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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-08

Our own Pic. attempts to be witty,
and succeeds, as usual, at its own ex-
pense. The old girl, sometimes styled.
Tor the sake of euphony and for pur-
poses Of base 1attery. "The Old Lady,"
In her account Of Mother Goose's re-
ception, gets off the following:
The other city newspapers sneeringly call the
Pscdgune 1.-THE Old Lad,"--but-a and we have
Mother Goose q word for tit liz real nice to be
m s'old lady" for old ladies oft n sec aud hear
things that unmannerly boys are not permitted
10 see or hear.
The assertion is. to say the least,
risky, for 1t Is proverbial that the boys,
naughty or otherwise, generally leave
the old women several lengths behind,
and rs for seeing things. why, the boys
certainly have their full shareof that, but
they don't tell the old women about 1t.
For example, on the Mother Goose
question:" the old Pic. considered it.
salt very strong; but. as is invariably
the case, the boys got ahead Of the de-
signing old girl without any trouble and
without her being at all conscious Of the
misfortune.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-08
STATUTORY REFORMS.

One Of the worst Of the many evil re.
suits to our State and people Of the long
delay in the political organization oil
our State government Is seen In the pre-
vention Of many Of the most needed
reforms in our legislation which were
contemplated by the people when they
elected the generally capable and zeal
GUS representatives now in session at
Odd Fellows Hall.
There is vast and repulsive mass of
oppressive, corrupting and demoralizing
laws to be repealed or amended, and Of
unwise, impracticable and obsolete
statutes which the welfare Of the people,
the maintenance Of true Democratic
principles, the efficiency OF the gov
eminent and the publication of public
morals imperiously demand should be
eliminated from the body Of our laws.
The absorption of our legislators in the
struggle to maintain their status has so
shackled and limited the sphere Of their
labors and restrained their power and
capacity to accomplish these reforms.
that the people will be sadly disap-
pointed in the general result. But it
would be unjust to attribute this disap-
pointment to any lack of zeal and earn
estness on the part Of our legislators in
behalf of these reforms.
The obstacles have been too serious
and palp lble to justify any complaints
on this score. Indeed, in justice to our
it ought to be admit
ted that they have done more in the
way Of reform and reduction OF the ex
penses Of the Government than could
have been expected Of gen.
Llemen in their Embarrassing and ham
pered situation. BUT q vast deal has
yet to be done. and our Representatives
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-08

Mr.. Kernochan, Of Plaquemines. Ii
the author Of very important resolu
tion. pending In the House. which should
be passed by both branches OF the Leg.
islature before the adjournment Of the
present session. The resolution pro.
vides that, henceforward, no extra COM
nensation shall be allowed any men,
her Of the House for services as chair
man OF committees. The allowance OF
such extra compensation Is very gross
extravaganza and abuse. and we doubt
II any act OF the Legislature can legal
ize it. Members Of the Legislature are
allowed specified per diem and mileage
Tor their services as such. The duties
OF . chairman OF a committee are as
much q part Of the legitimate ser
vices OF the member holding that
position, as Is his duty to advocate
good. and vote against bad legisla-
ton; and we are constrained to say
that the compensation provided,
granting that the duties of chairmen
OF committees are sometimes oner-
GUS, Is liberal enough for all the duties
performed. Gentlemen appointed to
the Craftsmanship of important COM
mittees should be satisfied with the
honor hat is done them by the appoint
ment; otherwise they should decline to
serve. The Legislature is twice as nu
merous as It ought to be, the mileage is
extravagant, and the people who have
t. foot the bills are very much impov-
erished. The present Legislature is not
responsible for these things and cannot
change them but they can lop of every
dollar Of expense that the present in
iquitous constitution does not force them
to provide for. Mr.. Kernochan's reso-
luton u In the line o. reform and should
he passed.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-08

Says the Chicago Times: The Presi-
dent has gone In 80 far toward q ration
I'll settlement of the Southern middle
that to return would be doubly embar-
RAISING. He should go on. paoifica'e
Louisiana according to the principles Of
Justice, regardless Of the howls of dam
aged partisans, and trust with confident
faith In the intelligence OF the people
FOR the applause that ravenous and
disappointed partisan banditti may
withhold
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DIED.

On. Thursday. April 40. CAPT. JNO A. OF
WAY, a native Of Philadelphia and resident OF
this city Tor the past 4s years.
Stricken by the shaft of Denth. his spirit
has returned to the God who gave 1t. for verify
the spirit of John Otway was nobly animated by
the breath of Godl
The story of his life Ia deeply craven in char
actors of truth and beauty upon the hearts of
those whose rare fortune it was to know and
love him. while TO others 1t was like romance,
so brave. 50 good. 80 noble was his eventful
career. In early youth he developed fondness
for the sea- and his profession MS mariner af-
forded am lie scope for the manly virtues which
adorned his character
The nobility of his nature prompted him to
brave and generous deeds. and 1t was his for
tune to have saved no less than seven persons
from drowning.
Az with men who go down to the deep in
ships. its perils and dangers brought him face
to face with God. and the pure gold of his M
ure, cast in any crucbe. ever ref ected the
image Of his Maker.
He was neither exalted by prosperity nor
cast down by adversely. and In his last hours.
when wasted and worn by disease and anguish.
no mortal pain could wiring murmur from his
lips-his sole thought being for the tried band
OF faithful friends who ministered to his wants.
1t was upon the domestic hearth that beamed
brightest the glow of his loving heart There
upon the altar of his affections, in the tender re-
lations Of son. husband father and grandfather.
his love burned. auenchless and inexhaustible
flame. His reverence for woman was second
only to that for Deity. and with the aged mother
who laments his loss every woman who knew
him will weep that John Otway Is here no more.
He Ia known Of oil men to have had clean
hands and pure heart" His record Is unsul-
lied and the light which he left us shines like q
beacon over life's troubled waters.
What though in lonely grief sigh.
For friends beloved no longer nigh.
Submissive still would / reply,
Thy will be done"
If Thou should'st call me to resign
What most prize-it neer was mine
only yield Thee what Is Thine
Thy will be done"
L. W.. B.
BUTTS April Z. at 30 A. NJ Malvins,
daughter Of Jno. +. Butts and Amanda II. Stone. ]
The funeral will take place at D. M. Sunday, |
April 8. from the residence Of her grandmother, |
Mrs. Warren Stone, 3I4 Canal street. The /
friends and relatives of the families are respect
fully requested to attend.
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withhold.

Speaker Bush announced in the
House yesterday that Hon. s. s. Cox.
OF New York, would address that body
Monday. Mr.. Cox is q National Demo.
crat and a gentleman who. through all
the recent years Of Federal oppression
OF the South, has been the outspoken
friend of this section. and especially
OF Louisiana. Our people should
do him all honor, and those who
visit the Hall of Representatives to-
morrow will be richly repaid, for
30 full of poetry and eloquence is
our noble friend from New York,
that, even before the Packard mob
q few days since, his irrepress
eloquence effervesced in sunbeams.
roses, music, etc. Tomorrow we trust
he will have an audience more appre-
ciative than the rapscailions out of
whom the st. Louis Hotel has swindled
the Baton Rouge Penitentiary.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-08
MEMOHTAM,
TO CAPT. JOHN A. OTWl

TO CAPT. JOHN A. OTWAY.
Grandpa was our friend.
We had but him. no more,
No other upon earth. and as for heaven.
We are Ms they that seek sign.
To whom no sign is given.
Our grandpa-ob. our precious grandpa.
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ne Only Authorized soliciting Agents Of the
Democrat for the City are HIessrs. II. III.
BAKER and r. u. DEvEZIN.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-08
Sunday. Apri. 8, 1877.

The 0fysce Of the New orleans DEMO-
CRAT has been Removed frcm . 4 Camp
street to 1O0 Gravier street.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-08
SHERWOOD FOREST.
A NEW RESORT FOR
SUNNI Err IDLING.
GREEN LAKE, WISCONSIN.

This charming Lodge, to be opened on the
Goth of May, is empowered by q hundred acres
of grand old Oaks, lying with gentle grade along
the north shore of Green Lake. It is within two
miles of Green Lake Station. on the Sheboygan
and Fond DIN Lac Railroad. 1t is reached from
Chicago via Chicago and N. w. Railway without
the least delay. Omnibuses and carriages al
ways awaiting arrival of trains.
APPS I'm cod 2dp
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Bee Supplement for interesting read
ing matter.
New-York tribune., 1877-05-30

honses established for them by the Young
Women's Christian Association and other so
cietes, are also founded Oh sound common sense
and humanity.
There is an increase of at least twenty-five
per cent in the last fifteen years IN the number
Of women supporting themselves in this country,
especially IN the large cities. But 1t is notice.
able that this change il due to what women
have done for themselves rather than to what
has been done for them; and it is to be noted
also that the increase has been not III conse-
quence of any loud-voced agitation in favor OF
womcn's rights, but in spite of it. The PLAN
fact is that the war left large numbers OF
women, who had hitherto led domesticj depend
ent lives, obliged to work or starve. In con-
sequence, they have quietly taken up all kinds
of occupations, many heretofore considered I'M
practicable for their sex. They have gone into
artistic work of every kind, from designing
stoves to high art In painting. They are skilled
nurses, dentists, photographers and in some OF
the cities the whole retail trade is in their
hands. They are hortculturists, hotel-keepers,
stock -raisers. They have pushed their way
into every position III newspaper Office, un-
dertaken every kind of manufacture done by
hand. All this too by the class OF women VINO
work with least noise or boasting. They de-
serve, in short, the name Of good citizens, as
any man would who honestly plods his way to
a settled income by a sclf-respecting life.
The way to increase and help this class OF
women is to give them the instruction which
workman would receive the protection which
he would not need, and then leave them to
enter the market precisely as he must DO
Good work, good wages; sham work, poor
wages, with no question of sex, is the mex
orable rule which is bringing confusion out OF
this much debated question. The ladies who
met at Steinway Hall have, as we believe,
acted with this common sense theory and rule
in yiew
New-York tribune., 1877-05-30

Gen. b. +. Butler has written letter of con-
lolence, if we may call it so, to Marshal Pit-
kin of louisiana who has had the misfortune
to be removed from office. The MM shall seems
TO have run to Gen. Butler with his complaints
and the General urges him "not to kick and
"souirIn any more than Isaac dad when he lay
"upOn the altar under the knife of his father
abraham" but to offor himself a willing
sacrifice for the paciiication Of the country and
the good OF the Republican party. 1t would be
sound advice, If it were offered in earnest
But it pains us TO observe, under the smooth
language Of this letter, a vein OF sarcasm,
a tone Of diSplcasuro. Gen. Butler is evidently
disposed 10 grid at the Presidents notions Of
administration. He is WOfOund disOeheyer
in the virtues of civil service reform, and we
recollect that on a recent OCCASION when a re-
form Of the postal service in the Black Hills
was under discussion he Glludcd to the subject
in manner which indicated some little un-
friendiiness toward the principles of reform
and q lack of sympathy with the efforts OF the
President TO carry it into operation. We dare
say that when the Boston Custom-house Com
mission ovorhauls the affairs Of Collector Sim
mons the General may again be irIitatcd into
expressing by innucndO bis dislike for people
who pretend to be more moral than their
neighbOrs.
Yet we hardly think the sentiments of Gen.
Butler viii have much influence with this
Government. The President must have known,
before he started upon his course, that he
would he exposed to multitude OF petty
attacks in flank and rear from politicians of
the Butler school that they would try to trip
him though they lacked the courage to oppose
him face to face; that they would pOunce upon
his small mistakes; that they would gather
up, as Butler seems TO have done, all the ma
licous gossip of the capital and spread it be-
fore the country We do not speak OF the
frank and honest opponents Of the Presidents
policy. There are many good Republicans who
believe in al sincerity that the Southern policy
Of non-intcrtercnce is a mistake, and there are
some who bcheye that the machinery of the
civil service ought 10 be used for the purpose
os keeping Republican olice-holders in power.
We can respect the genuine deusiOns of
these people, and we are satisfied that the
results Of the action of President Hayes will
in time convince them of their error But the
hostility Of the Buffers we shall have with us
always. Nothing will ever convince them.
The more completely the President succeeds
i'm his undertaking the more thoroughly will
they be exasperated and dIsgusted. For when
the civil service is managed on business prin-
cples. and the South is restored TO its own
people, II Is not easy to sc what place viii be
New-York tribune., 1877-05-30
PERSONAL.

The Hon. John A. Kasson, the new Minister
to spain. is visiting San Francisco
Gov. Tiden will spend a part of the Sum-
mer at Newport with the Hon. W. b. Lawrence.
Ex-Gov. Gilbert c. Walker of Virginia has
returned from his California trip in excellent health
Senator Newton Booth recently delivered an
address upon "The Origin OF the Federal Constitution at
Sacramento.
Mr.. Story's beautiful statue of Delilah" is
now on exhibition in San Francisco It is owned by Mr.
sbTabeg who paid for it $4,000.
Senator Edmunds has taken several gentle
men with him upon his Canadian fishing excursion.
Of them being Judge strong OF the u s. Supreme Court
Prof. Ritter of Poughkeepsie has been re-
quested by the Caxton Committee to send some of his
specimens of Typography 10 England for exhibition in
the loan collection at Kensington.
Mr.. Charles WHY'S Elliott of Cambridge is
lecture next Winter household life and art n the
Middle Ages and will spend the Summer in France, Ger
many, and England collecting material
The Rev. DR.. Charles +. Deems, pastor OF
the Church the Strangers starts this morning for
North Carolina where he will deliver the baccaameate
address before the State University at Chapel Hin.
Raleigh.
Mr.. Francillon, the author Of the brilliant
novel "OIympa'-one Of those In THE TRIBUNE Series
is tail dark handsome man, about 80 years old. He
has done great deal OF good literary work in very
short time.
One of the very pine-tree shillings which
helped to make up the bridal dower-her weight in sii
yerof Mrs Chief Justice Sewa OF Massachusetts, has
lately ncen placed in the old South Exhibition. The
Sewa family have carefully preserved IL for two con-
turlos
Miss Cornelia Chisolm Is the subject of par
ngraph in me Cincinnati Commercial which asks for the
building OF monument to the poor girl. 1t would he
noble thing for 10000 patriotic to subscribe
III each for the urtherance OF such object The
ory OF this poor g should be perpetuated Her self
sacrificing devotion in the face of sAosuns assassns,
New-York tribune., 1877-05-30
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snnrx 10 Anpernsemsn!s.

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FLETCHER HARPER.

The death of Fletcher Harper, which took
place yesterday. at his residence in this
city, removes the last of the celebrated
house of brothers whose names have been so
largely connected not only with prominent
branch of mercantile business in New-Yo ork,
but with the growth and elevation of Ameri-
can literature itself. Born in 1906 and for
more than fifty years actively engaged in the
publishing trade of which during the
whole of that long period he was
distinguished member, his career was
almost coeval with the birth and progress of
letters in this country. He became partner
in the business with his elder brothers about
eight years after the publication of "Thana-
"topsis,1 which first revealed to the world the
precocious genius Of Bryant, six years after the
Issue of the "Croaker" papers and Fanny by
Fitz-Grecnc Ilallcck, seven years after Wash
ington IryIng's sketch Book four years
from the publication of the "Idle Man." by
Richard II. Dana, who still lives at the age Of
ninety to ENJOY the serene reflection of his
early fame, and about nine years before the
appearance of the first volume of Bancroft's
"llstory of the United Statesn
Dating from the commencement of that period
almost down TO the present time, Mr.. IaIpeT's
relations with the principal literary men of the
day have been wide and intimate. Among the
more prominent authors, a part OF the whole of
whose works bear his name on The title-page,
may be mentioned Washington Irving, George
Bancroft, Richard Hildreth, Prof John w.
Draper, G. w. Curtis, G.. Ticknor Curtis, the
Abbott Family, Prof. w. c. Fowler, Prof. March,
John II. Brodhead, Parke Goodwin. +. G..
Squier, S. Ireugus Prime, w. c. Prime, Charles
Nordhoff, and many Others. who not only
esteemed him as a publisher, but valued him
New-York tribune., 1877-05-30
WOMEN Is UOKKERS.

The ladies of this city Gas our readers will
note III another coumn) held meeting last
night in Steinway Hall to explain to the public
what they had been doing for poorer women,
and TO ask help III prosecuting the good work.
The question il brief and easily disposed of.
A woman must live, and if there be no man
whose duty it is to provide the means of
living for her, she must and ought to find
them for herself 1t is for the benefit of So
ciety rs well as her own that she do this in
the most skillful and intelligent way possible.
The training schools, therefore, which these
good women who met last night have cstab-
hshed and which are intended to make of
idle, ignorant, untidy girls neat and skilful
cooks, seamstresses, and manufacturers of small
wares, are thoroughly practical, rational help
to society. A woman also needs certain pro-
lection which is not necessary for man. The
Homes for single and unprotected women in
the city, the cheap and respectable eating
New-York tribune., 1877-05-30

"a n friend. Few men have done more for
the encouragement of the young writers IN TINS
country. He was quick in the detection
of literary talent, and in no case failed
TO honor it with cordial apprecla-
ton. Without affecting the airs OF
patron of letters, his bearing toward the timld
aspirant for the virgin honOrs OF publication was
always not only cOnsiderate, but kindly, ana no
unAedged author ever left bis presence with the
sense of despair engendered by the lack OF cour-
teous sympathies. Among our elder writers
there were not few who counted his friendship
rs an honor. His conversation was genial
animated, suggestive, his manners toward MS
old and familiar acquaintance were marked
with a certain affectionateness that Is rare
in the intercourse between man ana man.
although he had little patience with con-
ceit and presumption, and OF the bores that
often nfest the purlieus of literature, his toer-
ance was limited to a singularly brief space OF
time.
In common with his brothers, he tooksa just
nride in the character of the publications
issued by their house. He had high stand
ard of literary excellence, and one even
still higher for moral principle. No temp
tation could induce him to countenance work
which he deemed of unworthy execution or OF
dcleterions tendencies. With no sectarlan
bgotry, he was favorite publisher with many
religious writers. and if anything hostile
TO the cause of virtue and piety bears
his imprint, it may certainly be ascrlbed
to accident, not to design. The last days
of Mr. Harper, though attended with not
a little physical suffering, were calm and peace
full. He had contemplated the gradual but
certain approach of death for many months
without dismay (; he could look back upon long
years of useful activity with tranquil content;
he was surrounded with devoted family
circle of three generations and when the call
of the Master was heard, the servant was
found ready.