New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-13
NEW YORK.


Committee Of Georgia Legislature-Inves-
tigatin8 Sale of Georgia Bonds--Calls
on Trumbull and Schurz-Gdneral
nIetho dist Conference - An Oculisg
Dead-CollectiOns to Pay French War
Claims-CoOper Institute Liberal Re-
publican Meeting-Oue of the LARGEST
Ever Held.
-, NEW YORK, April IA committee of
the Georgia Legislature, appointed to in
yestlgate the registration and sale of
Georgia bonds during Governor Bullock's
administration, are here, and held session
yesterday at the Grand Central Hotel.
| II ). Simon, John j. Hall and Garnet
Mcmillan are members, and Alton Angler,
assistant treasury clerk, and Robert TOmbs,
| are attorneys for the committee.
Bonds to the value of $4,000, 900 were
| sold, 81 ,5OO,0 600 of which were in aid of
various railroads, and the rest according
| to Governor Bullock. were made for legis-
| lative expenses and to meet the interest on
previously dated obligations.
1t is claimed that all in excess of 81, 900. 900
was unnecessary, and that the majority was
unconstitutional and the State Of Georgia
is not responsible for them. The powers of
the committee are mainly to enforce the
| registration of the bonds. Every holder
will be required to register, and the exami-
nation will relate only to the manner in
day the committee will visit the office of
Henry Clewes & Co. to make inquiries.
A heavy vote was cast in the Methodist
Conference to-day in favor of lay delegates
to the General Conference in May.
Money free at 6 II cent on call loans.
Sterling 91s 09A. Gold l1Ols ll0$. Gov
ernments quiet and steady through tho
day, but at the close fve-twenties Of 1862
"A, OF 1868 and new issues were up ~; OF
1865, old, of 1867 and 1868 were up ". New
fves HOS; skies of 1881 ll5h; of 1862
1924; 1864 1924; 1865 1874; new Ill 70;
1867 Il3: 1868 1874; -forties 1O834.
State bonds dull and steady; Ten
nessees 67, new 81; Virginias 54h, new
Sc; Louisianas So, new 53; Levee skies
60, eights 20; Alabamas sc, fves So; GeOr-
gias skies 20, sevens 81 North CarOlinas 3611,
new 90: South Carolinas so. new Hls.
The Central Underground Railroad bill
passed the Assembly-seventy-hve to thir
ty-fOur.
The master builders meeting resolved to
pay workmen on the basis Of eight hours
per day from May l.
DR.. James W. Powell, oculst, and for
merry grand secretary OF the Free MasOns of
this State, died to-day.
Anthony 0. Jones, convicted of arson in
the third degree, was sentenced to three
and half years imprisonment.
One hundred and seventy-five thousand
dollars has been collected in this county to-
ward the payment of the French war
claims. and deposited with one Of the trust
companies here.
A petition has been filed in the United
States Court tor the involuntary bank
rurtcy of the Market Fire Insurance Com
pany. for failing to pay losses By the Chica-
60 fire.
The meeting of representatives favoring
the Cincinnati convention, at the Cooper
Institute tonight was one of the largest in
numbers and the most imposing in compo-
sition ever held in this city.
The opening of the meeting was announced
for eight o'clock but hours before the large
hall OF the Institute was crowded to its ut
most capacity, and throngs were unable to
gain admission.
Colonel Frederick A. Conkling presided,
and among the vice presidents were Horace
Greeley, Sinclair Tousey, Moses H. Grin
shall 0. Roberts, Judge Blatchford, Samuel
Sinclair, General John A. Dix. and q num-
Der of prominent German citizens.
The following declaration of principles
was adopted at the opening of the meeting:
That the political action Of conventions
and individuals should be free from the
influence of political patronage; that the
business should not, under the fear Of un-
just official interference with their affairs,
purposes; that public offices are, or should
be, created for public convenience, not as
rewards for partisan services nor for per-
sonal aggrandizement; that the acts
of officials should be confined within
the strict letter of the laws; that the tri-
umph of Republican principles is of para
mount Importance to the country; that the
success of the principles in the approach
ing national election should not depend on
any individual; that the prosperity of the
country demands thorough, radical and
immediate reform in all the departments of
public service, civil, military and naval;
and that the one term principle for the
Presidential office will conduce more to
that end than any other measure.
At quarter before eight Senators Schurz
and Trumbull arrived, and were greeted
enthusiastically.
At eight o'clock Colonel Conkling intro
duced Senator Trumbull, who said that one
cause of the dissatisfaction of the people,
and which produces the alienation of the
late insurrectiOnary States, and keeps alive
the hates and animOsities engendered by
the war; is the continuance of political dis
ability after the occasion for it has passed
away; and, in consequence of which, the
governments Of those States has fallen into
the hands Of inexperienced and, in many
instances, corrupt adventures, WHO have
plundered the people of those States scarce
ly less than New York has been plundered
by the former city government. He thought
that the reason why the political disabilities
were not removed was from two causes,
one mercenary and the other political.
The Senator said the exclusion of prom
inent leading men of the South from official
positions had thrown these governments into
the hands of men who have used their
power to plunder the people over whom
they rule, and the debt OF Southern States,
in some instances, has been swollen twenty
fold from what they were before the war
began. One great measure, then, which is
demanded in the name OF honesty and
peace, is the removal of political disabilities.
He also alluded to the patronage Of the
government as being used as so much
money to carry electiOns-to carry elections
not in the interest of party even, but in
the interest of a faction Of party.
The great speech of the evening was made
by Senator Schurz. On rising to speak he
was received with prolonged cheers.
lie referred to the occasion when he had
spoken on this same platform in 1860, when
Abraham Lincoln was the candidate for the
Presidency; in 1862, when emancipation
was the watchword; and again in 1864,
when Abraham Lincoln was the standard
bearer of the Republican party.
Mr. Schurz then went on in an eloquent
speech, which lasted nearly an hour and a
half, to review the present administration
and the evils which, the speaker said, had
resulted from it-nepOtism, a corrupt sys-
tenn OF civil service, and an administrative
tyranny by which men who hold Office are
the slaves of the President, and dare not
exercise freedom OF speech or election in
political matters. The speaker declared
that Grant had failed to realize the expecta-
tons of the Republican party and OF the