The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-05
PARISH OF WEST FELICIANA.
Anent Babe Weber and Brother.
There Babe Has Gone Went and Done 1t;
lie Has Done Just What Job Wanted
His Worst Enemies to do I! He
Has Written d Book.


Editor Democrat We may now learn
the cause OF all our woes, II we will only
mind what Babe says and aeha. h.
! don't say. Here Is what he says:
Hogan never possessed Intelligence
enough to steal more than ten dollars at
! u time"
But Babe and brother possess
intelligence enough. There is nc
gainsaying that. He does not say SO.
He is too modest by half. Babe and
brother have been making bad use Of 1t.
'There Is where the shoe pinches. ~
Babe and brother have q way Of serving
the public by helping themselves. And
they have been going in for it with in
telligence enough" and to spare. The
people want them to resign. But, then,
people are 50 unreasonable. Hogan,
who has never had intelligence enough
to steal moro than ten dollars at time,
has resigned. Babe and brother who
have, are asked TO resign. Thus stands
the matter. What is to be done Tho
whole reconstruction policy Ii in
danger. Babe sees It. But he dor t
say SO. But he has been keeping
up, like the Trishman' s owl, ~ great dale
Of thinking" He has done more. He
has telegraphed again and again. But
nothing has tome OF It. Is 1t because they
don't know Babe, or because they do?
He has now gone to New Orleans to stir
up Casey, Packard and all whom 1t may
concern, with long pole. Let him
alone for that. He has suppod on hor-
rors for some time past, and he Is bound
to disgorge. So stand from under. The
danger Is pressing. Our sheriff has tel
egraphed for troops. Troops, indeed |
Nothing less than a fleet Of iron clads
sent up Thompson's and Alexander's
creeks will settle the hash, and Babe
knows it. The navigation OF the latter
Is little difficult. The lower course,
however, Is In the corporate limits Of
the magnificent city Of st. Francisville,
Of thirteen miles river front and $4,000
acres Of superficial area, and Babo Is
luckily councilman and collector Of the
same, and should know all about it. Or.
II he don't, Babes brother does, for to
| him we owe the act OF incorporation.
Either can serve as pilot. Thompson 8
creek Is navigable for fatboats some
distance, and for skiffs to Murdoxford.
There, or thcreabout, is where the
fleet ought to be stationed, rs Babe
knows, to intercept tho redoubtable
Frank Powers and the Regulators.
Should Secretary Robson and Grant
accompany it, as Is probable, Blaine,
Morton, Butler and others need not be
invited. They do possess intelligence
enough; they know oil the facts, or
they can invent them, like Babe, II they
don't. It is no more than will be ex-
pected that the city OF st. Francisville
should give them magnificent recep-
ton; tender them the hospitality of
the city. Babe will see to it. He is
councilman and collector, and hand-in-
glove with the Mayor, Bob Muse" as
he is irreverently called, or his Honor,
Robert Hewlett, Mayor Of st. Francis
vile, Commissioner OF the Insane Asy-
lum, member Of tho Police Jury, ex-
Treasurer OF the parish Of West Felici-
ana, and drayman for, in and about
Bayou Sara and st. Francisvillc. find
this list Of official titles in the report Of
the Property Holders Protective Union.
When I say thing I always like to
have the documents, lest the captious
reader should suspect me OF inyenting
facts, like Babe. The corporate funds
are low, so Babe informs me; the city
Of st. Francisville has i'm its corporate
IImita 10 nm ~
stocked with beavers. alligators and
turtles, not to mention other small fry. |
Will 1t be believed =?
The beavers have not contributed a
tuft OF their fur, nor the alligators q
wag OF their tail, to the corporate fund, |
although living and following their oc-
cupatiOn In the corporate limits. "AII |
nuisances must be removed from the
corporate limits, and there cannot be q
greater nuisance than tax rcsisters,"
so says Babes brother in the Dunn
Leader. Here is work for the fleet. all
cut and dried. Worse still; Judge
Hewes has enjoined the collection OF
corporate taxes. The ordinances against
stray pigs, and fines and penalties for
riding on sidewalks have barely yielded
The cost Of collection and Of printing Of
same in the Dunn Leader- Babes
brother charging tho usual rate allowed
TO State printer.
But funds must be had for the occa-
sion. Babe will see to it while in the
,ity. Marshal Packard and Casey
night advance the money needed until
he injunction is dissolved, q special tax
evied and collected, and all nuisances (
'emoved from corporate limits by the
ronclads, tax rosisters above ALL"
The Mayor is an old acquaintance OF
len. Grant. He it was, in the perilous {
lines OF September, 1874, telegraphed
irant thanking him for sending a cor !
'oral and six soldiers, ending by saying.
Our lives are sweet" ETC. I am sorry t
have lost or mislaid this important
document, so creditable to the intelli- !
'ence OF both. The curious reader will !,
ind it in Grants special message to +
congress on Louisiana affairs in 1874. Ig
nd some other curious things worth v
If funds are only forthcom =
ng, the President and Secretary NAV be \