Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-11
Southern News.
From New Orleans.

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NEW OvLEANs, December THE Monroe
/ (Louisiana) Register, complains Of the mill
tary i+rtcrf ference by force OF arms, TO take
| from the sheriff of the parish, A. Terry,
sub agent, who has been arrested on the
charge of stealing cotton and obtaining
cotton under false pretenees.
The Register makes strong complaint
against the agents management Of the cot
ton business in that section.
Mr.. Burbridge, Treasury agent at New
| Orleans, has instructed his agent at Monroe
to disregard the writ of sequestration and
the injunction issued by the State court.
Judge PaseheI.
Judge Paschel on his return from Wash
ington to Austin, issued an address to the
people of Texas, stating what will be re
qnired to get the State back into the Union.
The State Convention must declare slavery
abolished, and never to exist except as pun
ishment for crime, and recognizing the
rights of negroes as freedmen, the Legisla-
ture To ratify the Constitutional Amend
ment, declare the secession ordinance and
the ratification Of Confederate constitution
null, and also the State aud war debt The
Judge cautions the people whom they elect
TO carry these measures ntO effect Great i'm
portance will be-attaehed TO the choice as an
evidence Of their sincerity.
Cotton Market.
Cotton dull. Sales to day $500 bales, for
the week 81 200 bales middling 5O@5l.
Sugar is depressed, fair to fully fair at
l74@lSe.
Molasses. prime to choice $l,O24@ LOS.
Gold l494.
Exchange on New York s@l discount.
Freights easy.
U. y. senator Elected.
The Louisiana Legislature elected as U.
S. Senator with Randall Hunt, Judge Henry
Boyer, of Alexandria, who before the war
was u s. Judge for the western district of
Louisiana.
Indications are strongly against the Leg
islature calling Convention.
Mrs. StOnewaM Jackson.
The Houston Telegraph publishes a letter
from distinguished clergyman in Virginia
10 the effect that the widow of StonewaIl
jackson is absolutely destitute.
SsIssIssIPPI Legislature.
The Mississippi Legislature reported
against passing the Constitutional Amend
ment. Not from any objection to the first,
but to the second clause.
Newspaper Convention.
CAIRO, December s.-The proprietors of
the Memphis papers have called eonven-
tion of the conductors of newspapers in the
Mississippi Valley, south Of the ohio river, |
to meet at Memphis on the 10th inst, for Il Q |
purpose of consultation and combination.
Must Receive Pardon,
Withers, Mayor elect of Mobile, has been
in Horned that he VIII not be allowed 10 ex-
ercise the functions of the office until he |
has received pardon from the President
Re-estabIIshed.
The Galveston papers state that an official
Provost Marshal has been re-established in
that Department
Stolen.
Eight thousand and four hundred dollars
We're stolen from a eOmmissary safe at Col
umbus. Kentucky, yesterday. the greater
portion o. which belongs to private parties |
Taken Possession Of
It is reported that the Mobile L Ohio |
Railroad has been taken possession of by |
the government for the transportation Of |
government cotton. Large quantities of
which are being stolen.