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D - y.O . -. WReW Journa 0I fH i.O VU&I OR... 10, Gwrwi~v Stvou. ONEOaGE U. DUPX3B At CO PIOPBI3ZOBS. *~8Q GUIG PW.DISU, SW1.EISZT~l, lOSE AUSU3'II1N, --- ALBUNT 0. JlAS I J. IIEAEY ... ..........Urnoa. LATBs O7F 8U3I5G1PLQO . The Daily D.mooart. ...M; ..................::::::* t ....L................... Nayable in Advnaoe. The Weeklyr Democratt ?he GSlun Demornt te ne d oElAsht-p r hO laras ton and rll be trnier. to - reUNDA DI lOCr AT. Payable In AdvanIce. oWrr.Senay edition of an .MO T will ad ,Crmatm d.t 4nrl t 4.ae" telme Jm rltevo to theF. iWcnurl ntero or the o Cl Orlents rs0he OuirBns and to tho rb st w c"^onfrut.r at s ait eas beul n ed orwill rournis 4 CU aere a. the followinger rtae: ot ye Dao .. w..ea.ree . $S5 0 Pyble in Advne. atOY i--Wa M., for -lent and o obale ad-Th ,ailure in the deliven toet hedirat MR o Tuesday, Masoh 0e, 187. det..oes of thieinew Orleans DIS-o T and pbeen talitedfrom vAStrrr TnsATas-Benefit of J. Kittridge- TsE EAL $ MlUSN. A few days ago wA *gs tShe Sopthlan that what th# , lt`04 .veI meat required in this bgtgAA was. sot a formal reaognlith Opthe Ped" oral government, bt 1ieofdai ton from its own iin t0 sh1 he of the paymet 0 tAasA. We glad to see that the .taspayers of #W Orleans entertak tile same view the situation that we do. A Psltto e office of Major Burk, the eiMolesa ollector of the Ple DbIsrlot will rinse the most inreduloas skeptlo the business amen of Mat distiet "we coming forward wtth 6t.imealAible erity and pouring into the'eoOres of b`.e State the sums assessed eaganet them, and furnishing the officers of their ohoice with the tneas wherewith to out into suooesdtl .,o th ih wole machinery of. I.goY fzat. This real, practical patriotism, worthy of w e highest praise, and of morevalue to S} satse than the mos' eloquent de lion of the Pwatard oosspiracy e most earnest reso1.s to " recog " only the Nichells government. Friends in need are friends indeed. severest test to whichJ a capitallst 'aun be subjectqd is that which involves the payment of money. Those timid ,,and faint-hearted persons who adver Stis their readiness to pay their taxes . to the representatives of the Niocholls g.overnment when this or that event ahall have happened-that is to say, when the Packard edifice shall have crumbled into dust and there shall be o other government to demand tribute them, are entitled to no respect hatever. They are neither warm nor id, and therefore neutrals in a con t in which every man of heart and ral courage should declare his posi and stand ready to abide the con uences. one with the least claim to intelli e, and whose judgment is note by a timidity resulting from the stand most penurious selfishness, as this moment the least do f the permanency and perfect stabr of the Nicholls government. Eve easonable person understands that 'there had been any purpose on the of the Federal administration to lze the gubernatorial preten alons Packard, some steps in that 4 would long since have been taken Mr. Hayes. It is patent to all that recognition of this claimant regarded by the country at ar a violation of solemn pledges madn behalf of Mr. Rayes and with his wledge and sanction, as a con for the abandonment of fac opposition by the Democracy to te ounting of the electoral vote- ges which were approved by the ng elements of the Republican party ,and the violation of which would effec tually defeat the very object which Mr. Hayes hopes to attain by his Southern policy, namely, the support of his ad ministration by a majority of the Ameri can people. No one realizes more fully t than he does the embarrassment result feg from the fact that he came into ipOwer as the representative of a minori 'ity of the voters of the country. He reels very keenly the flaw in his title to the ]pteeidency, and wishes to cure that de 't by pursuing such a policy as will r2ma criticism and gain for him the if not the active, supportof thet f South " which turned the scale gast him in the presidential election. S antS attained by any half-way die se~ its. of his' posi t a . oh 'e guide his of t be re garded as a t aid c.t ardly surreodesi r t tbi $4. men of his p w r ` · a has already provtoW o te 1 utter' saees againsta .ih. bamnot non yield to without falin g ompletelY . der their domination, and bringing himself and his Cabinet mneroile.e oule and contempt. It is evident, then, that Mr. Hayes cannot and will not recede from the position he has taken toward the South, and that no one need entertain any fear lest Packard should, by plaintive ap pea, .eor ingenious argument, or by in citing a riot In this city or the country, obtain practical recognition and sup port from Washington. His doom is sealed. The utmost that he can gain by persisting in his claim to the Gover norship is "recognition" in the shape of some fat Federal office, and that is probably what he is now aiming at. We should pay no more attention to him and his motley crowd of carpet-bag gers and idle negroes, than we would to a minstrel troupe enacting a burlesque upon representative government. All we have to do is to dismiss from our minds all apprehension as to the stabil ity of the Nicholls government, to re gard it as an established institution, which it certainly is, to furnish it with the requisite means wherewith to ad minister the public affairs of the State, to cease speculating upon the countless rumors which reach us from Washing ton and to bend all our energies to the work of repairing the damage and losses inflioted upon us by many years of mis. government. To allow unreasonable fears to deter us from those business enterprises upon which the recupera tion and prosperity of the State depend, would be to sin against knowledge. We are as secure in our political rights as the people of any State of the Union, if we are true to ourselves and prove to *he country the stooerity of our profes sions. If any calamity should occur ad. poverty and distress gontlnue to t 'us, because of 'our abstention mr sua4ve work. we hall have mly ourselvestto blame and be entitled fo moyplmthy from others. O0I1F "B IN A5NI5I A. This I the title of a little book prttate by the author of La Grande puoieesa himself, in which he trecntm' his adventures during his recent viitt to America, and the aepressions they made upon him. Eome of the New York critics, however, :eny that be wrote a word of it, aseerb it to one Monsieur ".," whoever hat may be. But we absolutely refuse o yield our credence to the assertions pf these literary detectives solely upon the evidence afforded by the book itself. We are eonfident that the "biographical natroduetion" is by Albert Wolff, be nme4 i. It All hn 11 A Ikhn. Wn14 .-nA ill that comes after It is of Offenbach, and therefore was written by him, as it purports to have been. To deny the -luthb tiolty of his claim to the author slhip of these reminiscences is to main .tn what we can never admit-that a Zfenodman can write as well, as admir ingly, of some one else as of himself, and that his frank and honest vanity is capable of assuming an .impersonal quality, of becoming disconnected from himself and attached to some one else of whom it will move him to speak with the same affectionate admiration that he feels for himself. To prove beyond cavil, then, that the little Maestro did not write so of himself, would be to establish that he and Monsieur "N." have palmed off a literary imposture, in comparison with which the achieve ments of McPherson and Chatterton are but the most bungling frauds. The pleasures of autobiography are very dear to us all, but there is a certain zest in a Frenchman's enjoyment of them that is peculiar to that delight, and can neither be feigned nor imparted to any other phase of pleasure. But, the malice of these critics does not end with the denial that Offenbach is the author of this very modest literary effort. The savage and resentful criticism it has provoked is even more droll than this denial. To us it is a better and more enjoyable book than Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad," for the best of reasons that the professed humorist merely assumed to be what Offenbach was in reality, for the sake of the absurd situations the character supplied. The author's comments ate never rude or inconsiderate, and are, in many in stances, extravagantly laudatory. If there is any misrepresentation, it certainly is referable to misap prehension and not to malice; but, for that matter, we have noticed no misrepresentation, nor even any ex aggeration that is not pardonable, for the purpose of a humor that is always kindly and genial. There are some very shrewd observations, and some touches of ridicule of Yankee peculiarities, for the most part deserved, but then Mon sieur Jacques affords us so much to laugh at in himself that we should not object to laughing with him occasion ally. Indeed, he is so honest, so sim ple, so credulous, so gullible, that no wag in all America can read his book without a mournful sense of what he is losing in life by not knowing its author. We more than suspect that the maestro was not in the secret of some of the incidents he relates, which bear a most suspicious resemblance to hoaxes of which he'is the victim. For instance; he tells u of lwaiterwho whisted e-i~bat speaking of the pollemef a .a tret Mt oro.lnags for thi i * efty ofdv pd*arins, e says: "'houk ,ne bruni OP~o vet erossing, a large amoaunt e damagsa old be recovered r by the lnjured part; but if this mistor tune sb Md occur at a time when yos ht h on the pavement, usel In& not only you have dhe riI&tascvsee anything, but the Sowner oftbearige can demand dam ales for his loS of time." If this ver. slon of New York law is correct, what splendid opportunities for money mak. tog are opened up to the Jehus. They have but to ride down every soul they oatch off the crossings and sue the mis erable wretch's estate for loss of time. His account of Jim Fslak is a marvel of French exaggeration. He says of this worthy: "Every person who want. ed employment on his railway had first to enlist in his regiment; and in this manner he enlisted one of the finest regiments in New York. Occasionally he would take a fancy to call out his men and have them march in presence of some fair dame. On such occasions the railway traffic was suspended and the stations were closed along the whole line. " On al most every page we find abun dant evidence of child-like innocence and boundless credulity. These make up the staple of the book, and, we sup pose, constitute the "misrepresenta tion," of which our critics com plain. But to us they appear only the unsuspecting recitals of so many hoaxes, of which the author was the butt. Where there is no room for such a suspicion his comments are sensible, and, in the main, compli mentary. His general impression of America is summed up in a few words. After describing her wonderful advance in the material arts, he says: "They have conquered the mater ial world, but have remained behind in the acquisi tion of those qualities essential to spir itual life. America is to-day like a giant of a hundred oubits, endowed with every physical gift, but lacking the one essential--a soul." "Art is the soul of nations; it expresses in words what the purest sentiment creates." Then follows a most sensible sugges tion of the causesof this deficiency, and the remedy for it. He says that true and high art is produced only by "sta ble institutions, steady local work, and slowly acquired traditions." Everything of this kind Is nomadic, uncertain and precarious in America. We have a few great artists, but there is no "American school," nor will there be until we have permanent theatres and academies of art and a well appointed conservatory, "There mightelapse perhaps ten, twenty years before these institutions produce excellent results. And what are twenty years? In twenty years your students may become masters; you will be in dependent of European art." Noting the small number of statues of great personages in the squares and streets, he makes this queer comment: "This is a great contrast to France, where everybody is more or less sculp tured in marble or moulded in bronze, in consequence of which our country begins to look like an immense museum of men in frockcoats, or a collection of dummies for a ready made clothing store." We wish we had space to give the very amusing and perfectly truthful account of a genuine American dinner at one of our palatial hotels. Imagine the horror of a French gourmet or even a gourmand, whose traditional breakfast, as described by an American, is "two salt cellars and a muffin," at finding himself "suddenly surrounded by thirty dishes-soup, fish, meat, vege tables, and sweets, without counting the rear-guard of desserts," and "the most comical part of the business is, that all you have ordered, and have not order ed, is brought you at once." This is horrible, but it is true. We cannot close without quoting one of the many ex travagant eulogies of the American women: "It must be confessed that there are perhaps no women so fascinat ing as American women. In the first place, they are handsome in a propor tion wholly unknown in Paris. Out of every hundred you meet, there are ninety who are lovely. Moreover, they know how to dress; their toilets are of the most exquisite and perfect taste." Whenever he mentions les belles sau vages he goes into rhapsodies. This must redeem any book of the kind, whatever else it may contain that is un kind. The chief engineer of the largest steamship of New Orleans, Mr. J. F. Edgar, steamship Diego, will deliver a lecture this evening at 7_ o'clock, at the Second Mission, corner of Pleasant and Laurel streets. Subject--" Memory, as regards the mercies of God." Seats free; public invited. An exchange says that when the clear and awful note of Gabriel is heard, Bob Ingersoll will not be poking cheap jokes at Cronin's nose; no, indeed-he'll be flying around after that fire ladder. Not Hard to Sult. [Washington Special.] Mr. Key has already received numer ous letters from people in the South, asking for appointments in office. A Methodist minister of Tennessee writes and says that he thinks a great many of Grant's appointees hayvebeen in long enough and. ought to g to re tire. He .he would ething * b ;i;ailPt*,b~ OB HO ISYLAND WO. Q a 0 GOAL fTaD, No. 815 Jl1s strees, w r ngsm *W* MAg. Move Bsaod. PostoMoeaddress, Leek Bo Ne o 10 Delivered to all parts of the itry. PRBIOS M08 THIB WUM. 4 wod per oor4 ..........................6 es eoto, PwrOod.... ..................... Ah ld oak mthed, per cord................ 600 Sg raantseo Jj.nt 4DjUL RAD tAT, Aaent. M'ME. S. LIBERMAN, 9 0 ................ al Itreet ............... e Is in receipt of all the latest novelties of the season, consisting of materials for COSTUMRB, TRIMMINGS, HATP, BONNETS, FLOWERS, and LACES, IN GREAT VARIETY, and is propared to execute all orders entrusted to her In the usual ELEG4NOR OF IMT LE AND FINISH. mhti 2piu&RTu CARPET WAREtLOUSE. 17......... Chlartres Street.......... 1 We offer at Reduced Prices our Large Stock of CARPETING of all kinds. FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, of all widths and Qual ities. MATTING. Table and Plano COVERS. WINDOW SHADt . Cornices. Bands etc.. CURTAIN AND FURNITURE MATERIALS, of all kinds and qualities. etc. Also. BURLAPS by thebale or piece. mhls avSuMo8a A. IItOUTTSHEA & RON. PREMIUM BONDS ALWAYS ON HAND AND FOR SALE IN SUMS TO SUIT, Next Drawing lath of April. NICIHOLLS LEUIALATIVIE WARRANTS, Pturhoased by A. LaMORE. _ mhl..lm Letter I), Gabler Court. GREEN OR BLACK TEA - Worth 40o. we sell at 8ac. GrREEN OR BLACK TEA Worth oo, we sell at 400 GREEN OR BLACK TEA Worth 600. we sel at eo. GREEN OR BLACK TEA Worth 7c. we sell at eGo GREEN OB BLACK TEA Worth 01 we sel at 760. GREEN OR BLACK TEA Worth Le.we sell at s1. TRY OUR St OOL .NQ. TRY? OVA tarsalh . Tar oa t otS f st v E sp . TRY Out *t O uiNGIsWAB TaT OV m 1 UnGLISal IUsAAKrAsT. something never before offered in the South is our M9s5 GOraie in Oolong, Imperial. Gunpowder. Young Brson and English Breakfast Tean. This Company Carries the Largest Stock of Teas in the South. We have the finest selection of Royal, Imperial. Gunpowder. Young Hyson, Uncolored Ja pan. Oolong, English Breakfast and Pekoce. We have choice Teas from the East Indies. We guarantee our Teas to be perfectly pure. This Company deals in all grades of COFFEE. GREEN RIO 20e.; parched or ground 25c. All flooer grades equally cheap. This Company has now on hand some very choice OLD GOVERNMENT JAVA, very scarce. Our Goods are Sold at New York Prices. felt 3m .D . ... .. FOR SALE. A HANDSOME PLACE OF TWO ACRES front on the beautiful river Teche, comprising 66 acres of excellent, newly-fenced land, of which :6 are admirably adapted to the cultivation of sugar, cotton, or corn; the balance consisting of a magnificent meadow in which the residence is situated. The whole property will be sold, consisting of the land above mentioned, and a residence, kitchen, cabins, stable, vegetable and fruit gardens, and all necessary appurtenances. This offers an excellent opportunity to any one wishing to raise stocx, or to euniivate cotton or sugar on a smil scale, there being a cotton gin and sugar mill in the neighborhood. This pronerty has never been inundated. The dwelling-house is comfortably furnished, and will be sold with or without furniture. For articulars address A. E. G., Postoflee, Box 'l$O, New Orleans. fels o tf RECOGNIZED OFFICIALLY AND BY PUBLIC OPINION THAT THE Steinway, Knabe and Plevel Are the LEADING PIANOS Of the World. Convince yourself by calling at the General Agency at GRUNE WALD HALL, SWhere you will find the Largost and Best Se Slections of all kinds of lMUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AT LOWEST PRICES and EASIEST TERMS Bra Jantruments, Snriass, Aceordeems, Miusa e Boxes, Musie, of my ows Importation, at SWHOLESALE AND RETAIL. T is in your interest to call on me before pur ekasing elsewhere. LOUIS GRUNEWALD, 14, 16, 18. 20 and 2 Baroease treoet. W. W. VWASHBURN,. ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER, 11; canat l street. Oppootte Clay Statue. New Orleans. Mr. WASHBUBN is himself an artist of in each dearmenorb a edors eo onio orelfbeet lin tte ees Ja th Ci7, tram T et to Party t' a3 I rnaestaut Uis% ate t all a 5t%. @ Orfteton of she aIIJUtK .]IL PllAnOS SThat Are NoW Beigs MaulMactred. The New Seale Upribht Chiekering Piano is a PENFECT Go ts Be Sure Y.u,. (et she Chial ering if You Want the fBw'I' PIANO l'Ult MALE 13Y PHILIP W RL IT, H N.-. 7 s.nd )O Ha ronne steet, On Monthly Payments Liberal Discount for Cash. mh17 lm A. Il. IlILL, GOLZD I'IiN MA1 TLT1AC'3ITRER. NO. 86 ST. CHARLES ST.. NEW ORLEANS, LA. Exact SIzes and Prices of my Exylra Go I'd PI'ens: N.. a No. A Na . Ks. W0 . e. fi5 NO Ne I it ., lfglt 0a $a 8e 1s3- . MG. $*tM 6i e . 's$ t a b'L8t These Pens have been used throughout the Routh and West for the past twenty They are Polid Gold. Dam. nd Pointed, and warranted. If any Pen prqves defective, WItlS' place it with another one tree of charge. I will take broken or worn out Gold Pens in exchange for new ones, at the following qrieut same siz as Nos. 1, 2 and a, 25 cents ; Nos. E and a, as cents ; Noe. 6 and 7, se cents; No. 8, TiCeabS No, 9 80 ; No, 10, es. 1UBBSR Pr#KET HOt,T ERS for any sele except Nos. 1 atd o10, f1 GOLD-fMOUNTED POCKET H'OLDEIs. forNos,3. 4,5, S and 7. ,. sent by registered mail. at my risk. on receipt of price, or by Express C. O. D. GOLD RING SPECIALTY, : 300- IFFERENT STYLES. A. M. HILL, JEWELER, NO. 86 ST. CHARLES. 8TREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA. MY PRICES ARIE ALWAYS THE LOWEST. DIAMOND RINGS PROM 816 UPWARDS. AMETHYST RING:, the largest stock in the South.. All vses, shapes and styles, f to.5.. (IAMEO RINGS. The best assortment of fancy stones in the oity. PRICIES LOW. PFARL AND GARNET K'NG., 8ingle stones and tlusters in great varietyT INITIAL SEAL RING'. (Pink Onym) Medium size se, large si$es1o. ANY LETEl ,. Also, a comelete assortment of hadies' and gentlemen's Seal lings with blood stone, tossi. moss agate. pink, red. gray. black, white. purple and green onyx settings, at prises from $$ SwI small rings, to $5 61. as $ 0, $15 and upwards for the fliner 5ualities. PLAIN GOL) BRING,--I always keep a full stock of these rings and can ftrnish any lle. width or Quality. Prices $3 to $20. Orders filled same day received. Initials or inseriotion de graved at 5 cents a letter. In ordering rings measurethe largest joint of the finger with a narrow strip of stiff paper and send it to me. COLr It. BSEfE"TOIS •O1. 25 different styles solid gold buttons, $1, $1 50, $2. $2 50, $3 and 8s. fol'-lD Xn -OXa , TU . s300 sets, all new designs: Diamonds, Pehrls. Amethysts, Garnets. Emerswls. Opals, .qA Marine Jets. Turrnoise, Cameos, Coral, Plain Gold. Engraved Gold, Enameled Gold, ~o Gold, Etruscan. Blood Stone. Otx, . &,. Prices $1 5c $2. sa 3$4 and nowards. Solidc Gold ASloove BUuttonis. In almost as great variety a.4 St',ds. Prices from $2 So upwardsc? INITIAL CUF1 BUTTONs. No. fine gold and black enmmteled letter........... $ q 2. . . raised letters........................... but larger ..... ...... 1 N .1, . very large and elegant-.. 1_·4 Any article sont safely Iby, reisterod mail at my risk on receipt of pri!,*, or U. O. D. by $* press, with privilege of examination it desired. 4ddress ts atllve. THE AMERICAN WATCH CO. OF WALTHAM. Announoe that they have been awarded at Philade~ihta four medals. vim: FOR WATCHES FOR WATCH MAKING MACHINERY FOR A 81T OF WATCH MAKING, AND FOR GOLD AND 8ILVER WATCH Oa AMERICAN WALTHAM WATCH AGENCY, A. M. HILL, Jeweler, 86 St. Charles Street, Corner of Comamaeroial PIase, NEW ORLEANS, LA. BEVISED AND REDUCED PBIOC LIST: The following watohes are all patent l.eM jeweled, same size as the illustration, and uS unaer full guarantee: Solid Silver Watch. same as out............ .l 8The same. but open face and flat glass..... Solid Nickel Watch. very strong C*usse..... a Solid Silver Stem-Winder, no key reaulg&~. The same, but open face................- ~ & a os, Silver Stem-Winder........... ...* U** Solid Gold Watch, 2 oz.14 karat ease........ Same. but 18 karat ease ....*............. Solid Gold 2% oz. 1 karat, Stem-Winde.r... The same. but 1t karat case.......... Ladies' Gold Watch.................."-** 4 The same, but Stem-Winder.............. , In addition to these styles I have a eo . assortment of Waltham Watches, from the prices to 8350. For the plantation, farm or aworklnag uA1 815 Watch or $25 Stem-Winder will prove aHi is required. I will send Watches. Gold or Silver Clhasl any Article of Jewelry. by Expreses. . O. D.,.. mitting buyers to examine the artirl bt ~S paying, and. if not suited, to return it. ADDRE88 AS ABOVE. Diseases of the Eye and Ear. D R. C. HtEARD, OCULIS' AND AUtRIST, 142 Canal Street, Lock Box m117. New Orleans, La. flo 1y BUDl,4EIS ,. HlI'itf LLD BE ItR We have secured thb' ag'ney of the celebrated BUDT'JYEIER BOT LI) is undoubtedly the best beer in the world. V AItl:T'IE THEATRE. THE L A DIES' THEATRE. S\, *.l + 1. NLW OPLEANS, 'aORI RIENT, I t,.r , ' n I ;,; , ein season follow ng. i ' fired. 1j his 1 ui a.r, i ':w, spaitious, completely and superbly uipp'.d in every respect, and is moat o~ligibly located on the principal and most fash ionable thoroughfaro in the city. Address WILL STEVEN, Secretary La Variete Assoclation. mhl2 6t mo tu su New Orlean& I. Dr. A. POINCY, Of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, ps7 ROYAL sTRElla. ia Brch. Wit4