The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-14
The SWind.ed Blacks.
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Ii visitor to the principal Southern cities
has a human heart, he will be touched by the
many evidences of istress among the negroes
on account OF the failure OF the Freedmen's
Savings Bank. In Nashville eighty-fve thou
sand dollars were lost, the deposits ranging
from a dollar to several hundred In Augusta
over two hundred thousand dollars were
scooped into the gull trap and the disconso-
late depositors are the blueSt set of black
mortals between the oceans. At Charestown
| learn that over two hundred thousand are
lost, and in Richmond over hundred thou
sand.
In one of these cities I have acquai ntances
whose colored employees are among the sui
terers. and from them learn particulars dis
tressing and humiliating. | hear of a porter
who supported his family, and in three years
saved 81 0 for the gull trap; OF poor boot
olack, who had deposited the savings OF two
years, S4O OF washerwoman who mad saved
$50 from washing shirts at ten cents each; OF
a boy who had saved s45 from working in a
brick-yard at thirty cents q day; of dray-
man who had accumulated $500 from his
,canty earnings: of chambermaid who had
saved 500 from her poor salary of So a
month of poor blind wood-sawyer who had
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thrifty market-man who had Sl1U0 in the trap
dong with his less fortunate neighbors, but no
better prepared to hear OF the loss Of their lit
lie all.
had heard much of the failure of the bank,
md had seen the array OF figures expressing
the loss, along with accounts Of the yiilainy By
which the ruin Of tie bank and its br inches
was accomplished, but the full picture OF the
cal unity III all its distressing details was not
presented to my mind until [ visited the
southern cities where the actual sufferers are
The record OF this crime against the poor ne
groes is one of the meanest and blacklist in the
whole history Of mans iniqnity.
And, Notwithstanding this, the ignorant,
foolish negroes persist iii following, like s'dumb
driven cattle. the party which has thus de-
spoiled and robbed them.
Mr.. Murat Halstead writes as follows con
corning his brief visit to Paris: Two days in
Paris gave me few points OF information that
t ie journals had not made manifest There
is revival OF Imperialism among the shop
keepers. Toe windows exposing photographs
for sale furnis evidence OF this. The Impe-
rial family is on exhibition in all of them.
Very often we see in a row in their order the
four Napoeons. The widowed Empress has
oeen photographed contemplating a bust of
her late lamented. The Prince Imperipl is,
[ should think photographed about once
month, for he benefit Of his admirers. He
has become tall young man, wearing an air
Ut sere sat staction with himself There is
a popular pictur representing the death-bed
OF Napoleon LII, in which the Prince Impe-
rial is seen in iaultless suit of black
MacMahons white moustache and puckered
face, and his amiable wife, are very promi-
nent in the win lows. Theirs and Gambetta
still have resp crable repres entaton, but do
not appear 50 frequently. The shopkespers
want strong government and rem mber dole
July the heshpots Of the Imperial Egypt