The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-12-13
General Intelligence.

dressed the spanish minister on the subiee, s ID :
late seizure of two American schooners a. tie By
in Cuba and has also written to the I-n;to11 aac
consul in Cuba for information ON the sub;aa. aas
The report that Spain will not recoypizsT
as United States minister on his return ~ vi. SNs
has been denied on the best authority s'adsd
New YORK, DEC, Ave have received !,
nouncement of the loss Of the steamer G,.'lheaa
the lakes. AS yet no particulars have aoeh.aafoa
Corn is declining in oar market Tho @
been $4,000 bags of mixed sold 1T Sc Der b,s, ha
In our Geographic accounts of the news 4lslel
Atlantic, We had q statement that an Aner;o.! lie
sci had been seized at Sydney, New South Wa Veg
suspicion of being Russian privateer T. aSfNa
to have been founded on the following rappe;fs
which we find in the news by the Atlantic o'aA
It's stated from private source, without data,
the authorities at Sidney have seized an an'aa.
ship in the harbor there On board her wer ,fssaa
eight brass guns also Russian coors, from wbSA
was surmsed she was going priyateerine 4cA It
The feud between the old and Young Fol-.
goes Rev. Mr. Hesingafor, father KeIIv saa
assistant pronounced philippe IN q Sei
ter's (Romar catholic) church, jersey CITY a".
Meagher, Mitchell and young Ireanders oens saa
He called them band of braggarts, fn]l ~ ~!
t1ated nonsense, "toollshncss etc. II is NOM NJ
BALTIMORE, Nov 30-David Stewart l. Sons i,
pers and wholesale grocers of this CITY, are rs
tohave failed. Their liabilities are said to ap"1
to Sl50000. z-.fm - -r- '0a.
Mr. Andrew Pardon Rockway died in Nan,u.
port few days ago, at the advanced age of MI;
five years. The Newburyport Herald saws: He W..
born in Westbrook Connecticut in Februarv 1~ vas
In his minority he served short period as sold;o
| In the revolution. Among the incidents of that s
vice was that Of being duty and witnessing VIZ,
his brethren in arms, the execution of major Sna
in October, 1880. ae'
DR.. Suddock, in letter to the London Lama.
claims to have made the discovery that campboris,
an antldote for that terrible poison strychine
man who had been thrown into commissions by tr
doses OF the poison-one sixth of a grain each Al
| ministered for the "Reminiscences relieved BY g0
grains OF camphor taken in six grains of almond
mixture.
The snow WIS several inches deep on the Worcos,
ter and New Haven railroad on the 18th ult and Tho
night train between New Y ork and Boston was IA.
tanned several hours over it's time.
At Quebec there has been good sleighing eys,
since the lst ovember
He DOUBTs.-Ihe governor of Virginia, havDe
doubts of his authority in matters of religion, ab
stains this year from appointing day for religious
thanksgiving.
The Farmers Joint Stock bank of Buffalo Ia,
suspended. l ....-..-..
Gov Reid and Asa Briggs, both democrats. AZ.
elected to the United States senate by the legisls
ture of North Carolina.
The Mobile Advertiser learns that passengers
from Tuscaloosa via Montgomery, report rise Of
three four feet in the Warrior river at The
first named city.
Thomas West, mail carrier, was tried in the I,
S. circuit court at Frankfort, Ky, short time since
and convicted of stealing money from the mail.
married lady residing in Butler county Ala
presented her husband with three boys at one birth
short time since, and named them washington
Nebraska, and Kansas.
Letters from Rochelle and Cognac, dated Octobe,
18th, says that the vintage will scarcely be suf
cent for home consumption, there will be no brandy
made this wear for EXPORT '| .-.#
The st. Louis Republican says that the delegation
Just elected to congress from Illinois will consist Of
five wings and four democrats, six of the members,
however, being opposed to the Kansas Nebraska BILL
The last delegation from that State consSedofto four
wings and five democrats.
There is in the New York customhouse patriarch
who was born in lit. He is of Jewish parentage
and enjoying remarkable health. He has kepta
journal, from which we extract the following:
"On the 30th of April, 1889, stood in front of the
old federal hall in Wall, at the head of Broad street.
and general George Washington, and heard him
proclaimed president Of the United States of Amer
lea; and through the blessing of God now on the
same spot, after period of Sc years, record the
event, April, lS45. S. Nj. Isaacs, custom-house ma.
val officer. $3.50 49,
Two hundred and four of the late garrison Of
Aland are confined at Loves, England The men
are Findanders, but the officers although Russian
born, are descendants of French and German fami-
lies. The officers are permitted out parole. A
large shed has been fitted up for the men 10 make
up toys in for sale to the public and here it is said
may be seen considerable number of them seated
on the ground cutting out single piece of wood
with knife, chains, representations of crowns Of
thrones and puzzles. Most all the men speak three
languages, Turkish, Swedish and Russian The
London Times says:
"If comparison We're made between the prison
ers now in this jail and one of our regiments, We
almost fear that the northern barbarans would car
ry OFT the palm. The majority of them are not only
able to read, but can write tolerably we'll particu.
larry the sergeants and other subordinate officers
We find the following of the representatives elect
to the Massachusetts, legislature from Boston Doc
tors, 5; printers, 4; tailors s. masons S; carpen-
ters, 3; clerks, ); marketmen 3 -four and grain deal
ers, Z; payer, l. sea captain, /; born merchant /;
old dealer, |; ship chandler, /; melodeon nanufac
turer, l; silver smith, l.; methodist minister / fish
dealer l. pile driver, sausage dealer, attorney
|; well digger, |; glider, l; coffin maker |;
AN EDITOR IN TRoUBLE.--The Green Bay wis
Advocate, democratic paper, is edited by gentle
man whose wife happens to be something of a poll
tlclan, but is staunch, unfinching whig The ed
ltor lett home for a few days during the election
leaving the management of the office to
his 'better half During his absence the editor
happened to see copy Of his Journal and his sur
prise may be imagined at the discovery that bis
sub was zealously laboring to impress upon the
public mind the soundness of wing and the rotten
ness OF democratic doctrine. The editor hurried
home, arriving just in to prevent the hauling
down of the name of his favorite candidate from the
head of the columns.
The Washington Star says that the war depart
ment very recently received dispatches from lieut.
colonel Steptoe, 2nd artillery who commands at fort
Laramie, wherein all the facts of the massacre are
set FORTH which entirely exonerates the memory Of
lieut.: Grattan from the imputation of rashness,
which has very generally been charged on him in
the absence of satisfactory information concerning
the affair.
A gentleman recently returned from the far west,
informs US that there is already much suffering
among the Nebraska emigrants for the necessares
llte and that the coming winter threatens to prove
fatal to Large portion Of the settlers. Without
houses to live in-wthout markets (if they had my
money! to supply them food, and with no fish and
very little game, the poor emigrants who have gone
out there under the lead of anti-slaverv fanatics
must hurry home or die for want OF food In most
cases these poor squatters have not money enougho
pay their way back to their comfortable homes which
they have abandoned.
The Boston papers of recent date have accounts
OF the collision in the harbor between the British
steamship Canada and the steamboat Ocean and the
destruction Of the latter by fire
The celebrated German traveller, J. G. Kohl, has
been for several weeks in this country and proposes
to make thorough examination of all sections Of The
unlon OF course with the design Of writing a book
The Savannah News contains a coIaplete list of
the names of the dead during the late epidemic In
that city, compiled from the reports of the board Of