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NOTICE.,

VNHE UNDERSIGNED would respect
= fully inform his friends and the sugar
planters generally Of the Parishes of Ra-
pides and Avoyelles, that lie is now pre-
pared to set or repair kettles and boilers in
the most approved style and best work.
manlike manner. Having had 25 years ex
perience in this line of business, he feels
satisfied that he will render satisfaction,
and will guarantee that his work will be
better and by his style of setting boilers,
economize more fuel than that of any oil CT
Mason in either Parish.
Best of references given. if required.
GILES SMITH.
April Goth, 1s68-tf.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

SHERIFFS SALE.
William Campbell 9th District Court
VS.: No; l72 Parish of Rapides
David Wilson. }State of Louisiana
PY VIRTUE of writ of ITieri Facias,
- issued from the Honorable the Ninth
District Court Parish of Rapides, State of
Louisiana, and to me addressed in the
above entitled and numbered suit, havo
seized and will offer for sale, to the last
and highest bidder, on
SATURDAY the 5th ofSEPTEMBER 1868,
between the hours of II A. NJ. andH p. NJ, at
the Court House door in the Town of AL
exandria, Parish of Rapides, State of Lou
isiana, the following described property,
of the Plaintiff for costs:
A certain tract or parcel of land situated
in the Parish of Rapides, being the NE
quarter of tue NE quarter and the West
half of the NE quarter, and the NV quar-
ter of the Sc quarter, and the East half of
the NV quarter and North half of S-W
quarter, os Section 10, township 6, Range
Feast, containing three hundred and sew
enteen 60-100 acres and being the same
acquired by act of Sale from Alexander La
montine passed LIST day of March 1853.
TERMS OF SALE :-Twelvemo credit.
perchaser to give bond and security accord
ing to law. &C. V. LEDOUX.
Aug. 5th ls6s-P. F. $40 10 Sheriff.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY
OF LEARNING
and
MILITARY ACADEMY,
Near Alexandria, La, Founded and Snn.
ported by the State of Louisiana.

EIGHTH SESSION
MILL begin LIST MONDAY in SEP.
w TENDER next, and end last WED.
NESpAY in JUNE, 1869.
ACADEMIC BOARD
Consists of full corps of able instructor,
in all branches Of Literature and Sc;enc.
usually taught in the best Colleges and
Universities.
COURSE OF STUDY
Embraces Preparatory and an Aoude-;.
Department, including Literary, Scienti6c
and Optional Course, o Special School 81
Cirif Engineering and Commercial School
ADMISSION
Granted to Cadets not under fourteen vee,.
Of age, ,cko knoU arithmetic, English Gran.
mar and Geography.
EXPENSES
Of every kind, ercept clofhsno. for tan
months, $40 90; $2O4 90 payable in al.
vance. balance in equal payments, Januarv
LIST, and April LIST.
Cadets received at any time during tho
session and charged from date of entrance.
SLocAT1oN.
In the Pine Hills Very healthy.
For Further Information, address,
D. F. BOYD. Superintendent,
Post Office, Alexandra, La.
OR REFER To-
Gen G. Mason Graham, Adjutant Gene.
raj, State of Louisiana. NO
Maj. VIM Az Freret, State Engineer, NO
Capt w. c. Black, 81 Perdido ST., N. o.
Hon. r. NJ. Lusher, State Supt. Public
n. O.
Right Revd. Bishop Wilmer.
DR.. bartholomew Egan. Mt, Lebanon, La.
~ Office of the Seminary in New Or.
leans, at Jas. A. Gresham's Book Store.
90 Camp street.
June LIST 1e69.-tf.
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gaetifal.
THE FOOTPATH.
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

It mounts athwart the windy hill,
Through sallow slopes of upland bare,
And Fancy climbs with football still
It's narrowing curves that end in air.
By day, a warner-hearted blue
Stops softly to that topmost swell
Whence the mind drinks imagined view
OF gracious chimes where all is well.
By night, far yonder, / surmise
An ampler world than clips my ken,
Where the great stars of happier skies
Commingle nobIer fates of men.
look and long, then haste me home, !
Still master of my secret rare;
Once tried, the path would end in Rome,
But now it leads me everywhere.
Forever to the new it guides,
From former good old, overmuch;
What nature for her poets hides.
IT'S wiser to divine than clutch.
The bird list hath never come
WlGllln inc scope VI IllOTIai car
My prying step would make him dumb,
And the tair tree, his shelter, sere.
Behind the hill, behind tho sky,
Behind my inmost thought, he sings;
No feet avail; to hear it nigh
The song itself must lend the wings.
Sing on, swe& bird, close-hid, and raise
Those angel starways in my brain,
That climb from our diminished days,
To spacious sunshines far from pain
Sing when thou wilt, enchantment fleet,
I leave thy covert haunt untrod,
And envy Science not her feat
To make twice told tale of God.
They said the fairies tript no more,
And long ago that Pan was dead;
twas but half fools preferred to bore
Earth's rind inch-dcep for truth instead.
Pan leaps and pipes all summer long,
The fairies dance each full-mooned night,
Would we but doff our lenses strong,
And trust our wiser eyes delight.
City of Elfland just without
Our seeing-marvel ever new,
Glmpsed in fair wreath, sweet doubt.
Sketchcd-in, mirage like, on the blue.
build thee in yon sunset cloud,
Whose edge allures to climb the height;
hear thy drowned bells, inly-loud,
From still pools dusk with dreams of
night.
Thy gates are shut to hardest will,
Thy countersign of long lost speech
Those fountaned courts, those chambers
Fronting Times far East, who shall
reach9
know not and will never pry,-
But trust our human heart for all;
Wonders that from the seeker fly,
Into an open sense may fall.
Hide in thine own soul, and surprise
The password of the unwary elves;
Seek it, thou canst not bride their spies;
Unsought, they whisper it themselves.
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4 SECRET.

BY NJ. EN-
Nobody heard me, Jennie,
Nobody heard me say
The words whispered thee, Jennie,
Only yesterday
OH mine forever and ever,
Oh! all mine own to-day!
Nobody heard the dear little word,
You told me yesterday!
"Ah" q sigh from the waving forest,
"Oh I" q laugh from the leaf-clad trees,
And % low ineredulous murmur,
Runs ripping down the breeze
"And didn't we hear him say it,
Cries the Robin to the Wren,
And they sing and sing, till the dim woods
ring,
But we We're nobody then"
Nobody saw me, Jennie,
Press the earliest kiss,
On thy rose lips ripe for kissing,
While my heart was full of bliss!
Nobody saw the bushes
On thy lovely cheek and chin,
Nor the sweet coquettish dimples
Chasing out and in!
sNobody saw them, sweetest"
HUNS the honey bee.
Nobody" laughs the flower.
From its nook beneath the tree.
And down from the folded splendors,
OF the purple sunset sky,
And up from the tapping wavelets,
Its floats in silver sigh.
tNobody knows we're lovers,
Walking side by side.
Alone in the wide world, Jennie,
My precious one-my BRIDE"
"Ohl mine forever and ever"
Till earth shall fade away,
Till the sun and the stars grow weary,
Till time his foot shall stay"
Nobody knows the secret,
For nature hath woven spell,
And the knowledge her children gather,
Is guarded long and well.
Trust to the Wren and the Robin,
Trust to the honey bee,
And whisper your love words, Jennie,
For nobody's there to see.
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G ARPET w WAREHOUSE,

A. BROUSsEAU s. CO., IMPORTERS
10 CHARITIES ST,
New Orleans, La,
nFFER for sale at low prices-Carpet-
~ ing, English and American, of all
kinds. Floor Furniture and Enameled Oil
Cloths Mating, 5OOrolls China, 100 pieces
Cocoa Window Shades, Table and Piano
Covers. Crumb Cloths, Drugget Linen
and Felt Curtains, Lace, Reps, Worsted,
Damask, etc. Furniture Covering, Linen
and Cotton Stripes. Cornices, Bands, Pins,
etc. mac 1y.
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BAKING SODAII
COOKING SODA!ll

DURE Engliah, Newcastle can be pro-
4 cured at IT, ST. JOHNS at the same
price that is paid for COMMON IMPURE SODA
so frequently palmed off on the public by
gnorant dealers.
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NOTICED

A LII persons indebted to the success
"A sion of the late H. b. Ferguson
will make payment of the same, and
those having claims against said sue
cession will present the same for clas-
siiication to my attorney VIM. A. Seay
Esq, or to the undersigned.
L. c. HERBERT,
March 25-tf. Administrator.
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THE CAMPAIGN CRESCENT.

|DURING THE CURRENT CANVASS /
IL shall publish Weekly Democratic
Paper under the title Of THE CAMPAIGN
CRESCENT.
The first number will be issued during
the first week in August. and the publica-
tion will be continued until the election in
November.
Tho CAMPAIGN CRESCENT will be devo-
ted exclusively to politics. It will support
the platform and nominees of the late Ma
tional Democratic Convention. 1t will adj
vocate Democratic principles and oppose
political heresies in all forms and under all
disgnises. 1t will discuss the momentous
questions at issue without reserve and
with entire freedom and candor, but with
dignity and fairness. Great care will be
taken to fill the columns of the CAMPAIGN
CRESCENT with new and interesting mat
ter pertinent to the great questions of the
hour. No pains will be spared to make it
it all respects vigorous, efficient, in
structive and entertaining campaign pa
per. While due attention will be paid to
Radical usurpations in Louisiana, the con-.
tents>of the CAMPAIGN CRESCENT will fit
it equally for circulation throughout the
Republic.
The CAMPAIGN CRESCENT will be sent
only when the price of subscription shall
accompany the order. All journals friend
ly to the great cause of Democracy will
confer favor by inserting this Circular,
and our friends who may receive it by
mail are requested to act as agents and to
send the names of as many subscribers as
can be obtained.
In order to insure u very extensive cir
culation, the CAMPAIGN CRESCENT is offer
ed at the following rates:
CLUB RATES:
Six copies to one address 90
Twelve copies to one address. 10 90
Twenty-Five copies to one address. :. 20 90
Fifty copies to one address -35 90
j. o. NIXON.
New Orleans, La, July, 1868.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA!

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.!
TINE 45th SESSION of this Institu-
Il tion viii begin on the LIST day Of
October, 1868, and end on the Thurs
day before the 4th of July, 1869.
The organization of the institution is
very complete, embracing extensive
and thorough courses of instruction in
Literature and Science and in the pro-
fessions of Law, Medicine and Engin-
eering.
ESTIMATED ExpENsEs-Exclusive Of
Books, Clothing and pocket money-of
the ACADEMIC Student, $500 90: Ofthe
LAW Student, $685. 90: and of the
MEDICAL Student, 1896 90.
Ey For particulars send for Cata-
lOgue to VIM. Wertenbaker, Secretary,
or s. MAUPIN,
Chairman of the Faculty.
P. o." University of Virginia"
July29-1m.s
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|GRA Nd 0P EN]N G!
B. w Ell SIS
HAS opened on FRONT STREET,
Ii oppositetlie Ferry, a large, fine and
well selected stock of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
OF all kinds, and offers them to the market
at low and very favorable rates. He offers
NO BATS, but sells every thing cheap.
His stock consists, in part, of
Dress Goods,
Ladies' CIoaks,
Mantillas, French
Poplins, Alpaca, all
colors and shades, Hos
iery, Boots, Shoes; La
dies finest Caters and
Slippers CLOTHING; knit
and silk undershirts; Ladies'
Misses and Children's hose and
half hose. Calicoes, Muslins of all
colors, shades and prices.
In short let the public give him call
and he will deem 1T a pleasure to display
his goods.
Alex, Oct. 10, '66-tf.
New Goods! New Goods
r WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM
L. my friends and customers that I have
Just returned from New Orleans, with a
fresh supply of
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
HARDWARE.
TINWARE,
CROCKERYWARE.
and many other articles too numerous to
mention, all of which I will sell at the
lowest CASH prices. keep constantly on
hand large supply Of
Corn, Oats and Bran.
at reasonable rates. I have also ONE
HUNDRED PLOWS: Calhoun pattern,
Peacock and Hall &, Spear: Nos :, |, II
and Q, at NEW ORLEANS PRICES.
Give me call and judge for yourselves,
but don't come all at once and don't for.
get your pocket books.
I will either advance or give q reason
ablepricefor Cotton. Inqnireiust abovethe
ICE HOUSE HOTEL.
feb 20 If JACOB WALKER.
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VIoLINs and BOWS. Screws and 1tal-
ian Strings.
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SCHOOL BOOKS. A large assortment
~ Cap, Note. and Letter Paper. Pens.
Ink, Pencils, Mucilage and other Office
Furniture.
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RONNETS, Ribbons, Silks, Trimmings.
- Laces, Gloves and all and every yarie-
ty of Ladies' Furnishing Goods constantly
on hand, and received weekly from New
Orleans. PRICES MODERATE.
Julyd7, Gift.
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PRINTING OFFICE FOR SALE.

\ WILL SELL, CHEAP FOR CASH ON
Il ly, the BossiER BANNER office entire,
books, material, &c. am in earnest, and
will give any one n good bargain. Apply
to w. II. SCANLAND. Proprietor,
Bellevue, La.
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EVLAvORING EXTRACTS. Lemon, Va
y nilla, Almond, Rose, Celery, Pine Ap-
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ZINE BRANDY by the Bottle or Gallon
Bourbon Whisky by the Bottle or Gal.
lon Jamaica Rum, Irish Whisky, Port
and Sherry Wine, French White Wine
Vinegar.
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An Extraordinary Case.

An extraordinary sensation has been
developed in Belgium. The ysung
Countess de V -, a lady of remark
able beauty, and celebrated for her aus
terity of life and strict religions obser-
yauces, was, it seems, hypocrite of the
most startling description. being in the
habit of visiting, in disguise, Paris and
other cities, where she, under an assum-
ed name, abandoned herself, from time to
TO time to life of unbridled and incredi-
hle debauchery, in baunts of vice
of the vilest description. While
pursuing these obscene and de-
grading intrigues, her rank and
wealth were discovered by one
Manzo, Corsican, who, at one time
a lawyer, had been guilty of many
crimes, and finally been under convic-
tion for murder. This man claims to
have married he Countess do ",
during one of her debauches, while the
lady, whose private life has been fHlly
unveiled during the trial to which the
claim of Manzo gave rise, has effectually
proved that, while she was under the
fleet of an opiate, the plaintiff married
another woman who assumed her name.
1t is somewhat characteristic of GER
tain class of European society that,
since the expose, the fair, frail countess
has received nearly two hundred offers
of marriage, many of them from men OF
good family. The tissue of adventures
revealed during the trial was incredible.
Hypocrisy, deceit. debanchery, and
rapacity appeared to have been pursued
bv the countess even to mania, and, as
one of the lawyers remarked: lone
could scarcely read rOmances so rapidly
as this girl acted them"
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From the Troy Times, 2Oth.l
Hearireading Accidental Little Girl
Shot by Her Uncle.

Yesterday afternoon, in the village of
Wynantskill, five miles from Troy, a
terrible calamity, resulting from the
careless handling of fire arms, occurred,
by which Carrie May, little daughter
OF Charles W. Billings, of this city,
was instantly killed. The father and
mother on yesterday morning went on
a visit to Hydeville, VT, and left the
child, a bright and beautiful little
girl eight years of age, and their only
offspring, in care of the grandmother,
Mrs. John Hidley, residing at Wynants-
kill. Among the inmates of the
household was q son of Mrs. Hidley,
Sidney Hidley. young man Is years OF
age, between whom and the little girl
the utmost affection existed. They
were almost constant companions. Yes
terday after dinner young Hidley pre-
pared to go cunning, aud during the
preparations the little girl remained in
his presence and even desired to accom-
pany him on his excursion. While the
arrangements were being perfected on
the piazza of the house, and while Hid
ley was holding the loaded gun in his
hands, the little girl facing him, the
weapon exploded and the whole con-
tents of the piese entered the forehead
and face of the child, from the effects
of which she fell dead at his feet She
never uttered a word or scarcely a
moan. Young Hidley was horror-strick-
en-. He burst opeR the door leading to
an apartment where his mother was
sitting, and cried, "Oh ma, come here?
Hearing the report of the gun, the
grandmother, as If by instinct, conPre-
hended the terrible calamity, and was
unableto move. Her daughter, however,
rushed out and, seeing the bleeding
corpse of the little girl lying on the
floor, fled from the spot, and alarmed!the
neighbers by her cries. But death had
already invaded that household, and nc
effort of man could call back the fleet.
ing breath. The agony of the bereaved
family was indescribable and that of the
unfortunate author of the calamity and
of the grandmother who doated upon
the child, peculiarly touching and sad
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To be Continued. ]
From the Chicago Post, l9th.J

Dickens and His Chicago Relatives.
Many paragraphs have Deen current
in regard to the conduct of Mr.. Charles
Dickens towards his relatives here.
The following are believed to be the
facts:
Mrs. Dickens, widow of the brother of
Charles Dickens, lives in \ small cot
tage on rented ground, on North Clark
street, the house having been erected
by her husband and being the only prop
erty left her. Augustus Dickens, after
his marriage, Chs wife being the daugh-
ter of Mr.. Phillips, All English mer-
chant) came to thiS country and engaged
in the mercantile business at Amboy,
Illinois, but the attempt proved unsuc-
cessfnl, and he removed to this city and
obtained situation in the Land De-
partmeut of the Illinois Central Rail
road. Il is said that for some years the
relations between Mr. Dickens and his
brother, the great novelist, were not in
innate. and that the latter seldom wrote
to his brother here, who died about a
year age in very limited circumstances.
When Charles Dickens came to this
country on his present visit, his broth
er's widow wrote him, rendering her
hospitality and expressing her desire TO
see him, but received formal reply
and no further notice. The statement
that she has received any sum of money
from him is daniHd L. her intimate
friends here. Mrs. Dickens is now in
poor health, and her father having
died and the settlement of her moder-
ate estate not ye5 being made, the fu-
ture of herself acd her three children IS
very cheerless. Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
tile latter cousin of Charles Dickens
live in the same house, but are not in
a condition to assist them.
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WICKERSHAM.
UDlGa DNI


Here it will be seen that of total
vote of 1l54, only 2S:}S were whites.
The negroes Outnumber the whites
by nearly two to one-by majority of
li7-.
Of the 2S3S whites .sevenths-a
majority of 2O22, voted the Conservative
ticket.
OF the 1916 blacks forty-six- forty
sevcnths-a majority OF ll3U, voted the
Radical ticket.
Thus an insignificant minority of
whites, controlling what General Mar
tindale tells us is the "iguorant and de-
graded negro" vote, are in the leading
city of Radically reconstructed State
erabled 70 control all its affairs. With
these figures of the result of the Mem
phiS election before the people, they can
rcc at n glance. without the aid of any
argument, how negro domination
works at the South.
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and weeping most miserably. lnquir-
ing of the landlady, she told him that IL
was a young Englishman, who kept 1--WE
servants, but lived in complete seclu-
sion. Casimir understood little Ing
lish, and took an opportunity to speak
to the stranger at the tabled h0te.
The Englishman answered him win
brevity and politcness, and then re-
lapsed into his reverie. After dinner,
however, he took Casimir aside, and re-
quested to speak with him in private.
Casimir invited him into his own room,
and when they were seated, the young
stranger, whose name was Montague,
said, with wonderfully frank manner:
"Do not be offended. / am without
money. Either my own letters or my
bankers have miscarried; am Obliged
to 60 up into the country, and cannot
pay my expenses, even my bill at thls
hotel. Can you loan me f1OO"
Casimir was startled, but concealed II,
saying, ~ have not got the sum in the
house; but you shall have it in tort
night"
THANK you," said Montague; 81 shall
feel for ever grateful"
After this curious introduction, they
spent the evening together; but the
sound of weeping was still heard at
night from the Englshman's chamber:
"This man is more unhappy than l
am,n said Casimir Morn; "he is not
grieving for money! =.
But he collected the sum and took IL
into Montague's room, receiving let,
ter of acknowledgment, to be delivered
to certain persons in England in case OF
death. -,, .s.-
Aftor year of toll the commission
was finished; the Grand Duke was high,
ly pleased, and gave each OF the ola
counsellors a pension, and young Bit
tenblatt a cross of honor. But Caslmlr,
who had done all the work, was entirely
overlooked. The Minister and his son
asked him occasionally to dinner, but
that soon euded, and at last he was
neglected altogether. 1t was painful,
after so much zeal and fidelity, to be
disappointed thus; but he learned
lesson-to put no confidence in the
court.
To be Continued.
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An "AdIsteri,nv Marriage.

FROM tne W WApoho lAV"" uePuOlAOoH-J
Another curious case of marriage oc-
Cured near Grandview last week. A
Young gentleman living in johnson
county, procured q marriage license in
that county and came to Louisa county
to carry away one ef its fair maidens.
He engaged clergyman of Grandview
to tie the hymenial knot. who did so on
the strength of the johnson county Ii.
cense. They slept on it one night, but
only to learn, on awakening In the
morning, that if married at all, it was
only "ad interim,p so to speak, or that
if the marriage was legal, the parties
engaged in it were liable to fine. What
should be donef They couldn't take 1t
back, that was certain, and more, they
didn't want to. A council was held and
il Was decided that the groom and cler-
gyman should come to Wapello, procure
q license and 60 through the motions
again. They came, and the groom
wanted the license dated back one day
"to kiver accidents" but the Judge re-
fused. The license, however, was is
sued, and the anxious couple made one
according to law.