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their art, and the law has dealt roughly
with them. Joe Coburn is about the
last of the lot, and he has gone to the
penitentiary for ten years. Joseph
took it into his head to shoot at an
officer, and the court sent him up for
ten years. His friends treated the
sentence as a joke, and appealed, but
to his surprise, the court above held
the sentence to be proper, and the
short haired are mourning the fate Of
their friend. tits an encouraging fact
that the roughs have lost a great deal
of their influence il the city within
the past few years, and they are get
ting to be rather shy OF knocking
down and dragging ont.
Business still continues brisk. The
revival, am happy to say, is not tenn
porary but is genuine. There is an
actual betterment in all lines o f trade,
and more healthy feeling than we
have had for four years. The lead
ing iobbers report sales largely in ex-
cess of last year, and it is continuing
right along into the cold months. |
took little run up through New
England last week, and found the
manufacturers in better spirits than
they have been for some time. They
ale cleaning out the old stocks very
fast, and are putting goods of recent
manufacture on the market. The
mills are running in many places full
time, and at fair wages. When the
drop in every thing is taken into ac-
count, it may be safely said that the
good times are close at hand again.
SCRIBE,
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Something Wrong Yet.
LFrankIin Sun.l


Within the last three months brutal
murders have been committed in sew
eral parishes of the State, and in no
instance has the perpetrator of the
foul deed been brought to justice, al
though in each instance the crime
was committed openly and i'll defiance
of law.
Our State government is now in the
hands of her people our chief exec
utiye officer has done every thing in
his power to have the laws rigidly
enforced; but something is wrong
yet. What is it2 1t must be that
either the people or the subordinate
officers whose duty it is 60 see the
laws executed i'll the several parishes
Of the State, have not done their duty.
Perhaps both have failed to come up
to the demands which their country
has made upon them. One thing is
certain, and that is that public. senti-
ment has not yet been properly edu-
Gated, or such fragrant violations of
both moral and civil law would not
go unpunished. Whenever every man
learns, recognizes and acts upon the
principle that it is his duty to do
every thing in his power to bring to
justice any man, friend or foe, who
violates criminal statute of his
country, then will such crimes cease
to be committed and in proportion
as they act upon this principle will
crime diminish.
Another great detection in our So
cial system is that with a certain
class of our population it is consid
cred no dish0nor To swear, play
cards, get drunk, fail to pay honest
debts, or violate almost any OF the
moral code, but an eternal disgrace
to receive the slightest insult with
out resisting it, aud that too by TAX
ing life if it can not be safely done
otherwise. This is a false idea OF
honor. and has done great deal to
mislead the young people cfour c0un-
try. The rising generation should
be taught that there is no code Of
morals better than that contained in
the bible, and that no man is excusa-
BILE for taking human life except
when forced to do so in defense o.
his country, his family or his owr
| life. Our officers also should be hello
to q strict accountability, and when
ever they fail to execute the Law
promptly and faithfully should b'
retired as soon as possible to tht
shades of private life.
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THE REAPERs.

The reapers bend their lusty backs,
Their sounding sickles sway;
At every stroke the golden sea
Recedes to give them way.
The heavy ears fall blowing dowE
And nestle at their feet;
Such will, such work as theirs, perforce,
Must win-must homage meet.
So careless of fatigue, they go
So true, SO steadily,
The admiring traveller on the road
Leans DER the gate to see;
With marvel of the soon-fallen breadth,
The longing g0ssips tell
But the reapers labor for us all
'ris need they should work well.
Ere the great sun that burns above
Shall crimson in the west,
And the children's poppy nosegays fade,
And they lie down to rest,
Each golden spear that upward points
Shall fall upon the field,
And the farmer drains a sparkling glass
Rejoicing DER the yield.
PIy, bonny men, your sickles bright,
And give the people bread
At every conquering stride you take,
On want and woe you tread.
Drop, heavy ears, and give the strength
You gathered from this plain,
That man may rise refreshed and firm,
And do great things again.
God bless the hands, all hard and brown
That guide the cleaving plow,
That cast abroad the shining seed,
And build the wealthy NOW;
They rear the bread our children eat;
'Tis by their toll we live
Hurrah give them the loudest cheer
That grateful hearts can give
Chambers Journal
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We want immigrants to fill up our
waste places aud open new lands.
We have room for thousands upon
thousands. What our lands are capa-
BILE of producing, has been told over
and over again yet there ;ire few who
respond TO the iivitatinii Why Z
Because there is no concert of action
among those who have lands to SELL
no prices established and published
for the Information of the Immigrant.
Northern and Western invitations TO
the immigrant give him all the infnr-
nation he wants to know before start
ing for a new home. When his desti-
nation is reached he finds that he has
not been deceived aud he invites his
friends to join biln. When they do
so, prices are not run up upon them
by greedy spectators, nor are they
located upon inferior lands at high
Sugar Planter.
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Domestic.

Odd Fellows block, Little Rock,
burned.
A cotton press has been established
at Clattanooga.
Four thousand New York cigar
makers are ON a strike.
Yellow fever at Fernandina and
Port Roy al is abatiug.
The Georgia State fair opened
Monday very auspiciously.
Officers of the suspended San Fran
cisco savings bank abseonded.
A number of business houses were
burned at Port Edwards, Miss.
The President has returnd to
Washington from the Soldiers Home.
Gen. Sherman left San Francisco
OH the 18th, en- route for Washington.
In the municipal election at New
ark the Democrats gained four Alder
men.
Every liquor seller in Morristown
n. j., has been indicted by the Grand
Jury.
The bark Herald wrecked on Rocky
Point, jamaica, during a hurricane.
Crew rescued.
The stewardess of the steamer Verf
Cruz, died of yellow fever at New
York quarantine.
The business portion of jam esville
n. Y, was destroyed by an ineen.
diary fire. Loss $780, 900.
The Susqnellana. Coal Company
miners have agreed toresume work a
ten per cent. advance in wages.
Mrs. Felice Zarhan, aged 70 years
was burned to death by her bed cloth
ing catching fire, at New Orleans
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Our New York Letter.
The -DisapprOval of
the Presidential POIfcy-Ee-
cline of Observation-Disclosures
in New Work and the East.
NEw YnnE Ortnher Il 1877
NEW York, October l3, 1877.

NEW OlthJ OCtoptI 1s, 1oft'
EDITOR CHIEF
The Ohio election created a pro-
found sensation here. The support
ers of the Presidents policy hoped
that his own State would give him a
verdict so emphatic as to afford them
something to go upon in the others,
especially as the issue was made more
clearly in that Safe than any other,
except New York. To have a Demo
cratic Governor and Legislature cleo
ted by 25, 900 majority. is little too
much for the equanimity of the Adj
ministrationist. 1t is true, many Re-
publican voters stayed at home, but
why 2 There is but OF answer they
are not satisfied. 1t is fact that the
order prohibiting Office holders from
taking part in political movements
hurt the ticket, but not enough to ac-
count for The overwhelming defeat.
And then Iowa comes slowly in, with
a victory that just escapes a defeat,
which must be charged up to the lew
departure. What it will be year
hence is only to be surmised-it can
not be denied that up to to-day the
Republicans of the West have set the
seal of condemnation upon the Presi
dents policy.
The Workingmen's movement, the
legitimate outgrowth of the strikes of
last summer, had something to with
the result, and it is causing an uneasy
feeling. The experiment was tried in
Toledo, Ohio, and Blanton Duncan of
Louisville was sent up to that city to
organize them. They put their ticket
in the field, and without paper of
any kind to advocate their claims,
with very few meetings and no expen-
diture of money at all, they elected
their entire ticket, casting more votes
than both the other parties together.
1t was Il most unexpected result. In
that city the Democracy encouraged
the movement, hoping it would take
enough votes from the Republican
candidates to defeat them, but they
had no idea whatever that the move
ment was strong enough to carry its
nominees. Yet it did, and showed q
vitality that was terror to the old
parties. And what makes this To
ledo election of so much interest here
is the fact the workingmen of New
York have just held their convention
at Troy, and have enunciated doc.
trines and dogmas that are extreme
to degree, and the politicians ant
people fear that, as they carried To
ledo so easily, they may develop suf
ficient strength to mash things il
New York. They don't take mucl
time to organize, and their method.
are very simple. They pail every
workiDgman, and the hangers on who
are ready for any thing that is new
into a hall and initiate them. Then
when the day of election comes, eaei
one is ready to be voted. As some
of the utterances of the Troy laborins
men are, if not ineendiary, at least
capable of being twisted into incen.
diarism, there is great deal of un-
easiness expressed.
Pugilism has been on the wane
here for a great many years. The
English bruisers have not succeeded
in awakening any enthusiasm over
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At the International exhibition con-
nected with the leather industry which
was opened at Berlin, in Germany,
on the 9Th September last, American
tools and machinery for making boots
and shoes occupied a prominent rank.
A full set of American machinery was
in operation, twenty five frst-class
w0rkmen turning out boots and shoes
of the finest quality. The report of
the United States Consal General
states that the display met with un-
bounded praise, and will very likely
do much to increase the demand for
American machinery of this kind in
Germany. There are now already
forty shoe factories in Germany which
use American machinery, turning out
$4,000 pairs daily.-Price Current.
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AGENTS FOR THE CHIEF.
LOUISIANA ME WS.

~ st. Mary Enterprise: There
are five women in Jail, three black
and two white, all accused of murder.
U Tensas Journal: A workman
had his hand badly mutilated by be-
ing caught in the gin on Mr.. Eli Tul-
lis's place.
a Morehouse Clarion A man
named Ramsdall was shot and killed
near Lind Grove, in this parish, by
Russell Mcdowell, both white. Nc
Dowell fed.
u Onachita Telegraph While
Mr.. Charles Madden was ginning cot
ton the saw caught his right hand,
lacerating it terribly, and he will
probably lose one or two of his fingers.
g Claiborne Guardian: Two
children were burned to death in a
building lately destroyed by fire, on
the line of Claiborne and Lincoln
parishes, while their parents were in
the woods gathering muscadines.
w Iberia Sugar BoVl: A colored
woman was drowned by the capsizing
of skiff near the Nelson place.
We have been told that leprosy pre-
walls among certain families on prai-
ries Carlin and Greig, and that sew
eral deaths have occurred from it..
~ Franklin Sun: The Harrison
burg mail rider informs us that two
negroes were hanged near Holstein's
store, on Sicily Island. We could
learn no particulars of the affair, ex-
cept that the victims were charg
with horse stealing, and were taken
from the officers of the law by mob.
v Calcasieu Echo: The rice crop
Of Caleasieu is larger than ever before.
No news yet from the schooner Alice
TAYLOR, last seen off Galveston during
the equinoctial storm. She was com
manded by Capt. Pease of this place,
and besides the crew had Mrs. TharT
and her daughter, late of Lake Charles,
on board.
~ Lafayette Adrertiser An al,
tercation occurred between Alcide
Melancen and Jules Broussard, at a
ball, and the latter received pistol
Shot in the right side of the abdomen,
from the effects of which he died the
next day. Melancon claims to have
acted in self defence, and surrendered
himself TO th authorities.
~ E. Feliciana Pat Dens.: Mr.
VIM. Townsend, while ginning cotton
at Mr.. R. T. Young's, was SO unfor.
tunate as to have his right arm Sc.
verely injured by being caught in the
saws while the gin was in motion
The. flesh, from the fingers to the
shoulder, is entirely cut of, leaving
the bone exposed. The exhibition
of fine stock has been postponed te
November II.
D Caldwell Herald: John Dove
charged with the murder of Jacot
Shelton, in Winn parish, in 1874, was
tried at the late term of the District
Court in that parish, found guilty
and sentenced to the Penitentiary fol
life- = Margaret, a young colored girl
was accidentally poisoned. The child
was suffering with chills and fever
and her gran dmother administered il
dose of morphine snpposing it to be
quinine,
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oldest mail contractors in the United
States, died in Harrisonburg, Va.
Hon. Edward S. Pierrepont, minister
to England, has rendered his resig-
nation, to take effect December |.
Gilman, the foFger of New York
insurance scrip, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to five years imprison-
ment.
Capt. Elijah Wells, for thirty years
editor of the Times at Port Tobacco,
Md, died at that place, aged 60
years.
The eighth anniversary of the
declaration of Cuban independence
was celebrated. in New York last
Sunday.
Christian Schmidt, formerly secre-
tary of New York sugar refining
company, who embezzled $4,000, has
been arrested.
With good management the assets
of thessuspended Pioneer Bank of
San Francisco will net depositors
eleven per cent.
Edwin Adams, the eminent actor,
is slowlyfdying. Performances for his
benefit have been given in several
leadingstheatres.
The Ell Paso mobs have dispersed,
agreeing to let the law take it's
course. The arrival of troops brought
the rioters to.their senses.
B Samuel w. Garfield, president of
the Rockland, N. Y, Savings Bank,
has been arrested, for completely in
embezzling money of the bank.
Archbishop Gibbons of Richmond
succeeds Archbishop Bailey as Arch
bishop.of Baltimore and Primate of
the Catholic Church in America.
AT Toledo, Ohio, Postmaster
Bowling was kicked, seized by the
beard and struck twice in the face by
Acting Postmaster Alexander Reade.
Elizabeth Davis, colored, was ter
ribly burned while rescaing her sick
child from a burning bed, ignited by
an exploded coal oil lamp, at New
Orleans.
Witowski, indicted for passing
fraudulent claim for logs, for Fort
Negley, at Nashville, was acquitted.
This ends the prosecution against
Gen. Negley.
The house of colored man in
Haywood connty, Tenn, was de-
stroyed by fire, and his three chill
dren, locked mp in the house, were
burned TO death.
Salvatore Scadore, an Italian, was
struck over the head with Il billet of
wood and fatally hurt by JOHN Bell,
a colored man, at New Orleans. The
murderer escaped.
Columbus Delano, Ex- Secretary of
the interior, was caned at Washing
ton by Judge Wright, former Indian
agent. Delaho had prosecuted Wright
for alleged frauds.
j. NJ. Brinkley, Assistant Attorney
General under President johnson,
has disappeared mysteriously from
his home III Milwaukee. He is be-
lieyed to be insane.
Russell, Lewis 81 Co., of Portland, !,
largely engaged in the South Amerl-
can trade, and proprietors of the
White Line of barges to Bnenos
Ayres, suspended, ,lwith heavy liabili-
| ties.
The American schooner Idaho, re-
ported TO have contraband goods for
the Cubans, has been placed iln,ler
surveillance by the Spanish antlfpri-
ties while discharging her. cargo ut
Ceinfuegos.
| Thirty six young ladies from Bal
timore, Philadelphia, New York, R0-
chester, Newark, New Orleans, Chi
cago, and number of other places,
assumed the ha bit of school sisters oE
/ Notre Dame, at Baltimore.
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Weekly News Summary.
Foreign.

VI CA6As
Revolution in Hayti suppressed.
Fire damaged the Duke of Argyle's
castle. 81
servian troops are again marching
to the frontier.
The alleged Hungarian invasion of
Roumania was a hoax.
Frederick Dimsdaie, London soli-
citor, failed for $900,0O0
A colliery explosion at Pemberton
killed thirty five miners.
A shock of earthquake at Geneva
damaged number of buildings.
J.F.& E. Van Camp, London build
ers, failed; liabilities, $l,l5O,0O0.
Chefket Pasha has formed june
ton with Osman Pasha at Plevna.
Count Frederick d'Eulenburg, Ger
man Minister of the Interior, has re-
signed.
Russians are again assuming the
offensive in Asia. Mouktar Paslla is
retiring.
A Bucharest telegram asserts that
Snleiman Pasha's army is decimated
by typhus.
The Turks who crossed the Danube
at Silistria returned and destroyed
their bridge.
Preparations are being made to
transfer Russian headquarters from
Gorny Studen to Sistova.
The attempt to introduce the new
Bohma cotton plant in Egypt, which
excited great expectations, is failure.
In San Domingo the revolution
against Baez is in full force. Puerta
Plata is still in possession of the rebels.
An American named Bedell was
expelled from France for taking an
active part in politics against the gov
ernment.
Mr.. Foster, Assistant Treasurer of
the Grand Trunk railway at Mon
treal, absconded. Amount of defal-
cation mot known.
Two thousand rifles and three boxes
of rifles were recently seized in Hun
garia and eight persons arrested in
connection Herewith.
The failure of the Ritterechaftliche
Bank of Stettin caused general de-
preston at Berlin. The losses aggre-
gate Is, 900, 900 marks.
Fortresses on the Franco-Italian
frontier are being hurriedly put in a
state of defence, and armed with new
steel and bronze guns.
The four Penge prisoners, who were
sentenced to death at London for the
murder of Harriet Staunton by STAY
ing her to death, have been reprieyec.
Deserters from Plevna report Osman
Pasha's army destitute of clothing,
ammunition, and scantily proyisioned.
Men and officers are tired of fighting
and suffering, and are disposed to
surrender.
During an engagement between a
| Russian enter and Turkish war
steamer, at the mouth of the Danube,
| the steamer ran across line of tor
pedoes and was blown to pieces, all
on board being drowned.
A fearful hurricane visited several
of the smaller West Indian isles,
causing great damage. The sea washed
away portion of small town. 1--we
Dutch vessels, man of-war anf
schooner, were wrecked and severa
lives lost.
1t is now announced that Servi;
has finally concluded to participate
in the war, upon condition of receiv
ing from Russia monthly paymen
of one million rouhles. The Port
has warned Servia, in a conciliator,
toue, to remain neutral.
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Address: CHIEF, Donaldsonville, La.
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The suppression of the carrying of
concealed weapons and the carrying
out of the law prohibiting the sale of
liquor to minors, are two steps in the
right direction and will tend more
than any thing else, to pat an end to
the frequent violations of the law in
our parish. Me,idioaal.
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Russia leather is made in Connect
cut, Bordeaux wine is manufactured
in California, French lace is woven
10 New York, Italian marble is dug
in Kentucky, Marseilles linen is pro-
duced in Massachusetts, English cas-
simere is made in New Hampshire,
Partisan ar, work comes from shop
in Boston, Spanish mackerel are
caught on the New Jersey coast, and
Havana cigars are rolled ont by tie
million in Chicago and other cities.
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The rivalry between the owners of
hearses in Donaldsonville has reduced
funeral expenses until it Is about rs
cheap to die and he laid away in the
grave as to continue to live during
these hard times, and the really eco
nomical citizen will certainly tako
advantage of this reduction in old
Sliaron's fare to efnss the Styx with
ont any undue delay. Such induce
ments to go on this long excursion
are not often held ont to the public,
in the way of low prices, fine turnonts
and easy rides, as are now offered 10
citizens of Donaldsonville who con-
template taking a departure for that
i" country from whose bonrn no tray
eler returns ~ Richtand Beacon.
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1t is now said that raw potatoes
will cure drunkenness and if that is
so, Morgan City ought TO consume q
ear load every twenty-fonr hours.
Attakapas Register.
, 1877-10-18
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