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The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-11-21

TIE FLETA.-This popular pack
ct, J. G. Mitchell, Captain and
James Robbins Clerk, came to time
on Monday night with a heavy
freight for Pineville and Alexan-
dria. We see by the New Orleans
papers that owing to low water,
heavy fogs &c. she will make ten
day trips until there is a better
stage of water. For punctuality,
politeness and attention on the
part of the Officers, and for all that
goes to make up the first class, 4
MOL packet, the Fleta is not OK
celled by any boat in the trade.
Her heavy freight up and the big
loads OF cotton and cattle she car
ries down, is the best evidence OF
the popularity Of her officers.
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-11-21
A PAIR OF THEM.-The Chicago

A PAIR OF THEM.-The Chicago
Inter Ocean and New York Repub
lie are the two most bitter, section
al papers in all the land. While
all the other papers, North and
South are seeking to bury the ami
mosities engendered by the war
and are trying to bring about a
broad and expansive national feel
ing o. security, peace and prosperi-
ty, these two harpies, like carrion
crows are revelling in the disgust
ing offal of their vile hate and are
using their utmost endeavors to
keep up the prosecutions at the
South. Bigoted, foul mouthed and
callous to the remotest suspicion of
generosity, they both give full vent
to their spleen and would like to
see a reign of terror, oppression
and rabid hostility organized in the
South. With souls beside which
the immortal part of a flea would
be a giant, and petty, dwelling
minds their Editors are worthy
companions and suitable champan-
ions of an Administration which
has been characterized by force,
fraud, bribery and corruption.
They will live long enough to be
execrated by every honest man in
the Union and to sink into an OBJ
livion whose darkness shall be that
of the damned.
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-11-21

~ 'Frederick, Maryland, is ex-
hibiting a jackass with the gift of
Speech" says the Cincinnati Times.
Frederick is unquestionably very
enterprising town, but there are
thousands of towns that will tell
her that her exhibition is nothing
new. Il Courier Journal.
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HOYT's GERMAN COLOGNE

HOYT's GERMAN COLOGNE
We are obliged to Messrs Furgu-
son & Schnack for a donation of
this excellent perfume. They have
on hand q full stock of this indis-
pensible article for the toilet and
the low price, % cents per bottle
for which the sell it, as we'll as its
own excellence should commend it
to our fair ladies.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICE!

WlI Il RE WILL BE DIVINE
4 Service on next Sunday, Nov.
22d at the residence of CAPT LEW
is TEXADA. at II A. NJ.
And the Sunday following, Nov.
Goth, being ADVENT Sunday d.
vino service with celebration
Of tho Holy Communion, will be
held in st. James Church Alcxan-
tlria, 1T the usual hour OF IL o'clock
A. NJ. A. n. OGDEN, JR.,
Rector.
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-11-21

The FAIR AssoCIATIoN.--Atthe
meeting Of the Board of Directors
of the Rapides Agricu ltural Fair
Association held on Saturday last
it was resolved to hold a Fair, not
in the Agricultural line, in tho
Court House on the 22d and 23l of
December, and to draw the Lottery
which was postponed on the 22d Of
October, at this fair. The adver-
tisement of the Association in it's
proper place will explain the mat
ter more fully. The Board find
themselves in debt to some extent
and propose by this fair, and from
the sale Of Lottery tickets to real
ize sufficient amount TO pay all
it's debts. They deserve and We
hope will receive the liberal sup
port and assistance of the ladies as
well as the gentlemen of Rapides.
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-11-21

OUR NAMEsAKE.-We publish
upon our outside an able article
from our namesake the Caucasian
published at Lexington, Missouri.
We have just received the first
number we have seen and find it
to be a large, we'll filed, ably edited
and handsomely printed paper
1t is live, wide awake and fully up
to the necessities Of the times. We
shall place it's name upon our club
list for next year and can assure
our patrons that if they wish a
lively, sensible and enterr3njng
paper they will find all these re-
quisites combined in tn i"xlng-
ton C0ncasiau.
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~ EDO you know why you are
like the third term 2" said Susan
Jane to her brother, who fingered
to talk with her Adolphus after the
old folks had retired. "No, | don't, :"
"Well," replied his saccharine Sis
ter, 'It is because you are one too
many
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Robert and Boeuf and perhaps the
value Of the cane crop is equal to
that of the cotton crop of each
year. <The sugar plantations are
all located on the bayous above
named and the Red River b0ttom
and bayou Rapides which before
the war had it's large sugar planta-
lions, have since the war been plan
ted in cotton and corn.
The low lands of this parish with
p fair season and cultivation with
out the use of manures produce on
an average Of cane which yields a
hogshead Of sugar, (1O00 lbs.) and
two barrels of Molases per acre.
This we consider about a fair aver
age yield. Some times the yield is
as high as u to 2 hhds sugar to the
acre and again it sometimes yields
J or Z hid to the acre. This de-
ponds more upon the cultivation
and season than upon the lands,
for any ofthe lands in cane will read
lily yield a hid with an average sea
son and fair cultivation. We shall
hereafter have more to say upon
the subject of our sugar crops.
An average yield for cotton is
one bale to the acre. The crop Of
this year will be about that. This
also depends upon whether or not
we have the caterpillar, upon cult
walton etc, more than upon the
land, which will easily produce a
bale to the acre with proper cult
walton. The yield of corn is about
thirty barrels or bushels to the acre
taking the average. Sometimes the
seasons are bad, the Spring too wet
or the Summer too dry and the
yield falls short, sometimes there
is an extraordinary favorable sea-
son and the yield is thirty-five or
forty barrels to the acre. We use
barrel and busllel as SYNONYMOUS
terms, our barrel Smelling out a
bushel of corn Oft the cob. 1t will
be seen from this that our parish
is richly endowed with a soil of un-
usual p,oductiveness and that it
yields substantial recompense for
the trouble and expense of cultiva-
ton. Advantageously situated as
to water communication all the
year around with our great trade
center, New Orleans, and with a
rich and productive soil in the low
lands and high and healthy pine
woods on both side of them, Ra-
pldeS parish offers unusual induce
ments to the immigrant.
We shall hereafter take each of
thYsubjccts Of which we have writ
ten and treat Of them III detail our
purpose now being to take a cnrso-
Nv glance at the whole subject
which We have but partly accom-
plished in this article. Tho limit
we have given ourselves in any of
the series is now already reached
and we shall leave the further con-
sideration Of the subject for next
week.
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-11-21
LOCAL COLUMN

In " A II Wv ~ O<XA IN
Clouds and rain have been our
weather characteristics for this
week.
Our city fathers have had the
lower town wharf repaired. It has
needed it badly for some time.
The rains Of this week have
given our people a supply Of water
Of which they were sadly in need.
The long drouth had pretty nearly
emptied all the cisterns.
The retiring Police Jury were
to have met on Monday last but
had no quorum, and adjourned I'M
til Thursday, when there was still
on quorum.
The Parish Court, Judge John
Fl. Sullivan who was appointed to
fiji the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Judge Ledoux, presiding
is to meet on Monday, we are told.
There will probably be no business
done. liz .a
The Mayors Court has been
remarkably dull of late. No fights,
no fires "no nothing"to stir up a lit
tie excitement in these dry times.
Won't some fellow get up a small
sized row with some other fellow
just to give us an itemi Where
are you NJ. MI
Two Fairs and two Balls in
prospect for the young folks. Live
~ times in the immediate future.
We are glad to see it. We speak
in time for champagne punches,
boned turkey, chicken salad &c,
etc., ct cetera from both the fairs.
The Fcrryboat machinery is
being thoroughly overhauled and
repaired, and big fat with fleet
Of small boats is doing the crossing
between Alexandria and it's elsa.
pis. They are amply sufficient in
accommodation and nobody grum-
bles. We wish our friend Capt.
jim Graham, q busy season when
he brings tho Atrial out Of dock.
As an item of local news, it
gives us pleasure to record the fact
that the new Episcopal Church is
being pushed to completion and
will soon be u substantial ornament
to our town. In this connect on
we are pleased to see that the elf
cient and energetic Rector, Rev. A.
n. Ogden, Jr., is building himself
p neat and comfortable dwelli Y
house not tar from the church.
Thanksgiving day was gene
rally observed by services in the
churches here in obedience to the
proclamation of the Committee of
Seventy. Veare rejoiced all over at
our victory, but rs nobody sent us
a Turkey we did not feel as if we
had done full justice to the occa-
sion. We beg leave to remark
here, by way of parenthasis, that
we will he in the same fix tor
Christmas unless some of our kind
friends should send us the tradi-
tional gobbler to fatten.
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The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-11-21

THE kOADS.-Now that the cot.
ton crop is pretty we'll picked out,
the Road Syndics should during
the first spell of fair weather call
out the hands all over the parish
and work the roads we'll, in pre-
paration for the rainy winter whilst
we will most probably have. A
good working now, including the
cleaning out of the bitches, will
save the people Of the parish from
the annoyance and vexation, as
we'll as loss, from the bad roads
which will surely be our portion
unless they are worked at once.
The neglect Of the Syndics to do
their duty is criminal and subjects
them to heavy fines or imprison-
ment. We shall insist upon thef
performance OF their duty. We
published not long ago the full list
of the Syndics in the Parish for
their own information. In Decem-
Der about the time the Grand Jury
meets we will publish for their in.
formation a list of all those who
shall have failed to have the roads
worked. Let us have good roads;
gentlemen!
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-11-21
RAP1DES.

troduced the subject Of white immi
grafton in this parish and without
further introduction we will proceed
in this and subsequent issues until
we shall have exhausted the sub
ject, to give such a detailed descrip.
ton Of our lands, products, people
other data as will be likely to at
tract without deceiving such immi-
grants as may see our articles, and
induce them to cast their fortunes
with us.
THE FALLS AND RED RIVER.
Rapides Parish is so called from
the rapids, or "falls'' as we cal!
them, which are located just above
Alexandria, the lower within half a
mile and the upper about a mile
from the town in the bed of Red
River. These falls which are no
more than rocky beds for the river,
in low water seriously obstruct
navigation above Alexandria, and
for about three months i'm the Fall
of nearly every year make Alexan-
dria the head of the low water nav
igation OF Red River. During the
present.season there was no COM
munication above here except by
means of the smallest of crafts who
ran down to the upper falls and
took the freight which had been
brought this far from New Orleans
by larger boats, and they brought
down what cotton they could carry
and reshipped. This difficulty Of
river communication above here
in low water makes Rapides parish
the most desirable of any of the
Red River parishes for location.-
Below here on the river while they
have but little better navigation in
low water, they have most too
much of it when the river is high.
When they are overlooked below
here we escape that calamity here.
We have not had an overflow since
1867 and do not have them oftener
on an average Of once in ten years.
And even then it is only the river
bottoms and the bayou swamps
back of the river which are| over flow
ed at all. We have bayou bottom
lands which are never overf1owed
and all have u large area OF pine
woods lands which have not known
such % thing as an overflow since
the days of the big overflow when
Noah and his family alone escaped
the flood.
Red River used to divide Ra-
pides into two pretty nearly equal
portions, tho one South and the
other North of it, but the radical
and negro legislature cut off the
upper portion of the North side and
mt it into Grant Parish, The
character of the lands upon the
two sides were very different aud
are now so. Upon the North side
there is only river bottom and pine
woods. On the South side, which
is now the largest, although they
took slice from that side too and
put it into Vernon parish, there are
bayou lands, river bottom and pine
woods. We will hereafter give des-
criptions Of all these lands in detail.
STATISTICAL FIGURES.
From Bringhurst's new map of
Rapides which is just published we
obtain tho following figures as to
area etc.
PoruLAr1oN-160O0. White 5000.
Black 10000.
AKEA-132O square miles.
Acres.
Amount of land entered 90. 5O7.52O
{" vacant. 337.28O
(" cleared. 126.86O
{" wood. -. 1890
alluvial. 256 600
/" pine. 5SS.8OO
Mills and Gins.
Number Steam Saw Mills. Ii
Sugar "...... %
{" Cotton Gins. 10
PRODUCTS, CROPS, ETC.
The three staple products of Lou
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-11-21

ERESH SOUR KROUT, for sale
- hy Dan. Gchr.
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ALEXANDRIA, LA:
Saturday,. Nov. 81, 1874
N q TIC e!

N ~ i Y A :
nUR Publisher G. r. STEWART. from
" and after this date has entire charge
of tho Financial affairs Of t1,e CAUCASIAN,
aud his receipt is binding for all dues to
This Office
Contracts for ADvErr!z1NG and jon
Work will be made will, him
ROBT r. 1IlTNTER,
Nov 1sth 1874. Proprietor.
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PERSONAL.

Maj. F. M. Raxdale who has
for about nine or ten months been
in Marlin, Texas, is now on short
visit to his family here. The Ma
jor has Jared we'll in Texas and will
return shortly to build q Court
House and complete other large
contracts which he has on hand,
but will not leave us permanently.
From letters which we have
been permitted to real written to a
friend of his here, we learn that our
universally popular young friend,
p. w. Linskie is doing o good pay
ing business in Dallas, Texas. We
are much gratified to hear Of his
success. Every body in Alexan-
dria wishes Pat well, and everybo.
dy missed him when he left US last
Spring to try his fortunes in Texas.
We were pleased to meet this
week in town Mr.. A. G. Thompson,
from Bayou Sara, who was a Col.
lege mate of ours at Washington
College Lexington, Va, while Gen.
II. E. Lee was President. Mr..
Thompson has left West Feliciana
in disgust now that it has gone
again for the negroes and radicals
and proposes to locate with us as
we have been more fortunate in
'electing our officers. He desires to
get day school in Alexandria for
advanced or younger boys. We
can cheerfuliy recommend him as a
talented gentleman, and able teach
er, and hope that he will be en-.
couragcd by our people, as we are
sadly in need 2f a first class boys
school here.
The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-11-21

A NEW INDUSTRY.-The Durfee
carried down this trip to Mr.. Oscar
Chopin, Commission Merchant, sew
er;.l tons Of fine bermuda hay i'm
bales which was consigned to him
by our energetic and enterprising
townsman, Mr.. j. J. COTE. The
hay was as fine rs any we ever saw
and We know will compete with, if
not excl any that comes to New
Orleans from the West.
Mr.. COTE is in the hay bushes
exclusively, and no doubt, finds it
to be a profitable one. This is one
of the branches Of industry which
we desire to see developed and en-
conraged in our parish, and we hope
that Mr.. COTE will find q ready
sale for all he has on hand. His
hay took the premium at the Fair
in October and is in our opinion
superior to any that can be brought
here from New Orleans Less cot
ton and more attention to these
kind of products will bring out our
parish. Let us encourage home in
dustry. Buy your hay from COTE
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STATISTICAL FIGURES.

From Bringhurst's new map of
Rapides which is just published we
obtain tho following figures as to
area etc.
PopuLAr1oN-1G.OO0. White 5000.
Black 10000.
AREA-132O square miles.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-11-13
A Syrian Toilet.
From Jessup's Syrian Home Life.

lFr0m Jessup's Syrian Home 1ite.l
We called yesterday on the daughter
Of a MOhammedan living in this city
(TTlpOli.) Though the girl had been
married several days, she had never
been seen by her husband. He only had
gone to the mosque When the ceremony
was performed, she taking no part in it.
After the ceremony the bride usually
stays at her fathers house nine days,
during which time she sits in state,
deCked in her finest dress and jewels, re-
ceiving calls from her friends. Then her
joy is at an end. She must go to her
husband, take off her fine clothes, and
become a perfect slave, subject to the
will of her cruel master. The parents
of this bride were very poor. Her
mother was dressed in a little better
than rags, and was at the tGgnuG wash
brides company had their hair plated
full of gold coins; these were heirlooms,
and so greatly treasured that q woman
would almost starve sooner than part
with one. The present given by the
family to the bride was an elegant pale
blue brocade silk dress and a black silk,
embroidered with gold. The former
cost $3.50. The bridegrOom's presents
were a sumptuOns lilac silk, heavily
embroidered with gold; earrings of
pearl and gold bracelets as wide as Il
finger. During the call she wore the
bridegrOOm's presents. The other pres
ents were hung spread out on the wall.
We stopped at a house below accord
ing to custom, and sent word that we
were coming. The bride returned an
answer that she would be most happy
to salute us. After waiting about
twenty minutes We went up stairs, for
she lived on the second floor. She had
not quite finished her toilet, and she sat
Oh the floor before Il large mirror, sur
rounded by her tinery. AS we entered
she arose and saluted lis, and then re-
turned cOmpOsedly to her dressing. Of
all thdastrange and CHASTITY sights her
face was the most wonderful, as may
we'll be imagined from the way in which
it was prepared. ~ 49,
First, hot wax was spread over the
whole face, which, when cool, was peeled
off. This vas done to remOve all the
hair from the face. The whiting was
rubbed on till the skin looked like
marble. Her eyebrows were painted
jet black, her lips and large spot on each
cheek painted a brilliant red. On these
red spots On her forehead and at the
cOFucfS vi ileF HlOutu Sullt IiOWeFS were
pasted. Then over the whole powdered
sugar had been snapped, which made it
sparkle as with diamond dust" She
wore pearl earrings, and around her
neck were a string of large amber beads,
three strings OF roped pearls and u
curious necklace, which we were pri-
vately told was borrowed for the Occa-
sion. 1t was made of gold twenty-five
dollar pieces, overlapping each other
like scales. The usual head-dress was
covered with real and artificial flowers.
The finishing touch was put on in the
shape of a piece of black wax, heated
over the cGR00R till very hot, made round
and fiat, and then stuck between the
eyes.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-11-13
A Strage Story.

In the upper part of Placer county,
Cal, III a narrow valley some distance
from Lake Tahoe, ana 50 out of the way
that It's existence is scarcely known, lives
a NOrM eGian family named GumUulI,
who l~mmigrated to this State from their
scandinavian home some ten or twelve
years ago. Their oldest SON, at the time
ut their arrival a man nearly thirty
years OF age, was a dwarf, having re-
celVed an injury i'll early life that ar
rested his growth. To look at him one
would suppose that he was a child of
not more than ten OF twelve years ex-
cept for the mature look on his face
and his unusual smartness and intelli
gence. Little Dolls and his parents had
long since given up the hope that he
would ever attain the stature of q man;
out the boy OF man could not help feel
ing keenly disappointed, and frequently
remarked that it he could not be like
other people he did not want to live.
Nothing was thought of it however, and
no one suspected that he would endeavOr
to make way with himself. Early last
fall Dolls disappeared, and after much
search he was given up for lost. Nothing
was heard OF him for some two months,
and the family had settled down to the
SAAS CllC IC IluA "UuuCICA IL uF utIOuS
the mountains and been lost, or that a
grizzly had made a meal Of him. In
the latter part of November, a party of
prospectOrs in fOllOwingu up small canon
on the headwaters of the south fork OF
the American River to the eastern part
OF EldOradO county, discovered a small
cavern, and in exploring it's recesses
found the wasted from of a child. who
was SO nearly dead when found that he
could give, no account OF himself, but
before long recovered sufficiently to tell
who he was, though he was still unable
to tell anything about how he came to
be there, all recOllectiOns of the preced-
ing two Or three months having faded
from his mind. And now M the
strange part OF the story. Taken to his
home and tenderly cared for he recov.
cred and at nee began to grow with
great rapidity. When our informant
saw him it was only six mouths after
the rescue, and he. had already attained
the stature of a full-grown man. A
thick beard, nearly twoinches in length,
covered his hitherto smooth face, and
his voice, which had always remained
the piping treble of childhood, had
changed to a deep, sOnorous bass. The
case is an interesting one, well worth
the attention of men of science, and to
them We will leave the solution of this
singular transaction.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-11-13

MORE SCHOOLS NEEDED.-Of the
1919 registered voters of this parish.
3109 white and 1868 cOlOred, only 20O7
signed their names, leaving 1865 who
did not sign, the non-signers being al
most two to one. Taking it for granted
that all the colored voters could not
sign, there still remains a white balance
OF 1902 in the same category. We are
informed however, by one of the regis
trar's clerks, that about one-fifth of the
colored did sign their names. Say five
hundred did. This number taken from
the total colored, 1868, leaves 1868 who
failed to sign; 1868 taken from 1865
leaves 1909 whites who failed to sign,
or over half the registered white
vote. It is evident that an educational
qualification for suffrage would play
havoc with the ranks of our voting pop
uIation. The remedy that should be
applied is more schools, and probably
compulsory education. 1t is to be hoped
that with the improvement expected in
our legislation, attention will be
paid to so important a matter.