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BOiS de Charnantai

BOis de Charpente!
T'AURAI toujours en- main du bois de char.
- pente de toutes especes, qui je yendrai a
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Succession de Celeste Esoy

INOEN bUAUNI.
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de Marcelin Laheur.

Opelousas. IS Aoat 1868.
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Etat de La Louisiana.

! AoGt 1868.
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Succession GAugustin LarOse FOntenot.

Opelousas, Is Aodt 1868.
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Succession d'OmeZime r. Pitre.

A, GARRIGUES, Grefier
Opelousas, 13 JUN 1868.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28
HaRES INTuE WOOD.

A correspondent Of the Portsmouth (N.
III. Times says that the town Of Atkinson =,
in that State, was thrown into excitement
on the 18th inst, by the announcement
that two little children Of Rufus Morse,
aged three and four and One-half wears,
were missing since early that morning, and
though dozens Of persons had searched for
them several hours, no trace could be found
Of the missing babes. Before dark nearly
all the inhabitants Of Atkinson were en-
gagged in the search, young and old, rich
and Door, all turned out. The moon set
that evening about eight o'clock, but until
about eleven the search was continued, but
was fruitless. The parents We're nearly
distracted, bot all efforts male failed to
bring The slightest clue TO the lost ones.
When nearly all had given up and no
hopes we're entertained OF their being found
that night, Hampstead man, named Tris-
tam Little, plunged into u swamp about
one and a half miles from the home Of
Morse, and there, in about a foot OF mud
and water, found the little ones exhausted
and almost dead The Ihree-yeaT old vas
about half immersed ia The water and s4,
sleeping with its head resting on a log.
How they came there they cannot tell, ex-
cept that the f0ur-year old says he kept
gong and thought he saw light which he
tried TO reach.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28
WASHINGTON NEWS AND
GOSSIP.

A. New Lease 10 be Given the Freed
mems Bureau-An Attempt to Con-
eiIiate Massachusetts RadicaIs-The
Oscillation Question.
Special to the Louisville Journal.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-It is generally
understood that an attempt will be made
at the next session of Congress to have
the Freedmen's Bureau continued for at
least another year from the first of next
January Gen. Towards report to the
effect that the condition Of the freedmen
will not admit of its discontinuance is
considered the entering wedge. The Rad~
ical party is too sensible Of the assistance
rendered by the Freedmen's Bureau off.
cials in the present canvass to dispense
with them, and these latter appreciate the
perquisites of their positions too highly
to fail to furnish pretexts for the contin-
uance of the bureau indefinitely. The
increase of the burdens of the people
thereby is q secondary consideration, or
is not considered at all
The Military State Agent has Just eff
fected special settlement of the Massa-
chusetts war claims, and has realized for
the State $26l 900 in addition to 100000
allowed several months ago. All the
items making these amounts had once
been disallowed, but Massachusetts, 10y
atty has to be prOpitiated, so the ques-
ton was reconsidered and the money al
lowed.
Secretary McCull och and Commission
er Rollins have had conference on the
mooted question as to whether distillers
can redistil whisky in their own distille>
ries. The law says no Redistribution shall
be done within six hundred feet of dis
till0ry, and if the letter OF the law is add
hered to many Of the Western distillers
will be compelled to suspend operations
The Committee Of Ways and Means did
not intend this construction to be placed
upon the law when the bill was framed
1t is probable that the question will be
submitted to Attorney General EVarts, as
the two officials named have not yet de
cided the point.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
have cars running over eight hundred and
sixty miles Of their line Government
bonds have been issued for seven hundred
and eighty miles, and the President has
signed the necessary order for making
out and delivering those for the next
twenty miles. The Commissioners have
accepted eight hundred miles of the road,
and the necessary order has also been
signed for the examination Of the next
twenty-mile section.
The prominent members Of the New
\ Ork bar have rendered Attorney Gen.
eral Evarts a complimentary dinner,
which has been accepted, and the dinner
is to be given some time next month.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28
WASHINGTON.
GEN ROsecrRns not In n Hurry TO
Start TO Mexico.

New YORK, October "a Washing.
ton dispatch says there is considerable COM
ment there on the fact that General Rose
Grams, who was expected to leave for Mex
leo on the 23d, did not sail, but is still in
New York. 1t: is row over four months
since he was confirmed and more than a
month sisce he received his instructions,
aud still he delays. 1t looks as though we
were to have a repetition of the hating
action of his edecessor-Campbell. Cen
eral Longstreet, who expected to accompa-
nv him, and has been in New York several
weeks for that purpose, returned here tC-
day and will leave for Lynchburg to-
night. He expressed his belief that Cen
eral RoseCrsns would not go to Mexico at
all.
Commissioner Rollins has decided that
hotel and restaurant keepers, whose sales
of liquors amount to over $4,000 per
year, shall place themselves in the category
of wholesale dealers, and must therefore
exhibit the sign Of wholesale dealers, &C
COrding to the provisions of the law.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Two hundred German emigrants arrived
in Galveston on the 18th inst
The Episcopal Convention in New 7 ork
will adjourn next Thursday.
Hon. George Bliss, formerly a member
of Congress from the fourteenth Ohio
district, died Sunday at Wooster.
The construction of the Union Pacific
railroad bridge over the Mississippi river
at Council Bluffs, has been commenced.
The executors of the late President
Buchanan have contracted for the erec-
ton of a monument over his remains, at
Lancaster.
An English journal speaks OF Lord
Stanley as the most hard headed, most
industrious, and most dispassionate of
Cabinet Ministers.
There is a rumor a1oat in Paris that
Patti is already dissatisfied with the APP
pendage to the title she has married, and
is about to demand a divorce.
Hon James Brooks has received the
unanimous nomination from the Demo-
cratic organizations in the eigth district
of New Y Ork.
Henry d. Christian, government de-
tective, was murdered and robbed of his
watch and some money, in st Louis, FRI
day night last.
In New York, last week, 2l3 infants
were allowed to take their first squirt at
daylight There were 369 deaths and
100 marriages.
Saturday is the popular day for mar
rying in Paris. This gives them all day
Sunday to think over the awful step just
taken.
The drummer boy of the Rappahan-
mock, who eloped some time ago with
some cclat and a girl, is now happy
father
The New York Court of Appeals has
rendered a decision that suicide does not
necessarily invalidate policy of life in
surance.
John MOrrissey, Fernando Wood and S.
S Cox have been nominated for Congress,
in New York, for the fifth, ninth and
sixth districts respectively.
It's reported in Washington that the
Governor of South Carolina will shortly
declare martial law in five of the west
ern counties ofhis State, and call the mill
tia into active service.
The Maine Railroad Commissioners
have furnished their examination of the
Grand Trunk, and petitioned the Supreme
Judicial Court for an injunction on the
road
General James. MagOfin died..at San An-
tonic, Texas, few days ago: of dropsy,
| aged seventy one. He was Colonel
during the Mexican war, Ex-Governor
Magofin, of Kentucky, is brother OF the
| deceased
The SydneyIauthorities state that the
shooting of Prince Alfred was the result
of deeply laid plot that has been discOvI
cred, the details Of which will soon be
made public.
Radical officials at Washington carry
on their electioneering assessment with a
high hand, and threaten employees in the
departments with dismissal unless these
demands are complied with.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28
HE Ii RIBERY AFFAIR IN THE
LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE

The following is the substance Of the de-
velopments in this matter, as reported by
the New Orleans Bulletin:
Mr.. Lynch limited at improper and dis
graceful influences brought to bear upon
members of the Legislature, and had read
a document handed him by Geo W. Me-
dera, as follows:
New ORLEANS, Oct. 20, 1861 hereby
agree to pay to bearer $1,000, out Of profits
of House bill No. '156, to be paid when
bonds are sold and city money purchased.
(Signed) JNo. 3. HOWARD.
Senator Lynch also mentioned, in con-
neciion with the alleged corrupt influences,
the name of John Newman, and profer
of $4,000 to secure the signature of Gov.
Warmoth.
Mr.. Branghn moved a committee be APP
pointed to investigate the matter. The
motion was adopted, and Messrs. Braughn,
Bacon and Lynch were appointed on this
committee.
Mr.. Braughn, from the special committee,
reported that with Mr.. Lynch he had found
Mr.. Medera in the hall, and found that the
note handed by him to Mr.. Lynch had
been received by Medera from John b
Howard. This latter gentleman they found
in the Governors Office. Mr.. Howard frsI
denied the signature, but afterwards stated
that it might be necessary for him TO enter
| into explanation that he was largely in
terested in city notes, etc. They also fOunG
in the Governors office document signed
by John Newman, promising $4,000 on
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NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-It is rumored
that deficit of hundred and sixty-two
thousand dollars has been discovered in
! the public accounts on the Province of
Quebec.
BOSTON, Oct. 27.-The Presidency of
Hartford College has been offered Rev. DR..
Andrew P. Peabody, the College preacher,
and he is considering whether 10 accept it.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-Two men named
Garrard and Carr, were arrested on the
steamer City of Cork, from England,
charged with embezzlement at Manches-
ter. They were taken before Judge Will
kins and remanded. Judge W. decided
that the affidavit of the Chief of Police re-
citing that he had received a cable tele-
gram directing their arrest, was sufficient
for their detention until the arrival from
England of detectives.
Gen. Blair arrived to-day, and speaks at
Tammany Hall tonight.
LONDON, Oct. 27.-Slight shocks of
earthquake felt in various places in Cork
county, Ireland, yesterday.
DUBLIN, Oct. 27.-The house of Mr..
Wigmore, near Cork, was entered last night
by body of men, and quantity of arms
ana ammunition earned away. Inc cnl-
prits were supposed to be Fenians.
PRINCETON, N. j., Oct. 27.-The inaugu.
ration of DR.. McCash, President Princeton
College, was attended by an immense con-
course of graduates and friends of the
College. 1t was the largest number of
alumni ever gathered.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27.-Sharp earth
quake shocks at midnight. Considerable
fright. No damage. f
MEMPHIS, Oct. 27.-At negro barbecue
In Crittenden county, Arkansas, several
of them got into an alteration which re-
suited 10 two of their number being shot
and killed.
John Pepper, private Waterman, and
his wife were indicted to-day by the Grand
Jury for cruelty to an orphan girl named
Mary Smith, about twelve years of age, by
burning her some dozen times with a red
hot poker on the face and arms.
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GREAT FOREST FIRES.
The Flames Travelling Five MILES an
Hour.

me n AEhNtAAAE tive IN
HOur.
The Orsgoniqn of Sept q, gives the fol-
lowing account Of the forest fires in Wash
ington Territory
"A correspondent at Martins B.ud, W.
T., sends Us the following information con-
corning the destructive fires in the woods
on the north side Of the Columbia river.
The ere is more destructive and extends
over a larger area than has ever before been
known. Ga the morning Of the 18th, as
the family of our correspondent were sit
ting down 10 breakfast u nsighbOr rushed ia
and informed them that the fire was rapidly
approaching the dwelling. Leaving their
breakfast untouched, they ran for place Of
safety, and were barely in time to escape
being cut of from retreat BY the fire. They
reached the residence of Mr.. Martin, on the
bluff. The woods for miles around the
residence Of Mr. Martin were a mass OF
flames. Alen, women and children all
went 10 work with a will to cave the build
iBg4. The mill and other buildings belong
ing to Mr.. Martin took IRE i great many
times; one Of the buildings had large
hole burned in the roof, and il was only by
the most strenuous etJrts that anything
was saved. The fire ran through tue
orchard and burned nearly all Of the lence5
on the place Mr.. Justice, whose place il
half mile from that Of Mr.. Martin, lost
every thing-his house, fence, crops and
every thing completely swepr away
"The telegraph line ia burned down for
miles, and in some places the wires nave
been melted for several feet by the heat.
The wind created by the fire tore up fruit
trees by the roots. Mr.. Burk lost some
fences and had the hardest kind Of work
to save his buildings. lesrn that u.
Love had TO sit up all night and watch bis
houses, etc Mr.. Lewis Millei's place ia
the timber Is all burnt up-rails, fences.
houses, etc John BOgarths had = hard
time to save his place. The fire travelled
at the rate of at least five miles an hour for
time in the dry timber. The fire is stilr
raging, and there il no telling the amount
Of damage it will do. The roads are filled
| with fallen timber. The wind carried
large pieces Of bark fully one mile; leaves,
| etc, were carried for at least three miles"
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now THE MONEY GOES.

If any inquisitiwe individual is dislOyal
enough to desire TO know what has become
of the $4,000, 000, 900 which we owe, or of
the $500 100000 which we spend annually
since the war has ended, and peace has ex-
listed all over the country, we would recon-
mend him to read the following suggestive
table which we clip from an exchange, re-
marking that the lucky individuals therein
named are the chief priests and mainprops
of "let-us-have-peace" Radicalism, who
own bonds, pay no taxes, and want o be
paid in gold
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28

The Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad Company, through
its President, has entered a protest
against any further payment of the tax
levied by the last Legislature Of Delaware
on travel, and its refusal to longer collect
it from travellers crossing the State, those
entering it from other States, or leaving
it for other States. The United States
Supreme Court has already decided the
tax on travellers by States to be illegal
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28
SPAIN.
General Prim's Letter FaVOrinG a Con
stitUtiOnRI Monarchy.

stitutiOnaI Monarchy.
New YORK, Oct. "a Paris letter of
the 18th inst, says that General Prim has
addressed a letter to the Paris Journal
Legondois, thanking it for the sympathy it
has shown for the popular movement in
Spain. The General expresses astonish-
ment at the impotence of that portion of
the: French press, which considers that
Spain is nolsetting to her work fast enough,
and adds, eight days were sufficient for us
TO overthrow a dynasty three hundred
years old, and to establish a new govern
ment, We shall not delay now TO consolit
date our position through a COnstituen,
Assembly ca the basis of our programm Z
which Is known 10 you. All shall then
have succeeded. In attaining the political
ides of contemporary Spain, namely a
really Constitutional Monarchy, founded
upon the most extended and liberal basis
compatible with that kind Of government
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SECOND DISPATCH.


Wendell Phillips recently spoke of
General Grant, to writer in the IHde-
pedent, as follows: 81 do not say there
may not be emergencies so severe
as would compel me to vote for man
who sometimes got drunk but | cay that
the people have the right to ask public
man whether he does drink or not, so that
they may give their vote intilligently.
What l charged publicly on Grant his
friends admitted, and still admit to me, in
priVate-the very men, too, who have
denied the charge in public"
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Bismark has fully recovered his health,

Bismark has fully recovered his health,
and is about returning TO Berlin. A
great many persons still believe that his
whole long sickness was feigned, and
that all he cared for was to stay long
enough away from Berlin to complete
his preparations for new great coup IN
German politics. He is thOught-and
the French papers openly accuse him of
ito have given the utmnst encourage
ment to the Spanish revolutiOn-which is
by no means unlikely.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Extensive Rewards offered by the
Governor.
CHARLESTON, October Ex-Governor
Scott, Of South Carolina, has issued proc
lamatioD, in which he says: Information
has been received that Samuel Murtishaw
and William Fittsgerald were the murder
ers of the negro Lee Nance, and offers a re-
ward of twenty-five hundred dollars each
for their apprehension and delivery in Jail,
with proof to convict
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CANADA,
Extensive POstOGce RObberies.

ENIensINo POstOIIsce kObbeTies.
TORONTO, Oct. 27.-Extensive robberies
in connection with the postofice have been
discovered, A package of fifteen registered
letler5 sent from here last week, by the
Grand Trunk railroad is missing. This.
package il the third that has been stolen
during the past few weeks. No trace of
them has yet been discovered.
The reported compromise effected be-
tween the Express Company and the Ex-
press robbers is incorrect. The case is
now under examination at Sandwich.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28
SEYMOUR IN INDIANA.
Journey Through the state-A HOOsser
WeIcOme-Grand Reception at In
dianapOIis.

Special to the Louisville Courier.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 26.-On the arrival
of the special train from Michigan City,
at half-past five o'clock, bringing Gov.
Seymour, a salute of thirty>seVen guns
was fred, and our next President was
escorted by large committee in cars
riages, from the depot to the Palmer
House.
He was met at Lafayette by commits
tee of the prominent Democrats of the
State. Along the route immense crowds
were gathered at the stations, who greet
ed him with enthusiastic cheers, and at
several points he made short speeches
The announcement of his arrival was
followed by the widest demonstration of
enthusiasm, and it was with the utmost
difficulty that our grand old chieftain
reached his hotel from the carriage. From
every window Of the hotel flags were
floating and band of music was play
ing as the carriages drove up.
One of the most magnificent demon
strations the HOOsier capital has ever seen
is now at the height of its glorious pro
gress. The streets in every direction are
blocked with great moving masses of ex-
cited citizens, and bonfires and rockets
are lighting them up on all hands. The
Sentinel office is handsomely illuminated,
and in every part of the city business
houses and residences are brilliantly
lighted.
An immense double tOrchlight process
sion, moving rapidly and in close order,
is passing through the principal streets
and in its center is the carriage with
Governor Seymour, which is drawn by
four white horses.
The rink where Governor Seymour was
to speak is already SO densely crowded
that it has become necessary to substi-
tute the Courthouse yard, and great
crowds are now moving toward it from
every direction Democracy is every
where jubilant and confident
The Radical demonstration Saturday
night was the most signal failure of the
campaign, and il looked upon as a more
significant indication of what is to come
in November.
The Democrats claim 1000 majority in
the State on a fair vote, and will make o
big fight
SECOND DISPATCH.
INDIANAPOLIS, October Go
Seymour, after speaking at the Court
house, addressed another monster gath
ing in the Statehouse yard. He was
everywhere received with the widest en-
thusiasm.
Hon Francis Herman, of New York
and Hon. b. Ryan, candidate for State
Treasurer, also spoke at the Statehouse.
Governor Seymour is now being sere-
naded at the Palmer House
A delegation is here from St Louis, to
invite him to that city, and an effort is
also being made to effect an appointment
at Cincinnati
The number of persons on the streets,
with those who took part in the demons
stration, is estimated at $4,000
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of the profits of this bill, said Newman 10
be the financial agent-this sum in consid-
Grafton of legal services in having the bill
passed, etc. This document bore three Ie-
gal stamps and was Endorsed by John
Howard.