America. General Jackson

repulsed with great slaughter the attack of | the British under Sir Edward Pakenham upon New Orleans. From 1812 until 1830 the State was Democratic. After 1830 until 1850 the | | | | { ( i a { Whigs were usually in the majority. The State was carried for Polk in 1844 by fraud. The sugar planters wished for protection against foreign sugar. An ordinance of sece ion was pa ed in convention January 26, 1861. New Orleans was captured by United States forces April 25, 1862. The State was restored to its place in the Union, June 25, 1868. The present Constitution was made in that year. In July, 1871, the Republican party became divided into two factions, led by Warmoth and Kellogg. In January, 1872, there were two rival Legislatures; open conflict had been prevented by troops. Two candidates, McEnery. and Kellogg, were nominated for Governor, and on January 14, 1873, both were inaugurated as Governor. Two rival U. S. Senators were elected. The Kellogg government was supported by the President at Washington. In 1876 the vote of the State was claimed by both parties, but was finally given to the Republicans by the Electoral Commi ion. Since 1876 the State has been Democratic in all elections. The population in 1812 was 76,556; in 1890, 1,118,587; 1900, 1,381,625. Lot nisi an a, District of. Included in the territory purchased of France by Jefferson, 1803. In 1804, when that southern part of the Louisiana Purchase which is now called the State of Louisiana was orgarized as the Territory of Orleans, all that was north of this was organized as the ‘‘ District of Louisiana,” under the Governor of Indiana Territory. In 1805 it was given a separate government as the Territory of Louisiana, In 1812 its name was changed to Mi ouri Territory. Louisiana ve. Jumel, an important case before the U. 8. Supreme Court, decided in 1882. The plaintiffs, holding bonds i ued under the act of the Louisiana Legislature of 1874, known as Act No. 3, demanded payment of these bonds in 1880. Payment was refused in obedience to Article 3 of the Louisiana State Debt Act of 1880, carrying out provisions contained in the new Constitution of that State. ‘This article recited that coupons of consolidated bonds falling due in January, 1880, were remitted. Suit was brought against officers of the State. The Circuit Court of Louisiana decided for the defendant, and its decision was confirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States on the ground that relief could not be awarded against officers obeying the supreme power of the State; that the money is the State’s property, not held in trust by the officers, except in the capacity of her servants. Youisville, Ky., founded in 1778 by a company of settlers under Colonel George Rogers Clark. It became a city in 1828. The introduction of steam navigation on the Ohio in 1812 gave it importance asa center of river trade. ' Tourenzo Marquez Railway Seizure. In 1883 Colonel Edward McMurdo, an American living in London, obtained a conce ion from the King of Portugal for the construction of a railway from Lourenzo Marquez to the Transvaal frontier. Two months after the death of Colonel McMurdo in 1889 the railroad, with all connecting property, was seized by the Portuguese Government, on the ground that the road had not been built to the Transvaal frontier, as the conditions demanded. This was generally regarded as a pretext for seizure of a great property, for the boundary was not fixed until two years afterward. Many English men were interested with Colonel McMurdo, and joint demands for reparation were made by the British and American Governments. The Portuguese Government abandoned its charge of technical breach of contract and confe ed unwarranted seizure of the road. The case was submitted t> arbitration in 1890, when the President of the Swi Republic appointed as jurists of a tribunal Me rs. Blaesi, Hensler and Goldau. These jurists were simply to fix the amount of indemnity. Delagoa Bay is sometimes called the front door of the Transvaal, and the Delagoa Railroad is regarded as the most valuable sixty miles of trackage in the world. The Arbitration Commi ioners did not render a decision in this very important case until March 29, 1900, when they found in favor of the claimants and condemned the Portuguese Government to pay to the heirs of McMurdo and others having rights the sum of $4,747,340. 415