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The Van Buren press., 1867-11-08

How II lIArPENED.-Thc Philadelphia
Post Republican, says:
The Republican party in Pennsylvania
has been ruined by Republican rascality.
The Busalo Commercial Advertiser, in
speaking of the Republican disaster in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, says;
If we read the lesson of yesterday 5
elections Alright, it is simply popular
admonition towards moderation in the
adjustment of our political affairs, and a
rebuke of the extreme leadership OF such
men rs Wendcll Phillips, Sumner and
Stevens.
The Newburyport Herald, (Republi-
cam from Massachusetts, standpoint,
says:
These elections show that the reaction
is universal, and therefore it is no use TO
attribute the changes to local questions.
1t extends from New England to Cali
fornia. 1t has come sooner and faster
than we expected.
II they (the Radicals) had
carried the States as swccpingly this year
as last, the impeachment of President
Johnson would be among the "ixcd
facts" rhich roHid be bit the JegiRRiRg Of
FURTHER repOiution and anarchy. The reac.
ton in the North will restore the Presi-
dent TO the powers that were indispu-
tably his before the rebellion, and head
the Impeachment policy forever The
wise men of the party will see what is be,
fore them-they will learn the determine.
ton of the people to maintain The gov
ernment; and as they hope for power
hereafter they will be cautious in the fl-
turc.
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The lNDIANS.-ln an editorial on the
question Of what shall be done with the
Indians, the New York Herald says:
The true policy for the Government and
this Commission on Medicine Creek to
pursue is to prepare the Indians for com
mingling with the other races on the Con
tinent. They are superior to the negroes
who are scattered amcug the whites every
where and who form large part OF the
community in the Southern States There
is less repugnancc to ANA gamating with
them than with the negroes, and they have
peculiar claim upon us. being the original
lords Of the soil, Why, then, shall we
not give them as good chance, at least,
as the negroes have? Let them have set
Elements, with all the means and cncour,
agement for improvement let them be
prepared to form part Of the general com
munity, and to be taken up and absorbed
in it as civilization advances across the
plains and, above all, let the rascally In
dian traders and Indian agents be kept
away from them and large and liberal
policy be pursued toward them. We hope
the Commissioners now about TO treat with
the trihes are prepared to adopt some such
| policy, and that as a consequence, we shall
see the end of the enormous cost and sacri-
fees of Indian wars.
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~H-C
A Few PLAIN QUEsrIoNs For JAco-
BINs.-Is suffrage natural right?
If so, to whom does it naturally belong ?
Is there any difference between political
and social equality?
If so, are you as good as negro?
And if you are, how long do you expcc,
to remain so?
Did You net always claim heretofore that
you were better than negro?
Now, if by progression he has become
your equal, by the same process will he not
be your superior by this time next year?
Is the real difference between a negro and
a white man traceablc to natural or artificial
causes
Do you love Sambo?
Do you love Dinah
Or is all this show of affection merely
for artisan purpoes ?
lie OTHER SIDE.-Once in a happy,
home sweet baby died On the evening
Of day. when the children gathered
around their mother, all sitting very sor-
rowfully, Alice, the Oldest, said
Mother, you took care of baby while
she was here, ard you carried and held her
in your arms all the while she was III
now, mother, who took her on the other
side o. .. r ....
"On the other side Of what, Alice ?"
"On the other side Of death f.; who took
the little baby on the other side, mother
she was so little, she could not go alone o.
Jesus met her there" answered the
mother. 1t is he who took little children
in his arms to bless them, and said.-
+" Suffer little children to come unto me,
and forbid them not, for ofSuch is the king.
dom Of heaven"
The Bony,part family--shad and
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tal--A rural philosopher AYERS that sub
jecting ell children to the same system Of
instruction is like boiling large and small
potatoes in one pot. and for alike number
Of minutes. Some Of them get done, and
some don't
The Van Buren press., 1867-11-08

ARrEMUs WARD AND THE SPIRITS
When asked if there was any one in the
spirit land l would like to convaise with, |
said if Bill Tompkins, who was onct my
partner in the show biziness, was sober, !
should like to convarse with him few pc.
RODS. I" Is the spirit of William Tomp-
kins present 2" scd ] Of tho long haired
chaps, and there was three knoxs on the
table. Sez /, "Willism, how goze it,
old sweetness ?' Pretty ruff, old hoss, "
he replied. "Air you in the show bizness,
William ?" sed l. lie sed he was. lie
sed he and John Bunyan was travellin with
. side show in connection with Shakspere,
johnson d. Cos Circus. He sed old Bun
(meaning Mr.. Bunyan) stirred up the ami
mails and ground the organ. while he tend
ed tho door. Occashunally Mr.. Bunyan
sang comic song The circus was doin'
middlin well. Bill Shakspere had made
. grste hit with Old hob Ridley, DC,
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Budget Of ScissoringS.
An Ode to Tomattuses

ny srANFRUMUNDER.
The Van Buren press., 1867-11-08

We invite the attention of Country
Merchants and Others, to our splendid
stock, assuring all that we will not be
The Van Buren press., 1867-11-08
UNDERSOLD IN THIS MARKET !

Our Goods were bought for cash, in Eastern
markets. when they were at the lowest figure
and we can safely guarantee to purchasers
our ability to successfully compete with
The Van Buren press., 1867-11-08

o tOmsttuses How good you are
| have luved you ever sence
| wuf littler than am now.
AT very urly period Nv my life
My muthur used often to talk me
A-walkin' in the gsrdng
Aud she would tell me stories
Uvyou, my sweet and sour tamattuses,
She said when mock oranges wuz little known
Folks used to sit you on mantel-pieeos for orna
ment,
Along with them, and called you
Jerusalem apples.
The Van Buren press., 1867-11-08

q tamattuscs
What makes you SO good and
Sweet and sour, with your red
Checks shinin' among the green
Lieves. and lookin' as tempin'
Az you kin Some Nv you iz
Smooth, like apple and
some NV You has kreases in you
Like fat baby's neck
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Board Of Police of the Town of
0pelousas.
Session of the 1lth Sept, 1867.

Session of the 11th Sept, 1867.
ENHE BOARD have noticed with sur
Il prise and regret the appearance. op
yesterday evening, of an extra issued
and circulated from the ST. Landry Pro-
aress, tending-whether designed OF not
to prejudice their administration of
the quarantine adopted by them for the
protection of the inhabitants of this town
against the spread and introduction of
that fatal epidemic; yellow fever, which
is threatened them ON all sides.
Whilst willing and anxious to correct
and redres all and every act of injustice
or wrong, committed by their employees,
upon proper application to the President
OF the Board, they have but this reply to
make, that the provisions of their quar-
antine ordinance are mild and humane.
adopted asader authority ef lav and for
purposes of self-preservation, and that
they are determined, faithfully and inn
partially, irrespective of race, color, po-
sition, or political combination, to en-
force them.
F. A. KING, President.
Attest: JOSEPH d. RICHARD, Clerk.
Opelousas, September IL, 1867.
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A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER TEACHES A
CoLoRED ScHooL.-The Southern Jour
nal, of Brookhaven, Miss, says:
We learn from our friend, j. M. Hooker
that w. j. Bullock, a one-armed Confed-
crate soldier, is teaching a colored school
in the neighborhood of his plantation.
Mr.. b. was raised in Covington county
i'm this State, and has been teaching q
white school, in that county, till recently.
His colored friends intend building
suitable residence for him this fall, i'll
which to live, and also commodious
school house. How much better it is for
the Southern people to teach the blacks
than to have Radical teachers instilling
into their minds the most embittered pre-
judices and hatred towards us. If we
but show disposition to instruct and
befriend the Dlack man, we can, without
doubt, make friend of him, which no
outside influence can shake. This school
of Mr.. Bullock's will be the means of do
ing much good in our rmidst, and, for one,
we say 1t is most coInmendable. Let
others go and do likewise. 1t is no dis
grace to teach colored school, as many
imagine, but reflects the greatest credit
on the teacher, for having the good sense
to throw aside the false pride and pre-
judice which pervades the mind of too
many.
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"A Good Time Coming-Satan ne.
prOvins. Sin.

It Is not very often that we see any thing in
| the New Orleans Republican which we feel in
ellned to reproduce, though we have done Sc
once or t"lce, taking pleasure in giving that pa.
per efeoa' 1or any symptoms of conservatism OF
moderation which it occasionally evinces.
Below. however, we copy its telegraphic dis.
patches OF the 18th inst, from Washington,
which-being the testimony of bitter enemy
to the President, and so reluctantly acknowled-
ged-may be set down as indubitable authority
as to the course he denounees being certainly
adopted. Exultant as we may all feel at the
postponement of a measure so repugnant to opr
feelings, and hopeful as we may reasonably be
OF the still greater progress of the reaction now
going on, there is in the last paragraph of the
dlspatch, reason for almost present rejoicing, as
IL gives us great hope of soon being relieved of
the presence of fellow whoahas been an incu.
bus and nuisance to the respectable portion Of
the community, and of his being replaced bv an
lholSldual who will be an officer and gentleman
In teellng as well as in name. God send us one
from the gallant 4th Cavalry, as from the speci
mems we have seen we will trust all the rest
"Ihe President with the low cunning for
which he is notorious, has resolved to resSrt to
a miserable subterfuge regarding the elections
IN the southern States. He will merely recon-
mend or suggest to the District Commanders to
reopen their registrations and postpone the elec-
t!ons until the first Monday of November, in
stead OF ort.ering them to that effect
"his satellites publicly assert that GEN Grant
false.
General Hancock will arrive here tomorrow.
Generai Sheridan leaves Leayenworth tonight
for Washington, in obedience to an on.aer from
Grant.
General Howard has issued circular letter
TO all the Assistant Commissioners of the Freed
mems Bureau. directing a reduction in the num-
volunteer officers an; Grant orders a detail
from the regular service to supply such vaean-
lies. PAYsoS.-
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and of said proclamation of the twenty ninth day

and OF said proclamation of the twenty ninth day
| of May, 1865 namely:
l. The chief or pretended chief executive Off
GERS including the President, the Vice President,
ana an heads of departments of the pretended
Confederate or rebel governmen, and all who
were agents thereof in foreign States and coun-
tries, and all who held, or pretended to hold in
the service of the said pretended Confederate
government, military rank or title above the
grade OF BrigadierG General, or naval rank or title
above that of Captain, and all who were or pre-
tended to be Governors OF States while main
tanning, abetting, or submitting to or acquies-
cling in the rebellion.
= All persons who in any way treated other
WISE than as lawful prisoners of war persons
who, IN any capacity, were employed or engaged
In the military or naval service of the United
States.
3. All persons who, at the time they NAV seek
to obtain the benefits of this proclamation are
actually in civil, military or naval confinement
or custody, or legally held to bail, either before
or after conviction, and all persons who were
engaged directly or indirectly in the assassina-
tlon of the late President of the United States.
or in any plot or conspiracy in any manner there
with connected.
In testimony whereof have signed these pre-
sents with my hand, and have caused the seal
OF the United States to be thereunto affixed
Done at the city of Washington, the seventh day
OF September, 1867.
ANDREW JOHNSON
BY the President:
VIM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State
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Josh Billings saws:

JOSH DiiIluGS says:
When man loses his health. then he
fnst bigins tu take care of it. This is
judgment. this izl
Most people decline tew learn only hi
their own experience. l guess they are
moar than ] rite, for don't serpose a
man can get a perfect idee on molasses
kaEdy, by letting another feller taste it
for mimi.
1t liza g;ttin so now a-daze if man
cant cheat in sum way he aint happy.
Success in life is very apt tew make us
forget the time when we wasn't much.
It is jist so with the frog on the jump; he
kant remember when he was tadpole-
but other folks kan.
An individual to be fine gentleman
has either got to be born so, or brought
ap so from infancy he Kant learn it
sudden emmy moar than he kan learn to
tork iniun correckly by pracktysiug ON a
tommy hawk.
/ serpose Adam il the only marf who
ever lived and want never spanked.
have often set down square on the
Use, bi having mi feet git out ov place,
but ] never Good see anything in it to
laff at (espeshilly if there was sum water
ON top ov the ise.l but l notiss other
folks kan.
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THE 0PELoUsAs COURIER,

Published on Saturday by JOEL Fl. sANDoZ.
CON DITI0Ns:
Sabscriptiom.-Four Dollars per year payable,
in advance, or Five Dollars payable at the end
of the year.
! subscriber wishing to discontinue must give
written notice to that effect and settle up all
arrearages, and no subscription will be Stopped
until all arrearages are paid, unless at tie option
of the publisher.
Adrertssing.-FI cents per square for
each insertion. Eight lines or less constitute q
square.
All advertisements sent In for publication will
be inserted N English a.ad French (unless other
wise ordered until TIE editor shall judge it con-,
Candidates IT, public favors will raw Fif,esr
Dollars each. in advance, if they wish to be an
nouneed,
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p In his letter to Col. bennett, the editor of
the Progress says that he is fully resolved TO ac-
cept no public office in this Parish. We suppose
he considers the position he is a candidate for
as not deserving of the name of public office,
and we fully agree with him. Besides this reso-
luton, we have heard that the gentleman is not
a naturalized eiFizen of the United States, and
we dea't see how he can legally ttf that makes
any difference) hold an Office.
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AN ORDINANCE

AN CAIAS AN GG
Entitled ''4H Ordinance to amend an Or
diaaace entitled "In Ordinance to am
end the third Dc fourth sections of an Or
dinaace or Resolution, Ino'ra as the
Quarantine Resolution" adopted By the
Board Of Police the IopR Of Opelea-
sas, on Ike 10TH day Of September 1867.
GECTION 1st. Be it ordered by the
~ Board of Police of the Town of Gpe-
lousas, that the first section of said am
ended Ordinance shall be so amer,ded as
to read as follows: "Be it ordered by the
Board of Police of the Town of Opelou-
sas, that so much of the said third section
of said Resolution or Ordinance of said
Board, to which this is All amendment, as
except ministers of the gospel, physicians
and nurses from the prohibitions and
penalties of said section Ft, and are
hereby repealed, aJ.d that hereafter no
person but an accGmated resident physi-
clan or acclimated minister of the gospel
going into any town or other place in
fected with yellow fever shall be permit
ted to return into the said town Of Opel
ousas within ten days after his exposure
to said disease, and then only upon the
arritten permit of the President of said
Board OF Police to visit such infected
district
T. A. KING,
President of the Board of Police of the
Io,ua Of Opelousas.
JOHN PosEY, Clerk pro tenn.
Opelousas, September Iltll, 1867.
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II In consequence of the small supply of pa
per we have on hand, and the probability of not
receiving any soon, and in consequence of the
duilness OF the times, we have judged it prudent
TO issue only half sheet during the next few
weeks, IN order to be enabled to continue the
publication Of the Courier until more paper can
be had
This change, as We have intimated, will, VIC
hope, only last few weeks.
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Headquarters, District Of Louisiana.
NEW ORLEANS, La. Sept. I6, 186
aueraI erdnrS No II


General orders No. II. .
1T having come to the knowledge of the Bre-
u. vet Major General Commanding that in var-
ous parts of this State the assembling of armed
men for political, or other purposes, is of fire.
quent occurrence, and that well disposed citizens
are often subject to annoyance from armed per-
sons posted sentinels on videttes, it is hereby
ordered that such practices, and all other acts
tending to disorder and violence, must be Mt once
discontinued. Commanders of posts, detach-
ments, and stations, within this command will
arrest and retain until further orders, all armed
men found posted as sentinels, pickets, or videt-
tes, or pretending TO be ON guard duty for any
purpose, or by any authority, not duly authori-
zed by law.
OFFICIAL: NATHANIEL BURBANK
I'd Lieut., 9Th I,.f'y, Aeg ASST Adj't, Gent
T IN compliance with the above orders, all per-
IL sons who are in the habit of going armed to
assemblages of any kind, are hereby warned to
discontinue the practice Immediately, as it is
the intention of the undersigned to carry out
vigorous enforcement of the above orders
Citizens of the surrounding country are re-
auested to notify me of any breach of the peace
or disturbance, not within the power of the civil
authorities to quell w. w. WEBB.
Capt. 4th Cavalry, command'g. Co. "E,n =
4th Cgpnlyy, q. S. ArHy.
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COMMERCE, &c.
C II c U L A II
Notice TO all Planters.

T WILL be in Washington in a few
4 days. [ have entered into arrange
ments with the house of Messrs. ?. Mas
pero g. Co., of New Orleans, which will
enable me to advance you the articles
and provisions indispensable to the suc-
cess of your crop. In a word, | offer
you everything necessary to make crop,
and when that crop will be gathered,
ginned and baled, you will have the
choice, either to consign it to Messrs. +.
Maspero & Co., in New Orleans, or to sell
it to me, at Washington. This decision
will be left entirely to your good .judg
ment. My offices will be in Washington
at the Warehouse of Messrs. Pitre s. Car
riere, and in New Orleans at No. 35 Bien-
vile Street, the office of Messrs. 2. Mas
pero s. Co.
My proposition, as you see, leaves you
perfectly independent. You become, as
it were, your own merchant-having the
privilege Of disposing of your crop in
the manner you deem the best. When
ever you will need anything, you will
have only to come to Washington and
order directly through me, thus saving
you the trouble of corresponding and
doing away with delays of all kinds.
When your crop will he ready for
market, it will be left with you to decid
whether you will sell it to me or consgn
it to Messrs. p. Maspero & Co., where
you will be treated as friends and your
interests taken at heart as by myself.
1t is understood that ] buy and will
always buy cotton under the same condi-
tions as last season: : that is to say will
pay the same prices as tho New Orleans
market, after deduction of all costs natu-
rally accruing upon cotton shipped from
Washington to New Orleans.
All cottons bought by me at Washing
ton will be weighed in yonr presence,
and paid for as soon as weighed.
A. DESMARE.
May 18th, 1867. 4S-tf.
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An ORDINANCE

Leryihg Special Tar for Quarantine and other
Sanitary Purposes.
FENlIE Board of Police of the Town of Opelou-
. IL sas do ordain: That an ad valorem tax of
twenty cents upon each one hundred dollars be
and is hereby levied upon the assessed cash value
OF both moveable and immoveabIe property sit
uated within the corporate limits of said town
according to the assessment roll of the current
year, 1867, for the purpose of defrayng the ex-
penses of Quarantine aud other sanitary meas
ures.
The said Board do further ordain That this
Ordinance take effect from and after its passage
ordaiued August "a, 1867
+. 4. KING, President
Attest JOSEPH D. RICHARD, Clerk
Opelousas, August 3lst, 1867 i2-5t
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az We call particular attention to notice of
the money order system being established at our
Post Office. This is the safest and cheapest way
OF transmitting funds to any part of the Union
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~ The editor of the Progress says, in his
remonstranee to Col. bennett, of the Banner, =
that he is Invariably polite ,cih erery one. If his
remarks respecting Nr. King, the Mayor cf our
Town, and of that old citizen of it, Mr. Sol
DAyy, are specimens of his politeness, we think
that his politics and politeness are both on par
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REGIsTRATIoN.- Washington, Sept 13-H is
now definitely settled by the Executive au-
thority, to suggest to the several District Com
manders an extension of time to the lst of Oe
tober, for the completion and correction of the
registration lists, and to fix the first Monday in
November for elections. The object, among other
things, is to insure uniformity. No order will be
issued on the subject, as the reconstruction acts
give the District Commanders discretion. but
they will be promptly informed of the recon-
mendation, or suggestion, i'm an official form
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FERNILLIoSvILLE. - The yellow fever, which
declared itself in Vermillionville 10 or II days
ago, has already made 26 victims. Their names
will be found on our French side.
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BY the President:
VIM. II. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

30 The N. Y. Herald's Washington dispatch
OF the 18th instant, says 'On the subject of the
effect of amnesty, the Cabinet is said to be a
unit. In the discussion of the amnesty procla-
nation, the Cabinet agreed that its legal effect
would be to relieve the excluded whites from dis
ability as to the exercise of the right of suffrage