The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-12-20

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Of M p having learned the fact started in pursuit,
orertool the carriage and brought back both the
victim and his kdnappers Il here Were two OF the
latter one of them being the sherltfof Floyd county
GEORGIA The Coosa river Argus says that Mr.. Pc
n;z had committed no crime, but was simply debt
ar to a commercial house in Charleston, and unable
to pay: and that it was at the instlgatIon Of this
house that the outrage was committed The Argus
seems to think that the abductors have got them
selbes into rather unpleasant fix. They are held
for examination.
A family BY the name Of Scott, living at Marlbo
rough Ohio, in which there are six or seven medi
ums are preparing for years famine, which
one of them predicted would occur, commencing in
1854 and continuing to grow worse till 1856 They
accordingly went to work storing provisions Six
hundred bushels Of wheat stored in one place;
twenty-five bushels of beans, raised on ground di
rected by the spirits, in another fifty bushels of
buckwheat beets, potatoes pork apple sauce, and in
short every article that well regulated house wife
could desire to make her house comfortable. Two
of the girls had stock Of millinery, which they sold
off, and expended the money in the necessaries of
life. One of them calls herself sold Joe.o Like
Joseph Of old, she has prepared for famine
The population Of Arkansas, according to the cen
sus lust laid before the legislature is 24 l12 souls.
In the North Carolina legislature the committee
on the judiciary have been instructed to report on
the proprety of aboshing jury trials in the county
courts.
MAJ Republican it appears that man named Walk
er, who had been confined in the jail at Tuskegee
regular legal process was liberated with violence
by mob of his friends, and escorted thence in tr-
umph. 1t is rumored that barbecue was given,
guns fred, and the laws set at defiance 1t can rea
div be imagined that in countries where the laws
made by despotic arisocratic power the people
might have cause to triumph and rejoice in prosra-
ting them, but what republicans in Macon could find
to rejoice at in trlumphing over themselves III the
breach of their own laws, of which they part
and which they helped to make, it is impossible to
conceive. We are mistaken, remarks the Montgom-
cry Advertiser. if the intelgeax and spirited citi
gems of Macon will long allow their laws and
thorties to be set at defiance and trampled on by
reckless We have confidence, doubt that they
will be able to restore and sustain the majesty Of
their laws at all hazards.
The citizens of Louisville appear to be in earnest
about tunneling the Ohio river. They held public
meeting on the subject lately and after speeches
from gov. Wright, of Indiana, and Mr. HOLMAN,
engineer, who estimated the cost at 81 100000 the
sum of one hundred thousand dollars was subscribed
TO the stock and agents appointed to solicit sub
scriptions of the citizens generally.
A Geographic dispatch from Washington, dated
the 5th inst that on that day resolutions
proposing reduction of the rate of duty levied
imported railroad iron, which had been introduced
into the house Of representatives We're lost.
Up to the latest accounts from the Dallas (Ala)
circuit court--now in session-there had been three
convictions involving Imprisonment in the peniten
tary one of them for life, and two for capital offences
The court still engaged on criminal cases. Fast
section of country, that!
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clerk named ScoviIl who was engaged in the Macon
(Geo) bank. A letter to the National Gazette says
that he died Of fever at Savannah, and gives this
count of the scene:
"a prisoner died at the Jail on Thursday last with
yellow Jack and when death had claimed its VICTIM
and the man became aware of the fact that he was
loosening his hold of life he inquired of the attend
ing physician how long he had to live about an
hour was the reply. Then bring me bottle of
champagne A pint bottle of the wine was brought,
and Immediately drank with apparent good relish
Now, bring me good cigar A cigar was lighted
and given him. and, after drawing four strong pufs
the poor fellow sank back and dead. He met
death as one meets that with which he is familiar
The Guardian published at Nassau states that it is
informed con authority entitled to the fullest conf
dence" that the cesson of the port of SANTANA, with
some adjacent territory to the United States, for
maly demanded by the officers of the frigate Coum-
bia, backed by smaller war steamer and corvette
On the demand being made the British and French
consuls Immediately despatched special messengers
to Port all Prince.
The Crimea contains three thousand square miles
nearly the size of Massachusetts. 1t is quadran-
gular figure utting out into the Black and connec
ted with southern Russia on the north by neck of
about five miles broad. Across this neck deep
trench dug by the Turks, during the last century
about seventy-two feet wide and twenty five deep.
The water flows through this trench, which is
crossed by draw bridges. The trench is one hun
bred and twenty miles from Sebastopol, and is forti
fed by wall of stone and batteries. We suppose
the Russians still in possession of this pass, and
it by this alone that Sebastopol be succored
from Russia, the allied fleets being possession Of
the In the progress of the this pass will be
the object of struggle. If the allies take it, after
fresh armies of Russian troops are poured into the
Crimea heIsussians must conquer or be annlhated.
There will be no escape by sea land. Hence the
Importance of Sebastopol by the czar, in addition to
the fact that if he loses it, the Black lost to him
with it.
The Crimea is inhabited by some three hundred
- I.,I, of+1 n,, ixyaIr
of Mongols and Turks called Tartars and Germans
and Greeks. 1t was the Chersonesus of the ancents
and in modern days, sometimes goes by the name OF
Grim Tartary In the time of Demosthenes it was
considered the granary of Greece. Thepennsula has
been known for than three thousand years, or
since the partly fabulous naval expedition OF the
Argonsauts 1t has been in the hands of the Scythi
ans the Greeks the Sarmatans, the Hungarians and
Cossacks In the lth century the Genoese held for
time some of its seaports, of which the Turks
dspossessed them in l475. At the peace Of IVA
the Tartars of the Crimea declared independent
and in 1888, the peninsula was united to the Russian
empire.
Considerable feeling has been excited in the city
of Baltimore recently, in regard to the escape of
novice from the catholic siserhood at Emmis-
burg by the name Of Miss Josephine Bankley, who
had not completed her probation She escaped at
three o'clock on the morning of the 10th inst She is
the daughter of Joseph BanEley, esq, of Norfolk,
protestant. Since she became novice she had been
doing duty at st. Josephs seminary, and had taught
there for the last ten months Delng most ac-
complished musician. Some months since, it is re-
ported, that she wished to dissolve her connection
with the sisterhood and expressed desire to return
home. She then wrote her father letter which was
destroyed before her eyes and she was compelled to
write another in different sran declaring the salts
faction she felt in being where she This letter
deceived her father to the true facts of the case,
and all his letters in return to his daughter were con-
Sequently handed to her unopened. Aware at length
that she was prisoner, Miss Bankley determined to
escape and finally succeeded il doing 50 by climbing
through sash over the door Of her place Of conne
nent. She then walked ten miles to Hagerstown,
where she communicated with her father, who came
to her aid These facts have been fully related by
herself, and are said to BE perfectly reliable.
We are informed by the Carrollton (Miss.) Demo
crat that a tremendous hurricane passed over the
southwestern portion Of that county carrying des
truction and devastation before it, We are not in
possession of the full particulars, and therefore can
not go into details but information is, that two
clouds-one travelling northeast and the other in
northwesterly direction-lnet Immediately over the
town of Marion Tor Sidon,l and the wind ragged with
such maddened fury to blow down the entire town.
It left but one solitary house standng Houses trees
fencesn short, everything which happened to lie in