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D 1)LY DEMOORAT. Ogulh Joarnal of the State of Leulsinas OSW Joarnalof the (1ty ot NewOrlema. Dgs*, 10i oavit Ste..t. OEOaG, W. DUPR3 A CO.. PBOPRI BTOh8. 030fl0 W. DUP. O p.a. U* ABIP*. JOHN ADUGUIT13 ALDURTs o. JAit3. S3.. EIEARMET ........ ... ...ros. RAdf 0? aryjBBgRFPfON The Daily D.moorat. Tear .......................**t*ll. M on ........ ..... JPayable in Advaflos. T11 BUTDAY 1pRUSCe AT. The Svnday edition of the DMOORAT will hgrlotural interests (lt e duffreit parishes ulsIana end to the yh of Ar ulturos eaee30. att I i designd for nountr a. well as vh~rouoaloa Ind r" e furnished to sub The Weekly Dmgeort. 1[o a ......................sotI (r(tha r-Ween, for Rent and jbr' 5ae ad eard eats 4WUerted in the Democes at 1 fv atms f811 per square, ee*h £eascb**.* Monday, April 16. I8TI. low hb *me* of the New orieans 33me. yr AT acbs been Removel from 14 Oamp stress see 1.0 ravler street. Tie 0011 Authorised selickits Asesteothe meseseti for the City ne Msesrs. H. H. +*SARMA and P. O. DBVNZIN. THE PROPOSED TREATY. The statemeht of the terms of the proposed settlement of the Louisiana imbroglio, given in the DuaoonAT Fri day morning, was substantially correct. 'IThe proposition, as given by us, was discussed and favorably considered by the caucus of the House members Sat tarday, as it had been the day before by that of the members of the Senate. The proposition may be briefly stated thus: 1. Gov. Nicholls and the other State offioers of the Nicholls government shall be the constituted State authorities. 2. The Senators conceded to have been elected by the commissioners' returns, and who are now co-operating with the Packard sham government, shall be permitted to assume their seats in the Senate. S. The organization of the House shall not be changed in any respect. The three members, Messrs. Tremoulet, .ressy and Rolle of the Seventh Ward of Orleans, who were seated without con test, but whose seats are questioned, sad the seven members, Messrs. Bar bin, of Avoyelles; Robertson, of :'St. Martin; Billieu, of Lafourohe; j idgley, of Conoordia; Kernoohan, of Plaquemine; Sartain, of Carroll, and ' Ferguson of the Fourteenth Repre ;entative District, of Orleans, who were seated on contests, after a thorough investigation and the reports of committees, shall withdraw, and the ten seats they hold, remain temporarily vacant. The members really elected, but who have remained in the Packard aucus, shall be allowed to take their seats in the House. Assuming that all the members in the Packard assembly would take their seats, the House thus constituted under the settlement, would be composed of sixty Democrats snd Conservatives, and fifty Radicals, with ten vacancies. These vacancies, L It is proposed, shall be filled, after for mal and legal contests, by the House. As most of the Democratic contest Onto are beyond question entitled to their seats, this settlement would un doubtedly concede the State to the legally elected authorities, executive and legislative. Several questions, how ever, present themselves which deserve to be censidered. Beyond doubt any agreement, or ar Sangement will be, on the part of the I authorities, a free concession. For if this proposition, or any other that may b he made shall be rejected, and the Legislature determines to stand square ly on its constitutional rights, the Com mission, within a brief period, will retire, the President will order the withdrawal of the troops, the Packard sham, like that of Chamberlain, will cease to en COmber and befoul the earth, and the legitimate government will stand, utterly disembarrassed, in full control of the State. This would be to us the most satisfac tory course for the Government to pur- I sue. But we have very reliable infor mation that the proposition first men tioned meets the approbation of a large majority of both Houses. The graver questions which present themselves in relation to this settlement are ' 1. Can the Senate of Louisiana permit the negro Senator Demas, who was guilty of the grossest perjury, and . who was expelled from that body for that crime, to hold a seat among the I Senators of the State of Louisiana. 2. , an the House permit the white Repre- a sentative Barret, of Rapides, and seveig flea, of Lafourche, who were expelled from its balls for the infamous crime -perjury to assume seats among the resentatives of the people of this onuealth. 3. Seven representa occupying what are termed can tote*a ekth were seated by a vote of the 1 Mouse after their claims had been I ,ya cozmmitteeof the Mouse. Can the I o se e u~es these megmbers and virtu reiprmentatives who might be seated under this agreement would doubtless . claim their mileage and per diem. Article 89 of the constitution says: The members of the Oeneral Assembly shall reooste from the publio treasury a oompensadon for ihtr wroiceu, which shall be eight dolars per day, during their attendanee going to and re turning from the sessions of their respeetire housees. Under this article of the constitution, can these men, who have never per formed an hour's service in the Legisla ture, but who, on the contrary, have been engaged in a prolonged, desperate and treasonable attack upon the inter ests, peace and government of the State be legally paid the thousands of dollars which they will claim out of the treas ury of a people they helped to rob and whom they have been instrumental in ruining? G. Will the Legislature, constituted on the proposed basis embracing in its membership a large element of conspirators against the peace and interests of the State represent the wishes of the people in the election of a United States Senator? Will not a powerful move ment be made, in a body thus evenly balanced, and with a large corrupt ele ment in it, to bring about a combination to elect a jobbing politician of question ble principles and objectionable record to the Senate ? These are serious questions to be con sidered in discussing this settlement. The government should stand squarely upon the constitution. In this settle ment no provision of the constitution, no principle of local self-government, should be violated. Our position is impregnable; the establishment of our government is inevitable. At the same time we should make no factious opposition to any proposi tion ofsettlement submitted by the Pres ident's commissioners. We have won; the victory is ours. To overthrow the legal government of this State now would require the mustering of armies and the inauguration of war. It is proper, therefore, that while standing by our rights, we should exhibit a dis position to meet, as far as lies in our power, the wishes of the President, and accept a settlement of our affairs with his commission on any terms which will not involve a concession of princi ple or a sacrifice of honor. ANOTHER BOANEKOBAN ASSAULT ON THE PRESIDENT. Old Ben Wade, of Ohio, has relieved himself of an enormous accumulation of bile by writing and publishing a let ter of the fiercest invective against President Hayes, with side licks at his Bichelieu, Stanley Matthews. Stanley's great provocation was his beating old Ben for the Senatorship. The said Ben, who has been for fity years the robustious blackguard of Abolitionism and Radicalism in the Western Reserve of Ohio, has a very distinct recollection of, and takes a dia bolical pleasure in, recalling the inci dents in his successful rival's political career when the latter was one of the most stalwart and aggressive of the old Democracy. And now, when he finds one of his own race and sect calling into his council Buchanan's old District Attor ney, who so gallantly and vigorously fought all Abolitiondom and Free-soil lam, in enforcing with the utmost rigor the "Satanic Fugitive Slave law," it is not possible for the old Western Re serve Boanerges to restrain his pro fanity and disgust. Hence the fierce wrath with which he denounces Presi dent Hayes' acceptance of the largest paving contract of the age-that of "paving hell with good intentions." Providing Hayes executes this con tract with fidelity we know no old poli tician of the day who has a greater or nearer interest in securing safe and easy passage through the highways of that constant, and presumably so near, objective point of Wade's political travels for the half century. The last public employment of Wade was as examiner of the Pacific Railroad, to ascertain and report upon its honest construction. One of the caricaturists for an illustrated newspaper published at the North executed a very hu morous sketch of the manner in which he discharged this duty. In this picture the grim old Reserver is represented as seated on the rear platform of the last car of a train, with a bottle of whisky in one hand and a note book in the other, whilst the cars are whirling across the plain at the rate of forty miles per hour. In this manner old Ben made his observations of the way in which the great Pacific Railroad swindlers had executed their contract with the government. Censid ering the quantity and quality of the whisky, the said bottle being renewed at the expense of the company every ten miles, it is not surprising that Ben's report was strongly suffused with cou leur de rose and redolent of the odor of mingled strichnine and corn juice. Now, could not we suggest that a much more graphic sketch could be drawn by the same artist of the drive, which cannot be far off, of this ancient roadster through the main street of Hades in a dog cart, with old Simon Cameron for his companion, over the new pavement, laid with the good in tentions of his friend and President, Hayes-the two venerable sinners the while imparting new volume and strength to the sulphurous atmosphere of that locality by their inexhaustible profanity and foul epithets launched at the devoted head of the honest con tractor who had facilitated their rapid progress to the palace of Old Pluto, who has so long awaited their congenial i society and wise counseL It must be admitted that HayesaIs a child of luck, upon Rihom fortune has .s0t.'~r tehestk f aud'.e ed best thing which has rooently befallen ns him is the cooinidence of denunciation m. and abuse of his sats, his character and his polloy, by two such consummate de all tamers and deflers of everybody and ton everything, wherein the human domil r nates the diabolic, as Ben Wade and Ive Wendell Phillips. The perusal of Old Ben's sulphurous 'n, phillipie against Hayes recalls to our ur- recollection the last occasion, when we A' had the satisfaction of contemplating ve and admiring his prodigious endow to ments of profanity, vulgarity and bar ir- barism-and, strangely enough, on that te occasion he was accompanied by R. re B. Hayes, whose mild, gentleman '5- ly and liberal tone and bearing id were placed in impressive contrast with in the coarse and narrow-minded trucu e, lency of the then Senator from Ohio. - It was during a congressional excursion ye in 1860 that they came to this city in a 1e large company of members of Congress s - and other notabilities. The excursion le ists were met at Canton, Mississippi, by I )s a committee of gentlemen from this city, 1 a- and unusual and sincere hospitalities e Y and courtesies were extended to them. e a Throughout the whole intercourse of l our citizens with Ben Wade there was 1- manifested by him an invincible repug- 4 d nance and sourness, a scarcely con cealed spirit of malevolent bitterness to- c - wards our people, our institutions and s t* habits, and every ceremonial and uus- t Y tom which the rules of refined society t ' demand, and which gentlemen always v I appreciate and conform to, and c even our acknowledged superior cuisine r e and wines came in for a share t of his scornful criticism. Our people j - were debased, in his view, by high liv e Ing, because they preferred good claret ý" and cognac to hard cider and rot-gut r whisky. They were sunken in sin and iniquity, as were the people of Sodom d e and Gomorrab, because they wasted v Stheir substance on fin , clothes and s their time in sitting at 1 st a half hour a e at their dinners. Our habits were so d luxurious and depraved that even the t naturally good and virtuous negro had b r been corrupted and seduced into indo- a lence. Then, as to our politics, upon ' & which he dilated with the most untir I lng volubility, we were in outer dark- d ness. "Robeldom," so far from elicit- a ing from this old Abolitionist any tol- a erance or commiseration .for its mis fortunes and admiration for the heroism and fortitude with which its peo- r I ple had borne the trials and sufferings it b 1 had involved, had, according to Ben, h - been too mildly handled. "Hell fire" i t ought to nave swept like a tornado t 3 through the whole South. He never F saw a distinguished soldier of our war h o that he did not consider that there had i1 been a failure of justice or of the hemp r crop. Assigned a conspicuous seat at a h f splendid entertainment given to the ex- g cursionists at Magnolia, old Ben, after a r helping himself to whatever was in a reach, in ten minutes had finished his tj - repast and, without excusing himself, tl I retired hastily to enjoy his ten cent b pipe on the gallery. Mr. Roselius, who I presided at the dinner, in a conversa- p tion afterward, in reply to a malediction a s of old Ben about the waste of time , and enervation of long dinners, re- i marked that the habit of guzzling or si bolting food was one of the causes of p the great prevalence of dyspepsia among Americans; and yet he admitted that o, there were precedents for this habit. a Even the great Napoleon was a bolter tc and never spent more than half an hour ce at any meal. al uo tmuy wnvas. "Half an hour! Thirty minutes!" ex claimed old Ben, "Why he was an in fernal glutton." It was, indeed, a great relief to get away from the society and the everlast ing political tirades of this old black guard, and to enjoy the agreeable and pleasant companionship of his Congres sional colleague, the then Gen. R. B. Hayes, who in all his intercourse with our people, manifested a cordial sym pathy and fraternity towards them, and a delicacy and tact in the choice of topics of conversation which impressed most favorably and kindly all with whom he was brought into intercourse. To an old acquaintance in this city, he remarked, "I am so tired of all this po litical talk that you would greatly re lieve and gratify me by introducing me to some of those boys who used to give me so much trouble and so many flog gings in Virginia in 1862, '63 and '64." The gentleman introduced him to several of our Confederate heroes of the old Virginia army, with whom Hayes found himself instantly at home, and whose military reminiscences he greatly enjoyed. Among them was the late Gen. Harry T. Hays. It was an inter esting coincidence that the brigades commanded by these two Generals of the same name had been frequently opposed in the fierce rencontres of the Virginia campaign. Both Generals had been wounded in the same battle. There were frequent captures by each brigade of the officers and privates of the other. Thus there grew up a sort of brother hood and sympathy between them, which led the captors to give special consideration to their-prisoners, and to practice a sort of esprit de corps in the interchange of many acts of a kindly and friendly nature, such as brave soldiers take a great pleasure and pride in. No two men who had been engaged in mortal combat could have enjoyed the society of each other with more sincere cordiality and sympathy than these two generals of the same name and rank. Their conversation and manifestatlozi s of kindly sentiments toward each other made a deep impression on those wo were present on the convivial occas n which brought them together, and obn Iarmed the favorable estimate of jhis personal qualities which Ge. _ k. oitliens on the occasion of the only visit he ever made to this city. This estimate will be still further jus tified and vindicated by his fidelity in redeeming the brave pledges which he has made to relieve our State and peo ple of the wrongs and oppressions to which they have been so longsubjected, in spite and scorn of the brutal dia tribes of such diabolic traducers of all that is generous, brave and noble in human nature as Ben Wade and Wen dell Phillips. it THE PkCIULANT PISBOL. We quote as follows from the local columns of this morning's DEMOCRAT: g "Officer Daily saw two suspicious h looking characters lurking about the place, and when he approached them they ran off. He fired two shots at the ' supposed burglars, but without effect." We congratulate Officer Daily upon s having missed his aim. We do not know Officer Daily, and therefore are r inclined to suppose that he is a very prudent and discreet man, and at the 5 start we want it to be distinctly under * stood that we do not blame Officer f Daily. Officer Daily, or Officer Smith, 3 or Officer Thompson (with or without a p) is a representative man. He repre sents ideally (because we do not speak of him in the concrete, but in the ab 1 stract,) the Metropolitan who has, by " the Radical and carpet-bag regime, been invested with a revolver, with power of life and death over every citizen who may be within range of his weapon, and whom he may imagine to be criminally intent. Officer Daily, or Smith, or Thompson, evident ly runs in grooves. He sees two men lurking about a place. True to "met ropolitan" traditions, he makes no more ado, but after calling for uncon ditional surrender, whips out his re volver and lets fly at them. Supposing now, ea abourdis, that the aforesaid officer in the abstract was a dead shot, both of his balls would have taken effect, and the two supposed 1 burglars would have been to-day fit subjects for experimentative cremation. To put the thing in black and white Officer Daily would have been a mur derer. Any man, officer or not, is a murdeter who kills another man, unless placed by that man in imminent peril of his life. The police officer has a duty to perform, it is to arrest bad characters, but he is not a public executioner. He has no right to kill. He may be per mitted to carry a loaded pistol, in these troublous times, because his life would perhaps not be safe without it; but he has no right to use it, unless placed in imminent peril. When a man murders, even his father, he is given a chance. He is tried re gularly before a recognized tribunal, is allowed counsel to see him through, and if he hangs, as he ought to, it is with the solemn sanction of the law. Why, then, should a party, simply suspected, be summarily executed? In Europe, particularly in France, the policeman or gendarme is not allowed a revolver, pistol or gun. In France he wears a sword and is positively prohib ited from using it unless forced to in self-defense. We think that this is very proper. In a former article we have expressed our dislike for the revolver as a pocket institution for gentlemen to carry about and shoot inno cent third parties, as they invari ably do. To-day, we contend that a po liceman who shoots anybody on the street is as much a murderer as anybody else who does the same thing. The policeman is the custodian of the life and property of all citi zens. He has a high and sacred mission, which he ought not to con sider lightly. It is better that a criminal should escape than that an innocent man should be sacria fleed. A dangerous custom has been established under the Warmoth and Kellogg governments that have been a composite of anarchy and despotism. It must be done away with, and all reminiscences of this regime must be obliterated. It is true that the average policeman generally misses his man, but this is no excuse. It must be established that, whether he hits or not, he errs on general principles and ought to be punished. As we have said before, the above Is not directed against Officer DaIly. He missed his supposed burglars like a little man, and we again congratulate him upon the fortunate, though not unusual circum stance, but we cling to the idea that there Is some margin for reform In the shooting business. GREAT INDUCEMENTS --To buyers of WALL PAPER AND WINDOW SHADES. I'rices that defy competition. F. NEWHALL, aptl im 2dp 4o0 amp s'reet. Mattings, Oil Clotlhs, Carpets. ELKIN & CO., 168............canal street...........168 Are receiving now styles of FANCY CANTON MAT IN*.M. BRUSSELS and IN6RAIN CAMP. T4 and FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, All at the Lowoet Prices. aps Im2dp W. W. WA SHBURN, ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER, 113 Canal steet. Opposite Claw Statue. New Orleans. Mr. WAiRHBUBN Is himself an artist of twenty-five years experience, and is supported In each department by a orps of assistan who have no superiors In this or the Old World. oe is the master of his business. Besid em~%ý1n 'the best artists he uses the anm es the best work on the tinent. Ion may eall this "BLOWING HIS OWEROUN." JEWELRY A'T AfIOTION? -~--0- I. C. LEVI, Auctioneer, 108............................C anal Street...........................f+ WILL OPPER, TWICE A WfEE, HIS LARGE AND ELEGANT STOCK OF JEWELRY AT AUCTION, And remainder daywisell at Private Sale, as usual, tn ai FIVE to T8W1'Jill 0> N~ LbS hanany other establishment whiob advertises enai.M Watches Repaired and Diamonds Reset mhao im Only by skillful workmen, at the lowest rates. OLD CHICKERING PIANOS In this City, Ire= Twesnty to Forty Years in Coustast Thsee ame HIardly a Pair Criteriou of the s IIICKi RlING PAANOS That Are Now Bring Manufactured. The"New Soale Upright IEbickervng Piano is a P1ERPEOT MODEL. Be Sure You Get she Chickering if You Want the BENT PIANO. FOR SALE BY PHILIP W'L3I11, Nas. 78 and 90 Baronne street, mblt 1 On Monthly Payments. Liberal Discount for Cash. A. M. HILL, GOLD PIEN MAJ'Ti U13'AC`T URflRI NO. 86 ST. CHARLES ST.. NEW ORLEANS, LA. Exact Sizes and Prices of my Extra (old Perth " N.. 1 No.* No 8 No. N.6 No.5 No. 4 N(a. ss 1W 1 0 l5 9360 s3 2150 14 2l Sti is $10ie y1 Th These Pens have been used throughout t111,4 Mouth and West. for the part tWe lti_ rAS They are Solid Gold. Diamnond Pointed, and w wranted. If any Pen proves defoeiyve, i~gis. place it with another one Ifee of charge.9 I will take broken or worn out Gold Pens in change for new ones, at the tollowiniei Mame sires as Nos. 1. sand i, 26 cents; Noe. 4 ana itn2 cents; Dios. oand 7, 60 eenis; 11. S. No, 9,$ "N.SS i 0 R~UBBER. POCKET HOLDERS for any size except Roe. I and 10, $1 GOLD-MOUNTiE POCKET POLDERS, for Ros,*.4.5.4and i. Sent by registered mail, at my risk, on receipt of price, or by I xoress 0. O. D. GOLD RING SPECIALTY, 300 DIFFEiCEN? STYLES. A. M. HILL, JEWELER, NO. MG ST. CHARLES STREET, NEW ORILEANS, LA. MY PRICES ARE ALWAYS THE LOWEST. DIAMOND RINGS FROM $16 UPWARDS. AMETHYST RINGS, the largest stock in the South. All sizes, shapes and st les $4 to ,N. CIAME,) RING8. The best assortment of fancy stones in the city. PRIOES W.0 etRilL AND GARINET RINGS, Single stones and clusters in grent variety IAA. SEAL RING . (Pink Onyx.) Medium size $e, large size $10. 1NY LETT . a complete assortment of elaies' and gentlemen's eal lngs wit blood stoneii moss ate pink, rad, gray. black, white, purple and green onyx settings, at prices from IS small fin gs, to si5,s5 C 1 and upwardsufor the finer qualities. PLATT GOLD RING I niwas keep a lull stockrof these rings and van f h gs width or quality. Prices 53 to 520. Orders filled same day receiv'*d. Initials or lnqrvtono grve atf s c nt etr.in ordring ring, measure the largest joint of the finger wit nagge5 C .OZa*.sALI 7TWWO2W. 25 different styles solid gold buttons, Si. s1 So, 52. 52 60, 53 and 58. Gold. Etruscan. Blo od Stone, Onyx, Ac. krices 51 5.So. 854sos and upwards. - olicI CGoldC aleere Brattoe. In almost osaat variety as Studs. Prices from 526 upslwards. INI.TIAL CTIFF BUTTONS, No.1, fine gold and black enammeled letter......... ,,2,, raised letters......................5K ............. .................... ."but laruer.. . ... Any article sent safely by registered mail at my risk on receipt of rie or ,lOD yh prbess with privilege of examination if desired. Address as above. AMERICAN " WALTHAM " WATCH AGENCY. A. 31. BILL, Jeweler, No. 86 ST. CHARLES STREET, Corner of Commercial Placet', NEW ORLMAUM* THE AMERICAN WATCH COMPANY, of Waltham, Maass emplo 500 workrpenn 426 Watches a day and have a capital of 6l.seeoec. l he e W~atches receive FlUENT AWAIabS at Philadelphia, over and above all Watches, either oL to er American manufacture. REVISED AND REDUCED PRIC( IST a Aid The following watches are al patent le0s. jeweled, same size as the illustration. and sold unuer full gnarantee: Solid Silver Watch. same as illustratfin.... £4 Solid Silver Watch, open face and lat glass. U Solid Silver Stem-Winder, no key reeuIred.. M Solid Gold Watch, a on. 14 karat ease......... U Solid Gold Watch, 2 oz. 18 karat case......... U S-did Gold Stem-Winder. 2% ou,14 karat case 15 Solid Gold htem-Winder, 2% o0,18 karat ease a LABIENt' WATOCES. One-half size of illustration. Solid Gold Watch, 14 karat ease............... Y Sol'd Gold Watch. 1i karatewse............. M Solid Gold Stem-Winder, 14 karat ease....... N Solid Gold Stem-Winder, 1i karat case....... 70 BOY ' WATI II. Ona-half size of illastratina. Solid Silver Watch, strong and heavy........ U In addition to above. I have seventy-fve dl.* forent sty es, prices from $14 to 6825. For the plantation, farm or working man Gto $14 Watch or 6ss Stem-Winder will proen all that is required. I will send Watches by Express, C. O. D., with the orivileve to oven the isekage sn examine the Watch by paying "xpress charges. and to refuse the Watch if it does not suit. Sen your addr-ss for Illust awed Price List Address me as btove. noes Usi Di)s.ases of the E~ye and Mar. D f. C. M EAR O, OOVLtIS LV AND A U RIST, 143 mat1 ,great J~o*3o~.Sao DH. JOHN 0. ANOULL, DENTAL SURGEON, A flu retuned and resumed tae wraiha t eM profemalon. owes-ter C&NAL $ U.