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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-02

ern States propose to do. And this 10
the sum and substance Of the relations
OF the South to the new Southern poll
icy of Mr.. Hayes, over which the Sun
grows 80 wild and furious.
| III the manhood of the people of any
portion Of the country had been degrad-
ed by this policy it Is the manhood OF
the North; for the North inaugurated the
policy and left the South no alternative
but to accept it. Nay, the North, has
carried 1t far beyond the extent to which
Louisiana has carried 1t, or will carry It..
The North has acqulasced in Mr..
| Hayes Inauguration Internationally.
Under no circumstances, says the East
and the Eastern press, with the Sun in
the lead, must there be any armed re-
sistance to this great fraud.
Now mark this, you gentlemen OF the
North, who are disposed to put the
shame of this business upon the South ::
The people of Louisiana have concluded
to acquiesce in Mr.. Hayes presidency,
not Internationally as you have agreed
to acquiesce in it; they have deter
mined to acquiesce In 1t, in spirit as in
profession. only in case they are left
alone to establish and sustain their own
State government. But IL Mr.. Hayes
shall attempt to continue the
old policy of his party toward this
State; II he shall attempt to foist upon
this State the infamous Packard gov
eminent, with its gangs OF rascals and
rings of thieves, they will resist him to
the last extremity. In such an event,
there will be war from one end Of the
State to the other, and in every neigh
borhood where a Packard official puts
his detested foot, Hayes will have to
send a company Of his troops.
The South has simply entered into
treaty of peace and amity with a supe-
rior and recently hostile power. The
Northern Democracy have acquiesced
in g. fragrant fraud.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-02

Liberty, or rather Barthold's statue
OF 1t, is on the way here In instaliments
an arm arrived here last week, a finger
yesterday, and head Is anxiousiy ex-
pected by the very next steamer from
Havre. We are glad to see liberty re-
turning once more to our shores, even
when it comes in this disjected state,
We only hope that its arrival at this
particular time is a mere coin
cidence and not piece OF sarcasm
and satire on the part OF the
Frenchmen who presented 1t, point
ed at our late electoral count and
Commission and its remarkable deci-
sion. Some people go 80 far as to as
sert that the gift Of the statue OF
liberty, just at the moment that Ameri-
can liberty Is going out Of date, is a
direct insult on the part Of the French
royalists who presented it; but others
excuse 1t on the ground that 1t has been
usual to erect statues to great men only
after their decease, and that there is no
better time to commence erecting
statues to liberty than when it Is gone
and laid at rest forever
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-02

The filibusters in the House Yesterday
seemed to imbibe new spirit from the
exposure of Mr.. Ferry's disgraceful
trick in suppressing one set Of the re-
turns from Vermont, and their vigorous
and boisterous movements now threat
en- to defeat the electoral count.
What end is now to be accomplished by
this we cannot for the life Of US see.
The country has put itself squarely on
record against any revolutionary pro-
ceedings, and the defeat of the count
will, in all human probability, prompt
the Senate to- elect Morton President of
that body, and we will, in that event,
have him instead of Hayes.
With the lights before US, we believe
that our Representatives, Messrs. Levy,
Ellis and Gibson, are acting wisely in
opposing all filibustering movements.
At this writing, 2 o'clock a. m. the
game OF the flibusters is g desperate
one, but they seem to be not entirely
without q prospect OF defeating the
count, What the consequences will
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-02

To the status quo we will owe the
rapid building up Of telegraph lines and
the establishment of complete tele-
graph system throughout this State. In
days Of yore, 1t mattered little to the
people of the country parishes how and
when they got their news, whether it
came on the wings Of the wind or by
the slowest and lamest Of tackey
ponies; but now, under the beneficent
rule Of status quo, all is changed. The
news, the latest news, the news by tele-
graph, has become an absolute neces-
sity to any officeholder who wishes
to hold on to his office. He must
know the politics at Washington,
Grants latest orders; he must under
stand all this, under which king he
serves, must be ready to flop before
breakfast and be back again at his
original position and sentiments by din
ner time. How, then. with so much at
stake, can he depend on the uncertain,
dangerous mail, so liable to miscarry,
get lost, or be delayed, and he lose
his office in consequence Of not know
ing whom to shout for. No; nothing
but Geographic news will do-news that
carries him to Washington and New
Orleans in a second.
AS consequence, telegraph posts
have risen in public and particularly In
official esteem, and telegraph wires are
now winding their way to the most
secluded and rustic portions Of our
State. Only last week a telegraph line
was laid to Opelousas and another has
been suggested and is soon to unite us
with Donaldsonville and the coast
every town and village in this State de-
mands the news by telegraph, and the
officeholders are literally contributing
to this end out of their official pockets.
This is certainly move forward-a
move forward of from seven to ten
days. We shall now, all Of US, be able
to shout and hurrah together when that
expectant good news comes to us
whereas, under the old system, when
we of New Orleans were hurrahing over
good news, the people Of st. Landry
were cursinp over bad. =.
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be, 1t is impossible to predict
now; but If 1t shall prompt
the Republicans to resort to extreme
measures, we see no good to result to
Louisiana, or, in fact, to the country at
large. since the country has exhibited q
spirit too craven fer any measures OF
resistance bolder than protests and de-
nunciations.
The fflibusters are playing wiser
and deeper game than we can compre-
bend, or they are indulging in a very
riot Of folly.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-02

The Republican, appeared yesterday
with card from the Boss of the old
Rogue's BOOST, known 4s the st. Louis
Hotel, calling an extra. session Of his
bummers, or, as he ostentatiously styles
them, his Legislature. TO last twenty
days. The Boss and big gang aeem to
have some desperate hoIse in the future,
and the purpose Of the q tra session is
to keep his Legislature I gether to pass
an act to appropriate, b form, to the
thieves all the money Che Boss. II he
should be recognized, may be able. with
the aid OF troops, to bully the taxpayers
out Of The poor devil is, indeed. des-
Derate
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-02

The regular session of our Legisla-
ture ended yesterday. it being sixty
days since its first meeting on New
Years Day. AS there have been many
difficulties of all kinds in the way of
legislation such confusion and dis
order existing In this State, that the
Legislature has been bound, as 1t We're,
hand and foot, and unable to accom-
.plish nil the reforms it desired to, Gov.
Nichols found 1t necessary to call an
extra session Of the Legislature Of If
teen days.
It is hoped and believed that this ex-
ira session will be held under different
circumstances from that just over, and
that there will be nothing to impede or
prevent that legislation we all SO much
desire. This extra session begins
To-day
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-02

With the advent Of sugar among us
again, rice seems to be deserving our
shores. The falling off in the rice crop
last year was Overwhelmingly large; it
promises to be even larger for the crop
year OF 1s77-7S, as many planters who
have hitherto devoted themselves to its
interests have been tempted away by
the larger profits and better prices that
sugar brings.
There would be cause for real alarm
at this showing were it not that other
crops more than made good this deficit
of our planters; that not an acre Of
these late rice fields will be lost to cult
walton, but simply turned to the worship
OF another god-sugar.
The rice crop Of Lafourche falls from
50 $50 barrels to so,s7o; that of Assump-
tion from 1871 barrels to 5s12-a de-
crease in these two parishes alone of
nearly forty per cent, which isnot much
below the average falling off through
out the State.
Everything seems to indicate the re-
turn of this State to its ante bellum
agricultural condition and crops, and to
show that our rice crop will sink grad
ually back to its former average.
It may be, however, as some suggest,
that this falling off in rice this year
IL only temporary after all, and pro-
duced by the demoralizing and disas-
trous effects of that great .'rice speech
delivered by Packard in the late cam
naiun. and upon which he based his only
II aim for fame and votes; if SO. with
Packard's departure and his devotion to
other matters than Louisiana and her
RIGS. the cereal Of the sWamps may yet
regain her fast departing empire,
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
PROCLAMATION
FRANCIS II. NICHOLS.
Governor of the state of Louisiana

EMANG1S Il. NAGHOLlS.
Governor of the state Of Louisiana.
WHEREAS an extra session of the General As
| sembly is required in view Of the condition Of
public affairs, and Tor purposes Of indispensable
legislation;
Therefore ], Francis T. Nichols, Governor Of
the State of Louisiana, have thought proper to
issue this, my proclamation, converting tho Gen.
| eral Assembly Of this State to meet in Extra
Session at Odd Fellows Hall, in the city OF New
Orleans, on FRIDAY, the second day Of March,
a. D. 1877, at 10 o'clock m. And
in pursuance OF the provisions Of
an act of the General Assembly, entitled San
act relative TO extra sessions Of the General Az
sembly, and defining the duties Of the Governor
In reference thereto" approved February 49, 1870,
Fl hereby limit the duration Of said session to
fifteen days, and do hereby specify, among
others, the following objects Of legislative action
during said extra session, to wit: Education,
appropriations, revenue levees, elections, regis
traitor, city and parochal affairs and election to
the United States Senate.
In witness whereof, have here unto signed my
name, and caused the seal Of the State OF
Louisiana to be hereunto affixed, at the
city of New Orleans, this twenty eighth
day Of February, in the year Of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy
seven, and of the Independence of the
United States Of America the one hundred
and first year.
FRANCIS T. NICHOLAS,
Governor OF the State OF Louisiana.
By the Governor:
OscAR ARROYO,
Asaistant Eacratary of Efnfa
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FOR SALE.

AHANDsOME PLACE OF TWO ACRES front
on the beautiful river Teche. comprising g.
acres of excellent. newly fenced land Of which
90 are admirably adapted TO the cultivation Of
sugar cotton, or corn; the balance consisting
OF a magnificent meadow in which the residences
is situated. The whole property will be sold,
consisting Of the land above mentioned, and n
residence, kitchen, cabins, stable, vegetable and
fruit gardens and oil necessary appurtenances.
This offers an excellent opportunity to any one
wishing to raise stock, or to cultivate cotton or
sugar on small scale, there being cotton gin
and sugar mill In the neighborhood. This
property has never been inundated. The.
dwelling house Is comfortably furnished and
will be sold with or without furniture.
For particulars address a. L. G.. Postof1os,
Box $40, New Orleans. fe1s % H
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Our subscribers will confer q favor
upon as by reporting at this office every
failure in the delivery to their address
or the DEMOCRAT, as we are particularly
DESTROYS OF achieving absolute exacti.
tude and punctuality.
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The ofIce of the New orleans DEM"-
CRAT has been Removed from "a Cahfp
street 70 100 Gravier street.
AMUsEM ENTs This EVENING.

yAnrrTrrs THEAraE.-Beneft Of Mr.. George +.
Rowe. s.Othello." r
ACApEmY or Music Mics Charlotte Thomp-
son % "Miss Mutton"
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3. q. Nunez, Tax Collector for the parish Of
st. Bernard.
William Gross. Inspector Ct Weights and Meas
urss of the parish of Pointe Coupee.
P. Harkett Clerk of the First Municipal Police
Court for the parish OF Orleans.
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DIED.
Assistant Secretary of State.

VERRET-In the parish of Assumption. at
his late residence, Monday, February 26, 1877 at
10 M. Nicholas Verret, native of the above
parish, and aged fifty years.
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IBY AUTHORITY.l

Appointments by the Governor, by and
with the Advice and Consent of
the Senate.
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BENEFICIAL
THE PUBLIC.

We. the undersigned Photographers in the
United States, do state and will bear testimony
that PICrURES made by
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posterity, etc., the people Of Louisiana
began to look around them, and to
think Of what they had endured in the
past eight years; and they saw their
broken levees; they saw their metropo-
lis declining; they saw their fields
growing up in wildernesses, they saw civ
ilization dying out, the jungle, African
ization and ruin encroaching upon every
portion of their territories; they re-
membered how Intellectual their most
earnest protests had been how fiat their
most piteous appeals had fallen and how
impotent indignation and denunciation
had proved against bayonets and Re-
publican policy; and when they were
assured that it was the purpose Of Gov.
Hayes to adopt a new Southern policy !;
policy that would restore legitimate
government here, peace, good will and
prosperity, they resolved to do what all
the balance Of the country had mani
tested q purpose to do; what the
National Democracy, and what Gov.
Tilden and Gov. Hendricks will do
acauiesce peaceably in the presidency
OF Mr.. Hayes; endeavor to live in peace
under his administration; to build up
their waste places, restore their ruined
fortunes and the prosperity Of their
desolated State.
This Is. no doubt, what the people
of South Carolina and oil Of the south-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-12-24
STATE NEWS.
ANpRoscoaGIN COUNTY.

ANDROsCOGGN COUNTY.
Mis-. Lamb now in Auburn jail awaiting trial
for murder by abortion is critically i'll ofplueisy
and there is not much hope of recovery.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Kenne bee Land aud Lumber Company
have succeeded 10 clearing the ice fields in
front of their ice houses in Pittston, and the ice
is now there as clear as crystal. If it continues
closed they will harvest the best ice
they have gathered for five years. They will
put INTO their Pittston houses 15, 1000 tons. The
Centennial Company, below the Gardner
bridge, has a clear garden" as has also the
Knickerbocker at Farmingdale. Everything
now promises a lucrative ice yield.
KNOX COUNTY.
A Rockland young man by the name of Sim
mons and Rockport man by the name OF
Richards were locked up at dance IN Camden
tue other night for making disturbance. Sim
mons wanted to keep warm and whitfield up the
Stats 10 his cell and made rOusing good hre
which burnt through the floor, and In lew
minutes would have sutfocated him, and en-
dangered the Building and lives of all. Both
have been held for arson.
PENoBsCoF COUNTY.
The Dexter Agricultural Society this year
pays 67 per cent of the premiums offered
Mr.. Daniel Hartman of Orland died last
Sunday at the age of SO years. He represented
his town in the legislature several times.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
Capt. Salmon Holmes. one of the first settlers
of Foxcroft, died at his home in that place
Wednesday light.
YORK COUNTY.
Two porcupines were killed in Alfred last
week.
Scarlet fever prevails quite extensively
among the cbildrn at North Berwick.
On the 18th inst Mr.. James Lord, who has
lived on the old Deacon Storer place at Wells
for many years, went out to chop wood. Not
retaining at the proper time seach was made
for him, when he was found lying on the ground
where he had been chopping, in an insen sible
condition. The snow was trampled down all
around him, from which it was inferred that
he had fit of some kind. He was taken TO
his residence, where he died the next day.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-12-24

ACCIDENTS. afternoon George W.
Brown of Southport, went on board the new
ship w. G. Davis, while under the influence OF
liquor, having shipped as one of the crew. He
started TO go aloft and the second mate ordered
him back, not considering him sober, but the
man disobeyed orders and made his way to the
topsail ysrd. He had hardly reached it when
he lost his footing and fell, striking yard, and
from thence to the ratlines, which gave him a
spring which sent him upon the wharf which
he struck heavily on his head and shoulders.
He was taken up and conveyed to the station,
and from thence to the city hospital. He was
unconscious all day, and last night very low
with no prospect of recovery.
daughter of Mr.. William Sweeney. living
at No. Martin street, only seven years of age,
was fatally burned by her clothes getting on fire.
last week. She died Friday of her injuries.
Mr.. s. w. Smart, the lumber merchant, was
struck by locomotive on Commercial street
Thursday, and his leg was severely injured.
Friday night little son of James Neville,
who lives on Waterville street, was run over by
a furniture wagon and his leg broken.
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Brief JOttIngs,

Christmas sermons were preached at several
of the churches yesterday.
Mr.. Farley, who was buried Saturday. was
the last member of the Mechanic Blues who
was 10 the war of 1912.
The Warwcks are to repeat their entertain
ment at Miss Marsh's Theatre Christmas after
noon and evening.
The Stevens property on Ocean street, Deer
ing, was purchased at the auction sale By John
81. Read, for $4,000.
The Cumberland Engine Company are ar
ranging for fine time at their dance to-mor-
row night
On Wednesday evening there will be
Christmas tree festival with carols at the St
Stephens church.
The steamer Nepigan is to be fitted up with
Wick's patent refrigerator and will take 500
quarters Of beef to Liverpool on her return
trip.
A. M. Smith has purchased of VIM. G. Davis
the valuable lot on Congress street, Just above
Neal street, and will commence this week
the erection of block of two frst-class
houses.
Mr.. Winslow, the foreman of Harris wool
shop, is anxious to know who discharged pis-
tol so near his residence Friday night as to al
low the ball to pass uncomfortably near his
head.
In order to give all an opportunity to attend
the Christman trees the dancing at the Frater-
nifty course, which will take place at the City
Hall Christmas night, will net commerce un-
til o'clock A large and brilliant party will
no doubt be present to end up this days festv-
tiles.
The Portland Mutual Fishing Insurance Co.
has insured SO vessels the past year for the sum
total OF S172 92292, besides an insurance on
outfits OF 1874, 9OO-the two items amounting to
$206,922 81. The valuation of these vessels
is $272,S50. The losses for the year have
amounted to only about $1,000, and the ex-
peuse to the insured has therefore amounted to
about one-half of one per cent.
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Prof. John Fiske expects to deliver two lee
lures upon "Premitive Man" in this city next
month
Mrs. Martha M. MCDOWELL, wife of one of the
editors of the Chicago Tribune, formerly of this
city, died ia Chicago last Monday evening.
Mr.. A. A. Strout appeared before the Su-
preme Court of the United States Wednesday,
in several cases in which John B. Curtis & Co.,
were concerned.
Lieut.. Best has been transferred from Fort
Preble to Schenectady, N. Y, where he will act
as Instructor in Union College Lieut.. Pope has
been promoted to LIST Lieut.. and another officer
is expected.
Miss Eta Quincy makes her appearance
among our landscapists on two canvasses at
Noyes q Blakeslee's, exhibiting stroug and
genuine feeling for nature, in clear and natural
color, good drawing and faithful preservation of
values. The level plain spreads back through
miles OF distance, the sky keeps afar off, and
the composition and combination of colors
make pleasant picture-Boston Transcript
Mr.. G. Edwin Williams Evangel-
ist, wishes to inform the public that he is la
boring as an evangelist preaching Temperance,
Jesus and Repentance to all who will give audi.
ence, wherever the pastors and official mem
bers of the different churches are courteous
enough TO stranger to open their churches to
him, regardless of name or denomination, He
refers to- Admiral Gouldsborough, U. S. N,
Rev. Il. FL. Clarke, chaplain, u S. N, Wash
ington, D. G.; Major Mark bennett, A. W.
johnson, M. d., d. W. Jones, NJ D., all of
Kittery navy yard; Prof. W. Haskell, instruc.
tor in ancient languages, Brunswick; and Rev.
l. Luce, Portland.
The name of Jeremiah Elwell, who died in
New Gloucester last year, was borne on the
pension rolls from 1915 to 1876. The certificate
On which he drew it, signed by John G. Cal
houn, Secretary of War, is ia the possession OF
Mr.. H. x. Harmon. In 1877 it was transfer
red from the Massachusetts to the Maine
agency, and made payable at the Cumberland
Bank. Mr.. Ewell served in the 21st U. S. In.
fantry. At first the pension was six dollars a
month. 1t was afterwards increased to eight
Under the pension law his widow can draw nc
pension, as he was not married until 1896
Several attempts have been made to remedy
this injustice, and bill of relief has passed the
House twice but has failed in the Senate,
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THE WRESTLING MATCH. The wrestling
match at Music Hall Saturday evening was
novel exhibition and should have been better
patronized. Both men came onto the stage
promptly at O'Clock and soon went to work.
No tripping was allowed and q fall was not
scored until both shoulders struck the stage at
the same time. Bauer got the first score for a
fall in % minutes. 10 Is minutes Miller got
his first fall. The third fall was also won by
Miller in 80 minutes. The struggle of the
giants was at times almost painful to witness.
Taken as whole it was very interesting en-
tertainment,
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F1REs.-Satnrdsy night at about II o'clock
the house. ell and barn owned by Nathan Flick
EFT, near the Eastern Railroad station in Cape
Elizabeth, was entirely consumed by fire.
Three head of cattle, horse, several swine,
number of fowl and the winters supply of hay
stored in the barn were destroyed. The furni-
ture in the house was saved by the neghbors.
The fire took in the barn and was undoubtedly
the work of tramps. The loss will not be less
than $4,000, and there is but $1,000 insurance.
The dye-house connected with the box factory
owned by e. j. Leighton, and situated in Gray,
took fire Friday night, and was totally consum-
ed. No insurance Fire caught from the heat
ing apparatus. The building was about % feet
square and % feet high.