The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-26

suoJect, IneSe and lAlmilar reductions can
be obtained by An association Of dry goods
men here, Is well as by business men in New
York. The cost Of maintaining drummers at
hotels can be very largely reduced. The way
things are now, the drummer has to pay near
ly as much for days board in q hotel as q
regular boarder pays for week. Another
thing to be taken advantage of in
forming this association. In q social
point OF view the acquaintance of the
various Numbers of /. the trade with
one another would soon beget community
of feeling which would be invaluable to ALI
and establish an esprit du corps that could not
fail to make itself felt in every matter affect
ing the general welfare, as we'll as in individ-
ual cases." The formation Of this associa-
ton will, no doubt, have an important indu-
ence upon the trade it represents.
The Naval Investigating Committee, which
has been investigating the management of the
Portsmouth Navy Yard, closed its labors
Saturday. The committee has worked most
assiduously during its stay in Portsmouth,
and has taken large amount of testimony.
Sessions have been held every day, and some
Of them have been protracted from A. M. to
s p NJ, and frequently sessions have been
held evenings, which have lasted until
midnight. But few witnesses have
been examined, and those only who
were of importance and could give testimony
of value. l have it on the best of
authority that the evidence taken before
the committee fully susains the charge
made against the institution by Con-
gresham Burleigh, OF Maine, in the House
last year. The members of the committee,
Messrs. Mills, Of Texas; Jones, of New Hamp-
shire, and Burleigh, of Maine, arrived in
| this city this morning, and have telegraphed
Hon. B. w. Harris, OF Massachusetts, men,
Der OF the committee, to meet them here.
The report of the committee will not be made
| for six weeks or two months. When it is
made, off Gals high in life and several Wash.
ington personages will be implicated in some
very questionable transactions. 1t is we'll
known fact that there is vile heap of cor
ruption in the Navy Department., and when it
is uncovered, goodbye Republican party.
| It is said that Richard Henry Home, the
English poet and critic, will land in Boston in
| few weeks, with the intention of lecturiDg
on - Portraits from memory OF Ce4eOrltles 1
Have Known" His lecture is spoken CT by
several critics as q masterpiece OF English
composition. He was born early in the
present century, and his recollections go
back to Nelson, Kemble, Cowper. Keats and
other famous Erglishmen Of their time. He
has had an exciting and romantic career, hav-
| ing served in the Mexican navy, and having
also embarked in the search for gold in the
Australian mines, while his prose and poeti-
cal writings have given him a recognized
place in the literature Of the day. HIS VOL
ume of ballad romances possesses great merit,
and his " Orion would well repay perusa al on
the part of a generation which has
probably heard little concerning the writer
beyond what the biographical dictionaries
have furnished. In Judas Iscariot," q
miracle play, he adopts the idea, derived from
the early theologians. that the ill-starred
disciple, in delivering up the Savior to the
high priests, was anxious only to precipitate
the triumphant vindication Of his mas.er-a
theory which William w. Story has utilized
in one of the most remarkable of his poems
Mr.. Home is also described as q model elocu-
ZIONIST, q gentleman in carriage, aud withal
very graceful. II he turns out to be all that
he has been represented by some of his ad-
mirers the lecture bureaus will secure him
as q trump card worth whole hecatombs Of
lesser luminaries. E. 81. MORGAN.