The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-12

NJ land for several days, for persons who are
Iae fling upon the vacant lands il that region
n o. Peece Hughes has had large body Of land To-
w. as,sd quite lively interest has been awakened in
cav ~ minds Of our neighbors A gentleman BY the
r. Il JefTries who to this county upon some
ha ness with MFR. ash in regard to Ills iron mine,
@ oa .ha ane who has been making the discovery The
Ia cas- first discovered III well which was being
,Laanon the plantation Of the Rev. Mr. Ross since
ous alher discoveries have been made We are told
~ Il other spots turn out well as those which
aa been tried, the ground will be worth 5000 900
10 no acre Cass county is already celebrated for her
Prnifeent iron deposite, and silyers not an unusu-
a Compartment of iron. The latter renders Cass
laabe IS mineral district the silver still more So
M Heath has several days more of surveying to do
n that region. These things show that Cass coun-
ia second in importance to county in the State
H. are very much disposed to think that she may
Lad the foremost rank Jefferson Gazette.
n 's1 raops m EASTERN TExAs-The general impression
,srrants the belief that there will Be an average
crap Of corn. in Eastern Texas. Some fears
sertaned that the caterpillar may visit since the
recent rains. Cotton, though late, LOOKS renarka-
Ots ome neghborhoods have suffered severely with
aontb. IN this county while others have been bless
"a with timely seasons We have seldom seen bet
ter crop, any seasonhan Gen Bea Of Elysan Fields,
bas the present. The general will have corn to sell
and corn to keep Harrison Flag
From the Washington Union of the 25th nit. we
srtract the following: Encouraging news from In.
diana and Illinois. The commissioner Of patents
yesterday received letter, dated Evansville Indi-
ana in which the writer states that the crops of
southern Indiana and southern Illinois, are beyond
ali precedent. The ssodest inhabitant' saws that
nothing has been known like it, They are now har-
| vestng, and the rust has done no damage. Cornis
late. The crops Of wheat rye, grass and potatoes
will exceed from present appearances, ali former
products
writer in the National Intelligencer is advancing
the theory that the moon IS simply the indicator Of
the earths electric changes. and that the itself
has no apprecable effect upon this panet-that the
moon is fragment Of the EARTH is negative to it, and
reyolves upon its own axis, within the earh atmos-
phere that the earth is enveloped in ocean Of cleo
trio vapor, dense and compound upon its solid sur
face whose gases separate, however, they deepen
outward, the always enanating from and resting
on the more dense, until wereach in outward order
huorine, electricity and magnetism, that subtle ele-
rnen pervadng all space; and that observing the va
rious atmospheric strata above and the solid strata
below US. it is not difficult to perceive that men, an
finals and vegetable forms are existing in the centre
the earhs qualification. The electric lines of no
variation those extending from the north to the
south pole the diamagnetic or dia electric lines are
those extending around the earth from west to east
and are ever variable 1t the yarableness of these
diaeecric currents says this writer that produces
all the phenomena attributed to the influence Of the
moon upon the earth.
Washington letters state that official dispatches
from Mr.. Mason at Paris, and others, were received
had given up the naval expedition to Vera Cruz and
that the difficulty between the two countries as in
fair way of being amicably settled So far as the
Vera Cruz expedition is concerned if so absurd
every way was ever IN reality contemplated have
no to doubt this information but several DAYS
later intelligence by telegraph contradicts the rest
of the statement, though before said it cannot be
possible that Spain will allow herself, without fur
Their cause, to become inyovedn serious difficulty
in the gulf t.E .g-
On thod. nf J,,1ry 4
Ga) Recorder, had III his hands drum that was bea
ten at the battles Of Saratoga, Cowpens and Eutaw
Springs. The Savannah volunteer guards are the
fortunate possessors Of this revolutionary relic
dered more sacred and dear to the American soldiery
from the fact that III each battle victory perched up
the American standard To give vent to his pa
triotie feelings at the pleasing incident the editor
drunk to the memory of the old patriot who beat that
drum in the "times that tried mems souls
The Galena (Ill) Courier states that a Clergyman
Wholives few miles from that place had quarrel
with his wife recently. and proceeded to beat her with
stick from locust tree severely that her back
covered with blood and bruises Having used
up one stick on her, he was getting another, when
some neighbors interfered A sermon from the lips
of such an amiable northern divine must be highly
edfying Rallock Beecher and Parker had better
look out for their laurels.
Ayoung medical man. DR.. Sale, practicing at Cha
Ions performed lately the operation Of tracheoomy
opening the wind pipeon child that had the Group
and malignant sore throat Blood escaped into the
wind pipe from the wound, and in orderto the
childs llfethe doctor Immediately applied his mouth
and sucked the blood out. Next day alarming symp-
toms declared themselves i'll the region of the lungs,
his respiration became difficult and in the short space
of forty hours from the time of the operations Dr.
Sale breathed his last.
Mr. Johns, of Lee county, shetland instant
yklledb by DR. Heard of the county, on the 10th
ult The Guthbert Georgia Reporter says
The difficulty occurred in consequence of Johns
attempting to use water from Heard's WE'LL after he
had forbidden him to do SO. 1t is said that Johns
was advancing on Heard with stick, when he was
shot by him. Ebs
Among the killed by the late accident on the Ma
rietta Railroad two of doctor Talbot Bull
lard of Indianapolis Indiana, aged respectively 10
and l8 years. There has been, appears, remark
able history Of the family whose they bore
Their great grandfather at the age Of los years died
BY accident, being choked to death. Their grand
father doctor ARENAS Bulard, Of West Sutton, Mas
sachusetts, at about So fell from hay loft and broke
his neck. Their uncle, doctor Jesse Billiard, was
drowned between San Francisco and the Sandwich
islands some SIX years ago. Another uncle, rev. Mr.
Artemas Billiard. Of St. Louis, was last year killed
at the railroad disaster at Gasconade bridge, Mis-
souri,. And now these young men are, by the vlo-
lence of a like disaster, suddenly hurried to the
grave.
There is a monomaniac named Boughan5, in the
county of Montgomery, Mississippi who has lived
under shelving rock, ON the bank of the Loture
river for the past three years all of which time he
has spent digging in the solid rock, searching for
treasure which he says his uncle and some other
men, who were miners, buried there more than a
hundred years ago. His only garments of leath-
er, and his only tools an and tin pail.
novel speculative movement has beguniD Cuba,
sjont stock company having organised forthe pur-
pose Of encouraging the growth ofcctton The CAPT
tai of the company is put down at eight mil ions,
divided into four thousand shares, at $4,000 each
They propose to buy up all the cotton growing lands
OF the island, especially such unfit by nature
OF otherwise for the growth of sugar, and put them
atonce under cultivation. The company also pro-
pose to engage in cotton manufactures. The movers
speak with confidence of their enterprise which they
say has the approval and encouragement of the gov
eminent.
ARREST OF GAMBLERS IN CHIcAGo-We learn from
the Chicago Democrat that zone of the worst gam
bling dens that ever disgraced any city in the Q
states was entered by the police Of that city, and
sixteen men and boys were arrested. About S4oo0
Wofsh q gambling implements We're seized. The
gamblers fought the police with dirks, revolyefs,
ana bowie knives, before they would submit TO ar
fcss, oat no one was seriously injured.
Ion, OF the Baltimore SUM- says that, in the next
congress, neither the Northern Americans nor the
south Americans will hold any power, but that a
new party, called heHCentral Americans, will pro-
oaDly show themselves. One of the -planks, per-
maps The Chief the platform of this party, Will be