New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-13
Local Intelligence.

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evening company of militia, numberin.
over one hundred young, able-bodied col
ored men, met at Kennerville. After the
mastering Of the company by Major Louis
z. Granger, assistant adjutant general, the
meeting adjourned to the club room where
they found large crowd awaiting them
three hundred in all. They were addressed
by General Mudgett and Major Granger, Of
New Orleans; r. G. Gardner and Rev. P. p
Williams, of Carrollton. The addresses
were received with much enthusiasm
General Mudgett made an able defense Of
the State administration, and pitched into
the Democracy generally. Major Grange,
explained to them the militia law, and also
defended the State administration.
The meeting adjourned after adopting
resolutions indorsing the present State adj
mnistration, and passing resolutions Of
thanks to the speakers
THE IRISH REPUBLICAN CLUB.-The
Senate Chamber was filed on Thursday
evening with Republicans, anxious to hear
the speakers announced for the occasion.
After the club had passed through its regu-
lar course of business, the speakers were
called for, and Governor Warmoth and
others not being present, call for Captain
Sheridan was made. This popular orator
had done SO much talking in the State con-
vention during the day that he was actually
too tired to enter upon anything like a
speech at this time. He begged to be ex-
cused and called upon DIR. Burri1 to supply
his place. In the meantime Collector Casey
was discovered upon the platform, and some
wag who knew he was opposed to speech
making, called for speech from him. The
Collector was "a. little nonplussed for the
moment, but recovering himself, said he
desired to practice little in the country be-
fore making speech in town. His remarks
were received with applause, and he retired
TO make room for more experienced man
IN the art of speech making. DR.. Burrill
then came forward and delivered quite an
eloquent discourse, upon the subject of Re-
publicanism and the duties of Republi-
cans in the political campaign about to be
inaugurated. He spoke at length in fOrci-
ble and pleasant speech. He retired to
make way for General Sheldon, when that
gentlemen entered the room. The General
having Just been renominated as the Republi-
can candidate for Congress from the Second
Congressional District, he proceeded to give
the meeting some of his views in regard to
the political condition of affairs From the
fact, that he. was repeatedly cheered,
in the course of his remarks we
took for granted that all he said
was approved by those present. Colonel
Lowell next spoke, and his remarks were
quite animated. He assured the meeting
that notwithstanding he had heard of dis
sessions in the Republican Convention, he
was well convinced there would be no
divisions of so serious an import as to inter-
fere and prevent a complete victory in the
election next fall. After Colonel Lowell
had concluded, the club, preceded by a band
of music, marched to the residences of a
number of prominent Republicans, and, we
understand, serenaded them.
New YACHT.-A new yacht, OF twenty
five tons burden, has just been launched by
Mr.. John Mahoney, of Algiers. She is
called the Josephine" and was built under
the superintendent of Mr.. Hutchinson for
Charles A. Whitney & Co., and is intended
for the use of theirOwn pilot. The "Jose-
phine has been built for a fast sailer; and
competent judges say, that in the construc-
ton of this last yacht, Mahoney has beat
himself.
ALGIERs PoUND.-In reference to the
crowded state of the Algiers pound yester-
day morning, it should be remarked that it
is hardly fair to enforce the ordinance con-
corning animals running in the streets,
without due notice, taking people by sur
prise, and putting them to cruel expense by
a mode Of action which can only be desig-
mated as wanton and unwarranted. A
large number of those who own COWS in
Algiers are poorspeople, and the solitary
COW forms large part of the family sup
port. Before the parish was annexed,
cattle (hogs and goats excepted) ran
at large in the numerous open fields,
doing no harm and entirely unmolested.
How much good is effected by depriving
the people of McDonoghville of the resource
of gratuitous pastures it is not necessary to
inquire. But it is not too much to ask that
a previous notification should be made.
D
Quick WoRK.-AbOut the best time made
by Recorder in the honest discharge OF
his duty was made by Recorder Houghton
A young fellow, John Henry by
name, was caught emptying the money
drawer OF Mrs. Barris, who keeps grocery
.tore on the corner Of Miro and Common
streets. 1t was about l P. NJ. yesterday
hat the drawer was emptied, and Mrs. Bar
ris not only saw, but also caught the thief.
He broke away from her and ran, and she,
giving an alarm, pursued to the corner Of
Canal and Where streets, where he was
caught by the police and arrested. He
pleaded guilty to the charge Of larceny, but
says that he was put up to do the job by
two men whom he could not name, but
whom he knows. On his own confession,
lust one hour after he was arrested, he was
transferred to the Criminal Court, under
800 bonds Recorder Houghton has the
horns.
STEALING A WATCH.-Captain Lame, of
The schooner Veloz," lying at the Vallette
Dry Dock, near the foundry, Algiers, hired
on Thursday a boy named Joseph Centeno.
Joseph left the boat at IL P. NJ, and about
the same time three hundred dollar gold
watck and twenty dollars in gold also took
heir departure. Suspicion pointed so