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HISTORY OF
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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18
ON CAROSDELET STREET.

And now the retrospect of the past week,
Jogging along in the everlasting march to
the end of the business year, shows a slow
motion to business and kind of teaium in
its chronicle-a lack of spirit which must
either be attributed TO the flickering down
Of the spirit of speculation or to tire uncer-
tainty of political complications, we scarcely
know which.
Prices of cotton are for the most part
hard, excepting sales incidental to a money
pressure when cash must be realized.
Steadness is the significant feature of the
cotton trade. Its current may have bends
and accelerated motion-may rise like
flood tide to 10000 bales sold in day, and
fall the neXt-but its average orbit shows
steady demand and an equally steady sup
ply. Measured by prices. the movement is
an undul ation consequently, the daily rec
ord of the cotton business is something like
the time tables of an almanac, which, from
day to day, figure out the onward motion
of the earth, or rather, the rising and setting
of the sun. Or it is Ike keeping daily
tide gauge where there is nothing to do but
tell how high the water is to-day, when the
motionless current itself cheats the re-
porter of an interesting and sensational
report. The doctors have stopped dag
nosing the state of the cotton market and
ceased feeling its pulse for the volume of
the crop. Prices look as though they would
be higher by Monday, though the undoubt-
ed stagnatlon of the first day of every
week will postpone, perhaps, a realization.
The Levee Company have gone seriously
to work. Gaps are filed. Stray stocks
running about loose have been picked up
and are now quoted about So.
In State warrants there has been no
change from last accounts and the quota
tions are irregular.
There were no sales at the Board of
Brokers last evening. The offerings and
hills wera nc fnllnvC.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 1872


without a single egg in it. The commit
tee say that they have submitted the af-
fairs Of this department to a 'smost search
ing investigation; and oh! tell it not in
Gath, proclaim it not in Ahkelon, they
found Mr.. Cockrem, the head of the de-
partment, and his employees, competent
and attentive and faithful in the discharge
of their duties. Oh, what fall was here,
my countrymen! When this is read what
weeping and wailing will there be among
the hungry office-seekers of the "coali-
ton " What crashing Of teeth in the
self-elected and self-conceited ''organ Of
the people," the rampageous Picay,tae.
In all the elaborate report they fail to dis
close single error or mistake, and, where
''swindling contracts were looked for,
compliments are as thick as blackberries
in June. Alas for the Committee of Fiji
ty-ohe; it has groaned in huge labor pains,
like unto mountain in travail, and has
brought forth very dinlinutive mouse.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18
THE ACCOMPLISHMENT

The parturition of the Committee of
the peoples paper" was its wise dc-
coucheuse, and the issue has developed into
a pamphlet characterized as the 'report Of
the subcommittee of investigation Of the
departments of the city government. >"
Under this magnificent and flaming title,
the committee expend a vast accumulation
of nonsense and not a particle of useful
information. Indeed, they have submitted
their luculent conclusions in thirty-page
pamphlet, the cost Of printing which
amounts to more than any error they have
discovered in the city administration
This, however, is not surprising, mas
much as everybody anticipated precisely
this result If there had been the grossest
errors, this committee never would have
discovered them. They were organized to
condemn certainly, but it was expected
they would offer some reasons, real OF
tancied, for their condemnation. Selected
to try, and appointed to convict the Ad-
ministrators, it was only incumbent on
them to get up q superficial and unreal
soning emulation of stale preiudices and
exploded ISLANDERS; but the subcommittee,
doubtless, having more agreeable employ
ment than an investigation of facts and
fgues, get the matter off their hands as
speedily as possible with these summary
conclusions
The Mayor, good, honest soul" is a
weak sort of vessel, and we must deal
with him kindly besides, he don't object
to being used as cats paw to pull our
chestnuts out Of the fire, and is always
willing to play the convenient jumping
jack to our political necessities. Well pass
him along as all correct. Remember the
moral injunction, "Love men for their
weakness, and deal tenderl y with the dis
traught in mind"
Nothing particularly Objectionable is
found in the Department Of Waterworks
and Public Buildings, and the Admins
traitor of Police is praised for his "can-
DOR" Evidently the committee did not
expect to find this courtesy in Colonel
Lewis, and they mention it as the only
noteworthy circumstance connected with
his department.
The commercial interests of the city,
the vast trade that centres here, and ali
the manifold and complicated relations Of
business, are, in the opinion Of this wise
committee, of but slight importance, and
the department which is instituted to de.
yelop and further these interests could be
easily dispensed with But, while making
this recommendation, the committee ac-
knowledge that it is conducted ably and
upon economical principles.
From Commerce the report passes to
Assessment and Finance, developing no
material idea and pointing out 10 error.
Their criticism of the Department Of Ac-
counts consists of compilation Of Mr.. |
Shaw's budget reports, and the simple |
that it reveals system of keep |
ing the accounts of the city not sufficient
ly comprehensive. But the mares nest"
is found in the Department Of Improve
very little mares nest, too, and
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18
FALSE PRETENSES.

Is it not strange that the sore-head par
ty, which has subsidized to its interest
the opposition press Of the city, has the
affrontery to allege that it has in view the
interests Of the people Is it silly enough
to suppose that the people have forgotten
the lessons Of the past and are willing to
take its word against long history of
crime, oppression and cruelty? Yet this
IS its position. Until the present Repub-
ican administration the poor mans rights
in Louisiana We're as dust beneath the
feet Of the Democratic party. From the
settlement Of the country up to the war
the richLthe merchant and the lordly
planter controlled the politics Of the
State. Its offices were held by few, and
the right of suffrage was confined to the
privileged classes. These same people
who are now clamoring against the admin
istration of Governor WaTmoth, are the
men who were then in power; whose
wealth was the acquisition of slave labor;
whose pride was nurtured by the arrogant
control of human beings in bondage.
Under their aggressive and domineering
administration of the government the poor
became poorer and the rich grew intol-
erent.
This went on for fifty years, and during
that long period there is not a single in
stance upon record where the legislation
of the State was devoted to the interests
or benefit of the non-taxpaying population.
The war came, and with it q revolution
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

1t grieves us to say that the Times says
the Picayme did not put off its decrep-
itude and garrulity when it changed hands
the other day. 1t is still old and talka-
tive, and, like all of its class, it looks back
at the work that it has done, or fiatters
itself it has done, with greater fondness
than it looks forward to the work which
it intends to do. The Times should be
more respectful to old age than this, for
while youth is climbing the rugged hill
with daring ambition to win the crown
upon its summit, it should ever respect the
venerable sage who has passed over and is
slowly descending on the other side. If
the world is indeed the oyster of him that
opens it, the man who can swallow three
dozen raw should not make fun of his
older brother who can only digest "a stew.
We must all grow old, and in our weakness
we must even look back and chatter as all
the other old folks DO
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

AZ PoAoASo' n lew eleIleue SuuuSAls
sprung into existence and became recog-
nized source Of power. They were in the
majority. They composed more than
moiety of the population, and, with popu-
Lar suffrage as their leverage, wrenched the
government from the hands Of the etete
and incompetent persons who controlled 1t.
From that moment began the incessant
din of the hungry office-seeking partisans
and their supporters in whose interest the
government had been administered. As
they had been INSCRIPTIONS when IN
power, so were they even in their false
and scandalous cutlery against the repre-
sentatives Of the people. The govern
ment no longer perverted to individual
interests, became a source of equal and
exact justice to all the people. The labor
ing classes, no longer the drudges and un-
recompensed menials of the domineerin9
planter and the aristocratic merchant,
became the object Of continual abuse and
incessant contumely. Intrigue was set on
foot, and combinations of defeated parti
sans conspired against the government
The opposition press swelled the clamor
and far and wide the anathemas Of these
defeated intriguants were spread through
the land. But all their efforts proved
unavailing. The mismanagement OF
previous years developed itself in
% tha
ment, and the results of the war, melted by
slave-holding Democrats, was attempted to
be attributed to Republican rulers. This
too, failed. The people, growing every
day more partial to the new system OF
government, became familiar with Its
operations and inaugurated wise and
salutary measures Of legislation. Some
abuses crept in certainly. But to them
the correction was speedily applied, and
to them the new regime every day became
more deeply fixed in the hearts of the peo-
pie. But these abuses which the Repub-
leans themselves have first sought to cor
rect, have been seized upon by the clamor-
Gus aristocracy as affording them pos
sible avenue to regain power. Determined
to lose no chance to crush out popular gov
eminent, they are INSCRIPTIONS in their
means and false in their pretenses. The
enemies of the people, they yet falsely as
sumo their names to carry out their wicked
aims.
The proof is apparent to every reason
ing mind. What sympathy has the rich
merchant with the poor laboring black
man or the laboring white men? Who
compose the Committee of Fifty-one: Is
there a single laboring man on it: Is
there poor man on it? Who owns the
peoples organ" as it styles itself? Mer
chants Is there single laboring man in
the long list of its wealthy proprietors?
Do you believe they care for any interests
but their own?
Who has given the black man his legal
rights in Louisiana? Did the Committee
of Fifty-one contribute to it? Did the
merchants of New Orleans help him to get
them? Who, then, are your friends? The
men who sought to Cypress yon and keep
you in bondage or those who have made
you free citizens Of the republic? To
these questions there can be but one an
swer.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The Committee of Fifty-one should turn
it's attention to the abuses of the street car
managers, who compel 1.-THE people" to ride
in crowded cars nearly the whole time
from three o'clock in the afternoon till after
midnight. On the Magazine street line,
during the hours named, only standing
room can be obtained after TIE cars get up
to Poydras street on Camp. The Commit
tee of Fifty one should demand that the
number of cars be doubled on this read
during the entire day after three O'Clock.
on other street railroad lines there should
be reform.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18
The Picay1Ue Of yesterday evening has
the Subioined paraprGDl:

The Picayu'e of yesterday evening has
the subjoined paragraph:
The State House iniquity, bill which is
to cost this State over :, 100000 in taxes.
paid during series of ten years, filling the
pockets Of Governor Warmoth and his
partners in this game full to Overlooking.
is up before the Legislature. and the Gov
ernor is doing his best to rush it through
Ii it is meant by this to say that Cover
nor Warmoth has had anything to do with
the State House bill, has contrived it, or
III any way interested himself with it. or
expects to reap a single cents advantage
from it, the statement is utterly and COM
pletely false, and is on par with another
publication III reference to the alleged poi
soning Of the late Lieutenant Governor
Dunn.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The editors of the PicGyune, who, &C
cording to the Times, have just emerged
from caves where they have been secreting
themselves for ten years, have just come
up to the point in our history where sus-
picions were entertained of Dunn having
been poisoned. They will come to the GER
tificate of Drs. Stone, Beach, Smyth and
the other physicians by the middle of next
week. Hurry up with your secondhand
seneatiOns
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The secret of success few have yet
learned. Still, there are some who know 1t,
and they do not hesitate to avow that fact
John Randolph, of Roanoke, it will be re
membered, announced at one time that he
bad found the philosophers stone-lt was
..Pay as you CO." Captain Gus Richards
has found it, in another form-'Advertise.
He does not hide his light under bushel,
but authorizes us to speak fer hlm 10 our
tens of thousands of readers, ana ten 'hen
once week about the Orleans house'
located at the corner of Common ana 81
Charles streets, where the inner man may
he refreshed and the spirits be cheered.
Captain Gus is therefore visited by great
numbers of people, who congregate there
to verify our fattering notices of his estao-
Iishment. And they do wisely.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The touching incident of the two moth
ers who appeared before Solomon the
Wise, each claiming ownership of the
same child, is about to be produced in
New Orleans. A BASTARD with the high
sounding title Of Peoples Party" has
been brought forth from the promiscuous
political bed-fellowship which has existed
among the opponents Of Republicanism
for the past two years, and the Times and
Ptcdy,0ae are pulling each others hair
about the paternity of it in the most frantic
manner Considering that it is but
weakly deformity, this contest is not with
out interest, as proving the strength Of
consanguineous ties.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The Louisville Ledger says the Demo-
cratic ticket will carry Louisiana with
out any help from the liberal Republicans
in the next election for President. Now,
will the Ledger please tell us all about this :?
The Republicans outnumber the Demo-
Gratis in Louisiana at least thirty thousand
voters, and yet the latter are to carry the
State? Have they discovered way to do
this against odds that no man can deny or
miscalculate? If they have they had bet
ter patent it at once, and then shut up the
patent Office
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The journalistic prize fight which a
great many nervous people have predicted
is already on the tapis. The Times, which
has long set up to be the heavy weight
bully with the belt on, has offended the
Picay,lne, which heretofore contented it.
self with being lightweight boxer, but
which now enters the field as against all
sorts of buffers of the newspaper list. \
polite interchange of such civilities as pre-
cede a rough and tumble set-to has already
taken place. The Times calls the Picapue
a mad luminary," and the Picayme re-
torts that the Times is frivolous and
egotistical fraud" Such compliments can
only end in one way. The mastery as be-
tween these two contestants will have to
be decided, and the REPUBLICAN offers it.
self as bottle holder at the tournament.
We shall stand at the backs of these cham
pions until their fronts are disfgured be-
yond recognition. This is all friend can
do
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The bark r. P. Buck, Captain Curtis,
cleared yesterday for Liverpool with 1895
bales Of cotton and 81 1888 bushels of corn lin
bulk. This is the first shipment of corn in
bulk for some time, navigation with the
West having been suspended owing to the
ice. The boats now being again able to
navigate, we trust that We shall see large
receipts Of grain at this port.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The Times desires to enlist in it's new
party most Of the white people and such
negroes as are honest. Whether this new
product is the same reform party that the
Times has been laboring with for two
years and more, and which seems to have
the truculant leadership of the Picayuae
or is an entirely new concern, warranted
not to desert, we are not informed; but
one thing we are sure Of, that it does not
want any but honest negroes in its camp
This is the rule Of the party, and it will
not be broken. So says the Tines, infer
entiallv.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

Nicols0n Avenue, a short distance this
side of Bay St. Louis, extends on one side
of the Mobile railroad track to the shore,
and on the other side to the woods. That
part of the avenue remote from the shore
was the scene, two or three days ago, of
bloOdless duel.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

We refer our readers to the advertise
ment of Nessrs j. Levois & Jamison, No.
126 Canal street, who announce that they
will open to morrow the most complete as
sortment of spring goods ever offered in
this city, just received per English steamer
ChrvsOlite
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

Divine services will be held to-day in
Ames Methodist Episcopal Church, corner
of ST. Charles and Calliope streets, COM
mencing at IL A. NJ. and P. NJ. Sabbath
school at $50 A. NJ, in the session room,
entrance on Calliepe street. Rev. j. c. Hart
zell, pastor. All, especially strangers, are
cordially invited
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18
The Largest Establishment of the Kind
in the SOuth.

Constantly on hand and for sale at the lowest
prices, a full assortment of the LEADING FIRST.
CLASS PIANOS manufactured in this country or
Europe, such as
sTElS"AY & SONS Square, Upright and Grand
Piano.
". kNABE Il CO.'S Baltimore Panofortes
HAlNES BROS Square Pianofortes.
PLEIEL, Upright all styles, made in Paris.
BLAEDEL, Upright, made in STUTTGART Ger,oo,
ALSO,
few secondha PIANOS, received in excbarra
and sold at bargains, at $50, SIS, and upwards
ramos sold on the monthly installment plan. Old
ramos received in part payment
Also On hand, full line Of
ORGANS AND MELODEONs.
Of MASON HAMLIN'S and TRANSFERS. ,rahs
unequaled in quality and price.
Purchasers of PIANOS and ORGANS will find il 70
their advantage not to consider the amonn, .f ot
the dealer pays, but to the QUALITY of the nstrn.
menus and his standing in this community. with
my long experience in business, and a LARGO c,ntal
at my command, no house in the civ or a,s.rrhoro
can underseii me, no difference in what obscure
corner their store may happen to be. Whatever
l sell Is guaranteed to giue satisfaction and M
fiano sold but know it win give satisfaction.
flanos can not warrant send to auction.
LOUIS GRUNEWALD.
'e''lslS2p Pianoforte Dealer l2e Canal street
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18
TIE PICAYUNB AND SERGEANT WYNNE.

Our shop-keepers organ has just been
interviewing Sergeant Wynne, an expo
lceman, who had charge of Wickliffe's
Office about the time he lost S2500 in cash
and several hundred thousand dollars of
Ship Island stock. The ex-sergeant is
placed On the stand as a witness against
Governor Warmoth. We are perfectly
willing to let the testimony go to the jury
without cross-examination. We fear that
our new brother in the editorial chair has
been sold again. This is the fate of green
horns.
When one of the two hundred and fifty
editors of the Picayeuee will consent to
employ Sergeant Wynne to take charge Of
his store, we shall think it worth while to
read and carefully examine his testimony.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The Progressive Literary Association
has changed its name to the Southern
Literary Association" for the reason that
another organization having the same old
name has asked the Legislature to give
fhor,a nharfer
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

On the front wall of the new structure
now rising on st. Charles and Carondelet
street, is placarded: Exposition build
ingr-"Ready to receive goods April l5'-
First grand industrial exposition opens
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

Lolita, the fairy coincidence, was at the
Academy matinee yesterday, and was just
as charmed with the Lydia Thompson bur
lesque performers as the people generally
are with the excellent representations of
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The Lydia Thompson Company will leave
New Orleans this evening for Galveston,
there to entertain the people with burlesque
two weeks, for which the charming and
dashing Lydia and her troupe will be paid
eonan
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The Times states that the night express
of the Mobile railroad left that city last
Thursday morning at two o'clock and
arrived in New Orleans at seven o'clock
making the entire distance, AS miles, in
five hOurs
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The Grand Duke Alexis took astroil on
Canal street yesterday land was gazed at and
admired by the ladies, who unite in saying
that he has a very white and pretty hand,
which he keeps ungleved.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

There is good fortune in store for those
who invest in Louisiana State Lottery
tickets. Every day tells of some one who
has drawn a rich prize.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The sale 40 auction by the Sheriff of furni-
ture, ETC., will be continued tomorrow
morning at half-past ten o'clock, at his
warehouse, No. "A St. Ann street, between
ROYAL and Bourbon streets, Second District.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The Exposition building, on st. Charles
and Carondelet streets, just below Julia,
will be the largest edifice in the whole
Southern country, and will have by tar the
most spacious hall in New Orleans.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

Judge Reber and State Tax Collector
Hitchcock, Of Concordia parish, left the
city last evening for home, where each will
sleep in his little bed.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

The Louisiana Paper Manufacturing
Company will commence operations to-
day at twelve o'clock, when few choice
spirits will be present to see the process.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

Captain r. w. Francis, of the Terrebonne
Patriot, was in the city two or three days
since, and of course visited the REPUBLICAN
editorial rooms.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-18

A complimentary concert to Miss a. Lib
erman will be given at Lyceum Hall, next
Wednesday evening. Complimentary tickets
have been received.