The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-30
News Items.

! New engines are to be put in the steamship Grea
Eastern They will cost three hundred thousand dol
| lars.
Elopement, divorces and crimes are SO numerous
that the New York Sun thinks the whole continent is
| monument
1t is general remark that ali classes Of persons arc
! ready to give their opinion. We think the lawyers
must be exeepted-they sell theirs.
! The steamer Sunny South burned on the Ala
bama river, near Selma, on Friday night. Over a
thousand bales of cotton lost and
| is supposed to have perished
| A Washington correspondent of the Pail Mall Ga
zette says that Mr.. Banks, of Massachusetts, has
gained reputation for protun}ity by looking wise
and never saying anything, even when he makes a
| speech"
Mayor Tomppert, of Louisville, was mpcached and
deposed IN the spring OF 1856 ard another Mayor was
appointed in his place. The Kentucky Court of Ap.
peals has since decided that he was ileeny rrnospd
and he will therefore supercede the present !ncur
bent.
IN New York, on the 5th Gen Butler appeared in
the Court, in his behalf to have transferred to
the United States Courts several suits brought against
him for the seizure OF property during the
The census of New York city show population Of
hardly threequarters Of million and Brockyn less
than three hundred thousand-tie two cities footing
up 1922, 764. In New York there are SO, 024 more
women than men, and in Brooklyn the excess of
women is Is, 357.
During the fortyone years which have apsed since
the first railway laid down in England, s. 800
900 900 in gold have been invested in railway capital
and the various lines now in operation measures 49,,
2S9 miles in length. English railway extension has
for the present almost ceased.
The receipts of grain at Buffalo, Oswego, Ogdens-
burg and Montreal from the lake regions, during the
past year, have been 75,l06,243 bushels against TO-
37 775 bushels in 1855 showing an increase in 1866
of s, 728, 4GS bushels
T., H.,
nectcut, Mr.. Eaton Of Hartford referred to the at
tempt to impeach the President, and declared that
they dared not 60 ahead with the project IF they
did, million of Democrats would rise up in arms and
rally to the rescue of the President.
The quality of wool is tested by taking lock from
the Sleeps back and placing it surface represent
ing an inch in length. II the spirals count from thirty
to thirtythree in that space the wool is equal to the
finest "Electoral or Saxony wool. The staple is in
elior accordingly it takes q lesser number to fill
up the same space.
Gen. Howard, Commissioner ofthe Freedmen's Blu
reau has returned to Washington from his extensive
tour through the South, and reports affairs in salts
factory condition. The freedmen are doing better
than at any period since the close of the war while
there is now almost entire absence of outrages.
Gen, Howard is preparing report on his trip.
subscriber desires to know whether the word
" muIatto" means muls-anan2 That is it, exactly !
Both terms derived from the same Spanish word
the mule ends in the third or fourth This, too.
is just what Abolition when cyphered down to
a nicely.
The logs Of the three yachts which made the ocean
race, exhibit remarkable equality between them in
capacity of speed. The average per day of the Hen
rietta was 2l8 miles OF the Fleetwing 2 IL miles Of
the Festa 2l3. The greatest of the Henrietta in
twcntT-four hours $50 miles. OF the Fieetwinc
27O miles. OF the Festa 277 miles. The course pur-
sued by the Henrietta took her a distance of 1866
miles. BY the FIectwing 1907. By the Vc5ta $685.
Gambling continues to increase in Paris, and recent
heavy losses and gains have been the subject Of much
conversation. Among the fortunate winners is Kali
bey, who recently on single evening gained in all
/ ,0Oo,0Q0f Fscount D lost the same evening
l50,GO0f., which be paid Immediately Heaps OF gold
are on these occasions laid down upon the table, and
have visible and sometimes remarkable effect both
upon the players and the spectators The places of
resort are in the vicinity of the Plains Royal and are
very likely to attract visit from the police.
The largest room in the world under single roof
and unbroken by pillars other distractions is at ST.
Petersburg, Russia 1t is ESQ feet in length and 100
in BREADTH BY daylight it is used for military dis
plays, and battalion conveniently mannuyre in |
t. In the evening it is often converted into vast
oa room, when it is warmed by sixteen prodigous
stoves, and 10000 wax tapers required to light it
property The root of this great structure is single
arch of iron, the bars which it rests weighing H.
$4,000 pounds,