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INTERNAL REVENUE DEcIsIoN.-A Washington dis
patch says Commissioner Delano has decided with re-
gard to axing and cancelng Internal Revenue stamps
in all gases where adhesive stamp shall hereafter be
used except as may be otherwise provided the per-
son making and delivering giving instrument mat
Ter Or thing to be taxed shall atx the stamp that the
entire surface of each stamp shall be exposed to view,
and he shall cancel the same by writing with ink upon
each stamp, or by some mechanical means as the
Commissioner may hereafter require, in order that
such Cancelled stamp cannot be again used. The can
collation. Of stamps for spirits and tobacco will remain
as heretofore. The Commissioner calls the attention
OF officers to the provision in the act imposing fine
and punishment for using adhesive stamps which have
been already used
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How to Organise a Cotton Factory.

The plan is simple and eesy enough if our men of
property who have spare capital to invest will cooper
ate togetherif they will only cooperatel Right here
lies the only difficulty in the way of this, and nahy
other needfu enterprises in this country, and yet
where the necessity the value of cooperate action
understood in the Northern States orn Europe moth
ing is sefso easy It only necessary for few leading
business men to project an enterprise take stock and
put its claims before other business men next the
selection of skllfpl and experienced men, experts so
to speak, to utilise the project Here is the whole
secret OF course success later is the meas
ure Of the intelligence of its originators and their
communities, or the praccability of the enterprise
How, now, can we start cotton factory? Let SUBJ
scrpton to the amount Of fifty or seventy five thou
sand dollars be placed in the hands of well-known,
responsible subscriber; send him North to procure
superintendent and machinery with power to let out
other subscriptions, say ften fifteen thousand Here
then is guaranty of our own faith and earnestness
and in the Northern States are the proper managers
and the necessary capital. There are to be had in
nearly every village of New England yes, in sort
of superabundance just now, capital seeking good in
Vestments and men seeking opportunities for making
fortunes And there are the emigrants we should en-
courage to come here; they bring the skill and expe
renee we need and will bring the capital to contribute
% ours, and they will promote the "new" industry
70 much needed-the industry that can convert our
aw material into the manufactured article, and put
nto our own pockets that vast amount of intermediary
ost and expense attending shipment to remote sec
ions, freighs, commissions profits Of handling, nsur
nee, interest on investments, &C. We need these
migrants more than laborers, farm hands, for if
lVeisfy our productions and increase our manufac-
Tres, we will have plenty of field labor left. The
egro is good in his place, ud-sill, but neither
re nor freedman, can you build prosperous State
BON what is in him t
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oS DIAMONDS. Times discourses as follows on

oS DIAMONDS. Times discourses as follows on
this valuable subject
we have long been aware that diamonds were losing
aelr position as fashions hvories, and other gems ex
of the English magazines explains this. upou the hv.
poesls that the diamond has become an Integral mart
of the circulating medium. Much surplus capita has
been invested in them account of the great value
contained in such compact form They are, more
perfectly inflated that by far the LARGEST ont;t
the family jewels displayed at court receptions are
known to be merely paste, the originals having ono
gone to relieve pressing necessities Ofall other oems
the pearl seems now destined to be the most sought
after. o'lt
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HE NEW ORLEANS WHISKY SE1zURE-The New
Orleans Bulletin of the oath, says the nineteen thou
sand barrels Of whisky which were seized or detained
BY the Revenue officers, few days since, have been
released, their detention was supposed to result in
the blocaing up of trade and damage to commercial
interests We should think SO. Nineteen thousand
barrels Of bald face What an innumerable number
OF fights would have been lost to the Industrious item
iser Why, with that much whisky Cuba could be
made independent and annexed in a month; Or this
glorious Republic could be kicked to the dogs and
live Empire started or. the ruins There's deal of
power in nineteen thousand barrels of corn Juice. II
didn't take that much to make Napoleon Emperor of
France, though it Is said he put stuff in hisu Nine
teen thousand Ugh !"
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SPARE CAri4AL IN THE HANDS OF THE PLANTERS. -
winnie we recognise no distinction of interests, and
Know that 1t is as much the duty of the farmer to ac,
IN the construction Of railroads az it is that Of e NOR
chant, yet with two candidates for investment before
Tue P0o'c 1t seems TO US there is propriety in the
'"Fhef investing III factories, by preference and The
merchant IN railroads 1t is the special interest of the
farmer to provide the means Of converting the raw
material OF his own production into the manufactured
article Tor his own consumption in tie cheapest possi
Die manner to himself OF course if the factory il at
HIS door, instead Of being at Lowell in Massachusetts,
OF AancheSter IN Engiahd, and the raw material ca
Dc manufactured as cheap as far off as we believe
MI coarse cotton and wooden fabrics can be tho ON,
Stunning farmer will save the reights commissions ana
nut those intermediary charges attending shipment 10
Instant ports Hence we believe in the inception or
Hsofa'ion o. new Industrial and commercial era,
the policy Of the farmer to aid that particular en-
'efpFise, by preference, which Will return him the
greatest profit +" +'* '.ff
On the other hand as the merchant deals in noovoo
hieS IN commerce, and cannot transfer these with nd
vantage to himself without facilities for that purpose
would seem to be his special duty to increase these
facilities And hence our conclusion in briof th,
he increase OF our commercial facilities and the IN
crease OF our trade are identical The commerce of
shreveport viii not grow without an extension or o,r
ahU TUG Improvement of our river navigation
Nay more, and the sooner we realise and act nnon
tai3 paramount fact the better for us: if other roads
I'D On, other cities continue to increase their ciIi
les aa4 tapping oF trade divert fola us while our
oae stops and our trade is lessened the dry rot is our
inevitable tate and who would say then, we did not
deserve II? The city OF Shreveport should own stock
IN our road and our farmers should invest their oapita
in factories @.-
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lLL1Eo1s EDITORIAL ExcURsIoN-The Illinois edi-
toral excursion party were in New Orleans on the
2Sth paraking of the Inequalities Of the city extended
to them by the City Council. They number some
one hundred and twenty. A Mobile dispatch speaking
OF their visit to that place. says lasted three days and
has done vast deal to promote good feeling between
the sections They have received great and continu
Gus hospitality from the city government Board Of
Trade and citizens representing all shades of political
opinion, from ultra Radical to extreme Copperhead
They one and all, express themselves perfectly de-
Ilshted with what they have seen in their PROGRESS
South; they are surprised at the fertility of the soil
the climate, and the opening for industrial and maufac
turing, as well as commercial and agricultural enter
priSes In all their speeches and private expressions
oil opinion, one and all have declared that the new
light has dawned on them. They would not have be-
lleVed what they have seen for themselves Radical
editors are surprised at the peaceful condition of the
country and its political quiet. The Daily Register
has opened its columns to all parties, and is filed with
these expressions from some of the most answering
Republicans
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TRIP AROUND TIE WoRLD.-Says the New York
Times of tho


Times, of the 18th:
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company,s steane,
America will sail between the Goth May and first June
on trip round the world, and will return to New
York by the middle of November The Americ, viii
touch first at Cape Town, remaining three DAYS to
coal, and thence proceed to Point de GALES, in the
Island OF Ceylon, which has of late years risen into
Importance. through being the stopping place for
English and French steamers running 10 Bombay
Calcutta, China, and Japan. From Point de GALES
she wilt depart for Hong Kong and remain there three
weeks giving passengers an opportunity to visit Can
ton, Macao and other neighboring points. Seventy
Gays Gays viii be required to reach Hong Kong, and
further trip to Yokohama will require six DAYS. The
transit to San Francisco will consume twenty.one
Gays and, after remaining there couple of weeks
the steamer will land her passengers at Panama
whence they can cross the Isthmus by rail- and take
another OF the companys steamers at Aspinwall for
this city The charge of the entire passage will
be $3.50, including the privilege of living on
BOARD while in port A reasonably cheap method of
seeing much of the world thus offers ise! during the
most pleasant season of the year
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, WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS AND THE INTERNAL
REVENUE LAWs.-The attention of wholesale louor
eeaefs is greeted to the provisions Of section forty
five, act Of July 90 1868 that every wholesale nuor
dealer snail provide himself with book to be pre-.
pared and kept in such form shall be prescribed BY
ne commissioner of Internal Revenue and shall enter
10 such book the date when the name of the person
Or hrm from whom, and the place whence the spirits
were received, by whom distilled, rectifed or com
pounded, and when and by whom inspected and shall
also enter, in like manner, in that book the day
when, and the name and place of business of the per-
son or firm to whom such spirits are to be sent the
quantity and the kind or quality of such spirits and
also he number OF gallons and fractions of gallons Of
such spirits and also the number of gallons and frac
tohs OF gallons at proofs and if in the original pack
ages IN which they received be shall enter the
name OF the dstiller and the serial number of the
package II such book is not produced to any revenue
officer the wholesale dealer shall pay penalty of one
hundred dollars, and on conviction shall be fined not
less than Sloo, nor more than $4,000, or imprisoned
not less than three months nor than three years
New Orleans Republican
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FROM EUROPE,

- LONDON, May 1.-Goyernment instructs Commodor,
lhiilimor', commanding West India British fleet. n
demand restoration of the Mary Lowell and apoIgy
for her seizure. ~
MADRID, May 2-Debate in the Cortes q, tho nm
shtuton ended. All amendments rejected Cortas
voted amnesty for rebels at Cadiz Malaga and Here's
put refused to include Carst. Serious disturbance
reared at Saragossa, where troops are disconnected
LONDON, May 2.-Paraguayan reports say Lopez il
prepared to resume the offensive.
Of. rETEhsBFEG, May 3,-Recal Of de StoecE,
American Minister, is officially announced
CORK, May 3.-Mass meeting Saturday endorsedtba
hayors recent speech. Resolutions expressed conf
dence IN and sympathy for the Mayor.
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IMPORTANT CIRCULAR FROM TREASURER SPINNER
The following has been issued from the Treasury De-
partment:
Hereafter new United States notes will be furnished
from this office only on the following terms, viz:
"first-1n return for defaced and mutilated United
States notes and fractional currency and convertible
issue OF United States notes. forwarded to this office
for redemption.
"second-On the receipt of certificates of deposit
o. the Assistant Treasures of the United States and
United States repositories designated under the act of
August 6, 1866.
Third-on the receipt of the collection of checks
on oaks ana bankers IN the cities of New York. Bos
Ton, Philadelphia and Washington.
)" lth the best care the new notes will be for
Warded by express under the Government contract at
ehe expense Of the Department; provided the amour.
Is fifty thousand dollars or more
In the two other the notes will be forwarded
atGovernment rates at the expense of the consgnee
the amount OF charges being deducted from the remit.
lance at this office.
"Sgned Er sp1vSrr.
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.Ir1Iy,CI iuIfSsn,

Will the oldfashioned people of this section believe
that's new journal has been started in New York
openly advocating the conversion Of our so.caled re-
public into empire? This is not only the fact but
this organ boldly ayows the failure of our democratic
Institutions and proclams both the necessity and the
near approach of an empire like that at present exist
ing in France. What is remarkable in this paper is
the candid and open avowal of this necessity It does
not blink the issue at all: Our whole system is fail
ure; we must remodeit. It's scheme is revolutionary
and it explicitly says How the novel proposition
OF THIS imperial organ will be received is lust now
being discussed by the press With US is almost like
reading foreign matter little does the proposition
seem to concern us.
The Mobile Register considers the question az a
conundrum to be solved by the East and West and
'ha1 We OF the South have further interest in it
than possible benefit to be derived from any change
from the present parody Of government" "No,"
says the Register we leave the conundrum to the
East and West, simply reminding them what saunch
old Thomas Carlyle said of the French revolution
' sad indeed for people when they have taken mon
key to be their god" How this would differ from
the worship of many apes, congress of apes for
stance we leave 10 the new organ to decide. ''You
pays your money, and you takes your choce'
We arc after all surprised at the interest exhibited
by the press, the Southern press we mean in the fate
and fortune OF this imperial paper. The Mobile Tri-
pune, edited by most gallant gentleman, who can
not be persuaded yet that any people have not right
to choose their own form of government and that to
suppress rebellion, socalled in support of this doc
trne, is to 60 back far the doctrines of 76, that
different form of government from that of our fathers
IS necessary for US openly comes to the aid of the
lmpcralist. correspondent of the same paper thus
a'ludes to the new organ:
That the tendency Of the American government is
downward, and that it is becoming worthless for public
GOOD, Is becoming manifest to the people, and partic-
llariy so to those of the South That it will fall to
,'eces is clearly oreseen by clear-headed men, That
he result will finally be empires, is also
certain. 1t is merely question of time. This is the
esult which history teaches invariably follows cor
upton and misrue.
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Tea N rHis srATEs-The Clinton Democrat states
that resident Of that place gathers efficient o,,an
ty Of tea leaves from the Chinese tea plan. eporn
his garden to more than suffice sar .be requiem i
his household. On Z
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gold nugget weighing not less than two hundred
pounds has been found in Victoria. It i danbtfn
whether 50 large quantity of the precious metal has,
ever before been found in one mass Tie great mug.
get Of loea weighed only one hundred and fortysix
POUNDS II IS noticeable that all these great nmns Of
gold hare been fod in Australia In i5s 1',a ~
thought at that time to be immense was turned &c -
Peru, but It weighed not more than sixty na.nds 4
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ACCIDENTAL DEATH--The New Orleans Rnrcti, or
the 24th uit' states that Dr. Joseph G. Logan, the
Superintendent q the Insane Asylum was accidentlr
killed about ten o'clock the day before while cleaning
a doublebarreled shot gun. The weapon was acct
IDENTIFY discharged, lodging its entire contents in his
body, and killing him almost instantly.
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DEATH OF THos W. Observation-Disclosures the
ineetnency Of the day, the deceased was followed to
his last resting place by large procession of Oldest
and best citizens. Poor Tom Collins, we understand,
was born in Scotland in the year 1927, and came to
this country in lis YOUTH and to Shreveport in his
early manhood. As mechanic lie had few supcriors
10 his trade friend he as kind as woman and
as soldier he bore himself so well that from the 9Th
eorp1rn OF his company he to the adiutancy for
long time commanding company. We shall long re-
member his fine, handsome face, lis manly form, his
GENIAL laugh, and his many true and noble qualities
Peace be 10 him
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EXPERIMENT WITH A NEW ILLEsIrsaTrye r,,a
car5onised hydrogen gas mixed with the pure HYDRO
gen, now used as light at the Taileries IS ere.t;na
general interest Each light or lamp post eyes a.
Th s srs,sn e. e electrical
olution in the private aud public mode &C. Ial.;
houses streets and squares nasmuc as i i aSaana5
than the common gas used now, : s s1e' p1i
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THoNAs 0. MooRE.-The New Orleans Times Of the
esd, says
We observe exGov. T. 0. Moore is in the citv Tho
Ex-Governor has returned to planting with his old on.
ersy, and We are happy to add with that specess which
distinguished him before the as one Of the most
prosperous and intelligent Of our planters. He has
three hundred acres in cane. and woud baa aaf &c
the labor could be had l''0'e II
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INDICTED ToR WsTeHcRArr.-The Easton (Md.) Star
says: We understand that at the present session OF
the Circuit Court for Caroline county, MARYLAND the
grand jury indicted a woman for wtchcraft. The
witch is negress and the trial no doubt will be an
interesting one. We had supposed that the days Of
Wtchcraft had passed away ia this country,
return, but the action Of Caroline grand jury, il
seems has revived them. The world moves back
ward
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NIGGEa IN ofFIeE.-This is from the New Orleans
Pcaynne Of the Esd:
The new Assessor Of internal Rarenna q - 4o,.
bert colsred pan, took formal possession IL lis a.
bee this morning, and aroand the door Of Ills sane
tufn soon porteatpas cloud Of ec seeLers
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FROM NEW ORLEANS.
FROM WASHINGTON.

New ORLEANS, May 4.-Departed for Red River
Golden Era
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DIs7ILLEay CLosED.-The New Orleans Picavlne Of
the 2sth, says that Catlin's distllery, situated in
uretna, in the parish of Jefferson, has been seized by
order of Col stoekdae Collector of Internal Revenue
for the First District of louisiana The seizure was
made in consequence Of its having been alleged that
some two hundred barrels Of whisky had been SO
placed as to eyade the payment Of the internal rere
nue. tax
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FEMALE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES York has been shock
ed This would look little strange after having swa
lowed the Black Crook, White Fawn, and Can Can
and hardly seems reasonable a New York paper
says it was reserved for female veocpedist to shock
the modesty of that people. Itsays at the Empire Rink
'eloclpedrome, on Monday evening, five French ri
ders-two women and three men-disported them
selves on fiery bicycles and by turns delighted and
disguised rather numerous audience Whatever
may be said of the vclocpede it is not adapted for
the use of the farer unless indeed to that portion
of it which may be classed under the head of Bow
cry gals" The French women alluded to were
y beautifully attired in tight fitting garments" and
performed some astonishing velocipedestran feats
New ork paper is assured that the Black Crook was
but phantom as compared to the gorgeous baroness
OF the ACCOMPLISHMENTS" and besde<it the
White Fawn beauties pale into utter insignifcance.
The modesty Of New York vas shocked and the hope
expressed that the exhibition will not be repeated
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Judge DuFel, Of New Orleans. has decided that the
Times il entitled to the publication Of the list Of IN
called for letters in the New Orleans post Office It's
only remedy. however is an esion at Law for damages
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NIGER MAsoNs IL MASSACHUSETTS,. In exchanso
says there in Massachusetts about seven hundred
eoiored Free Masoas, who have fourisaiag
lodges in existence. They have never been acknow,
edged 9, recognised BY the white Free Masons OF
Massachusetts, and have been for long time trying
70 secure what they term their rights. The Masonic
publications are discussing the subject and so is the
Grand Lodge fwhite1 of Massachusetts
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lsFoRaA1IoS WAsgER.-The New York Herald pub
fishes the following: sc. St. Leger Grenfe, prs-
oner On the Dry Tortugas, who escaped on the night
Of March Z, 1865 Any one who can give information
whether he is alive or persisted in his attempt to escape
will address F. f Marbury Counselor at Law, 81 Wall
street"
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FEMALE Duel ~ MEx1co-The Opinion Naconal,
says few days ago two Young and pretty women
fought duel ia Tacubaya, with pistols The two ad
Versares placed short distance from each other
and one Of the champions was seriously wounded.
Love was at the bottom of the atfair.
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SLAVERY AND THE SoUTH.-The New York Tribune
SAYS that in all the many letters it has received from
the sont and the many its editors have
had with Southern men during the last six months,
there gas nothing ike intimation or regret that
saver5 bad passed away, the hint Of desire that
it should be restored
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:, 2NsoiafR pEATi.-Ne iearr from the New Orleans
,'asane that ar John Edwards Caldwell, son of the
'ase Elas b Caldwell, formerly Of Washington CITY,
IT. 'lafiy Years q resident Of New Orleans, died al
Iass Christian on Monday Tile 18th at.,
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The METROPOLITAN Police BILL DECIDED CoNsr1rU-
FIoNAL-The New Orleans Pieayune of the 25th says
IN the Supreme Court the day before, Justice Howell
read the opinion Of the Court in the cases Of Diamond
vs. Cain and others, in which was involved the cous
tuanay of the law of the Legislature creating the
metropolitan police. The power of that body has
been sustained in every respect and it was held that
he bill WIS not Tioative Of any article Of the exist
ing constitution The Judgment Of The cont below
was reversed and the injunction prayed foT to restrain
the Mayor from making any appointment! CT Chief, or
other policemen, was made perpetual.