The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-11-13

Jobn G. Braine, charged with piracy and murder IN
capturing the steamer Chesapeake during 1ne Wal was
hrpnght nm before the Supreme Court at Brooklyn on
Saturday On motion to bail, Braine claims cominis
sion in the Confederate but has faeo 10
it. Case adjourned to v Wednesday X next. sor.n IN.
| NEW ORLEANS, November 4.-Ihere were seven ~
terments from yellow fever to-day and eleven yes1er
day General Mower in Order No lssu te and
amounting Cuthbert Butt in his stead, VT, bulits
having declined the appointment ,r
| R.IrIGH. n c., November 1.-The Republican coun-
ysntion is as follows Jas H. Harris (nigger j. z An
drews, Rev'd Mr.. Stokes, Franklin Benton anu - =
Williams. .o., IS Nran,her
The Governor has appointed the 2sth OF november
as day of Thanksgiving. -.
MOBILE, November 4.-1 CHOW IeVer ih'eiiie'i'o "
| the past "a hours, 10.
| RnFFAIo November 4.-Terrlble gale on the iahe'
several vessels blown ashore and much damage done
Two men were drowned from the bark Marsh.
| WASHINGTON, November 3-Revenue decision says
that the use of stills by chemists to produce acono
| shirts makes them liable distillers negouapie
promssory note made, signed, issued ana payaphe
broad may be negotiated by endorsement mere
stamns A guarantee endorsed upon an instrument,
whether at the time of making or subsequently, shou
be stamped as agreement but IN unslsnea lneh o.
randum, instrument OF partlai pay leh's enooi SOU 80
customary no stamp is required
The announcement that the retrenchment reforms IN,
augurated in the department by zen. Gran. WI.
amount to five millions of dollars per annum, mas AZ
tracted inquiry respecting the payments OF the treas
urv on account of the services of the war office from
the first of January last to the Goth u they are as
lows: Pay, s25555,o 900; Bounty, a
masters department, slo946,ooo; Miscellaneous $50
| ISL 900, making grand total OF 500 ool 900
Kellogg, the American painter, after thirty years az
sence in Europe has opened sud h;t mere vos
ed Yesterday morning this city by negro V1g-
lance committee. Those who made the arrest are now
in custody of military authorities.
| RIcuyoyD November Seen. Schofeld has issued
orders converting the State convention IN TINS Gay on
| the Sd December next. -.
iury was empanneed yesterday, after great trou-
ble IN Henry county Circuit Court for the trial OF Jas
Joters Phillips charged with the murder OF his wife at
Drinkhard's farm in February last
AuGUsrA GA, November 3.-From returns received
of it is estimated 900 votes were cast
on the question of convention, out OF lo6ooo register
ed The official only show majority IN favor
of convention. Opposition candidates only nominated
in Northern part State where whites are largely
in the majority In other portions the Conservatives
took part in the contest.
WAsHINGToN November Later returns si'o"
majority in New York of AZ, 900. >,
The Assembly is Democratic by s. Senate Repubi-
can by2.
Returns from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Massachusetts
and Kansas, show universal Democratic gains.
Gen. Emory who commands the ostflct oepaflihIh',
has forbidden parading, but endorses an order that
martial law longer exists IN the district, and don't
see by what authority he can dsarm and disband prl
vate military companies. THIS endorsement passed
There seems to be doubt that the statement that
Gen. Grant is in harmony with the Republican party as
set forth in the Press and Chronicle OF this morning. Is
made with Gen. Grants consent.
tits announced positively that Sir Edward Thornton
has been rendered the mnisershp, but has yet &C
cepted.
saving that Congress would never modify the
structon laws but would make them harder If the peo-
pie of the South did not behave bette he Is sorry
Presidency. Wade says let him come out like a man
and show his principles. He characerizes Stevens
coniscaton bills as unwlse
Thurow Weeds wing of Republicans have proclaim
ed for Grant.
This mornings Tribune, in article attributed to
Greedy strongly for Chase and deprecative of Grant,
saving: General Grant we esteem by
great man even as a very great general the war
being can no longer carry elections by reading
bulletins of Union victories and exhOrng the people
to rally round the flag Those who pushing Gen'l
Grant for President Will land just where the Wings did
with Scott in 1882 if they are allowed to have their
own way. They utterly mistake the time OF day.
The Agricultural Bureau report for October says pre-
sent indications places the cotton crop at two and
half millions; it will certainly exceed two million bales
The Louisiana sugar yield is estimated at 20 per cent.
over last year A decline in the tobacco crop Is indi-
Gated in the principal tobacco growing sections:
WASHINGTON, November 6.-New Jersey Legislature,
Senate, Republicans 10, Democrats ii House, Repub
icans Is Democrats so.
A dispatch from Havana reports the steamer Hen
drick Hudson wrecked near the Moro No lives lost.
The New York Times claims 20 Republicans and IL
Democrats in the Senate but acknowledges ma jority
of Democrats in the Assembly.
reliable letter from Lancaster says, Stevens was
worse but would arrive Saturday in special train
Later advices from ST. Thomas says fifty vessels were
ashore All the property of the royal mail steamship
company at St. Thomas destroyed. The steamer
Rhine with all on board was lost. The steamer Wye
lost, and but 40 persons saved, including Capt Taylor
and Mr.. Hodgison. The regular Southampton steamer
which had sailed with $50 passengers was lost and II
only saved.
NEW ORLEANS, November 7-R. King Cutler has or
ganised the Union party of Louisiana, which promul
gates the platform of universal suffrage universal
nesty universal education and opposition to contisca-
ton.
The New Orleans Times and the New Orleans Re-
o1,o offoi,J
rather singular association the two papers ater-
nally call each other turnkey Confederate" and " men,
dcaut loyalist" respectively Both to regard the
new party with suspicion and neither coveous of
the honor of being its official organ
All the coored schools in this city under the control
of the Freedmen's Bureau yesterday turned over
to the charge of the Board of Public School Directors
The transfer included teachers well as pupils the
School Board agreeing to retain all the eat who
prove themselves competent upon examination. The
furniture, books, and apparatus also turned
NEW DIRK, November L. Late advces from Mexico
state that revolution for the overthrow of the uarez
government is momentarily expected to break out.
THE ELECTION IN MExIco.-We copy the following
from the Standard City of Mexico of the 10th ut
The triumph of Juarez is even more complete than
the most sangulne anticipated OF the three hundred
and twenty electors, two hundred and forty-ve voted
for Juarez for President, and hundred and sixty
three for Lerdo for Vice President president of the
Supreme Court). In the evening of Monday when
the election took place, the popuace began to collect
in front OF the Presidents dwelling and by 9 o'clock
the crowd had increased much that the street was
one mass of human beings, swayng to and fro, each
man eager to get as possible the President
IN order to shout his congratulations. Nothing could
possibly demonstrate the extreme popularity of Juarez
more unequlvocaiy than the overwhelming majority
he carried off at the election, and the unbounded en-
thusasm of the people when the result OF the poll be-
came known. The cathedral bells pealed forth the
news to the inhabitants of the city and to the neigh
boring villages until past midnight.
From Vera Cruz, Oriz,ba, San Luis Potos Zacate-
'as, Queretaro, Toluca, Cordoba, San Juan del Rio
ma many other important localities information
las been received to the effect that the poll has re-
suited with large majorities in favor of Juarex
oIHo.-The official majority against negro suffrage
Ohio was 5o692. The increase in the vote is about
$1,000 over that of two years ago. The Conservatives
ain 10000 of that increase, and the Radicals 20 O0o
ELECTION IN NORTH CARoLINA.-The election for
1embers OF State convention will come off on the
9Th and 10th of this month, says Gen. Candy, and
e ought to know.
LIE EPIDEMIC IN NEW ORLEANs-On the 9th in the
}OarU of Of Nar 6.