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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-11-10

A Mobile ''loeal" was some
what nonplussed.in one of his
late perambulations. Walking
behind a very riehly-dressod
lady, as he supposed, the braid
of her robe became entangled
with the projecting hinge of a
cellar door. With eager hast
he relieved the offending braid,
expecting for his reward a
sweet smile and a gentle fthank
you, sir Judge of his surprise
when, from the thick lips of a
negress black as jet, he heard
the sharp accents of offended
dignity. ''Leff dat dress alone" !"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-11-10

Its beauty's privilege to kill
time, but time always kills
beauty.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-11-10


THE PREsENT.-There is no
time yours but the present; no
day yours but the present day;
therefore donot feed andplease
yourselves with hopes of time
to come; that you will repent,
but not yet; and lay hold on
mercy, but not yet; and give
yourselves up to the Lord next
week, next month, or next year;
for that God who haspromised
you mercy and favor upon the
day of your return, has not
promised to prolong your lives
till that day comes.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-11-10
ThOs. #. RcaEe,
d. b. WATKI,Ns.

A ttorney and Counselor at Law, Min
II den, La. Will practice in the
10th and 18th District Courts Prompt
attention given to ali legal business en-
trusted TO his care. n23
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-11-10

Like cures like. Sulphur
comes from Vesuyius; there
fore it is good for eruptions.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17
A WISER PEOPLE THAN OURSELVES.

From the Memphis Argus
People of Arkansas, in public meetings
and through the press, evince true wisdom
in avoiding expressions Of those prejudiCes
which initiate against the practical interests
ofthe South Hypocrisy would be criminals;
but practical Interests and political opin-
ions soon adapt themselves to each other.
In politics, that is wisest which is best.
Prejudices influence the passionate, the weak
and the Ignorant and none of us are free
from prejudices. The more perfectly these
are subordinated to reason and practical
common sense. the better for individuals
and communities.
1t is palpable enough that we must either
have another five years of blood and des-
olatiOn, or assent to a thorough change in
social systems.5 Gradual, it may be, but
not the less inevitable Subdivisions of
plantations and density of population are
essential Prerequisites to the wealth and
prosperity of Southern States. Tenants or
purchasers must be induced to immigrate.
There may be those who deplore the neces-
sity, but it is unavoidable, as a change in
our present unhappy condition is desirable.
Wisely, above all others, have the people
and press of Arkansas shaped their course.
Inc negro question disposed OF, they assert
that there is none others to excite aissen-
tons. Community of interest, intercourse,
interchange of ideas, adoption of habits, to
changed social systems, all, modified and
blended by climatic geographical laws,
will speedily beget unity among people of
diverse habits and modes of thinking. As
with families, so with distinct nationalities
both are improved, when of the same race,
by admixture of blood and interchange of
ideas. Trade in the immaterial, is advan-
tageous as in the material world. Hence
the mind of the traveller is enlarged and his
opinions ever liberalized. He may still
love most the land of his birth, but finds
much to love and admire of which his own
country could never boast.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17

Mr.. COwAN, Conservative, in the Senate,
made the following reply the other day to
the Radicals who are denouncing the Presi-
dent for not hurrying up the punishment
that is to be inflicted upon the "rebel'
leaders. He said:
An attempt had been made, and was
being made, to create an opinion that the
President was deserving the platform on
which he was elected in not furnishing
traitors. But he (Cowan) would say in be-
half of the President, he would say for the
President to the Senate, Get your tribunal
and five hundred or five thousand, if you
want them, of the leaders, with JEFF, Davis
at their head, are ready for YOU He sup
posed that it would not be intended that the
President should turn into public prosecu-
tor. There were citizens enough, with in
telligence enough, and desire enough to
bring them through the ordinary channels
within the clutches of the law; and, he
added, | say on the part of the President, if
you fix your tribunals and get your machin-
cry ready, you can have five hundred of
them, or five thousand, tomorrow and You
need not be particular about the selection
you can select them yourselves; and now,
sir, who can throw the blame in this matter
upon the President? But they must not be
tried, he thought, by a military commission,
as they have been declared extra judicial by
the Supreme Court"
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17
THE PRESIDENTs VETO or THE
COLORADO BILL.

The President returned the Colorado bill
to the Senate with his objections, on the 18th.
He does not consider the establishment Of
State Government in Colorado at present
necessary for the welfare Of the people
there The population Is small some estim-
ate it as low as $4,000, while the advocates
of the bill reckon the number at $1,000 to
10000.
It's not satisfactorily established that Il
majority of the citizens desire or are anxious
for change of territorial government. The
principal objection is that the admission Of
Colorado at this time as 4 State into the
Union, appears to him to be incompatible
with the public interests of the country. In
stead OF increasing, Colorado has diminished
in population.
The President says caution should be ex-
ercised in the admission Of new States,
especially as eleven Of the States are now
without representation, and all should be
consulted as to who shall become members
of the Union.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17
TENNESSEE LEGrsLATURE.
SENATE.

MAY l6.-House resolution TO adiourn was taken
up and amended by striking out the words sine
de- and inserting the words. 18th day of October
House bill to encourage iron manufacturing and
other Interests. passed on second reading
House bill to create a criminal circuit of VIII
hanson, Maury and Giles. passed second read
ing.
Communication from photographers of Nash
vile praying the reduction of tax on their bust
ness was postponed.
Senate bill on third reading. to revive the Nash
VILE and Chattanooga Railroad company, passed
on third reading
= Senate bills incorporating Journeyman Painters
ASSOCIATION OF Memphis, and the Press aud Tifes
Printing and Publishing COMPANY of Nashville
passed third reading.
House amendment incorporating Nashyill Ice
Manufacturing Company, was concurred in.
Senate bill to indemnify loyal citizens for lose
OF property during the war was rejected-ayes :,
noes II.
The bill TO increase the common school fund
was made the special order for Friday next.
10 repeal all laws now in force prohibiting free
persons Of color from engaging in trade and com
merce was indefinitely postponed.
To authorize the purchase of a Governors man
sion, rejected.
In the HOUSE, the question of an adjournment
sins de was taken mp and disposed Of, by reject
ing the Senate amendment to meet on the first
Monday in October next, but accepting the amend
ment fixing the 18th inst as the day.
A minority report from the Committee on
Finance was presented favoring the establishment
of fiscal agencies for the State as greater security
for the safe-keeping of the public moneys They
also recommend that instead of leaving the public
moneys under the entire control of the Treasurer
that his draft shall be cOuntersigned by the
Comptroller a necessary guard against abuses.
The bill incorporating the Cincinnati South
western and Chattanooga Railroad Company
passed third reading.
The bill appropriating one hundred dollars in
State bonds TO the representatives of each deceased
white Tennessee soldier came up. motion to
indefinitely postpone was lost and the bill refer
red back TO the committee
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17
TRIAL OF MIR. DAVIS.
An intelligent Washington correspondent

An intelligent Washington correspondent
under date of the 18th inst, says
1t is a noteworthy circumstance in con-
nectiOn with the efforts that are now being
made to bring Jefferson Davis to trial, that
the Judiciary Committee, 10 whom was re-
ferred, weeks ago, the question whether any
legislation on the part of Congress was
necessary in order to bring him to trial,
have confined their labors exclusively to
the collection and examination of testimony
to prove the completely of Mr.. Davis in the
assassination of Lincoln, but have not
taken a single step toward bringing him to
trial for treason, or toward facilitating such
a trial. To Judge from their labors, it
would seem that they at least have no in
tentiOn of having Jefferson Davis tried for
treason.
Whatever the ground of their action in
this respect may be, it is certain that the
recent Indictment of Mr.. Davis at Norfolk,
was brought about by Judge Underwood on
his own responsibility, and that it has not
received the sanction of the Government or
any officer or branch thereof, as | stated in
my last dispatch,
Jefferson Davis was indicted for treason
by order of this same Underwood, last Sum-
mer. At that time the Attorney General
directed the over-zealous Underwood to let
the matter drop, and that indictment was
quietly withdrawn.
The present indictment is a mere copy of
the former one, but it is well known to the
Government and to all its law officers, that
Jefferson Davis crime, whatever it may be,
does not amount to treason, and that, tried
in civil court, a conviction for treason
cannot be secured. To place Jefferson Da-
Wis ON trial for treason, is to have it pro-
claimed that he did not commit treason, and
it is knowledge of the fact that has hith-
ertO prevented his trial. If he is put on
trial under this indictment, it will simply
be in order that he may be honorably &C
quilted. Underwood and such men as Nye,
who thirst for the blood of Jefferson Davis,
do not see this, but Thaddeus Stevens sees
it, and hence his anxiety to get Mr. Davis
tried as an accOmplice of the assassins.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17

JUDGE UNDERWOOD, of the L. S.
District Court in the Virginia Circuit, has
manifestly taken Jeflries for his model,
and is impatient to immortalize himself by
re-enacting on the soil of the Old Dominion
the cruelties and butcheries " the Bloody
Assizes. Jefiries, however, was 4 lawyer
and a man of intellect. Judge Underwood
is neither. His recent charge to the grand
jury at Norfolk, was a harangue, the like of
which has never been heard in any court of
justice, we verify believe, since the darkest
days of oppression of which there is record
in English history The general temper of
it may be inferred from the following brief
extract
Your duties under these circumstances
are both difficult and dangerous, for you are
called upon to oppose the worst passions of
very desperate men, who will make vigor-
Gus efforts to verify their often repeated
predictions, that freedom would bring ruin
and determination upon the colored people,
and it is possible that some of you may
meet with violence for faithful discharge
of FOUR ditieS, as one of the last grand jury
has already done. But better, a thousand
times better, to fall by the hand of the
assassin, as Lincoln and Dixon have fallen,
or die under the mockery of pretended
forms of law as our Savior did, in the cause
of freedom and humanity, than TO shrink
like towards from our public trusts, in order
10 drag out few more years of ignoble life,
filling unhonored graves.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17

CHARLES G.. HALrINE, formerly of Gen.
Dix's staff, makes statements in his New
York Citizen about Baker, the war depart
ment detective, that shows him to be great
villain, if they arc true, or HalPine a gross
slanderer, if they are false. He duplicates
Baker in 4 gigantic scheme Of bounty
jumping, in which, under cover of detecting
bounty.iumpers in New York, he went in
with them and shared their profits. In one
case the ring" took S2OO,0GO from the
Mayor Of Jersey City, for filling the quota
Of that city, and not one of the purchased
recruits ever reached the army, or received
any bounty, but were taken to Fort Lafay-
cite shut up there As bounty-iumpers, and
only released at last upon their oath not to
expose the scoundrels who had wronged
them. 4 committee Of Congress is instruct
ed TO investigate these outrages.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17
Nashville and Decatur Railroad.
Change of Time.

On and after April lst, and until further notice
Passenger trains will run as follows:
Columbia Accommodation train leaves COlum-
bia at7:21. A. N. Arrives at Nashville 1000. Re
turning leaves Nashville at 3 P N. Arrives at
Columbia, $40, Pm.
Huntsville Mail leaves Nashville at $50, An.
Arrives at Decatur at g. Pm. Leaves Decatur at
$50, An. Arrives at Nashville at 200. P N Con-
Meeting both ways at Decatur with mail train on
NJ. 4 err. for Mooresyille, Madison. Hunts
vile, WoOdville. Larknsville, Scottsboro. and all
points East.
Passengers by this train arrive in Nashville in
time to connect with Night Express trains on all
roads from Nashville.
Night Express leaves Nashville at $50, P N.
Arrives at Decatur at $50, NJ. Leaves Decatur
NJ 500. P. NJ Arrives at Nashville at i:iC. Con-
Meeting both ways at Decstr with mil trains
on NJ. 4 err, for Huntsville. Corinth, Grand
Junction. Memphis. Mobile, New Orleans and all
intermediate points. Connects at Nashville with
L. 4 MR.. for all points North and East
80 Miles shorter than any other route from
Nashville to Mobile, De.uopoIs. Selma, and all
intermediate points.
"A Miles shorter to Corinth, Grand Junction.
Memphis, Jackson, Vicksburg, and New Orleans
33 Miles shorter to Huntsville.
Elegant Sleeping Coach will run Monday,
Wednesday and Friday nights from Nashville to
Decatur. Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday nights
from Decatur to Nashville.
Through Tickets can be procured at W. W.
Craig's Omnibus office. No. % Cherry street. and
at Broad Street Depot, Nashville.
J. ID. VAN DYNE.
AMI t1eupral SUPERINTENDENT
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17
To COL. J. 5. PRATHER.

SOUTHERN HOTEL, ST. LOUIS, May, 10
1S66.-Col j. S. PRATHER, Editor of the
Era Il have tried to serve you faithfully
and well, but misfortune has overtaken me-
and | seek a rest from all my sorrow Re
member to speak not evil of the dead.
know you will do what is right to set my
memory before the world as it deserves. To
you | look as my guardian in this matter
Hard services and the many rebuffs which
this cold world gives have ruined me- God
bless youl The loss of all had, with the
gloomy prospect ahead could be endured,
but the thought that men are mean enough
to Elisrepresentme and rob me of that which
have honestly made is too much for my SEN
sative soul to survive.
If you write my history let it be truth
but be kind The Era has had my best
wishes and services | now can only offer
progress. This resolution | have taken is a
necessity to prevent that mental distraction
which is fast coming over me.
Again, God bless you and prosper you
ever. The great hereafter has no terrors
for me. an not afraid to die. Shed no
tears of sorrow for me, but plant a single
rose on my grave, and when you, in the hour
of gloom, feel that life is burthen, only
let my memory be held in quiet sadness, as
one too sensitive to brook the asperities of
this world
May God in His mercy save my soul, and
bless you all, is my final prayer.
b. l.. SEAGO.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17

REPORT OF GEMS. STEEDMAN AND Full
LERToN UPON THE OPERATIONS OF THE
FREEDMEN's BUREAU.-The official report
of Generals Fullerton and Steedman, upon
the operation Of the Freedmen's Bureau in
Virginia and North Carolina, is published
1t is quite lengthy, and reviews with rigor
the action of some of the agents W no are ac-
cused of robbery, cruelty and fraud. The
report concludes: Complaints have been
made to the United States, by planters, that
these agents Of the Bureau use the power of
their positions TO obtain and control the best
labor in the State. There is no doubt that
some of the ill-feeling manifested toward the
Bureau, on the part Of planters, is attributed
to this fact. The arbitrary power exercised
by the officers and agents of the Bureau in
making arrests, imposing fines and inaicting
punishments, disorganizing the local laws,
and especially the statute of limitation, Gre
ates iii-feeling against the Government. If
the officers were all honest and possessed
even limited legal information, it might be
safe to trust them with this extraordinary
power, but in many instances the officers do
not possess the slightest knowledge of law.
We are satisfied that the recommendation
which we made in reference to the with
drawal of the officers of the Bureau in Nir-
ginia, and the transfer to the officers COM
handing the troops such duty as it may
seem necessary to periorm in connection with
the freedmen, is equally applicable to North
Cnrnlinn y
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17

The LEGIsLArURE-It will be seen from
our legislative proceedings Of yesterday that
this notorious aS~emblage adiourns, sine de,
ON the 2Sth inst
Wonderful event in the history Of Tennes-
sec For once there is cause for rejoicing
and cxultation The dawn Of peace one
year ago was not 4 source Of more gratifca-
ton to the people Of Tennessee than this in
telligcnce will be TO them.
To-day, whilst her millions are sending up
their prayers, to the Great Ruler, to avert a
visitation Of the cholera, petitions should and
will also accompany them that she shall
never BE- cursed with such another convoca-
tinn
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17

THE people of Richmond recently paid
their respects to the memory of the Confed-
crate dead-their kindred and friends-by
becoming ceremonies at their graves. In
the account given of it through one of the
Richmond papers, the fact of an old negro
appearing in the procession and carrying
flowers to deck the graves of their loved
ones, is mentioned IA a touching incl
dent, commanding respect. This negro
was doubtless an old inhabitant, and the
regard and Difference shown to the people
with whom he had been raised md to whom
he is most indebted, though very natural
was no less creditable. 1t showed that he
had withstood the evil Influences and PERM
cious teachings of Northern men who have
labored, and we regret to say too successfully,
in Installing into the minds of our former
slaves sentiments unfavorable to the contin-
uance of that kindly relation which in future,
as heretofore, should exist between the two
races at the South.
Commenting upon this circumstance, the
Nashville Union says:
Z" If devotion 20 the rebel cause, or esteem for
the memory Of "a deceased rebel General so exalts
negro as to make him worthy of commentator
and respect, why should not devotion to the pa
trOts cause and esteem for the gallant leaders of
the armies of the Union, eXalt in the estimation
Of the loyal such men rs Rev. Mr.. Merry, Nelson
Walker, Frank Parrish, and all other worthy
gentlemen Of cOOr2'
Again:
If the white and the black rebels and rebel
sympathisers Of Richmond can mingle tears why
not mingle ballots"
We regret to see such expressions coming
from paper claiming to be conservative.
The use which the Union seeks to make of
this circumstance is wholly unauthorized
and would better suit the columns of another
paper Of this city. The fallacy of the de-
duction which it seeks to draw is too shallow
to need exposure.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17

SIT is now stated says Forney's Chroai-
Gle, ION what is deemed reliable authority,
that President johnson is considering the
propriety of disseminating military divis-
ions, departments and posts and discharging
all volunteer organizations, white and color
ed We hope this is more true than the
majority of Forneys statements. If we are
TO have United States soldiers in the South
by all means let them be regulars, who are
all white people, commanded by officers
who are soldiers and not politicians.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17
ANOTHER BENEVOLENT ENTER
PRISE.

We called attention some weeks since to
the fact that society mad been organized at
GAINESVILLE for the purpose Of founding an
Asylum for the parental guardianship Of
those unfortunate orphans of the South
made hopeless.y destitute by the casualties
Of our late unhappy civil strife.
We are gratifed to observe that it is be-
ing pushed forward with great energy and
hattering promise Of success. Nothing can
commend itself more favorably to our peo-
pie. In our advertising columns will be
found circular of the President and Man
ayers of the Society, of which our estimable
lady friend, Mrs. FELICIA G. PORTER. is
the agent in this city. We commend it to
the careful reading of every one.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17

The Augusta GA GroH3oie and SeRtiHol,
fires the Southern heart with an article be-
ginning thus:
CowARpLY UTTERANCEs.-"TheC incin-
matt Gd-sftc do not forget the name of the
paper informs its readers in a recent issue
that the calamities of the South furnish
cause for unmixed JOY and unbounded enthu-
siasm.'"
No such expression or sentiment has APP
peared in the Ga-cae, yet we do not know
that the CkroEicle or any Of the other South
ern papers who will agitate their readers
over this falsehood, viii make the correc-
ton Cincinnati Gazette.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17

ACQUITTAL OF Col. JACQUEs.-This no
torious character, known to the world as a
Methodist preacher Peace Commissioner,
a Federal officer, &c, who has been on trial
for some time in Louisville, Kentucky,
charged with seducing lady, was acquitted
on the 18th inst.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17
BUENA VISTA SPRINGS,
Logan County, kentucky.

THESE CELEBRATED SPRINGS. STU
/ ated in romantic and delightful country.
seven miles from Russellvile ON the Louisville
and Memphis Railroad. have been fitted up IN
ample style for the comfort and pleasure OF yis-
itors who can be accommodated by the day, week
or month. on reasonable terms. The Table Will
be abundsntly supplied with everything that IS
good in the eating line; and the Bar well Stoke
with pure and choice liquors.
BUSH'S celebrated Band of Music, from Nash
Vile will be on hand during the season.
Rnssellville can be reached from all points by
railroad and hacks will take visitors from town TO
the Springs. PROF. ONEN' FfepfAeeOf'
mayl7-lt