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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-04-25

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written. letters should be addressed to The Managers,
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

IMPORTANT DEcIsIoN.-Legal ques-
tons are no longer dry and uninterest.
ing. The war has brought the law %
every mans door and no one knows
when he may be drawn up for account.
Judge King, of the Circuit Court Of
Common Pleas in Baltimore, has just
rendered very important decision. Il
is as follows:
A contract for the payment of debt
in gold and silver is unquestionably !
legal contract, and to estimate thu
damages in case of a breach in another
currency-a paper eurrency-and
place it on level with gold and silver,
when the inhexible laws of trade maka
fundamental distinction between
them, is to accomplish legal fraud.
The act of Congress may therefore
well apply to all cases where the pay.
ment of the debt incurred is not ex.
pressly reserved in gold or silver; bu.
contracts for the payment of gold and
silver coin are still valid and binding,
and it is the duty of the courts to main.
tain them inviolate, and to render
judgments in them SO as to enforce
them in good faith.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

IL The last census contains some
facts not very complimentary to the
righteous Puritans. Massachusetts,,
with population but little less than
Illinois, has about six times as many
paupers and more than ten times a.
criminals. Georgia, with population
about the same as Massachusetts,, has
about one-fifteenth as many paupers
and one-twentieth as many criminals.
Taken together, the average pauper-
ism and crime in New England are
about eight times greater than in any
other equal portion of the population
of the country. What the Puritans
lack in these respects they make up
in pretension. With eight times more
paupers and criminals proportionally
than the rest of the country, they pre-.
tend to about eight times more virtue
than the remainder of the human race.
-[Chieago Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

g Woman's face is book we have
but little skill in reading. Perhaps as
much delight as most men we take in
resting our eyes on its pages and en-
gaging in the study of decyphering its
hieroglyphical expressions. We some
times remain in unpleasant doubt
often in most unpleasant certainty--as
to the significance of the symbols we
essay to comprehend.
Judging from the above, the bache-
lor editor of the Nacogdoches Chroni-
Giles is guilty of quite an assurance, in
attempting to read, as by rote, the Sc
crets and hidden histories of natures
noblest yolume-woman-in which are
imprinted, in letters of gold, the sa.
cred teachings of the heart and soul in
its grandest immaginable sublimity
To properly understand and appreciate
the beauties of this great work, we
immagine tits beyond doubt necessary
that every man (the edition being very
extensively should have a ''copy" of his
own, over whose cheerful pages" be
might truly enjoy "a feast of reason
and flow of soul"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18
ooh !! for the rarity
Of christian charity,
Under the sun"

IL The New York Herald contains
the following rather startling an
nouncement
1--WE learn through private channels
from Washington that discrepancy,
amounting to some 100000 has
been discovered in balancing the 40.
counts of Judge Chase, while Secre.
tary of the Treasury-or rather that
his accounts do not balance by that
amount. If this report be true, is il
not strange that the discrepancy was
not discovered before"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

u Intelligence from Mexico is re-
ceived that Macmillan has signed a
treated with the French Minister with
the following provisions Seven
thousand French troops will remain
in Mexico for five years. France will
furnish besides S5OO,OOO every month
for five years. to meet the civil expen-
ses. Macmillan is to give as security
the railroad from Vera Cruz to Mexico.
Maximilian's revenues are to be col
lected by French officers"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18
w Everybody thi. side Of the Al.

~ Everybody this side Of the At
lantic is astonished at the position Of
Austria. She seems to have been
asleep at the commencement of the
war and paralyzed as it progressed
She has displayed no spirit or energy
in protecting her allies or defending
herself. The only successful feat she
has accomplished, was the defence of
Venetia against Victor Emanuel-a
territory which she offers to surrender
except some actions in Bohemia, per-
haps. Louis Napoleon is ready to put
the weights on her eyes, and the proud
Empire of Maria Theresa is rapidly
collapsing into syncope as fatal to her
as the disease which preys upon the
sick man Of Turkey. The present con-
dition Is what the French surgeon de-
sires. He has been called in and will
lop off an arm here and leg there
until the body of the Holy Alliance
will lose its identity-new hospital
boundaries ordered for dilapidated
Sovereigns-the line Of the French
Empire extended and Waterloo avenged
without the Third Napoleon firing a
gun Boston Post.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

II Our contemporary of the Texas
Star has at the head of his columns.
This is the white Mans Government.
We would advise him to append to it.
the words sin a horn" He might say,
it was designed to be, o white mans
government, and express a hope that
there will be ultimately return to the
old land marks. At present the Afri-
can cuts the most prominent figure on
the canvass. When the radical are
beaten, and the Northern masses begin
to evince reGurn to reason and pa
triotism, this will be, what it was de.
signed. "a white mans government"
But who knows when that revolution
will take place !-[Texas Republican.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

y Humorous Josh Billings, in one
of his facetious sketches, truthfully
observes that Tin the good old daze
there waz more fun in so cents than
there is now in 7 dollars and half
I'm the good old days" honesty wasthe
best policy, and mans felIow-feeling
made him wondreus kind. The .sold
landmarks" are becoming obsolete,
Josh. We live in different age.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

ting Secretary of State during the
absence of Mr.. Seward at New York.
London, August 8.-Affairs between
Austria and Italy are again assuming
a threatening attitude.
London, August 9.-The truce be-
tween Austria and Italy has been ex-
tended ten days. Peace negotiations
will take place at Prague. The Gus
tom house officers at Liverpool have
seized six blockade runners in behalf
of the United States.
The Empress of Mexico arrived at
st. Mazarre yesterday. The Empress
of the French went to meet her.
A London special to the Herald, of
the 9th, says great excitement prevails
this evening on account of the suppos.
ed attempt to blow up both houses Of
Parliament. Ten packages of powder
with a fuse partially burned, were
found near the entrance to the Lore
Chamberlain's Office, in the House o.
Lords. Parliament has experienced
another Guy Fawkes'' plot.
There were 1855 deaths from cholers
in London last week.
The Italian iron clad feet has beer
much damaged, one ram being sunk
during a storm in the Adratic on the
8th.
Cincinnati, August 11.-Thirty- eighr
deaths from cholera yesterday.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

MoREHoUsE PARIsH.-The Bastrop
Dispatch says not more than half Of
the open lands in Morehouss parish are
in cultivation this year, for the want
of the labor to till them. Large
quantities of the lands are yet in a
wild state, which the editor says can
be purchased "cheap and on easy
terms" The same may be said of
Bossier; as well as many other parishes
situated in North Louisiana.
The Dispatch further says q great
deal of land already open will be for
rent for the year 1867 the parties
owning the same not being able to
plant.
The editor gives a warm invitation
TO emigrants, and says 1000 can find
good homes and employment there.
Only to good white people, who are
willing to earn a livelihood and money
by the sweat of their brow" is this
invitation extended.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

u Leprosy is said to be develop
ing itself in various parts of the word
with all its ancient repulsive charac-
teristics. 1t prevails at the present
time in the West Indies and in Nor
way, two widely separated countries,
according to recently published statis-
tics, there being no less than two thou
sand lepers in the latter country.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

B In England woman who lost
her pocket-book declined to prosecute
the thief. She appeared in the witness
box, with Bible in her hand, and said
she would not give evidence because
the Scriptures ordered her to forgive
those who trespassed against her. The
magistrate called other evidence how
ever, on the strength of which he COM
mitted the prisoner to trial.
In this land of ours, instead of such
exhuberance of charity, the extreme is
reversed; and we'll might we truthful
ly exclaim with the author of the
Bridge of Sighs"-
ooh for the rarity
Of christian charity,
Under the sun"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

~ The Washington specials say
it will require seventy millions dollars
to pay the bounties authorized by Con.
gress. Paymaster General Brice con-
siders the provisions of the bill so i'm.
perfect that it will be some time before
any bounties will be paid.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

~ According to the New York
Round Table, girls of Is, the daugh-
tiers of our most respectable merchants,
have been seen grossly intoxicated 10
Broadway stages and upon the public
streets. Many a home, apparently
most elegant and attractive, is render.
ed perfect pandemonium by one OF
the lady inmates through this weak
ness. The bellies of fashionable water
ing places, this summer, who sit upon
the piazzas late at night and think it
very amusing to be made ''funny" by
drinking with gentlemen, little know
the fate that is in store for Them"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

w Ex-Gov. Hamilton, the Abolition
humbug foisted upon the people of
Texas as their executive, in speech
before the Texas Convention, said:
II am regarded as a very good negro
man. To you who thus think, / would
say that the negro, as freeman under
the protection of the Constitution and
the Laws of the United States, is your
equal before the law. As a friend OF
the Government of the United States,
as friend of humanity, and as a man
of truth and honor, he is immeasurably
the superior of any pardoned but un.
repented rebel"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

IL Gen. Hindman attributes-and
we think very sensibly-the failure of
the Confederate cause mot so much
from lack of resources, as from want
of wisdom in managing what we had.
An ultra and stupid conservatism
ruined US. Our enemies had the wis
dom to break down every barrier by
which their revolutionary ardor was
obstructed, and their trimph was the
consequence"
That IAN ultra and stupid conserva-
tism ruined u.s." is lamentably true.
That the "intension" and purpose OF
our rulers was honest and promised
well, is also true. But it has been
wisely said that "hell is paved with
good Intentions" And that milk and
cider policy-too lukewarm to act
with frmness commensurate with the
Importance of the occasion, for fear
of the responsibility, bat suffers the
golden fruit of victory to be snatched
from its grasp by more intrepid COM
peditor-is culpable, to say the least.
A hesitancy to ''put the foot down
firmly"-a'false and dangerous petit
coat humanitarian conservatism in COM
promising friends in a futile effort to
pacify enemies-a forbearance that
had no virtue the error of this false
policy is mO,0, when too late, percepti-
bly, felt by US all.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

~ The Petersburg Express COM
plains of dull times in that city, and
says the grass is growing in the streets.
Fortunate Virginians if you only
knew it. Times are SO dull here that
grass won't grow in our streets.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

q The young ladies of Louisville,
KY, have taken the iniatiatory steps
to present Gen. Lowell II. Rousseau
tof Rousseau-Grinnell notoriety) with
& new cane.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

~ In Vermont, Bread and But
ter Convention meets July 25, at
Windsor Republican Exchange.
If We have Radical ascendency much
longer, the only question before the
people will be how ''bread and butter
are to be obtained. If any policy can
impoverish and starve the people, it is
theirs.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

IL Some of our exchanges are ad-
Vising people to drink less with their
meals. Our advioe is to drink less be-
tween meals.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

Y A matter-of-faot, temperate citi.
zen of Memphis AYERS that he thrice
saw ghost in one of the streets of
that city few nights ago. The phan-
tom is described as that of a sad-look.
ing lady dressed as a bride. So says
the Memphis Bulletin.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

" The Mobile Tribune gives as one
reason why our people ought to enter
heartily into the Philadelphia Conyen-
ton is, that the mere proposition for
it has given great alarm to the Radi-
Gals of Congress.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18
TIE q NJ &

The Bossier Banner will be issued
every Saturday morning. Subscription,
per annum, Five dollars-in advance.
Three dollars for six months. Two
dollars for three months.
Advertisements inserted at 81 so per
square, of ten lines or less first inser-
tion; rs cents for each subsequent in
sertion. Liberal terms offered to yearly
advertisers.
Professional and business cards of
one square, inserted at SIS per amman;
$40 for six months; 81 for three months.
Publishing announcements of candi-
dates for office, $15-to be paid invari-
ably in advance.
Obituary notices, when exceeding a
square, will be charged as advertise
ments.
~ All articles published for the
benefit of parties or individuals, at
their own solicitation, will be charged
for as advertisements.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

~ A Kansas pepper is very COM
plimentary to the revenue officer of its
town. 1t thinks him a man of the
right stamp, though little two-cent-
sitiYe in some things.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

~ There is boy in New Hamp.
shire, twelve years of age, with head
measuring thirty inches in circumfer-
ence, while the boy is of almost infan-
tine proportions. Mirthfulness is his
distinguishing characteristic.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

~ We call the attention of tax.
payers of Internal Revenue. to the
advertisement which appears in this
issue. We are requested by the De-
putty Collector, Mr.. w. A. Drake, to
say that the lists referred to include
only the annual list for the year 1865,
and the monthly lists completed to the
LIST of July, 1866, and has no reference
to the annual list for 1866, which Mr..
c. A. Boon, the Assessor, is now en-
gagged in making out, and which will
not be completed for some weeks yet.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

% Ex-Attorney General Speed, in
his letter to Senator Doolittle, makes
the assertion that 'stime was when the
brains were out the man would die. ]"
Shakespeare is the real author of the
above quotation. Nevertheless, it is
lucky for Speed that the times in which
Shakespeare wrote, have changed,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

n 1t is said that the only letters
which have passed through q certain
posto6ice in McDonough county. H..
for the last two quarters consisted Of
the correspondence between the post
master and the Department.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

IL Colonel John d. Rose, of Wa.
bash. is the only surviving Mason who
participated in the founding of the
Grand Lodge of Indiana. in the year
1917,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

NJ The Bienville Messenger says
from present present appearances, the
cotton crop of that parish will not ex-
coed 1000 bales.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

D On last Tuesday evening we
had a light shower of rain, barely
''laying the dust" Since that time,
the weather has been more pleasant.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

IL The New Orleans Times saws
eapenters' wages in that city at present
are "a per day. The eight-hour move /.
ment has been abandoned as prema
ture.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

~ Quilp says if the Bankrupt Law
had been for the benefit of citizens Of
African descent it would have passed
Congress long ago.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

~ The York Independent thretens
Andrew jackson with a cell next to
Jefferson Davis. This is all radical
gaseonade; yet, if the truth were told,
he deserves it, for not having the
moral courage to do that suffering pa
triot and statesman Justice.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

u President johnson is chopping
the heads off of the Radical office
holders at rapid rate. They have to
support his policy, or give up their
positions. All right" Barkis is
willin,''
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

n Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans,
Aas been informed by the military au-
thOrity that he will not be permitted to
make appointments or perform other
official acts without their consent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

~ Bismark evidently intends 10
make his mark in Europe. He knows
his "bis."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

n The crops in Oregon and the
territories are reported to be in favor
able condition.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

u The dog tax in Great Britain
amounted last year to $2I9, 3l3.-[ Bos.
ton Post.
The dog goned" tax in this country
annually amounts-considerably!
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

" It is strange that so much il
said about our common country"
when everybody knows that It is .
most uncommon one.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-08-18

~ Sher'dan's anti-monumentaI or j.
der will be to himself most enduring
monument of infamy.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-10-12

The OYSTER TRADE OF New YoaK.--
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says:
The oyster trade is one of the great fea-
lures of New York, and to any not thor
oughly posted around its market and oys-
ter stands, it may seem 'Munchausen" to
state that the average number of baskets
of this delicacy, brought to that city per
day, last season excepted, was FIVE hun
dred thousand. The trade now, however
is beginning to spring up, and great prepa-
rations are being made for the coming
season. To give some idea of this busi-
ness, and the statement is within limits,
there are employed in the oyster trade Of
this city alone one thousand sail, of YES
sells, that is, about five hundred in the
great South Bay, two hundred and fifty in
the East River, and the rest around Staten
Island. For the management Of these
vessels, the planting and gathering of the
oysters, about FIVE thousand men are re-
quired, and there are no less than twenty
thousand men engaged in buying, selling
and serving them after they are landed.
The prospects for the coming season are a
heavy crop at lower prices than any time
since the beginning of the war.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-10-12

PRESIDENTIAL PUN.--Some years aoo.
at Burns festival in Cincinnati, it was
declared that the best pun ever made was
made by the President Monroe. Some
surprise was expressed that Mr.. Monroe
should have been faceti6us man. The
story runs something thus:-A Scotch
servant, employed about. the Executive
mansion who had broad accent and a
good fund of cold humor, had been
charged, by certain persons who had pro-
iected monument in honor of something
or somebody, with message to an ap,
propriate official, who, it seems was not
the President But old Sandy sought the
Chief Magistrate, in whose personal SER
vice he was, and conveyed the commun;-
cation to him. Mr. Monroe instructad
him to address the message elsewhere,
and thereupon Sandy, persisted ike a
Scotchman, said, "Your honnor, il /,
about the nsonaznent." SWELL Sandy y
replied Mr.. Monroe, drowing himself up
erect and symmetrical 'don't you see. /
am not the mon yoS p,saat,n
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-10-12

Is Broken NECK CURABLE A Lon
don letter in the Chicago Evening Jour
nal has the following: The old saying that
there is no cure for broken neck has
just been practically disproved by sur
geon at Greenock. He was called In TO
see young girl who had just fallen dis
tance of eighteen feet, and thoroughly dis
located her neck. When he reached her
the face was nearly reversed, and looking
over the back. He promptly supported
the back with the left knee, took grasp
of the head, and began to pull gradually
and pretty strong, whereupon the girls
eyes opened and there was an effort at
breathing. Increasing the pressure, the
parts suddenly came to their natural po-
sition, and after minute or two regular
breathing was established. Close atten-
ton was afterwards paid to the case, and
after much fever and occasional eonvul-
sions, the child recovered, and is now as
well as ever. believe there is not an
other similar case on record. Of course,
much time must not elapse between the
injury and the treatment