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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-04

We cheerfally recommend the above Company to
tho patronage of the citizens of South Carolina.
Columbia. 8 CD 8. Preston, J. P. Carroll, G. D.
Melton, S. W. Melton, J. D. Pope.
Camdcn.-J. B. Kershaw, VIM, NJ. Shannon, ". E.
Johnson.
Sumter.-John B. Moore.
Winnsboro'-w. r Robertson, j. B. McCants,
James Rion.
Yorkvile.-W. D. W lson, 4. Coward, james Ma
son. 1. D. Witherspoon J. r. Bratton. ]. T. Lowry,
r. G. McCaw.
Anderson.-J. L. Orr.
Barnwell.-Jos A. Lawton. James Patterson, John
son Eagocd
Carendon-Jno. L. Manning, T. C. Richardson,
Browne Manning.
REFERENCES IN CHARLESTON.
General JAMES CONNER, Messrs. PELZER,
RODGERS & CO JAMES q WILSON, Esq, GEO.
H. WALTER, ESQ.,, LEWIS D. MowRY, Esq.
August 10 2mos
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-04
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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-04
THE ASHYILLE RAILROAD.
What the Country Press have to Say

The following articles show the interest with
which the country press regard the proposed
railroad from 6partaDburg to Ashvlle:
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-04

NAPOLEON LIBERAL.
PARIS, September S.-The Press states that
the Emperor approves Prince Napoleon's hber-
-
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-04

ns- TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEWS.
beg leave to no. .ce briefly the following parag aph
IN vorr iasue OF this date.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

Sumner has offered bill in the Senate to
punish with two years Imprisonment at hard
labor such persons as hold office IN defiance
of the so-called fourteenth amendment Peo-
pie who understand law and justice would
be satisfied in getting ineligible persons out
Of Office by process of law; but the mild and
gentle Sumner will be satisfied with nothing
short of the penitentiary for individuals who
are guilty of the crime of trying to carry out
the wishes of their constituents. If persons
who hold Office in defiance of the fourteenth
amendment deserve to be sent to prison, what
ought to be done with the carpet-baggers who
insist on holding Office in defiance of the will
of the people?
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

We have received another opera libretto, ala
Belle Helene" from Mr.. J. A. Jaquet, of the
French book store and library, No. 1879 Royal
street. between Toulouse and st. Peter streets.
For this and other kind attentions and the promise
Of similar ones whenever new operas will be per-
formed, we thank our young friend Jaquet and
his assistant, Mr.. Edgard Delery. The libretto of
q" La Belle Helene " is a neatly printed brochure,
from the frst-class printing house of Michel Levy,
freres, of Paris, aud is fully worth seventy five
cents, the price at which it is sold.
Since writing the above we have visited the es-
Establishment Of Mr.. Jaquet and are pleased to re-.
cord that his liberslity and low prices have Sc.
cured him patronage that has compelled him to
double the size of his store and increase his
European orders for French books, stationery,
perfumeres, fencing and fancy articles of all
kinds. As nothing is more plausible than the ad-
vancement of young man, through his own
efforts, we recommend the public to visit No. l39
ROYAL street.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

A NEWLY EXPOSED REVENUE FRAUD.-The
arrest of Messrs. Guiterman Bros. & Co., in New
YORK, develops new system of defrauding the
revenue, which is stated to have been in opera.
ton for long time. This is said to be the way
IN which it was done In almost every invoice
appeared several cases Of pearl buttons. One of
these was ssnt to the public store for examna.
ton, and vss found to be all right but If by any
chance the other cases we're asked for, they were
never forthcoming. They contained, as is alleged,
not buttons, but gloves, silks and other valuable
articles. In the same way an invoice Of French
clocks would be received. Half of the cases con-
tanned the clocks and half the shades-at least so
the invoice read. But it is charged that instead
Of shades. valued at few dollars each, they con-
tanned itch silks, the aggregate value of case
of which is from $4,000 to $4,000 in gold, and the
duty on which is sixty per cent. dd UaloreDl. On
gloves the duty is fifty per cent. Invoice Of
paper hangings came in the same way. the case
containing silks instead Of paper. As the firm did
business of 81, 5O0,O 900 year, it may be sup.
posed that their profits were enormous. The
evaded duty on single shipment Of silks,
invoiced IS clock shades or paper hangings.
would amount to over $40 900.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

MR.. HARLAN ON NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS
Mr.. Harlan occupied over one hour in the Senate
on The 18Th in personal explanation Of matters re-
latDg TO himself in the recent correspondence
from this city to the Cincinnati Gazette. He de-
nouneed and denied The whole letter in language
OF which the following is 8 specimen: He did
not intend to reflect upon those heightened gen.
'uemen who, IN some cases, conducted and CORES
ponced for the press. There were talented and
honorable gentlemen connected with the press
IS with every profession. There were also men
OF meoiocrlty, and then there were those who
might be called the lazzaroni scavengers of the
press, who do the dirty work which respectable
men OF the prof ssion did not stoop 20. he did
not undertake to say 10 which class General
3oynton belonged. He lett that to his asso-
cisfes.
There are people in the gallery, pointing to the
reporters gallery, occupying seats by the grace
oil The Senate, and TO some extent at the expense
o. the American people, who call themselves COR
respondents for leading papers, and il they are
not bought on one side, will be bought on the
other; these are the lazzaron Of the American
press who live by backmsipg. The will do
nothing until they get the dsucher," daughter
or ooucher." or whatever you call 1t, probably
me anirg " douceur."
These people go to the presidents If these
roeos end tell them yOn must give us something or
We viii attack your bill. There may be other mo-
tlves. These men may be in the pay of parties
VINO are opposed TO any new parallel lines being
built. He thought the Senate should protect the
integrity of its members from these mercinary as
saults.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

Is the government of the city of New Or
leans to be changed by carpet-bag Legis-
lature from Democracy into an Aristocracy,
without any consultation with the people i?
Is the scheme to place the merchants, and
artisans, and laborers, and traders of this city
under the feet of a real estate oligarchy, and
of Radical State police to be carried through
without the consent of the people? Have the
people of New Orleans no rights that carpet
bag Legislature is bound to respect? Are
they not capable of deciding for themselves,
the important points involved in SO sweeping
a change ofthe system under which they live?
Is their opinion, are their wishes of no mo-
ment Why is not an election ordered on
this question of new charter in order that it
may be known whether or not the people of,
New Orleans are ready to surrender their
rights of local self government into the hands
of rich aristocrats and plundering carpet-bag-
gers? Gentlemen of the Real Estate Associa-
tion, are you not willing to trust the people
whom you aspire to govern?
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

There has been no election of senator yet
by the Indiana Legislature, the caucus nomi-
nee having failed to obtain majority in the
Senate. The Republican candidate is Lieut..
Gov. Cumback. He is bitterly opposed by
Gov. Baker, and ten members of the Legisla-
tuTe have, it is said, bolted the nomination.
The split arises out of circumstances which
occurred last spring, when Cumback and b.
ker were both candidates for the gubernato-
rial nomination. At that time Cumback
wrote to Baker proposing to withdraw from
the contest provided that Baker (then COVER
nor) would appoint him United States senator
in place of Hendricks who, it was supposed, i
would resign. Baker rejected the PROPOSE
ton, declaring it to be corrupt and indecent.
Some further letters passed, and recently the
correspondence was made public under a call
of the State Senate. The boilers are led by
Judge Hughes who, in recent speech, de-
clared that "the rocks of Indiana should be
covered twenty feet deep with moss, before
Cumback should be elected to the Senate"
This is about the first instance in which any
Radicals have deserted party candidate on
the ground of political rascality.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

KILLING OF CAPT. PERRY.-The following is
the verdict rendered in this case by the coroners
jury:
an inquis,ion taken at jefferson, in the county
of Marion. on the Sd, 4th and 9Th days of Janu-
airy, 1869, before John G. Jones, a justice of the
peace In and for said county, acting as coroner
for the county of Marion, upon the view OF the
body OF Capt. VIM. Perry, then and there lying
dead, upon the oaths of VIM. G. Baker, r. G..
Bamill, W. N. Hodge, S. Fl. Books Moses Stein.
leia and A. H. Montgomery, good and lawful
jurors OF said county, who being sworn and
charged TO inquire on the part Of the State into
the cause, time and circumstances of the death of
Capt. VIM. Perry, do say upon their oaths that
they believe that Capt. VIM. Perry came to his
death from gun.shot wound, entering the abdO-
men and passing through the body and coming out
near the spine, giving one mortal wound, aud
that said wound was inflicted by one Joha Nc
Gmley, private in Company X, Twenty-ninth
United States infantry one Of the provost guard
then on duty and under the command for the time
being Of c. II. BOstwck, detective officer in the
service of the United States, and that said wound
was inflicted on the night of the I'd of January
A. ID. 1869.
A warrant has been issued upon the verdict for
John MCKINLEY and G. n. Bost wick, to be carried
before Hon. Winston Banks, Judge of the eighth
judicial district Of Texas, Jan. 5, 1869.
The Jimplecute, IN publishing the same. states
that " the parties were arrested by the civil
authorities yesterday. and their trial Is nov pro.
crossing before Judge Banks. Capt. Boswell and
Judge h. P. Marry are conducting the case for
the defense, and A. p. Shuford, district attorney
representing the State.
Just as we go TO press" says the Jimplecute
1--WE learn that the parties have been discharged
under writ of habeas corpus.n
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

Some people who make great parade OF
their love for the people, and who boast, in
season, and out of season, that they do not
belong to "rings," are now busily engaged
in foisting on the people of New Orleans a
scheme concocted By a "ring" of large real
estate owners, in conjunction with a "ring >
of Radical carpet-b aggers-one "ring" at
tempting to convert the administration of
New Orleans into a close corporation of
wealthy oligarchs, and the other abetting the
attempt in order to maintain their control of
the police government of the city under the
infamous metropolitan system. Some of
these persons, not very long ago, loudly de-
manded that the people of New Orleans
should resort to instruction and violence to
get rid of the.metropolitan police now they
quietly go in for selling out to the Radicals
the prescriptive right of the people of New
Orleans to contro Of their own police govern
ment.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

The supporters of the infamous instrument
called a charter for the city of New Orleans
make great noise about the responsibility
of public officers, which they claim to be as
sured by it. Let us see what this RESPONSE
bility amounts to. The administrators have
supreme authority over contracts. They can
let out the public work to their friends who
may be their partners, and there is no re-
course against them However fragrant may
be their delinquencies or their incapacity they
cannot be displaced, for no provision is made
for their Impeachment and removal from
Office. They give bond for the faithful dis.
charge of their duties, but they are the sole
judges in their own case. The security
amounts to nothing except in case they be
actual defaulters to the city government, and
with the powers and opportunities for pecula-
ton and plumber which the charter puts into
their hands, they would have no need to steal
money directly out of the treasury. If they
were inclined to be dishonest the bond would
not stand in their way, and even were it a
protection to the amount of 5000, 600, with
dishonest men that would only be an induce
ment to cheat the city or the people out of a
still greater sum. The only effect of the
bond would be to convert the city govern
ment into an aristocracy of rich real estate
owners, or ring of corrupt plunderers.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

The proposed city charter limits taxation on
real estate to one and half per cent, but
gives power to the administrators to place I'M
limited taxes, in the form of licenses, on
trade, commerce, professions and industry Of
all kinds. This is a reproduction of the worst
feature Of the existing charter but under the
present system all classes may be represented
in the city government, and thus there is some
chance for an equitable distribution of taxa
ton. Under the new charter power is vested
exclusively in the hands of the real estate own
ers or their dependents and creatures. Does
any one suppose that these gentlemen are ex-
empt from that weakness of human nature
which makes people consult their own inter-
ests in opposition to the general interests, and
shift burdens from their own shoulders to
those of others? Under the new system taxa
ton will be so contrived as to throw all of its
burdens on the commerce and industry of the
CITY
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22
A BIG RIM IN PROSPECT.

The Picayune says, the association (the
/ property holdersO has 20 design, present or
prospective, to make nominations as such.
The election here referred to is that for adj
ministrators of the city bureapx under the
| proposed new charter. From the words
above quoted and their context we may infer
that our contemporary has had a confidential
peep into the interior mysteries of the big
gest municipal ring which was ever projected
in the politics of this city. But it reveals
nothing save the commonplace fact
that a few persons who expect to manip-
ulate hereafter, as they would a piece
of putty, a body of amiable people called
the Z" Property Holders Association, "
design to permit no one who is not wholly
subservient to their views, interests and pur-
poses to hold any place in the future admins
tration of the city. They do not intend, We
are told, "to make nominations as such. !"
Well, if they do not intend to make "nomi-
nations as SUCH" how, in the name of all the
rings at once, do they intend to make them?
Clearly, false names, deceptuous guises, cir
cuitous and furtiye processes, an elaborate sys-
tenn of black mailing, suggestions and init
nations, as gloomy and truculent as ever
emanated from the secret session of an inquisi-
torial conclave, and fraught with the force of
an oriental despot's commands-these are the
expedients by which the organizers of the
new ring expect as we must infer from the
portentous phraseology in question, to con-
troll nominations, elections and administra-
tions One of the methods, as we also
judge from the darkly significant language
of our contemporary, by which those
meditative annular oligarchs hope to bring
the whole city government under their
thumbs, is to so dispose the real estate
ownership in the city that nobody except one
of their creatures can give the necessary
official bond of one hundred thousand dollars
based on real estate. But these persons, let
them be assured, will find that more than one
combination can play at the game for which
they are preparing. They may be highly
qualified to act as INSTRUCTORS for a COM
PLEASANT community of property holders But
nasi-duction is always delicate undertaking
it cannot be monopolized, and is extremely
liable to miscarriage. In short, they will be
sure to encounter antagonists. They may
exhaust their moneyed resources and their
personal influences, and after all, their ring
may collapse in the collision with a still
bigger and tougher ring. For vast pecuniary
stakes will be involved, and the gamblers
appetite will be rayenous in city politics as
it never was before, and it is probable that
the greatest proficiency in this sort of
gambling will be fould in competitors who
do not start with the boosted property re-
sources of those persons who propose to make
no nominations as such" but to have every
thing their own way in the city government,
just as though they owned it in fee simple.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

NATuRALIzRD CITIZENs.-A London paper states
mat Minister johnson responded to a query from
the Emigration Society respecting the naturalizs-
ton OF British subjects in America, as follows
You will have no difficulty whatever il you be-
come citizens Of America and return to your own
country, on being called upon to do any act here
on the grounds that you owe any allegiance to the
government of England. Whenever you return
here you will be clothed with the protection of
America as much as II you had been born in
America. We consider you in point of law a citi.
zen born with us, entitled to all our rights, and
that we are under obligations to protect you the
same as we would those born our SOIL"
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

And now there is great talk in Congress
about establishing school for mining Sen
ator Stewart and some other patriarchs think
it is the duty of the government to do every
thing for everybody-just as Tittlebit Ti;-
mouse was elected to parliament on the plat
form of "giving everybody everything -
Why not have Muffin and Crumpet" gov
eminent at once, and let Congress supply
everybody with those desirable comestibles?
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22
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The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

The proposed city charter is, in effect, a
proposition to place almost unlimited power
in the hands of six wealthy men, constituting
an aristocratic oligarchy such as has never
been witnessed in any American city-such
as, if attempted in any other American city
than New Orleans, would arouse the indig-
nant remonstrances and opposition of the
are to elect these offieers-the fact that they
are to be selected from among the limited
number of those who can give unincumbered
real estate security, amounting in the aggre-
gate to six hundred thousand dollars, restricts
the choice to the large real estate owners. Six
men who can command security to the
amount of six hundred thousand dollars, can
buy their election by the purchase of negro
votes, and once in power, they can maintain
themselves in power perpetually. If they
could be displaced at all, it could only be
done bya combination of corrupt men who
would buy security in advance by the promise
of contracts, over which the administrators
are to have unlimited control. The only con-
test for power in New Orleans would be be-
tween two sets-one a small class of aristo-
cratic property holders who would desire to
administer the city government for their own
advantage, and the other class of plunderers
who would seek to obtain authority in order
to enrich themselves by use of the extraor-
binary and despotic powers which the charter
grants to the officials Under the projected
charter the City Hall would be either den of
thieves, or the seat of close corporation of
wealthy aristocrats.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22
ms- OK INSIDE PAGES Second Paoe

~ ON INSIDE PAGES - second Page
Letters from Washington and San Francisco,
City Topics, EditOriaI Paragraphs, LmprOving
The Value Of Cotton Seed, Ndpoleons Speech,
Political lens, etc. Third Page: Legislative
Proceedings, Proclamation Of Gen. D,dee.
Sirth Page: General Ne'rs and Teras Rens
Seventh Page: Without and Within (Poetry),
The Treaties Nth England Gen. Grant and the
Impeachment Trial, Louisiana ReDlS Southern
ReriCal Financial and Commercial Reports.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

The MERCHANTS AND AUCTIoNEERs' EXCHANGE.
ROYAL sTREET.-By reference to an advertise.
ment in another column, it will be seen that
Messrs. c. E. Girardey q Co., Hoffman, Marks &
Co., in conjunction with Thos. L. Maxwell, sher.
if parish Orleans, and F. J. Heron, United States
marshal, will continue to use this popular resort
for transactions in exchange and real estate, and
capitalists will always find it to their advantage to
attend these sales.