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"REPUBLICAN AT ALL TIMES, AND UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES."
VOLUME 2. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, JANtJARY 25, 1872. NUMBER 11.
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P'ROPECTUS
OF THE
Ia the endeavor to establish another
) riei3 journal in New Orleans,
fe proip",Jrfes of the LoUimELZrA ,
poe w4,1 " nfcesiity which has
ber 'an, d sometimna painfully
to ,sat In the transition state
twart'ple, in their struggling efforte
f st,.fl that position in the Body
i.d. which we concEivf to be their
& ;(;! rcgarded that much infor
e, guidanei, encouragement,
Lnei r prodf have been lost, in
ilInce of the lack of a medium,
)' a Mich thesgedeficiencies might
rib d. We shall striveto make
L,; l.Nmvimi a desideratum in these
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POLICY.
v ,r motto indicates, the Lot,
SNhHall be " R"Inablican at a!'
; In'deridI circumst nces" We
1. ,.ti the sceurity and enjoy
:' ri.ul ir it liberty, the abso
e h1i1Aity of all noin before the law,
an IunpIrtial distribution of hon
eI1 patrodIge to all who merit
Of allaying animoeities, if
':" the memory of the bitter
ir 'noting harmony and iunion
I lassg and between all in
-, lhll advocate the removal
s..'IAl disabilities , foster kind
frearance, where malignity
-:tieint reigned, and seek for
1 jistice where wrong and
provailad. Thus united in
.i l djecte, woshall conserve
intirest, elevate our noble
in inviable lx)mition among
: " -", by the development
"t Li I resources, and secure
fit Of the mighty ehangei
t irv :;ml condition of the
( uintry.
t there van be no true
th' supremawy of t~,
a'triit antd unliecrimi
tati nj (if justice.
1xATrION.
I ct the duoetrine of an
(iof t~axation amoug
initia collection tif tla
vin the expenadi
u ywith the exigeaa
orCountry aud the
iv ry legitimate obligia
ll( 4ATION.
1 ini the. carrying out oi
*f ti t ne at establsiuiaag
Iiio iiyi~stm, and urge
it Ity the education iii
J ly eonnected withi
ti ionent. and the SIPu
of a IRepublicaan
I IN AL.
** .minily, independent
huct, we shall itrivi
1' r. from an ephs a.
r * a ~ ry existence, enil
* *i ;Lis, that if n,
~O~4lier a'iq Ntationea,
CaANAL XThEET,
TiI H UOKMIOB' Al UAL  ESSES
ContinuMd from our Last.
BrAn of LocIKAnnA,
Executive Department.
New Orleans, January 1, 1872.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Re
prescntativoe of the State of Louisiana :
I, therefore, recommend the immediate
passage of a bill authorizing the levy and
collection of a tax for the support of the
free public schools of New Orleans.
The report of the State Superintendent
of Education, which shall in due time be
presented to the Geueral Assembly, will
be found of great interest, and will give in
detail the facts which justify the statements
and recommendations herein given.
The reports of the State Auditor for
this and the previous years, together with
the reports of the State school authorities,
show that large amounts of money have
been lost by the loose and inefficient man
agement of the school lands granted by
Congress for educational purposes, and
known as the sixteenth sections. From
these reports it is apparent that new legis
lation on this subject is imperiously de
manded, if these valuable resources are to
be eaved to the State. The matter naturally
belongs to the State school authorities,
and an enactment authorizing them to
take the stops requisite for ascertaining
the present condition of those Lands, and
for enforcing the elaims of theschool fund
against the purchasers of each seetions as
a have been sold, is the most feasible mode
of protecting the interest of the State in
that valuable grant.
i oIsLATiv5 WLU'rNSEs.
I respectfully call your attention to
the fact that the extravagance of the
Legislature at its last session has pro
duced a most noticeable sensation
throughout the State, and has given
the opponents of the government the
means of sowing distrust and producing
the greatest dissatisfaction among the
people. The last session is knowu to
have cost the State, for the Senate,
- $191,763 85, and for the House of Re
presentativoen, $767,192 65-an average
cost of five thousand three hundred
dollars for each Senator and seven
thousand three hundred dollars for
each member of the House, or an av
erage of over six thousand eight hun
dred dollars for each member of the
entire body, or of one hundred and
thirteen dollars and fifty cents per day
for each member during the session.
It is necessary that I should comment
upon this sal'ject with a view of bring
ing the evils to yourattention, in order
that you en-ty guard against them in
the future. A careful calculatipn of
the expenses of the General Assembly
for mileage and per diem, even at the
enormous rate of twenty cents per
mile, each way, shows that the total
expenses ought not to exceed $100,000
for the sixty days of the annual session,
and the legitimate contingent expen
ses of both houses ought not to exceed
$25,000. Then what has become of
the excess 8433,956 50? It has been
squandered by the officers of the As
sembly iv paying extra mileage and
per diem of members for days' service
never rendered; foran enormous corp
of use-le-s clerks, pages, etc., for pub
lhshing the journals of each house in
:ifteen obscure newspapers, some of
which have never existed, while some
of those that did exist never did the
work they we ezuployed to do, il
though eve*"y 'n'et has received the
compensation for it; in paying com
mnittees authorized by the House to sit
during vacation and to travel through- ,
out the State and into Texas, tend in a
hicucared other difterent ways. The
enrollment corumittee of the Hou~se
hand over eighty clerks, most of whom
were under pay during the whole
session at eight dollars per day, during
which time only one hundred and
twenty bills were passed which did
utet require more than eight or ten
clerks te) perform the whole labor of
enretl~lmieit.
Permit me to suggest that neither house
has any right to spend the puhlic money
:er purposes for which the law has already
provideed. The publication of the journals
*om the General Assemnily being provided
eter by the printing law, it, was not com
Ipetent for either house separately to di
r-ct and pay for such enervices. It is not 1
legitimastely a part of the contingent ex- a
pesses of either lhoese.
I well also venture to lay down a pro- 11
:osution which I believe tie he sound poli
cyas well as good law. The constitution i
liaits the session of the G-eneral Assembly
(cC sixty days. Botbh imuses must adjourn
a*the expiration of this time. Ciin it ino
the face of the constitution continue itso
*xistenee for a longer period, even by the 1
jeint action of both houses ? Then if ito
enui not for a longer period, how much
less can either house, ctuing separately, I
continue the existence of s part of its ii
hody during vacation ? I am clear im my sa
convictions that neither house can authorize h
one of its eommittees to sitduing vacation ei
witheat the conenet of the other house, el
with the approval of the Governor, orj ci
I without having passed a joint resolution
to that effect over his objection by the
constitutional majority. Hence it is that
the action of the House in continuing five
or six committees in session after the ad
journment was not legal, even if the re
solutions said by the Speaker to have
been, had been legally passed. I will not
discuss the question of whether they did
a pase the House, for I do not believe the
d House was competent to give any such
e authorization. A committee can only be
authorized to sit during vacation by an
it act of the Legislature, properly approved
e in accordance with the constitution.
u I state these bcts to suggest the remedy.
n I recommend the passage of an act fixing
a the compensation of members, the rate of
mileage and amount each member shall
r be paid; the number and character of the
ih officers, clerks and employee of each house,
, and their compensation; defining what
e shall be considered contingent expenses,
, and limiting the amount for each house;
y the abolishment of the office of warrant
I clerk, and providing that the members
i shall be paid in warrants drawn by the
Auditor, as is customary in all other
. claims against the State; that vouchers,
o accompanied with the bill of articles, on
y showing the character of the services ren
dered, by what authority they were pur
chased or employed, shall be filed with
the Auditor as his vouchers, and it shall
I be his duty to scrutinise and examine the
I bills to see. that1.they are in accordance
s with the law. It is believed, after a cars
5 ful calculation, that one hundred and
t twenty-five thousand dollars is amply suf
ficient to pay all the expenses of a sixty
days' session of the General Assembly.
The bitterness which existed at the in
- auguration of the present administration
t has, I am happy to say, entirely disap
t peared. and perfect tranquility now reigns
throughout the State. No one is molested
on accoant of his political opinions. A
few personal diffculties occur now and
then, perhaps, but they are incidental to
any society, and are not attributable to
political differences.
Our criminal laws, except in the city of I
New Orleans, are enforced with commend
able promptitude. The disposition of 1
jurors, with few exceptions, to convict 1
individuals charged with offenses against 1
the law, was never more manifest than
now. Punishment for crime idminis
tired to offenders with certainty and se
verity.
In the parish of St. Landry, where in t
186i3 a large number of colored persons I
were killed for differing on political ques
tions, but a few weeks ago two young men,
both white, were convicted and sentenced
to the penetentiary for life for attempting t
violence to a colored woman, notwithstand
ing she did not enjoy the best reputation.
Att e same session of the court, out of
fourteen crtminal cases tried, but one I
prisoner was acquitted.
In the parish of Dedoto, white prison- t
ers have been most severely punished for r
violence, and injury to colored people. So
it is throughoutthe State. Justice is meted
out with an even hand to all alike, giving
the strongest evidence of the healthy tone
of society, and the purpose of the people t
to secure equal protection to all, and to
insure the honest enforcement of the law. r
With this happy condition of affairs, t
we must look to the reformation of the
many evils and abuses that have crept into
our administration. The subject is one
that cilia for your most careful considera
ion and promptitude of action :
1. 1 recommed to you the modification c
of the registration law, in reap et to the
appointment of registrar. and their com
plensation. The law should require them [
to be residents of the parishes for which
they arr appointed. They 'should be
ineligible to ar.y other office while they
are in the discharge of their duties as re
giatrar, and their compensattion should be
rd lueed and paid, together with that ot
coniiniasioners of election, by the parishes
in which they serve ; and on the subject
of registrattion ant election I repeat my
recommendation of the last session.
r* he disrgrd of the rights of franchise t
evinced in many localities in the 8tate in a
18658 induced the Legislature of 1870 to
resort to the medt stringent measures for
the people. The violent rancor of that is
period having now given place to a more
liberal and just acknowledgement of the
true relations of all our citizens, I com
mend to your consideratton the modifica- 14
lion of the registration and election laws
to an extent that, while securing the o
inalienable rights of all, will make the n
usage under them lees irksome and exact
ng to the few."
2. The election law should be so modi
fled that the expenses of holding elections
shall be borne by the parishes, and that
in the city of New Orleans the city itself
shall besr the burden.
3. I recommend that the State Registrar ei
ofrvoters, who ispractically the~uperviaor a'
of Registration for the city of New Orleans, sj
he paid by the city the salary allowed that di
officer. t
4. 1 recommend that all fees allowed the 4
Auditor of Public Acouonts, amoacnting,
it Is believed, to about twenty-five thou- g
sand doilsua per annum, he collected by el
him and paid into the State treasury to the ,4
credit of the "ingerest tax had," to be at
esaployeda smpepag the ktsers and pita- .
clpsiofcour debt
n 5. That the act giving the State Ires
i urer two thousand dollar per annum se
I receiver of money. on public lasde be
e repealed. To receive thse moneys is
- legitimately a part of his duty as Stab
Treasurer.
a 8. That the clerk of the Pirst District
t Court for the parish of Orleans be paid a
I salary of six thousand dollars per annum
a by the city of New Orleans, and that he be
i allowed no fees from the State or city
a other than the salary for his services. The
i fees of this office amounts to an enormous
I sum per annum.
7. 1 recommend a careful revision of
the laws relative to easts of clerks, shseri,
justices of the peace and constables. The
f fees under the present laws "a so oe
l mously high that in many insanees they
work a denial of justice. It should be
made the duty of the judge of the court to
t examine and approve all fee bills before
they are paid, and to declare the office of
any sheriff or clerk vacant on detecting
t overcharges of costs.
8. I call your attention to my remarks
on the subject of bribery in my last annual
message. It is as follows:
"I ask your attention to the bet that
there now exists on our statute book. no
adequate penalties against the crime of
bribery. This defect should be remedied
by appropriate legislation, which I sin
cerely hope the wisdom and patriotism of
your honorable body will promptly devise.
I am in receipt of insfrmation of acts of
bribery on the part ef public officials, but
owing to the defect above named in the
law, I am without the means of bringing
the offenders to justice, or stopping the
mischief. It has become a crying evil,
and, if suffered to go on, will destroy the
confidence of the people in government,
and seriously endanger our liberties and
highest interests. I hope that the General
Assembly will enact some law on the sub
ject, providing adequate penalties, and
placing it in the power of the Governor to
prosecute with vigor and promptitude all
persons offering bribes, and officials re
ceiving them."
9. I recommend a reduction in the com
pensation given for assessment and col
lection of the taxes of the State; that the
two thousand dollar. paid country tax col
lectors for listing the property be reduced
to three hundred dollars each; that there
be a board of four State assessors for the
city of New Orleans, at a salary of five
thousand dollars each, who shall make the
assessment on the property of the city
for the State; that the board shall also fur
nish a copy of the rolls to the city, which
shall, with such modication as the city
way make, be its rolls on which its taxes
shall be collected, and that the Adminis
tr.ator of Amessments of the city of New
Orleans be constituted ex officio president
of the board.
10. I also recommend a modification of
the printing law, by which the expense of I
printing the laws and journals in the
country newspapers will be saved and
that the price paid for printing be mate- I
rially reduced. By such an act one hun- I
dred and fifty thousand dollars can be I
saved annually.
11. That the Metropolitan Police law be
repealed, and an act paused organising I
the police der a system similar to that e
in force on adoption of the present, e
reducing their expenses to four hundred i
thousand dollirs per annum, remitting the
financial department to the city of New 1
Orleans, and limiting the Metropolitan i
district to the citice of New Orleans and E
Carrullton. C
12. The passage of an act giving to the t
city of New Orleans entire control of feed- t
tug prisoners confined within the parish ,
prison of Orleans. The expense is now a
enormous, and can be greatly reduced if t
the city government is empowered with a
the controL s
13. The act passed at the last session t
relative to a statehouse should be re- i
pealed, and the purchase of land on which f
to build a capitol should be annulet t
14. The institution for the education of
the blind should, for the present, be dis- g
continued. The State has no building
for the accommodation of the pupils, and
too few pupils to justify the expense of t
the institution. It ls now simply an
asylum, and if the inmates whese fami
lies or relations are able to maintain them
c
wcre disnmiased, there would be but very
few dependent upon the charity of the
State. The unfortunate people remain
ing should be provided for elsewhere.
15. Chief constables should not be al
lowed other compensation than the fees
they receive for the service of summons
of the execution of writs, etc., except when
called into active service by the Governor.
16. Thateach parish judge be paid by c
the parish in which he resides and acts,
that in this way the State treasury may be
relieved of the expense.
17. I recommend that the act providing
an annual salary to the aecretaries, assis
taint secretaries, clerks, sergeants-at-arms,
etc., of the General Assembly be repealed,
and that these offiers and employees
shall receive only such daily compensationa
during the sesaion as heretofore paid. In P
this manner you can save caght thousand
dollars per annum. a:
18. I here reiterate my recommendation a
thet an act he pesmed providing that all SI
charter. of raihond companies granted by a
,he tibte be regieslad. By so dating we 0
ahell release ourselves from the nominally Ii
condmgsmt debt of over twelve millieus of S1
aO a AL zaw aNSW asDw 0aaus.
" The assure eagoymesm of lis, liberty,
* reputation and property, and the pears
s and good order of society, depend upon
a the just, prompt and eMoient administra
tion of the criminal law for the prevention
Sanda punishment of crime. and conaes.
There is a universal complaint of the fail
Sreof justice in this department of the
Slaw in the city of New Orleans. I would
respectfully call the attention of the Leg.
s Islature to this sabject, in order that it
r may provide the remedy necessary to cow
rsothe eviL
f The population of New Orleans, in its
prspent extensive boundaries, including a
v r large foating population for the dif
thret states of the Union sarib!eatossigp
/ countries, is probably not lees than three
hundred thoussad persons.
It is obvious that one criminal court is
insufficient for the prompt t and dis
r posal of all the crimes and offenses com
! mitted in such a community. Previous
to the war, the then Attorney General
I suggested to the Legislature and exp
l dieney of creating two courts for the trial
and disposal of crimes offenses; one to
b hay jurisdiction in all cases of misde
º meanor, and another in all cases of felony,
r or crimes punishable by death or imprison
I ment in the Penitentiary at hard labor.
The suggestion was unhappily not then
r acted upon. That which was then expe
dient is now absolutely necessary for the
safety and well-being of society. The city
of New Orleans, notwithstanding adverse
circumstances, has advanced considerably
in general prosperity and in the number
of inhabitants. With the increase of popu
lation crimes have multiplied.
There are now six Recorders in the city.
Supposing each Recorder to send upon an
average one case every day to the Criminal
Court (a reasonable supposition if they
discharge their duty), the number of cases
to be disposed of every month would be,
exclusive of Sundays 144. It is manifest
that such a number of cases, and some of
them cases of the gravest character, .asnot
be properly tried or disposed of by one
court. I would therefor recommend the 1
creation of an additional Criminal Court
as above suggested; the adoption of this
recommendation will not entail increase
of expense, as the number of civil courts
in the city of New Orleans is more than
sufficient for the business of the commu
nity, and the abolishment of one of those
courtfr which I recommend, will save the 1
cost incurred by the establishment of an
additional criminal court.
OENERAL Torras.
The legitimate results of the reconstruc
tion policy of Congress in this State may t
now be regarded as so far completed as t
to justify a final verdict upon it. Through
this policy the government of the State
was placed in the hands of its whole peo- c
ple. The effect of this was a good one. It c
was to enable every man to have an equal "
voice of his own government, to the end
that all classes and races of people should a
have a chance to defend and maintain a
their civil and polical rights.
The excitements and disagreements in- a
cident to this revolution in public affairs r
have naturally hitherto monopolised the e
attention of the Legislature and of State
and municipal governments, to the ne- t
glect, perhaps, of other public affairs. c
This period of excitement, however, has t
passed. The questions that arose during a
it are now settled ; an era of peace and a
good feeling has begun, at least in a
our State. All the people acquiesce in 8
the changes wrought by the reconstruc- tJ
tion measure. The civil authority of the ti
State has ample power to enforce the law s
and preserve order within its limits. The v
temper and disposition of the people of td
all classes and political opinion are to e
sustain the authorities in the discharge of fi
their duties. There is no need in Louis- o
iuan of any extraneous power or military g
for to assist the State authorities in main
taining order and enforcing law. C
I have had no diffculty in securing the a
full support of the people of this State in lj
the euf arcement of all laws. I have no a
hesitation in saying that they are as loyal ii
to the Union and as law-abiding as the g
people of any Stte, North or South. a
The great depression in our industries, E
consequent upon the prostration follow- a
ing the war, still unfavorably affects the
different interest of the Stats. The twro
great needs of our State are immigration
and active capital. Louisiana is still an
unoccupied territory for railrods. Soon I
her unequalled openings for railroad en
terprise must attract that kind of enter
prise, and with advancing railroads will
come imigration and capital. When these 0
come, her still undeveloped resources,
both mineral and agricultural, will as- I
tonish even her own people.
In the meanwhile, I earnestly hope the
General Assembly will co-operate with
me in securing all the retrenchment pos
sible in the expenditure of the State, that
the burdens of taxatien may be lightened
and our people aseisted to ride over the
present momentary depression.
I reassert now the opinion which I have
expressed in three sacceesive annual me.
sages, that the general governmentowesato j
the people of the South generally, and is
especially to the people of Loulsim and '9
at thelewer Mimisippi,nantiseaalassmas
la the sebsinllngaofthe lsees,sad awls la
the conimetraium at rdrailee, A seai
prepertion at he ai wheh has tm s
hibeafly granted to the Northern States
a the last ten yess, gasted new in a
e jadicioes meaner to ear motion would
increase the productieo of our grest staples
º many per cent, and do more to cement
a the kindly feelings now resuming their
anclent sway in the beasts of our people
- than any enforcement bilk
It is also desimble that all diabilities
and legal penalties lanlhted on account
of the late war ahould be done away with.
t The number of pewsees who remain
under congressional or montitntional dis
abilities is extremely maml, yet as a stead
toward complete recomeiliation an act of
tull and Anal amnesty to all eoncerned in
the war would have an important and
nhautqry laluency. The noble example of
the State of Ieloisana, which was the ArM
State to expunge freo its statutes all dis
crimination on account of diferences in
the past civil war, may be wisely and
safely bllowed by the general government.
The Prsmident of the United States has
already followed it I hope that you will
instruct our Senators and Representatives
in Congress to imitate him in this respect.
As the chief executive of the State, it is
my duty to eall your attention to a grave,
illegal and dangerous abuse by certain
federal officers of the official power, by
using it to interfere in and attemptto con
trol a political assemblage of the citizens
of this State, convened to deliberate upon
Stats afairs. In other States, a very mod
erate and limited exercise of federal influ
enee, extending only so hr as the use of
the federal patronage fbr the purpose of
electing or influenoeing delegates to politi
cal conventions, has been met with severe
and merited rebuke from the people, and
has been thought serious enough to de
mand congressional investigation. In this
State, federal interference in State matters
has gone far beyond what it did in these
&tate. to which Congressional attention
has been directed. It has embraced not
only bribery, the use of patronage, and
the active, undisguised interference of
federal employes as such in political meet
ings, but in addition to these reprehensi
ble acts, the federql appointees in this
state, or many of them, have resorted to
menaces, threats, theprostitution of United
States building to factious party purposes
to the exclusion of the business public
and beyond this, even, what is unprece
dented in the history of this country, the
employment and presence of large num
bers of armed deputy United States mar
shals, and of armed United states troops I
to interfere with, menace and control a
political assemblage of citizens of the
State. I recite briefy the facts that are k
undenied as to this monstrous outrage on
the peace and dignity of the State. In ae
time of profound peace, without any com- l
petent authority, of the least necessity and 9
without consultation with, or the consent
of the State authorities, the United States
officials here, in violationof law, convoked
a political convention in the Customhouse
in New Orleans, and this against the wish
es and in the face of the solemn protest of
a large majority of the convention. The
doors of the Customhouse were locked
and barred fora day, and the whole busi- 3
neqpublie who had interest there were
excluded.
United States deputy marshals, selected
in many instances from rough and lawless
characters, were especially deputised for
the occasion, armed with loaded revolvers
and stationed within the building and
around the United States courtroom de
sighated for the convention. The United
States Marshal previously declared that
they should be stationed within the conven
tion itself. Their instructions had been
such that these deputies were insolent and
violent in language and manner toward
the delegates even to such an extent as to
excite serious disturbance, and going so F
far on the part of some of them as the
offering of personal violence to the dele
gates.
United States troope were drawn in the
Customhouse. Their very presence was
an alarming attack upon the right of pub
lic assemblage, and upon every tradition
and principal of American liberty. They
interrupted the deliberations of the dole- *'
gates. This interference of federal offcers,
armed with federal authority and federal
guns and pistols, in the a~irs of a peace
able political meeting of the people of a
State, isa very serious encroachment upon
the peace and dignity of the State, and
upon the individual liberties of its citisens.
I can not suffer it to paem by without enter
ing against it my solemn protest, and in
viting you most seriously to join with me
asking the national government to inves
tigate the outrages of ite subordinate off
cers and to punish the guilty parties. A
ful statement of the matter has been laid
before the President, and I can not be- 0
lieve that after a careful investigstlon he
Sdisavow these lawless acts of a
his appointees, and dismiss the guilty a
ones from offce. t
The umanemous condemnation of these ti
abuses by the press and the people of al]
parties throughout the country, and thi
general indignation which they have ex
cited show that the people everywhere are
alarmed at their occurreane The Acer. *
cana people have heretofore been extreemeiy
jealous of even the appearanace of military
intrfeeas ordictation is ciil a&r
Gecn o oo pomplyr emphaticmlly
a BATES OF ADVERTISING.
a Squaresi 1 mo j amo 3 amm 0 Igoe 1 ye
a One $4 87 89 $12S l
tTwo 7 9 12 20 35
OrThane 9 12 20 35 50
Four 15 25 35 50 2
e Tiree 35 4 60 85
Six 24 42 50 70 109
a I Columa. 46 80 110 175 20s
T'rmiagt advsrtissmensm S, 81 0 per
a square nmt laseratesa each subsequent
inasetia, 75 cents.
All business .oteies of advertisemaat
tob be rged twenty cents per line ear
I ieser~ti.
Jos Panurne executed with enstaea
and dispatch.
Swedidhg 0Rm ted In sb.e t.
. umera Nced.. printed on.shorted se*
ties and with quickest dispatch.
* Oimkeste Programmes, Genes.
I Businees Cards, Posters, etc., eta., guasw
anteed to give general sadisertioon to as
who may wish to secure our services,
PROFESSIONAL.
JOHN B. HOWARD.
TAW omtahE
26 St Charles Street 3F
New Orleans.
Promnpt attention given to ear
.business in the several courts of thes
Stat.
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ATIORNEY8 AND COUNSELLORS .
LAW,
No. 9 umwmercial Place, 2nd Fbur,
New Orleans.
f.*Strict Attention to all Civil and
Criminal business in the State and United
States Court.
J. E. Wallace,
Attorsaey at Xaavw,
69 CANAL STEET,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
jalS-ly.
ar. Wr. annae,
OPTIC! 69 CANAL ST., SEaN POeSOmeICr
A graduate from the University of Coo.
penbagen, Denmark, and honorary M. D.
from University of Padova, Italy; for
several yers assistant physician to the sele`
baePrtRicord, Paris, DR. BILLSE
!as acquired a high reputation as SPE
CIALIST tor all kinds of Sexual diseases,
male and female. Private diseases cured
after " new, sure and quick method.
Painful and Retained Menstruation
quickly relieved. Perfevt cure always
warranted. Lettdh containing $5 and
stamps will receive prompt attention. All
consultations and communications strictly
confidentiaL janlS-tom
INSURANCE COMPANIDJ-BANK
LOUISIANA
MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
omes, No. 120 covxon smrsr.
INSURES FIRE, MARINE
AND RIVER RISKS
AND PATls LOngagg
New Orleans, New York, Liverpool
London, Havre, Paris, or
Bremen, at the option
of the insured.
CHARLES BRIGGS, President
. CARRIERLE, Vice-President
J. P. Rono, Secretary.
FBD FREEDMAN'S SITINSI
-AND
TRUST COMPANY,
Chartered by the United States
Government, March,
1805.
PRflqCIPAL OFFCE, WASEmNGTON, 3. 0..
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DEANICH AT NEW ORLEANS, LA.
114 Cerondelet Street,
C, D. STURTEVANT, Cmshier
Bank Hours......-...OL.SA to SPE,,
'taturday Nights........ 6 toS8 o'elock
CIMAR MANUFACTOR.
T he un e i ne d n tfies the P ubli c
CIGAR MANUFACTIOBY,
at No. 129 Polymnia Street, flES1Dl
'des Street, where orders wl
thankfully received. sad prmty at
tended to. 0. B. RUE,
3m New Orleans, Dec. 13, 1871.
CARPET WAREHOUSE.
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Dealersat Whclessle and Retail, o~r ed
low gpo..s;
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