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NICHOLSON. GEO. NICHOLSON. THH PIOAYUNB Has tike Largest Orealatisn Ib tie Sezthwest. T1IX1 or usoxptih DAXLT.

L1 00 4UX Manias BtfiTmi by and aayawato 00 1 00 six KMa MTPtfAT 0OUHO, FEB. 3, 1881. Be Oltrer Doad Byron. ACADBBtY Or sfTmiu Direr in ad Two Bosrartle." rXKCH orXSA HO USA L'AIricaiae." Jtwch Opera Company. 2A tnJicoiion to day are: Warmer, partly cloudy weather, with rain, southerly winds and falling ba rometer.

The January thaw was a solid fail are at the North. The Mardi Graa flag ia flying from the City Hall top. The man who receive and changes a counterfeit bill returns good for evil. An effort is being made to close the theatres in St. Louis on Sunday night.

Tie admirers of Tom Paine are pained at the dilapidated condition of his monument. No one pretends to know how many pecks of corn are' necessary for a hen's breakfast. (Elephants are very cunning, and they sometimes play 'possum but they never look the character. It is the thing now to serve coffee with whipped cream. Cream, however, that has been licked by a cat will not do.

Salvini says Mary Anderson is a promising actress. Mary will speak of him as a rising young actor if he is not careful. There is1 danger that Vennor will blow over into the United States, and become an American citizen, weather or no. The Harvard graduate is equal to a lecture on journalism as soon as he gets a situation as police court reporter on the Boston Herald. Charles Francis Adams, in Boston, has been lecturing on the "Tuipins of the Kail." He is a long distance from the Bass gang.

The Government is expected to send a relief ship to the Arctic seas to hunt for the Jeannette. The north pole business is not panning oat well. Sighted at Last is the name of a play written by a Texas lady Mrs. Mary E. Scott, of Fort Worth which has been acted recently at Waco by the Goldens.

Arthur Sullivan it ill make "Jonathan the subject of his new oratorio. This is the original Brother Jonathan, an odd sort of fellow who backed up David. Two beastly men wrestled six hoars for a show in New York recently. They want to wear belts and at free lunches instead of chopping wood or doing something useful. i rvuen people invite more guests to their houses than they have chairs tor, in case the invited ones should wish to sit down, they ought to put up the placard, "Standing room only." "An Open Letter to His Majesty the Devil" is the title of a pamphlet written by an Illinois man, who cannot wait fir death to place him in communication "with the rartv ad dressed.

Sarah Bernhardt will be received and judged in New Orleans according to her merits as an actress. The sickening gush displayed by Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati papers will find no favor here. Speaking of Frederick Paulding, a Georgia critic says, He has entered the stage like Mary Anderson, with one bound." This must have reference to the way he entered a Broad way stage where there is always room for one more. If the clergymen of New Orleans wish to preach against the stage they will never have a better opportunity than now, for on Sunday night Sarah Bernhardt will play at the Grand Opera House, a lot of variety people win nave nn on, the Bristol at the St.

Charles Theatre and the famous J. K. Emmett is expected at the Academy of Music. All of this on Sunday, Illinois has paid the last cent of her indebtedness, and has jnoney in the treasury, which fact reminds the Springfield Republican that the State was saved from repudiation a generation ago by Stephen A. Douglas, who had himself carried on his bed to a State Convention where a meas ure repudiating: the State debt was pending, and presented there a reso lutibn running" that Illinois will be honest, although she cevtr.

pays a A FAITHLESS" The British bard, wandering amid the ruins of Rome, called the renowned city the 'mother of dead empires." The nation he represented so well on the banks of the Tiber is the mother of living empires, has achieved a glory which Rome never dreamed of, and founded empires that, if they do not honor the flag of St. George, will yet nourish and sustain the great principles of civil liberty tbey got from the brave little island, and strive to emulate her great example in all the arts of peace. Her children have been, perhapt, too well taught the principle that commerce and manufactures are essential elements of national greatness and the foundations of national power, and they stick too close to the teachings of family history. They are determined to follow the old path to greatness, though the maternal voice now proclaims that it is not the shortest. Protection lived and died in England.

Her statesmen are agreed that if it lived longer it would have destroyed the national progress many philosophers contend that if it had never existed the nation would not have controlled the destinies of oi ope. Whether it was a pontoon that carried the British people over a river they could not have otherwise crossed, or a cumbersome shield they carried on a long march to a contest in which the weapons were such it could not be used, is very naturally a disputed question among the ambitious offspring who are eager to occupy the maternal throne. Certain it is, the British colonists are all protectionists. The "corn laws may not exist, the manufacturer is shielded by a tariff. The goods of the mother country are discriminated against wherever there is the slightest foundation for an industrial enterprise.

Australia is thoroughly committed to the protective policy in its worst form. Each State lias its tariff to ehield its industries, not only from the competition of the European, but from the rival in an adjacent province. Canada has set up barriers to keep out the wares and fabrics that come from beneath the shadow of the mansion house of the Marquis of Lome. Even India encouraged the infant cotton manufactures of Bombay. The Empress sanctioned the imposition of a duty upon goods made by her subjects in Manchester for the protection of her subjects operating looms in the East.

Now a Zolverin is proposed a league of all the British colonies for mutual trade. A London paper entitled "England" formulates the proposition as follows "The question of reciprocal trade ad ran'age Is one which 1 of importance to workman and master alike, and will receive some considerable attention daring this year. In the last week of February an Important conference of the representatives of the Chambers of Commerce In different parts of the Empire will be held la London, the snblect of free trade and the best mans of creating uniformity in the easterns duties throughout the Qacen's dominions. The arrangements for the conference have been nearly two years In coarse preparation, and it Is anticipated that all parts of the Empire wll' be represented by delegates. The ferent Chambers of Commerce In Eoglasil will send 48, Canada 10.

Iadla 9, at 1 the ether colonies rrom two to foar esc The leading object to be obtained by conference win be the establishment, by special regulations, of reciprocal trade advantages between the mother country ard the different colonies of the Empire, and tween those colonies themselves. Even if this desirable object should not be attain the conference will afford an oppirtaui for collecting and makinjr pnbilo the fallen' Information relative to tfie trade of the deferent colonies, their delegates being specially iovited to attend to furnish state men is of their Imports and exports to ami from Great Britain, the colonics and India, and foreign countries, respectively, and of the available surplus for exportation of the different products each. The broad proposal to be submitted to discussion that by uniform, or at lean reciprocal, fiscal regulations all part of the British Empire thoultt oc induced to trade tcith eaeh other rather than with foreign countries A consideration of toe vast kjui ces of the widespread British EmpUe will show that such combination betwe all ft Us member would enable them aU interchange all the products on which tie eon meroe anrt well being of a eountrv rt pend, without having occasion to rcty on other countrits A NEW ffUlTR MAR'S PARTY. The New York Times manifests a great anxiety lest the Republic party in the South should become ao exclusively colored party, or composed in too large proportions of the African population. It is greatly chagrined at this condition of and invokes the serious attention of the National Republicans and of the incoming administration to the nece sary measures of reinforcing the distressingly small and dwindling faction or squad of white Republicans in the South.

To gloss over this evident snub of the colored majority of its party the Times, with very conservative moderation, concedes to its colored brethren the right to be protected in all their constitutional rights, not, however, specifying or emphasizing their right of equal suffrage. And here our contemporary Indeed it qualities even this concession with the cold proviso that it i made because so required by the constitutional amendments. Iu proviso contains what the lawyers call an innuendo. Not that it was, or is a wise provision of the constitution, thus tc create a great mass of totally unGt suffragans who have absorbed the voting power of their party ami the voting majority of large States and communities, but it is so nominated in the bond," and therefoie mutt be executed. How to avoid the logical results of such provision, and prevent this Africanization ot the Republican paity, and of large communities, presents the difficult problem with which the Times proposes to wrestle.

Its remedy and plan of relief are quite creditable to its diplomatic skill, whatever may be thought of its honesty and good faith. There is a way of doing things without seeming to do them," said Mr. Lincoln to the too impatient revolutionists, who clamored for the emancipation proclamation, in the earlier stages of our civil war. Old mother Lob, in Bulwer Paul Clifford, had embodied a similar prudent strategy when she counseled, "leetle Paul" to rely more upon insinuation than bluster, iu his dealings with them as was bigger than him Garfield bad announced his adoption of this strategy in his address to the colored delegation which he recently lectured on their inferiority to the white race, and counseled them to recognize the supremacy of education, culture and superior intelligence over illiteracy, ignorance and incompetence. The Times embraces the same doctrine, and recommends, as the only antidote of the enormous bane of the constitutional amendment giving suffrage to the illiterate majorities of the South, the creation, by whatever means, of a larger and more respectable white Republican party in the South.

It does not demand that it should embrace a majority of that party. A white minority, eked out by greater respectability, honesty and intelligence, would suffice. To such a minority, the colored majority ought to be made to submit, falling to the rear, and contenting itself with humbler and more modest pretensions, and yielding its implicit obedience and its suffrage to the authority and direction of the white commandets. To bring about this result the Times proposes that the patronage of the Federal Government should be devoted to the reinforcement of the white minority in the South. Recruiting offices should be opened in the customhouses and post offices throughout the South, and liberal bounties given to enlist from the regular population (not from the car get bag class) so as to swell to larger proportions the present slim and shrunken white Republican army.

No colored man need apply. He must wait until he reaches the standard of literacy and culture presented by Mr. Garfield and the Times before he can be admitted to the full enjoyment of that equality guaranteed to him by the constitutional amendment. And thus is exemplified and exposed the infinite hypocrisy and ingratitude of the party, which attained its power and won its victo ries mainly through its professions of devotion to the equal rights of this large colored population, which it now proposes to taboo and disfranchise, not it is true, by the physical intimidation imputed to the Southern Democracy, but by the more effective measure of an exclusion from all share of the spoils of victory won through their votes, and enlarged by the loyalty of this proscribed illiteracy and inferiority' There is a matter which it woull pei haps be well for the City Attorney and the Council to look into. Laet year the city levied a special judgment tax of 3 21 100 mills to cover judgments on matured bonds and coupons.

A large portion of this tax has been collected and paid over to the solicitors of the creditors. This is done by the Department ot Finance on the order of court, and in accordance with aa oidinance of the Council. Where are the vouchers for the payment of the debt Should not the bonds and coupons be delivered up to the city when they are paid or, in fact, as soon as judgment is rendered, since the debt is then converted into another form, ought these bonds or coupons to be canceled pro tanto as money is paid over Can these bonds and coupons after judgment be used as collaterals, and is 'it certain that the obligations sued on are all deposited in the court The settlement of the debt in this manner is now assuming rery larpre proportions, and the matter ought to be put on a business basis as far as possible. LETTER FROM ANTELOPE. The Trouble In Cotten.

Lptcial I'oiTt Mponiltnce ot the Picayune. HEW YOKK. Feb. 1. ISbl Saturday and yesterday were the inu memorable days in our cotton market dur1 it the present season.

From apparent apatbf there was suddenly a marked disposition sell, and the staple came upon the marine at a lively rate breaking prices on the rtrt day 15 points. Onlv the brokers intruded with the orders to sell knew from wumr the cotton came. Bat the heavy sales and decline shock out many other wak bolder, and the day's business ran np bal. r. Yesterday the selling was renewed, cotton was poured ont so steadily, regar dless of price, that there was a farther bre.tk of 20 point bringing Aprils down to u.fi j.

Mays to 11.73. and Jones to ll 84 the transactions 8 welling to nearly 2K ooo bales. Near the cloe it could be fairly said the maiketwas demoralized, and yet soaroe'y aoy one appeared to find the key to tue sadden tumble. When the day's excitement was over it transpired that the heavy self in 4 Mice Saturday had been for account of Greek house of Kodocanaohl, who were tarrying, it Is compu'ed. nearly 60,000 ba; Their losses, as a result of the "bear" manipulations of the past six week, wre enormous, but there was no failure the house.

At one time they osnld have sold oat at a profit of $200,000, bat bnlag believers in far nigaer prices they hld on and were swamped in the bear golf. The bears, of coarse, picked up the cheap cotton that was thrown overboard and to day the market, rel eved of the presence upon It. Lao as at the moment at an advance of IS points It is of coarse not possible to say how much Dioie Lull cotton temln to to gobbled flown rty the tactics of tae bears bnt the Impression is that the worst over, es several. h.xus who have been depressing the market lor tie past month are now lne to sy ihat it la not safe to seU the market fo'ber" alo It Is, very Utile can trnthfallv be raid against the staple, but much In its xavor. The winter hasten the wort forfortv yeais Ctttroying hundreds of thousand of nalea.

The quality im more Inferior than ever befme ktovn. More apladles are run ning In America and Eorop than at aay former period. The consumption ot th world has neve been ao grtua Preparations of the ground for planting the crop of 1881 and 1883 are more than a month behind, and, lastly, prices compared with ay ear ago to day are more than a cent and a half a poena lower. The annexed eompailsona are ot Interest To Day. rb.l.80.

Jf arc 20. 80. March 11.55 IS 49 13.18 April. 11.73 13.70 13.93 Hay 11.S6 13.91 13 43 Jane 11.99 14.09 13.63 Comment la unnecessary, except If there la not ere long a marked" chant In the price of Cotton ft will cot be the fault of the at pie. Messrs.

Brown Bros, iiifonn me that they return to the former method of qaoting stetilng, not because the house was not able to adhere to the new rate It had adopted, bnt out of defrrenee to the wishes of their customers who preferred the manner of quoting. The yielding wa a graoef al one. and It win be long yean before another innovation of the kind is attempted. The market to day ia strong foe sterling, with 4.82 bid for lines of bankers' 60, and 4 83H asked. For demand 4 86i la bid and 4.85 is asked.

Sixty day bilis were relatively dearer than sight, beoaase of reports of easier money at London, and. great aearclty of commercial ollls cotton drafts on spinners being quoted as high aa 4.803$. AKTEXOTg. It Is estimated that the pqpulafion ol Yit nna is I.200.OCO. DIED.

MTJitTAGH On FiMay wo nln. Fb. 181. at a onaiter to 1 o'clock. JAMKs B.

UURTAtifl, aged 74 years, a native ot Ireland, and a resident ot thia city for the past S3 years. His funeral will take place from the residence ot his son, Wa. O. Mnrtagh. corner of Constance and Delachalee atreets, Saturday Morning, at 10 o'clock.

Fi iends ot the family are invited to attend. BOOTS. SHOES. Bachman's Shoe Emporium, VO 18 CAMP 8TKXIT, Under City HoteL Expressly far arst class family and plantation wear. ng adptf LAND LEAGUE.

NIW OStEAKS, Feb. 6. 1881. A meeting cf the 'Fourth Ward NATIONAL LAND LEAGUE is to take place at the corner of Conti and Bourbon streets, on eatarday, Feb. 9, at 7 o'clock.

By order of the Committee: MIKE JOYCE, P. KAGAN, F5 lt2dp M. ORI FFEN. THE VliKSBURG TMDE. Petition of Certain Merchants of Natchez to Capt.

Tobin. XATCHEZ, Jan. 22, 1881. Capt; J. W.

Tobin, Steamer J. M. White Sir The HnderignHl, who have long felt tho benefits of the old line of packets running between Xew Orleans and Vickaburg, and having heen forbears equally the cnntomern of the K. K. Ia anil Natchez, cannot but with regret and serious apprebenxion an attempt on the part of the owners of either of these boats to injure the legitimate biiriness of the other.

We nave an eoual mtereHt in keeping both the boa's in tne Uaile, and would snffor the withdrawal CEe or the other. In view of these fact, wo would respectfully request that the present tight on the Watches on your part ceJV, so that our freight and traveling facilities may remain as they nave heretofore been divided between both tbose old and excellent packets, without a contest on the part of the owners of the other. Capt. Leathers has ran his boat on the nic days lor a period ao long as to give him a right to it so far aa the shippers of this community is concerned, snd if necessity compels ns to desert either of the boats in order to support the other, we frankly aay that we will not leave tlu Natchez, or in other word, we will withdraw onr ati onage from the Pool Line. Hoping you may appreciate our motive in making this request, anil see the necessity which actuates us ia this movement, and that you will comply with our request.

We remain, Verv resMClru'lv, Po'lock fc Mason. j. who, 01 uuer it Wild. T. W.

Roos, V. Schartz, Perrantez Sam. Lo wen burg, Ullman A Lamb. Meeks A Mason. P.

Walsh, 0. Benjamin, K. J. Byrne, Frank Tudorn I'arpen'er, Dick A Co M. Leiule.

T. Lowenburg fc W. Geioenberger, V. Kuetia. J.

II. Carradine, Ane Moses, ui ra.M. Mopes, S. A A. Jacobs, J.

S. eijerer. Henri Frank. Hr'it Mason, J. P.

Heals. Wru. i Jack ton Win. Abbott, AN OPEN LETTER. NEW OBLEANB, Feb.

4. 181. Messrs. Pollock it Mason, O. X.

Wild, C. Sch warts, S. A a. Jacobs, and others Gentlemen Yoor communication, dated Jan. uarv requesting aa to withdraw the atoainur J.

M. White from the Vicksburg trade, was re ceivto bv UjS to day. In reply 1 will say that the reqnVst yon make of me la a peculiar oneand one unprecedented in business correspondence. Yon gin bv saying that yoa bare long felt th benefits of the old line ot packets which you designate as the bteamers Natchez and K. K.

I.ee Yin say yon oave an equal interest in keeping both the Lee and the Natchez in tb. trade. Your mode tit desires seem to have sprung up very qnicklr. You did not seem so particulai )y anxious about the R. E.

Lee when the Lucy K. owned and sustained by your ct mmuuily, was pitted against that boat, nor when the Fred A. Blanks was placed in the trace np the Kd. day. Tht ou weiesot so partial as you are in the present netance.

Bnt now you come forward and say that twe boats are mifncienr, to do all the busl ness between the cities of Vicksburg and New Orleans. In your aniicty to sustain Capt. Ieathers you forgt that iwu boats would be utterly unable to convey the cotton and seed from the backs along the i irer to this market. This present trip of the Natchez aud White is an instance. Together ther brought in Ike weight of 300 bales, which Is at least 2000 bales more thau the Natchez can cai rv.

Without the steamer J. M. White, tlit sin Pliers this season, though a bad one, would not have had the freight facilities which you aay two boats a week giethem. Last winter, you will remember, the Natchez had the steamers ericas and Rosa B. aa tenders to carry the freight Which had accumulated, although the steamer Frank l'argond was running to Vicksburg snd carrying bipmnts from the same points that the J.

M.White has been carrying from this season. Nuivly te business ef. the Sonth cannot retrograding, aud yet this is the result ot your reasoning. You emphasize this result In these words In lew of this fact, we would respict fnlly request that the fight on the Natchez, on your part cease, so that onr freight and traveling facilities may remain as they have heretofoiv been Divided between these old and excellent peketf. without a contest on the part of the owners of the other." in the first place, I would say that I do not own any stock In UieR.

E. I.ee or in the And ao far rrom the J. M. White interfering with your freight or traveling facilities. 1 lu ine to the opinion that tha Increases ttem jot 50 per cent and still ehe does not interrupt nr opportunities of shipping or ravellng ou either of tie two boats yoa mention.

On the contrary, I am well aware tat but a mall mitioritv of yomr honorable body hasevi extended a patronage of anv importance to the steamer J. M. White. Yon nave exercised your privilege of shipping per steamer Natchez, an I beg to say that In no case have I ever urgnd one objection nor made a single complaint. Not one of vou ran truthfully say that I haveeviT solieittd veur patronage at the expense of the Natchez anv other boat.

I have en engaged in the "Vicksburg and Bends trade for ner fifteen year. Mid can sfelv aay that tor everv dollar received from you I have expendtul tn for supplies, fuel, wnarfuge, agencies, at Understand me, I am not addressing the citizens of Natchez generally, but yoa, gentlemen, who so kintly ak me to tie up a boat which hat cost me over "two hundred thousamUlollars. To the few ot your ciiizens who have patronised me I extend my heartfelt thanks. You make one astonishlog declaration wblcb must demur to. and that is that Capt.

Leathers has been in the tr de so long that the day be lougatohim. Ti is is something new audatart lin.r i nr. awar that the sole right to a day in any trade belonged a man simply be cause ne nas oeen jii tuai wit iininrMT years, rut hare always beltevon tlmt the river waa open aid free to all who wish to ThuelK it. Yonr implied ihreat to withdraw yonr patron, agetraiin ti E. Lee, and give it all to the Natchez it do fcot withdraw the J.

M. White, will, if an ied out. work an injustice to an innocent artv and ba the mean of restricting Tntirx Hes one boat a week. But if you are iletei mined to do this I can but regret It. In view of the iaoiputie fct herein set forth, and aa I have contract with the railroad comi.ar.ies at Vwksinirg and Delta, and with the Line ot steamboat running ia az.

IUvw, by wblwh I am reqmreu to take all freight at theae points onVeodavs and Toes days tot resbipaaeat So Wew Ones ns. 1 re spec trolly your kind proposition to np tne steamer J. M. wnwe, rwaioo ww oer ner wortniess.) mprvwu hava sot been generous enough 1 1 designate some other disposition te made of her. Bcfervng la this connection to Cap T.

P. Leather letter. puMUbod in the Jtfatebes Daily Democrat and Cewrier. of same date aa your petition, drnatog the horrors ot a jd. I won Id say that this comes with ill grace rrmn Capt.

leathers, who worked with me ia a pool eight or sine years, and upon one occasion, when owing to some diff.ence of opinio between us, I desired the pool dicoHne CapL Leathers objected and insisted that it should continue. This pool expired by limi ation in November 1878, and all bough no proposition waa mad by me to renew it, the oely Capt. Leathers for not desliing to renew t. as i waa informed by bis agent and representative, knows to be a man of integrity and perfectly reliable was. that the J.

M. hlt was too expensive a boat, and no tear of a monopoly was assigned as a canae. Besides, wben tbspeol waa made between the White and Lee la, 1878, Capt Cannon insisted upon a promise tsoai me that woald not pool with the Nate A 4 during the continuance of our pool agreement Aad I here assert mostposi. lively that aiace that flme I have never made any proposition fro Capt leathers, directly or indirectly, to pool the Wsite with the Natchez. To disaeose your mlmM.a to the workings and effect of this, gorgon horror, the pool which Caps.

Lratnera conjures up. I will state that a pool is an agreement, where eaeh owner has complete control ot bis own property, bat Where there is a community of interests for our ownself nrotectk n. as against labor exactions, high priced fuel and the innumerable troubles nil harasements attempted to, be fastened open steamboats, to hamper then), and destroy ir useJulneaa Tbe pooling of the great cotton ateamers would eaal'leiheli owners institute many reforms for tfctmfelVcs tni the public wfcich Uiey other ule ccnld not do; and, as sn illustration, one of the mostexyeiienced rap'ains on the Southern wateis aja that if these boats were working in harmony, thst with receipts necessary to pay mnning expenses, he could by various curtailments make a handsome profit. I a not aware ot any combination of boats in patting np the freight on a bale ot cotton to a dollar and a quarter ins ad of seventy five cents, snd to have the price of their up freight doubled aid the manner In which it shall be shipped prescribed by a grand monopoly." aa stated by Capt. Leathers these high priced deas seem to be visions of his own fancy.

Capt Leathers, by his own assertions, is known to oe in favor of paying rates, and he ha more than once taken advantage of the public when an opportunity offer for ina ance, when the old K. K. Lee sunk opposite Natchez and was out of the way, I here positively assert that this matchless friend to the public was the first to suggest an advance of rates, and carried it out, by advancing rates on cotton from one dollar and twenty five cents per bale to one dollar and eighty seven and one half cento per bale, ana en up freights an advance ot fifty per cent, on the then hiah rates. It is his boast that he is a high priced man. that he has no sympathy with certain "Cheap John captains." and that when he dies he wants inscribed upon his tombstone, "Here lies a high priced man." At a meeting called by the owners of all the boats, in a great emergency, thia season, for protection against labor troubles which threatened to destroy oar business, Capt.

Leathers, in a great war speech, asserted that these laborers were poor, ignorant creatures, and that rates should be advanced and commerce taxed to pay their demands. I now have a document in my possession which is signed by Capt Leathers, dated February 8. 1879. where he obligates himself, with others, to pot up snd sustain rates: Cotton to one dollar per bale, seed four dollars per ton, and other freight in proportion, and I am reliably informed by gentlemen who claim to represent him, that he ia aad has been willing to advance cotton from seventy five cents to one dollar per bsle If I will withdraw treJ. M.

White from Saturday, and not run anv tber boat on that day Where, then, is his boasted friendship for the people To close this long and poesialy tedious document, I am willing for.my record to be examined in regard to my business relations with the public. When I entered the Vicksburg and Bends trade I fonnd cotton at two dollars per bale, and 1 gradually reduced it to one dollar (the present rate.) and since I reduced the price I have had several propositions from the strongest combinations on the river to join tnem in parang rates st on dollar and a quarter in the benda between Vicksburg and GreenTille, and I have uniformly refused. Instea4 of my beior an advocate for advancing the price of cotton to on dollar and one quatter per bale, If I had control of Tuesday in llie Vicksburg tiade, I here state that I would put a beat of the capacity of the Ed. Richardson on that day. snd cotton should never go beyond seventy five cents per bale.

Both Capt, Cannon and myself ara now willing, and we lave been for several years past to enter into an obligation with all the shippers ia the Vicksburg trade, and give a good aud sufficient bond, that for the period ef five years from this date we will not nut the rate ot freight on cotton over one dollar per bale, and giving them the benefit of any lower rates that any competing boats might make. Capt Leathers insinuates iu his letter that all the Pool Line boats ought to be made to take cotton at the nine price. I am prepared to say that all the Pool Line lioata are willing to take cotton at fifty cents per bale, provided the great Natchez ia requlrea to do the same. ry reiectfully, J. W.

TO SIN, F5 lt2op Master Steamer J. M. White. A CARD. S30.000.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17, 1881. The undersigned certifies that he held for collection for account of Jacob 8tern, Henry Outtwillig and David Loewi. 334 Canal street. New York, one half of ticket No.

24,383, single number, Class in the Louisiana State Lottery, which drew the First Capital Prize of THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, on Tuesday, January 11, 1881, said ticket having cost the sum of one dollar, at the office of M. A. Dauphin, 319 Broadway, New York, and that the amount was promptly paid by a check on the Louisiana National Bank, on presentation of the ticket at the office of the company. T. M.

WESCOAT, Agent Southern Express Company, New Orleans. La. A CARD. NEW ORLEANS, Jan 21, 1881. The undersigned certifies that he held for collection for account of James L.

Murray, through National City Bank of Ottawa, LaSalle county, 111., one half of ticket No. 24.383, single number, class in the Louisiana State Lottery, which drew the first capital prize of THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, on Tuesday, January 11, 1881, said ticket having cost the sum of one dollar, at the office of M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, and that the amount was promptly paid by a check on the Louisiana National Bank, on presentation of the ticket at the office of the company. T.

M. WESCOAT, Agent Southern Express Company, New Orleans, La. A CARD. Sio.ooo. NEW ORLEANS, Jan.

12, 1881. The undersigned certifies that he held for collection for account of Wid. Chas. Baqute, New Orleans, one half of Ticket No. 17.467, Single Number, Class A.

in the Louisiana State Lottery, which drew the Second Capital Prize of TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, on Tuesday, January 11, 1881, said tickethavlng cost the sum of one dollar, at the office ot D. A Vila, No. 256 Canal street betweenn Howard and Liberty streets. New Orleans, and that the amount was promptly paid by a check on the Louisiana National Bank, on presentation of the ticket at the office ef the company. For Mrs.

CHARLES BAQUIE. AU8TJSTUS BEICHARD, No. 234 Canal street, New Orleans, La. A CARD. SIO.OOO.

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 12, 1881. The undersigned certifies that he was the bolder of one half of ticket No. 17.467, single number.

Class in the Louisiana State Lottery. Which drew the second Capital Prize of TEX THOUSAND DOLLARS, on Tuesday, January 11, 1881, said ticket having cost the snm of one dollar, at the office ot D. A Vila, No. 256 Canal street, between Howard and Liberty streets. New Oilcans, La, and that the amount was promptly paid by a check on the Louisiana National Bank, on presentation of the ticket at the office of the company.

Pill LIP BLASS. No. 201 South Kam part; between (lrod and Lafayette streets. New Orleans, La. A CARD.

5.000. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17, 1881. The undersigned certifies Uiat he held fot collection for account of John J. Scbultes, 592 DcEalb Avenue.

Brooklyn, New York, whole ticket No. 18,033, single number, Class in the Lonisian State Lottery, which drew the third. capital prize of FIVE THOUSAND DOL LARS, on Tuesday, January 11. 1881, said ticket having cost the snm of two dollars, at the office of M. A.

lauphin, 319 Broadway, New York, and that the amount wa promptly paid, by a check on $he Louisiana National Bank, on presentation of the ticket at the office of the company. T. M. WE8COAT, Agent Southern Express Company, F5 2t2dp New Orleans, La. lion Bbos 1 10 and 1 12 Baronne Street.

Shoes! Shoes! mm ARRIVALS. FRBSfl STOCK. Proclamation. CarniYAl Palace at New Orleans. All ye loyal subjects are hereby ordered to repair to LION BROS, and All your shoe bills at once, where you will find the largest and cheapest assortment of all kinds and grade of Shoes manufactured, and they are ordered to sell tbtm at the lowest aaarket pricee, Sy order of the.

Kins. vcd Tjifl by hand and sealed with ouf seals, this 29.h day of January, 1881, and toa 1009th of H. reign. AND DOXT YOU FORGET IT. LION lim and 113 BAEOME STREET.

Ja30 1m2dp Three Necessities WATER, LIGHT AMD A GOOD CITY DIRECTORY, Don't fail to supply yourself with SOARDQ' 1881 CITY DIRECTORY. HOW ISSUED. .1 Subscription price, including Msp S5 The only reliable CIV MAP, price 50 cents; discount to the trade. 9 For saie by the publishers. Chain Your Directory.

Many complaints have reached the publishers In reference to Directories STOLEN by BORROWERS, PEDDLE RS, etc As a means of guar ding against such loss, we advise the use of a light chain, by which the Directory can be fastened to desk or counter. These chains can be procured from any hardware store at 25 oenta each, with wire attachment, and may save your Directory. Any Directory offered for less than price is STOLEN. L. SOAKDS PUBLISHERS, it.

3 Cemuaerc lal Place, corner Camp st. FS lm2dp A. BROUSSEAC'S SON, 17. Chartres street I CARPETS, All the Latest Styla aad Nevelriea. LARGEST STOCK SOUTH, Upholstery Goods.

Price will suit all. sl9 80 Sdply NOTICE TO OAS CONSUMERS Reduction of Price OFFICE N. O. GAS LIGHT COMPANY, 1 New Orleans, Jan. 14, 5 From and after March 31.

the net price of Gas will be reduced to TWO DOLLARS pet 1000 cubic feet, for prompt payment. By order of the Board ot Directors JAMES JACKSON, President. Jal5 3m2dp A CARD. TUSCALOOSA, Dec. 22, 1880.

"This is to certify, that while in excellent and robust health, and after a thorough examination by an eminent physician, my husband. Mr. Joseph L. Bozman, Joined the Southern Benevolent and Mutual Relief Association of New Orleans, and that he had only paid $26 75 in fees to said Association before he was taken with hemorrhagic malarial fever, of which he died in a few days. I further certify, that the said association has promptly paid me my claim, in accordance with the terms of the certificate of memberahlp issued by it to my late husband.

(Signed) "EUGENIA F. BOZMAN. His Widow. Witnesses 'GEO A. SEARCV, ALSTON." THE SOUTHERN BENEVOLENT AND MUTUAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA.

N. B. This is the first and only death we have had In our association for nearly one year. This shows how very careful we ha ve been in selecting nothing bnt sound, healthy and first class risks, thus giving onr members their insurance at the lowest possible cost only a few dollars a year. AU should take advantage of this rery cheap protection for their families by Joining this association at once, as ambers of the very best people of the land every here have done.

Write for circulars, giving full particulars, to the Secretary and Treasurer, G. w. TKItBKLL No. 63 Carondelet street. New Orleans.

Copy. "Tuscaloosa, Dec. 22, 1880. "Mr. G.

W. Terrell. Hecretary and Treasurer: Dear Sir i return the cert ideate and receipt, signed and witnessed as you requesied; an. I please accept my sincere thanks for the amount paid me. It was an aet ot benevolence I did not expect from the conivany.

and I hope its numbers may increase four fold. I shall take plea are in making it known, and hops I can be instrumental in iersnading others to Join the aa soctation. With sincere thanks for your kind sympathy, I am, most gratefully, yours. Ja30 14t2dp F. BOZMAN." CARPETS AN Ui OIL CLOTHS.

Elkin eura. NEW STYLES Kile cAKJ'KTtt. with borcer aaHIKbTER MOQUJCTTn. ana VEi ysi BODY BRUSSELS and TAPESTRY do 8 PIiY AND INGRAIN CARPETfa. INDIA and BERLIN RUGS and MATS COCOA, RATTAN and NAPIER MATTING, Latest patterns in NOTTINGHAM LACli XCBTAJNS; RAW SILK GOODS, French ane 'English CRETONNES WINDOW BHADKS CORNICES, etc All at the LOWEST PRIOSe for corresponding qualities of goods.

Jy4 aa lyd NOTICE. The death of ANDREW LEO. carpenter and builder, will cause no interruption in the bust esa heretofore carried on by mm. The under timed, his eldest son. na assumed th management of the affairs of his deceased fatfter.

and is prepared to receive all soma due him aad to pay Jjl claim against him. He also respectfully solieit a continuance of tb patronage ao liberally extended to bia father, JalO 6aWedttealm2dp JOHN H. LEO. 1 Mm On Winter Good tmak ma far oar spring stock. ELEGANT GOODS AT LOW FBJ.CI3.

NECKWEAR A SPECIALTY. Strangers are solicited to inspect oar Um ttood befor parcUajlag elsewker N. H. MOODY, 12 Carondelet street JaSO tnihl 2dp Direet Importation H. Holmes; 15 Bivbei.

.153 Ctul. .11 Will offer during the coming week a mst lr liant assortment of EVENING TISSUES, Being the very latest goods received frost ARTIFICIAL. FLOWMS, GOLD TRir. M1XGS, JET GOfTSS, PAJKURKS, i HXAD DfiJCSSKS And a Large Variety ot Novelties. Jal7 lm3dp FAIBMODNT.

The next term of tht Behcet for Tr. Ladies will begin March 16th. A suilabl cert will leave the City Hotel oa March charge of pupils for FalrmouBt. For circtL. and information, address Mia.

11. B. gKT.Lff. Principal. MOffat, ass.

Hon. W.B.Snencer, city, fct ReTj.N.Gsllelwir, H. D. Stockman, city, Rev. H.

M. Jaa. A. Lusk, city. D.

D. H. Kelly, city. Hon J. S.

JudgeJ.M.HoweLThib daax. edanx. La, J. W. Beasley, Ksaol.

E. D. Barton, Napoleon ville. La, vine. J.B.

Perkins, HapoUoi Ja30 SuWeSalm2dp ville. La. FACTORS' AND TRADEK1 inbubanoe company, 37 Carondelet street Paid Up Capital. ID. A.

PALPRXT. Ptmldatt JOHN CHAFF E. vice Freeidaati THOS. P. WALKER, I xsatrxs YOLioTO ooTXJtnva nr SJTXB AND MARINE RIB In AT THJB LOWm TARIFF KATva.

Jchn Noble, I. O. Jsrey, Wa Hartaau. CJ. Leeds.

A.T. Jaota, A. BicSfa. Henry Abiaiiain. Baas, A.

Brita in, G. W. Sen teH, Wbs, CujisiaghaB. Jnc Adams, R. T.

Beka, 181 John Chaff. Richard J. I. Warren, Saml Friedlander R. M.

Walmaley, A H. Hay. I Lytt Lyon, Bamnel H. Boyd, B. F.

Xshlemaa. Chas. Chafe, W.J.Bebaa, montCH1' RiMoa. FURNITURE AND HIBBOli JUP0BlUr, Corner Cmrj m'3 Jfoyfcas streets After a aojour rrer six among the Fccors North, East i I West, we open the Fall and Wirt Trade with th larmai and selected stock of Furniture, Fret i and Creimam Plate Mirrors, fkt mental ana ancy uiooaa, upwxu Goods and Cabinet Makers' Ha ware eyer brought to this city. Xi select our goods in person from best factories and are determined i to be undersold.

Our assortment ing too eztensire and raried to ti enumerated in detail, we request customers and the general public 'J call and inspect for themselves. On hand, a full line of the celebs ted Vienna Bent Wood Work sl Invalid Wheel Chairs. Goods packed and delirered F. 0. si 6m NOVELTIES IN CHOIOS FUENITUEE.

NOW OPENING BY tt mrr iiiiiHimiin rt A 4 siresx. Onr assortment of Parlori Be mm room, Hall and Dining rcci i Fiurnitnre, Fancy Parlor Oabiz and Wall Cabinet Brackets is larger and more raried than ere? In onr new stock elegant selections in Satins? Co talains, Tapestries, Kaw Siit Silk, Beps Ootones. Fornitari Covering, Window Shades as Cornioes, which will challenge competition. Out decoration Wall t' oeilings and walls is a flow which commends for and beanty. Prices or Wals ner as low as tne iowea" i sV DrniLnra rev aruxaueu upholstered.

New Stock ready for inspection. i.