New Orleans Republican., 1868-10-17

and would certainly prove a powerful
check upon the youth Of the city, and
while it is likely the vice would not be
greatly diminished, it would be confined,
like the Mississippi, to its legitimate bounds,
and kept from spreading out into the better
soil, where it becomes destructive and in
vidious. reI 9zf
The views, gentlemen, are not new with
me. In the convention of 1864 eontended
for the license system, and succeeded in
procuring an article authorizing the Legis-
lature to grant licenses for houses Of this
kind.
LICENSING HOUSES OF PRosT1rUTloN-In
his charge to the grand jury Judge Abel
says:
There is one more subject that deeply
effects the morals and credit of our city to
which deem it my duty to call your at
tention. 1t is the vast number and pub
licity Of houses of ill-fame. They are to
be found in nearly every portion of the
| city, under the immediate eyes Of respect
| able families, and to their great annoyance
The act of the General Assembly of 1878.
re-enacted fourteenth Of March, 1855, de-
clares:
SEC. 90. Whoever shall be guilty of
keeping disorderly inn, tavern, ale-house,
tlppling- house, gaming house or brothel,
shall suffer fine or Imprisonment or both,
at the discretion of the court, and the Of
fender may likewise be adjudged to forfeit
his license to keep house Of public re
sort or entertainment
| This statute is nearly imperative.
Brothels are squatted in the very presence
almost of respectable Notwithstanding
the next door-greatly to the annoyance
and shame of rising families, and yet the
/ inmates conduct themselves sufficiently or
derly Lot to come within the statute, and,
| by existing laws, no remedy Is to be found
for this nuisance and disgrace to the city of
| NV Orleans. This, too is an evil that can
not be remedied; it is part of the comm n
law OF human nature, and the most that
could be done is to keep it within the mar
rowest bounds possible. This, j think, may
be done by the license system. Not that 1
would willingly see the public treasury con-
taminated with such license, but it would
form an appropriate fund for the support of
the House of the Good Shepherd, as house
| of reform, and for the support Of paupers
of that particular class. 1t would at least
have the good effect of lessening the num-
Der of houses, and of driving many of the
inmates to the wash tub or the cotton field,
where they could make themselves useful
to the State, and make decent living for
themselves.
These matters more properly address
themselves to the Legislature and the city
authorities; but / charge you, it is your
duty to indict all disorderly brothels that
may exist Of your own knowledge, or that
may be brought to your knowledge by
| others.
Gentlemen, do not claim to be a radi-
cal reformer. | believe that these evils
have existed in all times past l find them
existing now, and believe they will con-
tinue to exist, and that it is proper to look
to the best method of controlling them.
PARAGRAPHs.-The police were getting
their pay yesterday, oue-third in city
money, and the balance in the new fifty
dollar city bonds, for which brokers were
Offering sixty-six cents on the dollar.
A patent, portable, selt-acting fire engine
will experiment this evening at four o'clock
at the yard in the rear Of the gas works.
Harry Blow, the genial gentleman in the
box Office of the Academy, who has relieved
Treasurer Kittridge of a portion of his
arduous duties, has turned to goblin, and
gone to Mobile as the advance agent of
Professor Haselmayer. 1t is to be hoped
that the magician would blow on him.
John Davidson, who had Just been paid
1924 IS on a Government voucher, was
robbed of his money yesterday by three or
four men in a cOfeehouse on Gravier street,
near the leVee. John Killian and George
Washington were arrested. johnson, a
third party. escaped. None Of the money
was recoy er ID.
Ed. De Blois and Lus Beebee contem-
plated duel with small swords at an early
hour this morning, but the police interfered
and frustrated their plans.
Celestine Clark was yesterday sentenced
by Judge Abel TO eighteen months hard
labor, for stealing one hundred and twenty
FIVE volumes of a French translation OF
Pollard's Lost Cause"
The grocery store of r. D. Simmons &
Co., on Tchoupitoulas street, was entered
Wednesday night by Jacob Brown, and
robbed of goods to the value of 500,
which were traced to Browns house and
recovered.
The steamship Alliance, of the New Or
leans and Florida trade, which was driven
ashore on Hurricane island, has been pulled
off, with the loss of her rudder only. She
will be at this port soon, and resume her
place in the line.
William Miller, nine years old. was
drowned from staging near Canal street
ferry, Algiers, yesterday afternoon. The
body was not recovered.
The excitement in Jefferson in reference
to the conflicting claims Of the old Chief OF
Police and the new Captain of Police is
heightened by the peculiar policy of the
Democratic citizens of that city, who have
armed themselves with shotguns, and are
eager for "frsy."
1t is stated that armed Democrats 10 a
considerable number went over the lines
from New Orleans yesterday, to take a
hand in the " little scrimmage." The
whole controversy is capable Of settlement
by the courts, and no law-abiding citizens
will arm themselves for aggression or de-
tense. The matter affords occasion for
sensation reports in the columns Of our
Democratic contemporaries, who appear to
be anxious for war of races, which they