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Telegraphic News.


ders Is and clear sides 21ac; 40.
gar cured hams 25053c. Sugar
firm; prime 113c. Molasses, htm;y
prime 68069c. Cotton easier.
sales $500 bales; good ordinary.
140143, low middling 1433lsasR
receipts 10.373 and exports to,
Liverpool 1885 bales. Gold llO3.
New York, Nov. 8.--CottonS
heavy; sales 5000 bales; uplands,
1863 and Orleans 165c. GoldllOkG
@11Os. nn
Liverpool, Nov. 8.-Cottonopens
quiet; uplands 81 and Orleans ssd.;
estimated sales 10000 bales.
Shreveport, Nov. 9.-Yesterday
cotton was dull and nominal,
though the following figures ara
as near the ruling price as could
be arrived at: good ordinary 1870
13a and low middling 14014fc.
Washington, Nov. 1.-The Cen.
sus Bureau has partial returnsI
from the Southern States indicatsas
ing an increase in some and q de-
crease in others. Of the negro
population in the aggregate there
will be an increase over 1860, but
not nearly so large in proportion
as had been shown by previous
enumerations. AL
New York, Nov. 2.-Registra-s
ton has closed and shows loss
of $4,000 compared withlast gear.
/ Indianapolis, Nov. "a man
and woman driving a fracii8us
horse were killed while crossing
/ the Jacksonville railroad near
Columbus, Indiana. sE3a atsa@
] Buffalo, Nov. 3.--Thel war be.J
tween the Erie aud Central rail.
roads via snspensiona bridge is
growing furious. The contendingg
parties have attempted to burn
bridges. gF
New York, Nov. 5, evening.
Bank observation-disclosures decreased
over S2l 100000; specie increased
over 81, 25e, 900; deposits increas.
ed nearly g., 100000; circulation
decreased nearly $1,000, 900; legal
tenders increased nearly el,0eU,g
600. The Treasury paid $6,5O0,-
600 interest since Nov. LIST.
/ New Orleans, Nov. 6.--The down
freight train ran off at Carriers,
on the Jackson Railroad yesterday
and ten cars smashed. Passen-
ger trains delayed. @ w
New York, Nov. 7.-HighEaS.
men secured the mail car on the
Pacific Railroad, supposed to con-
tain quarter of q million. Wells,
Fargo & Co. offers $15, 900 for tho
arrest oft robbers
A ten thousand dollar counter
terfeit United States bond was
passed upon the California bank.
The counterfeiter escaped with
the proceeds.
New York, Nov. z, midnight
The city is quiet. Everything in
dicates that ever thing will Be
peaceful; but 5000 Federal troops,
are quartered between the North
and East rivers. a
/ An immense mass meeting OF
Irish Democrats was held laafs
night. @
San Francisco, Nov. s,-The
eastern bound train on Saturday.
evening was stepped by Ave men,
supposed to be deserters from
Camp Halleck. The express car
was detached and robbed. @
i A special train, with police and
horses started for the scene, near
which a glove was found marked
Carr, who killed Nancy at Camp
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-11-12

The Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture will, according to the Har-
risburg State Journal, stand:
House, Republicans So, Demo
Gratis AZ; Senate, Republican
majority l. The Democrats
gain 5 members of the House
aid the Radicals 3, giving the
Democrats a net gain of 2.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-11-12

There ought to be some limit
to the power of wealthy corpo-
rations to grind the faces Of the
poor. In Baltimore, Hannah
Dougherty, a widow, with six
children, recently obtained for
the third time, a verdict of
$4,000 for the death Of her
husband, who was run over by
the cars of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company. Yet
railroad companies have long
purses, and the verdict is once
more appealed against. Ifthere
were more justice and less law,
the fatherless and the widowed
could not thus be debarred of
their rights. ts...
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-11-12

The Philadelphia Age says /:
an a recent speech at Boston
Wendell Phillips arraigned the
Radical party for having no
living idea to propose Wen
dell is wrong 10 This instance.
The idea on which the Radical
party rests at the present time
is plumber, and tits certainly a
living one"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-11-12

The Radical papers are be-
to wake up to an APP
probation of Grant. The Bos-
ton News (Radical) says:
president Grant is fast dis
closing the fact that the Oabi-
net is a place in which a thor
Oughly honest man canot re-
main without doing violence
to his conscience and manhood.
Attorney General Hoar was
made of too stern stuff to be
acceptable among scheming
politicians, and now Secretary
Cox must go because he would
not allow the managers Of the
party in power to pick the
pockets and garrote helpless
employees in his department"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-11-12

Campbeil's majority over
Sehenck in the Third Ohio Dis
trict Is but 1855 An exchange
thinks that If the lower House
OF Congress doesn't annihilate
such Q contemplate majority
as that and let Schenck in, it is
not the lower House of Com
greas it u popularity supposed
60 DO.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-11-12


THE PoLEs.-These Repub-
lican fellow citizens of ours are
great sticklers for performing
their duties, even to the
letter. Stanton's orders to his
chief commissioners were great
er with them than the law and
the Gospel. He ordered our
chief to have the polls at the
Court house. The chief was
bothered nightly to find the
most proper place to put them;
but at length his doubts were
resolved, and he employed a
colored friend or two, to go out
to the woods to cut them. They
duly performed their devoirs
and brought two pine poles and
fourdogwood forks. The forks
were set firmly in the ground
aud the poles placed in them,
so that they could be duly
opened ON Monday morning.
Some blarsted Democrat, find
ing that they interfered with
the passage Of the steps over
the Court house fence, pushed
them down, and doubtless a
great cry will be raised over
his disturbing the ''poles" at
Bellevue.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-11-12
Neither the French or Prus

Neither the French or Prus-
sian cavalry have shown
enough energy during the war.
to get up a respectable raid
The Prussians, however, seems
to have taken some very yalu-
able lessons from Sheridan in
theart of pIundering hen roosts
and store houses, and burning
houses over the heads of help
less women and children.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-11-12
So Jealous were the champ

So Jealous were the champ
ions of popular rights in Eng
land of military dictation by
the Grown that they passed a
statute, which has been the law
for a hundred years, that no
troops should be stationed
within a mile of any polling
place on election day, and if SO
posted that they should be with
drawn. Grant despises such
safeguards of popular liberty,
and has sent troops into nearly
every Southern State to control
the elections, and now he is
doing the same thing in the
North.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-11-12

The Democratic majority in
Indiana is 2.5OS. The Indian
apolis Sentinel says (:
1.-THE results of the recent
election may thus be summed
up: The State officers elected,
all Democrats; the four Judges
of the Supreme Court, all Dem
ocrats; the Senate a tie, and the
House Sc Democrats, and A
Republicans, counting the can
didates elected upon Reform
tickets the way they will vote"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
THE ALABAMA CLAIMS
Fishy Compliments.


LoyDoN, Jan. THE Spectator,
commenting on the recent diplomatic
correspondence between the government
of the United States and Great Britain,
says that the notes OF Fish are improve
ments on Stewards His dispatches con-
tain no buncombe or flourishes; yet there
is too much of undignifed and continu-
al complaint, instead of adherence ia le-
gal questions. The American case on
the Alabama question is a strong one, and
one i'm which maritime powers are deeply
interested, but Fish does not do it justice.
Port or NO Port.
The Saturday RcUie'0, referring to
the Alabama dispute, says the Americans
assume that blockaded port is no port
yet they propose TO decline to interfere
with their vessels running in the block
AIDED ports of Cuba.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
PERSONALITIES.
Wizard Blitz is writing his life.

Wizard Blitz IS writing his life.
Prim is described as a little, peak -nosed
man.
''Concealins whisky" has been pro-
nOunced a crime by Delano.
cited to a Corpse" is the cheerful title
of an English Christmas story.
Solitaire diamond rings on the hands of
gentlemen suggest rejected addresses.
The bar-room invitation at Vicksburg
is, nominate your family disturbance.
An incautious, but not disloyal country
paper says Grant is best known by his
o'ccds.
Pcre HyacInthe answered five hundred
applications for autographs in Ibis coun-
Try.
Gath says that the Democracy in
Congress are "a disoTganizcd crowd, di-
yided and conquered.
Fanny Fern objects to the wearing Of
mourning goods. She objects to about
everything that other women like.
Madame Anna Bishop has sung in
English, French, Italian, Spanish, Swe-
dish, Danish, Russian, Bohemian and
German.
Vice President COIiax has given up his
public receptions this season, because of
the health of his wife and mother.
Rev. Baron Stow, who died in Boston,
last Sunday, of apoplexy, at the age Of
sixty-eight, was one of the oldest Baptist
| clergymcn of New England
Pictures of the Empress Eugene repre-
sent magnificently formed and devel-
oped woman, when it is well known she
is, as Mark Twain says, ''a5 fat as a
match.
A doctor at Dubuque, Iowa, used a
stomach-pump for two hours ON a man
killed by the cars, and then he had to
''reclCn that life was utterly distinct
A juror at Waterfowl, New York, for
ty years of age, said he hadn't bad a
newspaper in his house for eight years.
He voted for Grant from 'hear-say..
There is in existence an early edition
of Douglas Jerrod's '.Men of Character,
illustrated by W. NJ Thacderay. The
pictures are said to be amazingly bad.
Greeley is writing for his country read
ers a series of papers entitled ''What l
Know About Farming" What docs he
know about it, except that it Is nice to go
into forest occasionally and hack at
trees with Ratchet It's good for the
liver,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
Is WATER THE BEST FIRE EX
TTNGEISHER

The losses by fire in the United States,
from last January to October, inclusive,
amount to the large sum of $50, 564, 900.
In view of this fact does it not become
the government to test most thoroughly
whether the use of fire engines is the best
and most available means of extinguish-
ing confagrations Of late it has been
confidently asserted that carbonic acid gas
can be manufactured in sufficient quaint
" TO supply any municipality with a
surer and speedier means of lessening the
ravages of fire, while the aggregate cost
of the material used annually for this pur-
pose would fall far below that imposed
upon taxpayers TO support the present
system of fire departments, voluntary or
otherwise. The idea is rapidly gaining
ground, and people ere looking to the
proper authorities for a practical solution
of the issue it involves. Probably at
least cne-half ($15, 900, OOO) of this ag
gregate loss is owing TO the destruction
of goods which might have been saved
had some other agency than water been
used as an cxtinguisher. The subject is
well worthy of investigation by scientific
men.-Nc,g York Times.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
ROw VICTORIA LOOKS.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
1ctte says that Queen Victoria is short
and stout-sO stout, indeed, that fat
would perhaps be a more correct term.
Her face is full, round, very large and
heavy; mouth large, and lips thick, but
neither impressing you disGgIeeably; nose
rather prominent, but symmetrical in
shape, and terminating sharply; head of
medium size, but looking somewhat dis
proportionate to her large face, more no
ticeable for breadth at the base than
height, and flat or level ON top; forehead
straight or finely developed; eyes, Think,
blue, expression unassuning, kind and
motherly. Her hair quite gray-thereforc,
infer, all her own. She looked TO me
from SO TO GO, though her actual age is
80. Her complexion has the bright scar
let hue indicative of much dinner wine
drinking, which is said to be very regular
with her; and some people say she don't
restrict herself 10 the milder stir''"lr~
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
CITING 4 FIGTRE.

Larry is a good-uatUred, civil fellow,
who attends to his business and provides
well for his family, but has one falling in
this, that when he goes to his home at
night he is usually more OF less under the
influence of cOntraband fluids. One night
he started for home with nice turkey,
safely done up in strong writing paper, IN
der his arm. Larry found the road TO his
house uncommonly rough that night He
several times stumbled and fell over all
sorts Of obstacles in his path. Each time
he fell he dropped his turkey, bat contrived
to pick it up again. On entering his
house he steadied himself as well as lie was
able, and said to his wife:
Here, wiley, I've got leyen turkeys for
you
Eleven turkeys, Larry What do you
mean p? There's only one.
There must be leven turkeys, wiley,
for 1 fell down leven times, and every
time found a turkey. There must be
leven turkeys.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02

CHOCTAW.
ssAnd indians not Taxed. ,,

ssAnG Indians not Taxed.,'
MEMPHIS, Jan. IA tobacco factory in
the Choctaw Nation, in the name of Tandy,
Walker q Co., was seized on Friday last,
by orders from Washington, and the con-
tents moved to Fort Smith. The seizure
was made under new rulings and in
structions, the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue heretofore ruling that all
manufacturing establishments in the In
dian country were exempt from taxation
BostEick d Ryan were largely interested
IN the factory, and will bring the case be-
fore the courts for decision.
1t is understood that the instructions
were to seize all the factories in the Indian
country, and includes that of E. G. Bou-
dinot d Co, at Boudyville, Cherokee
Nation
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
FRANCE.
Semi-OfficiaI.

PARIS, Jan. 1t is certain that the
new Ministry viii be announced day after
tomorrow. The Journal O6icieI has not
yet published list of appointments, but
La Li6erte, the organ of NJ. Olivier,
states that the ministry is constituted
and publishes the following as the an
nouncement which he will officially pro-
mulgate Monday as. Ministers: Justice,
Emile Olivier; Minister of Interior, Chev-
andier de Ealrome; Minister of Foreign
Affairs, lC Depltc Jandieu; Minister of
Commerce, Ic DepUtc Couvet; Minister
Of Public Works, Maurice Richard
NM. Magne, Baurbeau, Chasseloup,
Loudbat, LeBOuf and Rigault de Gen
vile will retain their positions. NJ.
Bertheny, French Envoy at Washington,
declined the portfolio of the Interior, on
account of his deficiency in oratory.
OF the Ministry, as thus given by La
Ljberte, fourteen Of the members are
Senators and six members of the Cham
Der of Deputies
NJ. Faubien, Minister of Foreign AZ
fairs, was formerly Minister Plenipotenti-
airy and Counsellor of State. Chevandier
de NaldrOme, Minister of Interior, was
second vice-President of Corps Legislatif
All others are well known in political cir
cles.
Later
PARIS, Jan. l, 6 A. Mt is stated that
the Emperor signed the decree confirming
the new Ministry last night
\ New Year CALI
To-day the Emperor received the Di-
plomatic Corps, In answer to the usual
address he returned his thanks, and said
the presence of all the foreign representa-
tives was proof of the friendly relations
existing between their respective govern
ments and France. He then conversed
freely with the chiefs of the various lega-
tons.
TeIegraphic Censorship.
A correspondence of the Globe, COM
menting on the official denial of the cen
sorship over the French cable, says that
all kilograms are received by the Minister
Of the Interior
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
= SINGULAR OFFER or MARIE
AGE

The richest heiress of the American
colony in Paris, Miss X, whose mar
riage portion amounts tOa great many mil
lions Of francs, has received a som cwhat
singular offer of marriage Count N.
a Spanish nlJlcman, of the highest rank,
and Of fine appearance, wrote to the
brother of our heiress, whose parents are
dead, the following letter:
''SE 81 love your sister, and sue for
her hand. But as | would not have any
body think, for her sake as well as mine,
that money was the motive of such a
union, would accept of Miss x
only a marriage portion equal in value to
my own, or about /, 800, GEO francs. The
rest of your sisters fortune would 90 to
the poor. D."
II is not known what answer was given
to the singular proposal; but the Count is
a man of whom wife might be proud,
and this romantic way of wOoing is well
calculated TO please a girl.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
SLEEPY HOLLOW.
Murder by wholesale.

PoUGHKEEPsIE, Jan. IA teIrible
tragedy occurred at Sleepy Hollow, near
Tarrytown, this evening. A man named
V. W. Buckhout, shot his wife, New
York merchant, Alfred Randall and a
son of the latter named Charles Randall.
Mrs. Buckhout was shot through the
temple, Alfred Randall through the heart
and Charles Randall in the head. Mrs.
Buckhout and Alfred Randall are dead.
Charles Randall lies in dangerous con-
ditiOn. BuckhOut gave himself up imme-
diately and was lodged in jail The
cause of the tragedy is unknown. Some
persons ascribe it to jealousy on the part
of the husband, and others believe he is
insane
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
4 PECgiTAR WILL,

The viii of John Phillips was proved
yesterday in the County Court, and let
ters testamentary given to Joseph P.
Ross, Daniel Russell and Henry Tieba-
lem, under bonds of $3.50, O0O The pro
visions of the viii are that the chair bust
ness, in which deceased was engaged.
shall continus, though il may be closed
after five years. His son Alexander
shall be assistant bOokkceper, James is to
have a position in the paint shop, and
William have charge Of the machinery.
Their pay is to be 81, 900 each pei an
mum, they must work ten hours per dav,
and have deductions made for lost time.
Rush College gets 81 800, and $500 per
annum to establish 4 free dispensary.
The town Of Forfar, Scotland, receives
81, 200 for land on which to establish an
orphan asylum. II the business is dis
continued, the avails shall be divided into
seven shares, the town of Forfar receiving
three and Rush Medical College one: and
if any of the heirs contest this viii, they
are to lose all bequeathed them. John
Phillips, one of his sons, Is disinherited.-
ChjC0gO Post
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
CUBA.
Died Tor want OF BrcatII.

HAVANA, Jan. Intense excitement
prevails here in consequence Of the an
nOuncement in Havana journals Of this
evening, that the revolution has termi-
mated.
The New York Juuta FTOvyE Blame
on Grant.
According to the published statement
the editors of the Journals have seen a
copy of circular signed by the members
of the Cuban Junta in New York, ordering
the insurgents TO lay down their arms for
the present, giving as a reason for ahan-
dOnment of the instruction the failure Of
the recent filibustering expeditions and the
inability Of the JUnta to send more men;
AID further, the dishearteninC action Of
the American Government in permitting
the gunboats to sail from New York.
The circular severely attacks the course
Of President Grant. The Junta advises
the Cubans to submit 70 the Spauiards in
order to save further bloodshed
Surrendered.
The T0ee III CuJ0 CORstitutioHolid an
nounces the surrender of 100 iusur-
gents at Tunas to Gen. Benagaza.
Spanish GucriIIas
The DjGTiO announces that eX-Rebel
Gen. Cocoa offers to raise a body of guer-
illas to fight against the insurgents.
Those GunbOnts.
One Spanish gunboat arrived to-day,
having been separated from its companions
off the heights of Charleston. The rest
are expected to arrive tomorrow.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
THE DECLINE IN PRINTED HISS
Inns.

The following statement IN regard TO
the recent decline in printed muslins has
been made in New York
"a secret touching the fall in printed
muslins has just leaked out. SpTague, Of
Providence, has in his employ a young
German named Praff, who not long ago
invented method by which the printing
of cotton cloth in the Providence mills is
done at saving of from one to two cents
per yard. While engaged in his expert
ments he made a discovery of still greater
importance, whereby the bleaching, which
now requires forty-eight hours, may be
thoroughly completed in less than one
hour. These discoveries enable Sprague
tO-undersell all other manufacturers of
Calicoes, and give him virtually control Of
the market. Praff's industry and sciep-
titic knowledge have already been literally
rewarded; but it is said that his share ia
the result OF the valuable discoveries he
has made win belitte short of S., 000, 600. .
c. S Cory, Sheriff of Culpcper ocun-
ty, Virginia, by military appointment, has
been tried by a military commission for
embezzling about ten thousand dDliars, and
sentenced to five years in the Slate Peni-
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
SAN FRANCISCO.

A new directory of San Francisco, Just
issued, places the population of that city
in September last at 10, $50. There are
recorded in the directory the names of
50, so white males over twenty-one wears
of age, "a, 800 of white females over eigh
teen, s, 900 of Chinese; 1850 of colored
persons. The total number of buildings
in the city and county is Is, Gj9, of which
$50 have been erected in the past year
Tue total cost of the years improvements
is estimated at S10,O00,O0O, exclusive OF
s., 500, 600 expended on streets and sewers.
An appended report Of meteorological OBJ
servatiOns states that the driest season re-
membered in San Francisco was that Of
150-5l, when only seven inches of rain
fell; the wetiest was that Of 1S67-GS, when
forty inches fell; the average fall is twenty
one totwenty-two inches. The earliestset-
ting ia of the rainy season between
1850 and 1869 was Nov. / the latest Jan.
T. The average date Of the end of the
rainy season is April II. The coolest
weather was in January, 1864, with the
mercury at p degrees above zero the hot
test in September, 1852, when the mer-
curry rose to IS. But there we're emily six
days IL the nineteen years in which the
mercury rose to 80, and frequently in win
ter it does not fall below 40. September
is the warmest month and December the
coolest.