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LOUISIANA.

fine rain here yesterday. Some damage
| IN sections near here by hail storrn4-lSbarfa
Times. - -
| The crops between the Ouachita and Rad
river are SAID TO present very favorable ar-
and seasOnabiy advanced.
| The Republican executive com rlittas nj fba
parish held private meeting here or Satr1r-
| day, but We believe the only thing dOr1e was
| general denunciation OF Pinchback.--IM M aIi~
son Journal
Two cars Of Texas wheat, the firstof the
season, were received here yesterday from
Dallas over the Texas and Pacific. and ger1.
through TO New Orleans on the steamer
Danube last night shreveport Times,
MIR. 7. i: Brown, president OF the Parish
Executive COMMITTEES, has called O mass meet
ing o. me @tlzens OF Bienville parish, to meet
az the courthouse, in Sparta, the f1st Mon
day In July, to elect delegates TO th0 Baton
Rouge Convention.
Crop prospects in this parish were never
better than at present. and II a flood of rain
doesn't come along when the sunshine ig
necessary, splendid crops Of corn, cotton, po-
totoes, ete, will be made throughout the par
ish. We hope for the best [Coushatta CT
lien.
a letter from Vernon parish friend informs
US that there has been too much rain for the
farmers on the Black Lands and that they
are somewhat behind with their evor,s hns1sg.
good yields OF cotton and corn. Health OE
the people good, and all solid fora constItu-
tional cOnVentton-l lNatchitoches YIndicatOr.
The Natebitoches HindtcdtoT, OF the eighth
instant, mentions the accidental and some
what singular death OF young. man named
Bond, from Baton Rouge, but employed "a a
guard at the convict camp on the New OrIeans
Pacific hne OF railroad. While exercising IN,
q horizontal bar he fell and disloeated his neck.
causing instant DEATH He was sevenfaers
years OF age, and much esteemed by his ern-.
ployers and comrades.
1t is now well ascertained; that the late.
storm has destroyed fully one-third Of the
whole perique crop OF st. James Excessive
drouth, followed by heavy rains. wind and
hail. succeeded by blazing sun, has had the
effect to Wither and kill out large portion Of
the crop. The injury has been greater than
in any season we have known for the past ten
years. In another column we give . Iist NJ
all the Grand Point planters, the number &c
plants set out by them and the probable Iosa
OF each. 1t 10 heavy blow to these poor
people
P. B. 3. Plnchback, the peripatette claina
ant for congressional honors, was e1neoted
to arrive hst evening. So far as We can
learn, it is the intention Of albdeeent white
Republicans to ignore any cOiOFed efglven-
ton that proposes to nominate In this dis
trict, and that they are advising all Repub-
licans white and black, to keep out Of it.
Pinehback has no claims on the district for
anything: Is not resident; and the naildest
construction that can be put upon his soiourn
at Delta ts that OF political adventurer If
the Republicans can elect their candidate IL
will be nothing to their detFiment to take a
citizen who bus knowledge OF their wants
ano capacity to impress them upon the
powers that be-LOuschita Telegraph.
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mentioned were cashed
AT THE sUB-TnFAsURY

| AT THE sUB-THEAsURy
| here, DEMOCRAT reporter Yesterday eaIIeH
at the United States subj TREASURY NJ the (}Yia-
tom-hou9e, where he found MIR. Flanders, and
referring to the correspondence given. asked
| whether That was fact or not.
Mr. Flanders did not remember Cashiu0
any such drafts; In fact, he could not cash
any drafts drawn by the First Natiouaf Bank
| OF New York, as the business Of the srtb-treass
ury In that line was exclusively with fhe
Treasurer Of the United States and tie Va
rtolis assistant treasurer8 Of the United states
Ihe DEMOCRkTnan then requested that tfss
entry book OF drafts paid might be shown hifn
To this Mr.. Flanders readily gave his eon~
sent, and the reporter made critical exami-
natlOn'of the entries made during the month
Of Maroh, April and May, 1871, The time when
the comm fssion was here. After an examina-
ton OF couple OF hours ii was discovered
that two drafts drawn, not by the First,
Nat1onai Bsnk Of New York, butby the
TREA sTBER OF gHE UNITED SKATES.
in favor Of Jas. D. Power the cisbursinp
agent mentl0ned) had been paid at the SUBJ
treasury here, the drafts being drawn 1nnn
the sub-treasuTer at New Orleans.
The first draft bears date Treasury Depart
menC, washington, ApTif 2, 1879, Is numbered
1855, Is Tor $5Ga, was payable to the order Of
Jas: u; Power was signed by the Treasurer
OF the United states, and on April Is, 1877.
was paid to the Louisiana National Bank
messenger.
The second draft for $500 bore date AprdT
T. lsT7, was numbered t757, and as:made and
paid IN all respects similar 70 that Just men
TONED, with the exception Of the datt5 Of nay-s
meDtr that being April 90, 1s77g
Making note OF the two drafts our renort-
er called
MR. FLANDERS ATTENTION.
20 them and asked nirn II he could explain IL.
He said IHe could, and stated that they came
IN regular way that they were currency
transfer drafts from the treasury at Waah-
mgton ON the Assistant Treasurer here. and
were paid to the Louisiana National Bank In
the regular way.
He presumed that the currency. SfO9O. had
been obtained by the United States Treasurer
and deposited In the treasury ct WRshinptore
when the drafts were issued against Il and
were made payable here
Retlrt0g with that explanation our reportAr
soon afterwards met q gentlennn who WAS
eonyeTsant with such matters, and the aues-
ton was pF0pounded as to whether or not
that system was common La the government
banking operations.
Ills reply was that it was not. and. adfIed
me- you have given the Potter Com mfttee q
chance TO catch Sherman cure" 'tT have no
doubt, said he, "but that the 5000 borrowed
was not enough to carry the Commission
through, and that the $1,000 pald to Power
here was not OF that fund, but was taken from
the treasury and paid here"
Whether this be the fact or not cannot now
be asoeftained, but the Potter COMMITTEES NAV
discover the true inwardness OF the matter
before the investigation Is closed.
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Treasury Abatement.

WASHINGTON, June 15.-The Treasury now
secure national bank circulation, and S13,-
$4,000 In bonds to secure pubic deposits.
United States bonds deposited for circulation
for the week ending to-day, $557 900; amount
withdrawn, $182,O00; National bank circula-
459; gold notes, 81, ,432 12O; internal revenue
receipts, $2O,51S,52S; custom receipts. $32,-
Receipts Of national bank notes for the week
ending to-day, as compared with the CORE
spondng period Of last year; New York, 1877
1877 600; 1878, S1,795,OO0. Philadelphia, 1877,
$243,000; 1878, $3.50, 900. Miscellaneous, 1877
81, 600; 1s7s $1,3O6,0O0. Total, 1877, Sc, :
627, 900; 1878, $5,O01,200. Receipts to-day
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MEXICO.
Collapse of the Rev0luti0n-P Probable ne
treat Of EscobedO Into Texas.

GALVESTON, June 15--The Ne1os special
from San Antonio has the following dispatch
received at military headquarters this after.
noon, dated Laredo from Capt. Cunningham,
In command: Have just seen Gen. Soto, COM
manding on the opposite side. He states
that all revolutionary parties are broken up
or disbanded for the present, except Escobe-
dos, who has q small force about sixty miles
above here near Amale
He has sent out force to that point, and
expects Escobedo to cross over into Texas to-
night or tomorrow. / sent Lieut.. Fountain
with forty men last night at midnight to O
point opposite Amale. He will be- there to-
night
Gen. Soto gives list Of the killed and
wounded in the fight on the ninth, as follows
RevolutiOnists Killed seventeen, wounded
seven, prisoners twenty three; government
troops lost, one killed, seven wounded; num-
Der OF revoLutionists engaged 13O; govern
ment troops 105.
He also stat.s that Gems. Salinas and Gar
cia Ayala, revofutionists who were in the
fight, are on this side Of the Rio Grande, en-
deavoring to reorganize.
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lt Is announced In England that Sir Josaph
WhitWorth has invented armor plating Inn
pr rnetrable to any missiles now employed
rms armor is composed of FLUID compressed
steel, and is built up in hex ,gonaL sections,
eacn of which is composed OF a series Of con-
centric rings around central circular disk .
target nine inches in thickness was built
on this principle, supported by wood back
ing against sand rank A PalIiseE shell,
Weighing 250 pounds, WAS then fired at it at a
distance OF only thirty yards, With fifsy pounds
OF pebble powder. The Shell broke into innu-
nIerable fragments, and the target was driven
eighten incnes back into The sand. The tagget
s.sef Was absolutely u1hurt.
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BURCHARD's LITTLE GAME,
And What is Thought of Et-FO0Iish Feat
nf n small Politician.


D NEW YORK, June 15.-The Herald says
Burchard, of Illinois, a Republican member
of the House, performed the foolish feat Of q
small politician yesterday, In attempting to
resolution Of the judiciary Committee, which
is pretty conclusive proof that the title OF
President Hayes will never be seriously uues-
toned in such official circles as have any
power to disturb It.
THE TIMES SAYS:
The action of the House effectually disposes
of Mr. Montgomery Blair's patent explosive
compound designed to blow open the doors OF
the White House.
ANXIOUS ABOUT PoTTER's FEELINGS.
The Tribune says: 1t would be interesting
to know whether Mr.. Potter wishes now that
he hadn't
DEFINITELY SETTLED.
The Star says the validity OF Mr.. Hayes
title is now definitely disposed OF, so far as
any congressional action is concerned and
with 1t disappears the revolutionary shibbo-
leth."
REVOLUTION sHRIEKTRs sILENCED.
The World says that II Conkling desires to
Mexlcanize the United States government
he must look elsewhere than to the Demo-
cratic party for his guerillas. The crushing
vote In the House of Representatives ypstpr-
! day, on the matter of reOpening the action of
the Forty-fourth Congress, will surprise no
honest and Intelligent Democrat, and it il a
aluaI answer TO Ln6 caIuLnnlhUOfS who have
attempted to protect the authors OF the cleo
toral frauds of 1876 in Louisiana and Florida,
against the grand inquest of the people, by
attrihuting wild and revolutionary purposes
: TO the Democratic authors and promoters of
Sfhat grand inquest
LITTLE MEANING AND NO UNDERSTANDING
The San says: Daniel Webster once said
of a series of resolutions which had been
adopted by Whig State convention, the
resolutions contain very little meaning, and
they were adopted by a set of men who un-
derstood but little of what meaning they do
contain. With all due respect for the House
of Representatives Of the United States, we
think the same remark might justly be ap-
piled to the resolutions adopted by the ma
jority of that august body yesterday. If the
resolution means that Impeachment for good
cause would be revolutionary, then it is
resolution that the enforcement of the con-
stitntiun would be reYOIutionarv''
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FORGED CERTIFICATES.
KELLOGG WILL ADMIT AND PLEAD
POLITICAL EFFICIENCY In Ex-
TENUATION.
Compromise ON the Army BilI-H0pes for
the Levce and ERds' Relief Bills
Louisiana Commission Expenses
Howard Again ca the Fare.

| Louisiana Commission Expenses
Howard Again co the Fore.
Special to the DemocratJ
| WASHINGTON June 15-Conquest Clarkes
testimony to-day was not important except
In that itimposes upon Kellogg the necessity
OF explaining how he happened to affix the
seal OF the State to q forged certificate. The
committee Is getting large stock Of explana-
tions on hand for Kellogg, but that worthy
declares that he Is ready to testify whenever
the commission wants him, and that he will
not plead Senatorial privilege as Matthews
did. His intention is to make full statement
OF all the facts 80 far as he knows them, and
put his defense on grounds Of political exi-
gency.
He maintains that the only way to meet the
present movement is to take radical ground
on the subject Of political expediency, and
then substantially admit all the charges that
have been made as 10 the manipulation of
election returns. Whatever may be his ulti-
mate fate, he now seems to be less frightened
than any other member of the gang.
AS predicted day or two ago, the House
has receded on the army bill This was done
by Hewitt mainly, but Senators Hill, Bayard
enu HdAhC5 S1IOuRly HuFl56d BOuS6 cOn-
Serees to recede from Che clause limiting the
force to 10000 men. The Senate, however,
yielded on the clause prohibiting the use OF
troops for political purposes, which was the
main feature of the bill, 50 far as the South is
concerned.
In view Of the probable extension of the
session through the coming week our people
are hopeful Of getting Eads' relief bill and the
levee bill through.
l have been informed that the money ad-
vanced by Fahnestock & Baker, OF the First
National Bank of New York, to pay the ex-
penses of the Louisiana commission last
spring, and which Congress subsequently re-
fused to repay, has been paid or guaranteed
by Howard, Morris or the Lottery Company
l give this report as 1t came to me, but am
not prepared to vouch for it's correctness as
yet. The story goes that the arrangement
was consummated while Howard was work
Ing his schemes here last winter, and that IL
formed the secret of his peculiar grip on
Hayes and the Cabinet. BUELL..
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A SertOuS NatsfOrtuue

NEW YORK, June 15-The Tribune saws it
is a serious misfortune that Congress could
not have adjourned without the devotion of
the closing hours of the session to encourage
ing the groundless hopes of the unthinking
classes, deluding them with false teachings
and infaming those passions which make the
labor question our greatest impending
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MARINs NEWS.

aoUTHwFsT PASS. June IS. .. m,-BarometeR
29,7o. Weather calm. thick and rainy.
20 arrivsls
Sailed: Steamship Gen Whitney. for Morgan
PGET EADs, June ID, D. m.-Weather calm.
thick and rainy. ~'-'--ss
Arrived: American schooner Crrns HafI.
HoWee master % days from Bath. Me-; cargo
Sailed: Bark Refine du Monde. bark cecile
Anger, schooner Geo SaaIey
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An eagle In the Alps Mountains. a short
time ago, carried away a eve lamb to its nest,
The lamb was not killed by the monarch of
birds, and lived in apparent harmony with
the young eaglets for four days. when it was
rescued by the shepherd who owned it.
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NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, JUNE 1e rszs-rRPLE SHEET


tody OF the Holy Place in Nieara should not
De consigned to England.
Another complication has arisen since the
arrival OF the Ottoman delegates and their
conference with the French delegates. The
question OF Egypt is said to be at the bottom
Of this. The skelu fs tangled, but through it
there runs the idea that Russia will attempt
70 persuade England to resign her desire for
Asiatic dominion by proposing that she shall
take Egypt bodily.
:. France has large interests In Egypt and In
the Suez canal, and the Turks, who are excel
lent diplomatists. are said to have made
STRONG representations to the French delegates
on this subject.
The reports concerning the absolute secrecy
to be observed respecting the proceedings OF
the congress are exaggerated. There will be
little difficulty In asCertaining everything
that takes place.
Duration Of the Sitting.
=, BERLIN, June 15.-At the formal opening Of
the congress on Thursday, the plenipOsen-
tiaTies were in court dress, bat hereafter they
Will meet in ordinary attire. The congress
will certainly not sit daily, but the time and
Intervals of adjournment will be left for de-
ctsion from day to day.
10 seems to be the general impression that
the congress will certainly last several weeks.
The National Zeitgmg says that Prince Biz
maTek will leave Berlin In about ten days
and that neither Beaeonsfield nor Gortscha-
koH will await the end of the deliberations,
II this be true, the final details will be en-
trusted to the the second and third plenipo.
tentiaTses
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A Fatal M0nOmania,

BROOKLYN, June 15.-John Atkinson, a
former resident Of Savlle, Suffolk county, l..
l., who has, since February last, been affected
with the monomania that he was Turk, and
continually fancied that he was fighting the
his brother-in-law, John Gordon, with jack
knife, inticting wounds from which he died
Wednesday night
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ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 15-The old contest
between the staff and the line in the navy has
broken out in the academy here Cadet en-
gineers have been during the past year de-
tached from the battalions and sent into the
machine shops. The staff officers protest
vigorously, and the board visitors have been
called upon to settle matters.
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The vosnursh Ca.e Again.

JERSEY CRY, June 15.-Another ripple of
excitement was created yesterday in the con-
gregation of Bergen Baptist Church, by the
report that George j. Wilson, a druggist, had
McGilI. since Mr.. Vosburgh's acauittal,
which, If made during the trial, would, it is
claimed, have convicted the pastor of the
charge Of attempting to poison his wife. Mr..
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The Sundry civil RIII.

WASHINGTON, June 15.-The members Of
clare that 1t will be impossible to report the
sundry civil bill to the Senate before Monday
morning, and II the time is extended, as it
doubtless will be- they will not report before
Tuesday. Nearly 40 amendments, offered by
Senators, are pending before the committee.
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Scene at theatre matinee Gentleman to
lady-T fear there will be a rush and we
shan't get in" Lady-"Not get inl What
do you mean? There are very few matinees
where l ever failed to get in, with perse-
verance and-this big shawl-pin."
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key.

LONDON, June 15.--The StnndnrH in It's
financial article to-day. says that Lord Sails
bury before going to Berlin consulted with the
leading bankers about the position and eapa-
bilities of Turkey, with q view to the estab-
lishment of @ financial commission at Con-
stantinople similar to that now existing In
Egypt. The scheme apparently received the
support OF the Vienna and Berlin Cabinets.
DufFsrin Defines to Remain in Canada
LONDON, The London correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian says the Colonial Office
wished Lord Dufferin to remain in Canada as
Governor General Of the Dominion for another
term. Lord Dufferin declines, and will re-
turn to England about September 1.
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EUROPE'S CONGRESS.
THE ENGLISH DELEGATIOv-BEAC
FIELDS PLAN-A BRITISH PAO-
TECFORATE OVER AsIATIC
TURKEY.
Austria Agreeable. but Franee shows a
Disposition to- h1ck-Egypt as
Bone of CantentfOu-A
Tangled akein.

u EsUHS UH N0hBcnLAWH-A
Tangled aketn.
LONDON, June 15.-Much information con-
corning the progress of affairs at Berlin
reaches here through private sources. The
special embassy sent to Berlin for the Con-
gress comprises not only Lords Beaeonsfield
and Salisbury, but Montague Cory and
Philip Cutrie, as secretaries; and Arthur Bal
Hon. +. Bertie, Hon. E. Darlington, a.. A.
Lee, Charles Hopegood, of the Foreign office
Lemarchant GnssIin, Of the diplomatic ser-
vice, and Mr.. Hartelet, librarian OF the For
communicative. 1t Is quite certain tiIat Earl
Beacunstield's new scheme for q British pro-
tectorate in Asiatic Turkey has been received
with favor by Germany and Austria. The
latter sees in it Qasid pro quo. She il willing
that England may have what she wants To
Asia, If Austria is granted what she claims in
Europe, but opposition has been deveiOped on
the part Of France, which thinks that the Gus
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A witness in a French court Of justice, upon
being asked whether he was relative of the
accused, replied that he did not know "Not
know" exclaimed the Judge. how il that p'
Il am founding" replied the witness.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.

WAR DEPARTMENT, |
Signal Service. United Sta.es Army.
Daily meteorological record for the eight hours
ending at 3:43 .. m. Satm day, June Is.
observations taken at the same moment oil
time at O | stations1
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ENGLAND.
Agreement Between England and Turke

Agreement Between England and Turkey.
LONDON, June 15.-The Manchester Guar-
asn7I's London correspondent mentions the
existence OF an Anglo Turkish understanding.
which is kind Of supplement to the Anglo
Russian agreement. 10 secures the para
mount influence of England, not only In Asia
Minor but at Constantinople.
Proposed Financial Commission for Tur~
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ROM r..
The Catholics to Oppose the Socialists in
Germany

LONDON, June 16-A dispatch from Rome
states that Pope Leo has offered to the EN-
peror William the assistance Of the Catholics
against the Socialists in the coming elections
III Germany for members Of the Reichstag.
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| Daily telegraphic report OF the stage of
"a hours ending yesterday at 9:43 2. m.:
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Key2 No!-[Key-okuk Constitution. Key
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Stage of the K1vers.

F-Falling; R-Bisina; s-stationary.
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Signal Service Local Report.
NEu 0pyFala lima TX

Maximum t mp4rsfure ss degrees; minimum
temperature IA degrees RadnfaI "a Of az iuch,
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"BeIow high water mark of 1874. tIndicat
rise. Indicates fall.
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DEFINITELY SETTLED

The Star says the validity Of Mr.. Hayes
title is now definitely disposed Of, so far a:
any congressional action is concerned ant
with 1t disappears the revolutionary shibbo
leth"