The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-07-08

Al the opening of the Presbyterian General Assem-
blv. at Cleveland, communication was read from
The trustees Of the church and some Of The citizens
raouesting the members Of the assembly to abstain
fam the use of tobacco during the session, that
.ba news might not be defledl The trustees had
previously removed all the carpets in the house,
bBut this was not all. The communication further
etated that some OF the families by whom the mem
bara would be entertained had been made very sem
tye on the same point by their experience in former
years and many had refused to receive members for
fear that they would prove to be tobacco-chewers.
In a recent communication to the Ohio Farmer un-
dor the non de plume of Molly Broom = the wife
If Col Price, CLARK county, KY, described family
residing in her neighborhood, by the misnanagement
Of whose head much domestic affection had been
ausea Unfortunately, neighbor named Cav took
tbe matter as intended for himself and meeting Col
PRICE demanded il he considered himself respons BILE
for what his wife wrote Unconscious of what Gay
alluded to- Col P. replied loosely no. when the
narties separated apparently on friendly terms
On the Lexington and Coyington road, weltering in
their blood. A last accounts Gay had not been ar
rested.
correspondent Of the Liverpool Post, writing af-
ter full adyices by the last India mail, expresses the
opinion that there will be very great deficiency in
the cotton crop of that country the present year
that its contribution to the Liverpool market will
III amount to more than 100000 bales, instead of
ZOO 900 as anticipated The highest Bombay esti-
MAZE indeed Of the whole India crop Is $50 900
bales of which 10000 have already been taken by
German houses The season has been very unfayor-
able in all the cotton growing districts The Octo-
her and November rains failed almost entirely and
there will be not only scarcity Of cotton but oi grain
also. -
A letter from Washington thus elucidates the ad-
ADMINISTRATION policy as to Cuba: The speech, or
rather short report Of the speech Of the hon JEFF
ferson Davis, lately delivered at Vicksburg, was
shown to Mr.. Buchanan the other day, probably with
$ view Of sounding the old gentleman on the Cuba
question. One at time, said old Buck-one at al
time We have the Central American question on
hand now; then the New Granada affair up,
and SO Cuba can wait; she must take her turn.
Mr.. Buchanan then carefully folded the paper and
handed it back to its owner.
The Wheeling (Va.) Intelligencer announces, on
reliable authority that there extensive
among the largest landholders in that State to dis
pose by wholesale of immense tracts of country to
Eli Thayer company, to be sold to bodies of settlers
now about emgrating from the eastern and western
States also that Kentucky and Tennessee have been
bidding for the attention Of the company, and il is
probable that considerable purchases will be made
in those States.
There is a lady living in this city who had the
misfortune few years since to be deprived entirely
and rrecoverably of her sight. She is at the head
of family, and cooks, bakes, irons cleans house.
sweeps the floor, and in fact, does all her work,
cept the washing without assistance and it is said
her house is the very picture Of neatness. There
are many woman with two good eyes W no won't do
this Fall River Star.
u Dct was mdue bIe obHeI udy DEW cen Two
in France about the speed Of horses and oxen, with
the road, the same distance; the distance tray
eled was % kilometers, (about IL miles.) 4 four
horse team was put to wagon loaded with about
10000 lbs. of beet root pulp. The oxen were two
yokes, with the same load. The horses beat them
only minutes, and would themselves have been
beaten had they not been the best in the country
Time, Oh 6m; 3h l3m.
Probably the greatestleap record was made at
the Helena shottower, Wis; some time ago horse,
u years old, jumped from the bank over perpe,l-
dicular precipice of one hundred and eighty feet
into the river below, and came out safe and sound
after swimming nearly half mile to suitable Ian
ding place. The water at the point where the leap
was made, was from twenty to twenty five feet deep.
An old gentleman from Illinois, one hundred and
ten years Of age, recently passed through New
York, his way to the east end Of Long Island in
search Of evidence Of having been soldier in the
revolutionary war, by which to establish his claim
to pension. He had walked the whole distance
from his home as he would notrun the risk Of short
enng his life by riding railroads, even TRUST
ing himself in the cars in the city drawn by horse
power.