The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-24
WHAT OF THE NIGHT?

uOWn-tfOdden ana almost StalrinS peOE
/ Of this al but ship-wrecked commonweal
look with trembling eagerness for some fai
CLEAN Of hope, some distant sign of lull
the storm. SO they turn to those WHO, Ill
ourselves, are more especially engaged
watching over the course Of public even
with the oft-repeated question Watchmal
what Of the night Z"
Alas what little comfort can we give then
when every hope which sanguine people Ia,
cherished for while has been blighte,
when those whose cooler temperament ant
perhaps, clearer vision, have prevented ther
from INDUCING in seductive dreams Of th
coming political millennium have bee
secuted as prophets of evil, and their we
meant advice set aside as the offspring 0
partisan feelings and "Bourbon obstinacy
The many respected friends who hav
blamed US for not joining in the grand halle
lulah chorus struck up by the high priests 0
the compromise and take e-best-you-ca
party, will soon have before them the result,
ofthe long drawn and complicated negotiation.
carried out in Washington and New York
between the Hoar- Wheeler Com mittee and the
diplomatic representatives OF the Conserv-
alive and Kellogg interests
With every desire to take a cheerful view
our conviction that the mountain will most
probably be delivered Of very small mouse,
end that the extraordinary mystery which has
shrouded from its inception and more than
ever continues to cover with Cimmerian dark
ness the so-called adjustment, BODIES no good
to our side Of the house.
Secrecy in international State affairs
IS sometimes required, but when ques-
tons affecting the dearest asd most
sacred rights OF citizens are submitted to
arbitration, it is passing strange that they
should be kept in total ignorance of a de-
cision in which they are SO vitality interested
If the award Of the Hoar Committee has been
made, and made unanimouslh as reported if
the official approval of the Republican lead
ers here and in Washington is pledged to carry
t out, and if the irresistible pressure of
Federal patronage is to be applied to the
Radical elements, held together by the cohe-
i've power Of public plumber, supplemented, if
necessary, by gentle application of the
'ayonet argument to unru!y or refractory
plrits, the sooner that is known the better |
or all of us. The Conservatives whatever
hey may think of the Wheeler adjustment,
7lll certainly throw no obstacles in the way.
,ellogg and his clan are pledged to
lrry it out, and the imperial
lysses himself has 50 pledged himself to
everal gentlemen who had the honor of in
ryiewing the would-be Casar. Pinchback
ld his motley "tail Ray be opposed to it
at what possible effect can their vulgar va
oriny and silly threats have upon the action
both parties to the compact, if both are
'aay and willing to carry it out in good
it'll? Pinch is too much Of a pokerist not
know that it is not easy to bluff off the
an who holds four aces in his hand, and
$ ragged cohorts would, if so ordered by {
cir master III Washin gton, beat swifter re- {
eat than Falstaff $ buckram enemies ever |
4 before that Slakespearian Sheri Ian 5
ogess. I
The threat is now made in the columns Of .
e official Radical organ, whose daily proven G
r and very existence are threatened by the Il
5sibility of Conservative majority in the 7
constructed Legislature, that unless certain !
ldltions and limitations not included in the v
leeler adjustment are submitted to BIZ the |
the Radical members will not a
~ the summons for an extra session, and Ia
It as they hold nominal, if not legal ma n
ty of the Senatorial delegation, they can, al
hey choose, prevent an extra session. and OF
ctically nulify the Wheeler arrangement 10
mother paper, supposed by many to 10
ect keliogg's views, asserts with great o.
'arent confidence that the extra ses- I'll
I will be held, and the com is
mise substantially carried out through ca
lie potent but mysterious agencies which in
to come into play at a given moment. or
ers and Deslondes Will have nothing to say ap
the matter, and at the auspicious hour ap
logg, like the Deus er mdchiaa of the nj
ent drama, will come down and Al
of his cloud-borne chariot to tic
We order out of chaos and compel the sub br
won of the various dramatis persona, to the
lutable DEGREES of the White House ,Htpiter
ms. This is the roseate view Of the future
! semi official Kellogg point Of view.
nr own opinion IS that things look very en'
h mixed Just now. and not being an the
pus we do not undertake the solution of On
lie which both the Camp street Sphinxes mo
ass to know all about, but which they are no
.r unwilling or unable to unravel for the Bee
tit of the uninitiated the jrofauta ru'yts Afr
inconveniently large body, whereof we chi
sss ourselves to be most thoroughly puz woj
and mystitied members. as
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gives us pain to record the death Of our eral
med young friend, Mr.. James Taylor OF {
gre, who was accidentally drowned in llcit
$. Johns River Florida. on the 18th evit