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Dispatches, from Tuesday Mornings I
FROM WASHINGTON

= WAsAiSGT"s june Is New Southern Ma,
C'nrt Just tinishrd in this city dedicated this
Sermon ny Rev, w. T. Munce. ''s "ornihp
WAsHISGTos, June Ia Revenue to day ~,
$50 U0l over Il
The Tallapoosa left for Fortress Monroe to :.
the monitor Sangus to Cuban waters eonses
Gen Bcckwh ordered to SUPERVISE suhsi,,
fairs in the Fourth Military District. in ad,;as It
Louisiana dnties b
Gen. Harvey reiiesea Of duty aginst the Indie,.
ordered home on retired list
Discriminating duties against French vessa,,
merchandise imported directly from producine y
try, is abolished reciprocity of ike abolition ~ s
elimination by France against cargoes mportad y
American vessels.
Revenue Bureau authorised to employ trooo,
North carolina when necessary to carry out rers,'
Iaua 'eRt
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FROM HAVANA.

HAVANA, June l2-Report that an expedition ),
hiibusGers had landed at Aguadores near Sa,ia,esI
and that another expedition is On the south side oFS
island waiting TO land, are unconfrmed. Rumor d
war steamer Luisa had sunk two vessels briucines
busters aid the reyalutionsts also anconfirmed
HAVANA, June Ia Severe engagement repos.,.
near Puerto Principe. One hundred reported kiNsi
including Gen MHrmnse. Reliable information wan;ns
HAVANA, June l3--Heavy engagement at pu,,s.,
Padre confirmed. Spaniards admit 60 killed Sn.,
iards estimate the pat lots killed and wounded at leo
including Gen. Aarmore killed. A Santiago d.n
Spanish sources) state schooner landed 1000 fbrs
tiers 90 miles east OF Santiago. Guide betrayed Gil
busters. Sixty killed and balance captured I,esds
shot. Captives taken to Santiago for execu,os
Stores OF expedition captured, including two million
unsigned revolutionary currency, several hr,,dre
rifles and three Or four pieces Of artillerv.
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WE hrsr PRo7EsT.-Why will writer's persistently
persist in misquotng Shakespeare? They very rarely
permit one to be native and to the manner born, !"
but must invest him with manor" instead; and
they never have suffered Macbeth to defy McDuf in
good grammar-would be shocked at writing let he De
damned, and yet quote dunned be he" In speech
before the Commercial Convention, at Memphis
Judge Yerger is I've suppose by mistake Of the
reporter proof reader) made to say
The base Indian threw pearl away
Richer than all his tribe"
Shade of Shakespeare and Of Otheile! The reporter
evidently had never heard Of Judean tribes
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FROM NEW ORLEANS.

New ORLEANS, June l5.--Departed for Red River
Golden Era.
New ORLEANS, June l5.--Four members OF the
Metropolitan Police Board, including Lieut. Gov Dunn,
who is President of the board imprisoned in the
parish prison six hours to day and fined 800 each ny
the Sixth District Court for contempt in disobeyng
an injunction from that court. The trouble ous
OF the Jefferson City police affairs.
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ROTATION IN oFFIcE.speaking of the removals from
Office on political grounds the New Orleans Times very
justly says:
Offices, to be respectable and desirable, ought to be
far permanent than they in country. Gov
must have its officials. but they ought to be
moral industrious and capable men and if they So
they shond be retained in Office, and not be turned
because Of the Slm and caprice OF tyran
cal superior in Office, who may be himself the ahject
tool and mere of his SUPERIOR who has bis
ends and the eoun:rys benefit to by placing
him in that position.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

New YORK. June l4-CoIlsiop at Shandos hetwea,
mob and police Several hurt.
RICHMOND June l4.-Judge Olcott formerly Jndcs
of the Supreme Court Of Louisiana appointed .Indga
Of Hustings' Court of Richmond
PHILADELPHIA, June l5.-Templars' procession ex
tended one mile. Grand Commander, officers and
chaplans mounted, with .plumea, gay s,shes and gold
hilted swords Brilliant display. Several command.
cries marched III 'rang'es and crosses which novelty
provoked great applause. Great success. Houses
along line of march beautifully decorated.
SAN Francisco, June l5.-Me1ican advces state
gold fields have been discovered in Colina D;str;cf
12o miles in length, richer than California and rh,, rbs
people are rushing thilher Government of r,l;ns
makes kidnapping capital offense Politics If So.
nora quiet.
New YORK, June l5.-John Sweeney, Of Charlea,o,
arrested Tor fatally stabbing man named Duean
LEAvEswoaTH June l5--Indians again mnrderinr
So miles north of Solomon river. Party followed h,,
finding the Indians in force, returned Harney laft
for the scene. -
San FRANCISCO, June l5.-Iron clads Monadno.L
and Cmanche ordered to be held in readiness far ssa
an hours notice. - =
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Contrary the old theory that it does not rain at
night in June we had quite shower Last Sunday night
To the denizens Of the town it not unacceptable,
but presume planters would have preferred not
70 have had such aid and comfort it afforded tbe
r,rsss which thew are row n,anfuIlv combating.
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FEAALE sUEFRAGE.-The Board Of Registration in
Washington City recently made decision refusing
register voters twenty eight females who applied
during the month, stating that the law confined the
franchise to males. Thereupon Prof Wilcox who
headed this delegation of women, demanded that his
name should be stricken from the registration. Mag
unanimous gentleman
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Mr. Joshua Billings is evidently philosopher and
who is deeply versed in the secret workings, the
weaknesses and vanites Of the human heart He asks
If the world despses hypocrite what must they
think Of him in hesven?' Poorly, JOSH poorly, we
imagine He says: "Fattery is ike kolohe water,
tew be smelt at. swallowed Yet how many of US
misconceive its uses!
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RAILROAD ITEMs- tow boat I;,t,a o,ae, az.
rived mere Monday with barge in tow. The barge,
ai'ef receiving locomotive and fonr cars beIon
% the L l. T. Railroad will be towcd back to V;cks.
burg, and the locomotive aud cars will be nm, uuon
NJ eastern division of the railroad from Delta this
way.
and grading in the unfinished gan Of tho rod ra poy
under contract to good and Responsible parties and
that there doubt whatever that tho ears viii be
running through fron river 81 he r, Of Az
susA uSAs IOuaehisa Telegraph. eth.
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70 Judge from the number Of empty barrels he Is
receiving, Mr. Stoner expects to do heeFkillng i
no. hogkilling business the coming fall and winter
Some twenty-five hundred came up Sunday Oh the
Selma and indeed, that boat has been fairly covered
over with barrels the last three four tsips.
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Mr. John Howell has opened hs office at NO 10
Milan street, where he or his assistant, MI Sturgesa
will be pleased to their taxpayng friends st as
early day az will suit their convenience. Come up.
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EusG BE THE HEAVENS IN BtAcK.-The Grand jury
now in session is composed Of ten buck negroes and
five white men If this state of things did not psrske
too much Of the tragic it might be called comedy.
We suppose we must compromise and call it farce-a
moat decided farce. Burnside is foreman, and will
dsappoint US if his report ia not rich one.
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We have been told that the Radical party Is on tho
increase in New Orleans Warmoth. Wickiiae, ct u
onne gsus are corrupting the political oras Of
Of the citizens. Patronage viii tell.
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/, LIBERAL OrFEE.-An exchange says that stuffed
cat placed upon strawberry bed will frighten away
the birds which destroy the fruit There are any guam
tity of cats about place Of residence, which we
think would be good to stuff, as they are good for
nothing else. We propose to furnish cats cheap, pay
able in Strawberries
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THE BoTroN RAIL.-It may not be generally known
that in Liberia and Hayii VII te man can neither
hold real estate become citizen yet such is the
fact There they do make distinction Of race and
color. : The best Goverument, &C." is much more
liberal
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We have no late developments of special ineresti'
regard the trial at Jefferson The prosecution ha
closed We learn from private sources, and the e1ain
alton Of witnesses for the defence has been entered
f,Da1
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The Ouachita Telegraph Of the 9Th, says the river
has fallen during the week just ended, about foot
and is this point three feet below the highest
water OF the season. The Governor Allen and May
flower continue their weekly trips with ne up freighs
but with very little freights down.
negro from Ohio YES admitted on the 2Ist Nav
to practice Law in the High Court Of Errors and Ap-
peais of Mississippi.
What sensation he would produce in addressing
oar iary as II now etsrdsl
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One would suppose that there are enough idle ne
Sroes about Shreveport to load two or three steam
oosts, but it seems there enough to unload one
The captain of The Virgins offered thirty FIVE cents
SouE for hands to unload the railroad iron and could
pot get halt dozen. He had to unload with his crew.
and the labor great that 1t was not completed
pns Tuesday evening
Touching the cclored population, We we're told at
tas depot that railroad tickets are sold to blacks
shan to whites. They fond of travel, doubtless to
improve their knowledge Of geography
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SWEET MoRsEL.--The SeR Orleans and St. Louis
papers jubiasing ov~r ftct that two more car
goes OF ~hest have been shipped New York by the
river route aud reached that port cool snd sweet The
~uest wss ia ba'k-ls. 600 bushels on each vessel
The u: Louis Democrat says "if that same grain had
Been purchased in WinoHs at the time it vas taken GA
eoa.d the tow of the hevk and been transferred TO
lineage, il would not vet have reached NeE York
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We are requested to call attention to the notice IT
smother column of the meeting of Meth Lodge to
night.
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We see from late number Of the Ouachita Tele
graph that convention, largely attended by delegated
from Jefferson, Drew, Ashley and Pulaski counties
Arkansas was held at Pine Bluff the 10th of May,
50 consider the building of the Pine Bluff and New
Orleans railroad The feasibility OF the project and
necessity of putting it into execution appeared to be
tavofaby regarded BY the meeting and the champions
OF The road are CO lseauentE considerably slstsd
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L has been estimated dad each Of the sixty captive

It has been estimated that each of the sixty captives
men, and children. released from the Abyssinian
King the British Government the little sum
Of ton, 6 cwt., % lbs and OF Of solid gold That
amount OF money expended in charity in London alone,
would have saved the lives of more Of the starving
poor, prevented more restitution, more crime than
could be we'll estimated, and infinitely more than the
lives of these prisoners worth. But such is war;
such the penalty Of INDUCING the innocent amusement.
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che seW Orleans papers Of thu 9Th record the death
- d I, Goodrich. He has been doing business il,
'aat csy soF over quarter OF century and was well
500 !ssorabiy known in thia portion of thu ssate.
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LOUISIANA CENTRAL RAILRoAD.--We see by q letter
from Judge Henry Boyee 10 Capt. Mutt, of this place,
that he is reviving the eork this important road.
The Judge 10 now President, and thinks there is fair
prospect of iis successful prosecution Its completion
would be secured beyond peradYe tnre If the people
of the parishes through which it would run, and who
very materially Interested i'll its success could BE-
induced to lend it efficient aid, And there is hope
they will do SO, more especially should good crop be
made the present year, and thus place surplus Of
money in the country. Hereafter this surplus must be
invested in old stockings manufactures or railroads,
us there are no negroes TIE market.
The Louisiana Central would prove of ineaculable
advantage to the parishes Of the Attakapas, Rapiies
Natchoches, D, Soto and Caddo as it would NEE.
river navigation Baton Rouge and short line could
connect it with the OpelouEas road at Washington
Shreveport would be its northern terminus l. is need
less to comment upon the immense commercial advan
tages we would reap from such road.
ABOUT TIME-All the papers appear to be aston
shed to find such paragraphs the following in the
columns of the New York Herald. We do not regard
it strange ALL Not that Bennett cares particularly
how Grant acts, but it mas for years been his practice
to place himself in the opposition. It is simply d
question of giving interest TO his columns. paper in
the opposition can Of course be made more interesting
than one which t4meiy follows a lead. Il is about
time for Bennett to pitch in:
Grant and johnson came in collision while the lat
ter was in off :e and the difference between them came
down las, to point Of veFacity which vas deter
mined in favor of Grant by the majority, rather
general principles than specific facts. But in view OF
short experience of Grant in Office will not that dit
ference stand new examination?
Grants vindictive attention to everybody who held
Office under Johnson for that reason merely, is an in
dication Of small spirit He has no more reason to
assume that everybody Who held Office under johnson
is corrupt than the next President will have assume
that everybody who held Office under Grant ~ss his
cousin.
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AEg1AL.--It will be seen by reference to our adVer-
Using columns that Professor Feneon proposes to at
lord fun for the million by ascending in mammoth
balloon on the 4th of July. He says nothing about
coming down. This ia something new with Jig. Dr.
Harris has a. times performed the feat Of sending up
balloon, but the Doctor always smart enough 70
remain safely on terra ,frmla the while.
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EXECUTION OF Poe AND RoBIsSoN.-The young men,
Poe and Robinson convicted Of the murder Of Mr..
Ely aud Col. Ward, near Henderson, Texas, in April
1868 we're hung at the Fair Ground mile esst Of
Henderson on Friday last. Mr. " T. Brooks, of this
place who vas present, informs that Robinson
perfectly calm and selfpossessed Upon being asked if
be had anything TO say, he replied no, that he had
nothing to add to what he had already said in prison
He had previously expressed himself satisfied Of the
Justice of his sentence-hat he knew thst he deserved
death. While in prison he hsd made profession of
religion.
Poe ~sB equally calm until the rope was placed
Ground his neck when he ey;nced considerable agita
sion. Upon being asked il he wished to say anything,
be expressed desire to speak to Mr. Brooks. the
n.law Of Mr.. Ely. He then expressed regret for his
been at himself and not under the influence Of liquor
Hoped that ali young men would take warning from
HE fate and refrain from drinking, which they will
doubt all do. After the cap placed bis face
I've knelt and prayed silently for short time.
At l2f o'clock the block was knocked from under
them, and their souls were launched into eternity
there to meet the God in defiance of whose laws they
bad lived.
Singular ss it may appear, THE il, with one excep-
aoo the first instance ola legal execution We have
ever heard of in Texss--a man recently hung by
tae legal process at Sherman. It ia be hoped it may
Rave sslutary effect upon she lawless characters Of
Texas and our own State
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ourtE Hos.--The editor Of the Jimpecute (hold a
moment Taylor, We do not apply the epithes to you)
sess us that he ssw side of bacon weighed in Jefer-
son, Toe other day which weighed s6 lbs The unfor-
snnste animal that claimed il, was raised in Den
ton county, and weighed 300 lbs. Tho editor wishes
70 know any CT the elder States can beat it. We tell
200, Taylor it can't be done.
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Observation-Disclosures does not think so we'll OF
the Secretary Of the Treasury. The Boston Post thus
pictures "the hole in the sky" man:
The Radical newspaper correspondents are making
traffic efforts to write up Boutwell, but they succeed
only in making him ridiculous. The keen satire of the
statement that "he thoroughly honest in politics.
will be fully apprt ciated By all who know his shufng
cry which has distinguished his career. He is said
live plai'y, aud to haunt the newspaper Offices and
is considered "nota great man." but " a of
talent" His talent is mediocre enough, and will never
set the Potomac afre. His congressional has
been failure, his administrative Of the Treasury so
far laughing STOCK and his caibre as a small dena-
gogue whose pretensions tied, but whose
ability could be covered BY piece is hecom
ing percep,ible those who hoped to find sufi
celt capacity in him to make him valuable as q stool
pigeon He will be known in history, if at all, as the
great rebater, and should resign at once while the
honor is thick upon him.
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CHARAcrERrsTic-Gen. Chiffon made speech at
the Memphis Convention, in which he said that he
had fought four years and half in the Confederate
cause and at the end ready to fight forty years
more, but that, having accepted Tie situation IN good
faith. there more DESTROYS and determined
than himself to uphold the Government" Northern
newspapers true to their instincts leave out entirely
that portion OF the sentence which is in italics.
contemporary suggests that of the greatest in
ducements for us to encourage Chinese immigration
has been overlooked 1t ia the utilization of rata
That is good idea. Five hundred Of them could
make senteei living on rats in Shreveport alone
The Chinese far in advance of rs in this partcu
lar. Our squeamish people have never been able to
get farther than dog yet and that only in the shape of
sausages.
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INGRATITUpE.-Tbe following little incident gives an
their most marked characteristics. This was clearly
demonstrated during the war, for it the almost
universal experience that those servants who had been
most ndulgently treated the first to betrsy their
Whether it is the result of servitude we can
not say, but safely lay down the general PROPOSE
ton that whoever calculates upon negroes gratitude
will be egregiously fooled:
A French lady returning from Havana carried with
her pretty little negro boy, for whom she very
derby cared. One day Bamboula said to his mistress
Papa told me when | WAS big must kill you and
carry him all your money Tn going to kill you, but
shant 60 hack to him, for he would take all the
money away" Bamboula is on his way home.
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The grand jury Of the Superior Court at Savannah
the Oath ult. indicted Mrs. Cathsrne a. Patterson,
lady whose extreme beauty graceful manners and in
teligence have been the theme and admiration Of all
who have met with her. for the murder of her repued
husband, DR.. James T. Patterson in May 1865
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lt must De happy thought lover that h;s blood
aaa list Of ~ swessaesrs miugle in the same mos
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The Alexandra Democrat of the 7.b, records faH
Of nine feet in the river at that point during the pre-
Hons week
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PHILIP ALLEN A gent, Mansfield Louisiana.
Mr. E. C. Foar lie duly authorised sgent for Lew
isville, Arkansas.
THos McIsrYRg, of New Orleans, is our only duly
authorized agent receive subscriptions and adEer-
tisements in that city.
Mr. JoHs c. LoYE, Minden, L., ia duly authorized to
receipt for subscriptions.
Mr. F. L. LowERY, Starrve, Ia duly authorized to
receive and receipt for subscriptions in Smith county
Texas and the counties surrounding.
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Inc Elevator and Warehouse Company have shin
pea az follows since March and have large sunnlv
still on hand for expectation in bulk
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The Richmond Whig claiming to speak by authority,
says the name Ku KIux is not of American origin,
the vhim Of wag but like the order itself origi
mated in China among the merchants engaged in
smuggling opium into that empire It was introduced
into America by Humphrey Marshall on his return
from the Celest,als. Marshall organised the frat
band in room 81, Browrs Hotel, Richmond, intending
it for sort OF hilarious social club"