The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-27

Y be. I'LL loorasdaT an5 #e, Ike tEssasands
!. others .bo feel wftH1s. have H7sen frero It's n
russI altia feeilng 81 regret. that tie adnssr
IsfratloB whEeh caa make such correct and n;
Il b. prgesrfonss Has 4 pyaetics descended tosll
y loses depflsg III frepSeiIIs7n aha der1a gogusr
d public Offices, and eoatefaptBousig turned Il
. back apoH the upright capable and hoaorsbI
1.sea .siso might hare supported il uisi1 cred
: ~ llseaf ard TO them, ID the t.insa5grdinate
Il -sta1e q Ne. YORK
TIE Philadelphia Pennsylvania putlishe
the following extract from private letter an;
: ten b the hon. Jaaaes Buchanan 70 q gentle
man ii that c4y:
- refer ta tie connection q nv nara
with lie presidency This neither desir
! ed nor expected. Tie movement IN nv fayo
: has. therefore, originated Without mr. pfeviol
knowledge and consent, and should b. anits
] satisfied should another be selected The mex
Will y tn most responsible presidential Tan
since the origin Of tie government. Both on
: foreign and domestic affairs will require the
. guidance Of an able. firm and sEilIfaI pilot &
/.
pra5 heaven that The best may be selected fol
The crisis. and to me il j. matter of iadiffer
enee whether he comes from the north, or tbe
south, the east, or the west." s1
i II Ar. Buchanan is not inclined 10 allow his
friends 70 put him up for the presidency. he has
the right ID unequfvecaI1y decline. We hope
with bin the best man ternay be selected for the
crisis, !" for we hare had enough OF fourth-rate
presidents.
4 resolution, asserting that the Missouri
compromise ought not 10 have been submitted
10, even to saye the Union, a few days since
passed The house Of representatives Of ALBANIA,
BY yo.e Of 81 70 %. Tic Richmond Enqui-
rer, commenting rpor il. says, there is one Gu
rious fact connected With the proceedings, and
that il, that the author OF the aforesaid resou-
ton, Nr. Walker, is the son Of senator II aIker,
who represented Alabama in the senate Of the
United States in 1920, and voted fer the his
souri, compromise. Tie son noE introduces in
to the legislature, and votes for, resolution
declaring that his father committed a wrong in
voting for the Missouri compromise, .seYen to
save the Union." Which is only an illustra-
ton Of the promptitude and eagerness with
which *tyoung America atthe presentday puts |
It's reto upon and repudTates the fogyisra Of The
past. ar. Walker may be very talented man
and devoted 20 southern rights, but hereafter
b ought 70 hold himself cheap indeed.
TExAs.-The rapidly with which Texas in
creases in population is really astonishing. and
demonstrates that she will, without doubt, in
2 few years rank as the empire State of the
south II 1850 The ceasaz gaze Texas only
2l2.592 inhabitants. 1t the presidential cleo
ion, in 1852, the total vote cast was Il. SAT.
As the population had increased considerably
n the period between 1850 and 1852, ii must
hen haze been near 500, 900. This would be
n the ratio Of about one vote to every sixteen h
ahs5itaats. II there Lad been no increase in
ne population tie ratio would have been about
ING voter TO every eleven inhabitants 1t the
lection recently held in Texas no less than
'5,547 votes were PolIei. applying the first
alto TO this, we should have a population of :
.28,752, being three times the aggregate Of
he population in 1850. Taking the lower ra-
10, the total would be sol OFT, 20 that, in any
ase. the aggregate at this time must exceed {
iaIf a million. This is an astonishing increase {
nd evincesthat Texas has grown even more '
apidly than Iowa. &
The Washington correspondent Of The Plea
une. in bis letter Of the 7sh inst, says that
ir. Dallas, the new minister to England, is
ow here, not having been able to start for his s
ostby The steamer Of yesterday. He proposes b
, leave, however, at The earliest moment +
here is a growing suspicion that part of the /
ablnet are endeagoring to prepare him for [
from Dir. Buchanan's high position e
n the Central American question. I do not k
redit the rumor. I believe the administration Fl
at present determined On maintaining our Just Il
gifts under the Clayton -Buiwer treaty, as so Il
bly, set forth in Mr. Buchanan's dispatches ft
ut i is TO BE- hoped that DIR. Dallas will act n
pom no verbal instructions, unless lie wants to Ii
G cheated, for, should lie commit himself to C
gorous policy now, in the event of an unex- II
scted peace in Europe, he will just as ike as 81
ot find il necessary to hold the documents in
der to save himselffro reputation. Ii
CRrME.-The American Almanac for 1856 h
'ntains a statement collected from the returns ii
the courts Of the different States, under the Il
lad Of crime, by which it appears that Of the P
!, 1893 convictions had before the courts Of the Il
nited States from 1341 to 1854 nclusige-a n
sriod Of fourteen years-9548 were natives of E
e United States, and $50 foreigners. As the al
atiyc white population in $50 was II, 957, l34 D
bile the foreign population was 2,244,648, it S
iloWs that the same ratio of convictions among 81
e former as took place among the latter, Of
ouid give az, 600, instead of9648, or Al times
many As actually occurred I'm other words v
= number Of convictions among foreigners ..