The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-12-17
IuposrASr TO orr1cE sEEkERs -since Jack


IMPORTANT TO OFF1cE SEEKERs.-Slnce Jack
son inauourated the system OF removing mel
from Office under the government, on accoun
of their political views. it has been customar,
with thousands of mere partsans. who nav
contributed their time and talents towards LII
elevation of their favorite candidate TO the presl
dency, 10 demand of him some remuneration
in the shape Of office, for their valuable ser
vices. Now, presuming that New Orleans
no more remarkable forIthe disinterestedness Q
its politicians than other places, we suppost
there are some. (very few, probably, J who ar
casting about for some fat offices wherein the,
can enjoy their otium cum dignltate, after thu
raeking eares and toilsome labors of the cam
paien. II any such there be, we take the lib
erts of suggesting to them foreign mission o
eonsalship, as being both comfortable and u
crative, and for their special benefit, give then
synopsis Of the new diplomatic and consua
service bill, as passed by congress. That &C
gives the ministers to England and France
ST. 800 per annum each, those of Russia
Spain, Austria. Prussia, Brazil. Mexico ant
China, each $4,000 Ministers to all othe
countries, $4,000. Ministers resident are t.
receive seventy five per cent; charge q affairs
fifty per cent, and secretaries of legation, tif
teen per cent. of these amounts. Consus here
after are not to trade directly or indirectly; no.
are they TO assume diplomatic functions whe1
diplomatic officer of the United States is II
the country. The two best consulates, Liver
pool and London. are hereafter to be salariee
at 81, 500. The consuls at Havana, Havre ane
Rio de Janeiro are to get $4,000 each; Paris
$4,000; Canton. Shanghai and Honolulu. $4,000
each; Vera Cruz. $500, and so on down, a:
low as $500. The act also vests the presiden
with authority to appoint a consul to any por
or place instead of a commercial agent, or vice
versa, the compensation for such consular off
Ger to be the same in any such cases, as that
fixed for such port or place in the schedule EN-
bracing the same. IN. 0. Bulletin
CAUGHT HIM-The plea of insanity has per-
mitted many scoundrel TO 90 unwhipt OF JUS
tice, but the design TO ride the same hobby fail
ed in recent case in this village through the
cuteness of a medical committee As the fact
come to our ears they are: Hugh Holt, ndict-
ed for horse stealing, was imprisoned till court
During this time he acted out insanity, and de-
meaned himself more like brute than a hui
man being. This gave plausibility to the sto-
ry. The solicitor-J. P. Reid, esq.-is up to
such lodges, and resists the pulling of wool
over his eyes. He therefore sent competent
medical board to make a survey of the wreck
ed mind. After talking with the unfortunate
lunatic, and hearing his incorent gibberish, with
a wink and a nod to each other, they gave au-
dible expression to their opinion that bis was a
hopeless case of ''mind diseased" and duty re-
CURED them to report him fit only for the ri
5ors of the lunatic asylum-the terrors of which
were expatiated upon with no pleasing fancy
The descr ption given of the place, to which
hey were unwilling to send any being wearing
he human form, conjured up lortures and tor
nents, 10 the ears of Holt, little short of the
nernal regions, and, operated upon by his
ears, he exclaimed, Gentlemen, | swear IN
10 more crazy than you are!" They assured
lin OF their concurrence in this opinion: and
after trial, he was duly convicted of the crime
1t horse stealing. Spartan { S. c.. Journal.
SILK IN kENTUCKT.-A few counties in Ken
ucky, in common with several in Tennessee,
indiana, Ono, DC, grow the mulberry and
produce raw silk to a small extent 1t has
'een very satisfactorily demonstrated, especi-
lily in Kentucky and Tennessee, that this crop
FilI pay better than three-fourths of ali other
arm productions; out owing to recollections OF
ne 'nuiticauls fever" and ignorance on the
art OF the rural population as TO the manage
oent OF the worms, the lightness of the labor,
nd the quickness and certainty of the return,
Tx raising is not adopted generally among the
ropS OF these several States. In the agricuI-
IFE nj h tirby
&c anc cotton, rather as a curiosity than
crop. In the growth of the one thousand .
10 hundred and eighty one pounds coeoons
reduced IN this State in 1850, thirty six coun-
es participated. Owen, Casey, Nelson, Lew
and Pulaski, each produced over one hun
red pounds Since 1850 the business has
esn regularly but slowly extending. In Meade
)unty 1t has been quite well sysematised by
/ enterprlsing farmer, who INDUCES hopes of
wing to see silk classed among the regular
ops of Kentucky. 1t certainly ought TO be
placed. /
At this moment We could enumerate forty
buses here in a very narrow circuit of a few !
uares, whose large interests in the Red River =
sion are paralysed by low water, and We
light say, are annually so, yet, although T
.ltry subscription from each OF FIVE thousand =.
,llars, 10 the stock OF this railroad, would for
er relieve them from anxiety, while it would 0
d enormously also to their gains of trade, T.
eY will not come forward and advance it. SO Ii
tery dead is all enterprise, utterly extinct is l
pride in those who ought to have, apart
IN selfish considerations, an earnest desire to Il
omote the greatness of New Orleans. With !:
ch subscription from even forty of the
uses doing an immense trade with eastern OF
xas and northwestern Louisiana, the direc- OF
n of this company would have us in direct n
injection with the Texas line in about twelve 4
,nths, and whether Red River was low or
b, or entirely oblierated, would be matter St
comparatively Indifference to the business "
bic here. -
Vicksburg, too. twenty FIVE of whose wealthy ju
iabltants pledged themselves for her, that IL u
: should become subscriber to the extent :"
one hundred thousand dollars to the road in
rting from her own door, is among the de- So
.ters, and the inhabitants Of the wealthy Il
-sh of BoSsier whichis crossed By this road, ~
re only taken the pitiful amount OF some
entepn Thousand dnliarS in stock CT