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pointed Chief-Justice, — a position which he also appointed five justices, who were con firmed by a senate recognizing him. The filled until 1880, when a new Constitution appointees of Packard held the sitting on went into effect. In 1882 he was appointed to the Supreme Bench for the third time. the morning of Jan. 9, 1877. A few mo ments after the opening of the court, it He was also Minister to Mexico under Pres ident Cleveland's administration. Few men

adjourned, and the justices dispersed by rea son of the capture of the court-house by the in Louisiana had so fine a command of the militia, under orders of Governor Nicholls. English language; and as a literary scholar The justices appointed by this Governor and analytical physician, he had no superior in the State. He was were Thomas Courtin all respects socially, /'and Manning, Chiefpolitically, and legally, Justice; and Robert the highest type of H. Marr, Alcibiades the lordly AngloDeBlanc, William B. Saxon. In 1878, Mr. Spencer, and William Justice Egan having B. Egan, Associate died, the Hon. Ed Justices. They took ward Douglas White possession of the build was appointed to re ing, court-room and archives, and held place him. He qual ified and took his court. The final rec ognition by the Fed seat in January fol eral authority of the lowing. Nicholls government Associate Justice left the legality of Alcibiades De Blanc, the court indubitable. a native of St. Martin's In the case of State Parish, was a splendid « rel. Mercier v. type of the Creole gen Judge, 29 A. 225, tleman' of this State. the Court referred to His career in the war, the condition of af and the high military fairs at that time, rank he obtained af and declared the ille ford the best evidences CHARLES E. FENNER. gality of the Packard of his fidelity as a sol Legislature. dier. His opinions as Chief-Justice Thomas Courtland Manning a member of the Supreme Court attest the was born at Edenton, North Carolina. He consciousness, zeal, and earnestness with was admitted to the bar at Raleigh by the which he discharged his duties. While he Supreme Court, and practised at his native prepared those opinions with no other view town until 1855, when he came to Alexandria, than the correct administration of justice, he Louisiana. When the war opened he volun has with them erected a monument for him teered in the first company that went from self to which those who live after him may Rapides Parish, and rose to the rank of adju point as a monument more "lasting than tant-general. In 1864 General Manning was brass." appointed an associate justice of the Supreme In 1879, a new Constitution having been Court; and when the State government col adopted which went into effect in January, lapsed with the Confederacy, he returned to 1880, a new Supreme Court was created, his home at Alexandria. In 1877 ne was aP" having appellate jurisdiction in all civil cases 16