The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-04-22

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By T. ARD 81 co
Ofice---Corner of Texas and Spring Streets,
SHREVEPORT:
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receipt for subscriptions.
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Texas, and the counties surrounding: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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REMovAL-The Southwestern Office has been re.
moved the three story building on the corner OF
Spring and Texas streets. Entrance on Spring street,
opposite the old Office.
ANOTHER Reconsideration. buchanan has appointed
Robert T. Durham registrar Of voters for Caddo par
ish in place of Ross Wilkinson, resigned
PERsoNAL-We had the pleasure Monday of a
call from Mr. T. 3. Cowsar editor of that live paper,
the Gilrer Sentinel. Our merchants will find the
Sentinel all excellent medium through which to reach
the people of Upshur and adjoining counties.
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Just before going to press We learn that Bossicr par
sh went for the radicals by majority of 2l3. tel
cgraphic despatch from Mnden states that Claiborne
went against the constitution by 658 minority, and
Union COO majority.
ELECTION IN New OELEANs.-We learn from dis
patch from the Democratic Central Committee that
Orleans parish only gave 415 majority against the con-
stution Our dispatches, in another column, are not
even that liberal.
THE ELEcrIoN.-Thc following are the returns from
the different wards:
Ward ?. Majority against the constitution. 2.)2
...:1 43
Majority for the constitution o rs o.o
Majority against the constitution. 4YC
The Democrats elected all the city Officers and all of
Ihe parish officers except those from wards and G.
Nineteen white voted for the constitution in this
city.
mnc can he awarded
Hope and his deputies for their efficient services in pre-
serving order on the days Of election. They were
firing in their efforts, day and night to preserve the
peace. The commanding officer Of the post, Capt.
Farran is also entitled to credit for his action in the
premises. He at tile polls both days of the election,
and by lis presence assisted much in the maintenance
of order His command was held in readiness to quell
any riot much for the sheriff and his Deputies but
we pleased to cay their services were not needed
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ToECuLIGHT PRoCEssIoN.-Thc Democratic torch
light procession the night before the election
perfect success and passed off very quietly, much to
the qualification Of cvcrybody-cxccpt the Radicals
The procession was over half a mile long, and bril-
lantly Illuminated from end to the other. The
different ransparenccs attracted much attention, and
some of them well conceived and very appropriate to
brass band from Marshall, which discourscd
excellent music. 1t was good beginning in good
cause.
CoTToN TO Autobiography of late the cable
dispatches have quoted cotton to arrive at higher fig
than the spot, which, to the uninitiaed, is
quite so clear mud. The circular Of Messrs. Cham
bers Co., issued in Liverpool the first Of this month";
assigns for this unnatural state of affairs
One is That buyers pay more in consequence Of their
confidence i'll higher range of prices ruling later on
aud the other and perhaps the true one, is the great
facilities for operating cash credit being
required before the arrival of the cotton; hence the
same parcels not unlrequenty turned many
times before reaching the warehouse.
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A RUMoR-It is lumorcd on the streets that the
saddlebaggcrs are going to contest the election in
this parish. What they going to contest about
dc not know unless be that they did not cast enough
fraudulent votes to accomplish their ends. WE'LL let .
them try it over again if they want to- and vii!
beat them three times much did the last
time. Already many Of their deludcd followers have
been to the court house and wanted take back their
Radical tickets and give Democratic ones in their
place. We say by all means let them have the cleo
ton again, for just that much sooner we will be
rid of them.
ILLEGAL VoTING.-If the reports in circulation be
true in regard to the poll box Mrs. Canes in Bos
5ier it will no doubt be thrown out. Early in the
morning the three commissioners duly sworn in, )
but one of them being taken sick, another gentleman
acted in his place throughout the whole election with
out being properly qualified is also said the polls
we're closed two three hours before time specified
by law The Radical majority at this box was nearly
six hundred. Quite number Of fraudulent votes O
we're cast at this box The attention of the proper ii
authorities should be drawn to these facts and the
natter thoroughly investigated. b
STRAWBERRY FEsTIVAL-The ladies connected with y