The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-08-21
4 ROBERT lIACAIRE.

a State of Texas, but tramping loos
: in many States of our Republic, ant
t very recently high private in MJo
James Railroad brigade, has mad
3 another tauc pas, has again come t.
sudden grief and is again regula
| boarder at Cole Calvit's Inn, on Lee
E Street. A few lines in this Journa
plainly tell how he managed to com
! back to the old gum tree. Being
Irregular" in his line, and being dis
, charged since January and onc'
| more free man, he has tramped in
f to Alexandria, several times taking
observations, and fixed upon las
Wednesday night to cast hi!
| net and make haul. HIS plans
were we'll matured, his observations
} were as true as Professor Tice's
faultless ones, and his work was done
according to gunter and the booty
was his. In plain talk he marked
out the store Of John A. Williams q
Co. for his operations, and after the
dead hour of midnight, though the
moon was shining brightly, he MIN.
bly, climbed over the outbuildings oil
the store and entered through a win.
dow of the back bedroom of the up
stairs of the building, made his way
to Major McLean's room, in the
front, and there committed his we'll
planned robbery. Major Mclean
had that day been collecting freight
and purchase bills for the Bart. Able
and gathering in from our merchants
valuable letters, and had all these
valuables on bis table in the room,
ready for the Packet. The Bart.
Able was fully "a hours behind time,
and being expected down every min
ute, must account for these valua-
bles not being in the iron safe, and
therefore, were easily captured by
Citizen Bowers. He sooa gathered
them all, and left the building as he
came into it.
Early next morning, when the rob-
berry was discovered, a report came
to Mayor Paul about it, and about
Mr.. Bowers, who had been seen gil
ding down the river road, not far
from the Quarantine Station. These
hints were enough to catch the trail
of Mr.. Bowers, and Mayor Paul at
once started on that trail, and to
make long story short, in less than
Is hours after he had started, riding
and scouting around considerably,
he came up with Mr.. Bowers at
Loyd's Bridge, and there exchanged
the compliments of the hour with
him, made him his prisoner, searched
him, and found in his coat all the
money and drafts taken from the
valuable letters, which prisoner
Bowers, few hours before, had cap
tured so easily and so skillfully.-
Mayor Paul, being a little fatigued
and worried, hired a conveyance, and
with Citizen Bowers as compagnon
de voydge, soon returned to Alexan-
dria Town, and before retiring to his
home registered Mr.. Bowers name
till December next as guest at Cole
Calvit's Inn. We feel authorized to
state that he will be we'll cared for
there, and will find that Boarding
House as we'll kept as it was when
be was boarder there some three
years since. We are also empowered
to state that Mr.. Bowers digestion
is good, and that he takes his recon-
struction with a philosophers mood.
The managers of the Radical
party, in our Parish, are having a
hard old time of it, fixing up how
first they can catch about hundred
soreheads, who are not much in any
party, and cement with them a solid
colored vote. Some are for being
true to the traditional nominations
of their party, under its true name
and avowed principles; others are
for the Greenback party so-called,
whilst another portion of the happy
family stick to independence aud en-
dorsement. They surely have hard
new road to travel, and it is hard to
tell who are the most refractory, the
soreheads, who have high aims in
view, or the true colored Republicans,
who are disposed to stand by their
colors and stick to their principles.
The wirepullers, with the assistance
Of the soreheads, are planning and
scheming night and day, and soon
we shall have glimpse of their real
intentions. The combined crowd