The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-11-24

no serious damage. Wuter in canal between this point
and Ismaela twenty feet the shaowest point, and
these points can be easily deepened. Steamers draw
ing fifteen feet navigate the canal from Port Said
so Suez with ease in fifteen hours. Water does not
wash away the banks as much apprehended Com
pete success of the great work exceeds all expecta
tons Canal now clear Of shipping, the entire feet
having anchored in the harbor at Snez. On Tuesday
the feet will start return Eugene returns through
the canal with the fleet, her yacht again taking the
lead.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-Sumner has returned and
says the Chinese question must be met; the atten
ton once attracted to the negro is demanded for
the Chinese. The Chinese must have equal copart
nership for Justice is the best policy and the best
practice.
The leaders of the Venezuelan revolutonists have
fled to the English gunboats
The Haytieu insurgents victorious in the South.
Sanave's most trusted Generals deserted him and
Joined the Insurgents A public meeting in Homo
lulu strongly protested against further cooie mporta
tons. dispatch from Memphis says Mr.. Davis was
elected President of the Carolina Insurance Company
of that city, and will reside there.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22s-Col R. NJ. Douglas son of
Stephen A. Douglas, has been promoted to Secretary
and JAS T Ely succeeds Douglas as Assistant secre-
tary to the President.
The Secretlry of War has ordered the arsenal at
Baton Rouge to be discontinued.
Revenue receipts to-day, 100000.
Boutwell,, Gen Sherman and other officers have re-
turned from Louisville. The ret union affair is repre-
scented having been very tame
Gen. J. A. Gilmore is ordered to Charleston to take
charge Of the coast engneerng of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Major Ruse re-
eves Major Damsell at Mobile.
Responding to the Haytien minister coored, Grant
said General, if any proof were wanting of the
unounded character of prejudice which until recently
prevailed least in part of this country against the
from which YOU sprung, it might be found in
the high and polished style of the remarks which
you have Just uttered, that however like all similar
prejudices, matter how deeply implanted, must
later yield to the force of truth The throes
by which the birth here accompanied were
indeed agonzing, and their efforts scarcely
over. Provident statesmen, however, have neglected
no fit opportunity for sanctoning and securing, by
law, those privileges for your kinsmen which have
been the inesmabe and natural result of our great
civil constitution; among them is their right to en-
ployment abroad well at home in the public ser
vice. right which, you say, has been acknowledged
by the appointment of one of the formerly prescribed
race to represent the United States in Hayt con-
graduate myself for this occasion to render homage
the change in public sentiment adverted to- by re-
ceiving you cordially do, the first envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenpotentlary from that Re
public"
The Comptroller of Currency has returns from six
teen hundred and eighteen National banks to the 9th
of October, showing an aggregate resource OF one
thousand five hundred millions; including discounts
Seven hundred millions specie, tweny-three million
legal tender notes. eightyour million three per cents
and certificates the amount of forty-sx millions
Among the liabilities eighty-sx millions surplus
funds, torty-one million undivided profits, two hun
bred and ninety-three millions circulating notes, and
five hundred million individual deposits; among the
to circulation and depositors four
hundred and fifty million federal bonds
No opinions were delivered in the Supreme Court
-I,u thn hot Of
Hickman, plaintiff, in error Belts and others
Hickman citizen of Alabama sued the officers of the
Court and the Grand Jury of his county, for arrest
and imprisonment for treason against the Confederate
States.
The Heralds news summary says the cholera, yell
low fever AID smallpox raging fearuly at San
tiago de Cuba; three hundred deaths occurred from
cholera alone within the period of thirty days. 1t
found impossible to give the dead proper sepuchre-
the bodies covered with only few inches Of earth