The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-12
DURELL's SUCCESSOR.

Aspirants for the vacancy created by the
RESIGNATION of the "Vicegerent," are as thick
as blackberries in June, or as rascals in Kel.
logg's Legislature. They are popping up all
over the land, and each and every one of them
have troops Of friends who are willing to
swear, or affirm, or file cross mark affidavits
that he is, Of all men, the only man who
would dignity and adorn the position which
Durell SO conspicuously disgraced.
There is scarcely a State or Territory, nay,
we may say there is not city, town or village
from the St Lawrence to the Rio Grande,
but is populous with legal owls who would
condescend to occupy the seat SO recently
vacated by the subseryient friend and tool OF
Norton, Billings, Packard, Beckwith and
Kellogg, (Strange how naturally Kellogg
comes in at the tail end Of any string OF car
petbagsers.)
Asa matter of course, the President is be-
sieged; traps are set for him at all times Of the
day and night, and he finds himself button
holed by all sorts Of rowdies at all sorts Of
unsusual times and impossible places, and
compelled to listen to the most fulsome eulo-
gies of legal rush lights and to recital Of the
vast labors performed by them for the party.
The army Of applicants from Louisiana are
quite too numerous to mention. The person
who was first named in connection with the
Office, Walker Fearn, Esq, probably never
had the ghost of q chance, as he is gentle
man and a scholar. The race seems to he
between those two legal giants and tre-
mendous moral engines, Jake Hawkins and
Il. II. Shannon. The powerful mind Of the
President is said to be unable to determine as
between those locomotive headlights Of the
legal profession. ~
On the one side he is shown a photograph
of Jake. and informed of his extraordinary
and outrageous rulings to bolster up the tot |
tering usurpation to which he Grant stands |
in the relation Of godfather. Jake. he is told |
will stand by him through thick and thin,
will hang all white men brought before him
under the Enforcement act, and support the
third term or many terms as the President
may desire.
Jake's hackers are powerful and Grant in
clines willing ear, but just as he is about to
bestow the ermine upon Jacobs broad and
mighty shoulders, there steps up friend OF
the Sergeant NEEDLE Buzfuz Shannon the
intimate friend OF Durell, who had the Vice
gerent's ear, in fact, and who lately pocketed
S1O,O for doing nothing in the Opelousas
Railroad case who informs the President that
Shannon was the United States Commissioner
who made himself notorious in the
persecution of white men in New
Orleans just after the war, was the cor
of the New York Tines who
telegraphed to that paper the lies that misled
the Northern people at the inception Of the
and that his appointment would
so disgust the respectable white people in
Louisiana that they could soon be forced to
pledge themselves for q third term in order to
get rid Of SO horrid a judicial nightmare. We
thought the administration had sounded all
the depths of intamy, and that there was no :
lower deep to explore, but what CHASTITY
chasm opens at the bare mention Of two such .
names us Hawkins and Shannon in connection ,
with the District Judgeship.