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SJonall onbillc Cl if t. SPuhlii, , E'r y S' turdvy. AMICU$s HJUMANI GLN1E RI' LINDEN E. BENTLEY, EDITOR AaNI) I'sO ortIETol0. Official Journal of the State of Louisiana. Offi ial Journal of the Parish of Ascension. Official Journal Town of Donaldsonville. TERMS OF SUB'SCRIPTION: ()Oe copy. one ,ear-................. 0( One copy, six inmtthsi.. ....- .....1----- 50 x .1ies, o01 y,.r, ...................15 00 'Tw.lvei copier. ,m yte:'C,* ... ........2 00 l'Pay .ble invariably in advance. AD IERTISING IAT.1ES: A s'lure is the space occupied by ten Ihes Agate type, about b of an inch.] sUt:ARES. 1 m1. 21 mos. 31nos. 6110o. 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Walker, Taylor & Co., advertising agents, 134 Balmitore street, Baltimore, Md., are authorized to act as agents for the CHIEFr. W Mr. Charles O. I)onnaud is invested with full authority to solicit advertisements and subscriptions for the CHIEF, in New Or loans and elsewhere, antd to receipt for pay ments therefor. Saturday, September 5, '74. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For Slate Treasurer, Hlox. ANTOINE DUBUCLET, Of Iberville. For Congress, Third District, IIos. CHESTER B. DARRALL, Of St. Mary. For State ,enalor. Serenth I)istriDl, Iiox. PIERRE LANDRY, Of Ascension. For Members of the House of Represeutatires, LOUIS BUTLER, GLOSTER HI. IIILL. For Parish Judge, HENRY O. MAIIER. For Sherif, AARON HIILL. For Coroner,. V. C. CANTRELLE. For Police Jurors, JOHNII ASIIBY, HENRY IIAYMAN, WMH. DItiGtS. . .. .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . t:, With next issue of the CHI.li oipens Volume No. IV, and thence forward the co-operative or " patent outside" publishing system will be abandoned, and the paper printed en tirely at homne. This will give us in creased advertising space, and we respectfully solicit from evcry mer chant, every tradesman, every doctor and lawyer of Donaldsonville and vi cinity an advertisement of his busi ness, however small, for the ensuing year. Cards occupying one "square" in space (that is, about one inch) will be inserted twelve months for $15, and easy tenus of payment arranged with responsible parties. We propose to prove that the Ci(lrm is a paying advertising medium and ask the bus inesa community to give it a trial. A new Lafourche Rlepublican has been established at Thibodaux under the preprietorslhip of Mr. J. M. Ricard. It supports the Republican candidates, sports a patent outside, enunciates good principle in questionable syntax, and sends us a badly printed copy in exchange. We wish the Republic:n improvement and success. The Peace and Order committee appointed by the president of the re cent Republican State Convention is collecting evidenec of White League outrages committed in various par ishes of the State, and will publish the result of their labors at an early day. lion. Elbert Gantt of St. Lan dry is chairman of the committee. Mr. Thomam Lynne has been forced by flailing health to resign the position o-f State Registrar of Voters, and Gov crnor Kellogg has appointed Colonel Winm. Wright to fill the vacancy. Col. Wright is spoken of as " a sincere, honest and intelligent man --one whoss high Sense of the lmproprieties will never pi-rmit him to do a tfolish or d"isirepltahle thing." If this he t~.i, ihe is the L.:º lte man far State R-gIstl;i: oat Vn'(;eis. TROOPS TO THE IRESCUE' TO YOUR HOLES, OH! LEAGUERS! is No More Political Murders ! i The New Rebellion Will Be Suppressed ! I few Orleans, Shreveport, Alex andria, Coushatta, YMonroe e1 and St. Martinsville to tl1 be Occupied by U. S. of " Boys in Blue ! " hI The armed insurrection against the constituted authorities of Louisiana and other Southern States inaugura- r ted by the organization known as the at White League-the banding together il of one class of men to deprive others of the free exercise of the rights and prt ilieges guaranteed by the consti tution and laws-the inhuman mur dering of peaceable American citizens ri for daling to be Republicans-have e: Sborne legitimate fruit. o 0 Acting under the direction of Pres- h p ident Grant and Attorney General Williams, the Secretary of War will tl o at once dispatch U. S. troops to such points in the South where their pres ence is necessary to preserve peace, ti suppress illegal interference with the S local civil authorities and protect the n ,f lives and liberties of citizens from l1 lawless mobs of White Leaguers. e Troops have been ordered to Lou isiana and will arrive ere another is sue of the CHIEF is before our read ers. New Orleans, St. Martinsville, Alexandria, Shreveport, Coushatta, ii r Monroe and other points will be occu- c pied at once, and all required assist- a ance will be rendered Marshal Pack- e ard and his deputies in arresting and fi bringing to trial persons engaged in p the numerous outrages that have dis- ti d graced humanity and blackened the fi fame of Louisiana among all civilized n peoples. g It required no prophetic vision to o foretell the fate of the new rebellion ti of the Leagues. In common with all li candid and sensible men, hero and t elsewhere, we predicted that the at- b tempt to carry tlhe approaching elec- t tion by driving away, intimidating fi and murdering Republicans would fi result in ignominious failure, and the d verification is at hand. i The " boys in blue" will not intin- t idate any law abiding citizen or seek s to abridge the untramuneled exercise t of his inalienable rights. They will s be here to give equal protection to all a men, and their presence will guaran- t tee the fair election in November l which all our people have professed v to desire. a Hlide your shot-guns and revolvers, ye bloody-minded Acadians of Attak apas ! hunt your holes, ye red-handed s Leaguers of Red River! for your reign t of terror is nipped in the bud and ret ribution is at hand. THE BLAOKEST OUTRAGE YET. By far the most atrocious of the many deeds of blood that have been committed by the White Leagues ol this State since the opening of the present campaign, is the inhuman butchery of the officials of Red River parish, which was perpetrated last Sunday morning, in the vicinity of Shreveport. The circumstances of the blood-curdling affair are these: During the latter part of August a baud of armed men assembled in the town of Coushatta and demanded the resignations of the parish officers. This illegal procedure was resisted, the Sheriff summoning a posse com itatus to protect himself and brother officials from the Leaguers, who re tired for the time, but soon returned with heavy reinforcements from neigh boring parishes. A collision occured which resulted in the killing of sev eral members of the Sheriffs posse, whereupon the remainder surren dered, with the stipulation that the lives of all would be spared pro vided the resignations sought should be given and certain white Repub lican leaders would leave the parish. These terms were accepted by the officials as a choice between life and death, and they were locked up in the parish jail until next morning, when, securelyibound, they set out under conduct of an armed guard for Shreveport. The prisoners were, Homer . J. Twitchell, planter and Tax Collector of Red River parish and deputy post master at Coushatta; Robert A. Dew ees, Supervisor of Registration for DeSuto parish ; Clark Holland, mer chant and Supervisor of Registration for Red River parish ; W. J. Howell, parixh attorney and U. S. Commis mioner; Frank S. Edgerton, Sheriff of Red River parish : M. C. Willis, merchant and justice of the peace ; all nhit(, minen ,f prolperty and good character in thI. coiemmunity, their sole offeene ,'ing that thfv were Re When the party had reached the McFarlane plantation, in Bossier par ish near the line of Red River, they were set upon by an armed body of men and the six helpless captives shot down in cold blood like so many dogs! As the news of this damnable and evidently premeditated crime sped throughout the land upon the wings of the telegraph, it awoke a thrill of horror in every community and for ever scaled the doom of the Southern White League Rebellion which has reared its hydra head among us. The action of President Grant in order ing troops to disturbed districts was undoubtedly hastened by this re volting butchery, and his course will be applauded by all men who believe that an American citizen still has the right to live on American soil and express his political as well as other opinions without paying penalty with his life for exercising the privilege. We trust God the perpetrators of this cowardly murder will be hunted .to earth and such punishment meted out to them as will prove a warning to political assassins all over the ° South. An example of this kind is ° needed to stop the bloody work that has prevailed here to a greater or less extent since the close of the war and will continue so long as perpetrators of such deeds go unwhipt of justice. A man named Alexander Newton is in prison in the city of New Orleans - charged with murder. Because the alleged criminal is a white Republi - can, the Bulletin affects to be nearly I frantic over the affair, and is es i pecially tormented with the suspicion - that a blank pardon has already been a filled out in the Governor's office to I meet the apparently certain contin gency of Newton's conviction. The over-zeal of this delectable organ of t the opposition to make capital against 1 Republicans, frequently leads it to I the commission of most egregionus blunders and contradictions, and its treatment of this murder case has furnished a striking example of that I fact. On the second page of Thurs s day's Bulletin the following statement is made: " Should a jury be found to convict him [Newtonl, Kellogg stands ready with a pardon." On a the third page of the same issue it is 1 said of the prisoner: "His appear lance did not betray the fearful - tragedy in which he had taken so r prominent a part, and for which he I will without doubt suffer the full pen alty of the law." Comment is superfluous. In contrast with the Bulletin's I shameless equivcoation is the manly n tone of the Republican, which " has nothing but words of the strongest condemnation to offer in the case of the homicide of the unfortunate vic tim of Newton's drunken wrath. * 1 No law breaker is a friend of the Re 1f publican or of the Republican party, e whose mission it is to make life, lib u erty and property secure to the weak, r as well as the strong. Will our con t contemporaries say as much for those f assassins who are daily taking life in e the interest of the White Leagues ° " The Republican will find an answer a to its query in the fact that the Times e is the only opposition city paper that · has shown enough humanity to de nounce the fiendish butchery of the Coushatta Republicans, which is by - far the most glaring of the numerous r outrages that have been perpetrated in Louisiana within the past six 1 months. RAncAT. RE~ron.-Tlhe former parish I judge of Natchitoches parish having resign ed, Kellogg has appointed E. L. Pierson to fill the vacancy. As so much as been said by Radical papers on the question of reform, we are glad to be able to iefer to this ap pointment as a fulfillment of the promises. This gentleman will be remembered by many of our citizens as occupying apart nments in our parish jail a few years ago, charged with tihe light offense of getting Saway with letters containing money, which he lad in charge as clerk of a steamer on RetI River. To go further back, in the early part of the war, he was courtmartialed and sentenced to be shot, and was saved by the intercession of his family. And still Slater, lie was under guard at Atlanta, charged with some serious crime, and es caped by jumping from the second floor of the builing. This is reform with a ven geanee.-Shreceportl Tims. t This E. L. Pierson is either a Dem ocrat, Conservative, Reformer or a White Man; he is the law partner of Col. Wm. M. Levy, nominee of the nondescript nomenclaturists for Con gress in the Fifth District; was the Democratic candidate for Represen tative from Natchitoches in 1872, and a prominent member of the Fu sion Legislature; takes his whiskey straight and his politics mixed, a la Baton Rouge pot-pourri. The Shreveport Times will now take the back trail and acknowledge thai;t it has given utterance to, tlhe truth under a unisapprehension. Every man should subscribe for the I wm,.+' ,, , ., Tl~' t-.. ,c ' ...... SThe Citizen's Bank of New Orleans has suspended payments, and so r great are the liabilities no hopes ot f its resumption are entertained. Time s was when this bank wa.; considered v the soundest institution in the South. Under the control of men who have h 1 been reckoned by the common mul- I. J I titudo as possessing great wealth- t s who have been looked upon as among if the " oldest and best " citizens of the b State, a title that indicates the acme n of human perfection in all things, i .a monetary and otherwise, to the av e erage Southern mind-yet has the concern proven a very whited sep- u s ulchre, which, with outward preten- t sion that enchants the eye, reveals ' 11 naught but rottenness within when e its portals are thrown open to the e public gaze. In the course of an ar d ticle referring to the failure of the tr Citizens Bank, the New Orleans h Banking Association and Crescent l City Bank, the New Orleans Repub f lican says : id ow far our newspapers, who have been 0 ever ready to bolster up tottering reputa tions, are to blame for such misfortunes, we a will not now undertake to say. But we n feel it our duty to notify the public that r e when the White League journals make a o special business of parading the transcen dent virtues of a public officer, or leadinge It merchant, for no better reason than that he 11 has lived here several hundred years, and 58 is wonderfully identified with the interests i: d of this people, the time has come to shorten .t sail. I - We hope the mishaps of these first class kite flying concerns will teach the people of C . New Orleans that collaterals are safer than 1 vaunted respectability, and portable prop- I is erty more solid than orthodox polities. It a is 1a poor consolation to know that one has I is been ruined by people of the very best class. We are pleased to learn that Mr. John E. Breaux of Pointe Coupee has t received the Republican nomination for State Senator from the district comprising the par'shes of East and West Feliciana and Pointe Coupee. Mr. Breaux, a staunch and capable i white Republican, is a brother of Jos. 1 R. Breaux, Esq. of Iberia, the gen tleman who has been designated by '" we, the white people," as the can o didate to be defeated by Hoe. C. B. Darrall in the Third Congressional District. Success to Mr. John E. Breaux ! Confusion to Jos. IR t at s- The New Orleans Rake must be at named after its editor. T'lhat festive id scribbler, with an assuranceo that is g colossal, attempts to convince a cred )n ulous world that the lawyers nomi is nated at the Baton Rouge picnic will r- receive the support of the agricultur ul alists of Louisiana. Four-liftlhs of the 0o amen who till the soil of this State .c vote the Repulalican ticket. Scratch a- gravel, Mr. Lake. A Card.-If the writer of the, conmmmuni cation in yesterday's issue of the Ascension Leader signing himself " A Citizen " will S communicate his name to the undersigned, as any explanation of my conduct as an official st will be publicly given which is desired, pro of vided this critic is an interested party by reason of being a property holder and tax payer, or can demonstrate that any owners of property in this pIrish share in his in ' e- trred belief that I am neglecting the duties or exceeding the powers of my position. My official deportment is always subject to the inspection of the sureties on my bond or any other persons whose interests are involvad, - but I can not permit myself to be drawn into se discussion with or he held accountable to in any individual who chooses to assail imn un ii der cover of a norm de plume. I ant ready to Smeet honest and open criticism at all times, either as Tax Collector, editor or individual, but until charges are brougst.against me in at proper and respousible manner. I shall - pass them by as the fruit of malice and un ic worthy of notice. L. E. BIIENTLEY. Tax Collector, parish of Ascension. 'ETErns' MUSICAL MONTHL',Y.-The best method to be adopted by any musician to procure the most select music in the largest quantity, and at the lowest price, is to sub scribe for Peter's Musical M.onthly. Every number contains choice ballads, duets, quar tets. sacred music, and a well-arranged and selected list of instrumental music. This magazine is unquestionably the most valu able of all others devoted to the same line. Send thirty cents for the latest number, and you will never regret it. Address J. L. Peters, 599 Broadway, New York. List of Letters Remaining in Donaldsonville Post-Office September Ith, 1874. Adam. Ben Hampleton, Scott Alvarez, Celestin Julien, Miss J Aucoiu, J F Lauden, Matthieu Breaux, Miss Mary E Landry. Paul Braux, P S Lewis, Miss Mary Bruce, James Lewis, Alfred Brooks, Marcelin eliBlane, Marcelin B Baptist, Mrs Carolino Molair, Mrs Alex Brunson, A L Materre, J L Chapm .n, Miss Julia Marchant, Mrs Rose Chapman, Miss Tannie Nash. Miss Matilda I)ix, Win Owens, Mrs Louisa I)otla, Mrs Kate Powell, John Euhl, J S Price, Miss Emilia Falcon, Mrs Manuel Porter, William Gilbert, Mrs Paulin Porter, Thos C Graham. Moses Rice, D)octor Guigon, A Ring, Lizzie Herald. Joseph Samuel, A IHortot, J F Sulas, Harry Howell, John Smith. Isamin P. LANI)RY, P. Mi. F. Foan, AssT. P. M. STANDARI TIME KEEP'EI. J.F. PARK. Chronometer & Watch Maker Donaldsonville, La. Watches. Jewelry. Sp.lit;ilcs, and Clocks. S(c.. fi,r sa:le. Particulahr attention paid to °, :rpa:,irig 'f Fi:ev \~,h,,es.. All work I v, ,,.'' i ..d. d 'I. OFFICIAL. _rU THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF I I TIIE STATE OF LOUISIANA. STATE Of LuUIStANA. I)Othe of thel Secretars of State. New Orleans. July lath, 174. 1 N conformnity to article 117, title nine o.f the constitution of 1865, publication is hereby mnade to the voters of the State of Louisiana, of tle proposed ameudmnents to the constitultio of the State agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the regular session of the General Assembly of the year 1874; and required to be published three months before the next general election for Representatives to the General Assembly, in at least one newspaper in every parish of the State, in which a news paper sha:li e published. Said amendmnents appear fully in acts Nos. 4, 22 and 64 of said session of the General Assembly, which are herewith officially published for the intor mation of voters, and will be submitted to the people at the general election, Monday. 4 Noveiimber 2, 1874, in such manner and form that the people may vote for or against such alnendntllits separately; and if a najority of the voters shall approve and ratify all or either of said amendments, the salme shalli become a part of the constitution. P. G. DESLONDE, Secretary of State. 1o. 4. An Act Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Louisiana. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convenedt (two thirds of the members of each house agreeing thereto), That the following amend ments he proposed and entered upon the respective journals of the Senate and House of Representatives, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and the Secretary of State shall cause the same to lie published three months before the next ggteral election for Representatives to the uJeneral Assembly in at least one newspaper in every parish of .the State in which a newspaper ahall be pub lished. And said proposed amendments shall be submitted to the people at said election in such manner and form that the tpeople may vote for or against each amend ment selparately-i. e. " first proposedl amendment for approval," or " against ap proval," and in like manner as to the others ; and if a majority 5f the voters at said elee tion shall approve and ratify su.ch amend- ment or amendm uts, the same shall be ap propriately nutnred and become a part of the constitution, and be proelaitied as such by the Governm and, Secretary of State. P'ROI'OSED 1 AMENI)MENIS TO TIIE CONsTI TUT!toi. No. 1.--'t he issue of consolidated bonds authorized ly the General Assembly of the State, at its regular session in the year 1874, is hereby declared to create a valid contract between tihe State and each and every holder of said hoinds, which the State shall by no means anil in no wise impair. The said hionds shall he a val!id obligation of the State in favor of any holder thereof, and no court shall erjoin the payment of the prin cipal or interest thereof, or the levy and colloetion of tax therefor; to secure such levy, colleetion and payment, the judicial Spower shald be exercised when necessary. The tax required for the }payment of the principal and interest of said liouds shall be assessed andi collected each and every year until said bonds shall be paid, primeipal and interest, and the proceeds shall be paid by the l'reasurer of the State to the holders a ,f Ssaid hrnds as the principal and interest of the sante shall fall due. and no further leg islation or appropriation shall be requisite for the. said assessmnct and collection and for such payment front the treasury. No. .--Whenev\er tihe delbt of the State shall have tbeen reduced below twenty-fi:e million dollars, the constitutional limit shall remain at the lowest point reached, beyondl which the public debt shall not thereafter be increased, and this lale continue in pl, eration until the debt is redased to fifteen million dollars, beyond which it shall not 1 he increased. Nor shall taxation for all State purposes, excepting the support of public schools, ever exceed twelve and a half mills on the dollar of the assessed vala ation of the real and personal property in the State. except in case of war or invasion. No. 3.-The revenue of each year derived 1 from taxation upon real, personal and mixed property, or from licenses, shall be devoted solelv to the expenses of the said year for which it shall be raised. excepting allny surplus remain, which shall be directed to sinking the public debt. All appropria tions and claims in excess of revenue shall bt null and void, andt the State shall in no manner privide for their ayni-ent. (Signed) CIIARLE.Q W. LOWELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. (Signed) C. C. ANTOINE. Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate. Approvedt January 2-ith. 1874. (Signed) WILLIAM P. KELLOGG4, Goverunor of the State of Louisiana. A true copy : 1 : G. )nt. SLON)I, Secretary of State. No. 4-1. An Act Proposing an amendment to the constitu tion of the State of Louisiana, changing the day for holding the general election. Section . I l it enacted by the Senate and IIhuse of Representatives of the, State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened (two-thirds of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto), That the following amendment to the constitution of the State of Louisiana shall be submitted to the qual ified electors of the State at the next ,i n eral election for Representatives of the Gen eral Assembly; That the words "first Mon das," in article seventeen of the constitution, be stricken out, and the wor.ls " first Tues day after the first Monday " be substituted in lieu thereof, and if approved by a ma jority of the voters at said election, the same shall become a part of said article seventeen. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. (Signed) CHARLES W. LOWELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. (Signed) C. C. ANTOINE, Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate. Approved March 21st, 1874. (Signed) WILLIAM P. KELLOGG, Governor of the State of Louisiana. A true copy : P. G. DESLONDE, Secrekryv of State. No. 22. Joint Resolttion Submitting an amendment to the constitu tion of the State to limit the debt of New Orleans, and the issue of wairrlts by the officers; and prescribing certain pienalties. Section I. Ie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in G(encral Assembly convened (two-thirds of the members eleoted to each House agrecing thereto), That at the gen eral election for members of the General Assembly, which will take place in Novem vhe-r. 1874, an amendment to the constitution of the State shall be submitted to the m' ial ftied cletors of the State for their ratitiea tion or rejection in the words following : Article The city of Now Orleans shall not hereafter increase her debt in any man ncr or forim. or mtnder any pretext. After the first day of January, 1871,, no evidence of indebtedness or warrant for payment of imoney shall be issued by any officer of said city, except a.rainst cash actually in the treasury ; but this shall not he so countrued as to prevent a renewal of matured bonds at par, or the issue ofnew bonds in exchange for other hnds: provided the city debt be not therieyh increased, nor to prevent the is -iie of draiua e warrants to the tranusifree of contract, unlhr gact No i30 of 1.T7, payable only fronm drainage taxes, and not otherwise; ansy person \violating the prohilbitions [pro vi.ionsj of this article shall, oni conviction le pnieihed by i:.n~risonimnt for not less than two nor more thlln ten ;ears, and bIy tine uf' not less than three dollars nor more than ten thmlsand dollrrs Se'. 2. Be it further eneeted, etc., That at said next general election, the wishes of theelectols in the premises, shall be ex presed by printed or written ballots, as iollows : " For the amendment limiting the debt of N:w Orleans." or "" Against the amendmient limiting the debt of New Orleans," and the said ballots shall ,1e countetd and returns made, and the r u.-:lt declared as in 'the c:e., of elch tion of State otie ers. (Signed) CIIARLES W. LOWELL, Speaker of ti ! Hdle of Representatives. (Signed ) C.. ANTOINE. Lieutenant Governor and 1'rtsident of the Senate. Approved FIebruar 241. 187 1. (Signed) WILLIAM P. KELLOGrG, Governor of the State of Louisiana. A true copy : P. (. DEStLonI.,. Secretary of State. $150 () It REW ARD ! ! $5() by the Governor and $1000 by Widow Barland, for information thait will lead to the arrest and conviction of the murderer or murderers of DAVID BARLAND. PROCLA.LAT'ION. Five llandred Dollars Reward. STATE OF LOUIB.ANA, ) Executive Department, Now Orleans, May 19, 1874. Whereas, information has reached me that I on the night of Saturday, the second of May, 1874. DAVID BARLAND, a merchant of Ascension parish, was assassinated in the store of Mr. John Burnside. in that parish, and whereas, all efforts to discover and ar 3 rest his murderer or murderers have flailed ; Now, therefore, I. William Pitt Kellogg, Governor of the State of Lonliiana. do issue r this my proclamation onfering FIVE HUN I)RDED DOLLARS for scnh info;rmation as f shall lead to the arrest and conviction of the murderer or murders of tihe said David B. rland as aforesaid. I Given under my hand, and Otna seal of the State hereunto attached, this nineteenth day of May. in the year of our Lord. eighteen I hundred and seventy-four. and of the iude l"Mnde'nce of the United States the ninety eighth. c WILLIAM P. KELLOGG. IBy the Governor: P. G. I)ELONDE, f Secretary of State. $1000 Reward. The above reward of ONE THIOUS AND DOLLARS will be paid by the a undersigned to any person who will E' furnish such inforimation as shall lead to the arrest and corvictian of the murderer or murderers of the late DIavid Barland. WIDOW DAVID BARLAND. Parish of Ascension, May 31, 1871. l ST. JOSEPH'S ACADEMY. 1 Rev. Father Cuppena, Director. e YM. Keating, P rincipal. The amnual examination of the pupils of the above Inrstitution will take place nt I-Prilay, 3lst inst. 'fThe exercises will be Sfrom to 1 I A. M., and from I to 3 P. M. An exhibition consisting of minor dr.a matic I.-rformances. ul. some efforts in ju wnitle eloution will be given on Sunday Scvening, August 2d. The p.'ents of the pupils, the patrons of e the stchlad antl the f'ricnds of eidneation g.n trally, are respc.-tfiflly invited to attenl atnd Snote te lprogress of the young people edl nI'ated in this establiahient. With the exuamination on IFriday the reg ular school session will close. August is the usual vac:ttion moutt:k but Mr. and Mrs. t Keatig will keep vacation sclhool for those 11 who choose to attend. ,f During the vecation sclhooul young men do ticient in any particula. Illrith, will h)e iwr i miitted to give lcpi:al attent ion to that. U without reference to the ordinary routine of classes. SThe next regular school year will corn d mence on Tuesday, Septenlber 1st. Im r mediately on the opening of the session d classes of Algebra and Geometry will hbe i: troduced, and provision will be made for uninterrupted lessons in French, (ermam a and Latin. 11 Bookkeeping and Connnercial calculations eo onstitute a speciality: and Drawing and Painting are iscluded in the routine of the Academy. Mr. Keating takes this opportunity of say ing that he continues to dlevote his morningas o and evenings to private tuition; and that hl is prepared to impart a practical knowledi, of Land Surveying to young gentlemen n~% search of a profession. With a view to this end a select few would be received as boarders, augl "M. KEATING" THE FAVORITE HOME REMEDY, Is eminently a Family Medicine; and by being kept ready for immediate resort will save many an hour of suffering and many a dollar in time and doctors' bills. After over Forty Yearas' trial it is still re ceiving the most unqualified testimonials to its virtues from persons of the highest char acter and responsibility. Eminent physicians commoend it as the most Effectual Specific For all disenses of the Liver, 8tomach and Spleen. The ymaptoms of Liver Complaint are a bitter or had taste in the mouth ; Pain in the Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken for Rheumatism; Sour Stomauch; loss of Appetite; Boiwels alternately costive and lax; Ioladache; Loss of memory, with a painful sensation of having failed to do something which ought to have been done; Debility, Low Spirits, a thick yellow ap pearance of the Skin and Eyes, a dry Cough often mnistaken for Consnumption. 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