The Times-Democrat from New Orleans, Louisiana • Page 8

WHAT IS COMING. THE AFFIDAVITS FILED IN TlHE CUJTOM-hOUBE UNDER THE UNITED STATES ELECTION LAW. If there had ever eistlAd any doubts to the stalwart policy designed by Chandler, Cameron and ilaino belng carried out in all its aggressIve details, the events now transplring, or in conternmpltion, would certainly remove any sceptic ism on this point. W1Ten the press of i he country lately teemed with accountsof the reconciliation that had been elffected ietween Hayes and the Radical cladlors, and the perfect nagree(lnt entered into between the two wings of. the toulublinan (arty as to the change to be made in the Pres'ident's Mouthern policy, the great nmas of conservative people co(lidered the reports too sensa ltonal iandl unworthy of credence.

It will taken but i. short tile to conlvinco the that the aiccountlIs have not been exaggerated. as IS well knownl, ihold a most important conference in Washington a few days since with the ttullcal chieftains. As to what Dassed at the meeting one can only conjecture, but the conjecture amounts to almost a certainty when subsequent events are considered. At the close of the meeting Mr.

Leonard lost no time in making his way homeward, In order that the programme agreed upon should be carried out without delay. When requesteild by a DI)atolnAT reporter to give some idea of what he intended to do, the district attorney, with pleasing frankness, replied in substance that he is not at liberty to tell, but vaguely adds, if any parties have violated the laws during the lath elections, they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. In accordance with those intentions the outrage mill and wholesale affidavit factory have. been prepared for active operations, and will be set going in a few days. yrELY AS A PI'ELUI)E to what will soon take place, on yesterday two allldavits were filed before United States Commissioner Lane, having reference to frauds and intimidation alleged to have been committed during the late election.

The first affidavit is subscribed to by John Jordan, and is to the effect that on the day of the helectio the alliant, Alexandtlr Derrocha, and Nora Morrison, all special deputy rarshals, were prevented by Julius A lthaus, Cornellus Vanlherwall and Joseph 8ax, all oommissloners of election for poll 1, seventeenth ward, f1romt attendance at the count of theevotes cast at said po)ill. The accused in this case were brought, before Commissioner Lane in the forenooin, and, after hearing the evidence offered, the commlssioner decided to send I ho accused before the Circuit Court, under bonds of $250. Mr. Charles Luzen'berg appleared for the defense, while District Attorney Leonard conducted the prosecution. TIHE SECOND (JASiE was that of Christopher Meister, residing at the corner of Greatmen and Louisa streets, who was arrested on the affidavit of J.

W. Bing, a special deputy marshal, who alleged that the former, by Intimldation, rilbery, reward, or offter thereof, did prevent one Alfred (Ireux from exercising his right of suffrage, and induced him to refuse to vote. J. i. IIAIDINiG represented Meister, and, as in the previous case, District Attorney Leonard prosecuted.

Alter all the evidence had bteen submitted, Commissioner Lane decided to seCil the accused before the Circuit Court under $250 bonds. EXCTTTNG I(ROSPECTS AHJAD. The above cases are niere precursors of what may be expected shor tly. It is known that a quantity of flfidavits are now in possession of Commissioner Lane, and publicity will not be given to themi until the parties accused have' been arrested. It is understood that the work of procuring alfldavits from the country parishes is actively progressing, and when the proper time comtes a number of deputy marshals, armed With these instruments, will be dispatched to scour the couutry for prominent ottizens, who will be arrested on the assertion of ignorant, illiterate and unprincipled creatures, and will be brought to this city to stand their it is prop osel trials.

in aii, is po to repeat the Grant parish ffMthar, 4l1 gt ait bolder and more shameless scale titan the original was performed. When it is known that the simple allidavit of any citizen made before a United States commissioner is a sufficient warrant on which to arrest the accused, and, no matter in what portion of the State he may reside, to bring him to this city to appear for examination, some idea can be gained of the immense power possessed by the adherents of the Northern Radl.ais to harass our people-a power that Blaine, Cameron and Chandler will not fail to see utilized. OL AN ibiLtel OF hIEALTH, The following correspondence was made Spublic yesterday, and, as will be seen by a perusal, it effectually settles the vexed question of giving clean bills of health from this port: CoL.EcTon's Orric.t New Orleans. Novhmbet 1,. 118.5.

Dr. Samuel Choovin, Prtsldent Board of Health. New Orl. an4: Sir-I respectfully request to be informed if the health of the city has improved to such an extent since your reply to my letter of the sixth instant as to justify me in isatulng clean bills of health to vessels depalting from this port. Very respectfully, GEO.

L. SMITH, Collector. Or. ia BOARD oF HEAr.LtH. New Orleans.

November 18. 1878. Hon. George L. Smith.

Collector of Oustomus: Sir-In answer to your letter of yesterday, addressed to the president of the Board of Health, I have the honor to inform you that since the reception of your letter of the sixth a resolution was passed at a meeting of the board declaring the epidemic of yellow fever at an end, and that absentees were safe in returning to the city. In view of these facts I see no valid reason why clean bills of health should not be given to vessels clearing from this port. Respectfully, B. F. TAYLOR, M.

Secretary. The following instructions were given by the Collector to his deputy: COLLECTOl'S OFFICE, November 19, 1878. To the Deputy Collector: In view of the statements made herein anc the opinion given, clean bills of health wil: now be issued to vessels clearing from thih port. GEO. L.

SMTITH, Collector. Following the announcement of this corre spondenee Collector Smith was waited on by two score or more persons, among whoa were the Spanish and Mexican consuls, whi had called to procure the much-wishod-fo) and long-expected clean bills of health. bTATE-IIOUSE NOTES. Notice of the death of Howard Farrar, sherif of Madison parish, has been received at the Executive office. There will be a meeting of the Fundini Board at the State-House on Thursday, thi twenty-first instant, at 12 o'clock.

The statement of the Administrator of Fi jance, forwarded to the office of the Board of Education, shows that the total dis bursements for the scholastic year commen ing Nov. 1, 1877, were $187,419 18. The Governor yesterday issued commis sions to several of the recently-elected officer of the Regiment Orleans Artillery. Thu officers are Onezime DeBouchel. major Pierre Oscar Peyroux, lieutenant colonel; Al phonse J.

Bachemin, colonel. Oscar Robii also commissioned as captain of Batter) of the same regiment, rice P. O. Peyrous moted. Gov.

Nicholls is in receipt of numeroul proclamations of thanksgiving as is the Governors of the various States nioui, and sent to him accordiing custom. The documente show thai the twenty-eighth of November, in obedience to President Hayes' proclamation, will be observed throughout the United States as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. DEATH OF MULLIVAN. The young man, Joseph Sullivan, who was stabbed on the evening of the fifth of November, at the corner of St. Joseph and Tchoupitoulas streets, by John Featherston, died at 12 o'clock Monday night at his mother's reeilde1(, on South Market street.

P)r. J. C. Beard, city ph'slcian, in the presence of Corone'r Rioche and his jury of inquest, held an autopsy, and the following is the doctor's certificate of (leath: In the presence of the coroner and his jury of inq(uest I held an autopsy of the body of Joseph1 Sullivan, white, aged twenty-three years, lying dead at his residence on North Market, near Peters street, and found two punctured wounds, one situated in the thorax, between the second and third ribs, about one inch to the left of the median lin; one in the abdominal cavits, stlluated in the left hypogastric region. The wound of the throat ranged downward, inward and backward, penetrating the left lung, producltug pleuropneumnonia and death.

The wound of the abdomen penetrated the abdominal walls without injuring any of the vital organs, J. C. BEARD, City PhyRician. The Inquest was continued indelinitely. The murderer is still at large.

THNE PEAR)DIY 8iMHOOLS. The following communication was receive To the Editor of the Democrat: Rev. Dr. Sears, agent of the Peabody fund, having reduced the funds used for the Peabody Colored Normal School, Mr. Lusher, the agent for this State, is now compelled to retain only one teacher, which is the worthy Miss Julia Kendall.

Prof. L. J. Edmunds has, as a worthy servant of the public, having at heart the success of the school, and having sufficient work at his Academic School No. 4, tendered his resignation to the lion.

t. M. Lusher. Prof. Edmurds leaves with sorrow, and on account of ill health, an institution where he had more pride than remuneration.

Hie tenders, in retiring from the Normal School, his heartfelt thanks to the State and city superintendents for kindness bestowed upon him. He will, however, continue to coouterate with the board of regents to raise the standard of the colored teachers, who, accorlding to Mr. Lusher, are In constant demand in the colore(l schools and in the country. I take this opportunity to appeal to the colored lpeoplo to come forward and take hold of such an excellent opportunity given librally, for their improvement. Miy thanks arcalso due to Paul Capdevielle.

to Col. Jos. Collins and Rev. J. K.

Gutheim, and to Capt. Archibald Mitchell. E. J. EDMUNIDS Principal Academy No.

4. TIHE AIRSYNTIIE ROOM. The cosy little landlmark situated at the corner of Bourbon and Bienvillo streets, for so many years supervised by Vicente Ferer, its proprietor, has been metamorphosed of late, and in its new shape is more inviting than ever. Thoroughly overhauled in every one of its details, it is now one of tie genteel. est places of resort of Its kind in the cityThere are many places in New Orleans where a glass of exhilarating absynthe rcas be mixed, but at the Absynthe Itoom one is ever certain that it will be well mixed, and that no Impediment will interfere with the preparation of the delicate appetizer which he orders before his dinner; for the secret in making a glass of perfect absynthe depends mainly on the time and manipulation bestowed upon it-i-n fact, it might be said that it is the entire secret-a secret which has secured and maintained for the Absynthe Room an enviable reputation, dating thirty or forty years back.

The superior stock ot' Spanish wines of this establishment has also contributed in making it popular, and what in this line cannot be found elsewhere Ferer is certain of having it on hand. FEBRONAL. The many friends of the gallant Major J. D. Scott will he gratified to learn of his return to the city after his sojourn North during the summer.

We are glad to see again on the streets the ivtund form of our friend, Mr. Henry Vose, the well knQwn produce merchant of Magazine street. We were pleased to meet yesterday Mr. Durantda Ponta, who has just returned from an extended tour across the water, looking the picture of health and contentedness. Our confrere has resumed his professional duties on the Picayune.

The friends of Col. James Lingan-and he numbers them by the thousand-will be gratilied to learn that he has also returned to the city, improved in health and spirits, and ready to resume his legal practice with the vigor and acumen which distinguish him. The many friends of that solemn, sombre, melancholy gentleman, Mr. Jos. A.

Rice, are giving him a hearty welcome on the occasion of his "revisiting the glimpses of the (Crescent) moon" in these parts. A residence of three years in the national capital does not seem to have demoralized our friend Joe to any appreciable extent. He is as quiet and phlegmatic as of old. Mr. B.

T. Walshe has returned. This gentleman, it will be remembered, served during the entire epidemic in this city with unflinching courage and devotion to the cause of humanity. This fact somewhat deterred Mr. Waisho's annual visit North, but he has secured a very handsome stock in all the latest novelties in the way of gentlemen's furnishing goods, and will no doubt get a full sha re of the public patronage.

BRIEVITIE3. Preparations are being made in military circles for the celebration of the St. Barbe. The Washington Artillery Association held a meeting last night and transacted simply routine business. Ex-Gov.

Pinchback has returned from his trip North. He declares solemnly that he is not bothering himself with politics. 1 A prominent lumber dealer sports a donkey 1 tandem team in front of his cart, and the conspicuousness of the display proves an excellent advertisement. Among other prominent arrivals we have to note that of the usual crowd of mendicants, who have returned to the city after their usual summer tour and have located on Canal street for the coming season. A well known tobacco manufacturer on the 11 first day of August sent several cases of goods a to a firm in Iouston, Texas, and owing to quarantine restrictions, notification of the ceipt of the articles was only received on Noy vember 18.

The meeting of merchants for the purpose of raising quarantine will probably be held at the Cotton Exchange, as Mr. Dolhonde, the chairman of the committee, was endeavoring to secure rooms in the Exehange for Wednesday night. Canal street yesterday under a smiling sky ff presented as gay an appearance as in midi winter. The crowd of lady and gentleman promenaders out made for a time navigation difficult, and the shoppers gave activity to i the interior of the stores. A thousand voices will be raised in laudaI- tion of him who has decided that the iron to step-ladder at the main entrance of the Cuss- tom-House building shall be superseded by a e- marble staircase.

The substitution will soon be made, it is said. s- It is rumored that there will no Mardi 5 Gras festivities this season. Whether this be true or not, it is known that one of our Carr; nival societies is debating the question, with the probability of deciding in favor of a postu ponement. On yesterday afternoon quite a number ol I awnings were carried away, pillars demolished and lamp-posts violently shaken from i their firm foundations by the crowd of proms enaders on Canal street, who, with great cone sideratiof, vacated the banquettes to givo space to the shopkeepers to place their goods on the sidewalk. MUNICIPAL THE FIRMS REGULAR MEETING OF TIHE PATTON ADMINISTRATION.

The first regular meeting of the new City Council took place yesterday, under the presidency of our new Mayor, Col. I. W. Patton. The occurrence was unusually attractive to the masses as evidenced by the lobby, which was crowded with people eager, probably, to witness the manner In which the proceedings would be conducted by new hands.

Mayhaps there were a few among the attendants who were present in the expectation of having their names mentioned in connection with some good ollice, and to be submitted to the City Council for conlirmation. As it was, only throe names were sulbnitted and conlirmed. Mr. B. M.

Turnbuil, the appointee of Administrator Chevalloy as secretary of the I)Department of Waterworks and Public Buildings, is a wellknown citizen of the Sixth District, and for having occupied the position of Administrator of Commerce in 1874 and 1875. Mr. Chas. Fletcher, retained in the I)epartment of Assessmnents by Administrator Marks, is a most courteous and efficient ofllier whose retontion is due to his personal merits. The proceedings of the meeting were marked particularly by the message of Mayor Patton, the repeal of the ordinance relative to the sale of the market revenues for the next year, and the repeal of the transfer of the inmates of the City Insane Asylum to the charge of the Slsters of the Louisiana Retreat.

THE MEB5AOE. The Mayor's message, communicated to the people yesterday afternoon through an extra of the DEMOORAT, was widely read and universally acknowledged to be a bold, frank and comprehensive document, and withal entirely in accord with the high reputation of its author, Col. Patton. The financial portion of the document, while it did not meet with the appreciation of the premium bond men, was acknowledged by these to be a succinct expose of the financial status of the city, and evinced that our new Mayor was thoroughly acquainted with the subject lie was treating. A little surprise, however, was created by that portion of the message relating to the POLT I'CE OROANIZATION among a largo class, who, it appears, have been laboringl under the delusion that a new city administration implied an entire reorganization of the police force, which is not the case undler the law, the fpower of remonvlug andl silspnldinig Ising exclusively vested in the Board of Police Commissioners.

NEW AP'POINTMENTS. The appointment of Mr. John Barrett by Administrator Meallie to supercede Mr. Gallagher as sexton of the Washington stlet einllln ries was annoIunced yesterday. It is also genierally understoodl that Mr.

L. Bower will he retained as chief clerk ill the Mayor's oilice. The retention of Mr. Bower will ie hailed not onrly as an act of junstice towards him as a stalunch i)ernmorat, but also as giving the assllralllce that the mnayoraily has securedlonce the services of one of its most intelligent, inllustrious and courteous employees. MA.

BOWER has filled his present post for several terms, with honor to the oflice and to himself. Meanwhile he has represented the thirteenth ward in the House of Representatives with credit, and his re-election on the lifth instant to the same bI ody was doubtless made in recognition of his valuable services in the past. MrI. IHOSTON'S REMARIIKS. The remarks of Administrator Houston in the Council yesterday, and which will be found of unusual interest, are printed in the olficial proceedings in the DEMOCRAT this morning.

AMILSI IMENTS. The A cademy. Herrmann appears twice to-day -at the matinee at non, and in the evening at 8 o'clock. The cannon trick, the marvelous witch cabinet, the great mid-air suspension, and other entertaining experinients and foats will be presented at each performance. CITY EICHOES.

John Angel, for threatening the life of G. Friend, went to jail. A thief stole some turkeys and chickens fram Mrs. Laumon's chicken-roost. Albeirt Murry was lodged in the Second Station, charged with carrying concealed weapons.

OQ icer Kennarce says he fired a shot at a thief whom he discovered trying to enter Mrs. Conder's ie.idence, 263 Marais street. Wm. Cullum, charged with larceny, was honorably discharged by Recorder Miltenberger, Richard Nolan, the prosecutor, having identified the wrong man. A man named Thos.

Robinson was brought from Seward's plantation on the steamer Isabel, suffering from a crushed member. He was sent to the Charity Hospital. J. T. G(ettings and Mike Walsh were locked up in the Central Station, charged with being dangerous and suspicious characters, and liable to commit a breach of the peace at any time.

Walter Stewart was incarcerated in the Central Station, charged by Sergt. J. S. Rourke with having a dlog in his possession supposed to have been stolen. It was the general impression at police headquarters that the dog was Stewart's own property.

Wm. Clements, a police officer, goes to jail again, this time for being drunk, disturbing the peace and assault and battery on an officer. Geo. Conovich tried to rescue Clements, and the result was heshared his cell with him. Conovich is also charged with firing off his pistol.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Sentenced to Prison for Life for Murder. BROOKLYN, N. Nov. trial of the sailor boy, John M.

Wright, for the killing of Bernard Ferran, an old river speculator, whose body was found sunk in the Erie basin, anchored with a hundred pounds of ship iron, was resumed yesterday. The counsel for the prisoner claimed that the killing was in selfdefense. Wright was found guilty of murder in the second degree last night, and sentenced to prison for life. He showed but slight emoStion. A Bloody Riot at Mount Sterling, Ky.

CINCINNATI, NOV. Mount Sterling; Ky. special says: A riot took place here yesterday in which from twenty to thirty shote were fired. Two men were killed and three wounded. Marshal Young, while trying to quell the disturbance, was fired upon anc mortally wounded.

Two of the rioters were wounded, one dangerously. John Thompson, a clerk in a grocery store, and a disinterestec party, was shot through the store window and instantly killed. Three of the rioters art in jail, and a sheriff's posse is out after the rest. A Much Married Confidence Man. TEIiE HAUTE, Nov.

notorl ous confidence man, Rev. Mr. Williams awaiting trial here, proves to be Charles Hen man, of Darwin, Illinois. He is married ts wives in Texas, California and Missouri, ha: two wives in Illinois and two in Indiana, al living. He was married under various names So full in extent are his villainies that the: will probably never be known.

Another Murder in Indianapolls-A Wen Known Real Estate Agent Shot by S- Sporting Man-Great Excitement any a Threats of Lynching. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov.19.-Another mur der occurred here this evering, the victim be i ing William Love, a well known real estat dealer, and the perpetrator Warren Tate, sporting man of this city. The tragedy oc curred in the upper corridor of the court-house near the door of Judge Helman's court. suit has been in progress for two or thre if days between Mr. Tate and Milton Pendel I- and Mr.

Love had been testifying to the char acter of Tate, the attempt being made to im peach his testimony. After leaving th s- stand Mr. Love entered the hall, and a the door was met by Tate, betweei whom there passed a few words, 11 which the lie was given by Love to Tate when the latter drew his revolver and shot twice, one shot taking effect in the abdomen and the other in one of the legs. Mr. Love fell in his tracks.

An immense throng quickly gathered in the court-house, and the news spread from mouth to mouth with lightning rapidity. The doors of the two court rooms were locked, and the sheriff's offlicers assisted by the police, commenced the (dilicult task of clearing the halls. Tate was arrested and safely conducted to jail. Love lingered in great agony till o'clock, when he expired. This terrible tragedy has thrown the city into a fresh spasm of excitement and there are mutterings of lynching the whole batch of five murderers now lying in the Indianapolis jail.

RIecognltlon of Iilnoai llruriginrs In trhe ht. LouII Jall--IWherenbourts of a Defaulting Agent. ST. Louis, Nov. Mimm, of Jonrsboro, arrived here this morning, and in looking at tho prisoners now conlined in the city calabooso recognized two noted burglars among the lot that had madeo several successful raids in his portion of the country.

The names of the prisoners are Charles Tracy and Frank Hall. Among the charges preferred against them is that of being principals in the recent burglary of a clothing store at Almnaners. The men are in prison here for slight offenses, and as soon as a requisition can be obtained will be taken to Illinois. Geo. W.

Farran, defaulting agent of the St. Louis National Guard Battalion, has been heard from. lie is in Colorado, and expects to go on a ranch purchased with his stealage. A Wheat Pool In Ihlcagno-The Cutting of Passenger Dates To Be Checked. CunioAno, Nov.

is stated that a pool of Eastern and Western capitalists has been formed to control the wheat market here, and the purchase of 3,000,000 to 5,,01,0,000 bushels to hold until spring, on the strength of which the price advanced yesterday 1l4 cents. J. N. McCullough, first vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad; John Newell, general manager of the Lake Shore, and W. B.

Ledyard, general manager of the Michigan Central, held a conference at the Grand Pacific Hotel yesterday and discussed plans to prevent the cutting of passenger rates. It is believed, as a result, that a compromise will be effected within the next two clays. Rpirlted Away by the Police. NEW YonK. Nov.

Thomas Davis, 855 Third A venue, was: arrested to-day at 2:40 a. in. on the chargel' Iof eig connectedl with tih Stewart case. Thomas' brothier died yesterday, and the was making preparations for the funeral. Where Davis was taken to is unknown.

Superir'ten(dent Walling had no infornimtif in iregard to the arrest. Inspector Murray, who is supposed to have it hand in the arrest, had not returned to polite headquarters up to a iato hour this afternoon. Superintendent Wailing said he knew of no more arrests in the case. Capt. Byrnes said the arrest of Davis was not instigated by him.

An Important Purchnse by the Georgia Central Railroad. NEw Yonrl, Nov. is rumored on the street that the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia has the entire issue of the second mortgage bonds of the Atlantic arnd Gulf Railroad, amounting to $1,500,000. The Atlantle and Gulf road is now in the hands of a receiver. If this transaction is as reported it gives the Central Railroad of Geirgia complete possession of the Southern andl Southwestern portion of the State, and a virtual monopoly of Florida travel.

A Postnrript to Evarts' RIecent Talk. WASHINGTON, Nov. Evarts, in a review of the political situation, printed in the Natlional Repulblictn to-day, states that there is to be thorough enforcement of lag in the South. The Secretary says the attitude of the President is in reality the same now as it has been. He has been disappointed, however, in the fact that assurances of Southern leaders have not been kept, and he now intends to prosecute those who have violated the rights of citizenship.

Evarts regards the future of the Republican party as very bright. The People of Chicaao Vote Down a Proposed New Loan--A Jockey Club. CHICAGo, Nov. proposition to make a county loan of $750,000 for the completion of the new courthouse, which was submitted to the vote of the people of this county at the late election, was rejected by a majority of 11,000 votes. At the late meeting of the Chicago Jockey Club the receipts were $44,514 65; expenses, $20,070 40; nit profits, $24,443 89, from which a dividend of 30 per cent has been declared.

Freight and Passenger Rates at Cinclnnatl. CrNCINNATI, Nov. advance in Eastern fr lights occurs on the twenty-fifth, putting fourth class freight up from twentynine cents, the present rate, to thirty-three cents. The railroad passenger war opens this morning without material change in the situation. Tickets to New York were selling at $4 by two lines and $6 by another.

Marriage in Rich Life. NEw Yona, Nov. the marriage of James Roosevelt to Miss Helen Astor, daughter of William Astor, which took place at Grace Church yesterday afternoon, fifteen hundred cards of invitation were issued, and the church was filled with a fashionable audience. Off for the sand I.ots-Partlng Words. BOSTON, Nov.

Kearney took his departure to-night for the Pacific slope. About 300 of his admirers assembled to bid the sandlot orator farewell. Kearney made a few remarks, advising them to defeat Prince for mayor. The Railroad War at an End. CINCINNATI, Nov.

railroad war has about ended. Tickets are just put at $10 to New York and managers announce that by night all difficulties will be adjusted and the old rates resumed on all the lines. Opening Day. Yesterday was the opening day of Bnnne- caze' new confectionery, at the corner of Canal and Carodelt-t streets. This well known 'nr bonnier has thrown open to the public as neat and cozy a saloon as has graced our boulevard for many a day.

Up stairs, neatly and tastily decorated, is a large salon, and anjoining a small room for private tamily parties. 'rhu place is just what was needed here for a long time. An Important Meeting. The merchants generally of our city will hole -a meeting on Thursday evening, at 7 o'clock, a the rooms of the Chamber of 12, Common street, to consider the feasibility adopting such means as will protect and pro 1 mote a very important branch of trade to thi Scommunity. We refer to the tropical trade which is now much embarrassed by quarantint me laws, etc.

leThe benefit of water transportation has beet aopreciated this summer by many of our citi zens sojournirg at the various watering place on the Lake shore, and also by the inhabitant l- thereof. The staunch and comfortable steame Pearl Rivers has during the summer (and wil a- continue during the fall and winter months to made regular trips between this city and Pas ts cagoula, stopping each way at all intermediat 11 points. Her commander is a veteran in th s. Lake trade, and her handsome clerk, Mr. Ray mend Pruyne.

though young in years and nes to the profession, has proven himself "th right man in the right place;" indeed, to him i due, in a great measure, the widespread nopu II larity that the Pearl Rivers has attained a Whilst payingstrict attention to the business the office, he finds time to circulate amongs tte passengnrs. looking to their comfort an paying particular attention to the ladies, r- old and young, amongst whom he is a generas favorite. The writer has had the pleasure Straveling wiuh his mamily on the P'arl Rivert and can recommend her and her courteous ofdi a cers to the traveling Dublic. Last. but not leas C- we must nention her clever agent, Mr.

Osco Bovden. H- pruvld for the comfort of at A and is at all times active in the Interest of th ee boat. SThe people of Montgomery, recentl a- sent out a health committee to examine oe huge casting, intended for a cotton prest made in the yellow fever region. After die infecting it with carbolic acid, it was consid in ered safe to admit it without danger to th public. NOTES.

WHAT WAS GATHERED YEaSTERDAY IN THE GRANITE BUILDING. The defeat of Mad. Wells, the great exreturner, In his aspirations for congressional honors, has had an almost disastrous effect upon the peace of mind of the nominal Surveyor of the Port. Wells is reported as sufTering from a severe attack of fever. and finds himself unable to remove from Rapides parish, where he Is prostrated.

'There was only one entry yesterday-- the Harriet GarIdner, from Key West. The Spanish hark Antonia cleared yesterdayv for S'paIn with a cargo consisting of 1000 bales of cotton and an assorted lot of barrel staves-- value $47,415. The mails continue to be late anti irregular in their arrival. On yesterdla.y the mails from the North and East, via he Mobitle road, had not arrivetl up to 3 o'clock. The Jackson mail was delayed three hours.

The superintendent of the building intends to fit up a few chairs, desks, etc. in the pension agent's apartmient anti grand jury room, for the teimrporary use of the Circuit and United States District Courts. The customs dues for the past week amounted to $41,110 37; yesterday's dues amounted to $7978 22, exclusive of $2076 60 tonnage dues. Yesterdaty Collector of Internal Revenue Marks disposed of sone $1800 worth of stamps, principally for use on cigars and tobacco. During yesterday afternoon the German Consul paid a visit to Collector Smith and informied him of his wish to procure a full list of all vessels which entered the port of New Orleans dluring the year 1877-79.

The Collector with his usual readiness to oblige, promised to attend to the request. Another familiar face is absent from the walls and corridors of the government building, and its owner is rusticating In the delightful atmosphere of St. Landry. Special Deputy Gollector Th(is. C.

Anderson is harvtsting his vast sugar crop. The General expects to clear from this year's crop an amount sufficient to render hIrn perfectly independent of politics in the future. The employees are consiterably excited over the recent action of the. general government in cutting off the eiupply of ice for the use otf the various depirtmentts. It appears a yearly appropriation is made for lighit and water, antd the present appropriationr will have to last until nIext uly.

Soime two years ago this appropriation failed to hist throlughout the year, and tlhe was, ill supplies of fuel, light and ice were cut, off entirely; this fact probably indluced the governiment ito hlusband the alpropri'atijt for this y-ear by cutting off thlt supply of ice a dtnicitoney that will scarcely ibe noticed during the winter months. TIlE MORMONS. ti The Church of Latter Day Palnts Extendlug Its Ilomlulon Over Neglhboring Territories. th The non-polygamous women of Utah, that of is, the women who are not Mormona, have taken the somn.what unusual course of issui- di ing an address to the President's wife and the women of the United States. 'T'heso ladies set I) forth a condition of affairs in Utah which is on far from hheing encour lging.

If the memrorli- alists are to be credited, the laws passed by Congress for the abolition of polygamy in Utah are practically the deadest of letters. They say that more of these irregular alliances have been consumr mated this than ever before in the history of Mormonism; ad that Endowment houses are multiplying in so differednt parts of the Territory, and in them of polygamous rnmrriages are continually sol- DTe emnized. These houses no Gentile is piermit- he ted to enter; the oaths by which Mormons ScH are bound are so strong that even the courts an of justice cannot extract the truth from witnesses; while juries will not convict. It Is added that the polygamous system has been reduced to the lowest form of Indecency; and these women naturally ask why an apostle vii polygamist with four acknowledged wives is at permitted to sit in Congress. All Utah legis- at lation is shaped and colored by Mormon notions and practices.

The settlements of the ti Mormons are rapidly extending into to Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico and ru Wyoming. They have the balance ro of power In two Territories. The Christian women of the United States are implored to join with the memorialists in urging Congress to keep Utah out of the Union until the further progress of this evil has been arrested. Ministers of the gospel are entreated to bring pm the matter before the women of their congre- tu gations. The hopes of a tolerable adjustment hr of these difficulties which the death of Brig- lit ham Young excited do not appear to have been well founded.

It is not easy to say ex- I actly what legislation would meet the emergency, but it is apparent that a let-alone policy will be specially hard upon the nonMormon residents of Uttah, and can only result in creating greater and greater embar- di rassment. ti A Tilden Paper on the sun's Flop. thi The Sun and the Eagle are agreed on one cc point at least, to-wit: that the war upon Tilden has essentially been a war upon Democracy, and that nothing short of a miracle can bring success to a party which permits or looks with Indifference upon the moral assas- hr sination of its leader in a controversy that involved the life of the Republic. Mr. Tilden may not be the candidate of the Democratic party in 1880, but it is not easy to see with what plea the party, after rejecting him, will go before the people, if he be alive.

Is the fraud to be condoned If so, for what offense shall the American people be asked to condemn the Republican leaders If the fraud is not to be condoned, what evidence of sincerity will the Democrats be able to present that will offset the refusal to let redress express it self through the man upon whom the lraud took its most conspicuous effect? The Sun is, we believe, at least premature with its announcement of Mr. Tilden's retirement. The Lottery and the ElectIon. IPhiladelphia One good result of the election in Louisiana should not be overlooked. It is claimed that I the people have decreed the downfall of the Louisiana Lottery Company, which has done so much to debauch the politics of that State by bribery, and to demoralize the whole counj try by its legalized robbery.

Three-fourths It of the present delegation from New Orleans 0 in the Legislature are pledged to vote the lot- tery out of existence, and almost every Dem- a ocratic member of the new Legislature from the country is reported to be bitterly hostile to it. The New Orleans DEMOCRAT, which has led the crusade against the iniquitous concern, declares that nothing will prevent its final and complete overthrow unless the Ley- 1 islature is bought outright by the lottery money, and that contingency it thinks too un5 likely to be considered, as a large majority of the members elect are known to be honorable I 1 men, with reputation at stake. Not a New Congress. There seems to be an erroneous impression 8 that the Forty-sixth Congress will largely be made up of new members, and that the changes will be fully equal to those which oc1. curred when the Democrats succeeded to the control of the lower house in the Forty-third it Congress.

This, however, is not borne out by the facts. The Republicans have elected to the Forty-sixth Congress sixty-nine members I holding seats in the Forty-fifth, and the Democrats eighty-four, which will make a total of 153 old members in the new Congress. In adt, dition, there are ten or fifteen members-elect ir who have had previous service in the House I. of Representatives ante-dating the existence 0 of the present Congress. So that, in point of fact, the Forty-sixth Congress will by no manner of means be a green one.

a Ulysses. Y. Graphie. Should the Southern question in its new shape come to the front agan, and the cur- I rent is now running strongly in that direction, 1 Grant would be naturally the first man to turn toward. Of a solid North in opposition to a solid South, who is the natural leader Republicans may be called to decide the question.

Many of them have deciled it already, and his name is Gerr. U. S. Grant, the lealder in quite a differ ent contest of a solid North against a solid South. Iideprsndrtlen M.

Herald, IIf the Democrats secure the Independent voters, they can carry the country. T'hey had I lnarge portion of ther inh 1876. and the result is well known. They had niore of themr in 1877, and made imiportant gains. But it is now evillent that a riinlly Inhdependent voterls left Ihe DemrIocrats iiand went to the Republicans this year, enabli ng the latter to carry a mrn jority of the States.

The D1emoCrats mIust win these voters Iack, or take a h.ck seat in 1880. Tho Itepublicans must keep them or go to ttie wall. ---Rip Uip the old SN.rew. hi Times, Ind I Let proclarnation he made tht the Presi(lent andl his party aIre once more at standilng together on the old war platform" Let the old sores be ripped up; let sectional bitterness do its worst; let fraud embrace fraud; let anything happern so that the peril of Democratic success may he averted. Hayes must be mrnade us.ful in the next two years.

After that the tool may he thrown iaside, but, rest assured, it will be despised by none so much as by those whose dirty work it did. Southern Returning Boards. IPhlladelphia Tim as. Ind.) Local returning boards in some of the. Southern congressional districts are countIng out candidates who serem to have the largest number of votes in a way to make the Wells-Anderson affair almost ashamed of itself.

A Republican Representative has been done for in Florida, and some dismally solid work of the same character is progressing in North Carolina. The average returning board has its hands full these times. Many Democratic Needs. Chronicle. The Democracy nreeds to be more of a locomotive party; it needs more backbone, more iron-clad road to ro on, anrd a more liberal expenditure of pecuniary fnol to) supply steam.

If they think they are going to elect the next President without more head, more mol(re miiscle, more lackb lene, mnore hand and a more sensltive stomach than they had int the last 'amlnaign, they will find thelneelVes mor0 than slightly mistaken. Foui1thern Lrnders. Gazet, Southern leaders lannilrot inume of the great arffi'irs of State tai iff, publio debt, rrmony, foreign. qiutions or any part of dolmestic policy, on which they can defline any cnsistint airs. They present the lspectnele of incapability, in a solid South, united by no ro national policy nor aims; nothing but a semi-harLhtarous provineitalisirr, and a blind resentment to the national governnment.

The nouthern "Independents." (Ga.) Enr iirer. Republican papers of the Nrrth are class'ng the: "Inll epe.l.nts" of the uith its opponents of the Dernocratce party. T'his is an error which they will to th- ir sorrow and discomfiture. The truth Is that in several castes the Independrents pl'rove to be truer Democrats than the nomlilnees. Every socalled Indeperndernt iii the ex-Gonfederacy will speak and vote for Demroclralcy.

Knocking at the Door. ington Post.l Washington Territory will be knocking for admission its a State during the approaching session of Congress, but there is not a ghost of a chancte for her to cometle in at present. The )Democratic Congress will be apt to remember Coloradlo, whose admission, outside of the Soul ther frauds, hadl most to do with the inaulgulration of MIr. Hayes. The Voice of a "conqueror." Preo-s, Iepl, If the solid South means--as is now- plainly visible-that power is to ie regained by rebels at any and every cost, and by every Imaginable outratg on law, justiee 1lnd manhood, it is high time the North should become solid too.

It would be an unheard of thing in history for conquerors to tamely submit to be ruled by the conquered. A Sickly Slhow of Haute Fxress, Greoenback.l In the State of Missouri, where the movement Is supposed to boon, the National party elects more members of the Legislature than the Republicans. What explanation his the stalwart McCullogh, he of the towline, to make of this phenomenon Have the Republicans of Missouri been terrorized by Democrats or bulldozed by Greenbackers In For Good. York Having entered upon this course, the President is not likely to depart from it. He will find the whole North at his back.

And for the people as well as for the President, there can te no better watchword in this matter than his own utterance: "The integrity of American citizenship must and shall be vindicated." The Solid mouth. Courier. The fact that most of the Southern States have solid Democratic delegations proves no more than the other fact that Iowa, Minnesota and Kansas have had solid Republican delegations for years, and, but for the Greenback craze, would probably have continued to have them. Not Pleased with Bayard. City Times The London Times retires Thurman and Tilden from the presidential contest, and nominates Senator Bayard for 1880.

Bayard will run well wherever the Times circulates. The Party Which Hlopes. Ben. Butler very truly says, "With the exception of three States the Republican party is in the minority in every State in the Union. And this is the party which hopes to elect a President in 1880.

Stalwarts Depressed. Herald I More bad news for the Bangor Whig. Two Southern Congressional Districts which have 1 been in doubt are now found to have been carried by the Republicans. This is what the statwarts didn't want. The Rest of Us.

Robeson is in, Now for "the rest of us," including Belknap. "John has five oranges; James gave i Seleven, and he gives Peter seven; how a has he left?" Before this problem the recoiled. "Please, sir," said a lad, "we at does our sums in Louis This office was in a terrible state of con' Ssion on Saturday, and for a time It looked if no paper would appear that day. Aft Stwo hours' search we found the original received in the morning, and everything smoothly again. P.

is respectfull i clined. Efforts are to be made in New Zealai acclimate the bumble bee to that country, Sto assist the agriculturist in cultivating clo iThe common bee is not strong enough Sforce its ivay into the petals of the clo. Sflower, and thus fertilize the plant. 0 "Did you attend the church fair last if asked a minister of oni of the male member8 Sof his contzregation. "Yes, sir." "I didn't seu you there," saidl a sharp-eyed deacon.

"I saw you by the outer door at closing-up Well, I attended two of 'em kers Gazette. SThe epidemic having eaused pecuniary disl tress. Dr. F. H.

Kuapo Son, 13 Baronne street, have reduced their prices..