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~ Mr.. S. NJ. Cade advertises else
where, for sale, very valuable tact
of land embracing 720 acres, fine
dwelling, together with all necessary
improvements thereon.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

~ A Paris paper apologies to its
readers for being compelled to make
an erratum, it having placed four mar
riages under the mercantile heading Of
" declarations of failure" Probably
not altogether mistake.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

70 Godey's Lady's Book for Sep
TENDER, is before us. AS usual with
the Lady's Book, it is full of interest
ing matter for the ladies. Cooley
seems to fully understands the wants
of the ladies, and never fails to please
them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

n There are said to be at this time
twenty-one candidates for the position
of member of Congress, thirty-two
for Governor, and eleven for U. S.
Senator, in Kansas.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

~ Gov. Humphreys has issued a
proclamation converting the Mississippi
Legislature in special session on the
18th Of October.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

II The New York World states
that combination of capitalists in
New York have bought $4,000, 600 in
gold, and intend to buy more, in order
to run up the price when there is
favorable opportunity.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

y Horace Greedy, Vermont pa
per says. is reported on good authority,
while in the cars, TO have said that
/" Lincoln was always wrong, but you
could drive him right; johnson is al-
ways wrong, and you can't drive him
right
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Died:

At the residence Of Mr.. Ivey, near Shreye.
port, La, where his family had taken him to
be convenient to physician ON the 18th Of
July, Mr. GEORGE BENEDICT SLIGH. OF nm
affection of the brain.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

u Mr.. James Chandler. DESTROYS of
closing out his business in this place,
advertises his stock on hand at reduced
prices. See his advertisement.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

TT The returns of the income tax
for 1865 make it appear that there is a
very small number of pianos used in
the United States. The whole number
returned is but 2776, and the amount
of taxes paid on them is $7,744. There
are several States in which there does
not appear to be single one of these
instruments of harmony in use. In
all New England there are but 48, and
Connecticut and Rhode Island are
without any. 1t is curious TO note that
Missouri, which is fuller of politica
discords than any other State in the
Union, has the greatest number of
these instruments of harmony. There
are 707 pianos in Missouri, and poIit-
zeal row and inquest for murder almost
every day.
We note that Louisiana has no credit
for any piano, but we suppose this to
come from the fact that the assessments
were made out before Louisiana was
put into an assessment district. At all
events, we think there is piano or two
left here. We have heard the jingle
of sound and the music of one particn-
lar one we wot of frequently. But
there certainly are not so many as there
were before the war. The revenue
ought not to suffer by that, as they
ought to have been found where they
departed to-in some other collection
district.-[N. o. Pieayune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

SIXTEEN PERSONS POISONED. AT
Winona, Marshall county, Illinois, six
teen persons, who took breakfast at the
Delevan House, kept by Mr.. West,
were taken i'll, vomiting and cramping
severely. Great excitement ensued,
but none of the cases proved fatal
The cause is assigned to prepared -four,
put up in Chicago. The affair is to
be investigated.
That -four must have been intended
for the Southern market.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

II A radical editor in the North
says that Col. Forney is Of a 'noble
type of public men," He is Of the
type known to printers as Tie minion.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

IL Czechian women put out the
eyes of wounded Russian soldiers with
a knife Boston Post.
Women! They must be fends.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

+" Alady in Charleston has just
had three babies at birth. The lady
is childish Louisville Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

~ An exchange says: "The best
board in the word for dispeptic young
ladies is the dashboard" We don't
believe word of it. They were not
made for any such purposes. The way
to cure them of dyspepsia is to get
some young man to board them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

IL Thad. Stevens receives all sorts
of attention from his radical constitu-
ents. He is feted and fated and fetid.
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IL We are not at all sure that half
as much money has been made by min
ing as by undermining.
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~ Mr.. FRANCIS SMITH, of this
place. is duly authorized to collect and
receipt for any dues to this office.
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THE BOSSIER BANNER,
w. H. sCANLAND, EDITOR.
TERMS:

Il " M . :
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Professional and business cards of
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$40 for six months; 81 for three months.
Publishing announcements of candi-
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Obituary notices, when exceeding a
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

~ Is the marriage knot a good or
an evil! That's knotty question.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-09-01

- The French Minister of War
receives: as Minister, $26, 900 year !;
as Senator, 5000; as French Marshal,
$4,000; as Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honor, $500. Total, S3s,6OO.-
Besides he is lodged, lighted and
warmed, and his horses are fed, at gov
eminent expense,
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- A woman who keeps fruit
stand in Jersey City, N. j., was re-
quested to hold a young child while
the mother went for forgotten carpet
bag. The forgetful woman not re-
turning, baby was consigned to the
almshouse.
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BALANCE FUNDS REMAINING IN TREASURY

preceding the election, by attending some
of the mass meetings in the State and
addressing the people. Being admon-
ished by my unftness to speak before
large masses in the open air. avail myself
of another mode of complying with.
beth requests, by addressing to you this
letter, and perhaps another-if not
deemed too late.
The election of Representatives in Con-
gress-a thing of Importance always-is
Of more Importance now than ever, be-
cause on this depends the future form
and action of our Union Government
1t is no longer question of mere expe-
diency-a question of what shall be done
under admitted powers-it is a question
of what the powers shall be. Under the
present Congress and the one which pre-
ceded it, there has been a continued ex-
ercise of powers by them, utterly with
out precedent in the previous history of
the country, unauthorized by the Con-
stitution, and inconsistent with the Union
Of the States and the preservation Of the
States. IF the exercise of these unau-
thorized powers be persisted in by Con-
gress, and tolerated by the people, through
their failure to correct the abuse by new
elections, the ursurpation must end in a
suppression of. the States, and in their
consolidation into one government, with a
Central Legislature exercising control
over all matters Of police and of crime,
and over all private rights, both of per
son and of property.
| This exercise of unlawful powers has
not been confined to the Congress only
but has also been initiated, if not com
menced, by the Executive, and on the
part Of both was coeval with the insur.
rection. At first these assumptions were
sought to be palliatedand justified by the
pretense that we were in the midst Of a
war to suppress rebellion, and that the
proper and we'll defined powers Of the
Government must be rejected as Insult
cent, as inconvenient, and thus the Gov
ernment became government of "Or
ders" instead of government Of Laws.
I And while this domination of militia
ry necessity was claimed and practicet
lby Executive authority, the Congress
t hastened with Its aid to shield the doer
: of wrong by enactments in the same spiri
of assumption. Now, when the rebellion
t is ended, and the issurecticn declared t
: be suppressed, these assumptions ar
! more fagrant and persistent than before
and the members seek to justify thei
r late acts by their own former acts as pre-
Q cedents. IF these same men shall b
S continued in power, their future acts vii
e of course be the same; and it is vain t
d hope for any change in the laws, or 70
d any reform in the administration of then
: accept by the choice ofnew men who wi
q conform to it.
!, But these are general allegations, an
y it is therefore proper and more than jus
!. tilted to specify in detail some Of the act
y and assumptions which regard as VI
. warrantable.
,f First among them all, when measure
IS by It's disturbing influences for the pre-;
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URBANA, O., Sept. II, 1866.

To John G., 7ompsom, Esq, Chairman
Democratic State Central Committee O
Ohio:
SIR-When your letter of June 30th
came to hand, asking me to prepare a
paper on the condition of the country, for
use IN the approaching elections, | took
time to consider the request; and the de-
cision of your COMMITTEES soon afterwards,
to ask the Democratic party Of Ohio to
send delegates to the National Union
lConvention to be held at Philadelphia on
the 14th of August, gave further cause
Of delay; for it seemed not only proper
but necessary to await the result Of thai
Convention. Severalreasons conduced to
this: First, it was said by those who
wished its failure that the proposed Con.
vention could not meet for want of re.
sponsive cooperation among those ap.
pealed to; next, that if it did meet, il
must prove abortive, on account OF the
discordant clements hat would be brough
together for concert; and third, that if i
did meet, and was likely to prove eff
cacious in the way Of promoting harmony
among the different sections of the Union
there would be an influence of another
1 kind brought to bear against it, in tn
form of riotous attacks and disturbance
from without. The indictments to tn
last result were frustrated by the goo,
sense of the people of Philadelphia, an
the provident arrangements of the May
or. The first predictions of failure froI
other causes have failed of realization
and the people for whom you act ma
now turn their attention to the para
mount questions OF the day-the due REP
resentation of all the States in Congress
You have also asked me, in letter {
a later date, to take part in the canvas
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IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.
The USurpationS Of Congress.
Letter From John Ell. James.
Rooms DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL Con-.
COLUMBUS, June 80, 1866.

Rooms DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL Con-. !
COLUMBUS, June 80, 1866.
Hon. JOHN FL. JAMEs-Deor SIR: At
meeting of the Democratic State Cen
trail Committee of Ohio, held at Columbs
on the 26th inst, the Chairman of the
Committee was instructed to request you
to prepare for publication paper on the
condition Of the country, or upon one or
more topics connected Herewith, that you
might see fit to discuss. 1t was not the
intention of the Committee to prescribe
any particular subject much. less any par
ticular views; but, on the contrary, to
leave you perfectly untrammeled, and free
to express your own opinions, whether
they should in all respects accord with
those of the Committee or not. In com
pliance with the instructions given me,
have the honor to request you to prepare
such paper, and trust that it may suit
your convenience and feelings to do so.
I am, dear sir, very respectfully, your
ob't servant, JOHN G. THOMPSON,
Chairman Dem. State Cen. Com.
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ALLOTMENT Fund.
STATE FUND.

To balance in Treasury Sep. 1865.
By orders redeemed and deposited with Auditor Dec 1855
Orders redeemed and deposited with Auditor March, 1866
Orders redeemed and deposited with Auditor June 1865
Orders redeemed and deposited with Auditor Sep 1866
/ Balance in Treasury
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WooDsFIELD MONROE COUNTY OHIO. OCTOBER Q 1866

TOWNSHIP BRIDGE FUND. DR.
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TOWNSHIP BOUNTY FUND DR.
TO amount collected Duplicate of 1877 80 s45s7 90 5
s asssl 90
TEACHERS INSTITUTE FUND DR.
B. orders ss redeemed ed and , deposited ted, with a;1 Auditor :s
orders redeemed and deposited with Auditor June 1855 sa rs o
Balance in Treasury 90 o
COUNTY INFIRMARY FUND DR.
To amount collected Duplicate of
franklin County supporting paupr,
from said county bs 80 o. S,9s
By orders redeemed and deposited with Auditor Dec
Marehla ..si8
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eVr orpaii i'd. .... 80 70 e 49s sls ~ ~ :
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By 1866. 2osao
cs cP se I a asaI snsnt Ss @ @ sn treasurer State o. 1885 81
Balance remaining in Treasury 9'S W ora 90 Il
BALANCE FUNDS REMAINING IN TREASURY
nsaGs nsisf sHa' Fund 9s
County County sqay B Pud
cssa cssas ssssl s isas assa Fund a.
Militia i Fund @ ~ w o7s 90 o. 2as 81 3
s:sss s s5R,y .sss ,.ssss ssss
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SOLDIERS RELIEF FUND.

To balance in Treasury Sep 1865 5.................
Amount received SINCE.
By orders redeemed and deposited with Auditor Dec 1866
Orders redeemed and deposited with Auditor March
Orders redeemed and deposited with Auditor June 1856
Balance in Treasury.
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THE EAGLE HOUSE.
]. q. sCHAUB, -: So: Proprietor
SARD IS, OHIO.

TlHK proprietor gives notice to his old
i friends, and the public in general, that
he has enlarged and Tefurnished his house,
and is now prepared to accommodate all who
will give him a call. J.G. SCHAUB.
Junel 9m2.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-01
THE PRESIDENCY,

The illustrious soldier was not doomed to
private retirement; he was three times a
prominent candidate for the Presidency,
and, in 1862, General Pierce beat him for
that high office by upwards of 100000
votes. The following is a paragraph from
General Scott's letter ofacceptance:
"But should, at the same time, be rig
orOus in regard TO qualifications for Of
flee, retaining and appointing no one either
deficient in capacity or integrity, or in de-
votion to liberty, to the Constitution and
the Union. Convinced that harmony or
good will between the different quarters OF
our broad country is essential to the pres
ent and the future interests ofthe republic,
and with a devotion to those interests that
can know no South and no North, should
neither countenance nor tolerate any se-
dition, disorder, faction, or resistance to the
law or the Union on any preteXt, in any
part of the land, and should carry into
the civil administration this one principle
of military cOnduct-obedience to the leg
islative and judicial departments of gov
ernment, each in its constitutional sphere,
saving only in respect to the Legislature,
the possible resort to the veto power, al
ways to be most cautiously exercised, and
under the strictest restraints and necessi-
| ties"
His failure was to be ascribed to the DOM
nancy of the Democratic party, and the in
disposition of the majority of the AmeriS
can people TO seat professional soldier in
the highest civil office. General Scott suf-
tered nothing in estimation by this defeat,
nor by his ardent canvass of the country
during its progress. For some years he
| lived in comparative quiet in the congenial
atmosphere of West Point, where he made
his home, and here indited much of his au-
photography, visited by illustrious people
of all nations, who came for the renown of
his military exploits, and were sent away
in marvel of the triumphs OF vigorous old
n oro nyar MANY md tNarilnuc ofliinttnns .
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-01
"HEADQUARTERs OF THE ARMY,
"WAsHNGToN, d. c., Oct. 81, lS61.S

. .. wv ASHINGToNs IL. w OCC. 81, lS6l.S
!''T'he Hon. S, Cameron, Secretary Of fWg: mo
"SIR-For more than three years | have
been unable, from a hurt, to mount horse
or walk more than a few PAGES at a time,
and that with much pain. Other and new
infrmities, dropsy and vertigo, admonish
me that a repose of mind and body, with
the appliances of surgery and medicine,
are necessary to add little more to life
already protracted much beyond the usual
span of man, 4 re uir.t -sr-t.f4- fsrd
'"It Is under such circumstances, made
doubly painful by the unnatural and unjust
rebellion now raging in the Southern States
of our so late prosperous and happy Union,
that am compelled to request that my
name be placed on the list of army officers
retired from active service. t'
y"As this request is founded on an abso-'
Lutte right, granted by recent act of Con-
gress, am entirely at liberty to say that it
is with deep regret that Withdrew myself
in these momentous times, from the orders
of o President who has treated me with
distinguished kindness and courtesy--
whom | know, upon much personal inter-
course, to be patriotic without sectional
partlalities or prejudices, to be highly con-
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-01
PASTURE TO LET.

r HAVE FIFTY ACRES OF GOOD
u Timothy Pasture to rent at Lithopois, Ohio, 10
miles South OF Columbus There is in said pasture
lot saeresofa splendid sugaE-tree grove, and never
failing stream Of water.
For particulars inquire Of - no!
Col. SIM0NT0N,
Elk Horn House. LithOpolis, Ohio.
mayS-dtf-D
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-01

fectiveness on the field of battle. In any
philosophic summary of his life these deli
cate episodes must receive the fullest at
tentiOn. He was one of the few Gener-
ais that had any consequence out OF regi-
mentals. ai.i i'J.. l.f '|
COMMANDER IN CHIEF. .
Succeeding by strict military promotions,
General Scott became in lS4l, twenty-five
years ago, COmmander-in-C Chief Of the
Armies OF the United States, his predecessor
being General MacOmb. Before he attain
ed this honor, hundred strange dilemmas
and personal hazards occurred, beyond the
province of d newspaper biographer to
sketch. lie was now fi1ty-five years ofage,
and his wonderful constitution, the marvel
of all contemporaries, seemed in its fullest
vigOr, Notwithstanding three wounds re-
ceived, and the exposure of thirty years
constant duty. 1t may well be said that no
man ever worked longer and more gallant
ly for his place, not excepting the late Sir
Colin Campbell. 1t was reserved for him
to signalize his pre-eminent station by a
succession of victories whose quick Sc
quence and brilliant conceptions remained,
until the great rebellion. the bright, pecu-
liar episodes of our history. ..... ,r
THE REPUBLIC INVADING.
ESpOuSlllS Ille CdusG VI Jul uCW anu
voluntary acquisition, Texas, General
Zachary Taylor "stumbled" upon repeated
victory with little result. Therefore it was
determined to strike the capital OF the
hostile country by direct interior line,
and, in General Scott's language, to Soon
quer peace" Twelve thousand men in
rendezvous upon Lob's Island, menacing
both lampicO aud Vera Cruz, were thrown
ashore with brilliant prOmptness, without
the loss of man, in the spring of 1871,
and in four days, by a triumph OF artillery
and engineering, tour thousand men march
ed out from the Castle of san Juan ID 'Ulloa,
and grounded their arms. In one week the
army was in motion; in two, the natural
bastions of Cerro GoTdo were invested. BY
a series of operations, likened by Santa
Anna himself to Bonaparte's passage of the
Alps, three thousand men, five thousand
stands of arms, forty-three cannon, and
quantities Of treasure were captured. In
eleven days Jalapa fell in fourteen Perote !;
in twenty-tbree Puebla. - ..
In August ten thousand men reached the
beautiful city; they turned its splendid
fortitioatiOns 20 the north; Contreras and
ChurubuseO yielded successfully; the fall
OF Molno del Rey and Chapultepec COM
pleted the conquest. On the l4th of Sep
tcmber, Gener i Scott, having conquered
| thirty-twO thousand soldiers, with one
| third their number. rode into the Grande
| Plaza, seized $l500O0 and one-thrd the
present territory of the United States, in
Guiding the gold fields of California, fell by
consequence into the hands of our country
men.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-01
LIEUTENANT GENERAL.

The honor of Lieutenant General was
conferred upon this splendid soldier in 1850;
the Mexican campaign was his alone, in es-
sential and in detail; noone man, since JEFF
iersOn, ever gave so great territory to our
country, or so thoroughly imbued its peo-
pie with the instinct of conquest and glory;
soon after the Mexican war he arranged
satisfactorily the Northwestern boundary
line, aud thus he has been the great politi-
cal geographer of our hemisphere, his hand
having been applied to every one of our
frontiers, and his military career, up 20 the
date of the rebellion, having been one of
the most sagacious and excellent in the his
tory ofany nation.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-01

from the Rev. +. D. Fendall, Assistant Editor
Christian Chronicle. Philadelphia
! have derived decided benefit from the use of
Hollands German BittOrs, and feel IL my privilege
to recommend them as a most valuable tonic, to all
who are suffering from General Debility or from dis
eases arising from arrangement of the Liver. Yours
truly, Il. ID. FENDALL.