Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1856-03-13
ExcItc.nent I'm New Orleans.

Excitement I'm New Orleans.
The city papers Of Monday evening, are
full Of articles on the arrest Of Col. Gar
land, the city Treasurer, who it seems has
been arrested and lodged in the Parish
Prison. The True Delta says:
Col. Galand, the absconding City Treas.
urer, has been arrested and lodged for
safe keeping in the Parish Prison. The
schooner Jane Elizabeth owned by Gar
land. and on which he sailed from here on
Saturday night, was detained in fog, near
the battle ground, for many hours on Sat.
urday nig hit. Yesterday evening, when
the wires that were cut down on Saturday
night were put in order, the Mayor gave
orders to the Chief Of the Police to tele.
graph to the Passes, authorizing Garland's
arrest. The two.boat Anglo Norman,
then at the Passes, Immediately started for
the city and intercepted the tow having
the Jane Elizabeth in charge, and Garland
was at once secured. 1t is stated that he
was found by the officers secreted in the
hold Of the vessel. When brought to this
city, he was handed over to the Chief OF
Police, who transferred him to the Parish
Prison.
What shall be done asks the Comet.
The very men who are placed above 9TH
ers and beyond the temptation Of want, are
those who fall. The character Of Mr..
Garland, has up to the present time, been
without blemish, and if he fall, how many
are to fall with him, remains to be seen.
The True Delta, closes an article on this
subject, with the following paragraph:
Garland is not the only robber who,
with sataning effrontery, addressed the
people in the honied accents of patriotism;
he is not the only villain who has abused
their credulity and turned their weakness
to profitable account. If the railroad and
other schemes ministered to his guilty Gu
pidity he was not alone, and if he robbed
the public treasury more directly than 9th
-ers the consequences to the people at large
are no less deplorable than if he had &C.
complished the same resultby other means
no less infamous, if unassailable by laws
which are only framed for the punishment,
Of steamboat" men and other such NAL.
factors Of that description as are denomi'
mated bad characters BY the Chief Of Police,
There should be no sympathy for one
falling from such a position, but unfortu'
nately for the best interests ofsociety there
always is. lis sass;isd ~ .saa'.3f
The Office Of Treasurer Of the city ha.
been closed, and a Treasurer pro TEN, ap
pointed. Startling Developments may be
expected.
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Loss of Steamers Since 1853, twelve
steamers, lost at sea, have cost 1850 hu
man lives and q, 1000 Of property
The Independence sunk with 100 lives il
the Pacific, and the Tennessee and thu
St. Louis followed, total wrecks. TIT
Humbolt and tho San Francisco wer.
wrecked in the Atlantic in the same year
The franklin, City Of Philadelphia ant
Yankee Blade were lost in 1854 tho Cit,
Of Glasgow, with 4eO lives, and the Arc
tic, with hundreds, were also catastrophe'
that year. In 1855, the North Carolin.
sunk, and the Golden Age was stranded il
the Pacific, but afterwards saved, and nov
the entire community are in anxiety for tn
Pacific, Of the Collins line. In the abov,
list. without the Pacific steamer, sever
thousand lives were periled, and propert,
worth more than ten millions Of dollars. /
10 painful to reflect that in most Of. thes'
cases human skill and resources nigh
have averted the disaster. Still there ca,
b no doubt that the merit Of invention 70
the better safety Of life and Of vessels ha'
kept pace with the Increasing need, q
we'll - the unparalleled augmentation Q
our commercial marine. A p
Ono Of the most important features
which has been introduced into naval con
stauetion, il the plan Of water tight com
partments, which are likely to prove bene
cidal in the avering Of catastrophes here
after. Most of the ocean steamers nov
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