The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-12-03

returns OF The state election held IN FennsylVa
MIA, in October last, the Buchananites were We
ry vehement in declaring that the American
and freesoiIerS had coalesced for the purpose O
defeating the democratic candidates; and, nov
the great national battle having been Tough
and the democratic nominee elected, there cal
be no harm whatever in looking into the modu
operandi by which the partsans of Mr.. Buch
anan, themselves, managed to set the vote O
/ Pennsylvania, and what kind of ''principles'
they advocated and propagatcd. We quot,
democratic authority-the organ Of the ''Y ouns
America" and Douglas wing of Louisiana de
mocracy. The Washington correspondent o
the Delta, in his letter published on the 1Otf
inst, says:
The democrats will have a ma ority in the
next congress, but will they have sufficient
frmness-pressed as many ofthem will be with
northern ant-slavery extension influences, and
private interests not few-to admit Kansas as
a slave State, and to guarantee, for all future
tmes-in the admission of new States-an
equality of slaveholding with non gliding
States? In other words-will democracy" in
the next house of representatives be synony-
nous, when the issue shall be joined, with
''slavery extension" 1t is doubtful; very
doubtful. tits a fact, not GENERALLY known per-
haps in the south, that in western Pennsylva
MIA and western New York, the cry among the
democrats was, "Bucha2an and free hansos!-
Buchanan and no more Stare StGtes!!' and sew
craI Of the democratic members of congress le-
Gently elected in Pennsy lvania, n. York, Ohio
and Indiana could not have succeeded but for
their pledges to act against the extension Of Stare
ry. Now, can we rely upon their violation OF
those engagements? 1t is hardly to be counted
on with certainty. These ant-extension pledges
were not often published in the newspapers; but
the writer of this saaO a large handful issued by
one of those candidates-eccted since in
which lie declared his unqualified opposition to
the extension of slavery Nor did he stop there.
He assumed the same ground for the democratic
party. Now, what reliance can the south re-
pose in men of this stamp, and who can say how
many such there will be in the next house,
And the democratic ma ority, at most, will not
De large. And the popular vote for the black
republican candidate, being greater than that
or the Democratic will have an influence also"
The writer is greatly mistaken in the latter
as Buchanan received a larger
popular vote than Fremont.
a medical journal in Paris states that an ac-
ual examination, by the medical faculty ofthat .
apltal, OF &c, coo infants, gives for the weight .
f each new born g. lbs; the same mean value,
ne writer says, obtains for the city of Brussels
or about week after BIRTH this weight I'M
ersoes an actual dminution, owing to the It's
le destruction which issues through the estab,
shnent of respiration, and which for time
Sceeds the gain from nutrmcnt. For the
me age, the male infant is heavier than the
male; but this difference gradually diminish
;, and at twelve years their weight is about
e same. Three years later, at the period of
liberty, the weight is one half of what it is
|alIy to be, when full development is revealed
1e maximum weight eventually attained is a
tie more than twenty times that at birth, this
Idng good for both sexes; but since the new
IN female weighs less than the standard, and
c new born male more, the weight of the {
ult male is 1877 lbs; and Of the adult female
| lbs. The mean weight of man. rrespec-
e of his period OF life, is about 1O7 lbs; and +
At OF woman nearly "a lbs. The mean |
l9ht OF a human being, without reference to {
her age or sex, is about 80 TBS. M. Quote I
who furnished these statistics to the Paris
1odlcaI, adds that communities seem to be 7
der the influence Of interchangeable laws as
On as the individual. He says, Gin com c
mites, men commit the same number of n
riders each year, and do it with the same Il
opons. We might cnumeratc beforehand =
y many individuals will Undue their hands i
he blood of their kind how many will com n
forgery, will poison, etc, etc, very nearly b.
we enumerate beforehand how many births I"
deaths will take Place. This is mere u,
h. If there were any foundation whatever a,
such a suppostion, it would be worse than til
less to enact laws to restrain the evil pas sc
IS of man, or to attempt to protect society y.
inst outlaws and rascals. -,
MOTHER WoSDER.-Dr. Porcher, of Charles 10
has in his possession horn, seven inches S s,1
ength, and in diameter two inches and three of
rters, bearing close resem blance to rams is
n, which he extracted from the head of nc
ress, aged about 50, born on plantation in "t
Johns Berkeley, S. G. The tumor COM ~,
iced forming some eight years ago, with a sal
ling and discharge, and after a while grad to
increase in size. During the four months Su
edn9 its removal, it grew some two inches, n's
having in cur1ing around reached the face s.,
le temporal region, just to the left of one sec
and having commenced to produce sup Ing
ltion of the skin with which it had come in POI
act, its immediate removal was necessitated 49,.
removal was made by doctor D. J. Cain, VIII
re presence of several young students of the the
rleston Medical School. and was accompa- eVi
with comparatively little pain. It was '''0
d upon examination that some remains of
growth remained, and there is some n.y.
ability that it may increase in size and Tr
roo miro rar,ov,I The horn &C +l,;, .-a.