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ergy and enterprise down there. The;,
commerce is rapidly extending. and uev
houses are springing up everyWhere.-
There are many schooners and small co,,t
ing crafts, pro6tably employed between o..
city and the Island, from which thsy bin,
cargoes of fruits and nuts. and returpios
take down provisions, clothing, agriculto.
tral implements, and many passeneeu.-.
The Village Belle, q fine craft, with com.
Portable quarters, commanded by Csptai.
Hunter, q trusty sold salt" is expecsed
here daily, and will probably leave on bar
return trip to Ruatan, about the lsth int
As she is good aailer, and leaves pronp..
y, those who wish to 60 down, can com,
on her leaving here between the I'm ana
18th Of each month. 3
The weather continues very het, and
close, varied little BY breeze at nieAt
The health Of our city continues good, Min
livery little yellow fever or other dreaded
disease.
Yours Truly,
TIM. LINKINWATER, 8
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FRESH TURNIP SEED!!!
TUST acknowledgements
Growth of this Season.
Apply to d. ST. JOHN.
Alexandra, August Ia, 1867.
Rapides Parish.

Under this caption, the New Orleans
Republican Of a late date, makes the
following au,eRde honorable:
Through Major Willauer. of the Freed
mems Bureau, Rapides Parish, we learn
that rapid progress is being made in the
education of coIored children. Sixty-three
schools are already established, and the
scholars are being taught by teachers from
Illinois, Michigan, and other Western states
where the free school system has arrived at
greater perfection than in New England -
We are also gratiied to learn that the
charges against the administration of Ma
,ior Willauer, made through correspondence
published in our own columns and
through statements filed in the office of
General Mower, have not been sustained,
and after thorough examination by Cen
cral Mower have been pronounced unmer-
tied and untrue in all respects. Major
Willauer returns to Rapides Parish deter
mined to use all honest efforts to create
harmony between. conflicting interests, and
encourage spirit of emulation among the
colOred people to make themselves worthy
of the great gifts of freedom and equal
rights given to them by race heretofore
called their superiors. = <a't ~
.E All this in justice to Major Willauer
is eminently fair and proper, butwhilst
the editor was doing this decent act,
why did he not also state, in justice to
other gentlemen of this Town and Par
ish, who have been falsely villifed and
indecently abused, by his many dirty
and bred correspondents here, that
the charges against them were also
"unmerited and untrue in all respects9"
Certainly, fellows who will abuse and
lie against their own people will not
scruple to tell q lie, and swear tosit,
against gentlemen, who are their SUI
periors in all that constitutes true man
hood. These miserable wretches, i'm
ported ,scalawags, pale faced renegades
and pensioned pimps should never be
allowed to disgrace the columns of any
journal with their. miserable and con-
temptible contributions. III bHH !7.1
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crops which are to be any marketable
crop save cotton. No negroes are allowed
tobe employed. The proprietor is to fnr-
nish the necessary stock, seed and farming
implements for the first year Hthe tenant
is notab to furnish himself. Every ten
ant Is bound by special contract for three
years.
An migration Aid Association has al.
ready, been formed in Bienville Parish and
then circulars inviting emigration and Of
fering aid and assistance to chose seeking
new homes, who may be induced to stop
in their Parish. Therefore If you would
not be troubled by many competitors in
this matter, it behooves that you enter
upon the field of action if not first at least
| ma aonu aanOAsihle Il.
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The Farce in Tennessee The Ne
gro Triumph.

As was universally expected, TIE disltsn.
chisement Of $4,000 whites and the aami.
sion of 10000 negroes to the polls, together
with the high-handed and imperial pows,
exercised by that synonym for all that /,
bad and atrocious in politics, Pa1on
Brownlow, has enabled him to obtain ths
farce Of triumph at mock election. This
is one Of the most frightful pages which has
yet been written 10 American history, sud
it is one that will draw in its train many
and sorr0wful consequences. Had there
been q choice of oil the voters, white ind
black in the State, the monstrous aud
fraudulent organization which, at Nashville,
now calls itself State Government, would !
have been overthrowD. The black vote,
thrown in body, could not have saved It.
It was only by the addition Of forcibly az.
Guiding the great mass Of the whites, and
by directly employing the arm Of military
tyranny, that this successful result for
Brownlow has been achieved. When Louis
Napoleon submitted the question to France
whether it would sanction his usurpation
of supreme power, it was done in much
fairer name: than this proceeding Of
Brownlow, and there was not abort linear
as much prescription and personal Siolence.
Brownlow and Lis party are detested with
hatred that it is almost impossible to q.
press. by nine-tenths Of the white populs.
ton, and by large majority OF the people
Of Tennessee, even giving him the black
element. 9 Nevertheless, BY the did OF flores,
and partly by the assistance Of the Con.
gressional Rump at Washington, he has
secured, in o revolutionary manner, The
control Of the State. The people are help.
less fol. the time to resist his usurpation
One Of the largest and most populouS Of
the American States is placed at the mercy
Of the worst and meanest tyranny that a.
lists upon the face Of the globe, and white
intelligence and wealth are trodden uadst
foot BY horde Of negroes Just reletNd
from servitude. ~ Isl1 4Isll
Poor and unfortunate Tennessee 1Qst
fate is indeed sad and melancholy.
Beyond this result is another Of national
import, which is looming up. The rennea-
see usurpation viii attempt to vote tha
State IN q similar way next year for Prem
dent. It will be sought TO make its lalst
and spurious suffrage, its fraudulent ek
Lpression Of the popular will, count agsin1g
the real and genuine expressions Of othel
States. Here and beyond are questions y
fripbtit,l magnitude appearing, that p0rtp1t
national troubles and disasters. A Stat
that is bound, hand and foot, and 10 tht
chains Of successful usurpation, i
dangerous element id the Confedefacy y
we shall, ereloDg, discovet. i Cincinnati
Enquirer. @ S
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AModel Abolitionist

It will be remembered that year or
two before the war, q Mr.. II. Il. Helper,
of North Carolina, published an adolf
ton book which created no little ex-
element at the time, and tended to fan
the flames Of the Abolition war which
we're then kindling. Tho book was en-,
dorsed by the leading Black Republic
can members of Congress and millions
Of copies distributed to aid the circula-
ton of it's incendiary doctrines. Mr..
Helper was held forth as a representa-
tive of his party, and his services in
bringing on the 4'irrepressible conflict"
were gratefully acknowledged through
out the whole of Abolitiondom.
z- MFR. Helper subsidized while others
were fighting out the war which he
helped to bring on, and was never heard
of until his recent publication Of anoth-
or honk in which he advocates the eX-
;se.;a, - Tho nocro ,aca which
termlnatloh u 'iie nes'o i"oo' "n'on
has been set free by the war. The fol-
lowing extract is fair sample OF the
book: III IS. a6. i R
uii ahu . 4han' ;n noI all uIattnas
the lauadroons, the octarons; and all the
other non.Whltes, that, a11er ;Sne ao n1o VI
o 1er re eo s or tolerated north of the
northern boundary Of Mexico; and assist
sasm ~ - nnia Matte, very iittls where)
south Of that owing boundary"
should 80 tar yle1a 70 sne ev,a04 ~
h he 10th wiling and anxious to see the ne.
groos, like the Indians and all /, other efete
ana a e. ss n aIs ss ,shole earIh 50 w
ION the premises Of no respectable white
person; in the mansion Of no h nannsnad
pn ri,ico a s in no nationally moral OF
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~ We desire to call particular at
tention to the advertisement of The
Southern University, situated at Green
boro, Ala. This institution is one OF
the oldest and most favored OF the
country, and peculiarly merits a liberal
patronage from the people Of the South
ern States.
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THE SuRRArr TRrAL.--"Warwick,a Wi.
ting to the Macon Telegraph, says !:
g II am afraid there 10 very dark side Of
this trial, which up to this time, has bean
concealed from the public eye. Why i i
that John A. Bingham, ofOhio, who b con
Quoting this case on the part ofthe prose.
Icution. keeps altogether in the background,
never shows his head in court, and directs
all the movements Of the trial from hiIpn.
lvate Office? Why is it that we now hsgia
to hear slurs cast upon the, juryl Why
does the Chronicle now begin 70 inpeacl
their loyalty, and say that there 10 "Soutl.
ern sympathy" enough in, any Washlngten
jury 10 aequit Mrs. Surratt Why doss tie
Chronicle now say that the presence ososs
Southern sympathiSer on the jury viii =
enough to acquit the prisoner,
& q answer these questions by sayingfAlt
I am satisfied that those who were ibstst-
mental in putting Mrs. Suratt y dr.
land among these are Stanton, Blnlbl
and Weichmau), fear that they may ut e
held to answer for murder. They tssgN
three loyal men, and it woald give ~
loyal Republican party q sevsss sho6
TO have them convicted and perhaps eie.
cnted for MURDER. The son df tAs sAsdsIr.
cd ,e0n,dp will certainly not rest, sls1e h "a
own acquittal, until be has drasgl
munderers of his mother to justice. Hbu
determined to do it. He viii hAst -
power to do it.; for now TINT ths iane-
ceDce of bis mother has been establishes.
he wilt find hundreds Of wealthy aEd pm.
erful friends ready to stand BY him snd
assist him with al their might. The sse
Of their own lives, therefore, is the ncpss
that is now impelling Stanton, M1gnsu'
and Weichman TO send John Il. Sutssss =
the scafold." @ MI
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w We desire to call particular at
tention to the advertisement of S. D.
Roberts, of Washington, La, who has
a patent for an exceedingly plain, cheap
aud entirely new Cotton Press.
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By command Of s.ss
Maj. Gen. P. H. SHERIDAN.
leo. T., HARTsUFF, A. A. G. = 'iki 2

tT The Kentucky elections are over
and have resulted in the complete tri-
umph of the Democratic party. They
have elected all their State officers
from Governor down by the unpreci-
dented majority of sixty thousand.
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u The ever 'punctual st. Nicholas,
true to the interests of her owners and
to the great disappointment Of the hun
CRY epicures, reached here Monday
morning at nine O'clock, and left for
Grand Ecore before two o'cleek P. NJ,
her usual dinner hour. ,i.s4
Our best thanks are due her obliging
officers for large package of papers
from every section of this great coun-
try. We beg leave to remind all inter
ested parties that she leaves this morn
ing between breakfast and dinner,
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sa. We can't publish the eommunica

/. HeA. We can't publish the communities
ton of Y. L. It Is rather on the personal
order and Of very little interest to the pub
lie, who care not if a prominent radical
aspirant chooses to sleep with a he-buck
negro or not. Y. L. must remember this
is the progressive age of Lille te, Egalite,
Frdternite!
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% R6 The weather, for the past week, has
been dry and very warm-the nights toler-
bly, cool-and mosquitoes awfally thick
and biting sharply! ---...-...L .n No
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~ Old Red has taken another freak
has commenced to rise again all Of a
sudden-from what cause we cannot
divine. We have had no rains and
have heard of no rise above.
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y We have been kindly supplied
with papers by the officers of the Mon:
soon and Starlight, y
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atofALr Jubass.-The PhiladslphaIs.
Age says: 1.-THE following judges wore , y y
harmony with the political sentinen1s 80. !"
their times. Pohtius PLATE, Judge yeAISl0'
Lord Ellenbofough and Fonquief Iinvi1'
and these are the kind of Judges the Neg.
cals want III our day. do the pcepe
agree with thema Il.
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~ One word will suffice to tell the
plain and sadly deplorable condition of
the cotton crop of Rapides! There is.
not in the Parish, on the twenty thous-
and acres planted in cotton, q single
stock remaining with full leaf on it!
The worms have done their work of
destruction and are now leaving for
want of something to eat.
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struetion of themselves and their country,
OF their wilfally false positions l think ]
can convince these persons, BY presenting
to then, the candid, unpublished agricultural
history Of Rapides Parish (for which these
remarks are particularly intended) since
the termination Of the late war g atse
AT the breaking up or close thereof the
land owners in this Parish, found them
selves without the labor necessary to work
their lands unless by calling into requisi'
ton the aid Of a class whose character
for idleness and depravity had become
proverbial, not only throughout the South,
but the entire United States I mean free
negroes. / am not prompted to this ex-
preston by any malicious feeling toward
the negro. I defy any one who has lived
in the South for any length Of time prior
to the late war, to deny. that the free me-
gro was justly considered most idle nui-
sance, totally devoid Of honesty, and with
out any other ambition than to satiate his
glnttinous appetite andito indulge his in
dolent nature in sleep. Nevertheless, in
the face of these facts, Of which our people
were so we'll acquainted by personal expe-
rience, to say nothing of the numerous
lessons of history, these, creatures were
sought with eagerness, tempted by promi-
ses of large pay, and fattoped and caressed
into going upon the plantations to work
Rather, to be cared for nursed and sup
ported by those towards whose overthrow
and misfortunes they had been 50 power
| FIJI an instrument, who the old Obsenity
and his Radical Pack have taught to look
upon US Of the South as their unrelenting
1 enemies, seeking to delude and deceive
we have taken these toour tender keeping
and placed them just where the RAIDS most
desire them to be, and where they can
completes the destruction which the ter
mination of the late war and the subse
quent two years have SO nearly consnm
ated. We have them in our households
where they may listen to, and retalk, q
they do to Radical ernmissarles-emb'el
lished by their, versatile, and characteristic
propensity to lie, from which neither tn
fear Of God nor man can restrain them
any little meaningless and powerless ez
Ipressions Of disapprobation which our fam
lilies might give wayYto in regard to tn
conduct Of the new dominant faction i
| our political arena. These we give prt
9 ference over whomq our own race an
8 people. To wait in our families could v
not have gathered from the many Chart
institutions in our cities, and withou
: paying ruinous and usurotss hires-whit
: boys and girls who wouM have pefforme
p the same services which these blacks hav
rendered, and with much more satisfactio
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" Prot. Charles Anthem, Of New
York, SO well known as a classical
scholar and commentator, died on the
18th ult. in the seventieth year Of his
age. ,a
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" The Yellow fever is raging badly
in Galveston and in New Iberia. 1t
has been pronounced epidemic ir
both places.
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W We learn that the Central Exec
utive Committee of the Radical party,
whose grand wigwam is at New Or
leans, have selected and appointed a
special orator for the niggers Of Rap
ides, with Headquarters at Alexandria.
His duties will be to watch with care
and vigilance the peculiar interests of
the nations wards, and under no cir
cumstances to permit them to be led
astray politically. The appointment is
said to be q good one and no fears need
be entertained that the orator, recently
o candidate for martyrdom, will not
come up to the expectation of the Com
mittee and rise superior to the grand
interests at stake in his mission. We
have secured the services Of the best
negro stenogropher in Rapides and will
report his speeches to the expectanl
public weekly. ~. l@.aa5..q6 i..e
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II DR.. st. John has a large supply
Of fresl, turnip Seed. Now is the time
to partially commence reconstruction
in Rapides planting. Purchase these
seed in large quantity and SOW them
by acres and you will be sure to find
ready sale for them. Catapillars do
not eat them and the Government does
not tax them
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w Tennessee has gone Rad and Mig
ger by over twenty thousand majority!
A short article from the Cincinnati En-
quirer, which we publish elsewhere,
viii explain the matter better than we
can.
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! ~ What I We ask Mr.. Wade hirsell
in the language Of Dr.. johnson, y 3, !.
mist that man be whose god is . monkeYf.
1'A'' ' fNew York Herald.
Easilv answered. A White Niger.
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ar The health Of the Town -
Parish continues good.
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THE NEaaos FarEsDs.-A negro ~ g
.lynohed and hanged By party Of Dn's g
States marines at Mound City low ~. -
Friday last. The marines were I'll Hsa
nuoa
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Hail Columbia!
sHpoRs. FIFTH MILITARY DISTRICT,
New Orleans, La, Angust6 9, 1867 5
Special Orders No. Ill.,
- ~. f5.f ~ - aii2te-

A. At the request Of his honor, Mayor
Heath, Of the city Of New Orleans,
Thomas E. Adams, Chief of Police OF
this city, is hereby removed from his his
Office and J. ]. Williamson is appointed
Chief Of. Police in his stead. aa4
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E Big Rally! the institution 50. ..
rived here safe and sound three sls'
the past week. Body.
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Guillotine No. 2.

The: Commanding General of the
18th Military District is not the only
man in Louisiana so-called, who has a
guillotine, The worthy Governor Of
our PROVINCE has q little Instrument Of
that kind and already has its click
been heard and head dropped in the
charnel basket. The following little
announcement will tell a tale: 5cl pa
Horace H. Meloon to be Register of
Conveyances for the Parish of Orleans,
vice Levi Wells removed" :, ts'Ll.1L 4. .
We are creditably informed in the
most reliable commercial circles that
the price Of putty has not varied in the
least! Who is Meloon 7 gg.m t.fa
.,...:,,.T, or~41--e-~,Sr~~-~
aa5ty By q late law of Congress the
President cannot remove Cabinet Of.
fcerfr0m his Office. 1t was objected
to the Act that q President might be
~ +.
forced to retain in his Cabinet a mem.
Der who was obnoxious to him and who
might prove an impeachment in the pro
per administration of the government
To this Senator Sherman replied 81
think that no gentleman, no man OF any
sense Of honor, would hold his position
as a Cabinet officer after his chief de-
sires his removal" The President hal
recently requested Stanton to resign
the War portfolio, utsStanton refuses
In Mr.. Sherman's opinion, therefore
Stanton is no gentleman, and has nj
sense of honor, an opinion which il
shared by a very large majority Of tn
American people. u .3t s,'9 .5s'19 I,
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" Miss Catherine NJ. ssdgwich Y
authorizes, is dead.
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w We are indebted to the courtesy
of F. E. Erker, Clerk Of the Board OF
Registrars, for the oficia, vote Of this
Parish as reported to Head Quarters
5th Military District:
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ss~s~
aside and apnulled BY Congress, in Decem-
Der, and that it will confirm to the Radical
party, thousands Of voters In the North,
who are leaning towards conservatism.
Although We have no voice in the matter
and cannot influence either Of the parties,
should the President carry out his plan the
Radical party would visit their wrath upon
the people here. .s s 5, ".
Ii police matters, the only important
matter has been the arrest Of two medical
men, new corners, on charge Of mal.prac-
tice, keeping their Office for the purpose Of
receiving parties wishiugto have abortion
produced. From information received
from one Of the Counsel, ! suppose the
matter has been hushed up, is some parties
implicated were Of good standing in socie-
ty, and made strong efforts to avoid expo
sure. l have heard some queer stories,
going to show that if :" all that glitters il
not gold oil who pray are not pious, that
is not enough to hurt. 1t is truly q soc
reflection, that beneath so fair an exterior
such hideous ulcers should exist, as havt
come to light in this and other similar CO
ses. II
A ffiend just returned from Ruatan is
land, says he found large number Of on
old citizens there, many Of whom Wer
from Red River. The health Of the islant
was very good and they oil appeared happ''
| and contented. The desire to "chang
. base which has been SO strong for tn
past year, in our State, has done much 70
Iuatan, and added to Its population q
American element, that is string up CT
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n Gold has gone up in New 3o'A
to i40s.
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