The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-10-25
BY TELEGRAPH.
DISPATCHED TO THE SOUTH WESTERN.
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA---THREE DAYS LATER.
SebastopG Not Captured! Gotten Unchanged!


Liverpool to the 7th inst, three days later thai
the advices by the Baltic. --
The London and Paris letters by the Afric
entirely invaldate the report brought by tn
Baltic, in respect to the destruction of Sebasto
pol 1t is evident that the report was put il
circulation by the London stock jobkers for TIN
) purpose of bolstering up the money market.
TIE latest papers state that the report tina
the supposed official statement that Menschikof
had surrendered, and Sebastopol been captur
ed, dispatched by the Baltic, had been discov
cred to be untrue. In like manner we have
assurance that the reported destruction and cap
ture of fart Constantine, at the entrance of the
roadstead of Sebastopol, together with two 9th
er forts, is without foundation. We are also
assured the statement of immense losses hav-
ing been sustained by the Russians in an en-
gagement with the allied army, in The neigh
borhood Of Sebastopol, is utterly false. The
fabrication and circulation of these reports is a
disgrace to the British press
LIVERPOOL, Ocr. mo change in the cotton
market since the Baltic sailed. Sales of the
week, 10000 bales. Nothing doing in bread
stufs, except corn for which the demand is fair.
New YORK. Ocr. 2o-The hon. Abbot Law
renee is dangerously ILL., His family has been
sent for, as his recovery is considered doubtful.
The rev. John Bodhetia, II catholic priest,
having been tarred and feathered at Ellsworth,
Maine, for participating in controversy on the
school question, has died of the in uries inhic-
ted on him.
New York, Ocr. 19-The city council has
voted $500, for the purpose of procuring a suit
able testimonial for capt. Luce, for his brave
ry and devoted conduct on the occasion of the
loss of the steamship Arctic.
Letters from China announce that new rev.
olution has broken out.
The first teller of the Ocean bank, n York,
is q defaulter to the tune of 100000 and has
absconded.
BosroN, Ocr. 19-The know nothings of
Massachusetts have nominated Henry j. Gar
diner as their candidate for governor
Twenty of the sbpWrecked passengers
of the steamship City of Philadelphia, reached
here to-day.
CINCINNATI, Ger. 19-The banking house of
Outcault & Co. failed to-day, and the eventhas
produced some excitement A run has been
commenced by depositors upon the banks of
Ellis & Sturgess and Smead & Co. It is the
general impression that these establishments
will meet the run, and the excitement subside. !
LOUISVILLE, Ocr. 9l-The steamer Nominee
sunk on Wednesday, at Warren's landing, up
per Mississippi. Cargo mostly saved. The
wreck lies in 12 feet water. No insurance.
PHILADELPHIA, Der. 2o--Pennsylvania has
rejected the prohibitory liquor law by major
ity of 5000 votes
The attorney general of the United States is
to carry the Booth case lin which
the circuit court in the democratic State of Wis
consin decided against the constitutonality of
the fugitive slave law up to the supreme court
Booth is editor of the Wisconsin Democrat, the
organ of senator Dodge.
The yellow fever has ceased to be an epidemic
n New Orleans The Howard association has
;losed its infrmaries and ceased operations for
he season.
We learn from the Advocate that there is a !
rush to the land office from vari
JUS portions of Claiborne parish embraced un-
Ter the provisions of the late graduation bill.
large quantities of valuable lands situated in
he parish are now procurable at from twenty
i've cents to one dollar per acre, according to
he different classifcations of the BILL
LOOK Our.-Twentyfv thousand dollars ;
f the ten dollar (s1o) bills of the Mechanics {
ank, Memphis, Tenn, were stolen from the +
residents office, on the 18th ut They are ;
numbered from to 1850 inclusive and dated !;
uly 4, 1854, with large blue X engraved on r
he lower side of the bill, between the vienettes.
he president gives notice that none the bills
f the above date, mark and denomination have q
cen put in circulation by the bank, and there !
,re will neither be recognised nor paid
lerchants and travellers should be on their
uard against these bills. 1t would be well to t
efuse all $40 bills on the Mechanics bank, of {
[emphis, Tennessee. Q
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We are requested to state, says the National ,
that gentleman of the State of 1
delaware, who was at Mr.. Clayton's residence
n Monday last, authorizes, of his own knowl- q
Ice, acontradiction of statement in certain "
ewspapers that Mr.. c. had joined the know u u
othings. He says Mr.. Clayton entertains the l
me opinions expressed by him last session in y
re senate on the unconsttutionality of all laws "
lowing aliens to vote without naturalization in !.
e territories and that these are the same opin-
MS expressed by him, as we'll as by Mr.. CAL ''
oun, Mr.. Clay, Mr.: Southland, and all the II Il
higs in the senate of the United States, dur =
G 1855; but that Mr.. Clayton belongs to no L
cret order or society whatever.
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