The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-19

ton.
Capt. Francis and his energetic crew are
diligently engaged in retaining from the
pitiless waters that which they had already
claimed as their prey, and if the remaining
bodies will not have been recovered ere long,
it will not be due to the lack of exertion by
the captain.
Expansion, Contraction, Reaction.
The New York Republic, speaking as if by
authority, announces another change in the
Presidents currency views, in an article from
whichVe extract the following:
The present Republican Administration,
SINCE the election Of last week, feel relieved
from al! obligations to force hard money on
the country. Six months ago the President,
advised and urged by the hard money financial
people of New York, did consent to recon-
mend the early return to specie payment. He
even went to the extent Of recommending the
| repeal of the legal-tender act Of 1862, after a
given notice to the country. He was made to
believe that this was the popular sentiment
at least in the great State of New
York. He therefore took issue with score
| of his best friends in Congress from the
West who insisted that the party
could not afford to go to the country on con-
| traction and hard money. Such men as Mr.
Morton, of Indiana Mr.. Logan, of Illinois
and Mr. Ferry, Of Michigan, were so earnest
| in their protests and convictions on this SUBJ
ject that they were almost driven to open re-
volt against the Administration, on the unex-
pected veto of the President. It was nicely
balanced question, as We happen to know,
whether they should openly denounce in the
Senate the mistaken views of the President, or
| urh TO 1,A al Lott
the session, by compromise. The latter alter
native was adopted, for the sufficient reason
| that the Western Senators knew the President
| to be sincere in his conviction that the popu-
lar financial sentiment demanded specie pay
ments. and, as a preliminary thereto, the re-
! peal of legal tender desirable. The veto was
I sustained, and the President Was warmly con-
graduated in certain quarters where he was
not supported last Tuesday.
1t is now Sufficiently clea, to the Republi-
can Administration that the country was not
then prepared for specie payments, and that
the whole agitation was badly timed and, as
the result proves, unpopular. The party have
been routed on the cry OF the hard times, and
he4pressure of the hard times was aggravated
by the advanced position taken by the Presi-
dent, on New York advice. As to the doing
away with greenbscks and the repeal of legal
tenders, there was no real popular demand
| then, and there is infinitely less now. The
| President was deceived into different opin-
! ion, but he is not the man to persevere in a
| blunder made palpable BY the recent elections
as to leave little doubt that hard money and
| no greenbacks constitute about the last issue
before the people, when under pressure OF
hard times, which should be made by party
in administration.
Men love women who hide themselves. The
Oriental idea of keeping women from the gaze
of men clings to all who really respect the
delicately made sex. The veriest loafer wishes
his wife or daughter not to be seen anatomi-
cally and the worst ibertine does not respect
the woman in tights, bccauss he knows that
she makes him have the eyes of a beast. Men
will look when women are exposed; some
men will walk half block to see lady get
into an omnibus but the worst and best lose
respect for women just in respect as they see
them. The new fashions in dresses for women
| show the outline of limb and body and the
motion of the limbs almost as plainly as the
trunk and tights at the sensation drama, and
suggest purity when they suggest Lady
Godiva, and shame when they do not suggest
Lady Godiva. Yet We think that majority
Of the women who show themselves of, Greek
Slaves of Fashion, in dresses tight over thigh
and trunk, would rather be thought Of by men
as walking potato-sack, Oriental fashion,
than as an Eve or Lady Godiva. Neverthe-
less, they are Greek Slaves of Fashion in their
anatomical revelations.
Prof Baird asserts that the supply of fish
along the New England coast is sensibly d.
minishing Shoal fish, although produced in
enormous quantities, have so many enemies
that great havoc is caused among them, en-
tirely apart from that effected by man. The
dog-fi kills them in myriads, while the blue