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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27


RED RIVER TRADE.-The st.
Louis Post of the 18th, speaking
of the Gerard B. Allen, for this
trade, says:
"She isnow a regular st. Louis
and Shreveport packet. The
wheel-house has the sign in large
letters. No boat better adapted
for the st. Louis and Shreveport
trade can be built.
This steamer has entered the
above trade with the determine
ton of giving entire satisfaction
and staying permanently there, to
be followed by two other good
sidewheel steamers, if there is q
disposition shown upon the part
of the people on Red River to pa
troaize . through line from St.
Louis. Our merchants can, and
will, sell everything needed by
you at cheaper prices than the
same goods can be purchased at
other points. The Allen VIII re-
turn immediately, and the people
can have an opportunity of trying
this city, if they will only give
their orders to the captain or clerk
of the boat, who viii take pleas
ure in filing them wish satisfac-
ton.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

~ Massachusetts, is a seryile
imitator, not only in literature
but also in political economy
About 200 hundred years ago it
was proposed in England to levy
a heavy tax upon all dead bodies
unburied for three days after
death. Massachusetts now pro-
poses to double the State tax upon
marriage which israpidly dying out
as social system among its yir-
tuous ~ population. 80
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

- Up to this time 4,29S Pc
titions in bankruptcy have been
filed in Virginia. Of these 1861
were filed in the Office of the Clerk
Of the United States District
Court at Richmond, and 337 at
the same Office in Norfolk. In
Norfolk 50 cases have been dis
charged, and in Richmond 3O5.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

FREIGHTs.-Nes Orleans Up
freights are now landed here at
so to 75c. per Dbl. Some of the
packets takeit at soc. per Dbl. all
round.) Down-Cotton 90 90 per
bale on sidewheel boats and 81 374
on sternwheel boats; cattle, stall
fed 80, and grass fed $8 per head.
Passage S15 to 25.-[Soath- Wes-
tern, oath.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

The snow on the line of the
Central Pacific, among the
Sierra Nevada mountains, has
not attained a greater debth
than i feet this winter. Snow
plows have peen brought into
requisitiCn by the railroad COM
pany on the mountains, and
thus far they have been able
to keep the track clear.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

% The Lafayette (Ind.) Cour-
says: "Ben. Davis, who was SEN
fenced to the Penitentiary this
afternoon, was a local policeman
of some note. Eleven Of the jury
men wanted to send him to the
Legislature, but finally comprom-
Used on two years in the Peniten-
tiarY.r
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

% Capt. Varney has been ap-
pointed collector of internal reve-
nue. for this, the third district, in
the place of Mullins removed for
malteasance i'm office.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

~ "My DEAR inquired a young
bride of her husband, shave you
seen the beautiful set Of furniture
which the Smiths havepurchased y
t'Hem, no, my love, but I have
seen the bill, and that quite salts
fies me-"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

~ France no longer demands
passports from American travellers
or residents. Seward, however,
recommends naturalized citizens
to carry them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

~ Josh Billings says, ''Most
people decline to learn only by their
experience, and / guess they are
more than half right, for I don't
suppose a man could geta correct
idea Of molasses candy merely by
letting another fellar taste it for
him.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

- Of the 80 counties in Indi.
ana IL have railroad communica.
ton. Of the q without railroad
facilities, 8 have river communi-
cation, leaving but Is without
public means of conveyance, while
even these have railroads at no
great distance from them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

70 A Radical editor estimates
the numberof DISTINGUISHED whites
in Tennessee at $4,000.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

~ An exchange says Jubal
Early will take advantage of Pres
ident Johnson's amnesty procla-
nation and return home, singing,
"The year Of Jubal E. has come
return, ye wandering sinner,
home"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27


Memphis, Feb. 2O.-The Ar
kansas militia who killed Davis,
near Mound City, were arrested
Monday, court martialed Tuesday
and shot Wednesday.
Chicago, Feb. 20.-The Assem-
bly, by 81 to 80 passed bin restOr-
ing capital punishment.
Philadelphia, Feb. 2O.-It is re-
ported that the cashier of the
Fourth National Bank Of this
city is a defaulter in 800, 900, and
fled. Slight run on bank to-day.
Boston, Feb. 17.-John w. Cole
man is under arrest, charged with
absconding from Baton Rouge,
La, with funds belonging to the
freedmen's bureau, with which he
was formerly connected at that
place. He denies guilt, but proof
is said to be strong against him.
st. Louis, Feb. 16.-A very rich
gold mine has been discovered
near Virginia City, Nevada. Mis-
souri, Legislature has passed Q
bill prohibiting prize fighting
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

u The first question that ever
disturbed man was the woman
question, and it win probably be
the last.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

~ 1t is curious that Darwin
has not instanced married men in
his examples of "variation pro-
duced BY domestication."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27
ARKANsAS.-W hat Cln,rto. l..

ARKANsAs.-Wh hat Clayton hoe
Done.-The Des Arc Citizen tell.
exactly what Clayton has done
for Arkansas, when it says: He
has permitted every species Of
corruption; he has used his hiph
office exclusively for the advance.
ment of party interests, and en-.
tirely ignored the welfare Of tina
State; he has appointed revenge.
full and incompetent men to the
command of districts where thew
had personal spite and malice
against its people; he has made
auxiliary troops of men who were
nothing more than banditti in an
other State and they have robbed
our people for their services as
soldiers; and he keeps officers in
command who are constantly Der.
hitting the grossest outrages 10
be perpetrated by those under
their command on old and inoffen.
sive women. The effect of hin
declaration of martial law in this
county alone has been to drive
scores of good and useful citizens
from our State and deter as many
more from making their homes
here. 1t has destroyed confidence
in the Government and kept back
all kinds of enterprise. It has
ruined the planting and mercan,
tile interests entirely"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27
The Planting Business.

are rather backward in commenc-
ing operations. Up to the present
time they have hardly made a be-
ginning. This is very unfortu.
nate for good corn crop in the
hills, as early planting is indis-
pensible in this locality. There
is still plenty of time for planting
cotton, though experience has
taught us that early planting is
not liable to so many contingen-
cies as late planting. From what
we can learn the area of cotton to
be planted will depend entirely
upon the available labor, while
the corn planting will be about
the same as last year-enough for
home consumption, provided the
season proves favorable. Within
the last week or two we have
heard many complaints Of the
scarcity of good hands, but wheth-
er it is owing altogether to the
migration of the negroes or in part
to the increased amount of land to
be cultivated, we are not well ad,
vised. The probabilities arc that
both have something to do with
it. There are great many wort b.
less negro men, women and chill
dren hanging around this city,
not worth the powder and lead it
would take to put them beyond
the pale Of starvation. They will
not work unless forged, and we
have no means of forcing them.
A stranger would think that star
walton staring them in the face
would force them to the planta-
tons, but it has no more effect on
them than, as though no such
thing as starvation was ever
known. A vagrant law rigidly
enforced might be of some benefit,
but such q remedy is not within
our reach. Another, and very Sc
rious drawback to our planters, is
the refusal of the women to work
in the field. Before the war they
were the most effective hands, but
since the surrender, year by year
the number who would hire for
field hands has decreased, until
now, not one plantation in ten has
a single Dinah in the field. Then,
again, boys who counted half
hands before the war are not
worth a little finger now. Before
the war men, women and children
used to draw their ft>,l rations, and
then complain that they did not
get enough, but now only those
who work get their rations. (gen-
orally one out of a family of four
or five) and strange to say that
one ration answer for the whole
family. ":5trange how they do,
utthey "-[South- Western.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27
FOLKS WHO HUMBuG.-Thf

FOLKS Who HUMBUG.-The
harder the times and the tight
er the money market the more
readily are people swindled.
When one is busy and work
plenty, no thoughts of easy
roads to wealth enter the head,
but in the seasons of idleness
and scarcity of work men are
apt to take hold of almost any
thing that promises pay. This
is all right when the business is
legitimate, and to be encourag-
ed. But the world is full of
humbugs nowadays, and many
ellmeaning and innocent peo-
pie are swindled out of money,
when they can least afford it,
by humbugging rascals who fill
the newspapers with advertise
ments offering 5000, 500, and
So per month, and easy work,
to the whole world. You may
set it down for a fact that few
people get money in this world
without laboring for it-and
the more money the more work
unless they steal or swindle
some one else out of their mon
ey.
We are led to these refiec-
tons by noticing in several Of
our exchanges advertisements
setting forth extraordinary in
ducements for money making,
The DUTY on DRUGS AMI
MEDICINEs.-Sixteen physicians
of Washington have presented a
memorial to Congress against the
existing duty imposed on foreign
drugs and medicines in daily and
common use, they being articles
which do not come in competition
with any ofour domestic products,
inasmuch as they are not the
growth or production of our coun-
try. In some instances these du,
ties are more than one hundred
and fifty per cent. thus imposin 9
burdens on the sick, as we'll as ar
onerous tax on country medical
practitioners who furnish medi-
cines for which the poor are not
able to pay. Owing to the high
tax medicines are so adulterated
that it is difficult to obtain them
in a pure and genuine state. AS
they are necessaries, and not lux
uries, the memorialists pray that
the tax be taken off, and that the
same amount be derived from
Injuries.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

% Almost every day we hear
planters asking what has become
of all the negroes. We had no
idea that laber was so much scarcer
this year than it was last, until
we were appraised of the fact BY
hearing the above query repeat
ed so often on our streets during
the past month. We have heard
of but very few planters that have
secured as many negroes as they
desire for the. cultivation of their
lands this year, Mansfield Tines
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

~ Said a conceited young lady
You men are a covet,uS set.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-02-27

Secrets Of Bee-Keeping. BY K.
P. Kidder, Practical Apicul-
turist, Burlington, Vt.
This is the title of a very en-
tertaining and instructive little
volume of $50 pages. Nothing
in the insect world has attract
ed greater attention from the
student of nature than the hab-
its and marvellous instincts, if
instincts they are, of the honey
bee. The work seems to be adj
mirably adopted to the wants
Of bee-keepers, especially those
who have not a large experience
to guide them in the care of
these diminutive butindustrous
workers. The price of the
work is 10 cents, and may be
obtained of the author.
Vtck's Floral Guide for 1860.
The first edition of one hundred
thousand of Vick's Illustrated
Catalogue Of Seeds and Guide
in the Flower Garden is now
published. 1t makes a work of
100 pages, beautifully illustrat-
ed, with about 80 Fine Wood
Engravings of Flowers and
Vegetables, and an elegant
colored plate, a Bouquet of
Flowers. tits the most beau
tiful, as well as the most in
structive Floral Guide publish
ed, giving plain and thorough
directions for the culture of
flowers and vegetables.
The Floral Guide is publish
ed for the benefit ofMr. Vick's
customers, to whom it is sent
free without application, but
will be forwarded to all who ap-
ply by mail. for ten cents, which
is not half the cost. Address
James Wick. Rochester, n. Y.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-01
:MsAe Gtttl Mhta
ELKTON, MAY I, 1869.
Settlement Of the Alabama Claims,

Reverdy Johnson's treaty having
been so unceremoniously rejected, and
the talking minister called home, The
DEMOCRAT has undertaken to settle the
difficulty with England. That paper
published the new Protocol last week.
This first draft of the new Treaty, sets
out with denying that the United States
have any case at all, fully justifies the
British Government in all that it did
in the matter of fitting out sea rovers
to prey upon American commerce; and
proposes, by implication, to pay the
cotton loan of the c. S. A. The LON
DON TINES, and other leading papers of
England, and also the British Ministry
will have to reconsider their admissions,
that the pirate vessels, fitted out at
British ship yards, were unfriendly acts
on the part of neutral power, and
should never have been permitted
Laird, and the pirate Captain Semmes,
however are in full accord with The
DEMOCRAT, but it is feared that the
new Treaty may meet with considera-
BILE opposition from the American peo-
pie, notwithstanding the English ship
builder of Burkenhead and the Ameri-
can pirate give their hearty support to
THE DEMOCRATS basis of settlement.
The American people seem to be per-
verse and pig-headed race, for they are
invariably found in opposition to The
DEMOCRATS craftsmanship.
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A Valuable Medical Book
IN THESE HARD TIMES

You cannot afford to pay three four profits on articles
Of necessary use, when 10y sending Club to
PARKER & cos
Great One Dollar Sale
OF DRY GOODS. LINENS. PAEAsOLs Albums
HOSIERY. SILVER PLATED WARE JEWELRY
CUTLERY FRENCH and GEREAN FANCY GOODS Of
every description you purchase anything in their
immense stock fer
ONE DOLLAR EACH.
larg" Cash Capital and have buyers in all the PRINCIPAL
cities of this country and in Europe who purchase FOR
CASH. DIRECT FROM THE MASrFACTURERS all
the goods used by thus saving tho consumer the pro-
fits made by the Importer or Commission Merchant the
Wholesale and Retail Dealer each IF whom demand a
larger profit than taken by We can give MORE
GOODS FOR ONE DOLLAR than the Retail
Merchant for twice or three times that Our goods
described on printed checks. which will lie sent in
Clubs for Ten Cents each to pay postage printing &C.
If the article named on the check is wanted YOU
can exchange from list comprising Three Hum
dred and Fifty useful Articles, among
which
LADIES SILK PAR,soLs. LAnIEs FINE WHITE TrckrD
SKIRTS. SILVER PLATED FIVE BOT1LEb CAsToRs and large
variety Of useful articles. not of which can DO
bought in any other for nearly double the money!
Reference will be given if required. from the most re-
liable Wholesale Merchants of Boston and New York
to standing and the strictly honorable character
of curt business
GI- We want Agents in every town TO whom the fol-
lowing Commissions will he paid
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-01

Go1NG FOR THEM-Messrs. Wanamaker
& Brown having spent the past few months
in getting up the largest and best stock of
spring and summer garments ever offered
in Philadelphia, are now busy as bees in
disposing of it at prices so low that every
to turn to his salesman to say, "You amt
fooling with with me, are you?''
This stock was got up with special refer
ence to the country trade, and w. & B. are
now "going for" the customers from out
of town." But they needn't trouble them
selves for the country people of these parts,
with an eye to their own interests, are
already "going for" the good clothes at
low prices at Sixth and Market Streets.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-01
Letter from New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, April oath, 1869.
Mr.. ED1ToR:-I promised a line occa-
sionally. My first lines will be about the
city. 1t is a large affair. In many re-
spects it is a tine affair. The streets are
large, and unusually clearly, compared with
Northern cities. Not SO clean, they say. as
i'll the days of Butler. Newspapers, South
and North, may talk savagely about him,
but the masses here know him as a glori-
GUS old governor of the city, whose like
they shall ne'er look upon again until he
comes back. .-. ..
Numerous broad avenues traverse the
city, through its entire extent, intersecting
each other at right angles. These avenues
are three times the average breadth of Or
binary streets. Double rail tracks for horse
cars are laid in the centre. Three rows of
trees shade these rail paths. For miles in
direct line, you can ride protected from
the sun. On the right and on the left of
these rail paths are broad carriage roads
Besides these are extensive lines of single
track railways, as in other cities, laid in
the centre of ordinary streets. Numerous
public squares, of modern Dimensions. are
found in various parts of the city.
Summer has begun. Seven months con-
tinuance is its measure, believe. The
thermometer is so to-day April 24th.) The
average for the warmest season is only S.
Cool nights are here enjoyed, almost with
out exception, during the entire Summer
months, they say. Flowers are blooming all
around us. The rose, of numberless varie-
ties, and of peerless beauty, abounds, The
Oliander is grand tree, of 20 feet or more
in hight, and radiant with blushing bios
SONS, and widespread foliage. The Mag
nolia is its equal in dimensions, and exccls
it in the queenly beauty of it's flower, of
cream and white combined, broad enough
to cover more surface than the '.love of a
bonnet the ladies wear,-and redolent of
fragrance that would craze Partisan to
initiate, and which our senses find more
delightful than words can express.
Let this suffice. One thing at a time
Other matters hereafter. But truth COM
pels the remark that a shocking sense of
the reality of things, as distinct from the
ideality of scenes, was suggested by n lady
with whom we were riding out to the State
Fair last week. She said" Here every
prospect pleases, and only man is vile.'
L. G.. MATLACK,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-01

Mr.. JACOB ScHEETz-Sir: I suffered for
over two years from Dyspepsia, with n
sense of sutfocation and severe pain after
eating, and although / tried various rene
dies, and took medical advice. yet found
no relief until tried your Celebrated
Bitter Cordial, which acted like magic
upon my system. and before had used one
Bottle, | found myself entirely cured, and
have not had any return of the complaint
since. l can therefore recommend it as an
invaluable remedy to those afflicted in the
same way.
JOHN SNETHEN,
Sup't of Franklin Square-Res., 100 n.
Seventh ST., Phila.
@R Read SCHEETZ'S Standing ndrer-
fisensent in another column.
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% If you want to be in good humor
all the week, get your washing nicely done
by 10 o'clock Monday morning and have
the clothes ironed and put away before
night. Now if yon don't know how to do
this, just inquire at Moore & Bro, who
manufacture that famous Wilmington,
City Soap" Ask your grocer for it.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-01
HELMROLD,S
CONCENTRATED F UID EN-
TRACT SARSAPARILLA

ERADICATES ERUPTIFE 4 LUCRATIVE DISEASES
THROAT, NOSE, EYES, EYELIDS, SCALP and SKIN,
Which 50 disfgure the appearance. PURGING the
evil effects Of Mercury and removing all aints, the
nants of DISEASES. hereditary otherwise and
ken 10y ADULTS and CHILDREN with perfect SAFETY
TWO TABLE-SPOONftLS of the Extract Of Sarsa-
parila added to pint of water is equal Lisbon
Diet Drink, and one bottle is equal 4 gallon of the
Syrup Of Sarsapara the decoctions as usually made
AN INTERESTING LETTER is published in the
MedicoChrurgca Review. on the subject of the Extract
of Ssaparia i'll certain affections by Benjnmn Tray
+. X. $. &c. Speaking Of those diseases and dis
arising from the of mercury he that
remedy equal TO the Frract Of SdrsdpGriAa its
po,rer is ertrd0rdindrp more than any other drug
acquainted With is. in the Strctest sense tonic
ruh this inraiuabe attribute, that 1t is applicable to
state Of the system sunken. and yet irritable as
renders ote substances Of the tonic class nara.iobe
INN lOus.
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THE MALARIA OF SPRING.

Everybody should now be their guard against tho
great danger Of disease arising malarous causes
Fever and Ague prevails TO alarming extent every
spring in nearly all parts Of the country and many per
sons easily predisposed it ON account Of some
1mprudence during the winter months. Indeed very
much OF the sickness nce i'll the Spring year
may he traced to which engendered in the
cold term. But whether the lies hidden in the
system or not it is certain that disease will dcvcops
itself at the first opportunity hence should hest,
tate Tor moment to set about combating and
throwing it. To accomplish this purpose nothing is so
useful and reliable as AIISHLERS HERB BITTERS-
1t is positive antdote for any maarious or imprisoned
atmosphere and certain protection against NOR
bid influence which produces disease say in all can
dor to readers that they should give heed to our
advice on this subject. may l. lS69-lm
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-01
Hydraulic Washing Machine.

FIFTH AvENUs HOTEL, New YORK,
June 9, 1S68:-Gcntlemen:-We have been
for four months using your HYDRAULIC
CLOTHES WASHER i'll our laundry. and we
are pleased to say with entire satisfaction
We believe that it more thoroughly cleanses
the linen than any other machine that we
know OF. and consider it in every respect
the best now in use. Yours truly.
DARLING, GRIswoLD & Co.
-Ner York Laundry Nanny. Co.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-01
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
A GENTS WANTED FOR GOLDE,
ASl5EA XES~-Titi. NJ. .I.,.;iI;.
DOLLAR SUN
CHARLES A. DANA'S PAPER.
NO SUPERINTENDENT OR ~
TEACHER. should be without the
SUNDAY SCHOOL TINED

The best paper in the world thi, subject JOHN
S. HART, Lib, Senior Editor. Sample copy free on
application Address j. c. GARRIGU Els & Co Publish
ers Sabbath-school Emporium, COS Arch Street Pha-
dephia Pa. ~
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No. Ga Large 3-Story Brick
store House,
No. 3. Is a Farm

situated on Main street Elktnn, occupied as Tin
and Stove Store, by John +. Alexander. Terms easy