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MINES oT DEER LODGE.
me rterest felt in these new mines situated
In the Ierth-Western portion Of the county, Is
not "9lng but the excitement iucreafiug 5 Ia
is salmqt Incredible to believe the reports con-
stantly being brought in By various parties ana
were tEey not made by we'll known and un-
douotp gentlemen, it would be quite out Of
place p give them publicity. As is. however
haveno hesitaGon In puarauteein0 their tr,,tb
and oielaining for this county-where a wear
since lota dozen miners were at work-tlie palm
fop bc y - -
QCAkrz AND PLACER HINES,
for our ledges are numbered by thousands, and
our gulches by scores This country will give
employment to the twenty thousand Web-footers
who are expected his season and there will
bs-plenty OF work 70, all creation besides ex-
cepting rat-eating John, VINO had better give
our region wide beth. Big Bear Gulch, es-
pecially the upper portion, is said to be very
rich, and claim -holdeis are looking as if they
appreciated their gool luck. Some difficulty
has occurred about tn, discovery Of the upper
district, man named Booth claiming priority
over Messrs. Bostick, Iurton 4 Co., under whose
discovery tho ground was originally located.
The case comes up before Justice Maillet on
Tuesday next. Great interest is manifested in
the matter, as it involves greater sum than
any llhe suit ever DebIe lTleQ IN lue lefTlLOrY.
Two new discoveris are reported, but | can
find nothing definite With regard to them.
OUR QUAEz PRosPECToRs
are still working awy like beavers, notwith-
standing the severe weather they have been &C.
casionally subJectedto. Mr.. Horton, who has
the reputation Of having exhibited from his
discoveries the fncG rock yet left with our
Comfy Recorder, has recently discovered a
number Of hrst-claS lodes in the celebrated
Lomax district, nine miles east Of this place.
A sale Of five claims, on the discoveries Of Mr..
H., was made here, yesterday, for the sum of
$4,000. This is a petty good indication, when
it is considered thatthe locations are new ones,
and as yet but lttlf developed. James Stuart,
Esq, was the purchaser
QUARTZ MADISON COUNTY.
We have ascerhined, on inquiry, that the
number of lodes registered in the Office of tho
Recorder Of Madison county is seventeen hun
dred and forty This, of itself, would show the
enormous minera wealth Of our Territory for
if only one huuired and fifty prove valuable,
there would be ample room for three hundred
mills to start with. If tho eleven hundred lodes
OF Deer Lodge be added, on the same terms
without counting Bcaverhead, Edgerton, and
the outlying districts the idea Of the vast amount
of gold and SILVER in Montana, and of the labor
and capital that will be eventually employed in
making it ayailAble-is perfectly astounding
Beayerhead and Edgerton counties have enor-
nous numbers of lOdes, and the searching for
them is yetonly well begun all over the Terri
tory.
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WILLIAM II. NEWELL,
, 1866-03-16

From their long experience in the Boot, Shoe and
Leather business their advantages in Buying and in
creased facilities for sewing their customers W. & s.
feel assured that they do better by those who f-
them with their patronage thany any other house
in the city. WEIBERG 81 STRO WBRlDGE,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers,
No. l25 Front street,
INrtlanl Ian 1E 1891 Eirn-nrnnf Rrink sInra
, 1866-03-16

Their stock Of Leather is large and well assorted in
Heavy French and American Calf and Kip
Heavy Oregon Calf and Kip;
Santa Cruz and Oregon Sole Leather;
Harness, Skirting, Betting and Bride Leather;
Colored Lining, Russet Sheep skins,
Shoe Findings, DC.
Particular attention given to orders.
WHOLESALE ROOK UP STAIRS.
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Afoot. o

If life's journey-as we see,
'Tis indeed, by many token
Oh, then, trow, the road will be
Not always smooth or always broken.
But march we over rugged stone,
Or march we over trodden gravel,
With friends around US, or alone,
We must keep moving on our travel.
Tramp, tramp, when skies are fair,
Tramp, tramp, when storms are blowing
If we find
We lag behind,
A steadfast heart will keep us going.
Many a path will seem more plain,
Many knave will lie and cozen;
But hold thine own with might and main,
And keep the track that thou hast chosen
It's in the light and in the dark,
It's over hill and through the hollow;
Well fix our eyes upon the mark,
And if we cannot lead, We'll follow.
Tramp, tramp, when skies are fair,
Tramp, tramp, when storms are blowing
If our strength
Should fail at length,
A steadfast heart will keep US going.
The horseman and the charioteer
Go hasting by with mighty clatter;
God speed them all and if they jeer
The tramps afoot, what does it matter
| Grudge them not the present hour,
| Nor faint and murmur like craven,
For when the day has lost its power,
There is for all common haven.
Tramp, tramp, when skies are fair,
Tramp, tramp, when storms are blowing
As the light
Dies down tonight,
A steadfast heart will keep us going.
i CaSSeps Family Paper.
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~ A correspondent of the N. o.
Times, in referring to the gradual ex-
tinction of the negro race, says:
l allude to this subject because it is
of great practical Importance, and not
very we'll understood, True, many
negroes have died since emancipation,
and some have been killed, especially
have many lost their lives in the mill
tary service Of the United States, but
the danger of extinction lies not Here
it is in the utter depravity and demor-
alization of colored females. But few
negro children are now born, and these
are so much neglected by their mothers
that more than half of them die before
they are twelve months old. Negro
women, as general thing, care but
little about their children, and when
they die they readily console them
selves with the reflection that they
have ''gone to heaven"
Some months ago boat sank in Red
River and several lives were lost,
among them four negro children be-
longing to one mother. One of her
friends met her afterwards and began
to condole with her, saying that they
felt very sorry for her misfortune. To
this she replied quickly, II amt sorry;
children heap better off, dey gone
straight to heaven" Another one that
l knew lost child, but her mind was
so little troubled about it that she gave
a candy party the very night after the
burial took place. The want of natu-
raj affection on the part of the black
| mother leads to neglect of children,
whether sick or well, and the conse-
quent loss of the greater portion of
them.
But this is not all; the black race
pay no attention to each other when
sick, and have, as every medical man
knows, the greatest difficulty eneoun-
tered when sick, in the want of good
nursing and attention. A negro man
was found dead near the suburbs Of q
thrifty town in Louisiana last winter
His wife, on being informed of the fact
manifested but little interest; but she
promised to see to his burial. When
however, the young man that found the
dead body called to lead her and Others
to the spot, none could be induced tc
go. The consequence was, the deaf
man was never buried, but lay ant
rotted on the ground. this in the
immediate vicinity of "a much frequent
ed thoroughfare.
1t is evident then that the black racs
must perish, unless there is a change
and this cannot be reasonably expec
ted. There is ratio of at least thre
deaths to one birth at present, and j
is not likely that there will be an.
improvement, we would rather suppos
that as poverty and want press upoI
them the ratio of deaths will increase
To sum up in few words, the de
cline of the black race is owing
three causes
| 1st. The almost universal depraVit
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MORTALITY AMONG NEGRO TROOPS.
"A tabular statement of deaths in the
U. S. army during the war, from wounds
and sickness, has recently been pre-
pared in Washington, on which a cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune
makes the following remarks:
A very noteworthy feature of tho
above tables is the extraordinary NOR
talitY among the colored troops
from disease it exhibits. 1t is seen
that, while but two thousand nine hum
dred and ninety-seven died in action
and of wounds, the enormously large
number of twenty-six thousand three
hundred and one died of disease
Among the white troops the proportion
of deaths in action and from wounds to
the deaths from disease is about as one
TO two; among the colored troops as one
to eight. About one hundred and
eighty thousand colored men were en-
listed in the army during the war, of
whom, accordingly, nearly one of every
seven died of disease. The general
proportion of white troops is one to
fifteen.
These figures indicate conclusively
that the negro, in the condition in
which the war found him, was less
capable than the white man of enduring
the trials, physical and moral, of mill
tary service. 1t may be assumed that
where one died of disease at least FIVE
others were seriously sick, so that 3
large proportion of the colored troops
must have been constantly upon the
sick list. A close analysis Of the
cause of this difference of physical fit
ness for military service in the two
races, however, would no doubt show
that they were in the main of a psyco-
logical character, that the great sus-
ceptibility of the colored man to dis
eases rose from certain lack of mem
tai activity and buoyancy of feeling,
and that higher moral and intellec-
tuai culture would diminish the effect.
This view is sustained by the profess
sional opinion. of medical authorities.
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CHANGED HIS M1ND-A gentleman
passed through Louisville, few days
ago, on his way to North
ern city, to settle up an old
ante-war debt of his, fathers, and, if
possible, to purchase a new stock OF
goods on time. He found the mer-
chant indisposed, and called upon him
at his residence, and, while there, his
attention was attracted by rather
peculiarly shaped chair, which he re-
eognized as belonging to his mother,
and which had disappeared from his
fathers house during Johnson's cam
paign in North Georgia; a second
glance discovered his sisters piano,
and third a handsomely painted oil
portrait of himself. He asked the
merchant how they came into his pos
session, and received answers that he
knew to be false. He then stated that
his father, who fell fighting for the
Confederacy, enioined upon him the
duty of satisfying all just claims
against his estate, and that he had
called upon him for that purpose, not
being aware that he (the merehant)
held his fathers household furniture as
collateral security for the debt, and
remark ed that there were number OF
portraits and some valuable plate taken
from bis fathers house at the same,
time, and inquired if he had secured
enough to satisfy his claim when the
articles just discovered disappeared:
The merchant stormed and threatened
at first, but when he compared the por-
trait with the original, he concluded to
change his tactics, and claimed that
the goods were legally spoils of war.
Our friend, not seeing it in that
light, concluded the debt was satisfied,
brought his money back to Louisville,
and bought stock of goods for cash.
find. and Com. Gazette.
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IL We learn from persons passing
that the "Cattle Plague" or some other
disease, has broken out among the cat
tie about Monroe, and that great
many animals are being carried off by
it. A disease among the chickens, tur-
keys and hogs. is also reported to have
made its appearance in the same local
ity. Are we to be afflicted with all the
plaques of Egypt. We hope not. May
God in his mercy protect us. The
plaques of the Radicals of the North,
are as much as any people can stand
at one and the same time Vienna
North Louisianian.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-06-09

IL Rev. Mr.. Green, of Winchester.
Tenn, sent to Gov. Brownlow claim
for two stoves and fixtures, taken from
the NJ. E. Church in that town. The
Governor referred it to Quarternlaster
General Donaldson, who returned for
answer: 1T appears that this Church
as an organization was rebel. There
fore the claim cannot be entertained
by this department The Winohes-
ter people are wroth thereat.
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of colored women; their total want of
fidelity to the matrimonial tie, resulting
in general barrenness.
ID. Their want of maternal affection,
resulting in neglect of children, and
consequently of greatly increased NOR
tality.
Sd. A want of friendly interest in
each other, and kindly Offices when
sick, causing increased mortality
among adults.
Negroes are proverbially bad nurses,
and the greatest difficulty under the
old system when any of them we're sick
was to get the healthy to give atten-
ton to the sick. The master and mis-
tress had to give constant personal
attention to each case of sickness in
the family, whether among the whites
or blacks. Hence they were frequent,
ly worn out with watching at the bed
side of their sick servants. The
Northern people are wholly ignorant Of
our former domestic relations. The
watchful attention of the master and
mistress to the old, the young and the
sick among their servants, though q
prominent feature Of the old system is
one for which We get but little credit.
Many servant has cost the master, il
doctors bills, at least three times his
value, but what of this? 1t was sa
cred duty to attend TO the sick of the
family, and no duty was more cheer
fully performed.
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THE OLD CITY RECENTLY DIsCov-
Erred IN MEXICO Mexican COR
respondent of the New York Herald,
says:
After a dangerous and wearisome
work the lost city was finally reached,
and for the first time the foot of the
Anglo-Saxon pressed its streets. With
awe and wonder the party gazed upon
the works of an extinct race. Trees
hundreds of years old were growing
among the ruins, showing that the city
had been abandoned before the days
of Cortez, and the architecture of the
building is of an order before unknown
upon this continent. Some few houses
are in a tolerable state of preservation,
and still habitable, while their walls
are adorned with paintings of rare
beauty and merit. Carved doorways
and images abound in every street,
evincing in their former inhabitants q
knowledge of the fine ats not found
among the most civilized aboriginal
races. Most remarkable ofall is. some
of this sculpture indicates among the
people the existence of the Christian
religion. Places of worship are sale
to be numerous, and upon the reverse
of a statuette of a man is carefully
carved that emblem Of Christianity, tn,
| cross.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-06-09

~ Legal steps have been taken by
Henry R. jackson and others interest
ed, to test the legality of the sale of
the v. S. & T. r. r. sold by the sher-
if of Ouachita parish, on the Sd day OF
February last.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-06-09

~ The Methodist Central Com
mittee has resolved to recommend that
the month of October be devoted to pro-
tracted religious services throughout
the whole extent of American Metho-
dism.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-06-09

V Rev. Theodore Clap, for many
years Unitarian clergyman of New
Orleans, died at Washington City on
the 18th ult.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-06-09

v T. B. Tompkins, of Union par
ish has been elected District Attorney
for the 11th Judicial District.
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DIR. w L.. YearOut,

Dhysician and Surgeon, respectfully
announces to the citizens OF this
community, that he will practice in all
the branches of his profession when
called upon. T4n52
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TO THE TRADE
SPRING AND SUMNER GOODS
At Wholesale and Retail.
Sale 81 Murphy.


Corner of Texas and Spring strets,
Shreveport, Louisiana,
A RE just in receipt of the largest
N and best selected stock of
Spring and Summer Clothing and Fur
nishing Goods,
direct from the Manufacturers, ever
brought to this market, which they will
sell to the trade at New Orleans prices,
and to which they invite the attention
Of city and country dealers, consisting
of
Fine, medium, and low price
Black Cloth Suits,
Light cashmere suits,
White Linen and Duck suits,
Brown -
White Marseilles and sum-
mer Vests,
Black Alpaca, Merino, and Drab
Etc suits.
Plantation Clothing.
Cheap cottonade coats and pants.
Brown linen coats and pants,
Hickory shirts and colored Muslin
do.
FURNISHING GOODS.
White linen and puff bosom shirts,
Brown linen shirts,
Linen and paper collars,
Cotton, silk and linen Undershirts
and Drawers,
Half hose and gloves, of every de-
scription. v5n8
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-06-09

PRECoCIOUS DEBAUCHERY IN FRANCE.
I'm work from the pen of NJ. Jules
Simon, entitled La Travail, which has
just appeared in Paris. appear the fol-
lowing statements of the condition of
the children of workingmen in some
parts of France:
Even in France there are towns
where women rival men in habits of
intoxication. At Lille, at Rouen, there
are some so saturated with it that their
infants refuse to take the breast of a
sober woman. In the mountains Of the
Vosges infants drink eda-de vie. On
Sunday, in the churches, the air is lit
orally infected with the smell of eau-de
NE made from potatoes. In those
mountains there are no more frequent
causes of idiocy and imbecility. for in
general the dwellings are healthy, and
the water is excellent. The great mis-
fortune is that the children of habitual
drunkards are idiots, so that the pun
ishment follows from generation to
generation, from the guilty and de-
graded father to the innocent children.
In the manufacturing towns the May
ors are obliged to take measures
against the eqbGretS that supply eau-dt
Uie to children. for there are drunkards
of fifteen as there are laborers at eight
and, morally and physically, they pre-.
sent melancholy spectacle. Can il
be this procoeious debauchery and the
consequences of it which oblige the
War Department to lower the regula
ton height for the service? A few
sermons which are not listened to; ,
few municipal ordinances that are no
/ carried out; pathetic exhortation
which nobody pays attention to, arr
not sufficient to absolve society, whicl
allows the pestilence to spread as if j
were an inevitable consequence of in
dustry.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-06-09
". H. SCANLAND, Editor.
VOL. 5.
J. B. LEWIS, JR.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DEALER IN
BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS, .
Formerly of No. 9 1'eras street, has
Removed 10 the Corner Of Terds
and Spring streets,
(Walters g. Elders old stand
TXThere will be presented to the
w public, the largest and best
assorted stock ever offered in this city,
consisting of every variety and style Of
LADIES! SHOES.
Ladies Fine and Heavy Shoes
varying in price from 81 so to $6.
GENTLEMEN'S BOOTS.
GentIemen's fine and heavy Boots
from $5 to SIS.
Gentlemen's Shoes-of every de-
scripuon-in prices from 50 to So.
MISSES BOOTS AND SHOES.
Misses Boots and shoes of every
style and price.
Bows and Youths Boots and Shoes.
BOYS and Youths Boot and shoes
ofalI descriptions and prizes.
CHILDREN'S BOOTS AND SHOES.
ChiI1ren's Boots and shoes-in end
less variety-and prices to suit. Also.
F" -
r a.a-:,.;o, 18th ,or;one n
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T.. II. WATKINS,

A ttorney and Counselor at Law, Min
II den, La. viii practice in the
10th and 18th District.Courts. Prompt
given to all legal business en-
trusted to his care. n23
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soland Jones. j. p. Harris.
.J0nes & Harris,

4 ttorneys and Counselors at Law,
n Shreveport, La. Will practice
in the parishes of Caddo, DeSoto and
Bossier, and will attend to cases in the
District, Supreme and Federal Courts.
Office on Market street, near the
Bank. Vi n31
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ThOs. II. BeaIe,

A ttorney at Law and Notary Public.
~ Office at the Mayors office,
Shreveport. La. v4nI7
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-11-03
III &C Party OF Christianity.

Lawyer Galloway, of Columbus, Ohio
who figured 80 discreditably at the Pres
byterian general Assembly, recently held
at St. J. 1ouis, says the Chillicothe ono. J
Constitd dtion, made a speech recently al
RadicA Al meeting" in Columbus, in which
he chair cd that his party was "the party
Of Chris tianity."
Such has been the hypocritical claim
Of the Radical party for the last four
years.
John Brown, the horse thief, robber
and mur dcrer, has been elevated by them
to the position Of a "saint." Text
"Thou 81 halt not kill"
Ben. Butler, the gold and silver plate
and pia1 0 thief, is leader IF "the party
Of Christianity." Tcxt-"Thou shalt not
steal"
The Rev. Boyakiu, who lately seduccd
the dau4 liter Of his host, is an cxpoundcr
in "thc party Of Christianity" Text
"Thou 4 halt not commit adultery"
Thad- Stevens, the profane blackguard
is shin ing light in 'the party Of Chris
tianity.1 Tcxt-"Thou shalt not take
INC HdHHc Oh thc iIcTd my bod III 'diH'
Wend fell Phillips. VIM. Lloyd Garri
son Abby Kelley and other avowcd nfidcls
are Pilla rs in "the party Of Christianity
Text He that bclieyeth not in me shal
be damn ed"
The preachers Of "the party Of Chris.
tianity' have dciiled the sanctity Of the
church, by preaching politics instead oi
the gosI IIcl. Text-"You have made my
house den Of thieves"
Iac Chandler, the drunken bloat, il q
member in good standing in the "party
Of Chriftianity" Text-"Look not upon
the win cup when it is red"
The 1ncmbers Of "the party of Chris
tianity' have mobbcd their neighbors for
differing in opinion with them. Text
Love fhy neighbor as thyseIf"
WhaE a pretty party of Christianity" !"
They have violated every one Of the
ten Con lmandments and prostitutcd thc
Church until it has lost much of its in
fucnce for good.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-11-03

"HoPE WE DON'T INTRUDE. We
heartily concur with the Butte Recordin
the following views: The true interest of
subscribers and publishers of newspapers
requires the adoption of the system of ad-
vance payment, and yet it is unpleasant
for the publisher to enforce such rule
against names that have been on his books
for years. The only proper way to do it,
is for the subscribers to adopt the rule
themselves, and they will thereby enable
the publisher to give them better paper,
and have the satisfaction of knowing that
they are not in debt for it. There are
many good names upon our books, some
of which have been familiar for the past
thirteen years, that have fallen somewhat
in arrears. We make these suggestions
because 1t is bad for both parties, to let
such accounts run too longi In point of
fact this in dun to dehnquents, and we
hope they will take it kindly, aud enable
us to issue double sheet for the holi-
days. aHea.