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Shreveport, at my Office, No Is Milan street, Mon
day and Tuesday, July 10 and 90, 1869.
All property holders and tax payers requested to
be prompt in attendance, it will be the only time
will be at the precincts. intend to force the collec
ton and assessment as the law directs
On Monday, June IA, 1869, I will collect the
State and Parish License Trades &c. for the year
1852 in the city of Shreveport and all persons
pected to settle same Immediately, the
due and unpaid. -4-
All persons liable for the per cent tax will settle
on the days above named they will be liable to the
penalty of ten per cent month until paid on and at
ter the first day Of July, 1869.
j. N. HOWELL,
je13 2td&5tw Assessor and Collector.
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Newspaper Ageney-Tls. Mcintyre, Advertis-
ing Agent, Nos. SO and IS Ctmon street, New Orle-
ans, offers his services to ntspaper propretors to
procure advertisements and totend to any business
for them in the city. Decentralization given to all
orders for purchase of printnmaterias, paper sta
tiOnery, &C. &C.
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GIN CHARLES A. LABUzAs.-The death Of thsola
snd prominent citizen Of New Orleans is announced
in the city papers of the 18th June
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LIGHT! LIGHT.
Air Burner!!
4 HAVE exhibition at the Pitts House, the
Il Air Burner, which received the premium at the re-
cent State Fair 1t affords the best and cheapest light
known the cost after the purchase of the machine be-
ing almost nominal Twill sell the right for one house
or for any town county in the States of Arkansas
and Texas, the parishes of Caddo Bosser Every
house should have this money saver. Call and exam
inc for yourselves les if 4. II. PITTS.
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No mother should fail procure R. D. r.
! Where r. D r. is kno, nothing else Is used.
sGrying babies love r. H. .--,-
Hid in Shreveport, La, HIAMS d hEANhDl.
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NOTICE.


HTNHE TAXPAYERS of Caddo parish are hereby no.
Il tilted that have opened my office at No. 3 Mi
lam Street, Shreveport for the purpose of receiving
assessment of property and taxes due the State and
parish.
All persons following any trade, profession occu
patton must procure license immediately or they will
be dealt with the law directs.
All persons will come forward and pay their per
cent tax they will be liable to the penalty of ten
per cent and after the first day of July 1869. Said
penalty, after said time, will be rigdly enforced.
j. N. HOWELL,
le16 If Assessor and Tax Collector
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Dromsoole Il Co.'s Bucl sells at one dollar.
Dromgoole Co.'S Buchu plees everybody.
For urinary diseases, use Drtgoole & Co.'S Buchu'
Dromgooe 4 Co.'S Buchu Gus gravel and gleet.
Sold in Shreveport, La, by HYMS & KENNEDY.
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AUCTION SALE.
BY p. III. ROsSON.
SUCCESSION sALE-sUCCE OF E. c. HART,
DECEASED
The Nest Valuable Property yet offered
fer Sale.

To be Sold on SATURDAY, August 7, 1869,
In front of the Market House, city of Shreveport,
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DETE TOBEZZI,
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
of Pine Island, Clear Lake. He intends to hold it at
all hazards Office. je23 3t*
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Shreveport University.

FTNHE FIRST REGULAR SESSION of this Insttu-
l. ton will commence Monday, February 8,
1869, and close the last week in June.
Rates of Tuition, &C., per Session:
Primary Department. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. $40 90
Academic Department. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5 90
Preparatory Department. ...........3 80 90
Collegiate Department Observation-Disclosures. 30 90
Board per month"; including washing, lights, &c. 16 90
One-haf payable in advance; balance 18th April.
No deduction will be made from the above rates ex-
cept in cases of proracted sickness. Each boarder
will be expected to furnish his wash basin pitcher
looking glass; towels and bedding except mattress and
bedstead. JOHN n HOWELL,
President Board of Trustees.
Shreveport, January l3 1862 Ttf
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Number dry hides shipped yesterday. =
Number dry hides shipped previously As, Os4-49 o94
Number wet hides shipped yesterday. -
Number wet hides shipped preyiously.. 5,6G4- 1854
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A REMARKABLE EscArE.--The Crockett Sentinel gives

REMARKABLE EscAPE.-The Crockett Sentinel gives
the following particulars of one Of the most remarkable
escapes record;
A week or ago Rev. Henry Jennings, colored,
went from this place to Tyler Smith county, and on
his return he caught in thunder storm. He was
on horseback and had led horse tied to the tail of
the horse he was riding His horse became frightened
and he alighted and held him by the bride bit While
down, Tree near by was riven bylighning and him
self and horse Frustrated to the ground. When he
recovered consciousness, his own aud horses head
were ying together; the horse cold and still in
death The led horse nninured. Jennings had
a silver watch melted in his pocket This is one of
the most miraculous escapes We ever knew Of
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The New York brokers charge that Boutwelrs fnan-
cia policy has sent the worth OF money up in that city
to fifty per cent per annQm: that his purchase Of
bonds is raiuousy absurd as every sensible man knows
and that the Government Is III no condition to buy. 1t
is moreover charged that capitalist cleared over
million dollars in operating upon the last purchase q
Boutwes, which it is said conld not have been done
without COLLISION, on the part of the Secretary.
New Orleans Times.
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TAX NOTICE.

FENHE TAX PAYERS of Caddo parish are notified to
IL attend at the places and times designated below,
for the purpose of giving their assessment and paying
their State and Parish Tax for the year 1861 and Levee
and Internal Improvement Tax for 1885, and State and
Parish License for the year 1869 also the per cent
tax all delinquent tax and all back taxes for the years
1850. 1851 1862. 1864 1884 and 1863 viz
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MUSIC LESSONS.

T1\HE undersigned is now prepared to give Lessons
Il on the Piano Guitar to pupils, al their residence
or at the hall of the Glee Club.
Terms-One Dollar per lesson. If there are two or
more pupils at the same house, liberal deduction will
be made. W. S. DONALDSON
say~ All orders left at Cumming Morrison 4 Co.'s
will be promptly attended to. Pianos tuned and re-
pared. Sheet Music for sale. iy29 1y
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w 1000 pieces WALL PAPER of all
qualities very rich styles. Also 50 pairs
PAINTED WINDOW SHADES of different lengths
and widths, with fixtures Just received by
j. Ii. REYNOLDS, 81 Texas street
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NEW CHEAP STOREs
Dry Goods! Dry Goods I!
BOOTS AND Shoes,
AT YOUR OWN PRICES!
Greatest Bargains ever Offered i'll Shreveport,
r. CRAIG & CO.'S.

80 TEXAS STREET Shreveport.
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Shrnyanort esuatatiors of Hides, etc

Stock on hand and not cleared
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-11

Most of our city clergymen are now enjoy
ing themselves at our popular watering places,
and few of the more fortunate are recupe-
rating their exhausted energies by extensive
European tours 10 their absence their
churches are closed, and the Gospel that has
been in the habit of being dispensed from their
pulpits is now dispensed with altogether. We
will not say which ia attended with the best
result, the dispensing of the Gospel or dis
peusing with it. And neither is this a matter
that concerns these ministers. They want a
good time during the summer, and they are
bound to have it and do have it, The wicked
and the ungodly may look out for themselves.
The devil may take az many OF the hindmost
as he pleases. II is all the same to them.
Rev. Charles B. Smyth il not a summer
watering place patron, il not European
tourist is not the shepherd who goes away to
leave his flock TO take care of ITSELF He gets
mp no pseudo plea Of enfeehled lungs aud
weak stomach and contribution TO pay his
travelling and hotel expenses. He stays il
the city. He pulls OF his coat and rolls up
his sleeves and keeps at work with lusty
sinews. He don't mind the hcat or dust or
dog days. He stays in the city all summer.
There is no holiday intermission IN his call Of
sinners to repentance. Those who 90 away
from the city during the summer do not take
all the sin and wickedncss with them. There
is good deal Of sin and wickedness left.
There are political spectators to preach
against There are municipal oitice-holders
Of feeble financial morality to be denounced.
There are the Wall street gamblers, whose
! graspipg, greedy souls need saving. Mr..
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The steamships which leave this port for
Europe daily are filed to the utmost extent of
their accommodations with passengers bound
Joyous and pleasurable return to the land Of
their birth. Four vessels took their departure
yesterday with all their berths engaged, two
ofthem-the Pereire and City of Paris-being
patronized with first cabin passengers to an
almost inconvenient extent. Every grade and
class of our fashionable and well-to-do society
was represented, individual members intend
ing to stroll at leisure from London to Paris
and Rome, and it may be from Dublin, Cork
and Madrid away of to the Mediterranean,
Alexandria, Constantinople and thence home
ward, announcing their intended day of return
sailing to their friends here through either the
Anglo-American or French Atlantic cable.
Every one of these leisure-loving American
citizens whether he takes his tea in "China's
small-eyed crockery ware metropolis" or
looks in at the Vatican, or ''sits amidst the
bricks of Nineveh, will furnish solid, living
attestation of the wealth and vast resources of
the United States, with special evidence of the
fact that the doors to the attainment of afflu-
ence by honest exertion are here open to the
natives Of every cline. Europe supplies us
with most valuable motive power for national
development in her ever-aowing stream of
emigration, and we return her annually in the
summer the polished article, happy, wealthy
and free, accompanied by the native born Of
the soil-visible missionaries of the grand
effects Of democracy and self-government,
despite the drawbacks Of rebellion and war
and the jealousy OF the expiring monarchies.
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The Catholics and the Irish Church Bill.
In the House of Lords on Friday evening
the Irish Church bill came up for report from
committee. Some important notifications
were made in the bill, and some keen discus
sion took place in regard to the same. The
remarkable feature of the evening was the
stand made by the representatives of the
Catholic Church. A generous and well meant
amendment was moved by Lord Redesdale, to
the effect that the representatives of the
Irish Church and the Cat hOlic Synod,
in cases of vacant bishoprics, nominate
three persons for the Crown to select
from, and that the Grown be empowered to
summon one archbishop and two bishops from
each Church to sit in Parliament. The Earl Of
Granard protested in the name of the Catholics
against the amendment, which was in conse
quence withdrawn. Later in the evening,
when proposal was made to give the Cstho-
lie clergy glebe lands and residences, the Earl
of Denbigh announced that the Catholics had
decided not to accept glebe lands or residences.
Thus far the Catholics have given Mr.. Glad
stones bill warm and unqualified support
This is one of our strongest reasons for think
ing that when the bill goes back to the Com
mons Mr.. Gladstone will yield to the Lords ia
no important particular.
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stead Plnins-A Capital Idea.
1t appears from letters of Mr.. Stewart to
the commissioners for the sale of Hampstead
town lands and to the Queens County Sentinel
that our great merchant prince offers nearly four
hundred thousand dollars for the seven thousand
acres of barren land which are now for sale.
Moreover, he pledges himself to apply all
the resources Of modern agricultural science,
road building and landscape gardening to
improve those barren wastes 80 that ''they
may speedily be covered by a population de-
sirable in every respect as neighbors, tax
payers and citizens" This is q capital idea,
and one that the vast wealth of Mr.. Stewart
will enable him fully to realize. The concep-
ton OF It does honor alike TO his head and his
heart, and entities him to high rank among
such sensible public benefactors as George
Peabody, Gerrit Smith and other noble types
of class which we are glad to see is becoming
more numerous. How much better it would
have been for Girard and other millionnaires
had they thus bestowed their liberalities dur
ing their lives, not only anticipating postum
nous fame, but also retaining the power Of
wisely regulating the disposition of the wealth
devoted by them to charitable purposes.
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Good News About New Post Once Il
New York.

Good News About New Post Once In
New York.
That there was some sense remaining among
the high fanctionaries in Washington there has
been recent illustration The construction
of a new Post Office in the city of New York,
that long agitated local agony--has not only
been determined, but the original site hxed
upon and the commissioners ordered to pro-
coed with the erection Of the ediice forthwith.
This site is the original one--at the lower end
of the City Hall Park. In the opinion Of some
the building ought to have been erected at a
point where there would have been better
facilities for expansion as the business Of the
establishment increases; but no doubt the Iibe-
rality Of the city government will arrange that
matter in manner that will rebound 80 the
honor Of the metropolis.
We are glad that this long deferred subject
Of building new Post Office has been finally
settled. The tumble-down rst-trap in which
the immense postal business OF the civ has
been for 80 long time transacted il monu-
ment Of disgrace 10 the city and the national
government. The well known fac, that the
federal government owns no building Of re-
spectacle appearance and proper capacity, ont
side Of the city Of Washington, in which 10
conduct It's revenue and postal business
! but few exceptions-is more than realized in
the miserable post Office structure topping to
\ ruin, with its crazy timbers and Wondering
masonry, at the corners Of Nassau and Liberty
and Cedar streets. Let IFS have, then. new
Post Once built without delay and let the
commissioners who have the business in hand
see that no private or personal job or specuia-
ton obstructs the wav 10 Its SPEEDY cowpletiQp.
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Smyth feels all this. He is now preaching in
church in Eleventh street, near Second
avenue. We stood by him when he began
his memorable invectives against the
Black Crook style of drama. He acknow
lodges that our notices increased the attend
ance in the Houston street church, where he
was then preaching, from twenty-five hearers
to seven and eight hundred, and afterwards in
Cooper Institute to audiences of over three
thousand people The HERALD will stand by
him now, and we trust that there will be the
same proportionate increase in his congre-
cations
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For several days past the weather, with
scarcely an interruption, has been as bright
and delicious as that Of ''The Summer Land"
of which Andrew Jackson Davis has given
such glowing descriptions. But there may be
some malignant influence in the hot rays Of
our summer sun, for the black catalogue Of
murders has lately been swollen by some
shocking instances The testimony in two
cases particularly killing Of Maurice Long
by Officer Campbell and that of Adam Gesell
by Frederick Schlee and, as alleged, by the
mother-in-law of the deceased-shows that the
very dangerous weapons in this az well as in
other seasons Of the year. A gross assault
was committed on Thursday night upon
respectable citizen by drunken policeman.
In one of the railway murders which we are
so often compelled to chronicle the jury rem
dered ridiculous verdict, satisfying them
selves with censuring 'sthe parties for criminal
negligence who were in charge Of both the
Belt Car and the engine" when the collision on
the Harlem and Belt Railroad inflicted such
injuries on Jason Carson as to cause his death.
These railway murders must lead to
sterner verdicts and to adequate punish
ment before we can hope to have
no more of them to record. In this connec-
ton we must be permitted to repeat sug-
gestion that the horse railway companies ought
to be rigidly compelled to enforce their own
regulations, the violation of which has in so
many dreadful cases Of recent occurrence con-
verted the front platform of their cars into
fatal scaffold.
The latest murder which has shocked our
community is the terrible tragedy in West
Thirteenth street on Friday evening. In this
instance insanity impelled a woman to kill her
aged mother-in-law with an axe. Against
such an exceptional cause of murder no pre-
cautions can avail. But there seems to pre-
vail at present certain moral insanity which
might lead to equally horrible consequences,
and against this the safeguards of temperance
in drink and all other provocations to passion,
as we'll as of law, should surely be erected
Let us hope that we shall at least be spared in
New York the repetition of the dreadful and
mysterious poisoning Of whole family--a
husband, a wife and six Children domestic
tragedy which was lately enacted in London,
and the details of which we published yester-
day.
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Ocenn CabIes-rho Dnty Of American Cspi-
tulisfs.

Ocenn Cables-Tho Duty Of American Capt.
tulisfs.
British enterprise has given us two Atlantic
cables. French enterprise is giving us
another. Ii is O misfortune, however. that the
French cable, like almost everything else in
the world, is the property, so far, of English
capitalists. We have the very best reasons
for believing that the French cable, although
landed at Duxbnry Tomorrow, while it would
certainly increase the means of commu
nication between the Old World and the
New, would, in financial point Of
view, be no gain to the United States.
British capitalists control all the three lines.
and British capitalists will, OF course, reap
the benefit The time has come when Ameri-
can merchants must make up their minds
whether or no they are to remain at the mercy
of their European rivals. News in time is
equal to millions Of dollars. Millions of dol
lass wsuIo pe5 FOR an American Atlantic cable.
Has the time not come when American capital
should find natural as well as profitable
investment in q fourth Atlantic cablep We
need 1t. We can afford it. 1t would pay, and
pay handsomely. Why, then, should we not
have it, and have it at Once2 The proprietOrs
of the Great Eastern are as willing to serve us
as any other. If we are to have fair play in
the mercantile world we must have an Allan
tic cable, owned and controlled by American
cauitalists
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smaller towns and in HE vlrai districts
Methodism has made the deepest impression.
To become Methodist the spner must pass
through peculiar ordeal. First, he is i'm
pressed with the magnitude of his sins, and
the danger and horrible punishment of ever
lasting fire; then he mourns his fallen cou-
dition on the altar set apart for mOurners he
weepa and walls and cries aloud for mercy to
the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of sinners, and to
the Father, and some of the brethren pray
with him; and next, from the depths of despair
a reaction comes. He feels that he is forgiven
by the Holy Ghost he springs to his feet and
shouts and weeps in the ecstacy of his joy,
and he is converted and added to the Church.
Sanctfcation follows as he feels more and
more strengthened in the faith. Now, IL the
philosophical reader will consider the Impress
ible character of the human mind in refer
ence to future state, and the almost universal
training of the people of the United States in
the general dogmas Of Christianity, and if he
will bring his mind into rapport with the pre-
vailing spirit of a Methodist camp meeting, he
will understand something Of the wonderful
effects in the conversion of sinners, from the
energetic and earnest preaching, exhorting,
singing, mourning and shouting for joy of
camp meeting vigorously kept up, day and
night, for week or ten days. And the larger
the gathering the more powerful and conta-
gious become the preaching, singing and pray
ing, and the more Astounding the healing show
ers of salvation. Hence the camp meeting has
become the favorite institution of the Metho-
dists in the conversion of sinners for like
great and resistless army it carries the strong
holds of Satan by moving upon the enemys
phenomena of religious ecstasy may be seen
among the dervishes of Mohammed; but the
genuine Methodist proves in his life that in his
conversion he has undergone new birth-a
most wonderful and enduring transformation
in character, beyond the reach of philosophy.
The wonderful spread of Methodism in this
country is due to the facts that it is a simple,
earnest, democratic and positive religion
that it's followers, with few exceptions, are
good men and women, and that in thousands
characters to the best and most amiable in
their everyday life. Hence the universal
respect which these camp meetings command,
notwithstanding the reports of evil tongues
concerning them for they have come to be
regarded as sure to reclaim and reform some
of the black sheep of the community. This
establishment at Round Lake, midway between
Troy and Saratoga Springs, is evidently iu-
tended as flank movement upon the fashion
able and the sporting world and as in this
direction the regenerating influences of reli-
gion are much needed, we hope that this flank
movement will be crowned with a glorious
success. In this hope we believe that even
the Holy Father at Rome, ii necessary, will
grant us large absolution, because we hold
that any religion is better than none, and
because the tree may be judged by its fruit.