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DAILY DEMOCRAT. OFFICIAL JOURNAL STATE OF LOUISIANA OFFICIAL JOURNAL CITY OF NEW ORLEANS Offe No. 62 Camp Street. INTEIRED AT THlE p'OTOFFIOE AT NEW OBLEANI A BFA()OND CLAS8 MATTER. BATKE op .11Nllll7'IO1N: The Daily Democrat. e ar ......................... O x onths .................. . Thrsp Munths ................. 11ee One Month........... ... Payahle In Advraoo. The Weekly Democrat. The WalsIx I)aMOuaoAT, Ii tnrse eaiht- vnae aaloer, rwlrl be furulhebod to rubeoribers at the iollowins rate: One Year ............................$l 6o f1x M n ......................... 7S 'ibree Monthsl ... ............... hO P'aynhlo In Advanne. x. A. BURKIE, Managing Editor. N-W OlIrANSA. FlrIIIIUARI 21. INNsP. TRIPLE SHEEET AMUSEMENTS. A&Al)EM (e OF M 11U41 Affntiner ald ati nifht "*oltlunil." by Ihr IWealther.Mby (. dicsin 14rohlq'jun. WEATHER PROBABILITIES. Pir Ith (lf Ntrf a's, fnllinll b'romtlrr, southerl1V winds, stim.naltry or highe" Itrpl.n.r ilianr. intw. eagig; Anuitlinrss vnd ruin. An anti-third term resoolution recently in trodu.ut d In the New York lIregilature re celved as many as four Ivpubllic(a voteN. It is evident thatUonkling sUIll holds the party up by the tall. The Irish sooieties in New .Olrk have, after a stormy my eettvig and much opposltion, de clded to parade on St. 'atrick'ls Day. The Blxty-t:tuth Reglment and a number of the soIetIes adhere to their detenrminatton not to turn out, but will devote tihe funds that were to have been expoended for parade purposes to the relief of the suffnring in the old country. The Albany I.vino dnInltrl, until recently a strong supporter of llunator (Conkllng and the Cornell administratlou, has changed. front completely In the last few (lays, and now vlgorously opposes the the third trm and the State adminlstration wIng of the party In Albany. The action of the ,ournal causeua much comment anud it regarded as certain to still further split the party, already hope leesly dlvlded In New Yot k's capital city. A large majority of the Massachusetts Legislature la In favor of a change In the constitution of that State, making the sea slona of the LegIelature biennial Instead of .annual, but the requisite two-thirds vote can not be obtained, and so the change cannot be made. The New England States cling obsti nately to their annual olections and legisla tive seessons, and refuse to conform with the practico of the rest of the Union in this ro spect. The United Htates seeA Canada's late $100, 00(X donation to the relief of Ireland, and will go It a large sum better. The amount which, it is proposed by Congress shall be devoted to this purpose, is $3tO,0(40. This Is the sum which the committee to whom this matter was referred has reported in favor of, and there is no reason to doubt that it will be ,manimously Indorsed. 'rhis sum will make the total amount subscribed by the United States to the relief of Ireland fully a million dollars. A bold attempt is being made to bring for ward Snuator Edmunds as a andhidate for the Republican nomination for the 'resl denoy, it being urged In his favor that he can consolidate all the New England strength, outside of M aine, amounting toelxty-slx votes As he can expect no votes from any other section of the country, it is difficult to see what advantage these sixty-six votes will prove to him. It is equally difflcult to liud out in whose interest Edmunds's claims are being so earnestly pressed just at present. Postmaster General Key has concluded to restrict the service on the "Star" routes to one mail a week. This action is necessitated by the fact that the expenditures of his de partment were largely exceeding the appro priations, and that this was chiey, owing to the expense of the "Star" service. Every one else was aware of this some months ago. The Postmaster General has just discovered that Gen. Brady has been acting without authority, and that he has allowed the public money to be squandered without warrant of law. If he had at the proper time paid the proper attention to the acts of his subordi natre, he would have saved a large amount of public money and prevented a flagrant of Representatives yesterday, and, as was expected, provoked an animated debate. The discussion extended over a period of two hours, and only one section of the bill was acted on. A large number of amendments were offered and rejected, and the section was adopted as it came from the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Farmer, of Ouachita, who had charge of the bill, made an earnest fight for the section as adopted and against the amendments, and was actively supported by other members of the committee. A de cided majority of the House sustained the original bill and voted down the amend ments, notwithstanding the fact that the op poaltion was strong in numbers and led by several influential members. The discsslon of the bil will be continued to-day. THE GREAT RIVER, The commlesson appointed by the Govern ore of the States in the Misalsslppl valley to consider the necessities and importance of improving the great river and its navigable tributariel , have, through their prelsdent, lEugene Underwood. Issued an address em' bodying their views and setting forth the reasons for the faith that Is In them. We re gret Ihat our space will not permit the pub llcation of the entire address, for It is a strong and comuprehensive document, bristling with facts and statistics ani Hlled with unanswer iabl arguments as to the necessity for a vast and intelligent system of improving, not alolne the great Misesissippi tself, but all its tributaries, so that they may each perform the functions evidently Intended by nature. Fourteen States have already appointed commissloners In aooordance with the request emnlsll.ed in the resolution passed at the convention for the "Promotion of Amerhian (lommeore," Ield in this city in l)ecelmbelr, 1878, and from one end of the val Ily to the otither, the people who have for years Ieen neglectful of their Interests, and who have with strange lethargy permittal thcm selves to be imposed upon by the East. are at last arousing to a just appreciation of their power and of theltir lawful rights in the dis tl ibution of the common funds of the nation. Like a giant who has awakened from ai long but refreshing shlp, the great valley is for the first time putting forth Its strength, and the various Status composing Ift, realit.Ing at last that they have a common and a glorious delltiny, are moving forward hand in hand to the achieveulent of the wished-for end. When we rilltct that the region drained by the Mississippi, and tributaliry theroto, con tains 2,)Ie),1)0 of sqluare llow (labollut two ihllrds of the area of tile entire ITllon), that It furnishes a vast proportion of the pro ducts of the country, and that it t on talns a majority of the population of the Ilnited States, one Is lost ini won der tllhat the general government should have for so man y years discriminated against It, so as to make It vtrtnaliy -a hwer- of woodt and drawer of water for the rest of the nation. As an evidence of the manner In which the government has unjustly dealt with the valley we may cite the fact that while for a peorl.l of eighty-seven years there was appropriated the suml of $100,371,322 for the rivers and har bores, only 6,:167,76;9 of that amount was ex pended upon the Western and Northwestern rivers, and this estimate does not include the sum expended in bulhding over live hundred light-houses upon the sea and lake coasts. As our Itepresentative, Mr. olbertson, chair man of the Comlmittee on Levees and Im provements of the Mississippi River, ihas shown. the general government has only expended upon the great river, the grandest commercial waterway in the world, since the hbeginning, about one-llfth the amount given by it to the l'aclll railroads, about one-third of the amount spent by New York alone on her canals, and that New York has re ceived frotn the government for the Improve ment of its rivers and harbors more than one-third of the amount appropriated to the Misslssippi river and its tributaries, which vitally concern eighteen States and two Ter ritories. The report touches with satlsfaction upon the appointment by Congress of the Missis sippi River Uommission, and upon the work of that commission, but contends for a sys temn of improvement which will embrace all the tributaries, which it claims to be entirely practical. It says: Such n system would supply some part, of almost every congressional district with navi gation. Estimating the distance up to points I to which boats now so in good stage of water. the Mississippi and its tributarelos furnish fit teen thousand milesof navitation. Such a sys- I tem would he uusurpassed in its benefits. be cause of the vast and varied productions so cheaply distributed thereby. Th. ghastly spectacle or a famine In China and india. destroying mankind by thousands, while Indian corn is burned as fuel in those Northwestern States. would not be seen had we I a free outlet by the Mississippi and ashlp tran sit, across the I-thmus of Darien. It woult be unsurpassed In facilities for personal and cooin mercial intercourse among the people of this valley: as a bond of union between the States, and a bulwark of defense against foreglan ag gression in the movement of men and imunt tions of war. We cannot refrain from giving copious ex tracts from this interesting report: Should peace and prosperity prevail many young men of to-day will live to see the popu lation of this valley equal to half the present 1 population of the European States above named, and three-fourths of the population of this whole country. The cities of St. Louis and Chicago. at their I present rate of increase will in fifty years rival London and Paris. New Orleans. St. Paul. Louisville. Cincinnati and Pittsburg will rank I among the foremost cities of the old world, and many towns and cities in this valley of minor magnitude will grow into cities of great wealth I and power. According to the last census this valley has a majority of 5 871.675 of the whole population ot I the United States, and it now has a majority of forty-one representatives in Congress. The report of the Commissioner of Agrioul ture shows that the crop product of the Missis stili valley in comparison with the whole country approximate: Corn crop ..............................7 percent Wheat crop ........................... 69 yer cent l Ryecrop ................................72 per cent Tobacco crop ............ .... ......76 per cent Cotton crop......... .......... ... 74 per cent i iHog crop ........ ............ 71 per cent Almost the total sugar crop of the United States is raised in ILu'siana. The coal-fields are estimated at 192.366 square ties, as against '.0t37 tuuare miles in the r States. e iron ores preponderate by an immense I Ins over the ether States. e lead and copper ores are confined almost usively to the States and Territories of this I ey, including the lake shores. e total internal revenue of the United es amounts to from $112,000.000 to $115,000o.,00 ally, of which sum the Mississippi val ev es pay four-fifths, taxed upon their agricul I products. e tax on tobacco alone pays the govern t about $42.oeo.o.o0 annually and three he of this, or $3l,50o,000, is paid by the Mis ippi valley States. e government tax on spirits amounts to ,i5.000,oo00 to st;o.(<0t.Co annually, of which States of Illinois. Indiana. Kentucky. Mis- I ri. Ohio, Tenn' sseeand Wisconsin pay from i ooo.oat to $50.t0)0,O3O. recent pubi-h.,d analysisof the foreign I e of the United States for fifty years from i to 1875 (exclusivo of four years during the war) by Ilon. W. D. Gallagher. of this city, ws the total value of commodities as fol a. viz: rted ............. ...... ......... 11.1701 7 orted .......................... .:,743529 183 e commodities exported, cot on furnished ......-............. 4.59,483,919 accolfurnished .... ...... . .... 670.o7o.st Cotton and Itobacco.............. $5.529,554 812 1 Thus it appears that cotton and tobacco paid $657.790.221 more than one-halt the products of the country that went abroad to pay its debts for a period of fifty years. The reports of the Co-nmissioner of Agricul- i ture as stated show that seventy-four per cent of the cotton crop and seventy-five per cent of the tobacco crop is grown in the Mississippi Valley. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that the cotton and tobacco of this valley ap proximate three-f. urthe of one-half or three eighths of the whole foreign exchange of the country paid in produce. The cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis. lying side by sile at the head of navigation on the Mississippi, contain within a radius of ten miles not less than loo100.000oo people, and ail this is I the growth of from twenty-five to thirty years; and still bey'nd. in Dakota. Montana, and the Dominion of Canada. the growth of wealth and i population is equal to that of Minnesota. This great grain-.growing region, lying at the head of the Mis~isippi seystem, will with I eaeh "unoeedeln year oontribute more and more to Its commerce. TheB States of Mlinnesota and Lnullana are worfth more to each other than are the HtNtesp of Iowa and MinnOeota or the States of MIssli siti1 and Lnulilana to eaeh other retIeetlively. Iowa and Minnesota have nearly the samn vro duet.l-uon. Ho have MlsissleltIt and Lounllana. and there Isn screfly any want of the one that. ostll hbe suptl ied by the other than ennrlnt If AOuplnt l tn mor reailly within Itself. tint. In Inesp(ta wants thi su Iar, I l.thef rif'.f, tihee it on andll the frults of Louttlainn. and L.fniinna wane' the what, the ipotitoe, the beef, the hlter, the 1e, the eranhrri'l and llo the r lrodilofts of MIf tfRfotf, whinh hl Ier own oill mait anld aill do nott prllduc'e nldvantag.elsl. Thi n emutut lIIe pnld tfon* gnrowlyg .It of ivtrvority of lifae, s.il ind prodution', i. the IIxol ernd 'fnalterahin re lation of the upper and lower Mleeisleel itt val lya. Their Intletrco lra e will hoI..lno im r ntll mete afild prIf'fltlitnltr in propirtfllol to to thir in arreaned and nifprovtd fahlllltel of luteroouniUlli tflItf Ion. When we ,'ontmltlhtit,e the rltihl arwt.h of th· North. and that whihk murt Roon itkilk flti In t.h Holuth ae It, recoveRus frfom the diaster.fe f the late war. It I. iani iflt Ithat. no mnltlln of o(nlm nienlitltnl tiltW enf the w ,f poetinnl will hie iadlflllln t their wants othellr thni tlhe Illi Irove.d naviItlil oif the Miesitsifpit river andil all Its lnavigablh trlthbutlrife. for what in aihcd is to, the rfileolloe of thei If upper landl Irwoer MIlssI e.tIv l in ,'fif ily fll itll 'aflle tfo tife vaiittys , f tift Ohlo., th MItIouri, and othelr trithUtrlffc In Ithllr relItlrhofteo Ithe lower Mlacteliif va!lly. Indlenpelndfnt of the btoelltlto tlhe Miseie.alfsi valll y t l.e Improvemel lr lt.l. of ts riverf In o(f gurlat nafillifeI l Ii potr)ltanlll, A mllret refIorltlln tL It an fi Ileaillr of ni tionatl dIlfnon( n11 the tvenft ofl ffrfililin war ImuTi I ulllfTl'. Considedir th i relt five proporflltn orlf ll and matef ria l to bIt, dlratwn froI, i theif Ml tl llssippi viIlltey, and t helli greatl llt y Il In . h aifl tfulan le tllf g lf y of te r ll ,pld Ift rov lcysti 1 (i of vigail tion ex'itndi. . Illng over two I-thirds f the area orf the wholv Sslintry l ll a Itlfcfff1 1 f nat ional lff .ise. Whten we hbvl lookfid upon this valily In all nie rodffllel . may we not ifik thlie nople 0and theli i atlbe, ay we no t l go i t ko IH IIllflls o 'f Unf irtp iiHi atnild I rfl i uponl whlit f1p infllllll i of iet ole or llllt .i lltf)ll this grfal fit. l if ff 1,on iIvIr o in litur fupronthu soa astsaunt th il Ifrfiivfres of itf. Mtpfiel. fptf vnilt.f ? (' inl y1fou lnot n.Iy, gif - htlmlni, to the (ilovertnorl of youtr rfspeetivf tl ta tha1. t Ilhel improvemen t Of thlits rivers. 1tf l flow of the eanio wlitert, i ,fff thf Itofoky nlilt Aillghiany rnoufttlius to the Ii gulft, indini aill into f nl ofifn rffl ti ff l oninlln. I iit f f iIi dletfrv Ini t iheiir .rfoufdf oneflderaittitn and that of th l fitltatures of their rfflesp l. ivf ltft"il. Itl may Il Iutforrtu ll itely ftr tre Ithati they iihave noII Lpowler bly 'omhflind f tion tl o nIolitltfIsh this grt.at work, t.i, lthey lmaiy oleal f to i the Ii tftonal gtovern.i' nt. whlih inf hil as thet lofwfr aind Iifnrlde tolii u, tif. tifilf . ls rI of jilst ,. iilud tff h if t i fribution oif flith Iuf llo 1 f ends f tir on tihll f Iimprovemnlfi ,and upon the scorn of !ivdiir Ir:wt -ihlLnl Ld hun e1rlnnt ' _ FENOES AN , TOOK LAWS. In yesterday's h)io)la 'itAT we publlshed a very able and exhaustive coIIImuniileation from a reader in Avoyelles parish, thankllug the I)ltM(oncAT for thle lpoitlon It has taken on thae subject of stock laws. Our correspond ati; not only realixs the force of all that we have said, he gaes further and illustrateHs by numerous practical examples the evil and In Jury of the system which compel the farmer, large or small, to keep up a costly fence for no other purpose than to protect his crops from the depro datlons of stock running at large. It 'Is not enough that he shall erect enclosures to confine his own stock for the careful farmer alwaysjhlos thles but he must go to the enormous expense or enclosing his entire plantation in order to keep his neighbors' stock out. In this connection our corre spondent makes a very startling statement, which is that the interest on the original sum he has invested in fencing, purely for purposes of protection, added to the annual amount required for repairs, aggregates $550 a year, and this $550 would more than pay his State anti parish taxes. In other words, while the agricultural districts are groaning under taxation which they declare to be ex cessive, they suffer still more seriously from a system which has not a single consideration of policy or justice to recom mend it. The government must beasustained, the laws must be enforced anti society must Ibe protectel, anti to this end It is necessary to levy such a tax as may be required. But there is no conceivable reason for compelling the owners of property to erect and malintain that most expensive and perishable of all things--a fence. If those who own stock would take proper cre of them, there would be no neco-sity for these fences, and we claim that In a civilized community the law should enforce such care upon the owners of stock. The claim has been set up that the enact ment of stock laws would be a measure for the exclusive benefit of rich planters and to the great injury of the small farmers and proprietors. This claim was set up by the Timeas with its customary flourlsh of ears, and the impression was sought to be created that the DEMO('CAT and its friends were meditating a deadly assault upon the interests of the poor and industrious. To show how false and foolish an argument this is, it is only necessary to consider that the cost of fencing decreases in an astounding ratio with the increase of the area to be fenced. Sup pose A and B are living neighbors. A has a field of 640 acres or a mile square. B is a small farmer and has only 40 acres just one sixteenth of what A has. Yet, assuming the cost of fencing to be $250 the running mile B.'s fence would cost $250 and A.'s would cost only $1000. That is to say that B., owning only one-sixteenth as much land as A., would have tospend one-fourth the moneyfor fenc ing. The fact Is, the less the area cultivated, the greater the relative burden of this en forced outlay for fencing. The relief expe rienced by the small farmer asa consequence of sensible and civilized legislation on the subject of stock would be far greater In pro portion than in the case of the extensive planter. It needs but a brief calculation in land measurement to see that the fencing for forty acres is just four times more expensive than the fencing for six hundred and forty acres. If land is $10 per acre, and fencing be $250 to , the running mile, then $6400 worth of land can be enclosed for $1000, or about 15 per cent, whereas $400 worth of land would require $250 worth of fencing, or about 60 per cent. It is the most absurd of all propositions to say that the small farmer is chiefly interested in the maintenance of the present system. The fact is exactly the con trary. And just here it seems pertinent to quote from a recent issue of the New York Sun on this very question: "But. to go back to the starting point, the far mer or stock owner must first make up his mind to be an honest man, and he cannot be one if he turns out his animals to prey upon his nelghb3r's goods, whether it be the grass on a pasture or the grain already harvested. We have received numerous complaints about the stock laws from Northern people who have gone South and purchased land. and several have written us that it cos's more to funce out the cattle of others than their land and all the crops they could raise were worth." This seems to answer the preposterous claim that the small farmers are in danger through the operation of stock laws. There is just one point on which we feel bound to disagree with our correspondent, and that is relative to the propriety of rele gating this subject to the police juries. We must insist that the matter is one coming within the province of local authority. It may true that five-sixths of the parishes have the same interests as Avoyelles, but it must always be remembered that the other sixth may have different intereste. What would answer In Avoyelles or MsyC'ton or ut. Mary, would not necessarily answer' In Cameron or Lafayette; and hence the Impratlvo nectt alty of laws adapted to localitles. The ques tion is one whlch ought to be delt,'e.1l by the people esliI'lally concernel, and ,vt'ry argu ment that applies to the stock law propoit tihf In oAcrtalu localities applies als( to this THEI TEXAS AND PAOI'IO ROUTE. Not. long ago It was announced that a con trin't ihd h,'en formnlly enteried ihto, I)twcen the e'l'exas inl Ilon lac al Rliway (:'olm),iany and a cotutillathin (of pi'Rtallsts, in(lluilg .Jay (lou hi and Kidlney lillhn, In which the latter for thI, cosl.elratilon of $20B.I in bondl andll $20(),ti) in Rtltck per lllle, unlldertok to co)n Iplte within tllree yearn the western exten sion of tlhe road from its prelent terminus, near Fort Worth, to El Paso, on the Itlo (Irande, a distance of some six hundred mileN. 1The 0syndicatn, In addition to the gntleomen above nentiotlled, embnllra'ces a largeo IlBtton Interest, besithis Iseveral genltlelien piroirl niently hhinti ltI.l with the pirislent directory of the 'iTexas and Pallit hiallway (CInlpany. After the conclusion of the contractt it wias dtterlinted bIy the syndti'ate to advertise $5ste.011, of its Ihinds, the tllne for rocIvlng bils htlig flxed at thirty days. At til txpll ratllon of that time over $10l,(i000,0ol0l wore olpenelid, the aveorge of the tilt Is reach Infg 4(4I per rent. It happened, however, that a c'laus of the conltract requlred that at least the stockholdertis of rl.orid, ai propllll sals having leeLn isiued fior thIen fort thirty days, their hittle were oipnted on the nineteenth In stant, when it was found that they aggre gtated .itsl41,0l , or nearly three tlmes tihe anutunt that etha Ii hi std.l the rate ofT'ered algain averaging llt peir cent. 'Then re.mitt of this retruark.thht piece of Ilanattring, it is thoutght, will be thl coniltln of the Houft ith orn routti to the I'uat lie by the etd of I Wf:, as the lhttltngtAm party are pushing thel r lint frinI tlhe ( alf ornia coast with great vlgor, and exprt to be at El Paso before the I':mternll ildttt'ers reach that pthut. In .irece t-[rter vlew withll a rlepor'ter of tlhe 'lhuaellphi "T'irn, Vice, I'r'sihinmt thond, of the 'l'exas and I'actIi, spoke very hopttfully of the pro sptcts of the ntw road. 11, salid that It would not ie possible, under the c.ntracitt, for the syndi cat.e to turn over the road to) ( litli and the oither rnonopollist5 of trans-tc ntinental trans )portattion within Ites than three years, as they are not to gut their hmnds and stock until the road Is finished. Those, he says, will be dolehd oult to thtm just as fast as tlh dlffere.ltt secttiolns of the road. are completed. Even after the whole, anlolunt is paid, if thelo present stocikholdter of recourtd avail theinelves of tilh right rnservIsd tt theit to pur'chase two fifths of the stock, tih syndicatett nltI not buo permittet to own a controlllng interest. B, llg asked what woult beconue of tile pronsoel copotlition with the lluntlngton party In control of the western end, and the Gouldl party dominant in tih eastern divition, Mr. oItnd retmat k.l that It might not aftter all re Ault In sni('ht s:)premo control as is prophoslod. for the mernmbers of tilhe syndicate, soveral of whoml are and have boeen warm proulmoters of the southern routo ever snuce It was pro jactexl, may Interpose soolltld jectlons to nmon opoltlll/ing .chemes. As it stands, the Ilunt ington end will carry dhouble the capital of the eastern half of its stock and Ibond debt, ilng $stn,(tH)( per mllt. Even that is only two thirdss of the stock and bond dtl,bt per mile of the Central and Union Pacific Cormpanies. All danger from the transcontlnintal monopo lists, Mr. Bond still contends, might have b,,on avotdeld if the government hal given its aid to the Texas aitid Paciflic C ompany, as asked. by guaranteeing the bonds to be Issued, as with that guaranteu the company could have fixel its Interest at 5 per cent, and have pros ecuted Its extension without outslde aid. "Iad It been enableti to do so," he says. "tho Texas 1'acllic would have had a shorter route to Megin with, and a stock and bontded In debtedness of leIs than a third of that of the other roads. That of itself would have given the new route a vast advantage In the comn petititlon. The aid was not given and the next best offer was accepted. That happens to have been madle, In part at least, by the men who are largely interested in the other route. It costs 1 per cent more than our first propo sition, but the capltaliz.d Indebtedness of the road as far as El Paso will not be increased." NATIONAL DEMOORATIC CONVEN TION. It has been suggested, and we think with considerable force, that the party convention for choosing delegates to the National Demo cratic Nominating Convention at Cincinnati, on the twenty-second of June next, might be held here In New Orleans, before the adjourn. ment of the Legislature, on the fifth of April. This plan would possess every element of con venience and economy. Very many of the members of the General Assembly now sit ting are also the representatives of their con stitlents in the party organization, and, in cases of localities which have no representa tive on the ground, arrangements could be very readily made to supply the deficiency. The convention could thus be held at a com paratively trivial expense by fixing a date previous to the adjournment of the Legisla ture. We trust that the Democracy in all parts of the State will consider the matter and communicate with their representatives. It is very important to secure the holding of the convention under the favorable circum stances that now offer themselves, but it is equally important that any plan pursued shall enjoy the approval of the party at large. We therefore throw out the suggestion while there yet remains an abundance of time for consultation, and hope it will receive due notice among our party friends. THE OKLAHOMA SOHEME. A Washington dispatch intimates that the agents of Jay Gould are actively engaged in the effort to lobby through Congress the scheme to open the Indian Territory to set tlement. The bill to give that territory or ganization under the name of Oklahoma was the favorite scheme of the jobbers, but the' opposition of the better class of Congress men, aided by leading newspapers, has thus far prevented success. It was introduced in the Forty-fifth Congress and defeated by a direct vote in the House Committee on Terri tories. It was introduced in the present Congress, and the House Committee on Terri tories, to which it was referred, placed it in charge of a sub-committee, which recently reported the bill adversely to the full com mittee, which report was approved. It was supposed that this negative action would end the matter, but it seems, according to the dispatch above mentioned, that (tould's agents have euoceeded In reviv ing the scheme and securing a reversal of the former action of the committee. At a meeting of the committee on Thurs day last Mr. Frost, of Missouri, moved to re consiher the vote by which an adverse report on the Oklahoma bill was adoptedl, and, this being sgresld to, a movement was made to substltuto Henator Vest's bill for that or the HoIuse. IThi Vest bill dillTres from that now pinldling tifore the Senate Committeo on Ter .itorelos. the latter being in the nature of a substltute for Vest's bill. The Menate hill prorvides for giving the Indians of the flive nations of the Indian Territory homestoads of 160 acres of land, anti for the salo anld settlument of the surplus lands. The consent of the Indians Is made a (ondll tion preceident to its operation, but the (ould managemenlt expect to secure this consent by those methods is'cular to their systemrn of operations. Nothing contained In the Henate bill authorizes a territorial organlzation, but with the lands of the Indian Territory thrown upon to settlement a territorial goverlnment would i on follow. As the president of the Missouri, Kansas and Toxasl Railway Com pany, Mr. ( oild has a iseular interest in the passage of Itl (kl lahorrna bill. hermn sornhlitow cannot hold on to his di.,tlrgates after he has secured themi by clrs toni-ihoiiuse pat rtnge. ( ionskilerahie blow was made by tie Shermian ien oiver the electionl of hiermian delegates at large fr om North (arolina olme time ago. Two of thshue four idllilgates, holwever, have sineo t,ltueId from Sherman.l anld have come out uarnestll y and omphatically for (I rant. 'llhero is no way to fix the Ilatter up now, because Lith delegates are alreaady eliected. 'Thll, iirllliLan Irtnll, how over, are plotting revengo, andt if e ititle gates have ally friends in Fedleral illoles, they will find them left out in the cold soon enougllllh. Iu rling the moniths of l.Decemiter antil Janu ary New Orleans more than doubled i ts re eel pts of grain over thle seiae period irf last year, and ranked third on the list of grainl re -rctvetlyn- frts-, -being ex+,eMtd oilly by New York andl Ilaltimore, and leading Philadel phlla anid IBoton a gloo length. Durlng one w.nk of this time, New Orleaan reolvedl 47 per cent as much grain as all the Atlantic Iports together. The New York papiers are consllerabliy alarmed iover this showinig, andt( the Tribunae sees in It the time when New Or leans will secure a largei share tof thograln trade of the country. The conflict betwoen the Czar and the NIhilists in IRuslla continues as bitter and ldtermitrnd as over. Instead of ylolilug to the duemands of the Nihilllst for a Russian national assembly or parliament as was ex pictedl the Czar has Ibscome more obstinate than over and proposes to place all Rucsla In a state of siege. 'lTh Nlhilists, on their part, are equally udtermined and have let Alex ander know that unless he grants their dte mand he may expect to see his capital vilsted by a conflagration greater than that which swept away the Eternal City in dlays of Nero. The Bureau of Statlstics andl Labor in Mas sachusetts gives some illgures on the subject of strikes. 'lThere were no loss than 159 strikes and lock-outs in "the Bay State" last year, 10l) of which were completely unsucessful., The bureau finde It Impossible to give the ex act amount of molney lost by these strikes but quotes as an examrple the late lock-out at iail IRiver, where no less than $1,400,000 In wages was voluntarily surrendered by the workingmmen, nlot to mention large suIls of money sent to the strikers by those In other cities who sympathized with them. It is now In order for friends of the various "hooms" to claim the choice of Cincinnati as a victory for their particular "txxnner." DIED. PLEASANTR-At 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, February 24 Charles I'leasants. aged 56 years. a native of Vevay. Indiana. and for the past thirty-two years a resident of this city. The friends of the family are respectfully invited toattend his funeral, which will take place from his late residence on Prytania street. between Louisiana Avenue and Toledano street' Wednesday, at 1:e0 D. m. JEAN CA ZEAU- Tuesday. February 24. at a quarter pasts I p. in., Jean Cazeau.aged 56 years. a native of Meillan. France. ills friends and acqualntances and those of the Cnzeau and D'Ierete families are respect fully requested to attend the funeral, which will take place This Evening, at half-past 4 o'clock. from No. 177 Bourbon street. * STATE OF LOUISIANA., Adjutant General's Oflcs. New Orloans. February 24. laso. GENERAL ORDERS No. 11.] I. The Governor and Commander-in-Chief. in the name and on behalf of the soldiery of this city. hereby returns thanks to the corps from Mobile and Donaldsonville, who partlclipated In our celebration of the one hundred and forty seventh anniversary of the birth of Washing ton, and congratulates them upon their thor ough euuipment. admirable drill and gallant bearing. II. The Commander-in-Chief. for himself and in behalf of the public, avails himself of the op portunity to express gratification at the punc tual. orderly and soldierlike manner in which the troops of this district responded to Gene ral Orders No. lo, from their headquarters, and to commend them for thorough discipline, complete preparation and impressively mar tial appearance. He hails this demonstration as a striking evidence of the spirit of Louis iana's soldiers, who, while they pray for perpe tual peace, are resolved to be well prepared to defend the State and the Republic. III. Thanks are hereby returned to members of the staff for their attendance and support, ren dered promptly after recent appointment and brief notice. Major Gen. W. J. Behan. commanding First Division, will promulgate this order to the different commands. By order of the Commander-in-Chief. G. T. BEAUREGARD, fe25 It Adjutant General. C. C. B. B. PARK. BASE BALL. C. T. 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