Southern shield., 1853-07-09
gsg@ We clip the following from the St. Louis Intelligencer of the 30th ut.

|St. Louis Intelligencer of the 30th ut. |It will serve to show the men worship pers at Little Rock, and elsewhere in the State, what people abroad think |of their bickerings about men, at the |the expense of the best interests of the State. The editor says truly it would make the citizens of any other State stare to sec the leading journals, as well as men in the State sacrificing the in- Iterests of the State on the altars of 3sel6sh aggrandizement, erected by the irrespective friends of Messrs. BoRLAND land JOHNSON;
 Arkansas-Her Land Grants. Without professing to know much about Arkansas politics, we cannot help seeing that great public interests there |may be endangered by the strifes of politicians. One would suppose that s the noble grants of land to her tive great roads-that from Cairo to Fui- ton, and that from the Mississippi to Fort Smith--would be hailed there with pleasure as guarantees for the Bcompletion of those enterprises. But unless we misapprehend this is not universally so.
 A short time since, in answer to a request for information by a committee afrom Saline county, of which Col. Vim. MI. Rector was at the head, Governor Eonway stated that a belt of land, thirty miles in width, from Cairo to Fulton, on Red river, and an air line 7 from Little Rock to Memphis, and from Little Rock to Fort Smith, is now being designated on the township splats, by the authorities in the Land Departments at Washington City, for suspension or special reservations, until such time as the State authorities shall have had an opportunity to select the lands donated to the State of Arkan- sas for railroad purposes.
 s Now, if we rightly understand what : is reported of one of the leading dem socratic papers of Arkansas-the Little eRock Gazette-there is dissatisfaction depressed in that paper about this res servation. The grumblers contest the sPrsident's right to reserve the land; Aand, says the Gazette:
 "A decree which would have the effect to for
 bid emigration and settlement in Arkansas, for 7 the same length of time, would be scarcely more ! disastrous, Yet this is what Gov. Conway $ policy has doner'
 Such talk sounds strange up here in Missouri, and would make the good sfolks of many other of our Western States stare.
 s Governor Conway is chided for de- sclining to call immediately session of sthe Legislature. But if these outgiv- ings of the Gazette are any indication sof what might be expected from any Sconsidered as acting prudently in giy- ling time for the wholesome operation sof the peoples sober second thought, abefore the Legislature comes together. sWho knows that that body might not Hjust ROW be unconsciously subjected tc ainfuences which would impel to such 8 Sdisposition of the lands as might here safter give cause for universal regret sthere:
 a It strikes us that the interest that sthe people of Arkansas have in theil smain avenues of trade and travel is Sgreater than any interest they can have in the momentary eclat of their party &chiefs. Whether Mr. Borland gets a little less or Mr. Johnson a little more sof present applause, for or on account aof these roads, though question which ; shas it's value, seems not matter of
 overwhelming importance.
 q We hope not to be considered i'm 3pertinent for having ventured on these aremarks. Our excuse shall be the in 5terest which MisSourians must feel in , $that neighborly intercourse which is fabout to spring up between Missouri and Arkansas, and what each State Sowes to itself and the other, ought not $to be needlessly postponed.
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 a NOVEL AND GREAT INvENTIoN.-A correspondent, says the Boston Bee,
 sends tie following account of safe < ty car, the result of his ingenuity,
 which we publish for the approval of
 the public:
 "The seats, on winch the passen- 8gers sit, are 10 rest on pistions, which spistons are to play into cylinders which cylinders are 10 be charged with gunpowder, which gunpowder lis to be touched off with percussion caps and hammers, which caps and Hammers are to be all united by rods, which rods are to be connected 10 the engine and the car, that whenev- CT any collision. obstacle, swith draw. 3bridge occurs, or whenever the en-
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