The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-06-03
For the South -Wester.

not anYW1Se lntlmlddted on ACCOUNT VI oui -
lure in the presidential election. AND why
should any true American '.gve up the ship
because he has been unsuccessful IN the hrst
attempt 10 stem the current OF the mighty
ocean? Shall we drop anchor almost within
sight of land because the winds are little con
trary? Truth is always in the background IN
land of progress and enterprise, and II We
as Americans, do not succeed in obtaining the
reins of government, four principles prevail IN
the end that is all we want. 1t is the drones
that grow up in the hive, lay Their eggs
and then seek to devour all the honey, OF which
i thew did not make particle; and it is thus with
the demagogue, who elects his shiny stuff
for instance, ..squatter sovereignty" and alien
sufraee-in order that he may pander to and
latter the masses, and thereby get into power
and thus be enabled to satate his vampre-like
appetite with the spoils of office. Timid par
tisans and political croakers may cry out that
the american party will succeed but
that is nothing new, for in the dark days OF the
frevolution-in the times which tried our fore
fathers souls-the British cabinet and British
mercenary soldiers affirmed that the Americans
could never succeed, and the tories swore that
i il was self-evident fact. Yet the Americans
did succeed in spite of the British, their merce-
naries and the tories, and securing the freedom
of their native land, erected upon it the freest
and most glorious government the sun has ever
shown upon; and, now, Notwithstanding the
trickery of office-seekng demagogues and the
croakne of modern tories the Americans will
triumph as they did in the days of rs, and
finally establish throughout the Union Ameri-
can principles What more any American
desire? a
Then, Americans, cheer up and prepare for
the coming contest. Let us not weary IN we'll
doing, for if we faint not, we will reap in due
season, and in the meantime have the proud
satisfaction of knowing that we have been the
very groundwork and pillars of not only ma
ton, but the mightiest nation of freemen that
the world has ever produced, and, if we but do
our duly, possessing facilities for scattering the
principles Of republican government to earth's
remotest bound. kEAcHIE
II Communicated
Editors South -Western-I arrived at home
in four days from your city, and had the hap
piness of finding my family in good health
There is quite contrast in the appearance OF
the forest here and around Shreveport Here
the trees are quite naked just beg ginning to leaf
out again; with you, they are full robed. l am
glad to inform you and your numerous readers
that, although when heading outour wheat was
killed down by the April frost, it is out again,
new shoots from the roots ,sthicker than before,
-, have shot up and the fields are now IN full
bloom. Should the weather remain dry until
after harvest, we shall make fair crops ofwheat;
should it be wet, the rust will interfere and de-
stroy much. l wish to say to my friends, thro'
, your columns, that there will be no issue OF the
"Texas Bible Union" until | return from my
second southern tour, which set out on the
23d inst. The reason is, my publishers do not
understand the taste and character of@my rea-
ders sufficiently we'll to give satisfaction. There
is much complaint about the numbers issued
,, during my recent visit to your city. do not
know how long l shall be absent, but shall re-
sumo publishing immedlatey on my return.-
On the 10th inst, we had very heavy rain,
with hail and wind, since then it has been very
cold considering the lateness of the season.
Yours, &C., A. PADoN.
Paris, Texas, May 90, 1857.
Late Washington letters state that the official
-. dispatches from London in relation to the Cen
trail American question, have been received by
the executive, and that the tone and nature of
| the documents Entirely forbid the further alera-
ton of the treaty. although it is limited that one
or two slight notifications would render it &C
ceptable TO the British ministry. These modi-
ficatons, though slight in the estimation of the
f English. are not so considered by the president
Or majority of his advisers. hence the treaty
+ may be regarded as dead and buried An eff
fort was made by the British minister to reopen
negotiations upon new basis, bu. without sue
cess, and appearances indicate that all future
efforts of the kind will meet like result. The
I administration has evidently got its back up,
o and it is hoped that lord Palmerston will soon
find that the United States can neither be coax
ed, bought or bullied; it other words that we
are no longer to be humbugged.
: HARD T1MEs.-Singular as it may appear
y there is great scarcity of grain in some por-
I tons of Missouri. The St. Louis News says
that in many parts of the State actual want is
experienced, while everywhere farmers are
forced to system of close feeding to prevent
their supplies from giving out. The winter was
so long and severe that ordinary stocks of grain
have given out long since; and the absence OF
grass occasioned by the backwardness of the
: spring and the prevalence of bleak east winds,
is want severely felt in the country in the
starving of cattle and in St. Louis in the search
ty and dearness Of beef and butter. In Gala
way and Marion counties tie hogs are dying
for lack of something to eat, while cattle are
barely able to sustain themselves on prairie
grass. Corn is being bought here in St. Louis
for feeding in the country-a fact which tells,
in few words, the tale of scarcity.
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DEATH OF AN OcToGENAR1AN.-One by one
the phalanx of merchants and citizens is being
reduced. We have had within the past three
} years to record the death of several of our old
est residents. We have now to note the de-
cease of William Flower, for long period of
time one of our most pectablesnd influential
merchants. For the last half century Mr..
Flower has been engaged in commercial pur-
suits in this city. Forty five years ago he was
at the head of the house of Flower d Fnlay,
afterwards W. & D. Flower, attaining the high
est credit and occupying the most elevated
position in commercial and social circles. As
, in tens Of thousands of instances, success and
fame did not attend him. He, however, main
tanned and carried through life an unsullied
name and reputation. He died sans peur, sans
reproche, in the parish of East Feliciana, on
Tuesday morning last, in the eighteth year of
his age. We believe he was born in that mar