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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

and legal agencies possibly to
be devised.
To abandon at this crisis of |
our affairs the peaceable and
legal means within our power,
by which we may contest until
the last hope is gone the pre-
tentions of this usurpation to
the title of being the legal
Government of Louisiana,
would DE an ahasement of our
manhood, and thrustimg our
necks in the yoke of tyranny
and oppression already prepar-
ed to receive them.
With the Executive of the
United States to support him,
Mr.. Kellogg may, until Con-
gress meets, administer his
Government with some appar-
ent degree of success, but this
should not cause us to despair
of ultimate relief.
The public sentiment
throughout the Union, and the
sentiments and opinions OF
members of Congress, lead me
to the well considered conclu-
sion that when Congress as
sembles in December our diff
Guilty will be speedily adjusted,
and that if we fail in securing
a recognition of the govern
ment elected by the people
(and an earnest effort will be
made in that direction,) at
least Congress will surely mi
tate and pass the necessary
measures, according to Louis>
lana a legitimate government,
to which her citizens of all
classes and of all parties will
bow i'll willing and loyal ODE
dience.
In the meantime I trust that
peace and order may reign SUI
preme throughout the State,
and that all our industrial pur>
suits will be embarrassed by the
political difficulties into which,
unhapily, we have been so unnec-
essarially and ruthlessly plunged;
especially do L urge upon the poo
| pie of the two races who are mum
erlcally nearly equal in this State,
to cultivate the one towards the
other but feelings of amity, good
feelings and a mutual understand
ing. The fears and prejudices
that have been instilled into the
minds and heads of the coIored
man against his white neighbor,
should give place to reason and
Judgment if the people of the
white race are frank and open in
their avowal to concede to the
colored man all the rights .guaran-
teed to him under. the law. On
the other hand the colored man
should accept with sincerity the
plighted faith of his white neigh
Dor, and thus by an interchange
of candid opinions, prejudices
entertained by both races may
be obliterated, a new and bright
er career opened up for both PEG
pies, and the antagonism now
existing will give place to mutual
Performances, and the destiny
of the two races, so indissolubly
united with the fate of Louisiana,
will be placed in the higher
scale of advancement than at
present appears to be the outlook
for poor, oppressed unhappy
Louisiana. e.. ....- :
! While l am not permitted to full
I'LL the functions of the high posi-,
ton 20 which the voice of nv
cOuntrymen elevated me by a
large majority, yet / will remain
at the capital of the State, prom
ising renewed energy and zeal
in behalf of the peOpleof the State
IN their endeatOrS to obtain from
the Congress of the United States
that even handed justice which
once was, and | trust will agan
be, the pride and glory of every
American citizen. #.-.- ..- :
JOHN MCFNERY
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DIR. j. c. Gordy, the worthy
and eloquent Masonic lecturer
for the State at large, is now
in this place on an official visit
to Bellevue Lodge, exemplify-
ing the work to the members
ofthe fraternity. He is in good
health, and as jealous as ever.
We are pleased to announce
that the Doctor has consented
to deliver a public Masonic
address tomorrow at II O'Clock
A. NJ, at the Bellevue Church.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

The Sparta Times denies our
assertion that Senator Booth
occupied for a while a seat in
the Kellogg Legislature. We
are Of the opinion he did, the
Times denial to the contrary.
What say the New Orleans
papers? ". a.-.r.... RI
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

KAISER WILLIAMS VIEWS
ON FLIRTAT1oN.-A German
army officer recently bet a fel-
low-otficer that lie could get
himself engaged to a certain
heiress inside of eight days.
The girl was the daughter Of
the widow of the proprietor of
q gambling house, worth q
million in hard money, but the
officer was also rich and a good
match, so, within the time
specified, the engagement was
announced. The bet was paid,
champagne drank over it, and
then the officer told her he
could not marry her; as she was
a gamblers daughter: The
engagement was annulled, the
girl wept a little, and every
body regarded the thing as
settled, but Emperor William
heard of 1t, and, not liking to
have his officers to jest over
such serious subjects, has had
both of them arrested, and they
are now awaiting a court-mar-
tial. ~ -#
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The North-Louisiana Index.
a sprightly, wide-awake week
ly, published at Minden by
Messrs. Brantly, Drew & Tay-
Tor, has been received. We
take pleasure in placing the
Index upon our exchange list.
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Mr.. John R. Griffin left US
Wednesday for a few weeks
observation and recreation in
Texas. We trust he will re-
turn soon in better health and
spirits. ..--.. .....
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

Mr.. w. E. Smith, Deputy U.
S. Marshal, advertises in the
Banner some very valuable
lands lying in this and Caddo
parishes. ...
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

The Huntsville (Ala.) Advo-
cate OF the 10th learns that the
worms are playing havoc with
the cotton in various portions
Of the county
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Several deaths have occurred
among the negroes of Trenton
and Monroe, both, pronounced
by the neutrality-suspicious. to
have resulted from cholera.
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70 The People Of louisiana.

STATE OF LOUISIANA,
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
New Orleans, May 80, 1873. )
AS the duly elected but de-
posed Governor of Louisiana,
overthrow only by the inter-
vention of the judicial, militia
ry and executive authorities of
the United States, l deem it
my duty, in view of the recent
proclamation of the President
relative to Louisiana affairs, to
address you some words of ads
vice and counsel.
The Federal Executive, in
the face of the report of the
committee of the United States
Senate, declaring unanimously
that the United States District
Judge usurped jurisdiction,
and that his court was without
any authority to coerce a State
or seize or overthrow its gov
ernment, has issued a procla~
nation commanding the citi-
Zens of the State to submit to
the Kellogg usurpation. v.
1T is apparent to you as we'll
as to all the people of the
Union that the President is re-
solved at all hazards and at all
costs to sustain by the military
arm of the nation, the present
usurpation of the State Gov
eminent, ushered into existence
by the midnight order of Uni
ted States District Judge Du-
rell, executed by United States
bayonets, and presided over by
Mr.. William Pitt Kellogg.
You are ordered and required
by the President to view with
calmness and resignation the
overthrow Of the legal Govern
ment of your State, elected by
you in pursuance to all the
forms of law; the displacement
of Judges, clerks, sheriffs, recor-
ders, justices of the peace, po-
lice jurors, etc.-in fact, the
displacement by force of the
whole machinery of the gov
commensurate, parochial and
municipal-and the installa-
ton by force of persons notori-
ously defeated at the election,
and whose. only title to office
rests upon the return of a re-
turning board without a single
official return or vote before it
to canvass or count, and predi-
eating its illegal action upon
affidavits Gin many instances
forged) certificates, statements,
census returns, etc.
You are commanded by the
President to oppose no armed
resistance to this admitted usur-
patton, which, without the po-
tential aid Of Federal authori-
ty, would cease to exist i'm thir-
ty days, and | counsel and adj
wise you to obey this perempto-
~ order ofthe President. Pres
ident Grant, as the Chief Mag
istrate of the nation, has as
sumed the high and grave res
spODsibility of feisting upon
the people of this State a usur.
patton without precedent in
this or any other free country,
and he is answerabIe before
the bar of public opinion OF
. this Republic for this high
ndnQed meaSIlr6,-SO utterly de
structive of free government
in this country.
The president of the United
States, with the army and ma.
way at his command, has the
physical power to coerce the
people of this State into any
line ofpolicy he may be pleased
to dictate, and it would be but
folly and madness to interpose
any resistance likely to bring
us in conflict with the national
authority; and as it has already
been successfully demonstrated
that Mr.. Kellogg's Govern
ment, unaided by Federal pow
nv rroc rauarlacc IN npfono1x q
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

The Police Jury Of this par
ish has had a busy session dur
ing the week.
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Glitterinr Eeneralities,

pair OF water-tlght boots.
Brownlow says better men
than Butler have been hanged.
Chief Justice Chase left an
estate valued at S25O,OOO.
Illinois has 259 Oranges Of
Patrons of Husbandry.
Boston and vicinity has l.
100000 volumes III its libraries.
Philadelphia has $4,000 per-
some who cannot read or write.
Fred Douglass bust, in white
marble, ornaments the Roches-
ter City Hall. .aa
Around Aurora, ILL.,, there are
still hundreds of acres of I'M
husked corn. ....
In many Virginia counties
there are unfavorable reports
of the wheat crop.
The most approved way to
raise beets is to take hold Of
the tops and pull.
Ben Butler has now gone
down into Maine to hook some
tRut.
The decease Of the national
debt during March was 81, GA,
O51.
A goodly number of children
dying Of measles in Meridian
and Marion, Miss.
Livingston county, KY, is
excited over discoveries of iron
and lead mines.
The legal debt of the State
of Georgia amounts to $685.
500.
One thousand English fami-
lies have established a colony
in Minnesota.
Another gold discovery has
been made in South Africa,
within one hundred miles OF
Cape Town.
Miss Harriet Fenimore Coop,
er, the norelist's daughter, is
writing a history of the Oneida
Indians.
A 300 pound poetess is tell,
ing a Western paper what she
would do eff she were a sun
BEAM" ..
Montgomery, Ala, complains
Of a "superabundance ofhouse
flies" and predicts a sickly
season. "".. g..
The coronation of Oscar II.
cost $4,000, and the honest
Swedes accuse him of being
eXtravagant.
The N. Y. Mercury regrets
that the President hasn't got a
son just graduated from a law
. school.
j. K. Dodge, Postmaster of
Jewell City, KS, has been sent
to the penitentiary, after being
convicted of robbing the mails.
The Democratic and Liberal
Republican Committee of Ohio
have decided to hold their state
Convention in Columbus on
Aug. 6.
There were 1853 deaths in
st. Louis during the past year
from smallpox, and the ex-
pense incurred by the Board OF
Health on this account amount
ed to $40, 2s4 Is. NIB .-. .
The Savannah ga Journal
has just died after a long i'll
ness, the victim Of starvation.
| I'M
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

Total estimate of probable
expenses of Caddo parish foot
up $4,000.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

The Rev. Bob Smith, a re-
formed saloon keeper, has been
preaching to the sailors and
seamen Of Lake City, MINI.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07
Agricultural and Industrial.

upCIO, N1lSS., 10 W udNo d
public artesian well.
Shenandoah (Va.) Valley
farmers are planting largely in
corn.
Anderson county Is. c. will
soon have another cotton fac
tory.
Work on the Vicksburg and
Nashville Railroad is now be-
ing pushed with renewed ener-
gy.
Work has commenced in
earnest on the Vicksburg and
Canton Railroad. A large por-
ton of the line is already I'M
der sub-contract.
Queen Victoria has a dairy
of60 COWS, and she sells a good
deal of butter, but the less she
sells the more money she
makes. ...
Fewer cattle were driven to
Colorado from Texas last year
than formerly, for the reason
that good grades from the
States are taking their place.
An Illinois farmer who kept
strict account with his corn
crops for 10 years reports that
the average cost was twenty
and a half cents n bushel.
tits now ascertained beyond
all doubt that when a COW is
abused she will give less milk,
and the milk will make less
butter.
Gen. A. NJ. Clayton, former
ly of Holly Springs, has been
elected President of the Red
Mountain Iron Works, Gala. },
to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Daniel Pratt.
At a recent meeting Of the
Atlanta, Ga, Pathological So
ciety specimens were present
, ed Of the Shockly apple, which
it is said bears immense crops
every year and keeps till APP
pies come again. ...
Farming in America is set
Ting down to this, says the n.
Y. Tribune, that no crops can
be protitably grown unless the
yield is large, because hired
help is so dear that out of a
small crop nothing is left. A
crop that simply pays is not
the best, but the one that pays
best.
The estimated value of crops
in California, for the present
year, is S75,OOO,OOO, which is
$40, 100000 more than the pro-
duct Of gold and silver in the
whole United States. Besides
this, California has eight wool
en- mills in operation which
make more clean money than
all her mines. .s. ..n.l
Says an exchange: Take
boiled linseed oil and stir in it
pulVerized charcoal, to the
consistency Of paint. Put a
coat of this on timber, and
) there is not q man who will
! live to see it ROT. .-,....... ....
Sand for glass manufacture
exists in abundance in the
Gulf States, says an exchange,
=, and several preliminary efforts
have been made to start glass
factories,particularly in South
ern Mississippi; but these at
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

Lately we have had too much
rain for the good of the crops.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

The New York Sun heads an
article thus: Are the colored
race decreasing in the Southl"
We answer emphatically, 1t
are Macon Beacon.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07
BELLEVUE, LA,
Saturday Morning, June 7, 1873.

See Mr.. j. G. Heads tax no.
tice.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07
Why Southern People are Poor

SS~S UT,
They grow raw materials
which are sent North and 70.
turned manufactured, SELLING
from ten to a hundred times
above the first cost. They
pillow with Northern plovs.
hitched to Northern harness
cut wood with Northern axes
work lumber with Northern
tools, drive Northern nails
with Northern hammers. and
paint houses with Northern
brushes dipped in Northern
paint. In short, they rock
their children in Northern
made cradles, clothe them in
Northern cloth, and bury their
dead in Northern>made collins.
which are lowered into their
last resting-plaee with North
ern>made cord. The remedy
proposed by the local journal
in which we find the sub.
stance of the foregoing is 70
patronize those who are MANN
featuring at home, so that thew
may accumulate capital and
enlarge their business and en-
| courage Others. The case is
mentioned of a merchant hav-
ing boosted of buying certain
goods extremely cheap in New
York, but on examining the
trade mark of the maker ap-
peared, and he lived within less
than a mile of the store.
Nothing is more common than
for Northern merchants to
bring cotton-yarn from North
ern cities, which was made in
the South. This, by the way,
cannot be helped, for the same
thing is to be said of the North,
since goods made in New>Eng-
lanG factories are sold to agents
in New York, some of which
come back among general
stocks. Points of distribution
are indispensable. But there
is no doubt that it is the du-
ty of the people of the South
to protect themselves by consul
ming SO much as is possible of
their own productions and
thereby increase the demands
for farm produce, and a variety
of fruits and vegetables, willie
employment will be offered for
many young people now grow
ing up in idleness. #IHE
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

Warmoth has sued the New
Orleans Times for libel, dam
ages $4,000. . .-... 81.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-06-07

A young man in Maine late
ly killed himself because he
couldn't have two wives,
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

a MAN went to sleep on Western
railroad track and was killed. The
fact is thus recorded by Fort Wayne
paper: /" He was fast asleep, firmly
clasped In the arms Of both Morpheus
and Somnus, and was only awakened
by the glorious light that shone from
the judgment seat In the world beyond
the river"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

A KENTUCKY druggists clerk only
charged sixpence for the ounce Of cro-
ton oil which he dispensed in mistake
for castor ditto, and now the migrate
full widow seeks to extCrt 81, 900 DAM
ages from him.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

The Savannah Repubiicm advertises
the first shad OF the season, l5s inches
long. served up at the Marshal House.
the enterpriSins steward Of which paid
Sj5 for il
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

a HUMAN head with tooth growing
through the lower portion of the nose,
was found In sand bank few miles
north of Council Bluffs about week
ago.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

The administration and the party
behind IL have had their large ears
culred; cuffed with distinctness and
emphasis In the face and eyes Of the
world.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

a FOURTEEN year old girl Of Brook
lyn. has sued \ boy sixteen years old
for breach Of promise, and wants dam
ages.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

As so many articles in everyday use
are manufactured Of paper, it Is asked
ifa paper beefsteak cannot be invented
to take the place OF the leather ones.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

LOUISA MUuIaAcu had five different
books in a state Of preparation at the
time OF her death.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

AN excellent cure for dyspepsia Is
this: Give hungry hog piece OF
meat, and chase him till he drops 1t.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

A WHITE girl living in Iowa city
eloped with a negro barber from Wa
pello, last Sunday.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

ANOTHER dentist-in Boston this
time-has inflicted accidental death
upon patient By means Of anathesia.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

DOES Henry Ward Beecher's new
lecture on /" Wastes and Burdens" re-
fer to corsets and paniers?
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

COLUMBUS, Ca, has Methodist
minister who conducts three churches.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-25

CAIRO, H., Is to be amused with n
religious discussion three weeks long.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-02-27
OUR DUTY AND INTEREST.

The duty and interest of our people is
to accept. as the men Of business and in
dustry do this settlement Of the questions
pending for three monts past. They have
been pending at the cost Of the class to
which We refer. It will be as useless as it
will be dangerous to press this matter to a
solution of blood and fire. It would be
eminently imprudent to accept the open
and persistent etfo rts to invoke the petty
power Of local majority to reverse the
decision Of forty millions of people. ex-
pressed through their constitutional Or
gans. We have in another place as.
sumed the responsibility Of saying that
the Republican party in New Orleans fear.
lessly await and defy any attempt at
violence. Admitting, as claimed by the
organ of modification and violence.
that "our power in the city is known"
and that "but for the military support
afforded by the United States. we would
abolish the government Of the usurpers III
ten days" would it be wise 70 accept
such an act of violence: The conse-
quences of official and financial embar-
rassment which We're shown yesterday TO
result from new election would as cer-
tainly follow a military government in
terfering to stop Il stree: fight or a conha-
grafton. 1t may be brave and chivalrous.
according 20 some definitions of these
these terms, to use local majority for
the purpose Of numbering q local minority,
but such WAS not the conduct Of General
Grant either at Yicksburg Or Appamattox.
Besides, there are many historical exam
pies in which an unmanly abuse Of power
upon the feeble and unprotected at one
time may be signally retaliated at an
other time. and at the same place, by
a force superior 10 tha. Of the wrong
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-02-27

as far as fertility is concerned, not even
producing grass or timber. When storms
prevail as one did about month ago.
men are liable to be frozen 20 death going
from the barn 70 the house. The South
offers these settlers a better opportunity
as the hundreds of visitors at present in
our midst from the North and West can
surely testify. We offer them soil that
produces from one years end to another,
and which man may constantly find.
What We wan. is the labor In Duluth
the Swede works Oh the railroad when he
can NOT work on his farm. or else he works
for wages until he has secured the capital
to start himself The first step, then, is
TO provide labor agencies. The next step is
to provide such comforts for the European
as he has been accustomed to enjoy at
home. When We engagein the diversified
industries, there will be opportunities for
mechanics Of different orders. At present
men mus. either know how to raise cotton
or sugar, or they are shut out Of the great
industrial demand Of the State Farming
pays but q small pittance, say fifteen dol
lars per month. because the class of Ia
borers are no. Of the most approved char
acter. Europeans object to hiring for such
wages. in q community where their occu-
patton rates them somewhat lower than
the mass OF their fellow citizens, and there
fore they seek Duluth in preference TO
Louisiana. Surely. this evil ought 20 be
corrected. We should find some way to
make sensible people. and industrious
ones. as the Swedes and Norwegians are,
to discover that the South is the best loca-
ton for them at present, since they can
obtain better land here and on quite as
favorable terms. This is labor worthy
to engage the attention Of our wise ones
how to correct the prejudice that exists in
the Northern mind to our disadvantage.