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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-09-30

We recommend the shove bonds as In our opinion
a safe, reliable aud highly profitable investment
The above loans free from government taxation.
We arc au horize to sell these leans in Wilmington
and offer them to our friends.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-09-30

Commanding Department Of Delaware.
s.A MAoALLIsrEn, Assistant Adit. Gen.
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JOHN HANcoCK.-No man has proba.
bly, been more overrated than John Han
cock. He was rich, lived ostentiously,
and very generous, but he was vain AMI
unserupulous. Almost everybody with
whom he traded was obliged to sue him.
My father told me that one could seldom
pass the Courthouse in Boston, during
term time, without hearing the crier Of
the court proclaim from the doorsteps,
" His Excelleney John Hancock, come
into court and make answer 20 A. b., or
you will be defaulted.' He would pre-
sent to a clergyman, for examle, On cleo.
ton day.a suit Of clothes. and the taylor
would have to sue the Governor for pay
ment-and SO in numerous other instan-
ces. His,widow, Mme.. Scott, who mar.
ried Capt. Scott. master of one Of Cover
nor Hancoek's London packets, told me
in my youth, that on one occasion, the
Governor invited the whole Senate Of Mas
saehusetts to breakfast with him without
giving her any notice. She said, ave
have III milk for the The coffee Of 50
many persons" and he replied. "Send
the servants. out to milk che COWS on the
Common" It was the custom then for
the inhabitants to send their COWS to
crop the grass on the public Common
But Hancock was not the only man IN
public life who in those days dishonored
bis position. The late Judge William
Gay informed me that while he Was
a boy no heard Chancellor, Livingston
say to his father !: " Jay what set Of ras.
cals there were in the Old Congress "
~, .~n -4-t w. Leu's Tappae.
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: The FAX Payer Meeting.

This is the day fixed for the meeting Of
the taxpayers. A report is expected from
the investigating committee. Until that
report is made and published, we abstain
from comment. Our object heretofore has
been to exonerate the Police Jury from the
erroneous charge Of i~nterposing any obsta-
cles to the examination of their books and
papers. In this, we were supported by
che printed correspondence. We also made
such references to the constitution Of
this body, to its published proceedings, and
to ito endorsement by popular elections, as
to. Destroy in the minds Of dispassionase
men, the effect Of premature partisan as
PENSIONS This much vas due to q repre-
sentative body; and this, as IN independent
journal, we claimed for the Police Jury.
We shall now await the report Of the com
mittee, confident that it can only be, in
another form, what has been previously
laid before the public. We understand
in advance that the accounts o fthe Treasu-
rer, the Hon. Thomas G. Anderson. will
show o clean bill of health,-and SO the
committee will report. =
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The Foreign Reviews and Black.
T~ woods Magazine.

We inadvertently omitted to acknowledge
the RECEIPT Of the British Quarterly Reviews,
ss republished by the Leonard Scott Pub
fishing Company, New York, for the month
Of April, and Blackwood's Magazine for
June. These periodicals are d small IL
brary in themselves. The subjects dis.
eussed are those which engage the cult
vated minds Of the literary and scientific
world. No reader should be without them,
who desires to keep pace with the current
Of modern literature, art, and s~cience, They
enable us to form not only" some in
telligent estimate Of the literature Of our
period, but also to select what is necessary
to be read, out Of the thousands of publica-
tions, issuing annually from the press Of
Europe and America. The terms of these
republications, place them within every
ones reach. For Blackwood, and any one
ofths Reviews, o.. The four Reviews Sl2.
bIaekNeod aud the four Reviews, $15.
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&Aae AseSeFeer Caught and TTans
pFssosae@ for Larceny.

The soldier. whose desssrtion created such
q sensation In camp last week, was arrested
oy one oil our c'ti2enk4 At the time OF his
arrest he was mounted on a stolen horse.
When delivered to the military officer in.
Command, be was immediately turned over
20 csvh snthorstea, 70 DO tried for lar
osny; ~whereupon be was placed In iail
under process Of law. The course Of Capt.
Coxe was commsndable. 40 it was in recoe-
milton Of the supremacy Of the law. The
civil authorities are not only able to enforce
order and quiet in the community, but can
Ut the same time aid the military in the
u~,sintsnarcs Of necessary dieipline.
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Road OverseerS.

In an article last week, on the subject
of our Public Roads," We called upon the
Police Jury to appoint Road Overseers.
1t seems we were in error, all the overseers
for the different roads having been previously
appointed. We trust that whatever pow
er is vested in these Overseers under the
Law, will be exercised during the summer
and fall, in order that our citizens may be
able to use the reads advantageoasly during
the coming winter, when they will be SO
much needed.
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TEYM

The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sighed, til woman smiled
So thought our friend, the Hon. Joseph
Morgan, who stole a march on his old
friends Wednesday evening last, and in
hymen's rosy bowers, ceased to sigh, in the
smiles Of one ofSt. Landry's fairest daught-
ers. 1t was naughty however in "Joe'
to have kept the matter SC secret, when he
had 80 many friends who were ready to
congratulate him upon his good fortune, and
to wish him, as wedo. in his new relations,
q long life of uninterrupted pleasure.
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he OPELOUSASJ0URNAL
LA !:
Saturday, July Gath, 1869.
Estimated Value OF the Cotton
and Game Crop Of %. L0m6ry--
Other PPOdvctiOnS~~Uiv ersined
Resources

With a continued favorable season, it is
estimated, from the information furnished
from different portions Of the parish, that
tho cotton crop will yield about twenty
thousand bales, and the zane crop about
two thousand hogsheads Of sugar. This
statement, it in true, is approximative, and
depends upon favoring weather and the
absence Of the caterpillar From the latter
source, our planters now a%pp7ehend but lit.
danger. Surprising the above estimate to
be correct and putting cotton ct q reason
able figure, the cotton crop will yield about
two millions Of dollars, and the cane crop
about two hundred and fifty thousand.
There will be on abundance Of corn and
fodder. and our resources in hay are mex
haustible. The expenses Of our planters
are also becoming less every year, more at
,ention being paid to the raising and pro-
production of those things, which were
formerly paid for out Of the products Of the
sales of our great staples. This will mate.
rially enhance the nett profits Of the
planter.
But St. Landry is not exclusively a cane
aud cotton growing region. a large rev.
emu il derived fl ON other sources, viz:
from cattle, horses, hides, leather, wool,
moss, poultry and eggs, lumber dc. Some
of our lagest fortunes have been invested in
wild cattle and horses, for which our Yves
tern prairies are so admirably adapted. We
have no means, at present, Of estimating
the profit derivablc from this source, but
will do so in some future article. We e2.
port some four or five thousand hides annu.
allv. worth from twenty to twenty-five
thousand dollars. We know Of several
persons who have made fortunes, from the
traffic in the small matter Of poultry and
eggs. We have generally two steamboats,,
and sometimes three, plying between
Washington and New Orleans, and these
carry, during the business season, as many
40 O thousand dozen eggs and q. hundred
dozen poultry, per trip, or once o week. At
the ruling New>O leans prices, the poultry
and eggs exported from the parish yield a
return Of not less than one hundred thousand
toplars.
These statistics are interesting as show
lug the diversified resources DIST. Landry.
It is not only a planting cou3try, bat
admirably. adapted for oil the purposes Of
small farms, and stock.raising. With the
new facilities for transportation and trsv.
e pwhich will soon be,afforded by railroad,
this country will be more noted for it's
splendid vineyards, and orchards, and gar
dens and meadows, than it now is for its large
platations Of cotton and can St Landry
can be made, and such it must become, the
paradise OF small farmers.
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Fever.

The N. o. Republican Of the Goth inst,
says it was current on the streets, the day
previous, that there was a case of Yellow
Fever in the Second District. This may be
but the beginning of the end. We had
hoped that the quarantine would have Ger
tainly excluded the disease, believing that
it never originates in New Orleans. We
see nc mention of the circumstance in the
other papers; and as it is only mentioned
as a rurnor, we trust it may turn out to be
without real foundation.
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IN q short f;ma will ho nrose

In a short time will be presented to
the public of this city the first portion
of q work which will be known as "Sto-
ries of the Crescent City" The part,
as published, will embrace over a hun
bred closely printed octave pages, and
will consist Of stories of the magazine
length, partly purely immaginative, but
relying for their interest upon local COL
roing scenery and characters. A part,
too, of the stories-which are altogether
some thirty or forty in number-will be
found to be the authentic chronicles Of
the most interesting tragedies, duels and
episodes of one sort and aaother that have
ever happened in this.city.
The work is intended to be the first
Of q series which will embrace contribu-
tions from several Of the oldest and best
informed journalists engaged upon the
daily press. The second and third parts
of the work will be forthcoming in case
the frstomeets with remunerative sales.
The work merits encouragement from
the public. Almost all of our twenty
FIVE thousand school children know Of
the pequod Indians. but scrlcely any
one knows that Sejour, Gottschalk, Nor
ply, Menken, Capt. Read Livingston,
and hosts of others worth mentioning,
ever lived in this city. However this
may be, it is not for the good of the pub
lie TO convince those who devote their
lives to letters or art, that their best
course is to get away from this city, and
never return to it. We wish to build up
a local literature, of which the public
should be justly proud, and to that end
invite attention and encouragement to
the proposed work.-N o. Times.
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Fire i'm OpelOuSas.

At about three o'clock Thursday morn
ing, our citizens were aroused from their
slumbers, by the unusual alarm of fire-bells.
The house Of our fellow townsman, Mr..
Onkzirne A. Guidry, who is now absent on
official business was consumed by FIRE,
which is supposed to have been communioa-
ted from the adjoining kitchen. Fortunate
ly the house was in IN isolated position, or
the flames would have extended. We are
sadly in need Of an engine and fire company.
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Deaths During the Week.

There have been three interments at and
near Opelousas during the past week Of
children who died in the neighborhood.
The fourth son tFredric) Of our esteemed
%neighbor, COL Fred. B. Brand, died, and
was buried on the plantation where his
father resides. Died also a son of Mr..
Lassiter, Allen } aged about 12 years, and
a nephew Of Capt. Ford's, whose name we
have been unable to learn.
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Look to your Town Taxes.

We see from 8 notice Of the Town Asses
sor in the Courier, that the roll, showing
the assessment Of Town taxes for the year
1869, is deposited vt the office of the Mayor,
where it will remain until the Goth INST,
subject to corrections. As tomorrow is the
last day, and as the Office Of tho Mayor will
be closed for the ordinary purposes Of bust
ness, our citizens must remember that this
is the last day. Those who DO not make
the necessary corrections today cannot
subsequently, complain.
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What cousd be done with In
creased Labor.

New England is all agog and alarmed
by the threatened irruption of the Chi
nese into the South, and well they may
be. With a few million of industrious
Chinese in the valley of the Mississippi,
to cultivate, pick and spin cotton what
would become of their vast and ex-
pensive factories2 On this magnificent
river, with it's thousands of miles of nav
igation ; with the cheapest fuel and pro-
visions on the continent; with the raw
staple so convenient at hand. and with
such efficient artisans and cheap labor,
we should do in this valley the cotton
spinning for the whole world Thus we
should treble or quadrup!e the value of
our exported cotton, and reverse that
anomalous condition which has 80 long
existed. by which this great product of
our country is made more profitable to
the people Of New England than to those
of the South.
With ten millions OF Cinnamon we
would achieve this great revolution not
only this, but others guile az startling.
W., in this State of Louisiana, would
produce all the sugar required for con-
sumption in the United States and in
Europe. Before the war we used to
raise very nearly one-half the consump-
ton of this country. And yet the sur.
face of the sugar lands in this State had
been barely scratched and cultivated in
patches, compared with the area succep.
tible of cultivation There were millions
of rich swamp lands which needed but
little labor and capital to put them in
cultivable condition. MI. John Slldell
then owned 10000 acres, and Mr.. w.
S. Pike 10000 acres of these valuable
lands Mr.. Burnside, the largest plan.
ter in the State, made seven thousand
hog>heads the year before the war, and
his preparations had been made to swell
the number to 10000 hogsheads. With
adequate labor, this gentleman alone,
could raise from the land he owns, and
pays taxes on, at least twenty thousand
hogsheads. This could be done with
twenty-five hundred Or three thousand
good, reliable laborers. An addition Of
three or four hundred thousand Chinise
to our population would secure to US a
sugar product of a million of ~hogsheads,
worth one hundred and fifty millions of
dollars, all clear, leaving the molasses
to defray the expense Of the cultivation:
Now these results cannot be accomplished
in an other section of the United States,
for the plain reason that Providence has
given US the climate and soil which are
alone adapted to the culture of the com.
modities whichthe whole world demands
What is produced from the soil in the
Northern States may be, and is, pro.
duced all over the void, ard the supply
has already reached and begins to exceed
the demand, so as to render labor and
capital employed therein unremunerative.
The future greatness, growth and wealth
of the country depend upon the deveI'
opment of the vast resources of the South
There is no surer mode Of Fastening
that development than by the introduc'
ton Of the cheap, efficient and reliable
labor Of the Uhinese.-N. O. Times.
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Public sale.

WILL offer for sale, at my shop near Mr..
Il Posey's Drug Store, on WEDNESDAY,,
til 4th day ofAugust, 1869, / new top bug.
eye 2 new no top buggics, 2 new light top
hacks, 2 light no top hacks, ! American buggy
horse, ! Creole horse, furniture consisting of
2 beds and bedding, bureau, secretaire, ar.
MORE, settec, chairs, books. &C.. lumber,
tools, iron, bolts, and many other things too
numerous to mentiou.
ANY Of these articles can be purchased pr.
or to the day of sale.
Terms-CASH.
s. +. CLARK.
Onelousas, July Oath, 1869,
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Subscription to the Journal IS 81 a year
in advance. We dislike to dun a subscri-
Der for the small sum of two dollars; and
we have learned from experience that many
Of them forget they W the same. For tho
convenience, therefore, of all parties we re-
quire payment in advance.
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at the CashOtic Church.

We. have only time on going to press, to
say that the Concert at the Catholic
Church, on Thursday night, was a decided
success. The music was exquisite. There
was a very large audience, and every one
was delighted.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL

Especial to the Cincinnati Commercial
Secretary Fish's Little Scheme
WASHINGTON. July 16.-I have positive
information that Secretary Fish thoroughly
indorses, and, in fact, originated, the scheme
for the solution of the Cuban question,
mentioned in these dispatches last night,
which provides that the Cubans shall buy
the island for themselves, from Spain, and
that the United States shall indorse the
bonds for the purchase money, OF. otherwise
assist The Cubans in raising the necessary
funds.
Spain not to have her KrOza-CBads
I also have equally positive information
that President Grant declared to a promi-
nent Cuban sympathiser, q few days since,
his intention not to allow the iron.ciads
built for Spain, in this country, to SAL.
His exact words I am unable to give, but,
in effect, he promised that the iron-clads
should not be used against the revolutionists
Therefore it is probable that as soon as he
returns from Long Branch something more
definitely favorable to the Cubans than is
now expected will take place.
A Cuban view of tine Case.
Ihe Cub&ns argue that the probability
Of complicating the position assumed by
our Government in it's Alabama negotia-
tons with England, BY granting them bel
ligerent rights, will be evaded, and they
evidently have assurances of an active de-
monstration in their favor. They maintain
that the responsibility from the Alabama
d predations arises from the fact that sub.
sequent TO the Queens proclamation, grant
ing belligerent rights to the rebels, and
declaring strict neutrality between the
United States and the JEFF Davis. Govern
ment allowed the Alabama and other plriva-
teers to be built and sailed from their ports,
in direct violation Of the terms of that
proclamation. t4%i Fss2 s~" go .G1@f
sam Domingo 20 be Absorbed
The annexation Of the Island Of San DO.
.rn'ngo to she Fnited States is admitted 10
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Oh
Parish Court, st. Landry-No. 1888
Estate OF Divine LanglOis.
THAS. H. HOLLIER of, the parish of St.
" Landry, Administrator Of the Estate of
Divine Langlois. deceased, late of said parish,
having fled a final Tableau Of the distribu-
ton Of the funds Of said Estate. accompanied
by his petition praying for the h~omologation
of the same; and whereas, the prayer of said
petition has been granted by an order Of the
Court, bearing date July goth, 1869; =,
Now therefore, notice is hereby gwen to all
persons interested to make opposition to said
Tableau in writing, at my Office in the town
oil Opelousas, within the time required by law,
why said Tableau should not be homologated
and confirmed, and the Administrator dis
charged from all further liability and his
bond Cancelled.
JOS. D. RICHARD, Clerk.
Opelousas, July "a GO.
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Dromgoole & Cos Buchu sells at one dollar.
Dromgoole & Co.'S Buchu p'eases everybody.
For urinary diseases, use Dromgoole 4 Cos
Buchu.
Dromgoole & Co.'S Buchu cures gravel and
gleet.
Sold by C.. MAYO.
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The Indians.

ST.. LOUIS, july 19-Omaha reports say
Gen. Carr's recent victory was more com
plete than first stated. Four hundred hor-
ses and mules, a large quantity Of powder,
five tons OF dried buffalo meat and nine
hundred dollars in money were captured.
The money was given to Mrs. Weizel, a
white mi 'recaptured, This was the
same body of Indians that fought Forsvthe
last year at Helena. Montana. The dis
patch says Major Eastman and another man
were attacked and wounded recently a few
miles from Fort Benton. The citizens, in
retaliation, killed three Indians who were
in town,
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Female Suffrage i'm England.

LONDON, July l9.-The first general
meeting Of the Woman Franchise Society
was held yesterday. Among the notablcs
present were the Junior Lord Of the Treas
ury, Henry Fawcett, member Of Parlia-
ment for Brighton, J...Stuart Mill, Lord
Houghton, Right Hon. Jas. Stansfeld, Rev,
Charles Kingsley, auhtor, and Louis Blanc,
author also. Many ladies were present;
addresses were delivered b. many we'll
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The l.. S. PUB. CO. also publish so, sp Of Edin.
uER's Cube, by Henry sstpAs ~ Yale Col
burgh, and the late J; L: NOTICE Zoo pages, and
iege. 2 vols, Royal Octave
numerous Engravings. -bv Mail, post
Price ). for the ~" vo'"'D'
maid. -
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Dissaaes peculiar to fonaalss. cured with
T. B.
II. r. d. cures spppressions and irregular
arAions. sa1s@@ &4 *e5s*t @a%%4'%+~@ 80
The ssturE Of life. made pheasant with
EE.Rsa Eo Gs1l a5tl1t@s pAz z~-t2&l2al
EFT. D. il. the STANDARD female regulator.
- Ill., T., Said BY c. MAYO. .
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For cholera and cholera morbus, use r D. r.
No mother should fail to procure r. d. r.
Where r. D. r. is known, nothing else is
used. 80. 81.
Crying babies love r. D. K.
,r.f. Sold by C. MAYO.
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The Macon Postmaster.

MACON, Ga, July l9.-At the opening
of the United States Commissioners Court
this morning, the Commissioner announced
as follows: Information has reached this
Court through the honorable District At
torney, that other and important witnesses
for the defence will appear, and the court
having subpenaed these witnesses and
wishing justice in the matter, this court
will adjourn till tomorrow morning, at 10
o'clock.