The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-03-28

i LOUISIANA GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL
The following appropriations were made BY tn
legislature for the general expenses OF the Stat
y during the fiscal year ending on the 31s MaIci
:. 1856:
i SaIAR1Es-GoYerner 81 600; secretary
state, $4,000; clerk Of the secretary Of state
$1,000; state treasurer, So. 500; auditor
> public accounts, $4,000; chief clerk, auditor
Office, So 600; governors private secretary
$ 81 600; state superintendent Of public educa
/ ton, SO, 600; attorney general, SO, 500; stat
: librarian, Including balance due for 1854,
ST. 400; adjutant and inspector general, $500
: register land Office at Baton Rouge, 25o
I receiver do. do. $3.50; register land office a
: Winnsboro, $3.50; receiver do. do, $3.50
e board Of control Of the penitentiary and secre
tary, $500; keeper of the state house, $500
sergeant alarms Of the house $1,000; DO. Q
the senate, $1,000; judges Of the suprem
courts sos, 5000; clerk of first district court
5 New Orleans, 1000; district attorneys, SIC,
600; reporter Of the supreme court, 80, 500
governors messenger, $3.50; state engineer
and incidental expenses of his department
$13, 900; keeper and assistant keeper OF s.at
arsenal, 81 800.
COMMENTATOR contingent expenses o
the governor, $4,000; do. secretary of state
500; do. auditors office, 5000; do. treasurer
Office, 5000; do. supreme court, 800; do
land Office, at Baton Rouge, $50; do. state
library, 1000.
CoMMIss1oNs.-To receiver of public moneys
at Baton Rouge, out of general funds, $500; do
do, out of levee and draining funds, 5000
register of land Office at Baton Rouge, out Of
general funds, 500; do. do, out of levee and
drainage funds, 1000; receiver of land office
at Winnsboro $50; register do. do, $50; colec-
tors Of taxes, out Of general funds, $500; col
lectors out of school fund, 10000; collectors OF
taxes, out of internal improvement tax fund,
| $4,000, compensation to assessors out of gene
raj and school fund, $4,000; do. do, out of
internal improvement fund, 10000
INTEREsT.-For interest on bonds to New
Orleans and Nashville railroad Co., $4,000;
do. do, Mexican gulf railroad company, 5000;
do. do, New Orleans draining company, 9, 500;
do. do, due the Citizens bank, Is, 700; do do,
issued for the relief of state treasury 1000;
do. do, issued to Charity Hospital, 6 $780, do,
on sales of 18th sections, for benefit of public
schools in townships in which said sections have
been sold, and which parish treasures may
apply for, 5000. s..-
CHAR1TABLE.-Forinsane asylum at Jackson,
81 1000; finishing buildings, do do, 10000;
female orphan asylum, New Orleans, (sister
Regis) 5000; society for relief of destitute Or
phan boys, fourth district New Orleans, 1000;
institution for INDECENT colored orphan boys,
third district, New Orleans, 1000; fremen's
charitable association, 1000; st. AIMS asylum
for the relief of destitute women and helpless
children, of all religious denominations, 1900;
female orphan asylum, Baton Rouge, 1000;
benevolent association of catholic ladies, Baton
Rouge, 900; St. Mary catholic BOYS asylum
5000; INDECENT widows under the Danes de la
Providence, 1000; tuition of deaf and dumb
children, $500; erection of buildings for deaf
and dumb asylum at Baton Rouge 90 900; ST.
Vincent hospital and asylum of sisters of
charity at Donaldsonville, one half to each,
1000.
VOLUNTEER CoMpAs1Es--Vo Volunteer compa-
mics of New Orleans, SIS, 600; cannoniers of
Donaldsonville, 500.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. copying acts of legis-
lature for PRONUNCIATION, 5000; do. revised stat
utes, 400; publishing supreme court decisions,
5 5000; printing and advertising and state prin-
ter, 10000; and for printing revised statutes,
$4,000; additional, or so much as may be re-
CURED, payment to owners of slaves convicted
for crimes, 5000; do. sold out of depots bv the
state, 1000; reimbursement to legal heirs of
proceeds of vacant estates paid into treasury,
3 5000; purchase of books for state library.
! ,OOC; transportation of convicts to penitentiary,
2 900; support of internal Improvement service,
out of internal improvement fund, GO, 900; pre-
NUNS to builders of ships and vessels in the ;
state, under the act of 1852, $500; expenses
n criminal prosecutions, 5000; support of free ,
public schools, payable out of mill and poll tax
unds, 28O, 1000; Jackson monument on Jackson :
square, New Orleans, 10000; statue of Wash
ngton by Hiram Powers, $500; arrearages '
iue state.treasurer, $50; keeper of state house :
or lamp oil and fuel, 25; for investments under ,,
be act to provide means for the relief of the !,
tate treasury, and the act to provide for the =
of 100000 of state bonds, maturing !
Or the years 1856 and 1857, $4,000.
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LETTER FROM GENERAL ScorT-The hon. s
William S. Damrell, member of congress from !;
having asserted, in his lectures $
n Cheshire county, that the catholic vote was h
fered to gen. Scott at the late presidential Il
lection, several persons who heard him deter S
mined to get at the truth of the matter, and RI
eteran, who returned the following explicit y
eply: !
New York, March /, 1855.-GEsrLEMEN: y
ave just received, through the hon. Mr.. Hib- O
ard, NJ. c., at Washington, your Joint letter. o
ated the Gath ult., in which you say to me !,
hat, IN some recent political address, delivered a
n your neighborhood, and in your presence, the .
peaker declared, substantially. that in the late ?
residential canvass: q
"Bishop Hughes, of New York, proposed to a
en-. Scott to sell the catholic vote, who hesita-
ID to reply, when the proposition was made to n
en-. Pierce, and accepted, and jesuit was ,
laced at the head of the post Office depart G
lent 4
''That bishop Hughes demands were assem- s
ID to BY the party to whom ne first proposed,
kept that it demanded cabinet officer, upon n
'hieh you hestated, and the proposition was 6
lade to gen. Pierce, and he assented." !,
And your letter to me is thus concluded: ;
"Believing the statement to be false and f.
ase]y calumnious of the fair fame of yourself