The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-07-18

e has published what he declares to be truth
n full statement of the affair The object, he al
! firms, was to raise regiment, "the produc
: ton of an unrivaled corps delte, to be com
. posed wholly ofnative Americans-officers un
i exceptional-of such stripe that Uncle Sam
at home, would have no Just reason 10 be an,
' way ashamed of his children in the Crimea.
1t was to be $50 strong, armed with Sharpe
patent carbines and Colts revolyers The full
complement of officers, all men of reputation
and knowledge, and over 800 privates, young
able-bodied, athletic men, majority of then
Americans, good soldiers and excellent shots
were secured, and the battalion was nearly
ready for embarkation, when, though the pusil;
lanimity ofone of the agents sent to New York
from Halifax, the authorities were informed OF
the movement, and her majesty thereby 'lost
the services of an effective regiment of Ameri-
cans, whose very name would have been a
tower of strength" This statement may be
true, but it is equally as probable that it was
made with view of tickling the vanity of the
Americans, and thereby prevent any further
proceedings against the British agents for trans
crossing the neutrality laws. One thing, how
ever, is certain: Uncle Sam would feel asham-
ed'' to behold any of his "chi]dren" fighting
under the red-cross of Great Britain, or any
other flag save his own 'stars and stripes"
The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer contains an
account of very singular and interesting case
which has been decided in the Botetout circuit
court dtappears that one Eliza Crawford and
here FIVE children, all colored and held in bon |
dage, sued for their freedom. The case was
decided in their favor; the evidence being full |
and complete that Eliza was born of white
woman of the State of Georgia. She is about
thirty-fv years Of age, and has been held in
slavery between fifteen and twenty years. Her
appearance indicates that her father was mix
ture of the Indian and African. She is the
mother of six children, all of whom were plain
tiffs and received their freedom, exceptthe old
est, who never belonged to defendant, and who
will now of course be also set at liberty with
out resistance. There was no evidence adduced {
o prove that the defendant was in any way /
'riyy to the injustice done the poor woman i
This is a most singular case, and we hope that
he Richmond pspers will explain by whom and !
" what means this unfortunate woman was +
educed to slavery. All persons engaged in the C
efarous transaction ought to be severely
finished.
THE PLAGUE! Is 1r?-The New York Ex- +
ress says that very extraordinary disease Il
as lately made It's appearance, in few fami- re
es IN that clty-some of them very eminent re
wealth and posltion-which has COMPOUNDED ell
lie observation-disclosures of its novelty. At h
st they classed it under the head of ervsipe- te
S, but as 1t would not bear that classification al
me of them have given it the name of ''the til
ague.' | appears at first in some discolored e,
ct, say on the face, and extending, without tn
ppuration, it soon destroys life, as if by re
neral modification, If suppuration takes m
ace, it passes oh:-but if not. death is sure or
follow. There is no contagion about it, and m
is not epidemic in any form. One or two W.
yslclans have resorted to the knife, and cut wi
1.-THE plague spot on its first appearance, and so
have saved life. Fever and delrlum at la
I'd the progress of the disease, if "the spot hi
left to spread. The Elk press adds: Al
''Such IS our information, but as we have 10y
IN no case with our own eyes-and if we had Gil
ould not be able to describe it scientifically, co
lat we say must be taken with this under liz
nding. str
Tits not the plague, for it is not contagious, til,
epidemic-but what is it? The plague may pr
imported, nay has been imported, into the of
18th of France, from Turkey-but it may be fel
ne new disease, which, like the cholera, is to Nj
stroy the human race. We should be obi tho
| to some medical man for some scientific ito
count of the disease fig
FoRGERlEs.-The Greenvlle IS. c. J Patriot tru
IS, we were shocked to hear whilst at Spar yol
burg court last week, of forgeres to the an
cunt of seventy or eighty thousand dollars, app
moneys drawn on them from the banks of dis
mburg, Chester, Charlotte, State bank and it i
bank. There is nothing in our nor
tie which has equalled this grand fraud for .gr
rs past; and the most melancholy feature der
t is that it is like the forgery of doct Dodd S.;
the earl of Chesterfield, by man of HIGH cue
ltion on his friends And no doubt the act WI
CoiiiuiittSu uuuSl VIC SAINT mistaken no. ne
l, that if discovered his friends would save the
l from exposure. But the amount is too bra
re, and would bring utter ruin and bank nat
toy on those friends. The banks will have pro
ose these large sums, which will be charged soft
oss and profit dra
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he proposed southern party is opposed by try
governor Cobb, of Georgia, in long and rer
letter published in the papers of that State pre-
does not believe that the rights of the south to
IN such danger as to require sectional but
-y, and seems to have great confidence that We
national men Of the north, although tenn pro-
arily defeated, will finally triumph over ia scri
cism: The south, he says, should stand by nan
n now, in their day of traa as they have sue
I stood by the constitutional rights of the otto
il with unyieding courage. Such course
considers the only one to ensure the stabil- mel
and perpetuation of the Union, and to Sc pub
; justice to the southern States. on
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