The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-01-30

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most chills one to merely peruse the details
On the Hudson river railroad, between Ne
] York and Albany, three freight cars were ovel
taken by the snow and blocked up, and the ST
perntendent was compelled to take sleigbs t
: New York for relief Four additional loeome
lives were sent up, and the train finally reach
ed its destination with seven engines, over tw
: Fenglnes TO ear. In New York city, in man
places, the snow was from FIVE to six feet
depth. The Express pronounees the sno1
storm as unparalleled in that meridian and de
: votes several columns to the subject 1t adds
The snow storm is perfect god send TO til
unemployed; thousand miles of sidewalk, a
to be cleaned off by hand, at an estimated cos
of one cent per foot. The money paid for shoy
cling snow on Sunday and Yesterday will nc
be short of $50, 600; and if we include Brook
t Ign and Jersey City, $4,000 would not b
too large figure to put it at
In New Haven the storm was the heavies
ever known, and in some places the snow wa
piled up fifteen feet high. The PHILADELPHIA,
Sun, of the 10Th inst, says: aa no
The Pilot line and O'Clock train from New
! York of yesterday, arrived here at 9 o'clocl
this morning. Both trains reached a point +
miles above Camden, when the locomotive:
were unable to move further with the trains
| The engineer and conductor of one of the trains
then left with an engine and tender only fol
| Camden, to obtain assistance. During the alb
sence of this train the wood gave out and the
passengers, in order to keep up the FIRE in the
stove, had to tear down the fences in the neigh
borhood, and finally they were forced to use
the wood work of the cars and completely de-
molished one of the handsomest passenger cars
belonging to the company, to prevent them
selves from freezing to death. Finally the
freight train came up and pushed the passenger
cars ahead slowly until they reached Camden
about 9 o'clock. .z7"F 5
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EUROPE AT PEAcE-General Webb, of the
Courier d Enquirer has private advices by the
Asia, which in his opinion, removes all doubts
that the terms for concluding an immediate
peace between the western powers and Russia,
has been definitely arranged by Austria, been
acceded TO BY Russia, has received the assent
of the emperor Napoleon, and have been re-
luctantly acquiesced in by England The
terms are in brief as follows:
l. The Crimea to be left in the possession of
Russia. -. ..-.E --- - p. z
2. The Black sea to be open to the commerce
OF all nations, no armed vessels ever to float
upon its waters. s-= .-~r tns g. 81
5. The whole course of the Danube, and its
mouths included, to be entirely released from
Russian control.
4. Each party to beari its own expenses dur
ing the war. rod g3T -.a'=4g r
All this, says the Enquirer, may be fully reli-
ed on, notwithstanding the opinions of the Eu-
ropean press, and all the correspondents of the
press to the contrary-our own in
;luded. Ofcourse, it cannot be expected Of us
% reveal the source Of our information. Suf- |
ice 1t to say, it is conveyed in letter written
o US by direction of one who knows; and in
hasty note to US, says:-''I have requested |
to write you in regard to the probable ter
nInaton of the war, but even he is not per-
nitted to know the almost certainty of that
went; and our press is strangely befogged up
N the subject -.-. ...
THE MONROE DocTR1NE.-The National In
eIigeneer, in remarking upon the determine
ion of senators Cass, Clayton and Seward. to
ssert, under certain contingencies, the cardi
al points of the Monroe doctrine, says of the
ecent discussion in the senate: The reader
7ill, on its perusal, find that certain leadinu '
enators have in some degree committed them
elves to line of policy which demands the !
'isest scrutiny and most careful deliberalion.-i
hey have given the country to understand +
nat in certain contingencies they are prepared 1
} revive and maintain, as an active operating T
rnciple in our foreign policy, the declaration G
president Monroe, called the Monroe doc
inc, enumerated by him thirty five years ago I
declaration which was designed to particular u
tate of circumstances which never arose, and b
le declaration of course remained dead let S
r. This famous declaration made in concert j
it'll the British government-and intended t
olely as a caveat to the holy alliance (which e
ngland refused to JOHN against aiding Spain s
resubiugating her American colonies-after 4
ing dormant for thirty-fve years, it is now d
minated may be resuscitated, endorsed by "
ongress for the first time, and made living b
rinciple of our government. 1t is to this u
rave feature of the debate that we wish to call
le attention of the country, and submit to all t.
,hecting men to consider the wisdom of such O
course, and to we'll weigh the consequences b
which it may lead. ..-. Id
;. ~r<~1I>0-.1-o~7 Ia
A Washington dispatch of January 9th, to 4
e St. Louis Republican, thus notices the pre- q
ceilings at the evening session of the conven- n
on of the soldiers of the war of 1912, in the n;
ty of Washington, on the 9Th January. I'll
'sAt the evening session of the convention of n
lders of 1912, Mr.. George Washington Park = =,
ustis delivered an address. Resolutions were :.
lopted expressive of their opinion that the 81
,vernment is under the most solemn pledge to n,
try out the provisions of the continental con- m
ess regarding the provisions for officers of the
army.
s'It was also resolved, that it was due to the K
emory of james Madison, that an appropriate =
atute be erected to him in Washing ton. =,
ga resolution was then adopted, that the Vi
embers of the convention wear Grape on their fl
# arm for thirty days, in memory of those fl;
10 have died since the last conventions IL
ga committee of seven was then appointed W
present the resolutions to congress-. til
"Judge Sutherland was declared the perma- M