The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
THE COUNTRY MEMBERS.

THE COUNTRY MEMBERS.
+ We clip the following from the Opelousa
q Courier of the 10th inst. AS it SO thorough
J. comedies with our views we commend it
It perusal to our readers:
: Our REPRESENTATIVES, are happy t.
be able to say that the representatives from
this parish, recently elected to the Legisla
ture, have without exception responded to tn
feeling of their constituents as manifested a
the meeting held ut the Courthouse on thu
3lst ult. All elected as Democrats, the course
pursued by them since their arrival in New
Orleans, and particularly since the body O.
which they were members was dissolved anC
: dispersed by the military power of the United
States. is just such as we of st. Landry and
the people OF the State had right to expect
of them
To have acted otherwise, to have submitted
tamely to the outrage upon the liberties of
their constituents, and accepted and acqui-
esced in the violent and revolutionary acts of
the usurper Kellogg his party, and his stolid,
selfish and Ignorant co-conspirator against the
liberties OF the country who disgraces the Pres
ldentlal chair, would have been to have be-
trayed the high trust with which their con-
stituents had clothed them. We can give
them every assurance that their conduct so
far is highly approved and unhesitatingly in
dorsed by all good citizens of this parish who
have the good of the country at heart and no
unpatriotic, selfish and dishonest ends to sub
| serve. We feel proud of them, that they have
united their fortunes and those of their con-
stituents to the fortunes of the patriots
that followed the lead of that gallant, firm
and honest gentleman who, as the lawfully
elected Speaker of the House, indicated by
his tirmness, moderation and courage, the
sovreignity Of a State of the Union, in the
very teeth of a military despotism ready and
eager to obey the behests Of an usurper and
tyrant, and to crush under foot the rights
and Liberties of the people and their defend |
ers They, together with their noble leader.
have Justly earned the appreciation and last !
ing gratitude OF those whom they represent |
Let them be firm and persevere in their
mani opposition to the schemes of the con-
splrators and tyrants, and the page of history
that will record their deeds will be one of the |
brightest that we have written.
The Postmaster General has transmitted to
he House his reply to the resolution asking
or information concerning the smuggling of
foods through the mails. He states that the
department. has no information in regard to
ecent cases OF smuggling merchandise
trough the mails, except in a letter to the
ecretary OF the Treasury in November last
rom the Collector of Customs at Bangor,
lalne. The most recent case within the
nowledge OF the department was in Deem
er, 1873, and all the correspondence in that S
lse has been printed in a congressional doc
ment. Special letters have been addressed
the principal offices exchanging mails with
reign countries, including several of the
ost important Offices on the Canada frontier.
ostmaster Jewell says:
1T appears from the replies received that,
the opinion of the postmasters at those
ices, the smuggling of merchandise through l.
e mails is not practiced to any considerable
tent. This accords with my own opinion
the subject, and l do not think that anv
dltlonal legislation is necessary to protect
customs revenues from frauds ATTEMPTED
rough the mails, as the mode of proceeding
such cases prescribed by section SO, chan.
- OF the Post-Office regulations of 1873,
d now adhered to by postmasters and col
tors OF customs, appear to work satisfac-
lily"
The Postmaster General further says that it G
the duty of the postmasters to inform the
'tom officers of suspected letters; but when
} letters are directed to other offices thew
'uld not be opened by the postmasters, but
} fact that such letters are suspected to con-
4 dutiable goods should be reported to the
'tmaster at the Office where they are ad- j
ssed, and to the customs officers
While Senator Schurz was saying that the
charge of employees for not voting the
let of their employers received counte-
zee from the practice of the Administra- ''-0
l, orders were issued in Washington that
advertisements of the Federal Govern Cit
1T should be given to those journals alone
ch sustain the Administration through
lex and thin" This, it will be seen, is F