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HOTEL ARRIVALS.

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lanesville; L Fl Black. lecatur. Ala: Marsh
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Woods. N N Perry, Terrebonne.
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The Preach Communists.

French justice after the fall of the Paris
Commune hati the spirit of national ven
geance. AS Grenville Murray tells the story
in one of his graphic articles in the Daily
Mems, the masses either fought from igno-
rance or against their will These men we're
not rapscallions, and had nothing to do with
the burning of houses and the shooting of
hostages which disgraced the last days of the
civil war, and which are known to have ben
the work of few hundred fanatics,
habitual criminals and drunken lads
There is no stating exactly how
many men were shot on the barricades
or summarily executed after the rebellion
had been quelled, for between the Commu-
mist themselves, who say $4,000, and the Con-
servatives, who say $780, there is consider
BILE divergence. But courts martial were at
work for two years condemniDg alleged in
surgents to death, Imprisonment, or trans
portation, and many of the prisoners did
nothing worse than receive pay from the
Commune without having actually fired a
shot nj. Lissagarry in his History of the
Commune sets down total of $50 men
and women as having been tried and con-
demned as rebels. During the last two years
1000 pardons have been granted; and as about
1000 who had been sentenced to terms of i'm
prisonment of less than three years have
served out their terms. it may be computed
that over 1000 Communists are still suffer
ing in New Caledonia.
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MIR. BUsH's PROTES r.
ALLEN JUMEL,

| Reasons for my vote against the resolution
| of the Secretary Of State (Strong), proposing
| to appropriate $4,000 out of the contingent
fund of the Board of Liquidation for 1877, TIC
pay the Auditor as secretary of the board:
This board was organized under act No. 5e
Of 1877, extra session.
The first act page SO, section 4, provides
that the Auditor shall be ex-officio secretary
Of the board; at page 80, an appropriation
of $4,000 is made "to meet and cover the
contingent expenses which may be incurred
by said board, of which expenses the said
board shall annually make and submit to the
General Assembly on the first week of its
session q full and detailed statement, accom-
panied with proper vouchers" and, page 81
of said act, the Board Of Liquidation is
authorized, whenever deemed necessary to
carry out the provisions OF the original law
and the supplementary, to employ and pay
such accountants and clerical force as may be
required. Under this authority the board
has employed to assist the Auditor: 1. A
minute clerk; 2. An accountant, and for the
board such other assistants as were deemed
proper.
Therefore, under the aforesaid special appro-
priation, for CONTINGENT EXPENSES solely,
can find no warrant or justification to make
an allowance to pay the Auditor as secretary
of this board, and more particularly when he
is merely performing duties imposed upon
him by the Legislature; duties, too, which
strictly appertain to his office, for the perform
ance of which he receives salary fixed by
the constitution, from and to which we can
ncif hnr crIhtra nor add apyf bino
Again: Whatever balance remains on hand
from this appropriation Of $4,000 has been ac-
counted for to the Legislature, without reser-
walton whatever, to pay the amount proposed
to be given to the Auditor by the resolution,
to wit: $4,000; and this balance, by virtue of
section 2, act No n Of 1877, page 113, extra
session, has passed to the credit of the ire
demption of the public debt fund.-" and is no
longer under or subject to our control.
Besides, January II, 1878, journal of regular
session, page 49,, Mr.. Warmoth introduced
House bill No. 118, entitled AN act
to pay the Auditor of Public Accounts for
services as secretary of the Board of Liquida-
tion," appropriating $500, which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Appropriations,
and by said committee reported back Februa-
ry 49, 1878, journal page IT., ufauorably;
whereupon, February 49, 1878, journal page
222, this bill was indefinitely postponed, thus
declining to make the allowance by vote
of &C yeas to Is nays, not a single Democrat
voting in the negative. Under the circum-
stances it i'll becomes us to attempt to use
the money of the State, over which we have
no control and for claim, too, which the
Legislature, and especially the Democrats
therein, have peremptorily refused to recog-
niZe LOUIS BUSH
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AUDITOR JUMEL's ANSWER.

In reply to the written reasons offered by
the Hon. L. Bush why my services as Sec
rotary Of this board should not be compen-
stated, as according to the resolution of Sec
rotary Strong, desire simply to say that |
will not reply to the legal points urged by Mr.,
Bush.
First, because in Difference to the opinion of
the Attorney General, thu. first la,r officer of the
land, gentleman in no wise interested, and
whose preiudices cannot therefore, be either
for or against this resolution, and whose opin-
ion, spread on the minutes. is so strongly in
opposition to the views expressed by Mr..
Bush and so palpably the same that ] would
make, that it must be left to the judgment of
this board to determine whether Mr.. Bush or
the Attorney General has erred in the inter
probation of the law However, would call
the attention of the board to the fact that at
the time the constitution of the State fixed my
salary as Auditor, the duties that l was to
perform were defined, and among them l am
sure even Mr.. Bush will fail to discover the
onerous, vexatious, trying and responsible
one OF secretary to this board; so that he is
in error when he asserts that, the constitution
having provided for my salary, / can have no
claim for my extra work. 1t is clear that the
Legislature would have no more right to de-
fine my duties as constitutional officer than
it would to define the duties of the Governor
or Attorney General, and that an imposition
of extra work ON me carries with it the equit-
able intention of a just compensation, as
shown by the extra compensation usually
voted to other constitutional officers. Be
sides, it was distinctly stated by several of
the leading members of the Legislature, as
will be proved by the Hon. w. A. Strong and
others that the only reason why the bill in
troduced for my relief was indefinitely post
poned, was not because the sentiment of the
Legislature was hostile to my claim but be-
cause, being an officer Of the Funding Board,
and there being a contingent fund unex-
hausted. it was properly considered my pay
ment should come from the moneys belong
ing to the board.
Mr.. Bush has, trust unwittingly done me
an injustice and by the phraseology of his
reasons, unintentional hope, sought to preiu-
dice the board, by dwelling with some en-
phasis on the fact that the Legislature had
rejected my claim, and that my principal
supporters On the bill introduced for my relief
were to be found amongst the Republicans.
Disagreeable as it is to make an open issue
with gentleman of Mr.. Bush's standing,
am justified by facts, and deny, though the bill
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INTERVAL OF TEN MINUTES.
Programme,

Programme.
PART II.
Grand international airs of America, Germany,
France. Spain and Ireland.
Irish Melody-"The Last Rose OF Summer"
Moore.
Bur,eeaue on English Life" The Watkins
Evening Party ..........-....... John Parry.
National Song" We're Paddles Evermore"
Thomas Davis.
Grand Southern Requiem" The Conquered
Banner" ..:....-......-... Rev. Father Ryan
Irish Ballad" Terence's Farewell t. KMh-
leeD. Lady Duffar1n.
Irish Serio-Comic Balai-"Fm Not Myself At
All. :..-.-.. Lover.
Grand Finnale-By request :" Home, Sweet
Home ......--...... John Howard Payne.
With piano limitations of a storm ut sea com
posed while crossing the Atlantic. by Rosa
D'Erina.
During the course of the evening Rosa
DE ina will have the pleasure of singing by
special request. G nald Griffin's beautiful bal
lad, My Mary # the Curling Hair" with re-
frain in the sh language.
Gomez begins at 80 .. IN. precisely.
Tickets, so GEMS. ap1o 1t
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AN ECCENTRIC MAYOR.

The new Mayor Of Cincinnati | J certainly
vigorous, courageous and straightforward
official His mode of handling the indebted
ness of that city and administering its reve
nues is quite original, or, at least novel fol
this age His financial system Is the reverse
of that of all other municipal dignitaries. II
is eccentric to a startling degree. 1t treats
with contempt all the other grand financial
schemes and theories of our day. 1t scouts
all ideas OF reputation. scaling, funding,
credits mobiliers and "tombolas" It fails
| to appreciate the weight and value Of legal
| and constitutional technicalties and lodges
| and the advantages Of prolonged litigation
1t assumes that the corporation is inextrica-
bly, bound by its contracts. It must pay its
debts. It comedies, however. that the people
would be oppressively taxed if the requisite
amount to pay these debts were exacted from
them by increased taxation. They cannot
stand that and live and prosper. 1t would,
however. be damaging to them and to the
city to refuse to pay their debts or seek to
evade their obligations.
What, then, is to be done to carry the cor
poration safely between this Scylla and Cha
rybdis?
Here comes in this Cincinnati Palinurus
with his singularly ingenious and startling
plan, which will doubtless astonish the scien-
tific financiers of this and other cities.
hit Is this: The bonded debt OF Cincinnati is
$23, 5S4 94S The Mayor proposes to pay the
debts OF the corporation by selling out it's
property and realizing its assets In the fol-
lowing manner: Cincinnati, says this be-
nighted Mayor, is in the possession of proper
ty valued at $50, 48s,OOO This property con-
sists of certain parks the Burnett Woods and
Eden Park. Portions of these parks could be
sold for $2,OOO,00O. Then there are the city
wharves, which would sell for 81, SOC, 900. The
waterworks would command $4,000, 900, and
the Southern Railroad would fetch at least
$1OOOO,0O0 the city sacrificing only 5000, 900
or So, OOO, 900 In the transaction.
The result Of these sales, it is said, would
be to convey into the city treasury some nine
teen or twenty millions Of dollars. which the
Mayor would have strictly applied to the ex-
tinctlon of the debt. The remaining indebt-
edness would be mere bagatelle. High tax
alton would cease, the city would lose nothing
by the transfer of these properties to private
hands, and the taxpayers would all be happy.
Would it not be wise thing for this city to
sell its few remaining possessions and thus
Tighten the burden of taxation by reducing its
debt to the extent Of the proceeds of such
sale? Perhaps our worthy Mayor, whose
mind Is always teeming with ingenious expe-
dents for extricatiDg the city from its financial
embarrassments, might profit by the inge-
NOUS suggestions of this practical Mayor of
Cincinnati
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The late hazing difficulties at Princeton Col
lege attracted good deal of attention. and the
students of that and other colleges received
| some pretty hard hits from the independent
press for their turbulent and rowdy habits
But the hazing difficulties that lately occurred
at Williston Seminary, Massachusetts. must
win popular sympathy to the side of the boys
of that school, although the hazing in this
case was much more serious being directed
against the principal of the school.
Williston Seminary, which is situated at
Easthampton, contains nearly two hundred
boys. Between these boys and the girls Of
the neighborhood the most friendly, If not
warmer, feelings have always existed. AS
might be expected, picnics, balls and all such
festivities are very frequent These little
celebrations interfered, Of course, good deal
with the discipline Of the school; the boys
began to devote more time to the girls than
to geometry, and soon become more proficient
in flirting than in French.
Several efforts were made by the principal
to stop this. Picnics were prohibited by him,
balls denounced, and dancing mathematical
All these efforts. however, proved Intellectual,
vain and impotent; and. as final resort, the
principal promulgated an order prohibiting
the boys of the school from associating with
girls at all.
Here the storm burst. This tyrannical
order, this invasion of the dearest rights and
privileges of American boys. produced per-
feet revolution. The principals residence
was painted hundred colors by his enraged
scholars, and he was Kissed and hooted on
the streets He attempted to retaliate but
this attempt raised worse storm The boys
grew desperate, threatened to haze him, and
finally compelled him to keep within his
house, guarded by the police in order to avoid
personal injury. Instead of the trouble quiet
ing down, it grew worse with every week, and
a vacation was finally ordered to allow the
boys to go home and cool off.
Thus the fight is ended with the complete
defeat of that tyrannical principal. The boys
certainly deserve sympathy for their manly
fight in defense of the noblest right that men
or boys possess-that of making love to the
girls
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THE AUDITORS CLAIM.
The True Inwardness of the Speakers
Protest.

The True Inwardness of the Speakers
Protest.
AUDITORS OFFICE,
New Orleans, April 20, 1878.
Editor Democrat publication in your
issue of the nineteenth instant of the protest
made by the Hon. Louis Bush In regard to my
compensation as Secretary OF the Board of Lii
quotation has very much surprised me, for, at
the earnest request of the Governor the pro-
test was withdrawn, thus deprlving me of the
opportunity to reply, and it was well under
stood that for the sake of harmony no publicity
should be given to it. The publication of the
protest and the subsequent articlein the Times
now renders reply imperative on my part.
therefore inclose the original reasons assigned
by Mr.. Bush, together with the reply had
intended to Make had not his withdrawal of
the protest rendered it impossible for me to
do so In the board. | should have remained
silent had it not been for this publication; but
am unwilling that my position and motives
should be misconstrued.
Very respectfully,
ALLEN JUMEL
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The illustrated papers have hardly exag-
gerated the rush made by the various States OF
Europe for remnants and portions of poor
Turkey. This, perhaps, is natural; perhaps
It liz well that the Ottoman rule should be
extinguished altogether from Europe but at
the same time it would look far better II the
European powers could get up better ex-
cuses for their little attempts Of petty lar
ceny.
a. Italy, for instance, now comes In as another
heir to the "sick man" and lays claim to
Tunis.
The Giornale dele Cotonic has lately been
reviewing Italys claims 10 Tunis, and
there is no denying that these claims
are extremely weak. II thinks that the
fact that on clear and fair days Tunis
is visible from the shores OF Italy, is
scarcely sufficient ground for SELLING that
prineipalty. Italys claims rest on much
firmer and better foundation. More than
twenty centuries ago Rome possessed Tunis,
then Carthage, as a province. From these
dominions the Romans were driven by the
Saracens, the predecessors of the Turks
Now, asks the Giornate. would not Italy be
Justified in driving out the Turks and re-
occupying what was once her own territory!
1t is plain that the European powers have
not degenerated since the days when Fred
erick the Great concocted his claim to Silesia,
and that they experience no difficulty or
trouble in the world in laying claim to any
particular territory which they have deter
mined to have.
Esop's story of the wolf and the lamb falls
far short of doing justice to Italy's demand
for Tunis
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other hand, that even when the authorities
are given months and months for preparation
they can make but little Roadway against
such movement
Altogether, the alternatives offered by Megy
and his friends are not at all pleasant. The
government must be handed over bodily to the
workingmen- whoever these be-or revolu-
tion must come. Mob rule or revolution
Megy offers us. Which shall 1t be
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The "Old Harlot."
IOuachita Telegraph. !

Capt Renwick. on taking the chair at the
club. meeting Wednesday, made some very
forcible remarks He hit the nail square on
the head when he said that the trouble among
the Democrats In this State arose from the
attempt of certain members of the Legisla-
ture to make their individual opinions the
most apt metaphor when he called the consti-
tuition of 1868 an old harlot, with all her filth
and stencil about her, and compared the
amendments to eighteen spangles and rib
bons with which the Legislature has dressed
up the old harlot in order to deceive and cor
rupt the people.
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NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

OFFICE STATE TAX COLLECTOR, J
First District, Al Carondelet street. !
New Orleans, April Is, 1878. }
In accordance with the requirements of law
and instructions list of all DELINQUENTS
FOR STATE LICENSE and tax on PERSONAL
PROPERTY will be delivered to the Assistant
Attorney General for suit on the arst of May
proximo. ALI persons who are indebted to the
State for above taxes or licenses for 1873 or for
the year 1877. are requested to settle forthwith
and avoid court costs. All delinquent licenses
or taxes for said years can be paid prior to suit
without interest or penalties.
E. A. BURKE.
ap16 Tu Su Tax Collector First District.
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TO THE VOTERS OF TIE PARISH OF
ORLEANS.

The office Of the Registrar of Voters for the
parish of Orleans will be open daily from 10
o'clock a. M until O'Clock D. M. from MAY /.
1878.
Voters are earnestly requested to secure their
registration papers without delay. Office in
State House. Royal street side.
apis tmy1 10 LANDRY REGISTRAR
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succession OF Adele NJ. Roberts.

GECOND DISTRICr COURT FOR THE PAR
~ ish of Orleans. No. 30 .231-Notce Is hereby
given to the creditors of this estate and to all
other persons herein intere ted to show cause
within ten days from the present notification. If
any they have or can, why the amended and sup
tiatrtx Of this estate. on the seventeenth of
April, 1873 should not be approved and homol-
ogated, and the funds distributed in accord
anne herewith.
By order Of the court.
ap2I IS 3O* JOHN HERBERT, Clerk.
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TO SECTIONS OF CEMETERIES.

The attention of the sections of the different
cemeteries In the parish of Orleans is called to
section 10 OF the registration law. requiring q
monthly record OF all male adults inferred in
their respective cemeteries.
Hereafter the law relating to the above will be
strictly enforced.
apis tmyl J. 0. LANDRY, Registrar.
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FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY, LOUIS
lana NATIONAL GUARD.
AT THE FAIR GROUNDS,
On Saturday and Sunday, May IL and T..

There will be three prizes offered to ticket
each day; Horse Running Race one mile heats
one mile: Mule Running Race. mile heats best
two ia thr o; Foot Il c. one mile open to all;
lbo yards Foot Race, open to all; 100 Yards Foot
Race for NeWsboys only. There will be Dress
Parade. Inspection and Review of the Regiment
each day. on the grounds There will be a Com
peitiye Din open to all uniformed military
organizations. and TO consist of not less than
thirty five or forty men, aud all to be bona lde
members OF the com rand to which they may
be attached on that day. There will be Grand
Pail on the platf RIM each evening. where the
strictest order and decorum will be maintained,
and Mt which Their. Will be a suitable prize
awarded to the best ,dy dancer.
COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS.
Major THOS. MCINTYRE, Chairman,
Capt. M. G. hayes, Capt A. M Aucoin,
Capt. 3. J. Goodman. CAPT Cab. Fernandez,
Capt. @ G. O9dsn, CAN'T. Cleo. H. Lord
Capt. W. II. Manning. Opt c. G Cain,
AdJutant II. Guy Carlton.
Further particulars in regar q to games. sports
ments and posters. which will be published in
few days
Tickets NAV be had from any of the officers or
members Of he command and at the principal
stores and saloons.
Privileges for keeping bars. beer saloons,
restaurants soda water. cakes, ice cream, fly
ing horses, shooting gal"ry. pop corn. ETC..
will be sold ut tublc auction, on the grounds,
on MONDAY. May 6, ~ o'clock.
Tickets, so cents. Ladies' and children free.
ap2 1t
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disappearing the ouachita Democracy
tOuachita Telegraph

Some one sent dispatch to New Orleans
from this place in reference to the meeting to
nominate candidate for Mayor, and repre-
sented that the first effort made in opposi-
ton to the Nichols government was
defeated. Was it a bondholder, a smart
Aleck. or dam phool who used the wires for
the purpose of disappearing good and
true Democrats of this city?
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HALFWAY HOUSE GARDEN,

At the junction Of Metairie Road and'New Canal
Parties who desire to give PICNICS can rent
this pleasant garden. with large shady platform
and sheds. on reasonable terms. The City Rail-
road cars on Canal street will make special ar
rangements for carving parties. Inquire at
the place, or No. "a Exchange Alley.
nh23 w Sa Su Inf
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THE SISTERS OF CHARITY
OF SIT. sTMEON'S SCHOOL

A RE HAPPY TO INFORM THEIR PATRONS
"A and friends that, after having made some
repairs and improvements In their buildings
they are prepared to receive few young lady
boarders AZ only limited number can be- &C.
commodated. applications should be made as
early as possible. The Boarding School will
open on the I'd of January, 1873. For terms, ap.
plication can be made at st. Simaon's School
i31 Annunciation street. de2S tt