The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-11-21

a'' a,fts and fusionists. Ihe co,icss aPP -
the soa the softs pierce feesoers and the know
pothing55. bas rome for the democrats. ]
NeaMfssachusetts, Gardner has been reelected gov
y. md majority Of the Legislature = american;
u Wisconsin, BarstoW, aiiti az = -
10 elected governor
charleston, D. ", the ahei- tAnei ieshs eieeseu
~ ~ cssndidate for mayor.
the. - ,hilanthrepists Of Boston have formed them
som. 81 society and leased building which I,
selves DC called tsOur house. It contains three
they Ihandsome rooms, which appropriated for
laseonusement and mutual instruction OF the me
the - and laborers. One is fitted up as music
chah yersation room. Here the wives and daugh-
anu ~ the working men can assemble, and any me
els i who can pay the fee Of one dollar per annum,
sgs a here have society and music even objects Of
WI, about him 1t is hoped, eventually, to sprn-
IT, TX walls with pictures, and to place there statua
kLS IA casts and works Of art. Another room is |
ra;shed with library and newspapers and quar- |
as where the laborer can spend his evenings iii
l a,iet reading The lower saloon is public coffee
tnd ;eecream saloon, nothing being allowed in the
~hoe building which can ntoxieate.
Capt Harstein and his company, of the relief ex-
edition, saws the New York Evening Post, had an
Pfrceedingly gay time at Disco. They were waited
mon promptly by the fairest ladies OF the place,
bnm they entertained in the most acceptable style
r;h butter and cranberry sauce, with which it ap-
"sepd difficult to satisfy them. When they had
Peu all they could, they joined the officers in the
Ince in which they excel. The officers say that
had never seen DelLeT QdHcEIS Ill LHeIf lives
.he s1 these Disco bellies, and, what is wonder
una. bev were perfectly familiar with the polka the
iowa mazourka, and all the most recent fashiona
tI DANCES of Europe. The latter circumstance may
w ccounted for by the fact that, in the former
osdton, the officers instructed the Greenland bellies
The fashionable dances Of the day.
The greatest gold producing region In the world
,nstraa only excepted) IL of the States Of the
f1nion, California. Previous to its acquisition, the
;oge of the country averaged short of six millions
nd half intending the coinage Of silver and cop
nr The gold coinage of the United States in 854,
ppmounted to upwards Of ffty-two millions. Next
to the United States the gold coinage OF France is
The greatest and Great Britain ranks the third. The
add coinage Of the United States for the last seven
Years has amounted in round numbers, to two hun
dred and seyenty-two million Of dollars; of Great
Britain G35, 10000 and OF France to 900 QUO
francs The total coinage of Great Britain, France,
the limited States, Austria Prussia, Holland and
Belgium, for the last seven years, amounted to the
yraEd total OF Sl,097 ,5s4, $3.50.
Dr Peters, Of Denmark, an eminent astronomer,
hoa published apaper Of great interest the atmos
horFology Of the sun He states that he and his
rllaborateurs have counted eight hundred andthir-
aen photographic places Of two hundred and eighty
Nv "spots on the sun" They also ascenained that
tb snots were not invariably attached to the suns
snrface. but that they had motions of their own
These motions were general tendency to move to-
wards the equator; and where new spot broke out
in The neighborhood Of another, the old one moved
away from it as if 1t were pushed away. New spots
have a motion towards the west--the motions in
inneude being far more considerable than those in
latitude The motions were in some instances at
the rate of three or four hundred miles an hour.
We learn by private letter from friend at Wal
terboro S. c., that two sabbaths ago, at the metho
dist church in that place. while divine service was
in progress, and the building crowded to overflow
the front gallery instantly gave way and came dowr
with fearful crash, upon the heads OF those VINO
were seated underneath. The gallery was hllee
with negroes, and gave way under the weight. Thu
CONSERVATION and confusion is described having
been great-many supposing that the entire building
was falling. Strange TO say. no person was killed
though several were more or less injured.
We have seen aprvate letter, under date of the I'll
instant, and post.marked Starkville Miss, which
says the whole country has been visited BY sever
sickness and have not witnessed for many years 8
much distress during this fall and past summer
Atone time there were not enough well persons Il
wait upon the sick. The cotton in this region can
not be saved, the hands are not able to pick j
out Meat grain, DC, are abundant, but grocerie
are very scarce Selma (A1a) Sentinel
Among the passengers by the ship Star Of Empire
which arrived at this port on Wednesday last from
Liverpool were about sixty Scotch girls, engaged t
work in the factories here They were mostly young
and neatly dressed and some Of them are quite goo'
looking They were forwarded to Holyoke, thel
place Of destination, last evening, via the Boston
and Worcester railroad. Boston traveller:
There is family within eight miles of West XII
lngly Comm who to all appearance II the ful
w consists Of man and wife, with four or fly
small children, and the habitation where the
stop (for they cannot be said to llve) is mud an
stone howell without window, and containln
no furniture The inmates sit on the bare earth II
on the hare earth eat on the bare earth with the
FINGERS: nor do they seem aware of the existence
the slightest article Of domestic comfort IN clvl
lied life.
Adyices from Alexandria mention the abusing Ia
that the viceroy Of Egypt, Said Pacha, who had lie
IN his steam Yacht for tour III France and through
out Europe returned to port two days afterwart
having changed his intention in consequence OF
attack Of seaslckness! ms = me more :.
raordinary from the fact that he ought to be accui
toned to the sea, having been for about fifteen yea
admiral in chief Of the Egyptian fleet
The largest room in the world under single ro
and by pillars Or other = Io
BREADTH By day light it is used for military dl
PLAYS and battalion can easily maneuvre init.
The evening 1t is converted into a vast ball roor
when it warmed by sixteen prodiglous stoves, an
10000 wax tapers are required to light 1t proper
The roof of this structure is single arch, the pa
alone on which itrests weighing 2,o3o, GOO lbs.
correspondent Of the New York Journal of Con
nerce writing from Barro the river Negro, on II
head waters Of the Amazon, states that reports hs
reached that place that six American citizens hi
been killed by the Brazilian authorities at fo
Tabatings frontier fort Of Brazil on the main Ar
AEON They were called filibusteros, and not ODE
ing the call Of the fort were pursued down the ny
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other jumped into the river, and was destroyed
an alligator The correspondent of the Journal thin
itdoubful whether the facts will be made know
to our government, from the wreched state the cou
try is in .@S
1t is stated that an undertaking is in course Of
eanization at Liverpool, to be called the Afric
Company, with capital Of G25O,o0o in EOS shar
Its object is carry the barter trade with the
tives for palm oil in exchange for Manchester G.
tons and ether British manufactures, and also
stimulate the production Of the indigenous and /
rennial cotton of western Africa, some specimens
which lately imported have realized high price
A riot occurred at Warwick, Cecil county M
lately in which five Irishmen were killed and ma
more wounded They had been to a funeral, q
returning called at store for liquor, which was f
nished them After while they returned for mo
which was refused and this led to the terrible con-
quences The villagers turned out and there "
quite battle None of the villagers were hurt. y
funeral party numbered about thirty.
Thomas Plumsill was ordained by an elder IN I
Church Of God, = "by the laying On Of the hands
the Presbytery.' recently, lii Baltimore This il
new church organized in Washington City. pror
nent characteristic is baptism by immersion, al
likewise, the washing Of one anothers feet in imi
tation of an ancient custom among disciples.
new star is likely soon to be added to the Am
lean constellation The legislature of Michigan b