The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-10-03

MI JAMES Is. LlKESS, HENDERSON, RhSk C0 ieJds-
Mr. CLARKE ADAMS, Plaqueniine and beru'tte Pdr,'
w. H. MCDONALD, l02 Nassau street, Ne1o fork
THos McIsrrRE, % Camp street, Neao orleans;
Esy- Those of our town subscribers who {
not receive their papers regularly, will plea:
send word to the Office. A.. -.,-.-..
The riveris rising slowly, owing to the heav
rain on Saturday. The Marion arrived fro'
the falls, on Monday, with large freight an
number of passengers. sbereports the rive
to be falling all the way up. The Trader lie
on Saturday, and the Union and Marion wi
leave this morning, for Alexandria.
Mr. Bateman S keclboat, laden with As bale
ofcotton, arrived at this port on Thursday iron
Spring Bank, Ark, (mouth of Sulphur fork,
and started back on Sunday, with cargo Q
groceries and provisions a.
The Lamplighter, published at Dainger6eld
Texas, reports the White Oak and Sulphur Il
be rising.
On the goth ult., the Mississippi had risen
foot at New Orleans, and was rising from Mem
phis to the Balize. On the 21st, the Ohio was
rising slowly at Pittsburg and Louisville.
A gentleman, who has just returned from a
business tour through Texas, reports the cot
ton crop to be very promising. f.
For several days past the mornings and ey-
enings have been unusually cool for the season
of the year.
DIR. j. w. Harmon, Of New Orleans, will ad-
Al. h ~. I
principles of the American party. On Satur-
day, he will speak at Mansfield.
G. G.. Preston. We are authorised BY this
gentleman to say that heis neithera ''f'eperesd -
nor "diviae,' y as has been repeatedly assert
ed by the anti-Amercan organs.
Thanks to friend Jos. Boisseau, clerk of the
Marion, for late papers.
We are indebted to Mr. Frank E. Wood, for
files of late New York and eastern papers.
MANY democrats, of Greenwood, announce
in the Democrat, the hon. Atticus Slaughter as
candidate for the Office of district Attorney
lie is we'll qualified for the station, and will !
receive large vote. s"" ~. i
n"... ~>l~~>->G~e~~ ----o-~0l~-41 :. Esq., ..--.
QuARANrrEE.--lt will be perceived by the
proceedings of the board of trustees that all
steamboats,, passengers, baggage, and mer-
chandise arriving up the river, are to be quar-
antined some two miles below town, for the {
purpose of keeping the yellow fever outside of t.
the corporation. 1t is undoubtedly the duty of "
fbo I'd 10, ofo
in their power to prevent the appearance Of the d
scourge in our midst; but as quarantining did
not keep the fever out of New Orleans, Vicks- Il
burg. or Natchez we have no faith whatever al
in its efficacy. fo
Our citizens never enjoyed better health than n.
at the present time. . .r ~.s q -sI W
The rev. S. P. Helme will open his colegi
ate institute, for young gentlemen and boys, on tn
the 18th November next. The institute is sit fu
uated near this place, the buildings are spaci- lie
GUS and well arranged the professors gentlemen &c
OF talent and experience, and we recommend tn
parents TO every thing in their power to aid 60
and encourage it. 1t is wrong to send children ha
abroad to be educated, when they can be taught KIN
as well, if not better, at home institution. We
0-~-z-:.-~s~~~>0-0-o---~>c ..m lif
New SroRE-G. M Levy 4 Co., have leased -
the building formerly occupied by Green & m
Douglass, and are opening superb assort- or,
ment OF the most fashionable dry goods, cloth rio
ing, etc, selected in New York expressly for 10;
This market. Notwithstanding the ordinance - -
passed by the board Of trustees, the store is now oT
open and the propretors ready to attend to the Or
wants OF their old friends and the public, as not an
an article from New Orleans or any other in ~,
eoted place. is in the house, will any goods ch,
rom the city be offered for sale. Ladies de- -;
lrous OF obtaining the most fashionable fabrics =.
Ire invited to call. W
Our opponents have taken to boasting oftheir tol
prospects OF success in Caddoat the coming cleo fro
ron, and we are told that doctor Flournoy, ca,
vii undoubtedly carry the parish by decisive Sta
majority" Vain assertion. We have not be,
net with democrat, acquainted with the peo sat
'le OF this parish, who did not readily admit g-
nat MIR. Thompson, the American candidate. .
Viii receive larger majority of votes than has
yer been cast in Caddo for any candidate for ~.
he house of representatives-not evenexcent- Wv
ng the lamented VIM. R. Douglass. 80
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HE FEvER.-At Norfolk, on the Goth nit. ng
ne yellow fever was abating, and but few new be
ases. The New Orleans Howard association the
ave now thirty nurses and four physicians at spl
'orfolk In Vicksburg, on the Goth, there were dit
N deaths, and the disease on the increase. At evt
atchez, yldalia, Rodney, Waterproof, and on will
lany Of the neighboring plantations tile fever are
revealed to an alarming extent and was spread Ad
g. The steamer J. NJ. Relf, at N. Orleans Tn
ON the Ouachita, reports the country border en-
g on that river, very sickly. and the yellow ma
yer prevailing at Trenton, Hanisonburp. ,
ow bayou, and all along the ouachita and lea
lack rivers. ss# of