The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-01-02
BOGUS DEnocRAcr-When pewter dollars

BOGUS DEMocRACY.-Whenp pewter dollar:
are made, and covered with silverso as to de
ceive the unwary and cheat them out of then
property, the coin is By common consent de
nominated bogus. The faith of the democratic
i republican fathers having been repudiated By
the present administration and its followers ano
new principles engrafted upon their creed. the
ranks of the party filed up with new material
I renegade know nothings, wings, secessionists
and soft freesoers-s that the party is now
cheat, the term of .bogus" is peculiarly appli
cable. If the decimated regiments of Great
Britain now in-the Crmea were recruited, theil
companies filled up with Poles and Germans
though the army would still be the English ar
my, it would not be composed of Englishmen
The present administration party has the name
of the old democratic party, but It's rank and
file, the leading officers in particular, have been
recruited from the ranks of the early opponents
of the democracy. Thus we find the triumph
of bogus democracy in. Virginia won by an old
wing officer with whig votes, and the success
full candidate an old 'hard cider wing of the
1910 stamp. The appeals Of the speakers and
editors OF this democratic party are earnest and
incessant to the ss.tonal wings to join them.''
| We corr Size above from the Madison Cou-
rer, eae Of the Oldest and most prominent de-
nccsa.;c papers of Indiana. It depicts truly
tie elements which constitute the adminisra-
tion party, or as they style themselves, "the de-
mocracy"-the democracy of Pierce Office hol-
ders-whose platform consists in holding on
to the 'loaves and fishes and opposing the
Americans. This marvellous congomeration
of the fag-ends of all parties, with number of
asprants anxious to get into public office, no
matter by what means they may accomplish
the consummation of their earthly hopes, has
had the hardihood to arrogate to itself the title
Of democracy" 1t is in truth, only a sham
democracy, and very poor counterfeit at that.
1t has not democratic principle about it. It's
only idea is opposition to Amercanism: its on
y principle is, to get into Office and live at the
public expense. AS to its leaders, look at Vir-
ginia and Georgia, and you find them to be old
broken down wing hacks Well may the Mad
ison Courier denominate the administration par
ty ''bogus democrats"
The new editors and the ex-editor of the n. /
Orleans Delta, are at war-all on account of
the "spolls." On the 9TH ult., judge Walker
filed suit ins the fourth district court, New Or
leans, claiming sl725 of Dennis Corcoran, L.
J. Sigur and D. c. Jenkins, present proprietors
Of the Delta, for extra services previously rem +
Tered by him to that paper, in his editorial ca
oacity. He claims $1,000 out of the extra
Sl2 900 which the Delta obtained upon the CT
y printing in 1853; for his influenced in obtain
ne the publication of the list of letters, he claims
$3.50; and for extra labor, in writing, the his
orcal sketches and romances of the battles of
AXE Borgne and Cha]mette, general Jackson,
Iaftte, ETC., be claims S475-total, S1725.-
The judge is his own counsel in the case, and, +
icing an ultra locofoco, he will make strong
fort to get possession of the "spoils'' Itnow
emalns to be seen what value the court places
pom judge Walkers services
Rev. D. B. Clayton, of Holly Springs, Miss,
1forms the public that he has thrown up the l
erviee of the Lord, and taken to the worldly
ursut of politics, and is now no better than ,,
ne of the sinful and-a political editor. We
ct this Information from his own paper, the {
1arshall Democrat in which he announces the
lscoyery that the professions of the politician
nd clergyman are incompatible, and that hav- +
g never protested to be Especially called of c
rod to the work of an evangelist" he had de-
,rmined to withdraw from the ministry of the t
enomination to which he belonged. AS the =.
S-reverend gentleman has seen fit to desert +
re pulpit for the political arena, we advise his t
amocratlc patrons to keep strict watch over .
in, for one of these days he may take another
ackslide ..... :
The Concordia Intelligencer states that SO a
reat is the press of the planters to get their cot
n into market that the ordinary packets in g
e Vicksburg and Natchez trade are not suf- a
cent for its transportation. Captain Holmes, c.
the Princess, has chartered three additional o
oats to aid him in accommodating those plan y
rs who look to him for the transportation of Il
cir cotton. The pressure to get the cotton to
early market is caused by the necessity of :,
Using funds to meet the January payments "
lie by the planters, and not, as some might b
oppose, from fear that prices night decline I'll
ter in the season. NJ
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M E. CHURcH-The conference of the me- til
odist episcopal church, made the following 81
,pointments for 1856 o'
SHREVEPORT D1srR1cr-R. Randle, presiding I.
der. Shreveport, N. A. New. Caddo circuit ~ y:
I'd mission, T. W. Penick and A. Harper u ~
ansfeld, TT. Lacy. Natchitoches, c. W. ~ ~
ounsey and I. McCIenden. Red River cir VI
lit, J. L. Wright. North Bossier, J. Land N N
m. Mansfield female college, H. G. Tweatte, ~
esdent. Minden, R. R. Alexander. Homer, ~
S. Watkins and F. T. Rawson. Dugdemo- y. ~
a, D. P Culn. Rev. Messrs. L. Parker, J. vi
Walker and j. A. Ivy are stationed in New o'
rleans. Messrs. Z. Thompson, W. E. Doty p Pe
d H. A. sugg, located at their own request .%
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