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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-18

by buying it.
President Johnson is going
to Raleigh, N. c., to attempt the
laying of the corner stone of the
to his father.
The n. Y. Independent has
discovered that ''the States now
need reconstruction are the North
ern." That's what's coming.
The "new india rubberneck
and bust' is probably made of
that material because all finger
marks can be promptly erased. .
- Gen. Swayne has forbid
den the use Of the chain gang as
a mode Of legal punishment in
his Observation-Disclosures.
- The bankrupt law passed
by the last Congress goes into
practical operation on the first of
June.
A gentleman in Ohio
hanged himself from chagrin at
his children's opposition to his re-
marrying.
- There are 40 factories in
Lowell, Mass, with a capital stock
of $13,65O,O00, and employing
9,013 females and 4,019 males.
Germany will send a clock
to Paris that will show the time
at 26 different points in all parts
of the world.
- A Radical newspaper of
that State, speaks of '!loyal Bap-
fist Churches" in Missouri. Where
is the '4oyal' Heaven
- A sexton in New York
AYERS that he has swept up two
bushels of bugle trimmings in the
pews and aisles this season.
- A religious paper says ''it
has been noticed that every mark
ed revival of religion has been
followed by a season of greater
wickedness.n
The Springfield Mass Re
publican speaks of the barber-Ous
custom of Sunday shaving. The
wickedness of the beard in grow
ing on that day is not alluded to.
- A Montana paper says
"the mortality of Helena is ex-
traordinarily good. Only seven
teen men were killed during the
past two weeks.n
- Among the advertised let
tiers at Fall River is one to the
proprietor of the best hotel in
the city, and the post master is
boarding round week with each
to decide to whom it belongs.
The Maine lumbermen live
during the winter, on salt pork
bread, potatoes and molasses, anC
work fifteen hours a day, yet the!
grow fat and are the hardest race
in the world.
"A Cincinnati paper advo
Gates the purchase of million
brooms to be used in making tina
city clean-just once, says tn
Boston Post. Does the edito
purpose exiting the entire Radica
party of his city W.?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-05-18
Notice to Voters,

TTNhe voters of Bossier are hereby notified
L that the Board of Registration for
Bossier Parish, La, will visit the following:
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07
off from the timber-yard of an enemy or be-
"cause it is jagged with spikes?7 ! f-ti -lN
.JUSTICE no LINCOLN.

The fact that the widow of Abraham Lincoln
recently visited our City, with intent to sell
here certain shawls, dresses, laces and jewelry,
the relics of her happier days, has excited a
naipful sensation. We do not envy the jour
palists who have seen fit to give publicity to
the letters and memoranda whereby those relics
were advertised.
II seems TO us that our people have been less
than lust to Mr. Lincoln. We know how easily
tbe dead are forgotten, and that gratitude has
been aptly defined as "a lively sense of favors
"expectedr But we do not plead Tor gratitude
The widows of the officers and soldiers SLAIN In
their countrys defense receive pensions, not IN
recognition of special merit on their part, nor
vet as aims, but as some poor recompense Tor
their sacrifices for their country's preservation
And no soldier ever fell on a battlefield more
truly martyr than was Abraham Lincoin'
The bullet that killed him was impelled by no
private hate. As man, lie had no enemy OIL
earth: as President only, was his death medl-
tated or desired. Had he remained private
citizen, he would, in all human probability,
have been living to-day.
In view of these facts it does seems to us
that the payment of his salary for the term on
which he had just entered was no more than
his righteous due He had been Oyerwhem-
ingly reelected. He had entered upon his Sec
ond term of service He had right to calcu-
late upon the salary by law affixed to the OF
fee. Had he died by disease, it might have
sufliced to pay his family one years salary, as
in the case OF President Harrison. But, struck
down as Mr.. Lincoln was, not merely Wh'te he
was President, but because he was President, we
think the People should have made up the
four years salary to his famly-should stH
make it up We gave our mite to this end di-
recty after his death. We are willing to give
again. All must know that a PRESIDENT S
widow, especially the widow of one who had
run so great career cannot live so cheaply as
a seamstress She will be sought, and must re-
ceive company. Can we not still be just, as a
people, to Abraham Lincoln's family
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07

and public thought is more wise and innocent
1t will scarcely do to speak of people as
bumorless who read Dickens with such thor
oughness of enjoyment. Let him now come to
New York or Boston, and see whether, spite OF
the bad politics of one or other OF these clues,
the ideal of things is altogether hopeless 1he
Yankees, it is true, are monOtonously 1asliohed
from the same pattern, and still retain thelr
cast-iron auaintness and Indian-like gravity;
but they have acquired several principles and
qualities in the score of years gone by. The
emancipation of our people from the curse OF
Slavery is an omnipotent fact to which
watchful traveller will not fail to pay respect.
But whatever opinion Mr.. Dickens is likely
to form of our institutions, he will be wei
come. We can surely afford to extend the
same welcome to his opinions Such men as
he hold the race under subscription, and their
opinions are, as they ought to be, sought and
valued. But we should ask, and expect only
their criticsm-such men can give us nothing
better and we should respect their censure no
less thanStheir praise. A more philosophic OBJ
server than he is usually accredited, we trust
that if it is possible for Mr.. Dickens to find
| among lis materials for another and more COM
plete Martin Chuzzlewit, he will enrich the
| world by his revelations. A community Is no
more infallbe than an author. Were we to
cherish a grudge against Mr.. Dickens because
he has given too racy and one-sided view Of
us-as if Mr. Dickens's peculiar talents could
easily give any other-we would, indeed, to
Use his own recent words, show bigotry only
worthy of village. Great and good au-
thors are naturalized among all peoples. Alr.
Dickens will have every right to judge us, II
he pleases, that any native of equal worth can
possibly claim 1t is no business of his or ours
to deal in flattery but for hundred reasons
| we shall give him grateful welcome, and criti-
cal entertainment, and pay him according to
his work and merit As we have limited, the
public of America will esteem Mr. Dickens
much more highly than Her Majesty the Queen;
for it is the profoundest compliment that
Democracy can pay to itself that it fully recog-
nizes the worth of the most genial and popular
author of the age.
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07

The general belief that Gen. Grant has re-
maned in the War Office from sense OF duty
only. and is desirous to be relieved is the best
foundation for the rumOr that Gen. Sherman
will be offered the position. If Grant leaves
the President would naturally desire the
strongest man possible as his successor,
and among all our military leaders few are
more conservative than Sherman. We do not
know that he is an avowed supporter OF Mr.
Johnsons policy but can readily believe that his
sympathy with it is much deeper than Grants.
The President wants illustriOus names to make
his Administration respectable, and Shermans
would dazzle for time. But no military fame
can make the people blind to principles lhat
was proved by Gen. Sherman himself when he
made his treaty with the Rebel Gen. Johnston
in North Carolina. If he should become Secre-
tary of War, we shall be assured of his patriot
ism and integrity, and as for his policy, we
shall wait before cOndemning it,
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07

PENNSYLVANIA, ONO, INDIANA, and Iowa,
hold elections tomorrow (Tuesday) but Indiana
elects only County officers, save III Marion ana
perhaps other counties wherein vacancies III the
Legislature are to be filled. Iowa will of course
elect the Republican State ticket, and a majority
of the Legislature, though good many Repub-
hcans, especially of German birth, are expected
to vote the Democratic ticket in order to eyince
repugnance to Liquor Prohibition. Ohio seems
to be pretty thoroughly aroused, and so can
hardly fail to elect the Republican State ticket
by handsome majority. 1t is not so certain
that the Constitutional Amendment extending
the Suffrage to Colored Men will he carried
though we hope and trust that it will be. The
Legislature is not so certain as 1t should De-
because the running of Gen. Sam. +. Cary for
Congress in Cincinnati, as an independent can
didate, supported by the Democrats, renders
possible the defeat of the Republican Leglsla-
tive ticket in the great County of Hamilton
which elects a large delegation. Still, we look
for Republican victory here also, as a L. 5.
Senator for six years is depending on the Issue
If PENNSYLVANIA shall vote US fully as last
year, she will surely go Republican. If the vote
should be light, the majority will fall OIL, and
may possibly be overcome, though we hope
not Judge Sharswoods friends expect to
win for him some Republican votes in Pllila-
delphia and other Eastern Counties where me Is
known, in spite of the fact that his opinions
from the bench would have paralyzed the
Government and destroyed the Union, had they
not been overruled. He decided that the Fed
eral Government had no right to make its
paper money legal tender, and that the act
enrolling and calling out the National forces'
was unconstitutional. Had those opinions
been sustained, the Southern Confederacy must
have been fully triumphant, and its indepen-
dence recognized ere this; and such, we cannot
doubt, was his purpose in making those deci-
sions. We cannot see how Republicans can
vote for such a candidate; yet some will do
tive trust they are too few to elect him.
If there be single Pennsylvania Republican
who sees this sheet and has yet time to reach
the poll of his district in time we exhort him
not to fail to vote for Henry W. Williams and
the whole Republican ticket.
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07
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New-York tribune., 1867-10-07

Gov. Fenton has invited Gen. Daniel T..
Sickles to visit Albany the 9th inst Gen Sheridan
will be there on the same day
Lieuts Butter, Kentsh, Mansfield, and NAL
lory OF the British Army, passed through Omaha ON
Thursday last. hunting excursion TO the Plains.
A party of French engineers, who were in
vited by Gen. Dix Minister 10 France, 10 visit this coun
try have gone West with the view OF gaining information
of the country railroads mines &c They are IN charge
OF Col. Helm, Secretary OF Legation at Paris.
John Schoonmaker, of Stonerdge, Albany
County, who killed Richard Floyd fellow boatman. ia
Buffalo the 25h August last tried In the Superior
Court for murder and found not guilty The jury wero
out - minutes.
The court martial of Assistant Engineer Geo:
f. Sawyer United states Navy. for disrespect to ana
abuse OF the President commenced at the Portsoutn
NavyYard on the 3D. Thirteen naval officers constitute
the court martial MeSsrs Butler, Cragin and Hackets
appear for the defense.
The Rev. VIM. T. Brooks of St Louis has
been appointed by the Board OF Home Missions OF New
YORK, missionary To preach 10 and organize churches
among the coored people OF Missouri The selection we
regard as happy one. Mr.. Brooks is ntellgenty de.
voted to the improvement Of the coored people, MIN
whose condition. wants and characteristics he Is fainar
lie is also gentleman OF genial presence. welcome es
teemed and conded in by both the white ana cooreo
population wherever he Is known lie lately organized
Baptist church in Louisiana, Pike County, creating no
little enthusiasm of the right Kind among the members
aud winning for hnsor aud the church The senerai w.
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07

tricky, underhand, overreaching. Doubtless,
thousands voted the Democratic ticket in igno-
rance of its existence who would have refused
so to vote if they had known what their votes
would effect. The Sabbath was thus crucifed
between two thieves, while its friends were
kept in ignorance of the conspiracy
In this City, the issue is made much more
fairly. The German infdels proclaim that they
will ignore politics and vote for no candidate
who does not pledge himself to favor the abo-
htion of the laws which have given chance
for rest and moral improvement to the ten or
twenty thousand persons who were formerly
constrained to devote their Sabbaths to dealing
out lauor and lager. These bar-tenders wait
ers. &C., formerly had but this choice-to work
hard every Sunday, often till midnight or lose
their situations. Now they have Their Sundays
to themselves thanks to the Excise Law. The
infdel Germans have resolved to break down
this law and reclaim the fugitives from
Sunday labor. To effect this end
they ignore all politics, and thereby
challenge the friends of sober, quiet Sab.
bath to do likewise. They make the issue :
Are the Christians of our City prepared to
meet it 7 If they are, the champions of Sun
day riot and tipsy jolity can be beaten in this
their stronghold. What says the Religious
Press7 What say the Christians OF New
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07

The Hon. Joseph Segar Of Virginia having
been invited to become a candidate for the State
Convention, gives his ow-citizens some ex-
cellent adYice. He assures them that the ac-
ceptance of the terms proposed by Congress is
:: the shortest road to restoration of the Union
"and to the peace and happiness of old" He
warns them that there is no prospect whatever
of change in Northern sentiment, and no pos
sible chance for the success of the Presidents
policy. Even if the Democrats should carry the
three great States of New York, Pennsylvania,
and Ohio, the Republican party would still be
supreme in Congress and still be able easily TO
carry the next Presidential election. eff you are
drowning in the stream he asks, "will you
"lct uass The saving plank because II fos,ed
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07
Total .525.OsO 6l7.sl6 l,Ia2,3!

These returns give White majOrities in Arkan-
sas Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia, and
Colored majority in the six other States. But
Arkansas Texas, and 1--WE presume) Alabama,
would also have shown White majorities If
thousands of the Unreconstructed had not re-
fused to register as aforesaid.
The next dodge is a general concerted re-
fusal to vote on the part of the Rebel Whites,
in order to defeat Reconstruction, as the acts
of Congress require a majority OF all the regis
tered voters to render valid the calling OF a
Convention. Thus, we have seen that very
few Whites have voted in the Rebel strong
holds of Louisiana and Alabama.
But the game has failed: the Convention is
carried in either State. And now the telegraph
brings us such advices as the following:
wuMISGroS, y. c., Oct s. 1867.
The Whites here take little interest in the local poll
ties but dnIoHsiy arai the neTs from me Northern eee
tions.
That is to say: The Rebels refuse to vote,
because the Blacks also vote; but await the ex-
pected triumph of their Northern allies, where
by they will be enabled to trample the Blacks
under foot, deprive them of the Right of Suf-
frage, and beat, MAIN, and butcher them as do
their Kentucky brethren. Says The Charleston
Mercury:
"The course for the White people of the South TO pur
sue with respect to the future operations OF the Military
acts seems 10 us most plain Let them hare nomng mr.
Uer 10 dO cM them. Let them neither go TO the polls,
accept any position whatsoever in their enforce
ment BY our registration. have accomplished the
object of Increasing the majority required TO hold the
Convention without majority of the registered voters
1t be held And now, whether vote against
Convention. vote not at d the result is the same
against Convention"
The Mobile Register, in the same spirit, thus
tries to frighten the Blacks into surrender of
their liberties:
"Our advice to you is TO drop Radicalism before IL is
compelled drop you. You had better stay away from
the polls medde with matters OF state that
you do understand and tell the Radical leaders that
they shall not burn hands longer in getting their
chestnuts out OF the fire."
If Reconstruction is defeated or postponed,
it will be because the unchanged Rebels would
have it So and because the partial successes Of
their Northern brethren give them reason to
hope that they may yet recover their lost
power through the promised Northern " re-
action"
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07

We regret to observe that there is a popular
but erroneous impression that the John Quincy
Adams whom the Democrats have nominated
for Governor of Massachusetts is the same dis
tinguished man who was once President of the
United States. The ex- president has been dead
a number of years. His namesake and de-
scendant, for aught we know to the contrary,
is alive; but it makes very little odds. The
Massachusetts Democrats can vote for which
ever of the two they please without affecting
the result i'll any manner whatever. Grand
father and grandson have an equal chance of
ELECTION
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07
THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH

We solicit the thoughtful attention of Chris
tians to the following significant paragraph
which we clip from The Times:
German paper published In San Francisco says OF
the election In California The first result OF this
victory will be the repeal of the Sunday law As
the election Orer the Legislative CATION declared
that they will introduce repeal bill mt the earliest mo-
ment; and Mr. Haght voluntarily declared that he would
prove 10 his German friends by his actions that he is
against sund " law The German population voted the
this the only way to destroy the Sunday law"
Comments by The Tribune.
California, in the days which closely followed
the discovery of her mineral wealth, was sig
nalized by her devotion of the Christian Sab
bath to gambling and dissipation Her gam
ing-houses, on the most thronged streets of
her cities, were Ostentatlousy open throughout
the day, and Illuminated by night, with bands
of music to allure the simple and pleasure
seeking to walk in and be skinned. Thousands
of her miners were thus heeced in few hours
of the hard earnings of months of privatiOn and
toll. So ostentatious and so shameless were
these swindle-traps that an observer reported
that he had seen three Methodist ministers (of
course, apostates) dealing faro Oh the same
Sunday evening. Half the earnings of the mi
ners were thus swallowed up i'll the vortex Of
Sunday dissipation and riot.
At length, the better class combined in the
organization which drove the more daring
criminals out of San Francisco and inaugu-
rated the sway Of decency and order. Laws
were from time to time passed which enforced
at least external respect for the Lords day as
civilizing, humanizing institution. And the
effect of these laws on the moral and social
well-being of the State has been signally
benefcent.
But the recent feud among the Republicans
opened gap which those who delight in or
profit by Sabbath desecration were quick to
improve. The mont Christian Germans, it
seems, effected a secret understanding with the
Democratic wire-workers by which it was
agreed that all the votes Of the former should
be cast for the Democratic candidates in re.
turn for which the latter, Z" as soon as the cleo
" ton acaS Orer," should come out for the re-
peal of all Sunday laws. Mr. IIaight, too,
the Democratic candidate for Governor, gave
an assurance (not publishedD tllat he would do
what the infdels desired. HereupOn, the
German population voted the Democratic
ticket, because they ,cere firmly conrinced that
this 'cas the only aay 10 destroy the Sunday
"Idr"
We o'inct 70 as l'ran cement thai il was
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07
We have received from the Post Office De-

We have received from the POst-0fice De-
partment q large map showing all the postroutes in
operation in the NewEngland States at the close Of the
year. The OF service whether SIX three times
twice once week. indicated by coored lines, and
the distances from place place accurately set
down. This map to be followed by series OF Others
embracing in succession the other States. separately or
in groups. Those of NewYork and the Middle Atlantic
States are in progress and will shortly appear. Beside
the distribution potmasters for the service OF the
Department these maps sale to the general public
and may be procured at the Post-Oaice Department
Second Assistant Postmaster GeneraD from the sale
agents in Philadelphia New-York ID. Van Nostrand),
Boston, and Portland.
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07

The opinion of the Attomey-General, up
holding the authority of the Philadelphia Court
in the recent case of Habeas Corpus, is else
where printed. This opinion does not affect the
question of the discharge of the person now
detained by an officer of the Navy, who has
been instructed by the Government to pro-
duce the body called for The settlement OF
the question as to a State Courts right to dis
charge, the Attorney General thinks, must
await a decision of the Supreme Court or
legislation by Congress
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07

Mr. Reuter-, who furnishes telegraphc news
to the London papers, has very funny cor
respondent in New-York. On the Goth of
September this peIspicuous person sent the
following amazing dispatch through the Cable,
and it appeared the next day in the London
journals: 1.-THE stock market is weak, in con-
sequence of money being tighter" 1t so happens
that the stock market was not weak on the
Goth of September; but we don't know that
that makes the dispatch any more absurd.
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07

Several revolvers have been picked up in the
streets of Manchester near the scene of the
late Fenian riots, and the magistrates in alarm
are holding daily sessions with closed doors.
They must be timid set of justices to lock
themselves up at the sight of pistol when
there is nobody to fire it. If the Fenians never
give stronger evidence Of vitality and organ
ization than dropping their arms about the
streets, the Manchester Dogberrys may SLEEP
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07
MUSIC.

Manager Maretzek's announcements for the
week include Ernani, Lucia, and Othelo. The HUI
guenots, Meyerbeer's most energetic and dramatic
work. will be magnifcenty produced on Friday
night with q cast including the two favorite and
distinguished prima donne, Parepa-Rosa and Perata
Ernani, with Signor Pancani and Madame Rosa COM
prises the programme of this evening.
New-York tribune., 1867-10-07

Pennsylvania has not forgotten that the two
parties who are now arrayed against each other
within her boundaries are substantially the
same in their principles as the two armies
which fought ON her soil under George G.
Meade and Robert 4. Lee. On the one side
are loyal Americans; on the other the enemies
of peace and Union. The victory of Gettys-
burg must be repeated at the polls.