THE NEW ORLEANS DAILY DEMOCRAT.OIIZOIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.

VOL. II---NO. 183. NEW ORLEANS, THURISDAY, JUNE 21, 1877. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.

DOIVETIC NEWS.

UtILT•No *ATiNWaISN INHOSPI-

TALITY.

Al Attempted Mteuse for Pure Barbarlem.(Special to the Democrat.]

Nnw Yonx, June 90.--The exclusion ofJv h Seligman from the Grand Union Hotel,

toga, on the ground of his being a11 exeltes public Interest, and is theconversation among citisens of all

elasses. It is understood a movement is onfoot among some Christian gentlemen tohold a public meeting on the subject. JudgeHilton said to reporters this morning, "WhLtI have done I have done in what I conceive tobe my duty in the protection of the Interesto t ghe property in my charge. There is acl of people whom I will not have in theho#l, and I have a right to say so. I don'tsee how this concerns the general public."

A Roving Reformer.(Speolal to the Democrat.]

Niuw Yoix, June 20.-The newly electedBishop Gregg of the Reformed EpisoopalChurch was consecrated to-day in Dr. Sabine'schurch. The new bishop goes to London andwill head the Reformed Church movement inEngland.

The Mystery of the ranWman's Mask.~oeeolal to the Democrat.l

NEw Yong, June 20.--A Potteville, Pa.,dispatch says matters connected with the ex-ecution of the Molly Magulres to-morrow arebeing conducted with tihe greatest secrecy, inorder that those conducting it may not beknown.

Passed Midshipmen.[(Spelal to the Democrat.]

ANNArotLI, Md., June 20.--Tho concludingexercises of the examination at the NavalAcademy and the distribution of diplomas tothe graduating class took place to-day.

A Suspended Bank.(Special to the Democrat.]

ST. Lotus, June 20.--It is stated that theassets of the National Bank of the State ofMissouri, recently suspended, are sufficientto pay depositors in full, rof which fifty centson the dollar will be paid very soon.

A National Straw Doard.(Solcial to the Democrat.]

SCrrcAoo, June 20.-Manufacturers of strawgoods throughout the West met here to-day,and formed an American Straw Board Asso-clation. They fixed a uniform schedule ofprices atijLtransacted other business.

Sields Gnarwd' Celebration.[peeolal to the Democrat.]

Aanvtrl, June 10.- At the celebration ofthe twenty-fifth anniversary of the organisa-tion of the Shields Guards to-day, speecheswere made by Hon. T. M. Pomeroy, Gen.Shields, Gov. Robinson and Gov. Hampton.

Races.(Special to the Demoerat.l

DurIldrr, Mich., June 20.-In the races atGrand Rapids yesterday, the race for trotterswhich had made a mile inside of three min-utes was won by Adele Clark, Time: 2:2914.The race for entries of a 2:30 record was wonby Metwood. Time: 2:29.

THE OREGON WAR.

People Fleeing from the Mountains forSafety.

ISpecial to the Democrat.1SAN FuA•rsczoo, June 20.-A dispatch Is

just received from Walla-Walla to the effectthat a young man who has reached therefrom the Dealone Mountains reports themountains full of Indians, who are workingdown this way. Two companies of cavalryleft about noon for Fort Lapwar. The excite-ment runs high. People on the other side of

- Smoke- rier -arwithout assistance. Theyare fleeing for a place of safety.

The Indian War.CHIAAOO, June 29.- •wn. Sheridan received

Sthe following dispatch from San Francisco:' The following telegram has been receivedfrom Gen. Howard dated Fort Lapival, June16: The Indians of White Bird and Joseph'sband murdered about twenty people in a scat-tored settlement fifty miles from here, east-ward. Capt Perry, with two companies, madea forced march thither.

The Indians fled with fresh horses. Hopeto overtake them crossing Salmon river.Please notify Forts Hall, Shaw, Ellis andother eastern posts. Another band flednorthward. They may combine near FlatHead agency pretending to be peacefll.Fort Boise will head them if possible. In-spector Watkins and I act together.

,McDowELL, Major General.Gen. Sheridan does not look for a general

uprising among these Indians, who have notbeen considered by the soldiers as lightingIndians. He believes that they will now at-tempt to make terms and will not give themilitary any further trouble.

CAPITAL NEWS.Packard Goes Back to Maine-The Car-

pet-lagr Charge on Hayes Indef..nitely Postponed.

[Special to the Democrat.]WASHINO oxN, June 20.-The proposed con-

, ference of Louisiana carpet-baggers hereseems to have been postponed, if not alto-gether abandoned. Packard has gone fromCincinnati to Chicago, and his friends say hewill go thence to Maine to spend the summer.Kellogg has not been heard from, and Ray isthe only one of the conclave who has put inan appearance.

e President will not interfere with theof law in the casks ot Dibble and

Radical ex-officials. Possibly the aban-ent of the intended carpet-bag raid on

the White House is due to the timely ascer-a- tainment of this fact by the raiders. The

carpet-baggers may as well make up theirminds that the arm of the Federal Govern-ment no longer interposes between their car-casses and the penitentiary. BUELL.

The Indian War.[Special to the Democrat.]

WASsa.Noro, June 20.-Telegrams from thee.ne of the Indian troubles in Idaho state

:, that the troops are being forwarded and othermeasures taken to suppress the rising. Whenthe last messenger left Capt. Perry he was

fighting the Indians, who are very activegradually increasing in strength, draw-

Ing from other tribes. The movement Indi-cates a combination uniting nearly all thedisaffected Indians, probably numbering 1000or 1000.

The Durlau of Ltatiutlte.ISpecial to the Democrat.l

WAsdtroroN, June 20.-It is reported thatthe Secretary of the Treasury, among therecommendations in his report to Congressconcerning the Bureau of Statistics, will sug-gest that this bureau be reduced from a bu-reau to a division of the Department of Com-mores. He is now investigating the bureau.

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FOREIGN NEWS.

The Danube Stili Falling.[tiv"lal to the Democrat.]

1BXIcRADE, June 20.-A dispatch from tust-chuk says the Danube continues to fall, al-though it is still abnormally high.

A Vienna letter says that the participationof Servia in the war which a short time agoappeared possible, by th Vienna Cabinet, isnow thought probable.

Failure of a Large Cotton Firm.[(Special to the Domoerat.]

LONDON, June 20.---A statement of theaffairs of Alexander Barclay & Co., of Gotten-burg, Sweden, has been submitted to thecreditors. The assets are $950,000 and theliabilities $1,840,000. The difficulties of thefirm arose from cotton speculations in 1875and 1870.

De Broelle on Disoelution.VhnsAILr.Is, June 20.--Duke de Broglie in-

formed the Senatorial Committee on dlssolu-tion of the proposal that at the election thegovernment would designate the candidatethey favored thus making use of a rightwhich, up to the present, has been recognizedby all governments.

The suke also states that if the Smnatevoted dissolution the government would de-cree it immediately. The Senate is summonedto moot again Wednesday. Debate on disso-lutiou will commence at once, and night sit-tings will be held if necessary.

WAR NOTES.

H111E DIEFINIK OF DItGA PASS.

Ruialan Atroeitles.Vucoviocs, June 20.-A Monte negrin lea(ler

Intrusted with the defense of DugaPass is charged with utter incapacity. Somebattalions received no orders, and after theretreat from Kristas all cohesion of the armyseemed lost. The Russians are charged withthe commission of outrages upon the Circas-selan population of Siberia. Towns are sacked,women ravished, men banished, and a reignof terror prevails.

The Russians burned the military hospitalIn Ardahan, and eight hundred inmates per-ished in the flames. The Russians are re-ported active in the country bounded east andwest by the rivers Vede and Aluta. They areconcentrating at Siuaitza, but the river therehas greatly overflowed. The prevalent opin-lon:seems to point to Nicopolis as the crossingplace. The Turks are also moving troopsaetively.

Fighting at Dlmetic--Report of GreclanAggression.

[, pecal to the Democrat.]LONDON, June 20.-A dispatch from Zara

says: At Bogetic, which is the Montenegrindepot of provisions and ammunition, lightinghas been going on since Monday.

A Belgrade special says it is reported therethat Greece has opened hostilities against thePorte.

This is not confirmed by advices direct fromAthens, but it is interesting, as showing thetension of feellng which exists in Belgrade.

Tihe Turks Overwhelming the Monte-negrins.

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 20.-The Chamber,afterforganzlng a- connritto to -sit durinag-the recess. and passing a resolution that theIgovernment ought only to conclude peace onconditions which would maintain the honorof the empire intact, adjourned.

Reports, official and others, indicate thatthe Turks are overwhelmhning the Monte-neg rins.

Fasil Pasha telegraphs from SoukgoumKaleh, June 14th, that 13,000 Russians, whooccupled Mexurikd, and Tehamptchara, havebeen driven out by Turkish troops and iron-clads. A movement has been undertaken tocut off their retreat.

ST. PETErSBRTnr , June 20.--Golos says:The partial defeat of the Montenegrinsstrengthens and justifies the tendency ofServia to join in the struggle.

The Khedive's Contingent.LONDON, June 20.-The Times says that the

contingent sent by the Khedive consists of4500 infantry, 1000 cavalry and 500 artillery.

MARKETS.

Domestic.[Speccial to the Democrat.]

NEW YORK, June 20.-Flour without de-cided change. Wheat dull; nominally un-changed; No. 2 Chicago $1 61@1 62; Mil-waukee $1 6061 68. Pork firmer; $14@14 25.New mess beef quiet. Lard firmer; 9.15g(9.20 for steam. Whisky $1 11. Petroleum-crude 7(a74 ; refined 131.

CHICAGo, June 20.-*Wheat $1 431/ July,$1 24S% August. Whisky quiet; held at $1 07.Dry salt meats-Boxed are held %p higher;shoulders nominally 5, short rib 7. Porksteady; $13 July, $13 15 August. Lard quiet;8.921,a8.95 July, 8.92% August.

CINCINNATI, June 20.-b lour quiet. Wheatquiet and unchanged. Corn steady, 47@50.Whisky strong, $1 07. Pork firm, $13 50.Lard nominal. Bulk meats active; shoulders5, spot and bu er June; short rib 7 cash andbuyer June, 7'1 buyer July. Bacon firm, 5:%to 8%i.

•T. Louis, June 20.-Flour unchanged;Wheat easier; No. 3 red fall $1 17' August;$1 28% bid, July; No. 4 do. $1 471/, hid. Cornopened easier, closed higher; 44@44% cash ;42'4~444(a 44R August. Whisky Quiet.Pork better; $13 37'%,13 40, August. Bulkmeats higher; clear rib 7 bid, cash or Junesales; July. Bacon higher; 5%•8. Lardunchanged. "'_"

MONEY AND STOCKS.[Special to the Democrat.]

NEW YORK, June 20.-Gold 105%. U. S. 6'sof 1881, 110; i110?4 ; do. coupons, 114%; 5-20'sof 1865, new issue, 109%; do. of 1867, 112%•112%; do. 1868, coupons, 115%@116; 10-40's112%; do. coupons, 112' g112' 4 ; currency 6's122 e@122%; new 5's, 111.

Foreign.[Special to the Democrat.]

LONDON, June 20.-Consols for money 947-16. U. S. 5-20's of 1865, 104%; do. of 1867106%; 10-40's, 109%; new 5's, 107%/. Erie, 6%,1

Hayes will go to the Hub soon.

WEST AND SOUTH.

TuP DWEPESNa D CONDITION OF TII•

COUNTRY.

B•rdea of the Banks-The Curue of Debt-Remnonetlzatlen of Oliver.

[J. E. M. In Kansas Oity Times.]

The causes that have resulted in thepresent deplorable condition of thecountty have had their origin in themal-administration of our public affairs.They are too numerous to notice themall. I shall briefly notice some of theprimary ones. The doctrine was ad-vanoed by leading men in the Radicalparty that a public debt was a publicolessing. By the example of the gov-ernment the country was Involved in adebt so vast that when the probableamount is stated it is so immense thatthe mind becomes bewildered in at-tempting to grasp it. It is estimatedthat our individual, municipal, county,State, corporation and Federal debtsamount to about six billions.

The interest on this debt at 6 per centwill amount to the sum of $36),000,000annually. To pay the interest on thedebt the laboring classes must producea surplus of $360,000,000 more than theyconsume. Our entire national wealthwill not amount to more than $15,000,-000,000 and the annual increase on thissum is not more than 3 per cent, andwould be $450,000,000. So we see that topay the Interest on what we owe all theannual increase of our National wealthis consumed except $90,0,0,00; 3 percent increase is a liberal estimate; themost prosperous nation of Europe isonly about 2. Since the chief voc tionof American life by which men expectto rapidly acquire wealth has beenpolitics, through a corrupt admin-istration of the government, our na-tional wealth has been diminishing g in-stead of increasing. To pay the Intereston the debts that we owe is so heavy amortgage on the labor and products ofthe country that it is folly to expect thecountry to be prosperous, as long as allthe surplus of produce is consumed topay interest. Whenever a debt is cre-ated it is a lien on product if it Is everpaid. The farmer who, at the end ofeach year, has to pay interest on a mort-gage that takes all his surplus is aslave for life, for he will never be ableto pay the principal. So with a nation.It Is thlsvast debt fixed on the peopleby corrupt public men that is paraly-zing all the industries of the country,for, if all the profits of labor are to beconsumed to pay interest, it cuts off allmotive for labor to produce a surplusover actual consumption. Again, thevalue of the money that a na-tion uses is one of the most pow-erful factors in its material progressand prosperity. By it all values areregulated and all exchanges of propertyare effected. In a democracy to pre.vent power from consolidation it is ofprimary importance that it should becontrolled and regulated by the peoplethrough their immediate representa-tives. So potent is its influence thatthe power that controls it will controlthe government, Then what monstrousignorance or corruption was it for theRadical Congress to vest in the nationalbanks the power to regulate the our-rency and furnish to the people a sub-stitute for money in the form of paverpromises, whose only possible value isthat it is founded on the pre-existingdebts of the people in the form of theirbonds issued by the government. Ifthese bonds are good enough for thesesoulless banking corporations to is-sue what they call money upon,certainly the Treasury notes of thegovernment could be kept at par withgold and silver. It would be dangerousto democracy and free institutions forthe government to yield to banking in-stitutions the power to issue papermoney, even founded on gold and silverin their vaults, but to create a bankingcapitaton credit and transfer it to co.-porations to issue money without onedollar of gold and silver in their vaults,is creating a totally fictitious bankingcapital and placing it under the controlof mercenary Shylocks. This artificialbanking capital is owned chiefly in thenon-producing States East. and the pro.ducing States South and West are madeslaves to it. For the use of this pre-tended money they pay about 15per cent. So we see that the produc-tive region pays to the non-producingregion the vast sum in interest that con-sumes all the profits of labor and pro-duction in the South and West. Todouble the power and value of this arti-ficial banking capital and to make thepeople of the producing States stillmore the slaves of the Shylocks, a lawpassed by Congress virtually destroyedsilver as a circulating medium, therebymaking these bonds payable alone ingold, and about doubling their valueand power as a banking capital. Aslong as the country is dependent onthese two thousand banks that have ina few years increased their deposits andcirculation to over $1 200,000,000, basedsolely on the credit of the people. it isimpossible to expect general prosperity.No, as long as this Eastern oligarchycontrols the currency of the countrythese Shylocks will get richer andricher and the producing classes in theSouth and West will become poorer andpoorer.

Again, before general prosperity canret'.rn to the people they must have acheaper government. The people arepaying for government annually alarger amount than the entire volumeof our circulating medium of all kinds;i. e., if all the taxes that the people paywere collected on the first day of Jan-uary in each year, every dollar in thecountry would pass from the people intothe hands of the office-holders, andthey would still be largely in debt tothem. Then is it possible for generalprosperity, when annually every dollarin circulation has to be paid bythe producing class to the non-producing office-holders ? The interestthat we pay on our bonded debt, the in-terest we pay to the Eastern bank oli-garchy, and the salaries that we pay theoffice-holders, will amount to at leasttwo per cent more than the net surplusof production over consumption. It isnot more certain that. according to thephysical laws of the universe, aslong as the earth remaineth we shallhave light and darkness, than it is thatthese bondholders, bank monopoliesand palatial office-holders will destroyour free institutions unless the peoplerise up in their sovereignty and free

themselves from these baneful influ-ences.

This presents the question, What isthe remedy ? The first step should beto make silver equal to gold in the pay-ment of all debts, and, as a greaterdifference exists between gold andsilver than exists between premiumnotes and gold, this would bring green-backs up to par with silver and, as sil-ver would be equal to gold in the pay-ment of debts, this would soon placegreenbacks gold and silver all aboutequal, When this was effected, thegovernment should issue its dues to bechiefly paid in bonds and when bondswere taken in for dues to the govern-ment, the government should issue anequal amount of treasury notes andpay them out to defray the ex-penses of the government. By thisprocess the bonded debt could be re-duced each year at least $800,000,000,and the people be presented with thebest paper money in the world thatwould cost them no interest. This pro-cess could continue until the issue wassufficient to supply the wants of thecountry. The banks should be com-pelled to reduce the circulation an-nually in an amount equal to theamount of bonds taken in and substi-tuted by treasury notes. With the sil-ver that we are producing and whatwould flow in upon us from other coun-tries, we would soon have sufficient sil-ver which would be equal to gold, andwith the two metals we could return tothe money provided by the fathers, andwith which we prospered as no othernation ever did.

Again, the greatest reformation thatis necessary to enable the laboring andproducing classes to return to prosper-ity is to get rid of about half of the of-fice-holders, who are quartered like astanding army on the people and con-suming their substance. The questionis how could this he effected? To methe way is clear. We have about fortythousand office-holders employed tocollect the tariff and internal revenue.If the revenue was honestly collected,still this system of collection is in-famously sectional, oppressive andunjust. Then the remedy is toabolish the tariff and the internalrevenue laws, and provide that eachState shall through its State officers,collect their share of the expenses ofthe Federal government, according totheir population and if the State officersdo not collect them the United StatesMarshal should, who:should be furnish-ed with the list of taxable property onwhich the State collected her revenue.If the people would reform these fortythousand officeholders out of office getrid of the famous tariff and the sectionalrevenue laws, in a month's time thelabor, production and commerce of thecountry, with our vast resources, wouldrevive like a strong young man whohad recovered from a loathsome at-tack of scurvy. By this policythe producing classes, who haveto pay the expenses of Goveanment,would reduce its cost about one half,and would get rid of the horde of publicplunderers who are oppressing themand disgracing the country. If we arecapable of self-government, we mustreduce the Democratic idea to practicalbusiness-i. e., we have a certainamount of public business to be done,and the simple question is, how can itbe done best and cheapest? A com-bination was formed by a cabal of theRadical politicians with the foreign anddomestic bondholders and the vastbanking interest that has fixed on thegreat laboring and produciag masses asystem that is in direct conflictwith free institutions and the sov-ereignty of the people. A con-filet is approaching in whichone or the other must give way. Theforces in conflict will be the non-produc-ing interest East against the producinginterest South and West, and if De-mocracy and free institutions are totriumph, it can alone be accomplishedby unity of principle and unity of ac-tionin the great producing regions ofthe South and West. If they are notunited at the ballot-box before the bond-holders, the protectionists, the banksand the office-holders will give up theoppressive advantages they now holdover the producing classes, they willinvolve the country in civil war. But ifthe South and West are united at theballot-box, they may establish justiceand free themselve from oppression in-finitely worse than the tea tax of '76.

RUSSIA' UGROWTH.How the Empire of the Czar has Steadily

Increased.At the beginning of the reign of Ivan

III, the first autocratic ruler of Russia,in the year 1462, the territory he gov-erned comprised about 11,000 Germansquare miles. At his death, in 1505, thewhole extent of his dominion includedabout 43,000 square miles. Under theCzar Ivan IV ("The Terrible") a considerable quantity of territory was an-nexed, so that at the time of his death,in 1584, the Russian empire may be com-puted to have contained 75,003 squaremiles. Theodore I, who succeededIvan, acquired territory from theSwedes, and also pushed his conquestsbeyond the Ural Mountains; and at hisdeath, in 1598, the Russian sway ex-tended over 130,000 square miles. Onthe accession of Michael I, in 1613, the ex-tent of the Russian empire may be takenat 156,000 square miles. Peter I. by hisnumerous conquests, materially in-creased its extent, and at his death, in1725, it comprised 282,454 square miles.During the reigns of the EmpressesAnna Ivanovna, Elizabeth and Catha-rine II, large annexations were made,so that on the death of the latter, in1796, the Russian dominions extendedover 352.472 square miles. The EmperorPaul I added Georgia to his dominions.Alexander I conquered Finland and an-nexed other territories, increasing theextent of the Russian empire before hedied, in 1825, 366,582 squire miles; whileNicholas I, by the campaigns of 1828and 1829, secured to Russia the khanatesof Erivan and Nahitchevan, the districtof Ordubab and the pashalic of Achal-zic, raising the total extent of the Rus-sian empire to 367,112 square miles.Thus, since the reorganization of theRussian sovereignty under Ivan III,some 400 years ago, the territorialdominions of Russia have increased tothirty-five times their original size.

To-day we offer great iuducementa in towels,towel -g, craeb, etc. To-morrow, Friday, rem-nant day. Remnants of all kinds of goods atless than halt price. M. L. Byrne & aO., 163 1•anal street.

TROUBLES IN COLORADO.

sECAlION MOVIIEMENT AND NEWSTATS PROJECTS.

PolitIelanm Endeaverlsn to Change thePresent Tertltorial boundary Lines.

[ ipeelal Corresspondene of the World.]Dsvvzn CoL., May 2.--The new West

seems to be in a state of perpetual po-litical ferment. The art of addition,division and silence among their lead-ers is well understood and shrewdlypractised. There is no plodding states-manshlp such as the older parts of theEast can boast of but a rapid schemingand swift conclusion which seem to seteverything into a whirl. A Legislaturein Colorado, Wyoming or New Mexicocannot meet without at once givingbirth to some startling project for theremoval of the capital, the cutting upof counties, the granting of female suf-frage or the changing of some of thecustoms of society. It has got to sucha pass that the people are heartily gladthat Legislatures meet but once in twoyears. In spite of this fact, however,the politicians are never quiet. Theywork up some measure for Congress toact upon at almost every session. Thebill getting Colorado in as a State wasthe hardest thing they have had to backup for years, but success in that has re-newed their courage. New Mexico comesnext, and although the chances are notby any means flattering, as developed bytheir attempts during the last sessionof Congress, yet they are going to makea bold move again the coming winter,and though the "greasers" down thatway protest, yet New Mexico will takeon Statehood if Congress can be per-suaded. The possibility of success hasbanded the natives into a secessionmovement-the taking off the westernportion of the Territory and voting it apartof Arizona. This will enable.themto keep "unspotted from the world,"dodge taxes and bask in oblivion. TheNew Mexicans are a slow set constitu-tionally, and if they can get away fromschools, churches, newspapers andprogress they are happy. Those ofthem who live in the southern countiesof Colorado have shown much discon-tent at high taxes, the advent of rail-roads and Statehood, and are selling outas fast as they can and moving on downinto old Mexico. A few years more andthe "greaser" will be a rare species inColorado.

One of the newer movements a gooddeal talked of is the, secession of theSan Juan mining country from theState of Colorado. Some of the am-bitious politicians down there thinkthat their country was left out in thecold in the selection of State officers,and had no fair representation, accord-ing to population, in the Legislature.So they propose to take the remedyilnto their own hands. They have hadtwo or three mass conventions andhereabout cooked up a Southern Con-federacy in Colorado. The temper ofthe leaders in the movement may bebest seen from the following extractsfrom a speech made by one of them atDel Norte not long ago:

"I am endowed with no propheticvision, yet I venture the prediction thatbut few years shall have dropped intothe past before the legislative repre-sentatives of Del Norte will go to theCapitol on foot-not that they will betoo poor to ride, but because the Capitolwill be at their doors; for unless we ar3greatly deceived in the undevelopedwealth of our mineral-veined moun-tains, unless we are deceived in the pro-ductiveness of our valleys, the time isnot long distant when Del Norte will bethe capital city of a new State whoseeastern boundary will be yonder moun-tains."

"May the day soon dawn when weshall be cut off forever from the polit-ical magnates of the North, who, asthey hold the balance of power, havecompelled us to sue and to beg for ourpolitical rights and- then have deniedour prayer. May the memory of-ourwrongs linger with us, may the shameof our defeat abide with us and animateus in the building up of an independentsovereignty, which shall be the bright-est star in the nation's diadem."

The seceders are not fully united asto the best way out of their difficulties,but it is quite probable that their firstmovement will be heard of at the nextsession of Congress, when a petitionwill go in asking for the organization ofa new Territory out of SouthwesternColorado and the adjoining portions ofNew Mexico, Utah and Arizona. Look-ing to this result settlers have beenpushing down the western slope of themountains into the rich valleys of Utah,and colonists have taken up the bestportions of the Jacarilla Apache reser-vation in New Mexico. The San JuanValley and Cimmeron inhabitants ofNew Mexico, mostly Americans, wantto be free from the old slow-going Ter-ritory, and are easily persuaded to joinin the scheme for a new confederacy.

Could these ambitious, far West poli-ticians carry through half their pro-jects there would be such a cutting upof Territories that it would task theReographers to keep the run of things.There is strong talk of parceling outUtah, the east half, as far as Salt LakeCity and including the principal settle-ments of that vicinity, to go to Colorado,and the balance to be set off to Montana,Nevada and Arizona, leaving Brighamwithout a dominion, and compellinghim to observe the laws or "pull upstakes." There are a coupleof projects on foot that worrythe people of Cheyenne a gooddeal. One is the formation of the newTerritory of Lincoln, by which Chey-enne loses all her northern possessions;and the other is the plan that Coloradopoliticians have have been quietly de-bating-of swallowing up the southernhalf of the Territory, including theUnion Pacific and all the towns alongits line. This would add a good deal ofpopulation and some 300 miles of rail-road to Colorado, a good thing for tax-ation, and takes Wyoming entirely off.he mao.Some of these schemes will no doubt

be carried out in time. These WesternStates and Territories occupy vasttracts, empires in themselves, and theirrapid settlement will yet see divisionsand subdivisions, changes that in thenext twenty years may blot out all theTerritories and cut them up into wellpeopled States. When the settlementsof Cherry Creek disputed their alle-glance to Kansas in 1859, no one dreamedthat they were the nucleus of the future

State of Oolorado. The thousands thathave been drifting towards Deadwoodthe past few months may another yeasee that young mining camp the capttalof a new erritory, while the peqple oiSan Juan. who have built Lake City t,be a thriving town of 4000 people, maysee it the centre of another new Btate.

PITKIN ON HUTrMHIEo.r.

[leolnnati Enquirer.]To the Editor of the Enquirer--y at-tentlon has just been called to an inter-

view, on the 11th Inst. between a re-porter of your journal and one I.

hutoheson, wherein the latter dis-courses with some license coneerningpersons and matters here. Tn order tolend emphasis to hit terms it is stated

y way on reface--ad doubt at hisenee-that since he r gg

here from Ohio he has become "a reo•onized leader of the Republican party.•This information is new here. Hehas been known, where knownat all, as a petty attorneywho has hung around the doors oeRepublican Conventions soliciting andnomination of a minor character Whliohe imagined he might compass.Last fall, owing to the inability of theRepublican party in this parish (county)of Orleans to avail itself of an adequatenumber of able attorneys of its own po-litical faith, as candidates for the paro-chial benches, it reluctantly nominatedhim for one of those posts, only to findhim run wofully behind his ticket. Atthe same period I was besought byhim, and by one or two others In hisbehalf, to have him assigned as a speak-er in the canvass of our country par-ishes, but I found that nobody wantedto hear him, because he was unknown.Aware himself of his disadvantage, yeteager to accost the Republican sect andinvite its confidence, he wrote, somemonths before the last canvass begana prolix "speech," which at the requestof one of his confiding friends, I causedto be published in our then daily partyprint here. It fell still-born-it was thefruitless effort of a man who seemed toknow that he could not gather anaudience. I should know better thanany one else what he has done in Lou-isiana palitios, and I am not aware thathe ever spent a dollar, controlled a vote,was sought for a political opinion or par-ticipated in a single Republican bounoilsince he wandered down here an anti-war Democrat. Later, he became a Re-publican in deference to our State ad-ministrations of that faith,and they con-eluded he was a Hayes man, becausefrom Hayes alone can he hpe forofficial alms. He went to Washingtonseveral weeks ago to secure some postthat might afford him a subsistencewhich his profession falls to assure, andwas requited as "a supporter of Hayes'Administration" by getting considera-tion fully commensurate to the value ofhis "support," id eat, nothing. If he be"the counsellor of Mr. Hayes him-self." I rejoice that has a good c!.,oItat last. and I marvel no .anger thatHaeys hat dimae so many asioine thingsof~t oonoerning Louisiana, I lmagnerthat 0ol. Wharton will be amused toread this excerpt from the Interview;"Wayne MeVeigh hadn't anything todo with it (Wharton's appointment.) Hehadn't half as mach to do with it as Ihad." As twice McVeigh's nothing isHutcheson's nothing, the latter unwit-tingly confesses the measure of his in-fluence. I had supposed that as hiscareer here has been a failure, palliatedonly by its obscurity, he had concludedto try Ohio anew, at least so far as toclaim, upon the basis of a domicilethere, a Consulate or something ofthat sort under your States pre-emption right to Administration favor.He can command no indorsementshere from either party. He is a robust"fraud"-a term by which he stigma-tizes some of his colored betters herewhom General Comly recently presentedto the President. He is fortunate only inthat he can indemnify himself from-theaffluent resource of his self-esteem forthe plentiful lack of esteem accordedhim here. Louisiana did not tip upwhen he went hence to Washington,and his nose did not tip up elate whenhe left there without a bestowal of thePension Agency here. His "support"of Hayes is contingent on Hayes' substantial support of him. It is wellknown that the Commission, when here,snubbed him. Very respectfully, yourobedient servant,

J. R. G. PITRnx.

GOLD IN NEW YORK.

A Rich Ocean of Gold Dlsrevered AlmoestIn Sight of New York City.

[N. Y. Times.]The desire to prospect over the often

prospected Highlands for minerals hasbeen greatly increased by developmentsmade recently in a lawsuit in Kingston.It is a well known fact that for severalyears prominent citizens of Ulstercounty have been seeking indications ofmineral in the Shawangunk Mountains.Among these are Dr. Edgar Eltinge andand Mr. Royal Dimmick. They havebeen quietly conducting investigations,but the public generally took no inter-est in the matter. It now turns out thatthey have had an old Mexican minerprospecting for them, and, acting on hisadvice, they have secured the lease ofseveral tracts of land on Huesey Hill,near the city, which the miner sayscovers a rich vein of gold. The secrecythat had been maintained in the opera-tions of these gentlemen was removeda few days ago by the lawsuit men-tioned. It seems that one of the tractsleased was in dispute as to title. Thequestion of the value of the land cameup, and Rcyal Dimmick was called as awitness. He swore that he consideredthe mineral deposit on the land worth$100,000. He had made an experimentalopening and found gold and silver. Thespecimens yielded from $256 down to$3 30 a tOn. The vein, he said, was sixfeet wide, but of course, its depth wasunknown. These specimens he hadprocured at one blast, and it removedthe rock only to the depth of a foot.These developments have created agreat sensation in that part of Ulstercounty, and have stimulated the othertreasure-seekers in the Shawangunk torenewed exertions.

BEM~Arr DAY.-After a week's rush at b. L.Byrne & to.'s dry goode bhaoe, there are manvaluable odds and ends, not being large enoughfor dress patterns, sold for one-half theiractual inue, and by attending these rales everyFriday one may get very great bargains in theway oI remnan•s. See thcir advezsaameni.