The independent. (Harrisonburg, La.) 1853-18??, 1858-01-20
TELEGRAPHIC lNIELLIGEN CE.
Europeon Cotton Market.

European IOttOU Mu1Aess
UAurAx, Jan. 49, The steamship Amer.
lea arrived TO-DAY. She left Liverpool on
the Cd January. Cotton had advanced Id
upon the previous advance Of Id, and with
a good sale. The money market was grow
ing easier.
The SpcnisA-Merican QUESTION.
It is sail that Spain will consider the me
diation of England and France ended, II
Mexico refuses 10 accept all the conditions
Great activity IS displayed at Spanish ports
Tor an expedition against Mexico.
Congressional.
WAsH1NGroS, Jan. Is. Burnett's reso,
luton passed, authorizing special commit.
tee to investigate the sale of Fort Smelling
A resolution was adopted calling on the Ju-
dietary Committee to send persons and pa
pers relative to Judge Watrous' case to Tex
as. Stanton proposed a select committee to
ascertain who got the SS7 ,O00 alleged to
have been paid, by manufacturing corpora
tons in Massachusetts, through Lawrence
Stone & Co.. to procure moo iticatlon OF The
tariff. A long debate ensued.
Kcnscs AGairs. :
Sr. Louis, Jan. 1G Calhoun (says the
Republican, returned 10 Lecompton. under
an escort OF U. S. troops. and left heaven
worth for Washington with the Lecomptcu
Constitution. The election returns are con
Trajectory.
New York, Jan. Is. Senator Brown, o
Mississippi, in letter to the NewToTk Fer
ale. denies tie abandonment OF the Lecosnp
ton Constitution, and says he las no doub
of its adoption.
| NEW Yorg, Jan. G. Cotton firm. Holders de-
mand an ad4ancc. Ness Pork sli.a0.
! C.XcINSATl, Jan. 16. Flour $3.6o. less noIi
| SIS. Lard Sc. (Wholesale.)
81. LOUIS, Jan. 49, Flour $3.50.
CoadeaSed tiroa ". 0. 7.'ae D;lta.
BoLD SURGICAL OrERArIoN.-Lateiy, a
the Royal infirmarY, Edinburgh, a very for
mii;.bs surgical operation took place, an'
hunters OF lnedica! men from all parts wer
assembled 10 witness it. The pa.ien, had 10
long period suffered from cancer Of tn
tongue and Professor Syme had determine,
upon removing the organ bodily. The ma
was lea into The theatre, placed upon the ia
h.e. and quickly rendered poweFl IS throug
the potent influence of ci,!oroform. Protes
sor Syme commenced by making a vertca
incis;on through the ;ntegument covering tn
chin. and then sawed through the lower jaw
at the syrnphysis. The division being made
he ne.t proceeded 10 cllt away the tongue g
The very root, close 10 the hyolI bone. Tie
arteries were quickly tied, the hemorlhag
WAS comparatively little, the man having
lost only e few ounces OF blood The JAY
was again placed together, and the inteou
lneut scwed up. The man was actually ;b
to wal, ont OF the room. At the close Q
The operation Professor Syme remarked tha
the removal OF the tongue bodily had beer
successfully performed in Italy, bat the mo
dss ope.uadi was OF a different nature, tn
missions having been made entirely iii tn
throat but he considered that mode was at
tended with more danger than the one ~
had" chosen to adopt. This operation he,
never before been performed in Great Brit
sin; and should the patient recover, whlc!
is earnestly belie9ed, the highest praise viii
be due to Professor Syme, for having St
skilfuly undertaken that which no surgeon
OF this country had formerly ventured upon
The patient walked out OF the theatr
speeches., but gratefully and happy
and has continued well ever since, being
fed with tube--can now, however, swallow
and spoke, or rather breathed out the wore
Milk. "-Eainburgh 4Adpert.
APPARATUS FOR LAYING THE OCEAN Tel
EcRApH CABLE.-It has already been states
in the American, that Mr.. Henry Berdan, o
Philadelphia, has invented an ingenious con
trivance for laying the submarine telegraph
BY which The cable will be relieved from th,
sudden strain occa>oned By the heaving o
the ship. This end is achieved by havin!
one of the drums around which the cabl,
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