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RIVER AND STEANBOATe.


EVANSVILLE, Dec. 23-River Is feet inches
and rising 2 inches an hour. Weather cloudy
light rain. Departed: Sherlock, for New
Orleans. .a.- fer faa.
P1rTsBuRa, Dec. 23-River feet S inches
and falling. Weather clear and cool.
EVANSVILLE, Dec. 23.-Weather cloudy and
falling. River risen foot.
CAIRo, Dec. 23.-Arrived: Iron Mountain
from Pttsburg A. NJ, Fannie Tatum from
Cincinnati 9 A. NJ, Capitol City from Vicks-
burg 2 p. NJ, Future City from st. Louis 4
P. NJ, Mary Houston and w. j. Lewis from
New Orleans P. NJ, Fannie Lewis from
Vicksburg p. NJ. Departed: City of Quincy
for New Orleans A. NJ. Fannie Tatum for
New Orleans II, Capitol City for st. Louis 6
p. NJ, Mary Houston for St. Louis P. NJ,
Fannie Lewis for st. Louis p. NJ. River 7
feet inches and rising. Weather clear and
pleasant
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 23.-Rivef swelling slow
ly; 6 feet 8 inches in the canal Raining now.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 23.-Arrived: Kountz from
New Orleans, Julia from Vicksburg. Departed:
Anderson for New Orleans. River about sta
tionary, with channel cutting out and i'm
proving. Weather cloudy and mild.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 23.-River stationary. Clear
and pleasant weather. Arrived: Baum from
Cincinnati. Departed: Joe Kinney for Vicks-
burg. st. Genevieve for st. Louis,
VIcKsBURG, Dec. 23.-Passed up: Katie at
A. N. No boats down to-day. Weather
clear and cool. River fell inch.
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rROH THE BLACK HILLS.

OMAHA, Dec. 23.-Gen. Ord yesterday re.
ceived the following from Col bradley:
Yesterday an Indian came into the Spot
ted Tail Agency and reported that twelve days
before he met q party of twenty-one white
men, with six teams, on Elk Creek, at the
eastern foot of the Black Hills. They came
from Missouri and were going into the hills. =
The following is his reply:
Send q company of cavalry from Camp
Sheridan or Robinson. as you think best, to
overhaul the party in the Black Hills and to
expel it from the Indian territory under in
structions of September Sd, from headquar-
tiers military division. Furnish the command
with good supply of tents, stores and blank
cts for men and beasts. The command viii
start when the weather permits.
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FOREIGN NEWS.
LONDON.

LONDON, Dec. 23-The brig Zarvia, from
Wilmington. N. c., for Queenstown, has ar
rived at Falmouth. She suffered consider
able damage.
A collision between two railway trains took
place this morning at the town of Black
burne, Lancashire. Several persons were
killed and injured.
Another collision occurred this morning on
the railroad at Dudley, Worcestershire.
There was no loss of life by this accident, but
many persons were severely hurt.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-House. con-
siderable miscellaneous business had been
transacted, q motion was made to 60 to the
Speakers table in order to get at the Senate
Finance bill
The Democrats opposed the motion because
the Civil Rights bill might thereby get move
forward. filibustering movement was set
on foot to prevent such thing, but finally a
compromise was effected by which the Flnanc e
bill was made the special order Tor the 7th OF
January.
Messrs .Coburn, of Indiana; Albright, Of
Pennsylvania; Conner, Of Illinois; Buckner,
of Missouri; and Luttrell, of California, were
appointed the select committee on Alabama
affairs The first three are Republicans and
the other two Democrats. All the committees
for the South will leave Washington next Sat-
urday.
Senate Mr.. Carpenter was elected President
pro TEN.
Mr.. Morton submitted the following and
asked for its present consideration:
Resolved That the Senate recognizes the
validity of the credentials Of p. B. s. Pinch
back, as certified to by Gov. VIM. P. Kellogg
of Louisiana, under the seal Of said State, and
the Committee on Privileges and Elections
are instructed to examine and report if the
said P. B. s. Pinchback is entitled to be ad.
mitted on the primo facia case thus made, or
if such admission should be postponed until
investigation be made as to the charges OF
corruption in his election alleged against him.
Mr. thurman objected TO the present con-
sideration of the resolution and it went over.
M. Clayton submitted the following and
asked its present consideration:
Resolved, That the Secretary of War be re-
quested if not incompatible with the interest
Of the public service to lay before the Senate
the official reports and communications OF
Major Lewis Merrill, U. s. A., relating to GER
tain disorders in Louisiana, known as the
Coushatta trouble. .a a1&
Mr.. Bayard objected and it was laid over.
Mr. Merrimon, Of North Carolina, present
ed the resolution Of the North Carolina Legis-
lature in favor of an appropriation to enable
the New River Canal Company to connect the
inland water system Of North Carolina with
the Atlantic and Gulf States. Referred to the
Committee on Commerce.
Also, resolutions Of the Legislature OF thai
State in favor Of granting pensions to the sur
viving veterans of the Mexican wat. Re
ferred to the Committee on Pensions.
Mr.. II milton, Of Maryland, moved that
the resolution of the last session in regard to
the compensation Of +. W. Sykes, who con-
tested the seat Of Mr.. Spencer, of Alabama,
be recommitted to the Committee on Prlvl-
leges and Elections. Agreed to.
MIR. Norwood, Of Georgia, moved that ehe
vote by which the bill to establish Atlanta,
Ca, a port of delivery was indefinitely post
poned on Monday last, be reconsidered and
the bill be placed on the calendar. Agreed
to.
Senate adjourned to January 9Th.
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NEW YORY DOARD OF TRADE.

NEW YoRK, Dec. 23.-At the meeting Of
Board of Trade this afternoon the tariff COM
mittee on metal duties reported resolutions
declaring Congress should give the manufac-
turtrs in steel every possible facility; to avoid
any legislation which might tend to give for
eign competitors advantage over them; that
the total abolition Of duties upon steel would
enormously increase our exports and enable
therefore increase the domestic demand for
our products; it would enable US to build and
equip vesself cheaper, and solve the question
OF cheap transportation.
Resolutions were adopted. and committee
appointed to prepare an address Of welcome
King Kalakaua.
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A COMPARISON.
The Official PRONUNCIATION and That Made
by the Citizens Committee.

As matter of interest we herewith give
comparative statement of the members re-
turned to the House Of Representatives as
appear in the official PRONUNCIATION in the
RepuJlican of Wednesday morning, and the
returns promulgated by the subcommittee
acting in behalf Of the Conservative Demo.
cratic party. As far as the Returning Board
has promulgated, (this is exclusive Of: the
parishes composing the First and Second
Congressional Districts) our compilation is
found to agree, as will be seen, with one ex.
ception, and that is the case Of Carroll parish.
Appended is the statement:
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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-The Senate con-
frmed the nomination Of Joshua B. Hill, as
United States Marshal ior the Eastern Dis
trict of North Carolina.
The three Congressional investigating com
mittees, for Alabama, Louisiana and Missis-
sippi, will leave here Saturday, on their re.
spective official missions.
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BEECHER-THE STEAMER SOUTH CAROLYN

BEECHER-THE STEAMER SOUTH CAROLINA.
New York, Dec. 2--Henry Ward Beecher,
in an editorial in the Christian Union, declares
he will not compromise with his enemies and
will write and speak while health lasts. He
knows his own innocence, God knows it, and
as to mems knowledge, that shall be as God
pleases. 49,. .rs.l .3
ashore on the Jersey Coast. say she has sus-
tanned little injury, and buta small part Of the
cargo has been thrown overheard. ar
LATEB.-The South Carolina is making no
water. If the weather continues good, there
will be fair prospect of getting her off.
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SOUTHWEST Pass, Dec. %, P. M.-Ba-
rometor sc. 80. Wind north, light Weather
thick and rainy.
No arrivals or departures.
PAss-A-L'OurRE, Dec. %, P. M.-Wind
north, fresh. Weather rainy.
Arrived: American schooner Henry Wad-
dington, Selover master, eighteen days from
New York, with general cargo. to Geo. A.
Fosdick & Co. Sailed: Banks Milo and
Ocean. Outside awaiting orders: Ships Coro-
net and Tre1ton.
New York, Dec. 23.-Arrived: Achilles,
Champion, Leasing Arrived out: Vile de
Paris
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Mrs.
New Orleans,


Dear Madam-Your letter Of the 20th inst ia
received, inclosing notice Ut assignment Of policy
in this company on life OF 49,, No. 81, 928,
to you by the Louisiana Equitable Life Insurance
with return you the notice thereof, - the policy
terminated bv the death Of Mr.. -- in viola-
ton Of law, making the same void thereby, as by
the clause provided always" etc.
Rosrnr L. CASE, President.
have merely, Mr.. Editor, suppressed in
the second copy, names Of the lady interested
and her husband, who fell in the discharge
Of his duty as man and in defense Of his
rights rs a citizen, from n wound received
from Kellogg's hirelings on September 14th,
last, aud not as Robert L. Case, President,
puts it, Gin violation of law" My object in
this communication is to call the attention Of
interested parties, those who hold policies Of
lite insurance in Northern companies, or COM
panies located out OF this State, to the posi-
ito taken by the Security Life Insurance
Company Of New York (Which hns an agency
here believe), that they may inquire into
and know exactly the position in which their
companies may stand to them, in case they
should become the victims of hieh-handed
outrage on the part Of VIM. p. Kellogg's hire
ings, as did the gallant gentleman, whose
case is the subject OF this communication.
II these Northern companies are to dictate
to their policy holders submission to every
and any outrage upon their rights of person
or property, or both, it il we'll the policy
holders should know it. I csnnot believe
that any Southern company would take any
such position Us Mr.. Case has taken for the
Security Life OF New York. He would doubt
less assume that, if Kellogg were to order
midnight raid upon the house of an unfortu-
nate holder Of a policy in his company, by
squad of Metropolitan police. and in defend
ing his family from outrage, or his property
from spoliation, the said policy holder should
be killed by Metropolitan bullet, the policy
would be void. II that is their position, the
sooner our people have done with any COM
pany that hold to such ideas, the better for
them.
The Security Life Insurance Company will
be sued on the policy il question. They will
find out in the end who was in violation of
law. the man who was defending his rights
from aggression on the part of Kellogg's hire
lungs, or Kellogg and his usurping govern
ment who assailed wantonly the indeieasible
rights Of our citizens. But there will be long
delay, and judge our people who hold
policies of life insurance wish to have no
dealings with any companies who hold such
views as the Security Life Of New York;
therefore policy holders should have showing
up OF hands on the part Of the companies, in
which they are assured. 5.
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A BREAD AND BUTTER CHAMPION

The Republican comes forward as usual to
champion fraud. 1t is the self-appointed
champion of that selfconvicted fraud, J.
Madison Wells, the chairman Of the iniquitous
Returning Board, and makes an unusually
clumsy attempt to'explain away the force O.
the threat boldly made by Wells to membe,
OF the Democratic and Conservative Commit
tee, that he intended " to beat us.
What J. Madison Wells who it will be
borne in mind, is one of the judges under
the election law Of the election returns, did
say to Mr.. Cavanac, was this:
We see through your plans. We under.
stand why you are preparing these afidavits;
it is to lay them before the Congressional
Committee when it gets here; but, sir, 'ee IN
tssd to beat you"
OF this language, which is admitted to be
the language of Mr.. Wells, and which is SO
plain that a blind man can see through its
meaning, tine Republican says:
The meaning is very plain: We as sworn
Officers of the law are entrusted with the
business of making true returns OF the votes
cast in the recent election, and We intend to
doso in spite Of any trickery whatsoever by
WhOm8OoVe1
andeayors most disingenuously to pervert
these simple words into an admissi on the
mart of the CHAIRMAN Of the hoard that che
and his colleagues have colluded and con-
spired together to defraud the people Of Lou
isiAne OF what is theirs by every human
right" Could misrepresentation 60 further
than this? Could party malice by the incest
ingenuity more grossly distort language from
its true meaning?
All of which is bosh. Wells did not say
anything about having been entrusted with
the business Of making out trae returns, and
to count fairly in spite of trickery, etc. Wells
'.is not that sort Of a-man," He neither said
anything of that kind, nor was what he said
susceptible Of any such Interpretation. What
he said was eve intend to beat you, )" and he
msapt precisely what those words imply. His
every action, before and since the utterance
OF that threat, tend to give it emphasis, and
we assert here and now that just what he
said, that he will do-if he can.
Whether he can successfully carry out his
deliberately planned scheme of throwing out
. sufficient number of polls to virtually give
the Radicals the House and count in Dubu-
clet remains to be seen. The action yester-
day in throwing out the four Democratic
polls in Terrebonns, on the untenable ground
that the returns haze not como to them in the
regular manner, would seem to indicate that
Wells was in deadly earnest, and was not to
be dsterred from executing hi. threat by any
scruples Of conscience or ideas of Justice.
1t is very easy to see through the Republicans
motive in defending Wells and his miserable
coofreres. It is simply and purely case Of
bread and butter. No Radical House-no
bread and butter.
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BIG TH1Na.-The next grand prize of the
Louisiana State Lottery will be drawn on the
26th day Of December. $4,000 is the prize
to be obtained, and only 10000 numbers
making only two chances to one that you get
something. Look out for the big thing is
coming, and the public are invited to partici-
pate in the big drawing. .f+
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The Pittsburg puddlers, who have struck.
were paid Sc per ton. Five heats day was
the average, equal to one and one-eighth tons,
and yielding S. Is per day. Out Of this the
puddler paid 50 Is to helper, leaving bal
ance Of 81 so for himself At the proposed
rates, against which the men struck. he
would get - Is DAY, aud ms helper 81 is.
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DOMESTIC MARKETS.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23-Evening. Cotton
closed quiet; Middling Uplands .14I, Orleans
14s. Net receipts $685.; gross 1886. Sales
Futures closed firm. Sales $4,000, as fol-
lows: Low Middling for December 49,, Janu-
airy IA, February IA, March IA 1882, April
l5a. May 15i, June 16b, July 16s, August
Southern -four unchanged. Wheat opened
1c better, demand fair, closed quiet. Corn a
shade firmer, old heavy, about 1c lower. COT.
good jobbing demand. sugar quiet and IN
changed. Molasses quiet; New Orleans 63@
Is. kice quiet and unchanged. Tallow steady,
prime 81. Rosin steady, 50 1902 20 for
strained Turpentine steady, 81. Pork lower,
old mess $40 so. Beef quiet. Lard frmer,
prime steam Is 1916. Whisky unsettled,
closing dull, sellers at 81 O2}.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 23.-Cotton steady, de-
mand moderate Middling 49, Flour dull
and Unchanged. Wheat quiet and weak, red
81 O8@1 10. Corn-demand fair, 69@71.
Oats steady, 5S@62. Pork-demand light,
holders firm, regular S18 IS. Lard-steam
Is, kettle IA. Bulk meats-demand light,
holders firm, sales of short clear middles,
boxed, at >lOl. Bacon dull and nominal.
Whisky steady, demand moderate, 81.
81. LOUIS, Dec. 23.-Cotton steady, demand
moderate. Flour steady, good demand for
low and medium grades; superfine winter
81 1904 IS, extra winter 81 5Oe94 60, dou-
BILE extra winter 81 65@4 IS, treble 81 500
5 Wheat dull and dropping; No. q spring
Chicago 9O@9OR, No. 2 red winter 81 05k@
OF. Corn dull; new 67@s9t, No. mixed
II. Oats easier and irregular; No. 2 66y(O583.
Whisky steady, SO. Pork held firmly at
$40 25@l9 So Dry salt meats shoulders
6a@64, clear rib 5000, clear 5000. Ba-
con-only small order trade; green hams TO-
Lard nominal, Is. 1855 = 81
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 23.-Cotton dull; Mid
ding 13tc. Flour and wheat quiet and I'M
changed Corn dull; white 20, mixed 81. Oats
dull; mixed 60, white IS. Pork quiet, $50.
Bacon; shoulders 81, clear rib u, clear none
here. Sugar-cured hams 14A. Bulk meats;
shoulders 81. clear rib 81, clear 1O1. Lard,
14a@154. Whisky 81.
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-Flour dull and un-
changed; Wheat steady, demand moderate;
No. spring Chicago 924, No. 2 80. Corn
demand fair, market firm; old No. 2 mixed
799. Oats quiet and weak; No. 2 53s@533
Pork closed weak. Lard-demand fair at
lower rates, 13c. Bulk meats steady, demand
moderate and unchanged. Whisky steady,
demand moderate. 97c -4s
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MOBILE, Dec. 23.-A fatal duel was fought
to-day near the State line of Alabama and
Mississippi, between A. II. Tardy and B. D.
Lay Of Mobile. Tardy was killed at the first
fire. Both the principals were insurance
lnen. Particulars are unknown.
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TEE STEAMER JAPAN.

New YORK, Dec. 23.-The following dis
patch was received to-day by the Directors OF
the Pacific Mail Company, in relation to the
loss of their steamer Japan. tajs
HOMO KoNG, Dec. 22.-Chief cook Cussock
Of the Japan, was drowned; missing, Engi-
neer Bennett and Quartermasters Hutton and
Harris. ayH
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ARREST OF FREIGHT CAR ROBBERS.

MEMPHIS, Dec. 23.-LAst week VIM. Kings
bury. Jordan Ivey, Van Hailed, Henry
Wood, Carey Young and Vincent Patti, all
colored. were arrested at West Point, Miss,
for systematic robbery of freight cans on the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad. All them are
prominent colored men, Patti being county
Treasurer, and Ivey an alderman. They
have been operating for long time and it i
supposed their robberies amount to many
thousand d0ilarA
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A CONTRAST.
Editor Of the Bullet

Editor Of the Bulletin:
The following cut from one of our daily
journals:
"OFFICx LOUISIANA EQUITABLE LIFEl
INSURANCE COMPANY,
New Orleans. Lee. 8, 1874.
[E1 tract from minutes OF board meeting.l
Kesolred. unanimously, That policies written
by this company on persons who lost their lives
IN consequence Of the events Of the 14th Sep
tember, 1874, be paid.
"Wn.LIAM HENDERSON, Secretary"
The following is a copy Of letter have
in my hand.
SECURITY LIFE INSURANCE Co. OF N. VI
New York, Oct. 70, 1874.
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Senate adjourned to January 9Th.
The New United States District Judge for
Alabama. ,-

Judge Parsons, the newly appointed United
States District Judge for Alabama, in place Of
the notorious Busted, does not give much
satisfaction to the Democrats of that State.
The Mobile Register gives sketch of his
political career, from which we gather few
facts. Judge Parsons was secessionist be-
fore the war during the war he aided the
Confederacy by his resolutions in the Ala
bama Assembly, indorsing and eulogizine
President Davis, and unfolding his hands in
these dark hours which preceded the down
fall of the CoufedeFacy.
Alter the war he was appointed by Presi-
dent johnson Provisional Governor of the
State, and made himself ridiculous by order
ing every citizen, before he could receive q
pardon, to swear that he had never hunted
Union citizens with dogs. The Oldest, the
best, the most gentle Of the people Of Ala
bama, were required by this order of Parsons
to swear they had never committed brutal
offence against the rights of humanity.
At the Democratic nomination of Horatio
Seymour in 1868, Mr.. Parsons was chairman
of the Democratic delegation from Alabama.
He was an enthusiastic advocate Of the pro
position of the Blair letter, that the Recon
struction acts were unconstitutional, null and
void. He took the stump in Alabama against
the Reconstruction acts, and said that he
would die before he would become Repub-
lican. When Mr.. Seymour was beaten he
wheeled over to the Radicals, but openly re-
pudiated and defed the Enforcement acts,
and the Civil Rights bill as passed by the
Senate. Indeed, he repudiated every prin-
ciple Of the Republican party. Gen Morgan
exhibited him everywhere as man who pre-
tended to be member Of the Republican
party, because he believed that party would
remain in power, but who repudiated every
doctrine and principle the party advocated
Such being the political record Of Parsons
it is not strange that his appointment to the
District Judgeship has caused much surprise
among our Alabama neighbors. To the ques-
ton: "Why should he have been chosen ;"
the Register says:
The only answer is : That he has been for
several years the deputy of Landaulet Will
liams, who rules over the Department Of JUS
tice and recommends the men who are to be
district and circuit judges of the United
States. Mr. Parsons was the selected agent
who prosecuted and prosecuted our people at
Patona q few years ago. From that day to
this he has been the employed attorney of
the Department of Justice to annoy and har-
rass the people of our State. He was recon-
mended for District Judge not for his legal
ability, which is limited, nor for his political
influence, which is nothing, but simply be
cause he is the agent Of Attorney General
Williams.
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*Kepublicans.
LARGE FIRE.

CLEVELAND, Dec. g. A fire at Clinton,
Stark county, last night, destroyed eight or
ten buildings, including Doctor Chamber
Inns block and drug store, . hotel and two
dry-goods stores.
A steamer was sent from Canal Fulton in
tine to prevent the fire from crossing the
street. Loss estimated ct eighteen to twenty
thousand dollars; insurance unknown.
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Skeptical persons didn't make much head
way in the cary days Of New England. mo
one not church member could hold Office, or
~ even cvrpoIsi IN the amy"
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A beautiful line Of children's hats and tur-
bans, new styles just arrived at II. b Stevens
& Co., 1876 Canal street.
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THE STATE LEGISLATURE.

The following is complete and alphabet
sentatives, elected by the people on the I'd Of
November last, and who will assemble in this
city on Monday, the 4th Of January 1875:
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MARINE NEWS.


Steamship City eff San Antonio Pennington, for New
York Rareshide Cameron
Shin Kentuckian, Dunbar, for liverpool
q .r- Ocean, Zerega eco
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Scotch plaid kilt suits for children just re-
ceived at H. B. Stevens & Co., No. 1876 Canal
street, fsst'