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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-10-17


myselfjust in time TO attend a party
given by Che young gentlemen of Co.
tile and the River, at the residence of
Mrs. Patrick, and your correspondent
having gotten himself up in style,
started for the handsome pinewoods
residence aforesaid in company with
a gay and merry crowd Of young
folks who were all full Of eager an
ticipation. I found Mr.. Sam Hena-
RES String Band on hand to furnish
the music for the occasion, and soon
the bellies and beaux commenced to
fill Mrs. Patrick's spacious parlors.
1t is seldom that Mr.. jenkins ever
finds gathered together so many fail
women and brave men as graced this
occasion with their presence. As
gazed upon them in the giddy whirls
of the waltz, and the stately grace o.
the lancers, I again felt proud of oul
Parish, that can beat all creation fol
pretty girls and gallant men. The
dancing was kept up until daylight
and the boys went home with The
girls in the morning.
SPRING CREEK CAMP MEETING,
The Camp Meeting at Spring Creel
being in full blast, I took that way
to come home from Cotile, and foune
a large crowd assembled on th,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-10-17

the submission of plan with less
Objectionable features than in any
previous scheme. This seems to be
due 10 the Government, If it is to
grant aid, and 70 be good policy on
the part Of The Company, as none Of
the old fashioned Union and Central
Pacific plumber bills, would have .
moments chances of success.
The Mexican lobby will be here
some of is here already. have be-
fore tried to speak Of this corrupt
combination as it deserves, but
words fail. 1t brings Mexicans and
Indians into Texas to plumber and
murder our citizens, it sends outlaws
and adventurers into Mexico 10 pro-
woke strife, all for the purpose OF
provoking war between the two na-
lions. And the prizes expected are
the mining wealth Of Northern Mex.
leo and the enforced payment BY
! Mexico Of uncounted millions Of boz
gus ''claims'' of spectators. Con.
gress will give to this mad and wick
ed scheme the consideration it
deserves.
Secretary Sherman's mis-state-
ment Of the public debt for Sep.
TENDER shows q reduction Of about
fnur millions. MEMO.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15
Germany and Belgium.

France is SO absorbed in her domestic
troubles-so deep in the quarrel for su-
premacy of parties and intrigues-that she
seems to have forgotten her external rela-
tions and to have ceased to be European
State. She has had no policy on recent
general topics of European interest but that
Of silence and abstention, and now it would
seem that she scarcely has any policy on
subjects that have an important bearing on
her own future capacity for self-defence
Evidently if the reports of the German
negotiations with Belgium are true the Ber-
lin government has made good use of the
paralyzed condition Of France as to
her relations with her neighbors, for if Ger
many shall secure with Frances immediate
neighbor such relations as she is said to
desire the possibility of self-assertion on
the part of France in any contingency what
ever will be we'll nigh hopeless. With the
adoption by Belgium Of the German military
system her army will have relations to the
imperial command perhaps not greatly dis
similar to the armies of tho formerly free
German States, and France will have Ger
many on her frontier from the Jura to the
German Ocean, and Germany's ally,from
Savoy to the Mediterranean. This will be o
guarantee of peace as long as the mainte-
nance of peace is in the programme Of Ger
man politics.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

failures were necessary to secure such mod
ifications as were necessary that man might
live on the Spree, how was it to be ex-
pected that fresh specimen, just from the
cradle of humanity, with all his original
imperfections in him, should thrive in that
land Of foundry-like digestions and profess
sorial intellects. II was the intellect that
did it: Pongo's little life was wasted in the
attempt to understand what life is--an at
tempt that comes naturally to people COM
PEELED to live in Berlin. They should have
carried poor Pongo to Paris. There SYM
pathy, sunshine, sense of merriment in
the air and the contagion of laughter would
have given him revived respect for the
kind. OF existence led by human creatures,
and he would not have died in his apish OBJ
stinacy and left world Of scientific men
bursting in ignorance rs to whether he was
capable Of civilization.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15
Com mn OdOre Vanderbilt's Mnlndi ies.

An incidental disclosure of the Wander
bilt will case is the story told by DR.. Linsly
of the old Commodore's physical injuries
and ailments. Few men, it seems, were
ever more terribly beset by the ills that
flesh is heir to in tho form OF chronic
diseases and it is one more evidence Of the
resolution with which this man fought the
battle OF life that he had not only to en-
counter the opposition and resistance Of
those enemies whom the world saw him en-
counter, but also these little known, persist
ent and relentless foes that were with him
day and night and silently sapped the cita-
del ut last. DIR. Linsly's acquaintance with
Mr.. Vanderbilt extended through forty
seven years, and he was his family physi-
clan for the greater part Of that time. He
testifes that the Commodore was suf-
ferer from heart disease, from hernia,
from hemorrhoids, from chronic cystitis,
from dyspepsia and from dropsy conse-
quent upon the heart disease that on
one occasion he was very gravely injured in
a railroad accident, having the ends Of sew
eral fractured ribs driven like daggers into
his lungs, and that the results of this hurt
lasted so long that it caused him Sc
we're pleuro-pneumonia three years later,
and that he suffered from repeated attacks
of fever and ague. That is the physical
record of one Of the giants Of his time
With ut least five maladies from the danger
or distress of which he was never free, and
with intercurrent troubles that would have
carried down many man physically vigor-
Gus, the old Commodore fought on and not
only accumulated one Of the greatest lor-
tunes ever made in this country, but
also achieved successes that were wonder
iul apart from their financial results. Let
no invalid despair with such history be-
fore him.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15
Scarlet Fever in the Schools.

Comparatively little of what is done by
the Board of Health OF this city is OF any
value to the public, and it is probably well
enough known that we waste no admiration
upon that body but it does scrap OF SER
vice here and there, and its proceedings
aimed to prevent the propagation Of scarlet
fever through the public schools must be
numbered with these. This, however,
seems to be case of good intentions rather
than efficient performance but the Board
OF Education must share with the Board OF
Health the responsibility for this failure.
Scarlet fever cases are reported to the
Board Of Health, with their location, and
Board of Education. AS a simple c6n-
sideration Of the distribution Of the school
districts will show this information would
enable the school authorities to know
in what schools pupils from that neighbor-
hood were likely to be found, and an
easy inquiry in any given school would de-
termine whether there were children there
from an infected house, while the tempo
rary exclusion Of such children from the
school would save many lives and prevent
the spread OF the disease. 1t results from
the observations Of DR. Dwyer, who appears
to be one Of the few capable men connected
with the Board of Health, that this pro-
gramme is not carried out by the Board Of
Education, and that in consequence all the
precautions actually taken produce no pub
lie benefit. There seems to be room here
for the Board of Education to rise and ex-
plain.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15
Congress YestAr ays

The session in the Senate and House yes
terday was almost entirely consumed in
speechmaking. Senator Maxey spoke at
length on the Mexican question and eight
or nine gentlemen ventilated their theories
on the nti-Resumption bill in the House.
The speeches Of some of the soft money adj
vocates were SO exceedingly ridiculous
and absurd that the chamber was kept
in almost continuous roar of laugh
ter Two moro days of debate re-
main under the resolution, SO that a
vote will not be taken until tomorrow.
Mr.. Wood reported from the Ways and
Means Committee resolution to adjourn
OH the 22d inst, but did not press immedi-
ate notion.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15
pongo.

Pongo is no more! He has gone to his
account--if he has any /; is g1he up is gone
over to the majority; is gathered to his
fathers has kicked the bucket has turned
up his toes has slipped his grip. In fact,
Pongo is dead as dead as julius Caesar, or
Hannibal, or Napoleon Bonaparte--or any
other man or ape. Pongo died in Berlin,
statement which partially accounts for his
fate. Berlin was too much for him. It has
taken many ages to produce an animal that
can live in Berlin and the waste of life Of
which relentless natural selection has been
guilty III producing o creature with the
lungs, stomach and brain that are necessary
to support life, at the Prussian capitnl is
scarcely comprehensive to ordinary intolli-
gence. Myriads of millions would not fill
up the sum of the failures that pre-
ceded the successful production Of the
species that thrivcs in that district.
But If unnumbcrcd years and numberless
The New York herald., 1877-11-15
A Hard Case.

The counsel for Robert L. Case. the in
dicted president. of tho Security Life Insur-
ance Company, made m earnest plea to the
jury yesterday for the defence. Besides
urging with ingenuity and force those tech
nical points to which the accused trusted for
escape from the penalty of his crime the
learned counsel strove to touch the feelings
OF the jury by painting in pathetic language
the disastrous effect conviction would
have on his clients aged wife and
four daughters. The crime of which
Mr. Case was yesterday found guilty
is one of unequalled cruelty. A man labors
and tolls oil his life, and pinches himself
and his family in order tor pay the premium
of life insurance, SO that those who are
dearer to him than his life may not be left
penniless and helpless when he passes to
his grave He dies, and the money he has
found it so hard to pay is stolen by a dis
honest life insurance official, and, spite of
all his care, his dear ones. are destitute.
Not one, but thousand aged widows;
not four, but thousand groups
of weeping daughters are stricken
to the earth in sorrow, in hunger, perhaps
in starvation, through the guilt of one
such criminal as this. Every right-minded
man will sympathize with the family of the
convicted perjurer, although they may be
left in wealth and luxury while he is paying
the just penalty of his crime. But every
right-mindcd man will sympathize also with
the thousands Of victims of these infamous
life insurance frauds, and will demand the
stern punishment Of the criminal authors OF
such widespread misery.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

The so-called granger movements is con-
spicuous illustration. Twenty or thirty
wears ago the grand necessity of the West
was the construction OF railroads. Its
farmers were transporting their grain to
places OF shipment in wagons from dis
tances OF fifty, hundred and hundred
and fifty miles, and the development and
prosperity Of the country depended on
cheaper carriage Eastern capitalists were
bcsieged and implored to furnish the money
for building Western railroads, and then,
when the people Of the West had got the
railroads, which quadrupled the value Of
their FARMS they started movement for
destroying the value OF all railroad prop
erty This was of piece with their efforts
to cheat the bondholders who had furnished
the means OF carrying on war whose sue
cess was more important to the West than
to any other section.
The greenback reputation project and
the granger project having come to naught,
and being utterly dead the same irrepressi-
BILE dishonesty comes up in another form.
1t is now proposed to swindle private credi-
tors and cheat the national bondhplders by
coming ninety-two dollars worth Of silver
bullion into hundred silver dollars and
making such debased money tender for
the discharge Of all obligations. Some
readers may perhaps think it unfair to
charge this iniquity upon the West when
there are many Western citizens who detest
it. But such o plea can no more be ad-
mitted than it would have been in the case
of the South, which contained large body
of sincere Union men at the outbreak of the
civil war. We must judge the West by
the men it sends to represent it in Con-
gress. The South was never at any time
more fully represented in Washington by
fanatical and lunatic pro-slavery set than is
the West at present by tanatical and luna
tic set of silver money repudiationists. If
the public men of other parts Of the country
will act against them with such resolute
vigor and decision as to show them that they
have no hope of allies out of their own Sec
ton this old heresy in o new mask may
easily be put down.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mira Joseph Jefferson IL visiting her sister In
Chicago
Mr. Caleb Cushing, OF Massach chusetts, is At the
Astor House.
Mr. Henry watterson, oi Kentucky, is at the
Everett House.
Mr.. Reuben f. Fenton, Of jamestown. N. r., 10 at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel
The Dartmouth College class OF 1881 have voted 10
adopt the Oxford cap and gown.
Five convicts escaped from the hospital OF the Mis-
souri, Penitcntiary yestesday morning.
The subscriptions for the unemployed and destitute
people OF San Francisco aggregate about $25, 900
John Smith, charged with the murder OF his wife at
Wales, Ont, acquitted ut tho Assizcs yesterday
A despatch from Augusta says tnat Senator B,a,no
is rapidly convaloscing and will soon DO upon the
street agcin.
Barton Myers, Of Norfolk, Va, has been appointed
British Consul at that place, to succeed his uncle
Colonel Mycr Myers, recently deceased
Hon. s. Il. Church. Chief Judge Court OF Appeals
will award the post graduate prize at the annual mcet
Ing Of the State Bar Association at Albany next
Tuesday.
P.J. Mehan, an attorney OF Mauch Chunk, Pa was
held to bail yesterday by United States Commissioner
Smith to answer the charge OF cxtorting an exorbi.
tant foe for obtaining u pension for a wounded SOL
der
NEW YORK HKRALD r. I.-mnn-"No, sir. you're
wrong. Personal according to the late Mr.. Wcb
stcr, signifies belonging TO women, or porsOns
not to things OF course you run In pudding rec
ipes If you like, but on Noah h'count would Webster
have permitted H. Oh, yes, We are always willing TO
give you inormation don't be afraid to wrio n-De-
toa Free Press. ''Don't DO hard on him. Remember
that P.L H. -man's Personal Intelligence naturally
includes puddinga Philadelphia Bulletin.
Tho Syracuse Courier says:-'.Senator Conkng rose
to question Of privilege In the Senate yesterday In
relation TO the now famous interview In tho HRRALp
OF Friday last The Senator very guarded In what
he said and must have lett tho impression with h,s
hearers that tho report Of the interview not far
out Of the way after all The HERALD statement, no
said, contained remarks which he made in casual
conversation ut times and other remarks which he
never made at any tune. That Is very safe thing to
say. lie is careful not 10 disclaim the 'gst OF tho
statement OF fcourse, there verbal inaccuracies
but what Of thatP Alter Mr. Conklings personal ex-
PLANTATION there Is no longer room for doubt that the
statement Of tho HERALD Is substantially n correct
the publication Is the work Of oavcsdroppcr or OF
trcachcrous friend does not concern the public si.
though II docs tho reputation OF the HERALD
IL is tho revelation Of Conkling's inncr SELL which
even II Involuntary, Is but supplement 10 tho chap
tor the Senator himself unioded at Rocheste. Mr.
Conkllng "a known among his friends as an accom-.
plishcd boxer Hc has now pat his gloves on and is
sailing IN. Somebody ia bound to got hi. aud hurt.
il u Hayos?n
The New York herald., 1877-11-15
The Missionary Com mittee ON Africa.

The Missionary Com ittee ON Africa.
The General Missionary Committee of the
Methodist Episcopal Church met in this
city yesterday to make their annual appro-
priations for home and foreign mission
work. They were more hopeful than they
were one year ago, because the dsbt Of their
treasury had been reduced nearly ninety
three thousand dollars in the meantime.
They therefore, with greater confidence,
could make their appropriations little
larger this year than last But the most
notable feature in their discussions was
the prominence given to African mis-
sions. 1t was with difficulty that
to that work contingently last year, but
Yesterday there was enthusiasm enough
manifested to double that amount if the
committee could be sure of the money
The moro conservative, however, kept the
enthusiastic ones within bounds, but 81, 500
were voted cheerfully to penetrate to the in
terror of that continent from Liberia, and
two white ministers and any number Of col
ored men have offered themselves as mis-
sionaries. Bishop Haven, DR.. Fowler, DR..
Curry and other members of the committee
were in favor OF n larger sum, and declared
that the prospect was more hopeful there
now than in any other mission of the
Church. Hence a resolution was pre-
sented asking Congress to cooperate
with Great Britain in building
highway for the nations from Mon
rovia to the interior of Africa, and to ap-
propriate $4,000 for that purpose also
asking Congress to establish line of steam
ers between the United States and the West
Coast Of Africa. Some of the committee
did not like the steam line to be hampered
with the highway, and for the present both
were laid over. But it is very clear that
Stanleys work in Africa is going to bear i'm
mediate and abundant fruit. The Rev. j.
w. Horne, who spent ten years as mis-
sionary in Africa, expressed his opinion
yesterday that it was the greatest discovery
of tho world for three hundred years
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

THE WEAfilER.--Thc area Of high pressure
still slowly moving of the Middle Atlantic coast
% followed by general fall OF the barometer
from the direction Of the northwest. The
isobar Of thirty inches is now aligned from Texas
10 the mouth Of the st. Lawrence River
and westward Of it the pressure gradually dc
crcases to IA depression central in the Upper
Mississippi Valley. Over Dakota another
distinct depression is moving, but both
are incloscd within common isobar
OF 1890 inches. Rains have attended
the first disturbance since yesterday morning,
md have extended over the Mississippi, Lower
Ollio Valley and Southwestern States. The
pressure is rising in the Indian Territory,
and is relatively high north Of tho
upper lako region, but over the south
crn lakes and northward parallel to
the st. Lawrence it has fallen. A very general
rise of temperature has occurred. The weather
in New York and its vicinity to-day will be
warmer and cloudy or partly cloudy, probably
followed by light ruins.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

AT CREEDMooR yesterday Mr.. Thomas
Lamb, Jr., one Of the reserves Of the American
rifle team for 1877 made the astounding score
of thirty bulrs-cycs, at the nine hundred yard
range. This makes him the champion riilclhan
Of the world, and his score will probably never
be cquallcd it certainly cannot be cxccllcd
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

The QUEENS COUNTY Hunt had difficult
run yesterday through brush and brake, ind
Rcynard escaped with his brush intact. But
the sport does not wholly consist Of killing the
fox for his brush and pads and the huntsmen
must have greatly enjoyed their dash after the
hounds for the excitement and exhiIaratine
exercise attending the chase. II is gratifying
to know that these fox hunts are rapidly gain
ing in popularity among the residents OF Long
Islund
The New York herald., 1877-11-15
II RIPPLE SH e E T
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Is. 1877.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ADvERTIsERs.-Io
iassoe the proper classification Of advertisements
Il Is absolutely accessory hat hey be handed ~
before eight o'clock erey evening.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

The VANDERBILT WILL CASE promises to be
one Of the longest Surrogate trials on record in
this city.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

A GooD DEAL OF LIGHT is being thrown OIL
the dark ways of the silk smugglers by the pro
cccdings before Judge Benedict.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

From osr reports this morning the probabilities
are that the wedther IN Ncw York and its ricinity
today ,cN be narmer and cloudy partly cloudy,
fDliOced bv ii0ht ruty,s
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was stronger and prices as rule were
higher. Gold was quoted all day at 1925.
Government bonds were quiet. States firm and
railroads stronger. Money on call was easy ut
5a "a 8 per cent closing at the last figure
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

DEAF AND DUMB BEGGAR was cured By
sending for policeman. The dose cost the pa
tient sixty days in the workhousc.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

The PRoTRAcTED VOYAGE of the steamer City
of Brussels had sad ending yesterday in the
harbor, a schooner being run down and two men
drowned. The accident calls for careful in
uniry
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

The SUICIDE of q Chicago bank president is
recorded. The affairs Of the institution had,
however, nothing to do with the motive.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

THERE IS SUFFICIENT FoOD wasted every day
in this city to feed five thousand people; yet .
man died yesterday of starvation.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

TIE BROOKLYN POLICE can act promptly
when they see fit. BY such action yesterday an
abducted child was restored to its parents.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

JUDGING FROM OuR REPORTS there is q good
deal Of filling in the cigarnakcrs strike, and the
leaders deny that their backbone is broken.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

The GOETHE CLUB gave very pleasant re-
ccption to William Cullen Bryant last evening.
The slver-harcd poet dcservedly finds honor
among the Germans well rs his own country
m
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

TIE SEVENTH REGIMENT armory fund con-
tnues to grow. The value Of our National
Guard is beginning to be appreciated.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

ANofHER EARTHQUAKE SuoCK-this time in
Canada
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

TIE REPUBLICAN SENATORS and the President
are beginning to understand one another.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

In OUR LAW REPORTS will be found q wifc's
pathetic narrative in support of her suit for di
vOrcc.
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

THE EMMA MINE CASE reappearcd in the
courts yesterday, when a new trial was applied
The New York herald., 1877-11-15

Ir IS GRATIFYING to know that the Direct
Cable has been picked up.