New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-02

Of all subjects. 1t is ready with dago
and gumbo and American and other dla'
lects. 1t is melancholy to reflect that such
beauty and such volubility should be shut
out from the Senate, and RENTED to the
comparative obscurity of the Recorders
courts.
A learned Judge has called our attention
to an absurd phrase which is current in
speeches and leading articles, and pur-
porte to be Shakspearian, namely, vault
ing ambition which o'erleaps itself and
falls on the other side" Now, says the
Judge, can you imagine anything leaping
over itself and falling on the other side of
itself? 1t is an evident corruption of the
text. The original doubtless read, lover
leaps its selle" (old Norman word for sddde).
In other words, when you by to vault on
your high horse be careful not to jump clear
over the saddle and tumble in heap on the
other side of the animal. The attention OF
ambitious Democrats is called to this good
advice.
Speaking of Democrats reminds US ofeats,
and we desire to mildly protest against our
neighbors' cats We live and keep our
carpet.bag (Which contains fourteen shirts
aAd Bible) in modest house, which we
will not name lest admiring throngs should
crowd the adjacent banquette and obstruct
the highway. We keep no cats. city cat
is afraid of city rats, and is of no use as
against them. If city cat should
attack city rat, all ratdom
in the vicinage would turn out, aud the
result would be "tail of horror" for pussy.
We therefore keep no cats, but our neighbor
keeps five. They sit all day on our front
gallery. and at night they make night hid
eous. They destroy no vermin, but they
murder sleep and steal from our harder.
There will be a catastrophe some of these
moonlit ewes. We speak felinely.
Would it not be well for the Camp street
newspapers to stop talking about "mendi-
cant loyalists?p There is no harm in a m an
being poor. But there is great harm in q
man being an insolvent, living luxuriously
on the interest of his debts, and peering at
honest poverty as "mendicant." Did the
Camp street editors ever read the list Of
debtors of the First National Bank, and see
how many Confederate" generals, colonels
and majors and ''enemies" are on that list Z
If they like, Mr.. Case, the Receiver, will
show it to them. We do not propose to be
mean, and do not accuse these gal
liant debtors of stealing these hundreds of
thousands; but we merely hint Sin burst
of confidence" that when all these people
and the other supporters of the Lost Cause
have paid the First National Bank, the idle
gibe about "mendicant loyalists" will be in
better taste than it is at this writing.
Dr. Knapp is good dentist and can beau
tify your mouth-'in spite of your teeth
| if those teeth chance to be uncomely. He
makes false teeth which deceive the very
elect;n but if we are to trust the report OF
| the Committee on Credentials, he is not
equally skillful in fabricating returns,
which shows that every man should beware
how he leaves his regular trade and at
tempts new sort of manufacture.
The late Governor Andrew, of Massachu.
sets, uttered the following sentiment
shortly before his death, which is worth re.
Numbering;
Iknow not what record of sin may await
me in another world, but this I know:
was never mean enough to despise any man
because he was ignorant, nor because be
was poor, nor because he was black.
The education of idiots is a noble branch
of modern charity, and we ought to have
an asylum for them in Louisiana. We
would send to it that large class of imbe
Giles who pun on mems names, as if suct
jetIr desprit were funny. 1t would be es
pecially an act of kindness to send to sucl
place for treatment the zsny who wrote {
series of such brilliant jokes for a morning
contemporary some days ago, on the namO
Of Lieutenant Governor Dunn, for not salts
fed with the inanity of the tests he wa
idiotic enough to explain them by italic
and parentheses. To make poor joke il
horrible enough, but to feel obliged to ex
plain it--good heavens
1t is said that the capitalists OF Norfolk
refuse to build city railroads lest oolorel
people should ride on them. We presume
they would if possible decline to have air
hBub, anu Wd0oA vi WIG SahO PllAOlPlO
There is an instructive story of snail whC
was SO high and mighty that she moved
into an empty tortoise shell, and persisted
with cold in trying to keep up the appear
ance of first family.
The Ptcayune is editorially unhappy
because an armed police is protecting the
legislature from threatened violence, ant
manifests its sorrow in its usual milk-and
water way. twas not bit sorry ON tht
thirtieth of July, 1ee6, when an armed
police shot and murdered the members ant
spectators of peaceful assembly in the
same building by the hundred.
The Lowell Courier says the Democrats
propose to run General Amnesty agains
| NanarDl Grant A mild inka