New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-09

| tho leather, presented Ms mana TO M
| Folder, and was in the act of soliciting 8
presentation to the ladies of his family, Will
tender Of his professional services to Mr.
Folder himself, when the party suddenly
left the courtroom.
Mr.. Folder fingered till he caught the
judges eye.
"God Almighty bless you, Judge; you
have done . good act. Ny wife asks if she
may bring the little girl to your house and
thank you and your familyi"
Certainly" said the Judge, "you know
she's ward in my court; wish to Gee
her."
Knickerbocker was baAaed, but not
beaten. He had recovered his assurance.
and stood secure in his position. "They
have oil the expense and trouble with the
girl" said he to himself, but they have
not got the cotton. l have taken out let
tors of administration ON the succession of
Emile Gaulon, who died unmarried, and
with NO legitimate heirs. think the pro-
bate judge, and the commissioner of claims
in New Orleans, have made all that safe.
will 60 back home, make al snug, and 20
to some country where they are not 90 id
particular - to mans past pursuits"
On the next vessel he returned to New
Orleans.
Soon after this occurrence q suit was
brought before the District Court of the
United States in New Orleans, in the name
OF Archibald Folder, tutor and guardian of
Eloise Gaulon, an infant, within the age of
twenty-one years, against Elihu Knicker-
booker. claiming to act a. administrator of
the succession of Emile Gsulon, deceased.
Tho conduct of this suit was committed
to Councillors Braxton and Gindrat, who
proceeded to search the registry of Births
deaths and marriages. for record evidence
OF the marriage of Pauline Dumoulin with
Emile Gaulon. and of the birth of their
child Eloise Gaulon. Some one had been
there before them; small squares had been
cut from the register at dates which cor
responded apparently with the four record |
facts they had hoped to establish. They next
visited the notary who acted for Gaulon.
He had been . registered enemy and had
left the city. Under permission from the
to whom he was recommended
from headquarters. he searched for the
both record and original docu.
ment. He found indications that the record
had been tempered with, but nothing
which established the facts desired. An.
toinette La Vallee had been an indefa.
;igsble and invaluable aid. She had
Known several of the Gaulon slaves. Thew
lad never doubt OF the marriage. The
leighbers visited and spoke of them a.
married. Aunt Hetty Wilson was q re.
pectsble garde malade or sick nurse. She
lad nursed Mime. Gaulon with her first
hid. She, with others, was present at the ,
marriage ceremony. It was performed by =
'sther Jerome ut the Church of the Ur.
ulines. Father Jerome had been trans ,
erred to Lima in Peru, where he died. l
hese witnesses could have saved the f
hild's honor and inheritance, but they
ere slaves. Their story must be sub. b
antisted aliunde, from the outside, az the 4
wyers haveit. Of the whites present at the
arriage some had returned to France, Il
me had gone to the war and never re- o.
rned. One of them, Pierre Surgi, was IL
Town to have been killed in battle a
But the girl had another etaunch friend d
'eides Antoinette La Vallee 1t was her v
mt, Mime. Zephyre Pursapg. These in
20 devoted themselves to the duty, An. ii
inette was domiciled at Nine. Zephvrs y,
} she had known Antoinette in other days u!
Q perhaps appreciated the interest taken &c
her in the family Of her benefactors. th
It la proper, lest the reader be misled by FL
mee, to say that Nine. Pursang was nj
no means what her appellation implied in
was of weight to substan- 70
to that it would have taken small Of
rricane to have moved her against her
Il. fiji
v. Agamemnon Pursang, the husband
Mime. Zephyre, and uncle of Eloise, m
uld have readily solved the diff on
ty by sending challenge to Knicker- m
,ker, to fight with small swords, but was ct
ormed that the wager of battle, as it III
walled in the age Of Charlemagne, was pr
admissible evidence in a modern court hs
Justice. IL
[nickerbocker had not been idle in the :.
ense. The military authorities had at ~:
erent times seized the newspapers, and -
ick had go sedulously attended to the
continent of the keepers, that when the Wv Wv
trictions were taken of, all the papers va
nted in French presented at the same
Q about q square cut out under the
ID of marriages, with similar coinci-
ICE of date and cuts under the head of n<
this.
! was known that Mr.. Braxton had OBJ.
led for Robert Gillaspey parole and r,
ve to see his friends. Those who knew
ut it said that old Butler was weakening.
ers said in the saloons that Bob Gil.
'ey had taken the ironclad, and had a
Q back on the Confederacy. Bob heard WI
remark from one fellow who did not 0o,
BAT it, owing, perhaps, to the defect in
culation occasioned by . sudden loss of W.
1t teeth. Amy way, away went Bob .on
aspey on return steamer, and was 90
edily forgotten. He carried sealed
ers from Mr.. Braxton, of counsel in the
lion case. "o
subsequently appeared that something W. ~.
} the following conversation occurred at W..
interview:
r. Braxton-YOu are from Tennessee. p0a
q act
oh Gillaspy-From Hawkins county, ~
{ Tennessae PEo