The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-08-08

S the south, which the editors believe can b
< done with but little trouble, and that it woul
e prove lucrative TO planters. The Mercury say
:. that the fruits extensively used in three way:
t 1t is picked, and thus forms the most agreea
r BILE relish in the world. 1t is dried, and in thi
j state is a nutritious, wholesome and pleasar
t article of food. 1t is pressed, and the swee
oil of commerce is extracted. Whenever larg
n fields are planted with the olive, and all til
| appropriate means are used to economist tn
reduction of the fruit to OIL the writer feels sur
that it may be profitable culture for this pur
e pose alone, where the climate is such as to in
! sure the maturity of the fruit.
Mr.. Chisolm, of Beaufort. sc, in com
munition to the Mercury, states that he ha
some three hundred olive trees, most Of which
f are in bearing, and some have been for severa
, years. The fruit begins to ripen in Septembe
and by the middle of November little if any
!: unripe fruit can be found. His trees arc of two
kinds, and were procured from the neighbor
hood of Florence, and thus far bear fruit every
year, and abundanty; but he thinks that labor
at the south is too dear, and cotton too proffta.
bic, for oil making to pay; and until some great
change takes place in the value of labor, or our
great staple, olive oil will not be made to any
extent in this country. Mr.. C. has, also, had
the jujube in cultivation for twenty years, and
it grows as readily as the Spanish mulberry,
and in the same way. 1t suckers freely, and
the suckers grow very readily. It's foliage is
quite ornamental, the flowers small, but very
numerous asR fragrant, and its fruit very plea
SAINT having the merits of nut without being
one. He has likewise cultivated the capers
plant for the last twenty years, and ithas borne
fruit even in a low clay soil on the seaboard,
though its favorite situation is rocky hill Sides
1t is propagated principally by layers.
We are pleased to perceive a growing dis
position at the south to pay more care and at
tentlon to the cultivation of fruit, and an incli
nation to import the most valuable kinds from
foreign countries, with a view of propag eating
them in this climate. There is no earthly rea-
son why fruit should not be brought in this
country TO the perfection it attains in France,
and prove equally as renuneratiye. All that
it requires is care and attention.
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The Richmond Enquirer insists that there are |
but two parties in the United States: "the de-
moeracy on the one side, and the rabbe of isms
on the other" In reply TO this assertion the
n. York Herald aptly asks: "Who are the de-
nocracy? What are they? Where are they?
Are the New York Van Buren, Buffalo free
sellers, of the soft-shell Pierce administration
ype, the democracy? or are the hostile hard
hell Dickinson men? or the jeff Davis seces-
lonists? or the southern conservatives of the
Cobb school of Georgia? Are those old demo
rats in both sections.opposed to this rotten ad-
the democracy? or are the few Il
lsheartened and demoralsed spoilsmen that t
I'LL cling to the public plumber the real gen t
inc democratic party? When our Richmond
has found the democracy we shall {
e enabled to prove to his entire satisfaction
hat there are two other great parties-"the
abble OF lsms," with Seward as thci1 champl-
n, and his disunion programme as their plat Y
orm, and the great national American party, c
'rmed of some of the best material of both the |
Id wing and democratic PARTIES" The Her
Id is right this time at least. "Who are the :
emocracy? Whatare they? Where are they?" Q
cho answers, the Pierce office holders, their e
miles and dependents. r
The Washington correspondent of the New t
ork Herald, in late letter says, the hon. !:
aac f. Morse is now here and may receive :,
he of the new commissionerships, in conside- a
tion Of his having been thrown overheard in Fl
ouisiana by the Noise party. Judge Alex 4
'alker, (editor the Delta, is also here, and
Is had an interview with Mr. Cushing about =,
e singular treatment of Mr. Noise at the =
snds OF the administration. The only salts >.
elton obtained was an exhibition of rage on the :.
'rt Of the attorney general, and a wholesale
'use of the Louisiana politicians. The good :,
'tured and polite ssRtherner (Walker) only -
piled that these were poor arguments to sat ~
Fy the people, who felt outraged in the person -
M: N0'se!! D There is a large delegation of r:
oulsiana politicians now in our city. They 6,
port Mr.. Soules forthcoming work as now in -
e hands of the Messrs. Harper, New York, j.
ID as one which will create Juror in this -,
untry, as well as in Europe.
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The last Alexandria Republican states that tn
I'd River is getting worse and worse-at the IN
outh bar is forming, that threatens to dis
meet it with the mississippi entirely, while =;
e impediments all along up are becoming r. r,
eater every day. There are at present one o.
two snag boats belonging to the State in Red IL
ver Why cannot they be employed in re- Dr.
oving the snags, sunken logs, etc., between ~
IS place and Grand bayou? WHAT'S the rea- r.
4 boat is not sent to work at Shaggy noint .
d at the mouth of Red River? We suppose -
democratic office-holders at Baton Rouoe
nsider that it is unconstitutional to in ANYWAY