The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-02-28

3s&8 IL one time there were seventeen boats laying
1f Cairo and the noise and confusion attehdlng Up
Tv boats being in port at one time, was more lhan
itor of the Cairo Times could We'll keep t3
# iEfa6self: his little paper morning after morning,
rsS3sg with glowing accounts of the immense ship
and receiving business zone AZ Iaao me nay
3Se Of people arriving at the Cairo hotel, and the
Sfeat improvements going on IN that place; thai 81
His was done for, business having forsaken st.
5SHsis and commenced at Cairo in earnest and
sVHof Of which, he referred to the numerous boats
fer In port all advertised in the Cairo Times, to
5ss|ye for their various destinations Ofcourse the
man thought that Cairo was to be the great
af5ssnping point between New Orleans and New I ork
Sffhe Mississippi valley, and urged capitalists tb
S. Fsssoye Immediately to Cairo. Well, Judge Of thh
srprise of the good people Of Cairo, on the morning
offhe 18th instant, on awakening, and finding thu
stre fleet of boats out and gone no one knew where
lila Cairo looking duh as it possibly could; but
xre secret soon out the gorge between St Louis
ad Cairo had broken loose and the river being free
fce the entire fleet of boats had cast loose from
sfIfe village of Cairo, and Were their way to 81
ISuis! Since that day the Times has not had worl
say about the large number of boats at Cairo, it
IHmense business, DC. It is mum ,SI
REAL DIsrREss-A Philadelphia correspondent
4vrites: "A police officer on Saturday morning OBJ
& selyed decent looking man take small piece cf
beef off butchers stall in the market, and conceal
q ft under his cloak which he wore. The official no
fed the butcher of the fact, but the latter said that
no decent man must have been driven by want tb
the commission of the act. The officer determined
10 watch the needy man, and following him for d
.seonsiderable distance, observed him going into a
house in the upper part of the city. The policeman
Knocked at the door, which las opened by the man
Swho, upon seeing the badge, begged the former for
Il Gods sake not to arrest him. The officer went into
The house, where he found Of restitution, in
the midst of which We're four shivering children,
Eagerly devourng the raw meat The dark picture
s somewhat relieved by the fact. that the Officer re-
burned to the butcher, and told him of the sight he
had witnessed, when the kind hearted fellow gather
led up among his friends fifteen dollars in money
and large basket of provisions. and sent them to
sSthe famished family.
&F The progress Of the age is nowhere visible
Ethan in the settlement of American territory. On
this subject the Newburyport Herald remarks
%fS w here yesterday Indian hunting ground, to-
DAY, is territory with its governor and all the fix
81 lures of government and tomorrow is sovereign
SState,wth its towns and cities. Kansas in one year
from its organization, will be far advanced as
Some of the old States were in century, and within
five years may have cities large as those of Mas
sachusetts, $50 years old When Ohio was settled
10 took thirty forty days to reach there from New
4 England; and it was uncommon thing to have
persons die or born their long Journey while it,
was not expected they would ever return. Now the
4 tourney to Kansas, twice as far, is made in week
and all the conveniences and luxuries of civil
lzation 90 too. If of the early American set
Tiers could wake up they would find things new UNI
der the that never dreamed Of in their DAYS
A story is told by a London correspondent Of The
Boston Times, which as new dodge, is deserving
Of notice A subscription was raised to present an
eminent mercantile man with service Of plate of
the value of two thousand pounds OF this amount
thousand five hundred was speedily subscribed.
The eminent man said to the treasurer 20, never
mind the rest, hand me oyer,the money, and will
ada the five hundred myself, and hand the order to
the silversmth." The matter arranged accord
ngly and the plate finished and home, for which
the recipient gave his bill at few months Before
II became due he stopped payment, and the silver
smith figures among his creditors; and worse than
f,n at.a hnah dofa
among the rest Of his surrendered property.
a few weeks ago one Of the wealthiest capitalist
in Amsterdam made his will, not permitting even
his professional adviser to know its contents, and
placing the document in a sealed envelope, trans
errcd it to the archives of his notary On his death
bed he communicated to certain Of his friends the
fact that Of the items in his will was $50 forms
legacy for every Roman catholic priest residing
in Amsterdam. On opening the will it ascer
tanned that the word priest had been omitted SO
that the bequest thus: I give and bequeath to
every Roman catholic PRIESTS Of course included)
residing in Amsterdam at the time Ofmy decease the
of $50 florins.' Several claims have been all
ready made, and 1t will require about twelve milli-
ons Of forms to carry out this provision. There
will still remain, however, forty OF fifty millions Of
forms for the family @#@
The Paris correspondent Of the New York Com
mercial, writes: tOn Saturday, at one o'clock, all
the Americans who have solicited the presentation
ofthe emperor will be received ia special audience at
the Tuileries. The occasion Of this and IN
informed that they may appear either il court dress
or zen habit habille;, more curious still. Amer
cans are not in particular favor at this moment ut
Paris, and it may be that they are not deemed wor
thy of presentation state occasion, when other
nations are presented The first ball at the hotel de
vile takes place next Monday. The American lega-
ton sent ia one hundred and fifty names to receive
invitations, and only allowed thirty This, too,
is unusual proceeding since at both the balls at
the hotel de vile last year the American legation
was allowed, if I recollect Alright, eighty invita-
tions. The legation has very justly chosen the thir
ty from among the persons temporarily in Paris"
We yesterday visited the Office Of Mr. Pat. Short,
agent Of the emigration commissioners for this city,
and were personally witnesses to the important fact
that large numbers Of able bodied men, competent
and every way desirable laborers, do refuse eligible
and abundant opportunities for employment because
they find it easy to procure aid from public sources
While we stood in Mr.. Shorts office saw several
Germans present themselves applicants for tenn
porary relief some asking money, some wood, some
provisions. The agent offering them work, showed
them where they could obtain permanent situations
at six shllings day, and yetthe unprincipled
lures absolutely refused to embrace the opportunity
and with bold impudence demanded fuel and food
One of these men had family Of six children regis
tered upon the books respectively of the ages Of n
~ II, is, Is, and u; all Of them hearty and able
to work. The father refused employment on the
canal because the weather is cold, and he did not
care to do any thing until spring, when ne could
seek work for himself. Another asked Tor money to
tractor who required his services, declined to pay
his board in advance Others, to the number of
dozen or more, who happened to be present when we
visited the office, made for declining work,
and all clanorous for assistance; demanding it
as a right on the ground that they had paid their
communication of 81 so at New York, on landing, and
that the public were bound to feed them. Mr.. Short
informs us that similar cases in great numbers are
daily occurring buffalo Democrat.
To give some idea of the diversity of idioms pre-
vailing among the people which form the Russian
empire, it may suffice to state that the bible society
has had to furnish them with bibles in the following
languages: Slavic, Russian, Hebrew, ancient Greek,
modern Greek, German, French, Polish, Finnish,
variety of the dialect of Dopat variety of the dia
lect of Reyel Lithuanon, Georgian, Armenian, Sa-
moyede, Carelian, Ichermessian, Mordovian, Osset-
mian, Moldavian, Bulgarian, Jeremiah, Persian Cal
niue, Bonziat- Mongo, Turco- Tartar, Tartar of the
dialect of Orenbourg and Tartar Hebrew. At pre-,
sent transatons of the gospel into the languages of
the yotiaks, yagoulitches, and of the Kirgnians
According to Russian work, there are 937 Asiatic
languages and dialects
The Dayton {ohio) Empire gives the particulars
of several bodies having been found in state OF
petrefaction in an old graveyard, once the farm of
George P. 10y, three miles from Germantown