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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08
GINGER SEWING MACHINES
~ EASY PAYMENTS.
FERGUSON s. SCHNACK

SOME editors consider themselves
lucky to receive as present Christ
mas Turkey, and whilst we have gone
through that blessed Luxury, we have
had it climaxed q few days since by
the reception Of huge and monster
one, expressly for our Easter dinner.
This is friendly appreciation which
we can but record as coming from one
of the staunchest and truest of the
old guard in the Democratic hills of
our West. When we carve sold Coco"
we'll surely remember with the right
sort of feelings our old time honored
friend.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08
GENUINE MERSCHAUM PIPES
" new supply. at
FERGUSON g. SCIINACE
Rally Boys!

The volcanoes Of scething corrur
ton and continued venalities anon.
the friends, politics! and personal, o
the President, Which have recent,
deluged the country, and culminate'
as it was supposed in the unyeilins
of Babcock, have Just burst fortl
with a renewed phrenzy, and tb,
whole country hangs its head il
shame thereat. Another entry, an
other contribution from the stable O
the man on horseback, and again one
of his fayorites, one of his pets, botl
military and civil Secretary oil
War, Belknap has, we repeat, been
unmasked, unveiled, and stands be.
fore the world revealed as a first class
scoundrel. He has been detected in
a bribe-steal, on the black mail sys,
tenn peculiar to the fingered tactics of
his party, has acknowledged it, has
resigned, and his master and friend,
President Grant, has accepted the
resignation in indecent and swift
haste. But here the matter only
commences, for q Committee of the
House, with Hester CIymer, a ster
ling Democrat from the old Keystone
State, as its Chairman, has already
reported articles Of impeachment
against him, and they have been re-
ceived by the Senate, and must soon
result in conviction.
Here again we have the crushing,
and damnabie spectacle, under
Grants administration, Of another
bursting bombshell in treasured
ring corner Of his Cabinet, and here
again are all the warning prophecies
of the Democracy waxing fast into
sad truths, and again we must record
these hideous malfeasanres among
the high ones Of the most corruptly
administered Government on the face
of the earth. And all these are
gradually and slowly being exhumed
by our Committees in Congress, who
under every obstacle have had to
fight their way through the perfumed
of power, opposed at every
step by the very officials who should
extend them all aid and assistance.
The herculean-augean stable is now
passing through the rough scraping
process, and when ready for the wet
scrubbing and the lye-brush now ma
lipulated by the Democrats in Con-
.ress, the whole nation, with one &C
:ord and one voice, will take up the
'eform refrain, and hurl the last oil
is inmates to the depths of eternal
etirement and degradation. Our
ong prayed for hour is approaching, |
nd soon We shall be able to sing the |
ong merited praises of our party and
lie sacred hosts Of freemen who are
ounted among its members.
SINGER SEWING MACHINES
; EASY PAYMENTS.
FERGUSON & sCHNACk
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08
GENUINE MERSCHAUM PIPES
NJ q new supply, ut
FERGUSON g. SCHNACK

--DR, Henry St. John, ever alive
to the continued increase in his va
ried stock which he is always ex-
tending and improving to meet the
public's demands, inserts this week
in our columns q notice of some in
terest to property holders and house
keepers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08
ORANGE DUCKING POWDER
" FERGUSON g. SCHNACK

WE are in receipt Of letter
from Charles r. Langford, in date
Natchitoches March 4th, informing
and desiring us to make public, that
he has leased the Telegraph line and
will have it completed by the 10th
inst, and that he will be here next
week to take charge of it. 1t is
needless for us to add that this is
good and long desired information,
and that many of US here will rejoice
when it does take place.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08

WE take special pleasure in call
ing the attention of all young girls
and others, desiring good and perfect
musical lessons impaired to them, to
the card of Miss Nellie Fellows to be
found in to-day's Democrat. This is
a rare and most excellent opportunity
for all with such motives and inten-
tions and they should lose no time in
securing place in one of Miss Mel
lies classes.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08
ORANGE DUCKING POWDER
" FERG USON g. SCHNACK

Our Packet now extends her
weekly trips to Coushatta, thus
lengthening her weekly miles eighty
more than usual. She has the heels
and the officers to spur them, and
won't allow this to interfere with her
usual departure downwards every
Wednesday at II noon. She will
make good our words today at that
hour.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08
THE LEGISLATURE.

Twelve o'clock Thursday night
sharp New Orleans time, was sound
ed the funeral dirge of the Louisiana
Legislature, and its good and neg
Iected deeds now mark our poo
States history, and will soon be lie
gally promulgated in the Oi1icia
journal. Till then we cannot fairly
survey the work of our servants Of
chronicle the few reform measure:
which will grace Our statutes, but
must be permitted to state that, take
it all in all and under the Senatorial
party pressure, we have succeeded in
having some most excellent and long
needed changes. 1t is true, and it is
shame that it is true, that the infa,
nous Returning Board yet survives
the wreck, yet lives, and will yet be
pressed as the last lingering resting
place of radical fraud and corruption
but we are used to SO many iniqui-
ties of that party in our State, that
we are forced to bless the hour that
mas ridden us of small portion of
the ills under which we have so long
groaned, and under which we must
once more allow ourselves to be fore
ed into another important canvass.
We take it for granted that our
people of Louisiana, of Rapides, are
still in earnest, and never intend to
cry out enough, aud as we are yet as
a Journalist and citizen more in
earnest than ever, we hope to make
short work of it in the advice line,
when we ask them to shed no tears
on the past situation, but like men,
true men, make ready and strip off
for another heat, and strive, as we
know they can, to make it q telling
and decisive one. Again has it been
RENTED to them, and as they are the
only and true source of power, with
the will they can decide it and decide
it rightly. To be brief we mean that
we must not falter or stagger before
the accumulated wrongs of the Re
Board, but let these very
wrongs nerve us afresh to crush it
and all the counting misdeeds which
It's progenitors may have in yiew.-t
1t i'll becomes people like us, who
nave battled so long, so valiantly with
3he same formidable foe for ten years,
low to falter because all the guns Of
hat enemy have not been captured
n one good fight, and that the big.
rest Of them all is yet numbered and
ronting for the next fight. Men in
arrest, and with our patient and gal
ant record. should be but too willing
0 offer battle to that last fortress.
ihich has harmed us more than all
he artillery Of radicalism of Lou
siana.
Believing these things, these bad
hings, to be historically true, and
moving the temper. spirit and mood
the people whom we are now ad-
ressing, for the present we shall dis
'iss the subject till we can more In.
d!y lay before them the legislative
ork OF our public servants, and more
'operiy ask them to appreciate the =
olives that at present actuate u.s.
e shall certainly never counsel
lem to any acknowledgements. Of j,
lerished principles, but shall strict
keep them in the line of duty it :,
Is always been our pleasure and the Y
urse of our good intentions to
rive to make out for them. .
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08

We are under special obligations
to Captain John HEM for timely IA
vors, which none better than he
knows how to lavish on the Demo
crat. He reaches here tomorrow
with his fine boat, the John b.
Maude, and goes down on Saturday.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08

BEAUTIFUL and very eeasonable
weather for the past eight or ten
days, till the heavy rains of Monday
set in-this must necessarily impede
progress to the many plows now fur
rowing the soil of Rapides.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08
BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.

The British Quarterly Review fo1
January, republished by 'The Leo
nard Scott Publishing Company
10. Al Barclay Street, New York
contains the following:
l. Her bert Spencer's Sociology
2. Among the Prophets.
3. The Hindu Woman, real and
ideal.
4. Seryia.
5. The Stock Exchange and For.
eign Loans.
6. Disestablishment in New Eng.
land.
I. Political Questions in Italy.
.. Contemporary Literature.
The first article contains an &C.
count of the principal features of
Herbert spcncer's Sociological doc
trlnc, as set forth in his ''Sorial Sta
ties" followed by critical remarks on
the method employed, and the gene
raj characteristics exhibited in it's
development and exposition.
The object of "Among the Pro.
phets" is to prove, that "the system
through which the jewish Prophets
worked was, in the main, the same as
that which the modern dervishes en-
pley." A description of the public
worship Of the dervishes, which con-
sists of sacred songs, music and dan.
ces, is given, and several pages are
devoted to the poems which explain
their mystic doctrines.
s'The Hindu Woman, real and
ideal," shows the high estimation in
which women were held among the
Hindus during the Vedic period, and
how, as the worship Of Brahma gain
ed ground, they were gradually de-
prived of their privileges and placed
lower in the social scale. Some in
teresting letters from Hindu women
Of the present time, describing their
home-life and occupations, are intro
luced.
The frequent mention of ''Servin"
in the papers, has called forth an ar
ticle giving history and description
Of that country and it's inhabitants,
and explaining the awkward position
in which it is placed at the present
lime.
The next article is description of
The manner in which business is
at the London Stock Ex-
change, and of the means by which
English capitalists were induced to
make foreign loans to impecunious
''Disestablishment in New Eng
and'' is a history of the laws rela-
ing to church government in the
Colonies of Plymouth and Massachu
'etts. 1t is to be concluded iu the
lext number.
political Questions in Italy" is
divided into eight sections, in which
ections, in which are discussed the
of her existence, her finan-
ial position, political parties, the re-
atoms to the pope, foreign policy,
nd alliance with Austro- Hungary.
More than fifty pages of notices of
contemporary literature bring to Il
onclusion the new year number of
his review.
The periodicals reprinted by The
.eonard Scott Publishing Co., al
Barclay Street, N. Y. are as follows:
he London Quarterly, Edinburgh,
Westminster, and British Quarterly
,eviews, and Blackwood's Magazine.
rice 81 a year for any one, or only
10 for all. and the Postage is prepaid
Y the Publishers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08

WE are requested to state that
the MASQUERADE Ball, which was to
take place Oh Saturday evening, at
the Exchange Hall, has been post
poued Until a.tei le.t.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-08

| S~>>~>->s0 OS>es->>~~--~>>s =
REPRESENTATIVE MEH.-In the list
of Grants proposed new Cabinet
which we published yesterday, as fnr-
nished by one Of our Washington
correspondents, all the names given
were those Of what may strictly be
called representative men. A[essrs.
Chandler and Ramsey, like Belknap
and Robson, represent Grantism
pure and simple; and Grantism is al
so represented BY Judge Pierrepont
who, as our correspondent states, Is
most likely to be Secretary Of State
in the new deal. If, however, MI.
Fish should remain at the head Of
the State Department, there will still
be a representative man there, but
not OF Grantism. What Mr.. Fish re-
presents is the policy Of deluding
Grant about Cuba, and foiling his de-
signs representing Spain and the I'm
surrection in that island. 1t is true
that while Mr.. Fish does this, his
son-in-law derives handsome pecn.
mary benefit therefrom, and this is
in accordance with one of the funds
mental principles of Grantism; but
it is not Grantism; it is rather Fish
ism on the Grant plan.
The only new man in the list,
Judge Taft of Cincinnati, is also . Z
representative man. It's not Grant.
ism that he represents, but a different
principle, much more elevated in IL
self, and much stronger in its hold
upon the minds and feelings its ad-
herents. Judge Taft represents the
anti Catholic movement Of which
President Grant became q tonspicn.
Gus exponnder and leader when he
made his Des Moines speech. It is
on this movement that Grant has
most firmly relied for the attainment
Of the object dearest to his heart
his own election for a third term.
Judge Taft, however, is a man Of
solid talent, and of unsulIied charac.
ter, and there is always danger that
among the frail and dangerous crock
cry of Grantism such a man may
prove as inconvenieut as bull in
china shop. This renders Judge
Taft unsuitable for member Of
Grants Cabinet; and if he should go
into the Interior Department., be
might be hurried out Of it in few
weeks hence as roughly as Bristow
is hurried out of the Treasury now
Il \. Y. Sun.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-26
THE LADIES FOR cHALMnRa.

The Natchez Democrat has the
following;
The ladies are getting warmed
up in the canvass, and determined
to do their part, in the homo sphere,
to nerve mems arms for victory.
Gen. Chalmers (although . mar
ried many has captivated many
OF them with his eloquent earnest
ness, and they 'shurrah for Chal.
mers" with lady-like vim, in
social circles. Their influence is
destined to play no mean part in
determining the result Of this cleo
ton in Adams county.
We are always glad to see the
ladies engaging in every good work,
and We know no better work In
which they can engage than IN
laboring to redeem Mississippl
from the curse Of Radical rule. BY
the way, NO may mention, for the
benefit Of the young men Of ths
party, that Con. Chalmers has 1
very lovely daughter, and IL asn
Of them. have . mind to be the son
tn-law of . member Of Congress
it will be no bad start to win tn
gratitude of the charming Nisl
Katie by laboring tor the eleotior
Of het' father. Gratitude and loys
are drst cousins,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-26
Death of Speaker Kerr.

The Honorable Michael G. Kerr,
n Representative from the third
Congressional district of Indiana,
and the Speaker of the House Of
Representatives. in the Forty-fourth
Congress of the United STATES Of
died at thirty minutes
after seven O'Clock P. NJ. 18th Of
August, at the Rock bridge Alum
Springs in Virginia, in the 49th
year of his age.
Mr.. Kerr was born at Titusville,
Pennsylvania, March 10, 1927, re-
ceived an academic education, and
in 1852 commenced the practice OF
his profession at New Albany. Ind.
His talents aud integrity soon
commended him to the people
among whom he had cast his lot,
and he was aucces.ively elected to
the position of City Attorney, Pros
ecuting Attorney of his district,
members of the Legislature, and
Reporter Of the decisions Of the So.
preme Court of the State. He was
elected . Representative in the
39th. 40th, 41st, AID, and 44th,
Congress. At the opening of the
44th, Congress. he was elected
Speaker of the House. Q position
that he filed most scceptably t.
men Of all parties. His health
failing, he obtained Q leave Of sb
sence, and sought in tho invigora'
ting and health inspiring atmos.
phere Of the mountains Of Virginia
relief and restoration for q shat
tered and over-tasked system.
Mr.. Kerr was gentleman Of de.
cided ability and great purity o.
character, and his early death, II
the midst of . career Of usefulness
will cause deep regret all over thil
broad land.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-26

with flesh guarantees of equal rights
and equal safety. We will give YOU
everything that local self-g0vern-
ment demands; everything that a
common ancestry of gloty-evety'
thing that National fraternity or
Christian fellowship requires; but
to dissolve the Federal bond
between these States, to dismember
our country, whoever else consents
we will not. No! Never. never,
never I"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-26
An Opinion.

To show the present feeling II
the North on the subject of electine
colored men to Office, We copy the
following from the New York Herald
Of August 8:
One Of fAe phrases oftenest used
about the Southern States is that
they sslnust becOme like the North
tive want to make Louisiana like
the North, said q very prominent
Republican of that State the other
day. 1--WE want to make Mississippi
like the NOrf, said a cOlored sheriff
of that State not long ago TO a
northern traveller, who replied
to him gravely, "You are sheriff Of
this county, my friend you cannot
write q sentence correctly; you can
barely read; you own less than
five hundred dollars worth of prop
erty in the world: yet you are sheriff
of u great county, and you want to
have your State like the North.
Believe me when I tell you that
there is not State nor county in
all the North where ten men could
be found to nominate You for sheriff
or, in fact, for any Office whatever.
I do not speak it to offend you, but
to inform you. II you lived any
where in the North, even in Massa-
chusetts or the western reserve OF
Ohio, no soul would ever for a mo
ment think of nominating you even
for constable, much less sheriff.
You would be q patient and con
tented day laborer or farmer, and
your widest dreams would not lead
you to think of Office" Is not this
trueP And if 80, when we echo tho
southern republicans or the south
ern negroes cry that the South shall
be ''like the N"rth,' ought We not
TO think what that meansI LOuis-
lana has a negro lieutenant gnver-
nor Mississippi had one until he
was impeached for bribery. Al
most every southern State has col
pred State officers, colored sheriffS,
tax collectors, Judges, aud colored
school officers. In this they are not
very unlike "the North :" Frederick
Douglass is q cultivated man, an
eloquent speaker, a forcible writer,
! man of property, good citizen.
What party in New York has ever
thought Of nominating him for
governor
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-26
IOTICE TO PATRONS

The Grange Cooperative Association of
Madison county, Miss, was organized to-
day. The rules recommended by tho Ma
tional Grange for Cooperative Associations
were adopted with but little alteration
The election of officers resulted AZ follows:
Chairman-J. b. Yellowly.
Treaanrer-L. F. Montgomery.
Directors-Jno. +. Cameron, J. A. Smith,
WIN. Priestley, J. f. Coker
Audi, ors-E. c. Postell. p. II. Palmer.
SecretaIy-T. G. Smith Vaniz.
Canton was selected as the pk.ce Of busi-
ness. All Patrons of Madison and adjoining
counties are invited to join the Association
The next meeting will be on the 4th Mon
day of September at Odd Fellows Hall.
BY order of the Associstion.r,--s 80.
i < T. G. SMITH-VAN{z, =
Canton. Aug. n, 1875. Secretary
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-26
Lippincett's Magazine.

Tho September Number of Lip
pineott's Magazine opens with the
ninth article of the illustrated series
entitled 1.-THE Century; It's Fruits
aud its Festival" treating ably Of
the exhibits in Machinery Hall. Il
will be found one of the most in
structive and interesting of the
series. In the illustrated sketch
Of 'Lapland," the writer presents "
realistic picture of the life of the
Lapps, their industries and modes
of trading, with some notes OIL the
phenomena of the seasons in their
wild region. ION a HOusetop in
Capri" by Robert Mcleod, il
g1phic. dissertation of the many
picturesque and beautiful points OF
interests that can be seen in and
Tom that romantic island. s'The
Queen Of Spades," from the Russian
OF Pushkin, is q story of deep inter.
est, founded on an episode in con.
nection with the gaming tables OF
st. Petersburg. The second install.
ment of "Love in Idleness," by
Ellen w. Olney, more than fulfils
the promise of the commencement.
It is charming serial, with strongly.
drawn characters and clever si:.
nations. The third paper of Robert
Eastern Shore of Mary
landn is chiefly devoted to An
account of the land industries Of
that peninsula. Poetry is we'll rep
blythe OrickeGs Misslou."
. puem of seven smoOthly-written
and musical verses, by Mary B. |
Dodge, and "To7, with
Rose," a composition of consider
.ble merit, by Sidney L.nier. The
of Lady Barker's in
Letters. and the conclu.
ling chapters on George Sand"
~ r. Davey, with the usual Month
y Gossip" and Literature Of the
Day." make very bright number
# L,ppi4cott's Magazine.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-26
Advice to Young Ladies.

Dressing In saraiosa By IN Perkins.
There IL less dressing in Saratoga
every year. Now and then .
'ssweli' girl gets in from Buffalo
or Chicago with nineteen trunks.
and "stuns" rs with two new toilets
. day for ten consecutive days.
But the genteel New York girl
dresses very little. She comes to
see the panorama rather than be
seen. She hides away with her
beaux in corners, under . dainty
parasol, or forms . clique, where
they sit and abuse tho Joneses,
whose father, like their father,
once kept green grocery.
I see several young ladies' who
always look sweetly in muslin.
They came here with six white
muslin dresses and twenty.four
yards Of ribbon.
allow do you wear the ribbon =
I asked one of them.
"Well. We buy six yards Of wide
Niue ribbon. This we make into
bows, sashes, etc. When we wear
blue, it is blue throughout blue
on the hat, blue sash. blue bows,
blue stockings, etc.
"And the other ribbon Z"
"Why, We also buy ak yards Of
cardinal, ak yards Of pearl, and
six yards Of straw color. so, you
see, with six muslin drpee+s and
three white chip hats. we c;,n come
ont in a new suit every dav. and If