The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-04-10
PARISH OF ST. LANDRY, La, SATURDAY, April, TO- 1862

d. yourself and all your friends in trouble
by persisting in keeping Mr.. Gwinl
: Marshal of Mississippi ~ The old gen
y eral at this allusion Strengthened up, hi
!, eve assumed some of its natural bright
ness, and he said, "When my mothe,
: fed with me and my brother from tht
oppression of the British, who held pos
3 session of North Carolina, and we settlec
in Tennessee, We were very, very poor
NY brother had long sickness (occa
stoned by wound received from Bri.
tish officer, for refusing to do some men.
ial service) and finally died. In the
midst of our distress and poverty. an old
Baptist minister called at our log cabin,
and spoke the first kind words my moth
er heard in her new home and this good
man continued to call and he finally
made our house his lodging place, and
continued to prefer it, when better ones
in the neighborhood were at his service.
Years rolled on, and this good man
died.-Well, sir" continued the general,
with great deal of feeling, "when the
news was brought me that was elected
President, put up my hands and ex-
claimed - Thank God for that, for it
will enable me to give the best office
under the Government to the son of the
old minister who was the friend of my
mother, and of me in my YOUTH and |
kept my promise. and, if it had been ne
cessary, would have sacrificed my office
before he should have been removed"
DIVISION OF Lam s,-Article 1872 of
the State Constitution says; Cali lands
sold in pursuance of decrees of courts
shall be divided into tracts of from ten
to fifty acres" The last Legislature pass
ed bill, which the Governor has signed,
to put into effect this constitutional arti-
Gle. 1t provides that the sheriff who is
charged with making seizure of lands
shall notify the parties interested to cause
the lands to be divided in lots of not less
than ten acres nor more than fifty and
furnish him with the plans Of division.
The party or parties seized will have the
right to designate the lots which will be
offered for sale. If the plans are not
furnished to the sheriff as above, he will
cause them to be made by the parish sur
veyor or make the division OF the pro-
perty himself.
In all other judicial sales, in cases of
partitions or SUGGESTIONS, the division
into lots is to be made by the parties in
terested, Or by arbitrators in case of dis
agreement between the parties. The
plans of the divisions are to be delivered
to the person making the sale ten days
before the day of sale. The lots are to
be sold separately. A tract of fifty acres
or less may be sold without being divid-
ed.
The law is only applicable to sales
made and based upon contracts entered
into after the date of the adoption of the
Constitution March 18th 1861 and to
the sales in SUGGESTIONS which were open
ed since the same date Iberville South.
EAsTER.-Easter is movable feast,
being the first Sunday after the full
moon which happens upon or next after
the twenty-frstday of March (the vernal
equinox). The period during which it can
occur extends from March 22d to April
25th-thirty-fve days, From this feast
the Christian passover-are calculated
all the other movable feasts, as we'll as
the fasts, observed by Christians.
Easter is go called from the Saxon
"Oster," to rise, being the day commemo-
rative of Christ's resurrection; or, as
others think, from the Teutonic goddess
Ostera, whose feast was celebrated early |
in sEring.
The egg at Easter is an emblem of the
rising up out Of the grave, in the same
manner as the chick, entombed as it were
in the egg, is in due time brought to life. |
As an emblem of the universe, the work |
of the Supreme Divinity, the egg had a
place in tho theology and philosophy of |
the Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks,
and ROmans:-1xs PyoeESheet.
See how six of the Southern States
are represented in the Senate Of the 41st
Congress Alabama-Willard Warner,
of Ohio, Geo. E. Spencer, of New York.
Arkansas-Alex. Mcdonald, of Illinois,
Benz T. Rice, of Maine. Florida
Thos. W. Osborn, of New York, AbDah
Gilbert Of Michigan. Louisiana-Wm.
Pitt Kellogg, of Illinois, John S. Harris
Of Pennsylvania. North Carolina-Jo-
seph c., Abbott, of New Hampshire.
South Carolina-Frederick A. Sawyer,
Of Massachusetts,.
In the House Arkansas-Logan 81.
Roots, of Illinois. Florida-Charles M.
Hamilton, OF Pennsylvania. NorthICar-
olina-C. L. Cobb. origin unknown,
David Heaton, of Ohio, John T. Dew
eese, of Indiana. South Carolina
Benjamin Franklin Whittemore, Of Mas
sachusetts, Christopher Columbus Bow
en-, of Rhode Island.
This is giving the Southern people
in the Federal Govern
nent.-lExchange.