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some two months afterward the
Bank of Portsmouth ran it's assets
into the Confederate lines. They
held the draft until 1867, and it
was never paid. Under these cir
cumstances Moore & Bro. brought
suit upon the original notes, and
rendered the draft back to Foster
& Moore, who refused to receive
it.
The case ably argued by Gilmer
& Son for the plaintiffs, and A. B.
Guigon and John Howard for the
defendants. At a late hour yes
terday afternoon the Chief JUS
tice instructed the jury:
1. That any draft, bill or note
drawn in the Confederate States,
or any State, under the proclama-
ton of the President declared in
insurrection, or in any part of
them, Except such part as was
permanently and absolutely under
the control of the forces of the
United States, upon any person
or persons in the Federal lines,
was absolutely void as to the ma
ker and all other parties thereto,
and was not to be received in pay
ment or satisfaction Of any debt
even due to a loyal man; but
there being a question as to
whether the Bank of Windsor
was at the time this draft was
drawn, in the Federal or Confed-
crate lines, that question the jury
must decide. -
2. That the jury must be salts
fed that the plaintiffs accepted
this draft in satisfaction of the
debt due them upon good evidene.
-[Richmand Dispatch, June 9th.
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Succession Sale.

Succession B. T. CfoacnoUer, decd.
Dy virtue of a writ of sale issued
D from the 10th Judicial District
Court, in and for the parish of Bossier,
and to me directed, in the succession
of b. +. Crowneyer, deceased, will
sell at public auction, to the last and
highest bidder, at the late residence OF
deceased, in said parish. on Saturday
the 18th day of July, 1868, the follow
ing described property belonging to
said succession, to wit:
The southeast quarter Of northwest
quarter. North half of southwest quar-
ter; the northwest quarter of northeast
quarter of section 26. The north half
of the northeast quarter, and the north
west quarter of section 26. , The south
west quarter Of the southwest quarter
of section %. all in township 90, range
10, containing in all three hundred and
twenty O3-l00 acres.
Also, / horse, IL head cattle, Is
head stock hogs, l 2-horse wagon,
turning plows. | pair pillow gear, l din
ing safe, ] clock, lot crockeryware, lot
potware, ] featherbed, ] bedstead,
chairs, / table. l trunk, &c.
Also, the undivided one half interest
of deceased, in the unexpired lease OF
the Murrell's Point Warehouse.
Terms of Sale--Cash, with benefit
of appraisement. If the appraisement
value cash, be not bid, the same will be
re-advertised and sold on credit of IL
months. Credit purchasers to give
their notes with approved personal Sc
curity, with mortgage retained on land
to secure payment of purchase price,
and bearing s per cent per annum in
terest from day of sale.
.rf ..... w. II. HILL,
Sheriff and ex-efficio Auctioneer
Bellevue, La, June Is, 1868.
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Ctate of Louisiana, Parish of Bossler
y Clerks office, 10th District Court
Notice is hereby given that Martha A:
Kelly, Administrative of the SUGGESTIONS of
VIM A. Kelly, deceased, has this day filed
in the Office of said Clerk, her tableau of
debts in said succession.
Now, therefore, this is to admonish all
persons concerned, that if opposition is not
made thereto within the time prescribed by
and made the Judgment of the Court
Given under my hand and seal of office
at Bellevue, this the 18th day of June
A D., 1855 n1
T n BRADEN,
nI2 Jts Clerk
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Succession Notice.

Ctate of Louisiana, Parish of Bossier - t
y Clerks Office, 10th District .Court.--dF
Notice is hereby given that w. E. Hamilton,
administrator of the succession of w ilham 81
filed in the Office OF said clerk, his tablsahbe
of debts in said succession.
Now, thefefofe, this il to admonish al y
persons concerned that if opposition is not
made thereto within the time prescribed BY y
law, the said account will be homologated m
as prayed for.
Given under my hand and seal Of Office, at 4 ,
Bellevue, this the 18th day of June, 1853
fs TIIOS. N. BRADEEygsBs
nl2 SITS Clerk
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SagCcessSOiI Notice.

q tate Of Louisiana, Parish of Bossietl
- Clerks Office, 10th District Court
Notice is hereby given that Eiias Ofeili, ~
tutor to the minors of Isaac Lay, deceased.
has this day fled IN the Office of said clerk,
his 7th annual account as tutor aforesaid ,.av
Now, therefore, this is to tadmonish all
persons concerned, that if opposition h not
made thereto within the time prescribed
by law, the said account win be h0nSD1oa& o
ted and made the judgment of the court.
Given under my hand and seal Of otfiee, q
at Bellevue, this the 18th day of June, =
A. D., 1868 Hat ~ otFs' f.l''ss's4
@ ar,.4 THOS. n. BRADEM fs1sv1
ME SITS Clerk
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Stray Sales.

Estrayed before me, the undersigned aui
II thority, by F. P. Fogg, April y, 1868,
and will be sold at Bellevue, La, to the
highest bidder, for cash, on Saturday the list
day of August, 1868, a certain STEER, with
crop and under bit in the right ear, and an
over slope in the left, red sides and whits
back and face, about years old. Appraised
at SIS faial .-i5i. I'll
Also, before B. F. Crownoyer, j p, by
Maria Oneal April s, 1868, and VIM be sold
at Bellevue, La, as aboye, a certain STEER,
with crop off left ear, and hole in it, swallow
fork and under bit in right ear. Appraised
at 49,
The owners are requested TO come forward
prove property, pay charges, &c.
4Hl y. III LOTION, Stray Master
Bellevue, La, May 2, 1868.
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Succession Notice. 8

Htate of Louisiana, Parish Of Booster. z,
y Clerks Office, 10th District Court.
Notice is hereby giveHa that Martha Jane
Strickland has this day filed in the offeeef
appointed Administrators of the succession
of NJ. IL Hodges, deceased Z
Now, therefore, this is to admoAish all y 4
persons concerned, that if opposition is not
made thereto within the time presuFibed ~ q
law, the said applicant viii be appointed
administrators Of said sueeessiun az prayed9d
for.
Given under my hand and seal Of ofiess 81
at Bellevue, this the 18th day Of June,
4. d 1868 a4- f TEES ~ &Al
THoS n BRADEN, asa.
ME- Dts t Clerk
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Succession Notice.

Ctate of Louisiana, Parish Of Bossier.-
y Clerks Office, 10th District Court
Notice is hereby given that j. s. KILN, adj
ministrator Of the succession of VIM Peters,
deceased, has this day filed in the office of
said Clerk, his tableau of debts as admins
traitor aforesaid. ..,..sE. 49,
Now, therefore, this is to admonish all
persons concerned, that if opposition is not
made thereto within the time prescribed by
law, the said account will be homologated
and made the Judgment of the Court
Given under my hand and seal of Office;
at Bellevue, this the 29th day of june
A. D. 1868. ~
THOS. N. BRADEN,
MIA st Be- -9s. 1861 Clerk
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The Freedmen for Repudia-
tF ton.
To the Editor Of the wor,d.

To the Editor of the World:
MADISON, Ala, June 9.-You
seem to be afraid that if our race
is allowed to vote it will vote for
repudiating the national debt
And why not What right have
we to take any hand in paying it
off, Did we have any part in
making it? Or if you say it was
made for our benefit, may / not
ask if the country wasn't indebted
to us first? Didn't it owe us our
freedom 2 five had made our
selves slaves we might have been
chargeable with the money spent
in setting us free. But as we were
not responsible for our condition
any more than we were for the
war that freed us from that condi-
ton, by what rule of right, or I'M
der what color of justice can you
seek to charge us with the cost of
our liberation? 1t seems to me
that if we are to be taxed to pay
our share of the war debt, we had
all been better off to buy ourselves
free at once out of what little
money we formerly saved up an
nually; since, in that event, the
blood and the cost of the war
could not have been transferred
to any but the responsible parties
even had any war occurred at all.
I 1t is true that we are ALL repu-
diationists, and for the best of all
reasons-we are not able to live
decently, far less to pay grievous
taxes. The white people of the
South are almost as poor as we
are, and cannot therefore help us
greatly. They do for us as much
as we have any reason to expect.
They give us employment, inmany
instances to the exclusion of white
men, and we can certainly ask no
more. Difficulties sometimes oc-
cur between white and black, but
as general rule they originate in
business complications and are by
no means more numerous than
they would be were employers and
employees both white. At one
time we were prejudiced against
our white neighbors by strangers
a. 4 ~
from your section, but mutual con-
fidence has since been restored,
and a universal spirit of good will
and mutual forbearance seems to
have succeeded suspicion and dis
trust. We are repudiationists
then, because we think it nothing
but just and although powerless
now, the day may come when our
influence against taxation will be
both seen and felt. l speak the
sentiments Of nine out of every ten
Of my race in this matter.
Very respectfully yours, $
SAM. NICHOLSON, Freedman.
%AHe~--.
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STRAY SALE,

EHstrayed before me the undersigned au-
- thority, by NJ; W. Thompson, JANUARY
Y, 1868, and will be sold before the Court
House door, in the town of Bellevue, La, on
Saturday the lst day of August, 1868, to the
highest bidder, for cash, a certain IRON
small knot on the flank Appraised at $50.
Said Mare was taken up by said Themp.
son, at his residence, OH the Bellevue and
Minden road, where she may be found tA'
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, sc
w, III. HILL, Stray Master
Bellevue, La, Feb. l, 1863 n44
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u According to the New Or
leans Crescent, such was the hor-
rid influence of Ben Butler in
that city that the potatoes in the
yards "have ever since grown
with eyes squirting like his own"
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STRAY SALE.

EstraYed before Thos. Applewhite, j. p,
Ia by E. w. Hodges, June 10th, and will
be sold before the Court house door, in the
town of Bellevue, La, for cash, to the high
est bidder, on Saturday the Goth day of
December, 1868, A BAY HORSE PONY,
with a small star in the face, about years
old-had on yoke when taken up. APP
praised at $i5.
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property. pay charges, &c.
j. H. LOTION,
nib Stray Master.
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Succession Notice.

g tate Of Louisiana, Parish of Bossier.s /,
y Clerks Office, 10th District Court.
Notice is hereby given that Mrs. Amanda
M. Cr0wIiover, tutrix and ex-officio admin
istratrix of the succession of B. +. Crown
over, deceased, has this day filed in the
office of said clerk, her statement of debfB
of said succession.
Now, therefore, this is to admonish all D
persons concerned, that if opposition is not
made thereto within the time prescribed 10y
law, the SAID account will be hOmologated &
and made the Judgment of the court. taiA
Given under my hand and seal of office,
at Bellevue, this the 10Th day of June, 4.
'' THOS. n BRADEN, - ~
NIL 5ts I'm fH 1Ha HluGlerk8dY
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sas SHes'If'S Sale.
Alice g.. Redditt }
vs.. 1899.
Mrs. E. j. Breach.

MI u OAOdOu
In the District Court of Bossier Parish,
Louisiana.
by virtue Of writ of feri facias
- issued from the District Court
of Bossier, La, in the above entitled
suit, and to me directed, / have seized
and will proceed to sell at public auc
ton to the last and highest bidder,
between the legal hoursof sale, at the
Court house door, in the town of
Bellevue, La, on Saturday the lst
day of August, 1868, the following
described property, towit:
The undivided 7-25 interest in the
plantation on Red River, known as the
Waterloo plantation, containing in all
about 1873 acres.
Seized as the PROPERTY of the defend
ant, E. j. Breach, and to be sold to pay
and satisfy said writ.
Terms Of Sale-Cash, without ben
eft of appraisement.
> w. H. HILL, Sheriff.
Bellevue, La, June 81, 1868.
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She9'Gf'S Sale.
A, R. Rucker
VS.. No. gl3S.
Coates 81 Bush.

Tn the District Court of Bossier. La.
Il By virtue of writ of feri facias
issued from the Honorable the District
Court of said Parish and State, in the
above entitled suit and to me directed,
/ have seized and will proceed to sell
at public auction to the last and high
est bidder, before the Court house
door in the town of Bellevue, La,
within the legal hours of sale, on the
first Saturday the lst day of August.
1868, the following described property,
to-wit: -..ss ff.I .e. ..sII-
The north half of section Is, town
ship 90, range Il, containing 800 acres,
more or less, with all improvements.
Seized as the property of the defen-
dant, w. j. Bush, and to be sold
to pay and satisfy said writ.
Terms of Sale-Cash. with benefit Of
appraisement.
.a w. II. HILL, Shetiff.
Bellevue, La, June q, 1868.
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Improvement Of Southern
- Land.

The Rural New Yorker has a
correspondent in the Southwest,
vho says good many sensible
things. In speaking of the reno
vation of worn out cotton lands,
bv the use of wheat and clover, he
tells the following story of a plan
tstion so treated:
The plantation contained 1000
acres, 700 of which were cleared.
Cotton wore out the land, and
wore out the owner at the same
time. A man from the blue grass
of old Kentucky, came along and
bought it for less than the cost
of the buildings on it. He went
towork with twelve hands, cleared
the briers from the fence corners,
and seeded all the land he could
with wheat and clover. The next
spring he bought up cattle, sheep
and hogs, fed off the grain on the
ground, cutting only enough for
the use of the family and for seed.
Grazed the clover two years, turn
ing it under in the fall, with large
pI0ws and strong mules. Then a
crop of corn. This was fed on the
ground to hogs, as soon as the
corn was hard; then re-seeded with
wheat, oats, rye and barley and
clover with it. This plan was pur-
sued for six years. His income
was six hundred dollars net to the
hand, and he lived better than the
richest cotton planterin the South,
and all his provision was raised
at home. After about six years
of such treatment, his land pro-
duced on an average, eighty
bushels of corn to the acre.
This is the only plan to enrich
the poor lands at the South. 1t is
nonsense to talk about stable and
GOw,pen manure, where horses and
cattle run out all the year. Sow
clover, peas or any green crop, and
turn over, and keep at it, and the
poorest land can be made rich
Get sheep, hogs, horses, cattle;
SOW grass, plant less cotton, and
you will do well enough,
The editor of the Rural, in
making some comments upon the
above remarks of his correspon-
dent, says:-"An exhausted to-
bacco, corn or cotton field, will
gain in carbon and mould twice
as fast by the rotting of a ton of
clover In the field where it grew,
as by the return to the field of all
the matnre made by its consump-
tom" Now, if we add to the ton
Of clover; the additional ton of
clover roots and stubble, and the
amount of work done by these
roots in penetrating aud stirring
the soil, we shall begin to under
stand the effect of this treatment
in ameliorating the soil, especially
iflime or plaster are freely used
at the same time. There is an
abundance Of land at the North
as we'll as the South, that may be
restored to fertility in precisely
this way.-New England Farmer.
sa1 --->.ss
GREEDY ON THE Ax.-Horace
Greely says, in his Recollections:
THE woods are my special depart
ment Whenever 1 can save a
Saturday for the farmI try to give
agOOd part of it to my patch of
forest. The ak is the healthiest
Implement that o man ever han
died, and is essentially so for ha-
htual writer's and other sedentary
workers, whose shouldersit throws
hack, expands their chest and
"opens their lungs. If every youth
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HIDES, WOOL, PELTRIEs, &c.

HDEsT Bgmy,s country, per pounds, lSiS E.
WooL-Washed, per pound, .1S "25
Unwashed, per pound, .-...l5 "21
BURY, per pound, ...-.......-- 10
skins. per pound, Is go
y Sheep skins, each, Is $40
Goat skins, EACH, 30 "25
FURs--0tter skins, each, ........ so 81 90
Raccoon skins, each, ..,-.. S "IO
Wild Cat skins, each, ..,.... 30 "25
BEEswAx-per pound, "25
TALLOw-per pound, .......,-- lie
Ok Horns per pair, .,........,, 4 T" 5
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u
TTNhis is a beautiful paper, that every far,
4 mer and every farmers Wife-that
every nurseryman and his wife, and every
stock raiser and his wife, and tile sons Of
these should read and its advice follow a9s,
From two papers learn the verdict of the
Southern Press :ir eH4 bvrd rts,t EgA
'One of the best agricultural papers in the
country, is the Southern Farmer, published !
at Memphis, by NJ. w. Philips & Co, at 81.
WIS will take pleasure in forwarding sub
scripti0ns to it Specimens COPIES can be
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eve know of no better agricultural .loirr
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'The January number is worth the sub.
scription, '-MooTes Rural Nesc Yorker, ri %
Every man should read in his profession.
The farmer must read and study his by this
the best lights, or he will lose ground. He
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culture, horticulture and stock raising, and
he eahdo this no more cheaply than BY tax
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One well conducted Southern paper, foca-
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Southern farmers than all the papers writ
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Try the Farmer one year. "a ms
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~ People who like to talk
their mind, should sometimes try
to mind their talk.
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Shreveport Price Current.

Corrected weekly from the South Western
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PROSPECTUS '''e
OF THE
SOUTHERN FARMER. D. q
Monthlg-S2 per atfsatns. y gu
va Nv. PHILIPS, Editor. .sgoe

Assisted by ..f5 .s.....s
E. w Hilgari, University of Mississippi,
Professor Agricultural Chemistry, So
G, W. Gift, Memphis, Tenn, Gardening, &c.
G. c. Langdon, Mobile, Ala, }Pomolpgists
Geo. Husman, Mo Editors Vineyard ana
j. Van Buren,, Ga. Wine making. 80
D. L. Adair, KY, Apiarist = 81q 10y
John Hickson,' Ala. Ed, Poultry Yard, +, + y
Rochelle, Stated Contributor. ''O
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" Dirt must be very nutri-
tious. Many a politician gets fat
BY eating it.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-06-10

SPIES Thirty odd years ago, says the
New York Express, when news came to
this country of the system Of espionage in
opening private letters, practiced in the
post Offices Of Italy, and once in the Brit
ish post office, the whole country denounc-
Ell such conduct as Infamous But there
are worse practices going on in Washing
ton to-day. The telegraph Offices Of Balti-
more and Washington are ransacked for
private kilograms. and the managers con-
sent to obey the summons of a committee
constituted by party and for the worst OF
party purposes. No business, no message,
no letter, no dinner table, no bed room, no
library, no kitchen even, is sacred from the
intrusion of these vagabond impeachers,
SIT on by Ben. Butler. His detectives,
paid for by the Government, are in New
York to-day, as they are IN Washington
city and elsewhere. They use not onlythe
post Offices OF the country, but all its ma
cbinery. They demand that Senators shall
be arraigned, and seek to destroy their
good names by holding them up as capable
Interruption No wonder that Bingham
is sick. If he had in him aparticle Of man
hood he would hang his head in very
shame, if, indeed, like Judas, be did not
even iang. himself.
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To the President.

The DELIGHTS OF OLD AGE.-The calm
delights Of peaceful old age are often men
toned by writer's whose youths still nerve
their pen, but I have never yet read a cat
alogue Of those calm deligbtsa and unless
thatexpresson means whist, | must take
the liberty Of regarding it as pleasant fic-
ton. Passionate, love, pleasure, gayety,
vanish with their youth. Do you relnem-
Der how Philip (meaninc, of course,
Thackery's "Phillip,'1 used to sing to
Charlotte that song be had written for her,
beginning,
"Lady, when those locks Of gold
Shall to shining silver turn
and all the rest Of it, intending to convey
the idea that he would be the same deyo-
ted lover when the sunshine Of hair should
have faded, and they should both have COM
plete sets of false teeth Of the most i'm
proved pattern? Do you really suppose
he would have done anything Of the sort?
Not he, At seventy the hair must 60
into tile, retirement of caps, the kisses are as
cold as burnt-out fireworks, and instead OF
picking up Charlotte's dropped glove and
pressing it to his lips, Philip would have
asked her to bring him his slippers. When
the curtain has dropped over our, youth
and The wild, bright drama has ended, and
the,orchestra is silent, and the lights extln-
suished, why linger in the parquette, wait
lug in vain for the calm delights" Of the
afterpiece? Whether you have had your
moneys worth or not, the play is over
and there is nothing left but to find your
way home, and make yourself ready to 60
to work on the morrow.