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IHE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE AND THE HARPER's
FERRY RAID.-Resolutions relative to the Harper's
| Ferry affair were introduced and adopted in the
Louisiana Legislature the 18th inst
The resolution regards the Harper's Ferry inya-
sion attack by the North upon the rights of
the entire South.
1t declares that Louisiana will stand by Virginia
at all hazards, in case of another invasion of her
territory.
1t regards the expression of sympathy for John
Brown, by Northern men, as evidence of deep
seated hostility at the North towards the consti-
tutiOnal rights of the South and declares that the
election of Black Republican President next fall
will be sufficient cause for dissolution of the Union
The resolution recommends the appropriation of
$4,000 to be given to the State of Virginia to aid
in defrayng the expenses of that State in fighting
the battles of the South.
1t provides, that in the event of the election of
Black Republican President, the Governor shall
order an election of delegates to represent Louis-
ana in a Southern Convention and to cooperate
with other States in taking such steps as the cir
cumstances of the case and the honor of the coun-
try may require.
The resolution was ordered to be printed and
copies of it sent to the Governors of each of the
Southern States.
ARREST OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN IN GERMANY
Word was received in Cincinnati, on Saturday last,
of the arrest of Mr.. Joseph Schierberg, a natural
lied citizen of that place, in the city Of Damme,
Germany, on claim of military service. The
Gazette, of Monday morning, speaking of the matter,
says:
Mr.. S. could not have owed military service
to any German authority, as he less than a
dozen years old when he arrived in this country
He has resided in this city about twenty-five years,
part of the time being member of the mercantile
firm of Cohurst Scherberg. He left this city
about the lst of last October, for Havre, designing
to spend some time in the German States
A letter from Mr.. Schierberg has been received,
in which he states that he does not fear being made
a soldier. He had just written letter to Governor
Joseph A. Wright, the United States Minister at
Berlin, Prussia, and explained the facts to him.
THE PHILADELPHIA BOARD OF TRADE-A stated
meeting of the Philadelphia Board of Trade was
held in that city on Monday evening. An extended
report was read from the committee on life-saving
stations on the coast. Experiments have been
made with life-boats of several kinds both Ameri-
can and foreign, all of which have been found too
heavy for the purpose. Holmes patent was con
sidered the least Objectionable. The report closed
with memorial to Congress- asking the passage
OF an act appropriatng sum not exceeding $780,
900 for the purchase of brass mounted guns, pro-
Jectiles, and other apparatus, together with the
carriages and equipments; the purchase of self
rightng ffe-boats,. such as may be approved by
the Presidents of the New York Chamber of Com
merce and the Philadelphia Board of Trade.
The NEW CHINESE WAR-We observe that the
correspondent of a London morning paper has di-
rected attention to the difficulties which threaten
France and England in the third war on which the
people of the latter country are entering with the
Chinese, and his remarks forcibe. Instead of
marching on Pekin and taking possession of it-a
task, he shows, which will be attended with unlock
ed for obstaces-he advises, as a far better plan,
the seizure of Nankin, situated on a broad, deep,
navigable river, two hundred miles from the sea,
and where the allied fleet can approach near the
walls, abutting on country where supplies
abundant, which cannot be cut of. He assumes
that the combined force will form an army of TWEEN
ty-two thousand men, of whom twelve thousand
will be English and ten thousand French-the most
powerful ever seen on the Indian Ocean.
From SoUTH AMERrcA.-We have files and letters
fl ON South America dated at Buenos Ayres the
10Th of November and Rio Janiero the Sth of De-
cember. Buenos Ayres was about to re-enter the
Confederation. Delegates to the Constitutional
| Convention, empowered to vote formally on the
subject, would be elected on the 3lst of December.
General V. Flores, the exile Of Montevideo in 1857,
was in command of the frontier troops of Buenos
Ayres. Trade had revived vastly in the province.
There were about three hundred thousand sacks of
coffee on hand in Rio, and the prospect was that
the crop to come in would be the largest ever
known in Brazil. Prices were expected to fall very
soon. The steamers Champion, from New York,
and Bio Bio, from Boston, were in port at Rio
Ne'c York Herald
THE SMALLPox-Our exchanges from all sec
tions of the country bring accounts of the
ges of this loathsome disease. In Massachusetts,
there have been many cases, hardly town is free
from the infection. The disease still continues to
increase in the vicinity of Boston. In Newton, a
large number have contracted the disorder. In
Watertown many suffering from either small
pOx or variooid. In Needham there are a number
sick. Auburn, n. Y, has also been visited with
the disease in its most virulent form Accounts
from Macon, Ca, state that there have been many
cases in the vicinity of that town.
DISCOVERIES OF Coal IN INDAxA-We learn from
the RockpOrt Democrat that a magnificent vein of
coal has been discovered a farm about three
miles west of that village The vein is from three
to three and half feet thick, and the quality of
tha ole tp hot pf tha
mines. The same paper says another vein-being
six feet thick of pure coal-has been found about
three miles and half southwest of that town.
This vein is only fifty feet below the surface of the
ground, and can be mined with very little diff
Guilty.
WASHINGTON Cry MUNICIPAL AFFAms.-A bill
has been reported to the Common Council ordering
the purchase of two steam fire engines for the use
OF the Fire Department-one of them to be the
gine built by Pool Hunt of this city, and which
was tried in Washington on Saturday last.
The Council has also adopted a resolution direct
ing the committee in charge Of the interests of the
Corporation before Congress to petition Congress
for power to issue $3.50 900 of six per cent stock,
to meet the cost of building the Centre Market
house as 1t progresses.
How DIFFERENTLY THEY ACr.--The citizens of
Vicksburg, Mississippi, held a meeting on the l4th
instant, for the purpose of taking action and adopt
ing measures for the relief of the unfortunate suf
ferers at Lawrence, Massachusetts,. These South
tribute to the unfortunate in Massachusetts, as
some prominent men of Massachusetts, were in sub
scribing to the ohm Brown fund, for the purpose
of raising insurreetiOn in the South, and letting
loose rapine and murder among dcfenceess women
and children.
The CANADA NEGRO TRoUBLES.-The Detroit Free
Press Of Friday, says the negro disturbances in
Canada, at Chatham and neighborng towns, con-
tinue. The negroes led on by two notorious
persons of their own color, named j. ID. Shadd and
/ Rrpun n ub trprpI napip
in the celebrated "PrOvisional Government affair
of old John Brown, which, it will be remembered,
was organized at Chatham.
A UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION A PACTIcAToR.-Com
munications, says the AHmGu1a, have been recev-
ed from Paris of most gratifying and conciliatory
kind An opinion is expressed in favor of a prompt
and immediate engagement of England and France
in that great work Of peace, the Universal Exhibi-
tion of 1862 the surest means of dssipating the
present local and transient alarm both sides of
the Channel.
ARMS ORDERED SoUTH.-The President has order
ed from the National Armory at Springfield, Mass,
$4,000 muskets for Southern use, to be stationed
at Charleston, S. c., Augusta, Ga, and Baton
Rouge, La, and 1900 rifles from the Watertown
and Watervet Arsenals for Southern
There were SIG deaths in New York last week,
an increase of los over the mortality of the same
week last year. This increase DR.. Ramsay, the
registrar of records, attributes entirely to the
tinued prevalence of scarlet fever, Group, and in
The term ''Linsey Woolsey is derived from the
old Saxon phrase "LinRcs hje-cooles hie," viz:
Flax is here-wOo is here-a stuff composed of
both materials.
The accounts furnished by the newspapers in
Texas and Louisiana do not show that the recent
hard rosts in those States have seriously injured
the sugar-cane.
young woman named Ann Clinton, was fatally
burned in New York on Sunday evening, by her
clothes taking fire, while she was in a state ofs in
toxIcatiOn.
A numerously signed petition has been pre-
sented to the New York Common Council, to
have the fare on city railroads reduced to three
cents.
The daily morning prayer meetings in Philadel-
phia, which were suspended a short time ago, are
resumed under the management of the Young
Mems Christian Association
The propriety of continuing to aid the American
Board Of Foreign Missions was again the subject of
a meeting of H, Ward Beecher's church on Monday
night. Nothing definite done.
The editor of the Wilmington On. c. Herald
has been eating green peas and new potatoes These
vegetables were raised in December, in the open
air, in Fernandini, Florida.
The large Touring mills of Mr. J. o. Carr, in
Marietta, Ohio, were destroyed by fire last
Saturday morning. Loss 600.
The provision dealers of Philadelphia will here
after meet with the members of the Corn Exchange
for the transaction of business