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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-31
DEBATES IN THE SENATE.

The following debate took place yester
day in the Senate upon the bill to appro
pirate money to supply deficiencies in the
appropriation to tax collectors:
Senator Ingraham-As l understand it.
TINS is deficiency bill. The Auditor of
Public Accounts finds that, in settling with
the tax collectors throughout the State,
there is not q sufficient amount of the an
preparations, made last session, to cover
what Is required to be paid the tax collect
ors, and he takes the position that he has
not the right to issue q warrant on the State
treasurer unless there is an appropriation
made by law. The appropriations are ex-
hausted. These parties have not been paid,
and he comes before the Finance Commit,
tee, and the chairman Of the Finance Com
mlttee reports this bill, making an appro-
prlation OF $4,000 TO cover the deficiency.
so he can settle finally with the tax collect
ors as they may present themselves at his
office. move the bill be put upon It's see
Ond reading.
Senator Barber-I would like to know,
before voting, II this bill makes an appro-
prlatiOn of money to be taken from some
special fund And if it does, can we legally
60 it
Senator Iugraham-Tbat is not my IN
of the bill
Senator Barber-There is the school fnnd
for instance
Senator ngrabam-Tbere is a certain
OF the tax collectors that
comes ont Of the school fund; also out of |
he interest fund and the general fund. |
and, as a matter Of course, we have to |
make appropriations from each fund for the |
mount Of the tax collectors fee. For in !
taoce, IL requires from the school fund two
7 Uhree thousand dollars to settle with
hem, and from the interest fund E few
thousand dollars, and the same from the
eneraI fund. This is in accordance with
sage and custom, that these amounts be |
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diem and pay Of the members, officers, en-
ployes and contingent expenses of the Gen
era1 Assembly for the extra session of De-
GGee5maber, 1872 and Of the regular session Of
The resolution was taken up and read
and ordered to lie over under the rules.
On motion of Mr.. Ingraham the Senate
voted to adjourn till Monday at the usual
hour.
The President then announced that the
Senate stood adjourned till Monday, Deem
Der 30, at twelve o'clock NJ.
CHARLES II. MERRITT,
Secretary of the Senate.
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No +.
AN ACT
To punish the crime of briber,

10 punish the crime of bribery.
SECTION /, Be it enacted by the Senate
| and House Of Representatives of the State
| OF Louisiana, in General Assembly CON
vened, That if any person shall directly or
indirectly give any sum Or sums of money.
or any other bribe, present or reward. or
any promise, contract, obligation or securitv
for the payment or delivery of any money.
present or reward, or any valuable thing. 10
obtain or procure the opinion, verdict, iudg-
ment OF decree Of any juror or iuries Of
any KIND, or Of any judge or Judges of the
State OF Louisiana, in any suit, controversy
matter or cause depending before him or
them, and shall be convicted, such person
or persons, so giving, promising, contract
ing or securing to be given, paid or deliv-
ered, any sums OF money, present reward
or other bride as aforesaid, shall. ON con~
Vlctl0n before any court of competent inris-
Qlction, be fined not less than one hundred
dollars nor more than one thousand dolIars
tor each otfense, and imprisoned at the dis
cretlon OF the court, not to exceed twelve
months for each Otfense, and the iuror
Judge or judges, who shall in any wise ac,
cept or receive any such bride. on cony;c
ton thereof, shall be fined and ynnr Tgnnlcl
at the discretion Of the court, and shall he
forever disqualified from holding anv Office
under the State Of Louisiana.
SEC. :. be It further enacted. etc Tba+
II any person or persons shall directly nr
indirectly promise, offer or give, or cause
or procure TO be promised, offered or oivan
any money, goods, rights or valuabIcs brjbe
present or reward, or any promise. con,
tract or understanding. obligation or seen
f!ty Tor the payment or delivery Of aDv
goods, rights, bride, present or re- |
ward, or any other valuable thing whatever |
70 any member Of the Senate or House If |
Representatives of the State of Louisiana |
alter his election as such member and |
5hhef before or after he shsI |
nave qualified and taken his seat
1r to any officer of the State of Ton;ais 800
whether such officer be State Office -
)afochIal officer, a municipal officer and |
whether such officer be legislative ere s,.l"
I'VE, judicial or ministerial. or in The d.
harge OF any official function under or 10,
with any department Of the % ,.o ~
7 fhi 90 OF the State Of Louisiana or rE5Jo,
ne senate or House of Representafivea n
ne ne otate OF Louisiana, after the passa@o of
MS act with intent % influence s1cb ~
eE Or senator or Represeutaiya j.. H., IA
,stoh @ my question, matte, aanse ~
locgeoI18 which may then he peESin% VI VI
Jay py law or under the constitnt;69.,, ~ ~
ne state Of Louisiana TIE b rongbt IofoO OF
IN IN hls official capacity, or in his D mieoe
trust OF profit, and shall thereof hae coz
l't@s. apch pegeoD or persons 80 of Fe GOn-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-31
Regular Session of 1872.
AN ACT

AN ACT
For the relief Of the heirs of the late ]. TT.
Wisner, Sheriff of Ouachita parish, and
Tor the relief of his deputy, Henry H.
DobsOn.
WHEREAS, His Excellency FL. C. War
moth, Governor of the State of LOU 5iana
nd, on tho tWenty-second day of ,JnIy
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, cause 70
be published his proclamation offering d re-
ward OF one thousand dollars for the ar
rest and conviction Of one T. 3. Beavers
charged with the crime Of murder; and
whereas, j. II. Wisner sheriff of 0uach' q
parish and his deputy, Henry G.. r sbson,
did arrest the said I. b. Beavers
curing much trouble and expense; t.,
Whereas The said Beavers, after "a a~
animation before the Hon. Robert Lsv,
parish judge Of Ouachita parish, was con
mltted to jail on the charge of murder: ana
Whereas, The said jail was soon after
broken open, the sheriff and one OF the
principal witnesses in the Beavers case
were murdered, and the said T. Il. Beavers
rescued from jail by Z mob Of unknown
men; therefore
SECTION |. Be il enacted by the Senate
ana House OF Representatives of the State
OF Louisiana in General Assembly convened.
That the sum Of one thousand dollars be
and IS hereby appropriated out of any
money ID the treasury, not otherwise aD-
propllated, Tor the purpose of refmbursing
and compromising the heirs and legal rep,
resentatives Of J. Il. Wisnel and his deputV.
II. G. Dobson.
SEC. 2. BE it further enacted, etc, That
this act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage
(S1gned) o. II. BREWSTER,
Speaker of the House of REPRESENTATIVES,
(Signed) P. b. S. PINCHBACK,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate
Approved May 10, 1872.
(Signed) II. G. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
F. J. HEBRON,
Secretary of State
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NO 2.


Extending the time of the extraordinary
session OF the General Assembly.
WHEREAS, The proclamation of his ex-
cellency the Governor of Louisiana, conyen-
ing the General Assembly in extraordinary
session December 9, 1872, limits the term
thereof to the period of ten days: ard
Whereas, Subjects referred to the General
Assembly by the respective messages Of
Acting Governor p B. S. Pinchback demand
immediate attention and action, and for
this and other necessary purposes arising
from the revolutionary action Oh H. c. War
moth and his abettors at Lyceum Hall
make an extension Of the session beyond
ten days necessary; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives. of the State Of Louisiana,
in General Assembly convened. That the
present session OF the General Assembly be
and is, according to the provisions of the
law by which the same is convened. thereby
to and including the first Monday
IN January 1873, at twelve o'clock NJ, IN
less the business on hand being finished.
said General Assembly should adjourn at
an earlier day; and that this Joint resolu-
ton shall take effect from and after the ap-
prevail of the Governor.
(Signed1 CHARLES W. LOWELL.
Speaker OF the House of Representatives.
lSigned) A. B. HARRIS,
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the
Senate.
Approved December IS, 1872
(Signed) 2. b. S. PINCHBACK.
Acting Governor Of the State of Louisiana. |
A true copy:
Z. B. MEETZ,
Assistant Secretary of State.
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no. =.


To establish dditiOna, .-.- net court for
the parish tr'eane- IT, .s-ale and limit
the jurisdiyt. @l determine the
powers thereof. " .lue for the trans
fer Of certain cases now depending before
certain other district courts for said par
ish to the court hereby created, to au-
tborize the Governor to appoint a iadge
and a clerk for said court, and to provide
a court room for said court; to abolish the
Seventh and Eighth District Courts for
the parish of Orleans, and to provide for
the transfer of the records and suits in
said Seventh and Eighth District Courts
SEeEoN l. Be it enacted BY the Senate
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-31
7aIt, Tureaud, Williams, worthy,

Stewart. Tureaud, Williams, Worthy,
Nays-Armstead, Antoine, Bowman, Bry-
ant, Blanchard, Connaughton, D. c. Davis,
r. R. Davis, Dayries, Greene, CAN'T Hetf-
ner, Hahn, Heath, P. Jones, Heating, Mar
tinet RodIigues, Sartain, Snaer, Southland,
Sutton, sewell, Washington, Young-25.
No quorum voting, the House, on motion
of Mr.. Demss, of St. John the Baptist, adj
journed until tomorrow at twelve o'clock NJ.
WILLIAM VIGERS,
Chief Clerk.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-31
No. g.

GEORGE 2. I5OVEE,
Secretary OF State.

JOINT RESOLUTION
Providing Tor the appointment of joint
committee on the conduct of the late
election il the State of Louisiana,
Resolved, by the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the State of Louisiana,
in General Assembly convened That
joint committee Of three from the Senate
and five members from the House be app
pointed respectively by the President of
the Senate and Speaker Of the House to IL
vestigate the conduct Of the late election
in the State Of Louisiana, with power to
send for persons and papers, and to admin
lister oaths to witnesses, and that the return
ing board be requested, III aid to said joint
committee, to submit for its examination
the originals or copies of all papers, state
ments, documents or other evidence Of any
kind in their possession on the subject.
(Signed) CHARLES w. LOWELL,
Speaker Of the House of Representative.
(Signed) A. b. HARRIS,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved December q, 1872
(Signed) p. B. S. PINCHBACK,
Governor Of the State Of Louisiana,
a true copy
GEORGE E. BOvEE.
Secretary OF State.
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Avs OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
AN ACT

| AN ACT
| Relative to the office of Attorney General,
| and directing the discontinuance Of Ger
| tain proceedings before the Supreme
| COURT Of the United States.
| SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
| and House OF Representatives of the State
| of Louisiana in General Assembly convened.
| Whereas, The Hon. A. P. Field has been
| duly promulgated as having been elected
! to the office Of Attorney General of this
| State; and, whereas, such PRONUNCIATION is
by law made evidence of title to said office
against all persons until after judicial deCi-
slOn adverse to the same; and, whereas the
said Field has been duly commissioned as
the Attorney General of this State; and.
whereas, other persons are claiming to re-
present the State of Louisiana in judicial
proceedings. That the said A. P.
Field, and his legal successors, and those
acting under him or them be alone au-
thorzed TO institute or continue in the name
of the State of Louisiana any suit or Judi
Cial proceeding, and all other persons are
prohibited from doing the same, provided
that nothing herein shall be construed to
prevent the executive of the State from di-
recting the institution of any proceeding in
the State courts which in his opinion his
duty as executive may render necessary.
Sec. 2 Be it further enacted etc, That
the said A. 2. Field is authorized and in
structed to discontinue any and all pro-
Ceedings instituted in the Supreme Court of
the United States by Il. n. Ogden or any
other person in the name of the said State
SEC. 3 Be it further enacted. etc, That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
tSigned) CHARLES W. LOWELL.
Speaker Of the House of Representatives..
(Signedj A. 3. HARRIS,
President Of the Senate, Acting Lieutenant |
Governor.
Approved December 10, 1872.
toignedl P. b. s. PINCHBACK.
Lieutenant Governor, Acting Governor Of |
the State Of Louisiana.
4 true copy:
GEORGE E. BOvEE,
Erora+a,,,r aF S-o+a
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s4etr 0Fttalts 8epublita1t,
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
EXTRA SESSION
THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

STATE OF LOUISIANA.
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL
LOUsE OF REPRESENTATIVES
EXTRA SESSION
Sixteenth Days Proceedings.

STATE OF LoUIsEANA
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LVt6VIttW, IHaU inc EIHftHU8 JOWIIILte %
and are hereby instructed to prepare and
report by bill, making all Auditors war
rants outstanding December 81, 1872 inter
est bearing at Eight per cent per annun, and
also provide for the redemption of said out
standing warrants By creating fund of
twenty per centum Of all moneys received
IN the general fund, which fund shall be
used to purchase latter paying interest on
the outstanding warranty from time to
time, not oftener thar once in every ninety
days, as the Auditor and Treasurer may, by
sealed proposals. advertise IT, purchase.
Be IL also res0lced, Thai the Finance Com
mittee also report, by bin an alu prohibit
ing the issue by the Ar6 on of any W.. rr;,at
or warrants on ard after faDnary /. 1873,
unless there be money in the State treasury
to pay said warrants on presentation: pro
Yided, that warrants shall be issued by the
Auditor "a payment of the mileage, per
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-19
BRATTLEBORO, VT, FRIDAY JULY 49, 1872

lake of Titicaca we find the remains of n
civilization analogous TO thakof Copan, but
more purely Egyptian and Assyrian, and
holding relation of priority TO the religion
ofthe Incas, like that ofthe ruins Of Copan to
the Aztec line Of the Montezumas. The
highest type OF the crania of the ancient
races of Peru suggests strongly the head of
the mound-builders before given. The
principal deity of these sun worshippers of
Peru appears TO have been Chon, answer
ing in name and attributes to the old Phe-
niclan Baal-chon, or Saturn.
Passing norlhward, and leaving behind
those colossal monuments which excited
the wonder and admiration Of Humboldt,
we follow the high valleys of the Cordiler-
as through Central America, and coming
out in the valley of Mexico, with its tenn
pies and teocalli, we arrive at the great
pyramid of Cholula, the eliminating point
of the entire mound building system of the
two-coutinents. From this point north
ward, following the gulf of Mexico and the
Mississippi, we arrive at the pyramid
groups of Cahokia, opposite what is now
ST. Louis, the site of the ancient capital of
the mound-builders of the present United
States. The mounds of the United States
must be looked at as the northern terminus
Of system which had southern centre
and tendency. Working northward, being
pressed upon by the nOmads of the north
west TO cover and protect its agricultural
civilization, it was forced into the building
of earthworks, serving the double purpose
4 r
of affairs would leave the northern mound
builders little leisure or inclination TO
build on the vast scale of their southern
brethren, even could they haye command
ed the material and the laborera The east
crn Asatics of Central America appear TO
have arrived there with n sufficiently pro-
nounced civilization of their own, to be
able to modify the monuments of more
cultured race by the interfusion of their
own ideas and symbols, uniting with them
TO build those colossal and bizarre speci-
mems Of architecture so perplexing when
viewed as the product of one people.
The mound builders of the United States
had no such plastic material in the wild
nomadic tribes of the north, by whom they
driven southwark. In these crcumstanc, y
they appear to have taken possession of II
central point near the junction of the Miss
issippi and Missouri rivers, which they
held with great strength, throwing out
their lines of Notifications along the affiu-
ents of these rivers. At the headwaters of
the Ohio their lines of defence met a kind
red system of Notifications, which held the
afiluents of the Chesapeake and the region
south of Lake Ontario, from its military
centre at Onondaga, thus covering and pro-
tecting the important agricultural civiliza-
tion OF central and western New York.
Within these lines of defence, between the
Mississippi and the Atlantic, was embraced
region in which traces of a truly vast ag-
ricultural civilization are found, and which
must have reckoned its inhabitants by
Millions GALAXY for July.
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A rustic youth visiting Nashville for
the first time, the other day, mlstook the
elevator in hotel for a bedroom and got
half undressed before the machine started.
He ascended in terror, and roared out as
the second story was reached, Earth
quake! o Lord have mercy upon me-"
There Is something more than daily
ferry now between Europe and America.
In fact, the rate is something like a steam
er for every twelve hours from the port of
Liverpool alone. During the month of
MAY, fily-three steamships left the Mer-
sey, of which thirty-four came 30 New
York, eight to Boston, eight to Quebec and
Montreal, aud three to Halifax, Norfolk
and Baltimore. Seventeen of these belong
to the Cunard Company, eleven to the In
man, Ave to the National, five to the White
Star, ten to the Allan, and six to the Guion
Company, respectively. When to these are
added the ships OF the French and German
lines, we get some idea of the prodigious
increase of late In steam communication
between the continents. More than thirty
two thousand people were brought to A
merica from Liverpool alone during May
an increase OF nearly five thousand over
the number for May 1871, and total in
crease since January, over the correspond
ing period of last year, of eighteen thous-
and. These figures are full of Significance
with reference to the future of the Repub-
lie.
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THE .uOU.SD.RUILDRRS.

There is universally received tradition
among the natives of New Spain, of for
eign Atlantic colony arriving before the
Christian era on the shores of Florida, pro-
ceeding across the gulf of Mexico, landing
on the Peninsula IT Yucatan and founding
great cities now in ruins, the greatest of
which was destroyed thousand years be-
fore the arrival of the Spaniards. Con-
firmatory of this landing of foreign At
lantic colony, is the statement of Montezu-
ma to Cortez that the ancestors Of the Mexi-
cans came as did the Spanlards, from the
place of the rising sun.
Passing down the Atlantic coast, and fol-
lowing up the great valley OF the Amazon
to the headquarters of its afiluents near the
Pacific, we come to the city of Cuzco, and
the vast remains of the sun-w worshippers OF
Peru, in the high valleys of the Andes.
Upon the shores and Islands Of the sacred
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-19

Cocoa NUTs.-The United States import
three or four million cocoa nuts every year.
This number is large when compared with
the trade twenty years back but it gives
us little idea of the luxurious growth of
this fruit in intertropical cimes. There are
said to be two hundred and eighty miles of
cocoa-nut trees along the coast of Brazil
Malabar, besides supplying home demands,
exports four hundred million of cocoa
nuts annually, besides an equal value of
copperah, or dried kernels; and there are
seven million cocoa-nut trees ia Trayan-
core. AS for ourselves, we import these
nuts almost wholly for eating, as a pleas
ant fruit, and give from twelve to eighteen
shilings per hundred for them they come
mostly from the West Indies and Guiana.
The milky liquid contained within the nut
is also pleasant to the taste. The oil ex-
pressed from the nut is, nevertheless, be-
coming more important than the fruit as
an edible. Even the Fiji Islanders, occu-
pying tiny spot in the great Pacific, man
age to press out several hundred tons of oil
from their nuts, and to export 1t in Austria
lian trading ships.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-19

QUIcKsILvER.-Grace Greenwood has
been to Santa Cruz and seen the process of
collecting quicksilver, of which there are
rich deposits there. The process Of reduc-
ing the ore, or rousing the latent mercury
from its sleep of a million or so of years, is
very interesting and easy of comprehen-
sion, even to a woman, when patiently and
pleasantly explained, as 1t was to her. 1t
is simply burned out of house and home,
or its dull old body perishes by cremation,
that it may appear in glorified form, to
shine and serve in thousand beautiful
ways. The ore is put into furnaces, each
holding fifteen thousand pounds and hav-
ing in one end the fire, which is kept up
for about three days. The vapors from the
heated ores pass from the furnaces through
small apertures like pigeon holes, into con-
densing chambers, on the cool walls of
which the globules of mercury form and
glide at once to the floor, whore they COLI
lect in little cutters and flow out into little
troughs which convey them to an iron
cauldron, from which they are transferred
to the wrought-iron TASKS in which they
are sent to market. Each flask contains
seventy-six and half pounds, aud is
worth forty dollars.- Golden Age.
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Poetyy.
~ LITTLE uy.sI..

A little way-I know Il is not far
To that dear home where my beloved are;
And yet my faith grows weaker, az I stand
Apoor, lone pilgrim in a dreary land,
Where present pain the future bliss obscures.
And still my heart sits, like bird, upon
The empty nest and mourns its treasures gone;
Plumed for their flight.
And vanished quite.
All! me, where is the comfort9-though say
They have but journeyed on little way!
A little wAy-at times they seem so near,
Their voices murmur at my ear;
To all my duties loving presence lend,
And with sweet ministry my steps attend
And bring my soul the luxury Of tears.
Twas here met, and parted company;
why should their gain be such grief TO mel
This sense Of lossl
This heavy crossi
Dear Saviour tax G the burden of, pray,
And show me heaven is but-a little way.
These sombre robep, these saddencd d faces, an
The bitterness, and pain, Of death reeaiI;
Ah, let me turn my face where'er may.
see the traces Of sure decay;
And parting takes the marrow out of life.
Secure in bliss, we hold the golden chain,
Which death, with warning snAps In twain I:
And never more,
Shall time restore
The broken links ;-'twas only yesterday
They vanished from our sight-a little wayi
little way this sentence 1 repeat,
Hoping, and longing, to extract some sweet
To mingle with the bitter From Thy hand
I take the cup cannot understand,
And in my weakness give myself TO theel
Al though it seems so very. very, far
To that ear home whore my beloved are,
know, know,
II is not so
Oh! give me faith to feel II when cay
That they gone-gcne but little way!
Hours al Home.