The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-02
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.


Grant Laments His Louisiana Policy and Cast
the Odium upon Boss Packard-'' Bonanza" il
Senatorial Sense-Society Notes.
WASHINGTON, Feb. "a, 1875.
The voice of the turtle isn't heard in this
land as yet, but the uncertain trilling of that
other equally early and much more inevita-
BILE bird-the hand organ-has riven the ear
for some time past. The grass is growing
green IN the grounds of the old bachelor
next door, who sits by the window for hours
in reveries Ike Marvel never Interpreted
the dry goods men are filling windows and
shelves with dainty summer fabrics, or care
fully wrapping away for darker seasons the
unsold woolens still in stock; the sunlight
comes with triumphant burst through the
wintry clouds; there are suggestions of sweet
growing scents in all the air, and we begin to
think, that may be, out in quiet hooks violets
are timidly peeping, opening their sweet blue
eyes beside the flushing clusters of the spicy
arbutus So many times the spring songs
have been sung SO many times the spring
stories have been told, and yet the old earth
never tires of repeating the fairy tale to her
children, who listen so attentively till they feel
in every vein and nerve the quick, impuisive
leaping of the new life that comes so surely
every year.
From all Over the Land
pilgrims are coming to Washington eager to
share in the last exciting days Of the session.
lol @bo
near, and watching the poor, tired men, |
wonder how they ever endured the wearisome
drag OF year ago, when they We're kept at
the perplexing, troublesome, problem of law
making so many months. The success with
which that enormous Capitol is heated in bit
ter weather, is unquestionab!e, but oh dear
wish the ventilation were equally perfect
The air of the House is absolutely sitting.
There is no direct communication with the
outside zephyrs, and patent fans, however
briskly circulated, do not give the refresh
ment for which our laboring lungs petition.
OF course every thing is crowded into these
lays, and tn en- the precious minutes must be
spent in discussing which of so many import |
mt measures shall have precedence. Over
md above every other interest there looms
he shadow OF your oppression, dear friends;
shadow SO heavy, so perpetually asserting
tselt, and 50 uncompromisingly clear in out
inc that at last Grant has opened his ewes to |
ind it has even invaded his secret places, and |
he President suddenly discovers that he has |
made mistake He doesn't sag ssthe woman.
Thou gavest, ETC., but he is actuated by the |
anne cowardly spirit Of our ancestor who
lid utter that memorable sentence: so he
wines out that Packard has been lying
o him all the while; that he really thought
Kellogg was legally elected" with much more
+ the same dwelling stuff, which is hardly
that We might expect from so valorons q
lan as Ulysses. 1t is all Packard fault. To
he intellect OF statesman this may be suffi-
lently clear, but to an unsophisticated femi-
lne mind besotted in ignorance upon such
Mighty questions, it does occur that the
resident, who SO swiftly interfered at Mar
hal Packards solicitation, ought to at least
ave had some very positive proof concerning
LEGGED facts. Now the poor man is more
erplexed than Mr.. Plckwick ever thought of
eng and more undecided than the exceed
Sly capuclous winds which have been so
bomlnably uncertain during the last week.
The Weather Map.
angling in the lobby behind the Speakers
ask, Is a most interesting chart. All over its
lrtace there are funny little discs which can !
3 changed with the changing cloud a
'mptoms-I can't think of better word: if y
u can, please put it in. To-day the discs
ere black almost everywhere, denotinp 2
aden skies throughout Uncle Sam S domin. Z
rs. | think there were only six of the Fl
lght-tlnted circles proclaiming the presence
sunlight, and they were in the Indian Ter o
tory, where sunlight wastes itself ever desc t
[e stretches OF unsettled lands. l said, L
wastes itself, but didn't quite mean that,
r | saw that same Indian Nation, when those al
nit days had completed their secret e,
chemy, and oh! how fair We're the miles of al
qulslte bloom smiling back into the
avens their sweet assurance Of conscious
auty. L shall never forget the zones of
lor succeeding one another in such rapid
d marvellous splendor; but would like a
lie more OF the sunlight here all the same Ii
It now. ~
Bonanza. =
Isn't it funny how quickly new word is well
ned and how soon we incorporate it with =
ordinary expressions of thought We
We no time IN this hurrying age to squander
on elaborate sentences, and this new Spanish
M is already an epitomized rendering of IA
ny topics. Senators Stewart and Jones are
human ''bonanzas' here at present, but
new Senator Sharon will soon come. OF -
lrse you have had descriptions of Senator
les, who has ceased to be so intensely in
estlnS now that the glamour of his splendid G
idlng has faded, and Senator Stewart is so
llilar an object that even the advent of a
y at Castle Stewart few weeks ago only
sed the faintest ripple of excitement,
ugh 1t did make the Senator grandfather.
transit, etc.
'ut the glory of lNrs. Senator Jones is not
on the decline. Lent came so soon that
hadn time to show half her elegant
sses, and society languidly congratulates it.
that there is still something new to be seen
: Easter In common with all the curious NJ
Id we dressed up one day, and went to call
n Mrs Senator Jones. Now our Sunday
* SILK is really very handsome and hav-
been made by an artistic it has the "air'