New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-15
UNION WITH NORTHERN CHURCH lNEXpEDlENT
NEW YORK TRIBUNE ON THE LEvEES
Piebiscitum Proclamation Preparations
GRAFTON TO Be DELIVERED BY THE EMPEROR
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MARKET
WASHINGTON.


Dollars Internal Revenue Kecelpts-
The now italian nMinister-Excursion
Down the POtOmac-Dlstrics -Attor-
ney Pierrepont Resigned - Scramble
for the Succession The Oregon In
dinns Trouble Apprehended - Sum-
ner's Suppiemeot tary Civil Rights Bill
All Persons to be Treated Allke-NO
DistinctioDs In Life or In the Grave
New York Tribune on Mississippi
Lsvees and Extending Government
Aid.
WASHINGTON, May 14.-lnsernal revenue
receipts to-day s67i, 600.
The President withdrew eyequatur from
the Portuguese Consul at Savannah. No
cause is assigned.
Count Louis Cortie, the new Italian min
lister, was presented to the President. The
usual speeches were uttered.
The President, family and staff, and
made an excursion down the Potomac to-
day. The weather was delightful.
District Attorney Plerrepont has resigned,
to take effect June l. A dozen noted New
York lawyers are scrambling for his place.
The Mayor and other corporation officers
were summoned by the Senate Committee
on Inquiry into the solvency of the corpora.
ton.
Municipal politics are hot. The colored
The Indian bureau has advices that the
Oregon Indians are preparing to leave their
reservations, and trouble is apprehended, as
the government will use force to hold them
within bounds.
Summers bill supplementary to the civil
rights bill, the passage OF which he claims
will close the matter. 1t requires all hotels
restaurants. railroads, theatres, churches,
concert halls, academies, common schools,
ofo fO nt al r
colors alike, and imposes penalties punisha-
BILE on conviction in a United States court,
aud for any refusal of any privilege to any
one on account of he Or she being of African
descent. It prohibits cemeteries from being
devoted to the sepulture exclusively Of white
people. The bill was referred.
The New York Tribune of to-day, in an
article on the levees of the Mississippi, says:
I" We have never doubted that this subject
should engage the attention of Congress, as
il is intimately connected with our national
finances. To increase the production Of
sugar retains specie in the country, while to
increase the product Of cotton puts exchange
to our credit abroad. How much the cot
ton crop of 1869 has had to do with our
approach to specie value, we are not pre-.
pared to say, but certain it is that our ex-
bort to Europe of l, 500, 900 bales during the
last six months, has not been without g.
marked effect on our currency. We believe
Louisiana has put the matter into a shape
in which it can oe successfully handled"
First, it is ohqiocs thai uniform system
was absolutely rs siassar7; and, second, by q
plan that Prize enterprise is the agency
through g7:,'T'' 'Io'., tAe work can be sue
cessfIlIy = 'iri III. 1t is noble mis-
sion, that o, --.4 ing from the domain OF
the alligator, millions of acres of land por-
tions of it capable of making from one to
two hogsheads Of sugar to the acre, aud
other portions, Of making from one to two
bales of cotton.
If Congress car see its way clear TO assist
this enterprise and even strain point to
do it, we trust it will The best way to
make the South peaceful is to make it pros.
porous. Let her people feel the power OF
the government otherwise than as evinced
by is bayonets.
A people busily at work and making
money are not prone to rebellion. Congress
should not adjourn before doing something
in the premises.
For five years these magnificent lands have
been at the mercy of the midsummer floods.
We apprehend that the people of that region
are not able to protect themselves without
some help from the government, besides the
most important Of the Southern levees were
cut during the war by our troops for national
purposes, thus giving an additional claim
on Congress.
The first Pacific railroad has been built,
and it is worth all it cost. Let the word go
out, that our next great work mast De to
reclaim the prolific low lands of the Missis
sippi. It would do much to give us more
abundant cotton and better currency.
The work should be done bysa company.
It Can not be so cheaply nor so quickly
done by any government, national Or State.
1t should be done quickly and thoroughly,
so much being assured. The Federal gov
ernment should extend to that company
such aid as it may need, because the work
is indispensable and of public and general
importance. Let private enterprise do its
utmost, and let the government, taking
ample security, aid that company, so far as
it may be Indispensable, by guaranteeing
It's bonds, rather than by subscription or
subsidy.
The government need not help it, merely.
so much as 1t will help the government, by
enlarging the area of profitable industry.