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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
Tho Jockey Club Races.

The spring NEE ting of the Louisiana
Jockey Club races will commence to-day,
when Astrapee, Vsndal, Jr., Colonel Nelli-
gan and old Port Leonard will start at
three o'clock and take eight hurdles in q
two mile bout for the first race. Rowetts
Harry Edwarde, Cottrili's Mediator and
Funk's Harry Hill, three-year-olds, will
contest for the Pickwick stakes, in mile
heats. making the second race. The third
race will be good one, two miles for all
ages, which will bring out Verdigris. Pom
pey's Pillar, Falmouth, Ssm Harper and
Kilburn, and close the sport for the day.
The pool selling-opened last night at
Hswkins' saloon by Captain John Walsh
showed lively bidding and unusual interest
in the events of the day. In the pool for
the first race Vandsl, Jr., was favorite, and
brought $3.50; Nelligan stood second choice
a $48; Astrapee brought $l5 and Port Leon
ard $25. Port, in . hurdle race, has shown
great ekill in throwing his rider, but glue
boy to the saddle and the old horse is not
bad venture for wager. The pools of the
second race ran as high as $500 on Media
tor, $2O4 on Harry Hill. and $l25 on Harry
Edwards. In the third race pools the game
Sam Harper, who made such a good
record for himself at the fall meeting.
had bid of $3.50, Virdigris brought
$50, Falmouth $40, Kilburn $35. and so on.
Some of these horses come together for the
first time, and those who know most of
their respective merits are all at sea in the
first pools. The favorites of last year may
be obliged to give way for new candidates.
The track will be in fair condition, not
the late rains, and horse cars,
coaches and buggies are likely to carry
many people to the Fair Grounds this
affarnO0n.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
BY TELEGRAPH,

The ST., Leuie Rrnude.


WAsH1KcToN, April 1.-THE World's spe-
cial says Major Lucien Esston, assistsn
prosecuting attorney IN the Sc. Louis whis-
" fraud trials, was examined bv the seleot
investigating committee on that subject TO-
day. His testimony was similar to that Of
bis colleagues, Dyer, Henderson and Broad
head.
The most important part of his testimony
was the submission of . copy of . letter
written to Pre sident Grant bv x.CollecfAp
Ford, of st. Louis, in 1873. This letter
which can not be obtained for publication
informed Grant that McD Donald, then super
VISOR of internal revenue, was . rascal
that he could not be trusted, and had CON
nlved to defraud the government.
NO congregational or committee business
to-day.
Inauguration Of Linceln etatue.
There was grand procession of colored
people, and appropriate proceedings at
Lincoln Park, where the Lincoln statue
was unveiled. The ceremonies occupied
the day. The President, some Cabinet
officers, the diplomatic corps, many mem
bers OF Congress and vast cOwd attended.
Professor Langst0n presided, and Fred
Douglass delivered the oration.
The speakers made no allusion TO cur
rent politics.
Bulftsn Pafchased by tho Governmene.
The Treasury Department purchased ten
months supply Of silver bullion q few
weeks ago at three CENTS per ounce below
the present rate. This, with the bullion
fund, it is supposed, will be eufi cient for
coinage until the annual settlement ut tho
mint June next.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
FOREIGN.

Overthrow Of the Haytiaa Gevernr,e,
NEW YORK, April H.-The purser of tba
steamship Tybee, which arrived at this
port this morning from Cape Haytien. r.
ports that revolution against the coverr.
ment OF President Dominique took piaoe in
Cape Hsytien ON the fourth inatant A.
4 A. H., aad has proved Q oomplete ana.
cess tne whole population rising on masse
Witno1t dissenting voice. No bloodshed
1nG only enots fired being in tho air.
Inc entire north, as far - heard from, in :
Lemhi and Plassance, have declared In
FAVOR OF the revolution. On the sixth of
April the troops of the North were march
ing ON Gonaives to attack that place, if such
step should be found necessary, which Ia
nos probable. 1t is almost certain that the
present government must fail.
Tho Mexican Border.
A Brownsville dispatch says Porfirio
Diaz, commanding Mexican revOlutiouista.
10 in possession of the entire frontier on
Posite Texas. His troops have been paid to
the eleventh. Eabairs and the Mexican
customs officers are ON the Texan eido.
day for Monterey. The United State gun.
boat was on the other side. Amerioan
officers arc morally assisting the Mexioan
government. Labsrra expects to reoeiva
help BY way of Vera Cruz. '-'o
Baron sternberser,s a.lte,s rr...,.
SAN FRANCISCO, April l4.-A nriv.ta la.
ter from Samoa says documents havs ~. ~
found among Sternberger'e papera shov;s~
that Babcock, for considerat3oa. ohtsi.e9
SternberEers appointments s. rneciei scsrt
Also, tnAs IN arrangoment oxiSfed ha1y~e.
SeefnoerKer and J. o. 0oddeffey q I'M
IOllMTrwnRrN
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
Rice Culture In Louisiana. !.

Up to within few years the rice crop Of
Louisiana did not figure much in the com
mercial reports of this country. South
Carolina with her delightful climate and
wealthy and accomplished planters, was
allowed a monopoly of American rice cul-
the ill.luck Of many Louisiana planters in
the cultivation Of sugar and molasses, much
attention has been given to rice planting
along the lower part of the Mississippi
river, and the reports of each year show q
large and steady increase in the product Of
this article. In this parish, and in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Hahnville the cultiva-
tion of rice is annually on q large increase.
The cultivation of rice in Louisiana is now
the Gulf of Mexico up to and in.
cluding the parish of Ascension, and the
increasing interest in this new occupation
for the people is adding materially to the
business and wealth of tue State. It gives
profitable and healthy employment to thou
sands of people, and is adding to the per
msnent capital of the State by the constant
erection of new and costly mills. We say
healthy, because it is q we'll known fact
that the Mississippi river, from which the
water for irrigation is derived, runs over
the rice fields to the lakes and bayous be-
hind, thus preventing the back water from
ever becoming stsgnant, and by the rapidity
of its current carrying off the vegetable
matter that by decomposition causes mala.
ria; whereas, in other rice growing couu-
tries the water used is generally tide water,
with little or no current, and the swamps
large.
The richness of the soil, and the happy
adaptation of the climate, have caused rice
planters to be more careless in Louisiana
than in other countries, where soils are
poorer and climate worse. But of late
years study and science have been in
voked; better systems of plowing, sowing,
irrigating, cutting, stacking, threshing and
milling are being praoticed. Indeed, the
numerous mills erected in New Orleans in
the past few years, in regularity and accu-
racy Of work, and exactness and finish in
machinery, are not only struggling to out
rival each other, but are striving their ut
most to do a. good work, and to give as
neat polish to the grain as the old and
costly mills of South Carolina.
To give the general public even faint
idea of the manner in which rice land is
selected and worked; how rice. when ma
ture, ia cut and threshed; how it is shipped
"in the rough" IN common sacks from plan.
tsti0ns on the Mississippi river to the mills
in New Orleans, where it is made the mer-
and polished rice which is TOR
sale at every grocery in the country, would
take more of our space than we can afford
to give in this number Of our paper.-St..
Charles Herald.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
The Latest Report from the Jetties

The Latest Report from the Jetties.
The following letter has been furnished
to this Office for publications:
PORT EADs, April IA, 1876.
Mr. g. ". r Bsyley, Resident Engineer south
Pass Jetty Works, New Orleans:
DEAR S1R-Mr. Corthell made careful
soundings throughout the jetties to-day,
placing buoys on the bar Greet. Least depth
found was full fifteen feet six inches. TWEEN
ty-two foot channel now extends down to
station ninety, or one and q three-qusrters
miles, and within about half-mlle of deep
sea. In this halfmile We have several
hundred feet in which the depth is twenty
two feet. At ono locality halfway down
the jetties, We find thirty-two feet, and for
several hundred feet near it the depth
ranges from twenty-si1 to thirty feet. The
channel is quite straight nearly ell the way,
between the jetties.
JAMES B. EADS.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15

IMPORTANT CHANGE OF SCHEDULE ON
THE EASTERN DIVISION OF THE mobile
LINE"-Will be in effect on and after Sun
day, the sixteenth instant, when fast ex'
press trains, carrying the United States
mail and Great Southern express, will
leave the foot of Canal street at Gas A. N.
and P. M, with palace cars running
through via Atlanta to Washington and
Baltimore, and via Nashville and Louis
vile to Cincinnati, making but one change,
with double daily connections to the Cen
tennial Groun6s, New York, Boston and
other Eastern and Western cities.
This change Of schedule will enable the
travelling public to reach Washington, Bal
timore, Philadelphia and New York one
business day in advance of any other
schedule now in existence, and with more
comfort and safety than ever before Of
fered.
For through tickets and palace cor 60
oommodations call ON w. II. Field, corner
Of Camp and Common streets (opposite City
Hotel).
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
WHOLE NUMBER 278O.
sTATE NEWS.
ST. JOHN.

From the Meschacebc. April Is:
Last Saturday. April 8, was adjudicated
| to Meesrs. p. j. g. j. B. Csire, for tho sum
| of $500, the White Rose plantation, neas-
| uring four and q half arpents front by
forty in depth. with the double and treble
concessions. This place, formerly belong
ing to the late Pierre Roussel, was sold 1T
Mr.. EdOuard Roussel for $4,000. In N0vem-
ber, 1868, Mr.. Roussel sold it to Mr.. 8. Cam
bon for $4,000. The latter, in 1871, dis
posed of it in favor of +. n Edmondeon
tor the sum of $4,000.
ST. TAMMANY.
From the Vaudeville Warc, April g:
Notwithstanding the crevasse water, the
fishing here is splendid. As $50 bass, croak-
ers and rockfish have been recently taken
in one day by one person, while on the op-
posite side of the lake scarcely anything 10
being caught. This way, fishermen, if you
want sport.
The Camelia made the first excursion of
the season last Sunday. Among the visitors
were General De Trobriand and staff in
search of suitable camping ground for bis
command during the summer. Vaudeville
met with favor in the eyes Of the General,
and perhaps We shall have troops here ere
long. We shall welcome them.
From the New Iberia Sugar. Bo,cI, April
l3:
The body of Orterre Bergeron, drowned
three weeks ago, near Bay TAmbOur, was
only found on Tuesday of last week, living
in shallow water q few miles eastward, and
in good state of preservation.
George Washington, cOlored constable,
on trial in the district court of Houma, was
last Friday found guilty of stealing two
COWS on Bayou Black and selling them to @
Houma butcher. The COWS belonged to
Messrs. Adam Clement and Thibuice Bar
ras. He will doubtless be sent to the Pen.
itentiary.
Navigation is being constantly improved
in Terrebonne. Since Mr.. Ben Smith
cleaned out Bayou Peltop, boats run from
Bayou Grand Gallon we'll over toward
Bayou du Large, starting from Gallon
Grove plantation; and while much fuel 10
brought out by the little steamers, the
stream ia deepened, drainage improved,
and the grass in Grand Gallon removed by
the boats and logs.
A line of echooners has commenced max
ing regular trips between Grand Gallon
and New Orleans. and planters there are
commencing to be comparatively independ-
ent of Mr.. Morgan. Their freights, both
outward and inward, will eventually
mostly 60 that way, and it would be the
same from Lower Terrebonne and Little
Gallon if there was Q greater depth of
water in those bayous.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
Court Items.

In the Second judicial District Court,
parish of Jefferson, Judge Don A. Pardee
presiding, the jury in the case of J. j.
Daniels, indicted for the murder of Joseph
Cooke, near Barstaria in December, 1873,
brought in verdict on Thursday evening
of guilty" At the first trial Of the case
the jury had rendered . verdict of guilty
without capital punishment.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
Peace i'm Spain.

The Spanish residents of this city will
celebrate the re-establishment of peace in
Spain tomorrow. The ceremonies will con-
sist of public celebration and a civic feast
given at II A. M. at Lodge Perfect Union,
Rampant street. between st. Philip and Du.
maine.
The Acknowledgements Of the REPUB.
LICAN are due for q courteous invitation to
attend
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
Amusemen0.

The Varieties Theatre, now the only
home of the drama in the city, is occupied
with she revival of Boucic ault's "Arrah-
M Pogue" There are no better repre-
sentatives of Arrah, the heroine of this
domestic Irish drama, than Mrs. Chanfrau,
who is the same painstaking artiet she
was years ago, when at the old Varieties
she won the hearts OF theatre -goers by her
natural acting. Colonel o. Grady and Mojor
Coffin are characters we'll acted by Mr..
Frank Mordaunt and T. F. Egbert, and
Shaun finds good representative in Mr..
w. F. Burroughs, who is conscientious in
all he does. The same play will be repeated
at the matinee to-day and this evening.
The variety entertainments at the St.
Charles Theatre are meeting with fair
share Of patronage. The acts of Mics Angie
Schott, "Magic Toys" and MASKS and
Facee," are very clever, mystical and ar
tistic. A matinee performance will be
given to-day.
The famous military German band will
arrive to-day by the steamer City of Alton,
and give their first concert at Grunewald
Hall, on Sunday evening. This band con-
oists Of forty musicians. under the direction
of Carl Beck. They are picked artists from
the Thirty fourth aud Seventy sixth Regi-
ments of Prrssian Infantry, furloughed By
the German government, for the purpose of
allowing them to appear at the American
centennial exposition. The band has been
very successful in the West, performing
the best music of Meyerbeer, Weber,
Verdi and Strauss, with brass and
reed Instruments, competing in the same
field with Gilmore's great military band of
New York. Mr.. Covert is the cornet
soloist, and he manipulates his chosen in
strument with the hand of master. A
novelty with the German band, never
heard here. will be the qusrtette of French
horns, rendering rich and pathetic music in
songs without words.
An entertainment will be given at St.
Patrick's Hall on Friday evening next for
the benefit of our boy soldiers, tho Royal
Guards. The concert part of the evening,
previous to the dance, will be under the
direction of Professor Duquesney, assisted
by Mr.. Marks Kaiser, who will make his
first appearance since his tour with Mile.
Titjens and Miss Arabella Goddard.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15

The thermometer st Louis Frigero's, No.
50 Chartres street, stood as follows April
IA: At 8 A. M, $50; at P. NJ, 63o; at 6 p.
NJ, 630. Lowest point during the night Of
April l3, $50. Rain during the night of
April l3 and morning of April IA, nine
tenths of an inch.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
A Sensation at st. Augustine.

| On Tuesday plot was discovered among
| the Indians stationed at Fort San Marco,
| in St. Augustine. BY which o general up.
rising and slaughter of the white inha6
itants was prevented. Several of the In.
| dians who had been confined were to be
| released, and then, after Overpowering the
single soldier who remains in the fort at
| night, they were to sally forth and massa-
ere the inhabitants, and, if possible, the
soldiers who stay at night in the barracks,
q mile distant. Fortunately, the plot was
betrayed to Captain Pratt by enc of the
ki0was. and the murderous design frustra-
ted in time. Poisoned arrows were the
weapons to be used, with the addition of
what guns could be obtained. The alarm
is said to have caused many of the visitors
IN st. Augustine to make active prepara-
tions for leaving.
Since writing the above We learn that the
Cheyennes plotted to murder Captain
Pratt. the sergeant in the fort, and another
white man, and then escape into the city.
All the Indians were not agreed in the plot,
and one of the Kiowas told Captain Pratt
of the design, and when the Indians went
into the mess room the captain had the
two by two and ironed. Another story re-
ports that half breed started the plot. and
told the Indians that they might obtain
shelter with the Seminoles in the Ever
glades.
The following statement has inst been re-
ceived from St. Augustine:
A email party Of Kiowa Indians, some
fifteen or sixteen in number, confined in
Fort Marco, were to-day discovered a. hsv-
ing formed q mutinous plot to do some &C.
riOus mischief to those in command. and
to make there escape tonight. Under
these circumstances, Captain Pratt called
in the aid of . detachment of soldiers
from the garrison and had them arrested
and ironed and placed in one of the dun
geons of the fort. The full details of the
plot have not yet trsnspired. although it
is fully known to Captain Pratt, who has
heretofore treated them with the utmost
Christian kindness and given them almost
liberty.-JacksonviAe San.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15

Tell your mother,
Tell your brother,
Tell your father,
To buy Tell vour unele.
ticket in the Tell vour amt.
Golden Drawing, Tell your cousip,
Opera House, Tell your nephew.
99th instant. Tell your husband,
Tell your son,
Tell your wife.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15

The woman has not lived in vain who
dies under patchwork bed quilt made of
5000 pieces with her own hands.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15

There is such . thing a. becoming too
brilliant. Beware of young man whose
friends are compelled to look 1t him
through smoked glass.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
Time flies.
Tina Aian
JAMES B. EADS,

Time flies.
Time flies.
Time hies.-But two weeks off.
But two weeks off.
But two weeks of.
Golden drawing,
Golden drawing,
Golden drawing,
Opera House, April %.
Opera House, April %.
Buy ticket. Opera House, April g.
Buy ticket.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15

tVOAT0UkD Oh Al0RrN PAoH. /
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15


ports and papers must be gene through
with.
No one will gainssy the fact that such a
mass of valuable material as has been
shown to to be in the hands Of the bureau
shall not bo utilized-shall not be spread
broadcast, or ut least put directly before
the people, for whom it is especially in
tended. To do this properly $4,000 per
annum was appropriated to get the matter
uniformly arranged. ably compiled and
properly illustrated by ergravings and
drawings. Sometimes special work outside
was required to be done, and at euch times
the special work was paid for. Within the
last three or four years the appropriation
for this work, in place of $2o,0 900, has been
about $l5,oO0 per aunun. Consequently,
these latter reports have not been nearly 80
full, 80 exhaustive in the treatment OF
prominent subjects, and much interesting
and valuable matter had to be thrown out
altogether. Even with all this, theee ias'
reports have met with the unqualihed In
dorsement OF every one.
The present. Democratic House OF Repre-
sentstives has put upon them the seal OF its
approval by authorizing, as the House did
the other day, the printing Of 100000 extra
copies of the Agricultural Reports of 1874
and 1875. The Same Congress, however, in
its apparent mania for upsetting our pres
ent system of executive government by al-
lowing appropriations barely sufficient to
pay salaries to officials, much less provide
tor the work to DO performed BY the said
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-12-09

At the meeting 'of the council last
Monday night the question of fire pro-
lection was brought up and resolution
passed calling public citizens meeting,
to meet at Wertheimer's store tonight
to take the subject into consideration.
Certainly something should be done to
secure some kind of protection against
fire. The only thing which can be done
this season of the year, is putting the
old hand engine in condition to be of
service, and organizing company to
take charge of it. The company cannot
be organized and made of any use unless
the property owners, personally, take an
interest i'm it and join the company and
make working members of it. If they
do not take an interest in tho matter, no
other class of our citizens can be expect
ed to. Committees should be appointed
to investigate during .he winter the mer-
its and prices of the various fire engines
which are before the public, so that by
the opening of navigation in the spring
some intelligent decision can be made as
to what is the fire protection best adapt
ed 10 this place. We trust that the
meeting called for will be largely attend
p1
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-12-09
Blast Furnace.

The manufacturing interests of the
country in all its branches are looking
up. Especially is this the case with the
iron interest. The Elk Rapids Progress
says that the blast furnace at Elk Rap
ids will probably make 10000 tons of
iron this year, and that it has not only
been paying expenses this season, but
has earned between four and five dollars
per ton on manufactured iron. Consid-
ering the number of furnaces out OF blast,
this is very encouraging. IL is estimated
that the furnace consumes an average of
$4,000 cords of hard wood per annum, or
in other words, it clears 600 acres OF land
yearly-nearly an entire section. Such
an institution at Cheboygan would aid
very materially in developing the agrl-
cultural industries of this county, for
each acre cleared for wood, would come
under profitable cultivation. Before the
panic there were arrangements nearly
completed for the erection of a blast fur
mace here. We trust with the revival of
this branch of manufacturing industry,
that this business will not be overlooked.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-12-09
The Speakership.

The question Of who shall be speaker
of the next House of Representatives of
this state, has commenced to agitate the
public mind somewhat, and candidates
are beginning to spring up from various
sections of the state. We some time
since made the statement that there was
no important Office ever vacant, but that
the Saginaw region put in claim for it.
This is not an exception. There was but
one Republican member of the Legisla-
ture elected from Saginaw county, HI. III.
Hoyt, and the Saginaw folks think that
he should be elected Speaker. There is
no section of the state which has so many
office holders, in proportion to their Re-
publican vote, as the Saginaw valley
We do not think Saginaw has any claim
upon the office. Mr.. Hoyt is an able and
capable man, no doubt, perhaps as much
so as any whose names are mentioned in
this connection, but there are sections of
the state which have claims upon the
Republican party of the state, claims
which have not been recognized, which
should be looked to in giving out this of
fee. If the rest of the state had done
no better than Saginaw, there would
have been no chance for the Republicans
to elect Speaker at all. Saginaw ought
to be content to allow the Spcakership
to 60 to some other part of the state un-
contested, and the Republicans there
would do SO, had they the interests of
the Republican party at heart.