The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-01-09
The Picavune, in an article on New Orleans

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ted and busy aspect of the city. says:
! We ought not. however, to let this oecasio
! pass without suggesting the lessons Of pract
cal wisdom which this state Of things ought
7 impress upon the minds ofour citizens. A cor
siderable part of the business of this season
the accumulation from 4 past year, d,mnishe
in extent and in profits by injurious delay
caused BY the lack of means of transportation
= The low waters of one year cramp the reyenn
= and diminish the trade, not for one year onl.
e They produce positive and irreparable los.
q and when the channels are open business poul
. into the city suddenly, loading our warehouse
with produce, so as TO necessarily affect price
q by a sort of glut and crowdng within spac
II of a few months, business, which with reSula
# and expeditions modes Of transportation coui
1 be spread uniformly over their natural period
TO the great advantage of the city and country
: We shall not undertake TO compute the iosse
2 which have been suffered in both quarters o.
= the low waters of lastscason, or the deduc'ion
from the profits of this, by their effects, IN th
:. unwonted pressure upon the markets. But tn
N dullest cannot fail to see that there would hay4
= been a vast amount of saving to all interests, |
: the railroad communications in which our PEG
, pie are engaged, had been brought into uss
during the last year The Yicksburg ane
Shreveport road and Opelousas road, if carried
to the points contemplated, would, IN the opin
iors of many, have benefited the people OF the
State within one year. to an amount which, y
f bestowed on the works in their present conoi,
ton, would place them in secure position and
y assure their completion. The jackson pene-
trates region affected in less degree BY
these influences, but sufficiently sot make the
same calculations entirely applicable &.
4 We cannot see how any rejecting person can
| fail to be impressed By the present aspectof al
! fairs, with the extreme value, and indeed es-
sential necessity for the permanent future OF n,
! Orleans, of carrying out these works BY all
possible means, to the earliest completion pos
sible When finished, we shall not leave 70
the carping and hostile critics, a fact upon which
to indulge their favorite Vaccinations OF the de-
cay of New Orleans. The prosperity OF New
1 Orleans is within the grasp and control OF her
own citizens, and if she does decay it will be be-
cause men who could prevent it, though fore
warned, and thoroughly advised of the means
of security, shall steadily and willfully refuse
to employ them.
Have the merchants of New Orleans learned
experience BY the precarious navigation oflast
season? IF so, how much have they done TO
aid in building The yicksburg and Shreveport
railroad? -~*n
It appears that Mr.. Richardson, the demo-
cratic nominee for speaker of the Z. S. house
of representatives. is unsound on the slavery
question, and, is therefore, not acceptable to
the south The Charleston Standard, states |
rights paper, charges him with having declar-
ed ''that congress had the undoubted right and
power to abolish slavery in the district of Col !
umbia." 1t is also on official record that Mr.. |
advocated the existence of full pow
r in congress to pass the Wilmot proyiso, and
hus prohibit sEauery in the territories He is /
IN congressional record as having officially ex-
pressed his intention to vote for that proviso, I
lid moi a territorial bill that he preferred sue
ICED. ''Mr. Richardson was in 1850, and is,
We believe, to the present day, believer in the
Existence OF power in congress to prohibit slave
~ Its strange, if the charges are true, that
outhern democrats would vote for such man
or any office. za1 .. ..s. 1.:.e. s..-
The Boston Courier, a whig paper, thus tells
Who Mr.. Banks is: =''s .7r"
'&When Banks comes up in the end as the
andidate of the republicans and the north
IN Americans" he will have the whole of their
-ote. We advise them to corner him down to
ome principle, for he never has had any stable
principle in HI the course Of his political life.
Vixen one Of our contemporaries said that Mr..
Banks was fit successor to Messrs. Winthrop,
Valley and others, as speaker of the Massa-
husetts house of representatives, its editor
must have been asleep. Iftherepublicans want
lim they must nail him down, and nail him
lard, 81 they will not keep him. He is one of
he most slippery and uncertain politicians in
he world. II he is elected speaker, and the
Pierce politicians want to buy him, they can
,aye him without doubt, but it must be at a
,rice''
The Washington correspondent of the New
ork Herald says: a5. ....e. -s. /
..Ifsoberness constitutes dignity, Banks must
make dignifed speaker. in the event of his
lection He has the air of New England /
clergyman pacing the deck of steamer which
lie expects every minute will blow up
Il appears from telegraphic report of the
ofthe house Representatives, on
he 18th ult., that Mr.. Fuller, of Pennsylvania,
he know nothing candidate for speaker, defn-
ID his position with respect to the slavery ques-
ion. He said in substance that had he been
n the last congress, he would have opposed all
erlitorial legislation, but now be would not
tote for the restoration of the Missouri COM
promise, and would sustain the admission of
Kansas with or withou. slavery.
The editor of the Columbus fGa) Corner
stoBe-a southern rights democratic organ
5iyes the following reason for the interest that
heet has manifested in the subject of Kansas,
md the anxiety lie feels to import a number of
laves into the territory 1t says:
w 1--WE feel no interest in the Kansas question,
Except that resulting from the hope that they
nay get up difficulty over it. which NAV BY
possibility result in dissolution of the Union.
ye would not, for any other benefit we expect