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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16
SkrnlE Sale.

I 'strayed before the undersigned, by c
July, 1869, and will be sold to the highest
bidder, for cash, at Bellevue, La, on the
first Satusday the 5th day of March, 1870
Bay Stud Colt, Bay Mare Colt and
Black Mare Colt, about n years old each
Bay stud branded on left shoulder with key
Black mare on right shoulder with key, and
Bay mare On right shoulder with key and on
left hip with w. P. connected Appraised
at $50 each.
The owner is requested to come forward
prove property pay charges, &c.
j. Fl. LOTION, Stray Master
Bellevue, Sept. /, 1869. n23
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There is a corntield i'm Benton
county. Indiana, of 1000 acres, in
good condition and growing splen-
didly. 1t is to found on the farm
OF Adams Earl, Esq, who resides
in Lafayette. Messrs. Earl and
Fowler have a farm of 10000
acres in Benton county in one
body, we'll watered, and with per-
manent Improvements, having 140
miles of hedge fence and Go miles
of board fence, 80 dwelling-hous
for tenants, 8 blacksmith shops,
&c. To cultivate the corn lands
169 one and two-horse ploughs are
kept in daily use, and on the pas,
trare lands 400 head of cattle
are now feeding for the New
York market, and will be shipped
this Fab by rail. Messrs. Earl
and Fowler give their supervision
to the farm, besides attending to
their separate interests, the former
a iobbing merchant, and the lat
ter broker. With the late i'm.
: proVements of farm machinery
and harvesting Improvements, they
are enabled to keep the model
farm in good condition, and from
present appearances the balance
sheet will be on the right side, as
heretofore.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

Nor FAR WRoNG.-The veteran
Scotch author, Thomas Carlyle,
said to correspondent of the New
York Tribune, who tried to get
from him a compliment to Radl
cal ''progress:"
"As sure as the Lords reigns
you are rushing down to hell
with desperate velocity. The
scum OF the world has got posses
sion of your country, and nothing
5 can save you from the devils
clutches. "Not, perhaps" cried
he, raising his voice to its shrilest
notes, "a hell burning with mate.
rial fire and birthstone, but the
wide weltering fiery chaos of cor
ruption in high places, and mis-
rule OF the people,"
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SHERIFF's FEEs.-The follow

SHERIFF's FEEs.-The follow.
ing are the fees allowed the sher.
if by the last Legislature:
Service, ETC., OF petition and eli.
tation, 81; attachment, 81 30; Sc
questration, 81; arrest, 81; pro-
visional seizure, 81; fieri facias,
(satisfed), 81 90; tieri facias, null,
la bona, 81; distringas, 81 Is; ha-
beas corpus, 81; subpenas, 40 cts;
attachment for witnesses, 81; We,
nire, 81; empanelling jury, 81;
commitment, 81; taking bond, 80
cts; notice to creditors, % cts; or.
ders and notices not provided for,
so cents.
CharyeS.-Making out adver.
tisements, for 100 words, 10 cts;
commission on sale, first $500, 2
per CT; commission on sale, sec
ond $500, 1 per Ct; commission
on sale after first $1,000, J per Ct;
commission for collecting writ,
first $500, 1 per Ct; commission
for collecting writ, above the first
5000, ! per CT; keeping to be fix
ed by court, or per day, 50; mile
age, per mile, 5 cents.
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United States Commerce.

commerce of the United States for
the last fiscal year, (186S) are
made up and published in the
New York Journal of the Com
merce Of the Sth inst. The fig,
ures are as follows: Imports into
the United States from foreign
ports, merchandise S417,376,765
specie s19,649,776-total i'm
ports $437, 026,541. Exports from
the United States to foreign ports
domestic produce s275,611, 591;
foreign produce S1O,9O7, 1853; spe-
Gle S57,13S, 3S0--total exports
S343,657,724. The imports are
all given in gold, and the value
of merchandise is stated at its in
voiced cost abroad, freight and
duty not included. The exports
being at first mostly recorded at
the home value in paper money
are converted into the gold equiv
alent by the accountants of the
Statistical Bureau, and in the
figures above the record has been
carefully followed. Thus we have
a total import of four hundred
and thirty-seven millions in gold
value, not reckoning the cost OF
freight or the added duty, which
would be altogether nearly three
hundred millions more, and
against this only an export value
Of three hundred and forty three
millions, leaving a difference
against us nearly ninety-four mil
l
lion dollars. In addition to this il
is computed that over one hun
dred millions are annually sent
abroad for interest and dividends
on various securities held by for
eigners, SO that in this balance Of
trade there must have been up
wards of two hundred millions Of
dollars to be met by the remit
tance to this amount of so much
in government bonds or other
forms of Indebtedness. The cur
rent fiscal year, of which more
than two months have now
elapsed, has commenced with q
more favorable showing, the ex
ports of domestic produce having
thus far exhibited a marked in
crease. IT wheat continues low
and cotton turns out as expected
we may present healthier bal
ance sheet for the twelve months
ending June 30, 1S7O.-TN. o
Bulletin.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16
SggNay Sale.

Eystrayed before W. j. Bush, j. p, by G.
= W. Arnold, .jr en- the End day of Sept
1863. ard will be sold for cash on the 18th
day of March, 1870, at Bellevue, small bay
horse saddle marks on his back and right
hind loot white, about 8years old. Branded
on his left shoulder with figure and letter
j. Appraised at $50.
The owner is requested to come forward
prove property, pay chrages, 6Ce.
J. III. LOTION, Stray Master.
Bellevue, La, Sept. 1869.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

COTTON MANUFACTURES IN
THE UNITED STATEs.-A North
ern exchange says that 41S mills
now report Z, 10000 spindIes run
ming, consuming yearly 256,238,-
TIA pounds of cotton--a decrease
since 1868 OF 81, 510, 1863 pounds.
Fifty Southern mills, which re
ported in the year 1867-8 the
number of 168,246 spindIes, con.
Stunning %, 781 1888 pounds of cot
ton, now report 166.27O spindles.
consuming 19,979,SO0 pounds-a
decrease of 3,S0l, 53S pounds, equal
TO 16 per cent. In all AT mills.
which reported in the year 1858,
5,2l3,565 spindles, consuming
3O1 ,581 ,941 pounds OF cotton, now
report 1922, $50 spindles, consum-
ing 276,262, 5l4 pounds; a decrease
OF 25,311,S27 pounds, equal to
something over 8 per cent.
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Lands uncultivated, rich soil
that has never known pillow, can
be purchased by the thousands of
acres all over Western Texas at
from % cents to 81 per acre.
Thousands of arces have been sold
during the last u months at fore
ed sale in San Antonio at I6 cents
per acre, and fine tracts can be
purchased from 80 cents to 81 per
acre, with abundant timber for
fencing and tirewood and with
open lands which can be plowed
and put in crop the first season.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

An exchange says that, some
weeks since, a woman, in one OF
the counties in the southwest of
this State, hung herself because
her husband went to California.
The next week more than a dozen
husbands in the same neighbor-
hood started for California, but
their wives couldn't see it., They
wouldn't hang-worth cent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16
Stray Sale.

Estrayed before the undersigned, author
Il ity, on the 9th July, 1869, bv NJ. L.
Ford, and will be sold at Bellevue, La, on
Saturday, October %, 1869, to the highest
bidder for cash, dark brown COW and calf
with crop, split and two under-bits in
right ear, and an over slope in left ear;
about 10 years old. Appraised at $l2.
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, &c.
j. II. LOTION, Stray Master
Bellevue, July ~, 1869.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

The Natchez Democratpropouds
q conundrum: eff a young wo-
mans wardrobe costs $1,000 a
year, can man with an income
of $500 afford to marry herg If
a young man has an income of
$500, aud spends $1,000, can he
afford to marry any one9 This
last is a more common state of
affairs.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

Manassas, Va, is rapidly i'm
proving. 1t has now about eieh.
ty buildings, two churches, three
schools lone colored), two hotels,
one steam-mill, one sumac-mill,
FIVE stores, one newspaper, one
tin-shop, two shoe-shops, two
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

We do not object to any amount
OF gayety or yivacity that lies
within bounds of reason or of
health, but we do object and alb
nor, as worthy to be stgmatized
as dishonorable and nnmanly,
every such course in youth as
takes away strength, vigor and
purity from old age.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

To KEEP RATS FROM HAIR
NEss.-Take about a teaspoonful
OF Cayenne pepper, mix it thor
oughly with ii quart of oil, and
rub the harness with the mixture.
This, it is claimed, will not only
keep rats and mice, from gnawing
the harness, but it will also pre-
vent horses and colts from chew
ing the lines or halters.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16
.SErMaE S0Ee.

Estrayed before the undersigned on the
II 18th day of May, 1869, by Willis Allen,
and will be sold, for cash, at Bellevue, La
on Saturday 9th day of November, 1869, a
Sorrel Horse, about nine years old, white
streak in forehead; right hind and right fore
feet white-no brands. Appraised at $75.
The owner is requested to come forward
prove property, pay charges, sc.
J. II. LOTION, Stray Master.
Bellevue, La, May %, 1869 n8
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

Sore-eyed poodle dogs have had
their day, and now it is consider.
ed the correct thing for fashion.
able ladies to carry a pet monkey.
If fashion called for it, some wo-
men would lead a white elephant
around with a string.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

That portion of the Internal
revenue law which relates to in.
comes contains the following pro.
vision: "The taxes on incomes
herein imposed shall be due and
payable on the 30th day of April
in each year, including the year
1870, and no longer.p
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

An English surgeon has inven-
ted knife which cuts a man up
into sausagemeatso quick and so
easily that they don't know any
thing hbout it until the next day.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

Gonzales, Texas, has castor oil
factory. Two hundred gallons of
oil recently shipped to New Or
leans brought 81 so per gallon.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16
SsrNsg Sale.

Destroyed before the undersigned, by G.
II W. Monzingo, on May 9th, 1869, and
will be sold for cash, to the highest bidder,
at Bellevue, Louisiana, on Saturday the
both day of November 1869, q Bay Mare pony,
four years old. with brands w on the left
shoulder, an O with cross under it on left
hip, white III her forehead.
The owner il requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charge, &c
j. II. LOTION, Stray Master.
May l1th, 1869. M
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

The Charleston Courier says
the planters in that vicinity are
harvesting , fine rice crop.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

A woman has commenced a suit
of divorce against her husband
because he would not allow her
to apply her tongue to the stopper
OF the molasses jug every time
she used it., a privilege every Yam
kee woman is said to consider sa-
cred.
An unreasonable husband. Pro,
vided the tongue was not applied
to him, he should have raised no
objection.
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Castings.

FTyhree tons Castings, assorted, for sale ,,
I J. II. REYNOLDS,
81 Texas street, Shreveport.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-16

More money is invested in fen
ces in this country than in build.
ings.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04

erament. which was the United States
Constitutional Government, existing
previous to the late war. Tais was not
revolutionary body, as some are wont
to characterize the Conventions called to
put The States out Of the Union. 1t was
an assembly of men who represented the
original thirteen Upited States who met,
and finding the defects of the old system
could not be remedied, set about devils
ing plans and conditions of an entire
new form of government. So we have in
this an example of what convention
NAV do when assembled The endeavor
TO tie the hands of the convention to
be called in this State with useless rsso-
lutions of the Legislature will, in the end,
prove abortive. The Legislature does
not call the conventional merely pro-
vides for the holding Of the election for
delegates, place, time, etc.
There are some members of the present
General Assembly who are extremely
anxious to become delegates to this new
Convention, and are in doubt of being
elected, serving as they do as Legislators,
Edmond Cooperis one of these fellows,
who is WINDY. believing, high order of
cry-baby. Poor mani his tears are too
close to the surface. he won't do for
anything but Andy Johnson's private
We regard the days for such
small men as numbered.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04
TIE COUNTY CoNvENTIoN.

We think II abouttime that our county
Democratic Executive Committee were
arousing themselves from their short nap
since the gubernatorial election. There
is vet something to be done before the
peopIe will declare the duties of this most
excellent committee at an end. These
gentlemen have most nobly discharged
their duties in the past, and have received
the thanks of grateful community. The
time bas now come round for preliminary
s,ens to be taken in the election of Demo-
cratic delegates to the StateConstitutional
Convention, which will doubtless as
ssmble in January next The bill calling
this Convention has, it isHwell known,
psssed the House of Representatives,
and from the vote taken in the Senate
Yesterday, on certain test questions re-
lsting to this BILL we think it more than
probable that it will pass, vithin a few
dave. into law. The time, then, will
be necessarily short for our people to
think of the Convention aHd of select
ing suitable men as delegates. Would
Il not be well that our Executive
Committee meet at an early day
TO deliberate upon these important mat
tiers? The work of reforming our State
from the miserable stain spots of Radical
rule will not be complete until convex
ton of the people can meet and admins.
ter the salutary changes. The desire is
to make Of Tennessee white mans State,
where the oppressed of the South may
come and erjoy the freedom of white
men. uncontaminated by the degrading
mixture of the African. The people de-
sire that none but white men shall be
placed in candidacy who are in every
respect opposed to negro equality and
universal suffrage. We want the straight
Democratic ticket placed in the field, and
will support no other. Four-ffths of the
people of this county are opposed to me-
groes having voice in the Government,
and all desire that men shall be elected
delegates to the convention with the
view of placing the word white :"
u the Constitution as qualification for
electors in this State. Let the Liberals
and Radicals, who agree in platform, hold
their convention, and we will contest the
field with them. If men and newspa-
pers should assume to speak in the name
of the people for Universal Suffrage,
(which means negro equality, believe
them not, but follow the sound of the
Democratic rams horn. which shall be as
. warning voice to all.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04

aioner o .borne yesterday. charged with
engraving plates for counterfeit cure lcy'
He was held in $25. 900 bail.
A case came before Judge Fithesn
yesterday, in which Patrick O'Toole, a
lad of eighteen, sued the Managers of
the House of Refuge for $40, 900 damages
on account of bad treatment, in keeping
him in close room on insufficient food,
in conse quence Of which got the itch and
became much d5bilitated.
A Herald special from Key West,
Florida. dated November 3. says that
the sch % 3ner W. II. Clears, from Nassau,
arrived here this morning with lie men,
Who were taken from the Cuban steamer
Lillian. She was captured by the
English gu horities at Nassau, while at
anchor in the harbor. The vessel is said
to be badly injured, and condemned as
unseaworthy. The balance of the Lii
lian's crew are now OF Nassau.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04
PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, November "A mum.
Der of Jewish Rsbbis, from the principal
cities OF the Union, are in conference on
the subject of reform in the Jewish
Church. They adopted resolutions abol-
ishing the use of prayers in Hebrew, as
unintelligible to the masses; disclaim-
ing the doctrine of bodily resurrectio D.,
or the removal of the Jewish state by Sc
gregation from all other nations, and de.
claring the A sronic priesthood and the
Mosaic saor.fc cal worship to have been
merely preparatory steps to Israels ma,
tional priesthood, and therefore things 1t
the past, to be mentioned, to be practiced
in their educational capacities, and not
TO be practical.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04
THE SENATE I'm A DILEMMA.

The present Legislature was elected by
the people, with view of calling at once
Constitutional Convention, the truth Of
which Zone will deny Men who were
elected to the Legislature with instruc-
tons to provide the means for the peo-
pies convention are now disposed to hold
back. FIRST bill is introduced into the
Senate through a minority oftheJudiciary
Committee to substitute in lieu of the
House bill certain proposed amend
ments to our Constitution for the
people to vote upon. When that was
voted down, the opponents to the Con-
veution, through Mr.. Edmond Cooper.
offered en- amendment, restricting the
action of the Convention to the subjects
of poll-tax, franchise aud judiciary re-
forms. This amendment was adopted
by quite small N joriiy, which is evil
dence that the Senators are 10th to per-
form the will of their constituency.
Etheridge seems to have gone 10 sleep
during tie discussion Of these important
matters, aud when called on to vote
cried aye, when he desired to vote nay.
He certainly had the satisfaction ofvoling
on both sides of the record, snl could
be said to have straddled the fence most
gracefully. E;heridge must have been
on a bit Of spree, or one of bis night
carousals that he was so remarkable for
in Washington City while a member Of
Congress-. Wake up, old sleepy-head, or
Andy johnson will yet get ahead OF you
by some hecus-pocns.
Now, as to placing restrictions upon
the Convention after it shall have been
broHght into existence, the idea is ridicu-
lous in this government Of constitutional
bodies. The members TO the great Cos
sention which framed the Constitution Of
the United States we're restricted BY their
credentials TO the proposition Of amend.
iag the old articles Of CONFEDERATION.
But the Cshveution went 50 Tar as 10
re,,mmssd entirely new form Of gov
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04
BY TELE G R A P Fl.
LATEST TO NOON TO-DAY.
Dispatches to the Southwestern Press
Association.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, November 4 Some time
ago Commissioner Dslsno decided that
ander the Internal Revenue law, as il
now stands, pork-psckers we're liable to
be taxed as manufacturers. Pork-psckers
think this urjus,, and the Chambers of
Commerce Of New York, Boston, Gin
cinnsti and 81. Louis have sent a dslega-
ton here to protest against it. These
gentlemen callet upon the Commissioner
to day. That official gave it as bis opin-
ion that the fault was not with him, but
with Congress, aud that If they had
grievances Congress was the place to get
redress. The pork packers contend that
they produce only the necesssries Of life,
and have no more right to be taxed as
manufacturers than nillers have who
grind wheat and make -four. The diff
ference, however, is that the law ex-
pressly exempts -four, while pork is not
mentioned. An effort will be made TO
get the Commissioner to call the atten-
ton of Congress to this matter in bis re.
port.
Congressman Eggleston, of Cincin-
natl, who is one of the delegates here,
sBys it was not the intention Of Congress
to tax pork packers as manufacturers
when the Internal Rvenue bill was
passed.
The effort to counteract the influence
Of the agitation of the Capitol movers 10
the West is beginning to assume a form.
A paper has been prepared to BE- handed
to the President, with the request that he
will take some coguizance OF the matter
in bic forthcoming annual messsgf, dis
couniensncing the subject Of removal
cad use his E Eecuiive inflence in stop
I ping all agitation Of the subject
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aMuaEna K nrs.
WI emf his Theater.
SrALnIge. BrpwELL & MAcDoSouGH. Propr's.
h. w. You've, ....-...............Acting Manager.

SrALpIge. BpwELL < MAcDoSouGH, Propr's.
h. w. louNG,. ..--..-........--Acting Manager.
THURSDAY EVENING. Nov. s.--La.t
night hut two Of Susan dalton ad her
talented English Comic opera Troupe.
The comic opera. By Macferren, J AISLE LEA (;
ZOE Ia their terrif Trans spt Flight. mr.. O.
!. Mier, in his humorous character sketches
Z0E, the child wonder, in her great act. Le
iambour Rriel. TO conclude with THE
BLIND BkGGARS.
To. morrow Evening tFridaO November 5.
the farewell benefit Of Miss Susan Gallon.
Saturday, lat Susan Gallon Opera Matinee.
Mr.. FRANK MAYO will apperr Tuesday
evening. November Q. In Boucicault's new
drama Of F0hM0SA.
Seats secured for any day in advance
Box office open at o'clock IN the morning
and until O'Clock in tho evening"
Doors open at o'cleck; Overture commences
ut quarter before o'clock.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04
CINCINNATI.

CNoISSATI, November 4.-Fistiana is
in trouble here Allen and bsckers re-
fuse to accept Murray, of st. Louie, as
the final stakeholder. Bill Carroll came
last night for the purpose of selecting one
satisfactory to both parties. McCoole
WAITS Murray. The difficulty threatens
to break up the McCoole- Allen mill.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04

"Gentlemen Of the Jury" said an Irish
barrister, "it will be for you to say
whether this defendant shall be allowed
to come into court with unblushing foot
steps, with the CLOAK of hypocrisy in his
mouth, and to wiredrsw three bullocks
ont of my client pocket with impunity."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04

The professors of the Columbia Law
College have refused the application of q
lady, who wished to become regular
student. The reason of The refusal is that
the presence Of ladies in the leciure'room
would distract the attention of both pupils
and professors from their duties.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04
NEW YORK.

NV YORK, November H. c. Cam.
bridge, a Boston merchant. committed
suicide yeslsrdsy st hotel here.
Col. Clarke. formerly the Thirteenth
BFsoklyn Regiment, vas before Couuis
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04

A dining-room servant in hotel at
Red Wing, Minnesota, was married last
spring to a stage-driver, and now her rich
uncle at the East, having quit the stage
of life, has left $3.50. 900 to her and her
husband.