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The following table shows the highest and lowest
pr1ces OF the principal stocks curing the day.

THE RArLROAD BONDS.
The following were the bids for the railroad
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-12
Brighter PROSPECTS,.

FIR, III the AT a Ita nstit1tio al ST.
At no time since the termination of the
war between the States have the prospects
of the future appeared more promising for
our people than at this time. The feverish
excitement consequent upon the overthrow
of our labor system, and the destruction of
property values which bred a rashness of
risking everything to retrieve, have given
place TO calm and calculating plans. Many
men who left their plantations for cities to
embark in commercial ventures have re-
turned to their first love. Many planters
who have been overcropping for the past
years, depending on luck for success, have
this season wisely laid their plans accord
ing to their means. From every portion of
our State the gratifying information reaches
us that an abundant corn and provision
crop will be made. The fruit crop is a
bountiful one, and will bring large sum of
money into the State. Cotton, it is true. is
backward and looks poor, and the area
planted in Georgia fully fifteen per cent
less than that of last year. But it is too
early to predict failure to any extent of
that crop. The prices ruling now have
given planters renewed hope and energy,
and the prospect is very good for the next
season opening at eighteen to twenty cents.
The smaller crop will then bring a larger
total sum than the large crop of last season.
In addition to the reasons given above as to
the prospects ahead of us, is the fact, as we
learn from the cotton factors in our city,
that planters, as a class, have not asked for
half the amount of advances this season
that they required last year; they have
have managed with less than half they
bought in 1870, and that half has been pur-
chased at fully third less rate than paid
last year. With an abundance of home
raised provisions, comparatively small adj
vances to Gquidate, and the prospect of get
ting fair price for their cotton, they have
cause to look toward with hope of better
DAYS
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-12
Murder Near Rnfcn ROuRe.

The Baton Rouge Grand Era reports the
following:
On Friday night last, while the witnesses
in the case of the State VS.. Isaac Cox were
returning to Port Hudson by way of the
Bayou Sara road, when opposite Alex
ander's plantation, about twelve miles from
this city, one William Scott was brutally
shot through the head and body, causing
instant death. Scott, being in company
with his son, who refused to leave his
dying father, was also shot and badly
wounded, and compelled to fee under a
Eolley of shot The murderers then robbed
the body of Scott Of some fifty dollars or
more, with other articles, including a valise
and contents and jug OF whisky. For
tunately, Henry SchOrten, deputy United
States marshal, heard Of the horrible deed
in time to pursue the murderers, and sue
ceeded in arresting one of the party,
named David Butler, who states that he
was forced by the murderers-J. Behrnes
and M. Nephler-to point out William
Scott to them. Butler is now in jail. We
ask our citizens, are you willing to suffer
such outrageous crimes to be committed
at your doors, and not feel it your duty as
law abiding citizens to turn out and assist
in bringing murderers and highway rob-
bers to justice and, when such parties are
brought before the court. restrain from rem
derilg assistance for their conviction be-
cause they belong to families of good stand.
ing in society. The law knows no difference,
if parties will let law have its course.
William Scott was about sixty years of
age, and an honest man. He had been Gull
tiyating land belonging to H. c. Young
since 1866 He leaves an aged and depend
ent widow to mourn his loss.
We think if citizens do not take part in
putting stop to such vile and outrageous
crimes, and refuse to harbor those guilty of
such, the Republican party and the State
authorities will at once see that Louisiana is
not yet reconstructed, and will not be until
State militia are thoroughly organized
through the entire State.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-12

Political excitement in Sacramento has
brought out a little story about honest
John Bigler's hat. 1t seems there was
: much eagerness to know how the State
had gone in the last Presidential election,
and big crowd had collected around the
telegraph Office to learn the returns. Big
Ter, of course, was a prominent figure on
the outdoor platform There was much
money up, and the crowd was SO large and
noisy that very many could not hear the
announcements. But everybody could see
him, and pretty soon most of the specta-
tors could read the indications" For if
the vote was GLORIOUS" for the Democracy
his hat was back on his coat collar: if tbe
reverse it was drawn down over his ewes: If
about an even thing it was nicely balanced
on top; if it slip down the back slope Sew
mour was ahead; if it went over the sum
init and down the front Grant was ahead.
Finally, when a cheer went up and the hat
suddenly jumped over and scooted down to
his very eyes, the waiting Democrats dole
fully told the Republicans they could take
the money, and went home.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-12
Approved March 3, 1871.

GENERAL NATURE-No. AL
AN ACT making appropriations to supply
deficiencies in the appropriations for the
service of the government for the fiscal
years ending June thirty, eighteen hun
dred and seventy, and June thirty. eight
cen hundred and seventy-one, and for
former years. and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums or so much thereof as may
be necessary, be, and the same are hereby,
appropriated for the objects hereinafter ex-
pressed, namely:
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-12

ances for erecting machinery and tools in
machine shop, and for fitting up smithy,
eighty-tive thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING.
For provisions for the officers, seamen
and marines, one million five hundred and
forty -seveR thousand dollars.
For purchase Of water for ships, forty
thousand dollars.
For purchase of clothing and clothing
materials, two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For pay of the civil establishment at the
several navy yards under this bureau:
At navy yard, BostOn.-Two writers. one
to paymaster and one to inspector of pro-
visions and clothing, at one thousand and
seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents
each; in all, two thousand and thirty four
dollars and fifty cents.
At the navy yard, Brooklyn.-TwO
writers to paymasters, at one thousand and
seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents
each; assistant to inspector of provisions
and clothing, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight dollars; writer to in
spector OF provisions and clothing. one
thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty
five cents; assistant superintendent of mills,
nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars; in
all, five thousand eight hundred and sixty
eight dollars and seventy-fve cents.
Az Iuo navy ydru, THlauelphld.-One
writer to paymaster, one thousand and sew
enteen dollars and twenty-five cents; one
writer to inspector of provisions and cloth
ing, one thousand and seventeen dollars
and twenty-five CENTS in all, two thousand
and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.
At the navy yard, Washington.-On
writer to paymaster, one thousand and sew
enteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
At the navy yard, Norfolk. One writer
to paymaster, one thousand and seventeen
dollars and twenty-five cents.
At the navy yard, Mare Island-One
writer to paymaster, at one thousand and
seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one
writer to inspector of provisions and cloth
ing, one thousand two hundred and ninety
FIVE dollars and fifty cents; in all, two thou
sand three hundred and twelve dollars and
cents.
For contingent expenses: For freight and
to fsreign and home stations;
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For continuing the work on the building
for postoffice and courthouse in New York
city, to be applied only to finishing the
foundations up to and including the sill
course, and receiving and setting the gran
lite of the first story above that course, and
subject to no other limitations or restric-
ton, five hundred thousand dollars.
For the building for postoffice and sinh
treasury in Boston, the unexpended balance
of appropriation remaining on the tbirt;etb
June, eighteen hundred seventy. appronri-
ated for purchase of site of the same.
which was covered into the treasury nv tbe
provisions of section five of the act of JnIv
twelve, eighteen hundred and seventy. i.
with the sum appropriated By the act of July
hfteen, eighteen hundred and seventy. here
by reapprspriated and made available. To-
gether with the sum Of sixty-four thousand
two hundred and seventy-eight deylars and
seventy,tve cents, to enable the Sscretarv
oL the treasury to pay the award for the
ne cessary lard condemned under autSoritv
OF the State of Massachusetts for the mr.
poses OF said building; for purchase of
ut lie IN passageway, eight tho usand dali
lars and for expenses of legal nro-
Gee dings, four thousand dollars. or 40 ,nppcb.
the reof az may be necessary, subject to no
9th err restriction except that the coat of said
building shall not exceed, in the ultimate
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-12

or ensign; and the said assistant engineers
shall have the pay of first andysecohd as
slstant engineers of the navy, respectively,
as now provided.
SEC. 3. That no person under nineteen or
over twenty-slx years of age shall be an
pointed second assistant engineer in the
navy; nor shall any person be appointed or
promoted In the engineer corps until after
he has been found qualified by a board of
competent engineer and medical officers
designated by the Secretary of the NAVY.
and has complied with existing regulations
Sec. 9. That of the naval Constructors
two shall have the relative rank of captain.
three OF commander, and all others that of
lieutenant commander or lieutenant: and
assistant naval constructors shall have the
relative rank of lieutenant or master. four
chaplains shall have the relative rank of
captain, seven that Of commander. and not
more than seven that of lieutenant COM
mander or lieutenant; and that the Pres
ident OF the United States is hereby author.
lzed, In his discretion, to determine and fig
the relative rank of civil engineers: nro.
vlded, that the pay of said officers shall not
be increased : -'o'
SEC: H. That the foregoing grades. herc,yv
established for the staff corps of the navte
snaH De hlied by appointment from t6es
highest numbers in each corps. accord;n,,
to seniority, and that new comm;ss;onss
shall be issued to the officers so anno;ntod
in which commissions the titles and Grade,
herein established shall be inserted: and no
exlstlng commissions shall be vacated in the
s sa several staft corps, except by the issue
OF new commissions required nv the nroyi-
sions OF this act, and NO officer shall be re-
duced in rank or lose seniority in his own
corps by any change which NAV be re-
CURED under the provisions of this act: and
u =, officers Of the staff corps of the navy
'hali take precedence in their several corps.
and IN their several grades, and with Off,
,ers OF the line with whom they hold rela-
I've rank, according to length Of service
a the navy: Provided, That in estimating
me length OF service for this purpose, the
evera ofhcers of the stat, corps shall re-
pecnveiy take precedence in their several |
'fades, and with those officers of the line of |
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other powers. The terms of sur
render are hard, but the longer the
resistance the more severe must
they become.
We are not able TO see clearly
through the complicated questions
at issue, nor to make up an opin-
ion as to the result. The chances
f. of a renewal Of hostilities are near
ly as many as those OF an extension
Of the armistice. AS we have ex-
pected, France has no such gov
eminent rs viii command the res
pect and obedience Of the masses
of the people. There exists a pow
erful, numerous and wealthy impe-
rial party, whose members viii give
no willing adhesion to the republic,
while the Republicans themselves
are not at all agreed as to the an
thority by which they are willing
to be bound in negotiation.
When the Constituent Assembly
shall meetat Bordeaux, there must
needs be the widest differences of
the greatest antagonism
Of interests, and many angry COLI
sions and denominations. There
viii be bnt short allowance of
time for debate, and if the body
sees fit to reject the hard terms Of
fered BY theinvaders, the Prussian
viii be in motion to the
North, the West, md the South,
long before the delegates can Sc
lect their generals, on agree upon
a plan Of defence. For peace or
war France needs a responsible
government and head; as it is.
there is no adequate authority for
either peace or war.-N. @. PIC.
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Z sequences likely to arise should The
bill fail We would have att tie
horrors Of secession and the recon-
structiop measures again uDOn uB.
with the 18th, 18Th, and 18th, a.
mendments the 18th, of course.
giving to these blooming damsala
who desired It The right 70 vote.
hold Office, drink cocktails and ride
straddle -TLrughter. He gave an
unparalleled description of the CITY
of Duluth, which he said was So
exactly in the centre Of the earth
that the sky came down around it
at equal distance oh All sides.
With much ferYor lie portrayed
the prostration 81 France before
an inferior foe, and appealed most
ludicrously TO tie Speaker II lie be-
liered that it would have occurred
had not General Sheridan gone
over there and told King iliiam
how he whipped the Piegsn In
dIansi mat Duluth was 60 be the
great beef market was shown BY
the map, which showed that the
Piegan Indians would start with d
drove Of butfalOes, stop over night
with their friends, the Creeks, and
the next morning the buffaloes
would be III the stock yards of Du-
luth, So important was this road
that every able-bodied female
claimant for suffrage, between the
ages Of eighteen and forty-fve,
should be set 70 work.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1871-02-23
anl-.ARY al FoREIaN 80.

An envoy from Iunis is en- route
for France, to settle disputed CUES
tons.
The Republican majority Of Bor-
leaux Is large. The Republicans
AIRY Pau, Peregrain and Gran;
M Conservatives carry Poictiers
mi Mont Aban. Liberal Union
candidates are generally elected
throughout France wherever put
y nomination.
The British Commissioners on
american affairs are Earl De Grey,
prof. Montagu, Bernard, Sir Ed
Yard Thornton, Sir John Al. Nc
Donald, of Canada, and Sir John
Ross. The Secretary viii be Lord
Tenterten.
Proceedings in Parliament have
lot yet assumed a coherent shape.
Disraeli spoke against Gladstone,
5ut in favor of the main principles
II the Queens speech.
Both parties approve the. meas
res proposed for the settlement
u the differences with the United
States.
A pacific solution Of the eastern
uestion only needs the signature
II the representative Of France to
complete the treaty.
The Gambetta ticket carried Ha-
Ire and Brest by heavy maiorities.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1871-02-23

IA jolly WESTERN 0RAT0R. In
the House of Representatives a
few days ago, BEr. Knott, Of Ken
lucky, charmed the members with
a speech against granting lands to
the ST. Croiy and bayfield, RaillSad
Company.
Mr.. Knott Of Kentucky, said If
he could be mduoen To disregard
the wishes or ignore tie interest
of his constituents, he would feel
strongly induced to vote for this
bin, AZ 1t would result to the peca-
MARY benefit of some 81 his best
friends. He had never been salts.
ned Of the propriety Of these pro-
iects which promised SO meagre
results, hut from the first time he
ever heard Of the St. Croix river
10 had always felt that d railroad
from that raging flood to the At
lantic Ocean was necessary for tile
prosperity Of the country, Il not for
enc perpetuity 81 republican inssl-
buttons Laughter
Mr. Knott, u d most humorous
manner, reviewed the dehate when
the blll was last up, and during
his remarks the members from all
sides gathered around the speaker
completely packing the passage.
and often nterrlipting him Mitk
roars of laughter
With moeA gravity, ile painted
the glollos oI the sandy pine lands,
and the absolute Necessity f0r eou-
stfueting the road to The St CroiS
river, and pictured th6 lcaglui con
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DRTFTING.


Ifthere is one season of the year
when via arc content TO drift dream
ilY down the tide Of life, it is when
winter is merging into spring. We
arc Watching the paingenesis Of
creation. tits the silent pause be-
fore the tide Of life agakens in the
various forms Of nature which had
lain dry or rigid during the winter
sleep.
All things are as sombre as ct
mid-winter TO an unobsegvant eye,
but there il a change, d very mark
Cd one to those who study ont Che
lessons of the earth. There Is i
softness in tho air which tells al
the sweet South; stray violets To be
found by sheltered hill-sides, on
buried deepin the green moss ut
the foot 0f some patriaFohal oak Ok
locust tree. The gray iastoans of
the Spanish moss the graceful
Tilandsia) hangs ia richer and snf-
ter lines and curves. There are
long swaths Of light lying across
the bosom of still lakes and rush
inc rivers, and the tender blue and
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1871-02-23
ConninE fn LII sanlho.

Our fair cousins of the North
are perpetually making manifesto
tions Of their strongmindedness.
They demand not only the right
Of participating in elections, but
of having a free choice in the Sc
lection at fathers for-their- children,
admitting into the grand aristoc-
racy of sires only such as come up
to their high ideal. Thus far,
however, they have failed to So inn
press their desires upon the law
makers Of the land as to secure for
themselves the authority of direct
Legislative enactments. In this di-
lemma they have cast about for
some indirect or back way into the
temple Of political equality and
fraternity, and have found it in
that opened for the colored man
and brother. Voting they regard
as a right, inseperable from citi-
zenship, and not mere privilege
which may be given or withheld
at the caprice Of lawmakers. TO
cover the case Of negroes, Just e.
mancipated from slavery, the fif-
teenth amendment to the Federal
Constitution was framed and adop-
ted by the sovergn viii Of the Ma
ton, stimulated thereto BY 'the
holy text Of pike and gun" and
the fair sisterhood, blessed with
sholt hair and strong minded pro-
clivities, have, after earnest and
extended elaboration, arrived at
the conclusion that they are quite
as good as the sons of Ham or
anybody else, and are as effectual-
ly embraced in the sweeping terms
of the fifteenth amendment The
amendment expressly declares thas
81. The right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not bel
denied or abridged by the United
States 81 by any State on account
of race, color, or previous condi-
ton Of servitude."
It is urged BY the progressive
ladies' that, being citizens and the
ctnal Of prospective mothers of
efher citizens, their right to vote
san neither be abridged nor denied
without Il cross inlractiOn of the
organic law Of the land. They
therefore protest with all the em-
phasis Of outraged innocence, and
The eloquence Of Portals, that lo-
cal election laws, excluding them
from the right Of sniferage, shall
be annulled and declared Of none
effect. and that people shall vote
as well without regard To sex AS toll
color-New Orleans Times.
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primrose Of the morning szies is
something to BE seen and dreamed
Of when richer tints take their
place.
We do not have ia Louisiana The
magical pictures Of change and
contrast which belong specially to
mountainous districts. Their grsnd
solitudes. the width and power Of
the majestic hills, are lacking nom
our scenery. But the great and
generous forces of Nature are busy
in the valleys. The blue mists he
low on the forests, sometimes lifted
and giving sudden gIimpses Of
bright distances, 0r falling over the
broad river Ike cerulean veil,
through which the rhythm Of the
tide comes to your ear id dream
like melody.
There Is D stiffness which is not
vet silence. You can almost feel
a throb Of life in the brown grass
nnder your feet, and Toa sraes
green lines II the very furrows,
where an early grass is springing.
A little twitter Of some national
sparrow Oh hooking bird, and
sraitway comes back the memory
ofthe melodic warblings Of spring.
Even the dead leaves and dry bran
ches Of forest trees are no longer
suggestive of death and decay.
The stone has been rolled from the
sepulclre Of Nature, and this is the
awaiting moment for the Eyangel
of Promise, which IS Fastening to
make good its word.
In these delicious days ne drift
out of our usual course. Whatever
Of i'll the winter brought as is soft
ened III this rare light. Perhaps
we laid some beloved ono to rest
under the stormy, Wintry skies, aud
buried in a little grave the pride
and love Of our life. The tempests
which beat upon it, beat too upon
our aching heart, for they seemed
to reach our darling III her sill
sleep, But with the quickening ia
the air and the earth comes other
Themaryel of hope and
promise is above. below, around us
everywhere. We lie more quietly
ID thehollow of the Almighty hands
which mould and fashion at VIII
the destiny OF man. For we sse
the soul Of the flowers awakening,
and OF how much more worth are
we than the grass Of the fields !?
So we drift on with peaceful
Not looking back to tbe
lowering line Of storm clouds whiah
nearly wrecked as, but onward to
i golden summer land which awaits
the voYagers who know the bear
ings of its shores. Drifting on,
sometimes YEARLY that the Journey
is so long, sometimes GLADLY that
we have time to mark the generous
abundance Of His gifts, and always
the last reach al the Wild
old river which viii hide us forever
from the eyes Of men. Ael0 Or
leans Times.