New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-22
EDIToKIALAsD NEWS ITEMs,

EDITORIAL.ASD NEWS ITEMS.
, Neither the surveyor nor street com
missioner's rolls have been approved as
yet.
All our gardens are frozen. No vegeta-
bles to be got anywhere. So says the Enc
pire Parish.r agr
The Washington Republican saysi in reply:
General Grant is regular attendant at
the Wesley chapel in that city"
One Myers has sued the Cincinnati Com
merciaI for calling him gaspipe. Ifit had
called him afool it would have been meeter.
Four hundred and ten human beings live
in one house in Monroe street, New York.
This is herding more closely than in New
Orleans.
JaC.van Wickle, parish of Pointe Cou-
pee, has been appointed a member of the
board of levee commissioners vice Edward
J. Gay, declined.
The city treasurer has between twenty
and thirty thousand cospon money to pay
out, all in small notes, which holders ac-
cept instead of greenbacks. IL,
On Monday last one Nev Orleans
steamer at oincinnattaccepted 1000 barrels
of pork at seventy-ave cents, and $50 casks
of bacon at twenty-five cents freight.
Breyet Major W. A. Wainwright, assist
ant qnartermaster, arrived in this city
Thursday evening, and reported for duty
at military headquarters yesterday mSrn-
lag. a.sss li.m
Mayor Heath proposes to issue instruc-
tions to the chief Of police that will pre-
vent disturbances on Mardi Gras day,
without seriously interfering with outdoor
festivities usually characterizing that day.
Colonel Bob Tyler, who was mixed up in
rebel bonds, has gone from Montgomery to
Washington to direct congress what to do
with Alabama, and also to tell General
Sherman that he must accept the brevet-
ship rendered by Andrew johnson.
MIR. Sumner on Monday presented petit
ton for the abolition of the Office of presi-
dent, as it is a source of corruption con-
stantly increasing in strength, and danger
Gus to the liberties Of the country. The
petition was referred.
On Monday, in the senate, two petitions
from colered persons, one trsm residents ol
New Jersey, aud the other from residents
of Massachusetts,, asking for congressional
aid to enable them to emigrate to Liberia
we're presented and referred.
General Hancock orders that Captain
Charles Barnard, assistant quarternaster
volunteers, will proceed to and make a
personal inspection Of the national GENE
teries in this military district Commencing
with Texas) with view to their immediate
completion under such special instructions
as he may receive from the chief quarter
master. We Do.
An association is about to be formed il
New Orleans for the purpose Of aiding al
who desire to seek homes and employment
in the country, but who are unable to de
so without assistance. A meeting will be
held ever DR.. Hydes' drug store, Opposite
st. Mary's market, atseven o'clock, on tht
evening of the 25tb instant, to promote thi
object. This is movement in the righ
direction, and deserves success.
The officers of the New Orleans, Mobile
and Chattanooga Railroad company, en-
gagged in LAYING of by surveys the ground
for workshops, depOts, car shops, ETC., ii
the neighberhOod Cf Broad street ant
Spring Hill read, Mobile, have condemned
enc hundred and forty-nine thousand dol
lars worth of heretofore comparatively
useless property for the uses and purposes
of the company, and will in a few days b'
ready to pay over 10 different parties own
ing the properly that sum, which will sOOI
find its way into general circulation.
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