The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-01-23

IS commanding much attention in commercial q
z cles. According to this statement, trade is r
Il more permitted than before the treaties wei
/ made, and this, from the report of America
;. seamen, is really true. No one is allowed
e trade but the imperial agents, who again wi
e only sell provisions. All communication viii
: the interior is prohibited, and, in reality, bot
S the United States and Great Britain are PR
: cisely where they were before negotiations wei
b entered into. 1t would appear that these de
j ceptions were suggested by the authorities ;
!: the Hague, and that a Dutch official, special
/ selected, was despatched to Japan, and that h
' has since acted as kind of foreign secretar
: to the imperial government. These facts ar
; indeed admitted by the king, whose notes @
the treaties have been published, and they ap
5 pear to deserve if not chastisement at least at
t tention The Dutch in the east are Jealous il
the extreme of Anglo Saxon influence, and b.
, no means scrupulous in their endeavors to un
dermine it. A letter in the New York Journa
of Commerce, written in China, states that tn
:; advantages supposed to have been secured by
commodore Perry's expedition to Japan will 81
found to have dwindled to the value of ga feath
er's down. and declares that this underlined
uncertain and unsatisfactory state ofthings vii
never find remedy until a United States min
I lister plenipotentiary shall be acknowledged al
that court. He also thinks it necessary for oul
national interests in China, where our CONNER
cial relations remain unsatisfactory, as we'll as
| in Japan, that we should be represented there
by strong naval force. 1t looks as if our coun
try had difficulties to adjust all around the
globe. Uncle Sam will soon find his hands full.
The will of John D. Fink, well known rich
old miser, who died in New Orleans few days
since, without having any family or relations in
the United States, has been proven and filed
in the second district court. He was native
Of Wiremburg. and about 70 years old when
he died. He had resided in New Orleans be-
tween IS and 40 years, and, living in the most
penurous style, amassed large amount of
property, now valued at several hundred thou
sand dollars. He donated the bulk of his estate
to the foundation of an asylum for protestant
widows and orphans in N. Orleans, to be called
the Fink asylum Small legacies were left
to several relatives, and provision made for the
emancipation of number of slaves. 1t would
seem to have been passion among the rich
persons of n Orleans to found asylums for the
poor orphan and destitute widow Poydras
the benevolent work, and has been
followed by Girod, Milne, Henderson, Touro,
our beautiful and lamented young friend, Miss
Anne Mercer, and Mr. Fink. The Bulletin al
uding to the will of the latter, says:
How much better it would have been for Mr..
Fink had he erected the before mentioned asy
UNI during his lifetime. He would then have
'een certain, despite the quirks and quiddities
If the law-not to mention its delays-that his
Intentions could not be defeated. However, |
We are glad that we are to have another asy-
UNI for the widow and the orphan.
According to the official report of the trade
md commerce of Great Britain, for the ten
months ending on the LIST November, 1855, our
commercial intercourse with that country is
early three times larger than that of the ma
ion ranking next to US in the amount of its ton
age. In comparison with England herself,
ur tonnage in her own ports amounts to near
y one-third, which certainly speaks well for
he commercial enterprise of our people. The
lumber of American vessels which entered the |
English ports, inward bound, during the month
f October, 1853, was rs; the tonnage ofwhch |
mounted to 62,O59 tons; during the same
1onth in 1854, 70 vessels, tonnage 65,293-
nd during the same month in 1856, 1O6 yes
els, tonnage 1901 Those outward bound
1ere, during October, 1858, IS, having ton
age of 7O,039; 1854, rs vessels, tonnage
O,O39; in 1854, rs vessels, tonnage 68,266;
nd in 1855, 151 vessels, tonnage 1911, 337.-
he amount of tonnage inward bound for the
en- months ending 1st November, 1855, was
,OO4,35O tons, and the amount of that out
,ard bound was ,O59,2 tons. If the exist
70 difficulties between the United States and
treat Britain should unfortunately lead TO
ar, speedy end will be put to the immense
traffic now carried on between the
NO countries.
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The st. Paul { Minnesota Pioneer has start
d the question as to "who discovered the head
f the Mississippi" and says that Henry R.
choolcraft has enjoyed the reputation in Eu-
ope and America, with the learned and I'M
earned, as being the first man who traced the
reat Father of Waters to its fountain head.
he Minnesota historical society, or at least
ome of its best informed members, deny the
ght of Mr.. Schoolcraft to the distinguished
onor which he has SO long enjoyed. They
ontend that Jean N. Nicollet first traced the
to its source, although its explora
on was not attempted until after schoolcraft's
iscovery had been published to the world
he latter fixed the head of the river at Itasca
Ike, and reported that the lake was fed by pure
prings gushing from the hills around it. Two
ears after Schoolcraft visited the lake, the pa
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