The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-06
CITY AFFAIRS.
THE CUsTOM-HOUSE.
The Onieials, In Coed Hun'or, Indulge In
Pr0fuse Gossip.

EMG Vubsfsss SIS N""N
Profuse Gossip.
Ynsgo King did not leave the city ne announced
nrayiously but Tom Andersen has left Tor Ut
LANDRY. whittier, IL ID understood. he has gone
10 obtain security on the Judges bond ~ Col
feetor OF the PORT
The officials in the Granite building were ID
exsellept hutnor yesterday, a fact which IL due
a. ia ssd, in part TO the fact that within day or
svo the occupants read the DEmooRAT. which has
acquired an extensive circulation thereabouts re-
eently.
Among The topics of conversation is the con
tempt .ted departure OF Judge Barney Lynch fei
the shores of the Pacific, with headquarters n
dan Francisco The Judges farewell to Louisiana
10 aHcribed by The Custom. House idlera 10
pErp.HHArnp disgust
pt tho proflgacy and corruption OF the Hepupa-
can party, which he thinks has brought on Tvs
downfall. II seems that the Judge IL not on me
Tpa, Anderson aide OF the House.
The question of those Mandatory ~ resolueiohs
Addressed TO postmas Parker by the mecban-
tcs Institute meeting, consequent upon he
Ceiopei's songratuatory telegram 10 Pfeeioeht
agRyes on the new Southern policy. WAS also
sausbed upon. aud brought about reminisoence'
According 10 The gesspers. that story OF the
ys.ndaome lyer communion service presented
Nv tha pouttnaster 10 the African Church on Bien-
lit .ts.os. IN the eve of the last Republican
E,ste Convention,
HAS sHqUEi,
n ia related that one evening whist the church
aad baen converted into political wigwam,
a,,e of the sable admirers OF the Colonel, whilst
.rsppa IN favor OF the restm aBters election TO
aAe convention. became very nervous and OK
sitable. aud in order TO better illustrate The
worth of his candidate seised the communion
Shalive and pointing TO lib richness and elegance
referred 10 it "a gift deserving tho recognition
Of che recipient. Unfortunately the vigorous
grin OF Tho orator was more than the chslice
eoud stand. and IL was literally mashed In
untier the pressure of his. great btawny
hand. The accident provoked investigation,
and lol II was discovered that the silver aervioe
was Of highly polished pewter. Parker. when the
matter was reported to him, 10 reported TO have
ssid, swell. it's good enough for the id mig.
wsrs." Parker got one vote for the convention.
For come time past 10 has been fumored that
NEW PAPER
would DO started here soon. but the object or
necessity of new paper in this city could not be
sAthop,ed. II appears thai the new jour
NAL will be erected on the ruins OF
ahe New Orleans Republican, and will be The
organ OF the white Republican party, which, 10 Ia
exps ,ted, will acquire formidable proportions
before The next general election. The Custom
uoube people say that II. O. Hancock. T. Morris
Chester, q. W. Boothby and other writer's have
been &C cured for the new paper. The connection
at Chester with The paper would appear ipcon-
estent with ts policy, but the gossippers say that
inconsistency 10 jewel in peltios.
but now comes the most interesting portion Of
the Custom House talk yesterday. II 10 seriously
asserted that H. II. Durell, auandcm judge Of
ahe uuited statos Circuit Court, has retired to q
quiet spot in New York State, where ho 10 on
gagged in WI ing up the
HISTORY or LOUISIANA
during The last fifteen years. This history, II IL
worry naturally claimed, will be Of a most interest
ing character il IL 10 done conuciontiously.
Aud this 10 what IL proposed TO be done TO
counterfeit the crushing effect Of some Of the
revelations which the judge. u Is suspected, viii
make: Hubert Bonzano and Barney Lynch will
get their heads together and get up = panoramic
history OF Louisiana. Packard, who has nothing
Go do Just now, viii DO the Snowman. and, az has
been proposed, will make . tour OF the
United States with the canvas, q salary oil
twenty-five thousand dollars per annum being
guaranteed 10 him by the management for his
services ~ incidental lecturer. Tho panorama
will open with pictorial and literary illustrations
of the advent of tho carpet-baggers into LOUISE
ana, surrounded by halo Of bayonets, with Phil
Sheridan "a one of tho central figures.
1t will include the famous tin box transaction,
with warmoth. Judge Lewis, Dr. southworth,
and the great mediator and paciiloator, John Z.
Walton, 10 character parts; well known journal
ist's charge on the Mechanics Institute on q
white horse the whole closing with the with |
drswai of tho troops from Louisiana by the
President. @
There will bo an apotheosis also. consisting OF
Frank Morey, with his fiery top-knot dyed in deep |
black, haranguing Congress on the necessity Of
. seventeenth amendment to the constitution
tho sixteenth being reserved for female sursge),
10 remove the disabilities Of Louisiana carpet
hsggers.
Every word that IL written above comes from
the Custom. House, and was spoken yesterday by
leading officials in the building,