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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-02

STATE OF LOUISIANA /,
Parish of Orleans:
WILLIAM PALFREY, Cashier of the above.
named bank do soemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best OF my knowledge and belief
WIN PALFkEY Cashier
Sub.crib and sworn to beftre me this Sd day of
January, 1s76.
ANDREW HERO, Jr Notary Public
COrrect-attest:
SAML DELGADO
A. CHAPSKY
ja4 SIGMUND KATZ, Directors.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-02

Amerigo Vespucci. the last descendant of
the navigator OF that pane, after whom Amer
lea was named, died few days ago near
Florence, Italy.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-02

New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago and
Mississippi Central railroads burn st. Bernard
coal.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-02
Report Of the Condition
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK.
At the Close of Business, December ~, 1875,
At New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana,

RESOURCES:
Loans and discounts ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1896, 1873 %
Overdrafts NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Is 627 90
United States Bonds to circulation geo 900 90
Other etOcks bond, and mortgages. ...... $500 90
Due from arpreveh reserve agents. Co., 05
Due from other National Banks .. 1000 Al
Due from State Banks and Bankers. $500. 1893 %
Real estate furniture and fixtures ...... 10000 90
Current expenses and taxes paid. $500 %
Premiums paid. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10000 90
Checks and other cash items ........ 669 Sc
Exchanges for Clearing House ......... 50 932 %
Bills of other National Banks. ........ II 5l1 90
Fractional currency Gncluding nick els... $40 so
Specie tincuding gold II easury notes)... l. $50 90
Legal tender notes. .-..............1 ITO 900 90
Redemption fund with o. s. Treas urer five
per cent OF circulatOn) ............ 5000 90
Total. $ee6, $50 es
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in 5000 900 90
Surplus fand 600 90
Other undivided profits. Observation-Disclosures $3.50 95
National Bank notes outstanding. III 900 90
Dividends unpaid observation-disclosures l245 90
Individual deposits subject to check. 3fs 1874 81
Demand ce tificates of deposits Sc 407 80
Due to other National Banks. ... 9429 "a
Due to State Banks and bankers. ...-... 6O6l -
Total. Ssc6 $50 50
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The above statement is . Just true and correct
transcript from the books Of the Company.
P. FOURCHY, President.
G. W. MOTT, Secretary.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of Orleans, city of New Orleans (
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 18th day OF
June, 1875. JAMES FAHEY, N. p
At meeting of the Board Of Directors held on the
14th day Of june 1875 it resolved to pay to the
Stockholders, demand interest at the rate of 10
per cent per annum On their stock.
DIRECTORS:
P. Maspero, Ed. Toby,
d. Fatjo, r. Fourchy,
S. 2. Relf, NJ. W. Smith,
L. f. Generes, j. J. Fernandez
D. A. Chatfraix, J. NJ. Allen,
Chas Lafifte je16 rs "
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-02

Buy your buggy and carriage Of l.. T. Madduy
S. Carondelet street. New Orleans.
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At meeting of the Board of Directors. held the
| 18th inst it was resolved to pay the semi-annual
interest dividend Of five per cent the capital stock
the stockholders their legal representatives on
and after the FIRST MONDAY of February next
j. w. HINCKS, Secretary.
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DIRECTORS FOR 1876.
FACTORS AND TRADERS,

FACTORS AND TRADERS
Insurance Company.
81. .....CarOndelet Street. ..37
Assets April 30, 1873, 81 ,4S6,2l5 IS.
This Company issues Policies on
FIRE, RIVER AND MARINE RISKS
At Lowest Tariff Rates.
E. A. PALFREY. President. >
MOSES GREENWOOD, Vice President.
THOS F. WALKER Secretary.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-02

TRUSTEES.
Moses Greenwood, r. NJ Walmsley,
w. A. johnson, A. Brittin,
John /. Noble, A. H. May,
John Chafe. S. H. Snowden,
Richard Milliken, 7. Lytt. Lyon,
Samuel Z. Moore, VIM. C. Raymond
il Warren, Jas. S. Prestidge,
r. T. Buckner Samuel H. Boyd.
Samuel Friedlander, Joseph McElroy,
A. A. Yates, e. B. WheelucK,
John l. Adams Cyrus Bussey,
Isaac Seherck. VIM j. Behan,
81 B. F. Eschleman.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-02

The Board Of Directors at a meeting held on the
10Th day of January, 1876. after setting aside TEN
THOUSAND DOLLARS to the RESERVE FUND,
from the net earnings Of the year, and paying TEN
PER CENT DIVIDEND to the stockholders have
resolved to pay . CASH DIVIDEND of THIRTY
FIVE PER CENT, on the net earned participating
premiums of the year ending December 81 1875
said dividend payable and after MONDAY, the
gath day of January 1876.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-02

TyHE NEW ORLEANS INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW ORLEANS, La,
Corner Of Camp and Canal Streets,
ESTABLISHED IN 1905.
Assets December 81, e75a 56o "a
The Company insuros Fire, Marine and River
Risks. Issues Marine Policies payable In London in
case OF loss. J. W. HINCKS Secretary.
AID. SCHREIBER, Vice President.
J. TUYES, President.
DIRECTORS:
". 3. Schmidt A. n BckhAm.
Placide Forstall Ad Schneider.
y. Galy, Jules Tuyes
Charles LAftte W. A. Bell,
w. Van Benthuysen d. Fatio
Emile Bouny d. Rogers. fe31v
The New York herald., 1876-03-16
The Rine Shootinr Season.

The National Rifle Association has issued
its prospectuses of the three meetings for this
ycar-the spring, the fall and the Centennial
contests. Naturally the widest interest will
centre in the latter. OF the three matches
therein the International Long Range Match,
open to teams of eight from any country, for
the championship of the world, is by far tho
most important The ranges are eight hun
dred, nine hundredand one thousand yards,
with thirty shots at each distance, or double
the number fired in previous international
competitions. Fifteen shots are 20 be fired
at each range on the first day and the same
number on the second day, thus bringing
the strain of eye, nerve and muscle for one
day within the limits of endurance. although
applying very exquisite test to the skill
and physical forces Of tho rihcmcn.
Each team will fire seven hundred
and twenty shots, aud contest Of
such Titanic proportions cannot fail to
furnish n result which will be decisive.
Here, then, is a match TO make the mouths
honors. If Sir Lucius O'Triggcr lived in our
day he would become so enthusiastic over il
that he would cross the Atlantic q dozen
times for the chance of seeing the Centen-
NAL trophy anywhere within rifle shot Of
Blunderbus Hall. We are already assured
of having first class teams from Scotland and
Canada. Ireland will undoubtedly respond.
and when England reads the enticing form
of the match we shall be very much aston
ished if she does not waive All her objections.
which are founded on a Misunderstanding Of
her own creation, and fall into line at Creed
moor next September. The spirit Of Jack
Absolute will effcctually oover up any spook
The New York herald., 1876-03-16

the President when he attempted to serve
the country AZ the expense Of their patronage.
All these developments Of crime in the various
parts of the country. ''whiskey rings" in the
West. sugar rings" in the South, railroad
rings" In the East. all these manifestations
~ decay IN national virtue. beginning with
the appointment Of vagabond relatives Of the
President 20 plunder soldiers on the Plains
and ending with the disgrace of Babcock and
the impeachment of Belknap, are to be at
tributed 10 the ambition Of the President,
sustained and strengthened by the Senate.
Seeing these things wo may ask 'Have we
reached that period in our national life
which may be said 20 mark the beginning of
decay ?" Far be il from us to intrude un-
pleasant thoughts upon the patriotic mind
OF the country at time when we are to re-
light the camp fires of the Revolution, which
burned so brightly a century ago. But what
would those firm and stern patriots who
gathered about the blazing fagots in the
dark hours have thought if some prophetic
vision had shown them what we all see now
Might not their hearts have failed? Might
il not have been said ''bettar old England
with her crazy king and her taxes than
Republic which will bring forth such fruits
in a short century ?" These are thoughts
worthy of the deepest attention even in a
time that we propose by general consent to
devote 10 the veneration Of our ancestors
and the glorifcation Of ourselves. What is
the remedy? IL is not in political contro-
versy, in the success or failure of any one
party. The century which has blossomed
into these pernicious results has been largely
given to the political domination of the
democratic party-a party whose record is
tainted with as many crimes and follies as
the republican, party which began the
evils of which we now complain when it al
lowed Jackson to treat the Presidency as a
captured Indian camp, to be plundered by
himself and his friends. 1t is not in poll
tics that we are to find a remedy, but in our
selves. Let us as people look these mis-
fortunes in the face and, rising above party,
put an end to the rule Of men, democrats
and republicans, who have given as the
ripest development of their career n Tweed
as the master of New York and Belknap
as Secretary of War.
The New York herald., 1876-03-16

that could for a moment be taken for the
ghost Of Bob Acres. The Rivals" as il will
be played at Creedmoor will be such pure
sport that nothing should prevent the chill
dren of the English actors who performed in
the great drama hundred years ago from
adding the crack of their pieces to the
friendly rife dialogue of next fall.
The National Rifle Association should fol-
low up the work it has so well begun by
putting the range into first class condition.
In the first place the iron targets should be
changed at once for the more accurate cam
vas targets. Telegraphic communication
should be made between the targets and the
firing points. There should be no question
about these improvements but how soon
they can be made. The spring meeting will
open on the 25th of May, and we observe
that in the mid-range matches rifles are
handicapped by distance; thus scores on
military rifles are to be made at five
hundred, on special military at six
hundred, and on sporting rifles at seven
hundred yards. In the mid-rnnge match of
the Centennial contest the handicapping is
military rifles at five hundred, and
all other rifles at six hundred yards
We are at loss to know why
the distinction is made between these
matches If allowances are 10 be made
at all for differences in patterns of
rifes-and we doubt the feasibility of
doing it fairly in all cases-perhaps the dis
tance test is the best, but making differ
ence of two hundred yards between one
pattern of rifle and another is ridiculous
The allowance of one hundred yards, as in
the Centennial mid-range match, is ample
at second class target and if three classes
are necessary let the distance against
special military rifles be not more than fifty
yards.
The New York herald., 1876-03-16
The Syracuse Bottle Feeders OF the
Rag Baby.

Given "Uncle Dick" Schell, Theodore L.
Tomlinson and ex-Speaker Mcclure as the
leading spirits of financial convention,
what will the product be? Here you have
an alarming combination of "puts and
calls" windy Communism and shillelah.
Shake them in a pot boil them down, serve
up the mess and you have dish which may
be seen in another column, where the res
olutions of the Greenback Convention at
Syracuse yesterday are published. Uncle
Dick, with his dear old smiling face, must
have presided there in q Pickwickian blaze
of glory Tomlinson, who presents the odd
political picture of French Communist
whig, must, in his ''brief address," have ut
tered strings of rag baby sublimity that made
Uncle Dick look forward to the millennial
period when one bootblack shall say to
another, 81 bet ye a million of Uncle Dicks
dollars, and then pay them if he loses. As
to the redoubtable jeremiah, we have no
doubt that he made Uncle Dick feel a glow
of warlike enthusiasm, as during his two
hours speech he brought his stuffed shil-
lelah down upon the heads of bloated bond
holders, jingling capitalists, hard money
democrats and other public enemies. No
wonder they fired hundred guns in honor
of General jackson; they had to burn
powder to get off their enthusiasm
somehow, and perhaps the mystic Tomlin-
son saw subtle connection between Old
Hickory and hickory hams, whence by
wooden nutmegs he could slide down the
creased pole of his imagination to rag
money.
The conventionists of yesterday call them
selves democrats of the toughest kind. They
will call State Convention to send rag baby
delegates to st. Louis, where Mcclure will
thunder with his shillelah at the doors of the
Democratic Convention until the rag babies
within open wide the portals, and letting in
Tomlnson and Uncle Dick, hurl incon-
tinently forth every New Yorker branded by
a hard-mopey die with the name of Sammy
Tilden. But the resolutions of yesterday
Gold and silver, those denominations of an
effete mercantile system, fit only to make
nose rings for cannibals are merely men
toned because it is necessary to condemn
them. Paper is the only thing of fixed
value, gold, unlike paper, being a whimsical
commodity that rises and falls in price
according to the supply. Silver indeed,
is such base stuff that you can buy tons of
it with note-of-hand-and collateral. But
the base wheedling sixth resolution, meant
as bait to the Press All, Uncle Dick, we
did not think you were such SLY old in
sinuator
The New York herald., 1876-03-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Tho future way OF the corner grocer Is hard
It was stove dealer who Surnishcd Bclknap's bail
A Jackson Tenn. mother is eleven and half years
old.
The cold weather gives renewed hope TO the sherry
cobbler men.
When Caleb Marsh was told "Daro to do right he
said he dared, but wouldn't
Concord a. C) tried long time to open tho
first postal card he ever received
Tho great Calvert sugar refinery OF Baltimore is Ia
be established with large capital
Governor Tidcn said 10 bc Jealous OF Lieutenant
Governor Dorshcimcr in political way
Josh Billings is creating sensation in the South.
and ConKlipg's chances diminishing
Senator Jones wants TO get Off another awf,llv smart
thing. Let him call silver a tinkng symbol
Richmond Enquirer = Bet you dollar he dies
drink in less than five years from March g. Is77.u
Danbury Neics-Therc is no doubt that Blaine is the
coming man. The question is Shall we wait for him ,n
Orville Grant Is the only member of the yico cahnot
VINO has a comforter, and he wears his around hil
neck
General Saso, Chief Commissioner OF Japan with
suite arrived yesterday the City Of Pckng al San
Francisco bringing large quantity Of exhibits for tho
Centennial
The Rev. T. DC Wit Talmagc Is on lccturine tour
10 Canada He ~ In Montreal ON his arrival
there yesterday he was met by number OF citizens,
among whom were several members Of Parliament He
addressed the Theological Seminary yesterday morning.
the Young Mems Christian Association at noon and
the public generally last night
The New York herald., 1876-03-16

sons why they should continue. On6
is that the reduction is a mere device, q
trap If the people put aside their lamps,
abandon their Indignation and take to gas
once more the first convenient or plausible
pretext will be seized for putting up the
price again, and the companies will stand
more arrogantly than ever on the assump-
ton that the people cannot do without
them. Another reason is that the reduc-
tions are absurdly small-a mere drop in the
bucket Instead of ten cents a thousand
the reduction should be from fifty cents to
one dollar thousand, and the people should
persist in the kerosene movement until the
companies would be glad to get customers
at such q reduction on present prices.
Eight thousand cubic feet of gas can
be made from one ton of coal, and al
two dollars and half thousand the COM
panies thus get for the product of one ton
of coal twenty dollars 1t is not supposable
that the gas companies are victims to the
coal combinations as the people are and il
is q very liberal allowance to count that the
coal costs them five dollars ton delivered
at their yards. In the difference between
the cost of coal to the companies and the
price of gas there is, therefore, room fol
stupendous profits, and those profits must
be reduced not by ten cents, but by far
more important figure. But even if the COM
panies should satisfy the people by an ade-
quate reduction in the price of gas what
satisfaction will they give for the thefts prac-
tised under the cover of that mechanical
pickpocket, the meter?
The New York herald., 1876-03-16
Richard IL. Dana.

What a wonderfully tender conscience the
American Senate has suddenly acquired
respecting the rights of literary property It
is about to reject the nomination of Mr.. Dana
as Minister to England on the ground that
he appropriated some of the notes (unpro-
tected by copyright) of another editor Of
"wheaton's Law of Nations" although this
virtuous body has again and again refused
TO take any action for the protection
of the literary property of English
authors whose works are pirated by Ameri-
can publishers to the manifest injury of the
foreign authors whose labors are thus
habitually stolen, and of American authors,
the value of whose copyrights is impaired or
destroyed by the competition of these stolen
productions. 1t is truly refreshing spec
tacle to see the Senate so sensitive to the
rights of literary property after the utter
indifference to such rights which the same
body has always heretofore exhibited.
Even Mr.. Lawrence does not pretend that
Mr.. Dana has taken q cent out of his pocket
or added o cent to his own by the alleged
literary pilfering Mr.. Lawrence freely gave,
or at least professed to give, his labors foI
the benefit Of Mr., Wheaton's heirs. Mr..
Dana equally gave his labors for their bene-
fit, and as Mr.. Dana's edition had sale
while that of Mr.. Lawrence did not, the real
party in interest the family of Mr..
Wheaton, has reason to be grateful
for Mr.. Danas edition. 1t may not be
amiss to recur to the reason why Mr..
Dana was requested TO prepare his edition Of
Wheaton. 1t was solely because Mr.. Law
renee had foisted into his edition of that
standard work the secession doctrines which
had fallen into discredit with his country
men. The interest of Mr.. Wheaton's heirs,
for which Mr.. Lawrence and Mr.. Dana alike
professed to work, was undeniably promoted
by an edition which rejected the unpopular
secession heresy, and the sale of Mr.. Danaa
edition, while that of Mr. Lawrence
shows how advantageous to Mr. Wheaton's
family was the edition which did not insult
the loyal sentiment Of the country. 1t is
curious to see the American Senate ranging
itself on the side Of secession under pre-
tence Of zeal for the rights of authorship.
Nothing could be more shallow, false, hol-
low and ridiculous than such a pre-
tence. II is not Mr. Dana's liter
ary squabble with Mr.. Lawrence
but his political squabble with General
Butler that lies at the bottom of his pro-
posed rejection. The former is only pre-
text the latter is the real motive. Mr..
Dana ran against General Butler for Con-
gress in the Essex district in 1872, and
after an abusive canvass on both sides, Mr.
Dana was badly beaten. His real offence is
his consent to be candidate against the
regular republican nominee. II is also charged
that he voted for Mr.. Greeley, which is
''the head and front of his offending" and
may reconcile the President to his rejection.
But, apart from those miserable and passion
ate squabbles, Mr.. Dana is the fttest Min
lister to England that could be appointed,
unless Mr. Charles Francis Adams would
consent to resume his former post.
The New York herald., 1876-03-16

THE "NANIGos" Of Cuba exhibit very
strange peculiarities in their hideous relig-
ious rites, which seem an offshoot of African
heathenism. One hundred and fifty of these
deluded wretches were arrested in Havana
on Sunday. This arrest seems to have given
rise to number of exciting rumors, among
which was one that the negroes, who form
the bulk Of the 'Nanigos," had poisoned all
the meat at a certain slaughter house. The
only painful result of this rumor was the
spelling of q number of breakfasts.
The New York herald., 1876-03-16
The Price Of Gns.

Already the resolution of the people to
burn kerosene has had its effect upon the
impudent corporations which have so long
extortcd outrageous prices for gas and dealt
in a style 50 peremptory and offensive with
every remonstrance against their miscon-
duct Some have reduced their prices and
others promise to reduce them In the latter
category is numbered the Harlem company,
which, short time since. declared with
lofty defiance that il would never reduce its
horse not half SO high. But the people will
make a great mistake IL they relinquish tho
kerosene campaign because Of these tactics
Of their enemy. There are two good rea-
The New York herald., 1876-03-16

rotary Boutwell,.

We print in another column n detailed his
which have lately shocked and disgusted the
country The scene of these transactions is
so distant that remoteness may have its usual
effect in bunting public interest, and the
perpetrators perhaps relied on this very re-
moteness to cover up and conceal their mis-
doings. The company which, six or seven
years ago, was awarded monopoly of the
fur trade in Alaska is making money by mill
ions, and could have afforded to pay
roundly forAthe illegal favoritism by which
it was put in possession of its bonanza By
law this lucrative monopoly was required to
be given to those who would make the high
est bid for it; but, in defiance of law
and against the official opinions of
two successive Attorney Generals, Secre-
tary Boutwell, awarded it to the par
ties making the lowest bid. Nobody
knows the reason for Mr.. Boutwell's illegal
decision; but anybody who examines the
facts will see that it is decision for which
the favored party could have afforded 10 pay
a large sum of money. 1t is certain that the
bid most favorable to the government was
rejected, and that the Alaska Commercial
Company, which put in the lowest bid, was
awarded the privilege for twenty years, in
defiance of law and of the official opinions of
Attorney General Hoar and Attorney General
Akerman. 1t is the plain duty of Congress
to investigate Mr.. Boutwell, and give him an
opportunity to explain that illegal transac-
tion and clear himself of the suspicious
which naturally arise out of the facts. The
detailed statements supported by docu-
mentary proofs, which we print this morn
ing place the ex-Secretary in light in
which he cannot afford to stand.
The New York herald., 1876-03-16

The CHRISTIAN INSURGENTS will not lay
down their arms and trust to Turkish kind
ness for the removal of their grievances as
long as they can beat the Mussulmans as
they did in the battle of Muratovizza. The
Austrian proposals for reform, which were
backed by Germany, Russia, France, Eng
land and Italy, and accepted by the Porte,
are not likely to have much chance to be
put in operation. Surgery, not diplomatic
emollients, is what is wanted
The New York herald., 1876-03-16

4 THE FEEScH MrSurEnAL STATEMENT ap-
pears 10 have given general satisfaction TO
those Il Was most necessary 20 please p
namely. the large body q moderate repuhli-
sans ~ Gambcttas organ Is not wholly
pleased. but the determination 20 wait for
acts before judging the new Cabinet Is cred
table 10 the cx-Dictator, who has learned
with more success than most Frenchmen.
and certainly than any French republican.
the motto Of the watcher and worker.
Everything comes to him who knows how
10 wait"
The New York herald., 1876-03-16

THE LOGIC OF ACCOMPLISHED FACTS,
says Senor Sagasta, is the only logic that
the Vatican will accept in dealing with
Church and State questions. In Spain this
would mean, accord religious toloration, and
ask Rome to say how it likes it. Even that
moderately liberal policy is beyond the
power of Alfonso's government