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THE RAILROAD MEETING.

The assemblage at st. Patrick's Hall last
lie interest in an enterprise on which the
failure welfare Of our city largely depends
We remember no gathering of our citizens IN
which there was so much Of the solid ele-
men., both in respect Of intelligence and OF
the amount Of capital and business repre-
scented. Gentlemen were present who have
seldom before been seen in secular
public assembly, being drawn by an
intense interest in the matter at Issue.
They feel the slow destruction that
is setting down upon the commerce of New
Orleans, and they are earnestly seeking the
means to avert it. A spirit OF serious, almost
anxious, attention pervaded the large audience,
and the facts, very ably presented and Illus
trated, we're eagerly appreciated and will not
be forgotten.
We have, to the exclusion of much other
matter, made room for the eloquent and able
addresses delivered, to which we invite the
sudious attention OF those who had not the
opportunity to hear them. The speech OF
Col. New was one of the ablest of that orators
efforts. He seemed to have more than his usual
brilliance, force and pathos, doubtless in
spired in part by the grandeur of his theme,
and the full appreciation of unusually intel
ligent and appreciative listeners The speech
was not only full of fervor and electric energy,
but h was classically elegant in style.
We trust that the meeting and the address
es will have wide, salutary and permanent
influence, and give to the great work new
and strong impetus. A railway connection
between New Orleans and Northeastern Texas
is vital necessity, which the brains, the will
and the public spirit Of this city and State can
and must supply.
We comm end the able speeches made by
Gen Bussey, Gen. Hawthorne and Judge
Elan to our readers and to all those interested
in this grand project for the relief New
Orleans. They will be found full Of cogent
reasoning and unanswerable arguments in
favor of this route to Texas, and we suspect
will convince every doubling Thomas. if any
there now be in our city, Of the feasibility Of
the work and of its imperative necessity to
Naw Orleans
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BUNKO INVESTIGATION REDIVIVUs.

The House Committee on Metro politan Po-
Ice Affairs, it appears, after digeAting the tes-
timony taken before the Board OF Metropoli-
tan Police in the matter Of bunko, have come
to the conclusion that the decision of the
board in acquitting the Superintendent of Po-
lie was not warranted by the facts, and they
propose, as We are informed, to take up the
matter themselves. The committees sessions
are held with closed doors. The evidence
given before them does not involve the same
publicity as that given before the ordinary
courts of justice.
We commend this great advantage to the
many victims Of mysterious bunko, who
silently chew the cud of bitter disappoint-
ment and egregious fleeing. In the COM
mittee they will find sympa.hizing body O.
gentlemen, who are hard at work seeking
after the truth that lies at the bottom Of this
mysterious abomination. bunko. The COM
mittee are straining every nerve to reach the
"Lead and front of this ofense." They are on
the track of and intend to find whose is "the
gilded purse that buys off justc and just
exactly how it is done.
We are assured that no individual evi
tence on this subject will be published,
thus removing the two great obstacles 10 in
ves,iga.ions and trials before courts Of justice:
the sense of shame in the victim ard the fear
of publicity. Let all who ''have been there
themselves and know how it is" pour their
grievous experiences in the friendly ears of
the committee. The committee intend to boil
down their evidence, dilating on no individual
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Il CNl't.

SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE NET POLICE, !
New Orleans, La, Jan. %, 1e16
A CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
A Mr.. Il. C. Garrett of Marshall, Texas,
robbed of Sll75 at a game kno 'bunko," on
the 16 Ii inst in this city.
1t has been charged that the matter was compro
missed in ny Office MI. Garrett receiving $500, and
that l have been benefited b. such transaction
The charge is false. have never been applied to
by Mr.. Garrett in the matter have expressed my
wn gness to friends of the victim to aid him every
way to recover his loss and to punish the robbers
call upon Mr. Garrett who is in town, to state
over his own signature the facts and thus deny this
charge against me.
W. F. LOAN
ja2s 1t Superintendent Metropolitan Polire.
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A SUGGESTION.

Trusting that our comments will be re-
ceived in the proper spirit, and that we shall
not be considered as travelling out of the field
OF journalistic functions, we would suggest to
the members of the General Assembly. and
especially to those of the House, that they
would save much valuable time by giving
wider authority to their presiding officer.
When dilatory motions are made, which the
speaker knows to be contrary to the wishes Of
four itths Of the members present., it ought
to be left discretionary with him to refuse to
entertain them or not, at his personal OPP
ton. Rules are made to facilitate, to regulate,
to systematic and to render effective the
work of legislation ; but they are often in
voked for the very evident purpose of hinder
ing, retarding and disorganizing that work.
They are intended for the protection of men,
beas in the Enjoyment of their privileges,
bat they are abused by the few
who have no respect for the wishes
or comfort Of the many. They are designed
to secure due degree of deliberation in the
passage of bills but they are invoked for the
palpable purpose Of defeating all proceedings
at their successive stages. They are intended
to protect minorities, and when carefully
made and enforced in proper and honest
spirit they benefit all but they are abused
when minorities invoke them merely to waste
time and defeat action. A rule that is designed
to serve as brake to the machinery of legis-
lation is perverted from that design when it is
thrust in to block the wheels.
The Speaker having the confidence of
large majority, ought to have sufficient au-
thority to check this abuse and to protect
himself and all other friends of fair dealing
in the House against these shutting tricks of
parliamentary tactics. The House can give
to their presiding officer all the discretion he
needs by merely adopting resolution which
will authorize him to refuse to entertain dlla-
tory motions when it is evident that such
motions are made with view of merely con-
Stunning time and causing annoyance to men,
bers in general. Such resolution would
rule to prevent a wanton abuse OF other rules.
1t is comm On trick of those members who
are bent on annoying their opponents to call
for the yeas and nays with no other purpose
than to consume time. This is an abuse of
privilege whi;h can be restrained, but can
not be completely prevented. Each call as
sumes ten minutes or more of time which
costs the State about 5000 an hour. If it is
the constitutional right of members to call
for the recorded vote of the House, it is no
less the parliamentary right Of the Speaker
and members to have the Call formally made
by member who rises and is recognized by
the Chair as having the floor and the call
should then be seconded in the same decent
and formal manner. When call is made
and seconded in due form, and with proper
respect for the Speaker and members, it must
be entertained, but those few who are inclined
to give annoyance by needless calls for the
yeas and nays, seldom make much by their
action in the long run.
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ST. PATRIcK's FAIR.-No entertainment an
nounced during these many years has
awakened more interest than the fair for the
benefit Of st. Patrick's parish, which will open
on Friday evening, 2S.h inst. at st. Patrick's
Hall. The splendid span Of horses and buggy,
which appeared on Camp street yesterday
and attracted the attention of all who saw the
turnout, is one Of the prizes for which there
will be most exciting contest. The ladies
who are to have charge of the tables are re-
quested to meet in the hall to- day, Thursday,
ut IL o'clock NJ
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Diseases Of the Eye and Ear.
DR.. c. BEARD, Ooculist,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS STREET.
Orleans Innrmary.
Otfce hours from 10 to 81.
a Card.

NEW ORLEANS Jan. 81 1876.
The undersigned certfes that she the holder
of one-quarter Of Combination Ticket Nos H. 81, "A,
Glass 81, in the Louisiana State Lottery, which
drew the first CAPT al prize of FOUR THOUSAND
DOLLARS on WEDNESDAY, Janaury %. 1876
said ticket having cost the of Twenty Five
Cents at the office of P. E. BECHTEL, 800 Dryades
street. between Melpomene and ITALIA and that the
amount was promptly paid presentation of the
ticket at The office of the Company.
MRS II. WOLF,
Per Emile Kern, ST..
334 Carondeet street between Erato and Thalia.
ialS ltlup
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it is expected will be made up out of receipts

it is expected will be made up out Of receipts
from back taxes.
The estimated expenditures are, in part, as
follows The Office expenses, salaries and dis
bursements of the several departments: I'm
provements s40S, $50, Waterworks and Public
Buildings s135, GOO, Police administrator of
$50, 45O, Commerce S25, 800, Finance 500, 900,
Accounts $4,000. Assessments s21, 500,
Mayors Office $4,000, City Hall Building $1,000,
City Council $4,000, Surveyors Office 1923, GAO,
printing S1O,500, ax-bills, ETC., SIP, 600, and
City Attorneys Office sl1, 400, amounting to
S752, 44O. The Board of Health calls for
$4,000, lighting the city SIT, 900, Fire De-
partment $lG9, 400, salaries of the Mayor and
Administrators $40, 500, criminal justice $751;,
600, law charges, orphans, Coroners, judg-
ments, ETC., $l15,2SS For interest and re-
dempdon of city debt, the budget allows
sl,307 500, metropolitan police 100000,
public schools 1923 200, park $4,000.
The metropolitan police tax collected in
full would amount to S499. 900, and the full
school tax 1927, 900, but only the amounts
supposed 10 Ue COllecLlDio &Eo given. IIOm
this it would appear that the council estimate
a general default in tax collections amounting
to twenty per cent
Such is condensed statement Of the re-
sources and prospective expenditures OF the city
government, which constitutes about as strong
an appeal as can be presented for such imme-
date legislation by our General Assembly as
will remove part of this crushing and
destructive load 5.-..5
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II CUld.


163 CANAL STREET, January, 1876.
We respectfully call your attention to orr Annual
Clearance Sale of all WINTER GOODS, which we
now offer at ENORMOUSLY REDUCED PRICES.
All Winter Goods must be sold regardless of cost
and DESTROYS to effect complete clearance by
the LIST of February.
In this connection we beg to inform sou that since
the first of this year WE DO NOT CHARGE
GOODS TO ANY ONE All goods purchased of us,
we require payment in the stare on delivery, or
approved bills payable presentation at office. To
this rule there is POSITIVELY NO EXCEPTION.
Many Of our old customers, whom we have been
in the habit of charging goods TO- may find this not
agreeable, but after careful consideration we hav e
adopted this system of conducting our bus ness and
feel confident that by this means we can make it a
direct object of saving to all who are DESTROYS of
eeonomzing in their purchases for cash. Thanking
you for past favors, we be. to remain
Respectfully,
II. L. BYRNE & CO.
p lw
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Il Cart.

NEW ORLEANS, January q, 1e16.
To the Officers and Directors of the Firemens Insur-
auce Company:
Gentlemen-We gratefully and publicly thank you
for the prompt and liberal settlement OF the loss
tanned by by fire Ensured in your company, hch
took place the of PoIt and Craps streets
the 25th Of Janu3ry
Respectfully CHAS. SEAVERTS
Corner Port and Craps streets.
Widow JOSEPH ZECGEL,
ia5- Grams
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ion PRINTING. now possess facilities to
snsble us to execute every description OF
commercial, railroad and steamboat printing
lawyers: Briefs blanks and other legal docu-
ucnts, on the shortest notice, in the best
STYLE, and at the most reasonable rates. we
viii guarantee full satisfaction to those o. our
friends who favor us with their orders.
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Marshal Soult, once show wing the pictures
he stole in Spain, stopped before one and re-
marked: IL value that picture very much; it
saved the lives of two estimable persons. An
aid-de. camp whispered in the listeners ear:
"He threatened to have them both shot i'm
mediately unless they gave it up"
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We are much pleased to see in our city Mr.
Andrew jackson, who, in ante-bellum times,
was attached to the New Orleans Crescent
Mr. jackson is now engaged in most profit
able business in Baton Rouge, and his old
newspaper friends in this city heartily wish
him q continuance Of prosperity.
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Mr.. Morton is always the seheming wire
worker, never the large-hearted, large-minded
statesman. He would sooner maintain per-
petual race war than gain peace which
might hazard a party victory or a personl
adysncement=& PalA P.onesr- Press lIndl
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We are in receipt OF the dedicatory address
delivered at the opening Of the new hall Of
the Merchants Exchange, in St. Louis, Mo-,
by James B. Eads, Esq, on the 2lst of De-
cember, 1875 The address is very logically
and elegantly written, and was, We under
stand, delivered in the most eloquent manner.
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A Chinamaui in California, whose life was
insured for very largo amount was seriously
hurt by falling from wagon. There was
some doubt of his ever getting better, and at
length one Of his friends wrote to the insur-
ance company. "Cnarley half dead like half
money!"
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The Detroit Free Press says that the Missis-
sippi River is " eating" its way around Cairo
A river that can eat anything fifteen hundred
miles from its mouth ought meyer to be in
danger Of starving.
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REVOLUTION.

Council and caucus are counting SMASH
And Rings are fail nc in their own Sour MASH,
As woodmen fell the oak and the ASH
Idolized Fortunes golden WHEEL,
Whil- some to the head and some to the HEEL,
And luck gides away like a Gretna EEL
Guideless bsthers beware of the SHA ARK,
And men in the dark io' tul Y HARk,
To the tinkling bel. of the Devils ARK.
AVID vet, despite political SCARF,
Official wori iment, trouble and CARE,
For cents We have CIGARS that ARE
Real v worth 20, which will, my FRIEND
Drive from thy brow all thoughts that eEND
And bring the evening TO happy END.
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A son Of Dion Boucicault, the famous
American au hor and actor, was killed short
time since in q railway accident near Hunting
don, England
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SuppLEMENr-Wit our regular SUNDAY
edition will hereafter be issued supplement
which will enable us to lay before our readers
greater amount and diversity OF reading
matter.
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southern Shoe MdnutactOry.
NEW ORLEANS, July "a, 1878.
(seutIemRn nf Novv nria

Gentlemen of New Orleans and Loyjsiana:
am starting a Southern Shee Factory I only ass
OF You, gentlemen. for your patronage euatautec
that will give you better satisfaction in nv line than
any establishment in this citycheaper and of better
material. Gentlemen. you all know that there ars
great many laborers and mechanics in this State
who have no work nor any food for their wives and
Children If will start cwn factories and pat
rcnize each other could easily get along with orr
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 Mandatory f0r
the last twenty-five years and call the attention OF
the community in general.
Yours respectfully.
JOHN HANSEN,
Sc Canal street
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Hot pop corn was never dropped more
suddenly than Blaine has been since his
smart amnesty speech. Troy Press, (Dem.)
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The New Orleans BULLETIN can be had OF the
news agent in Mobile, at the depot, on the
arrival OF the p. Nj. train.
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MUTUAL NATIONAL BANK.
y W Orleans. Dec. 81. l-15.

MUTUAL NATIONAL. BANK. !
y " Orleans Dec. 81. lo15
At meeting Of the Board OF Directors held this day
unanimously resolved to dec are to the Stock
holders out of the earnings Of the past six months
a dividend OF FOUR PER CENT on the amount of
their stock payable on and after WEDNESDAY.
18th January next. JOSEPH mitchell
jail BOT Cashier
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LIST OF LETTERS -The BULLETIN will pub
lish hereafter the List of Letters IN the sun
day edition.
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Detroit policemen don't seem to be very
good marksmen. 81 want You to either hit
me or stop making such blamed racket,
said q thief in that city, at whom police
man was SHOOTING.
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He who invests one dollar in business
should invest one dollar in advertising that
business- r. .Ste,cdYt.
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NOTICE-No Orders taken On the Bulletin once
unless Endorsed by the PkOfhiEIOh.
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Counter claims-Your wife's shopping bills
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Yesterday evening the New Orleans BuILE-
TIN furnished its readers with the following
information
"The transcript in the Newton case has
been received at the Executive office and is
in possession of the Governor.
In republishing this item the Republican
will add just these additional points: l. The
case of Alexander Newton is still before the
courts and has not reached final result =
The transcript in the aforesaid case has not
been received at the Executive office. 3 1t
is not in the possession of the Governor. he
publican.
The information Furnished its readers" BY
the BULLETIN was correct, and the additional
points " added by the Rspublicaa are incor-
rect. First, the case of Alexander Newton is
not before the courts, and has reached final
result. Second, the transcript in the atore-
sud case has been received at the Executive
Office. Third, it is in the possession OF the
governor. Try again. and then talk again OF
..she imaginative powers Of the reporters.
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A white demsgogue named Miller is re-
ported to be going abou. in the northern coun-
ties of Alabama, urging the blacks to petition
Congress to assign them part of the State as
vigorously excluded. Planters are complain.
ing that his untimely and seditious addresses
are producing much discomfort and restless
ness among their laborers, though there ap-
pears to be no law under which he can be
nhated. even as a nuisance.
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Enterprise } Cents Cigar Co..

Principal Dep0..-...j6 st. Charles st.
1000 Cigars are now open for inspection, and
choice for FIVE CENTS. i.2s 81
The daily gazette., 1876-01-24

CrBA.-The blunders of the A!mlnis.
tration on the Cuban question is alluded
70 in the following letter from New York
dated Saturday.-"The Cuoan despatch
of Secretary Fish to our Minister AT Mad
rid has been the leading topic of coxver-
sation to-day. The two things which
most impress thoughtful people are
rrst, the apparently thorough conversion
of Mr.. Fish to the cause of " free Cnha".
and second, the strong, if not imperative
ingnage which he uses towards the Span
ish Government in the concluding para
graphs. But TOR Mr.. Cushing's brief re-
sponse, under date Of December 9Th, an.
nouncing Spain $ readiness to redress our
grievances. We should have had !. renew
a! OF the warfeeling here, on the strength
ct this correspondence. As it is, the ex-
peetation Is. that Mr.. Cushing's assur.
anees will ba accepted by our Govern
ment as satlFfactory-at least for the
time being-and that the friendly rela.
tions of the two countries will NOT be dis.
turbed. The gold market is NOT nart;c.
plarly affected
The daily gazette., 1876-01-24
Blaine and the Ne1Io lJembe,s
-WheTe is Mast SoW.'
Prom the Baltimore Sun.
THE CoLORED MEN on AMNESTY

one OF the most striking facts Of the
late excited discussion that Mr.. Blaine
inaugurated in the House was that thn
colored members from the South were
very anlous TO vote for universal am
nesty, and that those of them who did
not were only, and with difficulty,
prevented from doing so by the perso.
nal appeals of Mr.. Blaine. If these
colored men had all voted according
TO their own inclinations, and as they
would have done but for the earnest
appeals of Mr.. Blaine, Mr.. R.ndalrs
bill would have passed the House,
The correspondent of the New York
Tribune says that all but one or two
of the colored members were "pcrsua.
ded" to vote no. The Tribune saws
there was no buster man in the House
before and during the decisive roll
cal, than Mr. Blaine: there was pro.
badly not single colored Represen-
tative whom he did not appeal 10, and
at times he had them gathered around
aim, while he stood in the midst argu.
ing the question in very earnest
manner
The Phil hilAdelphia Illness dcscrin-
''on ol the scene Is Stlll more graphic,
The colored members were par1icu.
.arly troublesome, writes its CORES.
pondent, !" and at times they would be
surrounded by a half dozen OF Blaine
active assistants, usually with Blaine
700 at the head, and subjected to
threats, ca 1olery, entreaty and every
specie Of Argument. The Sprienrfeld
Mass Republican remarks that tc
those who know how the ex Speaker
is looked up to on the repnblican side
and who have felt the really tremen,
doUs personal magnetism Of the man