The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-12-14
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w Ao4S't ASSSAP'o IsCOj SApoIto
$500 bales. Flour dull; superfne
80 %, treble extra s11 IS. Corn
scarce; new white 81 10. Oats
fair demand, with upward tenden-
cy, SIZE. Pork-tirm, with an up
ward tendency, S24 so to s25.-
Lard-prime, tierce, IA, key 1879.
Bacon little doing at wholesale,
retailing at 10 to 1O1 for shoulders
and 15ac. for clear sides. Gold
1876 to 1861.
New York, Dec. 10.-Cotton
dull; declined &c.; one sale of 1900
bales at 1919.
Liverpool, Dec. 10, evening
Cotton heavy; uplands r, Orleans
I'D; sales 5000 bales; Manchester
advices unfavorable; other de-
scriptions unchanged.
Washington Dec. 6.-Revenue
from spirits during the fiscal year
ending June last, $2S, 100000.
Gen. Grants corrected estimates
for the army reduce the same to
37,0O0,O0O.
A private dispatch from New
York says a banker on Wall street
had twenty 81, 900 counterfeit legal
tenders showed OH him this morn
ing.
New Orleans, Dec. 9.-General
Hancock has revoked so much OF
Special Orders No. 1872, issued by
General Mower, as removes from
Office Adam Gitfin, State Treasur.
er, Hypolite Peralta, State Audi
tor, and appointing Z. j. Jenkins
and j. I'll. Sypher in their places,
restoring the formerto their offices
Gen. Hancock, visiting the Ope.
IA Saturday night, was recognised
and greeted with enthusiastic
cheers. The band struck up "Hai
Columbia"
No business of Importance was
transacted in the Convention to
day.
? New Orleans, December I'll
the Reconstruction Convention, to
day, in discussing the preamble
and resolutions denying the state
ments contained in the memoria
to Congress expressing fear of ;
war Of races, a negro member, Mr.
Cromwell, declared we will rul'
until the last one of us goes dowl
: forever that negroes were goins
to have their rights, if it was b,
revolution and blood, in spite o
! Andy johnson or any other man
He declared he was ready for rev
olution. Mr.. Pinchback, also col
ored, deprecated the remarks 0
Cromwell; declared that the color
ed people OF this country coult
get no rights which the white
did not see fit to give them; tina
talk of war OF races was all hum
3 bug. He alluded to the disparit,
< OF the numbers of the two races
declared shareholders of the SoutI
had been in the past, and wer
: still, the best friends of the negro
Q that it was the province of tn,
). Radical Congress, not of thi
Convention, to discuss question
ofthis kind.
The Republican states that Judg
= Durell, OF the United States Di,
/ trict Court, has ordered that jurle
!, drawn for this Court shall be con
! posed of citizens without distin,
ton OF color. Judge Durrell wa
Q appointed by President Lincoln.
It The grand and petit .juries wer
4 discharged yesterday, and a he
:. pannel according to law, ordered
Washington, Dec. 7.-Repeal {
/ the cotton tax is before the Senat
J, Finance Committee, whereitmee
opposition.
:. Revenue to-day half million
week, six and a half million,
>, year, ninety-one and three fourt
/. millions. Weekly statement of
nances shows no material chang
go In the House, after unimportal
business, impeachment was +
D. sumed with tillibustering, led
a. Mr.. Logan. Finally Mr.. Wilso
withdrew his motion to table an
= the vote was taken on the majorit
T. resolution ordering Impeachment
IS which was lost-57 to 108-absel
Al Il. A motion to reconsider ar
lay on the table prevailed, al
~ thus impeachment ends.
:" Resolution, suspending the POI
er ofthe Secretary of the Treasm
l. to contract the currency prevailt
\. -12S to 80.
@ New York, Dec. 1.-The il
@ parchment failure had a good {
I feet.
le Havana, Dec. 9.-Southern en-
is grants who recently settled
n Honduras feel much diSSatiSfit