New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-27
POLITICAL GLEANINGs.


part streets, on Saturday night, has sine
been a theme of general discussion, and a
endeavor to stir up hot blood has bee
made. We believe that a drunken ma
fired the shot which caused the panic; tha
he was in the street, and that he mad n
particular or definite object in shooting OF
his little gun.
The Grant committee and Cosmopolitan
Club members busted themselves YESTERDAY
in procuring ahidavits intended to cIea
them of the charge that the. first shot va
fred from their headquarters.
Captain S. w Scott, the well kIowr
Democrat, exerted himself to restrain the
excited people, who did the principal firing
and to him may be given thanks for valua
bic services to the city. He was at the
corner Of Rampant and Canal; he thinks the
first shot was fred from the gallery of the
Cosmopolitan Club, or in its immediate
vicinity; that the Christopher Columbus
Club fred four shots in return; when halt
of their members ran, .stampeding the
Broom Rangers, Jr., and producing general
confusion. The Broom Rangers, Sr., were
on the west side of Rampant, and seeing a
number of cOlOred men take to- their heels
on the lower side, laid down their torches
and fired some twenty shots after them.
Nobody hurt. Captain Scott, we are posi-
lively informed, here sprang among them
and succeeded in putting a stop to the
shooting and allaying the excitement. The
| colOred men do not appear to have done
anything wrong but run away.
| Captain Scott afterward was seen vigOr.
ously repreasing the Christopher ColuIl-
Sbusers, who were smashing the entrance
doors to the Cosmopolitan Club, and, in no
mild manner, persuading a couple of the
| Latin race to abandon a design they had
formed of emptying the oil from their
torches into the building and creating a
merry bonfire of handsome block of stores.
Verify, pleasant opening for the cam
paign is this, the danger lying in the readi-
ness Of those taking part in political de-
mOnstration to imagine they are shot at,
and to shoot, smash and burn in retalia-
tiOn without waiting for proof that they are
assailed or that there is any justification
whatever for their violence.
The appliCants-and their name is legion
for the supervisors, registers and clerks
places, to be appointed by the Governor,
have been culled oyer, and the list to be
commissioned will soon be submitted for
the approval of his excellency.
Marshal Packard, Clerk of Court WoIfey
(whO has been chosen chief supervisory, and
other United States authorities are equally
busy selecting federal guards to the "puri-
ty of the ballot" One hundred thousand
dollars has already been received toward
defraying the expenses to be thus incurred
by the national government
A prominent Grant official yesterday as
sured the writer that there would be no
fusion between the Democrats and Liberals
The Last Ditch orators and clubs protest
against hauling down the names of McEn-
cry, Jonas and Ogden. This ought to settle
the matter.
The Customhouse people got an unex-
poctedIy warm reception at a meeting held
in IberviIle on Sunday. A great turnout
of the colored people gave some of the
speakers courage to attempt the denuncia-
tiOn of Governor Warmoth, but they were
Indignantly hooted down, and Messrs.
Wharton and Merrill compelled to leave
the stand.
But for Messrs. C. E. Halstead, P G. Des-
londe, G. B. Loud and others, the colored
people would not have let.the meeting 90
beyond the bare Endorsement of Grant; and
when the orators from New Orleans finally
drove of it was with the profound convic-
tion that the Baton Rouge ticket had yet to
gain a fOothoId in IberviIle, despite its six
to one cOlOred majority.
The above facts are furnished by an eye
witness.
We think it entirely wrong to permit
clubs of young lads and children to turn
out in procession during an exciting political
as the present one promises to be. |
We need not go beyond Saturday night, and
the causeless but natural panic of the
Junior Broom Rangers to justify this posi- |
ton. We hope the practice will be sum.
marily stopped.
Among the business men of New Orleans |
who have returned from their summer So
iOurns, we met yesterday Mr.. J. B. Hub |
bard, the well known and prosperous furni-
ture dealer, who has been located many
years at the corner of Rampant and Per
dido streets. Mr.. Hubbard has purchased, |
during his absence, a heavy stock of parlor,
bedroom and dining room furniture, en-
oracing the latest styles as we'll as the
1lainest and the most costly patterns.
His immense buildings cover a greater area
If ground than any other furniture estab-
ishment in the city, and the goods are all
resh, nice, new and salable. In packing
urniture for shipment the greatest care is
aiken, so that it can be delivered without
cratch or blemish, and the same excellent
are is taken in the delivery of goods to
ny part Of the city. Recent improvements
4 Mr.. Hubbard's furniture warerooms show
hat he has one of the most neat, perfect
nd complete establishments in New Or
cans. Purchasers of furniture will do well |
D call on him. as his prices are lower than
hose of any other furniture dealer in the
ity.