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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

A Buffalo editor, reviewing the
cases OF numbers of crippled sol,
diers that have been turned out of
Office by the new administration,
thinks that General Grants epau-
lettes, whenever he dons his reg
imentals, would burn into shout
ders like branding-irons.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

Admiral Dahlgreen is soon to
be relieved from duty as head of
the naval ordinance bureau, and
will probably, be ordered to the
command of the navy yards.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

TENNESSEE SENATOR i'm case
of the election of a conservative
legislature in Tennessee, it is in
timated that Emmerson Ether
idge and Bailey Peyton may be
Johnson's rivals for the q. S.
Senatorship.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

The Detroit Post thinks that
our naval vessels, if we would
have them inspire terror, should
receive such names as Cholera
and Yellow Fever, Nitro Glycer-
inc, Susan B. Athony, Anna
Dickinson, etc.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

The Memphis and Little Rock
Railroad has been completed to
Fotest City beyond the st. Francis
River. s a4-@-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

The seven great evils of this
life are said to be standing col
lars, stove pipe hats, tight
boots, corsets, waterfalls, cross
women and mean whisky.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

1t is estimated that the damage
sustained annually by farmers
living in the White River bottom.
Indiana, by overfows caused by
damming that stream amounts
to over ten millions of dollars.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

A portion of the snow sheds Of
the Central Pacific Railroad, near
Emigrant Gap, have been destroy
ed by fire. ea A
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

Marion county bees persistently
refuse to indorse improved bee
hives patented by Yankees. Ere
qlent attempts to get swarms of
the disloyal insects into them have
failed. A
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

Borie is mourned at Washing
ton. He gave such nice dinners
and kept such good cigars.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07
From CARROLL PARTsH.-The
Reoerd@f the 10th inst. saws:

No planter in this parish
can beast of o promising corn
creep bat there is q general feel
ing Of satisfaction regarding the
cotton prospects.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

y
Of thousands of young men who
were gallant soldiers, and whose
fathers were wealthy, who went
to work after the surrender; many
of them have with their strong
right arm and their determined
wills repaired the losses Of the
war, in spite of disastrous seasons
and oppressive taxes. 1t is true
that others have failed to recuper-
ate, after years of toll, yet they
should remember that but compar-
atively few succeed in making
ln0ney, while all do we'll who
make an honest support.
So much for the unfortunate
and the deserving. We will now
direct our remarks to a class who
have signally failed to meet the
difficulties which confronted them
but on the contrary have relapsed
into condition of confirmed idle
ness and dissipation. There is no
hope for such men short reform,
and that change must be produced
by their innate moral principle
and their native self-respect. If
this foundation is undermined and
swept away, they cannot be inf1u
eUeed by pVeoept and example,
nor even by selfinterest. Just SO
seen as a maR calculates to get
meney without working for it,
and resorts to borrowing, begging
and gambling, there is but one
step to lead him to stealing and
even to highway robbery. How
many lnen have we in the South
without naeans, without credit,
bankrupt ia purse aud in reputa-
ton, with confirmed habits of
drinking and gambling, who per
sisbently pefuse to work; yet vain
~ Imagine that their former
Threads wall aid them, when they
show by their own actions that
they viii not aid themselves.
The forEaer prosperity of the
South, the disrepute into which
labor was broght by the institu-
tion of slavery, and the demorali-
Zatiea Produced by the war, all
these causes have conspired to
shape Che destinies of thousands,
and make them the ready instru
ments in perpetrating deeds Of
outrage, of robbery and murder
Waald that we could hide from
our gaze the horrid picture Of
human degradation, but it is i'm
possible. The spectres (they arc
live men, cross our path by night
and day. The victims of the bot
tie and 1heeard table intrude theil
unweleeme presence upon us ant
lexbOrt frOaa us aims. May W.
mot entertain the hope that whel
the influences which acted upor
f6hese rAen cease, that the rising
geReranon uiay learn habits of in
'dustrF and temperance; for thes,
are ways@f purity and pleasant
mess, and paths of peace ant
prOsRsrig-iCaddo Gazette.
"a REvTTENG DROWNING PER
%OWS.--,AS the bathing season ha,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07

a REvTENG DROWNING PER
S0SVs.--As the bathing season has
commenced, and persons are LA
BILE TO drowning several times this
;srlH0naeC, the following hints will
tell Aew to bring them to:
IL 1hs drowned person be a pol
iticsan, whisper in his ear that he
has 5ast been appointed to fat
.0fiiee.
afa married woman, softly tell
her that her husband is Just cut
TING af Fat with that woman she
hates. 8
Fit he a young man, tell him
conAdeEtially that another fellow
as;afbeT his sweetheart.
Gfa married man, slyly tell him
that q Sandstone young lady call
ed yesterday, and is to call again
tasdap at his Office on important
sIrivate business.
Hhe is a carpet-bagger, let hin
dr0wHE
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07
No Experiment.
AN ESTABLIsHED'FACT

AN ESTABLISHEDlFACT.
The Leading Life Company Of the Was
as 81 ssasi
THE ST. LOUIS MUTUAL,
Life Insurance Co
Begins the year'CJ annry 1st) 1869 Win
Assets, So, 619, 670 Ell
Increased over 81 ,OOO, 900 during the ~.
i year, after paving losses BY death AID rs'
450) and dividends 1865, 1866 and IG65 80
purchased Policies 1906 ,089, amounting h
sum total to $3.50, 539 =
Total losses by death paid since ofgani,..
ton OF the company, a5G -
$S66,25O! m
Total retarn dividends paid since OrSssa
cation Of the company, ft..l.. p
$4E4,2O9! -
Policies issued during the year 1885,
.0t 4,664! aa 4e
Total nun Der of Policies issued sineesa,
galization Of the Company, aa
l4,33O!
Assets and Reserve secure and aaaple. ao.
all contingencies.
Present Apnual Income Etb .6kF
-, 500, 600! Ala n
Our past success is guarantees fori,t.
future. Long lists of referenee arr easIlr
obtained, hut are no real guarantee "
safety and success The cheapest A.
surance is in tried and experienced Car
panies. .rtsss e
The higher per cent. of interest Nest. am,
our present annual income fever 20 SD KAN
will appeal largely to those desiring ASSN
ance as an advantage with us IN tie future
of their Policies.
ES Examine our plans and rates kefere
insuring elsewhere. a ,s,t,...8 T-1
strictly Mutual Company with the al.
ditional security Of a paid up guarantee
Capital of $l09, 900 paying its own DIVIDENDS
The most popular and advantageous fcrms
and favorable terms for Insurance present.
ed. A loan or credit Of one.third iif desired
of the premium given. Surplus DISTRIBUTED
| on the first of January each year, and div.
dends paid annually thereafter on the Con.
tributiOn Plan. .ggsse sa5
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29

PAIsoN BRowNLow ON THE SITUATION IN
TENNESSEE. PEARSON Brownlow, supposed to
be the most impacable of Southern radicals,
has become liberal, in favor Of the removal
of rebel disabilities. In scorching letter
against the radical Stokes party he says that
''the Senter. men Qiberal republicans) have
sent no emissaries to Washington :" that they
"are willing to trust the administration without
such missionary labor" and that president
Grant will be entirely, satisfied with Senter's
success, and will end In Senter and his friends
honest and earnest supporters Of his admins
tration," and that the Parson has no thought
of selling out to the rebels cor Of forming an
alliance offensive and defensive with Andrew
Johnson And yet the support Of Senter by
Andrew johnson has apparently given Stokes
the inside track at Washington-a circumstance
which makes the upshot Of this republican
feud In Tennessee exceedingly smoky.
although 1t is generally understood that Stokes
viii 10 sigusuy defestsd
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29

We publish to-day the particulars of an acct
dent which occurred on the Memphis and
Louisville Railroad yesterday. 1t was at
tended with frightful and fatal conse quences,
besides the wounding and manning of num-
Der of persons and the present disappearance
of one hundred thousand dollars in specie. A
train from New Orleans ran through bridge
trestle work short distance below Clarks-
vile and was precipitated into Bucks creek;
four persons being instantly killed, and quite
number of others more or less injured. The
cars took fire, and the entire train, with the
greater portion Of its contents, was consumed,
one sleeping car only remaining, and that in
very damaged condition. The safe containing
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars,
which was on the train at the time of the dis
aster, could not be found at the date of our
kilograms from the scene. Such fatalities are
very mournful. Can they be reduced in num-
Der or abated in their fearful consequences by
extra care and caution? Perhaps the carry
ing of money safe, and large amounts of specie
by railroad tempts the cupidity Of accident
operators. The robbers who worked on
the Ocean Bank would do anything In that
line
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29
Aplox MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL.

Tue Arion Vocal Society entertained thor friends
at summer nights FESTIVAL last evening at the Tor.
race Garden on Third avenue, between Fifty-eightA
and Fifty ninth streets. It was the third festival for
the season which this society had arranged and In
point of artistic perfection Of the vocal and instru
mental performances, az well as In view OF the very
large number of visIt0rs-there being about 3,0oo
persons on the gr0und-it was the most successful
one Of the series. The programme was ~ follows:-
March from Mendossohn, BY the orchestra, followed
by the overture TO Webers ''Oberon' that beautiful
ballad, "shoen Roth Traut' was then sung by the
Arion with great precision; potpourri from Pc.
trella's "Ione" BY the orchestra; night song from
Abt again by the chorus OF the Arion, followed BY
duo for horn and nute composed BY Haleyy and per-
1Cgmed IN mastery manner by Mcssrs Rietzcl ana
00walt Then came barcarolo nom Abercs opera
"Astorga," sung by the Ari0n, with orchestral &C.
compartment with skill and precision, eciting the
warnest applause from the audience. The perform
ances closed with comic operette 'Wer lszt dit ~
t'Wh0 Joins at the Mealr by Desanglcr In which
the vocal and dramatic powers OF the members OF
the Ari0n were again fav0rabv tested. Maestro
Carlo Bergman Welded the baton over chorus ana
orchestrs with his usual Skill and 1t was evidens
that both are worthy such leader. After the CON
cert and the oporette the young ladies' and gentle.
men. and many OF the older folks, retired 10 the
great hall, where dancing gayy INDUCED ia Til
as hour, lntcrspersed With extempors souab bI IN
AgLon chorus.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29
Yea Beust aud the Foreign Relations 81
Austria.

Yea Beust aud the Foreign Relations 81
Austria.
Baron Won Beust has received the Budget
Committee of the Hungarian delegation and
made speech which is richly suggestive. The
relations of Austria with France had, he said,
been on the best possible footing since Austria
relinquished the Italian territories, and the
interests and, intentions Of the two countries
we're identical. With regard to Turkey, Won
Beust said he no longer felt disposed to insist
on the programme of 1867. 1t was his opinion
that the Porte, while 1t might be advised,
should not be forced in the matter Of conces-
sions to the Christians. The relations with
Prussia he did not say were bad, but 1t was
unequivocaly stated that his efforts to estab-
lsh friendly relations with that Power had
been unsuccessful. All this, taken in connec-
ton with the triple alliance which we an
nounced yesterday, points to possible COM
plications which, at no distant day, may
imperil the peace of Europe. Won Beust did
not say anything about the relations Of Austria
with Italy, but il is not unreasonable to con-
clade that If matters are all right with France
they are all right with Italy. A triple
alliance with France has so often been spoken
of lately that we begin to think 1t may not be
without some foundation in fact. We do not
think 1t means war; but we do think that the
allies of France are so numerous and so power
full that it will be the last thing Bismarck will
do to force on a war with France. 1t is clear
as MONDAY that if war were now to break
out between France and Prussia the combat
ants would not be hindered in the initial stages
of the struggle. Prussia, we know, brought
the Italian war to close after the battle of
Villafranca, 1860. France had her revenge
when, in 1864, she compelled Prussia to stop
short in her victorious career, or, as Napoleon
himself put it, arrested the conqueror at the
gates of Vienna. Is it not so that the OPP.
portunity of Austria approaches and that in
the next war it may be her turn to fling the
sword of Brennas into the scale? The circle
will then be complete. Meanwhile we do not
think that war is so imminent as the complica-
tons are interesting.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29
The Vrceiand Case and the Spgngue.Craig
Case.

These two cases have this in common, that
neither of the defendants can be mistaken for
the original Of a Romance of Poor Young
Man." On the contrary, one Of them numbers
more than eighty years; fifty years, at least,
have elapsed since the other was legally an
infant and both are millionnaires. AS for
Sprague there is life in the old man yet; for,
although the round sum of one hundred thou
sand dollars which he was condemned to pay
Miss Craig was reduced to forty thousand, he
seems no less determined to resist to the last
the adverse decision of the courts than persist,
books, in writing the name Of the second per-
son in the Trinity with little G. The Jer
seyman is equally obstinate in opposing the
claims of Mrs. Vreeland to be his lawfully
welded wife; but either he or some injudicious
agent seems to have been tempted to out
Sprague Sprague, whose apparently outrageous
charges against Miss Craig have provoked so
much unfavorable comment on the part of the
press, and, if Della ellis sworn affidavit be
truthful, to resort to the most extraordinary, If
not successful, means for getting rid of an
honest aud announcements wrGuess. The details
of the abduction and constraint to which this
witness is alleged to have been subjected
were duly recorded in yesterdays HERALD.
1t will remain for Judge Cardozo, before whom
the Vreeland abandonment case will come up
on Monday next, to decide what bearing the
story of Della Gill may have on the facts in
relation to the disputed marriage. Both the
Vreeland case and the Sprague-Craig case
promise to afford the lovers of gossip with
abundant tea-table chat and the lawyers with o
rich harvest of fees No doubt Mrs. Vreeland
and her pretty daughters, as well as Miss
Craig, might spend more agreeably and
proftably the money which the venerable
defendants are bent on wasting upon the
LAWYERS
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29

We can readily conceive how notifying TO
an unprejudiced American citizen must be the
perusal Of such dispatches as those we have
recently been receiving from Washington.
Politicians no longer depend upon the will OF
The people for election. They visit the White
House or ;c..rs. to Long Branch s :or the
purpose of obtaining from the President an
assurance that their elevation to power and
office in their respective States will be accept
able TO him. In former times candidates cared
but little whether the Chief Magistrate looked
with favor upon their aspirations or not,
except so far as he might lend them the aid OF
such official patronage as was at his COM
mand. Now the people are of minor conside-
ration. Mr.. Walker, the Governor elect Of
Virginia, before and after the election was
careful to proclaim and announce on every
occasion that he was supporter of President
Grants administration. No sooner was it
known how the people had voted than he
rushed to Washington, there to learn whether
the powers that be approved of the expressed
will of the people. So, again, now we have
radicals and conservatives from Mississippi. or
representing that State, focking to Washing
ton and to Long Branch, there to ascertain
upon which side the light Of President Grants
countenance will fall. And why this seeking
for Executive approval? Is it not because
things have come to such pass that Virginia
and Mississippi will be denied participation in
the government of the country unless they
subscribe and submit to all the dogmas and
so-called principles of most of the leaders Of
the radical partyp
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29

THE Stock MARKRT.-The fluctuations in
some of the leading stocks which form the
staple Of commodities dealt in by the Wall
street fraternity have been unusually violent
Of late-remarkably 80 for the summer season,
when there used to be general suspension of
active operations. A rise or fall of ten per
cent day is nothing unusual nowadays. One
successful Spectator, who is supposed to have
gathered his sagacity while on the floor Of
Congress, Is said to have made half million
on Central within the past month.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29
Tue Sing SING r g. osesr.es's

ODae.
J,,E
2.uge Cochrane, in his recent address to the
Grand Jury of Westchester county, took occa-
sion TO alluie to the frequent escape of pri-
soners from Sing Sing Prison, and made few
forcible and opposite remarks on that subject
He complained, and with reason, that the safe
custody of criminals there is by no means
practically guaranteed, since we find that
within the last few months very large num-
Der Of such criminals has effected an escape,
many Of them still remaining at large, and
he impressed upon the Grand Jury the neces-
sity of their making all the inquiry within
their power as to the cause Of this as well as
strikes and mutinies within that prison. Now,
all this is substantially what we have often ex-
pressed a wish to see done, and what we trust
will yet be done in one way or another. The
HERALD has more than once called for an in
vestigation on this whole subject of prison
management, or rather Encouragement, sug-
costing, however, that the Governor himself
should make it and afterwards embody the re-
suit in a report to be laid before the next
Legislature. We have seen nothing as yet to
make us alter our view as to the expediency
of this suggestion.
In all questions of this nature il must be
borne in mind that it is extremely difficult
without thorough Investigation to arrive at the
real truth, buried as 1t is under a mass of con-
Trajectory statements. The officials of the
far Iay <bo of tl,o
escape Of the prisoners upon the want of
sufficient number of guards to prevent this
happening occasionally; and as to the mu-
TIMES, they allege that lax state of discipline
had been suffered to grow up under the former
administration, which, when they attempted
10 reform, the convicts broke out into revolt,
hoping thereby to compel them to relax their
efforts at improvement. Now, all this may or
may not be the case, but it is only fair to state
that other and different reasons have been
assigned, some Of them-as Judge Cochrane
admits -"refectng iniurously upon the Off
GERS of the prison." While, therefore, nothing
definite has as yet been ascertained on this
subject, sufficient ground has at least been
broken, and doubts enough raised to justify an
immediate and thorough Investigation. And
while on this subject Of prison discipline we
should not forget that Sing Sing is by no
means the only prison where reform seems
necessary. We would instance as case in
point the Auburn Prison, where frauds have
been perpetrated through the prisoners being
in colleague with outside spectators. Surely
such state of things is disgracefnl. All this
subject, indeed, of prison discipline and man
agement seems to need thorough overhaul
ing. AS far as society is concerned the worst
circumstance connected with this escape of
prisoners from Sing Sing is that the escaped
criminals for the most part belong to the most
desperate class-men doubly outlaws, with
the ability to plan and the wickedness to per-
petrate almost any atrocity.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29

LATEST FROM Our MINISTER TO FRANCE
His presence at the marriage of Carl Formes
in Germany. Such are our pleasant relations
with France. So much for the abandonment
by Napoleon Of bis grand Mexican idea. Our
Minister to Paris is lucky man.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29

THE GRAND ULTIMArUM OF WoMEN's
RIeHTs-The wearing of the breeches. This
is the latest pronunciamiento of Mrs. Cady
Stanton. The wearing Of the breeches will
settle everything. Very well; and yet it is
said by naturalists that the hen in learning to
crow does not become q rooster. Any how,
let US have this question settled; let these
women have their rights and .'let JUS have
peace" IA.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29
SCARCITY OF FEMALE o0mssTrs n cINcu MATT.

CINCINNATI July 10, 1869.
TO rHR EDITOR OF TN. HsRALD;-
There ls q scarcity OF cooks and chambermads In
this city and snvrons. We think 800 TO 500 women
would readily nnd employment with families In and
near the CITY, at wages varying from three dollars to
four dollars per week. should there be IN your CITY
your COmmlsslOners Of Emlgrasion could 40 good
serytoe TO the Door women and many Families In ana
OeAs eur civ ~ dlrectlDg ~ vomon u w CIV.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-29
Tho Carlists In Spain.

The latest kilograms from Spain, by way Of
Paris, announce that Don Carlos has ordered
a cessation of the insurrectionary movement in
his behalf, causing thereby feeling of dis
enlargement among his partisans. The coun-
try remains excited and disturbed, although
very many of the more active pariioir"-t. ;~
the recent ''risings" are suing for pardon.
:. sh..p se,eeI night occurred at La Mancha
on Tuesday. Many Carlists have been ar
rested, while many others have fed
TO the mountains after being defeated
ia the field. 1t does not appear, after
all, as if the Carlists, backed up
as they are by the Church party, are likely
to win any great successes in Spain. The
attempts which they have made have been
feeble, and the spirit of the progressive party
in Spain is Enthusiastically against them. It is
now many years since Espartero helped to put
down the Carlist rebellion which broke out on
the occasion Of the accession Of Queen Isa-
bella in 1888. The old veteran still loves his
country more than his life, and although he
no longer fights for the daughter of Ferdinand
VII. he is willing yet, so says the Atlantic
cable, to unsheathe his sword against his
ancient enemies Espartero's sympathy with
the party now in power makes Carlst sue
cess impossible, although such disturbances
produce very demoralizing consequences at
the moment.