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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16
TIE CAGE OF RATTLE.

Whatever may have been charged
against Lieutenant Governor Pinchback,
his most virulent enemy has not dared ac-
cuse him Of weakness or ,yacillation, and
the same assertion applies to his organ,
the L0uiSianidn In its last issue that
paper takes the political bull by the horns,
in true manly fashion, and proposes to
fight out a solution of the questions agi-
tating the body polite, the status of the
colored people included, Immediately and
on the spot. While we sincerely regret
and depIore that issue of race should thus
be made, and challenge given to the
whites to put one of your race in the field
to contest the palm with our champion,
yet we can not help adrniring the boldness
which characterizes the act.
We have heard number of colored men
eXtolled, through the columns of the press,
and lauded in all the political circles
around US, as honest, worthy and capable
men,,
Democrats have repeatedly expressed
their preference of such men for rulers TO
the whole carpet-bag and scalawag frater
nifty of whites With what amount of sin
cerity these utterances have been made let
the conventions at Baton Rouge for once
test Select and centre on one of these
gentlemen and place him in the fore front
as candidate for Governor. Certainly we
should have no hesitation in arriving at
our choice for this position, but we are not
now advocating the fitness or the claims Of
any particular candidate, but we do urge
that the Gordian knot of our difficulties be
thus cut and the great bone of all our con-
tentiOns be so disposed of,
Nominate a colOred man for Governor
and throw the responsibility of his defeat
on those who would keep us divided and
antagOnistic, that they may succeed with
their plans of guiding conventions as they
think fit and Of running the government of
Louisiana in their own interest.
The final reference to the Customhouse
ring, whose penchant for manipulating
conventions has already caused the vir-
tual demolition of the Republican party
in Louisiana, is unnecessary from the
fact that defeat of any such nomination is
is foreordained
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16
ON CARONDELET STREET.

A stere0typed expression of a fixed
length repeated from day to day, with
possibly a change in the figures of the gold
quotations, of city certificates and war
rants, the tone Of which should be pitched to
the key of general dullness, would express
the state of the market for the past week,
the past fortnight, the past month. This
is the Information of the stock business.
the long sleep in the midst of which some
stocks will ''never awake to glory again."
and others will lie perdu until the final
settlement of the political question No
man invests unless with the single eve of
making profit on what he buys, unless
when his hopes have "Outrun his better
judgment No man desires to invest in
stocks and State securities in the present
mixed condition of political things, and
the slightest turn in the quivering scales is
watched for like an astronomer on the
Q'd rice for a prophesied comet Unless
there is desire for investment there is no
market and no spirit for investment, or
speculation is the very soul of the bust.
ness, stocks and obligations being its body
and bones and money the circulation, the
cheerful activity of these and reciprocal
action constituting the life of the street.
The chronicle of a sale or two made in
bank, railroad or insurance stocks, the
mere mention Of the fact that warrants are
so much to day and half a cent more to-
morrow. does not make column readable
nor interesting. Yet this has been the sole
fodder of commercial writers for a month.
The spirit is not willing, and the flesh is
weak besides. An inquiry in any direction
pushed ahead for reasons, let it be on the
causes Of depression in any of the objects Of
grab, will lead the inquirer directly into
politics. Before he finds out the causes of
stagnation in the stock business he will be
called upon to state his opinion on Grant or
Greeley, and whether the National Demo
Gratis will indorse the latter gentleman, and
if they do, then WHAT All paths lead
straight into politics. and if a man can find
no opportunity to buy or sell to advantage,
he can get hundred chances for nice lit
tie bet on the political question. There is
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16
% movement to anything; its time for com

no movement to anything; its time for com
motion has gone by.
There is some activity in city certificates,
but only because they are wanted to pay
taxes. There is a little interest in war
rants, but only because there is dispO-
sitiOn to turn them into bonds, and belief,
running underneath Indifference, that the
State is bound at all hazards and under all
circumstances to protect the State war
rants. There was something of scramble
to get warrants registered when the bill
was signed which funded them. There was
a briet stir of gossip on the street corners
about the new warrants, and broad state
ment that they were fundable. There were
anecdotes told of officials, which went to
show the truth of either side of the ques-
ton, and then the matter fell to where it is
nOw-the freezing point. A very little tax
resistance goes long way in playing into
the hands of thOsesharp financial men who
are on the alert to buy when any of the Sc
eurities have touched bottom" or got as
low as possible, and who wait to sell when
they are high. 1t is natural for them to en-
courage tax resistance, as having a cOllate-
raj influence in depreciating State and city
securities, and this is about the only move
ment outside the gold business, stream of
this hard money flowing in the direction of
the Customhouse to pay off importations.
In short, business on the street may be de-
scribed as one of those fine houses in New
York whose proprietor, when he closes the
front door, puts up the placard "Out of
Town"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16
a CONTRAST

If the ceaseless boast of Grants friends
is true, that he has given peace to the
country, why was Congress besieged to the
point Of madness for law that would en-
able the President to suspend the civil
law in all the States at his pleasure? When
the Queen Of Great Britain demanded of
Parliament that she should have the right
to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, and
declare martini law in Ireland, the repub-
lean members of that body resisted the
demand, and the measure only succeeded
by "a bare majority after the right had
been restricted to certain counties. The
suggestion to confer the same power in re-
gard to the cities of Manchester and Lon
don was laughed at, Notwithstanding that
mobs in both of these corporations had
committed aggravated assaults upon pub
cand private property, and revolutionary
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16
STEALING A GOOD NAME TO SERVE THE
nEUTT,

DEVIL
When John Hampden raised his voice
against corruption and despotism in Eng
land it hardly occurred to him that after
two hundred and thirty years his name
would be used to bolster up a defense Of
the very vices which he denounced. If he
had been told, in 1910, that in 1872 a de-
signing but incapable scribe would pub
fish a defense of nepotry, bribery, ignor-
ance and corruption, and sign his name
to it, his establishment and indignation
would have been quite as great as if some
man had said to George Washington in
1856 that in less than century hundreds
of negroes would be aspiring to be con-
stables and legislators with his name
signed with a cross mark attached to their
handbills and receipts. And yet such is
the fact. The Hampden Of the Picayltne
bears about as much relation to the lib
eral republican whose name he appro-
PIRATES as the colored George Washington
or Thomas jefferson bears to the great
men whose names they have confscated
to their own use.
Hampden, of the PicayUe, prostitutes
the name Of Hampden, ofEngland, as the
great liberal republican would blush to be
told of. In the first place, the counterfeit
Hampden differs from the genuine in three
particulars lack Of honesty, want Of intel
hgence and disregard of truth. He is not
as honest, because he does not state the
grievances that he complains about. He
is not as intelligent because he holds the
object Of his hatred responsible for evils
which even a moderate degree of wit
should enable him to attach to tie really
guilty parties. He is not as truthful, be-
cause the only evil that he does present is
exaggerated, and the fault of its existence
IS charged against the Governor, when it
should be laid at the door Of the Legisla-
ture and of his own friends. He puts the
levee tax at eight mills, when it is only
six; and if there is any measure that the
Governor has attempted to defeat it is the
levee law. He refused to sign it; he de-
nounced it in a special proclamation; he
denied to it any bonds; he prevented it
from drawing on the State treas
ury; he made it surrender part
Of its swag even after it had
secured the Legislature in its favor And
the principal benefciaries Of this law
were and are in the Cussomhouse, and its
chief strength came from the present sup
porters Of General Grant And this stupid
Hampden not only forgets or failed to
know these facts, but he asks the people
to associate themselves with the holders
and originators Of the very outrage which
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

The Picaylu1e is growing alarmed at the
probable Authorization Of the State. It
accounts for it by the vicious attempt of
Liberal Republicans to carry the State for
the Cincinnati nominees The whites
have been arrayed in panic against the
blacks, and the blacks against the whites;
and the negroes, in consequence, are pre-
pared, by a Granite and desperate effort
$50 says our contemporary to save them
selves by establishing an absolute negro
ascendency.
By an ingenious but wholly illogical
process Of reasoning, this threatened ca
lamity is laid at the door of the Liberal
Republican party. In accordance with
the PicayrneS ideas, the conservative
press of the State should have remained
silent and Indifferent while it and the
Customhouse clique were perfecting their
plans for the galvanized government under
Grant. Had this been done, the negroes
would be content, and no such woful ap-
prehensions as Africanization would be
INDUCED in. The movement, however, it
says, now can only be arrested by mutual
forbearance and Cancellation. All good
citizens, whether classed as Democrats,
Reformers, or Liberal Republicans, are
earnestly implored by the Picayme to
keep calm, to wait for developments, and
in this way prevent an out-and-out organ
ization Of the most vicious elements Of
society, tending to the control of all the
instrumentalities Of government.
This certainly is novel way. To pre-
vent anything being done is to resist it.
We have no such inference ourselves, but
the Picag7me's advice might sound to a
stranger as fit were in the ring to produce
the very calamity it seemingly abhors In
a burning house people are not told to sit
still, and maybe the fire will quit burning;
but they rise and manfully struggle with
the flames.
To prevent an opponents getting the
ascendancy, we must get it ourselves.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

The Citizens Guard is constantly worry
ing its readers with paper pellets of this
sort:
To tolerate much longer the candidacy
of Greeley is for the Democracy equivalent
to committing suicide by poison To ac-
cept him as it's candidate is to commit sui
eide by an explosive bullet lodged in its
heart.
As the mission of the Guard is in a
feeble way to attempt the destruction Of
the Democratic party, we can not see why
it should indulge in these laments over its
prospective felo de Sc.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

In its wrath the New York World stings
itself Of Mr.. Doolittle's speech in favor
of Horace Greeley the World says that
while at was the only one that deserved at
tention, it was unfortunately the speech Of
a man who has been welded to defeat for
four years. The sting of this assault is
this, that the World has been welded to
defeat for fifteen years, and if four years
defeat is an argument to urge against
Senator Doolittle's right to give advice,
fifteen years defeat should silence the
World altogether.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

The Washington Republican says cit
seems to be conceded that the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Wilson has, if possible,
strengthened the Radical ticket" This is
certainly, to say the least of it, very equiv
ocal language from the organ of Grantism
in Washington. While it implies an ex-
listing weakness in the ticket, it seems to
doubt whether it can be streng hened.
The Republican, no doubt, felt inclined to
praise; but finding the prospect Of the
ticket faint, it could give but faint praise,
which is more damning than otherwise.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16
"OLD SQUIRT ON THE RAMPAGE.

Soda Water McCloskey effervesced the
stopper out of his carboy yesterday and
stopped over in way that is sad to reflect
upon. He published about fifteen inches
of new nonsense and then supplements it
with about four inches of old nonsense,
which is an awful dose these sultry times.
He doubts about the honesty of Auditor
Graham because that officer does not pub
lish an estimate of the indebtedness Of the
State, which is all leather and prunella,
because the Auditor published an estimate
in January that tells all that McCloskey
wants to know, and more THAI he under
stands. If Mr.. Graham should answer to-
morrow with a new statement the soda
pop man would doubt the official record;
and if every reliable citizen in the COM
munity should sign it, McCloskey would
neither believe nor comprehend it. He
is given over to be a part of that " organ
lied ignorance which the Governor de-
clares the State has suffered from. The
principal grievance with this chronic tax
resister is this, that his own taxes are
higher now than they were, and the pros
pect with the people is this, that if they do
not refuse to hearken to such men, then
tax bills will be higher than ever, for folly
is luxury that has to be well paid for.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

Governor WarInoth received some dis
tinguished visitors yesterday, and enter
tained them for an hour in conversation
upon political and railroad topics They
were: Colonel Thomas A. Scott, president
Messrs. John W. Forney and NJ. Walter
directors, and General Dodge chief engi-
noer. Of the Texas Pacific railroad. Colonel
Forney is the well known journalist lot
merly of the Washington Chronicle and now
of the Philadelphia Press. Although tnenas
and supporters OF General Grant we think
these gentlemen are satisfied that Greeley
will sweep the South. The party left last
evening by steamer for Red River it being
their intention TO proceed from Shreveport
into Texas, to supervise and push forward
operations on tie great enterprise with
which they are connected.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

profess to put more reliance in the people
than the British government does.
The Picqyoe has way of stating
things to suit itself In this little matter
it might be left alone in its glory, provid-
ing its fancy did not lead it to state things
unfairly where others are arraigned by it
more for a political than other purpose
The Picayae, it must be remembered, is
the mouthpiece of few hundred indi-
viduals who combined together and pur-
chased the paper at time when it was
inclined to be decent and do justice to an
executive-the first chosen in the State
under the reconstruction laws, chosen
principally by coIored voters, because the
great body Of white men in this State had
not yet made up their minds 'to accept
the situation, and take part in public
affairs. This was no fault of Governor
Warmoth, while it was a very serious
fault of those who sullenly and stub
bornly refused to do their duty. And it
is not improbable that large number of
the present proprietors of the Picagne
were among those who committed this
very serious fault, and that paper is now
their mouthpiece to denounce and, if
possible, break down the Governor.
In an article headed ''Local Tyranny
and National Imperialism" the Picayne
undertakes to defend the gross usurpa-
tons and corruptions of Grants admins
tration, by charging local tyranny upon
Governor Warmoth, because he defended
the integrity of the State government
against mob violence, backed up and en-
couraged by Federal officials in this city.
Ofcourse the PicGy1tne, as usual, states it's
case, in its attempt to bolster up Grant
ism, to suit itself; and without the least
regard to truth. Everybody knows that
when Governor Warmoth was elected to
his present position but very few of the
old citizens had made up their minds to
so far recognize federal authority as to
take part in the election. He might have
solicited their votes, and not obtaining
them, the fault was not his if he was
elected by negro votes. He did the
best he could under the circumstances,
and helped reconstruct Louisiana, and re-
store her to representation in the national
Congress. He was doing this when the
present editors and proprietors Of the
PicaylHae were denouncing reconstruction,
and reviling the government of the United
States for doing just what Governor War
moth did last winter, namely, defending
the government against its enemies. He
had helped to defend the federal govern
ment against its enemies, and had lived to
see an administration of the same med
ding in the local affairs of State through
the agency Of its subordinates for po-
itical purpose, and that a revolutionary
one. The present editors and proprietors
Of the Picaylgee very likely sympathized
with that revolutionary movement as they
had sympathized with similar movement
against the government of the United
States. But their sympathy did not pre-
vent the success of Governor Warmoth
upon that occasion. Hence, their combi-
nation and purchase Of the PicGylne to
continue their war on him, and finally fall
into a defence of Grantism, backed up by
organized ignorance.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16


The contention among the friends Of
rival candidates for nominations at Baton
Rouge is at red heat. The recently
elected delegates are besieged at all times
and in all places; but, unless proper in
centives are applied, are gravely and mys-
teriously reticent as to whom they think
are best fitted to hold the reins of govern
ment Buying and selling is the order of
the day, the aspirants doing the purchas-
ing and getting sold On Friday evening
a meeting of the ''colored KuSklux" dele
gates is reported, the object being to con-
slider the reasons presented by the friends
of Judge Dibble why he should receive
their support. Whether the arguments
were sufficiently persuasive to induce
decision favorable to the Judge has not
yet been developed
Emissaries Of the rival candidates have
already been stationed at Baton Rouge,
where, like seductive spiders, they seek to
draw into their little parlors the innocent
flies who are to represent the country
parishes in the conclave. Runners have
also gone through the State to entrap the
unwary into Improbable pledges and en-
tangling alliances. The prospects for
"high old time" at Red Stick may now
be safely set down as Al.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

The Liberal circular issued day or
two ago, calling for union of all conser-
vative elements, has been largely signed
by our citizens. Germans to the number
Of nearly $500 have attached their names,
and the remainder are made up of all
classes of worth and responsibility.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16
MARRIED..

MILLER-BIERKEL-On Thursday morning. June
49, by Rev. Ferreol Girardey, CSSK., Mr. HENRY
MILLER to Miss CORALIE MERKEL, daughter of
Augustus C. Merkel both of this city.
Philadelphia and New York papers please copy.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Wednesday even
ing, June r. 1872, at ST. Stephens Church, by Rev
Father P. O'Eeil, Mr.. THOMAS SIBERIAN to Miss
MARY E. ARMSTRONG both of this city.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

Mother Goose is not an imaginary per
son. She was the motherin-law Of prin-
ter in Boston, and her real name was Eliza
beth Goose. The first edition Of her we'll
known rhymes was sold for two coppers on
Devonshire street.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

Mr.. McCloskey has fairly disproven the
old axiom that Figures wont lie" He
has made them falsify the condition of the
State finances in the most grievous man
ner. He solemnly and with owl-like wis
dom declares that as ''a State debt Of for
ty-two million dollars required tax of
twenty and half mills, tax Of twenty
eight and half mills was conclusive evil
dence that the debt was bordering on sixty
million dollars" If so, why not, there
fore how?
Does not Mr.. McCloskey know that such
an additional eight mills might not repre-
sent a single dollar of added Indebtedness ?
Rather, that it was a provision for reduc-
ing the debt existing. And will he persist
in ignoring the reduction of the contingent
debt of the State? Mr.. McCloskey is a
mathematical and logical fraud
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

The friends Of Boutwell, have it all ar
ranged. # Wilson is elected Vice President,
Boutwell, is to succeed him in the Senate
and Judge Richardson is to succeed Bout
well in the Treasury Department.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

1t now turns out that the writer Of the
card in the Pic,grIne and Cjti-
ze,1S' Guard, signed "M.," placing the
State debt at s6O,OOO,OOO, when it is in
fact but little over $23, 100000, is Soda
Water McCIoskev.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

Two Pullman palace sleeping cars, for
the Houston and Texas Central railway,
have arrived at Galveston on a schooner
from Philadelphia, and we're reshipped for
Houston On barges
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

4 general meeting of the stockholders
of the Louisiana Cotton Mandatory viii
be held on the fifteenth Proximo az P. NJ,
at No. 81 Carondelet street. to take into
consideration the propriety Of hquidating
its affairs and dissolving the company.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

At a meeting of tue Republican congress
sional committee at Washington, Wednes-
dav. Senator Wilson resigned his member
shin. He was requested to name his
successor, and to report at a subsequent
meeting OF the committee.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

The State taxpayers Of the Sixth District
of the city of New Orleans are notified by
the State tax collector, Mr.. J. L. Tharp,
that all licenses and taxes must be paid to
him at his Office, No. lll7 Magazine street.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

By all means drink imported liquors if
you want them pure. An analysis of whisky
in Belfast Ireland, recently disclosed the
fact that it was adulterated with naptha,
cayenne pepper and vitriol.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

On the second page of this mornings RE-
PUBLICAN may be found letter from our
special correspondent at New York, and
the recent speech Of Hon. Cassius M. Clay,
of Kentucky
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

Mr.. Bancroft has kindly offered to sit for
his portrait as an ornament for the new
gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, New
Hampshire.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

Niagara Falls, Boston and Virginia
Springs, round trip. Tickets good until
October 81. For sale only at No. lO4 Com
mon street. Bofnger & Pegram, agents.