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M% Ii, q late speech to squad Of ne
groes, Forney told them that he believed
the time will come when there will be in
the halls Of Congress from South Carolina,
an able black man than John G.. Calhoun
ever was, and from the State of Kentucky
at least as able d black man as Henry Claw
Hear how a dead duck can lie!
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SPIRITUAL1sM-A MUss.-The Boston
Post tells the following, which, of course
occurred not a hundred miles front the
hub:
| A wife, who was a firm believer in
spiritaalism, took her reluctant husband
to circle in order to convert him. She
asked the spirits many questions about her
private family affairs, all of which were
answered correctly, to her great consterna-
ton and her husbands discontinue.
Among the questions was chow many
children have l ?" "Fohr." The husband,
whose relation to her seemed not to be
known to the spirits, then put some ques-
tionsto them which were also correctly.
He finally asked, Chow many children have
t2"-"two." 1t is said the disturbance of
faith on the side, and tie stimulus to
inquiry on the other, raised by that answer,
are among the most remarkable circum-
stances connected with the history of
spiritualism.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-06-05

SOLDIERS Pay Iivates in all branch
es of the United States army now receive
SIG per month, except those Of the first
class Of the engineer corpse, who receive
$l9. or this twelve and halt cents pei
month is retained for the support of the
Soldiers Home, and one dollar per month
is retained until the expiration of the term
of enlistment. For the first enlistment af-
ter FIVE years, service, a private, receives
two dollars month additional pay, and for
each subsequent re-ehlistmeht, one dollar
per month additional pay. Privates who
served in the Mexican war, receive an ad-
ditional two dollars per month.
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R9- A duel was fought in Texas lately
by Alexandria Shot and John s. Mott
Mott was shot, and Shot was not. In this
case it was better to be Shot than Mott
There was a rumor that Mott was not shot
but Shot swears he shot Mott, which
proves either that the Shot shot at Mott
was not shot, or that Mott is shot, now
withstanding.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-06-05

h Mrs. Williams, late widow o
Stephen A. Douglas, has commenced
suit against airing Of Chicagoians, wins, sh,
alleges, have been cheating her and he
children by stealing the estate of her late
husband The application to the cour,
discloses a finely concocted scheme, per
petrated under the guise Of friendship fol
her late husband-if anything rather ahead
Of anything Tor long time invented in the
school of scoundralism in New York,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-06-05

@ We have received, through the in
stitdtioii, an epistle sighed Radical" an
nouncing that "the following gentlemen
have been nominated by the Parish Exc
cutive Committee Of the Rapides Republi.
cans for delegates to the Republican State
Convention to be held 10 the City of New
Orleans on the 10th of June: Hon. A. J.
Sypher and Samuel E. Quincy (colored)."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-06-05

MA. The Charleston, S. c., street Cars
have become comparatively deserted since
the appearance of the military order ena,
bling negroes to ride in them the same as
white folks. The cars were formerly chiefly
patronized by ladies' and children, and the
railroad companies have almost entirely
lost this class Of patronage.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-06-05

n@- NJ. Gousset, the great champagne
grower, has inaugurated new system,
which probably will come into general use.
BY means ola new system of corks and
corkscrew, a glass ofchampagile can be
taken from a bottle without iniuring the
remaining contents.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-06-05

Ma- A late Paris letter to The New
York Times says: America is looked upo1
in the light of public benefactor. The
Great Eastern, with her corporal's guard
ofpassengers, almost caused a panic. II
was expected that she would bring owe,
two thousand persons, each with gold bag
tied to his neck.
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Inauguration Of the Clay Statue at
Louisville.

"A telegram Of the Both ult. thus speaks
Of this Inauguration
The Inauguration of Harris marble statue
of Henry Clay, in the courthouse, was
one OF the most brilliant demonstrations
ever made in this city. The procession of
different orders and associations was yery
imposing, and of greatlength. Judge W. F.
Bulloch delivered the grafton, and was
listened to by an. immense concourse of
both sexes and all colors. The ode written
for the occasion by George D. Prentice
is pronounced his ablest effort. Business
was almost wholly suspended:
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Ut e E L A N D w E Low e.
B Y en- DIN A.

BY MONA"
Land of the Gentle and Brave!
Our love is as wide as thy woe,
1t deepens beside every grave
Where the heart of hero lies low:
Land Oft the brightest Of skiesi
Ourloves glows the more mid thy gloom
Our hearts, by the saddest of ties,
Cling closest to thee in thy doom:
Land where the desolate weep
In sorrow too deep to console,
Our tears are bit streams making deep
The ocean of love in our soul.
Land where the victor flag waves;
Where only the dead are the free;
Each link of the chain that enslayes;
Shall bind us closer to til ee.
Land where the sign of the cross;
Its shadow of sorrow hath shed;
We measure our Love by thy Loss,
Thy Loss-by the graves of our Dead.
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NOTICED.

DAYOU Boeuf Rapides Parish La
ID May Goth 1867, Judge 7. C. Man
ming is my authorized Attorney and
agent, to attend to all my business fl
in the Succession of Silas Talbert de.
ceased, in my absence.
THOMAS L. TALBERT.
Executor of the estate Of Silas Tai.
bert deceased. June 9Th ls67.-tf
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Me- There is report, in Washington,
that Mr.. Greeley has written letter to
John 9. Breckenridge, advising him to
return to this country and do what he can
toward furthering sound and honorable
reconstruction, and not mind what is or
will be said about his course. The story
goes that Mr.. Greeley, not knowing Breck-
inridge's address, sent his letter to his wife
to be forwarded, writing her also a note,
stating the contents Of his letter.
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W. D. Kelley's Record.

This Mohgrel orator; who is now travel
ling in the South, making stump harangue.
to the benighted people, both white ant
black, OF our country, is thus booked b,
one who knows him:
New YORK, February 81, 1866;
Hon. YIN. D. Kelly:
SIR: In your speech at negro meeting
on the NTH inst, at Washington, in the
First Presbyterian Church, you stated that
it Fred. Douglas was not qualified to
vote in the City of Washington, 1t was very
strange that the meanest Of youf race
should be entitled to do SO for President. .
This was your language published in the
city papers. / have known you since the
year 1929 or 1880; have known you when
you were studying law with Col. Page
knew You when you were d violent jack
son, anti-Bank, anti-Whig, aiti-Clay, and
a strong Calhoun and pro-slayery man, of
the most Copperhead kiud; knew you
when you were one of Fanny Wright's fol-
lowers on ATHEIST Of the most adamna-
bic kind; knew you when you were a
leader of the Philadelphia church-burners
in lS44-yourself and Lewis G.. Levin; I
knew you when you wanted to burn down
the churches that your father Worshiped at,
and where you received your name at the
baptlsmal front: Ali this you would have
done, were it not for the gallant few, Gen.
T Patterson, Gen. Cadwalader, ex-Mayor
Swift, Josiah Randall, and last, not least,
Col, Du Solle-all Protestant gentlemen,
Ill Americans, with the exception Of Pat
terson, an honest Presbyterian of '9S. You
are n. renegade in religion as we'll as in pol
tics, and-a disgrace to the name and mem
Dry OF your honest father and kindred. A
bird that fonls his own nest is filthy bird.
Yours, JOHN GRIFFIN
No. "a Catherine street, N. Y.
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PU BLIC SA L E.
MINOR R. H. JACKSON. }
p,4;.,.,, :. il. mo. sas.

SS-o'o'' ~ SsSAN' ~ -
PURSUANT to an order If Sale dated
L Thirtieth Of May, 1867, made in the
above entitled suit by The District Judge
for the Parish Of Rapides, Ninth Judicial
District, / shall sell at Public Auction, on
the plantation, wherein the late Robert
H. jackson resided, all the movable prop.
erty inherited by The Minor, Robert, from
his Father and Mother-consi Of cat.
tie, sheep, hogs, mules, horses, oxen, wa.
CONS, carts; farming untensils, carpenters
tools, one gun, household and kitchen fur
nitrre,
Also Carriage and Harness, nearly new
and a pair Of Carriage Horses. Sale to
take place OH
SATURDAY tie 29th Of June, 1867,
commencing at eleven o'clock, A. n.
TERMS OF SALE:-For all purchases
amounting to twenty dollars or less, cash
for all above that slim, note must be given
with good and sufficient security, payable
the First Of next February, to the order Of
the Tutor, drawing eight per cent. interest
after maturity.
j. r. ANDREWS,
J5-tds Printers Fee SIS 90. Sheriff.
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~ The release of Mr.. Davis was the
subject Of discussion at a late prayer
meeting in Beecher's church. Beecher
defended the release, and said he would
have presented himself as bail, had the
often been necessary.
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TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A Box OR pOr.
SHERIFF'S SALE,
Dominique Bouligny }
-. /, vs. y =. No. $50.

District Court, Parish Of Rapides, state
of Louisiana.
DY VIRTUE Of writ Of Fiieri Facias
~ Issued from the Honorable the Dis.
trict Court in and for, the Parish Of
Rapides, State Of Louisiana, and to me
addressed in tho above entitled and
Numbered Suit, I have seized and will
offer for sale to the last and highest
bidder, on
SATURDAY the 9th day Of JULY, 1867,
between the hours of 4 P. M. on the
premises in the Pafishof Rapides Stateof
Louisiana, the following described pro.
perty seized as the property Of the De-
fendant; to:wit:
A certain tract or parcel Of land;
cleared and unc1eared, with all the i'm
provements thereon, being the place on
which the defendant resides.
TERMS OF SALE: Cash in United
States Treasury Notes, subject to ap.
praisement. J.R. ANDREWS,
May %, 1867. Sheriff.
Printers fees ssl 90
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SUCCESSION SALE.
mo. $50.

JOSEPH K. EwEL1.
DURSUANT to order Of Sale Of the Dis
+ rtrict Court Of the Parish of Rapides,
dated Both May 1867, issued in the Above
entitled suit, l shall sell at Public Auction,
for the payments debts, on ~
SATURDAY the I'D inst,
at the late residence of the deceased, all
the movables belonging to his Succession,
including
] Old Buggy and Harness.
24O0 Pounds cotton In the seed.
/ Navy Pistol
| Pistol BIZ 444
sundry Notes, Accounts and Credits as
per Inventory.
TERMS:-Cash on the spot.
HUGH CARLIN,
Administrator.
June5-tds--Prihter's Fes 20 90.
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TIE MILK IN THE Cocoa NUT.-The
Philadelphia Age is not at loss to &C.
count for Radical activity at the South.
1t says:
In regard to the votes of the negroes,
there is this fact that shoyld not escape
public.attention. The Radicals have spar
ed no exertions to keep the Southern
states out of the Union until the blacks
should, under the law, exercise the privi-
isege OF suffrage They have not, however,
displayed anything like the same interest
o. o. energy in negro suffrage in the Northern
states. This would at first seem inconsis-
tent, and Inconsistent it would be for any
otner than an Abolition party. It u.s..
however, susceptible Of explanation. The
Nadlcals have counted certainly upon the
votes Of the negroes OF the South en- a,asse
70 Their favor. They were afraid to trust
70 the negroes of the North, who had lived
among them and understood them too
wen to vote as they did"
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IT, The Washington Chronicle Comes
out strongly in favor Of forcing negro
suffrage upon the Northern States by act
of Congress.
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na. A man is on trial in Detroit for
the seduction of his wife, after having been
divorced from her and married to another
woman.
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THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
District Ceurt.-Pafish Of Rapides.
NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

Succession Of Mrs. Frances J. Wacken.
hagen, for Administration and Inyep.
tory-No. 944.
WHEREAS, Charles A. Wackehhasei.
W has made application to this Court
to be appointed Administrator of the Sue
cession Of Mrs. Frances j. Wackenhagsn:
Notice is hereby given to all whom it doth
or may concern, to show cause, within ten
days from the date hereof, why the same
should not be granted.
Clerks Office, Alexandria, La, May the
23d, 1867.
w. w. WHITTINGTON,
June5-H Deputy Clerk
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IA A female seminary was recently
started in Salt Lake City which succeeded
very well until the principal eloped with
and married the whole school.
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A DRINKRR's Loe1c.--Some time ago
says The Grass Valley, National, we
rehearsed the logic which certain hard
drlnker used in yindicating himself to his
vile. Another case has come to our
knowledge, and we hasten to record it,
although with lack of the mellow way in
which the case was reasoned by the ''pris-
oner OF the bar" Said he: aWife, you're
opposed to my drinking. You say 1 will
dle, If keep on. Well, if kick the buck
CT. | turn pail don't I? But, when do
turn pale? / turn pale when I'm dead
But, look at those fellows who don't drink
They turn pale before they are dead. Take
some of these Congregational and Metho-
dist preachers. They look like belated
ghosts, who are afraid they won't get back
to their graves in time to escape the cock
crow They are paler than the shrouds
they are going to be Buried in. How can
a man help but die, and that pretty soon,
when he is as pale as the deadest man in
the world, while he is going along at his
every days workY Give me something
that puts vim and life into mo Give me
something that will heighten my color and
make me look like live mani That's
what want" His wife replied: "You
look like boiled lobster how, and you
would do well to be as silent!" Alas, for
the effect of logic on the female mind!
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10 BE SAVED FOR REFERENcE.-Wt
present below table carefully compiled
by an accomplished statistician, who has
revised and revised it until there can be
no possible doubt Of its perfect correctness
1t points a moral, and is worthy the
deliberate consideration of all who come
under head ten. Draw your inference
from it, young men. Calculate as much as
you please, but you cannot falsify it in any
particular, unless, take as exceptions, which
by the way only proves the rule, members
of Congress. Here it is:
Ten loafers make one grog shop.
Que grog shop. make fifty drrnkards.
Fifty drunkards ruin fifty families.
Fifty families fill one poor house and Jail.
One poor house and Jail makes one great
bill of costs.
One great bill of costs makes one poor
town.
One poor town drains the country
treasury.
One bankrupt treasury is a great State
tax.
ohe great State tax exhaustS the ma
tional fund.
Two looks make one wish.
Two wishes make one call.
Two calls make one invitation,
Three invitations make one dram:
-Four drains make one nonscruple.
Five nonscruples make one spree.
Two sprees maize one high.
Two highs make one booz,
Two boozes make one how-come-you.so.
Two how come-you-so.s make one drunk.
Nine DRINKS make one fit of deli,iuan
beuenS.
Three fits of deliriun henens make one
death.
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nA. Mr.. Buchanan is considered the
richest of the Surviving es-Presidehts, ane
enjoys his otiuna cam digaitate as one may
with 100000.
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A New and Grand Epochin Medicine,

DR.. Maggiel is the founder of a new
Medical System! The duantitarians
whose vast internal doses enfeeble the
stomach and paralyze the bowels, must
give precedence to the man who restores
health and appetite, with from one to two
of his extraordinary Pills, and cures the
most vrulent sores with box or so of his
wonderful and all healing salve. These
two great specifics of the Doctor are fast
superceding all the stereotyped nostrums OF
the day. Extraordinary cures by Maggiels
Pills and Salve have opened the eyes of
ahe public to the inef1iciency of the $50
called) remedies of Others, and upon which
people have so long blindly depended
Msggiel's Pills are not of the class that are
swallowed by the dozen, and of which eve
ny box full taken creates an obsolute ne
cessity for another One or two of Mag
gels Pills suffice to place the bowels in
perfect order, tone the stomach create
an appetite and render the spirit light and
buoyant! There is no gripping, and no
reaction in the form of constipation. If
the liver is effected, its functions are re-
stored; and if the nervous system is feeble,
it is invigorated. This last quality makes
the medicines very desirable for the wants
OF delicate females. Ulcerous and eruptive
diseases ore literally extinguished by the
disinfectant power of Maggiels Salve. In
fact, it is here announced that MAeGIEL's
BILIOUS, DYsPEPTIC AND DIARRHEA PILLS
cure where all others fail. While for
Burns, Scalds, Chilblains, Cuts and all
abrasions of the skin MAGGIEL's SALvE is
infallible. Sold by F. P. DUcoNGE, No.
80 Chartres street, New Orleans, and all
druggists, at Is cts per box.
"CoUNrERFEITsl Buy no more Maggiel
Pills or SalVe, with a little pamphlet inside
the box. They are bogus. The genuine
have the name of j. Haydock ON box with
name of j. Muggiel, NJ. d. The genuine
have the Pill surrounded with white pow
DER"
F. P. DucoSGE, No. 80 Chartres street,
New Orleans, is the Sole Agent for the
State Of Louisiana.
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For Sale.

FVI Ddltl
TSWENTY THOUSAND acres Of valu-
j able Pine Woods land, with some i'm
proyements, near Alexandra, Ia, north
side of Red river. For terms, ETC., apply
to II. S. Losee, Esq. at Alexandria, Bo-
CANS buildings, Front Street.
GEO. L. WILSON.
Anril 18th. If.
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] I'D q MEN Il.
STATE Of Louisiana, Ninth Tut.
cinl District couaz- Parish
Of RnpSdes.
SARAH J. CHAMBERS, ~
VS.. No oo4.
Her Husband, =,
TN THIS CAUSE by reason Of the law ani
i evidence, 1t is ordered, adiudged ani
decreed, that the Plaintiff, Sarah j. Cham
bers, have and recover of her Husband
James Lemtel Pearce, the Defendant the
sum Of Ten Theasand Dollars; 100000,
with five per centum per annum interest
from 10Th September, lS65-and costs Of
suit. 1870 =
1t is further ordered, adjudged and de
creed, that the community; until now ex.
listing between the Plaintiff and Defendant
be dissolved, and that the Plaintiff be
henceforth separated in property from hei
husband, and resume the administration Of
her paraphernal property.
1t is further ordered, adiudged and de-
creed, that the Mortgage Of Plaintiff upon
the immovable property Of the Defendant,
be recognized as existing from, and after
the Thirty First day of December. 1856 for
the security of payment Of this Judgment,
and that the same be and it is hereby de-
clared Executory.
: Done and signed, after being read in
Court, on this the goth day Of MAY, A. D.,
1867. w. B. LEWIS,
Judge of the 9th District.
District Court, Parish Of Rapidss-Filed
May Goth, 1867.
w. w. WHrrTINGToH,
Deputy Clerk.
CLERKS OFFICE, !
DISTRICT Court, PARISH OF RApIDEs.
l certify the above TO be true copy of
the original on file in this Office.
Given under my hand and Seal Of said
Court, at Alexandria, this 10Th day of
May, A. D., 1867.
w. W. Wilmington,
Deputy Clerk.
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10 If you want cheap Clothing,
call at j. e. Gibson's.
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10 Great bargains to be lad at
u. E. Gibson's.
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M. DUMAS. PERE AND MISS MENKEN.-
The Paris correspondent of the Lohdor
Herald writes, under date of April III:
For some. time past the Photographic
shops in Paris have attracted considera
BILE attention from the exposure of a photo
graph representing Miss Menken, the
American actress, whose performance in
London of "Mazeppa" made certain sen.
sation, sitting on the knee of M. Dumas
SEN, in a position by no means graceful.
This has led to great deal of whispering
In theatrical and literary circles, and inno-
cent people went SO far as to rumor
marriage. M. Dumas, having allowed ali
Parls the opportunity to purchase this
work of art" being somewhat disappoin-
ted at the uncomplihentary manner with
which it had been received by the public,
now wished to pit stop to the sale of
The Objectionable photograph. For that
purpose ne summoned L. hubert, the pho
tographer, before the Tribunal, and the
case was discussed to-day. The plaintiffs
plea was that the photograph had been
taken privately, with his family" and that
it was never intended for publication, for
which the necessary authorization of NJ
Dumas had neither been asked nor given.
The defendant said it was the custom of
the trade publish these "freaks and follies"
Of the professional world, and that NJ.
Dumas had repented when too late. This
was the view taken by the Avocat I'm
penal, who read the distinguished roman
ticist little moral lesson. The court
postponed Judgment.