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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-01-22

year. a
The
d;scu ssions
Of the press,
the debates and acts
Of Congress, and the ,
movements of the leaders in
every section of the Republic
will have direct bearing on the Pres
idential election Of l680-an event
which must be regarded with
the most anxious interest by
every patriotic Amer
lean, whatever hispO-
litical ides or
allie G lance.
To-
these
elements OF interest may te added the
probability that the Democrats will
control both Houses of Congress, the
increasing feebleness of the fraudulent
Administration, and the spread and
strengthening everywhere of a healthy
adherence of fraud in any form. Tc
present with accuracy aud clearness
the
exact
situation
in each of
it's varying
phases, and to
exponnd, accord
ing to its we'll known methods, til,
principles that
should guide US
through the
labyrinth
will be
an inn
pOr-
tant part of the SUMS work for 1879
We have the means of making tin
SUN, as political, literary and
general newspaper, more entertaining
and more USEFUL than ever before
and we mean to apply them freely
, 1879-03-08
rms WORLD Is FILL Of rr.rrx

There lives voice within me, a pues, .anoaJ ..
my heart, e'' VI
And its sweet hspings win me. til, the t..-s
trembling start;
Up evermore it springeth, like some map;,
melody,
And evermore it singeth this sweet son, n
This world is full of beauty, as other world,
above; WI '''
And if we did our duty, it might be full o
Nights starry TENDERNESS dover with c,o-,
evermore,
Morn's budding, bright, melodious hour come.
sweetly as of yore;
But there be million hears accurst, where n,
sweet sunbursts shine.
And there I've million hearts athirst for Is,ve's
immortal wine.
This world is full of beauty, as other world.
above;
And, if we did ous duty, it might be full OF
love.
If faith, and hope, and kindness pass-d IS coin,
twixt heart and heart;
How, thro the eyes tear-bIindness. shoai,I the
sudden soul upstart.
The dreaiy, dim, and desolate, should wear 4
sunny bloom,
And Love should spring from buried Hate, like
flowers Der Winters tomb.
This world is full of beauty, a. other worlds
above;
And, if we did orr duty, it might be fall oi
love.
Were truth our uttered language, Angels might
talk with men,
And God ilumined earth should see the Golden
Age again;
The lorthen'd Il heart sbouIJ So,r :, ,,,;r.l III,
Morns young prophe,-lark,
And Misery's last tear wept on earth. ouench
Helis last GINNING spark
For this world is full OF beauty, as other worlds
above;
And, if we did our duty. it might be full of
love.
Lo. plenty ripens round us, Yet awakes the
cry for bread.
The millions sill are toiling, crusht, and clad
in rays unfed:
While sunny hills aud valleys richly blush with
fruit and grain,
Bat the paupers in the palace rob their toiliny
fellaw men.
This world is full Of beauty. as other worlds
above;
And, ii We did our duty, it might be full Of
love.
Dear Col. what hosts are irampled mid this
khiihS CRUSH ior -1Oiu-
What noble hearts are sapp'd of love, what
spirits lose lies hold
Yet merry world it might he. opalent Tor all,
and aye.
With its lands that ask for labar, and its wealth
that wastes away.
This world is full of beauty, as other worlds
aSare:
And, if We did our duty, it might he full of
lGvc.
The leaf Tongues # The forest, and the fiow'r
lips of the sod -
Ti- happy BIRDS that bymn their rspturcs in
the ear OF God
TIE summer wind that brinseth music over
land and sea,
Have each voice that singeth this sweet song
u SONGS to me-
This world Is full If he:Uly, rs other worlds
above:
And, If we dii nur duty, It night be full Of
, 1879-03-08


-. d nghter; but our columns
s,v open for those who wish to give 'So:snd
so fits, II they will sign their names to the
articles v That shuts them up tighter than
canned salmon.
"Now is the winter of cur discomfort.
We have had enough of the beautiful Snow.
What We banker after now IS the song Oi
the robin, the sunshine and the flowers.
when the springtime comes, gentle An
ME If We are going to have Gny-we Will
put away our great big ulster, and dust
our last summer duster, if We can ind II
sHHl-meI.
From the British feet in eastern waters
4 young miisbipman went ogt to JOIN his
ship. commanded by gallant officer, other
wise 4 Don. He was met on deck by the
captain, who said: Swell, youngster, 81
you've come to JOIN u.s. suppose it's the
old story-the fool of the family, eh2 Haw,
haw,," TO which the mildly replied, in a
squeaky voice: ''Oh, no, sir; it's all changed
since your day" Exit captain
What said young lady to . sister
companion, a you are not going to marry
that tall, lean, slender, consumptive-strick
the young lady's little brother. looking up
from his broken cart wheel shes going to
marry him and use him for a carpet stretcher. "
The boy and the cart Shea. passed out
through the same door.
my dear Hayes" whispered Stanley
Matthews the other day, with tears IN his
eyes, ''you are good man, you are Chris
tian, and if ever you become an angel and
] don't, want you TO promise that some
times you'll visit nse end tickle my nose
with the feathers of your wings And
then these two grea. good men embraced,
and while Rutherford laid his head on
Stanley's shoulder and wept, the latter
slipped into his pocket request that the
ter the 4th of March.
Let tas haze ten cents worth Of the candy
you sell the most Of Without an instant $
hesitation, the psat-looking little old candy
woman began cracking up some irregular
pieces lying in shallow pan and began
dropping the fragments into her scales
What are yor: giving me- Tafy, she
replied-and not 4 nerve m her face quIv-
cred. Noticing the quizzleal look OF her
customer, she continued: Indeed, we do
sell ma-e talfy than any other kind iou
ought to see how the children buys 1t. EvI-
IDENTIFY she dnin't kpoy slang
A boy On farm in Kentucky, one day
last summer, fell to the ground from ex-
haustion three times while carrying an arm
ful OF wood from the yard into the kitchen;
and then he jumped over the front fence,
ran two miles and half down the road to
catch up with a travelling circus, fought
nearly an hour with three different nests OF
humble bees, went II swimming four times,
ran down rabbit and treea two coons,
made eleven whistles, two bows, and SIX
pop guns, climbed tree one hundred and
eighty feet high to get crows nest lost enc
spspeader, tore out the whole sftsr-guard OF
his trowsers, killed snake four feet long.
vent fishing. set fire to pile of ,c'rd- wood,
run . plpm thorn through his haid, had a
faht with the boy on TIE next tarm, was
chased BY dog, and got home to make the
painful discovery that q large and select as
sortment of new stone bruises OF both feet
gave himiu unsupportable agony whenever he
tried to walk, just as it was'sime to go after
TIE COWS.
, 1879-03-08
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, u O., February Il.

w NASHlNtTtNs u ~ FEBRUARY L, 1917
The river and harbor bill was Yesterday
reported to the house. The day before
The legislative, executive and Judicial bill
was reported. This leaves only the sun.
dry civil and deficiency appropriation
bills for report. The river and harbor
bill appropriates about 5000, 900. and
probably the additions to be made in the
house and senate will increase the amount
to 81 100000, There will be spirited op-
position 20 The billi bet as in Years
past, it viii certainly be Intellectual
1t having been decided in democratic
caucus TO attach to the sundry civil bill
"a clause repeating all federal jury dis
criminatirns in The south arising ont of
the civil war, there Will probably be
contest over that bill but Mr. Hale,
speaking for the republ leans, yesterday
intimated in the house that his party
would not oppose repeal if the democrats
would not insist on repeal of the election
supervisor law. Clearly this is COM
promise which democrats should not ac-
cept. The whole machinery bv which
the federal government interferes with
elections in states should be swept out of
existence.
+ On Saturday, the members Of the Pot
ter committee who had been in New
York engaged in inquiring into the cipher
relegrams returned to this city Since
then there have been no public meetings
of the committee 1t is universally said
that the more The testimony If Mr.. Til
! den and the other New York witnesses is
examined The clearer it becomes that that
gentleman had no knowledge of the in
ception of anything improper in the case,
and, IS soon as he learned of anything
improper, pnt sop to 1t.
The senate committee on apprOpria-
tions has agreed TO recommend that postal
pay to the amount of $4,000 per an
nun 5e given to each of two lines of
steamships 10 South American ports. one
leaving New York and touching at Nor
foil, and he other leaving New Orleans
and touching at Galveston. The amount
is much smaller than was first proposed,
and the money, if it shall do 1.-THE of
the good to our commerce that is claimed.
will be well spent. am sorry to see the
Baltimore San. usually a fair paper, op-
pose tins grant on the ground that the
federal government has no right to spend
the money of the people for the benefit
of particular ports while in the same
number of that paper there is a strong en-
couragement to congress to spend more
than the whole sum for the Improvement
of Maryland rivers and harbors. The
same strict construction which perhaps
prohibits an appropriation in aid Of con-
,.,erce, whereby the whole country will
be benefited, certainly prohibits purely
local expenditure like that TO improve the
harbor AZ Baltimore. The SIN shines
fer all
1t is to be presumed that all the states
which now deny women the right to ap-
pear rs attorneys before the courts will
give renewed consideration to the matter
since the United States permits such ap-
pearance before the supreme court. The
senate, last week, by vote of more than
two to one, passed the house bill givino
the permission. There ~"
SIX STATES WI
, 1879-03-08
TIE DEBATE on THE CHINESE BILL.


From the San Francisco Examiner of
the ooh nit. we take the following:
Spirited and able speeches lii advocacy
of the house bill to restrict the immigra-
tion Of Chinese were made in the senate
by Blaine, Thurman, Mitchell, Jones, and
Sargent; and Senator Beck expressed
himself warmly for The bill. Ham!in,
Stanley Matthew'S, Conklin. Hoar, and
Bruce, e"lored senator, from Mississippi,
opposed the measure Hamlin will speak
on it to-day In tn course of his remarks
yesterday he characterized it akin to Ma
tive Americanism, and said the next cru
sade would be one If denominational and
religious hate, t. drive Catholics from the
country. The senator should know that
the very class who DOW oppose the bill and
want the ports of the United States left
wide open to all the swarms of coolies
that can be brought, were the rank and
file OF the Native American and know
nothing crusades against European immi-
grafton and Roman Catholics. With as
founding inconsistency, although they
then cried out against allowing respecta-
BILE, worthy and Industrious Caucasians
and Christians, or Jews and believers in
God to come here from Europe, now they
insist that China shall be allowed unre-
stricted license to send to these shores her
hordes of Mongolian heathens and idola-
tors, who deny God and spurn Christi
anity. And more glaring still is the mon
strous inconsistency of the seciarian fana-
ties, of whom Beecher, Talmage, Guard,
Gibbons, Loomis, Abbott and Anderson
are the representatives and mouth pieces
They not only demand that the coolie pa
gans shall be welcomed on this soil, but
that. 20 make room for them, white
workIngmen and Catholics shall be
crowded or driven away. Senator Ham
lin was, accordingly, entirely IN error
when he forecast the class who wogld en-
gage in the crusade against the Catholics.
1t is remarkable that Bruce should ia
vor the immigration OF Coolies. He Ger
tainly differs very widely on the subject
from his race on this coast, who see and
know what the Monsolians are. There
are to be found white men who favor
Chinese Immigration, on account of the
money profit it brings them; but it IS
doubtful if there is negro in this state
who does not enthusiastically join in the
cry that the Chinese must 60. The cheap
working coolies drive the colored folks,
male and female, from their accustomed
pursuits. and force them to idleness and
poverty. Were the colored senator te
learn the disposition of the race he repre-
sents in congress, ne would at once change
his position aud vote for the bill. But
his vote will not be required, if the cal
cu!ations Of those who profess ,o have
knowledge of the feelings OF the ma jOrity
of the senators are to be depended on.
TheT predict its passage, with amendments
that the house will unqussti0nably concur
in. 1t will then go TO Hayes, and b. viii
hardly dare to refuse to sign it. The
Chinese ambassador viii, it is said, pro-
test against its approval; but if Mr..
Hayes shall elect to crafty the Chinese
emperor rather than the American peo-
pie, the country can have no more oppor-
tune time to learn the fact
, 1879-03-08
DiverSities,
Goodbye, John, and do stay long.


Hartranft has quit the business OF sign
ing death warrants. and gone to whackins
postage stamps.
When Conkling called Hayes the $50
called president, did he mean all that the
term implies. asks the New York Express.
| RiH Chandler and the devil have l.en
connected by telephone for several years.
Before that, they telegrapned, using a
cipher.
The only patriots now left out in the cold
are Pomeroy, Harlan and Belknap. Room
for the lepers! exclaims the Washington
Pos.
Salt Lake City has a mule that can count.
: II that mule had been member of the
, Louisian returning board, Mr. Tilden would
now be president
A saloon keeper in Philadelphia advertises
! = curiosity on exhibition. half human, half
beast. We are real sorry Ben Butler has
| got so low down.
| Mr. Hayes Is showing so unexpected back
bone, says the Baltimore Ne,rs, isn't it pos
sible that Mrs. Hayes has sown poker in
/ the back of his shirt,
| 1t is rumored that during tie present ses-
sion Of the Pennsylvania legislature bill
viii he presented to change the name of
the state from Pennsylvania to that of Cam
eronia.
''He made too ID free with it when he
was here before, was the way mild man.
nered Atlanta ga man met the suggestion
that General Sherman should be given ''the
/ freedom of the city
Mr. Hayes Is trifie SLOW. but he is really
not ungrateful Cold as he has at times
seemed, he has not by any means forgotten
the raseally services rendered him by Miehi-
gan's great aggregation of bowels
All the tramps Will hecome Industrious,
hard-working and thrifty members Of So
ciety, and will contribute literally to the
funds for extending the work of the foreign
missionary society.
1t is suggested that if Mr. Hayes, the ex-
governor Of Ohio, was cleaned, painted and
stuffed after he re.ires from the enjoyment
of his stolen sweets, he would make a pass
able cigar stpre Indian.
The Custer massacre, the revolt Of the M
tive tribes of New Caledonia, and the recers
slaughter of British troops by the Zulus
forclbly exhibit the folly of excessive con-
tempt for savage vslor and power.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch says that at
reesnt election in Wyoming territory, in
which woman suffrage prevails, fellow
running for town clerk bribed eighteen fe-
male voters with single pound Of chewing
gum.
There is paim-leaf fan and sea OF ice
julep in the next world awaiting the news
paper correspondent who gives his proper
name to the publisher. IS we'll as his non, de
plume, and who neatly writes on only one
side of the paper.
The Cincinnati COMMERCIAL has formally
entered john Sherman as a candidate for
president; but, so far, the st. Louis Times
.jorYRat asserts, has refrainel from any .ex-
preston in favor of Eliza Pinkston for Wee
president
The selection of Peru as diplomatic J
post. by the eminent Christiancy. ersrcI he /;
had two missions in EurQps-tn" rom,
has caused cons;1 The I
W. lee |
, 1879-03-08

FEMALE FoRrIrUDE--It is a well es-
tablished fact that a man viii growl over
wearing tight boots for two hours, and
take them off with an unpardonable de-
gree of emphasis at inopportune moments.
They have been known to take them off
in church and in theatres rather than
submit to torture. But did anyone ever
hear Of such thingl There is no dis
putting the fact that q woman occasionally
wears tight shoes, but when she does shs
rises superior to them, and ats calm and
serene through the period Of torture, and
at the end takes them of caressingiy and,
gazing fondly at them, finds solacs in ths
thought that they are diminutive, even II
they are horribly affective.
, 1879-03-08
Lr.trs as the 'Biac

. .'...- Lr.iC> as lDt DidCh
l.onns. To show the Influence Of the
priests over the Indians, MIR Girard re-
lated several anecdotes. Tn oue occasion
the Berthold Indians had suffered from a
drought. They went 10 Father De Smet
and ensreatcd him to say mass f"r ram.
The father promised to do 81 If th V
would cease tYafficing in lquor, and de-
vote their hearts and whole Of on day to
the Great Spirit. The promise was given,
the mass was sad, and before night 1t
cnmmeHoe,i to ram. and continued rain
in. four days After that, mp {" the time
Of his death, Far er d Smet was looked
upon as u biz medicine man, and hsw ri
was law with the tribe. There are f'w
thincs in history more hideoas than TIA
story of The recent massacre Of the Ch V
enne Indians at Camp Robinson by "us
troops Jf this Is specimen ot she mil
tary management tT the Indians, me
country Will want n" more Of 1t. Nr
Girar.l's alternai te sn'utlon Is the true
one. This should nave been dine flItr
Years AGO. Now the cruel and unbearanle
wrongs inflicted on the Indians by the
non Catholic and anti-Christian policy
that has been n:sued has so exaspera' ed
them that the problem is greatly compll-
Gated. Nevertheless, if it were possible
to expel from every Indian reservation
the rascals who, under the garb of Pro
testant ministers and agents, have enriched
themselves, and to replace them with
Catholic priests, ncalculahls good would
be done.
, 1879-03-08

4 PoINT FOR GIBBoS.-Were Gibbon
still alive, his caustic criticism would
find ample food in the fact that nearly all
the great states of Europe are either part
iIy or wholly ruled, at the present mo-
.ment, by men of alien blood. The con-
troll of England is divided between a
Scotsman and jew: that. of France be-
tween Jew and an Lrishman. In Rus
sia two or three Germans are the moving
springs of the nationsl policy. The
Austrian helm of stale is contested by a
Slay and Hungarian, while the councils
Of Turkey are alternately saayed by a
Russian, a Prussian and an Englishman-
, 1879-03-08

liza social society circle in the hrst ward,
Bob ingarsolPs unbeaief IN frturt punishment
was discussed, and lady SAID, with an EN-
phasis uumistakaile: I'D juS like to be
Bob Ingersolls wife for . abort time; "Id
make him believe thers y kll-see If
vouldn't-Chi0go f6e
, 1879-03-08
Letter FROM alsc nasa.
New YuRK, january 80, lS7a


EDrToR SrarESMAN:-I left Washington
/ this morning on the limited express train,
which, you know, is made up exclNsirely
of Pullman palace cars, for which there il
an extra charge If 81 80 n chair to New
York. This is very fine train to travel
on. The trip is perfectly grand, as you
fly along by and through SO many fine
cities and villages, along Chesapeake bay,
and along the Sasquehana and Delaware
river One is scarcely out of sight Of a
town or city ten minutes at time during
the seven hours ride, and passes through
three Of the largest cities in America
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The time made by this train is almost 81
miles per hour, including stoppages 1t is
fearful TO see the speed with which they
rush through towns of 10000 or 80, 900
inhabitants as Newark
The greatest improvement that notice
in this city since ] was here FIVE years
ago is the elevated street railway. 1t in
great thing to go rushing along at the
raie of IL or 15 miles an hour, as high Az
the tops of many of the houses, and travel
10 or II miles for Zen cents It has be-
come 50 popular that people are desert,ng
the Broadway coaches. To-day theru
Was a combination Of all the omnibus
lines, and the fare was put down to five
cents | suppose the railroad will also
rednce the fare TO tive cents, and then
any lady can ride.
| came over here by special invitation
to See some gentleman on railroad mat
tiers, which will be of the utmost import
ance to onr country. Our country is
starting ont again on . career of pros
perity snch as has not been seen for many
years. You Will no;ice the immense
amount of money that has lately been
put into bonds at 4 per cent. There are
now hundreds OF millions in the east
looking for good and safe Investments at
3, 6 and Z per cent, and Just - soon -
1t is known that Investments in railroad
securities on our coast can be made safely,
there viii be plenty of funds to build all
the roads We need p r.
, 1879-03-08

MINERAL wax. snow shite. resinous,
soite- aud lighter than chalk, that burns
with great brilliancy and leaves no ashes,
h.s heen discovered near Los Angeles. Cal.
The discoverer states there Is whoie noun
tain of this valuable substance, and mas
fears that some one win set it on fre Inc
vax is adapted to the manufacture Oh
ns,afine for candles and other products.
, 1879-03-08

THERE are two periods in 8 vomsn'i 6fs
when she does not Ike to talk. When ons
is we never knew, and the Other re hare for.
Rotten,
, 1879-03-08

A NEWSPAPER There is probably
nothing 80 common, of which there IS so
much curiosity, as the newspaper Men
read it every day; they abuse it; threaten
tosivenpit; praiseit; advertise their wants
in it; write to it: call it hard names
pay for it year aft r year-and sfiii :"
ninety.nine out of hundred of them, Its
production is a mystery. To them 1t is a
business office, newsboy, or post Once
who are simply carriers, and that is all:
1t is the exemplifcation of effect without
cause-an impersonal institution with
plenty of vitality, and sometimes even
with genius; but it is always mysterious
even to those most intimately c"hhec'eu,
The whole Of the secrets are known TO no
sino,e individual. Its personality Is
swallowed up in the editorial I'VE. into
whose depths no man penetratea, and ana
even the inauisition Of the law never gets
behind its innermost curtain
, 1879-03-08
PHILADELPHIA, January 81, 1S1?

FHNADELPHTA, JANUARY 81, TSs7.
| returned here this evening on the
fast line, making o. miles in less than
two hoprs-or about 80 miles per hopr.
This train never stops after it leaves
jersey City until it reaches North Phila-
delphia. Railroading is being reduced to
the most perfect science in America
1t is not worth while 10 write you any
thing about congressional matters, as yop
will have all that is interesting by tele-
graph before this letter reaches you.
Perhaps l have always been little in.
sane on N. p. r. r. matters, bnt tho
prospect certainly does look brighter now
than it ever did before.
Yours truly, PHILLIP RITZ.
, 1879-03-08

We cannot ala be friaTs, and various are
the paths by Fhieh God eondaets the good
10 beavcn,
, 1879-03-08

PRIESTS AND tNDIaNs.-The principal
witness in the Reno inquiry case at CHI
caso was Girar,l, the celebrated scout and
friend of Custer During the proceed
ines, n described q plan for the grsduas
civilization OF the Indians, and then added
tha; til s,iuuld be carried out either by
the army OF ny he Catholic priests. He
said Il think 1t should b. lett to the
military department: | don't scc how
else it cnuld he done, Hniess it was put
in the hands of The Catholic missionaries.
They are the only ones that can do any
thing with the Indians In the first
pace. ileir cllIrch ccrealnnies catch the
eyes and he rnslds If The redskins.
There Is somethn. grand, and ilnposing
in them vii ch r.akes IL -n ''"i5'e7'i''"
on the Indian charact 'sTh,
a., ,,..s:-.n.-- ,en of
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