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The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-22
An Official EsEun55nr.
BY JAMES II CADE. JR.

became necessary for the government to BE- G
lis guard, to thwart the plots which the Soci:
lists were organising against it in every pa
. Of the country. Those arch enemies Of orde
: and established government worked their a
fairs well, however,, and gave the officials n
little trouble. AS fast as one plotWas detecte
, and tolled another was organised, and for
! time the danger seemed to increase daily.
One morning Eugene Laromie, who ha
been told by bis chief few days before t
hold himself in readiness to obey a summon
from the government, received message {
attend a certain high official without delay
| Upon repairing to the presence of that person
aye he was received politely. "Monsicur La
romie, " said the official, the chief Of the sec
ret police has designated you as the perso,
deserving the confidence Of the government
IN conducting certain matters Of importance
A conspiracy against the state is known to b.
in existence. You are desired to unravel it
and | am authorised to say that if YOU do Sc
to the satisfaction Of the emperor YOU will b,
handsomely rewarded. At present We know
nothing OF the parties concerned in it. Oui
suspicious have been reused by this paper
which was found on the street in front of the
residence Of Count -, the ambassador OF
----: You must put us in possession Of
the remaining facts Of the case"
As he spoke he handed the young man a
small PertuneI sheet of note paper, containing
only tie sentence, " RjvoIi is. 10. 6. So
"1IaE 10. this be merely an u>~i5nq1:on in
stead Of Tie cvjlrpcc of a conspiracy g. asked
L1romie, smiling.
" Monsieur L.ron1ic," replied the oilica.
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MFs. HeheIal PrlCe las received SO Don IN
eF late husbands life policy.
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THE NEW YORK LEDGER.
FOR 1868

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preference; hence its unparalleled and u1lap-
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All our present corps of popular and emf
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1900 Arpents of Land for Sale.

A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND, situated
IA in the Parish of St. Landry, on the West
side of Mallet Woods. about ten miles from
the town of Opelousas, at the place called
rAnse Bourbeuse, consisting of Section A.
Township 6 South Range ] East, and of Sec
ton ! Township South, Ranges East, con-
tanning 1862 acres and 4 hundledtIls, equal to
1900 arpents, oue-third of which is we'll limb
cred
This land is the same conceded and con-
firmed to the widow of Antoine Boisdore, by
Act of Congress and reported by the Commas
sioners in their certificate B. No. 100, and
consisting of four tracts of four hundred AZ
penis each. This land will either be sold in
block of 1900 arpents, or divided into tracts
ottive arppnts front 10y forty in DEPTH, in order
to suit purchasers. The plan of said land may
be seen, and al! Information obtaine'', by call
ing on Judge b. A. Martel, at Ope!oslsas. The
location is a ~tirst-rate one for a saw mill.
Terms :-One-third cash, balance n time.
JULIEN A. PROVHNT.
Administrator
Onp1ousas Dacemhpr ii 1857
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RECIPE FOR SALAD DREss1NG.-After
every possible %precaution has been taken
by careful picking and thorough wash
ing, to have the leaves free from sand or
SCOT, prepare a dressing by adding to a
pint Of water and vinegar, a tablespoon
full of sour cream, a tablespoonful of su-
gar, a pinch of salt, and a we'll beaten
egg. Then when this mixture is boil
ing, pour it over the lettuce leaves, they
having been we'll drained, and cover in
a close fitting tureen, for two or three
minutes. If the lettuce is not very ten
der the dressing may be poured off, and
again boiled and applied. This quaint
ty is for six persons.-Ameracan Agrs-
cuLtur3st.
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THE JOURNAL.
Gardening in Southern Louisiana.
FOR MAY.

During the month of May not much
a be done in the garden besides kill
ing weeds and grass, and keeping the
surface of the soil we'll hoed and mellow.
After hoeing, scatter old manure on the
surface around plants and between drills.
Late peas should be stuck, late beans
poled, and tomato vines tied up to stakes
or frames, fitted up to keep the long
Branches from the ground.
Materials are sometimes scarce tor
holding up tomato vines. A stake may
be driven by each vine and the vine tied
to it. Or a stake may be driven on each
side of the row at the end, and eight feet
from this two others, and so on 10 the
end of the row. These should be two
feet apart, and fourteen inches from the
top of each to the ground. Lay on strips
of cypress three feet long, on the top OF
each pair of these stakes, and then lay
nine feet pieux on each side OF the to-
matoes, the whole length of the row, and
let the vine hang over them. Rough
brush thrown around tomatoes does very
well to keep the vines and fruit from
touching the ground.
Throw plenty of old manure close a.
round cucumber and melon vines, and
spade it in a foot deep and two feet all
round. Scatter pigeon Or chicken ma
nure on the surface around vines. Keep
the dirt stirred around cabages, and worm
them often. 1t is recommended to take a
large lower leaf from a cabbage that the
worms are working on, and at sunset lay
it on the top of the cabbage and in the
morning the worms will be found under
this leaf aud may be destroyed.
Beans, English peas, beets' radlshes'
souashes, sweet corn, lettuce, roquette,
eucumbers, melons of all kinds, toma-
toes, peppers, lady peas and cress may
still b. planted successfully on good rich
soil.
Gardeners should now be busy and
put in any kinds of seeds that will make
Vegetables for table use. A whole weeks
hard grumbling over the misfortunes of
the past will not make a single mess of
beans, not a melon or a cucumber while
the same time employed judiciously in
the garden may supply half of the food
needed. for a good large family for months.
Nothing pays worse than grumbling,
and nothing helps a table like the gar
dener's hoe.-Plamters' Banner.
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Opelousas, December "a, 1867.
NOTICE

NOTICE
TO THE TAX PAYERS OF THE PARISH
OF ST. LANDRY.
l. Roll of 1867, and I'm ready to receive
the said Taxes. For the convenience ofthe
Taxpayers, | will stand at the following
places on the days below fixed, between 10
o'clock in the morning until 4 in the after
noon, for the purpose of receiving the above
Tax:
Commencing at Opelousas, on Monday,
April 18th.
At eros Chevreuil, Michel Emonet, on
Tuesday, May 18th.
At Arnaudville, Coffee-IIouse, Wednes.
day, May 18th.
At Grand Coteau, A. F.. Estilette's Coffee
House, Thursday, May 14th.
At Queue Tortue, J. B. Bcrnard's Store,
Friday, May 18th.
At Lower Plaquemine, Clark Il Hays
Store, Monday, May 18th.
At Upper Plaqnemine, Joseph Daiglc,
Tuesday, May 10Th.
At Mermcnteau River, I~Ielaire Desses-
sarts, Wednesday, Nav Goth.
At Point aux Loups, Antoine Cart,
Thursday, May 2lst.
At Mallet Woods, Charles Francois store,
Friday, May 22nd.
At Faquetaique, Valentine Savois' Store,
Saturday, May 23d.
At Chataignier. Dorsin Lafleur, Monday,
May 25th.
At Plaisance, Durio & Mouille's Coffee
House, Tuesday, May 26th.
At Flat Town, Daire g. Tate's Store,
Wednesday. May 9th.
At Joseph L~andreneau. Little Mamotb,
Thursday, May 2Sth.
At Bayou Chicot, Sam Haas Store, Mon.
day, June 1st.
At Old Grand Prairie, Stages Store,
jane End.
At Washington Post Office, Wednesday,,
June Sd.
At Bayou Bnuf's School House, near
Thomas McCrory, Thursday June 4th.
At Big Cane, Morris Store, Saturday,
June 9Th.
At Atchafalaya, Foots' Store, Monday,
June Sth.
At Bayou Wake School House, Wednes-
lay, June 10th.
Office at the Office of Joseph D. Richard,
.pelousas, where or my deputy may al
ways be found.
JAMES NJ. THOMPSON, Collector.
Opelousas, April 18th, 1868.
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LEADEN TOBACCO BoxEs.-Dr. May
or, of Berlin, states that he has traced
six cases of lead collie and paralysis to
the use of: of tobacco held in leaden box
es. M. Chevallier has found, also, that
tobacco wrapped in lead fol -improper-
ly called tinfoiI,-becomes impregnated
in course of time with acetate of lead.
Scientific american.
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PEANUTS in North Carolina, where
they are chiefly raised, have almost ia
ken the place of cotton as the great sta
pie, and bring their cultivators annually
800 per acre. A correspondent in
forms us that 5000 bushels on a sim
gle plantation is considered but an aver
age crop, while from 10000 to 10000
bushels is not regarded as a very extra
ordinary yield.-Scsentyfc american.
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FOR SALE,

dryyz A PLANTATION about four miles
H.s,iHii Southeast of Opelonsas, containing
-lA..A about seventy-two arprnts, thirty a.
prnts being woodland, all enclosed with good
fences and bitches, and Well improved.
Another PLANTATION, one mile West of
Opelousas, containing sixty-tive arprnts, en-
closed and ditched, and improved with build
ings.
Two separate LOTS with residences on
each, one being near the Court House, in the
town of Opelousas.
Apply at the SENTINEL OFFICE. or to
THEODORE CHACI1ERE.
in Opelousas.
December 9TH. 1867.
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NOTICE..

A LII PERSONS who are indebted to the
N Estate of Leon c.. Pitre, are requested to
make immediate payment to Messrs: b. A.
Martel g. Hudspeth, at their Office in the town
of Opelousas otherwise, suits will be imme-
diately instituted against them. Those VINO
have claims against said Estate should present
them for settlement.
ALZINA JEANsONNE, Iutrlx.
Opelousas, April 4th, 1868.
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Dissolution.

rHE cO-pARTNFRsHIP heretofore ex-
;stinr betwr-A the undersigned, under
tho Avs eli, and style of MORRIS &
SM,;ran j dissolved this day.by mutual con-
~ Either member is allowed to use the
of the firm in liquidation.
j. l.. NORRIS,
0. s. SMITH.
Big Cane, Parish St. Landry, March 81, '68
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WHEN TO Cur CAUSE.-THE tenden-
cy in the practice of the beG farmers is
to early cutting. If cut ben in full
bloom, it makes the SWEET and most
nutritious hay. 1t takes niger to cure
it, but its higher value Bs for the ex-
ira bor.-Americam A4scuAwrist.
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PUBLIC SALE.
Il Estate Of Michel Bordelon.

PY VIRTUE of an order of the Hon. 9Th
- Judicial District Court of the State of
Louisiana, in and for the Parish of St. Ian
dry, there'will be sold at public auction, to
the last ami highest bidder, by the under
signed Administrators, or by a duly COM
m'ssloned anctioneer, at the last residence
Of the deceased, in Prairie Basse, this par
ish, on
WEDNESDA Y, June 24A, 1868,
the following described property belonging
to the Estate of Michel Bordelon, deceased.
tO-Wit:
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Opelousas Female College.

THE NEXT SESSION of the Opelousas
Il Female College will open on MONDAY,
January 9th, 1863.
Board, $15 per month English Tuition 81;
French and German, each, $l4; Music, $So, in
Guiding use of instrument.
First term will continue six months.
Half Board and Tuition fees payable % N,
tering and balance 1st April. Mrs. de-
White and sisters will teach the
partments. 1dding, Napkins |
Pupils will furnish their. All fees may be
and Wash-bowi and Be.
paid in country pr B. F. WHITE.
december 9TH, 1867.
Opelous
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"A CERTAIN OF .sas&AAsaSSS4s
" Il La II d Maa@%E9ss
Sit,oto5 an R,,o, rroo,I;1o :,

oFVu1tcU Oh Ddy0u OTVC70TTc, III -E--
the aforesaid parish, being the lots mum
bers one and five of Section sixty-nine in
Township Four, South of Range Four, East,
in the Southwestern Land District of Lou
iSiana, containing siXty-live acres and 90
100 of an acre.
TERMS n DCoNDITloNs.-IIalfofth price
payable on first Of May, 1869, and the other
half payable on the first May, 1870; pur-
chasers to furnish two good suretic~, and
the lands remaining specially mortgay,I
until full and entire payment of the price.
The lands to be delivered on the first day of
December next.
PIERRE SYLVESTRE, P6re,
mayo Administrator.
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1.-The Plantation

4-"- ll6 IlduUaU1On
purchased by the deceased
from Hilaire Chenier, by AA1S
act passed before Yves D'a- 3 asHHas1In
Wy, Recorder, May |, 1860, @l@allS@
registered in his office, Book S, page 5O4
&c, situated in Prairie Basse, Paris, of St.
Landry, measuring about forty superficial
arpents, bounded North by Miss Eloiso
Goner or Ambrose Valin, South by land Of
tnezlme Carriere, West by land of Mrs.
Thoras G. Anderson, and East by land of
DR.. Robert II. Littell with all the Build.
ings and Improvements thereon.
3--TEIE LOT
purchased by the deceased at the sale of
the property belonging to the Estate of
Azelie Hollier, wife of Godefroy Hollier,
both deceased, made the 10Th April 1860.
and registered in Book No. 9 for mortgages,
at pages 365 &C., bounded North by land
of Solomon D'avy, South by land of Frances
William, West by land of Mrs. Narcotic
Gabriel, wife of Gilbert Ami, and East by
land of Joseph Walleor, containing one
superficial arpent, and situated in or near
the town of Opelousas.
3,-ONE SWEEP AND ONE PLOW, A
lot of about 200 three feet Boards, a lot of
about 1000 two feet Boards, a Grindstone,
an old carriage, a lot of thirty books, q lot
OF homemade soap, a jar OF lard, about I
barrel of Flour, a saddle and bride, a horse
Cart.
CONDITIONS OF SALE.-The noyables cash
on the day of sale, and the lands on q credit
OF one, two, and three years from day Of
sale; purchasers furnishing their notes with
good and sufficient security in solido to the
satisfaction of the Administrations and paya-
BILE to their order, stipulatlng s per cent.
per annum interest from the maturity of
each note until final payment; mortgage
and privilege reserved in favor of the sue
'ess'on until payment; the purchasers obi
eating themselves to not sell or otherwise
Of said property to the prejudice of
same ONEZlME CARRIERE,
ZELIMA BORDELON,
uiylo Administrators
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REMOVAL

REMOVAL.
TENHE OFFICE of Assistant Assessor of U.
IL S. Internal Revenue has been removed to
the new frame building of Mr.. Plaisance, cor
ner of Main and Bellevue streets, Opelousas.
JNO. G.. TUCKER,
Asst. Assessor Int. Rev.
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Wear your learning like your watch,
in a private pocket, ia don't pull it out
10 show you have ~; but if. you are
asked what o~'cloelepit is, be ready to tell
it. sa . ...... A1
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PUBLIC SALE
Estate Of Arthemise asuillorv

Estate of Arthemise GuisRory.
Rl VIRTUE of an order of the Hon. Sth
~ District Court of the State of Louisiana.
IN and for the Parish of St. Landry. there
Will be sold at public auction to the last
ana highest bidder, by the undersigned
Administrator, Or by a duly qualified auc-
tloneer, on the plantation hereinafter de-
scrIbed as No. !, in old Grand Prairie, on
WEDNESD1I Y, June 10Th. 1868,
the following described property belonging
to the Estate of Arthcmise Guillory, de-
ceased, wife Of Pierre Sylvestrc, pert, late
of the Parish of st. Landry, to-wit:
IA CERTAIN
u l.
situated'in Old Grand Prai-
RE in the Parish aforesaid, AE1SA,h
consisting of a dwelling and ~ ~ Sss,sA
its de, tendencies, and of a. &zsllssE
bout two hundred superficial arpcnts of
land, bounded North by tie Bayou Croco-
die, East by Henry Young, Jr., South by
Emile Vidrine, and West by widow Charles
Soileau.
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For Sale.

For sale.
RLACkSTONE'S Commentaries, Green
leaf on Evidence, and Wbarton's Grim
mai Law. 81 Apply at this OFFICE.
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The New Orleans Bee.
LABEILLE DE LA N0UVELLE-0RLEANs,

Newspaper published in French and Eng
fish, Daily, (Mondays %excepted) and
Semi Weekly in French.
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sW Every patron obtains a Watch by
this arrangement, costing SIC, while it may
be worth $1,000. No Partially shown. SCI
We wish to Immediately dispose of the above
magnificent Stock. Certificates, naming the
articles, are placed in sealed envelopes, and
we'll mixed. Holders are entitled to the arti-
Giles named on their certificate upon payment
of Ten Dollars, whether it be a Watch worth
81 1000 or one worth less. The return of any
of our certificates entities you to the article
named thereon upon payment, irrespective of
its worth, and as no article valued less than $40
or named on any certificate, it will at once be
seen that this is
No Lottery, but a straightforward Legitimate
transaction, which may be participated in even
by the most fastidious!
A single certificate will be sent by mail,
post paid. upon receipt of 25 cts, five for
81, eleven for 50, t%hirty-three and elegant
premium for S., sixty-six and more valua-
BILE premium tor $40, one hundred and most
superb Watch for $l5. 10 Agents. or
those wishing employment, this is a rare
opportunity. 1t is a legitimately conducted
business, duly authorized by the Govern
ment, and open to the most careful scrutiny.
Try as!
WRIGHT, BRO, g. CO., Importers,
46m I6l BROADWAY, New York.
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THECosg Observation-Disclosures"
the gton correspondent of the
Chicago Hines, says:
Tha 9eople will have to pay a good
rom Sum for impeachment; but it will
md in the bill, including 5000 for