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SsyUN Svle.

T. tstrayed before me the undersigned au.
IA thority, by g. M. Cade, February 10th,
1867, and viii be sold before the Court house
door, in the town of Bellevue, La, on Satur-
day the 28th day of September, 1867, Ger.
tain Red Steer, about years old, marked
with crop, underbit in the right ear, and
underbit in the left, branded on the left hip,
and left eye out. Appraised OF $l5.
The owner of said animal is requested to
come forward, prove property, pay charges,
sc.
w n uTTI Stroy Master
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YOUNG MEN IN DIFFERENT
COUNTRIEs.-Edmund About, in
his book, the '.Roman Questions"
makes the following comparison
of young men of twenty-five in
different countries. After desert
bling the education of the young
Roman Mobiles, he says in this
fiashy way:
"One fine day they attain their
twenty-fifth year. At this age an
American has already tried his
hand at a dozen different trades !;
made four fortunes and at least
one bankruptcy, has gone through
a couple of campaigns, had law
suit, established a new religious
sect, killed half a dozen men with
his revolver, freed a negress, and
conquered an island. An English,
man has passed some stiff exami-
nations; been attached to an EN-,
bassy, founded a factory, converted
a Catholic, gone round the world,
and read the complete works OF
Walter Scott. A Frenchman has
rhymed a tragedy, written fol-
two newspapers, been wounded in
three duels, twice attempted sui.
eide, vexed fourteen husbands,
and changed his politics nineteen
times. A German has thrashed
fifteen of his dearest friends, swal.
lowed sixty hogsheads Of beer
and the philosophy of Hegel, sung
eleven thousand couplets, com
promised tavern waiting-maid
smoked a million pipes, and been
mixed up with at least two revo
lutions. The Roman Prince has
done nothing, seen nothing, learn.
ed nothing, suffered nothing,
His parents or guardians open a
cloister gate, take out a young
girl as inexperienced as himself
and the pair of innocents are bid
den to kneel befor a priest, who
gives them permission to become
parents of another generation Of
innOcents like themselves.
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70 The editor of the Bolivar
(Tenn.) Bulletin, has been present,
ed by a friend, with a plate OF
strawberries, whereupon he ex-
ultingly smacks his lips, and in
the exuberence of his nature. ex-
claims:
40, We wish we had patch as
big as the grand prairie of Arkan.
sas, and that the Mississippi river
was rich cream instead of water:
that the snow of Greenland was
so much crushed sugar; that we
had all the spoons Butler ever
stole, made into one; and a basin
es big as an honest mans con-
science; then we'd mix the sugar
aud cream; then we'd put the
berries in the basin; then we'd
take the spoon and ladle out
strawberries and cream to all who
were half as grateful as we are"
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Notice TO Voters.

TNhe Board of Registers for Bossier Perish
Il having returned to Bellevue, have re-
opened their office at this place, for tho
regular dispatch of business; and win con-
tinue open until the .30th only, unless far
Their orders are received
j. II. DOBIE,)
C. A. BOON, Board
E. K. RUSS, BBE
Bellevue, La, June 18th, 1867.
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CO2aStNbEe'S Sale.

WI YearOut, ct al, In Justice Ks,lys
vs.. Court-Ward No. 4,
H. NJ. Miller Bossier Parish, La
Dy virtue of writ of fieri facias issued
ID in the above entitled suit, from Justice
Kelly's Court, 18th Ward, Parish Of Bossier,
La, and to me directed, / have seized and
will proceed to sell at public auction, to the
last and highest bidder, at the Court house
door, in the town of Bellevue, within the
legal hours of sale, on the first Saturday the
9th day of July, 1867, the following dcscrip-
ed land, to-wit:
The west half of northwest quarter, sec
ton %, township 10, range II containing
80 acres.
Said land seized as the property of II. u;
Miller, defendant, and to be sold to pay ano
satisfy said writ.
Terms of Sale-Cash, with benefit OF ap
praisement.
May 23rd, 1867. nStds-ss
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70 The abolition of slavery in
Brazil is to be effected gradually.
1t will be ultimately extinguished
in twenty years from April 9Th,
1867.
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10 Up to the hour of going to
press, we have yet had no mail
Two weeks without a mail! and
the end is-noman knoweth when.
Are we still a "part of the great
stupenaous WHOLE" or have the
United States seeded from Bos-
sier parish! If so, we would say
to those contiguous, adjacent re-
bellious islands, "wayward sisters
depart in peace"-we have neither
the ability norinclination to bring
you back!
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Navigation Of Bodceau.

All must hail, as the omen of
prosperity, the enterprise which
is about to be commenced and
promises certain success, in the
hands of those pioneers of i'm
provement in and usefulness to
this section of the country-Dr.
4. p. Hotchkiss, of Shreveport,
and his associates. The last leg
islature granted to CDR. Hotchkiss
and his associates" a charter for
the purpose of clearing out and
rendering navigable a route from
the mouth of Mack's Bayou to
Strange's ferry, on the Bodceau, a
distance of about seventy miles,
with the privilege of collecting,
for fifteen years, such tonnage as
might be fixed by the Police Jury
of this parish, provided said work
be completed by the FIRST of Au-
gust, 1868. We have conversed
with the trainers of this bill, who
inform us that the intention of the
bill was to compel the completion
OF the contract to this point by
the above mentioned time and TO
allow a more practicable and rea-
sonable period for the extention
to Strange's Ferry. Owing to some
misunderstanding the wording of
the Bill imposed an onerous and
almost impossible labor on the
grantees. For instance should
the Bodceau continue as high for
the next year as it has for the past
Two, its execution would be i'm
possible; it is easy to perceive the
hardships which an uncomfortable
neak of nature might occasion.
Those interested will be graft.
fed to learn that the route has
been examined by DR.. Hotchkiss,
IN person, who pronounees it prac-
ticable. For the benefit of those
unfamiliar with the obstacles pre-
sented, and to stimulate them TO
an active encouragement of the
undertaking, a rapid sketch may
not be inappropriate:
9 From the mouth of Mack's bay-
on to Snider's bluff, on Red Chute.
much leaning timber on the banks
must be felled and considerable
RATS removed; from this point to
Bellevue, the lake is quite open,
requiring but slight labor; but
from Bellevue to the head of the
lake, the underground in places is
almost impenetrable and coutinu.
ously thick; the Bayou, or chan
nell through the lake between
these points, when discoverable.
u torturingly crooked, flanked by
largest sized expresses but from
the head of the lake, a short dis
lance below A. B. Hughes former
plantation, a wide deep bayou
opens as if to welcome adventure
some commerce, but as every
beauty has its faults, SO this
stream is somewhat INSTRUCTED by
small RATS. Considerable money
must necessarily be expended in
TINS work, which no doubt will, as
It should, prompt to a generous
and assisting spirit, and it cannot
be doubted but that the Police
jury recognizing the incalculable
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30 The Supreme Court of Ohio
has decided that temporary clio
sing of the polls on election day,
for dinner, or any other purpose,
is a violation of law, and vitiates
the election.
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WEBsTER's ELEMENTARY Spell.
LING BooK.-D. Appleton & Co.,
publishers, of New York, have got
out a new and improved edition
of this standard little book for be-
ginners, a neat sample of which
they send us. From a circular
accompanying it we learn that
since the first appearance of Web,
ster's Elementary Spelling Book,
some thirty-fve years ago, not less
than 100000 copies of it have
been printed. Messrs. Appleton
& Co., have also prepared with
great care q neat little volume
adapted to the speller which is
now ready and known as the
Webster Elementary Reader-the
size and price being the same as
that of the Speller. We are told
that it begins with the Alphabet
beautifully illustrated, followed
by short, easy and interesting
Reading Lessons; then comes les
sons containing longer and hard
er words. After about the first
hundred pages, the Spelling Les
sons are omitted, and the balance
of the book is devoted exclusively
to instructive and interesting read
ing matter.
All of the lessons contain pre-
cepts or examples of virtue, NOR
ality, industry, or encourage Il
the earnest pursuit OF a true ain
of life. Sectarian, political ant
sectional controversies are totally
avoided.
The reader is illustrated through
out. Every boy and girl who hat
the Speller must have a Reader
It is sold by all booksellers.
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benefits, will bestow upon the com
pany a liberal tariff of tonnage.
The results of this undertaking
are of the first Importance to
Shreveport as well as to this
parish. A distance will be navi-
gated equal to that from Shreve-
port to Jefferson, the stage of wa
ter equally as certain, averaging
about six months in the year.
More than three thousand bales
of cotton raised in this parish
alone, which are shipped from va
rious points along the Dorcheate,
cattle and many other articles
for which, at present there is no
market, and millions of feet of the
finest lumber in the State-wal-
nut, pine, cypress and cedar, will
find a market in Shreveport; sup,
plies must be purchased-the
sale which the Shreveport mer-
chants could secure by the exer,
else of generous and just policy.
Nor is this all; the finest portion
of the route will be from Strange's
to Martins ferry, about three
miles from the Arkansas line, and
"a fraction above twenty mlesfrom
Lewisyille, Ark, thereby securing
a large portion of the trade of the
country surrounding that point
which now seeks a market by way
of Moreau Landing, upon the
Ouachita. Every one perceives
the increase of trade which forces
itself upon Shreveport, the facili
ties and advantages which ac
crue to us, the great increase OF
value of thelands along the route
and indeed generally throughout
the parish, for every one will have
a market, instead of hauling, we
ship; in lieu of being water bount
for months, we do justice tonaturt
by availing ourselves of the bene
fits that she thrusts upon us.
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Nation cannot prosper whose
rulers are corrupt andvenal. I'm
perial Rome fell from her high po-
sition as mistress of the world,
through the undermining process
of corruption. And the same
cause will produce the same result
in this country. The Radical party
must be beaten if the Government
of the United States is to be pre-
served.
AS people we are poor, well
nigh bankrupt, our country has
been desOlated by war and the
floods. We need all the aid we
can obtain, all the friendship we
can acquire. We are too insolvent
to trife with the purity of the
good name we once enjoyed; too
impoverished to repulseassistance;
too helpless to provoke the enmity
of great andpowerful party that
might readily be made an affective
ally, whose influence would give
us strength at home and credit
abroad.
Then, "once more into the
breach, good friends, once morew
1t is true, we have trusted and
been deceived. We have leaned
too much on a broken reed and
have fallen. Let that pass into
history, with it's lesson also for the
teachings Of the future. Shall
we then despair of human con-
stancy? God Forbid
Better trust all, and be deceived
And weep that trust and that deceiving,
Than doubt one heart-that if believed
Had blessed our hearts with true believing
Oh in this hooking world, too soon!
The Doubling Fiend oertakes our Youth
Better be cheated to the last
Than loose our blessed hope of Truth"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-22

% While reviewing the Loui-
siana bill Mr.. Doolittle said its
title should be amended so as to
read, not to restore civil govern.
ment, but to organize hell in the
State OF Louisiana. applause in
the galleries, mingled with Kisses.
-[Exchange.
In the language of an eminent.
though unknown author, 'that
settles the question:" and now,
POLITICALLY speaking, we say d-n
the settlement!
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-22

~ A convict in a Michigan
prison, who, with a knife, has kept
everybody away from his cell, went
sixteen days without eating, and
finally had to be smoked out of
his room.
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- A Western paper says that
General Grant has telegraphed to
General Sheridan that his action
in removing Wells is not censured
by Secretary Stanton and himself.
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R@- A man was arrested and
sent to Jail in Alexandria. Virgin
la, a week since, for a debt con-
tracted thirty years ago.
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The Democratic Party the
Only Hope of the South.

The only hope that we can see
left for the country, is the success
Of the Democratic party. Gainsay
it who will, ITO this complexion
must we come at last"-or worse.
There is no other hope or alterna-
tive held out to us, that our hum
BILE vision can discern, only
through thorough reorganiza-
ton of and undivided cooperation
with the National Democratic
party. 1t is the safest ultimatum
offered us. Democracy or Radi-
calism-One or the other is as sure
as fate to WELD the sceptre ofpow-
er over the unfortunate States of
the South. Then let the Southern
people bury all past differences,
as far as in their power lies, and
with one common accord, unite
with the democracy of the North,
in it's laudable efforts to defeat the
nefarious schemes of the fanatics
who are arrayed against us under
the black banner of ''confscation,
disfranchisement," &c.
We repeat it, the Southern peo-
pie can have no hope of a restora-
ton of their rights except through
the success of the Democratic
party. Radicalism is their impla-
BILE and unrelenting enemy, and so
long as this party holds power,
will our people be kept under the
iron heel of military despotism.
The condition OF our country is
truly pitiable. The voice of mourn
ing is heard all over the land. The
desOlatiOn of war has invaded
every homestead, leaving naught
but barrenness and misery behind.
Our fertile fields have been turn
ed into ''howling wildernesses."
The pride and flower of our peo-
pie persisted in the dreadful war,
which, for four years drenched our
land in blood. Crushed, conquer
ed, and utterly powerless, the
South lies mangled and bleeding
at the foot of the conqueror. Man,
fully, heroically, with more than
Spartan courage, our chiefs and
soldiers fought for the cause that
they believed to be right. And,
when, overcome by superior mum,
bers, they were forced to surren
der, they yielded as became brave
soldiers, pledgingthe same sinceri
ty, the same heroism and the same
fidelity to the flag of the Union
which ON a hundred battle fields
they had displayed in behalf Of
their own banner. A brave and
generous conquerer would have
respected the feelings and accept
ed the plighted faith of such a foe
Gen. Sherman, to his honor be il
spoken, did so inhis terms to Gen
10. johnson, but, unfortunately
Radicalism held the reigns of gov
eminent, and in it's malignant
heart nOta throb of generous mag
nanimity beat for the fallen foe
From that day until now, it has
trampled, with remorseless cruel
ty, upon the graves of our deaG
heroes, and pursued the living
with hyena-like ferocity. Dismem
bered Poland never felt a more
untiring and grevious oppression
at the hands of her despoilers.-
Ireland has never experienced g
more implacable persecution from
her English victors. There is moi
a vestage of free government in
the South. Our people have beer
robbed ofevery right dear to free
men, and, on every occasion, the
Military satraps, who hold sway
here, have basely and cowardly
added insult to injury.
The corruptions of the Radica
| no I.fv- have H. -u-.- 49,. II
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10 The New York Herald thinks
registration will cost nearer %,
600, 600 than 100000.
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~ A female infant in Scott
county has two tongues. Her flu
ture husband will have a time of
III
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70 Chesterfield, Va, claims d
FIVE year old child weighing 27O
pounds.
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70 The Board of Registrars of
Bossier, having filled their APP
pointments at theseveralprecincts
in the parish, have returned to
this place, and re-opened their
office for the registration of voters.
The whole number of registered
voters for the parish, up to the
close of the office On Wednesday
evening, stands: White, 375 /;
black, 1874; total, 2219.
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70 A tax ON babies is the new.
est thing from Turkey.
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You can't keep fruit through the
winter unless you ean.-[Ex.
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u The army worm is eating
the forest leaves in Augusta, Va.
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u The favorite air now a -days
s a on,aire.-[Ex.
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BELLEVUE, LA,

Saturday.; :::::#::;":June %, 1867.
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&lhRa.iR.,& Sale.

w. II. HILL, Stray Master.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-01-18
"Whiningo Women.

Brigham Young, of Utah, has been blow
inc up the women of that free -and-easy Ter
ritorv in manner at once awful and unique.
He accuses them of whining" and says that
they must either ''stop that sort of nonsense
or else start for the other side of Jordan, at
once-and he tells his own forty wives that
he means them, as we'll as the rest of the FEM
mime Utabyans. He says that the kernel
of the whole dificulty-the direct occasion
of the disagreeable and unbeatable ''whl-
nings" lies In the fact that 1.-the women ex-
pcct too much of the Saints - He says that
the women-even his own forty-are so weak
minded as to suppose that the sanity elders
of the Mormon Israel can make heaven on
earth for them-and that after woman has
entered a Saints family, and finds that after
all he is not able to make heaven on earth
for her, she begins to whine and talk about
too many wives and the evils of polygamy,
and such like 'blasphemous twaddle.' Brig
ham also says it is his opinion that any wo-
man who ever lived would be disappointed
in the best Saint in Utah should she marry
him-and on this point We unreseryedly agree
with Brigham. The Governor gave all the
women warning that two weeks from date of
his sermon against whining" he should call
upon them either to promise never to
"whine" more, or else to leave the Territory,
bag and baggage, saying that he would even
send off all his own wives, and go to heaven
alone, sooner than take such a whining"
crew along with him.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-01-18
Total Of above classes, ............24, (
A SOUTHERN CANprpArE's' PLATroRy.-

A SOUTHERN CANDIDATES PLATFoRI. =
Jacob Stevens, candidate for Congress
from Alabama, puts forth funny platform:
You hav rite to no the prinsipuls that
will guvern my kongreshunel karrcr. | am
not the person tn kensole OF equivercalt.-
Nv prinsipuls are those Of the American
Egul, which, whar the karkuses, oilers geth-
urd togethur. In relashun to the niggur, |
except the sitlasion. Slavery is ded, and so
will the niggers be befo long. am in ia
vur Of general amnesty to all the 5000, 600
dollar men, sein they had nothen to do with
the bringin on the war, OF ftin in it when it
was brot. Boath of these was did by the
poor men but those Of that klass who maid
nothin by the war think sufiishuntly pun
ished, and those who did ought to be par
duned for gittin rich at the expense of the
rebelyun All / hay to say in konclushum
Is, that if any man doubts my loality eny
longur he is miserable tratur, and ] will
Xix him as sumo as civil government is res
tablished"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-01-18
4 Snake Five Feet Long Milks a Cow.
From the New Albany (Ind. Ledger

From the New Albany (Ind. J Ledger.
A gentleman in the lower part of this city
has a splendid mich COW She ordinarily
gives from two to three gallons at IA milking.
It is remarkable fact that for the last two
months she has given more milk in cold wea-
Their than in warm When the weather is
cold her milk is abundant, but when it mod
crates her supply is reduced down, frequent
ly to less than quart
This remarkable freak attracted the notice
of her owner several weeks ago and ever
since he has been sedulously trying to divine
the cause. At first he thought she was
MIXED by other parties than members of his
family but as the COW was confined in a lot
adjoining his residence, and closely watched,
he became satisfied no person other than
some one Of his family MIXED her During
the recent extreme cold weather his milk was
abundant, but yesterday (the weather having
become very much moderately she failed en-
tirely. This morning he was up early, de-
termined, if possible, to learn the cause of
the failure He had hardly entered the
cow-yard before his attention was attracted
by rustling noise in some chunks near the
stable Presently he saw huge snake
emerge from underneath the stable, and
crawl up to his favorite mixer and deliber-
ately begin stripping her teats.
The snake was at least five feet long, and
as large as mans arm at the shoulder. 1t
was what is known as the COW snake. The
mystery was now explained. In cold wealth
er the snake lies dormant, hybernating, but
when the weather gets warm, ne emerges
from his winter quarters. The gentleman
attempted to kill the snake, but failed. It
ran back under the stable, where it now Sc
curely lies gorged with its favorite bever-
age.
The gentleman who relates this anake sto-
ny is one of our most respected citizens, and
vouches for its truth.