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West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-20
\ GLORIOUS ENTERPRISE.
The GRAIN TRADE OF THE WEST TO
FIND WAY TO THE SEA VIA NEW
ORLEANS INSTEAD OF NEW YORK.
New Orleans Times.7

1t is just three years since the
TINES, in an article headed
''1'he Gulf to the Lakes" ANNOUNCE
ed the completion cf that portion
of the New Orleans, St. Louis an!
Chicago railroad which lies be-
tween Jackson, Tennessee, aad
Cairo, Illinois. In the same ar,i-
Gle the belief was expressed that
in five years more New Orleans
would handle approximately a.
much grain as New York, aud pro-
port'onateIy o: all the produces OF
the west intended for exportation
TO foreign countries. Although
three tifths o: the time has already
elapsed, we, by no means, are
disposed to abandon the position
then taken. Last ;ea: tt e receipt
Il bulk corn exc eded those of the
previous year lou: hundred per
cent AID thus far this yeas- that
is, since September l, 1S76-the
receipts arc three hund: ed and tei.
per cent. greater than the same
tine last Year. We arc still far
short 10 the aggregate movement. =.
bat the tendencies Of trade to eff ct
movements S by the southern route
are increaSir g from day 20 day -
Frozen lakes, rivers and canals
and snow b.ucked railroads.. with
high freishts, together with other
poteut Influences, are at work to
direct attention 10 the advantages
VII ch the gulf route to the sea now
offers. The fact has already been
announced in the Times that the
work of Captain Eads ut south
Pass has eliminated in success, and
it only awaits the signature OF Gen.
Humphreys for an official promul-
gaiion Of the great event, and that
the way to the sea is now open for
ths largest ships that navigate the
Atlantic ocean. The west las
been waiting for tho re~nlt, ard
already Our merchants and business
men are receiving numerous inqAi
ries from all paris OF the west on
the subject with view to the fu.
ture movement of western produc-
tons or foreign account through:
this port. Concurrent with this
auspicious event, aud as if to meet
it, the continuous line OF railroad
between New Orleans and Chica-
60, will to- morrow pass into the
hands and under the management
and control of the Illinois Central
railroad company. Tomorrow j..
c. Clark, vice president of the
company named. will assume the
management OF the line, and feel
ing that the public will be anxious
to know, at this eliminating jun'.c
ture oil important events, the views
Of Mr.. Clark. and policy Which
will uuderlie bis management, we
called upon him ioc that purpose
The ic te view was all that a per
son deeply solicitous Cor the com
mercial welfare of New Orleans
could wish. AliudiDg to the TACT
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-20
Memphis Appeal.7


Both parties in Louisiana have
submitted their briefs to the senate
committee, and the public can now
judge between them. What is the
Republican case? They charge their
opponents with producing reign
Of terror in the State, by whippings.
assassiDations, murders, massacres,
threats, muti!ations, bea,ings, etc.,
so that more than twenty thousand
Republican votes were prevented
from voting the Republican ticket,
and most of them for voting at all
The inquiry at once arises, why is
it that We first hear of this reign
Of blood after the election If
Republican voters were being beat-
Ell and murdered by the thousand,
why did not Governor Kellogg in-
terfere to protect them? He has
the power to appoint an unlimited
number of subordinates to guard his.
voters, and the So called laws Of
Louisiana give him authority really
despotiA Why did he not use it.
# he knew that violence was being
used to rob his party Of its control
Of the State? Why did he not call
for troops? Mr.. Governor Kel-
iosg, if these stories were true, you
would have made the north resouud
with your cries for help, for troops,
for correspondents to expose the
iniquity This very silence proves
that you and your party are epgag-
ed in a monumental scheme Of ly-
ing. Whatever lawIessness there
was you allowed to exist in order
that you might charge afterward, if
necessary, that it was political in
its nature. The Democratic case
contains little that is new. The
people know all the charges they
have TO bring. because at the time
the acts Of which they complain
we,e committed they protested.
Ihe arrest OF thousands of promin-
ent citizens just before the election.
the issue OF thousands of fraudulent
registration papers, the prepara
tions for ialsifying the vote-these
are al: familiar 10 northern readers,
because at the time they happened.
the Democrats called the attention
of tho whole people to them as out
RACES upon popular rights. The
Democ -alic statement is straight
forward and bears the impress of
truth. The Republican a mass OF
lies concocted after the event.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-20
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENTS,

tTTransient advertisements, first in
scrtion, 81 90 per square of ten lines,
each subsequent insertion, so cents. ObiU-
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West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-20
B T. AT TY r'ASo

GRAND SQUARE AND UPRIGHT.
Letcher Bro. Bankers; Fayette, Ohio.
eve received the piano and think it q
very fine toned one out here. Waited q
short time to give it good test. If you
wish a word in favor OF it we will cheer
fnlly give it,
James r. Brown, Esqr:, Edwardsville,
Ill.,, says:
tire satisfaA SiOn.'
Agents wanted. Send for catalogue.
Address,
DANIEL F.. BEATTY,
Washington, New Jersey
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-20
l0ENTIsTRY.

DR.. +. Green Davis offers his services to
the people of this and adjoining Parishes
Any orders addressed to him, at his resi-
dauce will receive prompt attention.
june IS, '76.ly
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-20

A BRAVE FRENCH GIRL.-Ac-
cording to the PARIS GAULoIs,
Nov. l9ih thirly-eight years ago a
terrible fire broke out in a convent
for young ladies in the town Of
Limoges. A. the last moment it
was perceived that one of the PEN
sIoNNAIREs had been left in her
room. There appeared to be no
hope Of saving her, when u fine
yonng girl with dishevelled locks
and with her night dress floating
round her, pierced the crowd, cry
ing, Let me do it," Aud she rusl-
ed into the midst Of the flames, and
,hortly afterward appeared carry
ing the unhappy infant in her arms.
\ few days afterward Louis Phil
ippe sent the heroine god medal.
and a captain in the Faeuch army
who had witnessed her courrge ask.
cd to he presented to her. Thai
captain is now President Of the
French Republic, and the heroine
is the Duchess de Magenta.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-20


already taken action for the further
equipment of the line with three
hund'ed new freight cars, which
would be on the road and ready
for use before the next cropping
season. It was also in the pro-
gramme Of work to be done with
out delay, to put down two hun
dred miles of steel rails, which
would about complete the track of
tho road with those rails through
to Cairo. These ard terminal i'm
proverents required at New Or
loans aud Cairo, would engage the
instant attention Of the new mans
agement, and, when all is complet-
ed, Mr.. Clark had no fears tu,
that the public would pronounce
his road equal to the best in the
United States, and render it posi-
bic to ran passenger cars through
to Chicago in the same time tha,
trains are now rnn through from
Chicago 10 New York. In this
conversation with Mr.. Clark he
particularly alluded to the impor
;ance of placing refrigerators upor
the road for the transfer OF tropical
fruits and fish and oysters from the
Gul: waters to the west, and butter,
lake fish and vegetables in their
season from the wet to New Or
leans. Gulf oysters were far supe-
.ior to those obtained from the Ats
lantic sea-board, and they can be
mode to supplant them in the Chi
cago market where the consump~
ton is nearly one hundred tons per
day exclusive of the shell. In re-
gard TO the present employees Of the
road, Mr.. Clark said they would
not be changed. In cases of ca
pacity and fitness they would be
preferred as being acquainted with
the habits Of the people and the
methods Of trade here ard along
the line of the road. Bur, said he,
every thing must be brought down
to sirict business principles. While
not overlooking the rights and in
terests of other, and the goose
that lays the golden egg, the man
agement purposed business, on bus
mess principles, and should work
to reap the rewards due to capital
and labor.
A CHICAGO VIEW.
[Chicago Times.l
The fact that the New Orleans,
st. Louis and Chicago railroad has
been absorbed by the Illinois Cen
trail was first made public on yes
terday. The former road consists
in reality of two lines, viz: the
Mississippi and the New O.Eeans.
Jackson and Great Northern, in
all four hundred and fitty-6 FIVE
miles, which, added to the Illinois
Central, forms continuous and
almost air line Of nine hundred and
ten miles. Tne consolidated soutE~
ern line defaulted in the payment
Of Interest on its bonded indebted
ness something over year ago,
and subsequently J. B. Alexander
and General 4. P. Nicely were ap-
pointed receivers. These receivers
nave added several thousand tons
Of iron to the equipase Of the road
The rolling stock and track are in
very good condition, aud the traffic
is quite heavy. The annual earn
ings of the roed for several years
past have exceeded three million
dollars, and it is believed that un-
de" an improved management and
better system of operation, this
amount can be largely increased
The breaking OF a crevasse near N.
Orleans, two years ago, damaged
twenty miles of the road very
greatly, and necessitated the trans,
Ter of freight to steamboats, for
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11
Wheat M Chicago Settlement of
HenieInher COntrnelh.

Tho squeeze in wheat for Septem.
Der delivery was the great feature Of
the tradein commercial circles Fri
dry. NotN outstanding the active
feeling Of two OF three days previous
there was still ont d long line Of
shorts. and the result was a farther
advance in prices, which may again
be improved upon a good deal Of
thewhcal settled Friday at 81 l6@
/ IL was bought away down in the
nineties, and some ofthe shorts were
yirtuously indignant atthe fact that
they hadto pay dearly for the priv.
ilage ofselling wheat which they did
not own. The whole operation was
vigorously denounced as an artificial
deal, etc, but without affecting the
condition of things. The market
had been largely oversold, and the
sales had to be filed,
1t would be interesting to know
how much the market at SLY per
bushel is higher than ii would have
been but for the bearing process here
before the new crop began TO move.
1t is estimated by well-informed
parties that tho September shorts on
wheat in this market aggregated
about 100000 bushels last Thursday
evening, and that the quantity was
reduced to about 10000 bushels last
Friday night. II is probable that
these are very large over.estimates,
but we give them for what they are
worth. A very long line was settled
Friday, aud there is probably room
for closing up the deal to-day if the
price be not put up too high.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11
The Chinese Question.

so SAAAAASHS
A commission was appointed by
the United States Senate at its last
session to visit California and inves-
tigate the Chinese immigration on
the Pacific Slope. The Chinese CUES
ton is the great question of Califor-
MIA; all political parties are united
on it,and Americans and Chinese
alike favor it. If we are to believe
the San Francisco Chronicle, the
Chinese question is already solved,
without the intervention ofCongress,
and by the Chinese themselves.
The prosecutions, murders, hangings
and other bad treatment of the Mon
golians in California have persuaded
the six great Chinese companies
that there is no possibility of Chris
tan and Buddhist lying down in
peace together. The six great com.
panies, in fine, are opposed to Chi
nese immigration to this country,
and will do everything in their pow
err not only to prevent it in future
but to take back to the Celestial
Empire those heathens already
stranded on this shore. To carry
out this, they resolved on n double
plan of action. kilograms were
sent to Hong Kong and other ports
from which the coolies come, giving
very highly colored account of the
strike in America, and announcing
that Chinese immigrants to Califor-
MIA would certainly become the
victims either of hard times and a
scarcity of food, or of the fury and
vengeance of the hoodlums, The
success Of these stories has already
become apparent by the fact that
the number Of incomers from China
has, for the first time in many years,
fallen behind those of the outgoers,
In addition 10 this, one Funk Pack,
a leading and most influential Chi
naman, was sent over to the Flowery
Kingdom to agitate against Chinese
emigration, and to do everything in
the world to prevent it.
The second part of the programme
is as follows: A bill is to be drawn
up by the counsel of the six compa.
MES, by the terms of which all Chi
namen entering this country after
q certain specified time will be re-
CURED to pay u per capita tax of $50.
This bill, of course, would DO uncon.
stitutional and opposed to the four
tenth amendment, but the compa.
MES, who alone would object to it,
agree not TO test its constitutionality.
By the terms of this bill a board of
commissioners will be appointed to
manage the fund created by the tax;
this fund is to be used in returning
the Chinese in this country to China,
AS the amount of tax that each in.
coming Cinnamon will pay will be
sufficient TO take some three or four
home again, it is thought that, by
this means, California will soon DO
freed from the hoathon. Thus, by
tho good sense Of the Chinese them
selves and II good kick at tho Con.
stitution and equal rights, it is like
ly that we will be able TO got rid of n
question that has been annoying
Congress for II number of years, and
which, at each presidential election,
Il prominent place in the
platform Of both political parties.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11
10000 Majority
The Entire Democratic
State Eebet -Electedl
Both Branches OF the Lcgisla-
tuIe Democratic.
LET AL4PEoPlE REJoIoEl

We give D low the news from the
Ohio election up to 10 o'clock this
morning;
cosuNstsse October 10, 10 A. NJ,
spcclciaI to thS Register
The glori9as news can be briefly
told. The Democracy have carried
the State byfrom twenty to thirty
thousand. they have elected ma
jority of both branches of the Legis-
lature. Thaold republican strong
holds in the Western Reserve show
large Democratic gains and great
falling off from the republican side
of the house
Hamilton county of which the Re-
publicans we're so sure, has given the
Democracy two thousand majority
Lucas county which has been Repub-
lican, has been carried by the work
ing-men, they having elected both
Representatives, heretofore republi-
can. There were probably $4,000
National votes cast throughout the
State. The republicans concede the
State to the Democracy by 10000
majority, but latest returns show
that there is no doubt of at least
twenty thousand,
IRWIN.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11
Extra Session Of the Legislature.

The Greenbrier Independent says:
We are surprised to learn from our
exchanges that call is being clrcu-
lated by some members of the Legis-
lature, who, we take it, are more anx-
ious to enjoy the luxury of Legislat-
ing, to keep themselves before the
public and to draw their per diem,
with serious and solemn regularity,
than they are to serve the State, re-
quiring the Governor to convene that
body in extra session. Prominent
in this movement are Mr.. Speaker
Gibson and q Mr. Arnold, who. We
think, represents ono Of. the Nortti-
western counties. The pretexts for
this call are the flimsiest imaginable
too himsy to deserve mention, much
less serious reply. Everybody at
all acquainted with the situation
knows that there is no earthly reason
why the Legislature should be con-
tinued, but every conceivable reason
against it; and the best thing that
could have happened for the State
would have been for the Legislature,
had such a thing been possible, to
have made appropriations to carry
on the Government for FIVE years,
and to have granted our people a
blessed rest for that length of time
from ignorance, confused and bung,
ling legislation.
An extra session this Fall, or the
coming Winter, would be an unmix'
ed evil to the State. By all means
let the people of West Virginia have
another election, and see if they can
not improve upon their present law
makers, before there is another sess-
ion of the Legislature,
Our Constitution provides for bien-
NAL sessions, but this clause has been
practically construed to mean semi
annual sessions, and reasons to justi-
fy any further evasions of that pro-
vision should be more cogent and
conclusive, and such cannot be found.
We hope the Press OF the STATE
will be out-spoken, in time, in con-
demnation of this scheme. We do
not believe that two-thirds Of the
members, even as the Legislature is
now constituted, can be persuaded to
sign this call, but such thing, of
course, is possible, and the Governor
may be compelled, in this way, to
take step Of which his good judg-
ment must disapprove, and we will
say to the gentlemen who, for rea-
sons best known to themselves, are
engineering this movement, in dis.
regard of the best interests of the
State, and the wishes of the people,
to go on in the course they are pur-
suing, provided they do not believe
in or expect hereafter, and that if
they are bent upon State, individual
or political harikari, they could not
have chosen a more certain or speed.
Ter way of accomplishment Ve'6am
vat. dc.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

Governor Phillips, of Missouri, has
appointed Col. D. Fl. Armstrong to
fill the unexpired term of the late
Senator boy. Armstrong is known
in Missouri as the war horse of De-
mocracy. He is said to be remark
able, more for his clear grit and vim
than for his learning or abilities
He is n Nova scotian by birth, sixty
five years of age, and almost life
long resident Of St. Louis.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

Tho average annual expenses of
the "White House" under Democrat
ic rule was s59,2S7oo. Under Re.
publican rule sl21, 2s4.6o-more than
twice as much.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

When next Grant indulgcs in n
hot.Scotch talk with Herald inter
viewer he will have something to
say on Hayes Atlanta remark, that
the war ended with no disCrcdit to
the conIcdoraLos "and no special
credit to us" Grant will hardly en-
Joy that sentiment
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

The Democratic majority in tho
California Legislature, hitherto re-
ported as thirty.eight, is really fifty
one, quite enough for all practical
purposes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

Kellogg, claimant to seat in the
U. S. Senate from Louisiana seems to
manifest indifference about going to
Washington and getting his seat, and
gives as reson that the" Democrats
will have control Of that body with
in two years.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

The vacancy on the bench Of the
Supreme Court of the United States
should be filed by a Southern man
and it is to be hoped that Hayes will
have the good sense to make such an
appointment. Herschel V. Johnson,
candidate for Vice President on the
Douglas ticket in 1860, is urged for
the position.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

Gen, F. Il. spinnor-ho Of the cur
ious cork.screw autograph, is camping
out on a fishing expedition in the
Adirondacks. The General is 70, but
hunts with the energy and vigor ola
youth.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

Because we mention that Peter b.
Brigham, u Boston restaurant keep.
or, left an estate worth one hundred
and a quarter million dollars recent
ly, VIC trust that new saloons will not
spring up on every unoccupied corn
or.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

Judge Kelley, ofPhiladelphia, says
that no man can tell where the light
ming will strike in the Pennsylvania
election. He says that the Indepen-
dent vote may be twenty thousand
or eighty thousand, and until the day
ofelcction it will not be known which
party will be the most injured.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11
THURSDAY, OCTOBER II, ISL

According tosDr. Sears report,
West ynginip has received from the
Peabody School Fund in the last ten
wears, St07,7I0.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

STATE Of IEci Virginia, cOlmy1 Mason, Sc,
1, 4. SrmBLlNo, Cashier OF the above-na-
med bank, do solemnly swear that the Il.
bove statement Is true to tho best OF my
knowledge and belief.
I, STRIDLlNCi, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before INC this
10th day OF October, 1877.
RANKIN WILEY, JR.,
Corrcct-AttesE
@. SElION,
j. CApEIIART Directors.
p.s. LEWIS,
ocl, ll-lw,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

Sherman is tho wurst man M
Hayes cabinet. He is a ring poll
tician, nothing more nor less. The
idea that he will engage in any real
civil service reform is simply absurd.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

Fish Commissioner White, warns
dam proprietors against the continu-
ance of dams which obstruct the pass.
age of fisho navigation, and sug-
gests to those who have provided no
fish ways, that simple fish ladder
twenty feet wide and twenty inches
deep, placed at a grade not greater
than one foot in ten will answer the
purpose of the law.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

Mr.. Bernard Peyton, the present
gentlemanly Clerk Of the West Vir-
ginia House of Delegates, we learn
will be a candidate for Reading Clerk
of the House Of Representatives at
Washington. AS Clerk of a political
body, poyton has few superiors
as has been well attested by the able
manner in which he fills various pos
itions.-Es.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

The execution Of shiflett, at Har-
risonburg, Va, was revolving in the
extreme. The New York Sun, refer
ring to the case, remarks thatso long
as society enacts that for certain
crimes mems necks shall be broken,
it is bound to see that this penalty
is inflicted without needless suffer
ing 10 the criminal or to the bystan-
ders. In the case Of shiflett the
horror is heightened BIZ the fact that
the. poor, .llalf-hanged wretch, as he
lay on the grass at the scahold, cried
o6t again that he was innocent, and
died with that cry on his lips, The
Sun truly remarks that if the death
penalty is to be retained in our code,
such scenes as this must not be re-
peated too often. They are outside
Of the sentence of the law, and simp-
ly too revolving to be tolerated by q
civilized community.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11

Ex-Governor Walker, on the I'd
inst, before a large audience, deliv-
cred an address on the public debt of
Virginia, at the request of the Cham
Der of Commerce. He took the
ground that twas honestly contract
ed and is justly owed and that Vir-
ginia's only hope of prosperity is in
preserving her credit and inviting
capital.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-11
BANK REPORT.

REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF The Merchants National Bank OF West
Virginia at Point Pleasant, inthe State OF
West Virginia, at the close of business.
October LIST, 1877.
nrcAT-prtY,e,