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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-22
ELI WHITNEY.

i We publish below the letter OF
Col. Hatch to the Cotton Exchange.
OF which We had something to say
sditorially last week. We find it be.
ing noticed quite extensively by the
press, as might have been expected
OF SO appropriate suggestion. The
cotton growing States should delight
to honor the name of Eli Whitney;
NEW ORLEANS, La,
March Is, 1882. {
Thomas L. Airey, Esq, President:-
DEAR SIR-There was held about
twenty FIVE years since, upon the spot
now occupied by your honorable and
useful association (then the Varieties
Theatre) the last of series of South
western conventions, called in several
OF the cotton States to promote tue
general interests of that section of the
country. AS delegate to that con-
vention had the honor of introducing,
through my friend, the late Colonel
s. w. Oakley, (having been personally
absent,) resolution to erect monu-
ment on Stone Mountain, in the State
of Georgia, to the memory of Eli Whit
ney, the inventor of the cotton gin,
and to provide funds by the voluntary
contributions of one or two cents per
bale from years cotton crop. That
resolution was favorably entertained,
but was never put into practical oper-
alton. The erection of your magnifi-
cent edifce suggests the eminent ft-
ness of adorning its central hall with
the statue in bronze or marble of this
great inventor, the effects of whose in
vention has extended to every foot of
the habitable globe and stimulated ev-
cry activity useful and ornamental
that pervades the civilized world
Ample funds could be provided l doubt
not by the cheerful contribution of one
cent per bale of all the cotton received
at this port, and our School of Design
would doubtless furnish fitting mo-
del to honor the man and the gener-
Gus donors.
Many cities of the world are pro-
fusely embellished with monuments
and statues to soldiers aud statesmen,
poets, philosophers and kings; but
seldom to those whose genius has add
ed thousandfold more to the wealth
and luxury of man, and paved the way
to those brilliant manifestations OF
martial glory and aesthetic excellence.
Let, then, New Orleans be the first
to perpetuate in enduring marble the
of one, the effect of whose
would be a fit theme for
the tongue Of Cicero, the chisel of Phi {
iias or the muse of Homer. c
will only add that as Eli Whitney {
was a native of Massachusetts,, that
State or at least the Cotton Exchange
If Boston should be permitted to trans ,
er from her granite hills the pedestal :
IN which the statue is designed to rest.
That noble city has ever been the first :
o respond to the calamities we have
uttered from pestilence, food and fire, n
nut in her own affection has always O
leclined the assistance of her sister r.
titles, and has earned the proud cog ii
omen of Boston always asks to give,
ut never to receive.
Trusting that my suggestion, which G
he lapse OF time ad,nonished me | Il
hall probably never have SO suitable -
n occasion to make again, will meet =
nth prompt and approving response u
'om your distinguished body, l re- n
,ain. very respectfully, your obedient a
.rvant, T. II. HATCH: u
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GENERAL Hancock agrees wit,

GENERAL Hancock agrees with
General Sheridan in the opinion that
the retirement of the army officers
on attaining a certain age should be
made compulsory. This opinion
must be sincere, as these officers,
and especially Hancock, are nearing
the point of retiracy.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-22

Once more the soldiers of the
Mexican war and of the Indian wa.
of 1886 have their claims before con.
gress. At the distance of Congress
man Floyd King, of Louisiana, q
new bill was laid before the house
on Monday, asking that these vete
rams be placed on the pension rolls OF
the country.
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lHE:new Sullivan wharf whic
W.. forced up few weeks back ar,
which was tied securely by ropes {,
prevent It's floating away, broke loos
yesterday aud went down the rive,
Mn. ALT. W. Buron, the pentIa
manly agent here of the New o.
leans Pacific Railroad, Informs ~
mat railroad business is growing hel
Ter every day. Parties wishing an,
information regarding the move
ment of trains, prices of ticke,s o..
eIn una out the same by calling OF
him at the depot. ~
LOOK HERE, LAD1Es.-Mr, .Bio,
Heyman has just received all M
new styles of slippers and low omar
Yer shoes for ladies, He has mark
e :, them down at bottom figures, and
"eles any house in town to sell the
same class of goods at lower nricos
than he will. Call and see for vonrs
9 IL. '' 5'uf,
-IHE omnibus Daisy" that runs
70 and from the depot, on The arr
val ana departure OF the trains has
proven thus far TO be the most con.
sea'ent' and as regards style and
finish unequaled in the vehicle linz
ana Is by far the incest and
neatest thing of its kind ever pur
CHASED by any firm in Alexantiria.
Messrs. McGinnis Armstrong tho
proprletors of the Excelsior Stables.
nave shown by the purchase of this
magnificent coach, to he wide awake
men and up to the present
Si lines. The coach will carry conve
nlently twenty persons-twelye in
side and eight on top.
LETTER LIST. List of letters re
naming in the Post Office at AIex.
andria, for the week ending Satnr.
lay, March 18th:
barrow barrow n. ". Brashaer M. E. M.
1 1 Mana Fry, George
1oesens' w. "A. Gray, j. A.
-ioes'tt, n. r. jackson D..
Lewis, B. F. Mckee. VIM
Mclean, j. w. Robinson. 8.
sowe, u. r. Snorton, Mary
'Daffer, Geo. w. Scarbrock. F
SUNLESS, G. E. Simmons. Marcus
Mrs. M, Savage. Mrs 4
aussens, Felix Towes, Miss E. P.
nhye, John H.2 Whye, Mrs.
Werner, s. Yeages. Mash
Parties calling for above named let
efs VIII pease say "advertisedn
). w. GORDON, P. M.
RELIEV OF OVERLOOKED SurFrR.
Rs-On the last up trip the Jesse
{. Bell brought up and distributed
t the same places as reported by US
asst week, 1900 pounds of bacon and
y barrels of meal, which were turn. |
d over by Gov. S. D. McEnery forI
be relief of the sufferers from the !,
verflow on the lower Red river.
nd which We supposc to have
cen government rations.
AS there seems to have been some
uestion as to the necessities of those
eople we take occasion to saw that
lere can be no doubt but that there
great suffering in the section re.
'rred to above. They are all poor
eople and If there is want and suf.
ring anywhere from the overflow
le people thus relieved are sufferers
ID all entitled to relief.
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OpELoUsAs-Daily. Due every day at
! o'clock P. M. departs every DAY at
S o'clock A. NJ.
LEEsvILLE-Semi. soeekly. Due every
Monday and Thursday at 4 o'clock
P. NJ, departs every Tuesday and
Friday at 9 o'clock A. NJ.
HARRIsoNBURG- Semi sceekly. Due ev-
cry Monday and Thursday at 10
o'clock NJ, departs every Monday
and Thursday at I O'Clock p. NJ.
WINNFIELD- Weekly. Due every Tues.
day at IL O'Clock NJ, departs every
Tuesaay at I o'clock P. NJ.
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ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS,

On the Star route from Shreveport
to Red River Landing, the mail will
leave Shreveport daily at 6 A. NJ, and
arrive at Alexandria in 40a hours;
leave Alexandria daily at 1920 P. NJ,
OF on arrival of mail from Red River
Landing and arrive at Shreveport in
40s hours; leave Alexandria MONDAYS
Thursdays and Saturdays, at 1910 P.
NJ, or on arrival Of mail fiom Shreve
port and arrive at Red River Landing
10 l9t hours; leave Red River Land.
ing Sundays, Wednesdays and Fri
days at S P. NJ, or on arrival of mail
boat from New Orleans, and arrive
at Alexandria in 1871 hours.
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DIED

IN this Town, onSsunday,ssat 5 o'clock
+. M. H. Z. RlDEAU, native8of Pla-
quemine, La, but a resident of this
place Tor the past two years. sra. ssssa
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HALL RAP1DEs GROVE, DESoro ST.
ALEXANDRIA, La,
March II. 1891

HALL hAPlDES OROVE, DESOTO ST.
ALEXANDRIA, La,
March II, 1897
At the regular annual meeting, be
ing the eighth annual, the following
officers we're elected on the above
day and date to serve the ensuing
year:
L. L. Porter, CIV. P.
j. H. Dennis, G.. V. P.
Israel Thomas, Jr., G. w. s.
Paul Richardson, A. G. S.
H. j. Wright, G. T.
Louis Tim, G. S, A. A.
Geo. Hite, A. S. A. A.
W. H. Carter, G. C.
Sam Hite, W. S.
The installation of above named
elected officers will take place at the
Hall, on Friday, April l4th, 1882, at
s o'clock P. NJ.
By order of the Order:
W. L. AMBLER,
j. II. DENNIS, G. w. P.
G. W. S.
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hevers. Their self-respect has been
maintained by this feeling, and with it
fidelity to their traditions. Moreover,
the school of ST. Sophia has been foun-
tain-head of religious knowledge, the
university at which the Ulema of Kazan
and Tifls and Astrachan have received
their spiritual education, while at all
times religious personages from Constan-
tinople have travelled among sthem,
keeping alive the recollection of their
lost allegiance. On this basis their faith
has retained what it has of loyalty in
spite of the political Russianizing they
have undergone; but with their political
centre destroyed, they would be as sheep
without shepherd, scattered in little
groups here and there among a growing
Christian population, and shut out from
the fold of their belief. Constantinople
is the assembling place of pilgrimage for
all Mohammedans west of the Ural
Mountains, who reach it by the Black
Sea, and could never be replaced to them
by any new centre further south among
the Arab races, with whom they have
little sympathy or direct religious con-
nection. A Caliph at Mecca or in Egypt
COUlo w AOVhlnS lOI IueH, ana Cle
Turkish-speaking Sunites would have
no university open to them nearer than
Bokhara. In this respect they would
find themselves in far worse position
than the Moors, however universally
these may become subject to Europe, and
their religious disintegration would be
mere question of time l believe, there
fore, that Islam must be prepared for a
loss, not only of political power of Eu-
rope and in Western Asia but also of
the Mohammedan population in the OF
toman lands absorbed by Russia. 1t will
be strange revenge of history if the
Ottoman Turks, whom Europe has for
so many centuries held to be the sym
bolic figure of Mohammedanism shall
one day cease to be Mohammedan. Yet
1t is a revenge our children or our grand
children may well live to see.-- The
F0rtmightH Revie,O.
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New Witness to the Pentateuoh.

The Central Presbyterian, in replying
to Prof. Robertson Smith, adduces fact
which has not before been noticed, we
believe, in the controversy on the age of
the Pentateuch. Prof. Smith will be re-
membered, claims that the Levitical law,
the priesthood and the whole sacrifcial
code, were devised. during the Captivity
and introduced by Ezra after the return
from Babylon. They were ascribed to
Moses, not because Moses was the au-
thor or institutor of them, for he was not;
but as being in some sort a development
of. the law of Moses. But against this
theory is the fact referred to,-the exist
ence of the Samaritan Pentateuch, in
Guiding Leviticus and Deuteronomy,
which is substantially identical with the
Hebrew. The Samaritans would not
have received the law from the Jews, for
in the time of Ezra they were already
hostile to the Jews, and continued in
creasingly so from that time forward.
If the law was written before the disrup-
ton of the kingdom under Rehoboam,
the fact is explained. If not until the
day of Sanballet, how came it to be re-
ceiveds by the Samaritans? If accepted
by them from the Jews, it is well said,
1T would be something like the Irish
accepting the Prayer-Book of the Church
of England at the hands of Conservatives
in England, with the explanation that it
had just been discovered in the Tower
and was the work of st. Patrick"
The truth is that all the plausibility OF
such theories as that of the late origin of
the Pentateuch is gained by attending only
to those facts that can be interpreted to
favor them, and neglecting others equally
demanding to be accounted for. Scep-
ticism is strong only in negation. But
after denial must come affirmation. If
it is claimed that the Jewish ceremonial
law did not originate as the Old Tesla
ment says it did, the question returns,
how came it to be? When and where
was it originated? The theory that it
was set up after the Exile, as has been
shown, cannot be adjusted to the facts.
The date must be set back at least to the
age of Solomon, and, once having re-
coded thus far, is driven by necessity
farther still. The attempts to manufac-
ture history is sure to fail, for history is
the record of what Divine Providence
has done, and it is vain to utter counter
feits of facts that can never become any,
thing other than what they are.
Waterman.
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Heart RELIGION

The Christian religion appeals pri-
marily to the affections. 1t is the religion
OF love. Its central truth is the love of
God to fallen man. On the human side,
it is an experience of love to God and
man shed abroad in the heart by the
Holy Ghost Its grand and all-control-
ling motive is love: eff any man love
me, he will keep my words, " said the
Saviour; and, in fulflment of this decla-
ration, st. Paul affirms the actual do
minion OF this love over believers: :"
" The love of Christ constraineth us.
The very strongest support of faith in
the religion of Christ is the witness the
heart bears to it's truth. Because the
heart longs for the sympathy and love of
a Divine Saviour, it clings to him tena-
clously when it has found him, in spite
of all the doubts and arguments the in
telleG2t can interpose. Skepticism has
hopeless task to destroy Christian faith,
unless it can find something better
adapted to the wants of the human
heart Its negations and sophistries are
poor substitute for the wealth of divine
love which Christ offers to hungering
human hearts. 1t offers a stone to
those who are dying for bread. Their
God-given thirst for love will turn them
away from the empty cistern to the
fountain OF living water. We have no
reason to fear any wide or real decadence
of faith, so long as man can hear the cry
from the divine heart of love: off any
man thirst, let him come unto me and
drink"
The grand popularity Of faith in Christ
is the part the heart plays in it. 1t
has its roots in feeling and not in logic.
1T is not produced by argument, but by
an inward consciousness Of the need of a
Saviour. 1t is the response which his
love meets in the hearts of men. The
first and strongest bond between Christ
and souls is not an intellectual but a
sympathetic one Conscious sinners heed
Chust's call, because it has in it vearn-
ing sympathy and love, and meets fell
want OF their souls. "Come unto me
and | will give you rest, is Christs an
peal to weary, heavy-laden, hunperinp
hearts, and the only appeal that is sure
to win and hold the loving allegiance of
man.
All genuine Christian experience is a
heart-experience. To begin with, man
must feel that he is a sinner, and feel his
need of Christ. He who has only an in
tellectual apprehension of these truths
rarely brings forth fruits meet for repent
ance. And then, as we have seen, the
exercise Of saving faith involves the ac-
ton Of the ahectional nature With
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The Future of Islam.

L conceive that the fall of the Ottoman
Empire and the annexation of its Turk
.sh provinces would not be a mere polit-
zeal loss of so much territory to Islam.
1t would involve moral consequences far
greater than this for the whole Mussul-
man world Of Northwestern Asia 7
have the authority of the most eDlipbt-
ened of modern Asiatic statesmen in sun
port of my opinion that it would be the
certain death-blow to Mohammedanism
as permanent religious faith in all the
lands west Of the Caspian, and that even
among the Tartar races of the far Fast
the Sunite Mussulmans of Siberia and
the Khanastes, and as far as the Great
Wall OF China, it would be shock from
which Sunism in It's present shape would
with difficulty recover What has bitb-
erto supported the religious constanev of
orthodox believers in those lands formerly
Ottoman which have become subject to
Russia has been throughout the conscious
ness that there was still upon the Rus
sian border great militant BODY Of men
OF their own faith ruled by it's acknowl-
edged spiritual hand. The centre Of
their religious pride has been CONSTANT
nople, where the Sultan and Caliph has
sat enthroned upon the Bosphorus. com
handing the two worlds of Europe and
Asia, and securing to them communica-
ton with the holy places of their devo-
ton and the living body Of true be-
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by which whole glens were depopulated,
with every circumstance of horror at.
tendant upon war, except actual blood
shed-burning houses, weeping women,
dying and decrepit old folks turned out
of their beds-all, of course, for the good
of the people, the laird knowing what
was good for them better than them
selves" And yet the Highlanders were
no cowards-were no poltroons, were not
atra'f to meet any foe, for the great Com
moner himself admitted that they served
with fidelity, and conquered for you in
every quarter of the world" But though
they knew full we'll how to meet the
enemy in the field, they also knew-for
their religion taught them-how at home
to suffer and be strong and so, as Sheriff
Nicolson told his philosophic audience,
there is no instance in the annals of the
Highlands Of an agrarian murder" By
their fruits we shall know them. Every
tree Is known by its fruits, and we direct
attention to the testimony of these COM
petent witnesses in proof of the results
OF Presbyterianism where it has been on
its.trial for generations Belfast Witness
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The CENTURY MAGAZINE for April. Contents
Portrait of Matthew Arnold Tunis and its
Bey; To 1mogen at the Harp Trough One AID
ministration The Age of Praxiteles; Matthew
Arnold; AT Rome-Farewell to Blanca Opera
in New York; Butterflies in March; On Kings
ton Bridge; Oddities of Southern Life Some
American Tiles; Russian Jews and Gentiles ;
Was the Earl of Beaconsfeld a Representative
Jew? The Blessings of Piracy, etc etc. etc.
Published by The Century Co., 743 Broad
way, New York.
BLAcKwooD's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE for March.
Contents
Western Wanderings-the Newest American
Railroad Pentock (concusion) Martins Hor-
ace; The Fixed Period (conclusion); Lord
Crawford and the House of Mar Recent
Novels; A Word with John Bright; The Meet
Leonard Scott Publishing Co., Al Barclay
Street, New York.
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for april Con
tents:
Chinese immigration The Scholastic Prelude
to Modern Science; How Animals Breathe
Has Science yet found New Basis for Nor
ality Fossil Seeds The Unaweep Canon Re.
cent Wonders of Electricity Modern Explo
slves The Germ Theory Dean Swift's Disease :;
Hyacinth- Bulbs; The Javanese Calendar; Sketch
OF M. Louis Pasteur with Portrait) Entertain
ing Varieties, ETC., etc. etc.
D. Appleton & Co., publishers, New York.
ST. NICHOLAS for April. Contents:
Frontispiece An April Girl; A Little Old
Bachelor Brigham, the Cave dog The Tale of
Schneider; Il sent my Little Maiden; The
Hcosier School boy; They did mt have a
Penny" Mr.. Weathercock Lament of the Cat
tail; The Story of Wangse Pah and the White
Elephant; There was Young Maid of Sell
much" Recollections of a Drummer boy; A
Tragedy in the Garrett The Selfish oyster
Three Foolish FAIRIES; Donald and Dorothy !;
Too Quick for Baster-Out of the Shell; Lifts
Search Winning Princess The Wrong Man
at the Other End Stories from the Northern
Myths; Water Power Lord Malapert of Moon
shine Castle Easter Card For Very Little
Folk lack in. the Pulpit
Published by The Century Co, 734 Broad
way, New York.
LITTELLs LIVING AGE for the week ending
March 25th.
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Recent Publications.

The TREASURY OF DAVID. Such is the anne
oeSpurgeon's great work on the book of Psalms.
The name of this celebrated London preacher is
sufficient to command a respectful reading for
any book which he writes. Every attribute
which combines to make Spurgeon 50 great and
useful, as preacher and pastor, qualities him pre-
eminently to expound the Psalms. He is high
ly gifted with practical common sense insight
into the mind of, the Spirit" He is always
devout and deals reverently with the Word of
God. There is an entire absence of that dis
gushing hippancy with which so many of the
shallow pedants of the day are affecting the
world at large, to say nothing of the saints,
The first volume of this valuable work Cps.
1-26) is now brought out in this country by
Funk & Magnalls, New York, who expect to
follow with the second the last of April, and
one every two months till the whole six volumes
are completed. This American edition is very
nicely gotten up-good, clear type, tinted pa
per, with a substantial and ornate cloth bind
ing bearing King David's royal coat of arms on
the back-a harp
1t is almost needless to say that the exposi-
ton, verse by verse, is rich and instructive. 1t
is such as to give comfort and satisfaction to the
devout Christian, young and old, educated OF
unlettered. In addition to the authors own
exposition he gives explanatory notes and quaint
sayings taken from a multitude of writers on
the Psalms, from the Fatherssdown Even HON
err Plato, and Plutarch are subsidized TO illus
trate the sacred truth. Hints to the village
preacher, which is appended to each Psalm, coz
tains some very useful suggestions. Like Owen
on Hebrews, Sturgeon on the Psalms seems to
leave nothing more To be said
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Christian Living.

Earnest Christian living attracts the
attention and compels the admiration of
those who are still outside of the Church
At first, the name " Christian" was given
to the followers of the Lord in derision,
much as the modern appellations, Lol,
lard, Puritan, Methodist, and the like.
have been thrown at men of earnest
spiritual convictions in the history of
English Professionalism. 1t said much
for the aggressive character of their re-
ligion and the activity of their exertions.
that nickname Of any sort was thought
necessary for them. But see how. bv
their conduct in succeeding years, thew
redeemed it from ridicule. and earned
for it the respect even of their enemies
] presume not, indeed, to saw that ali
who then bore this title were worthy Of
commentator; but simple Justice will
compel the investigator to declare that
the great majority of them were distin.
guished for their truthfulness. integrity.
and benevolence toward man, no less
than for their devotion to Christ They
were not worse in the ordinary relation
ships Of life because they were followers
OF Jesus but contrarywise, their love to
him made them better husbands and
wives, better sons and daughters, better
brothers and sisters, better neighbors
and friends, better citizens and servants
than those around them. And in the
times when persecution ragged most
fiercely against them, even Roman
governor had to confess that he could
find none occasion against them, except
it we're in the matter Of their God while
by the manner in which they met death
calling upon Jesus, and, Stephen-lke,
praying for those who had condemned