New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-22
Aeh 0rItans DaiIp Grestsnt.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE %, 1855.
Important to sheriff. aud Clerks of Courts.
The Baton Rouge Gazette has the following in re.
nard 10 a matier of rather orave imnnrtanca

The Baton Rouge Gazette has the following in re-
gard to a matter of rather grave importance
The position assumed by the State Treasurer rela-
tive 10 the fee bills Of clerks and sherfs in criminal
prosecutions, has heen sustained by the Attorney
General Under this decision, clerks can only obtain
$50 per annum and shefiffs 500, from the State
Treasury, for their services in matters Of criminal
nature. Their separate fee bills OF cost will not now
be audited. Many Of the sherilis calculating to
use such claims in their annual November settlement
with the Auditor, and being unable to do so, they
will be written defaulters It is true that such claims
have been paid this year, under the act of 81 but
none since the decision oil the Attorney General was
received.
The act granting clerks $50 and sherifs slOO. for
exofieo services, has been in existence since 1856
and does not interfere with the act Of 81, which
says emphatically:
q That all the criminal expenses incurred in the
different parishes of this State, by arrests conne
ment and prosecution Of persons accused of crime,
their removal to prison, the pay Of Witnesses and all
other expenses attending criminal prosecutions,
cept the pay of jurors, shall be paid by the State
upon the certificate of the clerk and the presiding
judge of the several courts Of the State"
In the " revenue laws " of the State, regular
fee bill is made of charges to be made by sheriffs
and clerks for arrests confinement and removal Of
criminals to prison, and the parishes pay such ex-
penses when the State does not Under the Attorney
Generals decision, all the expenses, in the Ian
guage OF the act recited, does not mean ALL but only
part Strange to say justices of the peace and
parish constables allowed their bills of costs and
sherifs and clerks not. Verify, the acts of the
Legislature are a stupendous humbug, and it would
be godsend to the people if that body did not meet
ottener than once in five years.
| GOLD MISISG IN GEORGIA. Our former predic.
tons are being verified. quartz, or, according to
the gold diggers phrase, pocket mine, has recently
| been opened by Messrs. Findley Nix & Co., on lot
one thousand and forty eight, twelfth district first
section that exceeds anything Of the kind since the
days of the intrusion, We visited the mine several
| times and were eye witness to some of the pan
ming, which was no less pleasing than astonishing ;
from five to thirty pennyweights Of the shining metal
at each successive painful of the slate and Traced
quartz was the result. We have not been out to the
mine for several days. but learn that it is not so good
at first, but prospects are still attering We learn
that the vein has been prosecuted to the depth OF
forty or fifty feet This discovery has had wonder
ful inyigorating effect upon our mining community
\ on can scarcely turn your eye any direction but
! what you eau see some individual armed with pick
shovel and pan. The consequence has been severa
discoveries but valuable as the one described
tDahlonegasSignal, June T.
EVIL CONVERSATIONS, ETC.-A country editor
speaking of a member of the Assembly says:
The first year he went to Albany he was so consci
enous that he utterly refused to receive his allotment
of the seangs, in the shape of books and stationery
The next year he did not hesitate and finally came
home unable to tell the TRUTH under the most favor
able circumstances.