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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

A proposed amendment to the
Constitution of the United States,
introduced in the House of Repre-
Sentatiyes by MIR. Lawrence, OF
Ohio, provides that each Congress
sional District Shall choose one
Presidential Elector and each
State two. The vote OF all the
large States would thus be diyid-
ed. and the temptation to political
corruption would be reduced. The
Importance of securing the 80
votes of New York, the 26 of Penn
sylvania, or the q of Ohio is SO
great to each parties that large
sums are spent corruptly at every
Presidential election to carry both,
The motive for this expenditure
would cease if each district should
choose its separate elector. 1t is
said that if this rule had been
adopted from the first, the result
in all the Presidential elections
would not have been the same as
it has been. There is little likeli
hood OF the adoption of Mr.. Law
rence's amendment. Ifany change
were made, it would probably be
to abolish the electors, and tC
provide for "A direct choice Of the
President by the people.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29
BELLEVUE, La,
saturday,'';;iii'''';#;January %, 1870

LAND OFFICE.-We learn
from a private letter from the
Register appointed forthe office
at Natchitoches, that the land
Office is expected to be opened
in a few weeks. No entries will
be allowed but under the
Homestead act. Under that law
. now every person will be al.
lowed to enter 100 acres. 1t is
supposed that railroad land vii
be also for entry in the same
way.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

The bill to form a new parish
to be called the parish of Mon
ticello, and to be taken from
the parishes of Bienville, Bos-
sier, DeSOto, CaddO and Match
itoches, was referred to the
Representatives of those par
ishes.-[N. 0. Com. Bulletin.
We understand that this
takes but four or five square
miles of Bossier on Loggy bay
on, which is very far from Belle
vue and will be much closer to
the parish scite of the new par
ish. This is right enough and
we can offer no objections. We
do object, however, to the name
Of the new parish, for we know
something of its citizens and
are pretty sure they will call il
Monticello. Strange, too, thai
such a level country should bt
named for a mountain.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

A PARALLEL.-A member of
the Tennessee Legislature Of
cred a resolution to have thu.
portrait Of General George III.
Thomas removed from the
State Library, whereupon said
General manifested nnseemlv
anger. This was only the
movement of one member, and
the resolution was largely de-
feated. This member had in
mind, no doubt, the action of
the Connecticut Legislature,
which, to show it's exceeding
''loilty" in 1861, caused the
portrait of Gov. Thos. FL. Sew
mour, and Ex-Secretary Toucey
to be removed from the walls
of the capitol.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

DECIDEDLY BLUE.-Says an
exchange: Blue is a color essen
Tally distinctive OF Boston. She
is the center of the great blue-law
system that controls the appetiteS
Of Massa chusettS-withOut quench-
ing them. Blue devils haunt in
the dead of night the closed bar
rooms of Boston. 1t was a blew
day for Boston when rude Boreas
blew down her COLISEUM, and it is
currently believed that the sill
wind that never blew anybody
good took its blue from blowing
over Boston. The latest bit of
blue furnished to Boston is con
nected with her Board of Alder
men. That apican body of g0ar-
NETS, it is stated, ran up u bill OF
Sl9,000, during the last year, at a
wtll-knOwn Boston restaurant. 1t
il calculated that of this about
800 per month WAS expended on
bluebill ployers, champagne and
cigars, for each Alderman. That
is where the Boston blue comes
oRt in its new and most delicate
shade. Nothing is said about the
blne pills that must have been ex
tenSivtly used to correct the eff
fects of excessive blue bills, buI
they, of course, are natural and
appropriate accompaniment o
Blue Mass.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29
Liberty will not descend -

Liberty will not descend to a
people, a people must raise them.
selves to liberty; it is a blesaiDe
that must be earned before it car
be enjoyed. That nation cannot
be free, where reform is a common
hack, that isdismissed with a kiok
the moment it has brought. the,
rider to his place. That nation
cannot be free, where parties A.
but different roads, leading toona
common destination, plunder.---
That nation cannot be free, where
the rnlers will not feel for the peo.
pie, until they are obliged to feel
acith the people, and then it in toa
late. That nation cannot be free.
that is bought by its own consent
and sold against it; where the
rogue that is in rags is kept IN
eountenance by the rogue that Is
in ruffles, and where, from hith
| to low, from the lord to the lack.
ey, there is nothing radical but
corruption, and nothing contempt.
IDLE but poverty; when both pa.
triot and placeman, perceiving
that money can do every thing,
are prepared to do every thing
for money. That nation cannot
be free, where religion is, with the
higher orders, a matter of indiE.
ference with the middle, Of ae.
quipscence; and with the lover
of fanaticism. That nation can.
not be free, where leprosy of eel.
fishness sticks to it as the curse
of Elisha to his servant Gehiza /:
where the rulers ask not what
recommends a man, but who; and
where those who want a rogue,
have no occasion to make, but
to choose, These are the. things
that, however great she might be,
would keep such a nation from
liberty, and liberty from her.
These are the thugs that would
force upon such nation-irst, a
government of expedients, second
", Of difficulties; and lastly, oil
danger. Such a nation could be
gin to feel, only BY fearing al
, that she deserved, and finish -by
suffering all that she feared. II
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
Brownlow thus gave his reasons
for not resigning his Senatorial
seat: 'lonng man, you wonder
why | sit here, in my state of
health. III tell you, it | didn't
come here, some Id rascal wouItl
DC sent in my place.
The Owen County (Indiana)
Journal remarks: 1--WE should
like to know the difference be-
tween one id rascal and anoth-
er id rascal.n
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29
DRINKING POPULATION.-The
editor of the Reno (Cal.) Crescent,

who Is a temperance man, says:
Some benevolent individual, OBJ
serving the great distance between
drinking places in Reno, has rent
ed Barnett's store, and is fitting
the same as a saloon, for the. ac-
commotlation of a suffering public.
Only sixteen drinks between the
bridge and the depot hotel-near-
~ Il quarter of u mile. These es-
adjustments pay $4,000 per year
license; $4,000 per year rent ;
$2,00Oper year for fire. wo0d; $4,000
per year for lights; Sl0,0O0 per
year for attendance; $1,000 per
year for breakage. Making total
OF $50, 900 per year expenditure ;
TO clear which, we suppose, $780,
600 must be taken in for drinks.
At 124 cents a drink, this sum
would call for $50, 900 drinks. Els
timating orr drinking population
at $50, each man is allowed 1000
tods per year-less than three a
day-certainly very moderate,
considering the dryness of the
climate, and the habitual thirst OF
the people. We have compiled
these statistics simply to show
what an opening Reno offers to a
few more enterprising liquor deal
erS.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29
WHAT BEcoMEsoFoLD SHoEgi

WHAT BECOMES OF OLD SHoEgl
Cosmos answers this question
by stating that they are cat apin
small pieces, and theseare put for
a couple of days in chloride Of
sulphur which makes leather very
hard and brittle. After this Is II
fected, the material is washed with
water, dried, ground to powdes,
and with some substance which
makes particles adhere togetleh
as shellac, good glue or thick So
luton of gum. 1t is then pressed
into nloulds, and shaped iHto
combs, buttons, knife handles,
and many other articles. 81 /
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29
~ WILLIS. WE HAVE Missed

~, WILLIE, WE HAVE MISSED
YoU."-When is the irrepressible
William II. Seward to return to
bis anxious friends and country
men in New York? asks the Day
ton (O.) Ledger. Since that fes-
tive occasion in the Mexican CAPT
tai nothing has been heard of our
quondam Secretary of State. 1t
$ earnestly to be hoped that in
going down to that modern Jeri-
cho. Vera Cruz, he has not fallen
among thieves, finding no Sauna
ritans TO pour oil into his wounds.
just before the reception given
him by JuareZ, that festive and
considerable ruler invited him to
visit the dungeons beneath the
citadel in the City of Mexico
which visit must have awakened
touching recollections in his toe
susceptible bosom. We have ne
doubt he avai.ed himself Of this
opportunity to study out the whole
system of Mexican prison dis
cipline with an eye to its ultimate
transportation to this country
They should have presented hin
with models of the thumb-screws
and torturing-irons by which
these model republicans used Il
squeese loyalty into their victims
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

THE SUEZ CANAL-The papers
of the world are making a great
noise over the opening OF the Supz
Canal. 1t is pronounced one of
the wonders of the age. Twelve
hundred years ago this project
was determined on by a Saracen
General, shortly after the death of
Mahomet. 1t was designed as a
preliminary step to the conquest
OF Egypt by the immediate sue
cesSors of the great Prophet. The
feasibility of The project was pro-
nOunced upon 10y the Command.
ing General OF the first expedition,
Amru, but upon communicating
hIs plan to tue Calipll, he was
positively forbidden to do the
work. The Caliph's objection was
that it would enable the enemies
OF Arabia 10 attack her by sea aud
land. That is, IA fleet could pass
through the Canal from the Metli-
telanean into the Red Sea, land
an army near Mecca and Medina,
and thus endanger the capital of
the Empire.
To show that the General who
projected this great enterprise
knew the nature of the work he
desired to undertake, it is record
Ell i'll history that Il few years af
terwards, when the City of Alex
andria fell into the hands of the
+, Saracrns, in order to facilitate the
transmission of the immense booty
to Arabia, he shipped it toa point
up the river Nile, within fifty
miles of the Red Sea, and from
thence duga canal connecting the
sea and the river. 1t is probably
by this route the French Engineer
would conduct the waters Of the
Red Sea to the Great Desert, and
thereby convert that immense
sandy waste into an inland sea.
The great wonder is that the con.
struction of the Suez Canal has
been reserved Tor our day. The
ancients embarked in and com.
| pleted much more formidable
| works. Let us not boast too loud
~ that our age knows it all.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29
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W. e. Scanland, Editor.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

Another divorce trick in Lnala-
ma is mentioned. The wife had q
legal notice served upon her bus
band when he was too drunk TO
know anything about. it, and Ehe
courts slipped the knot before he
was aware of any proceedings.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

ARTESIAN BORINGS.-Valua-
BILE minerals may exist in d
thousand places where they
have not as yet been discovered.
The accidental discovery of'that
great Sulphur bed in Calcasieu
parish by boring for oil has i'm
pressed the idea on us that vast
and useful discoveries might be
made by sinking Artesian wells
within every few square miles
of our territory. The United
States might do this work by
means of the Regular Army al
very little expense.
An artesian boring near the
old Bisteneau salt works might
discover a fine salt mine.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

EXTRACT FROM THE LAST
FRENCH NOVELETTE, countess
fell back in a deadly swoon. When
she revived her spirit had fed"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

NOTHING MoRE.-Ihe talentOf
success is nothing more than DO
ing what You can do well, and do
ing we'll whatever yeu do, witbOus
0 thought Of fame.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

SALT.-What an immense
benefit may be derived, in the
future, from salt as a manure.
1t is a compound substance
formed by the chemical union
Of sodium and chlorine. Sodium
is very valuable as a manure.
Chlorine is very deleterious to
vegetation. The soda of com
merce is made from salt and
the first process in the manu-
facture is to drive off the chic
rine by dissolving the salt in
sulphuric acid. This forms
Glauber salts, which we are OF
opinion would be a very valua-
bic manure. IfSO what untold
wealth will be derived from the
salt mine OF Iberia parish and
the sulphur of Calcasieu.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

Olive Logan says she :'neyer
sees a pretty girl but what she
wants to take her in her arms and
kiss her." For once we agree with
Olive; We always feel the, same
way.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29


morally right to insure ones
life. The expectation" of life"
is the basis on which life insur-
ances are calculated. For in
stance a man at fifty has q bet
ter chance to live to sixty than
| to die before. His life eXpec-
tation then is ten years. II he
wishes to insure for ten thou
sund dollars he must pay not
only such a sum as put at com
pound interest for ten years
will make the ten thousand,
which payment he may make
by one payment. or in several
annual or quarterly Install
ments, as he and the company
may agree; but he must pay a
bonus over this to make a profit
to the company and to cover
expenses. Suppose he insures
in favorof his wife and children
and just lives the expectation
or ten years. Had he invested
his payments he would have
left to his family eleven thou
sand dollars F.; but now they re-
ceive from the Company only
ten thousand losing one thou
sand tor the bonus. But this
is not the only loss, for not one
time in twenty can the family
collect the money without pay
ing a large per centage to an
: agent. So we may safely say
that for the money which in
] vested would have realized ele-
; ven thousand dollars the fami.
r ly only gets nine thousand.
1t is like playing chuck luck
where the advantages are all
q with the banker.
II Now when that family gets
$ the nine thousand dollars the
: chances are three to one thai
, the money will not benefit them
as much as five thousand would
have done invested in property
+ by the husband and father.
Let one labor for money anC
: he will invest it with discretion
Let it come to him i'm a luml
t by Inheritance or gift and the
{ chances are great that he vii
Q waste it.
We have put the bonus pai(
the company far too low, TO
: the company must take int
: consideration not only what it.
/ profit ought regularly to be anC
/ what the expenses will be, bu
e also what they may probabl,
: lose by imposition in unhealthy
D pc rsons palming themselve,
a off as healthy. The honest in
: sured must pay for this also
J ~
: Is it then good policy to pa,
eleven thousand dollars fo
y what will benefit your family
/ only five thousand2 Every one
\ at death, should leave his FAM
II ly provided for, ifpossible. l
J. he insures his life he thinks b,
o has done SO, and is therefor,
t, apt to neglect making AM
5 other provision and is more
: over inclined to become
p spendthrift.
ri We know of but one instances
. in which it is right to insur,
: ones life, and that is where Oh,
p is hODeleSSly insolveut and In,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

Inc prOplletOfs OF the nfSt-
class New York hotels lately
met to consider the propriety of
cutting down their prices thirty
three per cent. That's what's
the matter here, and in fact all
over the country. While the
price of products and labor has
steadily decreased since the
war, the hotel gentry have still
retained war prices. One, if
not the principal, essentials to
the prosperity Of a city, is good
and cheap hotel accommodate
tons, q combination Of excel
lencies which for many years
has been to a great extent a
stranger to New Orleans Y.
o. Times.
The Times is right. Not only
Ill New Orleans but through
out the country hotel charges
are exhorbitant in comparison
to the accommodations. Ger
tainly a reform i'll prices would
not be out of place, Indeed il
is quite necessary.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-01-29

When is a ledger not a ledger 7
Ledger know some other time,
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-12-02
NE1aHBoRHooD NEWS.

SENECA Co., O.--Members of st. .Mary'sEpis-
copslChurch at Tiifin, cleared two hundred and
seventy-five dollars at festival, held by their
society, on the oath inst.-Tifin had a Jail
delivery last week. The jail has long been
considered unsafe; and on Monday evening of
last week, three prisoners succeeded in re-
moving stone from the wall, which allowed
them to oescape.-The Crockery store of Bow
man & Bowlus at Tifin, was entered by bur
glars on the night of the 10th, and goods taken
to the amount of five hundred dollars. An ell
trance was effected by cutting hole through
the back door, and slipping back the bolt
Moses Sivils, who was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary from Seneca Co., for being concerned
in sheep stealing, died on the 18th, of con-
sumption. The question of dividing Tiffin
into five wards is being considered by the coun-
Gil of that place.--A Tifin youth engaged in
a successful grab game, on Saturday the 18th
inst. A lady who was buying some goods in a
store took out her purse to pay for them, and
laid a line dollar bill on the counter, which the
boy who was standing near grabbed and took
to his heels and made good his escape-A
very absent minded farmer drove into Tifin
the other day, and giving the reins to his wife
stepped into a store. While he was gone
another team drove up with young man and
his wife The young man stepped into store
and while he was gone the farmer came out
and took a seat by the side of the young mans
wife. He discovered his mistake however be-
fore the young husband had time to reach
his wagon.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-12-02
NEWS ITEMS.


A Cleveland man had $4,000 stolen from
his pocket at or near Crestline, Nov. oath.
Rosette Nilsson has recovered $3.50 from
Davenport city, for tumbling into an e1cava-
ton, where there ought to have been side
walk.
The peripatetic hum6ug, and constitutional
failure, Weston, the walkist, gave out in his
attempt to walk 400 miles in five days. Ii
his vocabulary there are numerous words called
'fail"
A conductor on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western Railway. while the train was run
ming at its full speed, shot and killed a quail
on the wing, at a distance of about fifty feet
with small Derringer pistol.
The schooner White Fawn, from Galveston
was seized on Friday by the Dominion Gov
ernment cutter Water Lilly, and taken to St
Johns, n. B. The crew arrived at Eastport
Me-, on Saturday morning.
A Posey County man was refused divorct
from his wife, so he took the matter into his
own hands, and convinced her that it was no
necessary to extnguIsh kerosene lamp be-
fore she filed it. He is now a widower.
1t is stated that the eight counties of Cuya
hoga, Hamilton, Lucas, Franklin, Stark
Montgomery, Trumbull and Summit, fur
nished over one half the increase of the popu
lation of the the State Of Ohio during the las
ten years.
Geo NJ Moustou, of Putnam, Muskinsum
county, has obtained patent for new meth
cd of keeping butter and eggs fresh for an in
definite length of time. The GAINESVILLE CO,s'ie
says the process is simple, practicable, cheal
and effectual.
A few days since man stopped at Piqu
and IN the evening had his trunk taken to tn,
depot for the purpose of taking the nigh
train. The trunk was stolen from the depo
and the RrailrOad Company paid the MAJ
J 800 for his loss,
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-12-02
Live Stock Markets

N-v-yr YoRK. November, 2l-Beeves are not doing
nc VOL a. expected The weather was warmer
81 tho CITY is erammed with chetppOultry. Total
be,,es G 100 with 1900 to-day. Prices about the
.eTns as last Monday but droves cost more, hence
daaIors lose money. Nearly all selling; market
% beavv: prices Sc for bulls, lOai2c for Texans,
100 i2c fox most of medium western cattle, aud LA
i5uc for GOOD to choice; few extras brought Ice
,cI,ge I3c; drove of 100 Kentucky cwt course
IS 70 81 lbs per cwt; 20 State ewt u &C, 50 lbs
,or crt. cwt Canada lie; Is Texans cwt I04c
loo fiue Ohio y cwt l4al6c
VSbecn-S4 5OO with 1880 10 day, selling slowly
,nd scarcely as we'll sa6J5c for sheep and "a
70 for lambs; one lot choice Canada sheep i39 lbs
l-ouoht &c; co l2O lbs &c: R car 30 lbs jsr; car
6bio 10 lbs 4o a car 20 lbs 2iei car canada lambs
oV ITocs.9s HSS 500 for the week and l 600 to-day
7TaTlSet slow and deprested, or Sc 65a1 for alive
nd Is I2Kag for dressed; cars Ohio 242 lbs alive
brought Sc 81 per cwt.
GEIIcSGo. November 29.-Live Hogs opened sc.
five and firm, and closed tame at S6 IS. Dressed
MET at s7a7 so dividing on 200. Cattle-UppeI
GRADES steady and firm; others dull q 75a7 80.
CTSCrNNATI, November 29.-Hogs dull and love-
sGa6 25 Receipts u 800. Cattle dull and dropping
MILWAUKEE, November 29,-Hogs frmer, a
81 25a7 30.
DETROIT, November %, Dressed Hogs at q o.
az 50,