The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-05-26
Fresh Gleanings.

bEOuDl6SUu6 All nlOuLduds
- The total number of deaths by
cholera at New York is fifty.
- There are 9247 rum shops in
New York and Brooklyn.
- There are $1,000 churches in
the United States. They will hold
I4,000,00 people.
- Spain has 125,OOO,OOO acres,
and 1868, AL people; 679, $50 horses.
and 1,00l 1903 mules.
The President on the Both ult.,
granted sixty-seven special pardons to
ex-rebels.
- The food in the Upper Missouri
is subsiding, and no further damage is
apprehended.
The body of Thomas Lopez, in
the north part of Wayne county, Miss,
was lately found near his house with
forty gunshot wounds.
- The statement of public debt to
May l, shows a decrease in the princi-
pal during April, of $15,956,673 %.
- Chicago is to be cleaned. One
thousand men are to be hired at once
and put to work purifying the city.
- Illinois now leads in the cattle
trade, producing as she does the largest
number, and the best beef cattle of
any State in the Union.
- Gen. Terry has been directed
to regard the Presidents peace procla-
nation as doing away with martial law
in Virginia.
- 1t is stated that the Committee
on Banking have decided to report to
Congress adverse to the creation of
any more national banks.
- 1t is said that fifteen of the
Judges of election in Somerset county,
Nd, have been indicted for violation
of the registry law by the grand jury
at the recent session.
- In the Senate, on the Both ult.,
the bill to provide for the construction
of a bridge across the Mississippi at
Quincy, ILL.,, was passed.
- 1t is understood that Chief JUS
tice Chase will preside at the trial of
Davis at Norfolk. District Attorney
Chandler has prepared the bill of in
dictment.
- Mr.. Ross has introduced bill
in Congress to construct a ship canal
for the passage of armed and naval
vessels from the Mississippi river to
Lake Michigan.
Judge Hook, at Augusta, Ca,
has decided that greenbacks are not
a legal tender as payment for a debt
contracted before the passage Of the
legal tender act.
- All persons in South Carolina
holding notes or any kind of property
sequestered by the late Confederate
!, ! authorities, have been ordered to report
the same in writing to headquarters.
- Judge Scott charged the Grand
Jury of King county, New York, thai
the disposal of goods by chance al
, church fairs was in violation of law,
and ought to be SO treated.
> - 1t is rumored that all the vol
unteer general officers will be dis.
charged in few days, many of whom
= will return to subordinate positions in
2 the regular army.
- The Government has finally de
5 termined to hold the gold claimed by
/ the Richmond banks. The proof seems
e conclusive that the gold belonged tc
the Southern Confederacy.
; - The excess of westward bound
3 travellers over eastern bound, that pass.
ed through Chicago during April, i:
: estimated at 10000. This is an inde1
to the flow of emigration to the Yves
! this spring.
- The Falmouth National says
that the adoption of the proposed
amendment to the West Virginia Con
= stitution will disfranchise and drive
: from the State 10000 men, whose labor
: and capital are needed.
, - Maury, in letter to the Lon.
: don Morning Herald, estimates South
ern losses during the war at sever
billions of dollars. A correspondent o.
the Montgomery Mail thinks the figures
too high by one-half.
D. G. Williams, Jr., of Jeffer
r son county, Tennessee has been con
: victed of treason, and sentenced to the
, penitentiary for fourteen years. Thi!
is the first case of punishment for trea
t son adjudged by civil court of tina
! State.
- Quartermaster General Meigs
= says there are supposed to be 10000
= Federal soldiers buried in the Depart
? ment of Georgia, and that their reno.
= val to the national cemeteries, which
= it is proposed to do, will involve an ex
t pense of some $75, 900.
- The crops in Texas, says tht
Galveston Civilian, of the Sd, were
never more promising than at present
The accounts are usually favorable
From the West they are universally
good. The corn crop is SO far adj
vanced as to be almost out of danger
from drought.
- Three hundred German immi,
grants, imported By the Georgia Immi
grant Company, arrived at Augusta, OF
: the 25th ult. They are all engaged
and are to receive $3.50 per annum
with board and lodging for each man
and 500 for each woman.
- There is talk of calling the
Iowa Legislature together again. The
reason aSsirpod ir +ba co:II,uo e ~