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i OrtFIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. S'OL. If--NO. 105. NEW ORLEANS, WEDINESDAY, APRIL 4, 1877. PRICE, FIVE CENTM. ,n rT[ELERAP IH. LOUISIANA. , iaumley Matthews and Foster Our Advocates. tie oep.s of the Carpet-ggllers Oune. itre of a rroposltion of Compromise. (Spechal to N. . Dtmoorsat WAsNittioTo, April 3.-,-4tanley TMat thes fairly divides with Foster the honors of being the champion of the na.Ie of Louisiana. His visit here has been productive of immense good to 40 interests. He returns home -to` SoerrOW night. Hayes' order removing the troops from Columbia is a settler to the hopes of the carpet.baggers, and t~y practically admit that Pack gtd's ohanees have gone glimmering. Intact, there Is nothing to fear on ac sount of Nioholls. Thi only thing to be guarded against in the settlement of he *Louisiana ease is a compromise in '1,Ovng the Senatorship. Nicholls is really as much master of the situation as Rampton was, and should maintain the name uncompromising attitude. BIIJLL. TWENTY-FOUIR HOURS DE LAYED. fbe Troops to Be Removed From South Carolina on Klamp ton's Arrival There. tampton dlumbers Over Ills Success. A Godheild for Louisiana. (8pehlal toIN. O. Denmorat.1 WAszattrou, April 3.-A new delay has arisen in the ncao of South Caro lnah The troops were not to he with drawn until Hampton arrived home. 'Hampton intended to leave hero this morning at 6;30 to 1h, in Columbia thursday, but so profound were his luhimbers over his great seiocess that the lil-boy at the hotel failod to arouse him and he get left. Consequently the removal of troops was delayed twenty bour hours. When Hampton did final ly wake up, he is said to have expressed hllmself even more forcihly than he did an his famous Wilmington speech. By the way, a daughter was born to Gen. Gordon on Saturday. The (Gen eral [wants to name her Carolina, in honor of the emancipation of the Pal maetto State, but as he already has a daughter named "Carrie," he says he will wait until Gen. Nloholls is the un disputed Governor of Louisiana, and then give the little lady the name of that State in honor of the complete, eaanoipation of the South. BvlLL,. THE NEW YORK TIMES. Its Views on the Louishilna Question o'#v. Niehells Has But to be Obstinate and Dictatorial. Tke oCmmisslon Upon a Superfluous Mission. We Have But to Walt and Win. [Special to N. O. Democrat.] WAsteiTroo, April 3.--The New York lnmes, the leading Republican journal of the country, says this morning edito ulaly: "Tho common sense of the country sees that the practical recognition of Hampton in one State must be followed by the practical recognition of Nicholls Ia the other. There may be technical differences between the two cases, de tived from the attitude of the local ousrts toward the respective claimants tor the governorship, but this distinc tion is too reined to influence the pop lamr judgment. If it was deemed necessary to sacrifice Chamberlain b propitiate Hampton and his supporters, Packard cannot hope to es 4ape a similar fate, simply because the local judieiary happens not to have pro nounced against him. In a question of this nature technicalities amount to lit. tie, and the underlying conditions in the two States being substantially iden teal, it would be affectation to suppose that any room for doubt remains with Treereoe to the result in L uislana. "It is, therefore, impossible to feel meek tatereet in the dologs of the Com mi.aslon which will to-day leave Wash. ikgton for that State. It goes upon a superfluous errand. Its inquiries . negotiations "wilt be alike med. Why should Mr. Nicholls con ,hmgSnd to talk of terms or exchange th e$iapIse of his present pealtion or E of the plan pogseil? with no better title than his own, has contrived, by sheer audacity, to carry his point, without being bound by any other conditions than those which he has all along been prepared to make? The lesson is not likely to be lost upon the Democratic claimant to the Gov ersorship of Louisiana, who now knows that he has only to be obstinate and dictatorial to secure the removal of the troops from the Packard fortress. Pop ular logic recognizes this as the inevita ble sequence of the South Carolina decision; and the people of Louisiana cannot fail to look at it in the same light. They have but to walt and win." E. L. J,. TIE cCOMNlestION. Have Tpery eseelvele InstruCeions or Not 7-Tile Natllnnl Republiean De elnre. that they teome Inlstatrutteld. WARsnINrroN, April 3.-It is not yet known when the Louisiana Commis sion, now here, will leave, or whether they will be instructed. One account says the President hand ed one of them a sealed package, to be opened when they arrived in New Or lenns. This morning's Republican has the following: The general idea has ob tained, within a day or two past that the Secretary of State had been direct ed to mark out and define the line of policy to be followed by the Louisiana Commission in their investigation of matters in that State. This, however is not the ease. The matter has been fully dis cussed by the President and commis sioners, and the subject has been under consideration at every Cabinet meeting of late. It should be understood that this Commisslon goes to Louisiana, not to take action in the premises, but sim tly to ascertain all the facts concerning the difficulties existing, to consult with those of both the Nicholls and Packard factions, and to receive and make any suggestions that may tend to bring about the peaceful solution so much de sired. They are not even regarded as official commissioners, but simply friends of the President, who will exert their influence toward facilitating some adjustment. They will start this morn ing for Louisiana. 4OV. HAMPTON. TIe South Carollina Muddle batisfae torily and Honorably Ended--Nothlng amlpreomiled or Promised, but Equal Justlee to All. WASRINGTON, April 3,.-Gov, Hampton is still here. It may be safely said that Hampton has contracted no entangling alliances. He has. so far, promised nothing but equal justice to every citi zen of South Carolina. The following letter was sent by Gov. Hampton to the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: To liHeon. W. D.. Simpson, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, Columbia: Everything has been satisfactorily and honorably settled. I expect our people to preserve the ulmost peace and quiet. 61v word is pledged for them, and I rely on them. WADS HAMPTON. Gov. Hampton was detained by a re ported break in railroad connection. He leaves to-morrow morning, at 7 o'clock. COLUM BUS. The Democrame llert Their Candldalr for Mayer. COLUMBnw , April 3.-The Democrats elected their Mayor by the usual ma jority. FOREIGN. BI4MAIROK RtEIG'$. Herr Camphnmena Chanceller of the Umpire. BERLxx, April 3.--Bismarck has re signed. The Crown Prince endeavored to induce Bismarck to withdraw it, and the Emperor refused to accept it but granted Bismarck a year's leave of ab sence. Herr Camphausen will take his place as Chancellor of the Empire. ANOTIIHiR LIEs HAMNTRU'NE. AMITE CITy, La., April 2, 1877. Editor Democrat-In the New Orleans Republican newspaper, of date March 30, 1877, under the head "Still Bulhioz ing," appears the following statement: "In Tanglpahon, Peter Cane, a Repub lcan, has been maltreated and driven away by a band headed by the presi dent of the police jury, Ed. Gookins, Charles Weyd, John ooper, A Coopler, Jr., and others. William Yaks was similarly treated. I desire, through the columns of your paper, to deelare the above statement, so far as I am concerned, to be an un mitigated and infamous falsehood. I Sam a citizen of Tangipahoa parish and a member of the police jury. I never heard of any affair in the parish of the kind mentioned by the Republican; am not acquainted with any person in said narish or elsewhere by the name of SPeter Cane or William Yake, and never heard of suech .perone. v YOy awayouLuuy, flD. IJOOKIN. As the president of the police jury has been basely misrepresented in the above publication of the New Orleans Republwan, I desire to unite with Mr. Gookin in pronouncing said statement, so far as it relates to myself, to be an infamous falsehood. I never heard of Peter Cane or William Yake, nor of any ill-treatment of them until my atten tion was called to the matter in the New Orleans Republican. There is no bull. dozing in this parish; on the contrary our people are quiet, peaceable and orderly, and I cannot see the cause or object of the Republcan's libel unless it desires to manufacture testimony foz President Hayes' Commission. MARTi. HANEY, President Police Jury, Tangipahoa parish. Rain or sunshine, winter storms or summel breezer,ittaub always oomes up to the soratob bo-day he f.vore as with Northern and Westert papeie, as also with The New York Illustrated 'uimes Puck' Humorous and 8atirioal Weekly, The Weekly Varieties and Harner's Basla. it may be sup rfluous to ay so, but Staub sul holds forth at (}oldthwaite's book store, on Es change Alley, near the corner of tanal. The popar wine beore the war was Pips Helauier. WOe sell all for Piper. Bmarr ' O ilooexa ll n . d egsateea m 1at atrior t d i.e e atb un hse THE LATIN ilACt. Slander of the People Who Exeroise the Highest Teleranee. Auditor Democrat-The Chicago TImes is authority for the statement that a member of Ihayes's Cabinet, in discuss ing Louisiana affairs, asserted substan tially that the people of this State, being of the Latin, an inferior race, not by education or feeling in sympathy with the people of the other Itates, " posses sing the irrationality and lack of logic of people who are governed by their passons;" are unworthy of the bless ings of constitutional government, should be outlawed, and declared be yond the pale of humanity itself; in short, have no rights that a Republican Cabinet should respect. * That a Republican statesman (?), who seemingly has a proscriptive right to talk nonsense, should thus ventilate his ignorance, prejudice and stupidity, may of Itself be unworthy of observation. But these crude opinions, held by a Cabinet minister, become of overwhelm ing practical importance to us-and are of importance also in not being con fined to ministers of State, from whom not much Is exeacted, but are held by thousands and posseibly by millions of people in the North, who, in their de preciation of other races, exalt their own, greatly to their own satisfaction, no doubt. This Is another exhibition of the pharisaical spirit which permeates the Republican party-that party of high moral ideas-that party and that people who proclatn everywhere, "I am holler than thou," which, carried to its legitimate consequences, has in flioted so many calamities upon the country. That the Latin races to whom we owe all our modern civilization, who occupy the highest places in painting, sculpture and architecture the certain tests of advanced civilization, who in the whole circle of sciences stand pre-eminent who have exhibited the highest and purest taste in all that adorns and exalts human life, and elevates it above the routine of daily drudgery; that this race which has produced more men, pre-eminently distinguished in every department of the arts, in science and literature than any other; that this race which has taken the lead in profound philosophical thought and recondite speculation; that has produced a Oallileo, a Michael Angelo, a Raphael, a Voltaire, a Descartes, a Becearia, a Dante, a Tasso, a Cervantes, a Laplace, a Napo leon and thousands of others-a race, which la its mercantile energy estab lished commerce and led the way to maritime enterprises and( discoveries in hitherto unknown regions of the globe, compared to which all other discover ies were utterly insignificant. That this great race of men should be stigmatized as unintellectual and counseled to be outlawed for its intellectual Inferiority, by any one in social position above a swineherd, almost passes human belief. Notwithstanding the verbiage we daily hear of the superiority of the Teutonio or Anglo-Saxon race and their being the pioneers of human liberty and constitu tional government, the Latin race were their predecessors even in this. They established republican and enlightened governments in Italy, which existed until crushed out by foreign subjuga tion. They established constitutional governments in France and in Spain of the most liberal character, which exist ed until standing armies-those sworn enemies to human liberty-crushed them out of existence. If constitution al government has existed for a longer period in England, it was due not to superiority of race, but to her insular position. And we must remember that the first germ of the constitutional gov ernment of England was planted by Simon do Montfort, one of the Latin family. But this depreciation of the Latin race is all bosl, which has no countenance in history, and lives only in the ignorant;, stupid and intolerant craniums of the pharasalcal Puritan, who, having no inherent merit of his own, boasts of his race by depreciating that race which has made him every thing by which he is distinguished from the savage. But men of the calibre of this Cabi net member are not only oblivious to the teaching of general history, but are grossly and culpably ignorant of the history and condition of their own -country. Louisiana, and its people. and their history and sufferings, is utterly unknown to them. uLTerly unIauownU LU LUoLUm. Wore they to come here, they would in the descendants of the much despised Latin race, see a people of refinement and education, intelligent, hospitable and brave, remarkable for their strict integrity and punctilious sense of honor-a people, as a mass, whose word is in all circumstances inviolate, and whose pledge, if once given, even by implication, is as sacred as an oath. And such is the tone of public sentiment that no man would be tolerated in so ciety who was unfaithful to his word, or who failed to redeem his verbal pledges. The honorable character of our Creole merchants has become proverbial. A subterfuge among this class, or the people at large, to avoid the ful fillment of a promise would bring eternal disgrace. This people instead of being the mere creatures of passion or impulse, as represented, are quite the reverse. And it is astonishing how Northern people-especially those in political life-from their stand point can stigmatize this people as irrational and impulsive. Of all the Southern people they exhibited the greatest re luctance to sever their connection with the Union, and it has been doubted that even after the connection was severed by the convention if a majority of the people approved it, or took a deciaed part until Lincoln's proclamation and call for 75,000 men to crush out the South, and then when the choice was between liberty and subjugation, they entered the contest as reasonable men, and on every field displayed their de termined valor-standing second to none among that most "incomparable infantry" the finest soldiers on God's earth. But this people who exercise the high est toleration, the essence of human liberty, tolerant of even the intolerance of their adversaries, and pos so many oaim to the h$het_ Oo descendants of one of the Latin races. Could ignorance, stupidity anu wicked ness go further than this . In conclusion, I may remark that prior to carret-bag domination the State of Louisiana devoted a larger amount to the education of the people, in proportion to the number of pupils, than any other State In the Union 1Mltbhough of the Latin race. A SAgxo. The Governor and the Commnission. Editor Denmocrat-It is to be hoped that our Governor on the arrival of the commission, will maintain the dignity of his high office as Governor of the State of Louisiana, and justify that confidence which the people repose in his wisdom and firmness. He should remember that he was made Governor of the State of Louisiana, not by the President of the United States, nor by any power acting under his authority, but by the votes of a large mj(jority of the citizens of the State, and that no extraneous power can rightfully strengthen his title, still lees to deprive him of the offhce which he holds from the people and to whom hlie is alone re sponstble. It Is to be hoped that his exalted po sition as Governor of the State of Loui siana will not be compromised by any subserviency on his part. If this com mission, composed of respectable gen tlemen, call upon him and wish to see the Governor, let them be shown in by Ilis secretary with all courtesy and re spo t. But if, on the contrary they wish an interview with General Nicholls, on no account should they be given en As a more question of policy, it is better to make no concessions. These men have nothing to give us. Their mission, like that of the Electoral Com mission, is a purely partisan one, and its purpose is by their report to give Hayes some pretext by which he may violate his solemn pledges without utter dis graee. Wise men may be duped onoe; but only the weak and foolish can be twice duped by the same means. When eight partisans, in the face of facts as indisputable as the existence of the sun at midday, pronounced Hayes Presi dent, against the seven who were in favor of deciding upon evidence, wht have we to expect with four to one? If our ease is submitted to them, we at once recognize their rightful authority and are bound by their decision. Lst us beware of this trap, and as the people will not submit to Packard, my counsel in this matter is given for the purpose of avoiding bloodshed, the certain result of an adverse decision. LoISItArA. TilEl KILLITi AT KEA(Ii I. Edilor Democrat--The New Orleans I.eptbl/icanr recently republished from the Shreveport Telegranm a letter pur porting to have been written by the wife of Moore, who was !iilled in Keachi, ])nHoto perish, by the friends of John Fisher. This letter was gotten up by somen one (probably the editor of the Telegiram) who wished to make political capital of the affair, as the lady is wholly illiterate. Tihe rofeuldr of average in telligence would of course take the statements made in the letter with many grains of allowanMo. Upon the publication of that letter the peoole of Keachl held a meeting and entered an indignant protest agyainst the slander ous statements made in that letter. The true history of the affrir is this: Moore had been sued in the magistrate's court and judgment rendered against him. He went to Keacht on the day of the difficulty heavily armed, andti while there got under the influence of liquor. Some words passed between him and Mr. Fisher, and finally the latter called him a liar or thief, whereupon he drew a six-shooter and commenced firing upon Fisher, who was armed with a single Deringer, not antlcipating a difficulty with any one. He fired one, if not two. shots before Fisher drew his pistol. The lat ter fired after he was shot in the arm, and his ball went wide of its mark. Moore continued to fire upon him until hi had exhausted his six-shooter, Fisher meantime falling to tihe floor. Moore then ran out of the store toward his horse, but, before mounting him was stopped by a merchant who occupied a store near by, who had heard the firing, but did not know who had done the shooting. Seeing Moore run out, he suspected thathe had shot some one, and so intercepted his fight. Ile (Moore) was then turned over to an officer who left him while he went to procure the key of the jilt or lock-up. Meantime a relative of Fisher ran up and discharged his gun, loaded with small shot, at Moore, infliceting a wund which would not have proved fatal, and then left him. Moore made a break and got in ) an old field where he was pursued ,y a party, one of whom shot him ir the mouth and he was left for dead. He was not dead, however, but suoc~eded in reaching his horse and getting h me. He died from the effects of the w und in the mouth, this and a wound from the small shot being the only onesa he ,.nIua~rI This is a plain statement of the case as I have heard it from parties who were in Keachi at the time. Polities had nothing to do with it. Moore had been a candidate for Recorder of De Soto parish on the Radical ticket, it is true. but had mingled freely withi the people of the parish and of Keachi from the day of the election to that of the difficulty. He was incensed because the judgment had been rendered againstl him, and he was violent and insulting in his demonstrations. There is no t doubt but he came to Keachi prepared t to provoke a diffloulty. When he was t fired upon by the friends of Fisher it was thought that the latter was mor- I tally wounded, though we are -ratified t to learn that his wounds, though very a serious, will not prove fatal. The citizens of Keachi are peaceable i and law-abiding, and are naturally in dignant that such false representations should have been given to'Vie world I through the medium of the sbreveport Telegram, a vile partisan paper that lets no opportunity slip to malign the re spectable people of North Louisiana. JUSTIcE. New Orleans, March 3, 1877. Peas P. puv.rauAo.-Mr. Jams G. Clark, Idti"siMI~Mwi THE LEGISLATURE. The following are the constitution of the Legislature, as elected by the voters of thl State, and returned by the Be turning Board: The Lewlelature of Loulsiana. SaNA ?M. Dem. Ilep, fHolding over 8enatore........ 9 8 Elected November 7, 1876.......11 8 Total Senate ..............20 10 HOUFIE, Elected November 7, 1870........60 00 Joint ballot ...............0.... 70 Democratio majority, 4. Ileturnling noard Legllature. Dem. Rop. Holding over, Rnatnrs.......... 8 teturned by the Retunruing Board 8 11 Total Senate..... ..........17 19 Rlturned by the RIetnruing Board 44 78 (8 aoanoies. ) Joint ballot....... ... ....01 92 Repnblican majority, 31. The two bodies nowin session hero, the Legislature and the Rump, are com posed as follows: Thle Nieholls Legislature. PN1ATh. Denm. R1p. Holding over Senators............9 2 Elected. Novomb r 7, 186(.......... 11 1 20 3 Total Senate 23; abeentees 18. SIIUMW:. Elected.......................... 60 7 Seated on eontest ................. 7 2 67 9 Total House 76; absentees 44. Joint ballot ................... 87 12 Orand total, 99. The Rump. smEnAvT. Holding over Senators .................. .. oleoted November 7, 1877 .................... 7 Seated by Aeturning Board ................. ~ Seated by Rhump enate .................... 4 Total ................. .................20 noese. S Eleote4.............. ........................2 f Sated by Returning Board ...............13 ~4eated by Rump House ...................... Lees four persous returned elected who de olined to serve ................... Total remaining ........................67 Joint se.son .............................t7 THE TREASON CANE. Discharge of the Prisoners on the Meolon cf the Attorney General, Tuesday morning, when motions were called for by the Court, the Attorney General stated that after careful reflec tion he had determined to move the dis I missal of the aflidavits pending against the several partiles who had been ar rested upon the charge of treason, and committed for that offense by the Judge of the second Municipal Police Court. iHe stated that this action was dictated by the following considerations: The government of the State was now :so well established and so strong in the affections of the people, that it could afford to be magnanimous. It had noth fIng to fear from such movements. Gov. 3Nicholls was in coatrol of the whole State. His government rested upon 1 the consent of the people, and was I supported by their purse and sword. In the next place, he (the Attorney Gen I eral) was satislled that the parties under I arrest were misled into the conduct for which they are now arraigned by de signing men, who are not themselves e under arrest and who had found the opportunity for duping these ignorant ,persons in the anomalous condition of things brought about by the illegal and I unconstitu' total intervention of the Federal Government In our State affairs. The fact that Packard, under a sort of protectorate from Washington, was allowed to occupy a small piece of B ground in this city, and, without moles 5 tatlon, to as.ert a harmless but fraudu 1 lent claim to the office of Governor, had a no doubt misled these persons, many a of whom were colored. He did not be olive that they understood the real sit > uation, and therefore moved that they be dtsLhargedi from custody. S He, however warned them and all Sothers that in the future they would not I find him so lenient, but that any repe i tition of the offenee would be severely prosecuted. SThe court immediately discharged a them without bail after repeating the a warning of the Attorney General. LEGISLAUflVE TOPICS. Senator Allain Takes His Seat in the Senate. In the Senate, yesterday, Senator T. T. Allain took his seat, as was antici pated since the day before, and made a good speech, the full text of which will be found in our report of the Senate proceedings to-day. In the House several House bills were passed, including the act requiring banking institutions to make public monthly reports of their condition; an act incorpor:sting the Eastern Louis Iana Railway Ompany, and an act re pealing the exclusive privileges given to the New Orleans Sanitary and Excava ting Company by the Radical Legisla ture a few years ago. The bill is due, to the efforts of Mr. Berry, of the Tenth Ward, to obliterate the extraordinary monopoly mentioned above. .... G.,v. Nicholls, during the day, com municated to the respective houses in which they origirated that he hid signed several bills, a list of which will be found elsewhere, and includes im portant acts. llis Wsigned by the Govereor. The following bills have been ap proved and signed by His Excellency Gov. Nicholls. Benate bill regulating the terms of the parish courts. Senate bill to better secure holders of life insurance policies. House bill No. 42 to extend the i 6mWtk = n it2. House bill No, 917, for the relief of O. M. Tennison. House bill No. 170, relative to the oharter of the Dorcheat Plank Road Company. House bill No. 173, inoorporating the town of Many, House bill No. 179, relative to the in spection and gauging of coal oils. House bill No. 239, relative to the transfer of seetain succession cases to the parish of Lincoln. House bill No. 980, relative to the et penses of the General Assembly and the militia. ----- *-r C--- What Will the Cermmnsle i Dio i A visit was paid Tuesday morning to Collector Casey, at the Custom-hlouse, by a reporter of the DMnoCaAT, and hil views concerning the Commission tasked, The Collector stated that he could not, see how there could be any difference in the settlement of our compliloations ie tween the mode taken in regard to the State of South Carolina and that to be taken in Louisiana. He said that of course Gov. Nicholls could not do any thing but follow the brilliant precedent set by Gov. Hampton and refuse all proffers of cornmpromise. The Commission might come to New Orleans and survey the field, but they can do nothing more. Perhaps Mr. Packard might corn promise on his side of the house, but as Gov. Nioholls would not become a party to it, there would be lacking the essential element to give force to the Commrnisslon's work. Col. Casey is satisfied that this will be the upshot of the business, and that the Commission will discover the fact r soon after their arrival. --·----~·C---- ---- BATON ROUGHR. Result of the Muslelpal Elcatlen. An election for municipal officers oo eurred in Baton Rouge, Monday, April 1. The entire Democratic ticket was elected with the exception of Mayor, I Ed. Cheatham, the regular Democratic nominee, being defeated by Lange, a colored man, who ran as an Indepen dent. The officials elected are: Lange, Mayor; J. J. Wax and M. J. Williaml for Councilmen, and Robert Wiseman, Administrator of Police. The vote polled was very large. THAT QUO WAtRRANTO. A Raumor tIht Mr. Tildea has Let the Achela [Special to N. Y. rseld.) WABsUINITon, March 30.-A rumor which was current here to-night that ex-Oov. Tilden had sued out a writ of qI u warrainto upon President Hayes in regard to the tenure of the Presidential office, could not be traced to any re sponsable source, nor could any facts biW obtained showing that it had been placed In the proper channels to reoei~ve the official action of the courts here. Chief Justice Cartter, of the Supreme' Courtof the District of Columbia, who was asked to-night if there was any truth in the report, said that up to ther time of his leaving court to-day he knew nothing or it, nor had any papeis touching such a case been laid belaoe him. Le did not believe there was a&ny foundation for the roeport. If there wan ;" he should be the Urst one to knaOw judicially, because the papers woneai. have to be brought before him. In answer to a question as to the legality of such a proceeding on the part of Mr. Tilden, in view of the dees. slon made by the Electoral Commission ' he said there was no doubt about itsoa:ý Mr. Tilden or any other person inter. ested who wished to know by what authority President Hayes held his ofliee would have a perfect right, with a. view to gain the information, to sue ~nt a writ of qzo warranto. He did not`. believe, however, that any such thing had been yet doneor was contemplated It will be remembered that section $ of electoral bill provides that "nothing= in this aset shall be held to impair or affect any right now existing under the pconstitution and laws to question, by proceeding In the judicial courts of the. United States, the right or title of thl person who shall be elected, or who;, shall claim to be President or Ylee President of the United States, if anym such right exists." A lawyer named Pedrick, from New, York, who was seen in Washington ai the early part of the day, is mentione&<' by the same rumor as the person whbO, came over here to institute the quo w4il. ranlo proceedings, and it was surmise that if he had any such mission to per form he took advice among Mr. Tlden' friends here and went back to Ne York for further instructions. In Memrlam. Rev. Mr. Spruille Burford, pastor. ot. Calvary Church, left the city yesterda for Indianapolis on a sad mlaeioa- ,i attend tp the funeral of his father, Mid : W. Burford, who died in that elty on,; Monday. The venerable Judge George Young Bright died in this city yesterday meor ing at the ripe old age of seventy-sever. The deceased was the father of Georg* L. Bright, and a gentleman of distine tlion, and a thrifty and valuable citizen. Born in Lexington, Judge Bright ao . to this city when he was a young man oIr twenty-five, and has lived here evest: since. His funeral will take place thi morning at 10 o'clock from his late rels dence, No. 235 St. Charles street. [BY AUTHO IITY.] Appelatments by the a )verner, hang9t T. NtIhells, by and withr the adysL and OIesent of $.t teasts. James Graham, Register of tie blte Int. Offie. fob ,rd Melanson, Constable. First Wa, gig-" is, of Lafaye't,e vice R. oeonier reugep. - D. P. .lo.snu, Parish surveyor of hepsabbel Jon OG. Augell, Brigadier Generatl 'Bseu Division Louisiana State Milita. William B. Batchffe, brigadier General Ih4i4, Division Loneisana Usate Militia. J ,nn Olegg and Rdnry L. bmith, Alds.-d4s ; to the Governor, with the rank of Major. Dvideon B. Penn, Begisiter of onqaeew i' tie prish of Orleans. Gu.teve Boudgay H Judson, IL Vergus fathoms, Foalrnapeatos kW. nd port f New Oreans. Morris Chew, H.y Insp.etor for Orleans. A pplemat. for Federal offies "N . n.: r e .m..nS-_. -m# . m.-