New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-03
Especial Oogrespooaence Of the Republican,
NOTES FROM THE CAPlTAL.

.6AnvasetnG tho chances of their respective
Candidates for the Speakership. It has
BEEN tho impression here that Sunset Cox
|Dessesssd oil the clements of reformer to
ach remarkable degree that his promo
|ton was certain. Mr.. Tilden. it was init.
slated, favored his selection, which fact, of
itself, gave him large odds over any other
Hpirant. But to-day the prophets do not
appear 20 sanguine. It is now avered that
Hr. Cox is not altogether the favorite of
1ilden. His subserviency to the behests of
John Kelly, last j une, at the St. Louis con-
yention, has never been forgotten nor ab-
plutsly pardoned. Blackburn stock is as .
pssmium, and still rising about the Hobbies
Of some of the hotels today. Mr.. Sayler,
BY his impartislity and fairness during his
brief occupancy of the chair last summer,
became quite popular, and would be gener
Idly acceptable to Republicans, under the
circumstances. The position will be one of
Uceptionable responsibility during the
sming session, and every friend of the
Union indulges the hope that man guided
| b patriotism rather than by partisanship
psy be selected.
| The excitement that stirred this city for
sfew days subsequent to the election, but
vhich burned itself out like high grade of
tver in less than q week, flames up again
hre and there under the stimulating effect
the intelligence from Columbia, South
carolina, from New Orleans and from Tai
hhassee. OF course any move which
threatens to battle the revolutionary pro-
eamme of the bloOd-red Democracy of the
hlmetto State is discountenanced by all
9thodox Democrats. Hence Judge Bond
| b this morning unspsringly denounced in
III Democratic circles. Yesterday he was
snerally reputed to be man of patriotic
notives, of good abilities and requirements
i his profession. To-day he is Q man of
Fashionable, if not disreputable character,
licking in Q knowledge of law and the
Judge Moses, of the Supreme Court Of
south Carolina, who has for years been
painted - the incarnation of everything
devilish, and the predestined child of per.
aition by the organs of Democracy, has be-
come heightened gentleman, struggling to
protect the purity and dignity of the bench,
| snd to administer the power intrusted to
him in way that will effectuslly rebuke
/ the creatures of presidential despos.
Affairs in South Carolina certainly present
srsther alarming appearance and the threat
saing attitude assumed by the thousand
members of the rife clubs throughout the
State, who are represented as armed and
marming into the capital yesterday. is an
ample justification for the orders of Score
try Cameron to the military commander
there.
The Returning Board in Louisiana ap-
pears to be diligently laboring with the
returns, while the Democratic lawyers bonn
+ hard it from front, flank and rear by "pro-
tests"
The Florida Board of Canvassers, we are
told this morning, have decided to admit
six politicians from each political party to
NO that it's members transact the business
before them equarely.
But the centre of attraction now appears
10 be South Carolina, which sixteen years
40 led off in q movement that cost this
country more than half million lives, for.
ever furnished the American name by the
lserors of Andersonville, Salisbury, Flor
eace, Bell Isle and Libby Prison, and en-.
titled q burden of debt upon the nation
that must tax it's resources to their utmost
| for years to come. President Grant will
| zee to it that she is not INDUCED in another
reasonable freak of that kind so long as he
| holds the reins OF government in his iron
grasp.
A slight fall of snow yesterday came as a
reminder of what is in reserve for US later
in the season, and to gladden. the hearts OF
the school children. A little pinching
weather will also make the thanksgiving
dinner all the more enjoyable to those able
to indulge in the conventional turkey with
its appendages. But alas and alas! 1t will
come to homeless thousands in this and
ighboring cities to aggrsvate the pangf
of starvation, and will doubtless come as q
messenger of mercy to release many a pool
invalid from the comfortless surrounding
Of squa!id poverty. The exacting demands
Of fashionable life will all be complied with
while scores will die-miserably perish
because the aid that could be obtained by
the waste of one evenings 'entertainment'
are withheld. Our thirty, fifty, one hundred
thousand dollar churches, surrounded by tn
houses of the rich or well-tO-do, have, OF
the alley in their rear, within q stonet
throw, scores of novels, containing neither
fire nor food, and but the scantiest suppl.
of clothing for the starving children an(
adults-many Of them 10 the last stage o
disease-they contain. How many in those
churches, from those comfortable or luxu
rious houses, on tho coming Sabbath, viii
thoughtlessly and formally reiterate, "giv'
IA this day our daily bread, while carelessi.
and heartlessly Indifferent to the cry com
ing from those ab0des of restitution ant
death, and which they may hear any da.
or hour if they will but unstop their dea
ears.
The hotels and boarding houses are fas
filing up, every train and boat bringing IL
Quota of officials and winter visitors to tn
capital of the nation. May we be preserves
4 as the light of the world.
MAXWELL.
Let Him Try 1t.
Governor Palmer is credited with sayinl
. that if he were Governor Of Louisiana n
would never rest IN exerilng the who'll
\ power of the State till the miscreants VIII
murdered the woman Pinkstons husband il
1 her presence, tore her infant from her arm
daJ bor horribly AM