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The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-05
Continental
BENEVOLENT TTON,

BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIONS,
GRAND MILITARY
MASK, DRESS, and FANCY DRESS BALL
For tho Benefit Of
COMPANY A, CONTINENTAL GUARDS,
Will be Given at
ST. PATRICK'S HALL.
On Camp street. opposite Lafayette Square,
Even,ng Of the a u o. 81 February Ncrs.
The Ono Hundred and Forty-Fourth Anniver
sary Of the Birth Of
WASHINGTON.
COMMITTEE or ARRANGEMENTS:
John G. Fleming, Chairman.
y wT f. F Watns XIX x f MeNs Bess s
REcEtTros COMMITTEE:
Clement s.. Walker. Chairman
Samuel NJ Todd. Daniel Edwards.
John II. Leefo. John Clark
Col. A. W. Bosworth, VIM. TenbriDk,
Hon, John Livingston. Harry BldweIl,
NJ CarviH, aeorge Purves.
Charles Gould. Marcus tynayle.
Thos r Hodges. VIM. Mehle.
John Hawkins, Joseph Donaldson.
Chris. Moble John NJ. Cullen. NJ. d..
Geo. X. Finley. VIM. GilIen.
r. NJ. Baker. J, J, MeGinnis;
p Il. Moran, i. w. Ouackenboss.
Gerard Stith, Charles W, Drown,
A. II. smith. James wilson.
Vim. II. Morgan, VIM. Bedell.
John G. Hood. Geo w. England.
w. r. Scovel
for ladies' invitations may be left
Mt the store Of +. A. Tyler Esd., lis Canal
street, or Mt the store OF John @. Fleming,
ESQ, Secretary Of the Association. at IA
poydras street. or through p. 0. Box 1886.
BY order Of TW. BOTHICk,
President Continental Benev Assn.
T. NJ MONTGOMERY.
Captain Com pany A, Continental Guards.
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The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-05
SPECTAL NOTICES.

Property Holders Union. A special
meeting Of the Central Council Of tho shove
named Union will be held ut Grunewald Hall
SATURDAY EVENING, Feb. S, at O'Clock. As
business Of great importance will be discussed,
p,lnetual attendance Ia urgently requested,
ARCHIBALD MITCHELL, President
H.. @. WHARTON, Secretary. fe5
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-05

NEW ORLEANS LAGER.
CASPAR LUSSE,
Nos. 47G and 47s Chartres street,
Announces to propretors Of beer saloons and
to the public. that having completed his i'm
mense apparatus for manufacturing
LAGER BEER.
he Is prepared tn sell the same ut a lower price
than any other homemade article. and ~ rs
good quality any similar article produced In
the United States. fe4 I'm
GEED OATS. ....S SEED RYE. SEED OATS
1900 bushels choice Red Rust Proof Seed OATS.
1000 bushels choice white aud black Seed OATS.
1000 bushels choice Seed RYE
1000 bales choice Eastern HAY.
For sale. in lots to suit purchasers, by
JOHN CALDER,
" Peters street tlate New J.evee).
aso tw Corner Lafayette.
Nor'on. ............. ................' NOTICE
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The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-05


Tho judgment by default In the case Of Cccic
Moudig W.. Jean Beaufort. her husband. de-
erecting n separation Of property and n dissou-
ton Of the community OF acauets and gains
heretofore existing between the parties, Is con
iirmcd.
HEAVY SUIT FOR DAMAGES. -s27. is1 81 arc claim
cd for alleged violence, ,tortiogs acts IN impris-
Fifth District Court on the alst Of January 1876.
filed in this ease The petition Of Ferdinand
DIudc1hefer. Of this city. respectfully shows:
OF this city. are indebted. In soido, to your pc
titioDcr IN the full sum Of twenty-seyen thou
sand one hundred and thirty-one 81 100 dolla r,
day 81 May, 1875. said Louis Schneider and
Jules Cassard. having unlawfplly inclosed
n mania BARK d TIL. s cS did o. with e fo nsF
violence and intimidation, take from your petit
petitioner. and at that time deposited by him in
said bank vault for safe keeping, and having
pnlawi4lly taken possession, q , said two bank
take therefrom various commercial instru-
ments certificates Of stock. and sundry other
p GIVEN In ths 90 marked hereto
annexed and made part hereof. and which shows
that tho contents of said boxes, thus unlawfully
in value to the sum OF $3.50 10: that said defend
ants did furthermore compel petitioner by
force. violence and, intimidation. and whilst in
said vault Of said bank. under duress and I'M
lawfully impriaoned, as Aforesaid to give them.
the branch depository of the State
National Bank of New Orleans for
s76O 5s and the other upon the Canal
Bank OF this city for $50 50, both OF which checks
were drawn BY your petitioner to the individual
order Of said Jules Cassard, who has collected
and retained tho amounts thereof. Said two
checks are hereto annexed and Made part here
OF. and are marked b. and 'C' respectively.
That said defendants did also. without petit
toners authority, and whilst he was under said
state of duress, and unlawful Imprisonment.
examine the pockets Of petitioners coat. which
was hanging outside Of said vault in the bust
ness room OF said Germania Bank. That after
wards, said defendants did Ynlawfully take the
sum OF So which were on the person OF your
petitioner. That the aggregate value Of the
property thus unlawfully taken from petitioner
by said defendants Is s7l31 81. That petitioner
was not then; or ct any time since. indebted to
either OF said defendants in any sum whatever,
or in possession Of anything in any man.
ner to said defendants. and that neither of said
defendants had or pretended to have any right
title or interest in and to any part Of the money
and other pro2 2;,nner u aaa,saig XXI
furthermore. by the said tegt3ous and unlawful!
The New York herald., 1876-02-08
A Great Need Supplied.

We print in another part of the HERALD
for Nurses, an institution which, although
barely three years old, has made itself in
valuable to the community and supplied
most important want in medical practice.
The school was opened in 1873 with only
six pupils. The first year of its existence
was almost entirely employed in overcoming
prejudices and inducing the right class of
women to enter as pupils 1t has now forty
pupils, all women of good character and
intelligence Organized under charter, it
is founded on the same sound principles as
those established by Florence Nightingale,
and all candidates for admission. applications
for which are now being constantly received,
are required to possess certificate from
physician and clergyman of her physical
and moral character. After one months
trial the nurses enter upon the hospital
training of the school, which means the high
standard of careful discipline and drill,
order cleanliness, method, trustworthiness
and obedience so absolute and intelligent as
to enable them to replace an absent physician
in the execution of his orders. But this
education means more. 1t adds to the mar
row list of women's means of livelihood an
organized form of work and usefulness.
These are the objects of the training
school. and they must be classed among the
highest order of noble charities. They are not
only to soothe the sufferings of the poor hos
pital patient, but to provide at every bedside
of sickness q competent and responsible
nurse, whose cool, skilled hand alleviates
pain and inspires confidence and comfort.
AS usual with benefcent enterprises of
this oharacteE the training school was origi-
mated by few thoughtful and generous la
dies, who have found time to advance the
institution to its present perfect system.
First among them stand Mrs. Joseph Hob
son, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton and Mrs.
Hartman Kuhn, and the treasurer, Colonel
Henry G. Stebbins, has well seconded their
efforts. Under their auspices, and although
supported only by voluntary contributions,
the school can already boast of the entire
nursing of over three thousand patients in
Bellevue Hospital, as well as of supplying
sixty private families within the past year
with trained nurses besides this, matrons,
head nurses and superintendents have been
sent to different institutions here and else
where, who in turn become teachers and
trainers also.
To effect all this has cost very consider
able sum of money, and in common with
other undertakings of the sort the institu-
ton is in need of larger income, not only
to be enabled to enlarge its sphere of use
fulness, but TO avoid q check to its present
progress, which would now be q public
calamity. We hope, therefore, that the APP
peal which the committee make to the public
may not be made in vain.
The New York herald., 1876-02-08
Court Ea..

AS the Comptroller has still nrobabIv an
account to settle with the former or Tam
many administration of the Marine corr.
the statement of the first return of ,oos
under the new administration will fnrn;sb
him with an instructive ground of com
parison for the basis of the settlement Mr.
Coughlin, the new clerk, who is understoo5
to have acquired his position under the
influence of the movement for reform
represented by the last election. has lust
made his return for the month of January
which foots up twelve hundred and sixty
one dollars, and the former clerks return for
January, 1875, was two hundred and eighty
two dollars, or nearly thousand dollars less.
If the Comptroller will apply about this
difference to every month Of the returns of
the former incumbent he will have a nice
little sum due him from that gentleman's
estate-if he has any. 1t would be a very
nice point of investigation for an ingenious
adept at arithmetic to inquire whether the
Tammany administration in all our courts
returned the fees in the same way they were
returned by the former clerk of this par
ticular court, and, if so, to demonstrate what
sum the city treasury has lost thereby
through Tammany's many years of suprem-
acV.
The New York herald., 1876-02-08
A Dreadful Theory.

1t is reported that between the President
and some members of his Cabinet there has
been ''stormy scene" on account of some
differences of opinion in regard to whiskey
trials This may be true, for even o Presi-
dent cannot be superior to those peculiari-
ties of temper and feeling out of which
stormy scenes arise. But there is one point
in the report that we hear with dismay, and
that we can only credit upon the strongest
testimony. 1t is reported that member OF
the Cabinet other than the one whose
conduct gave rise to the stormy
scene said that ''No one man is alb
solutely needed to run a government" Is
it possible that there is any one in Gen.
eral Grants Cabinet who believes this p? and,
above all, can this insidious, horrible and
dangerous theory have come from friend
and supporter of General Grant? Why, this
is the view of the people who oppose the
third term. They concede Grants merits,
but deny that either Grant or any other one
man is so absolutely needed" that great
constitutional tradition should be set aside
in his favor. Do we hear Alright, are we cor
rectly informed, when we are told that there
are others in the Cabinet besides Mr.. Bristow
who do not believe in 'providential" in
dividuals?
The New York herald., 1876-02-08
Blaine and Davis.

1t would be difficult to decide which OF
these mischief-makers is the most wrong
headed and indiscreet, or which of the two
is the more ready to give way to fits OF
passionate impulse without foresight OF
consequences. On the whole, Mr. Blaine is
the more reprehensible, because he reopened
the controversy about the Andersonyille
prisoners Which, but for him, would have
slept. and gave occasion for the war of re-
elimination which has arrested the healing
of the old wounds. There is great
deal to be forgotten and forgiven if good
feeling is ever to be restored between the
North and the South, and among the things
which ought to be kept out of politics and
consigned to history there is none whose re-
vival is so purely mischievous as the horrors
of the Andersonville prison. The primary
responsibility for raking the cinders from
the decaying embers and blowing them into
fame must rest on Mr. Blaine, who reck-
which have been said in reply.
jefferson Davis has played the part of
political lunatic in writing his passionate
answer. The pretext that he was provoked
to it in self-defence will not avail him. If
he is innocent of the inhumanity with which
he is charged he could have trusted to time
for his vindication. The accusation of Mr..
Blaine is not new. 1t was made at the
time when the Andersonville horrors were
fresh, and when the government was
eager to hang him after his cap
ture. The government did hang Wirtz
connecting Mr.. Davis with those cruelties
it would have been too glad to mete out to
him the same justice which was inflicted on
Wirtz. The fact that it never even indicted
him for completely in those cruelties is a
prirnd facie vindication on which he might
have rested until impartial history shall pro-
nounce its verdict. He has played into the
hands of Mr.. Blaine in writing his foolish,
passionate letter. Mr.. Hills unwise reply
to Mr.. Blaine, on the floor of the House, was
bad enough in point of policy, but Mr.. Da-
Wis letter is worse If he had grain of polit-
ical sense he would know that his defence
could not possibly be in such bad hands as
LID OWA, 1OI Luo NOIJu ID nOt QlbpObcQ w
give him q friendly nor even an impartial
hearing. And then he can never write or
speak without Haunting his attachment to
the lost cause and thereby weakening the
moral influence of the advocates of q
magnanimous policy toward the South.
The passionate egotism and intense
personal selfshness of this man, who
is willing to assist Mr.. Blaine in
reopening the breach when he sees the
slightest chance of identifying the South
with his fallen fortunes, is perverse ex-
hibition of character which proves that he
cares more for himself than for the welfare
of the unfortunate and misguided people
who followed him in the civil war. His un-
repentant old age could be better employed
than in writing serviceable campaign docu-
ments for the malignant enemies of the
South
The New York herald., 1876-02-08
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Washington bellies are to have leap year German.
The Crown Princess OF Germany believes in Strauss
and voltaire
The RothschIlds are estimated to be worth
SO, 400, 900, o00
In Chicago gas has come down to 50 so thousand
just nalf the price Of oysters
Our late Minister to Peru had so little to do that he
went into business in Lima a a pawnbroker
President Hi formerly OF Harvard says that
child should not DO taught to reason until it is twelve
years old . -
I Cafofhias Senate wants law providing that every
article IN newspaper shall be signed with the name OF
the writer.
o'Bnen, of the firm Of Flood o'Bren, tho big bo-
men, has bought the San Francisco residence o.
Senator Sharon
Chcago's wholesale grocers use In their business
capital OF ST. 500 900 and employ l,2oo men The
amount OF sales for 1875 was S62, SOC, Ooo
American Industry trumphs Michigan town last
season shipped sixty OF limburger cheese which
was so loud that people along the railroad thought
was hurrahing for the Centennial
Thc Augusta fca) ConstitutiondIiH says:-"We say
frankly 70 all men OF the East and lest that the South
has seen her worst days and stand the results Of
the war just as long as they can"
Iavater says:-''Hazel eyes are the more usual in
d,ca,,ons Of mind masculine vigorous and profound
genius, properly eO-Chcuf 10 "inaOSt ei"ayt
associated with eyes Of yelowish cast bordering
hazel"
In Venice the beauty or the city has been increased
by the use Of color on plaster walls OF sober dell
cate pink red which contrasts exquistcly with tn,
green waters and the grass green shutters OF tht
windows
General Robert f. Lee wrote in 1s65,-'T believ,
every one who has investigated the Affections OF tn,
federal prisoners OF the opinion that they we're Incl
dent to their condition prisoners OF war; and 10
distressed state OF the whole Southern country; and
fear they fully shared by the Confederate prison
ers 10 federal prisons "
A Chinese doctor says that Americans boil tea,
thereby lose the flavor, while the Chinese make - b.
infusion. They place a small quantity OF tea leaves
q bowl pour boiling water upon IL and then cover tn
bowl The strength Of the tea depends the tim
the tea is allowed to draw. and said the speaker
''when making infusion DO noe boil the wats
hastily at drst MIX or sugar should never be usa
| with tea"
The New York herald., 1876-02-08
The Court of General sessions.

Recorder Hackett, in commenting yester-
day on the complaint Of the last Grand Jury
respecting the inconvenience of the room
they were assigned to, disclosed very dis
creditable neglect on the part Of the city
authorities in failing to provide proper
accommodations for the important Court
over which he and Judges Sutherland
and Gildersleeve have been elected to
preside. The enormous increase of
criminal cases coming before this Court
necessitated the passage of law last year
providing for the holding of second branch
and the election Of an additional Judge
to share the work. The extra Judge has
been elected, but the Commissioner of
Public Works has given him no court to sit
in. The Grand Jury deliberates in damp
basement and the petit jury is sent to a
cheerless attic. This state of things is
ridiculous and disgraceful court which
last year disposed of seventeen hundred in
dictments, and which tries the most inn
portant criminal jury cases, is surely of
sufficient Importance to be properly housed
The Grand Jury, which fulfil so important
a function in melting out our criminal
law, should not be forced 10 perform
their duties with danger to their lives,
and we see nothing in the common
juryman to warrant his being marched up
three flights Of stairs TO an attic and down
again every time he ia conscientious enough
The New York herald., 1876-02-08
\ Persistent Champion of the Third

The letter Of the ex-Confederate Colonei
Swami, advocating the reelection of Presi-
dent Grant, has less novelty than many of our
contemporaries seem to think. AS long ago
as last June he expressed the same views in
q speech before political convention in
West Virginia, the substance of which was
Immediately telegraphed and published in
the HERALD. The curious and significant
feature of Colonel Swann's utterances is the
fact that they are always given forth imme-
diately after he has had ample opportuni-
ties for conversing with the President.
Colonel Swami is one of the numer-
Gus body of General Grants relations.
When he made his third term speech last
spring the President had recently been
guest at his house in Charlestown, w. Va,
and it was q fair inference that, being fresh
from personal intercourse with his distin-
guished relative, he faithfully represented
his wishes. There is q similar conjuncture OF
suggestive circumstances in connection with
Colonel Swanns recent letter. He has Just
made long visit to Washington as the guest
of General Grant at the White House. 1t ia
O noteworthy coincidence that a second time
he publicly advocates third term immedi-
ately after opportunities of confidential inter
course with the fountain of inspiration.
The New York herald., 1876-02-08
Brooklyn Water.

1t is reported that the waste from an es-
tablishment which manufactures lampblack
flows into one of the reservoirs from which
Brooklyn is supplied with water. Waste
from slaughter house, waste from petro-
leum refinery, even waste from several of
Peter Coopers glue factories, would perhaps
be savory and fragrant material by compari-
son with the waste animal matters that have
gone through lampblack factory. 1t is not
astonishing that cases of fever attributed to
''sewer gas" are connected with the use of
this water for water so contaminated could not
but become saturated with such gas. Neither
is it astonishing that the authorities do not
interfere, for it does not appear that any of
them could make any money out of it Per-
haps it is hardly strange that the proprietors
of the factory are insensible or indifferent to
the consequences of their neglect but
surely for every case of illness and every
death traceable to such cause the propri-
etors of that factory are as clearly responsible
in damages as railway company. is for
every passenger it kills and, contrary to
what is generally supposed, the cause of
death in such case can be sworn to by the
doctors very definitely.
The New York herald., 1876-02-08
VIII Governor TiIden Take a strap,

1t must not be supposed that the ameliora-
ton in the Extensively crowded condition of
the city horse cars at all approaches
the companies infiict on the public. What
has been done only shows conclusiyely that
the full measure Of mo seat no fare" can be
carried out with great ease and at no ex-
traordinary expense. The cars still exhibit
at certain portions of the day the over
crowding, with all its concomitants of un-
healthiness, indecency, discourtesy and dis
comfort, which we originally complained
of. In fact, until the Legislature has passed
a law defining strictly the duties of the COM
panies it is idle to expect that they will vol
UNFAIRLY remedy the evil which puts so
much more money in their Golfers.
Rumors reach us from Albany of specious
efforts being made by the rail-
road lobbyists to stave of and
finally defeat this measure Of relief; but we
inform all concerned that a strict watch is
upon them, and that members will be held
hereafter to a strict accountability. Can not
Governor Tilden devote little of his at
tention to the pressing need of the chief
city of the State2 The city horse
car routes may not be SO long as the Erie
Canal and certainly if placed end to end
they would not reach from Albany to the
White House; but the voters of New York
are a little more interested in comfortable
transit just now than in making political
capital out of De Witt Clinton's great
ditch or in pipelaying for the Presidency.
He is great at figures, and let him calculate
the comfort which any one Of his constitu-
ents can get when he is a unit in the seventy
seven civzens iammed into Third avenue
The New York herald., 1876-02-08

not to give verdict without leaving tns
Dox. We expect to see these things RENE
uied without delay. The law expressly de-
mands that room be provided for the hold.
ing OF second part of the Court, and while
.ne Hty authorities are about it they should
take up the whole question of the accommo-
uation ior the General Sessions and "reform
it altogether"
The New York herald., 1876-02-08

WHILE THE PoRTE IS CoNcEDISG the re-
orms asked by the great Powers Mon
.enegro seems anxious to get slice of Turk
lsh territory, and the willy Turk seeks to
satisfy that uneasy little principally with q
promise to see about it at some future time
Turkey is the Micawber among nations.
The New York herald., 1876-02-08

MEXICO appears to be on the verge Of an
Dther revolution, so hard is it to impress
upon people used to settling every little
local dispute by the sword the proper re-
spect for government by ballot. Porfrio
Diaz is the present disturber, and an alliance
with the extremists Of the Church party may
put it in his power to reduce the sorely dis
'ressed Republic TO the chaos from which
she is just emerging
The New York herald., 1876-02-08

The EXPULSION OF PBUss1AN JOURNALIST
rom Austria for disseminating intelligence
lnfavorable to the realm" appears to have q
diplomatic bearing, but it is not likely to
make the two parties to Sadowa love each
'ther any the more, although professedly in
he interest of peaceful relations.
The New York herald., 1876-02-08

The SPANISH ELECTIONS will not do much
% satisfy the longings Of the people for a
representative government. Nothing seems
70 have been left undone 10 secure Minis
serial majority, whether bribery, intimida-
aon or imprisonment was the course
'eeded. No doubt the counsellors of young
Alfonso look on parliaments Of all kinds as
nnjustifable hindrances to them in their
work; but the prejudice in favor Of them is
20 deeply rooted that the Ministry gives
Spain Cortes. in name at least The first
Napoleon acted very similarly to France, bu,
there is sufficient difference between the
times and the men 10 warrant scepticism
Is to its equal chances Of success in Spain
Q-dsy.
The New York herald., 1876-02-08

CARDINAL MANNING has put his foot upon
the statement that he has had anything to
do with bringing about q compromise be-
tween the ritualists and Rome Between
the Public Worship act and the exactions of
Rome from all who would join force with
. sad plight.