The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-02-28
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/ formerly French miliIner IN Broadway, anu
more recently capitalist and money lender IN
William street, who died last autumn quite
suddenly, though at an advanced age, leaving
i an estate worth no less than $1,000 accl-
/ mulated by avarice, lucky investments, and
shrewd management. This large property is
claimed by one Ferrie, from Cincinnati, hair
dresser by trade. and apparently above fifty
wears old. He was brought up by madame
Dulux as her nephew, but he now assers that
he was her son by an early marriage, which
4 took place amid the troubles of the French
revolution of 93, and which she afterwards
concealed. That he really is her son was
clearly made out on the trial. but the public
administrator, acting in behalf Of unknown
! heirs, contends that it is not proved that he is
her legitimate son, born in wedlock. The evil
dence goes back to the revolution, and involves
some complicated and curious points Of French
law and social usages.
Col James, the chief Of police, perpetrated
last night one Of his coups d'etats, by a descent
1 on one of the prominent fashionable gambling
institutions Of the city. To the initiated it
has long been well known that gambling sa-
| loon has been for some time in successful ope-
ration over the Commercial restaurant, on Gus
tomhouse street, but as it was patronized only
| by the upper ten, its existence was not known
to the vulgar herd Of gamblers, and conse-
quently it for a long time enjoyed the privilege
of '.hands off,, The present chief Of police,
however, thought he would try his hand at
breaking up the nest, and last night he sue
ceeded most efectually. About II o'clock he
succeeded in obtaining an entrance into the
sacred precincts, and after investigating affairs
and making himself fellow well met with the
party and being undetected, through the aid
of his temporary moustaches and wig, he closed
on them, Selling all the paraphernalia, and the
funds. Among the distinguished habitues OF
the saloon, were present on the occasion a large
number of our first citizens" including a
pretty fair sprnkling of city officials. The
CONSERVATION was, of course, great when the
chief of police unmasked, by discarding his
moustaches and wig, and there was all kinds
of lodging, but it was no go. The traps were
too well set, and none could escape. The re-
suit of the sortie was that all hands were ar
rested, and the funds taken in charge. George
S. Pettibone, alias John Smith, and -Hier-
onymus, the keepers of the game, and Gilbert
Patrick Watson, dealer and shuffler, were
locked up for the night, and the outsiders were
permitted to depart, on their parole Of honor,
with the understanding that they should APP
pear, when called upon, as states witnesses.
$3.50, in hard cash, was found in the box on
the faro table, and some $4,000 ON the person
of Pettibone, the principal banker, all of which
is now in the safe keeping Of the chief of po-
lice. True Delta.
Why Was TIT appears by the report of
congressional proceedings on the 9Th inst, that
the billintroduced by Mr.. Slidell, appropriating
$4,000 for the removal of Instructions to
navigation in the mouths of the Mississippi,
was passed in the senate by a vote of 80 to 5.
Twenty five Democratic senators voted for the
passage of the bill, and FIVE democratic senators
all the minority-ag against it. These demo
cratic senator's who had such strong scruples
about appropriating money for the improvement
of the Mississippi, were the two from Alabama,
two from Virginia and one from South Carolina
Rather singular that the only opposition should
come from such quarters. Why was it? Sure
" not because it is supposed the interests of
Richmond, Charleston and Mobile are antago- |
nistic to those of New Orleans.
1t has occurred to us, in view of this re-
markable record, how utterly vain and futile /
must prove all efforts for the union of the south
for commercial purposes while the 'house is |
divided against ITSELF" Whatever good might |
be expected to arise from the holding of south |
ern commercial conventions, it must all be an
nuled by such suicidal divisions as this. Here
we see that the only opposition to a measure of
purely southern interest came from FIVE senators
states south of "Mason and |
Dlxon's line" The fact is pregnant with re-
Election for all who have southern interests at
heart.
If it be said that the FIVE democratic senators
from the south who voted in the negative upon
this important question were restrained from
it on the ground of the democratic
doctrine of ststrict construction, what refec-
ton were that excuse upon the conduct of
their twenty-five democratic colleagues who
voted in its favor!
We are sorry to see demonstration that
looks so much like the expression of state jea-
lousy on the part of representatives of southern
states against single member of that section
of the Union. N Q. Picayune.
CHANGE OF NAME.-The name of st. Lucia
county, in Florida, has been changed by the
legislature of that state to Brevard, in honor
Of DR.. Ephraim Breyard, the author of the
North Carolina declaration of
He was one of large family
Of brothers, all Of whom did good service in
the war of the revolution. Their fathers house.
left in charge of the mother, was burned by the
rufian soldiery Of lord CORVALLIS, in their
march through Mecklenburg county. who gave
as a reason 10 Mrs. Breyard s'that her sons were
all id rebels, and that she had eight sons
then in the rebel army
The present comptrollerof Florida is the son
Of one Of the worthiest of this band-his ia
ther having served as a captain under Wash
ington, and fought in the battles of the White
Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Mon
mouth and Germantown, in addition to which
he was with Gates at Camden, and subsequent
ly an officer under general Greene during his
southern campaigns, and with him in all his
battles. His worth is perpetuated not only in
his son, one Of the most honorable and estina-
Bile men, butin grandson, the present high
minded and able attorney general of South
Carolina, col. l. w. Hayne.
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