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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-05

Yesterday was, perhaps, the quietest Fourth
"of July" which New-York ever saw. There
was mo official observation at all, aud the en-
ercies of the private citizen accomplished httle
or nothing in a public way to compensate ior
the indifference Of the City Hall The flag ana
,be festive cracker were obliged to 90 all the
duty. There was music from the oehS OF ,,'eo
cbprcbes. which can boast Of chimes ana thefe
80 occasionaI religious services IN some OF
..o ,oeetino-houscs The theaters did Their
mai holiday business, so did the steamboats,,
the athletic associations perspred and asplred
60 victory in the suburbs, with the occasional
s~,rat;on Of horserace, and some OF the soidleIy
'osor,ed 70 the peaceful picnic. The time
honored pyrotechnical display was omitted omitted
nd 90 some money was saved, to be squandered
,robably in other directions Perhaps 1t was
hecause the Centennial festivities OF Last year
Left the country little diSinclned to engage
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
PalaiS ROYAL.

Among the many changes to take place soon
on the grand boulevard bone will be more strik-
ing and moro indicative of the good time to come
than the swayipg to the breeze tbs banners of the
grand "Pslsis Royal" Our enterprisng friend
Levy, who has for 60 many years been the popu
lar proprietor of the dollar store, No. 1877 Canal
street, seems to have had his faith shaken in re-
publican institutions and ideas, and is deter
mined, with enc fell swoop, to obterate the
name of dollar store forever. He is making prep
arations for the opening of this elegant and gor-
geous estaolis amens, and nothing will be spared
in making it the most attractive place in the
Southern country. Levy's dollar store is known
throughout the whole South, and as it has been
known for its promptness in filling orders and
the polite attention Of the clerks, and the place to
get everything, so will the Palais Royal grow
into popular favor, for we will see in the large
and gilded sigrs that are to sdorn the building
evidences of a new era, prosperity which We
have langed for but never expected until the
present time.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11

Theodore, seventh Viscount Dillon,
Two OF Arthur Dillon's sons, James and
Edward, were successively colopels of
the regiment, James falling at its head
at Fontenoy. In fact, q Dillon was al
ways its colonel previous to the revolu-
tion, and 1t is said that on one occasion.
sooner than break through the rule.
Louis XIV sent to Ireland for one of the
family to take the colonelcy. The last
Dillon who commanded it was Arthur.
son OF Henry, eleventh viscount. This
brave officer was guillotined during the
reign Of terror. The republic of course
changed the name of the regiment,
which became the One Hundred and Flf-
ty-seventh "demi- brigade de bataille." :"
and afterward the Seventieth Of the
line. previous to becoming the Eighty
ninth. 1t was noticed In the orders Of
the day at Wagram and Waterloo. In
the last warit was at Metz. The Sew
enty sixth Is the old Regiment de Beau
jolais, with q famous list of colonels, in
cluding @ Soon berg and Choiseul-
Praslin. The Twenty fourth Is the re-
nowned Regiment Royal" whose Off
GERS all belonged to the first families of
France. in consequences they claimed
precedence over other officers, and were
accorded frequent duels. At Malpla-
quet. where the French lost $4,000 to the
10000 of the English and their allies,
the Duo de Rohan, Its colonel, called
out that "The Royals ought always to
be the first in war, as in love-" The
regiment answered to this characteristic
appeal by lighting till only 800 OF Its
members were left alive.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. {"
[Courier-Journal.l

Among the topics likely to be dis
c1ssed at the approaching session Of the
National Educational Association is the
project OF establishing a National
University" at Washington, to be en-
dowed by the government.
Some prominent educators expressed
themselves favorably to this scheme last
year. tits not likely that it will ever be
materialized. It ought not to be.
for the public schools which, as
now conducted, give either boys
or girls who choose to 90
through the course an excellent aduca-
tion. IF they desire to send their chill
dren to more extensive fields Of learning
there are hundreds Of excellent colleges
and universities all over the country.
The government could not secure better
instructors than are to be found at the
University Of Virginia, at Harvard, at
Yale, or at Princeton.
It is more than probable that the
National University would be third
rate affair, with The very strong pros
pect Of becoming merely political ma
chine. Its rdison d'etre does not appear.
The government might as we'll under
take to run all the common schools in
the country,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
LABOR AND POLITICS.
Significant Movement tn BalfiHsss-~
WOrkingmen Urged Ia FOrrm n
yoIi tiral Party Of Their own
New York Times. /

LNeW IoIk llmeB.I
BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. e.-The great
hall and galleries Of the Maryland In
stitute were packed this evening with
six thousand people, brought together
by q call from the Workingmen's PARTY
OF the United States. The crowd was
principally made up Of laborers. and
was tumultuous, but good humored un-
TIL it broke out In storms OF exeeratioU
over the mention of the names Of rail-
road presidents. The throng { h seTed Ia
the echo OF the rabid talk OF the speakers
and the radical features OF the platform.
Ihe orator OF the evening was o young
Irishman from New York named ). r.
Mcdonnell. editor OF the Labor Stand
ard, whose most violent utteranees were
lOudest applauded. His declaration that.
the strikers had been driven to burning
depots and destroying railroad property
by the unendurable tyranny of capital
and that they might have been better
off now IL they had done the same thing
before, set the audience off into whirl-
wind OF applause. Their Justification
for the destruction OF property, he
said, was that necessity knows
no law" and the men did it i'm
their hunger and despair to show
what they are capable. The mention
OF the names Of Scott and Garrett was
greeted with terrific yells and shouts of
Hang them" The workingmen wero
urged to act together In politics, to-
come out from Republicans and Demo-
Gratis, both OF whom were depressing
them, and nominate and elect their own
men to office. If they did this they
could overcome their oppressoTs and
enforce new regime. AS for the sol
diers, the speaker said that, Ii Eeces-
sary, the workingnen could organize
regiments to sweep out OF existence
those who would dare to fire upon them.
The whole tone of the speech was fana-
tical and violent. The platform that
was read afterward is that OF the Inter-
national Society, with some alterations
to meet the political exigencies of the
present. Its leading plank is that all
railroads and canals, telegraph and
labor machinery shall be common
property Of the people, to be operated
by labor unions, under the protection of
the national government; that the
wages system shall be abolished and
labor have an equal share In the earn
bureaus shall be formed by State and
national governments. A call was made
for committee OF five from each ward to
meet at headquarters Monday next. and
prepare for the entry OF the Working
mems party into the local political field.
The movement is exciting intense inter-
est on account OF the enthusiasm that
has marked It's birth. There are three
or four sections OF the Internationalists.
They will form the nucleus OF the new
party. After the meeting tonight
OF the crowd came forward
and signed their names as members.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
CAN RUSSIA STAND THE FINANCIAL
STRAIN?

A correspondent of the London Dail,l
Ieteg dph writes from the vicinity OF
the Russian headquarters: "How deep
ly not only Prince Gortschakoff, but
other leading Russians, feel the risks
that have been run may be strikingly
instanced by the circumstances that
Gen. Ignatieff-the man who has, more
than any other living being, been in
strumental in rendering war inevita-
ble.-said the other day to q parsonage
with whom he was talking over the sit
doubts as to whether the Russian
armies actually upon the European
seat Of war would be found numerous or
efectire enough to carry out the mission
entrusted to them, We'll. you may be
right; but ii we require three hundred
thousand men more to achieve our pur-
pose, we can have them. and 1Ue ,yiU. ,
1t Is all very well to say this, but how
are the three hundred thousand to be
paid for? | have ascertained beyond a
doubt that the cash disbursements made
by the Russian government for their
armies in the field have, for the last
three months, averaged at least G15, ,OO0,-
600 per month. Now, according to the
optimistic estimates, the customs aud ex-
port duties, ETC., of Russia are now
bringing in about g3,OOO,OOO a month.
With what sums, then, are paid the
monthly surplus of from fifteen to six
teen millions sterling disbursed over
and above that three millions, even
supposing the latter to be duly en-
cashed and handed over en- 51oc to
the military administration And
what addition to this tremendous
expenditure would be superinduced by
the placing Of three hundred thousand
more troops, which must be fitted out
and brought from no one knows where
to the Danube? ? 1t is the certainty that
Russia's resources cannot meet the de-
mands of another campaign, should
this one prove failure. as seems prob
able, that so profoundly impresses her
statesmen, who plainly perceive that,
even should her military successes
prove to be as overwhelming as the
most sanguine crusader of them all
hope, Russia must collapse, after peace
shall be made, for half a century at
least, il she does not subside to the rank
of a third-class power. Besides, it is
especially humiliating to the Gar to
know that, however brilliant his armies
victories in the field, he must at any
moment forego their fruits at the bid
ding Of England, Austria and Ger
many"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
THE ATHER YESTERDAY.

The following is the temperature" at the
various points named, as reported by the
Signal Service kilograms furnished by Ser
geant Brown, of the Signal Bureau, and indi-
eating the state of the temperature at the
points named, at p. m. yesterday:
Cairo 81 degrees, Cincinnati 81, Galveston
81, Keokuk rs, Lacrosse SO, Leavenworth 92,
Louisville So, Memphis S5, Nashville s5,
Omaha 90, Pittsburg 10, Shreveport 95, st.
Louis S5, st. Paul 81, Vicksburg SO, Yankton
ID. T.) 80, Augusta (Ga.) 80, Corsicana Tex
80, Mobile 80, Montgomery 80, Savannah 49,,
New Orleans 80, and Key West SO.
The following were the variations of tenn
perature, according to the thermometer
(FahrenheiD at Duhamers store, on Canal
street, yesterday:
6a. M, 70; 12 noon, 90; 3p. M, 95; 6 p.
M, 81.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
THE KENTUCKY ELECTION.
[Courier-Journal, August 81

The returns from the election in this
State come in slowly, but sufficient have
been received to make the assurance
doubly sure that the Democrats will
have it all their own way in the next
Legislature, and that Mr.. Jas. W. Tate,
the only State officer elected, will have
majority as healthy and vigorous as is
the treasury over which he is again to
preside. The Granger element, that
had majority in the last Legislature,
cut no figure in the recent contest, and
as there was no general issue to warp
the public mind, there is reason to hope
and believe that the Legislature lust
elected will be an emiuently repre-
sentative and practical one,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
FRENCH Politics.
The Continued Oppression of the French
Republicans by the MacsEabonites.
Especial to the Demoerat.l

Especial to the Demoerat.l
LONDON, Aug. 1O-The electoral campaign
on the part of the French Government is
daily becoming more active and oppressive.
Yesterdays advices report the suppression
of the delivery of a number of Republican
journals in the ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Union Liberdie. of Versailles, was
sentenced to three Thousand francs fine. and
the manager to be imprisoned for three months
for insulting President MacMahon.
The Nineteenth Ctnt,vy and Petit Pnrisien
were prosecuted for publishing a colored map
of France showing the political complexion
of the departments.
Two clubs at Aries have been closed charged
with being political assemblages.
The Depeche newspaper at Toulouse has
been fined one hundred francs for refusing to
print speech of President MacMahon.
The police have forbidden street sales of
photographs Of Theirs.
The offense of speaking insultingly of Pres
ident MacMahon in the street is now becom-
ing the subject of daily action before the
tu
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
THE GRAssHOPPER PLAGUE.

CHICAGO, Aug. g. Professor CIV. Riley,
OF the United States chronological
Commission, has made a resume of the
labors of that body recently in the Far
West, dwelling particularly on the
Rocky Mountain locust and grasshoppsr
plague. In summing up his obserya-
tions, ne says There is very little dam
ger Of injury from the fall swarms of
these insects from the Northwest, unless
they come from the Black Hills coun-
try. There remains chance of swarms
from the Western parks and plateaux,
or from those Of Utah. But have good
reason for believing that they will prove
no more injurious than the swarms
which have been passing on several
days since [ have been in this State
(Colorado) from the Western Matching
grounds. The prevailing wet weather,
he says, has destroyed the insect to a
great degree, and has been more instru-
mental than any other cause In destroy
ing the lOcust5,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
BLA1NE.s SPEECH.
re wants Peace and VIII Try the Presi-
dents Policy Awhile.

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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Especial to the Democrat.J

CINCINNATI, Aug. 1O.--Flour firm. Wheat
unsettled; white held at 81 25@1 30. Corn
and oats quiet and unchanged. Whisky
steady 81 OS. Pork and lard nominal Bulk
meats quiet and firmer, 50l799s outside, asked.
Bacon steady and unchanged.
CHICAGO, Aug 10.-Wheat steady; 81 0s1s
0sss for August, 81 O14l1 O15s. Corn
steady, 453,s; August, 451s;; September, 45s4
cash. Pork quiet, S13 17l1a0D20 for September.
Lard quiet, $50 for September. Whisky
steady, 81 OS.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 10.-Flour, buyers and
sellers apart Wheat higher; No. red 81 2s
bid cash; No. 3 do II 21119 bid cash; 81 1794 n
| 1879 September; 81 130l1 IA October. Corn
better; IL &c bid cash; 4l5sm421lc September;
4211aa0l4244c October Oats dull; 26c. Whisky
quiet; 81 0s. Pork dull; iobbing at Is 5001
- 90. Dry salt meats buyers and sellers
apart no sales. Bacon dull; 5a4@8. Lard
unchanged.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11

The Holy Land Is Not 10 be tI.e seat Of
Judaism. but of Catholicism.

The Impression prevails very extern
sively that Palestine is to be repeopled
with Israelites. who are now scattered
abroad in all lands, and that a large
emigration OF this people thitherward
has set in. Some authorities declare
even that the population OF Palestine
to-day Is double what it was ten years
ago. II this refers to the Jews, the Rev.
DR.. De Hass, who has been United
States consul ut Jerusalem for seven or
eight years, writes to the Christian Id
uOcdte, OF New York city, to say that it
may be true, but of the population it
is not true. The country, he says,
owing especially to the heavy drain
upon the able bodied men to keep
up the Turkish army, is rapidly
being depopulated and Impoverished.
Deserted villages are everywhere to be
seen. There is less wealth among the
people, fewer camels, horses and stock
OF all kinds than ten years ago. Fruit
and forest trees are also disappearing.
Carmel was almost stripped of her tim
Der for the Suez canal, and as any fruit
tree is taxed whether Ii bears or not,
few are now planted. Everything there
appears to be finished. There is no pro-
gress, no improvement of any kind.
There are about thirty thousand Jews In
all Palestine. They are mostly from Rus
sia, and do not go there to work or de-
velop the country. but to die, that they
may sleep with their fathers Ia holy
ground. They are generally aged and
poor, living on the charity of their peo-
pie In Europe and America. It will re-
quire different class of emigrants al
together, says the doctor, to recover
this cursed land. It is true there
are new houses going up outside
the city walls, but mostly small tene-
ments, built by committees for the
benefit of their poor members. Work |
has been done on those dwellings by
night to avoid the hot sun during the |
day, and not because there is such q
demand for bouses as has been reported. |
The latest programme for Palestine is |
not Jewish, but papal occupancy. The
Jesuits OF Europe, adds DIR. De Hass, |
are dissatisfied with the condition of |
things in Italy, and there is q move |
ment on foot to make Jerusalem the |
head OF the Latin Church. Commits. |
sioners have been appointed to nego-
tiate for the territory; engineers have |
a railroad from Jerusalem to |
Jaffa; money is being collected for the |
erection OF a magnificent palace for his |
holiness on Mount Zion, to which the |
Vatican is to be transferred. There
the successor to Plus TX is to be in |
stalled and the "city Of the great king" |
Is to be the future head Of the pontifi-
cal see. Russia, however, may have
to say on the future disposi-
ton of Palestine.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
A NEW HOME FOR yEEROEs.
ICourier-Jonrnal.l

The negroes Of Cincinnati are not
anxious to be packed off to Liberia by
their Republican friends" At q meet
ing held Monday in that city they re-
solved that, as the negro was not appre-
ciated in either the North or the South,
it was the duty Of the race to form q.
colony in some Western or Southwest
ern State. AS to Liberia, they declared
that they viewed the scheme ''with
sentiments OF profound dissatisfaction,
as ruinous to life and capital. - Kansas
would be good State for these people
to occupy, or perhaps Nebraska might
suit them better, there being large
population OF Radical Republicans
there, who should, according to their
professions, share their houses and
lands with the newcomers.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
The Labor League of the District Of Co
lsf1sIbta,
[Snecial TO the Democrat ]

WASHINGTON, Aug. TO- Resolutions were
presented to the Commissioners of the Dis
mittee Of Safety Of the Labor League of this
District, setting forth the utter destitution
prevalent among the white and colored work
ing men of the District; the lawful and order
ly manner in which they conducted them
selves during the recent strike, and earnestly
requesting the commissioners to raise a loan
of a quarter of million of dollars instanta-
neously and set two thousand men to work at
once on public improvements. The commits
sioners promised to give the subject their
prompt attention.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
FAMOUS REGIMENTS,

Among the regiments passed in re-
view by Marshal MacMahon on Sunday
last, says the Pail Mall Gazette. there
were several with pedigrees, il the ex-
preston may be used, of not little in
terest, especially to Englishmen. Thus.
as our correspondent noticed the other
day, the Ninetieth Infantry of the Line
claims to be the old Birwick Irlandais.
of which James IFS natural son was the
first colonel. 1t was raiseG from among
his emigrant countrymen (after the cap
itulation Of Limerick) by Arthur, son of
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
The Cotton. Crnp,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-The Cotton Ex-
changes throughout the South have furnished
their rnonthly reports. A somewhat hurried
analysis shows that the weather during July
has been more favorable than last year: that
the condition is from five to fourteen days
averaging nine days-late, with the plant
hardy and thriving.
There are scattered statements of the ap-
pearance of caterpillars, army worms and
lice, but as yet no damage Is done. The fields
are quite generally well cultivated, and the
tone Of the reports is cheerful, and indicates
satisfactory yield.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11

[London News.]

The Russian plan is not to move on
Adrianopie, leaving its base on the
Danube and its line of communication
open to attack, but to give occupation
to the whole Turkish force south of the
Danube, and even increase Its own
strength there while pushing south of
the Balkans to AdrianopIe. It is a
colossal undertaking, and no one
may presume to say what may be
the result. Hitherto the Russians
have had inert Ottoman Cen
erals opposed to them in Europe.
but 30 far as concerns the quality OF she
Turkish commanders the war has en-
tered upon a new stage. At Shumia and
at Adrianople activity and vigilance
have taken place Of lassitude and ne
glect. Suleimaa Pasha, who has taken
the command south OF the Balkans, is
thorough soldier, and is collecting a
considerable army in the valley OF the
Martha, and whenever the Russians az
rive at Adrianople they will lind IL In q
state of defense. The Russians rely
much, though by no means wholly. on
their superiority OF numbers. and next
upon their facility OF movement and
capacity OF maneuvering.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-11
THE MEETING OF THE EMpERoRs.
The Question of Russia's Extending the
seat of War to servia.

LONDON, Aug. 1O-The Standards Vienna
correspondent telegraphs as follows l am in
a position to state that at the meeting of the
Emperors William and Francis Joseph, at
Ischel, the question of Russia's extending the
seat of war to Servia was never touched upon
The question is likely to be dropped alto
gether.
Russian military reports from Biela now un-
expectedly declare that Servian cooperation
is unnecessary. 1t is supposed that this
change of tone is due to the Russians having
become aware that request for such coop
GRAFTON would have been refused.
In relation to the imperial interview at
lschel, Berlin semi-official papers CONTRA
dict the report that definite political agree
ment was concluded. They merely admit
that the triple alliance was reaffirmed The
Vienna Nem Free Press takes similar view
of the meeting.