The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-07-11

, senate; and processes to represent the "pul
: steel'' national democrats, in contradistinctio
to the Union, which is the well paid organ
the Office holders, the Pierce administratio
and the freesoilers-a most holy alliance, trul,
The Sentinel cuts loose from the administration
and in speaking of the Virginia election, say
it was won in spite of the Piercites, averrin
that all the efforts of the president and hi
organs embarrassed the democracy, and dc
tracted from the brlliancy of the triumph.
then enters upon condensed and rapid revie'
of the conduct of president Pierce, recalln
the sanguine hopes of the country on his ele
walton to power, his feeble and vacillating pol
icy, his wretchedly abortiye attempt to fuse tn
abolitionists and> nationals into homogeneou
faction, ha alternate tampering with both wings
his final hostility to the nationals, and encour
agement of freesoilers and abolitionists. hi
laundering appointments of foreign ministers
the manner in which he has contrlved to breal
down the democratic party, annihilatingit ane
destroying its ascendancy in congress-, his tor
tuous and treacherous course on the Kansas
Nebraska question, his appointment of a volen
freesoiler as governor of slave territory, his
permitting that functionary to continue in Of
fee in despite of most infamous and arbitrary
abuse Of power, his uncertain, humilating po-
Icy with regard to Cuba, and tame submission
to the gross outrages put on the American flag
by the Spaniards. After bringing all these
charges home against president Pierce and his
cabinet and partsans, it says the administration
has proved total failure, has violated its SOL
emn pledges, and forfeited the confidence of the
democratic party. Under these circumstances
the Sentinel contends that the duty of the par
ty is to cut the Gordian knot, and relieve itself
from all further responsibility for the follies of
the Administrations to acknowledge the silly
and fatal mistake it made in selecting general
Pierce as its standard bearer, to cease listening
to the fulsome laudations bestowed by office
holders and placemen on their master; to re0r-
ganse as efficiently as possible, to sink the doc
trine Of availability, and put forth for the next
canvass it's best and worthiest statesmen Most
sound advice, and worthy to be followed. But
will it be listened to? No! The democracy
be made a national party. 1t is impos-
sibe for it to cut loose from it's soft shell, free
soil and abolition sections. All that remains
of its at one time great power and strength, is
now horde of small political clubs, sectional
factions, and ofice-holders.
Unjust be remembered that the foregoing pic
lure of the Pierce administration, is from one of
he leading demcesatic journals in. the United
States. Yet, the democratic convention lately
at Baton Rouge, returned its thanks
o president Pierce.
LAND SLIDE IN CAL1FoRN1A-Th Nevada
Journal chronicles the following account of an
enormous land slide that lately occurred on the
luha river at Badger hill. The river bluff at
hat place is about one and half miles in
eneth. Two ravnes run up from the river,
istant from each other about IT'S yards, with
high point of land between them. At this
oint the middle Yu5a makes a bend and for
long time has been wearing away the base
f the point between the ravines, until, at last,
lie point slid into the river, from half a mile
p the bluff down to the waters edge, carry
e with it great pine and oak trees, which
ept their perpendicular position, and such was
le force of the slide, that the earth went clear
cross the river and damned it up so that per-
The trees stood upright in the
idst of the dam till the rise of the water car ;
ed away the earth, and they now lie in the {
ed of the river. A lake five miles in length s
p the river was formed, the water gradually
creasing in volume till it burst the usual
arrier. The river here is about seventy five
ards across. The flurne of the San Juan {
tch ran across the place where the slide oc-
,rred, and about 900 yards were carried off. ,
he scene is represented as having been ter
bly sublime; the rush of the earth and the
ar of the water making the ground tremble i
with an earthquake.
The Philadelphia correspondent of the Wash /
gton Organ says, sit is reported that George /
aw has already purchased a press in New Or
as, one in Pittsburg, and one in Albany; that !
has secured the services of several buffers =
ID pipe layers, and that if a million of dollars S
i'll suffice to manufacture public opinion in F
S behalf, it will be accomplished. The whole {
heme will be blown into atoms, when the peo-
e take the question Of selecting candidate in
cir own hands" Law may buy up and es- n
blish paper in every town and hamlet in the n
Mon, but his tools will never be able to make +
m president. O
The Union publishes the instructions given
commodore Nc Cauley They speak of the =
ing upon the Ell Dorado as the exercise of f.
yht, but visit and search will not be tolera- y
d by the United States, and if approved of t
Z the Spanish authorities, it is likely to dis q
rb the friendly relations existing between the h h
70 governments. They direct that if any G
ficer in command of ship is present when S
ch an outrage is perpetrated, he will prompt j
interpose and repel the interference by force.
be commodore was entrusted with no COM +,
for the captain general, but was p
dered to Havana to communicate with the P