The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-02-21

= organ of the Y. S. senate, and does tie plin
ing for that distin guished body an Office Nhie
! secures acomfortable wherewithalfor the MAR
! tenance Of thepaper The Sentinel IS more
! over democratic journal, processing the prlr
I ciples and advocating the Supremacy of th
f party. Under sucl circumstances we conside
$ i, says the n. Q. Bee, decidedly astonishing
i and reprehensibly ungrateful that our coten
= fporary should indulge il 50 palpable a fling {
the present head Of the government as is cor
t tanned in the following paragraph. The Ser
G tinel says:
eve believe that all parties have come to til
e conclusion that obscure, unknown, and ncom
!. petent men shall not fiji the presidential chair
] They are sick and tired of such men. The
7 want able, useful and eminent men-men VIII
have rendered public services-men who ar
2 known and honorcd-men who fill alarge spac
/ in the public eye
If this be not a fragrant case Of lese majest
we are greatly mistaken. Here we have tn
official journal of the highest branch of the ma
tonal legislature journal which has been tn
recipient Of many marks of favor from the pres
ident-which has published many fat adver
dsement, and drawnts thousands from the pub
lie treasury-coolly insinuating that Mr.. Frank
lin Pierce is ''obscure, unknown and incompe
tent, " and should be succeeded by an eminen
man, who has rendered public services. Fol-
shame, Mr.. Sentinel Is it thus you violate
party discipline, by awkwardly and uncourte-
ously blurtng out the truth? Should not ex-
perience have taught you that a sine qua non
ofpresidentlal favorisa perpetual shipper ofadu-
lation, reservlng your nvectives and your
frowns for opponents alone? Either the senti-
mel is very verdant, or its sagacity snufs afar
the tempest that is destined to overwhelm de-
mocracy. At all events it is to be hoped that
the faithful and unterrifed Union will not per-
NIT such conduct to escape rebuke The GEN
erous and loyal Forney, the well paid and well
fed-whose democracy is untarnished as his re-
putation-should castigate the Sentinel for its
aspersions, ard teach that backslidng sheet
thatitis grossly ignorant of the obligations in
VOWED in its position as party print Forney
is Just the man to administer Reproducing
himself, as every body knows, the very near
nation of purity, private virtue and public hon
or. He is "the noblest',, bellows blower "of
them ALL
The Louisville Journal contains an able art
Gle IN regard to the present tone of popular feel
ing IN this country, in the course of which it
justly observes that one Of the most dangerous
signs Of the times is the popularity of such a
book as the autobiography Of P. T. Barnum.-1
1t is astonishing with whateager greediness the
book that records Barnum's strides to wealth
was seized by American readers. As he I'M
wells his course of proceeding, his daring i'm
pastures, his systematised methods of decep-
ton, and sums up the enormous receipts-who
pauses to ask how the glittering pile was gain
ed? From every page of the book, the voice
roars in the ear of youth, '.get money-get it
honestly If you can, but get it." And crowds |
rush to the stores where this open sesame. at
least the open sesame of Barnum is to be pur-
chased, buy the book, drink in Barnum S philo-
sophy of money getting, and dream of future
lrenstons of their own, of being made cashiers
Of banks in their native city and village, and of
the doubtful moralities of their lives,
BY cheap lectures on temperance. But all the
vices, the propensities, the allurements to ruin,
he perils of the soul, which that book teaches
n its principles are so emblazoned with the
magic of success, that the moralist and thinker
must tremble for the young generation Just
reading upon the threshold of manhood.
The .. S. house of representatives has pass
ID a bill authorizing the people of Oregon to
orm a state constitution and prepare for ad-
mission into the Union. This bill will be ac-
:epted, and Oregon be admitted during the
next congress. The admission of Minnesota
cannot be delayed more than two years. Kan
sas, Nebraska and Washington territories will
soon follow, and then our Union will consist of
hirty-sx States.
There is A bill before the legislature of New
York which we would be pleased to see enact
ID by the legislature of every State in the Uni
IN. 1t ordains that any person who shall sell
u offer for sale any milk produced from cows
hat are fed upon unwholesome, deleterous or
food, shall be liable to fine of 500
j. to imprisonment not exceeding three months.
ANY person who shall sell or offer for sale adul-
Grated or watered milk to be fined $50.
The Washington correspondent of the New /;
I ork Post asserts that Mr.. soule has been prac-
ically recalled and that technically the offence
,f which he stands convicted is his neglect or
efusal to deliver or communicate dispatches ;
transmitted to him from Mr.. Marcy. f
The q. S. senate has passed the bill appro- +,
'riating 100000 for the purpose improving /
he navigation of the mouth of the Mississippi
Shocks of an earthquake were experienced
N the 9th inst, at Halifax, Ms, Sackyile, N
B., and Calais, Me. Many windows were !