Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-05-28
Tel egraphic Intelligence j..
EUROPEAN NEWS.

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LIVERPOOL, May l2.-Thc large boun'
ftv of.g10 offered by the British Govern
mcnt to those who enlisted in the naval
service has proved very successful.
At Woolwich, the great naval arsenal
Of Great Britain, it is Stated that sea
men are volunteering and being enrolled
in the navy at the rate of two hundred
d day,
1t is positively stated that upon the
reassesnbIing of Parliament, Lord Pal
mcrston will move and Lord John Rus
sell will second a vote Of censure to the
Ministry: for the course they have
thought fit to pursue in disso!ving Par
lament in the critical time when Europe
was upon the v of a great war.
The Belgian Moniteur announces that
any Belgian vessels that may be found
engaged in p~rivateering or otherwise
acting contrary to the neutrality laws,
will be treated as pirates.
The Turin correspondent of the Lon"
don Times expresses. the opinion that a
great. battle will soon be fought, and
says that, Judging from the position and
movements of the ~contending armies,
the approaching battle will be fought
on or near the famous battle field of Ma
rengo.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
sr. LOUIS, May 23.-The advices from
Pixies Peak mines continue to be of a
most ~unfavorable character.
Private letters received in this city,
from the mines, state that many of the
emigrants are totally destitute of the
means of subsistence, and are in a state
of starvation.
A party of destitute emigrants, un-
able to obtain food otherwise, had COM
menced capturing the outward bound
trains.
One train was attacked near Ofalon's
Bluff, and D. G. Cakes, the conductor of
the train, was killed. .
A dispatch from Washington this
evening states that the Government will
take immediate measures to protect the
emigrant trains and their agents from
the furnishing Pixies Peak .emigrants.
The RIyEEs.-The following, from the
Memphis Bulletin, of the 10Th is truly
encouraging:
The river, opposite this point, in the
"a hours ending at 6 o'clock, last night,
fell four inches, and was still receeding
at about that rate when we left the le-
wee. The total fall of the water since
Saturday last-when it first commenced
to recede-amounts to 81 inches, and
accounts from above give assurance
that. the river will continue to reeede
for the next two Or three days at ~least,1
the rise in the upper rivers not having
had any effect further down than Cairo,
at. which place the water is about sta
We learn from the officers of
the J. H. Diekey that the water is rising
from St. Louis to Cairo, and fall
ing thence to this point; and it is the bel
lief of very many of our Oldest river
men, that the flood in the upper streams
will scarcely be felt here, in consequence
of the low and receeding condition of
the Ohio. It is earnestly to be hoped
these surmises may prove correct.
If this conjecture be true, as we have
some reason to suppose it is, we have
seen the worst, apd all appre-
tensions for this a may be laid
aside. The river is falling quite rapidly
all the way down from Memphis to New
Orleans.-B. r. advocate.
A dispatch from St Louis, dated May
%, reported the Mississippi, at that
point, falling at the rate Of 6 inches in
"a hours All the Upper streams were
also r~eceding.
CURIOUS CALCULATIoN.-The vast num-
hor rf ,hah;fanfc who lo 1;.,, ,~l Lo->