The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-07-10
HIC NEWS.
For the South-W estern

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Markets.
/ New oRLEAss, July s.-sales Of cotton 200 bales;
low middling 23@231c.; receipts $50 bales. STOCK
of Louisiana sugar very light; quoted at Tor aii
Louisiana. Flour very firm; single extra Sill mos
sales private. Corn advanced 21c.; yellow and mixeo
| 81 1901 Is, and white S. 80. Oats firm; held al
Soc. Lard quiet; prime tierce retaining at 1zfe
keg I3a@14c Pork firm at s23 Is. Bacon, fan
iobbng business shoulders 10a, ribbed Is and eieal
sides Isle. Gold 1881. Sterling 493@6s. New
/ York sight &c. premium.
New York. July S. evening.-cotton steady at
26lc. for middIing uplands.
/ New York. July 9, noon.-Stoeks heaVy. % eou
pons, III. Money soc f'ct Gold 1883. Cotton
dull; middling uplands 261e
Cable Dispatches.
| LONDON July S-The English Government is about
to send body Of troops to Abyssina.
| Pans, July s-The international money congress
proposes to fix the standard gold coin at FIVE francs
and its maltiples.
TRIESTE, July ga feet is under preparation to
proceed to Mexico to demand the body OF Macmillan.
LONDON, July 9, noon.-Gonsols 944. Bonds %.
/ LIVERPOOL, July 9, noon.-Cotton very dull; estl-
mated sales 1000 bales; middng uplands 1osd., and
midding Orleans Id.
The Austrian ship Nester, from New York for Lon
don burnt at sea- Four of the crew, mate and car
penter were lost
LONDON July 8, 2 P M.-Censols declined !. Bonds
advanced l.
LIVERPOOL, July 9, 2 p M-Cotton unchanged.
Miscellaneous.
BosTos. July e.-John K. Fuller, cashier Of the
Merchants National Bank, has been arrested, charged
with illegally abstracting the funds of the bank
! OMAHA July S-Advices have been received from
Gen Custar's command dated at Riverside, Colorado,
forty miles west of Fort sedgwick june 24th which
says there had been several skirmshes resulting in
the repulse of the fndians. Six warriors were Killed
and two soldiers wounded.
WASHINGTON, July SIT is reported here that
Gen. Heron, of Louisiana, is applicant for the
Mexican mission.
The defense commenced the examination of wit
nesses including the actor named Hess, and the the
atrical costumer named Gorlan that Hess sing,
and asked the time; Corlan replied ten minutes past
ten. Hess exclaimed, ten minutes past ten! I'll be
wanted soon. The witnesses knew Booth very well
he was in front of the theatre, and of them
saw Surrat there. Ford testified that Rhodes, from
the position of the doors and passages could not have
seen Surrat in the Presidents box the day Of the
assassination.
Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher was drowned at Fort
Benton ON the lst inst.
| ExGov. King, of New York, is dead
| SAN ANTONIO, July s.-The Texas Express has been
selected to publish the laws.
| CHARLESTON, S. c., July 9-The following semi
official announcement is published this morning Gen
Sckles has directed not to begin registration in this
military district until Congress shall have determined
more explicitly who entitled to be registered. 1t
is presumed that Congress will extend the time for
the completion for registration in the Caronas until
October or November.
Congressional.
WASHINGTON July S.-The committee of nine has
prepared bill which places the State governments
in complete subsection to the military commanders
whose previous acts are validated 1t makes the
boards of registration judges of the qualifications for
registration and orbids the removal of any command
err without the advice and consent of the Senate
sentence of courtmaral; forbids the civil courts,
whether Federal or State from interfering with the
military commonder or his agents who may be acting
under his authority, or from entertaining civil or
criminal prosecutions against them for any acts done
under the laws to which this is supplementary.
House.-A large number of bills were introduced
and referred without debate.
The Committee on Elections reported that no per-
son who gave aid or comfort to the rebellion be al
lowed to be in, but disoyaty Of constituents
illegality of election should not prevent member
from holding a certificate to be sworn in. Report
laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
A resolution calling for the proceedings of the Cab
met on reconstruction passed by lob to 25.
Butler moved that special committee of five be
appointed with power to send for persons and papers,
and to investigate into the assassination and that the
committee promise the protection of the House to
accompEces who have not been tried sentenced
who may make valuable evidence The rules were
suspended and the resolution passed.
Stevens, from the committee Of nine, introduced
the following bill:
Be 1t enacted By tie Senate and House of Represent
taiyes of the United States, IN Congress assembled,
That it is hereby declared to have been the true
intent and meaning of the act of the I'd March, 1861
entitled an act to provide for the efficient gov
eminent of the rebel States and of the act supplement
tary thereto, passed the 23d Of March, 1867 that
the government then existing in the rebel States of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Mississippi Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Texas and
Arkansas were illegal and void; and that thereafter
said governments if continued were to be continued
in all respects to the military commanders of the re-
spectve districts and to the authority of Congress-
Sec. 2. That said acts, to which this is supplement-
shall be construed to authorize the officer assigned to
the command of any military district under said acts
whenever he shall deem it necessary the due per-
Torrance Of his duties under said acts, to or
suspend from Office any municipal State officer or
person exercising authority under by virtue of any
socalled State government existing in his district and
the said officer gned to command aforesaid is
hereby empowered to appoint another person instead
of the officer or person removed, if he shall deem
proper; and whenever he may deem it necee-
sary, aforesaid, to prohibit suspend set aside
an act proceeding Of any such State municipal
government, or any act or thing done under or by
virtue of its authority, and all acts heretofore done by
any such officer in accordance herewith, shall be
deemed valid.
Sec s. That the boards of registration Of the seve-
raj military districts, established by the acts to which
this is supplementary shall admit registration only
such persons they deem entitled to be registered by
the acts aforesaid they shall regard the taking of
the oath prescribed in the act of March 3d. 1861 as
conclusive evidence of right Of the person taking it
to be registered but primae faci only may receive
such evidence under oath relating thereto as they may
deem proper either from the person applying to be
registered or Others Either of said boards is hereby
authorised to administer oaths afirmaons and ex
anime witnesses touching the right of persons to be
registered. Said board of registration may strike
from the list Of voters the of any one already
registered who, in their judgment, improperly took
the oath prescribed in the act to which this is supple
mentary or entitled by said to be regis
tered Record oath shall not be required by said
board to prove participation in the rebellion but pa
ro evidence shall be sufficient to establish the fact of
And said boards of registration shall
not be bound or governed in their action by any
opinion of any officer of the United States Govern
ment.
Sec A. That no civil court of the United States or
Of any State shall have jurisdiction of any action or
civil or criminal against any such dis
trict commander any officer person acting by
his authority for account of discharge of duties
imposed upon him BY this act or acts to which it is
Sec s.. That district commander shall be relieved
from command assigned to him under the aforesaid
acts, unless the Senate shall have first advised and
consented thereto unless by sentence of court
martial he shall be cashiered or dismissed from the
,rmy or unless he shall consent to be so relieved