The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH MILITARY DISTRICT, |
New Orleans, Dee. 2, 1861.
Paraeraph i Of Special Orders 1877, from these
HEADQUARTERS dated November 3d. 1867, issued by
hreyet Mai. Gen J. a. Mower, removing from olhce
Smith lard aid to the Chief of Police OF this city,
and appointing in his place Porter Y Perkins, is here
by revoked. ~, e .,,o.o
Headquarters, dated November IS, 1867, removing
from office L. Odennell Lieutenant Of Police, second
District OF the city of New Orleans, ana appointing
| Angelo v Word in his place, is hereby revoked
II any charges or allegations are presented asals,
the officers who are reInstated by this ORDER they WI"
be considered by the Mayor and fohce Doaru' W
whom the subject properly pertains
| W. G. MITCHELL, A. A. A. Il.
The order revoked by the above was issued on Tue
morning of Gen. Hancocks arrival we are l'''oriieu
that Perkins, appointed to succeed lard, Is cousin
| of Gen. Mower
Paragraph of Special Orders 10. 200 removes
R. King Cutler from the bench Of the Second judicial
District Court, to which he was appointed by ueieai
| Mower and declares the Office vacant
/ WASHINGTON, December 1.-The action on Cola
DAYS right his seat indicates the kentuckans Will be
excluded till after the vote on impeachment,
It is generally understood that Commissioner OF
| Revenue Rollins will resign.
The Reconstruction Committee had meeting at
Stevens room, where the majority held further egls-
laton necessary before reconstruction is completed
The Judges of the Supreme Court, led by Chase,
| visited the President
T. is stated that Cornelius Wendell succeeds Clark as
Superintendent of Printing at the Treasury.
The President will nominate ). s. COX as Minister 10
Austria vice Greeley declined.
Tn the conclusion of Ords report, he says in ma
iorty of the counties OF his District there are very
few who take the test oath, and these are not
disposed to defy public opinion by accepting once,
! unless supported by military force atterward. The
| Uof tha
ing loyal office holders, but their intelligence Is not
now sufficient to enable them to combine for the exc
cuton of their will. All their combinations are now
conducted by white men, under the protection OF the
military and if the protection is Withdrawn, the white
men now controlling them would withdraw with 1t,
and some of the Southern people, now exaspefated at
what they deem the frecdmens presumption, would
not be very gentle toward them, so that the presence
of larger military force will be required for some
time to maintain the freedmen in the right OF suffrage
! Internal revenue to-day, 81, 2ll 900.
| CINCINNATI December 2.-The negro who outraged
Mrs Baker, of Princeton, Indiana, was caught the
same night, confessed, was stabbed shot, beaten till
dead and then dragged through the streets.
MONTGOMERY, December 1.-The Reconstruction
Convention adopted resolution that when the Con-
veuon adjourned it should adjourn subject to the call
of E. W. Peck president or the military commander
of this State District but if not reconvened within
one year, it shall stand adjourned sine die.
A resolution to djourn the 4h inst. was rejected
The oath of Office finally adopted, requires oil
GERS that they not distranchised by the
constitution Of Alabama or the constitution or laws of
the United States that they will support the const
tuition and laws Of the State and OF the United States
and the Union of the States, &c.
WASHINGTON December 2.-The suit by VIM. Bor-
ley vs. Messrs. G. A. Weed Go. and s. P. Griffin, all
of louisiana has been commenced in the District SUI
preme Court. The bill claims that, in 1864 defend
ants received from plaintiff S43 bales of cotton and
subsequently other. cotton, amounting 70 1920 900.
Defendants claim clandestlne Shipments false and ex
orLant charges, and fraudulent insolvency the
part of Weed Co., and that Griffin is pressing claims
on the treasurer for hundred thousand dollars most
oil which belongs to the firm
The Kentucky delegation are seriously pcrpleXed.
They are satisfied that the Establishment of record
admitting them to the present Congress will ruin them
with their constituents.
Differences of opinion as to the details of the re-
peal Of the cotton tax are becoming wider and more
stubborn. Specuations regarding the result may be
as reliably made at New Orleans as here.
Havana dispatches state that another earthquake
had occurred ST. Thomas, Tertola and other islands,
accompanied with volcanic erupOn5, and the
fifty feet doing much damage shipping and build
Tags. On the island immense loss Of life and property
is reported in consequence The American schooner
Wild Pigeon sunk.
The rigate Norya had arrived with Maximilian's re-
mains at Chapel!e Avent. The remains are in a good
state Of preservation 1t is stated that the embalmng
doctors mntilaed Maximians attire and hair for profit.
WASHINGTON, December 3-In his message the
President says the first duty, at the close of the civil
war; to repair the injuries and secure the benefit
of the war. This duty promptly accepted by the
Executive and the insurreconary States Restoration
i'll the first moments of peace believed easy and
certain, and considered indispensable. These ex-
pectatious have been disappointed by legislation, and
now there no Union wherein State is as free as
another to regulate its internal affairs according to its
own will. An elaborate argument follows, OH the
proposition that the Union and the Constitution are
nseperable; as long is obeyed, the other will
be preserved and if one is destroyed both must perish
together There is no military other necessity real
or pretended which prevent obedience to the Con-
sttution, either North or South Hope that YOU may
ultimately concur in plan Of settlement consistent
with our true interests and sworn duties. 1t is clear
TO the PRESIDENTS comprehension that the States lately
IN rebellion are still members of the Union The Elk
ecutlve, my predecessor, AS well myself and the
heads OF all the departments, have adopted and act
upon the principle that the Union is not dissolved
but IS lndissolube. Congress submitted amendments
to the Constitution to the Southern States and accented
their ratification. Judges Of the Supreme Court have
included the Southern States in their districts If the
southern States are component parts Of the Union and
the Constitution is the supreme law for them as for
all other States they are bound to obey and so are
We Being sincerely convinced that these views are
correct the President recommends the repeal of the
acts placing the Southern States under military mas
tiers. The conflict between the reconstruction acts and
PN"P1S IT,
gued and illustrated at length.
Abiding to negro suffrage, the President saws the
subsection OF States to negro dominion will be worse
than the existing military despotsm. The people will
endure endless military oppression rather than degrade
themselves by subsection to the negro race The
blacks are entitled to be well and humanely governed
out II 1t were possible to give them government Of
thelr own, 1t would become grave question whether
we ought to do so or whether common humanity wou1d
not require us to save them from themselves: but it
Is now proposed that they shall not only govern them
Selves but that they shall govern the whites ard to
greater or less extent control the destiny of the whole
country: The negro character is oontrasted with the
virtue intelligence and spirit of progress of the white
race and the negro population is contrasted with the
and the different terms of acquiring citi
zenshlp and franchise stated The President Yields
10 no man IN attachment to the rule for general suf
1ra9e, but requires of classes time suitable for
probation and preparation before we can transfer orr
poutlcal inheritance to the negroes and it would in the
PRESIDENTS opinion, be an abandonment of a dntv
Which we owe alike to the memory of our fathers and
the rights of our children A
depicting the horrors inevitable from the nronoood
government the President says it will require a strons
standing army, and probably more than two hundred
thousand millions per to maintain the sunrona
y OF The negro Governments, after they are cst,h
shed without military power, are wholly incanahle If
rolo'ng IN subsection the white people of the South
de e11ect on public credit and trad, re