484 



LOUISIANA. 



Blacksmithing $186,000 



Candies and confectionery 388,126 



Cotton-presses 761,500 



Cooperage 201,204 



Carriage and wagon making 161,100 



Copper and tin smithing 181,519 



Coal-gas 789,800 



Marble and granite works 127,390 



These are all the manufactories in New Or- 

 leans which employ a capital of over $100,000. 



On the 12th of April the Democratic party 

 elected the following delegation to the Cincin- 

 nati Convention : at large, John McEnnery, W. 

 A. Strong, Patrick Mealey, and Charles Par- 

 lange ; first district, John Fitzpatrick, J. D. 

 Houston ; second district, J. W. Patton, E. A. 

 Burke ; third district, J. L. Brent, John Clegg ; 

 fourth district, S. M. Morrison, James Jeffries ; 

 fifth district, G. W. McCranie, J. W. Goldman; 

 sixth district, M. D. Kavanagh, William Dun- 

 can. 



The following resolutions were adopted : 



Resolved, By the Democratic and Conservative par- 

 tv of the State of Louisiana in convention assembled, for 

 the purpose of electing sixteen delegates to the Cincin- 

 nati Convention, that we present to our political breth- 

 ren the name of W infield Scott Hancock as a candidate 

 well adapted, in ourjudgmentj to nationalize the issues 

 of the approaching 'presidential contest, and to give 

 assurance of our desire to promote concord, insure 

 tranquillity, the supremacy of the lawful authorities, 

 and the perpetuity of our republican institutions. We 

 hereby express our decided and unqualified preference 

 for his nomination, and our belief that, if so nomi- 

 nated, his election will be ratified by the Avhole people. 



Resolved further, That the sixteen delegates of this 

 State are instructed to vote as a majority thereof may 

 decide, except that they are hereby specially instruct- 

 ed to vote for the maintenance of the two-thirds rule, 

 as it has been established in all the late Democratic 

 Conventions. 



Resolved, That the Democracy of Louisiana have 

 heard with the deepest regret that certain Democratic 

 members of the United States Senate have made ob- 

 jections to, and placed obstacles in the way of, the 

 adoption of the majority report of the Committee on 

 Privileges and Elections, in the matter of the illegal 

 and fraudulent claims of William P. Kellogg, who 

 now occupies the seat in that body justly and legally 

 due to the Hon. H. M. Spofford. 



That the Democracy of Louisiana, in con- 

 vention assembled, does most earnestly urge upon all 

 the Democrats in the United States Senate to seat the 

 Hon. H. M. Spofford, the rightful and duly elected 

 member from Louisiana. 



The Republican party in Louisiana sent two 

 sets of delegates to the Chicago Convention. 

 The Dumont faction, who were seated, were: 

 H. C. Warmoth, James Lewis, H. T. Ludeling, 

 A. J. Dumont, William P. Kellogg, Richard 

 Simms, A. S. Badger, Samuel Wakefield, A. 

 H. Leonard, Don A. Pardee, William Harner, 

 J. S. Matthews, W. L. McMillen, David Young, 

 I. Henri Busch, and Jack Wharton. 



The Beattie contesting delegation were : At 

 large, Taylor Beattie, P. B. S. Pinchback, S. 

 T. Allain, W. P. Kellogg. Congressional dis- 

 trict delegates : Cyrus Bussey, J. R. G. Pitkin, 

 Dr. H. A. Duperrier, J. R. Beck with, A. A. 

 Maurice, J. S. Davidson, Dr. B. T. Kenney, 

 Octave Ray, Governor Hawkins, Thomas A. 

 Cage, Henry Demas, and J. B. Gaudet. 



At the regular Republican State Convention 

 the following resolutions were adopted on 

 Monday, May 24th : 



We. the Eepublicans of Louisiana, in Convention 

 assembled, reaffirm our allegiance and devotion to the 

 Kepublican party and the principles which gave it 

 birth. Believing that it is on the threshold of a bat- 

 tle that Avill give it a new lease of life and power, we 

 declare our firm belief that this is a nation and not a 

 league ; that the General Government has and ought 

 to exercise the right of protecting the purity of the bal- 

 lot-box by throwing around it the safeguards neces- 

 sary to procure a full and free expression of its citi- 

 zens, irrespective of race, nationality, or sections ; 

 that having taken charge of the reins of government 

 at a critical period of the country's history, followed 

 by a war that cost us thousands of lives and millions 

 of treasure, we point with pride and admiration to its 

 grand achievements, in the rapid payment of the pub- 

 lic debt, the reduction of taxation, and the restoration 

 of general prosperity, by giving us a bond which is at 

 par the world over. We call upon the Republicans of 

 the North in the coining struggle to see that the na- 

 tion takes no step backward by denying or abridging 

 the rights of any class of its citizens ; that while we 

 can not have our voice and influence felt in the affairs 

 of state, we look anxiously and pray earnestly for the 

 success of those principles where free speech is toler- 

 ated and where fair play obtains. Having confidence 

 in the patriotism, character, and intelligence of those 

 who will assemble in convention at Chicago, we here- 

 by declare our hearty and united support lor its nomi- 

 nees. 



A university for the higher education of col- 

 ored boys was opened in New Orleans, at the 

 expense of the State of Louisiana, during 1880. 

 There are no data from which the number of 

 children, white and black, in this State, can be 

 collected. The Superintendent of Education 

 reports as follows : 



No returns from the following twelve par- 

 ishes have been received: Bienville, Calcasieu, 

 East Carroll, Lafourche, Livingston, Lincoln, 

 Morehouse, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Plaque- 

 mines, Sabine, and Webster. 



In the table below is given a list of the edu- 

 cable youth of those parishes that have been 

 heard from : 





The apportionment of the current school 

 fund, the proceeds of the one-mill tax, among 

 the different parishes of the State in propor- 

 tion to the number of educable children in 

 each, is as follows : 



