New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-05

"A exhibitions great show of Moral Wax
5rk and Wild Animals. The Fifth Avenue
{ b the Five Points met together-the men
b wear kid gloves and the men who wear
I. ss knuckles kissed each other. The
!. mer represent the Moral Wax Figures,
4 the latterthe Wild Animals. The former
headed by Mr.. Belmont with his
! bent-per-shent,n and the latter by Mr..
ID Rabbit with his slung shot.
eing party offalse pretenses, it was but
ural that the selection Of day for the
ting of their National Convention
]. uld be an act of quackerJ. At least
their delegates have for
Y en years past religiously re.
d Id to celebrate the Fourth OF July at
Y and of the other hall. goodly share
I 'e used the day to encourage the enc.
/ B of the Union, and to assert that the
trines of the Declaration of Independ-
4 }, whose adoption the day is menat to
pirate, are nothin but "glittering geHer.
lessor transparent falsehoods. We are
\ that Tammany Hall is "magnifcently
= rated" for this pleasant assembly of pc.
sal frauds. 1t would be interesting to
! " whether the following words are EN-
oned among those decorations: "We |
Z these truths to be self evident, that all |
y are created equal.n
81. johnson, too, whose genius for official |
'hntrap entities him to more favor at the
,IQ9s of the Democratic party than he
4
s likely to receive has Fourth of Ju.lied |
his amnesty proclamation. We think
b its recitals might have been improved. |
I'D it not have been more truthful, to |
he least, if, instead of the "whereases'
ID which it was preisced, he had begun
' is way:
HEREAs, The Democratic Convention |
y Is on the Fourth of July; and
e heTeas, do not much hope to be nom |
! I'D, but would like to get a compli-
ntary vote; and
I hereas, There is a possibility that some |
u be American people may be humbugged;
Whereas, a general amnesty of all rebels |
DO no harm, because it can have no eff.
as against the Constitutional amend |
III when adopted, or as against the reso
" ns imposed by State constitutions;
hereas, A proclamation Of this sort may
IL seful as ground bait;"
q w, therefore, etc.
d beg to tell story to illustrate this
I en- love of the Fourth Of July, and its
! meaning. There was once deacon
q had wife who worried and "nagged7
n SO that he quietly went one
and threw himself into mill
~. A long time after the neigh
dragged the pond and found his body,
. III was full of fat eels. They put the
in a basket and the body on shutter,
nj went to the house of the widow, called |
put, and told her what they had found.
y, pourse she wept and walled as such |
q ws always do; but after few moments
q good neighbors asked:
That shall we do with the body n
How many eels did you say you found |
% ~ replied the widow.
about bushel.9
We're they good cells ~
Very fine and fat
Vel, said she, pensively, II think you'd |
fr set it again"
" y us have Tammany Hall and A. John.
set it again.
a Justices Court not two thousand |
eI L from the town of Csrrollton, there was
2 L in reference to the title to certain |
e which had run wild all summer. The |
ntif1s counsel, a famonsly dignifed |
ing gentleman, called witness who was
deaf and not especially gifted, and the
a wing satisfactory evidence was elected:
>, wyer-" Do you know plaintiffs pigsg' |
= illness" Whatgn
Rwyer-" Do you know plaintiffs pigs 81 |
itness-" Yes.
!. wyer-" How long have you known
tness-'f whatY
wyeF- !" How long have you known |
tness--'s Fed 'em all last spring y
wyer g Well, sir, were they all about
:, sizegn
tness-''What?,
y wyer-'' We're they all about Of sizeis
!, illness s. what2
wyer-( Explosively, and jumping on
4 Ieet) Were they all about of a size.e'
ID tness-"Well, some of EN- was and
of 'em wasnF.v asaa4
81 "a .asse S.
be Democratic papers of New York fre-
!, ntly contain advertisements calling on
;, unterrihed- to rally, and headed with
quotation, Awake, arise, or be forever
IN The appropriateness Of the quota.
WILDE at once evident to any one who