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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-04
FINANCIAL.
OFFICE NEW ORLEANS BUI.LErIN, {
Friday Evening. March 8. 1876.

The movement in financial circles has been
somewhat interrupted during the past week by
the holidays. The situation is still marked by
an accumulation in currency in excess of the
commercial demand. The offerings for discount
have been light, both in bank and on the street,
and approved commercial paper has been ecarce,
and being in good request has been easily placed
at our quotations.. Under the advance at New
York, Gold has shown marked improvement,
and in sympathy with its course Foreign Ex-
change ha. advanced, but operations in the latter
have hardly been prOpOrtlOnate to the extent OF
the cotton movement. New York sight has ex-
hlbited fair degree OF activity at unchanged
rates.
stocks have been without any new feature ex-
cept a slight weakening in a few shares. state
Consols were withoue any change until yester-
day, when they exhibited a material improve
ment. City Securities have shown increased ir-
regularity, especially yesterday, when they
fuctuated under conflicting reports with regard
to the passage by the Senate OF the House bill
legalizing the Premium Bonded Plan. After the
bill had passed the Senate they closed at material
advance. To-day they rose to still higher
point, and at the close were quoted about three
points over last Friday.
We continue to quote exceptional commercial
paper -@S u cent per annum discount, AL do at
901l0 and second grade nominal. First class
mortgage paper 9@l0 D cent per annum,
second grade entirely nominal.
Gold opened at 1l45s 1147s, against 11424 at
New York, and after moderate business closed
at ll4Ia9LllfS4 dSausI llf%s III tudt HlaTket
The sales summed up s37, 900, embracing $1,000
at 1145s, $4,000 at l14s, 500 900 at 1l494@1l45s.
and s1U00 at and $50OU at 1l41s.
No sales Of Silver were reported American
half dollars are now quoted at 105laOlO61,
and Mexican dollars at 80 gold.
Foreign Exchange was stronger, being quoted
at Lc higher equal to an advance of Ito u
cent?, and francs x y cent. The movement in
both was moderate. The sales of sterling com.
prised s26, OOO embracing flO0O bill of lading at
5 SO, fI5OU do and f3500 AL clear at 5.54, $1,000
bill OF lading and Al clear at 5.53@5.54, $4,000
bill of lading at 5.54 G5.541. f40,0 bill Of lsding
at 5.541s, and 900 bank at 5.57.
The ony sales Of francs reported were $4,000
commercial at 4.55@453544, and $4,000 at 1882.
At the close ste. ling bills were quoted at
5.53@5.54 for bill of lading and Al clear, and
-@557 for bank (bank counter rate -G5 571aal
and francs at 1859 for commercial and nominal
for bank.
Ihe offerings of New York sight were rather
moderate and the demand limited. The market
was without quotable varistion. he sales COM
prised SIS, 600, embracing $4,000, $4,000 and
$4,000 commercial, and 100000, $4,000 and
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1.-THE Illinois, according to the Appeal, had 500
registered Passengers on her arrival there Sum-
day night"
by Telegraph
SHREVEPORT. Msrch 2.-John Jauney, N. o:
The Independent Fannie Tatun leaves to night
with 1900 bales cotton and 500 sacks cake. adj
vertise f,r Thursday, 9th.
g. F. SHIELDS, Master.
BAYOU SARA. March 3.-Jos. A. Aiken: Durfee
will arrive at 3 p. M: will leave for Red River
Saturday. VIM. T. BoARDMAN, Master.
MEMPHIS, March 2.-To ]. B. Woods & Co.:
Steamer Commonwealth will arrive Monday even
ing, and leave for st. Louis Wednesday, Sth ms /.
THos. W. SHIELDS, Master.
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Stocks were without any new feature to notice
except slight weakening in few favorite
shares. No sales were reported except at the
Stock Exchange.
State were in fair request, and higher, closing
at 6s54@69, against 6o2s@6S5s yesterday. The
only sale Lot reported at the Exchange was
SO 900 at 6S24.
Under good demand City Bonds were mate
rally higher, but rather irregular. The sales
MUM issues at sss5, 5000 and $4,000 at ses4,
$1,000 at 81, $4,000 at 3714, $4,000 at 371a, 5000
at 37s4, $4,000 at SO, and $4,000 at 1873, and
5000 Cola Bonds, Administration Series, at 3S544
No sales Of City Scrip, Metropolitan Police
quotations will be found below, appended to the
Stock list.
The following ae the weekly quotat ons of the
New Orleans Stock Exchange:
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ID EDUCTION IN ROBERTS'S IMPROVED
IL PLANTATION CABINS.

CABINS from SIS up-according to size-sll com
plete. and good lumber guaranteed. All kinds OF
dressed and Rough Lumber, Door, Sash, Blinds and
Cisterns furnished At reduced Iates.
Orders or communications left in either box
promptly attended to. CAPT. BROOKS.
Box at kdams Works, IL Commercial Place.
Box .. j. Janney's, liz Common street.
Box No. /, Mechanics Exchange
ia18 Tu Tn So I'm
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FpEIHHTS- vessel was taken up for Revel
.o-dav at 7-16d for cotton. Yesterday we re-
snortad one for Havre at 2c. We quote as follows:
~ Steam ~ Cotton to Liverpool 1-l6d; 70
Rosyon. Providence, and Fall River, wa new
York. Sc: to Philadelphia and Baltimore, wa
New YORK. slc: to New York 9-l6c; Sugar 70 rev "
York So 81 $shhd: molasses 81 q dbl rice ooc u
Rv Sail & Cotton to Liverpool "a; to Havre
So "a Bremen 1870; to the Baltic 7-l6Cglad; 70
E,ston and Providence &c. Corn to Liverpool aVo.
SIJGAR-Received this morning S6l hhds; Inc
market is firm with a good demand, an1 .n =
supplies all sold at previous prices: o4~oLt1
for inferior, 55s@6Hc for common. Ss
0a5lc for fair, 6247c for good fair 10 iol iu Ky
fsir. 71l@71&c tor prime to strictly PiiHe,
a71c tor choice. 6AgSzSc for SECONDS, ozsgyIo
for yellow clarified, 914@91ac for on wnlse CAN'T
"a ~ nd esIa97.c for choice white clarified
S+,ncl IN the sheds on the Sd inst. $3.50 hhds:
Moi. ASSES-Received this morning AS Dds;
.rrha markat ia dull and dragging at unchanged
,,r;ces the supplies selling slowly at 2OCg3Oc lor
.finyerior fermenting, 30@35c Tor common IeIo
,nenting. 3e@42c for prime fermensng, 4ogs.o
sor strictly prime fermenting, 44Cg 100 ior PRIME
rahoiled. Acc for strictly prime reDohed' anu oAc
for choice reboied. "a mat II, go bbls
ana %I 1.4 n REFINERY SUGAR Standard a in
.,srreIs. is selling lOas@iO%c,, granula1t "s;
siZc. powdered lllc, crushed li7n 'e' io"'
1a XIV Y r R;EF1NERY MoLAs Es- Common Is
ealing It 4Uc, fair 45. prime 4sc' cno'ce '1''
Golden syrup SOC y gallon. sna sor tha
yTITfOIIR-Continues in good demand Iof ~, s7s
n 81 trade. and Oh ice 10 luilng ngne1' A"'
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$4O, 900 private bankers at par, and 1000 COM
mercial ct 1.32 u cent premium.
The banks con inued to check on New York at
u y cent premium, and commercial sight was
still quoted at par.
The following is the official statement OF the
sales reported to-day at the New Orleans Stock
EXCHANGE.
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Stock on hand and on shipboard. 34I.627
Stock on hand same time last year,. 256,O56
To-days exports embraced 53O8 bales to Liver
pool. 1859 to Falmouth for orders, 1879 to Ant
werp, 100 to Barcelona, Oh to Boston and 1915
to New York, to which we have added 231 by
river and rail. We have added to previous ex-
ports 1T bales for deficient clearances.
Receipts proper since last evening 6681 bales,
against ALTO on last Tuesday and 1875 last year.
For comparative totals for the past three days
exports and receipts. see above report
TOBACCO-The only sales reported to-day were
< hhds new Il and A. The weeks business has
been confined to 80 hhds. The receipts are in
creasing and more active movement is ex-
pected. The amount on sale is now estimated at
-3775 hhds.
SKATE, good at 611a071sc, low leaf at sg9c, me-
dun 1t 91st0lO1ac, good at l1H@l21ac, fine
at 1SL@l4l1ac, selections at -@-c, and ARR
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COMMERCIAL.
OFFICE NEW oRLEANs RuIIET1,

OFFICE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN,
-- Friday Evening, March 8, 1876.
COTTON-The sales to-day (not including 70
and 200 bales additional yesterday embraced
$500 bales. ct rather stronger prices for the me-
dunn and better qualities and decided advance
IN the lower grades, to which we have conformed
Cur quotations. We give also the figures and
report Of the Exchange, as below:
AMERICAN STANDARD OF CLASSIFICATION.
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Mess pOrk.

Mess pork
ID. s. Shoulders
:. .cl + sides
= cl sides.
B. shoulders.
b. cl rib sides
B. clear sides
S. C. hams.
Lard, tee,
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1VVnI VI OIVy OUIu DJHI6, 20, UVU.
5000 City Ten Per Cents. ............:.
Sl0 do 10
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d22 rs 1y
JOHN .BOIS,
f. u n tturo De a1er 4,
10. 152 dnd 1J4 Camp street,
Next to st. Patrick's Church.

Sells furniture at very low prices. Packs repairs.
Upholsters and Varnishes Furniture in the best
style. He attends to Packing, Moving and Shipping
Furniture, giving full guarantee for the faithful
purchased and liberal Cash price paid also, Fur.
niture taken on storage, and advances made on
same. Country orders promptly attended to.
their liberal patronage in the past he would RESPECT
fully solicit their orders for the coming year.
dl3 I'm
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i lis Common St.
JOHN B. COURRT Proprietor


This Saloon was established in 1851 and has alwnya
maintained the reputation Of being Of the most
gsntesl, orderly, welkept and popular sstablisb
ments in the city.
The best Of WINES and LIQUORS are always
Furnished to the guests A hot LUNCH IL served
every day from 10]1 A. N. to ~ Pm.
There IL cosy, comfortable CLUB ROOM sv& III
Saloon, which IL fasorits resort for gentlemen.
TONY, Of Old 'Sam's Saloon" memory, prssidsl
over the Cigar Department apal II
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Notice.
OFFICE STATE TAX COLLECTOR
FIRST DISTRICT Q69 Gravier st.. up stars) 8
New Orleans, JAN %, 1876.
Public notice is hereby given to the Taxpayers Of
the First District of New Orleans, that am ready
issue State Licenses for the year 1876 and to
ceive all Taxes for the years 1875 1874 and as73 The
Office will be open from A. NJ. to p M.
N. G. FOLGER,
'a29 I'm State Tax Collector, First District
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-01
Using Newspapers as Catspaws.

The New York Herald has the fol-
lowing well-timed remarks on C subject
interesting to all publishers of news
papers
One of the commonest incidents Of
newspaper life is the receipt OF ;om-
munications urging thu editor to make
attacks for which the writer who
prompts them is unwilling to be respon-
sible. We are always glad to receive
information or statements Of fact from
any authentic source, but we cannot con-
sent to be the instrument of assaults on
public or private persons to crafty the
malice or hostility Of people who shrink
from the responsibility of their own acts
and try to shelter themselves behind our
columns. Every man who is publicly
attacked has right to know who are
his aceusers. When facts are privately
submitted to us in the expectation that
we will employ our own Judgment as to
the use to be made of them, We treat
them as matters Of confidence, and
would never think Of exposing the
writer. Ii we think fit to make them
grounds OF criticism or assault on indi-
Yiduals the responsibility is entirely
ours in courts of justice and the court
of public opinion. But when, instead OF
communicating facts TO, us to Judge OF
and use, a writer prepares articles for
us to publish and expects us to make at
tacks on individuals and shield him from
consequences, be asks more than we are
willing to grant. he should have cour-
age erough toe1pose his own name and
back I'D his own quarrel
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-01
CARPENTRY.
D. B. s NTH,
AbbeUilie c. H., s. &.
Pauperism.

An exchange, referring to the growth
of the pauper population, deplores the
state of affairs that necessitates the es-
tablishment of soup houses and the
meeting of public bodies to legislate
upon the abatement of the tramp nui-
sance. The editor says:
Itwould be too hard t. say one word
against charity in times like these, and
We do not mean to say it. Something
Wa owe to ourselves, especially the recol-
lection that Heaven loves the cheerful
giver; and even careless giving is a
pleasing form of self-indnlgence. But
a great, permanent public system of
giving is another matter. A community
like ours must relieve the poor, partly
because it isa Christian community, and
partly because the constant presence of
distress would be intolerable; but the
nearer we can keep to the rule that those
who can work and will not work, when
work is provided, shall not eat, the less
likely We shall be to have chronic pau
perism to contend with in the future.
The truth is, the American people, hav-
ing never had any occasion to study and
investigate this subject, possess no fixed
ideas about it, ghile in every other
country melancholy necessity has re-
duced it to something like a science.
Sooner or later, we shall be compelled
to do the same thing, and now is
good time to give the problem little
thought.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-01
A Romance of Modern Life

A woman-not very young, but very
pretty-an American belle who, through
q series of ill-fortunes, became de-
pendent upon her relatives and friends,
was two years since in Spain with some
ladies who had invited her to go to Eu-
rope with them; and there she became
ACQUAINTED with an attache OF the Eng
l;sh consulate in the town where they
were spending some weeks. The ladies
left her in foreign country without
means to return toher native land. She
told her story to the young diplomat.
he loved her, proposed to her, and they
became engaged; but he sent her home,
as he could not then marry her.
She had faith in him, and months
rolled by, the poor girl having retired to
live upon the charity of some relatives
in Central New York. At last the diplo'
mat came, bringing magnificent gifts
from his relatives, among the highest oi
the English nobility, to his bride. He
had been in South America, and from
there home during this cruel waiting tc
get leave of absence. They waited but {
fow days, she sending no cards to hel
CT devant friends; they hurried away
to spend the honeymoon in Paris.
A friend Just from Paris tells how th'
heroine of this little story is to remail
there, her husband having become con
nected with the English embassy in tha
city, and that Mrs. G.. is the American
belle and the pet of Lord Lyons ele
CANT establishment. Lord Lyons is
bachelor, and Mrs. G. plays the part o
hostess to his guests.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-01
Irving to Abduct q Prince.

One cannot but wonder, says Serb.
ner's magazine, whether William the
Fourth of England ever learned that O
plot was laid for his abduction during
his visit to New York in the spring OF
1882, during the Revolutionary war.
The prince was young and reckless
midshipman, given to filtration, and to
the inebriation which found vent in
wrenchiDg off door knobs ; and it prob
ably never occurred to him that in his
person the "rcbels would find host
age worth having. The project origi-
mated with Colonel Matthias Ogden OF
the Jersey line, and the intention was to
surprise the prince and hiscommissioned
guardian, Admiral Digby, at their
quarters in the city mansion of Gerardus
Beekman on Hanover square. Two otli-
GERS and thirty-nine men were to aid
Colonel Ogden in his enterprise. EN-
barking on rainy night in whaleboats,
they were to land in New York near the
Beekman mansion, force the doors of
the house, capture the admiral and
prince, and convey them to their boats.
The plan was approved by Washington,
but it does not appear that any decided
attempt was made to carry it out. In some
manner, the apprehensions of the Brit
ish lead ders were excited for the safety
of the prince, and every precaution was
taken against a surprise. Had it not
been fof this warning, the boldness OF
the plan appears likely to have insured
its success.
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Still q Mother.

She was charged with habitual drunk
snness. As she came forward to the bar
of st. Louis court she led by the hand
a bright looking boy about six years of
age. 1t took but little time to convict
the woman, as her own appearance was
the strongest witness against her.
Noticing the little boy the justice order.
ed an officer to take him to the house OF
refuge. The poor mother heard the
order and comprehended its import In
an instant. Hardened as she was, the
thought of being thus suddenly separa-
ted, certainly for many years, from the
only creature for whom she entertained
any affection was terrible one, and she
fell upon. her knees and most abjectly
prayed and begged that the boy be not
taken from her. Bleared, ragged and
dirty as she was, the picture was all the
more pitiful, and the effect of it was
greatly intensified by the boy, who, sud-
denly comprehending what was pro.
posed, ran to her, threw his arm around
her neck, and cried in frightened man
ner. The officer approached and the
boy shrunk away, while the tears stream
ed down the kneeling woman's face, rs
her supplications became most passion
ate. Finally physical strength triumph
ed, and the officer passed through the
courtroom carrying the struggling and
crying child, while the screams of the
mother could be plainly heard from the
opposite side of the street.
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What Mr.. Beecher Says.

After the prayer meeting at the Ply
mouth lecture-room, the room being
jammed, Mr.. Beecher announced that
the mutual council had fallen through,
the other side having declined. In the
course Of his remarks that evening Mr..
Beecher said:
received many letters which read as
follows "This is one Of the things you
ought not to touch; let it be smothered
in the mud from which it came" Speak
ing Of the Woodruff scandal, and acting
on their advice, I never wrote letter on
the subject, nor did I speak to any per-
son, not even to my own family, nor to
any one, with the exception of those in
timately concerned by the trouble, Mr..
Moulton and Mr.. Tlton and their fami-
lies. 7 maintained eltire silence, and
determined that I would not be party
to do that which I believed would be
injurious to morals as it was false to the
truth. But there was treachery on the
other side, and they did not want it kept
silent, and there was soreness and out
break following each other continually.
For myself, while if I am before any
tribunal of my country, I will tell the
truth when questioned, I will not in
any way help the diffusion Of that which
cannot but be mischievous, and so I
am taunted in the newspapers with
"Why don't you carry your disgusting
stuff abroada" I have been bombarded
severely assaled; but you are my
witness that I have not been the one
that stirred in the mire. am not a
member of party that is defending me.
am almost alone. I am man that has
been trumpeted up and down the 10 ID
as an abolitionist, when to be an aboli-
ZIONIST was to be reproached. I have
stood, with prejudices beating in upon
me, known and read Of all men; my ser
mons published, my lecture.room talks
printed, my family conversation repeat
in the papers. I have been stripped
bare, naked entirely, and stood in the
very glare Of publicity; and for the last
five years, under pressure unprece-
dented. I have been hunted by the
women Of the slews and their paramours,
hunted through the civil courts, hunted
by newspapers that have nothing else to
do but to make common sewers of them
selves for this slander. Now, put the
question to every honest man : How can
man stand under such circumstances
if he is that guilty wretch that they say
he isl If ever time comes
when any considerable number of this
church considers me to be wrong, don't
wait; let me know. The sun shall not
20 down on the day which communicates
the fact and find me pastor of this
church. But so long as you stand I am
STRONG
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the breaker, where it is MADE into all
marketable sizes. On its journey to the
shutes below at the tracks, and while
it is being crushed, large number of
boys, black with dust, pick out the slate,
bone, and other impurities. These boys
are smart and can tell the difference be-
tween slate and coal readily.
Strangers are rarely taken down an
important shaft, particularly when COL
liery is in active operation. Away down
in the damp, dangerous and black
avenues of the interior, the miner and
his men are at work. The shaft is well
wooded, and the car is let down by 8
wire rope uncoiling from a mammoth
drum. At the bottom, gangways, we'll
wooded, run hither and tbither. Rail
road tracks run along, and the cars are
either propelled by gravity or are drawn
to the shaft by mules that went down
with good eyes, but are now totally
blind. The animals live in the bowels
of the earth entirely. The miners, who
are Scotch, Welsh, and Irish principally,
work upon an established price basis.
There is danger all about mine, the
deadly gas explosion, falls OF coal,
breaking of machinery, and many other
things that cause chill Of horror. to
creep over stranger, and cold sweat
breaks on his brow as he contemplates
his situation fifteen hundred feet below
daylight.
Colliery machinery must be simple
and powerful. They have the heaviest
of engines. Two hundred horsepower
will lift ten tons five hundred feet a
minute, providing the balancing power
or the weight of the load going down on
the other side is one-third. Many COL
ieries cost as high as 5000, 900. The
pumps are always at work, hoisting from
100 to 500 gallons of water minute
NeU York Sun.
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Why lie Favored 1t.

Senator Gordon, Of Georgia, 6 ives his
reasons for advocating the United States
nialappropriation. Heagrees with
Senator Bayard that it is both constitu-
tional aud sanctioned by numerous pre-
cedcnts. He has expressed himself very
freely and earnestly for the bill on the
following grounds: First, because no
section is 70 deeply interested in the
proper celebration and re-establishment
of the principles of 1776 and in the
restoration of good will in the country
as the South; secondly, because the pro-
posed appropriation would cost only
about three and half cents per capita
in the United States; thirdly, that Penn
sylvania bas paid four and half mil
lions of the five millions, already e1,
pended, and that it would be unjust to
make that State pay more, whereas the
appropriation by Congress would per
feet the national character of the cele-
bration; fourthly, that the foreign ma
tions having accepted the invitations to
come, the reputation cf the government
is involved in perfecting the arrange.
ments, and on this account he would
regret to see the South vote against the
hill