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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14
sCALCASS ECU.
proceedings of the Mass Meeting.

In pursuance of q public call for
mass meeting OF the citizens or Gal
casieu parish, the citizens met ct the
Courthouse. in Lake Charles, on Satur-
day, January 27, 1877, and proceeded to
organize by electng VIM. NJ. Perkins
as Chairman, and j. d. kirkman as
Secretary Of the meeting.
On motion, the Chairman was au-
thorized to appoint d committee OF FIVE
to draft resolutions expressive Of the
sense OF the meeting. The Chairman
thereupon appointed Geo. III. Wells,
VIM. II. Gill, Louis Leveque, Jas. 7.
Geary and +. A. Gallaugher as such
committee. The committee thereupon
prepared and presented the following
resolutions, which, on motion, were
unanimously adopted:
ResolUed, That the people. OF Calcasieu
parish know and recognize the State gov
eminent headed by Gov. T.. L. Mich
oils asahe legitimate and rightfu gov
ernmentof Louisiana, and pledge them
selves never to recognize nor counte-
nance the fraudulent pretense and mock
cry OF a State government recently
elected by the Returning Board OF this
State.
Resolred, That we will cheerfully pay
taxes for the support OF our legal State
government, and will advance for that
DuEDOBG hNG poi J6bb VI ouh etsAOo WI
Iectible In the present year; but our in
variable reply to any demand for taxes,
made by any officer appointed under
the so-calIed Packard State government
will be "not u cent for tribute
Resolred, That we heartily indorse
land approve the patriotic action taken
yesterday by the Police Jury OF our
-arish, In its resolutions indorsing the
NiCnolls State government.
GEo. Ii. WELLS, Chairman.
LOUIS LEvEoUE,
= VIM. E. GILL,
T. A. GALLAGHER,
JAS. 2. GEARY.
\. On motion, it was resolved that the
proceedings Of this mass meeting, and
the resolutions adopted by our Police
Uury yesterday, recognizing the legal
State government, be furnished to the
Lake Charles Lch0 and the New Or
leans DEMOCRAT, with request for pub
lication.
On motion, the chairman was author
lied to telegraph a condensed statement
of tbs proceedings Of this meeting and
OF the proceedings Of the Police Jury to
the N. 0. DEMOCRAT. The chair there.
upon appointed Geo. Fl. Wells, J. w.
Bryan and J. @. Lebleu a committee &c
send such telegram.
After appropriate speeches by Louis
Leveque, Geo. FL. Wells, W. E. Gill and
4 -. ID. Read, the mass meeting adjourned
VIM. M. PERKINS,
Chairman.
j. B. KIRKMAN. Secretary.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14

Mme Rosa Reynoir, No. 8 Charities street,
three doors from Canal, has had large assert
meat OF fine French and American chip and straw
hats and bot nets OF the latest styles, trimmed
with great care and elegance for the benefit OF
ladies' visiting the city during the Carnival, who
may wish to provide themselves, or procure Tor
their friends fashionable millinery. Mme Rey-
nor has also very select stock OF flower, sprays,
vines and leaves for trimming ball dresses or
other elegan and fancy costumes, or for embel.
lishments to the couture, as well as an almost
inexhaustble supply Of ball and party So hes
ribbons and ornaments Of every description,
which will be disposed Of at what are really very
low rates, when the quality OF the ARTICLES are
cOnaidered
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14
A small Consignment.
[St. Louis Republican,

One Of the youngest travellers that
ever reached st. Louis was Willie Glass
ford, who came through yesterday,
Ohio. to Fort Scott, Kansas. Master
Willie, who is only five, years old, ar
rived at St. Louis all alone yesterday
morning, via the Ohio and Mississippi.
Around his neck was a tag giving bis
name, destination, etc. He carried a
box OF well-assorted eatables, and in
his pocket were a note and @ coupon
ticket. the note reading as follows:
JAN. 20.
CoNDUcToR Please take this child, WINE
Glassford, under your care, and deliver MIN 1T
Fort Scott to Benz amin Filler, and obbge
WIN. GLAssFoRD,
Red Line, Ohio.
Master Willie spent the day at the
Union depot. and was as little con,
cerned for himself as though he had
been making mud pies in his Ohio
home.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14
NEW COAL COW RHNATTOy.
Its ORGANIZATION said to have been
Pretty yyell Determined On.
IN. Y. World

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. SIT Is stated on
very reliable authority that several in
formal conferences have been held in
this city between prominent railroad
and coal men, relative to the new coal
combination, and that one OF the heavi-
est stockholders In the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company was in New York
Yesterday to arrange matters there. It
Is also stated that some OF the directors
OF the Reading road favor the scheme.
while Mr.. Gowen, the President, op-
poses it. Nearly all the operators in
the Lehigh Valley region hsve signed
an agreement to limit production. Sew
eral prominent coal men were here to-
day, but it is not known that a meeting
was held.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14

"Oh, William" she said, ut was per-
fectly lovely, but 80 sad. think it was
an awful shame to drown Ophelia and
kill Hamlet. They ought to have been
married" The swain heaved q sigh,
drew closer to his love, and said; u
amt great on tragedy, but 1 guess that's
how I'd fixed it. p Eek.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14

Visitors will do we'll to call on Mesfrs. Rice,
Born & Co., SO and 81 Camp. and 597 Msgazlue
streets, when in want of shelf and heavy hard
ware, edge tools, plantation implements and
house furnishing goods. Their stock is com
pete in every department, and as their long ex'
perience and ample capital enable them to pur.
chase in large lots AMI at the lowest market
rates thew can offer to both wholesale and retail
buyers the greatest inducements.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14
Kellogg Tells the Truth.
TPhiIadel lbia Times,l

Among all the lies about Louisiana it
is refreshing to find one man who can
speak the truth. 1t is not habitual
with Kellogg, but he can do it when he
tries, and he at least struck pretty near
the truth when he said that Packard
was fraud, his Legislature a fraud,
and the whole concern rotten and ready
to tumble. Wells probably thinks SO,
too,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14

Somebody says that the Treasury
girls are pert. Not SO; they may have
been SO once, but now they're expert
LEX.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14
B. K1RKMAN, Secretary.
THE COMMISSION.
How nc werks to XIII the Republican
Party.
Washington Cor. Lynchburg News.l

Washington Cor. Lynchburg News.l
III the Commission had gone through
all the evidence, unearthed all frauds,
shown to the people the true vote, they
would have been satisfied no matter
who was declared elected. Partisans
would lave been disappointed and dis
satisfie ut the the people would have
approve D action of the Commission
and aI ded their faithful work in
full Ell baton. But with the reek-
ing, ID ing and low, simple, plain
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14
yay e.nuId's Montana Enterprise.

from INC UsHVBT NHWB'I
Messrs. Oliver Ames, E. Atkins, Sid
new Dillon, Jay Gould, '+ordon Dexter,
S. Richardson and Il. NJ. Bassett have
submitted proposition to the Montana
Legislature to extend the Utah North
ern Railroad into Montana for q certain
subsidy. The substance Of the PROPOSE
ton ID that II the territory will give
them eight per cent currency bonds at
the rate of $4,000 per mile they will com
mence work at Franklin within sixty
DAYS after the bonds in escrow in New
York, and build and stock one hundre
miles Of road annually until it reaches
the mouth of Big Hole River, Montana,
q distance OF about 300 miles. The TO-
tai subsidy would amount to 81 ,5oo, o0o.
The Legislature is considering the
proposition.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14

Our Leading citizens patronize the great Hong
Kong Tea Company under City Hotel. Branch
179 Poydras street.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14

Important to sugar planters. See Trouard'
advertisement.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14

The Graphic bestrides the winged
steed Of the nine sisters on the occasion
OF the breach-of-love suit lately insti-
tuted against Simon Cameron, and sings
In high strains thusly:
Simple Simon.
Tilted Hymen.
But. at seventy-eight
Wooed widow
Yes. he did. oh
At the Treasury gate.
Then the widow
TO him said. oh.
Let mo see your money"
And the Senate
For minute
Shouted, "Oh-ho- no no -ho-ho-
no .o-o-o-o-o-o-hoi It's funny"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14

Important to sugar planters. See Trouards
advertisement
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14

GREEN RIO 2Oc; parched or ground 25e ALI
finer grades equally cheap.
This Company has now on hand some very
choice OLD GOVERNMENT JAVA-verY
scarce.
, 1877-10-27

The PRrNTER's SALvATION.-A prin-
ter being asked to give his opinion OF
salvation as expounded by the Rev Mr..
Moody. astonished his interlOcutur by
the reply that when man beOame con.
vcrted he was marked ''allve' and was
placed on heavens standing galley for
future use; but when man died with
out knowing God, lie was "pied', md
thrown into the "hell Uox"by the "dcvil'
and melted Oyer.-Er.
, 1877-10-27

The SEATTLE MuRDER.--The Seattle
papers Dt the @Ilh, and 18th, contain ~
account of IN ntlruciously brutal murder,
pcrpctmtcd for the purpose oi yIundcr:
the victim being peaccabIe, industrious
citizen Of the Territory who wns either
wuylaycd or cnticcd nval the emsirons OF
the city, and finished with the bladgcon;
his watch, jcweIry and MONEY taken,
leaving no certain clue to the assassin.
Such un occurrence, CGuing so soon
after lbc sllar Mt Port Townsend, the
execution Of Thompson and tie sho"ting
Of Peterson, is enough to convince any
one, that Washington Territory is not en-
empt irum certain elias of dcspcrH,lov
who have no regard whatever lor lbo
suercdncss Of human life.
These asSassnati0ns have occurred
ut different places, each one under cir
cumstunces without the shadow Oi justi
icntion, and they call mr active pAsscc
regulations, and rigid enforcement Of
the criminal law. The sentiment ot
mercy is thrown away, il hyished upon
any man, who would assassinate for
money, when any man, who will, can yet
good living by honest labor. We hope
if the pcrpetutor of the Seattle murder
is caught that the prosecuting aItorne,
will do his tull duty, and not let tho
guilty wretch escape. ~
, 1877-10-27
Total,
Runs.
PAcIFICs.

New YORK, Oct. 23.--The IribuHs'
Washington special says Gen. sherman
fayors extending to white people and
their property, MS well as to the property
OF the United States, full and ample mil
itary protection from depretarfsNs 0'
hostile Indians, while he is not actually
in favor of the fighting policy towards
the Indians, but still maintains the teel
ing he has always advocated the Theory
that the military should have full con-
troll oil the Indian question.
, 1877-10-27

EyANGELIzING THE CuINEsE.-At n
missionary meeting held in San Francis
co one evening lately, Bishop Wiley said
that the NJ. L. Church, which he repre-
scnted, had spent for the purpose Of
evangclizing the Chinese, 100000: that
siuce 1860, when the first conversion was
noticed, much progress had been made,
and the church in China now numbered
1000 members. A gentleman ol math
matical turn of mind, informs us that Mt
that rate it will take IL 100000 years to
convert the hcathen Of China to Christi
ani,y, and will cost : iG3, 900, 900, 900.
We care nothing about the time, but 'lo
protest against such an expenditure of
money, even in the good cause oflearning
q Chinaman to lie and swear like good
Christains.-Er. Christian churches will
do good work if ever they reclaim one
single Chinaman. We never took much
interest in "cnlightening' them until that
John stole our chickens one night, and
made "chow chow" out Of our little yel-
low dog the same week,
, 1877-10-27

GuNTERs CnAIN.--Vhr Guntrr chain.
which is commonly used in surveying.
il named after Edmund Guntrr, who
died IN 1876. The advantage uf '"'
Guntrr chain in measuring lmnl is ''
facility which it affords Tor numY
calculations. The English acre GO ~
t,si0 square yards, and Guntcrs :.
being - yards in length, the sSunreV'
which is iSi, it iollHws tim. .qnn'A
chain is exactly the tenth part ot an'
acre. \ square chain contains lO1pO
&iuarc links, - that 100000 N4unEc
links are cyaai ~ an acre, consequent
~ the arru oI a iclh being estimated IN
square !aiks, it is only nrsTssary To di--
vide the result h' 100000, ar cut oN th@
last five figures to obtain the area IN
acres.
, 1877-10-27
ALWAYS AFRArp.-A clergyman was

ALWAYS AFRArD.-A clergyman WAS
once annoyed by some young persons
laughing and giggling, dnring his dis
course. He paused, looked at the dis
turbers, and said; "I'm always afraid to
reprove those who misbchave IN church,
for this reason; Some years ago, as I was
preaching, a young man who sat in front
OF me WAS constantly talking, laughing
and making grimaces. lpauscd and nd
ministercd severe rebuke. After the
, 1877-10-27
SATURDAY OCTOBER -, 1871
Phillips on Labor and Capital.

WepublIsh, IN TINS ISSUE ah "''ic'e '''"'
the ready pen of Wendell Phillips on the
subject OF labor and capital.
While we acknowledge the ability OF
the writer, and admit that he says some
y,ly good things in a very pithy mnn-
ner. we tail to see in the article a solution
Of the problem.
One thing strikes AIS a. very singular
Most of the articles on the labor gucs-
,ion come from men. who If not cOpitaI-
lists themselves, are in circumstances
.,hoye want. Bread-and.watcr, and,
dollar day Bcecher, wlth salary VA
ayinr from $4,000 to 100000 per an-
mum, speaks So cruelty and untecIlngIy ot
the oppressed Iaborcr, that we are salts
tieI he knows nothing of toll only MS
he resorted to 1t in leisure moments as
mere pastime.
Col. Thomas 4. Scott, president OF n
score of railroads, the handler of MIL
lions tor corrupt purposes, has published
his say about the late strike, which his
own course in railroad management was
more instrumental in bringing aboUt
than e. cry other cause.
Ind Col. HOLSTER, with his hundred
of thousands uf acres, obtained by cor
rupt legislation, lands that to-day
should be homes of the poor, with ilocks
and heards too numerous to bc counted ,
with solid blocks of real estate and
bunk and mining stock valued at mil
hons. employees some poor scrlbbIcr to
I'LL few columns Of California paper
on the subject of labor aud capital, par
ticularly defending the policy OF our
government on the Chinese question.
And now comes Wendell Phillips with
or sp sentences, expressing ideas con--
ceived in his warm, cozy stndy, with no
fear of want staring him in the face
because of his 5000, 900 in secure property,
anil offers his opinion and advice upon
a subject that never troubled him until
the late disturbance awoke him from
his dream ut fancied security.
We are glad to hear from these cnli-
nent gentlemen and and to have a state.
ment of their side. We hope j. Gould,
Vandesbuilt, Lucky Baldwin, Haywood,
Sanford, Shannon, Michael, Reese, Sam
Brannon and few more purse proud
milionaires will tell the laboring men,
small farmers and land holders, and
men of limited capital, how wrong and
wicked it is for the masses of free Amer
lea to resent and offer to resist their
schemes, past and contemplated, by which
they fitch from labor and the masses OF
their fellow countrymen moneys, stocks
aud lands to which they have title but
little better than that Of highwayman.
In these morden times, when oorpU-
EhLlOHS uutl W pawn
legislatures to frame laws that rebound
to their agrandizement and to the dis
tress of the masses, should the oppressed
in their misery and wretchedness over
step the bounds of the law, 10y which
the rich have hedged themselves in, 1t
is very good of these kind hearted, pi
Gus miIlionnires and salaried uabobs to
check them by mild means If they can,
to write for their benefit few newspa-
per articles, before resor'ios to har'he er
means. But wo do think, until they
suggest a remedy that will pnt part OF
the burden Of reform upon the shoulders
of the rich and not all ot it upon the
poor, that the danger ofa repetition OF
, 1877-10-27

We were all disappointed L.st ala
when We learned the UnknOwE ~, vi
unable to pay Us that visit. KNse bl
was fine and the PaciIics made u hrir
minds that "if We can't to-day, We lcJer
cam but alas ior expectations, NO Wax
ina rounded Fishers bend and cane
snoring up tho river. The Pacihcs
formed two clubs by selecting good
players, one club representing the I'M
knowns, and the other .he Pacilics.
They played with the folloing result
, 1877-10-27
Science u:,d A;ar spOcirinc Os'
.AnniEiliativI.

There arc some sui ,jccts which are un
uppronchablr by any of the present meth
od- Of scientific investigations. yet the
human miud, especially that form Of it
which is utterly unframed in scientific
mvthods Of Thought, loves /" ponder over
the prOloundu>t mysteries, and calls upon
Science with an almost Imperative tone
tn solve moral doubts and fears One Of
the greatest questions whlch one hhdS
IS prrprNing the general 'en,'cr "l pop
rlar science, vino is also an independent
thinker ON religious questions, Is ti'nt oI
survival, So TO speak, oi lGc human mind
and all that brtokcns thrmcntn' and NOR
al power Ot man after death. TIA" nmr-
ming 4 urine that the mind and soul
ure the result a process OF growth III
the individual, like physical growth "f
bone and muscle, and that body and
mind increase and decrease together,
and nrc resolved into tie elements again
ut the close OF htr, Is not lnircpurh,Iy
mt forward by mntcriNlislS. 1t Ii main
tnnrd, further, that the hcIlct III immor-
tallity i, largely II matter "t education,
Notwithstanding the evidence when ~
brought forward to prove that even un-
ciynlilrd nations have brlict in dcIties
and "A future lite. To the material st, the
picture presented by the unw'npp'ng "y
"A Peruvian family burinl-snck, with ~
young and old mummics, nnd its coI'cd-
tion OF pottery and bag oi grain to hcIR
the dsembodied spirits on their way TO-
happier huntiu. ground, is rntnetic
only because it seems u hopeless supcrStl-
tion. What kind nt II soul, II Is asked,
has the Digger Indian, who is hardly
more Intelligent than wild animal! II
he hns II mind aud sOul, 50 has my dog.
Mo- what we call the soul is cultivated
state or condition which perishcs like
highly disciplined adapt'tion OF tie
muscles ot the body winch u gymnast
possesses. 1t sa state oI crysmII1a'I"n'
1t is u reaction or inlcGaCtion ol atoms
consequent upon physical growth.
When the body dies the mind and its
attributes perish. such utter disbcl'eI
in the doctrine of the Resurrection is
hard to combat tor, even among sclch-
tihc thinkers, the class OF men who tlu
not become attached to the cnst-iron
ways down which thought has travelled
10 them, is small. A logicinn who sets
his machinery in motion, and then steps
aside TO scrutinize its detects and Hni
tations, is rare. To hint that there may
be higher processes of logic than those
generally accepted, implies thepossesSion
of scientific mind, to say the least, not
ola quantitiyc cast. 1t has seemed to
the writer that discussion of the idea
of II degradation OF spiritual energy, so to
speak, would not bc an unprOiitahlc OF
irreyerent subject from purely sclcnti-
ic point of view. -PRoY. JOHN TRow-
BRIDGE, in Popular Science NOnhly FOR
april.
, 1877-10-27
TAr 2lorthrrN Star.
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.ruucnt insertion.
, 1877-06-16

f." having accomplished their task, they
"nowc call on Europe to consult on what
" should be done next" That this pro.
gramme should be current in conversation
shews not so much that it has any official
origin as that it has q certain obvious pro.
liability. Nothing, indeed, could be-
more polite than such q course, which
would keep Russia just outside the limits
of offence to England and other Powers
while it would place them in considerable
embarrassment. It would also have the
diplomatic advantage that it might be
fairly represented by the Gar as q return
to the position he assumed long before the
war. BY the time the Russian troops had
fought their way to Adrianople, the Aus
TRANS would probably have thought fit to
occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the
British feet ordered to the B%osphorus.
Behold then the Powers brought by the
force Of events into the precise position the
Car proposed they should occupy. They
would have realized of their own accord
the Sumarakoff programme. General
Sumarakof was sent to Vlennaiu Septem'
Der last to propose that Russia should
occupy Bulgaria, Austria the two Provin.
ces in her neighbourhood, while the Fleets
of England and France should guard Con.
stantinople. The Powers were then to
decide on the settlement to be effected.
Precisely this the Gar may bring about it
his armies break through the Turkish de-
fences, cross the Balkans: and descend
into Roumelia. Planted at Adrianopls, he
may ask with powerful effect the question.
WHAT do you propose to do now2" L.
is the answer to this question that states$
men should now begin to consider.
, 1877-06-16
THE TIMES ON THE WAR.
(guOted in 81. Thome Tidemde.)

The London Times, in treating on the
position Of States, in the present conflict
in Europe, remarks :-
This war must differ from oil that have
gone before ii if reports do not arise con.
tinnally of understandings, interferences,
or arrangements by which the area of
hostilities may be narrowed, their termina-
sion anticipated, or their effect diminished.
RumouIs inspiring confidence will vie
with alarmist rumourB, and hopefulness
will show; itself net less credulous than
apprehension. The Chief desire Of all the
friends OF peace in Europe is that the var
may be limited; the preseDtiment of the
timid ia that the fame will seize uron
one country after another and unite
the whole Continent in a conAogration.
Hence nothing is more natural than that
the report Of an attempt to obviate this
calamity by. a diplomatic arrangement
should ind ready credence. 1t is believed
on the, Continent that some. uegotiation
10 j progress, or about to be. entertained,
which win FIX the political and gsograph-
ical limits Of the war, providing mot only
that .esytAiD populations shall Be excluded
from IL bpt. .Also tkst. certain territorial
lines shin not BE- passed. From Berlin