New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-14
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MJscELLAAzOUs NEWS ITEMS.
The Neward Advertiser says Mayor Peddie
oi that city has returned from his trip
through the South and will saan resume
the regular duties connected 4 rs i ! Office.
be has visited most of II u ss II The
Southern States, stopping .glil 81 Il New
Orleans and Galveston. Tgtu ing hB was
present at Washington dGfu snie Of the
most important procee5u9 ct the impeach.
nent trial. de was slC 0psniad by Mrs.
Peddie and other menA family.
Ohio has been consDis1 5us in the im-
peachmeut trial -one Of her sons presiding
as Chief Justice. two delivering great
speeches for the defense and the fourth to
close for the prosecution, which, if the
third is successful places the fifth in the
Presidential chair.
The city election in South Bend, Indiana,
was warmly contested, and Tesnlted in .
splendid Republican success. The mayor
and entire Repub lean ticket are elected by
an average majority Of I50 and Republican
councilmen elected in every ward but one.
This is Mr.. CotaX's home. Mishauaka, in
the same county has also elected the entire
Republican municipal ticket by an average
majority of l75.
Every member of the Arkansas Legisla-
ture now in session is able to write his own
name. Such an accident has not hitherto
occurred within the memory of the oldest
inhabitant of that State. What degenerate
days are thesei What terrible thing is
Congressional reconstruction
The Hon. R. J. Walker has in charge the
first case Of litigation from Alaska. 1t is .
land suit, the fruit of genuine Yankee
speculation, and goes before the Supreme
Court at Washington, which is the only
Uuites States court having jurisdiction in
that Territory,
Some poetaster has been cruel enough to
portray the terrible things the Democracy
! were to do if Johnson were impeached in
| this wise:
We are coming, Brother johnson,
Yes, well come million strong;
Bringing all things needful with us
Our jug and Demi-John-
Yes, we're coming Brother Andy,
Yes, a million, Oh! just think,
But not to fight mucn, Andy,
But to take social drink"
The entire coast line of Louisiana is 1855
miles, or greater than that OF any State ex-
| cept Florida California, and Texas. The
| whole coast is penetrated with vessels Of
| light draught.
| Elizabeth Stone, of Dedham, Massachu-
| sctts, has given two-stOry house, a barn,
and ten acres Of ground in Lunenburg to
| William B. Morse, of Andover, who lost his
! leg in the late war Mr.. Morse served in
company II, first Massachusetts battery,
A terrible co tAagration in the cavalry
stables at Fort Russell, Dakota, on the
| twenty fourth, roasted siXty.four valuable
horses to death. The fetal loss is $4,000.
| The hay Ia the building caused the fire to
| spread so rapidly that it was impossible to
rescue the animals.
The New York Times says:
We observe in many of the Southern pa
pers very curious anomaly. They pub
Iise editorials Of an inlammatery character
| on the impeachment question, the most dis
reputable assaults on loyal men at the
South, openly indorse the Ku-KluX Klsa,
and invite Northern immigration
In the mud of the Nile, and near New Or
leans human remains have been discovered
which, say the geolOgists, were buried
from twenty to thirty thousand years ago
With this startling fact, if it be fact, be-
fore us, we can never more bow down in
speeChless wonder before an Egyptian mum
my only two thousand years old. saL
A Southern Conservative journal says:
"a great many papers in the South, and
some in the North, are endeavortng to
prove that General Grant is a fool We
have too high respect for the genius Of
Lee, johnson, Bragg, and Beauregard to
believe it. Indeed, we have heard this pot
metal howl ut times when we have thought
that he was entirely too smart y
The Iberville South calls the new Consti-
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villianies.n 1t is to be presumed, however,
that it will not refuse any patronage that
may be extended by the officers elected
under that UiHdinouS instrument. -Repub'
licd1 Pioneer.
The Austrian army scheme just proposed
tells terrible story of the condition Of Eu-
| rope. Every citizen of twenty to thirty
four is liable to five years service In the ac-
tive army, five in the reserve, and four more
in the laudWehr. In case of o levee en-
messe, which may be ordered in case Of in
vasiOn or any similar necessity all males
| between eighteen and forty are liable to
, | service The entire ahle-bodied population
of the country is thus put under arms,
Neither exoneration nor substitution is per-
! mitted, France and Prussia are doing sub
> stantially the same thing. The prospect of
peace grows very dark in the presence of
such armaments as these.
The Boston and Albany railroad corpora
tion propose to put the Grand Junction
railroad in order forth with, and to re-estab-
lish communication with East Boston, and
uubroken freight connection between the
West and tideWater. The road is expected
TO be in running condition in October next,
and the American Steamship company is
doing its utmost to retain the steamships
Ontario and Erie, either by purchase or
otherwise, to cooperate with the railroad
company in securing to Boston share q
| the Western export TO Europe. The direct
ors still refuse offers for their vessels from
New York. The Ontario is fitting for sea.
The st. Paul Press records the following
painful accident, which should be q warn-
ing to parents as well as 20 chhurens
"Within the last two months we nave re-
| corded two or three little accidents which
have resulted in the loss OF an eye.
; Another incident of the kind occurred this
week. A little German boy was playing
unon The streets with some old wire, and
h9 eop,e means he let 60 of one end Of Il in
sSob way that in springing back the end
, of ne wire struck and entered the ball of
ne ave, The fluids Immediately ran out,
. esqsing, of course, total blindness. s
| California paper has this encouraging
I notice of de6uldnt; 'The young maa
would do well enough in small roles, ii he
we're not at a loss what to dc with hiE arms
and legs, and had q better presence and
delivery, and slight knowledge Of stage
business, together with several years %
professional experience.H
Young jerome Bonaparte. of the FYrncn
army, has sailed for America 70 Fif't as
parents and grandmother. The Is
nov in her eighty-sixth year, and 94laes n
Baltimore.
| A chit with several Of our rural trien1s
) this week places Us u possession ot tna giAN
tidings that the crops are eolnE we'll
! Bayou Sara Ledger,