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JGENERAL NArURK-No. tsJ
FUbhEEAL hAfUKk-No III
An ACT to establish certain postroutes in the State Of
-. ArkanHaS - :.

An ACT TO estAbsh cerIah postroutes In the State
- Arkansas.
BE enacted by ths Senate and House of
bs United OF America Congress assembled That
ths following hereby established From
Little Rock, Argsna, Reed Landing Eagle Landing
Wsmpoo. PumbayOu, Adamsburg and Pasoria Pine Bluff
PROM Bluff via Carson, Rob Roy New GascOny. Green
Rack Landing Willamette and
Post Fr Watson stat the Txa River and
Ehwssern Rail Read, Red Fsrk the Arkansas River.
PROM Station, the Texas, Mississippi River and
Northwestern Railroad to South Bend the Arkansas River
AnnroIad. February 81, IS14.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29
How to Put on a Corset.

The following is an extract from the proceed
ings of Coroner jury of San Francisco i'll
the case of lady accidentally shot and killed.
1t is from the San Francisco Chronicle, and
reads thus:
AT this juncture the Coroner desired to
show the jury the course taken by the ball,
and for this purpose produced the corset worn
by Mrs. Bunkhart at the time of the tragedy.
" You see, said he-and here he drew the
corset round his waist with the laces in front
:" the ball must have gone in here from behind.
No. that cant be either for tho doctor says
the ball went in front. Confound it, I've got
it on wrong. All! this way" (Here the
Coroner put the corset on upside down.
Now, you see" pointing to the hole in the
garment, which rested directly over his hip,
" the ball must have gone in here. No, that
Here Mr.. Mather, the handsomest man on
the jury, broke in. DR.. Stillman, said he,
You We got the corset on wrong" Here DR..
Stillman blushsd like a pheOny. "Well,
said he, I've been married twice, and ought
to know how to rig corset" Yes, said
Mr.. Mather, but you don't. You had it
right in the first place. The strings go in
front, and the ladies clasp them together n
the back. Don't know? | think | ought
to- I've been married. If you doubt it, look
hero (ponting to the fullness in the top.) How
YOU put it on as suggest" That" said
DIR. Stillman, why, that goes over the hips.
No, it don't" sold Mr.. Mather, THAT full
ness goes this way, and here Mr. Mather in
dicated where he thought the fullness ought
to go.
At this pale faced young man with a voice
like robin, and note book under his arm,
said he thought the ladies always clasp their
corsets on the side. The pale faced young
man said this very innocently, as If he wished
to convey the Impression that ha knew nothing
whatever of the matter. The jury laughed the
pale faced young man to ScOrn, and one Oi
them intimated that he thought the young
man wos not half so green about woman dress
as he appeared to be. The young man was
reporter, and it is, therefore, exceedingly
probable that his knowledge was fully as limi
ted as was apparent from his suggestion, the
jurymen to the contrary notwithstanding.
Here another jurynan discovered that DIR
Stllman had the corset on bottom side up
Doctor" said he, put it on the othe
. way"
Then the Doctor put it on in reserve order
! with the lace in front. This brought the bul
let holes over the tails of his coat
: don't think Mr. Mather said, " tina
the bullet went in there, Doctor"
No, | don't think it did, was the reply
"Confound it, it's mighty funny-Six married
men in this room and not one that knows hoV
to put on a wOman's cOrsets.
: Here the Chronicle reporter, who had sew
eral sisters and always keeps his eyes open
advanced and convinced DIR. Stillman and Mr.
! Mather, after much argument, that the lace
! of corset go behind, and that the garment
clasped in front After this explanation tn
a course of the bullet was readily traced an
found to bear out the explanation afforded b
: the two physicians
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29
OFFICIAL.
avs and Resolutions of the United States Pas
sed ut the First Session of the Forty
Third Congress.
NArURK-No. la.I

Az ACT changing the times or holding district
nv the United States. 0r the sta e Of Iowa.
IA it by the SeuAte and House
The United States Of America in Congress assembled That
instead the nes new fixed by law the the district
S o United States for the district Iowa 10 he held
the city Kvokuk and the city Council Bluffs shall
ecs at KeOkuk the third Tesuday January ard the
bird Tuesday in June and at Council Bluffs on the fourth
u,.isy of September, in esch year.
That all causes processes suits and now
or for saId court or hereafter e
shall be continue in and 10 said
'onrts at the several times herein specified.
AnnraIed. February 9. 1874.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19
Meeting in the Parish of st. Bernard

| AT a mass convention assembled after due
notice in compliance with the call OF the
Democratic State Central Committee, adj
dressed to all voters opposed to the Kellogg
usurpation, held on Sunday. August IL, 1874,
at the corrt-h house, udgar REiz was elected
President and A. W. Walker Secretary. On
motion, the President then appointed a com
mlttee to report to the meeting the names OF
two suitable parties to represent the parish in
the coming convention at Baton Rouge, and
| also to serve as members of the Parish Con-
| vention to meet in this city.
| The committee, after delberation, reported
the names Of Major A. w. Walker and Robert
Brown, and they We're duly accepted and en-
powered to act as representatives of the
parish
| Resolutions were then presented and
| adopted the tenor Of which we give. In
an ably written preamble the convention
sets forth that the present usurp ttlon exer-
cising the functions of government here was
created by force and fraud; that the adven-
turers in power utterly disregard the interests
Of our people, having ruined our State by ex-
| cesSive taxation.
1t goes on to show changes have been made
in our criminal laws, with view Of depriving
citizens of protection and taking away from
US the right Of haneas corpus, and further
that the party in power have worked upon the
credulity Of Ignorant negroes to sustain them
selves.
That the convention recognize fully the
equality of the negro before the law and that
it is equally their duty to have a carefnl scru-
tiny of our State debt 1t was resolved that the
rights of the colored men should be protected
and every encroachment on the rights of the
white men should be opposed.
That government can only be administer
ed by intelligence and honesty, and that for
this purpose fair registration and election
must be had-peaceably if possible, forcibly
if necessary.
That We regard the New Orleans BULLETIN
and Bee rs the opponents OF true Democratic
principles. and recommend that they be su,-
tanned by liberal subscription and support
After an enthusiastic response to these res
olutious the meeting adjourned.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19
Black Men Wishing to Join the White
Mans Party.

Radical journals, North and South, arc
industriously disseminating the false idea
that the White Mans party movement has
been itaugurated for the sole purpose OF
expressing and intimidating the negro, and
thereby deprive him Of exercising his right
to vote. In refutation OF this charge we will
mention that, in several sections of the
country, the blacks have already become
awakened to the fact that they can no longer
trust the greedy, unprincipled carpet baggers,
who have been leading them like "dumb,
driven cattle" to destruction and are turn
ing their eyes for relief to the bona fde white
resident taxpayers OF the South for succor
and relief.
In some cases they have even gone so far as
to express a willingness to join the White
Mans party. These men have discovered no
danger in this movement to their rights as
citizens, but rather regard it as al ark of safe
ty from the rapacious exactions of the carpet
bag cormorants. We find striking instance
of this kind in the report of a meeting held
at Spring Ridge, Caddo parish, on the 7th
inst, for the purpose of organizing White
Mans club.
The assembly was a very large and enthusi-
astic one and after the regular order of the pro-
ceedings were concluded, the following named
coloted citizens, who were present, came for
ward without invitation, voluntarily, and
asked to have their names recorded as sup
porters Of the White Mans movement, saying
their eyes had been opened, and declaring
that they henceforth renounced the teachings
and leadership Of carpet-baggers and scala
wags who had so often deceived and misled
them, viz:
Willis Cottonrader, presiding elder Colored
NJ. E. Church; Stephen Thomas minister in
charge Colored NJ. E. Church; Peter Conor,
H. L. jackson, Reuben jackson. Anderson
Dunn, Chas Williams, Cary Washing on,
Miles Washington, John Washington, VIM
Harrison, Samuel Bright, Peter P. Conor,
Luther Conor Ed. Coleman and Frank Coils
ton,
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19
THE ELECTION OF DELEGATES.

On Thursday next the registered conserva
tive voters of all the wards in the city will be
called upon to select delegates to represent
them in the Democratic Convention to be
held at Baton 70 lge on Monday, the oath
instant
Although there is but one general officer to
be nominated State Treasurer much
viii depend upon the action of the convention
in SO far as it relates to the platform and the
line Of policy to be pursued by the party OPP
posed to Radicalism, in the coming
campaign. 1t is therefore of the last i'm
portance, that this convention should be
composed of intelligent, trustworthy and
well known citizens-lnen who have at heart,
the best interests of the country and have no
personal schemes to advance; men who will
labor to restore to Louisiana good government
and drive from Office the usurpers who have
imposed themselves upon a people to whose
every interest they are antagonistic. Such is
the class of delega tes the people should send
to the Convention.
We are gntiied TO observe, and we take it
as most favorable omen, that the best class
of our citizens are taking an active part in
this campaign, the registration in the wards
being larger than ever known bsfore. There is
disposition, too, on their part to accept
the position of delegates, and give their time
and services to the cause of redeeming the
State from Its present fearful condition.
Already the names of many of our most
respectable and wel-known merchants have
been proposed, and there seems to be no
doubt of their election. The outlook is
cheering indeed. We trust it may be our
privilege on Friday morning to announce the
election OF delegation from this city, which,
in point Of intelligence, responsibility, in
tesrity and patriotism, will surpass any similar
body ever sent to a convention from New
Orleans.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19

The following are some Of the rules which
apply to the remailing Of mail matter under
the new postal law: Letters with request to
return printed or written thereon are to be
returned without additional postage. When
subscriber to newspaper changes his resi-
dence and desires his paper forwarded to his
new Office, transient IA te Of postage, one cent
for each two ounces or fraction thereof, must
be charged on each copy as received. If a
party receives a paper from the Office Of
publication and remails it, he must pay
postage on it at the rate of one cent for each
two ounces or fraction thereof Pamphlets
and books cannot he returned at the request
of the writer without prepayment of postage
at the rate Of one cent for each two ounces or
fraction thereof Letters once taken from
the post office cannot be forwarded without
again being prepaid. This applies also to
return request letters ouce taken out Of
post Office. Letters addressed to a person not
found at the Office addressed may be for
warded without additional charge.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19
TIE BULLETINS COMMERCIAL MAP

With our LIST of September edition We will
issue map which has been careful ~ and
specially prepared for the BULLETIN by Z. S.
Hardee, the distinguished civil engineer who
prepared the official maps of the States OF
| Mississippi and Louisiana. This map will
| illustrate thoroughly the commercial import
ance Of New Orleans and with the sure and
show its natural position for future com
mercial prosperity to be superior to any other
point on this continent.
It will embrace all railroad lines completed
and projected which bear commercially upon
New Orleans, especially those looking to the
Pacific at San Diego, Guayamas, Mazatlan
and San Bias, and also through Texas to the
City of Mexico. 1t will show also the pro-
pos d steamship lines to Vera Cruz and other
points in Mexico also to Central America
and Brazil. 1t will contain also a plat show
ing location of the Fort st. Philip Canal, with
the depth of water, and the location also Of
the proposed canal across the isthmus ofFlor-
ida. On the face Of each State will appear
Of its population and agricultural resources,
and therefore it's commercial bea ring and in
tercourse with New Orleans as point Of trade
and export.
The map is now being engraved and cleo
trotyped in New York in the highest style OF
art, and, we venture to say, will be the most
complete and interesting map of the kind
ever before published by any newspaper i'll
the United States.
A map will be sent with each copy Of the
paper, and nearly $4,000 extra copies Of the
paper have been ordered in advance, and We
confidently expect to issue 10000 copies.
Advertisers will see at a glance the impor-
lance Of sen ling in their orders and fayors at
an early y.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19
The Meat Humbug.
Editor n. O. Bulletin :

Editor n. 0. Bulletin:
proclamation, published in all the city
papers Monday announced the glad tidings
that thej butchers would be enabled to sell
meat at from 5 to 12t cents per pound, in
consequence Of the closing of the private
markets. I went my usual way to Magazine
Market yesterday, rejoicing that there was
g Balm in Gilead," and some benefit to be de-
rived from the success of the Butchers AS
sociation Kellogg, Turnbull monopoly. with
what disappointment let my experience relate:
Citizen, (timidy)-How much for beef this
morning?
Butcher, (cleaverly) - Twenty cents a
pound.
Citizen, (apologetically) thought it was
published you We're going to sell it at a bit
pound.
Butcher, feelings hurt and Indignantly 'Me
got some for three cents pound; glad to get
rid of it at that.
Retiring discreetly, and thinking l may
have interviewed the wrong mana boiler,
probably, | proceeded to interview three
others, and with the exception that one of
them asked TWENTY-FIVE cents pound, with
very similar result, receiving my quietus gen.
orally in that injured tone of voice peculiar to
butchers, ('you no ikee, no takee' style, you
know,) l left the market, moralizng how
rapidly the butchers were progressing in their
new role as politicians. CITIZEN.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19

The several Central Ward Clubs are as fol-
| lows:
First Ward-Presdent, James II. Grover; Sec
retary Dennis Mccarthy. Eagle Hall, corner
Prytania aud Felicity.
Second Ward-W. T. Ho lston, President; P. J.
sullivan Secretary. Iron House, opposite st.
Mary's Market.
Third Ward-J. r. s. Selleck, President; Thos
Egan, Secretary. Holmes Building, Common,
near Dryades.
Fourth Ward-John lie Monnier, President;
J. J. Keena Secretary. Wigwam, corner Canal
and Where.
Fifth Ward-Leon Queyuroze, President; G.
Bonnafon. Secretary Headquarters 1873 and 1876
Sixth Ward-O. Morel, President. P. D.
Sourdes, Secretary.
Seventh Ward-D. J. Edward President; E.
Marin, Secretary. Jacobs's Hall, corner OF
Frenchmen and Love.
ley, Secretary corner Elysian Fields and DaU-
phine streets.
Ninth Ward Fl. Dudenhefer, President; JAS.
J. Segrave Secretary Headquarters, corner
Dauphine and Elmira streets
Tenth Ward-D. P. Mahoney, President; Ed.
Clark, Secretary Headquarters, Crescent Con-
fectionery Hall.
Eleventh Ward-R H. MARI, President: ]. G.
MeCantz, Secretary.
Twelfth Ward-Eugene May, President; s. F.
parmelee, Secretary.
Thirteenth Ward-Clarke, President; W. H.
Pascoe, Secretary.
Fourteenth Ward-E. O. Carter, President; J:
T. W. Mason, Secretary; corner Octsvla and
Magazine streets.
Fifteenth Ward-Benj. F. Kelley President;
D. H. Conner, Secretary Belfry, Agiere.
p. MALOCHEE, President.
WILL. STEVEN. Vice President.
au12 Il. L. BOWER. Secreta-v
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19


Dick Busted, the notorious United States
5udse a Alabama. has Just been adding
another y the long list Of disgracefil acts
hat have characterized his sojourn in o1u
sister Sta~e Recently he forced is black ser.
yant into Tho ladies car on the Montgomery
Railroad. The conductors circumstances
proving vsin. in effort was made to forcibly
eject the offending darkey. whereupon Bully
Dick pulled out pistolto shoot the conductor
xhen passenger unceremoniously seized the
beligeeni judge by the collar and threw him
INTO his seat, and the servant was transferred
% another Car. There were twenty delegates
70 tho Radical Convention in the car at the
lime. and they all condemned the action Of
Busteed Oan there be more disgraceful
spectacle than that Of Federal Judge play.
ing tAe part Of an armed ruAian?'
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19
KELLO1G IND PATRONAGE"

| In the course of the recent interview be.
| tween Kellogg and the committees, there
cropped out remark from the former that is
Of great interest to this people. 1t was to the
Effect that he (the lie tacto) could not corcede
the demand of the committee, because il
would be restowing the patronage OF his
Office on the party Of opposition.
l. II it were possible for this man kel-
logg to sink lower in the estimation OF men,
this part of the reply should help him down
ward
Imagine the Governor of a State, supposed
to be occupying his seat to- dispense the laws
TOR the general welfare, sinking the just de-
mand Of the tax-paying and responsible por-
ton Of the community into a question OF
political patronage How low and grovel-
ing the mind that could brook such concep-
ion Of official duty How utterly base and
corrupt the soul that could from its official
chair meet the just demand Of an oppressed
people with so insulting suggestion
2. This utterance Of the usurper should be
taken as Il lesson by our people. 1t should
not only teach them to what low and danger
Gus depths Of infamy the usurper can descend
every step in descent making him more des-
perately dangerous but it should teach them
that this utter rottenness in official position is
1T last the fruit of that great defect in the
grand body polite neglect Of individual po-
liticai duty
Our people should not only abhor Kellogg,
the degraded individual, or Kellogg, the
usurper, but they should abhor him as KEEL
logg, the legitimate fruit Of vitiated national
polity which is dragging this country we know
not whittier. From President down to con-
stable, no official regards himself as the SER
the time being our master.
Such is the general neglect Of political duty
on the part Of the people that officials are not
chosen by them. No; by every means known
to men they have worked themselves into po-
sition. They have achieved Office by bargain
and sale and degradation, and they and their
coadjutors arc masters, not servants. We,
the people, are their dogs, to come when they
whistle, to lick their feet if we want our heads
patted.
A gentleman Governor, chosen by the peo-
pie, dragged out from private life to serve
because of his virtue and ability, could not
see that the happiness OF his whole people
could be preserved under such a vile instru-
ment as this new Registration law. A Kellogg
only through such shocking means, sees the
chance for him and his followers to perpetuate
their rule, and to plumber and ruin.
Ask a tyrant to break and divide his rod
with you Ask Kellogg to rise to a respect
for your civilization or your material welfare,
when by prostration Of both alone he exists
As well 90 into the highway and ask the tum-
blebug to roll roses.
No, men Of Louisiana, rights are never vol
unfairly yielded to people by tyrants; favors
should never be asked of them. When the
reptile would bite us we crush its
lead yet the crawling thing harms but one
nan, while States and Nations fall before the
angs Of monsters like Kellogg.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19
DIED.

BOULLEMET-On Tuesday, August IS, 1874,
at 81 o'clock. Harry W. Boullemet, aged u years,
son of Stephen and Elizabeth Boullemet.
His funeral will take place This wednesday,
Evening, from his late residence, No z76 Terpsi-
chore street. at 5 o'clock. His friends and those
If the family are respectfully invited to attend
Mobile and Jefferson, Texas, papers please
copy.
MOORE-On Tuesday morning. August 18th,
little before o'clock, Willie, only child Of VIM:
and Hanna NJ ore, aged years, months and
Is DAYS.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19
TO the pNUtic.

| One Stoutmeyer, brother-in-law of Charles
Clinton, now nominally proprietor Of the New
| Orleans Times, and editor in chief OF that jour
nal, formerly solicitor for the Auditor so-caed),
has been guilty, in his capacity Of Radical editor
of so-called Conservative journal, of serious,
gross and willfu falsehood in relation to myself.
He states that am resident of this city only
few years, aud insinuates that am carpet bag
ger such as himself Having, like the fox, I'M
doubleday lost his own tail in this regard, he is
anxious to have many others in his own pre-
dicament as possible. He is scarcely expected
to know who are our ante-bellum citizens Except
they be Of that class if anything more to be
despised by the respectable portion Of this COM
munity than the tribe to which Stoutmeyer
claims affinity, viz scallawags) or to be familiar
with the status of decent people.
All my friends know that am resident of
this city for about twenty years, and that have
lived honestly and upon my own earnings, with
out dependence upon brothers-in-law, rascally or
otherwise. H. states first that l was in the en-
poy of Clinton, then that Clinton obtained for
me position, then that he influenced business
to me. These are all false statements as never
had and desire no business dealings with lin
ton. This Stoutmeyer (whcse name by the way
could be more appropriately spelt stout-liar)
cannot have made these statements inadvertently,
this same Clinton is his own brother-iD-law,
and he had means Of information. He repeats
the lie that the committee waiting'upon Kellogg
berated me and elbowed me to the rear. | should
like to know the name of the man or men who
did this berating and who made such use of their
elbows
Having demanded justice Of him and met pre-
varica ton alone, and informed him personally
of my opinion of him, not the most flattering,
and met the reply that it was a matter of differ
ence of opinion between US, take this means of
informing the public that he is liar and falsifier,
one unworthy of notice, except for the position
he occupies as editor in chief of one of our
public journals wilInr to prostitute it's columns
by making of them the vehicle of infamous
libel. II. T. LAWLER.
au19 1t2dp
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-19
No. Of Miles. Av. Time,

LOUISIANA BONDS IN LoNDoN.-From the
notices and reports of stocks in the London
market we find the following:
Louisiana Bonds.-At conference of bond
holders the following decision was arrived at !:
That the bondholders unanimously resolve
that they adhere to their protest, and will not
accept the conversion proposed by Gov Kel-
logg, conyiscating 40 per cent OF the capital
and and interest OF their bonds"