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The south-western., 1870-09-21

MYsTERIoUs A Hallvile correspondent of the
Harrison Flag says that on the 9th of this month
wagon aud two horses found about three and a
half miles this side of Camden, and the suppostion is
that the owner was murdered, though it is also con
jeetured that he may have gone to alve, taken the
train, and left the country adopting this as ruse
The articles are described as follows:
The wagon Is iron axle with new bed; two
horses ella y-bank, the other bay, both old, and
the bay blind and branded s. the ghaak branded
with f r., or some such brand. wish you could pub
sIsb this aud oblige your friend.
The south-western., 1870-09-21

DUTY.-When you pay man for his labor, you
wish to get his time and indusry-you object to any
unnecessary interference that will disturb him. Very
weIl but there higher considerations than those
merely selfish of personal profit and loss and if
YOU wish to be left alone, you will be held RESPONSE
BILE for the duty that others willing and able per-
form You must consider the interests of the State.
We speaking to our friends the tlers of the SOIL
Temporary inconvenience now may result in perma,
nent good in the future. Louisiana expects every
30 do his duty
The south-western., 1870-09-21

The people of this section will be rejoiced to learn
that Bishop E. NJ Marvin, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, will preach in Marshall the fifth Sab
bath in October the Both day of the month"; and pre-
side over Trinity Conference in Jefferson, commencing
on the 18th of October, and the East Texas Confer
ence, at Carthage, Panola county, commencing on No
yember 2, 1870. Bishop Marvin is of the most
eminent dvines on the contiHent-eminent for his
talents, his godliness zeal and devotion, and has mum
beress friends and admirers wherever he is known.
Harrison Flag.
The south-western., 1870-09-21
Proceedings of the Board of Trustees.
MAYORS OFF1c]

CITY OF Shreveport, Sept. l9, 1870.
Al an adjourned meeting of the Mayor and Board If
trustees hsid g this day. the following members were
Prfsen,: HIS Honor. j B. Gilmore, Mayor; Trustees
B. Patterson. " ~ noiu ana H.
me Special Committee to whom was referred the
@ eona'nuhicauon OF j. K. Lamerick, made verbal re-
81 me loiowing ordinance was introduced and adopt
BY Trustee j. Il. Reynolds:
loos o@deG 6y tie gor and Board of Trustees in
seyal g asssosy conoened That the Street Committee
nefeDy uy empowered to contract for the con-
la s o. two culverts at the south side Of
street and one at the lower side of Crockett
street, upon the best terms and conditions noss;ble
The Board then adjourned po''''''
E. M. STURGESS, Controller
The south-western., 1870-09-21

We notice with profound regret the announcement
in the Mansfield Times of the 18th, of the death oil
Mrs. Lizzie Lee Stuart, wife of Rev Chas. B. Stuart
President of the Mansfield Female College. She died
in Natchitoches on the 10Th inst. of apoplexy. We
had heard of her serious illness, but had been led to
hope that she would recover, and again take her posi-
ton in the college which she had so satisfactorily
filed for several years. The Times truly says: "The
college has sustained serious loss as well as her fam
ilY and friends
The south-western., 1870-09-21
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Sept 19. - Motley teegraphs the
State Department that Prussia does intend to
fine negotiations to the Emperor the Regency bu,
objects to negotiations with the present government
as it is Incompatible and furnishes no absolute guar
antees. Bismarck and Favre have had conference
but the result has not transpired.
The south-western., 1870-09-21

A WORD IN SEAsoN.-A word in time now may pre-
vent incalculable mischief Both parties are organic
ing. The start in political race is impor-
tant than the thing the turf. 1t is specially
the duty of our farmers to confer with their aborers
and explain to them the great issue between the parties
of to-day-economy, honesty and reduction of taxes
against the loose unprincipled, extravagant and
rnpt legislation of the Radical party.
The south-western., 1870-09-21

THE NOMINEES While the nomination of Col
Blair, as Democratic candidate for State Treasurer
must give general satisfaction throughout the northern
portion Of the State and indeed for aught know tc
the contrary, throughout the entire State, cannot
say that the nomination Of Judge Ryan has been re-
ceived with universal favor Though while we say
this in all candor, must believe that will
permit his fancies, preudices, if you will to pre-
vent his giving the entire ticket his hearty support
1t not question of personal preference but Of
redemption from the thraldom of party which is
sucking the very lfe-blood from Southern prosperity
Mr.. Jumel, nominee for State Auditor, is not gen.
orally known in this portion of the State but we are
satisfied from what learn of him, that he {" will
do " emnently well.
The south-western., 1870-09-21
democratic state Ticket.

DEPARTURES To-DAY.-Those two excellent boats,
the Lotawanna and Era No. 10, whose departure we
Yesterday announced, we're unavodaby detained, but
will leave to-day. We have often spoken words OF
commentator Of these boats and their officers that it
ia needless to say more.
The south-western., 1870-09-21

THE MANSFIELD FEMALE CoLLEGE.-We learn from
Mr.. Wempe, Of Mansfield, that tie exercises of this
institution will open on the 2Sh and that depart
President Stuart gives assurance to the patrons that
every effort will be made to maintain the high charac-
which has been hitherto awarded to the College.
We beg leave to extend to the bereaved gentlemen
our heartfelt sympathy in the rreparabe loss of his
accomplished wife-a loss not alone to him but to the
institution and to the pnbie.
The south-western., 1870-09-21

RETuRNED-Our friend, DR.. T. P. Hotchkss, came
mp on the Lotawanna and is gratifying to state that
he returns vastly improved in health. western trip
certainly has marvellous effect upon some consttu
tons The Doctor left as grey with all Difference We
say D as a badger, but returns with whskers dark as
the ravens wing.
The south-western., 1870-09-21
FROM WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Sept 20.-Two hundred recruits have
been ordered to New Orleans from Cincinnati.
Belknap returns here to omorrow Boutwell, returns
in about ten days. ..t
A full Cabinet will be here by the end of the month.
The south-western., 1870-09-21
FROM HAVANA

HAVANA Sept. l9.-The Panama and West India
cable opened to the public to Jamaica this morn
ing. The tariff from the United States to Cuba is
81 80 and to Jamaica So for ten words; every addi
tona word to Cuba twenty-fv cents and to Jamaiea
fifty cents. d. Il - a. =
Bentena is reported to have surrendered.
HAVANA, Sept. 20.-Ona hundred and twenty,three
deaths from clolera in this city yeste rday-
The south-western., 1870-09-21

Messrs. Martin & Ford yesterday paid premium of
s25 to Mr.. j. F. Garrison, of Mt. Enterprise, offered
by Messrs. Converse, Duxbury Co., commission
merchants of New Orleans, for the first bale Of new
cotton shipped to their house from Rusk county.
The south-western., 1870-09-21

The United States navy has 1S4S British 1882
French, 4S3l Turkish, 1910; Netherlands, 1903
Sweden and Norway, 1928; Italian, s4S; Portuguese
366, and PFussan and North and South Germanie
States 1899 enns
The south-western., 1870-09-21

We invite attention to the card of Pete Bonner, de-
nyng affation with the Radical party. Although
Pete is a colored man always had too good an
opinion of him to believe that he would associate him.
self with such a party.
The south-western., 1870-09-21

THE CATERPILLAR.-The complaints of this miser-
able pest are coming in thick and fast We met an
oldtime friend from Greenwood yesterday and he ac-
tually had couple on bis bat He says it is getting
dangerous to go into the field with any article OF
cotton clothing wbatever-he might come out with
nothing but wristbands and shirt collar.
The south-western., 1870-09-21

We are requested to state that DR.. Angel, Dental
Surgeon, will leave Shreveport during the coming
week, and would advise all persons who desire his
services that they will do well to give him call i'm
mediately
The south-western., 1870-09-21
From NEW ORLEANS.

New ORLEANS, Sept. 20.-Departed for Red river
Era No 9.
Eight deaths from yellow fever for the twenty -four
hours to o'clock Pm. yesterday. -Four were natives
of Italy, of France, one of Nova Scotia and one
unknown.
The south-western., 1870-09-21

The Real Estate Bulletin says: I" Is it not little
strange, in all the descriptions of Mrs. President
Grant, hear nothing of the rich and old laces
she captured, among other things, az Holly Springs,
Miss, in the year of our Lord, 1862"
The south-western., 1870-09-21

See advertisement of Messrs. Martin Ford They
have very heavy stock on hand, among which are a
large lot of very handsome and superior wagons.
The south-western., 1870-09-21

Mr. A. A. Roland has placed us under renewed obi-
cations for full file of Western dates-St Paul, Gin
cinnati, Chicago and st. Louis We Judge from a
large packet yesterday received from him that be has
not vet left Minnesota for Red river
The south-western., 1870-09-21

Messsrs. Hoss & Durham the other day forwarded
bale of cotton to the St. Louis Fair, for Messrs
Ward & Co., of Marshall.
The south-western., 1870-09-21

The suez canal has constant cn,ren, .,,.
through y from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea-
ont II doesn't carry many ships with it as could h
The south-western., 1870-09-21

y. oung man, do you believe in future state 81
!. u course duz and what's more, mean to enter
II az soon as Betsy gets her things ready
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-23
TIE N1TJON,S ORPHANS.

The Fair for the benefit of the Orphans OF
the Soldiers and Sailors has not, up to tie
present. received so full and efficient support
from our citizens as was to be expected. The
different booths and tables in the Armory OF
the list Regiment are admirably stocked with
varied and valuable assortment of commod-
tiles which have been contributed by charia-
BILE and public spirited dealers, and by the
friends of the Union Home. But the number
of visitors and purchasers is far less than it
should be. We hope all our readers who may
to-day pass by Thirty-ifth-st may devote
few moments to visiting this interesting and
attractive Bazaar. They will receive the full
value of any outlay they may make, and be-
sides will have the qualification OF knowing
that they are feeding and clothing the helpless
orphans Of thOso who have given their lives
for the rest Of Us.
1t is possible that we have had Fairs enough
this year. But this is not the one to neglect.
There was an appeal to national pride and
memory of Fatherland, which made the Prus-
sian Fair successful Tho French Fair was
carried through triumphantly by a combiDa-
ton of loneliness and talent enlisted by the
contemplation OF the picturesque distress OF
claim which it is not permitted us to disregard
BY all that is sacred in promises, We are
bound to care for these little ones When
their fathers put on the uniforms in which
they died. we assured them, in every official
and individual uttcrancc of that critical time,
that if they fell their children should be the
nations charge. In that solemn last Inaugural
of Lincoln, in which he spoke for us all, with
| that authorized voice which so soon after re-
| ceiyed the august sanction of martyrdom. he
| confirmed to the widows and orphans of the
| dead fightng-mcn the reiterated promises OF
| grateful protection The obligation thus
created rests upon every lover of his country.
| If we are proud of our American name, we
should be glad to do honor to the memory of
those through whose sell-mmolating yalor we
have O name and a place among nations.
BY going to this Fair you can enjoy the
| luxury of doing good with 10 expense. You
get the worth of your money, beside what
you lay UP in Heaven. The managers of the
Hebrew Fair have presented the Home with
81 600 worth of choice lots of merchandise,
which viii be sold at honest prices. Some of
our leading artists have also most generously
contributed pictures to he disposed of for the
benefit of the children. Mr. Bersiadt has
given fine landscape Of the Hudson from the
Palisades, valued at 81 0Oj. The Fair remains
open but few days longer. Let every one
| take pains to visit it before its close, and do
| something TO soothc the pCrtrrbed spirits OF
those departed heroes, who could not rest
TRANQUILITY IN their graves If the country they
died for allowed their little ones to want.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-23
atm2)ork Daily grib11n&.
Friday. DECEMBER go, 1870.

The PnissiaHs haze occupied Tours. == Gen. Chauzy
has rctrcatcd l., Mans closely followed by the Prus
slams. =-= A battle g., imminent at Udvre. 5000 There
was fighting uClr Amens yesterday $3.50 The Pfus-
SLAMS believe thai Pans will hold out until the middle or
January. - Farther particulars Of the capture Of
Nuts have been received. The Tehuantepec grant
has passed the Mexican Congress and is now O law
Tie Senate continued the discussion Of the san Do
nineo resolutions al Wednesday night. and yesterday
morning, Shortly bcfore o'clock, passed them-l to o
Gen. schenck was confirmed Minister 10 England.
60 The House yesterday debated tue Amnesty ques-
ton == Both Houses have adjourned until January T.
serious steamboat collision has occurred on the Mis-
slssppi River. but ives were lost. - Tho Railroad
Managers Convention at Erie Penn, has adjourned az
ter adopting anew freight tariff &c. California Sheriff
under arrest for collecting the tax Chinese miners
IN violation Of the XIV Amendment. == An extensive
fire has occurred at Bangor Me.
The New England Society celebrated Forefathers Day
by a dinner and speeches at DolmonicO's. === The
Brooklyn East River Bridge caiSsOn is in position =
The final port OF the German Sanitary Fair is pub
hshed. == Gold HOS, nOi lOi. Thermometer Is, 3d. g.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-23
CHARGED UITU CRIVP.

Most of us go through life without expc-
ricncmg the sensations excited by an arrest
for felony, and possibly enjoy satisfactory
confidence that the ordeal would not destroy
nor seriously disturb our mental equilibrium
Some of Us doubtless are, while others are
not, equal to the cxigcncy; bnt who shall say
which arc, and which are not ? you know
:" how it is yourself" is truer of almost any
other possible emergency than of this A
recent incident, diinly and curly spoken Of in
tire journals, illustrates the general truth, and
seems to point moral
On Tuesday afternoon last, Mrs. L. b. Phelps
widely known and highly respected in our
City-was engaged, ike ever so many others
in buying presents for her little friends. While
SO doing she stepped into the spacious variety
store known ~ Mays, GU Sixth-ave., then
crowded with customers. The girl who
waited upon her supposed she saw her
take, or conceal or have concealed, under
her dress, paper Of candy worth two
dimes, and thereup0n charged her with
theft She was wholly among strnngers
the proprietor Of the store was absent and
the accused was very soon in the hands of an
officer, and, directly thereafter, on her way 10
Justice COx's Police Court at Jefferson Market
Here the girl swOre to what she must have
believed to be the facts; there was nothing
urged in reply; and, in a few minutes
more, Mrs. Phelps was sent DOWN TO the
lookup below, though not immured in
cell. Here a lawyer, who Glanced TO be
present, saw her, spoke with her briefly, saw
at once that the whole business was dcplor-
able blunder; went up and spoke to the JUS
tice, and he libcrated her on her own recog-
nlzaDce. But for the mere chance of this
lawyers presence, she must soon have been
locked up in a cell for the night, and would
probably have been found dead or raving mad
next morning. Even az it was, she received n
shock which give her family reasons for Sc
rious apprehensions.
All this, you say, would have been obviated
had Mrs. Phelps had The presence Of mind TO
call friends to her assistance when first NC.
cuscd. Certainly; but, if you are quits sure
that you would have had the requisite posses
sion Of your faculties, just rest in that belief.
and don't attempt 10 test its soundness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-23

Matters do not look very promising for the
French on the Loire the more so since Their
army happens to be on both sides OF tho
stream. Bourbaki made desperate effort to
reach Tours from Bourges as Chauzy did from
Chateaudun, but the French commandant at
Tours ran away and left the city to be occu-
pied by the Germans Where Bourbaki has
since gone is unknown but Chauzy has been
thrust off from his line of retreat to lie Mans
whence he may escape to the north coast, but
hardly to the southwark. The left wing of
Prince Frederick Charles was marching west
ward on the 2lst from Blois, Tours having
already fallen into its possession, but the news
does not indicate that he has any chances of
Oyertaking Gen. Chauzy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-23
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE,

quarter Of a million, moro or less, in the
acquisition and that numerous naval and mill
tary gentlemen likewise have strong reasons
for fayoring it with their potent support.
We are glad the resolution passed; nor arc
we able to see precisely why Mr.. Sumner
should have objected to its general purpose,
however seriously ho might dislike some of tho
details IL affords the readiest means OF de-
terminins the justice OF the charges he has
brought against the conduct of the annexation
project. If they are sustained, we do not
doubt that the President will be the first
to abandon policy thus shown to
DO unwise. If they are disprovcd,
we refuse to donbt that Mr. Sumner will delay,
for ore hour, TO make whatever repaiatlon
may he in his power for the mlsreprescnta-
tons into which il will thus int seen that he
has been leu. In either case it mast help {"
make clearer the very Truth on matter OF
great public concern, and we hope nelther
party to the controversy seeks anything else.
Having said thus much in favO' OF the gen.
cral result attained mt the close of tLU angry
and unseemly debate in the Senate, we must
not fail to express the utter disgust OF the
public ut the conduct of some of the Senators
who spent the night in brOw-beating Mr..
Sumner. Doubtless he had been imprn-
dent, bitter, aud unjust, but at least he
was Senatorial. Some of his antagonists
appear to have behaved like Bowcry boys at
Tammany primary. These Senators may
forget themselves, as the Republic will in time
forget them; but neither their insolence nor
his own mistakes can now permanently AFFECT
the sure place of Charles Sumner in the esteem
of his fellow citizens and the history of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-23

Gen. Manteullel, the sturdy German of ex-
pressiyc NAME who frightened Frankfort out
of its boarded funds four years ago, Is now
frightening Havre and Cherbourg ont OF their
propriety by many threats of taking both
We are told now That he is to attack the
former place; but the story is doubtful If
by his cratic movements between tho two
seaports of the north he keeps force equal
to his own from making mischief elsewhere,
and causes, as he seems to have done, the recall
of the feet from the German coast, he will do
ample service. The French vessels-of-war
have fastened to these ports to take part IN
their defense, but no sooner do they arrive
than Manteufiel runs away to Amicns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-23

A little virtue goes such tremendous lengths
with the Democracy that The World calls
upon the universe to be ecstatic because Gov.
Hoffman hesitates to commit the monstrous
crime of appointing State Senator in place
of the Hon. Isaiah Blood, deceased. But The
World does not call attention to the fact that
Gov Hoffman says he has been urged to do
this great wrong to the people. That advice
shows the spirit Of Tammany too distinctly TO
permit its source TO be doubted, and is an
other proof of the readiness of the Ring to
usurp the most sacred popular rights. From
no other political organization in any free
country could come so fragrant an outrage az
the mere consideration of the propriety or
legality of an Executive appointing member
of Legislative body.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-23


About this time of renewed excitement at
Washington over the San Domingo business,
look ont for a copous dclugo of sensational
fabrications from the isle itself. They are
framed by those who oppose as well as those
most eager for annexation; and usually one is
a fiat contradiction of its immediate prcdeccs-
sOr. Of the class Of stories circulated by the
anti-AnnexatiOnists the statement that the
United States Navy sustains the Baez
Government is fair sample. Per
contra we're the rumors circulated last evening
of impending revolution in tie island, to
be evaded only by its immediate transfer to
the land of the free, etc. Not less ridiculous
is the intimatiOn that in the event of the
United States refusing to take the island
without price it viii be sold to the highest
bidder among the obnoxious European Powers,
in spite alike of Monroe Doctrine and the fact
that all the European nations which have any
money to spare for distant real estate, with
ample waterfront but few other facilities,
have also about as much as they can attend
to at home. If nothing else justified the in
yeStigatiOn for which the Senate has voted,
this persistent Misrepresentation of the people
and island would.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-23
Old AND Nh GERMINY.


The war between Germany and France is
not yet ended, and the conditions on which
peace will finally be concluded depend on many
contingencies which no man can foretell but
the greatest result which Germany expected
from the war is already an accomplished fact.
The long struggle for the consolidation of the
German tribes into one commonwealth is ended,
and the German Empire has been restored.
The proposition made by the youthful King of
Bavaria, that the most powerful of German
princes and the head of all the German armies,
King William Of Prussia should resume the
title of German Emperor, hast been approved
by the Kings of Saxony and Wtrtemberg, all
the Grand Dukes, Dukes, and Princes, and the
three free German towns of Hamburg, Bremen,
and Lubbock. ratified by the North German
Parliament, and accepted by King William.
VI the South German States, the Grand Duchies
OF iiesse and Baden have already CONSUME
mated their reunion with the North German
States and the treaties concluded by the Gov
ernmcnts Of Bavaria and Wiirtemberg 20 the
same end only await the nominal ratification
by the Diets Of these two States, which no one
doubt will soon DO given. Then. after dis