The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-06-25

use the aforesaid sum, by drawing upon the Parisl
Treasurer for the amount hereby appropriated.
4 R. T. BUCKNER, President.
/ N. E. WRIGHT, Secretary. 2-s
The board proceeded to the election of Parish Con
stable for year. Thomas Mccall offered to per
form the duties for S12O co. E. Attawav SEN, offer
ed to perform the duties for 500 90. The yeas
nays being called for, as follows: for Mccall R
L. Gillner Robert Lowe and W A. Lacy For At
taway, James A. Jeter, W A. Pegram and JOSEPH
Beard. The vote being tie, R. T. Buckner voted fo
Mccall who was declared duly elected at Sl20 co.
On motion the bond of Thos. Mccall as Parisl
Constable for last twelve months ordered to b.
cancelled.
On motion of W. A. Pegram, N. E. Wright, csc.
requested to prepare and report to the next meet
ing of the Board of Police rate of fees be charged
by justices and constables for services by them rem
dered the Parish of Caddo in criminal and pena
causes.
There being further business, the board adjourn
ed sine die R. 7. BUCKNER
Prest. Police jury
Attest-N. E. WRIGHT, elk Police Jury
. SILKS, BRANDY AND C1GARs-To those who
have not examined the statistical returns pub
lished annually by the government, the amount
paid every year luxurles will appear fabulous
but the figures do not lie,. no matter who NAV
doubt.
We boast of our ability to feed the world
and of the business we are doing in that way
now, and few suppose that the silks piece goods
including ribbons, but not buttons and orna.
ments chiefly manufactured of siks-brought
here for the adornment of republicans and theil
wives and daughters exceed in value by eight
millions of dollars all the flour that we send
abroad. Yet such is the case In the year
ending June 80, 1855, we exported S14, 783, 1894
In flour, and imported S22, ,570,911 in silks,
| leaving the balance we have above stated to be
charged to the difference between the pride OF
Americans and the appetite of all the world be-
| sides.
Our corn fields, particularly in the west, are
the occasion of much national boasting. We
measure them singly by miles square, and esti-
mate their aggregate value in hundreds of mil
lions; but the amount OF this, our national sta
pie, which we send abroad, is overshadowed
by the cost fcigars with which we poison breath
and ruin health. In the period we have named
corn worth 81 1,374 OFT left our ports, and ci-
gars valued at 1881 ,935 were brought in.
The herds OF cattle and resulting barrels of
beef people never tire talking of. They see in
them a large part of the material with which se
can I'll the nav of all civilised mankind. Our
merchants who are in that line watch the for
elgn markets with great solcitude, and guage
their prices by signals from the other side of
the water. But of beef taow, hides and ''horn-
! cattle' was sold for all other countries only
SO, 554 IN the last commercial year, and
during that time we bought brandy to the
amount of $3 3241, 4o8.
We deal largely in tobacco raise it in guam
titles, chew and smoke it without limit It con-
stitutes the third in value in the list ofcommod-
tiles, which this country has to spare. Yet, we
export only $11, ,3l9, ,519 in value of this arti-
Gle yearly, and last year we received in return
tea and coffee amounting in round numbers to
1874 100000. Even in narcotics the balance
Of trade is largely against us.
Bacon, lard and live hogs are not unimpor-
tant items in our commerce; yet we send abroad
only enough of these to buy the linen we wear.
But 'cotton is king" That wipes out the
pecuniary effect the follies and extravagances
which all have conspired to commit. OF that
we sent out last year shiploads enough to swell
the aggregate value of the export to the amount
of slO6 456, 600, sum greater than the value
of all other exports, specie included.
WAR WITH ENGLAND.-The rejecting portion
of the English press are employing themselves
in calculating the cost and consequences of a
war with this country. The expenditures of
pounds, shllings and pence would ofitself be no
trifing item; and with the sequence of addition
al taxation upon a people who are already strain
ed to the very verge Of forbearance the expec-
tation of rupture with their best customer is
sufficient to excite the fears and arouse the in
terest and anxiety of all classes of her maiestys
Subjects .-a
The consequences of a war between the two
countries are duly appreciated by the CONNER
cla interest of both countries. Which of the
two would suffer most from such a calamity
could on y be determined when balance should
be struck at the termination Of the controversy;
the loss of life and the moral effects of such a
strife between kindred nations being left out of
the account.
A leading English paper, which properly
comprehends the value of the preservation of
peace with the United States, furnishes table
of the exported products Of Great Britain to for
elgn countries, from which we learn that the u.
States consume f21, 1877, ,63l of the industrial
products of that kingdom, while the other for
elgn countries designated take only the amount
of ESQ, Sc, 500. 49,
The declared value OF the raw cotton import
ed IN the United Kingdom in 854 amounted to
f2O, 173, 1913. The declared value of the cot
ton goods exported during the same year. in
GLIDING cotton twist, was f3l ,745, 85l. This
shows that the people of England, after supply
ing themselves and their colonies with the man
nfactures proceeding from this cotton, were en-
ablcd to furnish the rest of the world with
surplus to The amount Of f11,47O,464.
These figures of themselves will be sufficient,
we tbink,'to satisfy our friends across the Wa
ter that their true policy will be to abstain from
all interference, directly or indirectly, in the af
fairs OF their American brethren.
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HlGH AspIRAr1oNs.-The Philadelphia Bull .
letIn remarks that Of late years, every other
man seems to be aspiring to the presidency, and
every other newspaper mentions some Tom,
Dick or Harry, the lion Of some little locality,
but whom nobody else ever heard Of who, by
some lnserutable dispensation, has managed to
connect his name with the presidency. The
Bulletin seems greatly -disgruntled that the
country should have come to such pass, and |
that peaceable and unofending citizens should