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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-10
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PROGRESS OF THE REFORM-NUMEROUo MFLl-
CATIONS FOR LICENSEs
The TRIBUNE's articles on Sailors bpaTdlng-
Houses have inspired reform the results ID "n.,1 ie
already gratifying The propretor' ani runners OF ,"e
boardingou5es are seeking comply with the laws ioi
the protection of her former victims. To inspect these
houses, and to request their keepers 20 tlHe H''isA
Capt C.. C. Duncan, President Of the Board Of CONNIE
,ioncrs for Licensing Sailors Hotels and BOARDING.
Houses has visited the houses under tho guidance o
Officer John ]. Doyle vi the Harbor Police. "c'ry q"
the houses were visited and included the follow
nj 4
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23


1t is amusing to note the exertions OF
the Citizens Guard to keep Its courage up.
It swears the Liberal enthusiasm" is
abating, while it attempts an explanation
of the causes which made it so
formidable It accounts for the en-
thusiastic demonstrations in behalf
of the Cincinnati nominees at the differ
ent ward meetings by asserting that all the
Greeley men IN town attend each meeting
in body. The Guard, however, fails to
explain how this is accomplished when
there are several meetings the same night.
The fifty Greeley men (this is the number
the Guard allows to New Orleans) divided
among these organizations would make
but small showing while the Guard ad-
mits the meetings have been enthusiastic.
This sort of logic appears inexplicable,
but then we confess it about as near the
truth as the Guard ever gets. Such i'm
pudence does us no harm while it may pos
sibly be relief to the Guard in its dis
tress
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23
np1n1r nP TIE EVIL.

| Both the Bee and Picay11ae argue ably
for an inductive system of reform. Taking
the much abused and misconstrued text,
| Charity begins at home, they contend
that corruption in public affairs in the
various States must first be rooted out be-
fore the nation can be purified. This
| would be all very well but for one impor-
tant oversight, viz: The root Of all the cor
tuption under which the country groans
is implanted at Washington. In the two
States cited in illustration by the Picdgpuge,
we assert that the corruption of the local
governments originated with the federal
officers When the election for our first
Legislature under reconstruction was held,
the negroes were honest and unsophisti-
Gated, and needed but proper guidance to
walk in the paths of political upright
ness. But whom did they find
for guides and teachers? Before,
long before the members of the Legisla-
ttre were called upon to organize for their
duties, inducements were held out to
them to visit the city Brides, directly or
indirectly, were thrust into their hands
by federal officials; the private Office Of
the collector of customs was turned into
a club room for their convenience; places
without work but with good pay were
provided for them at the national cost,
and wining and dining, and the various
other arts known to the unscrupulous
politician, were successfully used to cor
rupt and secure their votes in advance of
admission to their seats. This, the first
step in the evil course which has been so
prolific of ills to our plundered SAte, and
and United States collector Of customs,
who thereby became United States
Senator, is responsible for it. So it has
been in every corrupt job and op-
pressive measures to which our Legisla-
lures have since given birth-the initia-
tory steps lead from federal Office We
defy contradiction to the assertion that
Governor Warmoth has repeatedly fas-
tened upon Grants appointees the respon-
sibiity for legislative corruptions, while
no charge of official Of wrong-doing has or
can be made good against him. There
fore we say, that without national reform
which will remove corrupting federal in
fuences from the Iobbies of our Legisla-
lures, the local evils we complain of must
be perpetuated, especially as the success
of Grant promises to thrust into the gu
bernatorial chair the originator and father
of our troubles.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23
FALL BACK FALSE GUIDES.

If the State is in a condition of aflic-
ton and distress, as the Bourbons pre-
tend, who piloted her into the calamities
if they did not? For four years the men
who are now shouting for straight Demo-
cratic ticket have been the false guides of
the people. And though they now con-
fess that they were in error in 1868, they
still insist on being accepted as worthy of
confidence in 1872. We say to the radical
Democrats to-day that they are response
BILE for all the evils about which the com
munity complains, and we say that their
present attitude proves our assertion
against them to be true. If thev had
taken the position four years ago that
they occupy to-day, the colored people
would have had cause to trust them as
honest and sincere in their disposi-
ton to forget all prejudices on
account of color or previous
condition. As they admitted that they
were wrong in what they assumed in 1868,
this demonstrates that they are liable to
error; and as they only make this admis-
sion in the face of four years of defeat,
the colored people distrust the sincerity
Of that conversion which has been so
tardily arrived at. AS they did not act
generously and wisely when they had the
opportunity to do so freely and Of their
own motion, now that they have been
driven to accept the principles of recon
struction, the men who drove them do not
feel safe in trusting them with full power
to act as they please in the matter. And
they should feel that their reluctant con
sent to accept the new order of affairs
debars them from the position of ad-
visers and leaders of the people, since
they have made such grave mistakes in
their advice and leadership heretofore.
The guides who mislead one party are |
never accepted With confidence Or follow
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23
LET THE PEOPLE ELECT,

If the people who desire reform in the
government would just step to the 'front.'
as they feel disposed to do, and accept the
nomination Of Mr.. Greeley without any
further consultation with their self-con-
stituted leaders, the country would feel a
healthy influence from that act. As the
| Cincinnati nominations were made against
the schemes of the politicians, why are
the people to wait for the politicians to
ratify them? AS it is confessed that they
meet all the requirements of the old JEFF
fersonian test as to honesty and ability,
what more is necessary to the independ-
ent voter? 1t has been known in the
history of the country where the citizens
selected their own candidates, as they did
in the cases of Harrison and Tyler and
having selected them, they forced the
politicians to support them. The Wings
did not want the hero Of Tippecanoe,
nor did they want the hero Of Monterey,
but the country did, and it took him
whether or no. They felt it in their bones
that the politicians needed a lesson, and
they gave it to them by putting forward
and electing their own favorites. What
is to prevent the honest masses, who
merely ask faithful officer, from rallying
around one of the most faithful men in
the republic, and bearing him into Office
in spite of the log-roling and intriguing
politicians who are splitting hairs about
Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The mass meeting advertised in another
column to ratify the nominations Of Greeley
and Brown should be made to assume
this shape that, let the politicians trade
as much as they please, the old white
hated statesman of New York must and
shall be President. Let the people say
this. The Office belongs to them. 1t is
their agent that they are to elect A good
man is presented-one of the people.
Now why must the country wait until
body Of politicians speculate for their per-
sonal advantage out of the nominees that
the people put forward? Away with this
trading and huckstering when the interests
of all are at stake. As Governor Hebert
says, the Cincinnati platform offers all
that the South wants, all that the North
wants, all that the East or West wants.
Then put these sections to their mettle,
and elect the men who represent this
platform. Il Mr.. Jones has notI been
consulted, if Mr.. Brown has not been pro-
vided for if Mr. Smith thinks he can make
better trade somewhere else, what is
this to the people? Perhaps it is better
as it is. The country can not be saved by
Jones, Brown and Smith, but must owe
her salvation to the millions who do not
know Of nor care for either of these pre-
sumptuous patriots. We can all unite to
help, and in saving ourselves, these selfish
spectators will be saved also. Let the
people take the matter in hand.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23
HARD NIT PnR GRANTEES.

Lieutenant Governor Pinchback, in one
or two recent speeches, has put very
pertinent question to those of his auditors
who foresee in Grants defeat and the re-
election of Governor Warmoth renewal
of the horrors of the war, and the sacrifice
of all the dear-bought rights and privileges
of the colored men. After contrasting the
happy, Independent and prosperous con-
dition Of the colored people in Louisiana
with the unfortunate and prosecuted state
of their brethren in the Carolinas and
other sections-their enjoyment of life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
after their own desires, with the
terrorism exercised over all his race
(even travellers en- route)-in other States
South, Mr.. Pinchback inquired substan-
TALLY: If, in the future, as his friends
contend, on General Grant alone must the
colored race rely for the perpetuation of
their liberties, why has he not acted more
efficiently in the past? 1t is not proposed
to confer upon him powers greater than
those granted by the potent Ku-Klux and
enforcement laws, and with these in his
hand he has permitted our brethren
throughout the South to be robbed and
slain, and their political rights rendered a
delusion. Why is it that in Louisiana
alone, where the State authorities have
fought against and successfully resisted
federal interference and entanglements
that the colored man has been least tram
eled and best protected?
Answer favorable to Grant, upon such
a proposition, is, of course, impossible;
and the colored citizens of Louisiana
have been in the enjoyment of means of
enlightenment too long not to have real
lied the fact. With lifelong friend like
Greeley, kind and humane, but unswerv-
ingly true to principle, they must and do
know that their welfare is safer than in
the keeping of one who made not even a
pretense of kindly sympathy for their
miserable and enslaved condition until
they could assist his selfish ambitions;
and as for State affairs, it would be su-
premest folly at crisis like the present
to turn their backs upon him whose firm
ness and wise enforcement of the laws
have made their situation the envy of
their fellows the whole country over.
The progressing campaign promises,
among other surprises, to expose the man
ayers of federal politics in this State, the
stupidity of their political calculations,
and the emancipation of the colored peo-
pie from political leading-strings.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

found difficult to cooperate In federal
politics, and yet separate in the State cleo
tions. There is patriotism and intelli-
gence enough in the State to reconcile
any antagonism Of policy and expediency
IN State politics. But very little will be
accomplished to exclude General Grant
from the White House, and yet to have
his followers and friends in control of the
State government On the paramount
political issues there is no difference of
opinion between Liberal Republicans and
Democrats. They can unite Just as readily
upon a question of State as national
policy. Why, then, should it not be done? ?
There can be no doubt but what it will in
sure success, and it certainly is expedient
1t would be carrying the compromise of
hostile political opinion to complete
fruition. Ambitious politicians, dema-
gogues and ofice-seekers will oppose it
certainly. Such men will understand that
they can obtain Office (their sole ambition)
In the ascerbity of political contention.
The calm deliberative judgment of the
people perceives in them only political
harlequins Neither governed by patriot
ism or policy, they are ambitiously seek
ing Office. There are many such men in
our own midst. They are to be avoided
rather than caressed. Their judgments are
at fault and their policy destructive of
every interest we are seeking to secure.
The only safe and reliable solution of
our difficulties will be found in coalition,
both State and national, on the basis of
the Liberal Republican movement. This
will lead to success. Any other policy
Will be found fruitful of misfortune.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

The Natchitoches Times very quietly in
forms the Bourbon Democrats of New Or
leans that they must take back seat, for
the genuine Democracy of the parishes,
that works for the country and rot for
itself, is fixed in the determination not to
be misled any longer. Already the hot
headed and domineering youngsters Of the
city have driven thousands Of thinking
men away from the party, says the Times,
and the country Democracy does not pro-
pose to follow further any such rule or
ruin set This is mighty interesting
piece Of reading, and it has bark on it.
The young Democrats will very likely
have first class opportunity shortly of
accepting that offer of ''half the offices"
from the Customhouse that they received
during the session of the last Democratic
State Convention.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23
THE RATTFInATIoN MEETING

On Saturday evening next the walls of
"Old Drury' will be crowded by the
wealth, respectabiity, muscle and integ-
rity of this community. With unanim-
ity scarcely paralleled, soberly. earnestly
and without clap-trap or buncombe of any
sort, the people are aigning themselves
under the Reform banners of Greeley and
Brown, neither looking nor caring what
their old and self-elected leaders are saying
or doing. Those whom the masses find
with them in support of the men who
promise peace, good fellowship and honest
government to this distracted country are
respected, and receive such confidence as
they merit All others are left behind un-
regretted. This grand rally under the
auspices and name of Liberal Republican
ism is essentially a movement of the peo-
pie, protest against the evils which selfish
men have grated upon the government of
our fathers, and certain of success because
of the patriotism and honesty of purpose
which pulsate in the hearts of its support
ers.
The list of signers to the call embraces
representatives from every respectable
walk Of life and class of our citizens.
Immediate local matters are to be laid
aside for this occasion, and the able ora
tors (who, we learn, have in part been
Seleeted), will endeavor to show to such
doubters as may attend the great import
ance, the vital necessity to the nation of
the success of the Cincinnati ticket. We
particularly hope all who have not yet
made up their minds, or, as the popular
phrase of the day has it ''are on the
fence, will put in an early appearance at
the st. Charles Theatre next Saturday
night.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

The Vicksburg Herald says an election
viii take place in YazOO City on the twenty
seventh instant to decide whether or not
her corporate authorities shall subscribe
$50,00O to insure the immediate commence
ment of work on that portion of the Mobile
and Northwestern railroad between Jack
son and Yazoo City and its completion by
the first of June, 1873. Colonel Mann in
forms the people that if they mean any
thing-if they mean business-nOw is the
chance, square and positive. Unless they
'pOny up" promptly, Mann intimates the
route via YazOo City will be aban doned.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

General Grant reported to Andy john
son in 1868 that the South was peaceable
and worthy to be trusted, but his friends
in Congress seem to be in some doubt about
his truth in that matter, for they yesterday
passed law authorizing him to suspend
the habeas corpus in the South in order to
protect the people, as they said, from vio-
lence and disorder. VIII General Grant
sign this law, which casts a doubt upon
his own statement?
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

ed with enthusiasm by another; and since
the State Of Louisiana holds the Bourbon
Democrats responsible for her past mis-
fortunes, she now begs to be relieved from
their exclusive care hereafter.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

A large number of the citizens of Peters
burg, Virginia, representing the conserva-
tive and Liberal Republican element, held
an enthusiastic Greeley ratification meet
ing last evening. Speeches were made in
dOrsing the Cincinnati platform and nOmi-
nees, and resolutions were adopted accept
ing Greeley and Brown, and declaring a
nomination by the Baltimore convention
nnwise and unpatriote,
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

And now it seems that little Boston
boy, after having saved his pennies for two
years, took his small hoard from the bank,
bought pistol, loaded it, fred it off. and
lost his hand. If this isn't a warning to
small Boston boys, what is itl
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

Quite a romantic wedding came off in the
first circle Of Franklin county village re-
Gently, when the bridegroom, a widOwer of
seventy, married lady whom ne and his
former wife had brought up from infancy,
and who had lived in his family as daugh-
ter for forty years.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

Amateurs of fine furniture, glassware,
carved furniture, and elegant household
effects in general, will attend the sale to be
made to-day at ten o'clock, at the residence
of Mr.. Anderson, corner of jackson and St.
Charles streets. Mr.. Palfrey's advertise
ment, in another column, furnishes some of
the items.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

The Baton Rouge Comet considers the
ticket nominated at Cincinnati as the
greatest-in fact, the only hope of the
country. The platform, which is the
chart that is to regulate the Liberal Re
publicans in their efforts for reform is
just such one as gives the government
into the hands of the people, where it be-
longs, and no Democrat can ask for more
than this.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

The civil engineers of the Pacific railroads
state that the rains and humidity of the
plains have increased during the extension
of railroads and telegraphs across them.
If this is the case, it may be that the mys-
terious electrical influence, in which they
seem to have faith, but do not profess to
explain, has exercised a beneficial influence.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

Somebody in Wisconsin having, for some
unexplained reason, occasion to look into a
geography, has discovered a striking like
ness between the northwest boundary of
that State and the three-cent postage pOr-
trait of General Washington.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

Louis Napoleon is said to be growing
more confident of the ultimate restoration
of his line. Should the French throne be
1egained by his son, it will be the first in
stance since 1854 in which French sover-
eign has been succeeded by his son.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

BOrgland, Maryland tailor, has lately
become over-enthusiastic in the belief that
he has discovered a new religion, leading
article of the faith being the clothing of the
sect in swallOw-tail coats.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

Paris is still the mistress of modes and
fabricatOr Of fashions. Never were shops
so full or milliners so busy. The theatres
are crowded, and the Mabille is again the
centre of attraction.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

A gentleman was staying at a country
house, when, hearing great clatter below
one morning, he looked out and saw a cou;
pie of grOoms holding one of the servant
maids on horse, which they led with diff
Guilty once round the yard. He asked them
what it all meant. ''WeI, you see, sir,
said they, "we're going to take the horse to
market to be sold, and we want to be able
to say he has carried a LADY,
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

Mr.. Rogers, the great French tenor, was
something of wit and wag, of which an
entry in his journal is a specimen. His first
Sunday in London was wet; not soul in
Regent street. About noon he met a dog,
who was in a great hurry, and had no UNI
hpaI1a
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

A large number of Congressman lodged
the vote that was taken on Tuesday upon
the amnesty and civil rights bills. The
telegraph informs US that there was only
a bare quorum present when the vote was
taken. Why did not the reporter send US
the names
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

A Washington correspondent says: "Kate
Chase Sprague has not been in society this
past winter, having devoted herself with
mOtherly wisdom to her family of little
ones. Mother Sprague places the snug
little sum of $250,0OO in the bank for each
of Kates babies, as fast as they make their
appearance in this unhappy world, with
the generous amount Of $4,000 for Kate
herself"
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

George Bancroft, at Berlin, is still en-
gnged upon his history of the United States,
and employs William A. Smith, a graduate
of the New York University, as his amanu-
ancis
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

Wendell Phillips writes, in his usually
amiable tone, that this is to be Kilkenny
fight; that whether Grant or Greeley wins,
both parties will die in the effort.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

A lady in Barnet, Vermont, says she
means to have ''pattun of a husband"
but vows she'll leave him if he zines any
sekrit 'siety." She says she "gOes agin all
kinds of sekrits and SIGH"
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

We reproduce this morning the letter of
Ex-Governor P. o. Hebert, on the political
situation, which it was intended to publish
in the REPUBLICAN yesterday.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

1t has been remarked that in New York
the conductors Of the horse cars on the six
cent lines refuse to associate with their pro
fessional brethren on the five cent lines.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

The telegraph informs us that the pos
ltion Of collector of customs has not been
rendered General L. A. Sheldon. This
sets at rest one of the thousand rumors
as to the Casey succession. Now, will
our friend Joseph H. Wilson inform us
whether Grant has really had the good
sense to profer him the collectorship? +?
The mystery with which this alleged de-
capitation of brother-in-law is sur
rounded is very wearing upon the public
patience. Like the persistent Clenham
Of the circumlocution Office 1--WE want to
know, you know"
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

The Felicity Street Methodist Church
Sunday School will have a picnic next Sat
urday at the new City Park, late the Sedg-
wick Hospital, in the Sixth District.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

The interest coupons of the city of New
Orleans, due June l, will be discounted by
the Louisiana Savings Bank at the rate of
twenty-five cents per day on each thousand
dnllars
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

A gamester once made frame mouse out
of his winnings. He used to say it was all
made out of deals.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

OF what does philosopher in threadbare
garments remind one Off The pOOr-suit of
knowledge.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

A wolf went into Duluth church the
other Sunday, and was so much affected
that before he got out he was converted
into corpse.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

The Young Mems Christian rooms at Gin
cinnati are fitted with an amusement
roOm," in which ample space is given to
the playing of croquet.
New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-23

Yesterday afternoon the river here was
five feet eight inches below high water
mark of 1871.