The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-02-28

How HE HAPPENED TO WANT IT.-The n 7
5 Herald is giving an explanation n relation {
ii the ten millions Of dollars, which presiden
! Pierce petitioned congress for last year, bu
, which that body had the sagacity to refuse +
: entrust to his keeping It publishes lette
from Dudley Mann, assistant secretary Of state
at the time on diplomatic visit to England
some person whose nameais not mentioned
This letter says, tsif the Arabia makes goot
: run, this viii get to you four days before tn
adjournment, the adjournment Of the las
session Of congress-then follows dissertation
ON the state of foreign affairs, after which Mi
Mann writes the following rich paragraph:
sIn conclusion, 60 from me, and speedily, Il
general Cass, and to Mr. Soule, and to sucl
other members as you may think advisable
and implore them omake demonstration tina
, will produce CONSERVATION in the Tnlerles, o,
, placing ten millions of dollars at the dispose
of the president for protecting our interest
against foreign aggression, and TO authorls'
the immediate construction OF ten or hiteen Wa
steamers These measures, IT enacted, Woult
be the measures of wisdom-of safety. They
! would produce the continuance for time
perhaps the perpetuity-of peace Our unPre
nared defenceless condition, invites unprovoket
hostilities from rulers who have no security to-
themselves except in war where the chances
of success, even temporarily, are in their favor
/ for the acquisition of glory to satisfy the De
mands of military officers. Louis Napoleon !:
ready to strike ike copperhead, without 9
moments warning, if he finds us entirely OF
our guard This | know
And it was this silly epistle, written by q
member fthe kitchen cabinet, that occasioned
the Piercites to make such extraordinary exer-
tions to induce congress to place ten millions o.
dollars at the disposal Of the president.
CAL1FoRS1A.-The California newspapers
are fond Of portraying the wonders of the young
State Of California, and Of holding up to the
admiration of their readers her genial climate
| and her fertile soil. And indeed they have
reason to be proud of their State, for Califor-
MIA is certainly in many respects one OF the
most remarkable countries in the world. As
far to the northward as the city of San Fran
cisco cotton of excellent quality has been rails
ed for four successive seasons, and in sufficient
quantity to demonstrate the fact that the soil
and climate are well adapted to its culture
Tobacco of quality equal to the best Virgil
MIA has been raised in the Sonora, and there is
no doubt that rice would flourish admirably
upon the lands bordering the Sacramento and
San Joaquin rivers. The nutmeg grows wild
upon the northern hills, and the orange and
fig tree flourish in the southern part of the
State. All the fruits and vegetables peculiar
to the temperate zone may be found in Califor
MIA, and many of the tropical products.
The California papers quote the comparl-
son of Fremont and call their State the 'Italy
of the west" and one of them, the "Alta
California goes even further than this, and
declares in effect that California is more truly
Italian than Italy itself. 1t says that in Eu-
ropean Italy the winter skies are continually
overcast and the weather is raw; whereas in
California 1--WE have truly All Italian climate
from which the real lover of Italian skies will
not wish to wander far nor linger very long
away" ~
THE Texas DEBr.-The debt bill passed the
u. S. house of representatives on the 9th inst.
An amendment was made to the bill reducing
the indemnity to Sc, $50, 600, being the princ-
pal. the accrued interest, and the present mar
ket value of the S5,000Go0 worth Of public
stocks reserved under the compromise of $50.
Among those who voted in favor ofthe bill were
Messrs Dunbar, Perkins and Jones, of Louis
lana; and among those who voted against it,
Messrs. Hunt, of Louisiana, Bell and Smythe,
of Texas.
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The celebrated and once reverend Abner E.
Thornton, who more than year ago left Little
Rock, Arkansas, between two days, with some
$50, 900, the assets Of banking institution, was
arrested in New Orleans, on the 18th inst, as a
fugitive from Justice. 1t is said that Thornton
was preacher, and was employed to settle up
the affairs of a bank; that he got the money in
question into his clutches, anu ran OH Win IL 10
Texas. He was there arrested, but got off by
virtue of a writ of habeas corpus. Since then
he has been wandering about, and eventually
reached the Crescent City, where the police
nabbed him, andhe was arraigned and remand
ed to prison without being allowed bail. The
executive of Arkansas offered reward of
$4,000 for his apprehension.
The correspondence between secretary Mar
cy and colonel Kinney is published at lengthin
the Union. The colonel asserts that the pro-
posed expedition is to be entirely pacific one.
Mr. Marcy rejoins that if the colonists expatri-
ate themselves, and conform to the laws adop-
ted by the country in which they settle, the
government of the United States will not inter-
fere, but that it will oppose an armed expedi
ton with military organisation. The N Y ork
papers assert that the expedition will fail, and
that it will never sail.
The Arkansas legislature appears anxious to
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