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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-26

were not shlpwrecked. So it is clear there was
no storm.
However nobody slept. And weak minded
people acted as if something lay on their
5tomachs, that did not agree withEthem. But the
wind and waves being in our favor, the ship did
not heave to, though the passengers did. We
! few
LAND Ho!
The 4th Of July. What glorious day, The
day that celebrates our deliverancc from the
ocean,
As we sailed up the Mersey the sun was shin
ing, rare occurrence in those parts. The ship
ping in the docks was gay with flying flags and
streamers i'll honor Of l776.
From our foremost the American bunting was
,lnrolled and the Id swivel on the forecastle
would have been fired, if there had been any
powder in it and some one had touched it of. As
neither of these conditions filed, the gun
rested on its past honors.
We now living against the pier, and III a
few minutes shall land.
Not bit Of It, Because there had been a
death on board during the passage, we were
ordered off into the middle OF the river. Why.
nobody knew. There contagious disease
on the ship. She had not come from an infected
port.
A man had been scared to death. And fear is
catching. We might get off sometime when,
who could tell?
Then Won should have heard the free use Of
adjectiyes, bordering on the profane.
| was perfectly outraged, and | gave the Brit
sh Government the benefit of all the objurga-
lions ! could devise. You can't imag how
much yon like America and the American way Of
doing things, till YOU come to England.
Well, in the evening little tug steams along
side, and receives our baggage and ourselves;
and after undergoing the tOrments of the ID
We eXtricate ourselves from the Custom House
people, and find we are in the Northwestern Ho-
tel safe at last The operation, however cost
ing lively lot Of money
OF course we are too late for the London
trains, and have to get up next morning at 3
O'Clock to take the express.
Sunday, the 9TH Of Iuly.-Three weeks after
leaving New Orleans, and am lodged il hotel,
Just across the street from Westminster Abbey
and the Houses of Parliament
Here let me breathe awhile.
Yours. truly, J. H. y.
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CURIOUS SUPERSTITION RESPECTING DoGs.-
In his entertaining narrative of an eight
months residence III Dihomey, Mr.. Skertchly
furnishes an interesting account of a peculiar
cdstom which is observed by the Dahomans
during one of their annual State ceremonies
He remarks that being disturbed one night by
several yelp, as if a dog Were being beaten,
he inquired into the matter the next morning,
and was told that on the first night of the Gus
tom or ceremony all the dogs that can be
caught by the night watchmanare slaughtered;
''tor it is fact well known to every Dahoman,
but concealed no doubt for wise reasons by
Providence from white men, that on the first
night of any custom the dogs assemble in
the streets nd try to talk like men. If they
were once to succeed, they would call down
various plaques and pestilences upon the ma
ton
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December. Two or three days later the
President condescended to call on Mr.. STAN
ton, and rendered him the position, and it
was accepted. Perhaps the circumstances of
the interview ranked in the old mans BOSOM
He may have thought, regrettully, of the time
when he directed and Grant obeyed. The
positions were changed, and the former chief
had accepted favor from the man he had
virtually made. No one can tell the old Sec
retary's thoughts, but the facts afford ground
for differences
Mr.. Stanton resided in large house con-
venient to the Departments. 1t was one of
his customs to be shaved at home, and the
duty was performed by a colored barber, who
came regularly for the purpose. In Mr. Stan
tons private apartment stood an improvised
shaving chair, and to this the trusty valet
would go at the appointed time to perform
his duty. Mr.. Stanton had been, APP
parently failing gradually in health for
a week, and had become so Respondent
as almost to excite fears of an aberra-
ton Of mind. Some idea of colintercting
this seems to have been in the minds of the
President and Congress- when the appoint
ment was so suddenly made and promptly
confirmed by an almost unanimous vote. The
remedy failed, however, OF the desired effect.
On the evening of the 23d of December the
colored valet called to shave Stanton They
We're left alone in the private apartment, and
Stanton took his seat in the chair. The bar
Der had partially finished his task, and, lay
ing down the razor on a little table beside
Stanton, stepped across the room for some
water movement startled him, and he
turned just in time to see the glistening steel
flash by the barred throat, leaving crimson
streak in its wake. Rushing to the side of
Stanton, the barber caught the razor before
another stroke could be made. He called for
help and i'll a few moments there were gath
cred at the bedside the Surgeon General, a
few trusty attaches Of the Government, and
one or two members of the family. The
work had been done, however, and the life
current reached. At , o'clock next morning
Stanton was lead How well the secret of
his death has been kept, those who read this
to-day may know. Very quietly and expedi-
tiously the arrangements for the funeral were
made. There was no lying in state, and few
looked upon the face Of the deceased. The
next day after his death all that was mortal of
Edwin NJ. Stanton was put to rest, and with
the clay was buried his own and the secrets of
the war
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JULES JANIN. Edmond About concludes a
severe criticism on Jules Janin by saving
that ''this critic without capacity. this writer
without style, man of letters to the tins
of his fingers, and that in the most noble
sense of the word He loved reading. he
adored books, he had passion tor les chooses
de Eespri, he toiled without ceasiny, like a
man to whom literature is all in all II he
was led estray, and even got into the mire at
times by rnedding with polite he acted from
entirely disnterested motives, and he had q
profound contempt for places, pensions and
slnecures. His likings were sincere, his
hitreels no les SO. He did good and evil in
discriminatory, but ever conscientiously. All
who enjoyed his intimacy mourn in him the
best of men and the most devoted of friends.
HIS door WAS ever open to the young He en-
conraged Ponsard and aided him during his
lite, took hun to his house and comtorted him
to the dry Of his death II he created false
writing and leaves in his two hundred volumes
only models to be avoided, it is none the Less
true that his Life did honor to our profession.
The Marrs are after an English estate of
e6i, OO0, 900, after which they have not only
cast eyes like Marrs's, to threaten and COM
mand. but also to covet They propose to
take their case into the courts, to mar or
make their fortune. If our friend Robert n.
belongs to this family, we hope they VIII win
the SUIT aud the estate.
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Chicago at recent large meeting of influ-
entail citizens, determined to adopt the policy
OF having children's free excursions, which
have proved so successful and beneficial in
New York The Chicago newspapers indicate
that the benevolent are responding Literally to
enterprise il in judicious hands, that will con-
duct it s6llfully.
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NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN
NEW ORLEANS, JULY rs, 1874.
OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.

-scsSf.G TfE oCEAN-PERII.oUs TRIP OF THE
>gATE Or LovISIANA-SHK STRIKES AN 1cL-
sEkG.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-26

=" A Boston woman, the Detroit Free Press
tells us, has put $3.50 worth of lace on a
night-gown." Well, what of it ?" Can you
name one single gentleman Of pronounced
culture and aesthetic taste who would 90 to
the trouble and expense Of marrying if he
knew he would be compelled to repose in the
arms OF nlght-gown which cos less than
that sum ?-LouiscuLe Courier-Jounai
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Letter-boxes are attached to the passenger
railway cars of Chicago and Sc em to be grow
ing into popularity They We're first put on
the cars in October of last year during which
39,9S0 letters and postal cards were mailed in
them. For June OF the present year the num-
Der of letters and cards posted in tnem was
164 l13 The use of the boxes is said to cause
no extra trouble TO the mail carriers or post
office authorities, and no increased expense ex-
cept that Of furnishing the boxes.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-03-07
THE MAC0UPIN BONDS.

The war between the L. 5. Courts and Il
4" State of Macoupin" grows interesting. NJ
coupin county, H., as our readers are gene
ally aware, half dozen years ago, we
some two millions of dollars in debt to bul
a court house worth half million. AS h
bonds, to the amount of over million, VIC
issued contrary to law, and the people VIC
swindled out of so much money by corrr
board of county officials, they very natura
rebel against paying the debt. The pres
Board of Supervisors were elected on the
rect issue of paying or repudlating tn
bonds, and being unanimously for repu(
ton, they stick to their instructions like
roes The L. S. Courts having decidedt
the county must pay the bonds and issue
laaatiomus to the Board Of Supervisor
levy tax accordingly, and the BoarO
course having refused TO do so, the mems
in a body were brought before Judge lI'
of the L. s. Court at Springfield, to anIr
for contempt. Still persisting in the Wig
ness to suffer fine or Imprisonment toy
extent rather than obey TIE behcSts ole
Court, Ills Honor" proceeded to levy 1t
of 1900 on each of the II recaIcitraru-
pervsors. They went home to Carlll!e
and ON Tuesday of last week drew irohe
county treasury $4,000 to pay the fncnd
costs of court. And now the conunin
with the Court is, what to do with the MY,
and still greater conundrum with tSu.
pervisors is. what to do ReXt' EiFen
thousand dollars will pay the interest the
bonds, and If the Board are to be hau up
each year and fined $4,000 for conpt
might they not as well pay the Intd at
once rs fool away the money in payingcs:
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-03-07
keepers, Philadelphia herself Will have to
furnish the preliminary capital,
CREDIT M0BILIER SUITS.

| Ii NAV MAKE no difference in the end, but
the common notion that the suits on the part
of the United States government against the
correct. \ recent letter in the New York
| Tribune gives q clear and apparently authori'
tive explanation Of the present condition OF
these suits, which are now pending in the
Supreme Court of the United States. AS the
case now stands Il very important principle is
Involved and the decision may affect the
| interests of great many other land-grant
roads which have been managed upon sub
Istantially the same system. Briefly, the
position of the government is this: The
United States advanced means TO the company
to build the road under certain conditions
and for the public benefit, and to secure the
repayment of the loan at maturity the govern
mcnt took Il lien upon the property, 1t now
appears that the conditions of the grant have
not been fulfilled, and that the directors of the
road or a governing ring OF them, have
fraudulcntly converted to their own use the
resources which congress set apart as an
enuON Incnt LOT inc COZ pOI dllOlI anu 'apilai
for its future business. In other words, they
have unlawtuly deprecated the value Of the
security pledged to the United States, and the
government is entitled to interfere for the
protection of its own interests.
The equity of the case is very clear, and we
shall be disappointed lift do not prove, after
full argument before the supreme court that
the prosecution can be sustained and the law
affords complete remedy for the undeniable
wrong. If this hope should be realized, there
are many other railway corporations INTO
whose affairs 1t may be the duty Of congress
to exercise an incOnvenient scrutiny. All the
roads which have received aid in the form of
public lands have pledged themselves to use
that aid for certain purposes and under GER
tam conditions, and it is doubtful whether in
any case the pledge has been faithfully OBJ
served. Inside construction companies, and
other arrangements of that sort, by which
directors take money out of the corporation
treasury and putt into their personal pockets
are of course an infringement of the rights OF
whether these be the igOyern-
ment or private individuals, and we shall
watch the groat Credit Mobiler suit for an
Indication Of some legal process by which
such frauds may be stopped.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-03-07
SENSIBLE TALK TO THE TEMPERAN CE
LADIES.

The Louisville U0uieyJ0ur,idl, while do.
ing full justice to the purity Of motive and
Sefsacrifcing devotion of the Ohio ladies,
and offering its sympathy and support to any
scheme which will destroy the evils of intcm
perance, thinks that the assault on the liquor
sellers, who are only middle-men, cannot sue
ceed, and offers the following advice:
The points of attack, then, lady leaders in
this movement are very simple; either stop
the manufacture Of intoxicating liquors, or
direct your efforts against the consumer, and
bring the whole weight Of your moral force
to bear against that unnatural appetite which
is the root Of the whole evil. Destroy this,
and neither diSillerS nor dram sellers will
need your further attention. DoyOu ask how
this eau be accomplished? We can tell you
readily how it can not be accomplished.
This curse is not to be removed by dcclaim-
ing against it in public and tolerating it in
private. Treat the gentlemen as they treat
you; measure them by the standards by
which you are measured by them, and the
acccssOns to the ranks of temperance will
surprise your most sanguine expectations,
If a woman is addicted to the excessive use
of ardent spirits, are men still ready 10 take
her to their bOsOms with merely Il sigh OF
pity? No; the sentence Is more stern and Sc
we're, and-shall we aod-mOrc just. She is
banished from respectable society, and her
character considered wrecked. Have you
not sufficient nerve and moral force to exact
as high a standard Of virtue from them? In
stead of boiling over in public, and being
lukcwarm in private, boil, if you wish to,
but try the effect of freezing. You ladies
who are unmarried would acquire sufficient
dignity and strength Of character to refuse to
associate with druukardS, even if they have
sober intervals. Let young men understand,
that if they love ardent spirits better than
they do you, you consider them already
welded 10 It more alluring Mistress and are
not disposed to become IA bigamist Is this
asking too much Of you? Then 70 on in
your crusade against the rumsellers pour
out the viais of wrath upon the acCurscd traf
tic, aud coIppclthr veudcr to close his (fronD
doors. Then in the ev~uses rest your head
upon the head of his soddcn patron, and,
while you are inhaling the sweet fragrance Of
Bourbon and lager let your mind repOSc TN
der the consciousness OF dusty well done.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-03-07

And now comes the Free I'rddGr and nom.
mates us for Congress or the Legislature
You are too kind, gentlemen. Your rood
ness ovcrcomes Us, Sorry to say we cannot
run ON specie resumption platform, which
the free 7'radey advocates. We do not belong
to the banks, and arcn not retained by them .
Edr'rWc TranscrtpL
Grover deserves credit for the Ingenuity
he shows in thus bringing himself out as a
candidate, pretending the FREE TRADER has
done It, while in point of fact the FREE IRA.
DER, even among the happicst flights of Bee
mus, had never conceived such prepostcr
Gus joke. However, rs a paper candidate, a
very small tissue paper kite or balloon would
float man of Growers heft with The same
ease that srccze Of common scnse would
dissipato 50 unsubstantial dcluSion as his
irredccmablc paper money de, r.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-03-07

Nothing demolishcs Jad theory sorcI-
lessly and effectively as stubborn taclhe
theory that to make money plentl ana
cheaper in the west the government u Is
sue, or authorize the banks TO lss'hoie
paper promises TO pay, IS, we sho say
ieflectuallv demolished by a simple. VI
two stated in the money article OF tDAlla-
lelphia Lc9gtr. II in Philadelph NE"
Yorl, and Boston money is 50 plentyt the
banks refuse longer TO receive II ofP9St15
nayinr nothing for its use, what 0 pre-
went that money from coming west more
than ls,hc government should sturtheT
oIut the eastern money market bl add
tional inundation OF paper:
Saws the Ldyer Of Feb. @'ih:
Tho increase of deposits in tlast six
weeks at the banks of TINS citl Is my 'hIes
and tbrccqharter mliilonS OF uoll8lhc rs
"ro,,ote ,r,,o, having reached thirty-n and a
99na5rtcr millions. These deposits taxed,
dnI NOT beinr wanted in any of tprcduc-
i've g' nrrsuits that would reduce tRmount
thev become quite q burden. Tfalso re
.oiiiIe the banks to hold correshing IN
crease of twenty-five per cent. of Il reserve.
Some of our banks are now in anoma-
Ious condition as to positively dne large
deposits. They cannot be IIse.yantage-
oush. 1t will be remembered irthis that
the bank note and greenback cucy is of
the same volume as at any timdthin the
last four or five years, except oas II may
have been increased within the month or
two by the Illegal reissue froUe retired
fortv-four millions. In view elese facts,
we wonder that any one can fapr serioas-
" advocate an initiation of the c,ncy by the
OF bonds into ency, and
from currency back again lntonds, form
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-03-07
THE WOMEN,s ANTI.WHISKY WAR.

|
The movemnt on the Ohio plan in Chicago
was started on Monday when band of about
40 women, in the midst of fall of rain and
snow protected by rubbers, waterproots and
umbrellas, visited about dozen of saloons on
the north side, and in several cases knelt
amid the slush on the sidewalks and offered
prayers and sang hyms for those who had the
iphumanity t) not admit them to the inside.
Since Monday, however efforts are directed
TO organize on more extended and effective
plan, when the war will be resumed in
earnest.
| At Columbus. Ohio where the movement
has been in full force for over week, the
ladies are gathering rather than loosing earn
cstness and strength, while the saloon keepers
remain apparently impregnable. In the
south end or German portion of the city the
feeling against the Betschrestern is SO intense
that it is believed if the ladies enter that
rccion a riot will be inevitable.
At Dayton, Ohio the saloon keepers, after
enduring the visitation of the ladies for a
week have combined and raised fund to
commence legal proceedings to protect them
selves.
AT Madisonvile, Hamilton county, after a
weeks effort the women have ceased visiting
the saloons and do the praying in the
churches,
In Middletown two.thirds of the saloons
have bean closed.
At Springfield, on Thursday, after four
weeks of prayer and eXhortation, the efforts
of the women were rewarded by the first un.
conditional surrender Fred Rapp, who kept
a place frequentcd by mechanics, was the man
to lead off He signed the pledge and spilled
his liquors at 10 o'clock Thursday morning.
Announcement of the event caused the liveli.
est satisfaction among the friends OF the cause.
At least two more will follow before the end
of the week Small squads of women mount
guard over all the principal saloons, from
early morning until late at night and no dis
couragement is felt yet
The movement is in progress at many
other points in Ohio, with varying success,
but the above indicate the general drift
In Illinois, although temperance meetings
are being held in all directions, we notice no
movements among the ladies on the Ohio plan
except one or two in Kendall county, one at
Aledo, and one at Arcola.
In Indiana the movement is vigorously and
successfully prosecuted at a number of points.
Most of the saloon keepers have closed up or
temporarily run away from Valparaiso; at
Winchester the ladies commenced work en-
Wednesday amid great enthusiasm and eX-
citement and ere confident of success; at War
saw 100 women are in line and the saloon men
are tcrcor-stricken! At Jeffersonvile the
excitement that attended tie movement Il
weeck ago has died out, but the ladies are
persistent and the saloon keepers continue
stubborn and apparently immovable
Thee are notes of the war breaking out in
spots in Massachusetts,, and of more progress
through Pennsylvania. Also IN New y ork
city "in spots,' at Pittsburg, Leavenworth,
&c. Upon the whole the movement is as yet
anything but on the wane.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-03-07

The Presidents message, sent to congress
last week in aid of the centennial show at
Philadelphia, Is one of those peculiar Uly.
sian utterances that leave it an open question
as to which side the President is on. The
President seems TO think an international cN-
hibitiOn would be a good thing to have and
Thai Philadelphia would be good place to
have it at; but if held at all It ought to he
made 4 success, and this can only be assured
by help from congress. If congress is ipdis.
posed to give such help, the President thinks
the international feature should be suppressed
forthwith. The truly loyal" papers OF Phil
adclphia are sadly puzzled by such Bunsbian
lutterancss, while Forncy interprcts 1t rs an
exhibition OF the presidential cold shoulder
The truth is, the people OF this country are
unable 20 see the fitness and good taste of
asking the monarchical and autocra;ic nations
OF Europe TO join US in celebrating the lri.
umphs of republican democracy in this bet.
! ter hemisphere, and manifest very little desire
! 10 take stock in it; and q. To making il a
purely national demonstration, they maAifcs,
as little eagcrness 10 contribute money To-.
wards il, knowing what they do about the
character of the Philadelphia politicians who
would have the handling of it, The chances
are, if Philadelphia wants a big "blow OUT
in 1876, and wants the whole country to flock
I there and be flccccd of fifteen or twenty mil
| lions by her merchants hotels and saloon
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-03-07

On Monday the rear car of a nassopcor
irsin on the Canada Great Western railroad
near Toronto took fire in the front ,v.,or
closet, and as there was no bell rope 10 oivo
notice,o the engineer, the train was never
stopped until tho car was all ablaze, and snc,
OF The passengers as failed to leap from tn,
flying train, were burnt TO death For seyera
miles along the road, passengers that Ia,
leapcd off and more or less mangled vcr,
afterwards picked up. Ten passengers vcr
killed outright and twenty-five more, or les
bodily hurt.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-03-07

u. Grover was advertised compile OF
weeks ago to speak at Sheridan, and the I'm.
ioa promised in advance to report and pub.
lish his speech. The EDt0R redecms its pro.
mise, not by giving verbal report but by
giving ''all he said" as follows:
All those that believed rs he did, did go
from merccnary motives and for the purpose
/ o! panderiuC TO the tSSte and WISHES of the
masses who demand reform. Those that did
hot believe as he did, were bought by money
ed monnpolies, and OF this number was the
Shurt republican party from Gen. Grant
I uoWh' lie did not even det0nd Shurz, bu
Grained That he had been bought by the Ger
, man pond holders. Even churches and minis
leis ull not escape his abuse, but were declared
a iIaud and deception. There were about iii
,eeh men and boys out TO hear this miserable
harfangue, and not one of that number ap
proved OF The sentiments uttered. We shall
not invite y. j. Grover here again.