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NEW ORLEANS DAILY DEMOCRA
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
T'VOL. II--NO. 193. NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1877. PRICE, FIVE CEN
DOMESTIC NEWS.
I t THE INTDIAN TROUBLE.
The Uedskins MnrderinK Settlers and
stealing Stook.
F oNpeal to the Democrat.l
SAN FRANOIS0o, June 80.-The latest from
a scene of the Indian outbreak report that
the tribe known as River Snakes killed John
'Ritchie, of Mt. Idaho, a few days ago. Cover
lYAlones are reported in pursuit of the mur
derers. It is reported that the Clear Water
Indians under Looking-Glass have turned
loose and plundered George Dompster's place,
between the middle and south forks of the
'wear Water river, pnd driven off all the
top of settlers between those forks.
Anjther report, which lacks confirmation, is
that Gen. Howard attacked Chief Joseph, and
t- ~lsoged him from Horse Shoo Bridge.
e, . lou.e City dispatch mentions that on the
.bidication of the presence of the hostile In
dians in Woiser valley the settlers are leav
ifig for a place of safety.
Grain in the fields, orchards and gardens
are abandoned and being rapidly destroyed
by stock.
A Board of Pardons for tille.
ISpeelal to the Democrat.l
CoLUvNUs, 0., June 80.-Gov. Young will
reoommend the creation of a Board of Par
dons in his next message to the General As
sembly.
Wasner t4 Visit the United Mtates.
[Bioefil t' the Democrat.l
ST. Loms, June.30.--A private letter from
Munich states that the celebrated composer,
Richard Wagner, will make a grand musical
tour throughout the United States. It is sup
posed that he will come here early next spring.
A iswrared Oilieer.
[Special to the Democrat.l
SAN FRANciscO, June 80.-Liout. W. W.
Fleming, 12th United States Infantry, con
victed of appropriating funds entrusted to
him by the prisoners, has been sentenced to
dismissal fnom service and confinement at
hard4abor for three years; and to be further
confined until lie pays the United States a fine
of $1000; provided, that the whole confine
ment shall not exceed five years.
The Monmouth Park Meeting.
[Special to the Democrat.i
LoNO BRANCH, JunO 30.-The meeting at
Monmouth Park opened to-day with pleasant
weather and fair attendance. The first race,
mile dash, purse $200, was won by Yorkshire
Lass, by two lengths, in 1:460. The second
race, for the Jersey Derby stakes, value $1300,
added to sweepstake $50 each, one-half
e, was won by Baden-Baden. Time, 2 :40,'.
A Railroad Accident.
(Senelitto the Demonrat.l
Warra HALL, N. Y., Juno 30.-By the wreck
Ing of the Montreal sleeper train bound north
this morning, ster'Patteson station, Laland,
the eAgiheer, Was killed,' and the fireman
hurt. All the passengers are reported sate.
The President's Party.
[Speelal to the Democrat ]
: NEW YoRx, June 30.-The President and
party arrived here this morning and after
breakfasting took limited express for Wash
ington. The President expressed himself very
much pleased with his trip in New England.
A Jewish Hotel.
[Soecial to the Democrat.]
'lsw YoRK, June 30.-A committee of Jews,
appointed by some Jewish houses in this city,
have visited Staten Island to find a suitable
=gite upon which to build a largo hotel
The Four Per Cent Boens.
lspecil to the Pemocrat.l
'Naw Yonx, June 30.-Government bonds
ate stronger and higher, and subscriptions
for new four per cents are coming in more
rapidly.
The Inter-Colleurlate enat Rare.
(Special fC the Democrat.l
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 30.-The race be
tween the Yale and Harvard boat crews was
won by the Harvard by two lengths. Time -
Harvard, 24:36; Yale, 24:43.
Beacon Park Trottlnu Races.
BosTON, June 30.--Smuggler 2 1 1 1; Great
Eastern 1 2 2 2. Time: 2:22;-2:21-2:19'/
2:30 Class--May Bird won the third heat,
South the seventh, Hannah 1). first and second,
"Honest Harry the fourth and fifth. Time:
2:22%-2 :23-"(--2:23'i--2:24'4--2:25--2:24Y,
Third Race, purse of $300, mile heats, was
won by Frederick the Great-1:47% and 1:46.
The last race was a dash of three-quarters
a mile. Won by Faithless, who kept the
from the start.
Treasfrriag Russian Vessels.
[Special tot e D -mocrat.]
'K`Rw YoRK, June 90.-Six Russian vessels
4this port have been transferred to Aner
~Aer owners, their owners being apprehensive
of danger from Turkish men-of-war.
A Virginia Family Feud.
HARRISBURG, Va., June 30.-A shocking
homicide occurred at MeGayesville, Rocking
ham county, on Tuesday evening. Reuben
Bonds, a farmer and blacksmith and former
hotel keeper, residing in that town was
led ba stab with a pcket knife by 'Zubi.
p Z. GIlmore, Bonds ying about live min
hiss after.
family- feud had for years existed between
Bonds and Gilmoae, but the immediate cause
d the killing transpired but a few minutes
bnefore the fatal encounter. Gilmore is a
merchant, and is seventy years of age, and
Joaas forty-five years. 'The murder has
itted great excitement.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Countlng the Government Cash.
(Special to the Demo-rat.)
WASmINGTON, June 33.-Chief Clerk Upton,
the Treasury Department, will to-night
y the accounts of cash in the Treasurer's
ce, preparatory to making a transfer of
office to the new Treasurer, Gilfillan.
The Coinage or the Year.
[Special t" the Democrat.]
WanRINrTON, June 30.-The coinage reports
all mints, exce t that at Carson City,
theaggregato aina for the present 1
year of $71,00,000-increase over last fiscal
year $14,000,000.
Spain Will Apoloxize.
WAatrnNTON, June 30.- rho State Depart
mont has assurances that Spain will make
any amends proper when the alleged Ellen
Riseopahoutrage is investigated. The Risepah
was seized and her commander Imprisoned
by a Spanish cruiser on the Keys south of
Cuba.
Obeying the President's Order.
WAmIuNOTON, Juno 30.-Advicos received
here by the respective bureaus state that
Chase, Collector of Internal Revenue, and
Smith, Postmaster of Wilkesbarro. Pa., have
resigned as chairman and secretary of the
Republican County Committee.
WAR NOTES.
The Turks Moving Forward tofMieet the
nussians.
(Sp-clal to the Demoerat.i
LONioN, June 30.-Dispatches lato.l
Schpimla, Thursday, state that a forward
movement of the Turks will immediately take
planc to meet the Russians, who have crossed
the Danube.
A Fearful Slaughter of the Russians.
(Specbil to the Democrat.]
Nixoroms, Juno 30.-The Russlans at
tomated to cross the river hero Thursday in
fifty 1lihters. Ten of the lighters were sunk
by shells, and the attempt failed. The
slaughter was frightful.
Batoum Taken.
l8pocial to the Democrat.)
LONDON, June 30.-A dispatch from Pera
reports that the Russians have taken Batoum.
A Famine In Bulgaria.
[Special to the Democrat.)
LONDON, June 30.-There are fears of a
famine in Bulgaria.
The Britdge at Ibrall Broken.
[Special to the Democrat.)
LoNDoN, June 30--It is said that a Turkish
gunboat has broken the bridge at Ibralil.
Left Rustchuk.
[Speelal to the Democrat.J
LoNDoN, Juno 20. -- The foreign eonsuls
have loft Rustclhuk.
TEIM DOUKARDUENTS.
The Destruction Wrought in Rustmhnk
and Gllurgevo by shells.
i(onelal to the Demoorat.l
LONDON, June 30.-Telegrams from various
points give the particulars of the damage by
bombardment along the Danube. At Rust
chuk the German consulate was destroyed by
twenty-four shells, the French consulate by
three, and the Austrian consulate was rid
died. The nmlitary hospital In the Jews'
quarter received seventy-two shells up to
Wednesday.
The Turks at the same tIme had thrown
from two to three thousand shells into Giur
gevo. However, although the streets are
l iledd tmp ead the houses bored through amd
through, not more than one house in twenty
or thirty is seriously injured.
WILD TUREiIs.
r The Terrible Condillon of Affairs in Turk
Ish Armenia.
[Special to the Demoerat.]
LONDON, June 30.- --A letter from Erzeroum
says that tie Turks collected at Van for the
defense of the country have struck terror into
the whole district. The streets of the town
itself reek with their violence and disorders.
The Armenian missionaries have taken ref
uge aboard a small pleasure boat on Lake
Van. They float about the lake during the
(lay and sleep in some secluded village at
night.
Another letter gives a terrible account of
outrages and plundering by the Kurds
throughout Armenia, which the authorities
are unable or unwilling to prevent.
RussIan Dummy Soldilers.
[Speed il to the Demo-rat.]
LONDON, June 30.-A successful attempt
was made to-day to unmask the Turk
ish batteries by launching a fleet of eight
boats loaded with dummy soldiers.
Russian Defeat at Datoum.
N pweelal to the Demoncrat.l
NEW Yout, Juno30.-A telegram from Tre
bizond says that the Turks assaulted Friday
and carried the Russian position at Batoum,
achieving a great victory. The Russians re
treated after a severe battle and [ great loss
of men.
A Battle Raging at Nistova.
[Special to the Democrat.]
NEW YORK, June 30--A Vienna dispatch
dated last night says that it is persistently t
announced there that a battle has been raging
to-day below Sistova.
The Copyright Commisslon.
[Special to the Demnorat.]
LONDON, June 30.-It is understood that the -
Copyright Commission has adopted a serieg
of resolutions as a basis of its report, which
will recommend very considerable changes in
the law of copyrights.
OVER THE DANUBE.
How the Russians Crossed With So
Small a Loss.
BUCHAREST, Jaue 29.-The Russian forces 'J
at Hirsova are reported to he marching on
Silistria, and are within forty kilometres of j
that fortress.
The Turks are apparently concentrating
their troops in the principal forts, where they
will soon be attacked.
Everything is reported quiet to-day on the I
Danube.
It ascertained now that the principal cross
ins west of Guirgevo, was at Petroseni and J
Parapan just below Simnitza, where the
and small boats until a position was secured
on the south bank. This accounts for the
comparatively small loss suffered by the
Russsian troops, as the passage was effected
in small detachments, who were scattered on
the river and advanced towards the opposite
bank after the manner of skirmishers, so as - E
to render the enemy's fire less effective. E
Russians have also crossed at Tnrnu Mag
ureli, and have joined the Grand Duke Nicho- A
las at Sistova. A
MONET AND STOCKS.
[Speclal to the Democrat.]
NEW YORK, July 30.-G-Gold 105%. U. S. c's L
of 1881 110/@111; do coupons, 115@115%; el
5-2e's of 1865, new issue, 100O1ý03%; do. of w
1867, 112%(112%; do. 1808, coupons, 115011;
10-40's 11I; do. coupons, 112',; currency 8's
123; now 111V.
LoNoDo, June 30.-Console for money
94 7-16; do. account 941,; U. S. 5-20's of 1865
105, ; do. of 1867 106/j; 10-40's 1094; now fives
108h.: Erio 679.
DOMESTIC MIRKETem.
(Hvecial to the Democrat..
ST. Louis, Juno 30. --Flour unchanged.
Wheat lower; No. 2 red fall $1 38"l 381'; No.
8 do. $1 68 cash, $1 32'/, Jul. Coin ?ower;
44@44>4 49;, July, 43,+4 August 451
bepte 'l er. Oats dl;3, hid. Whsy
Stoutly, $1 0619. Pork dull, $13 15cash. Bulk
meats inactive; clear ribs 7% bid cash and
July. Bacon firmer, 5' (8%. Lard nominal.
CHIOAOo, June 30.-V ,eat Irogular, $1351/
July, $1 21% August, nothing doing cashi.
Cotn quiet, 41% July 471% Augut. Pork
steady. $12 855@ 12 5ºI'4 uly, v13 02%/ Au
gust. Lard steady, 8.Ul>4 July, 8.75@8.77'
August. Whisky Iluu, $1 08.
CINCINNATI, .June 30.---Ylour firm, higher.
Wheat very scarce, st'ady; white $1 906r2.
Corn and oats firm, unchanged. Whisky
I uiet, $1 07. Pork fair demand, $13 35 hhl,
13 50 asked. Lard nominal. Bulk meats and
bacon steady, unchanged.
PM3BION MAEI(Te.
Lrvm3roors, Juno 3o.--otton-Fair husi
neos at previous prim ; Middling Uplands
6f', Middling Orleans 6>%; Hales 8000 halos;
for speculation 1.100. Rece pts 5500; American
2x00.
Futures 1-38d hetter; Uplands, Low Mid
dling clause, June and July delivery, 0 5-10rd
Juiy and August, 6 11-32446 5-16d; August ani
September, 6 13-32r(ind; September and Oc
toher, 6 15-3206 7-lOd.
LuvEnroot, Junle 30, 1:30 P. M. - --Lard 44s.
MARINE NEWS.
POnT EARS, Junoe 3o Noon--Arrived:
Steamship New Orlians, Diearborn master, at
10 o'clock last night, from New York, to A.
Moulton.
Sailed: Steamship Chrysollte.
To the Capitalists, Property Holders and
Citizens of New Orleans.
The undersigned, presidents of banks and
Insuranee companies of this city, feeling deep
ly the great Importance of railroad connec
tion between Now Orleans and the State of
Texas, and believing that the present is the
most favorable time we can ever have to build
such a road, and knowing that the New Or
leans Pacific Railroad Company are
about to place before our people a sub
scription to the second mortgage bonds
to the extant of $075,000, the proceeds
of which will finish the grading, bridge and
cross-tie the entire road from Bayou Goula to
Marshall and Shreveport, which, when done,
will enable the directory to make a first mort
gage debt of not to exceed $10,000 per mile,
sufficient to put down steel rails, build sta
tion-houses, turn-outs, and place locomotives
and cars for two passenger trains each way,
daily, and at least 500 freight cars and locomo
tives to drive themn- thereby putting the en
tire road In complete condition for freight
and passenger traffic at a cost of less than
$15,000 per mile, the smallest cost of any rail
road, per mile, in this or any other country;
and further believing that some of our citi
zens may not have sufflel5nf knowledge of or
confidence in these seeuritios, and doubting
the ability on the part of the stockholders to
complete the road, the undersigned deem It
not Improper, at this crisis and Juncture In this
great enterprise, the success of which secures
the future welfare and prosperity of our State
and city, to place before you, under our sig
natures, our entire confidence, after careful
examination, both as to the certainty that the
road will be built speedily, if these second
mortgage bonds are taken, and also that the
bonds will prove a first-class seven per cent
per annum interest paying investment.
And we further give it as our opinion that
these bonds will have a standing in our stock
market, and will be received by our several
institutions as security for loans with as
much readiness as any other seven per cent
securities of our State.
We unhesitatingly commend these bonds
for investment, for the roason that when the
road is completed the revenues are morally
certain to not only pay the interest on the
bonds, but give handsome dividends to the
stockhollers.
If this loan is not taken, the work on the
road must be abandoned, and all subscriptions
to stock now made be greatly jeopardized.
It will be a stigma and disgrace on our phe
ple to fail in completing this cennection with
our prosperous sister State, and we earnestly
urge the attention of our capitalists, our 1
moneyed men, our corporations, and all
classes of our citizens to come forward and
subscribe to the loan.
nooks for subscription will he found at the
office of the company. and at the offices of all
the corporations represented by the under
signed:
GEO. JONAR, President Canal Bank.
SAMI'L H. KENNEDY, President State National
Bank.
A. BALDWIN, President New Orleans National
Bank.
E. L. CARRIERE, President Citizens' Bank.
J. C. MoRRis, President Hibernia National
Bank.
L. B. CAIN, Presidetnt Germania National
Bank.
DAviDh URQnHART, President New OricIans
Savings Institution.
J. H. OGLEsBY. President Louisiana Naticonal
Bank.
C. KouN, President Union National Bank.
JAMES JACKSON, Vice Presideit Louisiana t
Savings Bitnk.
JNo. T. HARDIE, President Mutual National
Bank.
THOS. A. ADAMS, President Crescont Mutual I
Insurance Company.
ED. A. PALFREY, President Factors' and S
Traders' Ins. Co.
JNo. HENDERSON, President Hibernia Iris. Y
Company.
1. TUYEs, President N. O. Insurance Co.
M. MUssoN, President N. O. Insurance Asso- Y
eiation. dI
LLOYD R. COLEMAN, President M. and Trad- ti
ers' Ins. Co. b
ERNEST PRAGST, President People's Ins. Co. a
E. MAIER, Secretary Germania Ins. Co. R
H. PEYCHAUD, President Hope Ins. Co. Y
k. CHIAPELLA, President Union Ins. Co. n
1V. B. ScHMIDT, President Teutonia Ins. Co. ri
je30 7t di
To-morrow, Monday, and during hewefk, M.
La Byrne & en., 163 Oanal street. will offer their a
mitire giuck of Via:.oria lawn sut and brown
inen saui at gr~adl realuo. priusa. a
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
SR. KEY, (EKOIRE P4H IIRIDAN AND THE
DUrLA.CIAPIMAN CASE.
The Present Independent Position of the
Enfranchised anut h.
[Mpecial correspondence N. O. Democrat.)
WAsuNoTroN, June 26, 1877.
A Now Orleans dispatch to the Associated
Press this morning says that George Sheri
dan has concluded his investigation of the
postoAflco case in the Folilianas and will re
I cominond the removal of Dula and Chapman
on the ground of incompetency. This affords
mre an opportunity of
C RISING TO EXPLAIN.
Some time ago I wrote and you printed a
9 letter setting forth what Hherldan's action
would be, and the reasons why he was so
loctAxd for that mission, in pretty plain terms
' You must give Mr. Key credit for the best
and most patriotic intentions in regard not
only to this, but to all similar affairs in the
South. His work of weeding out the corrupt,
Ignorant or lnbecilo postmasters, white and
- blaek, whom the Grapt regime fastened upon
the South Is an efot hoTWlU bt ati et i#ttith
difficulties which must he experienced in or
der to be appreciated; no more description of
them will suffice. Had Tyner been left to
manage this particular affair, he would have
sent a disciple of
THE BLOODY SHIRT uOMPEL
to investigate those cases and the result
might have been unhappy for all parties con
cerned. Mr. Key, as soon as his personal
attention was directed to the matter, discov
ored from the responsibility of the sources of
his information, that the situation was grave,
and he at once resolved to make tests of these
two cases of repeated outrage. He selected
our friend Sheridan for two reasons; first,
d because he knew that George enjoyed the eon
fldence of the people of Louisiana to a greater
extent than perhaps any other Republican,
d unless Jack Wharton might be excepted, and
i- second, because he knew that George had
gained a reputation North, through his ser
f vices as a campaign
SPEAKElI FOR HAYES,
d which would give conclusive weight to any
report he might make.
o It was doubtless of great importance to Mr.
B- Blaine that cases of outrage, intimidation,
H bulldozing, and all that sort of thing should
H he made out of these two affairs. But to the
d Administration it was important that such
action should be taken as would best sub
serve the public interests, and it was equally
important that the facts upon which sucfl ac
tion might be based should be ascertained
and reported by an officer In whose report the
5 Northern public would repose confidence.
All these things have boon accomplished. Mr.
i Blaine and Ben Butler are doubtless griev
ously disappointed, but the people of Louisl
it ana will be satistliod,and the public at large will
n be gratified to learn that we have an Admin
- istration which is capable of strict attention
to reform in even so small a matter as two
VILLAOE POSTOFFIUES.
r EBut this is not exactly what I set out to
z write. My former letter setting forth the
0 nature of the mission of my friend Sheridan
t fell into the hands of one of our Democratic
H Congressmen from the North, who happened
' to be in this city last week, and lie was
e alarmed.
"Great God," lie said, "that will never do.
i1 You should not have published those facts.
0 Don't you soO the Radical press will raise a
1 howl? Don't you know they will take this
0 portion of your letter (referring to my state
t ment that "George was sent down to 'ascer
tain' what the l'ostm'naster Gneiral was al
t ready well aware of, to wit, etc.") don't you
k know they will take that as a text for saying
.1 that it was all
H A PUT UTP 101%
t to get the two negro postmasters out of the
way and thus surrender to the bulldozers !"
s " Well," said 1, " it's true, isn't it? And in
(3. my judgment the time has come when the
South can talk out the same as the rest of the
e country."
My Democratic friend from the North had
been so long accustomed to exhort the South
, to take a back seat and keep its mouth shut,
4 that he failed to recognize the great fact that
things have taken a ntw turn lately.
-" But," said he, "'those things will he made
I the basis of a new outrage campaign in Ohio,
and the Radicals on the Western Reserve will
hbe whooped up and we shall
LOOSE THE STATE
"My dear friend," I replied, "that was good
logic a year ago, when the Southern people
were looking to the Northern Democracy for
salvation; but you should bear in mind that
the Southern people are not dependent on the
Northern Democracy as much as they were.
The last Southern State is now out of the
woods, and, whatever may happen to politi
cal parties and party organizations, you can
bet your bottom dollar that the intelligent
white lpeple of the South will rule and that
negro and carpet-hag legislatures, courts
and executives have conclusively receded
INTO THE DIM PAST.
"This being the state of the case, and the
Southern people being abundantly able to
maintain the situation as it stands. I don't
see any harm in letting the world-.even the
Radicals on the Western Reserve of Ohio
into the secret."
"But," rejoined my friend, "these things
jeopardize the success of the Democratic par
ty in the North."
"How?" I inquired.
"Why, you know 'how' as well as I do.
Haven't we had to carry the South as a dead
weight in every campaign in the Northern
States since the war?"
"Precisely," said I, "and why? Because
you have said to the South, 'Let us of the
North make the tickets and platforms; let us
RUN THE MACHINE;
you keep quiet and lie low; when election
(lay comes pile up your majorities for our
ticket. In that way we will smuggle you
back into power!' This is the policy you have
acted upon for ten years. And at the last
moment, when we had elected a President for
you, you sat still with your thumbs in your
mouths and said to us 'for God's sake don't
resist the count! It is a h-i of a fraud, but
don't make any fuss, because if you do the
government bonds we own will be depreci
ated.' That was your last
ADVICE TO THE SOUTH;
and the South acted upon it; did not make,
any fuss; but (lid takeadvantage of the situa
tion to make up out of anxiety of the enemy
I what they bed lost by your cowardice at the
critical moment. The upshot of the whole
business is, my friend, that the South has
s ceased to play second fIddle to the Northern
Democrats; so that your advice to me be
longs to an obsolete school of political philo
sophy."
1 This is very nearly a literal report of our
conversation. It serves to show that the
o Northern Democrats can't get out of their
- old rut, and can't tunderstrtnd that, locally
speaking, the Southern people are
MASTEIIS OF THE SITUATION,
and quite likely to assert their due share of
influence in Federal affairs, from this time
henceforth. There is no danger of any South
[rn State relapsing back into niggerism, car
pet-baggery and returning boards. Whether
the Northern Democrats grasp this mo
mentous fact or not, the Southern people un
t derstand It. Certainly there will be no volun
tary relapse, while, as for coercion, I believe
it would take a greater force to remand the
South back to the condition of 1870, 1871 and
1872 than would be required to march from
h th.Dalube i0 Cost anthnople in ono direc
tion and to Paris in (taeffTrs
ti So long as I am correspondent of the
0 NEW OIILIIANS DEJ O IIAT,
e 1 shall write such facts as come to my knowl
edge, without the "fear of the Northern Rad
icals" before my eyes, in perfect belief that
t Southern facts are no more to be concealed
than Northern facts, and confident that
1i Southern readers are able to take care of
themselves, without any care on my part to
of discriminate between those facts Which may
be published and those which should be sup
e pressed. If the Radical organs howl, as my
d Democratic friend apprehends,
LET THEM HOWL.;
I- it can only be in ululation over departed
r power. And If "the success of the Northern
1, Democracy is jeopardized thereby," as my
d friend feared, why, then, the Northern De
( Inoeracy ought to be in better luck. But one
- thing our Northern Democratic friends must
learn, that is that the South declines to be
longer regarded as a '-dead weight" which
Y the Northern Democracy must "carry In
every campaign." Perhaps our friends will
r. ascertain this fact about the time the next
' Congress is organized. * A. C. B.
d
A PERFEC(1 SUCCESS.
h
t Thousands Visit lohe Went Endl Pavilion.
Y The inauguration of the West End Pavilion at
the No v Lake End yesterday afternoon attracted
d thousands of people to the s.ot. The vast steno.
t are, although only partially prepared for the re
A caption of the patrous of the City Railroad Com
r. pany, who have erected it for the free use of
r- everybody visiting the lake shore, was enjoyed
1- as one of those necessities which hove long been
11 felt.
1- A splendid band, Charley aseger's old corps,
n under the leadership of Herr Woolfe, entertained
0 the attendants with splendid selections from the
masters, and In the evening the building was
brilliantly Illuminated.
o All sorts of refreshments (spirituous liquors
e excepted) were to be had at the calling, served
it on neat tables and in clean and bright glassware
and cro-kery, evidenoing a good management.
d The advantage of the new pavilion lies in Its
siluation :far out in the lake, which permits
s the prevailing land brei zee to reach It after
drinking of the colnese of the water. We write
at euch a late hour that we can give only a pass.
' ing notice to this great improvement to
3. the New Lake End, an evidunoe of the enterprise
a of the railroad company and the excellent man
agement of Mr. J. Kittredge, but we will *eize
every opportunity ia the future to refer to its
good polnts and recommend it to the patronage
of the public.
Ladies will find daily a person of their sexlo
attend to them in the ladies' dressing-room,
u walob has been fitted up with due regard to their
accommodation.
A SATURDAY NIGH? BLAZE.
Total Loss Estinsated at $20,000.
u At a quarter to 11 o'clo k last night, a fire
0 broke out in the large two-story brick house, No.
0 29 Damaine street. The lower floor of this
building was occupied by O.iver Legeal, as a
I broom factory, while on the second floor resided
I the Cazanx family. This properly was totally
destroyed.
t The fl Imes then extended and destroyed the
brick building No. 23 Dumalne street, which was
0 unoocnpied.
The flames then communicated to the wire
I store of Barlolara & Sparrecio, and slightly
damaged it.
Whether any of the properties destroyed were
I insured or not could not be ascertained. Total
Slois estimanr d at $20,000. The alarm Vas sound
red from box Nc. 214.
a MOUTHERN PATESITS.
Mir. HI. N. Jenkins, Solicitor of Patents, No. 27
SCommercial Place, oficially reports to the Dsmco
- cEa? the following complete list of patents
Igranted Southern inventor, for the week ending
SJune 5, 1877:
Louisiana-Arietide Gerard, New Orleans,
cvav'at, electric annun lator; Joseph Jonet, New
Orleans, caveat, wheel for elevatiiig water; lsidore
W. itounsel, hlacelaud, cane juice bleaching ap
oaratue.
Arkansas..John P. Duncan and D. H1. Crehs,
Helena, Ia k valve.
&ll'eiveippi-tI. Roby, Kosciunko, combined
cotton scraper and cnltvator; It. J. Ward. Sesi
at. bia, fences; La Fayette W. Liles, Jackson,
plow.
Taxas-A. A. Fowler, Pdauo, sulky plow.
In Carrollton.
On Friday the case of Peson and othere,
obargi d with the brutal assaulL on Kate Leland,
came up before Judge Pardee, but owing to the
absence of the princ pal witness for the State,
had to be continued. Kate Leland has since
been arres ed and made to furnish bonds in the
sum of $500 to appear and give her evidence.
The case of Leopold and Martin, indicted for
burglary, was also continued.
The Customhouse Commisslon.
The comnmisaion having entirely completed its
labors. Gen. Sheldon, one of the commissioners,
left for Washington yesterday evening by the
Jackson route. Gen. Sheldon will tarry a day or
two on the way, but will arrive at the capital at
the same time as thb report, which will probably
be forwarded from this city to-day.
We call the attention of planters and the trade
to the n tice publi-hed in anottb r column by
Messrs Ogden & Bell of their planters' enamless
cotton bags for picking cotton. Messrs. Ogden &
Bell have long been known to our city for their
enterprise and the excellence of ti eir good..
What they now offer is superior to anything that
has ever been tried before.
LETTER FROM CHICAGO.
CHICAIiO's WONDIIRWUJL EROWTE-RM
WATERWORKS, SPLEIIIDIS UUIL13
INEN AND ENrEEPRIME.
The Palmer House-A compearisn oUt'
American with European Uotels-
A Fine Lumber Mill.
(Spooial Correspondence of the Democrat.]
CHICAGO, June 27, 1877.
This city- Chicago-Is situated ln.latutud.
40 dog. 10 min. N., and longitude 10 deg. IS
ain. W. from Washington. When the gso-b
graphlos are revised for the school childrencl
the future the lguroseoxpressivo of the longi
tude will be reduced to zero, since all miert
dians will of course be reckoned from the
MwI'ROPOLIo or TI1r WORLm.
The population of Chicago for 1877 Is esti
mated at 53;,073. It Increases steadily at the
rate of 10 per cent per annum; 83 hundredths
of 1 per cent per month; 19 hundredths of I per
cent per week, and 274 ten thousandths of t
per cent per day. It Is not fecessary to give
the rate of Increase per hour and per minute.
In five years it will contain 862,000 inhabi
tants; in ten years 1,; ip fifteen yeams
2,232,000; 98t'st
the prý -,
years
and at next Centennial bly everybody
In the United States will be embraced in tia
population of this city. COleago lies on thr
sides of the Chicago river and one side U
Lake Michigan. Its principal suburbs are
Hyde Park, Calumet, Waukegan and St. Louis,
Mo. Its chief products are railroads, water
works, sub-fliuvian tunnels and Boses Hosing.
It is noted for newspapers, enterprise, rapki
growth, and the Palmer House. It does a
large bulness In grain, lumber, provisions and
fires. Up to 1833 the cite of Chicago was
AN UNIIECLAIMED MANOR
with a pestilential little bayou running
through It. It was the headquarters of the
North American Fur Company, and of a
United States military post, and the resort of
wolves, Indians, and a few half-breeds. An
late as 1840 its population was only 4479. Ia
1850 It had Increased to 29,968, and in 1861)
to 109,200. Fifteen years ago the houses stood
at the level of the lake, and drainage wan,
consequently, difficult, If not Impossible.
Since then the whole city has been raised
fourteen feet, an effort of energy and skill,
which has never been surpassed. This Is only
one of the many pecullarities of Chlcages
Another is the remarkable
SYSTEM OP WA7ZAWoRns.
Lake Michigan contains as delightfully
pure fresh water as can be found on the globe;
but, on the surface, and near the shore,-it was
apt to become polluted by the neighborhood
of a great city. To avoid this difficulty a
tunnel two miles long was constructed under
the bottom of the lake. At the lake end the
tunnel connects with a shaft sunk in the lake
bed by means of a coffer-dam, above which Is
a building popularly known as "The Crib."
Into this dam, and thence Into the tunnel, the
flow of water from the depths of the lake Is
regulated as necessity requires. From such
a reservoir the supply Is, of course, constant.
and inexhaustible.
THPROtGIt THTE1 TUNNEL
the water is conducted to an immense well
beneath the great waterworks building on
shore, and thence It is raised by steam ma
chinery to a height from which it distributes
itself, by its own weight, to all parts of the
city. It is proper to say that, in order to
most the demands of a rapidly growing popu
lation, a second tunnel has just been con
structed. so that the water aunniv nnw
amounts to
150,000,000 GALLONS A DAY.
The cost of this work was $8,000,000. I am
told by people here that times are very hard
in Chicago; that business is dull, real estate
down and affairs generally in a bad way. In
fact, I hear the same complaints that have
been rife in every great city of the civilized
world sinue the disastrous crash In 1873.
When you speak to a Chicago man of the
magnificonce of the city, of its marvelous
growth, its energy and its enterprise, he
smiles a smile of deprecation, and remarks
that,
BUT FOR TIIR FIBB
and the commercial crisis, Chicago would be
a goxxl deal nearer finished ;han it now is.
But, in truth, the fire gave an opportunity
for such a display of energy and persever
ance as, I presume, has never elsewhere been
seon. I have looked upon many monuments
of human enterprise--the underground rail
ways of London, the Thames Embankment,
the Mont Cenis Tunnel-but I have never sewn
anything to compare with the rebuilding of
Chicago after the destruction wrought by the
fire of 1871. Not quite six years have passed,
and, save by here and there a. vacant lot, no
trace of the great conflagration remains. The
city has
SPRUNG INTO RENEWED LIFE,
more vigorous and more beautiful than be
fore.
The corporate limits of Chicago embrace
about forty square miles. As at present built
it extends along the lake about five miles,
north and south, and about two miles west
ward, say an area of ten square miles. The
fashionable quarters are at either extremity.
The people of the south side, I believe, claim
the wealth and fashion, and the people of the
north side the aristocracy. To judge by ap
pearances these qualities are about equally
divided, though the finest streets, at present,
both commercially and otherwise, are on the
south side. I know of no commercial quar
ters of any city in the world that surpasses
the
SPLENDOR AND MAGNIFICENCE
of the business part of Chicago, and the
splendor and magnificence are not confl pd
to one or two streets, but pervade a dozen or
more wide and commodious thoroughfares,
such as State street, Clark street,
street, Fifth Avenue, Wabash Avenue,
dolph street, Washington street,
street, Monroe street, etc. All of these -
sect one another at right angles-in fact, the
whole city is laid out regularly, so that a
stranger can have no difficulty in finding his1
way about town.
Some of the greatest commercial establish
ments in the country, some of the finest com
mercial edifices, and unquestionably
THE rPIrT UMo1¶Ls
and newspaper establishments are included,
sAcmUmed ea aizi Rag..