New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-04
HTIsCELLANEOUs TTEa1n.

Queen Victoria is said to have been SO
shocked at a very deoOllete dress, at one oil
her recent drawing.roOms, that she com
missioned the Lord Chamberlain to reproVe
the lady.
Senator Hendricks, of Indiana, is a Dem
ocratic Cerberus being a candidate for Gov
ernor, United States Senator, and Presi-
dent. He is likely to have all three of his
heads knocked of.
Hon. John Petit, of Indiana, says that he
and tens of thousands of Democrats would
rather vote for and trust the Presidency 10
the true old soldier (Grant) than to q
schemine, hypocritical civilian (Chase).
Petit is a fierce Pendleton man.
Even Pendleton is beginning TO show
signs of shakiness on the greenback ques.
ton. He employs a 'silyer cornet BANDIT to
blow for his blowers on their trip from Gins
cinnati TO New York. "Silver!" What can
it be less than covert device to propitiate
the specie folks. Silver, forsoothi This is
rank treason!
Hon. John Petit, ex. United States SEN
ator from Indiana, says IN letter to the
Convention gives us Pendleton, we will
open and carry on canvass resembling q
dreon the prairies propelled by great
Wind.n Nobody who knows Petit will
doubt his ability to do the windy part.
The following viii answer as short ex-
erc1Be IN Q1ctaLl0u bpeI1nHs
sit is an agreeable sight 10 perceive the
unparalleled embarrassment Of our har-
assed peddler, attempting to gauge the sym
metry of peeled onion, which a sibyi had
stabbed with ponlard, regardless of the
innuendoes Of the lilies Of carnelian hue, =
The farmers generally through the West
are boarding the nickel ive.cent pieces in
the implicit notion that they are boarding
specie, whereas the intrinsic value of the
IA than ffvy
cent Of their nominal value. As a conse-
quence of this piece of mastery hnaneeer-
ing there is a disagreeable famine of small
change, and everybody has TO pay ten cents
or more for everything.
It is amusing to read the Mississippi pa
pers lately. Accounts of political demon
STATIONS alternate with appeals TO sour
Democratic fellow-citizensn TO vote against
the constitution which guarantees their
freedom sColored mems Democratic clubs, y
's Democratic draymen,n Democratic ne
gro speakers etc. occupy the most honor
able places on the bills, IN the PROFESSIONS,
and in the public prints. The colored
men who so nobly took their stand with the
Democracy deserve especial credit, enthu-
siastically AYERS one iearfully Democratic
editor. 4snpofd n1,aQntd, 81 Hos-eRery
eohoolboy sees it.
Twelve hundred Southern white men
were on Monday made citizens by act OF
Congress. All the Democrats In the House,
except one, voted against removing the
political disabilities OF these twelve kund.
red. We have been told so often BY the
Democrats that this is a white mans gov.
eminent that We supposed, not unnaturally,
they would ioyfully vote TO make Il %;
but they seem to prefer what they call ne.
gro rule. The fact Is, We suppose, thai they
would disfranchise eyerybo but the Dem
oclaig for we notice that wherever they
can Gat q negro to vote the Democratic
ticket tAey have nothing 70 say against
black voies.-Aslp York Pos.
The French Academy Of Science received
At recent session 4ho memoir o. the in
Ventor upon nav method by which Ne
fabrioatea preotou. stones 50 perfectly that
they can not be DISTINGUISHED from the real.
EaIso diamonds, false fnbies, false emaralds
thus obtained have q dazzling CLEAN and
hardness resisting both hammer and hame
IntF cut glass with alarming iac'lifq. What
emotion thls will produce n the world Of
ieNelrY ahd among she fa8hlonatIo9 70
1olizon oneself from head 70 foot without
dan4st q ones iOrtune would make cute
q revolution The Kohinoor aud tho w.
gent Iail q tne 9Huk II mere dcoanteratop
peIa. " Aile ne ullIofl in precious lfonea
FnRy b. railud Wifnin tNeAiq four hou1B.--
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