The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-05-08
ELEGRAP HIC NEWS.
For the South Western.]
Markets.

Markets.
t NEW ORLEANS, May 6.-Sales of cotton 200 bale
prices Unchanged low mddling 24@25c:; receipts 19e
bales; exports 1882 bales Gold I371 Sterling AZ
&C., and closed at 81 90; held at that Oats
90c Mess pork $24 so. Lard 12(1l4c. Bacon
shoulders, &c. Whisky unchanged.
New YORK, May 6, cvening.-Cotton lower sale
800 bales; middlng upiands, 27@s74c. Gold 1863.
New YoRE, May 6.-Gold closed at 1879.
i New York, May Z, noon.-Stocks excited; Fri
held at 621, but improving Gold 1879. Cotton du
and shade easier.
New York, May 7, erening-Cotton dull an
heavy; sales 1000 bales. Money unchanged AM
plenty; Government securities brisk; colateras 5@
g. prime business paper current at 6417. Col,
closed at 3ss@13s4.
The failure of Watts Crane & Co. large cotto1
| firm is announced.
New ORLEANS, May 7.-Cotton-sa 5000 bales
prices unsettled; low middling 24@25c. receipts fo
four Gays 2345 bales, against 1916 for time las
week; exports same time 354 bales. Sugar-gooe
fair l2ssc and yellow clarified l34e. Moasses Eomi
nal, but unchanged. Flour very firm. Corn 81 45@
| Al for yellow and mixed and 81 90 for white
Oats in good demand with further advance of &c.
sales at 9Oc Mess pork S2t 80. Lard dull Bacon
only jobbing business. Sterling 46a@5l; New
York sight tot prem.
Cable Dispatches
LIVERPOOL May Cotton quietat ll4@llal. for
LONDON, May 6.-The Chinese rebellion is reported
spreading.
LIVERPOOL, May 6, evening. Cotton dull and de-
clined 3D.; sales II, 900 bales
LONDON, May 7, noon.-Copsols Oh United States
5-20's III.
LlvERPooL, May 7, nocn.-Cotton quiet; mddlipg
upands ll5@ll4d and mddling Orleans / i'd.
LONDON, May 7.--McCafferty has been convicted of
high treason a: Dublin.
Notwithstanding preliminaries looking to peace,
france and Prussia are both rapidly arning produc-
ing distrust in financial circles here.
LIVERPOOL May 7, P.u.-Cotton quiet; quota
tons unchanged.
LONDON, May :, P. M.--Finances unchanged.
LONDON, May T. evening.-Bonds III.
LIVERPOOL, MAY T. evening-Cotton, middling up
lands lid, and middling Orleans l1sd.
Miscellaneous.
New ORLEANS, May 6.-Gen Sheridan has ap-
pointed the follwng evee board: E. Lawrence. par
ish of Plaquemnes; j. II. oglesby, parish of Orleans
}. Burnside, Ascension parish w. D. Smith, Jeffer-
son parish and W. L. Mcmillan, of Carroll parish
The negroes yesterday attempted to get up riot,
taking possession of the Rampant street cars and re-
lus'ng to ride in those appropriated for themselves.
On Saturday night the negroes threatened to force an |
entrance into the French Opera House. claiming equal
ty with the whites. They appear to take advantage
Of the temporary reduction of the police force.
During the heavy storm last night another crerasse
occurred on the west bank of the river thirteen miles
.bove the city, which endangers the safety Of Agiers
iretna and the Opeousas railroad.
NEW YORK; May 6.-Counterfe plates Is and 5's
IN the Peoples national bank of Michigan and legal
ender Is have been discovered by detectives
Matamoros correspondence of the 9th says Juarez
las Issued decree Withdrawing all privileges from
european citizens who recognise the Empire and abol
shlng all treaty stpulations with such powers
A Rio Janeiro dispatch says the Emperor has issued
decree declaring the slaves free, the mandate take
itect within the next twenty years. Children born
ereafter to be free.
Portions of Conry and Barren Islands have been
elected as quarantine, boarding and landing stations
LOUISVILLE, May 6.-The congressional election
assed off quiet Growers majority in the 9Th district
four thousand. Beck was elected in the 7th dis
'ct. In the 4h district all Democrats were elected
proportion to the vote cast the democratic major.
y will be larger than last year.
BosToN, May 5.-John Leighton, who failed for +
yer million of dollars and implicated in overissue
mining stocks with Julius Hartwe, who has been r
onvicted of embezzlng 100000 from Government, a
as been imprisoned, in default of Sl4O, 600 bond
LEXINGTON, May 6.-Lieutenant Rice, with a de- t
chment of soldiers, attempted to make some arrests
Nichoiasville Ky. The soldiers were driven off, G
I'd Lieutenant Rlce and private we're wounded II
he trouble grew out of attempt to lynch a negro
RI who had killed white boy. s.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6.-Advices from Arizona L
y war of determination against Indians has COM n
enced. s
DESTROYED,
cept one store and one hotel. Loss 100000. o
WASHINGTON, May 6.-Sansbery closed the argu- u
ent in the Georgia and Mississippi Injunction cases
q the Supreme Court Immediately adjourned. "
General Rousseau has been ordered to the command
the Northwestern Military District. m
petition recently started here for the pardon of IN
If Davis met with but little favor CT
AsHlNGToS, May 7.-Col Tate, Of the Memphis u
Charleston, and Gen. West, of the Mississippi p'
ntra railroad, left this morning for the North.
has been completed, and unless the
lrt orders further registrations the record stands Fl
ties $40; blacks 1921.
The execution of Conoyer's Sentence has been ce
yed till June. IN
BosToN, May leighton, brough, before the mi
rt on habeas corpus, had his bail reduced to sl2- Al
}, which was promptly given. N,
BALTIMORE, May Judge Scott has appointed ex- tic
deliberate Commander Geo. N. Hoins to an office on
he new court Hollins resigned Federal post to,
talncy on joining the Confederacy. ro
IAN FRANCISCO, May 6.-The Victoria Colonist the FL
st Vancouvers Island Journal says editorially, tho
nine out of every ten of the colonsts would well t
lie annexation to the United States me
AsHINGToN, May 1.-THE case of the Common on,
18th of Virginia versus West Virginia, was up to- mo
, ana is still on argument. This case raises the diff
son of the status of Virginia State in the Un- of
as west Virginia denies the right of her Legisla Yo
10 make any valid enactnlens. The immediate 9th
stion is jurisdiction over certain counties claimed cor
ave been transferred by fraudulent representation sho
ecree Is asked reinstang these counties to old Dor
5ina. The argument will probably occupy two Phi
c days Stanton, Allison and Reverdy johnson of
esent West Virginia, and Andrew Hunter and WIN
j. H. Curtis, of Boston, represent the Old Domin sep
a. Gen. Joe Hooker has years leave of absence our
permission to so abroad. bull
oUIsvILLE May Traditional returns iudcate Vir
election of the entire Democratic ticket. the
May 7.-Thirty Fenians boarded the see
oner Blk, tore down the British colors and then Ions
tly left the vessel and
E" ORLEANS, May 1.-THE street car question is why
ed The chief of police has issued an order for raw
ing interference with the negroes ON any car or viii
net, into
lc Young America, from Indanoa for New Or rial
;, went ashore on Saluria island 10 gale on Sat- WHY
y Crew saved. Cargo mostly cattle, lost. ava
the hurricane on Sunday, the Mississippi burst and
anks below the city, destroying the teegra ph line colt
considerable distance. Extent Ct the damare in a
nown. wa :.
AVIATION IN South CAROLINA -The Sumter M ~
;hman, OF the 18th ult., learns from a source ~
it regards "reliable" that one or two bra}s
male whites have recently occurred near the line
ershaw and Sumter districts, in which the cause
ath Was stated by the officiating minister to have n,
want of food sufficient to sustain life The Ga p
Press says: e4 ~ " u
istrct THO anaat s..e aspect Vi lhiaSs IN poss
h pyritni putli