The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-03-27
Sailed Items,


brea on the airest day of the borry any
thing indeed, but trouble.
# A good cowhiding used to be worth abou. thou
e sand dollars to James Gordon Bennett Our friend
will find that hurt Yankees just about as badly
# IF the aforesaid curses don't come home to roost,
it will be because some Yankee is crossing 'em will
a a wooden Cd d-n.'' No-raise everything 20,
t can-corn, cotton, sorghum, etc. (P. S-Dont erals
hell the market is oversuppled with that article
s The News says we are to have "paper mill her
t in Shreveport. We hope it will be more than mer
''paper mill, and really turn out the pabulum of ed
itorial lile."
The reason why good many people refuse to ''gve
the devil his DUE" must be owing to their fear o
bankruptng themselves.
A friend thus amends shakspcare-"A ALPS well that
ends Wells" Bun where's the in digging out the
bottom of things that way? For Wells we should on
; ly find oceans of radicasm.
, The Navasota (Texas) Times speaks of many i'm
prorements being "under weigh" in that town. We
suppose they for "sail.''
The carron plant dies fast it grows, and such
is sometimes the case with pestferous politicians.
We saw Texas wagon going lone to that grassy
country, a few days,ago, loaded with Northern hay.
We hope carrying hay to Texas is not to bea travese
on commercial non fit similar to carrying Goals to
Newcaste'
Sunday is the shortest day in the week in Shreve-
port.
good many little people are great in firing small
shot. The lower house of Congress recently passed
an appropriation bill in which clause excluding
Southern youth from West Point The Senate, how
ever, struck it out. A similar shot was that of the
Texas Legislature during the war, changing the name
ofCass to Davis county.
The editor of the Trinity (Texas) News recently
ceved the present Of hat, for the reason, he
says, that he was the street bear-headed."
| Now let some one cover that remaining captum, and
the trinity" will be tiled!
Parties at Homer are about starting cotton factory.
Wen bet the Had of the modern Homer will be vo-
ted "swinette in comparison with this new Olys-
sew.
Some country editors must think Shreveport is the
town whore j. B. Lewis, the shoe man, lives Not
paper do we take up but therein we see Lewis
Fact is, Lewis is man of sole whose feelings are
all "nppers, and net only gives boot in exchanging
I" soleather for greenbacks, but boots.
Bona Dea, las the Latins called our old Mother
Earth,) is now putting greenback- colored
dress, and must say it becomes her complexion "
right well.
The Legislature of Illinois has appropriated s25,-
100000 to enlarge the canal from Lake Michigan to
the Illinois river When this is completed and Red
River cleared out we may expect to arrivals at
levee from the furthest bounds of Lake Superior.
They are to have scientific society in Jefferson
As soon as it gets in " full BLAST we have question
to ask the Jimplecute If 1000 hogsheads of O. B.
were daily poured into the head of the lake, which
would become oftenest dry-the Jimplecute or the
lake?
They have queer ideas over in Texas A peripatetic
Gus having married the Postmistress in Greenville
and ran away with her property, was robbed and
killed. This is called righteous retribution"
Heaven must be hard up" for means in Texas, when
murderers become the ministers Of supernal justice!
The Trinity Advocate must be in some doubt
whether it is an advocate of the trinity simply the
Trinity Advocate. AS it don't know what X means,
when printed on our direction tag, think it must
be simply-very simply-the Trinity Advocate. Il
The editor of the Camden (Ark.) Eagle recently lost
his dog Was the dog I" Hobson's choice" and was
be constitutional" dog? We haven't seen him.
Brick Pomeroy has been lecturing in New Orleans.
Some OF his Brick-bats soft, we infer that he
6 wet his clay too much
An exchange says the heart is the best card" We
louot 1t, Tor We have long observed that those who
AVE the biggest heart in their hand get the worst
,uchred
The Southern Aid Society, of New York, has lust
hipped southwark so 900 bushels of corn. good
rgunent.
" The Future " We are sorry to see so many pa
ers hurting their eyes trying to look into the future
my proper view that way should be over corn fsldy
A singular discovery was recently made. in New 6
ork-a lawyer with " conscientious scruples."
Roman Catholic clergyman, named Furnss, has
'st published pamphlet on 1.-the Sight of He'll" in
Ehch he declares hell to be in the centre of the earth
r just 1000 miles from Jefferson, Texas by way of c
hat hole. a
The Jefferson Bulletin says :" the live Yankee is =
uckins the beam from eyes " in respect to the
alue of the minerals of the South We hope some tt
them will undertake similar Job for Red River for Y
ley'd Gcta raft Of lumber without much trouble. y
Returns show ,406,539 hogs to have been put I'D O
he past winter in the West. A good item to salt II
'uy. s.
The "sum of all viIlanies" is figure of speech By
h'ch some editors estimate the reconstruction act.
ANOTHER FETo.-It will be recollected that the tt
tate Legislature appropriated $780, 900 for the pur- q
ose of testing the consitutionalty of the late acts of
ongress before the United States Supreme Court. v,
overnor Wells took different view of the matter fr
I'd vetoed the BILL The following is his message: OF
STATE OF LOUISIANA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, III
New Orleans, March 90, 1867. ( CT
} the Senate
have received and given due consideration to the Sc
int resolutions adopted BY the General Assembly oil
lave to Federal legislation affecting iniuriousy the as
ate and people of Louisiana, ard providing means
and redress against the same and acts of s
y officers Or agents of said Governments or of any TIL
her person, of any State The preamble to these 90
solutions assumes to pronounce in the name of the 10
ope OF the State that the law recently enacted By tn
nSress, entitled san act for the more efficient GOV Su
nment of the rebel States is unconstitutional op 20
ess7e and injurious to hem and on that foundation tina
es on to provide for the appointment of commit oF
OF persons, whose duty it shall be to. take the -
cessary steps to test the consutionaty of the said ex
before the courts, and appropriate thirty thousand sen