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v CITY Al FAIX. MII1 ItWAL EAVW3NR . prtesot ens ani Apwaeet tmen s-An Ori4 "nnee aligee. Col. Denls, staig Mayor, has made the follow Ing ptrootiomn of supenusaeraries on the pollee to beoome members of the regular fore: S. Porehey, olerk and operator; 3. i. Ohe. and Geolte M er, patrolmen, Seventh The fowin r supernumeraries have also been vsolnted: "lird Preoelcot-Jamee Donn, Wim. L'nerani , Augt uk, G T. Sallher, Peter Beaivinh. tiath Ireinct.--Roberl do Keaghy. seventh Precinot--Simon fapp, Jne. P. Dour. debts. Harbor Preoinaa-Ias. MeMoon. The acting Mayor having visited the spot on the river front allotted to Meors. grown & lone as a boat landing, has come to the eonoluslo that the request is a fair one and should be granted. He hbs therefore signed the ordinanee relative thereto passed at the last Counell meet. lug. The spot is at present uncit for use, re qu rlug munah Alling in, which the petltioners have agreed to do at their own expense. A wncdlln piese of lnformationfor the discharged employee of the Improvement Department. On Monday evening, at 5 o'clook, they are requested to call at the City Hlal and receive their pay for lae. In the Department of Assessmenat the soes orse and their employee are dolng well under a temperature of from 04 to 97 tin the shade, and Admlnistrator Blengetorlf is ndw eatisfied that the rolls will be completed for examination by tapayere on the 18th Inst. MeanWhile it is aue less for taxpayers to apply for deorrections or re duotionvr4t his ofRlee on the rolls of this year. It only delays the operations of the department without ln the lea t benefitting the applieants. A poor woman who peddles wares about the streets on a " free permit" aalled on the noting Administrator of Finaoce on Friday morning to say that she had been anrrnnannuo wrn by a polioeman in her avocation. With the per. mission of a storekeeper on Dryades street, near Thalia, she sells her own wares In a basket near the a .b of the sidewalk but altheugh one block away from the maeret, the pollceman constrnes that she is violating the pity ordinances, and wants her to rent a emall to the market it she in -sie upn selling goole in that neighborhood, aad he thinks that her permlt ig wortless. Mr. Oavanao has Informed he good woman that, on the entrary, the i.rmit l in renluar form, and t t the market ordiances do not ap y to paddinlg t suoh a distane from the mar ?he s question of peremttina Messrs. Bsoul A Henry to try the utiperiment o laying an - A.Psl.tlr ravmuer on Wells street, between 1 an d ad a staombouee, ies et.yetttled. G.ol Dea sya it it le sveiry well that the petitioners shold allowed to try the aleh i vesse of their pavment, but s the w.ork wil entail a expense to the city for brifd lg and a elarin, he thinks that te oity on tra. l should bs consullted on the subject. Gel, Denis likens the proposetion to an invite tion to the oily to take a day o, she to pay for the Wine. POLt0d UtNImOsi8. Mr Leon odoban, thb clothier on Canal ssteet ha sall but cmpted the new pollee ui forms, and, although has had to make one hrudred more than he enpvoted, they will all be delivered by Monday or Tuesday net, several dasr ae lhe the time specified. The one handred extra usiforms are 0f the ia nmerarles, who are reqUieM o .iqn t1p4 like the regtlar men. T. w r S somely done under the soal v.so our young and energot, Med U e Isvy2ooom. plmente the Chief of Polle for he rity wit which he ha sent hi as m to he fitted, thereby hltarstleti the hoe greatly In the eaecuton of their conn .it By tim way, t oayb twel the t the mer tofs lPt Preelno t have all ordered white veste r Godbusnt, a a complsement to their tal. and it l probatble the other preegiets will stlt-as pun iatended .he Wlier osat~ i le 11 will be of the frok pattern, double. "Isum Greay, one of our finest military I o flant have also ordered handsome grey i u. ie of /thilithobe. S9ARD Oe CANVASS iIM. The Vote for Coroner Ca.tvased-R-oche Harn Over I1t Maljority. The State Board of Oanvassrrs met yesterday at the State-house. Present: Speaker Bush and Senators ZElobrle and Allanl. On motion the board proceeded to oanvas the vote for Coroners cast at the last election tI TatI PAUtlSn, and found that In the lower district Iance, with no contestant, had 8000 majority. In the votes east in the upper district it was found that Roche had a majority of over 1100 over Ohastant, and this fact will probably be made known by official promulgation to-day. After canvassing the vote, as stated, the board adjourned until to-day at 12 m. TILLINiOiAoT'o LITtlE EIAME. Attempt to itackmtall the Insurance Companies of New Orleans. Human ingenuity never seems at a lose to in vent new means to secure the filthy lulorewithout the pain of laboring for it. The hundreds of schemes employed by confidence men, the many artful lodges of the professional forger to get rid of his work, and the thonssnd buslness tricks tes tify that the discovery of one and Its exposure only excltes the rogue to invent another plan where by he can fleece even the most snepedtlng. Of all the plans of getting money dishonestly none is more contemptible and purely vile than black mailing. It lacks even the dignity of picking - pockets, s. itle- evertl degrees below sneak thieving. Still it seems to be resorted to quite often, as a case now and then in the courts shows, There is one Individual in the Athenian city of P~oston who has risen above his fellows in the blackmailing business just now, and who is seek. a, 1 to make himself a sort of aristocratic Jeremy I dildler, and his name it ie Tillinghast. 'illinghast, despising all the old and worn out " ,'aemes for blackmailing, PITORHD UPON A PLAN .e thought would not only be a safe one, but also ex ceedlngly remunerative, and it was this: Hle started in Boston a pamphlet which he styled the Insurance Inder, wherein he proposed to publish for a small compensation the state mentsof the different companies, and also the financial status of every company, whether they advertised with him or not. This circular or prospectus was widely circulated, and shortly af terwards the work itself camne ot. Some North. ern companies, believing the Index legitimate, inserted their statements in its column,, whilst others, fearing that l they did not publish theirs in the book they would be rated low, did so and paid down their blackmail and received a consid eration by seeing them placed as "solid, staunch," in the reference table in the back part of the book. Tillinghest meeting with some success in his game, proposed TO WNLARGE nP r IRLD of operations and aooordingly mailed to the dif ferentnelurance companies of this o'ty his propo sition. As s well known, our established com panies do not need the Indorsement of a concern ike Tillinghast'e. and no lie propo ition met with a fiat refusal to "come down." The consequences were exactly as was supposed. Tillingbast wasn't to be put down in that way by the New Orleans companies. If the companies wouldn't go to Tillinghast, why Tillinghast woudgo for the com panies and so he did. In a ccally prit:cd numbcr 2o the In1nurance t s following is babnd: " opso ef Sites ( oNew O--.5l-h-."- "K" orsf the , to a in the book, where oppelts this Is fierud, "hle smpuan refused to -b. IN in .tatemot, Ti. tre r ).a Wtrne a it, solveney for hmeul"'' aope Mutual ntturanee Comsany of New Or leans-."' When "l" Is looked for and f Jnnd, Tas uatreaksts no that the lope Inesurance Company is "bankrupt" is diseovered, As the writer pased its omffe yeterday it looked like saything ppta banktapt concern, for okrks were buy the secretary engrossed in the affairs of that corporation. The nett i the ',libernla Inesurhee Company of New Orlesans-f." Again referring to the key, it is saen that "f" means "worthles," and TtlUlng heet's revenge, that Individual tinalnes, is satils fled. A few worthless eornoratiog like the "libernia" In New York and Boston would tend very materially to ttaLLA TnU rtvaamnt rP1trO there regarding the Insturance nterests. It ie not improbable that Tillinhast has reaped a rich harvest with the totteringe ompamie ast the North that have endeavored by false statements to keep up a precarious existence, In his irou lar he says he will publish these statements Just as they are sent to him, inelratltag that the company need not be equeamish as to ite truth or eorreotness. This is the bait to lure his game, It is a little uncertain how long TillioDhast Will continue his brilliant eareer, but If justice Is done he will find himself "indexed" on some penitentiary record soon. THE CUmrTOM-HOUIE COMMI IOCTN. An Interview with Gen. Barney an Their Report. It sapears now that the Ottttom-Rouse Inves tigating Commission have not closed their labors; at least, they have not completed their gaport, and will not have done so until the 15th Ikt, Gen, Sheldon, who is now in Washington, went there to present the prelimlnary report of the commission, which treats only of the clerical force of the customs department at this port, to gether with the recommendation that their num ber be reduced, as well as other expenses In the department. Before proceeding farther, it should be said that with reference to the appeal of Mr, H. Boa rano, urging the commission to put the Im ports for the Oowbelllons de Bankin Sooiely, Ils istk Krewe of Comus, IRe, eto.,on the "free list" as "impertations for sooleties or institutione estab lished for philosophleal, educational and literary perposes, or the encouragement of the fine arts, and not intended for sale," Gob. Sheldon has taken the matter specially in hand. He will interview the Secretary of the Treasueary personally and ExPLtAIt TO Eam the high eharacter of these societies and the ser vie they render to the eause of education by their ehaste and elassic representations. He will recommend them as being deservedly entitled to the benefit of the doubt, If any should exist about the proprlety of placing their la. porte on the free list. With reference to the memorial, also of Mr. Boesano, touehing the four cent cotton tax, the committee returned a polte answer, stating that the subject did not come under the purtlew of their instructions, and therefore could not be touched upon by them, Len. Sheldon, however, took palUn to explain in a personal interview some of the dfficulties attending the recovery of this tax. He said that when he was a member of Con -gr, a few enars ago, he had the honor of be fng chilrmau of the committee to which it had been referred and he said that he soon nWAnUI TINED of attending at these committee meetigs, be eause there seemed no possibility of coming to an agreement. The Northern members were opposed to the refund, because it involved too heavy an amount (si~ty or eighty millions of dollart); the others, though friendly and anxious to serve the South, old[never laree as to who should be entitled to t eeelseation -ne wanted the produoer to hare it, segther wanted the country purchaser or shipper to have it, a third one wanted the agent or consignee, who aid the tax into the treasury to have it, and us while all agreed that the exaction of a peal tax of four cents a pound on cotton was early illegal and unconstitutional, It we impoe elble for them to agree as to who should have the right to make the reelmnation; consequently no sction was taken during that seslson, nor has there been any better understandiag brought about since. hok mb har nennrihto nr M1r Rnnaon halm Ao usUeMr memuras, us ar. iunmas, unll dosen or more in number, were of a character directly germain to the investigation and the result of the long experience of their author as a Oustom-ea use broker. They treated princlpally of transportation entries to Mexico, the tardiness of the Texu malle, and the delays oooasioned thereby in the tranmmimldon of bonded goode; ixcaserya noine exacted to secure the safe transit and exit of bonded goods into Mealoo; the subject of cart. age, and whether the commlislon would permit the bonded draymen of merchants to do their hauling; the prevention of smuggling; the pro. priety or expediency of giving importers twenty four hours to make their entries; changes in the general order system, and the removal of goods from ship to the warehouse designated by the importer when such a designation is made; the unfair claseloation of sugars, recommend ing that the low grading at the North compared with the high grading here should be investi gated, and other matters, all subjects of the highest interest and importance to the mer chants of our city and, indeed, to a great portion of the West and Northwest, and going to show that if there be any VIBTUE IN THE CouIiReION, which we have no reason to doubt, a great deal can be done by them to promote the business interests and to preserve and increase the foreign com merce of this port and the other sections of country referred to. We have edptomieed the subjects and print them again simply for the sake of reference and to keep them in a'l their importance before the pub lie, for a visit to Gen. Barney yesterday elicited very little information. The General was in his new and comfortable office, at the head of that break-neck staircase where the commission used to meet. He was -unable however, to a.ewer-our -uesttbes, onath eround that the committee had not yet defluitely concluded what recommendations THEY WOULD MARE to the Department of the Treasury on the sub jects laid before them by Mr. Bonaeno. During our conversation with the ohsirman of the commission we were told, however, that their full report would be completed by the 15th Inst., or thereabrutse, Having ventured the question whether we could then hope for some information, Gen. Barney invited us very cour teously to eall again after that date, when he could better tell how far he might satisfy us. There s one eabjtoct which the General will be able to consider with MOBR THAN OlRDIARY ability. We refer to the "Trasoportstion to Mexico" matter, with which he is practically ac quainted, he having be'n for some time Colleo tor of COutoms at Brownsville We are still enoouraged in the belief that when the report shall have been made we can inform our readers or its main points without awaiting the action of the 8eoretary of the Treasury or of Congress upon it. EXTRAVAGANT FPUNERAL%. What it Costs to be Decently Buried in New Orleans. Yesterday afternoon the sight of a long string of oarriages and cabs f llowing a hearse out OCanal street cltled to the reporter's mind a statement published some months sinooe in a Paris journal, that "our funerals are too costly." Meeting an experienced undertaker before the c rtege had passed, the reporter inquired, "What do you think, Mr. -, is the cost of a funeral likethat ?" The Undertaker-Let me see. There's about twelve carriages a'd four "abe, and the hearse. That'ld make just about $90 at least for that, if that Is all you want to know. Beiorter--But I want to know more than that. What do you think the whole of that funeral coot to the relative, of the deoed ? OCan you ap proximate that?. I'Ud rtaker-I can comC r ucrhnt near to Rt. That gietalllo ease ii(id for fed, and that baaiý there are incidental eptnesep , sueh e acrypt the like, that make ap sabout $10 moe, tl safely put it down that that funeral cost "Ihat $100 to $105 even, If not more. Reporter-Is that as cheap as you can get tapa respeetable funeral for ? Undertaker--Oh, Lo. It all depends as the eofin. You ma get a cheap walnut box for $I or $10 that looks very well, and a good-looking hearse (?) with three carriages for $80, and ain't that decent? The sxpense of keeping horses ain't a little, and there a not anch profit in the business. leporter-Don't you think, as a rule, most people for a love of display expend more than is necessary in the funerals of deceased friends or relativee? Undertaker-Well, it wouldn't do for me to say anything about that, for its againet business, but as a rule people do like to spread some at a funeral. The above is only a tittle of what the truth really is. Brass bands and dolefual dirges are frequently played over decessed brothers, at a coal of fifty or sixty dollars when the widow and the little children at home lack the necessities of life and their next day's meal is a matter of con tingenoy. If there is anything in which the middle olases ought to curtail their love for die play, it is in the last sad services to their dead. The money unnecessarily spent in one year even in this oity, in this manner, Would go far to ameliorate the condition of those left behind. A little of the funeral extravagance devoted prap erly to the care and nursing of the invalid might save a life. 1770 AND 1.'11. Address D#livered by the Orater of the Day at Donaldsonvllie. As was promised our readers yesterday, we give below the principal portions of the address delivered by 0ot. James Lingan, as orator of the day to the Donaldsonville Othnoneers and their asembled guests on the occasion of the celebra tion of the Fourth of July: We have met to-day to join in the celebration of two most important events, the Declaration of Independence by our forefathers and the reor ganisation of the survivors of that gallant band of patriots who went forth from your midst six teen years ago, and battled for the principles which inspired Americans a nentivy ago. You all have no dotbt been struck, as I wee struck, by the remarkable similarity, nay, *the exaset identity of the grievances complained of by the patriots of 1776, against the home government, as lEnland was nalled, and those grievances of which oar own State and secilon have nom plained since the war, as having been suffered at the heads of the government at Washington. There is scarcely a complaint in that time hon ored inatrument against usurpations of power, enoroaehments upon personal rights or the priv lieges of representation in government, that stands not justified in th mouth of our ple against the leaders of the Radieal paty, who have betraysd and debauched the onstItutional liberties of our forlthers I One hundred years ago the framers of that declaration of indepen donee stood defiantly against the haughty pre. sumption of aristoerstle England, in asserting and defending the principle that the just powers of government were derived solely from the consent of the governed. Sitteen years ago the Donald sonv;tle Oannoneers, with equal determination and heroism, left their homes and embarked their lives and fortunes in defense of the same principle. However the direct Issue may seem to have gone against us, the day is now dawning when we can ones more, without division, claim the triumph of the same doctrines. There is no reason why Americans cannot join from all sections in the celebration of this day. It is a connecting link between the past and present between the beginning and the close of the first centuryof American liberty; and what. ever of sectional pride, or Interest or prejudine may have parted as in the past, there is now clearer ground for the. onltivation of national homogeneity, between all teetions, than ever be fore. Patriotism has no polities, and belongs ex elusively to no clime, or country or kind. Ties of common brothernood bind the spirits of those who unselfishly battle for the rights of their kind, and the altars and firesides of their birth or adoption. It is thus that "God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world." There is, in the growth of nations, a seed time and a harvest, There are eddies of existence in whiobh, in circling idleness as it were, we con template the surging current of outside progress and prepare our course for a future of activity. It is our duty thus to mark our political course, tbat, avoiding the dangers experience has pointed out, we may wrest from reluctant fate stature of prosperity and political success. We desire to place ourselves and our State interests and institutions en rapport with the people of other sections and nationalitier, that we may draw from their fullness the wherewithal to build up our waste places and develops the neglected reoumrees of our plundered Btate. To do this, public spirit, united action and a cultivation of patriotic ardor in behalf of our State and country is essential. Nothing tends more to these ends than public holidays, when the hearts of a people unite in commemorating heroic deeds, or the accomplishment of some great public benefit. A nation without holidays is a nation without history. It is like a man without ancestry. It is like the work of creation without the Sabbath-a saint without the crown of martyrdom-a church without a creed, heaven without re demption. Holidays are the resting places in national life, when we stop to contemplate our achievements and commemorate the virtues of our dead and enoourage our living heroes. It is these occa sions that stimulate mankind to deeds of public virtue sad exalt the standard of patriotic itizen ship. They give that holy oadenoe that makes human history musical with heroio actions! They are the shining stones that mark the path tway from the gloom of national degeneracy and decay, oatward and upward into the fair feldsand bright sunahine of national prosperity and great ness-the broad steppnlogstones, by which a people mount from obscurity to fame. It is in vain to prate of progress while the mac hood of a people is sapped by debaling ohbjecte and pursuits. An elevated standard of citiz -n ship must be uonltivated, and a people who desire a name in history most commemorate the virtues of their dead sad revere the achievements of the past. If the disasters of the past have dishesrt ened us, now that oar 8tare stands redeemed from the domination of the vicious and ignorant, we must take up our responsibilities and strike man lly for a new and progressive future I Oth people hasvelrrady shown a returning spirit of public advaoncement and activity. They have shown that it is not necessary to preserve the present by blackening the past. They have reolatmed the right of local self-government, and have no taste to fawn and bargain for rights al ready their own. They reassert that political powere and political rights originate with ansod issue from the people, and do not come filtered down from a nationarl reservoir through political sponges and compromise committees. l hey do not propose to seek the services of politlcal jockeys, nor trust to such instrumentali ties the oistody of the offerings laid on their ountry's altar by her dead heroes, lest they be made the subject of barter and exchange in dark lantern committees, where the light is all thrown way from the people, gad directed towards the spoils of offie. Iearecg 0nesee tings in view, we go Irwaru with hope to cheer, will to direct and nerve to achieve all things for the good of our 8,ate and people--rich and poor, black and white alike. There is no need, as there is now no purpose or object to draw distinoctve lines of race or color. Not yielding to gloomy reflections, we look to the future. If the ark of our political covenant bath sojourned in the land of the Philistines for the past ftw years, we gather together to-day as did the Children of Israel at Mizpah, and welcome its return by laying aside sectionallsms and renewing our vows at the altar of our country. In this view, the Fourth of July of the future, chastened by the saoriflce of the past, will bear a higher signifi oance, since the principles of 1776 have been re baptized to the blood of our martyred dead. Thus elevated and purifled by tribulation and battle, it will be a harbinger of peace and purity in government and State and national progress. It will be the regained ark of our political cove nant, the symbol of our potical salvation. Through the errors of both sections we come to the light of enfranobild truth. Through the smoke of battle we see the faces of frieeds and lellow.-onntrymen. Through the mists that blind our eyes as we contemplate the graves of our dead we catch the dawrning light of our po litical recurrecti n I Touched but also inspired, by the memories of the past, feeling our responsibilities In the ores c:t, we shake ti the ehackles of de*.ondexcy and sectinal bitterneas and reach forward to. wards that inspired dream of a politieal mil lennium, When the war-drtum throbs no. longer, and the battle-fags are furled, In the parliament of man, the federation of the world, There the common sense of most shall keep a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law I LOVlE AND POIowN. Washinleton Goes for lls sweetheart with Peaches alnd Arsenle. Wm. Washington is the name of a negro who wanted to marry. About twelve months ago he met a negrese named Severena Gardner, who he thought would make him a loving partner for life. For a whole year be was most assidnous in his attention, and lavished every cent of his hard earnings upon her. Dut during these many months Beverena had been deceiving Washington, as she had given her heart to another. A few days ago Washington came to the con dleslon that it was time to pop the question. S80o he went to Severena and asked her to be his, for better or for worse. But Severena slightly astonished him by telling him that he must go away and try and forget her, as she had long since given her heart to another. This was the most unkindest out of all, and the demon Jesaoney getting possession of Washing. ton in its worst and most vindictive form, urged him to seek redress and revenge. On Thursday Washington repaired to the bonse of his adored, No. 200 Howard street, and there meeting Beverena, he told her that he had la bored hard for the last twelve months to gain her love, and as he had failed, he now came to ay farewell forever. Beverens was just biddirl him farewell, when he asled her to eat a couple of peaches, which she did. She had no sooner eaten the fruit than she was taken with spasms and paralysis of the face. Dr. Crow was called in, who declined to give an opinion. Dr. Beard was then summoned to the unfor tunate woman's bed, and after examining her stated that she had been poisoned by arsenic and that her condition was very critibal. The police are now hunting for the criminal, Wm. Washing ton. Take Care of the Court Rseords. Court records have been handled here for the last twenty years as though they were mere waste papers that had served their time, notwlithstand log the fact that they are most precious in set tling titles and as evidence, it may be, forty years hence. In the third story of the court building at Jackson Bquare, strewn upon the foor, and promisuousely packed in floor barrels, can now be seen what was once the complete records of the old First District Court. As this tribunal had a very extended jurisdiction, and many cases in volving the title to the moat valuable properties have been before it, the records are invalu able. The sacredness with which court records are regarded in other States seems not to exist here. Our clerks of court now do all in their power to keep those now in theil charge in order, but with the present accommodations this is impoesi ble. Almost every lawyer at the bar is familiar with a number of eases where records have been surreptitiously taken from the clerk's office for the purpose of defeating a judgment. The open boxes wherein the most of them are now kept is easily accessible to any person visit tng the court. and an opportunity is not diealt to purloin what is wanted. Some provision ought to be made to have more security against cl of valuable papers and the only way is to place them under lock and key. In the United States Circuit Court and District Court clerk's offices large cabinets have been put up, with heavy doors, and kept always looked. This prevents any one having access to the records unless the clerk or deputy is present. Now that the city is about to repair the court bauildings, it would be well for those who have this matter in charge to consider the propriety of making some alterations to effect a better seeniity of the records. This matter has been for a long time a source of much grievance to the members of the bar, as well as to those whose intereste have been jeop ardised by the loss of papers. Down from Doualdmonville. a The reporter of the DgMooeAT "who came a down on the Durfee with the Washington Artil- C lery," is obliged for many favors and a good bed l to the oficere of that corps. He does not know S of other members of the press having been slighted, as a contemporary says, but hispersonal experiences are of good feed, pleasant company and a delicious rest, in a well appointed berth, as a he was coming down from Donaldsonville. I1 Burglary. At ten minutes to 4 o'clock Friday morning a C burglar entered the house at the corner of Lafay ette and Willow streets, and succeeded In steal- v ing and carrying away a lot of wearing apparel 0 valued at $10. a The robbery is supposed to have been commit- t ted by a negro who, has, up to this time, evaded t arrest. n Died Ouddenly. O At about quprter-past 4 o'clock Friday evening, a man named Joseph Feuob, aged 29 years, died 1 suddenly at 143 (Iravior street. The coroner and I City Physician B yard viewed the body and re turned a verdict of congestion of the brain. R unnset Concerts. Mr. Kittredge, the manager of the West End Pavllion, will entertain the visitors to the Lake End with music from 5 until 9 o'clock this even nlog. Wolfe's (late JAeger's) excellent band will be on hand to discourse a programme selected especially for the occasaon. We understand that owing to the success which has attended theopeniglogf-tihe pavtlion to the public, the New Orleans Oity Railroad Company have concluded to canvas the upper story of the structure. A Waeherwoman's Fight. At 9:30 o'olock Thursday night, at No. 7 Melpo meno street, two washboard wrestlers, Mary I Harris and Amanda Madison, became Involved in I a difficulty, which terminated in the former be ing severely out and seriously wounded about the face, neck and wrist, by a knife in the hands of the latter. The wounded woman was attended by a phy sician, who pronounced her wounds serious, though not necessarily fatal. Amanda was arrested and locked up in the Second Precinct Station, charged with cutting and wounding with intent to murder. t It appears these tyo women were partners in I the laundry business. The partnership was dis solved, business went to smash, and hence the fight. i Railroad Personals. Fred. Sales (of the Coast) left last night over the great Jackson route for Cincinnati and the East. W. A. Lea and wife were among the departures e last night for Allegheny Springs. taking the New Orleans, Jackson and Northern Railroad. A. J. Simoncand and wife left by the old Jackson last night for a trip to the far West. Wm. Wilson and daughter (for "Maniton iprings"), Colorado, took the Jackson road and left for their destination last night. Wm. D+offsas, Miss M. Dauflans, Miss Binclair, A. W. Crandell, J. Q. Tate J. A. Collins were among those booked via the popular Jackson I route last night for New York. Among the many departures last evening for I New York, by the Mobile fast line, were Mr. L. Girot and fm'ml y. GOn. J. B Hood took the I' bile through line for Virginia 8primgs last evening; as did also Mr. E. L. . Monnot and family. I r. J..n J:ncy nd famn y left Friday oven- I Suos the Virginia Springs by the popular Me M. W . mple selected the favorite Mobile through line for Wauhmgtoulast evening. oJi. Tuoker, of tan Antonio, Texas, also took this favorite liee for Washington. Thurday eveninalg's Mobile train earried the largest number of through passengers of any train from the city this season, Brevities. The' lerical force of the Oustom-House and the employee in general were paid off on Friday morning. Gov. Nilholls Is expected in the city this even ing. Frigerio's "Admiral" had it at 98 degrees in the shade at 12 m. on Friday. The rush at the Auditor's 0f1loe compels the small clerical force to work night and day now during the settlements of the tax collectors. short Items. Louis Heaning was arrested and locked nup in the SBlxth Preeinct Rfatstion, ohabstrgqd by Llzzle iodgers with having attempted to commit an In decent assault upon her, Mena White, a young girl of sixteen, was looked ip in the Seventh Precinct Station, charged with forsaking her home. On a charge of larceny Henry Oorbia found rest for his weary limbs in the Eighth Station. Alfred Gatterrea occupies space in the Third Station, charged with having stolen properly in his possession. Mike Fields is in the same station on the same charge. Harriet Taylor is again in limbo, this time for stealing fifty cents from August lily. For the larceny of a towel, Pat Dillon was in carcerated in the Third Calaboose. Mrs. Charlie, by virtue of a warrant, was looked up in the Fifth Station on a charge of larceny. John Green stole some wearing apparel from eff the steamer St. Maty and then retired into the Harbor Station. The old vag. Mary Sullivan, is in the Harbor Station charged with pilfering cotton. Thos. Meyers, a sexton of a church, was ar rested at the request of Gus. Lovell, who al leged that he had stolen property in his posses sion. At 3 o'clock yesterday, John Wagner, driver of street car No. 4, of the Crescent City Railroad Line, was thrown over the dashboard and seri onsly injured. lie was conveyed to the Charity Hospital, where he received medical attention. Beauregard Donohue is rather light-fingered, and he took some things that did not belong to him, The owner of the property had Beaure gard arrested and incareerated in the First Pre dinct on a charge of larceny. Ben lady, a steamboatman, was arrested at 4 the corner of Girod and Tohoupitonlas streets , and looked up in the Central Station, charged with having property in his possession supposed to have been stolen. THU COUIITC. superior Crftninlnei Curt. THE ORAND TURY DIe"'AROEDn Fo THIR TeBM. Friday morning Judge Whitaker opened his court at the usual hour, a quorum of the Grand I Jury being present. After they had taken their seats the Judge stated that aflter a conference with the law offioers, Attorney General Ogden and District Attorney Finney, and finding that there was nothing in shape to present to the jury, he felt it his duty not to detain them longer. He asked the foreman whether it was his desire to sit longer, and whether the mem hers had any subject they desired to investigate. The foreman responded that they had not, and the Judge, after thanking them for their prompt attendance, discharged them, telling them that oer) ficates of their service on the jury could be 1 hadof the clerk, which would exempt them if1 drawn hereafter. T'R Court then ordered the sheriff to adjourn the court. in the cae of the State vs. the negro Casanave, the b-nd for $5000 was filed, signed by Paul Bon. seigneur as surety. On Saturday Judge Whitaker will adjourn the court for the term, and on leaving the city will enjoy hid vacation on Lake Itasea. .......- -+º4 --- PFRAiAD1IfENT PARISI SCRIP. .ow the Clerk of Madlon Parlih Payr hin [Madison Journal, July 1.] ii W. I. J. Clemens, the old gentleman elected Clerk on the Republican ticket at the last election was arrested last C week on affidavit of Mr. A. C. Hewitt P charging him with the uttering and 8 passing of false and fraudulent parish 0 scrip. The facts as elicited upon the examination that consumed almost the t, entire part of last week sum up briefly i1 about as follows: Clemens owed Hewitt a butcher bill ti amounting to something over forty dol- a lars, and in part payment thereof passed ti upon Hewitt several pieces of scrip. to The scrip had been prbviously issued by Clemens himself in his capacity as , Clerk of the Court. It was issued to fr witnesses living within five miles of the court-house; some of it had allowed more time to witnesses than they were entitled to; some of it had been allowed in cases that had never been upon the docket and that - never were in existence, and some of it had been raised from what it had been originally to increased amounts. The case was argued yesterday by Major J. B. Corkern for the prosecution and Judge I. H. Crawford for the de fense. Mr. Bradfield will close the ar- n gument on behalf of the 8tate and sub mit the case to-day. MR. BLAINE. How Gail Iet. a Free Pa.. on the Hall road. A correspondent of the Boston Tran script relates the following about Sena tor Blaiue's "double:" "The writer came from Augusta to Portland not long since in the same car withfMre. Blaine and Gail Hamilton, and chanced to have a seat so near to theirs that when the conductor came around for fares the colloquy which took place between that official and Abby was forced upon him, nolens rolens -especially t;olens. Mrs. r Blaine rhanded the conductor a 'pass' L for Mr. Blaine and herself. He glanced at it, and then proceeded through the car; on his return, however, he stopped to lnquire 'Which is Mrs. Blaine?' Mrs. Blaine politely acknowledged that surname, when her companion, with characteristic urbanity of manner and sweetness of tone, jerked out: ' And I am Mr. Blaine.' The conductor looked rather incredulous, and even undertook to express some doubts on that point; but he was quickly interrupted by his passenger, who insisted on sundry pre cedents, and so finally succeeded in ob taining a free pass." Innocent. Abroad. [4t. Louis Republican.] Packard and Kellogg occupy a root at the Grand Pacific, Chicago, and the citizens, usually wide-awake in secur ing attractions for their exposition build ing, have seemingly neglected these political twins. Thomas with his musi cal brigade is making a strong effort to fill the building with sound and people. t Why not hire Packard to deliver that long promised lecture? Kellogg possi bly could give a touch of the "old flag and the appropriation." We are aware that some people are prejudiced against him, in fact hissed and groaned in a very undignified manner when Tony Pastor exhibited Kellogg's likeness in the magic lantern act at McVicker's theatre. He is used to that sort of busi ness, and rather enjoys it at t!mes., THIE VITl J IN TUsVIEWB "Mack," of the St. Louis Globe-Demon crat, was the original newspaper "ln. terviewer."- [Saturday Night. If you will turn to the introduotory chapter of Scott's novel, "The Fortunes of Nigel," you will there discover the author of "Waverley" interviewed by himself in the very highest style of the art. The bits of personal description and adroit parenthetical touches are charming, The modern interviewer has invented nothing in form not con tained in Scott's model; and, needless to say has not equaled it in vividness and literary flnish.-[Oilncinnati Com mercial. OFP.-ICPHOI,IEm ALN L ~IUIMEWE. lOltecinatn Commercial.] There does not seem to be anything like a panicky impulse among offce holders to resign on account of the Presldent's order prohibiting their in terference with the machinery of par ties, They mostly seem willing to draw their salaries, notwithstanding. $herman'e Crlue. [Oincinbati Uommerele..] WASHINGTON,' June 27.-Secretary Sherman will start from Washington next Monday, on a revenue cutter, on a tour of Inspection of the light-houses coast survey, life-saving stations and revenue cutter service between the Chesapeake Bay and the coast of Maine. He will be accompanied by a number of treasury officials, and will be gone three weeks. - --- **~---- Apologetically a New Hampshire pa per says that If it devotes more space to the potato bugs than to the Legislatute, it is because the bugs are doing the most work. It is about titn for the annual prize fight for the championship of the world and six months in the workhouse between Torm Allenr rnl coFieroly else.-(Ht. mulis Jourlnl. -.....- -4*1- RIOTEL ARR.IVALM, CITY HOTEL. Lbo C Hyatt, Mobile Henry 1Fskol. BtJame~ Wm Flether. Aecrnaton Wm Hll, dity H it KHeounu, Chl(es Horace Handy, Yanton UW Fngland, cIty T 8 Hibler, Harlehuret U W McMillan, La D I''rrU . city MrsJ Kendrick and t r, ( W Hlnkle, Atlanta children,~'exas lewis s Garigan, Bus BB Otohy, Wheeling asetHllV ST. JAM 8 HOTEL. E J Cockllehlt La Chas Decker, Lowren 1 '' HIazlett. Vlkesburg bu A W Scholder. N Y P J ontross. BiloAl U H read, river F D utb, city Edw 1H Lombard. La J 11 Athey wife and 1 Walker, eridlan r l b ld. yrin P Hanley, Me E I) B Blankinship, Va SH4 Newsm -- .r~~r BYT THE GOVERNOR. STAT5 OP LoiVRIARA, i Ex.cutive Devartment, I Whereas. section i049 of the IRevised Statutes Df the State of Louisiana, approved March 1f, 1i70, provides "that the Governor shall issue his prolinmation, upon the advice of the Board of ifealth, declaring any place where there shall be reason to believe a peetliential, contagions or Infectious disease elista,to be an infected place, stating the numbet of days a quarantine is to be per formed ty the vessels, their passengers, offi reers and crews roming from such plane or pla=es." Now, therefore. in pursnanoeto the provisions of the statutes aforrsaid, and upon the renn mendation of the Board of Health, stating that there is reason to believe that, at this season of he year, there is danger of the introduction riron the tropic of yellorw fever eontagion. I. FRIANUCI T. NICHOLLS, Governor of the 8~ tr if Louisliana. have thought properto ia4set this r y proclamation declarlng that all vessels arriv Ing. from and after the fifteenth day of June, 1 A. D. 177,, from the ports of Rio de Janeiro, Ha vana, Matanzas. Hague La a rande, Cardenas Cinlfuegos, Santiago de Ouba, Kingston, P~rto. Rico, San Juan, Santo Domingo and Vera Crus, shall be subject to quarantine, and that their 'ifcers, crews, passengers and cargoes arriv- t ing from the above named plaes, or having ouehed or stopped at any of them,shall be sub ect to a quarantine of ten days. And I do hereby direct the proper officers at he Quarantine Station to rigidly enforce the xecution of this proclamation, And any viola. ion of the laws of this State on this subject mat er to be vlgoron~ly prosecuted, Witness my signature and the seal of the State if Louisiana. at the city of New Orleans, this f,urth day ,of June, A. 1). 1977. FIRANCIS T. NICHOLLS, Governor of the Htate of Louisiana. JBy the Governor: WILL. A. S'raoto. Secretary of State. ir, t15 law if SPECIAL NOTICE. Ovnas OF R.R5TAIaY oF BTATE. ) State of Louisiana. { New Orleans. June 27. 177, (wingt to, th great number of books thatare miasilng from the State Library, and with a view ',f ascertaing their whnrnab,outs, parties having in their rpoes.Rion books belonging to the State Library. iither iby my order or that of my pre rlc.ressrrs, are remqrested t return thornm imm' diately t, tthe State Library. Utntil thi eatalogue and inventory now in progress is nromlitedi there will be no further perrnits grantri d to tak hbooks from the Library. WILL A. STRONG, i2. tiu'rhim Secrntary of State. O)FFi: HTATh TAX Co~LtaEros.. New Orleans, July 3, 177. i lIon. Allen Jlrel, Auditor: My Dear Hir-In accordan.ce with your in struit ions I have prepared a list of delinquent isn ae payers in the First IJstrict. A large number of these persons nre making efforts to pay anid avoid litigation and expenses, I am satisfied that the inter 'ste of the State wnld be promoted by staying legal proceedings 'orr a few weeks. I arnm, rO"pectfully, E. A. BURIKE, (Collector First IDistri':'. .'r.T,.l. OF Ioit/IIAvAA. AUDITOR's OF.,'l, ) New Orlsans, July a, 11f7. I ,ol. C. A. J:'irke, Tax Collector, First Distri.. SPrllea s: Lear Hir-ln answer +o yours of even date you may stay legal proi: clints ag.lnrt your delinrlqut licence paver- for twent-five alys. say to the twenty-.eveinth ,f July. 1877. by Which timer I h,.e. they wihl all have paid,l as It will be vrov uni li rsii nt for mae as well as yourself to have to enrforice itb law against these delin 'Ili Stav of pr- odrlinas will applyto the par ish o' U). Iajsi. Your' rre- r· A'cf-il _ jy4 Is 1 ALLEN JJIL,. Auditor, W. W. FARMER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ;ir)NP OE, LOUISIANA, Practices in the parishes of Ouachita. More house and Ricrhland. Claims taken for eollee tion in all other parishes. with privilegeof man soing same in connection with attorneys resid ing there 0__/ nnmma iunlv BUY YoU ll4IATS c:. O,. n. BAT SliE3, Wo. 26 %t. Charles Rt., near Commen. Al) the latest styles in Man's, Roy' and Chil drer s I.ATiS ar rf 0.4P I' UNKS, TVnZL ING DAG amd 71LBEE.l . ajr2flna lai3