The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-06-03

SOUTHERN BAprIsr CONVENTION This body which
had been in session in Louisville, adjourned on the
h 1,h ult. On the last day large amount of bust
ass was transacted. A resolution was adopted in
nctiug the board Of domestic missions to appoint
nts to procure contributions sufficient for the Ii
dation of the entire debt of the church, which is
bant Ell 900. The whole amount Of receipts of the
hrention during the past year, for the various OBJ
Foregu missions, and Indian missions, is Sl07 900
This body already supports one missionary in Kan
az Interesting addresses were made at the closing
up of the session A spirit OF warm, ffaternai love
s.dIamed to pervade the body.
The United States war department has ordered
IN 200 rations of dssecated vegetables, puG up by
he house of Cholin 4 Co., Of Paris This new de-
rintion of food Cor the army of the United States
~ n he used upon the plains. 1t is for making soup
I'd has been adopted for the English, French and
ssnuanian armies The cost at which il is I'd be de-
i;ared at our army deposits on the Atlantic coast
"a about one and half cents per ration. tits said
that cubic yard of the preparation is sufficient to
nake plate of excellent most palatable and nutr
LIONS soup, around for $4,000 men.
The New York Evening Post of the 10Th ultimo,
saws, at the Washington drove yard, tins morning,
nrices Of beef cattle advanced one and half cents
per pound Very few sales were mace n under II
NOR i this lamentable condition Of affairs likely to be
Temporary. The backward spring and exceedingly
bigh prices of feed, with the scarcity of good fat
"se in the west all sustain the probability of even
baber prices for at least short future Sheep and
lambs and veal calves have also advanced 1t is
question of moment whether the poorer classes will
h. able to eat meat at all If wages generally
are not raised in proportion to the rise iii provisions
there will be suffering before spring weather
ean change the condition of our market
On the 18th ult, there offered fer sale on the
leyee at St. Louis, lot Of one hundred and thirty
bales of hay from Charleston South Carolina which
came all the way from the Atlantic shores over the
RAILWAYS to Memphis, thence by boats TO ST Louis,
performing the trip in six days. Who would have
credited such fact five years ago? HAY from the
WORKOUT fields in the eastern States: brought BY
land carriage across the country and sold in the
tral market of the great western prairies 1t was
sold at the price of the best Illinois hay, and paid
the shippers fair profit The merchants OF st.
Louis are making shipments Of bale rope, bacon and
produce directly to Charleston and Savannah over
The same route.
The Lexington correspondent of the Louisville
Courier writing the 18th ult, says: it is estima-
ted that there no less than one Thousand mules
on the streets for sale to-day Provisions have be-
come SO high and in the north and the west
that persons in those regions being unable to feed
them, are driving their mules to Kentucky to sell
them Last Monday there there were twelve hun
dred from those regions il Paris, it being county
court day there most Of which were net sold Oh &C.
count of the low prices that were offered Many of
these with others, have been driven here and early
this morning several Of the principal streets We're
filed with the long-rared gentry. Yearlings
freely offered at $780, with but few takers, and two
years old were offered at $I20.
We hope the Portland Me- estate Of Maine" has
been misinformed when il states that in that city
few days ago, an aged maiden lady, seventy years
Of age, was carried TO the workhouse, who has
brother living in Portland who was taxed the past
year on the assessors books, for $4,000, also
sister whose husband is taxed for over $4,000; and
cousin who is reputed to be worth $4,000.
An English paper says that the inhabitants Of a
large district in Wales have purchased large guam
tity of land in the State of Tennessee, and were
about starting in a body to take possession The
movement is one lit adds) in which tile whole prin-
cpality feels interest.
The York Pennsylvania states that the rev. B.
Hutchins, formerly pastor of the episcopal church
in that borough but now residing at Albion, ILL
nois recently lost out Of nine children in ten
successive days fir scarlet fever, aud at last &C
counts the other two were ill. g44
ANOTHER IMpRovEMENT.-The Courier des Etats
Unis says that former pupil of the polytechnic
school of France has invented new peess and type
which may revolution in the art of printing
The type bears the letters at both ends and will
therefore yield two impressions with one setting
The thing is SO simple that people surprised that
twas not thought of and applied long ago. 1t is
being successfully tried, daily and in public at the
Conservatoire des Arts ct Meters.
The total number of emigrants sent to Liberia since
the foundation of the American colonsatior in 1920
is stated to be $500, of whom 3 676 were born free
and $500 emaneipated with view to emigration
This number does not include 1000 sent to Mary
land, in Liberia, by the Maryland cplonisaton So
piaty