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...Y.. rnM o AT. Jswarl of the (I ty of NeWwig & OS.. lOS Orv.*s 5tev.. ' OSS W. Dorm Z Co0, GamsO W. DIJ?33, A g~hJUU, IOHNS AvumFI. AL UTR 0. JAN13. BATED or BUBH~kLI'TIOZ(J oaSrD ro.e Pav ble In Advanne. nob Weekly Doeme.wa ?aryailoe tAkdvance. & KAME1Y ..........n'D'ia. UlAN. *fO@U 13.x is, IY. 30w feel authorized to state that Sherman has finally reached a eonolssion not to be a candidate he Senate when Stanley Matthews' eapires. It is also reliable that Garfield nor Matthews will take aotfre part in the contest. heard it stated yesterday that ex ollecotor Fulton, now under indict for defaloation, has expressed a to make a compromise with the Mr. Fulton, we think, will not be odated in this little matter. be to oter double the amount he Ellegg have stolen, or ten or twenty the amount, he could obtain no ptmie. He is charged with hay Hammitted a crime against the and we have no law that permits al to buy exemption from trial puaishment. Mr. Fulton, and all patriots against whom evidence ity can be found, must stand tials. If they prove that they are t they will be acquitted; but if ahall be proved to be guilty, they g0 to the Penitentiary, and there "ot be money enough in Louisiana ytheir exemption from infamy and ment. Chinese emigration to this coun virtually ended. The last three the show a considerable loss of population to California. This a, together with the loss from death rate, must very soon clear ia of the detested Celestials. hoodlums are victorious and peace *der restored. Oalifornia papers seem highly de over this victory, but the East regard it as a serious toss to to and the Union. By it Call. loses a large amount of cheap ,itdepopulatee the big farms of the iDotquin Valley that must now cer revert to their original condition aert for want of cultivators, and it back a hundred thousand per Chinamen to the Flowery King. to report the outrages they suffered in America. The return Chinamen, who have actually driven out of the country by per. n, must increase the great preju iready existing against America in injure American commerce with country and throw it entirely in the of the English merchants, who ;laving no stones unturned to gain The only persons in any way bene. by the victory are the hoodlums, have got rid of this competitive labor. It is extremely doubtful, ver, whether this or anything else persuade them to go to work. Bias or some other fiction has the of a thief who kept in a note book report of all his thefts and bur to the smallest particulars. ruff, ex-clerk of the South Caro Legislature, has just such a book. In short hand and contains a full ltd history of South Carolina un. "Radical rule; on its testimony a or two of rogues are already in rin several hundred more are like meet a similar fate. Last Monday ex-Congressman Smalls was ar , charged with bribery and cor. Woodruff and his little book -ailed on for some evidence on the The ex-clerk turned over to the where he had recorded the little on ($5000) between himself and and commenced reading off his But, behold, among the names bought legislators he read off half a dozen who have not yet -adioted, arrested or even sue The chairman of the investi- I committee told him to stop 1 those other names were not just then, but would do very 1 gape other day; all they wanted theevidence against Smails. This given, and Smalls sent back to The other rogues will be attended 8 once, It Is evident from Wood. a book that the real work of inves. on in iSouth Carolina has only just fir Woodruff himself, he arises al fo *n equality with Tweed as the confessor of the day, and, like * he has al the documents on flow ropues necessary to send to the pt nitentiaiy. have no doutbt that when the ion of the Louisiana thieves is pte re I upon sae or the gang a up with a little book and t4s laiir to thou of Woodruff Con una and Tweed in New of the thleves will squeal the law isoi them, b. THE VAOANT OTA. It appears from an editorial article in the Picayune, of yesterday, that Judges Rogers, Tissot and Bightor, and Mr. E. Bermudes, as chairman of the examin tng committee of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, have recommended Mr. W. H. Hunt to the President for appoint. ment to the vacant seat on the United States Supreme Court bench. The very bungling manner in which our contem porary refers to Mr. Bermudez in this connection as an appointee of "Chief Justice Manning and his associates," Is calculated to convey the impression that the Chief Justice was in some indefin able way responsible for Mr. Bermu des's action or a party to it. Any such impression would do Judge Manning, we are sure, great injustice. In the first place Mr. Bermudes was not appointed chairman of the examining committee of the Supreme Court by "Chief Justice Manning and his associates;" he was the appointee of the late court. But even if Mr. Bermudes were the appointee of the present court neither the Chief Justice nor his associates could pos sibly have any responsibility for his ac tion in this matter. In the general criticism, passed by the Pieayune on the course of the pub lic functionaries who have in their offi cial characters recommended Mr. Hunt for this high office, we cordially con our. All of these gentlemen owe their positions to the Democratic party and they must know, as well as we do, that Mr. W. H. Hunt is not only not a representative of our people, but that he is more repugnant to them than any other man in the Republican party. He has pursued the same end that Pack ard, Kellogg, Wells and Anderson pur sued, and he gave to their wicked schemes what no other man of the party could give, the prestige of his high social position, his almost historic name and his very large abilities. He was indeed the Moloch, if not the Lucifer, of that Stygian council in which the Mammons, the Belials and the Beelzebubs of Radicalism debated and organized their war upon the best inter ests and most sacred rights of Louisi ana. fl.nº "1... ..Ls.ousel... 1.. M..* tr....4 l.. AU But the objection to Mr. Hunt is not only that he has been, or is now, a . Louisiana Radical. There are graver ee offenses resting upon his head, which f we wish our legal friends who recom is mended him had called to mind before m they gave him the high indorsement of ir their official signatures. There is now *. standing against the tax payers of ) Louisiana, as part of the funded debt, nearly a million dollars of console for . which the State of Louisiana never re c. ceived one cent of benefit. o These console represent the bonds j. which were unconstitutionally and p fraudulently issued to the North Loui ie ans and Texas Railroad Company. Part of these bonds were issued by Warmoth when he was in the wildest era of his it reign of corruption, plunder and de. r- bauchery. Toward the close of his Ad ministration he even refused to eisue the residue of the bonds. When Kellogg a entered upon his term, Ludeling and his associates demanded the balance of the r- plunder. Kellogg hesitated and asked . the opinion of Mr. Hunt, who was, at n the time, acting as Assistant Attorney h General, and Mr. Hunt advised him e that he was compelled under the law to o sign and deliver the bonds. n This is an imperfect history of the . transaction, but it gives a correct idea of its nature. Kellogg immediately oem ,e plied, and that debt stands against the 1, impoverished and plundered taxpayers e of Louisiana now. We dely any living man to show that the State ever derived one cent of benefit for the bonds Mr. e Hdnt stiffened up Kellogg's backbone k to sign and deliver, and we defy any living man to prove that the whole p. transaction from the appropriation to i- the final delivery of the bonds was not . a flagrant fraud. l1 We have no right and no desire to i- arraign Judges Rogers, Tissot and a Rightor and Mr. Bermudez for signing n Mr. Hunt's petition or recommendation, i- as private gentlemen; that is their y privilege, and neither we nor others have any right to question or criticise it; but we concur, with the Picayune, in k the opinion that they had no right e to give to his recommendation the e weight of their judicial signatures. e They owe their positions to the final d triumph of that spirit of reform, which e for nearly a decade had wrestled with B the iniquities, and with the bayo T nets which upheld the iniquities, t of the party of which Mr. Hunt was perhaps the ablest leader, and - they had no right to use the p influence of their positions to aid in t placing him, as a representative of Lou. V isiana and the South, in a position of I honor and trust far beyond his original s aspirations. , If the President should appoint Mr. i Hunt to the Supreme Bench, we do not hesitate to say, that he will go very far . toward exterminating what of the t kindly feeling for him in this State the appointments of Wells and Ander son has left. Indeed, he might realize something of the displeasure Mr. Hunt's appointment would create in Louisiana if he knew that even the I Picayune, which has never yet had the spirit or temper to denounce any one, = and which has been the warm eulogist even of the odious Billings, grows in dignant at the rumor of this appoint ment and actually verges upon a de nunclation of those of our judiciary who recommended it. Matils, the SouthOsarolisanegro Orn die wiht. ha i! .~s tai~ fr &a- a who ran the teamer Puanter out of Charleston and delivered her to the blookadinag squadron outside the bar. Well, he is about to be taken care of at the expense of the State, and who shall say then that "republics are ungrate lfatl." MATTHEWS AND SHERMAN. There has never been any very cordial or friendly feeling between the two Ad ministration chieftains in Ohio, Stanley r Matthews and John Sherman. What i then must be the state of the relations of these two conspirators and plotters of the Louisiana fraud. since the Water loo result of the-election in their State ? Matthews, who was actively engaged in the canvass, discovered at the very be ginning that the Louisiana fraud was I an awful handicap for even his vigorous frame, and that Sherman, to make it heavier, must go and afford to the world the palpable proof of the bargain and fraud by the installation of the Returning Board villains in the New Or leans Custom-House and in the control of the Federal patronage in this city. We can imagine Stanley in the sacred retirement of his closet, or perhaps whilst drowsily affecting to hearken to the somniflo tones of his preceptor, but with always a mental eye upon the can vass which involved so seriously his po litical fortunes, thus venting his wrath ful reflections upon this conduct of his co-conspirators: "I always thought John Sherman was an ass and had no loyalty to anybody but himself. Here, after seeing that he has no chanceq for the Senatorship, and after coming here and making a speech, which was enough to beat the party, he now appoints those miserable tools of ours in the Louisiana fraud, thereby confirming the bargain w, Ich has been charged against us and bringing ridi cule and contempt upon the civil serfvice reform idea. And this he does to beat me for the Senatorship and to gratify the spite, which has never died out of his bosom, as an old Whig against an ancient Democrat. Why, didn't he bilk Ander son and Wells, having got all that he needed out of themJ We can never work through this campaitgn under such a load of infamy as this. John Sher man and I are utterly extinguished po litical leaders by this accident. It is some consolation that, to reach me, he has had to plunge the knife through his own meagre body. After the elec tion in Ohio a photograph of John Sherman would sell like hot cakes, over the title of the Lize Pinketon of the Louisiana case. It would be the best pictorial embodiment of the natu ral product of the most stupendous political fraud ever consummated in this country." CONSPIRING TO ROB THE STATE, Senator Patterson, of South Carolina, has been indicted and a warrant and requisition have issued for his arrest, on the charge of conspiring with other carpet-bag offlcials to defraud the State and to bribe and corrupt legislators and other offlials. This case suggests not a few similar grounds upon which certain of our own carpet-bag ex-offifial might be held to a like liability un ler the criminal law. We have frequently in these columns propounded the liquiry, whether the notorious diversion of the public funds and defalcations of public officers, pro cured and counseled by higher officials, does not subject the latter to some criminal responsibility. When the de faulters are held to indictments, is not something to be done with the higher officers who were privy to, and coun selors, aiders and abettors of the offenses of these subordinate officials ? Are they not in like manner with Sena tor Patterson subject to the charge of conspiracy to rob and defraud the State ? Thus two of the tax collectors in this olty have been indicted, arrested and held to ball for large defalcations. One of them, probably both, aver that they were induced to divert and misapply the public funds by the late Governor. One of them declares that he was a merely nominal official, was absolutely con. trolled in all actions by the Governor and a special agent or friend of his, and that he never received or disbursed the moneys of the State paid into his office, and is not responsible for their disap pearance. There is much other evi dence extant to bring home to the higher officials of the State a criminal participation in the defaults and delin quencies of their indicted subordinates. In view of these facts there is a very natural inquiry, whether there is not.as much rigor and power in the law of Louisiana as in that of South COrolina to bring to justice those who have con spired to rob and defraud the State, and if there is, why may it not be put in ac tion as against a claimant to a seat in the United States Senate as well as against one who already holds a seat in that august hody? TRUE CONOILIATION. "Let us have r ciprocal reconcilia tion," says the Washington Nittonal Republican, and then it aesks that the charges against Patterson, Smalls and the other South Carolina R uiwal rogues and thieves be dismissed. Thts it asks, because Gov. Hampton req iested the President to have the nr.secutloa of "the Ellerton rioters" dismissed which, by-the-by, was not done. As those engig el in the Ellerton dif ficulty are murderers, in the eyes of the Republican. its pmoposition of "reeipro oat reoonolltatiou" is notb ng less thaa a propoei tiL to swap aurderer.' fur: &ýkhw. , - lia want qny system of reconcillation which inoludes the exemption of orlii nals, be they Democrats or Republi cans, from prosecution. It the Federal authorities believe that the so-called Ellerton rioters are guilty of murders, let them go on with the proseoution, as the State authorities of both South Car olina and Louisiana are bound to pro ceed with all their energy, ability and resources in the prosecution of the po litical thieves, forgers and perjurers, who are at last in the power of the law. In both States we have legitimate gov ernments and honest courts. We are willing that the charges of murder and flolence made against our fellow-oiti zene shall be tried before such courts; if the charges are true let the criminals be convicted and punished; if they ate false the accused will be acquitted, bnd this is all we desire. Our people never advocated or justi fied murder. But let the Returning Board, the defaulting tax collectors, and all other Radical officials, in both States, who are charged with perjury, theft, forgery and peculation be also put on trial, and if guilty, convicted and punished. Conciliation does not mean the com pounding of felonies. Its true mean ing is, the impartial and rigorous en forcement of the law and the aggressive and unrelenting prosecution of all crim inals. The officers who best perform this duty are the true and only con ciliators. A strange confession is that made by the Treasury Department in reference to the counterfeit $5 notes on the Tam aqua (Pa.) National Bank, that are now widely circulated throughout the coun try. The workmanship on the counter feit note is much better done than the Bureau of Engraving and Printing can possibly do, and the note much prettier and more perfect than those manufac tured by the government. This the treasury officials themselves readily ad mit, and declare that the counterfeit note can be easily told from the true one by its superiority and excellence. If Sherman could only be persuaded 'to suspend civil service reform for a day or two and put that counterfeiter at the head of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, it would prove of real benefit to the country. There isan unwisual, an unprecedented show of steamships now in our port. They have somewhat anticipated the receipts of the crop, but nevertheless are rapidly securing freight, and will have quick dispatch. Their places will be promptly filled by other steamers which are on their way to our port. At present the following steamers of the largest size are rapidly loading: The Muriel, Hannover, the Junlata, the City of Brussels, the Sumatra, the Oberon, the Memling, the Olive, the Carolina and the Chilian. Several of these ships have received already their loads of grain at the elevator, and oth ers await further receipts of produce which we are gratifttri to observe are rapidly increasing. They will not have to wait long. This is an unusual show log of steam marine for this season and is an encouraging proof of a revival of our commerce. DIED. STEVEN-On Thursday. 11th inst. at 1i a. m.. Neil r tevn, a native if Pei"i y, scotland. aged 75 years, a resident of this city for the last :Ao years. His friends and those of his Pon, Will Steven, and of his son-in-law, A. 8. Armstrong. are re speeifully invited to attend his funeral, which will take place from his into residence, No. 5o Louisa street, THIS DAY. Friday. at V. o'clock p. m. Paisley and Glasgow. Scotland, papers please copy. * SETTOON-At Springfield. Livisgston par ish. La., October 11. 1577. at 2 p. In., Alexander W. S ttoon, a native of Louisiana, aged 24 years. * D 4MERON-On Thursday, October 11, 1877, Walter Dameron, son of the lite James D, Dam eron and Larullia D. Palfrey, aged 2i years. The friends of the Dameron and Palfrey fam ilies are resteetfully invited t. a tend the fune ral. which will take pta a from his late resi dence, 226 Fourth street. between Prytania and St. Charles streets. THIS (Friday) MORNING. 12th inst.. at 11 o'clock. INVITATION - TO Navra's China Palace 19 CANAL STREET, TOURO BUILDING. My friends and customers, and those who are ab'ut starting housekeeping and old HOUSE KEEPERS who wish to replenish their house hold, are ri speetfutly invited to examine my NEW AND IMMENSE STOCK of, the latest styles of DECOR tTED FRENCH CHINA. FRENCh. ENGLISH AND GERMAN GLASS WARE. Majollea. Faience. Fl mish and Bohemian VASS, FLOWER POTS and JARDII=ERES. ST \TUETTE4 AND ORNAMENTS, TOILET AND CHAMBEtI SET?. BISQUE AND BRONZES. In designs and low prices I defy any compe tii on and will cheerfully take goods back which can be PUBIHASED (not offered) elsewhere cheaper. R. L1 WAYRA'S ecfstalene9,ýasersel et,_ JEWELRY AT AUCTION? I. C. LEVI, Auctioneer, 108............................C anal Street............................US WILL OFFEB, TWICE A WEEK, HIS LARGE AND ELEGANT STOCK OF JEWELRY AT AUCTION, And remainder of days will sell at Private Bale. as usual, from FIVE to TWEqNT1.1IT WAS CENT LESS than any other establishment which advertisee daily. Watches Repaired and Diamonds Reset Only by skillful workmen, at the lowest rates. ies" am I. 0. LEVI. lee Canal atggg. A. ERKENBRECHER'S OELEB&ATED WINCINNATI STARCf, ESTABLISHED 1842. F. A. BEHAN, Sole Agenf No. 2 TCIIOUPITOULAS STREET, NEW ORLEANS. REMOVED. SAWS......... 130 GRAVIER STREET............ SAWS. BRANCH, CROOKES & CO. SAW MANUFACTURERS. AGENTS FOR WESTERN OIL COMPANY. DEALERS IN SAW MILL, RAILWAY AND PLANTATION SUPPLI , LARGE STOCK OF CIRCULAR SAWS, UPRIGHT MILL AND GANG SAWS, CROSS CUT--. styles. LARD OIL, SIGNAL OIL, MACHINERY OIL. ENGINE OIL AND WEST VI). GINIA LUBRICATORS, BELTING. PACKING, FILES, EMERY WHEELS, ETU, SAWS.. Salesroom, 130 Gravler Street.. . .....SAWS. "03 iOm 2d0 GRAND OPENING -AT THE OLD RELIABLE STORE E. OFFNER, 174......Canal Street . 174 (OpDosite Varieties Theatre.) The ladies and all others Interested in the new' and heautiful are respectfully invited to call an see the NEW SHAPES AND TYLER. made expressly for me, which annot be found in any other store In the 5 uth. When you wish to purchase CHINA. CROCKERY, GLA&SWAR', CUTLERY, SILVER-PLATED WARE. TIN AND JAPANNED WARE, WOOD AND WILLOW WARE. COAL HODS, FIRE BETS, ETC.. ETC.. Make No Mistake in the Place, as I hove no connection with ANY OTHER bT, RE IN rH O CITY, I mention this, as many of my friedds have made their pur'hnses Nise. where, thinking that they were dealing wth me, P naote A.re 'aots. Come and sea for yourselves that I CAN AND DO Sell Goods Lower than Any Other House, and the reasons why are: 1. I SVLECT MY GOODS IN PERSON. 2. 1 BUY MY GOODS FOR CASH. a. MY RENT IS MUCH LOWER than it would be in a more central location. 4. MY GIODS ARE ALL PURCHASED DI RECT FROM THE MANUFACTUuEtS. 6. I BUY IN LARGE QUANTITIES. 6. I ADVERTISE AND PUSH MY BUSINESS making my sal s large, and, therefore, I am satisfied with a bM +LL PROFIT. Remember that there is ONLY ONE E. OFFNER, And that his store is at 174.......... Canal Street.... ....174 se3OIm Opeosito theVarieties Theatre, BLAt KMAN't COVUMEMCIAL COLLEGE. 181.......Corondelet street.......1i3 Open day and evening the entire year. Instruction private. Teims re(iucPd. stall for circular. J. W. BLACKMAN, Proprietor. se1s 1m indp WAiONtN CANE 0iK tt stOMK~ M3. Nv. mo ar .A., 18 and 26 Union and 1$ and 17 Perdido streets. sole Agent for the Celebrated "STUDVBA HER" WAGONS, CARTS and SPRING WORK of li kinds and sizes. Dealer in Philadelphia and Western Cane Wagons, Carts and Drays ; Timber Wheels; Wheelbarrows of all descriptions; Spokes, Fel loes. Hubs, Shafts. etc. Wheelwright material. Orders promptly filled. All work warranted. oci im__ ELKIN& CO., 168 ..............Canal street..............168 Are receiving new and elegant styles of AXMINSTER. VELVET. BRUSSELS. THREE-PLY and INGRAIN CARPETS. OFFICE MATTINGS WINDOW SHADES and CORNICES. CURTAINS and UPHOLSTERY GOODS, OIL CLOTHS, from six to eighteen feet wide, At the Lowest Prlees. onl 1m2dp CARPET' W ARIEliOUNE, 17..............Chartres streat..............17 We are receiving large additions to our stock. We NOiW c.E L A AND UNDER PRICl.8 CHARGED ItEFOOE TH -MAR. AXM[ - ST7i, W Iton. Vclvt. BI) Y ItRU H LH, Ta p'stry. 3 plys. INGR IN', Ve .'tion-. Hmp. FLOOR OIL, Ii OrHS, Wind',wRhales. Tab.' and Plan - 4 ovens Curtain Moteriais, Laeo and Nottingham Curtains. Trimmings, etc., e' . ae3e 3m 2dp A. BROU*)EAU & SON. TAXES -LICENSES. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS, Large DIFconnts made on all settlements of Mats mand liaed e, CARPETS. All the latest and most elegant designs hn Co.A.3I P xW=J "1.. Ingrains, Tapestry and English Bruased Velvets, Axminsters. OIL CLOTHS, from six to twenty-four feed. 4 WINDOW SHADES, CORNICES. Upholstery and Curtaln Goeod Wall Paper, Mirrors, Ae Frames and Meoullage, al At the Lowest Market Price. HEATH, PIPPEY & LARA. d s 20 2d1 Im 117 and 99 Camp street. W. W. CLARK, Jso. W. Nonms, D. Tues President. Vice President. S and' Tteft DIEBOLD SAFE AND LOCK CO. The Leading Safes in the world. Have aeveu failed to preserve their contents against FIRE OR BURGLARS, though tested thousands of times. Partlese6" tablishing themselves in business will find KIM their interest to give me a call before purlea I. Ing elsewhere. Over twenty Second-hand Oae bination Look Safes on hand, for sale very IM A. ROY, Agent New Orleans branch Diebold Bate ad 9 Lock Company, au22 2dptf 27 Canal streas SCHIOL BOOKS. d - Having been awarded by the State Board of *- Education a majority of the bids for furnishing the public schools of the State, and having ar rangem.'nts with publishers, we are preparedle furnish the following books at prices named. Column No. 1 is lowest retail or ice adopted: column No. 2 exchange price, for first introdae tion, when books of similar grade in actual ass are taken in exchange: No. 1. No.!. 4 Watson's Independ-nt Speller o20 U Watson's Primary Reader. 20 U Wa smu's S-co'sd Reader. 40 R Watson's Third R-aler.......... .. as * Watson's to'rth Reafer. 70 39 Watson's Fifth Ronder. 81 oe 66 Watson's Sixtan Reader. 1 29 0 9 Steele's Philosophy, Astronomy. e ea-h...................... 1i20 Steele'sChemisiryG'ology,each 1 2e 0 tteelo's Zoology............... . .. 0 Private swhools will be allowed same prices as public schools. _ Other lists will be publi.hed hereafter. LIBERAL DISCOUNT TO THE TRADE. J. C. EYRICH, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONEW, 130 .......... Canal street ..........11 NEW ORLEANS. e selO-lm2dp Establish 1069. P. O. Box WI6 WHITE'S GINNERY, Office 26 Union. near Carondelet M-r 11 TO COTTON FACTORS AND PLANTmR GINNINQ TERBX4-THE SEED. BAGGING, TIES, TWINE and DRATMAR furnished FREE since 1876. Parties wishing to know the average yield la Cotton ginned at "WHITE'S GINNERY" let season will please send to the undersigned for circulars. D. PRIEUR WHITE. auto 6m 2dp r New Orleans Savings Instituties Re.156 Canal Street. A. MOULTON, B. A. PALRIEE, CaRL KOHN, T. L. BATME, DAVID URQf'HART, GEORGE JONAS1 JOHN G. GAl IES, THE 8. A. ADAMS, THOS. A. ULARKE, CHEIBT'J UBsh ORAD. J. LEEDS, SA AUL JAIes