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GT3E- F'~ -------- ..r- S ihoice of the People of the Con federate States. FOR PRESIDENT, JEFFERt ON DAVIS, OF MISSISS!PPI. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, I. f. STEPHENS, OF GEORUIA. 1-3 0Mil MNlAU I4'ACTLTE-+. __________________ ______________ 'Itricnreport 4.~s. - -- - Cr-~ .r NO . DIC INSON c~ ) EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Friday, - Scptember 27. 1l61 Job Work must be paid ftr on de (ivery. t AG Er.BNT3* Mfr. Jon WV. TAfER, is our authorized s ,ent in Natchitoches. Mr-- D. 1). O'BasEN, No. 6, Exchautn·e f'lace, New Orieans, is our aftlorize l Agent for that city. MR. H. C. CLARKE, Bookseller, is our au thorized agent- for Vicksburg and Natchez. Mr. J. }. LorroN, is our agent at Belle amn, Bossier Parish. Mr. A. L. HAT. of the News Depot, is our uithorized agent in .letfersou, Texas. To Correspondelnts. We will be pleased to receive cntribn iums fronm ourftionds,in iand around Sitllreve 1ort. At occasional article from oar planters. rc.lative to the crops, will be veary.acceptable. in fact, we . desire correspondence from Severy section gf the States. Personal articles will not be published, e&theras e.ommnunications or advertiscnanuts. T'hoso friendly to our undertaking, who' may bear of any.local, or other items, that will prove of interest to our readers, will favpr us by handing in tle salme at the office the News. In writing, 1,e brief and concise. hearing in mind, that lengthy counmuuicians are set dnom appreciated by newspaper readers. The attention-of our readers is di rretet4o the appopintments. of .WV. W. t George, Es , who is a candidate for 1 ripresentative in the lower branch of t :he Legislature, it, our State. T'he Doetor, as will be sevt. <e: `nds an invitation to his oppoieLit to meet him at.the. places named. It would appear from late reports, the Sumter is, after all the accounts of her being wrecked, still plowing the waves in her glory. Tseasonable Corrcpondence.-1We Iearn, says the Knoxville (Tenn.) Register, that a couple of persons. I ienry and Love, recently taken upon the Cumberland Mountain by Col. Rtains, and upqn.the person of one of whom was found.treasonable curres pIndence from the notorious It. IK. Byrd, late of Kingston, Lbtd.ow with the Lincoln troops in.IKentucky, to his Union friends in East Tennessee, rill' bel brelght tip-'fore-saminration :it the. meeting of . the Cbnfederate (court this anbraing, when some ex eeeding.interesting developments -are expected to be made. SayS the RIed River Alluvion : 'T'he cotton fields are leafless. The ctteipillars have made a 'clean sweep' rthis time-even the young bolls have been-eaten up. T4V Enemy's FJorces up the Rirer. 'ILhe Memphis Appeal, of yesterday From the -informatiA which we lhave received from various sources, we jurdge that tihe available forces up the river are distributed as follows: At St. Louis 15,000; Cape Girardeau ('airo, and Bird's Point, 12,00(Y; "'Old IF'rt JTfferson, (nine mniles adove Col neabus,) about 10,000; rPaducah 10, 5DO I ouisvillc, 5,000. At Jeff rson City. 11o, there are probably'also about 4, 000. .This is a sum total of 56.000. w hicli'we think is not far flomn a true I'tiIn '. ) TE w are Este' 1 1," A $`y serious qtustion arises now (o0 in to amiule of the people, regarding ig the contemplated expeditioni of the federals in the direction of New Or- rivi leans. Ittsis argued by some that tltt Tiu City referred to isnot theintendeddes- gat of~ tination ef this much alhuded to large lan force of the 4ne4nvm, that on the con- nov trary, the lies along the coast wil of Texas. lhi '- it our opinion, Plse In is pretty '' .: r.':.-: i.ons up in our imagiuat;o' i ' ~ln anything but j flattering. . a ý ý, ltough report- stri ed as bew _wel t. ii i, is far from i being so, :1(1itti 2 ilowever, that i is that city is weIl Prepared to defend chi herself, what does it amount to? Nothing. It is not to be supposed that (4alveston could prevent an in- I` vasion of 'T'exna, tor we look upon 1)i such an effort as very easily a.Com-i - plished, in fact there is no possibility td of averting their aInuding on the coast of Texas, for it is wholly unprotectel. The good book tells us: --At wila iI hour the thief conteth, no one know-" eth." So is it with the eneiu, witn l. they may attempt to carry into olcth their " grand''" project, or here. we l knuow (not, it behooves us theretbre, to I be exceedingly cautious. \VW, ha "t in every imnportant battle, shlown lt:r j selves the better of the two armies; the vain feeling of the pfrilciplUi :ie tors in the federal arm: have heet 11 St sorely pricked by our sucecess, and fit' the ridicule they have stlbjectedi thetm- selves to, by theirboastinigs of crtush- tt ing us to thle ground in every enlt.age um1et. 'Tlleyv have:- become the ridi cule of Canadian journalists, and are tl Ssneered at by the satirical writes of t' I) nearly tilhe whole of Europe. They at Scannot look at such things with a tl ,Icheerful countenance, and desperation 1t nerves them on with a detenrmination ill f e demoniae at best. S That -our enemies will attempt it i- every strategy to perplex us, there is n not the ieast doubt; in their propos Sed descent upon uts by land and :sea, V they will-value the lives of their de of there is the least spark of bravery 1 ,in tlhem, tllhey will exhibit it on that b n occasion. Regarding the prograntne, Iot ln, the Washington correspondlett of the Baltimore Sun, conjectures t that an expedition by land and sea '1 ts, against Texas, is contempnlated. its _ t. ng Ycaterday tItImnlintg we Ihad a light shower of rain. The weathler coti Ye tinues coo-.k Health of the city not n.) very good. 'lTiu's exceedingly dull. ns. Every one has a dejected-Jook. T'hi to river at this point is still visible to, ol. the naked eve. A few wagon loads .of of cotton cotue in occasio"rnllv, but a. 'tes- a whole, our planters are keeping tilhe K. staple on their pilantntions, as aodvised itlh by the New ( )rleans factors. There to was a rencontrot yesterday foreanon, eu, between two of our citizens, which re ion suited in a draw fight. We are hap ate py to state that neither of the conm ex- batants were wounded-weapons are nsed, resembled what is commonly known as barrel staves. . - - ---*- *---- ['he A. fire occurred in Vicksbilrg on tiP the 22d inistant, destroying property ave to the amount of about .1'7,00. An Irishman namted Pat. -(ooney, two e.- children and their mother, (Mrs. Mfor ris,) and a negro womatI and her two we children were bnrned to deathl. sP The foll6d-ilng substitute for mak ing coffee, is the latest that has come ['ld under our observatisn. It will prove ol- of very little expense. Take tall Bo? bark, three parts; three old cigar it* stumps and a quantity of wvater, mix w . ell, ant boil fifteen minutes in a rue dirty coffee, pot, and the bhst jugges I enunot tell it fron thiiI tin'·'t Mochlri. Foi~'bi Frt iicr~ c .he cla correspondet ' o Coluibtbs (Ga.) Sun. in a letter bcd iwag date of 14th inustant, says: ti Vessels of war are continually ar- rate riving and departing in the fleet. Ott Bai Thursday there were two lage fri- ( gates and a sloop-of-war outside, one Bai of thiem engaged most of the day in be landing men. I notice but one there req now. I am inclined to thirink that we will have some hot times shortly. or s24 else we must undergo a great deal of . linniliation and mortification. TI 'lhe vending of newspapers-in the street on Sunday, has been prohibited L in Memphis, Tean. Wonder if this is an indication of the progress of christianity in that city 1 hol -- ---------- nee at, The Rtt. Rev. Bishop Verot, recent- - ly appointed Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Georgia, was installed on ii6thi instant, at Savannah, and enter-F Ud upon his official duties. i T'liere is a movement on foot in ilia I\lelnphiS says thre Appeal, to induce an :in issue in thiocitv of notes for sums n 4 1n v amount from a dline to a dol I l ,We may have something to say , ~Ii" policy o'f such aIt proceeding. l:t nnhe ma tint what do ourcitizensL ill ik of tihe idea of flooding the city wit t "miniature prominises to pay?" r] 1 iard Ihesoies.-Tlhlt Iowa Jour- di iul a few dalIvs ago had an article fo showing a prettyv bad condition of ai aI afirs in that State from the loss of "I1 Southeiwrn trade, and general stagna- ni tionm.ofbusiness consequent upon the i LinIcolni war. o -[ The New lYork Herald says re thallt two regiiments of negroes have & ot' blwn secretly drilled in 'Phil:adelphia, 'Y and are now ready to march against a the South. )n n 'w-or hundred negroes left Holly a Springs, Miss., on tihe 4th and 6th ci pt insts., to work on the fortifications 1 is near Ra:ndolplh, seventy miles above as. Memphils. -1 Says thie Alexa:ndria Constitution re- al: W\e have had two arrivals of if stellmers from tie' city. The .J. L. a ry Hodges and Era No. T. T lat Inter t at brought the governmlent'r )rdnauee-. en toute for Galveston. 'l'he amuinut of - 'shell and shot is rather formidable. ,t and theI cannon can safely be classed res under the list of "itinitt arousers." ,ea 'Thley are tf-immense sive and calibre. f This will he cheerimg intelligence I to our lextsc- friends. A I'lmatn's Answer.-A writer, I illustrating the facts thalt some errors ei are lifted -into implortance by efiforts ll to refute them, whii they need to be tr eated witlh coelintenpt mid ridicule. ' observes that all tluh blows inflicted iSy the Ilereulean club ofecertain logi. t e tcians iar 1lWt half so effectfualam a box tuet `1 on the ear of a celebrated atheL' t by the hand of siiine charmning beauty. r After having in vain preached to a on circle of ladies, hie atttelltCed to re ravenge himseltf by :nving. ap- Pardon Iq error ladies. I dor not omu imagine that in a house where wit ions lives with g race, I alone should have oly tile honor of not believing in God." "You are not alone sir," answered the mistress of tien hotisa'; my horse', 0oI my dog, my cat, share the honor with 'rty you; only these poor butbttS hwae the An good sense not to luaist of it." two - ---- for- A IiIgh Priratc.-Ex-Governor t wo Wix. Aiken of South ('arolina, a gentleman with several millions of dollars, has reported himself for ac tnk- tive duty in the Calhoun Guards. omeo Richtmond Enquirer. mrve T'hat's nothing. We know seve tan ril reported for duty who didn't have igar a red cent, -and left their wives and mix children at home to - take the cbhan n a ces. Which are entitled to the more rhges credit for shouldering thieir tuskets. we swagi hWoreh er,' "p =C id > eile at its cointer, at pat, I ti easd' NTotes of the Confede- GE rate States, and the Notes of the other Lot Banks of Ne* leans. rUt Ownierm of pa or depositMi in this Bank for collection, unless willing to nan be governed. by this regulation, are re-e requested to withdraw the same. "f ULGER" LAUVE. e24-tf Cashier. 1 Patronize Home industry. da t11 SIMON EIlMKAN LADIES' SHOEIIAKER,' Mlarket street, near Post-r qice. . W ILL give special attention to nmaking ,.le Shoes for Ladies and Misses, and E hopes to rf (ivo a liberal patronage in this i new enterprise. IRepairing neatly executed vet at short uotice. sg0-:3I PRIVATE BOARDING.a STravis street, inear Baptist Church. of SkINGK located in a retired and agree- - able 3.trt ,f the town., ntford.S nLusuiil in dilueeln-tats to boardiers, tIaltnoi(lt or permit- ý nijnt, will tied it a ciunt(rtable home. Fin - I dlies or siagle gentlemen n obtain pleas- t: tnt rooms, and day buorders will be accomn- inn nidated. slv i Mrsa. A. II. T1AINTo. - Confederation Restaurant. T1 S(Formnaeriy Gaiety.) dit = Adjoiyning the C(o7nfederatimn ti U(3c e IJcrnie. /Shreceport, La. SllHiS well U'own and populnr es 1. tablishlntint has beetn reimtoved as i above, antd is open for the arconmno-nn dation of the public. Tfier.i will kbet l e foundl the best of game. fishll; oysters. f and everythinig thlat the Shrev.jporl IR. and New Orleans markets -ailord.- a Meals furnished at all hours day or of night. F'autilies and parties- will tic e ave their orders promptly attended - o. ino37vly Restaurant L infl SIHli} undersigned would respect-t 1t Iti')lyinflnnthie citizensof Shreve. tport anrl vicinity, that Ie Ihas opened p, an RETAURANT on '1'exasstreet, di near Market, where ihe is prepared at th Y all times to satisfy his friends tand a, h customers, from 7 o'clock, A. M1. until - is 11, P. l., with warm or cold meals. re '1'To Boarders by tihe mounth orn week, a liberal deduction will benade. E v1n54-G6un J. A JEHLE. f ___ ___- - -- -- fc i- E] DMONST'ON'S BATT ALION ('4. iMPAN IES will receive their Sarns andl eqttipnellts, ready for mus r ter, at Hleadquarters, 36 Natchez n street. Reference E. & B. Jacobs. >f - I---------------- IC of F S Particular Attention. ;d " Itemns or advertisemenfts intended e. for the Daily News, nmust be handed ce in prior to, four o'clock, P. M. other wi.se they will not appear iitour issue )tf the following morning. r' lWatchnnaker and Jeweler. S FP. F. L. " FRANK, le le. :gent fbr J. LITTBAU$R, ;. Dealer in Fiine Watches, Jewelry, o Diamonds, Brazeiian Pelble Spec l tacles, etc. All good Tl'ikce., war w ranted for one year. ,ob work neatly exrecuterd. a Texas Street, opposite Childers &B Beard's, SIHIRI:VEPORT, LA. V .,i. I no-i-ti - ly . __________ iot SItlDEP rWit tvte 'WVatchuanaker, " 3JEWELER, red :;iIK Flll lllAWISY, 1 All the DIA1MIONDS, TEacAS STB'EET, nor r-iv Between Spring and Market, .4.i sof sHREVESPORT, LA. alc Watches and Jewelry Repaired and Warranted. ni-ly ive- EDWAARD CONER Y. ave Wbhelesale Grecer, and AnD DEALtR IN san- WESTERN rRODUCE:, rore A.c 2 .Frot and 10 FMulon Streets,. ts. NEiW-ORLEANS. In 1,- i re autholrized to ,ttl.Il.:(n1o GEORGE H. CHILDERS. , her 1i l LOWIBR RtANcu or Tkk: I 01*. TU'R, irtlthis Par1ih. yai l * We are : zthoriztd t, aSI~tt me 1 name of Rt. stqir. i.l.. :ts aet:i tdatt% t. re-election, to thle I.ttl iiajat.,. F(I the Pulr of Caddo. *aW4 We are authlorizied to atulouindf DRI, W. W. ( )fE :( , as ( , F. n dia date for a s.'at ill the lto ie bratltt of the Legislature. of Lou;..anna.:t the telertion in NoUreuther. [poaiti l are a:Lutlhorieed to aI::IOUlnA V T1. It. 111TT1S. am cand(idatte for "I.# election, for thtoofithe of RtEC;ORtI) ..ý Electioln ont th.. ir.-t i1oniday in N ilm No4vtmer. j1ber. WIe are authorised to allnouwce d* M. f. J. ALS. 'O1N, & r a h cididi for the oiEie of S 1eritfi at thi 'etl'ut ing election. puit We are lauthorized to anneurnee Mr. THOMAS It. SIMPSLN as a cant didate for the office of SIIEItthI', nu. the elnsuing lection. paid We are authorized to nuluoun c'r ISHRAEL W. 1'IUKENS, as a cal didate for the otflice of SherifF, at th. h ensuing eection. paid We .are, authorized to announce. 1. R. CRISP, the 1,reaent incuimbent. ; a candlidate for reelectiontt the oflic. of ASSESSOR, at the ensuing etks tion. WVe ale uthorized to annllunr Prof. W. II. N. MAGRLUDER, t Baton Rouge, as a candidate for the oflice of Superintendent of PubLib Education. We are authorized to anrrnounc. 1I P1'ETER H. CROCKER, as a eau Sdidate for the office of Assessor. at t the ensuing election, in No itnblu Snext. .-l We are authorised to anuoutce the r namtne of J. H. CUNNINGRJLA1, Esq., of Natchitoches, as a candidate for the office of STATE SENATOR - for this district. _ L. BAER, lWhokIsale and Retail Dealer in FAMILY Sr FAN cY GIWC'FRIE.' Liquors and-Tobacco, C-IGA1IS, BOAlT ' BAR STORES. TEXA$ .TREET, Shireviporrt .La:. A good assortmnent of the a'uov' named articles coWnstantly oJll hand. No t--dly. D. LE ROSEN, Daguerrean AI tist. SWould rt"-pectftully inform. the* sirt zets "f Shrx-veport, that li. will r, nin ii io t.leir place a fjw days, tw h the muLU ; of taking l'tictur-s up Glaws 9ilver, Iron: P'api r. Pat* LA'atlhEr, etc., t., it the hig1: -r style of art. -AmnbrotypeI taken for !i Satitfaction guaranteed in ve*' Rooms at the -Art (allery. over Sour & New Iuirg-r's Stor., where I invite,; an extunination of specuila IP ictur es. THOA4AS W'. JONES.. ( doors below B. &r lH. ,atAsA.) Texra. Street, Shrereport. Loui.eianu DIALP.It IN lHartwarc, Iron, Castingr Belting, Packing, iIechaaics' 4- M1ackinis.ts' Th()ols. 4< d Cnstings of all kinds crn:-tntl ti hand or made to order. n!-y-d For the Beeut of the Sdieers, ThIe id'dies of the Military Aid tie riety will be pleased to receive wets and yarn or sockA already knit. Pa; r" wiH b given for the same if desirec' Mts: RVLAND 3JONF'. President