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Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-17
STEAMBOATS,.
CAIRO.
o
ST.. Louis AND NEW ORLEANS PACKET
CAIRO.

CA1hO.
o.
ST.. Louis AND NEW ORLEANS PACKET
COMPANY.
FOR CAIRO AND ST. LOUIS.
Illinois Central Railroad Packets.
,f~ h FOR MEMPHIS, CAIRO
x$H8 and the Bends-The fine
spassenger steamers of
this line will leave as follows:
Giving through bills of lading to all
points on the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad, Nashville and Northwestern
Railroad. and Memphis and Ohio Rail-
road-also to ST. Louis.
Through Tickets furnished at lowest
rates to all points East, WeS and North,
by all the various routes via Memphis,
Cairo and St. Louis. Staterooms Sc
cured at General Office, 1O4 Common
treet.
A. A. WOODS, General Agent,
104 Common Street.
c. G.. WAYNE, Freight Agent,
81 Natchez Street,
JOHN n. BOFTNGER. President,
Bills of lading for all freights over
the Illinois Central Railroad; signed
at the Office of
JAMES T. TUCKER,
apl. 6-tf &c Carondelet Street.
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4, -. |,,,-lAScE.-There is notb;nc
DO, % result in the successful
,, lin 'OunS man than confident
u no.. 1t is astonishing how
trsse, my d youth will accomplish
2sl, ~ upon himself than one who
~. : upon others for assistance
.sin u''' ascertained the direc,ion
'' means by which his obicc,
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-17

Received ISL hhds. We note
scarcity of low grades; quiet but
firm market for the medium grades,
and a good demand Tor clarified.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-17

"A fat candidate for Office in
Alabama, who was said to weigh 375
pounds, asks the people of his dis
trict to try him.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-17

IA Complete Pictorial History Of the Times"
" The Best, Cheapest and moS Sue
cesym Family Paper IN The
UNIoN.v
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MERCHANTS SOUTHERN PACKET

MERCHANTS SOUTHERN PACKET
COMPANY.
r. b For ST.. LOUIS, CAIRO,
.5lasssi$ MEMPHIS and the Bends
The steamers of this line will leave as
follows. at P, NJ.
Giving through bills Of lading over
the Illinois Central Railroad to al
points on Arkansas, White and Cumb
erland rivers. Through bills of lading
and passenger tickets issued to all
points on the Upper Mississippi. as
high as st. Paul.
Plans of cabin may be see and state
rooms secured on application to
STEVENSON & VERLANDER.
Agents,
135 Gravier street.
JOHN F. BAKER, President.
Bills of lading over tho Illinois Cent
raj Railroad signed only at the Office of
JAS. T. TUCKER.
&c Carondelet street.
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Sta9g \ @'Weil
PATENT ATTORNEYS
AND
DEALER IN ALL The
NHVVEsT
and most Useful Patents M
the age.

We beg to call public attention to III.
faet that we are now prepared to fill or
ders for the latest novelties in the line of
patented goods, and are constantly adding
to our large stock, such articles OF
merit as the inventive spirit of tho 6
produces, and the progressive temper of
the times demands. The Southern Coun.
try especially, needs these labor.saving
inventions; to our friends in the country
extend an invitation to call and examine
our stock of HOUSEHOLD AND FARM urRS-
LIS.
Inventors can obtain Information
through our Agency, of the course to be
pursued in obtaining patents, the Mopus
oPERAND1 OF THE PATENT orr1CE. Govern.
ment fees, DC, 30.
Applications made, and Caveats filed.
speedily and effectively through our Office.
AND AT LESS COST TO THE INVENTOR, than
personal application at Washington. For
circular address.
stage Il O'NEILL.
180 Canal Street
New Orleens
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MISCELLANY.


City Ice-boat No, l, Captain Mason, at = A. NJ.
yesterday, proceeded to the Horseshoe ~ break
the ice.
City Ice.boat No. 2, Captain Schellenger, left yes
teTd9y morning, having in tow ship Alice 81, Mnot
for Antwerp.
Br. ship Coromandei, Chapman, hence via St.
John, n. b. for Liverpool ashore near Queenstown
had on board when she left this port 24 Ill gallons
refined petroleum, valued at S5S 200.
Steamer TOnawanda, Barrett, hence, at Savannah
yesterday-so supposed; telegraphed the Wyoming.
n. q. steamer Deutschland, at New York from
Bremen, brought 1856 passengers.
Br. steamer Caabria, at Boston from Liverpool via
Queenstown, brought IA cabin and 60 steerage pas
sengers.
Schr Mary Z. Simmons at New York yesterday
from Norfolk, reports jan z, lost overheard John
Smith, a sailor, OF Philadelphia.
SChr j. u. Alburger, Carson, from st. Martins 20
days, with salt, at New York yesterday. JAM j, %
miles north OF Uatteras, saw three masted schr
ashore on the beach, with wreckers dlsCharging the
cargo; appeared 30 have just gone on.
The umber-laden schooner before reported ashore
on Yarmouth flats, is the Lottie c. White, of and
from st. John, N. b., for Fall River. Crew saved.
The vessel has bged.
The total number Of foreign clearauces at the port
of Boston for the year 1870 amounts to 1904 vessels
3 decrease OF 64 vessels compared with 1862
The steamers IrOnsides and Vanderbilt made an
unsuccessful attempt 10 Gu through the ice IN the
Potomac on Sunday, and got as far down as the
channel OF the Eastern Branch, when, finding the
ice somewhat thicker and COnsld' IDLY stronger
than above, they were obliged to abandon the effort,
ana returned. Another attempt was made on Mon
day morning, and the steamer succeeded in cutting
her way through.
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Foreign Affairs.

There is great scarcity of fuel at Paris.
The funeral of General Prm was at
tended by a multitude of people.
The Parisians are urging General Trochu
to make O sOrtie with an enormous force.
The Bank of France takes the balance of
the Spanish loan on the terms originally
agreed to.
The continuous victories of General
Chanzy over Frederick Charles cause great
enthusiasm throughout France
The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg is re-
ported to have been summariIy dismissed
from his command for not keeping the
French at respectful distance
The London Telegraph announces, on
authority, that the demands made upon
Prussia by the British Cabinet relative to the
seizure and sinking of English ships in the
Seine are in fair way of adjustment.
The cable between Malta and Alexandria,
which cost the English Government over
$500 COO, has been sold to the Malta and
Alexandria Telegraph Company, with all
stores on hand, for $4,000.
King William gave New Years S recep-
ton to the officers of the German army, in
his palace at Versailles, in honor of the open
ing of the new year. He made speech, in
which he recounted the recent events of the
war, praised the patriotism of his soldiers,
and closed by asserting that no peace would
BE- acceptable unless it be lasting one.
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THE CRnCKETr MURDER.
f'articuIars Of the KnlIpH Of Davy OroclsoI

Particulars Of the KHlIDE Of Davy Orecsotrs
Grandson.
The Memphis Audldnche of Saturday last
says:-The particulars of the bloody and mys-
terious murder of Mr.. j. b. Crockett at Brad
ley's Landing, on the Mississippi, twelve miles
above Memphis as published in the Avalanche
of yesterday, have caused the greatest excite
ment among the residents in the vicinity of the
place where the deed was committed, and the
most eager search is being made for the perpe-
TRAITOR of the murder. The deceased was highly
respected by all who knew him, and as
THE GUILTY PERSON
is supposed to be negro of bad character who
worked on an adjoining plantation, and whG is
reported missing, and he is suspected Of
being in Memphis, several of the
FRIENDS OF THE MURDERED MAN
arrived in the city to assist the authorities in
finding out the whereabouts of and identifying
the guilty. Among these parties are Mr.. j. G.
Berry, eX-Sheriff of Crittenden county, and Mr..
Charles Morris, of Pacific Place, Ark. to whom
we are indebted for additional particulars of the
tragedy.
THE INQUEST
on the body Of the deceased was held by Nr.
Mulloy, Justice of the Peace of Wappanocca
township, and it was proved that the murderer
struck his victim with an iron harrow tooth,
while he was engaged in drawing some whisky
from barrel on board the trading boat. The
first blow, which was given on the hack of the
head, doubtless rendered the unfortunate man
unconscious, as the skull was fractured. The
Gus intent, as poor Crockett fell backward, as
there was an ugly cash over the right eye. Not
satisfied with lnilicting these deadly wounds,
the fend in humansshape cut the throat of his
victim from ear to ear.
THE NEGRO WHO is SUSPECTED
of doing the murder was seen going on board OF
Crocketts boat on the night Of tuesday by a
colored woman. who also stated that she Oh
served him examine the contents of a trunk.
The trunk in question presented the appearance,
on being inspected by the jurors, as if the con-
tents had been tossed about and several car
ried off.
BILLS wITH SPOTS OF BLOOD ON THEM.
During the day he arrived at Mound City and
paid visit to the grocery store of Mr.. j. g.
Berry, where he purchased several articles and
paid for them in bills that had spots of blood on
them. He next wanted the captain of the ferry
boat Laura to take him to Memphis, alleging
that he had important business to transact in
this city. The captain refused to accede to his
request, and he departed in the direction OF
Hopeficld, and is supposed to have crossed the
river at that point The city authorities are
making every effort to arrest the suspected
murderer in order r. bring him to Justice
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DROWNED OR FROZEN.
Dreadful Accident TO Hunting Party In
(2PnrRln.


TheMacon Telegraph and Messenger Of Thurs
day last has the following details of a most
melancholy accident TO a hunting party from
that city,
the most shocking accident that has occurred in
this section for years. The facts, as related to
us by an eye witness, are about as follows
On Tuesday morning, about clever o'clock,
Scott Clark, John Barclay, Dave Connor, DR.. f.
g. Castlen, Henry Ellis, W. L. Nelson, George
G. Napier, and a oolored man named Bob
Banks, left here in three batteaus on n duck
hunting excursion down the Ocmulgee river.
They had proceeded down the stream to what is
known as Billiards., near Barclays plantaton
when, on yesterday afternoon, about two
O'clock, the boat in which Mr.. Henry n. ELS
and his servant, Bob Banks, were seated, be-
came capsized in the river by running against
a log floating down the stream Mr.. Ellis cung
TO his boat, but Bob grasped the log and climbed
upon it. So soon as this occurred
the boat in which Messrs. Connor, Mel
son and Napier were seated hurried to
the assistance of Els and the negro, and iu the
struggle TO get them out Of the>water, this boat
was also capsized, and the water was so in
tensely cold that the struggle was then for life
on the part Of each individual, and as clnging
to the boats in such cold water was certain
death, each man, except the negro, struck out
for the banks. Messrs Nelson and Conuor sue
ceeded in reaching the opposite or east bank of
the river near Barclays plantation, and after
Wading through a canebrake and water waist
deep, and through the ice in the swamp, they
managed TO find their way to Mr.. Barclays
house, after suffering most terribly from the
cold. From thence they walked to the Macon
and Brunswick Railway station and reached this
city last evening.
Mr.. George Napier reached the bank on this
side of the river, but as he got into a most dense
canebrake. and near which there is no known
settlement the greatest fears are entertained for
his life Mr. Ellis was seen by Messrs. Connor
and Nelson out in the river after they got ashore
and he called to them that he was going to
drown, and TO give his love to his wife and
mother, and went down.
The colored man still clung to the floating log,
but as he could not swim and was nearly frozen
to death, hopes are entertained that he is alive
A party of gentlemen will 20 down on the
Brunswick road this morning to recover tho
bodies if possible, and to rescue Mr.. Napier, il
he is still alive.
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ClTY ORDINANCES

u I o i L T ON
AC To Lay Water-pipe on JtfferSon street aud
other streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils
of the City of Philadelphia That the Chief
Engineer of the Water Department be and Is
hereby authorized to lay water-pipe on the
following streets
Jefferson street, from Eighteenth to Twenty
sixth street, Twenty-eighth ward.
Institute street, from Columbia avenue to
Berks street, Twentieth and Twenty ghth
wards.
VAIN street, from Mulberry to Unity street.
Twenty-third ward
Bath street, from Sorren to Ann street,
Twenty-flfth ward.
LOUIS WAGNER.
President of Common Council.
Attest
ROBERT BETHEL,
Assistant Clerk of Select Council.
SAMUEL w. CAITELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this thirty-lirst day of December,
Ammo Domini one thousand eight hundred and
seventy @. d. 1870.
DANIEL VI. FOX,
141t Mayor of Philadelphia.
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Domestic Affairs.

The total debt of Virginia is $4l ,391 900.
The revenue stamp contract will be
awarded in day or two.
Attorney General Akerman has purchased
q home near Cartersville Ga.
The internal revenue receipts amounted
TO nearly one million dollars yesterday.
"A Cabinet meeting was held yesterday,
all the members excepting Mr.. Akerman
being present Nothing but routine bust
ness was transacted.
Lewis Tappan, Esq, the venerable anti
slavery reformer, was stricken with paralysis
while making New Years visit, and his re-
covery is doubtful.
Senator Sherman estimates the revenue
for the present year at $500, 100000, and
says that the appropriations can be KEEP
below $500 000,0 600, including the sinking
fund
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SG1sws SUMMARY.

Ctty Affairs
The following gentlemen were elected
managers to serve for the present year at the
annual meeting of the contributors of the
Northern Dispensary, No. COB Spring Garden
street, held esterddy:-George w. Tryon,
John M. Ogden John Kessler, Jr., Charles
M. Wagner, DR.. n. L. Hatfield, Robert Lind
say, Josiah Bacon, George f. Lee, Samuel A.
Bispham Nathan Young, Simon w. Arnold,
William WeghtmaD, William B. Bement.
William Hobart Brown, James " Watson.
Mr.. John Brodhead, prominent citizen
of this city, and at one time President of the
G mden and Atlantic road, died at Port Jer-
Wis, N. Y, yesterday.
Col. John Thorn pson was elected presi-
dent, John b. McKeever, Treasurer, aud
Joseph w. Fleckwir, Secretary, of the South
wark Library Company at the annual meeting
last evening
AT special meeting of the Diligent En-
gine Company held last evening, it was re-
solved to offer the use of their apparatus and
the services of the members to the Board of
Fire Commissioners, until the paid depart
ment is ready for service.
At the Southern Dispensary last year there
were 5035 patients treated, and 1923 prescrip-
tioDs compounded
The city ice boat found the Horseshoe"
cI boxed with drift ice yesterday.
One of ihe han0somest banking houses
Grambo, No $50 Walnut street. For ele-
gance in the matter of fitting up, complete
ness, and convenience of arrangement, and
striking and TecbeTcbe appearance, it is Ger
tainly unsurpassed by any similar establish
ment in the city. Taste and elegance are
everywhere visible in it, even in the minutest
particular. The desks, counters, ETC., OF
the counting-roon N are splendid specimens of
mechanical skill. A gold indicator is in this
room, with direct telegraphic communication
with New York, which marks with punctuality
the changes and fluctuations in the gold mar
fet of that city. Large, richly finished black
boards are also conspicuously placed there,
wher, on are marked the sales at the stock
boards of all local and general stocks, and
every other accessory is in perfect keeping
with the general character of the place. In
the rear of this room is the private apartment
of Mr.. Grambo, which is also splendidly
fitted up, and there it is that Mr.. drambo
traDsacts the large and constantly increasing
business that his energy, tact, and enter
prise have secured for him
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SHARP PRACTICE.
SMindlInR Firm In RendInE-SI5,OOO o.
Gondh NbInIned Gnder EmLse PreIenke.

Goods ObtaIDed Under False Pretenke,
The Reading Eagle has the following
About a month ago two strangers came TO
Reading, no person knew from whence. They
had circulars printed headed Painter Myers Il
Co., Dealers in Hardware, etc., Reading Pa"
They wrote to Joseph Van Clew and other
whoi ssale hardware dealers, in Newark, Y. j.,
asking for price lists, from which TO make up
orders for goods. They referred to "Hough at
Harrisburg" formerly in the hardware business
but who latterly failed The Newark business
men wrote to Harrisburg, when Hough replied
that the firm of Painter, Myers & Co.. were "all
right, and they could send them any quantity of
goods" 1t appears it was not known in Newark
that Hough had failed.
The Reading firm sent orders for goods to the
value of some $150 900 and a note payable in
thirty days at the First National Bank of Read
ing The goods were sent by express and re-
ceived by the strangers here who took the
boxes to a smoke. house on Washington street,
where they Tepacked the goods and shipped
them TO Philadelphia and Baltimore. Two days
ago the note in bank was protested, and las.
evening Mr.. Van Clew came on 70 Reading to
see what the matter was. Upon arriving here,
he first discovered that the firm of Painter,
Myers e Co., was a myth, and that he aud his
friends in Newark had been swindled.
The strangers changed their boarding place
three different times while ia Reading. Their
present Whereabouts is unknown.
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ID f OIL u T ON
III To Approve of the Contract of William r.
Frazier for the Erection of School-house on
the Northeast Corner of Thirty-eighth and
Story Streets, and of the sureties There
for.
Resolved, BY the Select and Common Councils
of the City Of Philadelphia That the con-
tract dated the fourteenth day of December,
1870, between William r. Frazier of the one
part and the city of Philadelphia Of the other
part, for the erection and construction of a new
school building at the northeast corner of
Thirty-eighth and Story streets, in the Twenty
fourth ward, and the sureties therefor, p. L..
Hollis and Chalkley White, be and the same are
hereby approved. ,,o,
LOUIS WAGNER,
President of Common Council.
Attest
ROBERT BETHEL,
Assistant Clerk of Select Council.
SAMUEL w. CATTELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this thirty-frst day of Decem-
ber, Anne Domini one thousand eight hundred
and seventy "a. D. 1870:
DANIEL NJ. FOX,
l4lt Mayor of Philadelphia.
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HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Pa.-EleVen Persons Killed or Wounded.

Pa -EleVen Persons Killed or Wounded.
A fire broke out in the Marshall House, Frank
lin, about half-past II o'clock on Saturday last,
which destroyed the Marshall House, the toll
house, and heated the guy cables of the wire
bridge so that il fell into the river.
About twenty persons were on the bridge at
the time.
The following are the names of the persons
iniured:-William Null, since died; Kilgore
freight agent of the Valley Road, supposed TO
have been killed, body not found; Mrs McIntire
and Mary McIntire, seriously injured; Harry
and Leonard and two named Mccarthy slightly
injured. Charles johnson, a small pewsboy,
aged about twelve and half years, was stand
ing near the middle OF the bridge when il fell,
the water, swan nearly across, where he Waf
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"A man living in Bristol, on the Virginia
border, after indulgiDg in stimulants the other
day, kick' d one of his acquaintances across the
State line into Tennessee. For this little unlaW-
ful diversion he was first arrested and fined in
Goodson, Tenn, and on his return home was
arrested and fined in Bristol.
The Cooperstown (Otsego county, Journal
publishes list of the deaths In thu town during
tue year which is a somewhat remarkable
record. 1t shows that of the twenty persons
who nave died, two being young children, only
seven were under sixty-two years OF age; ten
were seventy or upward; four were over eighty,
and one was over ninety. The average age Of
the twenty was ffty-fve years and one month.
The average age of the eighteen adult persons
VAS slxty-six years and five months. The pOpu-
lAtiOn Of the place is 1000.
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DES / L 7 ON
III OF Request to the City Solicitor.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Conn
ellis of the city of Philadelphia. That the City
Solicitor be and is hereby requested to make
monthly returns to the Department for Supply
ing the City with Water of the amount col
ected for iron pipe laid in the various streets of
the city. ..,,
LOUIS WAGNER,
President of Common Council.
Attest
ROBERT SETHELL,
Assistant Clerk of Select Council.
SAMUEL w. CATTELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this thiTty-first day of Decem-
Der, Ammo DOmini one thousand eight hundred
and seventy Ga. d. 1870.
DANIEL NJ. FOX,
141t Mayor of Philadelphia.
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HAT0 AND OAPSs

~ WARBURTON'S IMPROVED VENTILATED
- and easy lifting DRESS HATS (patented), IN all
the Improved fashions OF the season. OHESHUT
Street, next door 70 the Post once, rH
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taken ont insens Bile. but recovered in p short
time. Several other parties, names not known,
ere supposed to have beeu on tho bridge at the
time 1t fell, but no bodies have yet been found.
Efforts are being made to remove the wreck
aud recover any bodies that may be under 1t.
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PROPOSALS FOR PUBLIC PRINTING AND

PROPOSALS FOR PUBLIC PRINTING AND
i BINDING.
Notice is hereby given that Sealed Proposals
for the Public Printing aud Binding for the
State OF Pennsy lvania, for the term of three
years from the first day of July, 1871, will be
received by the Speakers Of the Senate and
House of Representatives from this date to the
fourth Tuesday of January, 1871, in compliance
with the act Of Assembly entitled IAN act in
relation to Public Printing" approved 9th of
April, 1856; said proposals to be accompanied
by bonds, with approved securities, for the faith
full performance of the work, as required by the
act of 25th February 1862 entitled "a further
Supplement to an Act in relation to Public
Printing" approved the 9th day of April, 1856.
+. JORDAN,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 2, 1871. 12 lSt