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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-02
The Vital Point Of the Silver
Question.
New York Sun, 18th inst. ]

new IOTk OuH, lCUu l1St.
1t is a significant feature of the
silver controversy that the party
in favor of the silver dollar coin
cides very nearly with the party
which opposes the resumption of
specie payments. They clamor for
the coinage of silver, but a large
proportion of them do not intend
that the metal shall be currency
after it is coined. All that they
want is to lower the standard ac-
cor'ling to which our paper money
'circulates, and thus still further to
depreciate It. The renl issue before
the country is, therefore, lot so
much whether we shall have re-
sumption in silver or resumption
in gold. but whether we have re-
Sumption at all.
A proof that this is the vital
point of the silver question is af-
forded by the speech of Senator
Voorhees, of India, delivered in the
Senate on Tuesday last. 1t was
devoted to demonstrating that
coin never should have been used
at all to pay the obligations of the
Government, and that greenbacks
and greenbscks only should consti-
tute the national currency. Here
is summary Of what the speaker
and his party demand:
They demand the restoration of
the silver dollar; the repeal uncon-
ditionally, of the act Jan. IA, 1875,
compelling a resumption of specie
payments January, 1879; that the
national banking system be remov-
ed, and a circulation medium in
sufficient quantity be provided by
the Government; that this curren-
cy shall he made o legal tender in
III payments of all debts. public
and private. 81
And then we have the usual
threat of the terrible things which
will happen if the principles of
sound finance prevail : a
l have no word of menace to
utter on this floor; but, in behalf
Of every laborer and every owner
Of the soil whom l represent, /
warn all such.as value their inyest-
ments that, when these doctri mes
oi despotlsm are Sought to be en-
forced, this fair, land viii again be
convulsed In agony, and the fires
OF liberty will blaze forth again, a.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-02

N. Q. Item : The House passed
the bill appropriating $4,000 for
mileage and per diem of members
Of, the General Assembly and its
officers and employees-s40,O00 to
the Senate land $4,000 to the
House. Gen. Young was its prin-
cipal advocate, while Speaker Bush
and Gov. Warmoth opposed it. 1t
is based on act No. III of 1872, and
is not as reformatory as it should
have been.
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Cotton seed some years ago was
considered worthless, and immense
piles of it accumulated ON the
Southern plantations. For q num-
Der of years it has been utilized,
however, and has become valua-
BILE source Of income 1t yields per
ton about seven hundred pounds
of cake or meal and thirty five gal
Ions of oil. The meal is worth SIS
per ton, tho ''cake" from $24 to $2S,
and the oil Units crude state, SScts.
per gallon. Much of the ''cake" is
exported.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-02

The New Orleans and Pacific
Railroad Company has graded $50
miles Of their road, and is out of
debt. 1t is working seven hundred
convicts at small expense TO the
company. 1t viii accept condi-
tional subscriptions TO the $780,
600 needed TO complete the work,
giving satisfactory guarantees, if
the money ia promptly subscribed,
that the cars viii run over tie en-
tire route between New Orleans
and Marshall by lthe FIRST of No
yembar next From indications at
present, they viii raise the money
very soon, and its completion BY
:hat tiine may be csleniated upon
as almost an assured faot-ss ~.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-02

The record of last years failures
compares favorably with that Of
previous ones, despite the frequen-
cy of financial failures in Novem-
Der and December. The total
number for the twelve months in
the United States was s,S72. or 300
less than in 1915; total liabilities,
$190,669,000, half a million less
than in the year before, but a sum
largely above the average of years
since the panic of 1873. sa
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-02

Kerr succeeded him, her day eat
home" was promptly changed to
Tuesday, and this winter it will be
Thursday, because her husband rs
in the Senate.
Of the Cabinet officers wives,
the wife of Postmaster Gen. Key is
considered the handsomest Some
body said of Mrs. Thompson (wife
Of the Secretary Of the Navy at a
New Years reception, Chow good
it is to see an old lady who has ac-
cepted that honorable title and
wears it gracefully and without dis
guise." Mrs. John A. Logan ia
now in Washington. When last
here her hair was jet black-now
it is entirely gray.
Congressman are still talking OF
Investigations, and of the title to
the Presidency, etc. The senti-
ments of the mass of people are
expressed in the language of a
leading New York paper, l fancy !:
"The country is sick of such ones
tons. We all want to be rid Of
the great fraud and the electoral
conspiracy. We want business
legislation. Time is flying and
Congress has done nothing. Silver
waits to be remonetized, the tariff
adjusted, our shipping interests at
tended to, and some definite
scheme of civil service reform put
into operation. There are living
issues-practical objects Of states
manship- But stirring ny invssti-
cations into matters finally dis
posed of by operations of law is
mere pretense Of craftsmanship.
Nothing can be made out of it for
either party, as both will BIZ as
persed if either is. Business and
not investigation should he the aim
of Congress"
The past week has been by far
the most disagreeable of the sea-
son, as regards the weather. First
we had four inch snow, which
ended in just enough rain TO ice
the pavenents thoroughly, then
two or three days of snappish cold
weather, and then one of contlnu-
Gus sleet. Ashes and sawdust are
strewn from one end of the city to
the other, and is our only safeguard
against broken necks aud cracked
skulls. One redeening feature was
that we got three days and.nights
Of fine skating, which is indeed
luxury in this region. RICHARD.
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they did 100 years ago, in defence
of the natural rights of man.

tney ulu lVU years aSo, III ucicnSo
of the natural rights of man.
The absurdity of denouncing as
a doctrine of despotism" the hon
est payment Of ones debts needs
no comment, and it is lamentable
that n Senator of the United States
should be guilty of it, but the fact
that he is thus guilty alarms us
more than his threats. Reasona-
BILE men can be reasoned with, but
it is in vain to argue with lunatics.
Mr.. Voorhees, and all the rest of
the advocates of unlimited paper
money suffer under q species OF
craze which defies logic and arith-
metic. Knowing only that the ef-
feet Of the first greenback issued
was to raise prices, they are sure
that further issue would raise
them again, and seeing that the APP
poach to specie payments has been
accompanied by fall in prices,
they conclude that the only way to
arrest that fall is no. to pay in spe-
Gle. They have neither eyes nor
q
ears for any interests but those OF
people who have bought property
with borrowed money, and the
great multitude to which thismoney
is owing, are in their estimation
only cruel oppresors. The man
who holds land or merchandise
which does not belong to him, is
suffering angel, but the laborer,
the widow. and the orphan who
have lent them their savings are en-
titled to no consideration whatey-
erl How the delnsion is to be dis
PEELED we cannot tell. We see,
however, that it is widely, prevalent,
and deplore it accordingly.
The indications now are that the
Silver bill will pass the Senate, be
vetoed, and then fail to receive the
two-thirds vote necessary to make
it law over the veto. II, however,
the result should be otherwise,
and the bill shoIld command the
support of two. thirds of both the
Houses Of Congress, ws may look
TO see Mr.. Voorhees, and his friends
come to the front with their infla-
ton schemes. The question will
arlse whether the Silver bill shall
be executed or whether it shall be
suffered ITO become dead letter,
and it seems to us that this cues
ton may rs we'll be answered now.
You gentlemen who want the sill
YER dollar restored, do You mean
to use it after You get it, or do you
not? That is what you ought to
ten the country at once.
4
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-02

Comparatively few are destroyed
by outrageous and flaming vices,
such as blasphemy, THEFT, drunke-
ness or uncleanliness; but crowds
are perishing by that deadly smoke
OF indifference witch casts the shift
ing clouds of carelessness around
them. -
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-02

A psychologist estimates there
are 1900 disorders to which the
human frame is liable, and there
are plenty of people who believe
they have every one of them.
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In. San Francisco. On the 10th
inst, the military had to be put
under arms to prevent an attack
by a mob on the Chinese passen-
gers of ship arriving i'll port.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-02

The total cost to the State OF
Neu York of suppressing the rail-
way riots was s2o6.OOO. ms
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-02

Refined sugars ere cheaper now
than ever before in this country.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-02
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AGENTS.
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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-27

EDM. j. FoEsTALL's SONS.
Bonds and coupons issued under act
NO. 80 Of 1870. .s17, 500 90
Bonds and coupons. issued under act
No 115 OF 1861. ...-..-.-.-......- IA. $50 90
Coupons detached from bonds issued
under act No. IS Of 1865 100
Certificates. issued under act No. 8 Of
1874. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OCT 7s'
E. GIRAgD.
State notes, issued under act approved
February g. 1866 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES as 90
TOWNSEND d LYMAN.
Bonds and coupons. issued for relief
of State Treasury. Observation-Disclosures. $50 Go
Bonds and coupons, issued to N, O.,
Jackson and Great Northern Rail-
road Company. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2130 GO
Bonds and coupons, issued to the n.
o., Opelousas and Great Western
Railroad Company. 1895 90,
Bonds and coupons issued under act
No. 50 of 1869 tPenitentiary bonds)-- 511s &c
Bonds and coupons issued under act
No. Is of 1856. Observation-Disclosures. lo9 90
Certificates issued under act No. Of
1874 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10 90
Certificates, issued under act No. Of
1874 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 215 3S
A. LUR1A. CASHIER.
Bonds and coupons issued under act
W. HALsEY. PER cHAs F. HOFFMAN.
Bonds and coupons, issued under act
No. 115 of 1867 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1920 90
Bonds and coupons. issued to Baton As5
Rouge Crosse Tete and Opelou5as
Railroad Company. ............--.. 1000 oG
LEsAssIER l. BINDER,
Bonds and coupons, issued under act
No. 115 of 1867. Observation-Disclosures. 1G16o GO
Bonds and coupons. issued under act
NO 231 Of 1852 to Baton Rouge.
Crosse Tete and Opelousas Rail-
road Company -,-......-........-..- 4,o71 90,
Bonds and coupons. issued under act
No IS Of 1856. INSTRUMENTATION. 1890 90,
c. L. c. DUPUY, CASHIER STATE NATIONAL BANK.
Bonds and coupons. Issued for the re-
lief of State Treasury, under act
No. 277 Of 1853 ..-..---.....--.......- $3.50 co
Bonds and coupons. issued under act
No. Is of 1866. Observation-Disclosures. 212 90.
Bonds and coupons. issued under act
No 35 of 1865. Observation-Disclosures. s.23s ls
Bonds and coupons. issued under act
Nos 17s and 231 of 1853 ...-..........- 1895 90
Bonds and coupons. issuedto n. O..
Jackson and Great Northern Rail-
road Company Observation-Disclosures 1olo 90
P.H. RUzzLEs, PER ALLEN. NUaENT co.
Bonds and coupons. issued under act
No. us Of 1867 .....,....-......-...-. $3.50 90
mh2s st -<
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No. 81 AN ACT

No. 81 AN ACT
To provide a revenue; to levy and collect
taxes; togrant and collect certain licenses !;
to define certain objects of taxation
and Of exemption; to define certain duties
Of officers, agents, or representatives OF
banks, banking associations, insurance
companies and corporations; to define the
duties Of certain courts; to prescribe GER
tain fines, penalties and damages; to
make certain exemptions to define the
duties Of assessors, collectors and Audi
tor OF Public Accounts; to regulate the
mode of assessment and collection in Ger
tain cases; to define the duties Of certain
sample merchants; to impose upon par
ishes, municipalities and town corpora
tons certain restrictions, prohibitions
and regulations regarding assessment;
to repeal all acts inconsistent Herewith
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of Lou
isidaa, IN General Assembly Convened, That
an annual ad valorem tax of thirteen mills on
the dollar shall be and is hereby levied for
the State, to pay the public debt and promote
the public interest thereof, upon the assessed
cash valuation Of all property; said tax Of
thirteen mills to be divided as follows, to wit ::
General fund tax, two and one-half mills cur
rent school fund, two mills; interest tax, five
and one-half mills; levee construction and re-
pair tax three mills; provided, that the three
mills levied for levee purposes shall only be
collected in 1878; and thereafter the levee tax
shall be one mill. For convenience of assess
ment all property is hereby subdivided into
the following objects of taxation:
Frst-Au lands and lots of ground lying
within this State, owned or claimed by any
person or corporation, whether patented or
not, including in the assessment thereof all
houses, machinery, fixtures and improve
ments OF any kind thereon or appertaining
thereto; and also all houses, machinery, fix
lures or improvements owned by any person
or corporation situated upon public land.
second-All horses, mares, geldings, mules,
jacks, jennies, ali neat cattle. all sheep and
goats.
= Third-All carriages or vehicles, wagons,
floats and drays, whether with two or four
wheels, kept for pleasure, use or hire.
Fourth-Shares of stock or interest in
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Filed and recorded October Is. 1877.
e. w. DURANT, Recorder.

SECTION /. Therefore, be 1t enacted BY the
Senate and House of representatives Of the
State of Louisiana, IN General Assembly con-
pened, That the stockholders Of said "Red
River and Mississippi Railroad Company"
are hereby specially created into q body cor
limitations, and with all the rights, powers
and liabilities recited in the preamble to this
act, and said Red River and Mississippi Rail
road Company, so specially created, shall have
full power to sue and be sued, plead and be
implicated. and to do and perform all other
acts. and exercise all the rights and privileges
incident to corporations.
company shall have the right Of way through
all the lands owned by the State of Louisiana
to the extent of seventy-fve feet on each side
OF said road and be authorized to cut and use
the timber and such other materials thereon
as they see fit, within four miles on either
side, for the purpose OF said road; provided,
that this privilege of cutting timber shall
continue as long as the land shall remain the
property Of the State.
SEC. 3. Be 1t further enacted, ETC.. That said
Red River and Mississippi Railroad Company
shall have perpetual existence, unless dis
solved by and in accordance with the provs-
ions contained in the preamble to this act.
SEC. 4. Be 1t further enacted, etc, That
this act shall take effect from and after it's
passage.
(SignedD LOUIS BUSH,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives
(SigneO LOUIS A. Witt,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved March 26, 1873.
(Signedl FRANCIS T. NICHOLAS,
u VIII VI lGpy a. STRONG,
Secretary of State
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BOARD OF LIQUIDATION,
State of Louisiana,
NEw 0prEANa Ma

New ORLEANS March &c. 1873.
hereby give notice that the following appli-
cations have been filed In this Office for the
funding of the following enumerated bonds.
certificates and State notes.
ALLEN JUMEL,
Auditor and ex-offlcio Secretary of the Board.
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REMEMBER, 1872 CANAL STREET.

THE EUROPEAN DENTISTS ARE TIL
l. only dentists In this city doing work ON the
European plan. They will come to your resi-
50 cents per cavity; Gold, only 81 !; Cleaning and
Polishing, so cents. APPOINTMENT hours to
q. M. 7 to D. N. Send orders by mail. de21 Il
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w. II. WISE, Notary Public.

have examined the foregoing act Of incor-
poraton, and find nothing therein contrary to
prove the same.
J. b. SLATTERY,
District Attorney, Tenth Judicial District of
Louisiana.
October Is, 1877.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-17
The Neutrality-suspicious..
I A settlement is likely to be made At n1ty
cents on the dollar.

] A settlement is likely to be made a. MY
cents on the dollar
Soofvet Pasha, Minister of Justice, will
act as minister Of foreign affairs curing
the absence of Servet Pasha.
| Minister Moves conveys to the United
States the thanks of France for the pro-
posed participation in the Paris EXPOSE
! ton.
A heavy snow storm occurred in Della
ware county, New York, Thursday nlgnt,
depositing two feet of snow. About one
foot fell the same night in Ducness
county.
w. F. Duncan and w. 8. Duval have
been arrested at San Francisco on the
charge of felony, for having assisted IN the
concealment and escape of Duncan's 1atn-
err, president of the Safe Deposit company,
and Lemarre, its secretary.
Petitions are being circulated by the in
dependent greenbackers in New York ask
ing Congress to remonetize the silver DOL
lar as full legal tender, with unlimited
coinage and issue, and also to repeal the
resumption act.
8 negro named Rue, charged with the
murder of a democratic candidate for
sheriff in 1876, was taken from the Jail I'm
St. Franclsville, West Feliciana, Tuesday
night last, and hanged by party OF white
men.
Petitions have been presented in Con-
gress from the seaboard cities for the pas
sage of law giving to all persons, without
preference, permission to establish tele-
graphic communication between the Uni
ted States and foreign countries, and the
rejection of all applications for exclusive
privileges.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-17
GENERAL NEW.S.

The Servians capture s 900 men, 80 can
non and 1000 rifles at Nisch.
Senator Blaine is said to have been i'm
proved in health by his treatment at the
Hot Springs.
Secretary Schurz states that a few
changes will soon be made in the Indian
Bureau.
Heavy rains Wednesday and Thursday
caused another dangerous rise in the
rivers of Virginia.
The Turkish people have been ordered
away from Adrianople, in anticipation of "a
siege, and s,o0e have already left
Handi Pasha, the new grand vizier OF
Turkey, fayors peace and desires an ar
mistice of SIX weeks for negotiations.
The Turkish garrison at Nisch has sur
rendered to the Scrvians after five days
fighting, in which the Servians lost heav-
lily.
The President has rendered the appoint
ment of district attorney for South Caro-
lima to Corbin, late Senator elect from that
State.
Reports from Maine detail numerous
disasters TO shipping and great destruc
ton of property by the storm of Thursday
night.
The Republicans of the Ohio Legislature,
after eleven ballots without choice, con-
Guided to cast their votes blank for Unit
ed States Senator
Chicago business men accuse an un-
known bull ring of spreading false re-
ports of financial embarrassment in that
city.
The House committee on commerce has
agreed upon q steamboat bill in accordance
with the views of the national board of
steam navigation.
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African explorer.
has arrived at Rome and received the med
al decreed for him by the late King OF It.
ally.
The disiillers, rectifers and liquor deal
ers ~ Tennessee have memoriaiized Con-
hress 10 reduce the whisky tax to fifty
cents.
Secretary Sherman will not wait for leg
islation before initiating his plan for sell
ing the four per cent refunding bonds TO
our own people
The House has instructed the commit
tee of ways and means to inquire into the
management At ports of entry where the
expenses AZ e larger than the receipts
The Massachusetts, bank commissioner
reports the Great Darlington savings bank
sound but recommends that thirty days.
notice be required ON dnving deposits
A correspondent st Vienna states that 1t
Schipka Pass the Russians captured 3 900
men, ], 200 horses, II mor:ars, IL siege
guns and 50 field guns.
The Russian advance columns are press
ing steadily forward and the Russian
Dukes state there can be no armistice ex-
cept upon IN agreed baais for peace
n. h Hollisser, prominent member Of
the new York sock exchange, has sus-
pe1dsd LinhiIiti0 eBkimne0d 6 ol7s. 80.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-17
DILLON O'BRlEN.
His Lecture in Philadelphia on Catholic
immigration to Minnesota.

His Lecture in Philadelphia on Catholic
immigration to Minnesota.
Philadelphia Ledger, Jan. 10.
The hall of the cathedral r. A. 3.
society, on Sixteenth street, above
Vine, was well filled last evening to
hear an address by Dillon O'Brien,
Esq, of St. Paul, Minnesota, on the
subject Of Catholic immigration to
that State. The speaker was intro
duced by John II. Campbell, ESQ.,, and
his remarks were listened to with
profound attention, interrupted only
by frequent applause.
MIR. O'Brien said 'sthat the ques-
ton Of Catholic immigration was no
longer theary to discuss, but ne
cessity demanding action brave,
intelligent action on the part of those
who would derive benefit by leaving
the crowded city and going upon land
generous action on the part of their
friends. will tell you," continued
the speaker, ''what one earnest, true
man has done in the work of colonial
ton in Minnesota.
He, then went into an exhaustive
account of Bishop Ireland's Catholic
colonies in that State. .'Already,"
he said, ''there were about 900 fami-
lies numbering nearly 5000 people,
who had settled in the colonies.
Those who will come next spring will
find land in the very centre of the
homes OF their own countrymen and
co-rellgionists, homestead lands, which
they can have free, and railroad lands
for about So an acre, both of the finest
quality.
The substance of Mr.. O'Brien's
argument, addressed to laboring men.
was: ''Strike out for the land before
it is all taken up, and before the door
OF independence is closed against you
forever"