New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-12
heal INTELLIGENCE.

oo+ low THE WORLD is GIVEN TO LYING 90
49,; most absurd and extravagant state
.; are made by the opposition press of
ny to prejudice the voters of New Or.
reef against the administration of the va
eqaa departments of the city government.
q hood after falsehood has been pub
AN but not one untruth has been con-
. tsd by the utterers in reference TO
matters. The Pioayune yesterday
be- asserted that between the city sur.
street commissioner, and Alderman
!; ., chairman of the streets and land
"a Committee, "they have now 1l4O Ia
AN under pay, who can not be seen at
Anywhere.'
writer of the paragraph had the
Of knowing that he was stating a
bod as to the number of men employed
two departments, as he also knew
be street commissioner has not been
ing three hundred laborers to clean
nals,n though he reiterates that state
-AS. The canals are in the surveyors de-
SUN ent.
official records we learn that the
y of men employed in the street com
~, WI. y hers department, including foremen,
IA M In the same department seventy.six
mn. re employed. In the surveyors de-
Pnt l9S men and sixty-eight carts are
W. Ted. The total number of men en-
- in the two departments is 366, in
fll40 as the Pioayli1e asserts.
men employed by the surveyor are
- uted as follows;
sin d ng rear of Claiborne canal, fourth
lrict.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
,e. ng Cont street, between Broad
kbar.I pet and HagaE avenue. .....,..... 20
"a N lee, first and second districts. ... 20
Mccarthy square. .........,...
r. street work, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10
1' anal, upper side, rear of Magnolia
PaYis eet,.. .......,.... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 80
oS 81 ! los
rcd a.! ~ employed hauling stone, sand,
3. lHs, ETC., and filling up Mccarthy
, ARE .................... Us
: s--S, I'D of increasing his force "for cleo
ling purposes" as was intimated, the
Or discharged one hundred men on
ghteenth of March from the leYee
PTOt IN consequence of the rise in the
reVenting the wheeling out of sand.
Bell, the city surveyor, requests our
bAAA h say that the men in his depart
nj nj, n Be all at work, and that if the Plea.
lloWiaI liter can point out a man who neg
"a business and engages in political
-. ng, he will be Immediately dis
Bn All the men in the surveyors de-
: nt are employed in accordance with
Is ons reported by the proper commit
opted by the city council, and ap.
By the mayor.
CouFs stead of making these loose stase.
JudGG oT political effect, the writer in the
gislssua he would apply for correct informa-
Gus proper sources, he can obtain it.
Ley Of the opposition press is to
liy2dp and never correct an error The
Nal Bulletin has never corrected
NTu It's four statements-aI of which
y : : ne-in relation to the city money.
J., since the capture of New Orleans
3 as been little less than four and a
y lions Of city currency issued in the
a,o the city.o
oAoo' 1 the present City Council has is.
low' o2,f7Omore city money than it de-
the present city government is
= 80 Bile for about thirty-seven per cent
" currency. @ -
-. the official report of the present
80 ration has been so doctored as to
impression that it has issued no
when it has issued $l77O rs.
PRESENT administration has not
dollar of city currency, but has
pOntrary destroyed $3.50, O5s more
issue, and the whole of this issue
mali notes. to take the place Of
deprecated notes, which were
'ely destroyed, notwithstanding the
An'ss. rents Of the Bulletin, which that
M YER has corrected.