The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-27
Jour BOSTON CORRESPONDENT
T,h. rIotte Cu,hman,s Funeral-Kelley's Re-
ply to Blalne-Wendell Phillips on Rep"b-
Itcanism and the Presidency-SchOOl Mat
ters-Artists Mt the CentenniaI-The Old
Elm Tree.

al Elm Tree.
= BosToN, Feb. =, 1876.
Dear Bulletin-I have just returned from the
funeral OF Charlotte Saunders Cushman, the ceie
brated actress, who for many years held undis
p tied the foremost place among the Interpreters
of the English DRAMA She was inferred IL
Mount Auburn, where sleeps Daniel Webster
: Edward Everett and Charles Sumner. Her
death was not unexpected to her friends, for she
| had long been suffering from painful malady,
which it was evident would ultimately result
fatally Her soul has now taken its departure
from this earthly tenement, and the place she
filed will be void, because the profession che
SO much loved and so eminently adorned for
nearly half cent ury has not yet produced one
worthy Of her mantle.
There were present at the funeral, beside
various members of the theatrical profession,
Gov Rice and other State dlgnitarles and q
large concourse Of some of the wealthiest bust
ness men Of the city. 1t was the intention OF
Jarrett and Palmer originally to charter two
palace cars for the purpose OF bringing on the
company of Booths Theater, including Lawrence
Barrett E. l.. Davenport and f. G. Bangs to-
gether with other prominent actors and the
principal New York managers. Had Sunday been
chosen for the obsequies this design would have
been carried out. The floral tributes were mag
NON~~ ~S>A0
| not tceable.
Jarrett and Palmer's memorial was large and
costly one, Re presenting bed Of white roses on
| which were placed the legend in violet letters,
s'Farc Thee Well and column bearing crown,
surmounted by cross. The one from Lawrence
| Barrett represented sbeaf Of wheat, the pillar
| being girded with a vine of autumn leaves At
| the base were forget-me nots and lmmortelie5.
| The pedestal bore the single word Res" Mr..
| lockers tribute was laurel crown knOtted with
broad white satin ribbon.
The reply of Pig-Iron Kelley to Blaines ump-
| ton speech has created quite stir IN the ranks
OF the Republican party. His vigorous dissent
from Blaine's talk about the Republican party
having put its differences Of opinion behind it,
and united for hard money, would not have any
Significance if itwere not that they are warranted
\ by facts. Morton and the Western Republicans
who turned up as hard-money men in the last
| campaign, are now leaning far over toward soft
money, and gentleman who arrived here from
| Washington the other day, Gays that the Indiana
Sena or will, at an early cate, mske speech, in
| which he will announce his financial platform for
1876. His financial opinions have to be calculated
anew for each political year, and he is now get
| ting ready for reiteration of lis soft-money
views OF two or three years ago. Kelley is more
| earnest than ever over his expansion theories.
| He is mailing his speech all over the country,
and, it is but fair to presume, it
will have very extensive perusal. He
intends, he says. to carry the agitation
| for currency reform into every hamlet of Penn.
sylvania, and prophecies that the party, whatever
| its name which forces resumption OF specie pay
ments prior to the practical extinction OF the
tional debt, whether that be ia ten years or
thirty, will be trampled to death under the feet of
the people.
wendell Phillips, who las publicly aeknewl-
edged that he never voted in bis life, is the
laughing stock of New England, going about as
b } is doing and declaring with all his old accus-
| toned fire and vehemence, that the American
Republic is failure, and there is but little hon
esty left in the land He has been accustomed
of late to put his foot into SO many blunders that
| he is too old to do otherwise now. Nothing more
| incorrect can be said about the American Repub-
| lie, whether we compare it with other forms OF
government or look at it alone. Some of the
| greatest and best Of nations have been Repub
| lies, and il they failed, that is no more
their contemporaries. Athens, that most
brilliant Of Republics, failed, and men
who Saw the beginning of her greatness lived 10
see its close; but then her failure was not as
complete as that OF Persia. The "Great King"
if you remember, was cut down and uprooted,
whereas the Athenian polity long Continued to
exist, though on much smaller scale than it
had known. The Roman Republic failed, and so
did the Roman Empire. The Republic of Car
thage failed, and 50 did the Kingdom of Egypt.
In modern times, the Republics Of Holland and
Genoa and Venice were great creations, and their
places are sure in history, but they are no more;
and the same can be said Of the Kingdom OF
Holland and the old French anarchy. Ii you had
read history Alright, Mr.. Phillips, with all your
splend d die ion and magic eloquence, you could |
not have helped notice Il at republican form |
Of government has not failed to do great things |
in not few countries. Will any American d. |
liberately assert that his country is a fanre |
Certainly not. grant that republican form Of |
government has not done all that it should |
have done in the United States, but it has |
done much, and it has cleared the way
for the doing of much more. 1t may become an
instrument Of much oppression when bad men
are at the helm-men just trltle worse than we
have had specimens OF the past six years or
mOre-but it an not as yet be considered a fail
ure. 1t has no occasion to fear comparison with
anything else that belongs to the lists of modes
OK government, whether it be monarchcal or
theore ical. But if our government should
pro failure, will Wendell Phillips tell us what
to fail back upon? Does he wish us, in his
blind ignorance, to lean, for support, upon the
despotism Of an individual, or upon that of a
patrician class with king at it's head? God
forbid! But while going about uttering his
highly wrought denunclarlons OF our republican
institutions, Mr.. Phillips spares sufficient time
to dabble in politics, and is now endeavoring
to compete with Sam Bowles, of the Spring
field Republican, in nominating his man for the
Presidency. While it is an understood fact,
all over the country, that Cha les FIR incis Adams
is Sam Bowes's choice, first, last and always,
you will b, astonished not little when tell
you Uncle Ben Butler is the man whom Wendell
Phillips wishes to see in the executive chair in
the White House, in 1877. And, as ii to heap
fanatic wants Frederick Douglass nominated for
the Vice Presidency. wonder he did not think
Of Pinchback, or your tiny. black faced Leu,en-
ant Governor, Caesar Antoine.
LISA genuine pity that the public schools ofNew
Orleans are not fashioned after those Of New York
or Boston. But how can they be with such
Board of School Directors as you have had of late!
In Boston, music and drawing are made prom-
nent features of study st. Louis natural history
and chemistry. In Europe, great ate ltion is
given to school buildings, and upon This subject
our American cities are, 1t seems, considerably
divided. Boston has achieved her present fame
on the subject Of schools and their government,
by careful attention to all branches Of the sub
ject, and vie policy Of introducing the best
features of other sections and venturing into ex-
perimental paths on her own account. Chicago,
st. Louis and San Francisco are closely following
in her track, but, unfortunately for those cities,
the persons chosen for school directors or COM
mittee-men. or whatever you may choose to call
them, have not always been the wisest and most
judicious selections that could have been made.