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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15
THE MISSISSIPPI TRIO U6LrsI
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF ThE GIN
ron FIGHT. 1900 NEGROES
AGAINST Is WHITES.

| AGAINST 10 WHITES.
At about noon Saturday, 2OOO M
groes gathered at a grove west 81 tha
railroad depot, a half mile and south
| of the railroad; among these M.
about 1900 men. There were som !
eight or ten white men from Raw
mond and few from Clinton, in III
perhaps fifty. Out Of these fifteen
or twenty had side arms, while Il vas
noticed that many ofthe negroes had
pistols.
After Fisher had spoken about If.
teen minutes an alteration occurred
at distant part of the grounds, hay.
ing no reference to the speakers q
speeches. It appears negro applied
some insolencc to white man who j
answered him properly. The negro
retorted with added insult and oct
knocked down. This negro is said
to. have been Wade Walker who
with Brad Walker, are two very bad
negroes. 1t is thought Wade Was
killed.
So
It is believed the negroes fred the
first shot, wounding Frank Thomp.
son in the leg, the poor fellow Who
was SO brutally, SO horribly killed
shortly afterwards.
As soon as the firing commenced
several gentlemen, who had no arms,
rushed off to procure them, and men
in town began to arm and rush 10
the help of their friends. Men about
town and the unarmcd ones who had
left the grounds, hurriedly armed
and went forward.
Chas. Clinton, whose home is near
the ground, was in the act Of shelter
| ing negro women and children III his
yard when he was murdered, unarm-
ed as he was, by a cowarlly negro,
who is known.
Fisher, Of the. jackson Times, who
was speaking, sprang from the stand
and run off like q race horse. He
threw away his hat in order to tic q
| handkerchief about his head for the
purpose Of creating the impression
that he was wounded.
Lake got away hurriedly; Judge
Anderson, Pierson, Postmaster at
Raymond, Judge Swami, Of jackson
and other white RAIDS, did as usual,
vamoosed in thin air apparently.
Frank Thompson had fled north
ward, ON the Bolton road, OIL horse
back.. A crowd had followed him
close. About two miles from the
scene, near ]. Q. Banks, he was
icaugit up with, and ere lie reached
him it is Supposed he turned IN his
saddle and Shot d negro, rs o,ic8 was
found lying dead about 4 half i mile
this side Of where Thompson fel.
His pistol had been discharged, and
he, having no other weapons, was nm
armed. When he was found shortly
after he had been beaten aim ,st to u
jelly, he was robbed and even stab
bed, and there he lay. a few hours be-
fore us brave, as joyous Il heart as
ever beat.
Martin Siycly rctreated eastward
over fence into Il cornfieid lying
north Of the railroad, the negroes fol.
loving close. lie got about 100 yards
when they reached him. Ills Ia I
shot was gone and he was Helpless,
and as the Infatuated wretcles struck
him with clubs Ind thrust knives in
him he cried for quarter, quartcrr'
Captain Sterling White almost
shared the fate of the others.
w. G. Wells, Esq, a lawyer Of
Raymond, made very narrow
escape.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15
Our Agents..
ALEXANDRIA, La
Wednesday,. September Is, 1875
NOTICE!

NEMBERS OF THE HEBREW Be
-Nl nevolent Congregation of Aiexand.
ria and over the Parish of Rapides, will
have their business closed on Thursday
September Both, and Friday and Satur,
day, October list and I'd, also on Satur,
day, October 9th.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

GENERAL Joseph E. Johnston
has accepted the place Of Commal'-
.dcr-in- Chef Of the Khedive's army
in Egypt. lie is allowed 500,
for his outfit, and $25, 900 per annun
salary gold.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

The steamship Nova Scotia,
which arrived at Baltimore, on the
10th from Liverpool, brought Foley's
bronze statue Of Stonewali Jackson,
presented to the State Of Virginia BY
Hon. Beresford Hopsem and other
English gentlemen. The statue cost
$4,000 and will be erected in the
Capitol Square at Richmond, near
the equestrian statue of Washington.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

GENERAL L. Pope Walker, the
first Secretary Of War Of the South.
ern Confederacy, has been elected
President of the Alabama Constitu-
tioual Convention.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

TIM River is yet declining, but
at very slow and stubborn licks.
Boats, as yet, having no trouble and
no lead heayings.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

JONAS RosESTHAL is charging
his store the full length Of the build
ing, and very soon goes to New Or
leans to purchase his Fall stock.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15
"THE ORGAN"

GflucuCc VI tHc LdWlcSS 1caSuiuSo
of the Rebellion" the Rapides Ga
zette, the property of j. Madison
Wells, the President of the Returning
Board and the U. S. Surveyor of the
Port of New Orleans, has leader,
evidently written by the Proprietor,
which we transcribe in to-day's Dem
ocrat. AS matter of course not a
bakers dozen of our decent people
would read it in the "Oficial Jour-
nal," therefore it's publication in our
columns will more plainly convince
our people to what a pass matters
are coming in Rapides. No COM
ments of ours could more forcibly
open the eyes of a slumbeling people
than the asking of them to read the
article carefully and ponder on it..
The Democrats desire is to bring
our people to the starting post, chat
with them, interchange ideas, then
we will unlimber, and ssdamned be he
who cries, hold, enough"
sour office was entered on the
night of the 22nd Of August, by di-
vers persons with premeditated de
termination to destroy our press and
all necessary printing material there
to belonging. These brigands under
the cover of night, found no difficulty
in the execution of their nefarious
purposes.
Our press was so completely ruined
by them, as to'compel us to purchase
the press in the Caucasian office un-
til such time as we can supply its
place with a more suitable one for
our office.
! Coming events cast their shadows
ahead. We were warned the coming
Of this yillaipous outrage through a
newspaper in the interest Of the
Democratic party few weeks ante
rior to this wanton destruction of
our property, and had we used our
usual preeaution in such matters as
has been our habit of doing since the
rebellion, the loss to the citizens of
Alexandria would have been trans
ferred to the insurance offices of some
other city. Our desire to arrange
our office, and ascertain our outlay
before taking out our insurance poll
cy, delayed our action, Or we would
have sooner protected our property
against the acts of these brothel
bastards.
They are following up their ha-
| bituated villiany with as little fear
of receiving the rewards of JUS
tice as did they under Confederate
rule.
Four-ffths of the business citizens
of Alexandria are opposed to these
lawless acts. The Israeites, who
are a majority of the business men of
the town, although Democrats in pol.
tiles abhor such lawlessness, and un-
hesitatingly condemn it.
We subjoin our letter to the May
or and his reply denying that our
press was destroyed by a mob-but
before he is through with us, we will
convince him of his error by an in
dictment of the Grand Jury of the
individuals who destroyed our prop
erty and who composed the mob.
Should the threatened suit for
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

No new arrivals last week-no
work for the Asphaltum Club-busi.
ness dull in that line.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

"A RESTRAINING order was re-
ceiyed by the United States Marshal
at New Orleans, Thursday morning,
from Justice WHY, of the Supreme
Court Of the District of Columbia,
directed to e. L. Parker, D. D. With
ers and Josiah Chambers, executors,
commanding them to desist from
further action in the Elgee cotton
case in Washington until a hearing
was had.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15
HOME DEMOCRACY.

we nlHteu Ill Out litSV ttldt q HCW
Democratic Journal was being talked
of in New Orleans, and since then
have been convinced that it is fact.
Right here in Town have canyassers
worked to induce our people to take
stock in the new enterprise, and we,
with blunt candor make bold to tell
them, that these laudabIc efforts Of
theirs had better he directed with
some point right here at home. We
believe they had better reserve their
spare ammunition for a home fight
and increase the circulation of their
home Journal, and place it in the
hands of country constituency, who
are sadly in need of all the moral
and political help they can derive
from reading the Democrat. A few
hundred dollars raised and properly
spent for subscriptions and not as a
donation, would now be a sacred per-
Torrance of duty and not loves labor
lost. Two hundred new subscribers
to the Democrat, well selected and
distributed throughout the Parish,
would be double paying duty and
would enhance our cause tenfold
more than forty foreign newspapers
| in the hands of a few Town folks.
New Orleans has now four first
class and excellent Journals, which
are ably conducted and edited, and
have anything but Radical tendencies
and why can't one of these be select
ed and specially favored as Demo
cratic organ by the Democracy of
New Orleans, with voluntary SUBJ
scriptions from the Parishes, and
leave the country press to be fostered
1 ~ IL
by its home funds? We have too
long been battling here in Rapides
for her peoples rights, and battling
up hill on a road barren Of roses, not
to now enter our protest against this
practical slight of our Journal at the
hands of those who owe us, at least,
gratitude and smiles. These things
we can but poignantly feel, and we
know no better time than the present
to unbosom ourselves and let the
people know where the shoe pinches.
~~-e~--~~-~o>->~~~
DAN. W. SHAW, a we'll known
old man here, before and since the
war, has, it seems, been again burth-
ened with trouble. He was arrested,
on last Friday, in Pineyille, by Sher-
Paul, and lodged in the Parish Jail.
From what we can learn the last
Grand Jury Of Grant Parish found a
true bill for murder against him, and
up to Friday he was at large, unar
rested. Coming to Alexandria on
business, on Friday, the District At
torney procured a bench warrant from
the Court" for Shaw's arrest, and
hence it was done as we have stated
it. Shaw, since the war, has been
mentioned as mixed up with many
''ragged-edges," whether rightfully
or through q bad name we cant say,
but thus far he has always, through
law, cleared his skirts Of these char
ges, and now, in his declining old
age, is imprisoned on charge of the
highest criminality, and now, too, we
believe there must be some doubts in
the matter, and great christian allow
ance must be exercised for the unfor-
tnnate old man-this allowance
weighs SO heavily with us that we
are disposed favorably to him and
beseech for him fair and impartial
hearing.
-~-~>~->~--o-->~-o->~~~-
A TIGHT FAcT.-As an evidence of
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

As usual the attentive and obi
ging office clerks of the G. II. Durfee.
G. G. Hamilton and Willie French,
furnished our office with plenty Of
late papers. The Darfec goes down
to-day at noon.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

The Pennsylvania Democratic
Convention has adopted the financial
plank of the Ohio platform.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

CHARLIE DRows, the Democrats
good friend, of the Col. A. z. Kouns,
is once more up to paper time with
us and our office.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

The river, up to our latest advi-
ces, has come to stand, and from
indications may be on the rise before
we go to press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

NELLIE and the National son in
law and grandchlld have sailed for
old England.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

The Democratic victory in Cali
fornia gives our party q majority Of
States in the next Congress, and SO
insures the election Of our man for
President in the very improbable
contingency Of there being no choice
by the people.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

Mn. Van Lew, the well known
.turfman, who attended our last Fan,
arrived here with a fine race nag oll
Monday.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

-TlE r. T. Bryarly and the Car.
ric A. Thorn both remembered our
Office the past week.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

The latest New Orleans quota-
tions of cotton were: stStrict Ordipa-
~ liz q III, Low Middling leJ @ =
and Middling 13a a l3S.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

BART. ABLE LrNE.-Our Packet,
the C. H. Durfee, Captain Sinnott in
command, had again a fine down trip
1t consisted in part of 203 bales OF
cotton, 6 sacks seed cotton, 122 sacks
cotton seed, l barrel molasses and 181
head of cattle. All this is striking
and paying evidence that true merit
must in the long run meet with its
reward, and we are certain all here
will now accord to the officers of the
Bart. Able patent and premeditated
plan to accommodate the merchants,
planters and travelling community of
our trade, and thus far they have adj
mirably succeeded.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

Two good showers Of rain since
our last-they drove off the extreme
heat, and now We are cooling off a
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

GRANT smokes so much he cant
dispense with his stove pipe.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15

-McgnEsSEY, of the Bryarly'
again remembered the Democrat.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15
Crops and Trade.

Five days and nights of last week
have proven to be the hottest and
most sultry of the Summer, and new
err before have we experienced such
in the month of September. Though
man and beast have been the worsted
sufferers, still the crops, particularly
the cotton, have Jared and thrived
we'll. The latter is opening fast,
very fast, and the broad fields of it,
from one end of the Parish to the
other, are grooming under the staple.
Picking, full picking, is now in full
blast, and in most Of the places the
piekers are behind time with the
opening. Some ginning has been
done and some hundreds of bales
have already been brought here and
shipped to the Crescent City, and
business may now be said to be in
good blast. Some of our merchants
have already made their Fall pur.
chases and are home with replenished
shelves, others are now in New Or
leans on the same errand, whilst some
leave to-day on the Durfee. With
the good crops, the Railroad, restored
confidence, Democratic victories
ahead, the Telegraph and the slcken-
ing shake of that shirt here, we have
renewed hopes of vigor in trade and
commerce, good feelings cultured all
around, croakers defeated, the Union
cemented, the Constitution restored
and the enforcement of the Laws
Surely this is enough good prognos-
ticated by our "local' for one issue
of the Democrat.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-15
THE NEW ORLEANS MAIL.

We have been harping, and with an
eye and will commensurate to the
vast Importance Of the evil, on the
non arrival here, two trips out of
three, of our New Orleans mail, and
though that evil is yet on us in it's
fourth week, still we have hopes
ahead for better, and believe we have
done our duty and some good in the
matter. As we do it pro bono pubhco
we cannot keep anything back from
that public, whose interests are ours
and whose veal or woe bind us here.
We therefore give the two following
letters, which we received in the mail
of the 18th inst:
New ORLEANS, La, !
Cot @ 1SrS [
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-09-10
A SILVER ELEPHANT.

The silver coin now owned by
the government proves TO be an ele
plant on its hands, and the Treasury
officials are trying to solve the prob
lem. What shall we do v it'll III Aps
plieation was made to the Postmas
ter at Boston, few days since. for
storage in the new post office build
inc vault at that place for several
millions. The vault had the capacity.
hut ex Supervising Architect Mullett
had placed it in the second story Of
the building, with little or no support
and it was found unsafe to deposit
over three millions there. Notwilh-
standing the want of safe storage
room. and the uncertainty of how
long it may be before gold will have
reached price low enough to take
the premium off of silver, and thus
enable the Secretary of the Treasury
to substitute il for fractional currency
the work of coinage goes on, all the
minis being run to their full capacity,
adding millions to millions to be stored
away and lay unproductive, perhaps,
for years.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-09-10
Lar &c Farms

|. One Farm 2i0 acres, fair Improvement, 30
cleared. q uhes from square.
2. One Farm 400 acres, the mode. farm nt Ga.
first class buildings, 3 miles from square
3, One Farm 100 acres, hne improvements, / /
miles from square
4, One Farm 240 acres, brick Improvements,
good orchard etc mile from square
5. One Farm 30 aces, fist class improve
mtnIs orchard, = miles from square.
6, One Farm ~ acres good Dwelling and
stables, II miles from square.
Z One + farm GUU acres, 80 acres bottom, 200
cleared, )! miles from square
3 One Farm 80 acres, xUU CLEARED, + miles
from square.
g. One ann 10 acres, splendid water power
- miles from square.
10. An Excellent ann containing poe acres Of
good Land in the der, II miles from
Court House Square--holise and ont
buildings in good repair. Also a large
out-huitdiu2 suitable Tor many Mauutac-
turing purposes with Steam Ensme if
required, VIII Oe sold very low 10 u cash
purchaser,
IL. On l. arm gao acres room brick house,
out bindings, etc, udlr from square.
~ One Farm 2~U acres, we'll improved, fine
farm, - mIlr from square
-. A fine far'a containing about eco acres
situated in Cobb County, mites from
Count House on the " Il A IL r.,
good place for Stock Farm, we'll tu-
heled and waterrd-Wil be sold at a
bargain, could be divided Hlio four good
farms.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-09-10
PRINCIPLE vs.. POLICY.

The Sa Tnaff Pei p PPsrs'have an able
and valuable contributor in r. N. o.,
who, in the 1dceytiser, speaks our
sentiments as follows:
We of the South cannot afford to
play dslliance with politics we have
too much at stake both as to the past
and pregnant future. The policy of
the South is her line Of action
as regards her interests, should be, TO
be united people, and her platform
of principles found in the Declsra-
ton Of Independence and the Consti-
tuition of the United States. As TO
the enactment Of laws of n national
character and Of general welfare, the
whole country-regardless Of Sec
tions, sectional interests or monetary
inhuences-s should be the first con.
sideration.
We of the South, cannot, and
should not, ignore principle for party
purposes; we should not deceive or
be deceived we should not adopt or
accept measures as mere policies or
expediencies to carry elections, OF
elevate man to Office and position -
Our sefety, and future happiness and
greatness must be in an ardent and
uncompromisiug tcnacity for consti
( tutional principles.
lie ,ho is true to himself
Can then be false TO no man"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-09-10

A CRY UNDER THE SEA.-A
Kingston (Jamaica) letter tells the
following wonderful tale In the lat
ter end of the last century old Port
Royal disappeared beneath the waves
in an earthquake, leaving no other
memorial behind than these few
patches of reefs. In calm and clear
evenings, when there is NOT ripple
ON the CLASSY surface OF the sea, you
may look down in,o fifteen fathoms
of water and see submerged houses.
towers and churches. with sharks
swimming quietly in and out of the
open windows of their beltries. The
work of centuries was destroyed in
3 few moments by one single conyul-
sive throb of the thin finn on which
man has lived and speculated for
ages past. An American diving
company. ipstigsted in their enter-
prise bv tales Of untold wealth,
buried beneath tl- s,s b. this sud
den shock. rescued no treasures bat
the big bell suspended in III bell
tower, and donated the same To the
museum of the islsnA, where it may
be seen with many puzzling insceip-
tons upon it, which nobody has as
yet been able to decipher.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-09-10
General Advertisements.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

BY virtue of an order from tie Court Of Or
binary Of Pickens County Ga. will be sold Oh
The first Tuesday in October next Qo75) at the
Court House door, in the town of Jasper, i'll
said County, between tie legal -sle hours, Lots
of Land No. 245. 246. 25- 259 200, 256, and
part Of Lot 2s4. in the 9th District and ID sec
lion Of said County OF Pickens, containing $50
acres more or less. Also (2s) two eghts of the
Griffin interest in marble, and privileges on lots
of Land No 3 aud 36, in the 4lh District and
2nd section Of said County Of Pickens. Sold as
the property of the Estate OF f. c. Cof-y for
the benefit of heirs and creditors. Sold in par
cells to suit purchasers. Terms one-halfcash.
the other half on Twelve mouths time Titles
made upon payment OF last lnstallment.
WILLIAM TATE,
Admir- of +. e. Cofiey.
PRINTER fee $40 00l