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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

The eleven territories ex-
ceed, by nearly 100000 square
miles, the aggregate territory
OF all tie states in the Union.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

A barn in Ohio has been struck
by lightning eleven times, but IL
is said now to be safe, for light
ming never strikes twelve timesin
one place.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

The increase in the wheat crop
last year above the previous one.
was over 12,OOO,00O, mostly in
California and Minnesota, Wis
cOnsin, Iowa, and Illinois.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

Mexico has shown that she
can produce the best kind of
coffee, as well us any quaint ty
of revolutions.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

Capital punishment is now
decided to be publishing a
country newspaper.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

An indiana gentleman is
now living in a house with his
fifth wife and three mothers
ln>law and yet he is not happy.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

Covington boasts of a boy
five years old who CO n beat
any member of the common
council playing eucLre.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

Gen. Joe Shelby, of Confed-
crate fame, is cultivating a
farm Of some six hundred acres
in Missouri.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

1t is said that of $500 men
who enlisted in the three Tex
as regiments of Hoods brig
ade, less than 300 are living.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09
Louisiana a Dependency.

AhO OAOSSOAO SAI1 Cd . IL
any evidence was required to
prove that Louisiana is in need
of a revolution in agriculture
it would be sufficient to state
that most Of the food used by
her people..is produced and i'm
ported from abroad. Our peo-
pie farm on a lottery or specu-
lative plan and only a few win.
We pay for the shipment Of
produce a thousand miles, and
a profit to first. second and
third hands amounting to an
exorbitant per centage. The
outlay is annually enormous
and it is always an outlay of
hard earned cash. And if by
any contingency, such as war
or drouth, the supplies of for
eign food should fail us plan
tiers would be thrown into i'm
mediate distress.
Louisiana is no more nor
less than a dependency on the
bounty of other sections in the
way Of food and manufactures,
when no good reason exists
why she should not export
them. There are all facilities
for the production of necessa,
ries in abundance, and also
numberless luNuries. The
State has the best Of soils, an6
a great network of water routes
ensuring cheap transportation
OF produce to the metropolis
There is no cause, save a lack
OF combinations, to prevent the
working up of our raw mate
rails, many Of which in the
manufactured state are REIN
ported to us from other State.
to the serious loss of our own
Our own food and our own raj
ment should be the work of on
own hands.
Just so long as our agricul
tural community depends upol
foreign articles of food, ISSUED
to them at ruinous advanc,
rates, they will continue t,
dwell in constant perplexity a,
to how to make both ends NEE
and avoid the tax gath Ell
er. 1t is the originator of hsll
the mortgages on plantation
this AFFECT dependence O
foreign supplies and the cit
commission merchants.
The erroneous opinion whic
has hitherto prevailed tina
planters cannot become indie
pendentis being set at naugh
in St. Landry and other pal
ishes, where supplies are bein
successfully produced, an
planters are rejoicing in tn
prospects Of an increase {
profits on the years crop.
The Shreveport Times of tn
9TH instant, says:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

Nebraska has discovered a
natural castor oil well, and a
hotel and other accommoda-
tions are being erected.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

On the first of October next,
the Mississippi Central Railroad
will be completed to Cairo, ILL.,,
and then we will have better
facilities, both for travel and
freight than ever before,
through to Chicago, ST. Louis,
and other northern cities with
out changing cars or breaking
bulk. This company, with
Col. McComb at its head, is
certainly pushing railroad mat
tiers in Il manner before un-
known in the annals ofrailroad
building. Success to them,
say VEN. 0. Southland.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

The net debt of Boston was
April 80, 1873, S23,744,394.3O.
Last years payments from the
City Treasury were S17,5OO,OO
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

Bakers say they knead more
and don't like to see SO MANY
rich loafers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

A kangaroo Isl curious chap;
when it's wide awake its leap
ing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

We never discover the val
he of a thing until we have
lost it. The owner tells us.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

develop your minerals" is
the California style of asking a
person to pay his debts.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

People do everything good in
moderation, everything bad in
excess.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

Iberia parish is talking about
immigration from Ireland.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

Santa Cruz county, California,
has female clerk.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

Every male above the age of
IA in Starbold Conn, chews or
smokes.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09

A stockraiser near Austin,
Texas, lately sold 104 horses
raised by him at $50 a head.
The Journal says that the min
imum standard was fourteen
hands three inches, and that
all but a very few ranged fif-
teen to sixteen hands, thus
showing that, by proper atten-
ton TO breeding, horses may
be raised on the native grass of
Texas equal in size and quail
ty to those produced in the
older states.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09
FIRST RECEIPTS OF NEW

FIRST RECEIPTS OF NEW
CROP RICE.-The steamer Liz
zie Hopkins arrived here on
Sunday, 9th inst, with twen>
ty>nine casks of new rice in
the paddy (or new rough rice.)
1t was raised on the plantation
of Mr.. Harris, parish of st.
Charles, and came consigned
to Messrs. Steward & Kip.
The prospect of the coming
crop is very promising, with
the prospects of a yield of per
haps fifty per cent. over last
year. The first receipt last
year was on the 18th of August,
from the parish of Plaque
mines.-[N. o. Southland, LIST
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-09


The Shreveport Times of the
9TH instant, says:
"The decline in the river at
this point for the "a hours end
ing at 3 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon was only one inch,
making the total fall from the
highest water of the season fif-
teen feet and five inches, leav-
ing the river twelve feet and
four inches above the lowest
water Of the past season."
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24
The Cotton caterpillar.

This insect has commenced its ravages
in large portions of Alabama, and there
is reason to believe that it will make its
appearance throughout the entire cotton
region. The Selma Gala. Times has
obtained information on the subject as
following:
lst. The caterpillars have made their ap-
pearance in large numbers on every planta-
ton in the neighborhood Of Uniontown,
and as far back as we have heard through
out the Cane Brake region.
2d. They are more universal, and far
more numerous, thfn when they first APP
peared last year.
Sd. On most of the fields they can be seen
on the leaves of the cotton, but so far have
done no damage.
4th. In few fields they have eaten the
leaves in spots Of one and two acres.
9Th. They are very numerous, and of all
sizes and ages; just Matched, full grown
and i'm a chrysalis state, all on the same
stalk
9Th. The crops are fully two weeks later
than last year. On many acres, on account
of wet weather and grass, the plant Is not
ten inches high, and has just commenced
fruiting. Where there has been good work
the plant is about waist high, fruiting and
doing well.
The foregoing statements contain the
true state of the case, as far as can be ascer-
tanned from personal observation, and IN
formation from reliable sources. The cat
erpillars are ia every plantation west OF
Selma that we have heard from.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24

A New York financial review of the
fiscal half year ending June Both shows
that ten of the Southern States are in
default on their interest account. Some
of these States have formally repudiated
portions of their debt as contracted with
out authority; others have refused to
pay interest on portions of their debt on
account of fraud in contracting them !;
others have failed to pay from simple
inability. Southern credit has become a
hollow name; the bonds of one Southern
State, South Carolina, are quoted at %
cents on the dollar; and the Northern
holders of the disavowed and unpaid
bonds, find themselves deprived of
the income which they expected from
them.
This is the condition to which few
years Of Carpet-Bag misrule has reduced
the Southern States.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24
The Pilots Bull.

The Plots decree against such hereti-
cal utterances as went kissing hot from
the lips of Ex-Governor Alcorn into the
faces of the Ames trainbands at their re-
cent assembling in this city, that he
would not submit to have the Adven-
turer who has not had so much as a
shirt-washing in the town where he profe;-
ses to reside, foisted on his party as can
didate for Governor-will be found in
another column. The Pilot seems to
have been taking Rip Van Wrinkle
slumber; and is suddenly aroused by
mutterings which have been repeated
until they are familiar sounds to every
same II substance which emanated from
their author while Governor, in his letter
to the New York Tribune refuting Ames'
calumnies against the people of Missis
sippi and subsequently reiterated in the
shirt-washing speech in the United States
Senate. 1t cannot be expected that the
hesitated publicly and privately to pro-
nounce the Adventurer as public enemy
of the State-and conspirator against
its peace and good name-would lend
himself to the scheme of elevating
him to the Office of chief Magistrate.
Such an example of disqualification and
abasement could not be found in all the
history of these desperate times.
Now, confidential word in the ear of
the Pilot. You may coax the Eminent
Man from what you may conceive to be
the error of his way. You may WOO him
gently back into the paths of the ortho-
dox. But you can't get him there by
goring his Ok with the Ames' Bull-nor
by touching him up with that other i'm
plement you are fond of referring to the
party, "BullWhip nor by full
minating DEGREES of accommodation. |
Whatever else may be said about the
Eminent Man, he is obdurate; and the
more you ply the editorial lash, the more
he wont 60. We have tried 1t.
And here, in conclusion, we may APP
propriately insert the following which we
find in the Natchez Democrat:
ain recent Interview with reporter of
the Vieksburg Herald, Alcorn stated that
his objection to Ames' pretensions to the
Ga bernatorial chair of this State was founded
on no personal animosity, but simply on
Ames' known hostility To the Southern peo-
pie, aud his Indifference to al the Interests Of
the Stdte Of Mississippi or the South at large.
Senator Alcorn states that at the time the
bill came up in the Senate for the improve
ment of the Mississippi leVees, every Sena-
tor from the South who had the material |
interests OF the country ut heart was there
to assist in the passage of the bill, but that
ABaes let has seat in order to dUoid v0tiRg for
he bill. Senator Aleorn further says that
Ames not only aeUer voted for any biz by
which the State of Mississippi was to be
but that he voted for obmoxious
bills, such as even extreme men ofthe North
lad declared unjust and oppressive"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24

Zone of the Past" contributes an ar
ticle in to-day's paper on the political
situation in our State. The trouble with
his article is, that he fails to point out a
present remedy for the ills which he de-
scribes. His plan of Southern immigra-
ton has been frequently proposed in our
columns, but has failed to meet a re-
Spouse. If entered upon and carried out
systematically and energetically, no doubt
it would solve the problem he discusses.
1t would not save the day for the next
canvass-nor, probably, for the next
after-but it would undoubtedly in the
course of time, unless the continued
growth of Radicalism should operate to
deter settlers from the Carpet-bagged re-
gions, who would not care to swap the
frying pan for the fire.
The pressing question now is, what
shall this generation do to be saved? Our
correspondent comedies the majority we
have to contend against; and opposes
some real or imaginary plans of
others but suggests nothing. Shall
we fight in the hope Of breaking
the colored phalanx? We have sue
ceeded in accomplishing that but once,
and it was ON the memorable occasion
when the whites appealed to the negroes
to help them to defeat the DISTINGUISHING
Constitution framed by the Carpet-bag-
gers. The colored troops fought no.
bly," They listened to our appeals and
pledges, and came in immense numbers
to the rescue, and saved the day for the
prescribed whites. Gone of the Past, :"
in arraigning the negro for refusing to
vote with the whites, is certainly un-
mindful Of that contest and its results.
But why should the negroes have rushed
enthusiastically to the standard of their
ex-masters when the privilege of voting
was accorded to them? Did the South
ern whites, as a general rule, receive
With approval the proposition that they
should become voters? Did they take
them by the hand and propose to be their
teacher and guide in theil new and un-
tried paths? Or did tney receive it with
sullen indifference in some instances, and
emphatic opposition in others? Did they
advocate the reorganization of their State
governments ON the Congressional plan,
or did they follow in the trail of that
Shiny traitor, Andrew johnson, who re-
iected the Joe Johnson-Sherman capitu-
lation, and was the first to proclaim that
" treason must be made odious and trail
tors punished" Our correspondent him
self tells the story when he says that our
people committed an error in following
johnson instead of Congress. The truth
is, there are two sides to the question,
and it is safest to look at both before
coming to conclusion, which is to be
made the basis of future action in refer
ence to the colored population. We
have noticed that the men who clamor
loudest for a canvass on what they call
the "white mans doctrine" of keeping
up agitation on the Constitutional
Amendments, coupled with a PROPOSE
ton that every man shall "vOte mig
ger, are the men who are most apt to do
nothing in that line themselves.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24

From the Pascagoula Star.

From the Pascagoula Star.
THE CLARION, however, sees lin these
proceedings food for reflection" and thinks
that ex-Goy. Browns Terry movement of
81, which horriiied so many people at the
time, was q small affair by the side of this
platform. We are not of those who are so
ready TO impugn and assail the motives OF
others, because they do not happen to ac-
cord with our own.
We believe Gen. Beauregard and those
gentlemen associated with them are actin
aJed by the purest, most unselfish motives.
Every act of their past lives affords sniff
cient guarantee of this. They NAV have
made a mistake, but we are willing 10 he
lieve that they were the best Judges Of
what the situation in their own state re-
quired. Nor are we ready TO coincide with
the Morning Star, that the leader of the
movement being soldier, is unable to an
preciate the situation, or Its general asser-
ton in regard 70 soldiers and politicians.
For we think histOry-from the time of .Tu-
Illus Caesar down 70 the days of Andrew
JacksOn-will bear US out ia the assertion
that the rule has been that the best of soil
diers have been the best of statesmen.
Is not our gallant contemporary, Col.
Melancthon Smith, who, like Beaure-
gard, has :" fought his way to the right to
!" have an opinion of his own, in danger
Of being read out of his party as an
"organ7"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24
A CoRcred MAN for GOverhor--T'h
Tramp Gard Of the ScaIInwags.


The white Radical leaders profess to
have adopted as rule that in making
nominations it is proper ''to look into
ga mans face to determine the color OF
'his skin" in order to make fair divis-
ion of the spoils. But heretofore they
have disregarded the principle which un-
derlies the rule by appropriating nearly
all the offices to their own uses, and
giving to the colored element which con-
tains ninety-nine-hundredths of the Re
publican voters and brains in nearly the
same ratio, an insignificant proportion Of
the spoiIs. Thus, seven nominations are
to be made for State officers by their
their party, but who has heard from the
white Radicals a proposition that the
blacks shall have more than two Lit.
Governor and Secretary of State) out of
the number?
To our surprise the Seashore Republi-
can has undertaken to spoil this pro-
g-amme by coming out squarely in favor
of nominating a colored man for Cover
nor! 1t charges that the scheme of the
Ames & Power factions, each to put a
negro on its ticket is snare and fraud
a mere tub to the African whale which is
able to swallow the whole mean white
concern without inconvenience if it should
be so inclined.
This unexpected explosion is the more
significant from the fact that Col. John
F. II. Claiborne is a leading editorial
writer of the Gazette, which paper is
supposed also to represent the views of
Judge Chandler whose name flies at its
masthead for Governor. Old Ossawat-
annie Flournoy is understood to be in ac-
cord with them. Now will the Carpet
Bag pretenders meet these distinguished
Scallawags on their proposition and prove
that they are sincere in their pledges of
respect for negro rights? Faith without
works is dead. Let us have a showing
of hands all around.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24
The authors of the address add fur
The Clarion and its Position Of
NOn.An1erGeremce with the
Benuregard Movement.
Voice Of the Press.
From the Tallahatchie News.

From the Tallahatehie News.
The CLARION has pursued the right
coarse in the matter, and deserved credit
for so doing.
From the Liberty Herald, Col. G. p. Neil
son, editor.
The following, from THE CLARION. ex-
presses our views on the recent movement
in Louisiana. Ii is not for us outsiders To
condemn the acts and utterances of such
men as Beauregard, Hays and other leaders.
They best know the necessity, the urgent
necessity of the times. No necessity for
such action exists now in MississioDi- and
we trust it never will; but if it should.
those now so ready TO condemn, would be
the first TO initiate the act OF these men.
From the Corinth News (Hon c. B. Curlee's
paper).
The CLARION is one of the best Demo-
cratic newspapers in the State. We hone
its clarion notes viii continue to ring ont.
clearly pointing the way ia the future. as II
has done in the past. 1t is useless to try TO
split the Radical party as long as Conserve
tive papers can De found endeavorinO to
create dissentions in our own ranks- This
is no time for chickering's and petty ieal-
oasies. Ii any paper wishes to be consid-
cred the organ Of the party, let it first show
itself worthy of It, and then 90 to the front
We are very well satisfied.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24
The Prairie News draws from the de.

The Prairie News draws from the de-
monstration at the meeting of the Radi-
cal State Committee the conclusion that
Ames viii be the . almost unanimous
choice" of the Mongrels for Governor !;
and that Senators Gibbs and Little each
viii have place ON the making
three out of the seven to be nominated.
It is evident that the darkey win have to
content himself with small place in the
picture. They never mention him ex-
cept when it comes to voting; and then
he is q very handy machine.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24
Trouble In 0Iormondom.
EAT SENSATION ABOUT rnE sEvEyuH

GREAT SENSATION ABOUT rHE SEVENTH"
WIPE OF BRIGHAM YouEG.
SALT LAKE CITY, July ia gru.
sation VAS caused here to-day Dog
nouncement In the journal that Ann
Young, the seventeenth wife of a
Young had forever left him, c1rr
her furniture and personal effects. Bag
will endcavOr to replace the goods.
Mrs. Young is no the Walker House
three leading lawyers are about l1 IN-..
a suit for divorce and alimony m p WI
sum. Great revelations are expected
corning the inner domestic lIie oI B"
Prophet.
Mrs. Young is enjoying the symm..
the Gentle ladies, ana the pOlygam0l
mons are good deal disturbed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24
For TIE CLARION.
The Clarion and Ghe Louisiana
Movement.

EDITORs CLARION:
have read some criticisms upon the
course of The CLARION in regard to the
Louisiana unification movement, and
though an humble citizen and wholly dis
connected with politics, yet having the
welfare of my native South as much at
heart as any man, feel it my duty and
privilege to say to you that for ono,
heartily approve OF your course on that
question.
1t is, in my opinion, supreme folly for any
man or set of men to denounce the Efforts
of good and true men, who are laboring for
the good of their State, without waiting TO
examine all the facts and the true eondi-
ton of affairs.
1t seems to me that we too frequently see
exemplifed the saying that "indisereet
friends do more harm than opon enemies"
A SUBSCRIBER.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24

BEHOLD THE DIFFERENCE Col. j.
S. johnson, of the Frankfort (Ky.)
Yeoman, was present at the Commence
ment at Yale College, Connecticut, as an
alumnus of that venerable institution.
In writing to his paper about the address
es delivered by the students ON the occa-
sion he says that 1T is notable and signif-
"cant that the only piece which elected
"sny thing like applause, was one in
(which reference was made-by New
England boy-tO the oatrGges perpetrated
''agai'ast the people of Louisiana, an Gen.
"GrGnt and the administration held up to
rigorous reproGch."
So, Northern boy gets up before a
Northern audience at Northern Institu-
ton and arraigns the Grant Administra-
ton for its crimes against the liberties Of
the Southern people, and is applauded to
the echo. But when a Mississippi boy,
before Mississippi audience, at MS
sissippi Institution, INDUCES the natural
pride of Southerner at the achievements
of the Heroic Dead of his people, he is
held up to censure by its managers and
the Faculty are arraigned for tolerating
the 'sindiscretion Comment is unneces-
sary. No wonder the University of Vir-
g'nia--the Washington and Lee College
her Military Institute-and her other
renowned Institutions are making large
accessions from the youth of Mississippi.