The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-05-16
General Intelligence

- - ~ a. Seatnci GEAR and please. wy #
niob1LE f. VIA '-Alf; hitchcock, the ~ s
my ean ~ ,or PROBATE Judge, was ploos "a
Juage week, inc democratic nominee 10 S.N Il !
majority Oh 1nlly eleven hundred.
~ lhiLA l,.1 MAY @hd;-Ihe municpsI,
"h!eii tooA pace yesterday, was a cohfesS
W. Mugs anu democrats against the know NY
nc eeoi1 "dS DIS loiloWS: FOR the select cn 81
Americans ana democrats We're elected. sa
common Gouncll 90 democrats, : wings and 5q4t
leans. Morton the American candidate was n
treasurer. r..s-
9. HARTFORD, CoNN NJ MAY D. :,-Ihe Legislature. .
9tate mas elected " L. Minor, the Amerir,s W.
date, TO the once OF governor He has alre,L&&
IN his message and 1t Is thoroughly AmericsES@ N
tone ne &4
I'VE" ohA' MAY 2.-lh inc ConnccticntE.,
ture to-day, Minor, the know nothing caBdJs4
governor, at the State election III April was i
to that office. The whole know nothing St,,,
ct was triumphant.
The Montgomery Mail OF the Sd instant
long account of the fire at the Montgomery NM y Il
Winter iron works: 1t appears that the ALARM.
was given "pout IL y 'loeh o,i MONDAY night nj
the roof of the Montgomery Touring mills a. s&
perty OF Messrs. John 6. Winter and CHARTS r. L
was discovered to be blazing The two bricf1 S.S
lngs constituting these mills, formed a Dart os 3
extensive and valuable block OF which the N~ E
merry IRON works occupied, perhaps, two-thjrl 2 i
mills, the foundry of the Montgomery works ~
engine house We're all consumed.
"o MAZE slaves OF the late MI Bruce B. Bra,
OF Annapolis, were manumltted by him prari j
his recent death. "A few days ago, hoIeye, Y
appeared before the orphans court Of Anne l. 8
del county, Maryland, and stated that they anig@
mother, VINO had also been manumltted, desn%
serve Mrs. brewer, their late masters widow me-
she raised her youngest child, and therefore Vii Il
to be bound to her tor ten years, and it is -
they appeared grIeyed when the court informeI9s :
that they could be bound only until they anl5s
the age OF = years Ihey expressed theirjs'#
mihatlon, however, to serve their mistress fr.
years. onels twenty and the other IL years Of n
- Isaac mulatto boy belonging to MessB Fl I
1afy- " co. FOUNDERS, OF TINS place, Committed
cide IN our parish prison, on Sunday night Ian B
hanging hilnsei1 with hahdkeTchlet 10 The II I
Dafs or one OF the windows. he was c0nfDpJs
JAZZ 1oF having recently attempted to escape frfs
owners, through the advice OF some wolf in sIs--
Clothing, (abohtlonlst). who wished to decor /.
away, then sell hIIn, and pocket the proceeds. r.
ing lost the confidence OF his owners, he no Iona.
desired to 1--we, and finished his days in the mg3s
above related Thibodeaux NE@f
We learn from the Rome (Ga.) SoutherngB
there is great destltutlon among the poor Of Er
county. Many families IN the most indgemS
cumstances, are living on the genefous bufma,
charities OF nelghbors almost as needy as NJ
selves. The partial failures Of grain crops I'M
year or two, the increase of prices of provso1sgs
the stoppage OF many grlst mills, are noted ano
the causes.
A correspondent of the Dalton Times draws AL,
tressiHg picture of the starving condition ofthar~
in that region. More than one half of the n6,f
are without corn and money. The cry is corn en-
corn. do you know Of any corn for Sale?' The
swer.is, 81 have travelled twenty miles around s
cry way, and hear of not bushel to be had /.
love-, charity or money" The Door man nF,, :.
work day for peck of corn, to feed his wife s,5
children on. He is turned off with an answer "gs
own family will have to suffer if sell NV cor,
Horses and mules are turned out topers6 ~ Iiro;
the woods as best thew can: and husbandnan .
have farms and no corn, will not be abeo cntira4a
more land than they can tend with the noe, The
writer concludes bv arguing the propriety Of annas
ing to the governors Of Tennessee and Georgia fr
aid
We learn from the Jackson Mississppan. flint
several hundred feet of the tresle work Of the gy
bridge across Pearl river, fell with crashon Mo-.
lay morning week Fortunately no one sustsB5
bodily injury.
The Boston Times ridicules the authorities of3s
,ity for compelling all the barber shops to cIoseg
SUNDAYS and the editor who is a man of tad,
sdds, 'sThe forbidding of a man to kiss his wife,
Sunday is not half so ridiculous as the eDdeaymt
prevent him from being shaved, from the facttbg
he latter is, IN majority of cases, matter Of NJ
essty, while the former is an indisputable luxury
The Raleigh Register of late date says, we an
informed that upwards of two hundred persons Wps
Initiated into the American order in the town Of AsI
lille, during court week there. Fifty-seven wee
'pu through h in less than fifty steps from theeoah
house, while Clingman WIS speaking.
In the U. S. district court, Boston, on the 25thuh,
Joseph B. Spear, lately clerk in the post Office ID
hat city, was tried for opening letters and embez
ling money contained in them, and was found guilty
The vote in the Massachusetts senate on the re.
noval Of judge Lorng stood p to H. 1t is thought
hat the governor will atix his signature to the res
ution.
DR.. D. MCGOWAN, missionary at NAgpo, China,
las been authorized to purchase, and send TO the l.
'tales patent o1hce seeds, stones OF 1fulI ETC. ia
o 1rI emma.
ne know nothlngs OF Massaehusetts are aoonl9 ,
ucIlSn an explanation q tne oojee'S ana 1a' u
ilclI u Sallzation IL IS Saia 10 oe d "ocn"EAt :"
f tbo $500 " dn,,;a1t
A dilnatch from cane Nav ra,,or+s +lo+ . .c,..sr.
ont o,,a hnndroI faat l' ,.l, ~ la r D
n tho 15+b ,,lt A., avrnd;tinI ~ ,,ar, nn,sr
ra,ror of 81 onn hnI, W III f ANY,.
ire.
In the lower house of the PENNSYLVANIA leg!.a
ire resolutions to remove the seat of Governments
Philadelphia have been passed.
A Chicago paper mentions a rumor that cih2
en- Shields or Mr.. breckenridge will soon be'F
olnted governor OF Minnesota, vice UoFINaa' "
loVed.
1gage Hoar, CT tie munlclpal court IN b's'.a,@
lee@uth ult, suspended " III. n Iefrlh' I'll a; g
ey, from practising III mat couTtzlor having CaHu
juror a damned SKUNK.
~ tfaln OF lorty cars, containing i've STOCK wa
rouSht into aIoany,a snort time since, oH the tSa
al railway. The tram was nearly quarter ol i
lie IN length.
Our minister to France, Mr.: Mason, whose pro-
'ess toward complete conYalescence has NOT oee'
RAPID recently as was anticipated! le1t I"tls ~