The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-02
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The prison.
Plnchback,s paper explains the report OF the
Dinkgrave Committee that none OF the mem
bers of this Legislature received $3.50 TO vote Tor
Kellogg, in this wise Every member brought
before the committee swore that Kellogg had
not paid him 1850 but not one would swear that
Kellogg had not promised the money. The facts
seem to be that Kellogg promised the money
and afterwards Dc cliued topay. Who can, men,
accuse him Of bribery
The Mississippi papers complain that the shor'
crops in lower Mississippi are owing, In large
part, TO the open life that plantations now en]'y
Every plantation Is fast becoming miniature
town. with Ito rioting. its bar-rooms and disspa-
tons. There was day when plantation lie was
really rustic and Arcadian: but now, politics,
whisky and license have found their way there
There ID o store and several barroonis on every |
place: crowds OF tramps and thieves pass along |
the roads and stop day or two ct the place, and /
thing tends TO make the laborers forget thst
there 10 such thing as work to be done. IL
would certainly BIO TO the benefit OF all II there
was little more privacy In country life than there
| Is now. and IL the negroes could be protected
| from the gamblers aud thieves who 90 prowl hs
around the country taking the same advantage
OF them that the Radical politicians have aone'
| The interesting news that famine Ia likely In
| Corsa Ia eircIing through the Louisiana papers,
| but We see IL nowhere stated that famine 10
great probability Ia the upper river parishes.
| The destitution among the negroes there 10 ex-
tremo The crop made will average only $40 to the
| /. Al pIara ppn m nh n cent. but
worse than this, II Is hard to see how the negroes
win get enough to live. They save nothing; they
can raise nothing to cat. There was 'ime
when cattle could BIO raised 10 these parishes, but
Republican politics have long since put an end TO
this. Cotton is about the only thing to BIO raised,
because cotton is difficult TO steal. Although
one-third of tine Radical vote Of the State comes
from these parishes the Radical party has never
sought to CORE ct this growing evil. 1t ID TO De
hoped that our present Legislature will do this
do something to make the raising OF cattle and
produce D sslble In the negro parishes OF Louis
lana, MS it IL possible In Mississippi.
The Scientific american gives long account OF
the New Orleans, the first steamboat running on
the Mississippi river. The boat was launched ct
Pittshurg in 1911 by Mr.. Roosevelt, acting with
Mossrs. Fulton and Livingston in New York.
She ran between New Orleans and Natchez maxi
ing twelve trips year. The passage down re-
auired only two or three days, while that up the
river owing to the current, was seven or eight
days. Seldom less than twenty persons went on
the down trip, and fly to hundred on the way
up. Tho price from Natchoz to New Orleans was
sl8, from New Orleans TO Natchez s25.
We notice strange caution in the country
papers just now in the matter OF editorials
These have almost altogether ceased. 1t Is not
, to DO wondered OF in Republican papers, VINO,
Toreseting the recognition OF the Nichols gov
eminent, prefer to say nothing against it just
now. AS for the Democratic papers, the tardi-
ness with which news travels in Louisiana mas
taught them to be cautious Of what they say
editorialy. Almost all Of them were taken IN
, by Grants celebrated status quo dispatch to
, Augur Like Packard, they almost universally
mistook its meaning, and, suppos.ng 1t to DO q
recognition OF Packard, burst out in fierce
, phllippics against 1t. Next morning came the
intelligence that the dispatch had been misin-
terpreted; that Packard was not to be recog'
nized. Alas that editorial was already up and
la type and printed. The cons equence was that
l these papers came out with an editorial saying
D that Grsnt had recognized Packard, and with
the news that he had not. This little mistake
: has had the effect Of putting them on their
0 guard. Louisiana history Is 80 uncertain, 80
I unstable, that 1t will not do TO shout until you
are quite sure you are right.
Q The Dake Of Mecklenburg- Schwern aroused
o the enmiy and denunciation Of the Chicago pa
pers, several years ago, by rather singular
: ordinance concerning criminals. He had foupe
! it an expensive thing to keep his pickpockets
. murderers and thieves. They were, indeed
costly Injuries, and the prince saw no reason
why they should be fed and clothed out OF hi
L private purse 30 he calls them up and en- er'
ato an agre ement tn Vt he will release them ron
:, his dungeon and pay their expenses IL they vii
s only leave his domnons, never to return, ant
uu Ter the penalty OF hanging il they did. Chica
4 20 was selected by m as their future home
prob IDLY because he thought that they would fnt
pleasant congenial 80 ,isty there. and fine 10
ofemigrauts were shipped to that interesting city
Such was the conduct that aroused tho by-no
s means mild denunciations tf the Chicago pa.
pcrs. We are afraid that our New Orb ans pa
= pers will have to do the anne by some friend1.
q cities along the river. HlcKsDufB ana Natcue'
O are just now ,courged with an epidemic OF bur
4 glArles robberies, etc. They have found larg
- police force useless, unable to check this, ant
= are now promising to compound with the thieves
Q if they will only leave. They do not say exactl
l. whtre they propose these shall go, but it is on
Is too evident that they wish New Orleans to adop
d and protect these unfortunstes. The Natche'
II Democrat coolly prop 'ses -"that flat
e boat bs purchased; that tho citizens turI
Il out n,asse, on some given day, scour The Who'll
. town, capture every man who can't show a goo
- account Of how he makes living, put them al
" on this boat give them a weeks rations, tow tn
u boat, 80 loaded. out into the current, and the
turn it loose, without oars" for New Orleans. A
much as we need emigrants We thankfully de