The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-10-23
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New Orleans, Oct. 19.-Cotton
lower, 25c.; sales $500, receipts
3616 and exports to Genoa 1854,
Bremen 1886 and coastwise 1861
bales. Flour lower; superfne
So 30, double extra $5 55 and
treble extra sc So: Oats Coo.
Bran 81 OF to 1919. Hay duh
and lower; prime $27. Pork low
er; mess $33. Bacon easier, 184
to q to Gle. Sugar-three bbls.
new received and sold 81 25 per
gallon. Others unchanged. Gold
1898. New York sight + to J per
ct. discount. Cattle-1st quality
$35 to 40 and I'd quality S25 to
30. Sheep-1st quality So to Z
and I'd quality IS to 8 30.
Liverpool, Oct. 10, evening
Cotton-uplands y to 1T and
Orleans 121 to 12sd.; sales $4,000
bales, OF which for export and
speculation 1000. ~
New York, Oct. 10, evening"
Cotton frmer; sales 5000 bales at
263c. Gold dull at 100.
Philadelphia, Oct. 13.-Signal
tower on Mine Hill railroad was
burned. together with the watch
man, his wife and two children.
Gen. VIM. Belknap, of Iowa,
has been telegraphed to assume
Secretaryship Of War on his arri-
val. Gen. Sherman will retire, as
it is known that he accepted the
Secretaryship unwillingly, and
only to accommodate the Admins
tration. Belknap is a graduate
OF Princeton, n. j., is So years
old; a lawyer, and served from be
ginning to the end of the war.
The negro who ravished a lady
near Fort Washington, Va, hung
by the people.
Washington, Oct. 14.-Belknap
accepts Secretaryship-of- War.
Louisville, Oct. 14.-Business
suspended for participation in the
trade procession, which is five
miles long.
Philadelphia, Oct. 14-During
session returns of Judges, a sher-
ifs officer attempted to serve a
writ of INDUCTION to prevent the
counting Of votes, the officer was
resisted and elected from the
room, to which he had obtained
admission under pretense of being
a return Judge. He came back
with a posse, followed by crowds;
broke in the doors, and served
the writ. He then ordered the
arrest of sundry persons in the
room whom he charged with re-
sisting him. The Press reporter
was arrested and braten in a
shocking manner by the police,
and locked up. The return Judges
are now in court to await its ac-
ton. Great excitement in Ches-
nut street at this time.
| Louisville, Oct. 15.-River fall
ing, with 4 feet 2 inches in the ca
nal.
Washington, Oct. 15.-Customs
from the LIST to 9th inclusive, are
over four and a-half million dol
lars. Revenue is over quarter
million dollars. Mr.. Delano has
returned.
Mr.. jefferson Davis sailed from
Baltimore for Charleston to day,
enroute for Mississippi. Major d.
G. Swayne is appointed Freed
mans Bureau Educational func-
tionary for the border States, vice
Kembell.
Commodore Farragut will hard
] ly live through the night.
Delano decides that lawyers
having two distinct offices or
places of business, must pay two
licenses.
1t is stated that Gen. Canby's
report is fatal TO charges of fraud,
intimidations, etc, in the Virginia
elections.
Staunton, Va, Oct. 1.-two
thousand dollars in premiums were
awarded today. Ben Smith, col
ored, received premium for best
specimen of barrels.
Fair closed with practice by la
dies in archery, a tournament and
mask ball.
Gov. Walker made an address
to-day on the fair grounds. In
political portion of his address he
said: He felt nothing but pity for
the opposition party in the late
canvass, who were led by a set of
cormorants and carpet-baggers,
who had nothing at stake but
their own selfish interests; he re-
| iOicnd that the nlacfion hos Sa+tlo5