F.oriSIANA. 



LUTHERANS. 



ipeechos anil revolutionary m-ts iin.l threatened rio- 

 -Midi aii under the cir- 

 - wnulil have led to a riot in any city in the 

 11. 



. . provoke an attack on tin- colon <1 nopulation, 



! Mipprr-M'il liyihr military 



tusly endangered tin- white leaders, 



.it of the si-hi-iuc of the con- 



. This would afford an excuse for Con* 



gTMftional investigation, resulting in Congressional 



.:iu the ultimate design of the con- 



iKiiiirlv : th'< destruction of tho existing 



rivil Kiivrriiim-iil of LoiiNiiimi. 



that part of the resolution of the 



h m.ik.'s it a subject of investigation by 



whether anil to what extent those 



:rticipated in by members of the organiza- 



'..in!!ii_' to be the government of Louisiana," 

 the following conclusion is submitted: In no proper 



f tin- ti Tin and in no degree whatever is tho 

 not of July 30th attributable to the government of 



ana. If there be any members of the govern- 

 ment of Louisiana in whose official acts the remote 



- of the riot are to be traced, the chief among 

 them are Judge R. K. Howell, who, as the usurping 

 president of tho minority of an extinct convention, 



I the conspiracy to overthrow the State con- 

 stitution, which, as a "Judge of the . Superior Court, 

 he had sworn to support, and Gov. J. Madison Wells, 

 who lent to tho conspiracy his official sanction, but 

 on the day of danger deserted his post without an 



to preserve the public peace. And if there be 

 any memoer of the Federal Government who are in- 

 directly responsible for the bloody result they are 

 those members of the present Congress, whoever 

 they may be, who encouraged these men by their 

 counsels, and promised to them their individual and 

 official support. 



The affair was discussed in the press with 

 much excitement through the year. 13y one 

 side tho President was asserted to be responsi- 

 I'lo 1'or the difficulty, and oy the other side it 

 \va-; asserted to have heen caused at the instiga- 

 gation of Congress. 



The persons arrested at tho time of the riot, 

 were subsequently released by the military au- 

 thority. The grand jury of the city, which had 

 been charged wijb. tho matter, exculpated the 

 city government, and threw the onus of tbo re- 

 sponsibility for the affair on the convention. 



Tin- sy.-tcm of public schools in the State has 

 been successful, but it proposed to reorganize 

 it. The State superintendent urges an increase 

 of the capitation tax, with measures to enforce 

 it; a thorough system of normal schools; the ac- 

 quisition of the title to lands designated for school 

 purposes , and higher pay to competent teachers. 



In some respects the year was a disastrous 

 one to the State. Fire had done its work 

 during the progress of the war and left burned 

 towns and desolated homesteads to rebuild. 

 Tho floods then swept over tho hopes and 

 energies that contended against adverse desti- 

 .iud tho caterpillar came in at tho close. 

 Tin- product of sugar during the year was, how- 

 t/vor, decidedly encouraging. The few who 

 turned their attention to grain crops, were 

 amply recompensed. The details of the sugar 

 crop of the State for some years have been esti- 

 mated as follows: 1861-'2, 459,410 hogsheads; 

 I804-'o, 6, 668 hogsheads; 1865-'6, 14,700 hogs- 

 beads. The number of plantations in cultivation 



f-ir tho seasons specified, have been as follows: 

 1861-'2, 1,291; 1864-'5, 175; 1885-'6, 188. 



LDBECK, a free city in Germany. Area, 109 

 1 : 1 1 v'l ish square miles ; population, in 1 862, ', 

 The budget of 1866 estimates tho public revenue 

 at 1.692,000, and tho expenditures at 1,780,000 

 marks current (1 mark current=26 cents). Prob- 

 able deficit, 88,000 marks current. The total 

 value of imports in 1865 was 91,430,817 marks 

 current. The number of ships entering the port 

 of Lttbeck, in 1864, was 1,765 (among them 745 

 steamers), together of 140,000 lasts ; the number 

 of clearances, 1,758 (among them 762 steamers), 

 together of 139,000 lasts. At the beginning of 

 1866 Liibeck possessed 43 sea-going vessels 

 (among them 15 steamers), together of 5,210 

 lasts. During the German-Italian war Liibeck 

 sided with Prussia, and after tho war it joinad 

 with the North German Confederation. 



LUTHERANS. The Lutheran " Church Al- 

 manac " for 1867 gives the following statistical 

 view of the Lutheran Church in the United 

 States : * 



* More detailed information mav be fonnd in the " Lu- 

 theran Church Almanac" for 186T, published at Allen 



