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RULES FOR YOUNG TRADESMEN.

RULES FOh 4 OONG IhADESMEN.
l. Never be idle. If you have nothing to do,
go through your books and turn the oughts in
your debtors accounts, into skies and nines
You may thus make wet day as profitable as q
fine one. If you only add halfpenny to each
of twenty-four accounts, you have done some
thing.
2. If your customer be solvent, never make
up the so-called weekly book until you are COM
PEELED to do so. Remember the older a bill, the
more difficult it is to detect over-charge
3. You must have bad debts. II is due to your
family that you should not incur losses. There
fore, judiciously distribute the amount you ex-
pect to lose over the bills of those who pay, but
take long credit. Society is bound to be self
supporting.
4. Stand well with all the servants in the
families of your customers. Those persons have
much in their power. They will, if you secure
their goodwill, even risk the anger of their en-
ployers by fetching things from your shop in
stead of that to which they were sent. Money
is best, but presents from your stock are always
welcome and you can often set them down in
the bills
s. If customer leaves you for one who deals
on easier terms, you should take every oppor-
tunity of saying, with compassionate express
sion, to other customers, that you are very
Mr.. rs going to cheaper market, a1d that
you earnestly hope he is not in much difficulty.
G. Some housekeepers preserve receipts. 1t
is not often safe to make q second demand for
paid bill; but we cannot be too thoughtful, and
it is well TO ascertain from servants what are the
habits of their employers in this respect.
z. Always be civil, even to excess. If you
observe these rules, you win soon ride when
most of your late customers are walking, and
thenyou can splash them, and have yourrevenge.
But meantime be humility itself, except to your
shopmen. No faculty should be lost for want of
exercise; and in your behavior to them you can
practise your dignity.
8. If the females of your family are fond OF
dress, keep them out of the sight of your female
customers. Especially do SO, if your family
dresses gracefully, and looks we'll A profitable
account has heen often closed because trades
mans pretty wife was seen to advantage in the
same bonnet as that of an ugly customer.
Do not hang these Rules up In your shop, but
paste them inside your desk, and read them
every Sunday morning, before going into your
accOunts
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The Piighted One.

You ask me if love you,
And cannot answer ''Yes !"
Tho there's none i hold above you.
And my hearts in sore distress.
There are words one cannot utter.
And ''yes" is one of those;
Yet it is not that / stutter,
Or speak slightly through the nose.
can VOW that | adore you,
With my truest, fondest breath;
But the lisp you've heard before, you
win allow, can say but "Yeth! I"
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To Editors and Commentators.
accounts.

1t is generally supposed that there is no mem
tion of tobacco in Shakespeare. But can any
one doubt to what he is referring when he says
Cn one of his sonnets):-
sand keep invention in q noted weed?"
Surely he must mean Improvements in the manu-
factllre of cigars.
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A LIkeIy story, InJeed

Brown came home with black eye. To his
wife's inquiries he replied that, having asked
himself question, he received such a saucy
answer that he had been obliged to resent it,
His wife did not believe him, and got new
dress that week.
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All. WIIv

1t is stated, that Miss Bateman is now
part owner of nourishing silk mill in New
Jersey. If'she had come into the property
ere-Leah she might she might never have ap-
Peared on the stage. All, why didn't she2
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dered him liable to a smart electric shock; and
parents who yield to none In their love for their
children and their admiration of electricity,
might be forced to fly from the former for fear
of the effects of the latter.
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NUMBER CCLvIII.

ODE TO A HOLLOW TOOTH.
Oh, my double-grinders;
Shame it is to view
OF front-teeth reminders,
But no ode to youl
Welcome, grinders double
In our backmost jaw,
Source of pain and trouble,
Anguish, rage, and awe
Tired we are of chewing
Free from any ache
What the cooks been stewing-
Pudding, jelly, cake;
Swell our flushing faces,
Screw our nerves up, pray
Till we're left no traces
OF our yesterday:
All our features smother
Lump them into one,
Till fellows mother
Wouldn't know her son.
Fill our days with anguish
Fill our nights with grief;
Till our senses languish
Signing for relief.
Through each nerve and sinew
Shoot the frequent pang,
Till the power that's in you
Fervently we dang!
Hark the bell for dinner
Bless we fondly it;
Since, as I'm a sinner,
We can't touch q bit.
CLEAN, ye toosey-pooseys,
Coral lips below
What of you the use is
/ can't eat, you know
Clean, ye toosey-pooseys,
While l sit aghast,
Mutterlng abuses
OF the vain repast.
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TO Free Trnders.

Never attempt TO run cargo in dirty weathe
Wait till the coast is clear
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So He noes

The wretch who can stand in pair of slipper
worked for him by his wife, and scold her, is
brute, who deserves to have the gout in boil
feet.
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The ingenuity of our great agricultural imple-
ment makers is extraordinary. One of them
has lately invented machine for sowing wild
oats, which is expected to have an immense sale.
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Very Vulgar sell.

very tuIgur sell.
''You ought not to come to our dance in
boots with nails in EN-"
~ haven't"
'Then you've hal your toes cut off,"
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"Not for Josephus!" as that worthy historian
observed playfully, when some funny Jews at
tempted to cram him with stories for his own
work
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Medieval Painting on VeiIum.
Julia, aged 80, rouged.
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PRICE OF PASSAGE
in gold Cncluding wne)
,,,...c.,, TO BREsr OR HAvRE,

FIRST Cabin ;$l4o Second Cabin. Ss5
TO PARIS,
49, Nncluding railway tickets, furnished on board
These steamers do not carry steerage passen GERS
Medical attendance free of charge
American travellers going returning from the con-
unento Europe by taking the steamers OF this line avoid
risks from transit by English railways
crossing the channel besides trouble and ar
pense GHORGE MACKENZIE, Agent.
No. 68 BROADWAY, New York.
For passage in Philadelphia apply at Adams Express
Company, to III II, LEA II
lNs No. $40 CHESTNUT Street.
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= ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE

zSh~ ONL1 DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE
&zsfIE2fS' THE GENERAL TRANSATLANTIC
ExsrsssgSz COMPANIES MAIL STEAMSHIPS
BREST 49, 'HAA'" al
Ihe splendid new vessels this favorite route for the
Saturday. - '0i' e''i'
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Sinking slowly.

Diseases that progress rapidly to a eri.
sis are not the only ones to be dreaded.
Canker or dry, rot does not blast a tree as
suddenly as a stroke Of lightning, but IN
less arrested, it destroys it as certainly and
in 1ike manner chronic debility, although 1t
does not kill with the swiftness of yellow
fever, is as sure to sap the springs of life
eventually as any acute disease, if not
checked by invigorating medication. There
is something inexpressly touching in the
spectacle Of premature decay. Languor,
rallor. femaciation, depression of spirits,
and a distaste for exertion, are its ordina-
~ symptoms, and they should be prompt
" met BY tonic treatment. The best invig-
GRANT and exhiIarant that can be admins
tered in a case of this kind is Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. The stimulating princi-
pie of the preparation rouses the dormant
energies of the system, and the Strengthening
and regulating properties give q permanent
thus brought into play. The falling appe-
tite is r~e-awakened, the process of digestion.
and assimilation are quickened, the quality
of the blood is improved, the seeretIons be-
come more natural, and every organ that
contributes to the nourishment of the body
undergoes salutary change. BY these
means the repair of the physical structure
is affected and its health and yigor restored.
In no class of diseases has the benificent
operation or the Bitters been more marked
and striking than 10 those characterized by
general debility and nervous prostration.
Ladies affected with these ailments find in
this most wholesome Of all tones and cor.
receives the safest and surest means Of re-
lief. It is strong restore and powerless
to injure. Such Is the uniform testimony
OF = clouds of Witnesses
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Rome by the French troops, has been com
pleted. Italy guarantees order in Rome.

Rome by the French troops, has been com
pleted. Italy guarantees order in Rome.
Trouble at Grand Junction.
MEMPHIS, Aug, IA Dispatch has just
been received by the Chief of Police IRON
Grand junction, stating. that 200 armed
negroes were marching on that place to
release some prisoners, and asking for as
s%istance.
A negro Desperate gained Chas. Wilson,
attempted to kill his wife, at Buntyns'
Station, yesterday. The woman flew to
the house of her employer, Col. A. j. Mar.
tin, and was followed by the negro. Mrs.
Martin attempted to save her, when the
fend shot her, ipficting a severe and
probably fatal wodhd, and then shot his
wife through the body and fled. Citizens
are securing the woods in search of him.
Later accounts from Grand Junction
state that the trouble grew out of the kill
ing Of a negro by a white man. The man
was arrested. Negroes fiocked to Grand
Junction for the purpose of lynching him
but, through the exertions Of Rev. Mr..
Bryant, they were quoted, but still insist
on an immediate trial.
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State Ca6etship.

There is at present a vacancy for a State
Cadetship in. this parish. By referring to
the statute for the qualifications Of a State
beneficiary, it will be seen that a certain
degree of proficiency in a. few studies, and
the utter inability of parents or guardians
to educate their boys at their own expense,
are the principal requirements. Beyond
this, the State cadet, on entering, takes up
on himself a binding obligation, that at the
close of his collegiate course he will teach
two wears in the earish which sent him
out. Failing to comply with this reasona'
BILE requirement, a tax is levied upon all his
earnings afterwards, until the full sum Of
tuition, with, we believe, the accumulated
interest, is collected for the benefit of the
State Institution he had sought to defraud
One or two, we understand, were guilty o
this dereliction but the consequences were
not such as to tempt any other beneficiary
to follow their example.
The inability Of the parents to educatf
their sons, save by the assistance OF the
State, should guide the action of the Police
Jury in its vote on this question. Ths
sooner the vacancy is filled the better fol
the parish. The young men from here re
ceived high honors at the close of the tern
ending the last Of June, and We will b'
happy to see St. Landry as fifty represented
by other youths.
The State Institute is most ably conduct
ed. The corps of professors is equal, if no
superior, to that of any other educationa
establishment in the United States.
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Sherifes Sale.
fiauche " Witt No. 1913,
vs.. , District Court,
f1ehly L. Uariandet al kSt. Landry.

pSauche ~ Wilt No: 1o9ls,
Henry L. Garlandet al lst. Lan Ipvi''
pY VIRTUE of writ of seizure and sale
~ to me directed by the Honorable EIGHTH
Judicial District Court of the State of Louisi.
ana, in and for the Parish of St. Landry, in
the above entitled cause, 1 will proceed to sell
at public auction, at the Courthouse in the
town of Opelousas, on SATURDAY the Sd
day OF September, 1870, at II o'clock a. m,
the following tracts OF land situated in the
Parish of st Landry aforesaid, to-wit:
1.-The northwest quarter of the east half
of the southwest quarter of section No. 9, the
fractional east half of the east half of section
No q, and the lot No. l and the southwest
quarter ofSthe northeast quarteaof section %,
containing tour hundred and fifty acres and
92llOO Of an acre.
1.-The northeast quarter, the east half of
the northwest quarter. the south half and
north east quarter of southwest quarter, and
the north half of southeast quarter of section
4, and the southeast quarter of the northwest
quarter, and the northeast quarter of the
northeast quarter of section 8, containing
tive hundred and eleven acres and 7OI1OO Of
an acre. y
3-The west half IF the west BALI of section
No. 3, containing one hundred and ffty-seyen
acres and 60L1OO of an acre.
4-The southeast quarter of section No. "a.
All those lands are situated in the Parish Of
St. Landry, in township three south of range
two east, and in township two soutH of range
two east; also, all the rights, titles and preten-
tons to a Sawmill established on the Bayou
Chlcot of the Parish of St. Landry,D with all
the machinery, buildings and Improvements
attached to. the said sawmill.
5-A certain tract of land also situated in
the Parish Of St. Landry, being the north half
of the northeast quarter of section No 9, of
the south half CT the southeast quarter of Sec
ton No. A, in township No.3 south of range
Mo- east, containing one hundred and fifty
nine and 7lLl00 acres.
6-The northeast quarter of northwest
quarter of section 10, same township and ranss
containing forty&acres and G0klOO of an acre.
1.-The north west quarter of section TO-
and the northeast quarter op the northwest
quarter dissection No. 3, township three. south
range two east.
Seized in the above suit.
Terms-Four thousand five hundred dollars
with interest thereon at eight per cent per an
mum from the 9TH day of January 1868 up to
the date of sale, to be paid cash; and the sur
plus of adj Indication to be payable on the 7th
of January, 1869.
J.. NJ. THOMPSON, Sheriff.
iuly 30
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SH ERIFF SALE.
State of Louisiana.

DISTRICT COURT. ST. LANDRY, No. L>VoT
William j. II. Bently Us. Mary Me-
Camitt, 10 her owa right and as nat
uraL tutras, ct ais.
. virtue of a writ Of feri facias issued out
ID of the Hon. Dist. Court in and for the
Parish of St. Landry, in the above entitled
cause, and to me directed. / will proceed to
sell at public auction, to the last and highest
bidder, at the Courthouse in the town of Ope-
lousas, on SATURDAY the Sd day of Sep
TENDER, 1870, commencing at Ii O'Clock a. M,
isfy said writ, to-wit:
The undivided half of a certain plantation
with all the buildings and improvements there
tanning 1923 and 75Il00 acres, of which 1402
superficial acres were acquired by Wilson w.
Jenkins from C. A. Gravemberg by act passed
before James G.. Parkinson, Recorder for St
Mary, on the Sd Of July 1858, and two hum
bred and forty-one 23Il0O acres purchased by
Mrs. Jenkins from the State of Louisiana on
the Goth of July 1859, as per patent NO. 6942.
being the southeast quarter section and the
east half of the southwest quarter OF section
80 in township 5 south of range~6 east; and
81 52I1OO acres ofland purchased by the said
Mrs. Jenkins from the State of Louisiana,
January 10th 1861, as per patent No. $3.50,
and being the west half of the south east
quarter of section % in township No. S south
of range No. S east-the larger tract purchas-
ed july Sd 1858, bounded as follows, viz:
north bylands of Jacob Bihmgand Ebert CAN'T,
south by land of Joseph Melaneon and lands
in possession of Donat Leblanc, east by pub
lie lands and land belonging to Mrs. Flavius
Thomnson and Emile Rl0uant. and west bY
lands OF Mrs. Flavius Thompson and Joseph
Melancon.s
Excepted from the above 70 acres Of land
situated on the east side of the Bayou sackett,
being part of the northeast quarter of section
81, 7. 5, south of range 5 east. being transfer
red to E. CAN'T by act Of exchange.
|Terms-Cash
- J.. M. THOMPSON, Sheriff.
July 80
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INcoaE Tax FoR 1s70.--A recent Wash
.ington dispatch says: "Beyond question,
shelevy of Eve per cent. on incomes for
the current year has been Illegal. How
TO yet back such taxes as have been thus
paid is altogether a difficult matter. The
head Of the internal Revenue Bureau has
soaaemnly decided that money once cot into
his possession, however illegally obtained,
cannot be refunded without special au-
thority Of Congress"
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state of

PARISH COURT, ST. LANDRY-No. 3157
Estate Of asa 4. Shropshire, deceased,
VINCENT BOAGNI, of the parish of St.
' Landry, Administrator Of the Estate of
Asa A. Shropshire, deceased, having fled f
nal tableau of distribution of the funds of said
Estate, accompanied by his petition prayins
for the homologation of the same:
And whereas the prayer of SAID petition
has been granted by an order of court, bear
ing date August LIST, 1870;
Now, thel efore notice is hereby given to
all persons interested to make opposition to
said tableau in writing at my office in the town
OF Opelousas, within the time required by law,
why the said tableau should not be homologa-
ted and confirmed.
JOS. D. RICHARD. Clerk.
August 6, 1870.
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Communicated.
The Conventions of August 18th.

We are informed that notices have been
posted up in particular localities of this
Parish, calling a convention OF the Demo
cratic party to select candidates for office
| at the coming election and for other pur
poses.
Attached to these notices are the sigma
lures of two respectable gentlemen as
President and Secretary of the Democratic
Parish Executive Committee. When OF
where they obtained their appointment we
are unable to state We had a Parish
committee regularly appointed, which fair
ly enough represented the different wings
of the Democratic party; but these two
gentlemen were not of the number and so
completely are the public kept in the
dark, that we cannot say whether they
are new members of the old committee, or
whether the old committee is dissolved and
a new one substituted, and if so by what
authority it was done.
This call for q convention has never been
published in our Parish newspaper, whose
columns are open to all neither have we
heard of any of these notices being posted
anywhere within ten miles of the town Of
'Opelousas and Washington. So MYSTERIOUS
are these movements j. ii H.. ..-
The State Central Executive Committee,
assuming every voter of this Parish to be a
Democrat, gives US sixteen delegates to the
convention in September next-equivalent
to forty-eight hundred votes. What then
are we to think Of those MYSTERIOUS gentle
men who assume to be the sole repositories
of genuine Democratic principles, and who
veil their proceedings in such profound Sc.
ereey The whole Parish has a right to
know who compose this committee, whence
came their authority, and what they ARE
about.
We do not see how Democrats who have
any e If.respect, and who have not been
initiated into the MYSTERIES of this inside
ring can support its candidates Or delegates.
Under no circumstances will we do SO.
We denounee the whole thing as contra
ry to Democratic usage and precedent.
These gentlemen and their friends are
fatally bent on splitting, the vote of this
Parish, and their conduct is in striking
contrast with that of the State Central
Committee who, in their address to the
Democratic and conservative voters of the
State, say. a74 o
In order therefore to redeem our State.
and release ourselves from the grasp OF
inefficient and corrupt men, it becomes US
TO unite as one man, without regard to
race, color or previous condition, and hurl
them from place and power, and fill the
offices with honest men and patriots. The
interests of both white and black men are
identical in this struggle"
Since the foregoing was put in type a
notice without signature has been posted
in Opelousas, calling on the Democracy Of
this precinct for a meeting to be held
August 9th, to elect delegates to the con-
~vsntion of August 18th. This has not been
done until the remote precincts of the
Parish have been manipulated to the salts
faction of the ring here. SO as to ensure the
packing of the convention of August 18th,
to subserve their purposes.
MANY VOTERS.
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JOINT RESOLUTION

NO. L i OOIlNA LAWN
Submitting an Amendment to the Constitu.
ton of the State, to the effect that Article
Fifty of the Constitution shall be abrogated
and stricken out.
SECTION ]. Be 1t resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives. Of the State Of
Louisiana, in General Assembly ~conUened,
two-thirds of the members elected to each
House agreeing thereto, That at the general
election for members to the General Assem-
bly,, which shall take place in November,
eighteen hundred and seventy, an amendment
to the constitution of the State shall be sub
mitted to the qualified electors Of the State
for their ratification or rejection, in the words
following: 49,,
ARTICLE fifty of the constitution, which
reads as follows: The Governor shall be IN
| eligible for the succeeding four years after
the expiration of the time for which he shall
have been elected shall be abrogated and
stricken out of the constitution OF the State"
Sec. 2. Be 1t further r~esot0ed, ETC., That
at the said general election the said proposed
amendment to the constitution of the State
| shall be submitted to the qualified voters of
the State for their ratification or rejection, in
the manner following, to-wit: Each voter
shall have printed or written on a ticket the
words j" Abrogate and stricken out article
ifsy of the constitution or the words Re
tain article fifty of the contribution" Upon
the closing of the polls the tickets shall be
counted, the returns made and the resuI. de-
clared in the same manner and form OF return
ing the elections for State officers prescribed
by the general laws relative to elections.
SEC. 8. Be it further r~esotoed, etc., That
this ioint resolution shall take effect from and
after its passage.
(signed) MORTIMER CARR,
Sneaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) OSCAR j.. DUNN' .
Lieutenant Governor and President Of
the Senate.
Approved March Is. 1870
(Signed) Fl. G. WARMOTH,
Governor Of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy *.
GEO. E. BOvEE,
"a : Secretary of State
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enforcement of the FOurte entIl
and Fifteenth Amendme nss.

Among the Washington dispatches Of
July Goth, to the New Orleans press, We
find the following: - g
The Attorney General, in view of cleo.
tons to take place during the coming fall,
has prepared md will, in a day or two,
issue the following circular to United
States district attorneys, marshals, and
commissioners
aYour attention is called to an act pass
ed at the last session of Congress entitled
an act for the enforcement Of the fourteenth
and fifteenth articles of the constitution, a
copy of which is herewith sent to you.
The ninth section makes it your special
duty to institute proceedings against all
violators Of the act. You win, therefore,
whenever you receive from any source
credible information that this law has been
violated, take prompt measures for the
arrest and effectual prosecution of the
guilty party.
A. r. AKERMAN, Atty. Gen."