New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-13

Details of Louisiana Census-Subcom.
| mittee of the Southegn Outrage Com.
| mirtee-Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations Report Progress on the
| Treaty-Weather Synopsis and Proba.
| biIities.
| WASHINGTON, May 12-The census table
! for Louisiana shows 30l ,450 whites, 1863, ,O67
| colored, 500 Indians and 2 Chinese, all born
| in the United States, and 81, 1927 of foreign
| birth, the latter nearly all white. The birth
| places of the colOred people in Louisiana are
! as follows: Alabama 973S, Arkansas 1885,
California 3, Connecticut l2, Delaware 80,
Florida o26. Georgi SO95, Illinois 60, Indiana
| ~, Iowa 9, Kansas l, Kentucky COOS, Louis
| lana 263, 1856; against 237, ,453 whites, as fol-
| lows: Maine %, Indiana 54S5. Massachusetts,
| 60, Michigan 8, Minnesota SO, Mississippi
1881, Missouri 1913. New Hampshire 3,
New Jersey %, New York I7S, North Caro-
lima 5237. Ohio lS6, Pennsylvania 157 Rhode
| Island 8, South Carolina 704S, Tennessee
4l27, Texas 1885, Vermont 5, Virginia 81 ,6OS,
| West Virginia IS, Wisconsin 10, District of
| Columbia 459.
Number of citizens white born in Ger
| many, 1888; France, 1886; Ireland.
II ,06S; Italy, 1889; Spain, 1l30.
1t Is understood the subcommittee of
seven OF the outrage committee will sit at
| Washington to take testimony.
| tions reported progress examining treaty,
and, after appointing committee TO inves-
tigate the premature publication of the
treaty, adjourned to Monday.
Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, in
message to the Legislature, urges compen-
satlon to the border counties for injuries
inflicted during the war.
Weather Report-SynOpsis for the past
twenty-four hours.-The pressure and ba-
fat
weather on the Pacific coast. The barom-
eter is falling in Western Nebraska, and is
rising on Lake Superior. The weather has
remained generally partially cloudy and
hazyl with gradually diminishing pressure
and Increasing temperature from Missouri
to Pennsylvania, .and Inorth and eastward
clear weather has prevailed west of the
Mississippi cloudy weather from Kentucky
south and eastward. The lowest barometer
is now in Georgia. Very heavy rains fell
during last night at Key West, Florida, and
from Georgia to North Carolina light rains
have extended during the day to Mary
land.
1t is probable that by Saturday morning
the storm prevailing in the Southern States
will have moved northeastward. with light
rains and winds on the middle Atlantic
coast. No serious disturbance is appre-
hended in that region. Fresh winds and
cloudy weather will probably prevail during
the day on the lakes.
Senator West, of Louisiana, is here
A dispatch received at the State Depart
ment from Minister Washburne, dated Paris
April 70, states that on Thursday preceding
he had received letters from the archbishop
of Meyre, the chanoine of the diocese of
Paris, the vicar general of Paris, and from
members of the metropolitan chapter of the
church of Paris, all making stirring appeals
to him. in the name of the right of nations,
humanity and sympathy, to interpose his
good offices in behalfof Monseigneur Darboy.
the archbishop of Paris, now in the Mazas
prison of Paris as hostage, by order of the
commune
Believing that by doing what he could to
ameliorate the condition of the imprisoned
archbishop, he would be complying with
the feeling of our government and CARRYING
out the wish of the Secretary of State, Mr.
Washburne put himself in Communication
with General Ciuseret, who appeared to be
the principal director of the commune, and
applied to HIM, not in his diplomatic ca
pacity, but simply in the interest of good
feeling and humanity, to see if itswere not
possible to have the archbishop relieved
from arrest and confinement
General Cluseret replied that it was mt
a matter within his jurisdiction, and how
ever much he might like to see the arch
bishop released he thought, in consideration
OF the state of affairs, it would be impos-
sible. The archbishop was not arrested for
crime, but simply as a hostage as MANY
others had been. Under the existing cir
cumstanees he thought it would be useless
to take any steps in that direction. Mr.. |
Washburne being under the impression that
the government would not dare in the ex-
cited state Of public feeling to release the
archbishop.
Mr.. Washburne told General ClIserst |