The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-01-13

at 66@ @6Sc. Bran dull, 81 80. Hay-prime $26127
Pork firm, $50 50@30 Is. Bacon scarce; shoulder
14a clear rib ls3 and clear sides l91c. Lard firm
l9a for tierce and zoe. for KEY Sugar frm common
94G1101, prime l2a and yellow clarified 14(0l4ac Mo
lasses firm; common 6o@62, prime 68@7o and choic
1 72175c. Whisky-Western rectifed 81 101$1 Is
Cottee-fair 144@l4E and prime l63@l6ac.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.--1n the Baltimore Crcui
Court yesterday Judge Pinckney delivered opinion
in the case CT Addison vs. Addison. Bill in the east
filed for the sale Of certain property, the title t.
which involved the question of the legality of mar
riage contract between slaves. The Judge decides
legal and valid by consent of the master and mora
assent Of the slave and although dormant during sla
very, from the moment of freedom produces all the
effects which result from marriage contract between
free persons.
Gen. Meade reports to Grant as follows: " l trans
nit latest dispatches from Gen Sbley regarding Oge
chez difficulty. sibley has been instructed to forbid
armed organisations, whether white or black, and to
preserve peace at all hazards; to cooperate with the
civil authorities, in he finds the civil authorities
actlrg in good faith and that heirsacon is necessary
to preserve peace, and not at Camilla, where law
was made the pretext for outrage upon negroes AT
the time Sbley is instructed to disarm all as
scmbages of negroes and require their submission to
the civil authorities The balance of the report en-
braces account of the Ogechce affair." already pub
lished. rs ~ zzzs@z& = = e5=z-
Treasury debt statemant for January shows an In
crease the December statement Of 81 roo 900 tol
debt So 652, $50, ,662 amount Of coin in the Treasury
sos 763, ,DO0; amount of currency SI3 coo 600; gold
| certificates S27, ,00O, 900.
The Grand Jury ignored the new Indictment against
| Surrat. ~
Gov. Bullock, Of Georgia ishere.
Cost of fractional currency printing to date 81 25o,
! 600.
i WASHINGTON, Jan 6-In the Supreme Court, in the
Il Mutual IL
ment concluded. This case is from Mobile where
5000 bales of cotton insured against fire, risk
from war excepted, and the explosion of 1865 indi-
rectly caused the destruction The Mobile court
awards the owners OF the cotton SOS, 900. Evarts
/ gued for the insurance company.
/ The election committee meets tomorrow 1t is as
certaned to certainty that the freedmen's bureau
/ furnished Menard transportation to Louisiana.
Paul Bagley, missionary is circulation petition for
/ the pardon of DIR. Mudd, confined OH Dry Tortugas,
implicated in Lincolns assassination. All the Demo
Gratis in Congress sign, but every Republican approach
ed so far refuses Gen. Withers of Mobile is here.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Maj. Jefferson G. Wofford
defeated for the 40th but elected to the 4st Congress
| from Mississippi before the Reconstruction Com
mittee to-day Hesopposes admission under the eec
tion of last summer he knew of frauds, violence
being used at the election he thought the constitution
Js anp eE 3 on the peep would bs h:
tion too proscrpYe the negroes of the State did
not favor distranchisement; the people anxious
for peace and quiet and willing to submit to the Of
tl,i5,l his art;ars -,
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d'ral 80 10Th rh;st;a d Win,nar l;,, sao,
from Georgia. Privilege granted to Jones to take
evidence and indefinitely postponed the Louisiana CON
tested case, wherein Hunt, Menard and Jones in
terested Early action impossible. aia*stt1.s
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.hraats The Goyero sa;nal fa1
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;,al af.eruaras bo oras,sad n;a forcaSnt snt,s
fonrtb coorea wiz orders n live off th contr,
r. what was absoltely naeessy v;n @
no - lovI boi ,as f o,a o,l
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ba. If oIbers ont of tba
p,ter savs tho hest rcsult ba saa i; IN, ais,os;,;o
of naasly ii hnsiess men to yonntarv ero a
selves as nosse nedoed to ass;st tbe sheriff arres
l. wess ebarater # h ffayer,,nent viii relieve .han,
of martial aw He has aceented sneb n,aaas
.d nar,ial law naJts of
entire conservative wna Of the Rennliean nartv are
onnosod = the eeIaraton of l. Tba ,ilit;a
bas heen nder tnlerably rood eontra and tho nlnn'
dera renorted Il fbe nress i the tsn af snnnas
unaar p o,fIars One neoro m;liti,man S.ho ranad
ubite woman was nromptly arrested traa a,
enad Porter further states the c,orarnar any.
ions to relieve each county from u nart;al IN,
and ain il eastern m depend on or
soldiers ss
5 The Governors policy has no doubt seriously inter-
fered with business men where martial law has been
proclaimed and Injured business men Of all parties l.
and hence the opposition from oyaliss. It has inter-
fered with travel and taken off hands for militia where
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