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The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
CUSTOM-HOUSR NOTES,

Surveyor Wells expects to leave Washing
ton to-day, and expects to be here on the
tenth instant.
Special Agent Adams left for Washington
yesterday, having wound up the log matters
here.
terday was to the effect that G. W. McKenna,
of Shreveport, was nominated yesterday by
the President as postmaster at Shreveport.
The total deposits at the Sub b-Treasury yes
tcrday were $1S631 49, as follows: Gold
$2671 95. internal revenue $2950 O8, Postof1ice
Department $l0S00
The average pensioner and pensiOneress
are now receiving their quarterly installments
at the hands of Pension Agent McMillen
whose Office is crowded daily.
Ex-COngreSsman DarraIl left for Washing
ton Wednesday night. He knows considerable
about the AndcrsOn-MatthewS correspond
ence, and will be called upon to testify when
he gets there.
One of Mr.. Pitkn's friends said Yesterday
that he would, when he went to Washington
tell all he knew about the Hayes Presidency
fraud, COncealing nothing, not even q de-
ciphering Of the funny kilograms.
Consul Packard, who was at the Custom
House yesterday, states that his business
will not permit him to leave for Washington
in answer to the subpoena from the Potter
committee for several days yet Mr.. Ptkin,
who was also subpUnaed, will not perhaps go
before Sunday
Special Deputy Thomas C. Anderson says
the DEMOCRATS Washington correspondent
is "off' in his statement that it was by bar
gaining he escaped. He says he would not
have accepted pardon under any cOnsidera-
tiOn had the verdict been guilty; but he
didn't say anything about the Lottery Com
pany getting control Of the Legislature.
1t was rumorcd about the granite building
yesterday that Mrs. jerks, the lady spoken
of in the Anderson testimony, was to leave
for Washington on last nights train; and
another rumOr was to the effect that she had
called once or twice. since receiving the tele-
graphic subpoena upon Postmaster Parker
for advice.
E. l.. Weber, Esq, ex-State Senator of East
Feliciana, and brother of the Weber spoken
Of in the Anderson testimony, was in the city
yesterday, and was to have left for Washing
ton last night. He will, it is said, corrobOrate
to great extent the testimony already given
by Anderson, and may shed some new light
upon the manner in which polls 2, 3, 4, 5, 9
and 10 OF West Feliciana parish numbering
lilo Democratic and 154 Republican votes,
We're rejected by the Returning Board in 1876.
He may tell, too how all the votes of the
parish of East Feliciana, numbering 1876,
+AI
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07

tioner prays that the board be ordered to
fund six certain warrants held by him.
Board Of School Directors Of the parish Of
Pointe Coupee VS.. J. Mathers ct als.-Peti
tiOner pray8 for writ Of Injunction enioining
mandamus directing the Auditor Of Public
Accounts to i8sue his warrant in favor of re-
latOr for $1160 70 against similar amount
appOrtiOned by the parish for school pur-
the legal owner Of the claim above mentioned.
John W Cannon vs.. City Of New Orleans
and Recorder Of Mortgages for the parish Of
Orle ms. John W. Cannon, lessee OF the "Poy-
tens and udgment rac6rded ss against ga Hs said aid
asylum be erased and cancelled from the
books, rs said property is by law exempt
from taxation
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07

this bill which had not appeared in any Other
deficiency bill, because of decision of the
Secretary Of the Treasury, that what were
Formerly regarded as permanent apprOpria.
tions had to be covered into the treasury al
the close Of the fiscal year. Under this de-
CsiOn there was therefore. added $685. 1870 81
TO the gross amount. He then proceeded to
explain the bill at length.
Mr.. Herbert, Of Alabama, obtained the
floor and said that he did not propose to
discuss the pending bill, but would speak in Op-
position TO the bill to construct the Texas Pa
CitiC Railroad. He opposed 1t because it would
not benefit any State east of the Mississippi
Mr., WcIles of New York, defended the
items In the deficiency bill to pay naval con
tractors As chairman of the Committee on
Expenditures in the Navy Department, he
had found tho contracts proper, and the bills
jnstly due
Mr. CIymer, of Pennsylvania, referred TO
the fact that n large item Of this deficiency
bill WAS deficiency for the pay of the navy.
That WAS not due to the present management
of the Department., but to corrupt manage
mcnt under n late administration. The
money had been expended without authority
of law. The appropriations had been used
for other purposes, but it was deficiency
The money was due, and Congress must
pay it.
Mr.. Whitthorne, chairman of tho Commit
tee on Naval Affairs, opposed the claims. and
made n severe attack upon the administers
tion Of the navy department under Secretary
ROhCSOn.
Pending further consideration the commit
tee rOse and all general debate was closed by
order of tho House.
On motion of Mr. Sampson, of Iowa. the
Senate bill to provide for times and places
for holding the United States Circuit and
District Courts IN Iowa, was then taken from
the Speakers table and referred to the Com
mttee on the Judiciary.
The House then, at 55 p. m, adjourned.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
COTTON EXCHANGE.
Resolutions Passed and Action Taken b5
the Board Of Directors.

The board Of directors of the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange hold their regular monthly
meeting on the evening of the fifth instant,
and took tho following action:
RECARDING COTTON PRESS CHARGES. ETC
On motion it was resolved to expungo all
that part of rule II, beginning at the bottom
of page 81. with the words "the following
tariff" and ending on page 80 with the words
extra iron bands 12lac each"
THE EADs JETTY CONTRACTS.
In relation to n petition asking for the pas
sage Of resolutions approving the bill now be-
fore the United States Senate for modification
Of the lefty act, it was
RcsOLred, That our delegation in Congress
be requested to advocate such notifications
in Capt. Eads' contract as will secure tC his
company earlier payments than are now pro-
vided for; but, that we decline expressing any
opinion as to the advsabity Of any m0dff-
cation in the law regarding the extent Of the
jetty works.
In compliance with II communication
from the Board Of Undriterwers the
president was authorized and requested
10 appoint committee Of three to
confer with committees from the Board Of
Underwriters and Chamber Of Commerce,
upon the prOprioty OF establishing maximum
rate Of forced charges on vessels and their
CargOes in distress at this port, to find some
just method Of fixing the insurance valuation
Of cotton from the INTERIOR and TO recon-
mend some uniform mode Of settlement of
cotton losses by river.
Concerning the iron tie patents it was re-
solved that our delegates in Congress be rp-
questcd to use their influence to prevent the
extension of any patents on cotton bale ties.
It WIS also resolved that from and after the
tenth instant the Exchange rooms he closed
daily Mt p. M, Saturdays excepted, and on
Saturdays at 3:30 p. m.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
BILLIARDS,
Sexton and Sshaefrr Matched tor a $4,000
Game.

letter received yesterday by Joe Walker,
Esq Of the Crescent Billiard Hal1, from
Sexton, she billarhst, states that match
for $1,000 a side has been made between him
self and 8chaefer, 1000 points up and three
games, one to be played each in Chicago,
New York and st. LOuis.
In the toss for choice Of place for the first
game and cushion Sexton won, and selected
The games (Shrec) are to be PLAYED thirty
days apart, the first to take place about tbs
thirteenth of } ally, and the first man making
the 5000 points 70 win.
Sections friends here feel confident that he
Will come out victorious and for that reason
will, if opportunity offers, place their money
Oh him.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
GEORGE w. DUNBAR.

Yesterday evening an imposing cortege Cf
friends followed to the grave the rt main ,
Of George W. Dunbar, one Of our most
esteemed citizens. Mr.. Dunbar was six
ty-two years old at the time of lis
death, and much beloved by those who
knew him. He leaves family whose mem
name which he has bequeathed them. He
was a man of great enterprise and indOmita-
bic energy withal kind and patient in a man
ner that made him friends wherever he went
We tender our sincere coincidence to the be-
reaved family.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
,vits and writs to the contrary notwith

davits and writs to the contrary notwith-
standing.
From all sides we gather the news that the
flush old times" OF the Louisiana Lottery
are gone. From every district comes the in
telligence that the lottery dealers sales have
diminished SO greatly since the stand taken
by the DEMOCRAT that the hard working men
who perforce are compelled to peddle lottery
Where once they did n brisk and thriving
trade, now only solitary purchasers drop in
now and then, and the profits scarcely pay for
office rent. Already two Offices have closed
their doors, ono on Commercial Alley, once q
most prosperous place; the other on Ghartrcs
street, between Bienyile and Cont.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07

dreams Of beauty seen through lattice leaves.
! J ne plays chosen were HazewoOd's drama Of
Jessie We're" and Shelby's Robert Macaire."
honoirs, well supported for amateurs by the
cast from the association. Miss Sadie Vivian,
EuCh Conway and Emma Doyle merted the
applause their efforts drew forth The late
IT'sS of the hour at which we write precludes
more particular mention,
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
CAPITOL NOTES,

The clock on the St Louis street side of the
State, House is out of repair again, and has
been for weeks.
Commissions were issued yesterday to the
following elected trustees of the town of New
Iberia. parish of Iberia: Numa Hacker, John
Fisher, Syraphjn Boudreaux, J. Coll. Albert
Denis, VIM. SOuthweIl and J. l.. Burke.
The Governor has referred to the Attorney
General for examination the papers, records,
etc. which have bearing upon the issuance
OF the New Orleans Pacific Railroad bonds,
and will issue the bonds when he receives a
favorable report from that official
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
CONGRATULATORY.

The following telegram was received yes
terday by Mayor Pilsbury:
New York, June 6, 1873.
Hon. E. Pi'sbury Mayor of New Orleans:
congratulate our people on the passage Of
the Brazilian steamship bill. Outlook in
House favorable. Tuesday evening I was
suddenly summoned to New York by my
family. 1t is needless to say that upon a
measure l introduced, and for which have
assiduOusly labOred, | was paired with Sen
atOr Mcpherson. JAS. 3. EUSTIS.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
THE sOUrHtRN DRAM4TECs.

Last evening the Varieties Theatre was
filed to overlooking with a very select audi
ence, gathered to greet the Southern Dra-
matte Club in its first entertainment for this
year. The orchestra chairs and dress circle
were one garden Of h+auty, and in the tlutter
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
FETE CHAMPETRE.

Those who had the good fortune to be
present at the Carrollton Gardens last even
ing on the occasion of the benefit Of the La
dies Aid Society of Calvary Church, ought to
have thoroughly enjoyed themselves, for the
ladies gave such temptations as could hardly
have been refused. Tonight the fete goes on.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
A Late Alarm.

At midnight the ruins about the elevator of
the building, No. 141 North Peters street,
again took fire, and an alarm was turned
from the American District Telegraph, which
was promptly responded to by the salvage
corps and the Rampant street Babcock en-
gine, which extinguished the flames.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
FOURTH DISTRICT COURT.

State ex rel. S. H. Davis, Jr., VS.. Z. A.
Burke, State tax colIector-Suit to compel
by mandamuS the tax collector to change and
write in due form a certain tax receipt for
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07

Washington Artillery Band supplies the
music at he Fete Champetre. Carr0lton GAR
4ens "Wednesday. Thursday, Friday and Satura
day eYeQipsss
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07

Thomas L. Bond, the snake and alligator
fancpT, who Was bitten few days ago by a
Hospital yesterday evening. He was still
under the influence Of whisky and opium and
was resting easily. The swelling Of his arms
has gone down considerably.
+abf I ECON c9EeT5@ton YIN W. DE- Niles t7e aS9
that there was no danger Of BOnI's death {;
thatby this time his blood must be thoroughly
impregnated with snake poison, he: having
been bitten so many times by these reptiles
his Injuries.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07

Old and pure California wines and Frank
FAhr's Louisville cream beer at low prices at
Miller & Die.mann's.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07

The popular verdict of the TRAVELLING public is
that the OOlOnna te Hotel. Philadel uhla. cannot
he -xcelled by any other house in the Quake I
City
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07

Read advertisement Of Fete Champetre. Car.
rOl!top Gardens.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07
SECOND DISTRICT COURT.


The successiOns Of Benedict Simon and Jean
Davezac have been opened.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-06-07

Al! ri the delica"ies and suOstantials Of the
cuisine at less than city prices at the Fete
Champetre. Carroll on Gardens.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-07

ton extending thanks Of Congress to Henry
N. Stanley, explorer of Central Africa, and
it was unanimously agreed to. Mr.. Maxey
called up the Senate bill appropriating
5000, 900 for the erection of suitable posts
for the protection Of the Rio Grande
frontier, and it was passed. At the expir-
alton of the m rning hour C nsider-
at. n was resumed If the silver bill.
Certain amendments were offered and
ordered printed. After some discussion,
on motion of Mr.. Bayard, further considera.
ion of the silver bill was postponed, until
Monday next, with the understanding that
the debate should then be resumed. and con.
tinued from day to day until a vote shall be
reached. The gold resolutions of the Maine
Legislature were presented by Mr.. Hamlin,
and laid on the table. Mr.. Voorhees, pre-.
scented a petition from James D. Williams,
Governor of Indiana, praying for an appro.
priation for the payment to the States Of In
diana, Pennsylvania. New York, Vermont,
and other states in like condition, the I'M
paid balances of actual expenses incurred
by them respectively for enrolling, equip.
ping, and supplying troops to aid in the
suppression of the rebellion. Referred .........
House-Little business of Importance was
transacted. Three reports were made in the
case of Pachsco, the sitting member, whose
seat is contested by Wigginton, which were
tuCIC PIlnbCu Al SOh1hilbpCO " Lie
Whole the Military Academy Appropria-
ton Bill was discussed, but the Committee
rose without taking any action.
FEBRUARY 1.-House-No business Of i'm.
portance was transacted. The time was
occupied in discussing aquestion of priv.
ilege raised by Mr.. Baker, of Indiana, in
which he stated certain grave, if not Grim.
inal charges, had been brought againt the
doorkeeper of the House, requiring investi-
cation. Mr.. Baker then had read at the
Clerks desk the afidavits referred to. The
first one was st2ned by Ingram Coryell,
charging that Polk, the doorkeeper, was in.
terested in the bills before Congress, and
had promised him an interest in them in
consideration Of his resignlng his position
as Clerk. The second statement was signed
by. Mr. Mark A. Duffy, Assistant Superin.
tendent of the Document.room, making
substantially the same charges, and declar.
ing Mr.. Polk had told him that he had q
corner upon Congress in the way of ap'
pointments, and that he could get the Com
mittee on Accounts to do anything for him
After discussion, the matter was referred tc
the Committee N Reform for Investigation
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-07
The Rland Silver Rill.

IAN act to authorize the free coinage of the standard
silver dollar, and to restore the legal-tender char
acter.g
"Be it enacted, etc., that there shall be
coined, at the several minis of the United
States, silver dollars of the weight of four
hundred and twelve and a half grains Troy
of standard silver, as provided in the act of
January 1S, 1887, on which shall be the
devices and superscriptions provided by
said act, which coins, together with all
silver dollars heretofore coined by the
United States of like weight and fneness,
sh II be a legal tender, at their
nominal value, for all debts and
dues, public and private, except where other
wise provided by contract; and any owner
of silver bullion may deposit the same at
any United States coinage mint or assay
office, to be coined into such dollars, for his
benefit, upon the same terms and conditions
as gold bullion is deposited for coinage u n
der existing laws.] And the Secretary OF
the Treasury is authorized and directed, out
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, to purchase, from time to
time, silver blu lion at the market price
thereof; not less than two million dollars
per month, nor more than four million dol.
lars per month, and cause the same to be
coined into such do lars. And any gain OIL
signiorage arising from this coinage shall
be accounted for and paid into the Treasury
as provided under existing laws relative to
the subsidiary coinage; provided, that the
amount of money at any one time invested
in such silver bullion, exclusive of such re
sulting coin, shall not exceed five million
dOllars,D
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-07
The South.

Three members of the Louisiana Return
ing Board, under information for felony,
forfeited their recognizances, and were ar
rested by the Sheriff on January 26. They
took shelter in the Custom.house to avoid
arrest, and the Sheriff, doubling his author
ity to execute the witt in that building,
wrote a letter to the Attorney-General of
the United States asking for advice. Under
instructions from Washington the three
members surrendered-J. Madison Wells,
Thomas C. Anderson and L. NJ. Kenner.
Some wretch placed a bar of iron on the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis Rail.
way track nine miles out from Nashville the
other night, running the freight train of,
crushing eight freight cars, four of VIII oh
contained Kentucky mules bound fol-
Atlanta. An oil tank next to the tender
burst, letting out eight tons of oil, which
ignited from the fire box of the locomotive
and burned seven cars, including four stocB
cars, cremating forty animals. Two cars o
bacon but added fuel, making the fire SO no
that the animals could not be succored
Engineer Morris Kane was badly cut in tn,
head. Fireman Lucas was slightly injured
Loss to the company, twenty-five thousand
dollars.
A jury was impaneled at New Orleans, OIL
the 10Th of January, in the case of the tire
members of the Returning Board and Il
case proceeded to trial.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-07
Sitting Bull-The Runners of His In
yasiOn of the United States.

The following dispatch has been received
through General T, try, commanding The de-
partment of Dakota:
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE YELLOWSTONE,
FoRT hEOGH, NJ. 1 Jan. %.
"To the Assistant Adjutant General, Department Of
Dakota, 81. Paul:
Quit a large b md of Indians from the
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies crossed
ths Yellowstone at the mouth of Cabin
Creek, December %. Reliable information
reports Sitti 6 Bulls camp as five hundred
lodges at Woody Mountain December 80;
also, that almost daily additions of Indians
from he agencies above named have been
received, one party consisting of one hum
dred warriors. Indications show t at the
camp was making preparations to move
south. In addition to the large camp above
named, many lodges of hostile Indians were
camped beside Live Rock and Frenchman's
Creek. The previous report of Sitting Bull
having been on this side is confirmed. The
order from the Adjutant Generals Office,
regarding recruits for field infantry, is re.
eeived. I would recommend that they ba
fully armed and equipped, furnished with
government transportation, and sent under
the charge of the officers of the regiment
now East via the Stanley trail to this place.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-07

AN anecdote is told Of Driesbach, the
once famous lion tanner, who died on his
farm in Ohio a few days ago, agtd sew
enty, a poor but coLtented man. At an
exhibition given in New York twenty
years ago, he was taken out of the cage
covered with blood, and apparently
dreadfully injured, after a eyere fight
with q tiger. The audirn nee shrieked,
and much horror was expressed. For a
fortnight afterward Driesbach appeared
with his arm in a sling and his face
covered with bits of plaster. Then il
leaked out that his wounds were imagin.
airy; the gore had come from a sponge
filled with r%ose-pink, and the whole per.
Torrance was nothing but a clever piece
of advertising.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-07
mytbs are but symbo,. Of Truth.

As the scholar sees in the vain but beauti-
full ~mythologies of the a~ncients the embodied
expressions of the hungry human soul,
blindly cropping after the Infinite, so the
physician sees in that popular myth of the
sixteenth century the fountain of perpetual
health and youth-an expression of the
longings of suffering humanity for a remedy
that should forever preventive incursion of
disease. The wilds of Europe were ran
sacked for this wonderful fountain, and
Ponce de Leon sought for it in the cypress.
swampsa and tangled everglades of our sunny
Florida. Men have searched for it every
where and anywhere but where it really is
in the human body itself. The blood is the
real fountain of perpetual health and youth.
When this source is corrupted, the painful
and sorrow-producing effects are visible in
many shapes. The multifarious forms in
which it manifests itself would form SUBJ
jects upon which I might write volumes.
But as all the varied forms Of disease which
| depend upon bad blood are cured, or best
treated, by such medicines as take up from
this fuid and excrete from the system the
noxious elements, it is not of practical i'm.
portance that l should describe each. For
instance, medical authors describe about
fifty varieties of skin disease, but as they
all require for their cure very similar treat
ment, it is of no practical utility to know
just what name 10 apply 10 . certain Iorm oi
skin disease, SO you know how best to cure
it. Then again, l might go on and describe
various kinds of %scrofulous sores, fever
sores, white s~wellings, enlarged glands, and
ulcers of varying appearance; might de.
scribe how virulent poison may show itself
in varisus forms of eruptions, ulcers, sore
throat, bony tumors, etc.; but as all these
various-appearing manifestations of bad
blood are cured by a uniform means, | deem
such a course unnecessary. Thoroughly
cleanse the blood, which is the great foun.
tain Of life, and good digestion, a fair skin,
buoyant spirits, vital strength, and sound,
ness of constitution, will all return to us.
For this purpose DR.. Pierce's Golden Med.
ical Discovery and Purgative Pellets are pre-
e%minently the articles needed. They are
warranted to cure letter, saltrbeum, scaid
head, st. Anthony's fire, rose rash or cry
sipelas, ring-worms, pimples, blotches, spsts,
eruptions, pustules, boils, carbuncles, sore
eyes, rough skin, scurf, scrofulsus sores and
swellings, fever sores, white swellings, tn,
mors, old sores or swellings. affections oil
the ski, throat and benes, and ulcers of the
liver, stomach, kidneys, and lungs.