The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-13
RREvlTEEs.

Information was received last evening that
Mr., Potter, chairman of the investigating
committee, would be here on Monday or
Tuesday next.
The st. Aloysius Dramatic Club will give
grand entertainment tonight and Sunday
night, thirteenth and fourteenth, at the Holy
Trinity Hall, corner of st. Ferdinand and
Royal streets, Third District.
Postmaster Parker has letter from Post
master Miller, at Morgan City, which states
that the mails for Texas arrive and depart
from there regularly now on tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
Quite collection OF country Republicans
were gathered In and around the Custom
House building yesterday. Rumor has it that
some of them have been sent for as witnesses
to appear before the subcommittee.
Since the arrival of some of the leading
lights from Washington it is astonishing to
see how eagerly the average Hayes eleCtOr
cOngregates about the Custom-House. No
less than four were there at one time yester
day.
The scaffolding erected in the main entrance
to the Custom House building for a number
of years is at last being torn down, in order
no doubt to give the pigeons and doves that
flock there an opportunity to r00st on that
double and twisted patent Bogardus Kicker
Centrifugal Break-neCk Iron stairway.
Tt was said by one of his friends in the
Custom House yesterday that the Surveyors
illness was caused by too free indulgence in
a. favOrite dish-bOiled cabbage-and a by
stander remarked, facetiously, that it had not
yet been fully seasoned by the Potter COM
mittee cooks,
The total receipts at the United States sub
treasury yesterday were S59,6l4 68, as fol-
lows: Customs (cOin), 1897 O5; internal reve-
nue., $1485 As; semi-annual duty, S2l46 a. !;
account of per cent bonds, $5O00 PostOffice
Department $500; account OF per cent
fund $12, 500.
The United States District Attorney has re-
ceived and transmitted to the Attorney Gen
eral Of the United States the ordinance
adopted on Tuesday last by, the City Council
States government 1t is expected that the
Attorney General will give his opinion that
this forfeiture will be sufficient, and will dt-
rect the District Attorney here to inquire
into or examine as to the title Of the property,
| and that being satisfactory a deed will be
made by the city to the government, when
the Secretary of the Treasury will order work
to begin at the Mint.
| The clock in the State-House struck one
yesterday just as the mechanic who was ex-
amining 1t found why 1t would not work. A
| former mechanic, it seems, who had charge
| Of the clock under the Republican regime
got his back up because portion OF his bill
was not paid, and to get even placed IN the
cogs of one Of the wheels small steel plugs
and fastened them in sOlidly with wax III sucf
a manner that it took some time to find the
trouble. The boys about the State-Houst
J want a standard to set their XXX CnrOnOme
ters by, but they don't care about liqutdatInG
any past Indebtedness incurred by the Re
publican administration.
Several gentlemen, including Messrs
Schneider Kennedy and Iegler, of the New
Orleans Pacific Railroad directory, callet
upon Gov Nichols yesterday for the purpOs
of a consultation regarding the bonds to b
issued. From the conversation it would ap
pear that the company is perfectly satistie
with the recent decision of the Suprem
Court, and thought that the bonds whe
, issued In strict conformity with the decisio
and with the Governors views would be eve
, more valuable as an investment. The gentle
men did not conclude their consultation, bu
, are to do so early next week, and the resuI
, may be that new bonds will be printed an
submitted to the Governor and State official
for their signatures.