The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-06-11
w.. :. 4 +. RAILROAD.

we are indebted to the New York
SUMS New Orleans correspondent fol
the following information concerning
the present status of the legal proceed.
ines in the railroad case:
Your former correspondent also re-
fers to the decree of the United States
in the suit OF jackson and Others Of
Georgia agt. The Vicksburg, Shreve-
port and Texas Railroad Company,
John II. Labelling and others. This
decree ordered the defendants to sur
render possession of the railroad and
account for all moneys, &C., received
by them during their administration Of
it-that is, from Feb. ) 1866, to the
date of surrender.
am now able to report the present
status of this case. In the month of
March last the United States Circuit
Court, Judge w. Il. Woods presiding,
ordered defendants to account, and APP
pointed John w. Green, the engineer
OF the OLD company, as receiver Of the
property, and 1t is now In his possess
ion. Labelling 4 Co. rendered their
account II few day ago, and it is now
being examined by the counsel for the
plaintiffs. They claim between eight
aud nine hundred thousand dollars for
expenditures on tho road over and
above their receipts, and the road Ia
said to be in II worse condition than
when they took possession of it in 1866.
That is to say, they want to be made
whole, as If they had committed no
fault-as il the Supreme Court of the
! United States had not pronounced the
sale of 1866 ga gross fraud" In the ac-
count they have rendered to the court
they allow no credit for the proceeds
of the bonds received by them from
the State of Louisiana in 1868 and 1869
I-l,l22 at $1,000 each-$l, l22, 600.
These, it seems, they regard as u gift
to themselves individually. As Il mat
ter Of course the account will be OBJECT
cd to by tho plaintiffs, and when the
honest people of Louisiana get control
of their own Government-which 1
think is now in near prospect-it will
DO for them to investigate the doings
of our past Legislatures, and to inquire
by what right and under what princi-
pie of law these bodies undertook to
make this donation-a donation fer
which tho State received only so many
shares ,22O, I think) in an imagin-
airy stock OF $6,OOO,OOO based upon Il
railroad, the title to which was in liti-
CATION on the ground that 1t had been
fradulently taken from it's owners.
Chief Justice l.udeling still sits upon
our Supreme bench, and dispenses
what he calls justice while he stands
branded by the highest tribunal in tho
land as mere swindler. It is one
thing gained that tho public records
will hand his name down to postcrity
as II warning and II beacon to members
Of the legal profession. His friends say
that he Is deeply mortified by what he
cal l., In hnr D., I'm III In hn.,
been handled by the Supreme Court OF
the United States but it is difficult to
believe IL when he aifrOnts tho whole
community by continuing to sit in her
highest court IA the presiding Judge
thereof. Is there no shame among
these people?
Boston has had its whistle, and now
it is cndcavoring to pay for it. IT was
II big whistle, nothing less than u. =.
c., and, ia the language of the immor-
tai Bellnap," the rest of u.s." The
hub put its whistle in tho Revere
House and amused itself with Il four
days. Now tho bill, item after item,
comes in, and Boston stares 1t rather
awkwar'lly in the face. For feeding
and lodging Mr.. Grant for four days
there is Il charge Of 1920. Jewell, Bah
cock and Wilson cost only $40 per
diem each. DrlanO, whom the country
in general as we'll as Boston in pnrticu
lar has found unusually expensive, was
rated at SIS per day. The cigars and
wines consumed by the illustrious par
ty are rated ut $l3G %, and 80 % was
charged for bringing the Presidential
trunk from the depot.
Babcock, i'm the laudablc cnleavOr, no
doubt, to dilute his 1t little, left II water
faucet running in his room, and result
ting damage of 500 was charged up
against his entertainer. One little
item, reading with commercial
terscncss, "To banquet, to President
Grant and party-$10OO," is now Il
good deal harder to swallow than tho
viands were. Strawberries was cf1arg-
ed up at 50 80 per quart, and ~ 80 was
mentioned as the cost of poseys which
emitted their grateful perfume for the
dclcctatiOn of the Presidential Olfac-
tories. For the rent ofa picture to
hang in the Presidents room $50 was
charged, together with ST. for it's in
surance against loss by fire. There il
II homcly ndagc which tho hub must,