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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-08-29
1880 REV ARD:


$500 by the Governor and $1,000 by
Widow Barland, for information that
will lead to the arrest aud conviction
of the murderer or murderers of
DAVID BARLAND.
PK1eCLANzATHO
Five Hundred Dollars Reward.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
Executive Department,
New Orleans, May IS, 1874.
Whereas information has reached me that
on the night ofSaturday, thesecond of May,
1874, DAVID BARLAND, q merchant of
Ascension parish, was assassnated in the
store of MIR. John Burnside, in that parish,
and whereas, all efforts to discover and ar
rest his murderer or murderers have failed
Now, therefore, l, William Pitt Kellogg,
Governor of the State of Louisiana, do issue
this my proclamation offering FIVE HUN
DRIED DOLLARS for such information as
shall lead to the arrest and conviction of
the murderer or murders of the said David
Barland as aforesaid.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the
State hereunto attached, this nineteenth day
of May, IN the year of our Lord, eighteen
hundred and seventy-four, and of the indie
pendence of the United States the ninety
eighth.
WILLIAM P. KELLOGG.
BY the Governor:
p. g. DEsLoNDE,
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19
HOME LABOR.

The stagnation in many of the trades has
been the means of bringing out new ideas
am ong the workmen of this city relative to
cooperation and unions. That well known
shoemaker, Mr.. Muller, who has devoted
considerable time to the study of political
economy. is about calling meeting of the
workingmen Of the city for the purpose OF
centralizing and organizing an association
fer the home production of articles of prime
necessity, and by this means keep in our
community much Of the money which is now
sent abroad for commodities. There can be
no doubt but what such movement would
be extremely beneficial in its effects, and
tend to increase our manufactures. The
meeting will be held at tie City Hall, on
Monday evening, at 7:3O o'clock.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19
US. DISTRICT ATTORNEY BECKwITH

This official has recently gained for him
self anything but desirable reputation.
His bitter persecution Of the Grant parish
prisoners, and intensely partisan conduct in
this whole affair, has rendered himself SO
odious and SO contemplate in the eyes OF
honest and decent people as to make the
name of Beckwith synonymous with all that
is venal and vindictive.
His persecution of those white men from
Grant parish was characterized by zeal
earnestness and industry. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that this same spirit has not been
exhibited in other cases which call for the
attention and professional services Of this
Government official.
1t will be remembered that number OF
negroes were arrested in the parish OF
Terrebonne, under the Ku-Klux law,
and brought to his city, charged with riot,
murder, etc. Being negroes, and entitled
to superior privileges over white men, they
were released on bail. This was months
ago, and we have heard of no movement
being made to bring these offenders to trial.
What is Beckwith doing9 Are negroes ex-
empt from his wrath and vengeance! Is he
in love with that class Of people who con-
troll the party of which the District Attor-
ney is shining light?
Again, why is Beckwth SO mum and tardy
upon the prosecution of the defaulting Post
master Lowell, who nearly a year ago, was
indicted for robbing the U. S. Govern
ment of $4,000? Is he interested or COM
pounding with Lowell in his felonye Why
this delay, then, in bringing CHS ex-official
of the Government and these negro rioters
to trial? Is Mr.. Beckwith paid to prose-
cute only white Southern men, and to wink
at the crimes and offenses of negroes, car
pet baggers and Government officials
His conduct is reprehensible in the ex-
treme, and is SO glaringly outrageous as to
call forth the execration of every respecta
BILE man in the community.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

The Attorney General of the United States
must be q very unhappy man if he hates
everybody as much as he seems to hate
Southern people. In his late commanica-
ton to the United States Marshal at Peters
burg he says: You are instructed to take
the necessary steps to protect the property
of the United States from injury" What
he means by such language as that, unless
he is trying to frighten the newly arrived
Englishmen in Virginia into the belief that
the city of Petersburg is about to paunce
upon the United States Government and
make bloody war is not altogether clear.
The property and officers of the United
States are entirely safe in Petersburg. Mr..
Williams himself might ride through the
town for . week in his landaulet and he
wouldn't be molested once.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

REMARKABLE JUDICIAL RULING. = On
Thursday of last week the trial of Albert
Powers and Joseph Cox for murder was
called at Nashville, before Judge Frazer,
when he issued an order forbidding the local
press to publish the evidence lest the wit
nesses in custody of the court officers should
read it. This arbitrary action has excited
the journals, which handle the court rather
rods hly, and very properly point to the fact
that in New York and all the leading cities
no judge dare hinder such publication. If
the object is to keep the testimony from
witnesses held in custody of the Sheriff, it
could be easily accomplished by ordering
the Sherih@ to exclude the papers from the
witnesses room and there can be no excuse
for such judicial ruling.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19
Editor New Orleans Bulletin:

Editor New Orleans Bulletin:
l notice in the financial column of the
/ Times, some days ago, an article in reference
to COMPRISING cotton for shipment at
Charleston, in which comparison is made
between the cargo of the steamship Penedu
from that port, compressed by the Taylor
Hydraulic Press, and a cargo taken by the
said steamer from here in January last,
showing difference in favor of Charleston
COMPRISING over that of New Orleans of
436 bales or 2O5, 156 lbs, making difference
against New Orleans in the ships freight of
ETH per cent on the cotton and EAT per
cent on 80 tons phosphate, in all E775 per
cent sterling. This looks very badly for our
New Orleans presses and stevedores.
l am fully satisfied that our presses could
do as good work as those of Charleston if
they would. The difference arises from the
fact that in Charleston the master of the
ship has the right to designate at what
press the cargo shall be compressed; here
neither the master of the ship, the agent
nor the shipper have any control, conse-
quently the presses do as they please and
the master is powerless to help himself
Had the master power to say at what press
his cargo should be compressed ships load
ing at this port would carry as much cargo
as from Charleston or elsewhere and they
would be treated more fairly in the matter
of delivering cotton. We should bear no
more of those enormous charges so often
occurring for double or extra drayages.
We hope our cotton dealers and others in
terested, may be induced to take this mat
ter in hand and place our port in its proper
position IN this respect. As it Is, nearly the
whole burden of handling the crop falls on
the ship in the heavy COMPRISING charges.
GRAvIER STREET.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19
WHITE OFFICIALS AND NEGRO MAS.
TIERS.
THE DARKEY's LIBERALITY.

To tire Editors of the New Orleans Bulletin:
The Republican gives us a full report of
the speech made by the negro Theophik, at
meeting of the black mans party in Baton
Rouge. TheophilO is a representative in
the Billy-goat Legislature, which holds its
OdOriferOus sessions in Mechanics Hall.
After giving an account of his arduous
legislative labors, he tries to show that the
negroes have dealt with equitable forbear-
ance towards tier white interiors. If any
one wants to read the text without gloss or
Interpolation, he can see it in the Republican,
but we take the liberty of amending it &C
cording to the facts. The parts between
brackets are ours, the rest is Theophile
Adams.
Why, Mr.. President, in our own parish of
West Baton Rouge, me, the buck-niggers,
have vote of 1850, majority of at least
$50: and how do we stand about the organi-
cation of q black mans partys"
Here is the list: We have fifteen parish
officers, and of these eleven are white and
four are colored: Parish judge, white we
couldn't help that, not one Of us knew the
difference between Blackstone and black
boots, or between.a spelling book and a law
book so we had to let that go.] Clerk of
court, cOlOred; deputy clerk, white; (now,
don't you blame the black clerk for getting
a mean white man to be his deputy; for you
see our black clerk don't know how to write
or how to draw the writs, and was obliged to
hunt up somebody that did, but could not
find single niger that knew how to do
that kind of work. Sheriff, colored, deputy
sheriff, white. There it is again, our
good sheriff, though he is good
Republican, can't read SO he had to get
somebody that could spell out the orders OF
court he had to execute Tax collector
colored, deputy tax collector white. This
was very natural. for our dusky tax collector
is poor hand at figures, cannot cypher, but
he has fonnd a white servant who knows
"'Rithetic," and is teaching his master the
rule of addition, division and silence. The
recorder, president and members of the po-
lice jury, parish attorney and justices OF
the peace, all white. We'll, that don't
amount to much, and we chucked these
t1eshess bones to our poor white satellites,
because, you see, first there's no money in
these offices, they require too much
learning, but worse than all, these officers
can have no deputies. Besides, the District
Attorney must be a lawyer, and there amt
a single one of our 1850 that has ever been
to the bar. Therefore, you see we
did the best we could, took all the fat
Offices and threw the clean bone to our eau
cassian adherents We've got our rights as
far as practicable. An amendment of the
law would enable us to do better, and
hope at the next Legislature to dispense the
Judge and District Attorney from knowing
the law, or even how to read and write and
to require their work to be done by dep
uty. Great applause. CAUCASIAN.
New Orleans June 18, 1874,
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19
Stray Cattle in our Streets.

We have received quite lengthy COM
munieation from gentleman residing in
the Sixth District regarding the cows now
roaming at large through the streets of that
portion of our city, and complaining in the
most severe terms Of the damage they cause
to the sidewalks and drains. There can be
no doabt that many Of the complaints
made against the raids of those in the en-
ploy of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, are just: but on the
other hand, as grave if not graver causes OF
grievance lie at the doors of the milkmen
Of the Sixth District who allow their herds
to wander at pleasure over the vacant
squares and quiet streets of that suburban
district
Indeed, so much of nuisance has this
become that large number of our promi-
nent citizens think that it would be econo-
my for the City Fathers to designate any
suitable portion of pasture land in the
neighborhood of the city for these herds,
the repair of cutters and sidewalks within
the limits, as they now do.
There can be no question but what many
residences in the Sixth District are now va
cant on account of the numbers of cows
allowed to roam through the streets, max
ing stable yards of the banquettes and rem
dering it almost impossible for ladies to pass
without either danger or annoyance. There
is medium between the two evils-the one
of the cows, the other of invasion of pfi-
vate rights.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19
MAYOR HAyEMEYER AS MOSES.

See what it is to be the admired and trusted
chief magistrate of great and opulent city
The following inspiring communication was
sent to the press on Thursday from the May
Or's office:
"Mayor Havemeyer received IS Is yester,
day for the benefit of the Louisiana suffer
ers."
How the hearts of the fifty thousand peO-
pie who are threatened with famine in Lou
isiana will leap for joy when they hear Of
this! How proudly must the bosoms OF all
true New Workers dilate when they read 1t
Everybody must be struck with the resem-
blance between Mayor Havemeyer and Alex
ander Hamilton. What Webster SO finely
said of the latter, about his striking the
rock" and all the rest of it after the
manner of Moses, leaps unbidden to the lips
when we contemplate the atfiuence of the re-
spouse elected by Haveneyer to the wall OF
woe from the Mississippi. Gritty thousand
people" are threatened there with famine,
remember Mr.. Crowell, of Boston, sent to
the spot on an inquest OF mercy by the
authorities of the New England metropolis,
reports that through all the summer months
there must be widespread and poignant
distress in all those once fertile and pros
porous regions. Fifty thousand people
more than the whole population, that is, OF
New York when Mayor Havemeyer was
young! And such is the admiration of New
Workers for their Mayor, and such his intlu-
ence over the feelings of the community, that
when he makes known to them the extremity
of the need they are asked to relieve, they
Immediately respond as we see. VI course,
when Mayor Havemeyer has arranged the
Park Commission wholly to his mud, we
shall have statue of Mayor Havemeyer in
the great Mall, probably from the mastery
hand of some "sculpin son-in-law or kins-
man of his. We beg to suggest the follow
ing inscription for its base:
Fifty Thousand People Called for Food in
Louisiana.
Mayor Havemeyer smote the rock of public
sympathy in New York,
And S. Is gushed OUT
New York World, 14th inst.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

The st. Louis Republican thinks there is
some danger the Republican party will fail
to carry the elections next fall Within
four years it has lost Georgia, Tennessee,
Virginia, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, Flori
da, Ohio, New Hampshire, Connecticut,
California, Oregon and Wisconsin; and it
appears weaker now than it has been at
any time during these four years. 1t will
certainly lose North Carolina and Louisiana,
and probably Alabama, at the next cleo
ton. Suppose at the same time it loses
New York and the Northwestern States
also, and that the next House shall be op. O.
ton, would not the injury be irreparable !.
1t says a Republican defeat in the Con-
gressional elections this year would mean
an almost certain Republican defeat in the
Presidential election two years later"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19
TIE GLAD TIDINGS,

The news from Washington is 80 exhiler-
ating that it affects one like fine old " inc.
1t quickens the pulses, and hope once more
irradiates faces that hal grown cold and
hopeless from despair. Durell to be i'm
peached! Glorious news! Let the glad
tidings be waited exultantly to the remotest
corners of the State, and let every suffering
and oppressed citizen gratefully accept it
as an omen of future good, as an indication
that the night with it's hideous shadows is
fast giving way to respondent dawn, which
shall be all the more brilliant and beautiful
by reason Of the blackness which it will
dispel.
Durell to be impeached! There is hope
and inspiration in the words 1t sends a
thrill through the blood such as must have
been felt in the past BY prisoners entombed
in the dungeons OF Europe for political Of
lenses, when they heard their prison doors
swing open upon rusty hinges and listened
to the joyous tidings of their. keepers "You
are freew
Durell to be !!hpeached When, indeed.
.no aIroh traitor to, and enemy OF, Repubh-
can liberty shall have been stripped Of the
ermne, which he has defiled past all posi-
bility of publication, when indeed the sem
tenoe of GUILTY." shall be Numbered
against him for his treason, by the highest
tribunal in the land, then will the people he
has wronged and insulted, and over whom
he has erected despotism at once grinding
and degrading, send up a pean of thanks
giving, in that justice has not absolutely
forsaken them. The justification of
our people may be slow, but it will be none
the less certain. The punishment Of our
men who attempted to strangle
free government in this State-may be do
ferred, but it Is nevertheless sure, and it will
be all the moro bitter because inflicted by
their friends.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

The President has been spared the un-
pleasantness of vetoing the Currency bill
reported by the Conf renee Committee and
concurred in by the Senate. Saturday the
House rejected the report, and the bill is
dead. The country may as well make up
it's mind to get along with what currency it
has. The present session of Congress is too
near over for further financial work. The
Congressional brain must rest from the
struggle with problem which has proved
too much for it, and little leisure must be
had in which to weep for lost time.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

During the recent sitting Of Judge Par
does Court at Point-a-la Hache, parish Of
Riaquemines, four men were convicted Of
murder, three Of whom were sentenced to the
Renitentiary for life, aud one, Cage Ferdi-
nand, TO be hung. There were no acquittals
during the term. The Obse,rer derives much
satisfaction from this showing, and remarks
truly that, it is full time that justice should
b dealt, without fear or favor, against
plundcrers and murderersr
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19
Loss of q Steamer.

From private letter to our nelghbor,
Mr.. J. H Keller, Esq, we learn that the
steamer H. NJ. Cool, plying between Cedar
Keys, Tampa and Marati, Florida, struck a
rock on the Sd inst, in Tampa Bay, and sunk
in about twelve feet of water, some sixteen
miles from the town of Tampa. The cargo
was saved in damaged condition, and sold
by auction next day in Tampa.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

ACTIVITY AMONG THE FlsHERMEN.-Ac-
cording to the reports from Gloucester,
Massachusetts, the fishing season has opened
vigorously. The fishermen are in high
spirits, and there is promise of an abundant
CATCH The southern mackerel fleet were
arriving freely and operating tolerablv well,
and the haul of Goldfish at St. Georges
Bank and Grand and Western banks had
been large
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19
ORLEANS GRANGE No. Sc.

mously adopted at regular meeting of Or
leans Grange No. So, on Monday evening
June 10th, 1874. 1t was also ordered that ali
papers friendly to the resolutions be request
ed to publish the same, and that five hun
dred copies be distributed to the State
Grange aud to subordinate oranges through
out the State. S. NJ. VIRGINS, Secretary.
Whereas, The impoverished condition of
the planters of Louisiana since the war,
occasioned by floods, unpropitious weather,
disOrganized labor and high rates of taxa
ton, renders it necessary that in order to
preserve our State from total destruction,
one of the evils under our control be at once
removed; and,
Whereas, The prosperity OF State like
Louisiana is due ain ost alone to agriculture.
1t builds up the towns and cities, feeds the
population, pays the foreign debts, and adds
to the wealth of other nations besides our
own and,
Whereas, We have noticed with regret
the action Of our State officials in selling
and selling the cultivated and other lands Of
our planters for the payment of taxes, levied
to pay debts mostly conceived in lniquity
and brought forth in fraud; and
Whereas, This system of studied plumber,
which is sacrificing the planting interests Of
the State for the benefit of adventurers from
abroad and the unprlnclpled at home, must
be met with tirmness and crushed in man
uer never to be again heard of: therefore,
be it
Resolred BY Orleans Grange No. So, That a
petition be prepared and presented to both
branches of the Legislature at its next
meeting, asking the passage of law ex-
empting all lands within the State of Lou
isiana, whether cultivated or not, outside of
the urban portions of cities and towns, from
State taxation for any purpose whatever.
Resolved, That the right of police jurors
and others in authority is recognized to
levy taxes in the parishes under their con-
troll for the purpose Of opening and repair
ing roads, and for the purposes necessary in
municipal affairs, but the tax so levied
shall in no instance exceed two mills on the
dollar on an assessment of one-third of the
cash valuation of the lands thereof.
Resolsss9, That copy of these preambles
and resolutions be sent to each Of the
oranges throughout the State, with the re-
quest that they take action on them as early
as possible, and the newspapers of New
Orleans and through ut the State are ear
nes:ly solicited to publish the same, and aid
the cause of our planters, who are now
struggling for an existence.
Oranges favorable to these resolutions will
please prepare petitions, signed by all their
members, and forward them, under seal of
the grange, to S. NJ. Virgins, Secretary of
Orleans Grange No. So, % Camp street, New
Orleans.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

I Bayard Taylor has secured the correspond
ence that passed between Joseph and Poti-
phar's wife, and wants to translate it /; but
Chicago people want to buy it untrans-
lated, for fear B. T. will make it as dull as
one Of bis own books. Il appears BY the
correspondence that what has been hitherto
heard Of tho story WAS only Jsseph's YER
sion, = hs reported il % his wife.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

We are informed that Gen. Beuaregard
President Of the Carrollton Railroad Com
Pany, Intends to arrange the dummies SO
that the drivers can stand upon them in
stead Of upon the platforms Of the cars.
This will 60 to far to prevent accidents, and
will inspire greater confidence in the
dhmmiea
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

Our GUARDIANS. - The Nineteenth In
Antry left this city last evening Oh the
sseamer James Howard. Company H Of the
Sixteenth Infantry arrived here with Com
Rany of the Second Regiment, to relieve
~ Nineteenth. They have taken up quar-
tesa where the latter regiment were sta
toned
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

Last Saturday, seven prisoners broke out
them were recaptured. The one who es
capped was under sentence to the Peniten-
iiarY for life, found guilty Of murder.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

NEW PUBLICATIoNs-We are indebted to
Mr.. Geo. Ellis, newsdealer, opposite the
Post Office, for the following Mere diana,
~ Verne; No Alternative, by Annie Thorn
- Driven from Home, by Erskine Boyd /;
Harper. for July: Gody's Lldy's Book Har,
Ser's Bazaar; London Graphic: Leslie's
Weekly.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

The Boston Globe admires Hannibal Ham
lin for his firm adherence to principle
His firm adherence to Office has been his
most apparent trait.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

The Detroit Free Press: "Come, now, let's
say no more about Laura Fair. When one
remembers that it was q lawyer she shot,
the crime is robbed Of its rough edges" Ali
that we ever blamed her for was that she
shot lawyer when she could just as easily
shot carpet-bag Congressman.
louisville Courter-Journal.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19

TURTLE STEAK.-Capt. Billy Fullwood Of
Tho Big Medicine saloon, No. Camp street,
sends us steak from his monster turtle,
Weighing 500 pounds, and which he pro
poses to serve up in soup to his customers
to-day. With his choice liquors and elegant
lunch. we doubt not, he will find no lack of
aallera