The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-10-06

American citizen, elected to the presidenta
chair in the face Of such people, covered wit
i the armor Of pledges, could have gone int
that chair to have used his army-aye, hi
army!-and the treasury of the nation. you
money and mine, your offices and mine, for til
4 purpose Of putting down gallant band of mel
for standing honestly By the plain Gods truth
Applause. And would that when that his
torian comes tc write, he should not be com
PEELED to write that, that president was born ii
Pennsy lvania. No, gentleman, there has no
been an element lacking to relieve the unre
deemed infamy-not one. There has not beer
single circumstance lacking. They have gon'
on, step by step, with the tread of fate and o
destiny, trying to crush out the brave and gallan
spirits that have stoad forth, asking for nothing
but to be permitted'to do right.
| We have no exalted admiration of John W
Forney, and very little for the president of the
United States. AS southern men we rather
re]olced when Mr.. Buchanan faced about, kicked
| Walker and Stanton into the gutter, and sus
tanned the admission of Kansas into the Union
under the Lecompton constitution. NO. Bee
CHARLES DICKENs.-We see an intimation in
the English press that Mr.. Charles Dickens
will probably revisit the United States, with a
view OF repeating those public readings of his
works which have proved SO popular and profit
able in England. No enc can admire more
warmly, and appreciate more thoroughly, the
genius Of Dickens than ourselves; but still we
think the Americans would be lacking in self
respect and aproper sense of their own dignity,
were they to receive the author of tAmerican
Notes. and "Martin Chlzzlewit'' with 1.-THE
of that cordially of which he was the recipi-
ent seventeen years ago. We are not thin
skinned, and are perfectly willing to see our
errors and foibles good naturally exposed, or
even severely censured; but ingratitude is the
blacklist of vices, and of gross, unqualified in
gratitude has Charles Dickens been guilty in
his conduct towards the people of the United
States. He came to America in l341 He was
welcome with enthusiasm and treated with the
utmost regard and affection. The demonstra-
tons IN his behalf We're saeh as might not have
been unworthlly extended to the greatest bene-
factor of the human race. How did he repay
them? First by publishing, soon after his re-
turn home, miserable and malignant carica-
ture of American customs and manners in his
"Notes.' This evinced bad heart, but vet
~ AiSbI nave UeeH ST. uOWu 10 lne score OF
that incurable propensity of authors of his line
to amuse the public, even at the expense of his
friends. Two years later, when he knew with
what feelings of Indignation and resentment
his petty calumnies had been received, Mr.
Dickens deliberately wrote more elaborate
work in which he covered broader field of
SANDER and falsehood, ana endeavored to rem
der the American people utterly ridiculous and
in the eyes Of all other nations |
We alude, as most readers may divine, to
: Martin Chuzzlewit." It is no paIliaton of
his gross ofense that the book turned out
lrug and a failure, and is the least meritorious
Of the authors productions, or that even the
wretched attempt to pander to British pre- u
1ices reyolted the taste it was designed to pro-
oltlate. The animus of the work is malice and |
ngratltude-to our mind objectionable sins.
Perhaps Charles Dickens would consult his |
own feelings best by remaining at home The
American people have ceased to love and res
oect the man, though the transcendant talent
If the author involuntarily fascinates and de-
lights them. We believe that if he ventures
amongst US second time, he will find that the
buse of American hospitality is poor pass
tort, to our favor, and a sorry letter of recon-
nendation.
UNCLE SANS OUTLAY Fer THE Cause.-The
United States government, it is said, will have
expended, by the time the Niagara is once
lore fitted for war-steapaer, directly and in
lrecty il this cable business, the sum of two
undred and fifty thousand dollars at least.
he alterations demanded by the agents of the
telegraph company for the purpose of laying
1e cable, and the various suggestions intro
uced and to degree carried out by Mr.. Field
nd his associates during the period of deposit
ng the cable in mid ocean, (says the New
ork Day Book, has transformed the craft t
Ito anything but vessel-of-war and she has
} be restored to her original condition at
ound cost.
So determined, We are sold, was Mr.. Field
lat nothing should mar the chance of the sue
ess of the undertaking, as far as the Niagara
as concerned, that it is believed he would have
sisted upon her masts being cut away could c
'ch an operation have conduced to the grand G
so devoutly wished for The !
of the ship was so constantly So
,ited for permits to pull down, tear away, t
aid up, and otherwise mutilate the interior of
IS vessel, that he had to firmly represent to !
Re teverlsh gentlemen who were disposed to f
ash matters to an extreme length, that it,
'uld not be done; that while he would do q
'erything in bis power for the success of the !
eat work, he could not chop his ship to pieces i
'r turn her into marine iron foundery, or Y
issssippi dug out" not even to insure the
ccess OF the Atlantic telegraph, for his duties I
the governmental commander of the vessel, '
Ou!0 forbid 1t, WASHING tnn States
ANCIENT AND MODERN EMPIRES. - Black =
ood's Magazine, with all its aristocratic prin- n
pies mingled as they are with doctrines that P
e now regarded as politically efete, often con-
nses into briefspace many interesting and his h
rical matters that are alike agreeable and in Ii
'uctive to the general reader. Among these $;
teresting papers, we find reference to the =
oman empire and its military forces, and Il
with similar elements in modern
1gdoms. According to the estimates before SC
, Russia surpasses Rome in extent Of terri e e
~, and contains an army considerably more c:
merous.' France and Austria rank next to k
'ssla in number of their standing armies, Ii
uld bring singly in the field much larger Oh
ce than the whole Roman empire. The G
lltary forces of the nao.n emnira &c hare ~