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THE PICAYUNE the Largest Circulation in the Southwest. Has Or THE PICAYXTITX. Su ecanrno Dally, per fii m. ta advance, $13 hjJf jrerl7rfo quarterly, $3. Postage on the Dally, per annum, $1 Paica of thk Pap Mr Single copies, Five Cents.

WlULT PlCATtma Three Dollars pr unnm, Postageon Weekly Ptoayuite, twenty eeate per MONDAY MORNING, NAY 13, 1ST. Turkey makes a fine display of unopened boxes at the exhibition. What in them nobody appears to know, The execution of Piper in Boston will be strictly He is preparing to die. Th wellknowa hymn, Rock of Ages," was written in March, 1776, by Angnstos Montague Toplady. Per Hyacinths is about to re enter France, coming from Genera.

He is going to Morver, in the Jura, to consecrate an old Catholic place of worship there. A monthly paper, devoted to the interests of the 'inflation pwty, has appeared in New York. The Republic is its name. It claims also to be devoted practical Christianity, The wife of Ole Bull, the violin player, lives in Madison. Wisconsin, with her mother, who is an, invalid.

Mrs. Boll has translated several Norse novels, which will soon be. published. i Daring a visit to Richmond, Va Speaker Kerr, urgently advised several Southern: political leaders to use their best efforts to repress disloyal utterances attheSo th. deferring to th nomination of Bris tow, the Cincinnati Commercial thinks it would signify the power of the party for self reformation, and that the reign of the Radicals ia over.

The Empress of India pays Lord Lyt tnn. her Vicp.ro v. 1185.000 ner vear which is a fair salary, considering the times. At any ratev observes the Syracuse Jour nal, i is uvuei una writing poeuy xor a living. In an article on Gov.

Seymour's letter, the New York Son says it is confidently asserted that about one hall of the delegates from that State are already in favor of his nomination. It is not impossible at all that he may be ultimately nominated as a sort of nnramom iftA nan. didate. A mm io ueus ox tae state oz Aiississippi on 41 Ia. Oo on I4n luo vi.iaou iu jr was tonttiui, and the available assets $709,558.

The value of the taxable property of the State is personal estate, $35,539,555. making a total of $131, 412,053. The Brooklyn Artras that a pair of Chicago bed bugs took passage aboard uom x'eoro carpet Dag, ana reaonea San Francisco in perfect safety. In two days thereafter the city was overrun, and the inhabitants, attributing the plague to Chinese are loudly clamoring for a massacre of the Chow Chows. I The "New York Evening Express says that uor.

walker, of Virginia, now in Congress, is about six feet three inches high, with a well proportioned frame and a carriage dignified and graceful. His head, crowned with; a wavy hair almost enow white, is well poised on a firm neck and is large and well shaped. coun An in in vonthfnl. A nnhlAr rtr mnrn sympathetic face is rarely to be seen. It beams with honesty and kindness.

No man has more friends in the House than he. Hon. W.D. Kelley is, according to a contemporary, one ox the most oonscien tious and earnest men of the House. He never yields his convictions to the behest of his party associates.

His recent statement that ail sections would see the day when they would be proud of the courage and sacrifices of all engaged in the late war indicates a forecast as well as a magnanimity infinitely creditable to 'him. He is thoroughly a man of the people. The New York Commercial Advertiser says that the young Cuban student who put obstructions on the track of a New Jersey railroad, and then stood off behind a tree to watch the result on the first train that came by, will have an early opportunity to study up on the subject of Jersey justice. The writer humorously remarks that that thing may do very well to try on Spanish soldiers in Cuba, but the average American traveler would prefer not being made the victim of the experiment. The Committee on Claims of the House of Representatives has reported favora bly to granting a pension of eight dollars a month to Emerick W.

Hansell, formerly a messenger of the State Department. Hansell, on the night or the 14th of April, 16G5, entered the room of Secretary Seward just as Payne had finished his desperate work upon the Secretary, Frederick W. Seward, Augustas EL Seward and George F. Robinson. Payne assailed Hansell.

stabbing him over the sixth rib, and making a wound three inches deep, from the effect of which he has never recovered. 1 i The portable field pulpit used by the Eev. George "Whitefield, in open air meetings, one hundred and twenty five years ago, win oe exnioiteaas tne centennial. It is a curious, old fashioned contrivance, made of pine wood, so constructed that it can be readily set up and i taken down. Whitefield preached over fields of England, Wales and America.

you object to my resting my band ou your shoulder, sir said a lady, standing Bp in a chair behind an nM athe cLU ens' Martha bettr madam; rest both bands on my shoulder; throw you IVms around my neck, y. aFms everybody object never obiected of that MS Jr tne gallant old THE CONFERENCE ON THE WHARF I LEASE. The conference of the committee appointed by the holders of wharf bonds and the City Council with. tha whaif lessees, on Saturday night, ap pears to have resulted in no agree ment. The bondholders we understand, were recommend the extension of the lease for twq years, and also to extend for two years the time for the retirement of the bends, provided additional guarantees were given for the performance of the conditions of the contract; But they declined to make a concession as tothe time of payment of interest, This proposition; so far as it affected the payment of principal and interest on the bonds, was a matter between the lessees and 'tho bond Had the parties in interest come to an understanding or concluded a new arrangement upon this point, we do not see that it would have concerned the public.

But the extension of the lease involves other considerations outside of the payment of the wharf bonds, and the recommendation of the bondholders would hardly have afforded a reason for the acquiescence of the Council in such a measure. As the lessees, however, were not inclined to a modification of their original terms, the discussion' of this question is not material. We understand that a suggestion for the immediate reduction of wharf rates, in consideration of an extension of the lease, was also declined by the lessees. The matter now, as we understand at, is remitted to the the extraordinary terms recently, submitted having received no modification. We presume that there is little doubt as to their rejection.

In case of default by the lessees, a new lease is discussed by some of the bondholders, looking to a division of the wharf lease into four separate contracts. But it is not certain the lessees will make default. We are somewhat in clined to hazard the prediction that they will prefer to continue the ex periment, for a time at least. At all events we hope that the City Council! will avail themselves of any opportu nity that may occur to dispose of the matter by resuming control of the wharves. The Crevasse of Bayou Lafourche The Board of Levee Commissioner) i and the State Engineer would de well to examine and check, without delay, the influx of water through Bayou La ourche crevasse.

Energy can arrest it within thirty hours. There are four thousand sacks of sand in the vicinity, and with three thousand more (which merchants interested in the sugar staple might readily furnish) a competent engineer or 'director could easily complete the basket work or barrier which has already been erected and is but slightly damaged, and deposit the saqd bags therein, and thus effectually close the crevasse. We learn that all the planters in the vicinity are prepared to furnish hands to perform the necessary labor, if some authoritative and determined engineer will at once assume control. As matters now stand, hundreds of acres of valuable cane lands are threatened with submersion; and the drainage of the plantations is utterly impracticable. This is a work worthy of the attention of the commissioners, and of the immediate direction of tha" State En gineer, or of a competent assistant, i Alleged Incendiarism.

At 1 o'clock Sunday morning a tire was discovered in the staircase of the three Btory brick building corner 'of Delord and Peters streets, known as the Triangular Building, owned b3' Mr. Keefer and occupied by Mrs. Pollins as a coffee bouse and boarding house. The interior, of the building was totally destroyed, and the loss was estimated at $2500. The stock in the bar room was a specious article of merchandise, as the bottles on the shehres were found filled with water instead of liquor, and the fixtures were removed.

A number of beds, bedding, and some furniture used by boarders in the second story were consumed. The adjoining apartment in the building, used as a shop for the improved Barbarin gas machine, owned by Mr. Roberts, was damaged to the amount of Coal oil being found running down the steps when the doors of the house were forced open, Mrs. Pollins and the occupants being absent from the house at the time, and a man having been seen running away from the premises immediately before the conflagration, it was eupposea the house bad been set on fire by some incendiary. Diligent search was made by the police, and it was ascertained that the furniture and fixtures in the house had lately been removed by Mrs.i Pollips and wert insured in the Germania Insurance Company for $850; also that when she left the house before the fire, she had carried away with her her insurance policy.

The police accordingly arrested her, together with a man named John May and another party called John Crowley, who was seen around the premises with May, late in the night. Mrs. Pollins and the two men are charged, from information received, with being accessories to the arson. The Druid Festival. The New Year's festival of the United Ancient Order of Druids of Louisiana, which was postponed on Sunday, the 7th, on account of the bad weather, was given yesterday at the Delachaise Grounds.

The attendance was large, and the day passed off very pleasantly, the sports being of a diverting and interesting character. i Fitzbngh. the clever doorkeeper, is a Texan, and is advised to "shoot bis correspondents. i i Over twenty thousand dollars have been collected for tbeGen. Lee memorial Xm be erected at Richmond, Virginia.

Men in Buckram. THE WEST FELICIANA LYNCHING. Apropos of the special dispatch from Woodville, published in our columns this morning, giving an account of 'the murder of Mr. Ernestine by negroes, whose number it haa been ascertained was seven, and the subsequent lynching of two of the criminals near Laurel Hill, it is worthy of remark that Marshal Packard received from Bayou Sara a telegram, in the preparation of which a system of inflation seems to have been adopted, as the number of negroes killed was swelled by the Marshal's correspondent from two to eleven." The dispatch stated that the killing had taken place in the neighborhood of Laurel HilL 'and was accomplished by 200. white men, but the informant did.

not mention tho mode of death or the circumstances which had brought about the event. CITY GOSSIpT At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon one Philip Repatt, while under the influence of liquor, entered the residence of Mr. Adam Ries, on Enghein, between Villere and Robertson streets. Third District, and without provocation shot Mrs. Ries, inflicting a painful but not dangerous wound in the neck.

He was arrested and locked up in the Fifth Precinct Station. Yesterday evening a man named Thos. Cook, while driving at the corner of Common and Robertson streets, was thrown out of his buggy. The horse rau away, but was captured and returned to his owner, who was only slightly injured. If the Times cannot understand the English of the Picayune it must seek enlightenment from human agency is inadequate to supply that mangier of syntax with the necessary intellectual capacity.

Auditor Johnson and Assistant Attorney General Dibble returned yesterday from tbeir trip to the Centennial. Is Wingard going to put in an appearance to day One of the car drivers of the Bayou Road line, last evening, coming to Canal street with a crowded car, was hailed near the Fair Grounds by some passengers, but he cast a haughty look upon them and said. I am ufl." Those who were left behind no doubt believed it. Three large passenger trains left the city yesterday morning on the Mobile road, taking out fully 1500 excursionists to the watering places along the coast. The Juniata Social Club, numbering, with their about 500 persons, chartered a train and pio nickea dur ing the day at Pass Christian.

As they were accompanied by a brass band the Juniatas made things quite lively for the quiet Pass Christianites, and exhausted the resources of the hotels. New Orleans and Texas Railroad. We have late advices that the completion of the Texas end of this road from Houston to Orange is being rapidly hastened. A few days ago a construction locomotive raa landed and Bet at work at Orange, causing excitement there and a general turnout of the citizens to see the Iron horse. New saw milla and stores and dwelling houses are going up at Orange and Liberty, and the certain and speedy completion of the road has imbued our neighbors across the 8abine with renewed life, energy and rejoicing.

As there could be no other object in rebuilding this road through Eastern Texas than that of making railroad connection with New Orleans, we hope to announce soon that the cars are running from Houston to Sabine. Calcasiea Echo. The History of Salonica. Jfew Tork World. Balonica, or Salonik, was first called Tlierma," on account of the hot springs that abound in its neighborhood.

Xerxes encamped in this city, and. on observing on tte coatit of the Gulf of Thermes, the height of Olympus and ol Ossa, he determined to explore the country. Therma was captured by the Athenians in the beginning of the PeloponneBsian war, and delivered later to rei diceas and retaken afterward bv Fau canias. In 315 Cassander rebuilt Therma and named it after his wife, Thessalonica, a sister of Alexander. The position of this city and its commercial ability, made it the most important place upon the coast, when, after the battle of Padua it submitted to the Romans and became, under their domination the capital of all Macedonia.

It was the headquarters of the Senate and of the partisans of Pompey. Later it embraced the cause of Octavius and Antony, against Erutus and Cassius, and as a recompense received the title of free city." During the three first centuries of the Christian era, and even after the foundation of Constantinople, Thessalonica was the capital of the countries between the Adriatic and the Black Sea, and its population Increased to 3CO.00O inhabitants. In the third century it was raised to the rank of a Roman Colony in order to protect the empire against the incursions of the barbarians. Readers of history will remember the frightful massacre of Thessalonica ordered by Tbeodosius, and the public penance imposed upon that Emperor by St. Ambrose.

Prom the sixth to the eighth century Thessalonica had several fierce struggles with thes'aves. In 904 it was captured and savagely pillaged by the Saracens. The Normans, under the command of Trancred. trained possession of it In 1185, and treated its inhabitants with the utmost barbarity. In the commencement of the thirteenth century it passed under the dominion of the Marquises of Montferrat, who adopted the title of Emperors of Thessalonica." Sold to the Venetians by the Emperors of Constantinople for 60,000 sequins, Salonica was at length captured by the Turks in 1430, ia whose possession it continues to this day.

8t. Paul preached Christianity to the Thes salonians and dedicated two epistles to them. Thessalonica, considered the principal seat of Christianity in the East, was called "the orthodox city." Under the reign of Leo the Isauriau the provinces dependent upon Salonica were the first to throw off the authority of Borne, and gave the signal of the great schism of the East. EuBtathhi the celebrated commentator upon the Iliad and the Odyssey, was the Bishop of! Thessalonica in 1185. The modern Balonica ia situated at the head of an inner basin terminating the long gulf stretching up to the northward, between the snowy peaks and rusged mountains of OlympuB and Ossa to the west and the rich shores of the Chalcidice and the peninsula of Cassander to the east.

The bay, on which the city locks down, affords a safe anchorage and in the tenth centnry an ancient mole inclosed an Inner port within its arms, where the largest vessels could land or receive their cargoes as in a modern dock. This port bounded the city on the south, and was separated from it by a wall about a mtle in length running along the shore. Within, the houses rose gradually until the upper part of the city was crowned with an acropolis, separated from the hills behind by a rugged precipice. This citadel is now called the "Seven Towers." Two ravines. Tanning to the sea from the rooky base of the acropolis, serve as ditches to the western and eastern walls of the city, which to this day follow the same line and present nearly the same aspect as in the reign of Eeo the PhUoso J'her.

Their angles at the sea, where they oin the wall along the port, are strengthened by towers of extraordinary size. The Eftnatian Way, which for many centuries served as the high road for the communications between Rome and Constantinople, formed a great street passing in a straight line through the centre of the city, from its western to its eastern wall. This relio of Reman greatness, with its triumphal arches, still forms a marked feature in the Turkish city, but the moles of the ancient port have fallen to ruin, and the space between the sea wall and the water is disfigured by collection of filthy huts. Yet the admirable situation of Thessalonica and the fertility of the surrounding country, watered by several noble rivers, still enable it to nourish a population of upwards of 60,000 souls. Nature has made it the capital and seaport of a rich and extensive district, and under a good government it could not fall to become one of the largest and most nourishing cities on the shores of the Mediterranean.

An Indiana woman who sent to a neighbor for "something to read," received a Bible. She says it's an interesting story, hut that she can't tell who's the heroine or how it is going to come out. MERCY AND JUSTICE ONE. A Sermon by Dr. Walker.

At the Felicity Street Bfethedist Ckarek. The text' was taken from the 62d Psalm, 12th verse. i 7 The Psalmist asserts, said the doctor, the essential inseparability of mercy and Justice. Sinful men often endeavor to comfort themselves with the idea that God Is too merciful to punish His creatures. They think, or they try to, think, that God's mercy will stay the execution of the decrees of His eternal Justice.

This is a mistaken view of the attributes of the divine character. God is always consistent, and there is never any real conflict between the claims of mercy and Justice. Mercy does not consist in granting hurtful indulgencies or in excusing sin. Mercy pities suffering, weakness and want. It extends pardon to the penitent, not to the persistent sinner.

Human experience proves that every attempt to exercise mercy at the expense of Justice must result disastrously. There la too much mistaken kindness In the world. A lawless and blood thirsty mau commits a willful murder. He is arrested, tried and convicted. Although he has cut off a human life and hurled a soul unbidden into eternity, a false sentiment of sympathy is aroused in his behalf, and he is turned loose upon society.

A man is sick, his appetites are all perverted. He desires to eat and drink things which are poison to one in his condition. His friends indulge him and he dies. The doctor further illustrated the principle nnder discussion by reference to the ti aining and education of children. A child is necessarily ignorant of the laws of health and the chemical action of the different sorts of food anJl drink.

He craves that which, is unwholesome, and it is a false kindness to indulge him. Again, a boy, as most boys are4s fonder of play than of work, and complains because you require him to devote himself to study or to some form of severe application. It is mistaken kindness to say Well, he is a boy, let him play, let him enjoy himself; working and thinking enough await his manhood. Do this, and when he grows up without education or industrious habits, what a wrong you will have done him a wrong that may mar his whole future 1 Or suppose your boy is self willed and restive under authority, and you allow him to have his own way, and to grow up without respect for law, do you not lead him to imagine himself infallible, and do you not convert him into a tyrant Do you not thus unfit him for the assumption of the relations of a pupil, an apprentice, an employee, of any sort, a member of a family, or a citizen Such a training would make him exceedingly disagreeable, would hedge up his way and hazard his life. You have your boy in the formative period of life to mould him, through false kindness, into a shape that must secure his misery, is a great cruelty.

Or, suppose, through the same mistaken indulgence, it is determined that the child shall endure no self denials, that all his childish whims ana boyish fancies shall be gratified, is it not evident that such a course will weaken his character and make him selfish I The result will be a life of bitter disappointments. We cannot, then, be merciful In the highest and truest sense without being Just. God. the AU mercifal, and the All wise parent, never loses sight of Justice In the exercise of mercyJ Whom He loves He scourges and chastises for their profit, that tbey may be partakers of His holiness." Human nature is so constituted that ft.o.n only bo happy by the observance of a virtuous life. In Bible language, the happy man Is he who has learned to love mercv, do Justly and to walk humbly with God." 'it is everywhere admitted that a vicious life leads to ruin.

It is not pleasant to describe human nature as it really is, with all its dark and hideous depravity, to tell men that they are sinners against goodness and God, that they are on the road to death and hell but it would be a mistaken kindness to hide jrom the moral invalid his true condition. It would not be more cruel to allow a company of blind men to alk over the edge of a yawning precipice. God, in His wisdom, has decreed the punishment of sin in order to deter sinners and to save them from the inevitable consequences of guilt, and that Justice whose decrees must enforce the penalty. If God should Ignore the distinctions of right and wrong and pardon all offenders, mercy would be perverted into injustice and the whole universe would suffer the baneful consequence. God will be merciful because He is Just and He will be Just because He is merciful.

The traits of His character are in harmony and not in conflict. The sinner who has laid to his soul the nattering uaction that God is too merciful to punish him has forgotten that God is too Just to pardon him in his impenitence. God rewards us according to our works. We reap that which we have sown. If we have sown to unholy tempers, of such such shall the harvest be.

ws have sown the seeds of love in faith, we shall reap of the spirit life everlasting." i Louisiana. Sugar Bowl, llth: So many robberies have been committed upon Cypremort Prairie, that the citizens felt that their only security to eitber life or property was lu organizin to protect themselves, and hence tbey last Sunday met for that purpose. With all good citizens, we greatly deplore the necessity which leads to this step, but as they will now in turn do patrol duty, we hope thieving will cease, and they not be compelled to inflict punishment which the law should administer. About a mouth ago, a horse was stolen from he stable of Mr. Ulyese Pltre, in the neighborhood, and no clue to either horse or thief has been obtained.

Since then, a negro man took a cow to Mr. Frederick Sigur, a butcher, to sell. That gentleman required some evidence of ownership. The uegro left the cow and went to another colored man whooould write, and there had forgea the name of Mr. Theodule JLabauve, certifying that he had sold the cow to the negro.

Btill doubtful, the honest butcher retained both cow and certificate. Mr. Labauve denied selling such cow, and it turned out that the negro stole it from Mr. Luc Landry. The facts were made known to officials in Franklin, yet no arrest was made.

The freeze of March 21st so badly injured the peach trees that tbey have only now commenced blooming, and in consequence the peach crop of 1876 will be both late and short. During the months of February and March many trees were well laden with fruit, even ripening in places, but that was all killed by the freeze. A crevasse a few miles below the crossing has inundated several plantations on the east side of the bayou, among them Mr. C. C.

Williams's, Messrs. Beauvals's, a portion of Mrs. wing's, Mr. Fred. H.

Perkins's and others in that vicinity. Two crevasses at the lower end of the Lafourche have done little damage. After several weeks of very dry weather, which made planters begin to think we were going to have a drouth, fortunately we had very timely rains, last Sunday and that night. It was worth millions to the growing crops, and the change in the appearance is already perceptible. The fields were all in good condition, when the rain came, and now the growth of crops wiU be astonishingly rapid.

Prospects for large erops were never better at this season of the year than now. Thibodaux Sentinel, llth We had hoped in this issue to announce the closing of the disastrous crevasse below here at the Beau vais Place, but we learn that on Wednesday evening, when the work of closing was begun, the water burst through that portion of the levee recently built in the opening, thus undoing all the labor expended on the undertaking. Those who were endeavoring to repair it seemed discouraged, and for the present at least have abandoned the attempt. The amount of damage already and likely to be Inflicted by this crevasse. Is Impossible to estimate at present; the loss will fall heavily on the smaU planters, who are numerous on thai side of the bayou, and principally engaged in rice culture.

A general high water scare Is on the community at present, and It seems only too likely that the fears entertained on this score win be justified In the early part of this week the water commenced to rise at Berwick's Bay and Bayou at the rate of one and a half to two Inches in twenty four hours. A little later the rise was observed at Chacahoula, and at present is at the rate of two inches per day. The water has reached the Brule Gnillot. just above this place, and we are informed that some of the Inhabitants have already moved out of Little Texas. The bayou at this point is again rising, but the crevasse below will probably relieve the levees sufficiently to prevent other breaks.

The general feeling is that if Hickey Levee breaks we wiU have very high water here, and that it will be more disastrous and entail greater expense to resist it than if it had come earlier. On last 8uday evening a white laborer on the Rienri plantation, named Jean Louis, came into town to make some purchases, laving just received his wages, and on his return was waylaid in tho field by two ue groes, Butler Herbert and Chas. watkins. who took from him a number of articles and some money the following morning he went to them to endeavor to recover some of his property, when he was brutally aa oauiicu, nuu iccoiveu a severe gasn on the head with an ax. One of the criminals, Butler Herbert, has been arrested, but the oiner mut unu lar eiuueu capture.

A heavy rain fell last Saturday, which, though rather too much of a good thing, was of irreat benefit to the crm vhinh al ready show the good effect. A severe gale view wr nuui uuio uunug me oay, ou the only damatce we have heard nf thA falling of a small portion of Mr. Cra gin's urn property, ifiutu crusnea Uie roOI OI a doz car on ma swiicu. fit. Charles Herald.

IS: On finnav mnm. ing we were surprised, on awakening, to find all the streets, yards and by paths of the vuiage uiuer wuier. ji appears that the large rice flume, constructed last year by tne nee planters wno operate in the rear of i nut maun, uiu iwaiea ueiween Hahn and Morgan street, had riven ta tiut hwurr pressure of the water from the river, alio lng an immense volume or water rush in. uvuuuig mo vuiage. ny me prompt attention of our villagers the flume banked and the water had all mtimri 10 o'clock.

Some people were finely however, and hereafter, we trust, more attention will be paid to these danger An unusually heavy and violent wind and ram storm prevailed in tnis section on Sunday, and lasted during the entire day and night. The rain fall was considerable, many plantations being submerged, but no damage Inflicted except to latelv sown i th water washing away the loose seed. Dur ing me weea, uowever, ine weather has been delightful, and plantation work has progressed rapidly. From all portions of the parish we hear only the moot favorable reports of the growing crops. Amite City Democrat, 13th Last Sunday, Sunday night and Moajlay our community was visited by a good rain, which we understand was pretty general for thirty miles around.

Since then the farmers seem to be in tne wt or spirits, and allege that corn looks better at this season than for many previous years, and cotton is doing well. The gardens also present a promising appearance. Franklin Bun. 6th From Winnsborough west to the Catahoula hills the country for uio past lourecn uays nas Deen one vast sea of water, dotted lu spots with islands on which people and stock are crowded; but thanks to a generous Creator the. water is now failing and families will soon be able to move back to their now swamped homes, and the hungry cattle that have been spared jruui a waiery icrave or starvation will be able, to roam forth and feed en the nwn verdure that will soon spring up.

The water In our little rivers continue ts recede, but Biowiy, noi averaging over one rourta of an inch in twentv four houra. Th vAathnrhu been tolerable, and field and farm work progresses accordingly. After the shower on aionaay nignc it turned quite cool. Central Paclfio Railroad. Almost as Bad as "Credit Moblller" Managers of the Central Pacific Railway Charged with Swindling the Stockholders.

Cincinnati Commercial.) Washington, May 11. A printed petition to Congress, from certain residents of California and stockholders in the Central Pacific Railroad Company," was received here to day by various Congressmen, and will probably be submitted at an early day. It contains very grave charges against Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, P. Huntington uiu iiaries vmcker, uio managers OI said road, which, if true, indicate that the Credit Mobilier of the Union Pacific was a feeble concern compared to the ring which built the Central Paclfio and control its operations. The charges may be abstracted as follows That for the purpose of defrauding the stockholders of the road, and deceiving the Secretaries of the Interior and Treasure into believing that the road cost more than was actually the case, thereby also defrauding the Government, these managers organized themselves into a firm known as Chas.

Crocker and let the work of constructing the road te said firm at extravagant prices, greatly in excess of the real cost, the profits of which they divided among themselves that in 1867 they procured Wm. C. Brown, Theodore J. Milii kin and Benjamin B. Crocker, who were clerks and employes of the said road, to organize themselves into a certain corpora tiun, known as the Contract and Finance Company; that, however, the managers were the real parties in interest, although their namee do not appear, and that they thus contracted with themselves as the Contract and Finance Company, under pretense of building' and equipping said road, at prices greatly in excess of the work done or material furnished, whereby all the property and assets of the company, except the roadbed and rolling stock, were transferred to the said Contract and Finance Company for tbe use of said managers that the Central Pacific was completed and In full operation on or about the 8th of May, 1869, and that its net earnings from that date to tbe 3lst of last December have been about forty millions of dollars that the said managers and Charles Crocker Co.

and the Contract and Finance Company built the road with as little outlay of money as was poosible to have it accepted by the Government that much of the trestle work and many of the culverts and water ways are of the most temporary character; that many of the ties are of pine wood, and are rotten and unsafe for the passage of trains that a great portion of tbe iron rails are in bad order and unsafe; that the station houses, depots and ehops are all, with the exception of one at Sacramento, cheap, slight, wooden structures, in marked contrast with the tine, stone buildings of the Union Pacific, and that a large number of the locomotives are of inferior quality and workmanship; that while the National and State Governments and the counties and cities of California have aided the road to the amount of and while the managers have issued bonds, secured by mortgages on the road, for the road can be completed, according to the manner in which it was built, tor 25.000,000 that the managers do not expend on repairs, enough money to keep the road in good condition and safe for purposes of transportation that most of the delay and stoppage of the trains during the last winter were due to the bad condition of the road, and that it would require the expenditure of f2, 00,000 to put it in oood repair that these managers have, with the money most dishonestly obtained, built the California and Oregon, the ban Joaquin Valley, a large part of the Western Pacific, the San Francisco Bay and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroads, and have purchased the California, Alameda, the Los Angeles and San Pedro, the San Francisco and San Jose, and a large number of steamboats plying the inland waters of California; that on some of these roads the managers have issued bonds to the amount of more than eighteen millions, which they have divided among themselves: that most of the roads have been, consolidated with the Central Paclfio, and are known by that name, and that the said Stanford, Hopkins, Huntington and Charles Crocker have named themselves as directors and managers thereof; that the capital stock of the new corporation appears to be SlOO.000,000; that the managers have issued to themselves Ssi.ooo.ooo thereof, claiming to have paid for tbe same, but in reality have paid only 115,000 apiece out of tbeir own pockets, except as they used the money dishonestly and fraudulently obtained from the funds of the corporation for the purpose; that the Bald Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins and Charles Crocker, aside from the money thus dishonestly and fraudulently obtained, never were nor are they now collectively worth more than that Stanford was formerly a partner with his brother as oil merchant. Huntington and Hopkins were partners in the hardware business, and Crocker was a retailer of calico, tape, pins and needles; that their swornreturns of property owned by them for tbe three years ending with and Including 18C2 never aggregated $120, ooo; that with the money thus fraudulently and dishonestly obtained these persons are now building the Southern Paclno. and claim to own the same, irrespective of your petitioners and other stockholders of the Central Paclfio that thev also claim to own all tho depot grounds, town sites, water tanks, along the line of the Central Pacific, in private ownership, when in fact they are nearly all situate upon lands granted the company by Congress that with the money thus diabouently obtained they have bought a large interest in the Welts, Fargo Co. Express, and have given that firm the monopoly of the business over the road; have bought the coal mines from which the road is supplied, and thus contract with themselves to furnish the coal for th road, that by reason of having coutrolof this vast sum of money, they have been enabled to prevent investigation, either 4y Congress or any State Legislature; that thev have paid out money to prevent such investigation, and to secure legislation in their own interest, and have boosted of their iiiflunce through money over Congress; that they have stedfatly reriised to give any account of their acts, or to pay over any of the profits of the road to your petitioners. Stl tlmil frnnntlv uaVoil ilk A i uv ou.

Tbe petition concludes with a praver for an investigation, to be conducted at 8an Francisco during the recess by a joint com flllltfti nf tll tvA Hnnuia vh fKa narlflAn ere will establish and make good all the averments ana allegations in this petition contained." No signatures are appended to the copy jimu Hiuiu i no xoregoing anstract was made, but a nlanun it Robinson became a stockholder In 1862, and jour omer petitioners in 1864." And it is inferred that, the signatures win be affixed to the copies that are to be formally pre seuicu iu vue oenaie anu House. a if A Priest Buried Alive. New York Mercury. 1 One Segondo, a gardener, has confessed to having murdered M. Blanque, the Provost of a relieioua colltMre at PnulL ject in perpetrating this crime being to ob tain nvui mo successor oi me muraered man the bud of fifty francs, which he says he had intrusted to M.

Blanone. He relates that he committed the crime in the follow ing manner on April about 7 o'clock in the morning, he led M. Blanque into the garaen unuer ine pretext or pointing out some repairs, and on reaching the door of a cellar seized a gun which he had concealed inree days oeiore ana nred at the old man. A8M.Blano.ue fell his head struck the corner of the wall, and he cried out, looking intently at his murderer, "Ah, Segondo poor Segondo 1" The victim was not dead, but the Spaniard took out his pocket handkerchief, wound it round the neck of M. Blanque, and drew it so tightly mat uia luiiurvunaie man was unaoie to cry out for assistance.

He then dragged him down the steps of the cellar, and left him there while he went to fetch a spade and pickax wherewith to dig the grave. The Irovest, wounded and gagged, could neither aeiena nimsen nor can lor help. and was obliged to look on in silence while the hole was being made. Tears ran down the poor man's eyes, he crossed his hands over his chest, and muttered a hoarse prayer. When a sufficient depth had been reached Segondo seized the body of the priest in his arms and cast; nim into ine sandy nollow.

M. Blanque fell into the pit headforemost, and still living. He struggled hard to rise, and this gave the murderer considerable trouble, so that in order to effect his purpose he was obliged to bit his victim on tbe head with the spade. The.blow was so violent that the iron made a wound cutting through the eye and opening the skull. Segondo then thre a quantity of earth over the feet and chest of the Provost, whose arm made one la at desperate attempt to clear away the soil and raise the body but the gardener kicked it down, and shoved about two feet of sand into the grave.

He then stamped up it, and, after watching the spot for about a quarter of an hour, went back into the college kitchen, where he breakfasted heartily. The ruffian was taken into the college on account of his being a Carttst refugee, destitute of all means of earning bis livelihood. Probable Suspension of Mining i A Pennsylvania correspondent of the New York Times makes the unpleasant report that there is every indication that there will be a general suspension of mining operations in the anthracite ooal regious at no distant day. Collieries are daily closing operations or being worked on greatly reduced time. The production of the mines of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company haa been reduced one quarter.

The Delaware, iAckawana and Western have put several of their mines on half time, and several individual operators have suspended work in theirs. The operators say that there is 111 tie demand for coal In market, and that the quantity already mined is more than sufficient to meet all present requirements. There is stored on the docks of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company at Honesdale the largest amount of coal known for years at this season. On Friday last the coal combination ordered a general suspension in the Lehigh coal region. This enforced the closing of twehty collieries in the Wvomlnir Vallev.

vhou nivk. duet depends on the Lehigh Valley Railroad for transportation. When the Lehigh suspension was ordered, the Lehigh Valley Railroad, acting nnder the counsel of iu president, declined to refuse the shipments of the Wyoming mines. The combination, however, threatened to cheapen the price of roal at tidewater, which had the effect of breaking the back bone of Lehigh Valley, and the mines were comnelled tn una. pend and await the pleasure of the monopolists.

There will be verv littiA mtninv. para tlvely speaking, during the remainder of this season, a suspension of all operations being considered certain, during the months of July and August, while manv well in formed operatives are of opinion that the I shutting down will begin in June. A strange custom has been nreservad in Nottingham. England, from remote times. une oi ine neaos oi tne family, previous to locking the street door for the last time in the year, carefully deposits a gold coin in close proximity to the door, where it is allow ed to remain until the new year has been ushered In.

This is believed to insure the supply of money for tho year's necessities. The Tirinrinal bandmasters of New York are a Spaniard, an American, an Englishman, an Irishman and an Italian. tenths of tire musicians are Germans. DIED. i ST.

ALEXANDRE On Snndav. Mar 14. at 4 o'clock, P. Widow JOS. DO UABDIN ST.

ILiXAKDRE, born Coralie Marguerite Manrauges, aged 75 years. The friends and acquaintances of the family are respectfully Invited to attend her funeral, which will take place' This Day, at 8 o'clock, P. from the residence of her son, Joles St. Alexandre, No. 448 'a Claiborne street, between An nette and St.

Bernard streets. RTJHAN SOn Snndav. Mt 14. at half nant 1 P. MARY SAUNDERS, wife of Patrick Rnnan.

a native of the oountv KJlkeunv. IrelajuL aged 60 years. Her funeral will take place from her late resi dence. 188 Clio street. This Day, at 4 P.

M. Her friends and acquaintances are respectfully in vited to attend. COAKLEY On Bandar moraine, the 14th 9 o'clock, CATHERINE COAKLEY, aged 56 years, 1 month and 14 days, a native ot the ity of Cork, Ireland, and a resident of this city tor tbe last 22 years. The friends of the families of John Hnrly and Thomas Hare are most respectfully Invited to attend the funeral, which will take place from the residence of her son in law, Louis Durr, 105 Ninth street, at 4 o'clock P.M. Monday Evening, May 15, 1876.

FAZENDE In Jefferson narish. on Sim day, May 14. 1876, at 5 o'clock, P. UEORUB, the soDiuf Plorestan Gaiennle and Alelx Fazende, aged 17 years. The funeral wm take place from the residence of bis grandfather, Mr.

F. Fazende. corner of Walter and Upper Line streets, Bonligny, This Day, at half past 3 o'clock. The friends and acquaintances of the faniQies'are respectfully requested to attend. PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTICE.

OFFICE BOARD SCHOOL DIRECTORS,) City ox ew urieans. fcixin Ulrirfion. 38 Burgundy street. May 13, 1876. Payment ot salaries for April.

1876. win be made at City Hall, on TUK9DAY, 16th, at o'clock, P.M. HENRY C. DIBBLE, President. H.

A. CORBIN, Secretary. my 14 2t3dp O. G. T.

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