The Semi-weekly Shreveport news. [volume] (Shreveport [La.]) 1862-1864, 1862-10-07
SHREVEPORT, TUESDAY. OCTOBER I, 1862.

resolution declaring Lincoln's eman-
cipation proclamation q gross out
rage on the right Of private property,
and an invitation to inaugurate a
servile war. It should, therefore,
be held up to the execration of man
kind, and counteracted by such Sc
we're retaliatory measures as, in the
judgment of the President, may be
best calculated to secure its with
drawal or arrest it's execution.
A resolution from the House, ex-
tending the session until Monday
next, was concurred in.
The Senate bill to authorize the
President to accept and place in SER
vice certain regiments, Sc, hereto
fore raised, though composed in part
Of persons liable to CONSUMPTION, was
passed.
In the House, the exemption bill
was further considered. and amended
so as to exempt all persons employed
on newspapers who are indispensa-
BILE to their publication. according to
the oath of the editor.
Richmond, Sept. 29.-In New
York on the 9th, speculative stocks
advanced three to four per cent, and
the amount sold was unprecedently
large. Gold advanced to l2l, but
afterwards fell to 100. Exchange
held at 1872.
The Herald says Wall street was
frantic, that such imitation of prices,
such a reckless scrambling in gold
many of which are unprecedented
Wall street has not seen in many a
day:
The advance was caused, in part,
according to the Herald) by the an
nouncemsnt of the Sub Treasury at
New York that the government would
pay at the rate of per cent. per an
mum in gold depositedin the treasury
payable in coin, at any time on ten
days notice.
Port Hudson, Sept. 30.-Two most
reliable gentlemen. just from New Or
leans, have arrived here. They state
that the Confederate steamer 1920"
had reached the mouth of the Missis.
sippi, capturing a Yankee steamer,
outward bound, having on board Gen
Phelps and the notorious scroundrel,
Porter, ofthe Essex both of whom are
confined on board Of the 1890"
Mobile Sept. 3O.-A special dis
patch to the Advertiser and Register
dated Senatobia, 3Oth, says the Mem
phis Bulletin of the 2Sth has been re-
ceived. It says there is nothing i'm
portant from the North, and that allis
quiet along the lines of the Potomac.
Private dispatches received in
Washington represent matters dull at
NcClellan's headquarters on the Gath,
and say Louisville is nolonger threat
ened. Buell's advance had arrived
via Salt river. Bragg is concentrat-
ing at Bloomfield.
The Tribune's correspondent says
Barnes brigade crossed the Potomac
at Sharpsburg, on Saturday. No
sooner had it crossed than it was dis
covered they were hemmed in on three
sides by overwhelming masses, who
Immediately opened a most terrific
fire of musketry from every part oftheir
line.
Gen. Barnes, who commanded the
brigade, instantly ordered his men to
fall back and cross the river. The
scene was of the widest confusion,
and most terrific slaughter then &C.
Cured. The rebels pressed them
closely, and shot our men down by
hundreds as they attempted to cross
the river. Great numbers were
wounded, and could not contend with
the rapid current and were almost in
stantly drowned.
The Chicago Times of the 26th has
been received, and says from the lat