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PROPOSALS..

DEPARTMENT OF IMPROVEMENT,
New Orleans City Hall, July %, 1871. :
CEALED PROPOSALS, ADDRESSED TO THE UN-
y dersigned, will be received at this Office until
WEDNESDAY NOON, August 3d. 1871, for revettlng
the Lake Shore Protection Levee with Gray Iron,
in accordance with plans and specifications on file
in the office of the City Surveyor.
The city reserves the right to accept for any
number of feet reject the whole.
All parties making proposals for this contract are
required to deposit with the Administrator of Fl
nance, as evidence of their intention to abide by
the adjudication, the amount of two thousand dol
lars in cash. which shall be forfeited to the city in
case of failure to sign the contract.
Bidders to whom contracts are not awarded shall
have their deposits returned to them on the day
adjudications made.
No bid will be received unless accompanied by
the certificate of the Administrator of Finance
certifying that the requred cash deposit has been
made
Proposals to be Endorsed, Proposals for Revet-
ting Lake Shore Protection Levee."
jy29 I'd JOHN COCKREM. Administrator.
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SECOND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF
ORLEANS-No. 28, 1872.
VyHE STATE OF LOUISIANA. TO ALL WHOM
l. II may concern, greeting; Whereas Hugh
McClOskey having purchased at sale made BY
the Sheriff OF the parish of Orleans, ON the seven
teenth day OF June l6Il the property hereinafter
scribed has applied to the Judge of this court for
a monitor Or advertisement in conformity to Sec
tons 1910 TO 1880 OF act No sc of the session acts
OF 1870, commonly known as the Revised Statutes
OF louisiana
Now, therefore, know We and all persons inter.
ested herein hereby cited and admonished, in
the name OF the State of Louisiana and of the Sec
ond District Court tor the parish OF Orleans wa 0,
can set Up any right, title or claim in and to the
property hereinafter described in consequence Of
any informaltv in the order decree or udrnent.ofs
the court under which the sale was made. or any
irregularity or illegality in the apprasements and
advertisements, in time on manner Of sale, for
any ether defect whatsoever, to show cause within
thirty days nom the day this mOntion is first in
serted II the public papers, why the sale made
should not be homologated and confirmed.
The said property was sold by the sheriff afOTe
said by virtue OF and pursuant TO a writ OF heri
tacias issued from this court in the suit OF David
c. Mccain vs.. succession OF Oliver Dubois and
William Mish No 20 182 the docket said court,
at which sale the said Hugh McCloskey became the
purchaser Tor the price and sum OF hfty-one thou
sand dollars.
Description of the property as contained in the
judicial conveyance. viz
l. Three certain lots OF ground in the First Dis
trict of This city, IN the square bounded by Camp
POYdras ST. Charles and Gravier streets and desg-
mated by the numbers two, three and four on
plan drawn by j. Pile on the twentv-second day OF
August, 1881, which said lots of ground have the
following dimensions: Lot number two measures
Twenty-Five feet eleven inches and four lines front
on ST. Charles street. by one hundred and twenty
five feet six inches il depth and lots numbers
three and f-ur each TWENTY-FIVE feet eleven inches
and four lines front Oh ST. Charles street, by one
hundred and seventy feet six inches in depth be-
tween parallel lines, all English measure.
D. Another certain lot OF ground adjoining lot
number four above described measurins in French
measure, TWENTY-FIVE feet six inches front on 81.
Charles street, by one hundred and sixty feet in
depth. between parallel lines. bounded on the side
toward Gravier street bv said lot number four,
and on the other side by property now or formerly
belonging 20 the succession OF Nj. Poore; together
with an and singular the buildings and improve.
ments on said four lots of ground; being the same
property acquired jointly aud in equal shares by
o. Dubois anu William Mlsh from John HOey per
act passed before H. B. Cenas, late a notary pubic
in this city, on the sixteenth January, 1850.
New orleans July 81, lo1l.
LOUIS DUVIGNEAUD, Judge
NJ o. TRACv Clerk. anil Is %
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Of false imprisonment against Corporal

OF false imprisonment against Corporal
Hardin.
The case of Matt Hogan, charged with
vagrancy, was continued indefinitely on
account of the absence of the accused at the
North. His bondsman for $3.50 is Mr.. James
Crellin, of No. 292 Lafayette street.
Thomas CASTILLO and j. s. Rutherford,
charged by Officer M. B. Bion with having
on the twenty of May, at Algiers,
attempted to pick the pockets of one Back
iatd, were tried; CASTILLO was convicted,
and Rutherford discharged.
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Rooms state Central Committee of the
Republican party of the State of Louisiana.-At a
meeting of the State Central Committee of the Re.
publican party OF the State of Louisiana, held
June q, 1871, the following resolutions were
adopted
First resolution offered by Mr.. RAY:
WHEREAS, According to the requirements of a
resolution passed and adopted by the State Con-
vention of the Republican party, on the tenth day
mittee, appointed by and under the authority of
said Convention is directed to call State COuven
ton of the Republican party on or before the ex-
pirati0n OF their term of service; therefore
be it
Resolved. That convention of the Republican
party be and is hereby called TO meet in New Or
leans on the ninth day of August, 1871
Resolved. That the basis of representation in said
Convention shall be as follows, viz: Every seven
hundred Republican votes, as cast at the last
general election, in each parish, and in each
ward of the city of New Orleans, shall be en-
titled to one delegate and an additional delegate
for every fraction over one-haf of seven hundred;
and provided, that each parish and ward shall be
entitled to at least one delegate.
Resolved. That the presidents of the several
parish committees of the Republican party in
the State-except in the parish of Orleans
and in the parish of Orleans the presidents
of the mother ward clubs are hereby author
lied and required to call elections for delegates
to said convention, and to forward TO the president
of the State Central Executive Committee the
proper credentials of the delegates elected, coun-
tersigned by the secretaries of their committees
and clubs, on or before the time fixed for the
sitting of the Convention.
Resolved, That tine president of the State Central
Executive Committee be and is hereby authorized
and directed to ascertain the number OF delegates
to be elected from each parish and ward from the
authentic vote in the Office of the Secretary of
State, and issue his proclamation for said election,
and have the same published in the Republican
papers throughout the State.
2. Resolution introduced by Mr. Lowell
Whereas, The time of service of the Parish EX-
ecutive Committee of the parish of Orleans
pred by limitation on the fifteenth day of NOvem.
Der 1870; therefore be it
Resolved, That the seventh day of August 1871,
be designated as the day when elections shall be
held in each ward OF the city of New Orleans for
delegates to the State Convention called to meet
August g. 1871, polls to be opened and closed at
such hours the presidents of the mother ward
clubs may indicate, at least one weeks notice of
the same being given.
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Local Intelligence.

WArrNG.-William Walsh, the party IN
der arrest for having shot Detective j. L..
Smith, was yesterday remanded to prison
to await certificate from the Charity Hos
pital as to the physical condition of Mr..
Smith 1t seems that his wound is not a
serious one, but he is greatly weakened
from loss of blood
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Total maid to the committee. ......... $l3l3 65
1t is understood that the subscription Of
SIP 65 was intended to make 1t equal to
$lOOin gold.
Father Kenny notified the congregation
that the subscription list would be kept
open at his residence for few days longer
before the amount would be RENTED.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-02

Hail Fifth Ward Radical Republican
Mother Club, July 81. l87l.-The following resolu-
lions were unanimously adopted by the Fifth Ward
Radical Republican Mother Club:
WHEREAS, Emigration from one ward to another
for fraudulent voting is carried to alarming
tent; and
Whereas, 1t is necessary to have fair election;
be it therefore
Resolved by the Fifth Ward Radical Republican
Mother Club, That no person or persons will he
allowed to vote at the election to be held in this
ward on the seventh of August, 1871, unless he is
resident of the ward. and duly registered on the
books roll of the Mother Club be it further
Resolved. That these resolutions be published in
the New Orleans Republican, LOuisianian and Cit-
Zens' Guard.
By order of HYMAN SMITH, President.
HENRY L. TAUZIN. Secretary. aul St.
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TIME OF CLOSING AND ARRIVAL
OF THE MAILS.

By New Orleans Jackson and CLOSE. DUE.
Great Northern RailrOad-Can
ton, Memphis, st. Louis. Gin
cinnati, Louisville, New York
Washington, Baltimore, Bos
ton, Nashville, Eastern States
and foreign mails California
and all the Territories daily
except Sunday ............. Gas A. NJ. lll:O0 A.
ByNew Orleans, Jackson and
Great Northern Railroad-Way
mail New Orleans. Jackson and
Great Northern Railroad, Mis-
sissippi Central Railroad Ten
nessee Kentucky, Northern
Louisiana, St. Louis, Cincin-
natl, California, Territories,
Chicago and New York via
Louisville Sunday excepted. 4:30 P. NJ. 1890 p
By New Orleans, Mobile and
Texas Railroad-Lake Coast,
Mobile, Alabama, Georgia.
Florida, North and South
Carolina, Mobile and Ohio Rail
road way mail. ...............l 1890 A.M. 430 p
By New Orleans, Mobile and
Texas Railroad Mobile only
Except Sunday. ............. 500 P. NJ. l0:30P.
By Morgan's Louisiana and
Texas Rairoad-way mail for
the parishes of Terrebonne,
Assumption, St. Mary, St
Martin, iberia, Calcasieu, Cam
eron, Lafayette, Lafourche, st
Landry and Vermilon Except
BY Morgans Iou:iana and we ~ -1' ''''
Texas Railroad-Southern and
Middle Texas-Arrives Mon
day, Tuesdar, Thursday and
Saturday. Closes Sunday, Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday. e:45 A. NJ. LOO p.
BY Red River steamers-Par
ishes of Bossier, Caddo, DeSOto
Grant, Natchitoches, Rapides
Sabine and Winn-also coun-
ties of Texas, Nacogdoches
Angelina, Shelby, Sabine
Bowie, Davis Harrison, Hen
derson Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar
Marion Pamela, Red river, Rusk
San Augustine, Smith, Titus
Upshur, Van Zandt and Wood
Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day, tri-weekly ................. 400 P. Nj.
By vicksburg steamers-DOn-
aldsonville Plaquemine, Baton
Rouge, St. Francisville, AvOy.
Giles parish, and all pOstOffces
between st. Francisvile and
Vicksburg, semi-weekly. Ciose
Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day. Due Monday, Wednesday
By St.Francisvilie steamers
All postoffices between New
Orleans and St Francisville-
semi weekly. Closes Monday
and Friday. Due Monday and
By Lake steamers-St Tam
MANY parish - semi weekly.
Closes Monday and Thursday
Due Tuesday and Friday. 800 A. NJ. lI:B0 A.
BY Lower Coast steamer
Plaluemine parish semi
weekly. Closes Monday and
Thursday. Due Wednesday,
and Saturday. 800 A. NJ. 900 A.
By Messenger - Carroliton
Louisiana daily, except sun
day. 900 A. NJ. 400 p.
BY Messenger-Algiers, Lou
slana-dally..-.. .--......... 9:OO A NJ ll0:OO A
Commencing July 20, the Shreveport and Nor
eastern Texas mails will be dispatched daily
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern r.
road, instead by the river, as heretofore.
Notice of closing of foreign mails will be Civ
the public per bulletin board at the Postoffice.
c. W. LOWELL, Postmaster
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-02

The Rev. Peter Cartwright, the veteran
pioneer preacher, is drawing nigh to the
close of his earthly pilgrimage. He is
now confined to his room IN Pleasant Hill
Plains, near Springfield, Illinois. His
strength is rapidly failing, and it is feared
he can not live many months.
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EIection Notice.-Headquarter Thirteent

Election NOtice.-Headquarte Thirteenth
Ward Charles Summer Radical Republican Mother
Club corner of Valence and Chestnut streets-To
You are hereby notified that in pursuance of call
issued by the Republican State Central Committee,
dated the twenty-seventh ultimo for State con-
ventiOn of the Republican party to meet in this
city on the ninth prOxmO, there will he cleo
ton for a delegate to represent this ward in said
convention, on MONDAY, the seventh proximo
The poll will be opened at the above headquarters
at five o'clock P. M and closed at nine O'Clock p
M, on the minute. You will take further notice
that in accordance with a resolution adopted at
the last meeting of this club, person viii be al
lowed to vote at said election whose name does
not appear on the club roll book
j. B. GAUDET President.
WILLIAM BAupRIcH, Recording Secretary.
jy30 Ct
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of Elizabeth Laura Johnson

CECOND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH
y of Orleans.-Notice is hereby given to the cred
itOrs of this estate, and to all other persons
herein interested TO show cause within ten
days from the present notification, if any they have
can, whv the account presented by the admins
traitor in this estate should not be homOlogated
and approved, and the funds distributed in accord
Herewith.
By order of the Court.
iv30 au4 NJ. o. TRACY, Clerk.
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Collection of Taxes.

The Office of Administrator Walton was
densely crowded on Monday, and the taxes
collected amounted to $l45,s9s 50. The
whole amount of collections, including the
sale of market revenues, footed up $780,
OBJ g..
City Attorney George S. Lacey left yester-
day for the North, intending TO return in
about two months
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POLITICAL NOTICES.

Governor WarmOth and the Germans
in the Fourth Dstrict.-The German population of
for coming events. They have Endorsed the policy
Of their Governor and are up and ready to sustain
it. H. c. Warmeth is their choice and well might
capable of filling that high and responsible office
he has held of late. meeting of the German
citizens of the Fourth District is to be called for
next THURSDAY NIGHT, and the gathering of true
Republicans, there will show, indeed what our
German fellow citizens have to say, and will say,
the point in favor of their nomination and the adj
ministratiOn. au2
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-02

CHARITY HosPITAL.-Mr. p. NJ. Tourne,
clerk of the Charity Hospital, sends US the
following report for July: Admissions, 522;
discharged, AL; Deaths SO; deserted, 33.
Number of patients remaining August l, 49S;
number of patients remaining in Marine
Hospital, Sc; total, 554.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-02

ACCIDENTAL DEATH.-Last Sunday, dur
ing small row near the Barracks, Lucien
Poevalez threw bit of iron which struck
w Botfin in his abdomen, from the effects
of which he died Monday night. Shortly
before his death he stated that he could
blame no one, as he was only passing at
the time, and knew nothing of the trouble.
Lucien Poevalez is charged with having
thrown the missile, and has been arrested.
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OFFICIAL NOTICES,
CITY TAXEs-NOTICE TO TAXPAYERs

DEPARTMENT OF ASSESSMENTS
City Hall, Room No. Is, :
New Orleans, August l. 1871.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION SEVEN CITY
i ordinance number seventy-one, Administration
SERIES notice is hereby given that the assessment
Of real estate and personal property within the
city for the year 1871 is now complete, and will be
open for inspection and correction at the office of
the Department of Assessments room No. IS City
Hall, from A. NJ. till 3P. NJ Sundays excepted)
during thirty days from the date hereof, att which
time all complaints of either excessive orinade-
quate assessment will be considered.
H. BONZANO,
aul I'm Administrator of As essments.
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Captain Flanagan's harbor police yester
day discovered two boxes of cigarettes and
eight boxes of cigars hidden under the
wharf head of Erato street. 1t is not known
who left the articles there, but the police
took charge of them.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-02

RUNAwAY.-As Messrs. Brede and
Rody were riding out last evening on Jack
son street their team took fright and ran
away, tearing the carriage against lamp
post, throwing the parties to the ground
and running the vehicle. Two ladies and
two children with the gentlemen were some
what bruised, though no bones were broken.
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au1 I'm
NOTICE..

OFFICE BOARD OF STATE ASSESSORS,
No. Caller Court,
New Orleans, August I, 1871
TIME PUBLIC ARE HEREBY INFORMED THAT
l. the State tax assessment for the year 1871 is
now completed, and will be exposed from the first
day of August until the first day of September to
correct all erroneous assessments.
au1 I'm JOHN W. SWORDS President
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Na,; of pIectiou.-Hall Aloiers Radical

Notice of ElectiOn.-Hall Algiers Radical Re-
publican Mother Club, July 20, 187l.-In accord
ance with f can three delegates from the fifteenth
Ward to the State Convention will be held MON
DAY, the seventh of August To facilitate voting
three polls will be opened from six o'clock A. NJ to
six O'clock P. NJ, at the following places;
Poll No. 1-Courthouse, Algiers.
Poll No. Madam Corets, Cutoff.
Poll No. 3-Stanton's Plantation.
Attest: b. buCdANAN, Fresiuent.
C. P AxRs. Secretary. jy30 6tt
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THE DAILY REPUBLICAN

NAV he had of the following dealers:
George Ellis, opposite the Postofice.
A Simon, No. "a Exchange Alley.
&C. Haley, No. 10 Commercial Place.
C.G.D. HOLE, Ne. 81 Exchange Place.
James Ennis, Pontchartrain Railroad
Depot, Third District; also, at Depot foot
of Lafayette Street, First District.
J.W. Long, corner of Love and Enghien
Streets, Third District.
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TIE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
FIFTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF
ORLEANS, NO. 2736.
N. MILLER VS.. HIS CREDITORS.

n MILLER VS.. HIS CREDITORS.
IT IS ORDERED THAT THE CREDITORS OF
Il the petitioner be notified to appear before
John L. Laresche. ESQ.,, notary public in this
clty, on SATURDAY, August H. 1871, at ten o'clock
A NJ, TO take INTO consideration the application of
the petitioner for respite, and in the meantime
let all judicial proceedings against his person and
property be stayed.
New Orleans, July s, 1871.
PAUL E. THEARD,
Judge of the Fourth District Court for the parish
of Orleans, acting during absence Of Judge
Charles beaumont.
trne copy;
P. A. LUMINAIS, Deputy Clerk.
Clerks Office, July 81, 1871. sul SIG
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AUCTION SALES THIS DAY.

BY SHERIFF sAUvINET, at los o'clock, at Ship
pers' Cotton Press, on Peters street, fortysix
bales of cotton Garrard, Craig & Co. vs.. x. D.
CbRnSler
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PAYING JUDGMENT.-Administ
Shaw paid judgment in cash of twenty
odd thousand dollars against the city, and
in favor of Belot. This suit was brought
for damages incurred by the plaintiff during
the riots of 1868. General Harry T. Hays
was the counsel for plaintiff in this suit.
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ORLEANS
MRS. OPHELIA HEWLETT vs.. HER HUSBAND
No. 9903
II HEREBY CERTIFY THAT ON THE TWENTY
l. fourth day of June 1871, Judgment was rendered
in this court in the following entitled suit, IN
the words and figures following, to wit:
Mrs. Ophelia Hewlett VS.. her Husband-No 1908.
On motion OF Z. G. Outlet attorney for the plain
tiff in this cause, upon submitting to the court due
proof in support of her demand, by reason OF the
law and evidence being with plaintiff it is adiudged
and decreed that the Judgment by default herein.
entered the nineteenth instant be now con
rmed; that there be Judgment in favor OF plaintiff
Opheha Moreau, against defendant, John Hewlett,
her husband, dissoving the community OF ac-
quests and gains existing between them; that
plaintiff do have and recover of defendant the sum
of eight hundred dollars, with legal interest from
judicial demand until paid, and costs of suit, with
lien and privilege on the property of her husband,
in such cases allowed by law TO married women.
Judgment signed June 49, 1871.
I. WHARTON COLLENS, Judge.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of the said court, at the
city OF New Orleans, this third day Of July,
in the year OF our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and seventy-one, and nnety-tifth year Of the
independence OF the United States.
au2 g 81 EDWARD COTTON Deputy Clerk.
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The following resolutions were offered

by Mr. j. D. O'Connell, and adopted unanimously:
Resolved. That we, the members of the FouIth
District Workngmens Republican Club, approve
and fully indorse the federal and State administra
lions of President U. s. Grant and Fl. C. WarmOth;
that we look to tried. and in the future, most
entitled TO be trusted chiefs, that we promise them
our undivided support in carrying out in future
and the equality of all men before the law and we
do now further pledge them Our undivided support
as our chief standard bearers in the coming cam
Resolved That the foregoing resolution be pub
lshed in the New Orleans Republican.
K. WILLIAMS Presdenr
n F.wcETr Secretary. au2W*
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Notice of ElectiOn.-In pursuance to the call
of the Republican State Central Executive Com
mittee notice is hereby given that an election will
be held at the club room of the Mother Ward Club
of the Eleventh Ward, on Sixth street between St.
David and St Patrick streets, on MONDAY, August
T. 1871, for delegates and alternates to represent
said ward in the State Convention to be held on
August g 1871 The commissioners of election will
open the polls at II NJ. and close them at P NJ. A
sufficient number of sergeants at arms will be in at
tendance to preserve order and protect the rights
of voters Z. WILLIAMS, President
RADFoRp R. DAVIS, Secretary.
New Orleans July 29, 1871 iy3O Ct
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POLITICAL NOTICES,
To the Republicans of the Tenth War

To the Republicans of the Tenth Ward
We the undersigned, having been nominated as
New Orleans on the ninth of August, do hereby de-
clare that we resign in favor of Governor H. c.
Warmoth and E. P. Duciosange, whom we wish TO
be regarded as the regular nominees for delegates
to the convention, and We recommend that they be
supported by all good Republicans of the ward.
. PETER JOSEPH,
J. w. FAIRFAX
J. D. OCONNELL
o. NJ. REDON
ap2 IT F. c. REMlCK