New Orleans Republican., 1873-08-07
DEsC0RDANT ECHOES.

The following from the New York Sun,
contains more downright, stupid, mali
cious falsehoods than anything we have
before seen in that rather ingenious hot
bed of ISLANDERS against the South in gen.
eral, and this State in particular. As it is
quite in the stream of some some of our
local papers. in fact discordant echoes of
their utterances, Of course it will be re-
produced here without word of CONTRA
diction:
Twelve years ago the city Of New Or
leans contained q population Of 245 coo and
and $425, 100000 of wealth. Since then the
city of Jefferson, the town of Algiers and
the village of Milneburg have been brought
within the corporate limits, with an aggre
gate of q, 900 Inhabitants and s5O, 100000 Of
taxable property; and yet to-day the total
population Of New Orleans is only 100000
and the valuation of all its taxable proper
ty is but el35, ,00O. 900. Wharves Nave gone
to decay, ferries arc abandoned, street rail-
ways lie unused, one section OF the great
reservoir of tho waterworks is in ruins, its
debris blocking the streets. grass is ankle
deep at MOrgan's steamship landing. che
river bank is fringed with steamers Tied
up" to await the action of the courts. great
blocks of e4travagantly taxed buildings
stand empty, many of their owners having
been driven North to earn money where.
with to pay their taxes; while decayed and
abandoned shops and dwellings, are 10 oe
seen in every direction within the city and
on its outskirts. In the Once rich sugar
country abandoned plantations and ruined
cane mills afford a picture OF desolatlon IN
keeping with that presented ID New Or'
leans.
Twelve years ago the city Of New Or
leans contained population of 16S.67O.
Since then the little villages of Algiers and
Jefferson have been added (Milneburg has
always been part Of the city, with
population of about fifteen thousand. We
now have 191, ,416. The total real estate
of the State in 1860 was put down at
fraction over two hundred and eighty mil
lion dollars. The assessed valuation of
property in New Orleans is now higher
than ever before, even when slaves We're
included in the assessment rolls. The
for the year before the war was
one hundred and twenty-nine million dol
lars, including slaves. The rolls now show
q return of nearly one hundred and fifty
million dollars, there being slight differ
ence between city and State valuations.
have. of course, gone to decay.
and there would soon be no need for any at
all if such slanderers as the Sun were gener-
lilly believed. There is not such circum-
stance known to the Oldest inhabitant as
the abandonment of ferry. and all the
street railroads that have been completed
are in lively use, and SO on to the end
Our city and State present the usual
phenomena of decay and repairing that
ire present in all old settled communi-
ies-such as are prevalent in New York
,ity even.
The proposed remedy for this hypothet-
cal ruin is given by the .Sm. it is very
simple, in fact, that it requires
! perfect simpleton to believe in it. The
whole thing can be cured, the population
doubled, the value of property trebled,
he wharves made sound, tie grass at
Iorgan's landing trampled down and
'verything as it should be by the simple
lection of John McEnery. But as the
people did not choose to do this. Grant is
,lamed for it, Because the people re-
used to take the remedy, on account of |
ts excessively nauseating taste. or that !
hey did not believe in its eff cacy. Presi- |
lent Grant is censured for it. The Sun
S evidently homeopathic: in the treat
cent Of political disorders. 1t proposes
0 cure the most obstinate cases with the
aost infnitesimal doses. 1t also agera-
ates the symptoms tina. its credit as a
1edicine man may be the more en-
anced.
1t is time the habit Of falsifyiug the
acts Of our position was laid aside.
.ival merchants in New York and else
here require such newspapers as the
an to publish reports irimical to our in
erests that their own may be promoted
ut that there should be found creatures
, our own city vile enough to aid and
bet these enemies in the work of detrac-
on is the worst part OF it. Here We
ave, condensed in a distant paper. hos
lie to our interests. an epitome. Cue
nc: summing up of all the ill natured
lings which have appeared in our home
urnals in the past five or six years.
he complaints are the same-ruin from
le effects Of Radical rule: the proposed
medy the same-the induction Of DEM
,rats into Office. The only difference is
the motives which actuate our detract-
8. The New York sland.re. does it
the interest of mercantile rivals;
u- own misrepresent us il the hope
getting their creatures into power.
be statements III the .SNn. the World
ID the Tribune injure US abroad; those
our own journals are only effective in
e work of aiding and abetting hostile
reign journals. as the readers in distant
ties never see any New Orleans paper.
cept occasionally a REPUBLICAN. In
is connection we may state that our
erchants are beginning to notice these
anders by Withholding their f,vors from
e city papers. The advertising columns {
every Journal in the city show great
ling of. Possibly they think it a waste {
money to paGer laying.their business
alters before ''crushed and ruined 4,
ople." or perhaps they do no: wish to {
1 their enemie. in running their pros |
cts and blightins their prosperity. 1t