The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-10-04

Flag PREsESTAr1os.-On Monday the la
dies Of or town presented, through Law. +.
Grain, esq, a beautiful silk flag to the new
steamboat Fanny Fern, as a token of their ap-
precIation ofthc enterprising spirit displayed BY
her ~5,wners, in being the pioneers Of boat build
ing at shl feveport. Col. Burnside received the
flag; and on the part of captain Hous'oR and
the owners, responded as follows: @
Laaies-Having been requested by the owners of
the steamer Fanny Fern to represent them on this oc-
casios, in their name | receive this flag, as a token OF
your appreciation. The occasion of its presentation
BY ven, will long be held in remembrance as one that
forms a new era in the commercial history OF our
town, The presentation of the American flag has
ever been hailed by the American people, not only as
a marx of appreciation, but as a distinguished honor,
and ia receiving from your hands this beautiful en-
blem! of American freedom, | assure you It has been
confded to the keeping of safe hands. Yes. We will
ever cherish it as the flag of our beloved country: yet
we viii place Oh il a higher value, having beel pre-
pared and presented by you. May its folds long con
tinue to wave over this beautiful steamer, built by
southern men on southern soil. It's presentation on
an occasion like this is designed to encourage Rome
manufacture and southern enterprise. Let then our
motto be home industry, home manufacture and south
ern independence, now and forever one and inseP-
arabic"
After the presentation Of the flag, the boat
proceeded on a pleasure excursion, crowded
with ladies and gentlemen, who enjoyed them
selves with dancing, music, etc.
A Nav ARr.-It appears that there is no
end to the wonders to be brought to light by
means Of chemistry. The Paris papers are in
e~cstacfes with a new art-Hom9graphy-ot
which they tell many marvellous things. Its
afirmId that whoever possesses a printed book,
possesses the stereotype plates of that book;
whoever has an old lighosraph, a copy of an
extinct edition, or an impression Of a steel or
copper engraving, has, by a new process of
transfer, the original stone, the original type,
the original plate, the original block. An oc-
tavo volume of five hundred pages can be exc
cuted at a trifling cost in six days. Reprints
cost but halfthc price Of the original compost
ton, (setting the type,) and engravings, after
expensive originals, may be made for a few
cents. S~tereotyping will be done away with;
the first edition will be printed from the ordina-
ry type, and any one copy furnishes the plates
for successive editions. Rare works are ami
hilated, as one copy may be multiplied t"oinfn-
ity, and that, too, with all the typographical
peculiarities Of the epoch in which it was first
printed. Books in foreign languages, in dead
languages, in Hebrew, in Greek, in Sanscrit,
may be reproduced by workmen completely ig-
Mons. Edouard Boyer, Of Mines, undertook to
solve the problem that the inventor of lithogra-
ply, Senefelder, Of Munich, sought in vain to
solve-toa reproduce upon stone any typogra-
phical work, lithograph, or engraving, ofwhich
a single copy is in existence-to do it %instane-
ously, cheaply, without damaging the original,
and so exactly that the most p~racticed eye can
not tell the difference, and finally to multiply
the copies to infnity. In principle, M. Boyer
arrived at a solution in 1914; he has spent ten
years in researches tending to simplify, cheap
en- and render practicabla9the process. He has
now succeeded, and stereotypcs a quarto page
in ten minutes, as he actually did do in pre-
sence of Mons. Mennier. Acast ofthe ''Temp-
tatjon of st. Antony" which lately costa Paris
publisher $3.50, might have been furnished him
by NJ. Meyer for two and a quarter sous! The
process is of course a secret, and will not be
disclosed even in specifications for a patent
M. Boyer does not mean to patent his inven-
ton; he will control and superintend the bust
ness in France, and will sell the secret to for
eign countries. If this invention becomes as
PRACTICABLE upon a large scale as it is upon the
scale gifts present application, the name Of b.
yer will certainly deserve a place after Gutten-
berg and Senefelder.
CANADA.-The leading papers at the north
think the day is not far distant when England
will dissolve her connection with her American
dominiors. The bonds between Canada and
the mother country, We are told, are becoming
every ye*r, quietly and gracefully more loos-
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ened. Her desire to be left to her own resour-
ces are a|quieseed in and eagerly seconded by
the British parl' lament. The Montreal Herald
commenting, last week, upon the transfer to
Europe Of the greater portion of the British
troops in canada, makes the following remarks,
which may be received as an index of the feel
ing of Liberal minded Canadians. "Sooner or
later theit removal must have come around as
the NATURAL result of the gradual separation
taking plsioe between the mother country and
the colony, and of the determination of the for
mer, slnc$ she has no more advantages to con-
troll IN Catada, to be at no more expense on her
account. The colonies must cast about for a
new phast of exlstence-they must make their
own laws have no courts of appeal out of their
own llmltt-pay their W troops, if they have
any-choh Use their own governors, and in short,
be what cssar Scotch acquaintance say of their
houses, :s,lf containing Tits we'll these chan
rnS SbpuIt not c0noa rDor ,c too erllo-1x L.4