The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-10-18

The supreme court of the State of New
York, through chief justice Redfeld has jus
given dgmentin favor of the constitutionallt,
of the prohbitory liquor law of that state, as
sailed on the ground of its submission to tn
people. This court said:
1T is admitted by all that law dependin!
upon general contingency is valid lis falla
cious to attempt to distinguish between thatsn
the contingency of popular vote The polio
of a license or prohibitory law depends upo
the state of public feeling upon the subject, AM
tits perfectly proper for the Legislature, by an
proper mode, to ascertain that condition c
things. In all great moral questions of thi
character, the efficacy of the law must depen'
upon the state of public feeling, and that SHOULD
be ascertained by petition, or other intermedi
ate mode, as in this CASE
A GOVERNOR MULcrED.-The Wing States
man, published at Butler, Choctaw county, Ala
says. that governor Winston was fined ten dol
lars few days ago by a circuibjudge in one o
the counties of Mississippi, for wearing his ha
and putting cigar in the court room during tn.
session of the court. Whether this is true o.
not we cannot say, but the Statesman does no
doubt its informant. We should not be sur
prlsed at anything in these latter days, wher
such men as Winston can be governor of such
state as Alabama, populated by people Sc
marked for their morality and great temperance
reforms.
About the only important item we have been
able to gather from the America mails, is the
reported arrest Of the Italian Mazziniowhich is
stated in the following terms:
1.-The Journal de Geneve, of the 9th con
tains the following: "A letter from Berne, of the
9TH, informs us that Mazzini had been arrested
at Basic. He was coming from Berne, where
he had spent some days in the house of patr-
clan, to whom he described himself as andtal-
ian count, greatly attached to Austria, and
driven into Switzerland by fear of the cholera.
According to our correspondent, the police had
discovered his residence, and were preparing to
apprehend him, when he absconded, and left
for Basic, under a false name The govern
ment gave notice to the authorities of his arrival
and he was arrested on alighting from the dill
gence."
A FUGrT1vE SLAVE CApTURED.-A few DAYS
since, says the Cincinnati Gazette of the 93d
ult., we published statement that two slaves,
a father and son, claimed by Henry Sumptal,
of Jefferson county, Kentucky, had made their
escape from their master. The fugtives were
pursued to this city, and were apprehended
near Cumminsville. The pursuers chased
them to College hill, where George, the boy,
was captured. Harvey, the father, took to the
woods and escaped, and it was supposed that
he had fled to Canada by the underground rail-
road. But it seems he did not venture to take
passage by that line, but concealed himself in
a house in Newtown. about ten miles from the
city. On Wednesday one of the colored pre-
ended friends gave information to the officers,
who suddenly visited the house on Wednesday
evening, and arrested him and brought him to
his city and lodged him in the county JAIL
tie was examined before the United States
commissioner, Pendery, yesterday afternoon,
and was remanded back to his owner. His
arrest has produced much excitement among
the colored people of our city
COOP ADVICE TO IR1sHMEN.- The Irish
American, published in New York, by Patrick
Lynch, contains an address from the editor to
rlshmen in America, which abounds in much |
rood advice. After referring to the unfortu-
ate disturbances between Americans and the
IRISH, he propounds the question:
"What shall we do to avert the storm which
1reatens? What shall we do to ward off the
impending evil? How are we to right ourselves
! public estimation?"
And he answers it thus:
by following these simple rules of conduct
nd action: By avoiding all porter house, bar
Dom and street squabbles and collisions, bv
udiously keeping away and avoiding street
reachers-to hear whom if you 60 you will
lost assuredly get irritated and nsuted, by re-
Diving seduously to conquer general and par
cular respect by decent and peaceable demea-
or, by remembering that, as new citizens or
Inhabitants of these United States, common
lodesty and delcacy should operate to pre-
ent us from bringing ourselves, by brawis or
therwise, prominently or notorious before the
ubllc, by ever bearing in mind that sufficient
Employment and fair remuneration await the
9ber and industrious, and that thereby COM
etence for the support and education of our
mllles is within our reach, by rejecting and
Chewing that no true American will ever denv
'spect, gratitude and attachment to him (of
hatever country who deserves it by honesty,
eacetul manners, and untiring effort at advance
ent. By attending to, and observing and
practising these simple rules of ac-
on, we (Irishmen) can weather the storm
hlch RACES around us so fearfully at the pres
1t, and we can change the feeling and senti-
ents of antagonism which, unhappily, have ;
revealed and still prevail against u.s.
The Austin (Texas) Times says the citizens I
San Antonio in the early part of this month, ,
't wind of plot to run off some negroes
party collected-proceeded to the desiona- S
d point, and succeeded in arrestine four me- c
oes, five Mexlcans and two Americans e
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