New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-05-31
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Fifth Ward National Reconst rurtion
Club speeches by hessrs. Ogden, Lam,
bert, and Zacharie.

lnere was II pretty lull attendance last
evening at the New Orleans Ballroom, on
Orleans street. After few remarks by the
president, Robert n. Ogden was introduced.
lie said he saw around him men who had
shared with him the tented field, (he did
not say on which side of the great struggle
for the salvation of the country or its des-
tructlon, but it was upon the latter.) He in
voked his hearers in the name of Charles
DreuX, who fell npon that field, (upon the
same side) to act as Mr.. ID. would act were
he here.
However, he advised them to register as
they might now do under the liberal decision
of Attorney General Stanbery, and to vote.
Cultivate the friendship of the Northern
element among you. Consult your better
Judgment in this matter, not giving way to
the natural impulses OF your hearts. That
element has similar interests to yours. The
North is determined to beat into your heads,
so to speak, with the butt of the musket,
the fact that Northern capital shall be used
a safely here as at home. As this is newt
able. let me impress it upon you, said he.
Swallow your prejudces against the
negro, and influence him by every means
to vote with the South. He is
most grateful being, vo d Of the spirit
of revenge, said Mr. Ogden, and with
such characteristics he can be won to vote
with his old friends and against well, it
is impossible for any reporter to write all
the cpithets which the speaker applied here
to the great radical Republican party of the
country.l Prove to the negro said he, that
congressman suited to you are equally so to
him. Let us acknowledge the negro poiiti.
cally our equal; though we, being otherwise
his superior, must govern him, or war of
| races, destroying one or the other of us,
must ensue. Mr.. Ogden favored the princ-
ple-[a radical Republican one1-of the
building of levees and other river and har-
Dor Improvements by the national govern
ment.
| Tban 1,upcbir,, m o,o+bo,,o ,,,or A..
heads of Judge Yarmouth and other lead
ing gentlemen of the Republican persua-
sion, he went back 70 old Rome to prove by
the history of Carioanus that it Is better
for those who had fought upon the afore.
said tented field to try and save New Orleans
| than TO destroy ito cherish their native
mother State and receive The blessings of
Louisiana by SO doing. Applause followed
this classical close.
Mr.. Jules Lambert was the next speaker.
| He addressed the meeting in the most encr.
| getic manner in the French language. He
would not offer apology for SO doing, it
being the mother tongue of so many Loui-
siana's old citizens. He was not poiti-
clan: az cOHtrdire. But he would simply
review the political situation, which he did
very prettily, and with marked ability. If
il is dark-lf a cloud appears, said he light
a candle, and all is light Enlightenment
is wanted. He acknowledged that the time
is dark. He advised all to register. and TO
| treat the freedmen with justice and as fe-
low men. Make no distinction for cOor's
sake. His remarks were well received, and
deserved to be. On closing the band greet
ed him with the enl!yeming Marseilialse.
Colonel Zacharie entering the hall at the
moment was called to the stand. He re-
marked that he came to hear and not speak;
| but each and all should bear his part, aad
he proceeded to address the meeting. He
| discussed the reconstruction law clearly,
Z said rot "A matter n phnipn fpr tha
| South, no option is given in the matter.
| For himself he had long since determined
to accept the situation and he advised
his auditors to do the same II they had not,
and register, preparatory to exercising their
right of franchise. He favored general
participation, and was sorry so few whites
had yet registered. They should spare no
effort to obtain the treedman's vote. Thus
far the matter had been imprudently man
aged. Each one OF you, said he, each
| Southerner has some influence with one or
more negroes; use it, aud show them the
Republicans ara not their friends. Show
them the injustice to the negro ana the
white Southcrner Of the cotton tax (Which
the REPUBLICAN also shows, and tayors its
repeaD, and convince them that we, their
old masters, are their old friends. Mr.. u.
. closed by again urging all to register, when
the meeting adjourned, not condescendiug
to notice the motion of one of its irrepressl-
bic members to give three cheers for Jetfer-
son Davis, though another was found to
second the motion.
Error
We are requested TO state that the name
! of Captain Q. S. Sauvinet was omitted erro-
+ neously from the list of vice presidents OF
/ the meeting in Lafayette square on Wednes.
, day evening.
Boiler Expiosion-steamboat Accident at
the Levee.
Shortly after o'clock yesterday morning
h the donkey boiler on the port side of the
r Louisville packet St. Mary's exploded, the
i, engineers being at the time engaged in
y raising steam for the purpose of pumping
J. water into the main boiler. Of a sudden
!. with terrific force, the explosion took place
+, and the boiler was lifted through the cabin
:, and hurricane decks carried clean over the
steamboat Leonidas, lying next to the St
n Mary's. and came down upon the hurricane
8 deck of the Ruth, going through inlo the
ladies' cabin and stopping there. Stimuli
taneously both smoke stacks of the St
- Mary's fell, fortunately both of then
J athwart the hull, but smashing out the
y upper works of the boat on the port or levee
q side, and crushing everything beneath
= them. By the force of the concusson, too,
: the stateroom.doors, otherwise uninjurcd
were blown off or broken, the solid walnut
;. counter in the clerks office was cracked
. from end to end, and the furniture, crock
:. cry, and chandeliers in the cabin were in q
= :, No lives were lost, and this is really
7 proyidential III view of the violence of th'
. explosion. Two engineers of the boat
u a Peter seIbold and o. Miller, were slightly
J, scalded, as was also Mr.. c. E. Dunn,
!, !, gentleman who had taken passage, and wa
. awaiting the boats departure to night. 4
J colored cabin boy was also hurt by beinl
= struck on the head by flying fragment
! and a news boy is said to have been scaldeC
4 quite seriously.
= The st. Mary's reached this city from Louis
y vile on Wednesday morning, and was still
;, engaged in the discharging of her cargo
, when the disaster occurred. She is com
h mauded by Captain B. f. Goodwin, and he
- clerk Is Morris Dorsey. This latter gentle
- man appears TO be peculiarly unfortunate
in steamboating, he having been in com
mand of the Inflated steamboat Como, re
Gently burned on Trinity river, Texas.
IA The entire amount of damage is estimated
- at about $4,000. Messrs A. Britton Co
"a were the agents of the boats.
" The damages sustained on board the Rutl
:. aud Leonidas were considerable. On tn
h latter boat the chandeliers were shattere'
c to fragments by the conclusion, while tn
r descent of the boiler into the ladies' cabii
of the Ruth caused, we learn, little othe
n injury than the breaking of the woodwork
h The exploded boiler was a tubular wit
,e seven fiues, and previous to the explosion
;. It had been filed with water TO aid III clear
a ing out the other boilers.
a slapg shot and Razor.
h John Martin, colored, has been sent b
Is Recorder Gastinel before the criminal conr
IT to be tried for having. on the 18th instant