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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-09-23
NouCE 70 CONTRACTORS

Mill be let to the lowest bidder at
w public auction, at Nurrells'
Point, on SATURDAY the 24th day Of
October, at IL o Sgock NJ, the follow
ing described WORK to-wit
Commencing at the bridge at Nor
relPs Point, and extending up the bay-
GU Dorchete to Luby's crossing. or 20
far or further, as the bids NAV enrrw
said work, in accordance with the an
preparation. The work will consist IN
clearing out all raft, overhanging tim
Der, cutting all trees, &c, that NAV
obstruct free passage, for the space Of
thirty in width--all trees or
stumps in the bayou, or across the
point, to be cut level with low water
and all raft, trees or other impediments
to be removed out Of the course of the
work, or cut in prices not exceeding
eight feet. The work will be let h1
mile. The work to be completed NJ
the 3lst December 1859, unless pre-
vented by high water.
Bond with sufficient security gill ba
required for the faithful performance Of
the work.
Payments to be made by warrant on
Treasurer of the State, when the work
is completed. Plans, specifications
&c, of the work can be seen at f.. w
Hodges, and exhibited on the doy of
letting.
ED. w. HODGES,
tVM n AfcnnOA
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-09-23

An Ohio editor recently toqk a CO.
temporary totaak fer copylnea scraps
from his editorias columns and not Civ
ing credit for Thorn. The cotampora-
ry replied BY saginghe did not do a
credit business.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-09-23

o. The young ladies best friend
their looking-glass, because il always
gives them "aids to reflection
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-09-23

~ Horace Mann did not die of
fever, but Of hard 8oFk--a troable not
Oftsn fatal in this country.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-09-23

Martha A. Jordon vs. Reubin Mar
tic. No. 1364-In Bossier District
Court, Louisiana
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26

John Perkins, an cd and very good citizen
Of Painesville, died last week, aged 81 years.
lion. Linn Boyd died at Paducah, KY,
on the 18th inst. Mr.. b. was Member Of Con
gress for several years, and Speaker of ,ho
Hjuse from 1851 10 1853. At one time he
was prominent as candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for the Presidency, in 1852
-Rev DR.. Perry died at Groveland, Mass,
on the 10th. He was one Of the oldest minis
ters, and the sooond,in age, in the Essex North
Association, and had exercised wide influence
in the Churches.---Henry Sheldon, Of the
well known firm of Henry Sheldon q Co, of
New York, died in Philadelphia on the l9th.
His death resulted from fall in the street.
-Rev Harvey Sullings, prominent di-
vine of New Bedford, Macs, died on the 10Th
inst, in his 76th ycar.---Rsv. Matthew B
Hope, Professor OF Bellies Lettres in Princeton
College, died suddenly on the 18th, OF disease
Of the heart ---Mrs. Hene, neice Of the
Sedgwicks of Mass, and wife of the distir-
guished William Heine, died in Berlin, Nov.
2SJh. She was an American lady of great
worth. -- Mary Agnes O'Conor, Mother
Abbess of the Order of Mercy, died in New
York on the Goth inst altar long and severe
illness.--PatriekB Boise, Of Westfeld, Mass,
prominent lawyer and politician OF HamPden,
County, died on the 10th, aged 10 years--
Gen. VIM. A. Owens, a prominent member OF
the bar and politician Of South Carolina, died
few days sgo.-----Samuel Lincoln, mem
Der Of the Rhode Island General Assembly, died
| ON the 2lgt iust.--Col J. W Pardee formerly
financial manager for Wells, Fargo d Co., died
suddenly in San Francisco on the 29th ult.--
NJ Poinsot one of the most eminent mathemati
clans in Europe, died recently in his 80 year
-Thomas De Quincy, one of the most re-
markable men of the age - the "Enghsi
Opium Eater" as he styled himself in his firs
books, and as he has since been generally
known, died in Edinburgh, Dec. sth, aged 10
| His voluminous writings embrace a vast range
Of subjects, and arc published in 90 volumes
In his early youth De Quincy was rcmarkabl,
for his proficiency in the classics In 1900 b,
ran away from school and went to London
where he nearly perished from starvation. Ill
became an opium eater, and willed his body 10
dissection a contribution to science, believing
that terrible gnawing at his stomach will
which he was afflicted, was caused by tbt
ravages of a living animal.---Col. Benjamin
Lorng, an aged and well known citizen O
Boston, died on the Gath inst.--A free coloi
ed patriarch named George Woodhouse, die
in Norfolk, Va, on the 18th, aged 100 year
The Argus says he was horn in 1879, and ha
re ched the average age Of man when the re'
olutionary war broke out. He was then
slave but was set free when too old TO mol
than pay his way.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26
Service. at the Funeral of Mr.. copple.

Edwin Coppie, one of the victims of Har-
per's Ferry, was buried Dec. 18th, just at the
going down of the sun, in the Quaker bury.ng
ground few miles from Salem, Ohio, where
he sleeps with his kindred. The funeral ser
vices were conducted after the manner of the
Friends, and were solemn and afi, citing. A
correspondent writes
A most beautiful and appropriate address
was delivered over his body by Mrs Rachel
Whinery, which ives surrounded by weeping
sympatbzing friends AT the head of the corpse
sat the aged grandmother, of more than four
score and ten years, to whom she referred most
touchingly. 1t was most comforting to his
bereaved relatives and friends she said, that he
died nobly and usefully as a benefactor and a
martyr.
When the coffin was carried out into tie
open yard in front of the house that the large
concoursc might pay their last tribute Of re
spect to one whom they had known from a
child, J. H." spoke as follows:
"As ye would that men should do unto you,
do ye even so unto them" For practically living
out this great truth, our brother sacrificed his
life For remembering those in bonds as
bound with them, he has died martyr in a
holy cause.-the freedom of despised class
Let us not weep for him, as those who have no
| hope. His life has not been spent in vain-and
his death will be the incentive to uproot the
slave system.
The Judge of all the Earth, has heralded to
him the welcome plaudit "Come in thou bless
ed, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you. For
| was an husgered, and ye gave me meat l
was stranger and We took me in, naked and
| ye clothed me, sick and in prison and ye visit
ed me-" for inasmuch as ye done it to the poor,
despised outcast slave, ye did it unto me-
Let us here over this lifeless body and as if
standing at the Altar of Christ, consecrate our
lives anew, to go and battle manfully, for truth
and righteousness, and for the overthrow Of
the bloody system, that sacrifices the bodies
and souls of millions of our fellow men; and
may we ever sympathize with the ont-ast and
oppressed, and the most despised of our fellow
| suffering men"
Here ends the first lesson Of those who
being dead yet sPeaketh.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26
4 nIonster Pence NInkhr.

A monster cannon has just been cast at the
Fort Pitt Works which the Pittsburgh Gazette
says deserves to be celebrated in poem like
SShiler's Song of the Bell Seventy eight
thousand pounds of metal were used in the
casting which is four feet two inches in diam
eter, and nineteen feet five inches in length
The work was completed in the space of about
four hours and half and the Gazette says:
The metal was melted in what arc known as
reveberatory air furnaces. The mould was a
ponderous structure, and was vertically in a pit
prepared for the purpose. The iron flask
weighed thirty-one THOUSAND pounds, and with
the earthen mould, fifty-lour thousand pounds
Its weight when filled with the iron was one
hundre and twenty eight thousand pounds.
This gun was cast hollow, according to an
invention of Capt. Rodman, of the U. s. Ord
nance Department, and che job was done under
his general supervision. The metal is cooled
in the hollow of the gun by the means of a
stream of water, which is passed through the
earthen core. The cold water at the rate OF
about forty gallons per minute is passed in
through a pipe at the top and in the centre OF
the core, and is discharged at the bottom. This
stream is continued during the time the casting
is cooling.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26
Bennett and neIper,s Book. .

1t has been stated that the sharp James Cor
don Bennett, of the New York Herald set the
"Impending Crisis" brewing to put money in
his purse-that he quietly bought the copyS
right of Helpers sensation book which the Re-
publiclns had failed to get into selling notice,
aud through the N. Y. Herald pitched the fire.
brand into the Democratic magazine. Just as
he anticipated, Congress has got up prodig-
ious run for the abolition work, and steam
presses are kept going day and night to supply
the demand. The Washington correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune writes as fellows on
the subject;
observe that Benuett, of the N. Y. Herald,
denies that he owns the copy right of Helpers
book, and calls on Senator Wilson to retract
the charge, Wilson was probably mistaken in
| the technical nature of Benefits interest. The
report in Washington ia not that old Bennett
holds the copyright but that he receives half
| the profits derived from the sale of the book -
| Ii cannot have escaped ou that neither Helper
nor Bennett denies hiS report Bennett is not
the man to work for nothing; and is any one
simple enough TO believe that he would adyer.
tise the "Impending Crisis" SO prodigiously as
| he has done, gTatuitously, out Of friendship for
Il any living utluEf nan tue pEouAb ol lut DOOk
will make Helpers fortune, put thousands of
dollars in Benefits pocket, and circulate tens
of thousands of the appeal among the non.
shareholders Of the South. Thus, you observe,
that the old Scotchman will kill three birds
with one stone. The question OF suppresiug
the circulation of his paper in the slave States
is being considered among the Southern Demo.
Gratis They begin to regard it as an ''incendi.
try sheet''-a wolf in sleeps clothing, which
comes among their people pretending friend-
ship to slavery, but in fact is filed with the
most nfammatory appeals, and most dangerous
arguments Of the abolitionists of the North.
would not be surprised If circular should be
sent to all Southern Postmasters, directing
them TO burn all copies of this dangerous paper
that come to their respective offices. Benn, It
has heard Of the nquistion that is sitting in
| judgment on hs "incendiary" Herald, and is
badly scared lest a bull Of accommodation be
launched at it. II is admitted by Southern
Members of Congress that the peculiar insti-
tuition" would be in less jeopardy if the N. Y.
Tribune or Evening Post were substituted foi
the Herald in the Slave States How success
fully and admirably old Bennett has blinded
the eyes Of the chiyalry for the many years hC
has been broadessting Abolition speeches, res
olutons and sentiments among the non-slave-
holders Of the South.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26
The senate InveslIEalInE OOmmitlee.

The Senate Committee to investi cato the
Harper's Ferry fright of Virginia, &c, has sent
@. 8. Jones, Doorkeeper of the Senate, to
Texas, for Richard Realf, the ex>Secretary Of
the Jokn Brown Provisional Government 1t
appears that Realf some two months ago deliv-
cred lecture at Austin, Texas, where he has
been studying for the ministry, intending to
enter the Methodist itineracy. Realf claims to
have renounced abOlitionism, aud that he had
no correspondence with Brown and his men
after he left Cleveland for New York, in June,
1888. The Austin Intelligencer states that
Realf has placed himself Internationally al
the disposition of the President of the United
StAtee, and had also offered to surrender him
self to Gov. Wise, and has notified these au.
thOrities that he will remain at Austin until
their wishes are known.
A Washington letter to the N. Y. Tribune
says:
underrtand that Thaddeus Hyatt of New
York, President Of the National Kansas Aid
Committee; W. +. NJ. Army, the General Agent
Of that Committee Qt is said here that the
"KeaTnY" mentioned in Gerrit Smiths letter
and the "W. +. McAnsey' mentioned by Rich
ard Reali, should be Judge W. +. NJ Army Of
Anderson county, Kaneas;) Gen. s. o. POme-
roy Of Atchison; Gov g. Robinson; Martin +
Conway, the General Agent of the Emigrant
Aid Society at Lawrence, Kansas; Capt. J,
Montgomery, and Augustus Wattles of Linn
County, will be summoned TO appear as wit
nesses before that Committee.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26
Kansas Constitution tho prosidept.


Mr.. Conway, tho member of Congress elect
from the new State of Kansas. has arnvsd in
Washington, and brought with him copies Of
the State Constitution recently adopted by the
people, one of which ho has placed in the
hands of Mr.. Grow, of Pa, to present to the
Speaker of the House when he is chosen, and
one copy will be delivered to the President of
the Senate. A Washington letter of the goth
says:
Mr.. Conway called on the President of the
United States and told him that a messenger
of the Conveation, Mr.. Army, would arrive in
day or two with copy of the Constitution,
addressed to him, and he hoped he would send
it to both Houses with a message recommend
ing the admission of the State under it.
The President said he would present no cap
tious opposition TO the admission of Kansas
and would have no objections to sending the
Constitution to Congress with message, if
as in the case Of Oregon, only one copy were
here and that in his possession. But as the
Convention had taken special pains TO provide
for its reception by both Houses Independent of
his action, and as he had not received any copy,
he did not know whether it would be incumbent
on him to say anything to Congress about it,
Mr.. Army has since arrived however, with an
official copy of the Constitution addressed to
the President. lie will call upon him to NOR
row as the organ of the Convention, and request
the President to present the subject TO Congress,
and invite its favorable action in the premises.
viii he dodge the responsibility We shall see.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26


The Republican members Of the House nom
the Northwest are mp aud dressed all the time
A late letter from Washington says;
We are now near the middle Of the third
week Of the session, and during all this
time no Republican member from any Of the
seven Western States has failed to answer
TO his name on roll call Not one Of them
has pared eft for any purpose. They are al
ways preso nc in solid body. The thirtyssix
Northwestern Republican votes can be depend
i n in all emergencies. There is not a weak
kuced brother among them all. None ofthem
need sitting up with. They are all resolute,
de ermined men, none of whom can be bought
or bulied It does ones eyes good to look on
that stubborn phalanx. They are true expo
rents Of Western sentiments, and excellent
samples Of Western character, Not one Of
them will ever show the white feather if diiven
to a trial of muscle by the fire eaters. | can
name a score of them that would hit from the
shoulder and "kck like blazes," If an emer-
gency requiring the employment of thl manly
''art of sell-deltpco" should occur. The chiv-
airy are aware of the fact that the Western
men possess these striking traits Of character,
and have shown no disposition to knock chips
off their shoulders or TO tread on their coat
tails They don't care about finding out how
many John Browns might be developed in a
trial of physical strength and courage.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26
senntOr Push an d the Committees.

After all his servilty to his slave-masters,
Senator Pugh was unable to obtain any desira-
bic post Of honor on the Senate Committees.--
He had blown the Douglas horn too much, the
music grating harshly on the Southern ear
ohio's boasting Senator was therefore put in
Coventry with the Little Giant, and but few
crumbs and well gnawed bones were doled out
to Northern Democrats The Republicans ex,
peetod nothing, and were not disappointed. -
A Washington letter says;
Pugh moaned and whined most piteously
over the second table entertainment set before
the doughlaees, but the shareholders sneornply
laughed at him, and told him that he ought e
be thankful that he got anything; that upcr
their souls they were astonished at their owl
liberality, seeing that they oloaed the party. H,
came dov like a spaniel. His name should b,
spelled p ooh instead Of the present orthoRra
ply; it is 30 pronounced by the Ohians here
But Gos Chase will shortly relieve him from
his degraded, subordinate position, and then tn,
Buckeye State will have two full~grown mel
to represent her in the Senate Chamber.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26
change Of sentiment in washington.

The Washington letter of the 18th to the
Chicago Press, shows how "thingsis working"
under the reign of the dsunion blusterers in
both wings of the Capitol The people there
begin to realize that marble and lots will be
cheap in the Federal City, should the Demo-
ciats become traitors to the Union in fact as
they already are in woid ds. We quote
I have noticed that tie galleries have almost
ceased applauding disuniOn speeches. Kissing
has taken the place of plaudts. The citizens
residing here are becoming uneasy at tho exist
ing state Of things Currency is scarce; threats
Of disunion are plenty, and the people of the
District begin to realize the awful consequent
ces TO them of disruption of the Union. There
were very few Sherman men living here three
weeks ago; but now the town is full of them.
This chlnge of public sentiment can be felt in
the very atmosphere An old citizen of Wash
ington said to me the other day, that ifthe Re.
publicans elected their President next year,
when they came here to insugurate him, they
would scarcely find a resident or property
holder in the District, without Republican
badge on his coat. "Why, sir" said he, "hall
the Virginia clerks in the Departments will
swear by all "that Is good, that they have been
Republicans "in principle, for six years, aud
some Of them cali their lives, and am not sure
tut many of "them would be telling the truth
Another old settler assured me that very large
majority of the permanent resdents who are
Americans in politics, sincerely desire the sue
cess of the Republican party next year They
were old Clay Wings, in former days. and they
hate the ulriiim OF the Democratic party
They regard the Republicans as altogether
more National" and conservativeSin their pur
poses and principles, than the fre-eaters wh,
control the Administration, and who seem in
tent upon rushing the nation upon destruction
. Depend upon it, there will be q large Republi
can party in this District whenever there is
Republican administration in power, behn
which they can take shelter from the assault
and prosecutions Of the fre-eators. And thi
spread Of Repub icanism will not be confines
to Washington city. Baltimore and the Stat
of Maryland are ripe for a similar development
Of sentiment. Should the Democrats undertak
to dissolve the Union in the event of the cleo
tion Of a Republican President, it will be tn
signal for the American party to join hands wit
the Republicans Of the North and strike th
traitors down. Virginia will not be a unit o.
the side ofthe nulliiers in such a crisis. Th
real sentiments of majority of her white pee
pie are sadly misrepresented on the floors {
COnpress
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26
John q. Fec 20 be Rrpelled.

The citizens of Madison county, Ky, met
last Saturday and passed resolutions, the gist
OfWhieh lies in the last, directing COMMITTEE
70 wait on John q. Fee, Rogers, and all others,
that the sad committee may thing inimical and
dangerous to our institutions, our interests, and
our public safety and tranquility, and inform
them that they must quit this county and State
and that they must be without the limits Of
this county within ten days after tho time of re
ceiving Haid notice"
Fee sent the citizens Of Madison county /
circular, informing them that hs claimed the
right 10 agitate the Slavery question as Con
stitutiOaal one. The committee were to NEE
on Wednesday, TO deliberate as to the, time anC
mode Of "Waiting on" Fee and the rest.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26
pouEIns Indinnn.

The brag that Douglas has secured a ma
jOrity OF the county delegates in Indiana to the
State Convention, is whistle before out of
the woods. Mesrs. Bright, Fitch and English
say It Isl not sOi that he has only got control of
the five northern districts. and that the State
Convention is already sure for Gen. Lane, Of
oregOn,a ,as the first choice of Indiana for Fresi.
dent
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26

THH FUND CoMAIssIONERs will start for New
York with S225, 600 TO pay ths January inter
est on the debt Of Ohio. next Wednesday One
of the Commissioners, +, NJ. Wright the State
Auditor, will not go, pressing business and the
approaching session Of new Legislature pre-
VentinR,-Stais Journal
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" this city, De- q, hy " I.sws rton, MI JAMES
land.
IN this cltv Dec 22d. by The same Mr. WILLIAM
EOHlUNE Of Dovor, and Mts MARY McMANMAht
Of Cleveland.
on the 18th list b. Rev Mr. Dey a. the rosidarce Of
tue brides father an Cleveland o, Mr JOHN Y DAB
N v
C3r Rochester papers plelse copy
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