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T ardrer. wvamr asse ouArhSIe)Ws lbfný'aMstl en as I n Mrcahants, N 41 Union street. New-) O sao ._ _ Ist·.Udr S, Bm P. BErdrage ....O.t EPCEb RB, 504~as _:IXOY O0. ~~~~~~~. 4 ~riibr QC~I6 3A2'VJITOCBZ : : T at. Xo eINTT is our duly hather !ains at New Orleans. IllORATZO UETMOUR. of New York. YIC3-PaRssnNT: F. P. 3?A ZR. * Of Missouri. 10R TUE STATE AT ioLARE: .. WICOLIFFE, of West Fellolana. 4IAH GAR.WRT t, of Ouachita. ALTZRNATE: ,AMES P. FPREET. ot Jeffereozu.. UDGE o 3J. N, LUEA, Qf Orleais. DISTiarIT ELuorTOe Lst Coag. Dist.-A. SAMBOLA4 d .. .. M. B. BRADY. 3d. .... A. .' BREBON. th .. .. A. DuBLANO. t .. .. N. W. COLBMAN. ALTERNATES: t Coug.g Dist.-T . P.8HRBURNE. d .. .. GEO. W. RAOE. rd .. .. J. H. KENNARD. hSA .. .. E. N. CULLUM. - W. P. BLACO MAN. I. H- B RI( 1 EAM a U WI U &4 J ua5· a w a was{R-*Vw and cowardly-attempt was madeto assas- I ainate Mr. B. L. Pierson, at his residence about four .miles from this place. He was sitting just outside the door ..with his head reclining on the portiso-railing talking to one of his freedmen when he was fired upon; one of the shot taking effiot in his forehead, in an oblique manner, and another in the breast, rang ing round the side, and coming out under the shoulder. Had it vfrled the least particle and entered the cavity, instant death would have ensued; or had the shot in the fore-head boen directed in a sttaight course, the result would have been the same. The other parttof the load passed over Mr. Pierson's head, through an open door, barely" missing Mrs. Pierson, and Igdged in a door lead iatl&ntoan adjoining room. The stair is shrouded ih mystery; no evidenee, as yet, has been elicited which would lead to the detection of the guilty. The shot have been extracted and the patient is in a fair way of recovery. Both Houses of Congress have ad Journed until the third Monday, 21st day, of September. A highly colored farce was enacted in town yesterday evening. A grand Rad ical pow-wow was held at the Court House, at which about three hundred of the loyal complexion were present, who were addressed by Geas. Flood and Mudgett. Loud socrt-mente and lusty cheers, at regular intervals, prevailed throughout the "dark proceedings." In candor, we must admit that both speeches were of a mild and concilintory nature, that of the former, especially. Though nothing seriously objectionable was uttered by either. See advertisement of Mr. Jos. Eser nack in another column. We have received the first number of the Campaign Democrat, published at Shreveport, in the Oaddo Gazette office. 8. H. Calhoun, editor; Col. Jack Whar ton and B. J. Looney, Esq., associates. Mr. Bay, of Ouachita, has introduced a bill in the Senate providing for the abolition of the office of Parish Recorder and transferring the duties of the same to the Clerk of the District Court. Another bill has also been introduced empowering Parish Judges to grant divorces. J. M. B. Tucker and M, H, Carver, Esqr$., Town Councilmen elect, have been daly installed and enter upon the discharge of their official duties. Mr Simmons, Druggist, has received a large and select asuortment of Toilet artiles, such as Pera*mery of the most gxquisite odors, Combs, Brushes, Paints, Powders, etc.; also, Catlery, Stationery, ani other articles too numerous to men tion, all of which can be had cheap, for lcash. The New Orleans Times of the S6tl al., says the safe of the steamer BoRe ý, Franks was robbed of $2400 while lying .at thie Stock Lading. Nobody know who done it. far that a large s3ad&sothi*St Dsaon - asmsnmeeting was bold is Winuit da uiogoraer is is ', - frthe havlng officially i.pettasd ai thatlsseot R o. r Outh Caro. tb tane, Louisiana, Gorgita, Alabama an sa Bronds, have complied w th tie;reoo- ini st lruion lnets, leoin.ti~j3 Of Jine3 su 25, 1868, and that cosequen y soinuch dh of the act of Mereb 2d.'°1867', sad all us acts supalemaentary;therteo, providing - for miitrd ts subject to the mill- si --rt authorit ' 'f . the U ited States as wl provided, ha b~b nne fmperativo in wi those 8tetes, and the Commandin; Gen- th orals haveeoased exercuisng the military power conferred by. saimd ata.tbereure a~ the following changes will be. made in m the .orgabitatle and eommand of the military distrotis and geographical de- th partments. so L The Sdconud and Third Military Die- vi trias having ceased to exist, North and aI South (arolina, Georgia, Alabamaand oc Florida will constitute the Department of the Soutb, Gen. Meade to conimand, a with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. 2. Gen. Gillem will command the bI Fourth Militarr District, comprising w Mississippi. 3. Gen. Reynolds will command the si Fifth Military District, comprising Texas, headquarters at Austin, Texas. to 4. LouIsiana and Arkansas will con stitute the Department of Louisiana, 5, Gen. Roseeau commanding, headquar- b ters at New Orleana. Gen. Buchanan will continue in eoonmand until relieved by Gen. Roeaeau.- I 5. (Ueu. George Crooke relieves Ien. Roeseau in the Department of Columbia. 6. Gen, Canby is reassigned to the command of the Department of Wash ington. is 7. Gen. Edward Kath, Colonel 9th Cavalry, relieves, Gen. Buchanan as As- tl sistant Commissioner 'Freedmen's Bu reau in Louisiana. . W AsINmToN, July 28.--In aooord ance with the concurrent resolutions of b Congress, Secretary Seward proclaims reciting the fhets and circumstanoes,and 0o concludes, "And I further certify that a the said amendment 14th has become al valid to all idtents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United P States." t WAsaneNTON, July 27.-Slmon Cor ley, a Represeatative from South Caro- p hlnas w seated. The Senate has confirmed General Bosenecana Minister to Mexico, Enos I Hedge Associate Justice of the Supreme I Court, sad Lewis Wolfley Assessor of s Internal Revenue for the First District t of Louisiana; and rejected Sleon M. Johnson, Assistant Seoretary of the Treasury. The President has nominated Alex ander Cummings,of Pennsylvania, Com missioner of Internal Revenue. The bill reorganizing Mississippi, Virginia and Texas, came up in the Sen- t ate, and on motion of Mr. Conkling, was tabled. WASmHorTON, July 25.-The Presi dent nominated horsey B. Thomas to be collector of Customs at New Orleans, vies Kellogg. Mr. Thomas was recently a citizen of Tennessee. The Presidont also nominated J. L. Johbson, his brother, to be Collector, I and Jas. B. Lowell to be Assessor of the Third District of Louisiana. Rejected., The President concluded not to veto the Feedmen's Bureau bill, but upon reflection to-day he sent to Congress a brief veto, which is in these words: "Believing that a bill entitled an act relating to the Freedmen's Bureau, pro viding for its discontinuance, interferes with the appointing power coneirred by the Constitution on the Executtve, and for other reasons, which at this late pe riod of the session time will not permit me to state, I herewith return it to the Senate, in whibah house it originated, without my approval. A. Joan8NO." That vulgar and unprincipled sheet, the La Croase Democrat (I) calls Frank P. Blair "the Butcher of St. Louis," and I wants to know "if the Demooratic party has fallen so low as to be ead by such ereatures as this 'Butcher' and the other members of the pestilent lflair family." D. Creswell, Eaq., lataidg received his eommission as Parish Judge of Caddo Parish, has retired from the editorial department of time South-Westein. The Jimplenteof the 28thn alt., re ports the river at Jefferson as having risen several uhes in oaquenes of Ithe lte he~y raint. Benatr Morton, of Indians, has en. doreed the gteenbeok plan of the Deom Socratie platform. Senator Do;ittle- of Wisconsin, has written an eioqnent and patiotic letter r in aupport of o etymr sat Blair. The city of Paris owes 90,00,000,O in S * - The river oppoPlts thi point has raflei one fbosalae oer lst sad continues to reedbe atLos rtk ot16 ieheso i twenty. feur eou It has hlen in all about Iifeo seillrhat s. Thlere is wfa-l I... Sweta, trml. e bars between Upder date of New Orleans, JDaly18s ýg Gen. Bucbamnln issmed.the fgBhowlug t:a To avoid the necessity of tnswering ° nunjiroua questions, _whitb t be~ n sqked on the subjeet-the Sob-Asssta t nly loimniissioners and Assistant Sab.A* ' of eitb O o sete plauter-who $avr eei n4appi ,t h sa alloters interested, are diatintly tl informed, that the entire crop of otto s, sugar, rice andaurplus corn-after e dueting. the amount nqeesary .for $e and Suse of the planter, for the coming 'ear iaw -I-will be forwarded to the merchans signed to the Agriuoltural District in which the planter lives, in compiaunoe tlhe with Orders No. 14, current series from these Headquarters. to No exeuses will be taken fwiwn anuy agent who does not see this orderrigidly whit I carried out. Hereafter, no agent will forward to t " these Headquarters, the application for it supplies of any planter, under the .pro- a " visions of Circular No. 1, current series, I applylg j r thIe jlr.t ste, without o 1 companying the papers with a report of, sea: t 1st. The prospects of the crop of the our applicant being suflcient to reimburse the government, for supplies that may litic 3 be furnished, as well as to pay the I wages, or shore due due laborers. 2d. The fact that the government as- tor 3 sistance is absolutely necessary. And, 3d. The easiest mode of aooess to the plantation. The provisions of Ciroulars No. 1 and 5, and Order No. 14, current series, will ont be closely adhered to. odti I We clip the following card from the in t Natehitoohes Times of last Saturday, him which we are requested to publish:" prii A CARD. diat July 81, 1868. T Messrs. ditors:- find i tim last gr issue of the Bed River News that the -a1 Editors of that paper have taken it uponi en themselves to publish that the colored of 1 orator who spoke at Beulah Church on tram L. Saturday last, stated that "not a single our f black man joined the party," and "that cur the assertion of the colored champion tuns of the Democracy is chtitled to credit, hav and proves how for the Spectator bver- fool shot the mark. Wh : As I was the only colored speaker pie present at the Barbecue, I suppose I am viol the one alluded to. If I am entitled to rigl "credit," I hope the Bed River News tria will accord it to me, when I state that ens the account given of the Barbecue at deft Beulah Church by the Spectator is cor- tior L reCt, and that "black men" did join the Coe Democratic party at the time and place of i stated. In conclusion, I beg to say that Z I made no such statement as the one at- tut tributed to me by the Bed River News. owi c0 Yours, respectfully, disc KING JOHNSON. wit SEIZURE OP SOUTHERN RAILROADS tog 1- BY THnv GovIItMIs4N.-The Secretaty of bir war has inaugurated a new policy re- the garding Southern railroads. Many of riei these have been largely indebted to the to 1 government for a long time on account poý of material purchased at the close of the the war, and most of them, although able, bai have persistently neglected to mlake pay- uni ' ments. In all such cases it is in contom- gr plation to appoint government receivers dei to take full possession ot such roads and pec control and operate them till the debt the ' is paid. Several roads have already eim e been taken possession of in this man: th ner, which is in strict accordance with hai the terms of the contract entered into nog a when the government material was pur- ma a chased. Those roads which are re really of unable to pay will be as leniently dealt tbh ct with as justice to the government will cla allow. rei y me 'y From a copy of the Ia Crosse DeolQ- lib id crat, which we received from a friend, e- we learn that Mr. Pomeroy does not adl Be it mire Seymour and Blair, and that he dol 0 was bitterly opposed to the New York the ;: Convention nominating them. As it inn was to his pecuniary interest to abuse de all the gentlemen who were prominent ' before the Oonventled except Mr. Pen- to ik dleton, we are not surprised at htis hoe- pit id tility towards the nominess. But let ha ty him rant and rake as much as he chooses; eh 31 the Demosracy of the country applaud eo the action of the Convention in selecting pr er two men, both of whom hmve done more n " since they were nominated to unite the t Sparty and restore confidence than he b ever didt with his millions (1) of copied g o of the Democrat.-[Mlfasfleld Times. Butler declares be never fell in love-* He, however, must feel spooney it times a . oSBOtiERN PACIPIC BAIL BOAD.- STwelve thousand cross-tiles have been o purchased, and preparations are making If to put the road in splendid order in a time for the Fall trades The locomotive r n' Samn Houston has been refitted through- ni m- out, and will hestfter bQar the naime of oi Horatio Seymniour. The Ben JohnSOn tisa also to be refitted at once.. The business a season will commeoeo with the road in a r thorough repairr an ample suapply of roll- it ing stock, and plenty of loeomotivd pow. s in or. We are tiforajed that, notwith- a standing the dullness of the timeS, the p1 road has bdeit Inakinga sufillicient Amont C lev to pay all exlenses, with a little to spare. Il to -[Marshsal (Tesnm4 Bre6Nosa. r at An exchange days the difference be- t hl tween eating strawbeii esCd ereap; i, and kieslug a pfett girl, isial)lthat p s tit ald.t be apreelatd. leseee t distate on this point, Weever, md we p ase abeat, 1i abecinn apI of meu Ssaseulas, a oe&r t. twit isus.e ia of I V ..a.p em;pends lb pity of replyiug toyor' ilterb ttb "e me of nes.ain sa fSter of the United States, by the _aI .a I emouereate Cosv~nsa'o t,wesoI 7 iat the elty of New Teak. I eeeapt, with- a omt besltatlbn, the nomination tendered F lnhrs manneraio "grafyng mhod give $'oq U and theopmmittee my thsaks fo the e1 very kind aid eplimentmary lguae in which yoir have conveyed to me the a deisiton of the Convention, I hee are- p hally read the reptions adopted by f the Convention, alamost co~ cn 4 eur li every primoep and en b they announce. 0 My opinion upon all the questions- a which discriminate the eat contending a parties have been freely expressed on all suitable ooeaaonS, ad I do notdeem' it necessary at. this time to retaterat them. The iasue upon which the con test turns is elear,. and eannot be ob scared or distorted by the sophistries of our adversaries. They.alresolve them- C selves into the old and ever-recurring b struggle of a few men to absorb the po- p litical power of the nation. o This effort, under every conceivable P namb and disguise, has always eharaos a to lized the opponents of the Democratic a party, but at no time has the attempt c assumed so open and daring a shape as o in this contest» The adversaries of free constitutional Government, in deflatoe of the express language of the Consti- a tdtion,have erected a military despotism in ten States of the Union; hare taken c from the President the power vested in f him by the supreme law, and have de- a *priveil the Supreme Court of its, jurle t diction. The right of trial by Jury'{ arid the great right of right-the habeas corpu i-those shields of safety for every citi- a soen which have descended to the people a I of the United States from the earliest i traditions of our ancestors, and which a our Revolutionary fathers fought to so- ~ t cure to their posterity forever in the fundamental charter of our liberties, c have been ruthlessly trampled under foot by the fragment of a Congress. t Whole States and communities of peo r pie of our race havebeen attainted, con rioted, condemned and deprived of their 1 rights as .itizeles without presentment, t s trial or witness, but by Oongressional c e onactmnt of as post facto laws, and in 4 I defiance of the Constitutional prohibi tion, denying even to a full and legal D Congress the authority to pass any bill 4 e of attainder or ea post facto laws. t The same usurping authority substi- . tuted as electors, in place of men 'of our . own race, thas illegally attainted and disfranchised, a host of ignorant neo groes, who are supported in idleness I with the publio money-, and combined s together to strip the white race of their.. ýf birthright through the management of 1 - the Freoedmen's Bureau and the enmssa- 1 ýf ries of conspirators in other States; and, i e to complete the oppression, the military t power of the nation has been placed at eltheir disposal, in order to make this • barbarism supreme, the military leader ý- under whose prestige this usurping Con - gi-ess has taken refuge since the con -l demnation of their schemes by the free d people of the North in the elections of it the last year, they hare selected as their y candidate, to shield themseltes from i the result of their wickedness and crime, I has announced his acceptance of the A nomination, and in his willingness to r- ]maintain their usurpations over millions y of white people at the South Aded to It the earth with his bayonets, he ex Ii claims, "Let us have peace!" "Peace reigns in Warsaw,'' was the announcb ment which heralded the doom of the - liberties of a natida. , "The Empire is peaeof" e~oelItgied 1 Bonaplarte, when freedom and its defen 1 ders expired under the sharp edge of 'k the sword. The peace to which Grant it invites us is the peace of despotism and t death. t Those who seek to restore the Consti I- tution by executing the will of the peo - ple, comdemuing the reconsbtruction acts, at have already pronounced the wish in the a; elections of Ilast year, and will, I am td convinced, still more emphatically ex ig press it by the election of the Demoetftic re candidate as President of the United e States, are denounced as revolutiouists Ie by the partisans of this vindictive Con 0 greus. Negro snfrage; which tite popula~ r vote of New York, New Jersey, Penn 0 sylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut, Sanid other States had colddmnenod as et pressly agatinst the letter of the COnsti - tation, must stand, because their Sei.a n tors and Itepresentatives hare willed it. g If the people shall again condemn these In measures by the election of the Demo c eratic candidate for Presl ent, they muast h- not be disturbed, alth h decided to of nneonstitutional bly thiaptemne C(ourt, is and the President is sworn to maintain '3 and support the Constitution, thle il of ina fractuon of Congress, reinfbrceod with l- its partidan emissaries sent to the Soutl r* and supported there by the soldiery, h. must stand against the will of the pe he ple, and tihe decision of the 8tapreuae mt Court, and the solemn oath of the Pr e. Ident to support the Constitutletu It is revolutionary in the Plresidunt to kes inviolate his oath to sustasin the om e- totion. n, This fals smustemolea tli & vta at prindelpier oour oeqtm~ a t i. tie me resort of thcs. rwh re pesmaae our .1 h~afq of ti. ImaI1 ethe that areat eatrben. losed tbhWba the fht Juste edotr. friend ý.oeor ttfm ;, a R_ loved that s the Democrant o tas'f "I ~am y regimenjst iis had in ftl sympatee . "o olbject any otetst eratio party the l Gov. Beymour , . iarrg a soldiasled hot tohe abolvtonts nys thate qitho e oaly . he .iw ed.ld Goi.' Grant said . oy regiment is a shalI be oonvtned ther odeat anyd otet t rention, orby the goN usharaing te soldiers de of the Blaolitioets, e a soldier that Iee wl ae on the wthor side andt the pemost hole some." nting their own lcsOrep Pome though many dea f otp her adsy and sodhi atneone th atpt . t ut the seasona Justf Sead are alwaire ties whenby the heard i' olaraotesriesti denunolaiqq anighd Blair thn t bowe tk, The aMedical tdJounru it 5as a uest body, among peple ogy of men, whethe t head exalted or levol with the most wholeeso pee g , Aiting clheir own a dry gue in favor of that whiielt Now, though many delightt4 up heads at night.,i andh without injtany yet we'd days erous Ibt. Tbhe the blood passes from head aro alwaya ties when the h rd hienougher than the body;th diseasels attonult sitli l slhould be pretty neatly 0o5 a, the body, and people rughbt .to a tearnlg teleepi ang th . th clerk in a dry g oat, oie night, having fet his acQdaintano dating bri dlayL Out itfrbittf}ltrlqI tom to topnin" he d . pastyoer twho wated hea says he shoaA aitwatd thearing the clerk ii a you wanted: sas enougbr " ad te ae.tth a tearineg noise and the the clerk albdlrted oat, doing yb u have torn ilý7 tom to topV The pe;r, ad biw it' in his hiora customler tho wanted calico. The shouts se the eave.t.peddesl rn.a vdi M| 4 Pend'et.a. fot Sey"mor Lit Thk .i a.