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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25
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Berlin, Jan. 25.-I. is stated that
the European governments have;re.
served their replies to the American
note on the Spanish. Cuban question
until they have exchanged views.
war RUNoRs DENIED.
PARIS. Jan. 25.-The official Journal
contradicts the rumors that the re-
serve. will shortly be called out and
also reports Of the extended mobiliza.
ton Of the territorial army.
a DEAD HORSE.
The famous race horse Gladiator is
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

lican hands, but would take and en-
ploy it in Democratic hands. It was q
significant feature in the Fusion partner
ship that every action of executive patron
age had been staked out by the Democracy,
and while the proclamation of the con-
querors on the fourteenth of September
triumphed over the 'usurper," there was
nc proposal to abdicate one of the powers
of which they found the government pos
sessed. We feel no hesitation in calling
the attention of the Republican members
of the Legislature to this great measure
because the Republican executive, who is
in no manner responsible for this unwise
accumulation of patronage, has repeat
edly asked to be relieved from it. We
believe that to remit this local strife to the
local electors would give increased i'm
portance to the colored voters, and with
draw subject Of violence and hatred
from our political issues. We might al
most call it prerogative which, exercised
by peaceful Republicans, brings but
responsibility, while in the hands of an
armed Democracy it would complete and
the prescription OF all who
differ from that intolerant party.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

PUBLICAN on this same matter few days
ago. The presumption exists that all the
officers of the State have performed their
duty under the law, and this presump-
ton can only be destroyed by the mega
tive action of both houses. That is, the
duty to first psss the apportionment act
exists, as ruled by the Speaker, until the
General Assembly, by joint resolution,
has disapproved the census report and
sent it back. AS no appeal has been
taken from the ratings of the two presid-
ing officers, they stand as the rules OF the
two branches of the General Assembly
respectively.
We have not examined in detail the bill
which has passed the Senate, but suppose
it is based upon the figures which have
been prepared by Captain Wright and
very carefully and neatly embraced in
map which has just been made at the Of
fee Of State Engineers by Mr.. John &.
Longstreet and others. We suppose this,
because the census, which has never been
questioned, is the only basis upon which
to construct the apportionment. No
other statistics are at hand. None can be
produced of equal legal rank. With the
rulings of the President Of the Senate and
the Speaker of the House, and the prompt
action of the Senate as guide, we can
not see how any serious difficulty can
arise between the two houses on minor
points
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16
THE SENATE APPORTIONMEET BILL.

1t will be seen by the official proceed
ings of the Senate, published this morn
ing, that a plan Of apportionment has
been agreed upon by that body, embodied
in an act which has been passed by more
than a two-thirds vote of the members
present, and sent to the House for concur
renee. There will probably be some op-
position in the House to the bill as a
whole, and some few amendments may
reasonably be expected. 1t is to be hoped,
however, the notifications will not be
very important, nor the points of dis
agreement irreconcilable.
Under the ruling of Speaker Estilette,
which stands as the judgment of the
House, and which, we think, is entirely
correct, no bill can be finally passed by
the General Assembly until the apportion-
ment has been made This decision is
based upon an agreed state of facts, one
of which is that an enumeration of the
inhabitants of the State has been made.
The President of the Senate has ruled
that '.neither the constitution nor the law.
of the State, nor the rules of the Senate,
require the report of the registrar to be
passed upon afirmatively previous to the
entertainment of the apportionment bill. "
This is the position taken BY the Re-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16
FINAL ADOLESCENCE.

The REPUBLICAN took the liberty to re-
mark the other day that the recent action
of the Democracy on the senatorial ques-
ton was an error. The Democrat, as
might be expected, takes issue; but instead
Of saying anything to the point, runs
hurrying and skurrying after the kellogg
usurpation," Radical thieves, scallawags
and carpet-baggers," and comes back
with nothing. AS long as the Democrat
can not ipjure Governor Kellogg, nor
have him removed for its candidate, he
will be usurper in the estimation of that
journal, and will be called so every morn
ing, and everybody else who holds on to
q coveted Office will be given hard name
suitable to the offense. This is to be ex-
pected. And yet the outs are no nearer
to success than ever. The Bourbon ele-
ment of the anti-Republican party has
just been making lively brush for the
lead. They called convention to petit
ton Congress to unseat Kellogg. The
Governor has not been disturbed, and win
not be. ''shong ground" vas taksn
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16
THE PRICE OF GAS.

We notice that Representative Hammond
has introduced bill in the House to regu-
late the price to be charged by the Gas
Company for gas. We have not seen the
bill, but have little doubt, from what we
know of the gentleman who has it in
charge, that it provides in proper man
ner for the reform of one of the greatest
abuses in this city. The business Of sup
plying gas having been legalized in the
hands of one interest solely, should be
regulated by the sovereign power which
gave it (sold it, would be more correct
way of stating it), and the helpless people
protected from the imposition of a tax
for light alone greater than they pay
for the whole expenses of by no means
cheap and economical city government.
That is, those who use gas pay more for it
than is demanded for the city fax on the
property on which it is used. The price
exacted is four dollars per thousand cubic
feet, without reference to the price of
bituminous coal. Alta recent date there was
manifested disposition on the part of the
old corporation to remit q part Of this
price to those who would sit on their
front door steps with the exac: change in
their hands, but if the collector came back
to the Office empty handed, the full price
was exacted, no matter if the money were
rendered at the Office the next day. With
coal at from thirty-fve to forty cents
barrel by the hundred boat loads, four
dollars is very exorbitant price, and as
there was no decent excuse for it, the old
company began to yield reluctantly to
public opinion, and at last gave everybody
the option of gas for three dollars on three
days credit, or four dollars if delayed to
the fourth day. A fortunate circumstance
happened year or two ago. The Legis-
lature of 1871 sold the franchise for fifty
years to new company, which had just
capital enough to pay for the passage OF
the law and make successful fgh. in the
courts. The old company then gave up
the fight and came to terms. The fran
chise was transferred to it for about 81 20O,-
900, and the price of gas advanced enough
to more than pay the interest on the
outlay.
We hope Mr.. Hammond will take into
consideration the brief history of the case,
and devise some way by which sort of
control can be placed upon this most ex-
acting monopoly-some means devised to
protect the people from being assessed
every time the Gas Company sustains
loss. He may find it expedient to give to
some officers of the State or city the right
to establish the price upon basis to be
put down by law. The price of coal in
Pittsburg on the first of January, or any
other suitable day, could be taken as this
basis, and the rates established in some
such manner as the Council was author
lied before the war to regulate the weight
of bakers bread. Perhaps the Council
would be the proper body TO- whom to
commit the matter. We're some such
measure prepared, free from legal OBJ
jections on the ground of vested rights,
it would no Doubt surely ought to
receive the support Of every Republican
in the Legislature
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

do 80 long as they held the Office OF State
printer. This is all right in Democrat
because he belongs to privileged polit-
ical party, while it would be heinous
crime if perpetrated by Republicans.
The one may be honored and applauded,
the other have the type cast into the river
for daring to sustain doctrines essential,
in the opinion of those who bestowed the
appointment, to the liberties Of the people
and the duration of the Union.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16
THE PRIVILEGED ORDER.

Our papers have teemed with abuse Of
the public printing system, ever since the
Republicans have had the disposal Of that
duty. It is true that Republican State
printer is the successor of series of
Democratic State printers, and that the
public printing is done in the same build
ing, and to some extent, with the very
same machinery used by the Democratic
State printer. Still very free abuse OF the
employment is INDUCED in by the Democ-
racy, though the public work was never
more correctly or promptly performed.
The privileged order of Democrats
have now control of the Mississippi Leg
islature. They have, of course, repealed
the act authorizing the appointment of a
State printer. The telegraph, under a
sub-heading, IA Fat Take in Mississippi
says the Democratic caucus nominated
Power & Barksdale, of the Jackson Clarion,
State printers. This election will take
place on the seventeenth instant. We
dare not except to this act. It is the
order of the Democracy. The public pay
will aid the conductors of the Clarion to
make better and larger paper. Will it
be neutral? Will it scrupulously refra in
from advocating anti-Republican princi-
pies because it is endowed from the taxes
of the whole people? No one antici-
pates any such abstinence. The Clarion
will do its utmost to prove its gratitude
to those who bestowed upon it the means
and motion of increased activity. This
is what Blair and Rives and Richie, the
organs of Democracy, have done in thepast,
and Il Sere and Nixon have continued to
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16
REDUCTION OF PATRONAGE AND SALA-
RIES.

The REPUBLICAN has often found it
necessary to refer to the great error Of
bestowing upon the executive department
the responsibility Of making military or
municipal appointments, and especially
of making in any case a judicial appoint
ment. The constitution of Louisiana be-
slows powers upon the executive depart
ment which are inconsistent with that
separation of powers regarded as essen
tial to the balance Of every well consti-
tuted government. ...
AS matter of party policy all munich
pal offices should be made elective, as in
Massachusetts,. All the military officers
should be chosen by their commands, and
in no case should the judiciary be de-
pendent upon the executive
AS measure of party policy, experience
has shown that however the executive de-
partment may gain by assigning lucrative
offices to personal friends, the appoint
ment of parish officer by the Governor
awakens exactly the feeling as when Great
Britain sent out bankrupt courtiers to re-
cruit their fortunes at the cost of the colo
MES, or clergymen of the Established
Church who proved to be the keenest fox
hunters and most skillful compounders Of
punch among all their Pensioners.
The practice Of debating local Off
Ger is not only unwise, for the reason
stated, but in taking away the right of
choice it composes the rivalry among
local candidates and concentrates the
combined discomfort upon the power or
the party which sometimes designates a
stranger to fill an Office in the parish. If
we review in memory the exercise of this
power since it's institution, we shall find
no instance in which it has brought
strength to the party employing it, while
we could cite instances in which the ex-
ecutive has-we may suppose from stress
Of local discontent-appointed officers
who were nominated by the local popula-
ton.
We especially desire to see the clause
of the constitution under which these
powers have been conferred upon the
executive, amended, and the laws giving
it effect, repealed. 1t is not, in our opin-
ion, judicious to allow objections to the
constitution to accumulate until State
convention shall be called, which may
unsettle the basement principles which
have been embodied in it. We recon-
mend to the Republicans to skim the pot
as it boils over. Do not leave the impuri-
ties to accumulate until they infect the
whole contents.
The Democracy are, however, perfectly
dumb in regard to this anomalous patron
lee. They object to it, use in Repub-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

It is said Sergeant Bates has turned up
in Philsdelphia, and intends making q lee
ture tour in tho South, for the purpose Of
collecting funds with the avowed object Of
establishing camp on the Centennial
ground for Union and rebel soldiers. The
Gid fraud thinks people will believe that ex-
seld;ers viii spend hundreds OF dollars and
-, thonsands Of miles for tho purpose Of
being crowded BY strangers ct fhiladelpnis'
.nd sleepisg free in NATIONAL bumnsrs' bar
1acko.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

Commodore Stephen Decatur, of the
United States navy, died in Boston last
Saturday, aged sixty-one. He was grand
son of Stephen Decatur, who rendered
efficient service in the capture of English
ships in the war Of the revolution, and q
nephew of the second Stephen Decatur,
hero of Tripoli and of the war Of 1872. He
leaves q son, also named Stephen, who has
been graduated from the Naval Academy
and has seen Q few years of active service.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

Because Job had great patience it has
been suggested that he was the sort of a
man who would sit down quietly in dry
goods store and wait until his wife had
priced everything new, but Bates insists
that Jobs affliction was against his sitting
down.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

The CRurchma,s insists that no edifice
should be called 9 church which lie under
1t certainly should not be
called the house of the Lord until it is paid
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

The original Sergeant Bates was named
Excelsior. He started ont about the time
good people begun to light up their rooms,
and pull down the window curtains, which
reminded him that "The shades Of night
were falling fast"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

General Zachary Taylor is the only ex,
President who has no monument or statue
erected to his memory. An equestrian
statue is now proposed, and the soldiers of
the Mexican war will urge Congress to
appropriate the money for it.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

Guy Msgee, who wrote up the Bristow
FLANDERS for the Chicago Inter. Ocean, has
been discharged by vote Of the stockhold-
ers. He was an imperfect Guy.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

A country paper has published "Beauti-
full Snow" "By Request" That should
settle the question of authorship until the
death of the present generation, and new
claimant arises.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

Men Who can comprehend nothing. and
win believe nothing they can not compre-
bend, are naturally skeptics.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

General Hancock has been elected vice
PRECEDENT Of the Association OF Veterans OF
the Mexican War, in New York.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

A man who was continually breaking his
pledge determined to register his vowe; but
being morally worthless, he was directed to
the register in bankruptcy.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

We are indebted to Major Howell, Of the
engineer corps, for valuable documents
relating to public works upon the mouth of
the Mississippi.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

The Democrats in Congress might have
done better than attempt to justify the hor-
rible treatment of Andersonville prisoners.
They could not have done much worse.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

Dumb animals become attached to
keepers who care for them; and the way to
curry favo or with horse is to use the curry
Cnmh
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

A play from the pen Of Edward G. Han
cock, Esq, of this city, entitled Captain
Fanny" is underlined for early production
ut the Varieties Theatre.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

In case Of lynching it makes all the dit
ference in the world which end Of a rope
man is on.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

Charles Francis Adams Is president at
last. He is president Of the Howard Board
Of Oyerseers in Massachusetts,.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

A telegraph cable that goes round the
world instead of through it, should rot be
called direct cable.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

John T. Raymond with Colonel Sellers,
il due here about the first of February.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

Mark Twain has produced "A Literary
Nightmare for the atlantic Monthly.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16
MARRIED..

WlLLIAMS-FETH-On Tuesday evening. De
cember 20, 1875, at the st. Jehn's Church, by the
Rev. Father Foote Miss MARY A. WILLIAMS to
JOSEPH FErH both of this city.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

St. Louis can never speak we'll Of hel
rival because she is Chicago, III.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16
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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

It puts man on his metal, to say that
what he calls self pessession is only brass.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

In the horse racing lime $33O,OOO was
staked on $50 races in this country last
year.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

The Pedro Club will not entertain Dom
Pedro, the Emperor Of Brazil.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

Men who wear very large diamond pins
can be arrested on suspicion.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

The Prince of Wales went to Ceylon.
He should have waited for Lon to come and
see him.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

Davey Crockett was go-a-head man
and he was right, to be sure.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

All efforts to make treckled woman
promenade with an uncovered face prove
unavailing.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

The moon is now working for the city,
and temporarily takes the place of street
lamps.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16


THE SINGER IMPROVED
FAMILY AND MANUFACTURING
WING ACHIN ES..
OVER 100000
Have been sold and are in daily use.
243,679 SINGER IMPROVED
FAMILY MACHINES
Were sold in the year 1874, which number exceeded
that of their highest compi THOR l4S,S51 ma
chaines.
The sales of the SINGER COMPANY show N
INCREASE year by year, and the sales of other
Companies show q DECREASE, which can be 1t.
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IMMENSE POPULARITY
SINGER IMPROVED MACHINES.
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In order that there may be no excuse for not
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ON THE IEsTALLMENT PLAN
To those to whom it may not be convenient to
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No. 81 Canal street, corner Charities,
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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

Moses smote the water. That was before
any body had struck oil.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

The men who always tell good stories,
generally tell old ones.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

One of the most positive men IN the
House is SartalD, sure.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

It is said France contains about 1900 dra'
matte authors.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-16

Old books thrown away can be saved by
the rebound.