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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25

The twenty-six inch reflector at the
Naval Observatory, the work of Mr..
Alvan Clark. of Cambridge, is the finest
astronomical instrument in the world,
as was proven by the discovery with it
last week by Prof. Hall Of satellite of
the planet Mars, which that astronomer
estimates to be but from fifty to one
hundred miles in diameter.
This instrument first enabled the as
tronomers to fix the number of moons
Of Uranus, but this last discovery made
by means Of it is of far greater import
ance. It is spoken OF by the knowing
ones as discovery that will rank with
the most important in astronomy. The
planet Mars Is more convenient for OBJ
servation, and has been more studied
and more Is known of 1t than any other
celestial body, not even excepting the
moon. Venus Is nearer to the earth,
but, it seems, cannot be observed to an
equal advantage. It has been dis
covered that it bears remarkable re-
semblance in many respects to the
.earth. It is surrounded by an atmos-
phere which extends three or four times
farther than that of the earth, it has its
continents and seas, and Its poles which
are ice bound like ours. But Mars diff
fered from the earth in one particular:
it was not supposed to have a moon.
Prof. Hall now announces certainly one,
and he thinks he has discovered
another. One of the important infer
ences from this discovery will be the
truth of the nebular hypothesis. as
their supposed want had been urged in
contravention of that theory.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25
The New orleans Pacific Railroad and
Tones Bayou.
NEW ORLEANS, August "a. Is

NEW ORLEANS, August "a. 1917.
Editor Democrat--In your issue Of this
morning, in an editorial regarding the i'm
proyement of Red river navigation, you, I'M
Intentionally no doubt, create the impression
that work on the New Orleans Pacific is to be
suspended.
As president of the New Orleans Pacific
Railway Company was applied to by seve-
raj parties in interest for my sanction to
allow one hundred of the hands now employ
ed by the company, for ten or fifteen days, to
effect the necessary work in closing Tones
bayou. The close proximity of the required
hands to the work to be DONE and the urgent
need to our mercantile community at this
critical time when the vast crops OF Texas
That such action should by any means,
either through inadvertenee or otherwise, be
made q weapon of, to the detrilnent 9,f an
enterprise which when accomplished will as
all admit do more for this city and State
than any work of internal improvement
known, is deeply to be regretted
Respectfully yours,
E. b. WHEEboCK,
President New Orleans Pacific Railway Com
pdny,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25
WIN. II. REYNOLDS.

Amid the din and turmoil Of this world,
men Of high purpose and great usefulness
often pass away with the simple announce
ment "died." On the other hand, such is the
weakness of human nature, men whose long
lives furnish no other record but one grand,
and too often disreputable, struggle to
crafty self too often, are the subjects Of
laudatory obituaries, or have their graves
embellished with marble that tells OF am
bition never entertained, and deeds never
performed.
To praise the dead who never deserved
praise while living has a vicious effect on the
youth among whom those. men once lived;
to give more than passing notice OF the
virtuous and useful is q duty to the living
around us, as we'll as an earned tribute to him
who has been called away
VIM. H. Reynolds, who was few days ago
laid in the silent grave, was born in Column
bus, Ohio, and came to live amongst us when
lust emerging from boyhood twenty-three
years ago Being skil1ful and Industrious
mechanic, he soon found employment. He
was industrious and faithful to his employers,
and those qualities, added to economy and
sobriety, in few years insured sufficient
means to enable him to start q little smith
shop. From this nucleus he occasionally
expanded his business until long before his
death he became sole owner and director OF q
prosperous and varied mandatory. Those
who have known anything of the industries
Of New Orleans have long known Reynolds
Foundry"
the worthy subject Of this notice. busily en-
gagged working out the demands r. OF ~, his fellow
always as black with the dust and SCOT of the
foundry as the blacklist around him. but the
former was always as clear as the most lntrl-
cate wants could demand.
Industry, skill and integrity were combined
In Mr.. Reynolds, and he is loss to us OF the
South who are struggling to establish those
home industries which are essential to the
welfare and independence of people.
But Mr.. Reynolds was more than this to
us: he was an affectionate husband and
father whose loss to his good wife vi and Liz sK
more. In the past frightful political struggle
through which we have passed he sav was sa as
money without stint to the cause to which he
lent himself in every. leisure hour. Those
who worked with him in this, great cause will
surely miss him greatly. May the whole
some influence of the honorable yet noble
mechanic be ever felt and may his example
be actively initiated by the youth of our city
who may be disposed to falter on the
threshold of life. b
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25
SANITARY FACTS.

Our summer pilgrims begin to return
to the city, most Of them abridging
their tours and sojourns abroad and re-
turning in spirit of contentment and
satisfaction with their old homes, which
ia very consolatory and cheering to the
can't-get-aways who have been COM
PEELED to wrestle with old Sirius during
an unusually long and severe heated
term.
And yet we are assured by our pill
grims that we have little reason to COM
plain-no grounds whatever to set our
selves up as martyrs and self-sacriflcing
patriots, because of any advantages en-
joyed by them in their recent Northern
trips during the summer. They deny
that the heat has been greater here than
at the North or of longer duration.
And they plead as an offset to our
averments on that score, that we have
enjoyed an exemption from serious
drawback, discomfort and annoyance to
which they, each and all of them, have
been subjected to in their Northern and
Western excursions. And what is this?
Simply the entire failure in the chief
object Of their said excursions, to rest,
to improve their health, to escape fevers
and other summer complaints, for which
a change of climate and travel are SO
often, and so far as New Orleans is con-
cerned, SO universally prescribed. In
other words they declare that the san
itary condition of our city has been
superior to that Of any other locality
in which these truants have sought re-
cuperation and physical Improvement.
There are are few Of them who do not
bring back disagreeable experience Of
some one of the various feve-s and ca
tarrhs, which appear to be prevalent in
the towns and in country localities
through the North and West, and from
which this city has been entirely exempt
this summer. They have discovered the
existence of that mysterious malarial
poison, in places where they were led to
expect nothing but pure, invigorating
atmosphere. and Of which ignorant peo-
pie, who have never lived in NeW Or
leans are in the habit OF imagining or
pretending that this city. is the special
and favorite home and abiding place.
Whereas the reverse is VIGOROUSLY
true that fevers ascribed to malarial in
fiuences are less common to residents
of this city than to those Of higheEstati-
tudes. The idea that low and sw6mpy
localities are the invariable breeding
places of these maladies is contradicted
by this undeniable fact in regard to
New Orleans. Girdled as the city Is
with an undrained swamp, we can con-
fidently point to our sanitary statistics
prepared for this summer with so much
accuracy by a board Of eminent and
faithful physicians, to demonstrate the
n.scl~ss a,,r statements. From these
hat our NOR
a those Of any
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25
ASSESSMENTS.

The opinion of Mr.. Blanc, relative to
the nconstitutionality Of legislative
exemptions of property not used for re-
ligious, charitable or educational pur-
poses, is 30 eminently just and equita-
BILE that we marvel there should exist
any doubt on the subject. This doubt
has, however, had Its sanction in de-
cisions Of the courts which have adj
ministered and even made the laws, SO
long in the interest of corporations and
associations.
The burdensomeness of taxation in
this State and city on private individu-
ais is manifestly due to the large
amount of their unconstitutional ex-
emptions. The city has for years COM
planned of these exemptions. But the
courts and Legislatures with which we
have been cursed invariably decide MI
such questions in favor Of the corpora
lions. And even good citizens, who are
willing to pay their individual taxes,
when associated in corporations, too
frequently seek to avail themselves of
the technicalities and other methods to
relieve these corporations Of their just
and constitutional share of the burdens
of taxation.
There was some pretext for this prev
alent resistance to taxation when the
revenues OF the State were misapplied,
squandered and plundered as they were
under the corrupt Radical governments,
but now that we have an honest gov
eminent of the people. and the collec-
ton Of the taxes Is necessary to restore
and sustain the credit Of the State and
give efficiency to the government, there
is no longer any excuse for good citizens
who are able to pay, in resisting clearly
legal and constitutional assessments.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25
MR.. KEYS TAWNING.

We wish to say just as plainly as pos
sible that Postmaster General Key is
misrepresenting theSouth and Southern
sentiment in the spectacle he is making
of himself as the illustration of the
beauties of the Southern policy. His
position is due to peculiar circumstances,
Of character which should make him
reluctant to appear at all before New
England audiences but il he has been
eomL elled to do so, as we infer is the
case, we insist that he represent us cor
rectly. This he has certainly not done,
and, while we regret the necessity OF
saying so, we are impelled by proper
self-respect to declare that such is the
fact.
Garfield himself has declared that,
while the South is responsible for civil
war in '61. she has made more than the
an,ende honorable by averting it In '76.
This is strictly true, and we of the South
know it and feel it.
Whether or not Mr.. Hayes Southern
policy was the result Of his own choice
and free will, still we believe that he
was forced to 1t by the South at
time when it rested entirely with her to
accept him as President or inaugurate
civil war. We have avoided an OK
preston of this conviction, and can
only regret that the dirt eating OF Keys
at length compels us to say that Mr..
Hayes has recognized the rights of the
South only because he thereby strength
ened himself. Any other cause than the
one adopted would have cost him his
present position. and he knows that he
acted under sort of duress. Keys
ought to know it also, and he has no
claim to represent us as holding any
other idea. We forced our terms, and
while we have not chosen to thrust this
fact upon the Administration in an Of
fensive and obtrusivs manner, still we
do not intend that it shall be ignored.
We held, and still hold, the key Of the
situation, and we do not propose to re-
linquish it.
There was not paper in the Union
that more readily than ourselves recog-
nized Mr.. Hayes good faith in carrying
out the obligations he had entered into
with the representatives OF the South
after Tilden's shameful backdown, and
we found that we could place no reli-
ance in the New York wing Of the North
ern Democracy, and that they were
treating us as 50 much political capital
with as heartless disregard OF our
wrongs as were the bloody shirt Repub-
Leans; but we shall not quietly allow
Mr.. Hayes to escape the implication OF
these facts. It is to these facts that Mr..
Key owes his present position. and when
he goes abotit the North with his cring-
ing. unmanly professions Of contrition
for what not one gallant and true gen.
tleman of the South ever thought Of as
O shame or cause of repeI lance, he is
guilty of Misrepresentation which de-
serves and shall not escape prompt and
| indignant denunciation.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25
NOTICE.

OFFICE OF N. o. CRY RAILROAD COMPANY,
No. 1914 Canal street. I
New Orleans. August Is, 1871
On the occasion Of the great SINGLE SCULL
ROWING MATCH to take place THIS AFTER
NOON, in the New Canal at Lake End, and the
grand MILITARY INFRINGEMENT AND
SOIREE DANsANTE to be given by Company
A, Crescent Greys at the West End Pavilion
THIS EVENING, Trains will leave the city
every half hour from / to o'clock p. IN. and
every twenty minutes from to o'clock p. m.
The last train from the city will leave at 10
o'clock p. m,
Extra trains will leave the Lake at IL o'clock
.. M: Ia O'Clock a. M: and o'clock a. m. !:
connecting with Magazine and Rampant and
Dauphine lines
Fare in extra trains twenty five cents. through
on Magazine and Rampant lines.
au25 1t MAE G. G. LEWIS, Secretary.
NOTICE.
OFFICE STATE TAX COLLECTOR
Second District. I
... No. col Canal street, August %. 1877.
hereby give notice that on MONDAY NEXT.
the 27th inst, this Office will be removed to the
State House. No At st. Louis street.
P. L. BOUNY.
au24 1w Tax Collector.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25

Wishing to open the fall and winter season
with an entirely new stock of goods, we will
continue on MONDAY our great sale at sacri-
flee. We have reduced all our Summer Goods
To Fifty Cents ON the Dollar.
and will give special bargains in White Goods.
such as
VICTORIA LAWNS, BISHOP LAWNS, SWISS.
FRENCH NAINSOOKS and ORGANIZES.
CHECKED and STRIPED MAIN
SOCKS. MULLS, etc.
We have reduced our Black Goods and Black
Grenadines far below the cost Of importation,
and will offer on MONDAY
1900 yards Black and Colored Grenadines at 121,
formerly sold at so cents.
Is pieces Black Alpacas at rs cents, formerly
sold at 40 cents.
Great reduction also in
HOUSEFURNIsHING GOODS.
Such as Towels. Napkins. Table Damask
French Table Covers, Marseiles Quilts. ETC.
Our Domestic Department is complete. and
all the leading brands of White and Brown
Cottons, Cotton Flannels Sheetings etc. will be
sold up to the 1st of September at manufac-
turer's prices. Also 200 pieces White and Check
Mattings. Observation-Disclosures
PEPIN f. RROUsSARD,
au12 1SS Canal street.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25

other town Of like population, and that
OF the diseases producing this mortal
ity, fevers OF all classes exhibita smaller
proportion than constitutional and
chronic disorders which are independ-
emit of and common to all climates and
local causes. Such facts are worth all
the elaborate theories and speculations
of a priori sanitarians.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25

" We earnestly solicit the patronage of our
friends on this occasion. and those of them
who wish to send papers to their constituents
would do well to send In their orders as soon DIS
possible.
The advantages which the DEMooR At offers to
sits patrons In point Of CIRCULATION AND PoPu-
MsAR1TY are second to those Of no other paper in
! New Orleans.
<A As an advertising medium It is unsurpassed
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25
OUR ANNUAL STATEMENT.
FIRST OF september. 1877.

On the frst OF September the DEMOCRAT will
sHlae correct. concise and comprehensive
statement of the commerce Of the city OF New
Orleans during the past year, made up and
compiled by gentlemen whose facts and figures
cannot be disputed by the commercial com
munity.
This issue will contain several exhaustive
essays on Agriculture. Railroads and Manufac-
tories, together with an elaborate and statistical
Treatise on our
RELATIONS WITH SPANISH AMERICA.
We will publish correct and artistic map,
prepared and executed specially for the DEMO-
0RAT by that we'll known and accomplished
Civil Engineer. Mr. THOMAS s. HARDEE.l
THE MERCHANTS MAP
OF THE
NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC RAILWAY
viii show Its Importance to New Orleans as the
CpMMERcIAL EMPORIUM and BUSINESS CENTRE
of the
eareat Agricultural Region Of the Southwest.
II will show the position of
EADs' JETTIEs
Fxt the mouth Of South Pass. and also the pro-
kposed location and route OF the
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25

A company doing both an insurance
and q banking business in Mississippi
has to pay a privilege tax on both
branches Of business, Notwithstanding
it Is acting under one charter. Such is
a recent charter.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25
The American strikes are provoking a

The American strikes are provokinga
great deal Of discussion in France, and
XthB disgraceful turbulence in the various
sNorthern cities has been seized on with
avidity by the monarchists and Bona
partists. and urged as proof of the anar.
ch4 that must result from the adoption
%&xtreme republican views.
us said by some of the Republican
@.hat nothing has occurred during
- a ign to affect their cause so
IT is esstiWe are disposed to think
ss tlo s,uez Can, writer's attach more
eastward at the RAJ, due to the commun-
vsr annum, and thathat were made at
sase dredging will betest turbulence,
Net less than $4,000 tand that these
mad TO be removed in 1Sv provoked by
CT 10000 cubic yards 20 referable to
Kritish government has osa a social or
vag Of the coast between T the same
Aeunietta mouth of the Nianeu MIGHT
sisxtain the actual conditb So.;a Dc
ssnsrsaso of the sandbanlfiespotic Rus
psan besides dredging esrlca.
tlgie growth of the o.
-ssociation for the Adj
yaE oYAcience will assemble in
x.A :. sixth annual session at Nash
he on the goth inst. We see that great
SEPARATIONS have been made by the
nizens of that hospitable city to enter
b their distinguished guests.
is first meeting was held in Philadel-
Ia ID lS4S. Of which w. G. Redfeld
i president. The second convened
Cambridge in 1919, and was honored
the presidency OF Joseph Henry.
eequently we find the eminent
81 les of A. d. Bache, Louis Agassiz,
NIL. Pierce, I'D. Dana. James Hall,
Gould. Asa Gray and E. Hilgard
ng others of the highest rank grac-
his distinguished position.
learn that until now the associa-
has not met in the South since the
Wbut this was the result of no sec
uo feeling, as the area and member
snif the Association alike represent
9 fwider field than even the United
Statt
] Loisiana formerly had galaxy OF
scfentfic names In It's lists, and though
no now reduced to comparatively
WScx7uux, z-z-.. sleu will accept
Nalx1 boat better. II II
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25
DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS.

In addition to advancing money for the pay
ment of taxes. under act 90 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 SCI p orders in sums to suit any
bill at lowest prices.
CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK,
au1l I'm % q Baronle street.
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ABARATARIA SHIP CANAL.

Ext the mouth of South Pass. and also the pre-
<posed location and route of the
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-25
WAGONSl CANE CARTS! SP0KES =?
EI. III. 9oR

Is and 70 Union and Is ana IL PerdiQO
streets.
Sole Agent for the Celebrated .sTUDFBA-
KER" WAGONS, CARTS and SPRING WORK
of II kinds and sizes.
Dealer In Philadelphia and Western Cane
Wagons, Carts and, Drays; Timber Wheels;
Ices, Hubs, Shafts, etc. Wheewright material.
Orders promptly filled. All work warranted.
i'm
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-24

How IT Is DoNE.-The first object in
life with the American people is to ''get
rich" the second how to get good health.
The first can be obtained by energy.
honesty and saving; the second, (good
health by using GREEN AUGUST Flow
Err Should you be a Respondent sufferer
from any of the effects Of Dyspepsia, Liver
Complaint, Indigestion, &c, such as Sick
Headache, Palpitation of the Heart. Sour
Stomach, Habitual Costiveness, Dizziness
OF the Head, Nervous Prostration. Low
Spirits. Nc, you need not suffer another
day. Two doses OF AUGUST FLOWER will
relieve you at once. Sample bottles 10
cents. Regular size IS cents. Positively
sold by all frst-class druggists in the
United States.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-24
n ervous Debility,

A depressed, irritable state of mind; a
weak. nervous, exhausted feeling; no en-
erRy or animation; confused head, weak
memory, often with facilitating, invoIun-
tary discharges. The consequence of
excuses. mental overwork and indiscre-
tons. This NERVOUS DEBILITY finds a
sovereign cure in HUMPHREYS HoMEo-
PATHIC SPECIFIC, No. %, 1t tones up the
system, arrests discharges, dispels the
mental gloom and dependency, and rejuve-
mates the entire system. It is perfectly
harmless and always efficient Price SIS,
for a package of FIVE boxes and large 81
vial of powder, which is important 10 old,
serious cases; or 81 per single box Sold
by all druggists, or sent by mail on receipt
of price. Address Humphreys Homeo-
Dathic Medicine Co., No. 100 Fulton ST,
N. Y.
s&g-Sep arue SdY
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-24
ROSSMAN'S CURE.

ITCHING PILES is generally preceded by
a moisture like perspiration producing a
very disagreeable and distressing itching,
particularly at night, after getting warm
in bed No humbug-as trial will prove.
For sale by all respectable druggists.
RossMAN & MCkINsTRY, Hudson, NY,
Proprietors.
Sent by mail for so cents.
IF YOU HAVE A COUGH,
Cold, Asthma, raising of Blood or any as
tections Of the Breast or Lungs, leadir to
Consumption, use
DR.. HOUSEMAN'S GERMAN COUGH
DROPS,
as prepared for over thirty years ~ j. J.
Davis(now deceasedl and you WI be sure
to find relief Address ROSSMAN &
MCKINSTRY, who have succeeded to the
Proprietorship, and sold by all druggists
and dealers in Medicines. For sale by all
Druggists in Rock Island.
Sold by Avery & Tyler, Lafayettee, In.
diana. Fuller Il Fuller. and VanSchaack,
Stevenson & Reed, Chicago, wholesale
agents.
John F. Henry, Curran & Co., Whole
sale Agents. s College Place, N. Y.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-24
Dunbar's Wonderful Discovery! Bethesda
Mineral Spring Water.
waukesha Wis

This water is the acknowledged cure of
the intractabIe and incurabIe disease known
as Bright's disease, diobetes, dropsy, brick
dust deposit, inflammation OF the neck of
the bladder, alkali, aud equity swelling.
For the liveri is unsurpassed. It will al
lay all inflammation Of the kidney and urinal
organs in twenty-four hours giving imme-
date relief; also. in scarlet fever it pre-
vents the kidney from congesung, and re.
moves all traces of aIbumeneria. It will
give relief in all cases of high fever. Has
never failed to do what is claimed for it.
Col. RICHARD DUNBAR.
Waukesha, Wis.
For sale in Davenport in any quantity
by Emeis & Co., and by druggists through
out the world. 5-l9d&wly.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-24
A GARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors and in :
discretions of youth, nervous weakness. early de-
cay, loss of manhood &C, win send recipe that
will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This great
remedy was discovered by missionary in South
America. Send sef-addressed enveIcre to the
Rev. JOSEPH T. IEMAN Station D, Bttse House
New York City,