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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-10
Gran, and Colfax Club, of the Fifth Assembly
District.

The Grant and Colfax Club, OF the Fifth Assembly
district, dedicated their large tent last night In
Myrtle avenue, near Vanderbilt There was large
assemblagc present Judge Reynolds, president OF
the club, occupied the chair, and after q snort adj
dress introduced the Rev. DR.. Thomas NJ Conway,
OF New Orleans. He assured the audience that the
negroes OF the South were for the Union though
their feelings might be disguised through fear.
They used this disguise to facilitate the cause Of
liberty.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-10

GENERAL GRANTS OPINION ABOUT AN INDIAN
WAh-We learn from military man who saw Gen.
erai Grant AZ Galena yesterday that at the head
quarters OF the army an Indian war, including all
tribes east OF the mountains s regarded certain.
on saturday General Sherman, who has just re-
turned from the Plains to ~. LOUIS, autographed
General OR at the facts o the situation and asked
n r more ~ Try to enable him to pursue the foe.
lne i' ~ been complied with, and hencef0rih
Rlon a'N 'getic movements may be expected.
TUG "a. w TO be 'carctully guarded, so as to
rN' communication, ana vigorous
va tel at once. General Grant is
20 make this war short sharp
HtN ttli.sN $4,000 PJSt, Sept.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-10
Base Ball Notes.

The game at Albany yesterday between the Ath-
letics and Nationals closely contested from first
to last and resulted in favor OF the Athletics by
score OF Is to g. These Nationals are 'nO souches.
1t is asserted that Beaman has not Joined the
Unions of Morrisania but that he and Shrieve have
joined the "Havmakers'' Of Lanslngburg, and Will
play against the Athletics to-day.
Bass and Irving, late OF the Gramercy, have gone
to Baltimore to play ball and reside.
The Unions are still sanguine Of success in to-day IS
game.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-10

To-day-Union vs.. Atlantic, Union grounds, Brook
Troy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vs. Irvington, at Irvington.
Saturday-Mutual Vs. Eckford, game and home
game; Union grounds. Union VS.. Star, at fremont.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-10

Out on bases-Greenpoint, 10; New York, TO-
Foul bound caches-Reed, Ostrander, 81 J. Miller 4.
Struck ouD. Miller, /; j. Miller Ii Perine, Magee l;
Pennington, l.
Out foul bas-Greenpoin times New York, times.
Umpre-Mr. Devyr of the Mutual Club
Scorers -Messrs. johnson and Coppins
Time Of game-Twohours and forty five minutes.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-10
EMPIRE.

Ely catches-Socal, 8; Empire, B.
Foul bound catches-Social, g.; Empire, 6.
Catches on strikes-Soc.sl, Empire,2
Out on bsses.Socia, IA; Empire, 10
Umpire-Mr. Wright OF the Union of Morrisania.
bcorers-Messrs. Baldwin and Marsh.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-10

Rev MT Parker Mr.. ALLEN SMITH to Miss MARY Il.
city. No cards.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-10

The Elective Franchise In South Carolina.
The Democratic Executive Committee have ad-
dressed the following to the people OF South Caro-
lma:-
1t was referred to the State Central Executive
Committee by the late Democratic Convention TO
inquire into disabilities imposed by reason OF the
war upon portion Of our people, restraining them
from the exercise OF the elective franchise In South
Carolina, and to publish the conclusion attained for
the information OF the people Of the State The
committee in discharge OF that duty announce that
they have examined the subject and beg to state:-
/. That no such disabilities now exist by or under
the acts OF Congress known as the Reconstruction
acts the State having been officially declared to be
In the Union.
2. That no such disabilities exist under the So
called amendment known as the fourteenth amend
ment TO the constitution OF the United States the
disabilities therein expressed having reference to
office holding, and not to voting.
3. That no such disabilities exist by the so-caled
State constitution OF 1885, under which 1t Is claimed
that the state has been reconstructed and restored
TO the Union.
The undersigned, therefore, announce that no such
disabilities exist by force or any law or supposed
law, or authority whatever; and they urge their
hitherto DISTINGUISHED fellow citizens In every part
OF the State, to exercise their right to vote at the
coming election for President and Vice President OF
which right they have been 80 long deprived by
military power.
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God loved her too, and thought IL best
To take her home with Him TO rest
The relatives and friends of the family are respect
fully invited TO attend the funeral this Thursday
afternoon, at two O'Clock, from the residence Of her
fwentysixth street. Her rcmains viii be inferred
in Greenwood Cemetery.
sMIrH.-suddenly, at Coram, Long Island, on
Saturday, September 8, RICHARD w. SMITH, In the
TGoap.~On Wednesday, September 0, zEpuA-
NAH THoRp In the stst year OF his age.
The relatives and friends of the family are respect.
fully invited to attend the funeral from his late resi-.
dence, 22l Jay street. Brooklyn on Friday afternoon,
ToNYrs.-On Sunday, September 9, GEoadEN
HENRY TONES, aged So years, months and days.
bers Of she United Brothers Lodge, No. 1866, r. and
A. NJ, and Roland Lodge No. 10 Good Felowsh are
respectfully invited to attend the funeral this Thgrs.
day afternoon, at halfpast one O'clock from his late
residence corner Coyer and Eckford Streets Green
vAscE.-on Wednesday September 0, JOSEPH
THOMAS VANCE, youngest son OF william and sarah
Vance, aged year, months and days.
the friends s, and g.. are pses or
his parents, 1893 Franklin street. Friday AFTERNOON,
at one O'Clock, thence to Calvary Cemetery srs.s
WALsH.-On Wednesday, September Q, ME- SosAN
NELSON, widow OF James l.. Walsh. .., .,.
The friends Of the family are invited 70 s', a. seven
O'CLOCK, I At the iesidsuce Of her Edwin WASH
Bedford avenue, corner Keap street. Brocklyn,
wsTshsIn grcUkn D. k IN @TSE
beloved son OF Peter and Catharine winten' ssed
year and days. - -. r.,n.o,
fuily invited to attend the funeral. this thur Day
afternoon at three O'clock from the corner Oh south
anu Leye1 Taesdsy September Mr.. GEORGE
NJ. WYATT. in the 67th year Of his age;
The relatives and friends OF vne mia bnr1av,
afternoon. at one O'Clock from his late residence
No, 344 West Thirty nth street, s......,,.
SUSIE F., daughter ofwniiam Yonnss asedl7 years
anf q f NAYS Win take place from her brothers
house. lei seventh avenue, this Thursday after.
noon at one O'CLOCK.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-10
The PendIetcn-McClernnnd Blunder,


The Springfield lnl.) Journal, radical, AYERS that
there is a rumor on the street quietly whispered
around among the copperhead heads Of messes that
Mr.. Pendeton is very much chagrined ct General
McClernand's publication Of his private despatch
about "the condition OF our canvass In Ohion He
has sent 1t II said, singing rebuke to that gentle
man for his stupidity In allowing his telegram to
get into the newspapers-at thing which he never
contemplated, and which has already had most
depressing effect upon the already desperate soon
dltion" OF the Ohio democracy. Mr.. George Shut
was immediately sent on as special envoy to make
the necessary explanations and apologies to Mr.
Pendeton, and thereupon In order as far as possible
10 repair damages, he finally consented, under II
sort of protest TO come to Illinois, Such at least Is
the story on the streets.
Endorsement of General Grant by Our Re-
representatives. Abroad.
The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Advertiser writes September that letters endorsing
General Grant in the strongest terms and expressing
an earnest desire for his election have been received
in Washington from the following foreign ministers
and consuls:-Cassius M. Clay and his Secretary OF
Legation; Mr.. Curtin, at st. Petersburg; John p
Hale, at Madrid; General John A. DIX and his
secretary, Mr.. Holman, at Paris; Mr.. Watts the
new Minister to Austria; Mr.. Morris, at Constan-
tinople: Mr.. Marsh, at italy; Mr.. Harrington, at
Switzerland; Consuls Nicolay at Paris ana Hay at
Vienna; Consul Murphy, at Frankfort; Mr.. Moran,
Secretary OF Legation at London and also two
reach by mail within the past six weeks
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08

70 Whittier, alas, do our pas
siOns lead us? How desperate
does one darling sin engage into
others. Deliver us, 0, Lord, in
the first beginnings, and suffer
not our faults to become strong
and customary, lest we grow at
length to despise reprOof and hate
our reprover. Herod knew John
to be inst, and yet kept him in
prison. He .'heard him gladly,n ?
yet cut off his head. Nothing is
so embroiled as a wicked life ;
nothing so full Of contradictions
as a wicked conscience. Deliver
us, o Lord, from darling sins,
which keepus irrecoverably chain
ed to hell, though the chain may
seem never so Ion g.-[ American
Farmer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08
Lasc6e2s I'D. SS12eGJ6Gge,

A ttorney at Law. Address Shreveport,
N La. VIII practice in The Courts of
Caddo, Claiborne and Bossier, and in the
United States and Supreme Courts of the
State. All claims for collection in Northern
Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana or Mississippi
promptly attended to.
REFHRENCEs -Wyche g. Richardson, Spy
ker & Sandidge, Hays &, Adams, Hon. II. NJ.
Spofford, New Orleans; DR.. VIM. Burt,
Humphreys& & Dashiell, Harrison & Crusoe,
Columbus, Miss; Sam. Mosley, Texas
Leading members OF the Bar, In Shreveport
and Bellevue, Louisiana. y6nl1
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08
How the Good Templars In
itiate Candidates.

The following must have been
written by chap who got tight
On lager without knowing it would
intoxicate. 1t refers to a lodge of
Good Templars. 1t is q graphic
description of an ''initiatory cere-
mony," as the writer understands
it:
In the first place the victim for
initiation is blindfolded, bound
hands and feet, and thrown into
cauldron of boiling hot rain
water, and boiled for five minutes.
This is done for the purpose of,
clearinghissystem of'Old drunks."
He is then taken out of the caul-
dron, and by means of force
pump gorged with cistern water,
after which q sealing plaster is
put over his mouth, and he is roll
ed in a barrel four or five times
across the room.
The choir at the same time sing
ing the cold water song.
He is now taken out of the
barrel, and hung up by the heels
till the water runs out through
his ears.
He is then cut down, and a
beautiful young lady hands him o
glass of cistern water.
A cold-water bath is then fur
ished him, after which he is show
cred with cistern water.
He is then made to read the
water-wor4zs' act ten times, drink
ing a glass of cistern water be-
tween each reading.
Alter which the Gold oaken
bucket is hung around his neck,
and fifteen sisters with squirt
guns deluge him with cistern
water. oe3
! He is then forced to eat a peck
of snow while the brothers stick
his ears full oficicles.
He is then run through aclothes-
wringer, after which he is handed
a glass of cistern water by
beautiful young lady. aa
He is then gorged again with
cistern wgter, his boots filed with
the same, and he is laid away in a
refrigerator. f
The initiation is now almost
concluded.
After remaining in the refriger-
ator for the space of half hour, he
is taken out and given a glass of
cistern water, run through the
clothes-wringer again and becomes
"a Good Templar.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08
and Jones. J. p. Harris.
Jones g. Harris,

A ttorneys and Counselors at Law,
N Shreveport, La. Will practice
in the parishes of Caddo, DeSoto and
Bossier, and will attend to cases in the
District, Supreme and Federal Courts.
Office on Market street, near the
Bank. va n31
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08

~ The average deaths of ne.
groes occurring in South Carolina,
from accident, In handling fire.
arms, are about FIVE every week.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08

70 To get rid of red ants, wash
your shelvesclean, and while dam
rub fine salt on them quite thickly;
let it remain on for a time, and
they will disappear, says an ex-
change.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08

V An amorOus swain declares
he is so fond of his sweetheart
that he has rubbed the skin from
his nose by kissing her shadow on
the wall. A hopeless case that.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08

u In 1874 the Democrats Polk
ed their opponents. In 1852 they
Pierced them. In 1856 they Bu-
c(h)an'd them, and after 1868, we
we will not Seymour of them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08

~ There are forty three stOfes
empty and to rent on the main
business street Of Memphis, Tenn.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08

~ It is best not to be angry;
and best, in the next place, to De
quickly reconciled. dIaG
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08
BELLEVUE, LA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1863
The Nomination for President

UOWu III UlG SCaCo OF new YORK.
} A Democratic mass meeting had
been advertised to be held in favor
of the then Democratic nomina-
tions, Van Buren and johnson,
for President and Vice President.
An array of distinguished speak
ers had been promised and adver-
tised for the occasion. AS usual
under such circumstances, they
were not present. 1t was stated,
however, that there was a young
gentleman in town, Mr.. Horatio
Seymour, of Utica, New York,
who, if it pleased the audience,
would address the meeting. Amid
loud calls and acclamations he
made his appearance. He was a
youthful man, but of an elegant
and striking exterior. The first
sentences he uttered convinced us
that he was no comman man, and
that the peopleprobably were for
tqnate in the non-appearance of
the distinguished and more pre-
tentiOus gentlemen who had been
announced as speakers. His man
ner and language was that of an
orator. His sentiments were those
of statesman. We were salts
fed that the unannounced and un-
heralded stranger would make his
mark in the future history of the
country. We were not disappoint-
ed. Five years thereafter he was
elected Speaker of the New York
House of Assembly.
In 1S50he wasnominated by the
Democracy of New York as their
candidate for Governor. He was
defeated by majority of $50 on
a poll of half a million-the closest
political contest ever known in the
history of the country.
In 1852 he was renominated, and
was elected over his successful
opponent of the previous year by
a majority of $4,000.
In 1854 he was again nominated
for Governor, but under the anti
Nebraska and Know Nothing ex-
elements he was beaten-very
singularly again by about 25O
votes his opponent being Myron
Clark, of Canandaigua.
In 1862 Mr.. Seymour's name
wasagain presented as a candidate
for Governor, against his wishes
and feelings. He was elected by
the triumphant majority of ten
thousand, over Gen. Wadsworth,
the especial favorite of the Radical
party, who was afterwards killed
in the Army of the Potomac.
In 1864 he headed the New
York delegation to the Chicago
Convention, and was President O
that body, which nominated Nc
Clellan and Pendleton.
These positions constitute the
public life of Governor Seymour
But they are but the items of his
political career.
For twenty years no man has
exerted a wider influence upor
public affairs in the Democratic
party. No man is better known
or more highly admired. As al
orator he not only has no equal O
any party in New York, but h
has no rival. Indeed, as a public
speaker he may be considered on'
of the very best this country ha
ever produced. Gifted with fin
presence, with a remarkable ant
copious flow Of language, with al
elegant diction, he is unsurpasse'
as an orator.
He is the pride, he is the Orna
ment of the Empire State.
In his politics he has neder We
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08

~ A new style of bonnet has
made it's appearance in Paris 1t.
is a twine string with a diamond
set in the top.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08
Tax Bill as it Passed Both
Houses.

the conference committee on the
18th and agreed to in both houses
of Congress, and will go to the
president for his signature as
soon as it can be enrolled. 1t ap-
plies to distilled spirits, tobacco,
snuff, cigars, coal oils, and sets
aside all provisions of existing
laws on those articles. The rate
on whisky is fixed at 90 cents ;
wholesale dealers pay S10O tax
on annual sales not over $4,000,
and one dollar per thousand on
sales in excess of that limit, and
one per cent on all sales. Retail
dealers pay S25. Taxes are col
lected at the distillery. Whisky
and rum may be exported. A
drawback of 60 cents per gallon
is allowed to be paid by the sec
retary of the treasury, and not to
be due till so days after the sail
ing-of the vessel. Distilleries pay
81 a day while running and 50
while work is suspended. There
is to be one or more storekeepers
for each distillery, to be paid by
the government. Whisky now in
bond to pay 81 per barrel special
tax, and must be withdrawn with
| in nine months.
| Tobacco pays 80 cents on chew
| ing and 16 cents on smoking. The
proposition to make warehouses
for plug tabacco was not agreed
to. Manufactured tobaccoo can
| be withdrawn in bond but twice.
Snuff pays 80 cents; cigars, So
per 1000; cigarettes, 81 90, when
not weighing over three pounds
per 1000, and So when exceeding
this weight.
The bill does not increase bank
taxes, as the Senate almost unan-
imously refused to make any
change whatever, and the House
was obliged to abandon the prop
osition or lose the bill. Coal oil
and its manufactures hereafter
exempt from tax, but distillers
and refiners must pay the same
tax as other manufacturers by
the act of last March; the meter
system is again introduced. The
new stamp provisions go into ef
feet in sixty days. The secretary
of the treasury may, in his discre
ton, put off the time till Decem
Der. The secretary and commits
sioner may exchange the style o
stamps.
There are to be twenty-five su
pervisor Of internal revenue ap
pointed by the secretary on re
commendatiOn of the commission
er, and assigned to duty by the
commissioner, and have a SALARY
of $4,000. The commissioner ha'
power to appoint twenty-five de
detectives and assign them tt
duty at will. The whole of th,
present system ofrevenue inspec
tors and special agents Is abolish
) ed at once, and thereafter there
are to be no inspectors except 0
tobacco, snuff and cigars. Suit
are hereafter to be compromises
only by the secretary and com
missioner. Collectors and asses
sors are hereafter to be confined
to their own districts, and ar
subject to suspension by the su
peryisors for abuse of power, neg
lect of duty, ETC., revisory author
= ity being in the COMMISSIONS
This summary is merely intende
to include a statement OF fini
+ action on controverted point
j. as the general provisions of th
new law are well known.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-08-08

~ The person who said that
his mouth never uttered a lie al
yays smoke through his nose.
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A ttorney and Counselor at Law, Min
II den, La. Will practice in the
10th and 18th District Courts. Prompt
attention given to all legal business en-
trusted to his care. n28
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~ He who buys too many su-
perfuities may be obliged to sell
his necessaries.
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litical faith. LII his private char
acter there is no blemish. His
morals are pure-his reputation
untarnished. He was not a can
didate for the nomination for the
Presidency, but repeatedly de-
clined, and it was only upon the
solicitation of the West and the
unanimous voice of the Conven-
tion, that he accepted the nomina-
tion.-[ Cincinnati Enquirer.
- Gen. Blair is a native of
Kentucky and was born in the
year 1921. He graduated at
Princeton College in 1841. AT
ter qualifying for the bar he and
his brother Montgomery removed
to st. Louis to practice. The lat
ter soon became a Judge, but
Frank as early went off into polit-
les. In spite of his Democracy
he was early infected with free
soil principles, and in 1S48 he ad-
vocated the election of Van Bu-
rem in a paper which he called the
"Barnburner." In 1862 he was
elected to the Missouri House of
Representatives as a "Benton
Democrat" and was reelected in
1854. In 1856, when Col. Benton
was a candidate for Governor,
Mr.. Blair was elected, on the
same ticket, to Congress from st.
Louis district. He was defeated
in 1858, but again elected in 1860
and 1862, but we believe lost his
seat at the last election on ac-
count of holding q commission in
the Federal Army. Mr.. Blair oc-
cupied a high stand in Congress,
and was much toasted as being
the first free-soil member from a
slave State. He served as an
officer throughout the whole war,
having risen to the rank Of Major
General. Since the war General
Blair has been among the first in
denouncing the revolutionary doc
trines of the Radical party and
has madesome very bitter speeches
against them. A Democrat al
ways at heart, he is now in full
fellowship with the party, since
the question Of slavery, the only
point on which he ever differed
from it, has been forever settled.
! Il La. Democrat.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-13
FOR SALE.

I'VE following property is offered for sale:
The east 10 feet of Lot !, Block /. Akin.
sons 2a addition to Moline.
Ihe south Of .outh ~ acres out lot s, o.
born's ID addition to Moline.
The 8. y. !, s.,w. !, Sec 90, tp. IL, east, an
P. NJ, near Port Byron.
Also 3 acres in n. e. corner, :. ] of L. !, sc.
sec. ], tp. IL, east, in the village of Cordoya
Also, 40 ono-hundredths Of an acre, late resi-
dence Of Edward Phillips, near Moline depot.
Refer to Andrew Conant, Rock Island,
THOMAS MOWERS, SEN.
mohzVda' Atkinson, III.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-13
HoIIOway'S Pills,
HOLLOWAYSOINTMENT
Disorders of the stomach, Liver and
Bowels,

The Stomach il the great centre which ihHu.
ence, the health or disease Of the syitem abused
or debilitated by excess--indigeshon, offensive
breath and physical prostration are the hatuLs y
copseoueuces. Allied 10 the brain, il is the
source of headaches, mental depression, nervous
complaints and unrefroshing sleep. The Li'of
becomes affected and generates bilious Disorder
pains in the side, &c. The Bowels sympathiie
Sy Costveness, Diarrh@a and Dysentsry The
principal action Of these Pills is on the stomach &,
and he liver, lungs, bowels and Kidney. pRr'ici-
pate in their reeuperatiye and regenerAuve oper-
attain