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The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09
FEsTINA LENTB.

Haste and precipitation in legislative
action never results in good. What requires
mature and deliberate action can not by any
possibility meet the exigency of the case to
which it is to be applied, when in the fever Of
extreme srdor undue celerity is used. There
can be no question but what the public Off
cials Of the State and city are most unequally
paid, and that some for the performance of
duties almost clerical receive salaries thrice
that of those who perform the most arduous
of public labors and are placed under the
gravest of responsibilities
That there ought to be a careful and thor
ough revision by the Legislature in the mat
ter of fees and salaries paid public officers is
beyond question, but this task of reducing the
amounts ad libitum without regard for the
dignity and labor of the service expended is
matter deserving the serious consideration of
our legislators. It needs no evidence to show
that many of the most responsible positions
are now and have been occupied by those
who have been and are now filed by those
who have expended more in the service of the
Oity 0AO NC0V0 eAoA eAOy aov0 ACOCASSO al
return, whilst others in subordinate capacities
enjoy almost return that makes them inde-
pendent in one term of Office. This is not as
it should be.
In England they know better. There the
gauge of salary rises with the responsibilities
and dignity Of the Office, and notwithstand-
ing the proverbial economy Of that govern
ment, the officer Of trust receives enough to
place him beyond the reach of bribes, whilst
those occupying subordinate positions are
only paid what their labors deserve.
Our Legislature ought to take this into con-
sideration without any regard to the political
faith of an officer. When the State or city
places man in position of great trust, let
the pay be commensurate with his dignity;
but even if tradition has given to one of lower
grade higher pay let it be reduced. With
economy let there be justice.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

A BR1111ANr AFFAIR. - The next grand
event on the tapis Of our social world will be
the ball Of the popular Continental Guards,
which will take place on tho 22d Of the present
month, at St. Patrick's HAIL The bellies Of
our most fashionable society are already dis
cussing quite earnestly the toilestess they are
10 wear. and the services Of our most popular
,nodistes have already been secured to prepare
for the coming festival
All efforts that can possibly be made to Sc
cure the pleasure and comfort Of visitors are
being made by the gentlemen Of the different
committees, and there is every indication
that the ball will be one Of the most magnif-
cent affairs Of our social season. It is the in
tention Of the gentlemen of this popular
command to make the affair not only strictly
select, bat ohaste and elegant in all its
branches, and in fact to secure for it the
prestige Of being the grandest affair of the
SESSION.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09
THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE.

It is q good rule to assume the innocence
rather than the guilt Of another where proof
is absent or insufficient It is the very
courtesy and chivalry Of justice that the law
holds an accused person innocent until bis
guilt is proved. The prisoner at the bar of
criminal court is not called upon to prove
that he did not commit the crime for which
he is arraigned. The court assumes that he
did not, and that assumption lasts until an
adverse verdict is rendered.
If justice thus raises over the accused q
presumption of innocence, even in the pres
ence of his judge, the States prosecutor and
the jury by whom he is to be tried, charity
ought to do as much towards neighbors and
citizens not on trial for crime or misdemeanor,
but subjected by circumstances to the suspi-
cion of having been guilty Of such either as
principals or as accessories. We make this
remark with more special reference to the
dealers at wholesale in whisky in this city
where investigations are in progress for the
discovery and punishment Of persons who
have defrauded the revenue.
The indictment and successful prosecution
of few who were agents Of the government,
or their friends, do not authorize our peo-
ple to hold this class Of merchants liable to
the charge Of having been participants in
fraud themselves, or cognizant of fraud in
others. Reputation for evil is made up of
whispers, dumb signs, shrugs, winks and
innuendoes. Every one who utters suspi-
cion strengthens it. and he becomes one of
the thousand conspiraters for the destruction
of fair name, crime as wicked as highway
robbery.
There is nothing more easy than to pre-
Judge unheard fellow-being accused of
crime, and we may add there is nothing
more base than to thus anticipate the verdict
of jury. Better always to err on the side
Of charity than to err once in Q too hasty
Judgment as to the guilt of one whose name
has hitherto been unstained-who has been
above the very suspicion Of wrong-doing
There can be no better evidence Of Q small
and narrow mind than disposition to listen
to every whisper or inuendo against the fair
fame of neighbor or citizen and to give Gre
dence to every damaging rumor that is circu-
lated by the snake like tongue Of malice
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09
DIFFERENT POLICIES.

As if appreciating the fact that Radical su-
premacy in the United States Congress was
not basedupon q thoughtful and well-reasoned
exercise of suffrage by the people of the
country, and that its continuance in power,
like its accession to prominence, depended
upon an unsettled and boisterous condition of
affairs, the leaders Of that party have always
devoted the most of their time to inaugural
ing and prosecuting violent political discord
in some section of our country, only resting
from their discussion Of such disorders to
legislate upon schemes the object of which
was to specially benefit prominent party ring
sters.
Take the record Of the Congressional pro-
ceedings since the termination of the war,
and il will be seen that for the most part the
attention Of the members has been directed
to the consideration Of questions purely po-
Etical, and only by accident, if at all, of the
slightest benefit to the country at large. II
seems rs if the Radical idea of statemanship
is based purely upon ability for political
strategy and intrigue, Independent Of all
good or evil results, except as affecting to
success of party; it is rare that any evidence
Of care or trouble having been taken by
Radical politician is seen in debates affecting
purely the real interests Of the country at
large, and in nearly every case when any
project or scheme purporting to be of advan-
taQe to the nation has claimed their attention,
it has been shown that individual interest
was the moving spring which reused them
into action. This being the case, it is not
difficult to understand the reasoning which
has led these party champions to feel
justified in clamoring about the
lack Of organization, the incompetency and
the want Of sagacity Of the members Of the
Democratic majority in the House; they can
not understand why it is that members Of
party which is just regaining the power of
which it has SO long been defrauded, should
not devote their entire energies to system
of political maneuvering and strategy, for the
purpose Of sustaining themselves in power, or
why it is that they have not taken measures
to comfortably provide for them selves should
political disaster befall them, and they or any
Of them be compelled to retire again to
private life. The idea that these Democratic
members should without delay inaugurate
policy of retrenchment and reform and put
forward their best endeavors to carry out the
true intent of this policy cannot gain easy
entrance to the minds Of these Radical trick
sters, and they keep up their old policy Of
stirring the muddy waters of the past, and
wasting hours and days discoursing upon
the responsibility for outrages and wrongs,
which are in reality but creations Of their own
troubled consciesces. They Stand aghast at
the assiduity with which the Democrats in
Congress are applying the pruning knife
Of reform, and lacking better protest against
this display Of economy, cry oat at last that
it evidences the incapacity Of the Democrats
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

We have seen several jars of pickles Of
various sizes, put up expressly for exhibition
at the coming Exposition, which are remarka-
,,bls for the unique and tasteful arrangement
of the many varieties Of fruits and vegeta-
bles contained therein. They are from the
great house Of Du vivier & Co., New IofK'
arc Of the famous Windsor Manor" brand,
md have been received by Messrs. Rareshide
L. Macs. the New Orleans agents.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

A hat made of human hair was recently
sent to Chilian exhibition by Guatemala
woman, the material of which came from the
heads Of her two daughters. Hereafter young
ladies are expected to present their lovers.
not with look Of hair, but with hat Of
hair
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

I'm pxurnc.-We now possess facilities to
ss,shas us to execute every description OF
sonmescial, railroad and steamboat printing,
nvvers' briefs, blanks and other legal doca-
s.snts, on the shortest notice, in the best
Axia. and at the most reasonable rates. We
vll guarantee full satisfaction to those o. cur
5000 Who favor us with their orders.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

New York Commercial: Mr.. Nilsson, or
rather N. Rozeaud, is reported dangerously
ill The angelic smile that fits across the
features Of the gentle Christine, as she ap-
proaches his bedside hourly with bottle and
spoon, would, they say, justify any manager
in an increase of at least q dollar in the
price Of orchestra seats.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

One of our merchants sat his umbrella
against tree while he stepped into store to
ak . question. When he came out the tree
Was still there.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

Little Ave.year old, after shopping with her
mother at leading dry goods stores, remarked:
.6eems TO me there are . good many boys
named "Oash."
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

Cincinnati Times: An Iowa girl has been
found with seven fingers. She's an expert at
seven-up, and can have two fingers in the pie,
With Ave left for general business.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

A Chicago girl writes to the school authori-
ties Of that city to say that she "hed bin ont
Of employment for yeare. and wud teech for
$40 month and bord around"
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

0uPrxxafENT.-With our regular SUNDAY
edition viii hereafter be issued supplement,
which will enable Us to lay before our readers
greater amount and diversity OF reading
matter.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

Mr.. R. g. Eyrich, the ever.popular "Bo-
nanza" ssationer Of $50 Canal street, has
kindly sent us copies Of the following
works:
.Thrcugh and Through the Tropics, BY
Frank Vincent Il Co.. published by Harper &
Brothers. New York.
"Athenagoras," the fourth volume Of the
Douglass series of Christian, Greek and Latin
writers; same publishers.
"Halves," q novel, by James Payne; same
publishers.
"Our Old Home" by Nathanial Hawthorne;
published By Jas. r. Osgood L Co.. Boston.
"a Paying Investment" BY Anna E. Dick
inson; same publishers.
ssThrostlewaite. BY Susan Morley; pub
lished BY J. B. Lippincott 4 Co., Philadel-
phiA,
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09
Notice.

OFFICE STATE TAX COLLECTOR
FIRST DISTRICT Q69 GTavier st. up stairs}
New Orleans, Jan. %, 1876.
Public notice is hereby given to the Taxpayers Of
the First District Of New Orleans that am ready
to issue State Licenses for The year 1876 and to T.
ceve all Taxes for the years 1875 1874 and 1879 The
Office viii be open from A. NJ. to r NJ
n. G. FOLGER,
ia29 I'm State Tax Collector First District.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09
southern Shoe MGsssstactOry.

NEW ORLEANS, July "a, 1875.
Gentlemen Of New Orleans and Lovisiana.
am starting Southern Shee Factory I only ashs
Of You, gentlemen fer your patronage. guatantss'
that will give you better satisfaction in my line than
any establishment in this ctcheaper and ofa better
material. Gentlemen. you all know that there are
great many laborers and mechanics in this State7
who have no work nor any food for their wives and
children. If will start factories and pat
ronize eachother could easily get along with
factories of all descriptions. Our money is all given
to the North and West which is millions of dollars
have been established in the Shoe Nanufactory for
the last twenty-five years. and call the attention o.
the community in general.
Yours respectfully.
JOHN HANSEN,
IS Canal stIee1.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

Advice to Morton: .sTuck in your shirt
Boston Post
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

LIST OF LETrRRs.-The BULLETIN Will puo-
Iish.hereafter the List of Letters in the Sun
day edition.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

szsinst those Who have been fortunate in the
accumulation Of riches. There is nothing so
breeds envy in the breast Of the average man
e success in others. It is . contemplate
trait in human nature, but well recognized
trait, nevertheless, and one that should have
t,e effect of making US extremely cautious
how We accept idle rumors, or permit them to
influence our opinions Of men, especially of
men who, either by reason of high Office or
great wealth, occupy conspicuous places in
the community.
For ourselves we decline to believe that
most of the gentlemen arraigned before the
United States Circuit Court here for violation
of the revenue law are guilty. We have
known some of them intimately, and have
seen them evince the very highest traits of
moral and physical heroism in times that
tried mems souls, and we, therefore, must
believe that their arraignment has proceeded
from false or malicious evidence, and that the
government prosecutors have been in some
instances, at least, deceived thereby. Let US
have Q fair and thorough investigation of all
tho facts, let no partisan zeal nor political
prejudice interfere with the prosecution Of
the parties arraigned, and then the public
will accord its appreciation to the result.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

An Ohio pa has named daughter Ola
Podfida.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

We are indebted to Hon. S. s. Cox for
copy Of his speech on the Amnesty Bill
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

The palace expenditures Of the Sultan OF
Turkey has been $4,000, 900 year ever since
1,ia sS,rceani0n
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

to manage the affairs Of government. The
country has been taught by the Radical
leaders to look upon appropriations Of
million or two Of dollars per annum as but
insignificant sums; the Democrats are now
about demonstrating the fact that these small
but continuous and useless appropriations are
among the most prolific sources of all our
financial trouble during the last ten
years. These constant leaks from the
Treasury of the United States were made SO
comparatively small by the Radicals that'it
was hoped the public would not notice them,
but they are in reality the drains which have
so depleted and crippled the financial re-
sources; it is by closing up all by-ways, side
and back entrances to the Treasury of the
United States, that the Democrats propose to
put themselves in better condition to guard
the main entrances to our country's finances;
it is proposed to so arrange matters that in
stead Of having to scatter the sentries OF the
party about in small squads to watch minor
points of attack, that the vulnerable points
be made resistless, then all may watch with
care the grand sally port Of the army of pill
ferers and schemers.
1t is by the steady pursuit Of just such 3
policy as this that will starve out the truly
loil" camp followers of the nation that have
so long found refuge in the Radical camp,
while they fattened upon their pickings and
stealings from the commissary of the nation.
Let the Radical cohorts cry" '"spigot economy"
till they are hoarse; every shout like that they
utter is reverberated with applause through
out the entire country for the men they in
tend to censure. When the people of the
United States look over the accounts of the
Democratic stewardship. and find that the
balance is gradually creeping from the debit
to the credit side, they will be prepared to
renew the lease of power, with increased re-
sponsibility, with the party which has prac.i-
cally kept its promise of honest reform.
The Kansas Senate has passed a bill allow-
ing the counties to give premium of five
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

Burlington Hasclceye: A sweet young crea-
ture who lives out on Angular street. and is
Just back from vAssar, appealed with tender
pathos to her grim parent the other day:
"Paw, deah paw, can't you give Cahlo away
and buy me y seal bwown black and-tan to
match my wslking-suit." And because paw
1oared and guffawed and said there were no
brown black-and-tans in the market, she
cwied, poor girl.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09
Diseases Of the Eye and Ear.
DR.. G. BEARD, Occultss,
A.........-...OAUPHINE 6TREET.----....--
Orleans 1nnrmary.
nf.ne hnurs from 10 n, n
TO THE PUBLIC.
Jew ORLEANS PACIFIC RAILROAD.

The Citizens Committee appointed at the
meeting held at St. Patrieks Hail. January 81 in the
interest of the NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC RAIL
WAY COMPANY, have recommended the follow
ing well KNOWN active, energetic and highly re-
spectacle gentlemen solicitors to the capital
formed that the districts designated will be can
vassed by the gentlemen whose ap-
pended
The eastern and starn boundaries are from river
to xamp:
l. South side of Canal street and north side of Poy
dras. inclusive, Col. Ch r. Railey, F. Camerden,
Esq.
q South side of Poydras to north side of Calliope,
inclusive, Z, F. Schmidt, Esq. II. W. Fowler. Esq.
3 South side of Calliope to north side of jackson
street inclusive, p. R. Byrne, Esq. B. B. Hotchkiss
Esq.
4. South side of Jackson to upper line of Carroll
ton inclusive, John McNulty Esq, A. Gallaird Esq.
s. North side of Canal street to south side Of st.
Louis, inclusive, j. P. Roux, Esq, A. Dupre, Esq
6. North side Of ST. Louis street to south side Of
Espsnade inclusive j. G.. Sanchez Esq, A. Kilshaw,
Esq
I. North side of Esplanade street to lower line of
CITY, inclusive, Jho. Paslay, Esq, Samuel Pow ers,
Esq
The above named gentlemen fully authorized
to obtain subscriptions to the capital stock of the
NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC RAILWAY COM
PANY. E. B. WHEELOCK, President.
February S, 1876 F6 lot
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

The Kansas Senate has passed bill allcw-
ing the counties to give premium of FIVE
dollars bushel for grasshoppers' eggs, and
sixty cents bushel for unhedged grasshop-
perS.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-02-09

1he New Orleans BULLETIN can be had Of the
Dsws agent in Mobile, at the Depot on tne
exriv,l Of the 2 p. N. train.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-04-08
SnOw-Clearing in the Himalayas.

The inhabitants of Zanskar, district
of Ladakh, high up in the Himalayas,
live in a severe climate. Spring, sum-
mer and autumn make, all together, but
little more than five months. Winter
closes in at once, combining the people
and the cattle within doors for more
than six months. As the snow lies long
on the ground, and the summer is very
short, the people have been obliged, by
necessity-the mother of invention-to
devise special continuance to clear the
snow from the fields in time for the SOW
ing. During summer and autumn, earth
is collected in large quantities and stored
in the houses. ''In the spring." says
an English traveller, ''when the time of
snowfall is thought to be over, and the
snow in the fields is partly melted, and
has begun to cake in the suns ays,they
spread the earth, which absorbs warmth
from the sun, and melts the snow in
contact with it. Sometimes snow falls
afresh, and the labor is lost, and has to
be repeated. In 1869 there were three
or four layers of earth and snow thus
accumulated before the work was
done"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-04-08
Wages at the East and West.

Wages are considerably higher at the
West than at the East, judging from the
accounts in the New York and Cincin-
natl papers. In New York carpenters
wages are down to 81, bricklayers to
$3.50 and $3, and laborers' to 81, while
in Cincinnati carpenters get from S2.75
to $3, bricklayers S5, and laborers $1.75.
Eastern and Western wages compare
similarly through the whole range of
building trades. Wages in Cincinnati
show curiously the effect of the large
German population. In the breweries,
bakeries, and barber-shops-all trades
in which the Germans are expert
wages are very low. Young men can
be had for 50 week in the bakeries,
WHICH ought to result in cheap bread.
1t would be a great relief to American
housewives if the universal cheap bak-
cry of the Germans could be induced to
squat in every neighborhood. Cigar
makers at Cincinnati only get s12
week, machinists, 50 day; shoe
makers, on the other hand, enjoy the
exceptional favor of the building trade,
and get from S12 to 1922 week, their
wages being higher than they were three
years ago. The activity of some of
these manufactures at the West is one
good reason why they are dull at the
East, and shows the necessity of the Sc
verest retrenchment in taxation, rents,
profits, interest, ambitions, and all the
of industry if we are to re-
tain our hold on industries which we
have been wont to consider our own
Springfield Mass Republican.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-04-08
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The Emperor and Empress of Brazil
sailed from Rio Janciro in the steamer
Heveling, on the 9th, destined for the
United States.
HARRY HOLLOWAY, Superintendent
OF the indianapolis Post-office, who was in
dicted for corruption in office, has been tried
and acquitted by order of the Court, there
being no evidence to sustain the charges
brought against him.
SOME delay has occurred in securing
the extradition OF Winslow, the Boston
forger, on account of the British Govern
ment's demanding, n condition of his
surrender, that he shall be prosecuted only
upon the charge named i'm the request for
the writ OF eXtradition, viz. that Of forgery,
Our Government has demurred to this rul-
ing, and it is not unlikely that somewhat
lengthy diplomatic controversy may ensue
before the matter is settled.
IT is currently reported in Europe
that the Car of Russia is about to retire
from the throne, and that the Czarowitch
will be appointed Regent.
PAHLMAN and Rush, two Chicago
''crooked' distillers, have been tried and
found guilty on four counts OF the indict-
ments brought against them.
HE Mississippi Republican Conven-
ton, held at Jackson on the LIST, elected a
delegation nearly unanimous for Morton for
PRESIDENT, and the colored convention gave
him its unanimous Endorsement.
JOHN l.. BITTENGER, of st joseph.
Mo-, indicted for conspiracy in the whisky
ring frauds, has entered plea of guilty.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-04-08
"The Old Woman

Once it was Mother" and it was
" Mother, Pm hungry" Mother, put
up my dinner" and her loving hands
would spread the butter, and sew on the
great patch, heart trimming with af-
lection for the imperious little curly
pate that made her so many steps.
Now she is "the old waman," but
she did not think it would ever come to
that. She looked through the future
years and saw her boy to manhood
grown; and he stood TRANSPORTED in the
light of her own beautiful love. Never
was there more noble son than he
honored in the world and the staff of
her declining years.
Aye, he was her support even then,
but she did not know it. She never
gave her strength for daily toil-that
his slender form was all that upheld her
over the brink of despair. She only
knew how she loved the child, and felt
that amidst the mists of age his love
would bear her gently through its in
firmities to the dark hall leading to the
light beyond.
But the son has forgotten the mothers
ministrations now. Adrift from the
moorings of home, he is cold, selfish,
heartless, and "mother has no sacred
meaning to the prodigal. She is the
sold woman," gray, wrinklcd, lame
and blind.