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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-02-26
INSURANCE.

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JOHN |. SW!TS g. co.
Insurance Agents,
No. 8 w. second st.,-sp.sfnirs.
DAVENPORT. IOWA.
Capital represented, over s5,ooo, uee'
FIRE AND INLAND,
Home Fire Insurance Coz N. y.
Cash Capital and Assets. ss.6oo,oeo.
Phenix Fire Insnra nee 90. Mn.
Cash Capital and Assets. n.soo,ooe.
Atlantic Fire lnsurn nee Co.. Nh.
Cash Capital and Assets, e60o.ooo.
Lamar Fire Insurance Co.. ~. H
Cash Capital and Assets, $500, 900.
Home Fire ms. Co, New Haven.
Cash Capital and Assets. el.7so.c 600.
Hartford Fire lns. &C., Hartford
Cash Capital and Assets. $4,000. GOO.
LIFE AND ACCIDENT.
Connecticut Mutual Life ms. g! Go: -,
Capital, tlo,vv,vVV
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Capital. SoVc,VVo
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-02-26
LOUISIANA.

NEw OaLEANs. Feb. 26.-Robert Spence.
Collector Of Customs Of this port, died this
morning.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-02-15
Report Of the Committee ON
Finance.

To The President and IMen5e,, of the
! Constitutional! Cors0entt0n Of tteStats Of
louisiana. "a Hs@vE "Ul'
Your Committee on Finanse BEG
leave to submit the following Re-
port: "1" Y~..
SECTION /. Be 1t ordained n the
Constitutional ConVention OF the
State Of Louisiana, To pay the
Delegates and Officers of this Com
vention, and to defray all other
expenses necessary for the ub of
said Convention. the following
Tax is hereby levied on the pro-
perty Of this State, both real and
movable, viz: a Tax of One Mil
per cent.
SEC. 2. Be Il FURTHER ordained,
That the Sheriffs Of the State, Ok
cept the Parish of Orleans, shall
collect the above mentioned tax.
and that they refer to the assess
ment rolls made by the State Of
Louisiana for the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-seyen (I867) AZ
the basis for assessing the tax
therein levied on real and nova.
bic property, and in order To fa-
cilitate them in Che collection Of
said tax, they are hereby author.
ICED to employ oil summary reme-
dies now gwen by law for the col
lection Of State taxes; and shall
receive for their services the same
compensation paid them by the
State for like services.
SEC. 8. BE IL further ordained.
That the tax herein levied, and
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-02-15
Anti-Radical Organization.

The organization of an anti
Radical party under the name OF
the Democratic party has been
commenced in other Southern
States, and in New Orleans and
some of the Parishes of this State.
We think it high time that a SINH
lar organization should be effected
in this Parish, that it may be per-
feet and efficient when the election
takes place for the adoption or
rejection Of the Radical constitu-
tion now IN process of formation
IN New Orleans. The rejection of
this constitution by the people is
at present our only apparent hope
to escape Radical domination for
an indefinite time in the future. I'll
we fail, it viii be fixed upon us,
and we may find it, like the poi
soned shirt Of Nessus, impossible |
to be shaken off, at least dnrino
the present generation. If we suc2
coed in rejecting it; and the re-
malnder, or majority of the ten
Southern States do likewise, it will
be impossible for Congress to re-
construct them in time to take part
u the Presidential election next
November. Failing in this. the
hadlcal parry represented by Con
gressy will also fail in electing d
President for their general defeat
N the elections North during lass
Autumn has killed their hopes of
9lecting Q President without the
aid Of the negro vote Of the South.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-02-15
THE WEEKLY. ECHo.
SATURDAY, FEB. IS, 1868.


The following is the close of an
address prepared and published by
the committee appointed by the
conservative Convention of Geor-
gia, to their feIlow-citizens of that
State and of the United States 4:
Fenow-citizens of the North :
Within the last few months, the
question of negro suffrage, has
been before you at the ballot box.
In a voice not to be misunderstood,
you have decided against it. You
decided voluntarily. 1t has been
decided for us against our will and
against our convictions of what is
compatible with good government
and the Constitution Of the United
States and decided by those who
do not expect to- live under the
State government they propose to
establish by force. You decided
against it, although the number of
negroes among you was too small
to constitute a considerable, much
less a controlling element in poll
tics. 1t is ordained by our oppres-
,sors that we shall have it, notWith-
standing that it will lead to negro
supremacy over us. We are power
less; you are potent to forbid the
outrage. Will you stand aloof and |
calmly see us subjected to this
damning wrong; and that too,
when it will imperil the Republic
and spread baleful disaster over
every interest p Renewing our
pledge of unsullied honor and our
tender of frank and manly obe-
dience to the Constitution, we ap-
peal to you, in the name of the
Conservative people of our State,
to unite together in the patriotic
effort to restore and perpetuate
constitutional government. Your
recent elections encourage our
hopes and right, terrible as an
army with banners" gathering
strength in every conflict, march
on, "conquering and to conquer"
until it's friends, rescuing it from
the grasp of centraism, shall
restore to its appropriate supre-
macy the CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES, so that Georgia,
together with her sisters in oppres-
sion, shall enjoy the same protec-
hon winch IT'S honest enforcement :
would give to every State in the
Union.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-02-15

which has r,ently achieved such
| glorious victies ct the North, in
Tites our oganization and Co
operation in the great struggle
they are nowlaking for a return
of the government to the true prin-
ciples Of constitutional legislation
and administration. We cannot
think the Caservatives Of the
South viii turia deaf ear to this
appeal but WI, as of yore, sound
a clarion MOI that shall echo
throughout thaation in harmony
with those glat and immortal
principles nov so courageously
maintained by 10 Democratic par
ty in every Stat in the Union.
In times Like hese, the voice of
every Conservave, by whatever
party name hretCfore known,
should be heard and every voice
should be mouldd into one, that
we may think, tan and act in uni
son from the far birth to the ex-
treme South, frol the Atlantic
shore to the alrady redeemed
boundaries of Calbrnia.
In this great woE the Conserva-
tives of Louisiana hive their share
of the duty to perfom. They must
organize in detail--n every ward
Of the City, and in gery parish of
the State.
We therefore, onoehalf of the
democratic State Cetral Commit
tee call upon ou democratic
friends, and upon conservatives
everywhere to commace this work
instantly and vigorOuly. It is the
recommendation of tB State Cen
trail Committee tbat.the city OF
New Orleans be oganized by
wards, and the balanceof the State
oy parishes and that Ontral Com
be appointed Il each par
sh, and those committees placed
n correspondence Wit the State
Central Committee. The parish
are their sevices Will |
ioon be required in calling the par
y together in State Contention.
Acting under the advce of the |
National Executive Committee OF
he Democratic party at Washing
on City, we cannot be M taken as
o the propriety and necessity of
igorous action and thopugh or
animation.
M. E. BRADY, President.
W. M. SMALLWooD, Secptary.
N6W UTI6ans, Jan. I'D, 1865 T.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-02-15

which shall be due by tde Parish.
of Orleans, shall be collected by
the persons now charged with the
collection of State taxes in said
parish and they shall possess
the same powers and receive the
same compensation. a
SEC. 4. Be 1t further ordained
That the sherifs and other persons.
charged with the collection of the
tax levied by this ordinance, shall
pay to the Treasurer of the State
at the end of every month, except
the tax collectors of the pariches;
Of Orleans and Jefferson and Or
leans right bank, all sums col
lected by them under this Ordi-
nance; and shall settle finally with
the Treasurer on the first day of
April, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight, (1868); but in no case shall
the State Treasurer give a receipt
for either partial or final settle
ment, without requiring the sheriff
or other Collector to take and sub
scribe an oath that he has paid all,
the money collected by him to
date of settlement, less his COM
mission. ..... ...........~ 49,.
SEC: 5. Be 1t further ordained,,
That the Tax Collectors of the
Parish of Orleans, and Orleans
right bank and Jefferson, shall
settle with the Treasurer of the
State every ten days; reckoning
from the day of the notice which
the Auditor shall give said Collec-
tor of the said Ordinance and the
Tax therein levied. ...
Sec. 6. Be 1t further ordained,
That so much of the Tax levied,
as may be required to pay the T..
Delegates and Officers of this Con-
vention, and to defray all other
expenses necessary for the use Of
said Convention, shall be paid by
the State Treasurer, upon War
rants signed by the Warrant Clerk
and countersigned by the Presi-.
dent of this Convention. The
balance of the Tax levied shall be
placed by the State Treasurer to
the credit of the General Fund,
and reserved until the meeting Of
the General Assembly elected I'M
der the provisions of the Constitu--
ton adopted by this Convention,
to be used as they may direct.
SEC. z. Be 1t FURTHER ordained,
That as soon as the Treasurer of
b ID e. State shall be notified of a
-oan having been effected by this
Convention, he shall place the
.unds received by him under this
Ordinance to the credit Of said
Dan, and the said funds, or as
much thereof as shall be necessary
20 pay said loan, shall remain spe-
,ially pledged to repay said loan.
SEC. 8. Be 1t farther ordained,
That the Tax levied BY this Ordi-
lance, shall be paid only in the
egal currency of the United States.
Adopted in Convention at the
Jity of New Orleans, the twenty
ourth day of December, ammo
Oomini eighteen hundred and six
yy-seVen.
: JAMES q. TALTAFERRO.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-02-15

A "loyalist," from Vermont, has
been selling stakes painted red.
white and blue, to the negroes i'm
Alabama, for three dollars each.
promising them that, wherever
they plant them, they viii hold the
land by confscatiom. The word
conyfscation is as great a charm tO
the negroes, as the word spoons il.
to Ben Butler, IN Y. Day Book.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-02-15

III 1dCbp IL HAS D66u sOp514y dO
knoWledged BY some of the lead
ing Republican papers that The
North will not give q majority fol
a Republican candidate. Hence
the effort of Congress to recon,
struct the South on q negro. basis
IF we succeed in defeating the
constitution, the North viii elect a
Democratic President, and the Re-
pubGcans viii, on account of a
continual increase of Democratic
members, soon lose their power in
Congress. The South can then be
reconstructed on q white basis, and
on terms favorable to her future
prosperity. ...... s....r-..
It remains with the people of
Louisiana to decide whether the
Constitution In question shall be
adopted or not. There is said to
be in the State about one hundred
thousand more whites than blacks,
and consequently there are more
white males of age than blacks.
Before the Constitution is voted
upon by the people, the registry
Lists will be reopened for revision !;
and should Gen. Hancock be then
in command, there is no doubt
that those improperly excluded
heretofore will be allowed to regis
ter. And if the white vote by it.
self is not sufficient to defeat the
Constitution, the planters who are
now feeding and clothing the ne
groes, and sheltering them from
the winters cold, have just as much
right to influence them to vote
against it, as have the Radicals,
who use the negroes as tools for
their own selfish purposes, to force
them to vote in favor of it by false
representations, and where these
do not succeed, by threats of fine
and imprisonment. We think it
certain, that the planters, by a |
proper exercise of their influence
with their laborers, can secure the
rejection of the Constitution, and |
none would be more benefited by
such result than themselves.
To those who may object to
joining the Democratic party in
the war against Radicaism, we re-
ply in the language of the Editor
Of the Planters Banner: "There
is no Democratic party, no Wing
party, no Conservative party in
existence according to the old
meaning of those names. The The
Wing party was buried at Rich
nond when Gen. Scott was nomi-
mated for the Presidency. The
Democratic party was buried at
Charleston before the war. The
Know Nothing party was buried
n 1856. The Radical party is
live and we know what their prin-
'lples are. The Democratic party Il
s the great enemy and antagonist P
i the Radical party. It goes for
he restoration of the Constitution {
nd government, for vitalizing the S
supreme Court, and for sustaining I
he Presidential authority, given v
i'm by the Constitution. That is g,
hat Democracy means in 1868. 81
I'D with that definition We are ali I
democrats, and should battle with p
le Democratic party as long as m
aey, battle for the right" p
We subioin an address Of the
emocratic State Central Com 7
ittee calling upon the Conserve O
70 citizens Of the State to organ q
9 without delay in support Of the a.
emocratic party: N
OpesoWsds JournGL j
0ppnINaRRR OHgorgn ~ RwnVV Ill
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-02-15

81 am afraid you win come 90
want" said an old lady to her
daughter. I have come to want
already. I want q nice young
man"
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-02-15

As Chairman and Secretary of
the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, we have been instructed to
call the attention Of the Conserva-
tive Democracy Of the State to the
necessity Of immediate and thor
ough Organization.
1t is enough To say To our Cor
sentative friends, that the great
Democratic party Of the nation,
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-02-15

q JAMES q. TALIAFERRO,
President Of the Constitutional
Convention. -
Attested': .........-..-r .r
VIM, VIGERs, Secretary. -
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-29
mo. 1877.
AN ACT


To repeal section one of an act entitled
An act to define more fully the powers
and duties of the Board of Registration
and Supervisors thereof for the registration
OF the. Qualified Voters of the State,n ap.
proved September nineteen (19), eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight, and to make
o'her provisions respecting the same.
SECTION ]. Be 1t enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
Of Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That section one of an act entitled an act to
define more fully the powers and duties of
the Beard of Registration and Supervisors
thereof for the registration of the qualified
voters Of the State, approved September
nineteen, eighteen hundred aud sixty.eight,
be and the same is hereby repealed.
SEC: 2. Be 1t further enacted, etc., That
1t shall be the duty Of the Board of Regis
tration to publish tran script, in pamphlet
form, of the constitutional, DECENTRALIZATION
and other laws pertaining to the uualifca-
lions OF electors, and shall cause ten copies
10 be sent to each Board of Supervisors in
the various parishes and districts in the
State, for the guidance of said supervisors
IN making said registration, said copies shall
oe forwarded, with other books, etc, forth
with to the Supervisors of Registration.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, tic, That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
(Signed) CHAS. w. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) OSCAR ]. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved October 20, 1868.
(Signed) H. G. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
true copy:
GEO. E. BOVEE,
Secretary of State
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-29
: NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 81 1858.

That the sum of Eve Thousand dollars be and
is hereby appropriated out OF any funds in
Inc treasury of the State, not otherwise ap-
proprlated, for the relief of the restitution
occasloned by the late storm, to be paid to
the President of the Howard Association
upon his warrant. -I- 80
SEC. 2, Be it further resolved, etc., That
the President of said Howard Association
shall report in due time to the Governor of
the State how and in what manner the fund
herein appropriated shall have been dis.
bursed and dispensed.
SEC. 3. Be it further resolved, etc., That
sald amount of five thousand dollars be dis
trlbuted to destitute poor without distinc.
ton Of race or color.
=, SEC. 4. Be it further resolved, etc., That
THIS resolution shall be in immediate force
ana effect from and after it's passage, and
the treasurer of the State is hereby author.
lzed, empowered and required to pay upon
the warrant of the President of the Howard
Association as aforesaid, the sum hereinbe.
fore provided.
(Signed) CHAS. W. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) OSCAR J. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved October 20, 1868.
(Signed) II. c. WARMOTH,
Governor Of the State of Louisiana.
. A true copy:
GEO. E. BOVEE.
Secretary of State,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-29
GEO. E. BOVEE,
Secretary of State
No. 17O.
AN ACT


Defining the Duties of Notaries Public and
sheritis for the Parish Of Orleans in Ger.
tain Cases.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House OF Representatives of the State
OF Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That 1t shall be the duty of every Notary
Public and Sheriff of the parish of Orleans.
before passing any act or deed of sale. to
demand certificate from the Register of
Conveyances showing that the vendor had
not alieuated in any other Way the propertv
about to be sold by him, said certificate to
give a clear description OF said property
and the fee of two dollars for said certifi.
Gates, each shall be paid by the vendor of
said property.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That
any Notary Public or Sheriff in the parish
aforesaid neglecting to procure the afore.
SAID certificate before passing any sale as
aforesaid, shall be liable to fine of not
less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor
more than five hundred dollars and costs
Of court, one.half for the benefit of the com
plainant and the other half for the benefit
of the State.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That
all laws or parts of laws conflicting with
this act are hereby repealed; and this act
take effect from and after its passage.
(Signed) CHAS. W. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) OSCAR J. DUNN.
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved October 81, 1868.
(Signed) II. G. WARMOTH,
Governor Of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
GEO. E. BOvEE,
Secretary Of State.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-29
No. ITO.
AN ACr

To amend an act entitled an "act in rela.
ton to the trial ofcontested election cases
IN the parish of Orleans, approved July
twenty-ftth, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, be amended SO as to read
as follows, viz (:
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives Of the State OF
Louisiana In General Assembly convened,
I'd the District Courts of the parish of Or
leans shall proceed within twenty days from
the passage of this act to hold a special term
to try all cases of contested elections pend
ing before them, and for that purpose the
judges OF the said Courts shall order the
sheriff or the two coronors of the parish of
Orleans, il the sheriff is interested, to draw
and summon sufficient number of per-
sons to serve as jurors whose names shall be
taken from the list Of voters, said Jurors
shall try and determine all cases OF con-
tested election in which jury has been
prayed Cor by either party. Should the
sheriff be interested, the fudge shall call
upon the coroners to draw and summon
the jury as provided for In the first section
of this act, then the said coroners shall re-.
epectiVely serve the summons for iurors5re-
siding within the limits for which thew are
coroners, and shall make due return Of the
manner In which they have drawn said Jury.
signed BY both ofthein, and also returns Of
the service Of the summons signed bV the
Coroner making them. Said returnssshall
the jury.
sfG, 3. 30 il farther enacted. ETC., That
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-29

City Council, April seventh, one thousand
eight hundred aud sixty-eight, to the great
loss and damage of said church; therefore
SECTION l.. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
OF Loulslana in General Assembly convened,
That the Treasurer be and is hereby directed
and authorized to pay the sum of three thou.
sand dollars to the Trustees of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church of the city of
New Orleans, out of any money in the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated upon the
warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts,
which he is hereby authorized and directed
TO Issue to said trustees.
SEC 2. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
(SignedD CHAS. W. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(SigHed) OSCAR ]. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved October 20, 1868.
(SignedD II. G. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana,
A true copy:
GEO. E. BOvEE,
Secretary of State.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-29

all laws and parts Of laws contrary to the
provisions OF this act be and the same
are hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
(Signed) CHAS. W. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) OSCAR j. DUNN,
LheutenantGovernor, and President of the
Senate.
Approved October 81, 1868. s~<ae-
(Signed) H. G. WARMOTH,
Governor of the Stale of Louisiana.
A true copy: 80. -
GEO. E. BOvEE,
..... ... Secretary of State.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-29
No. Ia.
AN ACT
GEO. E. BovEE,
Secretary of State.

For the relief of Charles E. Fortier and
Mrs. Hypolite Fortier.
SEcT1oN l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
OF Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That the sum of three thousand dollars,
with i've per cent interest thereon per
annum from April sixth, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty be and the same
are hereby appropriated out of any money
IN the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
one half to be paid to Charles E. Fortier
and one half to Mrs. Hypolite Fortier upon
the warrant of the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts TO satisfy judgment obtained bv
them against the State in the Sixth District
Court Of New Orleans, March fourteen,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
eight.
SEC. O. Be it further enacted, etc. That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
lSigned) CHAS. W. LOWELL.
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
(Slgned) OSCAR J. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved October 20, 1868.
(Signed) H. C. WARMOTH,
Governor Of the State of Louisiona,
A true copy:
GEO. E. BOVEE,
Secretary of State,