New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-16
EDITORIAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

The South Carolina election concludes TO-.
day. It begun on the 14th instant.
The Press says that every spring Philadel-
phia spends nearly quarter of million
dollars in repairing oobble stone pavements.
New Orleans is overrun with thieves and
gamblers, and the police are afraid of them.
The first part of the sentence may be
true, but the last certainly is not.
The Office of j. G.. Abbott, lawyer in
Lowell, Massachusetts, was entered on the
eighth instant, and robbed of S25, 900 worth
Of stock certificates, bonds, etc.
A red linea car started from Boston
lately, over the Boston and Albany railroad.
for Cheyenne, Colorado, which is destined
to go through without change of freight, a
distance of 2O7O miles.
All doubts as to the safety of DR.. Living.
stone, the African explorer, are set at rest
by the receipt of a letter from him by Sir
r. Murchison. He was in good health, and
will soon return to England.
Wayne county, Indiana, gave juiian a
majority of 1857 over all competitors for the
congressional nomination. The people of
Indiana seem disposed to return their con-
gressmen who have proved 50 faithful in the
fortieth congress to the principles upon
which they were elected.
ANY people who would be well clad and
fed, and well supplied with the comforts Of
civilized life. must themselves produce nine.
tenths of their own consumption. The for
cign trade of the whole commercialworld Ia
but one-tenth the value of its Industry, and
America can not afford to be an exception to
the rule. Her resources are illimitable, and
it is her duty to develop them.
Three LrOnze cannon, captured by the
sixth army corps in battle, are to be donated
by congress for the construction of a
statue of the late Major General John
sedgwick, which will be placed on a monu-
ment TO his memory, now in the course Of
erection by the sixth corps. The commit
tee in charge of this monument are Major
Generals H. g. Wright, Frank wheaton,
George W. Getty, and Truman Seymour.
The Mississippi Valley transportation
company's steamer Mohawk is on her way
here from st. Louis, having In tow oaFges
loaded with the following articles, viz;
Corn 77l5 sacks, s6,s5s bushels, In bulk;
-four 6Ol2 barrels; lard rs tierces; osts
1889 bushels; pork 7ss barrels. OF this
HOO barrels four, 1900 sacks and the bulk
corn, and 422 sacks oats were for shipment
to New York. The aggregate Of the cargo
is ,4sT tons.
A correspondent who has recently visited
AndersonyiIle cemetery says. 'sYou may
read statements Of mortality unmoyed, hnt
when you see g roR Of graves Of 100 men
who all died In one day, you are shocked. It
must have taken a small army to bury these
men. They lie shoulder to shoulder. as
they stood ID the ranks, yet the dead Of one
day more than all Q row two hundred feet
long. MY Indignation went on increasing
from NO. 1, died February n, 1864, to NO.
l2,s6s died April 20. 1861 fear II we all
lived RSshin sight Of Andersonville, there
would be no moderate men, hardly any just
men. but nation Of revengeful men.s
A few Days since the president asked
Captain David White. Of 81. Louie, to tell
him candidly What 10 Thought would be the
reeult Of the impeachment trial White
replied frankly that he Thought the preai
dent would Be souaa guilty. upon this
Jphunon asked him uhas Was the state Of
ferilug "A she west "a regard 20 the natterl
whether ne people we're not, tcps iaaisEsat
vs. sha nannaE ia which ahs triai y - con.
dnesed. Captain siie sel1 allk tlAs 80
fAz IS HE observation extended she WesterH
people usse Totally indifferent 60 % The
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