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ael Jsourmd or the State of Le.nts,- Irlda Journalof the City of New Orleans. OOe*. 109 Oweaner Itr.t. GaEOAQE W. DUP3bQ * 00. PBOPBISTOiB. o 0rnoe W. DUMln, 3L , RARSIr, J5o0 AUGUSTl1n, ALBUIT o. JANll. L J. HEABBEY .......... .... Enioa. ATZB OF BiUBBOBIIfPTlON. The Daily Demoorat. o n ........................ t a so. H Mos ..... 0 ! w THUE SUNTIDAY DEO AT. Thb. unday edition of the 300MCBAT will t a department spo all devoted to the I-..talttral interests of the dorent parishes s ana nd to the st o Agrulturq as a oe, . t Is designed for oountjr as well as tolroulatJon, and divll be furnisahd to sub mrersat te ollow rates: -One year .......... ................. 00 ix months ........................ 0 The Weekly Demnerat. ThereeklyDomo~at. a O .a.able' in Advane.".. wOrie.-wen., ,fr 1ent and for pak .d te."senst inoursd td ( s Desowras ai Vlry Smb (80) pe r equa seeak itnmlon. Moneday, April 9, 1071. The emee of the New Orleans DEMO OIAT has been Removei from 14 I.amp sreet to IS GQravler street. The Only Ausherised delleltlUs Ageste of the seBeerat for the O(ty are allesrs. II. H. ,MA.I and P. O. DlgV7lZIN. TOE PEOPLE AND THE COMMISSION. In pursuing the object of their visit to this city, the President's Commission ra, if they have the welfare of this State at heart, will, as speedily as possible, complete their labors and make their report. We have faith in the sincerity of Mr. Bayes, and understand the grave em barrassments which surround him in earrying out his sacred pledge to re-es tablish local self-government in South Carolina and Louisiana. This faith in the President, and this knowledge of the difficulties of his position, have made our people quiet, patient and con slderate. But the gentlemen composing the Oommisseln must bear in mind thatt Louisiana exists, as it were, in a state of suspended animation; that our mer chants are without trade; that our me ehanics are idle; that the plow stands in the furrow; that the business of the courts is hampered; that the vigor of the law is enfeebled, and that capital has crept into Its vaults. In short, that a community of eight hundred thou sand people, impoverished, discontented and wavering upon the verge of anarchy and civil strife are awaiting tne conolu saon of their business and the adoption e of the measures of relief which are sup- I posed to depend upon their report. The commissioners are men of sense I and large experience in publio affairs, and they must realize very vividly the dangers of such a situation, and conse quently the responsibility that rests t upon them to act promptly, to the li and that a government possessing the confidence of the people and which is a apable of maintaining civil order, may ]J be established and recognized in this It State. a If the Commission shall prolong thell abors by going over the ground i dozen Congressional committees havr ov-ered; or, by taking evidence, to tri the indictment that the perjurers and robbers, through whom the Federa Government has for four years misgov erned this State, have drawn up againsl this people; or if they shall vex and die heartena community whom their dila. toryness is costing hundreds of thou. sands of dollars daily, by discussing p--uerile questions of law, as though they were trying a vagabond for pocket picking, or a thief for horsestealing, they need nottbe astounded if it be found difficult, or, indeed, impossible, to pre wut some outbreaks of temper on the art of thelpopulace. Federal interference in our State af lirs to sustain and protect in authority as consummate a band of rascals as aear disgrace'd mankind, has already -.at the people of Louisiana several hundreds of millions of dollars; and with the remotest probability of smch rule being continued over them, or of a demand being made upon them to eater into any sort of a bargain or com promise with or recognition of the ras a who have robbed, disgraced and humiliated them, their temper is grow ing threatening and tjeir patience is ra pidly wasting away; and neither Gov. Nicholls' influence, or that of any other -ttheir leaders, will be able to preserve the status quo until the President shall have made his arrangements for the or ganization and control of the House of Representatives when the extra session Convenes. We have no purpose of threatening the Commission. On the contrary, we enter tain for them and their mission, if we really understand it, the greatest con .ideration and respect. But men with out work and with empty stomachs; men who see their property going to wreek and their business to ruin, will not reason reason carefully nor wait pa tiently or long. We say these things because we think the commissioners emght to understand the condition and )laper of the people whose interests they seem to have in hand, that they may act intelligently. By aoting with great promptness; by r..ing superior to legal quibbling and making a reportto the President, based o.n the broadest prinoiples of public policy and inspired by the spirit of the hest juastlees the OMbb rs Mof this - gratitude Of th ooantry, If they pat I. sue a different line of aton and attempt to influence the issue by playing petty. Itoggers and partisans, they will oover |themselves with ridioule and contempt and add to the embarrassment and dif ioulties of the President. WHAT THE PACKARDITES DEMAND. ' Whilst their learned legal hair split - ters engage the time and attention of J the Commisploners at Parlor P, on the legal and technical points involved in Packard's chancery ease, the lepubli can newspaper, discarding all such frivolities, marches boldly up to the practicable, tangible, political and ma terial demands of the party, of which it claims Hayes to be the chosen chief and representative. Considering that the proprietors of the Republican are all Federal or State officers of the straitest sect of the party, We recognize their au thority to set forth the objects, princi ples and ideas thereof, and our duty to 7 communicate to the Commissioners theI exact purport and nature of their claims 4 and demands. What is demanded of President Hayes' I administration and of the Republican party "enthroned in power" at Wash- I ington, is embodied by the Republioan in the following propositions: t 1. The President should demonstrate a mnl. I olent military force to enforce obedience to his sots. He should order the disarmament and die. banding pf all armed organisations, whether "troops' of the Saste or ineurreclionary hands threatening the authority of the State and nation al forces. In other words, the President should maintain a standing army in every State I to enforce obedience to his acts, on a h general presumption that there are al- c ways armed organizations threatening a the authority of the State and national i forces. 2. He should install, when necessary, and mantain in all onses, the officers and RIepresen- I tatives State and muntoipal, certified according r to law by the Returning Board of 1876. That is, that not the State or the peo ple should install the officers of the c State and municipal governments, but the President should do it, and do it in t conformity to the decrees of Madison t Wells, Tom Anderson and two other n Radical rapsoallions and perjurers, e thereby making the President of the United States a sort of constable or " bumbaillif to execute the writs of the most scoundrelly tribunal ever set up in a Christian or civilized country. 1 8. He shoul4 employ the "Influence" of the p government "to establish this right of the o people" it has emancipated, by conferring all Federal appoitntments, priniopal and subordi nate, upon Republloans qualified according to s the terms of his inaugural, but with tae addi tional and indispensable condition that they shall be bound by tesr of investment, businee,, kin. 0 dred and evident purpose to abide in the State during and after the term of their offiial service. To enable the President to execute the h orders of Wells and Anderson, he must appoint none but men of like character 0 to help, to assist him, preferring, how- c ever, scalawags to freshly imported car pet-baggers, and requiring some sort of security that they will not run away after filling their carpet-bags with plun- c der. Omitting two other propositions, that ' Umitting two otner propositions, tnat have nothing distinctive in them, as they only embody what all parties agree in, we come to the last, which may be styled the epitome and summing up of all the principles, objects, alms and spirit of the party which has the ineso lence and audacity to lay before respect able and distinguished citizens of other States its absurd claim for the proteo tion and aid of the United States to install it in power and domination over a great and free state and people. 7. All Republioan spplicante for appointments to State or manioipal offoe in Louisiana who may be wanroting in the home qualifcation, as stated. are properly subjects for consideration at the hinds of the Nailonpl Republican party, and may be assigned appropriate positions, at home or abroad, elsewhere tuan in Louisiana. This is a plea and petition to provide for the carpet-baggers who may be ex eluded from State and municipal offices by the now scallawag rule set forth in the preceding resolution. When those who have fattened on the people of the State have gorged them selves with the spoils of State and municipal offices and have failed to in vest their stealings in the State and given any evidence of their intent to abide herein, they must be taken care of by the Federal Executive, must be provided with offices abroad or in other States. These embrace the propositions and demands which the Packardites present for the consideration and action of the Commissioners now sitting in Parlor P. We trust these gentlemen will give full and careful consideration of these hon-. est. modest and patriotic suggestions, and report the same to President Hayes. They embody all that there is in the case about which they are taking so much superfluous trouble and expending so much money and time-to comprehend and digest. AN INIQUITOUS TRIBUNAL. The members of the commission have been diligently inquiring into the lega, status of Packard's Supreme Court, We suggest to these gentlemen, thai there are to be considered in this con. nection, some great questions of right and justice, universal as humanity, and which underlie and constitute the foundation of all human institutions, The technically legal character of the Packard court is denied by our ablest lawyers; but conceding, for the. sake of argument, that this point is a doubt. ful one, the members of the commission should examine the deeper foundation8 on which the mere legal structure re poses. Is there any power or authority that can, through any legislative or ar bitrary processes, conforming even to constitutional and statutory provisions, constitute a legal court for the express purpose of sanotiontng unconstitutional enactments plf orru. legislatures; of 4 leluti o lettlaing teS rbitray * and oppressive measures of rulers who Pt are enemies of the people and the Y State, and of Judicially affirming that sr a system of fraud and perjury in eleo pt tions and of public plunder in offiilals, - is a legitimate governmental system? And yet these are the very things that the Kellogg Supreme Court, with John n* T. Ludeling at its head, did during a t- baleful and iniquitous existence of if years, and it is just what the Packard ie Supreme Court; with John T. Ludeling n at its head, was appointed to do, and I- would do if supported by Federal bay h onets. e If the commissioners will glance L- through the reports of the Supreme i Court of Louisiana for the past four f years they will find therein a mass of ,t iniquity, of shame and judicial villainy, I such as has never before disgraced the *t jurisprudence of the civilized world; which was designed to thwart justice, suppress the law, and legalize fraud and D rascality-a mass of judicial iniquity, in e short, which, as the Bhreveport 'imes s declared a few days since, should be piled up in a public square and burned by a common hangman. If the Commission has come here in the interest of Mr. Hayes' policy of z peace, justice and local self-government, they will not stultify themselves and make the President's policy the subject of ridicule and contempt, by attempting to have any such disgraced institution as Packard's court considered the legal SSupreme Court of Louisiana, nor John T. Ludeling, to whose infamy the Su preme Court of the United States has given immortality by branding him in one of its decisions as a common swindler, recognized as Chief Justice of Louisiana. A correspondent of the Times, signing himself "Provincial," takes very cor rect ground on the subject of the elec tion of a United States 8 i tor-the pre cise ground, in fact, occupied by the DEMOCnAT. We regret, however, that the writer in the Times thought proper to attack Gov. Nicholls, and, upon a mere rumor, charge that he favored the election of a Republigan to the ienate. Not many days since, the Governor pub lished a proclamation in which he as sured the people that there should be no compromise of any of their rights. The platform on which Gov. Nicholls was nominated, and the spirit of the canvass which resulted in his election, were, all, in direct antagonism to any such policy as the correspondent of the Times, on the authority of rumor, charges him with favoring; while re cently, the people of Louisiana, whose honor and interests are in Governor Nicholls's keeping, have almost as with one voice denounced any measure of compromise or any bargain in the set tlement of their troubles. We have not asked the Governor his views in this matter because we trust confidently in his courage and integrity, while we have no faith whatever in rumors, which, in relation to men in his difficult and trying position, always fly thick and fast. We shall be among the foremost to denounce any proposi tion to sell out the senatorship, lot it come from what source it may, but it will require something much more ex- o plicit and authoritative than rumor to a make us believe that the Governor | favors any such scheme. We have been pleased to see in sev eral of our Mississippi exchanges the name of Mr. Emmett L. Ross mentioned in flattering terms in connection with the nomination for Secretary of State. The name recalls to our mind some of the pleasantest recollections of the war, when we used to do our scribbling on the limber chests of twelve pound Na poleons. Mr. Emmett Ross is a native of New Orleans, but having married one of the charming daughters of Mississippi, has since then made that State his home and been prominently engaged in its journalism and politics for the past five years. As a soldier,we have seen him face the foe on many a tented field, and as a citizen, he has since the war, in the editorship of the Canton Mail, used all his talent and energies to promote the interests and prosperity of his adopted State. Many of the Northern papers and pol iticians are in the habit of representing the white people of the South as ruf fians and savages. We defy any of these bloody-shirt papers or politicians to show anything in the utterances or actions of the Southern people compar able, in beastial savagery and con temptible cowardice and meanness, to the resolutions of the New England Conference of the Methodist Church North, which we print this morning. Hell, we fear, is full of such patriots as Wendell Phillfps and such Christians as the howling idiots of the New England Conference. Such creatures excite the pity of the Southern people rather than their resentment. In yesterday's edition the incorrigible devil made us say that the Supreme Court had adjourned to the eighteenth instant. It should have ben Monday, April 16. DIED. SPORL-On Sunday, April 8, 1877. at 7:an p. m. Andr.w H.or.er . . ' rlir) "'years, a n: tive of New Orleans, eldest son of John and M~argarot Sporl. '"he funeral will take place This (Monday) Morning. at 9:30 o'clock. The friends and ,e quaintances and those of the famill.s of J. J. and 0. ~viorl are respectfullv invited to attend, from his late residene". Corner of Clouet and Dauphine streets, without f irther notice. * DENTISTRY. J. R. WA K ER, D. D.'S., e No. s180 Dles stai e tt latest Improvements and beet styles of both Iredbof fi•l D- .. -4 O(lee of State HuSpe int.ode t Publc Education for LoTdetana. All appiliations heortoforo addreossd to the undersigned, for positions as toeahors or as portors or vortresses, have boon transforred to the office of Win. . Bogers. Esq.. Chief Buper Intendent of the City Publio Behools. Applications for positions in Now Orleann should hereafter he addreasnd to the City Board of Directors, and be left, with the Chief Superin tondent, or with the Secretary of the Board. J. J. O'Brlen. EBq., whose oiflcns are on the third floor of the City Hail. And those for positions in rural Louisiana should he addressed to the propor board of Public School Dirn.tors. in the respnctivo parishes of the, tate. Superlnteonlont~s are no longer authorized to isluln elrtiflcates of capc'ity, tMr., to toahe0rs. BOB'T M. LUSHERI, State Suporintendent of Publile Education. Ngw OLaLunn, April 9, 1R77. apS Iw Mattings, Olt Clotlhs, blrpefs. ELKIN & CO., 168.............. Canal street...........168 Are receivlng new styles of FANCY CANTON MATPIN. S, BDRUIIELN and INGRAIN CAUPIsTM and FLOOR OIL CILOTIS, All at the Lowest Prien. apS lmdp NECESSITATED fBY THI LARGI PATRONAOE 'TTTTT EXTENDIED TO TTTTTT TTTTT 1J Wi ARE TTTTT TTTT NOW RECEIV- TT'TI 'ITT TNG A lR" EIH TTTr TT LOT OF T''AI T'r WHICH ARd T EQUAL to OUR T']' A N UA RD IRADES, ANDE WIlIfIl W.IL, PROVE AS SAT 18FA(TOORY A, ANY FINE TIAR WHICH OUR CITIZENS WRIE IITITIIC TOOT Ir,IED TO OBTAIN IN NEW YORK. OUR TEAAR AME SOLD AT NEW YORK PIt(IE.. [IONG KONG TEA CO., Camp street, near Common street, -AND- reydras street, near Careadelet. Pho Meodcal Profession reonmmmnds our TEAO. P4NIMMMMM. 0 0 000000 UOpoooo W, have a flno s.olt+tion of BIO. CORDOVA Old JAVA and Guniinho MOKA. whlh wo retail at whiole.m.l pric+.s. Ooffoes parehod and grounlll continually. We (IUARIANT EE our CoffTres to bho f rom any adultration. I'Pck agos delivered free of chllarg. Country ordoer Idlivered froe to any conveyainuo. PRIN IPAlr 1ITORE: Camp street, Near Common. fol7 8m 7p 110! FORI TIlE RACES! How to Keep the Dust Off. FINE LINEN DUSTERS, At $1 25 and Upward. FINE LINEN ULSTERS, At $2 75 and Upward. FANCY COLORED TIES, 50 cents per Dozen. Leon Godchaux, an 7 3t Noe. At and R3 Canal stroot. Wood-Wood-Wood. AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. HONEY ISLAND WOOD and 0 OAL YARD, Ne. 373 Jalia street, New Basan, near lMag enlla Bridge. Postofiloe address. Lock Box No. lo80. Delivered to all parts of the city. * PRICES FOR THIS WEEK. Ash wood, per cord ....................... o Oak wood. per cord... ........... 5 Ash and oak mixed, per cord............. so Liberal discount made to dealers. 'atisfaction guaranteed. mhl7 2dptt m&e P. RADELAT,. Agent. RECOGNIZED OFFICIALLY AND BY PUBLIC OPINION THAT THE Steinway, Knabe and Pleyel - Are the LEADING PIANOS Of the World. Convince yourself by calling at the General Agency at GRUNEWALD HALL, Where you will find the Largest and Best Be lections of all kinds of MUSICAL INVSTRUMENTS AT LOWEST PRICES and EASIEST TERMS Brar Instruments, 8.risgs, Accordeens, Mluso Boxes, Music, of my oew Importation, at WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. It is in your interest to call on me before par chasing elsewhere. LOUIS GRUNEWALD, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 2' Baronue Street. fen 2dvlv W. W. WASHBURN, ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER, 113 Canal street. Opposite Clay Statue, New Orleans. Mr. WA4HBURN is himself an artist of twenty-five year. experience, and is supported in each department by a corps of as. tanta who have no superiors In this or the Old Worla. He is the master of his business, Besids emloyng the best artiste he uses the aest and mates the best work on tie con. -,- 0HIS OWN HO " " be'uiweeu t JEWEL I Y`; AT A U f t Af( -0- I. C. LEVI, Auctioneer, 105............................ Oanadl street ...................... . . 1... t ' WILL OnFEn, TWItO A WEEK, HIS LARGE AND ELEGANT STOCK OF JEWELRY AT AUCTION, - And remainder of days will sell at Private aleAi, n sual, from FIVE to PW "I-.Yl " 1 CEN LEnS than any other etatbllshment'whlch advertlises dai.. Watches Repaired and Diamonds rNeet Only by skillful workmen, at the lowest rates. m _____m I. o. LEVI, 13 Caual eWl. OLD CHICKERING PIANOS In this City, from Twenty to Forty Years in f onstaut Use a, Hardly a Pair Criterion of the CHICKK RINGt PiANOS That Are New Bleing Manufactured. The'New rcale Upright ('hickerlng Piano is a PEIPECT MODfL.U Be Sure You Get the Chirkering if Yeo Want the BEST PIANO. FOR SALE BY PHILIP WELRL I3T N.,a. 78 and 90 Baronne street, mh17 uOn Monthly Payments. Liberal Discount for Cash. A. M. HILL, -GOLD PEN MAN UF'ACTURER NO. 88 ST. CHARLES ST.. NEW ORLEANb, LA. Exact ixtes and Prices of my Extra Go'd Pens: No. 10o No. A No s No. 7 No. 6 No. 8 No. 4 No. 8 e:9 1e 8 6$3a0 $3 $ 2o60 6s 2a $ I 1 01 u $S1 1$. These Pens have been used throughout the South and West for the past twenlty They are Solid Gold. Diamnd Pol nted, and warranted. If any Pen proves defective, IW wl. place it with another one free of charge. I will take broken or worn out Gold Pens in exchange for new ones,. at the followlngJrlepg Same sizes as Nos. l.2 and a. 2a cents; Nos. 4 and 5, a5 cents; Nos. 6 and 7, 50 oents.;.. Mos , .Lj No, 9. Si No, cc. .1 c0. RUBBER POCKET HOLDERS for any size except Nos. 1 and lo, $1 GOLD-MOUNTED POCKET MOLDERS, for Nos,. 4.5, Sand 7, 72. Bent by registered mail, at my risk, on receipt of price, or by Express C. O. D. GOLD RING SPECIALTY, 300 DIFFDENT STYLES. A. M. HILL, JEWELER, NO. 86 .ST. CIIARLES STREET, NEW ORLEARS, LA. MY PRICES ARE ALWAYS THE LOWEST. DIAMOND RINGS FROM 816 UPWARDS AMETHYST IING., the largest stock in the South. All sizes, shapes and styles, f tog . SAMEI) JINGS. The best assortment of fancy stones In the city. PI.EJ LOW, a PEARL AND GARNET IR'NGA. Single stones and clusters In gret varie.t. INITIAl, SEAL RING4. (IPink Onyx.) Medium slize s, largeize sno. ANY LETT7B Also, a comnlete assortment of ladies' and gentlemen's Heal Rings wirh blood stone, toln moss agate, pink, red, gray. bhlak. white, purple and Ureen onyx settings, at prices froem g small rings, to 65 f6, 5 , 5 0, $ 15 and upwards for the finer qnalities, PLAIN GOLD RINGS--I always keep a full stock of these rings and san furnish suyJ width or quallty. Prices f to 520. Orders fllled same day r.c.lvrd. Initials or lnser ptl lohi graved at .cents a letter, In oerdeing rings measure the largest jont of the finger with a i atrp strip of stiff paper and send it to me. I0jl~aAL&. BUT7WOJT4W. 26 different styles solid gold buttons, $1, $1 50, 2,. $2 60, $3 and , . rOZXZD OX OlD 1'TUIW.. 30c sets, all new designs: Diamonds, Pearls Amethysts. Garnets. Emeralds OdfalA,_u Marine Jets, Turquolse. Cameos Coral Plain Bold, Engraved Gold, Enameled Gold, Etruscan, Blood Stone, Onyx, Ac. .'rices $1 50, $2, 3a 54 and upwards. Iolidc Golcd lleeve Buttoana. In almost R trrat variety as Studs. Prices from $2 50 upwards. INITIAL C lIFF. BUTTONS, No.1, fine gold and .Leck enammeled letter............... 2., r sed letters..................... 3. , but larger...... ...... 4 . verylarge andel ga t... Any article sent safely by registered mall at my risk on receipt of price, or U. D. press, with privilege of examination if desired. Address as above. mhla AMERICAN "WALTHAM" WATCHI AGENCY. A. M. HILL, Jeweler, No. 86 ST. CHARLES STREET, Corner of Commercial Place, hEW OBLEA]S. THE AMERICAN WATCH COMPANY, of Waltham. Mass., emDly 90o0 workmen, MItel 425 Watches a day and have a cepltal of $1,00oo,oo. These Watches received ]O"Pf D][] FEBENT AWA4bSD at Philadelphia, over and above all Watches, either of foate or American manufacture. REVISED AND REDUCED PRICE life .34 The following watohesre all patent ero s, Jeweled, same size as the illustration, and Msod unaer full guarantee: Solid Silver Watch, same as illustrationf.... a Solid Silver Watch, open face and flat glau. M Solid Silver Stem-Winder, no ker reg.l.eu . , Solid Gold Watch, 2 oz. 14 karat case....... N Solid Gold Watch, 2 oz. 18 karat case........ Solid Gold Stem-Winder. 2% or. 14 karat ease I Solid Gold Etom-Winder, 2Y. c. 18s karat ase - LADIES' WATCHES. One-half size of illustration. Solid Gold Watch, 14 karat casa.............. 0 Solid Gold Watch. 18 karatcr8e.. ......... R Solid Gold Stem-Winder., 14 karat case....... I Solid Gold Stem-Winder, 18 karat ease....... TO BOY"' WATCIH. One-half size of illustration. Solid Silver Watch,strong and heavy........ In addition to above, I have seventy-flvedr . forent sty'e-, pricer. from $14 to $325. For the plantation, farm or working man the $14 Watch or $24 Stem-Winder will prove all that is required. I will send Watches by Express, C. O. D., with the privilege to oven the package and examine the Watenh by paying xpress chargse. anl to refuse the Watch if it does not sult. Sen your ad(dr'rss for Illustrated PriceL: t. Adrdrirp m' as <4.hoe nu~1l tiol J)iseases of the Eye and Ear. DR. C. BEARD, OCULIST AND AURIST, 142 Canal Straeet, Lak3Basse. ew 1me Mas. my7 ,7-,, - 4AW . . Afattwn-BucA,. IA' ...............uOa n street............... 1e2 Between Bourbon and Dunphinestreets, PNw Orleans. Russian Vapor Baths on tLuaday, Tiesday Thnursday and aturdsay. Nor Ld. from 15O 12 IL m.; for Gentlemen 1ro 12 to 0 p.-. 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