The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-30
News Items.

News Items
Stock of cotton hand at Montgomery q, :,
| I2t!l was $3.50 bales. '4e
Belle Boyd appeared at the Huntsville Thaatro
the 9th VI
General Lees College has 500 pupils this scs.a5
against 4o0 last session. oe'
Bennett renews his offer to the Pope of a bono 8,
Washington Heights.
Hon. Rande Hunt, of New Orleans, fell dowps,.:-
in New York hotel few days ago and was sevcI
injured.
The Mobile Register says the elections in that Stat,
prove that the Radical party in Alabama is a nrT
party
Can't. HYATT post connandant at Pass Christi,
died that place, of yellow fever on the morning Of
the 9Th inst
of the Bulletin, has entirely recovered from sevao
attack of yellow fever.
Chase has gone fishing. Hope some one will mil
the scales from Salmons eyes before he gets bact
Louisville Democrat
It is said that Gen. Pope removes from office within
his district all persons who were in the army that
whipped him. louisville journal
Washington specials say that about half million Of
have been expended for the Ieliet OF the pcpe at H.
South, under the congressional act
Cen CANDY has issued an order suSpendng the CAL
lection OF all taxes III NOftH 1dfDna
are not imposed by authority of the Federal Govern
ment.
The Methodists have twenty thousand churches IN
the United States with accommodation for over ST.
million of people 1t is the most numerous sect in tb
United States.
| The Providence Herald thinks reconstruction vera
incomplete since the colored operators alta sharins
emporium in that city refuse to operate genteme5
of their own color.
| NEGRO jury IN ALABAMA.--On the Sth, for tba
first time in the history of Alabama, negroes vera
put upon grand and petit uries OF the criminal and
other high courts of Montgomery.
1t is said that the largest number of Jewels owned
by any private individual in the United States is nos
sessed by Madame de Ia Grange, the prim1 donna
They are valued at more than two hundred thousand
dollars.
Why is Sickles so anxious for court of inoQirpq
In order to keep his name before the country which
would otherwise soon be forgotten, or Remembered
only as that of the murderer of Philip Barton Key
Leopold de Meyer, unlike other leading panists
rarely practices He has no piano III his room anil
declined the Stenway's offer to send him one. His
touch and his manner Of using his hands at the piano
are utterly novel,
The New York Herald is said to have backed out If
its idea of "gong it alone in telegraphng. 1t footed
I'D the items of the music, and found they were too
costly-being not less than $4,000 per week.
In letter to the Romero banquet, Thad Stevens
wrote that he could think of but two men, Washing.
ton and William of Orange Who under parallel cir.
cumstances combined equally all the qualities of for
titude and patriotism with President JuaEez.
The spirit of Wilkes Booth has informed Brook.
lvn spiritualist that he is having good time in the
other world with ST. Paul and St. Peter the former Of
whom he knows very well. He complains that Michael
keeps him pretty close in heaven-or wherever be is
FROST IN ALABANA-Says the Montgomery Mail of
the 10th:
We learn from gentleman who arrived on the No
bile train early yesterday morning, from LoEBdes
county, that good-sized frost clearly percepbe
in the bottoms along the line of the railroad.
DEMOCRATIC NoM1NATIoNs IN MARyLAND.-Says a
Baltimore dispatch of the 9Th:
The Maryland Democratic State Convention met to-
day. Hon. H. G. S. Kelly presided Col Odin Bowie
was nominated for Governor on the eighth ballot, re-
ceiving ffty-six votes against ffty6ve for Hamilton
The Planters Banner says the storm Of Thursday
equaled in violence the great Last Island storm of Au
gust, 1856 The Teehe rose several feet at Franklin
during the prevalence of the southeast gale and the
streets all flooded with water Fences and trees
were blown down. and the Banner itself delayed one
day beyond the usual time Of publication.
Says the Felicana Democrat: Upon plantation
situation in the lower part of the parish, few DAYS
since twenty three ablebodied freedmen picked before
noon, three hundred and 6itynine pounds of seed
ton and this from field which presented full grown
and open bolls any in the parish Such hands would
break any planter in the cotton growing region. let
how many suffering from the laziness and inaer
ton of like characters.
THE PRESIDENTS LINE DEFENCE New York
letter to the Charleston Courier says:
1t is well known among certain class Of men that
Mr.. Johnson, during than year past bus care,
fully collected all the speeches. and parts Of
speeches, made by Republican and Democratic Sena.
tors in reference to the impeachment question. For
that purpose, corps of the very best Of city
osraphers have been constantly on the wing following
in the track of the itnerant Senator'S and milking
transcripts of these speeches, apparently for puba