The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-05-20

country. The black republicans OF that ota.'
have Just passed an act entitled can actto es1aD
lish metropolitan police district, and to pro
vide for the government thereof, ms &C
takes the control Of the local police from 10
cal government, cieated by the votes OF the
people of the city, and vests it in board Q
police, or commissioners appointed by the gov
ernor! The latter has acted with swift prompt
ness, and appointed board of black repuol
can commissioners. and they proceeded TO eA
ercise their powers of superseding the old po
| lice.
But regarding ills extraordinary act as
palpable infringement on the principle OF quas
local independence and self-goyernment tina
NAV be regarded as the common law OF ou1
municipal life, the city authorities OF New OH
resolved to test tie question OF its constltu-
tionality. Accordingly, mayor Wood applied
to the supreme colrt for an injunction on the
new commissioners to restrain them from ex
ercisng power und,r their appointment This
application has beel received and Judge Da-
vies has issued an oher appointing the 9Th o.
May for hearing on the motion; and also has
issued an Injunction restraining meantlme The
board :'from assuming any control over the
police force Of ths city and county OF Ne"
York; from entering upon or taking posses
sion of any telegra,hic apparatus pubic po-
lice property, boob, records and accou're-
ments now in the possession of the police de-
partment of said city and county, or from ex-
ercising any authority or power over or IN any
respect to the pdice of the city and county oil
New York, or my of its officers, records or
property"
This we believe, a new question, and very
great question; whether Legislature can de-
prive the peopeof the local control on vital
point of their municipal affairs. Let us bring
the case home. Can majority of the legls-
lature of any Stat abolish the police of char
tered city, createa local board, and set over
the city any bodytbey please? As matter
OF expediency, thu question is as clear as the
SUM- The act which the New York black re-
publicans have passed, strikes at the root of the
beautiful system of division of power that
makes the tree o our polity, and which every
good citizen should cherish. Mayor Wood has
done well to testt In doing this, lie is fight
ing battle for municipal Independence; and
every town and city should bid him God speed
in his work.
The Legislature of Louisiana have attempt
ed to muzzle our Elections in New Orleans, by
authorizing the slrriff to appoint an unusual
number of deputie to superintend the cleo
tons, but mayor Waterman with his usual
promptness, let it distinctly to be understood,
that he, as mayor, vas at the head of all NUM-
cipal affairs, deriving his authority from the
city charter.
1t is a remarkable fact, that no where do
we find a nation or tibe of people who have
not some mode of religious worship, or some
variety of established faith. If we could but
trace back to their primary formation all these
different varieties Of rligion, we should find
their original commencement in God himself.
The inherent idea of 'eligious worship comes
from the Being worshpped, and the doctrines
Herewith connected. We ever bear within us
an ideal type of divine perfection, without
which we are lost. We must have beau
ideal, to which we must ever aspire, Or we find
ourselves, instead of being immortal crea.
lures, created in thu image of our Maker, tc
be only, as it were, a remove from the brute
which knows no CD, and partakes not in his
divinity. Thus wi len man processes disbe
lief IN things spiritual, he at once indirectly &C
knowledges his metal inferiolity and narrow.
ness of conception.
A correspondent the St Louis Republican
in letter dated W'ston, April 90, writes as
follows in relation o the coming election il
Kansas:
The great question is, evil the freesoilers
vote?'' They have sworn that they will not
should they persist, Kansas must necessaril,
ask for admittance, with constitution admit
ting slavery, Or atleast not prohibiting it,
The census act proldes that no one shall vote
whose name does rot appear on the corrected
list OF voters, prepared under its provisions. Il
is certain that they have refused to be regis
tered thus far; and as they have but ten day.
to 60 on, it is most probable that the pro-sia
very vote, as shown by the returns, will b,
vastly in the majority. The truth is, that tn,
policy of the abolition leaders is to let Kansa
be slave State, without an effort, for the pur
pose of keeping Up agitation. This policy
dictated at the NORTH, has been adopted in Kan
sas. Let Kansas came in as slave State, a
it undoubtedly mus do, should they persist il
the course named, and then what hurrah an,
fuss they will make about the extension Q
slavery. They willsay eve told you so; it wa
the object of the democratic party when the
repealed the Missouri compromise. Down wit
the slavery propagandsts."
The bubble of western land speculations con
tlnues to swell. The eastern and middle State
are being drained of capital for speculatiy
operations in the new territories. Men neolec
their honest obligations in order to buv tow,
lots IN Kansas and Minnesota There is a,
enormous speculative value placed upon al
western lands; they are held not at what the
are actually worth, but at what the7 will nrob
ably bring in the future. Lots are HIGHER i
some OF these new villages, or @'paper towns.
than In Cincinnati. This land speculation fe
yer extends to all classes, and causes an min
Tlous effect upon all other varieties of business