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BUFFALO.


BUFFALO, July IA call was issued
tonight for meeting of the Irish citizens
of Buffalo, to consider who is responsible
for the slaughter in New York on the
18th Of July.
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mUNFORDVILLF.
Severe Storm on the louisville
Read.

Freight Train Bio ,wn off the
Tracl.
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UNION AND AMERICAN.
GoLD opened ia New York yesterday
at 1l2s aud closed st 1928.

O. rroN is dull is New York, middling
closing last evening at 2Oac.
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THE TURF.
SaratOga-Aa Exciting Hurdle
Race.

SaratOga-An Exciting Hurdle
Race.
SARATOGA, July 1.-THE first race to
day wss hurdle race Of two miles with
eight hurdles, was won by Oystermsn in
4:044; at the second hurdle Sanford
threw his rider and BllmOnt refused to
take the leap, Oysterman and Tammany
ran the entire dis ance. In the second
race, two year ODDS, three quarters of
mile, Joe Daniels favorite won IN 1:l93,
Mollie Mcintyre second, Edward Thomp-
sons bay FLY third. Third race, two
miles, three year olds, won by Mary
Clark, favorite. in $40; Express second,
John Merriman u ird.
Three boys were drowned in Phila-
delphia brick yard pond yesterday.
The house of Vincent Colyer, of D1.
rieD, Conn.,, was struck by lightning yes
terday and Mrs. Colyer was slightly ssuL-
ned but received no permanent injury.
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STATE OF THE WEATHER.
IslsqTagdic Report from Signal Sergie6
Corps, U s. L, Of Observations at
OC50cE 7. u.
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8, LOUIS.
mutiny on the River.

ST. Louis, July 16.-Several rousta-
bouts on the steamer Henry Ames mu-
dnied yesterday afternoon, some miles
! below the city, and were arrested on the
arrival of the steamer last evening, and
placed in the custody of the .. S. Mar
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-31
NO. 1913.
Misfellatttous.
THE CHILDREN.

The New York Standard takes the re-
cent murder in that city as text for a
sermon to parents on. the management of
children. 1t well says:
children from their infancy are not
sent to bed at a proper hour; in many
eases, fathers take their morning drinks
IN presence OF boy five or six old, and
BRING curse on themselves and the boy
n so doing. Boys and girls are alike ed
ucated to the love Of dress, finery and ex-
travagance; they are early indoctrinated
with an extravagant and injudicious love
for the theatre and everything that is iniu-
rious to their childish minds, and they
grow up to be, what ?-the terror of their
families. The girls, at sixteen, are on the
lookout for an eligible marriage-not one
OF love, they do not know what love is;
the boys, at eighteen, for an alliance
which will give them certain standing in
the world of fashionable vice. What fol-
lows? Domestic misery and divorce in
one case; faro banks, bar-rooms, debts,
dishonor and crime in the other. This is
no tanciful picture; it is one, and terri
BILE one, of real life. Men and women, no
matter to what class of society they be-
long, have the remedy for this fearful evil
in their own hands. They can, they have
right to, and they must exercise great
er and more lasting control over their
children. They must be their parents ard
guardians till they marry or settle for life.
They have the law on their side, and, if
necessary, they must invoke it. Better
little worry, little more effort, OF little
more home detention than the powerless
contemplation of the gradual descent of
child to perdition.'' sgz4-ass v
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16
A Leaky Shin.

The following is from Washington
special to the st. Louis Republican, a
journal opposed to San Domingo annexa.
ton
Two official reports, covering SURVEYS
upon the flagship Severn, now in the West
Indies, have been made to the Navy Depart
ment, showing the condition of the vessel to
be not only unseaworthy, but that her tim
bers are rotten and in most dangerous
state. These reports are dated the twenty
fourth of April and the first of July. The
ship had been bored in seventeen different
places, and with the result above stated
Before she left the United States the greatest
apprehensions were expressed by competent
nautical men as to her safety for this SER
vice, but the order was given without re-
gard to facts, which properly demanded the
most serious attention by the Navy Depart
ment. The season of hurricanes in the
waters of the Gulf is now at hand. To ex-
pose the lives of the officers and crew of the
Severn and other ships to their perils is a
wantOn and cruel act of inhumanity, and
yet the administration keeps the squadron
cruising in these pestilential waters for no
other purpose than to aid in propping up
the despicable despotism of Baez at San
Domingo and to carry out the Presidents
pet scheme of annexation. The Severn be-
longs to the class of ships of which the Ten
nessee is an illustration. They were both
built of green timber, and are pronounced
by the best professional authority to be
worthless
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16
Our Points of the Compass.

Can any one who lives in this city tell
without reflection, by glance at the sun or
North star, his bearings! Now it is a fact
that, to use the expression of our 'oldest
and best upon an occasion when his city
knowledge was brought in question, "Sir
the sun does not rise in the east in the Third
District" Believing it does not apparently
obey the universal law in this quarter, there
are many who have applied the remark to
other neighbOrhoods. Now we are migra-
tory population, and move, five thousand
families of US, every year.
Far as our towns latitude and longitude
are concerned, Canal street is to us what
Greenwich is to the world-the basis. This
avenue runs east and west, and the sides of
it are north or south. Take a street car and
90 up town little ways and, to your
great surprise, the street where you get out,
though it runs apparently parallel, runs
north and south and the sides are east and
west! There are thousands who, though
born and brought up in New Orleans, never
saw map of it in their lives, and, unable
to give directions of houses by the points of
the compass, fall to and tell you, ''It is the
first house on your right as you 90 toward
the river on the other side of the street, in
dicating 'the other side" by wave of the
hand as opposite to 'this side" where YOU
are standing.
Points of the compass are out of the aues-
tion-no one uses them here The front of
the city is round, and street corruption.
by the way, of straight) drawn correctly
swampward is similar to drawing a straight
line from the rim of basin to the center
the parallels at the river side will, contrary
to the mathematical definition, meet. In
the nature of things, several streets are lost
in others, until at the lake end of Delord
street, or new shell road, one finds thirty
or forty between the river head of that
thoroughfare and the cut that runs by Dan
Hickock's in Carrollton, have entirely dis
appeared, so that what is travel of a few
miles along the river side is only few steps
at the lake.
Here is one cause of the apparent irregu-
larity of the compass which bemuddles any
one who is not aware of its cause.
Then again, the lines of street railways
that by fiction are supposed to run the
same directien throughout their extent
but they do lQt, A passenger who puts
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16

his fare in the box" at Canal street to go up
town, comforts himself that he, at least,
''knows where he's goin'." But he don't /;
for before he has travelled mile, he makes
SO many turns out of a straight direction
that he would be out if he should guess
three points out of the four cardinal z
For this reason of bends in the streets, of
their loss by making triangle with another
street, and of the curve in the river, there is
only one way to tell the points of the com
pass in any given locality-carry one in
your pocket. 1t is the only safe way. The
shortest way to point is Every desirable" !"
as the real estate men say; but only an ex-
tensive acquaintance can find out these
shortest ways" for taking the streets like
all straight lines as ''the shortest distance
between two points, a voyager would ride
three miles where he has occasion to 60
but one. But to find out the points of the
compass of any given place is impossible
without an immediate consultation of the
map on the wall, or the thing itself.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16
For the Sunday Republican,
AN ATHEISTS DREAM.

| 1t was night, and the wind whistled
mournfully around the old stone house, so
! deeply imbedded among Scotland's hills.
The snow had been falling for many hours,
and now, like ghostly phantoms, the cliffs
| appeared clad in this raiment Of white.
Here, amid this wildness and desolation, old
Doctor Audrient lived. For years he had
been recluse, and studiously avoided hold
ing intercourse with his fellow-beings. He
had with him but one attendant, an old wo-
man, whose witch-Hke countenance, shrill
voice and ungainly appearance were at once
the dread and aversion of all who came near
her. Those who had seen Doctor Audrient,
called him crazy. He rather liked the accu-
satiOn, for it served to keep them away from
him. He was an old man, embittered with
his atbeistical views; distrusting both God
and his fellow-beings. His life was given
up to the study of metaphysics, and each
day his existence became more and more alb
sorbed in his views, and, like all of his kind,
clung most tenaciously to them. Lately
feeling of uncertainty in his opinions had
come over him, and despite his endeavors,
he could not rid himself of the feeling. On
the day of which our story opens, he had
been feeling more than usually depressed.
AS night came on his fears seemed to in
crease. In spite of the comfortable arm
chair, the glass of smoking beverage by his
side, the blazing hearth, he felt nervous, and
could not conquer it. He remained long
gazing intently on the bed of burning Goals
before him, until at last his senses gradually
became dead to surrounding objects. How
long he sat thus he knew not. Suddenly he
was aroused by rustling sound near him.
Rising from his chair he gazed around to see
from whence the sound had proceeded, and
he saw in the doorway creature fair as
though it were visitant from heaven. She
was clad in robes of shining gold and silver,
and on her brow was tiara of stars which
in brilliancy rivaled those which shine in
the blue vault above.
Gliding softly to him, she said "Thou
vain one, putting thyself above all on earth
and disbelievmg in the God that made thee,
follow me to yon distant mountain side:
the way is rough and rugged, and thy steps
l know are feeble, but there are sights
which are sometimes given man to see, and
thou, for one, hast need of seeing them r'
Trembling in every limb the old man
obeyed and followed her On she led him.
until at last they arrived at a forest. deep,
dark and seemingly impenetrable. Here
they stopped, and the angel, holding torch
above him, bade him look around him. He
looked, and saw there millions of creatures
made like himself, groveling in the dark
ness that surrounded them-they seemed
as though searching for something-th
faces bore traces of anguish, doubt and
misery. Oft they would walk along and
appear as though about to grasp at some
object near, and then whatever they fancied
these would Faaish infs the aiI ag9und' |
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16

being g., 1885,, ,9l4 &C. be entered in favor of
the city of New Orleans, and against the
said board, with interest and costs
That in the event of the right of the plain.
tiffs to demand from the city proportion of
the expenses of the police be sustained by q
final Judgment of the court, that then, and
in that event, the accompanying exhibits be
decreed to be a true statement OF accounts
between the Metropolitan Police Board and
the city of New Orleans, from the date of
tho organization of the former down to the
first of July, 1871; that they may be homo
LOCATED and approved by the court and in
the event last aforesaid, that judgment be
rendered in favor of the city and against the
Metropolitan Police Board, for the sum of
$232, ,707 81, with five per cent interest upon
the same from the date last aforesaid until
paid; that the right of the city to claim any
payments for disbursements made by her
since the date of the aforesaid exhibits
July l, 1871-be reserved; that plaintiffs be
condemned to pay all costs; and that re-
spOndents and recOnvenOr have trial by
jury, and general relief in the premises.
GEORGE s. LACEY,
CITY Attorney
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16
An ALLEGED POisOupr.

BALTIMORE, July 12.-Mrs. E. G. Whar-
ton, widow of the late Major Harry w.
Wharton. United States army residing in
Hamilton place, this city, was arrested
Monday night on a warrant issued from tbe
criminal court of this city, charging her
with; poisoning General William Scott
hetchum, retired officer of the United
States army: also with poisoning E,I-ena
Vanness, book-keeper in the bankino b9rSe
OF Alexander Brown & Sons. General
ketehum arrived at Mrs. Wharton's on the
twentyv-third of last month, was taken snd-
denly Ill on the twenty y-fourth, and died ON
the twenty-eighth. An ANALYSIS of his
stomach discovered twenty grains of tartar
emetc' Nanness was taken i'll during
hetchum sickness, and now lies in a crit,
caI ca condition. The case will go before the
ti Gran1 u, jury on Saturday. Iu the mean
her house " Pi-00H'A III
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16
The Champion Type-Setter Question.
A Montreal paper of last week says:

At type-setting match held in La Nou-
Ueau Mond office, last Thursday evening,
between Alphonse Barrette and Alphonse
MOndOn, the former set 2038 ems, and the
latter 1914 ems in an hour. The measure
type and copy were similar to those used at
the match held throughout Canada and the
United States on the tenth of May last.
The best done then was by George Arens-
burg, of Philadelphia, who composed 1922
ems, receiving the championship prize from
the International Union. The two young
French Canadians above mentioned have
now surpassed him, and have proved their
this continent. About fifty persons were
present at the match referred to. The
proofs of the contestants were remarkably
clean.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16
THE NORTHERN DEMOCRACY.
A Virginia View of Their Hopeless Di-
vision-What is Thought of Tammany's
Fourth of July Meeting.

Fourth of July Meeting.
From the Petersburg (Virginia) Index.
At the Tammany celebration of the Fourth
more than one noteworthy feature appeared.
Governor Hoffman was not present, but a
letter was read, wherein he rather gave the
go-by to the new departure. A letter from
George b. Mcclellan heartily indOrsed ii;
and one from Montgomery Blair ignored
it, falling back on denunciations of the
''sordid moneyed class from whose infu-
ence in the administration flow, in his view,
our evils. Whatever this division portends
we do not know; what it does not portend
every man knOws-it promises no success.
The fact is, the Northern Democracy does
not know its own mind; it is in transi-
ton state; it is split into hundred
sections, each following a leader. Every
individual section, almost every man, has his
chosen man, the mass has not united on an
idea, We, of Virginia, care nothing for the
man, we are definitely resolved upon the
idea, and that is the difference between us.
Why! Because we have always sustained
our beliefs, we have been consistent and
fought to the bitter end ON principle,
when war was war. Accepting the fact of
peace, we accepted all the facts in its train,
among them the truth that the constitution
is no longer what it was, but still is the
law which, amendments and all, we must
and do submit to accept and fulfill.
new to us. We struck the first note of the
air to which the country begins to march
on. We keep in accord, one with another.
We know the tune.
This unity has enabled us to see clearly
what else must form subject of discussion,
and to perceive that in settling the one
question we have only taken preliminary
step. Does nothing more remain Enough
for the wisest of men and of parties; how
best to supplant Odious tariffs by just and
moderate impOsts; how to free the admins
tration of affairs of its manifold corrup--
tions; how to restrict the growing tendency
of centraliZatiOn how to bring back the
old and pure idea of constitutional limita-
tion and well ordered freedom; how to
cleanse the civil service and furnish it q
basis honorable to the country and useful
in it's service; how to meet the growing de-
mands of labor, and fairly to hold the bal
ance between the hand that wields the tool,
such are the mighty problems which we are
called upon to solve. Shall we who have
pOndered them be absent when the council
is held, and leave them to the men of the
North, whose chief or only care seems TO be
whether TO take for leader Mr.. A, or Mr.. B.,
or Mr. c..
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16
aelr Orleans 8epnhlifatl.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
A SUMNER sIEsTA.
BY NYRIAM EARL

My hammock strays with every breeze,
That stoops to kiss my brow;
The birds forget their melodies,
And in the overhanging trees
Rock dreamily on the bough.
The enervated pulses beat,
Slow, softly, scarce at all,
Aud idle hands slip dewn TO meet
The fetters silken, subtle sweet,
That mind and body thrall.
The busy world drifts far below,
Scared under MONDAY beams;
Near me the lulling waters tlow,
And whispering voices gently WOO
To the still land of dreams.
A presence wells the willing eyes,
know not what or why;
Beneath the shadowy palms that rise,
Just by the gates of paradise
Ny soul entranced doth lie.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16

The Bank of France has in its vaults FIVE
hundred and fifty millions of francs, and
the treasury balance is one hundred and
forty millions. This, after the loan, is not
indicative of despair on the part of France.
VIII France ever know her strength
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16

man as missionary to the FUis. 1t is
justly believed that he would prove more
than match for the wickedest set of teeth
in the islands
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16

In Montana the Republicans have re :
nominated Hon. james NJ. Cavanaugh for
delegate to Congress. The Democrats will
support E. Warren Toole, formerly of St.
Joseph, Missouri r -..t.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16

A bucolic Indiana wayfarer on Chicago
train, being anxious to see what he could
see, thrust his head out of the window and
into another train, and now shows signs of
premature baldaess,
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16

Concord, New Hampshire, has not had a
municipal celebration of the Fourth OF July
since 1926. 1t is quite time for the capital
of the Granite State to take a new depar-
ture.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16

A recent survey of town lines has shown
.hat a worthy man, who for twenty years,
mas held the Office of justice of the peace in
davenport, Delaware county, has all the
time been a citizen of Oneonta, Otsego
county, New York, and consequently never
eligible to the Office whose duties he has
been discharging in SO acceptable a manner.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16

Another installment of money is to be
paid on account of the nnratifed Samana
lease. This money has been borrowed of
private persons in New York city.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16

|
of the current fiscal year, as compared with
the corresponding periods of 1870. The
chief of the bureau furnishes the following
abstract:
Domestic exports Foreign
Month ended April 30:
Is1d. $50, ,6ss so5 s4soo2es5 s299s ss7
Ten months ended April 80:
l81O....... 6t 7l7,355 348, ,777,23 q. .e55 629s
| For the ten months ended April 80, 1871,
| the exports exceed the imports by Sl3,272
| l23, while for the corresponding period of
| 1870 the imports are in excess OF the ex-
! ports to the amount of S7,0S4, ,492.
The respective amounts of the total i'm
| ports and exports (specie value), consisting
| OF merchandise and of specie and bullion,
for the ten months April 80, 1871, were as
follows:
Domestic Foreign
Imports. exports. exports.
Merchandise SAL, 7,43O464 s359.2ss,245 sn,553,575
Hon........... l7,2s3,2l3 64,541,374 I2,57a,6o6
TEN MONTHS ENDED APRIL 80 1870
Domestic Foreign
Merchandise s1gSFs IS
Specie and bull
The comparative amounts of foreign COM
merce, carried in American and foreign
vessels, and other vehicles, respectively,
during the ten months ended April 80, 1871,
were as follows: r.
Domestic
Vessels. Imports. Mixed exports.
American .. sl26 I52,325 sI49.O33i43 1880 4a7
Foreign ..... 2s6 28l 1903 3lI, ,935s s;6 Il 20I al
Cars, etc. l224S549 4,225, ,733 l99liiS
TEN MONTHS ENDED APRIL so, 1870:
Domestic
Vessels. Imports Mixed 4nn+
american. sla,ls3,sza s,sssos,ii ,is7 sl24asu
FoIegn'''.'" Zo',94s'6" 265,S7l,l53 146O7Ol5
The value of foreign commodities remain
ing in warehouse April 81, 1871, was s55.-
sS4, ,4SS, against SIS, ,794, l02, April 80. 1870
The number and tonnage OF vessels en-
gagged in the foreign trade, which entered
into and cleared from the ports of the
United States during the twelve months
ended April 80, 1871, were as follows:
NJ Entered7 red -,-CleaTTed--
Foreign vessels 1887 5,s7a,sii 1874 5,Ss6'8as
TOtal.......... ao,O43 9,625,4l4 1855 e573,552-
TWELVE MONTHS ENDED APRIL 80, 1870:
%EnteTsd- No Toh.- ~VCleaEEed- "
Foreign vessels 1866 57s7,s55 1851 5sS7 57so7Ss
Total. ..2s ssl 9,l6s,l35 29.789 Q $3.50
This number contains statement of
great, value, showing the foreign countries
to which. the principal commodities, the
growth, produce and manufacture of the
United States were exported tby quantities
and valuesl during the calendar year ended
December 81, 1870 ...
The miscellaneous department maintains
Its usual interest. 1t contains the statistics
OF the trade of the German Zollverein for
loo9, exports from the Netherlands OF the
products of Java, etc.
New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-16

Statistics of Commerce and Navigation.
Monthly report of the Bureau of Statis-
ties, No. 10, now in press, gives the statistics
of our foreign trade for the first ten months.
of the current fiscal year, as compared with
the corresponding periods of 1870. The
chief of the bureau furnishes the following
abstract: