Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-07-19
AUGUSTE POHN,
G.. c. ANTOINE,
ARISTlDE MARY,
GEORGE Y. KELSO,
DIR. L. C. ROUDANEZ,
CHARLES B.THOMPSON,
w. NJ. RANDOLPH.
THE POLICE JURY.

Il writer in the last Democrat over The in !
that paper, sOmewh at familiar signature |
of Bayou Ptnuf, attaG ks the Police Jury of |
this parish or at lie ast a portion the Re
publican portion of them, which we should
not even notice, exc, pt that he himself the
redoubtable Bayou seuf, who assumes the
to personify the intelligence and integrity
of that section of Ral,ides renowned for its
intelligence and int egrity, has furnished
us with (metaphorica ]ly) stick to break
his own head, an ant idote to the bane with
which he has attemp ted to poison the pub
Lie mind against us, and an opportunity OF
showing the unjustn ess and contradictory
| character of his effusi on.
The whole commui licatiOn in fact is in
tersperced with error NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
from first to last, VIII ich we do not care to
| noticeas the animus Of the thing is eu
dent to every one, for after severely AMI
madverting upon tn g. action Of the whoie
Jury, respecting tn, bridge at Robinson's
Store, he specially exonerates Messrs.
Smelling am Osborn, from all blame as re-
CARDS that or any otl Ter iniquity perpetrat-
| cd, or designed by { .he rest of the Jury,
| and now we will let our stick fall, and adj
minister our antidote in the shape of a GER
| tifcate from Mr.. Osb, I'm, the member from
the Alexandria Ward and one of the high
" eulogised and omplimented couple,
| showing that the 9th, n one, Mr.. Smelling, is
principally responsib lie, for any thing OBJ
| iectionable, not to use the harsher term
suggested by Bayou 80df, as to the action
taken respecting the Robinson bridge, the
contract for building, mot repairing) which
is not yet let out and perhaps never wiu
be.
AIExAND RIA, July 10th 1873.
/ hereby certify tn; It the President of the
| Police Jury, at its asst meeting was OPP
| posed to making liy appropriation for
| bridge purposes, that he vacated the chair
and spoke against it, and that the appro-
priation made for the. bridge at RobinsQn's
Store, was effected en- tirely by the influence
of the member from Bayou Beuf.
I JAMES w. OSBORN.
This disposes of til bridge case, and now
| let us proceed to consider the Levee one,
and see if Bayou Beu has not again leap
ed little too far Def; IRE be looked. At tie
time that Red River was at its highest
stage, during the late rise, Mr.. j. L. Cor
neNa, the Levee Syndic, in Ward No. 2,
wrose to the President of the Police Jury,
inquiring whether he was authorized to
call out hands to repair a weak place in
levee and construct a small piece of new
one, to save large section of country
upon Red River and Bayou Beuf from be-
ing inundated, and whether such hands
would be entitled to pay for their labor
from the Parish. The President of the Po-
lice Jury consulted the Parish Attorney,
and on his authority eplied to Mr.. Cornell
la, in the affirmative ;. and in consequence
advocated the payne mi, or partial payment
of these claims before the Police Jury, and
succeed in having the IN passed, and Bayou
Beuf or any other honest man, would
have done exactly tn; :, same thing
Such then is the ba seless foundation on
which Bayou Beuf hi IS attempted to build
up vague and un substantial charges
against portion of Ile Police Jury of Ra-
pides, charges which notwithstanding his
disclaimer, we know, were made from pure.
Iy party spirit. The, Police Jury at its
last meeting was emit rely underth control
of the two gentleme N, SO highly trusted by
Bayou Beuf, and if any thing was done
which did not meet hi approval, he ought
to call them solely TO account for it instead
of specially exoneratil lg one of them, who
it is proved was the thief cause of one Of
the most Objectionable e ordinances being
passed, the Robinson bridge one so often
referred to. Another ime we will 90 into
the history of this mon e fully. Bayou Beui
says that he writes lot as a partisan OF
through prejudice, well we are glad to
know the fact from So oh good authority, as
we certainly should never have guessed ii
from his saying or d ping either, if we are
correct in our surmis es as to his identity
and must attaibutes his last Outbreak
as one of the natural consequences OF tn
oacoethes sGibendi fit under which he ha!
been for some time Ia boring.
4, The HO befulls.