The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-03
Scandalum Magnatum.
from the N. o. Times.

From the N. o. Times.
We should hardly consider it safe after
having been sued for libel for Publishing
extracts from the public records touching
the character and transactions Of Radical
chiefs, to produce the following copies Of
certain proceedings sgainst one Of those
distinguished patriots, fit were not that
the legal documents copied were signed
and attested by the Radical claimant for
the seat in Congress from the Second
Congressional District.
It will be seen that Messrs. Sheldon &
Henderson, the leading Radical law firm
in this city, charge the leading Radical
Senator in the present General Assembly
with acts and intents which, il true. as set
forth, amount to what is commonly styled
in the outside world Jeremy Diddlerism.-
It is proper, however, to wait for the hon
orable gentleman's answer TO this formida-
BILE document, before we can determine
whether his case ia as bad one a. is here
represented
10 the Honorable Judge of the Sixth Dis
District Court
Josiah B. Richardson, Of the Parish of
Orleans, complains of. Patrick O'Hara and
J. Pinckney Smith, Of same parish, rs
follows:
He says that the said O'Hara is State
Senator and member of the present Legis-
lature Of the State Of Louisiana, and that
j. Pinckney Smith is the Warrant Clerk
of the General Assembly Of Louisiana; he
says further, that on the - day of Janu-
AIRY, 1869, be paid to said O'Hara the sum
of three hundred and seven dollars and fif-
ty cents cash, for per diem warrants to the
amount Of four hundred and ten dollars,
due and to become due to said O'Hara as
State Senator for his per diem for the
present session of the Legislature of this
State, and took from the said O'Hara an
instrument Of writing embodying an order
on said J. Pinckney Smith, warrant
clerk "a Aforesaid, to issue the warrants to
the amount OF four hundred and ten dollars
to your petitioner, and also authorizing
petitioner to receipt to said warrant clerk
in the name and as the agent of said
O'Hara for warrants to the aforesaid
amount, which instrument in writing he
presented to and left with said j. Pinck-
ney Smith. He further says that some
time thereafter the said O'Hara went to
the said warrant clerk, and asked to see
said instrument Of writing under the pre-
tense that he wished to refresh his memo
ry as to its terms, and, so soon as be OBJ
tanned it, he put the same in his pocket,
and at the same time forbid the said war
rant clerk to issue any warrants to petit
tioner, and carried away and retains said
instrument OF writing, and the said O'Hara
refuses to give petitioner any other order
for said warrant, and petitioner says that
the said O,IIara is utterly and entirely ir-
responsible pecuniarily, and he committed
the aforesaid acts with the design and in
tent to defraud and wrong petitioner, and
petitioner further says that the said J..
Pinckney Smith, warrant clerk, rs afore-
said, intends and threatens to issue to said
O'Hara the warrants aforesaid, and unless
restrained and enjoyed from SO doing great
and irrcparable injury will result to petit.
toner, and the said O. Hara intends and
threatens to demand and receive said war
rants, and II he gets hold of them your pc
titioner will be wholly without remedy as
against the said O'Hala for the reason that
he is wholly irresponsible, as aforesaid.-l
Wherefore petitioner prays that the said
O'Hara and j. Pinckney Smith be cited to
answer this petition within legal DELAYS,
that considering the bond and affidavit
hereto attached that the said O'Hara be
enjoined and restrained from demanding or
receiving said warrants or any part thereof,
and that the said j. Pinckney Smith, as
warrant clerk, be also enjoined and res
trained during the tendency of this suit
from issuing said warrants to said O'Hara,
or to any other person, except petitioner,
and on the final hearing hereof that said
injunction be made perpetual, and the said |
j. Pinckney Smith, as warrant clerk, he |
ordered to issue to petitioner said warrnst,
and that he have judgment for costs and
for general relief.
SHELDON l. HENDERSON,
Attorney for President.