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between the United itates and the West
Indies, Panama, Central America, Brazil,
Mexico, Bermuda, Nova Scotia, Venezuelaand
Ecuador consists in the sea postages, the
Saggregate of which was, last year,
$141,1 53, while the pay for the service was
Under this system it certainly becomes the
interest of all to secure the efficient perform
ance of this service at as low a rate as possi
ble. When we remember that the govern
ment already pays for the delivery of the
malls twice a day at New Orleans, it would
seem unnecessary to duplicate the cost of a
part of this service by slow coast service
parallel with it for one-third of the sea dis
tance. It would by no means Impair. the
seal with which the Postmaster General
would advocate this economy that it would
bring the trade and travel of Spanish America
through the interior States of the Union,
which now cannot participate in that com
merce at all, except through the out-port of
New York.
Should, therefore, Congress be in favor of
compensation for foreign service In sea post
ago alone, the Interests represented by this
convention may be compelled to look to
another source for asslstance In this great
enterprise. This resource is a combination
of the longitudinal railroads and their con
nections.
The whole philosophy of modern commerce
is, that transportation is an incident of
finance. The commodity in movement is
made a basis of domestic or foreign ex
change. This renders a continuous service
betweeoon eparture and destination indispen
sable. Formerly this service could only be
rendered at certain principal ports, which en
oyed almost a monopoly of foreign trade.
.t was indeed, some time before th e rail
roads discovered the Importance of this con
tinulty of movement; they were at war with
the steamboats and among themselves: they
Insisted upon interposing every obstacle to
through commerce the great financial agent
and regulator. The roads have now con
ouered these projudices and conduct uninter
rupted exchanges between the most distant
points. This discovery has been also applied
to a co-operative transportation upon the
ocean. The railroads, which brought
immene freo htis to the coast ports
of Philadelphia and Baltimore, found
no vessels to deliver these shipments
in the foreign ports to which they were con
signed. This dileocation of continuity pre
vented the shippers from making the com
imldity a basis of purchaseo. The railroad
companies corrected this defeat by putting on
ocean steamers to run in such connection
with their own trains that an export or import
hbe forwarded without cost or delay of
transfer, and thus furnish to these trans-At
lantle routes the same financial facilities
with those which existed at the great ports of
NeW York and Boston. The result of this
poliy is shown In the immense increase of
thee tore oemmeroo at the ports of Balti
msre nd Philadelphia.
The Phladelphia Pres s is authority for the
following striking egjnple of the principle of
pro rta porationpplied to the ocean
and overland service: The same steamer
-rought recently from Liverpool to New
_ork t.wo invol es, of tin each of an
hundred tons. But one of these lots went
through to Chicago by rail. The compara
tiwe freight on the-wo lots was, $.59 for that
delivered at New York and $820 for that
which went through to hiago. The expla
nation of thie -difference is that the
steamer and railroads made this reduction on
through freight to beat the competition
upon the rival lines by wa of Baltimore,
Philadelphia or Portland. he longitudinal
railroads which terminate at our gulf ports
an find no regular connection with any
other tronical ports than those of Havana
and Vera Oruz and none whatever with Brazil
or Panama. This deficiency of course, de
termines this trade and travel those Atlantic b
ports at which a more regular connection
may be rdlied on. to
wIf hav nlen at all successful in demon
strating that this tropical trade is worth
turning upon the line stated, and if
Oongress will not consant to give a
subsidy towards its establishment,why should
net the railroads whose terminal ports are
upon the Gull of Mexico do the same to se
otire the Spanish American trade that the
latitudinal roads have done to seoore the Eu
ropean trade? The railroads leading from 8t.
Louis, Chicago, CincinnatF and Louisville,
and those whteh lead from New York to New
Orleans aggregate three thousand miles
lineal distance with an aggregate invest
ment of more than sixty millions of dollars.
With this example with this capital, and the
inducemont of addilng to their business, why
should not the companies composing these
several lines unite in putting on ocean steam
lines between New Orleans and Rio and
Aspinwall? It will not be difficult to specify
the manner in which this service may be or
ganixed:
1. To contributo pro rata for mileage or
cost, or comparative participation, of the sov
eral companies in the business to be attracted.
E. Empower an agency to hire steamers for
an experimental service, and to arrange the
rate of compensation to the joint partners in
tho enter rise.
8. Apply to the Postmaster General to
award the sea postages on the Spanish-Amor
loan service on the same basis with those of
the European service.
4. Uphn the periodical settlement of the
profit or loss each company stockholder
should )e debited or credited according
to results. No advance of constructive
capital would be required. The sea pos
ges would be carried to the credit of the
enterprise, and it could not well be that any
company could lose more by the experiment
than the freight and fares which it re.eives
over the line would repay, and which it could
not have received without the steamers.
The city of Now Orleans is proposed as the
proper port for this concession because of its
river and railroad system, its organized oor
respondence with the tropical ports, and
the acclimated fitness of its maritime inhabi
tants already engaged in that trade.
Regretting the haste with which I have
been compelled to throw together the forego
ing suggestions, intended simply as themes
for your own elaboration I remain, respect
fully, *M. M. BUnWELL.
The Regatta Poolm.
The ofticial pool-selling for the grand rowing
regatta wi.l take place at the Crescent HaM, be
ginning thle evening at 7 p. m., and continuing
every evening until the close of the regatta.
Raflrsad Personals.
The departures by the Mobile route on Thurs
d.r evening were:
Hon. Geo. 8. Lacey, U. 8. District Attorney,
F. A. Wolfley and family, D. J. Gooa and W. M.
Wallington. for Now York; Mrs. Lingham, for
St. Louis; Mrs. H. Rice and family, for Nash
ville; Mrs. J. O. Denis and family, for Niagara
Jalls ; B. Biscoe and family, for Virginia Springs;
L. Vennaimin. for Nt#w York; 0. 0. Daniels, for
Winchester, Va; J. H. Knight and family and
11rs. and Miss Blacman"or o ewanee, renn.;
Mrm. J.8. Parker, for Boston; B. K. Knowles, for
Philadelphia.
The departures on Friday evening were: Col.
Hobert N. Lewis and family, for New York; Win.
O. Rte rs, fir WashinRgton; John Robwitzen. for
Noew York; W. H. Foster, for New York; A. Mar
4ese, for Belmont Springs; John Boland and
on, for White Sulphur Springs, and George
Mseao, for the East,.
W. W. Carre & Co. still remain the champions
of cheap cabins. They have reduced ories and
increased the beauty and comfort of theirdwell.
ing houses. Let all men go to No. 350 Delord
street and see for themselves how cheap it is to
have a roof and home.
BSnxag8Isars.- Our enterprising friend
leighton, corner of Canal and St. Charles
streets, is again to the front with a style of shirt
that is bound to take. No pulling over the head
or mutsing the hair this t:me. Tney are made to
open on one aide all the way down, and are artist
klaselly balanced, with no drawing under the arms
e choking in the neck. Friend Leighton is a
. o'lep s, and deserves much credit for the many
im:provements he has made in shirts.
Naw Lax. C.as.-In another column of our
paper will be found the special notice of the Cree
4 et t a Railroad Company in reference to
tongto sad from the kew Lake End to.
fTel will be twenty-five cents. No
over th~a part or Magazine line for
tSe entertainment at the West
SSECOND DAY'S ENTERTAINMENT.
IT WAR NIP AND TUCK WITH TlE
ARTILLRI EISTS WHO HANDLE
THE GUNA.
But In the Boat Racing the Hopes were
the Vietors-R-enaud Won the Slil
ver Cup, and Truss the Bear.
The continuation of the entertainment at the
Old Lake End yesterday attracted to that point
about twelve hundred people, all of whom
seemed perfectly satisfied, and it may be raid,
well pleased with the closing portion of the de-.
ferred programme.
The pier, as well as the approaches and the
Washington Hotel, was
THROWN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC,
so that even those who had not purchased
tickets obtained, with those who had, a splendid
view of the water sports and artillery practice,
and, to make it still more pleasant, the trains
were ran out upon the pier.
At about 5 p. m., the first part of the pro
gramme, the artillery practice, was commenced,
and lasted until after sundown, the contest with
the Napeleon gun being between the Washington
Artillery and the Louisiana Field Artillery, the
oficers and non-oommisioned offioers of esch
organization sighting the gun at the target
buoyed about 1100 yards distant from and east of
the pier head.
On Thursday the powder used In the piece
referred to was
ORDIMAY I BLASTIEO POWDRE,
two pounds only being used as a charge for the
sol.d shot and shell, but on yesterday a better
grade of powlJer, and larger charge was used,
which resulted in much better and more aoourate
practice.
One or two of the solid shot fired by the Wash
ington Artillery seemed to strike the target, and
-ame excellent line shots were made, while the
Louisiana Field squads did well in line and dis
tance elevations, though none of their solid shots
struck the target.
strng mue target.
THR GATLINGO UN PRACTICE
exceeded by far that of the day previous, no lee.
than a dozen shots piercing the target. This
was participated in by members of both artillery
organisations, each squad, on leaving the gun,
remarkming that the piece did better execution
than they expected. When a fail round was
fired rapidly from the piece it seemed hardly to
change the aaim, and on one ooouslon, a donble
round was fired rapidly without chauge of aim,
the' balls falling thick and feet within, seemingly,
a radius of not over ten feet from the target.
The slow firing was that, however, which proved
the
AOCURACY OF THE WEAPON,
and when sighted and elevated between shots
the target and standards eeaught the balls,
though It was not battered down.
As soon as the artillery firing was over the gun
was fired to call the-ompetiltors for the racing
boat prizes into line; the second gnu bringing
out as contestants for the barge race the crews of
the Aspinwall and Hope clubs.
In exercising their muscles about the pier head
it was observed that the Aspinwall crew were not
well arranged in their boat according to the
strength of the pullers, but that numbers one
and three had enough surplus muscle to out-pull
numbers two and four, even with the rudder to
assist them, and, as the sequel will show, this
proved serious for them.
The Hope crew, in their
CAVORTING ABOUT THE PIER,
seamed more evenly matched and had perhaps
better drding, their stroke being even and no
"splashing was observed, each car dropping into
the water well feathered and coming out ready
for the next stroke as gracefully as though they
had been trained by some of the Eastern pro
fessional coxswainr.
When the two boats came to the line it would
have been diffioult for the average spectator to
have selected the winner, the appearance thoun of
the crews as they waited for the word "go" being
snch as to deceive nearly all, but after the word
had been given and before two dozen strokes had
been pulled it was evident that
THE HOPE CREW HAD THE RACE.
With the word they started at an even stroke,
ab ut thirty-nine to the minute, their competi
tors spurting out at about forty-one, and draw
log altogether too much water with their oar
blades. For an eighth of a mile the race was
close, and then it was observed that the boats
were getting so cl,,se together that a "foul" was
imminent, and before they had gone fitly yards
further their oar blades touched.
The Hope crew stopped for a moment, or long
enough to get clear, and started again, going to
and turning their stake and returning to the line,
the distance, one mile and a half, having been
pulled in nine minutes and thirty seconds.
the Aspinwalls did not proceed further after
the foul, but
TUIRNx TeIRI i OAT AROIUND
and returned to the judges' boat, where they en
) tared a protest, claiming a foul by the other orew.
After the Hopes had come in the judges decided
[ that they could not entertain the protest, as the
protesting crew had not pulled over the course,
e and, therefore, awarded the prize to the Hope
r crew. btutsequently it was asoertained from one
[ of the Aspinwall crew, that their ill-luck was
Scaused by having'two strong pullers on one side
and weak ones on the other, the strong ones
3 pullirg the boat about even with the rudder hard
up, which was the cause, doubtless, of the foul.
L The single scull shell race had but one contest
Sant, O'Donnell, of the Hope Club, who
PULLED OVEB THE COURnS
at his leisure, winning the gold badge.
The military rifle practice for the silver cup had
as contestants some twenty or thirty of the mem
bers of the different military organizations, in
oluding the Wasbington Artillery, Louisiana
Bifles, Continental Gugrds and Irish Rifles, and
the prize was warmly contested for, there being
five ties in thirteen (in a possible fifteen), and
eight ties at twelve.
Among the ties in thirteen were John K. Re.
nand, of the Louisiana Rifles, and Capt. Pearce,
of the Continental, the former in'the tie shooting
sCORINo THREE nTLL's-EYEs,
and making fifteen points to fourteen for Capt.
Pearce, and winning the cup.
In the shoot ftr the pet bear, "Oontinental
Charley," Mr. Charles Truss made the best score,
32 in a possible 50, and won the bear, afterwards
making it a present to the Crescent City Rifle
Club.
The entertainment was concluded with a
SOIREE DANSANTE
at the Washington Hotel, a fine band being in
attendance and the scene made quits picturesque
by rows of lighted CUine.e lanterns hung about
the verandah.
Dancing was kept up until a late hour, and all who
partioipated enjoyed themselves. Although the
two days'entertaicment was not a financial sno
coes from a "team" standpoint, the general pub
lic were well pleased and many express one of
praise were heard for the membersof the team
and the club who managed the affair, which, no
doubt, would have netted sufficient funds to have
DEFRAYED THE EXPENSES
of the team to Creedmoor but for the rain which
fell on Thursday evening.
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
Bids for the New echool-house-Departure
of Superintendent W. O. Rogers.
The following bids for building the MoDonogh
school-house on Constance street, between Har
mony and Ninth, have been opened at the City
Hall:
James C. Kiddell ...............$22,250
Bernard & Montagnet......... 21,1,62
Andrew G. Donney ........... 20,975
A. Dillon.................. 18,200
L. E. Reynolds.............. 17 163
O'Neil & Fairlie....... ...... 15,918
L. Schonnan..................... 15 4 0
John Page ....................... 13,600
There is little doubt that the bid of Mr. Page
will be accepted, as he is a well known builder
and thoroughly responsible.
Mr. Winm. O. Rogers, city superintendent of
public schools, left yesterday evening for the
North and will be absent until September 15, or
thereabout.
THE FISH MARKET
has received the p.reo:sal attention of Adminis- •
trator Cavanae. Hereafter, when the markets
are sold, special mention shall be made to the
farmers of the necessity of washing them at least
once or twice a week, and the fish market every
day and in every one of its parts.
Mr. Oavanao has also issued striot orders
against the practice of sleeping on the stalls in.
dalged in by some of the hangers-on around the
various markets, and also against the existence of
dirty awnings and unwashed and rickety shelv
lngs and lattice work, in which last mentioned
matters the fruit men, especially, manifeet very
little pride.
A gentleman belonging to a German benevo
lent association visited the acting Mayor yester
day to ascertain whether a meeting of the aeso
olation, to take place at an early day would be
interfered with. Col. Denis answered that per
mission was
NOT EVEN NEOESSARY;
that the Journeymen Shoemaker.' Association
had held a meeting on the night previous and
had given no occasion for interference by the
police.
THE WHARF DUES.
The meeting of the special oocamittee appoint
ed to investigate the matter of the collection of
wharfage dues in the upper district, occurred on
Thursday evening .n the office of the Adminis
trator of Public Aocounts. Careful inquiry into
the collections made by Mr. Piper, Mr. Usvanso's
collector, tailed to elicit any irregularity in his
accounts.
The affairs of the former admloistration in this
particular matter are, however, reported to be
not so clear.
THE INVEBTIOATION RBEOLUTION.
Col. Denis seems to have read with care the
"Obituary" in the 7Ymes of yesterdsy, and he
ýgress entirely with that paper that the "people
have all to say about the form of their city gov.
erannent," and that it is "a marvelous doctrine
that oily members of chartered corporations can
send for persons and papers." Yet he fails to see
the relevancy of these expressions as applied to
him.
The motives which prompted him to throw
the casting vote in favor of tabling Mr. McOaf
frey's resolution, he says, were in perfeot har
mony with the opinione of the Times. His ref
erence to the Property Holders and Taxpayers'
Union as not being a chartered ooneern was
intended to convey an idea of its lack of weight
in so grave and important a matter.
The other proposition of the Times he thinks
HE FORESTALLED
in his remarks when he said that it appeared
singular that these particular bodies of men t
were singled out from which the investigation t
committee was to have been formed. If at any
time he became informed that the people, without
regard to particular organizations were desirous of
an investigation of the affairs, nast and present, d
of the city government, he woeald not even wait t
for them to ask f r such an investigation, but i
would invite it. The resolution of Mr. MoOaffrey, a
he considered, was not prompted by any desire
on the part ofi the people to have the affairs of
the city investigated, nor were there any specific f
charges against any department hinted in the h
resolution or in words by Mr. Mooaffrey, or any n
other member of the Council. HEd there bedn, ti
the matter would have received his D
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.
rhdhaoaetious olosing of the "Obituary" tickled
the risibilities of the acting Mayor considerably,
and be appears to think that even it sustains him
in his arguments against the adoption of the
MoOaffrey resolution.
Howbeit, if we are to judge from the many
rumors floating n and around the City Hall, the
little fight which is going on in the building is
not at an end yet, and its oonsequeuces may yet
redound to the benefit, of the people.
PAYINO THE TEACHERS.
The announce.ent is made that the payrolls
of teachers, portresses and rents of the public
schools for the month of March last will be paid
at the olfice of the Administrator of Finance on
Monday next.
CUISTOXH-OUSE TALK.
Wells Returns to His Duties and Holds
an Executive Session.
The return of the ex-head of the Returning
Board and the bona Fide head of the Surveyor's
branch of the port business in customs affairs,
made matters a little mord lively among the
"outs" at the Custom-House on Friday morning,
when various schemes were being planned to ob
tain an audience with J. Madison, who
WAS IN EXECUTIVE SESSION
in his own office withs few partioular friends,
selecting, it is said, the names of a dozen or fif
teen of his intimate friends whom be desires ap.
pointed to positions under the Collector.
In the other offices the situation is serene, the
Marshal's deputy awaiting information from the
log expeditions and Calcasieu, and the District
Attorney's assistant having no information of any
further proceedings by United States Commis
sioner Chamnerlain before Judge Billnuge at
chambers.
The C. C. R. C.
The rain and thunder storm yesterday threw a
damper upon the pleasant proceedings held at
the Old Lake End under the anupices of the
Crescent City Bifl3 Club. A part of the p-o
gramme was, so to speak, wiped out by this inop
portune action of the clerk of the weather. But
the boys are determined upon going through the
whole length of their programme "if it takes all
summer." It has therefore been decided, as said
in the DEMOCRAT this morning, that the
boat race will come off this even.
ing. The boat clubs who are to participate in
the regatta of the 6th and 7th inst. will also prac.
tics on the course, and the artillery practice with
solid shot, shell and the lightning Gatlin gun,
which attracted so much attention yesterday,
will be repeated. The old Pontohartrain cars
will run every half hour, and the tickets uneed
yesterday will be good to-day. We hope, for the
honor of Louisiana, whose sons must be victors
at Creedmoor, that the people will flock to the
Old Lake End this evening.
A Challenge.
In therDracooaAT, of August 1, the following
piragraphe occur:
THAT YACHT MATCH RACE.
We are Informed that the owner of the crack
little yacht Adelia has expressed himself willing
to sail a match race with the Maggie for a thou
sand dollars a side; nothing less, however, for he
would have to bring the Adella from Bay St.
Louis, where she has gone since the regatta.
In this connection we might add that the
owner of the Maggie stated to us the other day
that he was not particular as to the place where
the race should take place, and that he might be
even induced to make the run from New Orleans
to Galveston. Let's have that match by all
means.
The friends of the yacht Maggie called on us
this morning and deposited $250 as forfeit on the
wager of $1000 to sail a match race against the
yacht Adelia, at Mississippi City, time to be here
after agreed upon, and to be governed by the
rules of the Crescent City Yacht Club.
The friends of the Adelia are now invited "to
put up or shut up."
Died from His Injuries.
Alfred Bruttu, who was run over Wednesday
night by car No. 18 of the Claiborne street line,
died from the effects of his injuries at the Chari.
ty Hospital Thursday morning. The coroner will
hold an inquest.
Mechanlcs' Six.
Thiafine company will indulge in its annual
frolic in a few days. Already forty of its mem
bers have manifested their intention to parti
cipate m it and more are expected to join in.
They will leave the city on Wednesday next,
Vicksburg being their destination, where grand
preparations are already being made for their re
ception by (hief Engineer Wm. French and the
Are department generally of Vicksburg.
The Riverside Regatta.
The judges appointed for the itiverside regatta
held a meeting last night and adopted a series of
rules to govern the racing. They selected alan
an umpire, and agreed t"at the official pools
should be sold at 8 o'clock this evening at Haw- I
kins'.
(CAPITOL NOTES.
It OLD AUDITODIAL DATA BEING TRANS.
FORMED INTO POSITIVE DOC
re iMENTARY PROOF.
l Mneh an Will Show Johnson's Omclal Acts
And Bring to the Surface a
F. Few More Detaulters.
4 But little except routine labor occupied the at
y tention of the State oflicials yesterday, conse
quently the Capitol was not unusually prohliio
ý. from a news-gathering standpoint. His Excel
- lenoy the Governor was a trifle later than usual
in making his appearance, which generally is
r. punctually at the hour of noon, and none seemed
to undhrstand the oooasion of the tardiness until
later in the day, when it was stated that his re
n sponsibilities at the Executive Mansion had been
d increased by the arrival of
A HANDSOME LITTLE DAUGHTER,
who occupied his attention for a time.
In the Auditor's offi3e all the information ob
f tainable was that those books had not yet been
° found, and an air of indiffirence seemed to pre
o vail as to whether they ever turned up.
s Since it was discovered that it would be a diffi
Scult task to secure the return of the records, the
Auditor has put into execution a plan which will
s enable the Itate to secure, without the books, a
settlement from the defaulting Radical tax
gatherers, and in carrying this into effect he has
been assisted very materially by data found in
his office, which his predecessor
FAILED TO BAG
and carry away.
kirst was found the cah assessment for 1875
and 1876, itemized for each parish, which had
been made doubtless in preparing Johnson's re
port for 1876, and from that was prepared a cir
cular to the recorders of each of the parishes
with whom the assessment rolls had, under the
old law to be filed by the tax collector, and from
the replies received the exeot assessments were
secured and verified with the data found in the
office.
The stub-warrant books left in the office next
show every settlercent made for 1875 and 1876,
and by comparison with the
THE ASSESSMENT LISTS,
the amount paid in and the amount outstanding t
is shown, and the balance is struck for each
year. The delinquent lists or a portion thereof, a
have been turned up, which appear to show who t
has not paid taxes in the parishes, and from this
data it has been d scovered that, in addition to a
the defaulting tax collectors discovered by the n
investigations of the Auditorial Committee, there
are fourteen who have p
FAILED TO MAKE ANY sETTLEMENT
for the last quarter of 1876, and a few instances
have been found where no settlements have been
made for either the third or second quarters of I
that year. As soon as this data is reduced to the
proper basis, accurate accounts will be made of
the indebtedness of each of Kellogg's collectors
and the necessary information will be furnished o
to the Attorney General, or the Aulitor will per- k
sonally instruct tle district attorneys to bring t
cavil suit against the sureties of those collectors,
and it may be that about the same time
CRIMINAL SUIT WILL Bte noouGHT h
against the principals.
From the data found there has been nearly
completed an appropriation expense book to sup
ply the place of the one taken by Johnson for the
year 1876, which will show every warrant issued
by him daring that year, and for each specific
act. When this is completed the warrants paid
by the Treasurer will be checked with those
issued, and by this means the amount outstand
ing will be obtained.
In more than one instance it has been round
that the ex-Radical officials, parish and State,
have compelled their tax-gathyaers into receiving
their warrants and paying cash for them, which
makes the tax collectors defaulters, unless they
can raise the moans to make the warrants good,
as they cannot
SWEAIt TIIEM INTO THE TREASURY
in their settlements. One instance is known
where an accommodating negro was the collector
in one of the parishes, who was by some means
urged to cash the warrants of theDistrict Judge,
District Attorney and clerk, and, who made an
effort to return them in his sttlement. He could
not swear, however, that he had received the
warrants for taxes; consequently was obligdf to
hold them, and the very District Attorney-a
e!opublican-whom he accommodated, is more
than anxious now to proceed against him as a
delinquent. In order to postpone such action as
long as possible, the tax collector made a deposit
with the Auditor of the warrants he had cased,
together with some 14000 in money, as an earnest
that he
INTENDED TO SETTLE.
He is now engaged in attending to his sugar
crop and will square his accounts with that. The
Anaitor being satisfied that the ex-collector had
been imposed upon instructed the District At
torney to take no action further than to see that
the htate's interest was protected, he being sat
isfied that the delinquent will settle in flull when
he can.
CAPTURED IN NEW ORLEANN.
Jack Wilson, alias Corcoran, who Mur
dered a Man in Vicksbunr.
At noon yesterday Corporal Donovan and Pa.
trolman Dowling arrested a negro named Jack
Wilson, alias Jim Corcoran, on the steamer
Texas, and locked him up in the Central Station
on the charge of murder.
The accused was pointed out to the offiers by
two negroes who are working on the Yazoo Val
ley, and at the time the murder occurred of
which Wilson is charged were is Vicksburg.
They state that the accused murdered a man
named John Wilson on Levee street, in Vicks
burg, in the month of February, and after he
had committed the deed fled the town. The par
ticulars of the tragedy are as follows: The two
Wilsons had just finished playing a game of
cards and Jack Wilson discovered that John Wil
son had won all of his money. He went to him
and asked him to give back the money, bat John
refused.
Jack becoming exasperated at not being able
to get back his lost luore, told John that he
would either have his money or his hfe. John
replied that he did not want to have a difficulty,
but at the same time he did not intend giving
back the money that he had won fairly.
John left the place where he was and started
up Levee street, when Jack followed him and
again asked for the money. John still refused,
and Jack, true to his word, drew a dirk knife and
plunged it into his victim's body, killing him in
stantly. As soon as the accused was arrested
Chief Boylan telegraphed to Vicksburg notifying
the authorities.
TIlE PAPABOT.
Why is this supreme delicacy of the season
absent from its favorite market ? It is now three
weeks later than its appearance last season. But
thus far we have started fairly into August, and
yet there has not been a first appearance on our
streets, and Beniett, the immortal vendor of
game luxuries, " weeps for her children, because
they were not." At every corner the vendors are
met by some disconsola'e bon vivant who pope
sharply the inquiry : " Where are my papabots.'
And the invariable reply is: "They are behind
time. This season hasn't seen a single good
one, and the hunters report them as very scarce
and shy. When shy they are not in condition for
the table." On further interrogation the game
dealer will probably verify the justice of our com
plaint some weeks ago, that the shooting of papa
bhot in May and June would reduce, if not destroy,
the supply in the following season, when alone
they ought to be killed. We made it an objection
to our game law, that it did not contain aprohibi
tion of the shooting of papabot out of the sum
mer solstice. Thus are we punished for an im
providence, and the fable of the hen that laid the
olden egg has another illustration. In our im
patience for game we killed or drove off the
pspabot espply at a period when the biLd is of
little value, and now we have.to grieve over his
a 'senoe in the very season of his incomparable
excellence and luscious adiposity.
TIE IRREPREIIILE LARRIEUX.
The Crescent City Slaughterhouse Company
again encounters "a foeman worthy of its steel "
Mr. John Larrieux, a sturdy butcher of Algiers,
who has often before defied its p>wer, and, it is
charged, violated its exolusive privilege by,
slaughtering cattle within his private domain. A
few ,days ago John was captured by virtue of a
capias for contempt of the Fifth Distriot Court
and !nearcerated for twenty-four hours. This
was for violating an injunction of that court not
to do so. And now comes a prohibition from the
8upreme Court to the Fifth District Court, for
bidding it to proceed against John pending an
iejunction which had been asked of the Judge of
the Third District Court, and having been dis
missed with an injunction similarly asked for by
the company-each against the other-has been
appealed by Larrienu to the Supreme Court.
In this state of cross suits the Supreme Court
orders the Fifth District Coult Judge to halt, and
stop enforcing his injunction, but whether it has
ordered John to slaughter no more, we are not
informed. Altogether, the ease is in a beautiful
state of entanglement and perplexity, which it
will take time and the exercise of a great deal of
legal wit to solve.
THE POIICB BOARD.
The Police Board met last evening at their
rooms in the Central Station.
Corporal Banders will pstrol a beat, as he was
rednoed to the ranks for unofficerlike conduot,
to wit: calling at a house into a state of intoxica
tion.
John Haley, Second Precinct, was remanded,
and will also be allowed to serve his country for
five days, without pay, for using imlroper lan
guage and refosing to obey the orders of his
snperior officer.
Patrolman Oestave Chaos, Fourth Precinct,
was reprimanded by the board for disobeying
orders of his sneerior officer.
Patrolman A. Maignon, for the same offense,
was also reprimanded.
Patrolman L. Mellon, Fifth Precinot, was repri
manded for conduct unbecoming an offioer.
M. Ohvell, Fifth Precinct, violated rules 126
and 140, Police Manual, and his case was ref. rred
to the dblef.
John Gibson, Second Precinct, for holding nn
necessary conversation with a female, was repri
manded by the board.
Supernumerary McKinney loses ten days of his
pay for sitting down and sleeping on his beat.
LOTTgRIEU .
Ilow an I;nnsupeeting Gentleman Was
Taken In.
Wm. Witzmann, who resides In the little burg
of Algiers, has in days gone by banked heavy on
lotteries, but the way that he was taken in yes
terday by a letter purporting to be from the
Louisville Lotteryl Company will no doubt cure
him of the habit of patronizing lotteries.
Some time ago this gentleman took a ticket in
the Louisville lottery and won ten dollars.
The money was sent to him in a letter, which
informed him of the amount he had won, and also
informed him that the $9000 prize had not been
drawn.
Yesterday he received another letter, which ap.
paared to be from the same lottery company,
which informed him that another ticket which he
had taken had drawn a gold watch valued at
$150, and by calling at the Southern Express
Company's office and paying $15 he would get the
watch.
Mr. Wiz'nann hastened to the express office,
paid the $15 like a little man and took his watch.
His astonishment can hardly be expressed
when, on opening the package, he found that the '
wateh was brass and valued at $1.50.
As there are many persons who have received I
just such letters as the one written to Mr. Witz- I
mann, let the n read this and beware. (
khlpwrecked.
At 4 o'clock Thursday evening the sloop Em
pire, which left here for Mandeville, was caught f
in a squall which capsized her. Her cargo, t
which consisted of fiulnit and vegetables, is a total
lose. .
TJe captain, A. L. Perrot, and his assistant,
Adolph Rosy, were forced to remain in the water,
lashed to the wreck, for fourteen hours, until
picked up by the schooner Monitor and brought |
to Milnebnrg. t
The shipwrecked mariners' feet and hands were b
horribly swollen from having remained in the a
water for such a length of time. t
The Knife Again.
At a quarter past 3 o'clock yesterday evening,
at the corner of Bertrand and Cypress streets, a
difficulty took place between Joseph Wilkins and
Camille Samuels, which terminated in the latter
being cut in the breast by a knife in the hands of
the former.
Samuels' wound was dressed by a physician,
who pronounced it a slight one.
The accused was arrested and lodged in the
Centrat Station, charged with cutting and wound
ing with intent to commit murder.
Brevitles.
On the 9th and 10th inst. the pupils of Sisters
of Mercy give a concert and exhibition in the
school hall at Biloxl, under the direction of Prof.
Blake.
It appears that the child who was beaten by
Mr. Newhouse, Jr., is 18 years old and weighs
from 130 to 150 pounds.
Short Items.
Willie Kane and Joba Robertson dived into the
Fourth Precinct Station-house for having dived
into the Old Basin, at the intersection of Basin
street.
Thursday Officer Zambella shot and killed a
vicious dog at No. 229 St. Claude street, the ani
mal having bitten a little girl.
Thursday night as Mr. A. D. Berzne, manager
of the American District Telegraph was ruamnng
down Union street to answer a call whistle, he
fell and sprained one of his wrists.
Twenty-nine canines were poisoned in the city
Thursday night by the police.
About 10 o'clock Friday morning a little girl
named Mamie Waldron, residing on Market
street, near Chippewa, was bitten by a poodle
dog, supposed to be mad. The child was at
tended by a physician.
A woman named Mrs. Lawler and her son
Mike were also bitten by a rabid dog, on Market
street, near Fulton.
Last evening two outcaste, Fanny and Mary
Fitzsimmons, entered the Central Station and in
formed the clerk that they were vagrants, and
asked to be locked up so as they could go to the
Parish Prison. Their request was granted.
Some coffee fell into ; bag that Walter James
Oakes held in hii hand, and the police, from darn
meanness, locked him up in the Central Station.
Davy Corooran, the ancient turnkey at the Cen
tral Station, went back on his boarding-house
last night and locked eight of his boarders up for
being vagrants and having no visible means of
support.
Virginia Williams, a negress, was lodged in the
Central station, charged with intimidating a ..,t
ness in a criminal case.
At 5 o'clock last evening a boy named Oscar
Jacob fell from a wagon at the corner of St. Louis
and Dauphine streets and broke his right arm.
Friday morning a man named Robert Crawford,
a deaf mute, was found dead in his bed at Casei
dy's Hotel. Coroner Roche and City Physician
Drew viewed the body and returned a verdict of
appoplexy.
At half-past 11 o'cloci yesterday morning a
man named Jean Lapegne, a native of France,
dropped dead in the baroer shop, 24 Ursnlines
street. The coroner viewed the body and re
turned a verdict of congestion of the brain.
L. Israel is a man that would give a coat every
day in the week, but he does hate to have a wo
man to try and nip one on the sly. Mrs. Eliza
beth aurphy tried this little game and he landed
her i. the Central dm! ion on a charge of larceny.
4 THE MISIISSIPPI CONVENTION.
.0 -
The Ballot in the Democratic Mtate
Convention.
JACKsON, Aug. 1.-The State Conven
tion met here to-day with a very large
y representation. Gen. Samuel J. Ohol
son was elected chairman and Col. J. L.
Power, secretary.
a Col. J. M. Stone was nominated for
y. Governor on the tenth ballot, which
a was taken at 10 o'clock to-night.
a FIRST BALLOT.
t Lowry....... ...................
Humphre y ...........................
Featberston ............................ ... 20
esECOND BALLOT.
Lowry . .. 92
u stone................ ...........
Humphreys...... .'.'...'.'..'.. .83
Featherston ........ ...... ......... 26
THIRD BALLOT.
Lowry ..................................... 96
Stone. ................... ....... .. 8
Humpbreys ........ . . . .. ...... .... ... .. ..
Featherston........ ......
SFOURTTH BALLOT.
Lowry.................
Stone................. .......... 4
Humphreys ........... . .. .
Featherton ....................... .......... .. 1. .
FIFTH BALLOT.
Lowry........................ .. . .. . 95 t
Stone ............ ......... .......98
Humphreys ...................... .::: 2::: 1
Featherston ............. ............... 150.
RIXTH BALLOT.
Lowry ... . . ............... ... .. 12
Stone........................
Humphreys .. ...... "
Featherston...... .. . .. 15
SEVENTH BALLOT.
Lowry... ...... ........ .8
Stone.. ........................... 76
Bumphreys.................. .... '.-. 31
Featherston ...... .. ............ 15%,
EIOUHTHI BALLOT.
Lowry ................................. 96y
tone ...............................
Humphreys.... ............. ...... 29
Featherston .......... .......... ......... 19%
NINTH BALLOT.
8ton.............. ..... ...... .115
Lowry... ......105
Festberston .............................19.
TENTH BALLOT.
Stone ...............185
Lowry ............... ........ .... 101
AI------OAD INFLATION.
RilAILROAD IN.FLTION.
a How Rallroads are Built in this Country
[Oinoinnati OommeroiaL]
Never was there a more forcible illus
tration of the mischiefs of the inflation
principle in currency or credit than this
railroad mania affords. The improved
inflation method of constructing rail
ways was to hate as little money as
possible invested in the enterprise. A
few hundred or a thousand dollars
being raised to pay for the preliminary
surveys, the ultimate track surveys and
construction were paid for almost
wholly upon credit. First lay out your
road; then bond it for as much money
as the engineer's estimate of the cost of
the construction; then require of the
contractors to take one-half their
pay in bonds; then market the
remaining bonds for as much cash
as they Will bring. This was actually
the sober recipe orformula according to
which, in multitudes of casep, these in
ternal improvements were entered upon.
The contractors charged a heavy shave
in the form of extra profits for taking
so large a portion of their pay in the
shape of bonds. The capitalists charged
another heavy shave for call loans ad
vanced on collateral security, or for
time bonds actually marketed upon the
public. The roads were thus built at a
maximum of cost with a minimum of
cash; and when completed (if they ever
were completed) entered upon the com
petition for traffic handicapped by a
fearful load of debt, both bonded and
floating, upon which the earning3 must
first of all pay interest.
Is it any wonder that railroads con
structed after this reckless fashion, es
pecially through regions not yet popu
lous enough to require them, proved
bankrupt at the first tightening screw
of hard times? With the decline of
travel and of freight it has been very
hard sledding for even the sound and
solvent transportation companies; and
those which were widely extended,
which were built almost wholly upon
credit, were necessarily forced to sus
pend at an early day. At the beginning
of 1877, out of a total bonded debt owed
by Western railways of $909,678,277 no
less than $409,400,000 were in arrear of
interest. This represents about seventy
five per cent of non-dividend paying
railway bonds for this section of the
country. In the States, out of $313,788,
119 of bonded railway debt, interest is
paid on only $171,582,996.
If such is the acconnt as to the bonds,
which represent the first lien upon the
roads, what is to be said of the stocks ?
In the Western States there are (ac
cording to Poor's Railroad Manual for
1877-78) $919,399,210 worth of stock rep
resenting railways running through
their limits. Out of this aggregate
amount dividends are paid on only
$264,326,910 worth of stock, or less than
29 per cent, or between one-third and
one-fourth of the gross amount of the
stocks issued.
The sea serpent has been captured off
Beverly, Mass., and turns out to be
horse-mackerel. He weighs 1200 poundse
however, and is much more of a "suc
cess" than Cincinnati's recent whale.
There are now three full tickets in the
field in Ohio-the Democratic, the Tem
perance and the Greenback.
Palals Royal.
Among the many changes to take place soon
on the grand boulevard none will be more strik
ing and more indicative of the good time to come
than the swaying to the breeze the banners of the
grand "Palais Royal." Our enterprising friend
Levy, who has for so many years been the popu
lar proprietor of the dollar store, No. 137 Canal
street, seems to have had his faith shaken in re
publican institutions and ideas, and is deter
mined, with one fell swoop, to obliterate the
name of dollar store forever. He is making prep
arations for the opening of this elegant and gor
geous estabhshment, and nothing will be spared
in making it the most attractive place in the
Southern country. Levy's dollar store is known
throughout the whole South, and as it has been
known for its promptness in filling orders and
the po'ite attention of the clerks, and the place to
get everything, so will the Palais Boyal grow
into pop hlar favor, for we will see in the large
and gilaed signs that are to adorn the building
evidences of a new era, a prosperity whioh we
have lnged for but never expected until the
present time.
Co PA:I C,tLontisuse's Ow.--One of the
mostpleasant eveote of th- season will no doubt
be the military soiree dansanle, to take place this
evening at the West End Pavllion. Every ar
rangement has been made and every care taken
to provide for the comfort of those who intend
lending a helping hand to the brave boys, who
have always been so wil ing, even at great per
sonal inconvenien e and expense, to defend the
rtghts of car tatc -n p_:oteCt them to the laes,