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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05
A VETERAN.

Gen. William s. Harvey Is on visit to our
city, and has his quarters at the st. Charles
| Hotel
The visit Of this distinguished veteran has
afforded great satisfaction to his numerous
friends in this State, with which he and his
family were identified during the whole
period of his military service before our late
civil war. His venerable brother, the late DIR
Harvey was the patriarch Of Baton Rouge,
and the Generals visit to our State is made
the more interesting by u reference to its OBJ
inct, which Is to re-establish the old hospta-
BILE headquarters Of his brother and abide in
our midst during at least the winter season
Gen. Harvey Is the oldest living of the officers
of the old army His first service and
station were in this State, as lieutenant of the
First Infantry. This was in 1918. Serving
with brilliant courage and efficiency during
the long period intervening between that
Gate and the opening Of our recent civil war,
he has always maintained the honor and
reputation Of the old army, with unblem-
ished fidelity, sans peur, ms reprorhe. In
all the wars Of the republic he has ever been
in the front. He has borne more than his
share of the burden and danger of the various
conflicts In which the old army was engaged.
In the Florida war, in the Black Hawk war, in
the Mexican war, In innumerable campaigns
on the frontiers, with The aborigines, no Off
Ger of that army now living has won more
honor and fame. OF stalwart frame, indomin-
table will and energy. his career has
been one Of constant activity and service,
Despising the arts and tricks of politicians
and hangers on OF government favor, his
whole ambition has been to prove himself
true soldier, preferring all the hard duties
and exposure of campaigning and frontier
service TO the luxuries, pleasures and prefer
inent SO eagerly sought by 50 many of our
military heroes" And now the staunch old
soldier has reached his seventy-eighth year
in the full possession Of his faculties and en-
ergies and comes among us to gather around
him his old friends and companions of q half
a century ago, and in their society to solaee
his declining years with the "reminiscences
and associations Of his youthful days. Our
whole people will tender him warm vel
come, and our ancient capital will have new
attraction in his presence and residence there.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, JANUARY s. 1878

can be no prosperity among the masses OF
the people; there can be no relief to OPP
pressed trade and industry when the cifcu-
lating medium is reduced below proper
volume and the business of the country Is
conducted upon an imitation Of credit
which Is controlled by the few.
The volume OF the currency should be regu-
lated by wise and prudent estimate Of the
needs of the country, and 1t should therefore
be composed of paper, silver and
gold SO that 1t may be flexible 1t should
be indeed like great river, restrained
within its banks that 1t may not sweep
over the valleys in desolatng floods, but
which thus restrained, rolling along its bed, Is
evaporated by the rays of the genial sun and
returned In dews and showers to stimulate
the fruits, the flowers and growing crops OF
the earth. The rigid and inlexible policy of
reckless contraction, like the sands Of the
DIES sert, dries up the life-giving fountains and
fertilizing streams and leaves every green
and living thing to fade and perish.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05
ID. H. HOLMES,
1855 Canal street and Is Bourbon.
PROPOSALS FOR LEvEE WORK.
STATE OF LOUISIANA. !
Executive Department, |

STATE OF LOUISIANA
Executive Department, I
New Orleans. December 81, 1871
Sealed proposals will be received ut this office
until SATURDAY, January 8. ut IL M, for the
construction of the following levees:
Bird Leyee West Baton Rouge parish.
Le BBuf levee, st. james parish.
Plans, proflles and specifications Of the above
works will be ready for inspection at the State
Engineer 8 Office between the I'D and 9Th OF
January. 1873.
Proposals shall be addressed to the under
signed, and each one Endorsed for the particular
levee on which the bid is made.
Sealed proposals must contain q deposit
amounting to one cent for each yard Of the esti-
mated contents up to ten thousand yards, and
an additional quarter Of one cent for every yard
over, to be forfeited to the State in case of the
failure Of the contractor or bondsmen to qualify
within forty eight hours after adjudication. or
else the bondsmen must be present at the open
ing Of the bids. prepared to sign Immediately.
The Board reserves to itself the right to reject
any or all bids.
FRANCIS T. NICHOLS.
Governor and President of the Board of State
Engineers. ja1 st
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05

The disadvantage Of a majority of only one
is well illustrated in the Pacheco- Wigginton
contest from California This case has been
passed on already twice by the Supreme
Court of California, by the Governor Of that
State, and is now before the Committee on
Elections of the House Of Representatives.
Pacheco, the Republican candidate for Con
gress received 10, 104 votes; Wigginton DEM
ocrat, 49, 103 Thus has the Supreme Court Of
California, which is Democratic, reported,
and Pacheco, in consequence, now occupies
q seat in Congress under q certificate from u
Democratic Governor.
The particular disadvantages Of majority
of one liz that it invites contest There is
probably no congressional district In the
Union in which at least two fraudulent votes
are not cast. All that Wiggnton had to do,
therefore, was to show that his opponent re-
ceived two illegal and fraudulent votes. This
was easy enough Instead of two, he found,
without trouble, twenty-five. Thirteen per-
sons who had voted for Pacheco were not
residents of California; three more were I'M
registered, and six had voted marked tickets,
illegal by the laws of California. Here, then,
was Wigginton elected by twenty-one ma
iority.
Pacheco asked to be allowed to answer, and
answered by attacking Wigginton's votes In
exactly the same way. Strange to say, he
found just twenty-five Illegal votes cast for
his opponent. Deducting, therefore, all the
illegal votes cast for both candidates, 1t left
| things just as they had stood originally
Pacheco with a majority Of one 1t is prob
able that were Wigginton to investigate more
| thoroughly and accurately the votes cast for
his rival, he might discovera few more illegal
| votes; but the disadvantage Of this would be
that Paoheco might do just the same thing,
make just the same discovery, and thus make
the contest a perpetual one.
The case is now before subcommittee Of
| the Committee on Elections, and Congress
will undoubtedly accept it's decision, as the
contest is one Of the most troublesome ever
| before that body, as 1t really involves the
legality Of every one Of the 10000 votes cast
| In the district
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05

New York has just completed its census.
III the Empire State be taken as sample OF
the whole Union, this census makes some
astonishing and unpleasant showings of our
life for the past FIVE years. These five years
were years of troubles, panics, disorders and
bankruptcies, and the effect these have had
upon the country and It's people can be as
well seen In statistics as In long legislativ
reports.
In the matter OF the increase of population,
this census shows that 1t has been slower
during the five years from 1870 to 1876, than
in any five years Of the country's existence,
not even excepting the war. In majority OF
the counties OF New York the population was
Mt a standstill and quite a number of them
show a decided decrease. Whatever increase
there was took place In the cities. The
urban or city population increased So per
cent, the country or agricultural population
only per cent. Twenty-six counties show a
falling off in their colored population. Evil
IDENTIFY the negro is either dying out or leav-
ing New York
In New York city, the naturalized voters
still outnumber the native American voters
by $4,000, while the number of voters born In
the city itself form but an Insignificant frac-
ton OF the whole vote
The mortality of the State is 6.15 per cent
of the total population. This mortality is
highest among the Irish; 1ol Irishmen dying
to only IA Germans.
Diseases of the eye seem to be on the steady
Increase, the blind having more than doubled
in the past ten years; deaf mutes had also
increased equally as fast. The insane had
trebled during the same period, although the
total population had increased less than so
per cent. Most of the insane were women |;
and foreigners seemed much more liable to
insanity than natives.
The marrying age was for males from % to
to q, for women from 10 to %. Six persons
over so were married. One man of SIS mar
ried woman of n, making the Oldest couple
in the State.
Thenumber of landed proprietors was much
smaller than would be imagined. Omitting
the eight counties containing large cities
there were less than L., 600 landed proprietors
ii New York, q showing almost as bad as that
N England. The total Of the State and
county debts is s27a, sO6. 555. of which about
~ 10000 Tor railroads, So. 1000 900 for boun-
fieS ma war, and 5000, 900 for school plir-l
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05
Black Cashmere Silks
COLoRED sATINs.
Evening Silks, Velvets, Etc.
ON MONDAY, DEC. III,

We will be prepared to show most complete
assortment of the above goods. which will be
offered at EXCEPTIONAL PRICES.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05

"A Citizen" whose communication We
print In another column, has got mad a little
TOO late We fully agree with the theories
ne advances, but the time to have averted
usurpation by resolution has passed. 1t the
people would not rise up to prevent the con-
summation Of the Electoral Tribuna! fraud,
they certainly will not do SO row. Our
correspondent has undertaken hopeless
s,raiaada
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05
SPECIAL TO SPORTSMEN.

l will load Z. NJ. c. SHELLS at the following
prices;
100 No. IL, 3. /, So 40.
100 No. 10. 81. 1. 81 so.
100 No. II, 81, Ia, u, u, 50 60.
100 No. 10, 4. ia. 50.
600 No. 10, AZ, Ia, So.
Each Shell guaranteed. Orange Powder Fl
and New ~. YORK ths Shot used Pink edge or felt
WALLACE WOOD,
Agent Latin & Rand Powder Company,
Jas If 2dp No. Tchou pitonlas street.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05
TO SENATORS AND REPRESENTA-
TIVES.

Senators and Representatives. Of both par
ties. In the city or arriving. will oblige US
by sending us. for the benefit Of those who
may wish to meet them or consult with
them on public business. their addresses in
the city, We will print them for the con-
venience Of members and the public.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05
BEST JOB PRINTING OFFICES
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS,

We are requested to state that caucus
of the Democratic@C Conservative Senators
will be held In the hall of the Senate
Chamber at II o'clock. Sunday morning.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05
poses. This debt is about 1e per cent Of the
assessed valuation of the State.

The five years from 1870 to 1876 would seem
melancholy ones indeed, which have left
their imprint upon the people Of the country.
Public debts increased thuusand-fold more
rapidly than population. Insanity and other
evils have been ON the increase. The whole
period Is q black one in American history.
and one which the people Of the entire Union
must look back TO with as much regret as
those Of Louisiana who suffered SO much dur
ing these years. The census Of New York
shows clearly that during the last five years
of Grants rule this country refrigerated in
everything that makes q country great and
happy and prosperous.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05
MARRIED.

McCONNICO-JACKSO January g. 1873
at the residence Of the brides father by Rev. B.
M. Palmer. Mr.. s. B. McConnico to Miss Adele
Jackson both of this city.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-05
THE SETTLEMENT OF DEATH CLAIMS.


against Life Insurance Companies will receive
my prompt and careful attention. Long and
ted GUS lawsuits can almo st invariably be avoid
ed in thss collection of death claims by careful
and Intelligent preparation of proofs of
DEATH 8. TYLER Read
Life Insurance Expert,
jail IW2p 10 Car0ndelet street.
, 1878-02-08
Shocmg Horses and Shoeiug Persons.

Historians inform Ms that the hyurlio
horses uf the Roman Emperor Nrro and
hI, wife were ,hoi With silver and
gold.
There are horse. So valuable that their
owner, might better "a rri o. have them
.hui right With silver ur even NitH gold,
than tu have them .hnd wrong with iron
ur steel
Aniii b. not horse. alone thp, suffer
from bad ,hueing Children are shock.
iugIy neglected in thl, rc.p,ct llaitthr
community ~ lmpiug ur Walking With
pain through life, 10 consequence ni some
injury To- their feet caused hy wearing
ilI-tilting shoes. shoes may bctuu small,
or too large, too low, too high, or too
crooked. Ii matters little in what re-
Spect they misit 80 that they are a mis-
tit, The harm done in one way may be
somewhat different from that done in an
other; but the general result Is the same
an impossibility to walk without in
convenience and pain.
Many grown up persons-men as we'll
as wOmen-preier to wear shoes size
too small, thinking they look better.
Whatever they undergo in consequence, it
is but the just punishment for their folly
but to torture young children, by encasing
their feet in shoes which must necessari-
ly chaie or distort them, is downright
cruelty.
1t is very fortunate circumstance for
the human race that it is much more easily
shod properly than the equine race. 1t
requires far less study and practice to be
able to adapt shoe to chill Is foot than
to that of a horse, for the reason that the
bones of Il horses foot are tncased in Il
horny box; consequently the neglect to
do it is more reprehensible.
Neither horse nor person can be
comfortable with an ill.ttting shoe on.
Few things are more trying to the temper
or injurious to the health.
Soldiers during the war found out
that broad-sOled shoes were the only
kind they could march in with any COM
fort. This has had most salutary in
fuence on the fashion, and the narrow
soles by which men used to pinch their
feet are now regarded as ridiculous.
Thus even war has borne its useful fruit ;
and as Fashion rules supreme, in war or
peace, we may expect the rising genera
ton will stand better on their feet-as
we'll, we trust, as in all other respects
than that which is retiring from the
STACEY. Y. Ledger.
, 1878-02-08
What Men Love.

y. rvn mru tTg Affected iD the -am.
rsy ny f.r .smH bar nr,ag.y ID
I.u.rf. Hn fH.m-r.tr. fH -,iyr tNr iu.
.a-...f.Eu..-, .t tUr face 60 catch OBJ,
.f-y UsH'. .f t.. fa'grr- 90 rr,
.fru.r u.-Tsasan.r -gmp,fh.,- uut u
f.. nR material u' feature. The maj
sh.r.r.guc., "a a.m.n plain ur hrluu
fa|. a.u.ruE iH ,u.'au DIuuus u'
Q rH.-. o.. either h1UHuu'r, ppiput, ul
dnHA,y 4 hrr D, uauuia, Boz pro-
portion s, % .ay- something % you
which y.u are dr-frHu, ui hearing
Different men have different method, ul
. uysuug, auI there are suMr lu whom
unly the Culr.r message ut health con.
ycy,d in fresh color and plump checks
0, Ineligible. There ale Others IL
whom such face j. blank and meaning.
les, who are willing To give away their
life to win smile from certain pair Of
eyes, even, although they are green,
OF course 1t is easy tO see that man
with strong powers Of idcalism will con.
struCt beautiful face out of unpromis,
ing materials; but this is not the point
What face is that which appeals to the
sense Of beauty Of the ma ajority of men
Not the plump iuanity OF colorcd litho-
graph. Not IN buXom country lass
who has all the beauties of which poets
sing, but whom poets do not marry
Not the pinky doll of the book.
Men love long eyelashes, because they
seem to hide u secret. Men love those
eyes which are transparent and yet deep,
because there lies in them something OF
the unknown and undiscoverable, and
so men love faces that tell stories, and
are coy, confding, tantaizing, with
vague and grand emotional possibilities
hidden somewhere about the expression.
We have not said word about the de-
STABILITY Of marrying woman with one
of these tantallziDg faces, nor of the
desirability of marrying woman with
pretty face at all. 1t is almost inn
possible to touch upon this branch OF
the subject without repeating the com
monest of commonplaces. This may be
said, however, plain woman who has a
cultivated brain and good taste ought
always to be able to hold her ground
against pretty women. Emotional
variety has much narrower limits than
intellectual variety.
You can run over the gamut of a
woman's loves and hates much sooner
than you can measure the circle of a
cultivated sympathy; and once you
have exhausted the possible cords, their
repetition is likely to become trifle
wearisome. With good taste come the
charms of artistic dress, pleasant, fresh,
amusing conversation, and graceful
manner, which does far more execution
than the victims of it imagine. Through
her intellectual sympathies woman en-
larges the horizon of her life, borrows a
new lustre for her own use, and gets
credit of all the wit and grace and bril-
liancy which her extended vision EN-,
braces.-RpM HOme
, 1878-02-08
FavOrs.

In the following advice, which we find
in an exchange, we think the writer con-
siderably strains his point, and yet there
are suggestions which few can ponder
without profit:
"lf you want to be happy, never ask a
favor. Give as many as you can, and if
any are freely offered, it is not necessary
to be too proud to take them; but never
ask for or stand waiting for any. Who
ever asked favor at the right time9 To
be refused is woeful stab to ones pride.
1t is even worse than to have favor
granted hesitatingly. We suppose that
out of a hundred who petition for the
least thing-if it be even an hour of
time-ninety. nine wish, with burning
cheeks and aching hearts, they had not
done so. Don't ask favors of your near
est friends. DO everything for yourself
until you drop, and then if anyone picks
you up, let it be Of his own free choice,
not from any groan you utter. But while
you can stand, be a soldier. Eat your
own crust, rather than feast on another's
dainty meals; drink cold water rather
than another's wine. The world is full
of people asking favors, and people tire
of granting them. Love or tenderness
should never be put aside, when its full
hands are stretched towards you; but as
few love, so few are tender; favor asked
is apt to be milestone around your neck,
even If you gain the thing you want by
the asking. As you cast your bread on
the water, and it returns, so will the ia
yor you ask, if unwilIingIy granted,
come back to you when you least expect
or desire. Favors conceded upon solici-
tation are never repaid. They are more
costly in the end than overdue usurers'
bills"
, 1878-02-08

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WFl.'. es'trr- Tar ..r'a.r.
W.LrHsst.r..1 q ..ar ng..ai
T.k,4.rr.- gem .s.ulirl
urafHrA uf velvet ha.a.
sno..ur .r o.. amtrr .rtnc
ofths diving IhyAghis iragh,-
met meath The araJias
NJ ch',-piiie % girl.
sunny Marguerite tb, golden,
NJ pretty pearl oi pearl,
Her blue cyes to me are load-stars,
Each brown ringlet il snare
To euslaye my heart In meshes-
o, lrly are women fair?
Why do birds fall TO the fowler.
Why do moths ~ to the tiamc'
Why do tiny sparks hy upward'-
Can you give that fate a name'
at is destiny" say women;
ut kismet," say the Turks;
Magnetism" say the sages;-
Yet still the soft spell works.
And twill work, and work for ages,
Till the ocean meets the sky;
Twill be writ on all life's pages,
Till the ink on them grows dry.
-JStley II. BGldt0tE
, 1878-02-08
Learn Your Business.

A Young man in leather store used
to feel very impatient with his employer
for keeping him, year after year, for three
years, "handling hides" But he saw the
use of it in after years, when in an estab-
lishment of his own he was able to tell
by a touch the exact quality of the goods.
1t was only by those thousands of repeti-
tions that the lesson was learned, and so
it is with everything in which we acquire
skill The great army of "incapabes'
is large enough; we would none of us
willingly join its ranks. The half.in-
formed, half.skilled in every business
Outnumber the others, dozens to one. 1t
was good suggestion, worthy of being
remembered, which Daniel Webster made
TO young man who asked him if there
was any ''room in the legal profession"
'There is always room," said the great
statesman.
The better yos know your business the
better your chances to rise. If you drone
through your allotted tasks without keep
ing wide awake lookout on all that
goes on about you, your progress will be
needlessly slow. You can gather much
information by making wise use Of
your eyes and ears, and perhaps be able
to surprise your employer in an emer-
gency by stepping into the "next mans"
place and discharging his duties salts
factorily.
A fine little lad, some twelve years old,
was employed in telegraph Office in
Southern town last year when the yellow
fever ragged so fearfully in that section.
All the operatives were down with it and
Others sent on by the company were at
tackled. No one knew that the lad un-
deHstood the business, but he had picked
it&p and kept up communication between
the town and the outer world all the time
the fever lasted.
Ex-Governor Morgan WAS once clerk
in store in Waterford. A trip to New
York was an event in those days, but the
young man had proved so faithful that
he was intrusted with several commits
sions, among them being one to buy corn.
He came back in due time in the old
stage coach, and inquiries were made
about the corn. The price was very sat
isfactory, but the old gentleman was
afraid it could not be good at so low
price. A handful which the young man
pulled from his pocket convinced him,
but what was his amazemeDt to find that
he had bought two cargoes!
"Why, Edwin, what shall we do with
it% he asked, in CONSERVATION.
81 have disposed of all you don't
want" said Edwin, "at an advance. |
stopped in stores as came along.
could have disposed of three cargoes if
had had them"
The profits were clear, and his en-
ployer said the next morning: 1--WE will
let some one else do the sweeping" and
Edwin was made partner under twenty
one.