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THE NEW ORLEANS DAILY DEMOCRAT.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
VOL. II---NO. 233. NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1877. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
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DOIESTIC NEWS.
A Gang of Forgers.
[Special to the Democrat.]
CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-A man named Stevens,
alias Henderson, a man of wealth and respect
ability, known here as a speculator in grain
and stocks, was arrested yesterday near
Oand Haven as the leader of a gang of
forgers, who have been operating with sue
cers throughout the country, having, it is es
timated, swindled various banks out of mil
lions of dollars. Among his accomplices, also
under arrest, are Nelson A. Gesner, a wealthy
man of Minnesota, and formerly member of
the Legislature of that State, and one E. B.
Weston, of this city, formerly a real estate
agent.
The Prelident's Tour.
[Special to the Democrat.]
WINDeOR, Vt., Aug. 20.-The President and
party left at 8:30 a. m. for the White Moun
tains. From Plymouth the party will go to
Concord on Thursday morning on a special
train, reaching there about noon the same
day, where a levee will be given in honor of
the President at the Opera House. The Pres
ident will be in Washington on Saturday
evening.
Tod Mannaeks Eager to Fight the Nez
Perees.
(Special to the Democrat.]
FORT HAiLr AoGEcY, Idaho, Aug. 20.
Capt. Bainbridge, with a company of scouts
enlisted from the Bannocks and Shoshones,
left here yesterday to look after the hostiles
camped at the Hole-in-the-Bock, about ninety
miles north of here. According to accounts re
ceived yesterday, the hostiles had possession
of the station and would allow no one to pass
either way. They told those who made an at
tempt to pass to turn back, and they would
not be molested.
The telegraph line leyiown and strung in
different directions.
All the young Bannocks and Shoshones at
this agency who could raise guns left this
matning to fight the hostiles.
The aaratoga Races.
(Special to the Democrat.]
SARATOGA, Aug. 20.-The first race for the
of $800 for maiden three-year olds,
uarters of a mile, was won by Eugene
,.. Robinson in 1:19.
The Second race, purse of $300, one mile,
was won by Madge. Time, 1:45/.
b The third race for a purse of $850, one mile
and a quarter, was won by Bombast in 2:15y,.
The last race for a purse of $350, one mile
and five furlongs, was won by Rappahan
nook in 2:56.
Elmbezlehena of Goverament Fands.
(Special to the Demoorat.j
RIORxoND, Aug. 20.--Deputy Collector
Charles B. Vaden, charged with embezale
meat of government funds, has been held in
$6000 baulI He states that he lest the money
gambling.
New EgWland Aneestra'
WAfLHIM'oN, Aug. 20.-A succession of
pleasant incidents continue in the New Eng
land proress. The entire Executive party,
except iey, seem to have had maternal or
ns source, and perhaps both, in Yankee
When President Hryes claimed that he was
the "get," some three generations removed.
of a Puritan blacksmith, it is reported that
the band played the "Anvil Chorus," from
"II Trovatore."
Probable Ditrlect Attorney for Alabama.
WAsBrHmtr N, Aug. 20.-Parsons is the pro
able District Attorney for Alabama.
A Mextean Revolution Prevented.
SAN FRAN.csco, Aug. 20.-Guayamas ad
0e of the 10th, report that Gen. Huerta has
ized the late election as valid, and
I as constitutional Governor. This
w"'ill prevent revolution.
WAR NOTES.
A Fight With Mukhtar Pasha.
[Special to the Democrat.]
LONDON, Aug. 20.-On Saturday the Rus
aians, numbering 35,000 infantry, ten regi
ments of cavalry and 110 guns, attacked
Mukhtar Pasha along the line extending from
Magarajikh to Yokinlar. The fight com
-menced at 7 o'clock a. m., and at 6 o'clock p.
m. the Russians retreated in good order to
their encampment, pursued by the Turks.
th-e Ddelsive Battle of the War soon to
be Fought.
[8Sieclal to the Democrat.]
LONDON, Aug. 20.-It is calculated that
1~0,000 men are now actually on mareh to re
Inforce the Russian army, and that the next
battle about Plevna is meant to be decisive;
hence the delay for the sake of insuring suc
_ess.
Servia and Russia.
[Special to the Democrat.I
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 20.-The Servian
diplomatic agent here denies that troops have
been sent to the frontier, and that Servia has
kresolved to participate in the war, and declares
-'that Servia has no knowledge of any intention
k* the part of Russia to send an army through
tIrvia I
Greece's War Preparations.
[8pecial to the Democrat.]
LONDON, Aug. 20.-A telegram from Athens
states that the Ministry have ordered the
speedy fortification of the chief ports so as to
Save them completed by the last of October.
Similar orders have been issued respecting
the preparation of men-of-war. Still no
body in Athens believes in the immediate
outbreak of war.
,er-anay Appeals to the Geneva Conven
tion.
[Secial to the Democrat.]
BERLIN, Aug. 20.-Germany's representa
tions to the Porte in reference to the atroci
ties committed by the Turkish troops are
hied on the Geneva Convention, which, to
te German view, not only binds belligerents
to observe its provisions toward each other,
but gives to a neutral the right to insist on
A- faithful observance.
A Cavalry Expelitlon of the Russians.
[Special to the Democrat.]
.ONDON, Aug. 20.-The News' correspond
Iat Stadeni, the headquarters of the Grand
-e Nicholas, referring to the dispatch of
IePourth Cavalry Division on an independ
Sexpedtion for the purpose of stopping the 1
GLL -
Turkish communication with Sophia by block
ading Ochodik Pass, telegraphs as follows:
It is felt here that this should have been done
earlier, but if successful now it will still have
a good result. In the event of a Turkish
defeat at Plevna it would go far toward
making it another Sedan. The expedition is
obviously hazardous.
The Turks Taking the Offensive.
[Special to the Democrat.1
LONDoN, August 20.-The News' corre
spondent says that the activity of the Turks
at Plevna in sending out cavalry reconnois
sances seems as though they had some inten
tion of taking the offensive. The weather is
now fine again and the roads are rapidly
changing from mud to dust.
The Turks AdvaneIng.
[Special to the Democrat.l
VIF.NNA, Aug. 20.-A (Galatz telegram re
ports that 7000 Turkish or Egyptian troops,
have disembarked at Sulina and are march
ing to Taltzscha, which is weakly garrisoned.
The Turks from Silistria are reported march
ing against Tchernavoda, and the Russians
hurrying to Ismail, where reinforcements are
expected.
The Montenegrins Before Niesles.
(Special to the Democrat.]
LONDON, Aug. 20.-Advices from Sara and
Cettinge state that yesterday the Montene
grins carried the last outwork of Nicsles and
are pushing through the town toward the for
tress. Strong Turkish reinforcements, estl
mated at ten thousand, mostly irregulars,
are hastening to relieve the besieged town.
Five thousand Montenegrins have started In
the direction of Restae to oppose the Turkish
ddvances.
Sulelman Pasha and Mehemet All Join
Forces.
LONDON, Aug. 20.-The Times' dispatch,
dated Shumla, August 18, says: The junc
tion of Suleiman Pasha with Mehemet All
may be regarded as beyond doubt.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Crops in Indla.
[Special to the Democrat.]
LONDON, Aug. 20.-The Calcutta corres
pondent of the Times telegraphs that the
prospects for autumn crops in Southern India
may be regarded as hopeless. The most crit
ical condition of affairs is in Western, Central
and Northern India. Crops are fairly good
in Eastern India.
Peace in Darfur.
[Special to the Democrat.]
ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 20.rThe reported sup
pression of the insurrection in Darfur by
Col. Gordon, without bloodshed, is confirmed
from Maseowah. Col. Gordon is expected at
Sennalt soon to negotiate peace with Abys
Inia. The king has sent an amicable letter,
consenting to an interview.
A Panic at Corea.
[Special to the Democrat.]
LONDON, Aug. 20.-A dispatch from Corea
reports a panic there. Two Turks having
been murdered, their compatriots have armed
themselves and demand revenge. The situa
tion is considered critical.
The German Cabinet on Russian Outrages.
[Special to the Democrat.]
BERLIN, Aug. 20.-The North German Ga
sette confirms the report that the representa
tions by the Turkish Ambassador of alleged
Russian outrages have met with unfavorable
reception from the German Cabinet.
Death of a Doctor.
s [Special to the Democrat.]
PARIs, Aug. 20.-Dr. Henri Conneau, phy
sician to the late Emperor Napoleon, is dead.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
[Special to the Democrat.]
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Gold 105. U. S. 6's
of 1881, 111%; do coupons 112%.~112%; new
S4%'s coupons 108%; do 1865, new issue, no70 ;
do 1867, 1099@109%; do 1868 coupons, 111.i 1
112; 10-40's, 109%@109%; do coupons, 112$(,<
1 113; currency 6's, 124%@125'%; new 5's, 109,
LONDON, Aug. 10.-Consols for money
95 5-16; U. S. new 4%s 105%; do 1867, 1067~
10-40's, 108%; new 5's 107%; /Erie 11:
DOMESTIC MDARKETS.
[Special to the Democrat.]
ST. Louis, Aug. 20.-Flour very dull. Wheat
lower; No. 2 red, $1 20 bid cash; No. 3 do,
$1 14 cash, $1 13 for August, $1 04'1 05,% for
September. Corn lower at 381V@38s% for cash,
t 39f/@39. for September. Oats quiet, 25:1/
cas and October. Whisky firm at $1 009. Pork
lower, $12 asked, $11 50 bid cash and August.
Bulk meats, no sales. Bacon lower, 535 K@7 %.
Lard nominal.
CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-Corn steady, 411/@41/
September, 41%@41% October. W*heat O92,
September 92% August. Dry salt meats,
boxed, quiet and easier; shoulders 545%1,
short ribs 6%, short clear 6%, long clear and
short clear 6%@6%, long clear 6%. Pork
steady, $12 20 September or October, $11 75
seller year. Lard steady and quiet, 8.7:% Sep
tember, 8.12% October, 7.5 seller year.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 20.-Flour quiet. Wheat
lower to sell; white $1 20@1 30. Corn steady,
S48(@50. Oats firm, 25@31. Whisky firm, $1 09.
Pork nominal. Lard in fair demand, 8% bid.
Bulk meats steady, 4.80@6%. Bacon steady.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Cotton easy; Uplands
11 7-16, Orleans 11 9-16, sales 5791 bales.
Futures easy; August 11.40@11.45, Septem
ber 11.19tC11.21, October 10.78@10.81, Novem
ber 10.68(j10.72, December 10,70@10.75.
Flour dull, buyers' favor; wheat, spot quiet
and unchanged. Futures firmer; corn 1@2c
lower; pork dull, $13 25@$13 30; lard heavy,
steam 8.60@8.65: spirits turpentine firm, 34 %;
rosin firm, $1 85~i$1 921 for strained; freigihts
FOREIGN MARKETS.
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LIVERPOOL, Aug. 20.-Uplands, Low Mid
dling clause, August delivery, 5 31-32d; prime
mess beef 95s@--; American lard 43s 6d;
prime mess pork 52s; short clear middles 37s;
Sales of American 4300; Uplands, Low Mid
dlng clause, September and October delivery,
5 31-32d.
MARINE.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Arrived: Alps, Som
erset, Wisconsin. Arrived out: Gregario,
Yna. Homeward: Francis Herbert, for
Hampton Roads; Ranger, for Tybee; Octa
via, for New Orleans.
RIVER NEWS.
[Special to the Democrat.] t
MMaPms, Aug. 20.-Departed: Julia and
Alice, for New Orleans.
HARD TIMES IN THE NORTH.
THE GENERAL BANKRUPTCY OF
NORTHERN MERCHANrF AND
CORPORATIONS.
The South Appealed to to Aid Them In
Tlding Over These Dfficeultles-The
Impossibllity of Dolng This.
[Special Oorrespondenoe N. O. Democrat. ]
NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 1877.
Some time ago, in a letter devoted to a re
view of the hard times prevailing all over the
North, I asserted that several of the staunch
est insurance companies were amending their
securities and reorganizing their systems of
investment. This assertion, with others in
the same letter, was roughly handled by sev
eral Northern newspapers, which charged me
with feeding the reading public of the South
upon sensational trash, and with a design to
appeal to sectional animosity by traducing
the Northern community. In reply to all
these critics I would respectfully offer the fol
lowing, which I clip from the New York Times
of to-day:
THE CHARTER OAK LIFE INSURANCE COMPAPANY.
[Special Dispatch to the New York Times.]
HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 15.-The Charter
Oak Life Insurance Company, finding that
its current income is not sufficient to meet
maturing death claims and endowment and
other payments falling due, has begun bor
rowing on its Western mortgages. It has
just negotiated a loan of $100,00o with the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company,
on mortgages on property located in Cincin
nati, St. Louis, Toledo and Chicago. The Con
necticut Mutual officers have had all the real
estate covered by these mortgages examined
and reappraised, and will loan not to exceed
50 per cent-of the appraisal, and not exceed
ing 75 per cent of the amount of notes secured
by the mortgages. As the negotiable se
curities owned y the company are all hy
pothecated, and its building in Hartford is
mortgaged for $200,000 to the .Etna Life Com
pany, the only resource left is to raise money
on its mortgages. But it is hoped that thfs
necessity will not long continue, and there is
an expectation on the part of the managers of
the company that it will not. It would de
stroy all hopes of successful recuperation in
the interest of policy-holders, as insurance
men here look at it, should there be a long
continuance in the disturbance of invested
assets.
This is simply a case which has passed be
yond the power of the Northern press to con
ceal, and so we discover the facts. But you
must know that
THE SYSTEMATIO POLICY OF THE NORTHERN
PRESS
is to conceal or ignore the true state of affairs
in the hope of averting a panic. I must be
permitted to say that this policy is as per
nicious as has been the financial and commer
cial practices that have, for years past, been
leading to the present condition of things. If
the situation here were merely the result of a
temporary stagnation, or if it there was any
rational ground for hope that it could be
"tided over," the policy of whistlihg to keep
the courage up would not be reprehensible
But there is no ground for any such hope and
my philosophy has always taught me to face
the worst first and have done with it. There
fore I shall continue to exhaust my
facilities for advising the Southern
people of the true state of affairs
in the North, and shall counsel them to steer
altogether clear of investing any money or
risking any interests in any Northern Institu
tions whatsoever until the existing condition
of things shall have been rectified.
Say what may be said about the wrongful
ness of purveying to sectionalism, the fact
stands and always will stand so long as cli
mate affects the temperaments and charac
ters of men, that the North and the South
are divided upon lines of business method,
social custom and industrial habit; whereby
are produced distinctions and diversities, if
not antagonisms of interest, which at best
can only be mitigated by political unity and
which are often aggravated by circumstances
arising from that fact. Discussing this sub
ject a day or two ago with an eminent finan
cier, I was told that the two great sections
should be mutually helpful to each other; my
friend admitted the diversity of interests
which I claimed to exist, but he said that they
were local interests and subordinate to those
of the nation at large, which regulated all
local interests.
So, said I, you would have Southern men
go on insuring in Northern companies and
sending their produce to Northern commis
sion houses, would you, when you know that
there is no telling what day the insurance
companies may go into liquidation and the
commission houses into bankruptcy, carrying
with them the policies and balances of their
Southern patrons ? e
Certainly, he replied; do not try to stop the
wheels of business. Large consignments of
cotton, sugar and rice may save many a com
mission house that wvould otherwise go un
der, and active business in the South this fall
may rescue many an insurance company,
which the stagnation in business and the col
lapse of securities in the North might other
wise force into liquidation.
I rejoined that this would be sound reason
ing but for the all-important fact that
THE BANKRUPTC( OF THE NORTH
was past all help; that it proceeded from rad
ical causes, and hence was incurable by super
ficial remedies; that it was the natural and
inevitable result of spending ten dollars for
every eight earned or produced; that there
was no way out of the present situation ex
cept through the general bankrupt law, and
that sooner or later the whole Northern com
munity must go into bankruptcy, settle up its
debts at ten, twenty-five or fifty cents on the
dollar, as the case might be, wipe out the old
accounts, abandon the old scale of doing busi
ness and of living, take a new start, practice
economy, be virtuous, and thus ultimately be
happy. Holding to these as fixed opinions,
founded upon the calmest and most dispas
sionate observation, I assured my friend that
I should strenuously advise the Southern
people to deal with the North strictly for
cash and to
ESCHEW ALL NORTHERN CREDITS AND SECURI
TIES;
in short, to withdraw all confidence in the
North and let the great bubble blown up in
this section by the war and its attendant cir
cumstances collapse as soon as it would-and
the sooner the better. I assured my friend
also that I enjoyed perhaps the best facilities I
now possessed by any Northern writer for i
reaching the Southern people, and that I
should use them to the utmost.
I deem it the strict duty of every Southern
editor to advise his readers of the hollowness
and rottenness of all the financial and com
mercial institutions of the North; that they
may not be led to embark any of the effects
they have saved from the rapine of carpet
baggery or any of the profits that may accrue
from their lately liberated industries, in the
sinking fortunes of the North; which inflated
itself to bursting in the madness of exulting
conquest whereof they were the victims.
I can go to-morrow and buy the first mort
gage bonds of a railroad, which is the short
est line from New York city to the great
lakes, for thirty-five cents on the dollar !
Within two weeks I have seen
IMPROVED REAL ESTATE
which four years ago cost $60,000, sold for
$1%c.00-aand when I say "cost $80,000" I mean
that that was the price of the bricks and
mortar and the labor that joined them in an
edifice; I leave the ground and its real or
supposed value out of the question utterly.
I could fill this page of the DEMOCRAT with
an abstract of mortgages which could not be
realized upon to-day for sixty per cent of
their face, and which were taken within the
last six years at seventy-five per cent of the
ratable value of the property, without going
off Broadway in this city; and you know that
real estate fluctuates less upon Broadway
than on any other thoroughfare in the United
States!
Within two weeks I have seen a first mort
gage of $80,000 on Dearborn street property
in Chicago, refused as colatteral security for
a loan of $22,000 and subseqnently sold for
$20,000 cash!
Something like five years ago a friend of
mine invested $40,000 in an elegant residence
in one of the interior towns of this State. He
laid out $25,000 in embellishing it and improv
ing his grounds. Two years ago he mort
gaged it for $15,000 to "tide over" a rough deal
in his business. Last year he put a second
mortgage for $6000 on it, to "tide" a little
further. And week before last the sheriff
fihished up the "tiding" process by knocking
the property down to the holder of the first
mortgage for its face. I asked the holder of
the second mortgage why he did not bid it in
and save his $6000. His reply was to the
point: "I'd rather lose $6000 than $10,000 !" he
said. To got the property he would have had
to pay the face of the first mortgage in cash,
which would have made the preperty cost him
$21,000. But he assured me that it was not
actuallyworth, at ruling-prices, above $10,000
or $11,000, because it "belonged to
A CLASS OF PROPERTY ALREADY TOO PLENTY
FOR TEE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY."
That is to say, elegant residences which no
one is able to buy, and which cannot be rent
ed at suitable rates to proper persons. I
might add that my friend's bankruptcy was
superinduced by over confidence in his fellow
men, and hastened by the refusal of his
family, or, rather, the "young lady" portion
thereof, to make their style of living conform
to their rapidly declining fortunes after the
panic of '78. I saw one of the girls the day
of the sale. She was chiefly grieved because
she had been suddenly called home from New
port, where she "was just having the most
splendid time of the season !"
Crusty old bachelors like myself, or my
valued friend the head of the proprietorship
of the DEMOCRAT, might observe that a com
munity which breeds a race of women where
of the "above girl" is a fair sample, does not
deserve any better luck.
It is not pleasant to write these things, but
they are solemn facts. and I think the readers
of the DEMOCRAT are entitled to full knowl
edge of them. I shall be satisfied, and rest
in the serene consciousness of duty performed,
if what I have written shall be the means of
causing one Southern man to halt and desist
from any contemplated involvement of him
self and his possessions in any hollow insti
tution of Northern trade or finance.
I notice that the Northern newspapers,
commenting on the situation, lay stress on
THE STIFFNESS OF GOVERNMENT BONDS,
even at the low rates of interest current in
the new series; instancing that fact as an in
dication that the times are not so bad as they
seem to be! Great God! is such talk the gib
bering of idiots, or is it the device of knaves
to conceal facts and delude the public? I sus
pect it is the latter; for surely no such idiot
could be at the head of a newspaper as a man
unable to comprehend that the inquiry for
government bonds at four per cent is due to
the fact that there is
NO OTHER SECURITY REALLY SAFE TO TOUCH
at any price or any rate of interest. Let us
look at the facts: The Treasury officials re
port a demand for these bonds in small quan
titles vastly beyond their wildest expecta
tations. Well, upon examination I find that
the bulk of this demand is by executors, trus
tees of funds, guardians, etc., etc., who are
under bonds for the proper management of
express trusts. If anything on the face of
the earth is "a security," strictly speaking,
it is a United States bond; so that the unex
ampled call for them at any rate of interest,
so far from being an indication that the times
are not as bad as they seem, is a most appall
ing symptom of times that are harder than
the superficial observer can comprehend.
I have a particular object in view in im
pressing these facts upon the Southern mind.
I have observed that, despite the ravages of
the war and the subsequent depredations of
the carpet-bag and nigger regime, now hap
pily extinct, root and branch, there is yet
A GOOD DEAL OF WEALTH IN THE SOUTH.
It is not piled up in heaps as at the North,
but is distributed in small parcelsover a large
area and among a great many individuals.
It is the result, not of lucky speculation, but
of earnest application and close economy
during a period of rapine, fraud and oppres
sion that would have maddened or disheart
ened any people less elastic, good natured and
hopeful than the Southern peopie. As such it
has a double value, because it may be called I
the wages of great tribulation. Lately the
hopes and aspirations of the Southern people
have been astonishingly promoted by politi
al occurrences in their favor, and I know
them too well not to realize that their prover
ial generosity and confidence in the honor
)f others has been quickened by what they
nostly regard as an act of "magnanimity" or i
dindness on the part of the North. They are t
apt, therefore, to listen to the appeals to their I
[ generosity that will undoubtedly be made
from the North for the support of Northern
enterprises and investment in Northern un
dertakings. Let the people of the South be.
ware of all of these as wholly bankrupt; they
will only sink what little money they possess
Sin them. Let the South steer clear of the
general bankruptcy threatening the North.
A. C. B.
A BUREAU OF INDURTRY.
The Bureau Created by the Last Ohio
Legislature.
[Cincinnati Commercial.]
COLUMBUS, Aug. 13.-The Cleveland
Convention resolved that "We recom
mend, first, that Congress establish a
National Bureau of Industry."
The project "recommended" is not
novel. It has been a favorite for some
years with organizations formed for the
discussion of what is known as "the la
bor problem." Not only this, but the
project has been adopted by several
States as a part of their local system of
gathering and disseminating statisti
cal information. Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania have each a "Bureau of
Industry," and a recent report from the
Pennsylvania office is before me. It is
a heavy volume of over a thousand
pages, consisting in great part of st'atis
tics of various industries in Ithe com
monwealth-not so well digested and
not so systematically arranged as the
census reports issued by the national
government. It is also lacking in that
feature which gives the chief value to
statistics--comparison.
The "labor reformers" in Ohio had a
Representrtive in the last Legislature in
the person of Mr. John Fehrenbatch, of
Cleveland. Mr. Fehrenbatch introduced
a bill to create a bureau of labor, with
headquarters in the State-House, and it
was passed and on the very last night
of the session became a law. Mr. Stan
ley Matthews, the author of the resolu
tion adopted by the Republican State
Convention, might, if he had thought of
it, have "pointed proudly to the fact"
in the platform style of literature-that
a Republican Legislature in this State
had listened to the cry of labor reform
ers, and given them a bureau-a con
venient piece of furniture wherein to
file all their grievances for the paternal
eye of the State government, so to speak.
When the Bureau Bill passed the ap
propriation bills were already through,
and so no one noticed that no appropri
ation had been made for the salary of a
laborer in the bureau. Gov. Young
took counsel of the friends of the meas
ure, and sent into the Senate the ap
pointment of Mr. H. J. Walls, of Cin
cinnati, as commissioner, and the ap
pointment was unanimously confirmed.
Pending the question of advising and
consenting to the appointment, Senator
Ransom gave Mr. Walls a flattering in
dorsement to the Senate, saying that
the latter was in no sense a politician,
not always voting the same ticket, but
a student of the questions involved in
various departments of labor, and one
who, as editor of a journal devoted to
the discussion of such questions, had
achieved something already in the di
rection to which his proposed official
work pointed.
Your correspondent interviewed Mr.
- Walls recently, at his office in the State
t House, for the purpose of ascertaining
what he thought of the labor plank in
the Republican platform, and also what
progress the Ohio commissioner was
making.
"I regard the proposed bureau in
- Washington," said Mr. Watts, "not as
t some of the papers seem to think we
look upon it-not as a means by which
the government shall take charge of any
of the industries of the country and run
them or anything of that sort. Its value
will be to labor that of an indicator
just as the weather indications are of
value."
r "How is it to help the laborer thus?"
"It will disseminate information as to
what places are crowded already with
laborers in any department; it will show
at what centres the markets of labor are
glutted; it will tend to bring about an
equalization of the distribution of la
borers, and will prevent this rush upon
particular labor centres which causes
so much trouble."
"Have you collected any facts yet
that are of interest for publication?"
"We have not been at work long
enough for that. A large number of
blanks have been sent out, and we are
sending them out now for the purpose
of collecting statistics."
"When you get them I don't see how
you can expect to reach the majority of
the people. This Pennsylvania volume,
for instance-the State will hardly go
into the printing business to the extent
of circulating such a volume as this to
"That isn't needed. The greatest ad
vantage will come through the circula
tion of facts gathered here by the pub
lic press. The facts alone are less im
portant than the comparison of facts
which an intelligent officer may em
body in his reports."
As showing the scope cf the work un
dertaken in his office, Mr. Walls hand
ed us copies of four circulars which he
sends out to the various centres of in
dustrial occupation. The first of these
is a general blank for employers. It
contains thirty-four questions, covering
the name of the firm or company, loca
tion, article manufactured, number em
ployed and classidcation of employes;
number of weeks establishment was run
full time or half time; number run in
1872, reduction of wages during the year
1872, etc.
HOW TO GET THE TEXAS CATTLE
TRADE.
[Shreveport Times.]
Capt. Jas. E. Phelps, who has been
traveling in Texas for some time past in
the interest of the Red River Transpor
tation Company. returned home from t
San Antonio. The captain's health, we I
are pleased to state, has greatly im- I
proved within the last few months. 1
Capt. Phelps states that if the wash I
around the dam at Tone's bayou was
closed it would be worth over $125,000 to t
this place during the balanse of this
season, as the entire cattle trade of I
Western Texas and shipment of grain t
has been turned this way.
At the Theatre Francais, last month, t
the Duc de Broglie had to draw back in C
his box to avoid the hostile demonstra
tions of the pit as soon as he showed t
himself. v
COLONIZATION FOR WORaINQEIIrN.
[Missouri Bepaublian.]
Twenty-five workingmen in Balti
more have organized themselves into
an association for the purpose of re
moving to Kansas and settling in that
State as a colony. They are generally
mechanics and railroad men, the leader
being a plasterer, who was raised on a
farm and supposed, therefore, to know
something about what the colonists
will need in their new home. All have
families except one. They propose to
settle near Kingsley station in Ed
wards county, Kansas., on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail
road, where they will buy land
enough for a small farm for each
family. Some of the party are ex
soldiers and entitled to 100 acres of
land; the others will be content with
small tracts of ten, twenty or forty
acres until they are able to buy more.
In explanation of their enterprise they
say there are too mary workingmen in
the cities to make a living on the limit
ed amount of work which the depressed
industries afford, and it is clearly im
possible for.the city authorities to pro
vide employment for the increasing
number of idle persons claiming assist
ance. They, therefore, propose to leave
the city and go where they can earn
their own bread by tilling the soil.
Here is an example that ought to
have ten thousand imitations. In every
city in the Union where trade work is
scarce the unemployed workingmen
ought to organize themselves into
colonies by kinsmen or acqliantances
and seek the soil as the source of a
living. As a rule they would migrate to
the West, but this is not necessary;
there are cheap and desirable lands in
Virginia and North Carolina, Louisiana
Arkansas and other S outhern States, and
there are good lands in Southeastern
and Southwestern Missouri which might
be preferable to the government lands
in the remote West, since these States
are more accessible than Kansas Ne
braska or Colorado and possess advan
tages in the shape of schools, churches
and markets that the distant states do
not.
There is little prospect of any im
provement of trade and industry that
will give employment to the thousands
of idle persons thronging the cities.
The depression has lasted three years
and will last probably as much longer,
and even when a restoration of business
comes it will be marked by low wages.
It is not advisable, therefore, for idle
workingmen to wait for better times
far better for those who possess a little
means to organize communities in
imitation of the Baltimore example and
seek a livelihood in the cultivation of
the soil. It will seeure them an humble
independence, plase them beyond the
imagined necessity and undeniable
hardship of strikes and rescue their
children from the poverty which is the
lot of lpboring men s children in cities
in times like the present.
The following, from the Pittsburg
Commercial and Gazette, will doubtless
be read with considerable zest by those
who indulge in coal here:
OThe mans e of Capt. B. D. Wood, of New
Orleans, to~s Emma Phillips, of this city,
t took place last evening at the residence of
Sthe bride's brother-in-law, Mr. W. R. Boggs
in Allegheny. The ceremony was performed
Iy Rev. L. H. Long, of Ohio, in the presence
o a large number of invited guests, cons!mt
Sing mainly of the immediate relatives of both
I families. The presents were numerous and
l elegant: Capt. John A. Wood, a silver tea
Sset; Capt. James O. Wood a complete set of
1 silver spoons and forks; dapt. James B. Enads,
fine set of pearl-handled knives; Mrs. Sam
uel L. Wood, a silver waiter set; Prof. D. D.
Wood, an elegant morocco-bound Bible. A
magnificent supper was provided, of which
the guests partook with a zest that indicated
due appreciation, and the occasion altogether
was most pleasant and agreeable, and will
long be remembered by those who were pres
ent.
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OHIO'S ANTI-HAIBa REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
Gen. Beatty In Receipt of Letters Extend.
ing Encouragement.
[N. Y. Tribune.]
CoLUMBUS, Aug. 15.-The Anti-Hayes
Republican Committee are in receipt of
a vast number of letters from nearly'
every county in the State commending
the movement begun here one week ago.
Several of the letters are from men here
tofore active workers in the Republican
ranks, who stood prominent in their
counties. Stanley Matthews seems to
be the most severely censured after
President Hayes. One correspondent
denounced Judge West as a Communist,
and asked if it is a crime for a man to
own a government bond. He added,
"Does the State of Ohio want a dreamer
for its Governor ?" Gen. Beatty is
enthusiastic over what he considers
the success of the revolt. He states
that he is informed by temperance peo
ple that the Prohibition ticket will re
ceive a larger vote this year than ever
before; that heretofore, where principle
was at stake, the party had cast their
vote nearly solid for the Republican can
didates, but now they have no reason
for doing so. The General is firm in the
conviction that at least twenty thousand
Republicans in Ohio will refuse to vote
the State ticket. He says the Republi
can party in this State is sadly demoral
ized; that never before in its history did
its candidatelfor Governor put himself
and party on the defensive from the
first by utterances which must be ex
plained and smoothed over. He says
also that while the workingmen's
movement may take some votes from
the Democracy, it will in no way help
the Republicans. Under J. G. Thomp
son the Democracy will make the cam
paign an aggressive one.
Passengers on the train last evening
the 13th inst., report the killing Sunday
night, in San Antonio, of C. J. Woodson,
formerly of Montgomery, by Sam Lum p
kin. Woodson killed a brother of
Lumpkin's in Chattanooga last March
and fled to this State, where he was
tracked by the murdered man's brother
with the above fatal result. Woodson,
it is said, has relatives living at Willis at
this time.-f-Houston Age.
Work was suspended at the Charles
town (Mass.) navy yard on Friday be
cause of the heat.
Buy yoar buggies and carriages from L T.
Haddx, 35 Carondelet street, near corner Gr
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