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The Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1870-1871, 1871-03-30
Portieth Days Session.
SENATE CHAMBER, !
Friday, February II, 1871.

line SENATE met pursuant 70 ADJOURN
ment
Present Hon. o. J. Dunn, Lieutenant Gov.
ernor and President Of the Senate. and Messrs
Anderson, Antoine, Barber Blackman, Bowman
Butler, Campbell COPELAND Daigie, Fish, Futci
Gallup, Harris, Herwig, Hunsaker, Ingraham,
McMillen, holland, OHara, Pierce, Pinchback,
Raglan, Ray, Smith, Swords, Sypher, Thomas
Todd, Twitchell, Whitney, wilco1-36.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
The minutes of the previous days ses-
sion were corrected and their reading
dispensed with
MESSAGE TO TIE SENATE
HousE or REPRESENTATIVES, J
Office of Chief Clerk,
New Orleans, February II, 1871.
To the Honorable President and Members Of
the Senate:
Gentlemen[ am directed by the
House to AJAX the concurrence of the
Senate in the following:
House bill No 210, an act creating q
commission to locate the site for State
House in the city of New Orleans, to
purchase the necessary grounds therefor,
and making an appropriation to pay fol
such ground to build . State House and
other buildings necessary for State pur-
poses and improving the same.
No 1873, an act to repeal IN act en-
titled an act to establish . Board OF
Publick Works for the State of louisa
ma, and to define the duties of the same,
approved September .. A. D. 1868.
No. 248, an act authorizing LAstie
Vincent to build . drawbridge ON the
Bayou Vermiion.
No. go, an act making an appropria-
ton for each representative of nexspa-
pers in the Snate and House of Repre-
sentativeS
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Yeas /: Anderson, Antoine, Bowman, Daiele,
Gallup, HunMker, Kelso, Lewis, holland 'Hara,
Pierce, Ragan, Wilcox-lS.
Nays Campbell, Coupland Eah Futch, Har.
MS Herwig. Ingraham, Lynch Pnchback Smith
Thompson Twitchell Whitney-la
Mr.. Nolan moved to reconsider.
Adopted.
The Senate refused to adopt the motion
after the main question had been or
dered.
Mr.. Hunsaker moved to lay the whole
bill on the table.
Refused.
Mr.. OHara moved to adjourn.
On call of the yeas and nays, the SEN
ate refused to adjourn by the following
vote
Yeas: Antoine Fish Kelso Lewis Plnchbeck
Sypher Thompson Twitchell Whitney,
Nays: Anderson Bowman Butler Campbell
COPELAND Daigle Futch Gallup Harris Herwig
Hunsaker Lynch holland O'Hara Piercr Raglan
Smith Wilcox-18.
The bill was then adopted as amend
ed
The bill was considered engrossed for
third reading.
The constitutional rule was further
suspended by . four-6fths affirmative
vote, the bill read its third and last time,
and finally adopted
The title was amended by striking out
all from Judicial Districts" to ''and pro-
viding," also striking out "and Par
ishes."
The title was adopted as amend
ed.
On motion Of Mr.. Coupland, House
bill No. SO was taken up, relative to iabi-
ities of depositariss.
Mr.. Whitney moved to postpone the
bill indefinitely.
The Senate refused to postpone.
Mr.. Lewis moved to adjourn.
On call of the yeas and nays the Sen
ate refused, by the following vote !:
Yeas Barber Whitney,
Nays: Anderson Antoine Bowman Butler
Campbell Coupland Fish, Futch Gallup Harris
Herwig Huusaker Ingraham Kelso Lewis Lynch
holland OHaa Pierce Ragan Smith Sypher,
Thompson Twitchell Wilcox-25.
The bill was considered engrossed for
a third reading.
The constitutional rule was further
suspended by a four-ffths affirmative
vote, the bill read its third and last time,
and finally adopted with its title.
Mr.. Harris, by consent, offered the fol-
lowing resolution
Reslued, That the finance committee
are hereby instructed to examine the
vouchers and accounts OF the Warrant
Clerk, and report what disposition has
been made of the appropriations made
to pay the mileage and per diem and
contingent expenses OF the Senate.
Adopted.
Mr.. Antoine called up Senate bill No.
30.
The yeas and nays were called on a
motion to indefinitely postpone, which
the Senate refused by the following
vote:
Yeas Campbell, Harris, Hunsaker, Lewis,
Lynch, Pierce, Pinchback, Raglan, Twitchen-
..
Nays Anderson, Antoine, Barber, Bowman,
Butler, COPELAND, Daigle, Fish, Futch, Gallup,
Herwig. Ingraham, Ksko. Nolsnd, Smith. Sy-
pher Wilcox-l7.
The bill was finally referred to the
Committee on Appropriations.
Mr.. Pinchback moved to adjourn.
Adopted.
The President then announced that
the Senate stood adjourned until the
Seventh instant, at twelve o'clock N.
CHARLES Il. MERRITT,
Secretary of the Senate.
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The public have lang desired the establish
ment Of q Mart, where all kinds Ct 8svrf
Aachinss and Sewing Machine Findings could
re and compare the workings d one nsehls
with another, and select from the diSs'sss
makes the machine best suited h. The sse ~
which they dsrsS e S app! it To su:n ...
no ~ Qptf N. s HEDRCK, General Agent
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E. W. PIERCE,
F. DAIGLE,
c. e. ANTOINE,
s. II. THONAN.

Mr.. Thompson, from the Committee on
Printing reported favorably with amend
mehts on Sennte bill No. ", bill to be
entitled an act to define the duties and
fix the compensation of the State Printer.
Mr.. Anderson, from the Committee on
Charitable Institutions, report back with
out action the petition of the Red River
Pilots Benevolent Association.
Mr.. Lewis, from the Committee on Cor
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o. D. BRAGDON,

STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Executive Department.
New Orleans, February 25, 1871.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of tn.
House of Representatives
Herewith I return, without my appro-
val, AN act to amend article nine hun
dred and fifteen Of the Civil Code, and to
provide for the descent of community
property in certain cases"
The rule to be established BY this bill
is subversive of the whole doctrine of in
hertance of the civil law. In 1874 the
Legislature passed law by which the
usufruct of the share of the community
property belonging to the heirs of the
deceased spouse, who had died intestate.
was given to the survivor. The object OF
the law was to prevent in future the dis
graceful litigation between parent and
child to which the settlement and discus
sion OF the community rights too often
gave rise. But this bill proposes a COM
plete change in the legal inheritance, by
substituting affinity in pace of Legitimate
consaguinity, to the exclusion even of the
father and mother of the deceased. 1t
seemst to be inconsistent with the whole
theory on which the doctrine of legal in
hefitance rests, for it places the irregular
in the place of the legal heir.
HC. WARMOTH,
Governor OF Louisiana
STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
Executive Department,
New Orleans. February n, 1871.
To the Honorable @. ". Carter. Speaker Of the
House of Representatives:
Herewith ! return, without my appro-
val, IAN act to amend and re-enact Sec
tons eighteen hundred and forty-eight
and eighteen hundred and forty-nine Of
tho Revised Statutes of 1870"
The law already provides for the in
spection OF beef and pork where either
the vendor or vendee desires it to be
done, and I can not sanction an act which
leviss tax Of thirty-three and one-third
cents on each and every barrel of beef
aAd pork hat comes to this CITY.
consider the act not only unneces-
sary. but unwise, offensive and ruinous
10 the commercial interests Of the CITY of
New Orleans
lam obliged to submit this short and
hasty message for the reason that some
person abstracted this bill from nv Of
Ace and kept it until this moment and I
am compelled to be bxief in order to
comply with the requirements Of the
constitution. limiting my time for con-
sideration Of bills to five days
1885, II C. WARIOTH,
s Governor Of Louisiana
To sE CONTINUED.
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A quorum present

A quorum present
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Upon motion of Mr.. Carr, Of DeSo&o
the reading of the journal was. post
poned
The Speaker announced the following
~ the special committee 10 whom was
referred House bill No. 26l, an act to
dissolve the corporation Known as the
Ship Island Canal Company, etc: Messrs.
Mortimer Carr, of DeSoto; A. w. Faulk-
ner. of Caldwell; J. S Matthews. of Ten
sas; Peter Harper, of St Charles; David
Young, Of Concordia.
MESSAGE FROM TIE GOVERNOR.
The Speaker laid before the House the
following messages from the Governor:
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Executive Department, :
New Orleans, February n, 1871,
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House Of Representatives:
I am directed by his Excellency the
Governor to inform your honorable body
that he has this day received, approved
and signed ''an act to regulate the mode
of trying cases arising under the pro-
visions Of article thirteen of the constitu-
ton of Louisiana, or under any acts Of
the Legislature to enforce the said article
thirteen of the said constitution, and to
reg ulate the licenses therein mentioned"
o. D. BRAGDON,
Private Secretary.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, J
Executive Department, :
New Orleans. February q, 1871.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House Of Representatives:
I am directed by his ExceNency the
Governor to inform your honorable body
that he has approved and signed
IAN act to appropriate the sum of two
hundred and fifty Thousand dollars, or
80 much thereof as may be necessary for
the payment of mileage and per diem Of
members, salaries of officers, and per
diem Of employees, and contingent ex-
penses Ct the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana.
An act entitled IAN act to amend an
act entitled an act to regulate public
education in the State of Louisiana and
city of New Orleans. and to raise o re-
venue for that purpose, approved March
l6, 1860"
Also, 'an act to create q board OF
State engineers ;" and Z
IAN act to extend the limits of the
corporation of the town of Minden, and
to give the corporate authorities thereof
the exclusive control of the licenses and
sale of intoxicating liquors within said
limits. and the disposition of the revenue
arising therefrom.
O. D. BRAGDON.
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF TIE
(CoN11NuAxcx or seth DAY. I

STATE OF LOUISIANA.
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tist, Vermihon, St Mary, Calcasieu, St
Landry, East Baton Rouge. Lafayette,
St Martin. West Baton Rouge, Avoyelles,
Rapides, Natchitoches and West Fehciana
The following is an extract from the
minutes of the proceedings of the State
Board of Education touching this subject,
BY which it win be seen that great care
has been exercised in order to that the
report to your honorable body be rs cor
rect as possible:
Honorable State Board Of Education, State Of
Louisiana:
GENrLKMKS-Y Your Committee on Claims
in submitting its final report. would res
pectfully state that they have completed
the arduous task of examing and pro-
nouncing upon the large number Of
claims which have been referred to them
by your honorable body. This report has
however, been delayed beyond the desire
of your committee by the difficulties they
have met in obtaining reliable information
in regard to such variety of claims
from all parts Of the State. Great care
has been exercised in deciding upon them
and the accompanying list is believed, BY
your committee, to contain only such
claims as are just and equal, and ought
to be paid ~ =, ~ G.
1t win be seen that they are principally
for services rendered as teachers, and are
due to class of people who can general
ly Ill afford TO lose the products Of their
honest industry. Many of them we per-
sonally know to be in needy circumstances
and that they and those depending upon
them have actually suffered by the nom
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There is a story of young lady, recent
graduate of school for girls, who had
worn the badge of the legion OF honor lone
of the rewards of the school), for four years
in succession, the first time such .distinc-
ton had been achieved in twenty years.
and which requires that the student shall
not have missed day, nor an hour, nor a
lesson, nor in any way received a black
mark during the entire year. This il
painful. The amount of self-control neces-
sary to have been absolutely perfect IN de-
pertinent for four years is enormous. Much
of the vitality and spirit which make per
petual youth the one thing to be desired,
much ofthe grace and archness and abandon
OF nature must have been mercilessly sup
pressed: 1t was the same kind of manage
ment OF self as that to which the true nun
subjects herself. We are heartily glad that
THIS is the hrst case in twenty years, and
trust that 1T will be the last one for hun
Gred years. Parents are largely responsible
for such an occurrence as this, but they are
Ioonsnly and cruelty ambitious for their
cnlidren. These rewards of merit are not
intended to produce suchsresults. They are
SIMPLY intended to help toward the govern
ment OF the school by developing gener-
GUS rivalry in the matter of behavior 1t is
not expected that they viii substitute for
human nature uaonastic uniformity or per-
lection, as they seem to have done in the
present instance.
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Total. 3Ol78 eI@2a 81 80 o5I e21z 81,
NIoltke to Edit a History of the War.

The Pail Nall Gazette says: The German
papers promise us an official account of the
war, which is to have for it's editor no less
competent a strategist than Count Moltke
himself. The staff officers of the various
corps are at present actively at work col
lecting the reports of regimental command
ers, who, as in the Austrian war, have been
required to keep diary of their operations
and experiences. The combination of these
numerous and all of them equally trust
worthy accounts, will exclude any posi-
hility of inaccuracies such as individual OBJ
servers are necessarily unable to avoid.
The most valuable contributions will come
from the departments of the military staff
attached to each corps and from the impe-
rial chancery. All sources having been
duly employed, separate regimental and
divisional diaries of exceptional interest
are also promised to be brought before the
public. So comprehensive task WILL of
course, occupy many months; it seems
doubtful whether, in spite of the number
and ability of co-operators, the book will be
ready for publication twelve months hence.
1t is confidently expected in Prussia that
the French military authorities will engage
in a similar undertaking, treating the mat
ter from their own point of view; so we are
likely to have two versions of the campaign
which cannot fail to be of the greatest in
terest to historical and military students.
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A Husband Prisoner.
7 Frem the Cincinnati Gazette. /

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 3l-About two
months ago it was announced in city papers
that the stomach of Peter Pofen berger, of
Madison county, who had been dead about
four years, had been brought to this city to
be analysed, on account of suspicion that
he had been poisoned by his young wife.
Poffenberger was about eighty, years old,
and the richest man in Madison county,
being worth $4,000. About eight years
ago he married young woman who was
suspectedaof being loose, and who subse-
quentiy HAD improper relations with re-
porter for the New York Tribune, who APP
peared on the scene while Pofenberger was
on his death bed, and was quite officious at
the funeral. Pofenberger's will left the
property to his wife, much of it IN her own
right, and the remainder in trust for their
two children. Mrs. Poffenberger subse-
quently married the reporter, who is now
banker in New York There was suspicion
of foul play for long time, and about two
months, ago Potfenberger's body was exc
humed, and the stomach sent to this city,
DR.. Wormly has just completed an analyza-
ton, and found. large quantities of arsenic,
and a requisition has been procured for the
arrest of the woman, who now resides in
New York. One of her friends has gone on
to notify her, and it is question whether
the messenger or the officer will arrive first.
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FROM AvOYELLEs PARISH.


AAkhsNlLLfs, August x, lcfi
EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
On Saturday last, the malconteDt Repub
icans of Ayoyelles parish held a conven
ton IN this place, and nominated two
delegates, to wit: Hon. j. M. Edwards and
Hon; Joseph D. Laurent, to the State Con,
yention to be held in New Orleans on the
ninth instant. A convention had previously
been holden, and delegates had been
chosen-I think Hon. L. j. Souer and
Charles +. Huesman-to represent Avoy-
Giles IN the State Convention; but it appears
that the friends of Lieutenant Governor
Dunn were not altogether satisfied with the
supposed sympathies and ideas of the last
named gentleman, and finding or forging
fault in the proceedings which termi-
mated in this deputation, they determined
TO lpick the flint and fire again. ! know
nothing of the real merits of this dispute,
and therefore 90 no further than to state
facts.
The village politicians of the Democratic
type, as general thing, approve and in
dorse the late departure, and through it's
invitations declare they discover hopes
frightening in the vision. Their micro
scopes have great power, their imagina-
tons a wide scope, and they speak of a
careerlng government, its true policy, and
the ultimate triumph of party as matters
=
to the eye of their intuitive wisdom and
prescienee. Our white friends are far bet
ter reconciled to Governor Warmoth's posi-
ton than they have been heretofore, and
the TACT is discoverable on every hand that
ne viii be strongly supported by them for
reelection as matters now stand. 1t were
useless TO speculate on the present demon
strations ofsa certain class of Republican
politicians, for think the chances are that
they will ere long discover the pretexts by
which they are now controlled to be in all
respects false lights.
IL has rained here every day for the last
ten days. The corn crop is almost uni
yersaliy failure in toto. The cotton plant
is very. young and small, its joints long and
stalk shanky. 1t is now beginning to put
forth its blooms, but the late rains have
caused it to she'd the forms profusely. The
ny OF the genuine caterpillar is abundant
In every direction, and it is now very evil
dent that unless all signs fail very little
cotton will be made. How are the planters
to get through with their embarrassments
under these circumstances There will not
be corn enough raised in this pnrish to feed
until the first of January next. There NAV
be an exceptional instance here and there.
OCCASIONAL. 4
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addressed and asked to interpose her au-
thority, and to declare that such abomina-
tions should end. Let it not be said that
the sufferings OF these hapless children
were occasioned by the poverty and neces-
sites of their parents. 1t was but too GER
tainly true-as Ihave myself seen in only
too many cases-that the avarice and GU
pidity of the parents had stifed in them all
the feelings Of natural affection, and these
little children were sent to slave in these
brick fields in order that they might min
lister by their earnings to the luxury and
rapacity of their parents The evidence of
the master bricklayer showed that per-
sons in the receipt Of three, four or five
pounds wages week send their children
to work in the clay fields for few shil-
lings, while the parents themselves are riot
ing in pot houses in every form of beastly
luxury. af6e
The Bishop of London-in whose diocese
are many of these brick fields-the Earl of
Morley and Viscount Middleton followed
the Earl OF Shaftesbury, and each disclosed
some new horror. 1t appears that the brick
fields are divided into sections, each worked
by separate "gang," 1.-the man at the head
OF it paying it. "A gang consists of two
strong men, one woman, and three chill
dren. Each gang is only strong enough to
carry out the work assigned to it, and if
gang has to stop work. The committee ap-
pointed to inquire into the state of the agri-
cultural laborers had disclosed the exist
ence OF an appalling amount of vice-but
great as that was, it fell short of what
might be seen and heard every day in the
brick fields. There was among the wretches
condemned to this toll IAN utter absence of
medesty, vice beginning at an age when
vice ought to be unknown, stunted frames
arising from Overwork and various indul-
gence, songs and stories of an improper
character, young women universally be-
coming mothers before they were wives,
and bringing up their children to the same
wretched fate to which they themselves had
been brought up long before they could be
considered responsible being" i
Lord Shattesbury's motion was agreed to,
and her maJesty-that is to say, the govern
ment-is consequently requested "to take
into consideration" the state of these
Good heaven "To take into con-
sideration'-th is'all. Perhaps, in seven
years more, 'her majesty" may find time to
recommend legislation in behalf of this
thirty thousand of her children. But more
important things just now claim the atten-
ton of the legislature. The ides of July
are at hand; grouse shooting commences on i
the twelfth of August, and the session must
end on the eighth. The Parliament has no
time to bother its head about the misery of
thirty thousand children; it is far more i'm
Dortant to spend night after night in debat-
ng the bill to give the ballot to the fathers
If those children, or urging bill appropri-
lting six thousand pounds year for young
Prince Arthur. ga
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Nile. Nilsson has shipped her lover and
her maid de compognie. Mrs. Richards, back
to Europe together, and has gone off with
only her maid) with Judge Stoughton and
From there she goes to Newport with them.
they having taken the Governor Gibbs
house for the summer. The story is, that
Mrs. Richards has been gotten rid of for the
reason that she is the person who made the
match between Mademoiselle and the Young
Frenchman who has recently been here, and
whom Mademoiselle does not now intend to
marry. So Madame Richards and the lever
were dispatched together, and Nilsson ia
gong to manage affairs herself now, ac-
eordlng to the approved American Plan
Nesp York Letter.
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limitations of American Watches.

The manufacturers of American watches
have had reason to complain of bogus for
eign watches imported into this country,
the plates and trade marks of which were a
good imitation. and the sale of which has,
in many respects, injured their. business
Congress, at its last session, enacted that
whenever parties engaged in manufacturing
watches in this country would furnish the
Secretary of the Treasury fac-simile of
their trade marks, the same should be sent
to the collectors OF customs throughout the
country, and they would be instructed to
refuse entry to any foreign watches assimi-
lating trade marks of American watches.
The American Watch Company, of Walt
ham, has complied with its part of the law,
which are accurately painted the trade
mark of all watches manufactured by it.