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Gn NOVEMBR 17, 1$8 STHE CAPITOL. In an editorial headed as above, a.r esteemed contemporary, the N. 0.,States, argues in support of Gov teior 3McEnery's action in convening ithe extra session at New Orleans, ba singits opinion poin the Governor's * disinterestedness gud legal acumen. The States, in addition, lays much qiztres uipon the fact that it is of little ematerial interest to Baton Rouge that the extra sesesion is not held itsere, and expresses the hope that m;r citizens will not dispute the loy ylty of its acts, before the courts. Y- In reply, we would say to our :*fends of the States, that we have Iniet relied solely upon our interpre aaation of the letter of the constitu tion, regarding the matter at issue, but have been strengthened therein by'the opinions of attorneys of rec Segnized force and ability. ` So far as the matter of expense to be incurred by the State, at New Orleans or Baton Rouge, there can be no other difference, than the pos a' sible cost of renting Pike's Hall, at Baton Rouge, for the use of the .l.Iouse of Representatives, during the i period of such occupancy; an expense mlhat would not amount to more than ,one or two hundred dollars. The enatqocould hold its sessions at ei er ourCourt House or City Hall, of charge. The same can be said th regard to committee rooms. The States is doubtless aware of fact that the furniture and ar i-hives of the State will have to be . ttransported to this city, at one time ?or another; and that an appropria ':tion for "that purpose was made at #bhe regular session of 1880. Hence, 0o further outlay on that score would .be required. The overshadowing consideration Jles in the inviolability of the pro ' °viaions of the constitution. In this the people of the whole State are deeply interested. : If the Governor can disregard its Ssmadtdates on the plea of expedienicy, one instance, he can certainly do in,another. plain words, we want a Demo e Government, instead of a sem bteeo ofa constitutional government aobject to the will and pleasure of <.the Executive, no matter how much wilth we may have in the purity of .iis motives. " Governor McEnery has no bet ter friend in the State than ourself. .- For that very reason do we deplore his hasty action in the premises and :earnestly hope that he will conclude -to harmonize conflicting opinions on :the siaject, by amending his call Sand substituting Baton Rouge for 1Tew Orleans; thereby removing all Sijeustion as to the legality of the acts of the forthecming extra session of the Assembly. - o By respecting thus the constitution S'of which he is the guardian, he will C exhibit his fidelity thereto, as well as the Icoming deference heentertaine fi or e wishes and opinions of the Speople of every section of the State. THU STRuET RAILWAY OrEI. We publish elsewhere the ordinance aubmitted to the special committee iof the City Council, by the street fiailway Company. With the usual provisos, we favor the adoptinn of the ordinance as it S ds, except that portion which au orizes the company to fix the charg bs on passengers at a figure not ex f'eeding ten cents. :: We desire to amendathis by author f using'th'e compIuny to charge five c"ents, but would require that the c company should obtain the consent of the City Council, before it could lix the same at ten cents. This to be Sdone after demonstrating to the SiCouncil that such an increase was necessary to enable the company to successfully conduct its operations. It will be seen that, although the ordinance gives to the compily the r ,ight ofeonstructnmg its lines on more Ssitreets thau the public might deem Saecessary, they lose such right at the a;apiration of three years on those S.treets where the work has not been eoampleted within that time. +This clause in the ordinance is in dd, in reality, to give them tie Lrebree in selecting the most ad atageous route, while it protects hre citizens against any exclusion that p1t be contemplated towards sim lar tterprses which might be on ertotaea on the streets not supplied th tracks by the present company. Iwhle t will a fore -w venlence to the pubic lle g9 ly to the a~ If the stock bie, the company, inter.st, will eventually eztil ihe create pleasure ^rjartta which our people greatly neeid. The timne has come when our citi-! euns ought to n ake a combined ef fort to develop the growth and pros erity of our city. ig Hence, we believe in extending the every inducement and every facility W at the command of the City CounQii' to assist such of our people who sheoi a disposition to labor towards that oft end. We should not be' guided by the uarrow thought that property has suddenly become very valuable be cause an offer to possess it has been coa made. So far as- we. are concerned, we would like to see the projected en terprise prove a bonanza to each of Pu' ite promotors. I We want to see people make plen- " ty of money out of every enterprise the that contains and'good for the comrn- ti munity. oce THE EXTRA SESSION. bet ble The Lawyers Say There is no ques tion of the Legality of Iold4 , ing it in this City. is i It appears that the city members ff the legislature are not at all exercised sea about the question as to the legality of Th holding the extra session in Ne\r Or leans. The question was carefully con- l sidered by the governor previous to the .wi issuance of the proclamation, and he'did.ale not judge it to be a serious one. Sever al lawyers who were questioned about He the matter by a Times reporter sad that there was no clause in the constitution I or elsewhere prohibiting the holding of has the session at any place other than -the ren State capital. The only positive law on the subject, said they, provided that the eve regular session of 1882 must be held at isfs Baton Rouge.-N. O. Times. bai One of the troubles that "se veral lawyers" have to overcome lies in C the fact that the Constitution does cul not say that the regular session of Ian 1882 shall be held at Baton Rouge, on as will be seen in Article 21, bearing M' on the subject, which says, instead: " Doi Art. 21. The General Assembly mci shall meet at the seat of government Po( on the second Monday of May, 1882, at 12 o'clock noon, and biennially thereafter," low Then, in Article 72, regarding the bor duties of the Governor, the Constitu- day aloc tion says too: Art. 72 He shall take care that the laws be faithfully ,exeuted, and he wh may, on extraordinary occasions, con- " vene the General Assembly at the ple seat of govern'ment, or, it that should ro have become dangerous from an ene- tw my or from an epidemic, at a differ- the ent place. p Then, in Article 150, which desig- tha nates the seat of government, it is said: Art. 150. The seat qf government lad shall be and remain at the cit of neii Baton Rouge. ps We candt see, where these "several Wi lawyers" can find the authority for sor asserting that when the Constitution pie says that the session of May, 1882, at) shall be held at the seat ofgovernment, bir it means to designate Baton Rouge; and when it says that the extra ses sions shall be convened at the seat of t government, it means to allow tile the Governor to call it at his pleasure E either at Baton Rouge, New Orleans, a or for that matter, with as munch pro- bom priety, anywhere else in the State. i.a Surely, that authority is not found an in the only remaining Article bearing ab on the subject, which permitted the dei General Assembly to be convened in an the citl of new Orleans, on tle second n Monday in January next; 1880; which cam is thie only sessitbn the Constitution cal says sha81 be held elsewhere than at s, the seat ofAgovernment, unless that thi point should have become dangerous ani from an enemy or from an epidemic, .is when it can be called at a different jec picee. (New Orleans not being men- er, tioned in that case.) gn Hence we assert, the "several law- at yers" to the contrary notwithstanding, that the General Assembly cane as lawfully be convened at New Orleans in May, 1882, as the extra session just called there by Gov. McEnery. Nowhere, even when it designates NewOrleans as the place where the da session of January, 1880, shall be cri held, does the Constitution specify chi that the sessions, extra or regular, no shallbe held in the Ocapitol or any not other particullar building. We cannot see any atthority in the, Constitution giving to the Governor n even tbe shadow of a right to hold "i i nt, of the Stateb 1l bsession should hord be _radled to vigmeeor, sthere. Wei hag*11 baO b they could find ample accombodation for a short session outmde of the State house, as there are are everal rg halls - uin Baton Rouge well suited for the of purpose. ' B It was a Boston girl who asked, "- "Why is it that two souls, mated in se the impenetrable mystery of their na - tivity, float by each other on the ocean of currents of existence without being instinctively drawn together, blended and beautified in the assimi ' lated alembic of eternal love!" That is an easy one. It is because butter is forty-five cents a pound and a good ed seal-skin saque costs as high as *500. of The neccessaries of life- mast expe 'rience a fall in price before two souls he will readily blend' in the assimilated dalembic and so forth.-Norristown ut Herald. iat on Druggistse .say that Lydia E. Pink of ham's Vegetable Compound is the best o remedy female weakness that they he ever heard of, for it gives universal sat at isfaction. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. Pink ham, 233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., 'al for pamphlets. in Clinton Patriot-Demoorat: A diffi es culty occured at the store of a Mr. Uol- 3. of land, some nine miles eastoot this town on Saturday evening last, between. Messrs. Bythell Hobgood and Daniel Donegan, in which both of the gentle men named received severe cuts from Z pocket knives. Point Coupee'Banner: One of our fel low townsman visited Livonla neigh ie borhood, on Grobe Tete, on last Wednes u day, and there saw ap engine steaming along the N. O. P. Railroad. He says be that it made him feel like shooting he when he saw this tangible proof of pro n- gress. This Railroad is now fully con he pleted from New Orleans to the second is Id crossing of Bayou Fordoohe, and be e- tween this and the projected crossing of r- the Atehafalaya there is an intervening space of uncompleted road of -not more * than ten or twelve miles. is I St. Bernard Eagle: Two unknown at lads while hunting last Friday in the of neighborhood of Camp Chalmette, tree I passed on the Lngunille plantation. , Wal When they were warned to desist by a 'or son of Mr. Ferdl Gueringer, who ooeeu on pies the property; one of the lads fired 2, at him at shabort range, lodging a load of t, birdshot in his stomach. The intruders j Sthen made off through the swamps, and Stheir identity remains as yet nndiscov. ered. Young Gueringe9 is severely, th6ugh not fatally wounded. te St. Bernard Eagle: Augnste Couniot, ?5, a gentleman well known in this neigh o- borhood, was cruising around the Stock ianding last Monday, and came to an nd anchorage at Francols Carraze's saloon C g about 1.30 r. 1t. He was decidedly un he der the influence of liquor at the time, and began to exhibit a common little nickle-plated pistol, of the kind called 'Ltobin Hood"-five-chambered, and Scarrying an odd sized ball of about 30. oI caliber-with which hehad been target t shooting that morning. He displayed iat this weapon, which was Afilly loaded ns and flourished it as a semi-intoxicated ic, is apt to do, pointing it at various ob- I nt jects, and among others at the bar-keep . er, a young nan nanlh 8ivester GOrafB gnia. He then seated b~s ifn a chair at the furthest from dt r ~id wo9 playing with the trigge~ .the pstol, when the hammer slipl 'and it was s accidentally discharged into his abdo men. Orafflgnia died on the fdllowiog day.' te An elderly Scotohwoman went one he day to an apothecary's shop with a pree be cription for two grains of calometl for. child. Seeing the druggist weigh the medicine witheerapalous ex:ssctness, soed Snot thinking he ;did this frmg an iety a Dy notto get an overdse, buit fmroh en uriousnes or delre;tagve as little. IR poseailer the mo ;rty eshe sid: "Dt 4i ori. na e a meae eal t ;, zinsUg We Ar 3 hi purrfatheriC a l tirn." 4. d To o "w ý;. Lee,. and forsa -atPaminl re k- , I-Uu- An and i kth e herne Sto . cn get, i T BhON G ovec, godI It S L ndLploe dker , from .. ....70 ap Ii are nOn sleaiCors.. r ........... ..nt s sl a1 e 1 andkerolefe, from ............750 up In Ladies' Collars, Lace, Linen and Perealel0o up fi Pine Rolled Gold Breoleast Pins ....S.o. up . aineh Rolled Gold Bceleta .........r....SaOup Pine Celluloid Braoelet .............0c0 up 0 id lee, Laces of all aorts, Patent Torhon,'ueasln, Venltan Languedoc. York, Black and 'Cream Spansh.irTris mming, Sarnm g , Coronation and of rohet Braids, Invisible'Hair Nets, nohing, Perfumery, Belts, etc., etc. 1R re Good are shown with t atet leure INow inSeaHOE In. S CRABtton MsEAT. bardt' I' a " n ]Lweetn. ssabrdt 0BCntton A ieenardt at, .weet. Don'tBLACKBERY BUalto call at pounSealed SCAe, weet.vy's Estabih en Go o APPLE MoRMALADE..3 reate d Stealed SINPEACE MARbT..3 poMnALADE..3 pounSealed Sealed 44 C(on, oid. k PJELLYM BUTTE..Cider and Cporrantd Sealed Canl - AJELLY.Peach and Straherd, 0 patled Ti H P EC MATTER OF T. pouCndSIONled ed CanaoJid. SWhereas, Mrs and Curdnt, adt retadiltrix dof the ove entitledLL.Pech and Straberr ~ Oion Notices hb to 1 .interested o to show cause (Irany they can) withIn ten a a i fromthe flrst lcaton of lianotoice, whysadd tI inal acount shoald not be approved, hbonolo. gated and io the jndmeentbf sardl Court. o Witness, the Honors be N. 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