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New-York tribune., 1877-05-05

New facts are discovered in the practical use
OF Prof. Bells speaking telephone much faster Than
theories can be framed meet them At present he
uses only permanent magnets IN operating tie instru
ucn there Is u, battery used at all to give the current
IL being obtained solely from ordinary and not very
arg. horseshoe magnets wrapped with ine wire near
each of tbe poles. Strangely enough, the ma gnets
work equally well, no mater which pole OF either
magnet faces the other In the circuit Instead OF the
usual arrangement OF poles, = -, r -, these may be
placed -A p - ard yet serve the purpose Of thc
telephone completely. Great electrical rsstanc', such
as that caused 10y the uterposon Of rs persons holding
each Others hands part ~ thu rc ntcrlercs little
with transnssion. As the resistance is in such
nearly twenty times that of the Atlantic cable, there
seems 90 bc reason the hope that the sound OF the
human voice may be readily transmitted between Europe
auF America. B.i telephone is strangely obiyious
% some kinds of detective cOndgcOn and sensitive TO
Others. Thus weather, which inf rferes with ordi
nary tccgrgply, has Vcrceptbic effect the teie
phone; bat imperfect Joints uniting the lengths of wire
are grave impcdment 10 the wording Of tho new in
strumcut Three curious sounds heard m the tcie
phone when l8cd with the ordinary wires between lies
uc-e sounds are faiutcr than those which the n.r-
urut specially transmits and MAKE "A 81 unlertone
Of sound Tho most Distinct OF the three is the
ii king uf f0r,- signals and the Ike. These can some
times ug he'd a. tie signals OF separate letters
and words. Dui iu general lhly are confusing by their
number They arc pIoinc.i by the ylhiaious Of Tie
telegraph poles from aii te other wires that may
fastened 30 the poles that carry the telephone wire.
There is low cracking t0ihd Wlch Is believed TO bC
produced bv the rubbue Of imperfect rusty unts of
the telegraph wire. There h also faint, continuous
bubbiBs sound, ioT which no satisfactory explanation
has vel ncc offered Tie Mechanics Institute of San
Francisco sent gentleman 10 Prof Bell 70 induce the
latter To apply tne telephone IN mines 40 to give
prom III tbroug the mine
nnl with the suifacc Tic ordinary telegraph does not
st present work well Ia the majority Of lanes, for yari
New-York tribune., 1877-05-05
SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE.

In recent lecture on heat delivered at the
ROYAL institution Prof Tyndall described au invention
OF Mr. siemens to detect the oxidation OF telegraph
cables Tho instrument indicates the heat that tue oRua-
ton occasions and thus shows 20 what extent the rust
forming. 1t IS chiefly OF service with cables Wio ooo"
e.
New-York tribune., 1877-05-05

STANDARD EDUCATIONAL WORKS.
New-York tribune., 1877-05-05

Indigo, az representing portion of the spec
trum gives In Prof o. ~ Rood's experiments different
tint from what Is exactly wanted. In NeWtons scale
indigo IA used to indicate the range OF the spectrum
between the blue and the blueyolet Pfoi Rood hnus
that indigo in solution really gives geenls Due' Inc
exact color that Is wancd can be obtained from genuine
ultramarne-but not artificial ultramarlne az tn''
violet blue The complementary color to genuine mira
marine blue il pure yellow. Prussan blue ana Ihub'
INV. allnnt tIle sn1ne nlarn m. tie spectrum
New-York tribune., 1877-05-05
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New-York tribune., 1877-05-05

People who take sulphur in Spring weather.
after the tlmehonercd method prescribed at Dotheboys
Hall NAV be interested in the fact that the purity oi
their medicine is open TO doubt. Mr. Hanks recently
exhibited 10 his members of the San FRANCISCO
Microscopca Society specimens of the spurious ana ''
genuine flowers of sulphur foT COMPARISON lhe re' an
tcle Is obtained by sublimng sulphur ana except ,A
there is with it usually little snlphurous a',u 'l
d,c, il almost chemically pure But great deal OF
,rbot l. soII as the subimate now out under inc
microscope 10 he merely crude bin6tOne 9IOut " .
uowder Instead OF GJWers 1t should De cIles Ju @ ~
sIlphnr OF course the spurious article contains nl5
impurities which make the mess with trcaeie snsh"'
nasticr.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27

tory made by the appraisers is not proper
one. the blame rests entirely with the Dis
trict Attorney for allowing the order under
which IL Is made. Certainly the Marshal In
ours no responsibility. and has no interest
whatever In the matter Indeed, 80 long as
that order stands the Marshal Is going out
side OF his functions in making another inven-
tory or in interfering in any way further
than to hold the property subject to the
order of court. Practically this is all he
is doing or can do. Judge Billings
is the only one who can settle the trouble,
and the continuance of it, with all the I'M
necessary suffering involved, Is due entirely
to his absence from his post. All that is
necessary to be done is topass upon the bonds
offered for the release Of the property. He
alone can do this, and until he does it the
property must remain tied up, unless the
District Attorney sees fit to Withdraw his OBJ
iections to the inventory of the appraisers
and the bonds based on it. Judge Billings
should enforce his order and release the logs.
and should do SO peremptorily.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27

We publish in another column communi-
cation from the editor of the Marshall (Texas)
Herald, who asks whether it Is true that
many OF the leading men of our State are
exercising their influence to prevent the
prosecution Of the members of the Returning
Board, and that the Governor himself is OPP
posed to It, The columns of the DEMOCRAT
show, by interviews which have been given
to the public and by its news columns in gen
eral, that public sentiment throughout the
State is In favor of the prosecution to the
bitter end of the men who have attempted to
steal our dearest liberties, and no word has
been uttered by the Governor tending to show
that he is in favor of permitting the rascals
10 escape and letting such disgraceful bygone
tioings go without inquisition and punish
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27
THE TRUE AND SAFE REMEDY.

New ORLEANS, July 26, 1877.
Editor Democrdt-I have had the pleasure to
read your article in this mornings paper en-.
titled "The True and Safe Remedy and the
last paragraph has considerably excited my
curiosity. Therefore, allow me to ask you to
make public through your paper those other
''lawful and peaceful methods" by which
monopoies, political evils and abuses can be
eradicated Will be glad to hear from you
Soon A SUBSCRIBER.
A subscriber asks us what are the lawful
and peaceful methods by which monopolies
and other abuses can be eradicated and sup
pressed The writer could hardly have read
our article through and needed an answer to
his question. The political power in this
country is in the hands of the people. Let
them exercise the power SO as to inhibit the
creation of such monopolies by Legislatures,
and place. capital in the same condition as
labor, without those special favors and priv
ileges which labor does not enjoy, and subject
to the same natural laws that should control
both capital and labor.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27

The log war still RACES All parties there
unto are now in the city. That romantic and
m ysterious parsonage, the chief conspirator,
as he is regarded by the logmen, Col. Carter
is present. He is handsome, intelligent,
courteous young fellow, who appears to be
"solid' with the Interior Department; and
affects to be a great Nimrod, though by the
nature of the game" he has hunted down
and the devious manner of his chase. we are
led to look ON him as a Rob Roy, somewhat
degenerated.
There is also in attendance at the Custom
House Mr. Couturie who represents Commits
sioner Chamberlain and the other appraisers
sent under the special order of Judge
Billings to relieve the Marshal of the
duty of investigating and appraising the
logs to which intrusion upon his high
functions the Marshal protests and
is supported therein by the District
Attorney. The millmen are also represented
by two very intelligent men, who want the
matter settled so that the logs may move for
ward to the mills and give their hands and
machinery employment. Then the purchasers
and claimants of the logs have two very
shrewd and experienced lawyers and
merchants to protect the interest
of the logmen. All these parties besiege and
clamor around the genial, fruitful and mex
haustibly eloquent and humorous United
States Marshal, who stands like an old buck
mp to his quarters in water, and losses his
various assailants with his long antlers right
and left, making the Calcasieu river foam and
rise into high waves, which threaten to sub
merge and drown the whole caboodle of in
tervenors and resisters in their acanton en-
deavors to block the desperate game of few
blackmailers and political bummers in their
very new and interesting effort at clog
rolling"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27
BY THE GOVERNOR.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,

!
Executive Department.
| Whereas. section 3049 of the Revised Statutes
| OF the State of Louisiana approved March IL,
| 1870 provides that the Governor shall issue his
proclamation upon the advice of the Board of
Health. declaring any place where there shall
be reason to believe pestilential, contagious or
infectious disease exists to be an infected place,
| stating the number of days quarantine is to be
performed by the vessels their passengers, Off
| GERS and crews coming from such place or
| places"
Now, therefore. in pursuance to the provisions
of the statutes aforesaid and upon the recon-
mendation of the Board of Health stating that
there is reason to believe that at this season of
the year, there is danger of the introduction
from the tropics of yellow fever contagion, I,
FRANCIS T. NICHOLS, Governor Of the State
of Louisiana. have thought proper to issue this
my proclamation declaring that all vessels arriv-
ing. from and after the fifteenth day of June,
A. d. 1877. from the ports of Rio de Janeiro, Ha-
vana, Matanzas Sagua La Grande, Cardenas
Cienfuegos. Santiago de Cuba, Kingston, Porto
Rico. San Juan. Santo Domingo and Vera Cruz,
shall be subject to quarantine. and that their
officers. crews, passengers and cargoes arriv-
ing from the above named places. or having
touched or stopped at any of them. shall be sub
Ject to a quarantine Of ten days.
And do hereby direct the proper officers at
the Quarantine Station to rigidly enforce the
execution of this proclamation. and any viola
ton of the laws of this State on this subject mat
ter to be vigorously prosecuted.
Witness my signature and the seal of the State
of Louisiana. at the city of New Orleans, this
fourth day of June, A. D. 1877.
FRANCIS T. NICHOLS,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
By the Governor:
WILL. A. STRONG. Secretary Of State.
ia5 lie law If
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27

Hartranft calls on President Hayes for 200,
600 volunteers, to serve for two months
against the strikers, who appear to have
taken possession of large portion of the
property Of the railroad companies and have
sent to disgraceful fight the valiant militia
of Pennsylvania, which a short while ago
this redoubtable commander-n-chiefo of 4oo, 900
well-armed troops threatened to hurl against
the White League of Louisiana.
Now, q citizens and taxpayers of the United
States, we protest against any such use of
power on the part of the President of the
United States, as this Radical warrior pro-
poses. President Hayes stated correctly and
clearly the extent of his authority in furnish
ing the military aid of the Federal Govern
ment to Governors to suppress mobs within
their States. They must show that they have
exhausted their own means; that their own
posse comitatus has failed to enforce their own
laws and protect the property and lives of
their own citizens before their acquisitions
upon the Federal Government can be needed
10 raise 100000 volunteers to operate against
The people would be a usurpation on the part
of the President of the war making power
which is vested in Congress. Let Mr., Hart
rant enforce the laws of his own State and
pay the expenses of his own posse comitatus.
President Hayes has military force sufficient
to protect the property and enforce the laws
of the United States. If the Presidents
force is not adequate to do this LET
him send to Louisiana, and he can in
a day obtain a posse comitdtus of men
who acM fight against all assailants of
the rights and property of the republic, but
who would regard it as neither their right
or duty to volunteer to fight in Pennsylvania
nor the protection of the corrupt and oppres-
sive moaopolies of that State, as Hartranft
so magnanimously proposed to do. for the
carpet-bag plunderers and oppressers of our
people. The militia and police of this State
are not apt to run away from mobs, but they
do not readily volunteer to fight the battles
of governments and peoples who hav'nt the
manhood to defend their own government
and property
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27

President Wheelock writes most cheeringly
from New York Of the disposition of capital
lists to furnish the iron or steel rails and the
running stock for the New Orleans Pacific, on
first mortgage security, when the roadbed
has been laid. All that is needed is to secure
the S675,o0o of subscription by our people to
insure the early completion and equipment of
this road. There is unemployed capital
enough in this city to furnish this amount
without crampng the movable capital in our
ajfI
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27
A CARD.
New ORLEANS, La, July Is, 1877.

NEW ORLEANS, La, July IS, 1877.
Learning that n rumor has been put in circu-
lation by some unauthorized party or parties, to
the effect that am about to go out OF the hard
ware business, 1 take this method of denying
the correctness of that report. and beg to inform
my friends and the public that am now, and
will continue to be, prepared to serve them in
my line of trade, and on as reasonable terms as
other dealers.
CHARLES D. LALLANDE,
Nos SO Tchoupitoulas and SO Peters street
st
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27

One of the great evils and abuses of the
tax system is the enormous exemptions of
capitals and moneys of corporations, not pub
lic religious, educational or charitable, from
the burden of taxation, which fall so heavily
upon all private persons. There are three of
these corporations located in New Orleans
which derive and divide immense incomes
from their exclusive privilege of taxing the
people, that do not pay dollar of tax to the
city.
There is the Sugar Shed Company which
collects an average charge of eighty cents for
every hogshead of sugar, and fifty cents for
every barrel Of molasses landed on the levee,
and estimates its capital at $1sO,O0O, making
twenty per cent dividend among It's stock
holders per annum. This company has never
paid city or State dollar of taxes.
Next, the Slaughter House Company, which
collects tax of four or five hundred dollars O.
day from the fresh meat butchered i'm the
sacred precincts of its abattoir and sold in
our markets, is not required to divert from it's
stockholders, not one of whom is butcher
paying license, a single dollar into the
city treasury. Lastly, the Louisiana Lot
terry, with an income from its franchises of a
million or so a year extracted from thu peo-
pie, is invested with the same immunity from
city taxation, which the constitution provides
shall only be given to religious, educational,
or charitable institutions.
And these are not all the corporations
which enjoy these exclusive privileges of col
Letting immense sums from the people with
out contributing dollar to the support of the
municipal government, which gives them
the same protection that is extended over the
whole people.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27

The arrest of Escobedo ought to have
auieting effect on Jim Blaine nerves, and now
that the government has shown that 1t cares
not at all who s President Of Mexico, it Is TO
be hoped that IL will demand prompt apology
from Diaz for his insolence in regard TO the
s,sslpra tn Gen Ord
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27

A good deal Of interest has been aroused by
n decision of the Supreme Court OF North
Carolina to the effect that the trial OF United
States revenue officer for assault may De
transferred from the State to the Federal
an
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27
DIED.

MoCANTS-On Wednesday. July 25, ut III D.
NJ. Maria Y. Livingston, wife of the late David
McCants.
The friends of the family are respectfully in
vttei to attend the funeral, from her late resi-
dence. corner Of Eighth and Chestnut streets
at half past This Afternoon.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27

tle lHuerteHOTS are mere prepared TO bond the
logs under seizure, on securities approved by
Commissioner Chamberlain, who was sent
down to take affidavits of bondsmen as to
their solvency and other qualifications
But the District Attorney and Govern
ment Agent Carter decline to recog-
nize the appraisement and inventory made
by the appraisers, and insist upon the in
ventory being made by the Marshal, in ac-
cordance with the law. The Marshal also
insists upon making the inventory with as
much earnestness as if he were, also,
guardian of the interests of the government,
instead of mere CONSERVATION and executive
officer, who should have no interest in the
matter and has no duty to perform, except to
obey the orders of the court
Now, this is all wrong. The duties of the
Marshal are to both parties, and he should
manifest no feeling, nor give expression to
any opinion in favor of either party. A proper
conception of the dignity and duties of his
position requires this, and he has nothing
whatever to do but to obey the orders OF
court. There is an order of court, presuma
bly, made contradictorily with the District
Attorney, that the appraisers should make
this inventory, and this order must maintain
until 1t is revoked by the court. The District
Attorney and the government, as well as the
parties defendant, are bound by it alike
1t Is not obligatory on the Marshal to go on
with his inventory since the order of court,
made, as we are bound to infer, by the con-
sent of both parties to the suit, has imposed
that duty upon other parties. If the inven- |
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27

The New York San says that ''the Southern
journals appear to be pretty nearly unani-
nous on in favor Of Sam. j. Randall for
Speaker" We have not seen one that was
Unanimous on that subject yet
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27
SPECIAL NOTICE.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

I have the various SCRIP AND WARRANTS
suitable for payment of City Taxes 1s73 1874. 1875
1876 and years previous. State taxes 1879 1874.
and 1875 and the current year. which sell in
sums to suit at the lowest market rates. also
settle these taxes and make large savings to the
taxpayer. W. FL. BARNETT, Broker,
3s st. Charles st.. opposite st. Charles HOTEL
ie19 I'm
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PETERSoNS MAGAZINE, the Queen ofthe
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But, as a cotemporary says, the stories the
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peterson" is the best of its kind. For 1873
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lady's or child's dress, thus giving to every
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ing the year. These patterns alone will be
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Pa.
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