New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-13

tratrix to appropriate them 10: the use
and benefit Ot shs succession of Pierre
Pinaud. The exception must therefore be
ovesSuied.
The Presidents We've,
The following is from the Washington
correspondent. Of the New York Republic
Of November =:
The President. since the results Of Tues.
day's elections have become known. has
cOnyersed freely with q number Of his init
mate friends as to the causes which have
produced such q revulsion in the popular
verdict. Some of the views expressed by
the President may DO given without any
violation Of confidence. He il Of the opinion
that the Democrats were as much surprised
by the overwhelming success OF their party
as were the Republicans. and he nnreserv.
edly admits that although he fully expected
Republican losses. ne was not prepared for
the crushing defeat which has como upon
the party. He does not for one instant
sanction the idea that his policy or personal
acts have contributed in any way to the
pacty's defeat. So far as Louisiana is con.
cerned. he says that he took the course
that he believed it was his duty to take.
out that he twice specially called the atten-
ton of Congress to the affairs of that State,
and requested that body to indicate it's
opinion 40 to the proper course TO pursue.
Congress- failed to express any opinion, and
there was no alternative but for him to ad-
hers TO the line of action he had initiated.
The President thinks that at the door of
the Republican party alone can be laid the
defeat Of the Republican party. He does
not lay much stress upon the neglect of
Congress At the last session TO present
financial measures which would restore con-
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in the nature Of things, this was next to an
impossibility. A proper adjustment Of the
finances was not . matter susceptible of
party control, az the different sections Of
the country had diverse interests and di-
verse views superior to and OverpoweTing
all mere party claims and all mere party
considerations. The President thinks that
the great element of discord in the Repub-
lican party was rather the unwise attempt
to force upon the American people the i'm
practicable and Ctopian theories of Senator
Sumner as embodied in the civil rights bill.
1t can now be said that his views in OppOsi-
ton to i, have been much strengthened by
recent elections. He is firmly convinced
that the civil rights bill had more to do
with the defeat of his party than all other
causes combined, and he has expressed
himself in euch q manner as to leave no
doubt upon the minds Of those with whom
he has conversed that ii the bill should be
passed at the next session he will interpose
his veto.
The President gives his friends to under.
stand that he is not by any means utterly
cast down by the recent reyerses. He be-
lieves that Tho Republican party has yet
before it glorious future, and that it may
retrieve the errors of the past in time to
march to the music of triumph in 1876 as
significant and as decisive as that Of 1872.
He believes that the Republican Congress
which comes together in four weeks from
this time can in the three months of
lite which is left to it go act as to heal all
dissensions in the party and win back the
confidence Of the people at large. 1t is not
improbable that in his message IN December
the President will set forth some views
herein given. He has not so far. in any
conversations on the elections, indicated
that he considered the third term agitation
had anything to do with the result.
After the Cabinet meeting yesterday the
elections were discussed, and in the course
Of the conversation the President expressed
himself more at length on the third term
than he has ever cOndescended to do here.
totore without renouncing any such idea on
his part. He said that a careful examina-
ton of the returns in the different States
showed cOnclusiveiy that the people, in
rendering their verdicts, were not inhu.
enced by the wild and senseless cries on
this subject which had filed the air Tor
months past. He pointed to what he con.
sldered two notable instances in proof of
his assertion. The South Carolina Repub.
lican convention had emphatcally pro.
nounced for him for q third term. and its
candidate for Governor had been trium.
phantly elected in the face of all the odds
against him. On the othe. hand. in the
t'fiaQ DISTRICT of Nauy rovl- $ho Do.
publicans had always had an overwhelm.
ing prepOnderance. Mr.. Ellis II. Roberts
insisted upon the Congressional convention
which nominated him pronouncing against
the third term. and he was defeated.
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
The regular term of this institution will
commence on the sixteenth instant. at the
rooms formerly used at che Academy of
Sciences. The following teachers have been
elected By the board OF control.
James L. Cross. presden. and professor
OF mathematics and military and civil en-.
gineerine.
Leonard Sewell. professor Of English Ian.
guage and literature.
Alfred W. Perry. professor Of chemistry
as applied to agriculture and the mechanic
arts.
Augustus Bernau. tutor of languages;
W: r. Carter, tutor OF geomesrical and
free hand drawing.
The college will enter upon its new term
under most favorable auspices. and the
accomplished faculty will place it in the
very front rank Of such institutions in this
country.
The following is the passenger list Ct the
steamship Hudson. Captain E. Y. eager. to
arrive, from New York:
Mrs. II. P. kernahan and two children,
Mrs. E: E. Pugh and daughter, Miss Pugh,
Mrs. =. A. Bridge, Miss Alice Ingraham.
Mira =. St0Warf r Turpar u Kah1ar r