The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-07-15

we can express our opinion Of tin airy better way,
than BY quoting the authors language: "Ihe inquire
monstrouS outrage on our coitlioif ia
oui. common sense.
She vii receive on the patt of reye any person
&c." lpaee 303 This metaphors Sc strIklngly apt
and beautiful that every person will be struck with
its originality and naturalness.
Once more s.Hermother teaches her,to walk like an
English duck in the month of May, end to look on
every other posture lis walking posfurel) as being
as common among the poor as eggs IN the summer
time in Ireland How strikingly beautiful 1t IS
one of the first principles of rhetoric that ID the use
of sme, the resemblance must be 50 OBVIOUS as 70
command at once the minds approvat OF the f1gure
as an illustration It follows that She comparison
should be made to something known to the reader Tor
the object is to illustrate what is not known BY What
is known. Now everybody, especially IL the nlted
States, knows how an English duck walks ana more
particularly how said duck walks IN the month Of
May for it must not be lost sight Of that an English
duck has Just as many different gaits ~ there are SIGNS
in the Zodiac And might add tor the instruction
of the reader that there are some sllght modcatios
for each hour in the day 1t would seem little SIN
gnar however that as Miss Kates raother intended
her for BELLE heshould take the trouble TO teach her
daughter so inelegant gait that pf duekl Inc
rest of the period speaks for ITSELF and II the reader
should experience anything like want OF apprecla-
ton LET him be reminded that the faultls IN himself
not in the author for the author is administer OF many
man profoundly yersed the natural histo-
nv of animals and especially with the manners and
practices of certain species of bpes which, on page
| l54, he denominates "pllable.
We might cite few instances to snow the skill and
correctness with which the author uses words as Well
as figures. For instance, 'sstonnmer,ng feet 10
cheat the ina gioaton of its divinest illusions "Ex
cept at the expense of mpropriety and guilt Good OF
our fathers and God Of the nations hear and bless the
homes, &C., Horrible fit of smilins, " After being
seated thew Sit s'astounding establishment $
spend money proper" @but what his wife made, 7
/ sHe was a making q fine show, DC, dc. But we
forbear We have said more than we intended at hrst
but we could not well have said less If we said any
thing and as we said in the beginning it was only to
find out how coarse, how rakish and how lhterate
! book a minister of many travels and "a man OF
vast eruditon could write Our curiosity satisfied
and here we leave the author and his book. Citizen
| GEN. WALKER 5 MEN AT New YoRK$-The o. s. steam
fr;gate Wabash, bearing the broad Eennant OF Com II
Padding arrived at New York on the 25th ut., III
nine and half DAYS from Aspinwall. She brought
| l2l officers and men who served under Walker II
Nicaragua, and IS women and children. Seventy
of the men are sick and wounded some very severely
Col Philip r. Thompson died on the gath OF June ane
was buried at sea.
The following is list of Gen Walkers men, pas
sengers in the Wabash:
Brio. general Edward = Sanders, Col Philip r
Thompson, dead ) Lieut. Col e. E Mcdonald, Lieut.
Col Henry b. Potter. Lieut.. Col. George w. NJ. Leon
ard. Capts John NJ. Griffin, James Dunnican, Benz
| F. Whittier, William Northbridges Jerome johnson
James H. Hearsay; Lieuts. james Small, WILDER +
Harnell, Robert G. Tyler, James G. Schemerhorn
John G. P Hoal Goodwin Brown Surgeons Arthur
Callahan John Brinkerhoof William Dolman; Sec
retary Robert Luke; citizens Woolsay Teller, james
| T. Cole Jacob Calmos William Cntts, Flavel Becher
Prvates-Nicholas Trap, VIM: Rhea Charles "
Graves, George r. Tompkins, Stephen Brinekley
| D,b u y, Fl il
Carlos Allen. Henry Miller, Levi Price dos. Clumph
X John D. Fontaine Thos. Doyle, George Whittemore
A. n B. Sharpe, S. N. eausby, Henry G. Wells, Hen
ry Ames, R. w. swinney Henry D. Loomis, yacl
Williams, John Bartlett, NJ. + Hunnyeut, u. >, Don
ovan, James Thompson, Michael dartz, A.J. Harri
son, j. Karnbacher, James Brsenen,s ID. @. Williams
Michael Lamb, Oscar Carson, VIM. Carson, John An
derson, James f. Nell, james 1'ryQn, Alex. Barr
George Lown, Vim. McGivray, Joseph Aren't, Ed
ward F. Mullen, J. W. Harr, Duncan Livingston
H Coe, William Kelley, James NJ. Norman, Georg
Garfield, R. A. Fulton. John Roark, William Kerr
William H. Lester, NJ. P. Stewart, George McMillen
A. j. Hanway, Thomas Kelly, Frank Martin, JOIN
| Sickerson, E. NJ. Williams, l.. I. Heath, Frank Ben
nett. NJ H Blake W. J. Andrews, John Rodgers
Alex. Owens, Newman Trowbridge, John NJ. West
John White, w j. Jewell, Henry Barlow, W lillian
Miles, Nathan Farmer, John Blunderman, Walter }
Scott, Joseph B. Reneau, P, S Graves, Patrick ward
Hiram Marshall Benjamin Weed, A. 0. Lindsay
/ j.
E. Tee, Andrew J. Lincoln, john Williams, William
Porter, John c. Clarke, Robert r. Craig, Hugh Ne
Kay, NJ. Mcneil Rainey, ohm Dacey.
| Women and Children-A[rs. Sanders, Mrs. Thomp
son, Mrs Potter Octave and Henry Potter, Charles
A Seller, JuIiana Cole Jose Arbaca, Mrs. Gardner,
Mrs Fulton, Mrs Hearsay, Mrs. Swinge, Mrs. Har
Recapitulation-Me 1911; women, 10; children
I5 Total, 1879
Among the sick are Levi Pryor, of Baltimore, with
an ulcer ard loss of the right arm; VIM j. Jewell OF
Virginia. ulcer and D. G. Williams and e. W But
ler of Ohio the latter with an ulcer and the former
with gunshot wound; John Adams, of Maryland
gunshot wound Nathaniel Trapp, of Maryland, gun
shot wound; VIM. H. Coe, of Maryland, gunshot
wound through the right thigh; Capt. j. c. Schermer
horn of Virginia wounded in leg; Col. VIM Butts
De Witt G. Williams and VIM. II. Holmes, of Ohio
gunshot wounds; Lieut.. john Hooe, of Virginia
wounded in the foot; Col John Faberand James Bren
nan, of South Carolina, gunshot wounds; Vim. Por
ter of Pennsylvania, do Jack Williams, heel shot OF
by cannon ball; N Farmer, probably MORALLY woun
ded. j B. Renau, of ennesees fell upon his bowie
knife and was badly injured All thes sick and woun
ded will, probably, be sent to the New York hospi
tai. A correspondent of the Tribune says: .
We left in Rivas about eighteen sick and wounded
who We're unable to be removed; Among these wer,
Major Doan, of New Orleans; Lieut. Ray burn, of Vir
ginia Capt @. West, of New Orleans; and private
Rainsford, printer of New York Capt. n Taft
of Texas came down the river with us to Greytown
but was left behind by the Cy}ne. The sick in Ri
vas were left in charge of Dr. Robert f. Royston anC
DR.. j. H. Coleman, who were engaged for that service
| by Gen Canas
4 Speaking of ninety five of the wounded and sick
the Herald says: Many Of them are scarcely able t.
move; some have lost their legs, others arms Others
again have great testers, swollen wounds, gangrene
&c. They are indeed most pitiful looking body O
men. The officers ofthe ship describe the condition
Of the men, when received on beard, Of the mos
wretched that can be imagined-great wounds, which
had never been dressed estered and swollen bodies
encased with dirt and covered with venn Lice, which
had never before been seen that ship, were found
in aoundance-they domiciled on the body Of almost
every ilibuser The officers Of the ship had to battle
themselves in rum; the was almost demoralize6
with fear of and actual endurance of the vermn Th
hair of the poor unfortunate passengers had to be
close to their heads they were bathed and compelled
to be clean. 81 l.
-. GE@ Items. s*
The Frenchman who said that the friendship be
tween the United States and England was mot
chain Of flowers, but simple twists of cotton wa
not far from the mark. Out OF 100000 900 of pound
of cotton imported into Great Britain last year. nj
less than 700, 900 900 were from the United States
rise Of one penny in the pound in the price of cot
ton involves national lost to England of $40 GOO 00
to $50 ,O00, goo. The dependence Of England on tn
United States, for the supply has increased from
per of their cOnSumutiGn of cotton in 1901 fl