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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14
liz APPORTIONMENT OF THE
SCHOOL FUND.


Opinion Of Attorney General Belden.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
Office State Superintendent of Public Education, Z
New Orleans, September 80. 1870 }
Hon. Simeon Belden, Attorney General OF Louisl
ana:
SIR-I beg leave to respectfully inclose
for your information, printed copies OF
opinions of George S. Lacey, Esq, and my.
self, on the question of apportionment OF
school funds already made by me as re-
quired by law, and to request your opinion,
as the legal adviser of State officers, us to
the question involved. namely: ITO whom
should the apportionm mt Of the school
fund in the hands OF the State Treasurer,
be made for this city, to the City Board. or
to the Ward District Boards Of the city.'
Very respectfully,
THOMAS w. CONWAY,
State Sunerntcndcnt OF Education.
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FOR RENT.

-op RrNT.-PLEAsANT AND COMFORTABLE
furnished rooms, without board, to rent at
prices varying from ten to fifty dollars per
month. Apply at No. LA St. Charles street, oolor
Of North. auo 1n-
TNOR RENT-THE GROUND FLOOR or STORE
II No 32h st. Charles street, opposite ST. CharieS
Hotel Apply to Edward Barnett, No. lS Royal
street, New Orleans. Sc"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14

MINDgN, October II.
There was splendid meeting Of Repub-
Iicans and Democrats at Homer to-day,
which was addressed by Governor War
moth and General George A. Sheridan.
Senator BIackman replied to these
speeches at considerable length, and Gov
ernor Warmoth rejoined in speech that
exposed the fallacies of Senator Blackman's
arguments, and produced profound i'm
preston Oh his hearers. y. ID. Is.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14
BAKERS.
-REDIIUM BAKERY.

PREMIUM BAKERY.
L O. M. RFDON, PROPRIETOR,
,31 Rousseau Street. Fourth D''''
This long established Bakery contRSfs T1RST e
cate its ngns 70 Ia wa awarded to Mr. Redon at
FOH u. ie10 hsine the third mark Of distinction
Of this kind y him IN ioTs sons xhsrevr
R:Dsei e:o Sdsa sttsntou given y nns oAsss S
Cracksm, etc., and ssxns - - q
notiOe a. 81 M & sssss.ss q -aaFist
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14

There is scarcely any vice, small o. great,
which some distinguished authority has nos
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WASHINGTON.
Court Martial for Trial of West Point
Cadets The President at Maryland

Cadets The President aS Maryland
State Fair.
WASHINGTON, October ia special
order of the War Department orders a court
martial to meet ON the twentieth instant.
at West Point, Of which General y. o.
Howard is to be president, to try cadets
James w. Smith (colored), john W. Wilson,
w. S. Davis, and George c. Hoyle. Smith
is the coIored cadet who, some time since,
preferred charges of ill-treatment.
The President, accompanied by Secretaries
Fish and Robeson and other distinguished
personages, accompanied by the marine
band, visited the State Fair, at Frederick,
Maryland, to-day, and will return Saturday.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14
FOR SALE.

A RARE CHANCE FOR SPECULA-
IA non.-For Sale.-Bar-roOm and restaurant
with fixtures. together with lease of building for
i've years. Rent moderate. Situated in the Sec
ond District, near Canal street. The bar-room and
restaurant is now in running order, with q good
custom. The building has q covered yerandah all
around. Terms moderate Apply to V. g. DeI4sle
at Frank Herron's Fancy Grocery Store, corner of
Canal and Basin, lower SIDE between the hours OF
9 and ii A. NJ. and and p. n, ocl3 6ts
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LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
TRIBUTES TO GENERAL LEE
His Last Illness and Peaceful Death
COURT MARTIAL OF WEST POINT CADETS
ANOTHER FIRE IN GALVESTON
WALL STREET FEVERIsHLY EXCITED
PARIS AWAITING AN ATTACK
WINTER CAMPAIGN QUITE CERTAIN
French Army Driven from Orleans
TEN THOUSAND PRISONERS TAKEN
Word "Peaceo Tabooed in Paris
DREADFUL STORM ON IRISH COAST
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatches.l
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14

EOR sALE.-A PLEASANT AND vALrA-
IL Bile property in Lewisburg two hours run from
New Orleans; cottage house. out-houses, wharf aud
bath-house and spacious grounds. Wiil be so!d
very cheap For price and terms apply to George
e. Penn ESQ.,, Attorney-at-Law, No. SO Exchange
Place room No. l8 second floor, or to Captain
Robert s. Kirk, Vaudeville, Louisiana, or to H. M;
Robinson Real Estate Agent. No "a Commercial
Place. No yellow fever was ever known TO prevali
At this place. jyl6tf
1NOR sALE-oN REASONABLE AND AC-
II cOmmodatng terms.-A splendid Sea Shore
RESIDENCE, situated in the town Of BILOXI, near
annlv IN G. DE FERRET; Auctioneer,
-faai3 Office so Royal street.
NOR SALE.-oNE OF THE FINEST SECTIONS
IL of unimproved Sugar Land in the state, IN the
parish of Ibervile 1t is about nine miles from the
Mississippi river, and that section OF county mas
never been overfiOwed. The Chattanooga Ralroao,
now in rapid process of construction in the lmme-
aiate vicinity between two and three mics IN
front of this land, while the Opeousas Railroad
masses its rear some six miles distant 1t is un,
5onbtedly the most valuable tract of unimproveG
Su gar Land in the State, and as to soil timber ana
locality it is unsurpassed. For particulars apply
70 H. n ROBINSON,
Real Estate Agent "a Commercial Place.
au13 If
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14
BY TELE E.GRAPH.
FROM CLAIBORNE PARISH
Exciting Political Discussions
SPEECHES OF wARMorH AND SHERIDAN
REPLY OF SENATOR BLACKMAN
BY GOVERNOR WARM0TH
Profound Impression Created

Especial Dispatch to the Republican,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14

ANOTHER FIRE IN GALVESTON
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14

COURT MARTIAL OF WEST POINT CADETS
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14

NOR SALE--ABOUT 10000 ACRES OF THE
Il best sugar lands, situated in the parishes OF
Lafourche St. James and Assumption, between the
Mississippi river and Bayou Lafourche, near Col
lege Point and Thibodaux, three miles from Nor
gau's New Orleans and Texas Railroad, and about
the same distance from the Chattanooga Railroad
The owner being anxious to dispose OF these lands
would sell the whole only portion at an ex-
tremey low figure.
For further particulars apply to ,
H. NJ. ROBINSON,
Real Estate Agent, ~ and "a Commercial Place.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14

WALL STREET rEvER1sHLY EXCITED
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14

Upon tho most liberal conditions, or for rent on
long lease, the following choice property:
/. A SUGAR PLANTATION, situated in the parish
of st. James, fifty -four miles above the city of New
Orleans at the vacherie road or landing. and meas
uring eighteen arpents and twentythree tcises
front the right bank of the Mississippi rIver, by
eighty arpents in depth, between parallel lines
bounded the upper side by the property of widow
Locoul and on the lower side by the vacherie road
This property, Que of the best in Louisiana made
nine hundred hogsheads of sugar in 1861 (see Bou-
chereaus crop statement, is in high state Of
cultivation and above overflow, having Immediate
" in it's rear the Vacheiie Ridge. Cane Seed to
plant one hundred and fifty arpents next year, one
hundred arpents first year rattoons, seventy ar
pents two years rattoons, and seventy arpents
three years rattoons, with Mules, Cattle Carts,
Plows. etc. and two thousand six hundred barrels
of Corn.
O. AN IMMENSE CYPRESS SWAMP, with one of
the best Steam Saw Mills, with Railroad Cars etc,
which could furnish Cross Ties by millions to the
New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad,
that will run nearly through this track Of land.
g. SEVERAL SECTIONS Of the very best Land
for Sugar Corn or Tobacco at the Vacherie settle
ment.
4. That most Splendid RESIDENCE known as the
Home Place." in front Of College Point, cont ain
ing nearly hundred superficial arpents,
with Of the largest and incest twostory Dwell
ings, with all modern improvements, and large
ground covered with Pecan trees. The Chattanoo-
ga Railroad will have q station at its lower limit
A. ROCHEREAU & CO.,
sel3 Sulm Nos. l6 and l8 st. Louis street
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WINTER CAMPAIGN QUITE CERTAIN

French Army Driven from Orleans
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PARIS AWAITING AN ATTACK
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TRIBUTES TO GENERAL LEE
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14

NOR SALE-LOTS ON BROADWAY, GREEN
oeth. Pine and Ferdinand streets Price $500 to
$500, according to location. Apply to
JOHN NJ. GOULD,
ae27 No. Magazine street.
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His Last Illness and Peaceful Death
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-14

Associated Press Dispatches
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Sse&se o. 1o 'fAaa.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-10
GENERAL NOTES.

That must be n sweet state OF society III
which fnaw murder fathers inlaw and in their
turn shotby brothersiplaw. Such events take great
deal of decacy and buy out OF the domestic relations
At Oseeola, Iowa, feE days ago, Col. Langdon was
killed, and Samuel Roberts suspected OF killing him
Upon this spicop of Langdon shot Roberts his
hrother-n-law. Private executions OF this kind are
adding mucht 20 their tdinial value. II we mast have
assassination. it is really quite important that the right
man should he assassinatod The authorities OfOsceola
with laudable rompness have held young LaRedon 20
bail In the eNOrhtant Cf $500 20 await the result o
his brother-in-law's wounds
Vermont seems to be fast reaching the New
York standard Of court manners In trial erore
aJustee at Newport, few days since, opposing o~se
addressed each other as raseas, lars, ahu' P0s''
jackasses; and finally big aud burly lawyer caught up
ponderous copy sf the Revised Statutes ana oeasoh
strated the attraction of gaytson by bringing .ne s @
down with imepse force upon the bald Uranium o. nus
antagonist This altogether new netnou vi cum,
muncatiRg knowledge Of the lSw nor "ts % III
out came his knife Os came the other nas coat Ahu
out his knife; AID the noor OF Sne - Sn w
gore n the Judge had not with immense presence w
mind fined gladators @6 each Shat soDered them
The New York correspondent of The Boston
Ornal speaks rather dispespectully of our new Tab
ernacle' wherein the Rev Mr. Tanadge is to minister
The sacred ed6ce ia decarad be queer looking
cerns but since IL does p differ inths respect from
of the sacred edoes throE ghout the land
we do not see why it should e selected for special
snub. IL is said 90 bear strihing resemblance TO
brewery circus aud ridnis7scboOL" What of that
We have been long accustomed 10 sacred eulnces
which bear a striking resemblance TO nothing and
which only suggest msaaity in the architect end builder
. We ar Sad ~ 20 g. nns Nv & dn an the coming Sep
tember hurricane, shall consider she lab 70
be great advance in ecclesiastical arGbtectun even II
it does also resemble, as NE are taV' an ESs'ern
nagOda"
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-06-15
$ersot STORY.

BY CLARA AUGUSTA.

BY CLARA AUGUSTA.
The shadows gathered and deepened
and single star cleaned through the pal
lid blue of the western sky The sunset
had been barren one, with no color OF
brilliancy, and the night was gosng to be
dark and dismal October nights are
sometimes, after the equinoctial storms
have stripped the trees of their gay Gov
ering, and strewn the earth with dead
leaves. And now these dead leaves rus
tied dolefully under Josephine Harkers
feet as she hurried along the aisIes of
Crofton Woods hurried along at random,
not knowing whittier the next step would
take her. The increasing darkness made
the wak extremely difficult, for she was
not following any path, and the ground
was strewn with fallen branches and half
decayed tree that had yielded up the
ghost years and years before.
She stopped at last and sat down. on q
moss-grown rock that almost barred her
progress in that direction
at is of no use to mince the matter"
she said, evincing considerable philosophy
under the circumstances, a am lost in
Crofton Woods And here I shall be OBJ
hged stay tonight, for no human being in
the town would have the courage to ven
ture within these shadows after sundown :
1t is strange how people will allow them
selves to be imposed upon by such absurd
stories ! Haunted Pshaw wonder if I
sholl see the ghost p
Josephine drew her light shawl closely
around her shoulders, and looked behind
her as though she fancied the phantom
which made Crofton Woods a stunned
place might be at hand.
1t was particularly uncomfortable there
and she began to shiver before long. and
wish, away down deep in her wilfal little
heart, that she had not come. Her muslin
dress was damp with the dew, and the lit
tie crochet apology of shawl she wore
was anything but sufficient protection
against the piercing night air
Josephine had been very naughty. She
Acknowledged it te herself nsw-sittina