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1 0 ( 1 0 1 .ndcnt ” ceases (o exist with thisLndepen

l tame. A Hst o f its subscribers will be furnished the p e p « to be established in this place, but no Indebtedness has been transferred- The patrons o f fee paper who hare paid inndvagte for subscrip­tion, advertising, 4 c -, w il hart W ie amount for the nnerpired term retnnded. I desg-e to close up the business o f fee office as efefo as possible, and to

end earnestly request fhose knowing them- esires indebted to liquidate b y .note or otherwise. I will be found or represented at the house which he* been fee publication office of fee paper. Ail let­ters addressed as heretofore will be promptly atten­d ed to.

J . Q. A. TALIAFERRO.Haniaonburg, Bay 8fe 1861.-v7-a44.lt

To the Sheriff o f the Parish o f Catakonla.In consideration of (bo excited Stnte of the

public mind, you nre hereby authorized and directed to adjourn the liny term of the District Court of the Parish of Catahoula

eine dû . B. W. RICHARDSON, Judge 12th District.

H aummokboro May 1st 1861.

JO T See notice elswhere in reference to the books and business affairs of this office.

Discordant Concord. On the 21st nit. Ex President Pierce made a very discordant speech at Concord Now Hampshire.

jp a r The watering places are not likely to be much frequented during the ensuing

'Summer, as the great rage seems to be to attend the firing places. Among the lat­ter, Fort Pickens will attract large crowds.

Subscriptions were gotten up in New York to insure the lires of the married men belonging to the “Soott life guard” a com­pany is readiness (o march to Washington. Should the guards extend their march into the Cotton States, we suppose their death might be insured a t a low figure.

JO T A light draft fleet for tbç coming blockade was made and equipped recently at tha Brooklyn Nary Yard. W e are Jold that neither Franoe nor England will swal­low this blockade, either in large or light draught$.

Low D ow n n r O dd V ir o im h t .— Tam O'Shanter’s mare in clearing “the key stane O ' the brig” in her desperate leap to escape the witohes, lost only “her ane gray tail.’’ That trusty old nag Virjpoia, is not likely to fan so when she makes her final jum p out of the Union.- Western Virginia,the far better part of the ancient eommon wealth will, it is now mors than probable, fijo ken iu t during war and daring peace, at lis left behind when the interesting le a p 'm y and

The undersigned bare sold “ The Indepen­dent.” W e are sorry to say "that we cat' no longer conduct the paper in conformity with its title, and a dependent mouth piece we

can bare nothing to do with. There is not on God’s green earth s more odions restriction any where upon the freedom of the press, than that which prerails in the Confederate Slates at this time. The fact is notorious and spoken of far ?an<T,wide. In nothing that we hare said, hare we uttered anytbfeg treasonable. We hare rfolated no law. We hare never at any time in the remotest jngn- ner, touched private character* or private re­lations. Our press has opposed with the little^ility it has possessed, the secession and disunion doctrines that are now in the as­cendant. W e hare been honest] and con • Bciuplious Jn so doing. This we believe in coocrtftd to us. But, the objections now urged against the further discussion of the secession principle*is, that, disunion is now an accomplished fact, and that it is impoli­

tic now to speak freely of the character of the new government under which we hare been placed, by the appliances of conventions and without the approval, of the people. That anything now said in regard to the government of the Confederacy, or of the manner in which it has been brought about, only serves to create the impression abroad that there is disunioo among ourselves and a portion of cur poeple dissatisfied with the new order of things.

We might refer to the fact that the se very reasons were tha ones upon which the sedi­tion act of 1708 was founded. That act prescribed penalties against writing, printing or publishing sny thing disparaging to the government. With all its tyranny, it a l­lowed the accused party the right of proving the truth of the libellous majter charged against him. That law, thus infringing the freedom of the press, brought down upon the administration of the fednr Adams the indignant condemnation of the whole peo­ple. Under the ensuing administration of Mr. Jefferson, the great principle was in­augurated that the press shall in fa ct aa well as in name be freer, free to speak anyth ing it m aj choose to speak of the government, of public men as such, and of public mea­sures; it being better that this privilege should be abused, than that the freedom of the press should be restricted in the slight­est degree. This great principle has been recognized end acted uoon as one of the pillars of American freedom fur sixty years. Ever fenée its recognition, the press hat

takes place. In that event, it will lie only the rump and lower parte of the mother of States that will get into access iondom.

Irrey iU r V ulU fttfciy.W e are informed that efforts a n making

by persoas of Tensas pariah, through paucity of material there, to fill ont their volunteer companies by reerviting from this parish. This is certainly a novel method and one Oft- heard of before, of raising this excise of mili­tary fovea. The Vffiaateer soldier assumes a high aad ebivalrio position. B e comes for­tran! at Um time of hie oountryV Med to ren­der it hie personal senrioe, and that without eompekioo, aad without any other induce* meat than that of attachment aad regard to hie country. That seme patriotic seutimrut, influence* him to desira that the meed of praise be may acqnire by deeds done in his eoautry** behalf, shall redound as well to the honor of bis immediate county oy perish, as to bit whole oountry. Aad herein consist, very much of the Méprit da Cbryr, so erase, liai in military bodies. But this mixing up of men from different parishes, infringes up. on acd breaks up tele essential aad time honored principle, the spring and lerer to ImmcwMi oospttitioi Is 4itfin£ deeds and greet achievements. We earnestly hops that neck parish wifi form Us ewa eempftuhM of its ewa men ; and that tes men of this par­ish, who am radioed to volunteer their ser­viere ia the present smirgm cy, will do eo in their own perish ; as; fa the publie judge­ment, that woaid auraly ha On more credita­ble coarse for them to punas.

A law yean after the battle of Waterloo, a nixed company of Scots aad Irishmen over their cups, were discussing that memo­rable euPffMMUt. A Scotchman was veryi _1 1-1 tot fffcte Muri.

ment tent ee distinguished itself on that de- eidve Said, when an Irishman hauled eat: “HowU there me datHat ! It's bet little ye knew. Half the Scotch that fought then

were Irish T Bow would it redound to fotao of our ShUNfe brethren, if in adoit tines whan epo of Uten, spealihf of the humlaf of the ffhaeur company ie sot hattle, should be reminded feat batf(or two ffirirde as the earn aright be) of the Teasaa

say about the government,*]or public men suras, or the public note of public officer*; and although the privilege has been often aad greatly Abased, yet the abuse has been

tolerated in consideration of tha absolute necessity in a See country, of having a free press.

The reasons offered fa ith s sedition law were utterly ignored u p H the iaoomiug of Mr. Jefferson's administration. They are not worth a rash now. N o reaeon can be given in n fr e t country for the slightest re­striction upon the freedom o f the prêt» in the discussion of the character of a government, its measures and affairs of every kind and of the public acts o f public mew.

W e know that by the Constitution of the Confederacy it is provided that laws shall not be made to abridge the freedom of the press; and we know that no laws have been enacted in contravention of that clause. But ura are tiro apprised that there are, all Wer this confederacy, appliances brought to bear upon the freedom of the prase more potent thee lews. We desire not to be understood the! fee bare felt in aay direct or Imme­diate manner, the ferae of such appliances; but it je enough to know that they do exist. I t ■ « fortunate for us, that in discussing the prieeipfea <f the new constitution as all other Coastitutions are d item ed, we bam incurred censure—Perhaps our (ra re s t of- base is, that we hare frequently demonetrn- ted aad bave tbe power at any time to de-

must and will

■XPOfet WJTIEp—THE MAIL K8ABLISUMENT.

Taxation levied upon the productive in­dustry of a country, is always onerous and more or less oppressive, and always impolitic Export duties are expressly forbidden bywe Constitution of the United States, except to the States, by consent o f Congress ; and the the power is limited “ to what may be noces sary for executing their inspection laws.’'Congress itself is absolutely prohibited .tions of supplying general and constant in-

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from laying export duties. I h f Constitution of the Confude racy gives to tbs Congress of Confederacy, th e right, of laying export duties ; and that Congress has exercised the right already, by laying an export duty or tax upon cotton, which amounts to fifty cents per bale on each bale of four hundred pounds. That this duty is paid by the for­eign purchaser, the advocates of expert duties would feign have the people to believe ; but so absurd a proposition can never he enter­tained by an intelligent community. If au import duty upon an imported artiefe, raises the price of that article to the consumer, by the amount of the diity, surely sf*«pfert duty upon an exported artioie, redices the prioe of the exported article by the amount of the export duty. In other woJs, the import duty is paid by the buyer and the export duty by the seller. The seller in the one caee raises the price of tho article upon which the import duty is placed, aid the buyer in the other case gives less (hy the amount of the export duty) for the article on which the export duty is Uid. The taller in one case, makes the import duty behas to pay, come out of the buyer by raifeig the price of what he sells. The buyerin the

other case makes the export duty he has to psy, come out of the seller by giviog less for,

wbat be buys.Export duties are nearly allied to.Excise

duties the most odious form of taxatiaa ever resorted to. The Vice President of tbi Con­federate States in his Savannah speeck, does not mention this matter of export dutfs and we infer that it is one of the things wlfeh he “ would rather” have. had omitted. The power to levy export duties, tgive n fo the Congrats of the Confederacy, migkt be wielded with tremendous effect upoa this State. Suppose the Congress should levy an export duty upon sugar. That duty would fall almost exclusively upon Louisiana; for very little sugar is raised ia any other State. If levied upon rice, it would, in like manner fall ahieflv upon Soqth Carolina ; for no other State of the Confederacy produces a large amount of rice. It is more eqtudi on

large extent, in proportion to tire ca labor employed iu its cultivation. A6f yet even on cotton, it is unequal to some citent. Mississippi and Alabama are exclusively cotton growing State a Louisiana rand South Carolina are not. In the ope of Louisiana sugar, and in that of South Caro­lina, rice forms a large portion of them sta­ple products. The impossibility alromt, of levying an export duty that will operate

equally 6 poo all sections of the countrj, was doubtless one of tbs reasons for the pfeitive prohibition to Congress against it, (i the Constitution of the United States. We are strongly inclined to think that the g inting of such a power to the Confederate Cotera», wee a matter of positive necessity ana not of choice. AH the debates of the Mo ni fernery Convention were conducted in secret, tnd we nre left to conjecture the reasons 1N their grant of th n power ; but we can scarcely mistake them, when we suppose that

tax upon the great staple of ti federated States, was the deraier raise money to sustain the new gove^imss t. I t ie but one of the bitter fruits of sMarion,

and iu da* time, it Will display its qjpalata- bie qualities. F

l ie s fixed by the new Constitué n, that that the Poet Office Department of §e Con

evsotnoHy impair tho security of Southern fedevacy jt to be self sulteining. lin t this intettétions, let th o fearful mala H bee pm* J, prMticable w ithou t greatly redui ig mail

W e fear ____ • __: •__.i____ :____t ... ,__ ___dpi toted, terminais how it may, feat hjr speaking the troth boldly we make

ie*. Wo prater ander each circum­stances, to withdraw from the arena of pollticn aa publie journalists, and thi< tho more wiHiofty, ne we have in the present elate of turmoil no distinctive policy to ad­vocate. Wo taka oar leave with no other than kindly fceiingu to all. To tho more

mecootmtem of oar subseribers, which has proved our coarse and sustained in wo

tender our most grateful thank*.JAMES G. TALIAFERRO.J. Q. A; TALIAFERRO.

„ J T C«H$h of ouTrakseribers who with drew from us fen account of the “Stephen* ftrijek, worn no doabt gted of the excess for leaving aa. The oocrn voues rsusinds aa of t f t /raafenvr jWfrteh Pspo got rid^ of the

t h e writer sahfsanfetbiag to lira poet, which tho latter thought he might afford to U die- Pjaaaed with; wfcroupoo he dismissed hfe T ittor summarily, as in afterwards informed bia friend DrM > bartbnot in them Upe*:

«GM eta stmitway Iatepped fee deer,as . ’ •ranfe-AW tea me am yaa and year Works a*

well as to be informed through the same channel, of the passing events of the living age. This policy has the unequivocal sanc­tion and approval of the American people. The people of the Confederacy will brook no curtailment of their privileges that they esti­mate so highly. Thera is we fear a disposi­tion (not entirely latent eitherJyJfNftm the new government to underrate the importance of enlightening the public mind, and to bring dollars and cents into consideration on ques-

for million to the people by means of the mail establishment. It may suit the views and objecU*of a few, to curtail the extension of intelligence through the post office de­partment, and lessen by that means the in­fluence of the press ; but the great majority will require the same order of things and the same privileges they have been accustomed to. Hence, we canuot but thick tho pro­visions of the new Constitution, in regard to making the Post Office Department pay its own way, impolitic and unwise.

LATE ST FROM VIRGINIA.

S É U ltary Xffowammsta s a th e P o tom ac-

[ B y the Southwestern Line. ]A s Napolis, May 3.—The garrison of For­

tress Monroe numbers 1000 Massachusetts men. On the opposite side of the river there are 300 regulars.

There are 5000 Virginians electing batte­ries at the entrance of Hampton Roads.

IMPORTANT FROM NORTH CAROLINA.

Passage of thi Convention B ill.jR a le ig h , May 3.—Both branches of the

North Carolina Legislature have, by a unani­mous vote, passed a bill calling a Conven­tion of the people Jo meet in Raleigh, on the 20th <ff the present month.

Thu flag of the Southern Confederacy floats over the Capitol.

The State is virtually out of the Union.The Governor has organised the camp of

instruction at Raleigh, and recommends the sending of North Carolina troops to Mary­land and Virginia to assist those States in repelling the enemy.

U. S . Representatives from Kentucky.L o uisville , May 3.—Gov. Magoffin has

issued his proclamation calling for an elec­tion of United States Representatives, on fbe IStbofJune, in order that Kentucky may be represented in the Congress which meets on the 4th of July.

j. The Steamer United States.

M ontrea l , May 3.—Steamers have gone to the assistance of the steamer United States, wrecked off Fnther Point.Major Anderson en route fo r Washington.

P h il a d e l p h ia , May 3.—Major Anderson U. S. A., late-in command at Fort Sumter passed through this city to-day en­roule for Washington.

MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.

ie Missouri i^egilTa tarais transacting its business in secret ses­sion.

Gov. Jackson, in his message, says our in­terests end sympathies being identical with those of the slaveholding States necessarily unite our destiny with theirs.

He recommends an appropriation to place Missouri immediately in n complete state of defence: "

The Governor charges the President with threatening civil war by calling troops to subdue the seceded States, denouncing it as unconstitutional and illegal, and tending to­wards consolidate red despotism.Union Meeting in Mnoomri FiezledOut.

Lrxioton, Mo, May 8.— A Union meet­ing held in this city late night was broken up by the secessionists.

During the confusion one Unionist was shot bat noteerioakly.

The seoeseionists suppressed another Union meeting oelled this afternoon.

A secession flag is waving in the front of the oourt house.

Later from Pike's Peak.»Four K mauxt, May 8.—The Denver ^Ex-

press passed this point to dsy, en rout for 8t. Joseph, Me.

An Indian Council iras being held at Col. Boono’s quarters. The prospecte of a sue- pension of hostilities were considered good.'

The Confederate Congress.

MonToemuY, May 8.—In Congress to­day, Mr. W right, ef Georgia, introduced a bill authorising tho - President to aecSpt volunteers without formality of oall on the States. Referred to the Military CooHoit-

TROOPS POURING INTO WASHING- T O N . o

RUMORED ATTACK ON ALEXANDRIA.

R E P A IR OF R AILRO A D BRIDGES.

A lexandria, May A .—Federal troops are still pouring into Washington from all quar­ters of the North and West and rumors of an attack on Alexandria are rife.

The bridges on the Baltimore and Wil­mington Railroad, lately destroyed, are beiug#rebuilt.

The Confederate Congress.Montgomery, May 3.—In Congress, to­

day, a mode! for a seal of tho Confederacy, was offered and referred. • »

Congress will meet hereafter, in the Rep­resentative Hall.

No business of an important character was transacted. Mast of the day was spent in secret session. _SOUTHERN T R tm ^ S A T LYNCHBURG.

Virginians Eager fo r the Fight.Lynchburg, M:qr 2.-—The Mobile Rifles

and Cadets have arrived here, al! well and in good spirits. Tennessee is all right. It was one continued outburst of enthusiasm the whole route.

At the traitor Johnson's house the great­est demonstrations were made.

Virginia-ia nil anger for the fray.The other Mobile companies will be here

to-morrow.The women and children Rnd all want to

fight, and will move “Old Abe” and family soon.

L A T E ST FROM WASHINGTON.Call fo r a Fourteen Million Loan.

W ashington, May 8.—The Secretary of the Treasury advertises for proposals until the 30th, unless the wholq amount offered be sooper takes at par, for nearly fourteen millions of dollars under the net of June, 1860. -

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

Protection o f the frontier.Toronto, May 3.—The Leader, the Gov­

ernment organ, foers that Canada may be­come involved in the United States difficul­ties, and advocates an armed neutrality, and suggests that the Canadian Government rep­resent to the imperial authorities the expe­diency çf sending six or eight regiments of the line for the protection of the frontier.

M A R Y LA N D LEGISLATURE.

Proposition to Avert Civil War.B altimore, May 3.—The Senate ofUary-

land has adopted a resolution recommending; the appointment of a committee ro wait on the President of the United States, the Presi­dent of the Southern Confederacy and the Governor of Virginia, with a view of bring­ing about some understanding whereby civil war may be prevented*.

Seizure o f Gunpowder.B oston, May 3.—The brig St. Mary, with

five hundred keg's powder, was seised to day.

State of Louisiana j lXth District Const, Parish of Catahoula, | ClerksOffice.

Succession of John W . F rar,er Dcc'd.M HEREAS Mrs Sarah J. Frazier has filed ™ her Application in the Clerk’s Office of

the Twelfth District Courty praying to be ap­pointed Administratrix of said succession ; therefore, NOTICE, is hereby given, that un­less opposition be filed in this office, in writ- ng, within TEN DAYS from the date here­

of, said app! cat will be appointed according to law.

Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court, the 10th day of Mar A. D. 1861.

JO HN DOSHfcfe, Deputy Cletk.

Thb F ir st M a r ria g e .—W e like short courtships, and in this Adam acted like a sensible man. He f*U afeeep a bachelor, TnnrnwWse foftml fatamHti taarried «mafes He appears to have popped the anestwo almost immediately after meeting M’dlla Eve, and she without any flirtation or shyness, gave him n kiss herself. Of this first kiss in this world, we have had however, oar

facilities and raising the prioe- of p« tags, no ooe will contend. Here is n devint >t* from the wage of the United States gofrnment, that ia important and striking, that a t no period in the United Sides, has the mail establishment paid its own xpenses, except ander the rigid nnd econon cal man­agement of Mr. MeLean, daring Mi Monroe’s admisisfratioa. At tbfctjsriad, h< rerer, we we mast r« m em besflAt msifitranportation wee comparatively limited and p stages at the very highest rates. Snbseqne |yf as ihe eoantry expanded, population iac wed, and a demand for the general diffwio of intelli­gence became the order of the < ly , it wife found impossible to keep the exp idHnres of the depnrtnent within ite | |r e n n >; that in-

Mr. Barlow offered ■ senes of resolutions whioh ween noanimously* passed, expressive ef the thanks of the peeple of the Confedera­cy to Geo. Beauregard aad the forces of Sooth Carolina, for their gallant and tuooesa fni »«rviees a t Fort Sumter.

thoughts, and some times in a poetical mood hare wished we were the man “wot did it.” But the deed is done the chance was Adam’s and he improved it. We like the notion of getting married in a garden. I t is in good taste. We like a private wedding. Adam’s was private. No envions beaux were there bo croakiagold maids; no chnttraing grand­mothers The birds of heaven were the minstrels, nnd th* glad sky flung its light upon the scene. One thing about the weddiog bringe queer thoughts to w spite of scriptural träte.

Adam atfd his wife were rather yonng to be married—some two or three days old, according to the sagest speculations of theol­ogians—mere babies—larger, but .no older; without experience, without a h ouse, wihout a pot or a ket'le , nothing—but love and Eden!—[Tad pole's Experiences.

A pp r o p r ia t e E pit a p t h .— An old fellow, n coarse, ill-grained German, died one day. He was a disagreeable man and n bad neighbor; even the children feared and d jphsd him . On* of his neighbors asked h t i n out before his death, if he was ready to go, to which he answered “Yes," ‘ Well,” was the rejoinder, “if yon nre willing to die yourself, all yonr neighbors nr* willing yen should.”* At the grave, even there wa* no on* to my n good word for him, except one good hearted old German, who remarked, aa he turned fwav to go borne: u Veil he was a goot schmoker! Thi* was the “sbraokerVonly epitaph. __________ ,

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cf* mriiionOr more annually, ovgand above ite expense«, It had become a «|argo open the government. Bat, in view importance of the eltgeet to a whooe iaetitutioos depond for a feme, upon tho gsaoral iatelli, notion, no etep wan taken bank

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to few people Merywhere for knowing through tho nradifo prate, what their pblie men «< t

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fog of cerabrnwe machinery an tho eehd earth wheels on ite way, and ovary pie not and spä­tem perforate ite rarolaliafte. tira great !t#oi oriog forth their,W ^hq m shadow

. . A . .a. ms !»-ä ? V L jk ,UU ear» beneath them—the plant coverstead.ofy»eJ&«^ift*»4bte*raHW ft iurplue ibemselrss «Rh bods, and Ihn' beds hont

New Advertisements.

D STR A YED before John BsBew, Maq.,1. . . ----- t

heads high, t e l£ l on the 30th of ip r iU N l, a light ehe« oat sorrel hem, shoot feston tahtesefsee, shoot seven years old, left fore feet white. The knee join* of the right hind lag appears

Silence o r N Auras.—It is a remarkable and very i art motive foot that many of the __

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rustling eoafed when th» broad tide of son light bresha Ofe a dark world fad floods i with light, aa oso bright wave over another

■Mifcad wife the harness. Said bom was taken up at Lake View, on Tensas river, one and a half d n above Klrirfs Ferry, at fee plantation ef Waffles and Jones. Alan a Kght hay mare «fee;

__ sheet four years old, fonrtosn aM a half hands Ugh,falls from the tom& m millions of miU4wita » yn m i o ro y w the hft>w , wkh n feight away. Y ,ew » n e e r a a t i i g M « l r a w g f o e » - 1 * ' ^ » ^ * G * ^ « • k » « hssn

apprsisid teha « ü «ftshnadred and levante tve doBsre, sad fe* ante et «ne hnodred and thbtydoHenfi

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Barrieenbiarg, La., May 8th lfflfel. • K 8»-into flowers; fort Ihn whole transaction Is nähernd. Ihn change freut saow and winter wind« to Momenta and fruits and the sun­shine of *omwMnr is soon in ite slow develop­ment, hot them ia neareety a sound to tell of the mighty transformation. Tho solemn ebaat of the oacon, « i t rafemit* anebasged aad ite eocsoweg vatese, the roar of the bniricaa, and the mighty river, nnd tee thunder of teehhfek-hrowcd storm, nHteiefe tee music of nfeftra a grant ahd swelling in thorn of pmiM, hreaking* is on the nah versai calm. H ora iaa kaeofefcr as hdfo. Ihn mifhtiart worker ft the te iooms is ten moat unobtruHvs. '

£ S T R A Y E D OR S T O L E N .

T H B R l eseaM d d t was stolen from fee i undersigned on Little IRver, on fee 10th test, a large btecfrfowaa. Md hmpe is sheet U or ) • hands hftfe aodhne Mm in fee fom> Ih m white feat; n s SMufta,

N O V S M B B K S L E C fftO lf-FOR SHERIFF.

W e sreiiuttiorized to announce L. G1P DUKE, as a candidate for the office of Sherift cfthisTarifch,. at the elect!-;» in November next. 7-27.

W'e are authorized to announce J . M. TIATON a candidate for ihecffice of Shciift ut the tm u irg N orember election.

We arc authoiizca ro anrour.ee ANDREW J . LIDDELL as a candidate for the cffice of Sherig, Election firet Monday November next.

THOMAS B. TUNSTALL, at ihe folicitation o f many friends, is a Candidate for the Office of Sheriff of the Parish of Catahoula, and will be supported a i tb# election in November next, by

v Mast Voters.$

\ FOR RECORDER.W e are authorized to announce THOMAS D.

NIX AS a candidate for re-election to the office of Recorder fffoction ßrst Monday November next.

\ FOR ASSESSOR.W e are authorized to announce J . 9 . RILEY,

(the present incumbent) as a candidate for re- election to the office ot Assessor of this parish, a t the election in November next.

N O T I C E T O J U R O R S .

JURORS .who have been Summoned for the May term of Court will not regard their Summonses,

as there will bo no Jury term.L. « IP DUKE, Deputy Sheriff.

P R O B A T E S A L E .

Suceeeeior o f Willie Barfield dec'd.N obedience to an order of the District

Court in, agfe for the Parish of Catahoula Ls, to me directed, I will on,

Saturday 25th install, . at the residence of Dr. John Shaw on Little River in this Parish, offer at pulic sale for what they wilLhring in cash, onq Mule and two Trunks dlfelothingrthe property of said succession.

Msv 8th, 1861. P rs fee 83.D. M. PRICHARD,“Sheriff.

C. C. DUKE, Clerk of Court.

I I V I A T -/gtSTRAYED before J . P. noMiman on the ^ 24th April 1861, a BAY PONY MARE. Said Mare is about nine yeaisold.jtnd bran­ded on the left shoulder with tb« letters M. S. and has been appraised to be worth fifty dollars. Notice is, therefore, hereby given that unless an owner come forward and comply with the law in such cases made and provided the said ÿ a re will in accordance to law be sold at the Courthouse door in the town of Harrisonburd La. ox SATURDAY, the 29th day of June/1861.

> D. 14- PRICHARD, Sheriff. in fyY , 1861. f T Prs fee $10 AST All costs of eetraying fro, cash ou

day of sale.

LIST OF LETTERS

«EMAINING in the Post-Office at Harri- eohburg, La. April 10:h 1861.

Alexander Rafkz Abbey M. T. Esqr AuUiaon Harris E. BfenUn B. F. Bisset Dan Y. Baker ft Adams Bigelou Ira Batey Es pry Brown J. R.Carter B . Me C reagW .J . A. Corban John 6 . CadeM. A .B . Cerroll J e n e Cannon Jsm sa Coins W .,Clark W ffltens Peaks Emma • to n s D. F.Kserta Jqffll

McCollum Thomas 2 McClure B. F. M andervillell D. Neuberry Van Newton Richard L. Owens W . U.Pilcher John Porter Mr.Pateon Mrs. C. C. D. Riese W, K . ft H. J . Reads George ftead John 2 Long Oliver P. Reynolds Mrs. Anna S ieves Win. B. Robertson E . F. RoasR . J .

iu&hlp..F.Stone Thomas A .

Jones Mrs. Augustus B . Sch reed er Mrs. H. B.Jones J . L.Jones W . X .Jones Charles Laiutie Willard Laptena Idm ond Lamia John Makes L.Martin C. f t 2 X andevile Ê. E. McGHvorv May Mis.Moon John

Stoefcman ft S Bon Stone N. I. Studnel Jesso 8piawn E.Vinson Joseph ia s

■ JFood A.‘ W elch Wm.

W atts Mrs. Nancy William* Z. Ç. Walter Charles Walton Edward

0 R A I L L S .aifeftprfe«! « c tm r fe in M fetorfesm

V O LU NTEER S for the ConM arate States, g o fer v from Harrisonbnrg and Vicinity may bare their

Hkeneem taken free e f charge by calling onO. L. ROSENBERGER.

Harrieonhusg, April )4tfe «1-1.

N O T I O N .AH persona are hereby warnet) not to trade for

• ntasfenw nby me in favor o f John D u v e t fbrThree hundred dollars ($200) dated som fem e in Decern- bev I860 nnd payable Jet ot January 1862— fee eensMotofeen for which said note was given, having foSed, t iM a m e will not bo paid unkee compelled

v . MARTHA T A R V t a T Harrisonburg La, April 24th, «1-1 m.

N o y .ro * . ~ ~l|O T T C * is hetoTy given the public that • • t i r e Power of Attfc w r given by me-to A. R. Hendry is revoflH m frhe is no longer Mithorisetl to transact ÇfiffnessTbr ans in any manner whatever; HOHN SPANN.

H. Barg L%» y U H 8 I , 7-48-2n.

* & R * T H O M A S ‘M A N N IN G ,, dkr ■ ■ R n ta r p tfr e L « .

tENDKRS his professional services to tho-

pnbHc.May 1, 1861. 7-43-y.

t ir e that' be

JO SEPH G. MILLER, Commission nnd Forwarding Merchant,

No. 28 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, Me. Onnsas Solicits».

Messrs. W elsh, Jsekzon ft Co.; Messrs, ft Newman, New Orienns, Lou-

5i51 : ly

HA CAPS, fro. AT W HOLESALE.U 7 B gffe osnatontiy receiving a general assort- TT m snt o f Silk, Fur, C nesimore, W ool, Pans-

am, Ltahorn, Btrlw , Palm leaf nnd Cam peachy H ats and Cap.. For sale low, by FROST ft CO-M«. W Magazine street. N s * Orleans. 6-m