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The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02
POLITICAL.
FIFTH WARD
SPECIAL NOTICES.
The committees appointed s"r

The committees appointed tor the Isur~
pose If assisting the Congressional Committee
of Investigation have opened rooms over the
Cotton Exchange, ipi uravier street Members
Of the committees and The Secretary will be in
constant attendance between the hours of ~ m.
and o'clock D. m every day. tn receive any
information regarding the Federal Offices Of The
New Orleans Custbmhouse
Ey order Of Committee
myntf PHILIP POWER. In. Secretary.
RtIlCe Louisiana Equitable Life tn-
sutance Company.-An annual election Tor hi
recturs Of this Company was held on Monday,
April II. ls1G The following gentlemen con
sliute the Board If Directors.
CHARLES CHATFE A. THOMPSON,
ALEX. MARKS u. VI. PAY II.
II !. NOSE, JOHN H. PIKE,
ion J. ADAMS. ANDREW PATTON,
T. g. HERNDoN. " y. SCHMIDT.
JAMES l. DAY. JOHNS GROVES
I W sTONE T. u. BRIGGS.
JOHN HBNDERSOS Z. A. TYLER,
4. II. NEWMAN II. 7 WALSHE.
E. H. FAIHCEILD ! u. GAMOns
r. W. OGDEN. HENRY ABRAHAM,
Al tho annual meeting OF the Board OF Direct
cre. held Tuesday May Q, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
SAMUEL MANNING TODD. President.
u. W. OGDEN Vina President
ANDREW PATTON Second Vice President
WILLIAM HENDERSON, Secretary,
WILLIAM HENDERSON
nvti I'm Sprrelary
Notice to Noldnrs 0f city ROuds-De-
partment Of Finance City Hall, May g. 1876
Holders Of City bonds who intend TO fund now
~ hereafter under the act Of the Legislature
approved March q. 1916. are cautioned against
lntarhing or dapoeing ot coupons or parts ot
coupons for interest accrued since July [. 1875
otherwise such bonds will not be available for
funding. I'D. PILsBuRY,
mvpt II Administrator of Finance.
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02

The most pleasant breezes, good hunting. fish
ing. yachting bathing, eating and drinking at
Point Clear. Go to the Grand Hotel there and
be happy.
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02
Repairing Promptly Done.
Trunks Neatly Covered.
rTRISCONGS RESTAURANT
EFFREsHMENT SALOON

viii open on SUNDAY. May Il, at the extreme
end Of the wharf. at tho LAKE END
of the Pontcbartrain Railroad.
The best Cocks. viands, Wines and Liquors.
Prices very moderate. The peasantest place
for a Dinner, Breakfast or Supper on the AXE.
Persons desiring to order meals In advance can
leave them at TRISCONI'S. corner Canal and
Decatur streets
Liquors and Soda at city prices. inyi2 I'm
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02

Monthly advertisements, having the run ~
the paper, inserted every other day. to he
charged two thirds the above rates.
Editorial page monthly advertisements, each
square, $40 per month.
Hates Tor Advertising I" the Weekly New
bsiea as Democrat.
Transient aud general rates the same as for
Daily
Advertisements FOR the period of one month
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02

The Grand Hotel at Point Clear resrs its
breeze wooing front Immediately facing the
Gulf Go there.
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02
TO RENT.

EOR HENT-RAISED COTTAGE AT PASS
Il Christian. on tho beach, in the central part
Of tho town. Apply to d. II. FURMAN. Oaron-
deet street New Orleans. mvii TN
ENOR RENT-A NICE. LARGE FRONT ROOM,
- with wide piazza. Would furnish meals. if
desired Apply al No. s3l Rampant street, near
Calliopc. mh2GH
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02

LEEDS FOUNDRY.
tEST'A BLISfED IN ieqbl
Corner Delord aud Toucher streets,
NEW ORLEANS.
We are prepared tn manufacture
STEAM ENGINES. BOILERS.
SUGAR Mills, SUGAR KETTLES.
DRAINING MACHINES. Saw MILLS.
CoTToN PRESSES, NEWELL SCREWS.
GIN GEARING. FURNACE MOUTHS.
CRATE BARS. JuDsoN's GOVERNORS.
and all kinds Of Plantation and Steamboat work
and every description of Machinery for the
South. LEEDS h 90
We beg to call special attention 10 our large
stock of Sugar Kettles. Having purchased the
entire stock Of the Stacker Iron Works Of Ten
nessee for which Mr. u. T. Lavllebeuyre was
formerly agent, land the only genuine Tennes.
see Kettle IN the market.l we offer the same 70,
sale, as well as those Of our own tnan ufW,ture
Al Reduced Rates. price lists Of which we will be
pieasad to furnish ON anplieaiinn.
pp1a Am dAW
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02
River N ews.
oFricE Nrw 0RlEass DnMochAr. , 4, .

OFFlcE NFw ORiFASs DEMocRAT.
Friday June O. 1s76-t2 m.
Tpe undersigned. In assuming charge Of the
River Department Of the DAILY DEMOCRAT. re-
snepf ,liy splicts from his steamboat friends a
continuance of the patronage 50 literally eg-
tended during his connection with the New Or
leans Crescent and Bulletin.
'0''"7 GEO. J. DUNCAN.
orrtcr nr OBSERVATION. SIGNAL SERVICE U.S.A.l
New Orleans June. I, 1915.
Daily report Of the stage Of water. with .hanges
In The twenty -fcuf hours ending at y. n.
In, Ipyr Eian Inl
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02
Reynolds Iron Works.
Corner Delord and Fulton streets
w. II. REYNOLDS, Proprietor,


w. II. REYNOLDS, Proprietor,
Postoifiee Box 1890. Mechanics Exchange
Box 100,
Manufacturer and Dealer In
ELEVATORS = Timpes Patent Hand and
Steam Power Elevators for Stores. Warehouses.
etc.
WIRE ROPE-For Elevators kept constantly
on hand.
REYNOLDS Celebrated Revolving Wrought
Iron Screw. Plantation Cotton Press.
CAREY'S- Patent Ground Anger for Wells.
Fen No Posts. etc.
ESTIMATES- Made on application for Iron
Fronts Ornamental Columns. Ralings. Fences.
Galleries. Verandahs. and every description OF
Wrought and Cast Trou Work for Bridges Flat
and Box Cars for Railroads. Plantation Steam
boat and Machinery in General.
Send for Circulars. fe2
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02

JOHN g. FLEMING,
t4l.....rO rOyDRAS STREET .....1 14a
Beweau St Charles and Camp streets.
Keeps constantly ON hand the LARG EST spa
BEST SELECTED assortment of
Gas Fixtures
to he found in this or any other cit sells
them at
NEW r0RK RETAIL PRIGEa
He has also Oh hand Il LARGE SUPPLY Of the
very finest
SHADES
and GLASS GLOBES
TO he found IN any market and all kinds Of
BELL HANGING MATERIAL
From the Cheapest to the Finest PURE BRONZE
METAL
BELL PULLS,
BELLS. Etc.
And tho
BEST GONGS.
for all purposes and Of all sizes made.
Gas Fitting, Steam Fitting & Bell Hanging
Done bs him can be depended on and will al
ways be done PROMPTLY. and with due regard
10 TASTE and STYLE Of surroundings.
Having been In the business. practically for
SEVENTEEN years. all he asks is FAIR
CHANCE
Fixtures purchased by Plate or Pattern will
always be sold at Manufacturers Prices, and
he purchaser protected against defective goods
tnfc
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02
On tombstone at Shutesbury, Mass.
Is the following epitaph, dated 1903

HE facet Johannes Straw.
Who forty years followed the law
When he died. the devil cried.
John. give us your paw.
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

ltOFARTNERSHIp RI MIR THEO. SHUTE
~ agent. becomes partner In my business
from this date The style If the firm will be
J. w. PLATT 4 co. lo3 Camp street, corner Of
Poydras. j. W. PLATT
New Orleans. June I. 1916 iel 1w
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02
INSURANCE NOTICES.


JOHN HENDERSON, President.
+. IRWIN. Vice President.
TlIOS. F. BRAGG, Secretary.
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-02
CRESCENT MUTUAL INSURANCE com
PANY.
New Orleans. May ao 1878

The trustees, in conformity to the ameaded
charter. submit the following statement a the
affairs Of the company on the 30th April tsys
National Republican., 1876-08-22
ONE QUESTION SETTLED.

Among the many gross falsehoods put
forth by the Democratic leaders to in
fluence the coming elections is the state
ment that there is an army of 100, 900
office holders, and that there has been an
enormous increase under the present ad,
ministration. A table prepared by Fer
nando Wood year or two ago, and pre-
tended to be compiled from the Biennial
Register from 1859 to 1875 inclusive, now
figures largely in Democratic speeches and
newspapers. This table is false in every
particular. There is not true statement
in it 1t is pretended that the total num-
Der of civil officers in 1869 was 81, POT, and
that in 1871 the number was 57,6O5, and
that in 1878 the number had increased to
so, 637, or an increase of $4,000 in two
wears, and that in 1875 the number had
swelled to 94,119, being an increase of
$1,000 in four years. Every man OF COM
mon sense knows that this is false. In
every Department, except the Post Office,
the number of civil officers has been gradu
ally decreasing for the last four years. The
increase of postmasters is at the rate OF
about 5000 per annum, and the letter
carriers have increased by extending that
service to cities of 20, 0O0 inhabitants.
To settle this matter, Senator Cragin in
troduced in the Senate a resolution calling
on the heads of all the Executive Depart
ments for the aggregate number of civil
officers in OF connected with each Depart
ment, not including laborers and mechanics
employed by the day or contractors, for
the year above named. The resolution
passed the Senate on the Gath day of July
last. The head of each Department has
made reply, and Senator Cragin has COM
piled from the reports the following official
table, which he presented to the Senate on
the 18th of August and which may be
found in the Congressional Record of
August 16, page 50:
Statement Of the total number Of civil officers in
or connected icith the Departments from 1859 10
1875, inclusive, as reported by the head Of each
Department in compliance Nth Senate reSoIu-
tiOn Of July "A. 1870.
National Republican., 1876-08-22

derstand these principles better than
do the inhabitants of the "Pine Tree
State" Will they. then, allow local diff
fererces and prejudices about men to SO
bewilder and mislead them that they can
for single moment contribute by their In
fluence and votes to weaken the great
party of freedom in the country and In
Congress?
We trust that such men as Secretary
Morrill,, Senators Hamlin and Blaine, ana
Representatives Frye and Hale, with others
we might name, will be able, as we know
that they are laboring to this end, to lift
these discontented people out of their diff
culties, and that all things will be SO har-
monized that grand oldfashIoned victory
from Kittery Point to the Madawaska will
be achieved, so that when the smoke OF the
September battle shall have passed away
it will be seen in the clear sunlight that
''the beacon is still there, " and Maine,
true TO her motto, "Dirigo," " will say to
all the States. 81 direct"
National Republican., 1876-08-22
THE MAINE ELECTION.

On the 18th of September Maine will
cast her vote for Governor, State officers
and members of Congress. She will choose
q Legislature which is to elect United
States Senator, who is to succeed Secretary
Lott NJ. Morrill,, or perhaps more accu-
rately, we should say the successor of Mr..
Blaine. The next Senator may be Mr..
Morrill, or Mr. Blaine, but this is not a
question for present discussion in these
columns.
Our purpose now is to show the import
ance of the forthcoming Maine election,
because of its influence upon the Republi-
can cause and Republican triumphs or de-
feats in all parts of the country. Ever
since 1910 Name, in its annual election,
has been significant of triumph or defeat to
the one or other party. The almost uni
versal remark has been, "As goes Name so
goes the Union"
We have never doubted. We do not
now doubt the popular expression of her
vote on the general ticket 1t will be in
behalf of freedom and good government
but it is evident that influences are al
work which will weaken our cause in
two OF the Congressional districts OF
the State, the First and the Fifth. Di-
visions in these districts may lead to
the election of Democrats. A more de-
plorable result can scarcely be contem-
plated at such time as this. With the
conduct of the present ex Confederate Con-
gress before us is it possible to consider
with any degree of complacency the bare
probability that districts largely and over
whelmingly Republican will, or can on
account of wrangling and petty jeslousles,
be gwen over to the enemy? The bare
possibility of such result is a most un-
happy and unsatisfactory contemplation.
Are our friends in Maine aware of the
vital issues OF this campaign? What we
are fighting for now is net merely for a
better system of finance, better tariff for
revenue and protection, civil service re-
form and retrenchment and economy,
as important as all these questions may
be. The great and paramount issue
now is have We a Government? Is
the American citizen, black or white,
entitled to protection while he thinks as he
pleases, spesks as he pleases and votes as
he pleases on every inch OF American soil {?
This is the great and paramount question
which, in this autumnal campaign, towers
as far above all financial and mere monetary
and business questions as the highest
mountains on earth tower above the lowest
valleys. What are banks and tariffs, finance
and business, if we have not q government
that can protect every one and all of its cit
zens in liberty and personal freedom
DO the people of Maine understand this'
We know they DO. No people w;
National Republican., 1876-08-22
shape Of increased beggarism, pauperism

shape of increased beggarism, pauperism,
tramping and brig andage.
1t may mitigate our indignation, or at
least our disappointment. at the shortcom-
ings of our rulers to mark that the cause
of our trouble lies far back beyond the
reach of legislation. Seek for it in the
rooted antipstby of our countrymen for
productive industry; into every occupa-
ton offering the slightest chance to live by
the wits five men pressing to do what one
would do better; if the hands must be
used, then only in the genteeler ways, and
at what looks least like productive labor.
Mark everywhere the first ambition of far
mers' children to escape from their natu-
raj occupation, to crowd into the cities, to
get into some of the already. .overdone posts
of living by the wits. Then follow expe-
dients-legislation piled and tariffs modi-
fied-to give an artificial impulse to busi-
ness. Hence either making an unnatural
growth; hence, in the best-settled districts,
the soil not cultivated to half its capabilities;
hence it is source to Imagination that the
conscious earth resenis the indignity.
Our cities are overrun with Young men, loaf
ing and spunging, pluming their gay wings
and sporting their bright watch chains, less
10 be blamed than pitied, as the victims Of
the vicious public sentiment which regards
such life as vastly more respectable than
donning palmer garb and going in for the
culture of the ground.
Aman of seventy might have led quieter
life if he had started with the knowledge
acquired during his long life. How pow
erlessly reason pleads against popular mis-
takes till her advice is seconded by the
ruder buffetings of experience. Those
bufetings are beginning to tell. A speedy
return to better times is not likely; hardly
desirable. A longer process of cure Is
likely to be more lasting, besides the more
hopeful, as expressing thoughts dawning
on the honest and earnest everywhere.
Peter Cooper proposes an expedient for
rendering panics impossible. Set that side
by side with an expedient to render wreck
of fortune, health or reputation an impossi-
BILE accident to the luxurious spendthrift,
and the more general expedient to divest
of its terrors that salutary warning, The
way of transgressors is hard"
National Republican., 1876-08-22
sTAGNATIoN AND HARD TIMEs-THE
REMEDY

What of legislative relief? We are natu
rally indignant to be put off with hollow
pretenses of sham economy, when so obvi-
ously rests on Rll who can command money
or credit and on Government chiefly, IS
the ablest of all, the duty to start new en-
t-rprises for employing idle hands, moved
by the double consideration, that now work
my be done cheaper than ever, and 80
may be avoided dangers otherwise sure to
result from the staguant elements in the
National Republican., 1876-08-22

THE Columbia Is. c. Union Herald,
notwithstanding that it has long since been
ruled out of the Republican party for its
treachery, is just now busily engaged in
traducing Hon. r. B. Elliott and other
members of the Republican executive com
mittee, because they exercise their own
Judgment as to the time for calling the
State convention. 1t will indeed be re-
lief to an afflicted community when new
Republican Executive assumes control in
South Carolina, and places its party organ
under the editorial management of repu-
table person.
National Republican., 1876-08-22
1t will be observed that the total number

1t will be observed that the total number
in 1875 was only g. and not "a, 119, as
falsely reported. The Democratic state
ment is only $4,000 too large, or about one
half greater than the actual number. This
lie has been travelling for some time, and it
is about time it was stopped.
There is an apparent increase in the
Treasury Department. but this is explained
by the Secretary Of the Treasury, in his
letter in answer to Senate resolution, Ex.
Doc. 81, as follows;
"The large apparent increase of 1878 over
1871 is accounted for in part by the fact that
the names of 999 gaugers and SSS storekeepers
of internal revenue (total 1,SS7) were pub
Ished in the Blue Book for 1878 for the first
time, but such officers had been in the service
in larger numbers since 1865.
"The increase of 900 in 1875 over 1878 is ac-
counted for by the fact that in the tirst-named
year the names Of ST deputy collectors of in
ternal revenue were published in the Blue
Book for the first time, although even a large
number of that class of officers had been in the
service since 1866, and the establishment by act
OF March 3, 1875, of the national bank redemp-
ton agency added 152 employees to the Treas
urer's office and so to the Office of the Comp
troller Of the Currency, the amount of whose
salaries is reimbursed by the national banks"
The increase in the War Department in
1875 over 1878 is about 400, and this is only
apparent 1t is more than accounted for
by the Secretary of War in his letter reply
ing to said resolution. The actual number
employed was less than in 1878.
By reference to the report of the Post
master General in reply to said resolution,
Senate Ex. Doc. S3, it will be found that
the number of postmasters in 1875 was
35,547. This number taken from the total
of 62, 172 in above table, leaves 26, 625 other
civil employees of all classes In all the De-
partments in Washington, and throughout
the country. This number of &c, G25 in
cludes all the heads of bureaus, clerks and
messengers in all tie Departments here,
and all the officers and clerks in all the
custom houses; all the route agents, postal
clerks, mail messengers, special agents and
letter carriers; all the internal revenue
officers; all the Indian agents; all the land
offices and all the civil employees of the
United States of every name and kind
throughout the country.
National Republican., 1876-08-22

SITTING BULL BUTLER, amid the most
deafening applause, nominated Wade
Hampton for Governor in the Democratic
convention at Columbia, on the 10th in
stant. The nomination was rendered But
ler, but he declined it on the ground that
he had obeyed Hampton's orders during
the war and he desired to be commanded
by him in the approaching political con-
AioI
National Republican., 1876-08-22

THE economy of the House during its
session just closed, as exemplifed by the
reduction of the naval force, is severely
condemned by the Sunday Herald of this
city. THIS IS, perhaps, case of selfcon
acknowledgements finding fault with
Democrat-or is it a case Of ..dog eat dog
National Republican., 1876-08-22

THE reduction of the navy provided for by
the appropriation bills passed during the late
session of Congress was ostensibly urged in
favor of reform and economy. With &C
customed fatuity and characteristic blum
dering, however, the ex Confederate House
is responsible for the immediate eIpendi-
ture of not less than two hundred thousand
dollars of money in payment of the accu-
mulated salaries Of seamen whose dis
charge is compelled by the act in question.
National Republican., 1876-08-22

WILL Mr.. Randall please rise and ex-
plain how under his system of retrench-
ment and reform the Confederate super
intendent of the document room has had
his salary increased $500, while the Union
soldier superintendent of the stationary
room has his reduced $500?
National Republican., 1876-08-22

SOUTH CAROLINA Republicans must
show themselves equal to the emergency
by placing at the head of their ticket some
thoroughgoing man, in whom the masses
have confidence and for whom they will
vote. Place sterling men to the front and
remand "Gushers' to the rear.
National Republican., 1876-08-22

= THERE is a comforting assurance that
Sam Randall will not be returned to Con
gress next fall. His constituents have dis
covered him to be back pay, salary grab,
swindling demagogue of the most hypo-
critical stripe, and they will have no more
of him in the future. As chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations he has done
more harm to the country at large and the
District of Columbia in particular, than
any other Representative in Congress.
National Republican., 1876-08-22

IN the West a marriage recently took place
Helve. During the ceremony the following
hymns were sung "Blest be the Tie that
Binds" and "What Shall the Harvest BeP'
Some little hatchets. Send on your chrome
now, and don't you forget it.
National Republican., 1876-08-22
| OFFICIAL.l |
NAVY DEPARTMENT, !

wAsHINGToN, July q, 1876.
General Order No. 214:
A medal ofhonor is hereby awarded to John
Costello, ordinary seaman of the United States
steamer Hartford, for gallantry in rescuing
from drowning a landsman of that vessel, at
Philadelphia, July 16, 1876.
Also to John Lucy, second-class boy of the
United States steamer Minnesota, for heroic
conduct on the occasion of the burning of Cas-
tie Garden at New York, July Q, 1876.
GEORGE NJ. RoBEsoN,
Secretary of the Navy.
National Republican., 1876-08-22

Persons Leaving the city during tho sum-
zer months, and wishfng to 6e informed Of
matters transpiring at the city Of Wash
Inqton, can kavs the DAILY NATIONAL Re-
PUBLICAN mailed to their address, frss Of
postage, at the following rates, payable in