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Der westbote. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1843-1871, 1866-01-04

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wanpsln iu frnnsn slautts. (Nnj. ;. 28.)
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-08-29

I CoLLEoToR's OFF1cE q. S. INr'L. Rev,
% COLLECTION DIsTRIer or La,
Baton Rouge, July 18th, 1866. }
PURSUANT to the provisions Of an
i act Of Congress entitled "an act to
provide Internal Revenue to support the
Government, to pay interest on the public
debt and for other purposes approved
June Both, 1864, and amended by the act
of March Sd, 1866.
B Notice is hereby given to all persons la
BILE to pay duties or taxes under said acts,
in this Collection District, that ] have re-
ceiyed the annual list of duties. and taxes
assessed by the Assessor of said District,
which have become due and payable. -
The. Taxes included in this list are upon
INCOMES, PLATE, CARRIAGES,
YACHTS, BILLIARD TABLES, PI-
ANO-FORTES, GOLD WATCHES and
LICENSES, which may not as yet have
been procured. !. s...y
The undersigned will attend personally
Ito the receipt of said duties and taxes,
from the 18th to the 3Otli Of August, 1856,
daily Sundays excepted, at his Office In
Baton Rouge, or by Deputy AT. Alexandra.
PETER ,CONLIN, eas
/. Deputy Collector.
| All persons who shall neglect to pay to
me, or my Deputy, the duties and taxes as
sessed against them, within the time speci.
| fed, will become liable to the penalties
prescribed by law. y.
HENRY BAUSHER,
/ Collector y. S. internal Revenue,
I'd Collection Dist. Of Louisiana.
/ August ~, It, =.
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1;he 9{l@ellotrat,
TIE RMS s:

TnE DEMOCRAT is published weekly, at
FIVE DOLLARS per annum, THREE for six
months, payable in advance. No subscrip-
ton taken for less period than six
months.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the rate OF
81 so PER SQUARE for the first insertion and
rs CENTS for each subsequent one. Eight
lines or less, constitute square. The 1oi-
lowing are our rates to yearly advertisers
One column. observation-disclosures ooo w
Half column. .................. lIo w
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Fourth of column .............. l0O w
Caeds, Occupying space Of eight
lines, or less,) ................ 20 90
:, Obituary notices, marriages, pubic meet
ngs, cards of thanks, ETC., to be paid for as
advertisements.
Personal cards, when admissible, charged
double the usual advertisements.
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brake
With melancholy voice divine;

Still all about the messy tracks
HUNS at his drag the woodward
bee;
Still fitfully the -crake's note
Comes to me from upland lea;
Still round the forest bower she
loved,
The woodbine trails it's rich fes-.
ICONS;
The slumbrous poppies burst and fall
Beneath the silent autumn moons.
Still round her lattice, perched aloof,
In sunny shades Of matched eaxss,
The jasmine clings with yearning
pale,
And withersin its shroud ofleaves;
Still round the old familiar porch
Her cherished roses blush and peer,
And fill the sunny air with balm,
And strew their petals year byyear.
Nor here within, one touch of change!
The footstool-the embroidered
chair
The books-the arras on the wall
The harp-the music all are there,
No touch ofchange! ] close my eyes
1t cannot be SHE comes no more!
hear the rustling of her dress
/ hear the footsteps on the floor.
feel her breath upon my brow;
feel her kiss upon my cheek;
Down, phantoms of the buried past!
Down, or my heavy heart must
break!
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LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST %, 1866.
Is it Anybody's Business +?

"Is it anybody's business,
TIA gentleman should choose
To wait upon lady,
If the lady don't refusef
Or, to speak a little palmer,
That the meaning all may know,
Is it anybody's business
If lady has a beaug
!" Is it anybody's business
When that gentleman doth call,
Or when he leaves the lady,
Or if he leaves at all7
Or is it necessary
That the curtain should be drawn,
To save from further trouble
The outside lookers-on2
"Is it anybody's business,
But the lady's, if her beau
Rideth out with other ladies,
And doesn't let her know7
Is it anybody's business,
But the gentlemaa's, if she
Should accept another escort,
Where he doesn't chance to be
"If a PERSONS on the sidewalk,
Whether great, or whether small,
Is it anybody's business
Where that person means to call ?
Or if you see a person
While he is calling any where,
Is it any of your business
What his business may be there
"The substance of our query,
Simply stated, would be this:
Is it aaybody's business
What Gnother's businessg
Whether It's or whether 'tisn't
We should really like to know
For we are certain, if it isn't,
There are some who make it so.
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Dreamtime.

Alone watch the dying Gay,
I see its tints of orange paling;
And just beyond the ruffled bay,
Gray mists of purple hills are veil
ing;
Upon the roof weird fingers play,
And all the winds are full of wall
ing.
Lies open book before me lies,
And as | turn its leaves back,
family
The pictures Of the past arise,
Strange forms go by-appareled
quantity;
Sweet voices whisper, and dear eyes
Shine as of old-divine and sanity.
Once more hear the gentle rhyme
Where falling leaves still waters
dimple;
The woods low murmur and the
chime
Of silyery streamlets as they whim-
pie.
And live again the golden time
Of childhood's joys-so pure and
simple.
What pretty pebbles paved the creek
The dear old creek by nlulberries
shaded!
There the shy frogs played hide-and-
seek
Through lilies-with sweet spices
laded:
And our wee shadows seemed to
speak
From whispering wavelets, as we
waded.
What leagues Of nectar wooed the
bees
To buckwheat hills and fields OF
clover
What twittering birds on blooming
trees
Cooed tenderly, and played the
lover!
-
While time, with odorous breath Of
ease,
Told the delicious idyl over!
We reekossd then each year again
Now, they are counted with oul
losses;
Sharp thorns and thistles give uspain
Where then we trod Springs velvet
MOSES;
Then, of our fowery garlands vain,
And now aweary with our crosses
/ gathered wild flowers yesterday,
But somehow flowers have lost tfeil
sweetness;
Some equal were startled even
they 81
Seem to have lost their old dis.
greatness,
And only hoped beside the way,
AS if they had no need Of feetness
But when see the children meet,
Flower laden, from their plays re-
turning;
Care trampled by their needless feet
Their trustful souls all shadow
spurning;;
Their hearts wild with mpatien
beat,
And hopes bright fires within then
burning;
know life blooms the same, but |
| Shall breathe its old time fragranc
never!
The dreary now-the dear gone-by
The bridgeless floods Of sorro'
sever.
/ All, me how wistfllly / sigh
/ For dreamtime lost--and lost fo1
| eYeri
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Alexandria Advertisements.
Plantation For Rent or Sale,

MY PLANTATION fronting on Bayou.
b@uf at the month of Bayou Lamourie,
only thirteen miles frcm Alexandria. Two
dwelling houses Gone brick) on the place..
also negro quarters and three corn houses
POSSESSION given on LIST next january. The
place has fourteen hundred acres Of land
on 1t, mostly cleared, and has nerer been
orerfowed. For particulars apply to my
self, or to DR.. T. w. Marshall at Cheney
vile. j. M. STAFFORD
Alexandria, La, July 4, tJan. II.
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STOLEN,

nut Of my lot ON Friday the 3rd
= inst, One RED SoRREL MARE
MULE, branded with an r in a dia-
mond on the left shoulder; badly
scalded on the back by the saddle.
A reward OF ten dollars will be paid
on the delivery Of said mule to Ell
ther John A. Williams, at Alexan-
drla, or myself at my place on bayou
Lam0urie.
ROGER ROBERTS.
Aug. L., 1866, 3t..
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VIC'S TONS0RIAL SALOON.
SHAVING. HAIR DRESSING AND
..4s SHAMPO0NING!

THE public are informed that this favor.
tie Saloon has been removed to the
ICE HOUSE HOTEL
In the basement Story, where the Propri
Ator will always be found on hand and ready
to attend to his friends and customers.
Give him call and you viii leave his
Saloon TT rival to Count DOrsay and
Beaux Hickman,
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Dead

The seasons weave their ancient
dance,
The restless ocean GIBBS and flows,
The world rolls on through day and
dark,
Regardless of our joys and woes!
sun up the breezy western slopes
The reaper girls, like apple brown,
Bend singing to their gleeful toll,
And sweep the golden harvest
down;
sl Y, where the slanting sunlight gilds
The poles of cedar and Of pine,
shsnts the lone blackbnd from the
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Alexandria Advertisements.
SHERlFFgS SALE.

No. 3S9-District Court--PaTish of Rap
ides-Jaines c. Zunt VS.. Peter j. Cock
burn.
BY VIRTUE of writ of Fl. Fa. issued
out of the Ninth Judicial District Court
in and for the Parish of Rapides and State
Of Louisiana, and directed to the Sheriff
thereof, | viii offer for sale at the Court
House door i'll the town of Alexandria,
Parish and State Of aforesaid on
. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER lst, 1866.
between the hours prescribed by law, all
the right title and interest of Peter y.
Cockburn in and to certain tract or par
eel of land, lying and being situated in the
Parish and State aforesaid, having front
on the Bayou Robert of fifteen arpents,
bounded above by the lands of Fl. S. Sprigg
and below by the lands Of John r. VIII
liams, containing 1000 arpents or SAG 2S-
100 acres, more OF less. Also another tract
or parcel Of land situated, lying and being.
in the same Parish and State, fronting on.
the same Bayou, bounded on two sides by
lands of J. r. Williams and by lands of III.
S. Sprigg, being on the right descending
bend Of Bayou Robert and containing 90
70-l00 acres. The two tracts commonly
know as the Anandale Plantation.
Seized in the above entitled suit to salts
fy said writ Terms of sale, cash in Uni
ted States Treasury Notes with benefit of
appraisement.
Possession will not be given until the
first of January next, there being a lease
Of the place for this year.
L.
M JAMES R. ANDREWS, Sheriff.
Sherif's Office, Alexandria, August
1st, 1866. Printers Fee, $22a.
~>,->>ooo,--~~o>~>oo
SU GCESSION SALE.
Estate Of Peter Belgard, deceased,
WILL be sold at Public Auction
" to the highest bidder, on
Monday, the 18th Of September, 1866.
-Four hundred and eighty acres of
land, situated and 1yingin the Par
ish Of Rapides, bounded above by
property of Jacob Paul and below
by that OF M. DeVllle; on the East
by land of N. peville and on the
West by public lands.
The property will be offered at
the late residence Of the deceased,
near Holloway's Prairie.
TERMS OF SALE: CASH.
JACOR PATTI
Administrator.
| Aug. Is, 1866, ids.
Printers fees S13 so.
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Our Children.

A child is born; now take the germ
and make it.
A bud of moral beauty. Let the
dews
OF knowledge, and the light Of virtue,
wake it
In richest fragrance and in purest
hues;
For soon the gathering hand Of death
: viii break it
From it's weak stem of life, and it
shall lose
AL power to charm; but if that love-
ly flower
Hath swelled our pleasure, or sub
dued one pain,
Owho shall say that it lived in vainF
--~>-.~~,-..-.o.-.----~>-~-
How Cyrus Laid the Gable.
BY JOHN G. SAKE.
Come listen all unto my song,
It is no silly fable;
'Tis all about the mighty cord
They call the Atlantic Cable.
Brave Cyrus Field, he said, says he,
have pretty notion,
That can run telegraph
Across the Atlantic Ocean.
arSsc
Then allthepeople laughed, and said !:
They'd like to see him do it!
lie might get half seas over, but
He never could go through it.
To carry out his foolish plan
He never would be able;
He might as well go hang himself
With his Atlantic Cable.
!.
But Cyrus was a valiant man,
A fellow Of decision,
And needed not their hooking words,
Their laughter and derision.
Twice did his brave efforts fail,
And vet His mind was stable;
He want the man to break his heart
Because he broke his cable
t'Once more! my gallant boys!" he
cried:
Three times!-you know the fable!'
en- make it thirty, muttered he,
But viii lay the cable.)
Once more they cried-hu1rah- hur-
rah!
What means this great connection
The Lord be praised THE cables
IT,
Across the Atlantic ocean,!
Loud ring the bells; for flashing
through
Six hundred leagues of water,
Old mother England's benson,
Sa,ltes her eldest daughter.
Now long live President and Queen
And long live the gallant Cyrus. =
And may his courage, faith and zeal
With emulation fire us!
And may we honor evernlore
The manly, bold and stable,
And tell our sons--to make them
brave
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Alexandria Advertisements.
Another New store.

.sl5s s.$..r ~ s----s--. :.
NEW AND FRESH ASSORTMENT
OF GooDsl
J. 4 b. WEIL, AGENTS,
I1AVE opened new and complete stock
n Of Goods at the newly erected b,.ck
II Store at the old stand Of Jacob Walker,
on FRONT STREET, opposite the Ferry
Landing.
Their stock comprises the following:
Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockeryware,
Hardware, Woodenware, Stone
ware, 1inware, Clothing,
Boots, Shoes. Hosiery,
Etc, ETC.. ETC.,
Molasses by the barrel, half barrel or
gallon.
Sugar by the hogshead, barrel or pound.
Ali Of which is offered at the very lowest
CASH prices.
December 18th, 1865, If.
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IN O e I CE

. 4 -.
THIS is to inform my friends and the
i public generally, that lam again sell
ling goods
In my Own store,
which was very nearly washed away by the
last overflow. have a fine assortment OF
good and substantial goods, but keep no
liquors, nor any unnecessary trash.
The following is list of some of the
leading articles which will always be found
in my Store and at cheap rates, viz:
Bleached and Brown Cotton, from "a to
12-4 wide, Calicoes, Hosiery, Ready
Made Clothing, Hats, Boots, and
Shoes, Hardware of every
Description, Crockery
and Glass Ware,
Saddlery, Gro
tis ceries,
Hams
Middlings,
Breakfast Bacon,
Shoulders, P ork,
Candles, Soap, Lard,
Lard Oil, Coal Oil, Rubber
Betting, from to Ia inches wide,
and great many other articles too
troublesome to put into an advertisement
/ am constantly receiving goods from
New Orleaus, New York and. Boston,
Although the credit system is tolerably
well played out, and want it understood
that I cant giee any credit get, having
sustained myself for twenty-six year;
through fires, wars, foods and thousand
other misfortunes, / can get short &C
commodation in the way Of Credit at tht
Factories, which enables me to keep a goot
stock on hand. Please call and examin,
for yourselves.
augl-tf. S. w. HENARIE.
/
Des Arc citizen., 1866-07-14
WAR IN EUROPE TEE ISSUE.

There is wide difference between the cause and occasion of war. The negro was tho occasion of war in this country; its cause lay behind the negro, and consisted in facts which need not now be discussed The contest was so shaped that true issues involved were never fairly presented. Even 50 in this European embroglio of States. The occasion of the war is found in exclu- sive claims to two little Duchies made by Prussia. The king of Bismark would have a navy, and therefore must hold the Ouch ies and their seaports. Here we have the occasion of conflict which involves wider and deeper causes.
 Austria, until Frederick the Great roigned, had been supreme in all questions affecting the German States. She still would hold this position. Only one fifth of Austrian populations are German. Prus- sia would free Germany from Austrian predominance. Whether smaller German States will prefer Prussia, which is almost wholly German in language, tastes and prejudice, to Austrian supremacy in the confederation, we cannot now determine. The total population of Austria is thirty seven million, one-ifth German, the rest Sclavonic, The population of Prussia is twenty million, with two million wanting German traits
 The war is, therefore, one of races. It is Germany against Sclayania. It is not, as Austria pretends, a war to perpetute German nationality, but the subordination of Germany to Austrian empire. For this reason, Austria would maintain present. subdivisions of Germany, while Prussia would consolidate tho small States. Whet- her Germans, outside of Prussia, would retain share of local independence, and, therefore, cooperate with Austria, or guided by instincts of race, will side with Prussia, is an inquiry not yet determined. All these countries are bankrupt. Radicalism has been plundering people for centuries 1T Bulletin.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-07-14
Cause of the War between RrasSia and
 VIA Austria.

& hustlfds
 There are many readers, says the Rich mond Times, who. not having kept up with the current history cf political affairs in Europe, now that the war has actually be- gun between Prussia and Austria, desire to know the exact cause that has set these two great powers by the ears. Everybody knows thatit is something about Schleswlg and Holstein; but what is it. Here itis:
 By the defeat of Denmark, whom Eng land encouraged to go to war, and then deserted, the two great German powers become, in 1864, joint possessors 1.-the Duchies of Sehleswig, Holsteit, and Lauen- burg. Less than year afterward Austria sold her rights in hauenburg for two mill ion five hundred thousand thalers, and by the Convention of Gasteini 1t was agreed that the joint occupation should terminate, that Austria should take possession of Holstein, aud Prussia of Schleswig This was one step in the negotiation by which Prussia expected ultimately to become master of both the Duchies, but beyond this point Austria refused to go, and rejected every proposition for the find cess ion of her rights to Holstein--a province of little value to Austria, but of great value to Prussia, on account of its nearness to her frontiers, and its seaport, Kiel. As the diplomacy of Prussia grew more and more urgent, Austria, on the first of June last, handed over the questian to the Fed. eral Diet of Germany. This step Prussia instantly denounced as a violation of the Convention of Gastein, since by that Con vention ithad been agreed that all matters relating to the Duchies should be settled between Austria and Prussia Independently of the Confederation. Prussia, therefore, declared that Convention at an end, and insisted that, as a consequence, her right to the joint occupation of Holstein was revived She marched troops into Ifols- tein, and at last advices had crossed the frontiers of Saxony, and was marching on Dresden. Benedek, the Austrian com mander, will also attempt to seize Dresden, the possession of which will be a most inn portant advantage to either side obtaining it, as an army once established there could not be dislodged without long campaign. Just south of Dresden lies the ground which the wars of Frederick made famous, and which has since been reckoned an impregnabie position.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-07-14
Confederate Money.

A bill has been introduced in the lower House of Congress, making it unlawful, after October l, 1866, for any person, firm or corporation, to own, have an interest in or claim or lien upon or have in possession, care, custody, or control, any bill of credit, scrip, bond, security, certificate of indebt- edness or promise to pay, issued by or under the authority of the late so-called Confederate States, or issued in the aid of rebellion or instruction, and after that date such scrip, etc, wherever found shall be eonfscated aud forfeited to the United States and at once destroyed Any person violating the provisions of the act shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars and imprisoned not less than six months, and persons who endeavor to procure the assumption by the United States or any States, of such indebtedness, shall be considered as having forfeited his pardon.
 Petty malice and mean revenge can 80 no farther than this proposed enactment.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-07-14

For the Des Arc Citizen
 The undersigned appointed at called meeting of soarcy Lodge No. 49Jconven7 ed at the Lodge Room of West Point, Lodge 24, at West Point, Ark, on Sund- day the, 10th of June, A. D., 1866, to draft Resolutions expressive of the sense of the Lodge, in regard to the death of Brother Robert Haryille, beg leave to re- port Whereas, it has pleased an All-wise Providence to call from our midst, and from field of usefulness, our beloved friend and Brother Robert Harville.-' Therefore in view of the chasm which this dispensation has produced in our midst.
 RESOLVED, That while we submissively bow to every dispensation of Divine Pro vidence, yet we cannot but deeply deplore the sad calamity which has deprived us of the society of our friend and BrotherLhis relations of a kind and devoted kinsman- our order of one of its briehtest and most jealous members.
 RESOLVED, That in the death of our beloved Brother, the widow and the orphan sustained an irreparable loss, for in him they always found friend to relieve their distress and supply their wants.
 RESOLVED, That through respect to the memory of our deceased Brother we will wear the usual badge of morning for thirty days.
 RESOLVED, That copy of these reso lutions be spread on the record of the Lodge, and that the Secretary of the Lodge furnish the family of the deceased Brother with copy of these resolutions, as an as surance of the deep sympathy and condo lence of the members of this Lodge, and also furnish a copy thereof to the Des Arc Citi9en for publication.
 A. STEPHENSON,
 Chairman of Committee.