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Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-26

Portable Steam Engines with or
without wheels. Stationery Steam
Engines with double tiue boilers.
Circular Saw Mills Of the most mod
ern and improved construction. We
challenge the trade to produce bet
tier or more effective article at a less
price Cotton Gin and Grist Mill
Shatting. s@
Circular Saws.
Burrows Corn and Flouriny Mil.
Stra1sb Corn Mills. ..t. r. .
India Robber Betting.
Wooawrnth Planning and Matching
Machines.
Artesian Well Tools and Pipes far,
nished TO order. -...
Steam Guaees, " histles, &c,
and every description of Plantation
and Railway Machinery.
Send and get an illustrated cata
loguc Of orr Machinery, free by mail
all we ask is :: preference at the same
price with equally good Northerl
Works. Addr, IS 4. NJ. IVENS,
No. 80 St. Charles St, n. O.
No. Bly,
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Attention. Publishers.

Publishers of Newspapers
Z.aks.YLin North Louisiana, and
1KlKay Texas, who may wish to
dispose of their establishments i'll
whole or part, by sending me partic-
ulars, and locality, will find it to their
advantage to address me as below.
Persons .desirous of establishing
Newspaper or Job Establishments
in the interior. will be furnished with
Estimates, free ot' Charge, by ad-
dressing me as below. And if they
order Printing Material, or Paper,
Ink. Cards OF Card Boards, through
ne, will be furnished,-for cash only
OF its equivalent-the best bargains,
at Foundry prices.
| offer the following establishments
for Cash, or good negroes with unen-
cumher-d titles.
A, old established Book and dob
Prin iag Office. in q city Of, 100000
population. Price $1,000.
/ Tie material OF a Job Office, in a
city of about $4,000 inhabitants.-
Price $1,000. ...
y Newspaper establishment and
good job Office connected. Price
81 800.
/ A Newspaper and Job Printing
establishment. Price $4,000.
An Adams Book Power Press.
second hand, in good order, medium
size, Price $1,000.
\ Rsggles Card and Bill Head
ipress, Will print any ordinary size
: job at the rate. of 1900 to 1000 i'm
pressions per hour. (New.) Price-S225
# \ Ruggles Card and Bill Head
+ press, old size, second hand Price
$50.
/, Kline Printers blank cards, China
: Satin Enamelled, and India, from
: 81 to S3 per thousand. Funeral,
!, Note, and other paper.
t 6 None but cash orders will re-
/ ceive any attention. Paper 24NSt
to arrive.
=. JNO. DICKINSON.
=, s22-tf Shreveport, La
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Ne IF.SPAPER La ".

Subscribers who do not give express
notice to the contrary, are considered
As wishing to continue the subscrlp-
ton.
If subcribers order the discontin-
uance of their papers, the publishers
may continue to send them till all that
is due be paid. T..
If subscribers neglect or refuse to
take their papers from the office tc
which they are directed, they are hello
responsible until they have settled
their bills and ordered their paper dis
continued
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lAansficIaE Female College
DESoTo PARISH La.

DESDlO IARISH Ia.
Nhe Fall session of this institution
i will open on Wednesday, 2nd
October SCI, with a full and efficient
Faculty. The domestic department
VIII be under the Immediate superin-
terdence of the President and his
lady, and every effort will be made
to promote the comfort OF those en-
trusted to their charge.
80 Cottom, z1orisions, Cont"der0tc
Bouds or Treasury mates taken IN pay.
ment of Board and I~ition. -
For other information, Address.
CHAS. y. STUART, President.
Mansfield, La.
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DIG * - S . ~ -
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY
ReadyP yProofPress.
Patented lime lst., 1861.
To Country Publishers.

L HE want of cheap proof press
has long been felt by publishers Of
country papers and small Job Offices,
The undersigned knowing this from
experience, has invented a press of
this sort similar to Hoe n Co.'S and
offers it to the craft as tire cheapest
in the market. Instead Of a solid
cast-iron cylinder, it is made fslleet
iron and filed, being decided i'm
provement, as it gives elasticity to
to the cylinder. The cost Of an or
dinary proof press is $50, while this
costs
Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-26
Vicksburg SUN.

Published in Vicksburg, Miss, by
r.. S. Martin, Chas. A. Cone, and
Geo. II. Elwell. Terms, $40 per an
mum for the Daily; Weekly, ss. The
Sun is the only paper in Vicksburg
published every day in the week.
vl-n54-tf
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IRON RAILINGS.

for galleries and balconies. which
will be sold at MANUFACTURES
PRICES (adding transportation).
Purchasers are invited to call and
examine the various styles, at the
Southern Marble Works of
W. HECoN,
Corner OF Texas and Edwards SITS
My Post Olticeis Shreveport, La
no 6-dly.
Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-26

" Age!
go @~ ~ CROOKES'S
Invigorating Aromatic Vegetable
!Stomache Bltteys, ..
For RESTORING & PRESERVING
HEALTH.
Prepared d from Aromatic Bitter Herbs
UNDER THE AUSPICIES or IN
as EMINENT PHYSICI4N. - -
Are an agreeable and palatablt
Invigorating Tonic, prepared from
Aromatic Bitter Vegetables, com
bined with Pure Spirit, improved
and perfected by neof cur venera-
bic and eminent physicians during
practice Of thirty years, i'll the latter
part of which he used those Bitter
Herbs, with unparalleled success, in
the treatment of internal diseases and
for purifying the blood.
They stimulate and regulate the
functions of digestion; impart vigor
and tone to the stomach; strengthen
the system, and are unequalled as
purifier Of the blood BY continuing
the use ola wine glass full morning
and evening, and before meals, for a
few weeks, they will afford convin-
cling proofs Of their great medicinal
properties, and under the influence Of
their health-restoring qualities, that
physical condition necessary to the
enjoyment Of a sound body and mind
will soon be attained.
From their purifying Influence,
the skin becomes steadily smooth and
bright, and they will gradually re-
move every trace Of eruption or in
Hammation from the face or body as
they progress inthe prrifcation of the
blood.
Viewing them simply as bever.
Eage, they equal i'll richness and deli,
4 cacy of flavor the finer grades o1
choice Champagne Wines-the bit
ter principle being onl Y perceptiblt
when felt III the good work Of purify
ing and invigorating
Y For the use of old and young 0
both sexes they are admirably adap
ted, being grateful TO the taste; Of al
exqisitelv delicate favor-impartin!
to the palate soothing aromatic et
fleet, equalled only by its purity an
richness.
The following letter regarding t;a
parity and quality Of this Celebrate
Vegetable Tonic, from. the eminea
and gifted physician and chemist
Victor +. Canning, SO long and ia
, vorably known in connection wit
l the French Academy OF Science
speaks for itself:
CcmicalLabretorg, IIta Broadros
New York, February 6. 1860.
Mr.. II NJ. Crookes Dear Sir
In accordance with Your request {
:, the 10Th ultimo, | have subjecte
sample of your Invigoca,inS Arom:
: tic Vegetable Stomach Bitters to
careful analysis and find them to /
composed Of the essence Of Aromati
Bitter Vegetables OF ancient fame
the medical world: Yet l have nevt
before seen them so well blended {
rendered so pleasing to tie seSse
taste.
The Spirit used in their prepa1'
ton l found to be perfectly pure, ar
as free from deleterious element I.
that procured from the natural ju',
+ OF the grape.
Yeu doubtless mad the assistance
experienced medical skill in pnrtrc
INC so excellent combination, as
rarely occurs that the bitter prime
n pie, possessing so much medic'n
= worth. is rendered so palatable.
Continue to prepare your Stonla'
:, Bitters, strictly IN accordance vi
J" the formula you have already ado
lG tol md .E.5- go MINT t.lil :.ai1A LII
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ICE! ICE! ICE!

~ CARGO of Rockland Lake,
s Jrystal ICE, just received and for
sale by A. ENGI1E IL CO.
Shreveport, April 25-nl 1-tf
Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-26
IRON FENCING.

The undersigned having made ar
ran@rments with the manufacturers,
is now prepared to order every des-
cription OF
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SCElLANEOUS.


," 1Ni'"m, 81. opl'osi'e the Iaram-
>iah Hutci. ~
a'llIl proprietor has been to great
4 expense to make this the. most
,i"-irabie Stable in the city, it is con-
'emirnt to the Steam boat landing.
i"rses viii be boarded by the day,
yar}; or month, on the most reasona-
'!,' terms. Persons visiting Shreve-
)prt OF going 10 New Orleans, by
Gazing lheir horses at this establish-
,a.'nt, can rest assured that they will
'r well attended to. Only give him
c4t! and satisfy yourselves.
JOHN CALDWELL.
Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-26
RICHMOND
- TYPE FOUNDRY. &e
THE ONLY MANUFACTORY
OF TYPE ON. SOUTHERN
SOIL SOUTH OF BAL
.PIMORE.

YNHE Propretors of the above Foundry
L have also united with their Foundry
complete
Printers Furnishing Warehouse,
having on hand, or furnishing to order,
every article requisite for IA Printing office,
from a BODklN to TEN-CYLINDER
PRESS.
Type and Printing. Material from any
I. Foundry North when required.
We can and wW manufacture ia Richmond
| as good an nrticlc. and at the same specimen
prices, as any Foundry North. We respect
fully solicit the patronage OF the South
aug3G- I'm HENRY l.. PELOUzE & Co
Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-26
IRON FENCING,

suitable for enclosing buildings. gar
dens, cemetery lots, etc. also
Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-26
THE SHREVEPORT
Weekly News,

Published in the city of Shreve-
port, Parish of Oaddo, every Monday
morning at the low price of So So.
The News will not be forwarded to
any address, until the subscription
money is receiv~l, as it is published
on the cash principle; and the terms
being put at low figures, will not ad
nit OF credit. ~
is the cheapest paper published
in the State, the sheet is "a by 36 in
ches, and coutains t,ocmy-eight cob
unans Of rea1ling matter, set in solid
type. The Weekly News is made
up of the reading published i'll the
daily, and contains the latest news re-
ceivcd in Shreveport, and well Sc
lected articles. In fact it is one of
the
BEST FAMILY PAPERS,
published in the South.
Specimen copies will be forwarded
to such as desire subscribing.
The columns will contain articles,
| selected and riginal, which will prove
Of interest and tend to the welfare of
it's readers 1t will be devoted to the
interests of the South; and internal
improvements III the Parish, and vi
cinity, will receive the undivided at
tention of the publisher,
| The columns of the News will be
open to every person. Personal art
cles viii not, under amy circumstances
| (eitler us communications or adver-
tisements,} be published
Correspondence is solicited from al
sections.
.JNO. DICKINSON.
e. Proprietor.
Papers publishing the above thre,
months, will be entitled to an exchange
t'nr tho Daily
Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-26
.SOUIHERN
MARBLE WORKS.

Corner Of Texas and Edward Sis
tlAViNG permanently located III
Shreveport, | am prepared to man
ufacturc from the raw material, and
right at home.
Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-26
Vicksburs Whig.

Published in Vicksburg, Miss. by
NJ. Shannon. Terms, in advance,
Daily per annum, So; Weekly. Sd.
Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-26
.JNO. DICKINSON.

e. Proprietor.
Papers publishing the above three
months, will be entitlcdtoa an exchange
for the Daily.
Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-26
MARBLE MONUM MENIS,
TOMBs,

Ti BLEY.S g. TOMB STONES,
OF every description, in the best work
uanl!kc manner.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-03
NEW SERIES-NO. $50.

interested in wells in this locality, and whose
income from them amounted to 81 900
day, was standing near the pit and was blown
twenty feet by the explosion. He got up
and ran about fifteen feet further, and was
dragged out by two men, and conveyed to
shanty some distance from the we'll. When
be arrived not vestige Of clothing was
left upon him except his stockings and boots.
His hair was burned off, as we'll as his finger
nails, and his eyelids, while the balls of his
eyes we're crisped up to nothingness.
In this condition he lived nine hours
made bis will, leaving 100000 to the poor
of Warren county; the same amount to
repair the roads of Warren county-to be
disbursed by the County Commissioners,
and $500 year to bis father-his only
living relation--for life. He died, however,
without signing the will. His body was
taken on Friday to West6eld, Chautanque
county, and buried, as be requested, by the
side of his mother.
In addition to Mr.. Rouse, the bodies of
six men were taken out Of the flames, who
were recognized, and the skeletons of five
others were visible in the circle of flames;
and as many more are missing-strangers
who came to witness the operations of the
wells. 1t is supposed that number of
others have been burned to powder, close
by the mouth of the well.
Some thirty-fOur were wounded. .-1
At the time of the explosion, everything
in the neigbborhood--sixty or seventy rods
took fire, and shanties, derricks, engine
houses, dwellings,, were at once involvedin
flames. The boiler of DObb's we'll, eighty
rods from the original fire, blew up with
tremendous explosion, killing instantly the
engineer, Wesley Skinner, adding another
intensity to the evenings horrors. At this
time the whole air was on fire. The
jet of oil rushing up forty feet was almost
it to the distance of hundred feet, was
flashing. exploding, dashiug toward the
heavens, and apparently licking the clouds
with its furious tongues of heat. All this
time, during this tremendous combustion,
the sounds of the explosions and burnings
were so tremendous and continuous, that
they could be compared to nothing but the
rushing of hurricane or tornado througha
forest. The heat of the fire was so intense
that no one could approach within one
hundred and fifty feet without scorching
their skin or garments. 1t was the most
trightful, and yet the grandest pyrotechnical
display ever vOuchsafed to human being
On Friday morning the oil was still rush>
ing up, on fire, with the same regularity and
speed, throwing, it was calculated, at least
one hundred barrels an hour, covering an
immense space with flaming ola loss to
the proprietors OF the we'll of from 500, 900
to $4,000 daily. No human power can
extinguish the flames, and the oil must burn
on until the we'll is exhausted. No pen can
describe its ferceness, no tongue describe
the magnitude of its horrors.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-03
EXPLOSION OF An OIL WE'LL
Terrible Loss of Life ..- Frightful
Scenes -. Immense Destruction of
Property.
dence of the Buffalo Courier.

Correspondence of the Buffalo Courier.
TIDIoUTE, Pa, April Is.
On the Buchanan Farm, Warren County
Pennsylvania. seventeen miles from Tidioute
where large number of oil wells have beer
sunk, within the past four months, with
great success, on Wednesday last occurred
one of the most frightful accidents that il
has ever been the province of newspap I
to record. The telegraph has furnished a
skeleton of the accident, but the details
have not yet been made public.
A well which had been drilled over two
hundred teet by Hswley & Merrick, had
struck oil, but the yield being less than
expected, the pumping was abandoned and
drilling recommended. Over one hundred
feet further were drilled, when at half past
five on Wednesday evening, sudden rush
of oil through the five inch and halt
tubing, threw out the drills and gushed up
in the air forty feet above the surface of the
ground. At the least computation it was
throwing from seventy to one hundred bar
rels an hour. Above this mass of oil, the
gas of benzine rose in cloud, for fifty or
sixty feet. As coon as the oil gushed
forth, all the fires of engines in the neigh
borhood were Immediately extinguished.
At about half past seven, as large num-
ber of men and boys were around the well
engaged in saving the oil, the gas from the
we'll which had spread in every direction
took fire, from the engine of we'll over
four hundred rods distant, when in a second
the whole air was in fame, with crash
and roar like discharges from a park oi
artillery.
As soon as the gas took fire, the head oi
the jet of oil was in furious blaze, and
falling like water from fountain over a
space one hundred feet in diameter each
drop came down blazing globe of boiling
oil. Instantly the ground was fame, con-
stantly increased and augmented by the fal.
ling oil. At once scene of indescribable
horror took place. Scores were thrown
fiat, and for distance of twenty feet, and
numbers horribly burned, rushing blazing
from the hell of misfortune, shrieking and
screaming in their anguish.
Just within the circle of the flame could
be seen four bodies boiling in the seething
oil, and one man who had been digging at
ditch to convey away the oil to lower
part of the ground was killed as he dug
and could be seen, as he fell over the handle
of the spade, roasting in the fierce element
Mr.. II. r. Rouse, of the firm Of Rouse
Mitchell and Brown, Of the village of En-.
terprise, Warren County, q gentleman largely
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-03

sissippi Valley can never consent to be ex-
cluded from free access to the ports of the
Atlantic, the Pacific and the Gulf of Maxico.
Great applause.
Hence l repeat that [ am not prepared to
take up arms or to sanction policy Of our
government to take arms to make any war
upon the rights of the Southern States !;
upon their Institutions; upon their rights
OF persons or property; but, on the con-
trary, would rush to their defence and pro.
tect them from assault but while that is
the case l will never cease to urge my coun-
trymen to take arms to fight to the death
in defense of our indefeasible rights. Loud
applause. Hence, if war does come, it
is war of self defence on our part. 1t is
war in defence of our own just rights; in
defence of the government which we have
inherited as priceless legacy from our pa
triotic fathers in defence of those great
rights of freedom of trade, commerce, tram
sit, and intercourse from the centre to the
circumference of our great continent.
These are rights we must struggle for and
never surrender.
have struggled almost against hope to
avert the calamities of war, and to effect a
reunion and reconciliation with our brethren
in the South. l yet hope it may be done,
but l am not able to point out to you how
it may be done. Nothing short of Provi-
dence can reveal to us the issue of this great
struggle. calamitous-I fear it
will be. May we so conduct it, if COLI.
sion must come, that we will stand justified
in the eyes of Him who knows our hearts,
and who will justify our every act. We
must not yield to resentments, nor to the
spirit of vengeance, much less to the desire
for conquest for conquest or ambition.
l Isee no path of ambition open in a bloody
struggle for triumphs over my countrymen.
There is no path of ambition open for me
in divided country. Hence, whatever we
may do must be the result of duty, of con.
viction, of patriotic duty-the duty we owe
to ourselves, to our posterity, and to the
friends of constitutional liberty and self
government throughout the world. Loud
applause.
My friends, can say no more. To dis
cuss these topics is the most painful duty o.
my life. 1t is with sad heart-with 8
grief that have never before experienced
tnat l have to contemplate this fearful
struggle; but 1 believe in my conscience
that it is the duty we owe to ourselves and
our children, and our God, to protect this
government, and that flag from every as.
sailant, be he who he may. Tremendous
and prolonged applause.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-03
The Spirit of the Hour.

The course of Fletcher Webster has been
peculiarly magnanimous as we'll as patriotic.
He is removed from lucrative Office by the
government on one day, and on the next he
is out with plan to raise regiment to
sustain the government that removed him.
The blood Of the patriot grandfather and
the patriot father asserts itself unmistaka.
bly, in the veins of the living descendant
Boston Transcript.
The Boston Herald says that in one of
the companies attached to the regiment of
Col. Jones, was newly enlisted recruit, the
eldest son of widow in one of the country
towns, and who followed her son to the city
to take last look Of him until he returns
from the war. She did not come to urge
him to return to his peaceful home and
pursuits, but rather to cheer him with q
mothers blessing. Fearing that her son
might want for money during his absence,
the noble women raised a sum of money by
the sale of a COW that she owned. and being
admitted inside the lines just before the
troops left the State House, she pressed the
money upon her boy. 1t is almost needless
to say that her offer was declined, as the
Massachusetts troops will come to no want.
Such self-devotion and patriotism is worthy
of the mothers OF the Revolution.
At the Boston meeting to summon re.
cruits for Fletcher Websters regiment, the
following telling incident occurred: The
chairman notified the audience that SUBJ
scriptions would be received, when little
boy promptly came forward and said, "Ihis
IS from Stephen Decatur, sir." 1t proved
to be check for $lOO. The father stood
by and proved to be blind. He is an officer
of the navy, who lost his sight in the SER
vice, and nephew of Commodore Decatur,
of the last war. Nine cheers was given,
which made the halls ring. Five thousand
dollars were Immediately subscribed for the
regiment, which is to leave this week. One
hundred young ladies we're making garments
for the men. rzG Tc2H a8Hn
The Louisville Journal confesses that
never in any country did the banking insti-
tutions contribute so promptly and abund-
antly for the support of q war as the banks
of the East and North are now doing.
Nothing could be stronger evidence of a
fearfully aroused spirit among the people.