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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Morning Courier,

DECENT POLITICAL. EVENTS
~ indicate speedy return of the
Democratic party to supreme power in
the nation. THE Housetof Represents
tives is now Democratic by large
majority; the government of more than
one half of the States is administered
by Democrats; the party enters upon
the Presidential contest with the
brightest hopes, and under the most
substantial encouragement; e.
The wonderful revelations ofrascal-
ity and corruption on the part Of Re-
publican leaders, which have bhrdened
the press and Mortified the people dur
ing the past three years, make it clear
ly the duty of every man to take an
active part in the great contest of the
present year. More than at any pre-
vious time in the history Of the coun-
try, a trustworthy daily newspaper is
now necessary to every citizen, in Or
der that he may intelligently discharge
his political duties. The CHICAGO
MORNING COURIER is consistent
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the nation from the party that has de-
bauched its service, s4nandered its
treasure and enslaved it's liberties. 1t
will advocate speedy return tn specie
payments, but believes that this result
should be brought about by economical
management Of the Government, and
not by arbitrary senactmant., 1t be-
lieves in greenbacks 3at par, and the
same currency for the. rich and the
poor. It will advocate Home Rule,
Free Trade and public economy, the
old cardinal principles Of tue Demo-
cratic party.
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-10

THEY are trying to organize a
Mormon democracy III Utah inside Of
the Church oligarchy. The young men
meet together to consult and debate
the questions of the hour under cover
Of a sort of secret society, which is not
good democracy to begin with, but may
be rendered necessary by their peculiar
surrou ndings. They begin to feel the
want of free speech, freedom of will
and free government. TO hear them
recite their grievances and the political
reforms they have in contemplation
'orle would think they had never tasted
a morsel of freedom in the Territory.
They want to establish the very widest
scope of political and religious freedom,
and have inaugurated the movement
as above under the name of "Democ-
racy" for the next Territorial election.
II Exchange.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-10
The Three Great Capitalists.
New York Correspondence of Troy
Times

New York Correspondence of Troy
Times.
Nature, as it would seem, delights in
triplets. There We're three Graces, as
we'll as three Furies. The guardian
dog of the lower regions had three
heads. Three is a potent humber
among conjurers, and is indispensable
in the rule of proportion. A dream
thrice repeated it sure of fultillment.
All of these things bear upon the fact
that this city had three great capital
talists-Astor, Vanderbilt and Stew
art. Each of these had his special gift,
the first being great in real estate, the
second in stocks, and the third in
trade. Each being supreme in his
realm, there was no interference or
clashing of interests, and there is no
record that this trio of magnates ever
met. The circle is now broken by the
deaths both of the first and the last,
leaving the Commodore in solitary
distinction. may add that extreme
age and other uufavorable signs now
tell severely upon his once powerful
frame. He las lately been so III as to
require a surgical operation, since
which he has been permitted to leave
his room, but appears feeble. His
physician is DR.. Lindsey, an old flash.
Toned practitioner of high rank. The
disease is the same Which has given
William (his sony so much trouble
The Commodore has been out as far as
his stable, which conll easily be done,
since the buildings are very near each
other.
His death would create as great
an embarrassment in stocks as that of
Stewart has in his own extensive
realm. The depression in the Wander
bilt lines shows that there is deter
mined effort against this lordly house
which, in case of the Commodore's
death be urged with tremendous pow
er. Jay Gould can only rise to a high
er reach of ambition by the fall of such
as are before him, and the fact that
William H. Vanderbilt went south in
pursuit Of health encourages the foes
of, theafamily.@=William has returned
much improved and is now attending
to his duties. The death of Aston and
of Stewart within six months removes
the representatives of capital to the
amount of 500, 900, 900, and is the be-
ginning of the crumbling of those vast
estates. In a few years their history
will but renew the lesson Pope gave
the world century and a half ago:
estates have wings and hang in for
tunes power, .,....,
Loose on the point of every waverine
Ready by force or Of your own accord
By sale (ataleast by death) to change
their lord.
Man and forever? wretch, what
-. wouldst thou have?
Heir uraes heir, like wave impellins
wave.
Tink towns to towns with avenues O.
oak.
Inclose whole towns in walls; tits :
joke.
MEMORABLE death shall level all,
Aud trees and stones and farm and far
mer's fall"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-10

Our YANKEE EMPERoE.--Dom Pc
.dro is a true Yankee Emperor. Con-
sidering that we have the Munroe
doctrine on our side we may ella i'm
Brazil as an American nation and
feel as much pride in her institutions
and rulers as our own. Dom Pedro
is the first Emperor we have seen on
this imperial soil, where all are en-
perors. We are proud to note in him
the go-ahead American traits. How
much he is at home among the SOW
ereigns! He rides in a common
hack, pays his bills, hears mass on
Sunday morning, in the evenings
goes to hear Sankey sing, and fol-
lows him, line by line, as earnestly as
Thurlow Weed.
When the Cabinet, with band of
music, 60 down the bay to receive
him, he tells them in true American
fashion, that he does not want to be
received" He lands like any free
American emperor, and, before cross
ing the river, pays his ferriage. In
stead of going to Washington to be
dined and danced by Boss Shepherd
and the leaders Of our modern socie'
ty he hurries to California, resolved
to make the most of his time. He is
an Emperor ofregular and temperate
ways, as all Yankee emperors should
be. He rises early in the morning
studies Sanscrit, practices in English
and translates the "Star SpangleG
Banner" into Portuguese.
How much better our Yankee En-
peror behaves than some of his for
eign cousins! He does not go waltz
ing around all night, shooting bears
and tigers and sticking pigs during
the day, but keeps right down to use
full work. When he goes home hi
will know more about the United
States than two-thirds of the mem
bers of Congress. e~t
In the meantime we trust his I'm
perial Highness will have goo'
time. We beg that his fellow-em
perors wherever he goes will Civ
him royal and fraternal welcome
The result may be that when he re
turns to Brazil he may proclaim tn
people to be all emperors in thei
own right, even as we all are here
- New York Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-10

"A COUNTRY curate, in letter to
Blackwood's Magazine, says that on
one occasion he baptized child named
"Acts." Afterward, in the vestry, he
asked the good woman what made her
choose such name. Her answer was
this: "Why, sir, we be religious people,
we've got four on 'em already, and
they be called Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John; SO my husband thought
he'd compliment the Apostles bit"
He has no doubt she will go on to
Revelation, they being particularly
religious people. $50 s =
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"A FRENCH farmer near Bordeaux,

"A FRENCH farmer near Bordeaux,
to protect his crops from the frost, re
Gently placed four large heaps Of wood
and dried leaves saturated with oil in a
four-acre lot and set FIRE to them -
They produced thick, black smoke,
which hung over the ground like a
mist, and the temperature became two
OF three degrees higher than in ad-
joining fields. The cost was. estima-
ted at about seven cents an hour for
each acre. q sf4fg!f,, -g57
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-10
AS showing the resources of Flc

AS showing the resources of Flor
ida, a St. Augustine correspondent
tells of farmer who drove into the
city with his first lot of strawberries
last Christmas and he sold them at
the fancy price Of $3.50 per quart. On
the 4th of January he came with his
second load and sold the fruit at 81 a
quart-coming twice a week. About
the LIST of February his price was IS
cents. It. is now Is cents, and the
strawberry season is about over.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-10

1.-TWO of my neighbours" writes a
correspondent in South Carolina, "are
Colonel r. e.. Howard and Tony, for
merly his slave, who now goes by the
name of A. H. Howard. Both are
members of our Legislature, where
both sit with perfect quality
The former, of course, is a Democrat,
and the latter a Radical. After :
journments, the Colonel saperintenns
his farm, aud Tony works for him as a
carpenter, taking his meals in the
kitchen with tke cook"
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tAa,sl41tsIf9 !.F.es- EsS-s 80 yI53li
FREDERICK DOUGLASS says

a.
-FREDER1cK DOUGLASS says:-
"What I want a see before l die is a
monument representing the negro not
couchant on his knees like a four-foot-
ed animal, but erect on his feet like
man. The mere act Of
breaking the negro's chain was the act
of Abraham Lincoln, but the act by
which the negro was made citizen of
the United States was pre-eminently
the act of President Grant" The sug-
gestion of Douglass is that Grant
should have a monument signalling
his services to the colored race.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-10

I THERE was some excitement,in a
Pennsylvania Sunday School the other
Sunday when q little boy, whose teach,
er had sent him home for her class
cards which she had forgotten. return
ed in breathless triumph brandishing
eucLre deck, with the joker on top:
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-10
ALEcK STEPHENS A Poor OLD MAN

ALEcK STEPHENS A Poor OLD MAN.
Mr.. Stephens is poor now, and we
regret to know that he is burdened to
support many dead beats, which must
be a serious matter withshi at Che
present. low ebb Of his finances. Itis
said that, whenever court Assem- bles in
Charlottesville, thelJ Judge and most of
the b" put7 mp" with Mr. Stephens,
and there isa lot ofhapgers,dq in his
establishment that get living out Of
him. Mr.. Stephens has been very lib
eral in his charities, and has educated
more. men and women than any man
in Georgia, yet in a number of instan-
ces these, people whom he reared and
educated still cling to him for support.
There is another class that must be a
serious tax to Mr.. Stephens.
We mean the old political hacks,
who in these times of young America
find occupation gone, and ask Mr.. Ste
phens for aid. He can only open his
house to them, for he is unable to do
more. They accept, and the conse
quence is that he is loaded down with
Burril's boarders, those who. never
miss a meal or pay a cent. Mr.. Ste
phens is one Of the best and purest
men Georgia ever produced, and while
he was rich none went from him empty
handed, and we think it a shame that
now in bis old age he should be taxed
to support lot of paupers, when he is
almost a pauper himself. We think
some of his many proteges might in.
terest themselves in the dying states
man, and see thatshe was not put into
pauper's grave, which he surely will
be if the vampires that are sucking
his substance are not removed.-]Co
lumbus (Ga.) Enquirer. .,eg a.u,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-10
From our Extra of Thursday morning,
May Al "f
FrGm C0HShatta.
G. A. KING, TAX COLLECTOR, KILLED
SENATOR TWITYHELL MORTAL.
LII WOUNDED.

G. A. KING, TAX COLLECTOR, KILLED
SENATOR TWITYHELL MORTAL.
Ii WOUNDED.
We are in receipt, from Coushatta,
La, of a special telegram in date of
yesterday evening, which we deem Of
sufficient interest to spread before
the public in an EXTRA:
CoUsHATTA, la,
May s,Is76.]
AT sunrise yesterday morning a
disguised stranger rode into Town
and stopped at an out Of the way
blacksmith shop, protesting to want
his horse shod. AT about half past
nine o'clock M. II. Twitchell and G.
A. King came down the opposite
bank of the river to the ferry, and
we're crossed in a skif. Stranger
started from the shop on horseback
about the time the skiff, showed off
from the far bank-rode down to
point near the ferry landing, delibe-
rate.y dismounted, hitched his horse
and walked up to the bank near where
the skiff hadjus landed. : He open
ed fire on Twitchell and King at once.
The first shot wounded the former
slightly in the left hip. King then
fred two shots from the skif, when
he was shot through the head and
bowels and instantly killed. Ia /
Twitchell jumped into the river,
and held to. the sides of the skiff the
stranger shot him loose breaking
both his arms above the elbow. He
then floated down the river and sank
twice. The stranger having exhaus-
ted his gun, supposed to have been a
Winchester rifle, drew his pistol and
walked to his horse, about thirty
yards from the bank. The ferryman
(colored } when the firing ceased, row
ed to Twitchelf and rescued him.
The stranger returning on horseback
fired two shots from his pistol at the
negro, while he was drawing Twit-
chell in the skif, but without effect
The stranger then rode through town
} with his gun and pistol both in hand
and has not since been heard from.
While the firing was going on
three citizens attempted to approach
the stranger, but were deferred by
the stranger, who leyeled his gun or
them and ordered them peremptorily
to leave him, which they did, they
not being armed. Most of the citi
zens were at the Post Office getting
: their mail when the shooting oc
Cured. Several men, both white
2 and colored, saw the man, but all say
that he is stranger here, and nom
l of them seem to think that they eve
| saw him before. Twitchell was re
moved to Springville yesterday eve
: ming for treatment. TwitchelPs lief
4 arm was amputated above the elbo'
e yesterday evening. The right arm
will also have to be amputated abov
the elbow. Twitchell's condition i
: critical, but strong hopes are enter
;. tanned for his recovery. The deput
r Sheriff, with a force, pursued tn
t stranger yesterday evening, but with
out result. So far all is quiet an
no uneasiness felt.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-10

The State of Maine, as every one
knows, is dedicated to the suppress
sion oftheuse of Intoxicating liquors
as a beverage. Her people feel that
such use impairs the moral, mental
and physical order Of the State, and
incites to ctime, violence and de-
struction of property. Therefore
her laws regulate the introduction
within her Jurisdiction, Of spirits,
and the possession or sale thereof
within the State. These laws forbid
the presence, possession or sale Of
Intoxicating liquors, on much the
same general grounds Of public poll
cy, and for much the same reasons
and with much the same severity, as
those which in the old days of slave
labor led the State of Virginia to en-
act the destruction of, printed docu-
ments intended or calculated to, in
cite slaves to Instruction and muir
der, or to resist the authority of
their masters. And now Mr.. Blaine's
temperance constituents will poster
him with variations of how small
packages of liquors come into Maine
through the mails as third class mat
ter, although liquids are forbidden,
and will assure him that his criti-
cism of Mr.. fuckers opinion in. Yir-
ginia, that the State could intercept
incendiary documents in their pas
sage from the postmaster to the per-
son for whom they we're intended,
seize and destroy them, according to
State laws, is taken as an expression
Of an opinion by Blaine that Maine
cannot intercept the TASKS of whis-
key and brandy introduced through
the Post Office into the latter State.
The laws of Maine forbid anybody
unless specially authorized, to have
in his possession in that State any
Intoxicating liquors with the intent
that the same be sold in Maine, or
with intent to aid in such SALE
Those laws also declare that ALL in
toxicating liquors deposited in ANY
place within that State and intended
for a lawful sale, and the vessels in
which the liquors are, shall be liable
to seizure and forfeiture. The State
magistrates are authorized to Issue
warrants of search and seizure, and
the selling officer to libel the seized
liquors before a magistrate, and tc
render judgment of forfeiture and or.
der the destruction of the liquors
Mr.. Blaine's Republican allies are
very good State-rights men on the
liquor question, and insist that a cit
izen of Maine is not dispensed from
his allegiance to that State, and the
obligation to obey its laws, because
he is a postmaster in Maine, anC
that whether one in that State shall
be permitted to receive his liquor
from a postmaster, and thereby res
cue it from seizure, condemnation
and destruction, is an affair of Main
competency and sole jurisdiction.-
The temperance constituents Of Mr.
Blaine profess to have examined Mr
fuckers opinion, as chief law office
of Virginia, and to be satisfied tina
he was right when he said that TIL
J latter State had legal authority t.
prohibit its citizens from receivin;
such incendiary documents from tn
Post, Office, and taking possession
thereof. A speech on this aspect 0
J the matter is now demanded from
t Mr.. Blaine by his temperance friends
IN. Y. World.
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TEEz=z WEEKLY coURIEF

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Has a large circulation in every wes-
tern State and territory. It is our aim
to make The. Weekly Courier the best
family paper in the West, and we shall
continue to give in its columns a large
amount of miscellaneous reading mat
ter, such as stories, tales, poems, scien-
tific intelligence and agricultural infor-
nation for which we are not able to
make loom in our daily edition. The
agricultural department. is especially
one of its prominent features. The
fashions are also regularly reported in
its columns, and SO are the markets Of
every kind.
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NUGGET ~. %l. SEASON. N a * sn 3

around Alexandria at $500 Cash or
$500 payable by note on the lst Of
October, l876-or $500 insurance
payable when the mare proves to be 10
foal, or is known to have lost it.
U NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR AC-
CIDENTS!
u Crowns fee 81 90 Cash.
NUGGETT trotted mile last year,
after making a season, in l.25.
May lott. S. CULLEN.
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N. u G. G. E II II +!


NUGGET, A BAY STALLION,
~ 6 years old, four N
white feet, l6 hands CEEaSA&
inch high; by Alex. Y TI
ander's NORM AN, As.zz,~.
dam Alexander Offutt's pacing mare.
Alexander's NORMAN is the sire Of
LULU, record 2:l4a, and the winner Of
the three fastest consecutive heats or
record also. sire of BLACKWOOD,
MAY QUEEN and others, among the
best in Kentucky. BLACKWOOD il
now standing in Kentucky at $4,000
and has the fastest three year old re-
cord: 2:3l. MAY QUEEN, although
but recently on the turf, has a RECORD
of 2:3l.
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NEW THIS DAY.
TEMPERATURE

As REPORTED lsY FERGUSON : scuNAcR
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FERGUSON and SCHNACk'S.

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We are in receipt, from Coushatta,
La, of special telegram in date of
yesterday evening, which we deem of
sufficient interest to spread before
the public in an EXTRA:
CousHArrA,sLA., I
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= y
Big Bonanza alone is computed to
contain mass of gold and silver
valued at $3O0,0OO,00O, and yields at
present over $2,5OO,OOO a month
The fabulous sums which are here
regularly extracted from the earth
every four weeks remind one of the
fairy tales of old. The Consolidated
Virginia Mine produces 100000 a
month, while tbs estimated by those
experts now on the ground that the
total product of the "Comstock" for
the present year will exceed SIS, 900,
600. No wonder the California mil
lionaires and Big Bonanza people
look upon the circulation of silver
ITO almost any extent as a great
national measure of finance. But
California is not only rich in gold and
silver. She is rapidly developing her
agricultural, industrial and manufac-
turing interests. An immense and
lucrative commerce with Asia is
springing up. To this trade with
the East no limits can be set. The
chinese question may prove the key
which will open the door of the Chi
nese Empire to the restless and ell
terprising traders of the Pacific
coast. And with population OF
4oo,co0,00o of people to trade with,
whose civilized wants are daily in,
ereaslng, we may confidently look fol
Tue great fortunes of the future
among the merchants and traders Of
oalifornia.-[N. Y. World.