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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17
HOW IT LOOKS NOW.

The testimony before the investigating COM
mittee yesterday was both entertaining and
Instructive as 1t shows the character OF the
witnesses on whose evidence John Sherman
and the other visiting frauds attempted to
defame the people Of Louisiana, and show
us up to the world as q community Of brutes
and murderers. At the time the testimony
of Sherman's drove Of witnesses was being
taken our people protested and declared that
thousands OF similar witnesses could be OBJ
tanned here or elsewhere to testify to order
and prove up any sort Of case, however
improbable or groundless. But the Repub-
llcans had heated the country red hot; we
were ''rebels" and entitled to no justice, and
Sherman e. Co went on with their perjury
shop, making testimony by the bushel to
prove that every decent white man in Louis
lana was q murderer or negro whipper, and
that every scaly rascal, white or black, was q
prosecuted patriot Eliza Pnkston's story
fired the Northern heart and Sherman became
her champion.
But the situation is changed. Eliza has
given the Republican visiting statesmen
away, to use the lingo of such cattle as the
negro wench and the Secretary of the Treas
ury. The others, as fast as they are brought
up are testifying that the whole intimidation
case. on the strength Of which the electoral vote
of Louisiana was stolen for Hayes, was a gil
gantic lie from beginning to end, and we are
certain that II the whole drove Of Shermans
witnesses were now drummed up nine out OF
ten would swear just rs the three did who
were before the committee yesterday.
When Sherman had his army of perjurers
and forgers in hand, testifying with the Fed
eral army at their backs, he made out very
bad case against Louisiana and gave cur peo-
pie very bad name. But the tables have
been turned and Shermans own witnesses
are showing him and his associates in the
Louisiana swindle to be a precious gang
Of first class rascals. We don't believe that
there Is an honest, fair-minded man in the
Union who to-day does not have more respect
for Eliza Pinkston, the dupe and tool of Sher-
man, than for John Sherman and the other
rascals who stole the Presidency.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, JULY II, 1878

greater eyil-speedy death by starvation
Is the public officer better able to Judge Of
what is detrimental to o woman's health
than she is herself Legislators and philos-
ophers and humanitarians and Christians
have for centuries been laboring to put stop
to the most unhealthful and immoral of all
occupations, to which some women devote
themselves. Yet NIL their efforts have been
unable to appreciably diminish it, Positive
laws and penal statutes but aggravate the
evil.
There are but two remedies, and neither Of
these are in the power Of human legislation
1. A more abundant supply and more equal
distribution of food. 2. The spread of higher
and purer Christian morality. The govern.
ment can conduce to the first only by protect.
ing the rewards OF honest labor and by re-
framing from granting any monop0lies or any
protective tariffs, which always enrich few
ut the expense Of the many.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17
OUR MONOPOLIEs.

New Orleans is city cursed by monopolies
In the middle of the seventeenth century.
when the list Of monopolies which had been
granted by the Queen was read in Parliament,
member cried out us not bread in the
number p Bread" exclaimed every one
with establishment. Eyes. assure you" re-
piled he, ''if affairs go on at this rate we shall
have bread reduced to a monopoly before next
Parliament"
If we do not rival the England of the
Seventeenth century in the number of our mo-
nOpolies, we are at least entitled to the credit
of having done what even the autocratle
Elizabeth did not venture to do. We have,
through charters and combinations of capital,
created monOpolies Of articles which are as
essential to life as bread itself. We have the
slaughter-house monopoly, which is a serious
tax on meat The Morgan Railroad COM
mands the route to Texas, and wealthy
company monopolize its cars and regulate
the supply of beef to suit their own In
terests. We have a monopoly which
supplies the people with gas at
its own price, and now we have q COM
bination which has managed, by the power
of capital and something Of shrewdness, to
obtain monopoly of the ice business, and of
course the philanthropists who have put up
this last job on the community are making
the most of 1t. The consequence is, that the
price Of ice has been doubled, and thousands
of people must go without it In this fearfully
hot summer or pay prices for it that they can
i'll afford,
just now the men who are selling ice at s25
t,p IF inb opff hn-
cause they are subiecting thousands of poor
people to suffering. Nay, more; we do not
believe that their scheme can be defended
upon any principle of fair dealing. Ice Is not
worth S25 Ger ton. Bye combination, through
which they obtained possession OF the ice
supply Of the city the monopolists have cut off
all competition and fixed an arbitrary price
upon their commodity double its real value,
or what it could command II all competition
had not been destroyed. This is neither more
nor less than extortion.
We do not know that any law can reach
this wrong, though 1t seems to US that If the
city government may regulate the price
and weight of bread, it must also possess the
right to regulate the price Of ice when the
dealers of that great necessity have combined
against society to extort a much larger price
for it than 1t Is worth. We very much doubt
the policy of the city government interfering
to regulate the trade even In bread where
there is abundant and active competition In
the business. But II that can be done. surely
the city authorities would be justified In pro-
tecting the suffering community against
monopoly which has seized upon a commodity
which Is now as necessary to the public health,
comfort and welfare as bread is.
If this be impracticable we presume the
city must go through the summer paying
double prices for its ice and leaving thousands
who cannot afford 1t to suffer, for we doubt II
public opinion will have any effect upon mo-
nopolists who are realizing immense profits
out of their privileges.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17

can be used as motive power, and be under
the perfect command of even an inexperienced
the results of the experiments that In few
weeks half dozen cars will be running in
Second Avenue, from Ninety-sixth to One
Hundred and Twentv-ninth street. without
visible means OF motion.
The car used Tor the experimental trips last
April has been remodeled and will start again
with passengers regularly next Monday. AS
fast as possible the whole line of railroad will
be supplied with rapid transit, at speed OF
forty miles an hour, il necessary, from Har-
lem to the City Hall. The old cars will be
utilized, and the horse service and the dan
gers attendant on steam done away with at a
small cost and great saving.
These cars are said to be comparatively
noiseless, and will doubtless come into gen
eral use In all large cities.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17
GREAT JACKSON ROUTE.
THE QUICKEST TIME EAST.

This line is now making the quickest time
to New York ever known, leaving New Or
leans daily at 5: AS p. m. and arriving at New
in time betYeen the two cities, the run is
made in thehnprecedented time of fifty-nine
and three quarter .b hours RS This quick time
is made only 5y the IT, Great Jackson route
ing it's track at great expense with steel rails.
Only one change of cars, which is made at
Columbus. @, where breakfast is taken in the
This route also makes the quickest time to
Boston, arriving at 2 40 p. m. Actual running
time, sixty-seven and One-half hours. The
time to all intermediate points is correspond
ingly less, thus making this the quickest and
best route to oil the Northern and Eastern cities
Excursion tickets to Waukesha OconomO-
voc and all the Northwestern summer re-
sorts: to Niagara Falls, Put-in-Bay, etc, are
on sale at the lowest rates, with the quickest
time made by any line, and only one change
Of cars.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17
THE THING THAT SHOULD BE DONE.

We learn the president of the Board Of
Underwriters has directed q meeting to be
held on Thursday tomorrow, at which all
the insurance companies are to be invited,
that he may lay before them the facts of the
sacrifice of the lives Of two gallant tiremen,
who fell in the fearless discharge of their
duty at the fire on Monday night, and to se-
cure some substantial testimony of their ap-
probation of these services, for the aid of
their destitute families. We also learn 1t has
long been the desire Of the board to create a
reserve fund for such purposes, but the ex-
penses are necessarily very large and borne
by portion only of the insurance companies
(the others consenting to receive all the bene-
fits without contributing to this great cost,
has sofa forbid it; but these seeming to be
exceptional cases, and the relief fund Of the
Firemens Association being so low, 1t is
hoped each insurance company will contribute
something for the immediate wants Of these
heart-stricken families.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17

It was Miss Mary Sarah Anderson, a
daughter Of Mrs. Anderson, of Washington
City, the widow OF surgeon in the regular
army, whom Ensign Fremont married, and
not Miss Mary Anderson, the actress They
were married in October last, but kept the
TACT sec7et until the other day, when Miss
Anderson and her mother reached New York
on their way to Europe. Fremont there
called on his wife and they took a walk, dur
ing which they changed their plans, returned
to the house and displayed their marriage GER
tificate to the mother, and the trip to Europe
was abandoned.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17

The st. Louis Republican publishes letter
from Thomas Ewing Sherman, the son of Gen
Sherman, whose departure for England with
the purpose Of entering the Catholic priest
hood was recently announced, in which he
says that he has determined upon the step
without his fathers approval, sanction or
consent; In fact, in direct opposition to his best
Wishes" Gen. Sherman had carefully edu-
Gated his son for the legal profession, and
had high hopes for him in that career, and
feels this dashing of his hopes very bitterly
It is some consolation TO know that one
Sherman, at least, is rescued from a chance
of getting into politics, and Is not likely to
draw his ratlons from the public crib.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17

The number of failures during the last six
months, as well as the amount Of liabilities Of
those falling, are greatly in excess of those
during the first half of four preceding years.
1t is not supposed, however, that this Is due
to increased financial troubles and to the
spread of hard times. It's true cause was OBJ
viously the repeal by Congress of the Federal
bankruptcy law. Hundreds of merchants, in
unfortunate business circumstances, hurried
into bankruptcy In order to take advantage OF
the Federal law before it expired. Viewed in
this light. the bankruptcy report, instead Of
being unpromising, would indicate better
times ahead; but for this rush Of bankrupts
brought about by the action Of Congress, the
failures Of the first half of 1878 would have
made healthier financial showing than foI
some time past.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17

One hundred and forty counties in Texas
have elected delegates to the Democratic
state convention, n large number Of whom
have been instructed on the choice for Gov
ernor. The list now stands as follows: In
structed for Hubbard 1855, for Throckmorton
3s7, for Lang 142. OF the 649 uninstructed
delegates s92, it Is said, will vote for Hubbard,
1871 for Throckmorton and 70 for Lang, max
ing the total vote for Governor: Hubbard TAT,
Throckmorton 524, Lang 212. Only three OF
four small counties are yet to be heard from
AS the two-thirds rule prevails in Texas, 1t is
evident that the convention will have arduous
work before it In nominating Governor, ii
being apparently most difficult job for any
one Of the three most prominent candidates
to secure those 1000 votes necessary for
nomination.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17

The New York papers give the accounts Of
a successful application of compressed air as
u motor for street cars. Several months ago
the Second Avenue Company experimental
successfully with car made by the Pneu-
matte Engine Tramway Company. Says the
JSses.
This system is based on the fact that atmos.
nheric air is capable of being compressed into
very email compass and giving reservoir Of
enargy representing the mechanical force EN-.
nIovedd in eompr, ssiug it. This being liberated
ssad applied to an improved engine, the toref
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17

The author Of Eros, recently published by
Carleton, offers reward of $40 in gold to any
one who will point out in existing literature a
device similar to that on which the denoue-
ment OF Eros" depends. He evidently be-
Heves there is something new under the sun
and that the plot Of Eros" is that something.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17
MOBILE FAST LINE.
QUICKER TINE TO NEW YORK.
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO TRAVELLERS

Commencing July 7, passengers by this line
via Cincinnati, will arrive in New York at g. So
a. m, changing cars once only at Columbus
New York on same time, with one change
only. Via either route. Pu! Iman palace cars
No other line can offer better facilities OF
earlier hour Of arrival at destination. Every
point In the Northwest and all the Virginia
springs easy of access, and on application to
j. W, Coleman, ticket agent, excursion tickets
at lowest rates will be furnished.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17

Shaw, the wife.murderer whowas hung in
Georgia last Friday, appears TO have been q
bloody flend. After his conviction a gentle
man of the town In which he was tried re-
oeiyed an anonymous letter which led to the
discovery Of the bodies, or rather skeletons
of four Of his victims--a child he had thrown
In we'll and three men he had cut open and
loaded with weights and sunk In creek.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17

It is very, very sad to read such idiotic
fiings as the following at President Davis,
i'm such sensible paper as the Philadelphia
Times:
JEFF Davis should be engaged by lack
Chandler to play q star engagement for the
benefit OF the Republic Campaign Commit
tee. He will be worth his weight in votes to
the irreconclables IL Jack will only hire a
hall and let him keep on talking.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17

The following special to the New York Sun
fully explains itself:
Sir-At 2 o'clock DR.. Carver stepped into
the field. 1t was raining hard. He began
firing at the drops, and in five minutes had
shot dry space OF half an acre around him.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION:
NEw ORLEANS, july ~. ls7s.

Brother-in-law Casey-our Casey-is red
hot third termer. He swears by his fathers
that "Ulys" will be nominated In 1880 on the
first ballot, and that he will go solid for him,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-17

Pointe Coupee has proclaimed emphatically
Tor new constitution The delegates to the
State convention therefore stand as follows:
For convention &c. against o convention 8,
sninstructed "a; total delegates elected 96.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-13
The Anti-AGonopoliSt.

committee to interfere with the state
organization OF the National party,
but to assist them in forming a per.
feet and uniform organization. To
this end the national committee will
furnish weekly lists of councils char
tered in each state to the executive
committee Of that state, if there be a
state organization; and, by the instru.
mentality of this system of councils.
secure the organization of states now
unOrganiZed. From these local conn.
ellis the organization of counties, cities
and states will be developed as the me-
cessities of each locality may demand.
The National committee will pub
fish promptly campaign song book.
and it invites contributions from song
writer's. The songs should be accom-
panied by the music, or should be set
to popular airs. The committee feel,
that this crisis shouts bring forth
such songs as similar struggles in be-
half of human rights have inspired.
The committee urges that local or
CARNATIONS be perfected rapidly, and
that tickets be nominated in localities
where there are spring elections. A
success in city. or town. or town.
ship, or in Il village, is often the key
to more important victories. The re-
cent gratifying successes of the Ma
tional party in local contests in New
York and Pennsylvania are encour-
aging to the workers in the cause
everywhere. These gains in the east
may be equalled and surpassed else
where by active and Jealous work.
The committee respectfully requests
that Greenback and Labor local or
CARNATIONS now in existence apply for
charters as National councils that the
unification of interests secured with
such harmony and enthusiasm by the
Toledo convention may be utilized.
The national committee invites
communications from the executive
officers of all state organizations of
the National party, that there may
be cooperation and harmonious &C.
ton.
All communications should be adj
dressed to
ID. y. STURGEON,
Chairman National Ex. Com.
Toledo, March IL, 1878. Toledo, 0.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-13
yOW TO ORGANIZE GREEN
BACK CLUBS.

Below is a simple form for the or
,anization of Grcenback Clubs, for
he use of any community deslrouS
# organization. Let the workers In
very town organize ut once.
= The -. Mdepemdent
ireenbdck CUT:
SEC. |. This organization shall be
.nown as the INDEPEN-
,ENr GREENBACK CLUB.
SEC. .. Its object Shall be, to aid III
publishing the principles of the Green
sack party, to the people by getting
speakers, holding meetings, etc.
SEC. 8. Its officers shall be Iresl-
lent, Vice President, Secretary and
Treasurer.
SEQ. 4. Its meetings shall be held
rom time to time. ut such times and
n such places rs may be appointed by
he Club, through its executive com
nittee and proper officers.
1 SRC. 8. The officers shall be elected
avery three months,a and the first elec-
ION shall be held on the date of the
.dortion Of this constitution.
SnJ. s.. Tho expenses of the club
han be betrayed by subscription.
So. I. Any p6rson can become a
nerrber Of this Club by signing this
sd. 8. There shall be an executive
.omhittee appointed by the President,
who'd duty shall be, in connection
With tAe President and Secretary. to
.all bneetings, and attend to other
,,,siIfsss OF tile Club.
SD 81 Upon the application OF ten
nenk aws Of this dub Il meeting shall
% "A led atslny time
Si3t IL. This Constitution can be
rnefae$lhy a two-thirds vote of the
,luth.,rehent vt amy meeting.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-13
TO the People of the United tates

Owing to the pressing demands from
all parts of the country for the i'm
mediate organization of the National
party, the executive committee of the
National party of the United States
has adopted the following means of
action, out of which it is believed will
grow perfect and uniformed
organization of the party in the diff
ferent states.
Upon the application of ten or more
voters who have organized council
of the National party in any locality,
and elected officers consisting of u
chief vice chief. scribe and a
treasurer, and reported the state,
poStottice, township and county, or
city and ward. in which it is organized
together with the names of the said
officers. the national committee will
issue to snch organization an engraved
charter emblematic of the principles
and objects of the National party. and
y constitution and directions for the
organization and government of the
council. Each application must be
accompanied by the sum of one dollar.
This sum will cover the expense of
issuing the charter. ana will secure to
each council the privilege OF obtaining
printed documents. badges, campaign
song books and other campaign goods
from the national committee at cost.
or rs near cost Is practicable.
The national committee will also
issue charters TO Young men scouncils.
to consist of youths under age. upon
the same terms and with like
privileges to those granted TO the
councils of voters. The object of the
formation of young meas councils is
to inspire the youths OF the country
with n realization of the great strug-
gle upon which the nation has now
entered. and to educate them in the
vital questions of political economy
and good government.
1t is not the design of the national
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-13

Becky Baldwin. widow, had considera-
BILE money, undertook to rob her. When
they had battered down the door two of
them entered. AS they came in she threw
her pocket book into the fire. One OF the
men stopped to snatch it from the fire
when she dealt him blow with an axe
which nearly severed his head from his
shoulders The second attacked her and
she killed him. The third, rushing in to
the rescue of his comrades, found the
woman exhausted and bleeding, stabbed
her three times in the back and then
fled. Neighbors, who next morning visit
ed the house, found Mrs. Baldwin dying,
and the two tramps already dead.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-13
JAY GOULD and CONGRESS-.

The New York Tribune has de-
manded that congress shall go home,
and is of the opinion that there should
be no more congress for three years TO
come.
1t was Jay Gould, the owner of the
New York Tribune, who said, during
the great strike: 1--WE shall shortly
find ourselves living under mon
archy.'
Down with congress. now that it
begins to lean little towards the
people. Up with one man power
when monopoly is endangered.
Congress must never ''daTe to fly in
the face" Of the '.capitol Of the coun-
a: last