The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-06-28
The Old Mansion.

TIE rain begins to patter, large and fast,
ret us run on TO wonder CTumbIng pile,
A,.a somewhat sheltered till the shower is past,
Muse on the ruins of the place awhile.
about bow shot from the road it stands,
Half hidden in clump OF moaning pines,
cooking abroad upon the barren lands,
The wasted heritage Of the buried lines.
Here Silence broods-the silence of the dead!
Mysterious echoes run along the walls,
A. i 10 chide our loud, intrusive tread,
Soaring the bats through all the hollow halls.
Ranks rough mullens pierce the rotten floors;
cray NOSES tuft the weatherb beaten roof,
AID swinging in the solitary doors,
Tie hermit spider spins his flmy wool
Along the balconies the pillars lean;
a hundred winds have blown the chimneys
down;
Ga1nt ruin sits enthroned amid the scene,
Glooming the glory Of its old reuown.
There lives no certain record Of the fate,
The strange disaster that befell its lord,
Hlr!Lng him headlong from his fair estate,
Renorseless, leaving neither heir nor ward.
The simple peasants hereabout, maintain,
The house is haunted that on Friday nights,
Attwelve o'clock, in coming down the lane,
They can hear groans, and see flare OF lights
Did bold hand in malice, OF for gold,
Strike some late guest, and bring the wasting
dO0El2
Was It a murder? It may not be told,
Or tempted from impenetrable gloom.
How dear it looks Time and curse have done,
trlghttul mission; wherefore none may know;
But see the storm IS past; the setting sun,
SINNERS across the meadows let US go.
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BUSINESS AND TRADE-Ig affords US pleasure
20 notice the advancing strides which trade is
again taking in this city. A few short weeks
ago and We had, in a business point of view,
seven Sundays in week, but affairs have taken
great change and for the better The change
OF currency and the stringency of the military
organizations made il at first somewhat difficult
to effect any mercantile transactions Of any note,
and such persons as could run in goods and
provisions Of any kind found ready sale and
enormous profits, meanwhile it was discovered
that money was far more abundant than at first
supposed The removal Of military restrictions
imposed for the time being on trade and the
unsealing of the port, caused at once an i'm
mense influx of good of all descriptions in fact
a cargo met with ready sale almost as soon as it
landed. The city alone offered the most temp
ting inducements to merchants. Day by day
new stores are being opened and desirable
stocks Of goods are being thrown on the mar
kct.
The opening of the rivers and the resumption
OF business by the railroads has added much to
the trade Of the city but nothing as yet COM
pared to what it win be when boats land their
cargoes at the wharves of Mobile, and said car
goes are sold in this market and shipped thence
to such other cities Of the world as the shipper
may wish. Just now the merchants Of New Or
leans are enjoying good trade and doing a
very lucrative business. The old through trade
system is paying.
Commercial affairs cannot be arranged in
day but we expectin few short weeks to note
the arrival Of many cargoes from the north and
the focking to the city Of merchants and plan
ters from the interior, and Mobile again assume
her busy, busting commercial life.
An organization has been completed for the
first national bank in this cty-the private
banking houses and brokers have about com
pleted all necessary arrangements to the end
chat all banking facilities and exchange will be
afforded to carry forward the business of the
commercial mart Of Alabama and East Missis-
sippi. An absentee from Mobile for four months
would hardly be able to realize the great change
that Mobile has undergone. Mobile News.