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The Portland Press says:

The Portland Press says:
BY far the most important of the
issues now before the people of the
United States is that which relates to
the currency.
To which the New York Sun says
This is not so. The currency is an
important thing no doubt, but it is Of
trifling consequence compared with
the question whether the affairs of the
country shall he administered by
thieves or by honest men.
If plundering and swindling are to
be the rule in public life, it makes
very little difference whether the cur
rency is paper or coin. Let us first
drive tho robbers out of the temple
of our republican freedom and then
we shall he prepared to consider what
sort Of money is most convenient and
beneficial.
BY far the most important of the
issues now before the people of the
United States is that which relates to
honesty and economy in public af-
fairs.
The Sun, as usual, hits the nail
squarely on the head. It expresses
our views exactly.-ShreuepOrt Tsmes.
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Railroad Prospects.

1t will DO gratifying to the friends
Of the enterprise and encouraging to
the community at large to knew that
subscriptions for the Texas Railroad
are being literally made wherever
the canyassers have thus far gone.
Already quite a large amount has
been secured, and it is safe to say
that at the next meeting OF tho d.
rect0ry the announcement will be
made Of the $l5O,ON necessary to
begin the work with. A single men,
Der of the committee has on his book
now $4,000 aud if his colleagues
have been even approximately sue
ccssful, the conditions precedent to
the Inauguration Of the undertaking
will have been complied with.
1t may not DO out of place to men,
ton just here that the scheme of the
company effectually avoids the error
too common in such enterprises, to
wit: the issue of bonds based on i'm
aginary, or at best prospective sccu-
rity. We are assured that the direc-
tors do not contemplate issuing a sin
gle bond until the road shall have
been thrown up, graded, cross-tied
and ironed from Alexandria to Match
itocl,es. The project will have to he
an assured success before they invoke
the aid of mortgage bonds, or ap-
peal to any source other than the
public spirit and liberality Of their
fellow citizens Of Louisiana. This
is q proper and wholesome feature of
the plan, and it is especially reas-
surfing to observe that there is every
indication Of its being thoroughly
adhered to.
The Committee on Subscription
have thus far met with most crafty
ing success. The public seems to
he practically awake to the necessity
of the projected railway, and we feel
perfectly confident that when the ad-
mirable and. intelligent system Of So
Eciting devised by the Directory shall
have been put in operation the result
will he everything that the most ar
dent advocates Of the enterprise
could desire.
The present prospect is that the
work can be begun by the 18th inst,
and that before the end of the year
the long looked for and sadly needed
Texas Railroad will he fact patent
aud tangible to all.-Picaynne.
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BUs1NEss.-As a convincer to our
cr0akers that the new Railroad Dr.
rectors mean business, We will state
that they have issued card 10 the
Democrat of to-day for "scaled pro
posals for cash." which they invite
and will receive up to the LIST prox.,
TAT the company's Office, No. 3s Mag.
azine Street, (unler St. James Hotel)
for the following described work
All the graduation, grubbing and
cleaning between Alexandra and
Natchitoches, 60 miles, more or less
Also "for Cypress Cross Ties for the
whole distance or for a section of one
mile. The ties to be 9 feet long,
lIewed on two parallel sides to - face
of z inches heart and 7 inches thick .
All the latter to be distributed owe,
the line as will hereafter be directed
by the Chief Engineer, at the rate Of
264O to the mile.-Alexandria Demo.
crat, (l2tb).
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D I E. D

In Natchitoches, on Tuesday, I,,r a.,
1875, EoLlSE, infant daughter Of Ion .s'a,
c. and E. Josephine Keyser, aged rsla
7 months and "a days. '''''
Dear little Eoline! God has taksn.
out Of this world Of trouble. for r.n,
knew
"Thou vert too like dream Of He.,.
For earthly love to merit thee.' 'a
We shall not monrn for one xhu,.
ever been so pure and bright. f.. -
know that tour loss has been her ete,,,,
gain"
We tender to the afflicted parent. 81,
the sympathy which can come finn, .
true friend, hoping they will trust !,
God to meet her in Heaven, where tA.,
will never part again. And when n.
Angel of Death calls them to hri,h,..
world than this, that they viii see be,
"There. more beautiful than ever
And filled with a tender grace;
Will hear her voice with the sn,,,
And behold their daughters faees
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Crops IN North Louisiana.
Minden Democrat, 10th :

There are localities in our parish
that have had no rain in 8 or 10 weeks
aud the corn crops will probably Ike
a failure. The cotton in these dis
tricts is looking finely, and it is hoped
that the deficit in corn will be met
by the increase 10 the yield of cotton.
These sections or localities are not
numerous nor extensive. The crops,
a. a general thing, were never better.
We had cool showers yesterday and
the day before.
Coushatta Citizen
We have had an abundance of rain
all over the parish.
Sparta Times, July 2:
There have been more bright farm.
ers' faces in town this week than we
have seen here in many q long day.
Mansfield Reporter:
We have had several good rains
within the past ten days, and with
very few exceptions, every neighbor.
hood have had as much as they want.
ed at present.
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The cotton crops Of the parish
are in fine condition as far as we
can learn. Corn, however, is not
so, having suffered in many sec.
tions from the extreme drought.
This is bad, and had our planters
put more acreage in corn than
they did, the loss would have
been made up; it seems the same
old story, cotton engrossed all at
tention. We can never expect to
be a prosperous people until we
raise our own bread and meat.
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The Memphis Avalanche says
"Georgia bonds rank highest among
Southern State securities. The New
York Financial Chronicle, Of June
26th, quotes Georgia &c at SO; 7's,
new bonds, at 80; ditto, Endorsed, at
95; ditto, gold bonds, at IS. II
should be borne in mind that Geor.
gia did not hesitate to repudlate the
bonds issued illegally and for cor.
rnpt purposes, when the Taxpayers
were at tho mercy Of official plumber
ers."
Let Louisiana, when her time
comes, profit by the experience Of
Georgia. We will pay our honest
debt but not fraudulent obligations
funded or unfanded. - Shreveport
Times.
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TEIEGRAPHIC.

Washington, July l0.-Commodore
G. H. Hooper, in command of the
Pensacola navy yard, telegraphs to
the Navy Department to-day that
there are no new cases of yellow fe-
YER at the quarantine there. The
nine patients from the German bark
Won Moltke are con valescent and no
deaths have occurred since tho last
dispatch. There are no cases at the
navy yard.
A telegram received here this morn
ing from Key West reports three
deaths from yellow fever and two new
cases Of the disease there yesterday.
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Our Trade With Shreveport.

1t seems strange that wo should
continue to so long overlook a direct
and profitable channel to the North
ern marts and that we should follow
still the line of travel and transfer
pursued by our ancestors, via the
tortuous and difficult to be navigted
length of Red River from this to the
mouth, rather than the quick and
easy transit from hence to Shreve-
port and then by rail direct North.
In an article, in a late number of
the Shreveport Times, We notice it ad-
verts to q line of steamers between
that city and this, and it is an enter
prise to which We will give our most
cordial support. For nothing SO Sc
riously interrupt our business than
this everlasting pulling and hauling
to reach New Orleans and q market,
in low water. Trade, like water, will
seek the nearest and cheapest route
to its leyel-a markct-and we are
ashamed to confess we have to this
moment stumbled blindly along with.
out thinking once of this near outlet
via Shreveport.
We see that planters from as low
down as Graphs Bluff are shipping
cotton up to Shreveport, where the
staple commands as good, if not bet
ter, price than in New Orleans, and
we understand the nett proceeds are
not cut down by such cxhorbitant
charges for brokerage. Hauling,
storing freight and commissions, in
Shreveport, as in our Queen city.
70 more fully test this matter let
some Of our enteyprising citizens
make shipments Of cotton to Shrcve-
port and practical illustration, will,
We venture to say, convince US of the
fact that We have not in the past
looked close enough to home for a
good market for our produce. Then
in the matter of merchandise, we are
at a loss to see why Shreveport, with
its cheap railroad tariff and its low
rents cannot undersell New Orleans,
even if our merchants desire to pur-
chase there, while ut her back is St.
Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati Philadel.
phia and New York, where We could
be supplied with all We require from
first hands. Let this question be az
gitated and no distant day We epine
such thing will exist and wil pay
as Shreveport and Grand Ecore
Packet Route Co.
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How Rich Men Begin tho WosN

Cornelius Vanderbilt began III
with an old pirogue running betwen
Staten Island aud New York Cib,
carrying garden stuff TO martsk
With two or three thousand dollsp
from that source he entered upea
steadily increasing enterprises ..a
he amassed the enormous cum Of a.
OOO, 600. :
A. T. Stewart first bought : tsv
laces at auction, and opened bio NY
to success in = dingy little shePn
Broadway, near thu site ofhts whe
sale establishment. Yeass Of neA
honest, shrewd management aid W.
dom in things both great and ssaa
have made him the monumental ~
chant Of the nineteenth century.
Daniel Drew, in bis early life, I'D =.
a cattle driver at the muni6cent ~
of Is cents . day, and he has 9. 4.
driven himself into an estate vase'
at from az, OOO. 600 to On, O0Q@.
George Law, at 45 years o. -
was q common day labosef % y
docks, and at present counts hi W ~
tune at something like el0, GOO. 0&
Robert l.. and Alexander Ssea
the sugar refiners, in their boybes
sold molasses candy, which their va .
owed mother had made, at . cen.
stick, and to-day they arc wof"
probably IS, OoO, 600 to @6,0oO,0Oo' :.
Marshal o. Roberts is the poseees@
of $4,000, 600 or $5,000, 900. ara ~
until he was twenty-five 10 d'd ~
have 900 he could call his own
H. B. Claain, the eminent dr. toed'
merchant, worth it is estimated 90,
100000 to 9l5, 0oo. &c commenced tho
world with nothing but energy, %.
termination and hope, and Gee DO"
munifcently he has invested them
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Mr.. E. B. Wheelock. VIII,

Mr.. E. B. Wheelock, who is
leading, It seems, the citizens Of
New Orleans in, the Railroad
movement, came up to Alexan-
dria per last trip of the Bart Able,
to further the project. We hope
he will pay this city a visit, and
that our citizens will be prepared
to respond in q liberal and beft-
ting manner, to aid in the con-
structibn Of this great want.
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Judge Chaplin granted the petition
for a change Of ren;re in the cases of
Jos. Ezernack vs.. the Peoples Police
Jury, and P. A. Simmons vs. the
elected City officials. The cases will
be determined in Wiun.
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The Bart Able brought up from
New Orleans, Tuesday last, the
mails for Red river, as high as
this point. This we understand,
Capt. Sinnott did free of charge.
1t is not surprising, for he is a lib.
eral man, and always anxious as
we'll as willing to accommodate
the people.
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Confusion, worse COMPOUNDED
in Grant Parish.

We had occasion to publish the
statement of many Of the citizens
of Grant parish, of the middle in
to which the courts of that par
ish plunged the sweet-scented radi-
cal officials Of that locality, some two
weeks ago, BY the conviction Of Phil
lips and others, of divers misdemean.
ors, together with the indictment Of
Shelby, the Deputy Sheriff, for the
murder of Needham Walters.
The Court ordered the Sheriff to
take his prisoners to the Alexandria
Jail, there being none in Colfax. This
he deliberately refused to do, but on
the contrary, gave oil his prisoners
their liberty, and among others turn.
ed loose two sentenced convicts to
the pepitentiary, one Of them being
for murder. These, together with
Phillips the notorious, committed and
sentenced for two misdemeanors and
indicted for perjury, murder and ar.
son, fled the country on or about the
night of the I'd of July.
On a motion for contempt, in the
Parish Court last week, the Sheriff
was fined $500 and suspended from
his Office, and young Mr.. Kellum, of
Montgomery, appointed, who having
given the bond required by law, ap-
pointed G. c. Nash as his Deputy.
Up to the last account, Mccoy had
refused to deliver the warrants and
other papers of his Office, that had
been secreted, but had promised to
do 80 on the 9th, as the law abiding
citizens of the parish were about to
make it rather warm for him. It is
said that he and Phillips made every
possible effort to excite the negroes
to another instruction, but failed en-.
tirely to enlist their synpathies in
any way.
It is to be hoped that the new ap-
pointments Of Sheriff and Deputy will
be the beginning Of new order Of
things in this parish, that they will
be successful in recovering the pris.
oners and in restoring law and order
to that much vexed community.
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On to-day Rapides holds q Rail-
road meeting. Mr.. E. B. Vince.
lock viii remain there, and we
suppose he will be up our way on
Tuesday next, at which time we
can fully learn what is intended
By the Company. It will be seen
that proposals for work, cross ties,
&c will be received at the Com
panys Office in New Orleans.
This looks like business, and
wepredict that this road will now
be built.
s3+ --.-
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Would it not be we'll for our
people to have q Railroad meeting
as soon as possible. There is
nothing like talking over this
matter. Rapides parish is per-
fectly alive to the enterprise, and
our people should not he behind.
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It will be seen that the collec-
ton Of the penalties on back tax
e. has been postponed until the
let November next; this will be
cheering news to those who are
the paying men of our State. How
it is that the Governor and Au
ditor can do these things, is a
mystery to the people.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
New Orleans. july 6. 1875.

Hon. Charles Clinton, Auditor Of Public Ac-
counts
Sir: enclose a communication
from Assistant Attorney General
Steele and recommend that you adopt
his views. Let it be understood that
the time for payment of back taxes is
not extended, but that all penalties
are RENTED throughout the State to
enable delinquents to settle, as it is
to be hoped they will do Immediate
".
w. P. KELLOGG, Governor.
TO TAX COLI NO. 4.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
Auditors Office,
New Orleans, July 6, 1875.
Believing that to allow the widest
Interpretation to act No. 7, extra ses.
sion of 1875, is justifable, notwith.
standing the ambiguity of it's title,
you are hereby instructed to contin
Ne collecting delinquent taxes without
adding penalties thereto up to and
including November ], 1875.
You are to understand, however,
that the remission of penalties does
not operate to postpone collections
beyond the usual time after service
of notices, and you are required to
vigorously enforce collections, both
Of current and delinquent taxes.
CHARLES CLINTON,
Auditor.
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John J. Herbert, is Our duly authori
zed travelling agent.
Notice to Contributors.

No communications will be published
unless accompanied by the authors real
written upon when sent to us for inser-
ton.
Articles to be short and to the point,
to have attention.
These are onr rn]cs and they mnst be
strictly adhered to.
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Crops are, generally speaking,
good, although We have had consider
able drought in the middle strip.

Van DuzeD, who created go much
stir here among our people last fall,
has turned up at Skipwith's Landing,
in Miss, and 10 q candidate for the
State Senate. Van Duzen is certain
~ q practical rpet-bagger.
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Wei have a good Livery Stable
kept by Mr.. Wytche, where hor-
ses, buggies, &C., can be had at
all hours, and cheap rates.
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Our city was visited by a re-
heshing and much needed rain,
on Sunday last. ALI nature was
gladdened thercat.
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Much complaint is made of
nearly all the mail routes, and
confusion seems COMPOUNDED on
nearly all the lines. Cannot the
Post Master General do something
for our suffering people. Let us
have our mails once, twice or three
times q week, but let US have
them.
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Railroad talk is all the 60 with our
people, and We hope good will come
of it, this time.
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Cannot q stop be put to the promis-
cuous firing ofguns and pistols 10 the
streets Of our city at all hours Of night I
Complaint is being continually made
with regard to it, and some one should
be taken up and fined.
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NOTICE..

Persons ordering JOB
WORK from his Office,
must pay for the same on
deliuery Of the soork.
No deviation from THIS
rule.
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The parish is more than quiet;
not q particle Of news stirring to
write about, and the poor country
Editor is taxed to his utmost to
make up a paper.
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We had q fine rain on Sunday,
which benefited our crops greatly.
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No mail for over week, and we
can not make ont the reason why.
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Weather very warm, with the cry
of more rain wanted.

Rhen and his fellow.companion,
Dill, attempted to burn out Of Jail
last week-failed.
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The telegraph has reached Csmpte,
and will be rapidly pushed on until
this city is reached. Next week We
hope to lay the latest news before our
readers.
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but the commercial world abroad
must also be inspired with the knowl.
edge that our government is prepared
on demand to redeem it's paper issue
with gold.
The leading question with all po-
litical economists is, how far currency
should be restrained, and We contend
that at this moment there is an album.
dance Of currency in this country,
which will only yield to circulation
when a commodity for sale comes in
and demands it. Investments in pub.
lie improvements from natural causes,
have ceased in this country, the crash
Of 1873 has made capitalists wary of
lending money upon fictitious secnri-
ty, such as the various stocks of the
numerous true and false corporations,
with which the money markets have
been fooded--and here We see anoth
or example Of that want of confidence,
and until that Is restored by some
healthy reaction, and wise legislation
will bring that about, we may look
for a dearth in the supply of money,
although the banks may be full to
overlooking. Why is it that money
only commando on Wall street, the
moneyed center of the Union, q per
cent per annum? Does not that show
that the supply is greater than the
demand at tho security required
Money is not what is required, bat a
return to the proper adjustment Of
the getting and spending Of the ma
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-07-03

HEALTH THE SOURCE OF HApp1NEss.-The re
taxation Of the nervous system, which ere.
ates an indisposition to mental or bodily ac-
ton. is Of very frequent occurrences. IL is
found that a torpid liver. dsbilitated stom-
ach or dcranged bowels are the great causes.
For years DIR. HgSLEy's CfLERRATED |. X. &.
BlrTERs have been sucessiullynsed throughout
and hcalth-giying MISUNDERSTANDING and
lnvIgorating those organs to their original
strength. 1t has never failed to restore to
health and reinvigoratc the whole system.
dyspepsia, indigestion and loss of appetite,
general debility, rheumatism, fever and ague,
disappear with its use. As a medicine for
diseases arising from impure or impoverished
blood, IT is without an equal. They are com
posed Of absolutely pure difflsive stiInulant,
indicated with the extracts and juices of ths
most effective tonic, and will give u safeguard
against the attacks Of dyspepsia and liver
complaint. jsI6
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MOClrS.

STILL FURTHER REDUCTION. - We
are about ready to close out; now is
the time to buy your medicines. All
patent medicines sold at cost. We
have on hand glycerine soap, rs cents
per box; pills, % cents. We have also
a fine assortment of perfumery, soap
Gosnel brushes, powder box, and va
rious articles of perflrmery, too nu-
mer to mention. Will he sold or given
away in the next sixty days. All pat
ent medicines at coast.
HICKEY Il Co.,
mh2S In the Postoffice building.