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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07
C0NJECTURES AND RETURNS |
CHANCE FOR NICE COUNTING
TROUBLE ON TEXAS FRONTIER
WASHINGTON.

Grants Reply to the Chattanooga Conn
mittee-His Visit Not Determined On
Internal Revenue Office Circular-Re-
demptiOn Of Lands Sold for Direct
Taxes,
| WASHINGTON, August G.-The committee
| on behalf of the city of Chattanooga, who
| invited the President to visit Chattanooga
| and Lookout mountain, have received the
| following:
UTICA, N. Y, July 81. 1872
GEEPLEMEN-I have the honor to ac-
| knowledge the receipt of the resolutions of
J the Board of Trade and city authorities, ex-
| tending to myself and Cabinet an invitation
! to spend a portion of the summer vacation
in their city and on Lookout noun
tain am not prepared at pres
ent to accept either on my own
part or on the.part of the Cabinet, but l
will, in very few days, lay the invitation
before the other gentlemen embraced in it.
and will then give his honor the mayor a
definite answer. 1t would afford me very
great pleasure to visit the people and city
of Chattanooga. / return my sincere
thanks tO.the mayor, aldermen and Board
of Trade for the invitation which they have
given me. With great respect, your ODE
dent servant, u. S. GRANT
The int rnal revenue Office has issued a
circular Stating that all lands now owned
or held by the United States by virtue of
tue proceedings under an act called IAN
act for the collection of direct taxes in in
surrectiOnary districts within the United
States, and for other purposes" approved
June 7, 1862, and under the acts supple
mentary thereto, or npOn the same subject
matter, except such lands as are excepted
by the seventh and eighth sections Of the
act of Congress approved june 8, 1872
namely: The lands, farms, plantations or
lots which are now in whole or in part
used or occupied by the United States
for a national cemetery, or for
the burial of the dead, or other
public purposes: or which, under the in
structiOns of the President of the United
States, have been reserved for military or
naval purposes; or suo1 lots of land on
Hunting island, South CfrOIina, as may be
necessary as a site for the erection of a
lighthouse. Also, block 1913, Beaufort,
South Carolina, may he redeemed, and re-
versed to the original owner. heirs at law,
or grantees, upon an applicatio0 therefor to
the Secretary of the Treasury through the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, made in
compliance with the regulations and the
provisions of law in relation thereto. The
application must be made within two years
from June 8, 1872. The provision is for the
redemption of lands sold for direct taxes.
The claims to be made under the regula-
tiOns will come principally from the States
Of Virginia, North Carolina South Carolina
and Florida, and will it is supposed exceed
1900 in number,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07
&c THE PEOPLES MONEY!


Under this engaging heading the Dolly
Warden organ down the street presents in
| its evening edition an article which, for
| reckless extravaganza Of language, exceeds
/ the wonderful sensation it falsely pretends
is real: In many respects, however, these
gross, perversions of fact on the part of our
calico contemporary are pardOnabIe. In
the first place. it could not tell the truth if
| it desired to. Secondly, its habitual mis-
representation of everything relating to
the Department of improvements is as well
understood as the cause of it-nOne of its
writers are on its pay rolls. Thirdly, some
of the Pjcay1ne people were exceedingly
anxious not a great while since that the
city of New Orleans should ne gOtiate with
Jonas French, Butler & Co.. of Msssachu-
sets a contract for furnishing it with
paving stone. The proposition was reject
ed by Mr.. COckrem, and since then the
Picaytle has been unmeasured in its abuse
In the article referred to the Pic gratifes
its malice by picking out the week wherein
was made the largest expenditure of the
NLpAO col klLAOA n NAtti
contracts and settlements Of several months
standing), and refers to it as an average
weekly expenditure. That this was dehb-
erate attempt at misrepresentation the pub
lie will readily perceive. But these appaIl-
ing details of maladministratiOn, in the
opinion Of the Pic, are even exceeded by
the scandalous fact that the Bureau of
Streets employs a. large number Of Irish
labOrers-the M,UphyS, as the elegant
phraseoIogy Of the Pic characterizes them.
According to this whilom Know-NOthing
journal, with native American instincts, Mr.
Cockrem deserves grave reproach for allow
ing The MUrphyS to work upon the streets, to
cleanse the cutters, remove decaying mat
ter and augment all sanitary precautions
against an epidemic. Was it not the Pic
ay,He that advised this very measure and
said that "the expenditure of a hundred
millions of dollars would purchase a cheap
exemption from an epidemic r. Did not the
same paper, in the same article, complain
of the inadequate force upon the streets
and allege that Mr.. Cockrem was indiffer-
NLb " NAAC SANTA SphNlIAOu VI VIC Clly
The weekly expenditures of the Department
of improvements, the Picayltne very Justly
alleges, does not usually exceed four or
FIVE thousand dollars. This is the general
average. But once under the Democratic
administration of Mr.. Conway the street
department alone made a weekly average
of $1,000, with no improvements but the
simple cleansing of cutters and removal of
offal The street department under Mr..
Cockrem has never reached these figures
by One-half or more Mr. COckrem has
never aspired to the extravaganza of the
Democratic administration; he is well ad-
Yised that for wicked and wasteful expendi,
lures it is without parallel As the Pic
uyune promises, however, additional dis
closures, we await their development
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

for the cOlored man have no practice. Go
| ing to the abolitionist of the North tol
money to help on the underground railroad
| his reply always was, I've got no money
! Laughter. When they defeated Mr.
Pinchback for delegate and turned me out
| Of the convention, they showed the real
| spirit that controls them.
Now, should this convention act squaIely
mp to the terms Of the co-opartnership, sue
cess viii be their own throughout the
State; and I can answer for Mr.. Pinchback,
and all such col0red men, that he is ready
to cooperate. and this WAIVER of colored
rlen is now so thoroughly understood that
Mr.. Kellogg has already sent in contin-
gent resignation, and Mr.. Antoine likewise.
LSensation.l The indifference of that party
to the cOlOred men is exemplifed in the
treatment of Mr.. Fred. Douglass, who was
snubbed on the San Domingo expedition:
and if this treatment of the greatest cOlored
man III America is the green tree,
what will be done with the dry
tree, and dealing with little niggers all
around3 The white and coloTed people must
dwell togethePin amitv. lApplause.l Had
they said that, urged that at first, it would
have been different. The negro race is
easy to get along with; they are not quar-
relsOme except among themselves. Laugh
teri Recognizing the fact that the negro
knows the secret Of cotton cultivation; that
he is master Of the climate, you should not
permit us again to fall into the hands of
such men as Packard, or into condition Of
political servitude. The Customhouse party
has been tried and found wanting; We can
not longer trust them. No, not even if they
were. to come to US as angels. You are as
yet untried, but we are willing to take our
chances with you. 1t can not be denied
that the white man and the black man must
live together in the State of Louisiana; then
let us live in unity Give us but the assur-
ance that we are to live in harmony with
you, and know that we of this State may
look forward to future as bright for the
negro as it is for the white man.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07
FOREIGN.
Fishing Vessels CHpsiZed-AH Hands
LOst-Railway Casualties and Loss of
Life-News from MexicO-POrts of Ca
mRrRo and Mier ReOnened.

Fishing Vessels CHpsiZed-AH Hands
LOst-Railway Casualties and Loss of
Life-News from MexicO-Ports of Ca
margO and Mier ReOpened.
LONDON, August 6.-During the severe
storm yesterday, six fishing vessels belong
ing to Berwick were capsized, and all on
board we're lost
Several railway casualties having oc-
CURED recently, by which upward Of twenty
lives have been lost, Parliament has been
asked to investigate the causes of the dis
asters and inquire into the general manage
ment of railroads with relation to the safety
OF the passengers.
hATAMORAs, August G-The customs au-
thOrities have opened the ports Of CamargO
and Mier, on the Rio Grande, above this
city, which have been closed for some time
past. on account Of the revolution. Large
quantities of merchandise are being dis
patched for up river and interior points, and
business generally is reviving.
small shipment Of specie and several
passengers came through from Monterey
yesterday, indicating that the roads are
open and safe.
An unfOunded rumor has prevailed that
the revolutionary chiefs will not submit to
President Lerdo de Tejada.
The prospects are almost certain for absO-
lutte peace until after the presidential cleo
ton, at least.
PARIS, August G.-Mail advices to the
twenty-fourth ultimO state that in the Office
Of the People Francois thousands OF i'm
perialist papers were seized, and VOlumRi-
GUS secret correspondence also discovered,
together with pamphlets intended for dis
tributiOn in the army.
LONDON, August 6.-The American feet
has left Southampton for Cowes, from
which place it will proceed to Gravesend.
From Gravesend the expedition viii sail
for the North sea, where it will remain dur
| ing the winter and return TO the Englisl
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07
NEW YORK.
Aftivals-Grant not Anxious for Second
Term-sane Man Incarcerated as n
LunatiC - Legal Proceedings Conn
rrEPurad nv Him

Term-sGne Man incnrCerated rs n
LunatiC - Legal Proceedings Conn
nIenced by Him.
New YORK, August G.-Arrived-Stea
ers City Of New York and Manhattan. Ar
rived out-Oceanica, Parthja, Nebraska
and Weser.
dispatch from Thousand islands from
an interviewer makes Grant says that he
does not care personally for a second term,
but accepts the nomination to test the sen
timents of his tellOw-citizens in his behalf.
j. T. Yanvleck, the banker who has been
incarceTated in the Bloomingdale Lunatic
Asylum over year, although perfectly
sane, has commenced legal proceedings
which ne states will expose the horrors of
that institution. His counsel have obtained
writs of habeas corpus for the release Of
two ladies who also have been incarcerated
there on bogus certificates, and who are
perfectly sane. George r. Irwin, late
keeper at the asylum, prints an affidavit re-
lating to many crUeltiGs resulting in death
by parties connected With the sO-called
asylum He states. that the food is poor,
and filth the rule.
Evening-MOney clOsed at 203 Gold
ll54. Sterling unsettled. Governments
steady. State bonds very quiet. Ten
nessees strong. Old North CarOlinas frmer.
new fves 1923; skies of 1881 1874;
fve-twenties Of 1862 1853; 1864, 1863;
1865, Il62; new 1883; 1867, Il54; 1868,
ll53s; ten-fOrtIes, registered, 1923 Ten
nessees, old 1885, new 1873; Virginias, old
as new 50A LOuisianas, old 50, new 48,
levee sizes 90, Fights 70; Alabama Fights
49, fves 81; Georgia skies TO- sevens 81;
North CarOlnas, old "413, new q; South
Carolinas 81.
Affairs in Wall street to-day were quiet,
although there was rather more business
than yesterday in speculative stocks. The
gold and stock market was alternately
strong and weak. Prices, in the main,
have ruled lower than yesterday. Govern
ment bonds continued strong IN anticjpa-
ton of the purchase of $2,O00,O00 for the
sinking fund tomorrow. Exchange il still
unsettled bankers being anxious TO sell, so
as to get both rates which gold commands.
and also to lend currency on time, the rate
for the latter being now fully three per cent
for sixty days.
Money easy throughout the day, in the
morning at 4G5 y cent, in the afternoon at
203 per cent. There is more demand for
time loans, which are quoted at y cent
and upward. Prime commercial paper
lower; 708. Gold opened at 1853, sold
down to ll5A during the afternoon, rallied
TO ll5l5 and closed steady at 1853 lljR.
Loans l-l60 1872, 6 and for use. Govern
ments opened duh and steady, remaining
so pretty much all day,
NEW YORK, August 6.-The following
dispatch shows that the -iOting at Quebec
was not so serious as at first reported:
TORONTO, August 6-At noon yesterday
polling between two candidates in Quebec
Centre was equal, and. rioting vas com
menced by attacks on commissioners and
polling places. Later in the afternoon &
terrible fight took place in st. Johns ward
and resulted in the death of David GOndle
q young man. Three others were wounded
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

The Greeley picture sent to us by the
chairman of the Liberal Republican National
Committee is the size of life, giving the
head and bust, and is printed on a sheet
twenty-four by thirty inches, with fac
smile of Mr.. Greeley's autograph. The orr
ginaI work of art OF which this is copy is
in the possession of Mr.. Theodore Tilton,
editor of the Colder, Aye, under whose PERI
sonal superintendent this photographic
transcript was made for popular circulation
during the campaign. No better representa-
ton of the intellectual, kindly and honest
face of the farmer of Chappaqua has ever
been made. AS Mr.. GEeeley's fine and
striking features are constantly and grossly
caricatured, the chairman of the Liberal
Republican Committee expresses the hope
that this admirable likeness will be framed
and hung where it can be SEEN
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

The Albany Journal says of the statement
in the Wing that the Farnam steamer boys
attempted to play on the moon with their
engine recently: When a fire company
gets so that it cant tell heavens blue vault
from the Abba road, or sweet, pale Luna,
goddess of the night, from a red and raging
fre-brand, the situation would indicate
either that the fascinating study of sstrOn-
or else they we're in the habit of putting
too much stick" in their fluid refreshmsnt
The Farnam steamer boys should be talked
tO-hndly, yet firmly, and be provided with
opera glasses for the future
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07
THE LIBERAL CONVENTION
A WAIT. FOR CONFERENCE

The hour fixed for The convention tomeet
yesterday came and passed with but thin
sattendance, and it was at least halcPast
/ ten o'clock before a respectable number
| showed Themselves in the parQuette. The
time had been taken up in discussing the
conference question, great number SEEM
ing to be of the opinion that the only object
of the conven ton was to secure co-opera-
ton of all parties by means of the confer
ence committee selected the night before
by the five congressional delegations, and
composed Of men il whom there was every
confidence. RumOCs few about in focks,
like swallows around an old barn, and
skirred around from all directions Of the
political field.
The secretary, Andrew Hero, called the
roll, and found forty four parishes and
eleven wards present.
The reading OF the journal being dis
pensed with on motion of Mr.. A. S. Heron,
the following committee on conference was
announced as appointed, by the president,
being the same as reported in the REPUB-
LICAN yesterday morning:
First District-Etfingham Lawrence, of
Plaquemines; Thomas G. Davidson, of Liv-
ingston, and Patrick Swan, Of the seventh
ward of Orleans.
Second District-E. A. Burke, of second
ward Of Orleans; Louis Bush, of Lafourche;
K. L. Preston, of twelfth ward of Orleans
Third District-JOseph A. Breaux, of
Iberia; Thomas J. Foster, of st. Mary, and
E. W. Robertson, Of East Baton Rouge.
Fourth District-Louis Texada, Of Ra-
pides; A. II. Leonard, Of Caddo, and j. F.
Harris, of POinte COupee.
Fifth District-J. c. Egan, of Claiborne;
w. W. Farmer, of Ouachita, and j. N. Gil
lespie, of Tensas.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

That which is rarest is considered best.
Salmon, now ranked among the very
choicest of the fnny tribes, was once con
sidered so poor an article of food that ser
wants, in contracts with their masters in
the old colony days of New England, stipu-
lated that they we're not to eat salmon
above two days iB the week.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

There are eighty Pullman palace cars ar
irving at and departing from Chicago every
day. The amount of money expended in
their manufacture ranges from $4,000 to
$4,000 for each car, the average cost being
$l6,500. The amount of capital, therefore,
invested in the Pullman cars which accom-
modate the business of Chicago amounts
to about 81 300, 600.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

There is said to be girl in Waterford,
Vermont who has refused twenty-five Of
fers of marriage, the twenty-ffth coming
from a wealthy merchant who is considered
as the handsomest in town. That girl is
certainly insane, and any intelligent jury
would acquit her on charge of murder on
that ground.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

Our dispatches this morning refer to an
interesting matter, the incarceration Of a
sane man in lunatic asylum, who has in
stituted proceedings IN the courts. A New
York dispatch of the fourth instant also ap-
pears in this paper, stating the case more
fully, Some exciting developments may
epsue
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

ASSESSMENT NOTICE Nos. lO4, IO5 AND
1O6.-See special notice column. Death of
Miguel Gandolfo, c. w. Culbertsou and H.
Tison, payable at the Office of the Mutual
Aid and Benevolent Life Insurance AssO-
citation of Louisiana, No. 100 Carondelet
street. Amount paid out on losses since
organization $3.50, 426.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

The pencil of Mr.. Douglas E. Jerrold has
produced this time an execrabie cartoon,
senseless and pointless. OF course it is in
tended as a satire on Governor Warmoth. d.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

Mr.. Joseph jefferson begins travelling
tour at Augusta, Maine, on the second of
September. Maggie Mitchell has paid
$4,000 for }Ir, AcVjckers cottage at Long
Branch
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

One of the enjoyments in Rhode Island is
a clam bake. 1t was Mr.. Greeley's good
fortune to be participant in one of them
yesterday.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

Chicago men do not take their wives to
the summer resorts this year. They 60 for
pleasure, and then the big FIRE, you know,
makes one feel poor
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

Charles G. Davis, of Plymouth, the Mas
sachusetts member of the Liberal Repub-
hcsn National Committee, viii soon issue =
Greeley and Bsown paper, to be called the
Plymouth Rock Free Press.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

A circular from the internal revenue office
gives information in reference TO the re-
demption of lands sold for direct taxes.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07

IN BANKRUPTCY PETITIONS AND
A Schedules prepared strictly according 70
tie Bankrupt Law general orders of the United
States Supreme Court, and rules Of the United
States District Court, by -
JOHN s. CARTER,
At the Office Of c. s. Kellogg, Register in Bank.
ruptCv in CustOmhOuse building. des8 ly
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07
POLITICAL GLEANINGs.

hr Tucker, a Last Dltcher ron 81
Mary, is a sanguine individual. He has
az opinion on the proper course Tor the
| Liberal convention to pursue, and he eZ-
presses it. He demands that the Liberals
should. promptly ratify the united State
conglomeration headed by McEnery, and
! he expects them to do it, A thorough
course of political reading would he good
! for Mr. fuckers understanding, and We
would suggest that he begin with the letter
of Mr. Augustus Schell to Mr.. Lasere, to he
followed by the New York E0rids article
| on the Liberal convention, which will be
| here by the time he has digested the first
lesson.
If the Liberal delegates from the country
do not see that all this Last Ditch uproar in
the city is for the purpose of getting con
troll of the municipal and parochial Offices
in Orleans they are much more blind than
we set them down for. The judgeships, the
clerkships, sherifs, coroners, Mayor, Ad-
miuistratoTs, and a score or two of other
Offices, are the coveted prizes Of the city
LasC Ditchers, who look upon the State
ticket as an entirely secondary thing-in
fact, as something beyond their reach. The
McEnery-JOnas enthusiasm is a blind to
cover their grapsing for the local fat things.
Fearing to trust their chances to a cOnven-
ton Of the whole people, they determined
at any sacrifice of State interests TO keep
up their old party organization, the con-
ventiOn machinery of which they control
absolutely in their own interests. If any
Liberal doubts this, let him explain to a
city Last Ditcher how his course is leopard
izng the success of reform, and ten chances
to one he will receive as an all-sutficient
answer: But we shall carry this city,
This is the entire sumo and substance of
their opposition. If the convention does
its duty properly, their selfish schemes will,
however, come to naught.
The Customhouse emissaries are striving
might and main to prevent coalition be-
tween the Liberal and Regular Republican
organizations. Every specious argument
that can be adduced backed by alIuring
promises Of place on their ticket, is used to
prevent this much desired contamination.
No effect has yet been produced on the
minds Of the members of the Pinchback
committee, and none will be if the Liberals
act literally.
Mr.. Jonas told the Eighth Ward Wide
Awakes that the people Of New Orleans
are as "ready to do to-day as they were
four years ago in the glorious campaign for
Seymour and Blair" If this means any
thing, it means that his followers are as
ready ito do" colored citizens ard white |
Republicans to death as they did on that !
GLORIOUS" occasion. Mr.. Jonas may re-
member that his people" four years ago,
accomplished by his glorious policy a
crushing defeat, and this sort of history
always repeats itself. Besides, "lzilling
niggers" will not be found such 'gloriously7 |
jolly and safe electioneering as it was then.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07
DREUsING g. ERNEST,
Holm GRAYER,

Proprietor OF Phoenix Stables and Undertaken, EOE
IS and 81 Elysiau Fields street, opposite PontCnsT
train railroad Third District, New 0TieaRs. Car
bire, Horses bought sold and kept on livery,
Patent Metallic Burial Cases. Mahogany, BlecA
Walnut and plain Collins always on hand. Funer'
ais attended to by the Proprietor, who hopes, by
str ct attention 70 business, to obtain share o:
public patTOna JyEo ~
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07
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