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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21
~ Here is the advice of the New

IL Here is the advice of the New
York Evening Post:
The old method of suppression has
been often tried, and has always failed.
Let us try a new plan. Let us say to
the Southern people, "You shall be in
all things as free as we are ; you shall
be represented in Congress you shall
say what you please, shout for whom
you please, wear what colors you like,
elect whom you like we only require
that you shall grant the same right to
US; that you shall keep the peace,
obey and enforce the laws, and protect
all others in the rights which you de-
mand for yourselves" We believe
there is common sense enough among
the Southern people, and craftsmanship
enough among their leading men, to
accept and fulfill these conditions, and
where they find it difficult at the mo-
ment to receive kindly the assistance
of the General Government. And if
there is not, we are strong enough to
enforce these simple rights, and we are
bound to do so with the utmost vigi-
lance.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

" The Richmond Examiner has
the following piece of political his
tory: m nu
It is noteworthy fact in American
history that every Presidential veto
has been sustained by the people. We
can recall no instance of the contrary.
Mr.. Tyler's vetoes were quite as sue
cessful as those of Gen. Jackson
Judging from present indications, the
late veto of President johnson will
command larger popular support
than any act of any American Presi-
dent. .aH 30 a
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

~ People should always be on the
lookout for frauds in small things as
we'll as great. An advertisement late
ly appeared in New York paper,
promising, on the receipt of twenty-five
cents, to send a recipe to keep water in
wells and cisterns from freezing. An
honest farmer, anxious for the infor-
nation, forwarded the money, and by
return mail received the following an
swer, which we print for the benefit of
all our readers "Take in your well
and cistern on cold nights, aud keep
them by the fire." This is a fair sam
pie of what may be expected from
nearly all such enterprises.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

Gov. ALLEN EN- ROUTE FOR FRANCE.
The Baton Rouge Sugar Planter of
9TH has the following:
From private source we learn that
Gov. Allen was in Havana few days
since en- route for France, where he
intends having an operation performed
upon his wounded limbs. His suffer-
ing has been great, but he bears up
against it with cheerfulness, fondly
indulging in the pleasing anticipations
of being once more enabled TO return
to his old home in Louisiana.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

WHAT DOES IT MEAN THE Bos-
ton Commonwealth (Radical) under
stands that Hon. Mr.. Boutwell,, Rad.
who is at home from Congress for a
short period, said lately, in converse
ton with friend, that the situation is
so peuilous, we need not be surprised if
hostilities were to break out anew with
in the next two months. Mr.. Boutwell,
is one ofthe irresponsible Directory
called the Committee of Fifteen, and
may know Of the intended revolution
airy proceedings of that body. Are the
Radical demagogues determined to
plunge the country into civil war
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21
Bossier Parish, La, April 70, 1866.

~ A large class of the Northern
people. we will not say of their polfti-
clans, never have understood, never
will understand. the men of the South.
Their ideas of our character are gath
cred from partisan presses, utterly re-
CARELESS Of Justice or truth, eager, from
interested motives, to keep alive and
fan the fame of bitter feeling between
the two sections. A great portion of
their current literature, the avenues of
instruction in their public schools and
colleges, are prostituted by hideous
caricatures or gross Misrepresentation
of the Southerner. Inf1amed zealots
make us the object of their anathemas
from Sunday to Sunday, and denounce
us as unworthy of fellowship or com.
munion. Hence the error into which
they fall with regard to our distinctive
traits as a people. 1t is of no use for
US to protest-we can only mourn their
want of light, and attribute their i'm
perfection to that score. Those who
have lived amongst US any length OF
time, generally form correct estimate
which, when reported to their untram-
meied and uniformed friends and rela-
tiyes at home, is invariably looked
upon as sign of mentalor moral weak
ness, and the narrator is regarded as
having deem humbugged, or something
worse. This is to be expected and re-
GREETED. When the Southern people
gave in their adherence to the laws o.
the United States, and solemnly
through their Legislatures, accepted
the terms imposed on them, it became
with them sacred principle to stand
to their agreements Vicksburg Her
! aid.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

HIS WIFE's MAN.-Gen. Hawley,
the Radical candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, was recently asked in a
public speech, care you an Andrew
johnson man :" He replied, Il am
nobody's man but my wife's, and /
stand by the flag" 1t is not known
exactly whether he referred to his
wife's colors or not, in his allusion to
the flag. Judging from his position, il
must be the "black flag"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

HYAMs d BY reference
to our advertising columns, it will be
seen that these gentlemen have opened
large stock Of Drugs, Stationery, &c,
in Shreveport. They are both pleasant
and affable gentlemen, and will, hey ond
doubt, do a good part by their cusA
TONERS.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

~ The following advertisement
appeared in a late English paper;-
Whereas, Jim Hall has fraudulently
taken away several articles of wearing
apparel without my knowledge, this is
therefore to inform him that if he does
not forthwith return the same, his
name shall be made public.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

"DoNE GONE AND DONE IT."-Ab-
hey q Moore have filled every nook
and corner Of their establishment with
a complete assortment of Spring and
Summer Dry Goods, Groceries, Hard
ware, Cutlery and host of other
things, too numerous to mention
Ladies' call in on them, and join Ed
Moore 10 his efforts to make standing
ROOM 10 this popular establishment
which is SO packed and jammed with
goods, that it is almost impossible to
tell switch from tother"-we mean the
dry goods. See their card.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

BELLEVUE LODGE, No. 94,-We
are requested to state that there will be
ameetiug ofthe Brethren of this Lodge
on Saturday evening, at 2 o'clock, for
the purpose Of organization, &c. All
Brethren in good standing are respect
fully and fraternally invited to attend.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21
IMPORTANT ORDER.-The Mobile

IMPORTANT ORDER.-The Mobile
Tribune, of the 9TH, has the following:
We learn that telegraphic order
was received from Gen. Thomas yes
terday for all the volunteer military
organizations in this State to be gotten
ready for mastering out of the service
Immediately. This will be gratifying
intelligence to the people of the inte-
rior. The only volunteer regiment
now at Mobile is the 2lst Missouri.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

IL A resolution has been adopted
in the United States Senate inquiring
whether any persons have been permit
ted to enter on the duties of Office with
out taking the test oath. So far as
profitable offices are concerned, the
dominant party might, on Mr.. Marcy's
principle, require aparty test for office,
but when it comes to the thankless
burden of keeping little post Offices and
carrying petty horse mails at low rates.
the folly of it is most transparent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

SALE & MURPHY.-If you want spring
and summer goods, call on them. II
you want hardware or cutlery, call on
them If you want plantation supplies,
call on them. If you want the best of
goods, and the best Of bargains, call on
them, al the corner of Texas and Spring
streets, Shreveport, and you will be
accommodated.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

~ tits suggested in the London
Chemist and Druggist that chloroform
is an excellent medium for the removal
of stains of paint from clothes, etc. 1t
is found that portions of dry white
paint, which resisted the action of
ether, benzole and bisulphide of car
bon, are at once dissolved by chloro
form.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

IL A well-known military officer
remarked upon reading President john
sons peace proclamation, that the
officers and men Of volunteer regiments
''may now be considered breyet citi-
zens." s5la # a IN
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

~ Read the card of the steamer
Alabama. Her officers are clever and
accommodating gentlemeu-just the
very men to travel with as we know
by experience.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

II We read in a Northern exchange
that "Southerners are buying nice
residents in the fashionable parts of
Boston. Over twenty first-class houses
there have lately been purchased by
Southerners, who say they made for
tunes during the war, and have come
North to invest it."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

THE C1v1L R1GHTs BILL.-On the
7th inst, the Senate passed the civil
rights bill over the Presidents head by
a vote Of 33 to Is. On the 9th the
House did the same thing by vote of
1872 Al.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

CONSOLATION FOR SAMBo.-Cotton
thieves and all thieves may rob the
whites Of the last dollar, but no one can
deprive the negro Of his first and last
cent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

~ Country merchants wishing TO
Fget their money back" should bear in
mind to order their goods of McStea &
Value, importers and wholesale dealers
IN Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods,
No. 90 Canal street, New Orleans
Dick. Yenables is there, aud will do his
tleyel best" on all orders from his
friends.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21
TO THE VOTERS OF BOSSIER
PARISH:

In obedience to the solicitations of
numerous friends, my name is again
before you as a candidate for the office
of Sheriff, at the impending election.
cannot, however, as has heretofore
been the custom of candidates for pub
lie Office, visit you seyerally at your
homes. This results from the very
early day at which the election is to
take place, and from the further fact
that, on the surrender of the army of
Northern Virginia, l found myself
like many of you, who had been long
battling for the rights of your coun-
try, under great and imperious neces-
sity of at once returning to my home
and pIoV handles.
Should you deem me deserving of
your confidence, and elect me. l
promise you, gentlemen, that to the
best of my abilities, shall energeti-
cally, impartially and faithfully dis
charge all the duties imposed by law,
Respectfully soliciting your suffrage,
| have the honor to be,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES S. HERRING.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

~ We call special attention to the
announcement, under the proper head,
Of j. Pinckney Harris, Esq, for the
District Attorneyship Of this Judicial
District. Mr.. Harris is a gentleman
possessing all the qualifications requisite
for faithful performance of the duties
connected with office he seeks.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

~ The Salisbury Banner says that
the military authorities at that place
have suppressed the sale ofpictures of
Gems. Lee. Jackson and other Confed-
crate Generals.
Thisis on par with cutting off brass
buttons from mems coats. We regard
all such things as decidedly small BUSH
ness.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

Look Our FOR THE CIRCUS! The
Grand Combination Circus of Stone,
ROsston & Murray, will be here on
Wednesday next, the 25th inst. Let
the lovers of fun and amusement bear
this in mind, and act accordingly.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

FADING AwAY.-The Baton Rouge
Advocate says the number of dead ne
groes in that city every month is over
one hundred. The negro population of
Baton Rouge does not exceed 1000,
and the deaths at the present rate will
be 1900 per annum. In the country
the fatality is not SO great, but even on
the farms and plantations the restrain
ing influence OF the whites is no longer
felt, and disease is more than ever fatal
with them, whilst promiscuous inter-
course, freedom of will and want of in
terest in their progeny, has checked
their increase by natural means.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

~ The Chicago Times says Of Mrs.
Swisshelm, who had held a clerkship
10 the Treasury Department, but has
been lately Dismissed, on account of
her indecent assaults upon President
Johnson
"Sbe can scold all the hair from a
dog in two minutes, at sixty PAGES. She
was removed. probably, not through
fear of her influence, but for the sake
of peace. The President, we hope, will
follow up this action and remove all
federal officials who. like Jane, abuse
the hand that feeds them. Let him go
among these clamorous, snarling ours
with whip. The more he feeds them
the louder thay will howl. Let him
lash them into silence"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

New YORK, April 4.-The brick
layers, painters and most of the ship
carpenters Of this city are on strike.
Their demands are resisted by the
employers, with the exception of those
on contracts. 1t is believed the men
will resume at the present rates with
out serious disturbance,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

II A golden rule for young lady
is to converse always with your female
friends as if gentleman were of the
party; and with young men as if your
female companions were present. 81 I'D
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

Eg Gen. Frank P. Blair has been
appointed Collector ofthe United States
Revenue for the st. Louis district Of
Missouri. Taussig, the radical collector,
has been removed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21
THE BOSSIER BANNER,
w. H. sCANLAND, EDITOR.
f R NJ S:

The Bossier Banner will be issued
every Saturday morning. Subscription,
per annum, Five dollars--In advance.
Three dollars for six months. Two
dollars for three months.
Advertisements inserted at 81 so per
square. ofeight lines or less first inser-
ton rs cents for each subsequent in
sertien. Liberal terms offered to yearly
advertisers.
Professional and business cards of
one square, inserted nj SIS per annum;
$40 for six months; 81 for three months.
Publishing announcements of candi-
dates for office, $l5--to be paid inyari-
ably in advance.
Obituary notices, when exceeding a
square, will be charged as advertise
ments.
~ All articles published for the
benefit of parties or individuals, at
their own solicitation, will be charged
for as advertisements.
~ All monies forwardedus by mail,
at our risk.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

|" A Washington dispatch of the
9th instant, says; ''Itis generally ex-
peeted that the President in few days
viii release Jefferson Davis and c. c..
Clay on parole.''
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

~ A lady up-to recently called
at the shop of a maker of chimney
ventilators to see if he had any con !.
trivence which would make her hus-
band stop smoking. @
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

" The President of one Of the
leading Boston Banks has just had his
salary raised to $1,000 per year, on
account of valuable services.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

~ Our merchants going to New
Orleans to buy anything in the cloth
ing line, viii find a complete assortment
in the house of Taylor, McElroy & Co.,
70 Canal street, New Orleans. Our
friend J. L. Garrison, late of Marshall,
Texas, is in this house, and gives salts.
faction to all who trade with him.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

n The Legislature of Pennsylvs-
MIA in l774 passed the following IRE
solved, That no member of the Legis-
lature will be allowed to come into the
House barefooted.'
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

~ Run everybody and see what
Chandler has "fotch up" Ladies, that's
the place to buy everything you want,
in the way of Dry Goods, from piece
OF thread lace half finger length, to
the most gorgeous moral! Go
and see.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

rs The death Of Mormon Bishop
is thus announced "He was thirty
seven years old and leaves an interest
ing family of eleven wives and forty
seven small childred to mourn his
death.n
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21
nrcrApAT1oS OF INDEPENDENCE

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.-
Politicians of the Sumner way OF think
ing make frequent appeals to the prin-
ciples embodied in that famous instru-
ment known as the Declaration of In
dependence, to which our respected
fathers subscribed their lives,
their fortunes and their sacred
honor. 1t was very creditaole docu-
ment to have been written by slave
holder who "traded in human fesh,"
and to have been made good by the
sword of a STAKEHOLDER who bought and
sold human souls. The Declaration
denounced the King Of England, among
other things, for having erected a
multitude of new Offices and for haV-
ing sent hither swarms of officers to
harass our people and eat out their
substance"
For having "kept among US in time
of peace, standing armies, without the
consent of our legislatures. " r ~
For having affected to render the
military independent of, and superior
to, the civil power.,'
"For quartering large bodies of arm
ed troops among u.s."
,"For imposing taxes upon us without
our consent"
''For depriving US, in many cases,
Of the benefit of trial by jury
"For taking away our charters,
abolishing our most valuable laws, and
altering, fundamentally, the forms of
our governments F."
| This George III, who did these
things must have been magnificent
villain Montgomery Mail.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

II In Georgia, where Sherman's
army made clean sweep of all the
carriages, the ladies now go visiting in
carts. They call them cartes de yisites.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

g There is a sting in every gener7
GUS mind, which, if touched lightly,
yields fine tones; but if struck by an
unskillful hand only produces discord.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

" Dido fell in love with Eneas,
but he gave her the out direct. And
he has his imitators. Men have been
cutting didoes ever since.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-21

R It is estimated that seven mil
lions of dollars have been spent in the
six hundred balls given in New York
this season.
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Readl Read!! Read!!!

vite the attention of our readers. Com-
ment from our pen is unnecessary, as
every intelligent reader will see for
himself the fatal result that such a
movement on the part of the Northern
preachers, will produce in our country.
The negro has become freeman, and
the people of the South are disposed to
protect him in all his rights as such.
The Northern Radicals, however, are
not disposed to let the question rest
here but they are determined to do all
they can to prejudice his mind against
his best friends, by establishing false
teachers among us, whose object will
be not only to keep alive this exciting
question. here, but to constantly agi-
tate it in the North by becoming cor
respondents of the Northern journals,
reporters to the North, to the National
Government, and more or less to the
world. Would these preacher emil
saries confne themselves 20 the truth,
it would be quite different, but not one
in hunrded will do that, for radicalism
has so warped their judgment, that they
cannot talk or write truth, where the
negro is the subject of discussion
But read the extract :-T Holly Springs
Mis- Reporter. go
MISSION OF NORTHERN METHODIST
PREACHERS IN THE LATE SLAVE
SrATEs.-Three hundred thousand dol
lars have been appropriated by the
Missionary Society of the Methodist
church North, to sustain her mission
airy enterprises in the States where
slavery recently existed. The New
Methodist announces the delectable
work the Northern Missionaries will
have to perform in the Southern States.
Hear it:
"Our preachers will be there; they
will be there chiefly, if not solely, for
the freedmen; they will be there as our
representatives; they will be CORE
spondents not only of the central au-
thorities of the Missionary Society, but
of our public journals they will be a
grand corps of not only local protectors
Of the colored population. but also OF
reporters to the North, to the National
Government, and more or less to the
whole world, of the treatment of these
injured people. If for no other con-
sideration, yet for this should the whole
Methodists North sustain the scheme
of the Missionary Society"
Here it is unblushingly avowed by
the clerical hypocrite who edits the
New York Methodist, that these lying
sneaking emissaries will be sent South
for the purpose of acting as spies, and
writing false and slanderous sensation
letters to ''the Missionary Society, the
public Journals and National Govern.
ment," for the purpose of stirring uF
strife and melting hatred in the North
against the Southern people. These
pious falsehoods will be published with
av1dity by the radical press, and illus,
trated with vulgar. indecent wood cuts
after the fashion of Harper's Weekly
and Fox's Book of Martyrs. Is thi!
the sort of Christianity taught by tht
Methodist Church North IF this i.
not stealing the livery of Heaven t.
serve the devil in" we are much mis-
taken. We hope our people will Civ
these hypooritieal emissaries of strife
treason and wiekedness, an appropriate
reception. Let US look out for the ar
rival of these 'sblood hounds of Zion.