The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-12
The Washington correspondent of The Delta,

which may interest as well as enlighten ON
readers. He says: Il refer, Of course, to TIKI
appointment of general Lamar as resident min
lister near The Argentine republic. This is The
appointment allotted to Texas as her share 0
the spoils and it may not be undressing tt
your Texas readers to know how itcame to bt
thus disposed of when the great mass of The
solid democracy of the Lone Star State haC
asked it to be otherwise, As but one mission
fell to the lot Of Texas, senator Rusk presented
the name OF colonel James Rely, an old Texar
of much popularity, and personally pressed hi
appointment. To this was added strong al
peal from Texas, signed by governor Pease,tht
secretary of state, auditor, comptroller, attorne!
general, and other state officers, together witt
the chairman of the democratic state commit
tee. Such was the positive backing of colone
Reilly, while no one dared to intimate an objec
ton to him personally or politically. On the
other hand, understand general Lamar was
urged by general Hamilton, of South Carolina
or of Texas. as the case may be, and was sue
cessfuly urged, too, as the appointments an
nounced this morning prove. How general
Rusk will receive this compliment to bis posi-
ton and influence is a matter of speculation
here. What will the democratic state officials
of Texas say to it? Such is the fate of war;
Speaking Of colonel Jack Hays, the same
writer says, ''the telegraph has announced to
you before this the appointments of colonel Jack
Hays as surveyor general of Utah. Why he
was transferred from the surveyor generalship
of California to that of Utah has bothered many
of the friends of colonel Hays to imagine
Some conjectured that the administration wish
ed to turn him into new pasture, where the
pickings is fresher; others say that he has been
long enough in the rich fields of California, and
gives way for others more hungry, if not so de-
serving as himself, while many regard it as a
mere question of political economy, and only a
change from gold and flowers to women and
pistols--While understand the facts to be that
colonel Jack had largely overdrawn on the ap-
for California surveys His con-
tracts for surveying exceeded the appropriations
by $4,000. The whole appropriation for the
present fiscal year is only 100000. This
state of facts exceedingly embarrassed the ad-
for one of its first official acts was
to resolve in cabinet that no deficiency bill
should be presented. Now, here is defcien-
cy of $175, 600 at the very beginning of the
term. Il the appropriation for the present ifs
cal year had been sufficient to meet the defcien-
cy, it would have been so applied, and all sur
seying stopped for twelve months. This would
probably have produced a revolution among a
people who have been struggling for nine years
10 get possession of their lands The question,
What shall be donc?'' became serious one
An effort was made to get some Californian to
lsk for the removal of Hays, but this effort was
'nly followed by protest against such remov-
i. In this extremity the colonel was sent into
honorable exile in Utah, as surveyor general
here, while successor was appointed in Cal
fornia to disburse the current appropriation
\ deficiency appropriation for $4,000 will
oe asked for from congress, and the surveys
among the ''diggings' will continue
Another letter tx, the same paper says, since
ny last you have seen the publication of the full
endorsement of the administration of the course
If governor Walkerin Kansas, and the defence
~ the Union newspaper. The Union, you have
doubtless observed, seems to think that the
south should be satisfied with the probability
hat the convention which is to construct the
Kansas constitution will define the qualifications
# the voters on the constitution. 1t seems e
orget that the organic law proclaimed by gov
rnor Walker, in his official arrogance, itself
efnes their qualifications: all resident inhabi- |
1ats, natives, aliens, Indians, negroes, and all
be rest Of mankind, of course. Nothing could
uit the republican party better than this and
hey have all the while been secretly chucklng
yer it, In hoe signo vinces,' say they to
They calculate,that the defeat last
ear of the American party will cause an over
'helming flood of foreign immigrants to be
CURED Upon our Atlantic border, forcing pro-
ortionate increase of the food which is all the
lille rushing westward. The consequence of
Il this will be, in the course oftwo more years,
} give preponderance of freesoil inhabitants
II over the territory on the southern and west
IN border of the slave States. They calculate
} carry their hordes in irresistible numbers
gen into northern Texas, and, by means Of the
reat democratic doctrine ofsquatter sovereign
:, to have, ere long, the present boundary of
le southern States rreversibIy fixed and de-
rmined as the sultima thule'' Of the institu-
on OF slavery" The deductions Of the Delta's
correspondent are most just and true, as the
vents OF every day demonstrate il manner
ot to be misunderstood, and are nothing more
ian verfcation of what the American party
ave been for years past proclaiming to the
eople of the south. Before many years the
'uth will find out that ''squatter sovereignty
abolitionism in disguise.
The Paris Academy of Medicine has set the