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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.

We publish below two notes from young
lady scholars in our High Schools, echoine
exactly our expressed opinion of their patriot.
ism and zeal in the cause of right:
MONDAY, January Is, 1875,
Dear Editor of the N. O. Bulletin:
AS your spicy paper has been foremost in
sympathizing with us in our late conflict, we
desire to once more declare through your
columns that we have not the slightest idea
of retreatng from our position by accepting
our diplomas from the present Board OF
Directors. CLARA LOUISE VIENNE,
ALICE LAMBERToN,
MINNIE II. ANDERSON,
CHARLIE STEWART,
Graduates of 1874, Upper Girls High School
Dear Bulletin:
I perceive that you wish to ASCERTAIN the
names of those graduates of the Upper Girls
High School who still persist in refusing to
receive their diplomas from the present board.
hasten to forward mine, for would scorn
to be one of the accepting party.
Very respectfully, ETC.,
IDA r. PERKINS.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19
GREAT MEN OF THE SOUTH.
ELOQUENT AND ENTERTAINING LECTURE BY REV.
FATHER RYAN.

Probably the largest and most refined
audience that ever assembled in New Orleans
was present Sunday night at the new St.
Patrick's Hall, to hear Rev. Father Abram J.
Ryan lecture on subject dear to every South
ern heart, ',he Great Men of the South"
The discourse was one of Father Ryan's
happiest efforts, and the large audience pres
ent was held spell-bound in its delivery by
irresistible eloquence and oratorical effect
Father Ryan was introduced by Hon. L. A.
Witt in fe v pertinent remarks, and in an
engaging manner commenced his discourse.
He began by referring to the forcible dissolu-
ton Of the Legislature and Sheridan's con-
nection Herewith, and hoped that the meeting
would not be treated similarly. The "ban-
ditti'' were then referred to in peculiar way.
1t had been announced that he would give a
lecture on the great men Of the South; the
names Of Southern people that had been
placed in the front rank of history were the
men of whom he proposed to speak Going
back to the days of the revolution, he paid
glorious tribute to Patrick Henry and his
compatriots.
Our latter-d day great men were then alluded
to. General Robert E. Lee was spoken of in
highly eulogistic and eloquent terms. Gen.
Gordon, Sidney johnson, Joe Johnston, Gen.
Adams, Pat. Cleburne, Gen. Cranberry, and
others of lesser note also came in for share of
the lecturers attention. Grant, Sheridan,
Emory and De Trobriand were held up in
strong light, and their acts commented upon.
In concluding the lecture, Father Ryan face
tiously spoke of the customs of different Sec
lions of the country, and narrated some
humorous peculiarities of Northerners. He
advised calmness and patience on the part of
the people in their present situation, and re-
tired amid hearty and prolonged applause.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19
YOUNG MEMS BENEVOLENT AS.
ISOLATION.
PUBLIC INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS.

PUBLIC INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS
The first public installation of the officers
Of that excellent organization, the Yong Men IS
Benevolent Association, took place last night
at Grunewald Hall, with great eclat. A num-
Der of invited guests were present and the
ceremony was gone through with in a most
beautiful and impressive manner.
Mr.. Charles A. Keller acted as master of
ceremonies, and Messrs. A. Samh ola and P
Tori as conductors With few predatory
remarks Mr. Keller administered the oath of
Office, the officers elect responding audibly
the context Of solemn vow. The following
we're the officers installed:
G. H. Braughn, President; E. Lamant,
Vice President; J. Bercegeay, Recording
Secretary; J. r. Jaeger, Financial Secretary;
S. Suffer, Treasurer; J. J. Birmingham,
J. Bein, Inside Guardian Paul j. Lucas,
Outside Guardian; J. A. Strasser, Grand
Marshal; E. Wetzel, Collector; E. De Blanc,
NJ. D., Physician.
Mr.. G. H. Braughn, President elect of the
Association, upon assuming the chair, made
very happy speech, in which he traced its
origin and growth. He said the association
was organized in 1858, and although its oper-
atoms were partially suspended during the
war, its objects to succor the distressed and
comfort the sick have been fully attained. 1t
has reached membership of about one hun
dred and sixty, and has confded to it in
sacred trust seven widows and sixteen
orphans, who are carefully provided for.
About $500 were expended last year for
the relief of members and their families,
besides other substantial tokens have been
given to needy dependents. The ceremonies
being finished, the company adjourned to an
adjoining room where 'feast Of reason and
q flow Of soul" were INDUCED in until late
hour.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19
BIDS ON THE OHIO RIVER BRIDGE.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 18.-Eleven bids for the
construction of the iron railway bridge across
the Ohio river, at the foot of Horne street, in
this city, were opened by the trustees of the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad to-dsy. The
bids range from $685. sO to one million
Lightweight thousand, the lower bidder be-
ing the Watson Bridge Company, of Pater-
son, N. J.
The structure comprises five spars, includ-
ing the channel span of five hundred and
nineteen feet, which is the longest single span
in the world, except one of the same length
in Germany, and the total length of the bridge
will be fifteen hundred and ninety-seven feet.
The officers o. the road state that the estimates
will be examined at once, and the contract
probably be let in few days to the lowest
and best bidder.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19
A MODEL POSTMASTER.

| They have one-armed, unalloyed African
down in Kellogg's Senate for a postmaster
and rare official he makes too. He might,
under favorable circumstances, be able to fill
the position even as well as Lowell filled that
| of city postmaster here, and to the entire
satisfaction of himself and friends, but this
thing Of running post office department for
one wing of a sham Legislature, without the
needful, and without any prospects, is beyond
the comprehension of our bold Senegambian,
and he has not only developed wan. of the
requisite amount of ingenuity, but has with
rare candor asserted that he is not equal to
the occasion.
The other day, while the sable Solons were
in council, q rural member sent three news
papers to the postmaster by a page with in
structions to have them mailed forthwith,
Our postmaster said to the unsuspecting page:
" You tell that niger if he wants them papers
to 60, I'm got to see some money. I amt got
any stamps, and they amt give me any money
to get 'em, and be d-n if I'm gwine to
spen' what little changes in my pocket to
'comodate nobody. You jes tell your uncle
that now"
It wasn't long before another page ap-
peared at the post-ofice and stated that MIR.
Hector, member from the lowlands, wanted
ten copies Of the Republican (the official
journaD, fright of"
"Where's yer money 2" said the postmas-
ter.
MIR Hector never give me no money; he
said you're the postmaster, and must send
him the papers.
"Look ahere, boy, you jest ask Mr.. Hector
if he takes me for d-n fool I done said
before that there amt no money in this here
post-ofice, and I would jes like for you to
tell me hown the devil I'm going to get
papers 'thout buying emp"
Page-Well, he said you was to send EN- to
him.
Postmaster go tell Mr.. Hector to go
to -. Some Of these niggers, putting on
too many airs, anyhow, since they got in here,
but bet they won't make nothin' out'n me-
The postmaster's message brought Hector
TO the front, and, assuming an air of offended
dignity, he straightway essayed to offer to the
one-armed functionary severe reprimand for
his presumption. In the war of words that
snsued Mr.. Hector came out second best, and,
! parting shot, as he ambled off down
The aisle almost frenzied by a remark of
he postmaster, ran thusly: GO I don't believe |
you've got any business in here no how
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

Francis E. Herman, who was nominated
yesterday for election to the United States
Senate by the Democratic members of the
New York Legislature, and who will almost
certainly be chosen, is lawyer of good repu-
talon, a gentleman of integrity and culture,
and one of the most prominent Catholic
laymen in the country. He has been some
thing of politician for many years, having
served in the State Legislature, in the Consti-
tutional Convention of 1867, and in the
Thirty-eighth Congress. He was candidate
for election as Governor of New York in the
Greeley campaign, and was defeated by Gov.
Dix.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

A correspondent of the New York Times en-
beavers to relieve General Sheridan of the
odium he has brought upon himself by his
ISLANDERS on the people of Louisiana, by re-
porting conversation held with him, in
which Sheridan is represented as saying: 81
do not suppose there is sensible man in the
State who imasines I meant that all the peo-
pie were banditti." When member of the
House of Commons once attempted similar
apology to Mr. Pitt, that dictatorial statesman
Numbered out to him: thereafter when the
gentleman means nothing let. him say no.
thing"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

Livingstone, it seems, died, erroneouslv
believing that he had discovered the true
source OF the Nile, when Sualaba was only
the source of the Congo River. All the Afrii-
can explorers have been surpassed by Col.
Long. young Marylander, in the service of
the Khedive Of Egypt, and his brother Off
GERS, most of whom fought through the Con-
federate war; These gentlemen have found
lake twenty-five miles wide which is the re-
servoir Of the Lake Victoria Nyanza, in lati-
tude one degree north of the equator.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

1t is often more than a question of taste
how far clergymen can, in the pulpit, afford
to carry unceremonious address and familiar
illustration. When it comes to gamboling
therein, one would be apt to think that only
iunatic could be found guilty. Yet Mr..
Spurgeon lately presented az a remedy for
congregational sleepiness game of battle
dore and shuttlecock played by the gentleman
in the pulpit. A clergyman Of his acquaint-
ance did actually go through with this game
before his dull congregation on several occa-
sions, and did it, says Mr.. Spurgeon, "with
the deepest solemnity." When al the drowsy
ones were wide awake and wondering at this
sportiveness, he rated them soundly for pay
ing more attention to his foolery than to his
sermons. This recipe of Mr.. Surgeons
woald be dangerous experiment for most
ministers.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19
Gen. Hazard, formerly of the United States

Gen. Hazard, formerly of the United States
army, now a merchant in New Orleans, testi-
fed before the Congressional Committee in
that city the other day that 'the personal re-
putation of the officials of Louisiana is such
that they would not be received in either
Northern or English families" If their true
characters were known, we doubt if they
would be received in either Northern or Eng
lish penitentiaries without an indignant pro-
test from the inmates.-LoMsuiAe Courier
Journal
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

Senator Schurz contemplates residing in
the neighborhood of either Boston or New
York for year or two after he leaves the
Senate, with the view of better facilities for
the preparation of a political history Of the
United States, which is among his literary
plans for the future, and for which he has
made large accumulation of materials,
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

Says the New York correspondent of the
Worcester Spy: "The Wallacks have always
been rather celebrated for bounce, and some
times try it on the wrong people Henry
Wallack once, Boosting of the history of his
family, told William Warren that the province
Of Wallachia, was named for them. Certain
y. said Warren, Just as Moldayia was named
for Mary Davis
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

=" man sent word to me last night" said
the Hon. Sheridan Shook, yesterday, "that
he wanted to see me privately. l came ont
of the theater and took him into nv Office.
'You have lost your watch said he. sYes.'
said l. There it is, said he, banding il 70
me. Any expenses? said l. None. said
he. Will you explain I? said 1. .No. said
he, You have the watch, and that's
enough. '"-New York Sun
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

A GRAND CoNcERT.-On Friday evening,
January 22d, at Grunewald Hall, there will be
doubtless one of the grandest musical enter
tainments that has been held in our city for
some time past The ladies and gentlemen
connected with the First Presbyterian Church,
DESTROYS of aiding their now largely attended
Sabbath School, have secured the services Of
all our prominent amateurs, and on the event
full evening will present q programme unusu-
ally attractive. It will be remembered this
concert was to have been given on January
9Th, but owing to the unsettled condition of
affairs was postponed until the 22d. The
tickets already issued will be received on that
evening.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19
MlSCELLANEOlIS.

ST: JOHNS, Jan. 18.-The steamer City of
Brooklyn is here, short of coal. All well.
WATERFOWL, N. Y, Jan. 18.-The Paddock
Company's Bank has suspended. Liabilities
nearly $500, 900; assets trife over 500, OOO
New YORK, JAM 1S.-Extract from Moul-
toms testimony: "Beecher never wronged
me. but he asked me to lie for him, which
did"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

Mr.. W. E. Forster, recently on visit to
this country, is recognized as the leader OF
the Liberal party in the English Parliament,
Mr.. Gladstone having resigned
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

The beautiful Mrs. Rousby appears to be
the reiening dramatic sensation of the hour
in New York. Mrs. Rousby has been Lon
don sensation, greater than Mrs. Scott-Sid-
dons or Adelaide Nelson. She is beauty
OF the cold, passionless type stately, gentle
and winning in style, and o fine actress
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19
HEAVY SNOW STORN-ELECTIOy

OMAHA, Jan. 18.-A telegram from Fort
Laramie to-day says that fearful snow storm
is prevailing, and the thermometer is forty
degrees below zero. A heavy snow fall is re-
ported throughout the Northeast.
The election Of United States Senator occurs
tomorrow at Lincoln. General Thayer is
thought to be ahead.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

Charivari recently had conversation with
. physician on the effects of the Paris siege,
which the latter especially regretted because
it had killed of in short time thousands Of
feeble persons, who would have otherwise
fingered through years, to the great profit Of
the doctors.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-WhitelaW Reid
manager of the New York Tribune, here in at
tendance upon the Committee on Ways and
Means in the Pacific Mail subsidy matter, was
arrested upon criminal and civil suits, by ex-
Governor Sheppard. The civil suit is for
S10O, O0O Bail was rendered, but the officers
accepted his parole of honor that he would
appear.
The members OF Congress from MISSISSIPPI
pi, Louisiana and Arkansas had q meeting to-
night. They unanimously agreed to recon-
mend to the President that in presenting the
report of the Levee Commission, he send
special message urging the adoption of the
measure proposed by the commission, with,
besides a general system which cannot be
arranged this session, and also urging that
special appropriations be made for temporary
relief
The meeting appointed special committee,
consisting OF Messrs. Alcorn, Morey, Sheldon,
Mckee, Hodges and Clayton, who will wait
upon the President in the morning
1t appears from official data, that there were
in Alabama, the Sd of November last, 679
troops. including 36 officers. These were dis
tributed in thirty places, four being the low
est and fifty-eight the highest number of
soldiers at any one place.
The Committee OF Engineers upon the
best outlet from the Mississippi River to the
Gen. Humphreys, through whom it will 30 to
Congress. Col. Wright favors the st. Philip
Canal; the others of the committee favor an
experiment with the jetties on the South Pass,
which has been idle for years. and will leave
unmolested Pascal Outre and Southwest
Pass. Capt. Eads, who is here, is reported
in high feather over the success of His lefty
pets.
The Custom-House in Atlanta will be of
granite, the option being with the architect.
The delay in confirmation of nominations
causes gossip. The best opinion comedies
Parsons will be confirmed by q squeeze. Par
dee, for Louisiana, Evans, for Marshall Tex
as, and Paschal, Collector at Corpus Christi,
will be defeated.
The seating of Pinchback as Senator from
Louisiana is conceded. His rivals hope he
will be ousted on question of morals, but
they hope against hope. New England and
are in accord.
On dit, Pinchback is here. He will be
seated without doubt. He has assurances he
claims that the Committee of Privileges and
Elections will make no pointed efforts to GUST
him. He says Morton says so.
There is much excitement about Cuba.
parties are certain that some
hing will soon be done in the line of
Rawlins's views. 1t may be said thai all par
les are in favor Of belligerent rights. The
President leans toward Cuban Independence.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

Young vows OF everlasting friendship are
foolish if ever kept, they are kept by acct
dAnL not resolution.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY TO THE
FRONT.

We have been furnished by VIM. Fl. Harris
Esq, Secretary of the State Grange of Louisi-
ana, with the following admirable and forci-
BILE appeal made by the members Of the order
in this State and Mississippi to those through
out the entire country. The appeal is calm
and dignifed document, and will carry great
weight:
PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY,
Office OF the Secretary Of the State Grange
of Louisiana, 6S Camp street.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19

Official:
VIM. Fl. HARRIS, Secretary State Grange of
Louisiana.
Resolved, That the press of the United
States be requested to publish this appeal of
the Patrons of Husbandry of the States of
Louisiana and Mississippi to the Patro ms
throughout the United States, and that this
resolution be appended to said appeal.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-04

Fishes swallow their food whole. They
have no dental machinery furnished for
them.
Frogs, tOads and serpents never take
any food but that which they are satisfied
Is alive.
II bee, wasp or hornet stings, II Is
nearly always at the expense Of Its life,
Serpents are so tenacious Of their life
that they will live for six months without
food.
Turtles dig holes In the Snnd by the sea-
shore and bury their eggs, leaving them
to be Matched by the sun.
Lobsters nre very pugnaCiotls, and fight
severe battles. II they lose claw nm
other grOwsout.
NatIralists say that q single swallow
will devOur 6,00O flies in day.
The tarahtdla Of Texas Is nothing bnt
an enormous spider.
A single Goldfish produces more than a
million eggs In one season,
A whale suCkles It's young, and there
fore Is not a fish. The mothers affection
is remarkable.
Toads become torpid in winter and hide
themselves, taking no food for five Orsix
months.
Serpents Of all species shed their skin
annually, like sea-Crabs and Holsters.
Turtles and tOrtoises have their skele.
tons partly outside Of, instead Of within
the body.
+. It Is believed that crOcOdiles live to be
hundreds Of years old The ancient
Egyptians embalmed them.
In South America there Is prolific
honey bee that has not been furnished
with a sting.
In the darkest nights fishes pursue
their usual movements, The same as by
daylight. Ig !
Serpents never feed on anything but
animal food, which they themselveS put
to death or swallow alive.
Seals are as intelligent rs dogs, and
may be made to perform many tricks like
them. .I"I fr. SfTl =
The head Of a ratllqsnake has been
known to innict fatal wound after being
separated from the body
II the eye Of newt 10 put out, another
perfect eye Ia soon supplied by rapid
growth.
Fishes have no eyelids, and necessarily
sleep with their eyes open
Alligators fall into lethargic sleep
during the winter like Toad.
There are agricultural ants in Texas,
that actually plant grain, and reap before
the harvest,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-04
Minor kilograms.


President Grant Is stopping at Eliza.
beth, N. j., with Corbln. ..a
Another strike Is proposed by the
coal miners at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The sale Of the Northern Pacific road
has been postponed until the 10Th Inst.
William McCune was drowned In the
scioto river at Columbus, while watering
horses.
The races both at Saratoga and Buf.
falo we're postponed yesterday on account
Of the weather. .,t..
Tho Minis al San Francisco and Car.
son, Nevada, were closed yesterday, in
respect to ex-President johnson.
Minute guns were fred d. Boston
yesterday, and flags kept at half.mast, In
respect to the memory Of ex-Pre5ident
johnson.
Travellers holding letters Of credit
from Duncan, Sherman & Co. will prob.
ably be paid by the Union Bank Of Lon.
don.
Col. j. s. johnson, of Lexington, ed
tior " ''S n.n'Je"y f;Jy so'"S", suVSe'uI 70
5,oi. nOn' 81 v,,,OL, W. S[auuOeN ." "e'fe'"'' VI
''"'. ~, " ne"'u'" y,
-lhe Jury In Maauy Lnomp'9n ~, gag
disagreed ana y, were re- alGGnargeu. lnomR.
soh IS he!u ~ Sl,VVV, lie VIII no" Apply
tor writ OIL haUeas corpus.
Saturday the 7th, in the evening, Is
appointed for public meeting in Mem.
phis at which resolutions In respect 70
the memory oil Ex'Ptesident ohnSon viii
DC reported.
John Phillips, colored, one Of the
murders Of Frank Williams, near Shaw
nee Village, Ark, who made his elcape
from a mob, has been re-arrested, and was
found to be mottally wounded.
"A large number Of prominent Odd
t1ollows ftSm the limited States were pres.
eni M Tho dedication of A new hall 10
fopdon. Ont, on Monday afternoon. The
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-04

The "HolinesS oamp-meeting," as 1t Is
generally termed, has opened its sessions
at the grounds OF Sea Cliff, l., I. The
participants are members Of many Chris
tlan denominations, largely Methodists,
though several prominent persons among
them are Friends, and the Plymouth
brethren arealso represented, They, like
the PearsalI-Smlths, strive to attain a
higher holiness, more entire consecra-
tiOn to Christ and communion with God;
in fine, more spirital life than falls to
tho lot Of ordinary professors Of religion.
Rev. DR.. Bonrdman, whose books on "the
higher liie' are we'll known, presides, and
his wife also conducts meetings. So far
rs the reports indicate, the meetings are
largely occupied by men and women get
ting up and graduating themselves on
having kept their temper for five or len
or twenty years, as the case may be. On
Thursday, a Rev. DR.. Steele, from New
England, made an exposition Of the first
chapter Of Paul's Epistle to the Ephe-
slams, in which he declared that the cx-
preston "heavenIy places" means liter
ally "thc henvenlies"-i. e., the higher
life. He asserted iancifully that Satan
would be admitted to "lhc suburbs Of
heaven" Ms Il conquered being, in order
that the power and dominion Of Jesus
Christ as conqueror over him might be
fully manifested and quoted Greek and
Latin to confirm his position.