The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-11-04
From Yesterdays Daily South Western. !


| LNopoN, Nov. 2-Thc formal dissolution of Paria
ment occurs on the llth Several distinct earthquakes
in the western counties of England and Wales Prince
Alfred has departed i'll the Galata for voyage around
| the world.
! ROTTERDAM, Nov. 2.-Serious riot drew fire from
soldiers, killing several and woundDg many citizens
Numerous arrests.
| LIVERPOOL, Nov. 2.-American bark Bounding
Billow from Barcelona for New York lost main, fore
top ard mzzen mast off the coast Of Portugal on the
18Th of October.
MADRID Nov. 1.-The Provisional Government is
about reinforcing Cuba.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 2.-This evenings Picayune
swindle in the shape of circular designed
for the evident purpose of creating collision between
the whites and blacks tomorrow. 1t is signed "Coun-
ell Of Seven nand its bombastc alone proves it
humbug. Though the Republican also publishes it,
and treats it genuine, closing its article with the
intnlstion that the negroes will not vote tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, ov.l.-Seventy-fv hundred tickets
already sold to clerks going home to vote Trains
crowded tonight. =z .,--.
Bank returns of the Southern States show the fol-
lowing resources: n Carolina 81, 100000, including
S26, 600 species South Carolina, 81 $50 00O including
S2b 900 specie; Georgia. s57 900 including s37 600
specie; Alabama 81, 1l4,0oo, including s37 900 spc
Gle; Mississippi slds 00O no specie; Louisiana, So
100000, including 100000 specie; Texas, nearly
S2,0oo,0oo, specie sl8,0oO Arkansas 81 1929, 600
specie SIS, 900; Virginia, $4,000 900, specie $50 600
Total United States bonds to circulation, So
$4,000 and compound interest notes S42, 900.
WASHINGTON, Nov Warrants for 1928, 735, 900
coin issued from the Treasury to-day to pay interest of
5-2O's. --=--.
Rousseau teegraphed Schoield all quiet in New Or
leans, and no apprehensons for tomorrow. Reports
from agents of the Freedmen's Bureau received in
Guiding one of Gen. Hatch, from louisiana who says
it is mainly owing to the incompetency, ineffciency
and misconduct of civilian employees of the bureau that
it has become unpopular and the freedmen suffered
much in many of the parishes. The failure of the
crops of the last two years has prevented many of the
planters from paying their hands, but they, (the
groes seem not discouraged. Working for shares has
proved failure and wages being generally paid.
The crops this year have been excellent, the failure
of cotton the two previous years having caused plan
tiers to turn their attention to grain growing. This
year the cotton crop has not been failure and the
health of the negroes has been good There four
hundred and eighty thousand blacks in the State Gen.
Hatch sums up,iis criminal calendar and shows one
hundred and sixty-six murders have been committed
and two hundred and twenty five other outrages dur
ing the past year. In with the rest he urges
the continuation Of the bureau, the ground that it is
necessary for the welfare Of the negroes.
ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 1.-The Democratic mass meet
ing last night was addressed by Ben Hi who called
the attention of the Democratic party to the momen
tous issues at stake in the coming election. Said that
Grant nothing Seymour nothing, save an instru-
ment the one of centralized despotsm the other of
constitutional liberty. was for the Democracy to
decide7on Tuesday whether-free government on this
continent should live or die He believed Seymour's
chances for election was better than Grants Said 4
that the Radicals bailtthei hopes of the
panic in the Democratic ranks, but if the Democrats
square up to their duty Seymour would be elected
and the Constitution vindicated. =-
L. L. Levy, prominent Israelite of this city, comes
out in a card supporting Seymour. He says: have
reliable information from all sections of the country
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