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~ win ?..t:4 f .Jy to Z'aoku of Lion.
De IDeprets and Cares Not for
x ;r Conrgeqnenou.
Ii L ad with Otant, Louislana and
Ilmmoif.
Specialt to 1. 0. Deloorat i
WAsumrtrow0, Feob. .-Mat Wells will have an
opportunity to testify tomorrow. He will ssy
that he believed that his life was in danger; that
he believed that on flair election, without intimt.
daieos, olet, Rayes would have carried the Btate;
that he thought he did right in throwing out the
votes; that the returns were altered without his
knowledge, and that his oorrespandenee through
Maddox was intended to arouse the Adminlstlta
ten ato the neceselty of protecting him in the
dintherge of his duty.
This will be in contravention of the testimony
of Maddox and IAttlefield.
I can't learn how he proposes to treat the teai.
mony of Plokett. Wells is in a desperate frame
of mind; he sald recently that he did not care a
d-n whether he wan on the top of the mountain
or the mountain was on top of him; that
he had been ill.treated by the people
of Louisiana; that he had labored
for them . uder Johbnon's administration, and
that they had gone back on him; he had now got
Oven with them and did not oars what oeme nest.
Welle lsvideatly prepared for the worst. What
hurts hie worst of all is the fact that the P'resl
dertdenosanoe him to bitterly.
He says be has been faithful to Orant and
OCane, and now they, too, have gone back on
himl, l.i demeanor is that of a thoroughly de
epairing man, who does not care what the future
may have In store for him. JUJILL.
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TOM AN DERIION.
He AeknowledgoesThat Propositions Wore
Made to Him to Sell Out.
Which HIe Virtuosly and Extravagantly
Refuied to Entertain,
SSptoial to the N. 0. Demoorat ]
WAsnumlnoN, Feb. 2.--Tom Anderson's teeti
many has just been furnished. He did not con
tradlot Maddox except as to the interview which
Maddo said in his testimony yesterday that he
had had with Anderson. This interview Ander
on dealnied, but Maddox, who preceded him by
request, had already correoted this portion of
his testlmony of yesterday, so that Anderson's
dental was not an impeachment of the testimony
of Maddox.
The general tenor of Anderson's testimony was
'orroborative of that of Maddox, so far as he
swore poeltivoly. The main features of Ander
son's testimony were declaratlons that, if the
things which M ddox charged had been
done at all, they had been done without
hbi (Anderson's) knowledge. He said the
only Intimation he ever had of the
million dollars plot was when the State Senator
from his distriot-"l can't remember hie name"
-came to him and said: "Anderson, if you will
oonsent to count Louisiana for Tilden you eon
be worth two hundred thousant dollars the day
after it Is deolded," or words to that effect. An.
nron said that he repelled that proposition,
d subsequently heard no more of it.
waid said he knew nothing of alterations ;of re
tmens. He passed upon them In the board as
they came from the clerk. He supposed that
they were the true originals, and did not inquire
particularly. If Wells had censpired, ae Maddox
and PlIket charged, he (Wells) had not taken
him (Anderson) Into his confidence is the slight
eat degree. This is the substance of the two
hoears' examination of Tom Anderson.
A. C. DBUELL.
THE FLORIDA CASE.
Somethlng More About the Maddox-Mat
Wells Testimony.
An1other Assurance thai Louisiana has
lone for TIIden.
Special to N. 0. Demoorat.1
WAnsnutroXo , Feb. 2.-The Electoral Tribunal
heard Kasson and Moorary tonday on the Florida
ase, but adjourned until to-morrow without
aetion.
The Congressional proceedings are unintereset
lag. The House Committee resumed the exami
nation of Maddox in referenoe to the rucallties
the Louisiana Returning Beard.
Heeanled that he was to receive a portilon of
the million of dollars that Mat Wells demanded
as the purchase price of the 8tate of Loulisiana.
He wea satisaed that.the vote of the 8tate had
been easet for the Democratio party, the election
haring been as fair as any election could be.
He said that he had some sympathy for the
people there, having married in New Orleans,
and lived in the State for a number of years. He
found that they had been trampled upon add op.
pressed, and that their substance was being
taken away. He was satisfied that Wells' propo
sition to the Republocans could not be met, but
he did hope to carry out his proposition to the
Demoorats.
Anderson, one of the Returning Board offlcers,
was examined, and of course denied all knowl
edge of this proposition of Wells. A. L. 0.
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HOUIS PROCEEDINGS.
A M11l Pending to Break the Perpetual
essiton.
WA.nuoTox, Feb. 2.-The House met at 10
o'elook and still continues yeeterjay's session.
A bill is pending to enable the House and Senate
to break the perpetual mssion, so as to give
regular days for legislation. Under the present
electoral law all legislation will bear date of
Thursday until the count is completed.
TIE MADDOX INVESTIQATIlN.
The Dammaing Letter In the Hands of a
Prolaminent epubllcan.
WasuItorox, Feb. 9.-Mr. Maddox did not apn
o okekett and Gee. Walker until after his
andtew with Secretary OCameron. No pripoei
tion had been made witness to deliver Wells
Weit letter for monay consideratione. He re
Sstfarther time for the produotion of the
- M h tter is in the hands of a prominent Be
puboiae. Witness was allowed until tomorrow.
Wire.s was willing to give the present location
Sett~ letter, bu- the committee, by a vote, re
ftsedo receive the information, as witness said
it wtold endanger its production.
Maddox went to New Orleans to examine the
canvass for himself telt saetited the vote of the
State bad been eas for Tilden, the election havy
been as fair as any ould be. Witness
deltreed a letter from Wells to Gea. Orant,
whlh was intended for submission to the Oabinet.
Wells wanted protection in the dischare his
u5e e Psetident hsaid Wel bam Msf svs
Xa~ i .ffisi
Openinr of the sedonas of the Eleetera
Tribunal.
Erarte Dimdent for Once.
Most Ab'o Opningr by Field and Kasson's
Weak II Joinder.
The Vote of Flor;da to be Probably
Thrown Out,.
[(peooal to N, 0, Demoorrt.]
WAsmaeroxe, Feb. S.-The seine at the open
ing of the Eleotoral Tribunal was very imprsslve.
Never before in the hbltory of the oountry had so
eminent lawyers, jurists and statesmen been as
sembled to dlycuss and determine so grave an
ssuae. The common remark is that the Demo'
orate not only have the best end of the ease, but
the strongest array of counsel to manage it.
Wm. M. Evarts seems indeoisivo, if not aotu
ally hesitating and reluctant, At the opening his
manner to-day was remarked as in painful con
traet to his customary easy self-possesslon and
consolousness of mastery. A lawyer who has
known Evaris intimately for twenty years, told
me that he never saw him appear nervous or
fidgety at the opening of a case before, He said
that this was the greatest law case ever tried in
any country; that it would outlive any other case
in history, and that Evarts was evidently very
apprehensive that he would have to figure as
leading counsel on the losing side.
Clerical Error stoughlen
was the only oheerful member of the Hayes
counsel, But, as my friend observed, probably
Stoughton was glad to be employed in so cele.
brated a oase on either side.
The presentation of the Democratic ose was
most ably made by Yield, and the Republlcan re.
Joinder by Kasson was universally voted feeble.
le fell back on the old-fashioned plea of Intimi
dation, which was the beginning and ending of
his argument. Ills plea to the jurisdiction of
Gov. Drew as being e, posi fnuou will be met by
the rule that the unfinished busines of an out.
going executive must always be transaoted by
the Incoming one; that this rule is not disputed,
and that it iapplies to business imperfectly or
wrongfully transacted by the outgoing exeou
tive as well as to that not transacted at all.
The Republitoans are terribly despondent on
all hands, and it is by no means improbable that
the muddle may be settled by throwing out the
vote of florida. Ihe general range of specula
tion here to-night is in this direction. There is
very little probability that it will be counted for
Tilden. It ii thlerably safe to predict that the
chances are as five that it will be thrown out to ,
three that it will be counted for Hayes.
iolman $dot Paid eOa
today for his factious opposition to Eads last
Monday, and for about a million other small in.
lotions which he has made upon mrmbers in his
ospaclty of treasury watch dog for the laes twelve
fears. The House, without regard to party,
made a raid on him and smashed him complete.
ly. It is the first time in fourteen years that the
ohairman of the Appropriation Committee, with
nearly a two-thirds party majority, baa been
beaten on appropriation by a two-thirds vote of
the House, DUIELL.
..4ICIB*- .....
l11ARP PRACTItE.
A Lot of Perjurers on Their Way to
Washington.
To Impeach Littiefleld's Testimony.
It Is Not Probable that They Can EfTrct
Anything.
I[Special to N. O. Democrat.)
WA$NIIMaOTo, Feb. 2. --The E'eotoral Tribunal
began its session at 8 o'clock. Keason, of Iows,
presented a case of objection to the Democratic
vote or Florida. In his speech, whiobh ven the
Itad.icis pronounce weak and gauzy, no points
of importance were presented.
'I he Iepublicans are attempting to get Matt
Wells before the Senate Committlee prior to his
examination by Field.
Maddox made no new points in his testimony,
beyond correcting some slight errors.
A telegram read from New Orleans, announcing
that a doeen witnesses had left there for Wssh
Ington to impeaoh Littlefleld's testimony, creates
amusement hero. There is no doubt here as to
the capacity of the Packard gang to furnish
perjury in quantities to suit, at reasonable rates,
but how they propose to impeach that part of
Littledeld's testimony, which consists of the orig
inal returns of Vernon parish, with the signature
of the parish clerk, and showing the alterations
made by Littlefleld, is not exactly understood
here. The only possible way in which it could
be done, would be by hiring the Parish Can.
vassers of Vernon to swear that the original re
turn was a forgery, and the forged copy prepared
by Littlefleld, under Wells' instructions, the
original. Unless this is done, all the carpet-bag
gets in Louisiana could not impeach Littlefeld's
testimony. IiUILL.
INCSURANCE CROOK1EDNESIS.
Insurance omeers Indicted for Embez.
alement and Grand Larceny.
Nrw YonR, Feb. 9.-The Grand Jury yesterday
presented indictments against Theodore B. Wott
more, Vice P'resid nt of Security Life Insurance
Company, for embelraement and grand larceny;
Roebert L. Case President; Robert L. Case, Jr.,
Actuary; Isaac H. Allen, Secretary, for perjury.
Judge 'ilders'eeve immediately lesued benoh
warrants for the arrest of all the above named,
which were placed in the hands of olioers for
service.
Mr. Wettmore. did not sign the annual state
ment of the company, and no indictment could
be found against him for perjury, as in case of
the other officials who affixed their signatures to
the false etatenents.
Mr. Allen was at the office of the Security Com
pany yesterday, as usual, and will not make any
effort, he states, to avoid arrest. lie has, how
ever, made provision for balil when the time
comes. The other offcers of the company have
not been seen about the office for some time.
A Confessing Criminal.
Nzw Yonx, Feb. 2--A Bloomlinton (Ill.) dis
patch reports that a man named John Pierson, in
tail here, he confessed that he murdered Hon.
turray MuOonnell, at Jacksoonvllo, in February,
1869. Mr. McCOonnell wed found in his office with
his head crushed.
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MEXICO.
Diaz Temporarily Triumpphant--What
Will Come Next ?
HAVANA, Feb. 1.-The steamer City of Havana
has arrived, bringing City of Mexico dates of
January 20.
Armed reselstance against Diaz is considered
ended for the present.
Many adherents of President Lerdo continue
to leave the country, fearing outrages.
The Church party tacitly eontenances Dias,
but is really working to place Conservatives in
power. A general opinion prevails that the Dalu
government will be of short duration. Gen. Dias
has ordered the reieea of a number of foreign
ers who have been onned In the prisons i
Iatatmorn atd eat5mey.
3ltmw iU wlllea air t(d'rtsrs5pMtatt the 81
~~e~aveadtI5In·Uia evang
187 Blenville and If0 Cutom.
house Streets and their
Memoirs.
"A Pretty Little Lade Named
Claudine."
The llagisterial Garfleld and the Iloom.
Ing Kelley-"fhe o len of Satin and
the Glimmer of 'Pearls."
The .Hon. John Hherman in IlHll of
Daziling Light.
A Ilustry of a Night Fpent In New Or.
loans by the Republican Vistlng
Mtatermen.
Blenville street, 137, New Orleans; that is
where Jos. Hancock appears to have lodged
whilst he was in tils oily. Jos. Hancock, as we
know, is the telegraphlo name of Joe. H. Mad
dox, a gentleman who has lately become famous
throughout the country as the volunteer negotia.
tot of a mnagnifloent financial transaotion by
whlok a million dollars were to pass into the
pockets of the Louisiana Returning Offlers, for
whose oharaoter as honest men and estimable
citlzens Senator Sherman and Rteprteentative
Garfield have advertised themselves as sponsors
and Indorsers. How much of this sum was to be
conveyed as brok3rage or commission to the in.
genuous and genial Joseph, we can only conieo.
tare ; but we may be sure that he stipulated for a
fee commensurate with the importance of the ob
Ject to be aooomplished.
To return to 187 Blenville street. It is a house
situated in a part of the city not dominated by
severity of morals, or prudery of deportment. It
is a comfortable-looklng brick edifice, modest
enough in its exterior, but sharing with two or
three others the grandeur of eontrast with the
collection of obscene hovels and vulgar cabarets
which constitute the neighborhood. Just around
the corner, in Burgundy street, is a block infested
by swarms of negresses, who add the practice ,if
thievery to the protession of a trade more perti
nent to their sex-women who are unknown to
the census, but aie carefully catalogtued by the
police. At a little distance, in Ou ,tomhouso street,
is
NpIMIltR 170,
referred to in the Maddox dispatches as the
abiding place of Calvert, the rni(,r e'go of Wellse.
It is the very spot that the fitness of things
would have designated as the residence o: Wells,
on account of the interesting and congenial mem
ories wlth which its chambers are thronged It
was in this house that the great "rings" of
Republican legislators had their meeting place
during the flush timus of 'tI, '10 and '71. Hlere
the "ring" met overy day after the adjournment
of the House to oonsider "money" bills, to reoelve
propositlons from persons wanting to buy mess.
urea through the Legitlature; to hear the reports
of "finance committees," sand to decide on the
terms of agreement with the purchasers of
votes. It was here that the famous Chattanooga
railroad bil's, to pass which Governor LE
D. Morgan contributed $103,000, 'were
engineered through by Raynor and Williams.
was here that the Warehouse bill, and the Park
bill, and the State.House bill were put through.
It was here that Charles T. Howard would have
gone to negotiate for his Lottery bill, if he had
not bought it through before No. 170 became the
official headquarters of the ring. It was here, in
short, that the State was run in debt to the ex
tent of about $30,000,000, the subsequent repu
diation of half of which constituted the grand
finanoial triumph of Kellogg's adminis'ration.
Certainly it was a fitting place for Wells to adopt
as the Ior,.r of the grandest of all the fioancial
transactions that political history records.
But again we are straying away from 117 DIen
ville street, the plara selected by the more fas
tidloun Maddcx as the basis of his operations.
It is what is known simply as a lodging house;
that is to say, a house where furnished rooms are
let. It is kept by a pretty little lady whose first
name is
cOLAUDINE,
and whose last name is eonosaled behind the
mysterious veil which sometimes shrouds the
personal history of ladles who have loved not
wisely but too well.
But it must not be supposed that this appolla
tive deficienoy is regarded as detrimental to her
character in that mystical circle of which she is
consldered one of the brightest ornaments. In
short, Olaudine is an Octoroon, or a very light
Quadroon ; and to the Ootoroon or the Quadroon
a latitude, not to say a license, of conduct
is permitted which is altogether denied
to their white sisters who desire to
preserve the appearance of decency and fair
repute.
In an elegantly furnished apartment of the
fair Claudine's house,
TIm GoNaIAL. MADDOOX
instal'ed himself. Maddox, we must premise, was
not a stranger in New Orleans. He lived here
many years ago, and had a career, less brilliant
than brief, as proprietor of the daily .' escent.
His first editor was a gentleman named Frost,
who, on account of a fiery and personal article
directed against the Hunt family, came to his
death in a duel with Dr. Hunt. His next editor
was Mr. Johnston, brother of (en. Joe Jqhnston,
known widely at one time as TI ,.,/retari,, a
correspondent of the Natiornal Itndllicicer. After
a short experience of New Orleans, John ton
went away, and Maddox sold the (reseaent and.
withdrew from Journalism. This was in 1865.
He then returned to Maryland, his nadivo State,
where he remained during the war, except whilst
engaged in journeying to Richmond and back, in
pursuit of Confederate contracts on the one
hand, and Federal contracts on the other. Out
of these, in some inexplicable way, grew
A CLAIM UPON THE UfnSTITKDnITATrS Fr'm 8000,0(0
on account of certain tobacco supposed to have
been stored at Fredericksburg, and to have been
reduced to premature ashes by the Union forces.
Hence it will be seen that large financial opera
tions are as Oongenial to the mind of Maddox as
to the fancy of Sellers.
When Maddox arrived here, and took lodgings
with the fasiolnating Claudine, he gave out that
he was a treasury agent and that he had been
sent out to procure evidence against the Wells
claims for $625,000 and the Ballly claim for i800,
000. In pursuit of this purpose, which was,
doubtless, genuine, he made a trip up Roed River
and came back charged with prclfs of
AAICALITY ON THE PART OF WELLR.
It was this information, perhaps, which sug
gested to him the plan of turning an honest hun
dred thousand or so by constituting himself a
broker for the sale of Wells' power and influence
as President of the Returning Board. In the
meantime.
O)L, J. T. PIOETT,
then in Washington, wrote to Col. Frank Zsobh.
roe and oal. L W. Patton, Preeldeatof the Demo
atieotateOoammtte, that Mddaz wass agent
151'555h1 thtib WaM t s3s
tegtblteons gotig on !otreWm them wee not sr*
mired. Maddox loarned that detetast were on
hib rrack, and he nesoeeded in eonneetilg this
with Pkett's letter. He Immediately returned
to Washingaton, and then, it appeare, persuadel
Pilkett that his operatien were intended not to
injure Tlldeu, but to negotiate for a sale and pr-.
chsoe of the electoral rote of Louisians. On
this etplanation was based the mystetous tele.
gram fr6m Pickett to col, Zaoharie : "A double
game, but if well informed, might trust person I
wrote about." After this Maddox came back to
New Orleans to prosecute hie sohemes, with the
result that the Demooratic Committee doolined
to make the prop sed purchase.
Whilst Maddox war in New Orleans the oity
was also graced and honored by the presence o;
'rtlg itPtIntIIOAN "VsIT'rlt.l TATEMIaL"
These "eminent citlsens" devoted much time
and attention to the solution of the difficult prob.
lem of carrlong for Hayes a State which had
voted for Tilden, and were ,laudably assiduous in
thelr labors to falsify the facts of the election.
This patriotlec duty took up so much of their time
that they had little opportunity for the amenities
of social interoourse. Nevertheless they could
not forget that they were gentlemen, distin
guslhed in social rank, as well as in political posl
tion, and they naturally missed the cheering so
olety of the softer sex and the gent'e dalliance to
which they had been cctustomed in the perfumed
saloons of Washington.
It Is sad to tell It, but, nevcrtheless, we ere
fareed to admit it as a truth, that
TItEMe (OUtRLntD DARLINi 5 OF H40ItTY
were not regarded as valuable acquisitiones n the
social circles of New Orleans. People did not
shower Invitations upon them to dinner, to
balls, to soi..es, to souprs. The omission may
have been owing to the fact that they came here
wthout the key which unlocks the doors of
private society in all oivilised communities-
proper letters of introduction, or personal ac
quaintanoe with those who have the enf.ee--or it
may be that the purpose for which they came-
to asure a dishonest connt of votes
not actually cast--did not commend
them to favor as persons to o feted and ca
ressed.
ILet ilh's be as it will, the Iaipublioan "visiting
statesmen" and "eminent cltimens" were used
ti spend their evenings smoking unlimited
cigars, and quelling infinite cook-tails, and talk
log indefinte twaddle in their rooms In the ht.
Oharles Hotel, And of this at last they wearied.
Even the Republican "visiting statesman" will
tire of the perennial society of his brother
"visiting statesman," and yearns for the con
trasct affrded by "or,oss or armt Atn n mt an
OF PeAtne." Of this condition of affairs the saga
clone Maddox became aware. He pitied the
Itepublican "statesmen." He e.ymathised
with them. iHe would do something to dispel
the gloom which shrouded the evening
hours of the magisterial Garileld, and which
threatened to convert the blooming, blithesome
Kelley into a cynical misanthbrope. Maeddox was
acquainted with New Orleans society--at least
with that phase of New Orleans society which
rurnhihee
Till AfiPASlAN, Tnx LAlti, AND TuH .itavYNs
of graceful and voluptuous form and modified
compiixlon. To his tretty lhndladv Olaudine he
imparted his plan, and she entered into it with
becoming appreeiation and spirit. >Iotlling was
easier than for her to assemble together the most
charming and the most attractive of the quad
roon and octoroon beauties of New OrIane-
boeautles who, to the piquancy and grace of
lflidee, and the enticing contour of Dude,
added the polish of this recherch' soclety, and
the enticing ways of women
Atc'VNTOMID TO ow WOOED AND NOT UNUVED TO
nlilNO WON.
The night was fixed anad the invitations, not
"'written upon gilt-edged paper, w th a neat
little crow-quill, slight and new," but done up in
the latest fashion of ti ted envelope, scented
with ,uili"Jir, were duly diepatched to the
bored and weary statesmen. It is needless to
say that they were accepted with alacrity,
O(iN. OAinFISLD AnRAYiED IliMtMLF
In his most exquisite len'e; Itepresentative Kel
ly, dismissing from his mind the iron interest
and the elastic bond theory, and the Piukston
case, to which he had been compelled to turn for
recrealion, got himself up in his most fascina
ting style. The other statesmen followed this
example, and together the party proceeded to
tosh "halls of dazlming light," those gilded
and tapestried saloons which were to be
ThIs PAIRADINM OF Thi HOtR,
and whore they were to gaze upon the
honuri upon whose facile charms their fancy
had so often dwelt. Here, amid the smiles of
beauty, they would pass the happy moments, as
'Pericles with Aspadi, or Demosthenes at the
feet of Lais. But, more fortunate than their
Grecian prototypes, to whom a sparkling vintage
was unknown, and for whom the stately quad
rile, the voluptuous waltz, or the lively galop
had not been invented, the "visiting. sttesmek"
could chabse the golden-footed hours through the
wavy asurges of the Boston, or could drink sweet
est inspiration from the amber-tinted goblet of
champagne which had gained more than its own
exhilaration from
TiIE AMfOIIoUa liOUC l OF DEAUTY'I TmIIITY LIP.
Claudine had done no discredit to her promise
or to the occasion, and Maddox bad supplied an
abundant supper and unstinted wine. The ladles
were dressed with elegance and taste. Moat of
them wore white dresses--a style which is very
becoming to the creamy and peaoh-tinted com
plexion of the octoroon. As the Jenkinses of
Northern cities are apt to say when they find the
attempt at descriptioi too much for them,
"where all were beautiful and lovely and charm.
ing, it would be invidious to particularize." Ioan
not, however, resist the temptation to tell that
TMI. YOUTHFUL xKELLEY,
through whose veins courses the warm blood
of only sixty-five summers, was furced
to surrender at a kind of dscoretion to the charms
of a piquant little beauty, who was evidently
taken with his graceful and commanding figure,
even more than with his fascinating conversa
Lion. It was truly a lovely sight to see the on
rioun interest with which he looked upon her,
and to note the tender deference of his manner
toward her. We remember hearing of a toaet
once given at a Vermont militia muster-"The
girls of Varmount; fond of the milingtary; but
vailuous in their ourosity." That
XKLLýY AND OAIRIZLD AND SRlbMAN
were fond of the ootoroon and quadroon girls in
whose society they pasted that memorable even
ing, cannot be doubted; that they were "vartuonu
in their ourosity," we are bound to believe,
as we have their word for it. The courtly Gar
eld made a great impression on the young
ladies, and they still speak of his dignified pres
eioe and his instruetive oonveratlion n terms of
admiration. Garfield, it appears, is
ALWAYS TaE "TATsLXANa,"
when he visits the boudoir of beauty, as well as
when he is a visitor to the rooms of the Beturn
log Board. Mr. K:ley was more lively, but more
material, more practial, so to spak. Ask him,
however, what he thinks of the ratre a radiant
maidei s whom he met aM 17 Bienvitl u treat
New Ornas,aid our word efor it,he wRt tell
lot that "they sete bs*st V t ( gal4,
The lenate mt at the usual hour, 12 mi, Lieut.
Gov. Wilts p.esing and a quorum oreaoti
A omantualtetiOn uw read from the $e'reettry
of IUate transmitting to the Senate the returns
of the election recenty held to fill the vacancy
in the Senate ausee by the death of Senator
Meredith, of the bizteeoth Distriet, Referred to
Committee on Elections.
The President of the Senate also had read by
eoretary Clegg the printed proceedings of a
mace mtetirg of the Hisizns of Claiborne pb sh,
held Jan. 24, at Homer, La., avowing their at
tichment to the constitution and conviotion of
the ele tlon of Tilden and Hendricke and licholls
and Wilts and determination to pay their tales
only to the appointees of Gov. Nicholls, sacom
panted with resolutions to that effect, and re
aesttingg that th6 proceedinRgs be copled in the
New Orleans DittoonAT and Pieor/tsne from the
Homer Iliad, in wit oh they were ordered to be
published.
On motion to refer to Committee on Fedgral
Relations, Mr. Demes objected that he d d not
want to appear as concedlng the election so far
as it concerned Tilden and Hendricks, and for
that reason the yeas and nays on the motion to
refer were oalled for, and the resointions were so
referred by a vote of 20 to 1, Mr. Demas alone
voting in the negative.
Mr. Texada, lot Commlttee of Enrollmeht, re
ported as properly enrolled the joint resolution
to Congress relative to procunaig aid from the
general government eo butid and repair the
leves of the Misselseippi river.
Mr. Robertson gave notice that he would, at a
future day move to strike out rule 01, and amend
rule 16, referring to the "previous question," to
the rules governing the proceedings of the
Senate.
Mr. Goodse offered a resolution that, whereas,
owing to the oaving of the banks of the river,
the Ibv es were in a bad condition, the Commit
tee on Lands and Levees be instruoted to take
action in the mitter and report by bill or other
wise.
Mr. Goode, in support of the resolution, re.
marked that it t as well known as a facr that the
levees never were in a worse condition than now.
We were now In the month of February, on the
eve of high water. The action of the Levee
Company had been published, declaring their in
ability to do the work neoessary for our proteo.
lion. They proposed that the people should do
the work and take the paper of the coolpauy.
The company had alreadt anticipated their re
venues, and the money wrung from the people
would all be applied to paying the old obUgations
of the company. The proposition in effect was
that the people of this State should advance the
money to the Levee Company for two years with
out interest, with the promise that we will be
refunded that money, without interest, two years
after the loan.
If we should make the levees and lend our
money to the company for the purpose, it would
be to pay fifty cents per cubic yard for the same
work which, with our money in our own hands,
or those of some responsible agent of the Mate,
could be done for twenty cents. home means
could and should be esuggested to this end, so
that contributions of money ,ud labor might be
procured. It has been suggr sled that if we will
,ass a law giving to the Governor the right to s-e
eat a board of commissioners, with power to got
contributions, they could be procured for the
purpose in less than ten days from this time, and
the work necessary to protect us could be fully
acoomplished. If nothing is done, there is anu
appalling calamity impendlng over the people of
Louisiana.
The resolution was adopted.
Senate bill No. 12, to amend and re-enact seeo
tian 8E1 of the itevised Statutes relative to
,ficial bonds, was oaelod up, amended and finally
passed.
The following Is a synopsis of the bill. The
section as amended and re-enacted reads as fol.
lows :
All bonds given by tax collectors of the itate
and by persons charged with the collection of
parish taxe., and by public offloers,whether State
or parish (except the State 'Jreasuurer, Auditor
of Public aountse, Parish Itecord.r and Clerks of
the Distrirt Courts), who, by existing laws,or those
hereafter to be enacted, may be rqItired to give
bonds, shall give bond with sureties residing
within the parish where the officer serols s the
functions of his office, which bond shall be'an
nexed by the Parish itecorder, Clerk of the District
Court and the President of the Police Jury in al
the parishes except in the city of New Orleans
and pamieh of Orleans, where that duty shall be
performed by the Recorder of Mortgages in ant
for the parish of Orlean', within thirty days
from the date tf their commission and before
entering upon their duties. The bond shall be
authenticated by the attestation of two wit.
nesses and the signature of the lie order, and
shall also be recorded in a separate book to be
kept for that purpose, and shall also be regis.
tered in the mortgage records of the several
parishes where the principal ob:gor may own
real estate. The bonds, when so registered,
shall operate from and after the date of the
registry as a mortgage upon all the real estate
of the principal obligor therein. The bonds of
all State ,fiMoers shall be made payable to the
Governor of the dtate of Louisiana, and those of
the parish officers to the President of the Polioe
Jury of the parish.
House bill No. 40, reported on with an amenIl
ment, allowing plaintiffs in attachments and pro
visional seirnre to bond property after ten days,
where defendants have failed to bond the same,
was read twle and placed on the calender.
The skme disposition was made of Senate bill
No. 21, telative to the reousatiodi of Judges and
District Attorney e.
House bldl No. 45, being reported on unfavor
ably, the report of the committee was aidopted.
The object of the bill was to effoot sales of prop
erty by offering the same a second time without
addi ut le peonse.
The resoln lon,.mak.ng warrants for salaries of
the constitutional oaoers of the State receivable
to the general tax fundnd ad license fund for taxes
for the year In whaich the warrants are issued,
was amended in some particulars effeoting only
the proper %erbisgs of the aoc, and the ruines be
ing su pnded, was finally passed.
Mr. En tis in the OChair.
At 1 o'clook Senate bill No. 8, the education bill,
being a substitute for Sensate bill No. 8, was taken
up uas the spec sal order of the day fixed for this
hour; but pending its consideration the 8enat*,
at the request of the House, prooeeded to the
hall of the House to ballot in Joint session for U.
8. Benator.
After Joint session the consideration of the bill
was resumed.
Mr. Ogden moved to take it ap scetion by
seotion.
Mr. White moved to postpone. He said it was
a subject of the most momentous importance
that coumld come before us, and he was daily in
receipt of letters from the country inquiring about
it and wished it to have the flutlest conasideration.
Mr. Boatner opposed postponing. If we were
not going to work during the Raltus quo he was in
favor of going home.
Mr. Whitoe moved to postpone as the order of
the day till Friday next, on whlich the yeas and
anys being olled, the vote resulted: Yeas 18;
and nays, Mesrs. Boatner Ducros, Enustis,
Goode, Ogden, Perkins and Texads. so the bill
was postponed te Friday next.
On motion of Mr. Eastle, the Senate went into
executive session, which was shortly after raised;
after which the Senate adjourned about half-past
1 till 12 m. BSatuorday.
The House.
The House assembled at the usual hour.
Speaker Bush in the chair and a quorum Fres
Ont
Prayer by the Bey. Dr. Palmer.
Judge Bridger, of Caldwell, asked for and ob.
tained leave of absence for two weeks for Mr.
Cookerham, of Blenville, dating from Monday
next, on aecount of illness.
BlaOLUTIOls.
By Mr. Berry-To appoint a Joint committee of
three to onvestigate the ocondition of the New
OInal and New Basin and the New Canal shell
road. Bead twice and referredto the Committee
on Oanals and Drainage.
By Mr. Porter, from the Committee on Charita
ble Institutions, favorably, with amendments, on
ouse hi 1 No O, relative to and providing for the
better management of the Desaf and Dumb and
Blind Asylums of the State. 'The amendments
provide ton penalties for delinquencies or mal
teesanee f the Direotors sodemployes.
Mr. Lyons, of Ea t Fkiians, said he favored
the bill, but wished that the provision in the bill
probt diretors and emplojes of these fn
stýttions tobe benoerned in ar ocntraob or putr
e of supplies with or to thes Istitutions,
sad prohtliLg membersof the boards of trus
tees toeve any tn those institu
s.o be to all the eharitable in
n o he So, rsand he oereda a smend.
p14ths mte hadt
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iettad upon lari d ,i.11
dcoup street, J F .b . ;
CAInPmsraas, Secretary. let j
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SieadtwcMof Camp and Gravler Streets,
mlitae. KUCtAL LTATI.MENT.
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The bill was taken up and rtu ,Tan. 167, .l
mittee on Judiciary. '"tIttuIOW
The Committee on Corporations 1xIoWt
subetitute on House bill No. 12. Thi OreIT
u1ett'ih were taken up and read. The
of the bll is to limit the elpenditures of coit.i
hione to witbhn their respestive actual revsti'i
'he eabstitute, belsg acoepted, was read tw
and allowed to lie ovr under the rules.
AC ointriO ro to rigs.
By Mr. Hill, of Orleans--House bill No. 7it, t
repeal certain enottons of the Revlsed StatuWle
rela ive to the inspection of merchandise.
bill repeals all laws makitg the inspection o
merchandise compulsory and provides thit the
inspection of hsy, pork, beef and flour nhall be
made only on the application of the owners of
the merobandise, It Was read twice and referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
Uy Mr. Barbln, of Avoyelles, by oonsent-A bill
to abolish the cash deposits in the eoturta of the
state, the parish of Orleans excepted, etc.
The bill provides that the essh deposit fees of
ten dollars, which, by existing laws, the clerks of
the district courts of this state, the parish of Or1
leans exepted, are authorised to demand from
plaint If offering to file suits in the district Of
parish cuts, be and the same are hereby re
pealed.
Iln it fI /ther eerled, That all that part of osee
lion 8 of the act of November I2, 1576, fx ing the
fees of the clerke of the distrtot courts through.
out theotate, the parish of Orleans exceptled I
whioh the clerks are entitled to demand ten
lars as a cash depo-it, be and the same is hereby
repealed and abrogated,
ieferred to the Judiciary Oommittee.
Dy Mr. Wilde, of Orleans, by consent-To la
corporate Jackson Fire Company No, h1of Mew
Orleans; (to provIde for a renewal of eharter
which has expired.) Referred to the Commiatte.e
on Corporations.
By Mr. Spiller, cf Livingston, by consent--To
provldef r the loss by fire of public pa se and
books of the parish of Livingston. Referre 'to
the Judiciary Committee.
The General Assembly met in joint sesion and
proceeded to ballot for a United Stated Senator,
with the following result:
TenSte. Ilouse. Total
J.lai ................ 1 11
(litbon .............. a t; to
Wfkliffe .............. 4 11 1
Can. B5 1o l
imoberteb,o............ 5a iS
Total ................. cit s
No choice, and the Senate withdrew.
l~INIStlnxn nutlINexas
House 1,11l No. sl, to abolish the office of Dli.
trh t Attorney pro temp , re.
The vote came tip to reconsider the vote by
which the bill passed its third reading, the ob.
jnot bring to refer the bill to the Ju.dioiary Com
mittee. Yeas 8l nays 81. The bill was now res
terred to toe Judiciary Oommlitre.
lHouse bill extending the powers of notai.es
public in administernlg oaneths, returned from tee
senate with a slight amendment. The amen.
ment was concurred in.
House concurrent resolution relating to aboll
tion of the Metropolitan police, returned from
the Benate with the amendment, "giving the
utmost limit to the city of New Orleans. o the
right of local self.government compatible with
efiolenoy."
The amendment was concurred in.
xxYasAo vteow Tgi oovxnson.
A message was received from the Ooverneg
anionsoouig that he had signed House bill to
amend and re-enact section 13922 of the Revised
Statutes.
IEC4ND itgAD1'NOS.
Subsliaute for House bill No. 23, reorgailxing
the police juries of the State, was taken up.
Mr. Voorhtes in the chair.
Mr. Brady, of St. Tammany, propased to
the bill by providing that police jurors shall1
able to rear and write in the English lan
The proposi ion led to a desultory
'ten and was aslall withdrawnt y Mr. t
a. Blsn cfEattaubstitut to the
tion. Mr. Bush's enbstitutepartloularly
that the Police Jury shall divide the
into wards, securing equal repreetiat f.i*.
wards to be known as polioe jury, Justie
peace and election wards.
Mr. Bush said that the object of thiC
tioh oof his substitute wrs to provide
the confulsion which had heretofor;e eax s
the limits of wards. This madeb the ilm
same for police jaries', justice's or eleacti
The substitute also provides that p jl
shall be selected one from ecoh ward aa
no change oflimits in the ward shall be
except by a two-thirds vote of the Pollee Jr
Pending the consideration of the bill, the,
otal order of tbhe day was called.
CPECIAL OD1R O1 LBZE DAY.
$peaker Bush in the ohair.
House bill :4o. 87, the printing bill.
The first sectiUon was read.
Mr. MoGehee moved to amend by g
that the printing be given to the lowest ,
Mr. Young of Olniboene moved to lay thei'
tion on the table.
Adopted-46 yeas to 18 nays.
A motion by Mr. Young to reconsider, and atn
other to table the motion to reconsider followd
and was carried.
The reveral sections were read anad
and the bill adopted as a whole and findly pais
Mr. Voorbles io the chair.
The bill reorganizing the polioe Juries of lb.
State was now taken up, and Mr. luash's sillE*i
tate for the first section of the substitute for the
bill was passed.
Mr. Young, of Olaiborn', moved to amend tel
second section, by providing that tlestion of Pob.1
line Jurors shall take place at the gseraml else.
tion for members of the House of Bepresenm t
tives. HBie reasons were that it would be snore
economical. Be supposed that the idea of fl.ing
the elo:tlon in May was to withdraw it from the
Inflnence of polities. Tbis theory would well ap. j
ply for judicial offioers, but he thought that t.e
election of Police Junes did not justify the la.crg
expenditures which a special oleo.lon would eat
till.
Mr. Newsom, of Tangipahoa,opposed the amend
ment, and was followed by Mr. Kernochan. ofet
Plaque nines, who agreed with Mr. Newsom, blt
thought the election occurred at a busy period of
the season and should rather be fied for eome.
time in August.
Mr. Bowden, of Franklin, arguod in favor of the
May election.
Mr. Oarloes, of WeLater, advocated the ue
of the election on the same day as the gýer
election, on the grounds of economy.
Pending the debate the House adjourned.
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FOBEIGN NEWS.
It is Everything but the statua quMe Il
thi East.
L.xpox, Feb. .--The Timesn' Berlin dispelet
is dlervyiy is willing to raze the fortiloations
Blegrade and Alesinats if Taurkey leaves t
other fortiications in her hand'.
" The mobilization of the Bausaan guards be
been resolved upon.
Al Iek boldl sure its prcoeeding betweae
BRssi& * Reels wants to buow
whethet ase coud enjoy the ftrits of a vieWl :"
she ashievsaine.
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