The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-11-12
How II WAS DosE.-The New York Post

ner in which the leaders Of the democracy pull
the wires states that but short time previ
Gus to the late state election in Pennsylvania
] Mr.. Belmont (charge TO the Hague and brother
Iin-aw to the hon. John Slidell) renewed hi
subscription of 50, 700 to the Buchanan fund
the price of the mission he now holds: that ont
of the largest banking houses in Wall street ad
Evanced $4,000 more, toward the fund fo
which Sidell's meetings at the New York ho
tel were held; and that a levy ofthirty per cent
was made on the salary of every officer in the
customhouse, some eight hundred in number
and making $4,000. At the last pay day
(5Oth September) at the navy yard one dollar
was deducted from the pay Of each and every
one of the day laborers, to swell the fund which
had been called for by the great moguls of de-
mocracy to meet the exigencies OF the Buchan'
antics in Pennsylvania. As it's to be presum-
ed that all the higher grades of federal officers
have been forcibly assesseddn the same style,
not less than million ofdollars must have been
raised for the Pennsylvania state and presiden-
tial elections. There is to be added to the fofe-
going, the $4,000 and upwards subscribed at
Mr.. Sldel's meeting at the New York hotel,
and voluntary contributions from other sources
not enumerated. Its generally conceded that
not less than quarter of a million of dollars
were expended in Pennsylvania alone to secure
the meagre victory of goo majority, if it can
be called victory, which the Buchananites
achieved in Pennsylvania The Post defes
any of the Buchanan journals to deny the fore
going statement. .-u.g-
A few years ago railroad stocks were eager
ly sought for, as desirable investment; but of
late they are not viewed with such favor, espe-
cially in the southwest Yet, year by year,
new roads are projected and millions of dollars
expended on them; and the anxiety of every
State, every town. village and neighborhood
TO have its own railroad, is manifestly not in the
least abated There is for this fact plain,
obvious reason, sustained by good sense. An
inland country, without at all seasons of the
year water or railroad carriage to some com
mercial emporium, is comparatively valueless,
because its products taken to market by wag-
ons, will not pay freight and for the labor of
raising it. The transportation by railroad, is
not one fourth as much as by wagons; hence the
increased value which railroad gives to the
ands through which it passes, is found to ex-
iced greatly the cost OF making the road, and
f the owners of the land pay equally and were
o lose every'cent their road costs, still it is
profitable investment. If the lands were not
increased dollar in value by the railroads, the
increased value of marketable articles that the
anters and farmers are enabled to send to
larket, would alone, in a few years, pay for
uilding the road. Besides, all towns and vii
'ges through which they pass, or where they
entire, increase IN business in population, and
'e property is enhanced in value to an amount
lat can hardly be estimated.
THE POETRY OF Commemorative hon. Ed
ard Everett, whose brilliant genius gives !
olden tnge of poetry to every thing it touches,
'us speaks of commerce in his beautiful speech '
the Peabody testimonial:
"Track its history for d moment from the ear- s
st period. La the infancy of the world its
rayans, like gigantic silk worms, went Green r
through the arid wastes OF Asia and Afri- h
with their intinIesimal legs, and bound the :.
imam family together in those vast regions as .
ey bind 1t together now It's colonial estah. =
hments scattered the Grecan culture all "
und the shores of the Mediterranean, and 6.
FRIED the adventurers of Tyre and Carthage B
the north of Europe and the south of Afri Z"
"a The walled cities OF the middle ages pre- O
nted the arts and refnements of life from be-
: trampled out of existence under the iron D
ell of the feudal powers. The Hanse Gowns :
re the bulwalk of liberty and propertv in =
north and west of Europe for ages The A
rm OF the representatives system sprang from 8"
? municipal franchises of the boroughs. At 8"
revival Of letters the merchant princes of %,
orence received the fugitive arts ofuGreece ar
o their palaces. The spirit of commercial II
venture produced that movement in the ff-
nth century WHICH carried Columbus to 81
nerica and Vasco di Cana around the Cane I'll
Good Hope. The deep foundations of the ar
'dern system of international law were laid
interests and rights of commerce, and the
'essity of protecting them. I;
Commerce sprinkled the treasures of the wi
Wy found Indias throughout the western ma Sb
rs; it nerved the arm of civil and religious
erty in the protestant world-it gradually is
ried the colonial system of Europe to the
Is of the EARTH and with it the elements of p,
are independence, civilised republican gov =
ments. But why should we dwell on the 90,
It? What is it that gives vigor'to the evils W.
IN of the present day but the world wide
ension of commercial intercourse, by which A y
the products of the earth and of the ocean, ,,,h
he soil, the mine, of the loom, of the forge, :,
bounteous nature, creative art and untiring ste.
ustry, are brought by the agencies of COM
zee into the universal market of demand and t,e
ply? No matter in what region desirable lie,
duct is bestowed on man by liberal provi- "
ce, or fabricated by human skill; it may
he the hills Of China Win its fragrant foil
; it may walIow in tie depths of the Arctic ern
); it may rpen and whiten in the fertile ern
ms of the sunny south; it may spring forth lon
flying shuttles of Manchester in England, rim.
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