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GRAZING AND STOCK RAISING.

| There is perhaps no occupation more
conducive to independence, ease and pro-
| ftable incomes, than that Of stock-raising
The luxuriant "blue grass farmsa of Ken
lucky, the haciendas and ranches Of Span
ish America, the grassy plains Of Texas
and the West, and other favored regions
within the South, afford the most abnnd-
ant proofs, that wealth and the blessings
which flow from nm active though not toll
some life amid the green woods or waving
prairies are the sure rewards of those who
make stock raising their chiefemployment.
There is no good reason why such en-
ployment could not be turned to great ad
vantage in this vicinity. Our parish is
finely adapted for grazing purposes. On
the wild lands grow in protuse ln&uriance
the grasses that are necessary for the roarn
ing cattle during the milder Seasons of the
year while the farming lands are capable
Of producing the greatest quantity of pro-
vender for winter use. Let the experiment
once DO tried upon broad scale, AZ 1t has
been successfully tried in repeated minor
instances,) and we are we'll persuaded the
result would prove by no means problem
atical.
1t ia no uncommon thing TO observe in
tho Pine forests east Of us, large numbers
Of worry choice looking beevcs grown sleek
and fat from feeding on the wild herbage
of lands which, to the initiated, would
seem destitute of elements sufficiently fer
tilizing to 'sprout black peas." But, 30 it
is; even those waste spine borr1ns," as
they are sometimes designated, afford sue
cuent grasses and shrubs on which the
cattle browse and fatten.
Such being the case, it requires no great
stretch Of tho imagination ~ conceive what
might be achieved by the inhatitants Of
our parish, we're they to engage in II more
thorough and enlarged business Of stock
raising on lands whore unture 10 40 much
more lavish Of fertility md productive
ness, and the results of farm labor arc &C
companied with 80 much more of abund-
ance and profit.
1t il greatly to be desired, that by in
creased attention and care TO the raising of
stock, our farming population may be
made to realize in the course of time the
vast benefits to be derived from such
business Due application Of energy and
skill thereto, cannot fail in producing the
most important fesults. The necessity will
then no longer exist, of having to depend
on tho West for annual supplies Of horses
and mules, aud our people will not have
to look mainly TO Texas and the West for
their everyday supplies Of beef, mutton,
pork, &c., and for which they have to pay
the most eYorbitant rates.
Let every one who can, devote himself
to the culture of grazing farms and the
roaring of stock, and many years will not
elapse, before here too, in our own parish,
Gas is the case in regions elsewhere,) the
pIeasurable prospect of "the cattle on
thousand hills" may be no vain boast, no
mere figure Of speech, but an expression
full Of meaning and reality.
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say- tour own, nssof the London Times,
has been to Saratoga. In his letter homo
he sneers at tho fried potatoes, the mineral
water and play actors, and says: "The
standard amusement among the men is
theg anne of faro played ut a very sumptu-
GUS gaming house here, the manager of
which disconrsed very pleasantly to me
the other night concerning what he
pleased to call his profession He
seemed to be not little exalted ut the
recollection of his career, and took occasion
TO lament the war in very splendfd Ian
guage, as having deprived him Of some of
his best customers. This was altogether
q very imposing man, and like everybody
else, an intense politician"
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tF A friend that you buy with presents
will be bought from you. That is good
horse that never stumblss, and good wife
that never grumbles. Censure is tax that
man pays to the public for being eminent.
Be thrifty to yourself that you may be
liberal towards others. Hurry is the mask
of q weak mind dispatch is the evidence
of strong one. When fortune caresses a
man too much she is apt to make fool of
him. Between passion and lying there is
not fingers breadth. There is no bless
ing like health, particularly when you're
sick.
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THE Levels. The letter Of Gen. CANDY
to Gov. Wells shows that that active and
Jealous officer has not been unmindful of
the great importance to our planters of
repairing the levees which have been
broken during the war. He has recon-
mended the War Department to advance
the necessary amount to complete this
work, on the faith and pledge of the State
to refund the same, but his recommends
ton has not been acted upon, and there
are no funds at his disposal for this pur-
pose.
Under these circumstances, the State
authorities will have to take the matter in
hand. 1t cannot be delayed until Con
gress meets. If this work is not COM
inenced in very short time, the crops of
next year will be lost to the country. The
loss TO the State and to the United States,
by such casualty, in the diminution Of
taxes alone, will far exceed the cost of the
work. We hope that the Governor will
take the matter in hand, and rely upon
the Legislature or Congress to sanction his
action in matter of such vital and press
ing interest TO the whole country. - ec
OrleGns Pacd9,1tfe, l8t INST.
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United states Direct Tax Notice.

T. $. Direct Tar Commission for The STATE Of La,l
Office No. 1856 Common Street,
New Orleans, Aug. 10, 1866.
THE Tax Roll for the collection of the United
L States Direct TaI In the Parish OF East Baton
Rouge Is completed and the Taxes thereon levied
under and by virtue Of an act entitled an act "for
the collection OF Direct Taxes in insurrsctionary
districts within the United States, and for other
purposes, approved June It'll, 1867, will be paSa.
Bile to me At the Court House, in the city Of Baton
Rouge, within sixty days from the 2lst day OF
august, 1885,
All lots and parcels Of land within said district
on which the tax shall not be paid within said
sixty days will be forfeited to the I'm ted States
u. III. RANDALL,
GEO. W. AMES,
ID. URBAN,
Direct Tax Commissioners for Louisiana.
Attest
X. > DfsIcKsoN, Clerk.
>. ID. o'CONNELL,
Collector.
BATos RopGE, Aug, 21st, 1865. aug22-2m
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The DAILY SOUTHERN STAR.-The first
number of this handsome New Orleans
daily made it's appearance on Saturday
last, and copy of it was placed IN our
hands by Mr.. HENDERSON yesterday. It
displays an ability worthy of the fine edi-
torial reputation of our friend EDWIN L.
JEWELL, ESQ, who is both editor and pro-
prietor of the Star. May its light never
wans.
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DIvREs IN TEBULATToN.--The preach
ers in Missouri are now set of perturbed
spirits, owing to the fact that the new
Constitution of that State vigorously ex-
cludes them from exercising any Of the
privileges Of their vocation, until they
shall have first taken the very stringent
oath prescribed by that Constitution. This
oath, termed the "oath of loyalty,n which
applies to all voters, as well as Office hold
ers, and professional men, obliges the in
dividual taking it, to swear among othor
things, that he has "never given aid, ooun-
tenAnce or support to the late rebellion or
to any person who was engaged in exciting
or carrying it on.
Against this severe test oath, the mem
bers of the clerical order proclaim their
most serious dissent, declaring that they
do not derive their ministerial office and
their right to preach from human, but
divine authority, and proposing, rathor
than take the oath, to retire from their
pastoral labor, or to endure meekly the
threatened penalty, which is fine of not
less than five hundred dollars, or impris-
onment in the county jail not less than six
months, or both fine and imprisonment.
In the meantime, Gov. Fletcher has sig
nifed his intention and desire to iucarcer-
ate an the PemitentaarY all preachers who
shall fail or refuse TO take the oath, and 80
tho matter stands.
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SECRETARY STAEToN.-The Washington
correspondent of the Pittsburg Commercial
says that ii has good authority for saying
that, on account of his health, Secretary
Stanton will retire from the cabinet in few
weeks, at the furthest. He is advised by
his physician TO do 50. AS soon as the ar
rangements for mastering out unnecessary
troops are completed, and things are in
such shape that he can turn them over to
his successor, he will retire, and intends
spending few weeks At Cape May and in
travelling.
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Errrcr OF sHrEnAx,s PEAoE SENTIMENTS

IN FEAEcE.~A Paris letter-write1 says:
II need scarcely say how heartily well
coined here has been the language lately
used by Gen. Sherman at Cincinnati. His
speech has boon reproduced almost in full
in the pages of the Monatcur, and those
striking words: ~ will not hear of war in
America for the next fifty years at least"
especially commented upon. No circnm-
stances has more effeetually tended to calm
and tranquilize the public mind at the
close of our season, than the above.
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THE Mystery SoLvEp.-The human
skull, mentioned in our last az having
been exhumed from yard in this city, has
undergone surgical examination at the
hands of Dr.. SPEED. His opinion is, that
from the marks Of age it bears, 1t must
have been buried great while since.
We make this explanation by way of
justice to Mr.. NAUDIN, who was the first
TO make the discovery Of the buried object.
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FOR CLERK.

Aessrs. EiStors-- Please announce in your
paper the name Of JOSEPH NEPHLER
the present efficient Clerk, for re. election
70 the Office of Clerk Of the Fifth Judicial
District, at the approaching November
election. MANY FRIENDS.
3 aug15-pd
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Our Leyees.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT oF LoUIsiANA,
New Orleans, August 22d, 1865.


To his Exeellsney the Governor Of Louisiana:
SRI have the honor to acknowledge the re-
ceipt Of your communication OF yesterday, in re-
lation to the eyees In Louisiana.
I have recommended that the reconstruction Of
the leveea on the Mississippi River should be az
aumed by the General Government, TO the extent
that they were destroyed or damaged as the &c.
tual and necessary result Of military operations,
and 10 the EXTENT Also Of the taxes that might be
levied by the States interested, upon the plants-
tons and other property, subject TO such taxation
but now held by the United States as abandoned
or eonfscated.
have also recommended, as question ofgreas
Importance, not only 10 the people Of the Mis-
ssaippi Valley, but TO the entire country the pro
priety Of asking the aid of Congress in restoring
the leveea, by making appropriations, az advances
to tho States Interested TO be Reimbursed to the
United States at some future time.
do not know that there liz Mt this time any ap
preparation that can properly be applied to this
work, even II the recommendations made by me
should have been approved by the War Depart.
ment. There are now no funds under my control
that can be no applied, and the expectation that
expenditures already made under the orders OF
department commanders, would be reimbursed by
assessments on ths plantations Interested, have
not been realizsd. e.
In addition to what has been done under Gen.
eral Orders No. I, Of 1864, copy OF which Ia en-
closed, there has been expended on account OF the
Ievees in this State, during the past year, $780,
ISL 80, above what has been collected by assess-
ments, and for this expenditure the department
commanders who ordered IL are personally &C.
countabfe.
have found the planters very willing to sub
NIT to assessments, when the danger threatened,
and so reluctant TO pay their assessments when ii
had passed away, that have abandoned the at.
tempt to make any further collection.
With this experience, I am not disposed to as
sumo any further responsibility Than such AZ nj az
be necessary to satisfy obligations already in.
cured,
Very respectfully YOUR ob't seYyt
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FOR SHERIFF.

Mosegs. Editofs-P Please announce III. v.
BABAN, ESQ, as candidate for Sheriff OF
the Parish Of East Baton Rouge at the APP
preaching Election.
july25-pd. MANY FRIENDS.
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Eaitoys Of tie Gazette and Conset--You
are authorized to announce WILLIAM
HUBBS, Esq, as candidate for the
office Of Recorder for tho Parish of East
Baton Rouge. He will be supported by
augl-pd. NUMEROUS FRIENDS.
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Mr. EiStor--You will please announce
THOMAS #. HERNANDEZ, Esq., as
q candidate for the Office of Sheriff of East
Baton Rouge, at the forthcoming Noven
Der election.
aug5-pd. VOX POPULI.
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vox PoPULI.

Nessrs. Elitors-Please announce the
present Incumbent, EDWARD COUSI-
NARD, for recollection to the Office Of
Sheriff Of East Baton Rouge, at the ap-
preaching November election.
aug15-pd VOX POPULI.
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tn Mechanics and Architects.

CtEALED proposals will be received dur
- inc fifteen days from date, for the building OF
WHARFMAsTER's OFFICE, according to the
plans and specifications TO be seen at tho Mayors
Office. The COMMITTEES receiving pfoPoss" reserve
TO themselves the right to reject af DIS
8, q .. a nos4iAs. Committee.
BAroN RoUar, August 2lst, 1868.
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~ Saturday evening reports of the
New Orleans markets represent con-
tinued active demand for cotton, with a
stifening of prices. The quotations were
az follows:
Ordinary, al@32c.; good ordinary, $50
ssc.; low middling, s9@4lc.; middling,
42@44c.
Extreme dizziness pervaded the Sugar
and Mslasses and Western Produce mar
ksts.
Gold quoted at l44@l4415.
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Administrators Notice

A LII persons having claims against the
authenticated, TO the undersigned Admin
istrator, within the time prescribed by law
for settlement, ]. G. CHARLOTTE,
suR12 Administrator.
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FOR DIST. ATTY.

lEr. Elstog--Y You are authorized to an
nounce IL. w. KNICKERBOCKER,
ESQ.,, of Baton Rouge, the present able and
efficient incumbent, as q candidate for re-
election to the office of District Attorney.
FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS.
aug-ls-pd.
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DIR. Eaitor-P Please state, that ct the rs-
quest of many of his friends, ALFRED
DUPLANTIER, Esq, has consented to
become candidate for the sheriffalty Of
the Parish of East Baton Rouge.
aug5-pd #s#
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FOR RECORDER.

Nesey8. Eaitors--- Please announce JOHN
M'GRATH as candidate for Parish
Recorder, ut the approaching election.
augl-pd. MANY FRIENDS.
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PosTAL SERVICE IN THE SouTH.--The re-
establishment Of the Southern mail service
is now engaging the earnest attention Of
Postmaster General Dennison, md the
country will be glad to learn that Mr..
Dennison will not, in SO doing, re-estab-
lish the high priced contracts which, be-
fore the war, did 80 much toward render
ing the Post Office Department q burden
to the Government. During the war the
Department has become self sustaining,
and it is Gov. Dennison's intention to
keep it rs near that condition as possible.
To this end, the whole system of Southern
railroads has been classified into four
different classes, viz: Branch or spur roads,
local roads, scmi-local roads, and through
roads. A rate Of compensation has been
fixed for each class, viz $50, $50, $T5 and
800 per mile per annum, respectively.
A circular letter has been sent to each
of the Provisional Governors, notifying
them that the Department is ready to re-
store the mail service upon the Southern
railroads 80 soon as the Provisional Gov
ernors can certify that they are in opera
ton and controlled by proper persons.
The fixing Of the compensation at the
prices named is not all arbitrary act of the
Postmaster General, but il the result of a
careful systematization of the whole BUSH
ness, and is fixed with q view of having it
bear reasonable proportion to tho pro-
spective revenue to the Department. This
was not the case before the war, when
political preferment obtained contracts at
exorbitant rates, viz: 5000 to 1926 per
mile, and which was one of tho chief ole
ments in causing deficiency in the postal
revenue. In the reorganization of this
mail service, Gov. DenniSon proposes to
keep in view the point that the facilities
of the South must be regulated in great
measure by the revenue to the Depart
ment from the same source. Wash. Car i.
~ y. Times.
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OFFICIAL.

HEADQUARTERS Posr OF BATON ROUGE, LA,
August Goth, 1865. |
General Orders, No. 50.
ALL permits, heretofore issued for the sale Of
ammunition or arms, within the limits of this
command, are hereby revoked.
Persons having articles of this kind on hand,
will Immediately make written report to these
Headquarters, of the number and quantity.
For any violation or evasion Of this order, the
guilty party will be summariIy dealt with.
By command of
Brevet Brig. Gen. J. g. FONDA.
ELISHA ID. HAMILTON, Lit and A. A. A. G..
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TIE Levels ON THE MISSISSIPPI
of the most fatal blows received during
the war by any portion OF the South was
sustained by tho planters in the destruc-
ton Of the levees, for hundreds of miles
along the Mississippi river. This fearful
work was performed under Federal mill
tary orders as e means TO weaken the pro-
ductive power of vast section Of country,
the inhabitants of which were devoting
their wealth and all their energies to the
cause of armed rebellion, and the losses
thus entailed upon them can hardly be
computed. a more effective war measure,
Ss it was designed TO be, could not have
been adopted against the South. Our at-
tenHon has just been called to the de-
plorsble condition of the country which,
III the absence Of the levees, has been
deluged by the waters of the Mississippi,
rendering il impossible, at present, for
vast aren Of valuable and fertile lands to
be brought under ordinary cultivation.
Tho occupation of those lands by an in
dustrous and thrifty population is a mat
ter OF vital importance not only to the
States bordering the Mississippi river, but
TO the whole country. The commercial
and agricultural interests of the whole
South, and, therefore, of the Union, do
mand it. But the owners of these lands
aud their former occupants, having been
well-nigh impoverished by the war are ut
terly unable to reconstruct the levees ut
their own expense, and, thereby, stay the
widespread overflow. Yet the future
prosperity, not Of a single community
only, but of whole States, is dependent
upon their reconstruction. We believe
therefore, that it is incumbent on the Fed
eral Government TO repair the vast injury
which, in consequence OF ITS own acts, that
portion Of the country new sustains. The
next Congress should vote IN appropria-
ton of money adequate to this great work.
1t may be properly regarded as national
measure since the interests involved COM
prehend the welfare of the common
country.
Tho Southern people TO a deplorable ex-
tent, have been stricken with poverty as
one Of the fatal effects of their own mad
war upon the Union; but the war is over
and the Union Is preserved, and now the
great task of restoration requires that the
past should be forgotten and that the en-
ergies of statesmen and patriots every
where should be directed, in the spirit of
magnanimity, to the resuseitGting of all
the available means of public wealth. The
representatives in the next Congress who
shall espouse this magnificent work. ad-
vocating suitable appropriation of money
to it, will perform the part of benefactor
to the highest interests, not of the South
alone, but of the whole nation. Let the
levees, destroyed as they were by the or
ders of the Government, be now rebuilt at
the Government expense. Such measure
would accomplish more by way of restoring
the old comfy between the North and
South than any political scheme that is
likely to be announced by the party lead
ers of the country.
We shall present this subject more elab-
orately at future day ,--L0Ua8u5l5e Journal.
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Our Agents i'm New Orleans.

MEssRs GARDsEn 4 Co., Newspaper Advertising
Agents, No. 8, Commercial Place, New Orleans,
are the duly authorized Agents 10 that city for
the GdSotte and Comet.
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roR SALE.
FOR RENT.
" OTNCE.

THE Taxpayers Of the Parish of East Baton
L Rouge are hereby notified, that have depos-
tied In the Parish Recorders Office, at the Court
House, in The city Of Baton Rouge, the Tax Roll
for the year 1864, In order that any person ag.
grieved by such assessment may, within thirty
days, appeal and have the same corrected II found
incorrect. JAMES II. KENNEDY, Assebsor.
BATON ROUGE, August 10th, 1865.
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Mesers. Laatoys-Please announce WILL
LIAM MONGET, Esq, as candidate
for Recorder OF the approaching Novem-
Der election.
aug6-pd. MANY VOTERS.
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FOR ASSESSOR.
aug1-pd.

Mr.. EdatoT--Please announce % eandi-
date for the Office of Parish Assessor Of
East Baton Rouge, Mr.. STEPHEN j.
YOUNG, and oblige his
FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS.
aU05.
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Mr.. Eistor-You are authorized to an
nounce SAMUEL SKOLFIELD, Esq,
as candidate for tho office Of Parish Re-
corder nc the ensuing election.
aug5* MANY OLD FRIENDS.
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What is the use Of signing and weeping
make the voyage OF life saaihng voyage 7
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NOTICE.

A LII persons having claims against the
Il Estate of STEPHEN RoBERTs, deceased, will pre-.
sent them TO the undersigned, or to Messls. DUNN
4 HEBRON, Attorneys for the Succession, within
GEO. W. RoBERTs,
onooa Et Executor.
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very respectfully, your ob,t serr,t


EorE.--This letter has been delayed In order to
obtain the amounts expended on account Of the
levees aud in excess of the collections. The
amount stated above does not include the sums
paid by Col. Holabird, which cannot be stated
now, in consequence OF his absenoe.
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Nessrs. EiStors--Please announce Mr..
CHARLES VERBOIS, as candidate
for the office Of Parish Assessor, at the APP
preaching November election.
augl2 MANY FRIENDS.