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THE NEW ORLEANS DAILY .ElL 'AT.
OFFIrIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. "
VOL. II--NO. 17.3. EW ORLEANS, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1877. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
BY TELEGRAPH.
CAPITAL NEWS.
THlm UNITED STATEM MARMIAAL.UHIP.
The Letter t time Colored belegation to
the Preslient.
BIpe'ial to the De'roirat.l
WAfNlEtl.,N, June 10.-The peculiar recog
nitioln given 'to the colored man by the Presl
dentlt eurisausly illustrated by an incident of
Whatton's appointment. When it became
known, iatur)ay, that the colored delegation
had asked the retention of Pitkin, a member
)of the Oabinet sent for one of the delegation
and told hi.m that they had made a mistake
in mixing into that fighf and that Whar
'ton's appointment had b,.n determined
on, and that Pitkin's nflltness for the
place wae fully known to the President, who
was not pleased with their action in his behalf.
Them'upon, the delegation got together and
drew up a letter to the President, setting
forik that Dumont, who was the spokesman,
had no authority from the delegation to re
commend the retention of Pitkin, and wind
ing up with an expression favorable to Col.
Wharton. This ietter was signed by all the
delegation, except Dumont, andl reached the
President about four hours after Wharton haIl
been appointed and Pitkin removail.
The effect of the transaction has not been
to improve the President's recognition of the I
colored man. - - BUELL.
DOIESTIC NEWS.
The Destructive Floods Around Memphlis.
Ipei.ial to the Demoerat.l
MEMPHIS, June 10.-Reports continue to
be received of the damage done to property
by the recent heavy rains, which extended
throughout Arkansas, North Mississippi and
West Tennessee. The total rain fall here be
tween Thursday morning and early yester
day morning, was 14.48 inches. No trains
have arrived or doparted on any railroads,
except the Lolisvilln anil Nashville, since yes
torday morning. The Mississippi and Ten
nessee atilroad track was badly damaged
near Iatesvlllo, and at a point four miles be
low here. 1The Memphis and Little Rock
road was washed out at Crow creek, and at a
point further on, and a passenger train is
blockaded between the two breaks. On the
Charleston road the track is washed away be
tween Collierville and Grand Junction, and
also near Lafayette. No train has been in
since FxIdky. It is believed that all the roads
wi in running order to-morrow.
The Atlantic Mutual Life Insurance
Company.
IftReial to the Democrat.]
ALBANY, N. Y., June 10.-Judge Westbrook
has decided that, in accordance with Superin
tendent Smyth's report to the Attorney Gen
eral, the stockholders of the Atlantic Mutual
Life Insurance Company should make good
the deposit of $118,000 with the Hope Banking
Company. They were given until June 29 to
comply with this requirement. The Secretary
of the Atlantic Life read the statement of the
company's finances. There is no question as
to the company's solvency as regards its
policy holders, and it, will be amply able to
meet all obligations as they mature.
Rapid Transit from St. Louis.
ISpeclal to the Domoorat.l
ST. Louis, June 10.-The Toledo and Wa
bash Railroad started a train at 7 o'clock this
morning which will reach New York on Mon
day at 7 p. m., making the run in thirty-live
hours.
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
Railroad will also start a fast train, which
will shorten the time to Galveston and other
points in Southern Texas twelve hours.
The Vandalia Railroad will start a fast train
to-r orrow morning over the Pennsylvania
Railroad, to arrive in Now York in thirty-four
holure and twenty-live minutes-the fastest
time ever made going East.
AfTtirs in sonora and Mexico.
[Special to the Democrat.]
SAN F.ANcIsco, June 10.-A San Diego dis
patch says that advices from Guyamas of the
1st inst. state that the primary elections in
dicate that Mariscal was chosen Governor of
Sonora at the late election.
Advices from tile City of Mexico say that
the Sonora railway concession is quite certain
to be given to competent men, not mere spec
ulators.
Sonora feels that something of the kind
must be done, and is almost certain to have a
law passed abolishing export duty on gold
and silver either coined or in bullion. Diaz
and the Minister of the Treasury favor the
abolishment of this export duty.
All quiet. It is believed that Lerdo's move
ment will amount to nothing.
Fast Trains from Chtcago.
[Special to the Democrat I
CHICAGO, June 10.-The Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad, beginning this
afternoon, will start daily fast trains from
Chicago to New York, leaving here at 4:40,
and will reach New York at 7 o'clock in the
evening; or in twenty minutes less time that
the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne train.
CRIMES AND CASUALT[ES.
Fraudulent Warehouse Receipts.
[Special to the Democrat.]
ST. Louis, June 10.-L. W. Patterson, of the
firm of Patterson & Co., pork packers, of this
city, has been indicted for signing fraudulent
warehouse receipts, upon which Wm. Mat
thews raised money, as stated in a previous
dispatch, and last evening gave bond for $5000
to answer the charge. Both men are promi
nent in business and social circles here, espe
clally Patterson, who is connected with the
oldest and wealthiest families in the city.
Circus vs. Theatre.
iSp'cial to the Dnemocrat.]
CLNCINNATI, June 10.--Chas. Thomson, pri
vate watchman at Woods' Theatre, was shot
and is supposed mortally wounded last night
by John Wilson, bare back rider, formerly
with Robinson's Circus. Wilson succeeded in
maaking his escape.
Baby show and ebiidrea's rfa cv dress ball at the
Ladies' Fete Champetre, Carrollion Gardens, this
eYvenlng.
THE CUSTOMIROUME COM@ .ITTEE.
An Interview with a Knowing One on the
sulgect.
One of the DmaoonAr's reporters had an inter
euting interview on Saturday wi'h a person well
posted in the workings of the Custom-House In
vestigation Committee, and gleaned the following
information. It has already been said that it is
not the purpose of the committee to sit in judg
ment over the ofilials of the OCustom-House who
have conducted the concern for some years past.
Oar information therefore begiti as follows: The
committee having received its instruotions' rhioh
have also been published, proceeded immediately
to consider their meaning, the scope of their in
vestigation depending on the interpretation of
these instructions. The
THE CONO.U.RON
arrived at was that the duties of the committee
consisted in considering how the collection of the
revenues at this port could be performed in an
eobnomloal manner, withut, at the same time,
preju lice to commerce or limiting the facilities
of bu-inese; to see how the general government
can get all the money that is its due under the
law, without wronging individuals, and by grant
'ng all opportunities to transact businese speed
iby. They regard it as their duty to inqure into
the character and qual ficatione of the men em
ployed in the collection of customs, as far as their
duties are c ancerned; to correct all abuses that
m'y be shown to them, and to simplify tie method
of doing the business of the (ustom-llouse. In
this connection they are understood to say that
they will be
GRBATL. OBLIGED
if good and lespectable persons, having any
knowledge of abuses or wrongs, will communi
cate them to the c nmmittee, who will do what
they can to rectify them.
'I hus far the committee has pretty neawly com.
p'eted the investigation of all the departments
of the Custm-House, excent the naval office and
the warehouses, which will soon receive their
attention. They have reached a great many
conclusions, but do not prop se to make their
findings public until the investigation shall have
been finished, when the result shall be published
in bulk.
Thus far they have not recommended or sug
gested
AXYr anIovALS.
of of oficals or changes of any character, nor will
they do so until they hate completed their labors.
They intend, however, to walk square up to their
duties, without fear, favor or regard for affeo
tions, and they will do what they conscientiously
believe is best for the public and the government.
They will examine with care the approaches to
the port, and in their report will make sugges
tions to prevent smuggling. Their woik, how
ever, wilt not be a "summer job,' but will be
comp'eted in a very short time. Our reporter,
referring to Treasury Agent Vanoe's report to
Washington recommendi g a reluo'lon of the
number of employee of the Custom-House,
might not lead Congress to limit the force by
legislation which, in view of the hope of an in
crease of commerce at this port, might clog the
wheels of the Department of Oustoms and intet
fere with the speedy transection of business.
This, our informant assured as, would be
CAREFULLY PROVIDED AGAINST.
Their report will, without regard to any desire to
econom ze. recommend an increase of the em
ployes where the same may be necessary, as well
as the reduction of their number where there ex
ists a superfluity of such employee, and they will
take into considers ionall the necessities of the
present situation, and the future and contingent
requirements of the department, so that the Col
lector will not be hamp. red by legislation in in.
creasing his force when opportunities demand it,
as bhas occurred once or twice in former times to
the prejudice of the commerce of New Orleans.
In such cases our informant is satisfied tiat all
employes will be paid for the services performed
by them.
Our reporter thought at this juncture that it
might not be inappropriate to ask whether any
information had reached the committee oun
cerning
ALLEGED SMUId LINO,
in a peculiar manner, of large quantities of im
ported goods chipped here in transitu for Texas
princlpally. Our reporter then referred to a
report published in the DexocIAT a few months
ago, which, if the facts are true, great injury to
the commerce of New Orleans must have resulted
from the illicit prao ice. The. nlleged smuggling
is related to be performed as follows: Nay that a
hundred bales of cotton goods are shipped from
Europe to New Orleans in transit for s .me inland
town in 'iexas. The goods, when they reach
here, are examined and apprals d and
THU DUTY THLREON IS PAID,
so that no further foermality is performed in their
reaching their destination. Subsequently another
consignment of one hundred bales of goods are
shioped to this city, also in tranestion for I exas.
I The consignment os ensibly of cotton goods is,
in tact, largely of silk goods. The bhles are got
ten up and marked exac ly like the first hundred,
which have by this time reached their destina
tion. When the last lot reaches Ne Orleans
they are, however, neither examined nor ap
praised, nor is any duty paid on them, the prop
osition being that it shall be paid at a port of
sont y in Tezx4e beyond the point at which the first
tlt was delivered. Is is therefore easy to under
stand how, in the
OVERLAND TRANSPORTATI N,
the silken goons (the bates being alike and the
marks and numbers also), can be substituted for
the cotton goods at thepoint where the first were
delivered, and how also the goods will correspond
exactly w th the invoice when they reach the port
of entry where teey are to be delivered; thus the
cotton goods pay the small duty twice, it is true,
but the silks have escaped the impost charges.
Our informant onfessed that it was a matter
worthy of the committee's investigation, and, at
all events, since it can be effect, d so easily, the
law makintog it op ional with a shipper to have his
goods appraised either in New Orleans or at an
otlher p'it beyond this city, is a di ficive law,
and shou be abrogated or at least amended so
as to prevent smRugling of this kind.
THAT FIVE DOLLAR CORPSE.
What Mr. Smith, the Lndertaker, Has to
Say About It.
Mr. J. L. Dicks, the proprietor of the wharf at
Mandeville, a day or two ago called at the office
of the DEMOCRAT to decline all responsibility in
the matter of a charge of five dollars wharfage
dues on a body which had been exhumed in
Mandeville for transportation to this city. Mr.
Dicks says also that he "simply exacted his well
earned and legal wharfege fde of fifty centP, pay
ment of which was relused to his employe."
As this portion of Mr. Dicke's statement im
pagne the integrity and veracity of a good and
useful cltize, Mr. A. Smith. the undertaker of
Sit. Charles street, who was charged with trans.
porting the body to this city, our reporter has
interviewed Mr. Smith, wh) says emphatically
that he was not only charged five dollars for the
priv leRe of using the wharf to embark his pre
ci us fr igbt but that the charge was m ide in
the form of a bill, presented to him by a Mr.
Smith or Schmidt, the employe of Mr. Dicks,
which he refused to pay, although he was willing
to give Mr. Schmidt one dollar, after consultation
with the clerk of the "Oamelia;" further, that the
bill was handed to him in the presence of the
Mayor of Mandeville and some private citizens.
Our reporter having intei viewed one of the wit.
nesees to the affair, finds that he corroborates
Mr. A. Smith's stat"ment.
We have learned further that people who
patronize Mandeville c mplain a great deal of
the size of the wharf fe e, which, t hey say. are so
high that some o( th frequenters of that resort
during the summor months, and even residents,
find it cheaper to land their go ids at the L'wi,
burg w~arf and then cart them to Mandeville. It
may be that these facts a e unknown to Mr.
Dicks, and therefore we print them for his in
formation.
Baby ehow and childreon's farcr dress ball at the
Ladies' Fete Chamietre, Carrol.ton Gardens, this
evc::ng.
PITKIN ON THE RAMPAGE.
HE THREATENS VENGEANCE DIRE
UPON RAYER AND OHIO.
What he Told a Democrat Reporter in an
Interview Yesterday.
Yesterday a DEMOORAT reporter paid a visit to
the decapitated Pitkin to learn what he had to
say about the recent action of the President in
choppintog off his official head, and as anticipated
in SBnday's DExrooAT, he was a little wrathy.
Our reporter found him in his office and seem
ingly in a humor that betokened a half wicked
glee, and taking advantage of the situation our
inquisitor went at him, as will be seen by the
spicy replies made by the ex-Marshal:
.--Well, Marshal, how do you like being ones
pended?
Marshal-First rate. I hava forced Hayes to
turz a somersault on his own civil service postu
late, as I let him know a month ado that he must.
B.-May I have that correspondence?
Marshal-Oh, yes-(opening a drawer and ex
t, acting a papri)-here is the letter requesting
my resignation, less than a week after Hfyes
had personally assured me I was not to be dis
turbed. I told him if he wanted my head, to
take itat Washington. He disclaimed any such in
tention, but five days later, as I was nestring New
Orleans, the prints announced that my resigna
tion was asked for. The public having been
made a confidant over my shoulders, I was forced
into a different attitule. Attorney General Dev
ens, who had given me the same assurance at
Washington. wrote at Hayes' instance and direc
tion not, as I now have reason to believe, in ac
cordance with his own wish. In fact, three hours
after be had told a friend of mine I would not be
removed, he sent for that friend and asked him
to inclose this letter to me.
DEPARTMENT OF JURTI.Ej,
Washington, May 4, 1877. J
Dear Sir--In view of some rearrangement of
the Federal offices in Louisiana, it wouli be
agreeable to the Department if you should deem
it advisable to offer your resignation of the posi
tion of United States Marshal of that District.
I make this as a suggestion for your considers.
tion, as it would, perhaps, be more agreeable to
you than to have any change take place without
your roncurrence.
Your obedient servant,
OHAt. DEVENS, Attorney General.
United States Marshal J. B. G. Pitkio.
lt.-What was your reply to this?
Marshal-Here it is:
New OntLaNs. May 10, 1877.
Honored 9r-I have respectfully to acknow
ledge receipt of your letter of the 4th inst. and
in view of the fact that my personal and official
character stand nuchallenged at the Department
of Justice, to express my surprise at the surges
tion the letter presents. As notorious efforte,
repeatedly announced through the prints, have
been made by two or three men from Louisiana,
most of whom are in general disrepute, to secure
my removal through traduction, I must dechline
to tender a resignation, since it might be con
strued in this, my native State, as a confession of
male reation. Thii view derives emphasis from
the President's inaugural; (extract) " They (the
founders of the government) meant that the
officer should be secure in his tenure as long as
his personal character remained untarnished and
the performance of his duties satilfeoiory."
The official records and the commendatory
mentions-from United States Circuit Judge
Woods and many other honorable citizens-on
file in your department disclose my personal and
official standing. A resignation would, there
fore, be self-impeachment; this my sense of
duty, alike to my family, to my friends and to
myself, forbids. I shall retire only when a suo
cessor, duty accredited, shall present himself to
assume charge of this responsible and thankless
office.. Permit me to thank you for kindness re
ceived at your hands, and to remain,
Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
J. It. G. kI£KIN.
Hon. Chas. Devens, Attorney General.
R.-Did the Attorney General reply to this ?
Marshal (smiling)-Only by an eloquent si
lence. I expected Hayes would remove me at
once, and have been surprises at his delay. He
probably felt embarrassed about trampling b:a
own o:vil service premise under foot.
R -Is his objection to you a personal one ?
Marshal-It can be nothing else. Yet, on the
3d of April, he thus indorsed to one of his secre
taries my recommendation of a friend: "Marshal
Pitkin has a good reputation and can be relied
on. H." I have equally good evidence that the
President said, on the 11th of April and at three
other dates down to the 8d of May, that the mar
shaship in Louisiana was most satisfactorily filled
and that no change won d be made.
R. - How then do you explain the change in
his mind?
Marshal-Just bef3re I left Washington after a
four d y's visit, in no wise counooted with an
effort for my retention, he asked me in relation
to his policy, and I told him it was a hszardons
experiment. He asked "to whom 7" I replied "to
Lonisi ns and South Carolina Republicans first,
and by recoil to yourself." After laboring as I
had here, I could not stultify myself into a
lackey. Then Warmoth and his errand-boy,
Sheridan, stepped in, and as they can accommo
date themselves to either party's politics, made
themselves heard. I fought Warmoth's nomina
tion in 1868, discountenanced his entire
corrupt adm nistration and have not even
exchanges words with him for nine years.
I had no misgiving that men, who
have attached such discredit to my party, leap
out and into it by turns and are a stench in the
nostrils of both parties, could receive attention at
the White House. They repre-ent no holier pas
aion in politics than greed, have been vultures in
practice and shams In pretensions to personal
and political respectability. A wife may ulti
mately domesticate Warmoth into decency, lnut
Sheridan, who lives in New Jersey when he can't
thrive in Louisiana. wheren he has not dwelt a
twelvemonth sinee '72, is a refreshing specimen
of a Linianian to advise the President how to
apportion out officoes here, and to assault a na
tive who has never competed with him in di
reputable practices. The earnest indorsement
of mn like W. H. Hunt, ex-Governore Flanders
and Hahn, 8. B. tnckard, Cyrus Boussey, Philio
Hickey Mor gan and hundreds of other gentlemen
is decidedly t a be preferred, and such I have.
I.--Han't Sheridan received an oftof ?
Marshal-Oh, a little five-dollar itunerent pos.
tal agency. That is probably an illustration of
civil serv;ce reform I He saw last fall that if
Packard was elected he would get no place here,
and forthwith disclosed his geographioal poti
tics by announcing himself a D mocrat in Lou
isiana and taking the Republican stump for
Hayes in Ohio. The P esident said in his in
augural, "appointments are not to be made as
rewards for partisan services," and in the in
stance I show, I suppose, he "returns to the
principles and practices of the founders of the
Government."
[ Phis seemed to amuse Pitkin hugely.]
.--Were Warmoth and aheridan the sale
movers agains sou?
Marshal-Oh! no; the paramount influence was
Stanley Matthese, I suspect. He had no in
terest in Wharton as they had, but he had an.
other rea-on. When that gentleman of eclectic
politic, ran for the Snpate last spring I was at
Washington and qui tly ailed to furnish a bomb
to Judge Taft'- hands. Had it reached Oolauo
bus a day esarlir, the demoralized Matthews
would have been beaten; as it was, he received
but one majority. Matthews is now an M. C.
and his probable claim of right to seek his revenge
in a $tata other than his own is as qnes'ioaable
as little Sheridan's to requital here, where he bass
neither residence nor repute, for campaign ser
vices in another State. But this comically illun
trates Hayes' inaugural statement that "ap
p:intments are not to be made merely on the
nominations of members of Congress" ( Liuth
ing). I concludo that an M. C. from ou'side
Louisiana or at long range is entitled to a meas
ure of respect li.stuLCtly denied to an M. C. of
her own.
R.--But didn't the Ba ler letter hurt you?
Marshal--N), it did m good *nl every other
Republican. Un, if you mean, did it hurt my
teuure of this bureau, I presume it dig.
It.--Yin don't stem to feel badly about going
out
~Iarsa.al-I oerlainly don't feel burdened witia
woe. I take oat all the self-respect I brought in
here, surrender nothing, and have my freedom
to do what I could not do affirmatively while I
remained here.
R.-Are you going North soon?
Marebal-I am, for a few weeks.
R.-To Washington ?
Marshal-Yes, among other points; but not to
the White House (smiling). I am not after an
other office, you may count on that. I have quite
different matters in view.
IR.-May I inquire what?
Marshal-You may, but I sh.anewer. I
16ave this office as I meant to I removed
*holly without cause, except so' the Presl
dent stands by a bargain. To I use I am
not a party. I was indebted to aniiher President
and a Senate for my tenure, and I felt under no
obligation to relieve Mr. Bayes from embarrass
ment by coanstructively confessing malfeasance
by a resignati n at his request. My title as a
public servant is older and, perhaps, better than
his own.
R.-Didn't you reorganize the Republican par
ty for the last election ?
Marshal-I had certainly more to do with it
than an; other Republican. Mr. Hayes would
not have received the vole he did but for my
ceaseless energy from September, '75, to Nevem
ber, '76, in getting our ranks into dirciplinn. I
see the President. after profiting by the services
hereof certain Federal olicers,suddenly concludes
that offisers shouldn't engage in political work.
As the electoral vote of L nisirns reseoued him
from defeat, it is a public misfortune that he
didn't advert to their chaste duty in his letter of
sc 'eptance I Bit it has b en determined to break
down Packard, and myself as his friend. Pack
ard telegraphed Heorcetry Sherman my removal
would be an "outrage," and the .eoretary gave
it at once to the President. Not lees than two
thousand solid citizens have urgently "remon
strated against any change."
R.-What are Wharton's claims ?
Marshal-Claims? Deune take me if I know.
Oh, yes, his friend Maddox said last winter be
fore the Knott committee at Washington that he
was "the brains of the Republican party l"
Wharton will have a dry~ ime in this place while
he remains-tbe courts are about closing to re
open in November-so he widl not have to per.
spire hard. In Oc'ober his nomination will go
to the Senate and then I
R.-What then?
Marshal (laughing)-I shall unload. Not to
regain the office, for I don't, want it, but to do a
duty. I owe my party much, Mr. Hayes nothig,
even were I to remain in office. You needn't ask
me any more about that.
R.-What do you think of Hayes' policy?
Marshal-What I told him-my reasons will
appear later. Was he elected to arrest or pro
mote a "solid Snubh?" And why should we
apo'ogize for the sixteenth resolution of our last
national platform, wherein we arraigned the
Demw.cracy ? The President removes the troops
the moment he gets impoverished Packard men
bought over to Nicholls, but he brings them back
as commander-in-o'.'ef the moment they are
wanted for a Nicholls' thanksgiving procession at
the head of the White Leage Evartse pleaded
before the Electoral Commisslon in mellow terms
for "these poor p:ople of Louisiana, made victims
of the conbitution if the Federal power leaves
them to the fate from which the State strove
hard to save them," and which Mr. Patton, your
Democratic chairman, pro ised in his circular
"You cannot convince a negro's reason." Rr.
Hayes himself indulged in a pathetic weep
over the poor col,red man whose votes
be now f.rgets he got, and less of
them. too, than did Goy. Packard.
The British Foreign Secretary has already de
manded inquiry into the murder of MoOlellmn, a
British enutjct, in Mississippi, but the murder of
the American Chisholms is of no ccserquencel
Didn't our last national platform "impera
tively demand a Chief Exeoutive whose courage
and fidelity shall not falter until these results
(complete liberty and exact equality) are placed
beyond dispute or reca'i?" Toey are certainly
placed beyond recall for the present herel A
colored voter said to me the other day, with grim
humor, "Ain't that Tilden President now?"
From the middle of February down to this
hour a continuous barter has been in progress,
and Louisiana and Bouth Carolina were not the
only commodities. Mfr. E. A. Burke, of the Dem
ocratic cabal, reaohed home from Washington on
the 6th of March, and said to you, Mr. Re
porter, as appeared later in the New Orleans
Times, '-the people of the State and city must
not be Impatient or imprudent-merely watch
and wait." And the promise intrusted to him to
convey here was kept. Several other Southern
Democrats carry mortgage deeds in their pockets.
Why, the German Gazette here, whose editor is
a Democratic member of the Nicholls Legisla
ture. said editorially on the 81st nit., "the Com
mission that was sent here by Hayes came to
play the part of a procurer and did play that dise
graceful part. * * * He waited six weeks
before he removed the troops from Fort Pack
ard, and only after the members of the Packard
Legislature had been induced to come over to
our side through the intervention of the Commis
sion.
"Itwas only when the Packard body had broken
no, and the price of the deserters was paid, that
the troops were removed to their barracks below
the city. Men may love treason, but still they.
hate the traitor. Mr. Hayes and his cimminsiin
may have done us some service in this dirty
transaction, but respectable men would not have
abetted it." There is testimony from Nicholls'
own Legislature, and by one of Nicholls' own
friends. I could give other and Democratic an
thority, if I chose.
Do you think I feel any annoyance now be
cause, as the New York run remarks. ' there was
a bargain, and Pttkin was sold out?" I think I
can comfortably stand it. The trade is not over
yet. Key said over the Union soldier's graves, at
Chattanooga, the other day, that he stood where
he had always stood, and had surrendered not a
jot of his old principles. So with me, though
his principles and mine are decidedly at variance.
I can't ask amnesty for beinor a Republican or
for having been born here rather than in Ohio.
I have labored hard and done my duty. I shall
not hesitate to do it outside of the marshalahip
as a zealous Republican.
R.-How about Kennedy, Stamps and Newman
writing that letter yesterday at Washington in
behalf of Wharton ?
Marshal--Oh, three of them left here self.
avowed Pitklin men. Dumont, I am certainr, can't
be bought. He ?e a noble, eterling friend. Whar
ton has rendered their race so much service, they
are doubtless grateful (emiling). ltamps came
to me just before he left and apologized for hav
ing unwarrantably stated in his committte. upon
information, that I had no colored employee.
The Fair Grounds Yesterday.
There were grand doings yesterday ev .ng at
the Fair Grounds under the anspices of Lafay
ette Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 and Creole
Steam Engine Company No. 9. The delightful
weather aiding, a large crowd was in attendance,
and the time ppi d away pleasantly with the bass
ball match and the pony and truck races. When
the sLadocs of evening darkened the outward
prospects and put a stop to the field sports, youth
and beauty assembled on the platform where,
in gay 1'erpeichorean mazes, under the sly but
benign looks of the wandering stars, they made
night lovel? with gay laughter and the beautiful
movements of the dance.
Short Items.
The perfumes of a dead horse are annnyieg the
residents of Robertson street, near Common.
A charge of larceny caused Damec3 Brunico to
be incar'erated in the HIarbor Station.
Mary Ann Morton was prevented froa attend
ing church :-unday, because Pinkey Fulton had
her locked up in the Third Precinct Station on a
charge of larceny.
Geo. Ardell and Peter Hassion dreamed they
slept iPl marble hdals, but woke up and found
themselves in the Third Station, charged, from
information received, with ith robbery of $27.
Saturday evening Officer Miller shot and killed
a dog at the corner of Jackson and Laurel streets,
the aniaal having bitten a child seven years old.
Baby show and children's fancy dress btll at the
Ladies Pete Champetre, Carrollton Gardens, this
Sevening.
AT THE TARGETS.
Yesterday at Frogmoor and the New Or
leans Rifle Club Grounds.
Frogmoor, where the members of the Creecelt
City Rifle club congregate on Bundays for prao
tioe, that being their only leisure day, yesterday
presented a most animated appearance. More
than the usunalnumber of visitors were present,
and more than ordinary intereat was taken in the
sport. The day was very bright, a few leisurely
cirrus clouds floated overhead, but the pure blue
otherwise was not hidden, the wind was fresh and
variable, and the light clear, the thermometer
had fallen several degrees since Saturday, and
altogether, leaving the variable wind out, the
day was delightful to sportsmen.
The second competition for poeltions on the
club team took place, in which Lent. E. F. Per
rillinx participated for the first time. The fol
lowing Is the score :
DUDLEY ELPIII.
800yds..8 4 5 5 5 4 55 5 8 5 4 4 4 3-66
900 yds..2 54 55 3 55455 2 5 5 5 -5
1000yds..55 4 552 32 5 35 55 5-64-195
MAJOR WDM. AMSR.
800yds.. 55555555455535-70
900 yde.. 55 4 4505 545455 -60
1000 yde..3 3 3 4 5 4 5 5 4 3 4 4 0 2 4-53-189
('Or.. JOHN OLYNN, JR.
RO8 yd-..5 4 5 5 54445 3 5 4 5 5-65
900 yde..3 4 3 5 3 5 454 5 5 4 8 4 5-,;2
1000yds.. 5 3 5 5 5 5 3 5 4 5 3 3 33-09-188
JOHN K. RENAUD.
80Oyds..55 554 55 4 554 5 35-68
900 vds..5 0 4 55 54 4 4 3 2 5 3 5 2-56
100 yds..3 2442445835553 4--56-180
R. 0. EYIICH.
8O yds..3 4544553 5 5 4 5-62
0 34yds. 34545354 30 5 5-57
1000 yds..054 3 4 35 4 54 3 35 52-55-174
JAS. BUCKLEY.
800 yds..5..4 4 3 24 6 058343-51
1000yds..5 2 3 3 5 2 5 5 43 2 54 8-54-163
L. 11. DA PINTE.
800yde..3 25 5 445 5 4554553-64
000'yde..4 0 5 3 5 3 4 4 0 5 0 8 5 8 5-49
1000yds..283 5235 3 3 3 0 3 23-44-157
0. T. MANNING.
800 .. 0 0 0 0 005 3 4 53 5 45--3
900yda..4 545552 5 24352 3 2-50
1000 yds..2 4 4 2 4 3 2 00 0 0 0 02-31-121
LIEUT. E. F. PERILLOUX.
800yde..0 2 23 0 5220 84 5 3 3-31
9)0yds..4 20 3 002 35 020-29
1000 yde. .0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 2-12- 75
The practice between Lieutenant Adam's and
Sergeant Baker'sd team, of the Washington Ar
tillery, followed at two hundred yards, with mili
tary rifles, with the following result :
L. A. Adam........ 19 M.Banisler........ 8
D. Cobb............. 7 Pam Fitzhugh .... 6
J. M. Henderson.... 10 B. S. Leathers.... 10
Gray............ 27 Hy. Florence...... 16
Quinna.............. 3 fy. Dupre........ 20
H. H. Marks........ 11 -
Total............ .............. ......137
Alf. T. Baker........ 2 H. N. Baker...... 12
Simpson............ t Creswell........... 22
E. L. Maher'........ 6 L Barring r...... 8
J. M. Harvey........ 2 Zeigler............ 10
P. Michel, Jr........ 4 A. A. Yates, Jr.... 10
Black................ -
Total ......... .................. 93
Alf. T. Baker, having hit "nowhere" the often
est, he was the recipient of the time-honored
leather medal.
THE NEW ORLEANS RITLE CLUP.
This organization, the oldest in rifle shooting
here, assembled rin full force yesterday at their
park, on the Metairie Ridge, and fine sport was
the roturn for the visit. One of the most spirited
contests in the annals of the club for the Presi
dent's badge occurred, and it was only after a
severe struggle that Dr. C. Beard captured the
trophy, now for the fifth time. The Doctor's
success yesterday makes this handsome prize his
property, according to the condicions under
which it was contested for.
The State champion badge tral is the n'r.
event on the tapis, and will doubtless bring out
all our crack shots next Sunday. Those who de
sire to see a sample of New Orleans marksman
ship ought, by all means, to attend the club
grounds on this occasion, for the prize is well
worth winning and the o mpetitors are no be
ginners with globe sights and wind gauges.
A DOUBLEI CHARGE.
Why Lizzie npalding Left Cincinnati for
New Orleans.
Some time during the month of last May a Mrs.
Mason, of Cincinnati, was robbed in that city of
a box containing $83 in currency, a lady's gold
watch and chain, a gold ring and a breastpin.
It was supposed at the time that there were
two white women and a negro man connected
with the theft. The Cincinnati detectives worked
the case up, and arrested a white woman named
Claude, and the negro man.
A third party, a white woman named Lizzie
Spalding, evaded arrest by jumping the town
and coming to the Crescent City.
The detectives of this city were notified, and
instituted search for Lizzie, but she covered up
her tracks so we:l that th y failed to arrest her.
Saturday evening Vincent Brooks alias George
Wdlliami Mary Brooks, his wife, and OJphronia
Hill, all three colored, and a white woman,
LIZZIE SPALDING,
were arrested and locked up in the Central" Sta
tion, charged with disturbing the peace.
As soon as Lizzie entered the station Sergeant
Ryan recognized her as the woman wanted in
Cincinnati. He interviewed hir and she denied
being implicated in the Cincinnati robbery, but
said she received a box from Cincinnati but sent
it back the day after receiving it, and did not
even open it to see
WHAT IT CONTAINED.
Sergeant Ryan armed himself with a search
warrant and searched the room in which Lizzie
has been residing since her sojourn in New
Orleans. In the room, wh:ch is in the house No.
121 Franklin street, he found a letter which had
been sent to Lizzie from a man in Cincinnati.
The letter informed her that Mrs. Mason bad
received her box, and also informed het (Lizzie)
that she hal better stay as liDg as she could in
New Orleans, for should she return to Cincinnati
she would be arrested.
From the contents of this letter Sergeant
flyan preferred an additional charge against
Lizzie, of being a fugitive from justice from the
State of Ohio.
Baby show and children's fancy dress ball at the
Ladies' Fete Champetre, Carrohton Gardens, this
evening.
For a Worthy Cause.
The weather Saturday having prevented the
continuation of the fete champetre at the Car
rollton Gardens by the ladies of Calvary Church,
the charming fete was postponed until this even
ing, and will close positively on Tuesday evening.
Among the attractions some of the members of
the "Jontraband Children" will appear in several
of their quaint comicalities, and there will be
dancing as usual afterward.
Referring to the "Contraband Children," it oc
curs to us that the card published in the DEMO
CRAT by the president of the "Contraband Chil
dren" is so worded as to possibly lead to misun
derstanding. The announcement that "the mem
bers of the 'Contraband Children"' wou.d per
form at the fete was in, oceutly made by the man
agers of the entertainment, and should have
read some of the membrds of the "Con
traband Children." On the other hand,
the card of the president of this
deserving association shou!d be explained.
Its publication, as we unds-retand it from one of
the prominent members of the associat o, was
due to the flot that the ContrabalOd khiloure,
I having agreed among themelves bs give two
Ferformanees only annually for the benefit of
charitablq Institutions (the extent of their abill
ties), they have been eompelled to refuse several
appliostions for seistsane. TIp announcement,
there'ore, that they would, an associatlon,
lend their aid to Oalvary uCh placed them in
an equivocal position and prompted the card
allude d to. However, the entertainment to-night
will receive the assistance of several of the best
pertrrmers of the club, and, s we sincerely hope,
will add to the attraction of the fte.
Good people will make a note of this.
SOUTHERN NEW(.
Louisiana.
Small-pox prevails at I.fourhe landing, par:sh
of Lafourche.
The glanders has broken out among the males
and horses in Natohitoohes.
The United States Marshal is still engaged in
seizing logs on the Oaloaslen river.
Water is soarce in Honma cis orns, and
bae on water is sold around town at fifty cents a
barrel.
Rt. Charles Church, otherwise known as the
"Red Church," in St. Charles pacrib, was com
pletely destroyed by fire during the night of
May 80.
A young Cuban, eighteen years old, named
Louis Blaleo, was drowned last Thursday while
bathing in the river in front ot Bovre's residence,
in the parish of 8;. James.
A large number of laborers have arrived at
Alexandria to work on the New Orleans Pacific
Railroad. They were vlaced at work at once-be
tween Lecompte and Bayou Huff Power.
Whiting, a cotored man from (leorgis, but
now a resident of Thiodenx, was admitted to
praoiceo before the District Court of the La
fourche distr:ot.
The Natchitoches Record, started only a few
weeks ago as an independent raper on the ruins
of the late Natohitoehes Bepublican, has already
sueaspended. It promises, however, to resume in
September.
Two rafts went into the Bonnet ('arre crevasse
last Monday, entailing on the poor swampers a
loss of about 1500. These accidents are cf daily
occurrence, and have almost paralyzed rafting,
which was once a thriving industry.
The City Council of Baton Rouge has instructed
the City Attorney to enjoin the Tanning Company
from estiblishing its tannery in the locality se
lected, on the ground that several citizens claim
that it is a nuisance.
There was a bloody rencounter In Many on last
Baturday week between W. H. Holloway and Chap
Cole; the latter received some very severe blows,
one breaking the bridge of the nose, and two bad
cuts with the jaws of a knife on the lower lip.
Holloway ha, a preliminary examination before
Judge J. O. Armstrong and was placed under a
bond of S1t00. The following night the jail door
was broken and Ho loway set at liberty.
The selection for a parish seat in Livingston
parish takes place next month. All the old ani
mosities of the different claiman's to the parish
seat have been re-aroised. There are three
claimants to the position-Port Vincent, Spring
field and the centre of the parish. Springfield
has formed a compromlse with the centre of the
parish by which the latter will be selected as the
parish seat, and expects next year to move it on
to bpringfield.
Misslsstppl.
Rain on Friday all through Mississippi.
Col. Jones has retired from the Woodville Re
publican. J. W. Shattuck, Esq., has charge oi it.
Holly Pprings Reporter, May 80: Two compa
nies of the 3d United States Infanty arrived here
on the 29th inst. Major Pa ker is in command.
They have taken q arters at the barracks, and
are likely to remain during tLe summer and fall.
The Choctaw Leader Is determined to keep its
readers posted in regard to the affair, of the
nation. The issues of that paper dated May 25
and June 2 both contain the inaugural address of
President Hayes, delivered on the 5th of last
March.
(ten. J. Z. George, Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Executive Committee, has notified
the members of that committee to meet in Jack
son on the 20th inst., for the purpose of fixing a
date for holding a St:te Convention and the
transaction of other business.
The funeral sermon and Masonic services of
John W. Gully, who was the unfortunate victim
of a polioei assassination in Kemper county, were
held in that county a few days since. The at
tendance was the largest ever known in the
county; over a thousand persons present.
It is claimed that there is an extensive clan of
horse thieves in Missisispp. They have head
quarters somewhere in Pontotoc county, and
they also have stopping and places of exchsage
within twepty miles of Oxford, Misaissippi, and
thirty miles of Oakland; also, at Calbonn and
somewhere west of Sardis, Mssissippi,and Helena,
Arkansas. Tuey have been doing a big business
lately in DeSoto county. After the horses are
stolen one of the gang appears on the field, and
representing himself to be a detective, offers to
r!cover the stolen horses for one third their
value.
Last Sunday night, about 9 o'clock, Pat Baker
and his cousin were shot and kiled at Hender
son's Landing, forty-five miles above Vicksburg,
by Joseph Fortner, while they were aboard of the
latter's fishbust. Fortner then threw their bodies
overboard and fled, and is still at large. He is a
rather slenderly beuilt man, about six feet high,
with an aquiline nose, and shows his teeth very
plain when speskin". Last year he made a crop
on Capt. Monnt's place, Buck Ridie, Tenses
parish, and is well known throughout that imme
diate section. One hundred dollars reward will
be paid for his apprehension, and any informs
tion that will lead to his arrest will be thbankfully
received by Capt. A. Rhoton, Henderson's Land
ing, Louisiana.
Texan.
The telegraph line from Waeo to Cleburne is
about compieted.
The municipal canvass at Austin Is growing ex
citing.
Waco claims that she will not owe a dollar at
the end of the year.
English cherries grow very finely in Comanche
county.
Preparations are being made to incorporate the
town of San Marose.
Dallas has sent the first sack of flour to Gal.
veston. It was sold at auctton Freay, for the
benefit of St. Mary's (Oatholic) Orphan Asylum,
It is estimated that two millions of buffalo
hides a'e awaiting ashipment from the trading
points west ot Dallhs.
Missouri. Kansas and Texas engineers have
commenced the survey for a railroad to ran from
Dennieon to Mineola.
Considerab!e numbers of movers are pessing
through Bonham on their way West, and are
drving sa great many cattle with theu. 1 he ma
jority of them are from Arkansas and the sandy
country in Eastern Tesse.
Gordon, who married the eolore l woman at
Galveston the other day, couldn't face his former
acquaint nees. He lefs the city n disguise and
disgrace. Gordon is quite wealthy, and had
previonusly stood very high socially.
The train killed six horses one night last week
about six miles from Tailorsvlle. It seems
that the horses became frightened at the train
and tried to run across a bridge, when they were
overtaken and cut to pieces by the train. Some
of their heade were out off, others had their legs
taken off and some were wedged between the
oross ties.
Oallahan City, county site of Callahan county
is l"oattd in the midst of a prairie-dog town, and
it is nip and tuck between the two classes of in
habitants which will run the other off. Tne
prairie dogs have powerful auxiliaries in the rat
tlesnakes and polcats that share their homes
with th.m.
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Drevttces.
The Carondelet and st. Charles Street Railroad
Compmny have inaugurated smoking care. The
next improvement will be iery steeds.
Rip Van Winkle would csndidly "soawear on"
again, but two new paper men, who h ive sworn
off for three monthb. grantesob obter "furloughe"
to take a drink. Some people call this a ano.:.a.
tebhnicary.