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hauling indispensable supplies from one post to
another; artisans, mechanics and persons OF scen-
ENC skill, in the service Of the government con-
tractors with the government whose personal ser
vices are certified by the Chief of the Department
with whom they have contracted, to be indls-
pensable to the execution of their contract, and
whose individual attention is given thereto.
Ill. Officers are not permitted to relieve men
regularly detailed to them. When they wish de-
tails revoked, application must be regularly made
stating the reasons.
w. Men whose details are revoked for miscon-
duct or neglect of duty, will not be again sub
ject to detail during the remainder OF their term
Of service.
V. No detailed man viii be furloughed unless
he has a certificate of Medical Board OF is
recommended by the officer with whom he is
serving, for extraordinary skill and attention to
duty.
VI. Able-bodied agrieulturalsts who are de-
tailed from Department Headquarters and whose
details are hereby revoked, will be allowed until
the 1st of May, 1865, to renew their applications.
If they are not redetailed by that date, enrolling
officers will send them to their commands with
out delay.
VII. Men detailed as mechanics, artisans or
persons OF skill. other than those in the service
of the government, will be allowed until the 1st
of May, 1865, to have their details renewed. If
not renewed by that time, they will be sent to
their commands.
VIII Leaves of absence and flirloughs grant
ed by Brig. Gen. Fl. T. Hays, P. A. G. S., for
thirty days, will be respected.
BY command of Gen. 4. KIRBY SMITH.
5. S. ANDERSON, Asst Adj't. Gen.
March II, 1865 -4l--4t.
Parties whose details stand revoked under the
above Orders will report without delay to this
Office for an inspection Of their papers.
JNO. NJ. TAYLOR.
Enrolling Officer, ST. Landry Parish
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are reioining their old commands, and the great
est confidence is manisfested as TO the future of
the Southern Confederacy. The report is ac-
credited that Sherman has met severe reverse
and has entirely changed his line of March in
consequence. Great confidence is manifested in
the Confederates being able to accomplish his
overthrow.
Twenty thousand cf Lees veterans from
Richmond have joined Johnstons army
. Gen Lee, in letter written on the 10Th,
urges on the work of raising and organizing ne
gro troops, and says he is anxious to witness
their first experiment in fighting for the rebel
cause.
The Tribune's army of the Potomac cores
pondent says all goes to show that we will have
a short but severe campaign. In few days a
series of contests viii have begun between the
two great armies that will cause profound excite
ment all through the North.
New York, Feb. 26.-The Richmond Exam
iner of the 21st has an article upon the stuation
from which the following is extracted:
There is not so much at this moment to alarm
us in reality as there was last May. 1t is true
we have not so many troops. but neither has our
enemy, by great deal. On that occasion too,
when Bnte1 could and did land his forces at
City Point without any effort or loss; but this
year Sherman has to fight his way through
swamps, and take on him many battles, and
leave many biue-coated corpses behind him ere
he can see Virginia railroad. It is hoped that
the President will not relieve Gen. Beaaregard at
The very crisis Of his campaign and appoint Gen.
pemberton in his place, with orders to the latter
to step around Sherlnan's rear and march away
to Mobile. But barring this, or some equally
enormous blunder or issue. it seems evident that
Sherman has had much more difficult and
periIous part Of the campaign than Butler had
last year. In the meantime his devastating march
through South Carolina isaffo more conqueriug
that State than his great raid through Georgia
had converted the Georgians into Union men.
Richmond is safe if all parties concerned do their
duty.
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To which added value
When articles are impressed Parish State produced raised in that Parish
The following scale the specified will be PAID
o army andG
Transportation by Stage for soldiers the employ the Confederate
pc
forat the
e mil o g own o team.
furnished
furnishing
load
o
Mills.
furnish damages
For the hire Of Negro eighteen dollars month"; the Government furnish
clothes, Shoes hats blankets and medical attendance II
For the rental Of other eighteen
for portions of buildings -
and Cl
pesshe i've tree
When impressed which impressed The
schedule
published
be wit
H.H HYNSON,
Shreveport, La. February 49, 1865 Commissioners
ycomman t##= Gen SMITH
s. General [March1S
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Splendid Household Furniture
an nTrrDv
AT LOTTERY
SEVEN ~ PRIZES. VIZ,


SEVEN ~ PRIZES, VIZ: /
1st Prize.--A magnificent Side Board.-A Hat
Stand-An Armoir with glass doors
ID Prize.-A Psyche french mirror), with gilt
ornaments for windows.
Sd prize--A magnificent french carpet (for
parlor1, and other carpets.
. 4th ze.-Spleidid set OF China-ware.
9TH Prize--A marble Centre Table and four
mahogany chairs. a
9th Prize-Four beautiful Tableaux.
7th Prize.-A Punch Bowl
The whole valued at six hundred and fifty
dollars.
325 tickets at 50 per ticket Gin speeie), or the
equivalent in Confederate or State notes
The sum of one hundred dollars in specie will
be given. for distribution among the INDECENT
families of the town of Opelousas. ..zs
The lottery will be drawn by two ladies' as
soon as the tickets are placed and paid.
gg These articles may be seen at the store
of Mr.. Theodore Chaehere, at Opelousas, where
the list will be found.
Opelousas, March %, 1865. 43
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sSs' AT an election held in our town on Mon
day last for tlepurpose of electng seven persons
to compose the Town Council, and constable,
for one year. the following ticket was elected
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Public Sale.
Estate of Raphael Manuel, deceased.

EDY virtue of an order from the Hon. the Dis
ID trict Court of the 8th Judicial District of
the State of Louisiana. holding sessions in and
for the Parish of ST. Landry, the public are here
by informed that there will be offered for sale at
public sale, to the last and highest bidder,
through the ministry of the undersigned Admin
strator, or duly licensed Auctioneer, at the last
residence of said Raphael Manuel, deceased in
Prairie Mamouth. in the Parish of St. Landry, on
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Enrolling Office, ST. Landry. !
Opelousas, April 6, 1865.
To all whom these ORDERS may concern:
HEAD QUARTERS,
Trans Mississippi Department. !
Shreveport, La, Feb. I3, 1865
GENERAL ORDERS No. 10.
T The following order is published for the
Re information of the Department:
ADJUTANT AND INsP'R. GEa'L's. OFFICE. 4
Pefnond. October 8, 1864. {
GENERAL ORDERS No. II.
The following viii snpergede General Orders
No. n, present series, which are hereby revoked:
/. All details heretofore granted, under au-
.hority of the War Department, to persons be.
tween the ages Of 15 and As years, are hereby re.
voked; and ali such detailed men, together with
those within the said ages, who hold furloughs OF
temporary exemptions BY reason of pending ap-
plications for detail, will be promptly assembled
at the camps Of instruction, and appropriately
assigned among the armies for service; except
that men detailed and now actually employed in
the service of the Government as artisans, me-
charles or persons of scientific skill land those
detailed and now engaged in the manufacture.
collection and forwarding Of indispensable sup
plies for the army and navy, will be continued
in their respective employments until their re-
spective details are revised
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For Sale,
A GOOD Mule Cart with Iron axle-tree, but
IN little used. Apply at this Office
Opelousas, Feb. 18, 1S65-36-tf
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MoLASSES FOR SALE.
NIFTY BARRELS good molasses, will be
Il sold to families, by the barrel or half barrel
Apply at the Office Of the Opelousas Courier.
Opelousss 18th June 1864. 3tf -
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BY order, S. COOPER,

Adiutant and Inspector General
III. Ia accordance with the above order. all de-
tails ct men who do not hold certificates Of Med-
cal Boards showing unftness for service in the
field are revoked, with the following EXCEPTIONS
Men detailed from Department Headquarters on
the ground of justice, equity and NECESSITY, where
that ground still exists and is stated in the order
Of detai clerks who are experts. and whose ser
vices are indispensably necessary, not exceeding
one for each officer. except in the Bureaux at
Marshall, Texas, and those in the service Of the
Post Office, Treasury and Adjutans Generals
Department; men detailed IN the field service. in
which class IL embraced those constantly engaged
in collecting cattle, horses and mules, and in
The Opelousas courier., 1865-04-08
For State Treasurer.


We are authorized to announce Col. ROSS
f. BURKE, of the Parish of Natchitoches, as
candidate for State Treasurer, for the ensuing
election. @#E [April 8, 1865
In announcing the name of this gentlea-an
for State Treasurer, we deem it our duty to re-
peat the recommendation of one in whose opln-
ion and Judgment we rely an implicit faith lie
saws in letts- TO one of his iiiends in our town:
s'You know how pleasant it is to have GENIAL
fellow officer. Burke is perfect gentleman
one Of the strictest integrity, and eminetly quail
fed by long commercial career, for the position
At the commencement of the war he went as
Lieut.. in the I'd La. Reg's Infantry. lie did
gallant service in Virginia, and at Gettysburg
was severely wounded and disabled for life, &c"
The public always take pleasure in rewarding
such men.
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Financial,

The New York stock market yesterday
showed a continuance of Wednesdays dull
ness, but without any material change in prices.
The speculative interest was quiet, and is like
ly to continue so until after the 4th of July,
from an indisposition to make engagements
running over two vacant days. The transac-
tions in governments at the board were quite
light, though, on the street, some few sales
were made to the agents Of foreign buyers.
5-2O's were steady at 1893. The demand for
10-4O's from national banks was active, and the
quotations at the board rose to 97H. Certifi-
Gates of Indebtedness sold at 99A the new issue
of Certificates of Indebtedness rose to 963s, an
improvement of 4.
The transactions in State stocks, railroad
bonds and bank stocks were quite nominal.
Foreign exchange continued depressed. The
supply of bills exceeds the demand. and rates
are again lower
Money is very abundant, and lenders are now
Offering large sums at 3H per cent
The gold market is controlled by speculative
movements The policy of the sbears'' in COW
ering their ssshort'' contracts by borrowed gold
has the effect of depressing the price, the quo
tations yesterday morning touching l3e; but
the policy is Q costly one, the loans being con-
tracted at \ per cent. per day.
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CROPS IN FIRGINIA.-The Richmond Re-
publican, in an article on the agricultural con-
dition of the country on James river below
Richmond, says: At Curtis Neck, Taylor's and
Turkey Island, the plantations just below
Graveyard Bend, where formerly there wero
ten thousand acres of wheat and corn, there ia
now no wheat, and only such corn crop as
the returnedk owners have peen eo,e, mostly
with their own hands. to plant since the 1st OF
May. Prequ' Isle, on the opposite side Of the
river, once q garden spot, is now trampled
wilderness. Haxall's, on the north side, where
five hundred acres Were cultivated, now lies
barren. At Royall's, place Of four hundred
acres of cultivable land, there are now, per-
haps, as many as thirty acres in corn. Mr..
old colored hands, cultivates garden patch
around his residence. Bermuda is a village
common, where there are more cabins than
cornstalks. The magnificent plantation OF
Eppes Island, opposite City Point, is untitled
and uninhabited. Berkely and Westover, once
the residence of the Harrisons, now the proper.
ty respectively of L. d. Crenshaw and A. Js
Elicit, of Richmond, and memorable as the po.
sition taken up by Gen. Mcclellan after the
grain enough to feed the animals fero natures
that have there pitched their abode. The sarn0
may be said of Swyyard's and Wucox's. At
the two Wyanokes the Douthats are trying, ~
the face of every imaginable difficulty, TO Xnao
q quarter crop. All Of the south side q no
river lies wild waste On Brandoa Nechs
where there are seven thousand acre, o. atSui0
land, as rich as the banks of the SIaG, .neSS
will, this year, not be five edndrea eIsnsis ox
river there are heayrsrops of clover, and IN
some in nstanceS of ,-1unteer oars, Wnlcn Wllk
10 LOST frn,o th1 lmpossibility Of procuring
iabor t to - c,,t un, ays Secure them.
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Loyal Meeting in Houston, Texas-Rob.
berry of the Treasury Building at Austin
Z From Nevira


Loyal Meeting in Houston, Texa-Rob-
berry Of the Treasury Buildingat Austin
From MEXICO.
CAIRo, June 29.-Matamoras dates 10 the 18th
are TO the effect that the defeat of Negrete, af
ter an unsuccessful attempt on Matamoras. is
confirmed. He is reported TO have lost seven
hundred killed and two thousand taken pris-
oners.
The Matamoras Comercia asserts that Juarez
is buying up the old arms in the United States.
Plenty of goods are at Matamoras waiting
the market.
The Comercia reports that the ex-President
OF the ex.Republic of Mexico was compelled
to fly to Pass del Norte, escorted by Carvosal
and q uesada, with some cavalry. On the ap-
proach OF the troops under General Aymeid,
which occupied Chihuahua, there had been
some shooting from the left to the right bank
of the river.
1t is ascertained by sentnels stationed on
the Brownsville side that twelve or fifteen men
recently broke into the State Treasury building
at Anstn. and broke open the safes, robbing
them of thirteen thousand dollars in gold,
leaving the silver. They We're unable to get
INTO the vaults, where most of the treasure was
kept.
The New Orleans Times denies that cholera
or yellow fever has appeared in that city this
season. A loyal meeting was held at Houston,
Texas on the 18th, in which the most promi-
nent men in the State participated. series of
resolutions of the most loyal character We're
drafted and unanimously adopted.
Ten steamers, filled with soldiers belonging
10 the 18th corps, passed to-day en- route for
Duyall's Bluff.
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Conflict among the Civil and Military Au.
th0rities.

PHILADELPHIA, June 29.-N illiam B. N.
Cozens, who is charged before Il military COM
mission in this city with defrauding the Gov
ernment in contracts for tents, was to day ar
rested by orders from Washington. The case
was closed some days ago, but the finding of
the Commission is not yet made known. A
kabeas corpus was applied for by his counsel,
Daniel Dougherty, and granted by Judge
Thompson, to Provost Marshal Frink, who re-
fused to deliver up his prisoner, and awaits
instructions from Washington. An order was
then issued by the Judge for the arrest of Pro-
vost Marshal, to be served this evening. This
conflict between the civil and military authori-
ties causes some excitement.
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The InapprOpriateness OF European Pre-.
cpdPntS.

From the London Daily News, June 16]
One of the worst services which our public
writers could render to Mr.. Davis would be to
urge European precedents and principles upon
the American Government at this juncture as
worthy of its imitation and adoption. There
has already been too much of a disposition to
take this course. When the Government of
the United States is told that in Furnishing Mr..
Davis it would be guilty OF an unparalleled
crime, il is natural that those who are shocked
at SO great a peryersOn Of the truth, should
revive the record of events in our history in
which the infiiction of extreme penalties for
rebellion has been approved by our most en-
lightened and liberal historians. A cores
pOndent lately called attention in' our columns
to the opinion Of Lord Mahon and Eaiiam on
the execution of the Jacobites sin 1745, and
another to-day recalls the opinion held by
British Ministers to the proper manner Of
disposing of Napoleon Bonaparte. These in
stances may fairly be adduced to rebuke those
who foolishly pretend that it is the common
practice in Europe to permit the leaders of
great rebellions to 60 away with no other pun.
ishment than defeat. But we should be sorry
to leave the question in this position. If Mr..
Davis is to be saved, it must be by N(e exercise
of a magnanimity of which no State of Euro
pean ChTistendom affords an example; and the
Americans are people OF too much original
ability not to be able to ascertain for themselves
the course which becomes their character in
their present situation.
The Latest Opinions of the London Times.
[From the London Times, June L..
We are an Outspoken people, and make no
in those conclusions to which any citizen of the
Union need object We have been surprised ut
the abrupt extinction of the war, but not more
so than the Americans themselves. Whatever
way have been our speculations or sympathies,
we rejoice that the work of carnage is at an
end We cordially reciprocate the expressions
of from America, and
shall not be disbelieved in our professions of
desire for permanent peace. For the rest we
can only wait. We can see nothing of the
future, nor will we pretend to believe that the
revolution is over. On the contrary, we see
that it is but half finished. and that America
will certainly never again be the America of
the past. But it may well be something better
The blot Of slavery, at any rate, is enaced from
its soil, and one subject Of contention is re.
moved. The position, too, of each State of the
Union in relation to the whole is now defined
and established, if not improved. Then the
people have learned truths and unlearned fal.
lacies, besides undergoing that instructive ex.
perience which war seldom fails to yield. We
expect, indeed, that the Americans Of the future
will be more like other people and less like
their former selves.
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~A duel had taken place at Paris between
Generals Deligny and Grand in which the for.
mer was killed.
~The list Of abandoned lands in Virginia
already exhibits total Of nearly forty thou
sand acres. -"
All the rebel prisoners in Camp Douslas.
at Chicago, have been sent South, except a few
in the hospitals, who are in too feeble 3 condi.
tion to b able TO make the journey. :
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From Bermuda.

NEW YORK, June 29-The steamship Lucy,
from Bermuda on the Goth inst, has arrived.
The United States sloop-of- War Dacotah,
from Boston, arrived at Hamilton on the 10th,
same day. from Port RoyaI-both bound to Rio
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Albert Pike at Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS, June 27.-Albert Pike, the
Arkansas poet, painter, and ex-rebel general,
arrived this morning froml down below, and
stopped at the Bates House. He is on his way
to Washington to settle his Indian affairs.
MT. Pike denies having countenanced the
atrocities with which he is charged at Pea
Ridge, and is confident of his ability to excul-
nate himself
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PoRTLANp, ME-, June 2s.-The horse which
left Boston at sunrise this morning, to accom-
plish 116 miles to this city before sunset on a
bet of 81, 600, fell dead, six miles from this
city, having made 10 miles considerably in
side nj time
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New Hampshire Legislature--Constitu
tiOnal Anne endme mt ADOPTED by the House.

CONCORD, N. H., June 29.-The resolution
adopting the amendment to the Constitution
prohibiting slavery was passed in the House
this forenoen-yeas 215, nays Sc. The result
was hailed with great applause.
The Senate has not yet voted on the ques-
tOn but will cOncur almost unanimously,
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Axr,-s1AvERY AMENDMENT IN TH1 NEw
=, -sHIRR LEsIsI ,ATURE.-A Concord dis

n -,sH1RE LEs1sI ATuRE.-A Concord dis
us IN of Tuesday says:
pat three O'Clock this afternoon the House OF
,o9h np 5or ne
toe IN National Affairs. The former report
presented . resolution, ratifying, on the part Of
The Legislature Of New Hampshire, the amend.
naenf to the Constitution Of the United States
forever abolishing slavery. The majority -.
port was signed by eight members Of the com.
Inittee. The minority report was signed by
and E. A. Hubbard, Of I.aconea-and afarme3
that the events OF the last four years have lsfe
the South in condition where, ct present any
proper action npon this anendmentis 10 impos.
Eihle. - - '5
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GREAT DISCOVERY IN DENTISTRY.
TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN.

would advise all persons having teeth TO
have them taken out without pain SO1IO
Also, call and examine the Doctors new and i'm
proved method OF inserting ARTIFICIAL TEETH
III you once see the great Improvement in his teeth
you VIII have them in other style than thi n,w
ana yaluable one. Teeth inserted Gold, Silver
and Rubber Plates at the old price as We have N II
aSvanced the price on our work since the great
<e&reets. " A i''i
Jan26ly $. r. LEWIE. VI. D., Dentist
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ODD FELLOWS, HALL,

parts of the house.s ~ "'
ODD FELLOWS HALL.
FOR FOUR NIGHTS ONLY.
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND
SATURDAY, July 5, 6, Is
C4RNCROSS + DIXIE'S MINSTRELs,
The great Star Troupe Of the World in their ebaste
and varied entertainments, direct from their Opera
House, Philadelphia, appearing in an entirely new
programme of Original Acts, Songs, Dances Bal
let's, Burlesques, and Plantation Scenes,
Look at the Array of Talent:
LEW SIMMONS, PALMER,
E.Z DIXIE BECKETT
HARRY LEHR, LAMONT.
SLOCCM, WELLS,
ROSS, STEVENS.
HOLDEN, CARNCROSS,
The celebrated BUFFALO BOYS, and Others,
combination of the most accomplished artists
IN Tirsn1l the minstrel a6 I profession
Box Office open from 10 to clock for the sale of
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OXFORD: OxFORD: OXFORD,
MUSIC HALL AND THEATER,
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AMUSEMENT N THE CITY. AVE- Vt
IMMENSE SUCCESS OF THE NEW COMPANY.
Second week and still more startling perform
ances Of
LIE PETIT ANGELO,
LIE PETIT ANGELO
in his great act of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Second week of
FANNY FORREST
ANDREW J. LEAEITT.
FRANK DONALDSON
AND MRS GRAY,
together with the whole of the large and talented
STOCK COMPANY,
consisting of fifty performers
FRIDAY, JUNE BOTH
BENEFIT OF MILE LOUISE ROLETTE
MATINEE EVERY WEDNESDAY,
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DENTISTRY.

hENIlST-I wish to inform my friends and the
~ public generally, that now am pre-
pared to extract MI insert Teeth on&@
Gold, silver or Vucanite, in the best man SulI0
nsr, on the most reasonable terms and irreguarity
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