The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-05-06

The Republican Congressional Committee have ad
vices from Louisiana, that they have one majority in
the Senate which will prevent the adoption of the
l4th article, thus delaying reconstruction.
Revenue receipts tU day one million two hundred
and foryf thousand; for the week four and half
millions; for the year one hundred and ffty-niue
millions
NEW ORLEANS, May 2.-Ofical returns of the cleo
uon not yet published. The Republican piyes returns
from all the parishes, making the majority for the
constitution l7,Os3. They also claim % Republican
State Senators against IA Democrats, and so Repub
lican members of the House to Al Democrats War
moths majority for Governor slightly in excess of the
constitutional majority.
The Republican convection completed its nomina-
tons this morning. Two presidential electors aud
several Chicago delegates Zone colored)
AMENDED BASkRrrr LAw.-On the 2lst, in the Fed
eFal House of Representatives the following bill was
passed:
OH IN amendment TO an act entitled An act to es
taolsh uniform system of bankruptcy tbrouoout
the United States, approved March Q 1897
BE enacted, ETC., That the provisions of the second
clause OF the Sd section of said act shall not apply to
the cases of proceedings in bankruptcy commenced
prior to the first day of January 1869, ami the time
during which the operation Of the provisions of said
clause is postponed shall be extended until the said
first day OF January 1852 and said clause is hereby
so amended to read as follows:
In all proceedings in bankruptcy commenced after
the first day of june 1862 discharge shall be gran
sed to debtor whose shall not be equal to ffty
per centum of the claims proved against his estate un
on winch he shall be Liable the principal debtor un-
less the assent in writing of majority in number and
value of his creditors to whom he shall have become
liable as principal debtor, and who shall have proved
their claims, be filed in the at or before the time
of the hearing of the application for discharge
Sec. .. A'ed be it favther enacted That said act be
further amended as follows The phrase presented or
defended in the 18th section of said act shall read
prosecuted or defended" The phrase "non-resi-
dent debtors in line g. section % of the act printed
in the statutes at large shall read no resident cred
TORS; that the word "or " in the next to the last
line of the seth section of the act shall read and
that the phrase section 49, in the AID section, shall
read "section 1l"; and the phrase "or spends any
part thereof in gaming" in the 44th section of said
act, shall read or shall spend any part thereof in
gaming and that the words with the senior regis
ter Or" and the phrase "o be delivered to the regis
ter" in the 47th section of the act be stricken out
Sec. 8. 4fd be 1t turther enacted That the Regis
ters in Bankruptcy shall have power to administer
oahs in all cases. and in relation to all matters in
which oaths may be administered by Commissioners of
the Circuit Courts of the United States and such COM
mssioners may take proof of debts in bankruptcy in all
cases to the revision of such proofs by the
gster and by the court, according to the provisions
Of said act.
HEAVY ON DlsrlLLERs.-The late act of Congress
which exempts manufacturers from internal tax, ex-
cept certain classes, among whom are dstilers pro-
vIdes:
That every person engaged in carrying on the
business of dstiIer who shall defraud or attempt to
defraud, the United States of the tax the spirits
distilled by him, any part thereof shall forfeit the
dlstllery and dising apparatus used by him. and all
distilled Spirits and all materials for the produc
ton of distilled spirits found in the distillery and
the premises, and shall, conviction, be fined not
less than five hundred dollars than five thou
n0llarQ nd hp i'm mod 1aoS han civ
months more than three years.
The same law imposes fine of from one to five
thousand dollars and Imprisonment from six months
to three years on any revenue officer who cohspires
with any other person to defraud the United States
signs false certificates fails to report to his superior
officer any fraud committed, of which he has knowl
edge or information
The act provides "that compromise disccn-
tinuance, nolle prosequi Of any prosecution under
this act shall be allowed without permission in writing
of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney
General"
THE LATE PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND GEN. LEE.-Mr.
Beecher has been heavily assailed because at public
meeting in New York. time since, he spoke we'll
of the public character of Gen. Lee. What will these
assailants say about the opinion of Mr. Lincof upon
Lee and especially when they get that opinion from
source they must credit unqueStlonngly, viz
colored woman Mrs. Keckey. the colored servant of
Mr. Lincolns family says that the very morning Of
of Gen Lee scanned the face thoughtfully and said
I" 1t is good face it is the face Of a noble, noble
brave man. | am glad that the is over at last"
Looking up at his son Robert, he continued, Well,
my son. you have returned safely from the front. The
war is now closed and we will soon live in peace with
the brave men that have been fighting against US. /
trust that the of good feeling has returned with
the close Of the war; and thenceorth shall live in
peace Were President Lincoln not dead, he would,
for such sayings and thoughts as these be denounced
frst-class doube-dyed traitor by those who have
now the hypocrisy to pretend reverence for his mem
ory. New York Times (Rep)
GEN JOHN H. MoRGAN.-The funeral of Cen John
Il. Morgan, at Lexington, KY, on the 10th ut, vas
very impressive. The remains of his BROTHER Lieut..
Thomas Morgan, which had been brought from Leba-
lon about two weeks before, were laid by his side.
The Louisville Courier says:
1t had been overlooked that Gen. Morgan was Ma
,on and at their request the Masons joined in the pro-
,ession, and buried hiGl with Masonic honors After
The Masonic ritual over, and the brothers resting
de by side the ladies decked the graves with wreaths,
bouquets and flowers, and the crowd gradually dis
oersed from the burial ground with solemn benedc-
ion from each heart that had loved them.
REMARKABLE IF TRUB-The Salem (Md) Times is
for this story
Abner Fields, of Howard township, in Washington
county, had COW which delivered of % calves in
me day The two largest about the size of ordi-
,ary twin calves the next largest about half the sze
md the remaining 25 about the size of an ordinary
at They all dead, mother included, except the
wo largest, which doing we'll. We had the state
pent above given from Mr.. Fields himself, and from
several ncehbors of his who witnessed the sight, and
who are as fully entitled to belief any persons in the
world This is the most singular freak of nature, OF
he kind of which we ever heard.
On FlE, Mr.. SUMNER There seems to be no doubt
If the truthulness of the following statement:
Charles Ssmner was heir to estate of near rela-
i've in the South, Virginia it was). His deceased rel
tive owned large number of slaves; and notwith-
standing Summers professed hostility to slavery, he
caused the poor negroes to be sod aud pocketed some
s60 900 from the sale Of hem and while he was max
mo speeches on the barbarism of slavery etc. he was
living sumptuousy the money he received from bis
raffic in human flesh
THE SuEz CASAL.-The Suez canal is said to be rap
dly approaching completion. 1t is announced that
from January 4th to February 7th, one hundred and
thirty merchant ships passed from Port Said to
suez On February 6th at Port Said there were Tour
vessels and three smaller ships employed
in landing cargoes of coal The English government