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Ill volume nxii. FLEMING'S yitiJIT MEDICINE DEPOT, If JUQAXOIM STBSBT, BIW 0LA3. McLANE'S CELEBRATED XlTEB P1IXS For tie Ours unmet hsadichC Bering to the irablia ML McLUTK CELB HiIK WVM HUB, hi remedy far LTVIB and jQIOCI COMriiXXn, we presume no apology ij seeded. The gnat prevalence of LIVES C0KTU3T and BILIOUS OISIASKS OF ALL jON throughout the United States, and pecu atlj ta ft West and South, where, in the ma LIU if Clin, tlia patient is not within the teach lUpta physician, require that aome remedy 4 i proTidid that would not in the least im lr to enstitution, and yet be safe and effectual, Bat sea to the true character of DR. McLANE'S jpilrULa, there can be no doubt.

The great jgctM valch has Invariably attended their nae ft think, be sufficient to conTlnoe the most atinloa It has been our sincere wish that n( fQjj aboold be fairly tested, and stand or IB tb eSaet produced. That they have been Minted, and that the reran haa been in every isjoset frvorefcW we call tena of th on sands to Jin tv experienced their beneficial el Dr. LeLaJse'e Liver PUIa mafi held fcrther recommended (like meat of yepular irrijlsPM of the day) aa universal gjnTV but sbaply ai a specific for LI TBS COM jUJin; and those symptoms connected with a fcTatd state of that organ. ii Meatuses of tli liver. giUmliiteli mote frequently the seat of SjtsM taaais generally supposed.

The functions laltfipeito perform, and on the regular exs OJlai at woleh depend not only the general kaBa the body, bat the powers of the Stomach. ln Item; and the whole Xervons System, gait tti vast and vital import an oe'to human When the Liver ia seriously diseased, it stast only deranges the vital functions of the mtj, 1st QTamlens a powerful Influence orer the Bad Kd its operations which cannot easily be de lafiei, hat so close a connection with other fetws, aad aianilssts itself by so great a variety tffaptotu, of a doubtful character, that It i physicians even of great eminence deranged vital organ. The intl i which exists between the Liver and the great dominion which I smoaied it eiaiclsea over the passions ot irW, eeBvineea ate that many unfortunate ksspasTS etauitted acts of deep and eriminal stndtr, aeoome what fools term hypoohon anetj slaiply by reason of a diaeaaed state of the Bran Iaave)seg bean convinced that more than half of the oamplamta which occur in this Motry ua be eontidered as having their gin in. a disaaaai state of the Liver. I will Omnsnt sorts of thsm: Indigestion, Stoppage tftttslUMf, Btzaagftd State of the Bowels, Ir HUiissBd Trndiea ra Peelings and Paaaions from ttfgig and laadspato causes, of which we after vsrss aW sshaaasd; laa though not least, more ta flassuithi af tbe diseases enumerated un ntsebsai of Oananmptian, have their origta in a tasted liver.

This ia truly a frightful cata v. PTer and Acne XcLslTB LITBB PILLS in cases of FBVBB whan taken with Quinine, are pro same happy results attending their to diseases of the Liver. Bo better ca Ae iaa be used preparatory to, or after taking We would advise alj who are afflicted this disease to give them a fair trial. CBOKB. Take two or three pUls, ongoing "kid, erory seeondor third night If they do not IBge two or three times by next morning, take two isero: but a alight Dreakfltstahould in Watty fellow their nae.

The Jdver POla may be flw simply ia necessary. Aa an sm Uiious purgative, they are Inferior to none, sal doses tt two or three they give astonishing Wl Slok aeadaeho; also, ia slight derane 'lf thaBtomach, 1 Uonterf efts and An Articles PwrperUng ts ke Dr. McLane. ta PPnlrlty Of DB. McLAKB'B QBBWB mrixATlOHB has Induced unprincipled persons i ittesrpt palming upon the public counterfeit rticI In consequence of which the been fereed to aSopt every peasU Jr0 Cinst frand.

Purchasers will please the following marks of genuine "JH The Bxtornal Wrapper a fine Steel 2 Uk Xh signature of a McTiBB BBOS, Id. The Dlreetiona are PW with a Water Hark as fol KcLABB CELEBRATED VEKMI UTS PILLS, FLBSOBQ PBO j8" Water Mark can be seen by th" Unt Idvn save the name stamped on the lid of the lttl4Tax, PWPAHn OULY BY lBMMQiBS0TIIERgf 0 ftvortotors of viAf.s LIVER pills tERanFTGE. nUlBS BTBBYWHBBB. Prleasagfc 1 Btatea, one box Liver nalfuge, on receipt of 40c isiatpa, "i 'i ATrr MEDICINE DEPOT, pNtelie aad MsgmzlM WW ORLEANS, La. JSX OLBBALB DBALBB PATBBT ft wani Agent for the Penn.

COmpanya BAMirrPIBB. or I mhj etdltW (HI LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, HARTFORD. RELIABLE, PROMPT, ANNUAL, REPORT FOR 18G7. Increase of assets during 1867. $3, 136,776 49 Total Assets, January 1 7, 538, 612, 35 Policies issued In 1867 15, 203 Amount insured in 1S67 44, 733, 322 00 Beceiptafor 1867..

$5,129,447 34 Dividend lor 1S67, 50 per cent. THB OBOWTH OF THE JET5A HAS NBYBB BXJ EQUALED BY AST OTHER COMPAKY Whatsoever, in Europe or America. Its premium receipts at the present time are nearly HALF A 1OLLI05 SOIXAB3 FEB MC5T1I. And are RAPIDLY INCREASING. Particular attention is called to the fact that while its business is increasing unprecedented! its ratio of expenses is comparatively(smalL Economy of Management, in the Selection of Risks, Prompts ess in the Payment of Death Claims, and Security in the Investment of its Immense Trust Funds, are rigidly adhered to, and have ever characterized this, Company.

The STB A issues all the favorite kinds of Policies at the most favorable rates. The JETHA issued last year more Endowment Insurance than any other Company. The Is aa Liberal in Permits to Travel In all parts of the world as a sound discretion will warrant, and ia much more liberal than any other prominent Company. The issues Policies on the All Cash Plan, and also on the Half Xote Flan. It does not Insure on Credit, but by the Half Xete Plan it enables the insured to obtain at once (or by paying All Cash to obtain at the end of two years) double the amount of insurance that a strictly Ail Cash Company will give.

The dividends of the JETS A will Doable a Life Policy in two years, (or at once on the Half Note Flan). It requires twenty three years to do the same in a strictly All Cash Company, by annual additions to the policy. The JETS A Ratio ef Expenses, or cost of New Business, is less than that of any other Company whatsoever, and leas than two thirds of the 1 avenge. The iET5A'8 Immense Business, being mostly New Business, oners the insured great advantage in having few old and, consequently, decayed risks. The JETNA'S Batio Per Cent, increase on Pre mium Beesipta Is greater than that of any other Company whatsoever, and more than twice the average.

The AETNA'S Batio of Losses la 16 per cent, lea than the average. The issued last year more Policies than either of forty Companies, and nearly one tenth of all. The iEJSA has mere Policies in Force than either of thirty eight Companies, and more than one fourteenth of all. Tne iETVA'S Batio of Assets to Liabilities is larger than that of either of twenty nine Companies, and more than the average of all. The general average of these comparisons places the JETWA first While all Life Companies are sound beyond question, being founded on the unchanging law ot mortality, all are not equally profitable to the insured; the offers advantages that cannot be surpassed, and probably cannot even be equaled.

TheJETHA has, among its members, large numbers of those most prominent in every department of trade and in the protesslon, both In the United Btatea and in the Can ad as The JETXA calls npon every Policy Holder to use his sports! efforts to secure a Policy in the Company tor nla friends, thus promoting the mutual advantage of an. Persona desiring to act as Agents for the iETKs, win address the Home Of' floe, at Hartrord, or apply to any General Agent of the Company in any prominent city or town. WM. B. FITZGERALD, General Agent tor Louisiana, Ho.

Carondelet strict. BUCK Serman Agents. GEO BOB B. MUBTOB, French Agent ALFi H. STEWARD, Special Agent Drs.

L. a CAPBBS, 8. MJTCHXLL and PAJt, LOOAjr, Xedieal BxMBJners, mh3 3t fl NEW ORLEANS, THE CHIEF JUSTICE SENATE. AND THE it must be very evident, even to some of the most decided Radicals, that their leaders in Washington are getting on altogether too fast, when Chief Justice Chase finds it necessary to call them to order. His interposition in the matter of the impeachment trial is an unexpected notice to the Senate that there are.

some constitutional provisions, and some forms of law they may not dispense with by a simple vote even of two thirds. The points made by the Judge, probably in the nature ot advice to them to amend their proceedings, are very simple and very clear. It is an instructive sign of the degree in which the excesses of unlawful powers, without check, has filled the minds of Senators with ideas of their own infallibility, that such obvious illegalities as they have been perpetrating did not in, the oat set attract attention or occur to 'them as obstacles. For trials of impeachment, the constitution creates the Senate into a special court. It is only complete as a court by the addition of a presiding officer whom the constitution designates to be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Only as a court so organized, and acting after organization, can it make rules of practice.

Not even as a court, however, could it make such rules as would deprive the presiding officer of any of his functions derived from his appointment by con stitutional designation. It is another question how far the lawmaking power may make rules controlling the methods of proceeding in the Court of Impeachment, subject to the limitation that ihey may not deprive the Chief Jus tice, or the accused, or any member of the court.Jof any constitutional privilege. But the Senate is not the law making power, and any rules established for the court other than by the court itself when fully organized with its presiding officer, must, to have the force of law, be passed by both Houses of Congress and signed by the President, or carried by a two thirds vote against his veto. The errors which Judge Chase points out in the course of proceedings can be rectified, and we suppose will be rectified by a postponement of the report on which the Senate is acting, and a reproduction of them after the Senate shall have met and been regularly organized into a court That part of the Judge's suggestion which seems to claim for himself the right of presiding and of deciding, in the first instance at least, on points of law, presents a difficulty not so easily surmounted. If not abandoned on the suggestion of the Judge, it will present a' new difficulty, by the impugning of the conduct of the trial from the beginning, as carried on, in the opinion of the Chief Justice, in breach of the constitution.

Precedent as well as law is against the Senate. In previous impeachments the rules of proceeding were adopted only after the Senate had resolved itself into a Court of Impeachment The force of the precedent is the stronger, thatin all impeach ments, ex cent that of President or Vice President, thelSenate, with its own presi ding officer, compose the court. Never theless, it has undertaken no action except in its capacity as a court. In the case of an impeached President the reasoning is stronger, because a special court is created with an essential officer who is not of the Senate. The suggestion that the Chief Justice may refuse to preside, and that the Senate may roceed without him, in its character as a Senate, is untenable.

Neither event is within the range of probability. Every step in this matter shows new complexities, and before long we think there will be a profound regret among the movers that they ever meddled with it at all. Chab. T. Nash's Sales To Day.

At ealesrooms. corner St Charles and Perdido streets, at 11 o'clock, A. furniture at 11 clock, A. at Commercial frees, ana o'clock, A. at Orleans Cotton Press, 35 bales cotton ana wool.

t7 A rare chance is offered to housekeep ers to purcnase carpeungs, mattings, ou cloths, lace and oil curtains, cornices, rugs, wail pacer, etc, at the sale dv auction without reserve, on account liquidation, to be made this day at iu clock by Messrs. Vincent auctioneers, at the store of Messrs. Cohen Pinsky, No. 181 Canal streets. Sale to be continued from day to day.

Also, lease of said store. Messrs. Montgomery Bros. Co. will sen ibis day, as follows 1.

At lift o'clock, at residence No. 151 Delord street, good mahogany and walnut household furniture, also one fine miscellaneous library. 2. At 1 o'clock. P.

at MoConnell's vard. corner Delord and Carondelet streets, 10,000 feet dry cypress i amber. Rare Flowers aito Plants. One of the rarest exhibitions of flowers, fruit trees, dan lias, onions, bulbs, roots, etc, to be found in the city is that at No. 98 Chartres street Mr, Konna, the proprietor, has besides over two hundred varieties of roses and moss roses, to gether with a fine assortment of camelias magnolias, peony trees, azaleas, grape vines All of these at moderate prices.

With what eleeant circumlocution it is possible to call a man a liar may be seen in uie iouowmg ntue passage in tne isnusn House of Lordajn which a noble Lord blandly says to a noble Duke I beg to call the attention of my noble friend, tne Duke, to sua nhwmtlnii which bit noble friend, the noble Duke, is reported to have made, and which mv nobis friend, the nobis Duke, will find, npon reflection, to be utviuuKui wiu awes veracity. FEIDAY MORNING, Special to the New Orleans Picayune. WASHINGTON, Organization of the High Court Impeachment. of An Impressive Scene. Situation at tne War Department Unchanged.

Washington, March 5. The Senate having agreed to proceed ia the impeachment matter constitutionally, Chief Justice Chase, in his robes of office, appeared in the chamber, and presided over the organization of the Senatorial body into a High Court of Impeachment The scene was really an impressive one. The floor of the Senate Chamber was crowded by members who had deserted the House, almost in a body, to witness the proceedings. The galleries were filled with ladies, and it is a noticeable fact that no wards of the nation were admitted into the chamber. The War Department situation ia unchanged.

Stanton reposes at ease, conscious that obedient bayonets guard his slumbers. Abgcs. New York Associated Press Dispatches General Foreign News. WASHINGTON. PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS The Formation of the Court of Impeachment The Debate in the Senate.

General Intelligence. Foreign and Domestic Markets. River and Steamboat Newa. From Southwest Pass. European Intelligence.

ing of the friends of Disraeli haa been held, which is a favorable indication of his strength. Johnson, the Orangeman imprisoned for heading an illegal procession in Ireland, has been pardoned. Civil war continues in Japan, and several bloody conflicts have taken place. Foreign Ministers nave lert usaica. Gen.

Asboth, United States Minister at Buenos Ayres, is dead. The Paraguayans have gained fresh advan tages over the allies in Gran Chaco. Liverpool glaxket Liverpool, March 5, Evening. Cotton closed quieter; sales to day, 20,000 bales Uplands 93 Orleans 10a. common rosin declined, 7s.

Cd. others unchanged. The Fortieth Congress. Washington, March 5. Senate.

A reso lution of thanks from the South Carolina Convention to Congress, Grant and Stanton was presented. The bill for rebuilding the warehouses at Fortress Monroe was passed. A bill was introduced to rebuild the levees on the east bank of the Mississippi to reclaim Yazoo River lands. Chase appeared, supported bythe committee appointed for that purpose. The managers from the House followed, supported by a large number of members of the House, Wade announced All business will now be suspended for the purpose of proceeding to the business required by the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President ef the United States.

The chair will now be vacated for that purpose." Chase then advanced, took the chair, and said Senators I am here in obedience to your notice, for the purpose of proceeding with you in forming a Court of Impeachment for the trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. I am now ready to take the required oath." Justice Wilson then administered the oath prescribed by the Senate's rules of prooeednre. unase men administered me oam to me Senators, in alphabetical order, until Wade approached, when Johnson objected to his becoming a member of the court, because he had contingent interests. A discussion en sued, lasting until 5 o'clock, when, on motion, Judge Chase adjourned the court Wade then resumed the seat, and, on mo tion, adjourned the Senate. House.

A btu was introduced providing a successor, should tne umei justiceentp De come vacant The oldest commission succeeds until the Chief is appointed. A resolution was adopted ordering mat 3000 extra copies of impeachment articles be printed. The Committee on Banking and Currency were directed to inquire into the expediency of amending the banking laws so as to relieve State banks in process of liquidation from monthly statements and tax on circulation. A motion was made that the House In com mittee attend the impeachment managers to witness the organization of the court, but it was withdrawn at the suggestion ol Bingham, that only the managers were expected, and no accommodations had been made on the floor of the Senate to seat the House. The managers then withdrew, followed by many members, leaving enly about forty in the Honse, who proceeded with the lennes see election case.

For the first time for sev eral years the Democrats found themselves in tne majoniy inline House, wunout concluding the election case, the House then adjourned. The Debate on Impeachment Pro cedure. Washington, March 5. No progress what ever was maoe aurmc nearly lour nours a bate this afiernoon in the Senate. Utter confusion prevails regarding the mode of proce dure.

A dozen Senators spoke, no two agree ing upon the details developed daring tne discussion. The following are among the points mad tb the evident satisfaction of the suffers! speakers Wade having interest, had no right in court. MARCH 6, 1868. Wade being a Senator from Ohio, itwai his duty to vote it was a matter with his own conscience. That when the.

President came to the bar, it was ticne to make chal lenges. That the President had no right whatever to challenge iudges the constitution provided for him. lnat it was a duty in organizing the court to keep the organization pure that if at the end the scales were equal balanced, that into which yon threw votes, personal interest would kick the beam. That they were a court. That they were a Senate.

That With only half the members sworn, they were neither the one nor the other. I us the argument progressed until nearly 5 o'clock, when a Senator remarking that Judge Chase had been on duty since 10 clock, moved an adjournment. Howard objected, stating that they had a rule for adjournment The court was accordingly ad journed by that rule, and the Senate was lett in session. The House managers were in attendance all the evening, evidently impatient to begin work. Washington Items.

Washington, March 5. Large numbers of persons visited theTresident to day. Stanton still keeps in the War Department. Thomas goes there for his private mails. Internal revenue receipts to day, $725,000.

Judge Chase adjourned the Supreme Court at 1 o'clock for one hour, expecting to return from the Senate by that time. Not coming, adge Field adjourned fpurt till to morrow. Party Conventions. Washington, March 5. The Ohio Kepub lican State Convention recommends the nomination of Grant and Wade for President and Vice President.

Among the resolutions adopted is the following BtsoUtd, That we approve and applaud the action of the House of Representatives in the recent exercise of the high constitutional pre rogative by the impeachment of Andrew Johnson for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, believing it to be the constitutional functions of the Senate, sitting as a court of justice, to finalry determine every question of law and facts arising in course of the prosecution. We invoke from all parties a peace and law abiding submission to its judgment in the case. The Convention favors the payment of the 5 20 bonds in legal tenders. The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention names no candidates. Among the resolutions is the following That the pending impeachment of the rreeident or tne united states is a gross and reckless abuse of partisan power, without justifiable cause, and is intended for the attainment of party purposes at the sacrifice of the most vital interests of the country.

The Convention favors taxing bonds, and claims tbat legal tenders and 5 d)'s form the same financial scheme and are mutually ex cbangable. Reconstruction Conventions. Jackson, March 5. The Convention done the heaviest day work of the session, com pleting the consideration of the report on the Executive Department It lays over for final adoption. I The committee to investigate the charges against Merryman, recommended that he be expelled for drunkenness and disorderly con dnct, and for a publication impugning motives of members of the Convention.

The report was received and two members appointed to drait articles and conduct a lormal trial before the Convention, to morrow. Some excitement has been occasioned by the appearance of counterfeit convention warrants. Charleston, March 5. In Convention today a resolution was adopted to petition Congress to give lands sold for United States taxes to the State for distribution among the freedmen. The value of the property thus demanded is $700,000.

Everybody in the Convention is electioneering for office. Many State offices will be filled by negroes. The Secretary of State, perhaps the Lieutenant Governor, the larger naif of the Legislature, and some of the Judges, will be negroes. The attempt to force negroes into schools with the whites is postponed until the 11th inst, to await the result of the New Hampshire elections. Maryland Legislature.

Annatolis, March 5. There were three unsuccessful ballots in the Legislature to day for United States Senator. From Havana. Havana, March 5. Sterling lower, 7l.i 7Mt.

Exchange on New York, gold 3 discount sugar, 7 9 7 Sailed: Steamer Cuba. Domestic Markets. New Yobk. March 5. Cotton rather more steady sales to day 6500 bales, Middlings 25 floor a shade nrmer witn a moderate business; wheat firm and quiet; corn better, mixed Western $1 22 Si 21? pork heavy, $24 90, old $23 45 lard heavy, 15 a nee nrm, sugar easier, Porto Rico 124 coffee firm; molasses steady; turpentine 73 73 tot; rosin $3 2527; freights easier, grain oy steam 8 'sc.

Cincinnati, March 5. Flour dull, family $11311 25; wheat higher, red winter $2 45 2 50; corn firmer, 848Cc; oats tobacco at full prices whiskey nominally unchanged mess pork held at $24 50 bacon shoulders 1 1 Me ciear sides mc iara ami, 1515fca; butter hay steady, $13 315 groceries generally unchanged. St. Louis, March 5. Tobacco active flour firm, superfine $6 75 9 25 wheat firm, $2 40 a 2 70; corn higher, 84 oats drooping, 67 72c.

mess pork $24 50 bacon shoulders 11 clear rib sides 13Mtc, clear aides lard 15 15c Louisville, March 5. Tobacco, sales 153 hhds. lags to medium leaf at $5 25 15 50, manufacturing leaf $23325; flour, superfine $8 258 75, fancy $12 50 13; wheat $2 55 2 60 corn firmer at 78 85 oats 67 68c lard mess pork $24 50; bacon shoulders 1134c; clear sides bulk meats, shoulders 103ic: clear sides cotton very firm. Good Middling 23 Ms. Savannah, March 5.

Cotton opened very firm, asking advance; closed quiet but nrm saies su middling planus re i ncnA ai. 1 A 19 exports 26,191 stock of Sea Island 1079; of Unlanda 48.517. Mobile, March 5. Cotton sales 2000 bales Middlings 24tt factors offering spa ringly receipts 1121 exports 5055 stock ia first bands, unsold, mi Money and Stocks. New York.

March 5. rMoney, supply abundant and easy call loans 6 prime paper 7, but discounts are easier; gold quiet and uniform throughout the day; swung ouu; stocks generally steady, except New York Central, ErKand Pacific, which closed lower MMr oi lsQll0 of 1864, 107 of 1865, 108 of 1867, 106 HMO's. 101 105 gold 14JH sterling doll, 9. Louisvile, March 5. River rising slowly feet 7 inches in the canal bv the mark.

Weather cloudy and mild, indicating rain. St. Louis, March 5. Weather cloudy and mild, with indications of rain. Vicksburg, March 5.

Passed down Weetmorelandt 3 A. and the Arthur at 6 P. M. Biver falling. From the Southwest Pass.

Southwest Pass. March 5. Arrived: Steamship Agnes, with merchandise and passengers to C. A. Whitney ship Clara Ann, tin son, master, from Matanzaa, with sugar to order ship Jane J.

Southard, Bishop, master, from London, in ballast sailed: steamship Alabama. Yesterday's Afternoon Disp atches. Washington. March 5. The court is about organizing.

No new features or developments. Liverpool, March 4, evening. Uotton closed excited and irregular. Middling Uplands on the spot 9g to arrive 939, middling Orleans iu. sales, 'ouu bales.

London, March 5, Noon. Securities unchanged. Paris, March 5. Bourse heavy. Rentes off.

Live spool, March 6, Noon. Cotton opens buoyant Sales, 20,000 bales brisk speculative demand, which has driven prices to arrive 1 I6d. higher than on the spot Middling Uplands to arrive, 9 a 9id on the spot, 93 Middling Orleans, 810d. Liverpool, March 5, Afternoon. Cotton very firm and advanced Isd.

Prices very fluctuating; Middling Uplands Middling lOlOVsd. Pork advanced to 76s. Lard declined to 59s. 6L Tallow 43s. 3d.

New Yobk, March 5. Floor a shade firmer. Wheat qniet and firm. Corn lc. better.

Uye qniet Oats dull. Pork quiet, $25. Lard doll. Cotton very firm sales this morning 1200 bales; Middling Uplands freights dulL Gold 141 old bonds 1106. Raleigh, N.

March 4. The Convention, last night, adopted the relief ordinance. Its leading feature allows debtors to pay one tenth annually of their debts. To day the Committee qn Privileges and Elections reported in favor of ousting Mr. Williams, of Sampson, and giving his seat to a Ilall.

An article of the constitution was reported by the Finance Committee, and passed to its second reading. Amone other nrovisions it reauires the General Assembly to provide for the prompt and regular payment of interest on the public debt, creates a prospective sinking fund, and takes from the General Assembly the power to contract any new debt unless the boa da of tne state are at par, unless tne same Dili creating the debt shall levy a special tax to pay the interest. The consideration of an additional section prohibiting the contracting of any new debt, except by direct vote or the people, was postponed for want of time. Richmond, March 4. In Convention, res olotions approving impeachment were adopted 55 to 33.

The majority report on suffrage was taken up after the other two reports had been de feated. The first clause giving suffrage to all males over 21 and requiring a residence of one year in the State and three months in the county to vote, was aoopteo. A caucus of Republicans will be held tonight to consider disfrancisement question. Charleston. March 4.

In Convention an ordinance was presented appropriating the Citadel, formerly the State's Military Acade my, for a college and grammar and primary schools. A section making education compulsory was passed, after an animated debate. On the proposition imposing a poll tax of one dollar for educational purposes, it was agreed that the penalty lor non payment snail i iiC ue deprivation ui me rigu vi euursjjo. Important Military Order. Reinstatement ef Street Commissioner Baiter.

Gen. Hancock, last evening, issued the fol lowing order, by direction of Gen. Grant, reinstating William Baker ss Street Commis sioner of the citv of New Orleans Headq'bs Fifth Military District, New Orleans, March 5, 1868. General Orders so. Extract.

2. By direction of Gen. Grant, so much of paragraph 4, Special Orders No. 26, current series, from these headquarters, dated Feb. 5, 1B05, as removes William Baker irom tne office of Street Commissioner, for the city of New Orleans, and appoints Geo.

D. Field in his place, is hereby revoked and the said William Baker is hereby and will resume the duties or said omce or street Commissioner, for the city of New Orleans, the same as if said order of removal had not been made. By command of Major Gen. Hancock Geo. L.

Haktsuff, Assistant Adjutant General. Livestock Market. There is considerable' excitement in the cattle trade consequent npon a light supply, and an advance of about Hc. id in price, ids kiwi numuero mr uie week are 4042, of which 1100 only were on sale yesterday. They were all disposed of, and several nunarea more couia nave oeeu A nnmK.

OR 1 TO nrkIA ia a full supply, and trade is net lively, though former rates are sustained. Hogs show an increase, and the 11,214 are sufficient for the high prices of IB. (ST. T. Jour, of Feb.

Si. One of the Mexican bandits eaotured a rich merchant, and sent to his wife a demand for a large ransom. It was refused, and tne next day another messenger appeared with an ear, which the lady recognized as once npon her husband's head. She still refused, and the following day another ear was sent with the intimation that the gentleman would be sent home in pieces unless redeemed in the lump. This brought out the money; but when the husband returned his ears were on his head.

The question is, where did the other ears come from a wnrtitv deacon in a certain Stat hired a journeyman farmer from a neighboring town for tne summer, and induced him although he was unaccustomed to church Soing to accompany the family to church, on io fust Sabbath of his stay. Upon their return to the deacon's house, he asked his hired man how he liked the preaching. Ha replied I dont like to hear any minister preach polities." I am very sura yon heard no politics to day," said the deacon. "I am as sure that I did." said the man. "Mention the passage," said the 'deacon.

I will. He said, If the Democrats scarcely are saved, where will the Republicans appear 7' said the daoon, yon mistake. These were the words If the righteous scarcely are saved, how will the ungodly and wicked "Oh. yes," said the man he might have used those words, but I knew deuced well what he meant 1 A negro twdergoing his examination as a witness, when asked if his master was a Christian, replied No, tit, be Is ft msaber pi Congress." NUMBER 34. DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

Tfcarscay, Marck 9, ISfS. The Convention was called to order at half past 11 o'clock A. M. by M. B.

Brady, Chairman of the State Central Committee. who announced on behalf of it that the committee had been organised npon the invitation of our Democratic friends aTthe North, who advised that Louisiana should be represented at the approaching NatdanaJ Convention. The Convention had been called to select delegates for this purpose and to effect a permanent organization of the people Of the State, its white people, irrespective of past differences, for the preservation of our rights as a people, and their defence in the approach ing struggle. With the organisation of this Convention the functions of the Central Com mittee would cease. He proposed Hon.

John H. Overton, of St. Landry, for temporary President, and CeL W. N. Smallwood, of Orleans, for Secretary, which was carried by acclamation.

The roll of parishes was then called, and majority of parishes were found represented. On motion of Mr. Jewell, of Point Con See, a committee of five members, Messrs. swell, Jonas, Wise, Mann and Martin, of St. Landry, was appointed to examine credentials.

During their absence, on motion of G. W. Race, Esq Gen. J. B.

Steedman, who was looking on, was called npon to address the meeting. He did so with such effectiveness, frankness and ability as to draw forth the emphatic applause of this discriminating body of men. Disclaiming any desire to, or belief that ha could instruct or give information to men whom he had come to listen to, with' no ex pectation of being called upon to address them, he expressed his astonishment, hi com? mon with them, that here in free America, when the President of the United States had desired to make a change in his Cabinet Coun oil, the General of thegarmieslhad stepped ia with his bayonets to prevent him, without the) color of law and in defiance of the constitution. Not this only, but a nyolationary faction was now about to undertake to depose the President because he desired to test, the validity of congressional legislation before) the courts. He verily believed that they would attempt to carry the elections this fall under martial law ana by the manipulation of pro vost guards.

How they would succeed in this was yet to be tested. He believed the Northern people were not yet prepared to surrender all their liberties to a Congress which acted so oppressively, and to military dictation. After the treaty of peace had been signed at Appomattox Court House by Grant and Lee, terms of adjustment had been proposed by the President, which had been cheerfully and honestly acceeded to by the South, and reunion was going on, as well as any one could desire, when Congress stepped in to attempt to rein gulph the country in civil conflict, that they might perpetuate party rule. He had said iaOhio, and would now say here, that the South had done right in refusing Jo disfranchise the men who had led them, in nattle, and in civil affairs, as the price of their own restoration to the rights of citixens, and had contrasted their own with what might have been expected of his fellow citizens in Ohio, had the fortunes of war gone otherwise, and his people had been called upon to turn their backs on their leaders in battle. Ha would not ask the South to dishonor themselves as the North would do in like condition of things Ey acting as had been demanded of' the South.

He hoped the Convention would send its most intelligent, wise and prudent men to the National Convention, and he was certain that its action would be efficient in remedying the evils which now oppressed us. After a few more words of stirring appeal to fortitude, prudence and earnest work in arresting the evils affecting us, he concluded hy taking his leave of them, remarking that this was his first appearance on the stage in all his life. He was heartily and repeatedly cheered. The committee reported the names of the following parishes, to be represented by tne delegates whose names are hereafter inserted East Baton BouyeJ. H.

H. Camp, Thos. Bvnum, J. W. Dougherty, F.

Gordon, Fergus Gardere, J. 8. Nugent, John O'Connor, J. C. Stafford, W.

F. Truman, Wolfe, John McGrath, A. W. Simmons, All. Duplantiersv Z7io JHL Clark, J.

B. Landers, D. K. McLarin, James Brewster, Austin Martin. St Char la Emile Boat.

West Feliciana R. C. Wickliffe, R. G. Sterling, Chas.

N. Gibbons, H. G. Hearsey, 8. J.

Powell, Dr. R. H. Ryland, W. D.

Walsh, Wade Richardson, W. C. Annis, W. H. Barrow.

John A. Merryman, John N. Evans, David Barrow, Theodore Leonard, Mich Row, James Howell, Jet so Davis, G. W. Edwards, C.

J. Wolff in, Henry Temple. Poinu CoupkCoL 8. Van WIckle, H. Didier, Hon.

A. D. M. Haralson, P. Bon cheaud, L.

B. Claiborne, J. H. 8eybert, E. C.

Cooley, Thomas Hughs, Robert Montgomery, Lafayette Mathews, CoL Bat Barrow, J. C. Van Wickle, Dr. J. G.

Archer, Fred. Jewell, Major James Vigne, T. G. Sparks. J.

B. 8U Cyr, Eugene Tircuit, J. H. HaXsey. John l'oist and Octave Lebeau.

Terrtbonnt Duncan 8. Cage, Andrew McCollam, L. M. T. McClung, Andrew McCol lam.

Tonson Ellis. Livingston, Jno. W. Addison, D. T.

Selloon, J. Q. Wall, N. J. George.

Claiborne W. P. Blackman, J. C. Black man, Alex.

WielL St. Mary Wm. P. Haifliegh, Win. P.

Weeks, Daniel Dennett, John A. Smith, S. P. Marks. SL Helena T.

W. Ellis, O. P. Amacker, J. E.

Wilson and W. A. Carter and as alternates, J. J. Thompson, W.

B. Kemp, E. J. Ellis andW.L. Thompson.

Morehow Messrs. Matthews, Dunn, Polk, Brigham and Benton. Sl John Baptist Messrs. James W. God berry.

and Thomas Bellow. SL Tammany J. Jones. St. Landry J.

A. Tarlton, E. H. Martin, CoL Wm. Offutt, J.H.

Hardy, Jas. G. Dr. Robertson, John H. Overton, E.

M. Mil lard, Willis Preecott. John E. King, Joseph Beraud, Joel H. 8andoz.

UavidtVT. Smith Uordon, tten. ml. eui, M. Ryan, J.

L. Walker, L. Texada, G. Marshall. E.

R. Bio seat. J. C. Wise aad W.

W. Whittington. AwtterW. M. Sanddige, Dr.

J. W. Vases T. W. Fuller, W.

M. Bums, Dr. T. Snider, W. J.

Hutchinson, John J. Hodges, G. W.c Senteil, Bich'd W. Turner, Cemniinge. AitttviptionW.

W. Pugh, a Wutting ton, D. LeBlanc, A. P. Pngh, J.

GThiac, i A. Tete. C.JOupaty, Dr. Joseph Blsnchard, IL H. Carver, i.

M. Howell, J. B.L. DgV D. Himel, R.

C. Martin, L. Gentile, Wow, Sims. PlaqutmMutTl. P.

Kernoehan. Lafourche i. 8cudday Perkins, absent, O. SaindsJr, W. LL Sagan, J.

S. BUIm, 8. Grisamore, John Nelson, absent, and J. K. Gonrdam.

Algiers T. P. Sherburne, Thos. Jones. Ascension Trasimond Landry, W.

TV TO T7" lUv lmArr. Carroll Vf. G. Wyley. W.M.

Scott, S. D. Oliver, P. C. Bcaiboreagh.

H' SL Bernard JL. W. Walker. Ostto Isaiah Garrett, John MeEwan, Judge N. T.

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