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The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30
LOUISIANA NEWS.

All our sugar-houses are in full blast. The
yield, we are informed, is good Houma
Courier, 10th.
We hear with regret OF the serious illness of
Col ID. s. Gage, and the loss of his sight.
which we trust will be only temporary
IHouma Courier.
Mr.. Frank Mintz, merchant on Bayou
Bnuf, was stabbed last Saturday night by a
young man named James Cnson. Mr.. Cason
10 In the custody of the sheriff. Washington
Enterprise
Mr.. Crosier, of Luticla plantation, on Bayou
Terebonne. reports that his three years
stubble yields hogshead and a half to the
acre, which is doing very well indeed [Thi-
bodaux Sentinel, 10th.
On the second of October, Mr. Andre \. .
Lalonde died at Arnaudvile, in this parish.
at the age of So years. Two days afterwards,
on the fourth, his son. Andre II. Lalonde
aged 28 years, was killed by lightning near
the same town. lOpelousas Courier.
Our parish is now free from yellow fever
This dreaded disease made its appearance O.
few weeks ago Ia the Corner situated six
miles from here, but thanks to our authorities
Ii did not spread further The total number
OF cases was nineteen. Only six have recov-
cred. MARKS vile (Avoyelles) Villager.
For crops no weather could be more favor
able than during the past week. The cold
nights, and clear. warm days have ripened
the cane rapidly, and we predict that the su-
gar yield will yet astonish everybody.
Il OF EOttOu llle WeaLner 1S equally favorable,
and Judging from the many fields we have
seen yet white with the tleecy staple, we have
no doubt picking will progress until Christ
mas unless bad weather intervenes and beats
out the balance of the open cotton.-Sugar
Bowl
ST Mary, which last year made 16, TAO hogs
heads of sugar this year has about 90, 500 ar
pents OF cane, and as the crop is unusually
good, It Is safe to estimate her present crop at
upwards Of 10000 hogsheads. The crop ia
very nearly equally divided between plant
cane and rattoons or stubbles. and as the lat
ter have remarkable fine stand" less than
the usual acreage will be reserved for seed.
Hence, we will not be surprisee II st. Mary's
crop this Ryear reaches $4,000 hogsheads of
sugar.-lSugar-Bowl.
We notice In Sundays DEMOCRAT q full ex-
posure of the proceedings Of the Native
American party, and q slb-organization styled
the Red Warriors. In those proceedings we
sec that Mr.. FL. c. CaetelIanos was designated
as proper person to organize that party in
East Baton Rouge, and also that the names
of ]. Henri Bureh and A. Williams are pub
lished in the list OF members Of the Red War |
riors. The object of the Red Warriors is said
TO be to organize riots and destroy ballot |
boxes In case the so-called National party |
fails to carry the election. 1t would not be
very healthy for any one to start such a pro-
iect in this parish. Baton Rouge Advocate.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30
DEATH OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. JR.

AS when pebble is thrown into tho water
and the ripples. in rings, form and widen,
further and further, until they touch some
distant point, so, when death strikes with
and spreads on all sides like the ripples. wave
on wave, gradually increasing the circle Of
mourners until we. far away, with those
nearer and dearer, feel the pang.
Yellow fever has stricken down young jeff
Davis.
Death loves shining mark.
Shall have naught that Is fair saith he.'
But "the good die young and may grace
be given to our old hero to bear his cross.
Every Southerner In whose heart lies sad
memories of the "Lost Cause must offer
sympathy to the bereaved and, with the hope
that God will give rest to the soul Of his son,
we pray for the care-worn, sorrowing father.
A LOUIsIANIAN FAR FROM HOME.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30
CONCORnIA JUSTICE,
Thres Citizens Waylaid and the Matter
Quietly Dropped.

lCommunicated.l


We have to note u rather peculiar and aues-
fionable legal proceeding, as one Of the se-
Sfles 10 the recent riot at and in the neigh
borhood Of Waterproof.
On Tuesday, the fifteenth instant. three
young white men, living on Concordia Isl land,
parish Of Concurdia, becoming alarmed for
their personal safety by the constant passing
of armed bodies Of excited negroes en- route
TO Waterproof, who were making the air re-
sound with threats Of arson, murder and
pIunder, came into the town OF Vidalla. While
There d courier arrived from the little (Hppar-
emily doomed) town. bearing an urgent ap-
peal to the captain Of the Natchez Light Ill
fantry for assistance. These yonng men we're
among the volunteers who went to Water
proof aud as the town had happily been saved
from ruin by the timely arrival of the sheriff
of the parish of Tensaa with o posse Of fifty
men from Franklin, they returned to Vidalia,
and while proceeding to their homes, about
dark on Thursday evening, they were way
laid at the entrance to the island and fired
upon by a body OF armed negroes, and one OF
their horses killed
They reported the occasion TO the civil
authorities and returned to their homes the
next day. The sheriff, one John Young in
company with Judge Wade II. Hough, Dis
trict Judge Thirteenth Judicial District and
Judge q. Mayo District Attorney pro TEN,
and Parish Treasurer. went to the netghbor
sination was committed, and after talking orCr
ffsB matter with some of the citizens Of the
vicinity, the party Of civil and judicial digni-
taries quietly returned to their village abodes
and let the matter drop. Leading rioters,
would-be-assassins, end d large congregation
Of the worst negroes In the parish, openly
and bpastingly parhded the streets OF the
town Of Vidalia ,inmolested and unappre-
hended during Saturday and Sunday.
Now comes the peculiar Concordia justice. |
On Thursday. the twenty-third, q false af1l |
davit was sworn out, setting forth. that the
Hastings were aiders and abettors in certain
crimes alleged to have been committed on |
Saturday on the island and q warrant was
issued for their arrest It Is well known that
the Hastings were not at any time with the |
troops or sherft's posse on that day, and that |
they are. grently aggrie3yed parties, their
lives having been fouly attempted on Thurs |
day last. We are credibly Informed that |
The ringleaders of the band who deliberately |
attempted this assassination boast Of the act, |
and are to-day at large In the town and vicin
v.
II this Is justice and the proper and faithful |
of the laws, we pity the future
of IL community saddled with such civil and |
judicial authorities. t. s. SHIELDS,
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30
THE ORLEANS DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 80 1878

| trench; many houses were quite deserted,
while in others one baby, perhaps, was left. y
THE PEsTILENCE RETURNS WITH WARM
| WEATHER.
| Again the winters cold checked the appall-
Ing work of death. but the pestience, Instead
| OF being driven away, was only forced to lie
dormant until the return Of warm weather In
| the succeeding spring reawakened it in all Its
ferocity. Then 1t spread to Rostow, liver,
Torsok and other places, devastating them
| most terribly. Another winter stayed its
course, but, rs before, 1t retired not from the
| seemingly doomed land upon which 1t had
fastened; it only waited until the sun should
| ripen it's deadly seeds, and In 1866 1t again
| desolated Moscow
Fancifully and inexplicabIy It would seem
| to desert q city for q Time only to return at
| the moment when the wretched inhabitants
| remaining were thanking God for their do
liverance Not deliverance, but only respite,
bad been accorded them for In that hour the
black death would spring upon them once
more with tenfold fury Thus it ragged four
times In Pskow and Novogorod, and twice in
the districts q Moscow, Twer, Smolensk and
Rasan In tMi9goEorod alone aee2rding to
ais were swept from the face Of the earth in
the short space of six months. "The people,"
he relates, "fell down in the streets and ex-
pired In q moment; persons in health, engaged
IN burylng the dead, died suddenly, and we're
Inferred in the graves they had just dug"
Smolensk was visited three times, until at
last, in 1887, five individuals only were left
alive Of the whole population, and they, &C
cOrding to the historical record Of that awful
time, "went forth from the city of death,
locking Its gates behind them
Not until 1927 did the black death really
leave Russia. During seventy-tive years It
had in every one ravaged some portion of the
lnnd and there were many horrible summers
in which, as an epidemic of most fearful
malignity, 1t spread over and bEighted nearly
every city in the Czars domains Hundreds
OF thousands Of dead marked it's pathway in
every direction. AS an able commentator OF
high medical authority has written upon the
subject
"The excessive virulence of this disease in |
Russia may be entirely attributed to the cir
cumstance that the people took no effective |
means for It's cure wherever the malady |
ragged, or against its recurrence where it had |
once disappeared. Superstition was then at |
Its height-prayers, HASTINGS, professions. |
charities, etc, were resorted to as means to |
appease the anger of the Almighty, while |
the remedies which God had placed ia their
hands were disregarded. But unfortunately, |
it was not only in acts of piety that the su- |
perstition Of ben GIFTED people displayed |
itself; in those times fanatcism the close |
ally Of superstition led them also to the com |
mission Of atrocities. The popuace of Pskow |
actually devoted twelve unfortunate females |
TO the stake, and burned them rs reputed |
witches, In order, as they said, to propitiate
q God Of mercyE
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30

upon the body of Southern society called the
lively sense Of the fact that the prevailing
regime is not Grantism; Haat tho day Of ten
pin government In the Southern States is
over, and that consequently 1t is O. vastly diff
Rerent thing TO be caught melting or abetting
n negro riot now from what 1t was In 1872
Thus, the failure OF the outrage mill TO find
grist TO order for "Conking and Don Came
ron It Is perfectly safe TO say that the
Sumter affair will fail to do some good in
New York and Pennsylvania A.C. Il.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30
MIR. WILLIAMS.
NEW ORLEANS, October %, 1878.

NEW ORLEANS, October %, 1878.
To tho Editor Of the Democrat:
On the first, second or ninth Of August
after the levee bill was passed, there appeared
in the Picdy1u,e O. list Of members of the Gen
eral Assembly said to have been bribed to
vote for the levee biil-all Of whom are said
to have received amounts from $1,000 and up
wards Among the names appearing, Is Ed
ward Williams. then o member Of the House,
and the same negro who resides in the clev-
enth ward Of this city, and now the nominee
for the State Senate on the Property Owners
and Workingmen's ticket
This negro Williams does not deny. or did
not deny receiving the amount at the time.
There may be more of the same kind of re-
formers on the ticket OF the unCo good parties.
1t you gentlemen think that it will serve
public interest TO republish the list referred
10. | hope you will do SO.
A reader of the DEMOCRAT.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30
REGISTER!
REGISTER!
REGISTERg
-R-EGTSTEIR7
Every Democrat Must Registerg
MUST HAVE NEW PAPERS!
MUST HAVE NEW PAPERS!
HDEsz OCRATIC- CONS sERvATHvE PARTY
OF LOUISIANA.

EsEH sERvATHVE PARTY
OF LOUISIANA.
Rooms COMMITTEE on REGISTRATION
and Election State Central Committee, |
No 100 Customhouse street,
New Orleans, September 10, 1878,
To Democratic Conservative voters:
You are AGAIN CALLED upon to REGISTER
and you are earnestly requested to EXERT
YOURSELVES. and use every effort In your
power TO HAVE EVERY DEMOCRATIC and
Conservative VOTER In the city and State
REGISTERED to again defeat our common
enemy.
/. Your OLD CERTIFICATES OF registration
CANNOT BE USED for the coming election
O. EVERY VOTER MUST HAVE NEW Pa
PERS.
8. NATURALTZED CITIZENS MUST BRING
their NATURALIZATTON PAPERS. so ag to
avoid any Inconvenience In being registered.
A. REGISTER AT ONCE. Do not wait until
the LAST DAY, when the offices will be-
CROWDED.
8. ALI REGISTRATION OFFICES WILL
CLOSE on tho TWENTY FIRST of OCTOBER,
REGISTRATION OFFICES.
,u First Ward-No. 1872 Annunciation. between
Toerpsichorr,e and Robin street.
DeIord and st. joseph streets.
Third Ward-Corner Of Common and Robert
Fourth Ward-Rampart. corner Of Contf
street.
Fifth Ward-Rampart corner Of st. Ann
street. N
Sixth Ward-No. 139 Hospital, near Burgundy
street.
Seventh Ward-Corner of Laharpe street and
Gentiy Road.
Eighth Ward-Corner Of Greatnen and Poet
streets.
Ninth Ward-Corner Of Greatmen and TlE1ra
streets, i
Tenth Ward-Corner Of Jackson and Maga-
zine streets.
Eleventh Ward-Corner Washington and Mag
azlne streets.
Twelfth Ward-At the Market-house.
Thirteenth Ward-Corner Of Napoleon Ave-
nue and st. Charles street.
Fourteenth Ward-Magazine, between Peters
Avenue and Octavia street.
Fifteenth Ward-At the Algfers courthouse,
Sixteenth Ward-CouTt- house..
Seventeenth Ward-Corner Of Second and
Jefferson streets.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30
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Having the largest stock and most varied as
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Successor to Robt. J. Harp, Agent Book and
Stationery Depot, No. 112 Camp street near
POydras, Oc2o IF
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30

In the present state of politics. when brothers
are arrnyed against brothers and well mea1ing
their feet or perambuate on their heads, It is
soothing acknowledgements Staub at Goldthwaite's
bookstore on. Exchange Alley. near Canal
street and lind consolation in his numerous
newspapers and periodicals
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30

AS n cure for yellow fever convaescents the
oyster Is known to be supreme: as q treat for
we'll people 1t has no equal. But when those
sumo oysters are steamed under the scientific
care Of Jules cook, then you cannot leave the
Oyster Bay. No. II Royal stree, without bsiev-
ing that there Is still something worth living
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30
NEW ORLEANS INSTITUTE.
SELECT SCHOOL FOR BOYS.

SEAENA 5VEUUGx FUR BOYS.
H3s .CmiAiDpe street. .E9s
Between Camp and Magazine.)
Annual session will begin MONDAY, Novem-
ber 4. Academic. Preparatory and Primary
Glasses will be In charge Of able and expe-
rienced teachers. Only limited number Of
pupils will be received.
For circulars and all necessary information,
apply TO
OC2O 1y A. 3. CHANDLER Princfnal
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30
ROOMS RELIEF COMMITTEE
LOUISIANA DIVISION, ARMY OF TEN
NEsSEE.
R2O COMMON STREET.

H1W UUM MUM STREET.
This Committee meets on Mondays. Wedneg-
ddys and Fridays. at 10 o'clock o. m, and ig
composed ta follows:
Chairman-AUG GUSTUB REICHARD. 188 Com
mon street.
First Distrct-G. A. WILLIAMS. 1874 Gravier
street.
Second District--FRANK HEBRON. corner
Canal and Basin streets.
Third District-VICTOR OLIVIER, corner of
Esplhnade and johnson streets, or 14O Gravier.
Fourth District-ISAACS SCH ERCK, 235 Ghost
nut, or IT Carondeet street.
Fifth District-H. N. JENKINS. 27 Commercial
Alley.
Sixth District-F. L. RICHARDSON. corner
Louisiana Avenue and st. Charles, or 81 Camp
street,
Seventh District. A. CHALARON. at New
Orleans Insurance Company. corner Canal and
Camp streets.
BY calling on the Member or the Sub Commit
tee of their district. applicants for relief will
meet with prompt attention. oc17t31
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30
HEADQUARTERS LADIES' PEABODY
Auxiliary Association.
New Orleans. October e. 1878. J
LADIES' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,


MRS JOHN B. LAFITTE Chairman.
First Distric-Mrs. w. G. BLACK
Second Dtstrict-Mrs. ). ?. SARRAZIN.
Third Dstrict-Mrs. j. T. GIRAULT.
Fourth District-Mrs. W. T. HARDIE.
Fifth District-Mrs. A. HIRSCH.
Sixth District-Mrs J. TARLETON.
Seventh District Miss H. DEEVES.
All applications for assistance to the Ladies'
Executive Committee must be made In writing,
giving the district In which the applicant re-
sides; also. street and number of residence.
These applications shall be made through the
Postoffice. which shall be directed as follows.
For First District-Poetoffice box 1853.
For second District-Postoffice box 800,
For Third District-Postoffice box 3l2.
For Fourth District-Postoffice box 381.
For Fifth Dstrct-Postoffice box AL
For Sixth District-Postoff1ce box 473
For Seventh District-Postofce box 49,
All such applications will receive prompt Ut
tention. No calls or applications at head1uar-
ters or the private residences Of the members
Of the association will be received or enter
tanned.
oc22 i'm SAM'L CARTER, Secretary
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30
RELIEF ASSOCIATION

Rooms NO. H3Z Canal Street.
This Association having extended its facilities
for rendering aid to thesick, offer their services
to any who desire medical treatment and care.
Application made to the above address. or to
any of the undersigned officers. will receive
prompt and efficient attention.
ALBERT VOORHIES, President
J. G. BELDEN, NJ D.,
A. BID. VILLENEU We. NJ. D.,
Vice Presidents.
@. G. FISHER Secretary.
H. L. STEVENSON. Treasurer.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-30

W. A. ROBERTSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
OPELOUsAss
Parish OF Ht. Landry
ALI business entruste to me will be promptly
attended to- uystS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-07

In round numbers. adding the estimated
finds in private banks, it is safe to say that
there are to-day f300,000,000 sterling ($1,-
100000, 000) on deposit in London in these
receptacles alone, drawing very small inter-
ests, which, with better times and honest
dealing, might be attracted to the United
States, where all sides agree there is n ore
stability in the government and fairer pros
poets for investment.
Another instance: A few evenings ago
was invited by ''the president and council of
the statistical society," to hear Mr.. Robert
Griffin read a paper on the Recent Accumu-
lations of Capital III the United Kingdom"
William Shaw Lefevre, M. p, in the chair.
A number of persons took part in the dis
e,lania.a altar the lecture, which was very
able. A few of the facts may serve to
strengthen my position:
1t appeared that the growth of those ac-
cumulations had been very rapid. The in
come tax returns showed that the gross in
come assessed in Great Britain, from f115,-
100000 at the beginning of the century, rose
to 9130,000,0O0 in 1915, $151, 900, 900 in
1843, and e262,000,000 in 1852; and then,
in the United Kingdom, from e308,000,000
in 1856. to 1886, 100000 in 1866, and f571,
100000 in 1875. If the capital of that por-
ton of the income derived from capital had
only progressed at the same rate, the an
nual increase of capital all through, and es-
pecially of recent years, must have been
enormous. The increase in the income as
sessed between 1866 and 1875 amounted to
$175, 100000 which was equal to forty
four per cent. of the income assessed In
1865. Leaving out altogether the capital
not yielding income, a similar increase of
capital, assuming the present amount to be
what he had stated, would give US from 1865
total capital of about Is, 100000, 900, on
which the increase of forty-four per cent.
would be &c, 228 100000; or in round figures
e230, 100000 per annum. The foreign in
vestments, though they were very large in
the years before 1876, by no means the chief
part of the national accumulations. Our
main savings were at home. Before the ma
ton could be said to be living on its
capital, it must be shown that
not only was capital being called
in from abroad, but that more was so called
in than was being simultaneously invested at
home. He had not seen this point consider
ed by any of those who had made suggestions
that the nation was living on its capital.
Here you have two proofs. out of many,
of the enormous internal riches of England
in mere money. Fifteen hundred millions
of dollars in the public and private banks,
drawing little, and some of it no interest,
and a recent annual accumulation of over
So, 1000, 100000. j. w. FoRNEY.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-07
Escape of a Kansas inlet.

G. G. Scrafford, the first American ez-
tradited from Peru, under the existing treaty,
accused of forging school bonds in Kansas,
arrived at Panama under guard, en- route for
New York, the Goth ult., but was set at liberty
by the Panama government. The president,
in letter to the United States consul eX-
planning his action, says Whatever be the
degree of C. G. Scrafford's guilt as an alleged
forger, given up by the Peruvian government
in compliance with the extradition treaty,
this man cannot be allowed to remain in prison
or under arrest on Colombian territory or
within Colombian waters, since no treaty for
extradlfion of criminals has been celebrated
between our republic and the North American
Union, and such an act would be in violation
of established rules governing such cases I'M
der international laws.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-07
How DeI0s Lost His Scalp.

/ know'd Just as well as know'd any
thing that my hair was goin' to be raj led
in less n two seconds unless some Of the
boys seen my fix and made the devil a
present o. that Injin. | heerd some o.
the boys give shout, an knew by
scatterin' 'mong the squaws and young
ones that some o. 'em were comm.
heerd shot and yell, and the squaw
that yanked me down fell dead with half
her body on me. The big Injin was
game anyhow. He kicked the dead
squaw off o. me, and then set one o. his
feet on my chest. The numb feelin' had
almost left me, and could see the fringe
on the leggings of the Injin. 1 know'd
what he was after, and if ever man
cussed and swore to hisself, that man was
me, because none o. the boys seemed to
get there, nor to shoot. Two o. the
soldiers war comm for me all the time.
but the business was done so quick that
they didn't have time to shoot again
after KILN the squaw, till the thing was
over; but it seemed morn a week to me.
The Injun bent down quick and grab
bed me by the scalp-lock. Lord how he
jerked / shut my eyes. Then it felt as
if some one had ripped cash with a
dull pair of sciZZors all round the top OF
my head and then poured ladlefull OF
hot lead onto it. A flash of the awfrlest.
sharpest pain that can be imagined ran
all through me, clean to the end o. my
toes Then it seemed as if horse were
hitched to my hair and he was struck
with whip, give a sudden spring, an
tore the top o my head off from side to
side. l could feel my knees draw up
and my hands go shut and grab in the
snow, and set my nails clean into the
flesh. The sensation was jest as if from
the top of my head there had run cords
down through my body, which were fast
ened in my flesh all along, and that these
had all tore loose from my toes up, and
followed the top o. my head when it was
jerked off. | knowed | were scalped,
and that were all l knowed for three
days.
About the time | lost my hair the cav
" came up, and the Injin was licked, and
there wasn't m any of 'em got away. The
boys who seen the Iniin scalp me said
they killed him, but if they did they did
mt get my scalp back. 1t mought a got
lost in the snow, though. They sent me
to Laramie, an for four or five weeks |
had little the sorest head that ever set
on mans shoulders. They let me come
East to get sound, and I've sence been
hon ably discharged, the COMMENT sayin'
that man that had been scalped once.
by the Ieiins had done all that could nat.
rally be expected of him for his country.
I'm itchin', though, to get out 'mong
them dirty Nez Purses. They's one
thing certain, the devils can't get any
morescalp out O me if they ever have a
chance.