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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04
GHOSTLY WITNESSES.

Witnesses many have appeared before the
Congressional Committee now in this city
and testified to the most blood -curdlng sto-
ries of assassination and threatened assassin.
alton by certain mysterious and blood thirsty
individuals, supposed by the witnesses to be
White Leaguers are called bandits by
Sheridan, schoolJoys by Merrill, and gentlemen,
by Badger.
This fancy somehow seems to haunt and
grievously Cypress the minds only of such
Radicals as hold Office or have been engaged
in the systematic robbery of the people, and
who are becoming alarmed at the restlessness
exhibited by their hitherto meek and patient
subjects. 1t is fancy, however, which is not
borne out by the facts, but springs, like Mac
beths, from the "heat oppressed brain"
The daggers seen by these fellows are +" air
drawn" and the handles are invariably toward
their own hands. The very men who have
been condemned to martyrdom by reason, as
they allege, OF their political opinions, have
nm uncomfortable and perplexing habit
of turning up whenever a Congress
sional Committee comes this way, or if
indeed they have been assassinated, then
their restless and avenging spirits, even
more grossly materialized than that of Katie
King, persist in roaming around among the
living and in appearing on the witness stand
to declare to wondering world, through the
medium Of a Congressional Committee how
basely they were murdered.
1t is pretty severe lines for IFS to be called |
upon to rebut the malicious and slanderous
reports made by Kellogg and his crew in the
flesh, but we submit that it is piling on the
agony to expect us to tackle lot of material
lied ghosts, and refute their yrare and solemn
lies.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04
CIVIL SUPREMACY.

The following, from the Army and Nary
Journal, the official gazette of the regular
United States forces, may be regarded as
significant, inasmuch as it is an expression of
army feeling:
To the Editor of the Army and Navy Journal
Sir-How is it that the presence of troops
in the legislative halls of Louisiana is used to
point a moral from the text, that, "The mill
tary should be subservient to the civil power?"
Their presence there at all, as you have shown
in your columns, could be regretted by none
so much as it was and is by them. But to
our mind it seems magnificent illustration
of complete subservience to the whole gamut
Of civil authorities.
A civil Attorney General sends troops to
Louisiana, and civil Secretary of War sends
the Lieutenant General of the United States
army to see the troops and their surroundings.
He finds them doing whatever may be ordered
by the civil Governor of the State, the civil
United s ates Marshal, the civil deputies and
at last obeying the behests of fifty legislative
commanding officers (said to have been some
what unciviD of one political party, and,
again, the behests of a similar fifty of the
other party-all without fear, favor or affec-
ton, SO help em God! This looks like sub
serviency run mad; perfect illumination of
logically followed system which put the
army under the command of civil cabinet
officer, and company under that Of o civil
deputy marshal or Indian agent.
The soldiers stood there under unnatural
leaders to perform the unnatural duty of stop
ping bloodshed. They did it, knowing what
ever might be their course of action, that
there were many millions of their countrymen,
of one or the other of our political parties,
ready to fill the air with denunciations Of
their conduct Both parties made demands
upon them, and both were meekly obeyed.
But, verify, they received their reward.
Should a weapon of such power and pur-
pose be trusted to unskiliful hands, while the |
nation has men whose skill and Judgment in
its use are source OF universal pride? Is the
army the police or bulwark of the nation?
B. J. IFRAIc
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04
THE CONGRESSIONAL INQUEST.

The evidence of Messrs. Charles w. Burt
and S. B. Steers, both Of them Northern mer
who settled in Shreveport since the war, ex
poses the shameless mendacity Of those itin
Grant Office. seekers who, after robbing the
people of the country parishes, and consort.
ing with none but the lowest and most de-
graded negroes who follow politics as liveli-
hood since the war, are now making desperate
efforts to persuade the members of the Inves-
tigating Committee and the people of the
North generally that the whites of Louisiana
are unfriendly to all who come here from that
section. Here are two men of Northern
birth, and who doubtless came here with
many prejudices against us, but whose object
was legitimate business not political plumber
After living several years among the parties
whom Phil Sheridan and his man Merrill
call banditti, they both bear witness to the
cordially with which all decent and indus
trious settlers from the North are welcomed
here, and to the feeling of loyalty to the
General Government which prevails every
where, and which not even Grants outrageous
course towards Louisiana has dispelled. Mr..
Burt, who is merchant in Shreveport, testi-
fies that the election last fail was as quiet as
he ever saw held in New England, and that
the i'll feeling which exists against most of
the Republican officials is owing to their cor
ruptness. Mr.. Steers, a native Of New York,
says the people of North Louisiana are
anxious that respectable men should come
from the North and settle there and that a
Republican office-holder, if he be uprigh and
honest, will be respected. He agrees with
Mr.. Burt in denouncing the Kellogg office
holders as both incapable and corrupt, and
emphatically asserts that Major Merrills re-
ports were not well founded.
All this is no news to any one who knows
anything about Louisiana, but it is proper
that the evidence of the men of Northern
birth who have lived here for several wears
past and have had dealings with all classes of
our people, should 60 before Congress along
side of the Munchausenisms of Phil Sheridan |
and the "outrage" inventions of his docile |
of the Merrill and De Rudio |
pattern. Hundreds of men like Messrs. Burt |
and Steers are ready to come forward and |
corroborate the testimony of these honorable
and tru' h-telling Northerners as to the real
state of things in this bayonet ruled and car
Pet-bag iiddled State of Louisiana.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04
MORE WILD CATS.
They Flee From the Mountains of West
Virginia and Seek Refuge in
New Orleans.
Insurance Topics.

| 1ue BULLETIN commenced, some time ago
its crusade against those nefarious scheme
for swindling the unwary under the guise o
being insurance institutions, and its effort
were crowned with eminent success.
One after another of these bubbles was ex
ploded and we rested under the vain delusior
that our community had been freed from
their obnoxious presence, but it appears W.
were mistaken, for under the modest garb O.
small advertisement published last Sunday
it leaks out that two ferocious old wildcats
have been loosened upon our people and are
now roaming through our streets seeking
whom they may devour. The following was
the first announcement of their appearance
here
NOTICE. We hereby notify the public that
we have this day appointed Mr.. L. Lorenz
general agent for the Mineral Mountain In
surance Company of Huntington, West Va,
and the Nail City Insurance Company of
Wheeling, West Va, in the city Of New Or
leans, and that all losses that may occur un-
der policies issued by said Mr. L. Lorenz
shall be payable in this city.
T.. II. ANGAMAR, JR., & Co.
Southern Managers,
No. Carondelet street
The names Of these companies has certainly
a strong and solid sound. To the unprejudiced
eye they would at glance be selected as per-
feet Banks of England, but unfortunately,
those who are more intimate with their finan-
cial condition than ourselves, say that they
are out and out felines.
That responsible and judiciously edited
journal, the Insurance Spectator, published in
New York, and whose opinion in such matters
is considered most high seems to have con-
siderable intimacy with these concerns, for it
expresses itself in manper that leaves no
room for doubt. In the January number it
says:
Under the head of unadulterated wild cats,
the following companies may be named.
''The Mineral Mountain of Huntington,
West Virginia"
"The Nail City of Wheeling, West
Virginia"
The article referred to goes on to say that
the real office of the latter company is in Jer-
sey City, and that it was actually born in the
suburbs of Chicago We extend our sympa-
thies to the inhabitants of Wheeling in their
To have roaming through the
world grand gigantic institution such as the
Nail City Insurance Company is, hailing from
smoky shores, without even hay
ng the honor Of an acquaintance, is too much
IN the close Of the Spectators article referred
Q, the following Anglo-Saxon is used :
Of the true character of the Nail City Com
oany, however, there is no room for doubt |
t is swindle from top to bottom.
We honestly think it is to the interest of all |
,ood people to unite in crushing these vii
ainous shops, where the poorer classes are
lefrauded out of their money.
1t is only within the last few months that
hese agencies have become so pun erous here,
nd as the companies have only a fictitious
we trust their games may be thor
roughly exposed.
We would be pleased to receive any in
ormation relative to these concerns, as it is
attended to make the town too hot for them.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

A Washington woman thought she saw
man under her bed and soon aroused the en-
tire street. When the crowd reached her
apartment and surrounded the endangered
couch to drag the ruffian forth, only three or
four terrified children were found slowed
away where he was supposed to lie secreted.
They had gone there to play and had not in
tended to brighten anybody. During the ex-
citement lawyer who was seen running from
the house was set uponas thief, and another
good citizen, supposing that there was fire
somewhere, wasted half an hour trying to turn
on an alarm.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

An exchange says: We overheard two
downtown young ladies conversing about
their calls on last New Years Day. One of
them was describing the misery she endured
receiving calls on that day, and, among other
things, she said: 81 think the first one
dropped in about nine o'clock. Game early ;
he said, because he lad to 60 to the western
part of the town. First he impaired the start
ling intelligence that the weather was inaus-
picious for calls, but he didn't believe it would
rain though he confidently looked for snow.
Then he remarked that there were but few
callers on the streets, but he supposed they
would come later in the day. Then he took a
glass of wine and plate on his two knees.
spreading his feet to bring his knees together
Then he wished me many happy returns, and
then he left as another entered. Over and
over again, the self-same platitudes, and be-
fore night felt like signal service bureau
and was SO stuffed with weather that was
sick"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

That something must be done with the
crowd OF idle boys loatiug the live-long day
about the corner of Carondelet and St. Mary
streets is evident. If this amount of budding
genius is allowed thus to go to weed, there
will be prolific crop of lazy good for nothing
men produced. Their parents-we believe
boys sometimes have them-should attend to
this matter.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

The frequent application of the psuedo
title ''his Excellency" to the President of the
United States, reminds correspondent of the
experience of a sturdy @ .uker, who said: Il
once had the honor to be in the company of
Hlghness and an Excellency. His Highness
was just four feet eight inches in stature, and
his Excellency was the most pig headed, bru-
tai and disgusting man l ever knew"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

When Detroit boy is out until haf-past 10
O'Clock in the evening, and his father says to
him: "Boy, the first thing in the morning
I'll settle this with youE' that boy arises at
daylight, seeks the buck-saw and wood-pile
and he never lets up for moment until after
his father has eaten his breakfast and left the
house.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

Sheridan didn't always get the best of a dia-
logue. Some one characterized him as good
at fight, but better at play. godlike in
giving, but the devil to pay" just after he
had taken new house. he met Lord Guilford
to whom he said: "Well, all will 60 on now
like clock-work. Yes" said his lordship,
stick, tick
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

Snow, George, you must divide the cake
honorably with your brother Charles
''What is honorable, mother r. cit means
that you must give him the largest piece .
"Then, mother, I'd rather Charlie should
divide it"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

BLACKBURN CAsE.-This case was set for
IL M. Wednesday. All the accused parties
were present to have hearing before Julge
Evans, First Municipal Court, but the case
was again postponed until Monday. the Sth
instant.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEwELEY, Erc-Im.
portant sale this day at II o'clock, at ST.
Charles Auction Exchange rotunda, St.
Charles Hotel, by Messrs. Montg ,mery, .ot
the largest and most valuable stock of dia-
monds, over 500 gold and silver watches.
ladies opera chains, vest chains, etc. For
full particulars see advertisement
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04
THE WORK DONE IN THE CITY.

The following report of the Administrator
of improvements for January is an evidence
of practical retrenchment. The cost to the
city under the previous regime, in which but
very little work was done, was over forty
thousand dollars, saving of quite one-half
The report speaks for itself:
! DEPARTMENT OF IMPROVEMENTS.
| February 2. 1875.
To the City Council Of New Orleans:
have the honor to submit the following
report of the operations of this Department
| for the month Of January, 1875:
ADMINISTRATORS OFFICE.
Salaries and employees. $226 &C
BUREAU OF STREETS.
Ballast used in Streets tons ..... $50
Nails and spikes used IN repairing
bridges and crossings pounds ~ 494
New lumber Used in repairing bridges
and crossings, feet. Observation-Disclosures. 154O6
Old lumber used in repairing bridges
and crossings, feet ......... 9,7o1
Brnges and crossings repaired. ...... l6I
Salaries, labor, and cart roll. $13 926 90
BUREAU OF wHARvEs AND LANDINGS.
ballast used on landings, tons. $50
Shells used in repairing steamboat
landiEgs, barrels .::........... 6,O5O
LUMBER used IN repair OF wharves, feet G7,619
IlmDer USED In repair OF Wharves, feet 1861
salaries, LABOR, and cart rolls. ...... IS 001 GO
BUREAU OF DRAINAGE.
Coal consumed by draining machines,
barrels NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1880
Salaries and employees. ............. sl,180
Forty-seven carpenters were employed in
the general repairs of the wharves The
steamboat wharves have been generally re-
paired, and the force is now engaged upon
the wharves allotted to steamships and sailing
vessels. The three cotton landings above
Canal street, and the cotton landing between
Canal and Customhouse streets, have been re-
paired and reshelled. The sugar landing.
from Customhouse to Benville street. has
been covered with ballast and shells, making
durable landing, and the force is now en-
gagged in improving the levee front used for
the accommodation Of the sugar and molasses
crop. The break in the levee, at Soraparu
street, has been filled with earth and ballast.
but has not been completed; the cost of the
same, to date, has been nine hundred and
eighty dollars.
The Poland street bulkhead has been COM
pleted, and work has been commenced upon
the breaks in the levee above Poland street. |
also at the break below the Convent, Third
District.
The Mississippi and Mexican Gulf Canal
Company caused the removal of bridge cross |
ing Carrollton avenue at Tenth street by their |
excavations, necessitating an expenditure of
about $1,000 for new bridge. As this was
the only available route of communication be- |
tween the Seventh District the work had to |
be promptly done.
The total expenditure of this department
for salaries, labor and cart hire for the month
Of January, 1875, is $40, 1874 35.
e. A. BURKE, Administrator.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

According to q New York paper, it was ''the
whirling of time" that brought Andrew John
son out again
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

EXTENSIVE CATALOGUE FURNITURE S.1E-
Don't forget the grand sale of furniture by
Nash & Hodgson, at 1OI A. NJ. tomorrow at
80 Royal street. Catalogues now ready.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

:, When Louisville dry go DDS store is robbed
the proprietor pays the tomier-.Journol a dol
lar and half to report the item under a head
IKE this Burglars of Good Taste" ''N
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

Two English Bishops recently preached
sermons denouncing cremation.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04


TO SHERIDAN.
FROM ONE WHO LOVES HIM DEARLY
[From the New York Citizen.]
Phil Sherry was of knightly build,
A soldier OF renown,
His sabre flashed on many a field,
His flag 0 'er many town:
And when the limbs to weakness grow
Now filled with youthful flame,
Our chdren's children yet shall glow
10 bold Phil Sherry's name.
With stormy oath and bugle-blast
And eyes of kindling fire,
When the skies Of war were overcast,
And hope might we'll expire
Our Phil, with cleaning hand and.steel,
Led on his fiery flock.
And the victor foe would turn and reel
Beneath his desperate shock.
Who has not heard, with tears and smiles,
Ct the hot and headiong ride,
When, after twenty galloping miles,
He checked the rebel tide?
And how, when Lee was brought ct length
To final bay or flight,
Twas Phil that hurled our final strength
And won our final fight?
Oh. gallant leader of the brave,
Whose fame for aye endures,
Soil not the crest that victory gave
BY work that is not yours
Leap in the saddle once again,
Let your wild plumes outflow,
Nor help to crush the beaten men
Who sank beneath your blow.
To baser hands, to meaner souls,
Resign the odous task
lis love this passionate cry controls,
It's for your fame l ask
want You still an image high,
Niched in my heart-its king!
Oh, once more lie your pennons fly,
Let Boots and Saddles ring
You were not framed-the soul God placed
Within your fiery clay
That rarest gift OF heaven to waste
In the wrangings OF to-day;
The base intrigues, the ready lies,
The cold and coward hates
The barb that in the darkness flies,
The pitfall at the gates.
There firm the politicians trade
leo base for you to know;
To fight deceit you were not made,
You need a manlier foe;
And tell you, Phil, l d rather seek
For friends in the foes we fought,
Than trust any "loyal" Southern Sneak,
Whom success to our eide has brought.
MILES OREIILY,
ate Private 47th Regiment, N. Y. Volunteer In
fantry.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

Invest at the Branch office, No. Z Camp
street.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

The new Radical platform LET Us Have
Bayonets
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04
A Pen Picture of Roger A. Pryor.

The following graphic pen picture of Gen.
Roger A. Pryor. who figures so conspicuously
| in the famous Beecher- Tilton trial, is taken
from the New York Tribune:
1t had been taken for granted that Mr..
Beach would reply to Mr.. Kvarts, and it was
therefore surprise when Gen. Pryor arose,
bowed to the court and proceeded to speak.
Up to this time Gen. Pryor had not taken an
active public part in the case, and there was,
therefore, considerable curiosity to hear him.
1t did not take many moments to see that he
was an eloquent orator.
His defamation is eccentric, his gesticula-
ton earnest and profuse, and his tempera-
ment evidently is nervously excitable. At
times he bends forward and lowers his voice
almost to whisper. Then, suddenly. as he
becomes aroused, his Indian-like figure
straghtens, his face lights up with intense
earnestness and his voice rings out clearly as
bell. Sometimes he speaks very slowly.
long pauses occurring between his sentences,
but at other times the words flow from his
mouth without effort, and his delivery is Won
deriully rapid.
One of his eccentrcties is to PLAY lightly
with his eyeglasses, swinging them around
his finger, then placing them upon his nose
and peerlng curously over them; next wipinp
them with his handkerchief, and finally drope
ping them and II ngng the handkerchief with
aqmck motion across the table Gen. Pryor was
plainly very familiar with his subject, and II
was not necessary to be lawyer or a indoa
to understand him, so clearly did he embodv
his argument
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

! ! RARE OPPORTUNITY.
Louisiana State Lottery Goa.
WILL GIVE
ON SATURDAY, JUNE &c, 1875,
A GRAND GOLDEN DRAWINGS.
Capital Prize, 100000
ONE PRIZE TO EVERY SIX TICKETS q,
$3.50 Prizes,
IN ALL AMOUNTING IN THE AGGREGATE
Half a Million in GOldg
The Drawing will positively commence at TEN
O'CLOCK A. NJ, on the morning Of SATURDAY,
juno %, 1875, at of the largest theatres in.
the city. 1t will be conducted with
"A Grand Promenade Concert.
For which the Best Musical Talent available in,
the country will be engaged, and to which every
holder of COUPON TICKET will be entitled to-
FREE ADMISSION
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

1t is said that Miss Anna Dickinson hos 1oe
the Platform and is studying for the staos
Gndismayed by the reception which Miss Kate
Field met with, Miss Dickinson works brave
~, determined to realize her life long desire
and personate her favorite heroines Of history
IN the higher walks of the drama. She viii
make her debut probably as Joan of Arc a
character for which she has the greatest aami-
ration, and will restrict herself to a limited
range OF picturesque and emotional imper-
sonations
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-04

1.-THE following verses on the great banditti
e1tinguisher, written just after the war by
Private Miles O'Reilly, are peculiarly appro-
pirate just at this juncture, and prove the
gallant Miles to have been a prophet as we'll
as poet. We commend them to Sheridan
in the hope that they may touch some chord
in his heart, if he have heart, and cause him
to. think well before he accepts hereafter as
truth the rawlings of "loyal Southern neaks: J
TO SHERIDAN.
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TOTAL.
Price of Tickets:

$3.50 prizes in ALL amounting to (gold) $500, 500