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ifi uniform, cabinet officers, citv

men. lawyers, doctors, otln

characters, authors, editors, j

distinguished literary people, together with

a live president, and a bevy of ladies to

correspond, and they, every one. colored.

There were also present tlie ministers of

England, Germany, Norway and Sweden.

Hayti. and other countries. I declare it

was the nicest affair that I have ever seen."

The Boston Post thus sketches Ben Bolter

asleep in a railroad car: "Picture fora

moment the situation, the general in the

middle of the car to the left of the aisle in

the further corner of the rear seat with Ids

right leg thrown over his vaiise, which lay

like a barricade before the entrance, and

with his left cocked up on the cushions be

fore him. one arm falling at his side, tin

other stretched out and hanging over into

the laps of the passengers behind him, aud

his head drooping, first forward until his

chin would be ou a level with his shirt

bosom, and then backward until with a

sudden snap he would start up. open his

eyes tor a moment as if in astonishment at

what could be disturbing him, and then re

lapse again into the arms of the sleepy god.

Aud he snored terribly. It was unlike any

snore the writer ever heard from other

men. It was a kind of a wheezy little

snore, terrible because of it' wheeziuess

deepening into a galloping rumble and then

suddenly breaking up with a snort, and the

general sitting liolr upright and startin'-.

And thus he rested."

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How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

New Orleans Republican. (1871). New Orleans, La, 1871-10-01. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83016555/1871-10-01/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New Orleans Republican, 1871-10-01.