New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-28
EDITO HAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

rived at Mobile, via New Orleans, on the
25th instant, Twenty-four more left Glas-
gov for Mobile on the second of March.
The nettle plants, says Schleiden, are the
seapents of the vegetable kingdom. The
similarity between the instruments with
which both produce and poison their
wounds is very remarkable.
The Louisville Journal don't think Ben
Wade man Of sufficient polish to fill the
presidential chair. 1t says of him that he
is az the coarsest of the many coarse men
whom the vicissitudes CT the times have
thrown into congress-" 1t is therefore
strongly in favor of retaining the remark
ably sober, polite, polished occupant.
Ground will be broken on the Mobile and
Chattanooga railroad within sixty days,
and within eight months after the COM
mencement of the work the road is expected
to be in running order between this city
and Mobile.
Richard Bullymore, Buffalo pork deal
er, recently called his men into his office,
and having read over statement of his
business for the past year, first deducted
ten per cent for the capital invested, aud
then divided the balance Of the profits be-
tween himself and twenty-five of those who
had been longest in his employment. The
sum divided amounted in the aggregate to
a months salary for each.
The London Spectator complains that in
telegraphing the passage of the impeach-
ment resolution the figures of the vote were
left out because Mr.. Reuters agent wanted
space for words to excite prejudice against
congress. Mr.. Reuters agent is not the
only one, it is more than suspected, who
abuses his position. A good deal of lying
lightning flashes from Washington to the
South.
Doolittle suffers great inconvenience on
account of chronic difficulty which is in
his case incurable, to wit; absence of
mind.
The Chicago Tribune tells an incredible
story Of a girl mot twelve years of age"
who run away from home about year ago,
and who was discovered the other day,
prOprietress of three establishments of pros
titution, the inmates of which were girls
ranging between fourteen and sixteen years
of age, She is said to have exhibited re-
spectacle roll of greenbacks when taken ia
charge.
The Iuka (MississippD Gazette is edited
by a fire-eating genius, who says
The Southern people will never follow
the crazy " God-and morality negro-wor-
Shipping - spoon stealing - white-man-hat.
ing - outside Ot-the-cOnstitution- standing
black-and white-blood mixing - woman
growing - baby strangliug = cesw pro
nouncing - hell-deserving England
Yankee clock peddling - chicken stealing
box ankled - bandy-shanked - round
neutrality-suspicious. -canting- psalm
singing - cowardly cut throat slandering
-vulgar r-slimy-mOuthed - onion eating
whisky-drinklng - sausage-stufing scoun
drels.
The Natchitocbes Spectator is rather Sc
we're on " A. Head" when it says;
He has, it seems, a wonderful comi,
Imagination, which he draws on extensive
ly-as well as that OF others. Better writ
nothing and be unknown to fame and tn,
newspapers than puff yourself into nOto
riety by an unfair system of plagiarism.
Captain C. II. Prince, the candidate 70
congress in the fifth congressional distric
of Georgia, is a native Of the state o
Maine, was engaged in mercantile pursuit
until the breaking out of the late war
when he volunteered, raised company
and entered the service Of the governmen
as captain
| A private letter to the Nashville Pres
and Times has this paragraph:
The handwriting is on the wall. TIL
senate will convict the president oertdlnll
and within the next fifty days he will b
dismissed, and stand for all time to coPae
disgrace. He is the worst and most de
perate man ON earth. He never realize
his true situation until the last week, II
is perfectly restless, and exhibits signs
disappointment. You will not see a rifl
when he is put cut.
We suggest that the closing sentence
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