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The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-15

TIE GALE ON LAKE PoNTcHARTRAIN.-The recen
severe storm proved much destructive than wal
at rst supposed The railroad wharf at the Lake enc
is greatly damaged and the railroad company has sus
tanned loss Of $4,000 Houses, boats, timbere aId
things generally smashed up emorselessly by The
wind and waves. The ex Queen of the voudous
Maria Lavon, colored woman, proprietress of The
White House, which foated away was supposed
to be drowned. A crowd Of negroes went in search
of the body, and found the old woman in state Of
nudity a shell hill in the swamps. She was borne
in triumph to town and cared for"
On that part of the lake shore over which the Jack
railway the water covered the roadbed from
"Kenner to Manchac bridge" Herds of grazing cat
tie took refuge the track from the inundation The
merciless gathering strength in every gust swept
fences, broke through evees turned bayous into lakes
and bitches into rivers. Along the jackson road
however, the casualties nothing compared to those
on the more southern lake Shore
The New Orleans Times, from which we learn the
particulars of the disaster further eeyss ~=-~-
The New Canal having been left in very unpro-
tected state, between the Intersection of Canal and the
New Basin, that part of the city was in imminent dan
ger of being inundated during the storm which
commenced on Saturday night and continued du.ing
the greater part of Sunday 1t having been reported
to Superintendent Cain that there great danger OF
break in the levee at this point, be FASTENED the
spot about midnight Saturday night ard found that
part city in danger ofmmediate overflow through
this break in the levee.
Messrs. Bartholomew Collins and Henry McGunn,
contractors. Magnolia street. being apprised at the
same time of the probabilities of overflow repaired
to the scene where, meeting Capt. Cain, these three
gentlemen Immediately set to work, and were unceas-
ing in their efforts during Saturday night and all day
Sunday, prevent nundaton in this part of the CITY,
The laborers of Messrs. Collins and McGuinn left
their beds at midnight went to the place. and BY
their united efforts checked the flow Of water BY re-
building the levee; and BY these means prevented a
most disastrous overflow in the back part of the city
FROM over the lake we hear that at Pascagoula the
oig wharf s gone, except the warehouse At Biloxi
thrty-one wharves are destroyed The hotel wharf a.
mississippi City, only few years ago rebuilt is dam
aged very heavily and several small ones are down
AZ Pass Christian Engle's wharf is gone and boy
drowned. All the small wharves at Bay ST. Louis,
but i've, are totally destroyed.
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Az ALLIANcE-A very pertinent question the rep
resentatives of Life Association, St. Louis have put
in circular just issued by them. Shall gigantic
money interest still be controlled by two three East
ern cities or shall the West and South forward
and assert their rghss ?" Unless the farmers of the
Great West, which produces largely twotbirds Of
the actual supplies of life this continent and unless
the farmers of the South, whose productions exceed
of the actual exports Of the country be
brought to understand and utilise an alliance for their
own interests the colossal money monopoly of few
manufacturing States and a few Eastern cities must
continue with continuance of present results from
that monopoly-the subsection of the great material
interests of the South and West the control of few
cities nay the control of few men in those cities.
Cannot this alliance be brought abouts We believe
1t is not only practicable, but that it is actually being
done-done by the enterprise Of the merchants, who
alone inaugurate and carry out the movement
The merchants of St. Louis and New Orleans have al
ready demonstrated the of transporting wheat
in bulk by the way of New Orleans to Atlantic
customers. And those of St. Louis and Shreveport
have already occupied successful ground on insurance
st. Louis the emporium of Western commerce. with
enterprise worthy Of her splendid future, reach
ing out her giant in all directions for the promo
ton of her trade She cannot and will not fail How
far and how shall join hands with her, with
intervenor it is for her merchants and merchants
to decide. ..- .... $1,000 n-s s
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FROM EUROPE.

Paris, Sept. 14.-Prim conferred with Spanish Min
listers to France and England. Rumored conferees
favored the last reply to American oeousness regard
ing Cuba LaPublic condemns American meddling,
and thinks Spain should resent interference.
MADRID, Sept. I4.-Impercial insists upon the ne
cessty of speedy suppression Of Cuban instruction.
Other detachments follow. From Carthagena official
difficulties brewing between progressionists and
unionists.
LONDON Sept. l4s-Heavy. storm yesterday here
and throughout the continent. Teiegraphs Frustrated
and many marine disasters Subscription started here
for Avondale widows and orphans.
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THAT CoMEr.-Our people are pursuing their usual
avoeatons, buying and selling preparing wedding par
aphra las our friend - would doubtless call it if he
had chance at the world, laying up for themselves
EARTH where thieves very aptto break
through and steal, and moths dead sure to cor
rupt unless liberal supply of tobacco crumbs be used
say they persist in practising all these foes reck
lessly regardless of the fact that unless the comet
our planet changes its course we will all be knocked
into cooked hat sometime shortly. Think of it! A
thousand times larger than pittul little earth and
with tail that could be frisked around this terrestrial
spheroid hundred times
We are endeavoring to arrange our Office 80 that
when the strike does the type may not be all
pied. At least We hope to preserve enough to fur
nish readers with authentic account of the
catastrophe.
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SISTER STowE.-The author of Uncle Toms Cabir
srsta matte MALIGNANT and scandalnus abuse of th

SISTER STowE.-The author of Uncle Toms Cabin,
systematic, malignant and scandaous abuse of the
Southern people, having exhausted her appetite for
SANDER the living has recently as all our readers
know, attempted its qualification, hyenalike, at the
grave of Byron She has incurred different fate in
her two roles of SANDER against the living and the
dead. The whole North believed the Cabin story, and
she was applauded to the echo by her phanthrophic
section. Nobody believes the trumped up story she
publishes against the fame and honor of Lord Byron land
what is MORE in spite of sister Stoves word or the in.
revelations Of her confidential friend Lady B. no
sensible person ever will believe it. Even Tiltop edi-
tor of Beechers organ the Independent rcbukes sister
S. and other papers less friendly declare their opinions
of her in phrase too harsh to apply to woman-aI OF
which she, however, deserves.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-15

Hoa1cIDE.-We learn that young man by the
name of Charles Gary yesterday killed William Pick
ems, at Summer Grove. The parties were connected
by marriage and there seems to have beer provo
cation 70 the deed. Pckens on horseback at the
time. Gary shot him three times, killing him almost
instantly, and then made his escape. We told
that the neighborhood were highly excited and par
ties in pursuit This is to be deplored both on
account of the living and the dead. Young Gary is
connected with some of our best citizens. =... .
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Past, PRESENT AND FUTuRE.-By reference to the
advertisement it will be that the celebrated Mad
anne Caprel, of New Orleans will shortly arrive here
and citizens will have opportunity of testing
her powers of clarvoyance and spirit vision. Madame
Caprel has been resident of New Orleans for some
years and has experienced the most fatterng
in that city She issad possess extraordinary talent
and power which have surprised all who have con-
suited her. IL
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Cotton,

Circulars have been issied from New York advising
planters to keep back their cotton while Estlin, of
New Orleans, urges different and think more
udicious policy. He advises the immediate sale of
the first picking, which by relieving pressing abi
ties will enable the planters to hold back the bal
Of the crop If they should think it advisable to
do So We have always advocated the plan of selling
early possible. The cases are exceptional when
the early market is not the best is almost idle to
speculate as the price of cotton ten days or even
one day hence. Men grow gray studying the huctua-
tons of the cotton market pregnosticatng and
effects very learnedy, and yet they are but tyos in
the end. Then, when a fair price can be obtained
we would always say let her slide. 1t interest
to the planter Inconvenience the merchant and to
both that wear and tear of mind incident to uncer-
tainty and suspense In speaking Of the market for
cotton goods, the ST. Louis Democrat says:
Though there are more goods in the country than
anybody wants to buy at present prices, the manuac
turers and holders will not reduce their prices simply
because they cannot make goods cheap those
that thew have on hand. The price of cotton is
higher relatively than the price of goods And the
manufacturers find it impossible to work at profit.
Our export trade which, before the war; used to clear
off the surplus when had one in the home market,
has now been sacrificed We used to send goods to
India and China; but now, since we have been in
dulged in protection for eight nine years, we
have send gold instead and the cotons stay at home
TO glut market Yet the consumer here does
reap the benefit for the goods not only higher
in gold than they before the war, but higher
in proportion to the price of cotton than they then
In Short the cost of producing everything has
been so enhanced that it costs the manufacturer TO
work up pound of cotton now Al cents, whereas
it cost him in ls6o-61 only 27f cents consequently,
one pound of cotton costing ~ cents in 1850, could
then be worked up into four and half yards of cloth
which sold for 500 cents, or 81 cents yard; while
now one pound of cotton costing &c uorlsed
into four and half yards of the cloth, costs II
cents, or l5a cents yard. In other words it costs
13t cents more to work up one pound of cotton now
than it did in 1860 and 1861. Consequently the
manufacturers unable to send their goods abroad are
finding the home market overstoeked at the price at
which they can afford to SELL have to stop work. and
all the cotton mills except one at Lowell agreed to
suspend for time -#y@ rT
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The COUNTERFEIT TEss The Philadelphia ledger
says that all the tests hitherto made public are unreli
able, but adds
There is however clear and distinctive difference
easily discorered by every one at all with
paper money, between these same genuine and coun
ereit bills and one, too the manufacturers cannot
alter to avoid detection, even after it is pointed out.
the face of the notes are printed In every comnar
son in which We have instituted or seen Instituted the
counterfeit = detected at The red color on the
genuine note IS clear and bright the Manufacture Of
the ink We are informed being and made Of ex
pensye material while the color Of the number prnted
on the counterfeit is dull and of brownish SHADE
Any one putting the two notes side byside need not
be deceived then or thereafter gssso p H. y
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SpoTs ON THE SUN-There is class of men who
fail to discover flaw in the diamond, or to poin
to the thorn of the Of what particular use they
to the world could conjecture, and as we
long ago came to the conclusion they barren fe
trees and deserved their fate, we are not sure we
would feel obliged to any kind friend who would put
himself to the trouble to inform what is their WORTH
One Of this class has recently discovered and promul-
gated through the New York Herald, that Mr.. Pea
bodyis munifcent donation to Gen. Lees College is
not much after all, being nothing more, says this
authority, than State Indebtedness of Virginia to Mr.
p, which the State has repudiated. This reminds US
of an objection made BY Of tbese utitarans to the
Greek Slave of Powers-the statue was nude
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BRASS BAND.-Mr. Kennedy, of the firm Of Hyams
& Kennedy, who Ia now in New York, has been tee-
grapbed to purchase instruments for the band Those
parties who have subscribed for this purpose it is to
be hoped will promptly pay up, as it would be unfair
to REQUIRE Messrs Fl 4 K. to advance the money.
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By reference to the card in another column it will
be that DR.. w A. Roger has located himself in
our midst and offers his professional services to
citizens -----.-
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SUDDEN DEATH.-A by the of J. E..
Plunket came aboard the Flavilla below Cotile and
registered for this place Shortly afterwards he was
taken sick and Monday night died with congestve
chill ~
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DAY OF AToSEMEHT.-The Hebrews will to-day OBJ
this anniversary, and their business houses will
of course, be closed.
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LEAVES To DAY.-The staunch steamer Lulu D leaves
for the city to day Shippers and passengers will find
her safe and comfortable and her officers polite and
relishle
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dispatches, from Tuesday Mornings Daily.l
FROM WASHINGTON. 80

WASHINGTON, Sept IA Southern gentleman
visiting Cuba for the purpose of learning the true state
of affairs for himself and friends, writes eneouragngly
from Cardenas under date of September J. saving the
revolution, honestly believe, will sacceed Abiding
to outrages and destruction by volunteers the writer
says if the continues six months the island will
be almost uninhabitabe then. Now all along the
eastern coast the peopeare the verge Of starvation
Twenty eavalrymen ordered to Firginiato enforce
revenue laws al
WASHINGTON, Sept. Kentucky soldiers here il
full force to GUST bomb proofs" They have hare
work, and make slow progress in getting possession
the Kentucky Federal Offices. 8
Dispatchs from all points report magnificent Hum
boldt festivities.
High officials think the Virginia Legislature can cleo
United States Senators prior tothe States regular ad
mission into the Union. at .asgg
Revenue over $500, 900.
Late adriees say half the cotton crop Of Florida ant
Georgiais destroyed by caterpillars. ~
Blank space in new tobacco stamps must be filled
with the name of the manufacturer hereafter.
Trial of Shurman implicated with Turner, negro ex
postmaster at Macon, Ga, in counterfeit money mat
tiers, commenced to-day. sF88$ -
Saturdays report Of revenue seizures quite heavy
Mention only Kentucky of Southern States.
Understood here that conservative Republicans o
Mississippi in order 10 interfere little as possible Will
cotton gathering viii not commence active canvas
until after the lst of November.
State Department is officially advised that New Yorl
has ratified the 9th amendment.
Private letters from Sickes say he is sanguine tina
Spain will sell Cuba. Serrano is willing but Cabne
officers are not. "a
Gen. Hubs report of executions of two Americans
one telegraher named Weyeth, characterises then
as massacres It appears from the report that such
the disturbed condition Of the island that the admins
tration Of justice in many instances is impossible.
Central Cuban Junta forwarded twenty thousan,
dollars in bonds of the Republic Of Cuba to the Raw
Inns fund. Bonds sell on the market at twenty-fy
cents on the dollar. Subscription of one dollar from
each Cuban started for same fund.
Recent activity Of the navy has no warke meaning
Vessels were becoming damaged BY idleness and it
proposed to use sailing vessels for ordinary duty in
stead of steamers, as matter Of economy.
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TAXES AND LoNGEvlTY.--A doctor in North Ger
many, by examining the tax and mortality lists. has
proven that those who pay the most tax live the long
est. The New Orleans Bulletin says this demon
srates that there subtle connection between high
taxes and long fe It least demonstrates that the
comforts Of life aids to longevty-the opinion Of
those old fogiea the contrary who say that people
are not robust and do not live long they used
tn
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The Atlantic Monthly article in relation to Byron
has led to the republication of many incidents of the
poets life and "reminiscences of his friends. We copy
one below from Northern exchange, but cannot for
the life of any evidence of mental depreciation
in the Captains estimate of the Z" Raven"-in our
opinion the finest poem published since Byron touched
his harp and listening nations heard entranced':
Captain Medwin had come of good family-being
a cousin of Shcley-was fine scholar, having
made the acquaintance of the classic writer's in their
own language and what is left of their soil,
and in bis day had enjoyed some reputation man
of letters. But as knew him he could have been
only the wreck of what he had been once. His face
bore unmistakable evidence of mind i'll at He
Grabbed, fretful, misanthropic, and, fancied,
jealous of the wellearned reputation of the who
rule the English realm of letters at the present time
He ridculed Tennyson, and spoke disapprovingly of
Bulwer; but complmented Longfellow, and declared
that he would rather have written Poe Raven" than
any other poem of the present century. / know not
whether he still survives but if he does not, death
has done for him a friendly Office than was in
the power of friend relative it has soothed spirit
to which life misspent had made rest impossible here
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The Feliciana Ledger Of the 18th says: EYerbod,
is engaged in picking cotton. There is magnificent
crop, and hands readily get employment at dollar De,
day, and scarce at that On account of scarcity 81
labor sugar planters experience some trouble in get
ting their wood cut " ~
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RED RIvER.-From the GAINESVILLE Standard of the
4th inst, we learn that the river is falling above that
the crops had just had much needed rain and that
the caterpillar had appeared In that section
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MISCELLANEOUS.

CARTHAGE, ONO, Sept 13.-Elevated platform al
race gave way, seriously njuring seventeen men and
women.
RICHMOND, Va, Sept 13.-Chas Whittleaev do
feated Wells candidate for Congress- in the Alexandria
District, has been appointed By Gen. Candy Attorney
General vice Rowden, resigned
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MADE Cocoon Wednesday we were shown dis
patch from w, B. Meeker, Cashier Of the Bank ofNew
York, addressed Col B. IT. johnson. stating ia pur-
port that $4,000 had been placed the credit Of the
young man who was so unfortunate as to nisapply
that amount Of money belonging to bis employers. We
sengrasslats oil parties u he rsssltsass.
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REMoyAL--John y, Howell, Assessor and Collector
of State and parish taxes has removed bis Office from
the corner Of Spring and Milan streets 70 Marke,
street
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Tue DRoUTu AT THE NoRTH.-A Washington dis
patch of the 27th says that the Maryland newspapers
filed with complaints about the drouth and the
blghting Of the corn potato and tobacco crops and
say that even trees appear to be DYING. Frederick
City is on half raons of water Frosburg is similarly
afflicted and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Is very
low on some of the levels
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Rev. a. L. Hay, Of the Shreveport News, was at
Galveston the other day, and there communicated to
Flake Bulletin that he has raversed all parts Of the
territory drained by Sabine river and bore testimony
to the feasibility OF direct communication between
Brooklyn, the port Of entry and Galveston. The Bull
letn believes il TO be the desire of the people
OF the BALI dozen counties which border on that river
to make Galveston their seaport, and hopes they will
be encouraged, and that regular line will be estab
lished between Brooklyn and that place
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when any says we are Radical he lies.
ana iles knowingly. [Jimplecute.
Spoken like little man; Why didn't you say so be-
foreY
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Col j. NJ Cults, brother-in-law Of the late Senator
Douglass publishes in the Chicago journal reply
the Washington lobby article in the September Allan
tic Monthly Col eatta reutea the charge that sena-
tor Douglas secured the passage of the Illinois Central
Railroad land grant bill through Congress by corrupt
MEANS and presents history of the facts Of that
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DISTRICT couRr IN BossIER-Judge Levsee has
teegraphed that he will be in Bellevue on Monday next
for the purpose of holding court.
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RETURsED.-We are pleased to record the safe re-
turn of our friend, Major Tally. he succeeded in
purchasing large and wen selected stock Of goods in
New York, and will shortly 4open out in his building
on Milan street He claims that he can FELL cheap as
the cheapest, and those who have experienced the
Majors berality prepared 10 place implicit Gre
dence in his assertion.
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HONOR TO WHOM HONOR Is DUE.


Editors of the Daily Southwestern:
Permit me to correct statement contained In your
issue of yesterday with reference to the fire which
occurred on the premises of Mrs. Kery, on Monday
morning last. You say: at appears that our fire.
men were not exactly equal to the emergency. The
Caddo No got upon the ground, but it seems there
was no engineer" This does injustice gen
orally the Fire Department of our city, and partcu
iarEy to Pelican Hook and Ladder Company Mol. I
am aware that nothing of the kind was intended by
you and I am sure that you will cheerfully make the
necessary correction you have evidently been mis-
informed. The facts these: Caddo No. aods not
upon the ground. Pelican Hook end Ladder No.
there, and that too, promptly, though too late to
be of service in extinguishing the fire. This was
through no fault of theirs but simply because the
alarm was not sounded until the kitchen, which was
burned was nearly consumed. l do not wish to be
understood casting any reflections upon the mem
bers of Caddo No. /. They gallant set of boys
and turned out promptly when the alarm sounded
on Monday morning. 1t was no fault of theirs that
their engineer sick, that the horses not
Immediately hand to haul their engine to the
Of the fire. Many of them the ground in
person, prepared to render any service that re-
qured. The Fire Department Of Shreveport, is
gansation of which her citizens may well be proud
Our iremen were not only equal to the emergency
upon the occasion referred to- but our citizens may
assured that they will be upon every similar
occasion which may hereafter present itself. Nv
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FROM NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. l4.-Departed for Red river
Era No. 9. S8 5{ $s =ss.4 us e
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. l4-Weatber rather cool
thermometer rs,