The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-08-20

GEORGE W. SADLER,
First Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF LoUIs1AN ExECUT1vE
DEPARTMENT,
New Orleans, August 6, 1870.
Sir-Your communication of this
date is received. In reply have to
cay that you have no right, under the
law, to issue criminal process. The
act Of the Legislature organizing JUS
tees Courts in the parish of Orleans
does not confer criminal jurisdiction
upon them.
If you desire to do so, have no OBJ
lection to your sending the affidavit
made by MI. Gardette to tho Criminal
Court, which has jurisdiction, and, at
the bar. of which am always ready to
answer any charge that may be pre-
ferred against me.
Very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
III. G. WARMoTH.
To Geo. W sad1er ESQ.,, First Justice of tho Peace.
Since when, we would ask, has the
Executive Department been invested
with judicial power to pass upon the
duties of officers and the Interpretation
of law? From the foregoing it would
seem that the Governor exercises the
right to decide upon the jurisdiction of
q court and proceeds to designate be~
fore what tribunal he will consent to
be tried for criminal ofense in dis
turbipg the peace and making an as
sault with a dangerous weapon. Our
only surprise low is that his imperial
lordship did not select the court of his
own creation-the Eighth-with its
redoubtab!e Judge Dibble. Before
that learned and impartial dispenser of
Justice, no one could for q moment
doubt the fate Of the youthful, rash
and indiscreet vio!ater Of the laws he
has sworn to execute. But, seriously
speaking, if such dangerous precedent
is permitted to be established, if the
Governor is not to be held amenable
to the laws, then he is vested with in,'
perial powers and no citizen in the
State is safe from his caprice or his
vindictive and petty malace. If the
officers whose duty it is to enforce and
execute the laws are either unwilling
Or afraid to do so, let them resign in
favor of those who have both the intel
ligence and the pluck to MAINTAIN the
peace and dignity of the State, and the
protection of every citizen in his civil
rights.
IsrEREsr.-No blister draws sharp.
or than interest does. OF all indus
tries none is comparable to that Of
interest. 1t works all day and night
in fair weather and foul. 1t has no
bound in its footsteps, but traves ia st.
1t gnaws at a mau's substance with i'm
visible teeth. It binds industry with
its film, as fly is bound in a SPIDERS
web. Debts roll man over and over,
binding hand and foot, and letting him
hang upon the fatal mesh until the
long legged interest devours him.
There is but one thing on farm like
it. and that is the Canada thistle, which
swarms new plants every time you
break its roots whose blossoms are
prolific, and every flower the father of
a million seeds. Every leaf is an awl,
every branch spear, and every plant
like platoon of bayonets, and a field
of them like an armed host. The
whole plant is a torrent and vegetable
cure. And yet a farmer had better
make his bed of Canada thistle than
attempt to be at ease upon interest.
The following gem from the writings
OF Dickens is now going the rounds:
There is nothing-no, nothing beau
tiful and good that dies and is forgot
tep. An infant, prattling child dy-
ing in its cradle, will live again in the
better thoughts of those who loved it,
and play its part, though its body be
burned to ashes or buried in the Deep
est sea. There is not an angel added
to the hosts of heaven but does it's
blessed work on earth in those who
loved it here. Dead | Oh, if the
good deeds of human creatures could |
be traced to their souce, how beautiful
would even death appear | for how
much charity, mercy and purified af-
lection would be seen to have their
growth in the dusty grave !" )