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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14
THE PARISH COMMITTEE.

The action OF the Parish Committee Of the
Conservative party In adopting
the rules and regulations recommended by
the association OF Democratic Conservativ
citizens, with such notifications rs appear
to be absolutely essential to the preservation
OF the party organization, will be approved
by all right-thinkiDg citizens. and should be
received by the gentlemen who have made
complaint as an earnest OF the desire OF the
committee to secure unity and provide for q
fair election.
Let Demoeratic-C Conservative citizens now
cease pickering, and select as delegates to
the Baton Rouge convention men or ability
and firmness, and for officers OF the local or
ganiz alton choose men OF such character and
standing as will secure fair play. It will be q
shame for Louisiana TO follow In the wake OF
New York
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14

Congressman Blackburn furnishes the latest
testimony going to show the physical &C.
tivity Of the paralytlc Mr.. Tilden. whom both
Cyrus w. Field and John Kelly have recently
found not to be exactly In state Of mental
fnbeciIity. Mr.. Blackburn recently visited
the statesman OF Gramercy Park at his
country residence near Yonkers, and saw him
spring lightly up several flights Of steps,
leading the way to the observatory at the top
Or the building, from whence there Is a fine
view Of the surrounding country. The Ken
tuckian left Graystone profoundly impressed
with the belief that there are several years OF
life remaining In Mr.. TIdens body, and that
those who calculate on stopping Into his po-
litIcal shoes are nursing hopes that will be
disappointed "55@ =.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14

As an example Of newspaper enterprise the
Shreveport Times. Of the seventh instant, is q
model. La that issue our Shreveport con
temporary gives D full and exhaustive re-
view Of the commerce Of Shreveport, cover
Ing sixteen long columns gifts weekly size.
This review Is as comprehensive as those pre-
serted by the New Orleans papers, and fur
nishes a gratifying exhibit of the trade and
prosperity Of Shreveport. Such enterprise
and vigorous journalism, SO rare In the South,
deserves the highest commentator, and such
ID paper should receive liberal patronage
from the people 1t SO well and faithfully
serves. We are not only gratitied to see this
splendid piece Of journalism on the part OF the
Shreveport Tlmes-we are also delighted to
note the continued prosperity Of the second
city Of commercial importance in louisiana
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14

The fall In Panama railroad shares Is ex-
planned. A Massachusetts man has secured
from the Mexican government the right Of
way and the promise of q subsidy Of S12,00
d mile for the construction of railroad
across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. The line
will not only be an important rival to the
Panama Railroad and OF great advantage to
Mexico, commercially and politically, but
must Of necessity be OF benefit to New
Orleans. A canal would serve our purpose
better, II IS true; yet tho projected railroad
cannot fall to improve the commanding COM
mercial position Of this city and add mate
rally to the volume Of It's trade.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14

Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines proposes to work
out d reform that will be beneficial to the en-
tlre countryside reform OF Congressman.
Her method is somewhat novel, but 1t will
probably prove effective. 1t is, In brief. to
build a large family hotel, where the accommo-
dations and prices will besuch that Congress-
man will have no longer an excuse for not tax
Ing his family with him TO Washington. Thus
accompanied and watched over, Mrs. Gaines
believes that there would speedily be- an i'm
provement In the moral tone Of the average
member. The experiment will be watched
with interest.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14

rendered it possible to place within reach Of
The poorest mechanics and laborers beautiful
works OF art, which ought to be designed to
cultivate, refine and elevate. the popular mind,
have been basey perverted, and are now to
be cassed as perhaps the most powerful
agency In the corruption and debasement Of
the public taste and morals. At every book
store and ut every news stand are Haunted
papers In which female figures with distorted
limbs In attitudes designed to be voIuptu-
Gus, constitute the leading and only attract
I've features. For the pictoiia1s devoted to
| legitimate art there Is comparatively little
demand. But for the papers with "leg pic
lures" there Ia an Unsuitable and increasing
demand. No one can doubt that such papers
tend to excite prurient Imagination and to
lower the moral sense Of those who feast upon
them.
| The same may be said relative to the thea
ire, where fine legs are in more demand than
true hstriOnle genius, where q lavish expo
sure Of person Is more popular than the finest
| acting. The eonseg renee Of all this is that
the moral tone and intellectual plane OF society
have declined with the spread Of the very
| agencies and influences we have been disposed
to look upon as the most conservative benefi-
| cent and elevatlne.
Surely this condition OF things appeals to
the leaders OF society, to our teachers, minis
ters and public men, to apply q remedy, or at
least to seek to cultivate a feeling In society
hostile to these aggressive and now deeply
| rooted evils.
Perhaps this may sound Quixotic; perhaps
1t Is Quixotie Sensatlonalism Is thoroughly
organized and Its march Is progressive It
has enlisted on It's side the press, cheap liter
allure, cheap art, and also, to q certain extent,
the pulpit itself. But truth is invncible and
wherever 1t displays It's banner 1t ultimately
triumphs. Had not this been the case law, re-
liglon, civilization, liberty. in short, all that
is true, good and beautiful In the world would
have long since been overwhelmed In the
darkness Of vice. tyranny and gross infidelity
In an hour or leisure We have ventured has
tiy to touch upon this great social question !,
O question which should concern every good
citizen, every father and every mother, as 1t
touches the moral and intellectual tendencies
OF our civilization, and the characters es-
pecialiy OF our youth. II we may venture to
express an opinion upon SO high aquestion.
we would say that no loftier, nobler or more
practical subject could occupy the attention
OF the Christian ministry OF New Orleans
than crusade to resist the spirit of sensa-
tionalism among orr people, q people now,
happily freezer from It's pernicious influences
than those OF any other city In the Union.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14
THE EVIL OF THE DAY.

Ii we were called upon to designate that
evil In our civilization most perniciods to
public morality we should say it was sensa-
tionalism. There Is, perhaps, not an intelli-
gent man Ia the United States, who has
reached q mature age, who cannot draw dis
tinct parallel between the staid, indeed, we
may say, elevated tendency of public senti-
ment which prevailed in his youth with the
wild, brutal and often indecent characteris-
tics OF 1t to-day.
And yet, strange to say, we find no real,
earnest, organized effort to counterfeit the de-
basing agencies which are at work among us
and which are constantly appealing to the
imagination OF youth and the vicious inclina-
lions OF that great mass Of mankind who
move upon al intellectual, moral and social
plane 50 easily reached by the sensationalist
1t Is the boast OF our civilization that
we have free press, a free church and free
school system. But do these mighty agencies
follow the bent and prey upon society, or do
they influence, guide and control it2 Weshall
not attempt to answer this grave question de-
cidedly. But we cannot hesitate to express
the belief that they have not fulfilled their
whole duty to modern civilization.
"a large anu mllueutlal pOrtlOn Oh the press,
indeed, has become an instrument for the cul-
tivation and dissemination or sensationalism,
Of all that is wicked, debasing, horrible and
disgusting, and, instead Of seeking to elevate
the moral tone Of society, it casts lead line
to find the lower depths OF human thought
and sentiment, and taste, and feeling, and
into that depth it sends its busy workers,
and to suit the thought and sentiment and
taste and feeling OF that depth, it gathers its
news and shapes its utterances; and, instead
0. seeking to lift up the lower, it's efforts tend
to drag down the higher.
Literature has been enlisted Ia the same
work. The cheap novels, filled with maudliE
sentiment, with immortality dressed out in
the tinseled drapery Of a taWdry rhetoric.
finds its way into every class OF the commu-
nifty and into the hands Of all ages and sexes.
and the natural purity Of youth is stained
with vicious ideas, and the Imagination of
mature minds given a prurient and morbid
tendency.
Ihe Inventions and discoveries which have
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14
Some ii the Northern evening papers made

Some OF tie NOrthern evening papers made
!, curious mistake apropos Of the late New
York Democratic convention and its nomina-
ton for Governor. They received the news
In the evening which gave an account Of the
informal nomination Of Jacobs for Governor,
and nothing of the reconsideration OF this &C.
tion by the convention and the nomination of
hooinson. On the basis of this news they
broke out in fierce denuncations OF Gov. Rob-
shson. This Is how the st. Louis Post Dis
1adtch shrieked: .Tilden Doomed-The New
aorK Democracy Defeat Lucius Robinson,
~ 49, - 49,. .-~----.--s, vl4.. .0a I4c.v13-
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14

No less than A39,oOO Of the men who voted
In New York for Hayes In 1876 stayed away
from the Republican primaries the other day,
ut which delegates to the Saratoga oonven-
ton were elected. The natural inference is
that they are not at all satlsiied with the cap
tlre or the Republican pnrtv hv Conkling
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14

II Is now understood that Wee President
Wheeler has senatorial aspirations. This Is
perhaps the reason that he consented to play
second fiddle to Uonkling.at Saratoga, by ap-
pearlng In the latter's Republican convention.
He wanted people to know that he still lived.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 1879.

The Only Dismal Ruin Being TO Tilden and
Robinson" The Post Dispatch was some
what premature In its howls, and will be-
compelled to apologize to It's readers for lts
previouEness.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14
Gentlemen's Colored Shirts.

VFJTENFHFII VU1UTFU 5UTTFSs
lot Of 75c, 81. 81 Is md 81 so last years goods
reduced to zoe each
Another lot Of better goods and better styles all
put at one price-s1 10 each.
Some good styles Of COLORED ALL LINEN
SHIRTS In stock at cost. q rs each, former
price $40 per dozen.
all linen. WHITE SHIRTS. nicely made and
styfish. at 80 rs each. regular price s42 per
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14
DIED.

NOTION Friday September 10, 1879. Mt /
o'clock .. M. ut Fontainehleau Plantation. par
ish Of st; Tamnony, infant snn Of g. w Mott
and Kate Kennedy, aged ,nr wet ks.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14
WHITE SHIRTS.
READY FOR INSTANT Use.

w II II SHIRIS.
READY FOR INSTANT USE.
All Sizes-13 to Is Neck.
LOT G1o-A good OPEN back SH IRT, linen trim
mngs. With cuffs. properly finished, re-
duead to rs cents each.
LOT G-Our regular ONE DOLLAR SHIRT.
the be- t value In New Orleans mt that price,
rgdueed 10 30 cents zach.
LOT A Wemsntta COTTON BODY with or
Without cuffs. open back II good serviceable
shirt. at 81 20 each.
LOT L-Sams style. body Of New York Mills, a
shirt OF best materials and make reduced
LOT ia stylish CORDED SHIRT, well
known TO our customers. regular price
81 Is, nov Fl 60.
LOT 2l2-Also well known PLAIN BOSOM,
open front, with fly. regular price 81 %. now
81 IL.
LoF 1.-TWO PLAITs, open front and but.
tons. Without collar, agood shirt. price 81 75
now 81 45.
LOT I'll Much the sumo SHIRT MS 76. only
long bosom. collars attached. regular price
81 Is now 81 So
LOT 425-TWO AND THREE PLAITS extrs
long bosom. open front with buttons and
fly no collars. reRUlar price 81 81, now 81 60
LOT 415-zehma SHIRT extra long bosofns. two
aud three plait-. With collars attached rsgu
lar price 81 50, row " Is
LOT 675-TWO hNb THREE PIAJTS, axtrP
long bes ON and fly best shirt 1uade. no col
,ara. regular price 81 rs. now e.
LOT 675-Same SHIRT uohing better can be
made. collars attached regular price 3d.
now reduced to 81 70.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14
THE DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION.

Thirteen years Of State and city govern
ment under the new constitution cannot cost
Louisiana more, On the assessment Of 1879,
than
State government .............. $40. 40e, 600 90
City government ......... 21,700, 900 90
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S3A, oO,0O0 %
Difference To the credit Of the Democratic
Conservative party, STA 91n,6H "a.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14
SHEET

TEE REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION.
Thirteen years State and city government
has cost Louisiana In direct taxation
State government. .....-....... $50, 530, 7tS 63
City government. ......,..... 5S,479,925 G1
Total Observation-Disclosures. 500 01O, GA "a
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-14

-
Ladies' Dressing SaeQues at 75c, formsyss
81 %. IS
LADIES' well made Skirts and tTeks nj ~
Ladies' one founced Tucked Skirts at 50c IN
Iadf"s' one fpunced 14-tacked Skirt Mt 3Sc a
One nounc ID Embroidered Skirt at u.
Embroidered Skirt Mt Vt Is
We l-Lasde Ladies' Chefnises at 25c.
Ladies' Corded Chsmises at CSC.
Ladise' Embroidered Chemises. with insert
tn1 st 75c.
Ladies' hand-work Embroidered Chemisee 4
81 %
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-17

Who can tell what day or an hour NAV
bring forth? Loyalty to tie Lost Cause
is now one of the necessary qualifications
for any office within the gift Of the Demo-
cratic Congress. The Senate vies with the
of the late Benedict Arnold, how thou art
glorifed Now let thy epitsph he written,
since 10y atty hiss been made odious. The
Confederate Brigadiers have captured the
Capitol, and are engaged in the work of re-
constructing the Union according to the
State rights view, for which they fit" bled
and died. Laws obnoxious to the heroes
OF secession must and shall be repealed,
by god, sah.' 1t msy come to this. that
appropriation bills will be saddled with an
oath Of office appropriate to the policy Of
Congress, like the following:
/. A. B., solemnly swear, by God, sab I.
that hsve never voluntarily borne arms
against the Confederate States of America
while was a citizen thereof; that | have
voluntarily given 10 aid, countenance,
counsel or encouragement 70 persoDs en-
gagged in armed hostility thereto; that /
nave never sought, nor accepted, nor at
tempted TO exercise the functions of any
office whstever, under any authority or
pretended authority in hostility to the Con-
federate Ststes; that have not yielded
voluntary support to any pretended gov
eminent authority, where it does not
conflict with the principles for
which fit, bled and died; that
after the superior allegiance which l
owe TO my State, / will bear true faith and
allegiance to the United States while my
party is in power; that take this obliea-
tion freely, without any mental reservation
or purpose of evasion; and that will we'll
and truly hold the office which l am about
to enter, and draw the salary thereof a.
frequently as possibly, 60 help me God,
sab,
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-17
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. rIv.

The 18th of next September Will be the
25th anniversary of the settlement of the
Territory OF Kansas, and it is proposed to
celebrate the event in a becoming manner
at the city of Lawrence. Rev. Edward Ev-
erett Hale and Hon. Eli Thayer have al
ready signified their intention to be pres
ent, aud the poet Whittier, Henry Ward
Beecher. Secretaries Sherman and Eysrts,
Amos Lawrence, Wendell Phillips and
many other active friends OF "Free X snsas"
will be invited. Such a celebration should
be entered into heartily by the people Of
the whole State. 1t will be interesting to
the old settlers TO come together in State
reunion, and talk over the times
that tried mems souls, and
it will be good for the newcomers 10 be
there and learn what had to be oontended
with and injured by the men who made
Kansas free. And Lawrence Is the proper
place for such celebration. Her name is
written in blood and fire upon every psse
Of the history of the Territory. and is cher
ished by every ''free Sta'e" man in the
State or nation. Let the celebration he one
worthy of the kans-s of to-day.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-17
JUST ALITTLE OFF.

1t is an open secret that Mr.. Lesate's visit
TO Washington is 10 demand of Senator
ingalls, the Postmastership at Leavenworth.
Anthony's resignation was placed in the
hands OF Ingalls,, pending the Senatorial
contest, and 1t is said that Legate's sudden
about face" was caused by nibble of tine
tempting bait, and the promise of perma-
nent Postofiice diet. But Anthony is a hard
nan TO put out, and Ingalls, finds himself
between two fires, and each contestant hav-
ing control Of newspaper, and "both
daily ''-Ranscs CITY Times.
The above probably contains the usual
number Of falsehoods which the limited
space Of the article from cur namesake ad-
mits Of. Anthony's resignation was Fever
asked for by Senator Ingalls, or any one
else, and it was never given TO him or any
other person. Legate's "about face" was
not caused by a nibbIe at the Pest office
"bait" lie probably could not longer
stand association with the rotten Egg-ers,
Stunbaugh's and other lousy lepers who
infested the late Legislature
Mr.. Legate has made no demand on Sem
ator Ingalls, or any one Of the delegation
OF anybody else for the Post-office, and
what is more he won't.
The delegation we are happy to say, are
united in their friendship toward the
present occupant, and favor his retention
in office.
The relations existing between Senator
ingalls,, Legste and Anthony are all, so
lar as We know, of friendly character.
Postmaster seldom die and never resign.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-17

MARIA, April 10th, 1879.
EDITOR TIMEs:-The Glenwood League
for the suppression or suspension of horse
thieves held its regular quarterly meeting
al Glenwot school house on the 81 int
About two hundred OF the grisly farmers
were present Some new members were
admitted. 1t was thought advisable, how
ever, owing to the number that sought ad-
mission, to designate certain definite boun.
dsries, ard receive no persons outside OF
such. This will have a tendency to create
imilar organizations in other townships.
Although tire late rains helped the wheat
crop considerably it sill looks anything but
encouraging. In this vicinity, at lest, the
average crop ia not within the bounds OF
possibility. The dry weather did not dam
sge the crop 10 any msterisl extent. 1t
was the severe frosts Of the nights Of the 1st
and 2nd of April that did the irrevocable
mischief.
The sulky plows are going, but the seat
ia usually vacant, as the farmer finds il bet
yer for the state OF his blood to take it on
foot. Farmers have all got the blues. and
would knock down any man who would
talk Of more than twenty-five cents on the
dollar for the bond holder. E.O.C.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-17
HARD TIMES IN ENGLAND.

Hardly day passes without bringing
news OF fresh troubles in the mining or
manufacturing centres Of England. Com
mercisl depression compels capital to re-
duce wages, or to refuse return to the old
schedules, and the working people cry out
in distress. The number of laborers now
on strikes is counted by thousands. Many
have Of late yielded to the inevitable and
given up the struggle against employers,
yet not only are their places in the ranks OF
the idle filed by others, but the great army
of the uniortunates and helpless constantly
becomes larger. The gravity of the situa
ton ls fully appreciated in England. There
10 an unparalleled depression in all branches
Of industry and commerce. The prospect
Of change for the better is not encoursg.
ing. These labor troubles are the necessary
result of this depression, and will continue
until productive capital hss assursuces, at
least, OF better times.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-17
THE GRANT MOVEMENT.

We direct attention TO the leading edi-
torial OF the New York Times, of Sunday
morning last, entitled, 'The Cry for Grant"
and copied elsewhere in our columns this
morning. The Times an anti-Grant pa
per. Ii made a canvass OF the country, a
short time since, on the Presidential ques-
ton, for the purpose Of obtaining correct
report Of the sentiment Of the Republican
party upon this subject The result of its
efforts was given in full report published
last Thursday morning, ard from which it
appeared that Republican sentiment was
Overwhelmingly in favor Of General Grant
as the next candidate for the Presidency
The Tmes frankly admits that,
while it may have anticipated
this verdict it did nothing TO prompt il,
and that however natural it msy regard it,
under existing political conditions, it does
not welcome it with any particular salts
faction. These facts, together with others
set forth in the article which We copy this
morning, gives great additional weight to the
conclusions which The TINES arrives at from
It's csnvass, because they show that while
that journal prefers another man, it is con-
WINGED By a careful measurement of public
opinion, that the Republicans of the
prefer General Grant-that the
verdict ia not prompted by the machina-
tons of office holders or office seekers, but
is frank snd Spontaneous uttersnce Of the
rough common sense Of the nennle.n