The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-04-16

nnblicans carried Rhode Island by
four thousand. The complexion
of the Legislature assures the re-
election Of Anthony.
New York, April 1.-THE proc
acntion In Netherlands case closed
today, and the defense will com
mence tomorrow. No new facts
developed.
New York, April 9.--The Chaun-
cev brings adyiees of a riot at
Panama between the natives and
soldiers-one killed and several
wounded.
Fortress Monroe, Va, April 8.
The steamer N. p. Banks, Capt.
McCarrick, has arrived from York
town, and reports that the steam
er Kennebec, from Baltimore,
with freight and passengers for
West Point, caught fire about
about daylight, while discharging
freight at Gloucester Point wharf
this morning, and burned to the.
waters edge. The fire originated
near the boiler and spread so
rapidly that it was with difficulty
that the crew and passengers es-
capped with their lives. No freight
or baggage saved. Her lines
drifted across the river on the
flats where she now lies.
Richmond, April 9.-Passengers
BY the steamer Kennebe reached
here. .
New Orleans, April 1O.--The
State stock in the New Orleans,
jackson and Great Northern Rail
road amounting to 81, 800 shares,
was awarded by the Governor to
III. s. McCOmb at four dollars per
share.
New York, April 10.-The Anti
Slavery society has finally been
dissolved.
Notice of suit was served by
the English bondholders upon
Fisk and Gould, and the corpora
ton of the Erie Railroad yester-
day, by the United States Mar
shall.
San Francisco, April 1O.-Vari-
Gus county clerks refused to regis
ter negroes as voters until the
opinion of the Attorney General
is announced.
Fifty members of the legislature
addressed a letter to the clerk at
Sacramento, stating that they
would support him in his refusal,
by moral, and if necessary, physi-
cal force which the State had Civ
en- them.
Montreal, April 11.-Troops and
volunteers are held in readiness
TO replilsc the raid of which the
authorities have notice.
Toledo, O., April ia man
calling himself Augustus Lallen-
brook, a Prussian hailing from
Texas, has keen swiudling the
masons in this vicinity.
Washington, April lin the
House to day, General Clark, OF
Texas, introduced a bill providing
for the survey of Matagorda bay,
Texas; also, for the survey of Red
River and bayous between Jetfer.
son, Texas, and Alexandria and
Shreveport, Louisiana, with a
view to securing appropriations
Cincinnati, April 12.-Elections
in Montgomery county are decid
ed. The election is against the
republicans, because the inmates
of the soldiers home are not citi
zens and are not allowed to vote
st. Louis, April 12.-Adolpht
Kreger has been arrested an(
charged with robbing the city
treasury of twenty-three t.loIsant
dollars.
Quarter-master's train, encamp
ed at Bluff Creek lost 139 animal.
on March sixth by robbers, sup
posed to be whites disguised al
4nulanS,
New Orleans, April lex
State Auditor Wickliffe on Satur
day night went to the private
residence of a brokerand sold hin
one hundred thousand dollar
worth of State Warrants, receiv
ing seventy thousand dollars il
cash. Auditor Graham state
, that said warrants were frandu
lently issued. Wickliffe has dis
appeared, but his confidential
agent, Mushway, called on tn
broker for the balance due him
and was arrested and five thou
sand dollars recovered. Stat
Auditor Graham published car,
cautioning the public agains
trading for warrants issued b.
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