New Orleans Republican., 1868-11-14

I fines this morning is surprisingly
On Perry Fuller, General Steedman,
I ssllwood and other carpet-baggers
i bsye descended upon our State and
Y y It feels oppressed by their pres
Y il oiiice-and says:
viii resist energetically-and the ex-
impulsive and reckless will resist
\ Nv and lawlesslyLthe attempt Of
yeual and malignant intruders to con-
he havoc and spoliation Of war long
/ beace has been proclaimed. as
sdVise Perry, and James B., and the
asGer to retire. The respectable and
us are going to resist them energeti-
1 snd, if that won't do, these respecta-
dvirtuous people are going to call
d eexcitable and impplsive" friends
4 them with the gimlet knife.
ch makes pretty programme for
vhO modestly style themselves ''the
! alightened, civilized, refined and in
mt body Of white people which can
nd in any part of the world"
ich is pretty severe on the world"
observe that the Bee joins its brethren
morning press in praising the per.
noe at the Wheat concert of two
bat were not performed at all.
GEs will be surprised to learn
As sang an aria from LiAfricaine.
neal criticism is an art by itself.
draw from our Bag the following fig
hhCh are satisfactory:
nearly as can now be ascertained,
BAL Grants majority over Governor
our on the popular vote is about $685.
This is the largest majority ever OBJ
over all his opponents by any Presi-
hl candidate, with one exception.
exception was in 1864, when Mr.. Lin.
received All, ,2S1 majority over Gen.
Mcclellan. But this was an extraor-
\ occasion, since, because Of the
lion, eleven States did not vote at all.
81, when, according to the traditional
General Jackson carried the country
Bhelmingly against Mr.. Clay, he re-
9 popular majority OF about 100, 600
~, when General Harrison was re-
ID as having swept the field, he only
900 over Mr.. Van Buren,.
y nearest approach to the recent elec-
10 this particular is that of 1852, when
rsl Pierce obtained 2l4 1863 majority
General Scott; bat, as John 2. Hale
e same time received l56, ,149 votes,
s'S absolute majority was only 5S,220.
ne is promise of a systematic and
bugh investigation of the election
Es by which Seymour and Hoffman
red an apparent majority in the State
eW York, at the recent election. The
men Of both parties, including Messrs,
erbilt, Stewart, Astor and others,
taken hold of this work with the de-
ned purpose to unearth the corrup-
of the Tammany ring, and to destroy
Hneful influence and Its reckless as.
on the purity of the ballot-box.
e World is evidently alarmed by the
estness with which the matter is being
ued, and joins in the demand for an
htigation 80 loudly as to remind one o.
ierer crying Stop thief" in order to
It attention.
be Authentic Man Of the New Yorl
"a, who is said to have died since cleo
eKclaiming with his latest breath
Zee times seven are fOrty-eight," il
Pied by member of our Common
hcil, who has made two discoveries in
Asmalics. Speaking against a proposed
tax Of one-quarter Of one per cent, thit
a declared that a "poor man" who
I'd his shop worth one thousand dol
would, if such levy were made, bt
BED to pay an annual tax of 'Iwo hun
and fifty dollars"
Hence we view" that, firstly, a me
PIC who owns shop worth one thou
dollars is poor man, and, secondly
quarter. Of one per cent of one thou
amounts to two hundred and fifty.
iO to the head.
ne Tribune has an obituary notice o
reath of the Arithmetic Man" the re
liable mathematician who figured De
ratio victories out Of the October elec
J. His struggles with the Novembei
ms, in the vain hope of calculating
nph for Seymour, seem to have beer
much for him, and he expired, exclaim
three times seven are forty-eight, Oh
8ds to that effect.
be New York Herald of the eighth dis.
ses thus of the paid Fire Department
New York:
brigade of the Metropolitan Fire De
ment, the men 10 full dress and the en-
4, hose carriages and hook aud ladder
Pig all looking clean, bright and ser.
fable as it was possible, to make them
fehed through the principal thorough
b 81 the city yesterday, closing the pa,
E With grand review in Tompkin'.
|are by the Governor OF the State. Con
|ted with the old volunteer department
\ the pride of every New Yorker, the
sent in many respects is the superior
Fer the old system the machine for the
of fires was, with much un.
essary tumult and hurry and danger
night to the scene of the eonfagration
not unfrequently, while the flames were
sading and eating up much that might
2 been saved, companies would
lse valuable time brawling oveI
right TO the use of hydrant OF
le other equally unimportaat matter
J different is it with the present organi.
on With splendid steam engines and
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