The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-09-06
have not as Vet received the full returns Of thu
vote far associate Justice of the supreme court bu
will continue 10 pubIist them as they reach us:


The New York Commercial has been favored with
the following extract from letter dated Washington
territory June 22d, addressed to gentleman in that
city:
Il have further information respecting the Hud
sons bay company. The report mentioned to YOU
in of my former letters, that they nstiga]
ting the Indians to murder the settlers from the
States, offering to furnish them with arms and ann
munition for this purpose, is generally circulated
here and is believed. | will not assume to vouch
for its truthfulness hope it is not so, but fear it
is; the Indians themselves affirm that it is.
at is expected that our government will purchas
the property and improvements OF this company very
soon, and relieve the people from approximations and
fears which they may entertain on account of them
Srop HIM!-George Kicks, a resident of the Atch}
afaIaya, who had been accused of perjury and lodg
ed in jail few days ago, appeared on Thursday las
before his honor judge Dupre upon writ of habeal
corpus, and upon minute examination of his caset
was admitted to bail in bond of $1,000 TO appeal!
before the next district court, and delivered into thu
hands of the deputy sheriff.
Not being able to find at once the proper securityl
Kicks begged Of the deputy the privilege of arrang
ing his affairs before being remanded to JAIL and for
that purpose he entered the office of E. N Cullum
esq, and asked that gentleman to write some letters
for him. He had got through the eighth letter wbeA
Kicks asked the deputy in attendance step out Of
doors, and it being then very dark, he gave him the
slip and disappeared in the minute, as one of our
friends says, and he has not been heard of at the
time OF going to press. Opelousas Courier.
Kentucky, has found true bill for perjury against
four Of the Ward jurymen, and they are held to BAH
IN $1,000 each to appear at the next circuit court to
beheld at that place
A dispatch from Cincinnati, dated the 18th ult!
says, the powder magazine at Maysville Kentucky,
was fired yesterday morning, when eight hundred
kegs of powder exploded, and burned about thirteen
houses. The explosion took place at two o'clock on
Sunday morning. carrying destruction in every d.
rection. The light produced was most brilliant and
TO of ifp Lost md bu+fo,r
sons injured. The citizens were much alarmed
that minutes elapsed before any one would 90
into the streets. The general impression was that
the day of Judgment had come When the citize1k
sailed out, they found the sidewalks covered with
fragments of demolished houses. The property
damaged is estimated at fifty to one hundred THOUSAND
dollars. Only two persons were seriously injured
One lady died from the effects of fright The may
offered thousand dollars for information tl;
would lead TO the conviction of the rascal that SGT
fire to the magazine.
Il A. gentleman writing to the editor of the Austin
Gazette, from Cass county says that sufficient means
have been secured by the planters to clear out SUI
phnr fork, and make navi cation high the lake
d at all times practicable when Shreveport and Red
River can be reached by steamers. 1t is suggested
that for all practical purposes the terminus of the
railroad at Caddo lake snpercedes any necessity of
connexion with Marshall and Shreveport The roal
would thus be entirely within the limits of Texas
A rumor was circulated in Philadelphia on THE
10TH that the relatives of an accomplished young
lady were daily practising upon her the most harsh
and cruel treatment deprving her of the society Of
6 her friends, incarcerating her in close apartment
without nourlShment, and otherwise maltreatng her,
IN order to force her to take oath that she would
not marry the young man to whom she has already
plghted her faith. The young is said to be Of
excellent character. The affair was to be udicaly
investigated.
. FRosT.-The Boston Traveller contains a letter. d.
ted Dartmouth, n H., August 18th, which says THAI,
much of the corn is entire destroyed and without
rroJp r11t 1 l,,f+ II,
too, will be total loss. To complete the adverse,
series, the morning ofthe 9th we were visited with
Il FROST which killed off much of the buckwheaj
crops, and touched corn in places. On bridge
over neighborng brook the frost picked up III
hands full, like snow. So early frostis thing al
most unheard of up here. The last frost previous
i was on the lst June. Rather cooler climate thar
I we have around Shreveport. u
We learn, says the Minerva of the 10Th ult., that
all work has ceased on the line of the New Orleans
OpclousaS, and Great Western railroad, except OH
that portion lying between Lafourche and Agers,
which is to be completed in the shortest possible de-
lay-in time for the transportation of the present
sugar crop to market Nj. G. W. R. Baly, the pre-
sent superintendent OF the work, is using every
sonabe means in his power for the early completion
OF the work, which will be about the first OF
the ensuing month.
In the new army bill passed by congress, there ia
section which increases the pay of soldiers
ployed Notifications, in surveys, cutting roads
and other constant labor, of not less than ten days
totwenty-tive cents per day for men employed as Ia
borers and Transfers and forty cents per day when
employed rs mechanics, at all stations east of the
Rocky mountains, and to thrtyfve and fifty cents.
per day, respectively, when the employed at
3 stations west of those mountains.
The Washington National Sentinel saws that not
an American workman mechanic is employed up
on the Washington monument. The only American
engaged at work on the ediice discharged a few
days since to make room for Irish stone mason
1t Is disgrace to the country and an insutto Wash
ingon. Conduct like this on the part of the
gers is the true why the people do not afford
more aid to the enterprise.
f Mr. Gregg stopped, few days since, while !
fraVelng on the road from Pickensyllle to Columbus,
Miss, by two men, of whom seized the bride of
Ahis horse, while the other drawing pistol demand
ed his money which Gregg delivered up. His mon
Fey was the proceeds of sale of land &c, in Mem
phs, where he had been living, and amounted cup
wards of 81, 900. The Williams were probably ac !!
qualnted with Mr.. G.'s transactions.
@ n p Willis is lying at his residence, on the Hud I:
son river, extremely i'll. His disease is paralysis of
Sfhe BRAIN and he is not expected torecover.
#N ADMINISTRATION VIcToRIEs.-The loss of several !
fhousand votes in North Carolina, in spite Of Bun
combe and Cngman, dead loss In Iowa, the cleo /
lon OF whig in Benon's district, and the general
@defeat of the democrats in Missouri The victory of
@Greytown opened the campaign. More yet to come I
New York Herald.
s. LOUISVILLE, AUGUST 15.-The citizens of this city
voted yesterday the proposition to appropriate the
sum of 100000 to complete the school system which
was carried in the affirmative by majority of 800, /
III CINCINNATI, AUG, 26The Ohio is falling slowly. /
Flour active and advancing-sa at S. 200S Is
Il Provsions firm. Whiskey advanced cts with sales
sSat 30 cents i9 gallon.
III An i'll hammered, low bred scamp threw hard
4 boiled egg at president Pierce he stepping
from The capitol to his carriage which hit his hat
The fellow arrested, but the president requested
sthe police officer to let him go.
From Washington, we learn that secretary Marcy
was still i'll on the 18th ult Secretary Gushing and
the presidents private secretary, Sidney Webster,
had gone to recruit at Berkeley springs. The presi
dent about to go to Old Point Comfort. I
The Indiana Ashbury university has dubbed Neal
Dow, the Maine liquor law man, L. L. D. J.
The editor Of the Portsmouth Globe, who has late
#ly been through large portion Of North Carolina,
says the crop in that State this season. will be
better average one than there has been for the last
twenty years, the rains having fallen most oppor-
tunely.
WE'LL DoNE-The Hon. w. W. Pepper, of
the circuit judges of Tennessee, presented to gov
crnor johnson in January last iron fre-shovel
with his own hands he beinp black