The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-26


! 4 cost Of 800, 900 each, to Be built with 4.
i possible speed They wiliform tie largest an
4 most important addition made to the America
navy, within any one year, since the last wa
i with Great Britain. Each vessel will be ahou
i 7 800 tons burthen, perhaps the most effectiv
i class Of war steamers that could be built. Bein
of light draught, with few guns Of long range
4 they could hang upon the wings and rear Of
fleet Of convoy like hornets, and pierce an enc
mr. at their own chosen distance, without iniu
4, r. 70 themselves. q much danger Of capture
Il Their feetness would give them choice Of bal
/, Tie Or retreat, and when pressed by heavier YES
sells, they could End shelter in ports and bay
i where their assaiiants could notfollow, BY rea
son Of the shoaI water. Two such steamers
armed with the heaviest cannons, and choosing
their own position at all times, would be NOR,
than match for the most formidable fTigat,
ahoat. A dozen such steamers, following
/ hostile fleet, with transports or merchantmel
in company, would cut il up in 4 few days, AM
capture Or destroy every vessel not within rangs
1of and protected By, the guns Of q heavy fri
gate. Its not the policy Of our government
| 70 build up q huge navy like that Of England
| or France; but in time of war to scatter over
every ocean and sea fleet vessels, well armed
and equipped, and commanded by gallant, en-
| terpnsing and daring officers, who would cap
ture the armed cruisers belonging to the enc
my, and destroy his mercantile marine. For
this purpose, the steamers proposed BY the bill,
would keep ! hundred sailing vessels on the
hunt after them, only to be banked o. captur-
ed, as the steamers deemed most advisable
No merchant vessel Of an enemy would be safe
on the ocean. however heavily armed might be
the man-of-war converting her, and this alone
once demonstrated would tend to the destruc-
ton Of a foes commerce.
The Washington Union, the official organ Of
president Pierce and democracy, copies an ar
ticle from general Cass' own organ, the Detroit
Free Press in which the old general'sd doctrine
is stated TO be, 'ihat slavery is the creature Of
local Law, and that it cannot exist in any terri
tory Of the United States until legally establish
ed by the regularly constituted authority Of the
territory" This clearly means that slavery
cannot go into territory belonging to the q.
States until invited there b positive legislation
We cannot perceive how the democratic organ
is going to prove 4 doctrine ike this consistent
with the creed d southern democracy, more
especially the southern rights wing Of the
present day. The doctrine Of the south used
70 be, and now is. says the Flag Of our Union.
that slavery goes with the Shareholders intote
ritories necessarily as soon As they arc organ
lsed; that the constitution carries it there and
protects il there, and the territorial legislature
has no power to exclude it. What does the
Washington Union a. this time mean BY again
publishing the feesoil dogmas Of general Cass?
We have before Us an instance ofunasual sa-
gacity and perseverance On the part Of police
officer. y man named VIM. Burge, descr,er
from the q 8 army, formerly Of Selma, Ala,
was arrested a few days since in Troup county,
BY 4 deputy sheriff, who had tracked him from
Missouri 10 Alabama. Bnrge is charged with
having committed murder in the former State,
By waylaFing and killing man for his money
and then burying him in the snow. The body
being found, suspicion was excited against the
prisoner, and q deputy sheriff put On his track.
Burge Travelled b land, sometimes b. railroad,
sometimes b stage and other vehicles. and
On foot gistering different name
II the various hotels where he stopped. He
carried about his person small box, and wore
! cap, which ii was thought he took from the
lead Of the murdered man. and BY these little
rifles the officer was chiefly enabled 10 track
md identify him. Cutting Burgess varied reg
stored names from the hotel books, lie was en-
abled to compare the handwriting at places,
md thus assure himself that he was on the right
course. Following up the fugitive in this man
ler, he reached Lagrange only one day be-
lind Burge, and arrested him, and immediate
n started back for Missouri with his prisoner
Greeley, ia a letter. written at Washington,
o the New York Tribune, says:
Colonel Delahar, the member elect from
Kansas, whose printing Office, at Learenworth,
vas destroyed By the border ruafans in De-
,ember. is now l.ere, and IS active in his sup
port Of the free state cause. lie has been re-
5arded with suspicion aud dislike By many re-
publicans, black. for which / trust thereis no
other foundation than the fact that he migrated
from Alabama, where he was slaveholding
democrat, and has been in Kansas q supporter
IF the Kansas Nebraska BILL
This colonel Delahay formerly resided in
Mobile, where, the Advertiser says, he was re-
yarded as "a sociabie good hearted fellow, Civ
y little orer-mueb 70 trading, and bound bo-
iy and soul to democracy and the little giant
Douglas lie has followed ia the footsteps of
bis political sod. turned demagogue anda roar
ng anti slavery man.
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a Paris correspondent Of the New York Post
states quite positively that 4 proposal has been
made BY the French government to arbitrateI