The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-09
FROM PLAOUEMINE.
Gloomy Outlook-fhe Great Mistake OF Our
Plant rs-The Compromise.

J. Editor Of the N. o. Bulletin:
il Times are dull and gloomy hereaway TIL
. | weather continues in its bad strain, and PEG
:, pie are in a bad humor generally.
. 1t has rained nearly every day this last week
l Planters are mostly idle and uneasy abou
a their seed cane. Many complain that it i
: spelling, and much anxiety is felt about til,
stubble
After ALL would it not be a fortunate thing
7 if our cane crop should fail entirely?
> Some think it would and am half inclined
to believe they think rightly
Our people will do nothing but "plant. "
No crop is grown or sought to be grown bu!
cane or cotton. No corn, no peas, no pota-
nothing to eat-nothing but cotton
and sugar.
SO We have gone on since the war, and to-
} day we are not only heels over head in debt.
but in absolute want Of the necessities of life,
depending for these Don the faith of stran-
gers in our promises to pay"
do not believe there is to-day breadstuff,
enough in our State to support it two months,
and yet our people think OF no crops but cane
and cotton
This should not be- and must not be, unless
our people wish to remain the slaves of their
more sensible neighbors Of tho West
Let us be ''up and doing" and strive to
grow our own bread Wa can do it at less
| cost than 1t comes to from st. Louis or else
! where
Planters who feed on bought corn never have
'frisky teams, nor have they COWS. hogs or
poultry. The old fogies of the olaeu time
used to raise their own corn, and somehow or
| other, always had fat horses and mules good
| milk and butter, fresh lard and sausage. and
| now and then capon well, lined and pecan.
| fed turkeys. But they only farmed they did
not plant. Suppose We try the farm ways
again. They are cheap ways and may suit
these hard times.
Congress has quit and gone home and our
Legislature (so-called). Does '.order reign
in Warsaw" or is the nondescrip' bv some
called compromise to keep us on the qui
rire j.?
We are not entirely opposed 10 compro-
mise, If such would as We think it should,
give some relief But in the Wheeler fix-up
We see nothlng-not as much as we might
have OBJ aimed from Kellogg.
1t good can come let us not stand in its
way, but we can hardly hope to gather figs
from thistles. PELICAN.
Mrs. Burnham writes to the st. Louis
Republican:
Tilton, Elizabeth says, was ashamed of her |
size. and said it occasloned ridicue for them |
to walk together. One would say so. Stand |
ing beside him, she doesn't come to the sec
ond button of his vest. She is the size of the
average girl of ten years, and her womanly
developments are SO feeble that if she were
velled you'd say she was a skinny little
schoolgirl, who had got stoop doing too
many hard sums. She wears a black velvet
bonnet, with wide strings, tied under her
chin. She has a black morino sack of home |
with some large beads showered
over 1t, and about the neck red India scarf
She holds a wicker-cOvers d vial of camphor.
which kept the moths out of US all during the
entire session.
TIE Atlanta Constitution has this about Mrs.
J. s. Gordon: deserved compliment to this
worthy lady was paid at the Catholic Church :
On Sunday. In his sermon to married men. !
6ev. Father Smulder5 was impreSsing the .
1uty OF husbands and wives rema! ming always
ogether, never being apart for any length of
line. The wife's place at all times, whether y
q business Or pleasure, at home or abroad.
vas by the side of her husband. Ste. Eliza y
'eth, Queen Of Hungary, when her husband :
vent to fight IN the Holy Land accompanied :
nm through every peril. Another instance i
II this kind, said the reverend speaker, soc :,
urredin the late war. Twas on mission in the "
rmy, and the case came under my own obser- e
alton. In the cold and snow Of Virginian =
inter, surrounded by the harassments and !,
lscomtorts of state Of war, noble Georgian -
'dy remained at her husbands side, cheer !.
lg HIM with her counsels, and supporting 4
I'm 10 his adversities. That lady was the :.
lie OF Gen. Gordon, a true and noble woman, -
no understands her witely duties, and de
ryes the esteem Of every one. Her example
lould be initiated by every wife in the State
I'd husbands would he the better for it. m
Business seems TO be duh at San Antonio, III
exas, just now. The Herald says: Times 7,
e so hard that when the boy who goes ont :"
Saturday to collect bills for leading drv st
ods establishment comes home with n
twenty-five cents and has the calling Of his al
nts worn out by the boots of the customers gu
I'm whom he has collected it. the proprietor Ia
CARDS it as good day for collections. ca
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The girls attending a seminary in Illinois co
tSo chickens fighting in their loom last W
nday Bets on the result ran high, and at hll
3 conclusion OF the contest the winning
iiden was '.better' by gold watch. a pair to
silk stockings, Preach corset, two rolls of Al
SO hair, patent bnsle, aud a beautiful 80
okmark with Christ Our Guide worked un
it in colored silk - Chicago Tribune. ne
The Archduke John S.lvator, of Tuscany, a
) written o stirring pamphlet, in which he Br
vlses the Austrian Government to arm and pc,
ltty against the aggressions Of Prussia He wr
centration Of 5ll5 il ces Of cannon around sir
,nna. This looks like war. ca,
Wit
The Rome (Ga.) Courier feels kindly toward ira
men. and it says: 1--WE confess that we ba,
in fay II Of women having every opportu-
: OF making themselves Independent. We the
IL not regret t. see the day when our ma
ne n will, under no circumstances OF life. 10
to marry for the sake of securing new
If board and clothes, as is too often the his
C par
Jain serving man-''Wl hat with these ere OF
' laws mum, the birds is more trouble q
ne this year than ever. The place swarms was was
I'm" Old lady :. Wel Thomas, we'd ~ :.
ter put up a scare-crow." Serving man 5hiS
or bless yer. mum scarecrows amt no
vas 10 90 AMI 1and 49, ,,',,aItr,, mid
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