The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-06-17
fGnAn1se CousrERrEIr We lave been shown

IGLARIsG CoUNTERFgIT.--W have been shown a
fcirnen of very Psar counterfeit nIon the South
K Bank of New Orleans, of the denomination of
Ety dollars. In nothing is it like the genuine fifty
folar note Of that bank. It does not purport to be
fhe same plate, but is sheer swindle made out of
tthe whole cloth. The devices are different, the Wig
uettes the dies and even the size Of the note. The
| signatures nothing like these 1T Nh. Egerton the
presdent and Mr. Wibray, the cashier, and the name
pf the auditor is spet Bordelin instead Of Bordelon
The number Of the specimen before US is 692, and
the date April Il, 1856. a very little in in
snecting ffties ofthe Southern bank viii protect all
but the very verdant, from imposition against this
counterfeit. E#@ #Pic.
MoRaosisM N New JERsET.-A gentleman who has
been spending the past winter in Trenton, New Jer
sew informs the Boston Journal that there is living
IN that city. within short distance Of the court
bo1se professed and practical mormon having five
wives and eighteen children To say nothing Of the
Inconvenience attending SO largea famly we should
think his saintshp would find it rather burdensome
supporting them all at the present. high rate of pro-
A canvass for the guhernatoria5 chair of Tennes-
see is no light affair. We see by the Memphis pa
ners that the candidates have issued appointments
for speeches at fftyhree places, to which card is
attached expressing their regret at being unable to
speak in every county in the State, before the cleo
toni The candidates are lsham G. Harris, demo-
crat and Robert Hatton, American.
The Macon Journal and Messenger suggests that
the State convention of the American party meet on
the 7h or 9Th Of July and that meetings be held in
the different counties, composed Of the friends of re-
FORM regardless of old party ties and able and dis
Greet men be selected delegates to that important
body.
The Providence Journal announces the arrival at
that port of Of the most vau able carroes ever
brought from Zanzibar 1t consists Of ivory, gums,
coffee hides, goat skins, cloves, dates ebony, tor
tose shells and coir.
Among the bills reported in She Massachusetts
legislature at their last session. is one permitting
interest the rate Of twelve per cent on notes and
contracts having less than year to run.
Within the last SIX years RAILROAD has been COM
pleted to Danville, Virginia and the value Of the
property in that town, according to assessment
Just made, has increased SO per cent.
The New York Times says lhe bank note circu-
lation of the United States at the present time, es
timated TO represent about Sl90,0l0000.
The pasha Of Egypt has a bedstead Of solid sill
yer, which weighs one ton The mint value of it is
about forty thousand dollars.
Upwards Of hundred persons have attached
themselves to the methodist church in Macon Ca
during the progress Of recent protracted meeting
The name Minnesota first applied to the Mnneso-
toriver has its origin in two Dakotah words Min
ne,,water "Sota 4 whitish like the soil
Cyrus Smith, treasurer lie The Piedmont railroad,
was garoted lately in BROOKLYN Street. Boston, BY
three men, and robbed Of 81 100.
Some eight wagons, moving as many families,
passed through Lewisbnrg, Virginia. recently bound
for Iowa.
Weperceive that the citizens 81 Avoyees parish
in this State, are moving in favor of railroad.