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The Portland daily press., 1877-09-24
MARIN f. n Il w s
PORT OF PORTLAND.
saturday, Sept. H2.
ARRIVED,

saturday, Sept. 22.
ARRIVED.
Steamship Franconia, Bragg. New York-pBssen-
gers and mdse to Henry Fox. Spoke 2ist, ON Nam
tucket Shoals, brig Hattie NJ Balm, from Bonare for
Portland.
Sch Tennessee, Piilsbury, New York-3snd to Me
Central RR.
CLEARED.
Brig o Stillman, Tibbetts, Buenos Ayres-S
Dyer.
Sch'Centennia, Risley. Cork, I-John Main.
Sch May Day, Hume st John, NB-Jas Lucas.
Sch Neptunes Bride, Lindsey Calais-N Blake.
Sch Mary Elizabeth. Dunton ,Boothbay-D Choate.
SAILED-Sch Centennial, and others.
sunday, Sept. 23.
ARRIVED.
Barque Geo Wright, new Webster, Yarmouth,
in tow of tugs A Warren. and W III Scott.
Sch Mabel Hall, Bartlett, So Ambey-coal to Jas
Baker.
LAUNcH-The new ship Wandering Jew, built by
Carlton, Norwood & Co. at Rockport, was to be
launched 3d. Capt Taylor will command her.
The new ship building by Samuel Watts & Co at
Rockland. is all planked up and will be launched
about Oct 9th,
The Portland daily press., 1877-09-24
ANNUAL MEETING.

YsyuE Stockholders of the Portland & Rochester
Railroad Company are hereby notified that the
annnai meeting win be held at the office of the Cons
many at the Depot in Portland, on WEDNESDAY,
The third day OF October next, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon, to act upon the following business, viz;
Article 1st.-To hear the reports of Directors
Article 2d.-To choose eleven Directors for the en-.
suing year.
Article 3d.-To act upon any other business that
may legally come before them.
Portland, Sept. 10, 1877. seniodaw
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26
Official Journal of the Parish
Wednesday, Sept. 26. 1877.

CHAT HUSBAND OF MINE. I've
acknowledge The receipt of "That
Husband of Mine" from Lee and
Shepherds Publishing House, Bos-
ton. We have taken but q hurried
glance at this fresh publication, but
have read enough of it 10 feel secure
in the assertion that "That Husband
Of Nine is the lion of tina day.
Published anonymously, as the title
indicates, the story is told by the
''better half' of the matrimonial es
tablishment, and unless we be wo-
fully mistaken, The book is really
written by a woman. The author
says of Charlie, the hero Of the sto-
ry, that che is not by any means re-
markable, but he has the fewest
faults, The manifest virtues, aud the
least tact Of any man I ever saw or
heard Of" AS q tout ensemble we
think the book is bright, sunny,
sparkling aud we'll adapted to devote
a leisure hour, while it may also
almost without the readers con.
sciousness-impress a lesson Of pa
thence and good humor.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

AFTER months of anxious sus.
pense, Henry M. Stanley, the great
explorer, after going through Africa,
out of the mouth of bell, has safely
arrived on the west coast of Africa
After a journey Of untold horrors
through the heart of the Continent,
and a region heretofore untrodden
by the foot of man, escaping the TEL
rors of the jungles along Tue line Of
the equator, beset by savage canni.
balls, he fights his way across the
continent, narrowly escaping death
by starvation and frequent casualty,
he yet lives and will soon honor his
benefactor and hacker, Benuett, OF
the New York Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

The Democratic majority in the
House of Representatives. will be
eleven. The Republican majority in
the Senate will be five, but should
Senator Morton's place be filled by a
Democrat, and should the Democrat
ic contestants from Louisiana and
South Carolina be admitted, all of
which contingencies are more than
probable, and should any of the car
pet-bag Senators, upon whom the
Republicans have "gone back" de-
eide 10 manifest their sense of the
treatment they have received, which
may also be expected, the complex
ion of chat body will likewise be
altered.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

The yellow fever is prevailing
in Havana, and nearly all the vessels
in that port are infected. A report
from DR.. Finney, the officer at the
Mississippi Quarantine Station, be-
low New Orleans, has reported that
at his station there are two infected
barks in ballast, two briggs and one
bark loaded with coffee, and that the
steamer Margaret, with a miscella
neous cargo, is also there with yell
low fever on board.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26
A SHAM.

The canvassing tour Of Mr.. Hayes
and his party in the State of Ohio,
just on the eve of an important elec-
tion which is attracting great atten-
ton throughout the Union, is worse
tLan the worst of the many bad
things of Grantism, 1t is true that
Grant sent soldiers TO carry elec.
lions, but he seems to have had more
respect for his position and for him
self, than to 60 electioneering in his
own person. And from still another
point of view it is worse than Grant
would have done. He was more
choice than Mr.. Hayes seems to be,
and bad as he was, if he had gone
canvassing, he would never have de-
graded himself SO much as to have
Beast Butler as one of his party.
Ben Butler, the Beast, seems to be
the chief fugleman of the Presiden-
tial canvsssing party in Ohio, and
his presence aids a deeper stain to
the disgrace which does and will at
tach 10 the President, who can be 80
far forgetful of himself and the
American people, whose fraudulent
representative he assumes to be, as
to 60 canvassing with Ben Butler in
his train.
We have watched with no little in
terest the development of Mr.. Hayes
system of civil service reform, and
while it was being heralded with
such a flourish of trumpets we wait
ed for the result with many misgiv-
ings. When in defiance of every
principle of reform he recognized the
Returning Board in Louisiana by
putting the patronage of the Custom
House IN their hands we saw that
all the talk about civil service re-
form was mere sham; bait held
out to satisfy the country and re-
concile them to his fraudulent occu-
pancy of the place which rightfully
belonged to Mr.. Tilden. His circu-
lar stating that no government Off
cial should hold any political posi-
ton or NEEDLE in politics, sounded
very nice, but when Mr.. Cornell in
New York chose to openly defy Mr..
Hayes and his order, we know better
than ever that Mr.. Hayes was, in
vulgar parlance, fraud, and his
promised reform, mere subterfuge.
Now that he has gone to Ohio cleo
pioneering himself, the fact is per
fectly plain that he either never
meant reform at all, or that he has
changed his mind and his policy in
that respect; and if he can be so soon
and so easily driven from his posi-
ton on civil service reform, we are
very much afraid that, should the &C.
casion offer, he will find it equally
convenient, and that he could as
readily reconcile his conscience to a
change in his Southern Policy. In
deed, we look for him to break down
on that point just so soon as any or
ganized opposition is made to it in
the ranks of his own party. We are
not partial to promises anyway, and
when we see q man so prolific Of pro-
misses as Mr.. Hayes has been, our
suspicious are aroused. We pre-
dict that before many months those
credulous people who thought and
said that "Hayes would do more for
the South than Mr.. Tilden would
dare to do will have occasion to
form different opinion. Mr.. Hayes
is in bad hands and will bear watch
ing. At any rate he has proven to
us that his civil service reform is all
a sham.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

--MRs. Gaines has written a letter
to the Mayor of New Orleans, asking
that the City levee a special tax of
50, 100000 on the real estate of said
City, in order to pay that amount,
which is due her as per recent judg-
ments obtained against the City.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

CRAZY HORSE, one Of the troub-
lesome and fighting Indians, is dead.
He was recently captured and taken
under guard to q military encamp-
ment, from where he attempted to
escape, when he was shot two or
three times. He died in a few hours
from his wounds.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

AFTER all, the Tax Collector has
been forced TO crack his collection
whip, and as we have often intima-
ted, the delinquents can't with any
cause shake their CORY locks at him.
He has done it; read it elsewhere.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

ON several occasions lately, we
have been telling the public about
Col. McGinnis' new Livery Stable,
but in the present issue of our Jour
nal will be found card from the
Colonel himself, to which we invite
the special attention of the public.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26
POLICE JURY AND THE FINANCES.

Well, they have fixed it. Our Par
ish Legislature have met and Crap
pied with the knotty question Of Fl
nance, and it is theirs! Parish pa
per is no more! In one fell swoop,
without regard for The integrity of
the good old Parish in the past, the
blow is struck which lays low in the
dust the financial honor, what little
there was left, Of Rapides Parish.
And yet the honorable members say
it is not reputation. Well, This is
in harmony with the sentiment 50
oft quoted during The past few years,
that protection does not protect
Now we have it, reputation does not
repudiate! The inference is that at
some distant time in the future, when
taxes roll in abundantly, and there
is surplus of currency in the treas
ury-the Parish might-if these
worthy fathers are still at the helm
redeem her Indebtedness by hand
somely scaling it. This reminds me
of the big card Kellogg used to play,
and it was intended as his trump
card to his listeners at the North !;
that since his accession to the Gov
ernorship of Louisiana, he had re-
duced the debt of the State one third,
and consequently the taxes were re.
duced in proportion. But he did not
tell how twas done. No, that would
have spoiled his reputation as a
Financier. 1t was very simple. The
debt was scaled one-third. But our
Parish financiers do not do half so
we'll. They leave the Indebtedness
of the Parish out in the cold, like an
old shoe, kicked of. 1t has had its
day, and is ofno further consequence.
Three days notice by hard dint
was given through the columns of
the official paper, the DEMOCRAT of
the 18th inst, that Parish script
would be taken for taxes up 10 the
18th inst, provided The amount of
the assessment was paid, viz: seven
mills on the dollar, and after that
time it would be shut out-a thing of
the past, as dead as door nail! No
one would have objected to this if
the time had not been cut so uncere-
moniously short-eDtirely TOO short
for greater portion of the tax-pay-
ers residing at any distance in the
country to take advantage of, yet,
Notwithstanding, some $4,000 of this
script was taken in by the Tax COL
lector in those three days of grace.
If the time had been extended to the
LIST of November, or even till the LIST
of October, l have no doubt the en-
tire amount of outstanding script
would have been in, and then our Par
ish credit and revenues would have
been upon a currency basis as in
ante-bellum times, without having to
fall behind Legislative enactment to
make them so.
Financeering, in its true sense,
means to appreciate, not to depre-
ciate ones paper. And I trust the
honorable Police Jury will take this
view of it, and reconsider it's hurried
and unwise action at Its next meet
ing. JUSTICE.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

A MAN may see clearly through
woman's coquetry, and yet fall a
victim TO it; like the nightingale
which sits on tree, and sees the
net spread beneath, and yet hops
right into it.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

The steamer Grand Republic,
the finest and largest steamboat ever
built in The West, was burned at St.
Louis on the 10Th inst. At the same
time the big iron steamer Carondelet
was also totally destroyed by fire.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

The Danube, the new Red River
boat in command of Charles Thorn,
will reach the City tomorrow. The
Alexandria, the other new boat for
Red River, landed in New Orleans
on Sunday.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

Corn is selling in Town at fifty
cents per barrel, meal at sixty cents
per bushel, fodder at fifty cents per
hundred, and cotton on a strain
brings nine cents per pound.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

JACOB IRVING, JR., has returned
to his stall in The Market-house, and
from now out we can expect to be
treated to choice beef, juicy mutton
and fat pork. We know by eating
experience that he has at this time
some extra choice mutton.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

The Col. A. P. Kouns was The
Pool.liner that reached here early
Saturday morning. Her clerks sup
piled our Office with our two usual
packages of papers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26
DOGERS' ENGLISH TABLE
10 and POCKET CUTLERY
LADIES' SCISSORS and OTHER
FINE GOODS KEPT BY
HENRY ST. JOHN,

A Coon THING.-One of the lead.
ing New York weekiies has hit upon
happy plan for disposing of people
who want to talk the editor to death.
Upon entering the Office the visitor
sees in the glass partition before
him four windows, with a silver plate
over each. One is inscribed "Book-
keeper" another Advertisements"
another subscriptions" and last,
but least, the fourth is inscribed,
"For Bores." Any stranger show
ing disposition to argue the subject
for more than five minutes is refer.
red to the fourth window, where a
speaking tube, running down to the
cellar, thence up to the roof, and
down again to an opening close to
his ear, is at his disposal. Tube or
not tube-that is the question which
he next asks himself. He generally
puts his lips to the orifice, yells out,
as the editor in2" and then starts
back afrighted as the words repeat
themselves in his left ear. He yells
it again, and again the echo is re
peated. Then he looks sheepisb,
smiles a sickly smile, remarks that
"that's pretty good thing" slides
out of the door and down stairs be.
fore any one knows what's the mat
ter with him, and never comes back.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

The Democratic caucus will
consist of about $50 members, rs
votes being necessary to secure a
nomination from that body. Of
these the Gulf States have 40.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

-MoCHEsNEY, of the Bonnie Lee,
on her own trip, sent US as big a
package of late papers as some
clerks give US on their up trips, and
consequently we can't help thinking
that he has pepchGnt to cater to the
intellectual wants of the Fourth Es-
tate.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

~~~-~~~~s~V~s<-~~~~
ANOTHER SICK SENAroR.--Within
the last few hours the condition of
United States Senator Lewis V. Boey
has become alarming, and his friends
do not think he will rally. Since
his return from Colorado, where he
has been all summer, he Las been
confined to the house most of the
time. The complaint is malarial
fever, contracted in Washington,
which he has been unable to shake
off. To-day his vitality has been at
such low ebb that it was feared he
would not live longer than few
hours, and the Catholic clergy were
called in to receive his confession
preparatory to fatal termination.-
Quite number Of the Senator's per-
sonal and political friends were at
his residence, fearing that the end
was near, but at midnight he rallied
somewhat and was resting easy. It
is feared that the old mans days are
about numbered and there is already
canvassing for successor TO fill the
unexpired term.-- [St. Louis Special
to Chicago Times.
LATER news brings us the an
nouncement of Senator Bogy's death,
at St. Louis, on Thursday, the 21st
instant.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

WADE HAMPTON has joined the
Presidential Menagerie, and at Louis
vile, did a little dirt eating, which
we regret to record of such 6 man az
we believe him to be.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

The grand old Democracy don't
seem to be discouraged, and though
fraud usurps the seat to which
their Tilden was legally and justly
elected, they are gathering their lie
gions and are preparing to march
to victory once more. In further
ance of these grand motives, in Mas
sachusetts, they have nominated ex-
Governor CASTOR as their candidate
for Governor, and in New Jersey
they have conferred the same honor
on General George 3. Mcclellan
With such leaders and standard
bearers, surely victory must grace
their banners.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

The office of the Merchants
Union Telegraph Company has been
moved to the Warehouse of Edouard
We'll, corner of Front and Beaure
gard streets.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

The river is falling once more,
and We fear that our boats will again
have to face low water trouble.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

CHIEF JUSTICE MANNING arrived
here on the c. H. Durfee, Monday
evening.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

HIRAM CRANsroN, the great ho-
tel keeper, and proprietor Of the New
York Hotel, died in New York on the
18th inst.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

The Packet, C. II. Durfee, ar
rived on time, and favored our office
with full complement Of the latest
papers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

NO TWO card rates in Red River
this season-uniform rates the whole
year round--tlis is genuine reform
and zeal accommodation.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

-Posr Master General Key will
not resign. The carcass Of that fat
ted calf will yield many achoice cut
let yet.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

-MRs. HAYES, the Presidential
better halt, is becoming veteran
campaigner.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

STANLEY MATTHEws.--The follow.
ing special to the Baltimore Sun is
wonderfully truthful:
"Mr. Stanley Matthews is evident
ly going a little too far when he
makes, as in his discussion with
General Ewing, so plump and com
prehensive denial of the fact of his
negotiations last winter with promi-
nent Southern leaders.
There are hundreds of witnesses
to the fact that Mr.. Matthews re-
peatedly sought out Southern Con.
gressmen and others, at the CAPITAL
and at the hotels, urging them to al
low the electoral count 10 proceed,
and assured them that everything
would be made right for the South"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

THERE is rivalry between the
two corouers in Covington, Ky. A
woman was terribly injured in a fight
and it was supposed that she would
live only few hours. One of the
coroners impannelled jury, and
waited in the house all night with
them for her to die; she recovered.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

ONE day last week, early in the
morning, the thermometer had fallen
to So.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26
CORPORATION FINANCE.

It cannot be denied that the man
agement, since The war, of the finan-
ces and government of our Town
have been well, ably and prudently
managed, and perhaps Alexandria is
the only Town in the State out Of
debt, with no encumbrances attached
TO her exchcquer, and with valuable
improved property in her right, yield
ing a handsome revenue. It is true,
chat since the LIST of February, seri-
Gus complaints, and we think just
ones, have been made against the
loose management of the present
Board, bat that has only been tenn
porary departure from The old land
marks, and We now have The salts
faction of telling our Town folks that
these loose scales have fallen from
The municipal eyes Of our City Fa-
theirs, and that again they have tack
ed to the rightful breeze of economy
and a cash basis, and we feel sure
will again be fully out Of debt by The
10Th of November.
The proceedings of our extra
meeting of the Board, which we Off
cially publish 10 day, on proper ex-
PLANTATION will convince the taxpay-
ers of the Corporation that business
is now meant, that favoritism has
been once more lanished, and all the
creditors of the Corporation will now
come in on a par and be paid at pro
rata rates as the cash will be handed
in at the regular monthly meeting Of
the Board, on the first Tuesday in
next month. The intention and mo-
tive which guided the Board in the
late Ordinance passed at the extra
meeting on Friday last, are to have
all their dues in currency paid to
their Treasurer, and when they as
semble at the regular meeting, Octo-
Der I'd, to pay this money out in reg
ular proportion on all outstanding
warrants and claims, and for the
small balance due on each warrant
and claim to credit their accounts
with this balance to be paid as the
Corporation dues are collected in the
next month. To facilitate the Board
in this settlement, parties holding
warrants will please hand in a list of
them before the 2d of October TO the
Comptroller, or the member from
their Ward, and those having claims
against the Corporation will please
act likewise.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

j. MADISON WELLS, the Survey
or of the Port of New Orleans, is on
a short visit to his family in this
Parish.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

B. G. DUKE, at the model estab-
lishment over which he so ably pre-
sides, has received from New York a
complete, most desirable and large
stock Of ready made clothing for The
Fall and Winter trade, and desires a
special call from all needing a new
outfit before they 60 elsewhere.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

IT is worthy of remark that not
a single newspaper, in Georgia, OPP
poses the new Constitution.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

PARISH script has felt the grip
of real shrinkage, and is no longer
quoted in the streets at any rates,
and thus far very few taxpayers
have settled NY, since the new law.
They are trying hard TO task the in
diligence and patience of the Tax
Collector and force him to harsh
measures; they will find him equal
to The emergency, and will be sorry
for their non compliance of the law,
when it will be TOO late.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

NlSH1Nn TACKLE-A GREAT
l. teall1NO VARIETY. SPOON
BAIT and OTHER GOODS IN THAT
LINE. DEALERS SUPPLIED BY
HENRY ST. JOHN.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

Mr.. JAMES MOORE, in another
place in to-day's DEMOCRAT, offers
for sale his fine plantation, four
miles below Town and fronting on
Red River, and we can vouch for
every word he says concerning 1t in
his advertisement. 1t is the old
James Calvit place, and is proven
bially one of the very best, and most
desirably located in Rapides, where
more good and fine plantations
abound than anywhere in Louisiana.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26

THAMES to the W. J. Behan fol
papers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-09-26
TIN Parish Court, Probate term.

was in session last week,