New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-25

THE COURTS.
Eighth District COurt-The Great Jefferson
City Improvement Case.

Eighth District Csurt-The Great jefferson
City Improvement Case.
In the matter of the State on the relation
Of H. H. ROmine against j. K. West, Ad-
ministratOr of improvements, Judge X.
King Cutler will conclude the closing argu-
ment on the part of the relatOr tomorrow.
This case involves an amount exceeding
$2,OOO, 900, arising from obligations incurred
by the late City Of Jefferson for the i'm
provement Of streets and avenues.
The public are deeply interested in the
ease, not only on account of the amount in
vOlved, but the great public improvements
contemplated in the Garden District OF the
city.
Sixth District Court.
Ernest Merle Vs. Antoine Dubuclet ct al.
In this case the following petition has been
filed:
To the Honorable Judge Of the Sixth District Court
parish Of Orleans:
The petition of Ernest Nerle resident of
the parish Of Orleans, respectfully repre-
sents that Antoine Dubuclet, Thoney Lafon
and Roman Brugiere, of New Orleans, are
indebted in sOtido to petitioner in the sum of
1924, with legal interest from judicial de-
mand, for this that petitioner is the holder
and owner of certain warrants drawn by
James Graham, State Auditor, in the name
of the State Of Louisiana, ON Antoine Du-
buclet, State Treasurer, in warrant 1904. for
$1,000, and warrant 792, for $2,638. Total,
$3,63S, in amount thirty-six hundred and
thirty-eight dollars, as will appear by war
Represents that the twentieth day of Sep
tember, 1870, there was money in the treas
ury of the State of Louisiana sufficient to
pay said warrants, and on that day, early in
the morning, petitioner made the first ap-
plicatiOn to the said Dubuclet for
payment of the same. Represents that
the said Dubuclet refused to pay
the warrants presented by petitioner, on
the plea that one of his clerks had made a
prior application, and accordingly las he
alleged) would and did pay the said clerk
the whole Of the sum then in the treasury,
amounting to thirty-seven hundred dollars,
to the great injury of plaintiff, and in viola
tion of his right as the first applicant, the
statement of the said Dubuclet not being
correct as to the prior application Of the
clerk; and if it were, petitioners rights can
not thereby be affected, as Dubuclet's clerk
can have no greater right than Dubuclet
himself, and no public officer can he allowed
to take advantage of his position to pay
himself, claims against the State, purchased
by him for purposes Of speculation or for
other selfish ends, or through his subOrdi
nates to secure the payment of warrants
to conciliate favored applicants who are
derelict in the presentation Of their claims
Represents that petitioner has suffered a
loss by said illegal act of said Dubuclet of
nine hundred and twenty-four dollars, that
sum being the amount petitioner would
have realized on the aforesaid warrants,
had they been paid in accordance with law,
and in the discharge of his official duties,
by the said Dubuclet, in which sum he and
his sureties. on his official bond, the said
ThOney LafOn and Roman Brugiere, are
liable in solidO Premises considered, pet-
toner prays that Antoine Dubuclet, ThOney
Lafon and Roman Brugiere be cited to APP
pear and answer. and after due proceeding,
they be condemned in solido to pay petitioner
the sum Of nine hundred and twenty four
dollars, with legal interest from judicial de-
mand, and for costs of suit, and for general
relief.
Henry c. Brown VS.. city of New Or
leans.-In this case petitioner AYERS that the
city Of New Orleans is indebted to him in
the sum of SS7Sl Ia with interest, from .jll-
dicial demand for this:
Petitioner. in pursuance of resolution No.
1898. and in confirmation of the adjudica-
ton and sale made to him by the Controller
did, on the first day of March, 1869, enter
into certain contracts with the city for dig
sing, widening, deepening and cleansing
out the following drainage canals: The
Broad street canal, from the CarOndelet
canal to Esplanade street; the Broad street
canal, from Esplanade street to the Mar
igny canal; Orleans street canal, from Clai
borne street to the Bayou St. John; Clai-
borne street canal, from Esplanadc street
to Orleans street.
Petitioner represents that the city of New
Orleans hagrantly and illegally violated
the stipulatiOns of the contract. That
during the execution of the work, neither
the London avenue nor the Orleans drain
ing machines were kept running, and that
in consequence of the accumulation of
water in the canals, petitioner was obliged
to employ extra hands to perform the work
at a great additional expense. Petitioner
shows that he protested against the stop
page of said drainage machines, and has in
vain sought redress from the city authori-
ties. He asks jud gment against the city for
the amount first above named.
The Mississippi Valley Navigation Com-
pany of the South and West.
We would call the attention of steamboat
barkeepers, liquor dealers, restaurateurs
and others; also steamboat BARRIERS, steam
boat porters and others, to the two adver-
tisements Of this company, in this day IS
paper, by its general agent, Benjamin
Bloomfield, Esq. 1t is the determination of
this company to have this boat now build
ing at the yard of James Mack, Esq, Gin
cinnati, Ohio, ready for business this season,
and as she is to be a thorough double engine,
low pressure boat, patented hull, patented
steering apparatus. patented wheels, and
her hull divided into compartments, she will
present to the public one of the safest steam
hot for nd hot
ever tloated. She is to be in every respect
and arrangements one of the most superb
steamers that ever landed at our wharves.
The mode of living on board of this boat
will be on the European style-ordering
and paying for what you order-and her
accommodations for passengers will be
superior to any thing yet in the steamboat
line that has ever been attempted.
This company will Immediately build two
for three more boats on the DeIIaven plans,
panies have applied to purchase the patent
rights (of which the Mississippi Valley
Navigation Company have exclusive con-
troll for the purpose of hereafter building
their boats on these plans. This accounts
for the marked improvement and demand
or the stock Of this company.
Neither the din of war nor the confusion
of political conventions should be allowed
to interfere with those peaceful pursuits of
life on which the fortunes of the people are
in good degree depending, and among
their peaceful pursuits is the Louisiana