VOL. 4. -- ---L --- _ _ ; VERMILIONVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, 15 MAY 1869. NO. 30. . . . -. O, FiIAL .Q(JsA,4 sf.Ie ,Pariah of lltR"! ?opus of Pgerusilienvill, w"Uish.k Balerg ºtur a . W.M. B. BAILEY; PROPRIETOR. } ssaema t of aiokuee of .u of aisiwkmel , we have" beeiCompelte. t!o tI,44qt ,6wends (qr i Saul. -a er;uttsr rb "i.;ýQ oda, fr tR ae Lenefier Aivetiaerm)aa, will bs found on tbh _ js14b uIda'ot coalla _ ý1ýe __ st call theattetion of . publie to the upeetingýon be.t Fe1d.1bom CAA "R u. i/ our "Tb at ill. V, Z b: wt.ftele inning uwdf 1 r r p adajsRloums t Joiffa1 itei~yyur people. a[ 3e dds!., . ýrf t +IMe o aai i ýaiap,.t i "I day of M aa wee aIrmaosly adopted. .- I i charges~o ~ m of &ajIl and th Damowgwt pornoi t a othe...., here ed the viit such Coegveseiomelttb -u aa dhputes.dýjlJus. rs ftjw edcs . dice, i r! c if~iý N ".i_: "1I·· Urbe"rkrrrr mM jd.ý twt MTId ruli se wrioi ir xriia sawoL bibs diet l Yb.. Jiwile 4mM UpiiriYak s we gr u J} Anxious to do jýtice to all, it is wit1 pleasure that * inse0 the following communication from Johh G. Brooks, A Sheriff of St. Landry: SOPt1T.o~es, May 11th 1869. Editor of the "dliirer : In your issue of la.t Saturlay you say: SWe have been reliably informed that U. S. Troops had been sent to the Tows of Opehlusas, to enforce aprpontnment of and induct to offioe, Dr. Brooks and Capi. Amrein; the former new oppointeJ sheriff Fn place of James G. Ilayes, regularly ele.c ted by the people," &i,. B. Believing that it is your intention to psopagate the truth, I will take occasion to correct the statement of your informent sfi'~ tst eaplies to myself; I do this the moep )sry, because the implication feeqI your laugieget ii that I was' imtr senal, us partly so, in procuring the p seeee of eolotetroops in this Parish. This is entirely a Histalke, I have neither requested, sao counteasnoed any military aid to induct nme into offle; I had been recognised, by the CoUrt and entered upon discbi ar of bhe duties of my,pofll, previque tlir ia ui,arlof the troops-a this Parish... If my appointtsbet is' from any capse S ,t idats ti ste it revokeld or ano out solicitation, at. the request of ay iendp h:ntt mail the fk r qf th for eru te' F erlier ed teaFt, for ntb co.tnpian. e with, ibte requiremens t of Ybp Act Abl be ,agiilatem genesae tly hppwn as the EligibiLL t Ac; Under the ciremstances, I eouludeadta saeeopt tte itproving of the presnce . ro troops, ._ .partiqIry ..olsed reep is our .dS's at a lpeied wheal la. uandý oder reign s ira a wfi d do i.agen iretdc i 1ucZ few so poristr m tgh pees I, trus ou will do me the j in to lm 1isthis note. Yours A jcP c ly, I, ., JO, i G. IBOOKS, Sh't. a · · AM M tr~a%."No. i. k 1e 'sam of fWNY bail =been "veied.tv4 -1hu old ý M Ui, (now in Ita 4 ~year,) qý " .. ta~·R picroes~m en. c BM.isw .siuy peiaeed.4a "paper S4witU fir lsttes 01itt o6.e. and 4. I a t~ c4'id ' eq lemp wlos A "a Ji~ -#lh IC~q9tiek w~ta ;,l·au oamwho wiblllake 4.trenib1. to amriqpioi Yorthe Cal or~~M (and al .i fliiit Wica~crll at this dsAtt(ti hL U 1P + t. ~a~nj~o~~h~t4hb .afp o(e k l }, ~i;k~acrriC, ry , .iL rs 06 P~ali4N+ ! regu aas ezs 'W I" JO didi at u toS b. asb ugton, it wjyld appear hna.a.M bad yblr~.' ited betweena Sea. ,IMA Very ni*ral iortb"# ttl i~er J' sr . t bsir tY ast m my - , ~U . . ' " ~a - y The Extension, to and througi Attakapas, of the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad. [From the N. O. Picaynae.] The property holders, planters and citi zens of the parishes of St. Mary, Iberia. St, Martin, Lafayette, St. Lai,.ry, Vermilion and Calcasieu are, one andi all, very mou.h interested in the early completion of the the Opelousas Railroad through their sec tion of countrv to Texas. Many gentle men of means, from the Western States and ehlswhere have since th,, w:ar plr chased farms and plantations on Bayou Techa and in the Attukspas counltry. These persons shuld and aidoulitlea ito know, fiom experience., what are the ad vantages of having communication by rail with the principnl market fo, their pro ducts; they know also that the value of their lands will be greatly enhanced by the building and orperation of the railroad. Therefore, it is their man ifest duty, as it is the duty and fterest of all, to come for ward now, when it only needs "a pull, a etrong pull and a pull alt.'gether," to lift the road out of the mire and carry it speed ily and trioudphantty through to Texas. In the parishes above named a large sub scriptiomn ought to be obtained to the stock and bonds called for in the plan to sare and complete the Opelousas Railroad, sub mitted by its Board of Directors. The exhibit of the eondftion of the Ope leasas Railroad Company, made by the diylton who hbae aigned and pubnshed their address to our citizens, show that with proper encouragement and the aid ask ed for the seccess of this great public work .ill be madoeirtaiq Thegntl.me~ who h., signed this addressm ae well known in this community and there -can be no doubt of the reliability of their statements. If the road is sold unlder the executory proges obtained is thb sit olcharles lorgan it witf be a sale onfv of the preo ast fidnistl part of it. icding at Brashear. The purchaser wouA ,l i mianjl ifinlties n his way, even i he deýird to extendl the osd, for, the/'eempany. woidG =hot b. di.. olved, necessarnly, by thwsal- ; its char er, francbises, landrant, etc., would still 'main. The tree ge.ditio. of sfir. m.a we on |erstand the case. is this: II Mr. Morgan btys that part of the Opelonsam Railroad now buiit f.. Afgier_.tq I, ick's Bay, eighty miles in l4ngt II is almost ' rertain that he wilt do so. it is old-he Id coultd not if he wou?.i, sad it is trsennabt Seertxin th t he would nqt if he could, haild Si a single foot beyood Brashear. S We will add thit the people of this city Y and State, if they will not sabsoribe the ir small amount needed to save te road from .a ,,~nd to iw nre its tn.m 4i . - tntio, -t Vermniiimville ad L t 'p Texaus, will have.forfeited thleir right to 4 ! me a . rIk ti n, if rbed pwrehase the irod aned. wil rot eato*d it b. ol itts d present terminus. The line, by rail and * steamship, from New Orleans to Texas, i complete now, s.pfr as Mr. Morgan's buod usas it ooneerned, I the. road, therefore. is solJ. thein the a prop+ty bolders tred planters of St. Mary SIberia, St.'Martle, St. Lat*ry and the rwie will have no more prospects of hsvi" rairead tho if so portion of the: road ' .evarbee beilt i~ The ,,ity has givenli boasis fori ole til Slihs firt Aidtred hoemas"d llrs, the State for sis hAadret tNsuad (srhuld b. 0O ) ,00 0d, r y oe I m ii t, Shbout fthe'roid hbe so d. alI5ts Tei`T lost, and we 'pJd our.,e &da; *ft be taged for three ganra - S(iahof, taivsa ke up this's tour propr 1 t7 is bourd for every oent of this m.aey / Si p fint i loiI it exteution of ts 1 o+lt 'rg,., iouvidll, and thesce' to >d Riet, lindo'ia odbneohisq with . all the .l roads in exas, by a joiat oCa' thwti 'nr~i spoe oar e ,ae4 1 atpr ty# holders, bankes' 8s,,e,, menm gesuraly. to come fei justified in bel ieagAhat it a ee-" Th 4 } h-1 I& -l; debt the roaSand usres itsr its lir isfrom ai F -i sd rll bwa 4t Li Are we Coming to imperialism ? - The "Round Table," discussing the qum-stion--" Are we drifting into Imperial ism ?"-reasons in this somewhat discour aging strain: " In plain vooth, the age of sensuality of unchecked corruption, of dense, crass ignorence is coming down on us like, night, A free press haould have given more notes of warning than it has; but e the press dislikes, in a free country, to print unpalatable truth, erven when it dis corna such truth, and the journals that' profess " fearless devotion to princip!e" are notorio'jsly the ones whose articles betray the most laborious solicitude to catch the applause and flatter the prejudices of the ,greatest number. 'Meanwhile it what are c- lled our "great centers ;" coarse brutes, who ought to be digging railways or draw ing hand-carts, lay down the law for the whole community, and by dint of vast wealth, amassed undertiroumstances im possible in any other civilised country, degrade the socia: tone, and spread in every direction an unbridledl rage fir the pleasures of the senses. Intellectual ele ration or ambition is scoffed at, and those who strive to inculcate a taste Vfor better things are either hated or despised. 'Noth ing is toionght of but the delights of the table, of fine clothes, of showy dwellings and equipages-in a word, of physical rap ture, of every descriptien. 17 there is a pretense at anytbing else-whether in the pulpit, in the theatre, or in litterature the pill must be gilded so as to appear "sensational." All'this is so widely ad mitted, so shamefully notorious, that its recital is trite enough; we repeat it merely in elucidation of the subject under discus sion. It is impossible, when people think all things of their bodies and nothing of their minds, that either a Demooratic or any other pure form of government can long ble mtaintained. Unless a great cbha.tg comes over American people, it will sot.. be maintained. by themselves., They; are r4shing toward- the precipice at railway speed, and the universal corrup! lion that goo I men deplore is the pre.e e of a deeeopositiou which e aii certain as - - 11- · . -} .. . I .W W.e.trake tb following from the N. 0. Tiases: IDun Piatt. the accomplished Radical lett.r-writer from Wahing)on, says of , Senator Sprague: I wolhl not be astonidhed to hear that :,praiue had esin.med outh (Gallina as I hi, home., and were to seek to represent that State in the Senate. altaas htel acquired large possesLos in Rat part of the world, and his family is there mniuch of the time. This may accout in a measure for the exceedingly libejat vi.ew adipted recentdy r. Sprague.- A residdmce at the South at. no doubt, tetght hinm that tho whole world does not revosve hest New Eng land. Multiplying instance lfke this are ikpidly ; wrkisg th:l deeructies of the t*publios 0tt1, of which so better evij ,denae a.ntiig tb.a ,the entimeate!ot Don Pist hi epr as.ud as follows We eoiptais (that them; Soathemn pie do atl sbept the .otuaio .a&Iok ,doe iaevitable in the face. ewe not 'ilty of the same error I The differedce 'ni atital'l led -to ble. .n : wed. fin hich we laid waste rta ,Weied the hombesteads. an4d, f .-bt be -F6ed.. and Jmeiprgo*,, by depw cr~de a 't i v es, ti t tbh detadjilMdi 'n ton, uraed>M es not, sinpa unished , - , p , lI g bedy feti;ase ee. wo wol det bAe E;tia¶ he we havr in fA used ubV *ar'to 4t ,stselhv( Our so-caled . ipeoeiat mie moneyed interests of Yeakesda m. e .it h.nd, making for tadepet. for a few days." edtieut to see family." ti t, nterea st lisert eLsri 3uiiti)e6&itlit df&14 . w w ta, msake Bob 'hate himtself; eery Seconomy, say our prayers; b i Fruit Trees. 18 The following, respecting fruit trees, I will be found interesting: r- 1. When fruit trees occupy the ground nothing else should-except very short y, grass. ss 2. Fruitfulness and growth of the tree r, cannot be expected the same year. n 3. There is no plinm that the curculio will It not take, thongh any kind may sometimes o escape for one year in one place. 4 Peach borers will not do much dam. t ago, when stiff clay is heaped up around 'e the tree a foot high. V 5. Pear bhlight still puzzles the greatest e men. The ltest rtmedy known is to plant e two for etery one that dies. S 6. If you don't know how to prune don't h, ire a man from the alther side of the sea who knows less than you do. F 7. Don't cut off a big lower limb, un less you are a renter and don't care what becomen of the tree when your time is out. 8. A tree with limbs coming out near D the ground is worth two trees trimmed up five feet, and worth four trees trimmed up ten feet, and so on till they are not worth t anything r 9. Trim dlwn not up. 10. Shorten in. not lengthen up. 11. If you had your arm out off, you would feel it to your heart-a tree will not feel, but rot to the heart. 12. When anybody tells you of a gar dener that that understands all about hor ticulture and agriculture, and that behd be hired, don't believe a. word of it, fur there are none such to le hired. Such a man can make more than you can afford to give him, amnif he has sense enough to qndetrtand the business, he will also have enough to know this.-Boston Co.tier. Pownas or AIsanraxA Cowuase.--TwR interl g cases, affecting tls powe A.mWea, Consuls, and. the rights men in American vessels, were recently i decided in a Liverpool court. Iech cree. was a suit for wages brought against an American vessel. The American Consul C protested against the proseeution of the a suits, on the ground that the ;anw of the - United States gave him exclusive jurisdic ii tiol in the matter. It appra!ed, on e x amination that the pla stia shippd- at San Francisco on voyages which they claimed terminated at Liverpool, while the Ctonsul contended that it was only an o intermediate port. In one case- it was showsn that the plaintiff had signed the shippilng artiles, white p!aintid in the , other had not. The juldge decided that a the Consul bad jurisdiction in the case I 'where the articles had been signed, but b, not in the other. Mi rscGxsscATor. - Lieutenant George P. Wood, of" Boston, Massachusets, was ae married on the 25th ultimo, at Beaufort, 7 by the lkverend Arthur Waddell, a dotl h ored, preacher,. to. Smusa Ulmr. r, colored le girl. ,.Wood. we understand, is from a res pectble famity, and held a comfnission in Maseeusetti regiment known MAthe Bay SStatl Cadvt, during the war. His gene me ral appearance is that of a geqtlemam. i. The evening after their marriage Wood and Susan promenaaed tay street. in com pa y,- i another olored girl, and, on MoayI moraisg, took heir departure for St. U9l Islad, whser'W*.$ b a st re oa one of the plantstiops dof tis toee, Mr. , (O e FProst, a well kiown importer of Sasiks in Boston, Mass. Susan is a nativi "loBeaufort, iad'wasowned before and d,i. v Ig the war by planter ea the oarl.--, CLarle atorn nrei, ltt. 3 The 'Northern papers note a large irurption of Oreadlions into the United States. It would seem that these peopde are .nred to be "for.ehed tith t 1 Seole Chandler backed by his valiant Michi r ders. bte he is talking holly aabout taking their country, they coolly step over and occupy alt tht tdey want of his coun try. It is said that themse-i.aders, not withstRadingr their readiness to, .akdoe ermaoebty l the realtiis of the :ritish - grown, aie still wdeded to the old meoamt dihy ideas. Perhaps they think thb faoaes "rep. ubliof the State" is not republican gt w.* ate on h tu haste t "kick 'he rst u.ari stime ete r . f ith e ~ .d uret inr tl ; m.. of hth war m.e thn .t fi As won im4ii6 ity ab v i ,fi aeunt fr ,d h did'. Ad s*4ai prd ed in Miv fei itheqope h =seedainwtlaluai- priaeipaly t 7r' A follow in Ohio, who wasn't ti to getting married, recently had the k e, tied, in Oakland, and proceeded to hotel, where he seated himself with rd bride in the parlor. As it grew 1late. irt the evening, he ventured to inquire of waiter "how soon their bed would ee brdought in." He was ibstructed in proper 'method of procuring a ill apartment, and safely stowed away. es hour or two after, a strong smell of sent the night watchman hunting for n. leAk. It was traced to the room of ad newly married pair. Demanding ad sion and asking the cause of the t gas, the rural swain replied, poiatitg tSo It the gas burner, that "he blew It out, the darned thing smelt so bad that he pu. his stocking over it." Sure enough th Swas the stocking drawn over the bsirdtl and tied down with ashoe-striag. -" it The "change in the Cabinet" rmla. have broken out again at WamIingtoa. r Borie, Hoar and Fish, it is said, haI ea p aigniflid a desire to retire at an early date p laving remained long enough to tiuet the patronage for their. friqeda we a, readily understand how some of tlý Borie for instance, declines being fAilrt bor(,)ed with the respeasibilities of l a The period of change isa tAed by the rnhslirt it mongers at July let, just before 0r. leaves for his Pacific trip to California.--. Times. e 7 The attention of the reader i ea. ed to the card f L. II. Gardner , ' Dry Goods merchants, holding forth' Nor 91, 93 & 95 Common 8treet N Orleans. It was my lot a short time to visiJ the city for the parp. ;of chasing dry goods; I was introi + well known friend to the owmnei: ka of this new commercisi ir frank and itemansil bemi.Igb win cuasto fei3 any one .?l. bn found my esteemed frienads #riot Tertron; who does not know and ciate them? I fonnd them as Utela and polite, dealing of such superior ty and at such low rates, that I was real amased. Their goods cacaot be pd. . in quality nor is moderate p+ices. 'L Gardaer and Co., caneot be xetallas any ways in the city, I will bet on titr Merchants give them a call and you'll ftl out tJat 1 am telling the truth. NOTCE-- ll suoscribers to the A64 vertiser, are notified that their aoelletus. are made out, and that they must oa . a - and pay the same; otherwase they will. be liable to incur coats 'aidl have t names stricken Irom nor lit. At will is all cases be held liable for incurred for legal advertisements; sai. according to our terms of advertiseme4t. collectable on the iast diay of/pubtideais or ms the day of safe. in OFICE or SECR!AII1 t HOPE LODGE, No. u!, 4 :8, . e Verm l f t ting olf, :Repo & "M4 )ii 146~,~., F.A il be",be·L t tile p-I Loqdge room an iesdaj 25th iist,rJ at* rn o'clock P. M. Wit. BRAN DT, Secretary. of L. So ALI E .. 4r iT USTIGE of the Peace and xtu v 9) Pbi in and forth,' Pirih of T.Al ' yetle. Vinaihideville, Februry 29th- 1. i Office tthe Dn g-Storo« .. T a I B$hi bl i~ead abdt ~. pbl.o that he has r snored . 0 i the Drug Stor, wre h, be ready at Idl h6uu c the dij t&1 t/ o ailstr ( t~A 3l March 6 ' ' Iva t*s* r rirk ·tvic ta th`. WS~Wl rnbO~CU.Ls ~·pu~suas 1pwS~ Hlqiw sew,~ ii-"' ly , .bio a GeV jttih.tar Ot~%i~Ilk ts~~~~t~~i l4dibF~~. e 1m 'here Ing off illti iifW id ire -. are reedy to receive the etudeitW4. ` - talhef-d ~! I~tNR ~d~smceka )