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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-13
.EroHra or COMMITTEES.

Mr. George, acting elairman 81 tne 1oni-
mlttse on the judiciary, substituted ue
majority report Of said committee ON oroi-
nance No. /, in relation TO appeals from tne
r,nrigles Of Caddo, Bossier and DeSoto, Which
was read md roceived.
Mr.T r. I,nnd submitted minority re-
port ON behalf Of said committees OH the
same ordinance which was road ana reea'Veat
Mr. Poehe, chairman OF the ooinfhittse oh
Elective Franchise. submitted n report from
aoid conrnittee on ordinances Nos. 25z ana
2s7 which report was rehd and received.
Tbe Coromittee on Rules reported unfavor-
al,gy on Mr.. McGloins resolution relative n
nm amendment 10 section 3 ~ rule No. AZ, also
nnfayornbly on Mr. Caffrsys resolution to
amend the rules.
ORDER or THE DAY.
The report Of Mr.. Byrne, chairman Of the
Committee on Printing. approving snndry
bills for printing done by the Convention
printer. and recommending that the same he
returned h, tho COMMITTEES on Contingent Ex-
penses fol- settlement, WINS adopted, ana The
bills we're referred 10 the COMMITTEES on Con
tingent Expenses for that purpose.
Mr.. Phelps. chairman of the COMMITTEES OF,
Taxation, Equalization and Exemptions sub
mIttsd the following report:
NEW ORLEANS, May 8, 1870.
Your COMMITTEES on Taxation, Equalization
md Exemptions respectfully return the fol-
lowing ordinances nH improperly rstfrTeh ~
them: ,,,..
Ordinances No AZ Concerning delinquent
tnxes, recommending that 1t be referred 10
the Committee on Finance.
Ordinance No. 100 Concerning Limitation
Of powers Of taxation, recon mstlding thht u
be referred 10 the COMMITTEES on Limitations.
Ordinances No 81 A part Of this ORDINANCES,
referring to prohibition Of issuance 81 bonds
recon tending that 1t be- referred tothe Cons
mittes On Finance
JOHN PHELPS,
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

we publish elsewhere from the Washington
correspondence of the Chicago Times, sum
mary of the evidence given before the Wal
lace committee by Judge Maokey, of South
Carolina. He is q gentleman who is known
all over the country as man of prob
ity and honor, and his statements are, with
out question, the simple truth. It is story
that ought to fill every citizen with shame
and apprehension-shame that such occur
rences could take place in country that is
nominally free, and apprehension lest the
practice should become general and result in
the overthrow of free institutions.
There are other facts, quite as repugnant
to Republican ideas as those that are here
related, that have been brought out in the
course of the investigation, and we have no
doubt there were still others in reserve that
will cause the cheek of every honest citizen
to blush with shame and indignation. On
der the present laws free suffrage is a sham,
1t exists only in imagination; is accorded
only to those who chose to sacrifice their
principles and vote with the party that con.
trolls the supervisors and deputy marshalt
and orders the troops. It is these laws that
Mr.. Hayes has determined to maintain in the
face of the expressed wish of large major
ity of the people and of Congress laws un
der which the most outrageous indignities
can be and have been perpetrated in th'
past. We trust the fact will be remembered
| by every voter in the land till the time arrives
when the people will square accounts.
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

REV. BELTZLY,S PLAT OF HEAVEN.
Of clerical crotchets there is no end. From
the exciting theological conundrum of how
many angels can balance on the point OF a cam
brio needle, the mind turns away dazed with
speculating over the pious pirouetting. But
there is some Oatis faction in the calcula-
tion of the Rev. J. G. Beltzly, when he un-
dertakes to give US the exact dimensions of
heaven. His theodolite he plants in Reve-
latiors, where the angels measured the city
with the reed twelve thousand furlongs. The
length, the breadth, the height of it are equal.
Therefore, says this celestial engineer, the
heavenly city will be fifteen hundred miles
in each of its dimensions, which will accom-
modate all the people of all the worlds with
separate apartments. There will be precise
ly thirty quintillion, five hundred and
eleven quadrillion, one hundred and sixty-si1
trillion, six hundred and thirty six billion,siz
hundred and sixty-six million, six hundred
and sixty three thousand and six hundred
and sixty-six and one-third rooms of fail
size, and there will remain over two hundred
and forty quadrillions of mansions unoccu-
pied to be occupied by the angels.
It might be important in view of these
statistics to know the sectarian status Of
this reverend calculator. If he be an Uni
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

ONE of the most cold -blooded murders Of
the generation was that of Tullis, the public
administrator of Sacramento. His murder.
ers were hung on Thursday. One of them
the man who committed the crime pas
sed off peacefully, expressing confidence in
a speedy redemption, and he was ushered
into eternity by prayer and song. Is it not
about time that such a prostitution Of
religion ceased2 Men who have committed
the gravest crimes against the moral law
are brought to believe that they jump from
the gallows into the arms of the Savior
until it has become proverbial that the
surest route to future glory lies through the
murderer's cell and is ended by the hang
mans rope. If such religionists persist il
promising salvation to such wretches, is il
any wonder that honest people express ,
desire to avoid a place inhabited by murder
ers?
Daily globe., 1879-05-31
Color Blindness.
NEW York Gnn

Passengers in railroad trains would not
feel secure if they knew that the engineer
was color blind, and unable to distinguish
between the white light and the danger sig
nal. That many who manage locomotives
are thus imperfect of sight is asserted in the
report made to the Pennsylvania State Medi-
cal society by Dr.. Keyser, who has spent
eight months in examining train employees
of railroads that center in Philadelphia. He
finds color blindness in three and half per
cent. of the whole number so marked that
they were unable to distinguish one color
from another, while eight and a half per
cent, although able to tell colors, were un-
able to distinguish shades, and were thus
rendered incapable of performing duties re-
quired of railroad men. Two of the color
blind men had educated themselves to know
that red is a bright, intense color as distin-
guished from green, which they described as
dull. But when light green was put before
them they called it red. They explained that
the green light had at times shown red to
them, and they had stopped tbs trsins. But
suppose the red had shown green!
Daily globe., 1879-05-31
Independent Farmer

Major T. NJ. Newson's Independent Farmer
and Fi'eside Companion for May, bright,
sparklinga and attractive as May morning, is
out, and merits high commendation. 1t has
an able corps of contributors, and it's original
articles are of very high order Of excellence.
This handsome magazine cannot fail to benefit,
interest and instruct the husbsndman and the
family, while the student and the man of leis-
ure will find food for thought and genial topics
for entertainment. The veteran editor shows
ability, tact and skill, and a matured discrim-
ination in the general make up of his publica.
tion, while his accomplished daughter, Miss
May Newson, wields a facile, sparkling pen, and
deyelopes great maturity of thought, in a
graceful attractive style. Az a home produc-
ton of a very high order, the Independent
Farmer and Fireside Companion deserves well
of the citizens of St. Paul and Minnesota
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

SPECIALLY REPORTED ron The. DAILY GLOBE.
Boets are still engaged dragging the river
in search of the body of young Quiggle, who
was drowned Wednesday evening. But as
yet it has not been recovered.
The Metropolitan Theatre company packed
its traps and departed for pastures green at
an early hour this morning, sadder if not
richer lot than when they arrived in town
Tuesday last.
In a few days the Park hotel, formerly the
Parcher house, will be formally opened for
business by G. w. Hastings, mine host of
the Arnold house. Charley, it would seem,
proposes having a monopoly Of the hotel
business here.
Last evening at about o'clock q terrific
wind and rain storm passed over this city
from west td east. lasting not over twenty
minutes, but in that short space of time it
seemed almost as though the city would be
lifted from its very foundation. Fortunately
| very little damage was done. With the ex-
ception of few outhouses, chimneys and
shingles being overturned, nothing serious
| happened.
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

A CORRESPONDENT OF the Chicago Times
telegraphing from Washington, says: "The
highest authority says ex-senator Ramsey,
of Minnesota, will be appointed to succeed
Secretary McCrary. He is warmly urged by
Mrs. Hayes" We are glad that Ramsey
has at last found some one besides himself
and Joe to urge his claims to an Office.
There is a better prospect of success than
ever before. But won't he mako noble
secretary of war. If there's anything he is
au tait in it is the business of the war de-
partment. He fought bled and died in the
army, and therefore knows all about it, and
when he joins the Mrs. r. B. Hayes temper
ance society, as he will be bound to do out
of pure gratitude, he will be bright and
shining ornament to Washington society.
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

The intelligence is communicated by tele-
graph that the condition Of affairs in Russia
has been exaggerated. It has been reported
that there was reign of terror-a state OF
seige-in st. Petersburg, whereas there is nc
such thing, but simply state of military
law, wherein one half of the population is
set to watch the other. The distinction is
very finely drawn, yet from reports that are
deemed authentic we would rather avoid al
of these states. They are not comfortable
and even if the correspondents have drawn
the long bow in depicting the condition o1
affairs, we prefer to give Russia wide berth
Daily globe., 1879-05-31
INTIMIDATION OF VoTERs.

The interest excited by the proceedings of
ecutive and legislative branches of the gov
ernment has completely dwarfed matter of
exceeding Importance, and having bearing
directly on the questions at issue. During
the last session of Congress-, when the Re-
publicans were in majority in the Senate,
Mr.. Blaine secured the appointment of a
special committee, with Mr.. Teller at it's
head, charged with the duty of enquiring
whether any undue influences had been
brought to bear upon voters during the
elections of 1876 and 1878. The committee
comm enced it's inquiries, but made little
progress up to the time of the adjournment
of Congress. When that body was recon
vened the committee was somewhat re-
modelled, and Senator Wallace placed at its
head. That committee has since been pur-
suing its work spasmodically, but has sue
ceeded in eliciting some important facts
that the public, through the negligence or
partisanship of the agents of the Associated
Press, has been kept ignorant of. It is time
that some information should be given.
A thorough inquiry into the manner OF
conducting the elections in New York city
developed the fact that system of wholesale
intimidation had been practiced upon voters
a few days prior to the last election war
rants for the arrest of about eight thousand
persons were issued by Commissions
Davenport, chief supervisor of elections
IKE charge was that the persons named in
the warrants intended to vote illegally, theil
claim to vote being based on the fact tina
they held naturalization papers issued il
1868 which were fraudulent. These suit,
were kept pending until after tn
election, and it was not unit
two months subsequent that tn
arrests we're pronounced illegal b,
the courts. The scheme, however
effected its purpose, and more than half o.
these voters were deferred from exercisin,
the franchise through fear of incurring tn
laws displeasure. They were nearly al
D emocrats, and as consequences the part
lost two or three representatives in Congress
TO further illustrate how the present law
can be used to defeat the will Of the people
Daily globe., 1879-05-31
THE OHIO NoAI1NArIoNs.

Hotr the Selection of Foster for Governor IS
Regarded by Politicians at Washington.
Washington Special MAY 2S) to Chicago
Times.
Tho result in Ohio is regarded here as
triumph for John Sherman as against Grant
in the Presidential canvass. Taft was gem
orally considered Grant man and was es::
pecially opposed to John Sherman. Foster
was the candidate of Sherman and the ad-
ministration up to a certain point. Had Taft
been strong enough to beat Foster then
Sherman would have consented to have his
name used. All the administration influ-
ence will therefore be given to Foster. The
Democrats profess to be satisfied with Eos.
ter's nomination and say now that they will
put up Thurman and easily beat him.
The President expressed himself as very
| much pleased with the result, believing that
Foster will make a more active personal can
vass than Taft could have done,
Secretary Sherman says that lie regards
the ticket as very strong one, and is as we'll
satisfied with it as if Taft had been nomi-
mated. He thinks that Foster will secure a
good deal of strength where Taft might
have lost, although Taft might have gained
where Foster will lose. At all events, he
|
ticket.
Mr.. Monroe, of Ohio, who is the only Re
publican representative from that State left
in Washington, talks freely on the nomina
| ton. He was, in the first place, Foster
man. He says he favored Foster because he
thought he would make a stronger race than
any other man would have done. He thinks
that Foster has all the qualifications nee
essary to make vigorous canvass and to Sc
cure full vote Of the people. Mr.. Monroe
is very enthusiastic on the subject of the
Ohio campaign. He says that in very few
weeks Foster will have visited every county
in the State, become acquainted with leading
politicians and have impressed them with the
importance of organizing thoroughly and
bring out every man at the polls OF Eos
ter's qualities as canvasser he speaks in
the highest terms and from personal
knowledge. He says that a part o1
Fosters old district now forms 8
part of his own, and in his las
canvass he learned many stories of how Eos
ter managed his campaigns. Mr.. Monroe is
a strong friend of Mr.. Taft, but does not re-
gard him as being as strong a man for tht
party as Foster will prove himself to be. HI
feels confident that Foster will carry tht
State by large majority.
The Democrats pretend to be jubilan
over the nomination. They do not regare
it as at all formidable. Senator Thurman
says tonight that he considers the Republi
ca1 ticket a very weak one, which will b'
beaten by 10000 majority. Ben Lefevre,
Democratic representative from Ohio, say
that while he thinks that Foster is goot
man, he believes he viii be easily beaten
Other Democrats express substantially tn
| coroo viz 49,
Daily globe., 1879-05-31
The Pennsylvania Bribe-Takers.

HARRISBURG, May 29.-The House riot
bribery committee made a report tonight in
which they reach the conclusion that the fol
lowing named persons have been guilty of cor
rupt solicitations of members of the legislature
in connection with the Pittsburgh riot bill:
Representative Rumberger, Armstrong county,
and Smith and Petrof, Philadelphia; W. 81.
Kemble and ex-Representative Chas. B. Salter,
Philadelphia; Alex. W. Lansing, Of Carbon;
Jesse R. Crawford, of Blair, and Chris. Long,
of Cumberland county. The report is unac-
companied by any Recommendation, but it il
understood a resolution Of expulsion IN the case
of Rumberger, Smith and Petrof will be Of
fered next week.
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

versalist his rooms will all be taken-but
among other denominations, there might be
q good many moro rooms empty for oil eter-
nifty than those he estimates for the angels,
because of lack of references and other
quail ifcations among some of the people of
all the worlds. With anything like the ex-
clusiveness we are taught to believe
is going to decide the fate of average
mortality, it is depressing to eontemplate the
waste room from any standpoint save the
Universalist. This calculation of the Rev.
Beltzly is partial to one sect in conf rming
their belief and providing apartments for
the people of the worlds, without respect to
fitness, or any of the other Christian con.
siderations of admission. But to major
ity who do not believe they can rush in at
random whore angels fear to tread, the
knowledge that there are 80 many rooms
aloft, will be grievous aggravation, while
the basement regions are likely to be nn-
comfortably crowded and lily ventilated.
! Now a puzzling question is 'sthe two hun
dred and forty quadrillions of mansions re-
manning over unoccupied, to be occupied hy
the angels" Where are they now end what
are they doing? Are they in process of evo-
luton, and why was the supply of rooms SO
much greater than the demand for the
class who had sure thing on the
inside ? that is if the preconceived theory
about angels is at all correct. Well, the
Rev. Beltsly's plan of heaven is ingen-
ious, and W is deep in meditation on
its roominess, and may be calculating on
additions to the original lay out, he is in
} nothing mischievous, or positively contra
band. While he is borne on rushing cur
] rents of air, and scaling heaven, it is
pleasanter to follow him than if he was
t stirring up the social evil, or playing thu
8 tarantula in temptation to the dance o
3 death. He might be censuring the press
. and advertising every infamy in the land il
: sermons. He might be engaged in bite
3 controversy about bubbles, whereas now hi
9 contemplation is fairly Miltonic, and eve,
q better, because the poets deal was q misera
s bic conspiracy and rout, and Beltzly'
! scheme is a peaceful homestead allotment
t It isa regret that more of the order dom
y go beyond the world for inspiration. Brud
der Jasper with his doctrine that the "sul
" do move'' and the uplifted Beltzly with hi
: celestial city plot, are visionary, it is true
+ but they are harmless, and their revelation
: are not noisome with uncleanliness.
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

A MEDICAL examination is being made at
Sacramento to determine whether or not
Dye, the murderer of Tullis, was sane. AS
Dye is dead, his neck having been broken by
the fall he endured from the scaffold, it will
be little satisfaction to him if it shall be de-
not responsible for the crime he committed
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

THE opinion seems to prevail generally
that the nomination of Foster for governor
of Ohio is decided backset to the Grant
boom. Taft was put up by the friends of
Grant as his especial champion, and his
nomination would have been accepted as a
pledge of the State to Grant in 1880. Sher-
man is reported to be in an ecstacy of de-
light, while Hayes shares his joy, though
more reserved in expressing it. The Sher-
man wave has had a boost forward, and un.
less the return should go too far out at sea be
is reasonably certain of commanding the
strength of the Ohio delegation in the nex1
Republ ican national convention.
Daily globe., 1879-05-31
NO CONTRACTION.

The Treasury Department Insists that the
5 Sale of 1eefunding Certificates 1V:H Not
Contract the Ctt,3'encD.
Washington Special MAY 2S) to Chicago Trib-
une
The following may be considered as the
treasury explanation of the charge that the
sale of refunding certificates is contraction
of the currency. A writer in the EDe115ag
Star, who seems to speak by authority, says
complaint has been made that the sale of re-
funding certificates is Q most dangerous con-
traction of the currency of the country, and
that the treasury is Stacking up the green
back circulation to the great detriment of
business. This complaint would seem to be
groundless when the facts are known.
While the treasury is taking in money for
certificates, it is paying it out in the redemp-
tion of called bonds. Care is taken not to
call upon the banks for the payment of their
subscriptions to the 4per cent. loan (Which
are really due at the option of the treasury
Immediately after the subscription is made)
as long as the proceeds of refunding certifi-
Gates furnish means to redeem called bonds.
It is simply an income of money from GER
tifcates and an outgo in redeeming called
bonds.
For example, it may be stated that on the
1st of April, the date of issuing the certifi-
Gates, there were in the treasury $17, 900, 900,
the proceeds of the sale of four per cent.
bonds, held to meet called bonds when pre-
sented for redemption. To day there are in
the treasury but $4,000, 900, derived from
the sale both of four per cent bonds and re-
funding certificates less amount than on
the date of the issue of the certificates.
Since the 18th inst there have been paid out
$17 COO, 900 in the redemption IF called
bonds, which sum is fully equal to the sales
from refunding certificates since that date.
The exhibit thus presented shows that there
can have been no contraction of the cur
rency on that account, and, besides, the reg
ular pensions will be payable on June 4, next,
which will take $7,O00,O0O out of the
treasury in addition to the redemption of
called bonds, which goes on every day. It
has been stated that the reserves of the New
York national banks have been called on in
the rush for certificates to an arlarming ex-
tent. The fact is that the average legal
tender reserve of those banks for the week
ended April 5 last, long before the rush for
certificates began in all its immensity, was
$31, ,815, 800, while for the week ended May
| 10, when the rush was fully at its hight, the
reserve was $53, SIC, 700 gain of 1921, ,160,.
900. In view of these facts, it is very diff.
cult to torture contraction of the currency
or drain Of the legal tender reserves of tht
banks out on the sale Of refunding certif,
Gates.
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

That was first class engagement between
the navies of Chill and Peru, in which all
the vessels engaged were sunk. 1t is pity
that duelistio engagements do not result as
disastrously to the participants.
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

BLAINE tried to climb Hill on Thursday,
but slid down to the bottom. he thinks
that Hill was creased, for his descent was
very fast and very disastrous both to him
and his cause.
Daily globe., 1879-05-31
ST. PAUL, SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1879.

PAROLE won his fifth victory in England
yesterday out of. a possible six. The British
will not be apt to sneer at American horses
in the future as they have in the past.
Daily globe., 1879-05-31


ments against VIM. st. Clair and VIM. Cuh-
ningham for breaking and entering with
intent to commit larceny. Defendants given
until to-day to plead. Jury declined to find
indictments against G. w. Bartlett and
Hattie Piggott, confined in county Jail: or
Michael Quinlan, on bail.
Prisoners end bail ordered released by
court.
Grand jury excused from further business
until called.
Mary Z. Buck VS.. Orville Buck. Referred
to D. &. Butts to report facts.
|. Schmidt & Graf vs.. E. s. Pitman. Con-
tinued.
Isaac Staples VS.. John G. Tucker AMI John
9. Tucker, Jr. Jury waived by reason of
non-appearance Of defendants.
Helen Mar and Messenger VS.. Jacob
Thumser and Margaret Wincke. Continued.
VIM. Cunningham, VIM. st. Clair, John
guilty to charge of larceny.
R. M. Coles VS.. j. A. johnson, sheriff.
Frederick Albrecht vs.. VIM. Riebes verdict
for plaintiff; damages $60.36. Stay Of pro-
ceedings granted for twenty days at request
of defendant.
JOS Neiman VS.. Frederick Zarchow and
Albert Zarchow: verdict for plaintiff; as
against Albert Zarchow fof damages $6.3
Jury found for Frederick Zarchow, also.
State of Minnesota vs.. Charles Watson
larceny. 9. P. Gregory appointed counsel
for defendant. Given until to-day to plead
State of Minnesota VS.. John Schenke; lar
ceny. Court appointed Theodore Van Tas
sel counsel for defendant, and given until to-
day to plead.
| Andrew Smith VS.. Lyman Boutwell, ant
Maria @. Boutwell,. Continued.
| E. G. Butts and G. P. Gregory vs.. f
Stussi; verdict for defendant.
Andrew Holtzheimer VS.. G. Ga1be. Contin
Daily globe., 1879-05-31

Mr.. William Johnston, n. p, the famous
Irish Orangeman, is coming over to take part
in the proceedings of the triennial council of
the Canadian Orangemen in July.