The New Orleans crescent., 1868-03-12
Avenare per month. st7.7sl
Average per month, StI,1S4 u
1858 FtFID Aprsrsrps-ror
Feb. 29Psy roll ending this date $40 l6 IS

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Feb z9-Psy roll ending this date Sl9ll6 Is
TEE CASE OF GovERNoR BAKEa.-The affidavit
made against Governor Baker is published In full
below except his oath of Office which is incOr-
porsted in the complaint. That being the aver
ment generally known ss the test OATH" there
| Is no need OF reproducing it, as every one knows
the person taking il is required to swear that he
| did not aid the Confederate cause, or, as it ia
styled in the congressional enactnents, ''rebel-
lion." 1t an error to say that the federal Sc
| preme Court has decided the oath to be uncor-
stitutiona. That tribunal has only adjudged that
attorneys applying TO be admitted to practice in
the federal courts cannot be required TO take il.
| The charge against the governor ID preferred by
an illiterate negro, mere instrument, of course
10 the hands of the political adyenturers who can
not rest while single Office is filed by a gentle
man. They have taken the case before a radical
United States commissioner and if Il is to be tried
q radical judge and "black and tam jury will
try it, for Judge Durel, differing from his political
brethf en-, Judge Howe of the First District Court
and Attorney General Lynch, has pronounced
cOlored men qualified to be jurors, aud under his
his court.
The governor, bearing that the accusation had
been made against him, appeared before Com
missioner shannon and gave the bail required,
which was 5000, Mr.. Robert Hare, a former
Deighbtr OF bis, signing the bond and securing Mr.
Shannon against the chief magistrate Of the State
becoming a fugitive from justice, wherein Mr.
SbannCn set an example that might be followed
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OF President Johnson's impeachment
Commissioner shannon has fixed the exsmina.
ton OF The case for Wednesday next. Subjoined
s the sffidsvit:
"United States of America. Eastern District Of
LouisiaBa--ss-City OF New Orleans: Be il known
that n this seventh day Of March. in the year of
Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty
eight, and the niDety-iirst year Of the independ
euce Of The United States Of America personally
came and appeared be sfOi ie Iae, Robert II. shannon
a tate nj mad
nd sworn, in and for the district of Louisiana,
Henry Dennis Of No. los Thalia street. in the city
OF New Orleans and district Of Louisiana, who
beng duly sworn says; That he is freedman Of
celor ard citizen Of The United ststes that on
or about the Sth day Of Jsnaarv, A. d. ls6S, one
JosbCa Bsker. of the city OF New Orleans aud
state of Louisiana, did commit wilfu and de-
liherate perjury in the taking Of certain oath
before one John II. iisleY. an associate j1sice Of
he Supren CouI. Of the State of Lonisisna a
copy Cf which said cath is as follows, to4wit
,Here y official oath is incorporated.)
That the said Joshua Baker, in the taking of
the laid oath, did commit the crime Of willfal
,nc deliberate erjnry and did feloniousy swear
falsely in this to.wit: That before the taking OF
the said osb, and in and about the month Of May
June, or Jolly, A. ID. 1s62 the said Joshua Baker
was voluntarily engaged in giving aid, cpunte
nee and encouragement to persons engaged 10
armed hostility 10 the United States, by placing
and causing TO be placed distractions and barri.
cades upon and in the Bayou Teche, one of the
pose Of preventing Che fleet and armed vessels of
the United States from proceeding up and ia said
hayou, Ia connection with the suppression of
the armed rebellion against the Units d
States; and the said Joshua Baker before
the taking Of said oa'h, had yielded ard
gwen voluntary support to the so called Con
fs6erate States government, end to the State of
Louisiana, after the attempted secession of the
said State from the United States. and that the
said Joshua Baker. in the taking of said oath, in
the matter sforessic, did wilifully and feouiousy
commit the crime Of perjury, contrary to the
siaiufe 10 such case made and provided.
Therefore, deponent charges said Joshua Baker
with feloDiously committing the crime OF perjury,
contrary TO the statute in such case made aud
provided, and he prays that said Joshua Baker
may be arrested and dealt with as the law directs.
his
HENRY y DENNIS.
mark.
Subscribed and sworn to before me. this 7thdsy
Of March, 1865. Il. n. SHANNoS,
United States Commissioner.
The COURSE or TRUE L0vE.-0n Tuesday last
we reported that a colOred man had applied TO
the mayor to be married, exhibiting st the same
time written promise TO marry, given him By his
dulcinea, Emma Brown Sherty after being
directed where 10 go in order 10 have the cere-
mony performed, Richard Barnes. Esq.. the would
be bridegroom, lost his Emma. What tribulations