The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-09-06

One sabbath morning, while the newly IN
stalled pastor of the Jane street, M. +. church,
(rev. ]. B. Walker, was preaching very elo-
ouent sermon on our national privileges, be
observed some of the elder portion OF his con-
grcgation, mapping" and addressed them IN
tones of thunder in the following manner:
"You may wake up when the grave OF A
merican liberty is dug and her funeral oratlon
has been pronounced! You may wake up
when the genius of Columbia has taken her
fight to some other land! You may wake up
| when the sun of freedom has gone down, and
darkness covers our once brigh and beautiful
country! Be very careful, or you will wake up
when it is too late too late! The dies is cast;
! the nation is dead-every star IN the galaxy
of liberty is extinguished-a the stars and
stripes that we have looked at with wonder,
delight and joy, no longer wave, but lie torn
and rent to pieces! Such is~the fate OF this
nation unless the people wake up to the protec-
ton of their rights The child is listening to
nv voice to-day, who unless there IS wa
king up will live to see America wrapped IN
her winding sheet, and tyrants hold jubilee
over the fallen republic
Somebody advertises in a New York paper
as follows: WANTED, one or two boys to at
tend liquor store. Must know the business
and come we'll recommended. We are afraid
it will plague the advertiser to get such boys as
he asks for; for, as general rule, the longer
the boy has been acquainted with the liquor
business, the poorer chance that he will be able
to come we'll recommended.
The young lady who speaks nine languages
like a native and can execrutiate piano
most scientifically, would like to be informed
which is the most easterly, Boston or st. Lou
s--also, whether the terms, human system and
solar system mean the same.
Father" said roguish boy, II hope you
won't buy any more gunpowder tea for moth
err "Why not?" because every time she
drinks it she blows me up
CHEN1srRY-The horseshoe nails dropped
in the streets during the daily traffic, reap
pear in the form of swords and guns. The
clippings of the travelling tinker are mixed with
the parings of horses hoofs from the smithy,
or the cast-oA woollen garments Of the poor
est inhabitants of sister isle. and soon after
wards, in the form of dyes of brightest blue,
grace the dress of courtly danes. The main
ingredient of the ink with which now write
was possible once part of the broken hoop of
an old beer-barre The bones of dead ami
mails yield the chief constituent of the very
useful article of lucifer matches. The dregs
of port wine, carefully rejected by the port
wine drinker in decanting his favorite bever-
age, are taken by him in the morning in the
form of seidltz powders, to remove the effects
of his debauch The ofal of the streets and
the washings of coal gas reappear, carefully
preserved in the lady's smelling bottle, or are
used by her to flavor blanc manages for her
friends.
Some western villain has concoctcd the fol-
lowing con-
"Wby are certain ladies of the present day
ike the 'forlorn hope of besieging army?"
Because they are about to throw themselves
nto the breeches