The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-06-13


DRoWNED.-Y Yesterday morning
a freedman named Chas. Slaugh |
ter, in stepping from the steamer
Gossamer to the Era No. 8, fell |
overheard, and drowned.
70 Theriver opposite this point,
after rising about one foot, CON-
menced receding last Friday and
has fallen about 20 inches, and is
now falling at the rate of 4 inches
in "a hours.
% The order of Gen. Buchanan
announcing the result of the late
State election will be found in
another column. Gen. Buchanan
decides the new government to be
merely provisional in its character
until after the amendment to the
Constitution of the United States,
known as 14th, shall become
part of that constitution. The first
Monday in November is fixed as
the date at which time the officers
elected shall assume their posi-
tons. A vacancy occurring in any
Office in the meantime will be fill
ed preferably by the person elect
ed to it. An official copy of the
order will be regarded as certifi-
cate of election. The legislature
is not to assemble until the accep.
lance of the new Constitution by
Congress. "...... -.-s. e
~ By the following circular it
will be seen that the members of
the General Assembly and civil
officers elected at the recent cleo
tim, are required to apply in per
son or in writing, giving pOstOffice
address, to the Secretary of Civil
Affairs, in order to obtain an Off
cial copy of Special Orders No.
121, which is q certificate Of cleo
ton to the officers elect:
H'D QRs. 9TH MIL. DISTRICT, }
| Office Sec'y Civil Affairs, :
/ New Orleans, June 5, 1868. }
Circular No. 16.
The postofice address of the
members of the General Assembly
and civil officers, whose election
was announced on the I'd instant
in special orders No. 121, from
these headquarters being in mos
cases unknown, in order as far al
possible to avoid failures in thu
TRANSMISSION of copies ofthat order
: which is certificate of election tt
the members and officers elect
said copies will in such cases b,
delivered only upon application il
; person, or in writing, giving post
: Office address, to this Office.
+ By command of Maj. Gen.
r. G. BUCHANAN.
A SOLDIER KILLED.-Earl,
| Saturday morning, a freedman
n named George Smith shot Johl
1 Inwright, a private in company 81
Goth United States infantry. Jus
'' tice Beale, acting coroner, hell
an inquest OH the body ofthe d.
ceased, and the jury returned tn
following verdict:
l. 1t having appeared to the jur
/. of inquest that the deceased job
; Inwright, together with five otht
United States soldiers, broke int
Vt the residence of George Smit
o (colored), about one O'clock on I'll
;, morning of the 9th inst., with th
, intention of committing rape
l. and the said Smith having orde
il ed them to leave his premise
h. which they (the soldiers) refuse
q to do so, and still attempted
y carry out their designs, Smit
q drew his pistol, when the decea
1t ed threatened to kill Smith, u
IF less he (S.) left the house, and
the same time one of the sOldie
le threw a heavy bottle at and strut
IN freedman who had come to Il
ne assistance of Smith ; Smith tn,
! fred, the ball passing throus
L the heart of Inwright, causil
VI instant death: the jury, therefor
IF come to the conclusion that t
killing was done in self-defenC
to ~ Ex-Gov. McRae, of Mis-
died at Belize, British Honduri
on the 31st ult.