New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14
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aFFlcIAl JOURNAL OF new ORLEANS
THE COURTS.


ble-Adjournment Of the Court.
In the Eighth District Court YESTERDAY
morning Major John H. New arose ant
moved that the court adjourn, in respect I.
the memory Of the late General ROBERT T.
Lee. Major New spoke as follows:
Last evening the Geographic wires were
freighted with the saddest news that coMid
be brought to the Southern people. we
are familiar with suffering. Our skies have
been leaden. The very winds nave peer 81,
heavy with disease, and death assalls us al
anv time. But since the close of the great
war between the two sections of our coun
frv we have received no such blow as this
IN the death of General Robert E. Lee
every man and every woman in the land
will feel a personal bereavement, a crush
ing loss (; as it were, the light Of their hopes
nut out and their future irremediably dark
ened. And not here only, but in the North
there will not be q heart that does not re
spond with admiration in the contemplation
OF pure ife-an elevated character
grandeur of love-singleness and purity OF
purpose, united with all the heroic qualities
that will not beat slower in grief, as the
tidings reach there that he who embodied
all these-whO reflected SO brilliant a lustre
on the American name, has ceased to exist.
And not there only, but in EurOpe-nay, l
may say in all the civilized world, there will
be sorrow at the loss the human race has
sustained in the death of this noble creation
of God. For such q man proves our affinity
TO the Deity, and such q life proves the FEAST
bility of approach to the Divine Author
In considering this afflictiOn, personal
differences heal-sectional prejudices pass
out of sight; rancOr and hatred engendered
of strife and war turn to affection and ten
der sympathy. 1t is not the leader of ar
mics, it is the leader of men it is not the
Southern general, tits the American soldier;
it is the representative Of the New World
the noble type of what we all admire and
reverence, who has passed from among us.
And l do not think it inappropriate that
the members of the bar of this city should
add their tribute of re spect to the memory
of such a man. For wisdom in the paths
of peace has no less marked his steps than
valOr and skill in war His learning has
illustrated our scholarship, as his career has
furnished model for the youth Of all times.
His respect for law was as profound as his
love of country.
And the members of that profession whose
lives are devoted to an exposition of the
principles of justice, can find no nobler ex-
ample, no higher personifcation Of all that
il true and Just, than in the character Of
Robert f. Lee. !, therefore, in behalf of
the members Of this bar, present the follow
ing motion:
On motion of Mr.. John H. New, attorney,
it is ordered that t is court do now adjourn
in respect to the memory of Robert E. Lee,
who died at Lexington, Virginia, October
l2, 1870.
The Judge thereupon ordered that the
motion be entered.
Remarks Of Judge Dibblc.
Judge Dibble then made some observa-
tions appropriate to the occasion.
He remarked that it might not be i'm
mr. for tn hof in obi
tribute of respect to the deceased, the pur-
pose was to honor heroic and noble citi-
zen, who, by his bearing, had won the ad-
miratiOn and affection of every heart in the
land. As public officer, representing in q
slight degree, perhaps, those who had OPP
posed the armies led by General Lee, he
felt that this recognition Of the greatness
and goodness of the dead warrior was alto
gether proper, while it impaired no public
or political significance.
The judge said that the moment wildly
recalled another hour in the history of our
country, when great chieftain had fallen
by the hand Of crazed assassin. He re-
membered that when the sad news Of the
murder Of Lincoln had reached our city
every heart was struck with sorrow and
every house was draped in mourning, bust
ness ceased, and the whole people met to
express their sympathy with those who
mOaned the loss Of their beloved leader.
Then, the Judge remarked, if those who
had been the followers of Lee had thus been
willing to pay such a tribute OF respect to
Lincoln, he felt how proper it was, holding
his views and actuated by his sympathies,
to pay honor to the one who had just passed
away.
The court was then adjourned until this
morning.
Eighth District Court.
State ex rel. Joseph Hernandez VS.. Mayor
OF New Orleans ct al-In this case relator
alleges that he holds by purchase and as
signment two registered certificates against
the city of New Orleans, for services rem
dered and expenses incurred by DR.. Manuel
Pia Avila, Coroner for the Second and Third
Districts Of the city Of New Orleans-one
certificate for $108l, entered and approved
by the Finance Committee of the City COun-
ell on the second Of October, 1867, and the
other for 1886. Said certificates were ap-
proved and registered in pursuance of ordi-
nance No. 1915, dated August IA, 1856, for
the purpose of enabling said Avila by the
sale thereof, to obtain payment of the com
pensatiOn due him for his services and ex-
penses as Coroner, which the city could not
promptly meet in consequence of the en-
barrassed state of its finances.
RelatOr AYERS that he applied to the
Mayor and the Administrator of Finance
L
to enter these certificates on the statement
of the floating debt required to be made by
the act of the Legislature of March 16, 1870,
and that the defendants declined to comply
with his demand.
Relator asks mandamus commanding
defendants to comply with his demand.
Judge Dibble ordered that an alternative
mandamus issue, returnable on Wednesday,
the nineteenth of October.
The Jefferson City improvements Case.
On Wednesday last, in the Eighth Dis |
trlct Court, the great case Of H. H. ROmine |
VS.. >. t. West, was to be argued finally by |
Judge X. King Cutler; but as heretofore |
stated, the case had to be continued in con-
4uence OF the death of the father-in-law of |
the Assistant City Attorney, Rufus Waples.
Esq. At the time of the continuance of the
case, MI Cutler was not present, because.
as we are informed, he knew the case had
to be continued. However, a few minutes
after, the portly presence of r. King Cutler
appeared, looking as rosy and amiabe as
ever, and We are glad to state that he had
Just arrived from the parish of St. Charles,
Tnere he spent the entire previous week, in !
advocating his clients causes before the
Judge and jury, and, we are informed, had
nearly every case, civil and criminal, in the
District Court of the parish, and that he
succeeded in acquitting all persons charged
with crime, in the parish Of st. Charles.
On the twenty-fOurth instant he will con-
conclude his argument in the great Romine
Jefferson City Improvement case and judg
ng from the interest manifested in the |
natter. there will be q large attendance of |
he citizens of Jefferson and Orleans to hear |
aim.
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appears reduced in size and