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The Witnesses Against Surratt

The Washington correspondent OF
the Sunday Mercury calls attention to
the character Of the men who have tes'
titled to seeing Surratt in Washington
on the day of the assassination: Some
Of them are not at all reputable. Dye
has been arrested for passing counter
felt money, and Another OF them is thus
spoken Of: ,,,.,
Another delectable witness was VII.
liam f. Cleaver, the man who outraged
tie little beggar girl of the Seventh
Ward. until she died from his lust, and
fot which he was convicted and SEN
fenced: For some reason; best known
| to General Darlington and Judge FISH
er. this damnable brute and murderer
was ordered a iiew trial, and the bene-
|fit of bail extended to him about two
weeks ago, and now he. appears in q
new role-a witness against Surratt'-
Now is not this picture to be com
mented upon by honest people, Upol
the cross.examination Of Cleaver, i
came out that both Impeacher Ashle.
and Conover had had talk with hin
|--Cleayer-and it was through then
that he was Summoned as witness.
Here is a man with the halter aimos
!, around his neck, and with the gailoW
; staring him in the face, brought int
Court to bear false witness against III
, neighbor. Who believes that Dye, Q
; Cooper, or Dave Reed, the gambler, 9
!, his d-houn6, Cleaver, ever sa'
! Surratt in town at the time of the ass
: assinationq No one in this commun
= tt. John Shrratt was known to thot
! sands Of people here, and yet there
= not one Of our populace who saw hin
I but mere sojourners and stranger
! who never heard the name Of Surra
q until after the murder, now state the
+ saw him muffled up and disguised
4 4 the theatsr; and in two years after th !,
y are able tosswear to him in open Coa
Is as the man.
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Tn SAVE Ice FROM MELTING.-The foi-
lowing simple method Of preserving ice Is
donbt5ess worthy of atrial:
A GERMAN chemist publishes the lo !,
lowing simple nlsteod Of preserving SINAI,
nuantit;es Office, which he has practiced
With success. Put the ice into deep
dish. cover It with a plate, and place the
dish on q rillow stuffed with feathers, and
cover the tor with another pillow carefully
Nv Nv this means excluding the eternal alr
Feathers are well known conductors .
heat and in consequence the ice Is pre-
served from melting. DR.. schwarts s1ate :
that he has thus preserved SIX POUNDS Q
| ice for eight days.
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For the Girls-How to Get a Hus-
band,

From aid excellent communication pub
lished in the Columbus Miss Index, OF
June 8, we copy the following expressly
for the girls" @ w.
Being old, and therefore allowed license
for teasing the girls on matrimonial sub
iects, I consult them about their future
PROSPECTS often, and find that the opinion
obtains with them, that the young men
were never so slow in proposing as IN these
DAYS which, we must admit, gives them
a good. not to say all-powerful reason Tor
NOT taking a husband. Now, young ladies',
the whole secret with ninth-tenths OF you,
of not being able to get Oft your parents
hands, is simply this: YOU don't know how
to work. You can't keep house. You
can't make pair of breeches. You cant
tell. for the life of you, the difference be-
tween brain and shorts or which cow gives
the buttermilk. The young men generally
(. came out of the war with the skin OF thel,
teeth. with no fortune, | might say, but
their wardrobes of gray and their canteehs
and to marry with them now, rest assured
relates more to making living with tn
assistance Of loving, industrious help
mate, than indulging in opera music, moon
shine and poetry. Do you know VIVA
they say Of one of your butterfly youh'
ladies who has held them in the parlo
engaged by the hour listening to selegan
nofhings?' Nineteen times out OF invent
| - th;saWell, she is all right for a
, evenings entertainment, but she WILL 10
: make good wife," -,
9 There is no possible objection to tn
: accomplishments of music, painting, an
: the like, as such, but the idea is to De 40
t to set these parlor amusements aside Il
s The netiod when the stern duties OF marie
!, life call for your practical knowledg
u Show the young men that you can 40 yo'
s 5ouble-business; that you can COOK
r, meals yictuals on pinch that you CT
sweep up, and dust, and DARN old stocking
and save penny toward an accumulate
:. pound; that you will not be Q deaf expen
Is to him through life. Believe me- you
y friends, as many traej heroic, woman = y
$, hearts heat over household duties, as fiutt
1e beneath t the soft light ola parlor chandeil
n Your kiss is just as sweet, your smiles j.
g as bright, your heart as happy and teha
" after DAVIS exetion In a sphere worthy
ID true womanbood, as in places OF olssll
5, ton, frippery and silly amusement h =
TO an ambition to do your part in lie c
ad tiyate industrial habits, and let the par
he accomplishments 90 with the higher acco
Ia plishments / have roughly enumerated.
d, IS astonishing how soon domestic you
We LADY is found out and appreciated. IL
~ because she is such rare exception to
~ general rule.
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~ There have been seventeen fresl-
dents. and thus far no "impeachments' =
The subjected scrap-the work OF some
unknown bard-will inform you VINO al
have been Presidents, and tho order IN
which they occupied the chair:
Great Washington was number one;
Then Senator Adams next came on.
Jefferson made the number three
Then Madison, the fourth was ne,
Monroe, the fifth, to him succeeds;
And sixth, the junior Adams leads.
Then seventh, Andrew jackson came:
And eighth we count Van Buren's name
Then Harrison made number nine-
And tenth, John Tyler filed the line.
Polk was the eleventh, as we know,
1,hs twelfth was Taylor in the row.
Fillmore. the thirteenth, took his place.
And Pierce was fourteenth in the race.
Bhchahah, the fifteenth, is seed;
Then Lincoln, as sixteenth, came in:
johnson, the seventeenth and last,
Still lives to close the illustrious past.
Now let us stop until we see
/ Who our next President will be
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nag The efforts of the elder Dumas 70
escape the uncomfortable notorlety when
he brought upon himself BY being photo photo
a or in very familiar and atiectlonate
.siIS to have recoiled upon himself. The
Judge granted his application Tor an oruel
to prevent the further sale Of the picture
but that only increased the demand Tor ! IL
and # was at once reproduced BY ball 9
dozen foreign photographers.
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A Congressman in an Ugly Fix.

Hon. Mr. Kelley, on his return to Phila-
delphia from his Southern stamping tour,
was welcomed home by the Union League
of that place. In his speech on that occa-
sion, Mr.. Kelley said, speaking OF the
Mobile riot, that the man VINO was shot
beside the chair Of the correspondent OF
the New York Herald, who was the iirst
victim on the platform, would have fallen
lust as certainly if he (Kelley) had been
recitine the Lords Prayer, instead OF ma
king a Speech" Colonel Mann, editor OF
the Mobile Times, addressed note to the
members Of the Coroner's jury over the
dead of that riot; asking IF thcre was any
evidence of any person being shot upon the
platform, by the side of the correspondent
of the New York Herald as charged by MI
Kelley, with an intimation that there were
several victims of shots on the platform.
To that inquiry members OF the jury reply
that "no one was either killed, shot OF
wounded on the stand" The only sing
gestion that has been made, to relieve the
Congressman from the ugly fix he is in O
| wilfll living; is; that he was SO badly scared
at the tins that, falling with others ant
creepine under the table in the genera
fright, he did really believe that severa
had been shot on the platform. This opin
ion is corroborated by another statement
that prominent citizens of Mobile went
Immediately after the breaking out Of tn
disturbance, to the platform, to assure Nj
Kelley Of his safety but, on account OF tn
j crowd, were delayed, and by the time the
reached the platform, Mr.. Kelley and tn
reporter for the New York Herald had lef
, Anxious to accomplish their mission, the
l hurried after, and were guided through q
i leys and by-streets to the Battle House! b
f a peculiar odor which the fugitives ha
a left along the route Of their fight We
+ know that that will help Congresstnss
t Kelley's case, but it is proper that
IS should have the benefit Of whatever Is
!, it of mitigating character.
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The Influence Of Senator Wilson's
Southern Trip.

"Mack,d; tie Washington correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial, in his letter
Of the 4th inst, says:
Senator Wilson's Southern trip mas
unquestionably done him, and through
him, as any influential member OF the
Republican party will do the country, a
great deal Of good. 1t has not in any
positive sense made him CONSERVATIVE. but
f has convinced him that there is neither
wisdom nor craftsmanship id the extreme
measures proposed by Simmer, Stevens
and others, who know nothing Of tine
South or the Southern people except what
they have learned from private letters
written BY set ofworthless fellows, whose
only hope for pteferment and profit is IN !,
such legislation as will prevent Respectable
men 10 the South from participating IN
politics for years to come. >, Il. -
Mi. Wilson comes back fully CONVINCED
a. he tells me in conversation, that conhs
cation would be d ruinous policy for bott
section Of the c6uutry , and that those VINO
are preaching that doctrine to the negroes
Of the South now 1are doing incalculabl'
mischief to the country and to the ne
, publican party. He says if the negoe:
want land they must work for it; that q
is easier for negro in. the South, at tn
) nresent time, to earn five acres OF lane
: than for d white man in Massachusetts
!, earn one that land is cheap and WORK J
! plenty, and man who, under the cifcu i
y y stances, is not able to earn d farm, IS nc
o fit to own ole: He himself, at the age ::
}. twentv-one, worked on q farm lor !, :,
g dollars months, when six dollars would
+ buv as much land in Massachusetts, as OF
y dollar will now buy in the South. tie Q
!; lieyes the Southern people are disposed
e treat the negroes we'll, and will educa
's them, and pay them, and enable them
' ae take care Of themselves. This muc
u coming from man who has done mo
l. than any other nian--at any rate quite.
i much-to shape the policy OF the Kepao
. can party since its Organization, and
j. whose practical common sense as oppos
j, II to Summers political Quixotism the pa
ID owes much Of its success, is quite sign
on cant.
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sa> Emerson says; lis pleasant 70
see refinement penetrating into retired
homes. The more piano the less wolf, the
less dirt. lrhe beautiful should never be
out Of thought. II is as right that the
bread should be PIT upon the the table IN
comely shape, as thatit should be eaten
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surR,pAs Rn.Esrs.-The New Orleans
Registry Board rejected an applicant o.
cause he was an ductioneer before Inc Wa ~
on the ground that an auctioneer was - y
nnblic officer Gen Sheridan, says tnt
Mobile Register, has iudulged in tnt
extreme liberality Of over-rhling the rullnl
If the Board. And SO a,tctioneers are no
included in the disqualified class. "Go'
| and Liberty"
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n. A Special Washington corespon-
dent saws: There is good deal Of feeling
in Congressional circles about Mexican
matters. Part OF it been presented. More
Of Il will appear in speeches before |, the n;
end OF next week. Senator Chandler VII
probably speak tomorrow, and two o.
three members of The House are ready u
sneak as soon as they can get the fioor'
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J U D G NJ E N 7
The ,Staie of Zouisiama, .Dtst'3cs
c0uyt---P071sh Of RapsaeS.

7he ,s1uie of Louisiana, .Dtsf'3c9
cous1---Pa,1sh Of Rapsdes.
ohASN VS. D''A' July Term-A. D.
: Her Husband band lss7-So. sH.
TN THIS CASE, by reason Of the law ana
evidence being in favor of the Plaintiff,
Shannet Blum, it is ordered, adjudged and
decreed, that Plaintiff recover OF the De-
PENDANT, Edward Levy, her hasbano, a snS
sum of Eighteen Hundred Dollars (Sioool
with FIVE per cent interest thereon from
the rendition of the Judgment, and her COST;
It ia further ordered, adjudged and decreed
that the said Plaintiff be separated III
property and estate from her said husband,
that the commudity of acquets ana gains
heretofore existing between them De ais
solved. and that she resume the admins
tration and control Of her separate proper
| ty and all her rights be enforced to the
entire satisfaction under this Judgment.
Done and aigned in open Court, on tins
Sixth day of July, A. u. One Thousand
Eicht Hundred aud Sixty-Seven.
W. B. LEWIS,
Judge of the 9th District.
Filed, July 9th; 1857. ~,
j. w. HICKMAN, Clerk.
! CLERKS OFFICE,
|D1srR1cT CouRT, PARISH OF RAPIDEs' )
| certify the above to be true copy OF
the original on file in this Office. :.
Given under my hand and the zeal OF
said Court, at Alexandria, this otn gay VI
July, A. D.. 1867. c,..,.
w. w. WHlrrtEGToN, D'y: Clerk.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Fee SIS O0.
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EXTRAORDINARY EFFECTS
FROM
MAGaIEL's
.ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS
ONE PILL IN A DOSE,
ONE PILL IN A DOSE,
ONE PILL IN A DOSE

What one hundred letters q day say
from patients all over the habltable Globe :
.Dr. Maggiel, your pill has lid me Of all
billiousness."
mo more noxious doses for me in five
OF ten pills taken at time. One OF your
pills cured me-" !; ~
aThanks, Doctor. Ny headache has left
me. Send another box to keep in the
house"
cholic, two of your pills cured me- ana !
have had no return of the malady'"
"Our doctors treated me for chronic con.
situation, as they called it, and, at last said
! / was incurable. Your Maggiel's Pills
cured me" ;; ,,, ....
Il had no appetite Maggiel's Pills gave
me hearty one
| "Your Pills are marvellous"
81 send for another box, and keep them
| in the house"
Or. Naggiel has cured my headache thai
was chronic" -
u gave half Of one Of your pills to my
babe for cholera m0rDus. Inc oeaf A''''
thing got well in day
"My nauseau Of a morning is now cured.
"Your box Of Maggiel's Salve cdfed M
of noises in the head. rubbed some saw
behind my ears and the noise Left
"Send me two boxes; / want them Tor
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Il enclose a dollar your price Is twenty
j. FIVE cents, but the medicine to me is wort
3 ascend me five boxes Of your pills."
{ "Iet me have three boxes OF your Salv
J; and Pills by return mall"
t For all diseases Of the Kidneys, Retel
Il ton Of the Urine, &c., Maggiel's Pills are
: perfect cure Ole dose will satisfy any on
H
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West Point and Annapolis

Tho recent examinations at these two
public schools, have made some curious
developments. The Radical greed Tor
office is we'll known, but we had hardly
sunnosed that it had been gratified by the
nractice of such shameful and bare-faced
frauds as have just come to light. me
class of cadets which graduated at west
Point, the other day, was appointed IN
1863 Under the laws of Congress, each
Congressional district is entitled to one
cadet. who is appointed on the nomination
Of the representative Of the district. Each
cadet is required to be bona tide citizen OF
the State, and resident Of the district from
which he is appointed. The late examin-
alton AT West Point developed the fact
that about one half of the graduating class
were from the Southern States, and that,
almost without exception, they were
Northern boys! There were no represen'
tatives in Congress from the southern
States, in 1868, and, OF course, no legal
appointments could be made from these
States-but under the "war power" that
elastic principle which has been youched
for 80 many enormities, Massachusetts and
other New England boys, the sons and
| nenheWs of Northern members OF Congress,
/ we're sent to the Military Academy to rep
resent the seeded States. There used to
he q little sectional pride connected with
i This school, but we warn the unsuspectlng
Southern reader, when he runs his eye
!. over the list of graduates, not to give way
to ntiy emotion of satisfaction when he
observes that the six boys who head the
list and have carried off all the academic
honors. hail from Southern States 1t is
cheat; they are all from the North, and
: were foisted into the institution In plain
t violation of the law. The same pretty lit
tie game was played at Annapolis W.
q are we'll aware Of what god-send the wa!
t was to manufacturing New Engian9i al.
banking and ShoddSite New York, put Wy
o had no idea until these developments CAM
! to light, that any Northern man VIM
- wanted a son educated at the public OK
. nense. was also directly interested IN IN
II continuation of the waf! 1t doubled nj
q chances. We presumed one Of the reason
g. for practicing upon tie Southern people
If the enormity of collecting back taxes trol
a them. or taxes which becamie due durlIl
N the war, and which they had already PAL
s. to tho Confederate Government, as tne
ID had the right to pay them, Under the lay
~ Of ' war is to assist in paying for thsssuc
:, 10 tion of the sons of our pious Norther
q brethren. who have practieed this frau
~ mon their own government, and upon q
er these Tf are the fellows who tell us that tt
IT. officers of the old army and. navy, vi
st went South to defend their homes anu Il III
sr, sides when choice between deiend! j
of them and desolating them became inev W.
"a HE, we're doubly traitors, because TN
va were untrue to those who educated MI I
~ the fact always having been that q
~ ~, South not only educated its own boys
III the public schools, but t6ree-fourtns ., o.
m n. Northern boys to boot Memphis Buliet
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LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY
and
MILITARY ACADEMY:
SEVENTH SESSION

SEVENTH SESSION
WILL begin LIST MONDAY in sEfTEH
w BEs next, and will end on the last
WEDNESDAY Of JUNE, 1863 ~
COURSE Of STUDY
embraces Precautionary and an academic
Dennrt,nent, including q Literary, Scien.
tifc and Op.t0nal Course, and Special
School Of Civil Engineering and Q COM
mercid Course:
ADMISSION
Granted to Cadets not under fourteen
ueors of aqe, who know Arithmetic, Eng
fish Grammar and Geography.
EXPENSES.
Tuition, Library and Surgeons fees, -
per month. Wv az w ~
Board and servants attendance.... ~ w
Washing and Mending. .......... w W
Fuel and Lights: ................ w
Text Books and Stationery. ....:. w w
| Use Of Furniture. .......:..'...' w w
Incidental Fee .............:'.'. w
PAYABLE $500 in advance, and the bal
!, ance in two equal installments OF oiGV W.
on the lst day Of January atd the LIST DAY
Of April. For breakages and damages q
I. special charge will be made.
ssp In cases Of dismissal or resignation
No mart Of the Tuition, Library and Sur
ceon's fees; paid in advance, Tlil 90 re-
: funded, but there will be refunded the TN
= expeiided balance Of all other fees'
9 Cadets will be received at any time dur !,
Il ing the Session, and charged from the ua1'
" Of entrance.
o No Cadet will be received auithoM pay
ment in advahce, nor will any Cadet be q
!. lowed to be in arrears to the Seminary:
State or BsHehciary Cadets are reques'
ed to be punctbal ID their attendance Q
I. the first day Of the Session.
For further information, address
D. f. BOYD;
a .1nna %. 1ss7-tf: supsrintends'
A. MA, The New Orleans Times, Crescer
Bee, French Side) Ouachita 4eiegrap
Homer Had, Louisiana Baptist and Gao.
g, Gazette will publish till September lo g
~ A. El867:
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lit m Ia g r !.

TTAyING steam saw mill witbip hve
Ill and : half miles Of Alexandria, !
take this method Of Informing all persons
IN want Of lumbet; that their orders, "a
rectad to me and left either at the Post VI
f;ce with r. L. Fox, s. W. Henarie OF Cap
tain j. Graham on the Ferry boat VII
meet With prompt attention
By punctuality and just dealing mop
to merit and receive a liberal share OF laI
ronape. am prepared to deliver iumbe
Immediately. ,,rn vr.nrp
feb ely CLESlENA -. : r LlAo11A
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~ If you want cheap Clothing
call at J, i. Gibson's.
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MRS. MUICAHY;
MILLINERY AND LADIES FASH
: IONABLE STORE,
FRONT STREET, ALEXANDRIA, La
Cruikshank & Hynsen's Old stand

noNNErs, Ribbons, silks, trimmings,
IS Iaces, Gloves and all and every varle-
~ Of Ladies' Furnishing Goods constantly
On hand and received weekly from New
Orleans, Prices Moderate:
Jnly II, '67-tf.
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h Office

ER0M and after this date | cannot
extend credit to any one, except to
such parties that have regular accounts
and pay promptly. ,,,,
July l0-3t. HENRY ST. JOHN.
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FOR FEMALE DISEASES,
Nervous Prostitution, Weakness, General
Lassitude, Want Of Appetite,
Maegicls Pills will be found On efectual
remedy.
MAGGIEL'S PILLS and SAEVE
Are almost universal in their effects, and a
cure can be almost always guaranteed.
Each Box contains twelve Pills.
ONE PILL IN A DOSE.

N.Y. NOTICE.-None genuine without
the engraved trade mark around each pot
or box, signed by DR.. MAGGIEL, New
York, to counterfeit which is felony.
neg~ Sold by all respectable dealers IN
medicine throughout the United States
and Canada at
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A BOX OR POT.
All orders for the United States must be
addressed to j. Haydock, No. II Pine
street, New York. ....
Patients can write freely about thei'
complaints, and reply will be returned ..
the following mail.
Write for aMaggd's Treatment Of Dis
ease" ;,
your section, write, and l will forward,
aA f. P. DUCONGE, No. 80 Chat
tires street, New Orleans, is the sole Agen
for the State Of Louisiana.
| Apl. II, belly
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sPECiAI NOTICE!

.fTAyING determined to settle up
H nv business, l cannot fill any
more orders without the money accom-,
NAMES them. All in arrears to me Will
nlease call and settle up at once.
In the meantime | offer goods; nav
ina = still q full and varied stock o.. On
hand. at REDUCED prices for CASH
ONLY. >. e. y: urDoo-N
Alexandria, July II, le67-tf.
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Judge Of the 9th Dis
Filed, July 9th, 1867.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
Joseph NJ. Sollibellas No. s79-Diss
VS.. trlct Court, Far
Boomer e. Mills. ish of Rapides,

Boomer & Mills. ish of Rapides,
State Of Louisiana.
DY VIRTUE of a writ Of Fieri Faci-
ID ais issued from the Honorable the
District Court in and for the Parish Of
Rapides, State Of Louisiana, and to me
addressed in the above entitled and
numbered suit, have seized and will
offer for sale to the last and highest
bidder, on
SATURDAY, the Sd day Of AUG UsT,
1867,
between the hours Of II A. NJ. and 4 P:
NJ, at the Court. House door in the
Town Of Alexandria, Parish Of Rap
lides, State Of Louisiana, the following
described property, seized as the prop
erty of the Defendant; to-wit:
| Seventy saw logs, more Or less.
j / Blacksmith Bellows.
| TERMS OF SALE:-Twelve months
credit, purchaser giving good bond and
security. j. R. ANDREWS,
July II, 1867 ids. Sheriff:
Printers Fees Gle.
INEW ORLEANS, ALEXANDRIA AM
SHREVEPORT WEEKLY PACKET.
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THOR .sALE.-FLOUR KEPT CON.
stantly on hand, and for sale al
New Orleans Prices. rnr>,o,,
Iuly17, DIOSSAT s. FRENCH.