The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-11-15

& The Washington Union, the great official OF
gan Of the Piercites, is an amusing sheet jus
at this time. One day an old bunker works a
the bellows with the GOODNESS of asoldier-philo
i sopher over the ruins Of an exploded powde
magazine, and pipes forth that
1.-The prominent cause of our defeat is trace
Fl able to a failure Of democrats to adhere wit
fidelity to the regular organisations of the par
ty."
There can be no doubt whatever of that, an
hence, though il may be for the first time. "
now cheerfully assent to sentiment in tn
Union. The democracy have, in the main
without doubt, secuted in Pennsylvania, In
diana and Ohio, the office-holders .sregula
nominations 1t is one ofthe best signs of tn
times, however, and not one of the worst, a
the Union thinks, when people vote as they Sc,
proper, without regard to the dictations Of
corrupt executive, or the wishes of its place
men. When parties abandon all principle, al
is the case with the Piercites, it is only dupe
or machine that can be drilled up before thu
ballot-box and be made to throw into that DO,
slips Of paper, which some Irregular organise
tom put into his hands, for the purpose of re-
tanning themselves or their relatives in office
The people during the recent elections showed
that they had become wearied and disguised
with all such wire workers.
The day following, another hand seizes the
bellows. He is an official hanger-on, a secreta-
ry perhaps, and the Union makes every posi-
Bile excuse and apology for the disastrous de-
feat of the Pierce party, except the right one,
viz: that the party had killed itself The Delta,
owned by office holders, proclaimed that the ad-
ministraton was dead, and summoned coro-
ner's jury to hold an inquest on its body, which
brought in verdict declaring that the defunct
committed suicide. Months ago, Dave Martin,
of the Louisiana Democrat, informed his rea-
ders that, democracy is threatened with a
curse, and 'tthe fate of Sodom and Gomorrah
when proclaimed by Omnipotence was not more
certain than will be our fate even in the empo-
rlum,' and time has proved him prophet
Another contemporary states that, the admins
tration is defunct to all ntents and purposes
though permitted to violate the order ofdeath
in one respect: which is, to be allowed to be-
hold, before its final >xtinction, what the peo
pie think oft. But, to resume the subjectun-
der consideration, the Union, unable to console
itself, copies column after column of the sym
pathy expressed by the Boston Times, Cincin-
natl Enquirer, and other Pierce organs; and oc-
casionally its own lugubrious expressions, and
those coming from the minor office-holders' or
gans it quotes, make most ludicrous contrasts
One page of the Union quotes the Richmond
Enquirer, which asserts that is 'tpreposterous
to attribute the democratic defeats in Ohio and
Pennsylvania to the exertions of the know moth
ings. These people control the popular sent-
ment about as much as the weather cock con-
trols the wind" In another place it says that
the '.agency of the know nothingsis but an in
significant clement in the calculation of the
causes of the defeat. Well, if the "agency of
the know nothings is but an insignificant ele-
ment,'' they by some curious process managed
to sweep the great democratic States of Ohio
and Indiana by majority of nearly one hum
dred thousand votes. Turn to the next page
Of the presidents organ, and we find a column
of the Unions own production, in which after
calculating up the claims of all parties to the
victory, it decides in favor of the latter The
wings, it declares, care makag false claims to
honors which belong, Of right, to the know
nothings. These fit adds) have legitimate
tight to exult. They have achieved great
victory. They have triumphed over the irwin
,ible democracy!" Strange that an ''insigni6-
can't element" should defeat the "invincible
Neither the Union nor Enquirer
nave candor enough to take into their calcula-
ions the inherent weakness of the administra-
ion, and the general distrust of its capacity,
or honesty. IfPierce had not have
oiled off the famed Baltimore PLATFORM and
f he now had but one 1.-THE of his former popu-
arity, or if he had not himself cultivated the |
spirit of faction and famed the embers of fana-
icism, the excuses of his organs would not
lave been needed Months ago, exclaims
the doom of the Pierce admins
ration was plainly written, and now the very
irst blow has suffced to extort confessions of
is overthrow It's friends should reserve some
PORTION of their lamentations and regrets; they
will have ample occasion to utter them here
Ifter Let them keep back a few tears.
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SIR JOHN FRANKL1N.-Late Montreal papers
ontain some additional particulars concerning
ii John Franklin and his party. Accounts have
lready been given Of the first meeting with the
ssquimaux Indians in the spring Of 1850.
At later date, during the same season. but
PREVIOUS to the disruption of the ice, the bodies
# about thirty white persons were discovered
m the continent and FIVE more on an island
ear it, about a long days journey-say thirty
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