The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-06-27

The WEST AND THE SoUTH.-We owe the
occupancy Of our western territory, its redemp
ton from the savage, and introduction into the
area of productive and fruitful life, in a great
degree, to the heroism of southern mind. The
men of mark in its early history-Boone, Fin
ley, Simon Kenton, Logan, Hubbell, Ridley
were all men of southern blood and training.
They had the instructive fearesssness, the
cheerful, sef-reliance, t. ndomitable energy
and the passion for romantic achievements,
which have always characterized the south.
And hence, they displayed a dauntlessness
that knighthood, never surpassed, a courage
sometimes rash enough to battle with fate ITSELF
a disregard of ease and comfort, Wild and
| exuberant joy even in the endurance OF sever
est hardships, an inventiveness of means that
science could scarcely rival, a ready lntel!l-
gence that originated new system of military
tactics as we'll as novel modes of domestic life.
Peculiar qualities are necessary to form the
pioneer, and without arrogance, we may de-
clare that those qualities are native III the
southerner. Our northern brother, devoted to
trade, is a supplier of wants. If the frontiers
need cotton cloth, shoes, hardware, he puts
j. Linn, Lawrence, Lowell into his wagon and
trots to the door of the forest cottage. The
difference between the two is, that the north
erner follows the track of the southerner, but
the southerner follows the trail of the Indian.
About one-fourth of cur citizens leave the
states of their birth, and settle in other sections
of the Union. Virginia has sent out $685. GOO,
South Carolina, 10000, North Carolina,
261 600 Among the northern states, CoT-
necticut and Vermont have contributed the
largest share of their population to inter emil
grafton, their loss has been about 25 per cent,
South Carolina has lost 36 per cent, North
Carolina 81 per cent Virginia 26 per cent.
Virginia alone has sent IS, 762 to Ohio, 1919
to Indiana; ans 10, 387 to Alabama
We see, then how southern mind has been
occupied. For the lastffteen years, a conside-
rable proportion Of its best energy has been ex-
pended in opening highways in the wilderness,
in leye]ling vast forests, in furnishing induce
ments to the progress of civilization, in stimu-
Iating the busy workshops of the north, in
preaching the gospel to the hunter and the
trapper. What has been the result? Our home
forces are distributed over SO wide surface and
engaged in the preparatory forms of ciyiiza-
ton, have been employed in specific work Il
is not work to be computed by arithmetic 1t
is not work for statistics, Its not q work thai
strikes the eye by its splendor or the magma
ton by its magnifcence. II is not appreciated
| because it is not understood. But in any fan
estimate of the growth of country. place in
the foremost rank Of mighty agencies ought tc
be given to the pioneer spirit of the southern
states. 1t is this spirit that has reproduced the
history of jamestown and Plymouth rock. II
has multiplied EIots, Brainards, Smiths Il
has impaired a new meaning to f pIuribus
Unum,' and if the earlier yalor of our revolu-
tionary fathers gave the stars that are pictured
upon our banners, let mot be forgotten, that tc
southern patriotism we owe the spreading frma-
ment in which they now shine.
Nor must one other thing be forgotten. The
northwestern free states, ranging from the grea
lakes and the upper Mississippi to the mouth 0
the Ohio, were settled principally by foreigners
They form about one third ST the population
of Wisconsin and Minnesota. A fair estimate
would put persons of foreign birth, who nov
reside in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan
Ohio and Minnesota at 100000. But tht
south has no such assistause. The five origi
nal slave states-Maryland, Virginia, Nortl
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia-havt
had to reclaim the southwest and convert il
into Truthful land As natural result these
states have been constantly drained. Money
and muscle, families and neighborhoods, have
been throwing a mighty tide of strength, in
dustry and capital into the new cotton and
sugar regions. Has the north anything tc
show superior to this transformation of the will
derness into vast garden?
WHAT IT CosTs TO BoMBARD \ C1TY-The
war is an expensive occupation the British gov
ernment and people are eginnlng to under
stand by means Of augmenting taxes, and the
opening of the fire of the allies suggests g
calculation as to the cost of the iron balls which
have been thrown into Sebastopol by the five
hundred cannon which have vomited them in
what Gortsclakoff called "an internal fire -
The accounts by the Asia represent that each
of these guns fred one hundred and twenty
rounds day, which gives total for the five
hundred of sixty thousand rounds. This fire
had been continued for thirteen days, making
an aggregate of seven hundred and eighty
thousand missiles raincd upon the city.
The weight of the shot fired from the guns
of the allies varies probably from nineteen tc
one hundred and forty pounds, and of the shells
from fifteen to one hundred and ten pounds
and forty five pounds would probably be low
estimate for an average. This would give a
daily delivery of iron to the Russians amount
ing to two millions seven hundred thousand
pounds, and total for the thirteen DAYS OF
thirty five millions one hundred thousand
pourds-the prime cost of which, in the rough
at the average price of pig iron in England fol-
the last year, was not less than three hundred
and thirteen thousand three hundred and
eighty dollars This is, of course without anv
regard to the enormous cost Of transportation
to the Crimea.
If the cannon balls fred from the allied lines
during the thirteen days, were rolled into. rail
bars, weighing sixty pounds to the yard, the
bars would extend three hundred and thirty-two
miles, or if laid as railroad, would suffice for
a single track road from New York to Albany
with all the necessary turn-outs.
The charge of powder for each gun would
probably average about six pounds, which
would show an expenditure for the thirteen
days of four millions six hundred and eighty
thousand pounds of powder. Such povdcr is
worth here eighteen cents apound, but in Eng
land would not, probably, cost more than fifteen