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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-15

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ANNAPOLIS AND BENDS.

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Read Nayra's invitation ID the China Palace,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-04
A CAR ID.

The article in your yesterdays paper referring
to the robbery committed on ex-Recorder Ger
non, am assured, does him grave injustice.
That he had been indulging to some extent-as
being genial and convivial man ia not unusual
with him-I am informed is true. He engaged q
carriage, not to take him to. any such place as
stated in your article, but to take him home, and
advantage was taken Of his condition to perpe-
trate upon him the robbery which you mentioned.
Mr.. Gernon is an old citizen of New Orleans.
He has resided here since 1888. He has been .
man Of large means and large property. he has
erected many buildings on Canal, Prytania, st.
Charles, Tchoupitoulas and other streets. and
has paid taxes on property owned by him to the
extent Of about two hundred thousand dollars.
While acting as recorder Of the First District
he gave great satisfaction to the citizens gener-
ally, administering his office with justice, tenn
pered with mercy, and while imposing milder
fines turned over more money to the city than
any other recorder since Joshua Baldwin.
It is great hardship that in addition to the
loss which he has sustained under the circum-
stances above stated, which might have occurred
to many good and true man, nos member of 3
temperance society, the incident should be rep
resented so much to the disadvantage Of an old,
well known and substantial citizen.
AN OLD CITIZEN.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-04
NEW ORLEANS, SEPTEMBER 4, 1877.
The Assistant Attorney General has

The Assistant Attorney General has
commenced suit against the sureties Of
Ed. Fulton, late tax collector for the
First District Of New Orleans, for the
amount of his alleged defalcation-over
fifty thousand dollars. The names Of
the sureties sued do not give much en-
couragement as to the chances OF ever
realizing a dollar from a judgment
against them. Three Of them were
VIGOROUSLY insolvent, and 80 known to
Kellogg when he accepted their bonds.
A supplemental or direct suit against
Kellogg and Clarke, who according to
Fulton's statements, were the real
collectors, he and his predecessor,
Folger, being only nominally such, are
regarded as financially responsible men.
They received and disbursed the funds
OF the Office. Certainly the State OF
Louisiana must have the same rights
each of her citizens has Of recovering
what has been stolen from her from the
persons into whose possession her
money or property has passed. Fulton
says he never received the money he is
charged with appropriating, that Kel-
logg and Clarke did, and that they must
pay it. He is not willing to go to Jail
for money which they got.
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their isolation. To the east the nearest
settlements were in Missouri and Illi-
nois, while all west Of them was an un-
peopled wilderness, and no man could
have foretold the wondrous transforms
ton the last few years have brought
about. Even when the emigration to
California began across the continent, it
was hailed by the Mormon prophets as
a special divine dispensation which made
Salt Lake the halfway station and Sc
cured the prosperity of their commu-
nifty. Yet it was not many years before
they began to feel the disastrous effects
of even this transient and casual con-
tact with the outside world, and
they sought protection from it in
the slaughter Of emigrants. But
when the railroads penetrated Utah,
and their new Zion became way sta
ton on Egreat transcontinental and
world girdling route, the doom of their
institutions became but a matter Of time.
That time, we believe, has now arrived,
and while the iron will, the resolute
SouAo6Os CAO oo51Clouo dAu AcsL -5OCAlS
selfishness and the strong personality
Of Brigham Young may have delayed
the impending doom of Mormonism,
even he could not have averted it. His
death will only hasten what was in
evitable, but he will himself be
spared the humiliation Of its final
disaster. His death is most fortu-
nate for the world and humanity, but
it is even more opportune for himself,
considered as a personal matter. It
may be safely assumed that there is no
hand left behind strong enough to per-
petuate and uphold as he had done the
singular institutions of which he was
the very life, and which have been for
so long time such a disgrace to hui
manity and American civilization.
There will be bitter squabble over the
division of the wages of sin, of which he
has accumulated no small share, as we'll
as over the power and authority he has
abdicated, and then he and his great
organized crime will be consigned to
the tomb of silence only to be revived
and discussed as strange and unac-
countable incident in human history.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-04
FURTHER OF THAT CUsTOM-HOUSE
FRAUD.

The facts, as they transpire respecting
the Custom House intrigue, rebound
even more to the shame and discredit
Of Collector King and Of Mr.. John
Sherman, than our articles Of yester-
day assumed or inferred.
1t appears that Tom Anderson was
appointed the Special Deputy on the
solicitation and recommendation Of Mr..
King, who communicated the resigna-
ton of Mr.. Champlin, when in fact he
had no further authority from Champ
lin for such statement than an informal
intimation of his willingness to resign
rather than involve Mr.. King in any
trouble by retaining his position. In
other words Mr.. Kings reported bluff
and defiance Of Anderson and Wells,
and Mr.. Sherman's full Endorsement OF
his manly (?) conduct, were pure fictions
Of the most gaseous character, and that
Anderson and Wells knew we'll the man
they were dealing with, and easily
forced compliance with the contract
which had long before been completed
and understood between the parties.
The contemplate figure which Mr..
King cuts in this affair hardly merits
serious remark or denunciation. But
Mr.. John Sherman holds one of the
highest offices in the Republic. The
President of the United States must
bear the chief responsibility for the
sublime dishonesty and hypocrisy of
this whole transaction.
After declaring to the whole country
that they had inaugurated grand re-
form in the civil service 80 as to secure
the most reliable and efficient persons
in the country, who were not Of the
class of mero political partisans, and in
structing their chief officials to appoint
only such persons to subordinate places
after approving number Of such APP
pointments when made by the Collec-
tor, Of men whose efficiency and integ-
rity had been established by long SER
vice and by the favorable notice Of the
late commission, which Investigated and
reported on the condition Of the various
departments of the Custom House,
Messrs. Wells and Anderson make
hurried visit to Washington, and,
after seeing Mr.. Sherman, return
with locomotive speed to the city with
orders to displace all these appointees
and supply their places with the tools
Of Wells and Anderson, making the lat
ter the chief executive and financial Of
ficer of the customs, without the slight
est regard to the competency or qualifi-
cations Of any one Of the said ap-
pointees. In all Of this matter we speak
without political or party feeling. In
pilloring the perpetrators Of this shame
less fraud, we are aimingat disabusing
the large portion Of the American peo-
pie whom these audacious knaves in
high office have managed to deceive.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-04

The joint committee Of the Senate and
House, consisting Of Senator White and
Representatives Buck and Heating,
charged with the investigation of the
affairs of the State Treasurer, thought
proper to select, on the recommends
ton Of some Of our most prominent
commercial citizens, a very competent
gentleman as expert and accountant,
Mr.. J. Breedlove Smith. It appears
that Mr.. J. M. Weymouth was an ap-
plicant for the same position. The COM
mittee being reminded of some former
investigation of the same office, wherein
Mr.. Weymouth was involved in some
controversy with the investigators and
the Treasurer, very properly concluded
that in their judicial and investigative
functions it would be wise and just to
avoid the employment Of an expert who
might be regarded as having been COM
mitted against the administration of the
Office which they were appointed to in
vestigate.
The propriety of such decision must
be apparent to all fair minded men.
When, therefore, Mr.. Weymouth pub
lished a card of the character of that to
which the Picayu,ae gives place in yes
terday's edition, complaining of this &C.
ton Of the committee, he gives good
reason to distrust the Endorsement by
the Picayu,ae of him as San old citizen of
rare ability, whose character justifies
the weight which must attach to his
representations"
When citizens Of the high reputation
Of Messrs. E. D. White and S. 81. Buck
can be assailed, and on such grounds
as are there stated. the reputation OF
the assailant will have to carry a
heavier weight than Mr.. Weymouth
will bear in this community, even when
handicapped by the Picayu'ae, which, as
the champion gushing indorser. on mo.
tiyes Of perfect disinterestedness, % has
very lately won fresh laurels in praisine
and indorsing midnight order" Bill
lings as '.justly popular" most
righteous Judge, and Daniel come to
judgment.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-04
BRIGHAM YOUNG's DEATH.

The very best and wisest thing Brig
ham Young could have done for all
mankind, himself included, he has
done-and that was to die. There is
such thing as OUTLYING ones day and
lingering on in uselessness or disaster
after the career Of life has been worked
out and achieved. Garibaldi is an in
stance Of this, and his history should
satisfy us that it is infinitely harder to
remain great than to achieve greatness
harder to assume and act out that stupid
and inert dignity which the world has
set up as it's ideality Of the retired hero
than to "pluck bright honor from the
pale-fa c'd moon" It would have been
better for Napoleon had he died at the
head Of the Old Guard at Waterloo, and
spared mankind the spectacle Of his last
days of querulous and fretful childish
ness at st. Helena.
The humiliation and shame Of these
last sad days only served to mar the
symmetry of a career that had been
otherwise one grand epic Of human sue
cess and glory. But the story is an old
one, and the melancholy and humiliat-
ing moral has been in the mouth OF the
sage and the moralist since the world
began, and the last ignominy of death
and disaster has completed the story Of
vain and bad ambition and furnished
the illustration of the lesson. This is a
startling parallel, parhaps, to suggest
in connection with Brigham Young !;
still he was no ordinary man. On the
the contrary, he was in many and great
respects most extraordinary one. ALI
his life has been miserably bad. in pur-
pose as we'll as in deeds and results
still he has done wonderful things, and
achieved what only very strong, resolute
and sagacious men could ever have
achieved.
He soon realized that Norm onism, as
he understood it, could not maintain it.
self in any community having its estab-
lished customs, laws and habits of
thought based on Christianity. It was
a new religion, with it's revelations and
faiths, all fatally antagonized by the
existing one, and it contemplated So
cial, religious and political organiza-
ton which could prosper only in new
and original fields, or else by overturn-
ing all things that opposed it. This
last alternative was too chimerical even
for consideration, so the other was
adopted. The Mormon faith might
have prospered, but the Mormonism OF
Brigham Young comprehended union
of Church and State that could not be
realized in any country whose organic
law was already established on the
Christian dispensation. The revelation
Of polygamy alone would have out
lawed it and banished it from any com
munity governed by the so-called Gen
tiles. Young saw all this, and he
therefore determined to seclude himself
in the vast wastes Of Utah, then an un
known land.
At that tire the Mormons had every
! reason to believe themselves secure il
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-04

Marshal MacMahon has proved the
most efficient friend Of the Republican
party in France. He has paved the way
to the eventful triumph of Gambetta as
the leader of that party, and probably
his successor in the presidential office.
The violent enforcement Of the absurd
laws of France against the freedom Of
speech and Of the press, and against
Gambetta personally. would be suff-
cient to build up much weaker party
than the Republican party Of France.
But it has been too obvious that for
some time past this party, under a
wise and conservative leadership, had
become the dominant one among the
French people, and when the sagacious
veteran Theirs, gave his sanction and
countenance to that party, the political
issue between the MacMahonites, even
with the aid Of the Bourbons and I'm
perialists, could no longer be regarded a
doubtful one.
To render 1t, however, a more certain
victory, MacMahon has furnished the
Republicans with that never-failing ap-
peal to the support and sympathies Of
free and brave people by resort to
executive and repressive measures
against his political adversaries, and
by menaces to employ the army in
the enforcement Of what he calls public
order, but what in fact means the sup
preston Of the most important of the
cardinal rights Of freedom, the right of
assemblage, Of free speech and Of a free
press. The French people are too
thoroughly imbued with the love of
freedom, and recent experience has
taught them too thoroughly the best
securities Of such freedom, to be thus
inundated and influenced in their SEN
timents and suffrage. The result Of the
approaching elections, it is believed,wilI
be conclusive vindication Of this opin-
ion Of their character.
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DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS.

In addition to advancing money for the pay
ment of taxes, under act e6 of 1877 we will pay
city taxes of 1875 and prior years at a LARGER
DISCOUNT for cash than is usually offered.
We will sell scrip orders in sums to suit any
bill at lowest prices.
CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK,
anil i'm % % Baronne street.
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The necessity for establishing in this city
central office for vaecinating directly from the
COW is felt and admitted by all, in order to ar
rest the ravages made by the smallpox on our
population. This is the motive which has di-
rected me in creating 1t, confident OF its good
result. and from its having been sanctioned by
experience. have the honor to offer to an en-
rondelet street, corner Canal, where the virus
taken directly from the COW on the spot will be
applied to those who honor me with their con-
fdence.
Vaccination and revaecination applied in this
form is the only one presenting no danger, and
the only preseryative of conceded utility which
insures preservation. and exemption from
smallpox. It is, at the same time, the most
salutary method adopted by enlightened people
to effect a speedy termination of the epidemics
affecting them.
Persons not vaccinated can become so at any
period and during all seasons, Those who have
been SO for seven years or more should be re-
vaccinated, the more SO as it has been demon
strated that vaccination taken from the arm is
not permanent Children Fl ON their earliest
exposed to no peril in being vaccinated. and
during an epidemic should be SO five days after
their birth.
Ladies will find in my establishment an apart
ment reserved exclusively for their accommo-
daton, where they can be vaccinated in most
respectful privacy.
On MONDAY. August 10. at 70 o'clock. the
office will be opened to the pubic.
Vaccinating Days.
MONDAY and WEDNESDAY for Ladies.
TUESDAY and THURSDAY for Gentlemen.
Between IL and o'clock. Price, 81 each.
The asylums and charitable institutions
gratis.
auto 2dp1m* DIR. J. DE ZAYAS.
, 1877-03-24
MUNICIPAL REFORM.


Tha Municipal Reform Club mee ls4t evening IN
The Grand Fsclac Hotel.
Nj. Henry ssyss IN tho absence Of tho Prssidsnt,
WA chosen to preside.
Mr. hurry Etlsun, Of tho COMMITTEES On Nomi-
nations for QtlceEs, reported that the mama Of Ar.
Samuel Dlfs& bad bsen 4ub4titut4d for that Of Gen.
Chetlaln OH tho Executive Committee Of tho Club,
Gen. ChsttAia having sgntdcd hts inability to
aeEys. With this exception there was no change In
the namcs reported 1t tho laat meeting, Tha ro-
port was adopted.
Vi. 6hottall, Of ths Commlttca 70 Prepare an
Address, reported pfogsess ana promised 70 hA.s
this document ready before the meeting adjourned.
Mr.. AuFr3 Nelson accounts for tho compsEa.
lively small attendance By the fact that tbs real
work Of tbs Club toex not commence until af1os tbs
nominations. lie would Ike 10 snforcs upon tho
Club the importance Of not resting upon their o4s,
but Of goIpg to work ~ thsy did Lust year and
eleeting good city otnceEs sud Z good Council.
While waiting tos tho address, he proposed that
the uleubsss present indulge In : Reuesal eoayeE-
aatlon regarding local political matters, 10 start
tho bali, ha asked Gen. Chettan how tbs Ctti1eust
union, Of tho North Side, WAS xsttiug along, snd
was informed that tho body xas making good prog
xest in IT. z4foE,uatoly measures.
Gen. Chctlalu spoke : word of warning, depsecat.
lnR the apathy felt among some Of tho members.
lustca Of ths. apathy they should b up and aolng
for II anything was ,ssidentit wa that tho work
The ; chalrmap tho.2ht Aid. McAuley might hars
nshas5 saX Aa Fbsoop bad denied te.
be ha1 sxptcaacd himself In fayvt u Mayor heath
, 1877-03-24

three Of which wcre for hlmself Befors e'o'ine
Ssn % p:ysa :sr ~ II ". T. 9
sin1ed % ''h hmsc1f and Hitchcock tectsd cali md
ineir allegations cannot fs,i to rslac = rampas
"''''s W S,Y i 5onr ssxzp DID xor VOTE.
The delt Of observation during the Donocrant
pfin1sres Thursday waa not an extensive me. this
1ay Of s yo!ers aPp.rs';n,y sppfeaffnnta fs.tar,
RGs wse heta md hefs. nsisnts
worth not!6g: 1lcre u ons q them them: ,y,.
q e P'selaf r. .s S,nth aa ~
bstveen Jackson Ind Van Iiaren. There wcrs swo
factions clamotEne for reeognition aside from the
q ssr, os III ta S ea9 on ,s
which Of these factions NJ. Levy. the ',eto" and
more bo!steron.: us was. citizen, and al' that:
H. s bssis;; & ;e e,s vGs "S j.
holding no weight with him, ,--knd he woala bt
a:ked In he gnts, Il big wosa nos G!
rcqistry,. however,. and no nan va allowed 10
vote ii The precinct who waE not on tho rolI.
iii. name "a John Reed who dared vots next 1t
"WS.t + yor! name''' s.tst JaaGa j., s KeFn'.
49, yess s s. IA " H. Jsst %r' Clerk
a?a ~ 5s'R 5S ssa ~ rs hs o
As III u Tho Ks. and, looking down tho page t!o'
cidcd with hIccunsh. that Reed was not xotsf.
Heed lost hs franchise because he hid not speu h's
name with = X.
pooLEY VERSUS Joyce.
Tho Democratic politlclsnso o! thc slxth Msra stc
Tnnr'day .y6a ths h..sE dsE'dae' Je,se
and tho returns indicated TINT !oyee wa
nou,tnatcd Ths friends o. NJ Do1lo5 rep.
| resented the following. condition OF tss ncts
joyce an pooley ws.e The npG,es e
t,elghbors for long ttme.--coGnttd On f*l p.Ay
Ths. howevor, ii . raid, ~: denied II the most
hagfant manner, Fraud Of tho meanest klna Wae
iudulgca In. AT the polls, at the corner q
ksecona street and nlus island avenue tne 2coge1
after cfanaln1 the polls 10 tic soutAwsst corner:
Hero 4 bundle Of about slightly Ackett, ooond
| bY rubber, was discovered In tue DOE.
aid Aro now In the possession o. sefHft. s1fs
Vesy, Of this station : At oad1 m!lt; ~,
not indor:e lcyee. Whether .hs! Dc Or !, not +,
was fairly nominated. Mr. Doolcy u peput1
ShestG, 1oyca IN a saloon keeper. anu u oIaef'
| wlsa known ~ - the old H1ou Al tho Iockp;
Joyce's frionls insist that be was iaif,y nom,.
lie votes wore being counted, slipped in the tick
Mr, John N|ordon comes ont IN card stAtlni
that, IN consequence Of tho outrngcons moshs u "
| which j, IT, Iihtfelh sechrcd the nomination lo
Alderman In the Seventh Ward, be hss eo9e!aae1, u
! al tne urEcnt solicitation Of numerous fstena4 O.
| each party, 10 run AZ an independent candidata
T1iGre VIII be a cautesfinK delegation lsom or,
| at The Seventh Ward precincts where y VA
clulmeI outrageous stufang Wa done IN Allatetn'
behalf.
, 1877-03-24
Lively Times Anticipated at the Con-
.~ vontion To.Day.--Colvin
and Smith.
,uslon Ticket Set Up fdr Officers In the
, North Town.
Annual Meeting Of the Municipal Reform
Ulub-The Address.
Et.ttngs ii Tho Wards-..Suggtstlsns ffau cerrt'
sPandtuts.-Repuhlltan Pflmaritl


Tho rooms used hs tho headquarters Of the DEM
cratic party wors yesterday crowded with ~ fan"
osttc = mob a. could be found In any city Of the
'n,ou, II vas perfect Babci.-n bowling. fhriek.
tn1 mob, amid whom tho caudtdAtcs 10 conc he.
oro the Democratic Convention this morning wofe
OF the least. They went Rrouud button. .hottnR,
md II waa funny 10 note with what IN nptitude and
rna. .frpid Perry II. Smith conld mako him.
eli at homo among men whoE ho has
,t,mca 10 vigorously denounced. 1twas Lesson
ON which 10 CLEAN moral, to sec him holding
wcct communion With tho notorious Low, OF tho
slpth Ward, In tho entry bchtud door. Afoaud
Lem stood an admising group. IL was both re-
narkabio and peculiar. sueh party a. can only be
,uod around 1 Democratic Headquarters ahout
lection time. It must bc said Of Perry IL Smith
,at he Il sh.cwd eampatguaf and qniee4 patient
ire .pul1cs. he shuts up one eyc snd knows moth.
N, while with the other he IL watch
H. This morning at 7:3o O'Clock Perry
j. Saith, 10 II 10 aaid, Will givn tho delegates to
he, city Con1euton grand reception at hls resi-
fence, corner OF Oak and Clark atreets. Of cour.c
eatA will h.all thensclrcs Of this opportunity to
NJ - returns could be CLEANED yesterday At head
,iartcrs It was learned that there would be sescn
contested seats In the CITY Convention: Thcte
viii be swBei-seented squnb01e. Colyln's friends
iotc and thrown down The gauntlet. bolt %
goultscd II be ID not nominated, and . bot 10
tou,i.eI Ii ho Ia. And that Ia how the land Ties.
GREAT DEAL or TtduAlN0
vas done yesterday. mud hero IL about the WAY the
ttIcgates from the various wards etood last cven"