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The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-07-22
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
OFFICE N. o. DEMOCRAT.
Saturday. July %. 1876. IL m.
MON ETAngY.
NEW ORLEANS CLEARING HOUSE.

NEW ORLEANS CLEARING HOUSE.
Cleanngs. balances.
July o. ......-.. S495, $40 81 S1f3,D5l 30
Same time last week.. 56s,4s2 06 1883 so
Total last week k........ 3.96l,735 G8 729,26i II
Total week before. 4.885, ,8i1 IS G93.758 30
The money market is unchanged We con-
tinue to quote exceptional paper at go per
cent per annum discount, AL do 10@12. and
second grade l5@l8. First class mortgages
rule at 9H1g per cent per annum, while second
grade are entirely nominal
Gold opened at 11lA@l12 against 1l1T at New
York, and now rules at il1191l1A, against
1llM in that market
Under the decline in gold at New York sterling
Is z4c lower and francs u u cent, the former
being now quoted at 5i4@545 for bill Of lading
and Al clear, Obs for bank. and -@5481a Tor
bank counter rate. and francs at 467]a94.66A Tor
commercial and nominal for bank.
The banks continue to check on New YORK at
u d, cent premium, and commercial sight is still
quoted at 4G-.
Stocks are dull State consois are sill quoted
at 6la@62, and premium bonds at 357s@joA.
COMMERCIAL.
COTTON-Wo have no change to note in the
market which continues inauimate with iltni-
ted enquiry and light Offering, especially OF the
kinds wanted. Thus far we have not heard Oh a
SALE 49,, 49,
Yesterday when the sales proner embraced 400
bales flor the week 22l0l the market closed al tne
following quotations:
AMERICAN STANDARD OF CLASSIFICATION.
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-07-22
OUACHITA RIVER.

NEW ORLEANS AND OUACHITA H'a
TRANSPORTATION COMPAASlI.grrsYx
REGULAR OUACHITA RIVER WEE
PACKET.
Leaves every "WEDNESDAY. at p a. lm1s;sx1
IT. FOR OUACHITA CITY. MUNbn,7 n
l@4st1s Trenton and all landings on On II.
and Ouachita rivers-Tne nne'
draft passenger steamer
WILLIE,
lin place OF Ouachita Belle and Lessio is's5
4. A. Blanks master. -.
will leave as above. making connscliosmss sss
light draft steamers for all the tribuialJ 20 -
For freight or passage apply or 6oafa.pqdd asqdart Y
Capt. +. A. BLANKS, Presiasess P. Nv
No. 2 Canal, corner Dei4n 4ns63 s
HITE & CARLIN, BRITTON ~
ADAMS Il WORK, LORD IL McPEAhE - -
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-07-22

Hayes-crant-Pine words vs.. Pnrsnips

IHufhIo COufIhr.I
If any OF our reform-desiring friends
are in danger OF being carried off their
feet by Mr.. Hayes eloquent disquisition
on the abuses Of the existing civil ser
vice system, we beg to remind them
that the same. thing has been said pc.
fore. quite MS forcibly, and that, too, by
no less n parsonage than the individual
whom Gov. Hayes aspires to succeed.
The following extracts bring together
the uttcrances OF President Grant In
his second annual message, dated De-
ccmber 6, 1870, and Of Coy. Hayes In his
letter OF acceptance in 1876:
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-07-22


Alwys fnvoripg prac-
teal reform. ! respect
fully call your attention
"a one abuse Of long
standing. which ! would
lille to see remedied by
this Congress. II Is u
reform In the civil ser.
vice Of the country.
would have 1t go beyond
the more fixing OF the
tenure Of clerks and
employee. who do not
require "the ltdylce and
consent of the senate
to make their appoint.
ments complete. !
would have IL govern
not the tenure but the
manner Of making all
appointments. There ~
no duty which so much
ombarrasses the Execu-
tive and heads of de-
partments as that Of ap-
pointments, nor Is there
ANY such arduous ana
thankless lab or i'm
posed upon our seia
tore and representa-
tives ~ that Of finding
places for constituents
The present system
does not securethe best
men. and often not even
lit men for public place.
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-07-22
He'd River R1sinE-Great Apprehension
of an Overflow.

SuDInoISeu. Inc neaVy IlSe mere has
alarmed the planters along the river
Immediately below here. The upper
river fell thirteen inches. 1t Is the i'm
preston here that every plantation be-
tween Fulton and the head Of the raft
Is under water, though not a word has
been heard from any OF them since the
high water cut them from the hills.
ENGLAND.
Her Maternal Feelings for the Genial
sioux Are Aroused.
LONDON, July 2l.- In the House of
Commons this evening Sir Edward w.
M. Atkin asked Mr.. James Lawther, one
or the Under Secretaries for the Colonial
Department IL he Guild give any infor-
nation, regarding the conflict between
the United States troops and the Sioux
Indians, many OF which tribe are British
subjects. and whether the origin of the
conflict was not breach of a treaty re-
Rarolng the Indian reservation and sub
sidles, which may provoke widespread
antagonism between the Indians and
whites on both the American and British
territory? He asked whether the Gov
ernment proposed to tender its GOOD
Offices In the interests of the Indian sub
1ects OF Great Britain and of humanity .
Mr.. Lawther replied that SO far no in
formation had been received regarding
the conflict and he could not express an
opinion as to its origin or possible con
sequences; he had no information tend.
ing to show that any British subjects
are connected with these envents. As
At present advised the Government had
no Intention to interfere.
THE BERLIN MEMORANDUM.
Reasons why England Refuses TO Ad.
here, and Other Matters.
The Eastern correspondent lecapitu
htes highlands reasons for refusing (
assent 20 the Berlin memorandum, and
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-05
Grant and the Canvass.

The nomination of Governor Hayes
was made at Cincinnati, ostensibly as -
by the Republican party of
the policy which has shaped the conduct
of affairs by President Grant and his
Administration. President Grant was
so much hurt by what he considered the
ingratitude of those who owed their I'll
to him, that he gave every sign Of an in
tention to throw the party and their
candidate to the dogs, and have nothing
more to do with either. Since that time,
however, his new War Secretary, his
congenial Secretary of the Interior, and
others .of his particular friends, have
caused a complete revolution in his feel
ings. They hayeexplained to him how
the ticket was composed to fool the
people and to enable themselves to
perpetuate their power, and they have
shown him how he may benefit himself
by working for it. His order to the
army has therefore been issued, and
Governor Hayes is invited to spend a
few days with him at Long Branch.
By every means are endeavors made
by the Republican managers to deceive
the people as to the real meaning
of this campaign. They are now say
ing for our amusement that as soon
as his term of Office expires Presi-
dent Grant will make tour of the
world, and they have tried their best to
smother the intelligence that at the same
time General Sherman will resign. The
truth is that Grant and his companions
are playing bold game, which depends
for its success upon the maintenance of
secrecy as to its every detail. In the
country, or out of the country, if Hayes
is elected, Grant will continue toadvance
the scheme of his ambition. With the
present Administration still in power,
with the present army of ofice-holders
still in his possession, and with the army
still devoted to his interests, and the
nominal responsibility for his acts rest
ing upon Hayes, he would have greater
scope for mischief, and the present con-
dition of the South would soon be the
condition of the whole country. Those
who have the welfare of their country
at heart will do well to seriously look at
this matter in its true light, and resolve
that they will at once come to the rescue,
and by their votes decree a change in
the Administration, whereby alone they
can rescue their land from existing
evils, and from the doom which its
present rulers have in store for it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-05
Honderful monkeusnsnes.

The sagacious monkey, who, according
to the time-honored story, used the re-
luctant paw of a cat to withdraw hot
chestnuts from the fire, is outdone by
the performance of another member of
his tribe, which is srecounted bya French
resident in South Africa. in a letter to
Les Mondes. The latter is the possessor
of a large coffee plantation, and his crops
have suffered severely from the ravages
of large species of baboon, which greed
lily devours the fruit of a small tree which
grows among the bushes. The best safe
guards against the depredators are the
wasps whichImake their nests in the lower
part of these trees, for of the fierce attacks
and painful stings of these insects the
balloons have a wholesome fear. One
morning a hideous chorus of yells and
howls was heard from portion of the
plantation where the wasps had most
thickly congregated, and where the fruit
trees, consequently, were heavily laden.
On searching for the cause the writer
saw from afar venerable and ancient
baboon busily engaged in throwing infant
monkeys at the trees. These living pro-
iectiles thus knocked down the nests,
and, of course, were objects of the keen
attentions of the infuriated occupants.
Meanwhile the baboon quietly made his
way up to the upper branches, gorged
himself, and then added insult to injury
to the badly stung monkeys by pelting
them with the rinds and pits Of his
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-05

Joke OF, a Drummer.

James Emmerson, painter with an
eye to joke, hid yalise of essences,
belonging to aSringfeld drummer, in a
barrel the other day, the drummer hav,
ing left them outside store while he
went in. The drummer was told that
man had been seen going up the street
with his valise of essences, and he started
in pursuit. After mile or two of fruit
less running, he returned TO town and was
posted in an other direction, this time
securing constable or two. A man be-
ing spied going up the railroad track
with valise in hand, was run down. In
the meantime, however, as he saw the
officers after him, the stranger jumped
the fences to cross the lots, which started
some boys who were stealing apples in
the orchard, who thought the row was all
on their account, and took to their heels.
OF course the stranger proved to have no
connection with the stolen valise, and on
going back to town it was found. like
John Gilpin after his famous ride, "where
first it was set down."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-05
The Freedmen,s Saving Bank.

Among the many injuries that have
been inflicted by the Republican Admin
istration upon the negroes the basest,
meanest, the most contemplate, is its
management of the Freedmen's Savings
Bank. Conceived and Carried into for
nation by those who were too good to be
kept in the party, its whole design was
to furnish means for saving from unscru-
pulous hands the moneys which might
be received from the newly emancipated.
They were like children in our hands,
unaccustomed to the free use even of
their limbs, and of business methods as
utterly ignorant as the babe in the cradle.
They were emancipated, and money was
their due, and then our Government
came forward and consented to act as
their trustees, and see that they should
not be robbed. 1t was well done. But
when Grant came into power all this was
altered. The peculating hands of his
followers could not be kept from this
prolific field. The depositors were igno-
rant and helpless and could be robbed
with impunity. And they were robbed,
ruthlessly, cruelty, despicably robbed,
and now they are asked not to relax
their confidence in those who have plum
dered them,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-05
South Carolina.
Cincinnati Democrat

The nominations of the Democratic
Convention in South Carolina have ex-
cited much attention, and the political
compaign in that State is watched with
very considerable interest. The Repub-
lican party has become alarmed lest the
Democrats should obtain majority.
The reports come to us from gentlemen
who have Just returned from South Car
olina, that there is fair prospect of
the Republicans being defeated, owing
to so many of the negroes going over to
the Democratic party. The contest of
the Democratic party there being against
the local misgovernmept, which is the
consequence of the great majority of
ignorant and misled negro voters, the
course and conduct of the Democrats is
watched as a test of the purposes and
processes of the Southern people. The war
issues which brought and maintained the
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-05
Modern Josephs.
TRey. Henry Morgan's Lecture.

Rev. Henry Morgan's Lecture
Joseph was private secretary to the
old patriarch Jacob, like Babcock to
Grant, but with this difference, Joseph
reported the evil deeds of his brethren.
Babcock didn't. When Joseph's breth-
rem stole sheep, Joseph exposed the rogues
to Jacob, and won their displeasure.
When Babcock's brethren stole whisky,
Babcock didn't treport to the old man.
He went shares, divided the spoils of the
whisky. Joseph represents the party of
"moral ideas" sold into Egypt-sold to
the spoil grabbers. Judah said: "Let
us sell Joseph" Now Judah was a
shrewd fnancier. He saw there was
money in the slave trade, so he put his
brother in the market, sold him to his
cousins. Reuben was the best of the
cabinet, he designed to rescue Joseph
run an underground railroad. 1t is we'll
for Poiphar that he did not purchase
either Reuben or Judah for servants, he
could not trust them in his family.
Grant says: "Ididn't sell Joseph, only
took double salary and few presents u
Babcock says: Il didn't sell the party,
l only took a few thousand from the
whisky ring" Belknap says: 81 didn't
sell him, 1 only got 5000 out of the
suttler's post, just to please my wife,
Delano says: Il only made few thou
sands out of the land jobs and the In.
dians." Boss Sheppard says: 81 only
took $4,000 out of the Freedman'l
Bank" Schenck says: 81 only got the
Britishers to invest in Emma Mine.
Yet all had their part of the shekels, al
made money out of the sale of poor Jo
seph, or the Republican party. In oul
day Amalek means the whisky ring
and Washington rings. And Saul said
"I have done as thou commanded me.
Samuel said: "Ah! ha! Hast thou
What meaneth this bleating of sheep ant
lowing of oxen? ?" Saul said: 81 hav,
kept the best of the spoils to sacrifice t,
the Lord" So SAYS the whisky ring
"Kept best of the spoils to serve tn
party with" Samuel said: "Obedienc
is better than sacrifice. Bring hithe
Agag, king of the Amalekitesp An
Samuel hewed Agag to pieces before tn
] Lord.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-05
Governor Tilden's Income Tax.
New York Graphic.


One of the Republican papers of this
city has charged Governor Tilden with
defrauding the government by making
false return of his income for 1852,
and with perjury in taking false oath
as to its correctness. 1t stated that his
actual income for that year, from discov-
cred sources, amounted to $4,000,
while he swore that his net income was
only $7,118. Mr.. Abram S. Hewitt ap-
piled to Judge Sinnott, the former con-
fidential law clerk of Mr.. TIlden, who
knows all the facts bearing on the case,
for full and explicit explanation of the
whole matter. Judge Sinnott has re-
piled, taking up the chargeand consider
ing each of its thirteen specifications in
detail. He shows, with what will be
generally conceded as satisfactory con-
clusiveness, that Mr.. Tilden's actual in
come, from his professional earnings and
other sources which were submitted
to taxation under the terms of the law,
was only about $1,000. What he re-
ceived from the Fort Wayne and Chi
cago Railroad was for services rendered
in 1859, 1860, and 1861; and the Man
ual of the Direct and Excise Tax System
prepared by Mr.. Boutwell, and officially
approved by Secretary Chase says:
Physicians and lawyers should include
actual receipts for services rendered in
1862. together with an estimate of unre-
allied or contingent income due to that
year." By the express terms of the law
he was not required to return the earn
ings of the previous years which hap
pened to be paid in 1862. Mr.. Tilden
may or may not have underestimated
i" the unrealized or contingent income
due to that year," but it was hard to tell
whether his investments in the stocks
and bonds of struggling railroads would
ever be worth anything. Mr.. Tilden
was in the same predicament as other
professional men and merchants and cap
italists were at that time, when it was
hard to foretell how things would event.
uate, and his return was probably as
nearly correct as that of nine men out of
every ten. He may be fairly acquitted
of the charge of intentional fraud, and
the charge Of perjury falls with it. In
fact, no one outside of an insane asylum
or political machine-shop ever seriously
believed that he was guilty of perjury.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-05
THE SPIDER ANDTHE FLY.

"Wil you walk into my parlor 2' said Spider Grant
to Hayes;
"Ts the nattest little parlOr that ever took your
The way into my parlor lies by the Long Branch
beach,
And a de@iiOhn OF Bourbon is always within
"oh, no, nop' said the timid Fly; "dOn't ask me,
I entreat;
The party vows your beach to be quicksand for
my feetln
"Pm sure you must be giddy with being swung so
Let me put you in my little bed }" said the Spider to
Rings and strong Rings are drawn around, Rings
outside and Rings in;
And ySs 1o,y you rest IN play your hand and then
"oh, no, moi" said the meek, small Fly, "rd like
TO, but tbs said
That schurz would surely cut me If rested in your
bed"
Said the grim old Spider to the Fly, " Dear pard,
what shall do
To prove yeu that the sefsame boat must hold both
me and your
Just come here to my sideboard, and III mix you
up drink
There's nothing like cocktail to help a man to
"oh, no, non said the pious Fly, "you know I'm
Mixed liquors abOminate, and always take mine
straightp
Crusaderl" said the SPIDER it strikes me you are
green;
But, pretty as you think yourself, you can't run
this machine
Just come into my par,or here-there's no one here
but Sylph'
He'll teach you in five minutes to know how It's
" I thank you, noble tricnd," said Fly; az really
Ts let the people know know the people round
your board"
The spider grinned, ard took his grog down with a
gentle toss,
And sent for Don and bloody Zach and Shepherd.
called the Boss.
He'll have to come to us" said Zach, or we will
smash his slate;
And if he don't come early-why, the milksop may
Let schurz vet nurse him he viii, let Curtis stir
his pap,
He'll never cut his eye teeth till he sits in the old
mans lapP
fly,
With cunning buzz of aattery, the Spiders web
With timid praise he hung aioof, then near and
Thought only Of the way to win-the Spider held
the clew;
Thought only OF one end, Success, and heard the
coming storm
Then dropped right into Grantism for shelter from
Reformi
The Spider grimly took the Fly, and shared him
with his friends;
And here both Fly and Spider, tso also this fable
ends;
Fer Sammy Tilden came and swept them clean up
And let the sunshine in again, where all was dust
And this should teach Republicans, when they re-
forming Try,
To brush away their Spider if they wish to save
their Fly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-05
WHOLE NUMBER 492.
party in power, are in reality

Republican party in power, are in reality
obsolete. The Republican party, there
fore, seeks to find strength in adoptinga
cry which will revive as vigorously as
possible the spirit which brought them
into power. And this they find in the
pretended danger with which the success
of the Democratic party threatens the
settlement of the questions raised by the
war, especially those questions relating
to the condition of the emancipated and
enfranchised negro.
Now, no Republican in his senses be-
lieves that the Democracy of the North
have the slightest intention or desire to
interfere with the status of the negro, or
to repeal the war legislation. The at
tempt is to impress the popular mind
with the idea that the Democratic party.
owing its success to the Southern vote,
will be controlled in its policy by its
Southern wing, and that the Democrats
at the South are not only determined to
force this reactionary policy upon the
party, but that they intend by intimida-
tion and violence, to suppress the colored
votes of that section. This cry, and the
immense patronage of the administration,
are literally the only elements which
give vitality to the Republican party,
but they are very powerful elements.
Every body feels that this everlasting
"negro" question is worn out, and that
the infamous character of the Republi-
can statements at the South can not be
much longer defended. But as the pres
ent condition of public affairs promises
to either party who may now succeed,
long lease of power, the Republican party
will naturally make every effort to hold
what they have.
There is but one way in which the
South can render efficient aid to the
Democratic party. This is to prove the
falsity of the accusation.
The conduct of the campaign in South
Carolina is of the deepest consequence,
both to the South and to the Democratic
party; and we therefore trust that the
policy pursued by our friends in that
State, will be characterized with decision,
and that that the administration will be
taught that unconstitutional interference
with States Rights only knits more
closely together those, whether colored or
white, who have been insulted by the in
PRODUCTION of the military, and that
South Carolina will shake of the shackles
that have SO long bound her, hand and
foot, in subsection to Republican despot-
ism, and then there will be probability
that the "Solid South" will be no sham,
but stern reality.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-05
Whisky Frauds and Southern Claims.

lFrom Speech of Senator Thurman.I
Then, what about their whisky frauds?
You have heard of crooked whisky? :?
You Democrats are accustomed to take
yours straight. You have heard of the
prosecutions at st. Louis. You have
heard, too, of the prosecutions at Chi
cago, at Milwaukee, Louisville, and the
other places, and you have heard about
the Government having been defrauded
by these whisky transactions of sums
which go way up into the millions in
dollars, and how it was perpetuated? /
defy any man to point to one single
case-I repeat, one single case-that has
been tried in which the man was tried
for the fraud, didn't accomplish his pur-
pose by the corruption of the Internal
Revenue officer. How in the good name
could he cheat the revenue if the officers
would do their duty? 1t was by collu-