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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-24
No. 81.
AN ACT
Fog the relief of W. II. Vaughn.

WHEREAS w H Vaughn, State tax col
lector of the parish Of Morehouse, has
overpaid the amount Of taxes charged to
him for the year 1866, to the amount of
four hundred dollars, as shown per certif-
Gates OF the Auditor herewith nnezed
therefore,
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
Of Louisiana in General Assembly con
vened, That the sum of four hundred dol
lars be and the same is hereby Appropriated
out of any moneys in the treasury, not
otherwise appropriated, in payment thereof,
and that this act 20 into effect from and
after its passage.
(Signedj o. II. BREWSTER,
Speaker OF the House OF Representatives.
(Signed) P. b. s. PINCHBACK,
Lieutenant Governor and President Of ID
Senate.
Approved July i, 1872.
tSignedI H. G. WARMOTH.
Governor Of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
+. J. HRRRoE,
Secretary IT State.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-13
Now In Force.

The session of the Legislature late
ly closed, rendered the laws against
carrying deadly weapons even more
stringent than before. A bill which
became q law December 14th, 1871,
(section u provides 4:
That it shall not be lawful for any
person to publicly or privately car
ry a dirk, sword cane, Spanish sti-
letto, belt or pocket pistol, or reVol-
yer, other than an army pistol, or
such as are commonly carried and
used in the United States army, and
in no case shall it be lawful for any
person to carry such army pistols
publicly or privately about his per-
son in any other manner than openly
in his hands, and any person guilty
of violation of the provisions Of
this section shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor, and subject to present
ment, and on conviction shall pay a
fine of not less than ten or more
than fifty dollars, and may be i'm
prisoned in the county jal not more
than three months provided, how
ever, the court may commute the
Imprisonment altogether, and in
lieu thereof require the person con-
vieted 10 give bond, with approved
security, in not less than the sum OF
five hundred dollars, conditioned
that he keep the peace for six months
after such conviction
This is plain enough. Will the of
ficers of the law see to its rigid en-
forcement. Their sworn duty is
thus laid down:
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted,
That it shall be the duty of all peace
officers in the State, including sher-
ifs, deputy sheriffs, constables, CO.
roners, and justices of the peace to
| see that the first section of this act
be strictly enforced, and ii is here
by made their duty to report with
out delay any violations thereof to
the grand jurors of their respective
counties, and it shall be the duty OF
the grand jurors to send for witnes-
ses in all casses where they have
good reason to believe there has
been q violation thereof, and upon
satisfactory proof to make prensent-
ment of the same without q prosecu-
| tor.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That
the provisions of the first section OF
this act shall not apply to any officer
or policeman while in the actual dis
charge of his duties, nor to any per-
son who is on journey out of his
county or State.
Section gives the courts discre-
tionary powers relative to prescrib-
ing imprisonment.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That
nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to operate as pardon for
any offense heretofore committed.
but persons indicted or presented
for carrying dangerous weapons un-
der the laws now in force shall be
tried under said laws and punished
as therein required; provided the
courts shall have discretionarvpow-
ers in regard to the Imprisonment
for said offenscs
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-13
FREE SCHOOLS.

AessTS. Editors-It is feared by
some that as this question was made
a leading one by the defeated candi-
date for the Mayoralty, that it is
equivalent to a disspproval of the
Free School system on the part of
the people.
We trust that no such construc-
ton may be put upon it by the in
coming Mayor and Board of Alder
men. 1t could not have been so in
tended. The election turned upon
other issues, which it is unnecessary
to discuss in this connection. To q
close observer of the changes of pub
lie opinion, it is clearly evident that
the people are becoming convinced
of the necessity for free schools, not
for the poor alone, but suitable for
the accommodation of all classes.
Every consideration of public policy
demands it. Our city is on the high
road to prosperity, and is attracting
much attention abroad Very many
are considering seriously whether
they shall come among us, and prob
ably no more momentous question
presents itself than "What are the
opportunities for educating our
ehildren?" 1t viii be answered,
There are fine schools here-Jack-
son is noted for her schools. This
is all true. But in this utilitarian
age the question of cost is no trifing
one, and where one desirable immi-
grant is able to pay the charges
here exacted for the education OF q
family of children, twenty cannot
possibly afford it.
Mechanics are wanted here, and
factory operatives. Such persons
are not generally wealthy, and yet
they fully comprehend the need of
education. Nor will they locate
where they cannot obtain it, when
the whole Northwest, with its al
most perfect free school system, is
open to them.
AS our worthy Mayor has said, the
free school question is beset with
many dificulties," and further init
mates that, while it is generally ad-
mitted that they are a necessity, the
idea of allowing the blacks to have
educational advantages is repugnant
to the popular judgment. Is it
wise to meet the question thus? The
negroes are here-are filling an i'm
portant purpose in the community.
Can we get rid of them? Would we,
if we could? Clearly the answer to
both questions will be negative. If
then they are here, and are to stay,
must the whites be forever debarred
educational privileges because of it?
Are our Lawmakers not wise enough
to meet the exigencies of the occa-
sion? We hope so-we believe so /;
and, believing, we await their ac-
ton. G. w. G.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-13
ON 20 NashvIIIe.


/ About a year ago, the WING AND
TRIBUNE, speaking in regard to
, the extension of the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad from Hunt
ingdon to this city, took occasion to
tell its readers along the line that
road must run, especially at Spring
Creek, in Madison County, and La
venia, in Carroll County, that their
only hope for a railroad was this
Nashville and Northwestern extern
sion. Some of them did not like our
matter of fact manner of stating it,
and took us seriously to task about
it. We knew at the time that the
first road to be built, either to or
from Jackson, would be this identi-
cal road from Huntingdon. We
took occasion to tell such of them as
we conversed with on the subject,
why we believed this.
We were equally certain in our
own mind, at the time, that the sur
vey made by the Mississippi Central
road from this city to Mckenzie,
was not made in good faith, was not
made with a view of constructing
that road to that or any other point
in that direction, but for the pur-
pose Of draggooning the Mobile and
Ohio road into its measures; and
having accomplished its purpose, all
idea of a Northern extension of that
road is unceremoniously abandoned.
Our predictions in the past hav-
ing been fully verified, we now tell
our readers, with absolute conf
dence in what we say, that the
Nashville and Northwestern rail-
road will be extended from Hunt
ingdon to Jackson within the pres
ent year. The means are already
provided, and are in the hands of a
man who =" knows no such word as
fail" Col. E. w. Cole, the Presi-
dent of the Nashville and North
western and of the Nashville and
Chattanooga roads, is one of the
ivest and most intelligent railroad
men in America, and when he I'M
dertakes to put road through, the
work is more than half accomplish
ed; and we have reason to know
that he has determined to put this
road through from Huntingdon to
Jackson during the coming summer.
Trust US, gentlemen; we are, and
have ever been, devoted to the in
terests Of Madison county.
There is bright and glorious fu-
ture awaiting Jackson, if her people
are only true to their own interests,
in fostering and encouraging the
spirit of improvement now abroad
in the land.
The completion of the road from
Huntingdon to Jackson opens up
one of the richest and most fertile
sections of West Tennessee, to Nash
vile, and viii, if that city has the
sagacity and enterprise to enter and
possess the field, pour annually into
the Golfers of its merchants and man
ufacturers, more than a million of
dollars of trade from which they
have in the past been as efectually
closed as if they had been separated
as by an impossible gulf.
Our merchants and business men
have long desired to cultivate bust
ness and social relations with our
State Capitol, but the niggardly
policy Of the railroads over which
freights have had to pass between
the two cities, has heretofore acted
as q barrier. Now is the tide in
the affairs of Nashville, which, if
taken at the flood, leads on to for
tune"
y a
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-13
GENERAL NEWS.


Maj. Gen. Halleck, of the .. S.
Army, died in Louisville Tuesday
night, 9Th inst.
John Sherman has been reelected
q. S. Senator from Ohio, by the Leg
islature of that State.
The Illinois Democratic State
Central Committee unanimously en-
dorse what is called the "passive
policy" adopted by the Democracy
of Missouri.
By vote of Sc to q, the House OF
Representatives of the Missouri
Legislature the other day adopted a
resolution in favor of the one term
principle for the Presidency.
There is a serious political row in
progress in New Orleans, between
the radical factions in the Legisla-
ture. An expelled member, named
Wheyland, was shot and killed by
the police, last Tuesday, while en-
deavoring to shoot another man.
The end is not yet.
On Thursday Senator Conkling,
of New York, called up a joint reso
luton to limit the President of the
q. S. to one term. Lively times
at our house."
The famine in Persia continues,
and whole districts of country have
been depopulated by plague and
famine combined.
The Kentucky Legislature is just
now engaged in an animated discus
sion of the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad bill.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-13
Andy JOhnson's Friend.

The Raleigh North CaroliRian
says: "Neal Brown, in the seven
ty-second year of his age, died in
this city last Friday. They made a
mound in the City Cemetery, near
the tomb of johnson, the old father
of the ex-President of the United
States. When Andy johnson left
this city, a poor tailor boy at old
Mr.. Litchfield's shop, Neal Brown
went out with him for two or three
miles, and carried on his back, wrap
ped up in an old piece of carpet, all
the worldly goods that the poor tai
lor-boy then possessed. They shook
hands under an old tree three miles
from here, and separated. Andy be-
came Governor, Senator, and Presi-
dent. Neal lived quietly and work
ed hard. Andy Johnson never went
back on his little halter friend, even
when Andy was President"
The Mr.. Neal Brown here men
toned, has daughter now living
in Jacksonville wife of Mr.. Howell,
the boot maker.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-13
Jackson and Tennessee River
Railroad.
LEXINGTON, Tenn, !
January 8, 1872.

LEXINGTON, Tenn, !
January 8, 1872.
NeSSrS. -EditorS-As all of the
friends of the Jackson and Tennessee
railroad are acting in unison, it be-
comes necessary that they should
know what is being done in its be-
half On to-day the question was
brought before the quarterly court,
which adjourned over from last
Monday, there being twenty-one
Magistrates present "a majority of
the Magistrates of the county, when
it was unanimously voted to submit
the subscription to the people again
on the I'd day of March. The decree
has been so framed as to try and
meet every objection urged against
the former subscription by the OPP
ponents of the enterprise. The prop
osition now is for the county to take
stock to the amount of $65, 800 in
bonds, bearing 8 per cent. interest
per annum-" the interest upon said
bonds to be paid annually, and such
part of the principal as can be, by a
tax to be assessed each year by the
county court at the January term
thereof, equivalent to the tax as
sessed by the State upon property
and polls" The decree goes on and
specifies several conditions and re-
strictions, among which are the fol-
lowing (:
20 The bonds are not to be issued
until sum equal to that subscribed
by the county has been subscribed to
the capital stock of said Railroad
Company, by private individuals,
and work upon said road has actual
~ commenced.
"The bonds subscribed are not to
be sold for less than their full value
as expressed upon the face of each.
"The money raised by the sale of
said bonds shall not be expended for
work upon said road outside of Hen
derson county"
This seems to be fair and equita-
BILE, and meets many Of the objec-
tions of those who were bitterly
opposed to the former proposition.
The prospects are brighter. All
are buoyant with hope.
Respectfully, w.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-13
The Tive DrOnios.

The Bolivar Bulletin contains a
significant article in opposition to
the consolidation of the Memphis
and Jackson and Memphis and Boil
var roads, and the inference is al
most inevitable that the paper rep
resents the directors of the Memphis
and Knoxville (Bolivar) road. Sure
ly, this is unfortunate. No road can
be built from Memphis through Fay
cite county, either to Bolivar or
jackson, unless the two companies
be consolidated. The Fayette coun-
ty court has pronounced upon this
question. The road from Memphis
to Knoxville cannot be built within
ten years, if at all. The only practi-
cable mode of extending the road
through Middle Tennessee consists
in first building the line from Mem
phis to Bolivar or Jackson. If this
be profitable it viii be extended be-
yond one or both places by the same
or different corporations. A very
| few gentlemen and a small town,
though their potency be enlarged by
that of the Bulletin, must be con-
| fessedly great, undertake q mighty
task when they propose to bridge
| rivers and scale mountains three
hundred and sixty miles from Men,
phis to Knoxville. The world will
surely admire the pluck of Bolivar,
and earnestly urging the construc-
ton of the Bolivar and Memphis
road we have defined the only feast
BILE plan, as shown by the conduct of
| Fayette county, of connecting the
two places. We would not favor
the road to Jackson if this initiated
against the success of the Bolivar
line. Jackson, Bolivar, and Somer-
Vile and Memphis can be speedily
connected by cooperation between
the railroad corporations already
created. With consolidated resour-
ces, the roads can be built, but
not otherwise. They who would
have no road should advocate the
grand scheme to Knoxville. 1t is a
dazzling and proper theme for
grandiloquence, out people, what
ever a town may do, will not put
money in it. Bolivar and Jackson
should each build 8 line to Somer-
vile, and the rest is easy. The wise
action of the Fayette county court
demonstrates this fact. Neither
Fayette nor Shelby county will in
vest in the road till this absurd RI
valry no longer initiates against the
profitableness and success of schemes
of wise and unselfish railway-build-
ers.
Jackson does not mean to trouble
herself about the pettish humors OF
Bolivar and Memphis. Our new
Board of Mayor and Aldermen will
very speedily submit the question
to our people, whether or not they
viii subscribe 100000 to the Jack
son and Memphis railroad. 1t would
be treason to the interests of this
city to suppose for a moment that
the sum asked for viii not be grant
ed. Then Jackson will go forward
and build the road from here to the
Fayette County line. There it may
stop, for the present, but we hardly
think that Somerville and Memphis
are going to sit still long, and see
Jackson draw all the trade from the
northern or eastern portion of Har-
deman, and even portion of Shell
by. If they can stand it, we will
try and do so.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-13
supreme Judge.


To the Editors ofthe Union and Ancrican:
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 6, 1872.
in view Of the fact that at the next
biennial election IL viii be Hecessa-
~ for the people to elect q Supreme
Judge from East Tennessee to iii
the uuexpired term Of the Hon. T.
\. r. Nelson. who has resigned, the
vacancy only being filled by appoint
meut temporarily, would respect
fdlly suggest the name of a gentle
man who occupies distinguished
position among the members Of the
bar Of East Tennessee, and to
whom Is accorded. By all " no know
him the character Of q profound law
yer, aud mental and moral eud0w-
mcnts Of the highest order; who
possesses, not only genius, but the
rarcr attributes OIinIelilctual vigOr,
Independence Of mind, profound re-
search, and the most labOriOus in
vestigation. Being possessed Of an
impartiality that knows no bias,
coupled with an innate love OF JUS
ticc. and an instructive perception of
truth, he would certainly adOru the
Supreme Bench. ] auude TO Col.
James b. Cooke, Of Hamilton cOun-
~. II may not be inappropriate to
give . brief outline Of the history OF
I this gentleman 10 YOUR readers in
/ this section where hc Is, perhaps,
not so widely known, though lac is
no stranger 10 any section Of the
State.
Col. Cooke was born in the COun-
| ty of McAiiuH, and graduated with
! high hOnOrs az the East Tennessee
University at Knoxville. On com.
| ing 10 the bar he received from GOV
Neill 5. Brown the appointment Of
! Attorney General of hiss the Athens
Judicial Circuit, which position he
/ worthily filled, to the satisfaction o.
/ the people, for several wears. ant
/ whiCh he resigned to represent hi,
/ county in the General Assembly o.
! Tennessee, when, as chairman of tn,
/ judiciary committee, nc established
/ q legal reputation second 10 no Oni
j of his age in Tennessee. While in
! the late war, he zealously espouseJ
| the cause of the South. and com
/ mauded a regiment. which hc lc,
| with daring iutrepidity and gallant
! ny. After the surrender OF the ar
! mics, he accepted the situation, ant
exhibiting those high traits of char
acter which adorned him as
soldier, bravely went to work {,
repair his fallen fortunes, and re
Stunning the practice of his profes
sion as a lawyer, has ever since beer
engaged I'm its labOrs, until he la
attained the loftiest rank and to-da,
stands a gigantic oak-the peer o
the proudest of his legal brethren
| Such is the gentleman whom a hos
of the people of East Tennessee dc
| sire should be hOnOred with the } a
dicial ermine so nObly worn b,
! Judge Nelson. In the vigOr o
manhood (about fifty years of age
with the high qualifications spOkel
of, possessed of a spotless characte
for integrity, he could not prov
otherwise than acceptable TO TIA
| people of the entire State.
a MEMBER OF THE BAR.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-13
ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE.

On Saturday last, III the Grand
Central Hotel in the city of New
York, Col. James Fisk, Jr., one of
the wealthiest, most enterprising
and go-ahead, as well as one of the
most dissolute men of this dissolute
age, was deliberately shot down, in
open daylight, by a man named Ed
win Stokes. The story is long one,
but may be summed up in few
words. Stokes was the lover-so-
called-of a beautiful, but bad and
dissolute woman, named Mansfield,
whose affections or favors Fisk had
won by his superior wealth. Stokes
had availed himself of every other
means at his command to win back
the favors she had withdrawn, and,
falling, assassinated his more for
tunate rival. The way of the trans
grassor is hard. Now, if New York
has virtue enough to hang the as
sassin, that city will be well rid of
at least two moral blots upon its
fair face.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-13
ship Canal Between the Gulf OF
Mexico and the Pacific Ocean.


We obtained the following infor-
nation, relative to the above great
enterprise, from Col. u. Williams ::
Our Government, foreseeing the
great advantages that would result
to the United States, in the con-
struction of an inter-oceanic ship ca
nal which should open into the Gulf
of Mexico; made an appropriation Of
thirty thousand dollars to test its
practicabilitY, in other words, to
solve the problem of the water sup
ply for the summit level, the lowest
point in the dividing ridge and the
highest point of the canal between
the Atlantic and the Pacific.
In the fall of 1870, the President
of the United States, in compliance
with the law, sent three ships to
Tehuantepec, with three hundred
men, forty Officers, Engineers and
Surveyors. Two of these ships
were ordered to Nevatillan on the
Gulf of Mexico terminus, and one to
the Lagoons on the Pacific side.
The instructiops ofCapt. Shufeldt,
who had command of the expedi-
ton, were also to survey and test
the practicability of the harbors on
each terminus. The results of the
surveys made by this expedition,
not only demonstrated the entire
practicability of the harbors, but
that a supply of water equal to 1000
cubic feet per second can be deliver
ed on the summit level of the pro-
posed canal. This quantity is more
than sufficient for locking through
the largest class of ships.
Capt. Shufeldt says in his letter
to the Secretary of the Navy, dated
at euivatillan, April, 1871: at is
to me source of great qualification
to be able to say that an inter-ocean-
ic surface ship canal of any necessa-
rY dimensions may be constructed
across the lsthmus. Every inch of
the ground haS been gone over by
my own people, and every Observa-
ton carefully verified. The supply
of water is taken from the Rio del
norte, at point never before visit
ed for this purpose The surveys of
the harbors at the terminus are en-
tirely original, and in these three
points the problem is involved. The
satisfactory solution which we have
reached as the result of much labor
and anxiety demonstrates the prac-
ticGbility of this important work.
L make no estimate of its cost. 1t
will be dear in point of money,
cheap in point of American progress,
peace and prosperity"
Thus, of some half dozen different
Isthmean routes, between Mexico
and South America, the one be-
tween the Gulf of Mexico and the
Pacific, called the Tehuantepec, is
the first and only one that has been
demonstrated to be practicable for a
ship canal.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-13

Governor Palmer, of Illinois, has
evinced a greater degree of respect
for his oath Of office, binding him TO
adhere TO constitutional law, and
lOftier moral courage in inveighiug
against infractiOns of local rights by
the central government, which seeks,
in accordance with the philosophy Of
Morton. 10 absorb supreme power,
than any leader of the Republican
party. He dares do this in State
in which the Radical party boasts of
an overwhelming majority, and
while il Is commonly asserted that
the Republicans viii have two can
didates for the Presidency in 1872,
We do not understand why the most
fearless OF those who have revOlted
against the central despOtism is not
the peer Of Trumbun in popular es-
timatiOu. Moreover, Gov. Palmer
has been consistent. II hen a candi-
date for the Office he now holds, he
promulgated the principles sincere
duced TO practice. If the election Of
straight Democrat be impossible,
as was commonly asserted some time
ago. the sincerity of Gov. Falmcr's
devotion TO the constitutional free
dom of States cannot be questioned,
and Democrats would nos hesitate in
pTeferring him 10 Grant De0L.