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Proceedings of Washington
Town Council.
SESSION OF MAY 9, 1870.

SESSIoN OF MAY y, 1870.
The Town Council met this day, in con.
forrnity. with a call made by His Honor the
Mayor, and the rolls being called, were
present VIM. H. Mayo, Mayor, II. Las,
trapes, NJ. Richard, O. S. Hinckley and j.
j. Hicks.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
On motion, Resolved that the ~licence, this
year. for bakeries, be reduced to 81. 80, and
that of blacksmiths and wheelwrights like.
wise, each to $3.50.
On motion, Resolved that the ~Iicenee this
year on each cooper shopbe $3.50.
Resolved that the Treasurer of this Coun-
Gil be authorized to purchase in New Or
leans half d dozen office chairs, for the use
of the said Council.
Resolved that the Treasurer and Town
Constable make a report of their situation
to this Board, on Monday, the 23d inst, at
8 o'clock A. Nj.
Resolved that the iicence on lumber yards
for this year be 5000.
Resolved, that the committee to be ap.
pointed to examine the TaWn Constahle's
books, be authorized to allow him 3d. 80 per
day for the furnishing Of a horse and cart
and driver, for the use of the Town.
On motion, resolved that the tax on real
estate in this Town, for the year 1870, be
one half eS one per cent on the town assess
ment thereof. any ordinance tothe contrary
notwithstanding.
On motion, the Council adjourned till
Monday, May 23d, at 8 o'clock 4. Nj
Signed WIN. Il. MAYO,
Mayor.
Attest: JoHs F. MoanoGH, Clerk.
a true copy :
JoHN T. MoaRoGH, Clerk.
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Decision.

In answer to a letter from Collector Nix.
on, Covington, KY, Assistant Commission.
er Douglass modifes the former rulings OIL
the department to this extent, that any man
who PREPARES bitters using in their prepa-
ton rectiied spirits on which the tax has
been paid, and who prefers to class as man.
ufacturer Of medicines instead Of the recti-
fer of distilled spirits, and to stamp his
manufacture according to schedule G, be-
fore selling them shall pay q special tax
as manufacturer and not as a rectifer.
Where the sale depends upon medicinal
qualities, they are to be taxed as medicine
manufacturers. If they are taxed as rec
filters, the bitters must not be put up and
sold as proprietary medicines.
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DeafHl In Pork.
From the Louisville Courier journal

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
Four persons were killed BY seating
meat in which there was trichina, 10
Ballard county, last week. The stomach
of one Of them has been sent to this city
for examination. The facts Of the case
are about al follows: The victims were
d German family BY the name Of Hey
daker. 10 seems a ham was purchased,
Of which Mr.. and Mrs. Heydaker and
two of the children ate considerable
quantities ID q raw state. Soon after,
MIR. Hevdaker was taken SICK, and DIR.
]. 5. Sea was called in. The doctor did
not at first discover anything alarming
about the symptoms. but the patient
grew, worse, until Wednesday evening,
when he died. In the meantime, Mrs.
Heydaker became III with similar synp-
toms. Drs. Jewett and Smith were
called in for consultation. but lone Of
them were familiar with the symptoms,
Of could afford relief. On Friday Mrs.
Haydaker died, and on Saturday the two
children who had eaten Of the pork, died
q similar death TO that which had taken
away the father and mother.
thus All four persons were poisoned
BY the d fatal meal. The two chill.
dren-s girl and boy-wers aged res
pectiyely seven and two years Sid. One
little girl Of 40 intermediate age--prob-
ably about Ave years old--who did not
eat the meat, had not been taken sick ii
last accounts.
From all the circumstances attending
tbs deaths. the physicians are Of tbs
opinion that they we're occasioned BY
friehina. The pork which II is sup
posed, contained tho trichina was raised
in Ballard county md cured III tho usuaI
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,Atrocious Murder.
Especial to the N. o. rfcaynne. i

New IBERIA, La, May % An atrocious
murder was committed on Sunday in Yer.
million parish. Two peaeeable citizens
were shot down BY q party Of Acadian
stock thieves-one being instantly killed
and the other severely wounded. The
name Of the citizen killedis Capt. Saunders,
Of Franklin, Q steamboat pilot, who leaves
. wife and family. The wounded man is
named Williams, a storekeeper. The citi
zsns of t.Landry @ are excited ont he sub
jet, and the Sheriff and a posse have gone in
search of the murderers.
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SMALL Pox.-It appears that although
this dreaded disease has greatly abated, it
still continues its rayages in certain por-
tons Of this city. This is, however, al.
most exclusively confined to the INDECENT
class, and scarcely a case now prevails in
the upper or more central portions of the
city.--fPicayune, Gath inst.
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The special dispatch to the Picayune,
which we publish, relative to the murder
in Vermillion parish, says that the "citi-
zerls of St. Landry are excited on the sub
ject,. &c. We knew nothing of the matter
here until the Picayune arrived.
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1t will be seen from the following tele-
gram that the Grover & Baker Sewing Ma
chine has been awarded the highest pre-.
MUM ct the Texas State Fair. MIR. Chas.
N. Ealer, Opelousas, is the agent for this
parish. He has several machines On hand
TBy Telegraph ]
I~MPoRTANT NEws.-Houston, Texas, May
20, 1S70-To Grover 6 Baker, sewing ma
chine company, 1s2 Canal Street: Highest
premium best family machine awarded to
us. J.H. GARDNER, Agent.
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Hen become bald. Why Because
sheg wear close hats and caps. Wo-
nnen are never, except BIZ disease, and
they DID not wear close hats and caps.
Men never lose i hair below where sha
hat TOUGHEST the head, not If they have
been bald twenty years. Tho close cap
holds the haas and perspirasion thereby
the hair glanda beeorna waak, and Tho
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THos. MCINTYRE, Of New Orleans, is au-
thorized to receive advertisements for this
paper, in the cities Of louisville, Cincinnati,
St. Louis, and Pittsburgh.
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TEXAS stars FAIR.
~~~s~~ &
Awards 20 New Orlenua urer-
esaasaGSs
/ Special Dispatch d the picsvune.

Especial Dispatch e the Picayune.1
HousroN, May 2~1.--Among the prenlams
awarded to-day at the Texas State Pair
were to The following houses of your city !:
Capt. Walshe, No. 10 Canal street,
three blue ribbons for the best display OF
boys clothing, furnishing goods, and for best
fine shirt worked by hard.
Dolbear- College, for tae best pennanship
by ) boys. and also Ornamental, silver med
al and diploma
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New SToRY By Mas. HENRY WooD.-The
Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia,
having, purchased the advance sheets OF
Mrs. Woods new story, .BESsY RANE,"
commenced the publication in The paper
of May 2lst. Those who have read East
Lynne and the more recent George
Conterbury's Will" need not 70 be assured
of Mrs. Woods ability to write a splendid
story. We understand that "Bessy Rane'
fully maintains Mrs. Woods reputation as
a writer of great power and interest. The
Post, apart from its stories, is n of the
best family papers now published. Price
$3.50 D year. address Fl. Peterson & Co..
sls Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. Sam
pie numbers sent gratis.
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TIE FiFTrETH ANNIVERSARY Of Humble
Cottage Lodge, No. 10, will be celebrated
at Opelousas,. on St. Johns Day, June 24th,
1870.
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Read the advertisement Of the Ice Man
ufacturing Company in another column.
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LOUISIANA ICE MANUFACTURING CO.,
New Orleans, La.

IVG" 0IISdII5, ud.
ICE AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
DLANTERS and Country Merchants can
J. secure a full supply of Ice during the
coming season, by applying to the under-
signed.
Price u cents per pound, packing and haul
ing to steamer or railroad included.
Each order must be covered by cash or
agent in this city who will pay bills on de-
mand.
All orders will be executed with %promptuess
and attention. Address
D. POCHELU, Sec. and Treas.
Glass Box 1873, New Orleans. La.
New Orleans, May 2Sth, 1970-2t
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Inducements 10 Subscribers.
We will send to each CASH Subscriber, for
one year, the
JOURNAL and Saturday EosoiHg Post,
JOURNAL and Lady's Friend, tor.---.. 3 60
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LOuis stage

In q candidate for the Office of Sheriff Of
the Parish of St. Landry, at the election
next November.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
State of Louisiana.

IN ia MAX n - ~NAAAAAs
State of Louisiana.
Moore & Morgan District Court
vs.. : Parish St Landry.
Action Carriere. No. IL, O44.
DY virtue of an order of seizure and sale
- issued by the Hon. the District Court
Of the 9Th Judicial District, in and for the
Parish of St. Landry. in the above entitled
cause, and to ME directed, I will proceed to
sell at public auction, at the Court House of
said Parish, in the town of Opelousas, on
SATURDAY, the I'd day of July, 1870, a.
II o'clock A. NJ, the following described
property, seized to satisfysa order, 10 wit:
A Certain Lot of Ground,
situated in the town of Washington. La,
with all the buildings and improvements
thereon, fronting on Bridge street, one hun
dred and eighty feet, bounded North by
Carriere and. Morrogh, West by Market
House street, and South by land bought by
John Knuth from Estate of Mrs. Antoine
King.
The Half Lot fronting on
Bridge street, bounded North by Short
street, West by John F. Morrogh, South by
lot first described.
Twenty Acres Of Land, more
or less, bought by said Carriere from John
Knnth. by act passed before John +. Nor
rogh, Notary Public. on the 18th of An.
gust, 1854, with all the buildings and i'm
provements on the above described pro.
perty.
Terms-Cash.
j. M. THOMPSON, Sheriff:
May 2sth, 1870.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
State of Louisiana.
Amelia Guidry District Court,
ys. Parish Of St. Landry.
onszime A. Guidry.> No. 1902.
10y virtue of an alias writ of fierl faclas
. issued out of said Court in said SUIT
AID To me directed, / will sell at public aue-
tion at the Court House, in Opelousas, on
SATURDAY. July I'd, 1870, at ii o'clock
4 M. the following described property,
seized to satisfy said writ, to wit:
/. A Certain Tract Of Land,
abou. three miles from the town of
onelousas. containing fonr hundred and five
superficial arpents ~ with all the
buildings and improvements thereon.
2. Another Tract of Land,
in the Big Woods, containing n hundred
superficial arpsnts, beginning from, thefrons
At the eastern line of the West half OF 10y
No. /, Township No. 8. South Range No;
East, with such depth as to enclose tns
amount of said one hundred srpents.
Terms Cash.
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State of Louisiana.
Parish Court, Parish St. Laadry.-No. 1892.
Estate of Dosite Leger.
Fan BAPTISTE LEGER. of St Landry,
~ administrator of the estate Of Dosite Le-
ger, decd, having filed a tableau of distribu-
ton Of said estate, accompanied by his petit
ton, praying for the homologation of the
same
And whereas, the prayer of said petition has
been granted by an order of Court dated May.
IS, 1870;
Now, therefore, 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 thirty days from
the date hereof, why the said tableau should
not be homologated.
JOS. d. RICHARD, Clerk.
May 2ath. 1870.
SHERIFF SALE.
State of Louisiana.
Henrietta Wackerhagcn District Court,
Charles N. Ealer. No. 12,ois.
vfFtue of an order of seizure and sale
- issued by the Hon. the District Court
OF the 9Th Jndiclal District, in and for the
Parish of St. Landry, in the above entitled
cause, and to me directed. ! will proceed to
sell at public auction, at the Court House
of said Parish, in the town of Opelousas, on
SATURDAY, the I'd day Of July, 1870, at
II o'clock A. NJ, the following described
property, seized to satisfy said order, TO wit:
/. One Lot Of Ground, situate
at the corner of Main and Landry streets,
In Opelousas, bounded North by property
now owned by DR.. Charles H. Beauchamp.
South by said Landry street, West by pro-
perty of Jesse Hayes, and East by Main
street, measuring eighty four (84) feet on
Main street, and one hundred and forty
eight feet on Landry street., .~together with
all the buildings and improvements thereon
and thereto appertaining.
Terms-Casl.
IN. THOMPSON, Sheriff.
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Notice.
A NY person who brands his stock about
- thus: Ell will find it to his interest
to call on the undersigned, who has taken
up stray stock SO branded.
D. DURIO.
May 2sth, 1870.
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LIST ssF LETTERS

Remaining in the Post Office at Opelousas
May 1st, 1870, which, if not called for by
June LIST, will be sent tc the Dead Letter Of
Zee. WASHINGTON. d. c..
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Adams. C Umphers, Lizzie
Andrews, 4. E.. Keeling, Phillip
Audrien. j. Leake, w. S. & Co.
Andre, Leonce Little, Henry
" Mad. j. L. Loving, E.
Bennett, Mrs. e. Pater, Mrs. j. l..
Car Kid, Miss Rose Rousseau, V.
F~ontenot. Caroline Sellars, W. Il.
I" Mrs. C. NJ. Smith, A, W.
Gu!dry, John Mrs. NJ, s.
Harrison, Susan Sellers, Miss NJ &.
johnson, Sandy Thompson. Mrs. F.
Jones, Benz. Thomas, T.
Tebadn. A.
BEN. MAYO, P. NJ.
April IA, 1870.
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ONLY 50 A YEAR
FOR THE
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JOURNAL.

WHICH publishes the
Proceedings Of the Police Jury.
Proceedings Of Opelousas Town
Council,
Proceedings OF Washington IOWA
Council,
Proceedings of district Coart.
pr0c9sdings of Parish Cont.
Judicial Advertisements.
Tax Collectors Sales.
1elegrsphie News.
General News,
Miscellaneous Reading.
New Orleans Marke. Report.
Opelousas Market Report,
No person or family ip the
Parish should BIZ without it. Try
it one year, and if You r
satisfied with the investment
of yonr two dollars. WI will
send it the second year for
nothing.
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VICKsS
O r GUIDE FOR 1870.

The First Edition Of One Hundred and
Twenty Thousand copies Of Itek.s Illustrated
Catalogue Of Seeds and Floral Guide, 10 pub
printed on fine tinted paper, with about 200
fine wood Engravings Of Flowers and Vegeta-
bles, and a beautiful Colored Plate-consisting
of seven varieties Of Phlox Drummondii, max
a fine
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TARDREW & CO, Al Park Row, New
York, are our Agents.
WHARTON s. CO., Merchants Exchange
Co.'S Rooms. New Orleans, are our Agents,
THOS. MCINTYRE, 81 and SO Common
Street, New Orleans, is our Agent.
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5o0o 1A oI
1t is the most beautiful, as well as the most
instructive Floral Guide published, giving
plain and thorough directions for the
Culture of Flowers and Vegetables.
The Floral Guide is published for the bene-
fit Of my customers, to whom it is sent free
without application, but viii be forwarded TO
all who apply by mail, for Ten Gents, which
is not half the cost. Address
JAMES WICK,
an22-tf Rochester, N. Z.
TOR SALE "A Surveyors Compass.
L Apply at this Office.
Sept I5-tf
The undersigned will hereafter charge =
commission of u per cent on the value OF aiI
lumber bills, &c. for house building where no
is called upon to make them out. and where
the contract for building is not given to ninn.
WARREN r. MCKINLEY,
Contractor or Buildefs
April 16, '70.-1m.
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mADhiU, Way Als-lt IN uttOkLlEIditY TS-
ported that Espartero W II except the crown.
The excitement over the unsettled state of
affairs is undated.
LosDoN, May sl.-The Times ridicuIes
the Peruvian revolution, characterizing that
nation as PROSTATE before an oetogenarian
general as y grotesque spectacle.
The Times urges Intervention in the
affairs of Greece by the Great Powers Of
Europe.
Pans, May 21.--This morning the EN-
peror met the legislative bodies in solemn as
sembIy in the Sale d Etat, and received
from a deputation Of the Corps Legislatif
the r suit of the vote on the piebiscitum.
His Majesty, with the Empress and the
Prince Imperial was greeted By the depu.
ties and Senators with demonstrations or
enthusiasm.
e. Schneider addressed the Emperor on
behalf Of the legislative bodies.
The following il the Etnperar's speech
Sirs- eceiving FROM your hands the
result of this vote. my first impulse id to
express my gratitude to the nation which
thus renews to me for the fourth time ID
twenty years the signal evidence of its con
fdence, universal suffrage, the elements
of which change increasingly, but never
theIess accumplishes it's purpose always.
III has for its guides its traditions, certainty.
Of its instincts and fidelity ofits~ sympathies.
The plebiscitum had for its sole object the
ratification by the people Of constitutional
reform. but amidst the conflicts Of passions,
and In the struggle with it's opponents, its
purposes became greater. Let vi not re-
nrak HhaF n5ro~~.~s,~ &c ~.r srrk.4t.o-~
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sion it makes to this subject is when it says
''THE TELEGRAPH is so angry with Senator
Cameron that it cannot keep its tenn
per with the President" Although
the neutrality proclamation and the rsle ,se
of the Fenians have no connection with the
Cox affair, except as showing the demoraliza-
ton of the administration, this allusion is
substantially an acknowledgment on the part
of the Post that it is we'll aware of the fact
that Secretary Cox was kicked out of the
Cabinet at the dictation of Senator Cameron,
and that it has no defense to offer for either
the President or Cameron for the part
they have taken in most disgraceful
transaction. The Post has a hard time of it
in being obliged to whitewash Gamer On s
character so ofton, and we suggest the wis.,
dom of saying as little about him as possible.
We made no mention of Cameron in either
Of our articles yesterday, and the gratutous
remark of the Post only serves to show the
workings of an uneasy oonsciesce, and
will scarcely convince any prejudiced per-
son that The TELEGRAPH is wrong, or that the
President and the old intriguer who appears
to have become his evil genius are in the
right
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TIE RIOT AT THE MEETING OF
THE RETURN JUDGES

1N the ordinary course of justice, so far as it
is influenced by the action of policemen or
police authorities, their first duty in connec-
tion with riot is to quell it as speedily as
possible, and their second, to arrest the ring
leaders. We have not yet heard, however, of
the arrest of single one of the instigators of
the disgraceful and dangerous attack upon
the meeting of the return judges last week.
Their names have been freely published, their
proceedings are matter of public notoriety
their offense is far more culpable than
any ordinary riotous demonstration,
and yet days pass by without
a single one of their number being arrested.
1t is true that after prolonged consideration
it was at last decided that warrants should be
issued, but the offenders might have nearly
fed across the continent before this plain
duty was performed, and it remains to be
seen how much more time is to elapse before
they are taken into custody.
The course of proceedings adopted by the
police, and the police authorities, in reference
to Messrs Crawford and Mann presents
wonderful contrast to their tender treatment
of McSIuJin and Ahern. AS for Crawford, it
required the interposition of Judge Allison
to enable him to finish his labors as return
judge at time when it was not known that
Nolen's wounds would prove fatal. Yester-
day, too Alderman Kerr adopted the extra
ordinary expedient of taking him out of the
custody of the Coroner while the inquest of
that official was pending, and committing
him to prison. This course is in direct oppo-
stion to the usual practice, if not in clear
conflict with law. While the Coroner is in
quiripg into the causes of a violent
death his authority is well-nigh
absolute. He can imprison witnesses who
refuse to testify, order the arrest of high
dignitaries, and exercise for the time being
extraordinary powers 1t is questionable
whether aldermen have better right to dis
pose of prisoners in his hands than to snatch
prisoners from the Criminal Court. D No such
conflict of authority should have here arisen,
and if politics had not been indirectly con-
nected with this affair, it is scarcely possible
that the privileges of the Coroner would have
been invaded in such an extraordinary man
ner. The prosecution of William b. Mann
also affords q striking illustration of extra
ordinary zeal in prosecuting an innocent man
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at O moment when the leaders Of a dangerous
riot are suffered to run at large.
The investigation before Judge Allison
yesterday disclosed the fact that the dying
declarations of Nolen, which furnished the
principal pretext for the warrant against him,
were totally destitute of legal validity. Judge
Allison ruled them out of court on account of
their evident unreliabinty. AS to the other
testimony it amounted to nothing, and Judge
Allison admirably summed up the whole case
when he said that Mr.. Mann was at the
meeting of the return judges 'for a lawful
and proper purpose, that he "neither said
nor did anything calculated to provoke a
riot, and that if he or any one else had said
to Crawford, when a deadly assault was made
upon him, " shoot or defend yourself, he
did right, just as a man might tell friend
to defend himself by shooting burglar"
1t is also worthy of remark that Mr.. Lewis
c. Cassidy, while acting as Mr.. Mann's coun-
sci yesterday, said that elf Crawford shot
Nolan under well-founded apprehension of
great violence, he was guilty of no offense,"
and the extent of the danger by which Craw-
ford was threatened was proven by host of
witnesses who appeared at the Coroner's in
quest yesterday.
The fact remains that up to this morning
men were still at large who instigated riot
with the intention of committing, by forci-
BILE means, that most flagrant of crimes
against free government-treating an cleo
ton as if it had not been held; while extra
ordinary zeal and unusual severity have been
displayed in the prosecution of Crawford
and Mann.
The fact that the intervention of the Courts
has been found necessary in these cases to
enforce justice affords an additional reason for
the change in the laws which we advocated a
few days ago, giving them supervision over
all the proceedings connected with the final
count of election returns The whole system
needs improvement to check fraud on the
one hand and violence on the other, and time
will be gained instead of being lost by the
courts if the proposed new system is adopted.