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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-22

| Balance to be divided on net premiums
of 1s745 and unearnei Of 1854. sl17,1ao o(
| THE COMPANY HAVE THE FOLLOWING ASSETS TC-wlT
| Cash on hand. -.........-.. 1894, 4e3 Is
| Accounts in course OF col
Bills receivable fo{ioans on ~
| pledge OF stocks and
Bills receivable at short
| dates 3s01145
Bank and other stocks -. 21s 1903 SIS
Stocks ofCity Railroads.. 1850 Go
| City and other bonds...... 1106s1 Sc
Bonds of Masonic Grand
Lodge of Louisiana. 5000
Bonds Of Odd Fellows Hall
Association. 5000 90
Bonds of Association for
Relief of Jewish Wild
0ws and Orphans...... 1000 90
Real estate. 6o135 oo-s1 1856. 2l5 IS
LIABILITIES
Capital stock. 81, 100000 90
Deserved for DIFFERENTIATED
Unpaid dividends ineiud: o. 80 "
ing interest and pre-
MUM dividends April
30 1875. TT 655 q
Contingent Fund (surplns) 1883 IS 81 1885, 215 SO
The foregoing is and cerrect transcript from
E6. 4. PALFREY President
THos. f. WALKER, Secretary.
STATE OF LOUISIANA !
Parish of Orleans, City of New Orleans
Sworn to and subscribed before me- this ed day Of
1''' $780, EDWARD IVY. Notary Public
At special meeting OF the Board Of Trus ees held
MAND : SECOND sEMI-ANNUAI int interest re, t.; Of
per cent per annum on the G1PITAL STOCK 81 the
ComgsES, 81, 1oG, oGol and CASH DIVIDEND of
the amount GAL 769 ss) of their net participating
premiums for the year ending 3oth April, 1875, and
Of their unearned participating premiums for the
ED. A. PALFREY, President.
THoS. f. WALKER, Secretary.
MOSES GREENWOOD, Vice lreside1t
TRUSTEES.
Moses Greenwood 4. NJ. wa.msley,
w. A. johnson, A. Brittin,
John I. Noble, A. H. May,
John Chaffe S. II. Snowden,
Richard Miliken, L. Lytt. Lyon,
Samuel K. Moore, VIM. G. Raymond,
J. l. Warren James S. Prastidge,
r. T. Buckner, Samuel F.. Boyd,
Saml Friedlander Joseph McElr0y
A. A. Yates e. b. Wheelock,
John ]. Adams, Cyrus Bussey
Isaac Scherck, VIM J. Beh6R,
b. f. EShlomAn. my23
st. Charles Hotel.
RIVERS & LONSDALE. Proprietors.
st. Charles Street, Between Common m
Grnvier.
This Hotel has since 1852 been the leading Hots
In the South and is Setter prepared to enterta
guests than at any period since its opening.
The proprietors have spared no expense In fttins
M the House. and both a. to furniture and the n
rangemsnts Of the culinary department it Il III
rivaled
Transient visitors will End the st. Charles tn
mos. delightful - wall 81 the most central Hotel
the city. uhi7 If
A DvERT1sE IN The
HandsbOrO (Miss.) Democrat.
1t is THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in
Southeast Mississippi.
Merchants and business men can have Advertise
ments inserted in the DEMOCRAT. by the year or
for shorter period at liberal rates.
Address PIX NAYERS,
Editor and Proprietor,
o3t HSndsb.ro Mississippi
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

A SILVER dollar, as proposed to be coined,
and as it should be and has been coined,
is worth eighty-fosr and a half cents In
gold. If such dollar were a legal tender,
as it was when the ''coin" bonds of the
United States were issued, we are told that
all gold would be expelled from the coun-
try, and that debtors would always choose
to paw existing debts in the cheaper metal
Future transactions would be unaffected by
the law since these would be made with
reference to the relative values OF silver
and gold: but the injustice of making
debs, already contracted, payable in goid
alone, is so manifestly unjust that none but
highwaymeu or Shylocks would advocate
it. II silver had grown valuable and gold
worthless, these bondholders, By the same
right and with equal justice, would com
pei the people to pay them in silver, ana IN
doing this they plainly repudiate an exc
cuted contract Now they would make
debtors, by forcing payment in gold, pay
one dollar and eighteen cents for each dof
lar they owe. Four hundred aud twelve
and eight tenths grains of silver haV'
constituted & silver dollar for eign
ly years and for eighty years
aud even before gold dollars were known
was legal tender. At cnstom houses tn
government, before the war, IS matter
convenience when vast sums were sceumu
lated, preferred gold and rejected SILVER
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31
LAwLLSSN EsS AND CRIME.

The existence of a popular tendency to
ignore the force of moral truths, to set
laws at defiance, and commit criminal acts
must be confessed. This reign of brute
force, this uprooting of order and loosen
ing the bonds of society, have been caused
by the decentralization produced by civil
war, and by the corruption of Federal
power. When hostilities ceased and great
armies were disbanded, thousands returned
10 their homes completely changed in feel
ings and habits and purposes. They were
soldiers, and could not at once become, as
they had been, citizens. They sighed for
the tented field, the associations of life in
camp and the excitement of battle. They
hated the restraints of law and the ameni-
ties of civil life. They vera ready to en-
gage in desperate enterprises, and did not
care TO investigate the morality or justice
Of any cause suggesting escape from the
dull monotouy of peace. The hallowed ln-
fueuces of home, the action and reaction
of thought and benign temperings OF social
| life co-operated to overcome the demorall-
zation engendered by fierce internecine
war. Time was bringing healing on its wings
when the Republican party triumphed,
Grant filled the chair once honored by
Washington and the great men who sue
ceeded him. Instead of beng rebuked fo'
their aggressious upon the Constitution anc
their invasions of the rights of ofindividuals
the Republicans now had 8 chief magistrate
ready TO second their EXTREMIST measures
In time it became evident that the blow
leveled at the autonomy and integrIt
of the States lately in rebellion were IN
tended as precedents and would be pleade'
when partisan policy chose to direct thes
measures against other States. The 81
preme Court of the United States was mar
!, ipulated so as to change its character an
render that august tribunal a mere chron
Z icler Of the edicts of military leader VIII
had carried the discipline of the camp int
practice in the great affairs OF state. tt
: different departments OF government wei
subjected to the most peraicions influencl
. and those having them in charge were SOC
transformed into servitoFs Of remorsele
master and tyrant. The high employment
Of government were considered the prope
= u Of the Republican party, and not Of q
people. Millions OF dollars we're stolen al
used TO swell the fortunes Of nnrsineipl
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

Adventures snd TO rivet chains upon the
people from whom these vast sums had
been eXtorted.
Corruption exhibited its Shiny form and
disgusting shapes In the halls of state. Its
poisonous breath spread in an increasing
circle, from the White House, until its pol
lured stencil reached every hamlet in the
broad expanse of the Union. The damna-
BILE seed, sown by internal hands, sprsng up
in rank luxurisnce, and produced pestifer-
GUS fruits. 1t was verification of Scrip
ture-those who sowed the wind reaped
the whirlwind N the shape of straw bids
for government contracts--saie of post
traderships-crooked whisky, and the
prostitution of high official position to prl-
vate ends; and, ID the course of time, the
execrations of mankind.
To be plain-the lawlessness and crime
so prevalent in Texas, and extant in other
States, are attributable to the corruptions
practiced by Grant and his cabinet. They
are the fruits of Republican rue-the off
spring of party held together by the cohe-
siVe power of public plunder. To deuy
their existence, to assert they have been ex-
aggerated, is to enter plea of extenuation
for Grant and Belknap and Blbcock, and
for the long list of rogues and robbers
which the Republican party vomlted upon
the federal capital to prey upon the coun-
try, and to eat out the substance of the peo-
pie. Enormous sums, extorted through the
tariff, from popular industry, wretched
costly local governments constituting legal
ized schemes of robbery, consequent pro-
ftlessness of industry-all these facts
have co-operated to beget idleness, vice,
lawlessness and crime, and, as we have re-
peatedly stated, the fault is not in the peo-
pie or government of Texas, but in the
government at Washington and in those
CHASTITY constitutional amendments which
have made fairest districts of the South un-
fit abiding places for civilized men, and,
driving people from their homes, have
driven them to lives of desperate lawless-
ness
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31
kissing Customs.

All over the Continent of Europe, except
in England, men who are intimate friends
kiss each other, but In cold Britain and
America tits only women who salute zach
other thus, and that, too, without regard
TO whether those who embrace be friends OF
foes. In the Friendly and Society Islands
salutation is made by the rubbing Of noses
together, something as ponies greet each
other and the salutation is returned by each
friend taking the hand Of the other and
with it rubbing his own nose aud mouth.
In the Pelew Islands IL Is customary to
grasp the foot in friendship. and in Bur
NAH, according to high authority, people
place the mouth aud nose close 10 each
others cheeks and draw in the breath as II
inhaling an odor divine, saying not ''Give
me a kiss" but "Give me smell" But in
whatever way people kiss, it may be taken
for granted that the primitive signifcaiion
of the salute has no more to do with Its
| meaning when applied than the everlasting
sSun Myth had TO do with the old Greeks
conception of Apollo as Hyperion and As
| Helios when he read his Bible--that is, his
| Homeric poems-and took the tale as Il was
| written A kiss means much or little, ac-
! ss@asaG Aa.i'e time intention. and circum-
his mother-in law, = a Y
same spirit of solemDity in which be kisses
the biDle IN court. We do not say that, in
actual lie, any one ever does kiss his
mother-in-law, but that he may do 80 II he
chooses. he may in the same spirit kiss
his grandmothers and his Aunts and, per-
haps, even his cousins, il be will keep 20
the spirit, pure and simple. He may kiss
his old nurse and numbers Of his female re-
) Iatives, he may also kiss his afiianced wife,
but here the list Of kIssable persons stops
short. lie may not kiss her whom he loves
that is, IL he can help it, unless he first
has formally proposed marriage TO her and
has been accepted. The chariest maid IL
prodigal enough IL she l.isses her cat, but
she must set for masculine moFtsls 3 pre-
! mum on her lips that il higher than gold.
Between lovers the kiss has wonderful, q
mystical meaning. and even q scientific as
pect, as DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes has
shown In ELSIE yenpeF," II We remember
rightly, when be says that ''alien bloods de-
yelop strange currents when they Hos neal
to each other, with only the films that sep
crate lip and cheek between them" The
! World holds KISSES cheap because IL looks
, upon them es meaningless, bat what = cold,
! ILas<, and hearfless view Of 80 sll-imPortanl
!. theme Is not this 10 takef Girls, II yor
!. feel like kissing, kiss; but know what yct
|. are about, and grant 80 high boon onig q
your accepted lovers
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31
GOV. CoKE,S EXTRAORDINARY CA
REEH.

The administration of Governor Coke
will be ever memorable. He went into Of
fee in sunburst of glory; the supreme
splendor of his rising sun was measured
by the gloom that overshadowed the ''em-
pirer when Davis was dethroned. 1t is a
sad spectacle, its contemplation rendered
more painful by the fact that his last year
in Office Is the centennial year of American
freedom; and through all future time men
must look back to 1876 as a Poa stO-a start
ing point in Texan history. It will be re-
membered as the last year Of Coke's reign
and the last year of = historical century. il
will be remembered a. the year in which g
rude, constructed Rutabaga Constitution was
coboled together by gross incomPetency,
and its adoption secured BY the arts oi
demagogism- The attainment Of the Sen
atorship was only possible through It's ad
vocacy, and vet, As soon as it was adoptes
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

oogs and men, In the latter generally attack
ing the scalp. This disease uodoubtedIv
originated with the dog, as of late wears 4
has been discovered that this parasite finn
gus was the same on man AS on dogs. There
is scarcely a dog that does not have some
of the various kinds of tape worms. either
in its intestines, nostrils, brain, thorax. or
uretha. The smaller tape worm taaia
ooenEF1s. with its stylet-like borers, often
works its way into the brain OF the dog,
giving it disease called the s'staggersn
The teaia marginata. large worm, she
t0nia serrdtu, yet different variety OF tape
worm, are to be found in nearly all dogs.
There is a mslady of the lungs and liver
occasioned in man by fungi from dogs,
called the echiaoooocEs disease. In Iceland,
where dogs live IN the same apartments
with families, every seventh man Is said to
have this disease. II is also frequent In
Germany, especially in Thuringen and in
Dresden, where thirty per cent, Of the
population are thus afflicted. There is an
other annulated worm found fr, Quently in
the dog, which is wonderfully productive,
sixty thousand eggs beng counted in its
oviparous sheath. By sneexing or blowing,
these embryos and disgusting parasites are
dispersed from the nose of the dog, or fiow
In the nasal discharge, and us the dog is
constantly rubbing his nose about, these
eggs are often deposited on the food OF ami.
mails, and possibly of man. In addition TO
these fatal objections TO this miserable
brute, we might name minor evils, such as
tleas, Pediouli, lice, etc, but we think the
list collated from the Reoieo already sufi.
ciently formidable. The dog may be used
to guard focks of sheep, to hunt hogs or to
guard the house, but he should never be
used as companion or be permitted TO en-
ter the dwelling. No dog should be per-
mitted to appear in the streets without the
name and residence of the owner upon its
collar. But we very much question whether
any dog licensed or unlicensed should be
permitted upon our streets. II quielus
;ould be put to all dogs, the communi'
would be better off, since the services "
'ociety of that brute does not comr y
or the dangers attending his pres,
or the heavy burden of his support.
leedless to suggest that the evils genera
~ dogs are often fatal, when parents littl>
suspect it, to children.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

TEXAS railway managers may derive valu-
able lessons for themselves and the people
from the experience of Northern superin-
tendents and ticket agents. 1t is now the
fixed OPINION of experts who run the road
that the Erie has prOfted largely by the low
fares which have obtained for some time
past. The experience of the roads running
to the West with regard to cheap freight
and of the Erie and other roads in compet-
ing on passenger traffic brings up the ques-
tion even here in Texas whether in the long
ly more profitable to the Uor.. t,,..---1,t real
encouragement they give 10 general busi-
ness and the stimulus to larger passenger
traffic. 1t will be remembered that in Great
Britain, when Parliament insisted upon
cheap fares for the working classes, the
railroads thought they would be ruined.
The result, however, showed that Parlia
ment was wiser than the railroad managers,
for the greatest sources of income to the
English railroads of to-day are the low
priced trains. The present railroad war
will not be an unmixed evil If it teach rail-
road directors that it is often more profita-
BILE to cater to the poorer class-the most
numerous members of the communlty-in-
stead of maintaining prices which only allow
the we'll to-do to pAtronize the railway car
riages.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

THE sharpesr rebuke ever administered
by one presidential candidate to another is
embodied in a little paragraph by NJ. Til
den. Mr.. Hayes says that he will not be Il
candidate, if elected, for reelection. Prom
ises like this have been ever made, and as
often forgotten. Public necessity" is al
ways supposed to release the ''obligor" in
such case when the party or placemen
would thrust second or third term on the
incumbent. AS Carl Schurz once said, we
say of Mr.. Hayes, ''neither will these 6ne
professions on the part of candidates satisfy
u.s." In reference, of course, to this empty
platitude of Hayes, Mr.. Tilden remarks, in
his faultless letter of acceptance, employing
words full of sharp significance:
''NO reform of the civil service in this
country will be complete and permanent
until its chief magistrate is constitutionally
disqualItied for reelection, experience hav-
ing repeatedly exposed the futility of self
imposed restrictions by candidates or in
cumbents." ...-.. HIa.- .,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

GEN. ORDs conduct in ordering troops
into New Laredo if Col. Haynes, our COM
nercial agent, were not surrendered by
Canales, will be approved. Htynes had er-
tertained a wounded Fede al QLerdo) soldier
who was left with Haynes on his assurance
that he should not escape. But the rascally
Mexican fled when HlynSs went to break
fast, and the Mexican rebels proposed to
vigorous order VI Geh. Ura. Therefore the
Canales now lead 1900 desperadoes, and il
would be good thing if the murdcrer'
snd thieves of Western Texas would &C
over and take hand in the Mexican revo
lufinn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

GRANTS Unauthorized order to Sherman,
instructing him to hold as great number
of troops as possible in readiness for use in
the negro ruled Safes, is unmixed 6'utum
fuZnaen. Grant can send no troops into the
South unless these be called for by Gov
ernors when legislatures are not in session
and cannot be convened, and when an in
surrection or invasion justities it. He is
sued the order to Sherman either In utter
ignorance of his own powers and duties as
President, or he is using his high office as
President for the basest purposes of dis
graceful partisanship. He would make
Northern people believe that tine negro
is everywhere victimized, when the facts
we print every day show that murder is
most impartislly done. and that there are
ten white men for each black killed in the
South In Texas, where everything, ac-
cording to Governor Coke, is extremely
lovely, we slaughter and rob one hundred
whites for each penniless Cuffee that bites
the dust. In fact, Sambo rarely suffers.
He isn't worth killing, and is only put to
death when he amuses himself by commit
ing rape, to which he is peculiarly addicted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31
SENATOR A. w. TERRELL.

The local press of the State is paying
few just tributes to the capacity of legisla-
tors, and in view of this we feel illed upon
to speak of the ability and efforts of our
Senator, the Hon. A. W. Terrell He has
served his constituency faithfully and well,
and was regarded by the members of the
Senate as the most intellectual man in that
body. He is hard worker, an original
thinker, and used his talents in preparing
and carrying into effect many admirable
laws. He was the author of the jury bill,
worth within itself all the other legislation
of the Fifteenth Legislature, and the peo-
pie of Texas owe this gentleman lasting
debt of gratitude for this one law. He
was chairman of the Senate Committee on
Education, and prepared an excellent edu-
66aPttiiqpal 6Pttii q}p n3ill One Of tke features of this
do so except upon the vote of property
holders. We might mention, and will do
so when occasion requires, many other val
liable services of this gentleman, but will
content ourselves at present in giving par
tial summary of measures taken, which are
specially due to him, never forgetting his
able opposition to the attempted Tom Scott
land swindle.
The following bills were introduced by
Senator Terrell, and all passed the Senate:
''An act to organize the Court of Appeals"
'sAa act to provide for court stenogra-
pher." Gan act to provide system of
public free schools for the State of Texas"
''An act to regulate juries." Gan act to
reserve from location and to appropriate
for State University purposes one million
acres of land in the county of Greer" San
act to provide for water and fountains for
the State Capitol grounds and water supply
for the State Capitol" ''An act to lease
three hundred feet square of College Hill
for a water tower to the Austin City Water
Company, in consideration of permanent
supply of water for all the public depart
ment buildings" Gan act to survey 3,OO0,-
900 acres of public land for new State
Capitol and other public buildings"
All the above acts passed the Senate and
became laws except the bill to provide
for court stenographer, and to set aside
5000, 900 acres of public land for a
new State Capitol, both of which passed the
Senate, but were not acted on in the lower
house. He also introduced San act to pro-
vide for the appointment of railroad com
missioners, and prescribing their duties, ,
and IAN act to fix the rate for freight and
| nossanuars on railroads. - IT is strange that
it should have been reserved for lawyer te
frame and introduce the two last named
bills, the last carefully and plainly pro
vided for in the Constitution, but 1t is moi
strange, considering the ascendency of the
railroad element in the Legislature, thai
| .hAu should not have become law. A
number of other uOsS ''S.~---------
Judge Terrell, not now Remembered, all o
which passed the Senate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

and the SenatOrship secured, the scheme
of absurd government was ruthlessly and
properly assailed by his Excelency. But
the finances were in bal condition, and his
Ezc"'lcucy having declared that there
should be no augmentation of public
burdens during his term, and that
his policy would be shaped by the immuta-
BILE maxim pay as you co. he has stub
bOrnly adhered to the declaration that the
rate of taxation shall no. be increased,
and now all sorts of makeshifts must be
employed to maintain public credit through
the few remaining months of his term, and
and when this closes more bonds must be
sold and heavier burdens compounded by
his policy must be fastened upon the groan-
ing, weary, tax-accursed people. But this
will be the act of the successor" of this
distinguished predecessor. There are more
murders and assassinations and robberies
practiced in this centennial year than ever be-
fore, even in the earliest years of the COM
monwealth. This may be no fault, but il
is the grieYOus misfortune of bis Excellen-
cy, aud the fact constitutes the grand his
toric feature of ''the year we celebrate"
But the most memorable event of Coke's
adventurous and ever wonderful admins
tration will be the inside history of his
election to the United Safes Senate in con-
nection with the muniticent endowment of
Tom SCOTS road. He gathered about him
self the forces of Rutabagaism by caus-
ing the adoption of scheme of
government which he abhorred, and thus
secured the adhesion to himself of these
who would secede from Texas to subserve
the purposes of an unequaled land pirate
and then while disorder is prevalent and
blOodshed and violence are done by whites.
and thefts and rapes are everywhere per
petrated, by blacks the gIery of the reign of
Waco in Texas is crowned by the fact that
he is the first Governor Of Texas, or of
any State, who has ever sgnIfied to the
Legislature i'll a formal message his opin.
ions, as in the Tom Scott case, of bill be-
fore i was enacted, and then this wonder
full chapter in personal history, culmi-
mates in the story that must make coming
weep, that Texas, at last sends
the foremost figure in all this strange event
full concatenation of events, in this centen-
nial year, to the United States Senate, and
a horned frog to the worlds fail at PhiIa-
delphia