New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-28


yided that it should no longer be issued, but
,be officials couldn't " stand the press, and
shel!ed out continually.
Mount. however, comes in, and like new
broom sweeps clear way for this old weak
and dying ordinance to move.
He issues no more city notes.
He discharges every .employe of the old
Treasurer. He gathers new lines in his
hands and starts fair with his badly spay
iued financial business.
The Legislature, too, comes to the help OF
the moor devils who have been working all
these sultry days for sixty cents on the dol
lar, and are about to provide that the city
government be put at once on greenback
basis-no more city notes paid out: no more
city notes received by those pleasant gen.
tlemen, the Tax Collectors.
What will become then of this flood of
shinplasters that is left out in the cold
How much is there of it,
81, 4OO, 900, or Whereabouts, the city officials
say, but Quien sabe,
The Committee on Ways and Means of the
House is authorized to send for persons and
sHar the question.
In Bag of near date we will give some
sncy rouances of the Treasurer's and Con-
troller's offices, which will serve to illus.
trate the economy of certain thrifty indiyid.
nails and display to the patient public the
easy means by which corporations are swim
died.
1,I,a HON oil ~ N II
front rank of commission merchants, and
will try to show how they do it.
And all through city money.
May the Bon Dieu hasten the day when
city notes may be but tradition on our
streets.
We did think that advancing civilization
had retired the OAKS to such distance from
the Clay statue that irate and touchy young
men would fail in these latter days to find
them.
We were mistaken, however.
The growing reputation of Sdmb0ld, it
seems, must have blood to feed it. LaresoAe
remarks. "You do not think there is any
4 lawyer in town but Mr.. Sambola."
To which remark Bossier excerpts and
/, by gradual steps inveiglcs Laresche TO the
OakS, shoots him with double-barreled
Shotgun, waves his triumphant shotgun
OVer his victorious head, and retires a hap
BY man to the quiet of the Parish Prison.
!, cotemporary says: I'VE are told it is
!, bot the intention of the relatives Of the
deceased to prosecute the case
Which is very handsome on the pant of
he relatives.
But at this stage of our writing comes
he evening Times of yesterday and bears
Die truly affecting letter of Bossier, as fol-
DEs, to wit:
New ORLEANS, July 26, 1865.
30" To the Editor fhe Aeir Orleans Times
rY b the report in your local columns this
' ROrning Sunday of that most unhappy
' ltar which occurred yesterday, between
~ r. Paul Z. Laresche, Jr., and myself, re
n Alting In the untimely fate of that unfOr-
y" nnate young man, there occurs a most
=, faVe error, unintentional, know, on your
iN AH but an error which, when ! read
j." struck me to the very heart. 1t was
the effect that had waved my gun over
-, =. head and hurrahed when my opponent
ii@ u. If an exclamation escaped my lips it
Am as OF horror and Iemorse at the decd-at
a'n cling one lying there with whom had so
q
d. the agonies of death, and by my own
.her md. begged his friends there upon the
It " Id five or six times to ALLOW me to go TO
m, clasp his hand, and ask his forgiveness.
'M refused until he came to his own house
allow me to do so.
.>~ ]. S. BOssIER.
We interrupt our gossip to read this COM
orrr fnication. We are glad to read it.
ng Ind yet, it does strike us, and we confess
aud Is candid Bag, that Mr.. BOssier might
saA Ee spared himself the "horror and re
= tse at the deed" if he had held little
n, check his chivalric notions of insult and
= enge for insult.
Z 3 ia little late to feel bad for friend,
o, want to clasp his hand,' and all that,
/ Is ryou have put charge of buckshot in
I larsS; body.
Is sTSS Be fact is, and while we mention it no
arch of shame, but glow of pride mantles
arch cheek, our "CARPET-BAG is one of
s aTSb y conveniences which "came over" in
, IHs5 kAYFLowGR.
arch don't believe in dueling, per Sc, or any
arch arch aWay.
sreR aas seen some campaigns and has made
arch arch low for a soldiers head, but 1t is glad to
arch ound at fault when asked to compre-
lTSSS the logic which solves questions for
a aEcS ds al twenty PAGES and with shotguns.
arch
irch ! House of Representatives Of the
lrch 4 Of Louisiana is we'll served House.
aTcb has twenty-seven committees, and each
,Oh h aittee started in trade with a clerk, a
aroh and reasonable supply of marbletop
VI a. d and stationery.
Y u II lew days since the poor pages, who
IsI q abouttwenty.fve cents and received
J Is, il dollars per day, were ruthlessly cut
Jollscia Re cutting off TO take effect on August
Elk, attempt has been made to reduce the
Y per Of clerks somewhat, but it's "no
know of one chairman of a committee
70 Pa high toned clerk who appears at
eas hour in the morning to brush his
"a and black his boots.
ws rally eight dollars day is too much
State TO pay for it.
Clear the chairman don't think so, for
ne vsEy ea 70 retain the clerk ~
IL ' any chairman OF committee dioide
, II ISTa. clerk the eight dollars per diem!
/ FioHS you can't tell.
8 sroVn NE contingent expenses We have
e S ths q carefully in our Bag for some of the
Of Pens which is delivered in the half-iohn