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The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

TAPPING OUR TEADE.-We copy follows from a
late number of the Galveston News: A gentleman
just from Navarro county says the cropsn all that part
of the State better than they have been known to
be during his residence Of twenty years. In Navarro
there is nearly twice the in cotton that there was
last year. and the uplands the growth is I'M
usually large and the bos abundant the cotton being
as high can reach Last year the yield of
Navarro about 6O0O bales and this year will be
quite twice as large. The corn and wheat crops are
also unusually good, though both these crops have
given way to cotton, to which the people now appear
to give their chief attention the only certain cash
crop. Cotton seems to be raised in nearly every
county from here to Red River Our informant SAYS
much larger trade will come to Houston and Calves
ion this year than before, not only because the
crops larger but because the trade of several of the
northern counties will now come this way, which has
always before gone to Jefferson and Shreveport This
is owing to the fact that the further extension of the
Central railroad has made it to their advantage to
trade in this direction
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

UsIFoRh PEIUEs.-Whoever assumes the policy OF
depressing prices to-day with the view Of bankrnphns
competitor in business and securing hs own ultimate
advantage in the future from monopoly founded on
this bankruptcy, knows nothing of the laws that regn
late trade or of his permanent interests as depend
ant upon them. It is true, fundamentally, although 1t
may take certain elevation and compass OF thought
for the right understanding Of the TRUTH that no man
in the long can enrich himself at the expense OF
his neighbor. 1t was the peculiar province OF Adam
Smith in his great work, The Wealth of Nations, y
to apply and to demonstrate this proposition as it APP
piled to their intercourse All trade is mere barter
OF commodities at last and money, as the representa-
tive of value is simply the vehicle for this exchange
It is not necessary for you to depreciae the price OF
what have to sell in order to increase the value OF
what you have to give in exchange Nor is 1T neees-
sary, if we are engaged in the same business that
should pnt down prices to ruin YOU This IS the ex-
perimenta philosophy of old stage lines, and with the
results, strictly followed to their legitimate conse-
quences in the ruin of both the mail" and the cop
position" This homeIy illustration is familiar. An
other equally familiar and pr0rerbal is the ruinous
competition of rival boats But less observable,
though lar more frequent Is tile late 0! merchants as
determined by the same selfish policy 1t was stated
time ago that not one merchant in ten thousand
1--WE believe it was) in New York makes fortune, and
yet, looking over the paraded taxpayers among her
shoddy capitalists it will be that the three or four
hundred who are rich grow richer and richer every
year, while not one in ten thousand makes fortune.
What is the cause of this anomaly? 1t is owing in
part to the speculative mania aud to the hazardous
ture of trade but more still to the power of the mon
eyed few to disturb the regular laws of trade and to
profit by its aberratons-to the contests of bulls and
bears carried on in the general market And hence,
among other reasons the necessity of boards of trade
to nearly practicable uniform prices and
The means of living to all competitors and hence the
efforts of aggregated capital and Intelligence to pro-
tect their interests against the monopoly of an avari
cious few.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Aug II. Secretary Rawns say:
Candy will not exact the test oath from Virginia legs
lators.
No indications of reported change in Cabinet at the
War office.
Revenue to-day $305, OOo.
Revenue supervisors Of New York, Pennsylvania
and Illinois are here consulting over whisky frauds
which appear never to have been so gross now De-
lano determined to prosecute to the utmost extent ev
cry violation of law.
Fenian Colonel Maggie jumped from window in
New York and killed himself He was insane and
imagined he was escaping from British prison.
Judge Dent has written Boutwell, a remonstrance
and denuncatory letter, wherein Dent says, by some
strange dexrous management and ocult political STRAIT
e5y you have worked upon the confidence of the
President to cause him to flourish the club with
which You intend to break his head
Commissioner OF Customs writes Collector of Gus
toms at New York orbdding clearance officers collect
ing other fees than those imposed by Federal regua-
tons
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SPECIE BAss,-Competition is said to be the life
of trade and this is true in the sense it was meant to
be true but like most axioms which but half truths
forciby put that true meaning has become disturbed
That competition is the life of trade is only true in the
sense that competition for patronage, for increase of
custom, leading this competition does always to in
creased beraty, is the life of trade and it is not
true but absolutely senseless that the life of trade is
on the very fluctuations and changes of trade itself
These are ruinous to all regular commerce. They are
cut-throats One of the best safeguards we know
against these fluctuations against the catastrophes of
sudden falls in prices would be the adoption of spe-
Gle basis; for gold and silver are not only material
standards Of value but they its international stand
ards. The price of cotton in Liverpool is not affected
by the fluctuations in the value Of that new legislative
standard popularity called greenbacks And as it is the
basis of our trade here, should not only buy and
sell all articles by their specie prices but our pro-
ducers should demand and receive only specie prices
for their cotton Why should we, producing the arti
Gle which really regulates foreign exchange, give up
all the advantages of this commanding position to the
greenback makers, and content ourselves with taking
their issues at their deprecated market value 1t is
good move on the part of merchants to make
their quotations in specie and hope all our planters
we'll all Southern planters will receive nothing
for the incoming crop but gold and silver
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

WHAT WE NEED,-We do not deny that we need
more labor. The richest lands in the South now lie
in waste uncultivated fields that with proper tillage
and with sufficient labor would yield immense wealth
to our section, and indeed to the whole country. OF
need more labor for agricultural purposes,
and we should give encouragement to Chinese immi-
grafton and remunerative employment to all corners
from the Celestial Empire We need, too, experienced
and skilled labor for manufacturing purposes. But
what need first aud before procure the rest,
is instruction how to give efficiency to associative
terprise how to combine the small contributions of
many individuals the energy and capacity of many
to enable us to achieve results commensurate with
necessities 1t is only in this way we can rapidly
regenerate the South
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

A BORDER Misunderstanding as we do upon the
border OF two Statesof Louisiana, OH the one hand
reconstructed under the laws of Congress, recon.
slructed without admission into the family ofthe Union
reconstructed on the platform of the political and socio
equality OF races reconstructed with the legislative
power devoIvcd on limited number of foreign adven
tnrers, selected to fill all official positions, because thew
had no interest in common with the rcsnecoh1p neo,
OIL the State whose public credit has been broupht
ao"h TO zero in consequence of this worthless author
Ivy, pnrportlng TO represent the State whose produc
IONS have been diminished more than one half mud
whose expenses have quadruped Observation-Disclosures
\" we 90 not misuse figure of spcech) with ono foot
upon the soil of Louisiana, and with the otbor soo,
Tylng to reach upon Texas sofia State a. vat ,rro
constructed State without Niger, carpetbaoger
or worse than both, scalawag TO represent hpr in t
national councils State mind you) whose SOVEREIGNTY
could not be destroyed because che optere5 tho Tr,
oy virtue OF treaty between equal sovereignsstand.
ing thus, and interested we are in the material
political interests of both States and FEELING all
uheaton OF interest we beg our neirhhors IN prot ~
our experience, and never surrender the Legislative
power Oh the State to either carpet baEgers or 10 scala
"ass but to protect themselves BY eIectnr
i've men to the Legislature Do this and ron oro ,o,
NJ te mercy OF either class, or compelled to sunno-
NUN classes with no benefit to Yourselves horona ,
nie'e compliance with superior force
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

CONTEMPLATING q. s. SEcrR1TIEs.-A Washington
dispatch Of the 3Oth ult says that there is information
at the Treasury Department that counterfeiting of
United States securities in of the European coun-
tries being carried on to some extent and bankers
and Others warned to take the necessary precau-
tons. Aeounteriet coupon, which purported to have
been attached to one hundred dollar $50 bond of
the issue of 1862 fourth SERIES was received by Gen.
Spinner day. It was paid in New York, and came
from Germany. The paper on which it is printed is
poorerin quality than that used by the Government
and close examination shows that it is merely well
executed Autograph.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

SHREVEPORT UH1fERsIT1.-U Under the supervision
and direction Of its experienced and intelligent prin
cipa Professor Thatcher and bis assistants, this
bryo institution Of learning viii again throw open its
portals the first Monday ia September proximo
Enough Of Southern funds before the went North
for educational purposes to enrich enemies, and
by their shoddy glitter and show to keep down any
would be effort South. Since the reaction in
the Southern mind has been observable. A few gen
temon Of our city nerred themselves 10 the task to
breast the effort ard try the project Of building up
frst-class institution. To be successful is simply
question Of time if the intelligent and practical men
of the country will act in concert with Sllreve
port is accessible by steamboats,, railroad and stage
lines throughout the year In commercial importance
it is second only to one in the State. The great ny
dra-headed monster, that it is sicly than other
points like myth, has vanished. To-day, for twelve
thousand people, we will compare notes with any To-
cality. We have in midst six hundred children to
grow up in ignorance, or be educated here or else
where We have the funds idle in our banks to move
the lever In merchandising, law, physic, mechanism
and men of the quill city of like population
passes it in these respective cangs. With all these
not estimated advantages it is but the part of
wisdom to patronise home institutions; keep
money among ourselves; foster our own pride; edu-
cate our children under supervision, and
hurl back upon Northern brethren the false idea
that semcivilscd, and send children
among them that, with their isms and dogmas, ask
them to knock of their rough and fit them for
after life. We have covered at their feet long enough
As we are now wholly depending upon resources
of mind and money, and the days of social position
without practicabilty are over, Phoenix like let us
come forth more brilliant than the would be Soons
and Lycurguscs, who so long boosted they gave our
ideas shape At the beginning of the next scholastic
year agent to endow the University will be in the
field and the faculty viii be regularly organised The
institution has been open only session. It com
menced with fifteen and closed with fifty. We be-
speak for the session at hand, fifty to open and
an hundred to close
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18
FROM EUROPE.

LONDON Aug 17.-Great riot among miners at
Sheffield. Thirty thousand Orangemen demonstrated
at Clover Ireland. Resolutions denounce dis esab-
lishment Of the Irish Church bill.
VIENNA, Aug. l7.-Press disapprove of Prussias
note regarding Won Buess endeavors to promote
amity. Journals denounce course of Prussia as IN.
precedented in diplomacy
ROME, Aug. l7.-Pope decided to hold universal
exhibition of Christian art next year
MADRID, Aug 17.-Papers deny negotiations for
sale of Cuba. Government desires restoration Of or
der in Cuba before considering the subject Rumor
OF proposition looking to Iherian union is officially
denied
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

A NEW SYSTEM OF COLLECTING THE INCOME TAX
A Washington dispatch says that the Revenue Bureau
has adopted policy regarding the collection of in
come taxes from corporations in Baltimore and PhiJa-
delpha, which has succeeded well that it will imme-
diatey be applied to other large Cities and perhaps
TO all the important corporate companies in the eoun-
try. The system is virtually, the establishment Of
strict espionage over the affairs of the corporations
through the agency of officers, who are au-
thorsed by the bureau to investigate their business,
ard report to the correctness of their income re-
turns
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

A COMMERCIAL CURlosITT.-Behind a dingy front
Texas street, where the old and dngy sign Of Z. &
B. Jacobs may be seen, is the greatest commercial
curiosity in the Southwest-we mean the three-story
warehouse of this large and encrprsng firm contain
ing it does merchandise enough to fill an half dozen
large stores and embracing every article that
enquiries for Call and for yourselves If you doubt
the correctness of the impression made upon u.s. by this
mammoth sOrc:rOom.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

CHINESE LABoR.-An Albanian, residing in
California, Judge Dargan, formerly Of Mobile, thus
writes on this subject:
SAN Francisco, July 3, 1869.
Gen. James H. Clanton, Montgomery
Dear Generai-As the " Chinese Labor Question !"
is being agitated in the South at present. thought
would write you in regard to it, giving my experience
etc. since my arrival in California some ten months
since. 1t is settled question that new system of
labor must be inaugurated in the South before it will
from the fearful state it is now in and cooe
labor is the only kind that bring about that much
desired result 1t will have to come, and the sooner
the better.
We have now in California considerable over lOO-
U0o chinese, and they are pouring in by thousands
every month. They gradually filling up all places
where labor of any kind is desired They are en-
poyed in all the mills and factories of the whole State
and have cheapened labor more than any other class
could have done. They are skilfu workingmen, and
industrious aud frugathe very class for our country
They can be employed to great advantage and at ex
eeedlngy cheap rates, and once employed they will
work faithfully, and not bother themselves about suf-
frage. They are very apt, and can live on less than
any race under the SUM-
The South will have to employ them, and feel con-
fdent that they will be cultivang our lands before
twelve months, ii not sooner IF there were a half
million Cinnamon in Alabama day venture to say
that within two years our country would be prosperous
new lands cultivated, the rich farms now lying idle
would bloom again, our commerce would flourish and
we would talk OF hafd times as things that had BEEN
but would never return These are not only my views
General, but every one who is posted on the subject
with whom have conversed, says the same
| would like to make arrangements with company
rased for the purpose) to ship them coolies in lots to
suit them can arrange here with the Chinese mer-
chants for any number at any and all times Arrange
ments can be made to land them in any town county
or place desired and at very moderate rates Let me
hear from you in regard to it your earliest leisure
# you favor the pan just get the company started,
give me the agency and you will have as many China
men as you want, in very short time. 7 will write
you very soon, giving you the cost of transportation
and other charges to land them in Alabama also the
form of the contract and everything connected with it.
can work it out here well you could wish and
to the interest of all parties concerned would make
as good and profitable contracts as they could desire
Tor am posted about such matters have been pay.
ing particular attention to it for some time. only
ask an opportunity to prove what say
Very truly yours, MORO DapG.N
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

THE CRISP THEATRICALs.-From late Texas ex.
changes, see that Crisp with his theatrical company
from Galveston, has been deghting our eastern neigh
bors with touches Of the legitimate drama The press
speak in high terms of the company If this is our old
friend VIM, H., who, twenty years or more ago, was
selected from The London stage, to introduce Mrs
Mowat to the American stage ad who Travelled with
through the United States playing "Claud Menotte" as
no body ever played tin this country except Davenport
ana Sir Charles Codsream' as nobody else could
play 1t, we hope he will run to Shreveport and
give us few entertainments. Since that time Crisp
has played many parts and among them that of captain
of Artillery in the late war-captain in the Confederate
service. If that's yo", Crisp, come down We don't
furnish ice md greens" by the bucket as was done
down at old Capt rs, on Nubbin Ridge" bnt there's
something of thot sort here, and few more left "
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

NEW GREENBAcKs.-A Washington dispatch of the
Sd, says That in consequence of spurious issue of
the $40 greenbacks Secretary Boutwell, has concluded
to have issue Of all denominations of greenbacks
from 81 to $1,000 notes. The plates are now being
executed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
The designs are entirely new. No likeness of any
living man will be placed any note. The engraving
OF the new issue and the printing of the faces and seals
OF all the denominations will be performed in the
Printing and Engraving Bureau, while the backs will
be printed in New York. There will be every possible
precauton to prevent fraud, including the taking of
lead impressions for electrotype plates
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS,

PHILADELPHIA, Aug educational Labor Convan
ton assembled. Two hundred delegates present
New YORK, Aug. l6-Federa building in CHAM
bers street crammed with people anxious to witness
proceedings in the Pratt case United States troon
well supplied with ball cartridges and ratons are s
guarding Marshal Barlow. Pratt will be produced he
fore the United States Commissioner at two o'clock
Rnmored that requiston for the prisoner has hem
received from Gen. Reynolds
Later-Proceedings in case of government against
e. Pratt to stand this afternoon BY discharpa
of Pratt by United States Commissioner Osborne An.
nouncement of the decision was received with cheers
by an excited crowd Of about 1000.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. lex blockade runner Ho.
net, hailing from Portland, Maine cleared for Liver
pool via Havana, captured suspicion of intention Of
violation of the neutrality laws. The Hornet had q
men aboard, armed with reFolvers and was attended
by tug which escaped
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Geo. W. Rutter, President
OF the First National Bark of Memphis, is arrested
here, charged with the embezzlement of $500 900 Of
the Tennessee school fund Rutter is in jail
In discharging Pratt, Osborne said himself and the
Attorney General had pursued the course they had BE-
cause they deemed it right to maintain authority Of
the United States. 1t was simply and purely because
there were facts sufficient to hold the prisoner
that be could order his discharge Pratt left the court
with his friends, and the soldiers returned to Fort
SCHUYLER
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

AN EARTHQUAKE AT New MADRID.--An exchange
says that the earthquake which has been rong around
Cairo for couple of months visited its old haunt near
New Madrid Mo-, the other day, and opened fright
ful chasm in the earth, into which the Mississippi
emptied its flood with the roar of hurricane. The
most severe earthquake known in the United
States occurred in the same locality in 1911. Why
that particular locality should be the avore resort of
earthquakes seems in no way remarkable to persons
who have visited it, The country has every appear
anee of being suitable for earthquakes and for very
little else.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18

PROPOSED RAILROAD SUBscRIrrIoN.-A Washington
dispatch says that representative Of an English house
interested in the Memphis and FL Paso railroad, has
made proposition to subscribe seven millions in stock
to the Norfolk and Great Western road and pay ten
per cent at once, 50 to control the road from Nor
folk to Bristol and make TIE latter the last link in
connected line from San Diego to Norfolk The stock
holders Of the Norfolk road have accepted the propo
cit
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MISCELLANEOUS

Labor Convention was denied Susan B. Anthony.
New YORK, Aug. 17.-Adniral Hotf, excommander
of Cuban squadron, arrived here with his flag ship
Albany.
CHICAGO, Aug. l7.-Grant telegraphs Gen Green
vile NJ Dodge, rendering him the Secretaryship OF
War, vice Rawlins, who desires to retire account
OF bad health Dodgeis Chief Engineer of the Union
Pacific railroad.
New YORK Aug. l7--Rutter, Memphis Bank Pres
ident, before Judge MeCunn on habeas corpus Hear
ing postponed to Thursday
ST. Louis, Aug l7.-Allen whipped Gaag CHER in
nine rounds Men badly punished.
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DEATH OF II. II. DENrzEL.-The New Orleans pa
pers of the 9Th mention the death Of e. r. Dentze
an old and well known citizen of New Orleans, the
day before, at Baltimore. In his DEATH the Bulletin
says that community loses good citizen, and the
Howprl Association Masons and Odd Fellows, to each
and allie which Mr. Deatzel ornament and honor
valued brother and coworker in the broad fields of
charity and good will to men. Mr. Dentzel was, in ante
oeum days, one of the most efficient marine reporters
LIZ, Ia
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GRANT AT Long BEANcH.-A letter writer says
Gen Grant was the foremost feature OF the evening,
Or would have been if Tom Murphy, Frank Howe and
Cornell Banta hadn't encompassed him about with an
impenerable walk of hesh until last the wife of his
bosom was driven distracted from his side Grant has
been gazed at, talked at and pumped at, until by long
suffering he has acquired exactly the expression of
Barnums dwaris, giants and fat women A patient,
resigned look of tranquil despair, with trained slight
smile on his lips, and fading shade of evaporation
in his eyes, as if TO say, "Whats the use Tn paid to
stand this thing and these id fools don't know any
better" Mrs. Grant has much the same expression
emitting the id.
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OBSERVATIONS IN A BALLooN.-The Avalanche says,
that during the recent balloon ascension at Memphis
some interesting phenomena were noted. The highest
altitude attained 1890 feet, at which elevation
the temperature 30 degrees Fahrenheit The bal
loon in ascending always assumed whirling motion
from right to left while descending it turned from left
to right. Four good English lever watches were taken
up two of which stopped at the height of two miles
A very delicate pocket compass completely depo-
larised and though it has been gradually reganng its
polarity it is still worthless The eronaut was con-
irmed dyspeptic before he began baoonng, but sew
eral voyages have effected radical cure.