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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20
INTERNAL TAXES.
What We Are to be Relieved
From i'm October.

| from the Cincinnati Commercial
The internal taxes which we shall be
wholly relieved from in October next
are as follows:
PRESENT TAX.
l. On carriages of every description,
Sc to $40 each.
2. On watches, 81 to 81 each.
| 3. On billiard tables, $40 each.
4. On silver plates Of all kinds,
cents per pound.
S. On gold plate, 50 cents per ponnl.
6. On passports, SIS each.
7. On boats, barges and fats, SIS and
$40 each.
s. On gross receipts, including those
of railroads, steamboats,, canal boats and
all other vessels, and stages, p. per
cent. of receipts.
g. On gross receipts of telegrap ph com
panies, ferries, bridges, and turnpikes,
3 per cent of receipts.
10. On retail dealers (license taxi,
$40 each.
II. On wholesale dealers, Or those
whose sale exceed $4,000 year. $50
each, and 81 additional OF every $1,000
eff sales exceeding $4,000.
These taxes on sales are all repealed,
except as regards liquor and tobacco.
12. On banks and bankers with capi-
tai of $4,000, S1OO each, and 81 ad-
ditional On every $1,000 Of capital
above $4,000.
l3. On brokers Qicense), $50 each.
IA. Hotel keepers Qicense), $40 to
$500 each.
Is. Auctioneers and peddlers (i-
cense), $40 to $50 each.
16 Claim agents, insurance agents,
real estate agents, patent right dealers
and conveyancers, $40 each.
II. Manufacturers (license), $40
each.
IS. Proprietors of theaters, museums,
circuses and concert halls, 500 each
19 Proprietors of gift enterprises,
$3.50 each
20. Lawyers, physicians, architects
and builders, $l0 each.
2l. Coffee and spice grinders, $l00
each.
22. Express carriers and agents,
$40 each.
%. Miners, assayers, plumbers, pho
tographers, apothecaries, butchers and
eating house keepers, $40 each.
All others now chargeable with H.
cense tax of any kind. except dealers in
spirits and tobacco, are exempted.
"a. On canned and preserved fish
(now paid by stamps). cent per pound.
25. On bills and receipts, to any
amount, and on rromissory notes for a
less sum than 500, (now paid by
stamp, 2 cents and 5 cents each.
All other stamp taxes are continued
in force.
26. On legacies. and SUGGESTIONS, 81
to Sc on every 500 of property devised
or inherited, according to the degree of
relationship. All repealed.
TAXES REDUCED.
27. On incomes exceeding $4,000,
for the year commencing January |,
1870, and January l, 1871, p per cent.
The exemptions are, in addition to
50 900, all taxes and interest paid du-
ring the year, losses and bad debts,
rent OF repairs on dwelling houses, and
amount paid for labor to cultivate land,
or to conduct any other business from
which income is derived. This is the
personal income tax. 1t is a tolerably
easy one.
2s. On dividends of all corporations,
for the year 1871, including banks,
railroad companies, insurance compa-
nies, canal and turnpike companies,
trust companies and savings institutions,
% per cent.
This tax is to be paid by the COM
panies, who may deduct it in disbursing
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

If any gentleman thinks that the
Northern Democracy will organize for
the next campaign upon platform of
opposition to negro testimony and de-
mauding the disfranchisement of the
negroes, let him read the article we
publish this morning from the New
York World, paper which is some
times pronounced unsound" because
it has led the Democratic party of New
York into victorious majority Of more
than $4,000 votes.- Louisville Courier
journal
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

A novel, if not strictly proper style
of personal compliment is this descrip,
tion of Olive Logan by Navada edi-
tor, ''the most right up and snappy
ebullition of womanly git up and git
that we ever had the pleasure Of meet
ing.'
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

Hon. Hiram Appleman, of Mystic,
Ct, recently forwarded a letter to
neighboring town, requesting the Post
master to deliver it sTo any respecta,
BILE attorney" After 10 days it was
returned with the significant endorse
mAnt MNnne here
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

Here in Kentucky the whiteman's
party is crusade against negro testi-
mony and the Fifteenth amendment,
and, in Alabama, the Register. in one
of its articles, informs us that it contem-
plates "a readjustment, if not the an
Inhalation, of negro suffrage as an act Of
Congressional legislation.-( Louisville
Courier Journal. ..s-...a
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

miss Brown, I have been to learn
how to tell fortunes" said young man
to a brisk brunette 'just give me your
hand, if you please" "La, Mr.. White,
how very sudden you are we'll, 60 and
ask pa
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

A Virginia editor wrote something
about his alma Mater" and the com
positor set it up "alum water" The
funeral of the compositor was quite
largely attended by his brother psinters.
The editor has been exonerated.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

Miss Wilkins was beautiful blonde,
and she wanted to go to Newport-so'
she told her mother-to look for some
thing particularly for her dear papa
"And what is it, pray" asked her moth
or, "that you wish so much to find for
your dear papa?'' "A son in law
was the gentle reply of the bhlshing
maiden.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

"Miss," said a gentleman profering
his arm and umbrella to a lady in a
shower, permit me to be your beau"
"Thank you for your politeness," was
the reply, "and as have plenty of
fair-weather beaux will call you my
rain-beaux."
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

The New York World and Louisville
Courier-Journal advocate at length and
recommend to Southern Democrats the
acceptance of the fifteenth amendment
and the suspension of opposition to the
franchise Of negroes. 81 Pieayune.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

"Did you present your account 70
the defcndant?" inquired a lawyer of
his client. L did, sir" And what
did he say p He told me to 60 to
the DEVIL And what did you do
then @ "Why, then 1-came to yon.'
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

Jimmy, my boy, take these eggs
to the store, and if you can't get quar-
ter bring them back" The boy went
as directed, and came back, saying,
" Father, it takes me to make a trade
They all wanted them at forty cents,
but | screwed them dewn to twenty five"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

The other day a gentleman and lady
drove down to the Cape May boat, in
Philadelphia, and stepped ON board.
leaving their baby in the carriage.
Capt. Huddell, by accident, discovered
the mistake, and on taking the infant
to the mother, she kissed it, exclaiming
Oh, dear, thought We had forgotten
something -
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

CUT -WoRMs.-The Practical. Farmer
recommends the application Of refuse
salt, broadcast, at the rate of six to
eight bushels to the acre, as remedy
for eut-worms and others. Salt seems
particularly obnoxious to every form
Of life, and spread broadcast on freshly
plowed surface often has a powerful
effact. ~.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20
Josh Billings has satisfactorily settled

Josh Billings has satisfactorily settled
the difficult problem-"How fast does
sound travel ? by the following solution :
"The sound of a dinner-horn for in
stance, travels half mile in a second,
while an invitation to get mp in the
morning / have known to be three
quarters of an hour going up pair Nv
stairs, and then not hev strength enough
left to be heard" IT,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

Belgium, little kingdom of 1882
square miles--about the size Of Mary
land-gives comfortable support to over
100000 people, or about 500 to the
square mile.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

There are two reasons why some peo-
pie don't mind their own business.
One Is they haven't any business, and
the second, that they have no mind.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

New York is harrassed with Il trig ht-
full new disease-sebaceou excrescen-
ces. It's corns.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

A Troy man was married Sunday
and sunstruck Tuesday. Another who
had been married some years was SON.
struck the same day.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

Josh Billings says he will never patss
ronise lottery SO long as he can hire
anybody else to rob him at reasonable
wages.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

"Ahem! Ephraim. | heard sop.e-
thing about you" "La, now Miss
Sophrina, you don't say so7" ayes,
indeed, and great many said it, too"
I" La, now, what is it, Miss sophrina :"
"Oh! dear, I can't tell YOU" trrniae
away her head.) "O6, do Sow
"Oh, no, | can't" "Oh, yes, do, Miss
Sophrina Z" wv ell, I heard that-oh.
| can't tell YOU "Ah, yes, come now,
do taking Der handy Well | didn't
say 1t, but L heard shat-" '' What ?'~
(puttine an arm arouad her waist
"Oh. don't squeeze me sol ! heard
that--that (tuzaing her blue eyes full
upon Ephraim'sl that--yen and ! we're
to be married Ephraim"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

The University Of Vienna no longer
discriminates between the sexes In its
medical school.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

Will one be allowed to write what
ever one likes on the new post cards e
A trick, recently played by tailor. in
Paris on customer, who, though rich,
persisted in not paying his little &C
count" suggests this query: The
creditor, tired of writing and calling for
his money, took to writing on the out
side Of his letters. AT least, You
might pay me SO much month; you
owe me 3,OOOf," etc. As all letters
pass through the hands of a porter ia
Paris, the whole house soon knew Of the
tailor's unpaid bill, and for very shams'a
sake the debtor was obliged to settle IL.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

A story is told of dimunitive young
fellow who proposed to a young and
buxom damssl sOh, no. said she,
i can't think of it for a moment. The
fact is, Mr., you're little too
big to put in cradle. and q little too
small to put in a bed IL
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20
Napoleon and King WiRliaan.

Punchinello gets off the following
parody of the addresses made by Napo-
leon and King William to their respec-
tive armies.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

TyH1S HOTEL. formerly known as /" Eagle
IL Hotel" and kept by Jesse Hayes, and
Omer Poiret, has recently been re-opened, after
being repaired and thoroughly refurn'shed
The house is large and commodious, and con-
venient to the Courthouse and business part
of the town. The table will be constantly
supplied with thebest the market affords.
Meals at any hour, day or night
On the premises is a large Livery Stable,
for the accommodation of travellers Horses,
buggies, and hacks always on hand, for hire
Travellers sent to and part of the Parish or
State. s ..-- ..-...
Prices-MODERATE
The Proprietor will, also, continue to haul
freight, &c. from WashingtoDA and other
places, at former rates, without any Toll
Bridge expense to his patrons. =.
oct '69-tf .. --.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

sale farther South, where their msre la
Dor was more remunerative. Negro
breeding is no longer source of income,
and the disparity between the profits of
negroe labor in the border States and the
cotton States remains as great as ever.
The monthly wages Of negroes in Louis
lana this year are twice .as high as
in Virginia. Multitudes of negroes have
already emigrated, and the certainty OF
bettering their condition will eventually
concentrate the whole negro population
in the Gulf States Those States need
and desire their labor and have every
motive TO attract them by rendering
their condition comfortable. AS the
negroes are drained away from the bor
der States their places will gradually be
supplied by white immigrants.
The hide-bound border State politl
clans do not seem to appreciate the
great changes in the distribution ofpop-
ulation which must result from the ex-
tinction of slavery and the freedom of
the negroes to 60 where their labor is in
greatest demand and best paid. If they
had any clear foresight of the near flu
ture, they would rather direct their at
tention and anxiety to the means of Sc
securing new laboriog population to
take the places of the departing negroes
who will be induced to go all the more
rapidly by hostility and i'll usage. For
aught we know, this blindness may be
one of the agencies of Providence for
hastening the inevitable exodus.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20
THE HUMORISTS' COLUMN

A little nonsense now and then,
Is relished by the wiscst men
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20
Modern Wharf.-The Coming Car
mage.

from the Journal des Debats, July 15.1
Let us not speak lightly of war, and
especially of modern war. Tried SOL
dies look grave when they speak of
this shock of dense masses to be led in a
few days to field of carnage, there to
make a trial OF the engines of destruc-
ton with which the two belligerent pow
ars are amply provided. The dead will
be reckoned by hundreds of thousands,
and the next day there will be mourning
in a million of families. The antique
Courage of. those cavaliers, mailed in
iron, whose lightest exploits were pompt-
ly celebrated, seems to pale before the
resignation of the modern soldier, ex-
posed uncovered to the fire of the Chasse-
pot and Mitrailleuse.
THE PRUssIANs HAVE THE MIrRAILLEUsE
There is talk OF experiments made
within these few days, in the environs of
Paris, with cannon of new model,
breech- loading, and firing forty balls at
each discharge. 1t is the pistol revol-
yer system applied to artillery, with
this great difference, that the projectilcs
do not follow the one line of fire, but
form a semi-chcle. These guns are
divided in four sections, each portable
by one man. They are put together and
screwed up tight in three Or four min
utes. The Prussians also have, it seems,
their revolving gun and their field Mi
traileuse. We read that these weapons
have been tested and constructed with
the greatest secrecy. The place of
manufacture was surrounded by a cor
don of troops, under the most precise
orders to repel all curious inquiry.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-20

posEYs MEDICAL EXPRESS DISPATCH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-01-21
Of John NJ. Boone and Others, which

the relief Of John NJ. Boone and Others, which
M; MT; Holman qnd) reported a private bill,
MT Butler (Msss) who moved TO reconsider the
vote whereby the last bill was passed.
MI: Butler then took the floor and said he
pfoposea 20 discuss the question of the finances
OF the Government. and to review the remarks
made the other day by his Colleague mt
Dawes His colleagues speech had created a
Tosed 10 slow that Mr.. Dawes had argued nom
n wrong standpoint.
Mr.. Benjamin (Mo) made the point OF order
that the gentle man was not addressing himself
TO the GU, stion efore the House. He was op-
ro>ed to having the morning hour consumed in
general discussion.
The Speaker, without directly deciding the
qucstaon of order, remarked that IL was a disi-
cult point to determine especially on question
of the Kind pending.
MIR. Butler was about 10 resume his remarks In
reply 10 Mr.. Dawes. when
Mr.. Randall Pa mad the point Of order that
II was the duty of the Chair TO decide Mr.. Ben
Jamin's roint OF order.
The Speaker overruled the last point
Mr.. Randall then renewed MIR. Beniamin's
point OF order, and demanded a ruling.
hr Dawes appealed TO Mr.. Randall 20 with
draw the point Of order. That which MIR. But
ier proposed TO discus was matter of interest to
the whole country, and he hoped no impcdment
would be put i'm the way.
Mr. Randall-Well, I viii withdraw IL. I
only thought it was the duty of the Speaker TO
rule NJ point Of order when IL was made.
MIR. Benjamin-Then 1 renew the poinf of
order, and insist upon it,
The Speaker then ruled that Mr.. Butler must
conhne himself TO the question before the
Mr. Butler proposed 20 do 80. He proposed to
show in any remarks that he might make that
the finances of the country were i'm a good
enough condition that this claim could he paid
He would show that Mr.. Dawes had committed
fundamental error i'm his remarks and that he
hau made mistake i'm his estimates. He pro
posed TO show, also, that he had made n unisfa la
when he said he compared the last year of An
drew johnson with the first year of Grant
Mr.. Benjamin renewed the point OF order that
bill before the House.
Ihe Speaker ruled that the gentleman must
conhne himself to the pending bill.
MT. Butler again resumed and being again
called To order sail be would not attempt to
speak further. but that after the morning hour
expired he would move to 90 into Committee of
the Whole on the state OF the Union.
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tAat the rcn she has rrar--' In honor openly o-
eecre<v oone1ocrs her ptwofrhv th a honor-a
beinG oe1oW M and not caxaSle q ne h,s
place which he holds, and from which, withcrt
knowing 10, he gives silent Contempt upon the
nsother Who has made him worthy co holA he
high place 'smoug mcne The ballot for no
man Mas dc mandsd in the name of the very DO
Of those unfaltlled aspiratIons cf the soul On AZ
NO snbor dinate sphere can satisfy. and are Just
A. sacred In the eyes Of God A. the sablimsst
desires Of our brothers
DIDN'T WANT TO HrAR A MAN Talk.
heN. Mr.. May ATTEMPTED tO make some re
marks, but the audience seemed ,lisinclined 90
hs'en, and whenever be opened las mouth O.
SPEAK ule ciapptng and stamping utterly
dhowhed out his voice. lie attempted again and
again, and finally Miss Anthony came Ia has re-
lief, and said they would have to espOuse man'.
ti.aughtsr.l Mr.. Nav tinally got to work. and
gave an account Of how wcIntn manage q pri-
son i'm Rome.
THE CLOSING SCENES.
Miss Susan Il. AnthOry wa the next speaker
and gave her experience in travelling throagh
the State of hsnsas, and stumping u throagh
every town in company With Rev. Olympia
Brown.
Mrs. Stanton followed in a lengthy address.
which was read to the audience, rehearsing
pr.tty mUch " the me old ,.ries aBces."
lettsr Vac read rom nOR. jacob n. Ella. OF
n, s!mPatAizing VITA them.
Senator sherman wss ammo anced n being in
The hall, aud was called Cor. when he excused
himself from speaking. Ca the ground that ne
had come 10 listen and nut 10 speak on this oS-
Casion.
After some routine business OF NO, much inn
portance, the Convention adjourned sinc d.>.
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The Peabody Funeral Train.
TelsCrdDked Eyclusipelv 10 The Er.nino Ct1r

BosTON. Jan. 2l.-The train rendered by the
Eastern railroad to convey Mr.. Peabody's re-
mains from Portland to the place of burial, has
been complete at the workshops Of the company
The interior oftle saloon car is hung with heavy
folds OF black and white serge, falling from the
centre TO either side; the windows being parti-
ally covered by the drapery. English and
American flags edged with black, form part
oi the decorations at each end of the saloon. The
car Is neatly carpeted, and in the centre is
bier about two feeJ wide and eight feet long,
covered with black velvet and trimmed with sill
yer fringe and tassels. The whole effect is
sombre, but very tasteful The two passenger
cars which accompany the train are also hung
with the embems OF mourning, folds of black
and white serge meeting in the centre of the
ceiling from each corner, and the sides of the
cars above and around the windows are also
draped. The locomotive of the train (the
"George PeabOdy'o is also appropriately draped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-01-21

FOREIGN NEWS BY CABLE. The French
Ministry has declared its intention OF proposing
that all offences of the press he tried before a
jury, but as this proposition has not vet become
a law, Rochefort, whose trial soon takes place,
VIII not have the privilege of a jury. The radi-
cal journals charge the government with press
ing the arraignment Of the deputy for the pur-
pose Of avoiding the operation in his case Of the
proposed law.
Cardinal Antonelii has assured the French
Ambassador at Rome that the Pope will not
equal to those Of the State. The Freemssons of
Germany have adopted an addressed protesting
against the tendency of the Ecumeuical Coun-
cil towards the doctrines Of the syllabus.
The correspondence between Mr.. Burlingame
and Count Bismarck Ii published. The Prus-
sian Government expresses anxiety for the res
toration Of authority throughout China as the
best guaranty Of order and Of safety for for
eigners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-01-21

NoMINATIoNs.-The President sent the fol-
lowing nominations to the Senate this after
noon:
VIM. Cumback, Of Indiana. to be Min.,te-
resident al Portugal, vice Samuel Shellabarser.
resigned. s'
L. 5. Nadal, OF New Jersey, to be Assistant
secretary of Legation at London, vice Adam
Badeau, resigned.
Luther Lee, Jr., to be Collector of Customs
for the District Of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Vir-
oinia.
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Emitted States Senators from Mi.sis.
sippi.

MEMPHIS, Jan. 20.-The Avalanche special
dispatch tonight says the Legislature has elect
ed Governor AlcOrn l.. S. Senator for the term
beginning March, 1871, and General Ames for
the short term, and ii. X. Revel cOored, Ia State
Senator from NatcheZ, and vino was born and
educated in Ohio,) for the term expiring March,
.SI1, to which ex-GOv. Sharkey was elected, but
not admitted. The Legislature adopted reso-
lntion memOrializing Congress tO remove the
political disabilities of all Mississippans to be
presented by II. r. Revel, together with his Gre
dentia's as Senator. The Legislature adjourned
sion of the State.