The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-11-07

.ar PARENTS were on professions ii visit to Var
...r.a and Lowestoft. About q week since it
TITS 3ken i'll and two medical men were called
u hey failed, however, to allay her suffer
mas and it died from Inflammation of the brain.
Hrs Tom Thumb was sent for.; she arrived
Norwich on the goth, and remained in at
dance on the little sufferer till death took
.ce,
< Mp1yG MArcH-A large crowd at OrIe-
an. IT. y, Tuesday, Witnessed jumping
atcr. for $1,000, betweer Bot Way, Of that
nvn. and Norman Bortle, Of birmingham,
Ontario county, N. Y. The contestants en-
aa be ring at O'Clock. and the hour was
ned in making less thah half dozen
mrs Bortle apparently eHerted himself
-.a in reaching twelvefeet five inches dis
. which Way failed to cover by about
e.. lchcs At the expiration of the limited
an 3ortIe was declared thei winner Of the
m.eh Something like $4,000 changed
a on this occasion.
M1 aINEss CLASSES IN ENGLAND,-The writer
or fetch Of George Peabody. in the Nation
III u.elligencer, says
] AVE said above that Mr.. Peabody wasnot
tanker. Neither are the Rothschilds OF Bar
msa nor Brown, ShipIey & Go. Those only
aua mixers in Great Britain who are author
Used law. From the bank Of England the
greatest monetary establishment in the world,
down through Jones, Lloyd q Co., Smith,
Payne q Co., Barclay, Bcvcn & Co., and a
score Of other names classic in the financial
goa'1 no one can exercise the craft without
The sanction Of an act Of parliament The
names first mentioned RothscLiId and others,
ra {. ose Of merchants, who deal in bills Of
exchange, loans, stocks, bills Of lading car
goes, and invoices of the staple products Of the
world. In English parlance, The banker, mer-
chant, brewer manufacturer, warehouseman,
equivalent to our Wholesale merchant, job
Der and tradesman, constitute the line of bus
ness men, and the order in which they are
named their business rank. The brewers take
a third rank. because the great brewers have
for hundred years been possessed of princely
fortunes. So ancient and fixed are these de-
sgnations, that our entirely changed business
nomenclature is productive OF ne end Of mis-
understanding on the part Of 'En9lishmen.
PRosPECTs OF PEACE WITH THE RADICALS.
A distinguished citizen OF Louisiana, who has
Just returned from visit 10 Washington, where
he had been urging the passage Of an apPro-
praton, to save this State from overflow byre-
building the leyces found it necessary, while
there to court admttance todhe rulers Of the
day, and more especially, t2 the king of the
senate, the Hon. Chas. Samner. In the inter
views our distinguished friend bad with the
triumvir, and in which this high parsonage
displayed, or rather affected she courtly man
ncrs Of an autocrat seeking 10 make his rank
forgotten by the assumed poEteness Of bis ad-
dress, our ffiend demanded of him the cause
Of his refusal to grant the pa4iy aid which was
to save from ruin and starvation not only the
so-caIled rebels, but all the Inhabitants of those
districts, including tie freed population and the
numerous northern settlers ind capitalists in
volyed in the destruction Of 3he crops, and the
only answer which The Warrhest appeal drew
forth from the oracle was. Go home, my
dear sir, tell your friends to adopt the consti-
tutional amendment, and then we Will see.
But, replied the Louisianian il these amend
mcnts were adopted, would this satisfy you,
sir and your party.
"Itwould, l." replied tie trumvir; ut would
for the present"
"And hereaficr?"
Thereafter, dear sir, ould have e ask
something else"
Thus, not only has the niumvirate which
rules the land determined upon denying the
south any constitutional representation on the
strength Of the present &me!i dments, but 1t vii
nfict the penalty pr death; ruin, devastation
on whole populations, flienqs or foes tor re.
fusing to submit to AN ignoinny which would
not even avail them for j re. urn to their sacred
rights. Mobile Times
INFLUENCE OF MEsLIE on MORTALITY The
influence of costume on mortality IS shown II
livery instructive rpanncr by one OF the Eng
fish register-gencra' rcpor Is. Thus from one
10 five years there is an equality Of deaths by
scalds and burns among boys and girls; bu
from five to ten dol ble .hc humber Of girls t.
that Of boys die frt pm these causes, while from
ten to twenty thert' die ono hundred and two
women and only tJeutv- seven men, and from
twenty and upwalI segenty-one women anL
TWENTY-FIVE men showing the influence o
muslin and founc Is in producing death, not
outstanding the gfcatcr caution Of the female
Sex
JEFFERSON DAv,s .-The,New York Tribune
snarls about the n stpQnenent of Mr.. Davis
trial after the follo!ying elegant fashion
There is a congl omeratiqn of shuttle, sham
shirk and sneak ii the treatment Of this pris
oner which is calc plated "a nauseate the civ
ilized world, and br which somebody will ye
be held to a stern responsibility. Every man
ly instinct demands shat Davis should BE-
promptly tried il he is not to be tried, or I
only to be subiecttd to costly and mischicv
GUS sham trial, with no expectation or desir'
a' cyuyicJing hinl be should be liberated a
n.a And il he is to be 'ricd only for trea
5 ..eu the chad se Of assassination shouIi
oa rauae.ej is pu bclf asst was made, AM
Il is Che duty Of 1he executive, through hi
attorney general 10 act promptly and frank.
in lie premises, 90 as to relieve the govern
meH from The n5 putston Of eliminating a
enemy and holding for eighteen months
prisoner whom it dare notput on trial lib
American people are being disgraced BY til
ac.s of shcir rulerk. ard they must insist on