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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23
Unfortunate People.


Almost every one of US has met in life OF
business one or more of those hesitating,
procrastinating men or women who, failing
to seize an opportunity when fortune offers,
let slip ali hold ON wealth and daily lose
moro and more until utter ruin stares them
in the face.
We all know these people, and in our
hearts decry the lack of enterprise or spirit
which causes them either to evade fortune
altogether, or else approach her 90 shutting
" or hesitatingly - to derive neither BEN
eft nor wealth when the golden opportu-
nifty offers.
On the contrary, those who are wide
awake, always on the lookout into every
venture, though losing sometlmes' ulu'
mately, by some lucky stroke, achieve
wealth and station. Fortune loves the bold
player, and ID always ready TO shower gifts
ON those who approach her determined 20
win against all hazards and petty disc0uf-
10 these and to all who are determined to
ct least make . stroke for wealth, We com
mend the second golden drawing Of the
Louisiana State Lottery, which II adver.
tised to take place in New Orleans On April
g, 1876, positively, without scaling Or post
ponement. TAe HIGH standing Of tho oom.
pony already peev6n n Y. lagt d.awhEs
aaA tho oppoetnnlSy o&oEed 2 TO goadna -
1t pei. Whole Hekeb 49, fractions -
proportion.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23
The Continental Guards.

On Monday, May l, this company Of
citizen soldiers will give q grand May fes-
tival and military picnic, at the Fair
Grounds, for the benefit of their centennial
fund. The gentlemen belonging to thus Or
ganization are q sufficient warrant for say
ing that the amusements will be conducted
in the best style. Four horse races are
promised, dress parade, and also q grand
military ball, to take place in the main Ex.
position building. All tickets of admis.
sion. sold for fifty cents, will bear coupons,
and are liable to draw one of the several
valuable prizes offered ~ additional in
ducements to attend tho picnic.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23
The Tax Obstructionlsts.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN:

EDITOR REPUBLICANS:
The forty-the name is suggestive of an
old title to child's tale, If inapplicable, a.
We know-anti-taxpsyers who sought the
intervention of one Of the courts to prevent
. vote of the electors of the parish ON the
question of tax to build the New Orleans
Pacific railway, and were unsuccessful, a.
any one at all familiar with the law knew
they would be, now chuckle over the idea
that they can yet defeat the imposition Of
the tax, indeed the attempt to take vote
upon it, for another year. This is char
teristic enough, We admit; but let us sup
pose for q moment that what they imagine
to be possible were actually the case, what
then9
We will still further suppose, however,
that they nave succeeded, and that the thirty
miles OF so of road now ready for the metal,
and the ties being delivered, are aban.
doned; that the valuable contract made for
the grading Of the road is rendered null
and void, and that the whole machinery
which the efforts of fifteen we'll known and
respected citizens have set in motion and
kept running 30 far with glorious success,
to build this road to the Texas line, 10 scat
tered beyond hope of establishment,
what, then, We again demanda
Have Messrs. j. g. Gaines, II. 8. Buck
ner, James Zuntz, James Graham, late Au-
ditor; Alexander Hill, II. T. Vennard, L. j.
Highly, l.. C. Roudanez, and others, resi-.
dent and, perhaps, intending to remain
here, and foreign agencies like Lafitte, Du.
filho L. Co. and Rochereau & Co. seriously
contemplated the inevitable consequences
of any success they may, by the machin-
cry of law, obtain to mementarily defeat
the imposition of tax to build the New
Orleans Pacific railwayi
We win suppose they have broken up
the honorable organisation now existing to
give the people of this city the road to
Texas 20 vital to their famishing commerce.
Do they for moment suppose that win 70
lieve them from the final payment Of tho
tax. with heavy costs and habidtiess II
they can suppose any such thing. thsy are
not the shrewd calculations they wish tho
world to consider them. No, tho oonse-
quence, tho only certain infallibae conse'
qssnse Of their Temporary success. would
10 10 disgust Tia prsasnt able aad upeight
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

slavery. Accuse hin md zee must accuse
jackson. He slsspe with the State Of Teas
over him. that he loved IN his youth, glori-
Ned in biz manhood and WAS the pride Of
his old age, and may It represent star in
the Union for eyer.
ISIS impossible in this report to give .
synopsis Of General Sheridan's lecture, or
70 indicate tho applause 10 provoked. But
tho audience disperaed willing the lecture
Was longer.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23
For the New Orleans Republican,
AlRRRIH ENGLAND.

For the New Orleans Republican,
AlRRRIH ENGLAND.
God ssve thee. merris England. the dearest land
on earth,
Proud arc No Of thy glory. proud to owe to thee
our birth,
And though al oonquering fate hath doomed NJ
far from thee to roam.
Our faithful Enslish hearts viii swn NO other spot
our home.
God ssve thee. merrie England. safe homo Of the
oppressed,
and redress,
Land which hath lavished gold and blood for God
like mercy's sake,
Land where the letters Of the slave were first to
fall and break.
God save thee. merre England, long is the glorious
OF names sublime inscribed by time upon his
deathless scroll.
And English hearts beat warm and fast, and
English pride runs high,
To think Of I'll the English names whose fame can
never die.
God save thee. merzis England Around the rolling
world,
Wher'er the English tongue hath reached. the
English flag unfurltd,
Our poets, warriors. statesmen, will win undying
fame,
And glorify through endless time, our country's
noble name.
God save thee. merIie England! God grant We
ne'er may see
Tho proud invaders hostile foot. our dear loved
land on thee.
May God still keep our sea grit isle within His own
right hand,
And with freedom, power and glory bless our own,
our native land.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

etfseas Who 1svo talDsa ~ sSsat =
pe1se n had and have @ II shevn ~
ean b suceessfally carried to early eonpls
aoa drive them iron the diEsetosy, -
thus secure . sa6s and coy way 70 -
seedy adventurss and hems jebbses vho
combine and choose = seiss Il Of ma1i1G
rapid fortunes out ef TIE psspssty q -
city.
They would collect the tx - Hdssetsn
did, OF rather - tie holdsGs a HI bsndB
do: and it IL safe to say that neither ri
nor money would ever again b fo1nl -
enrich this city Or the people who hheAts
1t. Il this the consummation The tax -
stEuctionists arc insane enough TO combine
to accomplish Can they deny the eoG1see-
ness of our oenolusion in carrying tAsfr
proceedings to their legitimate and newt
able resulsi Il thsre any man IN -
community 20 incapable Of forming -
opinion .. to believe, it the gentlemen vho
have 90 ably, Enthusiastically and uprightly
undertaken to build this great hne Of oon-
munieation to the agricultural heart Of oar
sister State of Texas abandon their WORK, +
that it viii ever again be attempted with
any serious intention to succeed, or with
any other design than to collect the tax
from which, sooner Or later, there win -
NO escape, for the enrichment Of speeala~
tors ON public distreasl We do not 80
how any man can como to any other Co.
clusiou.
What, then, il tho question atissus EsalIyS
It is, ~ presented BY the proceedings q -
forty obstructisnists, just this: Shall ~
immediately approve tho sax and have .
road that will give % reciprocal tsads =
over fifty millions year at IN early 1a0s
or shall No seek BY legal subtsEfhses -
procrastinate Payments which, soease =
later, in any case, must be made, and wAN
it 10 morally and absolutely certain nsitAsF
road NOR any other honest equivalsat 6eFtG
will ever be forthcomingi
Will the people consider this question f.
the light here presented-the only ons II
which it can be markedly and intelligeatly
presented-and judge for themselves vhae
it behooves them to do ct this time Of trial.
tribulation and great diseouragemeat u
our cityi MANY TAXPAYER
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

Tho THERMOMETERS q Louis Ttigeeo's, No.
50 ChArtzes streek stood - follows April
q: ASA. T.. $50; ct 2 p. T., 76o; q s r.
y. 76o. Lswsst paint during ~ night ea
April q, 6lo.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23
Local Intelligence.

CAPTURING LlouoR S1uL-Mazlhal
Paskard having been made awAre that .
mall liquor still. one Of shout forty gallons
espacity, had recently besn put up On State
ssrsst, near st. Cha<les svenus, directed
ecus Of his amiaSls depnties to storm the
fort They went to the extent Of bat
talion Of ton, armed with . furniture car,
and suddenly dropped down on tho Illicit
affair. There was some mash, and indicar
tious that business was about to commence
in earnest. Two mon were in charge, l.
Wagner and Albert Silvermar, who sub
mitsed to arrest, making but few growls.
The apparatus was handled carelessly,
which accounts for tho TACT that the con-
cern is now total wreck, and it ct present
rests in the granite building. Tho accused
failed to give bends.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

BRIEF Somebody advertises
for the owner of . sum of money lost. Sew
eral gentlemen who attended the races
might put in claims. - they lost sums of
money.
The examination of II. L. Smith, arrested
on the charge of intimidating . witness,
was yesterday postponed until tomorrow.
Mr.. John Fitzpatrick has left No tickets
for Perseverance No. 1875 festival.
The great Grand Republic will arrive
here this evening.
Between eight and nine o'clock yesterday
morning Mr.. Jacob Danct, while engaged
in hauling sand from the river bank ct tho
head of Peter street, in the Fifth District,
discovered the skeleton of some unknown
person buried in tho sand.
About eight o'clock Friday night diff
Guilty occurred at the house of Mrs. Tunnel,
ON Franklin, between Bienvflle and Cont
streets, between Frederick Smith and
Frank Williams, during which the former
was stabbed in the left side, and slightly
wounded by the latter, who made his
escape. The wounded man was conveyed
to the Charity Hospital.
Between one and two O'Clock yesterday
morning, Mr.. George Dixon was assaulted
and knocked down by IN unknown party.
with brass knuckle, on Claiborne, be-
tween Common and Gravier streets, for tho
purpose of robbery. The assailant was
frightened off by the approaching footsteps
of Officer Francisco, and made his escape.
The wounded man was assisted to the Char
ity Hospital, where the attending surgeon
stated that he received wound on the left
side Of the head, and pronounced it painful
but not serious.
10 Edwards, Hemogene Dupre and
George Washington were arrested and
looked up in the fourth precinct, charged
by Sandy Howard with the larceny of $37
in United States currency.
Mrs. Louisa jackson, residing on Gus
tomhouse, near Dsuphine street, caused the
arrest of servant in her employ, named
Cecile, for larceny Of wearing apparel val
ned at $40.
Henry johnson was arrested and locked
ND in the second precinct station, charged
BY Mary Madrine with assault and battery
and threats to kill, and also by Officer
Houlihan with being drunk and disturbing
the peace, and assaulting and resisting the
officer.
Number of vessels in port: Thirteen
steamships. thirty ships, twenty -one barks,
two briggs and seven sch0oners.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23
Try your luck.
Try your luck.
Try your luck,

Try your luck.
Try your luck.
Try your luck.
Golden drawing,
Golden drawing,
Golden drawing,
Golden drawing,
Opera House, tWenfy-ninth.
6Ps.s H a ssssss -siass.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

R.H. Hyland and w. II. L. Lewis msmbap
of the board Of control Of tho Louisia,n
Agricultural and Mechanical College, -
appointed, mot having bean confirmed ~
the Senate; J. B. Carter, vioe &. Woo1
Perry, resigned.
Tsrrebonne-H. G. Sidney, parish judge
vice 6herboume, deceased.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

"A
Suppose some favorable angel Wego u
watt into the readers lap some moEnia9
500, 900 in gold, what would b the eoass-
quencesi How bright the day would -
how poverty would shrink away, Asw
sorrow and trouble would pass, and how
everything which had been dark bofnsa
would be bright and smilingi No nsso
pinching and saving, no moro wearing 6
shabby clothes, NO moro lying awaks g
nights with hearts Of anxiety for the fatassL
The heart would NO longer DO withered ~
interminable counting and planning hov q
exc out scanty income, and conteatnant
would make flowers blossom in tho paeA-
way which now seems % full Of thoFns.
4 hundred thousand dollars would -
this. Ii not the game worth trying foeF
The Louisiana State Lottery Company orr
. prize Of 100000 in gold at their ssesad
golden drawing, besides other prisss,
amounting to 9502. 500, and ranging from 80
to $4,000.
The tickets arc $50 each, divided intR
coupon twentieths. Tho drawing will taxa
place ON April g, positively, without sealing
or postponement, and We would advice an
to invest at once.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23
AUCTION SALES T0-M0RROw.

N VINCENT CO.. at 10 O'Clock. Ct Ne. 10 n.
change plaes. cloths, countsrs. Axtures, sto.
At O'Clock, ct Ne. S<s Canal street. furniture
and household e1scts.
n C0NsrABb8 JOSEPH DMO1u1HLB, at u
e'clsek, ct warehouse q DIsnvins, bstwssa
Royal end Bsurbsn strssts. fsraitura.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

DRowNED.-Abouth half past one o'clock
yesterday. Philip G. Watson, aged twenty
ono years, . painter BY occupation and .
native Of Washington. Louisiana, while
engaged in painting the steamboat Leslie
Taylor, lying ct the head Of Gasinnie street,
accidently fell OF tho staging into tho river
and was drowned. The body was not re-
covered.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

ALI SMOKE.-Nr. p. e. Sarrazin, whose
tobacco factory u ono Of the institutions Of
New Orleans, located ct No. 29 Decatur
street, has handed ~ ~ samples . few
packages of his Centennial and Reliable
smoking tobacco. Tho now brand IL dedi.
Gated to the New Orleans fro department
It is neatly put up, and smokes - well q
Il looks.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

A BLOODY AFFRAY.-A difficulty occur
red yesterday morning in the Old Place
barroom, ON North Market street. between
Charles Gamer and James Bacon, in
which the latter was struck BY the former
with lumber in the face, cutting and
dangerously wounding him. Gamer then
made his escape. Bacon's wounds were
dressed by DR.. Higgenbotham, and he was
them conveyed to The Charity Hospital.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

ACCIDENTALLY SHoT.-Jsmes Colts, .
member Of the New Orleans Watchmen's
Association, last evening accidentally shot
himself in the left thigh, ct the corner Of
Poydras and Peters streets. He was CON-
veyed by his frieuds to his residence ON
Fulton between First and Second streets,
for surgical attendance.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23


sumed amount of taxes to be received in
1876 had already been anticipated by the
building of levees under orders from the
commission of engineers, and even large
proportion of the tax of 1877 has also been
anticipated under similar orders, and this
company has been further impeded in its
operations by restraining order from the
Superior District Court to the Auditor, in
hibiting him from issuing warrants in favor
of the company for taxes received.
Yours respectfully,
JOHN HENDERSON,
President Levee Company.
On the twenty-ninth Of March, 1885, the
commission of engineers issued an address,
concocted in terms as follows:
TO PLANTERS AND OTHERS INTERESTED.
OFFICE OF L8vER COMMISSION OF ENGINEERS,
New Orleans, March %, 1876.
The Levee Commission of Engineers feel
it their duty to the planters and riparian
proprietors generally, that the three-mill
tax imposed upon all property in the State,
for levee purposes, is already exhausted
upon the construction of levees ordered,
and this falls short of providing for levees
which the commission consider of impera-
tive necessity. But they could not and can
not now order, in accordance with law,
more levees than the probable revenue of
the three-mill tax would or will pay for.
By order of the commission:
j. g. LONGSTREET. Secretary.
On the fourth of April, 1876, General
Longstreet issued peremptory order to
the Levee Company to stop the Milliken's
Bend crevasse, without any inspection or
Information on his part - 70 tho Practice
bility of the work, or any specifications -
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

the will, but in Texas Sam Hous.
ton equsled him. Whence was Lis
success9 From whence came his
power. What made him in the shape and
made the lightning fash from his eye as he
appeared before men9 1t can not be do
termined. He was of the lion heart the
iron will, and the frame of the flores of
steel. From the old Scotch Covenanters he
came-the men who defied England. Race
told here. His ancestors loved and hal
lowed their religion. Their resistance is q
part of the story of races. Climatic infiu-
ence only affects race. Msterialists may
work on the problem but their con
illusions are a. devoid of dates as
the eras of the biologists. Houston
came from the race that defed
Claverhouse and Kinks pet lambs
He fought the good fight and won. Then
his people turned from him because he
prophesied defeat. He saw brave people
with q loved banner hemmed in, armies
crushing them, navies blockading them,
and their flag going down in sea of blood.
He saw more. He saw the South he loved,
hat then proposed to raise the standard
of rebellion against tho Union that he
loved better, smitten afterward by the rails
inr of serfs to the control Of power, by
fraudulente practaces, BY strange domino
ton. He prophesied this, and tho people be
loved turned from him.
Brt b has . monument. It i the State
q Texas. IT. people asaailsd hin sven
49, aen Jastntp Wa fresh = their 49,
~. he was denounced for Opposing
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-23

Amount cubic ards built, $3.50 $50 at
60c. 81, isl ,636 90
Soc. ........................ 1,l6oo3l 30
Repairs. Observation-Disclosures. 69022 IS
Advanced to Commissioner of Engi-
neers to pay for b. at for use in
September, 1875, in making survey
Of 1evees. northumberland. 1900 90
Total Observation-Disclosures. 90 Al, $3.50 IS
Cash received from State. 1870 $50 90
Balance due March IA. 1876. 81 All $40 IS
To which add, for work done. not yet
measured say 2O00 900 cubic yards
at SOC. Observation-Disclosures. 100000 90
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SAL $40 IS
Very respectfully, yours,
JOHN HENDERSON,
President Louisiana Levee Company.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-22
PRODUCE MARKETS.
BY TELEGRAPH,

LOUISVILLE, July 21.-Flour quiet
and steady; extra, So. Wheat firm.
Corn, 4S@50c. Rye, Csc. Oats, 33c.
Provisions quiet, not much business.
Pork, $50 so Bulk meats, s, 10s@113c.
Bacon, 9, 118@l2c. Lard-tierce, 13c;
keg, lac. Whisky, ST. 10. Bagging,
l2fGI3c,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-22
NaOLYENT FOTICE.

state OF Tennessee, Shelby cOunty.-Offioe OF
County Court Clerk, Memphis, Tenn.l May
~, lSI6-TO j. A. Anderson Administrator
Of John b. Gstti, deceased. 90,
Having suggested the insolvency OF Inc
estate OF John b. Gait, deceased, you are
hereby ordered 10 give notice, by adNeTtlSe-
ment in some newspaper pubushed WlIhIu
the said state, and also at the courthouse cOoI
OF shelby county, for all persons haNing
claims against said estate 20 appear ana ne
tine same with the Clerk Of the County Court
authenticated In the manner prescribed ~
law. on or before the Path day or August, 1870
and any claim not filed on or before sald gay!
said estate is made, shall be forever pared,
both in law and equity.
Witness my hand ofice, this 2lsL Jay oi
May, 1876. J.liEo REILLY CLeTk'
By John J. shea, u upty Clerk.
Notice is given to parties having claims
against the estate of said John y. Gattli DEC o.
TO file them, as above required.
J. \. ANDERSON, Admir-
TN grr'' .-tl~ray. my2tu
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-22

per 10, nkaIDSc; crushed and powdered,
l2l4c: granuIated, l2c; cut loaf, I21SIlZ35G
MOLASSES Common. Zoe; fair, i2a45c
prime, 509j3c; strictly prime 5jG57ci choice
IS geUc.
SYRUPSLQuiet; common 10 fancy, 4Ogs5c
SALT-CoRTse and common fine, ia bar
les, 81 755i s.; dairy, bbls, 81 75JS; Il YER
pool coarse, in sacks, 81 30Gl 40; Liverpool
fine, In sacks, 81 701l 81.
sOAP-Resin and German, 596Jzc; Lat
ting's, 6965zc.
CANDLES Boxes, full weight, I51zc; half
box, lJi4c; or box, l6c.
STAkCH-41sS5c per n.
WHISKY 5c5S4 per gal.
LlhE-Sl Sal 80 per Dbl.
CEMENT-Loulsvtlle, 81 Is; Rosedale, e IS
per Dbl.
ESCULENTS AND FRUITS-Apples, new,
nOminally per bushel, 81 59g2; lemons, per box,
sll9l2; oranges, per box, S96l0; potatoes, new,
loose, nominally 75caSl .; c sbbage, per crate,
s2a3 30, onions. new, 81 5093; beans, per
BUSH, 81 259I IS.
MlSCELL US-Butter-western table,
choice, 2I925c; inferior, l59l7c; eggs, 7gSc ;
nails, per keg, IS 1898 %; vinegar, per gal, Is
@2Oc; tobacco, per n, 4519Oc; spice, lS92Oc /;
pepper, 2Og22c; sardines, sl6gl6 50; oysters n,
oOc@sl; oysters, n, 81 6O@2; cOal-oil 20@2lc;
matches, 50 7597; cotton rope, lS920c; grass
rope, l9l6c; powder, kegs, 81 IS; shot, patent,
y 4OS2 So; Soda, kegs, 6g51zc; soda, cases, SO
&c.