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@SgSmlJutrald the $Wt of vifthh . Q e J durel tIl iat f of Now orlm. 00.., luglw. Etweet.ro 63nll 10305 W. Dung, udsllt O 0. &UmTlti , i, BHEASIYI.............ZDITOor. Daily Deemeret. ................ ......... t .. .. .I... 4I . . .. M . . ..... ..... ... 1 s Sll bee0) pt utqeeh r . "Y e*au @r the 0ew orleans DB * tWho Onb A Ntherised bNllelwr Ageensef the 3ase u0t for the Vt1$ rse Mluere. H. H. 'IO OUB FbIENDS. The Dgioronr has just added to its ffice a new and complete Steam Job Printing department, with all the latest and most desirable improvements in types, rules, borders, etc. We are now fully prepared to compete with any job printing establishment in the South. We can turn out, at the shortest notice, anything from a newspaper or a book to a lady's visiting card, in the best style Sof the art. We shall devote special at tention to commercial printing and to the printing of lawyers' briefs. We earnestly solicit the support of our friends in our progressive efforts. We call attention to the meeting of tho Democratic and Conservative Parish Committee advertised in another col. mnn. The meeting will be held this evening, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, at 7& o'clock. The motion for a new trial in the case recently delcided by Judge Billings, in volving the rights of Mrs. Gaines to a large property in this city, was heard by Judge Billings in chambers day be fore yesterday. Long arguments were made by W. B. Mills for Mrs. Gaines, and by Mr. McConnell for defendant. Judge Billings reserved his decision of the motion, which he will probably render to-day. The recent city election in Joliet, Ill., i seems to have ended altogether unsatis hoetorily, in consequence of a very Sproper provision of a State statute. This statute provides that no person - who is in arrears for taxes can be elect ed to any office. It is now discovered that all the alder ' ae elected at the last election were thus in arrears for taxes, and, in conse quenoe, their election null and void. Jollet, therefore, is in the pleasant con dition of being without government of any kind. Hon. John 0. Monoure, who was 41eoted State Treasurer of this State in 1874, and who is now the only man en titled to the position, arrived in the city yesterday morning with a view, we pre .s.me, of taking the legal steps neoes sary to establish his right to that im portant offioe. The individual who now holds that office is a usurper, and has been identified for a number of years with the Radioal administrations and holding by the Packard fraud until 'the last leg was knocked from under it. We trust, with the people at large, that Col. Monoure will be speedily placed in possession of his office. A gen tieman of the most irreproachable char sater and highest sense of honor, the affairs of the Treasury, in his charge, will be conducted with the most rigid integrity and impartiality. No warrant rings, or combinations to gobble the State funds need be organ sed when Ool. Moncure gets control of his office. The case of the teachers in the public schools of this city is a very hard one. The salaries of the teachers at best were . .ll and the Board of Directors have med it necessary to suddenly and, . 'one fell swoop, lop off forty per cent aof thr pittance. This action may have roed by circumstances, but the wn process, taking in all ex Shtikes us as having been too ini - im iate. )ertainly there is some ;,~ dl ner Rib elative importance of enats, pofte.w.a dtealles' sala iss. (Qarlyle tIsll is eSays of hrswd town . o1 o, dftn fodnd 4- surg.8eminary, when etheetion how the school teac should be ed, deliveredthis]efri counsel, m, keep them poor," We fear sehool directors have actedrather much upon the theory of this wise i The world always had and as says treated way, but we hope Ureeu*l4aertleir action f the or* . W o not adopt the oo he absolute equality of men with whihon the demagogue oaptivates the fanoy of the ignorant and unthinking and too often excites their passionsato the se rious detriment of society. But there is a more limited sense to be attached to it, to which we yield as thorough and unreserved an adherence as could Cleon or Anaoharsis Cloots. We be lieve in the pesseot and complete equal ity of all men before the law; and we would have the doctrine, thus limited, not only theoretically avowed, but prao tically applied. We can conceive of nothing more detrimental to society than the preva lence of the belief in the say ing of Anacharsis, that "laws are like cobwebs, in which the small flies are entangled, but wasps and hornets break through." It at tacks the moral sense of men and de stoys that confidence in the administra tion of justice which is the strongest muniment of society. The conscience of every correct thinking man must re coil from the practice which confers im munity upon men in an inverse propor. tion to their guilt, to the temptation to which they have been subjected, and the opportunity they have possessed to acquire the habit of resisting that temp tation. Why should the miserable off spring of crime, who has never heard an honest or virtuous sentiment, be sent to the penitentiary for stealing a loaf of bread or a pair of shoes, and the Gov ernor, or Chief Justice, who has violated his official oath for dishonest lucre; go utterly unwhipped of justice? The crime committed by the clerk who robs the till of his employer is hardly so base as, and is far less deleterious to society than, that of these men. That he should be sent to hard labor and they have immunity must be felt by all as an outrage upon justice, and, by weakening confidence in the integrity of government, be productive of the most unhappy effects. Indeed, we know of nothing in the last ten years which has been more demor alizing than the conviction in the pub lie mind that, had the law been prop erly administered, many of the judges who passed its sentence should have taken their place in the criminal dock and received it. It is to a dereliction of this character that we now call the attention of the Attorney General, upon whom devolves the duty of enforcing the law. If the criminal prosecution of the parties is no longer feasible, though some of them are probably still liable even to that, they may yet undoubtedly be required to refund to the public treasury the money which they have unlawfully withdrawn from it. Every considera tion of the public interest, and those of a moral naturd far more than pecuniary ones, demands that this should be done. We refer to the excess of salary drawn by the late judges of the Supreme Court under the cover of a statute (No. 36) which one of their number lobbied through a corrupt legislature in Febru ary, 1871. That statute gave to them an increase of $2500 over the salary ap pointed by article 75 of the constitution, which fixed absolutely the amount and conferred upon the Legislature no authority whatever over the subject. Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Marbury vs. Madison, says: "The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordin ary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the Legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitu tion is not law; if the latter part be true' then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimita ble. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contem plate them as forming the funda mental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the constitution is void. This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequent ly to be considered by this court as one of the fundamental principles of our society." Here, then, we have as near a demon stration as the nature of the subject ad mits, of the principle that the Legisla ture cannot change the constitution, and that any act having that effect is not law but utterly null and void. It can furnish no warrant or excuse for any action in conformity with it. Yet the reports of the Auditor and Treasurer show that those judges, under pretense of that void statute, have, since January 1, 1871, been drawing this excess in shameless defiance of their oaths to support the constitution. In doing this they have on each and every occasion of draw Ig a warrant on the treasury I a crimp which, in the terse omely lau.lgtu + of the common aw,' is called perjure and added to it the statutory offense of, obtaining money under alse pretenseS. Who are the men who hale bein thus~ false to an exalted trust td cast this deep shame upon Louisiaq8g John T. Lutdeling, J. G. TaliaferroRB. K. Siow ell, W. G. Wyly, W. W oro*e and A H. h&ve occupied the Supreme Sexistenoe of the ille. ad a presumed to have mOipQ of their ted by it. on tb ou andtotha peop" e to taei prompt t a early steps to elear their reputations of the dark suspacon which rests upon them, for the guilty will be brought to justice, or at least exposed, and their future career through life can only be attended by the scorn of those who ap preliate the importance of virtue in publio olelpls and a just pride in the good name of Louisiana. We have shown that this statute is not law and can furnish no warrant for the payment of money from the public treasury. He, then, to whom such pay ment has been made has received that which was not due to him. Article 2301 of the Bevised Code says: "He who re ceives what is not due to him, whether he receives it through errer or know ingly, obliges himself to restore it to him from whom he has unduly received it.,, We now call upon the Attorney Gene ra to enforce--that obligationand to show that the pledge given by him dur ing the canvass to secure for the people, as far as in his power lies, a just and equal administration of the law, was the slacere expression of a conscien tious and firm determination to dis charge his duty without fear or favor. This case involves some $75,000 of the public money, but its moral importance is far greater than the pecuniary. What this community especially needs for its purification is the expo sure and, so far as it can be done con sistently with the principles of law, the punishment of those who have been engaged in peoulations upon the public treasury. We want a cleaning of the Augean stable such as is now threatened in New York. Here is a favorable opportunity for a beginning. The law is plain and simple, the evi dence of the facts is easily accessible. Will the officials to whom is committed the care of the public interests do their duty ? We trust and believe they will. AN IMPORTANT FACT. Among other encouraging signs of a revival of enterprise and of the spirit of progress in our city, we are gratified to announce the intention of Mr. David Mo Oann to put in early operation the Lou isiana cotton factory in the Third Dis trict, recently purchased by him. With abundant capital and great experience in the handling of machinery and ad mirable administrative capacity, Mr. McCann will be pretty certain to render this enterprise a brilliant success. It will thus prove a pioneer in a line which promises to open to capital, industry and enterprise one of the largest and most profitable fields in which they can be engaged. The success of our cotton seed oil mills has demonstrated the practica bility of manufacturing enterprises in this city, when conducted with adequate capital and good management, and hav ing for their objects the conversion of our raw staples into more valuable and portable forms. It has long been a re proach upon our people, and especially our capitalists, that enterprises of this character have been neglected. When it is considered that the million and a half bales of cotton brought to this city are exported to countries thou sands of miles off in the very state in which the raw staple is sent from the plantations; that they are exported in a bulky form, demanding a large amount of shipping and a heavy cost in freight, and that this same raw material is ma nipulated in remote countries and con. verted into forms of quintuple the value of the crude staple, and imported to this city to supply the demand and use of our own people; when, too, it is considered how large a mass of unem ployed labor and skill we have in this city, it certainly is a humiliating con fession that we have so long ignored the great value and large benefit that must result from manufacturing enterprises. Mr. Richardson, of the great house of Richardson & May, has achieved mar vellous results in Mississippi by his immense and successful factory at Wes son. on the Mississippi Central. Mr. David McCann is the man to accom plish like results in this city, and we greatly rejoice to hear from him that in a few days he will put steam on and have in full operation the fine and ex pensive machinery of the Louisiana factory. The rattle of the spindles and the whistle of the steam of this estab lishment will afford a cheering relief to the general stillness of the sleepy old Third District, communicate a very en couraging vivacity to her languid popu lation and reduce the number of her loafers and idlers. We are informed by a PicayIune special from Washington that the Republican members of the late commission, now happily functus officio, are much disap pointed at the action of our Legislature in electing Judge Spofford to the United States Senate. We are delighted to hear it. There is no doubt that these Repub lican gentlemen came here with the set tied purpose of effecting a compromise in the interest of the Republican party. Their first aim was to bring about a re organization of the Legislature on the basis of the findings of the Returning Board, which would have resulted in giving to the Republicans a masjrity on joint ballot, in the declaration of the electon of Packard as Governor, and in thesaelection of a Republican Senator for the long term. Finding this scheme impossible of execution, their next effort was to reorganize the Legislature on the basis of the uncontested seats. The practical effect of this scheme would have been the same as'that which we have just stated. Finding themselves Sin this unsdertaking by the timness of the exeeutive an, deWea~.tenta of our govera next sought of a epublicns Senator. Meeting with no better sucoess in this than in their other shobemes, they finally concluded, what every man of sense knew must be the case, namely, that the whole question must be left to settle itself through the quiet operation of the centripetal force of the firmly established Nicholls government, and when this was done, they quietly stole away. Having achieved nothing, they are naturally disappointed and we are glad of it. Their lose is our gain. All classes of Louisianians are pleased with the election of Judge Spofford as United States Senator, and nobody else has anything to say in the matter. On Saturday last there were sixteen building contracts signed in this city for the erection of new buildings. Con tractors are now busily engaged in look ing upnmeeahnies and laborers. Alas, as one of the most deplorable results of the long reign of bad government, op pressive taxtion and general insecurity, it has been discovered that a large num ber of these have been driven, by pov erty and lack of employment, to North ern communities or into the country. It is needful to attract them back-the supply of skilled labor is not equal to the demand. The idle capital in this city seeks investment in real estate, and in building and public improvements. But for the excessive amount of real estate offered for sale there would be a large movement in this description of property. The great crowd at the St. Charles last Saturday of solid capital lets, and the brisk bidding for properties offered, evince the increasing interest among our people in the progress of our city, and their confidence in the stability of the government which has just been established. The city authorities are vigorously organizing the new police force, and it will be on duty, we presume, in a very few days. This is a matter of the great est importance, and we have no doubt that special regard will be had to economy, efficiency, and the good char acter of the men. It is rumored that some of the metropolitans who have been sustaining Packard's fortunes in the St. Louis Hotel are seeking posi tions on the new police. If there are any of that band of peace-breakers and ruffians with cheek enough to do so, we have no idea they will meet with any success. There are thousands of honest, faithful and worthy men in New Orleans who are without employ ment, and who ought, by all means, to have the places on the police. Capt. Boylan, the Chief, is the right man in the right place; and, if he is provided with a first-class force, he will preserve the peace and protect the city from all classes of law-breakers. DIED. BAIITLEY-On Wednesday. April 2,. at 10:4e p. in., Mrs. Husanuah Bartley, aged fifty-six years. a native of Lurgan, county Antrimn. Irelanfll. Her friends and acquaintances and those of her sons. Robert H. and George F. Bartle",. are Invited to attend her funeral, from her late resi dence. No. 579 Rampart (late Love) street, on Friday. 27th inst.. at10 a. m. Boston Pilot, and Lurgan, county Antrim. papers please copy. WALSHE'S SHIRTS. A. NEW STOCOK -At POPULAR PRICES. Wamsutta Muslin SHIRTS made In the best style, with fine Irish linen bosoms and cuffs, ready for immediate use, are offered at the SPECIAL PRICE OF $1 S5 EACH. SHIRTS with long bosoms a specialty at WALSHE'S. A full line of new patterns In Colored Shirts. all styles and prices, from 75 cents each, to the very best French percales (extra fine and nobby patterns) at a3o per.dozcn. 0l dozen new styles fancy HALF HOSE. 25 and 50 cents per pair. (This assortment em braces over twenty varieties). NEW NECKWEAR, Made in all the approved styles, both in silk and other summer fabrics, at popular prlces. Attention is called to the now "GOY. NICHOLLS" and "GOY. WILTZ" * STANDING COLLARS, Also, the"NEW LOUISIANA." a completo and satisfactory "TURNOVER." These styles only to be had at WAL&IIE'd 110 CANAL STREET. In addition to these special styles, a full line of all that is new and fashionable in Neck Dressings RECEIVED WEEKLY. The stock of Spring and Summer Underwear has been completed within the past week and now offers inducements to all classes. Buyers are assured that the stock of SHIRTS AND 3IEW'S FURNISHING GOODS is unusually large, and not excelled by any house in America. as to variety. quality or price. CALL AND SEE-AT B. T. WALSIIE'S, 110...........CANAL STREET............ 11 Country orders solicited, and will receive prompt attention. Money refunded when Goods are not sat isfactory. ap21 14t IRBISH OATMEAL, BEAUMONDE MILLS. Drogheda. Now landing ex-steamship Texas. For sale by SMITH BROS. & CO.. ,A., 85, 87 and 89 Poydras street. WE RAVE FOUND IT, GOOD WYN'S EUREKA YEAST POWDERS, acknowledged to be superior to anything of the kind packed in this country. Perfectly pure. For sale by SMITH BROS. & CO., 83, 85,87 and 89 Poydras street. BURNETT'8 EXTRACTS, For sale at MANUFAOTUBEB'8 PRICES, less uual disouant on job lots, by - MBITH BBOS. & CO., ' ap atE S a, aand 0 Poydrasstreet I. C. LEVI, Agctioneer, 1O8 ........ ........ ...... ..Oanal Street.............. .O- .... i WILL OFFERl, TWICE A WlEE, KIS LARGE AND ELEGANT SrOCK OF JEWELRY AT AUCTION, And remainder a d will sell at Private Bale as usual, fr IVA to TWBA*T-Jý'I 1 (VIT llts than any other estebllshmenlt w h I dtvertlia* dasik ! Watches Repaired and ]Diamonds Reset 0p0 ~in Only by skillful workmen, at the lowest ratsVI. {10 Cat stro I WOU. OCALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE LATILY IMPAOV~0, NAW IIALE. UPRIGHT CHICKERING PIANOS Which are presented to the public as the most perfect Plnos of their cela the to rl.h anufaeturers, by utiliaing all the improvements develote during the last tyear e s, ut ceeded in matng a piano, which in tone, touch and dur ty, esurpasses j ll _ in Europe or tlsa countr, and offe Ing it to the public as lW s any go ig.P. a mtO I have a fullas rtment of the same oba, and invite t e publi to enam nl . I haven 1o . priced Upright PIANO, made by TIAItD A I It N & a &)., in New York. who use the he.t F cnc'h nction, with the Amerloan iron double frame r.item. li(a them the touch of thoboeat French. tan the fl ness o the Ameorican Pianos. Their prioe r abott *.li0 less than the l'i.y.I i'Jiunsoe. on ,,..t ,lnt of b"ing made hero, and paying no ut.,,' Sold on monthly payments, or rented with the priviloge to purchase. t Fifty second-hand Pianos on hand, and for sale, at a bargatin. Pilnoe tunediad repair d. ' Mason & Hamlln's Organs, nine stops, only $114. PHIILIP TWEIRLEIN, t ..Te Lm'Ieanig 1 Pi3ano DeaTler~ , Sap19 1m 78 and 90 B RONNE STRIET, N. O. 0i a Diseases of the Eye and Ear. DR. C. HEARI), OOULISt AND AURIST, 142 Canal Street, Lock Box 1817. New Orleans, La. fet1 ly d&w AMattings, O(l C(loths, Carpets. ELKIN & CO., 168............Canal street.........168 Are receiving new styhle of I FANoY CANTON MATTINGN. BRUM$ELft and INGRAIN CARPETS and FLOOR OIL CLOTIIa, All at the Lowest Prices. aps 1m2dp [ NECESSITATED TY THE A LARO E PATRONAGE TTTTTT EXTENDED T' 1'TTTTTT TTTTT US, Wi ARE TTTTT TTTT INOW RECEIV- TTTT TLT ING A FRIESI 'TT TT IOT OF TSAS, TT T IWHICI ARE T EQUAL to OUR 8TAN ,ARI) GRADES. AND WHICH WILL PROVE AS ~AT IBFACTORY AS ANY FINE TEAS WHICH OUR CITIZEnS WERE EITHER TOOBLIFED TO OBTAIN IN NEW YORK OUR TEAS AHE SOLD AT NEW YORK PRI.ES. HONG KONG TEA CO., Camp street, 1ear Common street, -AND- Peydras street, near Carendelet. The Medical Profession recommends our TEAS. moNo MMNo a5es delivered free of charge. Country orders ew 4 sm 1 Between Poydras and Lafayette streets, to wheh they are eonfoall f tRIn d Old JAVA and Genuine MOKA. which we retaiL at wholesale prices. Coffees parched and ground continually. We GUATANTEN our Coffees to be free from any adulteration. Park ages delivered free of charge. Country orders delIvered free to any conveyance. PRINCIPAL STORE: Camp street, Near Common. fell am 2P COURT SALOO Y, 133,,...Clam deie@stree ..........133 Between Poydras and Lafayette streets, Having purchased from Mr. Patrick Barron. the stock and good will of this well-known and popularsaloon. Ibegto inform my many friends and the publie that I will keep in my Saloon everything of the best in WINES and LIQUOBRS with flne LUNOH daily, ,from a a. m. to 1 p. in., to which they are cordially invited. JOHN KUETYLKNN. ma M2dptu - New Orleans Savings InstItutiat No. 158 Canal Street. ThUsTXUI: A. MOULTON, 'E. A. PALdRY. CARL KOHN, T. L. HAThI, )DAVIDURQUIIART, GEOtRGE JOrAS, JOHN G. GAI'IES. TH S.A. ADAMS, TIIOS. A. CLARKE, CHRICT'N Hl31Ey1S ,. :IIAS. J. LEERI, w SAMUBL JAIh.MIo Interest Allowed on D.posilt. D. UBQUEABT. hPesida4 CluA. KILSIAW. Treasurer. apiS 'lyt GREAT IND UCEMEN(2 -To buyers of WALL PAPER AND WINDOW HADE1 ., Prices that defoy ompetition. 1. NIWHALL, ap15 Im 9dD 4a0ampstren t ANT. CAnutna. 0. .1AL, . L. OA.mnnza. Oas . O. A. CARRIERE k MONS, COMMISSION MERCHANT Corner Royal and Caiteameuse. Liberal Advances made on Ondsnm e .W t0 our friends Ia LONDON. LIVERPOOL. api2 9medp HAVBE sad NORDIUAU. Wood-Wood-Wood. AT WHOLESALE AND IETA.h. HONBY ISLAND WOOD andOOAL YA3. No. 375 Jolla sseet, New Se, seSU e*~t mell. Bridge. PostofB.e address, Lock Box No. 0lo. Delivered to all parts of the lcty, PRIOEBt FOB THIS WEEK. Ask wood, per cord..........2....... . .... S'. ak wood. per cord........................... Ih and oak mied, per ord... ........... Liberal discount made to dealers, ?'atisfaction guaranteed. mhll 2dptf mdae P. RADELAT, A +e t RECO*NIZED OFFICIALLY AND BY PUBLICO OPINION THP El' - Steinway, Knabe and Ple P -- Are the - LEADING PIANOS Of the World. Oonvince yourself by calling at the Gee.*a Agenoy at GRUNEWALD HALL, Where you will find the Largest sad .estI. lections of all kinds of MUSIC4L INrTJt7Nr'~~ r AT LOWIBT 70IEB and BUASITPD~EW Brass lastrummeas, Sarltage, s sa . Maste Bezes, Mldne, of my own Impertials, as WHOLBnALE AND DBTAIL. It Is In your interest to ell on me benos. ei chasing elsewhere. LOUIS GRUNEWALD, 14, 16, 1s, so and s Blearee S neas. fes 9dply W., W. WASHBURN, ARTIST PHOTOG3APNM , 113 Canal sres. - Opposite Clay Statue, New Orleans. Mr. WASHBUBN is himself a arti.k twenty-five year4 experience, andis an In each department by a corpso who have no saperiors this or theso He is the master of his b ingsQes, emplong the best rusts he p.as mae , and maes the best worK on the but for proof he refers you to hi trty . and patrons and to his work. w gted sat his Art Galler.y fte Pledgee! PIedgaol P les1ut I res.r tfully recnest all persons oolne.,mei back intereet on arile les..ed b hmto the same by APBIL 0. All .t ptr t S will invariably b'e HOLD AT AU(tION. p. e.-The sales will commence on the tiubi instant at the cerner of Conti Bnd Bo.aer streets. through PlacldeJ. Spear..r LSton DENTISTRY. J. B. WALKER, D.1]D ., No. Is0 lmelod wness, latest Improvements sad bes styles of botr uV3 u :' ...+ ,. t. -,,