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New Orleans Republican., 1871-04-07

Labor and the Cotton Crop.
The following editorial, from the Louis
willie Commercial, we commend to readers OF
the REPUBLICAN, and Democratic journals:
The general complaint all over the South
ia that the negroes are idle and can not be
made to work. The direst calamities to the
growing crops were predicted. owing to the
lack of labor and the incapacity Of the me-
qroes. Yet it appears that the crop OF
the present year, at least since September,
which opens the cotton year technically, is
the largest OF any since 1860. 10 produce
this result somebody must have done the
work. 1t is quite possible that the white
men have contributed their share to this re-
suit. If 80, much has been gained for the
South: for certain it is that the whites did
not formerly raise crops equal to that OF
the present year, and if they have been
taught to labor with their own hands, incal-
culable good has been done to the country.
If this suppOsition, however, is not the cor
rect one, then the ideas about the incapa-
city Of colored laborers to- produce
fine crops is evidently fallacious.
and had as we'll be at once aban-
doned. The cotton year begins in Sep
tember, and the receipts for the SIX
months of the current year indicate that the
crop of 1870 will reach as high as 1900, 900
bales. against 3, ia 600 bales Of the preceding
year. The highest crop of cotton ever pro-
duced in the United States was in 1880,
when it amounted to 4,75,7OO bales. The
average crop from 1850 to 1860 was 3, 300, 600
bales. Still, this does not cover the whole
| ground Of the labor question. While the
cotton crop is unusually large, breadstuffs
and provisions, which heretofore have been
had only by purchase, have now been pro-
duced on the soil. Neither the tobacco crop
nor the sugar crop has suffered loss because
Of any change in the character of the labor,
free to work or to be idle "a it is, in excess
of what it was when slaves existed. This
only goes to prove what has been contended
by the wisest and most impartial judges OF
political economy, that intelligent labor will
double, and, perhaps, treble values and
Quantities produced by labor which is en-
forced.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-04-07

Bpoo Navigaaisn Of he Black eea-Treaty
With TURKEY Signed.
81. PRrnRsBURG, April 6.-The treaty with
Turkey for the free navigation of the B's,k
- has been signed.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-04-07
COMMERCIAL

THURSDAY BvRxlxs. April 6. ISL.
COrroN-The sales to-day embraced 5000
bales at full prices, showing in several
cases an advance of lee. For the present,
however, We retain our previous quotations,
except for middling and the higher grades.
in which we make slight modihcation.
We also annex the Exchange figures,
which are for even running Of it's types,
while ours are for average lists, with the
outside rates for strict:
New Orleans Republican., 1871-04-07

schooner 5 G King. Capella, for Pensacola and
Milton
Schooner Prince, Howes, for cienfuesos and
Schooner Two Marys, willets, for Flour Bluff,
steamer Commonwealth. Sedan, for st Louis
steamer May Lowry, Boley, for st Louis
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Ship Charles Davenport Patten; 10 days from sar
in ballast, to VIM Creevy-,lst district rs
Ship Tecumseh Webb, from Liverpool via Savan'
nah, to Wheeler l. SOn-Algiers
TOwBOATs.
Heroine, Brown, from the pssses-Towed down
and to sea, LIST instant. schooner Louise WH!es'
ton-Brought up ships John Tucker and chas
Rochester German, from the PassesAwent down
hght-BrOught up ship Tecumseh
N Kellogg. Townsend. from st Louis with three
barges
Nick Longworth, Hates, from Louisville
Msry Carroll, from Mobile.
wade Hampton, Goddin. from Natchez.
Ruth Lindsev, from Bayou Bartholomew
CH Durfee. Aiken, from jefferson.
Hunter Saliba from Lower Coast.
San Nicholas, Albert. from Lower Coast.
BELOW COMING UP.
Ship Corpo Carey. from Mobile, to r G Mussrove
Italian barklC lConcertina, Maratte 6s days from Pa
lermO, to TramOntana-
Schooner Lady Woodbury., Woodbury., days from
Utilla, to Macheca-
Spanish bark vilasar Vicente Walli 10 days from
Havana, to FatjO, Marks &eo-
Schooner Constance, Arnet days from Ruatan
leland, to X Morgan leo
Schooner Lizzie Lima, Edna from Ruatan Island, to
Macheca-
EXPORTS.
observation-disclosures G King-24 bbls aour l
bbl potatoes Dbl mOlasses bbl whisky OK bacon
80 bbls pork bbl vinegar sks corn 16O aka bran
and Corn III pkgs sundries
ClENFUEGOS AND GRAND CAYMAN-5 bbls beef
4l3 hbls -four 10 bbls pork pkgs sundries
FLOUR BLUFF, TExAS-Schooner Two Marys-
81 LoUis-steamer May Ioyry-lso tons pig
ST LOUIS-Steamer C0mmonwealth-l83 hhds Of
| sugar 696 bxs sugar case ciRara
CEDAR KEYS VIA FLORIDA PORTS-Steamsfin
Havana-lO25 bbls hour bbls whisky bbls pork
hhds sugar l00 bbls tall0w 5O7 tcs lard cks bacon
70 sks corn 80 sks corn and oats bags coffee ii
'cs bacon ~ nall Dds hour 81 pkgs mdse
| IMPORTS,
BRAZOS SANTlAGO-Steamsfiu 7 r. ua--;. ,c,
baleehides 1884 hides bales wool 78 head c.ttia
$S6 ,927 in specie and sundriea ~~SsAe
| lND1ANOLA VIA GALVESTON -Steam.h,n ua-.
lan-2lt baes cotton - bales hides l84 hea1i catfe
iVUo IN sRscie % and sundries
4 Hv vIMIErVO-cNp Tecumseh-8lO0 aka salt
/ AObiLB-NeeAmef xary-3 boles cation j6 h.les
domestics bbls turpentine ls cases mdse .na ssr
/ dries - A1''0 s"o Jun
I 1R0RR1B OF PRODUCE,
HAIChN-1toamoe Wado Hamptpn- n-3oa holaa
l SesSS3 - - essssa ssea - - Seea esetsa and
4 ~ IS
New Orleans Republican., 1871-04-07

VxyHEREAa BRNJAMIN LAURENT MILLAuD0
w of the city Of New Orleans and distF1cs
said, duly declared bankrupt under the aet g 49,
gresa Of March :, 1857 has this day filed IN ~ 49,,
8 petition praying for . discharge and cersa1
thereof nom al his debts and other claims -
BILE under said act. .a.'
Notice IL therefore given to all CREDITOR
interest, that the twenty-seventh day o.
1871, ct IL A. H., is assigned for the hearing
same, and that they may then and there 49,
the said petition should not BE- grantei =.
ther notice is given that the bankrupt VIII ~
tWenty.fifthl day Of April, A. D. 1871, Vt II = -
at his ONCE CustomhOuse building.
Clerks O6icel New Orleans. April 5, 1871.
1890 K LOKW, Deputy C1a4
New Orleans Republican., 1871-04-07

The Mobile Tribune of Thursday says:
One Of the squads OF workmen upon
the Montgomery railroad shot pelican
mp the river, in the neighborhood of where
the bridge is to cross, yesterday, measuring
nearly nine feet from the tip Of one to the
tin Of the other wing. Its pouch would
hold nearly two gallons of water
New Orleans Republican., 1871-04-07
Marine Intelligence.
OFFICK or THE REPUBLICAN,,
F.iday, April Z, 1871.
CLEARED YESTERDAY.

Steamship Havana, Pennington. for Cedar Keys
via Key West
Schooner s G King Capella, for Pensacola anu
Schooner Prince Howes, for Cienfuegos and
Grand Cayman
Schooner Two Marys, Willets, for Flour biun'
Texas
steamer Commonwealth. Sedam for st Louis
Steamer May Lowry, Boley, for st Louis
New Orleans Republican., 1871-04-07
FOB. SALE. .
LOST.

OsT.-ON THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1871, BE-
IL tween the hours Of eleven and twelve, hand
some DIAMOND RING, large blue set, and the
diamond set in the shape Of . cross Any one e r.
Josephs Church, win be literally rewarded.
ap13t
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-28
NEW YORK.
The Great Snow Storm.

New YORK, January 27.-The snow
storm ceased this morning. Nearly two
feet of snow has fallen. Travel is
greatly impeded in all directions, and
in some cases entirely suspended. All
railroad trains since the beginning of
the storm have been greatly delayed.
The driving snow in some cases so
choked the fires and smoke stacks of
the locomotives as to seriously embar-
rass their progress. The Erie seems to
have been the most irregular. The mail
train due at 730 A. NJ. yesterday, was ten
hours behind time. The Boston trains
were from two to ei ght hours delayed.
The Hudson River and Central trains
have been from four to five hours be-
hind time. The same has been the
case with the Harlem, Long Island,
New Jersey and Southern trains. Up
to a late hour no advices had been re-
ceived from other more distant points.
Prominent railroad men believe that all
routes between this city and the Missis-
sippi will be blockaced and travel tenn
porarily suspended. The storm seems
to have extended over the greater por
ton of the country east of the Rocky
Mountains, though i does not appear
to have extended very far to the south.
Terrible Explosion ut the Brooklyn
Gas Works.
New YORK, January 27.-The Rrook-
lyn gasometer was blown up to-day with
a loud report, and the force Of the explo-
sion was so great that one OF the large
tanks and three immense iron columns
surrounding it were blown over against
row Of tenement houses on Gold
street. Two OF the ersployes Of the
works are missing, and on looking
among the debris the body of Fred.
Anderson, fireman, was discovered
beneath the piers of one OF the heavy
iron columns OF the yard works, s,mansied
in a most shocking manner. Police
and watchmen are still engaged in
searching for bodies. John HedIey,
watchman, and a laborer named Reed,
are both believed to be killed. The
loss is estimated at Sl50,000. 1t is
probable the city will be without gas
tonight. This is the third time within
a recent period that explosions oc-
CURED on the premises. A rigid inyes-
tigation will soon be made.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-28
WHEELING w VA SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2s 1871

State, and a complete revision OF the
revenue and insurance laws. The UoV-
ernor seems to think adultery the only
sufficient cause for absolute divorce, ana
suggests that this act be made penal
and when evidence Of adultery is suih-
cient tojustify legal separation, the guilty
should be punished by the same Judg-
ment that grants the divorce.
At meeting of the Merchants hx-
change of ST. Louis Yesterday
resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed, in the opinion Of the members OF
the Merchants Exchange, that tne
Newport Bridge Company should
be compelled to raise their bridge to the
same height as the suspension bridge
between Cincinnati and Coyip1gton'
and build it in accordance with the re-
port of the United States Engineers
The action of the Exchange has been
telegraphed to the Missouri Delegates
in Congress, with request that II oe
laid before the committee on Com-
marpe
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-28
River News.

PITTSBURGH, January 27.-Weather
cold, and the probability is that the
Allegheny will close up again. The
Monongahela is feet and rising. De-
parted, the St Charles for Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, January 27.-The River
fell two feet. There is fifteen feet water
in the channel. Arrivals, Major Ander-
son, from Wheeling; Bermuda, from
Evansville Overdue, Valid and
barges from the Tennessee river; J. W.
Garrett and barges from New Orleans.
Departed, Major Anderson, for Whe el-
ing. Wharf slippery, shipments light.
Temperature, % and cloudy.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-28
ST. LOUIS.
Governor Brown on Divorce,

ST. LOUIS, January Ex-Governor
Brown sent a special message to the
Legislature yesterday, in which he very
ably discusses the divorce laws. He re-
eommends the establishment Of State
House Of Refuge for juvenile criminals;
a thorough geographical survey OF the
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-28
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, January -.

WASHINGTON, January ~
Mr.. Trumbulps bill looking to civil
service reforms came up. Mr.. Schurz
then proceeded to review the necessities
Of the civil service and the remedies Tor
existing abuses. Mr.. Snurz quoted
from the investigations OF the Retrench-
ment committee in the New York Gus
tom House, and the affairs show a
looseness in the system of political ap-
pointments there. Referring to the
appointment by the President OF his
friends to office, he mentioned the case
of a Western applicant, who, failing to
secure a local and unimportant Office
was recommended by the delegation
from his State for pension agent, and
after failing in that, undertook his own
case, and being a man who must be
provided for, was appointed by the
President Minister resident in the
South American Republic. That office
not being high enough, he succeeded
in having himself nominated Minister
Plenipotentiary, but was defeated in
the Senate. He was then made Gov
ernor OF a territory, and all this with
in seven days.
Mr.. Schurz corroborated the state
Inent of ex-Secretary Cox as to double
dealing of Congressman strongly recon-
mending to office persons in their com
pany and subsequently intimating pri-
vately to heads Of departments their
distrust Of the competency of the ap-
plcants and their actual feelings in a
different direction concerning appoint
ments. He then offered as a substitute
the bill offered by him at the last ses-
sion for radical reform in the civil ser
vice by system Of competitive exam
iLations. He explained and advocated
the proposition as one demanded by
earnest thinking men who had at heart
the true interests Of the country.
Mr.. Howard opposed the bill as des-
titute of any practical value in eradicat,
ing the evils complained Of, and regarded
Mr.. Schuz' substitute an empty vision.
He would say to the Senator that the
millennium when people would not hunt
office would never come.
The Senate, after short executive
session. adjourned until Monday
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-28
IIOUSE.

Mr.. Conger introduced a bill pro-
viding for the admission free of duty Of
animals imported from the Dominion Of
Canada for breeding purposes.
The House went into committee Of
the Whole, Mr. Wheeler in the chair, on
the Indian appropriation bill. After
agr cing to some amendments, the com
mittee rose and the bill was passed.
Mr.. Cooper, chairman Of the COM
mittec on Ways and Means, rising to a
question of order and privilege, offered
the following resolution:
Rcsolved, That the Senate bill to re-
peal so much Of the act approved July
18th, 1870, entitled an act to reduce the
internal taxes and for other purposes,
as continues the income tax after the
3lst day of December, 1869, be returned
to that body with respectful suggestion
on the part of the House, that section 7,
article of the Constitution, vests in
the House Of Representatives the sole
power to originate such measures.
Article Of the Constitution was read,
which requires that all bills for raising
revenue shall originate in the House.
Mr.. Randall suggested that the pro-
vision did not meet this case, as the
Senate bill was not a bill to raise
revenue but to repeal the law to raise
revenue.
The House refused to order the yeas
and nays on the resolution and it was
adopted, without division. The House
then at 400 took a recess till 7:30
o'clock. The evening session and the
session tomorrow will be for debate
only.
Adjourned.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-28

The total amount Of defalcation Of
the Secretary of the House of Refuge
at Pittsburgh, is $l2,7s9. Alexander
Ross has been elected Secretary.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-28
PAINTING CLASS.

The exclusive services OF Mr.. FRANK
MEAD, Of Philadelphia, as Teacher OF Oil
Painting-LandscaPe and Portrait-have
been secured for this school. The first les
son will be given on Thursday, November
nth, beginning with the Winter Quarter OF
the school. A fine room has been set aside
for studio, where pupils from the city can
paint at any and all times, free OF charge.
Mr.. Mead is an artist Of high standing,
whose services we are grateful in being able
to secure, and who, having just returned
from a sketching tour, will be glad TO see
any Of his friends, either professionally or
otherwise, at his studio on Main street.
Applications for instruction should be
made at the Institute, where specimen
copies Off productions can be seen.
landscape Painting, go; Portrait, 80 :
per quarter Of 20 lessons.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
Adding Insult TO Injury.

There is in the United States one, and
only one, nanufactory of prussiate of
potash. The people of the United States
paid in the year 1870 not less than $780,
900 more fer this commodity than they
would have had to pay in the absence of
a tariff.
OF this 100000, taken from the peo-
pie under pretense of raising revenue
through protection, the Treasury receiv-
ed the sum of S4,5S1 and the protected
manufacturer received S595,419.
+ As this preparation is used in manu-.
Featuring other articles, people are con-
tributing to the opulence Of this favored
manufacturer without knowing it.
Can system of taxation be defended
which involves the circumstance of tax
ing over one hundred and thirty dollars
from those who earned it for each single
dollar which reaches the public treasu-
ry9
Adding insult to injury the Radicals
call this system of pillage protection to
industry. One man, who is no laborer
at all gets half million dollars from the
genuine laborers without giving anything
whatever in return, and we arc asked 10
believe that this is encouraging labor
and are urged TO vote so as to pcrpetu'
ate such barefaced robbery.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
The People Warned.

The address Of the Pennsylvania De
mocracy, recently issued, is applicable to
the whole country. We extract the fol-
lowing:
"The force bill authorizes the Presi
dent not only to invade the States at his
pleasure, but by declaring martial law to
subvert all government, except what con-
sists of his mere will Under the election
law his cannon is planted directly against
the freedom of State elections Already
the bayonets Of the Executive have
cleaned around the polling places in the
cities of New York and Philadelphia
Who can mistake the meaning of these
preparations for the next Presidential
election? Who doubts that warning and
rebuke are needed now to prevent the Ad-
ministration from carrying out its purpo-
ses by force? If the warning be not Civ
en- by the people, or fail of its proper eff
feet, can we hope for peace? 1t seems to
US an error to suppose the American peo-
pie to be tame enough to be kicked under
the yoke of a despotism, or ignorant
enough to be juggled out of the great in
heritance of free government which the
Fathers left them
The people, if they care to preserve
their liberties, must assert their rights at
the ballot-box against the tyrannical
edicts of the Radical leaders, who desire
and are working to establish an Empire,
with GRANT as Emperor.upon the ruins OF
the American Republic.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
agThe piracy of the tariff is tn

~The piracy of the tariff is the
complaint Of the Milwaukee Ne,cs::
"The commerce of the United States,
ten years ago, was its plide and boast.
1t was one of the principal elements Of
our national greatness. In the number
of our ships and their tonnage We stood
at the head of the earth. Il i Il
Our tariff laws, more cruel than the war
or rel el corsairs, have committed open
piracy against our commences and driven
it from the seas. The statistical reports
of American shipping show that we have
lost the precedence and prestige that we
had, and have sunk to comparatively
low rate among the other nations 1t is
instructive to compare the loss of our
shipping during the five years of war
with the loss during The four following
years of peace. The loss from 1860 to
1865, was 257,0S7 tons. From 1865 to
1869 the loss was 952,14l tons. The
tariff destroyed four times as much of
our commerce in the four years that fol.
lowed the war as the rebel corsals and
all other causes combined did during the
war. Which is the greater pirate-Ad-
miral Scmmes or the tariff"
Let the people decide whcthe" they
will longer support party, the laws en-
acted by which have driven our COM
merce from the seas Study the above
carefully and we think you will vote to
drive the Radical Protection Corruption
lists from power.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
An Awkward Diplomat.

ScHENcK. it is to be feared, is but an
uncouth diplomatist During the pas
sage to England on the Cuba, he tried to
ingratiate himself with the late "High
JOINTS" by lauding Protection; the re-
suit may be imagined. A valued cor
respondent writes:
awe had very smooth passage and
quick one. The High Joints were
greatly amused at our Pictorial Tax
payer. Gen. Schenck tried to talk Pro
lection to Lord Ten:erden, who shut him
up by telling him that he could not be
more surprised at an astronomers teach
ing astrology than in finding sensible
men in America seriously advocating
Protection"
The Radical party is owned by the
Protectionists, and its leaders are paid
to talk Protection to the People. They
have learned that the talk of these lead.
ers is to entail more burdens upon their
already heavily taxed shoulders.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-07-11
Items for the Radical Ku Kiux
ReDOrt.

The Ku Klux Committee of the Radi-
calls ought to incorporate the following
into their report of disturbances in the
States, to Congress:
New YORK, July Another attempt
at wife murder occurred at o'clock this
morning, in 12lst street. An officer
heard screams, and broke in the back
door at the residence of Thomas Grant
Mrs. Grant was found in her night dress,
covered with blood and insensi3le, from
wounds received at the hands of her
husband. He was found concealed, with
large knife in his hand, covered with
blood.
Annie Mckay was found dead in her
room, No. 429 Fourth avenue this NOR
ming. and her mother was sitting beside
the bed in a beastly state of intoxica-
ton. Both had been drinking all the
night and day previous.
A man named George Howard, living
in Ninth avenue, while visiting friend
last evening in Third avenue, was as
saulted by man named Alex. Joes, one
of the boarders, without the slightest
provocation. Joes struck him with a
large dumb bell, fracturing his skull and
causing mortal wound.
There is about as much point in the
above going into MORTON & Co report
as the thousand and one trumped-up,
paid stories that are sworn to before the
Committee, by perjured carpet-baggers.
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Bowen Pardoned.

The President has actually pardoned
the bigamist Bowen, and in the very face
of the recommendation of the Attorney
General to the contrary. The pardon
causes considerable surprise, as. the peti,
ton in Bowen's behalf was not signed
by the District Attorney nor the jury,
and had attached to it the names of the
scalawag legislators of South Carolina
and few local politicians of Washing
ton.-Telegram.
Bowen is small fry politician from
South Carolina. He was defeated last
fail, for Congress, by De LARGE, full
blooded Negro. Since then Ire has been
twice tried for bigamy. The1last time he
was convicted and sentenced to, term
in penitentiary. But GRANT, the friend
of all scalawags, has interpesed and par
doned him. Such is scalawagism.