New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-11
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Supreme cOurt DeeIsion.-An IEaPOrtAns
Cotton Case,

Supreme COErt DecIsiOnA-An Important
Cetion Case.
In the supreme court the following de.
cislOn5 were made yesterday:
Jules Levy ct ais. vs.. Valerien Bergeron-
Plaintiffs sue to recover of defendant twen-
ty-One bales Of cotton, alleged by them to
have been deposited with him. Defense Is
that the cotton was burned by confederate
forces.
The evidence shows that defendant re-
moved the cotton from his gin in which he
had stored it and where it was unsafe, to q
house moro secure than the gin, and some
distance off. Defendants design in removing
the cotton was to prevent it being discov-
cred and burned by cotton burners of So
called confederate states. IN aud with the
house it was found before any demand was
made for its delivery.
At the time tine cotton was burned the
cotton burners were In the neighborhoOd
burning cotton, and the evidence tends to
show that it was burned by them. The de-
pOsit was not made at defendants request
nor for his advantage.
Defendant received no compensation for
keeping the cotton, and be used sufficient
diligence to preserve it.
We perceive no reason to reverse the
Judgment in favor Of defendant rendered
pursuant to the verdict of jury.
Let the Judgment be affirmed, and let
plaintiffs, who are appellants, pay the costs
of this appeal.
This was an appeal from the parish Of
3g. sYmanski, appellant, VS.. L. Plassan,
appellee Ordered that reheariug prayed
for be refused.
J. Il. Pepin, appellee, vs. Sheriff James
Dunham ct al. Rehearing refused,
s. B. Labidiole vs.. Treville Landry ct 81.
1t is ordered that Judgment against v.
Landry, the indorser, be reversed, and that
there be Judgment in his favor, with costs in
both courts.
Succession of Pierre Legarde. Appeal
from parish OF Latourche. Judgment aE-
firmed.
Logan 8 Railey VS.. C. H. Cay. From
parish of lberville. Judgment affirmed.
Fire Alarm improvements.
The efficient and faithful superintendent
of the fire alarm telegraph, Mr. Samuel
Weeks, has invented an improvement in the
apparatus by means of which the alarm
circuits are brought into more immediate
and speedy connection with the main alarm
hatteru Iaretafare hefara the nnerator
could strike the bells it was necessary, in
order to put the district clock In connection
with the circuits, to move tWentysix
switches, requiring corresponding number
of movements on the part of the operator.
The Improvement consists in rendering the
movement of twenty-four unnecessary. BY
very simple contrivance, requiring the
movement OF but one switch, the whole
main battery is placed in connection with
the district clock.
The other two switches remain as at FIRST
connected, SO that the operator now has
| but three switches to move instead oi
| tWenty-six. There are nine alarm circuits.
some of which extend as far as Washington
street in the fourth district, to Louisa
street in the third district and in the rear
of the city to Esplanade and RocheblavC
/ Iafr 4 int : !.
movement Of those three switches.
On these nine circuits are fourteen large
bells aud twenty-four dirt gongs in as manJ
| engine houses. 1t takes but three second:
Of time 70 give all of them one blow
Another advantage In tho improvement /,
that it gives the operator two methods, the
/ old and the new, each acting independently
OF the other, but by both or which tht
alarm can be given. If at any time eithel
sheuld get out of order, there is another TO
fall back on.
VVhtAlky Frauds im New Orseaas.
The Washington Chronicle publishes Whist
New Orleans correspondent says:
On whisky alone the frauds at thia port
amounted to more than tUut and z mas
millions of dollars from Aiay 10 Decemhef,
1867. The calculation that ! saw was made
! allowing fifteen ba Frels IS an average for
each distillery, although there "a none
lirensed under ten barrels. Some make
from Hfty to sixty barrela dailys and you
NAV calculate the amount wien you think
that al tiis number the tax un only twenty.
/ fhree ana 4 half barrels has been paid dur.
| inc an that time. The following is the
estimate Of New Orleans whisky man who
processes to knows
80 distlleries licensed, making
Is barrels of whisky per day, h
4se harrcis per day
40 gallons per barrel was actually
$500 snnde which makes
l9,0s0 gallons per day.
$50 days Running through the year.
Z, 400 COO annual total.
81 80 per gallon tax,
50 600 0ap annual tax
Only 28} gallons returned ineix months.
Full statements. win aames and dates.
asserlluz al thsae iaet9, auI more have
baen forwarded g the sectesaEs ~ tae
| trcasury And ID several SENATORS asa rep1e-
sentatiee1.
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NuMheF 1t nfisQuers seat 20 iAe *QtA
hCuse Daring the Feek endlas c4fvffy