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E NEW ORLEANS DAILY DEMOCRAT,
: ,., OJ'.rOILAL OURINAL 0O THEB TATE 01 LO0ISIANA.
VOL. il-NO. 127. NEW ORLEANS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1877. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
8 OUTIEBN DElOCRATS.
A .tWa that hs Meni al teces are In Be
amrve Ift Them.
, im hatresa.e fBr any Demonret who
AWi Yete with the Admtlnlrstrali.
ARlU the elethern e Rmoeratl Betase the
Balt.
j[Apalt to the N. O. Demoerat.]
WasamseeoW, April 25. -The mem
ti r of the Oomufision have left here
,or their respective homes. They
whad a consultation with the Presi
dent at whoih the subject of Federal
. ppolantsante In Louisiana was dis
oIusaismed, but I could not asoertain that
a.i ything definite was arrived at. A
Spr.:iminent Democratic candidate for the
8Upeakership says that he has personal
knowledge that the most important
Peleral appointments in South
Carolina, Georgia and all the
,Glt States are held in abeyance
for Stanley Matthews and Garfield to
trade on in the contest for the Speaker
.hip; he says that a proposition will be
mIade to that portion of Democratic
delegation from those States which are
of Whig anteoedents, to abandon the
regular Democratic caucus and aot in
dependently, the consideration being a
control of the Federal patronage in
their respective States. My inform
, an.t l tioned the names of several
. emooets who are confidently counted
eOn to fall . with this programme,
:sad thenf me letters from every
,.e of "i glng their support to
h-gntef at their first or second
rhlce. It is sertain that the disposal
-of the patronage is being delayed in all
.igs where it can be done, and recent
..vants, to say the least, give a strong
.41or of probabilitydo the theory of the
.Desloaraieo eandidate for Speaker afore
.l t should be added that the gen
tlmanl himself entertains no apprehen
j lo that any of these Southern Demo
oate can be Induced to desert the
,- bins for any amount of Federal pa
týroaa_ BVZLL.
PADUO H, um.
-,eehs g ftros Mleves Hundred 8ympa
, lsdug Keatuckias.
. [lella to N. 0 Demooist.]
. Pauo01, ~ y., April 15.-The "Gibral- .
p c ti, i~,lt" of the Kentucky Demoo
si4 y rejoices with you and your people
In the restoration of local State govern
, antt in Louaiana, and send greetings
to low. F. T. Nicholls and the noble
a .ray of patriots who have stood by him
nd tshe right so faithfully. We rejoice
with you, and praise. God for your de
41,eraoe.
K. WGayor of PIs Irn. 0. FPaon, editor I
Daily News,
I W ]owlurs, T. J. Akinr, wholesale
P& lournoy, grocor
wioIfle grooere. Below A Reed, Bloh
John i. Noble, mond House
lt ieraMld, John Ky, tobacoonist,
& Thompso, J. Shrewsbury,
Daily News, Capt. Bright,
L ,Dbean ker, D. Smedley,
k.; °;,, toba 0oorbett, Pe oeron & Co., I
mhp t . tobeooonlste,
I.. . Trim- W. 0. Clark,
A. 8. Gardlner,
a Hobson, to- R~6. P. Noble,
U t. .obb, Mice Kete Woolfolk,
o ..o a Mrs. T. J. Below,
" .S . e.d, Miss Maggie MoOlellan,
il. ilan, ,Mrs. Marion MoOlellan, I
& eTerrell, to- Jas. Brown, Dally News,
S E. P. Overstreet,
Dr. Joe Thompson,
U d Tress, 0. J. Morton, wholesale
oMb itot. , dry aoods,
F Ju aeaLader, Bon. Henry Burnett,
. PIoo, New Oreanhs, anrod 100 other.
TANQIPAROA.
'x` i ellvsreasee of Loutslana from Car
pmet-am Rule.
[Speelal to N. 0. Democrat.]
Axrrs, April 5.--Amidst the ringing
"of betls sad the firing of one hundred
Sgu.- s by Headerson's Battery, the peo
p. e asm. bled to give expression of their
} joy at the deliversne of Louisiana from
~ayoaet sad earpet-bag rule,
3. M. WnaoGH.
0. 5. STEWART.
I- --..- --
MOBR GUNS.
'*n rindre sand Thirty-Eliht tuans In
,ener of a Solid South.
.M IDIANx, MIss., April 25.
~ To E. N. Ogden, Attorney General, New Orleans:
Meridian fres one hundre4 and thirty
iglht gunsIp honor of Nicholls, Hamp
h ton and a solid South. God bless my
uativ Louisiana. R. L. HENDtnSON.
" O R I 3UNDR3 GUN8 !
Yesterday the citizens of Coushatta
dal.iged in a glorification over the die
' th talment of Louisiana, in the man
Ma explained in the following telegram :
.. souarrm, April 25, 1877, 12:25 p. m.
W. . Sjtrong, Seoretary of SBate, New Or.
- . t fired one-hundred guns, il tire
n hundred more on the second day of
- y.- G(uo. W. CAwnoa.
was mierse.
?-. " e gramee of the Rasml Armny o
- the as7--e.
oto April 9.-ThEduvanoe
the Pru inludes eav
ý be l de ýI
been ezohanged between the belliger
ents in Asia.
The Bussians, after orossing the Pruth,
took the direction of Galatz. 1
The Bussians will reach the Danube
at Ismall, Kills and Vilosf.
TU wt.-lartUE J ULWAN PARTY. '
Views of seeretary ThemeM on the NIe
eerlity and Organlsaelon or a New
(ate i. Louli Bapablihe.]
WASHoroGTO, April 92.-The Daily Na
tion, of this city, which recently an
nounced itself as the organ of a new
Whig party, will to-morrow print a long
interview with Secretory Thompson,
from which the following is taken:
"The country is now in a condition
favorable to the' adoption of the prinol
pies which were the platform of the old
Whii party, which part always favored
a tariff for revenue with disoriminating
duties protective of American labor, a
liberal system of public improvements
and a sound national currency.
"The principle that the Federal gov
ernment shall control such public imra.
provemePts has been finally estab
lished. The people of the South are
now in an impoverished condition. The
people of the North are rich, and what
is needed s such a system of public
improvements as will benefit that sec
tion of the country; suoh measures as
will impress upon the Southern people
that we are their friends and brothers;
that we intend to live with them as
members of the same family and to ad
vance their interests and prosperity by
means of the power which is in our
hands. I think that we can demon
strate our professions of friendship in no
better way than this.
"I should like to express an opinion
as to individuals, but in the event of
the formation of a new party it would
seem to me that such men as Hill,
Lamar, Hampton and Watterson would
probably cut loose from old organiza
tions and coalesce with a party organ
ized on old Whig principles. The name
of the party is wholly immaterial. If a
new party were organized or the Repub
llcan party so reorganized as to recog
nize Whig measures as distinct fea
tures of it, the old Whig members in the
South would fall into the ranks.
"Owing to the prejudices existing in the
South, it might be found necessary to
have a change of name. The Whigs of
the South are not Democrats. They
never were and never will be, and they
will go into a new organization if it car
ries in it old Whig principles, or even
into an old organization governed by
these principles. Taey regard the old
Whig party as embracing pure prinoi
ples and patriotic desires. I have al
ways said that when the country became
diseased, it could only be cured by Whig
remedies, and whenever we have suf
fered from misgovernment, or misman
agement, we have applied to Whig
remedies for relief."
Editor of the Nation-On Tuesday
last the Nation published a platform. I
quote the three principles enumerated:
1. A national currency founded on a
bimetallic standard and sufficient for
the wants of healthy trade.
2. A system of interval improvements
such as private capital is powerless to
construct, but which is.essential to the
development of the country's resources.
3. A tariff sufficient to keep employed
such manufacturing establishments as
I are already in operation, such new in
dustries as will tend to develop the natu
ral wealth of the country and create a
balance of trade in our favor. Would
you be kind enough to give me your
opinion of it?
The Secretary-That embraces my
ideas exactly. These principles ought
to be embraced by the Republican
party. I have already expressed my
opinion upon the question of internal
improvements. Regarding the cur
rency I am in favor of a gold
and silver basis. I think it
would have been better for the
interest of the country if silver had
never been disturbed, and I regard the
acts of its demonetization as one of ill
judged legislation to say the least. The
power of the government should be
pledged to furnish a stated and unvary
ing currency. There can be no contro
versy about that. Our currency ought
to be national, a legal tender for cus
toms dues and all other dues, and rest
Ing upon a metallic basis. I think that
a new Whig party would command a
strong following in Indiana, but the Re.
publican party inspired by Whig princi
ples would find a stronger.
nalet at Last.
[Obicago Times.]
Te Deumn laudamus! At last the civil
war is over. After sixteen years of
sttife and commotion the war-flag is
failed, and peace again spreads her
wings over the American nation. The
last act in the vast drama of blood,
whose prologue began with the landing
of the first cargo of African slaves in
America by the ill-omened Mayflower,
is concluded by the order of President
Hayes withdrawing the appliances of
war which so long have superseded civil
government in Louisiana. It is an event
in our history which marks the actual
inauguration of a new epoch.
It is an event which fills the whole
land with gladness. From Lee's sur
render to the present time the country
has yearned for peace-for rest from the
turmoil of war and war politics, which
the demagogues of partyism would not
let it have. The continuance of war
policles was found necessary to advance
the personal fortunes and political am
bition of a numerous brood of heroic
demagogues. There was a party of
reckless demagogues to be kept in
the places of power at any sacrifice of
the public well-being. There was a
party of reactionary demagogues to be
out into the places of power at any
sacrifice of ·the results of the war.
To serve for the purposes of the former,
the politics of war must be continued.
To serve the purposes of the latter, the
polities of the slavery period must be
revived. The unexpected oourse of-the
Hayes government has given the coun
try a victory over both. It has brought
the politics of war to an end. But it
has not revived the polities of Bourbon
ism. It has done in both directions
what probably it would have been im.
possible for any government which Mr.
Tilden could have formed to do. It has
eahausted evertom of the " war capl
S"} o
OUR WASHINGTON LETTEMB.
the Power of Bussl to Inavade Turkish
Soil questioned.
The Turkish and RBsslan havies ComI
pared.
England's Support of Turkey and Prob.
able Ulterior lotion.
(Special.Correspondenoe N. O. Democrats]
WAsuxrrowx, April 22, 1877.
Generally speaking, the impending crisis in
Europe presets few featuree of novelty. It is
simply a freesh outbreak of a traditional disturb
inae, and, most of the inspired editorial prophets i
of great Amerisan Journalism to the contrary I
notwithstanding, will undoubtedly end very muoh I
as all preceding outbreaks in that quarter have
ended. That is to say, the Turks and Bussians
will ight one or two oampalgns on their tradi
tional battleground, between the Bitver Pruth
and the Balkan Mountains; the Itussians will win
the battles and the Turks the campaigns-an
anomaly in warfare peculliar to the conflits of
these two nations-and then a new peace
will be patched up. I do not share
the visions of those who imagine
that Turkey is to be effaced from the map by this
war. Supposing, for the sake of argument, that
the other powers of Europe remain entirely neu
tral, there is neither the invaeive energy nor the
offensive resource in the Russian Empihe re
quisite for that sort of conquest which would
involve the destruo:ion of the Turkish State and
the extirpation of the faith of Islam - a p lltioal
power in Europe. The Turk is physically quite
superior to the Bussian. Mentally he is also
RuNER AND DUrOUTEu
than his Northern foe. He is a nastral soldier,
while the 4ussian becomes one only by compul
sion. The Turk is taught from infancy to regard
himself as % lord of the d main in whioh he lives
and, deficient as may be his education in other
respeots, he is faultlessly schooled ino the love of
the glory of his forefathers and in the traditions
of their conquests. The Russian on the other
hand is taught to regard himself as the slave of
the nearest nobleman, and in turq to regard his
master as
THE ,LAVr OF THE CZAR.
Military duty is, in the estimation of the Turk,
the only occupation in which a gentleman can
consistently undertake toil, suffer privation or
undergo the restraints of disoipl noe; and a rifle
is, in his eyes, the only implement with which a
gentleman can consistently soil his hands.
The Rusasin regards military duty as the most
disagreeable part o' the servitude which consti
tutes his lire, because its discipline debars him
from his favorite pastime of getting drunk,
while its removal of himself from his home pre
cludt es his pet relahatibn of
BEATING HIS WIFE.
The Turk is brave because he is more a'raid of a
the scorn of his fellows than he is of the perdi
of battle, while the Russian is brave because he
is more afraid of his master who commands him
than he is of the enemy that confronts him.
Thus, when the armies of these two nations
meet, Ik.Tnrk Aihts with a ferocity unknown to ii
any other soldiery, while the Ruslian contends r
with a stolid stubbornness just as unique in its s
way. So far as the history of the past goes to a
show, the execution done by the Turk in battle a
far surpasses that of the Buseian. The latter I
stands killing as well as the former, but cannot t
inflict injury with equal facility; while the Turk, '
taking pnotuhment every bit as gamely as the
Bussian, gives it back with t
IrFINITELY eZRATzn ENERGY. t
Primarily the iussian is leost fitted for offensive 1
warfare of all civilized races.
The military history of Russia--that is to say, c
of her active participation in the military affairs
of Europe--overs a period of three centuries;
but in all that time she has produced only two
commanders whose names are known to-day out
side of St. Petersburg or Moscow. They are
IUWABBOw AND BENNIOHEN;
the first a Pole and the latter a German, born in
Sithuania. But the Muscovite race itself has
never produced a single soldier of eminence.
8uwarrow suoceeded in developing something
like aggressive energy in the armies of Russia.
And he bred a class of subordinate com
manders who outlived him, and who made
the Russian army cut quite a re
spectable figure in the closing conflicts I
of the Napoleonic era. Bennigsen was the most c
notable of SBwarrow's scholars. His fame rests
on his two battles of Friedland and Preuss Ey- I
lan, where he held his own against Napoleon I
himself, in the zenith of the great Emperor's t
career, when the French army was in the merid.
ian of its might, and when its corps w' re led 1
and its divisions handled by Ney. Davoust, I
d'Hautpolt, Angerean, Latour, Maubourg and
Dronot. But Russia has never developed another
soldier lke Bennigsen. She let him die in pov
erty and disgrace, because some thick-headed I
Grand Duke became jealous of him, and since
his time genius has never dared to assert itself
for fear of sharing his fate. Thaus, ever since
Friedland and Preuss E luan, the Russian armies
have been commanded by sons, brothers or
cousins of the House of Romanoff, which is the
only dynasty in Europe that
NEVER PRODUOCD A BOLDIER.
At present Russia is more utterly destitute of
military ability than she has been heretofore in a
hundred years. The heir apparent to the throne
is said to be of promi e in that direction, and has
eertainly shown some administrative capacity in
his recent reortannlz tion of portions of the army.
But something besides administrative ability will
be required when the Bassians reach the Danube
and confront the main Turkish army, directed as
it will be by English brains, fightin I on a line of
defenses planned by English engineers, and sup
p mrted by a system of resoauros devised by
A EzNOLIH STAFF.
The Russiads may succeed in crossing the
Danube and getting into Bulgaria, but they are
much more likely to be severely defeated in half
a dozen attempts to cross, and then followed into
Boumants by the Turks. It must be b rue in
mind that the Danube, from Gladova, near the
Austrian boundary to Ismail, near the sea, is as
I large a stream as the Mississippi between Cairo
and New Orleans, and that it is asolatey com
manded all the way by a Turkish kjits. If the
B rasi as nesed in arsiog I t eI esaneo
malotain ther domasaUleitio 5 ;i . hotilla
powers. no So tes reenme asel( Tarks,
across the Danube, and through Bulgaria, they
must then cross the Balkan Mountaius only to i
ind themelves in the provinoe of BoaImelia,
which is to Turkey what England is to the
British, or the old province of Brandenburg to
the German Empire. Here, then, we should I
have a BRussian army with a broad river, two wide I
hoetile prolMnee, and a rugged range of moun- 4
taine in its rat; an army of desperate fanatics
1n its front and an equally fenatical population all 1
around its camp. There is a large element of
Greek Christians in she population of Bulgaria
whieh, if not altogether friendly, would not be
implac.bly hostile to the BRussian invader. But
roumells Is almost exclusively
PUOPLID WrTI MOnAKMMDAnlS,
and every step of the two hundred miles between
the Southern foot of the Balkans and Constauti
nople would be contested by four hundred thons.
sad Turks, fighting for their religion, their Pope,
their hareme, and the ingrained traditions of
their race; fighting their hereditary foe, whom
they hate with a hatred that has lost its national
character and become personal; fighting, more
over, under the direction of English brains, with
English weapons, and sustained by English re
sources.
It is said that lRusis can mobilize six hundred
thousand fighting men for foreign service; that
is to say reckonig her invasive force at two
fifths of her total military resource, which is a
large estimate ; for it mustbe borne in mind that
strong autocratic governments like Russia can
never spare so large a proportion of their jnili
tary strength for foreign service as free or popu
lar governments like Great Britain can. But
suppose the lessians could get the flower of an
army across the Balkans, which had numbered
six hundred thousand at the crossing of the
Danube. That would imply a fighting force of
say four hundred thousand fairly debouched upon
Roumelis. They would not then decisively out.
number the Turks, and the logic of history is
cumulative to teach that with anything like
equal numbers and an equal ground the nsesians
are
NO MATCH FOR THE TURKS.
In times put two RIussian armies have gotten
across the Balkans. One was annihilated and
the other surrendered. The fate of the third
would, in all human probability, be the same.
THE OTRR LAND APPROACH
to Constantinople, that is to say over the Geor
gian aoucasus along the southern shores of the
Black Bea and through Asia Minor, is beset with
vastly more insurmountable natural obstacoles
than the European route. The way through a
por ion of the latter would be smoothed by the
presence of a large friendly element among the
native population, while the country for the whole
of the distance is fertile and thickly settled. But
in Asiatic Turkey, at least along the route indi
cated, the population is exclusively Mohammedan,
devotedly Turkish and deperately fanatical,
while the country itself is half desert and half
mountain, with no highways for the movement
of troops, and no product adequate to their sub
lrstence.
In short, it seems literally impossible for a o
Russian army to reach Constantinople from any i,
direction by land, even with no resietance but
that of Turkey to re'ard her progress.
THE APPOAOM liv isA
Is evea less feasible than either of the two land *
routes above discussed. In order to assail Con
stantinople by water the tussians would have to I
command the Black Sea with a naval force d
oapable of wiping out the 'urkish marine and t
keeping it wiped out. Such a force would have t
to be built in the Black Sea itself, because the ii
Turks control the entrance thereto, and no Rnas
sian ship purchased or construoted outside could f
get through the Dardanelles, to say nothing of t
the narrower and more strongly fortified Bos- t
phorous. Now, when it is knows that the Turk- r
ish navy in immediate readiness for the defense r
of Constantinople is rated in the lists of Europe
OONSIDERABLY STIRON.4R THAN
the entire Russian navy in all seas, it will be
readily perceived that the Turks are notin serious
danger from any attack by way of the Black Sea.
This is, of course, a very incomplete outline of
the situation; but it is suoiciently full to show
that the Turkish state is likely to outlive by sev.
eral weeks, if not months, the date of demolition 1
fixed by the sapient writers on our daily press.
Now if any journal ought to be well-informed on
European topics, that journal
IS TEE HERALD.
It has the most perfect system of European I
news-gathering known to Journalism, and it
ought to have better editorial sense than that i
displayed in recent comments on the respect- I
ive loroes and resources of the prospective com- 4
batants. Perhaps our friend Tim Bennett still i
cherishes the hops of marrying that Danish i
princess, and the present tone of the herald may 4
be intended to propitiate the Ozarowitch who has
hitherto shown a disposition to select his brother
in-law. I can imagine no other reason for the
Iherald's persistent falsification of the situation,
to the unodue exaltation of the Russian and to the
unfair depreciation of the Turk as
A FIGHTINO QUANTITY.
For it is clear to every well-informed mind
that, in case there is no interference or intervene
tion by the other powers of Europe, this war be
tween Turk y and Russia will drag itself out with
out any decisive result until the aggressive ener
ergies of BRussia are exhausted, and will then end
m a peace calculated to last until a new genera
tion of slaves can be raised in the Muscovite Em
pire to be butchered along the Danube,
TWsNTY TIABS HENKE,
in another vain effort to seat a thick-headed
Grand Duke on the throne of Constantine.
Not long since I met an English officer, a lien
tenant colonel in the British army, *ho was fa
miliar with the mi.tary aspect of the Eastern
question. He had seen service in the Crimean
war, and had latterly been engaged in important
engineering service for the Turkish government,
on leave of absence from the British army. The
above is a fair reflex of his views, attempered
with such general knowledge of the situation a
any student of history has at his command. He
told me, among other things, that itwas a mis
take to suppose that the Turkish race was decay
ing. He said that the degeneracy of Turkey was
confined to
TIlE RULING ParSTy,
which really ended in the person of Malhmoud
the Second, forty years ago, and which the next
convulsion would undoubtedly hurl from the
throne, to be replaced with new blood and new
brains. I met this gentlemae in 187.& He told
me that B is would renew the trsditon an
owln foont je JAW -* i would be fse
But he said that this reorganlsation woeld be
upon a basis of English,
nor OP RUOSIAN, 1SM", "
and that Russia would gain nothing in the con
foet but a renewal of that rupeet for English In
usonee, whish she had lost since 1M, through the
lnaopacity of Gladstone to deal with Continenta
questions.
The attitude of Great Britain i1l this fight is
best illustrated by a favorite saying of the elder
Pitt to the effect that money wae L
Oaiasrl THAI atoo D
in England, and hone, England shon'd never go
to war so long as she could hire others to fight 01
her battles. In this struggle Great Britain has
two sets of interest at stake : her Asiatli later
eats, which are perpetually menaced by the
steady approach of Russia towards the north
western frontier of India: and her commereial ri
supremacy in Europe, which her statesmen think rt
would be impaired by any extension of Buselas
territory toward the Mediterranean. It Is goner- o
ally regarded as a self.evident fact that England 0.
would fight to prevent t ae conquest of Boumelia
and the consequent oooupation of Constantinople e
by Bussia. But it m,proble that nothing short of rt
this menace to English commeretial interests p
could overcome the strong popular feeling which n
exists in England against any
AortIr ALLIANOc wlH THE TURIS. 9
The idea of spilling blood for the mere m ain- 8
tenance of the crescent as a politico-religious
power in Europe is altogether repugmant to John
Bull. But if the situation should present an
issue involving the extension of Russian marl.
time facilities, and a consequent curtailment of tj
England's supremacy upon the sea, then there is
not a particle of doubt that Great Britain would a
fight; nor is there any doubt that, in such a con
fliet, the national spirit of the British people b
would be unified.
However, so long as the Turks can make re- I
speotable head against the Russians on land, and
so long as the Turkish navy can command the p
approaches to Constantinople by sea, it is toler- p
ably certain that England would not mix in the C
struggle, except to furnish the Turks with sup
plies and to provide them with brain power in
the administrative departments of their army. a
At this moment the engineer and ordnance corps
of the Turkish army are
MAINLY OFFICEIED
by graduates of the English schools. while the t
other departments of staff service are rapidly
assuming a similar condition. When it is known
that there are now more than a thousand trained
and skilled Englismen in the military and naval
service of Turkey; or, to be mathematical, when t
it is known that Englishmen now hold about one I
twenty-fourth part of the total number of onm
missions in the service of the Sultan, the direc- I
tion in which the interests and sympathy if Eng' t
land tend will be readily apparent.
It has long been a silly fashion with our jour
nals to decry the influence of England and weep I
oopiously over her decay as a political factor in
the counotils or as a military power in the con- I
fliets of Europe. There is no foundation for this
theory, exoept in the fact that Gladstone on one
occasion failed to assert the inflnence of England
in a Continental compliestion. But Gladstone,
wI ith his policy of dreams and his Cabinet of dos
irinaires, is now in private life, and England has
an administration capabls of handling her re
souroes and asserting her supremacy.
I'TsIOCALLY SPxAKINe,
the warlike energies of England were never so
dreadful as they are to-day. Her navy, relatively
I to the navies of other powers, is infinitely more
terrible than it has ever been before. Her army
is greater than ever before in time of peace,
while the population from which she draws her
I fighting men is larger by nearly four millions
than at any time of European war in her past hie
tory. There is no reason to suppose that the
rank and file of the English army to-day is infe
rior to that soldiery, fourteen thousand of whom
beat fifty-four Russians at Inkermann twenty-two
years ago.
To my mind the American journalistio method
of destroying the influenoe and deoomposieg the
power of England constitutes one of
TAE Bimroas OF TZ TIMZ.
I can discover but a single element of weakness
in the British situation to-day, and that is an ele
ment which she seeme to have borrowed from the
United States; that is to say, within the last
twenty years the demagogue has made his ap
pearance in British politics. He has never
attaintl to power, however, except in
the person of the late Gladstone Ministry, and
° he is now in a decidedly powerless minority-de
voting his time to the Great Columbian oratory
and abstruse articles in the magazines. Bo far as
the demagogue has become an institution in
Great Britain, to that extent John Bull may be
1 considered deorepit. But let one blast of war
ring out to endanger the possessions or the pocket
of John, and you would speedily discover how
Smuoh of faset there is in the Fenian theory of his
decay. A. O. BUELL.
DOSNIAN REFUGEES.
Bolniaks Ntarving to Death in Anutrian
Terrltories.
ILondon Times.]
BELORADE, April 3.--A letter received
here from a wealthy merchant residing
in Bosnia, states that Turkish cruelties
rivaling those committed in Bulgaria
have been perpetrated in the villages of
Partoh Busovatchia, Podgoric, and
Valeschitza, in the district where this
merchant resides. He also states that
the delayed action of Russia has been
of great detriment to the Bosnian
Bayahs, but that they feel that ciroum
stances unitnown to themselves must
have influenced Russia in making this
delay, and they feel confident that Bus
sia will soon take more active steps to
wards relieving them from the miseries
they are now enduring.
The refugees now in Auitria have been
reduced to an allowance of five kreut
zers per diem; they formerly received
ten. This reduction is said to have been
made with the Intention of forcing the
refugees to return to their homes, but
they assert that those of their number
who have ventured to return have been
maltreated or murdered by the Moslem
Inhabitants. The Austrian p aper in
Croatia contain appeals for aid. to pre
vent the refugees from dying of starva
tion, as they are utterly unable to live
on five kreutzers-that is, five fatthings
ppr day. It is asserted here thIt sev
eral families who crossed the Drina
from Servia have been maltreatedand
some of them murdered by the Bosnlan
DsBuha-Bazouk.
H Iumu& ofPoo Jit* C,
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THE LEGISLATUR.C
TOVINQ INIro THE OLD STATI I OUML
Digtified and Novel Proeemlen.
The seasts.
The Senate met about 11 o'olook,
Lieut. Gov. Wilts presiding and twenty
Senators present.
Senator Zacharie, for the Committee
on Health and Quarantine, on House
bill No. 314, to amend the Mot to protect
the health of New Orleans, and locate a
slaughter-house, etc., reported favor
The report was adopted and the bill
read, when Senator Allain moved its
reference.
Mr. Zaoharie spoke, explaining the
character of the bill and the necessity
of its prompt passage.
Mr. Allan said he thought the bill
would create a monopoly again by re
establishing a slaughter-house at Oar
rollton something whloh had been oom
plained of in the past till it was re
moved below the city, where it should
remain. Unless strong reasons were
givenfor the bill he would have to vote
against it.
Senator Stamps favored the bill, as
far as he could understand its provi
sions.
Senator White thought the bill
changed but one section of the old law
the first section.
Mr. Allain's motion to refer was lost,
and the rules being suspended, on a
motion to pass finally, Mr. White rose
to say that he would vote against the
bill, as it would be opposed in the
courts, and it would fall to give the re
lief desired by the people of Carrollton.
Mr. Stamps said Mr. Hernandez,
president of the Slaughter-house Com
pany, had stated repeatedly that the
company had no objections to allowing
the prlvileges requested, provided the
Legislature was willing. The citizens
of Carrollton were willing to take the
chances.
The bill finally passed.
Senator Goode, for Judiciary Com
mittee, reported on House bill No. 836,
to authorize Maclin to sue the State,
favorably. The report lies over.
Senator Texada, for Committee on
Drainage and Navigation, reported fa
vorably on House bill No. 184, to ex- .
empt certain property from drainage
tax, Also reported favorably on House
bill No. 327, to repeal the act to inoor
parate the Lafourche Drainage Com
pany. The latter bill was finally passed,
the other lying over for future action.
Senator Grover, for Committee on
Corporations, reported on Senate bill
No. 165, to incorporate the Donaldson
ville Bridge Company, favorably.
The bill had been engrossed at the
instance of Senator Landry, author of
the bill, when Senator Boatner moved
to reconsider so as to amend by pro
viding that the bridge shall be con
structed so as not to obstruct the nat
gation of Bayou Lafourche.
Senator Ellis called for the reading o0
the section relative to tolls, but with
drew the call.
The bill was passed finally.
Mr. Stamps asked to take up Ho
bill 345. No action presently taken. I
Senator Mitchell offered a concurrent
resolution that the General Assembly
proceed in a body to assemble at the
State-House.
Senators Boatner and George thought
it as well to proceed where they are
with business. 'The resolution was
adopted.
House joint resolution for the relief of
the police jury of Jefferson (left bank)
was concurred in finally.
Senator Robertson called up House
bill No. 363, making appropriation of
$50 000 for expenses of the Legislature
and the contingent expenses of the
Governor. The bill was passed finally.
House bill No. 360, fixing the time of
holding court in the Ibera St. Marti
and St. Mary district, (Third Judicial
District), was read.
Pending consideration the Senators in
accordance with the resolution intro
duced by Mr. Mitchell, arranged their
papers for the purpose of proceeding in
a body, conjointly with the members of
the House, to the old State- ouse his
torically known as the St. Louis Hotel,
the proper motion therefor having bees
adopted under the terms of the resolu
tion.
The procession moved out of 04d4
Fellows' Hall shortly after the hour of
12 o'clock, attracting profound atten
tion from thousands of our citizens as
they filed along the route on both sides
of the streets.
Never before in the history of Louisi
ana has such a strange, yet gratifying,
spectacle been exhibited to the gratifi
cation of the patriotic people of this
State. It was a fitting consummation
of the redemption of Louisiana.
AT THE OLD STATE-HOUSB.
The Senate was called to order by the
President, Lieut. Gov. Wiltz. 33 Sen :
tors present. * &
Prayer by Rev. Father Allen.
House bill No. 336, noticed previously,...
was passed finally. .
Senator Allain in the chair.
Mr. White introduced a substitute
resolution to notify the House that the
Senate would be ready to adjourn at 1S
o'clock midnight.
Mt. Texada, *hile as anxious to ad
journ as any member of the Se.°te'
could be, desited the Senate to consdibr
that there were some bills to be enrolled
which could not be completed tillt
Thursday.
The substitute of Mr. White balt
withdrawn, the original resolution
the House looking to adjournment at a
p. m. Thursday was adopted.
The President in the Qbair.
Mr. Taxada reported. e enroled sion-..
dry bills, among them one app~lptat-....
ing $50,000, above noticed.
Sundry rl.iona retlastrt to te ,..
of the o fB she snea were e
and referred.
On mbtion, the Sena4 f
utive session.
Executive seaelon
Zacharle on
the floor to'
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