The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-07-17

conduct of Chief Engineer Vacuum, as ne fevoiVe
the goahead arrangement and manipulated tue snovel
, so calm was he throughout our stormy experience
that to gaze upon his features allaycd all our fear:
aud also premonitory symptoms Of sea sickness; $
f true it is that
4 g Little drops of aeater,
Little grains OF sand
Make the mighty ocean
i Ind the beauteous, etc. ETC.
Pilot Twirler, too earned an expression oil our graf
itude and two dollars and twenty-five cents per day
for the upright manner in which he stood by tn
wheel and skfully wigyled the thing in the water
the end of tire boat; in the language Of the poet
i Moore-or less,
50 love that old mans daughter
4 And lastly, but not leastly, we must refer to tina
4 gallant experienced, brny old pickle, Commands
Gatherunl Never, while vitality continues to animate
our corporeal organization can we be other than mex
pressibly grateful for the cool, collected way in which
hc circulated in our midst restoring and maintaining
serenity by the suaye manner and perfectly moduat
ed tones in which lie continually uttered, no mattel
Ehow foul the weather might be, the reassnring
comforting exclamation "Fare I" or as Shakespeare
observes in King Lear
"'Tis fair, It's very fare,
- IT'S ever, never, forever, fairly,
/ Fare thee, fair fairest,
Fare thee-weH, fare -
!, To conclude, would and do cordially recommend
and earnestly entreat the travelling public to seek the
acquaintance of Captain O. and the 8,inapproachable
/
skia, or asy other intended monopoly for as Swim
burne beautifully saith, monopolies
Take hands and part with laughter,
Touch lips and part with tears;
Once more and more after,
Whatever couacs arfA years.
AXE, Committee.
I Private, to Editor Times Insert once and charge
Captain Gatherum.
THE UNITED STATES SENDS THE JuARrz FAMILY
/ ~ mt .s. q Il
following particulars of the sailing of the Wilderness
for Vera Cruz with the Juarez party on board:
At half past II O'Clock yesterday morning the
revenue cutter Wilderness, under the command of
Captain Freeman, swung out into the stream and
started down the Mississippi, on her voyage to Vera
Cruz She has on board Sonora Juarez, her family
and suite Had been orthc delay Of this party
from unavoidable causes, on the trip from Washing
ton to this port the cutter would probably have been
the first government vessel enter the port of Vera
Cruz, but now it is expected that Commodore Pauld
ing is there with his flagship, and perhaps ether YES
sells.
Collector Kellogg the party safely off, also that
they were supplied with everything necessary to
render the voyage comfortable and agreeable. In do
ing this Ire was complying with orders from Wash
ington
In addition to the 5aarez party, two bearers Of the
United States government dispatches sailed board
the Wilderness 1t will take that vessels about five
days to reach Vera Cruz
THE FALL OF CaMPEAcuY- Picayune of the
9TH has the following relation to the fall of Cam
peachy and Merida and the capture ofssanta Anna:
A mercantile house furnishes the following partic-
uars of news brought by the schooner Atlas, from
Campeachy, at Quarantine. She left several
days after the reported shooting of Santa Anna and
states he alive and WE'LL and not closely confined
Merida fell June l6 It was taken by assault, sacked
and laid in ruins.
Campeachy could have held out longer, being an
old fortified place. surrounded by walls with two tow
erS, which commanded the approaches to it. As ut
Gueretaro they treacherousIy sold to thcenemy
The captain confirms the accounts heretofore re-
cevcd as to the murder Of three prominent citizens Of
the country, Seniors Durantc, t3spgo, and another
whose name was not recoFectcd. They were secretly
taken by the Liberal leaders, in spite of the protests
of their own men, carried at midnight to Kaikin be
tween campeachy and Merida, and there shot
portion of the freedmen of the town and vicinity.
fifty or one hundred did a csmmendabe |
voluntary work last Saturday. The work Of enclos-
ing our public cemetery being we'll nigh completed |
and the colored population having given no aid in the
natter they concfuded to assemble on Saturday and
clear the ground of underground, trim up the frees,
&c Their work has been very well done, and with
the new fence and the clearing away of the brush the
graveyard presents vastly improved appearance /
nat TINS work on the part of the freed people NAV
seem more appropriate, state chat the negroes have
always used portion Of the graveyard and still CON
niue 10 pury there. Tyler Reporter, June 10.
GONE INTO SUMMER QUARTERS. The New Orleans
FINES of the 18th says; Gen. Sheridan has gone
nto very pleasant quartcrs, having taken for
residence Concession plantation, the property of
sr. dillingham; Lawrence The place is located on the
light bank of the river in Flaquemiues parish, about
70 miles below Algiers."
DUEL IN New ORLEANs.-The City papers give
N account of duel which came off lately in the
jlty, but mention no names. 1t was fought with
ouble barreled shot guns at forty PAGES each party
schargng both barrels Of their Guns without donp
ny damage. The matter then was amicably adjusted
III the ground. Wonder who the parties were9
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fHE WASam IS DoNE-Considcrabl commoton has
een caused BY the discovery that prominent New
tork bankers and brokers have been in the habit of
riding the messenger Of the telegraph Office 10 sub
OIL TO 1efr Inspections before delivering 10 their
wners the dispatches of the Associated Press by the
Ftlanc cable
s IiIE JAPANESE Bly, 4 War SfEAMEp.-A Washjne
on dispatch says the Japanese commissioners have
aid three hundred thousand dollars, ard on their
eturn will pay the balance, one hundred thousand
GLARS, der the ram stonewall. The stonewa leaves
j august
MpLaTnfY GouHss N FoRscEE-Two horse thieves
ave been tried and convicted before military court
! Mississippi under Gen. ords late oraor and sen i
need by him to five years in the Dry Toltugas So.
tystthc Nicksburg Times
GONE TO WAsHtNGToS.-Gov. Flanders and Andi- ,
" Pcralto, of this State, have gone to Washington
re oFmer for the purpose Of settling up his business
Treasury agent and theatterto secure some State
ends captured in tls city at the close Of the war
spEchisE lS'CoEs.-Two weeks ago corn could not
bought u this market for less than 81 Is Der
nshel. Last Monday, loo bushels choice was sold
our public square for Is cents per bushel We {
re informed that new can be engaged at Is cents
er bushel. [TyIer Renortor - 81 l ! ei~' ,
ooTroS FACTORIES IN GEoRG1A-In Georgia more
up seventy cotton factories have been erected since
le war; atfordns employment to the destitute. and
aylng good dividends to the STOCKHOLDERS