The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-12-19

e JuDGE SporFoRD.-The Delta pays the fol
e lowing handsome complimentto our fellow-ei'
i izen, tie hon. Henry NJ Spoford, associat
\ justice Of the supreme court. The people I
f Caddo know his worth, and can appreciate al
# the encomiums that are bestowed upon him:
S By far the most important decision that ha
\ been made by the supreme court for severa
: years, was read yesterday by judge Spoford
: 1t was the case of Jacob Mussina vs.. VIM AL
ling, Charles Stillman, Sam A. Belden, an,
S Basse d Horde. The question at issue was TIL
3 title to the tract of land on the Rio Grande, il
Texas, occupied as the present site of the cit,
Of Brownsville and fort Brown. The opinion 8
:. judge Spoford is a very learned document, ant
he consumed more than an hour in reading it
The documents and briefs which had to be ex
amned by bis honor, in order to reach the sew
eral points Of this complicated case, were yer,
voluminous, and would be sufficient to form
respectable library The decision is spoken o
IN terms OF the highest praise by the most EN-
Inent members Of the bar. The courtroom
was crowded during the reading of the opinion
and 1t was listened to with great attention-al
appeared to take the deepest interest in the
1plain unyarnished' story of the entire trans
action, as told by the Judge. 1t was written in
4 beautiful language. His honor is blessed with
fine voice, and reads elegantly, so that he
came in for all the admiration of an intelligent
audience, who. seemed to be charmed with the
reader, and listened to the rather interesting
history of the case in breathless silence until
the close, when member of the bar remark
ed, soto yoce, in the language of Shakespeare:
'.Never did | see so old a head, upon SO young
a body" A compliment we'll deserved by the
eminent gentleman for whom it was intended.
The Washington correspondent of the N. Y.
Herald, in his political gossip, says that, "the
troubles at the white house, as to the future,
are greatly on the increase. A political COM
bination of the most formidable and important
character is beginning to be Swallowed forth
here, well calculated to alarm the president in
his present anxious position as a candidate for
reelection. The premonitory symptoms of this
movement have been for sometime visible; but
its precise shape and character have been unde-
veloped until within the last day or two. Geo.
NJ Dallas, of Penn, and jeff Davis, of Miss,
are to be presented in connexion as candidates
for the presidency and vice presidency, in thea
order I have named them. To strengthen this
movement in the extreme south, where is first
to be definitely tried, the two leading democra-
tic papers in New Orleans have been purchased
up very recently, and with the avowcd object
Of supporting Dallas and Davis refer to the
Louisiana Courier and the New Orleans Delta;
md judge Perkins, ex-member ofcongress from
hat State, now here, is stated to have made
he negotiation and seen the bills footed. Two
" three newspapers in the interior of Louisiana
ave also been bought perhaps in the same
'ay-at all events for the same purpose; and
mother at Brandon, Mississippi
This is rare specimen of democracy; but
singular way of carrying out the party's ia c
orlte theory of measures, not men, Here, Il
ithout allowing the people to exercise the priv S
eye of choosing their candidates, we find the o
emocratic oficc-seekers, assembling at Wash t.
gton, and purchasing up the democratic pa S
ers, for the avowed purpose of debating to the &
emocracy the names Of those they must, nolcns II
olens, nominate for the presidency n
We few weeks ago mentioned the fact of IL
lie Delta having changed hands, and the edi- y
'rship having been transferred to the keeper of q
lie state land office, Baton Rouge. That Jour "
al is now throwing its shotat president Pierce u
n presun1ing to Intrigue" for nomination "
r reelection tcthe presidency. Such conduct n
, to say the least, ungrateful, when we con- &c
der that the editors and proprietors have been P
late feasting on treasury pap. e'
The Louisiana democracy have also under Of
the claims of the hon. Jas. Buch- IL
ian to the presidency, and as he is backed BY Of
If old friend John Slidell, the most talented hi
ergetic and popular democrat in the State, 81
ere is no doubt whatever but that the Dallas I'll
I'd Davis tIcket-or, as contemporary styles 81
'tbe amalgamated-fusi of old hunkerism Oil
d fire eating secession ticket will meet with to
very cool reception. til
The right reverend bishop Hopkins, of Yer o;
ont, announces the important fact that 'the .,
evil is among u.s. which we have for some j.
ne suspected to be the case, and the reverend E.
ctor is battling nobly against his satanic ma ~
ty, and in behalf of morality, in the benighted h
y of New Orleans, by exposing the mis- W.
ieyous tendencies of some of the fayorite isms /,
the day, and spirit rappings in PARTICULAR
lie bishop handles humbugs and humbuggery
aghly and in way peculiarly adapted to the bu
lnts Of the present time. He has good deal %
say in relation to judge Edmonds, who isno W.
common consent the apostle-in-chief of this co
W order Of infdelity. Though man ofem- Sc
'nce as jurist, and of sterling integrity as 1h
lzen, the Judge, the bishop says, suffered him ed
ito be led in manner which, as christian, co
should never have permitted. "Had he gone stl
the teachings of the bible, instead of the tn
cbinggs of Andrew Jackson Davis, and the dc
sses Fox, and the Fish family, he would have tel
rned that in all ages there had been nantes ma