The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-11-28
The WASHINGTON Union and Courier des Etat

The Washington Union and Courier des Eta
TINS. the French organ of n 7 ork are having
nice little family quarrel. The French organ
charges that Russian diplomacy has succeed
ed ii winning the favor and sympathy of tn
administration by the use Of Russian gold
The Union Indignantly repels the charges, ant
says the Frenchman is "trampling Upon tn
laws of national courtesy and liberal hospitali
" under which he is allowed to publish his pa
per in our country" Weregret to see friends
and members of the same family quarrelin!
about such small matters. The sympathy Q
the administration for Russia has been too Otter
/ exhibited in the columns of the Union for
now to deny it. nor do we think the Union cal
with any justice, charge the Frenchman will
'.trampling upon the liberal hospitality" unde
which he is permitted to publish his paper il
''our country" when it has SO often, and bu
recently proclaimed the rights of foreigners tx
be in every respect equal to the native-born
It might do for US perhaps, to make such
charge against the foreign organ, the ally o
Ike administration; but it comes with very
bad grace from the Washington Union. The
administration had better despatch dr.. Forney
to New York with power to settle the Difficult.
ty, before the Frenchman becomes too turbu-
lcntto be restrained. Probably little of the
Russian gold,' which has worked such won
ders with the administration, might appease
the red republican. Try it. sssa.a5 e.
Booty FOUND IN SEBAsTopoL.-A letter da-
ted Sebastopol, Oct. End, says: 1.-The joint
commission appointed to report on the booty
found in Sebastopo, and to determine its mode
of distribution, has completed its labors. The
report was signed by the commissioners on the
LIST inst; 5000 cannon Of large and small cali
bre, s steam engines, $4,000 or IS, 900 balls,
bombshells, anchors, chains, rigging of all
kinds, DC. have been found The commission
has decided that all the booty shall be divided
between France and England; but it has been
agreed at the same time, that after having
valued the different articles according to their
weight, the distribution should take place in
proportion to the number Of men in each army;
and thatif on this calculation England should
appearto have a right to only one fourth Of the
whole, she would restore to France the value
Of the additional amount she may have receiv-
ed, at the rate of l0c. per kilogramme, the
price Of old iron. There is no mention of the
Turks in the report. As to the Sardinians, it is
unnecessary to say that, being included in the
English army, they have a claim to portion
Of the amount assigned to the latter. The fol-
lowing arrangements have been made with re-
gard to the town: That portion Of the city COM
prised within the quarantine, fort Nicholas the
military harbor, and the flag staff battery, shall
be the exclusive property of the French. The
English shall have for their part the Karabel-
nas suburbs, at the same time the French will
be free to erect hospitals there, and to use Ca
feening bay, the docks, &c. fS.za...f
Hon. Thomas B. Florence, says the Phila-
delphla Sun, is spoken of as the democratic
for speaker of the U.S.house ofrepre-
sentatlyes. Pennsylvania has not had speak
IF since Frederick A. Muhlenberg, who was
chosen for the first and third congress-. Con- |
lecticut has had only one speaker, Jonathan
Trumbull, for one term; New Jersey one, Jo- |
nathan Dayton, for two terms; Massachusetts,
hree, Theo Seddwick for one term; Joseph B. |
!arnum, for two and Robert C. Winthrop for I
me; North Carolina had Nathaniel Macon for
hree terms; Kentucky has had three speak
rs-Henry Clay for six terms, John White for /
me, and Linn Boyd for two; South Carolina
lad Lanydon Cheves, for one term; n York,
ohm w. Taylor for two terms. Virginia has
ad tour-Phlip z. Barbour for one term, An
rev Stevenson for four, R. M. r. Hunter and
ohm w. Jones one each. Tennessee, John
Sell tor one, and James K. Polk for two terms: /,
indiana. John w. Davis for one, and Georria. Ii
lowell Cobb for one. AS there are eighteen
+ twenty States claiming speaker for the first
me, and as colonel Florence cannot get the :
equisite votes, his friends will not zealously t
ress him for the Office. a, ..sss "a a
RED R1vER.-The GAINESVILLE (Texas) STAN
ard, OF the 18th inst, says: From the heavy {
'lns OF the last week or two we anticipate some I
lief from the serious disadvantages of the c
tie unprecedented stage of the river At
herman, We learned from COL Montague an
d and well known citizen, and from others
no were with him, that in a late expedition to In
oper Red River to locate land certificates, he I,
und main Red River, above the mouth of n
e Wichita. as dry as bone-not water lie
ough for horse to drink. For convenience cl
survey be had run a line four miles down az
e bed of the stream. At that locality the 70
adler must understand that the bed of the re
seris twice as wide as about here, and atleast Il
ur times as wide as its general width below =
huge rayine in the prairie, with ~
titiloel VII us He OlueSI pioneers OF p:
e sources of the river. have never before seen
heard OF its being dry, though generally not :
ep up there, except as the spring freshets 7
ing it up. -5-. - "a. I'll
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Jas. J, Strand, the mormon king Of the Bea-
r Islands, gives the following statement con- fe
rnlng them and their doings, which may be ~ ~
zen as authentic: % sas 9j5i s5& s4HE =
Their settlement, by the official census of eff
az, 1854, contains a population Of 1871, of 8.
lom 2,447 are males, and 1854 females 81 81
'cess of females II, OF as 81 females to 6s |th
,les.'' s~sz
THE quantity Of fish caught, packed, in in in
ected and exported during the year prece- Vi
'g the 1st of May, 1855, was. by the official at
turns, 33, 963 barrels, of 2Qa lbs. 70 the bar- ap
!, worth 81 per barrel, or the snug sum of IN IN
81, O41" @ -
They have in their midst a presbyterian "
urch, the minister of which, the rev. A. ]. tn
rter, was recently elected to the responsible M
ice of judge Of probates.' "a
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The New York Times says, about fifteen per on q,
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