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The Union and "FOREVEtR FLOAT THAT STA'NDARD Ofice--Corner of Texas and Spring Streets, IN BALE' II UILDING-SECOND FLOOR. SHElVVEPORT: WEDNESDAY 19, Taos. McTNTrRE, of New Orleans, is our only duly authorized agent to receive subscriptions and advertisements in that city. Mr. Joni C.

Love. Minden, is duly authorized to receipt for subscriptions. Mr. F. L.

Loweuv, Starryilie, is duly authorised to receive and receipt for subseriptions in Smith county, Texas, and the counties surrounding. A New new feature in the cotton trade of this city has developed itself during the past week, selling cotton to arrive. During the past week, the romruission house of Gregg Martin have sold a numter of lots to arrive at prices but little under that on the spot. Live and learn, appears to be the order of the day. the day.

Tun SoTemts PacrsrC on this road have bean making trips for the past week or so with regularity, the Johnson" engine, with all the available rolling stock on the road, making the round trip to Marshall and back every day, with full loads. The receipts of cotton by this route will average fr-om 1200 to 1500 bales a week. Ilsiorvs(: CorroN have heard it reported that some of the planters who are able, intend holding their cotton over until another crop, to avoid paying the tax. We would not advise such a course, as the law is against them, far it reads, all cotton after 1s v7. They might keep the cotton twenty years and then forward it to market, and the chances are drat some Yanikee would find out that it was raised prior to I8Sf, and gobble it up.

Wilkes, who has been practising his profession in this city for the past year or so, and in ai iiighioriig parish for the last twenty years, is tabout leaving its, to take up his residence in Galveston, Texase. lie returns his thanks to our citizens for their liberal patronage, and to his cotemporaries for the many kindnesses tendered him during his residence with us. To the citizens of Galveston we can recommend him, as a skillful surgeon and thorough practitioner. have had another good week of it for business in the jobbing hine. The streets have been crowded withv wagons from the interior loaded with cotton, hides, which found a good market at first rate prices.

The grocery trade still takes the lead, closely followed by staple drygoods, shoes, The cotton trade has been lively both on the street and from the factor's table. The latter is no sooner covered with samples than they are swept clean in a jiffy, at hardly a margin above New Orleans quotations. We are now in the midst of the business season, and the only fear expressed is that it will not last long enough. GRtaNT AND THE publish on the outside of this issue the correspondence between Grapt arnd the President, in relation to the Stanton affair. It no particularr'irging on our part for our parons to give it a careful perulal, 11s every one who takes any interest in what is going on in the political world will be sure to read it, and in doing so can arrive at but one conclusion, i.

that the General of all the armies has let his foot slip again. In this tilt with the President he comes off worse, if anything, than lie did when he locked horns with the President in the.Sheridan afhfir. It is very evident the General is not much on the ir ite, and if lie be not careful le will go the iway of the author of the plate of scup." ORCAr sC should be our watchword until we are banded together as one man for the unshlught against the Radi-als. The people in other portions ofthe State ire up and at work. A central -orunittee has been formed in New Orleans with Pis rauifications through the State.

Let all of us, no mat- ter what our politics may have been, so re are opposed to Radicalism, join the club and at once put ourselves in corrunnication with the Democratic Central Ic Committee. With organisation we may be able to do something; without, nothing. Pertinent to the foregoing, the chairman of the Shreveport club gives the fallowing notice; A meeting of the conservative citizens of the parish of Caddo is hereby called to meetat the Brawer's Hall, in the city of Shreveportoion Saturday the 22d 0 for the purpose ofappointing delegates to the Conser- native State Concention, which is to assemble in the I1 city of New Orleans, on the tth of Maarch, and also for the purpose of effecting a more perfect organ- isaticn of the conservative party iin this parish. It is greatly to be desired that this meeting should fully represent the seutiment of the conservative people of ti the pauiisth. J.

C. Chairman Ex. Cor. Shreveport Club. It is understood that Messrs.

Nutt, Burnside and others will address the meeting. WIrAny-BoAr Wednesday, the large it and commodious wharf-boat of John C. Eatrner sunk her moorings, wetting a lot of government liy. bat been light for a long time, during which her seams opened; and when she received the heavy con- Eigninents of last week and the week preceding, the water poured in faster than it could te pumped out. b-he settled down where the water reached two feet 1t above her decks.

It will be no diflietit matter to raise her. The hull is perfectly sound, and when raised ns ill be as good as new. PetrI members of the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Association of Caddo parish, will give a Purim ball, at Brewer's Hall, on Monday, the 9i day of March. Judging from the names on the different committees, the etthir is in good hands, and will no doubt be the ball of the season. The cornlhittee on invitations 'are Win.

Winter and M. Kaufthan, on ticket, W. Winter, N. Hirsch, A. Teah, it Kahn, Mt.

Kaufman, B. IIoizmann, M. Weinstock, A. Kahn, J. Bergman, 11.

Knufman, Jr. "RunuiaiTs or m.art: Cui.a ev, being simple directous for the use of those who have no previous knowledge of the sublject," is the title of a nently printed pamphlet, written by John R. Eakin, the able and talented editor of the Washington (Ark.) Telegraph. Mr. Eakin knows whereof he wrote, having a "place" in the country whereon he has for several I years been successfully planting the grape.

This 'york is sold by John Etter, at Washington, Arkansas. Price Nents, by mail. ItRelvetIo or FAnt: Tr A FinsT-RATC Horm. -The James Hotel, Magazine street, New Orleans, has reduced the fare to three dollars at day. This is, without one of the best buildings and one of the very bestcondoeted hotels ili the United States.

Three dollars per diem is a fabulously low price for a day's living at a hbtel where one receives every necessary, every every attention that heart could desire. BATES ON THE Bates of the United States army, who made a bet with a Western Radical, some time ago, that he could walk from Vieksburg to Washington, D. carrying the United States flag, without a cent of money, and not be interrupted by the rebels, the telegraph informs us, has arrired Montgomery, on his route, where be was enthusiastically received. His reception all along the route was one continued ovation. That Rad, wil lose his bet.

IttonzuAnu o' JtnGE 1. N. PaSCuII. of Ta.ta- New Orleaus Picayune, of the 12th, lqarns from private dispatches, that Judge I. N.

Pasebal, of San Antonio, Texas, had beer) given up by his physieians, and could not possibly live. He formerly rapided in Rapides this Stateap here lh4liedJ use oflice of district Agricultural Reconstruction. The Bureau scheme to reconstruct the agriculture of the South is equally iniquitous, to la as the Congressional plan to reconst'ruct the South po- tr litically. The only difference is in the manner of carrying them out. In the agricultural scheme, we are asked into the parlor, the prettiest we ever did spie, there to be gobbled up; while the political plan is crammed down our throats, with the aid of the brute force of the negro.

Both are alike dangerous to us. The agricultural scheme we have referred to is the order published by the Bureau, proposing to furnish ci supplies to the planter for the freedmen he has in his sI employ, and take a lien on the crop, and in case of a failure to make a crop, to take another lien on his plantation, stopk and implements. The planter has to take all the chances of a failure of the crop, the worthlessness of the labor, and worse than all, if he makes anything, he has to consign it to a 't carpet bag" commission merchant. No matter, if he only owes its, fifteen hundred dollars for supplies, and his cotton fi crop is worth flve thousand dollars, the whole of it must be consigned to the "carpet bag" man. If this it is not enough to open the eyes of planters, then they 68, are very obtuse.

Verily, it was the last feather that a broke the camel's back I A city cotemporary states that the whole sum applicable to the agricultural reconstruction of this State is I to only $350,000, and yet, with this comparatively insig- to nificant sum, doled out to the planter to feed the freedty, men, the Bureau expects to control a large portion of the cotton and sugar crops. We do not believe the ade plan was inaugurated for the purpose of benefitting el' the planter, but rather to entangle him in an alliance tt Ch from which lie will find it very dillicult to extricate It im- himself. The New Orleans Bulletin learns that a reot sponiible planter applied to the Bureau in that city to a of know whether, if he should come forward before his Ii crop of cotton was sent to market, and pay off the ri this Government account for advancing, the Bureau would allow him to consign his crop to his own commission the merchant. The Bureau would not consent to any such tind disposition of the crop, but insisted that it all had to ds. go through the carpet bag." What better evidence tI pmt does the planter want than this, that the scheme was not concocted for his aid.

It is a sort of one-sided af- el teli fair, the being fully guaranteed, while the Id- planter, consigning his crop to the carpet bag," has ti no assurance that he will ever receive his share. Once it for all, we say, don't have anything to do with this as Bureau agritultural reconstruction, but depend upon iv at, your own resources. el are In speaking of the late Bureau order, the New Or- ic zed leans Christian Advocate questions the policy of the planter iccepting its terms. It says, it revives the last effort of the Egyptians in the days of Pharaoh, when they parted with their lands, their fartming uten- nl sils and their cattle to the agent of the government. is 'And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Phi- raob: for the Egyptians sold every man his field, be- is ir cause the famine prevailed over them so the lend the becate We do hope that no stress and no at ice apparent advance in cotton will lead our people to ri-k re-anything farther.

They cannot afford to go upon unSc- certainties; no, not another day. If they base calec- tn lations upon Government aid upon obtaining advances, upon the labor of the freedmap, or upon an improved in it market, they rug a great hazard of losing their last ve cent. They can outivate a forty acre field and raise ed food for a family; they can have a few cows and pigs, th at and work, with their own sons, fields already cleared, bi and afford, maybe, to hire one colored tian in addition; and it is just that which they should do. By ad this course they will outride this storm, and keep pos- to session of lInds that have an intrinsic value in the at marketsof the world, not to be destroyed Ly the mtad ni legislation of Congress. When the mills of New Eng- li land are stopped, the rocky sides of the Connecti- fit cut refuse to supply her unemployed operatives with i pr be food, these fertile deltas, made richer by e'ery hprlngat flood, will be sought for as the only sure mine of ex- 81 It rhastless wealth.

Our people must not seek relief wl from their present troubles- great as they are, by the D1 wholesale sacrifice of the grandest inheritance of soil itt al and climate that can fall to the lot of man. ha Tp go back to the self-supporting and all-producing ou of policy of the war period is the true policy of the South. ID ilt Use nothing that you do not raise or make, or that DI you neighbor does not dress in home made cotton i at and woolens; tan your own leather, make your own me shoes, raise youo own horses and mules, and especial- Pt ap lit s-ourownaws. It of Unless this idea that we must live by cotton or die cap be gotten rid of, our planters will indeed perish agriculturally and financially. Leave cotton to the h- Government and the negroes.

The negroes belong to 1e the Government-as it is now 'run'-and the Governer rent alone can afford to feed them and work them. al Let Messrs. Sumner, Butler and Banks lay out huge farms, and put all the negroes upon them to raise cotton and vote. No man can safely venture to work a negro or a cotton field, these days, who expects or I r- wishes to live without stealing. To this it has at lastI al come.

The ownership of the negro has passed out of I lo the hands of individuals into that of the general gov- I e- ernment: he must be fed and controlled by the hand 4 IC that feeds him, or he will starve himself and every- i body else. And we suppose, from its amount, I that this Bureau appropriation is really intended as an entering wedge to the experiment of Bureau farms, pet farms for working, holding, feeding, and voting the eifranehised freedman, until after the election of Mir. Stanton to the Presidency. If the Radical party chooses to advance money for the benefit of the negro, so be it. The negro will eat all up that is advanced; if that is quite certain.

But we object to the Southern planter's being mixed up with the arrangement; for so surely as lie is, the Government and the negro together will consume him." Lt-r o. Jiitoes roun folios- ling is a list of the jurors drawn for the spring term of our District Court, to coinience on the first Monday in April: First i hL-Wm Currie, Collins, Harvey eorgan, Ieter Browu, Lamumeriek, Brown, Arnold, WV Scott, Wm Scott, Mulhaut, John li Walpole, Jr, A HJenkins, Maples, Ivey, Bell, NC Attaway, 1V Watts, 3D Chase, Samuel Hollingsworth, J1 McYean, 11 Liunman, .1 Hecox, I 'it Bickiiam, Gregg, JD I) Bridges, Davidson, Al Crowell, IIM Verlander, A Cook, Hyams, ciW t)elnich, Sans Gustine, Hill, Bowman, ti Flournoy, Ben Stovall, Pubst, Thlotias Burns, Jones, Bagley, Hecox, John a Miller, Smith, McCain, Flournoy, J.E Wood, 1 Wed-W Hamilton. A Ward, John Iliene drick, Jr, McDuffie, A Cake, Sam Beckwith, Stephens, Besird, Loeb, Easterman, DA Hearne, Foster, Bickham, Foster, A Ii di Witt, Garlick, Jas Boazman, Douglass, Carstarphan, 1 Bennett, 11 Boanzman, (I AV Soloman, Rudder, Robt Cain, Walpole, Thos Poland, Jones, 1t Fortson, Moore, Jue Dickson, 1 11 Adams, WV Murray. Third Weck-W Noel, GW Hosle. GW Robinson, 0 1) Martia, Wiitbeek, Fullilove, Saintel Morrison, SJ Futch, Eckhart, Thos Blakey, Baer, vi e113.

Bayliss, Fullilove, Dotey, Kev, A 1 Colquit, Christian, Pearce, 1' Corbel, Henderson, RtD aIicer, Eberailadt, 1c 1 ihai, Jobn Peak, Sullivan, Butler, 1t Michel, It tt I Stevenos iti Cawthorn, I Laudreaux. ci Corth Week-P Crocker, Nicholson, Hall, Crocker, Robinson, Ben Hearn, Groves, nl Thos Kelly, York, John Ambleton, Shear- is man, Ha-en, Wm Leonard, Louis, Reaves, Chas McGuire, AS Moretield, 0 McCall, Wm Robson, cu 1 Kahn, PC Crump, Richard, 11 Sharp, Moor- 0 ing, A Marks, Jasper McMillan, Win Muihall, Pres Maulding, Manheimer, Mooring, Baer, Mooring, Christian. J. Franklin Ford, in an advertisement ti in another column, offers for rent the Mors Side place, situated one-half isile from the head df Texas street. t( This is one of the most desirable residences in the par.

st ish. The house, out-houses, garden and orchard are I si in firstrate condition. Also a good residence on Ed- I wards street, adjoining the Institute. Ile has also two large pleasant rooms for families in the Institute build- 1 ing. Board can be procured ini the house.

Persons i desirous of renting woild do well to give Mr. Ford a call asche is extremely moderate in his terms. 0O Scarte Taxws woe Hope requests us to state that the State tax for 1867, now due, will be at collected by him at the same time and places as the convention tax, advertised in another column. We advise our citizens to be promptiin this matter, as well to as in that of taking out their license for 18ti8. Colonel C.

C. Thayer, auction and commission mer- do Chant, has remoe4d from his old stand on the Levee, tos Hope Smith's new briek block, Milana street, near Spring. The Colonel will hold regular sales at his new ot and commodious sales-rooms, and will also pay particular attention to the sale of real estate said stock. Oth Wn. S.

Barry, an eminent lawyerof Columbus, dead. 11 Texas of PnooY Bcaws, aowix-G'he Tyler Reporter of, 4 late date has the following in relittion to the typo and o- tramp; Paddy Burns: ir- A few days ago we had the pMeasure Vr taking by the. 2 re left hand that veteran "tramp" and typo, old "Paddy" Burns. That good right arm with which in days of te, "auld lang syne" he clicked the speaking types so faith- I IS fully, is gone-torn off, as he says "by a thieving rail- to road in Illinois." We trust he may live to count over and over aepin every cent of the $1,000 judgment zd has pgainst said road, and that in his declining years he he may enjoy all the comfort which money and the so- sh ciety of his loving (of whom be is now in fc ais search,) can afford. a SHOOTING AT Jimplecute of the is 11th, gives the following account of the shooting of a I as man named Webb from this city: be A gambler named Webb was picked up by the police he on the steps of the Jackson Hall, now a house of ill fame, about one o'clock on Sunday morning, and discovered to be badly wounded by a pistol ball through res the head.

The police were close by when the pistol on fired but no clue as to who done the shooting has been it I discovered. Drs. Rayfield, Foster and Hervey on Sun. day evening perfomed the delicate operation of remov- I ing the fractured bone and taking the ball from off the ey brain where it had lodged. The man is doing well, and for skill in surgery the operation is equal to anything we have known in the United States.

li- GOarssN Sherman Courier of the lst, is gives the following account of the mysterious death of ig- James Perryman: James Perryman of this county, left Sherman Tues- a of day evening last with a two horse wagon, to go to hisl lonme about five miles from town. Sometime afterI he dark the horses came home withent any driver-the ng night was intensely cold, with a strong wind from the ice north; ineffectual search was made during the night; tte the next morning search was continued, and the missing man found dead within a half mile of home. No visible marks of violence were found upon the body, I to and as he left town sober it is hardly supposable that lis lie froze to death; altogether the affair is rather mystehe rious. These are the facts in the case as we have received them. Investigation may develope the cause of: Iddeath.

No inquest been held. pion uch Editor of the South-Wester to 1ear Sir-Permit me to use your columns to give nee the public some of the points treated on, a few days our conversation in regard to our parish jails. tYou say, such subjects are untimely now, because our al- condition is in no way settled; we do not know what the we are, a State in acts or in posse, or a territory ditto. You may possibly laugh at the views entertained on has that subject, by your correspondent, but enjoy it. Here nee it toes: At our next Presidential elections, Conservatives, Democrats, all, in a word, who believe that America son neat be guovcried by the white man, and their name is legion, will rally around President Johnson and reelect him.

Our next Congress will undo what the Itad- Dr- ical party has so badly dose, the South will be immethe diately represented in Congress, and the States will regulate their own private atlisrs, as well jails as good the maiilother things. Supposing this to be so, you easioh ly perceitp that our subject, discussed a few days ago, deserves well some attention. We both agree that en- taxes mnst be, so far as possible, reduced, because our nt. people are already burdened. If, then, our jails could ha- be made self-supporting, several thousands per annumn would be saved to the parish.

I believe work would be- be beneficial to those condemned to prison; the ennui Intl itncmbent on a long confinement would be avoided. Besides, idleness, mother of all vices, would be battled no against, the prisoner would be less apt to be corrupted irk in -l and so become, when liberated, a scourge to the country. Several go to jail comparatively good had un- pure, who coie out of it masters of arts, accomplished c- ti wickedness. I will not carry this sketch any further; if it is good and possible, others must take it in hand, I to bring it to completion. Allow mic to say that, in our red impoverished condition, when the ntumber of trepassers ast agoitist the law becomes daily more numerous, some such a plan ought, in my opinion, to be adopted, to IOt save the parish considerable expenses, and secure to ls the las-breaker a punishment which will not expose ged, him to become a worse man, whilst he is undergoing it.

di Idi. By Tilt: SiooTinG AFFRAY 1)i atilie Pollard, the wife of E. A. Pollard, who was commtitted tt os- to jiii ott rTesdasy evetitit ott the ectorge of shtootitti' he at and wounding in the wrist Dr. G.

A. Moore, still re- tad utile' in lbhit itistitutioti atid still probably contitiueti there some time, as she positively refuses to allow any a one to go her bail. Mrs. Pollard appeared quite cheer- 5 tti- fill yesterday, and conversed freely with all who ap- ith proached her, but when spoken to concerning her hushand, who has been abuett from her for some time, I she invariably declined continuing the conversationt i x- She hln a weuid in the thick part of ter right hand, ief a which she avers having received during the senfle at he Dr. Moore's store.

Mrs. Pollard told friends who vis- oil ited her yesterday that having had her trunks and ef- fects seized by the proprietor of the hotel where she 1 had been left by Mr. Pollard, she on Tuesday wandered ig out half frantic to endeavor to hear of or to find her 11). husband; that, knowing lie had been intimate with ci it Dr. Moore, she went to the establishment of the latter, where the affair took place, wl.ich will likely lead to a On judicial rive tigation.

She, however, distlaims any a eli recollection of having fired the pistol. In the jail Mrs. it al- Pollard occupies one of the large rooms usually set apart for United States witnesses, and, of course, will t) not be allowed to want for anythint in reasont whilst ti lie under the care of Warden Raney.ri sh Mrs. Pollard yesterday heard from her hlshand, who at le is in New York, through a dispatch received by her counsel. 30th ult.

n- IN THE C.AMP.-From all accounts the Raitit. ical party of New Orletns are having some trouble in ge cittp which threatens a split-the Republican leadingti it- one faction and the Tribune the other. The central i a executive committee of the Radical Republican party or have expelled from their organisation Messrs. Chas. st Smith, C.

S. Sat WV. R. Crane, L. Rodrignez, E.

of F. Dumas, 0. Voinche, C. Gardette and I. Mushaway.

v- It is supposed that the suppprt of Judge Taliaferro for ii id Governor against Warmouth by the above named Rad-i y- icals is the cause of this action of the central coiit, mittes. in THE McuE Totes: following extract twill show how the Western stock-raisers are interested in the stagnation of cotton planting. The ouistillt of Courier, of lie 14th, has the tlltowing: tu On the decks of the Indiana, which arrived fronm New Otleatis Saturday night, were a round lot of 0, horses and titles reshipped here from New Orleans for market. They were found unstleable there, and wsero brought back here, where they command better prices than can be realised South. In former times, ne New Orleans, or Natchez, or Vicksburg, were always rt ready markets for all the surplus live stock of the Xst.

Now the want of money, combined with the utter abandonment of thousands of plantations, has Tt if our WXesti rn products. If the South is destroyed, the nfti Wcstis becoting bankrupt and following her in ruin. So -tl Dr.actcnrn oUT roe New Orleans th Republican, of the 5th says the radical Repub- set Slit Ban delegates to the nominating convention of the chi 5th Congressional District, have nominated W. Jasper at tlackburn, of Claiborne pairish, as their catdilate for member of the United States House of Representatives. The Republican then-gives the honorable JasU per a highly-colored, euiogistic airing, in which lie is made to appear as one of the immaculate.

Alah! wa cot h-; utocA ssi o- GEN. Augusta Iha Chronicle thus takes off Gen. Meade. There can be I TI SIeno doubt but the Chronicle is right in the premises: We think there can be very little doubt now on the gi mind of any impartial man in the State that, Gen. Meade is as thorough and as bitter a Radical as Jola lto Pope or Thad.

Stevens. lie implicitly believes in the std omnipotence of the rump Congress, and makes it a la- ti be. of love to enforce w'th the greatest degree of so-'verity and vigor all the betteels of his Ralical frietids. three hundred peoples wa nien, sonien anid chtiltreis, while crosaing the Mlissis- of vippi river on foot, at St. Louis, on the 10th of last of nientli, bad a very unenviable ride on thie hce.

The frt -ice stiddeitic brolte loose from each banlc atid commsen-, ced floating down stream, much to the consternation ids Sof the possetigers. Fortuitately oo serious accidents soccurred. One man fell in the river but was rescued, in TExL ONVENxruo-Thie New Orletins Times sate tit tthat while Haiteock was itt Texas, lately, lie dc- dsd that a mkms iwho ocit take the test oath is eligible rer a spat iin thie cottstitutoitnal convention, notwitli- in standing the adverse decision of some of the proviel sional Radicals of that State.ti A couple of gentlemen came into our a few 0 dayc igo, and itnformoed us that they had walked from Ci I- Viennan-32 milea-to pay their subscription. Idreth- jte Sren, hare you ant subacribera like those fOunchita Telegraph. Itrt No, friend a-n kav6 not got any exactlv 0 of that kind, butsome pretty near-so near bthit they Ithi Swa'lked that distance to keep from paying their sub- Sea st-riptious.

WYho cmo cotne any nearer 'hoi Cc Shan editor of a black Republican paper tei ino Alabama says, thou rebels began niulacoising the jan 1 Houth long before any radicals caime there. Where- tt upoit the Mobile Tribtane accounts for Johny beitig so -dark akinneud Iis father w-asa rebel. op -raT Can QotcoW telegraph lines work-ed, the tet otber dtty, from San Franstisco, California, to Chi hleart's Content, New Foundland, saud- measage was 14 sent from London to California in two-oninutes. cot IHarper's Ifontbly has tior a circus tiof -of about Ieag Jol TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCuIES. ad Markets.

NEW YORK February 11, fuiaser at: he 22c. Gold 1414. New ORLEANs, February dull and de of clined common 124, fair 131 and prime h. 141c. Molasses declined prime reboiled ii.

SOc. Flour quiet; superfine $10, choice ettra $13 75. er Corn easier at Oats quiet at S5c. Pork dull: holders asking $25, but no buyers. BaconshQtilders retalfing ya tard-no sales, quoted io- for tierceat 15 and keg 161c.

QQttga active and exin cited; middling receipts since Saturdaf a 6800 and exports 3130 bales. Sterling exchange he; New oo OYork sight yet discount. Gold Nan YORK, February 17, evenlng-Cotton active a and ic. higher; sales 11,000 bales at for middling uplands. Gold iee NEW YORK, February 18, 141.

Cotton firmer at EW YORK, February 18, active I and fully il. better; sales 12,000 bales at te Gold irregular, but closed at en Cable Dispatches. in- LoNnoN, February Janeiro mail steamer, has arrived. Beyond skirmisbing, no fighting at Pahe rana. Cholera raging at Buenos Ayres, and much Al, sickness prevailed in camps.

y- LIVERPOOL, February active, excited and higher; middling uplands 9 on the spot and at Sid. to arrive; Orleans 91d. BERLIN, February sickness is seriLIavEnRoot, February 17, es. activity and much excitement; closed irregular but his buoyant; uplands in port and to arrive Orter leans sales bales. he LONDoN, February will submit the he Irish reform bill March 9th.

Government will purbte chase or take the management of the telegraph lines. s- February 18, 2 P. buoyant; middling uplands and Orleans uplands to arrive 96d. tat LIVERPOOL, February 18, closed to- active and higher; middling uplands 9l, and Orleans re- sales 20,000 bales. Manchester advices able.

of auwe. Miscellaneous. ITEADQUARTERS FIFTII MILITARY DISTRICT, New Orleans Feb. 7, 1868. To Gen.

U. S. Crant: ive I have reimoved nine members of the City Council, Iys two white and seven colored, for contempt of the orders of the military commander, in proceeding to an elecat tion for a Recorder of the second district, which is an to. elective oflice under the laws by the people, and not on by the council. The attempt to hold the election was are made while I was absent in Texas, but the council was referred to Gen.

Sheridan's order forbidding eleces, tions until reconstruction was cornpletefl without author? a ity of the poiiianding General. Nevertheless, those is niembers voted for an immediate election, and theproid ject was carried. The election was about to be come- pleted, when one or two members, more timid than the ill others, left and broke the quorum. A case in point ad is the order of Gen. Mower, general orders of October si- 15, 1867, removing the Jefferson City Council for a like offense.

My action in the matter was in accorat dance with the power granted by the reconstruction odr act which allowv the district commander to suspend or im remove persons from office and provide from time to id time for the performance of the duties of the persons ui removed by appointment. d. (Signed) wiNFeLD s. IANCOCK, ed Major General U. S.

A. ed IEAnQUARTERs ARiMY UNITEs STATES, ld Wasiiington, February 8, 1868. ed To Maj. Gen. W.

S. Hancock: Suspend your order removing City Council in New Orleans until full report of reasons are sent. Answer ur by mail. in (signed) U. S.

GRANT, General. le FIrm MILITARY DISTiSICT, to New Orleans, Feb. 9, 1868. to To Gen. U.

Grant: Your dispatch of the 8th February, directing me to it. suspend my order No. 28, of the 7th removing certain members of the City Council of New Orleans lie until full report of the reasons therefor should be sent ed to you, was received at 10 c.i. to-day. I request that Ig you reconsider your action, and that my order in the premises be not suspended until you have full report ne of the reasons called for by you.

I telegraphed you ny at the moment the order was issued, giving as full a statement of my reasons for action as I thought could be made. I referred you to the order of Gen. SheriIs- dan forbidding elections, which you have on file at your headquarters, and stated that the City Council i. had been previously notified of this order by mle. I also referred you to an order of Gen.

Mower, issued in at October last, which sets forth a parallel case, and which is. you have on file. In that case an appeal was taken to f. you for reinstatement of the council removed by Gen. ei Mower, which appeal you had not sustained.

The Ad present case was a defiance of that example of Gen. er Sheridan's order, and of my letter cautioning thecounth cil to desist in this election, and forwarded to you a prlinted copy Jamumary 26th. It was also illegal uiider a the lat by which they claimi, to act. I was astonished sy at the action of the council, and could not acouunt for it except on the fact that it had'been instigated to do it et by designing men who believed that if I dared to make ll these removals it would end in my own removal from St this place, and that they would be protected at any rate. My self-respect as commander of the district io made it absolutely necessary that I should take sumor mary measures, regardless of the consequences with which partisansa oight threaten.

I do not know walit fitter report could be forwarded in the case, for all pad- pers explaining my action have been sent to you. To in suspend my order would be to destroy my usefulness here, and i a such an event, a sense of what I consider due to me and my position ill this matter would necesal sitate a respectful request to be relieved from iy pros Ly entcommaind. Although 1 have been here seventy s. days, this is the second occasion I have taken, on my own responsibility, to make a removal. The first one, two days previous to this, both for grave causes, re3 ported to you in detail by telegraph, and while I recogr nise the power of the General-id-Chief to disapprove IyIv action, I respectfully request that your order be a not enforced as I have acted upon a full knowledge of the facts, which will be furnished for a full understanding of the case under consideration.

My action in. the 1 rmsswsorigiiislly based en itie first suippiemnend ary lreaonstlut od act of Jaly 19, 1867. I await your reply behore isuin the order. (Signed) W. s.

IIxCOCKi Rdj. Gen. Commanding it IIE. ARMY UNITED STATS, )fWashington, Feb. 11, I To Maj.

Gen. W. S. Ianicock: If your order removing the City Council has been executed, and the new appointees are installed, you need not suspend the order as directed. I (Signed) U.

S. GRAT, General. IIEAOQcArTmis FIrm MILITARY DISTRICT, New Orleans, Feb. 11, 1868. To U.

S. Grant, Commanding U. S. Army 'lime changes in the City Council was aii accomplished fact when your dispatch of February 9ih was received. Several of the appointees had already filed copies of et their oaths of olfice.

In my selection I have appointed I the best men to olfice, without regard to their political fr sentiments. All must take the required oath. The Ic changes will be of immense advantage to the city, as the poor, of which the city is principally composed, are dependent upon the public confidence. Si (Signed) w. S.

iiucocw, Major General U. S. A. Si noan, February Underwood to-day tc remanded Churchwell Combs to the custody of the military. Be dacided that Congress, whichd was the ec war making power, has not yet declared peace, and the 1o country being in a State of armistice, the civil courts uhave no right to take prisonersoutof military custody.

mn I The case goes to the Supreme Court. Ti Gen. Schofield issued several orders to-day about re- cl gistration. One orders a new registration in Rich- le mouid, March 21, and another provides where voters B. in the State have changed residence since last registration, they must re-register in the State where they re- Pt side.

The third is for the guuidance of registration 6P hosrul-' aiid directs that inhere persolis have held United Statnts othice aiid then voted voluntaerily for secessiorn4' Fare dist rnneiiied. The tioldiisg of United States office in dehined as hiaving held an office to which thie holder fe mess appoiiited by the President, courts of lame, or hmada Cli -of departmeats. Those who have held coiimtybistown tli toflbces cleated for the admiinistraution of justice dis. Al fianchimsed, but not their deputies, and executive pardon docs not remove disframmctdsemnent. ATLANTA, February Meade left for Flor- tri ida last night.

February eli in coinvenitioni to-day. Large crowds of colored citi- fo. iens sollected in the streets to-day before thse conven- pe tino mleC The militsry, by request of Gov. Walker, co proaided guards for the convention to repel violence, ec if offered. Convenlion assembled vitimout laterfe- fri arence.

Mass niethiig of segroes lielil this afternoon re in Capitol square, addressed by colored and white I pieasers of thie Billings fsetion. Speakers seem to co have given up the struggle for the mastery in conven-isa tion, and propose to test Cue issue at the ballot-box. ISt ToRONTo, February for patrolling ba Canada waters will be ready ini tine spring, and will be Isi manned bye naval brigade. OC SAN FisAsucesco, February resolution was in- th trodiiced in Clan legislature that, in yiew of the attempt lin on thse part of Biugland to aunis British Clolunsbia to Si, -ithe Dominion of Canada, Columbia's acquisition by ad thie United States is of the utmost importinmce, amid tei Senators and Representatives are dsstructe4 to use all St lionorable meams to iindnme tihe Goverimcenit to acquire Columbia- Thbe Governor was imistrueted tp telegraph rej -the resolutions to else President, anemubers of tiongress Mt and Governors of Pacific States. Am February 91.

Swaun, jot Ifounder of the Public Ledger, is deusd, aged ki9 years. Yesterday the appointment of three Catholiesibish- qu ops for time diocese of Philadelphia wits ralcsives4fromn CarditalIBarnabe, of Romse. The rope has designs- do -ted the Rev. Win. O'Hlara, of St.

Patrick's fre Church, to be Bishop of Scranton; Rev. .1. F. Stana1 han to be Bishop of Uarrisburg; Rev. G.

R. Brecker, of of Richmond, so he Bishop of Wilmaiasgton. str NiamaVi.LE, February coanservative State tio coanvension adopted a.resolution, looking to the organ. thi Iisation of the party thsroughout tine Slate, endorsing Johnsonc, -the Government establishmed to abs pr, the political rights and material interests of the and Shonld be so administered, and announein5 efhliation with ite Democratic party. Yoie, FIJcrva schooner Hannah et L' Grant, eight of wh crew 4re captured by Indians on the coast of Venezuela, had arrived at Jamaica, in e- distress.

The American consul has sent to Aspinwall for a man-of-war to compel the release of the captives. 4 WAsIssmeos, February has been uI 5. tendered the British Ministership by-TMe cable. He ti has not answered yet. Adams' resignation takes effect ca 1st April.

it SaN Fateactsco, February in Japan t- in consequence of the opening of port Mikano. The th minisiera tretty-making powers have pledged ci neutrality. The ports are opened, but there is tittle I trade. and settlers are dissatisfied with their location. Ru NEW YORK, February steamer Santiago de Cabs has arrived, from Panama the 7th.

Cholera raging terribly at Buenos Ayres, there being 180 victims th daily. Citizens flying. At Villamera 210 out of 270 th railroad laborers died. Wheat crop of South Austrare lia a failure. G.

WASHINGTON, February Court to-day et overruled the motion heretofore made to dismiss the vt appeal in the McCardle case for want of jurisdiction. or The case will therefore come up for argument on its Vi merits, as previously arranged, on the first Monday of in; March. MONTGOMERY, February Bates, No carrying the United States flag, reached this city to-. pr day. He was met by a large number of citizens in car- riages decorated with United States flags and with a band of music.

Six thousand people turned out to da hear the reception speeches and to welcome him. The old flag was enthusiastically cheered. Hundreds of it ladies from windows, balconies and verandahs, on the 0 rt principal street, waved their handkerchiefs to him as m1 he marched along. He was escorted to one of the re leading hotels, and is the guest of the city as long as or he remains. All the speakers and marshals of the day were once Confederate soldiers.

wi GALvEsToN, February the Bureau of Mex- ph ican Intelligence, Brownsville, we have news to the co 16th. The legislature of San Luis have imposed a De heavy tax on merchants and retailers, and asks the Government to impose a fine of $500 and imprisonment teI six months for evasion. Col. Grasdes U. Colice Casi its had pronounced against Rubin, the governor.

$3 Gen. Regules offered his resignation to the governor, arn and sent congress the names of 130 towns revolting against Alvarez. Intrigues, revolutions and pronun- ex, ciamentos are plenty. Troops at Matamoros drilling he for active service. Official returns of election for convention in this d' a city are as follows: whites 202, colored 878.

Smith un and Ruby are elected to Federal and Supreme courts. a In convention to-day, Judge Watrous presiding, a resolution was offered that convention adjourn sine 1to sdie next Thursday. It was tabled instantly, and she sanother was offered that after the 18th February no cei member shall receive any per diem, which also was clo instantly tabled. api JAcKsoN, February regular course of I business in the convention to-day was interrupted by pre a personal afthir, which threw everything into great wh confusion. Such epithets as liar, dog, coward, were mo heard.

One member standing in the middle aisle, i.n- mo nounced his readiness to give satisfaction to any party tin, aggrieved. Quiet was finally restored without actual hal hostilities. The trouble grew out of a resolution of the censure. luti WAsHINGToN, February Steadman has re- signed the New Orleans Internal Revenue collector- Ne' ship, to taks efifet 18th Max. dur Sumner presented a petition from citizens of Massa- Pre chusetts praying the abolition of the presidential otfice Iroa as dangerous to the republic.

a Trumbull's bill, introduced to-day, is in effect, as Sot follows: It provides that all courts of the United grh States shall be bound by the act of Congress on political qlestions; that it rests with Congress to determine what government is the established one in any haie State and it is declared that no civil State governments exist in the excluded States of the South, and no gall so-called civil State governments in such States shall n0 be recognised by either the Executive or Judicial power ry, of the United States until Congress shall so provide or con until such State is represented in the Congress of the whl United States; the reconstruction acts are declared an political in their character, the propriety or validity of which no judicial tribunal is competent to question; and the Supreme Court of the United States is hereby prohibited from taking jurisdiction of any case growing out of the execution of said acts in either of said States until such State shall be represented, and such dalt cases now pending before that court shall be dismissed, Dec and all acts authorising an apieal by writ of error, habeas corpus or other proceeding, to bring before said court for review any case, civil or criminal, arising out cro -fof the execution of said reconstruction acts, are herb repealed. wil President nominated Jas. W. McDonough, postmas- and ter at Galveston. tior Senator Sherman says the General will not accept eve either the brevet appointment or the command of the aunt new district, and if the President declines to relieve iiei him from the hatter, he will promptly tender his po nation.

pto a evenue to-day $550,000. ed -RIenioN, February the convention the propriety of prohibiting counties and cities from subct icribing to improvements to their corporate capacity ke was discussed to-day. No definite action. TAetLAvHASSEE, February convention to-day twenty-eight members present. No important action.

0 I The Billings faction offer to compromise, if Billings be nominated for Congress, which the majority refiuse. tI The Billings party is making heavy efforts to get addiat tional signers to their constitution. Gen. Meade arrived to-day. The factions are reorganiring to elect a new president, ard expunge all records since February 2d.

Gen. Meade is the guest of S. Walker, acting Governor. er February House Committee on Fr eedmen Affairs agreed to report a bill giving aid to members of the St. Louis railroad company for the construction of a levee and road from Cape Gir-ardean to the month of the St.

Francis river in Arkansas. Bond to be signed by road to protect a large extent 11of country now continually liable to overflow. The subject comes before this committee because, if the aid asked is granted, the company binds itself to employ a large number of freedmen and sell them small tracts of land along this line at very reaI sonable rates for homesteads. February Nertncky Legislature electsGutirie's successor to-day. Dr.

N. Green, ir prominent in telegraph matters, is among the favorite candidates. It was understood, up to a late hour last evening, the President had received no communication from Gen. Gherman in regard to his nomination as Brevet General or assignment to command department of the Atlantic. Senate Military Committee passed a resolution, respectfully returning Sherman's brevet nomination, with disapproval of the proposed grade.

Arkansas votes five days, commencing the 15th of SIMarch. MONTGOrrr, February returns from forty-two counties have been received at headquarters, but under general order from Meads publication of them is withheld. The whole vote of the State on the question of ratification, it is estimated, from partiai returns, will be about the white less than 3000. Half the registration is 84,000. New YOeRK, February tug Jas.

A. Wright exploded and burned. Four persons, including Capt. Silrs Dayton, lost. HAurrToRn, February distress.

Soup houses opened, but means thus far are inadequate to full relief. ST. Louis, February broken and river clear several miles above and below the city. Several boats loading. No damage done tosshipping.

xarrHIeoN, February Committec agreed to report a resolution allowing Butler, of Tennessee, to take his seat without taking the ironclad oath. Brooks moved to extend the same privi- lege to John Young Brown, which -was rejected, only Brooke and Brent voting affirmatively. Bill removing political disabilities will not be re- ported iummediately. Stevens favored further investigation. Stevens was authorised to report his bill dividing -Texas into four or more Sftates.

Consideration of Binghare's election resolution, offered yesterday, was postponed. Discussion developed the fact that Stevens, and other Radical members of the committee, will oppose Sherman's bill admitting Alabama. Congressional. WASHINGTON, February in- troduced the following bill on reconstruction: Whereas a large majority of the votes given at an 3 election held in Alabama the 2th February, 1868, were for the constitution presented by the convention of the people of the State of Alabama; and whereas certain combinations of citizens within said State refused to vote, with intent thereby to defeat the efforts of the friends of the Union to restore said State to its proper i relation to the Union; therefore, Be it enacted, That the Legislature under the constitution of Alabama be convened at the capital of said State as soon as practicable, by order of the United I States military commander within said State of Alabams, and that upon the ratification by the said legislature of the fourteenth article or amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the thirty-ninth Congress, and the establishment by law of impartial suffrage within said State, as authorised by said constitution of Alabama, the said State shall be admitted to representation in the Congress of the UniI ted States, in accordance with the laws of the United I States. Nothing else of importance being presented; under regular call the House resumed the appropriation bill.

Effort to strike out appropriations for several South American missions faileej. Finally, bill passed and adjourned. Thomas' case poetpored in aosnsequence of Johnson's sickness. One hundred New Jersey negroes asked a hundred dollars each to carry them to Liberia. Similar petition from Massachusetts negroes.

Judiciary Comnmittee reported a bill that a majority of voters shall decide all elections under the recoin tstruction acts, in voting on the adoption of constitutions; 'duly registered persons may vote in any part of the State, upon presentation of certificate. Bil coonvertinginto treasury proceedxofcaptured and abandoned property discussed to adjournment. he Miscellaneous Items. 1C- Rev. Mr.

J. W. B3eekwith, of New Orleans, has accepted the Bishopric of Georgia, and will probably te ah consecrated on the 2d of April, at Savannah. ns The lately invented steam man has sat for his photon graph. The pictures are said to be natural as life.

es. Two old gentleman were complimenting each other en upon their habits of intemperance. "Did you ever, le neighbor," said one, "see me with more than I coild ret carry?" "No, indeed," was the reply, "but I have seen you when I thought you had better go twice for it." an Gen. Beauregard has been re-elected president of lie the New Orleans and Carrollton railroad company. Ed esnator Wilson, of Massachusetts, has gone to New le Hampshire, where he will open the campaign for the n.

de Such was the slackness of trade and the consequent ig want of employment in Paris during the past quarter 70 that no fewer than 8,000 families were unable to pay their rent. DISTrNGUIssED to six o'clock last sy evening no less than six George Washingtons had he i voted at the court house polls, two Andrew Jacksons, n. one Wade Hampton. The latter distinguished indi- its vidual a few days since was up before Horton for stealof ing. Tribune, 7th inst.

The official reports from the several precincts of 's, New York city, show that there are now 523 houses of 0- prostitution; houses of assignation, 92; and prostitutes, r- 2,097. a The Atlantic cable, it is said, makes about $5500 a to day. A gentleman living on the Back Bay of Biloxi, in- I to forms the Ilandsboro Democrat that on Thursday a morning of last week the bay was frozen over so as to ie retard the progress of small boats. lie also says the as orange trees and all garden truck were killed. Iy There isa rumor in Washington that the president li will nominate Mr.

Seward as minister to England, in place of Charles Francis Adams, and Mr. Seward has te consented to accept. Also, that Mr. Adams will be the ii a Democratic candidate for the presidency. to New York city pays $50,000,000 per annunm for its It ten, coffee, wine, whisky and tobacco; $38,000,000 for si its flour and nieat; $39,000,000 for its police and courts; $3,400,000 for its schools.

One fourth of its arrests are for drunkenness. tg The dry goods trade in New York is beginning to exhibit symptoms of activity. Cotton staple goods are ig held with great firmness, owing to the moderate stocks on band, the steady tone of the cotton market and the it advance in gold. There is no disposition to force busi- ness. Miss Anna C.

Jagerisky skated for thirty consecutive hours at Detroit. She started at a rapid gait, which ft she kept up during the entire thirty hours, with the ex- tl ception of the few minutes allowed for rest. At the close she ran swiftly to a hack, and was conveyed home "I apparently in the best of spirits. tf HAVE NOT SEEN HALF New York Ex- press says that one of the Radical Senators in Congress, it who claims to be regular "Roundhead," on being re- a monstrated with the other day in that city over the ti monstrous radical and destructive legislation now afilic- cc ting the country, coolly replied: "You haven't seen bi it half yet," a sentiment quite worthy of Robespierre and re the very worst of the sans culottes of the French revo- fr lotion. Gustarus W.

Smith, once Street Commissioner of New York, who held high command in the rebel armies during the war, has recently received pardon from the ti President. tIe is now manager of the Southwestern of Ironworks and Rolling Mill at Chattanooga, where, "in ch a beautiful house on the hill overlooking the town," a hE Southern paper says, "hte is striving to forget the th griefs of defeat in bright hopes of the future." be Louis Dispatch. te he A hill is before the Legislature provididing that a st lawyer shall not be entitled to a fee when he fails to Fi gain his suit. We would offer as an amendment, that fri no minister of the Gospel shall be entitled to any salary, so long as there hi an unconverted member of his ho congregation, and that no physician shall collect a fee gs when his patient dies, and that every man who fails in an undertaking, no matter how praisworthy, shall be pa hheld guilty of a misdemeanor, and placed at the mercy of some damphool Radical Judge. F.

(Tenn.) Chronicle. VOICE FROM WT. Boyd, M.D., in a letter SC dated Santa Barbara, Province of San Paulo, Brazil, T. December 12, 1867; says: Sb This, in an agricultural point of view, is a very rich foi province of the empire, and the kingg(cotton) who was he crowned a few years ago in the Southern United States, foi will, I think, he compelled to transfer his dominions wl and emigrate to a more healthy region for the prodte- as tion of his favorite staple, or else his sceptre will for- da ever surely depart from him. Here lie may again asnsume the royal purple and not fear a second dethrone- stn sent, if the indietnions of the past three years are ha worth anything.

Cotton has been cultivated in this province for only three years, and the past crop rose Sn up to one million of arobas thirty-two pounds) of Dh clean cotton. This is not a good country for Yankee tirl settlers outside of the cities, nor for the circulators of ha religio-anti-slavery tracts. The people know who they are already, and will know them much better when all atb the Southerners who are here learn the language of the tre country. tor Al how rTs NEGROES FOUGHT AND BLED FOR FREEnoss's Yankee General during the war, thu in his reports, used the stereotyped formula "The wt colored troops fought bravely." But figures do not to lie, it Yankee Generals do. Here is the record, as for Secretary Stanton presents it in his report, in summing wa up the returns of his chief of the Bureau of Colored W.

Troops: Witole nutnber rtustered in during the war. .169,654 L.Mustered oit-------------------5523 Discharged for physical Died .....31,566 bei 887 Fli Killed irr we Missing itt actiot .................1,344 we Tranisterred to Navy Now itt fro The total number killed in aetion durirtg the whole htbo uvar out of thnis monster negro army of was on- het ly 1514, or less titan trine-tenths of one peq; cent. The ing rtissitig-those who got near enough to tdie frotnt to twv be takeni prisonters-number 200 less while thte deserters ate niore titan, ten times the number killeti! And not those who died witluout tastiing powder and weeve dis- she charged because physically unfit for- duly, foot utp 102-nearly one-tfiitd of rthe witole negro army. lie vet IJ the Tix ox special Washington correre- spondent of the New Orleans Times learns that the lI on, Committee of Ways and Means have determined to re- 0 port in favor of a reduction of the tax on distilled of spirits to 50 or 60 cents per gallon. ms The Republican editor at Vicksburg is calling the Ai- editor of the Times of that city some very hard names cl the We advise the Times man not to fight, for he would at ed, have the whole United States army to whip.

ite fr A SnowER OF was quite a shower ai of infants in New York city last year, seventeen lun- si pt. dred and twenty-three having been picked up in the of se. streets. oi ate it HOTEL FARE proprietors of the first tar class hotels in New Orleans have reduced the price of di its day board from four to three dollars. a Married to of In New Orleans, at Trinity Church, on Thursday of evening, February 6, by Rev.

Dr. Beckwith, BENJA- of m- MIN TURNER, of the parish of Rapides, to Miss se vi- JULIA M. BALL, daughter of Dr. Wm. Ball, of New ily Orleans.

No cards. wl re- Died: ti- Orleans, suddenly, on Tuesday morning, 11th cc ait 2 o'clock, JULIUS HERMANN5 COHEN, a uatire of Hanover, Gerrpany, aged 54 years. TO RENT. af THE MOSS-SIDE PLACE-A delightful resi- frl ed ne dene, about one-quarter of a mile from the head in' II of Texas strebt. Fine orchard and garden, with in fifteen acres of ground in cultivation, good well and ag underground cistern.

Also-A GOOD RJISIDENCg, on Edwards street, $5 contiguous to the Shreveport Institute, and next door i-to Dr. Williams'. osiue ndnx Also-Two very PLEASANT ROOMS for small families, in the Institute. The occupants can be boarded an in the house. Inquire of re fel9 ff J.

FRANKLIN FORD. sh lhe foi i Statp of of Caddo. to Succession of Ilutes P. PsocE, deceased on re JUDICIAL DISTRICT hereby given that James Polk Peace has this day Ca er filed in my oflice his application to be ap pointed ad- ministrator of the $u-ccession of Bailie P. Peace, dehe ceased, and unless opposition be made thereto in ten tri of days, the time prescribed by law, said James Polk sh ed Peace will be appointed, administrator, as prayed for.

a- Given under my hand officially, this ibth day L.a. s- of February, A.D. 1868. thi R. J.

WRIGHT, Clerk. le HO! FOR CALIFORIMA! of brr by wishing to go to the above place, now no be hver the best opportunity ever offered! This na li- Company will land passengers in Los Angelos, Cali- isy ed fornia, for the following prices, viz: is i First Cloqs, $200-An ambulance or carriage to po ride in with meals served, exempt from camp duty, na er with 160 pounds baggage. All extra baggage charged for 11. for at the rate of 25 cents ppr pound. th Second Class, 9150f-'-o each four persons a of d.

wagon and provisions, with 106 pouiids baggage. Third Class, 920-Those wishing to travel with Ne the compan-y and have the advantage of piloting and cid the Spanish eaegigge, as well obviating any danger A of being miscarried by false representations. 40( ad Children under three years $10; and over three and eri In under ten, quarter fare; over ten and under fourteen, bei half fare. 'I ty The Train to start on the 15th March, from ant this city. cur u- For further particulars, see the agent for the Com- 7 pany, Capt.

JOHN A. HAWKINS, Texas street, oppo. is a site the Court-House. stel ISAIAH WESTON, of President of Immigrating Company. She Shreveport, February 17, 1808, 2t soli River It-elligence.

aC- O'Ftc'ri be Sllretioort, The weather for the pait week hasb ein clar 8od oto- lightful; cold nights with warm pleasntdays andde The river opposite this point has receded sce our thnr lag report nearly one foot, making the fallin ae a out ver, 17 inches since the last rise. The Cypress and lak ild are still falling, with 80 inches water over the stmp eeu at little Cypress brake, the shillowest place in the lake Boats drawing over 30 inches water are liable to ast ng of it pretty heavily. The lighter class of boats bringo0n from three to four hundred bales without mnch troube 7ew But little freight going up. From above the raft the the prospects of a rise are anything but flattering. tpe Red rit' and its tributaries are dead low and fordobl ant at most points.

From this point out the pilots re ter from four and ahalf to five feet on the bars and repofl fast. The boats only load to 4j4 feet and flg last make fair time. tad Business on the landing has been decidedly good, all ns, the packets having good down trips and many of them idi- fair up trips. The following are our notes for the week WEDXESnAY, February new and draught sternwheel packet Right Way, Capt. toah of Scovell, thought the right way to make a few sp of lies was to put out right away for the birth place ofdo Jimpletute, on the border settlements, to tra5ofl wh tea, the natives.

She left before the daybreak with atvry light freight, hut a thundering heavy er 0 a Capt. Nosh, can't you go a little light on that whistle particularly about daylight? The nimble-go-dsck steamer Fannie Gilbert Cot in- B. B. Nouns, a worthy member of the Koons-Line, lay by the way, ornament their chimneys with two while to rings and make a. musical display of two long whistles the came in from Afferson with 450 bales of cotton and few passengers.

Two of the latter broke into the jn before they had hardly got ashore. This was cuttin a ant little into the Fannie's receipts, and Capt. Ben thought in he had better leave immediately if they were going Is has keep up that game all night. Accordingly he he without as much as asking for a pound of freight.gt ther of the prisoners bore any resemblance to the Jim plecute man or the hide killer-two distinguishedchiefs its dwelling in the classic swamps of Cypress bayou, for The large and elegant sidewheel packet Starlight ts; Capt. T.

If. Pitts, Cal. Hayes, clerk, arrived tladay sts from fifth military district headquarters with a freight and a few passengers. We are indebted to cal Hayes, for a full file of late papers. Since the Starlight to was here before she has been overhauled and thoroughly ire repaired, and looks as good as new.

ks THURSDAY, February very large light. be draught steruwheel packet Caroline, Capt. W. D. Bate si.

man, left about noon to-day for the Crescent camp with 1000 bales of cotton, 500 dry hides, 100 bales hides, 2q0 bbls beef and a fpw passengers. She had in all the we weight of 1100 bales of cotton and was drawing five ch feet of water at the bow. If we are not mistaken is the heaviest load that has gone out this season. he Early this morning, before the peep of day, the side. ne wheel packet Ezra Porter, Capt.

H. Lee, (formerld of the Alabama), reached our landing tour and a slf days out from the city with a light trip of both passen. gers and freight. Capt. Lee has chartered this light so, packet for the spring trade in Red river, and will run -e- as long as the water permits.

he The Shreveport and frontier packet Gem of the An. tilles" No. Capt. Wilkinson, set sail to-day for the is cold and dismal regions bordering on Cypress bayou, Ci better known as Dallas street, with a few bbts and boxes id re-shipped from Capt. Lee's Ezra Porter packet and a o- freedman's dray.

Capt. Harvey Heth's light-draught packet Rose came in to-day from a voyage of discovery on Cypress bayou, with 400 bales cotton and a fewpeople. es Her officers report all quiet on the Cypress, and the naiC tives very tractable when not under the influence of Iit old rye and the Treasury Department. The Jimplecute in chief was in a bad way. It seems that some time ago a he published a notice that he would say nothing about xe that little affair if the guiltycparty would send him a bottle of champagne.

The next day he received thirteen bottles from as many different persons. Nothing has been seen of him since. The tose Franks only a stayed with us for a short time before leaving for the to French settlement without any addition to her frontier at freight. a- Capt. Wm.

Underwood's fleet sternwheel Irene left i late in the evening for Canal street camp, with 587 is bales cotton, 75 rolls of leather, a company of United Ce States boys in blue, and a good list of cabin passengers. Mr. Mitchell, the clerk, thought the trip would prove a ne paying one. FRIDAY, February New Orleans and Shreveport sidewheel packet Starlight, Capt. T.

H. Pitts, Cal. Hayes, clerk, got off to-dayfor Mayor Heath's doeinions with 850 bales cotton and a fair list of cabin pasiengers. SATunnAY, February LakeBisteneaupacket T. D.

Hine, Capt. W. V. Risher, Nat Puckette, clerk, arrived at our wharf early this morning, flying light. She left New Orleans on the 8th with a good freight for lake Bisteneau, but finding the water too low, stored i her freight at thefmouth of Coushatta Chute and started for thi lace after a load of the staple.

Early this morning Capt. John T. Roots' fleet stern. wheel packet Lizzie Hopkins came steaming into port as though the devil was after her, only three and a half r- days out from the big camp. Her freight for this point was rather light, but she had a whopper for the Dallas street camp, for which port she sailed in haste.

She hardly tarried with us long enough to swap jack-knives. is We are indebted to Mr. Sam. Lawson-the original a file of late Camp street papers, and to Mr. It Dale, the accommodating bar-keeper, for a file of late Northern and Western papers.

We'll bet two to one that it the Jimplecute chief had had the choice he would have returned thanks for whisky instead of newspapers. The giuze-like packet Flicker flirted into port to-day 11 about 4 o'clock in the afternoon from Dallas street, a trading point on Cypress bayou, with 341 bales of cotton and hides pulled off the carcases of Texas balls. All quiet on the Cypress. The Gossamer, i likely, sprightly, active member of the Kouns-Line packets, carrying two loeg notes, ItW white rings and a safe full of spondulics under charge of Capt. McChesney, backed out to-day for a voyage it to the Dallas street camp with a full load of grass beIS longinm to the United States Government.

Said grass. vwas kill-dried and put up in bundles according to Doyle. What a joke on Schneider-carrying grass to Teas! Thme lairge sidewbeel attainer Ezra Porter, Capt. H. 4 L.

Lee, RO. 11. Poster clerk, sailed In-day for the city of 3Niew Orleans with 1000 hbals cotton iind a fair tisi of passengers. St'DAY, February Flicker packet was off GO betimes this morning for Jefferson, flying light. The 87 Flicker is just the packet for the lake trade.

She runs 14 well, totes well and don't draw any water. That'swhat 44 we call a model craft for the Dallas streetites. 69 The Kouns family packet Pioneer Era arrived to-day 88 from the point below Dallas street, with 420 balescotIe ton and a few individual passengers. After taking on board the Flicker's cotton she left for Gen. tn- headquarters, with over 710 bales cotton, to say nothhe ing of the white rings, Peruvian Bark Bitters and the to two long whistles.

le- Capt. Noah Scovell's Right Way arrived to-day about nd noon from the frontier with 410 bales of cotton, which is she dumped on the bank for re shipment. The Nouns-Line packet Era No.8, Capt.IsaacKount, came whistling into port to-day from the Cypress city Dallas street camp, with 360 bales cotton which the rolled ashore for re-shipment. Capt. John White's Jefferson packet Dixie arnied he late in the night from Dallas street, with 360 bales cotton and a lot of hides.

Capt. White reports all quiet 'e- on the Cypress. ed MOsnDAY, February night the lightning enpress packet Monsoon, Capt. C. II.

Stinde, arrivedat our landintg, a little over three days outfrom Gen. Hancock's headquarters, with a light trip of both passengers and freight. We are indebted to Mr. Mheatt, the es clerk, for a file of late papers. Id Early this morning the Jefferson packets Right Way and Era No.

9, got off for the bayou city, flying light. The Fourth of July sidewheel packet came in to-day from the plantations on Old river, with 6o bales cotton, er all under the command of Capt. Thomas Jacobs. The Independence has the old time trick of lying on one n- side until she gets tired, when she careens over on the be other and skeets it like a streak of lightning. Theides of resting one wheel now and then is as good a one as it is original.

The large and very light-draught steamer Richmond, ot Capt W. T. Boardman, (late of the Cuba), arrived toof day from Gen. Hancock's camp with a and ia fair passenger list. We fare under many obligations to the clerk for a file of late papers.

The sidewheel packet pae. s. lie, Copt. W. ty Risher, left about dark to day for the commercial mart k- of the South, with 700 bales cotton and a few cabin pas' so sengors.

ws TsesAY, February large and elegant sidewheel picket Monsoon, Capt. C. W. Stinde, lelt to-day for the Crescent city with lun0 bales cotton and a few people. She was drawing 43 feet water and her off Ih cers anticipate some trouble in getting out.

a- The light draught sidewheel steamer Dixie, Capt. John White, master, clerk, pilot, deck-band and rouseabout, got off to-day for Dallas street with a light freight and a mumble-peg layout for the Jimplecute chief, who delights to spend his spare moments 15 this innocent amusement. FREIGHTS-tr igs card freights 05 00 per bbl. Cotton, down, $2 ot per bale. Cattle, per head.

Passage $30. Cotton front Jefferson pr through 0150, and when re-shipped at this point the freight is equally divided between the boats. I- Fate NEw Ogct.EAxs.-By telegraph we learn that the sidewheel steamer Mittie Stephens, Capt. Charley Marshall, left New Orleans last Saturday, She will be found in port to-morrow, and leaves pn her retura on Friday after the arrival of the cars from Marshall. is FoR New learn by a dispatch froul Capt.

Muse that the steamer Elnora left New Orleap4 last night for this place. She will leave on her returq I trip pcxt Saturday on the arrival of the cars shall. r. CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHtANGXE. We copy as follows from the Memphis Bulletin of the 10th There was no business among the steamboats.

Era- rytling was in Sabbath-tgay order. The river contiiP ues to decline, and weather signs are favorable for breaking up of the ice above Cairo. The lower Obioei now clear to Louisville, with about four feet in the ct5 nal. There is considerable icg ip the Ohio above Loan. isville, but navigation is not suspended.

White river is falling, with tour feet in the channel below Jacksono port. Arkansas and St. Francis rivers are low1 9td navigation in those streams is very difficult, andin cb former business is very dull. We copy as follows from the Carroll parish Record a of the 8th The steamer Enterprise, bound from Little Rock to New Orleans, with 1250 baies of cotton, met with an ac1 cident at Goza's Langing, on the night of the 4thins9t A portion of her guards gave way, precipitating abos 400 bales into the river. The crew succeeded is rem" I ering over 300 bales, and left ix on the bank at Gozt st being unable to take it.

The Enterprise put in at this place, and her officers and crew made affidavits before a notary, as to the elr cumstances of the disaster. er The Monroe Intelligencer of the 5th says: The riv is again falling, nwith navigation closed to Camden. the steamer Lotawanus had to throw overboard 300 of cotton in order to get her over the bar at Spoon Camp Shoals. She passed down on Monday lookingl solidlnase of cotton bales,.