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The New York herald., 1878-02-05

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345 and 3f7 Broadway.
The New York herald., 1878-02-05

Goverumcn; bonds declined from e to y to-day,
md were generally weak until the cad of business.
when they closed fairly steady at the following quota
The New York herald., 1878-02-05

Mercury in Chicago. 10 deg, above; clear. Wheat II
Chicago-Opening price, 81 OK, March.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22
THE NEW ORLEANS DEM 0OFAT THURSDAY AUGUST ~ 1878

this question have been gradually a5similated,
until to-day the law controlling divorces is the
same III all save o very few States.
A similarity In State laws affecting com-
merce is far more necessary. After Septem-
ber the States will probably enact separate
bankrupt laws. Unless harmony and COM
mon spirit are shown In the legislation on
this point, the commerce and business OF this
country will sustain serious shock. There
Is no question OF States rights here. The
Federal government has resigned the control
Of bankrupts and bankruptcy proceedings to
the States. and 1t bellooves the States now to
exercise this power properly and reasonably.
II any State passes such laws on this subject
as will enable Its citizens to swindle their
creditors In other States instead of obtaining
any benefit or advantage thereby, 1t will only
destroy its credit and business. Let us have
as much similarity In our commercial legisla-
tion as possible.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22
THE CONTRACT SYSTEM.

The proceedings Of the City Council, printed
In the DEMOCRAT yesterday, show that the
contract system, which we advocated at the
time Of It's proposed adoption, has worked
admirably. The Administrator of Improve
mcnts has obstinately fought that system
and any failure OF 1t to meet public expecta-
tion must be attributed TO his indisposition tc
make It q complete and convincing sue
cess.
1t Ia never prudent or wise to intrust the
execution 1T q measure, or plan, or policy, tc
The hands Of those who have opposed Its
adoption. There is II great deal of human
nature III men. and a man who has opposed
fought and protested, In the face Of whole
community, against any given policy, and who
Is an asprant for renewed public favor, will
not, except whore he is u man Of superhumall
virtue, do anything to make that policy or
plan q success. On the contrary all OF his
pride Of opinion; all OF his vanity; all
Of his sefishness; all of his desire to dis
comiit his opponents; ell Of his eagerness to
vauntingly exclaim before his admiring fol
lowers 81 told you So" will prompt him, in
so far as the carrying out Of the policy is
committed to his hands, to make 1t a failure.
1t is the height of unwisdom, therefore to
commit the execution of a plan to the hands
of a man who has pronounced himself an op-
ponent Of that plan and who has fought to
defeat It's Inauguration.
Hence we hold that the contract system,
under the charge Of the present Adminstra-
tor Of improvements, has not had fair
showing He was bitterly, nay, violently
opposed TO Its adoption. It's adoption largely
curtailed the patronage Of his Office and pre-
vented him from exercising the influence in
local politics he was very naturally ambitious
to exercise. It Is not reasonable therefore. to
suppose that he followed up the contractors
with that pertinacity and diligence which an
Administrator Interested in the policy would
have displayed. On the contrary, we find
him even depreciating the work that has been
done, and confessing his own incompetency
and failure as an Administrator in his eager
ness to convince the public that q grave
error WAS committed in curtailing the exorbi-
tant and dangerous patronage of the Ad-
ministrator of improvements.
We speak In no spirit of hostility to the
Administrator OF improvements. Our object
Is to call the attention of the public to the
fact, established in the Council yesterday
that, despite the hostility of the Administra-
tor of improvements, the contract system has
worked we'll, and that, under q vgilant, ener-
getic and determined official, believing in the
system and resolved to give the city the full
benefit of 1t by following up the con-
tractors and forcing them to do their full
duty, it will realize the highest expectations
of it's advocates.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22
GOVERNMENT INTERFERING UE.

One Of the most remarkable features of the
recent labor agtations Is the demand, almost
universal of those who have assumed the di-
rection of them and who claim 50 vociferous-
ly that they represent the people. for the ex-
pansion Of the domain Of government and the
increase of its powers. Yet the complaint Of
these same statesmen Is against rings and
monopolies, and the superior privileges and
vested rights with which capital is hedged
about like some divine thing, and by
which the sweat of the brow is sub
iected to an incalculable discount in
the scale of latter day economies. We
shall not endeavor to reconcile this most
palpabe contradiction, for it must strike any
rational human being of ordinary intelligence
that any effort to do SO must of necessity be
either insincere or the most delusive of So
phistry and special pleading.
It must be plain to any man of observation
that the very evils against which these agita-
tions are directed are the direct fruits of too
much law wmaking and law-enforcing; of the
too constant and universal interference of
governments with matters which should be
left to circumstances and the laws which
naturally grow out of them. It was the neces-
sity Of war which forced the Federal govern
mont to take hold Of the finances Of the cOun-
try and remove them from the domain OF
commerce, which originated our troubles, and
1t Is to the effort to keep up this policy that
the continued stringency Of our markets Is
chiefly attributable. TO this same idea OF
government intermeddling Is due all Of our
troubles. TO government interference, to ad-
ministration policies and legislation was
due the Credit 1fobitier, Black Friday. the
Freedman's Bank, the possibility of In
dian and whisky rings, and, when we
get down to State affairs, the infamous
Lottery swindle, the Slaughter-House
and the numerous other steals by which
the people have been robbed during the past
decade. ALI Of these inquities, to which all
Of the existing troubles may be traced di-
rectly, have arisen from the exercise, under
abnormal conditions, of governmental powers
limited by the most stringent constitutional
restrictions. Suppose these restrictions were
removed and the Communists and Socialists
had their will, who could calculate the re-
suits? With all these results Of over govern
ment staring us in the face, these Socialists
would have us believe that the people are
eager to relinquish their personal privileges,
their self-dependence and freedom, in order to
establish mechanical organism of society
in which every individual energy will be con-
served and applied to the universal
good. There Is something fascinating In this
idea to the stern theorist who maintains that
utility and not individual happiness is the
fundamental idea of human existence and
effort. BY this means you give to society the
method and precision Of machinery. Civil
life is governed by the discipline of a camp,
and, every individual being utilized, as the
ant in its community, there must be q grand
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22

aggregate of comfort that will leave none In
want or suffering. The same apology has
been made for slavery, and that IL precisely
what this tangled Communism would
lead to. 1t matters but little wheth-
Ell 1t Is the government that or
ders Its citizens. or the slave owner
who directs his slaves that utillzes the hu-
man being. the results are the same-the
absolute suppression Of the Individual and
the irresponsible power of the governing
agent. This idea, then, is this merest dream
of Utopia. It presumes O. purity, unseltish-
ness and philanthropy which rulers have
never had The complaint now Is of wrongs
which have grown out Of the abuse Of power,
and yet we are told that this power should be
greatly Increased and the temptations to en-
croach upon it indefinitely multiplied. Gov
ernment must extend Its domain, and direct
the Management Of all capital and exercise an
immediate supervision over all industry, aud
the social organism must become q mere
| machine.
This does not comport at all with tho re-
publican American idea OF government, or Of
the Importance Of self-assertlon on the part
Of the citizen. In America we believe that
self, just as fully and sincerely as we believe
that he has the rightso to do. All we ask Of
government Is to put no impedments In our
way. TO protect the weak against the unjust
oppression Of the strong, to establish certain
sanitary and police regulations and establish
81 certain process OF justice, exhaust
the powers of necessary government and
whatever goes beyond this Is gratuity that
may or may not be wise. The true American
asks no government assistance, but he be-
lieves not less In the dignity Of labor than In
that of personal freedom. He Is very jealous
Of power, and he Is quick to resent official in
terfelence In his private affairs. It the Idea
Of the Communists, Socialists, Labor party,
or whatever these agitators choose to call
themselves, were carried out, every third man
would be OH official, and we would encounter
this interference at every step.
What we need is not an increase of power
nor an extension Of the dominion OF govern
ment, but the restriction Of both. Let the
functions Of government be confined us nearly
as possible to the mere enforcement Of good
order and civil Justice, and Industry and com
merce, from which oil prosperity springs
will make laws for their own governance.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22
N He'd.

RILEY-On Wednesday evening. August ii.
1873, Of. O'clock. Samuel Rley, thirty three
years Of age, d native Of Liverpool, England.
His friends and acqualntauces, and those Of
his family. are respectfully invited to attend his
funeral, from his late residence. 375 ST. Peter
street. on Thursday Evening August %. at 4
o'clock.
HOPKINa--0n Wednesday, evening. August
81. 1878, at + o'clock John J. Hopkins. o native
ofthis city, aged twenty eight years.
His funeral will take place This tThursday)
Evening, ut O'Clock, from his late residence,
4o6 Bienville street. corner Of Galvez. His
friends and those Of the family are respectfully
Invited to attend without further notice.
FRIEDMANN-At Grenada, Miss. on Wednes-
day. August 2t, 1878, at O'Clock o. m. u. A.
Eriedmann. aged 81 years, and resident OF
New Orleans for the past ten years.
New York papers please copy.
GHEULING-On Tuesday August 2o 1878. nt
2:3o i. NJ, John J. Greuling, son Of Phi. Hreu-
ling and Eliza Shew, aged nine years aud ten
months.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22
A CARD.

Tho Washington News published the sudden
death Of my son John Z. Donnell on the thirty
first of July as o suicide. without any certain
evidence that cnn discover. All the facts hith-
erto authenticated by me go to prove that my
poor sons death was purely accidental. Mr..
Kirksey saw nothing unusual In his manner
that morning, He had Just written long,
businesslke and cheerful letter to me- and 1t is
now before me. postmarked washington, 31st
July" In 1t be says that the fever Is about los
ing its hold Of him. and he hopes to be at work
In q day or two. That such a horrible act as
suicide should Immediately follow such u let
ter, especially with 8 boy so gentle and happy,
is simply moral impossibilty. But were the
case otherwise. and was there even doubt ex-
istlng to my poor boys fate. the spirit Of fair
journalism might we'll give his memory the
benefit of that doubt.
W. s. DONNELL,
Strathroy, Ontario, Canada. August 15. 1878.
9t
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22

. The Montreal Post, the organ Of the Irish
Catholics of Canada. predicts that the con-
stant conflicts between the Orangomen and
Catholics of the Dominion will ultimately
produce civil war In that country. There is
certainly reason to dread and anticipate this.
5It was only few years ago that the anniver-
sary Of the battle Of the Boyne was first ceIc-
brated In Canada, yet In the short period
since that time there have been q score Or
more OF Orange riots. The Orangemen OF
Ganada seem more determined on a row than
their ancestors of Ireland. In that country
these party and religious difficulties and riots
were confined almost wholly to the anniver-
sary of "Boyne Water but the Canadian
Drangemen have discovered another Orange
anniversary to misunderstanding the
gates Of Derry 1t was in oommemoration
of this event that they paraded the streets of
OTTAWA the other day and inaugurated a
riot, in which several lives were lost and
much property destroyed. Itis probable that
they will be able, upon investigation to dis
cover several other Orange anniversaries OF
this kind to celebrate, SO that the Dominion
Spf Canada can enjoy riots every week. instead
of having them only once Il year. ''rhe
Orangemen," says the Post, challenge the
Catholics to fight and we fear fight twill be,
! AT the present moment 1t is impossible to say
who is to blame, nor, indeed, does it matter
much. for the feeling is SO intense on both
sides that the question OF blame appears to
\ he regarded as a secondary consideration
m Montreal, a Catholic city, the Orangemen
were badly beaten, while in the Protestant
city of Ottawa the Catholics were similarly
abused and injured AS the Protestants and
Catholics Of Canada are almost equal In
numbers the dangers the Post foresees of q
civil war. unless these riots can be prevented
. lin future, is not improbable.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22
NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST En-, Hsys'

The Democratic nominating conventions
have been extremely liberal to editors this
wear. Although but few Of these conventions
have vet been held, there is scarcely one OF
Them but has given at least one position on
the parish ticket to the press. Thus, in the
6trwenty4trst Senatorial District, Mr.. W. IL.
scanland. editor of the Bossier Banner, was
selected from number OF influential gentle
men 10 serve the district In the State Senate.
Tn Morehouse Judge Norwood, OF tho More
house Clarion, has been renominated for Parish
Judge; while in Assumption, Hon. L. i. X.
Dugas, Of the Pioneer, was unanimously
nominated for the House It Is evident that
tho people everywhere are In full sympathy
with the country press.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22

The ST. Louis Giobe-Democrat in noticing
the formation of the National Bar Associa-
tion at New York the other day, suggests
that 1t use it's influence In bringing about as
near an assimilation in the laws of the vari~
ous States as possible. OF course there are
radical differences existing between certain
States, their people, their customs. and their
ideas, that will necessitate similar differences
In their laws. The statutory legislation Of
Massachusetts would be il-suited as o
whole. to o Southern or far Western State.
AT the same time there are points upon which
1T would be we'll If the Legislation of the diff
ferent States We're similar; particularly is
this 50 of matters relating to commerce.
. A few years ago almost every State in the
Union had different and opposing laws upon
the subject of marriage and divorce. So
utterly irreconcilable and contradictory was
this legislation, that several States ignored
the judicial decisions of another State 1t
mas been customary in New York, for in
stance, TO deny the legality of q Utah divorce
and, we believe, even Indiana divorces were
mot wholly recognized. So inconyenient was
this divergence, that most of these States
found 1t wise to modify their legislation on
this subject, SO as to make it agree more with
1he statutes Of their sister States. Thus
these diVergencies Of the various States on
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22

W On the sixth instant an old and honored
citizen Of this State died in Mansfield, Tar
rant county, Texas. Mr. Henry Hinch was
for very many years q resident of st. Francis
VILE, In the parish of West Feliciana, where
ne raised large family and was universally
respected and beloved for his many noble
traits Of character. The peoplo,of that parish
will learn with sincere regret OF the death
of their old and honored fellow-citizen. Mr..
Hinch was an old-line Whig of
The strctest sect; but after the
war he allied himself with the Democracy
and became one of its truest and most earnest
supporters. Our old friend, at the time of his
death, must have been verging upon bis
aighteth year. He died at the residence of
his daughter Mrs. Sarah Wright He leaves
several daughters, amongst them Mrs. Ann
polkenhorn, of this city His wife, also far
advanced In years, survives him. Through Il
very long life Mr.. Hinch was always true
TO his duties as citizen and gentleman, and
we think he has passed away without leaving
an enemy behind him, though, In the old
parish where he lived SO long and well many
an eye will be dimmed with tears when this
notice is read there.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22
WAaONSI CANE CARTSy gPOKES !
E. n. SORTA.
ls and 40 Union and IR and IT perGiido
streets,

gole Agent for the celebrated "sTUDERA-
KER" WAGONS. CARTS and SPRING WORK
of all kinds and Sizes
Dealer In Philadelphia and Western Cane
Wagons, CARTS and Drays;. Timber Wheels
loes, Hubs. Shafts, eto Wheelwright material.
Orders promptly filled. All work warranted.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22

REGATTA REGATTA
AT BAY ST. LOUIS,
August Fl, 1878,
FOR THIRD AND FOURTH GLASS YACHTS.
Suitable prizes will be given.
All yachts Of those classes are cordially in
vited. au2O Tu Th Fr SUI
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-22
BODLEY BROTHERS

Have the most complete stock Of Cane Wagons.
Wheels. Cotton Wagons. Bagasse CARTS, Farm
Carts, Rice CARTS Small Carts of every size, four
and six sent Family Wagons. Spring Wagons
Hounds Wapon Material, Axle Grease. Cart
Boxes etc. We especially call attention to our
full-sized swpdged and hardened Axles Chilled
Boxes and extra ironing Of all our Carts md
Wagons. Manufactured In our own factories ut
Wheeling. ". Va, from the best material and by
skilled mechanics. we can give reliable
meet any competition and supply
the largest demand.
Epepot-I2g and t2O Common street.
flo5 nxt.1
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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-24

is TO connect Lake B0ignc with the gulf,
thus affording new mouth to TIC Mssis.
sippi. BY these means he argues the level
ofthc river will be lowered the current in
creased in rapidity, and the channel deep
ened. To do all this Mr.. Cowdcn wants an
appropriation Of only $l0,000,000 Aqusr.
ter Of million is to be paid down and the
balance in convenient installmcnts as the
work progresses. Mr. Cowdcn thinks the
lcvec system is ruinous and wastcfu, And
in this the Captain is not much out Of the
way. 1t would simply build up an elevated
water way, that would, in time, by the con
tinued deposits, place even the bed OF the
river above the surface of the land on either
side Of it, The bursting of levccs necessary
to contine such water course, would spread
ruin and desolation, along its entire length,
from Cairo to the gulf, In opposing the
leNtt System us SDlt lHeullo lbI tIlt dtlulU-
ment of the objects aimed at, the Captains
head is level" The people favor that sys-
TEN in so far rs it may serve as an auxilli-
airy Of thu jetty system; but no further Nor
are they in favor of Captain Cowlens sys-
ten. 1t amounts to but little more than n
theory. The success Of the jctty system has
been demonstrated. The people have con-
fdence in it, and look with distrust upon
movements that seek the application Of any
other Especially is this the case among
southern people, in so far rs Cowden's plan
is concerned. They declare that it is "a
job" and as such refuse to lend
it countenancc. The plan will be submitted
to congress, however, us Mr.. Young, Of
Tennessee has drawn a bill that covers it.
and will, at the earliest opportunity. ask
for an appropriation to carry it into effect.
The appropriation will be refused, of course,
and THAT, for time will be the last of
Cowden.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-24

THERE was rain storm during the re-
cent election in Boston, that kept over ten
thousand r publican voters away from tie
polls. The dainty, gaicHt.leathcr booted,
clo'h.coated Republican exQJiitcs Of II c
Hub" couldn't face a rain storm, even to
save the city from the awful clmity Of
democratic asc infancy! 1t was bad; and
since The Blaine committee is about to en-
ter upon an inquiry into election outrages.
why should not the Clerk G: the Weather
be held responsible for intimilating Boston
Republicans