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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03
BELLEVUE, SEPT. %, 1874

BELLEVUE, SEPT. 20, 1874.
John G. Head, Esq, Bellevue, La,
Dear Sir: / have just received your
communication addressed to me as
Chairman of the Committee which
dispossessed you of your books, pa
pers, &C., and which forced you to
abdicate your position as Tax Collec-
tor.
In reply, have to state that / do
not recognize VIM. p. Kellogg's Is
right to place you in charge of the
public property of Bossier parish,
which appertains to the Tax Coliec-
tors office, and i shall therefore de-
cline to accede to your proposition.
In reply, ] would further state,
that endeavors will be made to gain
an expression of public opinion on
this grave question at. the earliest
possible moment.
] have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully, &C.,
VIM. NJ. SWAMI,
rl1o ;,.,~,o,1 ~ &c Cto,.o~,s4+,o
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al consequences, and the in

al consequences, and the in
exorable logic of events has
led him to this crowning
shame. For the first time in
the history of the United States
the soldiers of the Union are
employed to drive out a legiti-
mate Governor, and place a
miserable pretender in the
State House, to shoot down in
the streets thepeople who may
refuse to obey him. For this
disgraceful and disheartening
spectacle the Congress which
refused to act on the Louisiana
report, and the Republican
party which tacitly approved
the wrong, are both to blame !;
but it is upon the President
that the chief responsibility
must rest,-the President who
began the long course of op-
pression-the President who
could have stopped it now
the President who is probably
the only man in America not
ashamed of the whole, bust
ness, and who comes forward
in the midstsof it asking for a
third term.
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Correspondence.
BELLEVUE, La, SEPT. 30, 1871

BELLEVUE, La, SEPT. 20, 1874.
DR.. w. NJ. Swami, Chairman Com
mittee; Capt. w. J. Hughes, Capt.
J. G. Vance, J. L. c. Graham and
J. B. Bixler, Esqrs., members: /
have the honor to ask the restitution
of the books, papers, &C., belonging
to the tax collectors office.
Hoping that you may feel that you
are subscribing the true interest of
hepublic, by compliance herewith,
l have the honor to be,
Yours truly,
]. G. HEAD,
Tax Collector.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

| til only the Republican States
at the South which are anarchi-
cal, in any event. And the con-
Iclusion is irresistible, therefore,
that the true way to remedy snch
anarchy is to place the local auth
ority in the hands of the Democ-
racy. Home rule by Intelligent
and honest citizens will remedy
every trouble.- Albany Argus
(Defn.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

The carpet 6aggers even in
Louisiana begin to decipher the
handwriting on the wall, and
Kellogg cries out for troops to
save him, althouth he has the
whole militia and machinery of
Government in his hands, while
bis adversalies have nothing but
their voices, votes and the moral
power public opinoin, which make
these rogues tlemble.-N N. Y. Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

A party OF sixteen ladies were
bathing in q group at Long
Branch the other day, and q Bos-
ton drug clerk who stood near,
declares that the paint and pow
der tnrDed the water q bright
orange color for a considerable
distance around. s
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

An association of wealthy cit,
izens has been formed in California
for the purpose Of lending money
to poor and deserving students.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

The Rev. Father keenan, Of Lam
caster, Penn, is said to be the old
est Catholic priest in America.
He is SO.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

Williamsport, Penn, has a cit
zen who will allow any one to
crack walnuts on his head, for a
consideration.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

Over 10000 pounds of slippery
elm bark were in one week ship
ped from Boscobel, Wis.,, for New
York.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

The universal expression of the
people is that they prefer being
placed under military rule to being
remanded to the Kellogg usurpa-
ton. Give MS our liberty or give
us the military. We have tried
them both and know what they
are Delhi Chronicle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

A farmes near South Bend, Ind,
has over 200 swarms of bees and
sells nearly :, 900 pounda of honey
per year.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

The San Lorenzo (Cal.) Fruits
Drying Factory is putting up
about three tons of curraDts per.
diem.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

The Saratoga bellies merely
taste food at the table, but fee the
walters to bring . squrae meal up
the back stairs.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

The Monroe Intelligencer de-
clares that the entire forces Of the
United States will be employed
to crush the 'srebellionn in Louisi-
ana, with as much assurance as il
it's editor was Chief Executive OF
the United States, and that all
who accept commissions from the
McEnery government will be
punished for treason. WHO made
this fifth rate village quidnunce
the presiding genius over the
destinies of Louisianians and die
tator of Americaf Speaking Of
treason, f he and his sort had
received justice they would have
been tried for treason long ago.
Treason in Republican country
is robbing the people OF their lib
critics, and the soverigns Of a
country are the best judges of who
are traitors Delhi Chronicle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

A Long Branch firt has danced
seven hours per day for 43 con-
days, but if her father
should ask her to split a little
wood to last over Sunday she'd
probably feel too faint.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

The Saint James Sentinel
thinks, from present indica-
tions, there will be a larger
yield Of the cane crop in that
parish than any other season
since the war.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

Admiral Semmes is a candidate
for Congress in the Mobile Gala. J
district. His disabilities were re-
moved by Congress late winter.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

The Thibodeaux Sentinel
wentin mourning for the death
of Maj. J. 4. Gourdain killed
in the late political L war at
New Orleans.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

Egotism is considered q sin at
Council Bluffs. II a stranger
steps up on y box, spits on his
hands and says he can whip that
town, q thousand men are ready
to convince him that he can't do It.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

Mrs. Anstin of Alexandria, Va,
has lived in one. neighborho0d
thirty eight years and never. bor-
rowed her neighbor's fat-iroRs or
q cup Of sugar.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

There is a horse at Williams
port, Penn, which has hauled 3O,-
600 tons Of coal in 25 years.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

There is not a single white
Radical-nor a married one,
either-in Monroe county
Georgia. Happy Monroe coun-
tyl
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

New York Commercial: fare
the Joneses backr inquired Mrs.
Spilkins, who hasn't been out of
town all summer. Eyes M re-
piled the cook; "and Mrs. Brown
and the children got home from
Saratoga this morning. s1Then,
Mary, you may open the front
shutters,n continued Mrs. s. ssand
say that we've returned, too.n
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Barricades.
From the St. Louis Republican !


Here we have a government
composed of a certain number of
individuals, filling executive, leg
islative and judicial positions, the
whole system perfect in its Sc
quence of powers, and all culmina-
ting in one grand head, the presi
dency. A carefully inculcated
theory of noh-rotation in Office and
an artfully contrlved plan for se-
curing perennial reelection have
invested the individuals who CON-
pose our government with a ten
ure of power from which there is
but one step to the hereditary.
We now find many men vehe-
mently advocating a consumma-
ton which is at war with all our
precedents, and which would, il
accomplished, open the way for
new perpetuities OF power as little
dreamed OF now as a third term
was twenty years ago. The cleo
tive Venetian senate passed a law
making itself perpetual by Great
ing an hereditary right for it's
members. To-day a majority of
the American senate would do
the same if it dared. How much
more indulgence at the hands OF
the governed would suffice to in
due it with a temerity equal to its
will, events must determine. Our
government has grown strong by
long continuance of it's individuals
in power; as it grew strong it has
seized upon opportunities to test
its strength, and success in each
test has given it new strength ;
what was usurpation yesterday
becomes precedent to-day, because
it was successful gradually it has
thrown off the restraints Of that
law which once bound it in com
mon with the governed, and SO
gradually it is becoming a law
unto itself, while the people BY i
coordinate process, are being
gradually transformed from sover-
eign into subjects.
Finally, in the order of these
tendencies we have reached a
stage when the subjects begin to
feel that they have lost their
sovereignty and instinctiyely
make u quick, desperate effort to
regain it. Repression has reach,
ed q degree at which it becomes
painful, and those who feel the
pain resort to that ready remedy
which every man is doctor enough
to prescribe violence. Hence
the Barricades in the streets Of ali
American city. Barricades are
not the means by which sover
eigns express their will. They
are the traditional resorts of sub
jects who rise to express theirs
Let no one imagine that the las,
Barricade has been seen in ths
/ streets OF an American city
There are nsurpations and despot
isms, in esse or in posse, outside o
Louisiana, and the pressure i,
getting heavier. It would not b,
surprising ii the articles on. exhi
bition at our grand centennia
should be hustled out into til,
streets to do patriotic duty a.
Barricades against oppression ant
repression IN new '76. The ses
is not SO wide but that a shil
going on a straight course at th,
rate our government is goins
must strike the lee shore some
where.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-10-03

i.ss No State elections take place
until October 18th, when Ohio,
Iowa, Indiana and Nebraska
will choose State officers and
Congressman.
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Meeting Of Executive Committee. Q
/ Peoples Party Of Bossier.

A meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of Peoples Party of Bossier
Parish is hereby called to convene in
Bellevue on Wednesday, eth inst,
for the purpose Of considering the
matter embraced in subjoined letter
from DIR. w. M. Swami, and any
other business that may require their
attention. A full attendance is earn
sstly requested.
asE ia. SN1DER,
Chairman of Committee.
Bellevue, La, Oct. 2, 1874.
BELLEVUE, La, SEPT. %, 1874.
Col. J. A. Snider, Chairman Exec
utive Committee, Peoples Party of
Bossier Parish--Dear Sir: Knowing
that the manner of my nomination
- 4 candidate for Representative of
Bosaier parish has occasioned some
disaffection, and fearing that my con-
tnued candidacy may prevent full
harmony in our ranks, / hereby place
ipy name at the disposal of your
Committee to be withdrawn from the
canvass, Tin the opinion Of the Com
mittee, greater harmony will thereby
Z 4f- = -5 6
be insured, or ifa stronger name than
4nine can be substituted in lieu
thereof.
assure you that the success of
eur cause is dearer to me than any
penonal ends or aspirations / may
nave, and I pledge myself to support
the ticket, whether changed or not,
p the extent Of my humble abilities,
and 20 bring to the front all T can to
oppose and defeat Radicalism.
Respectfully Yours, &c.,
VIM. M. SWAMI.
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The National Board Of Fire
Underwriters urged insurance
companies not to take any
risks in Chicago after Oct. 1.
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The Presidents V;ctoty.
From the New York Tribune, lsth.l

set the army and navy in mo-
ton ard the lawful Govern
ment of Louisiana surrenders.
If there was any doubt before
as to the character of the usur-
patton which rules the unhap-
py State by favor of the Presi-
dent-any d question whether
the people rally acquiesced in
it-there can be none now.
The outrage stands, out hence
forth in all its naked deformity,
and objectionable crime
against popular suffrage and
the sovereignty of a State. A
government which the people
loathe and despise was forced
upon Louisiana by the sold
diers of the President. Left
to themselves for a moment,
the people threw it off and in
stalled the officers whom they
had regularly chosen at the
polls. The deposed intruders
made no fight; they were as
helpless and cowardly as chill
dren in the presence Of the in
dignant people; but covering
behind the shutters of the
Custom-house they telegraph
ed to the President. fsThe
people have s'put us out; this
is your job; come; you. and
|put us back again"
Two years ago Grant yield
led to the bad advice of his
ldisreputable associates,a in,
stalled Kellogg at New Or
leans, by fraud and force, be-
cause he wanted the electoral
lVote of the State, which q ma
Ijority of the voters had given
| to the other side. That wicked
deed has brought forth a fall
crop Of crimes. We have seen
him dispensing a Legislature
at the point of the bayonet,
expelling a Legitimate Govern
ment with threats of martial
law, and reversing the course
Of justice by the scandalous
Support of a perjured court
! His own friends have exclaim-
ed at the iniquity of these
proceedings, and warned him
to desist. The hottest parti-
sans of his administration have
denounced the wicked usurpa.
tions of Kellogg and Durell
with an indignation that does
them credit. Seventeen Re-
publican Senators voted il
1 & 7
February, 1873, to declare the
pretended election of Kellogg
null and void, and to turn him
out of Office. The President
himself finally admitted in a
special message to Congress
that SO many forgeries and
frauds had been discovered
that he was not sure of Kel
logg's title. An official inves
Itigation proved the rascality
of the whole transaction be
yond any possibility Of deni-
lal. But the President would
not halt. He must carry ou1
his original crime to its natur
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1t is said that sonle Troy women
attend funerals for the sake OF
displaying their $40 handker-
chiefs. =
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g.
The South Carolina Republican
Convention has at last found a
bidder. Mr.. ID. lei. Chamberlain,
carpet-bagger and corruptionist,
has carried off the prize. The
Convention could have done one
worse thing-renominated Moses
but it refrained, probably be-
cause Moses had no money. The
scene at the last session was on a
par with the nominatiOn-abso-
lutely disgraceful. The Conven.
tion reassembles this morning to
adopt a platform. The trouble
seems entirely unnecessary. The
ticket they have nominated will
run most consistently without any
principles. There is a chance, so
slim that it is hardly worth men
tioning, that Chamberlain is not
SO black as he has been painted.
Every true friend of South Caro-
lima and the colored race will pray
that he may prove himself to be
SO. If not, a darkness blacker
than Egyptian will settle upon
the State.-[N. Y. Tribune.
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It is difficult for people at a dis.
tance, in the employment of all the
privileges Of freemen, to realize
the actual situation of Southern
society in the reconstructed States.
Trampled upon by alien adyentur.
ers, threatened with force at every
election, impoverished by war,
their remaining substance stolen
before their eyes, crushed by com
binations of carpet-bagger aud
negroes, and their wives and
daughters insulted and outraged
beyond all former experience. it
is not surprising that these sporad
ic outbreaks should occur when
new wrongs are menaced.
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The whole business is an cleo
tioneering scheme, and the trouble
in Louisiana was started by Kel-
lOgg's vile emissaries, with the ex-
press purpose of provoking diff
Guilty, in order to furnish an occa
sion for calling in the military.
That the Attorney General was a
party to this delivery will hardly
be disputed by those who hase
watched his unscrupulous course,
who have seen him scorned even
by his own party, who knows him
to. be essentially corrupt, and
who have no faith in his public or
personal integrity where the least
interest in involved. He is worthy
to be the expounder OF Grantism,
and a fit tool for all its enormi.
ties.-New York Sun.
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THE STATE LE0lsLATURE.
SATURDAY, MARCH II. 1874.
SENATE.

Tho Senate met at IL NJ.
The President laid before the Senatt
a communication from the engrossinE
clerks, referred to in House proceedings
The Governor approved O joint reso
luton to provide an appropriation iol
repairing the State House aud fenoet
enclosing the same, and for other pur
poses herein mentioned.
Mr.. Whittemore, from the Specia
Joint Committee, to whom WAS referred
all matters pertaining to the agriculture
land scrip bonds, submitted Il report
recommending that the Attorney-Gene
ral of this State be directed Ut once t.
proceed oriminaily against Mr. Klmp
ton, and also oivilly, if. in his judgment
any recovery can be had Of him sulli
cient to warrant it; which was ngreed to-
The bill to provide uid for u. +. Inr
n9r was referred to the Committee OIL
Claims.
The bill to provide for the iu.cr
ahango OF Circuits by Judges Of Tho Cir
Quit Courts, was ordered to lie on tLt
table.
The claims OF Fletcher Smith, School
Com missioner of Oconse County, salar,
for 1872, A. Palmer. u. T.. Bradley, T.
O. Andrews. John L. Spcarman, Caro-
liua National Bank and jas. L. Greene
Eeepar of the Magazine ut Charleston
were ordered to be paid
MIR. Nash introduced Joint reso!u
ton relative to the pay of subordinate
officers and employees Of the Genera
Assembly.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House met at IL A. NJ.
Tho Secretary OF State sent com.
munication to the House, stating thu
the cngrossing clerks had csased work,
for the reason thut their rny had bcrl
reduced below the sum fixed by law.
The Senate returned, with concur.
renee, papers Of tho Committee on
Clnims on claims Of the Aiken TriJun.
and j. L. Britton.
The Committee on Contingent Ac
counts referred back the following, an,i
recommended payment: John Williams
PHOENIX, Ne,rs and Couriar, &c:
The Speaker laid before tho House O
communication from the committee
clerks Of the House declining to assume
the duties Of the engrossirg office.
The Senate returned, with amend
ments, bill TO regulate the public
printing; not concurred in.
Also. with amendments, q Joint rcso
luton to provide for the payment O
legal services of O. D. Melton, D. H
Chamberlain and j. D. Pope; ncurreG
In.
Also, resolution to extend tho ses
sion to Tuesday, March II, at 3 p. Nj.
agreed to.
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oenaure on Major General Hunter, for
declaring all persons held as slaves in
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina,
free under martial law, by lurge maiori-
ties, iu both branches Of Congress. He
subsequently sent q special message to
Oongross. suggesting the passage of a
bill which should provide that, on any
State abolishing slavery, bonds of the
United States should he delivered to it
of certain sum for every slave, the
whole to be pnid at once. if the emanci-
patton was immediate. or in Install
ments, if gradual. He went even fur
ther, and in an interview with tho mem
bers Of Congress from the border States,
urged then &C accee! his nlan. And in
a proclamation issued in September.
1872. ne reiterated his purpose to re-
commend the adoption of practical
measure rendering pecuniary aid to the
FREQ acceptance or rejection of all So
called slave States which would adopt
immediate or gradual abolishment of
slavery.
MIR. Lincoln was good man in some
respects. His heart seems to havo been
in tho right place. He desired to act
justly in the great matter which divided
tho States North and South. He may
have had some fanaticism in his compo-
sition, but it was not for the abolition of
slavery. He had no scruples of con-
science about regarding nd recognizing
slaves as property. On the lat of Janu-
ary, 1868, he signed the emancipation
proclamation as IN Act, believed to be
''an net Of Justice, warranted by the
Constitution. upon military necessity. "
II is clear, from this RESUME. that the
signing the ACT OF emancipation by Mr.
Lincoln is not one, 81, far as ho is con-
cerned. of historical interest-at least,
in the point of view of original aboli-
tionists or the emancipation class. 1t
was not done from sentiment or princi-
pie; it was not done in tho interests OF
the freedmen themselves; but in that OF
tho country at large, and as measure
which would cripple the military power
OF the Southern States, and give addi.
tional. troops to the armies OF those OF
the North, which, Notwithstanding the
heavy foreign contingent, wero greatly
in need Of them. Mr. Jeter, Senator
from Union. had this incongruity in his
mind in opposing the resolution. One
OF the fairest and most honorable of
men, perfectly willing to do justice
either to Lincoln or Sumner, he could
not consent to put upon canvns and
represent as conspicuous virtue in the
former what was only an incident-an
important one, it is true. in it's conso.
qutnces, but only on incident of his po-
sition as President and Commander in
Chief Of the armies of the United States.
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Some months ago. Frank Dumont, a
membor of Duprez & Benodict's min
strels. was arrested in Atlanta on the
charge of stealing pocket book from a
railway passenger-an old and half
blind man from the country. The vic
TINS grand-ohild was SO positive in her
testimony that Dumont was bound over
for trial, and the community generally
believed him guilty OF tho larceny. a
fow days sincs the stolen pocket book
was found concealed in gambling ca
loon IN Atlanta, where it had been placed
by shurper who was on tho tram the
day OF tho robbery, and who was the
resi- thiet. SO mDcn Ior APPROPRIATENESS.