The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-05-22

On the subject. f not only insists the appoint
nen d some of it, colered constituents the police
but openly advocates Gle election Of eolofed Mayor
We are neither prophet nor tlae son Of prophet
but predict that tie eoored people Of New Orleans
will carry any point they undertake in the matter OF
elections. Although Mayor Heath has not yet called
IN the services Of the negro, Collector Kellogg has
-Four strapping gemlnen Of color hold positions
in the Custom House. one Of whom is colecto: OF
customs The captain ofthe night watch is also col
ored man. The first night he entered upon his du-
ties he wore the finest uniform ever saw, and didn't
he put on the airs making the white trash hunt
their holes at the appnted hour.
Politically have little to note. week ago to-
night witnessed the first meeting of the negroes
ever held in this city. To me it was a nauseatins
dose. Lafayette Square densely crowded 18th he
groes of all ages and both sexes, who swayed to and
fro like the pillows Of the ocean, paying little no
attention to the speakers. Mr. Kelley Of Pennsylya
MIA, was the big gun of the night. What he said,
what he wanted to do, cannot be proved by US. We
saw certain jesticulations frantic motions nothing
more. The man Conway made talk, the torches
burned the music played, the sky rockets went up;
and we went to our nest perfectly Disguised with the
first negro mass meeting we attended. May it
be the last naugurated by ncendiary radicalsn Sen
ator Wilson, of Massachusetts is here election
eering tour He speaks tonight for the edifcaton Of
his eolored citizens. Although he is from my native
State, | have got about much use for him and his
politics as a wagon has for fifth wheel M
Commercially, this city has had hard time Of it
for the past month The failure of the City Bank,
followed by the failure of the First National and that
by the temporary suspension Of the City National ere
aed great excitement in commercial circles. The
First National had capital of 81 100000 1t is said
the Government had deposits to the of 81 00O,
900. As the affairs of the bank undergoing il
vestisaton by officers of the Treasury Department,
comments are out Of place. TIE City National is all
right again. paying all checks as in days of yore The
stockholders are all merchants of this city with Coch
ran for president. The suspension only tempo
rary. Four Of the old banks offered it loan of
$780, 000 yet it had for it, paying as it did all
the checks from their own resources. 1t is though by
some that the financial crisis is here, but have
serious doubts Many of the merchants here have
yet to hear from their cons;gnnents 10 Liverpool
Thereby hangs tale
Luxembourg.
This country which is about as large as good sized
cotton plantation, very being the subject
of an immense war. What may result in the future
time can only reveal The following extract from
letter written by the Paris correspondent of the New
York World is not without interest at this time:
In oden times Luxembourg ruled by Counts,
and was, therefore, county. 1t called Lutzel-
burg land that is even now its proper German name,
which means Little Castle.) In 1854 the country
was elevated into duehy, and for many hundred
years afterwards belonged to Germany and gov
erned by its German Princes of whom,
Heinrich VII was even elected Emperor of Germany.
This is what Herr Won Bennssen, President of the
National Verein and member of the North German
Parliament, alludes to in his speech just published
here by telegraph, when he calls the grand duchy the
birth place Of many a German Prince. At the end of
the fourteenth century the reignng house of Luxem-
bourg acquired by marriage the mark of Brandenburg,
but this temporary greatness was Of short duration.
In the fifteenth century Louis the Fourteenth of
France took possession of the southern portion of the
grand-duchy and united it to France, under the
Of Luxembourg Francois. The rest of the duchy
consisting of about 12 square miles, with upwards of
800 900 inhabitants, still remained German, and CON
stituted part of the German Burgundan country. The
iuchy however lost its sovereign and was afterwards
tic French revolution. and the whole Of the duchy
was incorporated with France; and the luxembourg
ers remained French anti the Congress Of Vienna
when, the great table around which sat all the old
school diplonaatsts III 1915, it was decided to take
Luxembourg away from France, make it once more a
German duchy, and hand it to the King of the
Netherlands hereditary grand ducal dependency
of the Nassau sovereignty. One would think this
constituted suAicien. vcissitudes for insignificant
territory bat no. In 1880 Luxembourg Joined the
Belgians in their revolution and together with Belg
um tore itself away from its Batch sovere gns donn
ion but at the London Conference Of 1882 the grand
duchy was divided between Belgium and Holland
Here its destinies became to certain extent bound
up with Limburg, inasrnuch as Limburg was similarly
divided and made enter the Gernanic Conledera
ton together with electromagnetic is to say the
King of Holland had to send representatives TO the old
Frankfort Diet the ground OF his being Grand Duke
of Luxembourg and Duke of Limburg The latter was
no more German thar Amsterdam, but its entry into
the Germanic Bund was expedient hit upon by the
London Conference to compensate Germany for the
loss Of that part of Luxembourg which had become
Belgian
The city Of Luxembourg is trading place not very
large-contaning about 8 900 ii 900 iuhabitants
but the houses have look of comfort, and the people
well-to-do appearance, which reminds one more Of
Holland than either France Germany. The town
is half built upon rock, out of which the Fortress
stands majesticaly and threateningly forward, and
looks what it is reported to be- OF the strongest
fortified places of Central Europe.
How the N. Y. Times Glasses W. D. Kelley.
The New York Times, says the Memphis Bulletin, in
on article headed Gonfscaton in the South sneak