The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-25

correspondent Of the London Era gives the fol-
lowing gossipy account of the Harvard crew. now prac
tcing in England for the grand international rowing
match:
spent two days. en- route, with the Harvard boys
and saw the picked four that going to England to
pull the Oxford at practice am sorry not to be able
to give much Of an opinion of their STYLE pace etc.
as much to my astonishment the four were practcing
in ss cared outrgger, or SHE'LL as it is called here
rather came to grief in expressing my opinion that
they would have to unlearn all that they learning
when they came to hard alp in their four-oar which
| was told was not yet ready for them. The boys"
themselves not Chickens two Of them being twenty
six one twentyfonr, and the other twenty-one, and
averaging eleven stone ten pounds apiece. / think
their appearance will cause sensation. Three of them
close six feet, and the shortest five feet eleven
close on it, Gaunt muscular and as red as Indians
to the superficial eye splendid crew. but hang those
butts, even now sadly overturned That 1.-THE and
supple rise and fall Of the back essential to clean
stretch out and home stroke totally wanting and they
have way of looking the shoulder while pulling
engendered by their queer custom of not carrying
coxswain) that don't like at all However, they are
going to pull on Tuesday next in fouroared sweep
at the Boston regatta which hope to see and will re-
port further, ere cumming up this parcel.
The Louisville CourierJournal reports the death, at
franklin KY, on Sunday, the LIST, of Capt. John W.
Russell. He of the earliest steamboat men
in the West. The Courier says:
On one occasion, in New Orleans, he had personal
rencontre with the pirate Laftte, and, unarmed, whip
ped him and elected him from ball room. On anoth
err, while landed at Natchez a passenger of the boat
robbed by the gang which then infested the por
ton of the town bordering on the river, and known
as g Natchez Under the HILL" By surrounding with
his the house in which the robbers took refuge
he passed cable around it. and under threat of pull
ing it with its inmates into the river he compelled
titution of the money, and made himself terror to-
the thieves and gamblers who then infested the river
towns. Of his great strength persons who knew him
only in his late years. when enfeebed by age, would
have had but little conception though in his prime it
was known from Pittsburgh to New Orleans that he
had lifted shaft weighing 1914 pounds, and that he
had carried entirely the deck of the boat an
anchor of 1912 pounds weight
THE EMPRESS EUGENE OF GERMAN DEscENr.-It is
probably known to few readers that the Empress Euge
ME has German blood in her veins Gustave Rasch
German tourist traveller, who generally manages to
scrape up all the interesting and pquant items of Cos
sip in his wanderings, has lately been through SPAIN
In one Of his letters to an Austrian paper he says
In Malaga, many years ago. there lived poor Ger
toy dealer, who had very beautiful daughter, to
whom the third son of Count Montijo wealthy nda
lusian began to make love- The toy dealers beauti
full daughter sensible she was beautiful, how
ever, and repealed the advances Of the young count
saying, without marriage, no love- The young
count was however really in love with the poor girl
whole family, be married her. The old count was en-
ragged at this withdrew every income from his son. and
the married life Of the young couple at first very
gloomy. But the young countess had fortune; the
two older brothers of her husband died. and the latter
became the heir to the title and possessions of his rich
father. The daughter Of this poor German girl is the
Empress Of the French, the wife of Louis Napoleon
The Crocodile AND THE ELEPHANT.-The man-eat-
ing crocodiles of India extremely savage A curl
GUS circumstance occurred with regard to lately at
Cnttack. An elephant belonging to one Of the Ra
jahs went into tank to drink and in doing SO put his
foot either close to crocodile which at once
bit it very severely this enraged the elephant that
be rod about until he got his adversary firmly beneath
his feet in the mud, when he tramped his life out
shl, however, his rage was unappeased; he refused
to leave his post, and it fortyeght hours before
be could be enticed out Of the tank, when the dead
body Of the crocodile aoated to the surface.
YERGER.-It is reported from jackson, Mississippi,
that since Yerger remanded the military author
tiles by Judge HILL the irons he has daily since
put under arrest taken off and he is kept under
strong Guard without manacles and chains.