The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-06-02
Miscellaneous Items.

\ planters find It impossible To- raise pigs or chicken
e New Orleans Times.
$ TRUE TO HER IssTiaeTs.-A negro woman who W
fixing up to be baptised Athens, Ca one Snnda
was arrested for stealing clothes to during IL
haptisnai ceremony.
Senator Pratt Of Indiana is said to have lost hu
' dred pounds of bis superfuous weight in Washingto
by the opportunities Of ofceseeking constituent
Mrs. Stanton sass wonan's dress is sssheeg inval
| ton of the devil to befool and belttle her
The proprietor OF The Stanton House in Burlington
= Vermont lately lad four hundred violations of th
: liquor law proved against him, but the prosecute
failed because it not proved that said house
within the limits Of Burlington
General John 8. Walker late Of the G. S. A., had
grand banquet given him at Bryan Texas, last week
by the members Of bis old division at that place.
Rock Island begged TO have the Illinois Blind Asy
um located there, among other reasons because tn
attractions Of the scenery unrvaIed.'
The Scientific American gives the following mod
Of testing kerosene Fill cup with warm water thu
temperature of which to be brought to 100 degree
Fahrenheit pour the oil on the water; apply flame tt
the floating oil, by match or otherwise. IF the oil il
unsafe it will take fire, and its use in the lamp is dan
gerous, for it is liable to explode. But if the oil il
safe and good it will not take fire.
Chief Justice Chase recently ruled on case at Bal
tmore that Government could not collect income tax
from foreigners who hold United States bonds, and
| that what has been collected must be refunded The
Internal Revenue Bureau is preparing regulations to
carry out this decision. Several hundred thousand
dollars will be taken out of the Treasury for this pur-
pose
The New York World has long editorial on the
prospects OF the Democracy arguing that its success
in the next election is certain on account of the con-
duct of the present administration and the great out
burst of zeal and interest in free trade which bids fair
to become the absorbing question
| It is said that The Congressman III Washington are
trying to bring about change in Grants Cabinet
They outspoken in their opinion that Grants ad
ministration thus far has been anything but successful
in harmony with the great of the Republican
party. They deeply deplore his appointments and
express themselves being tired Of bolstering up his
mistakes and shielding him from the harsh criticism
that he SO richly deserves.
The Albany Evening Journal says that " it was Of
course to be expected that the disappointed office seek
ers would turn against Gen. Grant" Well, if the IN
successful Radical place-hunters have abandoned him.
who are for him What are his chances? What
shadow Of hope remains to him? Why doesn't he
kneel and die?
1t is asserted that the profits Of sugar plantations in
Cuba do not amount to more than or per cent. on
the orig nal outlay Under these circumstances it is
strange that recent writers contend that the bust
ness of raising sugar crops is on the decline
@ Il curious puZIle HAS DeeH Wllttleu OUT With
knife by a man in Norwich, Conn. He has taken an
eight vial and set up in its interior perfect
key about two inches long, with four hoops it and
both heads III, and he has stopped the bottle with
wooden plug which fits perfectly tight and keyed in
side, the key pinned and the pin ''toggled.n
THE WoRLD MovEs.-The old protectionists of New
England now blatant for free trade because hi
will benefit New England, and because ~ the Radi-
Gals desire to take this wind out of Democratic sails
bn.,na To{4,,.
Davis and declare the restoration of negro slavery
Some reverend has been reading essay on "irony"
before the Womens Club of Boston A local editor
dares to suggest that essay ironing would have
been better ,.7. .-elra Hrz..= m- u. .r.-r--
There's life in the old land yet Land that sold in
Virginia four years ago for six dollars an acre will now
bring thirty.
Nine LeVert is said to have saved much of her for
tune by sending it to the Bank of England during
the war.
The steamer Virginia lately left New Albany, direct
for Shreveport with one thousand tuns of railroad
iron.
Gen. E. Kirby Smith is in Memphis, the guest of COL
c. J. Selden.
The crops in portions Of Mississippi and Alabama
are represented very backward and unpromising.
George Francis Train will get off good thing occa-
sionally He says Woman is the coming man."
The new Gait House at Louisville was opened on
The night Of the 18th, with grand fete.
Bismarck's Confederation has ,430, 900 troops at
its disposal in of war.
The press of New Orleans speak aroraby Of Charles
Clinton, the recent apponee to the Office of Assistant
Treasurer of the United States, in that city.
General Grant is reported to have said that if he
could have his own way be would recognise Cuba at
once.
A young lady teacher in negro Sunday school, in
Detroit somewhat surprised to receive offer of
marriage from the most burly and blacklist of her
pupils a-a~ 1sg Exchange.
We presume the surprise was an agreeable one.
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS OF ls64-Reaarka5ze Reyela
son-The Wheeling (Va) Register publishes the fol-
While III Marion, Smyth county, few days ago. I
lad the pleasure of several lengthy chats with Hon
'ayette McMullin. Mr.. MeMuin SAYS that since the
var he was day in the Presidents house in Wash
ngton conversng with Hon. +. Blair, ST. Mr.. Blair
old him that soon after McMulns peace resolutions
ad been introduced into the Confederate Congress
r. Lincoln being extremely anxious to bring about
eaee honorable alike to both sections Of the country
nd foreseeng and wishing to avoid the political
aquences of the military subjugaton of the South,
ent him Mr.. Blair) to Richmond to confer with Mr..
JAWS, and learn what arrangement OF the difficulties
ould be made. He was passed through the lines of
le contending armies, and conducted to Mr.. Davis
ouse in Richmond After long conversation with
[r. Davis and other prominent gentlemen for whom
r. Davis sent and for whom Mr.. Blair inquired, Mr.
avis said that he had no proposition to make. Mr.
lair then proposed that Gen. Lees army be marched
ito Mexico against the French that Gen. Grant would
,ow and support the movement; that the united
mics would drive out Maximian and then the South
n States should name their own terms Of reconstruc-
on, everything short of independence being guaran-
ed. At Mr. Davis request, this proposition made
writing, and, after consultation and reflection,
rs signed and accepted byhin Mr.. Blair returned to
Tashngton, and Mr.. Lincoln was highly delighted 4
18th the success of the negotiation It was in the
,pe of concentrating this arrangement that Mr.. Lin
in and Mr. Seward met the peace commissioners y
ons Stephens, Hunter and Campbell, at Fortress
onroe but there to Mr.. Lincoln's chagrin the COM
ittee declared that they had been instructed by Mr..
avis to insist upon the independence Of the South
ID would listen to no other proposal. And thus the
lole affair to mostslanle and inrotent con
lson.'
Such is the substance of the account related to Gov
cMulin by Mr.. Blair Mr.. McMulln says that he
ked and obtained Mr. Blairs permission to make the
ltement public, but he had refraned from giving it i
blicity pending Mr. Davis trial. fearing lest it might
some way prejudice bis trial.
SUDDEN DEATH.-Col r. B Hall, of Louisville, KY,
esident of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company
ID very suddenly in this place on Wednesday even