The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-20
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49,. howe ClrcuS leIG Ir.uay uotnAn6 AL
Brookhaven, Miss.
-. The Duke of Sonora, W. NJ. Gwynn,
is at the st. Charles Hotel.
-. Minister Foster and party left this
morning on the jackson Railroad.
Adjutant General of Militia. Jack Whar-
ton, has obtained leave of absence for ten
days.
49,. Hon. L. A. Sheldon arrived in the city
yesterday He will settle down to the prac-
tice of his profession.
80. Gen. M. JEFF. Thompson returned to the
city yesterday. He reports that the levees
below Natchez are caving badly.
90. The Halpin case is still going on, and
DR.. Crawcour and W. r. Whitaker Esq have
been appointed experts to analyze certain
inks, to show their age.
-. The people who, exercising the wisdom
of the ant, have laid up stores for the winter,
consider themselves as sold. Overcoats and
coal are superfuous in this summer weather.
-. All quiet at the State-House Friday.
Gov. Kellogg was busy at his residence COM
piling data for his message to the Legislature
and did not reach the building until late in
the day.
-. The Governor yesterday appointed Pres
ton J. Keys Mayor of the town of Trenton,
parish of Ouachita. vice Morris resigned, and
also settled the difficulty in Iberville parish,
about the tax collectorship, by issuing new
commission to Butterick. This gives But
terick undisputed possession of the office.
-. The Revenue Cutter John 1. Dix re-
turned Thursday from the jetties with por-
ton of the main party on board. Capt. Eads,
Prof Mitchell, Mr.. Roberts, Gen. Bernard.
Mr.. Winthrop, Sir Charles Hartley, Gen.
Price, and Mr.. Baiiy, remained over at Eads-
port to make thorough examination of the
works, and the Dix returned this morning at
s A. M. for them. She will probably return
Saturday night.
80. The splendid European steamship
Australian, blown ashore during the late ter
rible storm that swept over the Texas coast,
and left with only some five or six feet of
water around her, was hauled into deep water
by the New York Wrecking Company, and
arrived here on Tuesday evening having
steamed over from Galveston, accompanied
by two steam tugs, belonging to the wrecking
company. In getting her off the company
were compelled to use India rubber camels, and
are to receive for the job the round sum Of
5000. The Australian, we learn, has gone
over to the dock-yard, her rudder having been
considera oily wrenched when she was blown
ashore.
80. The complaints which of late have be-
come so general regarding the system adopted
in the Office of the Recorder of Mortgages,
relative to the charges for Inscriptions of
taxes, have waxed SO strong that change
ought to be effected. There may be pre-
tense under the law relative to the collection
of taxes requiring the debtor on one piece of
property to pay for the inscription on all the
other pieces he may possess before it is re-
moved from the first, vet this technical inter-
probation is not just. During the last six
months it has been the rule to compel the
owner of property to settle for all mortgages
standing in the name of those who might
bear the same coguomen. Should there be
in supposable case seven parties, each would
have to pay for forty-nine inscriptions upon
the books of the Recorder of Mortgages. This
should be remedied.
-. Among the guests at the st. Charles
Hotel are Com. G. Il. Cooper and Chief
Engineer L. J. Allen, both of whom have
run over on a pleasure trip, to which they
were certainly entitled after their arducus
campaign against Yellow Jack at Bar
rancas and Fort Pickens. 1t was the Com
modore's rigid regulations and prompt action
that, in all probability, prevented the
fever spreading to the Navy Yard and
adjacent villages and to Pensacola.
The yard which in ante-bellum days was
the most beautiful in the country, but which
was pretty badly used up during the bomb bard
ment of Fort Pickens, when Slemmer and
Bragg were interchangingiiron compliments,
is, we are pleased to learn, being gradually
put in order again. The Commodore started
from the navy yard in a steam tug, intending
to come all the way in her, but the severe
gale Of Tuesday night compelled him to put
into Mobile, whence he came by rail-
THE WAR CLOUD.