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DAILY DTEMOORA'. O IAel jeurad ef the Itate of LetemlA. OWJell r J ll of Ihe City of tew Orileas. OMa.. 10o Oravie* Seet*e pROPBIraTOP8 cnonos w. nurse, 3, .RZe Sl V. JN Asn ev0r1x, ALtl gil d, l)Uilx. - IArT8 OF IYtBtORIP4ION. The Daltl Demoorat. r opthe ......... ..... ... usK CtNSAY OINnORAT. The Bundey e+dltion of the DIMOOIRAT will atql o dta mnt te tldevnt d to the u.tl i ur e r1i e ot ere.j-t- p- t hes re at the o llowl n rate" lt. * a yestho...... · *""·. ' .... .. s' months... ... ...... The Weekly D*emoora. Thr1e 1Ibts toon a l yw1e artit Jg touIn.is Aei to ,lsus.brer" e .il .istO) IP.P U.,~iE.U*, lm.... Wetaeeday, April 11, I.7. xe llee of the New Orlesnu D.MO BAT barn been Remove*5 from 74 0anmp r ..... ..... -. I, " Breeto 4l. e IUrniet Ntreet. tihe only Auleorluutd lelltlnfl Astuter f the eimersit fol ihe Iti lare f lessrte. II. fl A (itL P, ed.lo, D. V itP..IN ,..---------- he mountain n I lacbor has brought forth a mouse. Five days of gigantle in tIleotual effort have resulted in the sug alo of age we lompromise whi No every decent man spurns. The "Howling Idlots" of the New England conference of the Methodist Episoopal Church North appear to have resoinded their foollsh resolutions con demnatory of Mr. Htayes' Southern pulicy. Our Washington correspondent sends us this morning a lively and graphie ao oount, which appears in our telegraphio olumns, of what we may term the dying w1ll of the carpet-baggers, emitted through their chief spokesnfan and rep resentative at Washington, the Hon. John J. Patterson, of South Carolina, so to speak. Itwe believtnt that Mr. Hayes has given to his commissioners secret instructions at variance with those issued to them by Mr. Evarts and made public, and that his real purpose is to patch up a compromisee and shirk the responribility of boldly and manfully carrying out his professed Southern policy, we should feel nothing but pity and contempt for him. We have a Governor, elected by a ma jority of eight thousand votes; a Legis lature composed of a majority of the members elected to both branches thereof; a Supreme Court confirmed by the legal Senate of Louisiana; an ad mirable pollce force and a splendid militia-in short, all that we need for governmental purposes. We find that we can get along very nlocely without crutches, and it we have anything to ask of Mr. Hayes' Commissioners, It is simply that they state these facts to the country as soon as possible. We published yesterday the pettifog ging and quibbling decision eof the ma jority of our late, but not lamented, Su preme Court in the contested election case of Moncure vs. Debuolet. As an offset to this pitiful specimen of "orowners' quest law," we publish to day the lucid and well-reasoned dissent. ing opinion of Justice Wyly in the same case. This opinion will certainly here after be considered as giving the true and proper definition of the powers con lerred on the Returning Board by the act approved November 20, 1879, Lude ling to the contrary notwithstanding for a thousand Ludelings cannot make "the worse appear the better reason." Mr. Packard has been happy in en listing as his henchmen and special ad vocates before the Four to One Com mission, the representatives of the extremest elements of the State, Mr. A. H. Leonard and J. Henri Buroh. The first, in 1874, was the most noisy and violent leader in the white man's party, while the latter, a negro, in the same canvass promulgated through his pa per, printed in Baton Rouge, the Grand Era, the policy of murdering the whites through the instrumentality of poison. The high regard for principle and for the welfare of Louisiana which unites these two eminent citizens in the ad vocacy of Packard, may be estimated by the Commission. Mr. Hutchinson, no doubt, means well in the suggestions which he has made as to the best mode of settlement of the Louisiana question, but we decline to believe that Mr. Hayes would be a party to a small politician's trade about the Senatorship from this State. We are convinced that all the current talk about compromises and Senator shabih had its origin in the selfish aims of certain political schemers and traders la this State, and that they are the only p)ersons who would be benefited by a compromise of any kind. Individual ambition is at the bottom of the whole tlag. It mayle we.lf . abandoned at i no supporter of the. bibolle giO galgg c]s tarpaatlrar s-.4unsum S0 IAGAL VO IIIU1TIO I TWEIE T1Y V1 T ?Olt LITORS AlD As most of the members of Mr. Hayes' Commission seem to be more intent upon relieving their friend from the embarrassment growing out of the supposed identity of his title and that of 8. B. Packard, than upon aiding in establishing in this State a government having the confidence of the people, we may as well show to them that there is no connection whatsoever between the title of the Governor of this State and that of Presidential electors. Conceding the constitutionality of the aot approved November 9o, 1872, creating the Returning Board, and admitting, for the sake of argument, the legality of that Board's notion with respect to counting the votes for Presidential electors, it will hardly be claimed by anybody with the least pretension to intelligence that, where the powers assumed by the Returning Board officers in respect to any mat ter are in direct conflict with the con stitution of the State, the latter must give way to a forced Interpretation of the law by interested parties. This Returning Board act (see sections three and twenty-six) requires that the Supervisor of Resignation shall, among other things, deliver to the clerk of the court of each parish a copy of all state ments of riot, tumult, aots of violence, Intimidation and disturbance, bribery or corrupt influences, emanating from the Commissioners of Election or from himself, duly sworn to and corroborated under oath by three reputable citizens, qualified electors of the parish. This provision was adopted, of course, with the view of giving the people an oppor tunity of investigating such statements and disproving them when false, and of enabling District Attorneys to prosecute offenders. The law also requires that such statements be attached, by paste, wax or other adhesive substance, to the returns made to the Returning Board, in order that this body may intelligently canvass the votes transmitted to it. Now, even admitting that this law can by any principle of reasoning be made to apply to the canvassing of the vote for Governor, it is a fact well known and undeniable that in not one solitary instance was the law complied with; that in no single case were such statements filed as required with the clerks of the courts. The inevitable conclusion must therefore be that there was no ground of complaint in any par. ish legally expressed, and that the vote as cast on the 7th of November, show ing a majority of over 8000 for Francis T. Nicholls, must be accepted as the expression of the will of the people, and Nicholls be held to be the dejure Gov ernor of the State. JBut the fact Is that the Returning Board has no more authority to canvass I the gubernatorial vote than the Shah of 1 Persia. Any statutory provision which is in conflict with the constitution is. of I course, an absolute nullity. Now let us I see what our constitution says in refer ence to this matter. Article 48 reads as follows: "rheo spreme eeasutive power of the State shall be vested in a chief magistrate, who shall be styled the Governor of the state of Louisiana. He shall hold his oioee for the term of four years, and, together with the Lleutenant Governor, chosen for the same term, he eleeted as follows: The qualifLed electore for Representatives shal vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor at the t4me and place of voting for tReprsentatives; the returns of every election shall be sealed up and transmittedt by the proper returnlng ofotcer to the Secretary of State, whi shall deliver them to the Speaker of the Ilouse ,.f Represent. atives on the second day of the session of the General Assembly then to be Iolden." This article clearly and unequivocally directs that the returns for Governor shall be sealed by the proper returning officer, and be by him transmitted, sealed, to the Secretary of State, who shall deliver them, sealed, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the end that the members of the General Assembly shall examine the sealed packages, and, if intact, count the votes polled, and proclaim the result. It would, therefore, appear to any un biased mind that no one could legally break the seals and open the packages containing the gubernatorial returns other than the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and that all persons so acting in violation of the letter and spirit of the constitution are and should be held liable to criminal prosecution. But the same article provides further that "the person having the greatest number of votes for Governor" (as shown by the sealed package delivered to the Speaker,) "shall be declared duly elected," and "the person having the greatest number of votes polled for Lieutenant Governor shall be Lieuten ant Governor." The returns thus made, sealed up, de livered to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and counted by the members of the General Assembly, yielded, as is well known to every intel ligent man in the State, to Francis T. Nicholls a clear majority of over eight thousand votes, and he is therefore the unquestionable de jlure, as well as he is the de facto Governor of the State of Louisiana, without regard to the question who was entitled to the electoral vote of the State. In other words, there is not the re motest connection between the vote of the State relative to the presidential electors and the gubernatorial vote, the first depending on the action of the Returning Board under the law of 1872, the returns made to which ought not to have included the vote for Governor, while the latter was entirely under the control of thet General Assembly, which body, and which body alone, under the fundamental law, oould consider and declare the re sunit of the gubernatorial election. Hence it follows that it may some Stimes happen th.a t. vote of the tatn be- w 't ti x': jI." i r it s :,-2,rBtai-.~~p~ ee,1tors aid is a totalny dbrest wai for the Governor, without the legal rights of either being afeoted or im paired. it is clear, therefore, that the counting of the electoral vote of Lou isiana for Mr. Hayes in no wise touches the positive and indefeasible right of Francis T. Nicholls to the gubernatorial chair of this Miate. A delegation of Radical negroes who called upon the Four to One Commission yesterday, in the interest of Boss Pack ard, are said to have created quite a favorable impression upon the Commis sioners. We have no doubt of it. Eliza Pinketon moved the stolid soul of John Sherman, and each particular look of Clerical Error Stoughton's head stood on end, like the bristles of the fretful boar when that Ouachita wench showed up her soars. We have noticed, too, in previous committees of Northern states men, a wonderful sympathy for the sor rows and woes of the negro thieves and white villains who have complained of the restlessness and sometimes of the ill-temper of our citizens at being outraged and robbed tinder the authority of Federal bayonets. The Northern patriots who usually come down here, however, to investigate and report upon us, as if we were an in ferior race of beings and the subjects or slaves of the nation, seem to think there is little or no wrong done in the plunder of the taxpayers of Louisiana, and the destruction of all the honest interest of the 8tate, by the rascally proceedings of the parltes whose woes so much affect their hearts. We print in another column of tihe DaxoonAT this morning a communica tion from a well known and iniluential mechanic of this city, in relation to the situation. The merchants, bankers and professional men of Now Orleans have been heard, and much has boon said, and well said, by th press of the strength and importance of their utterances. It is wel l now that the mechanlos should be heard, and we wish that the laboring classes too would speak out. The mechanics and the laboring men are the ones who feel the pressure of the present stagnation, caused by the uncertainty of the situation, most sensi tively, and being by far the largest ele ments of society, their views are of the utmost importance. We suggest that the mechanics hold meetings, and through committees and delegates express to the country their grievances and their views, and their resolved purpose to have that right to labor and live, which is the due of every and of all human beings, and which no government and no set of politicians have the authority to de prive them of. The troops have been withdrawn from the South Carolina State-House and the reign of the thief, in that Ntate, is at an end. The creatures who, for eight years, scourged the South and disgraced the Republio, hold their last lodgment in poor Louisiana, and a Four to One commission are anxious that we shall prolong, by a loathsome and disgraceful compromlse, their expiring power. But the people and representatives of the people of Louisiana have no compromise to offer or accept, and the last remnant of car pet-baggery will disappear from our polities in a few days. Louisiana has made the longest, hardest and most persistent flghtbf any State against the carpet-baggers and her emancipation has been delayed to the last moment. Nevertheless, lot the people be of good cheer. If they do not permit the Four to One Commission to bamboozle them into a compromise, their complete emancipation cannot be delayed two weeks longer. A strong movement is on foot among the mechanics of this city to hold a meeting and send a delegation to repre sent to the President, through his com missioners now here, the distress of the working classes of the people, which is the result of the political situa tion. This is eminently proper. Our mechanics, who constitute one of the truest and most useful classes of the population, are the chief sufferers in times like these, and their views are entitled to the higest consideration. L'he merchants and bankers, property holders and professional men feel these troubles only in the reduction of their revenues and the depreciation of their property; the working men feel them in the actual privations and sufferings of their families. Let the mechanics of New Orleans speak out in strong and earnest terms. We live and learn. It was reserved for statesmen of the present day to teach us that there are various degrees of legality. A Legislature composed of a majority of the elected members is a legal body, but when a few more of a certain political persuasion are added to it, and a few of opposite political amlia tions are excluded, it becomes a little more legal, a little more constitutional. Perhaps, according to this theory of government, the legality of a Legisla ture depends upon the political stand ing of the man whom it may consent to elect to the United States Senate. The troops were withdrawn from the Scuth Ca~rolina State-House yesterday and the State passed under the com plete control of its constitutional au thorities. There will be no disturb ances, and the colored people of that State are to-day, and will be henceforth, better protected and cared for than they ever were under carpet-bag rule. In deed the negroes of South Carolina are to be as cordially congratulated on the new era whloh has dawned upon South Carolina as are the white oitisens of the Z9'~~',·,rsaa..'~$1 8N EgM@61o*I Itt Matnrile, iLL VtothIb, CarpefI. ELK IN & CO., ItlB......,... .t'anal14treet..... .... 101 Aro rnnniving fnnw RbtytHI rd FANICY (IANTNO MATIN1IJ . SKU (r I$ aud INOIIAIN (AIIP MTN aud VLOOD. 01i (OLOTIIP, All .it Urn Lownnt, PVlrnp. no Inailp MNOEN31ITArKT) l THll LAMREK PATHOh(A(GE ITX'VTPNTPl TO TTTT'1" TTTTT tIM, W X ARE T'1"tT 'Ti' NOW 1 iV. T'r'r 'TIT 1r i A FIIEMRII 'ITT 'II' l lT Oil' TI Al T'Ir T WHICH:1 Al(~d 1' Etll1A I, to OURI AN' AN rAARI, QltAl)lIM ANID WIIW~II Wiil,i, PIIOVIIAM MAT IMFAU'rTOUY AM ANY PIN1K1 TEIAS WHICH o()lC UITIZIINH Wil111 TH P11 TUGHIIII I)T 0131r AIN IN NEW YORK, OlJl TI'AM AHR 101t,1 AT NEW YORKI( P'1111'ES. IIONO KONG T ,EA . CO., (snap street, near (.tnnmen .trsl.. --ANn- reydrsm mtreet. nser (Il reudmlet. Tlrn Mrrllinnrll Pry Tr·nni'm yr"'r rnrnnnda nRrr TEAIIi s 1111 I F7 P~dMMTýI Mt11 0,000000 I.) U U W.n Irnvn it Ilno Ro'lo"tion ,.f 1110. (O0IIIOVA Olrl JAV A nri (Ir'naln't M014c A, whrit wý' rrýtnlI lit wlrlt,Ch'Mi' prhiMn+,f. ('ni' )n~rh"l aual groin'l "'ntin 1lly. . OII UAAANTKLuIIr (Jrrlnomp IAr ho fr,"i Irom liiiy Inluail'rr4~i''. l'wu'k n{f.', alivniv' tr' ra of" niurr. Cotunt rv ririln I'hI voa'. fr'un tor any 'utlV'!Ynn"",. PRIn IIAL S¶1'OII: Camp street, Near Common. fn17 Sim 2v MILLINERY. Mmc Rosa Reynoir, No. ...... CIARTREU MTRgLT ......No. 9 her patrons, and the ladles In gonnral, to inspv,'L the large and oelgant assortmont of mil Innry. wh l.h hn sonlnentd whilenin the North, and French l'atUrn nonnw ta. |lats, nouvautotn, ntn,, rn.n: vod drirot. from lnading Parlsian houms,. all of whibh is olTorod at most modoratoe prlom. #r Ordors earefully and promptly filled and satisfaction guaranteed. orS 21) sm BuWd&Fr Wood-Wood-Wood. AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. HONEY ISLAND WOOD and COAL YARD, No. 315 Jollia sreet, New Basle, near MagI nolil Bridge. Postoffloe address. Look Box No. o150. Delivered to all parts of the city, PRICES FOR THIS WEEK. Ash wood. per ocord............................ oo Oak wood. per cord..................... Ash and oak mixed, per cord................ 60 Liberal discount made to dealers. tatlsfactlon gtaranteeid. mhll 2dptf man P. RADELAT. Agnnt RECOGNIZED OFFICIALLY AND BY PUBLIO 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 INST(RUMENTS AT LOWEST PRICES and EASIEST TERMS Brase Inatrument. N.rings, Aceordeems, Mlslie Bezes, Mole,. of my own Importation, at WIOLEPNALE AND RETAIL. It is in your interest to call on me before our chasing elsewhere. LOUIS GRUNEWALD, 14, 16, iN. 20 and 4.4 Baroenoe ttr*t. f's 24d1 v W, . V. WASIIBIIRN, ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER, 113 Canal street. Opposite Clay Statue. New Orleans. Mr. WAtHBUiN Is himself an artist of twenty-five year- experience. and is suported In each department by a -orPs of assstante who have no superiors in this or the Old World. Be Is the master of his business, Besides employing the best artists he uses the beet materials, and males the best work on the Con tinent. You my call this "BLOWING HIS OWN HORN." . .t oft 1) be refre yon to his thirty tho>1 1 sd u~ae, sa tohl rot 1s61 1 9~u I. C. LEVI, Auctioneer, o10 ............................Canal street .................., .........1 WILL OPPFEI, TWIoC A WEKX, HIl LABIE AND ELEGANT N'TOCK OF JEWELRY AT AUCTION, And remainder ot days will ell at Prlvatn nala, nas uual, from flyPIE tr TWE II 3 i OENT LFJs8 than any other e.tabllhlme nt, which advertiaou dadly. Watches Repaired and Diamonds Reset mhbs1m Only by sklllful workman, at the lowest rata, OLD CHICKERING PIANOS In thla City, from Twenty to 'omry Yeart In I oustaut 1e ll5n1 Hardly a PIrar Critorlon of the i II('KaKIN4fG PiANOS That Are Now Beiag MWanufactured. The'New S.tIle Upright *'hickerung Piano is a PIdRVECP' O MODUL. IIe bure You Get she Chlafkering if You Want the BlbT PIAAO. FOR 8ALE BY PHILIP W RLINT, Nai. 7K and 90 HIaronne street, On Monthly Payments. Liberal Discount for Cash. mhlt7 im A. M. IIILL, GOLI) 'IIN MAZ% UfIACTUTJRER NO. 86 ST. CHARLES ST.. NEW ORLEANS, LA. Exact ,%Ize arnd Pricem of mU Extra (Go'd Penes N.. IS Ne.. . Ne Nt. No.6R No..5 No. 4 Ne.. 0 we ! d 350 $*3 *1 'Jo 9'0 5 1 1 *5 1 efl st M l These Pene hnvn t,.n nued throughout the Soruth anrl West for the pest twont7 7U. They are Solid Gold. Diamond Pointed, and warranted. If anyl Pen iroves deftetiVo, I1 0.1 plaoe It with anotler one fr-e of -hharg-. I will take broken or wo out rol Pens in exnhangn for new ones, at the following pkaIm Namoe sizs ne Nos. 1.2 and 3, J6 cents ; Noe. 4 and s, ar cents; No. 6 and 7,50 eents; NO. e8, witClSi No, a $1 No. l0, $1 r. NoUB.E, R Jf l KFeT -HOLDERl for any sie except Non. 1 and Io, t1 GOLD-MOUNTEI) POCK ET I'OLDEIS, for Nos., .4.. r 6and 7 52. Bnnt by registered mInail, at my risk. on recript of price, or by 9Expre C. O. D. GOLD RING SPECIALTY, :300 IIFFEIENT STYLES. A. M. 1ILL, JEWELER, NO. M N'T. CHARLES NTREET, NEW fORlEANS, LA. MY PIIICES ARE ALWAYS THE LOWEST. DIAMOND RINGS FROM $16 UPWARDS. AM'ICTIYST RIN(P, the largest stock in the South. All sizes. shapes and style. tolse C.AM,)O ICINOH. Thie bent .,eo,,rtment of fancy atonen in the city. I'IIUlJOS W, .aW I'JARtL AN I) OGAINIW'r It N(t, Mingle stones and clustors in gr",t vari.ty. INITIAL HEAL RING'. (Pink Onyx.) Modium lize is, larag size l10. ANT LETTE. Also, a omel.oe an.ortmn,t of ladies' and gentlnmen's Heal ings with blood stone, tonp91 moss rarate, pink. reid. gray, hliik. white. purple and green onyx settings. t prioles freom 3 maill rings, to $., St,, s. 5'o, ir. and upwards for the finer aualitles. PLAIN GOLD RtING'. I alwats kot, a full stock of these rings and aan fprnfisJ an . . width or nuality. P'rlc's $3 to $50, Orders filled samen day re(:elv'd. Initials or Insear tidOnS graved at n, ents a rletter. In ordering rings moanure the largst joinrt of the flager wlth &a afbW strip of stiff paper and seMnl it to men. elOLA 6 Xt BSI'TTWOC W. 25 different styles solid gold butt*on, $1. $1 51. 5$, $2 50, $3 and i6. mol.tZi -oma, o*,Vu'DW. 8n0 sets, all new ,designs; iamonds. Pearls. Amethyst., Garrets. Nmtera lds. ..,.i. Marine J ts. Turtinolse. Cameos, Coral Plain Gold. Engraved (Gold. Enameled.Oo`4 Gold, Etruscan. Blood Stone, Onyx. Ac.. Prcies I1 60, 5 , .3 54 and upwards. Wolicd . olcd Ilesewo Button. In almost as great variety as Htuds. 'rioes from $2 50 upwards. INITIAL CIUFF BUTTONS, No. 1, fine gold and black onammdled letter........ ... i 2. ' raised letters............................ . ' .but larmer.......... .4. " . " .. very large and elegant... 16 Any article sent safely by rmaistered mail at my risk on reeipt of prioe, or O. O. D. bl, press, with privilege of examination It desired. Address as above. mhls AMElRICAN "WALThIAM" WATCHU AGENCY. A. M. HILL, Jeweler, No. 86 ST. CHARLES STREET, Corner of Commercial Plau, NEW OBLANLS THE AMERICAN WATCH COMPANY. of Waltham. Mass. employ o90 workmen maq 425 Watches a day and have a capital of $1s,800,eoo. hese Watches reoelved FERENT AWAIDIt at Philadelphia, over and above all Watches, either of for o . American manufacture. REVISED AND REDUCED PRIC LIJ.L The following watches are all ptnt lewOs 914 leweled, same size as the illustration. sand.oI unaer full guarantee: Solid Silver Watch, same as illistratln .... lit Solid Silver Watch. open fage and fiat alau. Solid Hilver Stem-Winder. no key required.. l Solid Gold Watch, 2 oz. 14 karat ease........ Sr Solid Gold Watch, 2 oz. 1s karat ease........ S'lid Gold Stem-Winder. 2% oL 1l karat ease . Solid Gold ttem-Winder, 2) o(. LIkart ease S LADIEt' WATCHES. One-half size of fllustration. Solid Gold Watch, 14 karat case............ Sold Gold Watch. Is karateaee...........-.... Bolid Gold Stem-Winder. 14 karat ease....... LO Bolid Gold Stem-Winder, is karat case....... is Bny ' WAT. II. One-hla: size of illistrcatlon. Solid Silvhr Watch,strorl and heavy........ 1 In addition to ahr,vo. I have seventy-fres dif ferent sty es. pri'c. from $:4 to Srt. For the plantation. farm or worktin man the $14 Watch or I24 Stem-Winder will Drove all that is required. I will send Watches by Express, Ci O. D., withhe rIYvil; t., onen the Darnsye s8g examine thb Wate by Sayng tExpress eharg . and to rafuto trh, W th iif it does not suit. fln your adlr as for Pllnat" ad Pricef it t'4 (d " 'hv. ,n .ti . Die aes of the Eye and Lar. DR. C. REARD, OOULIS ' AND AURIST, 142 c nal Street, L0ak8tl3ut. Wew orIs.a, 1. Týioi dkw DB. JOHN G. ANGELL, DENTAL BURGEON, Ju retufned sad resumed QM pz Ip S prols'sion. Oofes--e CANAL 82T312. j dDýeT'ºd