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The Opelousas courier., 1865-03-25
NOTICE OF ELECTION.

n N accordance with the Proclamation Of mis- Ex.
IL cellency Henry W. Alien, Governor of the
State of Louisiana, dated Cd January, 1865. an
Election will be held in the Parish of st. Ian
dry, at the several Precincts, on the
First Monday of April, 1865.
BEING THE Sd DAY OF SAID MONTH,
between the hours of 9 A. NJ. and P. NJ, un-
der the superintendence of the commissioners
duly appointed according TO Law, in order to
elect one Judge for the 9Th Judicial District,
composed of the Parishes of CaIcasieu, ST. Lam
dry. Lafayette and Vermillon.
Said election to be conducted in all respect
according to the Provision of the Constitution
and Laws in such cases made and provided, aud
returns made at my Office according to Law.
Commissioners of election will please inquire
at every one Of their polls if there is one Ballot
Box, if not, notify so that may provide for them
Immediately.
/ Given under my hand and seal at my Office in
the town of Opelousas, Parish Of St. Landry,
this 25th day of February, 1865.
JAMES G. HAYES,
Sheriff.
Opelousas, February 25, 1868.
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HEAD QUARTERS
Trans-Mississippi Department,

IIduS-HllSSlSSiSJlb Jl beldi IIuSut,
Shreveport January I'd, 1865.
GENERAL ORDERS No. /.
THHE General commanding having been in
n formed that unauthorized persons are collect
ing the "Tax in Kind" it is hereby announced
that only regular officers and agents on Tax in
Kind duty, bonded Quarterpasters and Commits
sioners and those persons specially horized by
the officers in charge or Controlling Quartermas-
tiers of States, give valid receipts to producers
for his Tithe Tax. All other persons than those
specified above are positively prohibited from
giving receipts. which would be unjust imposl-
tons and worthless to the Tax payers.
Commssaries and quartermasters serving troops
and those purchasing supplies can only collect
Tithes when specially authorized by the Chiefs
Of their respective Departments Those who have
collected any portion will receipt Immediately
therefor to the officer in charge of the District
where the collections have been made or in his
absence to the Controlling Quartermaster Of the
State. They will strictly conform to the orders
on this subject from the Adjutant and Inspector
Generals office, at Richmond. This order will
be published Immediately by the District Com
manders. who will cause every officer or soldier
guilty of any violation thereof to be promptly
arrested. BY command of
GENERAL L. KIRBY SMITH.
(Signed) S. S. ANDERSON, A A. General.
Official, S. D. OLIVER. Maj. & Con. @. N.
Official, EDWIN II. FAY. .gCapt Il
Post @. NJ. 4th Dist. Tax in Kind
March IL, 1865. 4l-3t
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Io which be added the SANE increase price for the .ci made the value
When articles are impressed any Parish State not produced raised that Parish
will
o thear andG
soldiers Confederate saH
mile O fur own of team.
furnishes
Distance mule eighteen miles fourteen miles dayH the load
e
everything all damages beyond the
of buildings
a fort
prsst n liars rerh
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nissIybs furnHhe
| 3 i HYNsON
7-.s WHITE.
Shreveport February Is. 1865 Commissioners
o Gen E.K SMITH
IMachlS
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HEAD QUARTERS,
Enrolling Office, ST. Landry Parish,
Ooeln,sas March IA 1863

SPECIAL ORDERS No. =
81 Exempt Overseers, detailed Agriculturists
III j. &C., are enioned for the last time to make
out their reports of supplies furnished the Gov
eminent, soldiers families &c. Further delay
or dereliction of this duty viii be attended with
a prompt revocation Of their details and exemp.
tons, forfeiture Of their bonds, and immediate
assignment to duty in the field.
II. In accordance with Par III. General Or
ders No. /, Headquarters Bureau of Conscrip-
tion-all citizens having Government arms, such
as Enfield Rifles, Muskets, Sharps q Maynard
Rifles, &c, will deliver them Immediately to this
office, to be transferred to the nearest Quarter
Master, for the use of the Government Also all
parties having Government horses and mules of
the Confederate States, or property abandoned
by the United States forces.
III. In pursuance of General Orders No. 26.
Hid. Qrs. Bureau of Conscription, all planters and
farmers will Immediately report the number OF
bales OF cotton sold to Government Agents, or
persons styling themselves as such, with the
names of the parties and the final disposition re-
presented by them to be made of the cotton.
". All furloughed soldiers within this Parish
will report without delay to this Office, for ill.,
spection and approval of their papers.
V. Planters and owners whose slaves have de
serted the public service. will return them imme-
diately to this office to be forwarded above.
Di.igent inquiry has been instituted to ascer-
tain those parti's who have been harboring de-
serted slaves; and when conclusive proof of the
fact is furnished this office, the parties will be sent
under strong guard 20 District Head Quarters
vi. Inforna;: mas been presented this office
of numerous Planters and owners of slaves who
have failed to furnish their quota of slaves under
the Conscnptlon Act. The detachments of the
Reserve Corps on duty will use all diligence to
ascertain the names of these delinquent parties
and arrest and brlng them to this Office for dispo.
stion. JNO. NJ TAYLOR,
Enr. Officer. St. Landry Parish.
Opelousas. March IL, 1865. 42-2t.
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HEAD QUARTERS,
Trans-Mississippi Department. !
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4id4AS-4EIsSAosApki ASpdi taliti1s.
Shreveport, La. Feb. l3, 1865. )
GENERAL ORDERS No. 10.
T The following order is published for the
Il. information of the Department.:
ADJuTANT AND INsPK. GES'Ls. OFFICE, !
Richmond, October g. 1864.
GENERAL ORDERS No. a.
The following will supersede General Orders
No. II, present series, which are hereby revoked:
l. All details heretofore granted. under au
thority of the War Department, to persons be-
tween the ages of I8 and 4o years, are hereby re-
voked and all such detailed men. together with
those within the said ages, who hold furlougls or
temporary exemptions by reason of pending ap-
plicatons 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-
chanics or persons OF scientific skill (and 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.
The Opelousas courier., 1865-03-25
NOTICE.

IA LICE J.. McCRORY, CT the Parish Of ST.
IN Landry. having applied by petition 10 be
appointed Administrasrix Of the Estate of Hen
derson ]. Montgomery, her deceased husband,
late Of the aforesaid Parish;
Now. therefore, any person intending to make
opposition to said appointment win file the same
in writing. at my office, in the town Of Opelou-
sas. within ten days from the date of the present
notice. A. GARRIGUES,
Clerk of the District Court
sOpelonsas, March IS, 1865.
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
rDILE DEBAILLON, of the Parish of ST.
" Landry. having applied by petition to be
appointed Administratrix of the Estate of Paul L.
f. Guillaumin, her deceased husband, late OF the
aforesaid Parish;
opposition TO said appointment will file the same
in writing, at my Office, in the town CT Opelousas,
within ten days from the date Of the present no.
tice A. GARRIGUES,
CIcrh Of the District Court,
Opelousas, March 18th, lo65.
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NOTICE.

TTALENTIN SAyOIE. Of the Parish of St.
NJ Landry, having applied By petition to be
appointed Administrator Of the Estate Of Thomas
H Maggee, deceased, late of the aforesaid Parish;
Now. therefore, any person intending to make
opposition to said appointment will file the same
In writing, at my office, in the town of Opelousas
within ten days from the date Of the present no.
tices Al. GARRIGUES.
ass Clerk of Tie District Court.
a0pelousas, March 25, l865.--43.
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ts F lC8BnluHtcGted- f
In memory Of Marcellus Gregory Doyle,
Hho died ON 6th March 1864, aged about years
Who hath not felt when wakes the memory
Striking the electric link wherewith are bound,
Who bath not felt the tear start in the eye,
Hurried in secret there, and why It's the sound
The tone Of something lost, some boon unfound,
Which Fortune lured us with, but to deride.
How ffail are human hopes! aye, how unsound! |!
Blasted in their birth, by envious Time denied
And swept into wrecks anon by his unfeeiing tide.
IL
/ do remember me of one--a boy,
His mothers darling aud her future pride
Fresh as the morn far purpled DER the sky,
Shedding gentle influence far and wide:
A hue celestial which it cannot hide.
But ldsh hark the bell doth tell--and must
We say he's dead! Shall he repose beside
His sire, commingling with his departed DUST
Earth. guard well his clay, be is heavenly trust
III
The modest dwelling and the royal dome
Receive the visit which Death doth pay,
Each in his turn must bid adieu to home:
The young. the old, the fearless and the gay
Must blend at length In one our COMMON clay.
'1is but the same rehearsal of the past:
From dust to dust we must decline one day,
And nations with all their couptless columns vast
Have but one brief page we live to die at last.
Nv
Here is the Christian's 5 secret: to learn to die.
Would ye knowitf Look on that infant face!
Neught claims from him the tribute of a sigh,
He only asks his mothers fond embrace,
Clasps the emblem that redeemed our race:
Then swift as the shaft that cuts the yielding air
Flew his unclaimed spirit in its race
Tn npiury Enr what canli har entry fhpra
Where every sigh was balm that melt into pray r
"
And now the old year gazes on the new,
As If in wonderment of what the Past
And Future on all mortal things could do--
The shadows Of the dead hover on the blast.
Heroes their pittanctssf glory have anlassed,
But what has been the gnerdon of their toll I
The crowds loud shout. Forgetfulness at last
How sweet in every hope which time can't foil,
Such as thine have been, angelic Marco Doyle!
Grand Coteau, La.
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ELECTION.

YEyHE VOTERS OF THE TOWN of opelou-
n sas are hereby informed that on Monday the
3rd day of April next, 1865. there will be an elec
ton at the Conrt House. for the purpose of elect
ing seven freeholders therefrom, to constitute the
Board of Police of said Town, and a Constable,
for the space of one year.
A. GARRIGUES,
Clerk of the District Coart.
Opeiousas, March 18th, 1865. 4s-3s
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NOTICE
To Confederate Tax-Payers!

G. S. Tax Acts of February 18th and June 10th
and 18th, 1864, under Section Ia of Assess
ment Act.
District No. Of St. Landry, La, comprising
the 1st, 2l. Sd and 4A Police Jury Wards
DISTRICT CoLLECToRfs OFFICE,
Opeiousas, La, March Is, 1865.
nj OTICE is hereby given, that the Assess
IN nent Lists for the year 1864 returned to
this Office by the Assessors will remain open for
examination by Taxpayers during the next
fifteen days, and that all appeals therefrom
must be IN ,orsting, and must set forth, distinct
ly. the ground Of complaint.
Notice is also given to those whose valuation
of property is too low, to come forward and show
cause why said valuation should not be increased
so rs to bear ust relation or proportion to other
valuations in this District.
Office. on Main street. Opelousas. Hours,
from "A. M. to 6 p. NJ, daily, except Sundays.
THEO. C. LITTELL,
District Collector
ND The Parish Of St. Landry has been di-
yided into two collection Districts By the State
Collector. District No. comprises the 1st, Cd
3D. and 4th Police Jury Wards -Theo C. Littell,
Collector, and District No. 2, the 5th and 9th
Police Jury Wards Valentine G. Clark, Col.
lector. March Is, 1862 st
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S. COOPER.

~,
Adiutant and Inspector General
ii. In accordance with the above order, all de-
tails of men who do not hold certificates of Medi-
cal Boards showing unfitness 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 detail; clerks who are experts, and whose
services are indispensably necessary, not exceed
ing one for each officer, except in the Bnreaux at
Marshall, Texas, and those in the service of the
Post Office, Treasury and Adutant Generals
Department.; men detailed in the field service, in
which class is embraced those constantly engaged
in collecting cattle, horse, and mules, and in
hauling indispensable supplies from one post to
another; artisans, mechanics and persons of scien-
tGc skill, in the service of the government;
tractors with the government whose personal SER
vices are certified by the Chief of the Department
with whom they have contracted, to be inds-
pensable to the execution of their contract and
whose individual attention is given thereto.
III. 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.
Nv. Men whose details are revoked for mis-
conduct or neglect Of duty, will not be again
subject to detail during the remainder of their
v. No detailed man will De furloughed unless
be has. a certificate of a Medical Board, or is
recommended by the officer with whom be is
serving, for extraordinary skill and attention to
duty.
vi. Able-bodied agriculturalists who are de
tailed from Department Headquarters and whose
details are hereby revoked, will be allowed until
the LIST 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 lst
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 furloughs grant.
ed by Brig. Gen. FL. T. Hays, P. A. C. S., for
| thirty days, will be respected
By command of Gen E. KIRBY SMITH.
S. S. ANDERSON, Asst. Adj't, Gen.
/ March il, 1665.-41-4t.
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Splendid Household Furniture
AT LOTTERY.
SEVEN (7) PRIZES, VIZ:

Al Lo1
SEVEN ~ PRIZES. VIZ:
1st Prize.-A magnificent Side Board.-A Hat
Stand-- Armoir with glass doors.
I'd Prize.-A Psyche (french mirror), with gilt
ornaments for windows.
Sd Prize-A magnificent french carpet (for
paror), and other carpets.
4th Prize.--Spehdid set of Cbina-ware.
5th Prize-A marble Centre Table and four
mahogany chairs
9th Prize-Four beautiful Tableaux.
9TH Prize.--A Punch Bowl
The whole valued at six hundred and fifty
dollars.
325 tickets at 80 per ticket lin specie), 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.
The lottery will be drawn by two ladies, as
soon as the tickets are placed and paid.
g% These articles may be seen at the store
of Mr.. Theodore Chachere, at Opelousas, where
the list will be found.
Opelousas, March 25, 1865. 43
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Piano for sale.

A NEW Piano will be sold cheap on account
n of departure. Apply Immediately at the
Convent, Opelousas.
March IS, lS65.-43.
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For Sale,
A GOOD Mule Cart with Iron axle-tree, but
IN little used. Apply at this Office.
UpeIonsas, Feb. Is, 1866. .--38-tf.
The Opelousas courier., 1865-03-25

WASHINGTON. February 5 Both Houses of
Congress passed joint resolution that the cleo
toral votes Of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia. Florida. Alabama, Mississippi
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee shall
not be counted next Wednesday for the Presi-
dent and Vice President of the United States.
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old TYPE METAL.
satsble FIJI making shot; for SHE ii thisefsee.
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SATURDAY, :::: -: MARcHa5, 1865.

SATURDAY.: :::: =: MARCH 10, 1863.
II THE Hon. C. HI MOUTON is candidate
for e.election for the Office Of Judge Of the sth
Judicial District composed Of the parishes sof
81. Landry, calcasieu. Lafayette and Verrnilion
EDMOND D.. EsTILETTE Esqr is
candidate for the Office of Judge of the Sth judi
.cial District, composed Of the Parishes a,6st.
Landry, Calcasieu, Lafayette and Vermiiilon.
J. Election the Sd day of April 1865.
U- Rumorso which few days ago were unfa-
avorable to on, Cause, have lately been reversed
and are now entirely in our favor.
The New Orleans Picayune, of the goth inst,
sars that Sherman has met with severe reverses,
and was, al that date, in full retreat on Whining
ton, It appears that it was Joseph Il. Johnston
who whipped Sherman, while Bragg arrested
sSchoGeld's attempt to reinforce Sherman and
chastised him the best he could
This news was brought by gentleman worthy
of credit who vouches that he. heard it read in
the Picayune, at Capt. Murphy's camp, towards
Berwick's Bay.
On the other hand it is reported that the Yam:
kee general Bailey who recently left Baton Rouge
on secret expedition, met some rebel fo-ces near
Clinton. La, whom they supposed to be under
General Taylor, and as severely beaten.
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, 1865-06-09

LETTER FROM A DIsCAARGED SoIDIER.-A
young man who served faithfully three years in
the Oregon Cavalry, in a private letter to the
the editor of the Mountaineer, has the follow
ing
."As to the service on this coast, l do not like
it; there is not active service enough. l hon
estly think it was an arranged plan with our of
fcers last year to try and not molest the In
dians, as they wanted billets for life; and many
of them, have no doubt, are quaking in their
boots for fear of losing their commissions, and
are extremely sorry that the morning of peace is
about to dawn on our DEAR loved land that has
been deluged in blood"
, 1865-06-09

THE human pulse has in all ages been con-
suited as an index of health or disease. 1t is
kind of dial within us which gives us both the
measure Of time and health. The pulse Of a
person in health beats about seventy strokes a
minute, and the ordinary term of life is about
seventy years. In this seventy years, the pulse
of a temperate person beats two billion five hun
dred and seventy-four million four hundred and
forty thousand times. If no actual disorganiza-
ton should happen, drunken person might
live until his pulse beat this number of times;
but by the constant stimulus Of ardent spirits or
pulse-quickening food, the pulse becomes ac-
celerated, and the above number of pulsations
are performed in little more than half the ordi-
nary term of human life, and life goes out at
forty or forty-fve years instead Of seventy. This
application of numbers is given to show that
the acceleraton Of those forces diminish the
term of human life.
, 1865-06-09

NOBLE SENTIMENT no man, says
John Wesley for not thinking as you think. Let
every one enjoy the full and free liberty of think
ing for himself. Let every man use his own
judgement, since every man must give an ac-
count of himself to God. Abhorevery approach
in any kind of degree, to the spirit of persecu-
ton Ifyou cannot reason to persuade a man
into the truth, never attempt TO force him into
It, Iflove will not compel him to come, leave
bin to God, the Judge Of all.
, 1865-06-09

The unwillingness of the United States Senate
to consent to an increase of salaries of the House
employees has provoked some comparison of
the expenses of the two bodies, and it is found
that it costs ST. 900 to furnish 50 senators with
stationery, while the 1872 members of the House
get along with $4,000; and that Senatorial
mileage is big thing, it costing Senators Lane
and Pomeroy Of Kansas $2l6O each to reach
Washington, while the Kansas representative,
Mr. Wilder, comes fifty miles further for $l273
Other similar comparisons are made which do
not show superior economy or virtue in the
highest body.
, 1865-06-09

The salt mines of Cracow were discovered in
1915. The length of the mines from east to west
is above 6, 900 feet; the breadth from north to
south above 900, and they 500 feet in depth.
When stranger wishes to visit these mines, be
is inhabited in suit of miners clothes, and let
down a perpendicular descent Of 600 feet. The
place is very dark, and the miner, who descends
as guide, strikes light and oondcts the stran-
ger forward, through several gloomy winding
passages, at the end of which they descend by
ladders 200 feet lower into larger cavern,
through this cavern they enter and their
families, together with their horses, dogs and
other domestic animals. Nothing can exceed
the brilliancy ofthis place; Illuminated by thous-
ands Of amps, rejecting their light upon the
beautiful and transparent surface Of the salt in
every varied color.
, 1865-06-09

A GREAT Army OF THE DEAD.-A Warrington
letter writer states, upon the authority Of Off
cial information gathered at the War Depart
ment, that the number of Federal soldiers who
have lost their lives in the service since the war
began reaches fully 34O, 900. Nor does this in
clude those killed in the last battles before
Richmond, or those who went home stricken
with fatal disease and died after their term ex
pired Sodiers-such as are bred in cold
climates and serve in warm ones-when returned
to peaceful life, die faster than citizens. Five
years after the war in Mexico more than half of
those who served in it as privates and petty Of
ficers and returned were in their graves The
statistics from the War Department, therefore,
startling they are, do not tell the whole story
do not, by any means, make the grim picture
complete.
, 1865-06-09

HENRY vAUeHN.-The Umatilla Advertiser
learns that Henry Vaughn has been convicted
at Auburn, for murder in these degree, and
also convicted for grand larceny, and sentenced
to ten years imprisonment for the last offence.
The young desperate made an attempt to hang
himself short time since with a towel but did
not succeed, as his attempt was frustrated by
the officers who had him in charge.
, 1865-06-09
NEW TIN SHOP.
Two Doors Below the Oriental Hotel.
Painting.

f.. B. HAWLEY, HOUSE AND SIGN AND
Carriage Painter. All kinds of jobs in the line done
with neatness, and satisfaction guaranteed
Paper-Hanging and Glazing done to Order.
Shop on Main Street. 8 doors below Kraft's Livery
Stable.
Wala Walla March 81, 1865. l7tf
, 1865-06-09

WE have it from good authority that young
Vaughn has made confessions, duplicating sew
eral persons we'll known in the upper country,
and can give their names but perhaps it would
not be well to do so, as justice might be cheat
ed by the escape of the guilty parties. Two Of
them are known to be cattle thieves, and an
other butchers the stock they steal. A fourth
one is engaged in the beautiful and profitable
business of making and passing bogus gold
dust, and Vaughn says he received $3.50 worth
of the stuff for SIG good money. These men
are well known and their antecedents would
not be any accommodation in their favor
U1satilEa AdUertiser.