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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

B9 Five young men in Berlin
lately made an agreement, for a
wager, to see who of them could
keep awake for a whole week
They all held out for about five
days and halt, by drinking large
~ of strong coffee, and keeping
up constant round Of active ex-
ercises and exciting amusements.
At the end of that time two of
them yielded to drowsiness; a
third soon fell asleep while riding:
tumbled from his saddle and broke
his arm ; fourth was attacked
by severe sickness, and compelled
to retire from the list; the fifth
held out to the end, but lost TWEEN
ty-fve pounds of flesh in winning
the wager. Long ago, Frederick
the Great and Voltaire made a
similar experiment, making use
of the same stimulant of strong
coffee, but they did not succeed
in driving away sleep for more
than four days. ''Tlred natures
obstinately refuses to accept any
substitute for her sweet s'restor.
en- Exchange.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

u Owing to the quietness
of our town during the week,
we have no local news of in
terest to chronicle. OR local
has endeavored to "scare ND"
something, but the "thing''
wouldn't be scared
Late Wednesday evening To-
cal rushed into the Office, with
his hair standing erect, his
eyes starting from their spheres,
his knees playing a quick-step
as they smote one against the
other--shouting: Great ex-
element in Bellevue! The
Bodceau blockade raised!! Ed.
Moore's neaU barrel of whiskey
just arrived, and to be "sam-
pied" i-ne-an-e-d-i-G-t-e-l-yH.
Resume-uong meter), eve
won't go home till morning.
&c.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

SEWING MACHINEs.-Special
attention is called to the adver-
tisement of Messrs. Peck Bros.
100 Canal Street, New Orleans,
agents for the justly celebrated
Wheeler & Wilson sewing ma
chimes. Send your orders direct
to them if you want the genu-
inc and best machines made.
Attention is also directed to
the notice of P. FL. Kyes & Co.,
Shreveport, agents for Wilcox
& Gibbs Silent Twisted Loop
Stitch Machines, with hemmer,
Teller and braider, all for $50
and $65.
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BELLEVUE, La,
saturday,:::::::January %, 1869.

e The Shreveport depart
ment headquarters for the issu-
ing OF boots and shoes is at J..
B. Lewis's, No. 9 Texas street,
where all descriptions can be
found at the lowest prices.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

AZ The Red River settlement.
lying north of Minnesota, is threat.
ened with the prospect Of a severe
famine. 1t is reported that there
are 4S4 families, comprising 2342
persons, who are in absolute want
and must receive assistance or
Starve.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23
TRUE Policy OF CorroNPLAN.

TRUE POLICY OF COTTON PLAN.
TERs,-In the year 1865 the cot.
ton crop was equally as large as
it is this year, and the most Of
the crop that year was sold for
Is cents a pound, or upwards
Notwithstanding these facts there
was great distress among South.
ern planters the following year.
What was the cause? 1t was tia
result of not having raised in tia
South, during the year '66, suf.
ficiency of provisions to sustain
the plantations. Corn was bought
during the year 1857, by the plan.
ter, at from l 30 to % per bushel,
and bacon at 20 cents per pound.
Although the crop of this year Is
selling for less than did the crop
of 1866, and probably will not ex.
coed the crop of that yearin bales,
yet the farmers are in q much
better condition, because thew
have but few supplies of bread
and meat to parchase. If the
people of the South would raise
all their own breadstuffs, supplies
of meat, and their own mares,
mules and cattle, which they
might easily do, they could better
afford to raise cotton at fifteen
cents per pound than they could
to raise itat % or 80 cents pound
and have all these things to buy.
Wisdom requires us first to raise
our supplies, and that in great
abundance, and then we can at.
ford to raise cotton and risk the
price. Cotton should be our per.
manent capital, and none Of it
ought to be required to purchase
supplies. fla planter raises and
sells ten thousand dollars. worth
of cotton, and has to, pay for
horses, mules, corn, fodder and
meat ten thousand dollars, 1t IS
evident he has made nothing
clear; but if the same farmer next
year should raise an sell only
five Thousand dollars worth Of
cotton, and in addition all Of his
supplies he would make FIVE thOn.
sand dollars more than he did
the year before. The agricultu.
raj reports Of the United States
Government of this year show
that much greater net average in
value has been made upon many
other articles than cotton, when
we take into consideration the
cost of producing the various ar
ticles. No country which relies
alone on one staple, whether that
be wheat, corn or cotton, can
ever become wealthy. Variety
in productions is the real secret in
agricultural wealth. Let our far
mers remember that it is not the
high price of cotton that is now
enriching them, but it is the abun-
dant supply of provisions. 1t Is
@ remarkable fact that the stock.
raising and provision growing
countries, even before the war,
were much more prosperous than
| those which were devoted exclu.
siyely to cotton and sugar grow.
ing. 1t is even more so now
Memphis Avalanche.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

~ A girl in Ohio bruised her
lip. Her mother wiped the oil
from the bowl of her pipe and ap-
Piled it to the bruise, and the ef-
feet was commissions and death.
From this we see that a smoker
or chewer cannot kiss a woman
without peril to her life.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

airy. This magazine, although
only one year old, has obtained a
widespread popularity. 1t diff.
fers from most periodicals, in that
it grapples with the evils of the
day and presents them without
mitigation or remorse. Published
at 81 per year, by S. S. Packard,
937 Broadway, New York.
The Atlantic Monthly.-Withits
present number begins its twenty
third volume, and contains rare
collection of rich, racy, and in
structive articles, from the pens
of the best writer's in the country.
1t is now published by Fields, Os-
good & Co., Boston, successors to
TicknOr & Fields, who may we'll
be proud OF establishing, on a
permanent foundation, one of the
best magazines in the country.
Our Young Folks.-Also pub
lished by the same house, we
have always looked upon as one
of the very best magazines for
young people; but the present
number is far ahead in matter and
illustrations Of any Gifts predeces,
sors, and is a perfect gem. The
story of "The Bad Boy" by 7. B.
Aldrich, commenced in this mum.
Der, promises to be the freshest,
healthiest and most entertaining
one yet published. 1t is beauti.
fully illustrated.
Every Satmday.-Is ever hearth.
~ welcomed to our table. The
present number contains the first
of a series ofpapers, entitled "Nev
UncOmmercial Samples" by Mr..
Charles Dickens. These will be
of the same political character as
the popular "Uncommercial TRAY.
eler" papers, and may be regarded
as a continuation of them. Mr.
Anthony TroIlope's story, "He
Knew He was Right" is also in
course of publication in its pages
besides the usual variety of excel
lent reading. Published by Fields
Osgood & Co., Boston.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

u There are no railroads or
public conveyances in China, ex-
cepting canal junks and river
steamers. All over the empire,
land travelling is done in chairs,
carried on the shoulders of coolies.
In the north, about Pekin, occa-
sionally carts are seen, roughly
constructed, without springs, with
solid block wheels, and drawn by
huge water buffaloes.
The ponies or horses peculiar to
China are used only for riding, and
by mandarins when on official
business. All agricultural work,
blowing, irrigating, and the work
ing of rice mills, is done by the
buffalo.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

" A man in Indiana was
choked to death by a piece Of
beef on Thanksgiving Day, and
his neighbors say it was a judg.
ment on him for not eating tur.
key.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

- Alaska contains about 3TO,-
600, 600 acres, and was purchased
at a little less than two cents the
acre, which was not much moro
than twenty times it's value.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

FAMILY GRoCERIEs.-M. Kauf.
man, Jr., has recently opened, at
the cornet of Texas and Market
streets, Shreveport, a Family Gro
Gerry, where he keeps a full and
complete assortment of Groceries,
embracing Flour, Bacon, Sugar,
Coffee, Candles, Soap, Starch, &C.,
which he is selling at the very
lowest market prices. Every ar
ticle is guaranteed as represented.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

~ -Four commissioned officers
OF the battle of Lake Erie still
survive-Rear Admiral John B
Montgomery, Commander Ste !.
phen Champlin, Capt. Thomas
Brownell, and Hugh Nelson Page
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23
H Galveston.

@ Galveston, Texas, now
claims $4,000 inhabitants. 1t
boasts of six hundred business
firms, six lines of steamships, FIVE
Of sailing ships, two banks, six
private bankers, two insurance
companies.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

= Without counting Alaska,
the United States has still 1,5OO,-
600, 900 acres of public lands.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

- The subject of a cotton and
wool factory is being agitated in
Thomasvile, Georgia.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

u The hog cholera is prevail.
ing in Amherst county, Va, and
numbers of hogs are dying from
its effects.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

- Iowa has an area of 90, O45
square miles, nearly twice as much
as all Scotland. Ninety per cent.
of this area is prairie land. There
are many large streams, including
the Iowa, Cedar and the Des
Moines Rivers. Valuable coal
mines exist in various parts of
the State; $500 tons were quar-
ried in 1866, against 66,664 in
1864. This year the State has
yielded 25,OOO,OOO bushels of
wheat and 9O,OOO,OOO bushels of
corn. There are twelve railroads,
with more than 1, 400 miles in op-
GRAFTON. The State has been set
tied mainly from Ohio, Indiana
and Pennsylvania, with a large
mixture from the New England
States. Her population is now
estimated at 100000.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

FRUIT TREEs.-Now is the
time to plant fruit trees. Every
farmer should have an orchard;
our soil and climate are pecu-
liarly adapted to the propaga-
ton of the peach then all
should procure some early and
choice varieties of this delicious
fruit. Our planters all have a
little time to spare, and they
cannot investit more proftably
than planting fruit trees.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

- There are forty tobacco fac
tories in Richmond, Va, employ
ing 5000 persons.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23
Loconnotion.

isa condition implying movement.
It's energy is in proportion to the
activity with which interior me-
tives are made. In the animal
body, the blood circulates through
every part, here carrying away
worn out and wasted material,
there presenting new substances
to accomplish needful repairs. If
one region be too hot, the over
flowing blood bears away with it
the excess Of temperature /; if
another be too cold, the blood i'm
parts toit some of its own warmth.
In this manner there is a perpetu-
al equalization of differences, a
continued restoration of structure.
Particles that are in excess at
one point are dissolved and car
ried to others where they may be
of more use.
For the hearty condition of the
social system an increasing move
ment is also needed. There is an
ennai into which a nation may fall.
Hence the injunction-move, if it
only be for the sake of moving
really conveys practical good it
is a necessary truism. Why do
Asia and Africa seem so back
ward in civilization in comparison
with Europe9 Climatic agency
has great influence without doubt;
but perhaps greater cause still
of the torpor of these great CONT
nents is the want of social move
ment. These vast communities
of men lie side by side and never
commingle. Commerce is forgot
ten; neither railways nor canals
are known; the old antediluvian
caravan still wends its slow and
weary march over hill and through
vale. The result is, commercial
inactivity, social stagnation, ma
tional homogeneousness. The con-
sequences which locomotiOn brings
in its course are never seen here.
The rivalry Of different nations,
the emulation of trade, the reforms
resulting from conflict of interests
and ideas, the stimulant arising
from mingling with men Of other
customs and modes of thought,
are lost to the inhabitants of these
two continents. Immobility pro.
duces national and individual in
dolence. IF men think at all
there, they think alike, they are
free from opposition and doubt,
and consequently have the same
social, commercial and religious
ideas that their ancestors had
centuries ago.
But look at Europe. Steam
and electricity have brought her
different nations face to face.
Berlin seems only upon the out
skirts of London, and the revolu-
ton in Paris affects Rome as if it
werea suburb. The go ahead Eng.
lishmen, and philosophical Ger
man, and chivalric Frenchman,
and esthetic Italian borrow and
return mutually. The most in.
tense rivalry prevails-constant
movement and ceaseless conner
cial activity have produced a most
healthy and vigorous civilization.
The sphere of individual life is
there extended; diverse popula-
tons, that otherwise might misin.
terpret and misunderstood each
other, are brought into contact;
national prejudices are removed,
public manners are refined, and
the public mind elevated.
Thus it will be seen that inter
communication and locomotion is
to the social what the circulation
of the blood is to the physical
The same results seen in Europe
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

Chicago narrated 3631 couples
the past year and divided S41'
Ten per cent is a very fair aver.
age. @
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Literary Notices, &c.

Halsey Thrasher, an expert
enced hunter. Published by
Orange Judd & Co., n. Y.
Price 81.
This volume of91 pages must
be of great value to the mex
perienced hunter, as it de-
scribes the habits of animals,
and different modes of hunting
them, both with the gun and
the trap. Instructions for catch
ing fish, both in winter and
summer, are also given, as well
as a short chapter on hunting
bees. The instructions about
what a gun should be, and the
method of making traps are in
teresting. Not the least valu-
able part of the book is the
chapter on dressing and tam
ming skins, from that of the
bear down to that of the mink,
including the preparation of
deer skins foI gloves.
fuckers Illustrated annual
Register Of Rural Affairs for
1869.-This standard annual,
being the 10th yearly number,
is filed as usual with instruc-
tive reading matter and fine il
lustrations. 1t contains 1856
pages of reading matter and
40 engravings. We do not
know where else an equal
amount of valuable informa-
ton can be obtained so cheaply.
Sent by mail, postage paid, for
80 cents a copy. Published by
Luther Tucker & SonsAlbany,
N. Y.
- OnaCGrd is the title of a
new monthly magazine for the
youth of America. Its design
is not only to entertain and
amuse, but to instruct, elevate
and conduct the youth along
that path leading to the high
est and noblest manhood. Its
literature is entirely original ;
the best it's conductor can pro-
duce with his own pen, or OBJ
tain from talented contributors.
1t is embellished with original
illustrations printed upon tint
ed paper, and in an attractive
manner. Terms, So 30 a year.
G. W. Carleton, publisher, 497
Broadway, N. Y.
Lippincotfs Mdgasine.- The third
volume Of this popular Monthly
Magazine Of Literature, Science
and Education, began Jan. LIST,
1869. 1t has already placed it.
self foremost in the class of our
Magazine Literature, and deserves
immense patronage. Its publish
ed at o. per annum by j. B. Lip.
jpincott & Co., Philada., Penn.
The Galary.-Now commencing
its seventh volume, is out in a
new and beautiful dress, with a
table of contents, that cannot fail
to crafty literary epicure. tits
a qualification to turn it's nicely
trimmed leaves of fine whitetypo.
graphy. Published by Sheldon 8.
Co., New York.
~ The american. Educational
Monthly for January promises to
sustain fully the reputation which
1t has so nobly earned-and being
a powerful exponent of a special
lnterest-will, no doubt, receive
the patronage of all who are in.
terested in questions of education.
al reform. It's discussions of all
G0nlc9 rnIatiD or m kIo
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

az Virginia has 1,494 miles of
completed railroads, costing S49,-
365, 1914.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

u The "velocipede" is resus-
citated invention. It is ninety
years old.
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THE BOSSIER BANNER,
TERN s.

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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

- One of the great wants of
this country is a good class of
milk cows. Scarcely a cow can
be found that will pay for good
attention and feeding. Probably
the native cows could be much
improved by stabling in winter,
and good feeding. They will
never be any thing like a first
class mixer. The efforts to i'm
port good class have been I'M
successful from the fact that all
have died from the Spanish fever.
The calves, however, live and do
we'll. We would advise the Or
ganization of a stock company,
for the importation ola good class
of milk cows. There is consider
able risk, and one man is neither
able or disposed to undertake all
the loss.-[ Henderson Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-01-23

ically in the most sparsely peo-
pied and distant country towns.
But there should be not only free
movement of thought, but also
free movement of the people them
selves. It is the Governments
duty to encourage the one as we'll
as the other. AS long as the
American people are nomadic,
there is little danger of intense
and bigoted sectionality. The
east should seek the west; the
north should mingle with the
south. Every railroad enterprise
should receive the best patronage
of the Government; for the rail
road is one of the strongest bonds
that can bind the States together.
Who can estimate the value to
this country of the Pacific road 7
1t is not a simple highway for
transportation-it is an agent of
governmental strength. 1t unites
the men of the east to the men of
the west. 1t puts New York and
San Francisco into the most init,
mate commercial and social rela-
tionship. 1t opens the vast do
main of the tide of population
the desert will blossom like the
rose, and cities will rise as by the
influence Of the fairy wand. The
commercial activity which it
originates, will draw after it the
rivalry of trade, that emulation
peculiar to young and rising
States, that mental vigor which
characterizes all nations that
move, and, better than all, that
conciliatOry and generous feeling
of one section towards another;
which can never exist except
where different communities of
men intermingle.
Locomotion is the life ola peo-
pie Chicago Courier.
The New York herald., 1869-04-18
DWELLING HOUSES TO LET.

DRooKIYN.-TO LET. 2s4 wAsHINGToN ALL I'M
ID provements story brick minutes from ferries;
$3.50; would sell for 1905; half cash. balance
gage Call 6to evening" during the day, $50 Broadway
New York. -
The New York herald., 1869-04-18

u BROADWAY, CORNER THIRTY SECOND STREET =
First ana Second Floors together separately for dwon
ing business; nine rooms good location Apply No. 81
" est Thirty second street.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1856-187?, 1869-10-16
3Issaa.r .ootober Il. 1869,

: he hours Of O'Clock IL me ore =,
hfsRiI ,,riock III tae afternoon o1
@fl' . /, NC tornly ct o"sconaJo "i2re ore,
4 AtE41 NJ tnilowine described real estate
11' sss ~ -T.nluc % the highest BIDDER
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1856-187?, 1869-10-16
SHERIFF SALE.
santembcr 10th 1868.

u, virtua and authority Ola eAeou'lDn
from the office of the clerk OF ine
o;rrn;t court of Gasconade counIy 200
e! ln,.; retmrnable at the October term isO2
sour So 1a;d d' court, and to me directed, in fayof
~ - IosehrGreen il, Jonas W; GTeen an"
Genry <. Green and against HiIa2 b ,, n35
law levied upon and seized all INC Tigho
~ interest aud claim OF the. said ti ;trS
T 20 OF, in and 10 the following dezcFl'e'
! =. al Estate to vii: MI mart
lot No. , NE Or, w bflot NJ + Il panV
wv So & Sc ST, all IN sect on = ,o% o.
sb;n ~, Range 4 west, c3ntail:ln6 -, 49," =,
S 5nrps. ali lyinS and being in the said c'"1l9
and state of Missouri.
And | will on Geo.
Tuesday the Goth day CT October 1859;
,a,,veen The hours of 8 o'clock IN Inc
| Pe.m"Ul and five O'Clock in the afternoon
Of that duy, at the courthouse G@en Ia = ofore.
. Of III; Ne scI the same or 50 much THEREOF 4
1 n'a3 be required, at public yenoue , 10 I'
n,snT2 nrior liens and Judgments to Sa'lSi
80 aILccntion and costs
sar' CIR. KUHN, sherlh'
co,+oobar 18th 1859.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1856-187?, 1869-10-16

INO0LOV u HtItUF SIFOH=
Administration have been granted TO the
undersigned from thes Clerk CT the Gas
conade Probate court on the estate of Jecob
iedermann deed, bearing date Septic
B69. :,
All persons having claims against salo
! estate are herebykrcquired to present. them
for ~allowarce.to the undersigned admins,
traitor, within one year after the date o.
said letters, or they may be p1reciudeff
.nssauy benefit eff saidiestate ana II suci
I claims are not presented within two year
from the dato OF said letters, they VII
he forever barred.
snThis I'd ,days.of September 1859,
GOrTLIEB BEHOLD,
Administrators.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1856-187?, 1869-10-16
sentcmber 18th 1859.
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