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"FOREVER FLOAT THAT STANDARD SIEET."
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BY L- DILL....D .S CO_
G. W. DILLAIIID, Editors.
E. MASON,
Office---Corner of Texas and Spring Streets,
SI-IiREVEPORT:
WEDNESDAY .........FEIBRUARY 10, 1869.
Mr. E. C. Foar is our duly authorised agent for Lew
isville, Arkansas.
Taos. MCIn.T.v., of New Orleans, is our onrl duly
authorized agent to receive subscriptions aod adver
ti.eroents in th:at. city.
Mir. Jolnu C. Lovy, Minden, La., is duly authorized to
receipt for subscriptions.
Mr. F. L. Lowsr Y, Starrville, is duly authorised to
receive and receipt for subiscriptions in Smith county,
Texas, and the counties surrounding.
SALE OF CITY PROIERTY POSTPONED.-The sale of
the Jo. Howell property has been postponed to next
Monday.
In another column will be found the resolutions of
our merchants, relative to the recent regulations of the
Southern I'aciffe Railroad Company. They speak for
th emselves.
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JUSTICE OF THE P:Ace.-'We learn from a letter writ
ten by the Secretary of State to justice W. D. Wylie, of
this city, that II. ]E. Allen has been appointed and com
missioned justice of the peace, in place of L S. Mark
ham, whio failed to qualify as requhlied by law. Justice
Allen's office is on Milamn street, and Justice Wylie's
tfice, Talb,'s building, on Spring street, formerly oc
epied b. It. 11. Lildsay.
Tnt: New O)tu. e.sS MaYi, xY River:.--We are pleased
to learn that the New Oilean Imail in the future will
be c.arri,.d by boata. The first mail arrived here on
Sunday, per steRamer National.
f)rowv u-WCe learn fromn the olices of the fight
Way, lhat oun the 3.1 lust., at Kinsworthy's landing, on
Little rive, that one of the crew, lohn Sweeney, fell
overboard and was drowned.
THE NIr(tOis,oN Pa.yIatEMEN.-Thc Avalanche claims
that the Nicholson pavement in Metmphis has in two
years reduced the number of drays in that city from
1200(1 to 0:. Bly all means let us try the experiment in
this city.
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P'CKE'r LINE.--By the advertisement in another
c daumn it will be seen that a tri-weekly line of steam
-.rs has been established between this point and New
Orleans, composed of the following first class passeun
ger packets: National, Capt. Dick Sinot.t; B. L.
nodge, Capt. W. T. Boardman ; Bart Able, Capt. W.
C. Harrison, and the Selmn, Capt. W. T. Scovell, one
of which will leave Shreveport every Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday, oni the arrival of the cars from Mar
shall. These steamers are, for speed, comfort and ac
ommodal'ion, unsurpassed by any boats ill the trade.
The formation of this line will prove very beneficial
tO our conununity, and it becomes the duty of our
merchants and shippers to do all in their power to
sustain the same.
Ona STaiuErs.-The condition of our principal streets
demand the attention of our city fathers. The levee
street at this time is almost impassable, and fair from
being wile enough for the immense business trans
.cted on it. Texas, i lasn and Market streets, in wet
weather, are vitally as bad--all call loudly for im
provement. It is very evident that if we would make
our city ahat the business of the place calls for,
we muit make our streets passable. The old plan of
"plankiag" has proved unsuccessful, and we must
look around for some other material, and we know of
iote better than what has proved to be the best in
:ther cities-- nd that is the Nicholson pavement. It
teeds no argument to prove its cheapness, utililty and
durability, for that has already been demonstrated in
other cities where iron and rock are to be found in
their primitive state. Let us have the levee widened,
and Clommerce street, Texas street up to Market,
Milatn street up to Market, andi Market up to the
railroad depot, paved will the Nichol-obn pavement.
Let our city fathers prepare an ordiaance to this effect,
tIlaking the property holders pay for tile work in front
of their proierly anld deduct it from their taxes. The
l.egiilature will grant the proper authority to compel
the delinquent oues to pay up, upon proper application.
What say our property holders ? Will our city fathers
act il the matter?
Sir;ss oa' Spe.us.-Ana editor's room! From his
S~tctitul 10) by Gi, ttmore or less, it is all the same froma
t).m to livereheha, (how limited and yet how ecompre
hensive the swift glance, reader, of him, whoi toils
daily to anause or instiuet you--to inftirmn or please)
faon ! is sIactUatt in a three-story city building what
cigns of spring are vouchsafed to him? and what can
he say of its harbingers, that you, gentle reader, living
beneath the tree with the budding leaf has not seen
before him? What can he say, of the fresh up-turned
sod of mother earth, except to describe the view ihe
enjoays of tile first plowing over the river ? What can
he . , of tie budding leaf, who lives in a city without
trees, or of the birds " prophesying spring," who has
not yet even seen a solitary "blue bird? " Yet, le
laves the country, and ile knows that years agone, when
lie felt that God made the country, but that man had
unado the city, these harbingers of spring were wont
to come in this fickle month, and lie knows they come
aa they were want to do--that they comte with the rip
pling branch, let loose fromn the grasp of tile ice to
en.tjy the liberty of its own motion.
S.lE or tr ('IY PaorERTY.-The Tally property, sohl
Satlurday by I'. ii. Rossoan, auctioneer, brought good
prices. The t+ o story brick store, No. 1 Mi!am street,
occupied by Messrs. W. II. Elstner & Co., as a ware
house, was bonaghl by Johi G-. Fallilove for $9900
The two-story brick store, No. 5 Milam street, ocectpied
by Messrs. Thurmond & Bowles, was sold to J. W.
Howard for $8700. The two unfinished two-s'ory
brick stores, corner of Milam and Spring streets, was
ptrchtasedbly John G. Fillilove far $14,O00. The two
story brick store, No. 39 Texas street, occupied as the
Ilead house. was knocked down to J. W. HIoward for
X11,10.). The dwelling hInase on Market street, below
the railroad, was purchaserd by John G. Fuililove for
REn RlEr.n FatnIaTrs.-The New Orleans Crescent
of tie 2Slh, says: Freights to Ried River are ratler
amixed" at present, nothing like uniform rates being I
maintained. Up rates range from 40e. to 75e. per
barrel to Shreveport. Passage from $5 to $25. Down
freights are quoted at 75e. to $2 per bale ftsr cotton
from Shreveport, and passagu e the esame as from this
point. We are sorry to see this state of affairs, for
if they continue " some one will be hurt," as the rptes
are entirely too low.
frEE, Pa•'xaO.--Dring the past few days we have
been visited by live or six different parties from Nor
thern cities, prospecting for suitable places for packing
beef this fall. They, one and all, give Shreveport the
preference, and will during tihe summer erect suitable
buildings for packing, and commence operations early
in the fall. We venture to predict that more beef will
be packed in this city tlu sacoming season than in any I
other place in the South.
.TtII SocvUTER. PAicIaC RI.Lg.so4.-We leagn from
a reliable source that the road bed is graded to 3larp
ville, twenty miles beyond Marshall, or within six miles
of the Sablue river, and that Col. hall, the President
'of thae apd, Ihat purchased sufficient iron to lay the
t L. it iill be finished in time to take off the next
crop. ~ tl a s ;~other step towards the interior of
'ei:iat l o i nbnsikb wse wire plecavcd to notice.
Mr. A. S. Hil ,ina well written valedictory, retires
from the e4ils l depertasent of the Phidborpe Advo
~ate.
Upper Red River by the Ouachita.
In our daily of Tuesd4t we copied a notice from one
of the New Orleans papers, calling a meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce to listen to an address from Gen.
Dockery, of Camden, on the subject of reaching the
upper Red river country by the improvement of the
navigation of the Ouachita. The enterprise looked to
us so indefeasible that we felt no little curiosity to hear
further on the subject, and, besides, it would have con
siderable effect on our business relations with the
Upper river, should the plan prove successful. The
meeting did not take place as advertised, but was post
poned to some future day, In the meantime, the Gen
eral has had a conversation with one of the editors of
the New Orleans Times, and he states that the prtcject
is this: "To make what is called 'slack-water naviga
tion' on the Ounachita as high up as Camden, Arkansas,
a distance of 370 miles from Harrisonburg, La., the
point where the first lock is to be built to Camtden.
This navigation is now in successful operation on the
Green river and Kentucky river, as well as the Des
Moines, in Illinois. It is assumed that the first lock at
Ilarrisonhurg will lock the river for one hundred and
fifty miles, and that the other lock will lock the river
to Camden. It is proposed to establish these locks at
low-water mrark, built inl solid masonry, twelve feet in
height, and of sufficient capacity to accommodate
steamers of the largest size now navigating those waters,
at a cost not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars
each. This estimate is based upon the basis of Gen.
McAllister's report in relation to the rocks and dam:s
on the Manchac. It. is proposed to build these locks
by a stock company, the States of Louisiana and Ar
kansas extending their aid by bonds or otherwise, in
order to have them erected. The advantages to arise
from these locks are that steamers can go up aundgown
at all sefsons of the year, high or low water, and be
sides the all-year round navigation to Camnden or
Fulton, between which places a railroad is already pro
jected and graded twenty-five miles, will open a vast
district of country, the whole Northwestern Texas, and
that rich and fertile region, the upper Red river coum
try. The cost to transport the produce of this region
cotton at fifteen dollars a bale, six per cent. insurance
would be lowered, when the slack water navigation is
in full play, to a cost not greater than two dollars a
bale from Fulton, and an insurance of three-fourths
per cent. The Union Trade Convention, which as
semnbled at Cinicinnati in December last, fixed the start
ing point of the Pacific raiiroad at Fulton, which is an
other advantage, the railroad and slack water having
the oltject of brigling the trade hither."
TIIE SnIIRVEronRT CHARITY IlOSPITAL.--The estab
lishment of a charity hospital at this place, and which
we have so much at heart, finds a second in the New
Orleans Times. Our respected cotemporary, in the
issue;of thle 3d, says " there lies before the Legislature
a memorial signed by the authorities of Ciddo parish
and city of Shreveport, as also by many private citi
zens, wiich demandsi a serious and generous consider
aatiou It sets forth the necessity otf establishing a
charity hospital in thle city of Shreveport, and the in
ducenmets therelior. The city proposes to give a site
for the buildings-the parish, grounds for galdeninig
purposes, etc , and they request the appropriation of
one hundnred thousand dollars in bonds, which are to
be expended in erecticg suitable buildings-all to be
long to and be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the
State. There was a time when the Generil Government,
through the Freedlmen's Bureau and United States
Dispensary, to some extent, provided for anid adminis
tered remedies to the major portion of the indigent,
who are now, on account of the discontinuance of
these, thrown as an incubus upon either prietecharity
or a tax upon city and parish. For more than three
years, a private hospital has been established there,
and although liberally patronised, thectuarities demand
eJ of it by the poor, have consumed not only its prof
its, but encroached upon its credit. It is true, the
time of request for this appropriation is somewhat in.
apposite, the State being largely in debt but the pro.
position from the parish and city authorities is so fair,
and the necessity so great and peremptory, that we
can but signify a most hearty approval. Nor is it alto
gether an appropriation ; it partakes more of tihe nature
of an investment."
We are pleased to see that the Times is lendin:g its
aid to this enterprise, and will not tire of the work
when it has a good opportunity to give us a lift.
The man who, thirty years ago, graduated the first
in his class at West Point, and who, for twenty years,
was regarded as one of the ablest engineers in the U. S.
Army ; who was pronounced by G-en. Scott the most
accompli-hed officer of his age in that nrmyy; who, in
the late war mantaged, by his engineering skill, to defy
for three years the whole power, skill, science and
energy of the United States in the defense of a small
and weak fort, is pronounced by one of the champions
of the Suip Island Canal schenad, in our Legislature, a
" fancy engineer."
High authority that, no doubt. But matkeyou,
Times, it is precisely the same authority which pro
nounces you a rebel sheet, because you are an honest
Democrat, and slanders the South-Western by pro
nouncing it, the leader of the incendiary press of this
section, and the promoter of Bossier riots. Yes, it is
the high, unimpeachable authority of the scoundrels
who left their section for their section's good, and are
now making a dirty living off the slander of Southern
people, and the so-called (God help us!) representation
of Southern rights and Southern inlterests. Panloers,
miserable, soulless, wretched Panlers of a morbid and
selfish philosophy underlying the existence of that
p.rty founded on moral idea, and illus:rated by its
thieves and charlatans-Panders, all.
CorN PL.asrt.s.-As from our sanctum we overlook
the rich lands, upturned in their golden freshness, on
the plantation opposite this place, we put the question
to ourselves, what proportion of corn will be planted
this year, in this section ? As we cannot answer it,
from want of consultation with a sufficient number of
farmers-from a knowledge of the supremacy of the
cotton idea, dominating now like a despot in all calcu
lations, we can only indulge our impersoual privilege
of giving advice, which nobody asks, and which no
body will follow. But an'isporte! we will have done
our duty. Farmer, you whose glory it is to till the soil
a common Creator Iath made for man'sheritage, think
first, of the necessaries of life-make everything you
can-at honme-plant corn, plant corn in sufficient qtuan
tity to insure a large crop, even if a dry, unfavorable
year should come. It is time sucha one should come,
and if it should, cotton at twenty five cents per pound
cannot feed our people and our stock. The West
will pocket all your money.
THE Tx..s ALMANlsC.-Every business man in
Shreveport ought to own a Texas Almanan-we mean
the one published by W. & D. Richardson & Co., Gal
veston, and which contains an amount of valuable in
formation, for the year 18f9, worth ten times its price.
Texas-To the tmind of the mere man of affairs, the
name imports a large State lying west' of us, with a
very small population, alto trade principally, at this
place, in cotton and cattle, and are rather remarkable
for free and easy ways about town. But Texas, to
him who reflects what a decade can do, for the devel
opment of a State, larger than New York and richer
than Illinois, only now needing railways, to let loose
its wealth, as the snows of winter need only the sun.
of spring, to disappear in rivulets and branches in all
directions, scattering their bounty as they go-to such,
a reflecting man, Texas and its possibilities, is a prob
lem, a study, we should say. The Texas Alnoanac will
help hint.
Nr
AnnKAsss.-The Memphis special of the New Or
leans Times under date of the 28th says: Gov. Clay.
ton, of Arkansas, and his staff arrived last night and
went to Marion this morning. It is reported t!hat the
object of the visit is to investigate the execution of
Ticer, McAllister and Harvey by the militia a few
days ago. The same correspondent under date of the
27th, says: Six of Cilayton's militia, fully armed and
equipped, were arrested to-day, disarmed, and sent
across the river.
Gen. Mower has been ordered to strengthen the gar
rison on Ship Island by the addition of one company.
NOew OrleansTimes.
Wonder who is going to make an attack on that
eslotato ptlae.
t MuLnrTA.-la tns lawer House on the 27th, an orig
t !ial militia bill, pendaing the prseAt- one, wsa intro
f duoe4, Qrdered to beprainted, d.nmde the order of
the day,-taie following Satmtrdaj. .
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a The *iarksvile Standard reeor-theiling of a man
- by the name of Smith by` oe li·iha 4 et, de~ipr
ada, at Jort.gyrs.
The Truly "aoil"" Rewarded.
We give below the partial report of the committee
on printing made in the lower House of the State leg
islature, on the 28th ult., that our readers may see where
their money goes, and how.liberally the truly loyal are
rewarded. It is, as a cotemporiary remarks, a vampire
press sucking the very life blood of the people. The
r. port reads thus :
.to the Hon. Speaker and Members of the House of Rep
resentatives:
Gentlemen--Your Committee have had so much
business before them that they have been unable to
report in full on the resolution of the House, adopted
January'12th, instructing the Committee to investi
gate the printing of last session, etc., but a ill make
the following partial report, and ask for further time
to complete their investigations, and fot authority to
send for persons rand papers.
Your committee has received the following state
ments of warrants and certificates issued by the Audi
tor, and the amount of cash paid out by the Treasurer
for warra nts for printing:
Assumption Advocate......... .......... $ 2.,258 00
New Orleans Republican......... ........3;,359J !97
Louisiana Intelhgencer................... 1e,024 00
Radical Standard ................. . 2,901 00
New Orleans Advocate .................. 14,0.9 00
Baton Rouge Courier .. ...... ........... 3,107 GG
Republican Vindicator .................... 2,493 00
Weekly Herald ........................... 2,891 00
Red River News ... ...................... 2,708 50
Madison Mail ............... ........... 1,795 00
Attakapas Register ..............-........ 2,152 00
Elton Eagle ................. ..... 2,400 00
Livingston IHerald. ...................... 2,040 00
lBapides Tribune........................ 787 00
Chtrton Herald................. .....-. 1,53:13 00
Ter-rebonne Patriot ....................... 2,65 00
W eekly Register ................... ...... ,371 00
Morehouse Herald ........................ 1,350 00
Empire Parish ............................ 1,15 00
Bepublican Pioneer...................... 7,270 00
Feliciana Republican ........ ............. 2,746 to
New Orleans Crescent.............. ..... 11,691 12
Iberville Pioneer ......................... 1,10 00
$123,440 25
CERTIFICATES NOT AUDITED.
New Orleans Republican ................ $6,410 20
Baton Rouge Courier ..................... 3,770 00
Republican Pioneer ....................... 6, 5 00
Republican Vindicator.................... 0.1:4 00
Louisiana Intelligeucer ................... 1,34 00
Radical Standard.... ...... ............. 311 00
Weekly Register.................... .... 1,628 00
Iberville Pioneer......................... 1,052 00
Elton Ea le .............................. 900 00
iRapides Tribune........................ 1,836 00
Ilomer Iliad............................ 4,354 00
$30,030 20
The following named papers have received cash from
tihe State Treasury for printing Warrants up to Dec.
31st, 1868:
N. O. Crescent, J. O. Nixon ................ $461 74
Madison Mail, J. J. Osborn ................. 600 00
Weekly Herald, J. E. Stephens ............ 1,387 Os
Republican Vindicator, D. E. Jerrold ....... .43 00
Radical Standard ................ ......... 80 00
N. O. Advocate ............................. 1,2 5 00
Elton Eagle, W. HI. Gibbs................... 600 00
N. 0. Republican, A. L. Lee ................ 8,689 4
Livingston Herald ............... .......... 2110 00
-Republican llerald .................... .... 1,000 00
Weekly Register, A. F. Collins ............. 671 00
Assumption Advocate, Poindexter & Swards 2i4 00
Red River News ......................... .. 41 00
Republican Pioneer ........................ .00 00
$18,302 30
There were thirty papers contracted with, but six
teen have been stopped from receiving pay since the
30th Noveumber, 1868, for the reason that they were
not printed in the parishes they pro::ssed to represent.
This matter will he more fully reported upon, if' your
Commnittee is granted further time to prepare the saute.
Respectfully submitted,
(Sigred) A. J. DE).: iREST, Chairman.
The New Orleans Times says: When the reading
of report terminated, an expression of surprise man
tied the face of several members, who were not in the
ring. The HIIon. Mr. Currell eventually expressed his
regret that he had not heard the report before. The
Judiciary Committee, of which he was a member, had
been compelled to report against the adoption of a
joint resolution submitted to them, providing for the
appointment of a special committee to investigate the
destruction of " loyal presses in the State." If the
report just read had been referred with the resolution
in question, the labors of the committee would have
been easy, for that report fully explained and justified
the destruction of these so called loyal presses, there
by rendering further investigation unnecessary.
BCtLERt A RADICAL ELE:raNT.-- The Washington
correspondent of the New York Democrat says the
Radicals have caught a huge elephant, with fearful
tusks, enormous trunk, and tough hide. For a time
they petted attd fondled him, but within a year lie has
become quite fierce, and on several occasions has re
fused to obey his keepers. At present most of the
Congressional ring masters fear him, and are much
troubled to know what they shall do with the beast.
It is his delight to " cut up " all kinds of curious tricks,
such as denouncing gold and silve r, hinting at repudi
ation, sitting on the wrong side of the House, writing
spicy letters to loyal political preachers of a highly re
prehensible character, shakintg hantds with the " great
criminal" on New Year's day, running away from Lo
well to avoid meeiti.g Ulysses lhien ihe visited that
town, and last the most horrible of all, ditning with
the copperheads of New York. These tricks have
produced much consternation, anid a " caucus " is soon
to held to determine what they shall do with him, as
hlie is becoming more beastly from day to day.
hNE.WIPAPER ASSOCIATION.-,Ve copy as follows from
the Claiborne Advocate of the 30th ult.:
It has been suggested by editors and proprietots of
many diflerent papers that a convention of proprietors
should be called for the purpose of bringing about a
uniformity of rules and regulations in the government
of the press. The'special poi t in view is the regula
tion of advertisements. We find some papers adver
tising for half price, thereby tundermining the profes
sion and making their own chances of success doubt
ful. We propose a convention to meet at Shreveport
sometime this Spring, and we hope every paper in
Loui-iana and Texas will be represented. We will
leave the time of meeting with the brethren at Shreve
port. Every other profession protect themselves by
uniformity of action, and why should we not keep up
with the age ?
The suggestion of our cotemporary is well-timed and
we for one are in for it. What say our Texas breth
ren? A meeting of the proprietors of the d;ffcrent
papers published in this section of the country would
do no harm, and might result profitably to themselves
as well as to the public. By all means let the con
vention be held sometime this spring. We await a
response.
APPEAL CAsEs.-The New Orleans Crescent of the
28th, says a bill passed the House the day before, hav
ing previously passed the Senate, whose operations
will mnake quite a change in the manner of transactio g
one kind of law business. It orders that hereafter no
appeal shall be dismissed by any court of this State, for
any defect whatever, in fotrm or substance, unless the
appellant should fail to.amend such defect, within such
reasonable time as the court may direct, on rule taken
by the appellee or anty party in interest, to show cause
why the appeal should not be amended so as to con
form to law, or in default thereof-to be dismissed. The
practical workings of this statute cannot be anything
but beneficial, as through thern many cases which are
now dismissed for merely clerical errors, or for unfore
seen lack of solvency in the bondmen, will be tried on
their merits.
No Go, FOR 31ENaRn.-" Cito," the \Washington cor
respondent of the New Orleans Times, under date of
29th, says it is "ow evident that Menard, the colored
member elect from New Orleans, will not get a seat in
the present Congress. Besides doubts being probably
resolved in favor of the right of Jones, contestant of
the late sitting member, Mann, it appears the commit
tee does not regard the argument of Menard as at all
conclusive, as to his own right to a seat. So that the
advent of a colored member upon the floor of the
House must be left to a future Congress, if ever.
LEGIsLATtRa.-The act making receivable for State
taxes the warrants of the Metropolitan Police, has
passed its first reading in the lHouse.
In theSenate on the 21, Blackman introduced a bill
to incorporate the town of Arazonia, in the parish of
Claiborne, which was referred to the Committee on
Parochial AfEairs.
AessasAs.-In the Arkansas Senate, on the let inst.,
a bill imposing a fine of fivre thousand dollars on each
eouoty,where a murder shall hereafter be committed,was
tabled. In the House a bill exempting three hundred
dollars of property from taxation, was passed.
GaxnD Larse.-At last accounts eleven hundred
men were employed upon the Grand Levee in the parish
of Pointe Coap-e., in this State, and there are strong
hopes that they will suecd in keeping the water out,
although the river is six. feet agaiest the levee and
f rising.
APPaOvD.-A- MemiA p ais djtispateb, as Clayton ap
a proves the execution of Tieer, Harvey, nis c.allistew.
Hesays le wtald hve. prefernread ~iae had them ex
eouted publicly as a x e.
Texas Items.
JUDGE CALDWELL O' -Ai DRUNK.-The following is
from the Houston Times of the 20th:
Judge Caldwell arrived in this city evening before
last, and, to the best of our knowledge, went on a
drunk. He went to the house of one of the first fam
ilies of the place, where a tea party had been given,
entered the front door and rapped at the door to the
dinning room, where a pleasant party of ladies and
rgentlemen -were sipping their tea, and chatting the
time gaily away. Upon the lady of the house answer.
ing the rapping at the door, Judge Caldwell demanded
ti know where the girls were. A gentleman of the
house overhearing the remark of Judge Caldlwell, ap
proached and asked what lihe wanted. The Judge re
plied that he wanted a girl and a bed. He was nn
ceremoniously ejected from the house.
Not content with this experiment, the Judge man
aged to get into a whisky mill, and openly offered in
sult upon insult to gentlemen whom lie never knew in
his life ; going so far as to call a gentleman a sneaking
assassin and robber. The natural result of all which
was that Associate Justice Caldwell-the distinguished
member of a mob convention, a' man who would not
allow himself to be contaminated by the polluted touch
of tihe wretch Smith-got pretty roughly handled and
came out of the bar rioom row a little worse for his
drunken, lying, slanderiing impudence.
LAJM a CounTY.-We clip as follows from the Paris
Press, of the 23d ult.:
We learn that the post mistress at Mt. Pleasant has
closed the office at that plrace and departed without
leaving any one in charge. The mails from Jefferson
I have consequently been carried back to that place,
and this may account for our not having received a
mail until recently.
Capt. Hudson, U. S. A. commanding, troops at
Clarksville, visited our city this week for the purpose
of organising a city government. He seemed dispos
ed to recommend for appointment to the different
municipal offices such men as were recommended to
him as possessing the best qualifications, without refer
epcie to their political status.
ILportant Opinion.-Judge Latimer, one of the
judges of the Supreme Court of the State, expresses
the opinion that the President of the United States
had no loyal right to free tire slaves of tihe South by
proclamation, that Lincoln's proclamation had no le
gality whatever, and that the freedom of the negro
was not lawfully effected until the adoption of the
thirteenth amendment to the constitution, by t rce
fourths of the States.
COLLI.SS Co:sr.--The McKinney Enquir'er of the
23d ult., contains the following items:
More Military Arrests.-We are informed that on
the 15th inst., three citizens of this county living near
Farnmersville, named James Howard, Rike anid iggs,
were arrested by troops from Sulphur Springs, and
carried off. Tihe cause of their arrest, is not positively
known.
A larger number of hogs than usual have been packed
in this county the present season. Corn was so abun
danlt and cheap, and no paying market offering for it,
tihe surplus was wisely devoted to the fattening of hogs.
and beef cattle.
Our famners are occupying their time in prepa:ring
for the spring crops. A larger amnount of land will be
cultivated in Collin this year than at any time since the
close of the war.
We are a happy, contented set of folks in Collin.
Politically, there is not a ripple on the surface. All is
quiet, in fact, and we have had no di.tur bance here of
any sort for moriths. The surplus of the county hals
given a freer circulation to money ; business is better,
and people more hopehful. We have plenty of wheat
corn anid meat to feed itus for twelve months, and
enough to feed a large immigration besides. All are
in, earnest about the next crop, anrd, should it be a suc
cess, the coming fall will see our people independent
of every want.
Igs
AnoLtrs Tit Tacn.--Under this caption the New
Orleans Thunderer castigates our virtuous legislature
and that large body of s.tinted vagrants who are the
errand boys of Northern Radicalism, and tile worthy
receipients of all Southern honors, conferred by uti
versal siuffrage, for tile proposition made in that Ihon
orable body of Solons, supposed to represent by a lic
tion of reconstruction, the people of Loui-iana, to re
peal the law of libel so as to prevent the truth being
pleaded in justification or defence. Our cotemporary
declares, that this is the one shield necessary for the
protection of its authors and their friends. But hear
him, reader, for we yield the palm, and instead of say
ing what we think about it, depute him to speak for us:
It cannot be denied that this is a very practical and
potent little measure for the protection of our virtuous
legisiature. Only exclude the truth, make it puniisha
ble and actionable, forbid all discussion and question
ing of the acts, characters and words of all the loyal
fflicials and citizens; let no profane journal or individ
ual be permitted to utter offensive and insulting truths
in referelnce to " God's annoiited," and peace may be
restored to an afflicted land. How can legislators anid
public officials discharge their duties with sar:i.factioni
to themselves, or with te respect and contidence of
tire people, if their little pecadilloes, their ec nettrici
ties, their private jobs and arrangements are to be ex- I
posed and held up to public ridicule on the paltry pre
tence of their truth anrd reality ? VWho would incur
the tespon:sibilities and cares of office with such perils
and li:atilities ? Would not the pubiic offlices cease to
alfbrd tl;e asalum they now so charjtably offer to thei
oppressed, maligned and slat dered? Where could tihe
unfortunate refugee from distant States-the perse
cuted victim of ci iminal justice, who has honestly served
his country in its public institutions-llthe rluckless
vagrant or escrapitig debtor, find a retreat from tile
jibes andt diatribes, the offensive remiiders and revolt
ing fatets of his previous career, if hie is not protected
therefroio when saftly installed ilt ai public officer ?
The precedentis, too, are in favor of this propo-iion.
in Englalnd, in prosecutions for- a libel iagahst thei sov
ereign, thie truth is not permitted to be pleaded! Are
not we, casp cially of thie Radical persuaition, in our own
right endowed with equal rights and privileges of all
other ~overeigrs, and entitled to the same presump.
tions and protections ?
CARPET-BAr CoRtnautlro.-" Mack," the well in
formed correspondent of the Cincinuati Enquirer, un
der date of the 26th, writes as follows:
K. C 1's of the Senate have already grown into
such disfavor as to be a source of mnuch annoyance to
the Radicals from the Northern States. It was found
that by their votes and assistance many of the Iresti
dent's appointments were being confirmed, against the
wishes of the Republicans in the Rouse representing
States ad districts to whom the patronage belonged.
I noticed, in a recent letter the case of Collector.
Symthe, of New York, nominated for the Russi.nm mis
sion, and almost confirmed by the rally of the Knights
of the Carpet-Bag to his assistance. This so scared
Sumner and other Radical Senators, that they initiated
a movement to have all the Republican members of the
House petition their political brethern of the Senate
not to act upon any more of the President's nonlina
Lions, but to let them all lit in the Senate until the 4th
of March, when they would fail by the expiration of
the Congress. The petition has been drawn up, sign
ed, and presented.
It was the intention to have called a Radical Sena
torial caucus ere this, and to have secured the ratifica
tion of this agreement. But a variety of disturbing
elements have combined to prevent it. Cameron wants
CUmlnlnmgs confirmed as Reienue Commissioner, and
thinlks he has votes etlough to get it done. All the K.
C. ,.'s are with him. Then those Radical Senators
whose term expires on the 4th of March are unwilling
to cut themselves olff from six weeks of extcutive ses
sions, with their attendant emoluments and preroga
tives-for that's where all the mioney is made, you
know. It is all very well for men with two, four or
six yeats more of officins life ahead to agree to this
thing, but it's quite different with those whose Sena
torial candle is flickering in the socket, and whose
profit and loss account must come to a final balance at
twelve o'clock meridian. March 4, 1869. There is quite
a commotion on the sutject among the Radicals of the
two Iiouses-and one is a little astonished to hear of
such a disturbance over a few offices in a party which
has asserted a patent right-to all the virtue and moral
ity extant.
RADICAL NEWSPAPER otN GEN. GnANT.-The Nor.
which (Conn.) Bulletin is either turning its coat or
making a clumsy attempt at sarcasm, in a recent edi
torial on Grant, which is red hot enough for "Brick "
himself. After calling him " peevish, sour, pugnacious,
fidgety, bilious, snarling, dogged Grant," the article
says, "he smuggled cotton through the lines, poked
fun at the poor Jews, mounted his son on another
man's pony, and then got soaking drunk by way of
letting off his extra cussedness." It calls rim also a
pig-headed Philistine," and " about the worst shiner
that has occupied that sardine box."
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MEMPIIIS.-A special Memphis dispatch of the 2d,
to the New Orleans Times, says:
An unsuccessful attempt was made last night to fire
the Provine block on Main street.
The negro porter of the steamer Caldwell, named
Cartwright, shot and killed the negro steward, Wm.
Noe, this mnrning, while the boat was .laying at the
levee. Cause,jealousy. -
Five notorious horse thieves were shot at Dyersburg
on Saturday by the Vigilance Committee. The men
shot were leaders of a gang infesting that section of
the country. They were also connected with an or
ganisation, the operations of which are said to extend
from -the Gulf to St. Lawrence, of which the Reno
brothers, recently hung in Indiana, were members.
Tn E UNsos PAcrIrC RoAD.-Reports from, the far
West representthe progress of the Union Pacific road
as most satisfactory. The road has not been obstruct
ed beyond twelve houts iduring the severest portion of
the present sies on. Rails are now laidto within
twenty-sis.mi!st tf lreat Sa.t City. At _Wa-atch, the
eztseant esteern- townon the road, one honreslouses
were fecentlyprectpd within one week.
Report of the Board of Registration.
We are in receipt of a copy of the report of the
Board of Registration to the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana, and we must say that a more vin
dictive partisan report was never before published-at
least we have never seen one. All the.parishes but a
few which gave Radical majorities, are abused and villi
fled by the minions of Baker, sent out for the purpose.
From this report we learn that the total registry of
the State was 146,398, of which 45,189 were white,
and 84,527 were black. The number of votes cast at
the late election, according to this report was 115~248.
The reports of the Supervisors are generally very in
accurate, and far from being truthful. There were
two boards for this parish, but the chairman of only
one of them has his report published. The report of the
other was, probably, not bitter enough for Mr. Baker.
We annex the report of Mr. R. Wigand, chairman of
the traveling board:
The fact that three of the appointed Supervisors,
residents of Shrevep6rt, and 'prominent Republicans,
refused to serve on the Boards, on account of the dan
ger attending their traveling thi-ough the country,
shows plainly what the public feeling was toward
avowed Republicans. Having been warned before
hand to be guarded in the expression of my political
sentiments, I of course abstained completely from
mixing in political discussions. My reception by the
influential and responsible citiz-n's was friendly and
courteous, and it is my candid opinion that they con
tributed all in their power to obtain a fair, impartial
registration and election; the same cannot be said of
a class of young men, reckless, impulsive, who have
nothing to lose atnd who are always ready to start and
promote any excitement.
In the country, where I traveled for over two weeks,
I had several occassions to speak to the freedmen,
who desired an explanation about this registration,
only a few understanding why they should have new
papers when they still held the old ones. The'major
ity of the freedmen were undoubtedly influenced by
their employers; but many, especially those living near
Bossier parish, would have nothing to do with the reg
istration, the late riot in that parish making them dis
gusted with politics. Others were afraid that their old
registration papers would be taken from them, which
some of them looked on as a kind of free paper.
Though not actively engage-d 5t the election, it is
my opinion that, though a great .deal of private in
fluence was brought to bear on the freedmen, still no
open threats were made use of near the polls. Any
body could have voted the Republican ticket, for I
heard several of the most prominent citizens offer to
escort parties to the polls pledging themselve for their
safety ; but the Republicans abstained from voting.
because they did not wish to expose themselves to fu
ture insults and danger.
George Graham, Supervisor of Bossier parish, in his
report says :
In compliance with your request as to the condition
of aff.,irs in Bossier plin-h, I have the honor to sub
mit the following statement : That it would have been
unsafe for a person of known Republican views to
travel in the parish. There are some who may have
been willing to let persons vote as they saw fit, buti
there isa class of men who would not hesitate to shoot
any one who should attempt to vote the Republican
ticket, or even entertain radical views.
The election passed off quietly at Cane's precinct, for
the very reason that no one tried to vote the Radical
ticket; the only one that was polled was put in by a negro
who thought he was voting the Democratic ticket and
was put ill that it should not be s.id a Radical did
not dare to vote. L rge numbers of the colored peo
ple did not register and those who did voted as their
masters did, knowing that they could riot vote atny
other way. Since the trouble in Bossier parish the
negros are in more fear than when they were slaves.
Now they have no protectors. On the morni g of the
election I saw three dead negroes in Red River mysel ;
how they came there I do not know.
One of the Supervisors was cowhided with a pistol
held to his head, on the day of the election, on account
of his politics, by a man who killed a negro buta short
time before ; you can judge for yourselves by this how
the electi5t would go. lie had registered himself,
but did riot vote, as he did not think it safe. I could
state a great deal more, but will only s:ay, in conclu
sion, if you want more proof, ask any of the freedmen
who live there, and they will tell .you more than I call.
Hlowever, I will mention one thi' g which happened
during the trouble. A pirty of whites captured three
negroes and took them over on the Island, opposite
ntalk Level, a few days before I got to Shreveport,
and they were never seen since ; thin information I re
ceived from the negroes on the place.
G. W. Currie, Supervisor for Bossier parish, furn
ishes the following tirade:
In comnpliance with your reqne-t that the Supervisors
of Registration for the parish of Bossier, report to
you upon the conduct of the late election held in said
parish, as one of the members of said board, I have
the honor to inake toe following impartial statement
of things as I saw and understood them.
I am not aware of any intimidation having been
practiced at the polls of any of the precinects in the
parish, aside f.om that of Bellevue-the only precinct
of which I can speak knowingly-anu d even there, I
feel assured that the Ri:dicil ticket could have been
voted during certain hours of the day without moles
tation; yet did the riotous characters become aware of
the - et, trouble would ha1ve very likely ensued, if not
on election day, some da:y soon after. The miajority
of the people, especially the comamissioners of election,
seemed disposed to conduct the election fairly arnd
peaceably, but there were a few not so disposed, who
quarreled or fought principally among themselves, for
hal!f the day or more, and through the free use of their
revolvers, knives, canes, and the thrleaterning aI:nguage
used by sonme, it would lhave had the elf-ct to ilutinli
date, for thie time hbeing, any thatt mighlt have felt dis
posed to vote thie Ra:dical ticket, had there been any
such present, and did cause a number of negroes to
leave that had not voted; they were said, however, to
be Democrats, and very probable, as but very few in
the parish intended voting the IRadical ticket.
During the fighting and quarrelirg spoken of above,
all the well disposed people that Ihad ary influence
with thie troublesome characters, did what they coull
under thie circumstances towards quelling thie distur
bance and keeping order-sheriff Hill in particrular.
But niotwithstanditg their.efforts, the quarrelsirie did
pretty miuch as they pleasedl, and during the day pre
vented two of thIe supervisors fromn perforoming their
duties, and ittacked two others itt thair boarding house,
springing at one with a -knife anrd ilhipping another
with a rawihide, witli a Derringer presented at his head.
Tihe only reason that could be assigned for such con
duct was, that one was suspected of being a Radical,
and the other was knorwn to be. The reasons assigrned
for thie attack on one were, that he hi.d been sweatling
thie negroes to v-ot the Radical ticket, and had bee.r
holding secret political mteetings with thiem at night, all
of ahicit was eutirely unlounded-a mere pretext for
the acts committed.
In my opinion no known Radical could have travel
ed through the parish with safety as supervisor of reg
istration for the late elections. One of the members
having been suspected of being a Radical, would have
been killed had it not been proven that he was not. A
known Radical of the board stationed at Bellevue was
several times sought after, previous to the election, tln
doubtedly with the intention of doing him itnjury, and
perhaps taking his life.
Although, as I have said, I do not know of any in
timidation having been practiced at the polls further
than mentioned, yet the political condition of affairs
in the parish, and the riot that shortly preceded regis
tration, undoubtediy had an intimidating effect. At
Benton, the first precinct the traveling board visited,
atnd the precinct nearest to where the late riot occltred,
there were near:y two hundred and fifty (sis) less ne
groes registered than last year. OnD several ozeasio, s
while registering, I heard planters say to their negroes,
"If you don't vote the Democratic ticket you can get
yotr bread somewhere else." Yet there were otilers,
I have reasons for believing, that did not try to in
fluence their negroes in voting. Whileat one precinct
two negroes made Democratic speeches, and one of
those that made a speechl, afterwards said to others inI
my hearing, as I. was passing themt in the woods, that
the Radicals not having kept their promises to uphold
them in their rights, they were compelled to vote the
Democratic ticket.
I have reasons for believing that negroes are being
frequently killed in the parish, and that white men of
radical political views would suffer a like late were
their presence in the parish known to certain men.
The majority of the people seem to be well disposed,
a few would treat one in the best possible manner in
dependent of his politics-but it is not the majority
that rules, it is the minority, the desperadoes, and some
others who would not wish to be classed as such, but
from their acts- and deeds it would be hard to class
them otherwise.
In the parish eighteen hundred and ninety-eight
(189S) registered, sixteen hundred and thirty-six(163:6)
of whom voted, sixteen hundred and thirty-five voting
the Democratic ticket, and one (1) the Radical ticket.
GREELEY'S PLAN MEETS WITH OPPOSITION.--ree
ley's plan for the resumption of specie payments meets
with strong opposition. Mr. Henry 0. Bowen, in an
swering him, says:
" I can at-this moment name' ten men who could
and probably would arrange, within one week after re
sumption onl your plan, to take out of the market front
$50,000,000 to $u10,000,00t of gold and lock it up be
hind bolts and bars so tight that tno power on earth
bitt a military power could touch it. This would cause
a panioahere unbh as never was known in the history
of the world. There are men here whose business
operations imoant to hundreds of millions of dollars
annually, .did they know exactly what they are about.
They can and do engage in operations which invonl:e
more money than was controlled by the Bak of Eng
land or France at the time these inititutans uspended
specie payments. They can, at pleaisure, make money
four per cent. per annum, or a.half per cent. per day,
and it is high titide our legislators and theorists under
stood this."
AN E sroD .A,.-Jesse U. McMahon, an old and
well kLown editor in Mempi.is, died in that city, on
the 9th ailt. At the time of his death he was agent
pf the St. Louis fife Insuse0pp Comp py,
BY TELELGRAPII.
For the South-Western.
Foreign and Domestic Markets.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 8, afternoon.-Cotton quiet; up
lands 12@-12$ and Orleans 121@121d. r.
NEw YORK, Feb. 8, evening.-Cotton less active and
ec. lower; sales 1200 bales at 30$c. Exchange dull
and heavy, 9-. Gold closed firm at 151. Southern
securities quiet, but steady; Louisiana's 71. Stocks
closed unsettled and dull.
LImvemrooL, Feb. 8, evening.-Cotton closed quiet;
uplands on the spot 12)@12e and afloat 12.d.; Or
leans 12i@12~;d.; sales 12,0110 bales.
HAvP.e, Feb. 8.-Cotton opela d on tile spot at 1.421
and afloat at 1.441 francs.
Liver.rooL, Feti. 9, noon.-Cotton dull, iunt un
changed; uplands 12$@12- and Orleans 12@12 l2d.
Bombay shipments to the 6th 18,000 bales.
LiVERPOOL, Feb. 9, afternoon. - Cotton a shade
firmer, but not higher. Manchester advices less fa
vorable. Cause, dullness.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9, noon.-Gold 135. Cotton firm
at 304c.
NEw ORLEANeS, Feb. 9.-Cotton easier; middling
281@29c.; sales 2200, receipts 3180 and exports 29
bales. Gold 135f. Sterling 47; Commercial 45$@
46); New York sight .'pct. discount. Flour firm; su
perfine $6 621@7, double extra $7 871 and treble ex
tra $8 75. Corn lower, 70@73c. Oats firm, 75c. Bran
$1 20. Hay firmer; prime $25. Potk advancing,
$36. Bacon firm; shoulders 151, clear rib 184 and
clear sides 19$c. Lard firm; tierce 201@21 and keg
221@23e. Sugar-good demand; common 104@10,
primte 121 and yellow clarified 14$@14$c. Molasses
active; fair 64@65 and p ime 68@6ec. Whisky $1@
1 05. Coffee--ilir 14$@153 and prime 16*@17c.
Texas cattle--lt quality 40@55, 2d quality $::0@35
and 3d quality $18@25. Sheep $2 50@7 00.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9, evening. - Cotton firm; sales
5000 bales at 3a$e. Money very easy at 5@71jet.
Gold 135. Sterling 94@91. Southern securities quiet;
Louisiana levees 671.
Liveltroot., Feb. 9, evening.--Cotton firmer, but not
higher and more active; sales 12,000 bales.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 9.-Pinchback's bill for the en
forcement of the 13th article of the constitution,
(equality bill) passed in the Senate yesterday. Joint
resolution also passed donating $10,000 to the Lincoln
Monument Association.
Manager Floyd. of the Varieties theatre, yesterday
enjoined Ben DeBar, of the St. Charles theatre, from
producing the railroad scene in "After Dark," on the
ground of an infringement of a copyright of " Under
the Gas Light," hut upon producing decision of the
New-York courts in similar suits, and giving bond, in
live thousand dollars, DeBar was allowed to produce
the scene.
Both Houses of the Legislature adjourned yesterday
till Wednesday on account of Mardi Gras.
New ORLEANs, Feb. 9.-Departed for Red River
Era No. 9.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Wasu.tsOToN, Feb. 9.-Capt. W. A. Coulter is re
lieved from the Freedm, n''v Bureau in Virginia, and
ordered to join his regimneut at Montgomery, Ala.
Full Cabinet to-day. Internal revenue eommissioner
Rollins absent.
During the contest over the suffrage amendment to
tihe constitution, Mr. Vickers offered an amendment
looking to the restoration to the exercise of the elec
tive franchise of those who are now excluded by rea
son of participation in the rebellion, which was reject
ed ayes 21, nays 32, those voting in the affirmative be
ing Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle,
Ferry, Fowler, Grimes, Harlan, Hendricks, McCreery,
Norton, Patterson, of Tennessee, Ramtsey. Rice, Rub
ertson, Sawyer, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Vickers and
Wilson. Constitutional amendment as it finally pass
ed the Senate reads: "No disclimation shall be made
in the United States army, or between citizens of the
United States in the exercise of the elective franchise,
or in the right to hold office in any State, on account
of race, color, nativity, property, education or creed."
Vote, 40 to 16. Goes to the House for concurrence.
WAStttTvoT, Feb. 9, noon.-House, after itneffee
tual effort to include Louisiana,'passed the Senate con
current resolution in regaud to counting Georgia's
vote. Concurrent resolution don't requi:e the Presi
dent's signature. This action leaves tejorgia's status
in the Union an open question.
The President signs Dr. Mudd's pardon to day.
Senator Whiit, of Maryland, visited the Attorney
General in behalf of Lieut. Braite, at the instance of
a large number of Baltimore ladies.
FROM EUROPE.
Loano., Feb. 8.-News from Greece is contradic
tory. Athens dispatches says Z.amie has formed his
Ministry, and that peace is assured. The reported
battle between Turks and Montenetgrius is authorita
tively denied.
The Standard, to day, predicts the rejection of the
Alabama clais treaty by the United States, and says
the next administration will not get such favorable
terms for the settlement of the question.
MISCELLANEOUS.
New Yur.K, Feb. S.-Grant and Bonner had an air
ing together behind " Dexter" this afternoon.
The military and naval officers of Bnrnside's expe
dition to North Caro'ita permanently organised into a
society to-day, and had their first atintual dinner to
night.
Brig Brilliant, from Cape Fear river with rosin and
turpentine was lost in a st. rm, Janutary 28. The
second mate, Aan Blryant, was drowned ; the capt:,in
and rest of the crew were rescued by the steamship
Europt. andt broughlt to this port.
Employers of printers to-day resolved to continue
resistlance to the striking book printers, anid emnplry
felnmale c(tntpositors.
PHIIILADELPItA, Feb. 9.-Gratnt arrived this mnorning,
but was too fatigtued fromt his New York labors to at
tend a wedding, as promis.-d.
NEw YOtK, Feb. 9.-James T. Brtdy died of ap
poplexy, aged 64 years. All the courts adjourned out
of respect to deceased.
ArTLATra, Ga., Feb. I.-Strong effort mnade to-day
in the Senate for recontsideration of its taction yester
day, referring eligibility of colored men to hold office
to the Supreme Court. Effort to table motion lost,
yeas 13 lays 17. Pending aiction, adjturned.
BALTISORE, Feb. 9.--Getn. Breckinridge is here. lHe
is the guest of his brother-ilnlaw Rev. Dr. Bullock.
CONGRESSIONAL.
WAsmsttarot, Feb. 9.--h,ase-Kerr spoke in oppo
sition to postal railroad to New York. Said the sys
tem would soon extend to telegraphs, insurance and
canals, creating the necessity ftor new bureaus and de
partments, and with them would come fearful multi
p!ication of oflicers ald clerks, and increasing swarms
of corrupt, infamtous men, land thieves, subsidy beg
gards, swindlers, villainous contractors, operators anid
speculators, hnd such characters would command, it
they did not fill seats in: the House of Representatives.
This bill was only the pioneer with which to break
down the constitutional barriers and inaugurate a new
policy. Amendment forbidding the road to connect
with other roads now built passed. Amendment ex
tending schedule time faom six to seven hours passed
by 101 to 61. Bill then ordered engrossed. Several
Senate amendments to consular appropriation bill re
jected. Committee on Banking and Currency have the
floor S.rturday to report business on hand. Paine gave
notice that he would to-morrow call up the bill for re
lief from political disabilities reporte' by him from the
reconstruction commnitree. House went into commait
tee on arlnyappropriation. Recess.
Scauate-All day devoted to suffrage amendment.
Still in session.
[From Yesterday's Daily South-Western.1
FROM WASHINGTON.
AsnHcINGTON, Feb. 6.-The vote in committee onl
the Paciffe railroad omnibus bill was: In favor, Drake,
Conness, Stewart, Rice, Ramsey, Abbott; against,
Howard, Harlan, Morgan, Shrman and Wilson. The
Southern route is from Little Rock, via Fort Smith
and Albuquerque, to San Francisco ; another line from
near Cheyenne Wells, Kansas, to the Southern route
near Albuqueroue ; another from Lake Superior to
Pugets Sound; another from Portland, Oregon, to
North Bend, IIumbolt river, Nevada.
WASIHINOTON, Feb. 8.--The Supreme Court confirm
ed the decision of the Circuit Court of Oregon requir
ing taxes to be paid in gold and silver. Court holds that
taxes are not in nature of a debtor contract, and there
fore tile legal tender law does not atfect taxes.
In the Senate the railroad committee asked "to be
discharged from further consideration of various prop
ositions for aid, the omnibus bill reported Saturday,
covering all the meritorious schemes now presented.
WAsatsoroN, Feb. 8.-Revenue to-day $500,000.
Mrs. Surrattas remains were deliveredtquietly to her
family to-dry.
Ilon. E. Jeffreys, one of the Judges of the Court of
Mississippi, is here, and presented to-d.y an address to
the Reconstruction Committee in behalf of himself and
others, claiming to represent a laige and influential
part of the Republican party who opposed the adop
tion of the constitution voted upon in June last. The
address is in the nature of a protest, and is a discus
sion of the condition of affairs in the State. He pro
poses a plan of restoration as follows: .First, that Con
gress shall declare all the uofices in tie State vacant;
second, provide for appointment of a provisional gov
ernor, with power to fill all the-offices thus declared
vacant, with power also to remove from office his own
appointees; third, provide that the proposed.conutitu
tioq shall be so modified or amended asn to remove
from it those features that are more proscriptive than
what is required by the recornstruction laws, of Con
gress; fourth, provides for an election at the time des
ignated by the constitution for holding the aforesaid
election.
The President to-day.made some. additional consular
and naval nominxtionrs.
FROM- U VANA.
HtviAs, Feb. .--The following is just received
from San Domingo: Salnave attacked-and destroyed
I the townof Torebec, and bom rded the port. Salad
i bombarded and captured Aqug . Thed inhabitalit of
t Aux Cayes and other towns of that vicinity arepaitic
stricken, and all who are able are going to Jamaic:ca
MISCELLANEOUS.
New YORK, Feb. 6.-Grant dined with Moses Grin.
nell last niglt. He was visited by the Lincoln club
composed of leading R plblican politiciatn. To-nigh~
he dined with Hamilton Fish, and has a grand recep.
tion at the house of S. B. Chittenden, Monday night
the Chittenden building being the temporary hall for
the occasion.
Batik statement-loans inc-reased $1,.70,000; specie
increased $154.000; c'ireulation increased $15,000;
deposits decreased $362,00 ; legal tenders decreased
$it.20,0J0.
The press condemns thie hill before Congress for the
conversion of registered into coupo,, bonds as unnec
essary, and in the interest of speculators.
Export of specie to-dar $119,000 to Havana ; and
during the week $96ti,000. Sub-treasuary balance
$S8,000,0,0.
CONGRESSIONAL.
WASinINGTON, Feb. S.-louse--Under regular call
tile following were introduced: Bill regulating fur
trade; encouraging building of steamships; relating
to rights of loyal citizens of Alabama; authorising
the President to appoint t comnmission to revise tariff;
declaring reciprocity treaties against the policy of the
Government at the present time; granting right of way
to Memphis, El Paso and Pacific railroad; granting
lands to New Orleans and Selma railroad, and immi
gration association ; three bills regarding naturalisation.
Aldridge asked select committee to investigate outrages
by Arkansas militia. Roots obljected. Copper tarilf'
bill, as amended by Senate, passed-112 to 54, and
goes to the Presidelnt. Petition asking protection for
oyster tride from Virginia laws, as modified by Gen.
Schofield. House went into committee. Recess.
Senate-After proceedings reported at noon, consti
tutional amendment resumed and discussed all day,
and only suspended to allow vote on Edmund's resolu
tion regarding Georgia electoral rote--34 to 11. This
resolution provides that, in deciding the vote, two re
sults shall be announced: one counting, the other
omitting the Georgia vote, thus leaving the main ques
tion open. Recess.
STARTLING S'rATIiENT--The loneys Annually Sto
len Sfcient to Pay the cNational Debt.-It is scarcely
possible for any statement as to the corruption of Gov
ernment officials, or the immensity of the thieveries
practiced on the people of this much-enduring coun
tt y, to be startling. Yet -the following facts, given by
Mr. Jenckes in New York a few days ago, have the
merit of being a vivid presentation, of the disgraceful
condition of affairs. He said:
I have the testimony of the officials of the Govern
ment who have charge of the business of the country.
Cotmmis.ioner Welles says in his report that the losses
in the revenue have, through the corrupt olficials em
ployed, been very great. Then, again,, look at the
trials now going on. Assuming that $155,000,0110 are
the receipts from the internal revenue-the Cotunis
sioner believes that there would be atn increase of
$75,000.000 as a nm;nin;um obtained without any prac
tical difficulty, as the law now stands. And the Com
missioner of Customs states that there ought to be an
inicrease of $25,0;0,000 in tie receipts. For the last
year the redeipts of the internal revenue were $155,001t,
000, and the receipts of the customs were $'70,0;0,G0.
The Special Commissioner of the internal revenue puts
the increase at $75,i00,000, and the Coummissioner of
Customs tells us that it ought to be $55,000,000 of an
increase. Here you hbave- the reports of the special
officers of the Government to the fact that $100,000,
000 are either diverted into the pockets of fraudulent
officers or into the pockets of their confederates.
Now, what does that mean? The debt of this
country is $2,500,000,000 in round run:bers. The
$100,000,000 now perverted and wrongfully converted
by these officers would pay the national debt, every
dollar, within the time in which it is payable. The
five-twenties and ten fdrtics-every dollar, I repeat, of
the national debt, would be paid if the revenue were
collected. Do you meet the significance of that state
menit? Why do they waste time in Congress over the
financial measures of the currency, bonds, atnd other
questiolns, when'we have positive testimony from of
ficials in whose intelligence aid honesty we hare faith,
when they say, " Collect your revenue and tihe debt
can be paid, every doll r of it, within the time in which
it is pa)able." If youti . this your credit will stand
firmn in the world, antd will be enduringly establihed.
Now, gentlemen, that doers not depend iupon my state
imnuts. 1open the report of the Commnlittee of Re
t enchument, which states this, and it is san;ctioned by
'tie report of the Secretary of the Treasury himself.
Those men have charge of the financiai Insiness of the
country. They say also: .' Enforce tie law, anti not
onlyt will the expenses of tole (Goverttn~- nt be paid, Inut
the debt of the nation will be paid as it becomes due."
TalE P.ACIFIC CENTRAL TRANSIT R.tILcI:O.\.--AseT ry
thing beari.g onl this subject at this time is of great
interest to our readers, we reproduce the following
Washington dispatch, dated the 26th:
The project termed the Pacific Central Transit rail
road and telegraph, introduced by Senator Kellogg I:
day, proposes t he construction of a railroad fro:im New
Orleans to Canmargo, on the Rio Grande, and tihenuce
through Mexico to San Bilas, on the Pacitic, with
branches, the most important of which is that to the
City of Mexico. Under this bill the Louisi'uu.Central
Tran:sit Company and the Texas Central Transit Com
pany are authorised to consolidate, and when the com
pany shall have constrsucted ten miles of railway and
telegraph, and after commissioners have examined and
reporter. on tile condition of the road, the company are
autholi ed to issue its first class mortgage bonds, ma
taring in thirty years from the date of issue at the rate
of twenty-five bolds of one thousai:d dollars each,
bear'ag six per cent. interest, payable semi annually ia
coin. These are to be signed officially by the Secretary
of the Treasury, and this indorsement shall ipso facto
cottstitute a first lien miortgage on the road for the'
protection of thie Governimentt, anti so on until the road
is completed, wilich shall be witlin six years. Troots
and inituitions of wavr shall be transplorted at reasona
ble rates, and the pt'oceeids thitro'f aire to be deposited
with the Secretary of thie Treasury and applied to the
pay5ment of interest on the bonds. A sinking fund is
to Ibe provided to pay thie bondsat their maturity. The
bill grants eight sections of lanid for each miile of the
road. The laborers on the road have thie right to plre
empt4'orty eires etach, at one dollar per acre, lor t
hilomnestead. The road is less than fifteen hundred mtiles
in length. The measure was referred.
A Lar.E .trERa.--If all the readiig nmstter in a
single copy of the Londtm Timtes, with ldpl spIplente,
were prited on octlravo pages, it would nmakff a five
ltiT ,dtr ed p:a, y, . vol na e.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
The News Depot, in the post office building, is
in receipt of all of the latest northern, castern and wes
tern papers, which he is selling at 1 cents each. Also,
all of the latest magazines, fashion-plates, etc,r ,
Family Grocerics -M. Kaufman, Jr., has reently
opened, at the corner of Texas and Maiket- ets, a
Family Grocery. where he keeps a full and-complete
assortment of Groceries, embracin lour, ancon,
Lard, Sugar, Coffee, Candles, Soap , Ac ., &c.,
which he is selling at the very lowe. et prices
Every article is guaranteed as represented. [jal:3 tft --'
J. B. Lewis, No. 9 Texas street, the largest deal
er in boots and shoes in this section of the country, has
a full and complete stock, just received from the North.
See advertisement.
To Purchasers of IHardware-We direct atten
tion in proper column of adverlisement front that ol1a
and reputable importing hardware house of Slocomb,'
Baldwin & Co., 74 Canal and 95i Common streets, New"
Orleans. Their business, at its commencement in 1S22,
which was but a little over two hundred thousand dii
lars per annum, has increa$ed to millions; their monthly
sales being in excess now of their first year's business.
This result has been accomplished by importing direcy
all Foreign Hardware, and selling their goods as.lta
any house North or South. lstjan fe to&a.
Just Received and for Sale-Eighty do,.cn A
No. 1 hog skin Plow Collars, sixty dozen zed-top roto
HIames, and fifty dozen hand-stitched Plw Bridlc
Come and.see me, at No. 52 Texas street, a, ove t!
Market House. I am selling those goodselteap'
ja7 d&wBw] W. S H11AVEN.
A Perfect Sewing Machine-Wileot & Gibbs'
Silent Twisted Loop Stitch, with hemmer, feller and
braider, all for *55 and $65. It always works at a mo
ment's notice, and never stops. Prices reduced to suit
the times For sale by P. Il. KYESY & CO.,
jalG 1md3mrwl Shrove'port, La.
Cheap Light-Messrs. Tandy La Morton, on the
Levee, are offering a superior artiagsC of coal uil at ,o
cents per gallon. If this s not thk ciheapest light ex
tant, then we are no judge. [jad; dtf
Tobacco ! Tobacor--. & - . Jacobs are in re
ceipt of the largest lot of toba~ce, f various brands,
ever brought to this city at ottin tjne. These tobaccos
were purchased at a sacrifice,, and. vil lie'sold at man
facturers' prices, without regard,te tle cost of trans
portation. Call and examine the.-tock and prices.'
Harried
On the 2d instant, at the Cathd.im Ciurch, in Shreve
port, by the Rev. Father Pierr., Mr. J. F. LOONEY,
formerly of St. Louis, Mo., a=[li M.las I. I, O'NEILL,
of Bossier parish,La.
." Missouri Republican please copy.
At the residence of befigjother. Mr. M. J. Simmons,
by the Rev. J. T. Davidson on the 21st alt., Mr. JOE
F. CALHOUN to Miss ¢.S,.I , SIJ.MONS, all of
Claiborue parish,q ,
I1OOKS DUOUSE-ýu4day, eb..9£-A Wilson,
St Tex-B F e'N ri, Bosscle-Jobn Conwarv,
F Tyler 'Tera-T 4 Tiftwell, Possier--F 11
lmes .,Montgomery Al Lh66s Gilmer, Bossier
IbQ gT H Moc.týgtis, C( tl1-j J Smith,Bossie,-
Jiaurray. EK RBusl, J Sn.Y, D E Dooley.,.J
s.u, Tex-ohn A saris, I t.Tex-E I' Rall,
t:P gg, 7 Bossi-: - Web, i hall Te-H E
Allen, cif -A D Litr I . utte, Cotton, Dasieon
C:oTex--; happ4T hp..t 4e NewebkCettv.