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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28
GREAT PUBLIC DEBTS.

While political philosophers were veX-
ing the world with their discussions
whether or not a public debt was public
blessing the people Of. the United States
have acted upon the well grounded as
sumption that theirs was public obiga-
ton, to be discharged with the least pos
sible delay The Americans have gone on
reducing their debt from year to year,
while the increase Of wealth and popula-
ton enables our finance minister to pro-
pose a reduction Of taxes. it IS true that
at first few despairing men became dis
heartened at the enormous figures pub
lished every month as the amount for
which we were bound, and some faint eff
forts were made at Reputation 1t was
never directly proposed to throw out all
the bonds issued since the last Democratic
administration, but the right was set up
by politicians Of the Pendleton school to
Hquidate the fve-twenty bonds in green
backs. This mild squirting toward bad
faith sealed the fate Of the ablest Demo
crat Of the Northwest He is completely
shelyed, where he will remain, or only be
brought out again after a season of pen
ance, and the espousal of some more pop
Ular cause. Grant owed his success in
1858, in a great measure, to the deep
seated popular attachment to the prin-
ciple that the national faith must be pre-
served inyiolaJle.
We havean example Just now in France,
Of a people determind to repair the dis
asters of war and internal discussion at
any hazard. Their recent losses in the
struggle with Prussia probably exceeded
those of our four years contest with the
rebellion, And peace was only obtained
by the payment of immense sums by
way Of Naturalization. Here was a cap
ital opportunity for the old Bourbons and
Last Ditchers ofFrance to preach the uni
versal ruin Of the State, and to declarea
general smash up Of all credit. But they
were overawed by the teryid patriotism OF
the people, who have promptly responded
to every demand for a government loan by
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28
" HONESTY Is THE BEST POLICY. -


It is undoubtedly desirable that men
should act uprightly from pure and single
motives; better for themselves, better for
others. There is more reliance to be
placed on their honesty in times Of
temptation; but it is nevertheless better
that they should behave well from mean
and selfish motives than not to behave
well at all Now, of all the mean adages
to which worldly wisdom has given birth,
none is meaner than that which heads
this article; and yet it were heartily to be
wished that every one incapable Of a
higher motive should be made sensible of
its truth and importance. The case i'm
mediately in point is that Of the notorious
Boss" Tweed. A few months ago his
position was such as, to worldly mind,
would have seemed the summit Of sue
cess. With the great city Of New York
virtually under his thumb, its wealth
streaming into his Golfers, its merchants
trading, its mechanics working, its labor
ers sweating as one might say, for his
benefit, and even its legislation modified
to subserve his interest, he might indeed
be,said to reign over that imperial city,
although under the republican title of
BOSS" Of course he was known, long
before he was found out, and his insolence
and ostentation were despised by the re-
fined and high-minded but still he
reigned, and the force Of his ill-gained
and misnamed success was producing its
pernicious influence on the minds of thou
sands The public is a patient and long
suffering animal. 1t viii stand very
great amount OF imposition before bestir-
ring itself to remedy the evil. Everybody
waits long while for somebody else to
take the initiative, and through this pa
tience the bad and the bold enjoy tenn
porary and delusive immunity. But by
and by the lethargic monster becomes
irritated 1t losses and founders, and at
length, by one powerful effort, it brushes
the audacious creature who has trespassed
81 4OuS upon Us 1ISuIo. % II LdS DS6u
with the man in question; and there is no
doubt that at this moment be would cheer
fully forfeit nine-tenths Of his ilI-gotten
gains to purchase the safe obscurity he en-
joyed before he bartered character for
cash. To such men as he land unhappily
they are not a few the mean motive
policy" as q reason for honesty, might
be effectively addressed, and though they
would be, morally, none the better for
acting upon it, yet society would be the
gamer. We repeat then, that while in
sitting into the minds Of the young the
highest, purest motives, a respect for the
interests Of society and a recognition of
the weakness Of human nature would die
tate the propriety Of respecting, at the
same time the good old worldly maXims
by which alone s6rdid minds are to be
influenced.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

far from being rendered immoral by the
admixture Of that ingredient, were they
abandoned on that account, man could
no longer subsist; that among them every
one has a natural right to choose that
which he thinks most likely to give him
comfortable subsistence" eff" says
Mr.. jefferson, ''we consider games Of
chance immoral; then every pursuit of hu-
man industry is immoral, for there is not
a single one that is not subject to chance;
not one wherein you do not risk loss for
the chance Of some gain" The naviga-
tor, the merchant, the landholder, the
hunter and the farmer are all reckoned by
Mr.. jefferson to be subject to chance; but
he reckons the farmer the greatest Of all
gamblers, for he risks his seed, the rent
he pays for the ground itself, the years
labor on it, and the wear and tear
of his cattle and gear to win a crop,
which the chances of too much or too
little rain, and general uncertainties OF
weather, insects, waste, etc, often make
total or partial loss. There are risks that
every business man has to encounter
in the pursuit Of gain. risks that can not
be controlled by legislation; and they are
styled by Mr.. jefferson games of chance.
They can not be avoided. The vice of
licensing gambling houses Mr.. Jefferson
condemns, and thinks that insanity,
idiocy, infancy, ETC., should be protected
against the temptations of dice, cards,
etc. He believes, however, that there are
pursuits, and among them lotteries, which,
although liable to chance. are useful for
many purposes. and these are retained
and placed under the discretion of the
Legislature.
The Ptcaytne is we'll aware Of the fact
that the Louisiana State Lottery is a char
tered institution, made so at the discretion
of the Legislature. And it can not be
ignorant Of the further fact that it IS no
more immoral to encourage the selling Of
it's tickets than those Of the Havana Lot
terry.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28
LOTTERIES.

The Picayme has two articles on lot
teries in its last Sundays edition. One is
headed The Louisiana State Lottery
in which that home institution is seriously
arraigned as a great crime against society.
The other is headed Havana Royal Lot
terry, in which public attention rs called
TO the information that New Orleans
purchasers of the Havana lottery tickets
have been very lucky in the last few
months"
The Picagme evidently does not think
it infamous to take pay for putting the
Havana lottery, but considers the tolera-
ton Of the Louisiana State Lottery great
wrong. Who can doubt the Pics honesty
after this
The stockholders of the Pic might find
the investment of a few dollars in that
staunch home institution, the Louisiana,
a better speculation than money invested
in shares Of that paper. And to ease the
conscience of its moral directors, We will
quote much higher authority than the
Pic to show tlat Lotteries are no more
sinful than many otagr spaerletions that
are daily entered into fo1 he purpose Of
gain. The immortal Jefferson, in his
Thoughts on Lotteries -aEs: ave
have seen, then. every vocl. On in life IS
subject to the influence 0, nance; that
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28
THE BULK GRAIN TRADE.

To promote the bulk grain trade, New
Orleans requires more steam tonnage, in
order that the grain may be removed as
fast as it arrives here. Liverpool ship
ments by steam. vessels are absolutely de-
manded to make New Orleans the central
depot for grain shipments to Europe. The
Crescent City can be made, by rightly
directed Efforts one of the most important
points in the United States for receiving
and shipping corn in bulk, and il. our
merchants would realize the importance
of this fact we should have ample steam
tonnage for the business without material
delay.
The outlets of the Mississippi now fur
nish sufficient depth Of water to float YES
sells of large tonnage over the bar, and
steam dredge boats are constantly at work
to keep the channels open. The barge
lines are bringing corn in bulk from Cairo
faster than with the present carrying facii-
ties it can be shipped from here, and be-
fore many months we shall have the
freight cars Of the Illinois Central railroad
bringing grain in bulk from the rich prai-
ries of Illinois to the river banks in this
city. This road already guarantees ship
ments OF bulk grain from Cairo to New
Orleans at eight cents a bushel, and when
we have all rail communication between
the two points, in competition with barge
lines, We may expect the rates to be even
less
Recently the Illinois Central has in
dorsed the bonds Of the New Orleans,
Jackson and Great Northern railroad to
the amount Of six million dollars, which
have been placed on the Amsterdam mar
ket, and are certain to be sold at fair rates.
The proceeds of these bonds will be used
in building the connecting chain Of rail
road from Jackson, Tennessee, to Cairo,
distance of one hundred and fifteen miles,
and to put the Mississippi Central and
jackson railroads in complete order to
work with the Illinois Central in through
passenger traffic and bulk grain transpor-
tation between the Crescent City and
Chicago.
But we need and must have steam ton
mage to carry grain across the Atlantic,
since the Old adage that time is money is
fully illustrated by the necessity for speedy
returns on all consignmentS Of. merchan-
disc shipped abroad, whether grain or cot
ton. The difference to the shipper is of
paramount importance, whether he can
realize the money from his consignments
in twenty days to Liverpool by steam or
fifty days by.a sailing vessel The mer-
camille world moves rapidly now, and time
saved in the transportation Of freig hts is
money earned by quick returns on the
capital invested
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

offering more than was asked for. 1t is
very evident that the several thousand
millions of the debt Of the French does
not disturb the equanimity of that truly
patriotic people, so much as the few mil
lions that Louisiana owes does some Of
our citizens who have less patriotism
We have never been able to accept the
doctrine that a national debt is a national
blessing, yet We can see in both America
and France much that is encouraging to
those who desire the stability Of their
country and its institutions. The debt
did not, Of course, create this sentiment Of
patriotism, but it afforded an opportunity
to develop and prove it. The great
national calamity in this country was the
spirit of rebellion which brought on the
war. That in France was the ambition
and thirst for conquest Of the monarchs
of Europe. The respective debts Of the
two nations are not the disasters, but the
results Of disasters, which the people
elected to incur rather than surrender
their existence as a nation. Our public
debt, then, represents what it cost US to live,
and the alacrity with which it is being
paid proves the satisfaction Of the people
with their bargain.
But there is as great a contrast in the
conduct Of the people Of France and those
of this State regarding the public debt as
there was in the objects which made them
necessary. While the people Of France
and the United States ran deeply into
debt to save their respective nationalities,
those Of Louisiana became involved for
widely different purpose. And it is signif-
cant that many Of those who were the
most prominent in advising those revolu-
tionary measures which drove this State
so near the verge Of bankruptcy and ruin
are now the loudest in their complaints at
the burdens they have brOughtupon them
selves and their fellow citizens So that
while we can see a bright side to the pic
tues presented by our national and the
French debts, our own presents an IN
mixed evil. 1t is a grievous. burden rep
resenting waste, while it develops a very
bad trait in the character Of those who
are mainly to blame for it.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28
BREWERIES.
GEORGE MERZ-
OLD CANAL LAGER BEER AND ALE BREWERY
Corner Where and Toulouse Streets,
NEW ORLEANS.

take leave 20 inform cur saloon keepers and the
public at large that the new installation for the
manufacture Of Lager and Ale on sIe ICE AND
COOL AIR PRINCIPLE is now in full operation
can furnish the public with an article inferior to
none manufactured in the West or East, and supe-
rtor e any beer manufactured here, and at a rate
I-,,,h cheaper than the imported lager from abroad
Facts viii prove tie truth Of my assertion.
Orders filed with al necessary carefulness and
promptness and particular attention is paid to the
shipping for country customers. Come and try
and you viii be satisfied in al and every respect.
aUl6 Pm
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28
REDEMPTION OF CITY BONDS.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, I
New Orleans. Aurust y. lSI2.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
New Orleans, August p, 1872.
Notice is hereby given that, under and in puT
suance Of the acts Of the Legislature Of the State
relative to the Consolidated Debt OF the city Of
New Orleans, the commissioners of said debt win
receive proposals until SATURDAT, the twenty-Grst
Of September proximo, at u NJ, fer the sale to the
city Of consolidated bonds to the amount Of Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars 5000 Ooo), to be re.
deemed from the surplus Of the Consolidated Loan,
as required by Law.
The bids will be Endorsed Proposals for sale of
Consolidated Bonds, and addressed to Hon. B. F.
Flanders, Mayor.
The commissioners shall have the right Of re-
jecting bids.
By order of the Board of Commissioners of the
Consolidated Debt.
ALFRED SHAW
Administrator OF Public Accounts.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28
ROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
Executive Department, :
New Orleans. June l8. 1872. !

STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
Executive Department. :
New Orleans, June IT, 1872.
WHEREAS, An act of the Legislature, approved
March Is 1855 entitled An act to establish quaran-
tine for the protection of the StateY provides that
the Governor of the State shall Issue his procama-
ton, upon the advice of the Board of Health, de-
claring any place where there shall be reason to
believe pestlent, contagious infectious disease
exists, to be infected place, and stating the
number of days Of quarantine to be performed by
the vessels, their passengers, officers and crews,
coming from such place places
Now, therefore, in pursuance of the provisions
of the act aforesaid, issue this nay proclamation,
and declare the places hereafter named to be in
fected places and that all vessels, together with
officers, crews, passengers and cargOes arriving
from such places, OF having touched or stopped at
any of them, shall be subject to a quarantine of
not less than ten days, for a longer period, as
may be considered necessary by the Board of
Health, to take effect from and after the FIRST
DAY OF july, 1872. ANY violation of the quaran-
tine laws as here proclaimed will be severely pun
ished.
The places which are hereby declared infected
aforesaid the following, to wit Havana,
Matanzas, Trinidad Cardenas st. Jago, all on the
Island of Cuba; Port Royal and MintegO Bay, on
inc IsLduu VI JdLCS4j JdCuleI anu rOItdu-E IIHceI
on the Island of San Domingo; the islands of ST.
Thomas, Martinique and GuadaOupe; Campeachy,
in Yucatan; Belize, in Honduras Vera Cruz, Al
varado, TampicO, Matamoras and Tuxpan in Mex
leo; San Juan, in Nicaragua; Chagres AspiuwalI
and Porto BellO, in Central America; Maracabo, in
Venezuela; Laguayra, Island of Trinidad; Rio
JaneirO, Fara, Cayenne, BueEos AyTes, Pernam-
bucO, in South America, and Nassau, New PrOvi-
dence.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State,
this eighteenth day of June, A D. 1872 and of the
independence of the United States the ninety-sixth
By the Governor:
H. C. WARMOTH.
ur,D,,. Co,ro+o,r- oF C+o4o
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28
GIFT CONCERT,
No Postponement from September IS.
TO THE PUBLIC.

. The Trustees of the Public Library of Kentucky
being satisfied from the large sale of tickets already
made, and the daily increasing demand for them,
that there will be no occasion for postponing the
second drawing in the Gift Concert in aid Of the
Public Library of Kentucky, have instructed me,
say to the public and ticket holders that the draw
ing will positively take place on September 20,
proximo and viii not be postponed. An active de-
1naud for tickets comes from every State and Ter
ritory Of the United States and from the Canadas,
giving assurance to the Trustees that circum-
stances can prevent a drawing at the appointed
time.
A sufficient clerical force is engaged to keep up
with the orders for tickets and in order that this
office may be relieved of the immense pressure in
cident to the business for the week OF two immed-
ateIy preceding the drawing, agents especially,
and those DESTROYS of procuring tickets, are re-
quested to send in their orders Immediately as
sales will have to be closed in time to make the
necessary preparations for the drawing. 1t is tho
wish of the management to fl every order for
ticket, as well to sell all the tickets, but those
who apply first must first be supplied; and if those
who put of buying until sales are closed have their
money returned, instead Of the tickets ordered as
in the first Gift Concert in December last, when
thousands of dollars that came too late were sent
back, they will have none to blame but themselves.
THOMAS Z. BRAMLETTE,
Agent Public Library Kentucky.
Louisville, Kentucky, August 10, 1872.
an28 Gtend WIT
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28
ID lie ID:

DE LEAN-At halfpast one o'clock yesterday
afternoon, twenty seventh instant, MARGARET
DE LEAN, wife of j. A. H. De Lean.
The friends of the family are respectfully invited
to attend her funeral, which will take place from
her late residence, corner of Dufossat and Live
Oak streets, Sixth District This Afternoon at three
o'clock
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

DR.. Samuel Miller says There is no
doubt that the premature dotage of many
distinguished men has arisen from their
Ceasing in advanced life to exert their
faculties, under the impression that they
were too old to engage in any new enter
T,ise1
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28
ITEMS ABOUT "THE TIMES"
WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY,
sTATUETTES, BRONZE CLOCKS.

1Cj.............. Canal Street..............I05
NJ. SCOOTER has just returned from Europe
with very large and rick stock Of goods com
prsing the latest styles of full sets JEWELRY
DIAMONDS Of all Sizes set and unset SILVER
WARE, STATUETTES, BRONZE CLOCKS SPEC
TACLES, and everything belonging to a frst-class
Jewelry establishment. He has the largest stock
Of new riSh and elegant goods to be found in tine
South, which he offers at low prices for cash.
ANA I'm
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

A seIfadiusting car coupler has been in
vented, displacing the old ordinary link
and-pin shackle. The Boston Transcript
has examined the invention and says it
will doubtless, Of itself, call attention Of all
railroad men to its special merit.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

LOUISVILLE AND THE ATTAKAPAS TRADE
The merchants Of New Orleans can read
with profit an article from the Louisville
Commercial on the Attakapas trade From
that article it appears that the Attakapas
Mail Transportation Company, of which
Mr.. 7. Upper, Of the firm of Price, Hine
& Topper a Carondeet street firm, is
president, proposes now to give Louisville
the trade Of Ayoyelles, Rapides, st. Ian
dry, Pointe Coupee, st. Martin, Iberia,
st. Mary, Lafayette and Vermilion parishes.
The merchants Of the Attakapas region
number over five hundred, and are ready
and DESTROYS to trade with Louisville, be-
cause they are tired of the high prices in
New Orleans. The statement is made by
the Commercial that the Attakapas mer-
chants who have bought goods at Louis
vile say that they are better and cheaper
than any they have yet bought, and they
have been enabled to sell them at a good
profit, and at prices far below goods
bought in New Orleans.
How can the merchants Of New Orleans
prevent the Attakapas trade from going to
Louisville and elsewhere, away from New
Orleans. is question. for them to consider.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

(which, my dear lady, do you think the
merriest place in the uniyerse3' That
immediately above the atmosphere that
surrounds the earth, should thiHk.' "And
why SOL" Because / am told that there
all bodies lose their gravity"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

Mr. r. M. Harding, Of the firm of Bryan
& Harding, Of New Orleans, and formerly
of Galloway county, Kentucky, recently
died at Colorado Springs, seventy-fve
miles from Denver, where be had gone to
recover his health.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

The weather. was hot in several places
yesterday. At 3;l3 P. NJ, when the Their
mometer denoted SO at New Orleans it
marked 9I9 at st. Louis, Leavcnworth, Kan
sas, go at Memphis and Shreveport and
90 at Galveston and Louisville.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

An enterprising peach grower has sent a
present Of choice Delaware peaches to
Queen Victoria per steamer. This is a bold
experiment Of shipping American peaches
to Great Britain, and may lead to the de-
velopment Of a vast and profitable COM
Derce
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

Heart disease, paralysis aud nervous ex-
haustion are the diseases that make havoc
on the Pacific coast, and break down men
apparently in the prime ofiife. The climate
Is a stimuIant, leading men on to do their
utmost, and deceitfully leaving them 20 die
when they break down.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

The losses of the country under General
Spinnor's administration as Treasurer are
stated to be less than one thusandth part
Of one per cent OF the vast sums passing
thrOngh his office.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

Keokuk, Iowa, at the head Of Mississippi
navigation, is the centre Of six railroads,
and is a place of considerable and increas-
ing commercial Importance. The popula-
zion is 1900. 1t has three frst-class pork
packing establishments, and has an eNten-
siye business in grain,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

A truefriend eases many troubles, where
as one who is not so muluplies and IN
creases them.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

A Western editor has come to the con-
clusion that the young ladies in his village
are not at all like st. Paul, because they
pay so much attention to things which are
hnhin6 y
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

A wit being asked by a seedy poet
whether he had ever written anything that
would live, replied before you trouble
yourself on that score l advise you to
write something that will let YOU live