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The Right to Deposi, Money,

The portly President of the State
National Bank sauntered lesurely forth
from his private Office in the direction
of the front door Arriving at the
counter, he was confronted by stall
wart son of Africa's sunny cline, who,
judging from the stream of water oozing
from his garments, had been standing
at the door in the rain for several hours
"S'pose your name is Williams, is
il ?"
"My name, sir, is Mr.. Williams"
"Dat's what l axed you-me'nt nc
harm; dis is de bank, de State Bank
isn't it?'
"Yes, sir, this is the State National
Bank"
"And de C,bble Rites is dun ant
pass'd, is it ?"
The Civil Rights bill is said to bt
the law of the land, sir.'
"Dat's what l axed you, no harm
meant; and amt culled pussons got al
much rite to post money here rs d.
white folks ?"
"They have the same privileges a
the white people in that particular, sir.
"Well, den, just take dis pile ODE
dar. and put it again my name on d
book" (pulling from his siie-pocke
about three hundred dollars in cur
rency)
Like sensible man as he is, th
Presi ient.yielded to the majesty CT til
law, and took the money on deposit =
! Raleigh News
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An old hen sat on turtles eggs,
And she hatohed ont goslings three,
Two were turkeys with slender legs,
And one was bumble-bee.
"Very odd children for such motheli"
Said all the hens to one another.

The Danish Lutheran Church in
America is growing rapidly. Churches
have been established in many places in
the East, as we'll as in the West Last
year it counted twelve churches and
six ministers. Now she counts twenty
six churches and nine ministers, and
1900 communicants.
The Bishops of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church will hold their next semi
annual meeting in Chicago, commencing
on Thursday, May 81. On the previous
Sunday, May %, several of them are to
participate in TIE missionary meetings
in Cincinnati, and on Sunday, May 80,
will reinforce the missionary secretaries
in similar meetings in Chicago.
The Baptist Home Missionary Soci
ETY., whose financial year is almos,
closed, has received from the churches
Sl92, 900 for its work, $1,000 more
than n any previous years. 1t begar
the year with debt of $4,000, whicl
has been reduced to $4,000. Th,
Foreign Missionary Union of the sam,
Church has received S26l,5 $50, or $40,
600 less than it received the preceding
year. tits consequently in debt $50,
O00
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Auehp.
LEXINGTON.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Slowly the mist Ger the meadows was creeping,
Bright on the dewy buds glistened the sun,
When from his couch, while his children were
sleeping,
Rose the bold rebel, and shouldered his gun.
Waving her golden vail
Over the silent dale,
Blithe locked the morning on cottage and spire:
flushed was his parting sigh,
While from his noble eye
Flashed the last sparkle of Gberty's fire.
On the smooth green where the fresh leaf i,
springing,
Calmly the Arst-born of glory have met
Harkl the death-volley around them is ringing!
Lookl with their life-blood the young grass
is wet!
Faint is the feeble breath,
Murmuring low in death,
"Tell to our sons how their fathers have died;
Nerveless the iron hand,
Raised for its native land,
Lies by the weapon that CLEANS at its side.
Over the hillsides the wide knell is tol!ing,
From their far hamlets the yeomanry come;
AS through the storm-cloud the thunder burst
rolling,
Circles the beat Of the mastering drum.
Fast on the soldiers path
Darken the waves of wrath,
Long have they gathered and loud shall they fall;
Red glare's the musket's fash,
Sharp rings the rifles crash,
Blazing and changing from thicket and wall.
Gayly the plume of the horseman was dancing,
Never to shadow his cold brow again;
Proudly at morning the war steed was pranoing,
Reeking and prsncing he droops on the rein;
Pale ia the lip Of seorn,
Voiceless the trumpet horn,
Torn is the silken-fringed red cross on high;
Many belted breast
Low on the turf shall rest,
Ere the dark hunters the herd have passed by.
Snow girdled crags where the hoarse wind is
raving,
Rocks where the weary foods murmur and
wall,
Wilds where the fern by the furrow is waving
Reeled with the echoes that rode on the gale;
Far as the tempest thrills
Over the darkened hills,
Far as the sunshine streams over the plain,
Reused by the tyrant hand,
Woke all the mighty land,
Girded for battle, from mountain to main.
Green be thegraves where the martyrs are lying!
Shroudless and tombless they sunk to their
rest
White DER their ashes the starry fold flying
Wraps the proud eagle they reused from his
nest.
Borne on her Northern pine,
Long on the foaming brine
Spread her broad banner to storm and to sun;
Heaven keep her ever free
Wide as Ger land and sea
Floats the fair emblem her heroes have won!
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Selfrf Stary.
A MEMORABLE RIDE.
BY A FARMERS WIFE.

"Hadn't you better leave the door un
fastened, Eliza" said my husband, as ]
turned the key in the door and dropped
it in my pocket.
81 don't know" I said, doubtfully
then, after a moments hesitation, "no,
think it had better be fastened. The
children might get out and run down tc
the gate at the foot of the meadow; and
it is but step from there 20 the creek
you know
He made no reply, but stopped down
and looked at some part of the harness
with slightly perplexed air.
"What is the matter now2" l said
with some asperity.
The truth is, my husband belonged tc
that numerous class of individuals, whose
motto is, never do to-day what can be
put off until tomorrow, while /, on the
Econtrary, was prompt and decided
With me to will and to do were synony
nous, and / had little mercy for such 6
failing.
81 fancy this little piece of twine viii
carry US through this time, but certain
ly will mend it tomorrow" he replied
as crawled into the old fashioned pbe
ton
The harness being adjusted to his sat
isfaction, il not to mine, he seated him
self beside me, and nodding to the little
faces pressed against the window pane
we drove off.
Our cottage was situated in the little
valley lying on the southwest or what
was at that time the little village of La
noy, Canada. A hill Of considerable
height stood between us and the village
on one side a verdure crowned, gently
rising slope, on the other a more alb
rupt descent, with rather circuitou:
road winding past litte cottages ant
farm houses of more or less pretensions
Our present errand was to the shop,tC
which we carried our produce as it accu
mulated from time to time, and received
in exchange, groceries, clothes, DC. 'Oul
load consisted in part Of basket o
eggs consequently we were obliged tt
drive more slowly than usual.
/ left, as I had often done before, tn,
younger children in the care of Grace
who, though but eight years of age. wa
never more pleased than when entrusted
with some similar duty or responsibility
I charged her not to take the baby from
the cradle, but to rock him gently t.
sleep if he awakened, or If he would no
sleep to amuse him with his plaything
until our return.
1t was lovely day in September-co
pious showers of rain had alternate,
with midsummer suns. and the FRESHNESS
OF the verdure was undimmej. 1t wa
scarcely yet time for the "sere and yeI
low leaf" but the naples had hung on
their contrast with the living green q
other forest trees. The birds sang cheer
fly as they duttered to and fro in th
hedge-rows, and numerous little gronn
squirrels SKINNED along the fence rail
and dropped and disappeared myster
olsly.
| Old Whitley rambled along in his us
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Rest Before Eating.

Everybody knows that a season OF
rest after dinner pays well, but it is no,
more important than the rest before
eating, i: one is very weary. This rule
is Of the utmost Importance to the "bu
siness man," or, the person engaged in
brain labor, and its violation is one oil
the chief causes of our national dyspep.
sia-this and the rapid eating that is
customary. People of strong and I'M.
impaired constitutions (if any such can
be found may not feel how impossible
it is for the body to carry on the bust
ness of digestion when greatly fatigued
or while it is being put to hard labor in
some direction; but such is the case, ,and
the health of our citizens is all the time
being destroyed for lack of knowledge
on this point The stomach must have
some vitality, or nerve force to do its
work with, and if the body has been
using this vigorously, with the muscles
or with the brain, little time should be
allowed for gathering up its energies fol
the task of digestion.
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Train. Not Break the VIII.

Men often speak of breaking the will
ola child; hut the will needs regulating,
not destroying. should as soon think
of breaking the legs of horse in train.
ing him, as child's will. | would dis
ciplne and develop It into harmonious
proportions. l never yet heard of a
will in itself too strong, more than an
arm too mighty, or mind too compre
hensive in iss grasp, too powerful in its
hold. The instruction of children
should be such as to animate, inspire
restrain, but not to hew, cut and carve
for l would always treat child as 6
live tree, which has to be carved into
this or that shape, and to have certain
holdings grooved upon it. A live tree
and not dead timber,is every little child
Theodore Parker.
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Where the HaI d.Shell Was Too
Soft.

A hard shell preacher wished to bring
forth good Illustration, as he thought,
and thence he took Sarnut, as he
called it, into the pulpit with him, and
something to crack it with On hold
ing it up, in the course of his sermon,
he said:
"My friends, you see this warnut-
well, this outer hull here is like the
Methodists, soft and spongy, with no
strength into it; see, l even break i,
with my fingers" and suiting the action
to the words, he disclosed the inner nut
and said. ''this is like the missionary
Baptists, hard and dry, with no sub
stance in it; but the kurnul-the kurnul
my friends, is like the good old primi
tive, full OF fatness and sweetness"
He tlfen proceeded to crush the "war
nut" and give his hearers an ocula
demonstration of his illustration, bu
behold. it was rotten; and to the ute
astonishinent of his hearers, he criet
out:
by jinks! it's rotten"
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Economical Legislatures.

The Cincinnati Enquirer says that tht
Democratic Legislature of Ohio has
lessened taxation S600,00O The Dem
ocratic Legislature Of Indiana can SEE
that and go one hundred per cent better
1t saved the people of Indiana $1,000,
600 in taxation, besides sweeping a lo
of Radical thieves from oflice.-Munci.
Ind J Democrat.
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Prayer is the path that God made, on
! which men travel back to him.
Do not be content with well doing for
| it is only by constant striving to exec
every previous effort that men arrive q,
great ends.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-05-11

Some Of the statisticians who are in.
vestigatine negro lite, have found that
that race above all others abhor suicide.
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VI a: this HOTEL and no pains will be spared
to make them comfortable.
Hacks leave the Hotel every morning 70
Wooisfeld.
Carriages aud drivers furnished travellers
At all times. julyl 1871
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THIS house has been thoroughly repaired
i recently, and the Proprietor informs the
travelling public that he isprepared to afford
accommodations of the best, The table will
be supplied with the best the market affords;
the rooms and bedding are kept clean and
comfortable; stabling in good order, and the
traveller is assured that his horses will receive
good care. Travelling Agents will be furnish.
ed with sample rooms, june23,'74Y,
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by jinks! it's rotten. y
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-31

A Ten THOUSAND DOLLAR DAUGHTER
certain day, on Pennsylvania railroad, a
belle OF thriving Pennsylvania town, the
daughter Of wealthy lumber merchant, was
travelling in the same car with shrewd old
citizen of her native town and an agreeable
gentleman from the West, who tells the story
The latter had been talking to the belle, but
as the night drew on and the young lady grew
drowsy, he gave up his seat to her and placed
himself beside the somewhat cynical Penn
sylvanian. The latter began conversation by
pointing to high mountain, past which they
were whirling, and said
"Iou see that mountain? Six or eight wears
ago it was covered with as fine forest as
ever grew, and worth $4,000 and upward.
Now, without tree, covered with stumps,
the land is scarcely worth continental The
net produce of that mountain lies over there
in that seat, and he pointed to the recum-
bent belle; 'that is my calculation. 1t has
just absorbed all of that lumber which her
father owned to raise and educate the girl,
pay for her clothes and jewelry, bring her out
in society, and maintain her there. Some of
you young men, if you were given the choice
between the mountain yonder, as it now
stands, and the net produce on that seat,
would take the net produce; but as for me,
give me the stumps.
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The recent experience of travellers over the
Union and Kansas Pacific Railroad, with the s'cold
wave OF Old Probabilities and its accompany
ing pillows of snow-drfts, unspeakabe discom-
forts and tedious delay of trains, is potent argu
ment in favor of a Southern route to the Pacific
which will enjoy exemption from the caprices of
the ice-kinga route like that Of the Texas
Pacific Railway, which, it is safe to say will
be blocked up with the snow. A train on the
Kansas Pacific was recently eleven days going
from Kansas City to Denver; the passengers were
subjected to real suffering and the pangs of
oysters found in the express car. On the Union
Pacific, trains have been similarly delayed, and it
is very evident that railroad through milder
climate would be greatly appreciated by travellers
who ship freight with the desire to have it 90
through with expedition. -eo~ter-Jonnal.
Every winter furnishes several similar areu-
ments in favor of the speedy completion of the
Texas Pacific Railroad.
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THE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 81 1876

the lives and homes of the whole people, and
ready and willing to protect even colored peo-
pie from assaults in future as they have done
in the past, courts investigation, and will, we
are assured, without any consultation with
the leaders, be gratifed to explain to the hon
orable committee its nature and purposes
We speak in this matter entirely without au-
thority but throw out the suggestion to Gen.
Ogden and his associates in the League for
their consideration.
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THE WHITE LEAGUE AND THE CON-
GRESSIONAL COMMITTEE,

The in urious stories which have been sci
afoat in regard to the White League of this
city and State, the falsehoods which have
been uttered concerning them by Sheridan,
Merrill, Kellogg, and the innumerable host
of lesser liars, incline us to believe
that it would be an excellent idea for
General Ogden to call together his ter
rible bandits according to Sheridan) or his
six or seven hundred schoolboys according
to MerrilD and invite the gentlemen of the
Congressional Committee to inspect them, in
order that they may see for themselves the
character OF men who compose this much
talked OF but little understood organization.
We should particularly like the gentlemen
OF the committee to see the order of men
upon whom the white women and children of
this State rely for protection against the
armed janissaries of the usurpaton, and
against wanton insults and outraces on the
part of the negroes.
We are anxious that the committee should
penetrate into the very strongholds of the
men to whom we have been indebted for per-
sonal safety in this State for the last seven
months; that they should converse with and
critically examine the members Of the League
AS to its purposes and intent. as to the circum-
stances which made its organization an alb
solute necessity, and us to the sentiments of
officers and men regarding the General Gov
eminent.
Let Messrs. Hoar, Wheeler, Frye and Mar
shall walk up and down the lines of Leaguers,
scan the face of every man, and manufacture,
If they can, out Of the material before them
the murderous bandits of whom Sheridan was
mot afraid, or the schoolboys who so swiftly
defeated the well-drilled, well-armed and self
confident hosts of the usurper, commanded
by so renowneda General as Longstreet.
Let these members of Congress meet our
White Leaguers face to face, that they may
speak advisedly when they return to Con-
gress and are Intercepted as to the character |
of the men who checked the onward march |
Of tyranny in this State, and shattered at one
brave blow the power of a usurpation which
had been erected by the Administration at
Washington. in bold defiance of the will of
The people and in shameless disregard of the
rights of the State under the Constitution.
The whole people Of our city and State
have nothing to fear from investigation, the
White League being in no wise secret Or
,anization, being simply and purely an asso- /,
'iation OF gentlemen for the preservation Of
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DR.. CNrtiS's Last Professional
SEASON IN NEW ORLEANS,
DR.. E. de f. CURTIS, NJ. D., r. X. c. :.
Author of
MANHOOD, MEDICAL ESSAYS ON
MARRIAGE, ETC.

While returning his sincere thanks to his
numerous patients in New Orleans, and the ad.
jacent Southern country, for the flattering evi.
dences of their confidence and esteem received
by him, desires to announce that
HE WILL LEAVE THIS CITY ON THE FIRST
DAY OF MAY NEXT
For San Francisco, Cal, where he has business
interests to protect, and which will require his
presence there for the next two years. DR.. Cur.
tbs would suggest to those who intend seeking
his professional services, to do SO at as early a
date as possible, and enable him to mark the pro-
Sress of each patient. One personal interview
Is sufficient to form a correct diagnosis of the
most difficult case, which can subsequently be
carried on by letter
Dr. CURTIS has devoted himself fora period
ranging over twenty years, and adopted as his
speclaties the treatment and cure of
NERVOUS AND PHYSICAL DEBILITY,
Exhausted Vitality, Premature Decline, Abuses
OF the System, and such general functional de-
engagements as spring from the above causes, or
are incident to an enervated and depleted condi-
ton of the organs, and may be CONFIDENTI-
ALLY consulted as heretofore at his rooms,
No. Rampant Street, Between Canal and
CustOmhOuse Streets,
Daily from 10 A. NJ. to 8 P. NJ, or from to P.
NJ. On Sundays, II to P. NJ, only.
The Medical Times says cdr. Curtis's system
of treatment, the result Of twenty years success.
full practice differs from all others in general use,
and commends itself to the afflicted as the ONLY
true source ofrelief. Many cases pronounced in
durable have yielded successfully to his rene
dies"
Consultations Strictly Confidential,
ja16 3m2dp M&E
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A man entered ticket Office in San Fran
cisco recently. and asked for a ticket for
Destination. To prove that he was not
mistaken, he pointed to notice which read ::
" Passengers who intend going farther than
tickets to destination"
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Mark Twain says the Sandwich Islanders
are generally as unlettered as the back side of
a tombstone.
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A North Carolina paper says that two negro
girls, in want of new bonnet, placed OBJ
structions on the Wilmington and Weldon
Railroad, near Warsaw, the other day, as
they say, "for the purpose Of killing some
ladies on the train that they might secure the
bonnets.' They have been tried before
justice Of the peace and sent to Dublin Jail.
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Judy has a cartoon which pictures Mr.. Dis
raeli as the keeper of patent conservative
safe, into which all classes want to deposit
what they hold most precious royalty, its
privileges the people, their iberties the
rich man, the rights of property, and the
bishop, the rights of the church This car
toon is a jocular epitome OF the British Con-
Stitution
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Memorial
or TIE
Dehhocratic-s Conservative Members OF the
Louisiana Legislature
TO THE
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
Relative to the armed Intervention of the Federal
Government with the House of Representa-
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January, ISIS.
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The late Lord Brougham, who at one time
was proverbial for his gallantry to the fair
sex, was pleading in a jury cause before the
late Lord, and his client happening to
be female, and defender in the action, of
the name of Ticker, he commenced his
speech in the following humorous strain !:
Tickle my client, the defendant my Lord "
The audience, amazed with the oddly of the
speech, We're almost drawn into Mysteries of
yourself, Harry you're better able to do it
than am