New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-19
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

The announcement in yesterdays REPUB-
rICAN of the name of jim Casey as proper
person to be appointed Mayor OF New
Orleans, was received with general favor.
The Democrats would like to see him ap-
pointed because of his great intellectual
Qualifications and devotion to truth; while
the Republicans ardently desire his appoint
ment, because of his long, consistent and
honorable Republicsnism. Vlue "a hunbug!
AHAoMIRABLE CHRICHToy, William Rufus
Crane, statesman, orator and patriot, de-
ciares himself willing, nav anxious, 10 &C
cept the nomination for Congress IN the
Second Congressional District. And Ger
tsiniY If he should be az intense and
forcible and long-winded, and gesticuiatory
and vociferous in the United States hall OF
Representatives as he is in the courts OF
New Orleans. we would like to know who
could withstand him. Colonel Crane is an
enthusiastic pupil of the DemOsthenean
school. HIS motto is, action, action, action.
He leaps from the ridiculous to the sublime,
not only mentally but physically; and when
he falls back to his original normal position,
1t is with violence which shakes the floor
and convulses the auditory.
The reader knows the great range which
Edmund Burke took in his orations, but let
and orator, Crane, for an hour aud two, and
he will feel satisfied Edmund was no circum'
stance to William Rufus. To give some idea
of the infinite resources of Cranes mind as
an orator, let Us instance little tax case he
had the other day In one of The District
Courts. He opposed the payment OF taxes,
and constituted himself the war horse OF all
delinquent taxpayers in New Orleans.
Throwing back the lappels of his coat. dart.
ing his bristling head forward as if about to
butt it into the minute clerks bread basket,
then jerking it back, and passing his fingers
through his hair la Andrew Jackson, he
fairly snorted. He took up the Metropolitan
Police bill, and tore it into tatters. He took
up the first section of this BILL aud the Sec
Ond and third. commenting at length upon
each one with an emphasis which called
about him all the hangers-on OF the build
ing, until he reached the fifty-seventh and
last, Then came the peroration.
This embraced the ''stilted dignitaries
OF the City Hall, Jefferson Davis the death
OF julius Cesar. the authorship OF Jnnius'
letters, the labyrinth Of Crete, the projected
matrimonial alliance between his majesty
of Dahomy and the Queen of the Antilles,
the quality of mercy, the proud mans con.
tumely, q complete autobiography OF William
Rufus Crane, with copious notes. calf bound
and illustrated who flung the last brick first;
Tells skill as an archer: the battle OF Ban
pockburn; the rattlesnake's venom; Venice
preserved; Breathes there the man, Give
me liberty with variations; the high tone
of the Legisla lure; the kindness of the Judge
in listening to his eloquence-in fact, every
imaginary topic in the world, saving and
excepting only the point at issue.
A'Southern Barnum could make millions
by taking William Rufus Crane around the
country in the wake of George Francis
Train, and "sick" them at each other like
two bull dogs.-Neao Orleans Bulletin.