The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-11-20
ABOUT HOME.

memory and hallowed associations
and has proved our salvation; and
thanks, everlasting thanks to The
Board of Aldermen Of the Town OIL
Alexandria who led trumps in this
sanitary initiation, and were Gallant
ly followed by the Police Jury of ou1
Parish, and their creation, the Board
of Health. One and all have been
faithful sentinels on the watch towers
of safety and security for their peo'
pie, and the DEMOCRAT thanks and
blesses them all for faithful and
strict performance of duty.
This removal, this opening OF
trade, dates since midnight Of the
18th, and has indeed ratified of with
a briskness and liveliness unprece-
denied in these parts. The Pool IL
ners were ON time at the tap Of the
drum, and their first entry, the pref
ty Bonnie Lee, touched the big Town
Wharf in two minutes after the open
ing, put out her freight and turned
her PROV back down stream in few
hours. This first item we only
learn through rumor, for she left US
no remembrance of her first arrival,
after the Quarantine war, and thus
failed to receive the first tip of our
new, democratic beaver, which was,
however, reserved and most gracious
ly tipped to the second arrival, the
W. j. Behan, whose handsome and
accomplished chief-clerk, W. H. Nc
Chesney, fairly won this honor by
showering on US huge package of
late papers from the four corners of
this Democratic Union.
The Behan went up as high as Col
fax, and took down all the freight
she wanted and could get out safely
with.
Old Fred, now that her "mark
twain depth is wanted, is really in a
sad navigable condition, several bars
below this point have only two feet
scant, and thus the rushing up Pool
Liners, for few weeks at least till
they stir the bottom up, will have a
hard time of it.
And the Silver City light draught
but big carrier boat of the Pool-Line,
was the third arrival this season.
She reached here on Sunday, with a
fair freight, and returned Tuesday
with all she wanted. Her clerk,
Billy Quicksall, slightly remembered
this office.
Our mails are yet out of tune, and
are far from being reconstructed on
a connection basis, though they had
three months easy time and rest of
it during quarantine days, and
though charitably inclined and len
iently disposed to Uncle Sans con-
tractors and stagers, still we must
file our protest against their tardi.
ness in coming to accustomed time,
and bringing the mail. The Shreye-
port line, for the present, we must
rest contented in asserting, that it
can't get worse and needs reform aw-
fully and that at once. But our all
important mail, the Red River mail,
connecting at the Mouth with the
three finest and fastest and most reg
ular steamboats, in the world, is far
from being what it should be, and
there can be no excuse for its thrice
repeated failures to bring the paper
mail recently, and we warn them that
this failure must not be repeated too
often. There is no excuse for it and
some one is surely to blame for it,
and criminally to blame at that.
What we complain of, and the public
complain of it too, is the mysterious
manner the mails that reached here
on Thursday and Saturday last
brought the letter bags due and the
paper bags were left behind, and only
were brought here 4S hours after
due. In plain words, New Orleans
papers of Tuesday we're due here in
Thursdays mail, but only reached
here on Saturday, AZ hours behind
time, though the letter bag leaving
New Orleans at the same time
reached here in time on the proper
day. The same with the paper mail
due here on Saturday, it too being
4s hours on the road, picking OF
resting, and only reached here Mon
day, 4S hours behind its travelling
companion, the letter mail. En- pas
SAINT, our old friend, B. B. Simms, is
now U. S. Route Agent, and in the
name of our community, we ask Post
Master Badger, Of New Orleans, tc
dispatch the General here, let him