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The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
Ct-isp's Company.

We fully and consientiously endorse all the
lauda ions which our contemporaries have
showed on the Dramatic company now pay
ing Ms a short visit. We were prepared to re-
cord merit Of an unusual order, but confess
the excellence of the troupe has not only de-
lighted but astonshed cur citizens, and who
are thoroughly familiar with theatrical rcndi-
tiOns are most ent nthusiastic in their ypressiCns
Of approval. The members of Capt. Crisp's
family are all artists of the first class highly
educated, with natural talent, cultured i'll the
best schools of Europe and America. hence
their several renditiOns are stamped with the
unmistakabie polish of metropolitan style and
finish. Capt. Crisps reputation has been tast-
ed by time, and he IS acknowledge by all (eyen
the members of his own profession, the surest
criterlOnj to be one of the most accomplished
actors now gracing the stage. AS Richeiieu,
Richard III and Bacbeth, be is certainly M
surpassed, while in his original characters
Dom Caesar Sir Charles Colasfredm and like
parts he has 10 equal. Mrs. Crisp is a fair
divider with her husband of his professional
honors, and those who have witnessed her
Ltdy Macbeth. Mr. Haitre in the stranger, and
similar characters, known we'll with what a
mastery she holds the sympathies of her
audiences. In rank as a Tragedian, we pre-
sumo Miss Cecilia should come next in cur re-
sulne, and we say to our readers, see the
young lady play Lady Isabelle. i'll East Lynne.
and If she does not moisten the eyes With
tears, then some hearts are made of stcrner
stuff than ours. As Lazy isibetje and Nine.
Ti'sc, Miss Cecilia fairly rivetted the atteu-
ton of the crowded audience, and from grave
to gay, from tears 70 laughter, from Miss Ceci
liza to ''Onr Jessie = we'll. the lady is one OF
the most sparkling. piqnante. charming artists
we have every seen all life and vivacty,
bubbing over with fun and good nature, and
evidently her whole heart is set on pleasing
and .'sle goes and does it :" Mr.. Drake is All
actor of decided ability, clear, emphatic, and
evidently a hard student he does well and
will do better. Mr.. G.. j. BreeBe plays we'll
is perfect, easy, and gentlemanly in all he
does. aud is IA valuable member of the Corps
Mr.. w. I'll. Smith is one of the sweetest Ten
ors we ever heard, and would be ali acquisi
ton to any regular Opera company; his sing.
ing is greatly admired and loudly applaude'
every night The brothers, Giuseppe and
Carlo, executed their music chariningly Mr.
Clayton may justly claim to be d funny man
he keeps bis audience eonvulsed with laugh
ter, and still his fun is always tempered with
nodesty. Our notice must conclude by as
suring our friends who have not s9en the Com
pany here, at home, that they have missed de
( lightful evenings, and to our neighbours around
we say, such an array of talent has never be
fore favored us with a VISIT all the excellen
| cics of New Orleans theatricals brought te
our home, aud all lovers ef intellectual ant
refined should see this Incompatible C0mpa
ny--Ectc Iberia Sugar Boe1t. ..ss
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
The Fusion Ticket.

We congratulate the cause of reform, pre-
yiously battled for by the united State party
at the addition of another graft upon the pa
rent stock. 1t is true that both the Reform
and Liberal were germs, Young and of latter
origin, yet we trust that they will bring to the
aid ofthe democracy that dash and reslstess
efficacy which, according to their estimate of
u.s. We so naturally lacked in our composition
and past campaigns. The same energical and
rapidity of concentration exhibited by them
in forming thor organization will, if brought
into the coming contest. give to our beloved
State a victory far exceeding in its glorious
results that achieved on the ever memorable
plains of Chalmette.
We did not receive the ratification of the
triune party under whose banner We now go
into battle in time to announce the great
event in our last issue, or to advertise our
common constituency that under the call of
our Parish Executive Committee previously
made for primary meetings at the various
voting precincts, to elect delegates to Con
ventlon to be holden on the l4th September
inst, that all Liberals would be entitled to a
vote.
We are all Democrats, we are all ReformeTs,
we are all Liberals iii this niomentous struggle
for the redemption OF both our national and
State rights.
Every voter Of either of these organizations
are earnestly invited to participate in the
choice of delegates to represent them.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
Esartom's life OF Greeley.

Now that there is every probability that
Mr.. Greeley will be our next President, a
truthful history of his life becomes Il matter
Of highest interest and Importance to every
citizen.
1t is therefore most fortunate that we have
such a book from the able and impartial pen
of Jams Parton, the well known esSayist and
biographer. Any life Of Mr. Greeley that is
likely TO be put forward now. got up under
the press of present political excite ment, will
be liable to the charge nf partisauShip. 1t is
the great merit OF Mr. Parton's work that,
having been written without any intention of
making 1t subserve a political purpose, it pre-
sents an impatial view of the important event
of Mr.. Grtecy's career.
The work is profoundly interesting one :
and aside from the attention now devoted to
Mr.. Greedy, arising from his present candidacy,
the mere story of his wonderful and singular
eareer-his early life its poverty, its hardships
and his precocous development under it; his
life as printers apprentice at East POnltney
Vt. his journey to Western Pennsylvania, his
arrival III New York almost penniless aud
alnne; his study progress, first as a journey
man printer then as editor, until his cStab-
lishinent of the New York Tribune: hisz~stte-
cess in building up the Tribune as 1t We're out
of his own brains, until it. became the most
powerful journal in America; his subsequent
career as one of the most active, infiuen tial,
honest and best abused men of his time-all
this, as graphically told by Mr.. Parton, is val
uable reading at any time and particularly
valuable to yonng men as an example of what
can be accomplished by integrity and devo-
I tion to honorable pursuits.
| The narrative is brought down to the pre-
sent time, giving a history of Mr. Grreley's
| connection with the bailiDg of Jefferson Davis
| his views on reconstruction, etc, and closes
with an account Of his nomination. and letter
| of acceptance. ,.sz.. --...... Il =
| It is Published by the NATIONAL PUB
! LISHING co, of Memphis, who want agents
in every county.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
The Fusion State Ticket.

Moved by the same considerations which in
duced the Board Directors of the Picayune
Printing and Publishing Company to advise
the acceptance of the Fusion State Ticket, we
are prepared to give . decided support to that
ticket as the best attainable, if not the best
conceivable, outcome of the recent conference
of the Democratic, Reform, and Liberal com
mittees.
We could say much, and say it perhaps with
eloquence and pathOs, i'll this connection,
about what might have bOen. But this is no
time to look back upon the immediate past
with either wrathful or ruefui conntenances.
1t is no time for recrimination, for replnlng,
for cheerishing vain regrets. We are sternly
called to confront the exigencles OF the hour,
and to make the best use of the available re-
sources of the hour in dealing with fearfully
momentous problem. And we do not hesitate
to say that foremost among such resource
stands, as whole, the Fusion State Ticket
which has just been offered to our and the
peoples support.
The argument that this ticket is n OF perfect
in every particular is easily answered. No
perfect ticket was framed. Was there ever a
perfect political contrivance2 Was there
ever perfect human contrivance3 The spe-
cial imperfections of political conditions are
added to the general imperfections of human
nature to forbid even the hope of combining
all the elements that could be desired in any
political arrangement.
The Fusion State ticket combines at least
all the satisfactory elements which it was
practicable, in the peculiar circumstances, to
secure on the basis of fusion. We can say
more. 1t contains a very decided preponder-
ance of such elements; and if there be, as
there clearly seems, a definite hope of realiz-
ing the benefit Of this preponderance by sup
porting the ticket as whole, and by so doing
only, it is simply matter of prudent calcula-
ton, and unquestionably the part of states
manship and patriotisn, to comply with the
Indispensable condition.
Upon Mr.. d. l}. Penn, when he presented
himself as gubernatorial candidate under un-
worthy auspices and with Objectionable pre-
commitments, animadverted with what
we deemed just severity. Now that he accu-
pies the second place on ticket headed by
the original Democratic-RefoTm candidate for
Governor, We are ready to support him as cor
daily as we were before ready to oppose him.
He is honoraby bound to recognize and carry
out the plain implications of his new fellow
ship. He pledges himself TO be true to his
present political associations. He is all hon
orable man. a patriotic citizen. and we accept
his word without misgiving. He has our full
lest contidenee.-N. o. PicGyune.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

''DoN'T Kick BEFORE YOU'RE SPURRED.'-
The Thibodeaux Se,itiaelof August oath says:
Our contemporary. the t0pelousas courier"
republishes the infamous slandeF of the IN
O. Bee" in which tbs paper is put down
among list of papers ''bought up by War
moth"
AS, according to the above, the editor of the
english department of the Thibodeaux Sentinel
has seen fit to display his ignorance of the
French language, and on the strength OF that
ignorance, indulges in a hit of discollrtesy to-
wards the N. o. Bee and the Courier, which
piece of uncalled-for iinrerfinence was repuh-
lished by the pap organ of this town, with
characteristic comments theron, we would
respectfully inform all interested that, to the
hest of our knowledge, the N. .. Bee, never
said that the Thibodeaux Sentinel was thought
mp by Warmoth7 nor has the Courier ever re-
published any article from that, or any other
paper, making such assertion. Under the
caption Of ''howtthe Country Press stand. we
reproduce in this issne, in english an article
from the National Republican containing sub
stantially the same information as the article
from the Bee repubiishcd in our Issue of the
18th ult., in french and misinterpreted by the
Sessttstcl We would not have troubled our
selves about the sentinel's blunder, but foi
the Journals attempt to make capital out oi
the same.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
RE GEsTR A T2EON .
Parish Of StE.anHry,

NOTICE is hereby given that the office of
In the Supervisor of Registration for this
parish, will be opened at the following places
and dates. tO-wit:
Washington, on Monday and Tuesday, Octo-
Der 9TH and Sth, 1872.
Negro Foot lat or near Foote'S store,) on
Thursday and Friday, October 10th and 1lth,
1872
Bayou Chicot. lat or near Sam Haas store. J
on Monday aud Tuesday, October lith and
18th, 1872
Faqueta1que, on Thursday and Friday, Oe-
tober 18th and 18TH 1879.
Grand Cotean, on Monday and Tuesday, Oc-
tober q st and 22d, 1872.
Opelousas, on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day, October 24th, 25th and 26th, 1872
For the Revision and Correction of the Lists
Of Registered voters of this Parish.
ALL QUALIFIED ELECTORS of the Par
ish. who have not already been registered, and
desire to register, are notified to make appli-
cation to the supervisor at the above times
and places, between the hours of A. d. and
II NJ, and between p NJ. and p. NJ.
All Registered voters who have changed
their places ofresidence since the last Regis
tration, are also notified to appear and have
such change noted upon the Registry Books
and upon their Certificates of Registration,
can have them renewed.
Registration will close finally, at Opelousas
ON Saturday, October Goth, 1872.
A. K. HAWKINS.
Supervisor of Registration,
Sep 7-fmI Perish Of st. Landry
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
SALE AT AUCTION.

TENHE undersigned will sell, through the min
Il istry of an auctioneer, at the Cotfee-house
OF Mr. Theodule Fontenot, in Washington, Oh
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER lst, 1872,
a Let situated in the town Of Washington, des
ignatcd OH the planof said town as Lot No,
bounded north by Gordon street, south by Bu-
hot St, east by Gardner st. and west by Blaize
Motto, together with the buildings and i'm
provements thereon.
Also The undivided half of a certain tract
Of land situated at Muundville, measuring 20
arpcnts, more or less, bounded on the North
by Bayou Crocodile South by lands belonging
heretofor TO Webb, West by property of the
Estate Of Geo King, together with the build
ings and improvements thereon.
These properties belong to Mrs. Widow j
Remy, for whom the undersigned is Agent
Conditions Cash.
E<g Should purchaser be found before the
day Of sale, these properties will be sold at
private sale. Apply at the Courier office, or te
j. L. COURET, Agent,
August3l New Orleans, la.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
TO EMEGHs ANT

TIME undersigned is agent for the sale OF
n tract of land situated about II miles from
0pelousas, containing about 1,aO0 arpents,
about one-third of which is woodland. Parties
in need of land can purchase the whole tract, or
in lots of 50 arpents or more, at reasonable
prices and favorable terms For particulars,
apply to N. .QUAIREayAuA'
or to Blanehain & Giraud No. C Old Levee ST..
New Orleans.
EEFThose who are using, or cutting wood on
this land, without my permission, will be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
feb 24-1y1 n. QUATREVAUX.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
C. MoRNH1NvEe 81 DANT1N.

TH7AKE pleasure in announcing to their
IL friends and the public that they have
opened their tailor establishment. on Bellevue
street, adjoining the Opelousas Tin Shop, i'm
medately opposite Bloah & Dupres burnt
store, where they are ready to make to order
men and boys clothing, on short notice. and a
fit guaranteed.
August, 81, 1872. l32-ly
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
TT @ = Z G. u .

rIVINE service, of the Episcopal Church,
~ will be celebrated, i'll Washington, Sun
day September lst, at IL A. Nj. In Opelousas
at 5 P. NJ.
In Washington, Sunday September 9Th at
5P NJ. In Opelousas at IL 4. NJ.
Until further notice, Divine Service will be
held as above, Oh the first two Sundays of
each month. G. P. UPTON.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
PARISH CONTENTION.

a LII the voters Of the Parish of ST. Landry
- favorable to the election of Greeley and
Brown and the United State Ticket will pro-
eeed to hold Ward meetings in their respective
Wards throughout the Parish. to appoiut
delegates to attend Parish Convention, to
assemble in the town of Opelousas on Satnr-
day the 18th of September, 1872, TO nominate
candidates for Legislative and Parish officers,
and to attend to such other business as may
properly come before it.
BY order of tie Democratic Central Execu-
tive Committee of the Parish Of St Landry.
FELIX DEJE
President
JOEL Fl. sAsDoz, Secretary.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

LEA great many Democrats received with
dissatisfaction the announcement of the Fu-
sion Ticket, and rather animated discussion
took place among the groups of people gath
cred in the streets when the news got in cir
cmIation Nevertheless, thisexcitement calm
ed down, little by little, when the reflection
occurred that the Democratic State Central
Committee could not have accepted and rati-
fed the ticket except after having most care
fully examined the situation. No one. doubt
that the committee we're governed by any
but the most patriotic motives
Mr.. Jonas, iii answer to telegram, replied:
'sDo not hesitate TO sacrifice my name to save
the State aud preserve tne head of the ticket. ]"
This patriotic answer elicted from the Demo-
cratic Central Committee earnest resolutions
of thanks to Mr.. Jonas.
The accentance by the Liberals of Mr.. Zach
arie, for the first Congressional District,
! which fact became known during the evening,
/ tion Of tile Young Democracy. .s
~. o. Bee Auqasst 3Otf
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
THE OPELOUSAS COURIER.
PUBLISHED ON SATURDAY
.as :''t -BY- .......
Leo nee SA ND ".

oNDITIONs:
Subscription Three Dollars per year. pay
able inuariabiy in advance. . - =,
frat insertion and twenty Five Cents for each
subsequent insertion. Eight lines or less
All advertisements sent in for publication
will be inserted in English and French tunless
otherwise orderedl until the publisher shall
mdge it convenient to discontinue. -
Candidates to public favors will pay Fifteen
Dollars each, in advance, if they wish to be
announced.
Obituary Notices. Cards Of Thanks, &C., to
be paid for as advertisements.
Personal cards, when admissible, to bs
charged at the rate of twenty cents per line,
in advance.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
FOR THE STATE SENATE.

We are authorized to announce THOMAS
c. ANDERSON as Il candidate for State
Senator from the Tenth Senatorial District
composed Of the parishes Of Calcasieu, Cam
eroIi, Lafayette and ST. Landry.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

THE CRIsP TRoUPE.--This justly celebrated
Troupe has given three representations in our
Town, and we hare no hesitation in saying
that their performances comes fully up to our
most sanguine expectations, and il ID evident
our cotemporaries of New Iberia only done
Capt. Crisp, and his company simple justice,
in their many favorable notices during his
stay among, them.
"A very appropriate notice from the Saga''-
B0i0l will be found in this issue, concerning
this troupe. Lack of time preclude oHr giving
more extended notice at present, but as the
Captain viii probably remain among US several
days, We win endeavor to give tour views on
the subject in our next. n the meantime our
readers should NOT fail TO attend the perform
ances which take place every night at the
Court House.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

BARRYsLANDING WAREHOUSE
EFyHE undersigned informs his friends and
IL the public, that he has recently taken
ing. and will endeavor 10 give satisfaction to
ali who may favor hilf with their patronage.
=" JOS. DUBOuRDIEU.
Barrv's Landing, August %, 1872. IT,
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

Dir. w. a. ROBERTSON Of Washington au
thorized us to announce him candidate
for Clerk Of the District Court for the Parish OF
St. Landry, at the election of November next
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

- The editorials in the Courier are writ
ten by the Editor of the Courier, as everybody
knows; and for those editorials he is responsi-
BILE, as any one may ascertain who does not
know. Particularly does the Editor of the
Courier claim for himself the undivided credit
of the now immortal paragraph of "the am
buseade." What harleqninade, then, on the
part of the signer of the card In the journal
to be thrusting his bilba into bloodiess ghosts
and phantom writers when right before him.
akimbo, this jolly typo stands and says HE did
It'll Proceeding methodically. we, in the first
place, ram down the writer's throat all the
biiinsgateof his card. and after it our edifo-
rial fist plumb TO the arm-pit; in the second
place we give him warning that If he does not
stick to his hole, we shall publish sketch Of
his exploits In st. Landry, pyroteehnical and
fiscal, from his debut as an Artifcerin fireworks
to his last historical rush-light vanishing as a
candidate for Congress.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
FOR DISTRICT JUDGE.

I The undersigned Judge of the 8th Judicial
District, is "a candidate, for another term, for
the office he now holds. For what may be ex-
pected Of hiin in his Judicial capacity in the
future, he refers to his past survices on the
Bench. JOHN +. KING.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
n @ IL &; E.

DEING on a tour through the country and
ID not having time to call upon all my old
friends and acquaintance, hereby recon-
mend myself to them, and the public in gen
eral, hoping to be favored with share of their
patronage, for the sale of cotton and other
produce which may be consigned to me:
J. l.. COURLT.
Augt. 31,-2m.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

am a candidate for Ethe Office of Clerk of
Court in and for the Parish Of St. Landry, at
the election to be holden i'll November. 1872
JOS ID. RICHARD.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
G. a n Id n ID A II II .
FOR CONGRESS.

pendent candidate for Congress for the Third
Congressional District. j. B. PRICE.
St Marv'S Parish
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

We are authorized to announce Mr.. CA
MILE Ii. VI ELANCON as q candidate to re
present the Parish of St. Landry in the lower
House OF the Legislature, at the election OF
November next.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.

Nr. EditOr,--I am candidate for the Lower
House of the Legislature at the election i'll
November next. l.. ID. ESEILETTE.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

am candidate for the Office of District
Attorney of the Sth Judicial District, at the
election to be holden in November 1872.
G. w HUDSPETH.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
FOR CLERK.

We are authorized to announce Mr.. AL
BERT LASTRAPES as a candidate for Clerk
Of the District Court, for the Parish ofSt. Ian
dry at the election in November next.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
Joseph N. Moore, Esq.

Assurances from nearly every portion of this
Senatorial District, having at length reached
here. indicating our esteemed parishioner,
whose name heads this announcement, as their
choice for the State Senate, we accordingly an
nouIice him as a candidate for the 10th Senato-
rial District at the election on the 4th of No
vemher next. E NUMEROUS VOTERS.
OpeIousas 5th September 1872.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

EY The Phrenologicat JonrRdt for Septem-
ber, is before us with variety of subjects
that is remarkable-1natters Political, Seier-
tific, Social and what not2 We have James
Black and john Russell, the Nominees of the
Temperance Party for President and Vice
President, with portraits; also Rev. Hugh
Stowell Brown Col. J. w. Johnson; Col.
Ethan Ellen Daniel Magner. the Horse tanner;
The Labor Question; Voices of the Deaf ;
London Jews; Arsenic; The Bread Fruit
Tree; Expression, with a wealth of Hlustrt-
tieus Human Governments Mixed Schools .
Bible Need of the Times Atoms and Mole
cules Pres. Jaurez of Mexico; Peculiar Char
acters Rest and Recreation: Whaling and
Oil, and Multitude Of Miscellaneous Items,
with good Poetry. Price 30 cts $500 year.
S. r. Wells, New York.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

Editor CO7trier.-Please announce in the col
umns of your paper our esteemed friend Dr.
JAS. DONOVAN as a candidate for the Low
er House of the Legislature at the coming elec-
tion in November next. 1t would be useless
for lis to recommend the Docter to the people
by whom he is so well known, but We do say
that if We are fortunate enough to elect such
men as DIR. Donovan, the Parish will be better
represented than it has been for many years.
MANY CIrIZENs..
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07
FOR PARISH JUDGE.

We are authorized to announce Judge A.
GARRIGUE as a candidate for Parish Judge
of the Parish of st. Landry, at the election of
NoNeInber next.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

We are authorized to announce II. MIL
LARD DUNBAR Esq, Of Grand Coteau, as
d candidate for Clerk of the District Court. at
the election in November next.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

We are authorized to announce Mr.. ISAAC
F. Ll1'TELL as Il candidate to represent the
Parish of st. Landry in the Lower House of
the Legislature, at the election of November
next.
The Opelousas courier., 1872-09-07

candidate for the Office of Judge of the 9Th
judicial District, at the election of next
November .LNO. i MORGAN.