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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-17
REVOLUTIONARY NEWS FROM MEXICO.

REVOLUTIONARY NEWS FROM MEXICO.
GALVESTON, June 16-A Ne,cs, Brownsville,
special says: The news from Mexico is revo-
dictionary. 1t is believed that Gen. Nuero will
not come to the frontier. iossb
The body of Mcmahon, the schoolmaster,
was found near Mesquite rancho on Sunday.
The head, arms and legs were severed from
his body. f
One Of the raiders killed by McNelly's men
had on McMahon's clothes. This feet will be
established by atidavits. Two more defunct
raiders were found yesterday, brought to town
and buried. A Mexican found ths body of
his brother on the battle field and buried it
there.
A raider, with foar balls in him and one
leg broken, crawled off the battle ground and
made his way to the Rio Grande, crossed at
the Tomato Rancho, just below Brownsville,
and is reported to have died in Matomoros.
The result Of the fight stands thirteen killed
and one wounded.
It improves by investigation Capt. Nc
Neely's company encamped near where the
railroad crosses Rssaca de Ia Palma. The
reported fight between Iancheros and cattle
thieves, and killing of Capt. Togles,. OF Cor
tina's forces, is not verified.
the defeat of Lena, and swear they will have
three for one. Some OF the recaptBred cattle
belong to men living more than tive hundred
miles from the Bio Grande. Stock is very
much scattered in Western Texas. because Of
not being protected. and the danger that the
raiders will kill the herdsmen. fc
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PRORABILITIES,

WASHINGTON, June 16-For the Gulf States
and Tennessee, stationary barometer, warm
southwest to southeast winds, and partly
cloudy weather. ~
The rivers generally will remain stationary
mr. will fall
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REeArYA OF TaE NEW YORk YACHT cLuB

OHUAA - VI AAE NEW AOhA IACHI cAUBs
New York. June 16-The annual regatta
of the New York Yacht Club was run to-day
over the usual course-from Flying Start, of,
Stapleton, Staten Island, around the LRht-
ship of Sandy Hook and. return, and in all
about forty miles. There were twenty-five
entries, and all started except the schooner
yacht Atlantic.
The novel feature was the race between the
steam yachts Ideal, Lookout and Lurline,
which wa0 won by the latter, "a tons, in 2
hours 81 minutes and 30 seconds, beating the
Ideal, 200 tons, exactly 10 seconds.
The Lookout broke her machinery outside
of Sandy Hook, and was withdrawn. s
The best actual time made by the sailing
yachts was hours 81 minutes and 10 seconds,
made by the schooner yacht Palmer, and
taking the prize for that class The keel
yachts Alarm, Rsmbl1r and Wanderer had
agreed to sail also for q subscription cup
prize, which was won by the Wanderer in
s hours and 23seconds, the Rambler second
and Alarm third. aeM
The prize for the second class schooners
was won by the Comet, in hours az minutes
third. q" a@se! ta o5f
The first GLASS sloop prize was won by the
Vision, in hours AZ minutes and AZ seconds.
The second class race was won by the
Madcap, in 5 hours 58 minutes and As
seconds. The Madcap is new boat, having
been launched Tuesday last. sa
The breeze throughout the day was blow
ing just fresh enough from the southwest and
eastward to send the yachts over the water at
q good speed, without creating any'sea.
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Buy your carriages, buggies and baby
wagons OF L. L. Maddux, So Cirondelet street.
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BANK ROBsERY IN INDIaNApe,,,s

INDIANAPOLIS, june 16.-DurinQ a heavy
rain-storm yesterday two men ana woman
drove to the Central Bank. The woman en-
gagged one of the clerks in conversation at the
carriage, the two men entered the bank and
began talking with the cashier who was pre-
sently set ct work figuring out the interest
on large sum which they desired 10 loan.
While the cashier was thus engaged the men
slipped in their pockets packages to the
amount of from $1,000 to $1,000 and got off
with it. No arrests vet.
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4 Hatch-word-Tick.
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I ooNVINUED Or LAST PAGE
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07
Was ObIiging.

The other evening kind-looking old
man was escorted to a room on the third
floor of hotel to pass the night, and it
wasn't FIVE minutes before the bell indi-
Gated that he wanted to see waiter. A
colored boy ran up, stuck his head into
the room, and asked what was wanted.
The old man said he didn't want any
thing, but be was hardly down stairs be-
fore the bell rang again.
''Did you want suffin'?" he inquired, as
he reached the room again.
Nothing, replied the old man, as he
opened the door.
In about two minutes his bell rang
again, and this time the waiter ex
claimed:
eff you don't want muffin, what ar'ye
pullin' de bell fur?"
II want to oblige the waiter" replied
the old man.
DE waitah Oblige de waitah ?"
Eyes; it says here: Please ring the
bell for the waiter, and If he wants il
rung, Pm willing to oblige him, though
I'm tired and sleepy, and shan't pull il
morn four times more unless know that
some of his family are sick.
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07
Two Dollars a Year.

of the Most High. and there be re-
ceived as a Precipitation for those who re-
main.
The day succeeding this eventful night
bears ample testimony to the reverential
honor paid the dead. Not carriage of
any description was seen on the streets,
and every door, even down in the meanest
hovel, was shut The several depart
ments of government closed their
functions, and all festivity is prescribed
by the Common Hall for four months.
Scarce two weeks have passed since the
carnage on the Wabash, succeeded imme-
diately by several alarming evidences Of
earthquakes in the South then this fatal
fire, preceded by several horrid murders
and accidents in the neighborhood DIR.
Henderson few days since stabbed
mortally a Mr.. Robertson, and two men
have been found dead near Richmond.
These are awful fore-bodings of Heavens
vengeance. May it be averted. L have
made two narrow escapes lately-one from
the tumbling of IA coal pit, the other a fall
from my horse.
am, with sentiments of high esteem,
your most Obedient servant,
\. :. WooLDRIDGE.
Hon. JAMES PLEAsANrs, Washington.
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07

already secured a steamboat to make this
exploration. IfGen. FOrsythe is success
! fuf. will send Gen. Gus ter with com
mand from Fort Lincoln across the
mouth of Powder river, thence up on the
south bank of the Yellowstone, crossing
Powder river, Tongue river, Rosebud,
and on to the mouth of the Big Horn.
This country is as yet entirely unex-
plored and the expedition may develop a
| very valuable auriferous section, and
make the Father De Smet story to some
extent true. But l am of the belief
that the mountain of mica has not changed
to gold.
| will also send an expedition down
Wind river through Owl Greek noun
tain from ort Stambaugh, via Fort
Brown, to the mouth of the Big Horn,
and will bring it back through the parks
about the headwaters of the Powder
river visited by Capt. Mills and his COM
nand last summer. These parks are for
beauty fully equal to those described so
graphically by Gen. Custer as existing in
the Black hills of Cheyenne. | may also
say from my own knowledge that
the valleys of the Big and little Popoagie,
Little Wind river and Main Wind river,
can scarcely be excellcd in beauty and
fertility, while the student of nature
will find there the most extraordinary
upheavals of earth-crust probably TO be
found on the continent. l am of the
opinion that this country is gold-bearing,
but of its abundance there can only be
conjecture at present. | feel quite con-
fdent of our ability to preve mt intended
tresspassers on the rights of the Indians,
and cavalry and infantry in the depart
ment of Dakota are being moved at the
present time to the most available points
to carry out my directions of September
Bird of last year. Were it not for these
precautions on the part of the govern
ment there might be a repetition of the
California gold beach and lake hum
bugs with still greater suffering, as many
of the persons now crazy to go to the
Black hills, never think of how they are
to exist after they get there or how they
could return in case of failure. If they
will wait for further information from the
government, which now seem desirous of
making concessions to meet these new
there will be no one more
willing than myself to aid in ascertaining
LASlI Ndluc. % laI as sLIOOpc arc COh-
cerned l will promise activity in the
present emergency, and the conscientious
performance of duty. Should the points
from which miners start be so remote as
to make it impossible for our scanty
force to watch them, we can occupy the
two or three gaps in the Black hills and
efectually exclude tresspassers.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) P. H. SHERIDAN,
Lieut.. Gen. Commanding.
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07
|RKABLE PRESERVATION OF A
PIANO.
kStieff's Grand Instruments Under
Water for Four Months.
he Raltimorean OF March 2Oth.I

Ne Baltimorean of March 20th.l
IA the splendid steamer Louisiana
and sunk in Chesapeake Bay last
der, off Smiths Point, there went
VI her main saloon, one of Stieff's S
square pianos. Last week while
7bckers were at work upon the hull
Louisiana, they succeeded in rails
piano, and to the astonishment of
Npdy who has seen it, the instru-
in remarkable state of preserva-
The frame is as perfect as when
.hced in position. not string broke,
lN in good tune. The sounding
Is also in an excellent state of
fation. When it is considered
NE piano was subjected to the ac-
III the salt water for over four
its preservation testifies strongly
4 Of the superb workmanship of
ssrs. Stief Although glue is
used in joining and in nearly
tether portion of the piano, there
Apt appear even crack or opening
Il part Of the instrument. This pi-
|Ns purchased of the Messrs. Stieff'
II Bay Line Company some four
Eince, when the Louisiana was re
tan expense of S75, 900. After
ping the manipulations of all the
lady passengers who have
ID this popular route for four years
Hnd after resting at the bottom of
Aesapeake for over four months,
perhaps, it afforded amusement
N mermaIds and sport for old Nep-
tt now turns up almost as good as
The Messrs. Stieff have placed it
hibltion at their warerooms, North
~ street, and it is quite an object
Ipsity with a large number who
NY to gaze upon it.
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07
our country yielded 173, 600, 900 bushels
of wheat, and 13S, 900, 900 bushels of

our country yielded 173, ,O0O, 600 bushels
/ of wheat, and 13S, 900, 600 bushels OF
corn.
THE CENSUS TABLES FOR 1870
Further show that the extent of our
country Is measured By 400. 900, 900
acres, only one-ffth of which is occupied.
Illinois now heads the column of agricul-
tural extent with %, 900, 900 acres occu-
pied as farms, next Georgia, 23 900, 600:
then New York with 22,00J, 900, and
Missouri with 1,707 300 acres The
aggregate value OF farm products for
| 1870 was So, AL ,658, 900. Yet our
country is in its infancy, and the amount
of human food that We can produce is
only limited by the demand aud the cost
of carriage, and We all know that the
Mississippi river itself affords the cheap
est possible carriage, provided the neces-
sary ships are ready at its mouth to re-
ceive this freight
IN 1870 OUR POPULATION WAS
38.553, ,381. Applying the ratio of in
crease, 334 per cent every ten years, we
have for 1880, 81 All, 116; for 1890, g.
548,214; for 1900, 81 1897 ,l99, so that
many now here will probably live to see
the day when the population of our coun-
try will be hundred millions.
If as industrious as their fathers the
surplus of food for shipment abroad will
be simply infinite; plenty to give occupa-
ton for the Erie canal, and every rail-
road leading eastward, as well as the vas
ter amount that must flow down the Mis-
sissippi and seek market by the chan
mel that Captain Eads now proposes to
solve.
The great civil war that recently up
heaved US as by an earthquake is nearly
forgotten. New issues and new troubles
already disturb US. Let the past 90; look
to the future, and | say to Captain Eads,
go in; work like beaver on your great
dams and dykes, and may God spare
your life and health to see the Great
Eastern steamer up to New Orleans for
her %, 900 tons of St. Louis superfEe
flour to carry back to Sheerness for the
hungry millions that want it, in that
human hive-London
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07
M - ASONIC-

TIE DIsTRIcr DEPUrIEs.-Grand
Lecturer Mccormick has notified the
District Deputies to assemble at jackson.
on Monday, 2Gth inst They will be- I'm
session most Of the week. Grand Mas.
ter Barkley will also be present
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07
|RIGHTS IN THE NORTH
#d Saloons mot Places of
DubIic Amusement.

roS. y. j., March PA week
proprietor Of the Trenton
refused two eolored men the priv
n blaving billiards at his saloon,
# attached 10 to the hotel. The
men made complaint under the
hts bill, and the proprietor, Mr..
ach was arrested, and the hear
he ease came off to-day before
states Commissioner, T.. Mercer
The decision, which was an
il one, dismissed the complaint as
np within the law. The Com
saws: 1t is true the public may
lliard saloon, so they may go to
But every one cannot play there
One cannot buy in certain stores.
fekeeper may suit his customers.
blacc which is accessible to all is
ssariIy place OF public amuse
b. say that everybody can go
bard saloon does not determine
ftFF, nor IDtS tiit Idtb liidi u II
required make it place of pub
ement. A license is taken out
Bdlar's wagon, but it does not
become a place of public amuse-
There is nothing in the license
which we can determine the true
bf the place. A licensed place
Il be so regulated as practically to
II the public. 1t is asked, what is
NJ saloon if it is not Il place of
lent? | answer at best, and only
Iited sense, or in qualified man
i it be called place of public
ient. 1t is the private business Of
b party, conducted as it suits the
1t is no more a place of public
hent than a drinking saloon. Ev-
! into the latter no man has a right
u take a drink without leave of
prietor The applicant may be
and driven away for reasons best
30 the owner, and which he is not
to disclose. The Civil Rights
nothing to do and was intended
nothing to do with such places.
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07

The loss is announced of the steamer
Gothenburg, in Bass Strait, between
Van Dieman's Land and Australia.
The passengers and crew numbered lis
persons, of whom only four are known
to be saved,
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07
.he Raymond Gazette.I

for the people to determine wheth-
hot they will pay taxes for the sup
Il a State government which is run
rely in the interest Of Gov. Ames
i rings and for the oppression and
II the State and all its interests.
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07

THE RICHMOND THEATRE

An Interesting "Reminiscences OF the Ter.
rible Fire in Richmond in 1Sl1---Thril-
ling Scenes--Letter TO an old Wash.
ingtOn Resident.
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07

EUMBUs. GA, March 30.-The
h of Holland last evening has caused
'erable excitement.
Rets were crowded with people up
late hour last night, and it was
ht at one time that the friends OF
|hd, composing nearly the entire
Ation of the city, would rise and take
n inte their own hands and punish
hrderer. But by advice they were
led upon to abstain from such pro
The Times of this morning say.
use is alleged for this great outrage
he community except the fact that
holland and 4. L. Calhoun, propri
b publisher of the Enquirer, hac
Sn bad terms, and Cash and hI.
r had become champions, and {
against this individual brought OF
iculty. Holland was shot in min,
nt places through the body head anC
Cash received two slight wounds
bis brother received two, not dan
Cash is in Jail with q guard owe
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07
ling OF Col. q -. Holland.

NJ dispatch to the Selma EchoI
uMBUs, GA, March 29.-This
g about 8 o'clock, while Col. o. S,
|pd, of this city, and late of Mobile
ew York, was talking to w. l..
Captain of Police, difficulty arose
IN them, when Cash drew his pistol
thot Holland through the heart,
n caused his death in FIVE minutes
ards. After Holland was shot he
Athe ground, raised himself. drew
tol and fired two or three shots ST
lnhicting a slight flesh wound.
tizens are greatly enraged at this
L and murder, and it is thought
here will be more trouble soon.
hd's brothers are on the streets look
Aht for Cash, swearing revenge.
eight or ten shots were fired.
of the difficulty unknown.
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07

letter from Gen. sheridan 10 GEN.
Sherman.
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07

4 Detailed Account Of the New FL Dorado.
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07
OUR MILITARY ENGINEERS

Are, and have been, advocates of the
open mouth; so that emphaticalIy deny
that the army is hostile to Captain Eads'
project, but assures him they will watch
his progress with intense interest, and
will hail his ultimate success with as
much enthusiasm rs any other body OF
men in this country.
Our fellow-townsman, Captain Eads,
HAS UNDERTAKEN TO DO THAT
Which, if successful, will place his name
among those of the greatest engineers
of the world; he has undertaken to bridge
the Mississippi, to place a curb in his
mouth, and to make him fulfill his high
office as the carrier of that vast commerce
which must carry to the uttermost parts
of the South the super-abundant produc-
tions of the great valley. The idea Of
New Orleans or Louisiana controlling
this subject is absurd The citizen of the
United States, who cultivates q farm on
the Upper Allegheny, Wisconsin, oI
7 Yellowstone, Is as much interested as he
who cultivates his rice, or sugar, OF
orange grove in sight of the Balize. The
work is national, and the nation has as
sumed it, and has delegated the work tt
Captain Eads.
Let Captain Eads
REMOVE THE BAR AT THE SOUTH PASS,
Even to the depth Of twenty-five feet, 81
that sea-going vessels may at all time.
reach New Orleans, and I am certain
that England and Ireland alone will Civ,
you certain market for thirty million
of dollars that now 60 to the Black sea
for wheat alone. Then take Brazil, tn,
West India Islands, and other countries
that need our cheap grain, and you hav,
one single item Of trade that approache
! q hundred millions annually. In 1856
The weekly clarion., 1875-04-07
n.nnrISING AGENrs.

pe others are authorized to solicit
~ ImE CLAEION.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-27

He also reported a resolution i'll reference to
the McGarrahan and New Iberia mining
company's claims in California. directing the
commissioner of general land Office to institute
legal proceedings in the name of the govern
ment against the New Iberia mining company
in the Circuit Court of the United States for
California to restrain further waste of the
property, for the appointment of a receiver and
for the recovery of 81, 600 900 illegitmately and
wronsfu.ly taken therefrom by the New Iberia
mining company and such other actions as the
committee may deem proper. Also directing
the Secretary of the Interior not to issue pa
tents the New Iberia mining company until
legal proceedings are determined.
A long discussion followed.
Finally Butler moved the previous question
and it was seconded in the face of noisy opposi-
ton and of the efforts of Messrs. Houghton
and Page of California. to secure an adjourn
ment, which would have defeated the resolu-
ton as the special assignment of the judiciary
Committee applied only to this day. When it
came to vote on the adoption of the resolution
an attempt was made to defeat it by members
opposed to it refraining from voting, but as the
friends of the measure intimated they would
insist on q call of the House quorum eventu-
ally passed between the tellers, aud the resolu-
ton was declared adopIed-36 to II.
The House at $40 p, M adjourned.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-27

bury, Charleston for Boston, Florence Dean. Wes-
gate Baltimore for do; Jos Fish. Rivers. Darien tor
BostCn.
ton (has been in the ice on the Shoals since 16th.)
Ar 24th schs Nellie Grant, Jordan, Brashaer City
% DAYS for Portsmouth,; William Arthur McDufie,
Ar 18th. schs Hattie E Sampson, Bunker, Portland
for Baltimore; Sarah Eaton Prescott, from Calais tor
SD barGues Sarah, Josie Mildred; briggs Josie
Devereux Minnie Miller; schs Ring Dove, Mabel
Hall. w Rawley, Sammy Ford Mott, Haven. Eliza
Staples, MaTaeabo Ihomas' p NED S,um na
Fish. Danl Webster, Agnes, ID Talbot, George Sbep-
pard, Hattie Baker, Florence Dean, Nellie Grant,
BOSTON-Ar 25th schs Brave, Thompson. from
Gonaives; W b, Pitcher, Hoboken; Exeter, Fen
dleton, and George Osborn, Stearns, DO; Cocneko'
Cd 26ih sch Baird, (Br) Theal, Portland,
sALEM-Ar 23d. sch Only Son. Meader. Boothoay
GLoUCESTER-Ar path. sch Madawaska Maid,
Upper, Grand Menan, NIB; Edward Everett Gray
Ar 18th, schs Annie May. Simpson, Newcastle for
Newburyport; Boston Light, Boardman, Camden.
FOREIGN PORTS.
AT Canton Dec IL. barque Alden Besse, Noyes, for
At Hong Kong Dec IL. ships Malay. Cloueh from
San Francisco; Comet: Bray: and Bunker HILL Da-
AT Padang Nov %, ship Mary Goode Sweetser,
from Batavia. az 25th. for New York.
AR at Batavia Nov g. ship Antelope, Chenery, I'M
Cherbon. (and sid Dec for Channel, for Orderso
Ar at Genoa :, baraue Don JustO, Bennett Balti-
more; big Teneriffe, Tracey, New York.
AT at Barcelona -, brig Mariposa. Fletcher. from
New Orleans.
At iloio Nov %, ship Henry S Sanford, johnson,
tor New York via Iloilo and Cebu.
Sid I'm Beyrout =. barque Harvest Home, Riley.
Ar at Lisbon oath inst, barque Lorena, Blanchard,
Baltimore.
Ar at Gibraltar oath ult, barque Adolph Engler,
Strout. New York for Nap.es.
AT at Havre Path ult ships Freeman Clark. Bos-
WORTH New Orleans; Union. Greenleaf do.
Sid 23d inst, ship Borneo, Shaw, United States
Ar at Liverpool 23d inst ships United States, Lunt
York; barque H ID Brookman, Tyson, do
Sid oath, ships Success, Sherman, United States;
Martha Bowker, WoOdsde. do; barque Nevers
Barstow; 18th, ship John Pascal. Tap1ey, Calcutta
At Valparaiso 25th ult ship Anna Camp, Gardiner.
for Peru.
Sid 18th ut, ship Independence, Strout. Caldera.
Ar at Havana 23d, brig Jos Clark, Stahl. NYOrk;
schs Ulrica X Smith. Smith, Pensacola; M Bird,
Merrill, New York oath, Canton, Henley. Portland.
Sid sd brig RabbOni. COMBS. MatanZas.
Ar at Matanzas 22d, baraue Carrie K Long Park,
Portland; brig b Brown. Balm. do Giles Loring,
Loring, Key West; 23d, brig Fl Jennings, Mahony,
New York; sch Maud, Robinson, Cardenas; sch ID
Ar at do I'd, briggs r Cove from Havana; Annie
Storer, Adams. and Rabboni, Coombs, do.
Sid 23d. brig Anna M Knight, Davis. Portland.
Sid FIN Cardenas I'D, barque L Stocker, Tyler.
North Of Hatteras; brig George Berry, Keazer, do;
Ar at Sagua 22d, barque NJ Haven. Ulrick, from
New York brig Eugene, HawsOn, Baltimore; 23d,
schs Five Sisters, and Nellie Shaw, from Machias.
SPOKEN.
No date, lat 40 n, Ion 80 &c W, ship Moonlight,
from Cardiff for Batavia.
No nate, lat 20 Al N, Ion ~ 05 W, brig j Lane,
from New York for st Jago.