The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-21
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New ORLEANS, June, 1874.
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New ORLEANS, June, 1874.
Editors New Orleans Bulletin
The Association for the Prevention OF
| Cruelty to Animals having but just began
the work OF it's benevolent mission, can
scarcely be expected to bring immediate re-
lief to all the legitimate objects of its pa
ternal prOtectOrate. The more obvious and
frequent atrocities inflicted upon the brute
creation will necessarily require it's earliest
attention, while the obscure ard least
clamorOus of the dumb animals must abide
their time and await the gradual develop
ment and application of the benign princi-
pies whose organic action is directed by the
philozootic Mr. Bernau. In the meantime, it
| is of primary importance that those who
are charged with the supreme direction OF
the association shall be active in their
efforts to disseminate correct principles and
| feelings on the subject, aud above all to
give au example of kindly sympathy and
pity for the lower orders of animated nature
| l had the pleasure yesterday of discuss
ing this and kindred topics with Mr.. Henry
Bergh, of New York, who is now spending a
few days in our midst, having made his
headquarters at No. so Royal street, where
he will be happy to meet the friends of the
animal kingdom.
| There is one subject upon which Mr.. Bergh
has manifested degree Of feeling which
amounts almost to evaporation; feeling
which the author of this communication fully
shares. 1t has come to Mr.. Bergh's knowl-
edge that one of the officers of the assOcia-
ton, a gentleman of high standing and
great reputation, who has displayed much
apparent zeal in furthering the principles
and purposes of the association, and whose
seeming sincerity of sympathy with the
speechless brute has given him the high
position he holds in the association has been
secretly betraying his trust, and while pro-
Tossing the most faantical devotion to the
DhlOZOOtic movement, has been privately
exercising upon dumb animals cruelties
which would bring tears to the eyes of
Torquemeda, and rouse the Indignation of
Messrs. Aycock Il Imbau. If One-half of
what is said be true. it would seem that this
gentleman (whose name we forbear to men
ton, but whose residence is known to the
oldest inhabitant of the Third District), is
in the constant though occult habit of pur-
chasing large supplies of little terra
pins, whose native homes are the swamps
In rear of the city. These beautiful
testacea, whose elegance of structure, grace
of movement, and touching simplicity of
life combined to that blended feelings of sym
pathy, admiration and pity have become on
the part of Mr.. -- the objects of the
exercise of a degree of exquisitely diabolical
torture, unexampled since the death of
Parrahsius. 1t is whispered that the SER
wants and satellites of this monster in human
form, acting under formal instructions from
their ruthless master, are in the daily habit,
while surrounded by precautionary mystic
ries intended to defy detection, of heating to
the boiling point immense cauldrOms of
water expressly prepared for these fearful
rites. These cauldrons of water before the
flames are applied to them are filed with
condiments more horrible than the hell
broth of Macbeth's witches. Among these
condiments figure conspiciously the most
pungent and inf1ammatOry varieties of pep
per, forms of Mexican pimienta compared to
which hell-fre would be soothing syrup. In
order that the fire and fury of these virulent
pimientas Jay become more searching and
persuasive in their powers of torture, the
water which receives them is filled and
impregnated with the purest and
strongest salt After these preliminary
preparations are completed the cauldrons
are placed over fires of immense, tremend-
Gus heat and when under the action
of those terrific flames, the water, rendered
already corrosive by the infusion of salt and
pepper has reached it's highest boiling
point. the unfortunate terrapins are plunged
into them by the heartless hirelings en-
ployed by Ms. -.
My soul sickens at the recital, and l can
not wonder at Mr.. Bergh's evaporation on
hearing these facts.
Unhappy terrapins! Little did they
dream, while pensively warbling in their
native wlds near Gentilly, of the shady
woods and slumberous wa ers, that they, the
tender and gentle children of the swamp,
would be borne captive to city walls would
be subjected to agonizing fortunes at the
hands of ruthless mercenaries would be
offered up as sacrifice to the Moloch of de-
PRAYED appetite, and be engulphed in the
entrails of an insatiate Sybarite at the rate
of thirty cents p,r dozen. c.
Dr. Da Costa, of Philadelphia, doubts the
physical degeneration of our race. Il
think" he says, "the nen as well formed
and as capable of continued exertion as
ever. When we call to mind the marches of
the British troops in Ildia and Abyssinia,
or OF the Prussians in their late campaign
when we reflect on the splendid heroism,
the privations endured, the extraordinary
vigor of the men, both from the North and
South; who were citizens one day, soldiers
another, and who, brethren again, have
raised the American name into q synonym
for determination and endurance, it takes
very strong faith to believe that the men of
the second half of the nineteenth century
are degenerating"
A negro philosopher, according to the St.
Louis Democrat Rad. }, sets forth his views
as follows:
You know de turkey, he roost on de fence,
and de goose, he roost on de ground; you
pull de turkey off de fence and he will git
up agin; you crap his wings, but somehow
or 'nudder he gwine to git back on de fence.
Now, you put de goose on de fence, AN he
will fall off; he don't belong dar. De tur-
key am de white man. He's down now, but
is gwine to git up agin. De niger is de
goose. He better stay whar he blongs.
The President was recently approached
by Republican Congressman "a colored
MANI, who desired to obtain his ideas and
opinions as to the adoption of the civil
rights bill. Much to the establishment of
the member, and of all the colored men who
have heard Of IL tho prosiIant ovpraasad