The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-06-24
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SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILRoAB.--We learn by
private letters, as also BY the public journals,
that the subscription books of this road have
been opened in St. Louis, at the U. S. treasury
office, under the supervision Of Isaac Sturgeon,
esq.,, of we'll known enterprise and character.
The amount is limited to 10000 shares OF the
five per cent. stock, large proportion of which
was at once taken, and by men, says the Intel
lgencer, who never put their hand to papers
except to make it pay" Among them Mr..
Harrison, largely interested in the Iron Noun
tain road, and Thomas Allen, esq, formerly
president of the Pacific railroad, projected
through the State Of Missouri.
The merits of this great enterprise have, in
deed, been brought before the entire people of
this rising city, and, if we may judge by the
public journals, in the most satisfactory man.
ner. The prospect is, says the Republican.
ssthat the south will anticipate the north in the
completion Of this great national work, and
New Orleans and California be in railroad con-
nection before such a bond unites San Francis
CO with any northern city. Other journals
and our private letters express themselves TO
the same effect. Confidence in the enterprise
is universal. Considering, indeed, the general
interest manifested in it by all classes Of peo
pie, we think it matter of regret that the
amount assigned to ST. Louis, should in any
way have been limited.
The Southern Pacific railroad is in fact Of
nearly equal importance to every section and :
city Of the country. Il is the only road pro-
iected that gives any assurance Of ever being
built; it occupies indeed, the only feasible
route. 1t offers, also, the most convenient con-
nection with the other great lines Of railroads
now spanning nearly all the older States of=the
federal Union. Of course, from the felicity of
its situation, as also from its commercial pres
tige, as the emporium of the southwest our
own city will reap the first fruits Of this great
enterprise; but we can well see the interest our
sister cities on the river have and feel in the
same. The full measure of their prosperity,
indeed, depends upon its success. As for St.
Louis, her sagacious and enterprsing capitalists
have long had in contemplation a great work.
the Iron Mountain road, now rapidly progress
sing, especially designed to meet the southern
Pacific railroad on the eastern boundary Of
Texas. The commercial world has at last
opened its eyes to the Importance of this great
work, whose success, under such encourage
ments, is now fortunately beyond the possibil-
ity of doubt. Picayune.
| A CATTLE PLAGUE.-In some of the north
ern parts of the continent of Europe terrible
plague has been raging for sometime among
the cattle, sweeping them of in hundreds. The
disease is regarded as exceedingly infectious,
as well as fatal, so that the most rigorous and
effectual measures are adopted in every neigh
boring locality to guard against its approach,
or to destroy the poison in the germ should it
have made its appearance. 1t is recommend
ed, as being the most effectual means, to de-
stroy every affected animal, and to bury or
otherwise destroy the carcasses-the hides be-
ing Immediately tanned and the houses purifi-
cd with chlorine. There appears to be two
varieties of the disease, one called the pulmo-
nary murrain, the other and more fatal, the
steppe murrain The first stage of this dis
ease is attended with dry short cough, which
NAV exist for several weeks. In the early
stage the animals may be cured, but other
stages follow, the symptoms of which resem-
BILE those of the steppe murran, and end in
similar manner, the lungs exhibiting an indu-
rated appearance and an entire change of struc-
ture The fears excited that this disease might
spread to England has led to the issuing OF a
proclamation by government forbldding the
importation into the United Kingdom of cattle,
horns, hoofs, and raw or wet hides, or skins Of
cattle, which shall come from, or shall have
been at any place within the territories of the
emperor of Russia, the king of Prussia, or Of
the grand duke of Mecklenburg- -Schwern,
which respectively are in or border upon the
gulf of Finland, or any other part Of the Bal
tic sea between the gulf of Finland and the
free city of Lubec. We hope this plague will
not spread among the cattle of different coun-
tries, like the cholera among the human race.
[Scentifc American.
If our western friends can in any way teach
their wives, daughters, OF cooks, to keep the
pearash out of the bread, ali the yellow peo
t pie, especially the yellow children-who arc
supposed to be turned yellow by the fever and
; ague, bilious fevcrs, &C., &c.-wi|l soon be
returned white. 1t is a great mistake to sup
pose, that the yellow countenances of the west
come from bile, when it is only the enormous
quantities of pearlash eaten in the bread that is
reflected through the skin. Bread is the staff
of fe it is said and so it is, but it is the staff
of death too, in this country. Bad bread kills
about as many people here as bad rum. So,
many people eat poisonous pearlash for bread,
that they die of it by inches. Dyspepsia
that great monster disease of our country, that
deranges the liver, brings on costivcness, and
thus finally kills the human yictum, half the
time, is pearlaSn. Here IN the cast, out or new
England, we have nearly driven off the pearl
ash saleratus cooks, but not altogether. Pearl
ash lives here yet in bread, but i'll the cities
and towns we have nearly whipped out the
murderers In the distant western towns,
beyond the good hotels Of the lakes, and or
the rivers-pearlash, however, under the name
of saleratus, is king 1t is pearlash for break
fast, pearlash fos dinner, and pearlash for sup
per. 1t is not any wonder then that white peo-
pie east turn yellow west, and sickcn, not Of
fever and ague, bilious and conjestIve fevcrs,
but of pearlash, three times per day
New Y ork Express,
, MURDER WILL ouT.-In 1882, DR.. II. Per-
kins purchased eleven negroes in the parish of
= West Felciana, of a man who had been living
n Wig fsnpne year or more. The man was
Pth one child, a daughter. He re-
) quel BDr. P, to allow his little daughter to
remain at his house for a few weeks only, un-
, til he could procure a house for her, which was
granted. In few days the man and negroes.
, mysterouslv disappeared, and no trace of their