The Louisiana Democrat., 1866-06-20
New Orleans Correspondence.
NEW ORLEANS. JUNE Cd. 1865.

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NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 2d, 1866.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT: The new police en-
tered upon their functions yesterday
These men are to hold Office during good
behavior, and are no longer to be thu
slaves of party, or the myrmidons of the
man in office. The charges against a
policeman must be made by responsible
citizens, and a police board will investi
gate them. A new Mayor cannot turn
them out, nor can their claims to a posi-.
tion be enforced byrufianism or personal
party influence. Mayor Monroe has shewn
exceeding discrimination in selecting his
men. Sooth to say, most of them are yete.
rams from the campaigns of Virginia and
Tennessee, and from the bloody fields Of
the Trans-M Mississippi; and they are all the
filter to be- the conservators of the public
peace. They have suffered, and know the
value of human sympathy for distress and
fallen fortunes. They will not tyrannize
over the weak, and they have the courage
to Withstand and overpower the bully and
desperate. r. fees ais aysa SRA
There was time when, to be q police.
man, was not at all commendatory Of q
mans status in society, because those had
the preference for appointments who could
bring the most votes for the party in Of
fee, OF whose unlawful deeds could most
intimidate the party which was striving
to get in. Now. the thing is reversed-the
policeman of to-day is from necessity, a
model Of good behavior; he wields no in.
fuence at the polls, he is forbidden to fre-
qnent coffee houses and brothels, and it at
last is credit to be enumerated among
the city police. .tss ,;,sr
They are all to be uniformed, too. As
they are appointed for life, or rather dur
ing good behavior, each man, as he was
qualified, received an order to the tailor
who obtained the contract, for taking his
measure and fitting him to neat suit of
blue cloth, cap, &c. When once fully or
ganiaed, the new police, under the watch.
full superintendent of chief Tom Adams
ESQ well known for his manly, honest
heart all over the Trans Mississippi will
be credit and an ornament to the .Cres-
cent City.
Disturbed and trammelled in all his ma.
chinations, his Excellency, the defeated
candidate for coroner in your Parish, has
fallen back into obscnrity. If it were not
for highly colored lithograph Of the dis
tinguished functionary at Lilienthars on
Poydras Street, and his name at the foot
of some law or proclamation in the daily
papers, be would seem to have met with
Il similar fate to q more prominent poll
tician's ofthe same family, on whom Pres
ident johnson would not waste his ammu-
milton. s. i2t 3
The illustrious Michael Hahn was on his
way down the Mississippi, q fortnight ago,
as we accidently learned here in New Or
leans, from an extract from letter to the
Memphis Argus, written by q gentleman
attached to that paper, who happened to
be travelling on the same boat, but wheth-
er that famous ex-pub fnnc came as far as
the scene Of his former grandeur neither
nor anybody l know can tell.
Let me give you an instance of the
wTetched system Of government under
which our poor city has groaned ever
since the arrival Of Butler up to within a
few months. A street in the Fourth Dis
trict called Washington Avenue required
large quantity of soil wherewith to raise
it to the proper grade-this street is not
only destined to be q great thoroughfare,
but the festive gentlemen who sported
shoulder straps and drove fast horses
wanted an additional shell road. So the
levees were deprived Of large portion Of
the earth that composed them, which was
carried off to do duty in filling up Wash
ington Street. The consequence is that
the city government will have to disburse
an hundred thousand dollars to restore the
levee to its former strength and useful
ness. gs 10 i l
If all the abuses and rascalities Of the
past five years in the city Of New Orleans
could be compiled they would fila volume
as big as Doomsday book.
The trial of Grubers murderers has been
postponed, but until what time / am una.
BILE to say, Does it not seem strange that
an infirm man, upwards Of three score and
ten, should have been admitted on the
jury in a most important murder case?-
Yet such man was received on this trial
as juryman, and as was to be expected
he became inanimate during the first days
proceedings and tho trial had to be post.
poned.| u f 1tFfs5 iits@
In another trial for murder, last week,
the jury found verdict of manslaughter
against a female criminal accused Of hav-
ing poisoned her landlady for the purpose
Of obtaining tho furniture in the house
which they occupied Either the accused
was guilty Of murder most foul, or she was
innocent--she administered the poison, Of
she did not; and averdict Of gnilty or a
verdict of innocent should have been rem,
dered. !, ea Wis ,i9s sfs
The times are ont Of joint fo9 ISL
Did it never strike yon that the meu in
Congress who legislate for the nation arr
exactly the same men on a more extended
scale as the Hahns and Dosties, the Ken
nedy's and Wells, who have misrnled the
State of Louisiana since the great struggl,
began9
Before this letter reaches you you viii
have received accounts Of the Fenian inva
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