New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-31
The Apportionment Bill.

Inc BATON Rouge Advocate of the 27h publishes the
Apporsnmsnt bill which received the sanction of the
Legislature the day previous which provides that until
the next and apportionment shall have been made
the State shall be divided into the following Senatorial
districts:
The parishes of Plaquemines St BERNARD and all that
part OF the parish of Orleans the right bank of the
Mississippi river shall form district and shall eltct
Senator "
All that portion of the parish of Orleans on the left
pank Oh SAID river including the city of New Orleap
shall form one district and shall elect five Senators
Inc parish OF Jefferson shall form district and shall
elect one Senator.
The parishes of St Charles Lafoarchs shall form
one district and shall elect one Senator
The parishes of ST. John the Baptist and St James shall
form one district, and shall elect Senator
The parishes of Ascension Assumption Terrehonne
snail form one district and shall two Senators
the parish OF lberyle shall form district shall
elect one Senator.
The parish Of East Baton Rouge shall one district
and shall elect one Senator
The parishes Of West Baton Rouge. Point Coupee and
west Fecisna shall form district shall elect two
The parish of East Fslicana shall form one district
and shall elect Senator
Iha parishes of Washington st. Tammany st. Helena
and Livingston shall form enc district and elect one
Senator. ~ NNN
The parishes sf fconeordia Tensas shall form one
district and elect one Senator
The parishes of Madison and Carroll shall form ono die
triet and elect Senator
The parishes of Morehouse ouachita Union and Jack
son shall form district and shall elect two Seuators
The parishes of Calahoua Caldwell and Franklin shall
form one district and shall elect one Senator
The parishes of Bosser, BenYille. Claiborne an Winn
shall form district and shall elect two Senators
The parishes OF Sabine DeSoto and Caddo
shall form district and shall elect wo ssnatars
The parishes OF st. Landry, Lafayette aud Calcaseu
shall form one district and shall elect two Senators
The parishes Of st. Martin and vermilon shall form
one district and shall elect one Senator
The parish OF ST. Mary shall form district and shall
elect one Senator
The parishes of Rapidcs Avoyeles shall form one
SEC tltrte' enacted ETC. That until the CEN
sus and apportionmen the representation in the House
OF shall be app0rioned among the
PARISHES and districts at representative of
thousand.
The following parishes are to have two
70 wit Jefferson St James Ascension, Assumption
foufehe, st Mary, st, Martin, Ibsryils East Baton
Rouge East Feciana West Felciana Pointe Coupee and
Nachitoches The parishes of Rapides and St Landry
are to elect three The following parishes are each to
elect one representative Pauuemines 81 Bernard Or
leans right bank ST Charles ST. John the Bapst Terre
eonne West Baton Rouge Livingston. St Hslena Wash
ngton St Iammany Avoyellss, Goncordia, Tensas Mad
SON. Carroll, oatahoula, Caldwell, Franklin Ouachita
unon Jackson Benville, VIM Bossier Csdde De Soto
sabine, Caicasien Lafayette and Fernllioa.
The Second Third and Fourth Districts Of the eitv of
Sew Orleans are to elect three the Fourth Fifth Sixth
Seventh and Eighth two and the Ninth DISTRICT one
district and shall elect two Senators.
MisNrsorA-The Legislature of Minnesota territory
convened at St Paul the 4th inst. The st. Paul
Pioneer of the 9th says:
Son Monday night the 26th ult two of opr cit;,.rs
were assaulted near the of Roberts and Fifth
streets by some person persons who them
rom behnd, and teed them to the earth with sunr
shot Both the young had their skulls fractured 5
places by the blows from the effects of which thev
have since died mr John Clark one Of the wounded
men EXPIRED on Friday morning, the 30th and AR Philip
Huh the other, on Wednesday morning, the 5th This is
the first case of remedtated that has occurred
IN our city and the wanton harbarity Of the act shows
hat we have among of the most depraved Of
race me young men were both respectable mechanics
ana oon NAG money upon their persona but it not
moested Neither of them could give any clue by which
the perpetrators Of the deed could be tracedn
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ouTkAcE.-Ws 9 learn that the steamer Huntsville put
man on at Yuestan woodward, abeut six miles above
Grand Gulf and after he landed the mate and some
OF the deck hands fell upon him, and beat him in such
manner that he died in few hours after. The officers
and passengers of the Huntsville witnesses to this
brutality An inquest held the body on Friday
last and the jury returned verdict Of Died b violence
part Of the officers Of Lht HntsrRe THIS poor
man had doubt, by petty osnse, incurred the
wrath of the mate and hurried into eternity as
penalty Br1tslity may be virtue ON the Western
waters but the strong of the law should interfere
and draw the perpetrators OF the outrage the
bar Of justice. Port Gibson tiss Revsils, Jan 25