The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-01-24
General Intelligence

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Senator Norris died here last VII, :
gia Of the heart sAe lion h..
l5--The senate to-day passed IN
favor Of sending aid to the Arctic er,. 1lesoa.
Kane. altloads
The Ocean steamer appropriation La,
taken up and discussed until the hon. nni va
ment. ad;aS
he house were In committee of tbo
Stephens, OF Georgia, argued to show, i Whole
of slave over free labor, and advocate = sue
tion of Cuba. Tie a@s
Mr.. Boyce opposed the ACOUSTIC,
fraught with danger to the south. ch,
The bounty land extension bill, Will,
the United States senate, and is awa;t;a nag pa.
of the house, proposes to give to each an5 !aeae
son who was mustered into any depar.aeSssh
United States service, and served % davs Naelt
war since 1890, l60 acres of land, pros aaa,ags
not already received it; or as many aeras 'aed
to what ne has already received as viii T. addS
the bill would dispose of 300,O00,OOo Of us0ate
public lands. sefs I'll
WASHINGTON, JAN. 9.-The senate i. j.,
gagged in discussing the Judiciary refora nay Tess
house debated the Pacific railroad bill Dill
lOth.-The senate to-day debated III IN
form bill. In the house the land d{aaEaa
was discussed. Mr.. Dawson's ame5 5daraaa@&
one hundred and sixty acres of land r. ~ sNR
tiers, was rejected by vote of 70 yeas IL o.
The bill itself was then rejected. = = d nays
The democratic members of the bonso,e.
tatiyes met in caucus on the 3rd inst I tepps4
the recommendation of the secretary Of ~ ~
to revise the present tariff Mr.. Tonvl :, .eass
chair, and Mr.. Barksdale, Of Mississippi any,
secretary. ff1 %aS
Resolutions were passed, TO the purpor ~. Il
right and proper that the duties on goods r as'
merchandise imported into the United H.. ,ssaA
foreign countries should be reduced BY eoaa l
it's present session to the revenue STANDARD e,s
out the principles Of the tariff of 1886. 'a!i
WASHINGTON, JAN. 15.-The Union apnon,..
colonists, will leave Baltimore on the 25tb iAs
The second will start from Mobile and the ,sa
Brazos Santiago, but their days of LEAVING ~.
fixed. s S~4.
It is stated that the q. S. senate commit.
commerce is preparing an internal improvement
leaving the expenditures to the discretion n ~
cretary OF war, as to the place and amounts
bill appropriates one hundred thousand dolla,,
to the northern lakes, and about the usual sns'
to the principal works ON the Atlantic coast ANU
western rivers a-aa
Ihe committee on commerce Of the house Of ,,
sentatiSes, it is said, have prepared, and viiT
report, very important bill on the subject # A
paupers aud criminals Under the proyisim :
this bill no foreign passenger shall hereafter H.
mitted into port of the United States uDesI
shall have the certificate of the American corsls
the place from which he comes, that he has uf /
one year previous to his departure, been an iess
OF Jail or workhouse, and that he has not, trss
years previously, been convicted Of any e1s.1
offence except such as are designated politieaIc
If ptair shall hri ok
required certificates, he shall be liable to 6ns !,
imprisonment. The vessel in which such npr =
arrive shall be subject to forfeiture
The Uniyers, OF Tuesday, December u, publish.
the following announcement received from Rsr.
via the telegraph of Vienna: '4.
VIENNA, Dec 10, Is54-The pope otieisti,, )
st. Peters, promulgated after the gospel AT eps
O'Clock, the expected decree The immaculsfpso,.
ception has been declared the faith Of The ebnS
and whoever denies it, is hereto. Trob1ndr1i
bishops were present. Never was there such a
throng. Rome is filled with joy,
Louis Napoleon has deferred his yisAts Wsen
Victoria. L he reason is declared to be the oppos
ton he was likely to receive from the charss 4
England. When Louis intended visit was aH1usa
ced, the chartists, remembering that he had ydgl
teered, when in London, to act as a specialcazs
BILE to put down their public demonstration in III
masses to give him such reception as he deserve
Another reason assigned, which is probably theta
one, is that grief at the losses of the army Euas
not allow the English court to give the proper eae
Iainment to their guest.
NEW 7 ORR, JAN. l5.-A procession, numberinge
thousand unemployed laborers, paraded the stas
this afternoon.
Our cotton market is firm, with an upFardta
dency; sales were made Of 700 bales at 81 centh
Orleans middling.
The accounts from the English army in the (S
nea are frightful. The men were but half fed q
posed to the cold and wet. Private letters sp4
very despondingly of the condition of affairs ID 4
Crimea. Large numbers of applications had hs
paign, and the troops had lost all confdenGi
eventual success.
The London Times severely. attacks lord Rasa
as incompetent to the position assigned him. II
defences in Sebastopol are four times strongGtha
at the beginning of the siege.
VIcKsBURG, JAN. I5-The officers of The steam
Switzerland, report that the steamer Garden Cit
bound for New Orleans, with cargo chiefly cotl
and corn, took fire at about o'clock yesterday NOR
ing, below Lake Providence, and was burnt to Il
waters edge. The Switzerland took off her passe
gers.
CINCINNATI, JAN. 15-The river has risen twofe
Flour is quoted at S. 60 tot IS. Whiskey at s6c
Hogs dull of sale; 1900 were disposed Of at 81
81 50 per per hundred pounds lard toSae
In bulk meat, sales were made of hams at 6ceH
at Al and sides at Size
PITTsBuRG, Jan. 15.-There are now eight feetv
inch in the river, which is at stand
A dispatch from Troy announces the suspens
If prominent banking house in that city,
Try is, still they "burst"
1t is rumored that James E. Warren has been
moved from the Office Of United States attorney
Minnesota
The know nothings of Pittsburg were defeated
The recent election for judges and inspectors ofa
tons.
The New York journal of Commerce gives a
bic of statistics, by which it shows there arrive
hat port during the year 1854, 307 500 emiga
Of whom 16s, 1913 were Germans, and 50 200 Irish
A cargo of plumb buildings was shipped Il
England to the Crimea, for the christmas dime
the troops.
There is a petition before the Legislature Of Ca
da, asking for the charter of northern Pacific 7
road company. The plan is to start road at N
treal, and proceed by way of Bytown and the va
Of Ottowa to the western boundary of Canada,
thence along the route surveyed by gov. Stevens
" ashington territory.
Well executed counterfeits of the denomination
fives on the bank of the Valley (Va.) and tens
twensies on the Merchants bank of Lynchburg,
in circulation in Alexandria, Va.
An endowment of $50 900 is being raised for
protestant episcopal school in Virginia.
They are now exhibiting a female in New y
which is said to be the offspring of Mexican i
an and an ape. She is said to have enough Of
mainly in connection with the brute, to be theI
SCISSOR of a soul She has the spinal elongation
the features of the monkey race; her voice is SAIL
be SO sweet as to enchant the ladies, but the 7
correspondent Of the New Orleans Pieayune 5
hat ut is almost unvarying in tone, one Of N
nournful utterances that one might imagine s.. 81
ing from the last waller in some spectral choir
deserted church in Mexico
Col. Doniphan, one Of the heroes of the AeSl
war, was thrown from a stage near Jeherson, G.
Missouri, a few days ago, and so badly injured
render his recovery doubtful.