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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15
Lease Of Shreveport Ferry
CONTROLLERS OFFICE, =,
Cry OF SHREVEPORT,
.Inna eth. 1867. [

june 9TH, 1867.
TNhe following ordinance was passed
L. this day, by the Mayor and
Trustees of the City of Shreveport
the parish of Bossier concurrino
through her legal representatives,
Messrs. j. A. Snider and James Ford
committee:
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Trustees Of the City Of Shreveport
in legal assembly convened, That
the ferry between the city Of Shreve.
port and Bossier Parish, with all the
rights and privileges belonging there.
to, be, on the 9Th day of July. AID,
1867, between the hours Of 10 and l2
O'Clock, let or leased to the highest
bidder, for the term Of seven years,
under the following conditions. to-wit:
The lessee shall use and run thu
"Don Louis until the 10th day q
February, A. D. 1861. at or before
which said time he shall provide and
have running new and completo
Steam Ferry Boat, of equal capacity
and tonnage to the said Don Louis,
and shall then deliver the said Don
Louis to the city of Shreveport and
the President of the Police Jury Of
the Parish of Bossier, in as good con-
dition as when he received her, wear
and tear excepted. The lease money
shall be paid in annual installments.
in accordance with an act of the Leg
islature in relation to the ferries across
Red River. at the city of Shreveport,
approved February, 28th, 1866, and
the lessee shall give security approved
by the Mayor and Trustees of the city
of Shreveport, and shall also give.
bond in the sum of five thousand DOL
lars for the faithful performance Of his,
contract, and shall comply with all or
dinances of the city of Shreveport, on
the subject of the ferry. .',tl,'
Be it further ordained, That the
said new ferry boat shall, ct the rexpi-
ration of the lease belong to the lessee !;
That this ordinance shall be publish
ed in the city official journal and in
the Bossier Banner, until the said 9th
day of July.
Be it further ordained, That during
the full term of this lease, the lessee
under the contract shall have exclusive
privilege of the ferry or ferries within
the corporate limits of the said city,
and that the contract or lease shall DO
drawn up and prepared under the SUI
pervision of the city attorney, and
that the city Controller be directed to
cry the same on said 9Th day of July.
Be it further ordained, That the
ordinance with reference to the said
ferry. passed on the goth day of May,
1867, be and is hereby repealed.
A true copy of the ordinance this
day passed. 81,
F. A. LEONARD.
Controller.
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- In Plymouth, North Caro-
lima, a negro by the name of Ash
is elected to a town office. Ash
says ne ''is a gwin to stop de mig
gers from totin guns and pistols
troo de streets; dey am too care
less how dey shoot dem off, and
dey might happen, 'cidently to
kill a niger instead of a white
man."
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a. Hon. 3. T. Perry. i

% Hon. B. F. Perry, in the
conclusion of letter to the Co.
lumbia Phoenix, thus explains his
past course:
II have been charged with in
consistency in going with my
State after she seeded. / can
only reply by saying that my no.
tions Of duty, honor and patriot
ism, differ widely, from those of
my accusers. 1t is true that | was
a Uniou man and did all that |
could to preserve the Union. For
80 years [ defended it, with my
pen, with my speech and with my
right arm. But when South Car
DINA seeded from that Union, |
said to Gov. Means, who desired
to know the course / intended to
take, ''That the State was going
to the devil, and | was going with
her." From that day to the end of
the war, [ was as jealous and ear
nest in her defence as any son she
had. | regarded it my duty, i'm
posed by honor and patriotism, to
aid 5000, 900 of my fellow citizens,
who had united wisely or unwise-
ly, in their attempt to establish
that sacred right of selfgovern-
ment proclaimed in the declara-
ton of independence. South Car
DINA was the land of my nativity,
the home of my family, kindred
and friends. In her bosom repos-
ed the bones Of my forefathers,
and | should have been a traitor
to her interests, honor and glory,
had | raised a paricidal arm
against my native State. A reb,
ell, reluctant and unwilling, l did
become. My father was one in rs.
But a trailer | never can be.n
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

- We are under many obi
cations to Mr.. Jas. A. Gresham,
bookseller and statiOner, 80 Camp
street, New Orleans, for a copy of
the Riverside Magazine" a beau
tiful publication especially gotten
up for the yOungpeOple, filed with
interesting and useful matter, and
handsomely illustrated. Its pub,
fishers, Messrs. Hurd & Hough,
ton, New York, are determined to
keep the "Riverside" up to its
high standard of excellence
Terms, per annum, 81 so.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

u Lysander Spooner has is
sued at Boston a pamphlet entitled
"No Treason" in which he main.
tains the proposition that the
South was not guilty of treason
under the Federal Constitution.
M. Spooner will be remembered
as the abolition law writer who
controverted the Garrisonion the
DRY that the Constitution was a
proslavery instrument. He is the
only legal writer whom Wendell
Phillips ever deemed worthy OF
his steel-for he is the only author
he ever replied to by a book.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

~ In consequence of high
water, &C., Mr.. J. B. Reddie, AS
sistant Assessor of Internal Reve
nue. taxes and licenses for this
parish, win not fulfil his appoint
ments for the various precincts il
Bossier, as published in our last
issue. The same are withdraw
until next Fall, when due notice
will be given. ..- - -----
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Masonic Notice.

A { q regular communication Of 80
"A BELLEVUE LODGE, No 95, S@S
F. and A. NJ, it was resolved that 80
this Lodge celebrate publicly, the 97s9wS
Anniversary of St. John the Baptist, on ths
Oath day of June, next.
The following committees were appointeds
viz:
On ArrGngements-J. L. Biggs, 5. n
Cade and d. N Mitchell.
On Inuitutions--T n. Fort, I. N. Brsden
and W. II. Scanland.
On, C0ntribmtions-E. r. Moore, w. y
Edwards, j. A. Snider, j r. Grifin and IL
c. Raspberry.
BY order of the w. NJ.
TN. BRADEE, Scc'y
Bellevue, La, May 18th, 1857,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

THE LAST RADICAL REQUIRE
MENT OF THE SoUTH.-The Radi-
cal Congressional COMMITTEE have
just issued an address to the
Southern people ON the policy of
Congress in reference to the restO-
ration of the Union. The military
and supplemental reconstruction
acts are given, after which follows
the address wherein an appeal is
made to the negroes for their
support for the Republican party.
1t urges the Southern people to
direct the establishment and main
tenance of a system of public
schools for the education of chill
dren of all classes. The owners
of large estates are then advised
to divide and subdivide their lands
to those who need them, and who
can improve them in the South.
The address says: "There is land
enough for all, and all who desire
should be permitted to obtain
homes" This, it maintains, is a
right that cannot be denied with
safety to the society, which is a
mild warning to the Southernland-
holders to divide with the negroes,
or else confscation will follow.
The address proceeds to say that
''certain conditions precedent are
laid down in laws. These must be
met; but beyond these conditions
Congress must be satisfied also
that the people Of the proposed
States, respectively, are, and are
likely to be, loyal to the Union by
decisiGe and trustworthy m90rities;
that their institutions are framed
upon the basis of equality and
that they will, from year to year,
and from age to age, contribute
to peace, progress, and prosperity
of the States and of the country"
By this it appears that the Repub-
lican party must receive "trust-
worthy majorities in these South
ern States if they hope to get into
the Union.- National Intellgen-
Ger.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15
Fruit of the Despotism Bill.

Governor Perry, of South Caro-
lima, in a late letter, thus advises
the people of the South as to their
duties under the Military Despot-
ism bill. He says:
"When the military order is is
sued for registration of voters,
let every man, not disfranchised
go forward and register his name.
When the election is ordered for
a convention, it will be the duty
of every voter to cast his vote for
the wisest, best~,and most trust
worthy men who are eligible to
seats in that convention. This
much he is forced to do for self pro
lection, and to keep the State Gov
eminent from falling into the
hands of unworthy and base men.
He need go no further. Let him
then indorse ON his ticket, "NO
Convention If he is a patriot
and honorable man he cannot de-
sire the change which the Military
Bill cOntemplates, and he should
not vote a lie!
With the cunning which always
characterizes the tyrant, Congress
has enacted that the people them
selves shall indOrse the call of a
convention, in order to give legal
validity to it's acts. Without this
Endorsement the whole proceeding
might be regarded as forced ON
the States by the military govern
ment, and therefore null and void.
Hence the trick of making the
people indorse the call of a con-
vention. It is to be hoped that
they will not be caught by this
cunning device, and that they may
be able to influence the freedmen
to act with them. But should a
majority of the votes be for a con-
vention, then it is to assemble,
and not otherwise. When it as,
sembles, the honor and destiny OF
the State will be in it's keeping"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

70 The death of one person
from the pork disease, in Spring
field, has caused the people there
to abandon pork pretty generally.
A dozen deaths from rum wouldn't
frighten them half so much, nor
damage the trade in the least.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

u eve shall know what are
neeessaries of life,' said a country
stOre-keeper during a severe
storm, "as no one will venture
forth to-day except to procure
them" In the evening he found
that most of his sales were yellow
snuff and New England rum.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

70 Itisstated that Virus heart
is kept in a bottle in the Old Cap
itol Prison. Boston Post.
The hearts ofthe perjured fiends
who murdered Wirz, will be kept
in a worse place than a bottle,
when their damnable accounts of
villany are rendered up on the
all-avenging day to come, "when
there shall be heard wailing and
crashing of teeth"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15
-,~g BELLEVUE, La,
saturday,;:: ;;::::'';;::;June Is, 1867

- Owing to the high water
between this place and Shreve-
port, His Honor, Judge Weems,
was unable to reach our villige F;
In consequence of which the reg
ular Probate term of our Court in
course was not held during the
past week.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

70 In certain portions of Texas,
some farms yield from one hun.
dred and fifty to three hundred
bushels of sweet potatoes, of excel
lent quality, to the acre.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

u A traveller stopped at an
inn in a neighboring village, and,
finding the landlord and landlady
fighting, cried out, "Halloo, who
keeps this house 81 The wife ne
piled, "that's just what we are try
ing to. decide.n- Exchange.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15
Masonic Celebration.

BELLEVUE LODGE. No. 95, F\ a
D and A. NJ, will celebrate the ap NJ
preaching Anniversary of St John -
the Baptist, june oath, 1867, with the
usual Masonic Ceremonies. An Address
will be delivered by Bro. j. A. Snider.
All Brothers in good standing, and the
public generally, are invited to attend.
TH0S. NJ. FORT,
THOS. N. BRADEN,
w. I'll. SCANLAND,
Committee of Invitation
Bellevue, La, May 18th, 1857.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

% Florida produces lemons
that weigh over pound, and are
twelve inches in circumference.
They are obtained by a cross be.
tween the common lemon and the
sour orange.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

70 The Columbus (Ga.) Sun
speaks of a white Massachusetts
school-marm whirled around in
the giddy mazes of the voluptu
GUS waltz, closely embraced in the
arms of a colored citizen. Why
not, if she liked it?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

v Mr.. J. B. Lewis, Jr., continues
to hold forth at No. 8, Texas street,
Shreveport. He has always on hand q
large assortment of Boots, Shoes, Hats,
&c., which he will sell at New Orleans
prices. 2
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

- Goodness mew cried an
old lady the other day eff the
world does come to a bend next
year what shall I do for snuff?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

% The editor of the Alabama
Argus shows himself jolly under
what other people might consider
serious circumstances:
awe see that the sheriff, during
our absence, has advertised the
Argus for sale. We hope the
bidders will have a merry time OF
it. IL the sheriff can sell it he can
do more than we could. Like a
damp percussion cap, we think il
will fail to go off"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

% The Mississippi Index of
the 2Sth says: An extraordinary
marriage recently took place in
Oktibbeha, the young bride being
sixty-two years of age and the
bridegroom something over nine
ty.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

~ China's enormous popula-
ton of 100000, and it's area OF
4,OSS,O0O square miles, all habita-
BILE, seem completely to dwarf all
rivals. It is curious reflection
that if any one man of the militia,
ry genius Of Gengis Khan OF
Tamerlane, or Alexander or Ma,
poleon, should arise in China to
reorganize and discipline her
countless hosts, he might march
his swarming legions with perfect
impunity over all Europe.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

u During the present week,
up to our going to press, we have
had no mail. We are water-bound
cut off from the true source of
light andnewspapers. Where are
you, Mason? Give us the news.
'Tell it not in Gath nor publish
it in the streets of Askelon:" we
have exhausted the last copies of
James Almanac and Estes Mon
thly, and the craft are clamorous
for "more copyp In the names of
justice, mercy and-fractional cur
reney, where is that precious liter
airy gem and political landmark,
the aforesaid 'sMonthly 90 Break
tito US gently-"oh sing to me, .
&c. m.
7IfF SD AE#f- t3Ea
How have j. Madison and the
Barnburner made it? Bully for
both.-When rogues, sc. Does
Tiny wife, still write for tiny pa.
per-" on Market street 7 In short,
send us the telegraph "by MAIL"
or Capt. Frank Seth's Declaration
of Independence, and charge the
same to account of the next emil
itary commission or "any other
man. In the meantime, hurrah
for t'the ragiR canal"
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Married :

On the 18th instant, at the residence
of the brides father, in this place, by
the Rev. Mr.. Tolbert. Mr.. JOHN G,
HEAD to Miss NOBLE KELLY.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

20 A NewYork correspondent
in a Louisville paper says 'the
steamers from New Orleans,
Charleston and Savannah, within
the past fortnight, have actually
been bringing back many thou
sands of dollars worth of dry
goods and other merchandise
which were sold by the Stewards
and Claf1ins last autumn ON six
months credit, the purchasers be,
ing utterly unable to raise even a
part of the money to pay for Them
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Notice.

nuring my absence from the State
~ Mr.. S. LEVY, Jr., is my duly
authorized agent. --
L. BODENHEIMER.
Shreveport, La. NIL
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Fresh Gleanings.

Gov. Wise is going to New
York to practice law.
- Suicides are so frequent in
st. Louis asto attract no attention.
There were 80 suicides in
Connecticut last year. ..<s
-Ossian E. Dodge ismarried.
Now for the little lodges.
- The salary of the President
of Jamaica is $4,000 in gold a
year.
-Memphis has a ''Temple of
Virtue" but it is tenanted by the
worst of characters.
Connecticut is to have an
industrial school for girls. Good
idea, that.
- A lawyer in Erie wrote a
client that "a justice who died
some time agOis still dead"
"A Radical paper says ''it is
hardly generous to demand con-
sistency in a political party"
The editor of a Galveston
paper asks, with tears in his eyes,
s'When will this cruel war be over"
Houston had on jury in the
Circuit Court eleven negroes and
one white man.
- Mr.. Greedy refused the post
master generalship because he
could not support the presidential
policy.
- A Vermont wife celebrated
the tenth anniversary of her wed
ding by clipping with herhusband's
E'tin.n
- The Viceroy of Egypt is the
richest man in the world. He
owns a fourth of the entire soil OF
the country.
A Cambridge schoolmis.
tress tried to knock down the
wall of a room with a boys head
but was not successful.
- Seventeen millions out OF
the twenty-three millions of the
Italian population are unable to
read and write.
- The Massachusetts Legis
lature has been in session sixteen
weeks. and nothing but an epidem
ic will hurry it to close.
Wendell Phillips says
''The best education in the world
is got by struggling to get a liv'
ing"
Gen. Custar's recent caval
~ raids against the Indians are
compared to hunting wild ducks
with a brass band.
A Republican paper in
Wisconsin says that party has
"gone mad on humbug" and Cad
heres consistly to nothing"
"A paper of that city de
scribes San Antonio as at present
''margined by fruits of gold and
whispering turtle"
| An exchange says a young
lady out west, has been asleep l.
years. Marriage would open hel
eyes.
THE Hartford (Ct.) Courant
speaks of ''the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenge" We suppose
it is some U. S. Office to be SEM
"down South" amongus heathens
- Brick Pomeroy has settled
Grants case by calling him the
greatest humbug thrown to the
surface of the seething cauldrO1
of civil war.
- A Memphis paper says ;
number of ladies in that cit!
smear their faces with ungents
Roman like, to force the growth
of a beard.
- Thad. Stevens is urged t.
take out a patent on the invention
of "mild cOnfiscationn as a swee
circumlocution of the greatest in
: fanny ever designed.
- A "delectable cuss" il
Georgia is making speeches il
which he promises forty acres o
land to every negro who votes TO
him.
The ladies promise that
: they are allowed to vote they will
elect their candidates by 'hand
some" majorities, says the Bostol
Post.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-06-15

~ Onthe first and fourth pages
of to-day's issue, will be found the
proceedings of the Police Jury of
this parish. The most important
act passed by this body, at it's late
session, was an act introduced by
Col. j. w. Rabb, relative to the
duties of road overseers. We sin
cereiy trust that every road over
seer in the parish, will be held to
a strict accountability ofhis stew
ardship in this connection. Here
tofore, our Police Jury has merely
gone through the ridiculous farce
OF appointing road Overseers and
apportioning their respective .iur-
isdictions and hands to work the
same, and here the matter ends.
AS a natural consequence, the
roads are almost impossible, with
bridges down, yawning gullies and
ravines, boys, quagmires, &c. II
the Police Jury Of Bossier let out
her ferries and tolL-bridges for a
revenue to the parish, forcing an
almost onerous tax upon her citi.
zens, as well as travellers passing
through her territory, it is duty
obligatory upon the members OF
this body TO see that the roads
over which those thus taxed have
to pass, are, if not in a well-con.
ditioned state, at least passable.
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- a memphis paper says a
number of ladies in that city
smear their faces with ungents,
Roman like, to force the growth
of a beard.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-08

Burrs AoAN.-The individual known
TO the police as G. Adams or Joe Butts,
who was arrested a few days since and
paraded through the principal streets
with label on his breast and back
stating that he was q "pickpOeket and
thief" putin an appearance atthe Police
Court this morning He was released
from duty on the changing the other
day by some person paying his fine, and
when arrested on Saturday evening on
charge Of vagrsucy put up forfeit OF
one hundred dollars. He had one OF
the leading lawyers of Memphis to de.
fend him this morning, but was fined
twenty-five dollars for yagrancy, OF
course, he appealed. 1t is said that he
has some strong friends in the city who
intend to aid him in fighting the Police
Commissioners.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-08
M EDIcAL.
Something New Under the Sun.
A New Era in Medicine.

r EFT THE SUFFERING AND DISEASED
IL read the following:
Let all who have been given up by Doctors,
and spoken Of as incurable, read the following:
Let an who can believe facts, and can have
faith In evidence. read the following:
Knoio all Men 6v these Presents, That on this
the twentieth day Of June. in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
personally came Joseph Haydock to me- known
as such, and being duly sworn. deposea as fol-
lows That he is the sole general agent for the
United State and dependencies thereof, for pre-
PILLS and SALVE. and that the following
certificates are verbatum copies 10 the bost Of
his knowledge and belief.
lL.S.l JAMES SMEITRE, Notary Public.
Wall Street. New York.
Dr.. MAGaIEL: I take my pen to write Won Of
my great relief. and that the awful pain in my
side has left me az last-thanks to your medicine.
Oh. doctor. how thankful 1 am that can get
some sleep. ! can never write 1t enough. |
thank you again and again, and am sure you
are really the friend Of all sufferers. / could
not help writing to you. and hope you will not
take II amiss. JAMES MYERS,
June i, 1865. 1l6 Avenue d.
This Is to certify that was discharged from
the army with Chronic Diarrhea, and have
WILSON HARVEY.
New York. April 7. 1855. "a Pitt Street.
The flIowing is an interesting case of man
employed in an Iron Foundry. who. in pouring
melted iron into a flask that was damp and wet
caused an explosion. The melted iron was
thrown around and on him in perfect shower,
and he was burnt dreadfully. The following
certificate was given TO me by him about eigh
weeks after the accident:
NEW YORK, Jan. IL, 1886.
My name is ] Jacob Hardy; 1 am an iron foun-
der; was badly burnt by hot iron in November
last; my burns healed but had running sore
on my leg that would not heal; tried Maggiel's
Salve, and it cured me in a few weeks. This is
all true. and any body can now see me at Jack
sons Iron Works. Second Avenue.
JEARDY