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NOTHCE.-LO OR MISLAID-ONE
- pf0nnlsory, note, amount $500, dated Wash
ingtOn, La, and due the Goth of December, 1873.
subscribed by D. Lalanne, in favor of A. J.. Mou-
iors succession, being lost or mislaid, the public
Is notlhed not to negotiate the same, the pay
ment being stopped. r. DUMESTRE.'
New orleans, March2d, 1876. mch12-3t
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M Office NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. NOTICE!
IT G TETTnNAT DrvpNErU
U. s. INTERNAL REVENUE.
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s P e GAL A < e S,
May 4, 1873, to April 30, 1875,
The Revised Statutes of the United States,
Sections 1892, 1927, 1888, and 1899, require every
person engaged in any business, avOcation, or
employment which renders him liable to q Spe-
cial Tax, to procure and place cOnspicuously IN
ms establishment or place Of business a Stamp
denoting the payment of said Special Tax for
fore commencing or continuing business after
April so. 1875.
THE TAXES EMBRACED WITHIN THE PROVIS.
IONS OF THE LAW ABOVE QUOTED
ARE THE VIZ.
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The RIVER.-The present indications
do not threaten an unusual overflow, al.
though the river at Vicksburg ND to last
night was within eleven feet and two
inches of the food height of last year,
at Memphis is within four feet and six
inches of last springs flood, and at
Cairo is now within six feet and six
inches of the highest point attained last
year, while the Ohio continues to rise
slowly.
The food now coming down from the
Ohio and tributaries, it is thought, will
disappear in the sunk lands and through
bayOus and crevasses, without greatly
increasing the stage of water here,
which is seven feet four inches below
high water mark of 1874. Unless it is
followed very rapidly by floods from the
Arkansas, White and the upper rivers,
there is no unusual danger.
Still it is always best to be prepared
for the worst, and our planters will do
well to protect themselves against CON
tingencies by making every possible
preparation ag~ainstbreaks and a repeti-
ton of the extraordinary damages of last
spring.-[New Orleans Times, March
18th.
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OPELOUSAs, March I'd, 1875.
rms iF TO certify that within, has this day
page 1850.
N testimony whereof, Ihave signed my name
ana aifi&ed the seal of my Office.
JAS NJ. THOMPSON,
maffh 5-3t Recorder.
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= hltply the purest in the market, and the
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ESTATE OF SPOTTsWoOD II. SAUNDERS.
Whereas, Nancy Z. Saunders of the Parish
or st. Landry, has applied by her petition to
pc appointed datfve testamentary executrix Of
the estate OF Spottsw00d III. Saunders, deceased,
late of the Parish of st. Landry.
Therefore, any person intending to make on.
position TO said appointment, win file the SAME
I'D writing in my Office, in thetown of Opelousas,
With1n ten days from the present notice.
W, A. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
march u
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feb DC Sheriff of the Parish of
SALE.
PROBATE COURT, PARISH. OF ST. La.
DRY-NO. 3444.

SHERHFF'S SALE.
PROBATE COURT, PARISH. OF ST. Ian
DRY.-NO. 3444.
B. A. MARTEL, DAT. TEST. EXECUTOR
VS.. r. W. THOMS, DAT. TEST. EXR.
BY virtue of a writ of tieri facias. issued ont
OF the honorable Probate Court, in and for tho
Parish of st. Landry, in the above entitled suit
and to me directed, I will proceed to sell at
public sale, to the highest bidder. at the Court
House Of said parish, in the town of OpelousaS
on SATURDAY, the Sd day of April, 1879,
at II o'clock 4. NJ, the following described
property, tO-wit,:
A certain plantation situated on Bayou BUuf.
bounded north by Bayou BGuf, south by public
domain, east by land of the estate of B. B.. Ep-
person, deceased, west by land of R. W. Sande-
fer, containing four hundred superficial arpents,
more or less, with all the buildings and improve
ments thereon.
Seized in the above suit.
Ter1ns-On a credit Of twelve months, pur-
chaser furnishing bond with security accord
ing to law.
C.. C. DUSON,
feb 10 Sheriff of the Parish of st. Landry.
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NOR RENF.-THE VERY DESIRABLE
~ and favorable stand, comprising store and
warehouse, corner of Landry and Court streets
opposite the Court House. For particulars an
ply to P.J: Lcfebvrc, at the Post Office.
aug lift
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SUCCESSION SALES.
DUBLEC SALE.
ESTATE OE ARCADE EMONET.

ESTATE OE ARCADE EMONET.
By virture of an order of the honorable Pro
bate Court, of the Parish of st. Landry, there
will be sold at public auction, to the highcs
bidder by the undersigned administrators or by
a public auctiOneer, at the last residence of thu
deceased on Bayou TGche, i'll this parish OF
TUESDAY,, March 30th, 1875, the followins
described property, belonging to the estate o
Arcade EmOnet, deceased, tO-wit:
l: A certain tract of land situated ut Leon
vile, Bayou T6che, parish of st. Landry, con
tanning five superficial arpents, measuring three
aIpents front on the public road running par
alIel with the Bayou TGChe, and running back
by Obllque lines, bounded north by land next
described, east by Marcel MabbOuX, south by
the Bayou Teche, and west by land next DIES
crlbed, with all the improvements thereon.
2: Another tract of land also situated at Leon
Vile, on the Bayou Teche. parish of st. Landry,
containing fOrty-five superficial arpents, bound
ed north by Andre H. Lalonde, south by BAYOU
T6che and the lot first described, west by Az0lin
SavOie, and east by land next described and
Marcel MabbOux.
3. Another tract of land situated in prairie
GrOs Chevreuil, near Bayou TGche, in said par
ish, containing thirty superficial arpents, bound
ed north by land of Cyprien LalOnde, south by
Emile Haugnel and Marcel MabbOuX, east by
P. /. ArceneauX, and west by Andre H. La
lOnde and the previous tract last described, to-
gether with the improvements thereon.
4. A large lot OF of varied movable property,
which will be exhibited on the day of sale.
Terms-Cash
MARIE JOSEPHINE +. LANCLOS,
feb 26-fp Administrators.
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4NOS RENT."TEAT DESIRABLE PLACE
a. OF business now temporarily occupied by
Bloch x DHprt, in OpelOuSis. Possession given
on first january next. For further part. culars,
apply at next door to
dee. 2l-tf. CHAS. n, EALER.
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O~PELOUSAS, March I'd, 1875.
hereby certify that the above has been re-
corded In mortgage book No. 1G, page PSI.
IN testimony whereof, have signed and attix-
ed the seal of my Office.
JAS. NJ. THOMPSON.
marcft 5~3t Recorder.
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OPELoUsAs, March I'd, 1875.
hereby certify that the above has been Re.
corded liz mortgage book, No. 10, page 25l.
In testimony whereof, I have signed. and
affixed the seal of my Office.
J. NJ. THOMPSON,
lnarch 5-3t Recorder.
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NOTICE TO TAxpAvERS-

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERs-ALL
~ taxpayers who have failed to nav thnir
parish tax during the year 1874, are hereby
Notified that by virtue of all ordinance of The
Police Jury, passed January the 18th, 1875. 7
am compelled to proceed Immediately TO the col
lection of said taxes, unless the same are paid
within ten days from the date hereof, I shall
with law. JONATHAN 7. r
Tax Collector of the Parish st. Landry.
ian 3o-0f
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INCH 10. 26, apl 16, IS
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DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. Lam.
DRY.-NO. 1891.
ISAAC BLOOM g. Co, VS.. JEAN BOUFFAR,
TIGUE EFT AL,
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ESTATE OF sTETsON TRAsK
march 10
DUBLHC SALE,

ESTATE OF AUGUsTELEDOUX AND ZELIA
LAFLEUR.
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STATE OF sPoTTsWooD H. sAuNDERt

PROBATE COURT, PARISH oFsT. LANDRY,
No. 37s7.
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INCH 10 sheriffof the Parish Of R St. Landry.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

There are those who say that the currency
planks of the Erie platform are likely to
provoke an active opposition from the money
power 1t may be so, but if So it is well to
begin the jig now as at any other time, as
the people were never in better temper to
dance to the music of their own rights than
just now PROSTATE industries, bankrupt
merchants, struggling farmers poorly clad
and badly fed mechanics and laborers are
Just the men not to be reached in favor of
money monopolies. While the money rings
in the commercial centres and the national
bank monopoly could have it all their own
way, it was all right, but now the peo-
pie, taking counsel from their necessities,
propose to strike death blow at these com
binations, that very naturally struggle to
keep up system that has enriched them
and impoverished the people. But they will
be met at the polls by a vote of the people
who will do their part towards breaking up a
system that unnecessarily cOnsumesannually
twenty-iour millions Of the products of in
dustry and creates chain of moneyed in
stitutiOns which control the legislation of the
country in the interest Of banks, and not the
people The people say give us greenbacks,
free banking and a currency to meet the
wants Of trade; no contraction, and ga res
toration of legal tenders to par in gold by
promoting the industries of the people, and
not by destroying them p'-C Clinton Democrat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

The friends Of Colonel Noyes have reason
to be pleased and proud of the position he
assumed in the State convention, though not
so well pleased rs they would have been had
he been nominated. There were many gem
tlemen named in the gubernatOrial cand-
dacy, nineteen having appeared on the first
ballot and YET he stood among the foremost,
being third on the seventh ballot and fourth
on the ninth, and it was but only an accident
Of the situation which turned the insetting
tide from him towards the able and hOnOra-
BILE gentleman who received the nomination.
Colonel Moves went into the convention
strong, and his friends stuck to him truly
but the nomination was given to another,
and the result is accepted as the will of a
majority of the convention and will be sup
ported as such. 1t would have been pleas
ure to have hoisted the name of the choice
of the West Branch at our mast head, and
some may feel disappointed at the result /;
but however much it may be regretted that
Colonel Noyes IL not the nominee, it cannot
be questioned that the convention has select
ed an able and pure gentleman for the posi-
tion, qualified by education, experience, and
character for the duties of Governor. Judge
Pershing will be supported accordingly, and
noone willgiye the ticketa more unqualified,
cordial support than Hon. Amos Q. Noyes.
Clinton Democrat.
That Col, Noyes would give his successful
competitor energetic and generous support,
nobody who knows the man ever doubted.
Gov. Bigler, it is known, always preferred
the nomination of Judge Pershing. The
other candidates proposed in the Democratic
convention, as we'll rs their friends, also an
nounce that they will give the nominee cor.
dial support. The union upon Judge Persh-
ing is therefore complete and thorough, as is
natural, for he is not only first class candi-
date and eminentlY fit for the position, but
his nomination was not the triumph Of any
faction, but the earnest effort Of the repre-
sentatiyes of the party in convention ASSEM-
bled to present an unexceptionable nominee
who could rally and combine the votes Of all
mel who desired reform in governmental
affairs, and especially strict honesty and
economy in official administration.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

We commend the following extract from a
recent speech of Ex-Governor Hawley of
Connecticut. 1t points out tile crying
evils of our present political system, and the
remedy. Moreover some of the allusons
have an almost local application. We quote
as fOllows
"Meet the corrupt politician at the caucus
and there defy and defeat him. The best
men of the town, or the district, or the ward,
have the best right to be at the caucus to put
up the honorable citizen and to put down
the political gambler. There is a bad man
the Congressional district, or the Assembly
district TO secure the delegates. lie has hir
ed men to pack the primary meetings, or he
has been purchasing the delegates already
selected. Meet him and slay him You
say that you are mo politician 1t is high
time you were, for such purposes. You nev
er expect to seek office? Then you are tn
very person to act freely without fear or self
interest of any description Those who seek
other places fear to provoke his wrath. The
the tmid and the less educated are no match
for his intrgues,
Let the solid men, young and old the good
fellows the honorable men be found always
at the caucus-clergyman, lawyer, physician,
farmer, mechanic, laborer, and all. 1t is
the initial point of all practical politics.
Thence start the mutitudinous forces that
stream toward our State and national caDi-
tails. Every faithful citizen belongs there.
Parties are indispensable as means toward an
end-the business will not be done without
them, and the caucus is the inevitable ad-
junct. So far as his four millionth part of
the nation is concerned it is not for him to
grumble at nominations, if he did not go to
to the place where they began to be made.
He does not SO truly vote for President in
November as when he goes to the caucus
that selects the delegates to the State Con-
vention that selects the delegates to the ma
tional convention that selects the candidate
for whom the Presidential electors vote when
they in their turn shall have been selected
by convention that was selected in caucus
es. lfyou think your opposite party wrong
in principle, see to 1T at the caucus that a
good man is nominated on your side, lest
you have the unpleasant alternative Of vot-
ing for a bad man representing good cause,
or good man representing bad cause
and feel obliged, in certain sense, TO throw
away your vote.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

He was certainly the right man to open
the Republican campaign and to point with
pride to the record of his party y.-ErchdHge.
This same VIM. b. Mann was the delegate
who nominated Hartranft in the Lancaster
convention and pronounced glowing eulo-
gy in his favor. He was the first to take the
stump in special behalf of Hartranft and
made speech full of personal compliments
to his chief, and this speech is "A summary of
all that can be said in behalf of the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor. Mann is
recognised leader of the Hartranft forces of
the State. As the foregoing statements show
that he was one of the chief benefciaries of
both Hartranft's administrations as Auditor
General and Goycrnor--that he was all the
time up to the arms in the Treasury of the
State, reaping annual fortunes-and if Hart
ranft is reelected his provender and plumber
will continue. The large sums paid him in
1867 and 1868 were ostensibly "for examin-
ing the books of foreign insurance compa-
nies." How many honest days work would
these sums pay? Get your states aud pen
ellis and cyphcr it out Twelve and seven
teen thousand dollars a year is a salary that
the people would not willingly pay any body
for all his time, yet Mann spent but "a few
days in the occupation for which he received
these sums He is the lowest grade of city
lawyer-a criminal lawyer-a pot house
politician, an ordinary but reckless rowdy, n
desperate gamester in politics, speculator
in official position, using his power for per-
sonal ends, who has piled up large wealth
from the public treasures of the people, ex
tracted from them in the shape Of fees sala-
ries and perquisites Morally reckless ,he
will stop at nothing to advance his ends,
This is the kind of men that profit by Hart
ranft's system of administration and these
are foremost in urging his re-election-thcse
are his champions on the stump-it is they
who hold him up as a model Governor, and
it is they who are spending thousands to re-
elect him-not that they care for him or
Republican politics, but that they may con-
hnue to Jill their pockets tciM public plmdcr
wiz the people continue to stand Mis'
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

For more than ayear past the whole coun-
try has been excited over the abduction of
Charley Ross, a little boy then about fou r
years of age, from Germantown, Pa. All
efforts to find him have proved unavailing,
though large rewards for his return have
been offered. A few months ago two bur-
glars were shot and killed in New York, one
of whom confessed that they stole Charley
Ross, but he in his death struggles could not
tell where the child was at the time. All eff
forts to trace his whereabouts or fate since
then have failed. Recently one Westervelt,
a brother-in-law of one of the killed burglars,
was tried upon the charge of being an Access
sorry, before and after the fact, and was
found guilty. Whether he is capable or will
ling to give any information about the lad
is questionable. Hopes are entertained that
through him or his friends the child may yet
be found alive.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

Let every voter in the State give proper
heed to these facts concerning Cyrus l.. Per-
shing:
l. He did not seek the nomination the
Office sought the man.
2. His high character as a christian gen.
tleman; his eminent legal attainments; his
frmness in furnishing official thieves, even
Of his own party; his whole life record
public and private-in the councils of the
State, on the bench, or at home among his
friends and neighbors,--is Of itself a plat
form on which every honest man in Penn
sylvana can stand.
There is purity in the political atmosphere
when such man can be nominated, lie
will be elected by majority unknown since
the days Of Andrew Jackson PenaHgO
Spectator.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

It seems to US that the real charge in regard
to Tie Treasury corruption has at least, in
part, been misunderstood or wilfully distort-
ed. 70 prove, even satisfactorily, that the
State Treasurer has certificates Of deposit of
the large balance remaining in the Sinking
Fund by no means answers the charges of
corruption that have been made regarding its
management. The essence Of the charge is
that Treasurer Mackey and his associates are
using and have been using the State funds to
enrich themselves, as well as to furnish
corruption fund to control and carry cleo
tions. We fail to- see what difference it
makes whether ths unlawful gain be obtain
cd by taking the very funds received into the
Treasury and speculating with them in per-
son, or by placing them in the hands of fel-
low conspirators, on deposit, if you please,
and participating in the profits and using
the money and the power it represents in
corruptly controlling the State. 1t tstrikes us
as distinction without difference. And
it is hardly even that if, as has foryears been
alleged without contradiction, Mr.. Mackey
is pecuniarily interested in the three banks
in which three-fourths of the enormous Sink
ing Fund is deposited. These three banks
are Kemble's and Ridgway's of Philadelphia,
and Mackey's own bank at Pittsburgh. The
remainder of the fund is distributed among a
number of other banks in various sections,
merely to court their influence.
A significant fact in this connection is that
Kemble, Mackey's predecessor, who before
he was elected State Treasurer was clerk
on small salary, was enabled to retire a
rich banker, and Mackey, who was also poor
when he first received the office, is now cnor-
mously wealthy. The people cannot der
stand how these men have honestly saved,
even by remarkable frugalty, such large
fortunes in a few years out of an annual sal :
ary of $4,000. These fortunes are made, if
not by direct speculations on the State funds,
certainly by the participation by the custo-
dians of the funds in the profits of the reck-
less gamblers who hold them. How long
will the impoverished taxpayers submit to
this system Of corruption ?-Jc0ersonian.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-24

We have often in these columns spoken in
terms of praise of the city of Erie and its
people. The delegates and others from all
quarters of the State who fattendcd the late
Democratic State convention speak in like
terms. The following from the BellefOnte
WatchmdR is in point:
Whatever may be said of the time and
trouble of getting to Erie and of getting
back again, there can be but one opinion as
to the place, and that is, there is no pretter
town or more hospitable people anywhere.
Crowded and crammed rs it was during the
late convention, we heard but one expression,
everybody was satisfied, everybody was pleas
ed, and everybody came away feeling that
Erie did its best to make it pleasant and
comfortable for its visitors while there.
We would, had we time and space love to
give our readers Il description of the many
beauties and advantages of which that little
city of the Lake can boast. Its fine harbor
and refreshing lake 'breezes its steam yachts
and pleasure excursions out on the bay; its
magnificent residences and beautiful drives
its substantial business houses, public parks
fine hotels, and over and above all the real
hart-iet welcome extended by its citizens to
those whom business or pleasure take that
way. But the best way for them TO know is
10 go and see.
A pleasure trip to E;ie and out on the
lake will repay any one who has the time to
spare and the money to spend.