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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31
BELLEVUE, La,
Saturday, December 81, 1870
December 81, 1S7o-A Retro
spect.

The last day Of the year is
on US. Let us retrospect a lit
tie and see what we have done.
this year, and wherein we have
succeeded Or failed, so that we
may lay down correct rules for
our guidance during the en-
suing twelve month.
Our parish has been visited
by sickness, from miasm, of
greater duration and more fatal
character than has been its lot
for many years. 1t becomes us
all, therefore, to observe strict
" the rules of health, in order
to avoid the winter and spring
sickness that is pretty sure to
attack constitutions partially
broken up.
The business of nine-tenths
of our people is farming, and
in this we have just been mode
rately successful.
n great many may feel III
clined to complain ofthe excess
'sive rains and the grass worm
and cotton worm. But if they
will take the trouble to inquire
they will find that the dligent
man, the man who did his duty
to his crop regardless of sea-
sons, has succeeded.
Again, the price of cotton is
the source of never ending
complaint. But if the farmer
had been out of debt, had plant.
ed sufficiently of corn and DO
',atoes, had had a stock of cat
tie, sheep and hogs, az every
one who makes farming q pro-
fession ought to have, the low
price of cotton would have eff
fected him but little.
Let him resolve, and carry
out the resolution, to live as
much within himself as posi-
BILE, to cease specializing, to
plant less and cultivate better.
to settle himself permanently, |
so that he may be enabled to
surround himself with orchards
and other comforts, and to raise |
stock.
The planter is a species of
farmer, his operations being ON
a larger scale and being of a
more speculative character. In
addition to the ills that the
farmer had to complain of, he
las had the want of sufficient
abOr, and the want of power
o control that that he had. A
still pay their laborers
y q share of the crop. Others
re dividing their plantations
ITO small farms and letting to
'nants. The best plan of the {
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

The wife of u carpet bag reve-
nue. officer, of South Carolina,
who has left her, advertises him
as "a good stumpt speaker who
can edit a nusepater deliver lect.
ures and teach school and is quito
a friend to the colored peple" and
ga sasser eternal levnaw."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

The New York World says,
"Having had the hero of Port
Fisher ON war, it but remains for
Mr.. Boutwell, to give us lecture
on finance, and Mr., Grant one on
statecraft to make considerable
addition to our humorous literc>
turc."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

The New Orleans Times says
that ''whilst the German women
are raising the means of subsis-
tence for the whole people, our
african ladies' are idling away in
their cabins, and cannot be en-
ticed into the cotton fields, even
by the liberal wages of one dollar
a day.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

The New York Sun (RadicaD
AYERS that the Radical party, as
represented by tie administra,
ton, is accommodating for itself u
wealth of contempt unprecedent,
ed in the history Of political par
ties.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

The American Citizen, Canton.
says the new cotton factory at
that place will be ready to com.
mence the manufacture of bats
and wadding by the 1st of Febru
airy.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

The first sermon by a presbytt.
rian minister in Memphis was dt.
livered in that city in 1924, by
Rev. Murdoch Mcmillan, of North
Carolina.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

could not be kept up. A Re-
publican paper here, though
getting the public printing,
would need subscribers, for the
members Of that party here do
not belong to the reading pub
lie. So we fear our occupation
is nearly gone.
Asto other occupations, they
have thriven no better than the
farmer. The mechanic has
got high wages, but the work
has only been job work. The
tanning business, for which our
parish is SO we'll suited, has
rather diminished than increus-
ed, bat for the ensuing year
we have better hopes.
The last year has proven the
great benefit Of the closing of
Benoit'S bayou, and conse-
Guently may lead to the policy
of closing all outgoing bayous
Of Red River, and straighten-
ing the channel, in order to re-
claim the bottom lands-a pol
icy we have long advocated.
The acquisition of the maps
and field notes Of the lands in
this parish will be of great
value. In addition to this, we
should get certificates of all the
entries both in United States
and State land Offices.
Some feeble attempts have
been made to get the Alabama
lands put in market, but with
out success. A Receiver will
likely be got at Natchitoches
this winter, and then those
lands ought to be in a condi-
ton for Homestead entry. A
survey of the shallow lake
lands ought also to be made,
and they put in market.
The want of ward officers
has caused much trouble dur
ing the year, and it is to be
hoped enough feeling for the
public good is generally en-
tertained to have every office
filled.
So much for the past. AS to
our prospects, they are bright
enough. With the Railroads
projected through our parish
built, the low swamp reclaimed,
the whole unsold lands subject
ed to Homestead entry, Bod
eau and our other lakes and
streams hridged, and good
roads kept up, we would be in
a condition to invite inmigra-
tion, and to enjoy more of the
comforts and pleasures of life
than we do.
We O;lbliSh tn-6av IN aytroot
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

The Richmond Wing explains
that General Malone gets only
5000 salary as President of tie
various consolidated railroads ex.
tending from Norfolk, Va, to
Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

Workmen are engaged upon the
last pier Of the bridge over the
Mississippi at Keokuk. The iron
work is also progressing rapidly.
One by one these river bridges
approach completion.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

A Kentucky paper declares that
a party OF emigrants have passed
through, ''with thirty loose horses
and women, children and dogs
without number" Rather a bad
lot--or is il the punctuation?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

The printer wasn't mile out Of
the way when he made the drug.
glst's sign read, "Physicians' pre-
scriptions carefully confounded."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

We publish to-day an extract
from the general proposals for
carrying the mails applicable
to Bossier, and hope that the
contracts may be taken and
carried out. Want of mail ia
cilities has nightly injured the
prosperity of our section since
the war. Let our people see
to it that Postmasters are APP
pointed for the vacant Offices
before time for beginning of
contracts.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31


The prodigal son, says an ex
change, would have stood higher
III our estimation had he never
gone home to his father. He
sheuld, arter spending his sub
stance in riotous living, have
turned and shifted for himself, in
stead of going home to bum on
tho old mau. Better have stuck
to herding hogs till he had raised
q stake; then bought a rancho and
set up in business.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

the circumstances surrounding
each particular planter. His
business needs his unremitting
care and study. His presence
is imperative. He need not ex-
pect to make planting profita-
ble and visit the Niagara falls
and the old countries every
summer. He must put up
with labor as he finds it, and
not expect any Improvement
during his lifetime.
Besides farming, many other
trades and occupations are
needed i'll a community in or
der that it may thrive. In the
present condition ofour parish,
the most important of these is
milling. During this year that
business has succeeded pretty
well. Some of the mills have
had gins attached, and for each
to be universally the case
woald vastly benefit both mill
Ter and small farmer. Several
parts of the parish are needing
mills, as wards six and seven,
between the bayous, and doubt
less they would be profitable
there. It makes us sick at
heart to pass extensive clear
ings, where the finest kind of
timber has been deadened and
thus forever lost as lumber to
the community. How greatly
more beneficial would it be
that the miller could use the
timber before the farmer uses
the land.
The want of schools has been
a serious drawback toour pros
perity, and we are glad to see
that the people are waking up
to the necessity for them, and
are making preparations to
have them. Every settlement
with q dozen white children
should have a school, even if
the bare rudiments were only
taught. The planters should
see to it that schools were pro-
yided for the colored, if for no
other purpose than to get back
to our parish the school taxes
we have paid. For some years
at least we need never expect
any school money for the
whites, and therefore, must de-
pend entirely on our own re-
sources. Again, we should |
show that party which is en-
deavoring to force mixed
schools us, that the thing is inn
possible, and that we can sup
port both schools, for ourselves
from our private purses, and
for the colored by taxes. As
an evidence that colored
schools could succeed in our
parish, we can cite to the fact
that one has been carried on at
Fillmore for five or six months
past, without any State aid,
op1 with No D,,,>oc;t;
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

The Alexandria Democrat Of
the 9TH announces the death OF
John Kelso, Parish Judge of Ra.
pides.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31
Employers and Employees.

The Journal of Commerce, in
referringto notions among "young
men of the period" in regard to
the reciprocal dnties and obliga-
tions between employers and EN-
ployeeS, has the following sensi-
bic remarks:
"The servant, man or woman,
who begins negotiation for ser
vice by inquiring what privileges
are attached to the situation, and
whose energy is spent chiefly in
stipulations, and reservations, and
conditions designed to lessen the
burdens of the place, will not be
found worth the hiring. The
clerk whose last place was too
hard for HIM has a poor introduc-
ton to new sphere of duty
There is only one spirit that ever
achieves a great success. The
man who seeks only how to make
himself most useful, whose aim it
is to render himself indispensable
to his employer, whose whole be-
ing is animated with the purpose
to fill the largest possible place in
the walk assigned to him, has in
the exhibition OF that spirit the
guarantee Of success. lie COM
mandS the situation, and shall
walk in the light of prosperity all
his days. On the other hand,
the man who accepts the unwhOl,
some advice of the demagogue,
and seeks only how little he may
render his place, and not lose his
employment altogether, is unfit
for service, and as soon as a SUI
pernumerary is on the list, he be.
comes disengaged as the least
valuable to his employers. The
man who is afraid OF doing too
much is near akin to him who
seeks to do nothing, and was be-
got in the same family; they are
neither of them in the remotest
degree a blood relation of the man
whose Willingness too everything
possible to his touch places him
at the head of the active list
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31
Southern Cotton Factories.

The Southern people are dis
playing a commendable spirit
in building np manufacturing
establishments. This is espe-
cially true in regard to the
manufacture Of cotton. All
over the South wer hear of cot
ton factories springing up, and
in a few years we shall be able
to sell the North the manufac-
tured article instead of the raw
material. Georgia, already
ahead of the other Southern
Statesin manufactures, is push
ing vigorously on, and at no
distant day will surpass Massa-
chusetts in the extent of her
cotton manufactures. Macon
is building one Of the largest
cotton factories in the world,
with all the latest improve
ments in machinery, and con-
structed on the most approved
model. The engine, which is
being constructedin New York,
is of $50 horse power, and the
internal machinery will arrive
from England in a short time.
The Macon Telegraph and Mes
senger, commenting on this
mammoth, says
owe need twenty more just
like it, and will have them be-
fore our boys are grown men.
1t always occurred to us, as it
does to almost any man, the
most ridiculous practice imagi-
nable to ship our raw cotton
to New England, and even to
Great Britain, there have it
made into goods, and go there
and buy it back. In this ope-
ration we pay for freight both
ways, pay factors, pay manu-
facturers, pay clerks, pay book
keepers. pay profit, pay loss,
and indeed pay off almost two
thirds of the household and
kitchen expenses Of these peo-
pie, for they make their living
off rs in this pay. We should
turn every bale of cotton raised
in Georgia into goods, and sell
them instead of the original
fibre. Instead of getting only
fifty millions annually for our
cotton, we would receive about
four hundred millions. 1t is
time We had quit working for
other people and pitch in for
ourselves. We could, in ten or
fifteen years, be the richest
people on the face Of the earth,
and as that sort of thing always
commands respect, we would |.
be respectable accordingly.
Waiting is, no doubt. to
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

Waiting is, no doubt, to
those participating, a delicious
excitement, but to the locker
on, who sees the arm of another
embracing the girl he adores,
the sensation is not very COM
Portable. Henry Englesfield
has thus expressed the latter's
feelings:
What the grill adore by another en-
braced!
What! tho balm Of her breath shall another
man taste
What pressed in the whirl by anothers
bold knee
What! painting reclined on another than
me
Sir! she's yours. You have brushed from
the grape its soft blue
From the rosebud you We shaken the tremu.
lous dew;
What you've touched you may take. Pretty
Walter, adieu!"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

To be let-Young swells faces
they are generally vacant.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-12-31

10 deductions from the above rates to
agents except commissions
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-03-19
NOTES.

Russia warns passenger coach
es by the heat OF the locomotive.
There are twenty "mad stones
in Kentucky,
Egyptian women have asked
permission to appear unveiled in
public.
Renting houses by auction has
been introduced into Boston.
A Schenectady, n. Y, firm
wants to exchange 500 veloci.
pedes for Confederate bonds.
During the present year, no less
than five murders, or attempts to
murder have been the average
daily record in the city of New
York.
Asiatic cholrea is raging at
Moscow, in its worst form, PeO.
pie are suddenly attacked By the
epidemic while walking in the
streets, and there have been sew.
eral cases in which death was in
stantaneOus.
Francis p. Blair, Sen, and his
wife, who have been married over
sixty years, rode on horseback,
on Thursday last, from Washing
ton to Silver Springs, distant tif
teen miles, and returned to Wash
ington without dismounting.
The Frankfort (Ky.) Yeomar
of Saturday says General Leslie
Combs, the oldest man in tn,
world, was in town last week
looking as young and hearty a
he did some three hundred ant
fifty years ago, when he first CAM
to this country with his frien'
and schoolmate, Christopher Co
lumbus. ..' ...
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-03-19

HERE is rather q sharp thing
from the Partisan Life, and we
don't think there was any harm
done -
A certain young lady, Of lively
propensities was taken Ill; she
was a charming creature, of buzz
ON carriage, and fond of the
good things of this life; balls,
parties, theatres, dinners, wine
parties and the like absorbed a
fair portion Of her time. But the
young lady was above all re-
prOach, despite her fondness for
pleasure, and SANDER had never
tinted her fair name, and In a
short time her life was to be link.
ed with that Of & young man Of
prominence in Paris. Well, as
we said, the young lady fell an
we'll one day. The family doctor
was sent for-an old grey headed
rascal, who had more fun in his
little finger than you would and
in a joke book. ~
Your case is a peculiar one,
mademoiselle," he said, grsvely,
"and l shall be compelled 20
bleed you"
"Mon dieu"
"Fear nothing l suppose the
present is as COED an opportunity
as we shall haye.p
"Oh, certainly; at once, and
have done with it."
"MademOiselle."
doctor"
"You are unmarriedW
"YOu knowI am why do yor
ask 2" s @.lt.. .r1
~ am glad you told me So
this little knife" and he drew
small lancet from a morocco case
"is to Be used on virgins only"
'Indeed 7" ~ 7 '''- 'a -'o
"Exactly p were it to be uset
on any other than such, the re
suit would be immediate deathP
"GOOd HeavensR' ,dI iet l.,
"Yes, MademOiselle this othel
one is the case is to be used o.
married person only; we're IT I
be misapplied the result would b
equally dangerous. Now, Maiden
= oiselle, bare your arm and we vi
/ proceed isa ' 1r
"Ah DoctOrP' . g1, .79s
''MademOiselle n m .gs.
"Kou had perhaps better n
the otheE littls kaifer -,
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-03-19

acter. We therefore anticipate,
that the action Of this Legislature
will be In the main such IS can not
be strenuously objected to. There
Are, as 3 consequence, many bad
and incompetent men in 1t,
but the majority in each house,
We sincerely believe to be com
posed OF men, who will look to
the interest Of the State. Of
course upon questions looking to
political mntters purely, they will
be true to their party.
We are glad to know that such
is true of this Legislature. The
Democratic members are sadly in
the minority and In themselves
could accomplish nothing and
it can only be that by har.
mOnizing with the more con
servative of the Radical mem
bers, they can carry any meas.
ures. The whole system VI
laws must necessarily be remoL-
eled and will require many months
Of patient search and labor In
the main, as We have said, we be-
lieve that large number Of the
members Of the Legislature are
anxious to do what they conceive
best for the true interests of the
State. But while We make this
admission we shall not cease to
closely scrutinize their acts aud
when we tind they have prOsti'
tuted their high power we shall
not hesitate to denounce it. We
are compelled to submit to theiI
legislation for awhile and so lonl
as they pass good laws we shal
not atempt by unjust criticism tC
put any clOy or bar upon thei
acts.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-03-19

THg TIMEs ExrgA.-Our neigh
Dor of Mulberry street. fared
up again, regarding the prema-
ture publication ofthe Governor s
Inaugural Address,
We say premature publication
because the chief editor of this
paper had an understanding with
the senior editor of the Times,
that no extra should be issued
and that the message should ap
pear in the regular edition
We lay the blame OF no one s
door, but attribute it to q misun'
derstauding.
Our readers will see that th'
reason ,Chy the HERALD did no
issue the message in an extra wa
simply because We would not vic
late what we considered a pledge
That the Times did violate sucI
an understanding as we meutiOi
was owing 70 the fact Of a misun
ierstanding in that Office.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-03-19
ID these daHa Nhen the present

IH these days when the present
Father of his Country is celebra'
ted for his extravaganza and the
magniAcenCe of his State dinners,
the following article from the
New York Tribune may be of in
terest In comparing the present
with original habits and customs
IAN original letter just pub
lished for the first time, gives
some interesting glimpses OF the
habits and opinions of the Father
of his Country. While the Fed.
eral City was building, the Legis-
lature Of Pennsylvania voted the
President = house, hoping per
haps to keep the seat Of govern.
mcnt in Philadelphia. The house
formerly occupied as the Univer.
sity of Pennsylvania was accord
ingly built for that purpose. But
as soon as Gen. Washington saw
its dimensions. and a good while
before II was finished, he let it be
known that he would not occupy
it-that he certainly should not
go to the expense Of purchasing
suitable furniture for such a dwell.
ling, and hired instead a modest
but comfortable residence.
The President ate Indian cakes
for breakfast after the Virginia
fashion, although buCkwhea'
cakes we're generally on the table
Washingtons dining parties wert
entertained in very handsome
style. H 5 weekly dining hoIl
was always 4 o'clock In the after
noon, His rule was to allow avC
minutes for the variation Of clocks
and watches, and then to 60 tC
the table, be present or absen
whoever might. He kept hii
own clock in the hall, just within
the outward door, and always ex
actly regulated. When lagginl
members Of Congress came Ia, al
they often did, after the guest
had sat down to dinner, the Pres
ident's only apology was "Gen
tlemen Tor Sir, We are too punct
ual for you. l have a cook who
never asks whether the com
pany has come, but whethe
the hour has come" He wa
always dressed in a suit o
black, his hair powdered, and tie,
in q black queue behind. with
very elegant dress sword, whicI
he wore with inimitable grace =
Mrs. Washington often, but no
always, dined with the company
sat at the head of the table, aud h
as was occasionally the case, thef
were other ladies present, the
sat each side of her. The Presi
dent sat halfway from the hea
to the foot of the table, and o
that side he would place Mr.
Washington, though distant rroI
him, on his right hand, He a
ways, unless u clergyman wei
present, asked a blessing in
standing posture. If a clergy
man was present, he was reques
ed to ask a blessing and to retur
thanks after dinner"