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Editorial notices of advertisements to be charged twenty cents per line for each insertion. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 16. The sponge business is rapidly developing in Florida, that little State hav-iag recently exported no less than fifty tons. i It is rumored that the President's son Fred, is about to marry the daughter of Judge Dunlevy, of Ohio. Dunlevy is a wealthy man, and has recently made a large amount of money in real estate operations.

i A great majority of those elected to the Forty -Third Congress have a'ready drawn their three months' pay for the next session in advance. The back pay steal doesn't seem to affect the consciences of the newly elected. Gen. McKenzie, with two hundred men, is hunting the Lipans and Kicka-poo8 who were so busy a few days ago, removing horses and scalps in the vicinity of Friortown. If Gen.

McKenzie once gets on their Trail, there is no doubt but that he will follow them over again and chastise them to the best of his ability. i The city of London has a population of 4,000,000 souls, but the real city, or city proper, contains only 73,000 persons, and its territory is claimed to be not one-fifth the size of Buffalo, N.Y. The Lord Mayor is the Great Mogul of the corporation, reveling in a salary equal to that of Gen. Grant, and enjoying almost as many privileges as the sovereign of England. New York exchanges contain pitiful tales of the slavery to which Italian children are bound by those who make traffic of that kind their profession.

It lis stated that there are some 7000 little Italians held in that eity, and a number of prominent citizens are forming society for their emancipation. A mother, who has arrived from Southern' Italy, had four ont of five sons stolen, and 6he is now in rags tramping the streets in search of her jewels. A benevolent steamboat captain is making arrangements for a Sunday excursion down the river for the newsboys and poor children of the city. It is proposed to start early in the afternoon to give the boys a taste of the fresh air of the lower coast. We hope this is the initiation of a series of like excursion for the benefit of those who are unable to pay for the luxury of a day in the country.

Chicago estimates that her municipal government will cost her $5,000,000 next year, as they propose to increase the pay of the school teachers and do something towards improving the efficiency of the Fire Department. Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, ordered the arrest of one of his most active partisans, the Cure Santa Cruz, because this person had made himself too prominent by his cruelties in the advocacy of the Carlist cause. The heirship of seventy-live millions of dollars of Sir Francis Drake's property in England has been traced to citizens ol Kentucky. Tennessee and Missis sippi. Dr.Thos.

Catch in gs, and the wife of Chas. Eedfield, Esq. of Hinds county are his direct descendants. The HeraldTs expedition after Livingstone has put upon the qui rite the New York press, and now the Doily Graphic company make a contract with John Wise and W. H.

Donaldson to cross the Atlantic in a balloon. The Graphic is to pay the expenses incident to the trip.and Wise and Donaldson agree to ascend at a point named, and there seek the elevation necessary easterly air current, remaining above the earth's surface until land shall be made. Wednesday Excursion. Steamer Creole. The steamer Creole will leave the Lake-End to-morrow morning, on arrival of the 9 o'clock train, on her regular Wednesday excursion to Mande-ville, Lewisburg and Madisonville, returning in time for 7V P.

M. train to the city. Fare for the excursion only one dollar. i Special Notice. The steamer C.

H. Xknrfee will positively leave for Red liiver this" (Wednesday) evening, July 1G at 5 o'clock. See notice in advertising column. The La Beixb for Jefferson and 6HHKVEPORT. This favorite and fast running passenger packet leaves without fail at 5 P.

M. to-day for above and intermediate points. She is as staunch 4 craft as can be found in our waters, -fend being light draft, with large carry-icg capacity, has all the qualities necessary to commend her to ituppiog la- GOVERNMENT AST) TAXATION. Continuing our remarks upon security, and how it is effected by taxation, we will quote the words of one. of whom Maculay said at his death "A great man lias gone from among us, lull of years "aiid full of honor.

In some of the highest departments in which the human intelwct can exert itself, he has not left his equal, nor his second behind him." This pre-eminently sound thinker, Jeremy Bentbam, says of once prosperous but now desolate States Hence the finest countries of Va world, wasted, barren or almost abandoned, can scarcely be recognized in the hands of their barbarous conquerors. These evils need not be attributed to remote causes civil wars or invasions, or the scourges of nature these might have dissipated the wealth, put the arts to flight and swallowed up the cities; but the port which have, been filled up would have been reopened, communications re-established, the manufactures revived, the towns rebuilt, and all these ravages repaired in time, if men had continued to be men. But they are not so in these unhappy countries but despair, th slow but fatal effect of long continued insecurity, has destroyed all the ac-tivepower of their souls." "The spirit of industry has been seen springing up again after destructive wars which have impoverished nations like a robust oak, which in a few years repairs the injuries "inflicted by the tempest, and covers it with new branched. Nothing less is re quisite for freezing up industry than the operation or a permanent cavsc. such as a tyrannical government." Such are the conclusions of this pro found thinker, painfully confirmed by experience and observation in this and other Southern States.

He with manifest truth, that the most desolating warfare, super added to the destructive agencies of earthquakes, are insignificant in their effects compared to the perennial curse of an excessive taxation. 27to.se are temporary in tueir enacts, ana stimulate men into activity; whilst these are eternal, paralize character into apathetic indolence, and not only destroy material property, but sink the people into mental and moral degradation. Hence it is indisputable that if the National Administration, after our conquest, nad confiscated or destroyed our property, leaving us only the bare means of sustaining a squalid existence, until industry could produce subsistence, but left us free to govern ourselves in our own interest, it would have been mercy compared to the government it imposed on us. A fro v-ernment administered and organized for no other purpose but spoliation, absorbing by taxation all the revenue of property, antagonistic to the ends for which governments are properly instituted, must produce a condition of things worse than anarchy itself. With anarchy, strenghapdsand stout hearts might guard life and property, but with our present government, robbery is organized under color of law, and is irresistable.

Jean Baptist Say, the' most eminent writer on political economy on. the Continent of. Europe, as might be expected, entirely agrees with Ben-tham upon the effects of excessive taxation. He says, book 3 in reference to war and its calamities, especially its effect upon national prosperity and population But though such temporary calamities are more afflicting to humanity i than- hurtful to the population of nations, far other is the object of a vicious government acting upon a bad system of political economy. This latter attacks the very principle of population, by drying up the sources of production, and and since the numbers of mankind, as before seen, always approach nearly to the utmost limits the annual revenue of the nation will admit of, if the Government reduce that limit, by the pressure of intolerable taxation, forcing the subject to sacrifice a part of his capital, and consequently diminishing the aggregate means of subsistence and reproduction possessed by the community, such a government not only imposes a preventive check on further increase of population, but may be fairly said to commit downright murder, for nothing so effectually thins the Tanks of mankind as privation of the means of subsistence." Having thus exhibited some of the consequences of onerous and excessive taxation, the question naturally occurs, At what point must taxation reach to be deemed excessive Keeping in view the principles already enunciated in regard to the legitimate purposes of government, the question admits of an easy solution.

All taxation in excess of what is necessary to defray the expenses of government, exercising only its legitimate functions, is excessive; should be considered robbery and resisted as SUCh. i Taxation to any amount is an evil, and should be kept at the lowest point. J. B. Say, the author already quoted, says, book 3, chap.

8 "Thus all taxation may be said to injure reproduction, inasmuch as it prevents the accumulation of productive capital. The effect is more direct and se-i ions whenever the tax-payer is obliged to withdraw a part of the capital already embarked, for the purpose of enabling him to pay the tax, which case, as Sismondi has shrewdly observed, resembles the exactions "or a tithe at seed time, instead of at harvest." Titus taxation must be proved indispensible to the existence of social order, every step it tales beyond these limits is an actual taxation, even when levied by national consent, is in violation of property, since no ralue can be levied, but upon the produce of the land, capital, and in-dustry of tite individuals." The foregoing sound political aphorisms should never for a moment' be lost sight of. If held in view and religiously observed, a thousand schemes concocted under the specious pretext of conferring some great ad vantage on the public, would be rendered alortive. i Hence it follows that no tax isle-'gitimate unless expended ia the interest of the public, and for a purpose which is indispensable to the promo-lion of i social order. Taxation is onerous or excessive, not altoj rether on account of the ab-folute amount abstracted from the public, as it is by reason of the inability of the people to pay it.

A people that are prosperous from weilth, applied to a fertile soil, with flourishing manufactures, productive mines and an active com merce, ith habits of industry and in posseeskn of mechanical skill will vot be effected by a tax hat would weigh down and crush a people 1 ss favorably circumstanced. Great iritain maintained her pros perity almost undiminished whilst Yontiibui ing her resources with unexampled lavishness in waging the Napoleonic wars. She was nabled to do this principal! in con-irqeence of the extraordinary im petus given to the mining and manu-actuiinf: industry of the kingdom ty the irventionsof "Watt and Ark- right to which, as elements of rrengtb, must be added lifer equitable, stable and admirably adminis-ered government. To these; as security, Adam Smith, about century ascribed milch of the of Great Britain. RAILROAD MURDERS.

The long stretches of railroads in inaDy portions of the country, which are unprotected by watchmen, and under special supervision except that required to keep the road in running order, have developed a new species of crime and villainy, attracting attention in our Northern exchanges. It seems almost impossible that miscreants can exist near the lines of our great railroads, who, from nanger it a conductor, or from revenge for some injury to their interests caused by the company, or solely for the hope of would deliberately olan and execute the wrecking of an entire train of passengers, and the sacrifice of their lives. Yet, the facts prove that this is not by any means a aire offense, and that it is! increasing constantly. An editorial in a recent New York Times says i In November, 1S72, as many as six attempts were made to destroy human life by throwing trains from the 'track of a single railroad the New York, New a ven and Hartford and that, altnough ties, logs and broken rails were placed in position to prod nee terrible results, the injuries occasioned were scarcely worth speaking of. That they were uot, however, was due more to lack than to the watchf olness of the railroad employes.

By the merest chance, two were arrested. I and evi- persons dence was found to connect them with the crime referred to. One was a man of mature age, and the other a mere boy. The former, although he had been pat off a train for a very proper reason, was so incensed against the conductor that, in order te get square," he was willing that three or four hundred innocent persons Bhould suffer death. This miscreant has since been tried, found guilty and sent to the Connecticut State Prison for ten years.

The boy, according to his own confession, had placed a log upon the track for the purpose of gratifying a morbid desire to Bee how much of a crash could be made by tripping up a train." Neither does this species of wholesale murder and robbery appear to be confined to any particular locality, for in a long list of various attempts in Borne cases failures, and in others successf ulj-we find that at the end of last November, in California The outgoing train from Virginia City, Nevada, on the Gold Hill andKeno Hoad, had a narrow escape at a point within about a mile and a half from Washoe City. Five telegraph potts had been placed on the track, two of which were crushed by the force of the collision, and the rest thrown oft' by the cow-catcher. Had the attempt succeeded, the train would have been wrecked in a deep ditch close to the track, and many lives sacrinoed. The object in wrecking it was, as supposed, to procare possession of three large sacks of coin that were known to have been shipped at Carson. On the 4th of Slay last, an attempt was again made on the New York, New Haven and Hartford road.

On the 7th of June last, a circus train between New York and Boston, had a oarrow escape. To continue the quotation I i On the morning of the 13th of June, the steamboat train from New Londou on the Norwich and Worcester KaUaoad was thrown from the track near Day-ville, Conn. The engineer, fireman and a brakeman were injured severely, but oo person was killed outright. Three cars were broken, the locomotive was turned upside down and pitched into a a neighboring brook. The passengers had a miraculous esoape.

A tie. placed (irmly across the track, produced the result described. No arrest was made. On the morning of the 26th another attempt was made to wrecks train on the same road, near the same place. Two oeavy ties were boand across the track At a point below the Day ville Station, where there is a sharp curve.

Luckily for the passengers a factory operative, on his way to work, saw the obstructions and removed them in time to prevent a terrible disaster, for the man had no sooner completed his self-imposed task than the train thundered by at a speed of thirty miles an hour. Shortly before midnight on the 23th of June, a freight-train on the Iowa division of the Illinois Central Kailroad ran npoo a rail stretched across the track on down grade, and was wrecked very badly. The engineer and fireman were instantly killed, and their bodies mutilated almost beyond recognition. Efforts were subsequently made to find the fiend or fiends who committed this terrible crime, but for aught that is Known to be contrary, without any prospect of hurcess. It would be perfectly safe to say that in addition to the foregoing, there were at least one hundred attempts made to wreck trains during the period specified, the larger portion of whioh were known only to railroad employes, and were, for obvious reasons, not reported to either the newspapers or the Associated Press agents.

Most of them were ia the nature of "misplaced switches" and obstructions that were not sufficiently errong to compass the ends of those csing them. On the Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada oDe.or two very daring attempts wrre made to wreck trains within the ven months. In one instance the father of a youth who had been hunted down: by detectives had the andacitv propose to the railroad managers that if mey a wouia aecune to prosecute, he wonld see to it that no further trou ble" was given them. The proposition, of cqtirse was not acceded to. The case, iiinwever, has not jet been brought TO irifHl.

Hajl space permitted, we could easily extend the list, including an attempt on June 4, on a construction trainf of the Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Bail road but we have stated enough to prove the existence of awidespread rascality, that if not speedily checked must seriously inter fere ith the business of the country and he security of life. Onjp singular defect has already ap pcarld in our criminal law there are no special statutes with adequate pen-alt ie4 for the punishment of these wretijrhes when they are caught, and consequently, they escape with easy punihment. This must be amended Sit If any offense on eartlj deserves hanging, certainly it is tlifp, for its deliberate purpose and disregard of consequences; aril jet in Connecticut the sentence was jjonly ten years. We hold that the attempt is as bad as success, for tike lfatent is the same in either case. A3 the night is essential to the success fof these wreckers," the day trains require no extra vigilance, bat on thrbugrvtrains, running night and day, jjun tiring watching must prevail, and no doubt it is due to this that so many of these attempts have resulted id failures from the vigilance of the engineers and conductors.

Iti a disgraceful fact that this country appears to be the only one where railroad wrecking prevails. We have never read of an instance elsewhere, except in Spain, and even there it was the act of robbers or of partizan warfare. Deny it as we may, and bragof our progress and civilization as a jwonder, the fact is constantly proven that human life is cheap. A momentary sensation thrills through the pjress over some awful castatrophe of recklessness or crime, but scarcely have the tears of the mourners- dried on their cheeks, when the whirl of business and the gush of travel goes on the same as before, and nothing is donel to prevent or punish another recurrence. 3 i 1 HISTORICAL CONVENTION.

As will be seen by the subjoined notice, an important movement has been inaugurated by the Southern Historical Society, through whose instance a historical convention has been called, to meet on the at the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, Ya. It is due to the noble men who fell martyrs to the "Lost Cause," that a faithful history of the events of the four years of bloody war be truthfully Recorded, and an impartial view of th6 motives that actuated them be handed- down to posterity with the seal of an impartial and unbiased history. The! country has been flooded with partisan histories, in many of which the pretended historian has wandered as far? from truth as if he had been writirig a work of fiction, and in all of these every incident favorable, to Southern character has been suppressed, and the' plainest facts so warped that the actors themselves wOuld riot recognize them. It is high time bteps were taken to record the incidents of those eventful years as they Occurred, and we are glad that the Southern Historical Society has taken! the initiative in the matter. The convention iwill be opened with an address by Gen.

Jubal A. Early, and will be, we are sure, a most interesting; and important meeting A Historical Convention has been called at the instance of the Southern Historical Society, to meet on the 14th of August next, at the Montgomery VVhitec Sulphur Springs, Va. Arrange-meutsiave been made with the proprietors 4t these springs, and every facility will be afforded. The convention will le opened, by request, with an address from Gen. Jubal A.

Early. Newspapers throughout the Southern States will further an imDortant aud movement by giving thi notice an extended circulation. i IS. hi. Palmer, Pres.

Southern Historical Society. New pi leans, July 1C, 1373. IMMIGRATION. TmnhioTntinn in Anr riwilfntlllices. au vw, v.

1 is thejjaiitidoteof emigration. If wo can revive our industries, and ocenpy our wpste lands with an industrious nd thrifty population, we will easily sbakef off that incubus of debt with which: we are now hampered, and em-bai asaed. We will be enabled to rid ourselves of the; organized misrule wbiclf has fastened this burden upon us, afid which tends to perpetuate it, an( Loui8ianian8 having recovered possession of Louisiana, will find it more jto their interest to devote themselves to the development of the great Jiatural resources of their State, than breaking the ties of home and friendship, to connt the doubtful favors of fortune among a strange people in a strange land. Louisiana ian better support five millions I than one.1 Let our young men 1 remain at home, and let the men of wealth and influence amon ns exert themselves to attract hither! that mighty tide of immigration which, setting in from the East, has moved on the Pacific slope, felling the forests and tunneling the mountains that have opposed itsad-vancejand leaving in its wake the beneficent triumphsSof civilization. And what are the inducements which we have to offer? In he first place, we have ten months of good farming in the North and Northwest not rnjore than five months are thus available.

We have a soil which produces in luxuriant abundance the great Staples, rice; sugar and cotton, as well as almost all varieties of fruit, and wjiich is especially favorable to gardeners and cultivators' of the vine. We have vast areas of cheap grazing lands. We have an abounding, but undeveloped mineral wealth; niaii, gypsum, potter's clay, sandstone, salt, soda, sulphur, petroleum, etc. We have 20,000 miles of navigable waters, we have three important lines or railroad in operation, and others are constructing. We have incacala-ble commercial advantages in pos sessing the sea outlet of the greatest river in the-world, and a prospect of teeming tlfte control of the transpor tation of the Western grain trade.

We have all these rewards to offer, and we need demand in return, only that our beneficiaries avail them selves of them to the full. THE MEXICAN BORDER. From the latest report made by the commission appointed to visit, the Mexican border of Texas and inves tigate the charge of Mexican depre dations, it is evident that the troubles of that section have not been ex aggerated. For many years the citizens of the Rio Grande Val ley Lave been a prey to Mexican cattle thieves and bandits who have always managed to escape to their own side of the river before the citizens could get together to at tack them. The worst feature ot the case is that their raids are made under the eye of Gen.

Cortina, himself formerly a bandit, but now a General in the Mexican army. The administration of Juarez and of Lerdo de Tejada have been repeatedly remonstrated with in regard to the matter, but no actual redress has so far been obtained. President Grant finally indorsing the proposition of the Texas Congressmen, a commission was appointed to ascertain definitely the exact nature and extent of the grievances complained of. This commission visited the Bio Grande country in the year 1873, and took the sworn-testimony of eye witnesses of the murders- and robberies, as well as officially attested secondary evidence. The entire amount involved in gome 423 petitions is some $10,800,000 direct damages, or 500,233 including the indirect claims, which are- based on interest, estimated increase of stock, and the like.

To thoroughly remedy this evil will require the employment of a large force on the part of the United States Government, unless the Mexi can authorities will undertake to se cure the good behavior of their wn subjects. The Rio Grande valley produces large crops of cotton, corn and sugar cane, and apart from the fact that the national honor demands the protection of its inhabitants, is too valuable a tract to be abandoned to the ma rauders. British Knowledge of American eogsaphy. Familiarity with Ameri can geography is not the strong- suit of he literary Briton, and in particular of Lady Georgian a Fulferton. In her romance, "Too Strange Not to Be True," Charlotte of Brunswick, early in the last century, settles upon the Lower Mississippi, where the Rocky Mountains are visible from her windows, and where, amid the- gambolines of monkeys ana the tumbliBgs of buffaloes, she gathers the lotus flowers from out the tropical luxuriance, and in the twilight rows her canoe to the Falls of the Minnehaha, narrowly escaping the alligators, but re- Turning is time xortea, and, to amuse herself, quoting Longfellow's song of "Hiawatha." which she had heard the Indians chanting in their forest pal aces.

Baltimore Gazette. A vounsr ladv whose na "na struck ile" a few years ago, and who has since been at boarding-school, recently returned, and a party was given for her benefit. Upon the bottom of her invitation cards she caused to be inscribed R. S. V.P.," and one was sent, to an illiterate rich fellow, who has also made his money by borinsr.

He did not come, but sent a caid with the letters S. C. Meeting him in the street, she asked him what the letters meant. "Tell me first what vonra meant." Oh mine was French for "Respond if yea cannot accept." "Well, mine was English for "Darn sorry I can't come." litusrille Fa Herald. DIED.

MASCARO On Tuesday, the 15th of July, at 9:35 A. LOU ISA MUNCHOW, aged 27 years, wile oi itock ascaro. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late resi dence, on Annunciation street, between Sixth and Seventh, This (Wednesday) Afternoon, at 4 O'clcclc. Ttzas papers please copy. PECK On Tnecday evening, the 15th of July.

Mm. A. J. PECK, a native of Virannia. widow ol the late Kev.

Wyley B. Peck, of the Prot-st-aut Episcopal Chuich, aged 75 years and 8 ntns. Her friends snd acquate lances, and those of her daughten ULra. Ober, are respeotf oily invi. tedtoatlen'd her funeral, from Christ Church, Canal street.

This Morning, at 10 o'clock MASCARO On Tuesday. July 15. 1873. at P. LOUISA MCNCHOW, wife ot Keck Masoaro a native of Prussia, agea iwen- tv-even years.

The friends and acquaintances ar trespeouuiry invited to attend her funeral, te take place This Day, at 4 o'clock. P. AT frjm her late residence no Annus elation, between. Sixth and Seventh treete. ROCK MASCAEO.

HuBhand. ERNEST MUJSCHOW, Brothor. BYBE On Tnesflny, 3 uly 15. 1873. at 4 A.

DiiMlMCK RVRME. aaed thirtv-aeven veers. a native of Castlebar, Ireland, and a resides of thi- city lor tnutyyeara. Ills friends and those of his brother Charles, as also bis Jate comrades ol the eta Louisiana Volunteers. C.

6. are respectfully invited to tread his funeral on Wednesday Moraine 16th insc. at half pasts 9 o'clock, from his brothefa residence. 303 Gasquet street, between Bros and Dorgenois streets. A TTtv On MondiT.

Jnlv 14. at half t.st o'clock. P. WILLIAM UEOUQC A IT KEN. nine monins ami nrxeen oar a.

oniy son oi Koutri Aiutea ana juzaoeta n. ttateuuuu KELLEY On July 14. at o'clock. P. M.

JOBS THOMAS KKLLlCY.aned 5 months, son of 'J xuniaa Kelley and Mary Anne Ktai-ney. FUNERAL. DUDLEY LODGE Ko. S6, 7. and A.

M. The members of this Lodge are requested to meet at the Grand Xodge HaU, at tH o'clock. P. To-Day, Wednesday, July 18. for the pur pose of attending- the funeral ot our late member.

JAMK8 W. ALEXANDER, who died yesterday at 12 M. Funeral service at the last domicile ot the deceased, corner of Josephine and Franklin streets. All M. M.

are fraternally invited to attend. By order ot G. H. BRAUUHJT. W.

W'M. T. BROWN, Secretary. Gxs. nowAitD Again.

The St. Louis Republican's special Washington dispatch, of the 12th, says An article in a morning paper, understood to have been written by an officer of the Howard University, very thoroughly upsets the principal points of the defense of Gen. Howard, which were roade in a report of a committee of which Fred. Douglass is chairman. Amcng other things the writer shows that the institution of which Howard is president, is in a very unsound financial condition, and that its income is not, in fact, sufficient to carry it on in a respect -able manner.

It has just thrown two of its departments, law and medicine, completely overboard, so far as salaries are concerned, and has reduced all salaries in the preparatory and collegiate departments to $150o for a professor. The report exhibits a statement of Gen. Howard's private account to show that he has given the university more than it has paid him. This performance is foolish extreme, especially when we fiadout that the gifts are bis personal donations to individual students, a sum which ha had to pay b6causetf his carelessness and unauthorized indorsement of a note from which the university got no advantage, the costs of his receptions for graduates and trustees, and principally the bond of $10,000, payable in two years, at 6 per cent, interest, wrung from him by recent criticism. A wealthy New York gentleman, of an original turn of mind, is going to have stables built upon his grounds after the model of the pyramids of Egypt.

He contends the pyramid is the proper form for dwelling-houses also, and has the advantage of nutting a Bton to the eter nal discussions about Mansard and other roofs. FISHING TACKLE. Jnst received from Liverpool, by the steamer Minnesota, the best assortment ot FISH HOOKS, all made to order, and the celebrate! BRAIDED OIL SILK PATENTED LINES, not to be found in any other place ia this city, or within the limits of the United States. F. CHARLEVIIXE, Sportsmen's Depot, Jyl6 4t2dp 33 St.

Charles street CABPT WAEEUOPSB. 17 Chartres street 17 A. Importer, offers at WHOLESALE AND RETEALL. CARPETING, 1000 pes. English and Amefloaa.

ojl cixjth, loor, xacue ana uamage MATTING. 1000 roll-. White. Check and Pancv. WINDOW SHADES, Table and Piano Covers CURTAINS, Lace and Nottingham BROCATELLK, Ootelines, Terries, Repa, etc.

HAIRCLOTH, Burlaps, Tickings, Springs, ete. Vi on en wwp ONE HUNDRED PIANOS, Of the best makers, to wit: Stein way, Enabe, Haines, Westermayer (Berlin), Pleyel, new and second-hand, on hand and for sale at summer prices for caah. on time, on monthly payments, or rented with privilege to buy. Old pianos taken on exohanoe at the fan value. LOU 18 GBUNBWAXD, Jy 13 SuWeSa2dp 1 U9 Canal street.

IMPORTANT TO 1UANDL.ORDS AND CAS CONSUMER. GAS LIGHT MADE CHEAPER THAN KEROSENE. KO MORE FIRES FROM GASOLEfE. STO MORE DEATHS FROM ULMP EX PLOSIONS. Office of New Orleans Gas Light Co I June-28, 1873.

i On the 1st of January, 1874, upon the com pletion of the new works now being erected by this company, tho price of Gas in tMs city, within the limits supplied by it, win be reduced to THREE DOLLARS pes 1000 cubic feet to all consumers for prompt payment in cash. New Orleans will then be the most cheap ly lighted city in the Union, considering distance from the coal fields. This reduction in price is intended to leave no valid excuse for the nse of any iUnininant but gas along the lines- of the company's mains, fully one third of which, passing through well built streets, are now, and have been since they were laid, unproductive of income. i This publication is now made, six months in advance, for the benefit of landlords and householders owning the smaller class of tenements, in order to give them ample time before the next busy season to fit up their premises for gas, and thereby secure better ten ants and better rents next Oetober. However small the Jiouse the economy will be great.

If insured, the rate of pre-niiuiu will be lessened if not insured the risk of lose will be decreased. The immediate aud certain advantages to be reaped by the public are 1. A daily saving to each of ten thousand families of one-fourth the present cot of one of the necessities of Ufa, 2. A decrease in the number of destructive fires caused by the use of the volatile distillates of petroleum. 3.

A saving of human life, hy substi tuting the stationary chandelier or wall bracket for the brittle glass lamp. 4. The most convenient and saftcst light brought within the means of the most economical household. While, however, the public will be the sole immediate beneficiary from this decrease in the price of gas, ou- the other hand, in the present depressed condition of trade, the experiment of reducing bt 25 per cent, the cost of an article of limited for the purpose of increasing the demand, can be made profitable to the company only by the ac-ceosion of a sufficient number of new consumers to compensate for the great reduc tion in Its current receipts; and this result -we confidently expect and it will become the interest of aU present consumers of gas, to induce their neighbors to adopt this light. in order that the low price may not only BE MAINTAINED, BUT STILL FCBTItEBi RE CCED IN THE TCTUBE.

The attention of consumer is also directed to the use of gas for cooking and heating pcrposes. At the proposed price, gas as fuel wiU be more economical than wood or coal, and less troublesome than either. In Europe and in the Northern cities of the Union, the use of gas for warming buildings and cooking is extending1 In order to be prepared to supply freely any demand which this reduction in price may create, additional buildings and apparatus are being erected by this company, at a cost of 400,000, which win, when completed, ln- crea its manufacturing capacity to 000 cubic feet of gas per twenty-four hours. The new Purifying House will be ready for use iu January, and the Retort House in a few months thereafter, and the improvements to be introduced in the construction and operation of the apparatus are expected sensibly to reduce the cost both of manufacture and purification, while improving the illuminating power of the pas. Upon these considerations, the company hopes tsat this movement will be welcomed by its old patrons in the same spirit which has inspired it, and that it may be but the first in a series or measures wmca win more closely still Identify the interests of the com pany with those of the gaa consumers.

By order or tne uoara or Jc2S lm JAMES JACKSON, President, CITY TAXES. DEPARTMENT OP FINAWrie City Hall. New Orleans, July lCten. Thar attention of Tax-Payers is reapeetroUr called to the fact that only BEVENTXeij DATS remain (not lnclndlng- Sundays) In whtcov they can pay their Taxes without costs. After Slat interest and costs commence Better pay now tnan pay tho Sheriff with eosta of court, etc.

B. M. TURNBULL. Jyl2-2t31 AflmT Finance aamterla. ADVANTAGEOUS PROPOSITIONS.

1S7 199 -OLD LKVEK. lgy jfc 1B' Opposite the French Market. MICHEL LION, Tired of the Retail Bnslnesa, It ia proposed ta sell our magnificent stock WITHOUT REGARD TO COST, so that he disposes of It The stock Is eompoasa of Brady-Made CLOTHING for Maa ana Bon UNDER GARMENTS, HATS, TECMs VALISES, etc The whole must be sold In ninety days from Julys. The goods are marked at from 25 to so oent. below cost prices.

This is a positive liquidation and athoronaa selling cut. a The Counters. Show Cases, Fixtures and Sew in IT Machines, will be disposed of at advanUn ousipricea, Mr. LION desiring to open a waCia aalehouse. Jy Ua THIRD QUARTERLY REPORT OF the STATE NATIONAL.

BANK, OF NEW ORLEANS, NEW ORLEANS, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 187J. (Profits Divided Under the Mutual System.) Loans and discounts It United States bonds 55S.000 09 Premiums on 65,600 as Stocks and other Securities 43,15084 Due from redeemlnt and reserve a jts. 258,237 e-Due from other banks and 196,642 93 Banking thousetaad other real estate 20L5M Furniture and 12,055 Taxes paid 4.755 0s Current expenses 12,6 71 Checks on city banks 147.141 7s Geld coin 76,563 7 Legal tender notes 691,253 09 535 79 LIABILITIES. Capital stock 850,000 09 Surplus 27,000 00 Circulation outstanding- 500,000 00 Dividends unpaid 11,754 ti. Individual deposits 1,749.

8H 71 JJlue to banks and 310,633 rjlseonnt for three Exchange 19,594 66 Profit and loss for three months. 772 57 01,320 99 ts.sao.s.-g 79 DIVIDEND DECLARE Dv (Payable on and after Monday, Jury 21, 1873.) Stockholders three and a quarter per cent. 'tor three months; depositors of one -per cent, for three months. N. B.

In future the dividends will bo declared semi-annually, payable in January and July. SAMUEL H. KENNEDY. President CHAS. L.

C. DUPUY, Cashier. Jy4 6 9 13 16 20 2dp ORGANS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. The celebrated Mason A Hamlin ORGASs, and those excellent Trayeer Stuttgart Organs constantly on hand. Direct imnortatioa of Mu sical Boxes, Hand Organa, Acoordeona, Violin.

-Brass Instruments, Strings for all instruments, at wholesale and retalL. LOUIS GBUNEWALD, PIG IRON, Charcoal, Hot Blast, of superior quality, from tho Red Mountain Furnaces, Jefferson, county Alabama, for sale in lota to suit, by JOS. B. WOLFE A CO. Jy43 lm2dp oo 39 Carondelet street.

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, Bstsa Rouae, La. MILITARY ORGANIZATION. THE THIRTEENTH SESSION Will begin the first Monday In October next, aid" close the last Wednesday In June, 1874. 14 1 TTVTVTMJfi I Hu etrnmn -n SUPPORTED. 1- It claims ta be one ot the leading schools la the South.

2. itistheohief school of Louisiana. K. 19 has vouna men in artanri a mn, part of Louisiana and nowhere else can the ycuth of the btate become so weU aeauaiated tsrlT'fi avia nnif 4. The location.

In the citv of Katnn ltniM i. uueuraassed in Louisiana for health. ouTei. ww iur hue reiuunjE In. fiueeees of good society.

6. Its- faculty is large and able, composed ot young, active, zealous men. 6. i ts course of study is full ana thorough. 7.

It Las a good school of civil eiurinu-lit well tapplied with Instruments, modeia and dli-drams, plana and specifications of public works, and the latest and best' hooka on engineering published in this country and In Eiimu htwC cM at tention is paid to drawing. jt nas a ixmmeroiai ecuooi, where book-kei)inr. business forma and transactions- m.nt commercial relations are taught. v. luuwnrjr ueparunents are on as good rooting as its mathematical and aclentifln th ancient and modern languages, mental and moral philosophy, history and fcg" lltera- vu iTTuug mil wcu laugub.

10. I ha a well selected library of 1L00O voluaaea, 11. It has a food uhilMonhlnal ana ili.mlMl apparatus, a large number el models of Diaoiiineiy, recently obtained from the United States Patent Otflce at Washington. tniaeralogy. eoncholocv.

botanv. coalorr. ami arehapolojci-. i s. Toe -ropograpnicai.

uooiogical. Botaalcal and Zoological Surveyor Louisiana iseonu acted by piotessors of tho University. Nowhere else has the student equal facilities to learn the natural and physical history of- iuuifiuia ibu ox me wnuis hodiu treat. 14. It has many handsome engravings, cbromos, photographs, etc intlaod, most, of public rooms are but a many Has pioture-galierles 15.

The University has 200 stands of small anus, and four pieces of artillery. In Infantry and Artillery Tactics there Is a brill every dsy. Its mUitarr dlscinline la believed te be Uia strongest, most efficient and best la the whole-count ry, and its cadta the most orderly, sradt- tnl and contented. Comparison is earnestly invited. 16.

There is not only the best of good order within the University, buteiUzensare proteoted against all lawlesenes of eadets and hazing," or th brutal treatment ofi.eadets by. one another, as practiced at soiue of the ohief military school of ha country, is here simply ltaposUble. 17. It strives to th-or around tho cadet, eon-tinti ally, the best of reViglona, moral and social LaHaencea. 18.

it is tr-e neatest and most tastefully ar-raaged establishment of the kind la the States. is. It is one of the cheapest lnsttratlonf high grade In the country tuition, board, washing, fuel aad lights, use of Jarnitore, and vaats attendance, being only too a year. Other necessary expenses proportionately' low, aaur unrf onn clothing to be had at the University at cost. 20.

It gives a scholarship of four years fan. tuition fees) on payment at one hundred doUar. Fees may also be paid la library hooka, provisions, ete. 21. Why should five out ot every seven Louisiana youths be sent oat of Louisiana to oo eda-cated For fnsther Information, address my 29 6m D.

F. BOYD, BaperinteniieBt. HEJLDX CUIOTB HOTEL BILOXL MISS Mr. UBBAIN BAMBAUT annouaoes ts friends and their familiea that he haareoMd the sunnier season tho hotel kaowa ae." BHADT OBOVS, and will open Won tae rj May aext. to RAMBAtJT soUoi" continuation ol that patronage which lie has accorded him In tho piwt, ad praJ for hia part to nse every effort to drT'i priee are exceedingly aaoderato.

ag37- OEOR6I W. LEE. BEAL EST ATX AGENT. S3 Exchange Place, Attends to th Benung of Stores, DweJJM T-uunlnatloo and Correction of the Asssasaea Payment of the Taxes, Elects Insurance and suptends the Jt Has been la the above bnsiaeaa a numo r6a3oitAgenola mlttr-iS.