The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-11-07
The Washington Union (the presidents or /

I papers that Mr.. Mason, our worthy anu aG-
1 connpIished minister to France, was IN attend
aace in his representative capacity at the late
tie Deu.a at Notre Dame, In Paris, IN honor OF
H the fall of SebastopoE. As the representative
i oil neutral power. it seems to Us Impossible
II that Mr.. Mason could have overlooked tlaeirl-
/ proprietF Of such an act 50 far as to compro-
I nit his government BY his attendance II his
II representative capacity i IS hardly to be sup
posed that he viii allow the illusions tothe oc-
\ eurrence il the public prints 70 pass without
\ explanation. and therefore We shall assume
either that the statement Of his attendance IS
\ unfounded or that lie has a plausible expiana-
1 lion for whatever course he deemed il proper
! TO pursue. Il would be coincidence much TO
be regretted ii ii should turn out that whilst
] Mr.. Mason was giving additional eelas 10 the
celebration of the fail Of Sebastopol IN Paris,
the editor of the London Times should be in
diting sentiments and suggestions like the fol-
!. lowing:
/ "a few wears ago the Americans seized a
province of their weak neighbors; an alliance
! of France and England was projected, which.
If carried out, would have involved the Union
in long and dangerous struggle. The Rus
SLAMS occupied simaIlilE situated territory; the
may last to interfere in the affairs of a trans
Atlantic Turkey"
Our government has maintained very strict
neutrality in regard TO the eastern war, but our
people cannot overlook such threats as those
made BY lord Clarendon and tie emperor Ma
poleon, and now repeated BIZ the London Times;
and they cannot fail TO give decided direction
to American sympathies. We repeat that We
shall regret exceedingly if Mr. Mason shall
have forgotten the relation of strict neutrality
to which his government is committed in the
manner indicated in the newspapers, but until
more correctly advised, we look with conf
dence to a satisfactory explanation of the oc-
currence. s
The Paris correspondent Of the New Y ork
Commercial Advertiser refers to the subject as
follows:
"While the Danish, Swedish, Belgian, Ba-
varlan, Saxon, Wurtemberg, all the South A
merlcan and other ministers remained at home,
as became the representatives of neutral, though
friendly governments, Mr.. Mason, the repre-
sentative of the equally neutral and friendly
United States, attended with the ENJOYS from
the allied powers. and from such shilly- shall
lying states as Austria and Prussia. Among
the Americans whom know there is but one
opinion, and thats energetically condemnatory
of Mr. Mason's course. 1t is hardly to be sup
posed that for An act that might produce politi-
cal consequences he would plead the frivolous
pretcxt of curiosity to see the sight The
government took especial pains to show thatit
the different positions of the various
of the diplomatic corps by emitting
all mention of them from the list of expected
company published beforehand in the Moni
teur.'
a SINGLE WORD TO An ALABaaIAs.-The
Mobile Register, in commenting upon the
soundness OF the national democrats of New
Y ork-which it handsomely acknowledge it re-
grets that they should have suffered the per-
sonal feelings of their leaders to place them in
hostility to the administration
Does the Mobile Register forget the origin of
his hostility between the administration and
the ''hards?" Does it not remember that Judge
Bronson, collector OF New York, refused to
place in Office, in 1858, the identical sofs who
he Register now admits 'have deserted the |
standard of true democracy in 1855, and /
hat he so refused because he insisted that these
men were still cleaving to frees oilism? Does it /
lot know that Judge Bronson was elected from /
1ffce for acting on this prinple and plant
DOL put in his stead who has filled the Offices I
with open abolitionists-men who faunt free
oism in bar-rooms and public places, and
md openly boast of it? If the Register stre-
5rets" the course taken by judge Bronson and
he national democracy of New York, it may be
assured they do not. The men who Guthrie
insisted were as good democrats as We, are
proving what they are, now that the .tspoils''
re all distributed and the offices filled. II the
Register has any doubt on the subject, let it
cad the Albany Atlas, passim- /
The hostility of national democrats to the
administration has been caused by the acts of
he latter, and by the measureless ambition of
hat hoary bargainer of spoils, VIM. L. Marcy.
The national democrats of New York have re-
NAMED as they were. They are as strong as
when they supported Cass and Butler and
purned the Van Buren, treason. They polled
ne hundred and fifteen thousand votes for
1ass and Butler in 1848, one hundred thousand :
or their state ticket in 1858, and ninety thou
and for their candidates for congress, fevery
nan Nebraska many running on a Nebraska
,latform in 1854. And they will even do bet
er yet, in November next. A party possess l
ng, and likely to possess, such strength-which t
las pIOStH lDdt II eau tAiSt HitUoub tIuCS-l
which rejects federal favor except upon the
erms of the exclusions from the Office of all {
ree-solers and abolitionists which is deter I
mined, to be recognized as the democrtic organi-
alton Of New York or not at all-may leave t
regrets to others. 1t has none to make 7
New York News Democrat. a |
The New York Shipping and Commercial List : :
ontains the following paragraph respecting the y
ecent large sales of breadstuffs in that market :.
considerable portion Of which was reported :
0 have been made on foreign account: !
A great many extravagant rumors with re- :
ard othe destination of most of the large
purchases have obtained currency, and in many
credence, particularly one to the effect
hat they were for account Of the English gov $
and intended for the commissarat, the !
is, that speculation has had most to s
o with this extraordinary activity, and that t
hese reports have been circulated as foil to '
held them from too public scrutiny. This a
eliefis strengthened by the fact that goodly T
ortion of the sales have been ordered into I
tore instead of being shipped Immediately, f
hen there is q tnmnorarv eYcess of founaoo :;