The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-08-22
possn,oro Williamson, the instI9ator and ring

prison BY Judge Kane Of the United states as
trict court for contempt OF court IN MAKING d
false return to the writ Of habeas corpus which
had been issued for the recovery OF the boules
Of the negroes Williamson made return that
the negroes had not at any time been IN his Gus
tody or power. No decision was given on the
! other point of the motion of the United States
district attorney, that Of perjury, because the
iudoe considered it unnecessary, as The prisoner
IS At any time liable to have that charge brought
against him by the grand jury. The decision
Of JUDGE Kane is published at length, and is
what might be expected from his tried charac-
ter and spotless reputation. .--
We learn from the Pennsylvania that the
FIVE negroes who assisted Williamson in the out
race and robbery on Mr.. Wheeler were still in
nrison at the last dates, on the charges of as
sault and battery and riot! melting to riot, their
confederate thieves declining to bail them out.
There is abolition consistency and philanthropy
with vengeance. Thus far these sco@ndrels
appear in fair way to get justice. There is
no prospect, however, Of Mr.. Wheeler's OBJ
tanning his negroes
HynRopuoBIA.-A medical friend of ours,
Yesterday morning, gave us the particulars OF
a case of hydrophobia, which he was called
upon last Monday to attend. lad named
Joseph Graham, aged ii, residing with his
mother on Phlippa street, was tive weeks ago
| bitten by dog The wound was in the hand.
1t healed, and no further notice was taken of it,.
On Monday morning last, however, he was
taken down with the symptoms of hydrophobla.
The physician was called, but saw that the
case was hopeless. The patient was perfectly
frantic, until few hours before bis death,
which occurred shortly before 1fo'clock on
Wednesday morning. He foamed at the mouth,
and suffered dreadfully. He could not suffer
the air to reach him. and of course abhorred
the SIGHT of water. About an hour before
death he grew more calm-his feet became as
cold as ice-he would occasionally sigh and
moan, and finally expired quietly, without the
least struggle. The full report of this case, we
understand, will be given in a scientific manner
in tie next number Of the medical journal. Now
that we have well authenticated case of mad
ness, we say kill or muzzle every dog in the
city. lDeNa'
In this day, when Massachusetts, takes such
an interest in the .Fpoor slave,' and the negro
race in general; when her white kid senators,
travelling over the land, are ]ecturing to gen
churches, on the cruel treatment and neglect
of servants in the south-t seems little sad
that she should allow an aged clergyman to
die in her midst from actual starvation. The
rev. Elijah Welles, aged seventy years, once
man of talent and mark, and once a teacher Of
elocuton died at Deer island, the pauper es-
tablishment of Boston. He had been lodger
in poor woman's house, and such was his
r. rel +1,o+1 Ia
was carried to the island with great difficulty,
and died soon after he landed at the almshouse
Mr. Weiles was an "orthodox" clergyman.
His age and his restitution were we'll known to
the clergymen of Boston, where he had lived
for several years. He applied for relief to bis
brethren in the ministry, and that relief was
withheld Had he been a heather in Borroo-
boola Cha, woolen stockings and blankets
would have been sent to him. Had he been
fugitive negro, all Boston would have opened
her doors to receive him.
But he was only clergymaH--a white one
at that-so he died of want-died because he
had no bread to eat-died in an almshouse
while Massachusetts is preaching up the cruz
SADIE of philanthropy. It would have been
we'll in this case, if charity had 'fbegun at
home.' New I Crk News.
HENRY C1AY.-sandry anti-Ame,ican ora
tors and editors are searching Henry Clay's
speeches and letters to find if possible some
thing that may be Tortured into seeming OPP
position to the princip plies of the American par
ty and the best interests Of the country; but
ne>of them have yet quoted the noble senti-
the senate against abolitionism, and in the fol-
lowing words:
Il prefer the liberty of my own country to
my own race to that of any other race.''-Life
and speeches of Henry Clay, vol. 2, P. 575
The sentiment of this declaration of Henry
Clay's is the grand basis sentiment of the whole
American movement. We have no hatred, no
hostility to foreigners. We wish them to en-
joy every privilege and every blessing not in
compatible with the welfare of our own coun
try, and the supremacy, the full development,
and the highest happiness of our own race Of
native born Americans, upon the soil of their
blrthrght. But we prefer our own country
and our own race to any other country and any
other race; while our opponents dissent in
practice from Mr.. Clay's noble sentiment and
show by their action that they prefer the Irish,
Germans and French to their own native born
countrymen-they prefer Een OF other races
to men of their own race. Frankfort Com.
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The Washington Star learns that the pres-
dent will urge on congress to provide, immedi
ately after they come together, the means of
making the survey, on our part necessary to
establish beyond future cavil, the boundary be-
tween our territory of Washington and that Of
Vancouver's island, and the rest of the posses
sions of the British Hudson's bay company,
lying contiguous to the territory in question.
The house, last session, passed bill to that
end, which was defeated in the senate. Re-
Gently, the difficulties growing out of misun-
derstandings between the people and authori-
ties of the two governments in that quarter,
with reference to the precise locality of that
boundary, have increased so as to be most har-
RAISING and perplexing to both--thus proving
the pressing necessity for the survey the senate
refused to order to be made
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A letter-writer from San francisco thus
speaks of the fall in the prices Of real estate in
tt,at orIt I,n J.