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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

SOMEBODY in New Orleans, with
half of the alphabet in his name, has
taken up the pen in scribling mood
against the New New Orleans Pacific
Railway and it's Chief Engineer, Maj.
Greene, and now finds out that all
about 1t is wrong. We have an idea
that that same parsonage wanted to
be Chief Engineer, was an applicant
for it aud did not receive a single
vote. That may account for the
juice in the nut, and perhaps alittle
more attention to the Jetties, and
less meddling with our affairs up
here would be of some profit to that
self-same individual.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

-THE weather, the past week, has
been none of the best-might have
been worse, should nave been better
"a few medium showers of rain
nearly every day in some parts of the
Parish-the cotton opening tardily
under the weak sun of these days
under the circumstances pretty fair
picking done---a few bales of the new
staple has found it's way to Town,
and goes to New Orleans to-day per
Packet-the river falling very slow
iy-gone down three inches since
new decline, with excellent and per-
feet navigation all around.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

-TuE roads Of the Parish are yet
unworked, though the Summer Is
nearly gone. # some work on them
be not soon commenced Ne viii have
to bid farewell to travel through our /.
Parish this Fall and Winter. The
Syndics seem to be lost to all ideas
OF their important duties, and thus
the poor public is the sufferer.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

ALL honest men will bear watch.
ing-it is the rascals who cannot
stand it.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01
THE RAILROAD.

enough work commenced on the eve.
ming of the 25th, is matter of fact
and a certainty, we conscientiously
believe it is high time that the peo
pie of Rapides should make theil
move in behalf of said grand work Of
progress, or write themselves down
as drones and laggards, opposed tc
it. We are in earnest in thus ex.
pressing ourselves with such blunt
frankness, and intend every line of II
meaningly and for an avowed good
object, and through the medium Of
our columns we wish the honest and
fair majority of our sensible people
to have chance to express them.
selves and take their right position,
We believe we hazard nothing, MOI
tread on hallowed ground, when we
assert that as a people, a christian
community, we have gone through
the tread mill Of woes unnumbered,
that the lowest depth to which the
lead line of ruin can touch has long
since been reached, and that come
worse, come evils mountain high, we
cannot be set back an inch further,
and that any change can be but for
the better and rebound to our mate
rial interests, we know all must adj
NIT. With this good and over true
starting point, we hope new wonders
will not arise to haunt the Democrat
in its present and onward talk to its
people, and that they must admit the
fact of our starting premises, and
bear with US, as we briefly blaze the
road for them to be helped, to be
saved.
Without further parlance we come
to the point, to the pure milk in the
cocoanut, and categorically put it in
plain Saxon: why have not our Police
Jury been called together in extra
session long before this, to discuss
this railroad matter and place it le-
gally before their constituents, the
people of the Parish of Rapides?-
Surely that Honorable Body are not
timid Legislators, nor can they be
afraid to trust to the voice of the
people in this matter; nor can they
be unwilling to offer that people the
only mode open to them to form and
express their opinions in a matter so
vitality intewoven with their best in
'erests? We repeat it, it is high
lime this turning point should be
reached, and we, in the name of the
icing people of our Parish, ask for
The problem to be solved now, one
way or the other. We desire to know
we are yet in the land of the
icing, or whether we are forever to
talk around in the habilliments of
he charnel house. If so, in the name
# decency and civilization let us
now it. The glorious uncertainty
'hich hangs like funeral pail over
ur heads just now, in the matter we
re writing about, has now gone far
nough and should come to some
ONT. We can't be so lost to all vi
rations of progress and self-interest
$ to forever sleep on our watch,
'hilst others less able than us. are
loving like an army with banners,
nd meet the Railroad Directory half
ay, with the olive branch of good
ill and substantial help, and good
,llowship.
Let us do one thing or the other,
Ike our position, our stand, get off
the fence and take one of the cross
'ads, and then we can all Judge if
apides, once the Empire Parish of
ir and prosperous Louisiana, yet
ings to that old maintenance of her
lst career and deeds.
.~~o~~o-.~1s.~~~--
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

--As a matter Of course the officers
Of the G. H. Durfee fulfilled the duty
they owe, each trip, to the Office Of
the Democrat.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

The croakers consumed all their
time, last week, in growing at the
Railroad. The fact is that kind Of
matter hurts them.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

-THANKs to Charlie Drown, Of
the Col. A. 2. Kouns, for a decent
bundle Of late New 0fleans papers.
lie looks none the worse for his Ar
kansas recreation.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

WHEN Jenny Lind first saw Mia
CARA Falls she is said to have drop
ped upon her knees and uttered a
prayer Of gratitude to God. How
differently the same sight affects diff
ferent people. A Brooklyn Gentle
saw Niagara Falls last week for the
first time, and all he remarked was:
"Great Heavens, Shearman amt a
tea pot to thisr'
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

Hon. D. NJ. Key, of Chattanooga
appointed by Governor Porter, of
Tennessee, United States Senator to
the vacancy of ex-P President johnson
is at present Chancellor Of the Third
Chancery Division of Tennessee
He is a native of Tennessee, life
long Democrat, alawyer AMI Judge
OF marked ability. He is regarded
as the best lawyer on the bench in
the State, except Chancellor Cooper,
of Nashville, brother of Senator
Cooper. He was a Southern States
Rights Democrat before the rebellion
and was a candidate on the Breckin-
ridge ticket in 1860 for Elector in
the Third Congressional District
At the opening of the war he EN-
barked his fortunes with the South.
and served in the Confederate army.
as Lieutenant Colonel Of the Forty
third Tennessee Infantry, and was
captured at the fall Of Vicksburg.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

-As we go to press the pleasing
rumor comes to us, that several lead
ing croakers have thrown up their
arms and hoisted the white flag.
Railroad and Telegraph combined is
an unsurpassed anti-dyspeptic pill!
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01
"RIsE up"

/ ( VI
The great State canvass in Ohio
now in full progress for political SUI
premacy between the two parties O
4 this Union, the Republican and the
Democratic, is waxing hot and heavy
and already we can perceive, through
our Western exchanges, that the die
is cast and Democracy must win
i William Allen, the great chieftain
and old war horse, reared and trained
in the school Of old Hickory and the
grand galaxy Of Democrats who gilt
tered in his eventful days, carries
aloft and high above the din of bat
tie the old flag, and victory
lin early November must grace
its folds. So pushed to the wall are
the Radicals that they recently star
ted the report, that Allen would be
withdrawn from the ticket on account
of bad health and old age, but just
then William Allen rose again at
Greenfield, gave them irregular rise
up, Democratic talk, and touched the
Radical lie thusly:
The Cover then rose and opened
his speech by saying that the article
just read was ridiculous fiction
throughout. He added that he never
enjoyed more splendid health than he
did at this moment; that he never in
his whole life had the misfortune of
being confined to his bed by sickness
for three days: that he now enjoyed
the use of five perfect senses, land
the full use Of all hisAyital organs;
that he never thought of accommoda-
ting the enemy by withdrawing from
the contest, but, on the contrary, he
would be at Columbus next Monday,
and from that center conduct the
battle through the various sections
of the State up to the day before the
election; that if the Republican par
ty had no betterhope of success than
from his withdrawal, they would
better bid farewell to hope and retire.
"A CORRESPONDENT Of the Rich
mond Dispatch from White Sulphur
Springs, Virginia, gossips thus about
two Southern gentlemen: General
Johnston wears a short beard, which
is gray, like his hair. His form is
erect and soldierly, as of old, and his
eyes retain their wonted brightness.
General Johnston is a great pedes-
trian; he is constantly taking longt
jaunts over the mountains, and the
fresh, pure air and healthful exercise
seem to do him good and to keep him
in fine spirits. Northerners seek his
company and delight in his cheerful
conversation, for the centennial
feeling Is strong here, and society
knows. no territorial lines. Even
General Bob Toombs, of Georgia.
who is supposed by some Radical
journals to be ready to cat up Yam
kee on sight, or to blow up the Gov
eminent at the first opportunity, gets
along very we'll with our brethren
and sisters from across the Potomac
and Ohio. and makes himself agree
able to them ALL
~~~o>cO>e--aAH~oN~o-
Hon. D. NJ. Key, of Chattanooga
appointed by Governor Porter, of
Tennessee, United States Senator to
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

We have at hand, at last, the
census of Grant Parish: Total White
Males, l,545; Females, 1923. Total
Colored Males, LILO; Females, 1875.
White Voters, 632; Colorcd Voters,
500.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

ANoTHER bottle Of st. Julien and
q big lump Office were the Democrats
pGtion, on last Sundayall sympa-
thisers with us can easily guess
where they came from.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

.eARpESrERs are given to vice
hey do SO much chiscling.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01
that will soon b

leaving ,,s-the leayes,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

BAKERS are crusty lot Of fel.
lows, and fond of loafing.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-01

THE latest papers and kilograms
gently hint that Donaldson's deaosse
neat and last words in his last bal
loon ascension, are suspected Of being.
first-class caaards. !.
~-~~-~--~..-or..- 5sss &
JOEL PARKER, the eminent jurist
Of Boston. is dead.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-16
Kellogg and the Returning Board
Sustained.
The Party Must Hold Together il
the Country Goes to Pieces.
Committee Reports to be Manipu.
lated.
Upton Goes for Logan Again.
Especial to the Bulletin


WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1S75.-Gen. But
ser's resolution ordering new election
in Louisiana, which had been referred
to the judiciary Committee, Of which
vote of to 8. The General is disguised.
The Republican Senator's in caucus this
morning, agreed to indorse the Presidents
message, to sustain Kellogg, and accept the
conclusions of the Returning Board.
The same sentiment is gaining strength in
The Honse, since the Republicans conclude
the party must hold togethes, whether the
country does or not.
A heavy pressure is being exerted upon the
Louisiana Investigating Committee, to sup
press such parts of their report as might dis
agree with Republican digestion.
The passing of every measure before the
House seems to hinge entirely upon party
conclusions, but the Democrats are patient,
knowing their time is at hand.
The debate in the Senate still goes on.
Upton concluded has reply to Logan this
afternoon, making SONG telling hits FIRE.
ginghuysen is now at work stating his senti-
xoents. ~."...
The Presidents message on Louisiana
affairs is called a NEST adroit paper, shifting
all responsibility from his own shoulders to
to any that may come nearest. Congress eyes
the burden distaste.ully. A. S. 81.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-16

(CoSTINUEU On EIGHTH PAGE
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-16

therefore,, COQStTaluoU W uoclhIc tuat the
action of the Returning Board in rejecting
these returns in the parish of Rapides and
giving the seats for that parish to the Republic
can candidates was arbitrary, unfair and
without warrant of law. If the committee
were to go behind the papers before the
board and consider the alleged charge of in
mittee their finding would necessarily be the
same.
1t was asserted in Governor Weiss afida-
Wit that the McEnery officials had usurped
the offices of the parish, aad thereby intimi-
dated voters. Immediately after the 14th Of
September, when the Kellogg authorities in
New Orleans were put out by the Penn au-
thorities certain changes took place in some
OF the parishes. When the news from New
Orleans reached these parishes the McEnery
officials demanded their places of the Kellogg
officials, and they were at once given up.
When the Federal Government interviewed
and unseated the McEnery authorities, the
Kellogg officials demanded and received back
their places, but in Rapides some time seems
to have elapsed before the Kellogg officials
took their places back. Indeed, the McEnery
register of deeds was still acting as such
when. your committee was in New Orleans
the Kellogg register never having come to re-
claim the place, which was said to be worth
nothing now in Rapides.
The Kellogg clerk was Mr.. Wells's son.
Having yielded his place to the McEnery
competitor in September he does not appear
to have reclaimed it, and he was accordingly
sent for after the election to come from his
residence, some miles distant, to sign the re-
turns Of the election, which he did. Your
committee are at q loss to see in their action
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-16

as they answered to their names. No roll Of
members voting was kept neither were let
ters ordered or any other such means en-
ployei than calling ths roll to ascertain tho
humber voting. This vote includes the FIVE
members who had been sworn in to ELL va
cancies. e-.,...l. f,i5,..,
During this roll call when Mr.. Hahn's name
was called he rose and asked to be excused
from voting and to be allowed to state his
reasons. Objection was made and then the
Speaker pro. tenn asked for unanimous con-
sent to his explanation. Consent was given
and Mr.. Hahn spoke at some length. After
the announcement by the Clerk of the vote,
Wilt was sworn in as Speaker and proceeded
to swear in others present SO far as they came
forward to be sworn.
\ Those thus sworn were said to number
sixty in all, made up of fifty Conservatives
and five Republicans who were returned by
the Returning Board, and the five Democratic
members who had just been admitted. Out
side the bar Of the Legislative hall, in the
State House, there we're large number OF the
police supported by the Federal troops.
No person was permitted to enter the State
House except through the orders OF Governor
Kellogg. Within the bar Of the House were
permitted only the gentlemen returned by the
Returning Board and the Clerk and Sergeant
alarms Of the former Legislature, ten per-
sons allowed to the Conservatives us messen-
gers, who suddenly became their assistant
Sergeants-at-Arms and few other persons,
such as were admitted by courtesy to the
floor.
Without the bar, in the public part Of tha
hail. stood the contestants and other persons
admitted. They numbered. by actual count,
1877. Besides these, at the door of the hall
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-16

rendered.
If Louisiana were country by itself, Nc
Emery and his associates would at once be in
stalled in power, but the Conservatives do mo-
propose to fight the Federal Government
They submit, not because they want to, but
because they must not because they pro
claim any enmity against the flag, not be-
cause free labor has not been found prac
ticable, not because of any hostility tt
the colored people because colored, but
because they regard themselves as de-
and yet more, out of the last election, and
because they think their State government
has been to the last degree destructive and
corrupt. Indeed, in our judgment, the sub
stantial citizens of the State will submit to
any fair determination of the question of the
late election, or to any anything by which
they can secure firm and good government.
What they seek is peace and an opportunity
for prosperity.
TO that end they will support any form Of
government that will afford them just. pro-
lection. In their distress they have got be-
yond any mere question Of political party.
After your committee had announced their
intention not to investigate the election Of
1872, they received a letter from Gov. Kellogg
expressing q desire that they should investi.
gate that subject Later they received
letter from McEnery and Penn and
associates, proposing to submit thei1
claims to the State offices to the committee
as arbitrators. In view of the assurance that
like submission was desired on the part O,
Kellogg and Antoine and their associates, the
committee addressed letter to each of these
gentlemen, desiring to know, explicitly
whether each one would submit to the deter
mination Of the committee, and if they found
he was not duly elected, he would resign hi
Office OF all claim to the office, and would mo-
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-16

the opportunity offered. Both parties agreed
upon four parishes as samples of the condi-
ton Of affairs in that respect in the State. OF
these, owing to the impossibility Of procur-
ing witnesses from the locality in time, your
committee were obliged to confne their spe-
cial examination to the two parishes most &C
cessible.
As to these they received all the testimony
that was offered, and in addition received all
testimony that was on hand in New Orleans,
offered by either party, as to the condition of
affairs in other parts Of the State. As a
whole, they are constrained to say that the
intention charged is not borne out by the
facts before u.s. No general intimidation of
Republican voters was established; no COL
ored man was produced who had been threat
ened or assaulted by any Conservative be-
cause of political opinion, or discharged from
employment or refused employment
Of all those who testified to intimidation
hardly any one who of his own knowledge
could specify reliable instance of such acts,
and of the white men who were produced to
testify generally on such subjects very nearly
all if not every single one was the holder of an
Office. Throughout the rural districts of the
State the number of white Republicans are
very few. 1t hardly extends beyond those
holding Office and those connected with them.
NO witness, we beneve, succeeded ID naming
in any parish five Republicans who supported
the Kellogg government, who were not them
selves Office holders or related to office hold
ers, and those having official employment.
On the other hand applications to United
States Commissioners in the various parishes,
not only for alleged crimes, but because of
alleged threats of discharge, unemployment,
or other interference with political preference,
were frequent. Upon these applications war
rants were often issued and white citiznes
arrested and bound over trial
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houses and stores are to be had there for the
taxes. In Nachitoches the taxation reached
about s per cent. Of the assessed value on the
property. In many parishes all the white
Republicans and all the Office holders belong
to single family. There are five of the
Greens in Office in Lincoln. There are seven
of the Bouts in office in Nachitoches. As
he people saw taxation increase and pros
perity diminish, as they grew poor while Off
Gals grew rich, they became naturally sore !;
that they loved their rulers cannot be pre-
tended.
The Kellogg Government claims to have
reduced taxation. This has been effected in
part by establishing board to fund the debt
Of the Stated at sixty per cent of its face
value. This measure arouses great hostility,
not so much because OF the reduction of its
acknowledged debt, as because it gave to the
Funding Board, whose powers seem to be abb
solute and without review, discretionary au-
thority to admit to be funded some six
millions of debt, alleged to be fraudulent.
50 that under the guise of reducing the ac-
knewledged debt, it gave opportunity to swell
the fraudulent debt against the State.
This nominal reduction of the State taxes
has been accompanied by . provision that the
parish taxes shall not exceed the State, but
the parishes have notwithstanding created
liabilities, Judgments being recovered on
them. The courts have directed taxes to be
levied for their payment, and thus the actual
taxes have been carried far beyond the au-
thorized rates.
Rings have been formed in parishes, COM
posed of the parish officers, their relatives,
and of cooperating Democrats, who would
buy these obligations, put them in judgments
and cause them to be inforced, to the great
distress OF the neighborhood, q distress so
general that the sales of land for taxes have
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-14
Now York Central and Boston.

The annual report of the New York Cen
trail is always of interest as the record Of
the best thousand miles OF railroad man
agement under one head in the country.
The working expenses of the past year
were $500 per cent of the total gross
against 60, % the previous year. The gross
receipts fell of per cent, and the work
ing expenses were reduced per cent. This
relative saving was made up by n reduction
in wages and the cost of materials. re-
duction in the mileage of both the freight
and passenger services and an increase in
the average train load. The average charge
per ton per nile was LAC cents, as against
Loo in the previous year, per passenger
per mil 3 cents, az against 2.24,-a
reduction in both of about 6 per cent.
This freight rate is not quite as low as
those Of the coal roads, but very low for n
grain road. In fact, Notwithstanding the
bright outlook which the iIoosac tunnel
commissioners see in the direction of Penn.
sylvania and Erie, il is doubtful If the more
southern roads are ever able to compete
with the Vanderbilt system in the cereal
traffic. As Mr.. Chaplin reminds Boston,
through the last report of the Boston and
Albany railroad, the contribution of the
New York Central to the prosperity of
Massachusetts, and the city OF Boston has
been greatly moderated. The hope ex-
pressed that the efforts of these two roads
may, by the opening of the tunnel line,
come to be better appreciated is certainly
reasonable. just as Boston nears the prom
ised land, she is likely to fall under har-