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TRANSPORTATION OF CoTToN.-Thc Assessor of In
ternal Revenue has ordered that the provisions of the
following section Of the regulations governing the
cotton trade be rigidy enforced, and threatens with
the most rigid punishment of the law all violations
thereof:
All persons engaged in producing or dealing in cot
ton, or IN the transportation Of the same will specially
note that section Of the of July S66 renders
it unlawful, from and after the lst dav of September
1866, for the owner, master, supercargo agent Or
other person having charge OF any vessel or for any
railroad or other transportation company for any
common carrier or other person. to convey attempt
to convey or transport cotton the growth or pro-
ducc of the United States from any point in the dis
trct in which it shall have been produced unless each
bale or package thereof shall have attached to or ac-
companying it the proper marks or evidence Of the
payment OF the revenue tax, and permit of the col
lector for such removal the permit of the assessor
as herelnbetore provided to convey or transport
any cotton from any State in which cotton is pro-
duced to any port place i'll the United States without
the certificate of the collector of internal revenue of
the district from which it was brought that the tax
has been paid thereon the permit of the assessor
as hereinbetore provided; and such certificate and
evidence must be furnished to the collector of the
district to which it is transported and his permit OBJ
tanned before landing, dischargng, or delivering such
cotton at the place to which it is transported. ANY
person who violates these provisions, who CONVEYS
or attempts to convey from any State in which cotton
is produced to any port place without the United
States any cotton upon which the tax has not been
paid is liable to penalty of one hundred dollars for
each bale OF cotton conveyed transported or at
tempted to be conveyed transported, or to mpris
onmeHttor not more than one year, or both and all
vessels and vehicles employed in such conveyance or
transportation liable to seizure and forfeiture BY
proceedings in any court of the United States having
competent jurisdiction. Aud all cotton so shipped,
ATTEMPTED or trap rtnI
payment of the tax, Or the execution of Transportation
bonds may be forfeited to the United States.
Assessors and collectors strictly enoined to rig
idly enforce the provisions of this section
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PERSISTENT TO TIE LAsT.-The New Orleans papers
OF the 26th ult. notice the presence in that city OF
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines who had returned to prose
cute her claims TO the Of her father The Crcs
cent in noticing her arrival says the remarkable his.
tory of this lady, and of the litigation which she has
prosecuted with such wonderful perseverance and hero
ISM form most interesting chapter in the history of
State and of our jurisprudence. 1t is now over
thirty years since Mrs Gaines, then Mrs. Whitney,
commenced her proceedings in the courts to assert
her claims heir to the large estate once held by
Daniel Clark. Without intermisson or any falterins
despairing through nnumcrahle difficulties, embar-
and defeats she has continued to the pres
ent hour the same hopeful, energetic indomitable
claimant she nearly forty years ago. when she first
learned the secret Of her birth and early history The
judicial proceedings in her case, if collected together,
would form series Of volumes large and numerous
the Encyclopedia Americana.
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Thefolowing is Thad. Stevens political programme
Confscation of the landed property of every rebel
worth more than FIVE thousand dollars; enforcement
of negro suffrage upon the Northern States by Con-
gressional legislation and scheme which would work
very nearly like reputation, though Genying the name
The Illinois Stats Zeiug, the leading Radical Ger
man paper in the country speaking Of Mr.. Stevens
programme, thinks, if the Radicals should swallow it.
there will not six months hence be left any more Of
the Republican party than there Of Mr.. Lncon's
dog, which had a petard with lighted slow match
attached introduced into his stomach.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

The wife of the famous Ned Buntne died a few
days ago in poorhouse at Nashville Tennessee She
was Cuban, named MaFiah Cordova, of exceeding
beauty in her younger days, and had led life Of
strange adventure; first cigar girl in New Orleans,
McCuloch, the Texan ranger, resident of Mexican
convent for ten years. and then downward course
which ended in poverty and pauper's death.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

The New York World, in a recent article, thus ind
Gates the programme OF the Northern Democrats in
regard to the Southern States:
The fact that negro governments are in process of
organisation and that Congress may admit their rep
resenatres does not vary the except to render
degrading farce more contemplate. Certain it is that
these bastard governments have the slightest valid
ity Within four months after the Presidential cleo
ton heavy battering will tumble them into
shapeless rubbish. The Southern people will imme-
dateiv reorganiSe, hold elections GUST the ne
groes send their own Representatives Washington
and the House will at admit them The Southern
Senators, plus the Conservative Senators from the
North, will form majority of that body organise as
SUCH and neither the House nor the President will
recognise any other Senate. This course is entirely
feasible will he perfectly constitutional and beyond
question adopted if the Radicals are insane or way-
ward enough to recognise the negro governments after
this The only thing that could prevent
i would be aequescence by Southern whites in the |
4adIcai scheme Whoever expects that is better en-
titied to a straisht.iaeket than refutaton.
Inc weather, at midnight last night, was almost as
Aarm as summer. We have winter time, but summer
Saalher. December has .a,,,a n, IA,
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Messrs. Hope Smith request us to state that their
new block of brick buildings Milan street, will be
ready for tenants by the ls proximo There are four
large and roomy storcrooms the basement and
eight large and comfortable rooms in the second story,
suitahlc for Offices
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

GEN. GRANr,-The National 1utelligenccr has au-
thorty for the statement that Gen. Grant has empha-
icaly declared that Forneys publication was wholly
unauthorized by him, and that no man, nor set Of
men, had any authority, direct indirect, to speak
for him, in his to proclaim his sentiments Or
int
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

HOWARD ACKNOWLEDGEMENT thanks to the kind Civ
cr we acknowledge the receipt of $50 from Mrs. NJ
j. Nichols of TarrytoWn, N. Y.
R. s. TR3ppETr, President.
Chas. II. Spilker, Secretary.
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November 80 John Wilson; II. F. Beckman.
December 2. Andrew kimble.
During the week one negro man, one negro woman
and one negro child were buried.
From the best information that we can gather there
are Int few cases Of yellow fever under treatment
all Of whom are doing well. The cases reported
were confined entirely to persons WHO have been here
during tue past epidemic. We say, again, to our alb
sentees, home, for we think there is danger
Of their taking the yellow fever any othor disease
poverty excepted We think majority of our me di-
cal gentlemen will bear in the above assertion.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

GAEDEN SEEps.-By glance at our advertising col
umns, it will be seen that Measrs. Morris & Carlisle
Hyams & Kennedy and White & Co. in receipt OF
full assortment of garden seed, of the growth of
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

1t said to be alleged by old trappers and hunter.
mat the indians, who have lately signed treaties VIZ
the government, did 50 to gain time for camPai =
early N the spring The red man is not prepared y
war N the winter. H will be ready to fight again u
the summer
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

GRANTS FR1ENns.-Forney the proprietor Of my
two papers, both dailies," gives the following named
Radicals as favoring Grants nomination for President
Wade, Holt, Kelly Schenck, Logan and Grow.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

REGISTRATION IN TExAs.-Thc Galveston Bulletin
estimates the total registration in Texas at 100 $50 of
which "a 900 white snd &C 900 are BLACK
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

" HEEE's Your MuLE!"-Wc are pleased to see
busy life and animation on our streets, after the long
lethargy during the late epidemic. On Texas street,
and especially at the store of J. B. Lewis, Jr the
boot and shoe man. customers passing at all hours
Of the day, for his stock is very large gotten up
the river when treghts low, and he is anxious to
sell.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

HEALTH NEW ORLEANs.-Thc New Orleans pa
pers report the deaths in that city for the week end
ing on Sunday the 2tth at 255-cigthy nine from
cholera, seventeen from yellow fever, and one hun
drcd and forty-nine from other diseases.
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ticc in another column that they are in receipt of a
full and well assorted stock Of dry goods and groce-
rics. qhi3 is one of our first class jobbng houses,
and the simple announcement that they in receipt
of their fall and winter stock is all that is required at
}tr
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

We are indebted to Mr.. Julius A. Jacobs a member
of the wcll-known firm Of f. & B. Jacobs, Of this
city, for a file Of late papers.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

While walking along Texas street, one day this week
were highly amused at countryman, who seemed
to be very angry Mr. Saddles the revenue man. fol
selling his cotton for nou-payment of taxes. We re-
lcrred him to tie bills, which proved to-be one OF
Col IIavens saddle advertisements that had been
teriousy pasted bis wagon After reading it, he
drew breath of relief and no doubt went homo the
happy owner of one of the Colonels best saddles
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

MoRTUARY.-Thc following is a list Of inserments in
the Shreveport Cemetery, for the past week, as re-
,7nrtr1 Inv the sexton:
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SHREV EPORI:

WEDNESDAY .,........... DECEMBER 4, 1867
Tuos McIxrrRE, Of New Orleans, is our only duly
authorized agent to receive subscriptions and adver
tisements in that city
Mr. Jonx c. LOVE, Minden, La is duly authorized to
receipt for subscriptions.
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..-. Congressional.
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@WAS1ifNGToN, December d eRdte-The rnemOria
Of the Alabama convention for the repeal of the cot
| ton tax referred.
| Resolution Of the Tennessee legislature for the re-
peal Of the cotton and tobacco tax were presented
| Twelve o'clock arriving, the commencement of the
| second session announced aud IL committee an
pointed to inform the President.
Resolution offered, asking the Secretary of the Treas
ury under what law Edward Cooper occupies the posi-
! ton of assistant secretary.
| Other unimportant business, and adjourned.
Within the session, chairman of the Judiciary COM
mttee made a personal explanation in defense of
Churchill, concluding the minority cannot and do not
attribute his change of opinion to improper motives or
| pecunary considerations The judiciary committee
instructed inquire whether the House had the
right to accept or reject terms of treaty like that ac-
curing Russian America.
| Various petitions resolutions, &c, requesting the
repeal of the cotton tax referred to the Commit
tee on Ways aud Means
NonSe.-Arnell, of Tennessee denied giving aid and
comfort to the rebellion. Postofficc Scommittee was
directed to inquire into the expedency of all way rail
road companies carry letters referring to their own
business, outside the mails.
The Judiciary Committee was directed to iuuuire
into the expectancy of holding annual session of the
admiralty court at New Albany Indiana
Resolution adopted ordering the Committee on Elec
ton to pursue the investigation of the case of VIM.
Barnum charged with securing bis election BY bribery
Twelve O'Clock arriving, second session was pro-
claimed, l46 members present. and committee an
pointed to inform the President The committee sub
sequently reported the President would communicate
hisTmessage at noon Tomorrow
Election Committee reported avorably On Goaday.
from Kentucky. Consideration of the report post
pOned to Wednesday. Adjourned
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

The weather, at midnight last night was almost as
aasn a. summer. We have winter time, but summer
E@ather. December las come III lse ! i,mh -
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Miscellaneous.


| WASHINGTON, November Sore, enue to-day s535
600; for the week s. 49, 0GO for the year S85 1920
| COO National Bank circulation S299,44l 900.
| Reading of the Presidents Message will occupy tw,
| hours.
The Ways and Means Committee will report a bill
preventing contraction and prescribing the time ant
| manner of selling surplus gold.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is investigating
the loyalty of Senator Thomas from Maryland.
Receipts from customs from the 18th to the 23d
81, $4,000.
Mr.. Davis remains several days at Barnum's Hotel
Baltimore.
Lieut.. Sherry and forty soldiers were attacked at
Plum Greek. Two men were killed, and six wagons
and twenty thousand dollars worth of goods taken.
Fourteen Indians off seventy head of stock from
Fort Laramie.
The debt statement will be issued about December
9TH and will show slight increase of debt.
l1erenue Decisi0n.-W hen cotton is exported it
must be clearly identified as the same cotton for which
permit is obtained. A permit does not, under any
circumstances authorize the export of all equal num-
Der of bales Or pounds Of other cotton A permit to
remove cotton, showing payment of tax, is sufficient
to authorize exportation. Tax on cotton removed
from the producing district will be collected from the
cotton itself, matter in whose possession found.
Cotton intended for manufacture in the district where
produced cannot be taxed until manufactured Every
person, firm corporation manufacturing cotton for
any purpose in the district where the cotton is pro-
luced, must make return and pay the tax.
RICHMOND Va, November 30-The United States
Circuit Court will adjourn Monday until the adjourn
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-12-04

Lieut.. Col. VIM. Il. Wood First United States Tn.
iantry WILL without unnecessary delay, relieve tenn.
porary brevet Major General JOS. 4. Mover Col
Ssh United States Infantry, from duty as Commander
u e Dls'pc1 or Louisiana embracing the State of
LOUISIANA Il ana the posts of Marshall and Jefferson
Texas, and Ship Island, Mississippi. Lieut. Colonel
Mooa VIII also relieve Gen. Mower temporarily from
DUTY as Commissioner of the Bureau of Refnoaas
freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the State Of Ion
lsana Upon being relieved from duty as above re.
duiea, orevet MAJ Cen Mower will proceed to Join
OF his regiment, which viii be estab
lished at Greenvile, Louisiana. o'''o-
By command Of Maj. Gen. w S. Hancock
W =. MITCHELL, Ado, AA.A. Gen.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-09-20
NOTICE.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that
IN Gen. N. L. Jeffreys has appointed
DR.. w. w. Virdin Examining Surgeon
for Hartford county, and all persons claim
ing exemption from Militia Duty on 40.
count of physical disability, are hereby
required to appear before the examining
surgeon, at the usual places of holding
elections, for the purpose of being exam
ined by him, between the hours of 10
o'clock, A. NJ, and 4 P. NJ.
At Havre de Grace, on MONDAY, the
23d inst.
At Halls X Roads, On TUESDAY, the
Oath inst.
At Abingdon, on WEDNESDAY, the
25th inst.
At Bel Air, on THURSDAY, the
26th inst.
AT Jarrettsvillc, on FRIDAY, the
9th inst.
At Dublin, on SATURDAY, the
28th inst.
HENRY RICHARDSON,
Chief Enrolling Officer
sept2O for Hartford Co.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-09-20

TIDE WATER CANAL The repairs on tho Tide
Water Canal are nearly completed and boats
are running briskly again. For the week end
ing on the 18th inst, there were unloaded at
from the outlet lock, AZ boats, as follows: To
Baltimore, 81 boats, with coal, lumber, ice &c.
to Philadelphia and Delaware city, 10 boats,
with coal, lumber and bark, and to Spesutia
Island, boat, loaded with coal. The number
of arrivals for the week, was Sc, and the de-
partures, 4s boats. OF the boats unloaded at
Havre de Grace, all of which were loaded with
coal, were discharged at the wharf of John L.
Williams, at the wharf of Joseph NJ Simmons,
and at the wharf of Boyd and Hills.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-09-20
For The .Hyis C htelligencer
The "Tonawanda,"

This mammoth iron-clad is certainly monument to
the triumph Of mechanical genius, and present the
most powerful engine OF warfare i'll the world She
uoupieturfeed MONITOR mounting four Dahlgren l5inch
guns, each dscharging solid shot weighing $50 pounds
or shell weighing AGO bs 100 four-ounce canister
These tremendous pieces mounted in two revolving
tres each weighing $50 TONS surmouned by pilot ho,-
Sos containing the steering apparatus The turrets are
inches thick, of the first quality wrought iron firmly
boiled with threench rivets The pilot houses arc IA
inches thick, surmounted with four-inch bands The
whole revolving on iron piyots resting the central
kelson. Her hull is $50 feet in length BY 6S in width
her sides six feet inches thick of solid iye-oak
mbols caulked and firmly boted together enclosed by
inches OF dagoEay placed wrought IRON and 6inchcs
OF iron plates Her decks are supported by natural live
oak knees, and tmbers 14x12 inches Her decks arc
inches of plate iron and four inches of oak.
When at sea her matches closed by brass lids con-
tanning each 100 convex lenses besides loo sxnch lenses
IN her decks In battle these covered by the usual
thickness OF iron, fastened from below These lenses
gifo ample light even when she is 10 feet under
water Her bows 10 feet thick of iron braced
with heavy tmber making her capable of strkinga ter
nble blow on enemy.
She has two tubular boilers, containing 80 900 tubes
anu sixteen furnaces, supplying steam to sixteen
engines
Her propellng engines gorgeous specimens of me-
chanc skill and power, easily propelling her ten knots
or twelve geographical miles per hour In action she
completely closed in air-tight above and below with
the sole exception of the ventiator and smoke stack
All the atmospheric air is drawn down through the ven
ator ana distributed through the ship and then pass
Is through the furnaces and up through the smokesack
Nhle IN action the crew lar comfortable than
when lying idle No human being exposed to the least
DANGER but still dealing death and destruction in every
drectlon Hundreds of shot may strike her but no one
can be harmed; thousand armed men may board her
put one jet OF boiling water from her turres will clear
her decks.
This is the perfect incarnation of the idea that Seen
traliZation is power" g.
ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 1867.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-09-20

MARYLAND FARMER.-The September number
of this popular Monthly is received. 1t contains
Ga large double column octave pages, neatly
printed, and is devoted to Agriculture, Horti-
culture, Live Stock and Rural Affairs generally.
Among its articles, original and selected, are,
"Top-dressing with Manure vs. Plonghing Un-
der''-"Farm Work for the Month''-"Cultiva-
ton of wheat'-"Spurry Agan"-"Good Eff
fects of Drought" Exhaustion of Soils"-"On
the use of Phosphate Guano'-sPeat and
of Bones'-Cotton Cater
pillar how to kilp'-"IIints to Hog Growers'-
"Butter Making" &C., &c. 1t is embellshed
with "Double Shovel Plough" Seed
Planter:'-''Patent Drain Plough''- "Ncanor
awberry"-"Dough Kneader" --'Patent
Well FIXTURE" &c. Published by S. Sands Mills
& Co., Baltimore, at the low price of $l.5O per
annum.
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MO CURE-ALL-

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of certificates be at the depot Sc Cortandt ST.
No family having children should be without il in case
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-09-20
The Reaction,

From the returns of the late elections it is fair
to presume that the reaction has set in, in dead
earnest, and rs revolutions never travel back
wards we may rest satisfied that no great while
will eapse before the great Democratic party will
be again in the majority in this country. From
the East and the far West the news is equally
cheering to the true and sincere Democrat. Con-
necticut opened the ball, and for the first
time for number of years her gallant Democra-
cy triumphed. This was declared at the time to
he of no consequence, and the Republicans at
trbuted their defeat to mistakes Of their own, and
therefore there was no significance in the result.
But Kentucky soon told how far this was true.
Even Vermont, from whom nothing was expect
ed by her diminished Republican majority, has
declared that Democratic truths must prevail
over Republican error. In Maine, the Republic
can majority has been reduced from $1,000 in
1866, to less than 5000 in 1867. Here every
man who was opposed to negro equality Joined the
Democracy, and we agree with the New York
Herald in the opinion that if the election had been
one month later the State of Maine would have
gone Democratic. The Territory of Montana has
put her seal of condemnation upon Republican,
ism, in the election of her delegate to Congress,
and by her overwhelming Democratic majority
in the Territorial Legislature. The Golden
% he 5 Pss 3 hR WFsSspSS@ds Id
shackles of Republcanism. She has a Demo-
cratic Governor by about 5000 majority, a
Democratic Legislature, and will therefore have
two Democratic United States Senators in Con-
gress. The vote of 'the Golden State means
nothing else than verdict of condemnation by
the white freemen of the Pacific shore against
black republican rule" The signs of the times
Enthusiastically point to the downfall of Re-
publican rule in this country. We say, there
fore, be encouraged, let vigilance, unity and ac-
tivity mark your every exertion, and the day is
near at hand when the country will be redeemed
from the misrule of the fanatical, tyranncal and
bigoted party, whose continuance in power is the
sure destruction of American liberty.