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CUSTOM-HOUSE NOTES.
TIMlE "INs" AND "O4:TM"'-THE FORMER
NERENE AND THE LATER
UNHAPPY.
NIhermun'n I,eter Indorsln IheC Collertor -
The Custom.l-l ouse 'Otls' " Mutuali
Admilration SMclety.
The assertion in Wednesday morning's DI)M,
oRAT that Colleolor King's policy and course had
been indorsed by the National Administration,
NTA(I(IGERED TUE "OUTH"
not a little, and as a result the moment the
"boys" swallowed their breakfasts and the I).M
our'AT'S ,Ustom-House notes they made a straight
break for the Postoflice corner, where the council
was called together a half hour earlier than usual
and where it waited anxiously for Tomanderson
to hear a report from the council committee ap
pointed to wait on him and ask him if he had not
(rONE OVER TO THE ENEMY.
He came not, however, and the boys had the
easiest time imaginable holding down the cor
ner, and watching the door of an establishment
nearly opposite, where it was expected tiat the
St. Landry chief would emerge from.
UJp stairs inside the offies the scene was dif
ferent, for, while the outs were growling over
their ill-luck, the 'ins" were gleeful over the fact
that ther superior had defeated and
CAIPTUEDI) TiE ltiRTURNINOG BOARD,
look, stock and barrel, and was making himself
still more "solid" with the administration.
The surveyor must have felt his portion of the
defeat keenly as the first thing he dii after get
ting down to his office was to call in a few in
timate friends, and look the door, resolving him
self and iutimates into executive session, which
lasted until nearly noon. Some seem to think
that the defeated will now form a
NEW PLAN OF OPERIIATION
and will Ilauk the Collector in ano her way, but
as yet no fixed plan has been agreed upon.
Some of the outs were of the opinion that the
DEMOCIAT was slightly off in its positive aeser
tion yesterday morning that the Collector was
"bolstered," so to speak, by the Secretary of the
Treasury and President Hayes, and hardly
thought it possible that the well-plaoned raid by
the Beturning Board, Kelloga, Morey & Co.
could have
RIAULTED S0 DI)IATROUSLY.
and to relieve them and other solicitous friends
from further anxiety the letter written by Secre
tary Sherman to the Collector is appended as fol
lows:
TREAsURY DEPARTMENT,
Washington, 1). O., August 7, 1877.
John . King, Esq., Collector of OCustoms New
Orleans, La.:
Rir--our letter of the 3d inst. was duly re.
eeived I read it with interest and submitted it
to the President, who also real it, and requested
me to write you that the letter did you great
credit, and that you ought to be left to your inde
pendent judgment in executing reforms in the
lustom-House at New Orleans. I add my hearty
assent to this proposition. I have no doubt that
you are doing your utmost to secure efliciency
and reform. The selection of persons to hold
omfioe is always a diffimult and delicate task. Your
motives are likely to be misunderstood and your
conductoriticised, and, at best, to turn out any
one is a ptinlul and irksome business. You may
therefore consider yourself lzetriotod, without
fear of criticism here, to
otr.Low Yout1 oWN INDEIENOENT AIE'fIMENT
in recutilnenditg persons to be retained or re
moved, subjeot, it is true, to the action of this
department, which will only refuse your request
upon satisfactory showing. The true rule is to
select from your force the very best men for the
special duties of their positions, giving to experi
ence, personal character and politicel affinities
due consideration.
Very respectfully,
JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary.
A great majority of the boys had faith in the
DaEsoCnAT'S assertions relative to the letter yes
day, sad thinking that the jig was up got
themselves together in something of a mutual
admiration society-as was anticipated in the
"Custom-House Notes"-aud delegates were se
leoted to throw out as skirmishers to
FEII, TIIE ENEMY'S FRONT,
as it were, the skirmishers informing both the
Aollector and Deputy Chanplin in a very patron
izing way, that they had not been connected with
the rumpus, ai4 that they were now and had al
ways been their friends.
Of course this was taken with the usual grain
of allowance, and nothing more was thought of
the raid or its resul.s until Elder auntt p ,pped
In on the Collector and had a few moments' con
versation, intimating again that his responsi
bility on the oullector's bnd was very great,
etc., etc., etc., but the Collec.or did not think lhe
would suffer any, and cofitidentially (?) told him
as much, which was equivalent, if the expression
may be used, to
i'ITTIN<I A 114I1 IN IIIs KAU,
and he retired soon to visit Alabama, where he
has property, and then may return to look afttr
his steamboat lnterests here.
Tomnanderson called upon the Collector, too,
and had quite a lengthy converestion, but never
said a word about the Modono style of sealping
recalcitrant Collectors, but on the contrary
laughed and joked wilh him as of yore, which
Inclined some of the "outs" to the belief that
somebody had boon "playing possum" on their
watch and that the huge threats made
WERiE ALL A 511AM,
some claiming even that the vice president of
the great national returning board had not gone
Into the fight with as much earnestness as he
professed, all of which was predicted in the DEM
oonAT several days since.
After the friendly chat with the Collector, Tom
anderson next waltzed into the office of Deputy
Obamplin, shook hands, eat down and had quite a
pleasant visit, at least so thought the DEMOCRAT'S
commissioner as he sat in the next room-and
left, expressing the utmost friendship for Cham
plun, who didn't object to two or three "patron
age" appointments, provided the men suggested
were capable, but he did object to having in the
castoms service a raft
OF INCOMXiTENT MEN,
Tomanderson agreeing that suooh had not ought
to be done, and with renewed expressions of
friendship they separated.
The surveyor and ex-Returning Board chief
had but little to say upon the subject of the de
feated raid, but he made up "his mind while In
executive session that three or fodr boatmen or
inspectors would have to step down and out to
make room for those who have served him
FAITHFULLY AND WELL(S),
they could, and the crowd will be on their heads,
so to speak, to-day to know who the three or four
fortunates will be.
Gen. Anderson leaves for Indiana this evening,
where he will place one of his family at school,
and from there he goes direct to Washington,
but not to make the slightest effort to have his
friend, the Collector, removed.
Special Agent Barney reports that the final re
port of the Custom-House ommiesion was for
warded to Gen. theldon some days since for his
signature, and that he has presented it to the
Secretary of the Treasury doubtless by this
time.
The reprrt is confined principally to recom.
mendations of changes in the manner of weigh
ing, appraisement of merchandise, warehouse
matters, e c., and it is confidently believed by
those who ought to know that the recommenda
tions will be acted upon and approved without
delay or as soon as Secretary S ,erman returns to
Washington from his trip to Ohio.
MUNICIPAL MATTERI.
The Waterworks-The Wharpe1 of the
Third Diatriet -Vagarles. of
Assrniments.
Mayor Pllsbnry was shown on Wednesday
morning a letter from a gentleman In New York
to a Iriend m N w 0 Itlans saying that he
ise the holder of cer a:u whatr boisds, and
the Waterworks Company's stock i' the scheme
agree with his friend's views. The amoentJ
already pledged to the subscription is over
$461,000, and the Mayor believes that the sub
sR cription of the New York bondholder will com
plete the requisite 10.,1 00
TO OitRANIZE THE NEW COMPANY.
Administrators Oavanae and McOaffrey and the
City Surveyor visited the river front from St. Ann
street down to the end of the line of the wharves.
They have saisfied themselves that any attempt
to reconstruct the wharves in this quarter at
d present would be useless, as the river bank con
tinues to
CAVE IN VISIBLY,
The Bnrveyor's opinion is, however, that in a
n0 week or ten days the banks will have settled suf
' floiently to begio operations.
bt Mr. Cavanac will, in consequence, inform the
il lessees that in order that no time shall be list
al they must prepare for the work before them by
in bringing their materials for the construction and
repair of the wharves on the spot where they
P will be needed.
It In conversation with a gentleman from the
Third District, Mr. Cavanac informed him that
no apprehensions of delay in this importalt mat
te ter need be entertained by the people of that die
r- trict, for it was his determined purpose to have
it every wharf in the city built or repaireJ in time
to meet the exigencies of commerce.
AOI4ESSMENT MATTErER.
- Among the applicants for reduction of assess
ments ti the New Orleans Gaslight Company.
ir who have availed themselves of he providiins of
,t the revnuoe act, and named Mr. Archlbald
Mitchell the arbitrator on their part, while
Administrator ltongstRo tf has selected
Mr. Lion'l O. Levy to represent the city to de
If termine upon the valuation of the real estate of
the company. The Gas Company also objects to
the i icrease of the assessments of their capital,
1e which, lase year, was set down at $1,0 0,000, but
- this year has be-n raised to $1,501,000.
i. While conversing on this subject at the City
Ilall, we found that the impression there was that
if a jilt aip eciation was put upon capital by
h asseasors the assessment rolls woull amount to
k nearly if not quite
TWo HUNDRED MILLIONR
of dollars, which would have the effect of ma
* terially increasing the revenues of the ci'y and
State, or at least or justifying a reduction of th'
tax which has been so long principally borne by
e property holders.
In sueport or this belief, besides the well
known fact that certain commercial houses of
this city of the best standing claim that they
e operate on no money capitalt but simply on their
f credit, it is asserted that In years past a busi
ness house receiving over one hundred thousand
bal' s of cotton a year assumed that they were
working on a capital ot
ONLY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS I
Another instance is cited of a house whose
a capital having been assessed at $75,000, pro,
tested energetically in favor of a reduction to
$25,000, and it was only after considerable dis
cussion that a compromise was affected on the
basis of $60,000. Within a short period after.
wards the h use became the prey of the flames,
and it was found that the proprietors were clair
nlog insuranoe on their stock to the tune of nearly
$380,.000.
We now pass to
A LUsUS NATURIl2.
t who should be set up as an example to recalci
trant taxpayers. His name is Mr. Ben Oandiff,
whose property, consisting of two lots with a
one-s ory cottage containing four rooms and a
kitchen, situated on Galvez street, was assessed
last year for $400, but has been raled this year
to $500. The main building rents for $6 and Mr.
Candiff occupies the kitchen himself. He thinks
that his property is worth $1500, and wants his
assessment raseed to that figure.
We have heard of a similar instance only once
before during our experience; it was that of a
commercial concern whose capital was assessed
at five thousand dollars, and was raised to thirty
five thousand dollars at the request of one of the
members of the firm. On the strength of these
two solitary
ACTS OF PATRIOTTRM
it is not, however, expected that there will be a
rush of taxpayers to the assessor's office to have
their assessments increased, particularly in such
proportion.
Ithe application of Judge Miltenberger, of the
Second ltecorder's Court, for new furniture.
which was referred to the Administrator of
Police, is receiving Mr. Diamond's attention. He
estimates that the cost, if all the furniture asked
for is supplied, will amount to a thousand dol
lars. Mr. Diamond. however, thinks that there
I are mar.y items in the list which are not abso
lutely necessary, such for example as the
FI"VE REVOLVING CIAIRS,"
and the probability is that the list will be cut
down materially.
Mr. Diamond has issued his circular to numer
ous institutions and individuals who have had
gongs seact in their establishments or residences,
during the period when the police and ire alarm
telegraph was under the control of the IRadical
State government, informing them that these
gonge will have to be returned to the city unless
they are willing to pay thoref r a rental of fifteee
dollars a year for tht use bf the battery and
gong. The notifloationof oourset does not apply
to the engine-houses or the liarbor Watchmen's
Association,
It Is asserted that In stome cases private Indi.
viduals have paid for the stting tip of those
gongs, but Administrator I)lamoud says that if'
such be the case he has not been able to disco
ver among the records of the City Hall that
the money has buon paid In to the city.
TIIC MITI AKt mIIu M H,
Nothing has yet boon done In the way of sot.
tihg the dtlfl'erncoo betwIon the city and the
-ugar Hiltrd Company, the itumpany having so far
failed to stako any dlollnite proposition of ad
jlistiment, notwithstanding tile statement
of one of our contoilnporarles, who mnust
he in error. Tile only proposition
ever made, says Mayor Pilsbury, was sunh as is
suggested in the report of the Commiteoo on
8tgar Sheds of the City Council, and of which
Administrator McCaffrev was the chairman. '1 he
proi'osition the Sugar Shed Company thought
would be fatal to their interests, whereupon the
Mayor proposed that they furnish him with a
statement of their probable receipts during one
year, and a tariff based on such receipts; and
thus the matter stands at present.
THE FIRE FIEND.
The Bead Work it Wrought Tuesday Night.
At half past 10 o'clock Tuesday night a most
unfortunate accident took place at the house No.
291 Gravier street, which terminated in Mrs.
Charles Lamanedox, the occupant of the house,
being severely burnt about the hand, and her
little son being dangerously burnt about the back
and arms.
It appears the mother and child were in bed
together when the mosquito bar took fire from
a lighted candle near the bed. The fire also
communicated to the bed clothes, which terribly
burnt the child before he could get out of the
bed. The mother was burnt about the hand
while attempting to extinguish the flames. The
flames were finally extinguised by some of the
other inmates of the house.
A Curiosity.
We have all observed at times the ingenuity,
dexterity, nimble activity and indomitable perse
verance with which a spider first lays out his
diagram and then weaves, with almost geo
metrical precision, his delicate web, from the
centre of which, quietly ensconsed, he is daily
to emerge and reap the beneft of the harvest
that his labor may gather. The gradual manu
facture of these delicate and yet so a, mmetrical
webs is, to an idle mind, interesting to contem
plate and study.
But aside from the ordinary labor of the spider,
our attention was called, a day or two since, to a
piece of work of this nature which aroused our
surprise and wonder. Capt. John Petrie, near
Dryades Market, has a dark wine c oset in the
rear of h's saloon. After an interval of onay a
few days. on enter.ng the closet, a rich and heavy
manifold web, iver three fret in width, was dis
covered, reaching diagonally from the ceiling,
some ten feet high. to the heads immediately
bove the t faucets of two barrels. It was a re
nmIrkable products in, and then, too, produced in
such a shirt ti.ec. The texture was complete,
and a grasp of the mnrumne fabrt.' possessed
more the In luIn. of a lad " sotft unbla than an'
I thng else w. could I k.-n it to. We c nnot imag
Ine h iw m awIy tens et w, re engag.rl.d upin tiis re
marsabsle tt ce or woc. -, vertneitern, it is a
great curio i'y. Capt. Petrie stidl retains a large
ii portion of it.
r SENT DOWN.
I- IORTIMER '1ARR MINT BEFORE THE
iPRI' 1ROR CRIMINAL COURT.
3 His Ball Fredd at $10,OO0.
l Mortimer Carr, of the firm of Carr & Laun,
* charged with obtaining money under false pre
It tenses, was yesterday before Judge Smith, of the
t First Municipal Police Court, on a preliminary
examination.
District Attorney Finney represented the
State, Messrs. Castellanos, Labatt and Clinton
and Judge Cu'lom represented the house of Se
ligman, Hellman & Co., while Messrs. O. H. Rice
e and C. H. Luzenberg appeared on behalf of the
t defense.
' As the failure of this firm, and the arrest of
both partners have caused considerable talk,
the evidence will no doubt be read with interest
e The first witness placed upon the stand was
t Ovide D. Ahndry, who testified as follows:
I am cashier and book-keeper for the firm of
Selligman, Hellman & Co. I am acquainted with
the accused; I am acquainted with the business
transaction between my house and the accused,
which transaotion took place on the 9th day of
February, 1877. On the day previous to the 8'h
- Mr. Hellman wanted some bills of lading that
w, re to arrive.
C There were two sets of bills of lading that Mr.
IHellman brought inln our office. One set of bills
Sof lading wert for 230 bales of cotton purport
Sling to have been shipped on board the ship
Flora, A. Peterson, master, with exchange on
t illing & Lamont for 49,100 rix marks; the other
bill of lading was for 4130 bales of cot'on purport
i g to have hoen shipped on the bark RIlnoberg,
i . Fredrickson, tma-ter, with live bills of ox
change for 20,000 rix marks each, all of which
( shipped to our New York house, which turned
Sout to be forgeries.
The forged documents, consisting of bills lading,
drafts, etc, were off red as evidence in court.
Against these bills of ladinr our firm advanced
the firm of Carrt & Laun $40,000. Some imes Mr.
Carr and sometimes Mr. Laun would receive the
checks, for whicn I took receipts.
CHECKS AND RECEIPTT PRODUCED AS EVIDIENCtE.
Check No. 1, for $36,000; witness could not
say by whom indorsed.
Check No. 2, for $13,000; do not know by whom
I indors, d.
Check No. 3, for $29,000; Indorsed by Louis
Laun.
Check No. 4, for $4000; indorsed by Mortimer
I Carr.
Check No. 5, for $5000; indorsed by Mortimer
Cart.
Receipt No. 1, for $183,000; was signed by Louis
Laun for Carr & Laun.
Receipt No. 2. for $36,000; was signed by Louis
Laun for Carr & Laun.
Receipt No. 8. for $20,000; was signed by Louis
Launn for Carr & Laun.
Receipt No. 4, ftr $4000; was signed by Morti
mer Cart for Oarr & Laun.
Receipt No. 6, for $5000; was signed by Morti
mer Carr for Carr & Laun.
The receipts were handed to me by the'parties
signing them.
On the day the affidavit was sworn out I did
see Mr. Carr; he was in our office. There was a
general conversation in the office. Mr. Carr and
Mr. Hellman were worried at bills of lading not
coming from Mobile. They did not understand
why they did not come. In a conversation it was
agreed that Mr. Bellman, Carr and myself should
go to Mobile on the following Sunday.
Mr. Cart went over Saturday evening, the 10th
inst. We wont over on the following day to ar
range matters. Mr. Hellman and myself on ar
riving in Mobile found that all of the cotton of
OCrr & Laun had been seized by one T. P. Miller.
We called on Mr. Miller to see if by the cotton he
had on hand the firm of Carr & Laun could
not be saved.
After a long conversation with Mr. Miller, we
went over to one of the national banks of Mobile
to make some arrangement, the same we had
wanted to make with Mr T. P. Miller. The bank
had 'omething like $2500 margin there, which
had been handed over by the firm of
CARR & LAUN, OF MOBILE.
After leaving the bank we went over to Mr.
Boatner's office, the agent for the Flora and
Runebeorg. 'Ihe conversation never came up
'bout tllhe 750 bales of cotton. We heard that
bills of lading had been given him for 500 bales
of cotton by the firm of Carr & Laun, Mobile. in
advance to shipment; Iut these b lie of lading
had been burnt ani :estroyed, as they had been
signed previous to shipment, and as the cotton
was not aboard the boat.
We returned from Mobile Monday or Wednes.
day. All these bills of ladisg were discovered to
be forgeries. Mr. Carr, whel the forged docu.
ments were shown him, 'stid: "This is a for
gory;" "that is a forgery." I did not hear Mr.
Carr at any time say that he was the one that
handed the bills of lading to Mr. Hellman.
Louis Lttut Wa9 not in town when we returned
n..f.n. M ohiln
E. Mahler next testified:
I was engaged by Louis Laun, of Carr & Laun,
as correspondent and general confidential clerk
for the lirm. The house had, when I went there,
a journal a ledger, and all books that are gener
ally needed to carry on that sort of businoss.
When I opened them I found no entries either in
the journal or ledger. When I asked Louis It Laun
about it he said they had no time to write,
but would have it done as soon as time would
permit. Huddenly the order book I kept in my
drawer disappeared. I knrow that no one had a
key to the drawer but myself and Mr. Carr. I
miiade inquiries about the order book. Mr. Carr
ri ,lied: "I don't know where it went to."
( Wit lness then Io knd at the bills of exchange
which had blen offlrod as evidecie,1
The exchange documenllet, marked A, was drawn
by ine ansd slgnedl by Mortllmr Carr r, The in.
structlons that I got were from I oilns Laen. The
bill of lading is in Louis Luun's handwriting.
The live bills of exchange, mlarked 13, are signed
by Louis It. Laun, and he ilnstrnotod me to adraw
them up. The lills of lading and bills of ex
change were brought over to Mr. Hellman's ofliceo
by Mr. Carr.
I recognize nlovoice on page 198 as corresponding
with the alleged shipment of 500 bales of cotton
on the Runeberg. There is also a check book
missing of the State National Bank. Mr. Hell
man asked Mr. Carr for this check book. The
books of the Mobile house and of this city were
turned over to Mr. Hellman.
GEORGE LAUN.
I am a brother of Louis Laun. I was con
nected with the firm of Oarr & Laun from Febru
ary last. As for the forgery of bills of lading, I
know nothing. I know something of 750 bales
of cotton, purported to be shipped on the Flora
and Runeberg. I6 was when the festival of Mo
muns was here.
I met Mr. Hellman at the depot and went with
him to his office, where we had a conversation.
The day after that I went to Mobile. I wrote a
letter from Mobile, apprising Carr. I suppose a
copy of that letter is in the books here. [ Che let
ter is shown witness.] I also wrote other letters
and sent telegrams.
Question by attorney-What had occurred in
Mobile to induce you to write letters and send
telegramt?
A. We needed money, as our cotton was mort
gaged there. I have reference to the 1600 bales.
I did not get any money from New Orleans; I
received a telegram telling me to come to New
Orleans, and I came here.
T. P. Miller & Co. were the ones that seized
our cotton in Mobile. Mr. Carr was aware of
the fact, as I had advised him accordingly at the
time of the seizure. At the time I informed
Mr. COrr my brother had not left the country.
On F+ brurry 2d I wrote a letter to our firm in
New Orleans.
A copy of the letter was shown witness, which
he identified and which read as follows:
"Why don't you pay our drafts? If you don't
pay we are gone. How can you act thus? You
will find in a very short time that it will be known
all over Mobile and in your city. If you don't honor
our drafts we cannot ship,as nobody will deliver us
a pound of cotton. If you think you will gain
anything by this sort of work you are mistaken.
"GEO. LAUN."
None of the drafts or any of the seizures on
our cotton were ever released by Carr & Laun.
No genuine bill of lading had been issued for any
port on of those sixteen hundred bales of cotton.
The captain signed a bill of lading for five hun
dred bales of co'ton. I returned the c.ptain the
b'll of lading, as the cotton was not on board of
the vessel. They must have b en destroyed; I
never saw them in circulation.
The bills of lading which had been filed as
evide' ce, when shown to wilt-,ee, were pro
no-nced by him to b fw 'ied ones.
By -r. Case,llauo~--t h s any ones p kan to yon
here t'li- evncit.,z In re,.gir t, this prosecietion
A - Yes. M,,r'im r Carr said that my brit er
months He said that he did right in p!ead ni
1 not guilty, as it could no; be proved that he oom
mitted forgery; that the matter could very easi y
be arranged. Mr. Finney, the Die riot Attorney,
parsed and Carr stopped talking. After
" the lapse of a few moments he said he
could very easily get a pardon, and wit
ness understood Carr to say that he
would use his influence with Warmoth to ef
fect that purpose.
I had control of the Mobile house. I think all
except one draft to make good the margins in
Europe were paid. I have not seen the order
book that is missing, but Carr told me that he
f took it himeelf. He also told me that he had
taoken the books home. It was not long after the
failure of the firm of Carr & Laun that he told
me he had taken these books home.
tOUI. LAUX
was placedon the stand by the defense. I was a
partner of the firm of Carr & Laun, of this city;
I remember having handed these two bills ot
lading to Mr. Carr just before leaving for Mobile,
in the afternoon train. These bills of lading
were not genuine. Mr. Carr did not know by my
telling bim that they were not genuine; I told
him to wait instructions, In the meantime a
letter had been received informing us thatour
cotton had been seized in Mobile. This is the
reason they were not genuine. After I came
r back from Mobile I had nothing to do with these
bills of lading.
He saw the letter from Mobile stating that the
cotton had been seized, end ought to have known
the bills of lading were frandulent. I told him to
give them to Mr. Hlellman on the day after I had
left. I was the bnusiness manager of this house.
I never authorized anyone to open the letters of
the firm.
Becautse the bills of lading were fraudulent, and
the cotton had been seized, I got scared "nd left,
New Ollans. We were at cne time $80,000 in
debt. Mr. Carr put $5000 in the firm; $200) he
ptent to Europe and $300 , he left here. We some
times owed the Citizens' Bank as high as $400000.
My partner and myset If have not been allowed
to converso together since we have been prison
ers. but this evening he made signs at me-first
holding up his thumb and three fingers, then his
thumb and four fingers. I understood it to mean
$3t,0010. I cannot swear that he meant dollars,
as I did not see any.
After hearing this testimony, Judge Smith sent
the accused before the .up'rlor Criminal Court,
and fixed his bond at $10,01 0. Being unable to
furnish bond, he ;was sent to the Parish
Prison.
('5AICAMiEIE; LO MIATT'ERI.
The announcement in Wednesday's morning
dispatches that Gen. Sheldon had argued the
Calcasien log case before Judge Billings, at New
Haven, Conn., and had succeeded in obtaining
AN ORDER TO BiOND
was not confirmed up to the hour of noon by
official advices, either at the office of United
States District Attorney or United States Mar
shal, but in order to ascertain directly the nature
of the order Special Agent Carter, of the Inte
rior Department, telegraphed Judge Billings
during the morning, asking, it is said, that the
features of the order be telegraphed here. The
log men, or log owners, have representatives
here who are watching the last proceedings of
the log war
WITH CONSIDERABLE INTER:NT
and reporting progress daily to their associates
at Lake Charles.
OFF FOR CREEDMOOR,
The Crescent City Teaml Take Their Leave
for a New Field of AFction.
They were not escorted to the depot with a
brass band or anything of that calibre, but quite
a number of their friends found themselves at
the Mobile Railroad depot last evening, to see
safely off the Crescent City Rifle team, who are
now on their
WAY TO CREEDOMOOR
to represent the city and Btate in the inter-State
long range rifle match to take place next month.
The friends mentioned numbered nearY! one
hundred, and prior to the departure of the train
there was some "loud" handshaking and wishes
for success for the tram, each member of which
left in splendid trim, and confident that they
would return with the honors which their prac
tice shooting would seem to entitle them to.
Just before the train left Mr. John K. Benaud,
one of the team, received the following, which
shows that the team will receive proper atten
tion en route:
Mo:;'riooMEnv, Act., August 15, 1477.
John K. Reynaud, Crescent City Rifle Team:
The Montgomery Shooting Club expout you to
breakfast. When will you reach Montgrmary?
Answer. P. 0. IANI)OLPHII, V. P.
To this the following reply was forwarded :
New OitaEAns, LA., August 15, 1877.
F. C. Randolph, V. P.:
We leave this evening at 5 o'clock. Will break
fast with you in the morning.
JAbEi BI'CKLEY, Capt. O. C. R., Team.
Vatldry itltes.
The entertainment this evening at the Carroll
ton Gardens promises to be a very grand affair.
The ladies of the Cresnoent City Hollef Association
are to have overything there that is nice in the
way of eatable; and this organizationl, having
been frmned out of one of the, most gallant coin.
panles of the White LrUagun ((o. A), and appearing
in full uniform on tlhis oc.asion ftr the first time,
We have no doubt their imany admirers and
the citians generally, will take this their first
opportunity of expressing to them, by their pres
once at the gardens, the high appreciation that
we all have fr them. The many hardships and
dangers through which these boys have passed,
that our State might be free, should entitle them
to this. Their programme will be found in
another column.
Funeral of Gen. John G. Angell.
Wednesday morning there was a very large
gathering of relatives, fellow-soldiers and friends
of the late Brigadier Gen. John G. Angell, at his
late residence, on Julia street, to pay the last
sad tribute to this much beloved man. Some
time before 10 o'clock, the hour of starting,
crowds of ladies visited the house where
the body lay, and each bore some floral
offering to the dead. The house was
soon thronged, and when the Louisiana
section of the Army of Northern Virginia arrived
the throng had increased and the sidewalks were
1 impassable. Members or the Second Regiment
"Louisiana's Own," which Gen. Angell for
merly commanded, were also present in force, as
well as the Independent Order of Good Tem.
plars. Many old faces that were wont to brave
shot and shell in Virginia were noticed, among
whom were Gov. Nicholle, Lieut. Gov. Penn,
f Gen. F. N. Ogden, Gen. Behan, Col. W. T. Vau.
dry, Col. Dan Wilson and others.
Shortly after 10 o'clock, after the religious ser
vices had ended, the body was borne to the
hearse, Col. Borland, Major Richardson, Major
Lincoln and Messrs. Kleinpeter, Murray and
t Brewer acting as pall bearers.
As soon as the line of carriages had started
the long line of the General's comrades in arms
r fell into line and marched to the Washington
Cemetery, where the body was interred.
All the ceremonies of the occasior were most
imposing yet simple.
The Orphans' Excursion.
The orphans of the Mount Carmel Female Or
phan Asylum, of the Third District, accom
panied by the Bietera in charge of the institu
tion, having accepted the invitation of President
Wiotz, of the New Orleans City Railroad Com
a piny, to a ride to the Lake, will have a basket
picnic at Kitt a West Euld tj-dy. If Fred Wintz
and Jake Kittridge do.'n make the hutie ones
happy, we are rreatly mistaken.
Frsrnk Jhtun+.n, a teanimtioatma. was lkodg.d
the Fourth Precinct tatrion. rnarge wimt pica
g the Pockets of one Lotue Hill.
BA MUSI~IC.
A day or two ago the attention of the reporter
was cal'ed to a., advertisement of tho death of a
smtl child, whose father had belonged before
his death to acertain benevolent society. The
advertis'ment was followed by a notice to the
membf rs of this body to meet at the parents' to
attend the funeral. Like most organizations of
the kind, the society did attend, and that too with
a brass band coating something like fifty dollars.
The funeral was had, the child laid away, and
the family returned to the house of mourning.
The band had played splendidly, the society
presented their most gorgeous appearance, but
that fif;y dollars blared away in trumpets did not
give the widow a supper.
Jt is a foolish and most objectionable habit on the
aLrt of many associations of buriing their dead,
and even the children of their members with
martial honors. If this was a necessity, if it did
any good to the deceased or those left behind, It
would be right and proper, but as It now is, it is
a piece of luxury that could well be omitted. The
more particu!arty is this the case when such
displays are made over the bogy of a little child
simply to gratify a false pride on the part (f
parents In anumber of cases the money ex
pended for mnusic is needed by the bereaved one",
and it devoted to that purpose much relief would
come to them.
The ilowing Regatta.
The arrangements for the grand Rowing Re.
gatta, which we have already announced in the
Demo..r'AT to take place in Septomber, are being
perfected.
At a meeting of the Regatta Committee of the
Stale Rowing Association, held at the Crescent
Hall last night, it was decided to give the sn
nual regatta for the State championship at the
New lake Eid, Brown's side, on Monday and
Tuesday, September 24 and 25, 1877. In addition
to the gold medal, a champion silk flag will be
awarded to the winners of the single scull shell
and four-oared shell races. The committee will
meet on Monday, at the Crescent Hall club room,
at 8 o'clock p. m., for finat arrangements.
Drowned.
At half-past 5 o'clock last evening, while Henry
Delgado and Wilson F. Page, colored, Henry
Adams and Henry Stewart were swirmming in
the New Basin, one square from Broad street,
Page was accidentally drowned. The body was
not recovered. The clothes of the drowned boy
were taken to the Central Station.
Railroad Personals.
BY THE JACKSON ROUTE.
The following named left the city last evening
by the Jackson route : Col. Wmi. H. Brown of
the ITeci e country, Wm. Weeks of Grand Cote
Island, Jno. Shawen, H. P. Phillips. Miss
Heyman, D. Hirsch, H. A. Gillespie and Gallietr,
all for New York; J. N. Norton, Mrs. S. A. Nesbit,
W. L. Hamlett, Chicago; Major Eohols and
family, Philadelphia; W. W. Washburn, Boston;
T. W. Collens. Waukesha; H. H. Barrow, Cincin
nati; H. R. Chisholm, Mrs. Chisholm, Miss Corn
wall, Niagara Falls; G. L. Davis, Mrs. M. L. Pike,
St. Louis: T. F. James, N. Reis, H. H. Hill, J. 1.
Avit, Memphis; H. Norman, Little Rock.
BY THE MOBILE ROUTE.
The following were among the many departures
by the Mobile line last evening: Capt. James
Buckley, Capt. Dudley oelph, Robert G. Eyri-h,
Major Wm. Arms, Col. John Glynn, Jr., John K.
Renaud and Ed. T. Manning, of the Crescent
City Rifle Team, for New York; Mrs. E. T. Man
ning, Miss Vigneand, for New York; Mrs. James
L. Bradford and Mrs. John T. Moore and family,
for Warm Springs, N. C.; W. Jones, Capt. Chas.
F. Pucher and John Keller, for Louisville;
H. L. Stone, for Jacksonville, Fla.; H. Roos, W.
Cronerand A. Marks, for New York; W. T. Conk
lin, for St. Lonis; J. W. Hearn, for Indianapolis;
J. F. Falkenhelmer, for St. Louis; Capt. H. B.
Stevens and family, for New Yo,rk; 'Mrs. Fisk and
family and Mr. Urqumart, for SBaem, Va.; C. M.
Schoomacher and wife, for New York; Pli'ip B.
Mayer, for New York, and C. W. Drown, for the
East; A. R. McGee and family, for Madison, Wie.,
via St. Louis and Chicago, and E. Fulton, for
Point Ch ar, Ala.
Brevltles.
Judge N. H. Rightor left Wednesday for an
island in the gulf off Terrebonne for a short so
journ under the invigorating sea breezes.
It would improve very much the appearance of
the Custom House if those refuse stones were re
moved from the Canal street front. They have
been there now for some time-in fact, too long.
About 200 passengers took advantage of the
Camelia'e excursion over the lake yesterday.
Among the names of those who are to leave
our city to-day we find Mme. Rosa Iteynonr booked
to sail on the steam-hip New Orleans. She is
attended by Mr. Reynoir, who intends, on his re
turn, bringing out a very handsome assortment
of millinery and fancy goods.
At a regular monthly meeting of the Aspinwalf
Rowing (lub, nold on the 13th inst., it was unan
Imously resolved to change the name of the club
to the It. E. Leo Itowing Olub of Now 0 loans.
There was on exhibition yesterday at the (Cot.
ton Exchange a bottle containing cottoni wori.s
from a phantation in Mississi.p,i which were
gathelred from three stalks only. 'IThe worms
looked remarkably well grown for this month.
Pa'ssnern by wore attractel last, nightb by a form
or shadow in white at lth third story winrl.w of
oni of the stores on (Iravi-r, betwoe.n ,imp ntiol
St. Charles stiits, nso tih sili.. Tthe seti, wit
heard ol it was Ihat, a poll.coman was watchlii for
a solution ofl the mystery.
Tall men avouil lloyl and (lohartrnr n'reots on
acouant of the low awnings. Iight froct fron thi
banqlotto is the height aooording to the city or
dinance.
Why don't ladies on entering the cars have
change in their pocket-books less than one d,,l
lar. Gentlemen who have to pass up these bills
invariably lose their seats for their fealty to the
fair sex.
whort Items.
Wm. Henry Bradley is in the Second Precinct
Station on a charge of larceny.
George Williams was pulled at 3:45 Tuesday
evening and lodged in the Second Precinct Sta
tion charged with breaking and entering the
house of Robert Cheevens.
About the 17th of February last a set of har
ness was stolen from Dr. Capdeville and taken to
the parish of Assumption. The harness, was,
however, brought back to this city. Tuesday
Special Officer Hennessey hearing that the har
ness bad been brought back to the city, made a
search for and recovered it at the junk store of
Wm. Von Sachs, No. 101 Toulouse street Sachs
bought the harness from Jack Shepherd, now a
convict, serving a seventeen years' term in the
Louisiana State Penitentiary. dachs was, never
theless, arrested and incarcerated in the Third
Precinct, on the charge of having stolen prop
erty in his poessesion.
George Tate, the centennial clubber, who was
so honorably discharged by the Police Board
Tuesday evening, was arrested at 2 o'clock Wed
nesday morning, together with Officer T. McGee,
by Sergeant Rourke, for being drunk on his beat
and attempting to club a negro named Samuel
Pinkney.
Supreme Court.
Wednesday morning Justice Marr, of the Pu
preme Court, was engaged in the hearing of an
application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by J.
J. Daniels, of the parish of J fforeon, who has
been m the Parish Prison on the charge of killing
a man in the town of Carrollton. J. J. Fe ney
represented the State, and R. King Cutler, E-q.,
the relator. After argument on both sides the
Judge took the case under advisement.
The Augsburger Zeitun j says that the
luxury in whicn the Russian Czar in
dulges while with his army casts Otto
man magnificence into the shade.
Whenever he makes a journey by rail
he requires a special "court" train of
seventeen cars, furnished sumptuously.
The railway expenses alone of every
trip between Plojes.ehti and Bucharest
were t;Sto francs. For the tables of the
Cz-tr and his suite 4e1) bottles .,f chanm-
pagne were consumjed every month;
and the royal comnissary is permitted
to fix the price of chatnipl,~ gt-. in camp.
at 25 frn'ces a bottle t.i . of ilrilne wint)
francs.
THE WORKINGMEN'.
Probability of Their Carrying the City at
Italtimore.
(N. Y. Times.]
BIdrI.mIroE, Aug. 5.--As if the work
ing people did not have associations
enough, they have, since the riot. started
what they call "Labor Lyceums," one
in each ward in the city, at which they
meet to take action looking to the form
ation of a working man's party, under
the direction of a central organization.
The Democrat or Republican politicians
were warned off from these meetings,
but some of the notorious old wire-pull
ers of each side have been making them
selves prominent, and are endeavoring to
turn the current to their advantage.
The movement appears to be engi
neered by a mysterious body that calls
itself the executive committee. This
body must meet in garrets or cellars, a
nobody has any report of its procet
ings except the Standard, the newspap .
organ of the strikers. It may be men
tioned that this journal talks commun
ism in an audacious fashion that has
recommended it to a very heavy circula
tion among the laboring classes, and I
suppose that the spirit of any element
of a community may be rather fairly
gauged by the sort of printed opin
ions it hangs its faith upon. Luck
ily, the Democrats had made
their nominations for the (Ghneral As
sembly before the strike occurred, and
now they have nothing of consequence
chead cf them in the city except to
make up a ticket for the Council. There
nee( be no surprise if the workingmen
do put up a legi-dative ticket in the field
and eletr a portion of it. There are
plenty of people outside of laboring
men who would lend their aid to such a
movement, simply to put the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad on the rack and
extract from it a confession of its
real financial standing, that is be
lieved to have been concealed or
falsified in the reports of Presi
dent Garrett. There are many causes
for disturbances inside and outside of
politics as October draws near, and I
much misjudge the signs of the times if
the fruits of the late strife have all been
harvested as yet. The working people
are in a frame of mind that is danger
ous, and nothing but such a revival of
business as will give them all enough
to do at good pay will keep them out of
the political field as a united body or
prevent them from support
ing, morally or Dhysically
their comrades in any branch of labor
who may be the first to renew actively
the war with capital. And in saying
this I do not mean to include among
them the ruffians and rabble of the
town, who are always ready for a row.
At a distance it may seem absurd that
the Maryland militia are still kept in
camp around Baltimore or under arms
at the armories, but the authorities un
derstand perfectly the situation which
is herein described and feel that it would
not be safe to dismiss the soldiers.
JOURNALIeM IN R:.MSIA.
The censorship of the press has been
relaxed in Russia. Forbidden newspa
pers have reappeared, war correspond
ents have been dispatched to the field,
and the first afternoon newspaper ever
issued in the empire appeared about
three weeks ago. The G;olod has six
correspondents in Bulgaria and Arme
nia, and the Itoo/,:i Mlir almost as many.
A new daily journal devoted to the in
terests of PIan Slavism is to appear in
Moscow. For the benefit of the lower
orders of society, who cannot afford to
pay three pence for the news, the gov
ernment issues cheap, broad sheets, con
taining the official bulletins. The Lon
don Globe asserts that the flow of in
formatlorf in these government sheets
is not continuous, and that such un
pleasant epitodes as the battle of
Zevin, the repulse at Kars, or the fight
of Turgukassoff, are carefully kept out
of sight, and it is doubtful whether
their existence is at all known except in
official circles. There seems, however,
to be a genuine desire on the part of
the government to seek the support of
the public and to relax its restrictions
upon the expression of popular opinion.
THE IIEPUHIACIAN CANI3IIII t'rE I'OR
(:OVv ERNOR OF OIUnl.
William Hi'nry West was born Feb
rotary 'J, 1821, in Washington county,
',t., an' n ,ri grated to Ohio, Knox
couinty, in 1i:to, graduateid In. 1II at
JeffeorsHon colligo, L'ennHylvanila, went
thtenlo+ to Ixrxington, Ky., with liev.
It'obrt .1. 1irckilnridgo, taking bhatrgs
of the srlet. l ,oh1 l of that city. Ito re
turmedl to J Ilrson (Jollege in I51 s, and
was tutor otn, year in the colleg; was
the, n e teltted l,rofrnsor ill Il itinlpdn
HNl nrey Coliege', Virginia, wherr he
remained ont year, whllh he
resigned and returned to Ohio
and began to study law in 1850, Ran
was admitted to the bar in 1851. He was
elected prosecuting attorney of Logan
county in 1852, and was elected to the
State Legislature for that county in
1857, and again in 1861. He was elected
to the Ohio Senate in 1863, and was
elected Attorney General of Ohio in
1865, and again in 18677; was elected as
one of the judges of the Supreme Court
in 1871, resigned 1873, and was chosen a
delegate to the Constitutional Con
vention since which time he has been
engaged in the active practice of his
profession in Logan county.
THE LEGISLATURE OF KENTUCKY.
In the last Legislature of Kentucky
the Republicans had six members
the Senate and eleven of the F
the Legislature elected las
they will have one member of
ate and eleven or twelve of tl, '
The Workingmen, Gpanger ,.
backers and Independents will togethke..
have something like t baker's dozen.
Out of one hundred and thirty-eight
members composing the two houses
more than one hundred are straight
Democrats.
Palais RoyaL
Amoog the many changes to take place soon
on the grand boulevard Roise will be more strik
ing and more indicative of the good time to come
than the swaying to the hveeze the banners of the
grand "Palais Royal." 'Our enterprising friend.
Levy, who has for so malv years been the popi
lar proprietor of the doJlar store, No. 137 Canal
street, seems to have had his faith shaken in re
pubhcan 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 openui'g of this elegant and gor
geous establisment' and nothing will be spared
in making it the *tost attractive place in the
I+uthern country. Loev's dollar store is known
throughout the wbole South, and as it has been
known for its protnmtnees in filling orders and
the po its atcentitin if the clerks, and the place to
get everything, +o wi I1 the I'alai B,yal grow
intýo popular favor, for we will see n the large
and giled sig, * that are to adorn the building
evTlences of a new era, a prosperity which we
have I uged for but evel espe ed natil the
present time. j