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New-York tribune., 1872-09-12

Extra mails for Europe tomorrow, per steamer FrSia'
will close at 1880 p m, at the Merchants Exchange
Nos. 80 and 80 Pine-st
The new French loan to-day in London was quoted at
a premium of 81 per cent.
Currency in considerable quantities yet going west
ward, though it has yet exercised no perceptloe
effect upon the money marker, far as call loans arc
concerned the demand from the brokers being met at
10 per cent, being the leading quotation 2rokers
and operators are however eyncing no little concern
at the smaness of the gold and legal tender averages
of the banks as aording opportunity for that dis
play OF "lock up" tactics oftentimes pursued Dy
INSCRIPTIONS spectators to assist In their operations
To what extent The accession OF foreign capital Will
mitigate this direfu influence is yet to be seen Mer-
camille paper passes slowly.
The offerings bonds to the Treasury for tic Sinking
Fund purchase amounted to s. $4,000 at 1os TO 1i237,
Of which the required million was taken at llLos to
III Il The details are as under
New-York tribune., 1872-09-12

Foreign Exchange did not hold the improved tone Cf
last night the standard drawers to-day again reduchg
their rate Of co days bills oneeghth per cent 10 'ho
basis of tho following quotations, sight being un-
pha
New-York tribune., 1872-09-12
THE MONEY MARKET.

SALES AT TIE STOCK ExcHAEGE-FIRsT CALL,
t0t O'CLOCK A. VI.
S4bg Of o lnEslf b0lIs 80.
81 LOO o. $50 Con I6T.ll 1850 3. $40 Goa 1865 lZi
New-York tribune., 1872-09-12
City bank shares steady, with sales as follows
Fourth National at Ill Bank Of Commerce, 1ls4 aud

There was light business in railroad bonds, prices
showing few changes Sales Of Central Pachcs were re-
ported at 9l Union Pacific Frts at 81 Land Grants at
-a5 a,,d rncones at 70 The following were the bids:
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

The Bee has leader brimful of advice
to the Democratic party, and of hostility
to Governor Warmoth. Indeed it has been
the chief business of the Bee of late to
give advice and abuse opposition politi-
clans. We confess little surprise at it,
too, for the reason that this journal has
not always been fortunate in giving its
unsolicited and questionable admonitions.
If our recollection serves us right, its
friends had the unspeakable modification
OF reading some years since, on the eight
zenith Of May, 1862, we believe, Units col
umns, a retraction Of some advice it had
previously volunteered to these same friends
itisnow counseling SO earnestly. This adj
vice, in the issue alluded to, the Bee char
acterized as wicked and scandalous, and
besought its friends to pay no attention to
it.
Now, what reason have we to believe it
will be any more consistent in this june
ture than it was then? At all events. we
contend that the instance Of ''ground and
lofty tumbling" alluded to makes the Bee.
an acrobat so expert in surprising and as
tOnishing ,featS, that its friends may well
come to regard it like the thimble-rigger's
little joke" now you see it, and now
you don't see it.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

pear very admirable showing. and a
cause of eongratulation to the country.
But the Guard fails to state that this re-
ductlon has been procured through the
channels provided under the laws of Con
gress previous to the election of the present
executive. Personally, neither he or his
financial minister contributed anything to
the result Notwithstanding the people had
a right to expect much from both. But
for the extravaganza of President Grants
administration much more than this would
have been done.
By the process Of extinction provided
for the national debt, and which was in
operation long before General Grant was
thought of for the Presidency, it was esti-
mated that at the end of the first decade
the reduction would exceed $500, 00O, O00
This includes not only the non-interest-
bearing bonds, but those the interest upon
which are paid for in coin and currency.
But by the system of fnanciering adopted
by the present administration, the gold
bearing bonds, which are much the
largest part Of the public debt are still
outstanding and untouched, while the
main exertions of the administration have
been directed to the partial extinguish-
ment of the Indebtedness, the interest of
which is paid in currency.
This No 5Ou1A = $500. z
dent Grants great popularity with Euro
pean bond-holders. It can even offset the
discoura cement felt in the near approach
Of foreign war To them the bur
dens Of American taxation are Indifferent
They experience none Of its disadvantages,
while reaping the full measure of its bene-
fits. 1t is seldom, in the history of ma
tons, that all the energies of a great gov
eminent are devoted to the exclusive
interest of its foreign creditors; and when
such is the case, it is not surprising that
foreign influence will be exerted to per-
petuate the power found in such singular
accord with its wishes.
The aggregate Of our national debt is |
now estimated to be 1928, $50, 900. Of
this 81, 800, 10000, ornearly thr6e-fourths
Of the bonds, bear interest in gold, and |
are held almost exclusively by European
capitalists. These facts, therefore, which
are undeniable, establish the conclusion
that, under President Grants administra-
ton, the wealth and industry Of the coun-
try are taxed to an almost unlimited ex-
tent for the exclusive use and benefit of
foreigners. And what is still more sin
gular, the administration organs have the
to claim that system so hu-
and injurious to our national
credit is claim upon our gratitude.
If this condition of things increases re-
pect for the policy and administrative
.bility OF. our present rulers, we fail to
perceive by what method ofreasoning it is
lone. 1t should rather cause every patr1-
tic citizen to blush with shame, and in
ensify the eagerness of the country to
purer and wiser statesman
hip in the administration of our national
fairs.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12
BALL COMMITTEE.
no THE PUBLIC.

MI J. B. Cotton having, in a speech delivered at
Odd Fellows Hall, May 9, 1872, said as follows
viz:
Judge }. B. Cotton addressed himself at frat -
the question as to how taxation was to be resistad
When cOnspiratOTs in the State and CITY 0over1
ments were plotting treason against the pe9nIe If
was time that the people combined against Them
Let the eonspirators sue the people as thew threat
ened-as Sheridan and GerOdas, the pinDs safe
llUes ana plunderers set upon the community nv
Governor Warmoth have threatened
Mr.. J. P. MOntamat and E. c. Fortier called unon
Mrs B. Cotton, and in reply he wrote the follow.
ing explanation
NEW ORLEANS May II. 1872
J. P. MOntamat and E. C. Fortier:
GEETLEMEN--In reply to your request. as tfa ra,-
resentatves OF MI Ger0dias, for an explanation af
certain remarks in my address before the public
meeting held at Odd Fellows Hall on Monday Iast
would inform You that I intended to reflect ~
cIuslvely upon public officials as such; that in a
doing exercised right belonging to every citizen
their public servants; that / intended in No man
ner TO reflect upon your principal in his private ca
pacty as an individual and if any expression 1sed
Dy me on that occasion can be so construed the
same must be attributed to the heat Of a DRbiic
discussion; and take occasion to diselam any in
tenton to impeach the conduct and relation Of Mr.
GerOdias in private life as an individual and dasra
that no such construction should be placed nno1
what IN en- said. Independent of which wouId
INFORM you that the name of Mr. GerOdias and in
ms 0Helal capacity, was unintentiOnallv used in
the neat OF discussion Respectfully
myl2 2p j. B. COTTON.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

The Times says that Governor Warmoth
must meet the charge which Mr.. Fellows
made against him of having taken bride
for signing the levee bill. No such thing.
Mr.. Fellows assertion does not amount to
a row of pins for the very plain reason
that if he knows it to be true, he must
have the proof and if he has the proof
he must know how to produce it. On the
contrary, our charges against Mr.. Fellows
stand upon an entirely different footing.
The public records, which everybody can
examine to satisfy themselves, prove that
Mr.. Fellows held the Office of alderman in
the City of Jefferson, and commissioner of
the second drainage district, at one and
the same time, which was contrary to law;
the same record shows that he paid his
own law firm out of the city treasury for
defending his right to continue in the Of
fee of alderman, which was an expense
that he should have paid out of his own
pocket; and the same record proves that
ne paid his own law firm for defending his
right to hold the Office of drainage COM
missioner after the Office had been abol-
ished. If there is any record anywhere
that proves anything of this sort against
Governor Warmoth, if the Times will re-
fer to it, we shall then call on Governor
Warmoth for proof in contradiction of the
same. But that he must meet the unsup-
ported and improbable ISLANDERS of Mr..
Fellows, is to demand of him to prove
a negative. Either Mr.. Fellows made a
charge which he can not support, or he is
derehct in his duty to the public in not |
proving it, The man who conceals such |
evidence is as bad as the offender.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12
THE RED RIVER MAIL SERVICE.


For some inexplicable reason a commu-
nication has been addressed to the Post
master General by certain members of
Congress, asking for the discontinuance
OF the Red river mail service between New
Orleans and Shreveport. They allege that
the route is impracticable as a reliable
means Of communication, inasmuch as the
boats in Red river are run at a vast ex-
pense, and that their schedule of arrivals
and departures are regulated by the
amount Of business done; that these boats
are few in number on account of the les
sened business, and the Inauguration Of
an active trade between st. Louis and the
Red river country; and further, that
land route would be found far more ad-
vantageous.
In the first place, land route between
New Orleans and Shreveport is impracti-
cable. The business population of Lou
isiana are concentrated on the rivers and
navigable bayous, and in the absence of
railroads water communication has been
found by experience the only possible
way through the greater part of the year.
All the great staples Of the State reach.
New Orleans by water. It is the only
thorougfare Of travel, and the business
community regard it as the only one
which can be rendered reliable. WHY
then should all these interests be affected
to crafty the whims or speculations Of
private person, or a combination Of indi-
viduals?
The proposition to carry the mail by
land is an absurdity, for the reason .ttat
three-fourths of the inhabited points on
Red river can not be reached bv land
There is no railroad running along the
banks Of the Red river, and many years
will intervene before one could be built.
The necessity for reliable mail commgni-
cation through that section of country is |
increasing every day; the interests of trade |
are augmenting, and the country itself de- /
veloping in agricultural resources and
business interests. The intimate CONNER
,ial relations between New Orleans and
Shreveport, and which are measurably de-
on the river towns, renders COM
nunication by water indispensable.
ANY difficulties in river communication T.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

The Citizens Guard insists on indorsing
Mr.. Fellows assertion that the levee bill
was passed by bribery, and yet it berates
Mr.. Greeley because he will not consent to
favor the grant of large subsidy out of
the national treasury to this company,
which only obtained an existence by cor
rupting both the legislative and executive
departments of the government of Lou
isiana, according to an-assertaion which it
indorses. This kind of argument will
hardly set Mr.. Greeley back in the estima-
ton of honest men.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

If the poor tax resisters, who are being
''roped in" and deluded by fee-hungry
lawyers, would look over the list of non
resisters, it,might cure them of their in
fatuation and save them much annoyance
and eventual loss. When such men as
Messrs. S. B. Buckn6r and P. Irwin cheer
fully pay their seven thousand dollars
apiece, and John Henderson, ST., his four
thousand, is it not time for the small fry
to stop and consider? These gentlemen
have no political fish to fry, but they have
the largest interest in preserving the credit
of the city, which they know such schemes
as the tax resisters' are calculated to de-
stroy.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12
IN NIENIORIAM.

Special attention is called to an advertisement
in another column of an entertainment to be given
on the evening of May IA, 1872 at the Varieties
Theatre, for the purpose of completing the Con
federate tomb in Greenwood Cemetery.
The Ladies' Benevolent Association of Louisiana
having, in great measure, fulfilled the obligations
required by articles first and third of their charter
granted in May, 1866, are endeavOring to carry
out the second and last obligation imposed upon it.
rate dead"
Through the generosity of the noble Firemen,s
Association of this city, they have a place in their
cemetery, upon which the Ladit $ Benevolent Asso
citation of Louisiana have already erected a mauso
leum in which are contained the sacred remains of
nearly 500 Confederate soldiers, taken from the
cemeteries in New Orleans and Chalmette
simple but elegant monument is contracted
Ior' upon most liberal terms, with the architect,
Mr.. Morgan Harrod, design of which can be seen
in the window of Mr.. E. A. Tyler
The figure surmOunting the pedestal is memo.
rial of the soldier The busts represent Generals
Lee, Polk, Stonewan Jackson aud Albert SYDNEY
johnston and are guaranteed to be correct like.
nesses.
Three times has the association come before the
people since its organization in May 1866 and al.
ways have the public responded most generouslv
sand dollars received through subscriptions. dona
lions and entertainments, it has spent much in
relieving the disabled soldier the helpless widow
and orphan, and has sent many to their homes.
The Directors of the association have beep and
are doing their work of charity and love. and
scarcely week passes without demand nno,,
the treasury; but silentlyis the good deed dome
that many, even of the former subscribers. have
thought the association dissolved and its work at
an end.
The contract recently entered into with Mr..
Morgan Harrod will complete the tomb, at cost of
$500 by the sixth of April 1873.
The funds in bank to the credit of the Associa. |
ton, together with interest due January l, 1873,
VIII amount to somewhat over $4,000 the balance, |
$2OOO they appeal to the public to assist them in
raising.
The entertainment to be given on the fourteenth
OF May viii consist of a theatrical performance,
ball and supper and they can not close this article
without expressing their cordial thanks to Mr.
Lawrence Barrett and Mr. Lorraine Rogers for the
use OF the theatre at low figure and for their pr
vate contributions. Also, to Miss Charlotte Thomp-
SON. lor her gratuitOus services for the evening.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

Arnold Martin, who recently died near
San Diego, California, though only fitty-two
at the time of his decease, is said to have
started, since his twentieth year, not less
than eighteen different newspapers in New
England, the South and the Northwest. He
was never successful in a single enterprise;
but those to whom he sold out often made
money. By an extraordinary degree of
rowing energy he managed to keep very
poor all his life.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

Such Of our readers as would like to get
out Of the city to-day, and go upon a short
but really pleasant as well as cheap jaunt,
should take the 7:30 train on the Pontchar-
train railroad and go over to Vaudeville,
jacksonville or Covington, on that nice
little steamer, the Camelia. This is trip
which can be made during the day at the
very small expense OF one dollar. One
breath Of the pure, sweet air of the piney
woods is worth ten times the sum. Who
VIII try it,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12
THE PUBLIC DFRT

A paragraph in the Citizens Guard
claims that the three years of President
Grants administration has reduced the
pubic debt over three hundred millions
of dollars, and lessened the annual inter
est in the same period twenty-one millions
of dollars. This at first blush would ap-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12
COTTON nOpTToNs. >

And now comes into court Counselor
Cotton, and rises to explain that if he said
what he said he did not mean what he said;
and what he said, if he said it, was in a
purely Pickwickian sense. For further
particulars see the card to the public,
which contains Mr.. Cotton's letter of ex-
PLANTATION to hIr Victor Gerodias.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

winch may be encountered by reason Of a
low stage Of water occasionally, are more
than eounterbaIanced by the impossibility
of reaching the river by land at certain
other seasons Of the year
The discontinuanee, therefore, of the
mail service by river would be an injury
commercially and socially which could not
be atoned by any possible expedient,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12
Al CARD.
NEW oaLRAvs, May II, 1871.

m MY II WI
Professor A. b. Chase:
DEAR SFR--The magnificent Chickezing Pam
which was drawn by myself number Of ticket 1881
on the evening'Of the eighth instant, at your last
parlor concert, has been received at my residence
No. 2s2 Josephine street
1t is certainly all you represent it to be-being Of
superb tone and finish. can not refrain from
expressing the delight my family feel upon the
reception Of this unlocked for prize.
Wishing you the utmost success hereafter. fnan.
cially and otherwise, should you revive these pop
ular entertainments, remain very truly yours
myl2 1t 2p J. III. III. TAYLOR.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana, whose
home IS in Indiana, or somewhere else
out West, is so very much afraid we can
not have a peaeeable election in Louisiana
that he has secured the passage of law
to put our ballot boxes under the charge
of United States soldiers next November.
We can stand them if he can; but it is
poor compliment to the people of Louisi-
ana that their own Senator pays when he
says that nothing but bullets can keep
them from cheating in their ballots. And
yet the Bee indorses the libel.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

The teachers and pupils Of the Webster
School invite representative of the REPUB-
LIcAN to be present at their annual picnic,
to be given at the Oakland Course next
Tuesday. The committee consists of Mary
Bleakley, Mary Crawford, Alice Henning,
Emily Dryer Amanda Benjamin and Mary
RoswOrth.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

The Customhouse organ is agitated be-
cause the Germans do not take to Greeley
as it was said they would, all in flock.
The Guard can sleep quietly on this sub
ject as the Germans are doing. They
know where they are, and that is more
than the Customhouse faction knows about
itself
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

General f. j. Heron, Secretary of State,
who was one of the delegates to the Gin
cinnati convention, Eeturned yesterday to
his duties at the State House. He was
warmly welcomed by his many friends, and
seems kto have been physically benefited
by hiss trip
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12
TIE FIRST GIN

An official communication was yesterday
received from Hon. John H. Goodall, Sec
rotary of State of New Hampshire, who is,
evidently, a Reformer of the thoroughbred
stamp. In postscript to his letter his
enthusiasm and earnestness in the good
cause burst out as follows:
N. B.-Eew Hampshire will cast her
Presidential vote for Horace Greeley as sure
as November comes. The wOrkingmen are
for him.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

earned fortune, and now suit is entered for
thirty-five thousand more. With strong
desire that impartial justice should be
dealt to all concerned, we can not help ex-
pressing the hope that Mr.. Watson may in
some way escape this new tribulaion.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

The great wheel of events continues to
roll over and suppress the issues Of the
present, as it suppressed the issues of the
past notwithstanding that the Bee buzzes
around on its spokes, and exerts a pigmy
strength to arrest its career.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

Mr.. l. E. Lemairie, State tax collector
. of the Second District, notifies all parties
interested that the law governing the col
lection Of taxes will be ngidly enforced
after the twentieth instant, and unpaid
bills will be put into the hands of the Attor-
ney General for collection
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

The usual monthly story is out about
General Grants having paid SO many mil
lions Of the public debt. It is singular
why the people are taxed if the President.
is paying the debt by himself. Amt it?
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

On Tuesday evening an entertainment
will be given at the Varieties Theatre by
The ladies of the Benevolent Association Of
Louisiana, to raise funds to complete the
confederate tomb in Greenwood cemetery.
The Varieties company, assisted by Miss
Charlotte Thompson, viii appear in "Vic-
torine. or I'll Sleep On It.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

Complimentary tickets have been received
to the grand dress and mask ball Of the
French Benevolent and Mutual Aid Associ-
alton Of New Orleans at the Opera House
next Saturday evening, for the benefit of
the French subscription.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

The corner stone of St. Jehn's Episcopal
Church, at the corner of Third and Annun-
citation streets, will be laid on Wednesday
evening next, at six o'clock. The ceremo-
mics will be performed by the Right Rev.
Bishop Wilmer, of this diocese.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

1t seems that the Senate of the United
States, or that portion of it which repre-
sents the President, has determined to
give the federal authorities control of our
State elections. We have nothing in par
ticular, just now, to urge against this en-
croachment upon the rights of the States,
but We do feel somewhat anxious to see
what the Democrats will say about it.
The design Of the law is to insure the cleo
ton of men who will not refuse the per-
suasive arguments that Mr.. Casey keeps in
his safe.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12
PELLOWs BROUGHT no BAR.

On our first page will be found highly
interesting correspondence between Gov
ernor Warmoth and Mr.. j. @. A. Fellows,
relative to the charges of corruption
brought by the latter. Sackcloth and
ashes is our prescription for Mr.. Fellows.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

The Citizens Guard Indignantly denies
that it is Brother-in-law Casey's organ.
How long could it remain in existence but
for the forced contributions of Casey's
subordinates?
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-12

Colonel George, of the Second Minnesota
regiment, now resides at Rochester, Min
nesOta. He it was who, at Chicamauga.
when General Thomas asked him, Glow
long can you hold out ~ answered, It'll
the regiment is mustered ont of serrine