The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-07-15

of the 3d. The democratic convention had nominal
ted ex-governor Ransom for congress, and passed
resolution endorsing the policy Of governor Walk
or. resolution to adopt the constitution whether
tbe convention submitted it to the people or not was
lost by vote of one to forty.
JULY THE Salt lake mail arrived at Independ-
once on the 30th ult The emigrants their av
across the plains were we'll. Water and grass were
A report has been received Of fight between a
body Of Indians and colonel Summers command ia
which, tits said, one hundred and fifty of the latter
were killed.
IEAvEswoRrH lKansas,l July 4-General Har-
new who is here, discredits the story published in
The evening editions of the associated press) of the
reported battle of portion Of Summers command
in which it is reported that the whole detachment,
consisting OF one hundred soldiers and fifty team
sters, were cut in pieces.
Wa learn from Minnesota that, far as Aeard
from the convention stands-democrats, AS; rapnb-
leans. 81; not heard from IL. Of those not heard
from the democrats may possibly secure sufficient
TO give them a majority in the convention.
The Athens (Ga.) Watchman, of the I'd instant,
says. we understand that there was killing frost
in a neghboring county in North Carolina one night
last week! Corn, and every thing else, was bitten
badly by it. &
The Philadelphia Inquirer states that distressing
circumstances thicken about the case of Judge Won
dersnith who is charged with fraud and forgery up
on the United States government, and is at present
confined in the debtors apartment of Movamensing
In Lancaster after protracted illness, and her bro
Their had been committed to prison for thirty DAYS
the day previous for drunkenness and disorderly CON
duct. The decease of Mrs. Vondersmith appears to
have been powerful blow upon his spirit, and
there are no less than fifteen bills of Indictment
pending against the Judge for fraud and forgery up
on the United States government, and if tried and
convicted upon all, his term Of Imprisonment could
be made to reach one hundred and fifty years
A case Of worse than heather cruelty is thus re-
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old man named Markham was found BY the road
side in Palmer, lately, suffering intensely from the
rayages of the small pox. The burning sun heat on
his bloaed and swollen features; he was unable to
speak and almost insensible to his hard condition
II was not tial he had been taken over the hills to
the hospital in Monsoon and received the refreshing
charities of the institution, that he sufficiently
restored to tell his mournful story. He had lived in
Wilbraham, and as soon as the marks of his m;lig-
nant disease appeared he had been moved BIZ order
Of the of the poor to the limits OF Palmer
and left by the roadside to PERISH
The shoe business continues in a more depressed
state than at any time before in twenty years Leath
er has fallen considerably and labor greatly: vet
many workmen are out of employ, and the rnaQfae-
turers with little demand and falling prices for their
goods would not care to increase their business even
if the the stock could be worked for nothing It is
melancholy togo into Of our shoe towns now
and mark the difference that twelvemonth has been
to them. New burypor, Herald
The New ork Herald says that Joseph Miller in.
dicted for numbering his wife III brutal rlannsr ii
that city, plead guilty to manslaughter,' and wa
sentenced to four yearsin the State prison. George
Saltus, colored man, charged with the same offence
was sentenced to two years iE the State prison
Governor Bragg, of North Carolina, under asreso
luton passed BY the Legislature of that State has
contracted with W. j. Hubbard of Richmond fo
the casting Of bronze statue of Washington, afte
the one now IN the capitol of Virginia. The WORK
is to cost ten thousand dollars, and when finished
is to be placed in. front Of the capitol Raleigh
We learn from the West Albanian that three
young ladies attending the Judson institute in Ma
rion, Miss, died recently on the,same day. Their
names We're Miss Whitsett, of Green county; Miss
Brame, of Tippah county, Miss; and Miss ,Stevart
of Scott county, Miss. No particulars are given
Richard Vansant, wealthy resident OF Frederick
county. Nd, has been arrested and held ID The sun
of $500 at the next term Of the Frederick
court to the charge of forgery in erasing ma:eria
words, from deed for tract of land conveyed b,
William Bankels and wife to Vansant.
An industrial society Of Swiss colonists advertise
in the St. Louis Democrat that they are DESTROYS o
purchasing in some eligible part Of Missouri TWEEN
ty-hve thousand acres of land, and have on hand
cash capital Of more than hundred thousand dol
lars available for that purpose. #. @
The number of emigrants who arrived at New Yovl
city from abroad during the first i've nonths Of Till
year. was $4,000 against 81 900 in the sarnetinae las
year.
The principal hotels Of New York city hare re
solved to their charges for board ana lodg
ing from so 50 to SO per day.
A bounty land warrant for one hundred and SIXTY
acres Of land has been issued to the hon. Lous Nc
Lane, of Delaware, secretary Of the treasury lndei
general Jackson, for services in the war of 1si2.
The hon. B. NJ. Woolsey has accepted the no;nina-
ton of the American party, to represent Selma dis
trict, Alabama, in congress. @50Na ~
New York adds about $500 houses annuallyto its
extent, at cost of $20,000,000 4g
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