The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-06
THEN AND NOW.

adjourned until Wednesday next.
THEN AND NOW.
Editor Of the New Orleans Bulletin:
Mr.. Editor-I am one OF those individuals
who have "reminiscences of this day. can
look back thro' the dim vista Of fifteen years
and see the fourth of July of ante-bellum
times, when there used to be countless num-
bers of militia companies and volunteer or
CARNATIONS, filing our streets on that day
with gay uniforms and making the air resound
with martial air and serried tread. The roar
of artillery and the peal Of musketry startled
us at early morn and thrilled our pulses with
q military ardor, strange and fascinating.
The Washington Artillery, with the stately
and soldierly Walton; the Louisiana Guard.
with the gallant and chiyalric GLADDEN.; the
Orleans Cadets, with the dashing and knight
ly Dfeux--all struggled, with an honorable
rivalry fer mastery in popular opinion. But
with the march Of civilization these things
have ceased to be. 7uI aag .,4.t.
| The iron hand Of war has scattered these
battalions; the edict of the colqueror has
stopped these play parades-these pageants
that kindled the eye of patriotism and
wrought q soldierly impulse in every breast
these belong TO the past, the grim, dreadful,
gloomy, agonizing past.
Let us look upon the Fourth of July just
past.
The day was ushered in by quiet and I'M
obtrusive sunrise about $50 o'clock in the
morning-no brazen-mouthed cannon, SYM
bols of tyranny, belched forth their hoarse
thunder upon the unaccustomed and affightsd
ear of people wrapt in the sleep of peace.
that peace which Grant promised them, and
which ''passeth all understanding" No frown-
ing battalions of infantry crowded weak wo-
men and helpless children out Of the street,
they we're permitted to assemble as they
pleased, without molestation.
The writer and few friends stepped down
on Canal street to celebrate the day. The
sun was out in all of his gorgeous splendor,
he generously shed his light DER all; if he
was ever stingy with his light, he was patri-
otto enough yesterday to scorn to stint the
deserving people there assembled of one sim
gle ray generous, prodigal sun. We waited
| in expectation of the pageant-the throng
grew denser and denser as the day wore on,
until perhaps there must have been twenty
five or thirty people assembled on this vast
| boulevard to see the sights sand all the Won
| ders that would be-" The sun looked calmly
down on this assembled multitude, and they
looked on vacancy. Finally shout rent the
air. and amid all this pomp, came sweeping
along a gallant company of the Nations
wards, in serried ranks, with the gorgeous
ensign Of the Republic hanging limp and rag
like down yellow pole, while the ear-perc-
| ing fife and q cracked kettle drum told us all
| too plainly that "Mollie Darling" was alive
| and kicking on this glorious anniversary.
| Poor Mollie how we have pi.ied her. She
has been whistled, drummed, fiddled and
futed to death, and even the pensive hand
organist must murder her occasionally. Poor
child! she has fingered with us long time
We have nothing against her; on the con-
trary, we hoped she would "pass in music
out Of sight, "and die among the stars, or
some sphere where she would be more
appreciated. We like Mollie, and we like the
Fourth of July but it is sad thing to have
them both together. Well, when the sable
pageant passed, and water cart filed with
Hoyt's best German cologne had sprinkled
the streets and allsyed in measure the aroma
Of that company, we went to the Boston Club
to wet oor "secret inwardness with SPAR
oxysmsl punch" and to ponder upon the
then and n0,o.
To think of the millions of people that
used to shout and throw flowers all over the
Goddess Of Liberty on this day, and who now
just look at the girl like Caleb Plummer did
at his disguised boy, as though they "can't
zacly make her OUT" as if she were Susan
B. Anthony at a Plymouth prayer meeting
after the verdict She is not to blame, either,
for her children were afflicted with violent
incompatability of disposition-had an I'M
pleasantness, in which the big boy licked the
little fellow and held him down for long
time, and his mother was not strong enough
to pull him off altogether. In the
mean time, the little fellow has been
growing and the big boy has been learning
not to disregard too far the teachings OF his
mother. and it is to be hoped the family will
get along amicably and prosperously after
while They are to have family reunion next
year-the old lady spreads her table at Phila-
delphia, and invites her children to be pres
ent, it being just hundred years since she
landed in this country and set up Tor her-
self.
She has had great deal of trouble since
she begun. She is the same woman who
planted trees all over the world and watered
them with her tears, and poet has told us
that she shrieked when Kosciusko fell; how
true all this is we don't know. but she looks
as if sbe had seen trouble. We hope this gold
en- wedding or centennial or family meeting
will fix it all up and homologate 1t for all
time to come. If this comes about, am GER
tain we will never see another Fourth OF July
as yesterday. NED
Mothers, remember that Marsden's Zarsa-
parilla will relieve your children when suffer-
ing from prickly heat or eruptions.
Best Cordova coffee, parched or ground, 80
cents per pound, at the Tea Depot. Camp street
sWhat is proper condment for one sex OF the
bird is proper condiment for the other: Is a