The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-07-30

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; prove the navigation Of the Mississippi, at tn
Southwest pass, Notwithstanding the veto {
! president Pierce. Having previously passe
the senate it is now the law rs is also the bill
to improve the St. Clair fats and St. Mary
} river. When thesveto was taken up in the sen
} ate, Messrs. Slidell and Cass advocated the pas
sage of the bill, and replied to the objections Q
the president. Mr.. SlidelI, in the course of hi
speech, remarked: .-s Elf
There is an argument in the message 9th,
president-in fact the only one on which til,
veto is based-which | desire to treat with al
the respect due to the chief magistrate of the
unis States and the official leader of the par
ty of which have ever been, through good anG
evil report, a consistent and steadfast adherent
but while acknowledging my allegiance to al
authentic indications of the will of that party
'nulllus addictus iurare in verba magstri,' 2 /
will take no man acord, hoaaeuer eleuated he MAJ
be, for any dogma of my political creed. The
! president SAYS: z.rs.a . -.-..
Il have not been able, after most careful
examination, to regard the bill before me in
any other light than as part of a general sys-
TEN OF internal improvements, and therefore
feel constrained to submit it with these obiec-
tons to the reconsideration of congress-"
Il deeply regret the slur which the president,
unlntentlonally trust, has thus cast upon the
democratic senators who voted for this BILL
For myself, I repudiate the insinuation as an
founded in fact" <-
Messrs: Cas- Douglas, odge, Sebastian, Sill
dell and other leading democrats voted in favor
of the motion to persist in the passage of the bill;
while Messrs Biggs, Brodhead, Butler, Clay,
Evans, Fitzpatrick, Hunter, Mason, Reid, To.s-
cey' Toombs and Iulee, were the only senators
who voted to sustain the presidents Veto The i
passage the bill is the most signal defeat that
The Pierce's administration has sustained and
we hope the democracy will henceforth believe
t to be constitutional to improve the Mis-
ssippi. f....
ANOTHER RAILROAD PRoJEcr.-We find in /
he Louisiana Democrat letter written by the
ION. }. NJ. Sandidge to the editor of that paper,
rom which we extract the following interesting
Intelligence:
CAS- understandable directors of the New
orleans, Opelousas and Great Western railroad
ave not determined the line of its location
'estwardly of Opelousas or Westinghouse
lere is reason to believe, that if the people of
'apldes, Natchitoches and DeSoto will uoag !,
lake an effort, the road will be taken on the
oute to Shreveport, by way of Mans6eld:
Jus bringing 1t nearer to the towns of Alexan-
ria and Natchltoches, than it it struck the Sa-
ne river at any point within Sabine parish. I
THAT road, as projected, looked to a Texas :
ade, and connection in the State of Texas. d
It'll southern Pacific railway. c
NOW, We expect to have bill reported to n
ngress very soon and passed providing for tho Q
les of rails to the Pacifc-the main trunk of v
e southern road, to be on or near the 32d de- e
zee of north latitude-and upon that line, at u
lrevcport, we hope to concentrate all the roads o
EST of the Mississippi river from, and includ- r.
3 the st. Louis Iron Mountain road, to New {,
Thanksgiving the latter city good connec- L
N with st. Louis, as well as with the Pacific o
INK road-which would start from that place, 1t /,
reveport The branch roads to be aided as II
I'll as the main line. &c
with such prospect ahead-and the 9TH m %
inducements alreody offering of a much great IL IL
amount of land to be received under the bill u
Gently passed BY congress, should the road III
carried to Shreveport, than if thrown out of IN
? State at Burrs ferry, or some point above "
an but believe, that a serious effort on the y
TT of the people interested, would be success
II they will but 60 to work IMMEDIATELY" al
Mr., sandidge's project is truly grand one; Pc Pc
would not the proposed extension of the 81,
elousas road to this place prove detrimental III
the Vicksburg and Shreveport railway? ri!
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FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS GoNE.-A most tic
'egous blunder was committed few DAYS an
} IN the United States treasury, Washing ess
=, by which the general government lost u u
ne fifty thousand dollars, that will not soon al
The error occurred in paying off of
Texas debt, and was detected by banker ca
another city, who Immediately telegraphed !. lal
fact to secretary Guthrie, and electrified the W.
asury department in more senses than one, III
sing great stir among all hands, from the of
ef to the pettiest clerk. The Organ thus ex- de-
ms the manner in which the error occurred: lo ~
Congress appropriated 81, SOC, 900 for the W,
ment of the Texas debt. Upon calling in 49,
scrip, it was found that the United States q; .r'
Id pay seyenty-sx dollars eighty-fve cents -,
FIVE mills on the hundred And at this rate ~. .he
payment has been carried on heretofore. s sne
:as had paid thirty per cent on her ten per :,
t. scrip, which of course was TO be deducted -,
n the face of the paper held The mistake wv
1rred in first deducting the thirty per cent. b.r
by Texas, and making the pro rata dvi- con- 90,
on the remainder, instead of making one ooa
dred per cent. the basis of calculation. and ~
ucting the thirty per cent which Texas had ,re
ecretary Guthrie dispatched orders by tele- t to .
'h that the payment ofthe drafts should be and
ped, or that they should be paid less six per ;er
discount. But, in all probability, most Of 81 6
drafts have already been cashed, in which y 81;
the money gone. :.
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fillmore IN ALABAMA-The Americans had sup
emendous rally on the night of the 10th won
, and the enthusiasm was up to the highest he
!. Nothing like it since 184O Hiliard ton
ton, Watts and Baker, of Russell, spoke lear
crowd broke I'm at 9 O'Clock With l,,,d iatI6