The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-06-13

~ rory dav marks some advance in aerial i'm
S vament and hardly in any thing more TIL inthe
@ p;I;tia of INSTRUMENTATION and the convent
81 nnres and comforts Of the travelling public These
@ H. remember the "sow coaches, eyela he fast
81 ooches cf former times, could hardly realize lis
I'd fact the railroad speed Of these days butthey
al "a come to see so many things next to iEhe mpos-
IN ife conquered that they gonto the extreme and
al isn to think that nothing is impossible We had
99ost come to the same conclusion, {sa9s the Ma
anal Ineiligencer.j when We read the new sche-
III II the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Think of
~ transported--almost without the feeling of
os' a"a55ot;oufrom Washington to the Ohso river in
To- Than day, and to ST. Lonis, in the far west in
Ill +o DAYS and on the route crossing the chains Of
Nv, AIfeghany mountains, at an elevation Of TWEEN
INV avan hundred feet above the Washington station
g;+b Il much apparent and indifference as if
Iee towering and romantic regions had been total
d T.. razed and obliterated. @n
h1pp FGLLowsHP,-Last year 3, 129 lodges were in
;s+ance with 199, l91 contributing melnbers-rere
80 a 1874 935, from which relief was granted to the
HLI nt of s495, 526. Such are the authentic safis
az Of the order which, says the Philadelphia Led
cr "has increased like the grain Of mustard seed
ont its branches cover the entire land. until every
Ind that stirs through the heavens Shakes down
lenefcent dews from it on the sick, needy an suf
fering" m 80
riay wings, and few of the leading friends of Mr.
Fillmore, held secret meeting New Y ork on the
3th ult for the purpose of devising tho means ne
sgary to place themselves in communication with
,ie southern friends of Mr. Fillmore and to secure
fr the ex-president the know nothing nomination in
1856 Among those present at the melting GA that
OCCASION the hon Joseph ?. Kennedy, Of Balti-
mare, who it will be reeollected, was 4 Iqember of
Fillmore's cabinet E
The famous Lancaster guns are said to be B fai-
lire Their power is enormous when the ball strikes
At the point at which tits aimed, but the gun rarely
sends two balls to the same point, and as yet no
,oons having been found to prevent the deviation
is of W val, e.
p'Trbe book publishers Of New York nave formed
themselves into society for the TRANSACTION of such
;sss connected with the interests If fine tradeas
nav come before if, and for the cultivation of social
intercourse among the trade The marie ofthe soci-
ETY. is the New York Book Publishers Association
and under the constitution as adoraed, none But
publishers Of books viii be eligible to member
Ship WA. Appleton esq, is president of the as
sociation 4e~s-S-
A New York correspondent writes us All incident
Illustrative Of the duness Of trade there at present
it may be mentioned that many packages Of dry
goods imported last fall have recenlybee re-sbin-
ned to Liverpool by the consignees hire There is
no market for them; and notwithstanding freight
costs both ways, to say nothing Of Insurance com
MISSIONS De- the loss reshipent ii less than that
which would be incurred BY keepiHg them in the
warehouses.
There is no country in the world where the people
are so addicted to the medicine eain propensity as
in the United States. 1t has grown Ito be perfect
manila disease of itself The fact Esnature nev er
desigred the human body to be such IA receptacle of
medicine II men would but study The laws of ma
ture, diet properly instead of druggiEg excessivsly
he regular in their habits instead Of Regular in their
doses, use common sense and cold w]ter freely and
the doctor little possible they Would live much
longer, suffer less and pay little for The privilege
In Richmond, Virginia, there is al baptist church
for colored people, which numbers some 2, 100 com
muncants 1t is thought to be the l4rgest christian
church, in point of numbers, in the United States,
and perhaps in the world, with possibly an excep-
ton or two among the native churches in India and
the Sandwich islands
Rev. j b. Wakeley, who delivered the eulogy on
the deceased Mr. Poole the notorious New York pu-
glist, remarked that gov. Seymour who vetoed the
liquor law last year, politically dead and he,
Eakely, was ready topreach his fureraI sermon a
tasty clergyman, that.
John Henrietta, of Yankcedem, has recovered
$3.50 in action for malicious prosecution from a
man who had him prosecuted for violating the Sab
BATH because after church he walled five miles to
call upon friend, with whom he h5i conversation
about some hoop poles.
From experiments made in bakeries at Doula and
Cambria it appears that the yeast bf the beet root
used only in the proportion of hail the quantity Of
the yeast made from hops produces the same result.
A large number Of silk viewers, lace-makers, and
gloyers lately emigrated from Lyons, France to Cali
fornia They could not find employment there, and
have lately returned home III great distress.
Yankee enterprise is already taking advantage Of
commodore Perry's treaty with thesJapanese Mes
srs. Reed IL DougherGg have opertH a ship chandle
IN and general Aonseat siakodadi Japan.
Fish are said To be a very healthy food With the
exception OF such have Oil ntarfksedi in their
ealaf tissues sh are easy of dige4tien and it is
markable that fishermen md thei4 families, and all
tisS1a oorsnfao very large Quantity of fish, are
healthy to taal t,4,} &{egree and almost
wholly exempt from sefofula ana pulmonary con
sumption
The Chinese are said III have Iored for centuries
under great embarrassment, from Inat knowing how
to make barrel. They could without any difficult
tymake the slaves, set them up AID hoop them in,
and, indeed with the help OF q man inside, they
could put the second head on; bat how to get the
man out after the barrel was hetded, that was the
question =@7
A committee appointed by the Pennsylvania his
orical society has submitted to that society able
report recommending the celebrations of the anniver-
sary of the adoption Of the constitution Of the United
States as national festival by The American peo-
pie The report suggests the anniversary of its for
NAL ratification by the convention, sitting in Phila
delphia, which took place Septerlberl7, as proper
time for its celebration, Washington, who presi
ded the deliberations, recommended it to the
people In communication signed on that day. In
urging this addition to the national holidays the
port urges that national walls only two in
number and the addition of . third can be made
without impairing the value and efficacy Of the two
others. #s
Mr. W Fugote, of Kinderhook, Indiana, claims
the reward Of $4,000 offered BIZ the Massachusetts,
Legislature for discovery of "a preventive of the
"potatoe rot" He says the cause is bug and the
prevention consists in cuttins; off the vines just
inches above the ground, removing all the leaves.
The birth Of Greeley is thus chronicled in Parton's
life Of that distinguished philosopher He came in
to the world as black chimney. He uttered no
cry; he did not breathe. But the little discolored
stranger had articles to write aid not permitted
to escape his destiny. He so@n began TO breathe
then to blush; and BY the tim{ he had attained the
age of twenty minutes, lay on his mothers arm,
red and smiling infant"
At the recent commencement of Wittemberg col
lege one Of the graduates who received the highest
honors of his, class, was forty two years Of age
Having enjoyed no opportunities for education IN his
youth, he commenced at the radimcnts when TWEEN
ty-fve years old, and he soon cqured deep thirst
for knowledge, and improved all bis opportunities
and intervals from labor for study As is evident
he possesses great fxedness G! purpose, and is de-
tered or discouraged by no di 4hculties.
H. A. Wise says Virginia, fsthas an iron chain Of
mountains running through her centre, which God
has placed there to milk the clouds and be the
of her silver rivers Milking the clouds to make
silver rivers beats the Durhanls [
Mayor Wood, of New York; reiterates his deter
mlnaton publish Immediately after the lst of the
Of oil