The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-10-31

that they intended to kill Ortero that night
This omission was not Intentional, it escaped
his mind Pellicier, or Francis Gene Saliva
dor, also made written confession, covering
several pages of foolscap. He said he never
met Ortero until the day of the murder. 1t
was made up in Gonzales's room that they
should murder Ortero, who was supposed to
have large sum of money in gold upon his
person. He also claimed that YieIe was the
prime mover in the tragic affair, and gave the
details of the whole transaction, and the ar
rangement was that Gonzales was to have a
razor, Viele razor, and Pelicier a dagger,
and they were to kill him in the room and con-
ceal his body under the floor. But this way
was subsequently abandoned. Gonzales rihed
Orero's body. Some were passing in the
park while he was doing so. The confession
is too lengthy to give it in full.
THE IRON Grown OF LoMBARDY.-Gen.
Manabrea has been instructed to apply to the
court Of Vienna for the restoration of the iron
crown of Lombardy, which the Austrians re-
moved from the sanctuary of the cathedral Of
Mona, at the time of their retreat from LON
hardy, after the battle of Magenta, in 1859.
The Italians, it is well known, when they
crossed the Ticino, under Charles Albert,
eleven years before, and drove Radetzky from
Milan, had Monza and the crown at their dis
erection but that iron crown of Alboin-that
circlet hammered out of the nails of the cru
cifxion, agreeable to tradition, and, at all
events, that undeniable relic of so many cen
turies-a diadem laid successfully on so many
heroic brows, from Charlemagne to the 6rst
Napoleon, was looked upon by the Italians as
something too sacred to be touched by profane
hands, and was left by them on the spot where
it was first laid by queen Tbeodolind, full
thirteen hundred years ago, not to be removed
from its shrine till it was wanted for the con-
secraton of the man, whoever he might be,
who should have the good fortune to restore
the old kingdom of the Longobards. The Aus
TRANS could not, Of course, be actuated by
such scruples.
The emperor Francis Joseph continued,
after Villafranca and Zurich, to style himself
king Of Lombardo-F enetia, and Alboin S
sacred circlet was removed TO Vienna, with a
feeling akin to that of the Moor of Africa,
who treasures up the door-key of the house
which was his forefathers' home at Grenada
400 years ago. The hard lessons of expe-
rience and the difficulties of her present posi-
ton must have greatly softened the heart of
Austria, and inspired her with more generous
feelings. Victor Emanuel is no longer desig-
mated by the Vienna cabinet as " King of Sar-
dinia," nor are the army and fleet so lately
confronting the imperial forces with honor, if
not with success, called the "Piedmontese -
in Austrian bulletins. That crown which was
withheld in 1859, when Lombardy was ceded
with perhaps an "arriere pensee" of recon
quest, may well be given upnow, when the loss
of all Italy is looked upon as an actual gain to
her late masters. AS a mere museum of
curiosity it would be of no great value to
Austria; as a national emblem it is Jewel of
the greatest price to Italy.
What we have said of the iron crown APP
plies equally to the treasure of art and antiqui-
ty Of which the Austrans were lately described
as stripping the archives, churches, museums,
and arsenas of Venice. The coats of arms
Of the old doges, the ambassadors reports,
and other documents of purely local import
ance, would be mere trash to the Austrian,
but would leave the Venetian very poor in
deed. Her books and pictures and parch-
ments are the inalienable property, the house
hold gods Of the queen of the Adriatic; they
constitute the chief pride of that wise con-
sentative government which formed in the
middle ages the connecting link between an
cient Rome and modern England and they
may serve one day to vindicate the memory
of St. Marks Republic. London Times,
LONG JOHN WENrwoRTH.-At the reception
of the southern loyalists" Monday, at Chi
cago that leading radical, John Wentworth,
made an exhibition Of himself. The Post
(radicaI) says:
The only disgraceful circumstance that oc-
Cured was the appearance of the Hon John
Wentworth in highly inebriated condition,
in the reception-room of the hotel which was
at the time filed with ladies and gentleman
The honorable gentleman was Enthusiastically
intoxicated. Being SO, he was, perhaps, not
wholly responsible for the language he address
ed to those present. He was singularly bias
phemous in his address, and obstreperous in his
manner. He excited much astonishment and
even horror. Ladies blushed with shame
Gentlemen gotred in the face with indignation
At last the honorable gentleman received a
polite hint that he was in imminent danger of
being kicked in most ignominious manner
out of doors. He became meek, Numbered
forth an apology, and went, in a cork screw
fashion, out of the room. When he had made
bis exit he saw the crowd before him. He
that they must want to hear him.
He stood up and told them that he had been
sent to entertain them. "Any thing 'sb good
nough for crowds" said John, " and l will
you. There's the con- onshushion,
he g-g-glorious conshushion, gentlemen. II
want you to understand that chic, hic cups
he consish-sish-sishusion is the consishusion,
and defy anybody to conredick me - (hic. J |
There was a tremendous laughter for time,
out at last the insulted multitude ordered him
0 be taken away and with a feeble attempt at
! benignant smile, the honorable gentleman
suffered himself to be led off
THE USE OF BoRAx IN WAsH1NG.-In Bel
5ium and Holland linen is prepared beautifully, |
because the washerwomen use refined borax, |
instead of soda, as washing powder. One
arge handful of borax is used to every ten
gallons of boiling water, and the saving in
oap is said to be one-half. For laces and I
,ambrics an extra quantity is used. Borax
ioes not iniure the linen and If softens the |