The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-12-08

AS many southerners contend that judge
\ Douglas is good friend Of the south and never
betrayed the confidence it placed in him, for
their edifca ton We copy the following letter
from The ST. Louis Republican. Its useless to
add, that Blair is a member Of congress from
Missouri, responsible for all he says, and ent-
tied to as much confidence as Douglas himself:
A SIR: A statement appeared in the jefferson
Examiner, Of recent date, making very grave
charges against Judge Douglas, in which my
name was involved. Up to this period certain
considerations forbade my making any response
although have been frequently urged to do
So | learn since, however. from the senator
speech, delivered at Bonneville, Illinois, that he
denies the truth of those assertions, and at
other times, and other places he relterates the
denial, and to give II an apparent sincerity,
he indirectly calls for the proof. deem that L
am now at liberty to state all that | know IN
relation to this matter which has taken hold
upon the public mind.
LIST. 1t is true that judge Doug las did send
me message by Mr. Cofax, of Indiana, IN
substance the same as that charged upon him
by the Examiner, viz: Tell Nh Blair to come
and see me; wish to give him JAS. S. Green S
place in the United States senate
Cd. 1t is true that | did write a letter to B.
Gratz Brown, Esq, of St. Louis, and that that
letter was written in accordance with the wishes
of Judge Douglas himself.
Sd. And it is true, that there was An under
standing, perfect and complete, between Judge
Douglas and several prominent members of the
republican party the aim and scope of which
am not obliged to divulge. My personal In
terview with the distinguished senator, to which
his messageto me referred, had reference to the
success of the emancipation party IN Missouri
[ have stated enough to substantlate the
: charges made public through the columns OF
the Examiner, and repeated in letter from the
pen Of Isaac H. Sturgeon, esq, of st. Louis;
and, bearing in mind what had TRANSFERRED at
the interview between Judge Doug as and
myself, and the understanding arrived at and
agreed upon between him and other prominent
members Of the republican party, both in the
east and the west, | confess that | was not pre-
pared to hear of the senator's demonstration
of Joy over my defeat in this district, Very
respectfully, FRANK 2. BLAIR, Jr.
The Washington States announces, upon the
authority of "a friend, almost direct from the
court of Madrid, whose fine attainments and
high social position enable him to approach the
highest personages of the Spanish court" that
France has taken up the subject Of Cuban in
dependence, and with England, is proposing
to erect Cuba and Porto Rico into a sem-inde-
pendent monarchy, on payment of renta by
that island. This renta is to represent the in
terest on a national debt to be assumed by the
new government in consideration of its recog-
milton by Spain, the debt and renta to be guar
antied by France and Great Britain as a bond
for The non annexation of Cuba to the United
States. The States gives its s'friend' a first
rate puff, but says nothing about carrying out
that famous ''Monroe doctrine" which the Gin
cinnati convention dove-taed into its platform,
and president Buchanan last winter declared it
TO be his intention to inaugurate.
The mayor of Cincinnati, at the instance of
some two hundred citizens, has stopped all the
omnibuses and public vehicles from running on
Sunday. This step has, as matter Of course,
! produced an excitement in that city, and the
question ST the mayors constitutional right to
enforce the order is debated pro and con. II is
urged by the mayors hackers that there is a
constitutional statute against Sunday travelling
and that it is his duty as sworn public officer
to enforce the laws as he finds them. On the
other side, it is declared that the law has been
so long dead letter that it was not worth while
to repeal it, and, consequently, the mayor was
not justified by any public considerations to re-
vivc it.. The question will be discussed until
the meeting of the Ohio Legislature. when it
will come before that body, and the statute
be rGaflirmed or repealed as the black republi-
cans may think proper.
MORE DEMOCRATIC FINANc1EE1Na.-Arth
S. hewitt, ex-postmaster, of New Orleans, was
sued last week in the U. States circuit court fol
Louisiana, for a considerable amount claimed
by the government. The jury returned YER
dict in favor of the United States and against
hewitt and hissecurities for $40 ,4O4. Thirteen
thousand ofthe amount was for postage stamps
and the balance for other items. The vouchers
of hewitt, as forwarded to the auditor, were
produced as evidence of the debt The New
Orleans postofice has proved unlucky to its de
mocratic possessors-Kcr and Mcqueen were
defalters to the tune of 500, 900 or 5 15O, 900
Kendall was tried for stealing valuable letters
and bis immediate successor, hewitt, has beer
tried and declared by a jury Of his countrymen
to fall short 49, 4O4 in his account Newt
held the Office only a few months.
Mr.. S. S. Jones, ex-president of the lowe
Central Airline railroad, in letter to the di
rectory resiyning his office, states that the cos
to the company of getting the Iowa land gran
through congress, during the session of 1854
was seven hundred thousand dollars! In plair
language, that 800 900 were used to bribe
members of congress to vote for the bill! H
says that original "pecunary compliments
were bestowed in the shape of lands, of which