The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-02-21

sslsaton and will. it il said, become the fashion
wish those who like extraordinary novelties. Ill
@ lead Of the name printed the card, the small
%fece of pasteboard has Photographic likeness ot
fhe visitor the face appears under different aspects
ecording to the circumstances under which the vi
@ III ia made For instance, on ordinary occasiony
xour likeness will bear the habitual expression Of
*our countenanee; on New Years day, your fac e
xil be joyous and smile your Fluctuations. fyopr
<isit be on confidence, your portrait will be melar-
&holy and sorrowful To take leave, instead Of the
Eymbolical letters p r. O., the visitor will be repre-
8ented on his card cofed with the travelling CAR
Mnd framed in the window Of railroad car Tie
HUI Of photography has been W much simplfed that
he cost of those portrait-cards il but small One
Kindred may be had for rs francs or 5 dollars and
Ire handsomely executed and embellished
& The first locomotive ever seen IN the r. States is
said to have been purchased in Liverpool England,
by Rogers, ketchum d Grosvenor, Of Paterson, M.
Jersey for six thousand dollars, and used by them
a s pattern. She had ten Wheels an engine and
fender, drivers included which bear but little resem
blance to the present locomotive wheels. She was
fegarded a. the nc plus ultra Of the age, both in
akye and strength and in 1928 was used on the Pa-
ferson and Jersey City railroad Recently She was
Il sold to the Carroll branch railroad Of Ohio.
Madam Sally s. Wood, novelist Of the old school,
died at Kennebunk, Maine on the 9th inst, at the
q Hdyanced age of IS years. She continued to the
close her life the peculiar fashion of dress
shat prevailed when her standard of taste was form
ed, about sixty years since. Its supposed she was
.sihe first authoress in Maine. Many years ago she
among which were "Dorval the Speculation FER
8xlinand aud Alplira," "Amela, or the influence d
Virtue" and "Tales Of the Night
WI 1t is stated that there is merchant In Boston
who during fourteen years, always had his name or
tho docket Of some court either as plaintiff Of de-
#fendant The lawyers "tip their beavers to this
gentleman almost instantly
We learn, says the Columbus Enquirer that d
man living in Russell county, Alabama went to the
house of Mr.. George Moore. who lives about three
miles west of Girard, and while there a serious al
stercation ensued between the parties during which
Mr. Moore took down his gun and was in the act of
shooting his antagonist, when Mrs. Moore ran in
between them, to prevent her husbands designs
But she too late to effect her object the gun was
discharged, wounding her seriously that herlife
is despared Of The particulars Of the ARRAY which
has terminated SO horribly we are not yet in posses
sion of.
FRAUDS on AMERICAN MERcHAsTs-A trial recent
sly held before Of the tribunals of Paris brought
ito light species of fraud in commerce that is thus
exposed by the Paris correspondent of the NJ York
commercial "a trader was arrested for the offence
Hof selling IN France German manufactured goods n
bearing French manufacturers Marks the goods infI
this special case being percussion caps, manufac-l
tured IN Switzerland, but bearing the marks Of the
celebrated establishment Of Gonpilat q Co. in the |
environs Of Paris The prisoner proved OH the trial
THAT the greatest quantity Of goods which lie brought
unto France from Switzerland, only lii transit:
that they were intended for the American market,
We're not unpackcd in France, and when seized atl
the customhouse were only awaiting shipment to
the United States. Foreign goods bearing French
marks not being seizable in France when only on
transit, the prisoner was acquitted this part of
the charge; but it was proved that he had also eff
fected sales Of goods with false marks, and he was
consequently convicted. The trial established the
important fact that very large proportion Of the
goods which 60 TO the United States bearing the
brands and the reputation Of French goods are ini
fact the production Of the cheaply worked manu-
factories of the German States.
The Paris correspondent of the New York Times
states that gentleman living in Brussels, some
what troubled by cobwebs and spots in his ewes
rubbed them one night with few drops of extract
OF balladona In the morning the cobwebs had gone.
bat the whole outer face of the world had changed
His newspaper, which had been placed by his bed
side, was composed Of type 50 small that he could
hardly deeypherit. He rang the bell, and his stout
serving Wench had shrunk into thin little girl OF
ten years He got UP in great fright and looked
after his clothing the garments Of child
but as his own limbs had diminished ii proportion
children at the table, the former dwarf, and tho
latter row of dolls. He hurried off to his physic
an; the horses he met looked like dogs, and dogs
ike rats. Every thing was Lilliput and Cinderella
Lotions were applied to the victims eyes and lhG
next day Bfodignac returned bringing back the cob
webs aud spots. The phenomenon, called micropie.
does not seem to have occurred more than half
dozen times, though may be brought at will bJ
The employment OF certain substances.
A man named Butcher, in Mariposa being desirr
BUS Of reaching San Francisco, gave in whisper tha
he convict, without mentioning another ittlf.
fact in connection Herewith. that he had been dis
charged In February last Accordingly, when the
fact leaked out, the sheriff arrested Blucher and carr
lied him to San Francisco, to find himself sold and
hat he rendering himself liable to fine for false
Imprisonment.
A lad named Francis Lyman, went out skating i'll
Adrian. Michigan. not long since. Just before ill.,
Boys started for the ice, the mother of little Frank
'autioned him to be careful and not break through
he ice The little fellow promised he would; and,
I..4. txr Il.
d. hot 70 let any Of the boys disturb his p1aythng
md to have them sent to his little cousin in Cincin
iati. He then kissed his mother and went to play.
n a short time he was brought home a corpse
Several broadcloth mills have failed at Auburn
md Utica, New York, and at Burlington, in Yer
mont. The New York Post contains list of some !
fifteen other woollen mills in Vermont and other
states, manufacturing fabrics of different kinds
which have recently stopped, either wholly or II
,art The Bay State mills ait Lawrence and the
Iiddlesex at Lowell, Massachusetts, are only rum
ing part Of the time. II.
There is in Lockport, New York, an artesian well
90 feet deep from the bottom Of which rises vein
f salt water, holding in combinatson large per I
entage Of diliquescing chlorides, which, mngng
18th water of other veins, produce instantaneous
INSTALLATION of beautiful selenite, in fattenea
ight-sded prsms of about an inch in length and a
ixteenth of an inch thick. The laminn of these e
re soPerfect that single crystal may be divided,
means of heat, into two dozen distinct sheets. III
y
Minnesota When the annual session commenced, tt
governor refused TO deliver his message because
40 organic law made the choice Of public printer
obligatory the first business after the organiza-
on, and the choice Of the Legislature was under
God to be in favor Of a paper opposed to him.
owever, he subsequently reconsidered his position
I'D sent in his message, whereupon the Legislature
fused to receive it. as they are expecting new
overnor to supersede German The message has
cen printed in all the papers, though it had not
cen officially received by the legislature.
The Petersburg (Va,) Express gives what pur- Z
orts to be account Of the election of live snake
ON the stomach of named Wade, who, dur !,
u the past summer in the habit Of shaking his
lirst from rigulet in field where he was at Worl
he Express says the snake almost transpa- :
MT had reddish eyes of great brilliancy, and was
We and quarter inches long. Mr.. W, it is said, q
i'd for some time been troubled with a feeling Of !
,ffocation and unusual fulness of the stomach. o
II
10 THE circulation of the blood is Justly esteeme +
greatest ordinance of Divine Provdenee by that /,
Eating engine the heart, it is driven to all parts c
e system, giving yigor and strength to the compli
ted machinery Of man. This living flood, whether /,
sleep Of wake, sales brskly through the arteries
ID returns softly through the veins. How necessa -