New Orleans Republican., 1868-08-23

Blair is famous practitioner at the bar
A single nights practice at the bar o. Hart
ford cost bin seventy dollars.
Bl4ir's bitter letters and speeches are ac-
counted for on the ground that he was
ryeled Detroit Tribune.
We should rather say that he was bile-d.
The song of Seymour: "Fm afloat, I'm
afoat!" The echo of Blair: I'm bloat,
I'm bloat CAicago Journal
There are GO prisoners in the State
Prison at Auburn, N. Y. of whom 636 are
Democrats, and thirty-iour Republicans.
That is the way they run. .
Doolittle said the other night never
mind fireworks" He'll change his mind
when be gets where all Copperheads go.
A Seymour man was willing 10 bet ten
TO one that Seymour could out-talk Grant
A Grant man was willing to bet ten to one
that factions speak louder than words.n
Neither bet was taken.
The Albany Journal notes two marked
eras in our history. Pennsylvania was in
vaded by the rebels July 4, 1868 New
York was Invaded by the rebels July 4,
1868.
A democratic paper says that in order
to secure Seymour's election they must get
out every Democratic voter. Can't do it,
for some of them are in for number of
years.
A pamphlet copy of the proceedings Of
the Tammany Hall Convention, printed for
circulation in the South, bears on its cover
in large type, "Stand by your friends who
have stood by you"
A German Grant and Colfax club was
forupd in Na6isoD W;soon,;, - -
when $50 names were enrolled. The en-
thusiasm among the German Republicans
is great.
Seymour was 'dishonored" by accepting
the Democratic nomination. He will be
protested" by the people in November.
lie will be worth then about as much as a
Confederate bond.
Among the Democratic orators row
stumping Indiana for Seymour and Blair is
&c. Carroll Hicks, Of Columbus, Georgia"
and during the war a malignant rebel. A
line fellow he to instruct the people OF
Indiana "how to maintain the Constitu-
ton
A bill will be introduced into the Geor-
gla Legislature to abolish the fire depart-
ment of Atlanta, There is a very active
fire department that needs abolishing all
over the South.
The Copperheads have great spite
against General Grant because he reduced
the Democratic vote about qdarter of a mil
lion by destroying that number of rebels
during the war
The draft sneaks are wonderfully appre-
heusive of a war of races. No wonder.
With them the last war was war of races,
and the Canada border was the goal. But
they didn't like the sport.
A rebel sheet in Texas puts the follow
ing doggerel at the head of its editorial
column:
The Stars, Bars, and Ultra Ku.klux,
Long may they wave
Der the white mans home
And the nigger's grave.
In a private letter to the editor Of the
Indianapolis Journal from a prominent
Republican of Kentucky, the writer says:
"lf Seymour is elected hundreds of Union
men will have to leave Kentucky and find
homes elsewhere. speak adviSedly. For
Gods sake fight hard and win if you can.
1t is our only salvation
Young Prentice, of The Louisville Journal
says that if Grant is elected tue South will
fight. This gallant rebel Brigadier can not
have forgotten that when Lincoln was
elected the South did fight, but that the
boys in blue fought harder and more sue
ceFsfully.
Every Union soldiers grave is an elo-
quent speech against the Democratic ticket,
which was nominated by the men who in
itated and carried on the war in which our
boys in blue were slaughtered.
Word has been received that Major Cen
oral kiInafrirk NHrill Esa,r 80
to Chill during this month He proposes
to take the stump for Grant and Colfax,
and march again from "Auauta to the
sea-
Braxton Bragg, of Confederate fame. is
managing the waterworks of New Orleans.
If he can make the water run through
New Orleans as well as he cid through
Georgia, he is a success.
The great Democratic outpouring" at
New Brunswick, New Jersey, dwindles
from 5000, at which the Democratic pa
pers estimated it, to the following
figures, given by an eyewitness: The
Seymour Club and others in uniform.
seventy-threei men and boys not in uni
form, fifty four; to which were added the
band about 40 in all
At the recent Democratic Convention, at
Tallahassee, Florida, the sentiment most
loudly cheered was that of Colonel David
son: "We appeal to Heaven for deliver
ance, and il Heaven won't help us we must
help ourselves; l dislike war. but, if it
must come, let it Gomez
Concerning the political prospects in
California, the Sacramento JRion candid
and well-iniormed paper, says " Our fig
ures show Republican majority of 5000.
This year the Union party is united, thor
oughly organized, and standing on purely
national platform" This after making the
most liberal allowance to the enemy.
The New York Tribune is now printing
and circulating 193500 copies. The only
other political paper in the United States
that comes near this circulation is the
La Crosse Democrat. The fact is suggestive
of the character of the two parties for which
these papers are published. The one takes
and reads the Tribune; the other thrives on
Brick Pomeroy's filth.
One of the features of the Democratic
parade in the streets of Nashville was a
man on horseback, carrying a very small
striped clrpet-bag. at was," says the
RPubAcaa Of that city, representation
true to life of thousands Of played out
rebels as they returned in 1865 from fur
ren land with nothing bat their old, very
old clothes, and small carpet-bag con
tanning corn-dodger and parole"
The new editor of the Louisville Journal
is stingy sort of a fellow. He is said to
have plenty of brains, but he is very
careful not to spend any Of them on bis
paper. The Dith, marrow, snirit, and life