T0o Lo isiania, .j I',,lis I fi etIs cJs a S I undlyJ. i Orrtic 114 CaitornmLr srnaLrr, N ,1-w O,.!FV.^s Iir., m. G. BROWN, Editor ad Pnbl~ih0r. P. B. S. PINCHBACK, Manager. OUR AGENTS. MIST:;:IPPI Daniel E. Young, Grieevie. LOUISIANA -John A. Wa~sLinr,'t"n. Black a.k, Couucr,li.a P'.rish; Honu. d. Y. hi,,lso, Ah x:n 1v::1 A:iti;n St, rr.'tt, *breve,)trt, A.\. C. lnth. C .rroll Pari.sh. DISTRI'T i)O;' 'Ol.UMI4IA :--James A. D.Ore.. iWaioton City. ILLINJIS L,'4isa B. White, Clicago. KENTUIc'I: Dr. R. A. Green, Loai; ,vilie. ?Ia. E. PAnrs is our special 4pgent, and is authorized to solicit subse'ripticon.s and receive payment of bilLs. TiIUlDSD.Y NOVIF.IBER 1C, 1871. OUR ('110OI( FOR PREJIDl)EVT. 1872: U. S. GRANT. $TATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. DFTCERS, Pur +'r -P. B. S. PINCIIB.\CK of Orleais. R1EronDnro SEc'Y--WILLIAM VIGERS. tupMlhk'oNcj1; SEC t W. FAlIiFAX. MEMBERS. [An T.ia sr:TE AT LArOE.] EI)WARD BU'TLER. of PLiquemines. S. S. S('IIMIDT, of Orlean. THOMPSON COAKELY, of Rapides. ALBEI r GANTT, of St. Landry. JOHN PARS.ON, of Orleans. A. W. 83MYTH. of Orleans. II. IAB', of Natitochos. J.LMAES McCLEERY, Caddlo. I)AVID YOUNG, Concordia. F. J. IIEEIRON, of Orlmns. First Congrtesional District-Hugh J. Campbell, 11. Mahoney. iecoud Congressio"nal District-A. E. i:rlc r. Jamts, L. lkldn. 'h!ird C .nrl'.,ina::l Ditrict Thomas 1I. N:!au,!, (;L rg:e wf'.ahiugton. Fo urth c I'1lng) ýiooual Disti.ct E. W. Dove.s, 1 ttord B!upt" Fifth (',nzr2iounal District A. W. Faulkun r. A. B. I. Lrris. tU3-E<)i"TIV E CM.ITTEE. Ilon. HUOH J. ('AMIi';:i.L, (tLir IHcn. P. S. PINClXHIF'K. on. HAlRY M\ IIONEY. Ion. V. J. IIEIION. Hon. A. D. IiARI'S. Iion. A. E. LARDER. FINANCE CCMMITTEE, IIon. F. .1. HERRON. Hbn. TIHO8. J. NOLAND. UQon. Ed. BU'TLIL. Hon. A. W. FAULKNER. JOHIN P'.AltSONS Es l. s'Otur fricul A. Simon, of Cis ulltlitan News Depot notoriety, has at t::;t yilkddl to the licrssi ties of the times and rcmovtd his depot from the Alley to the Corner of A anal and J);uphine streets w!here his numnert,! patrons can easily find him. He has also estab lished a branch of his business on Canal street, near the corner of Howard street wh're all the latert papers, pamphlets and periodicals may at all times be hd. peThe City Co:lncil has before it for consideration an ordinance to authorizo the construction and mainteoiace of gas works, and the lighting of the village of Milneburg by hgas, by the Eueka GaCs Corn pany. uiA recent number of the I Jamn's S,'ntinl (Ex-Secretary of G. F. Bovee, Editor,) has the fol lowing compliment to Senator Bar ber "'Ion. A. E. Barber, State Sen ator, has purchased a beautiful mansion on Canal St. N. O., and has fitted it up in princely style. The Senator is ote of the fil.eet orators our State can boast, and is no superficial pbkr.ver of pasding events. We confess to being among the dmirer of the ertly general". ii"City papers report the inabi lity of Judge Cooley of the Sixth Ditrict Court and Judge Duvig nenud g the ~Jcond Dstrict Court, on account of being ",uito irWe have the pleasure of ano knowledimg a brief bu lcomee yait fer our ntomilporries i u erson Bently, of the Atawpa~e yaei, ter, an9Z tently, ElrjfmZ bTTh4 jDonaldrkille f hr. d IOSinee tte issue of ourlaat num1~r the "LouIsuIs. PnOGeost=TVE CLrB h.s ClC'e I eight Oew memi s frzii JOURNALISTIC BUBBLES. It will be remembered by our r~,aers that we statedaaniy months ago that the LoUrsLAIA. was the ,rnly Iona fide organ of the colored peolple in the State. The New Orleans Standard which had Ixrne as many names as a sing-sing convict and died a death as ignominious, disputed this state snent. Shortly after the Citizen's G,,-rd with its best bib and Tucker of Lowell manufacture stood forth as a rival claimant. It too has gone the way of all flesh for even the ephemeral which the National Re pulW uan tried to give it, has been suddenly terminated and the Na liond,l Rl)ulican stands to-day with out even the shadow of a colored wguard. These so-called colored enter prises were born from mere ambi tious jugglery and nursed u-eon the milk of faction. Their editorials al ways involved the fraud of a white man's utterances under a black man's name, and like one other upon which we have our eye their subserviency, incompetency preten sion and inaccuracy united to ex hibit in a clearer light the solidity of our own enterprise. We speak in no boastful spirit when we say that the Lors.IASIAN, has stood sentinel over every interest of the colored mcan, and been faithful to every claim of humanlaty. Starting without patronage, depending upon the resources of its proprietors and paying for the best talent to be had, our journal has grown in a single year to almost unprecedented pro portions. We gave our patrons assurances at the very first that our institution ws a permanent one, because we knew whereof we affirmed, and we now reiterate jhm becwae success has crowned the edifice of the builders. We wish to be understood as cn gratulating our readers upon the fact of our success, and we desire to impress upon thete the fact that we intend to continue as we began. So far, no topic concerning colored men has escaped the notice of our contributi, nus. We have spoken not simply for our State but for the country. We have deprecated par tizin efforts and utterances, and stood squarely by the Republican party, and while we laugh at the bubbles which have burst and those for which the lather is making, we again address ourselves to the se rioas affairs of our people. TO SUBSCRIBERS OUT OF THE CITY. In reply to your complaint that you don't get the LortsLiu.lr s all we have to say is, that the paper is duly mailed from this office and if, throubh the irrgunlarity of the mails serving, or worse, the negligence of those whose duty it is to see the mails properly made up the paper don't reach you, it is no fault of ours, and while on this subject it may be well for you to remember whether you have rae your sub .cription;. You must resollect it takes money to run a paper like the Lorxsusi..., and the colored peo ple especially who are as interested in its success as are its proprietors ought to ce me forward and give it their generous support, for it is not only the only paper owned and con ducted by colored men in Louisiana, but it is the only semi-weekly col ored paper in the United States. These, however, are not the only claims it has upon the public for wherc:-er it goes it is read, and its suggestiols and advice give it a con ideration suench as few papers of its class have ever commanded, and is pronounced one of the best ever establshed in this country. With these facts before us may we not hope to be able to continue to send our paper to all of its sub scribers. B.,rIMQRSE SraTnr Caus.- A trial for ejecting a colored man from a street car in Baltimore has just come off before a Federal Court in that city. The Company wasu oaued for $2500, but the jury awarded $40 damages. This deciaioa however will settle the question, and colored people will be permitted to pay their fare and have their rides like other people. The world moves on verily. a" The Mississippi Navigation Company has entered sqit in the Eighth- District Court to compel tie Governor, by wm&ndauus, to make pubscription, on the part of -e "~ate, of one thousand shbres of the p;ptl stock of the company, as authoriedl it is alleged by an ~t- of the Legislature of 1870. The :trial of the rule nii in .he cae is fixred f'r s. 1. CITY COUNCIL AND THE FIRE D)EPARTMENT. The pro edingu of the City Council on Tuesday last qhow that the "City Fathers" confess frankly their recognition of the impractibi lity of endeavoring to "reconstruct" the Firemeu'sCharita4f Aqsociation on the basis they at first calculated. This result has been brought about by the weight of the wishes and opin ions which the contemplated action of the Ad iu~trators elicited. Al though the Council did not on Tuesday formally reconsider the resolution of a previous meeting directing the Administrator of Com merce to organize a paid Fire De partment, yet their acceptance of Administrator Remick's sugges tions and the appointment of a committtee of three of their body to confer with a similar committee of the Firemen's Association indi cate an abandonment of the origin l design, and the intention to effect the most satisfactory arrangement for a renewal of the contract. We give Mr. Jemick's report: DEPARTMEirT OF COM.MERCE, City Hall, Nov. 14, 1871. To the City Council of New Orleaus: I beg leave to report that pursu ant to the resolution of the Council at its last session, directing the Ad ministrator of Commerce to organize a paid fire department, I have had the matter under consideration, and have concluded that the establish ment of such a department at this time would be impossible. The management of the Fire De partment by the Firemen's Charita ble Association, as evidenced through our journals and by other popular exprces.ions, ;as g3vyn satisfaction so general as to be almost universal. In view of this fact, although I should be willing to assume any responsibility to carry out the in structions of this Council calculated to accomplish a certain good, I shrink from the attempt to popu larize an undertaking which would start out with such disfavor, espe cially when the good sought to be accomplished is, upon investigation, so extremely pioblenatical. I therefore respectfully request that the said resolution be repealed; and recommend that the Council enter into negotiations with the Firemen's Charitable Association under the ortlinance introduoed by me on 29th August last as a basis; and to that end that the Mayor ap point a committee of three from this Council to confer with a like com mittee from the Firemen's Charita ble Association, to arrange details. 1f. C. RiEmuK, Administrator. The report was 'adopted, and Messrs. Remick, Lewis and Cockrem were appointed by the Mayor as a committee, in accordance with the suggestions of the report. It will be observed by a perusal of the "Fourth District Court" pro ceedings, that Judge H. C. Dibble of the Eighth District Court, propo ses to furnish the publisher of the New Orleans Patriot, ample oppor tunity to substantiate some serious charges which one of the editorials of the ibat issue of that paper con tain against him. In these days and times, when so many newspaper writers are found prostituting the mission and the power of the press for the further ance of grossly partizan, and dis honorable purposes, when men avail themselves of the opportunities which connexion with a newspaper, or the influence which they may pos sess in this direction, to defame and slander by wholesale and without scruple, or regard to consequences, it behooves some one of the "noble army of martyrs" to vindicate not on ly the inviolability of character from wa1toa abuso, but also to furnish opportunity for popular enlighten ment on this grave question. That those who wilfully offend may have their reward, and those who donot, may definitely understand that there is a very materal difference between the "liberty of the Preswas," and that groess licenciousness which unhap pily so largelyprevails aiFor some time put there has been a dispute in Norwich Town ship, in Columbus county, Ohio, over the admission of colored chil dren to the public schools. Re eently however the School Board decided the question, and declared by a voteof six to three that-chil dren shall be admittedto the public schools "without regard to rae, color or previous condition." IggYtsterJay p.rning we had the pleasure of welcoming to our" slcltdum Col. 8. J. Ireland, o; the House of Rps'aaU4tei, and! Prfessor Lwruie-c Minor (4f the c? 4.tarrs iversity, 1 usi~ipp tards mordng af 10 o'cloel the Rovenuon Cutlhr i lerkns lei the head of Jackson street with, a number of prominent gentlemen for the purpose of inspecting the levees down the river. Among the party were His Excellency H. C. War moth, Col. Duke, member of Con gress from Virginia General Mc Ke, member of C:ongress from Mis sissippi Hens. F. Morey, J. Hale Sypher and C. B. Darrell, members of Congr~s from Louisiana Louis iana State Senators.'. B. S. Pinch back and A. B. Harris, Representa tive L. J. Souer, Adjutant-General Geo. A. Sheridan, Gen. Jeff. Thomp son, J. P. Kennedy 'and J. G. Tracy Esqrs stiThe New Orleans Patriot with mendacity only equalled by its shameless disregard of all scrpun lousness takes up and questions on no ground whatever the veracity of a statement made by us and sup ported by a series of internal and external evidence that to any honest mind could not fail to carry convic tion. The Patriot and its tribe of disorganizers know far better than we could tell them "what possible Sbenefit the perpetrator of the forgery of Senator Pinchback's name could have hoped to obtain from such a paltry trick." The paltriness of the trick and the insig nificance of the gain are not how ever to be despised by a crowd who are characteristically "catching at straws." If the Patriot would be pleased to know any more, we have given the public the names of well known gentlemen and we have in vited the inspection of the original hand, the letter itself which is to be seen at our office, Cease viper you bite a file. Taei R.ivI:s Ris;so.-The .Sloqar Planter of November 11 thus notifies its readers of the signs of a rise in the Mississippi and Red River: "The thickening of the Mississippi at this point indicates a rise some where and small steamers coming down loaded with cotton, show that the Red River is becoming once more in boating order. We are told that there is a great quantity of cotton lying on the banks of that river for iniL's up, awaiting trans p:ortation to St. Louis or New Orleans, all of which will be speed ily removed as soon as the larger boats can for: their way up. New Orleans is dull enough in all con science sake to have some ;tir in business, no ,tatter from where or where to. There is a good time coming. 8-The Staiu-boatsmen are hol ding a National Convention in Lou isville, KR.ntu.iky. It is claimed to be "composed of practical, earnest, representatative men" from seven teen St.ates of the Union, and from all the large citits. including Chica go, which with Philadelphia and Boston, gives its fulCkst endorse ment." Among the grievances un der which the trade by water groan, is the excessive wharf duties, and the Convention institute a'compari son between the tax on Railroads and on cars, which involve more wear and tear of streets and roads, and yet enjoy more patronage, and re ceive more grants and subsidies. The Convention protests against the impositions on them, and think that their claims to consideration should be admitted. "Siraxo Ir Au.."-Theodore Til. ton, ii the G(lden Ae,', tells a story of a boy ton years of age, lwho had .200 in a ;savings bank, and being asked by his father how much.of his money he w,,dld gie to help to warm the little hands and feet of the children of Chicago, burst into tears, and out of a heart full of charity, said, "Father, send it all." The writer adds: "And the whole $200--the sum total of the boy's slow savings--was sent the next day on its errand of mercy. We happen to know that the child's father, in drawing out these two hundared childish dollars, put back four hundred in their place, And yet we thought of Shakespeare's line, "The lrality of mewoy is twice bll" Do Nor RIDICULE CuLLuBEN.- Children often seem to say very ab surd things, for which they are ridiculed or abashed. Noching, however, can be crueller than this, for tim child has merely done what a philosopher has done before him -jumped to a wrong conclunsion; Sand if, instead of being ridiculed and made to distrust himself, and avoid the venturing his little spec lations before us in futm e, we l~ 'd been at the trotdle of carefully ex aUAi ug his ktin.U, we sh tu'd have deno.red how naturally, per Laps, tle ia had atrisn, or how ingeniously. through a la of kuowlelwe. the hue ammd had pat i tuClcthtr- ~W"Ci kJ mYwbJ. T inisaa, Fu., Ocr. 171. To the Editor ofue New Nationsal Era: I have been writing a number of short sketches of distinguished col ored men for the newspapers of Flo rida, and they Lare been widely co pied, with all sorts of comments. My object was to incite the color ed youth of this States to acquire knowledge, and fit themselves for the higher walks of usefulness. Among the sketches was one of Benjamin Banneker, drawn largely from Wells' Brown book, and some old pamphlets that, have been in my possession for a long time. A gentleman of prominence in this State sent the sketch of Ban nekor into Kentucky, and it is fiercely denied that any such man as Banneker existed, and I am charged with inventing the sketch for mere sensational purposes. Banneker died in 1803, and I have much concurrent testimony that such a man as Banneker did live, and every fact alleged is a veri table truth, so far as documentary evidence is concerned. I have seen in Philadelphia lithograph letters of the correspondence between Banneker and Thomas Jefferson and beside, in Pennsylvania and Maryland, many literary societies among the colored people have borne the honored name of Ban neker, and exist at the present time. I would just as soon think of denying the existence of Washing ton, Stephen Girard, Benjamin Franklin, or Napoleon the First, as the existence of Banneker; and yet, if the ordinary concurrent testimony that such men as ,Washington and Franklin ever lived was denied, I might have some trouble to prove to a mathematical certainty that Washington and Franklin were other than historical myths. Now to place this matter beyond a reasonable doubt, and to enlighten the "Hunters of Kentucky," and squelch the loud shriek and queru lous complainings of the Savannah iNews, I propose that some of your correspondents in Baltimore seek out the publishing house of God dard Angoll, in Baltimore, who publis!e d BaI:ueker's Almanae, and send me a certiiled letter for publi cation of the transactions between t:e firm and Banneker. The fact is that the flood of light that has ruled over the minds of men since the late war, concerning the mental, moral, and physical future possi bilities of the negro'as the coming man of a higher and and better civ ilization than the world has yet witnessed, strikes terror to the coward hearts of the men who have so long tiampled him under foot. and outraged every consideration of honor, justice, or decency. When Thomas Jefferson, protesting against human bondage in this country, said, "I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just," he was impelled to that utterance by the high, full, 'ivid, moral con ception that God, as the moral Governor of the Universe, must bring "righteousness to the line and judgment to the plummet." The great law of compensation, under republican ideas and institu tions, must bring to the negro even handed justice, when merit, worth, mind will be the standard of man hood; and it is to th stamdard of moral excellence I would incite and arouse young men of color to bestir themselves persistently. I know these young men; and appreciate the longings, the aspira tions, the landable, struggling am biti.mns of many a brave heart to break throungh the gloom of the long night of sorrow. What Banneker, Aldridge, Alex ander Dumas, whose writings are to be seen in every part of our country to-day-(how few, when reading Monte Christo, or the Three Guardsmen, ever think of attribu ting it to the gemiu of a negro) hae doae to exalt our eommon humanity and bes the world, you, young men of Florida, may do under far more favorable cireum stances, and even greater resulta The future is to the young man of color who-is in earnest, glorious. Everything is before us; everything to win; up, onward, let nothing thy mismion delay! Yours truly, Joxa~vns C. GIass. The amount collected for the enffering poor of Chicap amounts to over $5,000,000. It mu estimated that 125,000 persons, or iaboat 25,000 families, were thrown out of house and home and robbed of everything by lhe insatiable Are. Suppoaing this eimte to be •or, te! fun4 of 9,000,000, if equally divided, yould gie to eh faim lyof ire peraa oe ash, Oht 'Cis "f III The attpnpts to .ducate'eolored childrks in the late s elinkling portions othe United Sttes hasever met with an opposition as strong and powerful as lay in the ability of its opponents to exert. In some portions of the country this oppo sition has allied itself with the ass assin and incendiary; and with the knife and torclh, tar and feathers, and kindred diabolic:d instrument alities it has succeeded in intimidl ating those who are ready anil wil lin:g to aid in educating a class whose continued ignorance may yet prove a curse to the whole nation in an hour of dire extremity. In the District of Columbia a strong prevailing negro-hating senti ment has been pandered to in the matter of the schooling of colored children, and no effort has been spa red to discourage the friends of the education of colored persons. Find ing that neither mob violence nor unlawful measures could be brought to bear to deter the colored people of this District from availing them selves of the school privileges provi ded for them by Congress, resort was had to quibbles on the part of those in authority iuimaicalto color ed people, to deprive colored schools of the means of paying their teach ers, and of furnishing the necessary appliances for school purposes. Mo ney, however, was forthecoming.from private sources, and our schools went on until the Republican party succeeded in getting control, when no further trouble was experienced in securing a legal share of the school fund for the support of col ored schools. We had hoped that all opposition to the education of the colored chil dren in our midst had outgrown itself, and that the white people here had come to accept the situa tion. We were the more easily led to this hope by the assurance of Governor Cooke that there should be no discrimination between color ed and white schools, but, by a letter to Acting Governor Stanton, which we publish elsewhere, it will be seen that there is still an opposi tion to colored schools, and a dis crimination against them by which they are .erioud.y inconvenienced. We can but feel that the with holding of money belonging to col ored scho6ls is born of a desire to cripple tlise schools, and also to pander to the prejudices of the old citizen and pro-slavery class of our population. We feel that the col ored people of the District of Co lumbia are not yet safely settled down in the full enjoyment of their rights. Men, clahiing to be Re publican in politics, and in favor of equal and' exact justice to all men obtaining possession of positions under the District government use those positions an:l the powec gained by them for the purpose of thwarting the very measures that make the Republican party strong throughout the nation, the full en forcement of which is the black man's only hope for a thorough amelioration of his sad condition. Conservatism is rapidly gaining se condency in the District of Columbia; this bodes no good to the black manl. In local politics our professedly Re publican daily journals advise the ignoring of party lines, and, mand we tind places of great influence touch ing questions directly concerning the black man being filled by men in whose bosoms live an ill-disguised enmity to black men and their highest interest. Our colored schools must go on, and no prejudice against colored people on the part of District ofli ci:als will be allowed to impede the progress of our race in the pathway of knowledge. The school privileg~e was extended to colored people by the laws of the United States and we have recourse to the Congress of the nation in ease those laws are disregarded. New National Era. NINE MILLIONS MORE Nine million dollars mse of the public debt, lesm fty thousand, was paid off by Searetary Boutwell dring the month of October. This swells the amount tatthe debt has been derasesed by General Grant's Administration by the musam of tawo hundrcd and seently-three millions eLJIL hundred and fifty ithousnd dol lars. This is an average reduction for each of the thirty-two months President Grant has been in office of $8,562,000, and nashk a an anual saving in idterest of over aixteen millions of dollars. At the same rate of increase for the remaining saix teen months of his Administration there will be a iul further redue tion of the publice debt of $136,882, 000, making the entire decrease for the four yeas of his Administration overfour hundr ardm km million" ofdit, and as annual saving in interest b out $r,0O0,0o0. During the succeeding Republican adminis tration pt four years, upop which we may Sely eouut, the debt will be decreased another $410,000,00 Iat le~i, and fifty millions of interest ,mnmdl--, .¥c ,Vrrtiunrt Eta TtH L.11aL UNALS It is almost of as iuch l tance to the In -tio tio diit powerful as to 1 s.;,u Icor`. ing!y it. friends ani s n rt.rs .reo very ready to clnai:-a sohe of the re-. sponsibility of e.:'y tuml:;t, revolu. tions, uprisiu;z, strike, riot.. and con. iagrati,on that oec'irs in any lhr of the world. They are willing, in short, to accept a bad reputation for the sake of inspiring term,r. We have not as et heard that they claim for it any share h t1e brrn.ig of the Wisconsin wc(.)o, hl:ut tLhe have darkly hinted that it haL something to do with the harnin, of Chicago, and we should not be surprised to hear that it was at the bottom of the next great earthqutlke. It certainly claimned a larger part in the troubles of the Commane in Paris than it had any title to, and we suspect that the gre,t strik sc which have recently taken place in Europe would have occurred it had never existed. That it does exist. however, and thatit is rapidly extending its or. ganization, there can be no doubt; but it must be rouonkmbercd tLat such organizations do not beLocone stronger in the ratio of tLe increase of their numbers-on the co:~tru:., they become weaker they g athler ir. the beginning the elde of the elas among which they reek their r. craits. As the work of propagau. dism goes on, the accessions dec!i::e in quality, and the cohesivene.s the body diminishes. It is uotdif. cult to forsee that the Interuatioa;l will go to pieces under the we gL, and vastness of its own de.<`n. correspondent of the C~,:le u:. turnishes au account of a con,', of the body, con.isting of trw.:. ive delegates, held in Loeleo: i:nt six weeks ago, at which it was r ported that there were one hundred and eighty thousand eroll d :uaem hers of the Sex.iety in Enhland, fur nishing a revenue of about thirty five hundred doll:.rs a years. The French d, legate sail tlt tht th organization had been swept away in several French towns af:r the Communist rcv,2uition, a!dt it was decideJ t:) take s; ecial cr a:urc f fr its reist(:r in in il e t, .'1 :,:.1 to nImake ju.-i th': l ti i .i ":e;, ic missiouary t.:.;,:t. .c.t c srkict: and co si.. V. ,'ruy dlenouncedl, and tK:orial asit tiL", as it is in Eulia',i, strongly 1 corda mended. The ,,i,:, ofi tC.i a it. tion seemed t be Lthe co:. r-i oi "capital and land to, t. li :L workingman in what .unrur wan not dsc'ribcd.-TI b, FOURTH DIS f:Ia.'T CCi'iT. H.,u. Henry C. Dibble (Judgeof the Ei;ui:h Diszrict Courts !,as t tcred s::i in this tribunal, avýerri~g that J. M. West is inikhted to hm in the sum of one thou,:.Id ,hl!:!'s punitive damages, for this, t, ni': That petitioner now holds ,ril ercises the office of .udre of tLe Eighth Dis rict Court for the pr1,ih of Orleanr; that he has brn! tlo Judge of said court from the timn of its organMization; that ioe hurs a deep interest in the, ·rwl opinionof the commulnityin lich l:oe residcee, and is irretrievably iujurfll by c ry libelous publication and blizdcruiI report affecting his rcput,.tiuLn fLr integrity whilst adminiateting a4 said office. Petitioner further shows tluhat the said J. M. West is thle publishtr (of a certain ncewspaper in the city U Now Orleans known as aul sti' 1 the New Orleans Palriot: tht edition of said paper, luu'k. 32, Volume 1, was lp'ibirli by tL; said \West on Saturday, NoVLix~;; 11, 1871; that the sid edition of the sraid newspaper, so lrinted, issued and published l'v the said West, contained an artiele in ·hich! your petitioner was charged with judicial bribcvr and oflici:d crmlp tion; that the oflnce so e.l.,l :I a crime and is indictable. Ti' a"! publication amnounts to a 1 your petitioner has thi .r 1'y injured in the sea1 af,.r:'i Jl. Ti. said libel is co;,l.n