The Sunday Law causes much ex
citement in Ascension parish, it be
itg apparently a case of town against
country. The Donaldson vi lie CHIEF-.
by long odds the best conducted Re
publican newspaper in the State,
chalnpions the Police Juiry and its
Sunday ordinance, and deserves the
highest commendation for doing so.
--lake Char-es Echo.
This thing of raising cotton at ten
cents a ltltind to buy corn at from
seviity -five to eighty-five cents a
bushel is a piece of absurdity that
ouui Louisiana fartiins Should avoid,
atid tuew tan if they would only try.
-1 _i .e; lebtrifl People.
-OF TIE
National Republianl Party.
fle Repnbl csr party, i; national con
vention easiebled, at the etd of twenty
years since the federal goverument was irst
committed to its charge, sabmuit to the pee
ple of the United States this brief report of
its administratlon. It-eppressed a rebellion
which bad armed nearly ainillion of men to
subvert tbl national authority. It recon
structed the union of'the States with free
dom, instead of slavery as its corner stone.
It transioormed four millions of human be
ings from the likeness of things to the rank
of citizens. It relieved Conress from the
infamous Fork of bunting fugitive slaves,
a nd chcged it to aee that slavers does not
exist. It has raised the value of paper cur
rency from thirty-eight per cent. to the par
of gold. It has restored upon a solid basis
payment in coin of the national obligations
and has given us a turrebcy absolutely
good and legal, and equal in evey part of
our country. It has lifted the credit of the
nation from the point where six per emit.
