The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-06-10

Washington on the Isl inst, for the purpose OF
taking some steps in regard to the removal 9
the Red River raft.
The meeting was organized BY calling .Dfs |
G. B. Mitchell to the chair, who explained tne
object of the meeting, when Mr.. G. W. HOOKS
was appointed secretary.
On motion of Mai j. w. Finley, a commit
tee, consisting Of Messrs. J. W Finley, Benz
P. Jett, /. n. Jones' c. M. Hervey, j. l.. Boul- |
din and H. K Brown. was appointed to take
into consideration and report such steps as were
deemed necessary to be taken 10 promote this
great end.
Whereupon said committee submitted the
following report . -.
Whereas, The citizens Of upper Red River
view with Just alarm, the constant accumula-
ton of the great raft in said river;5and where
as. it has been represented by Col. Fuller that
an additional appropriation by congress IS
| necessary to carry out successfully the COM
plete removal of said obstruction; therefore,
Be it resolved, That I. N. Jones, G.. M.
Heryey, R. Pryor, G. K Cheatham, B. z. Jet,
H. A. Hawkins, B. f, Hawkins, II. r. brown,
R, H. WYNN, [. B. Fort, P. R. Booker, ii. nj.
Lemay, James Abraham and E.. S. Johnson,
citizens aforesaid, be appointed a committee
| to visit the raft region, view the operations
! and confer with Col. Fuller relativeto the work,
/ and make such other examinations as Will en-
4 able them to arrive at just conclusions rela-
tive to future operations. and the practleabllity
of removing permanently the distractions to
our navigation. ,.s .-. -..s..~z 81
Resolved. That the said committee be re-
uuested to report to this meeting on the hrst
Monday in October next the result OF the en-
i ouirv. as to the success which has heretofore
attended the operations of Col. Fuller, and his
views as to the probability of completing the
works, by means of further appropriation, to-
/ petber with such other information as they
may be able to collect, that said meeting may
be enabled to correctly determine what should
be done to accomplish SO desirable an object.
/ Resolved, That the citizens of the different
counties in Texas, bordering upon Red River,
be requested to join in this examination, and
appoint committees for this purpose, and meet
the above appointed committee at such time
and place as they may mutually agree upon
I Resolved, That the proceedings OF this meet
ing be published in the newspapers printed at
Washington, and that the Texas papers III the
vicinity of Red River be requested to copy,
Resolved, That this meeting adjourn to meet
on the first Monday of October next ~s -@s-
.-E G. B. Mitchell, Chairman.
/ G. w Hooks, Secretary. za
j The abolitionists and freesoil fanatics OF Ohio
/ are at their old tricks On the 29h ult., mar
4 shall Churchill, with eleven assistants, attempt
ed to arrest at Mechanicsburg, Champaign
county, four men charged with harborlng tug-
tive slaves. nine months since A writ of habeas
l,t bofo oauld bo
served the e. S. officers had their prisoners be-
yond the county limits. A writ was taken out
in another county and served by the sheriff at
the head ola body of men. The marshal resisted
for a time the sheriff and his posse, but after
the firing of several shots, was oyerpowered,
and, with his prisoners, marched to Springfield
for trial on charge of resisting the county
officers and the laws Of Ohio. Great excite
ment prevailed throughout the surrounding
counties. The U. S. marshal, at Cincinnati,
Immediately teegraphed to the secretary OF the
interior, Washington, an account of the diff
Guilty, and asked for Instructions from the gen
eral government In the meantime, Judge Lea
witt, OF the United States district court, issued
: habeas corpus, which the marshal proceeded
to Springfield to serve, and, if resisted, it was
stated that the U. S. troops would be employed
, to enforce the process.
At the last adyces marshal Churchill and
his deputies were in prison at Springfield.
We. find in the Baton Rouge Gazette and
Comet the following pertinent remarks in re-
gard to the approaching State election:
Every mail brings us an account of meet
ngin some parish, of those opposed to the reign
ing dynasty in Louisiana. We again caution
our friends, LET no side or outside issues be
brought Hold our opponents totheir acts the
!, past two winters Their acts, or at least that
portion published, are before the people, upon
these let them bejudged. We already hear the
cry, "Let us give Mr.Buchanan our undivided
support in the south. We now have no quar-
rel with Mr.. Buchanan. AS yet he has done
nothing, save the appointing ofhis special friends
to Office, and for this wei have no cause ofcom-
, plant" Let the two wings of the democracy in
: Louisiana fight over the spolls, we have no in
terest in them. Ours is the more agreeable du
!, ty of rescuing the State government from those
who have made their position as Legislators, q
t place for private speculation, and venting pri
f vate and party malignity. Ask, why the ne
cessity was forced upon the State to borrow
three hundred thousand dollars at one session
when the government was placed in their hands
with redundant treasury? What effort has
: been made to carry out the provisions of the
: constitution requiring a board of public works
to be organised. What has become of the vas
fund appropriated to leyees and drainage?-
Where are the officers under whose charge i
was placed? How many ofthem have been ou
of Louisiana on private business? how many
2 qualified for the places they hold?.....Let us
make our opponents answer them all at the bal
of public opinion. - - 5
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= AWFITL STEAMBOAT DIs AsTER Tho stea.,
, ship Louisiana, captain Shepherd, from New
; Orleans for Galveston, was totally DESTROYED
BY fire, about one o'clock on the morning of the
31st ult., six or eight miles s. E. of Galveston
\ The flames broke out in the fre-room. anc
, spread with great rapidly. All the passengers
} and the larger portion of the officers and crew