The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-08-30

. HOllInS from the American service, 1nuuce
: to rebuild Greytown, or indemnify its motle
: inhabitants Therefore the Jamaica editor ha
S no other alternative left him than toimmediate
t " despatch his British and French feet to BON
# bard an American port; but we caution him
: place the fleet in command of more energeti
: and prompt officers than those now operatin
/ in the Baltic against the Russians, or the "com
s bined feet will surely be captured by yanke
: fishing smacks.
EDUcATIoN-The second session of the Col
legiate Institute, for young gentlemen and boys
will commence on the Sd of October next, ant
we would earnestly recommend our readers Il
Caddo and the adjoining parishes to enter thel
sons as pupils The institute is situated in
delightful, healthy and quiet neighborhood
within two miles of town, and offers every ia
cility that can be desired for acquiring mos
thorough and practical education, while at The
same time particular pains will be taken tolnstl
into the youthful mind principles of patriotism
integrity and morality. After toiling through
innumerable difficulties, the reverend 5. +
Helme was enabled to open this institute, and
j its success SO far exceeded his most sangulne
hopes that he has been forced, for the purpose
of accommodating the wants Of his patrons, to
erect an additional building, 80 by 50 feet
No greater evidence could be produced OF the
high estimation in which parents hold him as an
eminent preceptor, and the manager OF col
lege. The approaching session will open under
even more promising auspices than its prede-
cessor. The assistants, professors Hall and
Hempstcad are graduates of the first colleges
in the country, and are highly spoken of as
teachers, while an ample library and complete
philosophical apparatus afford pupils insruc-
ton and an agreeable pastime.
Mr. Helme deserves the thanks of the com
munty for building up in our midst a seminary
at which the youth of the country may be ed
ucated, and we hope that hereafter parents
and guardians will perceive the policy and ad
vantages to be gained by sending their children
to a home institution, and that they will take a
pride in doing all in their power towards tos
tering and sustaining it..
While penning the above our eye lit upon the
following article in Richmond IVA. paper
Being in fact applicable to all northern colleges
and academies, it is deserving the serious con-
slderaton ofsouthem parents, and should ava
ken them to the danger and folly of sending
their children abroad to be educated:
"The reverend professor Goodrich of Yale
college, declares that the members Of the ia
Guilty of that institution are unit in opposition
to slavery. He takes occasion, too, to inform
the south that Yale cares nothing for its pat
1t is evident, from the tone employed |
by this fanatic, that am southern man who |
sends his son to Yale college, Cor to any
northern school, will be subjecting him to in
fuences that must infallibly render him a south
ern man with northern principles. They are
hot-beds OF abolltlonlsm, nurseries of fanaticism
The professors are all abolition propagandists, |
and employ the power which their positions CON
fer in making their pupils as thoroughly anti
slavery as themselves"
Let the children of the Red River country be |
educated as near home as possible.
Telegraphc reports say that the hon. Thos.
H. Benton was defeated for congress in the
st. Louis district by captain LutherM Kennett,
the know nothing candidate, by a majority of
700 votes. Although colonel Benton has ever
been most bitter foe to the whigs we cannot
rejoice at his defeat. He has passed long life
in the councils OF the nation, and is almost the
only man now living who was in congress dur
ing the brightest era of our countrys history
his old peers and associates, Clay, Calhoun,
Webster, Randolph Adams, have descended to
the tomb, and we should have preferred that
cold Bullion" had died with his senatorial robes
around him. For tie last three or four years
his actions gave evidence that he was fast yerg-
ing towards second childhood, but when we
that he lad done more than any
other man TO foster AMI develop the resources
Of the great west, we readily forgot his fobles,
and hoped that he nigh, continue to represent +
the State and people whom he so ardently low
ed, and so long, SO faithfully served Our coun- 6
try could have "better spared better man" ,
Mr.. Kcnnett, the colonels successor, is the +
TX mayor of St. Louis, and few years since +
the New ORLEANS and St. Louis =,
steamer Rienz
CONGRESS-. the unfinished business S
If the session the following a'e the most prom Fl
nent measures: the Homestead bill, with the S
senate amendments; the bill 70 provide pay P
nent for French spoliatons prpr to 1900; the f'
ocean mail steamer bill; the bill establishing
nail line to Shanghai, via the Sandwich islands: Il
he bill establishing the Ramseyroute from N. II
Orleans via Vera Cruz to Acapulco; the bill +:
a subterranean line of telrgranh c.
0 the Pacific; the bill to provide aweek]y mail n
0 California; bill to increase therates ofnos- O
age; bill to provide payment to revolutionary :,
fficers or their legal representatives; bill to
xtend the benefits Of the bounty land system m
o the officers, soldiers and seamen If the uo. I'll
f 1879; and all the railroad bills embracino y
rants of land The army and now ,,t y, liz