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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-01-20

Il CARD.
To my numerous friends -
"a and customers of Bossier ET5A
49, Parish / beg to announce Cd
that have taken an agency for Mr. B.
o. MEsRITz, and re-opened at nv late
stand, corner Of Texas and Market
streets, in Wafson's building, where
they viii find the largest and finest as
sortment of goods ever offered in this
market before, consisting Of
WATC HE'S,
of the best English manufactures, fully
guaranteed, and at PRICES TO COMPARE
WITH ANY HOUSE IN NEW ORLEANS.
also keep large assortment Of
SILVER WARE,
JEWELRY, DIAMONDS,
FINE CUTLERY, CLOCKS,
BRAZIL PEBBLES, &c.
As for the work department, my per-
sonal attention viii be given, and moth
ing will be spared to give satisfaction.
P. f. L. FRANK.
cor. Market and Texas streets.
yl-n2O Shreveport, La.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-01-20

Board in private families from 7 10
8 dollars per month.
BY order of Boar6 of Trustees.
v. WALKER, President.
r. A. CAvETT, Secretary.
PlainviIle, Bossier Parish, La. MO
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-01-20

n. B.-There are especial apartments
and Professors for Bookkeeping, PEN
n5anship, Mathematics, German,
Frenc b, Spanish, English, Latin,
Greek, ETC., SO as to save to save the
TIME of business men.
Persons from ~ TO 60 years attend
to any branch they may wish, and UNI
til as perfect as they wish to be. There
are probably, not less than two
thousand Of its formerstudentsin banks
and business houses in this city.
Merchants apply here for clerks and
book-keepers.
Country merchants, steamboat clerks,
etc, can learn in few days to keep
their books correctly, or write free
handsome hand.
Catalogues with terms, opinions of
the press and leading men of the ma
ton, etc, sent to all who desire them.
This is the only chartered CONNER
eial College in tho Southwest and the
eldest in the United States, and has
stood for more than quarter of CEN
tory on its own merits alone.
Board can be had with the Profess
sors, or ether good families speaking
English, French, Spanish or German,
frem So to 6 per week.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-01-20

Together with large assortment Of
BIBLES, -PRAYER-Bo0Ks. TEsTAMENTs HYMN BOOKS
Song and all the popular NOVELS Besides large
School Books comprising
eography and Aliases Piano Violin In
AMI complete kinds
All of which will be sold the prices
n29 G. Il.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-01-20


Scott and Liddeli's Greek Lexicon,
DR.. Ureis Dictionary Of Arts, DC.
Lavater's Essays on PhysiognomY,
Mott and Gideon's Types Of Mankind,
Anthems ancient Geography,
Life and speeches Of Henry Clay,
Life Of Benjamin Franklin,
Life of Napoleon.
Life of General Marion,
Life of Mary and Martha Washington,
Life of George Washington,
Life OF the two Mrs. Judsons'
Kinds Horse Farrier,
Hand book of Oil Painting,
Prescott's Works,
Memoirs of an Actress,
Cooper's Novels Complete.
Bancroft's History United States,
Life of Scott and Jackson.
Sketches Of Party Leaders,
Tx Mervel's complete Works,
Philosophy in Sport,
Mrs. Partington's Lie, &c.
Deestick's complete Works,
Life of Empress Josephine,
Life Of Charlotte Bronte,
Cooper's Naval History.
Constitutions of the United States,
Gray's structural Botany,
Llncoln's Botany.
Fosters Essays,
Carlyle's do
Macauiay's History of England,
Goodrich's do do
Emmerson's Essays,
Blair's Rhetoric,
The aneens of England,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-01-20
RED LAND
MALE AND FEMALE INSTITUTE
BossIER PARISH, LA.
Red LAND

TNhe Second Term of this
u institution commenced HaIAHA
90 Monday October Sd. and -
will continue without intermission-ex-
cept week at Christmas-for the term
of forty weeks. The course ofinstruc-
ton is complete and the corps of teach-
ers efficient.
The large and comfortable new build
ings bening finished, We can now offer
as many facilities Tor instruction as may
be found ia the South west. The
institution is located in q high and
healthy region Of county. watered by
the best OF springs, which makes the
situation desirable one. A church is
situated near by, SO that students NAV
attend divine service regularly. A good
physician is also located at this point,
who will superintend the students in
cases OF sickness.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-01-20

Abridgment Debates Of Congress,
Benton's Thirty Years,
American Eloquence.
Cyciopedia,
Cyclopedia Wit and Humor,
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,
do Royal Octave do
DO school edition do
Walkers do do do
Bufoon'a Natural History,
Ptuta rch's Lives.
Rollins Ancient History,
Josephua,
Anthon's Classical Dictionary,
Shakesnearss ComnIete Works
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-01-20

Board can be had for from eight to
ten dollars per month. in good lamili es.
The Board of Trustees having pro-
cured the services of Mr.. JoHN N.
WEsT, as principal, aided by compe-
tent female teacher, respectfully solicit
a liberal share of public patronage.
w. S. WARDS,
President Board of Trustees.
A. A. AsNEY. See'y. ,n29
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-01-20

STocK-If, as expected, the citizens
in favor Of Southern practical educa-
tion subscribe as literally to this HOME
RESTITUTION as they ever have to dis
tant ones. the Agricultural and Me-
chanical Departments viii be at once
put in operation, and the whole placed
ON firm basis, to stand for ages as a
permanent Institution of tie South,
and under the direction of the Stock
holders themselves and the Trustees
appointed by the Legislature.
Stockholders can take the amount
out in tuition. The Trustees of course
can put any other party at the head,
If they deem best. The charter is per-
Petual.
Gentleman of the South does the
plan meet your appreciation If so,
win you give it your aid, and build up
a home institution with thousand or
fifteen hundred students annually
RUFUS DOLBEAR,
Milf President.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-01-20

N. B. To,preyent mistakes, or inn
passions, students intended for this
College should bring this advertise
IRent or special directions, as there are
every winter temporary rooms open for
a.few months; all, of course, making
wonderful pretentions and promises.
and posting flaming plaeards to en-
tighten the people of New Orleans and
the South. When three or more form
Clubs, and enter at the same time, ten
per cent will be deducted from tuition.
I Citizens and strangers are re-
speetfully invited to visit the College
and Judge for themselves. The city is
perfectly healthy.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-01-20
BELLEVUE

MALE AND FEMALE ACADEMY.
.FTyhe first session Of his Institution
will commence on Monday the
6thday of F ebruary, 1860. The course
Of studies pursued viii be thorough and
practical.
RATES OF TUITION FOR SESSION OF FIVE
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04

How TO SELECT FLouR.-1. Look at color:
if it is white. with a slightly yeIlowish or
straw.colored tint. buy it. 1t it is very whit,
with a blush cast. or with black speck. ii
il, refuse it. q. Examine its adhesiveuess;
wet and knead a little Of it between your 6n.
Flour from spring wheat is likely -toAe
sticky. Throw a little lump Of dry flour
against a dry, smooth, perpendicular surface;
if it falls like powder, it is bad. 4. Squees
some Of the flour in your hand; if it fetaidf
the shape given by the pressure, that too isl
good sign. Flour that will stand all these
tests is safe to buy. These modes are given
by old -four dealers, and we make no apology
for printing them, as they pertain to a mat.
ter that concerns everybody, namely, the
quality Of the staff Of life. aas
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04

Th. editor of tn. Horizon Arsus-Who,i y
tho wav is an invert~a,e wag-has been TO
Beaver Dam. and upon his return. gets on the
following upon the city. II will be prece1see'
from h Subscription, that Beaver Dam Is Sc
coud only to Madison. He says:
The other day we paid a visit to this -four
ishirs city Beaver Damn and called on our
friend CuIIaton, of the Citizen, aud looked IN
to things generally. CuIIa'on tas a tlp-top
office, and being The only paper IN the place.
is. we are glad to say. making money.
Beaver Dam is a large city of some ls,9oc,
600 Inhabitants. quilt OF wood. gable END 70
ward the street. 1t is situated in the midst
| of highly tertIlized town, and pr ,mIses to be
the largest place in this world or the next.
It was "settled'i some years since by one bea-
yer and about twenty Dams, but the fever and
os,e shook the ever off aud it is now known
as simrie B. Dam. since then the place has
i1pprnyeu some " hat. Immense stores. at least
ten feet high, and deep in proportion. have
been erected at the cost OF twenty one "oi.
lars and sixty-two cents each, so constructed
as to be taken in whenever the heavy dew
mandates the CITY. When this is the case,
the inhabitants, by means OF force pumps,
throw the water from their cellar up lnto y
large lake immediately over the city.
The principal predictions are city los bank
rupts aud taxes far the manufacture OF which
several large establishments run day ard night
City lots sell by the t'unktul in Chicago
Milwaukee. aud otle: i, land towns. BY which
the Dam is generally we'll kept up: HORIZON
Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, New York
Dodge county and some other small towns
derive their principal support from Beaver
Dam; while her ships toat on every sea, he.
flags waveI from every mountains peak. and
her motto. '.You B. DAM is OH the tongue o
every nation. The capitol OF the Unltec
States will be removed there tie coming
summer when the Pacific and Atlantic vii
be turned into her reservoirs for the manuIac'
sure of salt to be used on her tables.
They had fine water-poWer last summer,
but a strangers hose drank it up, since when
a boy has driven their immense machinery
with a syringe. This alone speaks volume:
for their driving propensities. The Busabos
Railroad will be finished soon. probably thE
week, when we will be able 10 speak more
a,tieularly of its advantages. Some ten OIL
twelve vacant stores would seem to Indicate
a few fine chances for business men.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04

THE WHITE SLAVES OF H NoRTH.-A
sewing girl, named Susan Lee. complains Bit
terly through the columns of a New York paper
of the injustice and fraud practiced by the
employers Of the sewing girls. The miserable
pittance they earn weekly is lessened by
downright cheating, and it a girl complains
she is told to find work somewhere else. She
thus describes the condition Of her class:
We: as every one knows, by thousands, in
cold or heat, rain. snow, or sleet, walk the
streets easly IN the morning to our work place
carrying. perhaps in an old newspaper, what
We call our dinner, often only bread. or. at
best a little cold meat, with bread and pota-
toes. and work from eight in the morning I'M
til five, and sometimes six O'Clock in the eve.
ming, stopping only at noon to eat our cold
lunch,A for these men who have made and are
making fortunes from our Iabors: and who
besides stintins'y paying US, talk to us as
though what many Of them to be, brutes in
human shane.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04

IHoMAsJ JEFFERSON ON DlsuNloN.-TheGd
lowing extract from a Letter of Thomas IL.
ferson to John Taylor, Of Carolina, dataa
Jan. /, 1898, is worth of being rep, oduced
the present time
II on the temporary superiority ofaA1
one rarty the other is to resort to ~scisien a
the Union. no Federal Government can a..
exist. If to rid ourselves Of the present ruIs
Of Massachusetts and Connecticut, we brs,L
the Union. will the evil stop herea Sunnsss
the New England States alone cut of. wifenrs
nature be changed Are we not MN still 4.
the South of that, and with all passions Il
men? Immediately we shall see a P.nnsyl.
yania and a Virginia party spirit. What,
game, too. will one party have in their haoAa
by eternally threatening the other that un]e,.
they do so and So. they will Join their Nortk.
ern neighbors! If we reduce our Union *
Virginia and North Carolina. immediatelyt No
conflict W i'll be established between the Rrnr~
Sc. tatives ofthe two States, and they will e.d
by breaking upin their simple ssitss Seeing
therefore, that an association of men who viii
not quarrel with another is a thing which
never vet existed, from the greatest confede,..
cy OF nations down to a town meeting or .
vestry seeing that we must have some.,o,v
10 QudFTPl Will. 1 ldu JdtuET Keep our New
| England associates for that purpose. than 10
see .ur chickering's ira nsferred to Others SIS
Who can say what would be the evils Of = .c;s.
| sion. and when and here it would end 2 Bet
ter keep together as we are haul of from
Europe as soon as we can, and from all attach.
ments to Ill portions of it and, if they show
their power just sufficiently to hoop US together
it will be the hsppiest situation in which u
can exist. ifthe game was sometimessga;mt
"s at home. we must have patience till luck
turns, and then we shall have an oppoe
tunity to win back the principles We ksv,
lost" #&fr r+ u u
And here let me say that our slavery, md
that Of tens of thousands North, is far more
miserable than j. that Of the we'll fed, well
clothed, and we'll cared for colored slaves Il
the South, whose condition we hear 50 much
sympathy expressed for, even from the pal
pits and no doubt often. too, by the very men
who Cypress us. and even cheat US out our
hard-earned shilIings. ----- @
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04


% For the past week our sister city of
Baton Rouge has been amused with the pre-
sence of a band Of Minstrels, whose per-
formances have been exciting enough to draw
crowded houses nightly.
The character of their exhibitions was any
thing but elevating in tendency, and with
less moral or point; but SO prone are Baton
Rouxeans, male and female, to patronise
amuse ments that we think the Ministries
could have performed a month longer with
the same result II the citizens of Baton
Rouge with their families could be induced
to visit such, a rookery as the old Court
House Hall, to witness such performances as
have been given there the past week, how
much more interest would they take in a
well-conducted theatre, where plays of a
moral aud elevating character could be wit
messed for several months during the year
Aside from such benefits, the rising genera
ton Of that city require a bette. school to
assist their young ideas in developing them
selves, than are usually incurred by visiting
c~ircuses, floating palaces, or listening to those
abortions dignifed with the title of Ethio-
plan Ministrely. We have heard of a move
ment on foot to devise ways and means to
build theatre or Concert Hall in that city
which we hope will assume a substantial
shape before many days.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04

! BENEFITS OF MILITARY AND SCIENTIFIC
EpucArloN TO PLANTERs.-We have been
permitted to copy the following, says the
Louisiana Democrat, from a letter written b
a Louisiana Planter. who was recently an
officer OF rank and reputation in the United
States Army, TO a citizen OF this Parish:
"Hish Literary Institutions are growing
up around Us in every section. but in the Sci
entiic and Military. we are sadly deficient.
No class Of people on tine face Of the earth
are moe dependent on Science and Disci-
pline tor success than the Southern planters +;
sean the whole area of our State, and see
what proportion Of its capital and labor IS
devoted to Science. See our Levees. our
Canals for navigation and for drainage, our
steamers, our iourdries, and look at our
plantation machinery. Then apply this
Scince to our soils, and see orr woful def
cheney aad waste in our want Of system in
cultivation. Then every Plantation is a small
military establishment, or 1t ought to be-. BY
Military | do not mean the old fogy notion
of white belts, stiff leather stocks. and
'palms of the hands ia the 'front.' but disri-
ptne. by which We secure syssem, regularity.
method, economy of time, labor. ana material /:
this all tends to secure better health. more
labor at less exertion, and with infinitely less
punishment. more comf,r tand happiness to
the laborer, with more profit AMI pleasure to
the master.
One other consideration weigh no little
with me-we have a large class Of our pop
%ulatlon in snbi1ction- just and necessary
where do we find the fewest mutinies. re-
volts and rebellions 2, Human nature is the
same Throughout the world. Give us we'll
disciplined masters, managers, and assistants.
and We shall never hear Of insurrections-un-
less as an exception, to be suppressed ~instan-
ter. without appeal to foreign aid.
No considerations can overcome my pref
ereEce far a Military SCHOOL,
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04

Old Noah B. was in old age, given. vhea
in his cups, to religion. One day bis so!4
woman" sent him out to split wood, Bat
coming across a brandy bottle, he Tessnet
home very much " obfnsticated,V bic szrand
unaccomplished. Taking a seat, he com.
menced with Wife-wife, do You think the
Lord, in his goodness thic) kin send Us lse
fire everlastin'" No answer from his win,
who was highly incensed to find her leg
lord in such a condition. wife. kin ts
Lord intend to burn us all in f.e eyerlastin.g.
Mrs. B., by this time, was boiling over with
Indignation, but still no answsr. wife lhie)
to burn us all lh;c in FIRE everlastiR 81.
This was more than human patience ccuid
endure, and she could not hold her tonge aay
longer; she'd speak out il she died fur Ifr
NO! yer old fool, yer ! not if he. waits N
you to split the wood pr G&5&3
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04

AN INDIGNANT The Indian
apoiis Sentinel publishes the following pun
gent and pathetic document from a landlady
OF that place, to one of her boarders, in
whom, until recently, the conhling lady had
placed the most implicit and uuwavering
congo ence
INDIANAPOLIS, ia n,ary 4. 1860.
NJ: You have broken Your plighted
vows, and almost broken my heart. You
have acted most UNANIMOUSLY Ycu, late COLI
league, the generous -, has informed me
OF your duplfcity-that you acknowledged to
him that yon did not intend to marry me !;
that your only object in promising to lead me
to the altar was to run up a big board bill,
and ther ':cut.n Ga. you false-hearted mon
ster! how do you feel over your perffdy. you
corrupt old English y%asrant? Yen told me
/ was your first and only love. and that you
would protect me and oversee my boarding.
house; you also promised me a new forty
dollar set of teeth and a new cork leg. Oh,
yoa red-headed old villain! ! understand
yen are making love to one of my innocent
daughters. Oh. yon vile wretch! after tri-
Hing with the affections Of the mother. how
dare you presume to bask in the sunny smiles
OF one oil her beautiful %tauyhtersz / close
this note by requesting the Immediate pay
ment of your board bill and hoping that the
next vessel that spreads her white salts upon
the broad Alta tttc. fiay rarry yotsr ioatt.senoe
carcass TO your infamous little island. =
Signed, LaNDLADY.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04

ExcEssrvE CLEAsLisxss.-Eyen .slSS
ness can be exaggerated as in the csse efl1
Pkarisees. and the late Duke OF QueensSayF
who would wash in nothing but milk. En-
own Queen uses distil'e ed water eaIy Ios n
toilet but this is not a case in posnt. sir
it is tor the sake Of her health, I beliese-wij4
her. 4 sal! case however, was that ofQe
lovely Princess At-xandrina, Of Bavaria. Vi
lied mad from over cleanliness, Itbessn y
extreme sciupuIouspess. At dinner
would minute'y examine her plate, and
she saw the slightest speck on il. would send
for another She would then turn the nap.
kun round anil rnnnd to examine every corner
and often rise from the table because 50
thought she was mt served properly in this
respect. At last it becameIa monomania,
till on plates. napkins, dishes, tabIecioth, and
everything else, she believed she saw noth1
Ing but dirt. 1t weighed on her mind. pocf
thing she could pot be clean enough. and il
drove her to insanity.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04
"RorGH GAMBL1xe."-Bail!ie P~eyton, in
his late Philadelphia speech, talking OF the

"RorGH GAMBLlrG.'-Ba!llie Peyton, in
his late Philadelphia speech, talking OF the
Democratic party, tod the following story:
Why, sir. corrupt n seems to be inaugural
ed as a part OF the policy OF the party. They
have taken TO what Il man once termed rough
gambling in Georgia. A voice what is thatal
One Of my friends constituents referring
to Mr. J. ]. Critenden, of Kentucky, who
sat beside hu:n}-i don't say he was born in
the State of Kentucky. but he was loating in
Louisville, he had given the police a great
deal of trouble. His name figured Frequent
Iy upon the criminal docket. At length, he
joined a company. as a co,nmo hand, to drive
hogs down to Georgia. In the curse of time
the hogs We're sold, and all the other men of
the party returned. But this gentleman re-
NAMED. Finally however. be appeared in
Louisville, dressed we'll, with a gold watch in
his pocket, and looking quite a dandy. The
captain Of the police CHANGING to meet him
one day, exclaimed IN rurprise-"why, old
fellow. where have you been 2 what have you
been doiagW Well" was the reply,''I have
been following rough gambling down in Geor-
gia." "and W hat is that p asked the officer.
"Wel!,' answered the othes. lit is cutting of
Trunks from behind stages. and a good bust
ness it is, Fve made $500 at one hill.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04

MELANCHOLY OccuRRENcE.-The ne VS. Of
the death of little MIrrlE, an interesting
child o: four years Of aye, daughter Of Col,
B lin CHM, was received with profound sor-
row in this city on Tuesday. Her parents had
taken her on a visit t., Mr.. F. D. Conrad's
and while PLAYING aronnd the hearth he,
clothes caught fire, and before discovered she
so badly burned that death resulted in q few
few hours. Her parents an! relatives will End
many in this community who will bow down
with them in unaffected coincidence at this afa.
letting dispensation.-Baton Rouge .Advocaae.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-02-04

JUICE AvERy.-The Iberville Magnolia
contains the following complimentary remarks
on our Judges conduct and capacity:
The members of the IberviiIe bar all concur
in speaking in the highest terms of the able
manner in which the ] Judge has so far, dis
chalged the responsible duties Of his Office
suffice it to say. that he is the worthy success
eor OF the late J Judge Beal than whom no ADLER
Judge ever presided over the Courts Of the
Sixth Judicial District.