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SAe3'aT's Sale.
Levi H. Fisher )

vs.. No, e295. 10 '1a"
T. N. Braden, ct al. 4. 'aI'I'a7 ' /, /.
In District Court, Booster Parish, La.
Dy virtpefof a writuf finri flcias is
ED sued from the Honorable District
Court of said Parish and State. in the
above entitled suit and to ME directed.
4 have seized and win proceed TO sell
at public auction to the last and high
est bidder. before thu Court house
door in the town of Bellevue, La.
within the legal hours of sale, 8on the
first Saturday the I'd day Of January,
1869, the following described property !
to wit: IEfH II n
Lot No Il, with imp-o2ements, in
the town of Bellevue.
Lot No. Ii, containing one half acre,
with all impfoveme nts thereon.
Also. ! buggy. lgray horse poney,
and bay horse Scr"ggins. FL Gaa -
Seizfi as. the property Of defendant.
I. N. Braden. and to he sold to
pay and satisfy said writ. 3s. t1 =.
Terms of Sale-On a credit Of IL
months. Purchaser TO give bond with
approved security bearing 8 per cent.
interest. Hats.si48a A'o 'hs JtAc. 4
w. II. HILL, Sheriff.
Bellevue, La.,sNov. 12. 1868.
9-. 81 s.sfft4at... II
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! STRAY SALE.

ENstrayed before me, the undersigned au-
- thority, by. +, L. Galloway, July It'll,
and will be sold at Bellevue, La.S to- the
highest bidder, for cash, on Saturday 26th
dayof December, 1865, a Dark BIindie Cow
and Calf, with muly head, 'cror and under
bit III right ear, swallow fork in left ear,
aud about four Years old Appraised at So
Said COW came to Cailaways place about
the IStJanbary, 1858 = I1J4oV5Il0
The owner is requested to como forward
prove property, pay charges, &c.
J. II. LOTION, Stray Master.
Bellevue, La, Aug. s, 1868 nfg
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Also, a complete assortment Of
Sttple and Fancy Groceries.

10 y = t"a-. K +f,tl..
% We have given our personal atton-
ton tothe selection of the above stock; and
4 ~ ~ t8{r8Ft sH ffth
our long experience justifies US in making
the, assurance that all who favor us with
their patronage, win receive entire salts
faction. s.I,s,,...
os7oor IIIa oneill q Jones. u.
Benton, La. m ,Htiiara a.'t'Ha v6n32
I. =. HYAMs. 4 na s!ss W. =. KENNEDY.
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RsOEfO Drinking Saloon.
John H. Lotion, Proprietor,
IA. Rollerlte La

Bellevue, La.
TTNhe Proprietor respectfully informs his
Il friends and the public generally, that
he is prepared to furnish them, 1T the
Rialto Bar, with the best brands of Liquors,
&c, Also, kept constantly ,on hand, Gin,
Ale and Porter, Cigars, Tobacco, Preserved
Fruits, Candies, Oysters, Sardines, HOLSTERS,
Salmons, Pickles, &c. 4.,.t,...t
81 Terms--CASHi v6n52ly
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81 SHREVEPORT, la, 3 ,i.eza
the e. 1ey5ee. lir. !. -. Ne r1r sszfr
DR.. JOe9 f.. MOORE, Medical Examiner.
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The L1QUoR ,DEALER.-We

al ESFE& 4 as A,H#s&t
care not for his fine apparel, his
rcostly furniture, or his priaeely
dwelling. They are stained all
over with blood of victims of his
unholy calling. It crimsons the
rich nantes in which his wife and
daughters faunt by the wretched
and thinly clad children of.want
and restitution, made such by his
trade. Every stone in his grand
house has dragged some soul down
to the drunkard's hell upon earth.
Every spring in his sofa has cost
the sinews of some strong men
Every string in his piano has been
torn from some painting bosom.
All the gorgeous dyes in his soft
carpets have been cunningly ex-
tracted from the bodies of victims.
There is the bright yermillion,
drawn from the throbbing arteries
of weak woman. the uitramarine
of children's blue eyes, and the
lake white ground from young
mems bones, wrought into beauti-
full devices and brightly colored
flowers, which he treads proudly
under his feet. Yes, if he had a
conscience, he might fear to tread
that carpet, lest his feet should
slip in the gore, or the bones
crackle under them, or the starry
flowers look up in the fearful, hu-
man eyes, reproachfully upon him
from its delicate wool. He might
start up shuddering from the
spring seat of his luxurious sofa,
as if he felt human muscles con-
tracing under him. He would fly
from the sound of his rose wood
piano, as though every touch sent
forth a wall Of human agony. He
would shun his gilded mirror, as
though ghost lurked behind,
ready to stare upon his face and
reproach him with murder. Tae
hot draught is potent with the
essence of delirum tremens, SO
that the brain of him who drinks
it shall teen with phantom snakes
and daggers. Surely when men
shall come to realize the true na-
ture of this horrible curse which
overshadows the whole land, they
will assign to every one engaged
in it his proper place in the scale
of morality Exchange.
NO WoNDER.-A young man
was recently executed at Newport,
Kentucky, for burglary and MUIR
der. In his last speech, on the
galiows he said.
"My father was church mem
Der, and so was my mother, but
they never gave me advice, They
went to church every Sunday,
but they left their religion at the
church--they never explained to
us the doctrine Of the Bible.n
II the dying testimony of that
young man was true, it not only
explained his own sad history,
but should be, accepted as a
solemn rebuke by thousands Of
christian parents in the land. No
wonder their religion becomes a
subject of mockery, when the
child never marks any evidence of
their regard for its solemn truths
beyond bare professions. In the
church they profess to believe that
their children have souls, yet they
utterly neglect their salvation. If
the force of this argument, which
our fallen nature so promptly
grasps, overcome by the efforts of
the minister, is a wonderful affair.
Were the parents deliberately to
concentrate all their influence on
the child to efface very good i'm
preston made upon it, they could
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:. SOUTHERN ~
M A u BIZ rs.

Near the head OF Texas street, ShFeve.
port, La, vs.
4 re- again resumed, Tor tbe manu-
II facture OF .4I i4.Io1t.
Monuments,
GIL Toombs. -4.i-''+f
Tablets, ..,-.. a. ,..+,,
Cottages, and Head stones,
ofpure- Italian Marble, vi The most
approved workmanship. Our work.
has been tested for several years. and
has given general satisfaction, Thank.
lul Tor past tayors, we again solicit
your patronage. Please cal and ex-
anime the rough Ashler, and see il
perfected hv the tools of ready wOta-
men. --.za4
g iG9s HECOX & KINNEY.
Shreveport, La 3d % sv4n42
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MANSFIELD REFERENCES:

Rev. Charles b. Stuart; Jno. ". Stuart,
Esq; DR., R.T. Gibbs; DR.. W, G. Thomas,
DR. y. p, Reeves, Rev. John Pipes, Rev. H.,
@. Thweatt, D. D., Messrs Dubois & Doug
lass, Rev b. F. Alexander, a. m 5
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.BELLEyUE:

f % sf W w. II. SCANLAND,
n 4 Agent for Bossier Parish, La
DIR. W. NJ, SWAMI, Medical Examiner.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-07-29
The Indiana Democracy Bolt.

The Upton Times, the most inAu-
entail Democratic paper in the Eight
Congressional District of Indiana,
contains the following:
"Here we come. The New York
infamy has convinced us of the iecess-
ity of taking our stand with the work.
ingmen's party, the Tin-bucket Bri-
gade. Our unfaithful and Infamous
delegates to the New York Convention
sold us for Wall street gold, and we
propose knowing how much we bought
knowing what white men are worth
in the market. Seven or eight of our
delegates were faithful to their trust.
The others have rendered themselves
infamous for all time to come. At
the very time when Indiana, if it had
remained true could have run up PEN
dleton's vote to seven more than ma
jority, one G. N. Fitch of Lsgansport,
split the delegation and took off nine
and one-half votes of the thirteen.
Financially we cannot endure him,
but politically he is damned. We
appeal to you, the people irrespective Of
party, who do not propose that your
selves and your posterity, to the latest
generation, shall bethe dupes andslaves
of bondholders, to rally with US around
the workingmen's banner and repudi=
ate and split upon all such rascality."
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,1 IL. ~
ttees' puthe .,.! mem 70 S aea.n, SET 'heno1 %
i iire aS they iW ipyins, anu puraeu
@ tneir ,lTnies, l nus passeo 'ne n'S'
uay ui .ne tlol. c,,,
an ngh1 inc reign q piooa and nre
was Kept up Next Gay an attempt
was maze 10 pnrn q onitea otates
hospltal, IN wilicl iay Two hInMred
an anu my SICK ana wounaed soioiers;
L Inc troops were called OUT ana seyerai
mgnlS took place. ihe mohLwhich ON
'he,r way passed McGg.ellan 8 residence
ahs s % Gheeteu it-eheerihS ius'iiy ior
'e,l; H.. laws. , n.1,rtIE I. q .--.u -. 49,,
oh 'hat aay' I1oratt2 seymour, tnen
uoVerhor OF new ork, issued q
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A Mar Four Hundred Years Old.

There recently arrived here luna
tic-a scholarly man of about thirty
eight--who has been employed as u
teacher in schools. He has always
lived quiet, temperate live, and new
er exhibited any symptoms of insanity
until within a month past. He con-
verses well and intelligibly on the top
les of the day, but soon drifts away
into the past to recount some Of the
events which occurred two or three
hundred years ago, and in which, ac-
cording to his account, he himself
mingled. He knew Shakespeare we'll,
he says, and was present when hetnade
his first appearancein London rs an ac-
tor. He speaks of having once loaned
"Wiliam" five dollars, which he for
got to repay. "But, never mind," he
says, Chilly was good fellow, and he
wasn't as well fixed as was"
A gentleman remarked that if he
was four hundred years old, he must
have been quite young man when
Columbus sailed in search of the New
World. Oh, yes, he remembered it
well. He was present at presenta-
ton ofa bosom pin which was made to
Columbus by some of his friends on
the night previous TO his departure.
"They had gay time" said he tina
king speeches and drinking toasts.
Chris. wanted me to go along, but 1
told him | believed / would wait for
the next steamer"
After musing little time the four
hundred year old man suddenly re-
marked: "Ever know Lib ?" ts
Glib who?' said the gentleman ad-
dressed"
"Why Elizabeth, Queen Of England.
Great friend ofmine. was the only
one she allowed to call her Lib.
Splendid woman-magnifcent wo-
mana little naughty, though, and
self willed. / never liked the way
she used the Queen of Scots. Told
her so at the time"
So would this unfortunate man run
on by the hour.-CincinnaH Times.
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ment." In answer to this l have on
ly to say that a tax levied directly up
on the coupon Is simply an abatement
of interests, aud that result can be
reached in a better and more satislac-
tory and more honorable way. The
determination manifested by this Con-
gress and by the great Republican
Convention at Chicago to maintain
the national faith has already worked
a large appreciation in the value of the
bonds, and with the strengthening of
our credit, which results from an
honest and high-toned policy, we will
speedily be able to fund our debt on
a lower scale of interest, running
down to five, four and half, and ul-
tlmately to four per cent. per annum.
Should we proceed, however, in vio-
lation of good faith and Of the uniform
practice Of civilized nations, to hold
back part Of the stipulated interest
instead of eifecting an honorable ex-
change of bonds to the mutual adj
vantage of the Government and the
public creditor, we should only pun
ish ourselves, produce calamitous re-
suits in the business world, and per-
manentlysinjure our national fame.
sTo withhold one per cent. of the
interest under the plea Of a national tax
this year might be followed by with
holding two per cent. next year and
three per cent. the year ensuing. To
enter upon such policy would pro-
duce alarm at home widespread dis
trust abroad, for every man holding
a bond would have to count his rate
Of interest not on what was stipulated
in the contract, but on what might be
the will and caprice of Congress in its
annual Withholding of portion of the
interest under the pretense of a tax.
Under such a policy our bonds would
be returned upon MS from Europe
with panic-likc rapidity, and the drain
upon our specie resources would pro-
ducc an Immediate and disastrous
crisis in monetary circles. IF even
onc-half our bonds held in Europe
were suddenly sent homo it would
drain lis of two hundred and fifty mil
lions of specie, and the financial dis
tress throughout the length and breadth.
Of the land would be beyond calcula-
ton or imagination. And yet that is
the precise result involved if we
should follow the policy advocated by
those who urge us to tax the coupon
and withhold one or two per cent.
Of the interest. Let us reject such
connscls, and adhere to the straight
forward course dictated alike by good
policy and good faith. And let us
never forget that in the language of
the Chicago platform, ''the best policy
to diminish our burden of debt is to
so improve our credit that capitalists
will seek to loan us money at lower
rates ofintercst than we now pay, and
must continue to pay, so long as repu-
diation, cithcrp partial or total, open or
covert, is threatened or suspected"
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THE VETO.

The President returned the Electo-
raj College bill to the Senate on the
Goth, with his objections. 1t is the
old cry of "the Union never divided"
and another bid for Revolution. His
argument is childish, making it very
evident that he fast approaches his
dotage, sans everything. The Senate
repassed the bill over the Presidents
veto by a vote of 35 to 8. In the
House the veto message was passed by
a strict party vote, without debate.
1t was only one hour and half going
through both Houses.
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DOWNFALL OF THE ASsYRIAN.

) The Ohioan came down like o wolf on the fold,
And his Escort. was teeming with grecnbacks
and gold.
And the sound of their cheers was like thunder
at sea,
When the ballots flew lightly DER packed Tam
manEE.
Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is
green,
That host betting freely at sunset was seen;
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn
hath blown,
That Escort next morning was slaughtered and
strowD.
For the spirit of wall-str eet rode forth on the
blast,
And button-holed many Western man fast !;
Gold, greenbaclIs and drinks were piled early
and late,
Till the poor tempted delegates yielded to fate.
And poor Cincinnati is loud in her wall,
And the sports are all "brokc" who went Pen
dleton's "bail !"
For the might of"Young Greenbacks" unsmote
by the sword.
Hath melted like snow and hath gone by the
board.
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Presidential Bids.

The HDryord Post says: "Thc bid
ding for the nomination of Tammany
Hall was for long time quite spirited,
and ran thus: Pendleton's bid was.
An easy way to Reputation. Han
cock bid, "New Orleans" A. John
son bid, "Sevcn Netoes-a circular
swing-the ears of a mule and the
head of a pig" Chase's bid was, "Dead
Ishoos.' Hendricks bid was only a
wink, which is said to be as good as,
nod to a blind horse English bid,
The Laboring Classcs-Eight Hours
a Days work-the New England
Front Broken, and Sinews of war for
the Campaign Blair bid, Military
Interference with the Reconstructed
State Governments Parker bid
The good will of Camden and Amboy.'
Doolittle bid, 'The support ofthe en-
tire johnson party, including Dixon.
Church bid, 'The Smile of Samuel j.
Tilden.' Reverdy johnson bid, Mary
land, my maryland Tom Ewing bid,
'Obscurity.' J. Q. Adams bid, His
father and grandfather, and an ances-
try reaching back to Adams fall
Horatio Seymour's was the last and
best bid of all. He bid good-by to
his Honor and the, nomination was
knocked down to him."
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A DAY OF INFAMOUS MEMORY.

On Monday, July 13, 1SG3-cxactly
five years ago-commenccd the terri
bic draft riots in New York city. The
rebel armies were facing the Union ar
mics at every point, and threatening
to carry the war into the North. Lee
had made the attempt, but had been
checked at Gettysburg. Morgan had
that morning crossed the Ohio line
and threatened to water his horse in
Lake Erie. There was urgent need Of
rcinforcements for the Union army,
and after many delays the order for
the draft had been issued. The draft
in New York was ordered to commence
Monday, July l3. .
Events showed that secret arrange
ments had been made for a general
uprising of rebelsympathizcrs through
out the North, taking the draft as a
prctcXt, and that such uprising should
prove a fire in the rear of the Union
armies that would enable Pemberton
to drive Grant into the Mississippi,
Bragg to sweep Rosecrans into the
Tennessee, allow Lee to break through
Mcadc's barrier, push on to Philadel-
phia and New York, and surround
Washington, whilst Morgan and his
raiders dashed through Ohio, and cut
the communications between the West
and the East. The coincident fall of
Vicksburg and defeat of Ice at Get
tysburg spoiled the programme, but the
demon of discord had been excited in
New York, and could not be kept
down, although its opportunity had
passed.
About noon on Monday, July 13,
mob, at preconcerted signal. sud-
denly attacked a building on Third
avenue, New York, where drafting had
commenced, gutted it, fatally injured
an enrolling officer and drove the other
occupants through the windows at the
peril oftheir lives. They then attack
ed the Government arnory on Sec
ond avenue, brutal!y maltreated the
occupants, and fired the building
Led on by a Virginia rebel, they
attacked and disarmcd soldier and
police hunted them down like dogs and
frightfully mangled them. They
swarmed, a pack of thousands of Yell
ing, whooping demons, around the Col
ored Orphan asylum, set it on fire
drove off the fremen that attempted
to extinguish the flames, and would
have hung the Chief Engineer but for
the determined resistance of his men.
The building was stripped of it's con-
tents, the orphan children turned max
ed and friendless into the street, to be
kicked and beaten by the ipfuriated
brutes, and the building leveled with
the ground. sh n-A "a.
Fresh from this scene Of dast ardly
and cowardly outrage, the now mad
dened villains hunted up the colored
people, hung thcm to lamp-posts and
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Mr.. PRESIDENT, FRIENDS OF LIB.
ERTY:-As we are assembled here to-
day in accordance with time honored
custom, however familiarized by fire.
quent recurrence, none of us can ever
contemplate it with feelings of ndif-
ference. So pregnant with momen-
tous consequences, to the world have
been and still continue the events
which are recalled by this days obser-
vance that memory and imagina-
ton are alike fired in dwelling upon
thepast and shaping the future.
1t was on this day ninety-two years
ago the Congress ofAmerica resolved
That the time had come when it was
necessary for our people to dissolve
the political bands which had connec-
ted them with another, aud to assume
among the powers of earth the seperate
and equal station to which the laws Of
nature and Of natures God entitled
them.
1t was on this day when John
Adams, the COLOSSUS Of that Congress,
rs Jefferson calls him, in that moment
of darkness, Of terror, and Of conster-
nation, when the election was to be
made between an attempt at liberty
and independence on the one hand
and defeat, subjugation and death on
the other, the courage Of Adams, in
the true spirit of heroism, rose in pro-
portion to the dangers which pressed
around him and poured forth the only
genuine eloquence-the eloquence Of
the soul, which moved his hearers in
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Theat'avnesh,,rg 8epahlitaa.
CONsTITUTION.MAKER.

johnson has fairly earned the above
title, strangely paradoxical as it may
seem with his known hatred to the
Radical tinkers" in Congress. 1t is
said that he wants, in recent mess
age, to have a new instrument, one
that can be harmonized with "My
policy" and, mqdesty exemplifed! he
wants to be President six years in
stead of four! The President has
certainly been using the following an
'tidote for cnnui these sultry summer
months:
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For the Republican.
MORAL VIEW OF REPUTATION.

There is evidently a strong feeling
in the country in favor of paying the
debt in greenbacks; even in the Re
publican party are found some who
advocate this. The people are in an
unsettled, uneasy condition. They
have not thought enough on the sub
ject to make up their minds fairly. 1t
would be best if this question were
not decided in the heat of a political
campaign, but left to the sober deci-
sion of the Supreme Courts. To eve
ry question there is moral side, and
we propose to look for while at that
side of reputation.
Unfortunately, we have not now
any "greenbacks" about us. But if
we understand the subject, these notes
declare on their face that they are re-
deemable in gold, and also that the
interest on certain bonds is paid with
gold. Now, so far as we know, the
nation gave its unqualified consent to
the issue of these bonds. 1t was also
the original spirit, as well as letter of
the law,to thus pay theinterest on these
notes. This much, then, is fairly es-
tablished-to refuse to pay the bonds
in gold would be a violation of the
given pledge, breaking of the spirit
and letter of the law by which they are
issued. You may call reputation by
whatever name you please, but looking
at it in moral light, it is nothing but
DISHONESTY. The case is precisely
similar to that of merchant refusing
to pay the interest on a note given for
goods, in the money he had pledged
himself to pay it in.
A nation is made up of individuals,
and while it is true that the character
of the nation will be directly as the
character of the individuals composing
it, it is also true that the character of
the individuals is measured by the
character of the nation. Therefore, if
we as a nation, show ourselves to be
dishonest, it will prove that we are
dishonest as individuals. If as a ma
ton we refuse to pay an honest and
honorable debt, how can we individ-
ually pay an honest debt? Where
will be all the obligations, that are
held sacred, by even heather nations,
if we adopt Reputation? Mark our
words, if the time ever comes when
our public faith is broken, then our
private faith will go to the winds as
well. What security could we give to
other nations if we repudiate our debt?
If we wish to purchase land from
them, and would offer them annual
payments with interest in gold, would
they not say-you proved dishonest
with yourselves, and we will not trust
you? Would we not at least earn the
title, given to the ancient Carthage
mans, of "treaty-breakers" We know
not how soon our government may be
under the necessity of asking for an
other loan. If we repudiate, where
would we get it? Who would rely
upon our word, and trust their money
on our promises, however solcmnly
given? Even barbarians would point
the finger of scorn at us, and say, stop
sending us the Bible, heal thyself.
No Christian can advocate Repudid-
ton. 1t is directly opposed to every
principle of Christianity, and to every
system of morality in the universe.
This is but one view of the subject.
We will speak further upon it.
Fy-D