The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-03-21
! No. 81.

NJ 81.
if, as have no reason to doubt, though had
no opportunity of examining it, wood not per-
fecty decomposed can be found in the older
formation, such remote periods must contradict
all that we know of the destructibility of such
materials The theories of science are in gene.
raj entitled to respect, but the computations OF
sir Charles Lyell are so little based upon expert
ment, that think them an astonishing instance
Of empirical impudence. The hypothesis sup
poses that every drop Of water carries acertain
amount of matter, and deposits it in certain
place, as steamboat does barrel of molasses,
but the action of water is very different Itrolls
its masses before it, casts the heavier down,
takes up others, deposits and re-deposts in
eternal circles. Mr.. Brown argues that when
the valley of the Mississippi was an uncultiva.
ted waste, the waters could not have had the
same proportion Of sedlmentary matter in
suspension that they now have, but it is evident
that the waters have once flowed in broader
channel, and denuded the present valley, and
in that state they would carry mass before them
infinitely greater. The process of denudation
has given place to that Of deposition in the val
ley, and till the nature of the current, the
/ pristine situation of tle alEnvion, aud the de-
posted mass, be more completely examined,
any computation of time, so far from cntitling
to scientific respect, is AS unworthy Of conside-
ration as the vagaries Of Miller in another
i province.
i MISSISSIPPI, OUAcHITA AND REU RIVER RAtL
RoAD.-A meeting of the directors OF THIS road
was held at Camden, Ark, on the 7th ult, Fhe
Camden Herald, in notice Of the proceedings,
says:
4 The action had by the board at tins meet
ing has had tendency to strengthen the con-
iidencc of the public in this enterprise. The di
rectory have retrenched expenses as far as pos
sible, and made arrangements that will keep
the contractors at work during the present year,
f} We now have some fourteen or fifteen miles
ready for the iron, with the exception Of cross
: ties-over one thousand feet oftrestlework COM
+ pleted and twenty five miles cleared and par
| TALLY graded, making in all forty miles that is
t to be completed by the first Of September ne&t
d One of the most important matters whch
came before the directors was proposition
!. from the Texas railroad company to conrecg
|, their road with ours at some point in Bow
/. county. They propose an amalgamation of the
G two companies in such way as to give us tie
II benefit of their magnificent fund donation in the
d construction of our road to the Texas Inc.
V They invite committee Of conference from
). our company to meet like committee of their
!, at convenient point either in Arkansas u
IS Texas, to settle the details Of the arrangemcnG
;, Col. Dockery, capt. Tlghman, Judge Fort, of
n Lafayette, and Mr. Hooks, of Hempstead,
r. were appointed committee on the part of cur
If road, and the meeting of the two committee
V will probably take place at Boston, in Texas,
il in the course of few weeks. If this admira-
m BILE arrangement is consummated, the whole cf
,e our road to the Texas line will be put under
IN contract Immediately. This connection wifi
70 give to our road an Importance it never pos
Of sessed before, and will be the means Of securing
in the capital necessary for its Immediate constluc-
a. tion. The directory made an additional call Of
,h 10 per cent. due the 1st March next.
is FEMALE BRAvERY-The New York Even
ing Post gives the following account of re-
,e- markable display of female bravery:
oe A family, named Lamont, residing in tive
IN vicinity of Rhinebeck, during the past winter
Of employed an Irishman, who came to their
no house one day for assistance, to attend to the
ke general outdoor business of the house. The
in family thought he was An honest and indt1sBTi-
nj GUS man, until few days ago. when he went
he to Mrs. Lamont, and desired some money, say
M ing he was going away. Mrs. Lamont, not
W. having the change with her. told him to g. tc
IN. the village and see her husband, who was there
it on business, and he would give it to him. III
he accordingly did so and obtained the money h,
wanted. The next morning, when Mr. La
H. mont got up to make the fire, lie found thr
I'VE windows and doors alIopen, and all the knive
sit and forks, chairs, etc, lying around the dinin.
CIV room.
md He Immediately called his wife, who as sooi
lac
Of room where the man slept, she found hin Il
h a bed. She then began to look about for he
her things, and found almost all her silk dressc
cen missing together with her gold rings and chan
be and number of other very valuable article
,ol Suspicion Immediately rested upon the Erish
mas man, who was arrested, and upon his bcin
brought before a Justice, confessed his au
,no and was sent to prison for twenty days In hi
ties room were found the ring and chain, and in
ned place called the hollow, near the house, wer
oat found all the silk dresses, which he had taAc
roe to the village to sell, but finding no one to pu
the them, hid them in that place. -
is Two or three days after the occurrence, an
and while Mrs. Lamont was in the house all alou,
ow she thought she heard footsteps in the pa!o
ater and on going up into the room she percei, ed
,ioh tall, rawboned Irishman in the room, and ~
titv about to enter her bed room, with big thic
er,'' stick, about three feet long. She demandc
the what business he had in her house, when /
,ric. informed her that it was his house, and that
me she did not 60 out of it he would soon mai
iron her, that they had sent one of his countrymt
leli- to Jail, and he was going to have revenge.
and Finding she could not get him out, she we
and into an adjoining room, where her husbar
apt had loaded musket, and cooking it, wentin
ces, the parlor, and bringing the musket up lev
lred with his head, told him to depart, and that
h it he did not she would blow his brains out I'll
the fellow, not liking the looks of the instrumer
began to move off; and as he went she folio,
MON ed with the musket up to his head for a di
a;n tance of nearly quarter of a mile, when 81
,ow was met by some men, who took him into Gu
1tx tody.
silat The cost Of wood to railways has become
af