New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-30
Grand Jury RepOrts


mise. In other words. i: ha, completed is
final qualification. II may, perhaps. claim
pce-eminence over its predecessors in the
height Of absurdity il has attained. Its re
port OF its labors 10 as good an example OF
the possibility of sixteen educated and sen.
sible gentlemen making a compound idiot
as any report OF o grand jury on record.
Before the last sublime stroke. it rendeged
a special report, in which il desired 70 know
what had become OF two indictments pre-
sented by its predecessors. This specia!
kick is a queer document. They desire 20
know what has been done. and forge: 20
explain how they are 30 be informed.
They deem it necessary 10 the interests Of
ali concerned that they should be inyesti'
gated. By whom. pray! Didn't the grand
jury do all their duty when they found the
indictments! Have these sixteen gentle.
men. now private individuals, anything 70
do with a petty jury: 1t is as if they wanted
everybody hanged and wouldn't draw their
pay until old job. were finished. This neg
ligence OF somebody. they dom: say who.
being off their minds, they proceed to the
affairs OF the day.
They frs. tell tina. they have had fifty
cases before them and only let one off. al
though the minutes show two, aince October
/. The attacks Of the press are gently
deprecated. The Metropolitan Police is
said to be ''susce ptibie OF doing great
good,' and lis in some measure 10 be COM
mended." They object, however. to the
'curtailment Of that liberty and freedom to
which citizens are entitled which suggests
the IDEA that the sixteen were mixed. AS
they say it is useless to describe gambling
houses that part of their report may be
omitted, especially as they say they don't
know what to do about it. They also say
it is useless for grand jurors to report the
result Of their investigations" on tina; point,
and no one will gainsay it. On wharves
and landings they say the piles of
slaves and ballast, although protested
against. "move not Administrator Turn
bull receives a dig on this subject. Tiey pa
ehetically ask for more light for tie way
faref of the night. Which as Dan Peg
gotty would say. lis verse, though not in
tended
Canal street is described as the empire
the ribald jest is heard. giving a hstins
first impression to the new, conner. Wequote:
Follow up your route TO our grand prom
enade, another row of slop shops,
and then ask yourself if you ever say the
equal in another city. Inquire, now. who
is responsible 70. al! this: Does e0o an
swer whos"
We should say not.
The public institutions are mex: attended
20. and are doce up abou: the same aso,hes
grand iuries have done them. Some &c,
praise and the res: don't. Some chaitable
institutions are disposed OF by three lines
and others by page. The Parish srison.
''clothei with solemn gloom and daspness.
is not much surpassed by the inamous
Bastile of Paris"-which is rather lard on
the Bastile. 1.-The City Workhous, more
properly school for the inculcatin and
of vice and crime,' is pre-.
sented for annihilation aud the inmates to
be sent to the Marine Hospital. 1t tuches
on the Home of the Newsboys-wlom it
styles Arabs-but only little. andthat of
no good. Put your hand in your poket, as
those have done who, in your own words,
''have established the only refuge from rain
and cold, bleak winter nights, to these
little street wanderers" and do no abuse
the city for neglect Of them. Mr.. Fireman
of the grand jury.
The report recommends the visiting of
public institutions but twice insteadof four
times year, to save expense. ANN, say
we, and never, if possible, for what god has
e grand jury report ever done:
The State and city debts are talked about.
and the expenses of the Legislatures of
1862. 1863 and 1864, when there wasn't any,
are compared with those under Wamoth.
Extracts from Auditors reports ollow.
Again:
In order 10 rescue this State from the
brink Of bankruptcy, it is absolutelyneces.
sary TOR all Taxpayers. and heaven knows
that we are all taxpayers either directly or
indirectly, to put our shoulders to the
wheels and rescue our country from emf.
nent peril.
"Here's richness" says Squeers. aid for
sublimity of confusion commend usto the
above. The assertion that the region
where there are no grand .iuries, is n pos.
session of knowledge withheld from the
civil sheriff, is far ahead of the discovery
that there is no scarlet fever there. More
quotations from Auditor Clinton blow.
md the constitution Of the State is altered
% suit the case. Some instruction to Judge
ibell on assessors is volunteered. Many
expenses are recommended to be abolished.
md to prove sincerity on that point they
lesire Judge Abel to create another crimi.
al court. with authority to sift al mat.
ers intended to 60 before the grand |
ury. If their wish we're gratified aid the |
fitting process applied to this report there |
Tould be very little grain LETT to amlyze.
hey suggest, however. that such court !
'ould relieve the city Of the grand ilry for
months in the year, which is ! con-
lmation deyoutly TO be wished.
Statistics OF trials end the document,
hich is written in several different hands.
i'd al the end of thirty pages of legal cap,
is said 1--WE have ondeavored to abbreyiate
IT report as much as possible" Cumpli-
ents to the court and its officers make a
'aceiul epitaph to the names :ha: :bl!ow.
I'd the report is tiled away to be thought
no more.
"a Ku.kiux Story.
The Pfcoya,,e, with an astonishing ignor.
zee of affairs in New Orleans tor formal
h icl suhnnsas itseif n ranraso,+ tho oldast