American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-02-24
LOUISIANA.

with which our readers are already Ia
miliar. 1t is also known to our readers
that the Free State Convention, recently
called to nominate Stnte ticket, split up
on the nomination of a candidate for the
Governorship. A letter from New Or
leans, dated February 18th, gives us the
following additional intelligence:
GA conservative Union ticket was NOM
mated last evening, with Christian Rose
lius at its head for Governor. Its constlt-
uency is composed of the semi secesh and
Pro-Slavery Unionists. Its hopes for sue
cess are based upon the split in the Free
State party, but the friends of Mr.. Hahn
are confident of beating both it and the
ticket nominated by the boilers from the
regular convention"
By the same mail we also have the fol-
lowing highly
IMPORTANT ORDER FROM GEN. BANKS.
ug,pQuRrERs. DEPARTMENT OF THE GuLF,l
NEW ORLEANs, Feb. 8 ls6
GENERAL ORDER, No. 2S.-The fol-
dowing general regulations are published
for the information and government ofall
interested in the subject of compensated
plantation labor, public or private, during
the present year, and in the continuation
of the system established January Both,
1863
(. The enlistment of soldiers from plan
tgtions under cultivation iu this Depart
Bsent having been suspended by order OF
the Government, will not be resumed ex-
cent upon direction of the same high au-
thority.
II. The Provost Marshal-General is in
structed to provide for the division of
parishes into police and school districts,
and to organize from invalid soldiers a
competent police force for the preservation
of order.
III. Provision will be made for the es-
establishment of a sufficient number OF
schools, one at least for each of the police
and school districts, for the instruction Of
,colored children under twelve years of age,
which when established, will be placed
under the direction of the Superintendent
of Public Education.
". Soldiers will not be allowed to visit
plantations without the written consent of
the Commanding Officer Of the regiment
or post to which they are attached, and
never with arms, except when on duty,
accompanied by an officer
V. Plantation hands will not be allowed
to pass from one place to another, except
under such regulations as may be estab-
dished by the Provost Marshal of the
Parish.
VI. Flogging and other cruel or unu-
sual punishments are interdicted.
VII. Planters will be required as early
,as practicable after the publication of these
regulations, to make roll of persons en-
ploved on their estates, and to transmit
the same to the Provost Marshal of the
Parish. In the employment of hands the
unity of families will be secured as far as
possible.
VIII, All questions between the en-
ployer and the employed, untzother tri-
,bunals are established, will be decided by
the Provost Marshal of the Parish.
TX. Sick and disabled persons will be
provided for upon the plantations to which
they belong, except such as may be re-
ceived in establishments provided for them
by the Government, of which one will be
established at Algiers, and one at Baton
Rouge.
X. The unauthorized purchase of cloth
ing, or other property, from laborers, will
be punished by fine and imprisonment =
The sale of whiskey or other intoxicating
drinks to them or to other persons, except
under regulations established by the Pro
vost Marshal General, will be followed by
the seFefsst punishment
XI. The possession of arms or concealed
'or dangerous weapons, without authority,
will be punished by fine aud imprison-
ment.
XII Laborers shall render to their en-
ployer, between daylight and dark, ten
hours in Summer and nine hours in Win
ter, of respectful, honest, faithful labor,
and receive therefor, in addition to Just
treatment, healthy rations, comfortable
clothing, quarters, fuel medical attendance
and instruction for children, wages, per
month, as follows, payment of one-hali
of which at least, shall be reserved unit
she end of the year.