New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-27
BIIsCELLANEOEs ITEMS


forte In omnibus.
Montgomery Blair is said to be anxious to
sons term as United States senator.
The BuAslo Express, in noticing query
a. to how LETT Davis would vote II he we're
in Portland asEs: " Is female suffrage al
lowed iu Maine.
Tires N,ayernors Of Massachusetts In
crease sam ,er, Levi Eiucoln, ana Marcus
Mortou-swere taken from the bench OF the
supreme court.
A magazine writer saucily says: " In an
cient times it Was the human figure winch
gave shape to the dress. Nowadays it is the
dress which gives shape to the hgure.'
At the Christ Church festival in Bridge
port, Connecticut, red CLOAK was EXHIBIT
ed which was made over a hundred years
ago; also the lac smile Of nat hunuIeu
years old.
Poughkeepsie is greedy; she expects to
have General Logan, Judges Bingham ana
Boutwell,, and Senator Nye, all for Fourth
of July orators.
Democratic planters in Virginia now in
sert in their contracts with negro WOrkmen
clause that the latter snail vote aS thelr
employers may direct
The Senate of Connecticut on the seven
teenth passed the bill to allow the children
of colored people the same privileges In the
public schools as.are accorded to the Whlte'
Sol. Miller Of the Kansas Chief says the
printers will generally support Grant. He
will not punish them with long messages by
keeping them up all night to put them IN
type.
The Boston Posts Washington correspond.
ent saws it is understood there that friends
of Judge Chase will be required to pledge
support 10 the nominees before the Judges
name will be allowed to go before the CON
Vention.
The manufacture Of buttons from vegeta'
bic ivory is carried on extensively at the
present time in Springfield, Massachusetts
There are four factories manufacturing
them, and they employ about two hundred
persons.
It is stated that the leading article in the
New York World regulating Chase was the
result OF a sharp remonstrauce from Demo
Graz C members of Congress, the substance
of .ich was that the Word was placing the
party in false position.
William T. Terry, an ex,rebel genera, and
Lafayette Washington, black man, form
erIy a slave, are stumping Virginia in com
pany against the new constitution. Tney
travel together, stop at the same hotels, and
eat at the same tables.
A good story is told concerning the pro-
duetion Of the Lady Of Lyons,h at the Salt
Lake theatre. An aged Mormon arose aud
went out with his twenty-four wives, saying
angrily, that he would not sit and see q
play where man made such fuss about
one woman.
Prose is tho workday dress in which
truths do secular duty. Poetry Is the robe,
the royal apparel in which truth asserts ita
divine origin. Prose Is truth looking to the
ground; elOquenCe is truth looking up To
heaven. Poetry is truth flying upward
toward God?
Pittsheld's original children ought to be
constant contributors to Harper.s Drawer.
l., Add IA o zTar Qf
evening PRAYER by little girl two years old
who added TO the petition for daily bread {
spee1Gcation, thus: " Please, father, give
me ja1, cookies, and pie.n
While General Grant was hurryinf
through New York crowds of people fol
lowed and beset him, and one man, more
foolish than the others, cried out, GENERAL
what do Won think of the present politica
prospect?7 ~ don't think Of it all at pres
eAt5 was the reply. ny principal objec
Just now is to catch the train" hl
Aletter has been received in Washington
by q prominent Democratic member Of Con
gress from John Quincy Adams OF Massa
chusetts, in which he declares that he !
not an aspirant Tor the Weep Presidency OIL
the Democratic ticket. He feels, he says
that the accident of birth has thrust hin
= upon the public attention rather before hi
time. .sfsz ssrq,- Z
In the Senate the Arkansas bill passe'
E
Davis. Of Kentucky, made few remarks
saving: II predict the electoral votes 0
those negroized States viii not be counte
in the Presidential election. The eandidat
who gets the votes of the majority OF ~
white men Of the United States will be Oh
constitutionally elected President, an
white men will see it is made de facto.1
Chase,s chances for a Democratic nonins
ton for the Presidency are thus .Whistle
down the windn by the New York World
the nineteenth:
The decisive, almost spurning emphasl
with which large wing vi the Democratl
party turn away from a candidate identihe
with negro suffrage settles the question: q
we think, and proves that any further %
vocacy 81 Mr., Chase's claims Is sn i'd
waste Of w0rds.n
The Washington correspondent OF th
albany Argus says that the ONO friends
Mr. Pendleton viii assent to the passage
the tWo-thirds rule IN the New York cor
xention, aud that If they fail under Oh
operation OF the rule to nominate thei
candidate they viii use their power unde
The Tule TO veto the nomination OF Chis
Justice Chase.
Pervonfra. We saw letter from clos
Observes At Washington IN which Il wa
stated thet II the East should force the tWl
third rule uPcp the conventions II would b
accepted as the deieat Of Renaieton, au
nus friends theteup0n wnuld support Ghas
III order 70 defeat Hancock of Hendrloki
who are believed 70 BE the Candidates (
The New York leaders, cinciaaatt QazeiI,
That the ffeedmeu sauauder ali thei
money, have no idedol conserving thel
own interests, ought 70 Be made 70 Hor
for the white man that he MAJ mako th
proceeds Of their work his eHn, and tax
care Of the money 30 IS 70 give lkam FOOD
shelter. and clothlng lest they - 'faP4o {.
death, and that they work for only tp0ug
20 spend ia gratifying their sensual npps
titles. just as the Democratic press plo9As
sled. Is shown clearly BIZ the fact that v
aa depoatta "A the NAtianal Freedmen
sagIrgs and Trust company Of Washingtf
am0ant 20 four million four hundred a.
twenty Eve thousand two hundred and nIi
dolIars. and that a balance Of over 1ofl
handred thousand dollars remaius n "a
1aaf Ia the f1res nontha eeding shirt
Azst OF May tHN excess Of deposits on
drafts was one hurdre1 and ten thoasan
eH454. Such esae41derIaan + saIdo|
sndaieed "a BIZ the Alse mass 81 tie Dan
lIo nHTtg br0okyf U4ioa,
Ghe Virginia p4 nNia
NH& pse the AqT teoni
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