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The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17
ICommunicated.l

lCOnmunicatedl
Mr.. Editor-ln 1859 the following act was
passed by the Legislature:
ACT persons from rsnssctng business under
fct tiOus names.
sEcTIoN l. Be ii enacted bu The Senate and
House of Representatives OF the State Of Louisi-
ana IN General Assembly cOnuened. That here
after no person shall transact business In the name
of a partner not interested in bis firm, aOd when
The designation " and company" or "& Co.," is
used, shall represent an actual partner or part
ners.
SEC. 2. Be ii further enacted etc., That any
person offending against the provisions Of this act
shall upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty
OF a misdemeanor and be punished by me not
exceeding one thousand dollars, recoverable be-
fore any court of competent jurisdiction.
WIN. w. PUGH,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WIN. F. GRIFFIN,
President of the Senate.
Approved March 17th 1853.
ROBERT c. wIcKLIFFE,
Governor of the State OF Louisiana.
A true copy:
ANDREW 8. HERRoN,
Secretary of State.
1t was considered by every one as one of the
best acts ever passed. The object was to prevent
people outside from being imposed upon by
seeing the names of old and responsible persons
advertised as being engaged in business, while
lDey were I6dlJ III tuclI ldsb IcoluB pluCOs 4uO
law was promptly put in force-sigR painters were
in constant employment-in some cases plotting
out " & Co." where there was no company" in
other cases putting up the name of some worthy
young man as the partner to ill up the Co."
The existence of this law was brought to the
mind of the writer after reading the account pub
lished in your valuable journal of the late unfor-
tunate duel. 1t appears from that statement that
a note had been given as representing firm. and
the gentleman was challenged as being the COM
pauy," when ii was not the fact. On the other
hand, the note had been taken and received by the
party, he believing that the gentleman with whom
he had the difficulty was the partner and the
company" Now, If the law as quoted above is
again put in full force and effect the public will
know, as they should, who are the responsible par
ties in all business transactions. If the law is
good one let II be carried outfit bad let IL be re-
pealed. 1t is in existence in the States of New
York and Pennsylvania, of which the Louisiana
law is q copy.
We call upon the authorities to enforce it and
thus oblige an ANrI-DuELIsT.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

We have had the pleasure of meeting our
esteemed youJg friend, Capt o. III. Edgerley,
of Corpus Ch}isti, Texas, who is at present
in the city, Slipping at the City Hotel
Capt EdgeAey reports band Of Indians
in the vicinity.of Corpus Christi, a few days
since. They confined their operations to the
stealing of a fiw head of horses, and then sud-
denly took tho departure for the more con-
genial districts of the upper Rio Grande.
They were followed by company of cavalry
stationed at Corpus Christi, but without
ruccess
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

In the course of an article on ''Reproachful
Epithets," the Republican of yesterday makes
use of the following language: If those Who
worshiped at the shrine of rebellion, honest
" thinking they were right in seeking to over
turn our republican institutions, can forgive
the frmness of those who sought to uphold
them, their frmness in the maintenance of the
principles ofslavery will be forgiven" Which,
with all due respect to the Republican, is SIM
ply nonsense. The people of the Confederate
States sought an independent government
by secession from the United States ; but they
did not seek to destroy, or alter in any man
ner the republican institutions of the remain
ing States, any more than the American colo
MES sought to destroy or alter the monarchical
institutions of Great Britain. They did not
even intimate desire to interfere with the
institutions of the so-called loyal States. The
people of those States would have remained,
had the war terminated in favor of the Con-
federacy, with all the rights of self-goyern-
ment that they possessed before, or that they
now possess. The only difference would have
been that they would have lost the power to
govern the seeding States. Moreover, the
seeding States did not seek to de-
stroy or to alter the republican institu-
tons existing within those States 30
far as such institutions were republican
in character. On the contrary they main
tanned precisely the same form of institutions
that had existed within their limits from the
foundation of the government, both as to the
State and Confederate constitutions The
assumption that the Oonfedsratss attacked re-
publican institutions is in all respects absurd.
The assertion is frequently made, but it is
utterly destitute of real significance. The
Confederates believed that they were defending
truly republican and democratic institutions
because they asserted the right of organized
communities to withdraw from government
which they did not like, and to establish a
government of their own choice. If theissues
of the war involved any attack on republican
institutions, that attack was made by those
who claimed the right to govern unwilling
States and communities, and to force them
to remain in a Union from which they wished
| to withdraw.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

The Republican. in commenting on a para
graph in the CRESCENT, says:
Last November the people Of Missouri, with the
exception of tie few not allowed to vote on &C.
count of treason and other disabilities, declared
against sntUe al negro suffrage by majority OF
1851. in lkb manner with several otner
states The Legislature elected at the same time
has inst ratified the fifteenth amendment, which
does not imrote universal negro suffrage on the
state. any mbrb than ii imposes universal Csuca-
s;.n Indian Thnese or any other kind Of suffrage.
In this the Iiesislature Of Missouri probably re-
gared the wishes of its constituency, if it did not
those of our contemporary.
Trustworshy statistics and calculations
show that, snaer existing laws, 10000 white
people are DISTINGUISHED in Missouri-none,
however. or account of treason, for not one
,,erson has: been tried for treason and con-
.,;.tad within the whole United States. This
hovsver. L immaterial. What we desire
A. sav Is thsa the fifteenth amendment DOE:
;mnose nero suffrage on the State of Mis-
sonr; and skas the voting people of the STATE
did reject AFRO suffrage at the last election
IL does not alter or in any way affect this fact
that the amsrsdnent likewise imposes Indian
and Chinese suffrage on the State, or that i
confirms Cs,uaasian suffrage, except asto tn
opponents sf the Republican party
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

The steame,3 Henry Burden, from Jackson
vile, Fla, lan3ed her passengers and cargo
near a place Ihalled Mayari, on the north
coast of Cubl General Cespedes, with a
considerable fkce was waiting to receive the
expeditionists4 The party was commanded
by Sr. Cisne4s, lately editor of the Pals, a
newspaper in Havana. The men werea armed
with Peabody rifles, revolvers and short
swords, and IL with them several pieces of
field artillery The steamer had on board, as
already stated by telegraph, 100000 ball
cartridges AMI large amount Of other war
material
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

Asomewhat amusing controversy has broken
out between the Cincinnati Commercial and
the Cincinnati Gazette on the subject of an
American race" They slash about in the
speculative wilds of clinical physiology In
way that Darwin, or Huxley, or Draper, or
Agassiz could not behold without dangerous
attack of vertigo. The Gazette having mildly
limited at degeneration of the transplanted
European stock in America by admixture
with Ethiopian and Monaghan elements, the
Commercial accuses it of rank apostacy to
the Radical doctrine as to the imperial des-
tiny of the negro, and announces an evangel
of universal amalgamation thus "The twad-
die about an American race has the flavor
of the old Know Nothing nonsense. There is
no such thing as distinctive American race,
unless we seek for it among the vanishing
tribes of Indians. We are apeople made up of
various nationalties, and very few families are
to be found in which the blood is not a mix
ture of English, German, Scotch, Irish,
French or Holland. Brought under the infiu-
ence of our institutions, nodded by them,
these distinctive national features are lost in
generation or two, and the same absorbing
and transmitting influence will operate in the
same way with the Asiatic."
1t is very true that there is no distinctive
American race. But why? Because race is
principle or force which, as far as human
knowledge extends, asserts itself in whatever
part of the world it may be planted and take
a development. Climate and surrounding
circumstances may modify it, indeed; but
they never have transmitted it. The Asiatics
who are now setting to the Pacific shore from
China will never undergo transmutation in
a generation or two," or in forty generations.
They are now coming with families, and this
means that they will transmit the Monaghan
type until, possibly some portion of this
continent may look like reproduction of the
y" Flowery Land" There is much more of
prophetic stuff in this speculation than in the
evangel of grand regenerative conglomera-
ton of heterogeneous and reciprocally alb
sorbing and devouring races.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

A fresh military order re-arranges the militia
ny divisions the country and assigns Halleck
to the commat id OF the one including Louisia-
ma and the Department of the South. Gen.
Sheridan is cadered to the Division of Mis-
souri, and GerS Thomas to the Division of the
Pacific. GEN. Howard is ordered to command
the Department of Louisiana and Gen. Scho-
field the DEPARTMENT of Missouri. The First
District (Va.,s is attached to the Division OF
the Atlantic.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

General Grant has domesticated his military
family in the White House. Their duties are
thus apportioned:
Ge1eral Dent will have control Of all arrange
mens for visiting the president, interviews, pre-
sensations, and the general charge of the recep'
ton room-trsnsactiAg the business OF all callers
not absolutely necessary 20 be sent to the presi.
dent.
General Badeau will attend, as heretofore, to
the opening Of the correspondence.
General Babcock will have charge of all sppli'
cations for and matters pertaining to appoint.
meuts to Office. All such applications will be
promptly referred TO tie several departments.
of making out appointments.
General Dent and General Porter will be
the objects of especial interest to the hungry
patriots who are thronging Washington 81
this time.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17
nsy- OK I#nE PAers-second Page

City Topics, Estorial Paragraphs, Common
Council, Ne,o P9sents, Army Officer in Trouble,
Brutal Murder, 1aRoehgort Reused, Gen. Han
cock. Third rHge Uneasiness at Washing
ton, Grant and s7Vdshburne Ieras Items, More
Of The Inauguration Bal. Sixth Page Cen
eral Neaos Remt The alabama Claims, A Col
ored Cabin Passenger Case in Ne,o York, Bout
aoeu, Poor CdfiDta. Seventh Page: Real
Estate Marked, Financial and Commercial Re
morris
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

Speaking 4 Hsyti, the Republican says :;
'But since Sie government there has been
placed entireay IN his own (the negro's)
hands, all aus3 orities agree in the fact of his
present brutattze and miserable condition
hence the Republican doesn't want Hayti to
be annexed NJ the United States. Negroes
are, on this theory, not fit to govern them
selves, but under the direction of few ad-
yenturers, THY are eminently qualified to
govern large communities OF white people
O. e ID. q
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

ZEIL's POP LAR ENcYLoPEDIA.-We return
thanks to thl Renaissance Louisianaise for
Nos. z, s anA 9 of Zell's popular Encyclo-
pedia and Universal Dictionary. This work
is to be a dict onary of biography, law and
medicine, gJetteer, etc., in other words q
universal encyclopedia. The numbers are
sold at ten q nts each, and the completed
work will cofprise two large royal quarto
Volumes
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17
Carpet Warehouse.
..eHARTREs STREET

IN ..GHARTRES STREET.
A. BRoUssEAU CO., Importers, offer ct low prices,
CARPETING-Esgsh and American, Of all kinds; Floor,
Furniture and Enamel OIL CLOTH; MATING 500 roll
China; 100 pieces Cocoa; WINDOW SHADES; Table and
Piano Covers; Crumb Cloths-Druxge Felt Cur.
tAinsLsce. Reps, worted Dsmssk Furniture Cover.
ing-Linen and Cotton striped; Confess Banda Pima sto
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

In speech ON the finances, last autumn,
Mr.. Boutwell,, now secretary of the treasury,
said "The Republican party knows no
policy in finance but honest" with
a slight alteration is strictly true-as thus :
"Ihe Republican party knows no policy in
finance (Which is the fact) but honesty it does
not know" which is also fact.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17
DIR. Jules Ho,,sber<er.

OOULIsT 1sts Assisans D.. sichsi Psrs leo Oaaal
street, New Oriesna Once hours from II 70 O'CLOCK Ths
number Of patients treated In Dr. HombsrEsrs Clinic and
Practice during 1853 5; the number Of opnSions l9
For Cataract AZ for Crosseye %; for Lachryna FstuA
VIII be pleasure TO Dr. Hombergr torssr those who
apply Tor treatment 70 patients who have BEEN under h care
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17
Special T0ffce.

The COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES of the NEW Or
NEsDAY EVENING the 18th March, at * o'clock the
residence of DR. cHAs 4. KILLS, No. "a Dssphin
street.
Those interested In Dental Science the Trustees, Ply
.cans Dentists and Friends of the Students especially
invited to attend.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

Boy your cigts at the premium mandatory
OF Geo. Alces, 10 Rampant street, below Canal,
New Orleans. Address lock box 24s, postofice.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

To the .yeic Orleans FYrensen.
GENTLEhEN-YOur attention is respectfully called to
the
PRIZE TRUMPET. SOLID SILVER.
Fow on exhibition In E---s- n oaIsWoLD & cos
he makers Window to be voted for at the FAIR be
held I'm
Odd FeIlows Hall. on the Goth inst..T
For the BENEFIT OF THE REV. JEREMIAH MoYSI-
HAMS NEW CHURCH. Drysdes street
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

tide of popular indignation, stirred up by the
unrighteous and merciless exactions OF the
bondholding interest.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

B0Ok Binders
PRINTERS MACHINLRY.
We have been appointed agents OF Messrs. SANBIFN
BRO. York and prepared to MI orders for all de-
scripons the above of Machinery at Manufactures
Prices. - -
THOS. B. BODLEY & CO.,
No 9Perddo street. New Orleans.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

German
PROTESTANT ORPHAN ASYLUM.
The FAIR now being held for the benefit of this Institution
at the BaGsr Budzg Canal street. viii continue open until
WEDNESDAY NIGHT, 9TH inst.J inclusive, when ali
.,.icl.. An. di.rossd of will ha sold AZ auetion.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17

An aassa q HxHCHANDIsR A9RIUUL1URAL N.
PLKMENfS, stea ste., purchased on eomnissisn.
osod purchass< eny Of Arst Glass Housss sal q lon
nst lower than parties en- purchase thsnsslvsa
ument nnst ~ rsmtsd 70 cover frslshs "a 49,
missions The balance PAYABLE ON BKLIvKRY.
ocnnissons q suns not succeeding slw pss ss.t. -
sss<ins 500. ~ pg cent
0sllsessns a ~ points DrsnpGy attended ~
Anss-ooL = q NIXON. rfssrisla q
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1869-11-13
Cotton Planters Read This:
Cotton will now be picked from the
bolls on the bush by Machinery.

THIS INGENIOUS machine, consists of
l simply metallic tube or hollow arm, pro-
vided with fingers like the human hand, that
rapidly pick the cotton from the balls, and
pass it through the hollow arm into sack
swung from the shoulder. 1t can be opera
ted very rapidly and has the capacities Of
the human hand many times multiplied
ing the work Of FIVE Of six men, and does it
better, picks no dirt with the cotton, does
not crush the staple, oriniure the fibre, and
any one with no skill and little labor can
use it. --a---.,s
1t is all metal, simple, neat, strong, dura-
bic and, cannot get ont Of order.7
1t Is small and light, and convenient to
handle, the operator stands erect. and with
out stopping or Reaching up, picks every pod
on the bush.
1t is wonderfully simple, and ranks among
the great labor saving machines of this age
of progress, and will soon become the indes-
pensahle oompanion Of the cotton Gin and
the Press on every plantation. The price
places 1t within the reaah- of ALL
Price, 500 90. send Post Office order or
draft or New York, and the machine win BE-
promptly sent BY express Of shipped as di-
rected
COTTON PLANTERS LABOR SAVING co.,
~ Barclay IT. n. y,
July 8 18ao-H
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1869-11-13
OPEN DAY AND EVENING.

fThis is Charter Institution a full course
i Commercial and business College, in all
departments perfect, The Course of In
struction is Thorough and complete banks
and stores are connected, the books regu-
larry kept, and al The attendant duties of the
Clerk, Bookkeeper, Correspondent and BUSH
mes Man practically perfornodby the Stu
dent. ft
The advantage resulting to the Student
from this Practical Work is alone worth
more than all the theoretical, book and rule
course OF studies taught at the ordinary
Commercial Colleges, NvN g8T
BY this course and mode of work the Stu
dent acquires in a few weeks or months the
experience of o lifetime. 4a
No Young Man who WOULD MEET WITH
SUCCESS in any branch of TRADE or COM
MERGE should fail to Spend few weeks in
the COUNTING-ROOMS and STORES Of
this Institution.
The President is Practical Accountant,
Commercial Lawyer and Teacher of many
years standing III this ommunity
Mr.. IL. A. SPENCER, associate Author
of TIL celebrated Spencerian System of PEN
manship. and one of the worlds most gifted
Pen Artists and Americas most eminent
and successful instructors, has charge of the
Writing aud Corresponding Department.
THE COUNTING HOUSE COURSE OF IN
-..s STUCTI0N, 8e
Is the most extensive, complete and thor
ough ever introduced into any Commercial
College in the South, and will embrace the
most approved and practical forms of Keep
ing Books by Double Entry in the various
departments of TRADE and COMMERCE.
including Merchantile, Manufacturing and
Steamboat Booking; Individual Company
and Compound Company, with forms atap-
ted to the Wholesale and Retail Merchandise
ing, Business, Banking, Grocery, Mechan-
ical and Commission business, etc, etc, to-
gether with Accounts Cnnent, Accounts
Sales, complete system of Commercial Cor
respondence, Commercial Calculations, Com
mercial Law and Penmanship.
In the Language Department special at
tention is given to the English Language
Grammer and Rhetoric. 9e t.a i4
The Arithmetic, Commercial, and Exchange
Calculation Department remains in charge
Of the Principal, whose rapid and easy sys-
TEN of work has been for many years re-
ceived with unprecedented favor by the
public. 1nsss lyial
The charges have been reduced to meet
the exigences ofthe times, and every known
improvement and facility made use of to
meet the demands of the business commu-
nifty and advance the interests of its pa
irons.
The. Principal of S0ULE'S COMMERCIAL
COLLEGE feels grateful for the liberal
patronage and assistance extended to him
and duly approaching and thankfully az
knowledging his obligations TO the public,
promises to spare no pains or labor to merit
in still more eminent degree the confidence,
esteem and 'support OF all interested in Com
mercial Education. gn4avaE
For Circulars, CONTAINING FULL IN
FORMATION, call at tho office, or address
GEO, SQULE,
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1869-11-13
The Celebrated Improved
Gerard Orcide Gold sf'atfh,
&f2, $f5. 800, $25.

WITHIN the past six months we have
Wv brought ''0roide Gold to perfection.
For appearance, style of finish and accuracy
of time-keeping, the "Gerard Watches are
universally acceded to be the best. They re-
tain their brilliancy and color till worn out.
They are all in Hunting Cases, Gentle
mems and Ladies sizes. Every Watch guar
anted for time and wear, by special GER
tifcate. .4fer
So A large assortment Improved
Oroide" Chains, 81 to So. Also Gentlsmen's
and Ladies' Jewelry in great variety.
H5- Beware of limitations, order direct
from us or our authorized agents. AGENTS
and others applying for circulars, viii please
enclose two three cent stamps for postage.
E5- All goods sent tn be paid for on deiir-
cry. Customers permitted 10 examine tohdt
theg order before paying bills, } on payment
of Express charges both ways, ~
HT' When SIX Watches are ordered at
once, we send an extra watch (of same kind,
free.) Address plainly, s yti
JANES GERARD & CO.,
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Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1869-11-13
s aeYi q x8Msd Yya isIw aa3io2
Challenge Washing Machine.
uosrs BUT $500 TO 5000, n


A ND is WARRANTED to was hedsier
IA quicker and better, and with less wear
to the clio hes, than any other machine or
process. $4,000 sold, and are giving per-
feet satisfaction.
CHALLENGE WRINGER AND IRoNERl
The best in the World. Warrented to be as
good for use, after ten years usage, as when
new, and assured to work perfectly len years.
As AN IRoNER. 1t irons without heat, very
rapidly, and will last a life time. aai af
READ. have sold 500 Challenge Washers
in my County, and they are. oil giving the
j. F. BARROW,
Hickory, Hartford Co., Md.
I can sell 1000 Challenge Washers and
Wringers in my County..l Have been offered
$500 for the right (small population-cost
him $25) but would not tal1e,sl0o for it.
A aaa A. MISERY'S,
- a.ssfs eN Jeddo CITY. Iowa.
These Machines are special blessing to
suffering female humanity, and every house
should have them. -Lyachbu.g Va, ADDER
tiser, April 81, 1868, .,s. q. ,..,,A
We honestly believe This Wasting Machine
will be in time, the pride OF every house,
keeper. 1t combines extraordinary labor
and time-saving properties with extreme
eh"Piiei's VI cohsti uculoh'-- MtSStSSH,pt m
defsxxoss .oI4&ff
child can operate it, 50 simple is it in it's
construction and toperation. 1t combines
more points of excellence than any other
machine we have ever seen We recommend
them to those wishing a good machine.
Northeastern Christian Advocate.
AGENTS tcnnted ereiy,ohere, at a profit Of
from $40 to $50 per day. Send, enclosing
stamp, for Circular giving full description
and terms, with 1000 recommendations like
the above. s. W. PALMER 4 CO.,
1ssfI graa Auburn, N. Y.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1869-11-13
$1,000,

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OF Is cents, q sealed Ticket is drawn without
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Prizes are Immediately sent TO any address
by express on return mail. "a "a
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July "a, lS69-3m m sl if - d)nisit