The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-11-11
PAYMENT of Back Taxes.

PAYMENT of Back Taxes.
For the information of our readers, who are deeply
interested in the subject, we publish the following
aw, passed BY the Legislature at It's recent session
An LET to provide FOR the payment of the taxes due
the State for the years eighteen hundred and sixty
eighteen hundred and sixty-one eighteen hundred
and sixtytwo eighteen hundred and sixtythree,
eighteen hundred and sixtv-four, eighteen hundred
and sxty-fye, eighteen hundred and sixty-siA, N
estate notes. or warrants OF the Auditor and
granting an extension of time to the State tax col
ectors to the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and sxty-nine, for the collection of the taxes due
for eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
Section l. Be it enacted by tie Senate aud House J
Reprgsentatiees of the State of Louisiana, IN General
/ Assem6lv coayened, That it shall be lawful lor the
State tax collectors of this State to receive State GER
tiicates of Indebtedness, popularity known as state
notes. and also all warrants lawfully issued by the
Auditor of Public accounts in payment OF the unpaid
taxes due the State for the years 1860, l9bl 1867,
1868, 1854, 1865 and 1866 And it is hereby made
the duty of the State Treasurer of this State to re-
ceye the said State notes and warrants IN payment o
| the taxes due the State for said years
! Sec. q Be IL further enacted, etc. That the State
tax collectors throughout the State be, and hereby
granted extension OF time, to the first day OF an-
uarv eighteen hundred and sixty-nine to complete
the collection of the taxes due the State tor the year
eighteen hundred and sixty seven, and making re-
turn of the delinquent list for said year. and that they
be entitled to their full commissions for settling within
the time prescribed in this section.
Sec. 8. Be it tnthef enacted, etc. That oil laws or
parts of laws contrary the provisions of this act be.
and the same hereby repealed, that this act taEe
effect from and after its passage
(sisned1 CHAs w. LOWELL,
| Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Siened) OSCAR J. DUNN,
Lieut. Gov. and President of the Senate.
Approved October II, S6s.
| A true copy GEO. f. BoVEE,
| Secretary Of State
| Signed II. C. WARMoTH,
| Governor of the State of Louisiana.
| A TELEGRApnIc ANEcDorE.-A contributor to the
| Telegrapher tells this story
| A decent looking midde-aged called at my Of
| fee one morning when / was cleaning the battery
zincs and wished to notify his brother in P that
another brother lay at the point OF death at home
His manner plainly invited me to write out dispatch
at lis dctaon, but being too bewildered as to winch
wire went into which cup to act SCRIBE evad
ed his eye and furnished pen, ink and paper, over
which, with sigh of perplexity as profound as my
owr, he went at once to work. Aud such work
Dickens has given US very good pleture-ot the un-
+ skilled penman in the person OF Joseph Gargery My
customer was much like Joseph in the management of
the quill He turned up his sleeves to begin with, and
squared himself resolutely at the desk throwing his left
far around the paper, and hanging his head very
much on one side His eyes scrowed sheepwse at the
growing pothooks beneath them, and bis tongue thrust
out the fullest extent followed i'll its motions those
| of his cramped fingers.
| The hand that grasped the pen fist, and its
clutch quite disregarded the presence of ink, as was
manifested by the deep stains that covered his
fingers or were communicated to his face in the abb
sentminded pauses incident to his literary effort.
Many fresh pen did he try, many fair sheet ruin
and aside before suited in the result of his toll
And when he was suited indeed, it was pleasant
thing to note the look of solid satisfaction Of exua
ton eyen show out upon his countenance in spite of
the tear marks down his cheeks and waterv eyes, he
passed the scrawl over to me.
That production ran:
''To Bill Blank, P"
Deer bill: Ten to one Jiml die afore mornin
40. BLANK"
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Discovery OF A New CALIFORNIA IN NSouTH AFRICA
Director Delnar of the Bureau of Statistics, is in
ceipt of communication from the United States Con-
sui at Cape Town, announcing the discovery of i'm
mense gold fields in South Africa. There two
aurerous districts, called respectively the Southern
and Northern gold fields The former lies 1881 miles
north of Pert Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, 1906 miles
north northeast of Cape Town, and the latter some
$50 miles further north. They are from 800 to 400
miles west ofthe eastern coast of Africa, the South
ern gold region lying on the Tati and the Northern
/ field near the Zambesi river
The road from Cape Town leads northeast through
the centre ofCape Colony whose borders tpasscs
where the Vaa falls into the Orange river thence north
east, skimming the western borders of the Boer
Dutch republics of Orange aud Transvaal until it
strikes the northern forks of the Tat river and auent
of the Lmpopo river. The consul says under date of
August II, 1868, that "thousands " fockng
IheFe Ill Search Oi new Inc DfiIlSu nag
flies the miners settlement, though Pretorius the
President of Transvaal, has annexed portion Of the
aurferous country by proclamation.
| The Cape Town Argus, of July 23, 1868, contains
full accounts of discoveries and INDUCES in the
extravaganza dreams of the future of South Africa.
The specimens received at Cape Town very rich,
and the whole colony in of the widest excite
ment. 1t costs $50 to $40 for transportation frou
Cape Town to the diggings in bullock wagons at the
rate of twenty miles per day, but company is being
| wi ecrn|or aEio
reasonable rates, between Port Elizabeth aud the gold
fields by means OF mule wagons to 60 through in twenty
to twenty-five days from Agoa Bay. The discoveries
were made by Herr Carel Manch, a German mineralo-
gst, who first penetrated the country in 1864.
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FALSE HMR.-The following information supplied by
NJ Pierre Vernon in late Paris teuilseioa may inter
est some chgnon-w earring readers, who not
of the origin of many of the false headdresses with
which the fashion of the day disfgures them:
| Long hair now costs as much as llQf. pound;
short hair ranges from lSf to 35f. One of the prn-
cpal dealers in human treasures occupies house five
stories high entirely himself, and last year he did
business to the extent of 233 o0of The capillary
razzias executed among the peasanry no longer suf
| fee to meet the enormous demand The hair of dead
persons cut off the corpses in the hospitals is great
| help, but still insufficient. So importations from
abroad are had recourse to. Certain German prov
inces specially supply fair hair. Black hair is be
found in South America, whence whole eargoes of it
come, while to North America we export immense
quantities of hair made up into head-dresses
The dearest hair is the completely white. OF
tain length it is hardly to be found and chemist
thought of seeking of taking the color os
hair He has got SO far nloted gray, but the
white las yet to be discovered
/ sHoDDY AT SwAMPscorr, MAss.-The gossPpy Mail
tells the following:
A prominent Boston merchant recently gave grand
dinner party at his villa at Swampscott to celebrate
the birthday of his eldest daughter, The expense of
the entertainment is said to have been two thousand
dollars, and when mention the fact that eight diff
ferent kinds of wine served this readily be
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