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VOLUME III—NO. 633.
NEW ORLEANS, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1876.
PRICE—FIVE CENTS.
III—NO. 633.
WALLACE, CARY & CO.,
IMPORTEES and JOBBERS
-OF
foreign and domestic
DRY GOODS
CORNER OF
Common and Magazine Streets,
..... ,
INVITE THE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE
TO THEIR EXTENSIVE AND COM
PLETE ASSORTMENT OF
DRY GOODS
DRESS GOODS
HOSIERY and
NOTIONS,
MOW OPENING AND BEING RECEIVED BY
EVERY STEAMER.
LIBERAL TERMS TO ALL.
SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO
CASH BUYERS.
mh2G lw lstp
Sealed Proposals.
Sealed proposal* will bo received by the Adminis
trator of Improvements until MONDAY April 3,
1876, for repairing one of the waterwheels of the
Sienville Draining Machine, as per specifications on
Nie in tbe office of the City Surveyor
E. A. BURKE,
Administrator.
New Orleans, March 31,187C.____ mh31 3t
WALTER E. UEPP,
IMPORTER OF
WISES ISO LIQUORS,
mb 96 3t No. 101 Gravier street
WANTS.
■ WANTS inserted in this column nt
ONNTS per square. _
FIFTY
W ANTED—A GOOD WASHER AND IRONER
and to do housework. Apply at 130 Bourbon
■beet between Toulouse and St Peter streets.
m30 3t* _
W ANTED—BY A YOUNG MAN WHO
speaks end writes Freuch and Euglwn. a situa
tion as clerk in an office. Best of references pro
dneed.
jr r _\Yill pay $25 to any person who nan procure
Aim n suitable place. Addiess, JOiBPH A. at this
mh31 4t*
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'ANTED—A GIRL TO TAKE CHARGE OF
children and make herself generally useful.
at 464 Dryade» street
w
ANT ED-A COLORED GIRL ABOUT 12 OR
13 years old, to nurse. Apply at 171 St. Andrew
(etf between Constance rn«f Laurel mh2S tf
■MTANTED-A YOUNG GIRL BETWEEN THE
ww age* of twelve an-1 sixteen, to assist in house
■nik mill make herself generally useful. Address
X. A. R., Bulletin Office, stating name and residence.
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'ANTED— A YOUNG WO NAN AB : E TO
work on Sewing Machte e do plain sewing and
> to housework. Address Car, stating wages
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•sM THIt -A UOuD &ÏZED SECOND-HAND
_ * sole leather TRUNK Must be iu good cindi
Um and cheap. Addieea " Trunk," Bulletin office.
mhl6 tf
-ANTED—OCCUPANTS FOR WELL FUR
nished looms, in n house centrally and agree
-U s-i—I One is a front room with gallery, and
SSewetwo others adjoining. Price modeiate.
Mmtefitmilr. Apply at Tt Ra mpart strwt. mii.'tf
Ï S 7~, lîHj KM lMt LlT'-tm OUU'ibM
snmted^ to rent—The one with three and the
- . ^tth f our due looms and unusual conveniences
■ who siioêee to do their own housework.
_ l.— aio« flower gardens in front and
lain the rear. To those who are able and
mwv their rent in advance, to the amount
SkAwnMtb are invited to take the Common or
üdmataH which pass every five minutes, and
rvfJÜTv.. go and 94 Bolivar street, near Com
"E. WOOD PERRY, ntW Bohvar
W ANTED—PURCH'a^EKS -
, FOR EGoS FROM
_ (-allowing nuouva w. p chickens: Partridge
t3ner dozen; Buff Cochin, $3 per dozen;
to 5o per dozen. The m ove chick
selected witn a view of having the
birds and for their egg producing
particulars, address P. C., Bulletin
wmfaMTED— Some three or lour nice Families can
W A £?J™mmodated with fin# Furmsbed Rooms
^.v-hwrt^Board 1« St- Charles street, nemly
- fefrT""'* Square Also some twenty-five
^^^Werswill betoken at four dollar,
***? S^Weta advance. This is a great redne
prices. The house is first-class.
^tononein the* city. None need apply but the
,*£££ Remember 149 St. Charles street.
'•sir
_ Carnages and Buggies
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W m*"» ^T&rthe rainé by calfin,
MADDUX, Is Carondelet atreet, dealer^in
1,000 Ladies and Gentlemen to eal
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' M IJiUlU*""—---
35 Carondelet street.
FOR SALE.
TTT^ZiTAVERYGREAT BARGAIN
oomf-rtable Frame Cottage, form
* new n^.inn and Coliseum streets—con
streets—con
Wrn ^La th"ughout - on two lotoof
six YDOWt Ç* _ Am-»*, hiffhlv oinameuted
iruboeiy, " d can be bought ve-y low
^g*T«SS to H. M. BOBINSUN.rcCar» 11
reet.
pourncAL.
Kxerative
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. ^ITrative Party, New Orleans,
hs Consorvau mee tiig of the Central
ÆtoSS if the D^moSrafo Censer^
' ^is^ SUte of Lmu-iana on TBUKS;
f Am »ha transaction oi cwflisl
member ef the committee lJeain
KTWy »"r'l. W . PATTON,
1 Execu:ive coarmittee.
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THE KNIFE.'
A Colored Woman Stabbed Four
teen limes and Seriously
Wounded.
A Fight for a Husband.
Caroline Moore and Maria Radley, alias
Wilson, both colored, became involved in a
difficulty at 4:30 o'clock last evening, on
Peters, between Erato and Thalia streets,
about a colored man named Albert Smith.
They both liked him equally wel, but
Maria was, as she alleges, lawfully married to
him, and as a matter of oonrse claimed him
as belonging to her and not to Caroline, who
he was in the habit of calling on very fre
quently.
They met last Sunday at Miria'u house,
where the difficulty bad its origin. Maria
accused Caroline with having captured her
better half, which allfgalin she denied in
toto, but said that he loved her and it was
impossible to drive him away when he called,
more especially as he was an old friend.
Maria was unarmed at the time, but swore
that she would kill Caroline on sight. They
met jesterday afternoon on the sidewalk near
Maria's residence, and as she had said that
ahe would kill her on sight, Caroline arnud
herself with a pocket-knife reuly to have a
fight, and she did have one when they came
together and came ont first best.
Maria sallied forth with a good-sized knife,
which she displayed before they clinched,
and only managed to inflict two slight
wounds, while Caroline plunged her kaite
fourteen times into the body of her antagon
ist, inflicting dangerous bat not neces
sarily fatal wooj'ds. Caroline, after carving
her assailant, walked rapidly down the street,
bnt before she arrived at the corner of Erato
was collared by a peeler, who marched her to
the Second Precinct Station. The wounded
woman was conveyed to her residence in the
vicinity, and attended by Dr. Beard, who
pronounoed the wounds serions bnt'not dan
gerous. __
A VALUABLE REL'IC OF 1812.
The near approach of the Centennial, and
the passion for relics it seems to have so
strangely engendered, has stirred up the dnst
of many an old lnmber room to good pnrpose.
Everywhere reminders of early history are
being dragged into light, all of which are
more or less interesting on account of the as
sociations 'they revive.
Louisiana has been somewhat tardy in catch
ing the prevailing fever, but that she does not
intend to be left behindhand in the way of
contributions is proven by the very interest
ing relic of 1815 recently shown to us by oar
esteemed townsman, Mr. Aristide Flangeac,
late of St. Lau dry parish, who is about for
warding it to the managers of the Centennial
for exhibition in tbe Hall of Relics. This is
no less than one of the veritable holster pistols
used by Gen. Andrew Jackson through the
Indian war, and lastly at the battle of New
Orleans. The history of this weapon and the
manner in whicb it came into Mr. Flangeac's
possession is full of interest.
It seems that the grandfather of the present
possessor was Capt. Garrigues Flangeac, an
old French merobant of New Orleans, who
lived for many years subsequent to 1815 on
his plantation, situated upon the river bank
about a mile this side of Chalmette, where the
battle took place. Gen. Jackson, on tbe
morning and evening of January 8;h, going
and returning from the field of battle, made
Flangeac's house his temporary headquarters.
Flangeao himself was in command of a bat
tery of brass carronades which did splendid
service during the action in repelling the
main attack of the enemy upon the front.
Gen. Jackson, before leaving Flangeac's
house for the city, complimented him highly
upon the gallantry he had displayed and pre
sented him with his holsters. At that time
they contained two -pistols, somewhat re
markable at the time, as being the first per
mission look pistols ever seen in this country.
They were of French manufacture and bad
been presented to Albert Gallatin, then Sec
retary of War, by Gaspard de Lafayette, son
of the illustrious Maiquis of Revolutionary
fame. Mr. Gallatin afterwards sent them to
Gen. Jackson for gallantry displayed in his
Indian conflicts.
For many years these pistols were preserved
as a valuable heirloom in the Flangeac family,
but daring the war, being compelled to move
hastily to St. Landry, upon the oocapation of
the city by Gen. Bntler, the holsters contain
ing them were lost O Jy one has since been
accidentally discovered in a negro cabin on
the Benston estate in St Landry, by a nephew
of Mr. Flangeac, and this he now intends for
warding to the Centennial.
As might be supposed, this venerable fire
arm is a very antique and clnmsy affair. The
ramrod has disappeared. It weighs two
pounds six and three-tenths ounces. Its total
length is fifteen inches, with the bntt strongly
cased in iron. The length of barrel is nine
and one-tenth inches, with a bore of three
fonrths of Jan inch—almost a young cannon.
It is brown and rusty with age, but still a for
midable weapon.
There is not the slightest doubt about its
genuineness, as its appearance is thoroughly
familiar to Mr. Flangeac, who has handled it
hundreds of times when a child. Besides
this, the initials "A. J." are rudely carved
upon the stock, most probably by the hand of
Old Hickory himself. It is to be hoped that
this relio of the days that triad men's souls will
be placed on exhibition somewhere in this city
by Mr. Flangeac, before transmitting it to
Philadelphia. It can not fail to excite intense
interest among our old citizens, who revere
the heroio past, fraught, as it is, with its many
glorious memories.
Ladies, remember that to-day is Remnant
Day at M. L. Byrne A Co. 's, No. 163 Canal
atreet _
la a lata Peris almanac President Grant is
set down aa a tanner by profession.
POLITICAL TALK.
Everything was dull
AT THE STATE HOUSE
Thursday morning. There were th^usual
number of politicians in attendance and the
same old crowd of office-seekers were on
hand, bnt they were only awaiting an audi
ence with the Governor.
The faithfnl have started already to make
an assessment for
A CAMPAIGN FUND.
Thursday morning a dispatch was sent to
all stations announcing that, in consequence
of the Board being in financial difficulties,
every patrolman wonld be docked eight days'
pay every month, or $20.
This will rn.ke a fund, in one year, of
$ 120 , 000 .
The pay of a patrolman is now $75 per
month, and this asses- mont will reduce them
to $55.
This continues until October 1.
THE FUNDING BOAED
met at 12 o'clock, and passed npon and ac
cepted applications as follows:
Kremmelberg, 8chaeffer & Co........... $1,021
Thos. H. Hunt.......................... 10,200
Edwin Harm........................... 129,540
»Samuel Smith.......................... 1,020
W. S. Donnell........................... 25,5n0
J. B. Manning.......................... 12,210
Chas. T. Hoffman....................... 98,500
Jos. R. Carter........................... 4,080
L. B. Bensel............................ 8,110
To'al.............................1290.21'J
The above amount included over $100,000 of
THE BACKBONE RAILROAD
Bonds which were tne other day by a decision
of the Supreme Court of the State declared
valid. There were bonds issued to the
amount of $1,122,000 for the banefit'of tbis
road. During 1874, $577,000, and during
1875. $188,000, amounting Ugether to $765,
000. Taese bonds were converted into new
consols. This left $357,000 outstanding.
Tnis outstanding amount, or a portion of it,
was taken into oonrt anti was o mied up to
the Supreme Court, aud the Sapreme Court,
as above stated, declared the bonds valid.
Mr. J. H. Oglesby- was eleoted by the board
to fill the vacancy created by th9
BESIGNATION OF ME. BALDWIN.
Mr. Baldwiu's resignation reads as follows:
New Orleans, March 29, 1876.
His Excellency W. P. Kellogg. President, and
Membete of the Board oi Liquidation, State
of Louisiana :
Gentlemen— I have at very great inconve
nience delayed nntil the present time tender
ing, as I now do, my resignation as a member
of yonr board.
When I accepted the eommission I was
conscious that a dkobarge of the duties it
imposed, no matter how faithfully and disin
terestedly performed, would almost certainly
fail to command kindly recognition or popu
lar appreciation, and that I must seek my
reward, if any, in the approbation of my own
conscience. I have faithfully and earnestly
endeavored to exeonte tbe trnst impartially,
uprightly and justly, according to my judg
ment and the best lights, in tbe interests of
the State and the pnblic creditors; and wbile
so doing I can now, with pride and pleasure,'
add that whether I was in aooord with or i:
opposition to members of tbe boaid in wbi
was done, I never experienced abatement o
their uniform respect.
I sever, therefore, my connection with th<
board with the kindliest wishes for its mem
bers, individually and collectively.
I have the honor to be,
Youre, with respect,
A. Baldwin.
The Board, after accepting the resignatioi
adopted the following resolution :
Resolved, That the thanks of the Board
Liquidation of the State of Louisiana, b
ana are hereby tendered Albert Baldwin, Esq
for the able and courteous manner in whi<
he has discharged his duties as a member
tbe Board ; and that, in accepting his resign
tion as Fisoal Agent of the Board, the Boai
regrets that they will no longer have the
vantage ot his skill aud experience in di
charging the many duties devolving up«
them.
THE SENATE ENROLLMENT COMMITTEE
have turned over lo the propar officer all bil
in their possession. The fact is made kno
to Speaker Eslilette in a communication fc
warded to him yesterday, of which the folloi
iog is a copy :
Senate Chamber, State of Louisiana,
Secretary's Office,
New Orleans, March 30, 1876.
Hon. E. D. Eetilette, Speaker of the Honse
Represents.ives :
Dear Sir— I have this day received from ti
Chairman of the Committee on Enrollme
and Engrossment the remainder of the bi{
held by him, viz :
S. B. No. 110, "An act relative to warrai
of constitutional officers."
S. B. No. 131, "An act to incorporate
town of Fran klin, parish of St. Mary. "
S. B. No. 136, " An aot to incorporate
town of Providence, Carroll parish."
S. B. No. 137, " An act to amend section
1 of an aot entitled an aot to amend and ae
enact sections 1, 7, 49, 56, 61, 66, 75, 77 of Im
act to provide a revenue, to levy and ooilttt
t&Z68 @tC (
S. B No. 163, "An act to exempt from Stile
and parish taxes lands overfly wed by Graf d
Levee aud Bonnet Carre crevasses, and ott(Br
crevasses now existing."
S. B. No. 183, "Au act to amend the Con
stitution of the State."
They will be placed by me to-morrow be
fore tbe President of the Senate for signature,
aud then I will awaityour arrival to dispose of
the Barne. I hope, Mr. Speaker, that the
anxiety which you have shown heretofore will
in no way be diminished, as lam really anxious
to be lelieved from any further responsibility.
Very respectfully, P. E. Bechtel,
Secretary of tbe Senate.
THE WOOD CASE ON TRIAL.
Damaging Testimony to the Accused.
The cases of the State vs. the notorious
James Wood and W. F. Dunham, was brought
np for trial in the Superior Criminal Conrt
Thursday morning.
John McPhelin, District Attorney, and
Henry C. Dibble, appeared for the State.
The accused, James Wood, was represented
by Messrs. H. C. Castellanos A Son, assisted
by Messrs. Eagan A Schmidt.
The first case balled np was the one of will,
fnl and corrupt perjury. The remaining
charges against the two accused, W. F. Dun
ham and James Wood, are three coses of
forgery.
First count—Forgery and procuring to be
forged a certificate of a pnblio officer.
2. Publishing as true a certificate of a
public officer.
District Attorney John McPhelin stated to
a Bulletin reporter Thursday morning, that
all the cases wonld be tried in rapid succes
sion.
The first witness called to the stand was
Mr. Peter Burke, who testified that he was
deputy cleik of the Superior District Court;
that he was authorized to administer oaths,
and that ob the 31st day of August, 1875, he
administered to James Wood, the accused, an
oath setting forth that all tbe allegations con
tained in the petition shown him (the witness)
w«e true, and that tbe accused kuew full well
what he swore to and what he signed.
Mr. Joubert, tax collector of the Second
District, was next sworn. He testified that
the tax on the property described in the peti
tion bad never been paid.
Mr. Victor testified that he was employed
in the Auditor's office; that the records in the
Auditor's office did not ßhow that the taxe s
on the property described in the petition had
been paid; that they bad cot been paid; that
he had released the property described on
Mr. Wood showing htm a receipt that the
taxes had been paid.
Mr. J. D. Taylor testified that he was em
plowed in the office of the Assistant Attorney
General; that he was present at an interview
between Judge Dibble and the accused, at
which the accused stated that the taxes on
the properly described in tbe petition had
been paid, and thst the receipts were in the
hands of Mr. Phillips, his attorney, who has
since died.
This conversation was held the day previ
ous to the filing of the petition now in conrt.
Wood stated that he had payed the tsxes.
A cross-examina'ion failed to shake this
testimony.
Mr. J. M. Conway was tho next witness
called, and testified that he was employed in
the office ot the Recorder of Mortgage in the
capacity efehiet deputy. He identified a pa
per which Judge Dibble stated he intended to
show was a forged document; that it was
forged by the accused and presented in the
office of the Recorder of Mortgages by one
W. F. Dunham, acting as the agent of the ac
cused.
On motion of Judge Dibble, court adjourned
nntil to-day at 10 A. M., when this case will
ue taken np.
A strong eff >rt was made to have the pris
oner relea-ed on bail. Jadge Steele fixed the
bail at $1000. Wood, failing to furnish the
bond, was marched off in on arge of a deputy
sheriff to the Parish Prison.
CITY BONDS.
Judge Yt'oods Refuses to Disturb
Their Status.
Decision in the Morris Ranger Case
Jadge Woods, in the case of Morris Ranger
vs. the city of New Orleans, read an elaborate
opinion Thursday morning.
He said that the bill sets forth that the
plaintiff wa3 the holder of five Jackson Rail
road city bonds, under the act of the Legisla.
yirts of 1854. . Further, that the complainant
had obtained judgment on thèm and execution
had been taken out
The J udge reviewed the consolidation of
the several municipalities of the city and re
ferred to the charges ot the bill that the
issuance of bonds since has been illegal. The
bill complains particularly against the Pre
m * am Bond Plan, and asks particularly to
restrain tbe city from carrying it into effect.
l Jadge Woods said this case was essentially
the same as the Maenhaut case, already de
cided ; that as no harm oould come to the city
he would grant that portion of the injunction
to prevent the city from diverting interest
funds. .
The second part of the injunction, asking
that the city be restrained from receiving
scrip, he refused. It seemed that the com
plainant was standing in his own light. All
that the bondholder can ask is that the tax
shall be levied and collected and his iuterest
paid. He said that it was impossible for the
city to collect old outstanding taxes, unless
they are paid in something less valuable than
money.
On the third branoh of the injunction, ask
ing that the city be enjoined from paying
bonds not dne where the oomplainant's bonds
are dne; he said holders of bonds ander the
consolidation acts, in accordance with the
37ih section act 1852, limiting the right of
the city to create an indebtedness, had a right
to expect and to exact all the conditions
against the city.
$15,000,000 bonds have been issued sinoe
1854 without complying with the conditions,
bnt they are in the hands of bona fide holders,
and the consolidated bondholders have waited
supinely and too long, and they can not now
come into oonrt and say all the issuance of
the city bonds are illegal, the holders of con
solidated bonds can't complain now.
These bondholders havs not the right to
dictate how the city shall apply the funds
collected. 1 It is conceded that he has the
right to see that fnnds collected to pay inter
est funds is paid, but the bill goes farther
and asks the oourt to substitute its decision
for that of the legal officers.
The plaintiff has mistaken his remedy, be
ing without right to demand tha^the funds
of the city be disbursed as he sees fit.
The injunction, as to enjoining the city
from diverting the interest funds, is granted,
but otherwise it is refused.
The following is the closing part of the de
cision :
Have the holders of these railroad bonds,
the Water Works bonds, and the consolidated
loan bonds, the right to dictate to the city
how it shall apply its lands raised by taxa
tion? The right of complainants to demand
that the fund raised for the interest npon their
bonds shall be applied to the payment of their
interest is conceded, bnt in this bill the com
plainant goes farther and he demands that
other lands not raised specially to pay his in
terest or to pay his principal shall not be ap
plied to the payment of the other bonds.
In other words, he oomea into tnis conrt
and asks it to substitute its discretion for the
diseretion of tbe city in the administration of
the ftnanoee. Well, now, if he had any lien,
or if there was any trust fond which be had
the right to snbjeot to the payment of his
principal or interest, the oonrts wonld enforce
the trust; if he had a lien npon any particu
lar fand the coart would enforce tbe lien ; bat
he does not make snch a claim: he simply
asks that the oity be restrained from taking
its own money and applying it to the pay
ment of its own debts aocordiog to its own
discretion.
In other words, to substitute his diseretion
and the diseretion of this oonrt for the discre
tion and judgment of die city, to whom the
law has confided the administration of tbe
city finances. It seems to me the complain
ant has mistaken his remedy. He has his
bonds and judgment npon them, and he hss
tbe right to have a tax levied to pay the prin
cipal npon these bonds; that is the only rigbt
te has, and that right is only to be teonred
by tbe common law remedy of mandamus by
applying to this conrt; but he has no right to
demand that tbe futid raised by tbe city not
for tbe payment of tbe principal and interest
of bis bonds should be made by the city in its
own discretion.
I will allow the injunction to go to prevent
the city from using any of the money col
lected for tbe purpose of paying any interest
on the bonds of the complainant and others
holding like bonds, and to prevent snob
money from being applied to the payment of
any other debt ot the city; but I must decline
to restrain the eity from the reception of
scrip in payment of tbe interest tax of all tbe
years running from 1860 to 1873, and must
decline to interfere with tbe Premiam Bond
plan.
A TRAPPED BURGLAR.
He is Shot by an Alarm Gun and
Wonnded in the Hand.
Ingenuity Crowned With Success.
Thursday morning about half-past 5 o'clock
a burglar effected an entrance into the resi
dence of Mr. A. Frederick, No. 135 Baronne
street, by dimbing the gallery post and rais
ing a window leading into that gentleman's
sleeping apartment The thief quietly sneaked
through the room and went down stairs into
the store on the ground floor. It is supposed
that his intention was to rob the store of a
quantity of lead pipe, wire, etc., as he passed
through the room without laying his hands
on any of the valuables that were lying around
loose at his disposal.
The entrance to the store from the rear was
easily effected by raising the latch 91 the
door. Oaoe inside the barglar abandoned the
idea of returning the way he came, and re
paired to the front door leading on the street
before be gathered his plnnder, evidently for
the purpose of allowing his pals on the out
side to come in and help him to carry it away.
The door was ssenrely fastened with an iron
bar, abont three feet long, and the only wav
to open the door was to raise the bar, and he
did so, not thinking for a moment that an
alarm wonld be given or the danger he ran of
being killed. Oa the end of the bar was tied
a black string which passed through a pulley
and was attached to the trigger of a large
sized dueling pistol, loaded np to the mnz
zle with fine shot.
The pistol pointed directly to where a man
wonld have to stand to open the door from
tbe inside, or would frighten any one off that
tried to foroe the door open from the ontside.
The barglar, whoever he was, not knowing
that a trap had been set for him or any other
person who had no right in the honse, raised
the bar, and in doing so polled the trigger.
The pistol exploded, making a report like
cannon.
Corporal Smith, who was standing at the
time in front of police headqnarters, heard
the report of the weapon, and immediately,
harried in the direction from whence the
sound seemed to come.
Oa arriving at Mr. Frederick's store, he
found several parties on the sidewalk, some
of them inmates of the house, who informed
him that a barglar was on the inside The
corporal entered the store through the rear
and-discovered that the ingenious pistol-jrap
for burglars had exploded. The front door
was opened, when it was discovered that the
unknown man had blown his hand to pieces.
He bled profusely from the wonnd, as
evinced by the blood on the floor, which was
traced back to the rear of the premises, the
way that Mr. burglar thought beat to make
his escape.
The officer searched the premises bnt could
not find him. The supposition is that he
climbed over the roofs and jumped down into
some yard in the vioinity. Wbile tbe officer
and inmates were searching the honse, a man
was seen makiog his exit from an alley-way
with his hand wrapped up in a pocket hand
kerchief covered with blood. He walked down
the street very last and was soon lost to sight.
About an hour afterwards a man entered the
Charity Hospital with his hand shattered to
pieces, and the supposition is that he.was the
trapped burglar. He had his wound dressed
in the office and left immediately afterwards.
ON DIT.
____King Holt was yesterday appointed a
member of the Board ot Control of the Loui
siana Penitentiary.
____Efforts will be made to have a change
of venue in the case of the State vs. Thomas
J. and Adolph Newhouse, charged with the
marder of John Costley.
____The committee appointed by the Mayor
at the last meeting of the Council called on
Gov. Kellogg yesterday, and on their repre
sentation, he signed the pavement bill in
their presence. This bill passed the Legisla
ture at its last session.
____A prominent ex-State official bought the
other day 10,000 domestic crooked cigars at
Internal Revenue sale at the Cnstom-House.
Query ? What on earth can his ex-officialship
need with that many. It looks like another
oampaign movement. Will the domestios be
distributed among the faithfnl, we wonder.
____The recent dispatches here relative to
the investigation of Marshal Packard's office
has created considerable excitement here.
Last evening a representative of the Bulle
tin interviewed the Marshal, and from him
iearned that he was ignorant of the whole
matter.
.... Yesterday a well-known and prominent
gentleman of this city had a very narrow
escape frem being bitten by a water' moc
casin. The gentleman above referred to,
accompanied by some lady friends, was at the
Like and walking on the revetment levee.
As the wind from the lake was blowing quite
fresh, it was proposed by one of the party to
take shelter behind the levee, and. the gentle
man seeing a board lying on the ground
within a few feet of where they were stand
ing, picked it np, but qniekly dropped it, as
on one end, and within a couple of inehee of
his hand, there was coiled a moccasin. It it
needless to add the gentleman, with his
party, sought another reeling piece.
1SÏ TELEGRAPH.
From Washington.
Proceedings in Congress.
The Scheuch Investigation.
Tho Belknap Case.
The Reservoir at Worcester, Mass.,
Gives Way.
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to
to
as
of
it
Great Alarm of the People.
Foreign News.
The Mexican Troubles.
General News.
Foreign anil Domestic Markets.
Etc., Etc., Etc.
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
THE SENATE.
Washington, March 30.— Preliminary busi
ness un important
The 'Mississippi resolution was resumed.
Mr. Bayard spoke in opposition; he urged
that all abstain from the policy of interference
which has been so damaging, and let ns have ^
peace in all the 8tates.
Daring Mr. Bayard's speeoh, Mr. Bontwell
interrupting him, oalled the atteution of the
Senator to his remark of " tens of millions of
dollars," and thought he wonld find that the
facts would not bear ont his assertion, and
what money wae spent there was made neces
sary by the acts of the party to whioh the
Senator belonged, by their deeds of violence,
their intimidation of oolored people and other
each acts of violenoe.
Mr. Bayard said the Senator had taken ad
vantage of hie courtesy in yielding for a ques
tion to interjeot a political tirade of a bitter
kind, and if be had derived any comfort by
it he waa welcome to it.
When Mr, Bayard oonolnded, Mr. Bontwell
said, when he offended any one he generally
wanted to explain or apologize. He thought
the Senator from Delaware, in quite an un
civil and angry manner, had charged him
with injecting apolitical tirade into his speech.
That was tne manners of the man who had
been brought np ander the code ot slavery.
He (Bontwell) was not here as a scholar or a ••
teacher, and he did not propose to be tanght
in manners by the Senator from Delaware.
It was the natural outgrowth of the system of
slavery, and men who were raised under
snob influences could not be expected to
maintain a proper consideration for the rights
of others.
He further denounced the slavery regime,
and said that after remaining in tbe Union
for nearly a oentury with their unjust de
mands, then they withdrew from the Union
to farther establish their infamous principles,
and the Senator froth Delaware was among
the firat to come to their defense in the Sen
ate. He did not propose to take lessons from
snch men as that
Mr. Bayard replied that it did not lie in the
heart of any man to say that he had done
anything that was not faithful and loyal to
the Union. Hs belonged to a family, every
drop of tbe blood in whose veins oAme from
loyal people, and one who charged differently
states in bis thoat a lie. Tbe Senator from
Massachusetts had, as he thought, in a very
angry manner interjected a poli ioal tir.iie
into bis speeoh—he said it and he did not
oare to modify bis language in the least
Mr. Morton followed.
Mr. Brace his the floor for to-morrow.
Mr. Moiton, of Indiana, presented peti
tions of workiugtnen of New Orleans against
the proposed ohinge in the tariff lairs. Re
ferred to Finance Commune.
Senate adjourned.
THE ROl'fE. r
Washington, Match 30.—The ^Jiaval Com
mittee reported a bill that the naval eetimatee
be made in detail ander the varions heads of
expenditures. Passed.
Tbe Committee on Foreign Relatione were ,
instructed to inquire wbeiher there was any
conflict between tue United States and Great
Britain in the construction of the extradition
treaty, and what legislation was neoessary.
Mr. Knott, of the Judiciary Committee,
presented articles of impeachment against
Belknap.
There are five articles, the specifications
unknown. They are confined exclusively to
the Fort Sill transaction.
The substitution of silver for fractional
o urrency occupied the day. No result
. NIGHT SESSION.
Mr. Campbell, of Illinois, intro laced a bill
for a commission of three persons, one of
whom, at least, shall be praoticaliy identified
with the laboring in'erests of the oonntry,
who shall hold offiow for one year, and who
shall investigate the snbjeot of tbe wages and
hours of labor, and of the division of tbe
joint profits of labor and capital.botween the
laborer and the capitalist, and the sooial, ed
ucational and sanitary condition of the labor
ing classes of the United States, and how tbe
same are affeoted by existing laws regulating
commeroe, finance and currency.
It was referred.
The Honse went into Committee of the
Whole on the Legislative Appropriation bill.
After nearly three boars spent in discussing
the paragraph for the pay of clerks and em
ployees of the House, without any action
thereon, the committee rose, and the Honse,
at half past 10, adjourned,, when there was an
announcement made of a Democratic canons
to-morrow, after the evening session.
Mr. Began'e amendment to substitute silver
for fractional currency, making silver a legal
tender to tho amount of fifty dollars, wae
adopted by 112 yoas to 95 nays.
All the other amendments were voted down.
Washington notes.
Washington, March 39.— Gen. Rice pub
lishes e card in the Republican staling that if
Sun's report of Gen, Custer's evidence is cor
rect, it is a lie.
Gen. Morgan's witnesses in the Spencer
case had not arrived, so tbe committee ad
journed to to-morrow.
No progress made in the Spencer and Mo
rey contest tor aeat from Louisiana.
Washington, March 30.— The condition of
Representative Wilson, of West Virginia, has
somewhat improved.
The President waa unable to receive visitors
to-day.
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