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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-05-05
STEAMER LOUIS DIOR,

Leaves every Tuesday and Friday at 10
o'clock A. NJ, as follows:
Friday, April 27th Tuesday, May sth :
Friday, May, 18th; Tuesday, May Doth; Fri
day, June Sth; Tuesday, June 18th; Friday,
june 18th; Tuesday, July 10th,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-05-05
STEAMER NATIONAL
STEAMER ALABAMA.

Leaves every Tuesday and Friday, at 10
o'clock A. NJ, as follows:
Friday, May 4th; Tuesday May 18th /;
Friday, May 25th Tuesday, june 5th; Fri
day, June 18th; Tuesday june 26th; Friday,
July 9th; Tuesday, July 18th.
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Fancy Dry Goods,

amy DA OVg
Millinery, Ladies' Furnishing Goods, Trim
mings, &c,
ever brought to this market, would respect
fully call the attention of customers and the
public generally to the following imperfect
enumeration of stock:
In the Ladies' Department viii be found
Dress Silks, Grenadines, Silk Tissues,
French Organizes, Printed Muslins, Grape
Moretts, Plain and Figured Swiss, Percales,
Brilliantines, Lawns, Bafeges, &c.
Also, Basquines, Scarfs, Mantillas, Lace
Shawls, &c, of the latest styles, in great
variety. ..--
EMbrOideries. "
Jackonet and Swiss Edging and Inserting,
Bands; Ladies' Embroidered Undershirts,
Collars, Infants Waists, Skirts and Under
clothing Real Lace Collars and Jets
Millinery.
Bonnets, Hats, for Infants, Misses and
Ladies; Ladies' Undergarments, of every
description, ready made; Ladies and chill
drens Shoes, all styles and qualities.
In short, complete assortment of Ladies'
Goods, from Paper of Pins to Wedding
outfit.
This portion of the stock was selected with
great care by Mrs. Wells, who, by business
experience in this market of twelve years,
understands the requirements of the Ladies'
of this section, and who feels confident she
can please the most fastidious, both In goods
and prices. H-@
j. H. McDERMOTT is determined to
establish an exclusive
Ladies' Store.
that will prove ereditable to himself and
beneficial to his customers. In view of
which, he has purchased the most tremend-
GUS stock of goods ever brought to this mar
ket, in the Ladies' line, and being determin
ed to secure the Ladies' trade, he pledges
himself to sell
Cheaper than the Cheapest,
which he can do and make living profit,
which is all that he desires. Ladies who
favor him with their custom may rest assur-
ed that they will get goods at legitimate
prices, whether judges or not, for he has
established q -
One Price System,
which cannot fail to give satisfaction, as it
| is based upon 'sman profits and quick re-
| turns" Mrs. Wells superintends the Mil
linery and Dress making Departments
where she will be pleased to see and wait
upon her old friends and customers. Both
| of these branches are under the manage
| ment of first class artistes, who are thor
oughly ''posted" on the latest fashions.
To the Gentlemen, McDermott would say
that he has fine stock of
Spring and Summer Clothing,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, and Furnishing Goods,
| &c, &C.,
which he win sell cheaper than any one else
| in town, as he Is going out OF the gents
goods entirely, in order to devote his exclu-
sive attention to the establishment of first
| class Ladies' Store.
April %, 1866-Iy
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-05-05
A G E N t s :

Walsh & Boisseau. Phelps g. Co.
Stacy & Poland Elstner & Kinswosthy
E. & B. Jacobs. Mcclure s. Barrett
Shreveport, La. APRIL
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-05-05
EmbrOideries.

Jackonet and Swiss Edging and Inserting,
Bands Ladies' Embroidered Undershirts,
Collars, Infants Waists, Skirts and Under
clothing Real Lace Collars and Jetts
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-05-05
[From the La Crosse ( RiS. Democrat
Not so Noisy as it WasI

Hark!
Verify, verify it is very still all
about here! A change has come clear
over the spirit of the nations bloody
dream! There is not so much murki
ness-so much threatening in the air
as there was. There is not so much
wool thrown on the Goals as few years
since.
Lincoln was good man and went to
heaven. That is to say If we say he
went there, folks say we speak in sar-
casm. If we say he went to the other
place, down there, they say we are
preiudiced. But he went somewhere.
Now listen
There are not so many sneaking,
begging, lying, thieving minions OF
tyranny about as there was few years
since to spy around corners, to peep
into windows, to tamper with servant
girls-to open letters and earn few
dirty dollars for doing the dirty work
of a cowardly administration.
There are not so many state prison
birds in federal uniform as there was
There are not so many people-robbing
ignorant, dunder headed, platter brain
ed, conceited and drunken provost
marshals and deputies to be seen al
there were once.
Soldiers do not go about shooting
democrats, mobbing democratic print
ing offices, insulting honest people
abusing strangers and raising the dick
ems as they did not long since. Their
is not so much cry of 'copperhead'
as there was, nor are people as ram
pant for blood now as they were ayea
or two ago.
1t is very still We can hear tn
echo of the footballs of Booths mar
as they patter on the road to Mary
land We can almost hear the spiri
of Lincoln as it raps at St. Peter
gate ! We can quite distinctly hea
the fat footed ghost of martyred job
Brown, as he tramps, wandering e.
like, over the horse pastures of tn
spirit land looking for some chance t
steal one or more weird equines
1t is very still So still it is almo'
painful! We used to denounce tn
President. Not this man, but thu
| other man
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Millinery,

that will prove ereditable to himself and
beneficial to his customers In view of
which, he has purchased the most tremend-
GUS stock of goods ever brought to this mar
ket, in the Ladies' line, and being determin-
ed to secure the Ladies' trade, he pledges
himself to sell
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17

bic the Tulip MANIA the MOrus Multicaulis
fever. and Maine wild lands are now.
No one can read the reports Of Secretaries Chase Fes
sender and McCulloCh in regard to the demoralizng
effect Of paper money and not fail to see that their
statements were within the truth, and acknowledge
with them that no time should be lost in reganing
the old and secure basis Of specie payments. This
return to specie payments has numerous opponents,
and with reason. To the debtor for commodities
bought With gold at premumi it nsuTes certain loss
and this class ressts it, to gain time enough to get
out But, while one prudent man gets out, ten zen
terprising men" go in; and specie payments VIII
surely find in existence large class to be broken
This fact does not make it less imperative upon the
Government TO resume at the earliest possible
moment allowing the few to suffer in order that the
many NAV go forth upon their business engagements
on solid basis 1t is useless to call in question
tho expcdiency Of any financial plan adopted 10
preserve the life Of the Government. What Congress
has to do is TO relieve the country from the enec Oh
necessary evils" Its plain duty is to fund at
the earliest moment all the 1908 and compound
notes, and to destroy every dollar OF legal
tender it can get into its possession IRON It's excess
OF income above interest on the debt ana an ecohom-
ical administration of the Government. The re-
cent announcement that the Secretary OF the
Treasury has Cancelled four millions more OF legal
tenders, and that he will not the fifty millions OF
reserve is the most gratifying statement the Treasury
has made since 1862, when the desperate resource
of manufacturing legal tenders was sanctioned. 1t
should be regarded as final warning, to debtors and
spectators upon borrowed money. that the Govern
ment means to do its duty in this matter and teach
them prudence. As specie payments approach the
buying power of money will steadily increase, and
the price of commodities Of all kinds decline. Out OF
debts out of danger now, with more truth than ever
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17
Their plain duty is to speak out at once
RnSInESS PROSPECTS.

The country is said 60 be prosperous yet ain oSt
every one s dissatisfied and there many portent3
Of trouble at hand The manufacturing class and
the cities complain Of extortion and dear food The
farmers respond that goods are dear and merchants
and manufacturers wallowing in wealth. The cap
tsst savs he cannot build or improve because labor
and materials are so dear the laborer retorts that
living ia 50 costly that high as bis wages are. he can
scarcely get on. AL but a very few realize that we
are in false position each insists that we shall get
out Of it at the expense Of somebody else.
The SKI grows so squally that business is threat
ened with stagnation. Manufacturers are stopping
their works because they can no longer place their
goods; merchants selling little in the present, and
wish they bad sold less in the past The South has
been gutted with costly fabrics which she does not
need and cannot pay for and protests on mercantile
paper are uncomfortably plentiful. The eight wall
street firms which regulate the price of gold, making
If cheap when they have it to lend and dear whom
they choose to call it in are at their wits end to keep
IN the premum, and would be utterly swamped IT
Secretary McCuloch would only buy up and extn
ruish some kind Of Public Debt with his surplus gold
The Corn Drop being large tho West is full oil Hogs
and the great operators who manage the Pork market
dare not buy and pack at the prices OF last year. and
arc compelled TO lot the market SETTLE to their own
heavy loss. Nobody wants to hold Butter and Cheese
at current rates; Beef and Mutton, though still high,
arc falling, for Poultry ia so cheap and abundant that
the poor can't afford to eat Beef Our markets are
glutted with produce and fabrcs and all know that
unless there shall be a fresh debauch of Paper Money
prices Of nearly everything must be lower.
Now. then. is tho time--h Congress and the
Treasury could be induced to think so-to resume
Specie Payments. Those who are not ready never
will be. II year and a half Of peace. with an
abundant Revenue and a diminishing Debt, have not
sufiiccd for preparation. twenty years would not
answer any better In fact there are to-day IN ore
debt and moro pecunary interest in the way oil
Resumption than there were in june 1865. We shall
never resume unless we try to; and whenever we
really try VIC shall resume. And, since we are TO
have a season Of declining prices and stagnant trade
why not resolve to 60 down TO hardpan at once
Let US resume-there ia nothing wanting but the
willard have Specie prices for Labor, Produce and
Goods Then. thousands will invest in railroad
making. building, &c, &C.. who are now deferred
by The consideration that what costs $I5. 900 will DO
worth but SIC 900 when We get down to rock-botiom
as we surely must aud shall DO let Us descend from
tho clouds and stand once moro on terra hrma. If
this was ever right, it is right generally. and Is
especially right now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17
nrNErrA AND R0ME.
train

The annexation of Yenetia 70 The Kingdom Of Ialy
s now an accomplished fact a. the piebrc.um o.
popular vote on the question has resulted IN 6il75;
votes being cast in favor of annexation and only 81
against #. Such unanimity is without parallel in
modern history. Before the election it had been re-
ported that many Republicans on the one side
aud many UltramOntanes on the otner, would vote
against annexation. The former. it was thought
would be influenced by the emphatic refusal Of MAJ.
zini to recognize the Government OF Victor Emanuel
while the Ultramonanes would decline to vote Tor an
accommodated prince. The result oil the election
shows that both these parties have sacrificed their
grievances and complaints upon the altar OF their
common country. They not only did not vote against
annexation, but they cast their votes for IT, There
were hardly any abstentions. With a population
about equal to that Of Ohio, the vote cast almost
equals the highest vote ever cast in the State of New
York Thus the pebiscitum Of yenetia will stand
forth in history as the most emphatic and most unsni
nous expression Of national will that has ever been
made.
The verdict Of the people Of Venetia for'shadows
the fate Of Rome. In the course Of about a month
the French will have evacuated Popal territory and
the Romans will then find opportunity to express
their wishes The threat Of accommodation against
every one who will in any way cO6peratein the over
throw Of the Pspa rule, may somewhat increase the
negative votes but that an immense majority Of the
Inhabitants of the Papal territory will vote and II
necessary, fight for annexation, admits of no doubt
As the withdrawal of the French troops is near at
hand we shall soon hear Of manifestation clearly
showing the sentiments of the people of the Papai
dOminOns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17
Personal.

Nr. George W. smalley, one OF the editors OF iHS
TRIBUNE who has been in Europe for the last few months
special mission for this paper returned last "soD'
day in the Persia.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, very able and eloquent
speaker, is prepared TO deliver before iyeeun' :,
literary associations her new lecture entitled Bread ana
the Ballot declaration OF the position Of women ososs
the law and their need Of suffrage as proteeaon
oppression in place and wages. She has also
lecture upon THE present duty OF Congress TO eseh,
Republican form of Government not only ID the h'O'
States but throughout the entire Thnty-si1.'
We sincerely commend her to Lecture COmin''ees %
finished writer and effective orator.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17
sOLON ROBIySOYs NOVEL.

10 "a. Editsr If The " y Tribsae
SIR: Please correct some slight in your announce
ment of Scion Robinson's Novel, 1t is true 1t is
novel, because IL is something out of the common
course-unexpeeted, strange. But, in the common &C.
ceptaton of the word, it is much narrative as novel
II is made up part of personal recoectons and desenr
tons Of Indian character and persons and living hones
persons and events Of frontier life It is true the scenes
are eolored sud facts and fiction nerwoyen and there
FORE perhaps il is proper whole 10 call il novel OF
romance assure you is filled with and stores
incident life upon the border Of civilization, which your
readers win find intensely inteTestngmore so than any
thing have ever written before and this is not my hs
novel; Ii must rank the fourth at least You have
msprned the NAME which is that OF one Of the most IT,
markabe characters in the story. IL is not Newonoc,
but "Me-won-i-toc" the man OF mys'ey -
magieiau-n Indian "a great medicine" IL is kiDa
OF medicine that readers will not consider very quaekD
after they have perused the whole story
Respectfully, &C., SoLoS koBiSsoS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17
gICH PRICES OF PROFESSIONS.

|, is useless to call in question the fact that the pros
emit enormous prices of food, as well as of other
articles needfu tor the supply Of human wants ars
very much enhanced by speculations stimulated BY
an inflated, and ever Auctuating currency. Our cur
rency is our medium Of exchange. but ii has beeoms
a very uncertain measure Of value. Borrowers Of
money in the City of New York on good collateral
security, can be supplied at FIVE or six per cent.
while borrowers in Cincinnati, Chicago, and other
interior cities where provisions are collected, and
more or es5 stored for advance have to pay 10 or
~ per cent; and sometimes as Moses has IT IN the
play. when they want the money very much, iney
are charged double. SO long as spectators can
borrow at these rates Of usancs. they will run up
prices by competition with each other, aud with
hold their corn from the market until more strin
gent money pressure shall compel them TO SELL With
or without profit not unfrequently from deterora-
tion unsOundness, and declining market, at heavy
loss The late decline in price of few articles a.
ready indicates the possibility Of such condition OF
things The Secretary of the Treasury may promote
it, if he will reduce the volume Of the currency and
prepare for specie payments.
Let US urge Congress to be prompt with The enact
ment of good Bankrupt Law The spectators, II
they cannot pay l00 had better pay - per cent
and begin again on better and safer foundation; or
better yet turn their attention TO the more substantial
blessings and solid rewards Of Agriculture. The ten
dency of our inflated currency, By raising prices is, to
discourage and diminish exports, and to impair, II
not to destroy, what protection our laws afford TO
Domestic Industry generally. aud in particular to
Domestic Manufactures. Other things being equal,
the Nation that has the BEST the most stable currency
enjoys the most effectual protection
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17
Tuesday, November 10, la66, quotes:

Here is sad reverse for New.YOrk Superfine, as
well as for New-York Extra Flour, since the days of
the lnspectOrate of John Brown. What sort Of
NewYOrk superfine Flour must that be which is sold
for So 80 per barrel, when Southern and South West
ern Flour commands at our own doors from $l7 TO
Sle The latter is nothing more than good -four,
well manufactured from good wheat. Does the miller
put his name on the heads Of his barrels of -four
which he sells at 80 o0' If he does so, and if his
-four is good, people will know where to 60 for good,
cheap, haltpriced flour. Ii he does rot put his
on his barrels, why not Must the State of New
York have the credit or the discred as the fact may
be, of indorsing and sending forth under its own
name, hOlfpriced -four which the manufacturer Of il
will not indOrse with has Ora asmel Possibly the
Legislature may have something to say in answer to
this question
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17

which they rarely seemed to find too long Never
before were the calls to "Go on" when speaker
seemed about to close. so general and hearty.
Among the friends in need from other states who
powerfully aided in our canvass Of this. the Hon
HAEEIBAL HAmbiE Of Maine, Gen. WALTER HARRI-
MAR Of New Hampshire Gov. JOSEPH X HAWLEY OF
Connecticut, Gov. ANDREW G CURTIN anu the Hon.
G L. CHOW Of Pennsylvania, the Hon ). NJ ASH
LEY, Cen CAREY aud the Hon. SAMUEL GALLOWAY
Of Ohio. were prominently effective. There were
others from abroad who did us good service-to say
nothing here of our own speakersand doubtless some
whom we have not named were Gu effective as some
of those instanced abovei but we happen to recall
these brethren to whom the Republicans of our State
are nnder listing obligations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17
~. GRaAr Ann1lnArln1 Tnmc

Wherever HOsrEIrERs SroEAoa BiTrsRs. Tho cseb'iiei
American prevention Of Climatic Diseases have been introduced no
uuhehy regions their fee In sustaining the hah vsoI sni All
ma spis Of those whose parents subjected them TO eEtao
risks from and pvson have been wonief 10 the
Army the superiority Of this Article every os inyofus and
ersye medicine has become manifest where ussd that rs
lied upon, exclusively protection sns Bilious Fever Fever and
Age and Bowel complaints Of every kind The soldiers ay the
only un; which produces and keeps uPs hosy habit Of body
locations For the uuScmae pioneer and settler
is the reliable Of all sf guards against sickness Throughout
the United States is considered the behu and agreeable OF
all oncS and altogether unsqud remedy for Dyspepha Tho
medcns ingredients all vegetable and held IN solution by the
most wholesome s.mulsnt knovn-the Essence Of Rye
HosrSrTERs BIrTRRa
manufactured at Pittsburgh Fennylvsna and no ''' than ~
dozen bottles sod annually BY druggists
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17
THE COURSE or TRADE UNDER RESUMP.
TON

Attempts are made to strengthen the waning specu-
lative feeling in all commodities and of stocks in par
tcular by parading the prices paid in March, 1854,
just before the panic of that season. more correct
idea of the value of property is had by comparing
prices in 1852 when specie payments the fashion,
and the financial affairs of the nation undis-
turbed by the issue OF thousand millions of ire
deemable paper circulating as money. To make this
point clear the following table will be found com
pete. The first column shows the prices with gold at
par. The second, when the financial balloon was at
its highest point under the stimulus of paper money
and speculation; and the third, when the gas seems
on the eve OF being withdrawn by retiring legal
tenders:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17

Many of the leading men Of South Carolina, incud.
ing Gov Orr sustain an effort TO educate the 4,OOO
colored children Of Charleston and prepare the best
of them for teachers. We are heartily glad to hear
this; for all the Blacks need to obtain their rights is
education enough TO prove them. David Walker
the father of Edw Garrison Walker recently elected to
the Massachusetts, Legislature, aud celebrated as the
author of Walkers Appeal, "a work circulated
among the slaves in lS30thuS urged the necessity OF
education on his people:
would crawl on nv hands and knees through mud and
me TO the feet Of learned where would sit and hnmb
supplcae him inst into that which neither nor
devils could only with my life For cOlored people to
acquire learning this country makes yrants quake and tre
bic their sandy foundations Why what the matter
Why they that their internal deeds OF cruelty viii be
made the world DO you suppose Of
and learning would submit himself his father his mother wife
aud children 30 be slaves wretched man IKE himself who
instead OF cOmpenatng him for his abOr chains and beats
him and his family almost TO death leaving life enough how
work and 20 call him ms5teri No no he would cut
his deysh throat from and well do the Shareholders
know H. The bare Of educating the coored people scar
frightened for will be because they always keep es
ignorant The Whites shall have enough OF the Blacks yet
true God sits on his throne in Heaven
The truth of Walkers argument has been Illus
traed in the advancement of his son; and education
is not less important now than 30 years ago. An in
teligent industrious race can be kept in subu
CATION in free country This the shareholders knew
when their laws made it crime to teach negro to
read. The freedmens schools are destined to worka
peaceful revolution in the South and every effort to
extend them should be encouraged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-17
Sept. 1850. March. 1864
Gold al The balloon

With gold at par come ehea !. may fourth column
will be produced which will approach nearer to the
fgues of 1859 than to those of 1884, or of November,
1866 The business of the roads quoted has grown
largely since 1859; but sane person will claim that
1t is represented by the advance in prices. Present
quotations mainly the result of an enormous bank
expansion upon rredeemabe paper fostering specula
ton more rampant aud widely diffused than is re-
corded by any historian of modern finance. These
prices Of railway shares represent degree Ofmana in
speculation which will DO as astounding to the reader
Of a fow years hence as the South Sea bub.