The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-05-23

/ than We do towards gay and hospitablle Yin
cennes, a venerable town, whose history date
as for back as that of Philadelphia, and Who's
site was selected by the early French trader
half century before Benrile founded the cit,
of New Orleans. The location of the place i
highly characteristic of that keen perception 0
local advantages which always distinguished
i the early French traders, hunters and trappers
and which is becoming more apparent ever,
day in the Improvements of the different points
started under their auspices. We are glad tt
hear that Vincennes has shaken off the lethar
gy by which her energies have been manaclec
for several years past, and is again on the patl
to prosperity. The Gazette Of that place in
forms us that there is not a hotel or boarding
house in the city, which is not filed to over
flowing with people. No tenements are vacan
and the requirements of trade demand imme
diate additions in the way of houses, of no or
binary magnitude. And this has been brought
about by the Mississippi and Ohio railroad.
cold POST as we believe this ancient little
burgh was called in early French and Indian
times, is certainly destined to become an i'm
portant point. Located in the verdant valley Of
the Wabash, and occupying an accessible posi-
ton, both by the river and railroad, in one OF
the finest agricultural regions on the globe, it
has all the clements to become commercial
centre for the surrounding country, and with
the latent vigor just beginning to exhibit its
true impulses, we can see but little difficulty in
the way of brilliant future. Some very in
teresting historical events are connected with
Vincennes Three -fourths of century ago,
general Clark marched handful of troops
from the Mississippi to the Wabash, for the pur-
pose of driving out the allied forces of savage
and civiised foes that then held possession of
that post. The old mound, we believe, still
stands in the plain east of the town, around
which Clark marched his little squad, over and
again, for the purpose of terrifying the enemy
with greater display of men than he really
possessed. The ruse proved successful, the
enemy was dispossessed. At a later period,
general Harrison made Vincennes his head
quarters, and remained there until the Difficult
ties of the late war were adjusted. The lndi-
an struggle in the Wabash valley was sans
culinary one. The aborignes chung to the beau
tiful prairies with the tenacity almost of life
for no other soil was SO prolific in the growth of
corn, and no other forests contained a greater
amount of game. There Tecumseh fought, or i
engaged in his wiley diplomacy, and there his
brother, the Prophet exercised his superstitious
and religious fervor by which he :
governed and directed the wild energies of the :;
avage. The Mississippi and Wabash are soon :,
o be united, but not by military band. Nor
5 the embassy mission of strife and war
hose who shall start on this expedition, will r
OF be weeks on the way, nor compelled to :.
ade to their necks in purgatorial swamps.- :,
he trip will require but a few hours for its =
ompletion, and the journey will be under the
:quirenents of commerce. The enemies to be .
:iTen from the place, are the retardng infu- =
ices of trade, which prevent the products of :
at section from finding quick and cheap -
to market. With the railroad +
mpeted to the Mississippi, (Which will be the :,
Sc by the 4th of July, } Vincennes will start -
resh, and with renewed life, and soon number ::
r thousands of inhabitants where now her :,
nsus counts but hundreds. Let the example =
the people of the Wabash be followed by the N
izens of the Red River and Ouachita coun-
IS, and the result will be same-the diffusion n
an unexampicd prosperity and commercial Il
tivity. Both have suffered, been oppressed St
ID retarded by the same incubus: the want Of d
channel by which their produce can at all c.
mes reach the Mississippi. This impeachment u
} exists in the former section of country, and S
e hope that the people of North Louisiana will [
owe that they are equally as enterprising and Il
ue to their own interests tt
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Putnam's Monthly Magazine having finished
) assault on the southern States and slavery, ;.
mes out strongly in opposition to the know ::
'things, and is overlooking with praises and =
udations of foreigners and immigrants. This .
but consistent, as those who are most eager +
traduce and loudest in their denunciations of
nerlcan insttutionsas they exist at the SOUTH u
ave ever displayed great eagerness to abuse
Id .vllify any thing that had its nativity in S
merica-especially the American people 0
is the nature of such animals, and they can v
ot help it. il
SPA1N.-The Madrid correspondent of the '
Steele" Paris, under date of the 9th April, C.
the annexed statement, the cor
'ctncss of which is rendered probable by the :.
nown truth of the last part of it, relating to the
purse of president Pierce: :.
The government has received communica- i
ons of a recent date from the representative of I
pain at Washington. This minister felcitates I
lmself on the good intentions of the U. States, S
nd on the nature of his relations with the =,
Washington cabinet, which has again just re- -.
Grated to its agents in all the ports of the Uni
n formal instructions to oppose every attempt a
an expedition against the island of Cuba. f
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The governor has appointed Mr.. J. S. Flour =