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Commercial and Financial Matters. State Console closed yesterday steady at 75% *761, against 75%@7a5 on the day before, with sales of only 6,teoo at the Stock Exchange. Premium Bonds closed weak at 31Y@31N, agalnst 81%@382. on the previous day. The towboat Port Eads, with four barges, ar rived here yesterday. The following is a por tion of her cargo: 10.ooo bble flour and 94,741 bushels of wheat in bulk, In addition to a large assorted cargo of Western produce. The Eureka (Nov.) Sentinel tells of a man in that town who carried a potato In his pocket for eight or ten years, until it more resembled a sDeclmen of Hoosac ore than anything else. So he concluded to have it assayed as such. The assayer he gave it to to ascertain "what was in it," returned a flattering certificate of "twenty five per cent lead and $300 in silver." We copy this, for being a mining article, it comes under the financial and commercial head. There were two arrivals yesterday of new sugar-the first of the season. In the morning the steamboat Beolle arrived with six hogsheads. from the plantation of McCall Brothers. Ascen sion parish, consigned to J., W. Burbridge & Co. Afterwards came the steamer Henry Tote, from Donaldsonville, with five hogsheads of new sugar from St. Emma plantation, parish of Ascension, and consigned to Delgado & Co., of this city. The total shipments of potatoes from Troy to Noew York thus far this season are about sa,oo9 barrels. The prices range from st so to s$1 6. As illustrative of the growth of that " fruit" thereabouts, the Troy Whig mentions that Garrett Vandenburgh, of North Green bush, dug 132 barrels of potatoes from five bar rels planted, making the average yield over fifty barrels to the acre. From one barrel of the snowflake variety he obtained thirty-five barrels, and from four of early Vermonts the yield was 117 barrels. The Rome correspondent of the Londor Times remarks that the abolition of the Grisi tax, one of the reforms promised by the pres. eat ministry. is now violently opposeod by the owners of real estate. The Grist tax bearn directly and heavily on the masses of the peo Die, and removing it would make it necessary to collect more faithfully other taxes more ob jectionable to the influential classes. The ex tent to which taxes are evaded by the rich in Bome appears from the fact that 53.000 owners of real estate have by some means or other en tirely escaped the payment of any tax whatever on this property. At the same time the col lection of the income tax has been enforced with such vigor that hundreds of poor work ingmen have had their tools seized in default oc the payment of a few francs. The ministry that is pledged to the abolition of the Grist tax are putting greater energy into the collection of the building tax, and the outcry against the abolition of the one and the collection of the other comes from the same classes. The demand for silver dollars, according to the latest Washington dispatches, now averages about four tons daily. This is less than the -coinage, and indications are that the treasury will not be able, under the present order, to cir eulate the amount coined. There is a large de mand now from the South for dollars to pay cotton pickers, as the negroes prefer them to any other money. When Secretary Sherman .announced that he would pay out silver dollars for greenbacks, gold fell to a premium of one sixteenth of 1 per cent; but when he retracted that order so that his acts might be clearly within the law, the outflow of silver from the treasury was checked, and gold rose to threo eighths of 1 per cent premium. The stock of gold in the.world is increasing faster than sll ver, 25,ooo,ooo more gold than silver being mined yearly. India and other parts of the East absorb ioo,oon,ooo in silver annually, and it never comes back. This Oriental sink and the wider use of silver will soon Ilring silver bul lion up to more than par with gold, on the American basis of coinage, viz: sixteen of sil ver to one of gold. The Novve Vremya, in an article on the late Russian war, says that the whole sum of soo, oeo,000 roubles has been subscribed for, the sub scriptions having amounted to so04,ss,ooo roubles. The subscriptions in the whole of Russia, except St. Petersburg and Moscow, amounted to 45.000.000 only; those at Moscow amounted to a like sum, and of the remaining 918,000,000, 1oo,ooo,000 were subscribed by the agents of bankers in Western Europe. The re sult shows, says the writer, that only about one half of the loan has been taken up by the Rus s-ian nation; and of the Russian subscribers, there are very few indeed who have invested large sums in it. Our system of taxation is unfavorable to small savings, as nearly the whole of the incomes of the peasantry, who form the most numerous class of our population. are absorbed in taxes and other payments directed by the State. Meanwhile the charge for the interest and sink ing fund of the new loan will also fall upon the peasantry. A series of loans following upon each other have, in consequence of the war, al ready become necessary, and this should move the government to carry out as speedily as pos sible the reforms in taxation which were pro posed and accented in principle long ago. * * * -n income tax in some shape has become in dispensable; the necessities of the State are im mense and urgent. Letters from the British iron centres, so late as September 17, give doleful accounts of the continued depression in trade. About the first of August the situation seemed more cheerful, and buyers had begun to place orders with the furnace men, but this ray of hope proved delu sive, and a Wolverhamoton letter says the bur den of correspondence received by the pig-iron manufacturers has been to delay delivering for the present. The makers of finished iron are all overstocked with pig, and the furnaces have large quantities on hand. As is inevitable un der the oircumstances, prices have weakened. and the rates for Scotch iron, for instance, are now lower than at any time since 1841. "The worst, I am afraid, has not yet happened," says the correspondent whose letter is our au thority, and he mentions the Sheffield rumor that a Member of Parliamenlt from the North of England, largely interested in the iron trade. is unable to meet his liabilities. In South Staf fordshire a large iron concern, the John Bag nail Iron Company, has been trying to reorgan ize with fresh capital, but out of 48,oo00 shares needed 15,000 only were obtained within the time first proposed. The undertone in all these gloomy advices is the sharp competition of American iron, and, though the times are dull on other accounts, they would be greatly im proved if once more the markets of the United -States stood ready to absorb the product of English furnaces. Their owners see, however, that it is useless to hope for such relief. B.fister ! Register Register I Nurses and attendants in sick rooms, who have not had the fever, use Omaha Rhubarb Wine as a preventive. For sale by I. L. Lyons -druggist. FINANCIAL AND CORIERCIAL. MONETART. OFFICE NEW OBLEANS DEMOOBAT. Friday Evenina. October 4.1878. I NEW ORLEANS CLEARING-HOUSE. Clearings. Balances. September 2...... . $400,935 10 $55,935 70 September 30......... 475,627 05. 73,503 98 October 1 ............. 541.317 49 74,044 28 October 2 ............. 513.990 84 103.,032 11 -October 3............ 572.064 26 81.689 32 October 4............ 677,313 47 46,263 91 Total this week...... $3,181,248 21 $434,469 25 The money market is quiet. We quote exoeptional paper 7@8 V lcent; A .o 9@10; second grade do -t-; loan.s 98 ol , laterals 5@8; Al mortgage Daper s%@1o; sec ond grade do -0-- 1 cent per annum. 4 Gold is quiet and steady. Ei Foreign Exchange easy. S. igah' in light request. 6, State Consols steady at 75%@7s%. Premium Bonds weak at 31%@x19P . Stocks dull. ' Gold opened in Now York at 100%, and closed r- at 10oc). Here it opened at loo%.iloo10 and Scosed at 10o0% @O100%.. Se TELING--Bank bills 48483: commer re a! 475047,5. FRANCS--Bank francs -; commercial 5.20' @ 5.25, n BIGHT-Bank counter rate .% cent, com r morcial N,'% . cent discount. a STOCKS. BANKe. Bid. Asked. 0 Canal and Banking Co., p v 10o.. 693l 93 Oltizen'sv V 100.... ...... 70 75% 1Ctizens' Savings, v eoo..........- - Germania National, p vloo .......- - yHibernia National ................. 85 so r Lafayette, p v 50.................. - - Louisiana Savings.. ... .......... - - Louisiana National, v 100.......- - Mechanics and Traders' p v so... - - Metropolitan Loan and Savings. p v 100........................... - - . Mutual National, p v 100......... 84 90 New Orleans National. p v loo.... o - People's, pv s0 ............. 44% - Southern, p v o................... - a State National, av 0oo.......... 119 Union National. pv loo............ - - Workingmen's, D v 25 ......... 12. - INSURANOC COMPANIESB. Orescent Mutual. v 100oo........ o 92 Factors and Traders', p v 100..... 105 - r Firemen's, v 50o............... 50 t Germania, p v 10o................. - - Hibernia, p v 100................... 75, 76)3 Some, D v 40........................ a Hope, D v 100 ....................... -. - Laayette. v .................... 2 - MehantsMutual, p 100........ 37 - ehacices and Traders'......... 2% - e rleans Inn. Ass'n, p v so ... 28% - rn. . omoany. p v ot....... o - eople's Ins. Company, 25.... 18 - Sun Mutual, p v 0o ............. 104% - S Teutonia, pv 10o .................... 80 h 3 Union, p v 100...................... - - cIr BRAILROADs. Qarrollton v 100 ................. 128 - 1rescent it, v ............. 49 - Canal and Clalborne. p v o ...... New Orleans City, p v 100.. ........ 12 Orleans pvo .................... 2s so St. Charles Street. p v so......... 75 8o 0MISELLANEOUS. Blenville Oil Works Co., p v 0oo... Crescent City Oil Co.... ......- 10 Crescent City Slaughter-House Company, pv.................. 24 - arondelet Canal and Nav. Co.... - m. Bonded Warehouse, p v 100... - - I Jef.. City Gas Lght Co., pv 10.... - 6o SLouisiana Ice anufacturing Co.. s L........ee fr.................. . Levee Co.. preferred... - .00 tate ttery Co., v100......- 8so ouisiana Oil Compan, v 100... 931 - Louisiana Cotton Tie Company.. - - Levee Steam Cotton Press v 1oo - - Lamm's Fireless Engine o ...... 1 - [Metairie Cemetery Association... o7 as . as Light co. pv 100...... - o00 N . Waterworks bompan : ... 32 33 Odd Fellows' Hall Association.... - - Planters' Oil Co ................. - - BSu r Shed Company, V 60...... 78 - St. ares Hotel Company....... - - Stern's For. and Chem. Man. Co.. - - Varieties Theatre Association.... - - BONDS. State onsols ....................... 75 7s5 City Premium Bonds ............. 81% 31 City Consolidated Bonds.......... a 37 City Waterworks Bonds.......... City Wharf Bonds............... - - Canal and Claiborne street R. B. mortgage................... - Slaughter-House, mortgage.... - - Jefferson City Gas Co.. mortgage - - Jackson B. I 1st mortgage ...... - - Jackson B. B. 2d mortgage con nonS ............................ - Jackson tB. B. d mortgage debt - - Jackson B. B. Consolidated gold.. - - Miss. Central B. R. 1st mortgage. - Miss. Central B. R. 2d mortgage. - - Miss. Central R. B. Con. gold .... - - Pacific B. R. 1st mortgage......... - - St. Charles Hotel mortgage......- - NEW ORLEANS STOCK EXIHANGE SALES. FIBRT OALIr-10 A. M. $5,500 Premium Bonds....................... 31 States 75@75%; Premiums 31%@32. sEODX) CALL--12 M. $21,000 State Consols .................... 75, 2,000 Premium Bonds .... .............. 31% States 75%@75%: Premiums:-@a®%. THIRD CALIr-2 P. M. $5.000 State Consols ....................... 74% 15,000 State Consols........................... 75 5,o000State Consols ....................... 75% States 75@75 4; Premiums 31%@32. .e" COMMERCIAL. OFFIOE OF NEW OBLEANS DEMOOBAT, Friday Evening. October 4.187e. COTTON-There. was only a limited inquiry to-day, and the transactions at the close amounted to 900 bales at easier prices. The following is the official closing of the Cotton Exchange: To-day. Yesterday. Low Ordinary ............. - Ordinary .................... - good Ordinary ................ - Low Middling................lo to Middling....................1036 IO'h Good Middling ...............10i% 10e Middling Fair............. - - Sales to-day 900 bales. Market irregular and easier. COTTON 5TATEMENT. In store and on shipboard Sept.1, 1878. 4.086 ross receipts since yesterday. 2,261 Gross receipts previously...... 80,860- 83,121 Total supply......................... 87,207 Exported to-day................ ,xported previously..... -...... 19,409- 19,494 Total stock thia day.................... 17,713 Total stock this day last year.......... 33.684 Net receipts since yesterday..... ...... 1.653 Rieceipts from other ports ............ 648 Net receipts last Friday.............. 2,382 Net receipts same time last year........ s49 Net receipts since Fridaye............... 11,656 Net receipts sametime last week ...... 8,373 Net receipts same time last year........ 9,619 Net receipts since September 1.......... Net receipts same time last year........ 18,145 Cotton on shipboard as per account of the Cotton Exchange is as follows: Liverpool 0o4, Havre 1460, Bremen 99, Mexico -, Spain -. Mediterranean -. coastwise 23 bales; total 2086 bales. This taken from the stock at noon, as noted at the Exchange, leaves in presses 15,627 Dales. The receipts at all ports, consolidated, as per telegrams to the Cotton Exchange, show totals from noon yesterday to noon to-day of - bales, against 20,993 last Friday, 12,903 last year. and 23,040 the year before. The movement at ports for seven days. up to 12 m. to-day, is given below: feceived Same time Same time since Friday. last week. last year. New Orleans .... 12.414 8,373 9,619 Galveston. .-.......19.750 18,524 12,811 Mobile ............ 5.394 3.,798 6,826 Savannah........ 38.853 33,849 17,507 Oharleston .... .. 29.368 22,254 12,198 Wilmington ..... 5,258 3.102 1,840 Norfolk ....... ....10,741 5,214 5,457 Baltimore ......... 204 28 97 New York......... 2,288 731 538 Boston ............ 1,152 298 216 Philadelphia ...... 520 124 233 Various............ 6,068 4,882 592 Total........ 132,010 96,177 67.934 Receipts at ports since September 1.......374,614 Receipts same time last year.........138,802 Receipts same time year before............301,534 The consolidated report for the week gives exports to G. B. Fr'e. Con. Chan. Stocks This week..... 38,427 100 7,346 .... 231.751 Lat week..... 11,422 2,553 1,610 .... 71,859 This week last ear ...... ...12.307 96 1.380 ... 154,579 OCEAN FREIGHTS-Are quoted as follows: By steam-Cotton to Liverpool 7-16d: to Havre -c; to Bremen -d; to Hamburg -; to Antwerp -d; to Revel and Cronstadt -c; to Genoa and Barcelona -; to New York ec; to Boston, Providence, Fall River and Phila delphia %c. By sail-Cotton to Liverpool -d; to Havre 15-16c; to Bremen -c: to Hamburg -d; to Ant werp -d; to Revel and Cronstadt -d; to Genoa and Barcelona -c; to New York -c; to Boston, Providence. Fall River and Philadelphia -c. SUGAR-Throughout the week has ruled quiet, at nominal figures. We quote: Inferior -@--e: common to good common 7@7%e; fair to good fair 7%@8c; fully fair 88&c; prime 8%c; strictly prime 8(c; gray clarified -@-; yellow clarified, as in quality 9@935: off whites, good to choice, 9.c; white clarified s9C(s9yc. MOLASSES-Is in light request: demand and prices nominal. We quote: Common 18D24e; fair 25@28c; prime o0@32c; strictly prime -@-c; choice - FLOUR-The arrivals this week have been very large, amounting to 22.672 bble. Last week the receipts were only 1373 blis. Business dur t- inathe week has been of fair proportions and prices have ruled quiet and steady throughout, The gales to-day were about 1800 hbls, as fol lows: 25 half bbls at $2 50 25 bb s at $3 85; 25at 54 25: 70 at 75: 40 at $4 8o: 260 at $S: 25 at s5 ls; 50, 0o and 130 at $ 25: oo at 30: soat $5 35; 25 no and 5o at $5 50; 200 on private terms. We quote: Choice extras $5260550; family $a6@ 25: trebles, low to choice. . 2@00a; double extras $3 76@4 25: single extras $3@3 50; superfine d$2 75@3; common $2 50@2 75. Dealers in their trade obtain an advance of 500 9 bbi on these prices. CORN MEAL-There is no change in the market. The supply is fair, but the demand for Western product dull and prices easy and nom inal at $2 35@(2 40 i bbl on sales from first hands. Dealers continue to sell at $2 60@2 65 'P bbl for small lots out of store. GRITS-Supply moderate; demand light. and market steady at $3 6o@3 76 V bbl delivered to the trade on the landing. Dealers quote choice L grits ex-Wtore at ,3 76@4 ' bbl. HOMINY--Wholesale $s@s 25; retail $3 60@ 3 75. RYE FLOUR-Unchanged at $3s o@a 75. CREAM AND PEARL MEAL--Demand light and confined to small lots, which are sold at $2 65@2 865 bbl. Sales--100 bbls at $2 76. PORK-The Chi.'ago market fluctuated a little to-day, and closed atan advance of so on yester day's quotation.. Here, for several days past the demand has been fair. and moderate sales have been made at quietly and steadily de clining prices the market being about see lower than on last Frlday. We quote the market dull to-day at $9 5o. with sales at that price Dealers in their trade quote mess $10@10 25, with a fair demand. Sales-25 and 5o bbls at o9 50. DRY SALT MEATS-Business in this line of goods has been fair throughout the week and prices show a decline compared with our quoteations of last Friday of 36ac. The de mand to-day was good and two car loads of new packed shoulders sold at the depot at 5c o. The market is quiet and steady at 5c for loose shoulders ana 564o for packed do. Old meats are neglected and nominal BACON-Although there is a slightly im proved demand for bacon the movements are still small and comparatively inconsiderable. We quote the market dull and eay . Shoulders 5.o, clear rib sides a3c. and clear sides 70. Dealers' rates are ne higher than these prices. Salvo--6 casks clear rib sides at 6%o. LARD-Prices for lard have declined, in sym pathy with other products of the hog. %@0o during the week and the market is now quit and steady. Prime steam 7%@7~c, and refined 7Y8c. in tierees; kegs 83@%co. Dealers in their trdae obtain the usuel advance of eo on these prices. Sales-3 an o40 kegs at 8%o. HAMS-The supply is fair and the demand moderate, and but little has been reported out side the localtrade. Prices are steady ad un changed at a decl e of cp on lastweek'a quota tions. We quote ordinary hams 900e, and choice sugar-cured 12@12%c, as in size, quality and brand ealers' prices are %@%c higher. BRIAB PAF T .BACON--The suppbl is ample for the demand, and the market is easy For choice goods at 9@9%c: dealers are charging 9%@9%e for small lots. PACKERS' HOG PRODUCTS-Dealers are selling on orders in the job trade at 87@7 5o half-bbl for dig pork: $8 F bbl for prime; t8 25 @8 5o for nrime mess; $ 25®8050 for rump pork. COFFEE-The market has been fairly active during the week at firm prices. QUOTATIONS NOB GOLD, Cargoes. Job Lota Grooe....... .......... -@- 1873@18 ood......... ... --- 17 @17% Fair ............ ....... -@-- 16%@16g Ordinary................. --- 14%'l15 Extreme range........ ........ 13 i19 TOBACCO-Sales--74 hhds on private terms. Stock on sale 2800 hhds. QUOTATIONS. MLowlugas................................ 2%0 2% edum................................ 8 @ 3 good to fine... ................ 3...... s~g owleaf....................... 4@ 563 Medium............................ @ 7% Good ..................................... 7349@8 Fine ..................................... 83@9 Sele ntson ................................10 ol1 CORN-Stock light and prices firm. 200 bags white sold at 5oc 9 bushel. OATS-Are in light request. Sales--oo bags choice at 3sl and 200 do at s86c bushel. BRAN-Is dull at 67'4c 7 cwt. HAY-Quiet. Choice $16017 ' ton. BULK CORN-There is only a moderate in. quiry at 45u@r4a for No. 2 mixed. WHEAT-Receipts small and demand light at 94(9650 for Texas and choice No. 8 Western. WHISKY-Market quiet and steady. We quote choice Cincinnati $1 oe@ o09, fair to good West ern $1 05@1 07, Louisiana $1 05@1 06. WOOL-Demand good and prices firmer. We quote burry 9@10, Louisiana clear 2o@21c. lake BUTTER--Dull. New York creamery fine 26@260, New York dair prime 2200240, New York dairy good 17@190, Western creamery 23@26c. Western dairy 12@160 7 ib. CHEESE-Steady. New York cream 11@12c. Ohio factory s@8%o IF 1b. STARCH-In fair demand at 8@3%ke in lots. POTATOES-Western at $2@220 PF bbl. ONIONS-Western firm at 1 750@2 ' bbl. SWEET POTATOES-Nominal. CABBAGES-Are quiet. They are quoted at $2@2 60 7 box. BEANS-Northern 3@3Mc. Western 2%0@2%c POULTRY-Old chickens $5.6: young a3 760 4 60; ducks s3 50@4; geese $S; turkeys o$100012 ' dozen. EGGS-Western 20@220; Louisiana 250028 0' dozen. RICE-Easy. Prime 6@63oc, good 5%2s%c. fair 5 4@56Y, ordinary 4%@5c, common 4%@4%c. and No. 2 30%@6%c 7 l.t. SALT-Messrs. Jackson & Manson the well known salt importers and dealers, have obli gingly furnished us with the following quota tions: With sample stocks on hand and a very limited demand, the market may be quoted easier. A cargo of coarse just arrived sold to a dealer on private terms. We quote dealers' rates from warehouse 75@800 for coarse. 96C@$1 for fine. Turks' Island is held at 26'530c bushel. Table salt in pockets 1%@70 each. as in size. FISH-Messrs. C. H. Lawrence & Co. have obligingly furnished us with the following price list for new fish: Mackerel, extra No. 1 Bbl $18. halves $9 so, quarters $5,. kits $2: mackerel No. 1-Bbls $12 halves $6 25. quarters $3 25., kits 81 25; mackerel No. 2-Bbls $10 halves 56 25. quarters 82 75. kits $! 10; mackerel No. 3. large-Bbls $9. halves 84 75. quarters 82 60. kits $1; mackerel No. 3. medium-Bble $6 0so, halves s 50. quarters $2. kits 956: mackerel No. 3, small-Bbls $5. halves $2 75, ~iuarters $1 76, kits 900c. IARKETS BY TELEGRAPI. By Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company. Demestie. Nuw Yoax, Oct. 4.-Cotton euiet: Middling 10%,. 11 a. m.-Coffee quiet for want of stock; sales of 460, ex Johnson; milds quiet. Sugar easy; sales 2312 hhds. Refined sugar easy; powdered 9%; granulated 9%. ST. Lous., Oct. 4.-Opening.-Wheat 85% Oc. tober 87% November. 89 December. Corn Nothing doing thus far. 1 p. m.-Wheat better: No. 2 red 86% October, .87% November, 89% December, 8@8634 cash: No. 3 red 82 bid cash. Corn dull: 33% November, 33% December, 33% cash. Oats dull; 20% Novem ber, 19% cash. Whisky unchanged; 1s 07. Pork quiet; $8 5o@8 6o. Cut meats-General market nominally 4%, 6~. 5. Bacon dull; 5:, 6. 6~. Lard nominally 6%. C.HIAGO. Oct. 4. 9:25 a. m.-Pork - Sales at $7 85 now, $7 80@7 82% November, $7 87% De cember 87 60 bid and $7 so asked seller year, 8s 25 bib and 8 75 asked January. Lard-6.12% bid and 6.25 asked October, 6.20 November, 6.22%. December, 6.15 bid and 6 o20 askea, seller year. Wheat opened at 85% bid November. Corn opened at 34% November. Union Stock Yards-Estimated receipts of hogs to-day 16,000; official yesterday 16,144; shipped 4825; light grades selling $3 25@3 35. generally s3 30; heavy mixed packingS3 25@3 30, Cattle-Estimated receipts 45,00 market quiet. 3:30 D. m.-Wheat-85 asked November. 86 De cember. Corn nominal, 35% November. 35 asked December. Oats--ls1%@1% October, 19(@20 No vember, 20%@20% December. Pork--7 82% bid November. $7 87%@7 90 December. Lard-6.20@ 6.22% November, 6.22%56.25 December. Foreign. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 4, 12:so p. m.-Cotton dull and tending down; Middling Uplands 6 7-led, Mid dling Orleans 6%d. Sales-7000 bales, of which 1o00 are for export and speculation. Wheat-Western spring No. 1 9s 8d, No. 2 9s; Western winter No. 1 as 11d, ro. 2 8s 9d. Flour Western canal 20o@2s. Corn-New mixed 228 9d @238. Oats-2s 6d. Pork-Prime mess Western 47s Sd. Lard-Prime Western 8es. Bacon Long clear S1s, short clear 338. Tallow-Ameri can 388 6d. LIVERPOOL. Oct. 4 2 p. m.-Lard-Prime West ern 35s 6d. Pork-Prime mess Western 46s ed. Breadstuffs easier. Western Wheat-No. 1 88s ild, No. 2 8e 8d. Bacon-Short clear 328 64. 3 p. m. Lard-- rime Western dull at 36s 6d. Wheat dull; Western winter 8s led, do. South ern 93. Corn steady; new mixed 23s 9d, others unchanged. LONDON, Oct. 4, 2 D. m.-Flour unchanged. Wheat on coast higher; Chicago 418 6d, red win ter 42s 6d, California 48s@s4s 6d: cargoes to ar rive easier; Chicago 38s. California 478; arrivals for orders light; French country markets quiet. Corn- Arrived cargoes rather easier; 23s 9d; do to arrive easier. 23s. Arrivals for orders light. At Mark Lane-Wheat and corn quiet. Ocean Freights. NEW YORK. Oct. 4.-Ocean freights steady and moderately active. To Liverpool, steom. grain sGed and to London, steam, wheat .%d. flour 3s. An Italian bark to Cork, for orders, grain 5s %d,. No petroleum charters. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMgENTS, OFFICIAL. To the qualified Electors of the State of Louisiana. Orrron or SBIEOnaTAr OF STATE, STATR OF LOUXSXAaZ, New Orleans. July 17, 1878. In pursdance of article 147 of the constitu lion of this State, publication is hereby given to the voters of this State of the proposed amendments to the constitution of this State, agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the General Assem bly, at its session of 1878, and which are re quired to be published, three months before the next general election for Representatives to the General Assembly, in at least one news paper in every parish of this State, in which a newspaper shall be published. Said amend ments appear more fully nl acts Nos. 78 and 74 of the regular session of the General As sembly of 1878, and in act No. 12 of the extra session of the General Assembly of 1878, which are officially published for the Informa tion of the voters, and which will be submit ted to the people at the next general election, to be held on the fifth day of. November, (next) 1878, in such a manner and form that the people may vote for or against each amendment, separately, and if a majority of the votes at said election shall approve and ratify all or either of said amendments, the same shall become a part of the constitution. WILL. A. STRONG, Secretary of State. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. ACT NO. 78, R. S. OF 1878. NUMBER ONE. That the seat of government shall be estab lished at the city of Baton Rouge or at the city of New Orleans, as the majority of the voters of the State may determine at the next ensuing election; thesevotihg to locate the State capital at Baton Rouge shall indorse ,n their tickets, "For State Capital, Baton gouge;" those voting to locate the capi tal at New Orleans shall Indorse on their tickets. "For State Capital, New Orleans." (Strike out article one hundred and thirty ACT NO. 74, R. S. OF 1878, NUMBER Two. Representatives shall be chosen on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, every two years, and the election shall be completed in one day. The General Assembly shall meet on the first Monday in January, 1879, and biennally thereafter, on the first Monday in January, unless a different day be appointed by law, and their sessions shall be held at the seat of government. (Strike out article seventeen.) NUMBER THREE. After the year 1878 the General Assembly shall not have power to levy in any one year for all State purposes more than one per cent um taxation, nor shall any collection of more than one per centum taxation be made in any one year, on the actual cash value of all real and personal property liable to taxation, ex cept in case of a foreign invasion or a domes tie insurrection, and In that event any addi tional taxation shall only be for the immedi ate purpose of repelling invasion or suppress ing insurrection, The city of New Orleans shall not levy or collect in any one year more than one and one-half per centum taxation on the actual cash value of all the real and per sonal property liable to taxation within its limits. o parish or municipal corporation, except the city of New Orleans, shall levy or collect in any one year more than one per centum taxation upon the actual cash value of all the real and personal property liable to taxation within its limits. The General Assembly shall not have power to issue any bond or pledge the faith of the State for any purpose, nor shall it authorize any parish or municipal corporation to issue any bond or create any debt; provided, that this shall not prohibit the issue of new bonds in exchange for old bonds, where the debt or rate of inter est is not increased. NUMBER FOUR. The members of the General Assembly shall be paid a salary of five hundred dollars ($500) per session, and actual traveling expenses by the nearest practicable route, not to exceed ffty dollars ($50) for any one member; pro vide, that if two sessions are held in the same year they shall receive for the second session in that year a salary of only two hun dred and fifty dollars ($250) and actual travel ing expenses by the nearest practicable route, not to exceed fifty dollars ($50) for any one member. The regular biennial session shall not exceed ninety days in duration, unless by vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly. (Strike out article thirty-nine.) NUMBERB IVE. The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law changing the venue in criminal cases, changing the manner of per sons legitimating children, vacating roads, streets, or alleys, remitting fines, penalties, and forfeitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the treasury; affecting the esta of minors, or persons under disability, exempt ing property from taxation, creating any mo nopoly, legalizing the unauthorized or invalid acts of any officer or agent of the State, or of any parish or municipality; granting any extra compensation to any public officer, agent, or contractor, after the service has been rendered or ecntracted for; changing any parish seat, or :reating new parishes, except by the assent of the majority of the qualified electors of the parish, or parishes, to be affected; in all other cases, where a gen eral law can be made applicable, no local or special law shall be passe. NUMBER SIX. The Governor shall receivea salary of seven thousand dollars per annum, payable quar terly, on his own warrant. (Strike out article fifty-six.) NUMBER SEVE}. The Lieutenant Governor shall receive a salary which shall be double that of a mem ber of the General Assembly. (Strike out article fifty-seven.) NUMBER EIGHT. Every bill which shall have passed both houses shall be presented to the Governor; if he approve it, he shall sign it; If he does not, he shall return it, with his objections, to the house in which It originated, which shall en ter the objections at large upon its journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of all the members present in that house shall aee to pass the bill, it shall be sent, with theo ections, to the other house, by which it shall ikewise be re considered, and if approved by two-thirds of the members present in that house, it shall be a law. But in such cases the vote of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of members voting for or against the bill shall be entered upon the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within five days after it shall have been presented to him, it shall be a law, in llke manner as if he had signed it, unless the General Assembly, by adjournment, prevent its return; in which case, within thirty days, the Governor shall file the same, with his objections thereto, in the office of the Secretary of State, and give public notice thereof; otherwise it shall be come a law, as ifhe had signed it. The Secre tary of State shall communicate said objec tions and bill so deposited to the house in which it originated on the first day of the meeting of the next General Assembly, who shall act upon the same as above provided. The Governor shall have power to veto one or more items in any bill appropriating money, embracing distinct items, while approving oth er portions of the bill, and the part or parts of the bill approved shall become law, and the item or items of appropriations disapproved shall be void, unless repassed according to the rules and limitations prescribed for the pas sage of other bills over the Governor's veto. (Strike out article sixty-six.) NUMBER N=NE. No officer', whose salary Is fixed by the CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. constitution, shall be allowed any fees or per quisites ofofffice. NUMaBE TEN. The judicial power shall be vested in a supreme court, district courts and in Jus tices of the peace. The distrlcL courts shall have original jurisdiction in all civil cases where the amount in dispute exceeds one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest. In criminal cases, and In all probate matters, their jurisdiction shall be unlimited. They shall have appellate jurisdiction, in civil suits from justices of the peace, when the amount in dispute exceeds ten dollars, exclusive of interest. The justices of the peace shall be elected by the electors of each parish in the manner and with the qualifications to be de termined by the General Assembly. They shall hold office for the term of two years, and their compensation shall be fixed by law. Their jurisdiction in civil cases shall not ex ceed one hundred dollars, exclusive of inter est, subject to an appeal to the district court in all cases when the amount in dispute shall exceed ten dollars, exclusive of interest. They shall have such criminal jurisdiction as shall be conferred by law. The General Assembly shall have power to vest in the clerks of the district courts the right to grant such orders and do such acts as may be deemed necessary for the furtherance of the administration of justice. In all cases the power thus granted shall be specified and determined. (Strike out articles seventy-three, eighty flve, eighty-six, eighty-seven, eighty-eight eighty-nine, ninety-one and one hundred and thirty-three.) NUMBER ELEVEN. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall receive a salary of seven thousand dol lars per annum, and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court shall each receive a salary of six thousand five hundred dollars per an num, payable quarterly on their own warrant. NUMER TWELVE. The General Assembly shall divide the State into judicial districts, which shall re main unchanged for four years and for each district one judge, learned in the law, shall be elected by a plurality of qualified electors thereof. For each district there shall be one district court, except it the parish of Orleans, in which the General Assembly may estab lish as many district courts as the public in terest may require, not to exceed the number now authorized by existing laws, except by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to both branches of the General Assembly. Until otherwise provided by law the district courts now existing in the parish of Orleans shei have the jurisdiction at present con ferred by law; no redistricting or change shall be made so as to take effect during the incumbency of any judge. The number of districts in the State shall not be less than thirty nor more than forty-five. The General Assembly shall provide by law for at least four terms annually of the district court in every parish. The General Assembly shall have power to create circuit courts, to be constituted by grouping the district judges into circuits, and composing the circuit court of the judges of the district courts within such circuits. To direct the place or places of meeting of said circuit courts so constituted and to vest said circuit courts with appellate jurisdiction from the district courts within the circuit where the amount involved exceeds one hundred dol lars ($100) exclusive of interest, and does not exceed five hundred dollars ($500) exclusive of interest. The General Assembly shall have power, by a two-thirds vote of all the mem bers elected to both houses to restrict the ap pellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to causes where the amount involved exceeds one thousand dollars ($1000) exclusive of in terest; and in case of such restriction, the circuit courts so to be created shall have ap pellate jurisdiction of the class of cases thus excluded from the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The clerks of the dis trict courts shall be elected by the qualified voters of their respective parishes, and shall hold their office for four years. (Strike out article eighty-three.) NUMBER THIRTEEN. NUMBER THIRTEEN. Each of the district judges shall receive a salary, to be fixed by law which, except in the parish of Orleans, shall not be less than two thousand dollars, nor more than three thousand dollars per annum, payable quar terly on his own warrant, and which shall not be increased nor diminished during his term of office. He must be a citizen of the United States, over the age of twenty-five years, and have resided in the State and practiced law therein for the space of two years next pre ceding his election. The judges of the dis trict courts shall hold their office for the term of four years. In the parish of Orleans the annual salary of the district judges shall not exceed five thousand dollars, to be paid as above provided. (Strike out article eighty-four.) NUMBnER FOURTEEN. In lieu of the office of district attorney, es tablished by article ninety-two of the consti tution of 1868, there shall be elected, by the qualified voters of each parish, a State's attorney therefor, who shall be a citizen of the United States, and who shall have been a resident of the State, and a practicing and duly licensed attorney at law, for at least two years. He shall receive a salary from the State of not less than three nor more than seven hundred dollars per annum, to be pro vided by law upon the basis of representation in the House of Representatives, and payable quarterly on his own warrant. He shall be ex-oAcio attorney of the parish, and receive such salary therefrom as may be fixed by the parochial authorities, not to exceed seven hundred dollars per annum. He shall, more over, receive such fees of office as may be allowed by law. In the city of New Orleans the State's attorney shall receive such com pensation from the city, in addition to the salary above provided, as may be established by law. He shall be elected at the same time with the judges of the district courts, and shall hold his office for the term of four years. NUMBER FIFTEEN. In every case where the judge may be re cused, and when he is not personally inter ested in the matters in contestation, he shall select a lawyer, having the necessary qualifi cations required for a judge of his court, to try such cases; and the General Assembly shall provide by law for the trial of those cases in which the judge may be personally interested, or when he may be absent or re fuses to act. (Strike out article ninety.) NUMBER SIXTEEN. In order to provide for the establishment of the judicial system created by the above amendments, and to prevent the evils of an interregnum, it is hereby ordained by the people of Louisiana: First-That the General Assembly which meets the first Monday in Janu , 1879, shall, in accordance with the forego amend ments, immediately redistrict the State and provide for the authority of clerks, and the election and criminal jurisdiction of justices of the peace. Second-That as soon as the Legislature shall have acted as aforesaid, the Governor shall by proclamation call an election for jus tices of the peace for each parish, except the parish of Orleans, and for district judges, in each district created by the redistricting where one or more parishes have been added, or taken from the existing judicial district, and for State attorneys as above provided, except in the parish of Orleans, where the district attorney for the parish shall be State attorney. This election shall be held on the same day throughout the State, which day shall not be less than sixty nor more than ninety days after the passage of said act. The terms of the officers elected at said elec tion shall expire at the general election of 1880, aad the limitation on the change of dis tricts, oftener than once every four years, shall not be considered as having effect before the general election of 1880. Third--That the judicial system, as estab lished by the constitution of 1858, shall remain in force until the expiration of the thirtieth day after said election, excluding from the computation the day of the election. Fourth-The adoption of these amendments shall not vacate the offices of the present clerks of courts in each parish. NUrBER sEVENTEEN. Article one hundred and thirty-two of the constitution of 1868 shall be abrogated. NUMBER EIGHTEEN. The Superintendent of Public Education shall receive a salary of thirty-live hundred CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS dollars, payable quarterly on his own war rant. NUMBERI NINIETEEN, No license tax shall be imposed by the State, or any parish or municipal authority, on any mechanical trade, manufactory or fao tory, except such as may reuire police regu lations, in towns and cities. NUMBER TWENTY. The Legislature is authorized to exempt from 8tate, municipal or parish taxation household goods, such as furniture, wearing apparel, tools of trade or profession and fam ily portraits, not exceeding in aggregate value the sum of live hundred dollars. ACT NO. 12, EXTRA SESSION OF 1878. NUMBER TWENTY-ONE, Strike out the first part of article 142 of the constitution of 1868, which reads: "A uni versity shall be established and maintained In the city of New Orleans. It shall be com posed of a law, a medical and a collegiate de partment, each with appropriate faculties. The General Assembly shall provide b' law for its organization and maintenance;' and insert: "The university shall be maintained. It shall be composed of a law, a medical and an academical department, and such other departments as may be established by law each with appropriate faculties; provide. that the law and medical departments already organized shall continue in the city of New Orleans, and the academical and other de partments may be located elsewhere In the tate. jyl8 td MUNICIPAL ADVERTISEMENTS. P.IOPOSALS FOR LIGHTING CITY WITH OIL. DEPARTMENT OP POLI(E, Administrator's Office, New Orleans, October 3, 1878. Sealed proposals addressed to the undersigned will be received at this office until SATURDAY NOON, the nineteenth instant, for lighting, extinguishing, cleaning and keeping in repair. etc., the lanterns, lamps, etc., in those portions of the city of New Orleans lighted with oil, for a term of two years, in accordance with speciflca tions on file in this department. The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids. All parties making proposals for this contract are required to deposit with the Administrator of Finance, as an evidence of their intention to abide by the adjudication, the amount of one thousand dollars in cash, which shall be for feited to the city in case of failure to sign the contract. Bidders to whom the contract is not awarded will have their deposits returned to them on the day the adjudication is made. No bids will be received unless accompanied by the certificate of the Administrator of Fi nance, certifying that the required cash deposit has been made, Proposals to be Indorsed "Proposals for light ing. extinguishing, cleaning and keeping in re pair, etc., the lanterns, lamps, etc., lighted with oil." and addressed to the undersigned. Bids to be made at so much per lamp per an. num, cash. BOBT. E. DIAMOND, oc4 t19 Administrator.' LEASE OF A STEAM FERRY. DEPARTMENT OF COMrMRCE. CITY HALL, New Orleans, Beptember 13,1878. Sealed proposals for the lease of a STEAM FERRY. from the head of Richard street, in the First District of this city, to Freetown. In the parish of Jefferson, for a term of ten years, will be received at this office up to 11 o'clock a. m., October 5, 1878, said ferry to be established and run according to plans and specifications to be furnished br the City Surveyor. The city reserves the right to reject any or all bias, CHAS. CAVANAC, Administrator of Commerce, Sel31619 21 25 01 5 NOTICE. DEPARTMENT OF COMMEac. CITY HALL, New Orleans September 25. 1878. f Whenever it becomes necessary to REMOVE any of the OFFICES OF REGISTRATION from their present location, appliation for said removal must be made to this department. according to the provisions of ordinance No. 4677. Administration Series, approved Septem ber 17. 1878. CHARBLES CAVANAO, se26 Administrator of Commerce. PREMIUM BONDS. DEPARTMENT OF FINANBO, City Hall, New Orleans, September 21.1878. The Twelfth Quarterly Allotment of Premium Bonds will take place in the office of the Ad ministrator of Public Accounts on TUESDAY. October 15, 1878, at to o'clock a. m., at which time forty series will be drawn. CHAS. CAVANAC. see2 td Administrator ad interim. OFFICES OF REGISTRATION. MAY~OALTY Or NEw OBWLaS~, Clty Hall, August 30. 1878. 1 The following mentioned localities have been selected for office of registration in the dit ferent wards of the city viz: First Ward-No. 182 Annunciation street, be tween Ternwiehore and Robin. Second Ward-No. 244 Carondelet, between Delord and St. Joseph streets. Third Ward-Corner Common and Robertson streets. Fourth Ward-Rampart,, corner of Conti street. Fifth Ward-Rampart, corner of St. Ann street. Sixth Ward-No. 139 Hospital, near Burgundy street. Seventh Ward-Corner of Esplanade and Pe ters streets. Eighth Ward-Corner of Greatmen and Poet streets. Ninth Ward-Corner of Greatmen and El mira streets. Tenth Ward-Corner of Magazine and Jack son streets. Eleventh- Ward-Corner Washington and M azine streets. Twelfth Ward-Corner of Tchoupitoulas and Austerlirz streets. Thirteeth Ward-Corner of Napoleon Avenue and St. Charles street. Fourteenth Ward-Magazine, between Peters Avenue and Octavia street. Fifteenth Ward-At the Algiers court-hose. Sixteenth Ward-Counrt-house. Seventeenth Ward-Corner of Second and Jefferson streets. ED. PILBBUBY. au3o sot Mayor. OPENLG OF REGISTRATION OFFICES. REGISTRA OF VOTERS, PA.rsw O L OREANS, New Orleans. August 30, 1878. The different registration offices will be opened on MONDAY, September 2., 1878, at 12 o'clock m., and every day thereafter from 8 o'clock a. m. to 12 o'clock m., and from 1:30 p. m. until 7 p. m., Sundays and legal holidays ex cepted, until MONDAY. October 21, 1878. at I o'clock p. m. J. O. LANDRY, au30o 6t Registrar. Parish of Orleans. JULIO, PORTRAIT PAINTER Ne. Carendelest Street, New Orleans. Portraits from life or from picturee of the deceased (in oil or crayon). from S to My ART GALLERY is a place of free re sort, and the public is invited to visit it & pleasure dels tf DL CHARLES LANABX, DENTIS4T, oefie-No. an2 Soyu street, Between Conti and St. Louis streets. mY esdm 2dp