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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05
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~ Thelast number of the Mon
roe Telegraph has been received,
and filed away for future-re-
ueHgei We are not "Whipped,n
but simply 'overpowered,n friend
MeCranie. In the meantime, if
no act of reconstruction" pass.
ed, we shall valiantly anurse our
wrath to keep it warm y until the
day Of retribution arrives.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

- The New York Nation says:
''Admit once that a President
may be impeached simply, because
Congress does not like the admin
istration, or, in fact, impeaehed
atall, except in the last extremity,
and you alter the whole character
of the Government, and make
impeachment a regular party
measure whenever the majority
in Congress changes during the
Presidential term.n sgs
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

DEMORE sT's ILLUSTRATED
MONTHLY.-The October number
of this favorite parlor periodical
comes to us as rich as ever, in that
peculiar array of attractions which
render it so welcome in the family
circle. Subscription price, So.
Address, W. Jennings Demorest;
473 Broadway, New York.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

y We observe that long es.
tablished hardware house, Slo.
cumb, Baldwin & Co., of New Or
leans, have added a general Dry
Goods Department to their bust
ness A lifetime experience in
Hardware, of Capt. Slocumb, and
in Dry Goods, ofMr. Baldwin, to-
gether with their reputation for
selling goods at New York prices,
and their business probity, enti-
tie them to the patronage of Lou.
isiana merchants.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

e The gross number of white
males in the Southern States is
2,l3S, 1863; that of the freedmen is
1,299,941. 1t will be seen, there
fore, that the white race is in ex-
cess of the negroes in the South
ern States more than quarter of
a million of men. Z
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

.
10 J. B. Lewis, Jr., although
not being able to qualify as a mem
Der of the Board of Trustees of
Shreveport, as per General Orders
No. 12O, is fully able and compe-
tent to fill all orders for every de-
scription of Boots, Shoes, &C.,
having recently received andopen-
ed a very large and varied assert
ment, manufactured expressly for
this market, which he is offering
at as low prices as they can be
purchased in New Orleans
[South- Western.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

~ The Mobile Tribune rela.ss
an instance which happened on
the 18th in that city, which shows.
aninsufferable condition OF afairs
A lady called a negro drayman %,
black rascal, }" who, through care.
lessness, was near running over
her child, whereupon she was
seized by two negro policemen
and absolutely dragged to The
police Office, where the charpe
against her was that ofE'disOrder.
ly conduct" The foolish old man
who is the military mayor Of Mo.
bile, fined the lady, q highly re- 4 !
spectacle person, ten dollars.
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Latest News.
From the South Western.l


St.Louis, Sept. 3O.-Gen. Stir
ling Price died here yesterday
morning of a disease contracted
during the Mexican war.
New Orleans, Sept. 3O.-Inter-
ments from yellow fever for the
"a hours to 6 o'clock Sunday morn
ing, 81; to 6 this morning, g.
New Orleans, Oct. 1.-Percepti-
BILE abatement of yellow fever
Intermehts to 6 o'clock this morn
ing 60. -
Richmond, Oct. Heavy frost
here last night.
Keene, N. A., Sept. 30.-Three
inches snow.
Richmond, Sept. 3O.-Registra-
ton for final revision will be open
ed by order ON the Sth October.
Savannah, Sept. 30.-One Brad
ley Johnson, of Boston, who has
been several times arrested by the
military and civil authorities for
swindling negroes and exciting
disturbances, had a gathering
here of some one thousand ne
groes, mostly from the country,
to-day. In the course of his har-
angue against white men and in
favor of distributing of lands, the
conservative negroes interrupted
him, when a melee occurred. A
large force of the police charged
through the crowd. The military
came to their aid, and together
they cleared the square. Muskets,
brought in by large bands of
country negroes, were taken by
the police and turned over SO the
military. A large proportion of
the colored people disapprove of
Bradley, and threaten to assassi-
nate him. The entenente cordiale
between the city government and
the military affords great salts
faction to all except the ignorant
adherents of of Bradley. ! }1
Savannah, October. City all
quiet. Disturbances threatened
between country conservative and
city colored people tonight. Gen.
Anderson has given orders to ar
rest every disorderly person, re-
gardless of color or politics. The
military remain under arms, but
their services will probably not
be needed. Large numbers of the
rioters arrested, and several of the
ringleaders will probably be sent
to Fort Pulaski by the military.
New Orleans, Oct. 1.-Cotton
sales 100 bales; market dropping;
low middling 1S3c.; receipts 1880
bales; exports 7O6. Sugar nomi-
nally unchanged. Molasses-Cuba
quoted at soc. Flour firm; super
fine quoted at $40 to 10 25 and
choice at $13 to S14. Corn dull !;
yellow and mixed 1 4Oc. and white
145e. Oats dull at 60c. Pork
better-S27 to ~ 25. Bacon &C.
tive. Lard firm. Gold 1438.
New York, October 1.-Cotton
heavy; sales 1000 bales at 22c. for
uplands.
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70 The New York Journal Of
Commerce says the Radical party.
has had the breakers applied to
its locomotive, and already the
speed ofthe train is very percepti--
bly, slackened. The recent Con.
servative triumphs have had this
effect. The Journal of Commerce
adds that many of the passengers
will get off at the next stopping
place, and not be seen on that
train again. ~
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

% Arthur's Home Magazine
for October is on hand. It is full.
ly up to the high standard of the
work, and no one can read it
without feeling that he or she has
received excellent instructions in
morality, and that which tends to
ennoble the character.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

q Frank Leslie's Boys and
Girls Weekly-ani illustrated jour
nal Of amusement, adventure, and
instruction continues it's weekly
visits to our sanctum. 1t is an
interesting and valuable work.
Parents should not hesitate to
place it within the reach of their
children. Subscription per an
mum, $3.50. Address Frank Les.
lie, New York. "
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

% We never charge anything
for inserting notices of marriages
and deaths, when not exceeding
ten lines. When such events
take place, some of the friends of
the parties should always attend
to having them published, for
public information. oi1
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

u AT an election in Richmond,
the other day, some two hundred
negro votes were not received,
because those who profered them
could not recollect the names
under which they registered.
What commentary on the Radi-
cal universal suffrage doctrine /!
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

a The whole number of deaths,
in the city since September LIST, so
far as reported, is 1476, of which
1901 were by yellow fever.--[N O.
Crescent, 21st ult.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

% It is stated, as a matter Of
undoubted history, that President
Washington pardoned the Penn
sylvania whiskey rebels by a gem
eral amnesty, without any Con-
gressional authorization, .andpre-
vious to any trial or sentence.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

- Peterson's National Maya
zine for October, is before us. It
is in all particulars, a model peri
odical of its kind, and a credit to
the taste and the culture of MIR.
Peterson, under whose auspices it
is published, ii an .a.sgl
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

e Wendell Phillips, in an ar
ncle In the Anti-Slavery Standard,
says: Congress represents the
Republican party" In this Phil
lips is precisely right. Congress
don't represent anything else.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

o Brownlow, says the Nash
vile Gazette, wants to go to the
United States Senate, as it is i'm,
mediately on its way to the sui
phurous kingdom, whittier he is
bound. 81 re
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

10 The st. Louis Democrat
makes a fair, and we doubt not,
truthful confession of the extent
of its radicalism, when it says
that, "for the constitution we have
not as much yeneration as for a
last years almanac. The almanac
OF the year before the deluge
would about meet the case.n If
other rather radical newspapers
were as honest, they would con
fess to the same lack of respect
for the constitution. Their acts
prove they hold the views ex-
pressed by the st. Louis Democrat.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

% Wendell Phillips, the bell
wether of Jacobinism, calls Will
son, Sherman, Fessenden and
Conklin, 'smurderers.' We shall
not undertake to dissent from him
when he comes as near the the
truth as that. But really, we do
not see why Philips should leave
his own name out of the category
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

% The accounts from all parts
OF Ireland represent the harvest
prospects as better than in any
year since 1859. e'5 a
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

~ The st. Louis Democrat, a
violent Radical journal, attributes
the defeat of its party to the nom
ination of corrupt men standard
bearers. What an honest comics
sion!
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

- The Vicksburg Telegraph
says: ''There is no whiskey re-
tailed in that city now from Friday,
afternoon at shutdown until Mon.
day morning at sunrise-not Q
Drop
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05
q A Milwaukee orator recent

% A Milwaukee orator recent
~ said that there we're in Milwau,
kee tone hundred young men
studying for the law, who had not
brains enough to wheel a wheel
barrow straight There arescores
of places similarly afflicted.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

tGoo Cd LADIES .BooK.-This
remarkably well-conducted month
" magazine comes to us this
month mont / with its usual variety of
thoughtful instructive matter.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

siD We are in receipt of "The
Children's Hour" for October, pub
lishedgiby Z. s. Arthur & Son,
Philadelphia--one of the best
magazines extant for children,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

- Wilson says Republicans
never fred upon the Union flag.
They called it a .sfiaunting lie,ny
however, and hauled it down from
the dome of the Massachusetts
State House. But that was an
other OK. s. n enntisf1.I Z
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

% Mr.. JOHN H. LOTION is
authorized to collect and receipt
for any dues to this Office.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

3I1 We call attention to the
advertisement headed, "a Bar,
gaiinr-."1 Ifany one wants to buy a
Mil, with o good situation, &C.,
really cheap, a good opportunity
is certainly offered them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

~ There are ice caves in Ore
gon. The ice is in columns or
pillars. and Portland gets its
whole supply from an immense
cavern in the White Salmon River.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

70 Firewood cost $23 per cord
at Fort Sedgwic, in Colorado. The
nearest tree was a solitary one
forty five miles distant from the
fort. 75
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05
Fresh Gleanings.

gether promising in Virginia.
Silk-worms, fried in castor oil,
are considered a luxury in China.
The tournament tomfoolery is
not all over in Virginia. Y -
There are $4,000 schoolable
children in Milwaukee.
There is apprehension in Hon
duras Of trouble with the Indians.
1t rained 26 days at Macon, Ca,
during the month of August.
The city of Augusta, Me-, GOV.
ers an area of IS miles.
Let us have plump women, says
the N. Y. Gazette. Well, let us.
Opium eating is said to be very
prevalent in Memphis.
The experiment of raising tea
in Georgia promises to be success
full. ansa-fE' -r... 1a
The N. o. Picayune rejoices at
the development of inventive gen
JUS in the South.
For getting drunk in st. Paul,
MIMI, men are set to work on the
public streets.
Minnesota makes no fuss over
turning out 5000 barrels of -four
per day. u .og w. a u
Phillips says, Sherman is the
best soldier of the war and the
the worst statesman. 81
The planters of jackson are Of
fering corn in the field at 25 cents
per bushel. ~ 81 "as e.
A colony Of colored people in
Michigan are seeking farms in
Virginia. Eaa a
Napoleon says, the Mexicans
have all the faults of the Spanish
race, but none of it's merits.
In a discussion at the Paris
Medical congress consumption was
pronounced contagious. d -.
Merrick, who used Holt SO saw
agely in his Surratt argument, is
a brother-in-law Of that gentleman.
The Vicksburg Times estimates
the population of that city at about
$1,000. r... ,t.t. f
The yield of all kinds of field
produce was never before equalled
in Kansas, rs.a
1t hasrained with hardly a days
intermission for three months in
parts of Florida.
Two hundred vessels will be
employed in the oyster trade at
Norfolk, Va, this season. ''
The Knoxville Press says, that
city is crowded with idle negroes.
and it is unsafe to be out at night.
No stone marks the grave of
James Gordon Percival, the poet.
lie Is buried at Hazel Green, Wis.
The corn crop of Kentucky has
suffered greatly from drouth. In
some sections whole fields have
been dried up and destroyed.
The customhouse at Charleston
lsapproaching completion and will |
be ready for occupation by the
of October.
New York contains vagrant and
destitute children enough to form
, procession, indouble file, of eight
niles.
There have been more drowning
casualties ON pleasure trips this
summer than for any FIVE seasons
before.
In China there grows a tree
as the grease tree, which
Fields an excellent material for
,andlnS g
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The Frightful Evils Of Taxa
tion.

the obloquy attached to it on &C
count of his religious belief, in
his Essay on Taxes, says: ''There
is prevailing maxim among some
reasoners, that every new tax
creates new ability in the sub
ject to bear it and that increase
of the public burden increases
proportionably the industry of
the people" TO this class of rea-
soners, says the Hudson City IN.
J9 Gazette, evidently belong the
Radical majority Of Congress, who
see no limit in the endurance of
our people to bear any amount of
taxation, and no inclination on
their own part to forbear. When
Sidney Smith wrote his famous
article on Military Glory and Tax
es, in the Edinburg Review, where
he informed Brother Johnathan
what were the inevitable conse-
quences of being too fond of mill
tary glory, even his fertile imagi-
nation could not have conceived
of the enormity and immensely of
the burden of taxation that same
Brother Johnathan, forty years
later, would impose upon himself
in pursuit of a mere abstraction.
After enumerating, in a most
whimsical way, the universality
of taxation in his own country, he
thus informs him of the conse-
quences of the system, all of which
he has fully realized: "In addi-
ton to all of this, the habit of
dealing with large sums will make
the government .avaricious and
profuse: and the system itself
will infallibly generate the base
vermin of spies and informers,
and a still more pestilent race of
political tools and retainers of the
meanest and most odious descrip-
ton, while the prodigious patron
age which the collecting of this
splendid revenue will throw into
the hands of Government will in
vest it with so vast an influence,
and hold out such temptations to
corruption, that all the virtue and
public spirit of republicans will
be unable to resist it,"
Our late war was, in an UMPIRE.
cedented manner, attended with
every destructive circumstance,
loss of men, increase of taxes, de-
cay of commerce, dissipation of
money, devastation by sea and
land, and the burden of an i'm
mense debt, equal in amount to
that which England spent more
than a century and a half in accu
mulating. When peace was ac-
complished, every man had a
right to suppose that a rigid sys-
tenn of retrenchment and economy
would be resorted to, that the
nation would husband it's resour.
ces, and endeavor to tighten the
immense burdens resting upon
the shoulders of the people. On
the contrary, every session of
Congress reveals to the country
that the Government is in the
hands of plunderers, jobbers, and
extortioners, who are recklessly
squandering and dissipating what
few resources we have left, upon
the widest and mostimpracticable
schemes, and for the mere purpose
Of perpetuating their power. In
the mean time, as the increasing
poverty Of the people diminishes
their powers of endurance, there
appears to be a strange supineness
'aking possession of the popular
mind in reference to the public
iebt, not unlike that so vehement. |
y complained of in regard to re.
igion. The day of awakening
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-10-05

zia. BELLEVUE, La,
Saturday, ::":;;##;;0otober 5, 1867.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-18
From San Francisco.l

SAN Francisco, June 1.-THE Ameri-
can whaling ship, Canton packet. was
wrecked near Hakadadi, May Sd. Five
lives were lost, James Fairbanks of Bal
timore, and four landsmen who were on
thevessel too late. She was owned in
New Bedford. Capt. Frazer arrived by
the Colorado. The crew are still at
Hskadsdi, awaiting transportation to
San Francisco.
The Benefactress, Haveloek and Yoke.
hama are loading for New York. The
Corder sailed from Shanghai for New
York on the 3Oth. The Hong Kong is
also loading for New York.
The Union I'd Congressional District
Convention nominated W. H. Highly for
Congress.
A tire to-day in Folsom destroyed
about twenty buildings.
The Battler, la days, and the Othel-
10 los days from New York have arrived.
The Southern Relief committee OF
San Francisco have up to the present
lime RENTED to the New York Com
mission = $50 in gold.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-18
Pittsburg Oil Market.

PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, June IL.
The oil market remains in very I'M
settled condition, buyers and sellers for
present delivery being wide apart in
their views. The sales for future de-
livery were large. The river to the AL
legheny oil regions is too low for boat
ing purposes, and as the supply of crude
on hand is not large, the principal op-
eratiOns will necessarily be for future
delivery. Prices have undergone no
quotable change; prices that were cur
rent at the date Of our last weekly re-
port would answer OR the present occa-
sion. The weeks receipts by river and
rail only reached 1875 barrels. Re-
fners, however, are not purchasing ut
this time; they have an ample supply
OH hand. The only operations were for
speculation. The weeks transactions
in crude were large, mostly for 1868 de-
livery, buyers option. The rates for
bulk were 12ac. The weeks sales of
crude reach $4,000 barrels. One thing
is very evident, the sellers confidence
in an abundant supply and low figures
must DO large. How their operations
will turn out time only can decide. The
nominal rates on the spot for bulk were
6Sa7c per gallon. Sales were made for
July delivery at tic, and August at the
same figures. One lot of $500 barrels
sold for September at Tic.
REFINED OIL-There was no inquir
for present delivery. The market was
dull and sales were restricted. During
the week 1880 barrels were disposed of,
extending from the present time to the
LIST of January, 1868. Bonded sales
were made for July, August and Sep
TENDER delivery, at 24c, Philadelphia,
and for October, November and Deem
Der at 26tc for standard white; sales for
prime light straw to white were made
for immediate Philadelphia delivery C
19ic per gallon.
SATURDAY The market was dull.
There were no purchasers of Crude.
Prices were unsettled. The receipts
were 705 barrels. The nominal rates
for bulk were 6Sa7c.
REFINED OIL-The only sales reported
were 1000 barrels bonded, standard
white for June delivery, Philadelphia,
at pc. private dispatch reports sales
on Saturday in Philadelphia, at 2lic for
80 days delivery. These are certainly
low figures.
FREE OLIVE did not learn of any
transactions. Prices were nominal.