The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-11-14


The latter are said to have been repused and Ishmae
Pusha wounded.
The LARGEST STEAMBOAT IN THE WoRLD.-A new
steamboat, being built at Madison, it is said when fin
ished, will be the largest ever built The Free Press
in speaking Of her, says
owe yesterday afternoon accepted long standing
invitation of Mesns Vance & Armstrong to visit their
marine railways and examine Capt Slut Meals new
steamer the Richmond now in process Of construc-
ton there. The Richmond is the largest specimen of
Il steamboat that ever saw. She viii be, when
built the largest fastest, and finest steamboat ever
built west OF the Allegheny mountains She is $50
feet long and proportionately extensive throughout
The once magnificent steamer Jacob Strader could be
taken and placed bodacioasly into the hold of the
Richmond and one of ordinary sized packets
could find ample room in which to be slowed away be-
the boilers and the bow. Any respectable sized
steamboat could be bought for the money it viii cost
for the iron of this 1t is expected that this
vessel will be ready for the water by Christmas.
very large force is at work upon her but such is her
size and extent that she looks almost deserted
IMPORTANT Treasury DECIsIoN.-The following is
the decision of the Treasury department relative to
the tax on canned meats, vegetables, etc. BY the
amendatory act of July 10, 1866 stamp duty is i'm
posed on every can, bottle, other single package
containing meats, fish, shellish, vegetables, sauces.
syrups, prepared mustards, jams, ieies, contained
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sold offered for sale removed for consumption in
the United States after the first day of October
1866. While it was believed that il was the purpose
and interest Of congress to impose the stamp upon
the above-namcd articles if sold offered for sale
or removed fer consumption in the United States, on
or after October !, 1866, regardless OF the time of
their manufacture production, the intent is so i'm
perfectly expressed render it doubtful whether
under It proper construction Of the language of the
statutes such tax can be collected Internal reye
officers are therefore instructed not to Interfere
with possession sale of such articles of domestic
manufacture or production when satisfactory evidence
is furnished that they prepared and passed Of
possession of the producer prior to the first day of
October. Oysters and other shellfsh, often re-
moved from the shell, and without undergoing any
process for their preservation, placed in a raw
state in tin other vessels for the sole purpose Of
transportation in ice. When put up in this manner
and for this purpose only they not regarded as
canned within the meaning or intent of the law, and
no stamp will be required upon them
articles named in schedule C, when imported of
foreign manufacture, liable to the stamp tax in adj
dton to the impost duty thereon. When, however,
such imported articles, except playing cards, lucifer
matches, cgarlights and tapers are sold in orig
nal packages, or in which the bottles other incloS-
ures were packed by the manufacturer, the person
selling them IS uOtsubGct to any penalty on account
Of the want Of proper stamp. But when such pack
ages are opened the articles should not, under any
circumstances, be offered exposed for sale until they
have been appropriately stamped.
THE WREcK CHART FOR 4855.-Why should we,
year by year, have record loss upon our coasts of
some seven hundred precious lives, and why should
more than two thousand vessels be cast away and
damaged? The wreck chart is once more published
with its grim cluster Of black and red crosses and it
Informs US that in 1865 there persisted G98 seamen
and voyagerS by water; and that 2012 ships were
wholly wrecked or damaged. 1t is true that when
turn to the amazing statistics of our maritime trade
the percentage Of destruction which looks so dreadful
IS found to be small In the year $50 fewer than
400 255 vessels cleared and entered at the ports Of the
United Kingdom, representing tonnage of IS, 231,
034, with cargoeS estimated at q minimum value of
t500Q0OOO0 Not one-half per cent, therefore, of
this vast and opuent fleet has studded the chart as
see it, with the marks of death and ruin but where
is the mind which cOnsoled by these figures for the
drowning of seven hundred human beings, and the
loss Of many millions sterling in property and ship
ping? Statistics tell US what is the rate of calamity
not what it must be; and they would have little
USE if we did not rebel against their nexorabIe regu-
larY, and set ourselves to break the arthmetica spell
A few more facts will make it palmer still In the
lastseven years accidents" befcll two hundred and
thirty ships between fifty and sixty years old 1902
from sixty to seventy IS from seventy to eighty II
from eighty to ninety, from ninety to hundred !
and four from lOl years and upwards. Now let us
look on the chart for the graves Of the octogenaran
and centegeEaTan ratte-traps that shambe along at
sea bearing precious human lives AnYnorth country
sailor could tell US where to find them but the fg-
ures will do itiust well. Those figures show that
53j laden golfers, and about 400 golfers in ballast
or nearly thousand out of the total 2Ol2-were
wrecked in 1865; and sos of the disasters took place
on the east coast Daily Telegraph.
TIE New York HERALD AND THE AuENDMENr-The f
Mobile Register says the New York Herald continues
It's ludicrous mplorations the south to accept the
constitutional amendment. We never knew Bennett
o take anything half much to heart. He begs en-
reats, beseeches sugars the pill in every enticing
hape of confeetion and then threatens. But all to
10 purpose The south wants of IFS advice, has
DO confidence in turncoats, and despises those WHO
counsel it to dishonor The Herald may as well give
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