The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-11-14

3 .. All persons engaged In such undertaken
e to raise troops in the United States for the mil
d tary service Of Great Britain, whether citizen
o foreigners. individuals or officers, except the
be protected by diplomatic privilege, are indie
table as malefactors by statute.
it 7. Foreign consus are not exempted, eithe
= by treaty or the law of nations, from the pena
If effect of the statute.
s g. In case of Indictment of any such consul
# Or other official person, his conviction Of tn
: mlsdemeanor, or his escape by reason of ar
ranged instructions or contrivances to evade til,
D operation of the statute, is primarily matter
e domestic arbitration, altogether subordinate te
the consideration of the national insult or iniur,
7 to this government, involved in the fact of :
, foreign government instructng its officers te
abuse, for unlawful purposes, the privilege
which they happen to enjoy in the United
States.
5 The American Railroad Journal publishes a
communication from A. P. Robinson, a railroad
engineer, to hon. ]. NJ. Wood, member of con-
gress from Maine, proposing an entirely orgi-
nal plan for the construction of the great At
Ilantic and Pacific railway. BY this plan he
hopes to accomplish the following results, viz:
"The easy attainment of speed of one hum
dred miles per hour, increased safety, even al
most to the extent of absolute immunity from
accidents arising from unseen imperfections in
the track or the breaking of axles, and increased
accommodations and conyeniences, even to the
extent of sleeping, eating. and sitting rooms,
with all the comforts had upon our steamers"
The plan is briefly this He proposes to lay
four parallel rails of the ordinary pattern and
weight, forming two distinct tracks, each Of a
guage of p to feet, and having an interme-
date space of five to six feet He would Law
these tracks upon distinct and separate seepers
having ditch or trench between them, but SO
connected as topreserve uniform guage. The
car body would rest upon four tracks, and be
sustained BY single bearing at the centre of
each. With this arrangement the cars would
be constructed of width of twenty feet, and
carry at least double load, which would be d. /
vlded between the four rails. The locomotives |
would be constructed double, with two distinct
sets of driving wheels and two cylinders on
each side, leaving room for boiler five feet in
diameter The axes of the driving wheels not
extending across the space occupied by the boil
er, it matters not how large the drivers are.
These are the prominent features Of the plan,
models OF which are now on exhibition in New I,
DIRK 1t will be seen any failure of single
rail or an axle could not prevent the running
of the train or throw it off the track, as it would
run on three tracks. The plan is a novel one, /,
and worthy of consideration. II
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AMERICAN SURGEONS IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY. {
BY letter from DIR. J. B. Stoddard, jr, of Bal
:more, says the Clipper, we learn that there I
are eight American surgeons attached to the i
russian army in the Crmea-drs. Eldridee. 6
Jones, johnson, and himself, from Maryland a
irs Reid and Denninger, of Pennsylvania, dr..
Holt, OF South Carolina, and dr. Smith, from t,
He states that they are treated with c.
,reat consideration by the officers of the Rus a
ian army. He states further, that he witnessed D
ne assault on Sebastopo, which resulted in a
he taking OF the southern portion and the re- :,
reat OF two hundred thousand Russians across ~
he bridge to the northern side, which, from h,
THAT he states, attended as it was by the con- "
agration of Sebastopol, the explosion of mines "a
urryng thousands into eternity, and the sink NJ NJ
lg OF navy, was a scene too fearfully tragic is
, be depicted in language. ev
The ship Carolus Magnus, at New York, co
ON Liverpool, brought 465 storage passen- :,
ers, part OF whom are of the following occu- tn
atoms: 80 laborers, 46 servants, weavers, til
clerks, coppersmiths, 1 wire drawer, i an
acher, ! book-keeper, "a farmers, shop 1 Fz
seper, tallors, cabinet makers, millers, 1 :
room, cork cutters, 4 gentlemen, barber, de
moulders, brewers, 6 shoemakers paper DE-
akers, pipemaker, dyer, stationer, cook,
diapers, clothier, l publican, dressmaker, Yc
backsmiths, bakers, coormaker, 7 car CO.
enters, miners, grocer, g spinsters, las
1tcher painters, musician, basket maker Int
engraver, merchant, builders, white cas- cas-
NTH. 1% the
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Eighteen months ago. an officer of a vessel for
'und from Greenock, for Melbourne, got cat nm
om family residing in Greenock, and took it to
sea with him. The vessel was wrecked on Z
coast OF ireland, but the crew and passen- ult
rs were all saved, and managed to get their 20 90,
ggggage ashore The officer landed his cat in ma
tety, leaving it at farm house near the place pin
lere the vessel was wrecked. The astonish- pat
ent OF the family to whom the cat belonged, Co
ay be imagined when, many months after the tra
'pwreck, it walked into their residence in ed
eenock. How it managed to find its way fort
Their from the Emerald Isle is mystery. % sea
Al. Montigny, French consul in China, saws -. ,be
1t the Chinese mix arsenic freely with the 1
'acco which they smoke, and those who do ca
described as 'sstout fellows, with lungs like lmI
'lacksmith's bellows and rosy as cherubs. n;e.
rs statement has called out letter from Dir. gree
nda, who announces that some years ago, n ne
the course of a discussion at the academy u IL
medicine, on the agents to be employed to end
e tubercular consumption, he told the assem- A
d doctors that he had found but one means just
combating this dreadful disease, viz: the to-, ton
okng Of arsenic, and the doctors reafirms 1a,s
Communications of that remedy. j,
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writer in the Scientific American, after law
mining all the various theories cnncarn;n,. opel
structure of the EARTH endorses the conclu Setd
4 that the world is one mass or globe of a enu
ied metals, of which the mere crust has be- orde
ne rusted OF Of earthly form, the outer rind The
it were, preventing any rapid combination o7, 3
ing place with the metallic surface, FIVE or with
miles below the face of the dry land. Erup- THE
IS from volcanoes, he thinks. are nroducad depr
the SEQ rettinor ~, III ~. :, NJ - = ~ opel
ouch some hssure in the aarfh,c orre+ IL ~