The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-08-01
General Intelligenoo

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ne Je,, canada reports the Liferpoo, :.
Is, 900 bales gu GALES Of i 'atsA
ket is also dull "e AaHches
The political news, though iutor,... 1s
nothing new of Importance. M ting b.
taken place ''heF 5.Is.5 II
OF Importance in the Crimca, 3<e laog7,.
BALr'MoRE, July I7th.-Thc sn1/ j..
Jo 9, Stephens, was burnt on tx I paI seaa
y. " hltehail, to-day Three of thIcrew' Z.
'hs W 1esa"49n; but all others on board wer sst
appointed to special mission 10 C redaaet has.
The Kinney expedition was wraci'as
tune, and taken into Turks island :" On tGeg Y
A Washington dispatch saws that :.
Lee; OF the Sandwich islands, now H. :. Sa'et s
clothed with power to negotiate co -, ma Ct
with this government. felai h.
lie Washington Union has intar;.. 81
death OF Mr.. Samuel P. Ceilings, g. SSS'ss d 81
According to the census marshal -. s#
of Syracuse, n York, is about 81 da NE poEp,
crease of 900 year; the census u Se.s NJ
that city aNpopulation Of about % 900 '''j slta
In the British house of commons al =
educational measures have been yirtua1f lug Flas4
until the next session 1t Psttt5
a bill has been introduced in the Bri.;.r,
commons comforting the elective franSb ,:s4 4ost3
cry man not an alien who is assessed f., : aP@e
tax and not previously registered az an .ne hg
The contractors and superintendent On I na4
OF the ONO and Mississippi railroad, Va S WI
ted, are pushing forward the wSrk Of i. " ses
with almost unparalleled energv-r!a.i.88 asH2
nights and Sundays, by means Of alterUs4tt ta
men. The special superintendent receiros 5'R5a
| of 81 900 a month YES sa.r
The u. 5. marshal arrested, at Cs,c;,a...
ioth ut, Charles Bowecroft, British con- g d
sarian, and an Irish captain, paymasfas u saA
and fourteen recruits for the Crimea m af4bel
violating the neutrality laws. sla'geR
Part OF the Louisville city council wqra !.
the 10Th ult., for contempt Of court IN ~ ~ JAIL o
grant licenses to the Louisville hotel and Fa =,
sell liquor. aug others,
The Irish claim general Pelissier as t1o.
countryman of theirs. It is said that bis az, soa
Limerick gentleman, Mr. Pelissier, wbo ,essiFR
PEELED to fly from Ireland during the trolhIss 90
country in 1888 ''les mig
At Lyons, France, a very important d;so,.
been recently made, BY NJ Petot, of mean I.
ORIGINATING silk by a chemical process VIII II.
SILVER, brass, or iron, that it can be worsa E3
perfect feXl5ility, and thus form. as il wor4
NOSE metals: Permission has been gyentoBs..
a petition for relief has been forwarded -.
dent Pierce by a party of Germans now inv. KY
at Melville island, Nova Scotia. They sistsi
they were hired in New York to 90 to tbat s rjs
work, but on arrival, they were offered Is5a t-@
tive OF enllstins for the Crimea or a.%fa%
They chose the latter. ''s'Da4ai
he countess de Layalette, daughter of tIo.,
gus de Beauharnais, and cousin german If ,n ,'
Hortense, died in Paris on the 18th june. ~ rs
sile we 81 count de LaEaette postmaster gepr,
utter me nrst empire, whom She saved fam a.
seafold, IN ol5, by her energy and '4 "
The secretary of the navy has roncn5 ds y y t
continue after the LIST of August. instant tEa"
intendeney OF the timber agencies under tbsf
feau OF yards and docks, he hayino datarmings
make change III the entire system T9e local ass
cIes IN the State Of Alabama have horatnf~a f
discontinued ''+ ''''o4E tta
The Earns correspondent of the National TntoE
seneef, IN his letter of June 2lst, speaking Of n
broken Meath OF MI. Mason says: 80 far as bar
seen ana heafd It's the concurrent testimony of al
who are admitted to intercourse with him fiat sin@
the attack of paralysis with which hewas sniff
last year, his body and mind are but the wreck il
what they were
The Georgia state Temperance convention met
on the Ith ult., and re-afirmed the 6on
nation OF Mr.. OVERLY for governor. The convention
endorsed "the Georgia platform of 1850 on the sla
very question, as the settled policy of the Stats"
Dir. Thomas Palmer. editor and proprietor of tbs
Jackson (Miss.) Flag Of the Union has closed h
with that paper, having sold his intess;
the establishment to col. ". A. Purd0n. d eeptl4
nan who has had much experience as an editor
[ he Flag, under the new management, adyocatestba
of the American party.
The census-taker found a woman in Macedm Y
- years old, mother of four children the oldest
# whom is II years, next s, third B. IastI The
ldest was of course born when the mother was only
EelFe years old.
Some of the papers in Maryland are talking ve4y
tfong IN favor OF union of the wings and demo
rats for the purpose of defeating the know nthBgs
The statute of Massachusetts, by which imprisSa
lent for debt was entirely abolished excepti1 &C.
aai cases of fraud, went into operation on them0n
ag of the 18th of July. There were nine poor debt.
RS IN Boston set free by the new law to enjoy their
'eedom and celebrate the anniversary of their con
US independence.
Brigham Young, in one of his late politico-reHg.
Us harrangues, IN which fanaticism and good sense
re mixed up in about equal proportions, tells his
lbIects to raise wheat-that wheat can overcome
he Gent1les when nothing else can The cunning
The Wilmington, N. c. Gazette says, that ahigh
usslan official has been lately enlstng recruits at
near that place for service il the Crmea and calls
e attention OF the authorities to this open ntfat-
on of the neutrality laws
tx president Van Buren, and family arrived at
ork IN the steamship Pacific.
An enormous crab is noticed by the New York
IN, having been taken in Gowanus bav It mea3
red three feet in length from tip to tip Of its claws
d weighed when taken eight and half pounds
James Wilson, now residing in ST. Johnsbury, n.
ork, at the advanced age of ninety-two, is saidtO
We been the maker of the first pair of CELESTIAL
obes in America. The first edition of his globes
As published in 1884, they were of rude appear.
&c, but Were well received and being encouraged
continue in the business, he established large
IL Albany, where the manufacture has
er since been carried on.
The countess Of Monteio, who's the mother OF the
press of the French intending shortly to goto
rs to see her daughter, sent all her jewels in the
bassador's dispatch bag, directed to the empress
pposlng that TO be the safest way By some means
other, a chief of the Carlsts got information Of
} fact, posted some Of his men on the road, sez
the booty and escaped without discovery. The
S to the countess is estimated atmore thanG590OV
Ring.
Andrew Havmakel, of Charleston, who has been
nd in one eye for 81 years, in consequence of 3
n growing over it, was Standing on the steps Of
} court house in that village, While a number OF
n aud boys We're playing ball. The ball project
with great force struck him in the blind eye,
npletely removing the film, and restoring sight
nslderable inflammation followed, but it subsidized
the sight is good. Certainly doct. Ball Is
nderful oculist
The British house of commons has appoineda
eet committee with the view of devising some
enc for rewarding the services of captain Mcclure
9 discovered, III his search for the unfortunate
John franklin and his brave companions, wha'
batfied all previous navigators-the north-Tes%;
sage. By the way, captain Mcclure is tgA
sin of J X. Elgee, the recently defeated candI
e for chief justice in this State.
he office of high sheriffin New Hampshire exists
FIVE years from the time Of appointment; few
these offices We're to die by Limitation this year.
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