, where, shock.
ing to relate, It was discovered that
the child was als0 drunk. The sight Of
the drunken infant was acknowledged
at the station house to have been tho
most pitiable spectacle ever seen with
in its walls. The frenzied mother kept
up her screams for q long time, and
yelled in the widest manner for her
child, but the infant was placed in
charge Of a lady in the neighborbood,
and was taken care of for tho night.
baltimore Gazette.
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but after she was fully matured her

but after she was fully matured her
besuty increased with every year, and
she was at the zenith of her attrac-
tions between thirty and forty-five,
at that period the loveliness of her
hands and arms being celebrated in
Europe.
The famous Madame Recamier was
thirty eight when the allied sove-
rcigns entered Paris, and she was,
without dispute, declared to be the
m ,st beautiful woman in Europe, a
rank which she had already held,
however, for fifteen years.
This list might be still further
swelled, but enough has been given to
prove that a woman need not lose her
attractions though youth be gone, and
above all, that if her mind be cultiva-
ted and her heart kindly, she shall
have a power of never-fading fascina-
ion.-[Leslie's Lady's Journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-10-21

The BART ABLE-This fine and
truly magnificent side-wheel steamer,
will soon resume her place in our
trade, and again under the charge of
our old friend and ~favorite, Captain
Dick Sinnott. During her vacation
and repose at Algiers, she has under
gone complete and full repairs, has
been r~e-painted from jack-staf to
rudder post, refurnished and carpet
ed anew, and appears in such exquis-
lite disguise, that few of her many ad-
mirers will recognize her. But the
competent management and thor
ough mechanical skill of her officers,
her usual fast time and pu~nctuality
will soon remind everybody that she
is yet, as of yore, the same grand and
peerless steamer.
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was being silenced by the concentrated
IRE Of the enemy. When I reached
tho battery every gun but one had
been dismantled, and BY it stood a sol-
itary Confederate soldier, with tho
blood streaming fro,n his aide. Az he
recognized me he elevated his voice
above the roar of battle and said,
General, I have one shell left. Tell
me, have l saved the honor Of Mary
and LucyT I raised my hat. Once
mere a Confederate she'll went crash
ing through the ranks Of tho enemy,
and the hero sank by bis gun to rise no
more. SEQ .4
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Senator Morton.

AT the great Democratic Ratifica-
ton at st. Louis, on the 7th inst,
the Hon. Bayles W. Hanna, Ex-At-
torney General of Indiana, paid his
respects to Senator Morton in this
striking manner:
Morton made a speech the other
day at Indianapolis. 1t was so cruel
and unchristian that the Republican
papers of Indiana have refused to
publish it. Louisiana had been
crushed. Her government had been
overthrow by usurpation, aided by
a corrupt and debauched judiciary.
Her people rose in their might and
broke the yoke. CHEERS. Indiana
would under like circumstances do
the same thing tomorrow. Such
thrrsalldom andsdistress as has been
put upon the people of Louisiana, if
imposed upon the people Oliver P.
Morton represents in the Senate of
the United States, would fire the
State with revolution in a single day.
[Cheers. But Morton thought
there would be another war, and he
might get a new lease of power
The abuse and misrepresentation of
the South is his trade. A confessed,
condemned and Stunned political le-
per himself, he loses no opportunity,
he goes far and near, when it rains
and. when it shines, and even then,
being unable to stand upright on his
faetalike a true man, created in the
image of his God, with his insane vo-
taries about him, he r'erches himself
upon a stool, laughter and, like
some weird creation Of .sepulchral as
pect summoned up from the hell of
lies and SANDER, he boots and bowls
about the sins of the Democratic
party, and the crimes of the bruised,
broken and crushed communities Of
the South. [Great cheering.1 OIL
yer P. Morton lectures the country
on morals, religion and good govern
ment! A constitutional shirk him
self, he brcathes forth threatenings
of war, rapine and death for every
body else.
He c Vi lo,k complacently upon
the smoke ascending from a great re-
servoir of human blood, if it was the
assurance of a continuation of his
own power. CHEERS. 1t docs seem
to me that if there is any one politi-
cal sinner, more than all others, who
ought to sit patiently upon the porch
Of the pool of Bethesda, awaiting the
moving Of the waters that his lepro-
sy might he cleansed, that man is
Oliver P. Morton. [Great cheers.
fellow-citizens, I have long had
much vexation and doubt, in my own
mind about the savage old Scotch
of total depre witty. Laugh
ter. My fathers CO, ming down from
the old covenanters had tried to in
doctrinatc me with the dogma. But
l could not take it in. laughter.
My reading and re1ie ction had left me
in doubt about it. Cain, Annanias
and Judas had left me in sore doubt,
hut Oliver P. Morton has dissipated
them all. [Great laughter and
cheers.
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Great! Grand! Glorious!
Crow, Dasher, Crow!

There las been thunder, demo
cratic thunder, along the whole line,
in the grand central States of Ohio
and Indiana. Their shouts and
echoes of victory, a great, grand and
glorious victory, r%everberatc over tho
whole Union, and Louisiana is or
dcred to take up the refrain, pass it
around in November, and array her
self side and side, with democratic
Ohio and Indiana.
The result in those States is worth
recording as certain evidence of the
tidal wave, which is now sweeping
through the land, and engulphing
everything in its path. We have
gained in Ohio eight members O
Congress, elected the whole State
ticket by ove 10000 majority, and
all on square, a~at-footed democratic
issues; in Indiana we have gained
five members of Congress, carried the
Legislature, and buried Radicalism
thousands of feet out of sight; thus
securing a U. S. Senator, in place of
the present Radical.
Courage, men of Louisiana, bright
en- up mel of Rapides, stir your
selves white yeomanry; conserva-
tives, white men, good and decent
colored men, now is your time, now
your chance, to redouble your efforts
in our pure and holy cause, and
strike the enemy the final blow, while
he i" now dispirited, demoralized and
staggers under the blows from Ohio
and Indiana!
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-10-21

GRANr.-The Parish of Grant has
q GLEN white majority of 200 votes,
and is certain to elect the Conserva-
tive ticket out and out, the Radicals
have made no nominations yet. But
as the bad negro Ward, Phillips,
HUE and Snow with sealed orders
nave Just gone up expressly for and
IN the interest Of Kellogg, we will
now h'ar of some sport. The whole
OBJECT of the recent trip is for the
epeclaiand avowed purpose of fixing
'ne election for the Radicals in Grant
anu IN 'ur Parish. The thing is not
only Infamous, but too shallow to
deceive ,ny one.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-10-21

MORTON. - Some very intelligent
people are saying that Senator Nor
ton, in his recent speech, gave signs
of approaching or already arrived
old age. His memory is lastly fail
ing him. He forgets the things that
did happen, and remembers those
that didn't.
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q r1S h TIC K {

For the Legislature,
GEORGE W. STAFFORD,
M JEFFRIES,
R. L.
For Parish Judge.
HENRY L. DAIGRE.
For Sheriff,
V G. PAUL.
For Coroner,
NELSON TAYLOR.
For Police jurors,
JAMES R. ANDREWS,
A. B. C. DEAN,
JOHN A. WILLIAMS,
B. F. LAMBRIGHT,
j. H. SORRELL.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-10-21
The Dates of q Senator's Doings,

On the 10th Of May, 1873, Senator Car:
penter, being in New Orleans as a men,
Der OF the Louisiana Investigating Com.
mittee, addressed a public meeting of
citizens. In the course Of his remarks
he took occasion to say that there was
no doubt in his mind that McEnery had
been legally elected, but he advised the
citizens to be patient and wait till Con-
gress ordered a new election. On the
10Th of May, 1873, Kellogg's check book
shows a record of $500 paid Matt. H.
Carpenter, and two days later another
for the same amount. On the oath of
July of chat year, Mr.. Carpenter was
'ry conspicuous on the Long Branch
boat and at Long Branch, and was
turned away from the West End Hotel
for well known reasons. On the lst of
August following. he wrote to "Dear
Kellogg" who was holding the Office of
Governor to which he was not elected,
saying:"l am desperately short. Can't
you send $1,000? If so it would be a
godsend." On the 18th of December
the Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tons reported a disagreement in the
Pinchback case, there being a tie vote
in the committee, and Mr.. Carpenter
voted against Pinchback, and conse-
quen,ly against recognizing the Kellogg
Legislature. The consideration of the
case was postponed. On the 10Th of
December, five days later, the stubs in
Kellogg's check book show the payment
to Mr.. Carpenter of$lOO0. The case was
never acted upon; the question is still
open. Kellogg is in Office, the validity
or legality of the Legislature which
WAS counted in with him has never
been pronounced upon, and the side
which Mr.. Carpenter has received
$500 onis in power, while the persons
whom he declared legally elected and
whom he favored in the Senate are
waiting outside. Mr.. Carpenter is
much more fortunate as an advocate
than as a statesman.
Dates are sometimes very suggestive.
Of course it will not occur to n WELL
disposed person to connect the ,transac-
tons above cited in any way derogatory
to the character of the good man to
whom they relate. And yet how singu-
lar a coincidence it is that one week af-
ter the Long Branch excursion he
should be so ''desperately short" that
$1,000 "would be a godsend." And this
statesman. if W. rightly recall his cele-
brated defence of the back pay grab,
is n Of your rolIirking fellows who
sheds his money las the dew falls, on
the just and on the unjust" Good,
easy, brilliant mamie doesn't care
how he gets it or where it goes.-[New
York Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-10-21

MULE A la MoDE.-"The Society
for the Promotion of the Consumption
of Horseaesh" still f1onrishes il Paris:
1t is crafty ing to know that choice
cnts al cheval continne to advance iu
pnblic esteem. and that the numbers
of q"adrupedal scarecrows gathered
from omnihuses and other eqnine CEN
ete!ies on wheels, and slaughtered for
the restaurants of the Bnulevards, in
August, exceeded by over five han.
dred those killed in the same month of
last year. The science of living to eat
is, however, not confined solely to
h"rsehesh with these gourmands of
the new school. The flesh o the jack
ass Is growing in popular applause, as
may he e from the fact that 1903 ut
these Jerusalem ponies were sacrificed
on the gridirons Of society in July, bnt
it almost prov"kes the flow of the emo
ti"nal tear to learn that the mule did
o reach a higher culinary demand
than five for the same time.
When we think If the chronic ten
derness, not to say ju'cyness Of that
noble animal, viewed az a government
mule and presided over by a govern.
ment teamster, We blush for the buast-
ed taste of the Parisians who could
stop from mule to jnckass as an arti.
Gle ofdaily nutritious diet. Five mules
to n hundred and eight jackasses is
a moral inligni y and a gross injustice
to the great American l%aul-r, which
not even the reputation Of the biblical
talking jackass can reconcile with COM
mon justice. However. there is no
disp"ting about taste. JAckasses seem
to carry the day an! how, and while We
may bow to the superiority Of the
horse tor a good square meal of hash
we shall cease from this moment to
number among the great reformers of
the nineteenth century, the society for
the promotion If the consumption of
jackasses.-[St. Lonis Republican.
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HEADQUARTERS RIGHT WING,
ARMY BEFORE RICHMHD,
.. Tnno17 1870


SoLD1ERs-You have marched out to
fight the battles Of your country, and
by those battles you must be rescued
from the shame of slavery. Your foes
have declared their purpose OF bringing
you to beggary; and avarice, their na-
tional characteristic, melted Them to re-
doubled efforts for the conquest of the
South, in order that they may seize her
sunny fields and happy homes. AL
ready has the hatred Of one of their
gre at leaders attempted to make the me-
gro your equal by declaring his free
dom. they care nothing for the blood
of babes, nor carnage of innocent wo-
men, which servile insurrection thus
stirred up may bring upon their heads.
Worse than this the North has sent
forth another infamous chief, cou
aging the lust Of his hirelings to the
dishonor and violation of those South
err women who have so u%ntiringly la
bored to clothe our soldiers in the field.
anil nurse our sick and wounded. If
ever men were called upon to defend
the beloved daughters of their country,
that now is III duty. Let such
iiouSIt JUL VIC yOu " ~ iAVSt VICdu.
fnl shock OF battle. Were it certain
death, death would be better than the
fate that defeat would entail upon us
all. But, remember though the noise
of battle is indeed most terrifying, and
seems to threaten universal ruin, it is
not so destructive as it seems, and few
soldiers after all are slain. This the
Commanding General desires particu-
larly to impress upon the fresh and In
experienced troops who constitute a
part of this command. Let officers and
men, even under the most formidable
fire, preserve quiet demeanor and self
possessed temper. Keep cool, obey or
ders, aim low. Remember while you
are doing this, and driving the enemy
before you, your comrades may be re-
lied on to support you ON either side,
and are in turn relying upon you.-
Stand we'll to your duty. and when
these clouds break away. as they sure
ly will, the bright sunlight of peace,
falling upon our free, v%irtuous and
happy land, will be a sufficient reward
for the sacrifices which we are now
called upon to make.
JAMES LoNGsrREEr, =
Major General Commanding.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-10-21

AlCAREFUL G1RL.-A blooming coun.
try damsel, dressed in. tho height OF
fashion, came tripping along in compa-
ny with her bean, and, while crossing
a street, turned suddenly around to
look at a passing object, just as the tip
of her dainty shoe rested on the curb.
stone of the gutter. As abe threw the
weight Of her body on the insufficient
fonthold, her toe slipped, and plumb
into the dirt went her little foot, and
FLASHING over her stockings and gar
ments went the mnd. Her gallant
speedily helped her on to the sidewalk,
where abe presented a pitiable appear
ance, and then endeavored to free her
from her sudden acquisition of soil
with his handkerchief.
"It's no use, Charley" sobbed the
rural beauty, "it won't come clean;
ane-and-my st-sto-st0cklngs are
ruined"
''Never mind tho stockings" conso.
'ingly responded her swain; "Ican buy
you a new pair"
"Bny me q new pair; where would
put them onT said she.
"Why, We can 60 to the hotel fo|
that matter" replied Charley.
"Never!!" almost screamed the fright
ened girl, "l'd sooner jump in the riv
er than 60 to a hotel with q man tina
I'm not married to-"
Charley seemed conscience-stricke,
as the enormity Of his proposition flash
ed upon his mlnd, aud when last "
saw the pair they were in quest of
clean pair Of hose and a proper plae
! to rut them on.-[Cinc'nuati Enquire,
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Wednesday, . October 2I, 1874.
PARISH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Nominees Of the Peoples
Party"

Party"
For State Treasurer
Hon. J. C. MONCURE, of Caddo.
FOR CONGRESS,
First District
GEN. R. l.. GIBSON, of Orleans.
Second District,
Hon. E. JOHN ELLIS, of Orleans.
Third District,
JOSEPH A. BREAUX, of Iberia.
Fourth District,
WIN. NJ. LEVY, of Natchitoches.
Fifth District,
W. B. SPENCER, Of Concordia.
Sixth District,
JOSEPH NJ. MOORE, of St. Landry.
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NEW THIS DAY.
TEMPERATURES

AS REPORTED BY FERGUSON 4 scHNAcK
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LONCSTREEF AND KELLOGG

These two men are now bosom
cronies, smoke the same pipe and,
hand in hand, work for our degreda-
tion and ruin! We have just come
the following document, which
will serve to prove that poor old
Longstreet was not always what he
is now:
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S
gifts of eternal youth.
Blanca Capello was IS when the
Grand Duke Francisco, of Florence,
fell captive to her charms, and made
her his wife, though he was five years
her junior. Catharine II was thirty
three when she seized the Empire of
Russia, and captivated the dashing
young Gen. Gregory Oriof: Her ad-
vantages of person and mind made
her attractive for many years longer,
and she is thus described when at the
age of 43: "Her eyes are blue, large
and fine; her eyebrows and hair
brown; her mouth well-proportioned;
her chin round; her nose rather long;
her forehead regular and open; her
hands and arms round and white; her
shape rather full; the air other head
full of grace and dignity" W tot the
time Of her death, at sixty-seven, she
seems to have retained the power Of
inspiring a sincere attachment in the
hearts of her favorites, her soldiers
and her attendants; as when at length
her splendid career closed, the lam
entations were heartfelt among all
those who had ever knew her person.
ally.
Mademoiselle Mars, the celebrated
French actress, was plain and uuin.
.teresting in her youth, her arms and
hands being especially red and rough;
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- my 4
was no longer the Confederate s"ldier,
but l was the father Of Lucy and the
husband Of Mary, and / would have
passed those lines If every gun In the
battery had fred upon me. l went to
my home. Mary ran out to meet me,
her angel arms embraced me, and she.
whispered. %! Edward, l am 50 hap
py! / am 50 glad you got your fur
She must have felt me shnd.
der, for she turned pale as death, and
catching her breath at every word, she
said, Have you come home without
your f%urloughi Oh! Edward, Edward,
60 back, 60 back! Let me and my
children 60 down together to the grave,
but o, for heavens sake, save the hon
or Of your name!' And here l am,
gentlemen, not brought here by mill.
tary power, but in obedience to the
command Of Mary, to abide tho GEN.
tence Of your court"
Every officer Of that courtmartial
felt the force of the prisoners words.
Before them stood, in beatiac vision,
the eloquent pleader for q husband's
and a fa'ber's wrongs} but they had
been trained by their great leader,
Robert E. Lee, to tread the path Of
duty, thou'gh the lightning's fash
scorched the ground beneath their
feet. and each in his turn pronounced
the verdict-guilty. Fortunately fol
humanity, fortunately for the Confede.
racy, the proceedings Of the court were
reviewed by tho commanding general
and upon the record was written:
"HEADouARrERs. A. NV.
"The finding Of the court ia approved
The prisoner is pardoned and will re-
port to his company.
T.. +. LEE, General"
During the second battle Of COLI
Harbor, when shot and shell yer
falling "like torrents from the noun
tain cloud" my attention was directe,
to the fact that one Of our batterie
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We now enter the field for
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