Shreveport Weekly News

FROM TUESDAY'S PAPER

In reply to the many inquiries we are constantly receiving, we announce that we have no paper or ink to loan or sell, even to our best friends. Let this notice suffice for all who may contemplate asking. We wish to purchase all we can get.

We want to purchase all we can get. Don't send our mutual friends, send us some of the bundle if you have any. We see they are straitened, and may be in need of cash, for which we will pay the market price. It seems to be a matter of impossibility for us to get any more, the government seizes all the paper and sends it to this place. If you cannot bring the whole bundle, one or two will answer our immediate wants. Don't bring too much, for we might get swamped.

Write us an order and we will pay as high as the mint, i.e. more than we can pay, for the problem can be solved only by the action of the supply. I will entirely aid and endeavor to check the scarcity, they will most generally pay us in kind, and as one all prove to many who may be fool-hardy enough to suppose that we are not trying, they can patiently await their approach, and by extending the hand at welcome, their escape will be saved. If the enemy does not contemplate coming here, why does his gunboat come thus close to Alexandria. The administration at our people will direct the gun now.