The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-04-13

tween the social condition and productive re-
sources of the north and the south. In fact,
with the increase Of population in the free
States The distinction between these two sec
tons Of the Union is yearly broadly traced.
The effects Of a commercial crisis upon the
s~olvency Of the two sections afford a striking
illustration Of the more secure resources Of the
south. From a panic that Frustrated the credit
Of a large portion Of The free States beyondt the
power of immediate ecovery, the south emerged
with scarcely any evidences Of the storm
through which It had just passed. In every
northern city the trade Of the slave States is
more earnestly solicited, while that Of the re-
gion north Of Mason's and Dixon's line, and in
the free west, is very cautiously taken. Atno
previous period has the south exhibited SO much
self-reliance-such assures for independence
as at the present time.
A steady progress has for years been made
in productive energy, in home enterprise, in
independent commercial ventures, and in the
means Of communication with the monetary
centres, and the great markets Of the country.
Yet every enterprise seems 70 strengthen our
commonwealth for new efforts instead Of pro-
ducing weakness and threatened ruin.
The steady increase in the production Of the
great staples of the country is not the only fat
tering evidence Of Improvement. The social
condition Of our laboring classes-the small
number of our helpless poor indicates a healthy
organization of society.
The contrast between the north, and the south
il this regard is SO striking as to prove sug-
g~estive to statesmen and philanthropists. In
New York, in 1857, relief was granted to the
poor to the amount of 1884, 1888 80. The
numbers Of persons dependent upon public
charity was us, 249. The State has been com
PEELED, in Its provision for alms-houses alone,
to expand 81, 1000 900. OF the army of heI
paupers $1,000 are natives Of this country.
The pauperism of other free States scarcely
affords a smaller ratio to the whole population
the older States being afflicted with the heay-
lest burden Of domestic want.
The south scarcely has an almshouse. She
has not a body of paupers who form a perma-
nent burden upon the public. Her beggars are
mainly Of foreign birth. Her charities arc the
outpouring Of individual benevoIence. Her
eleemosynary institutions are mainly supported
by the free-wiII offerings Of her " citizens.
The strikes of laborers against their employ
ers-the mutterings of discomfort of the masses
not yet enrolled in the great army Of abjeci
poyerty-the agrarian doctrines, growing in
popularity among the free laborers-the per-
petual excitement and fierce fanaticism that
characterize The population Of the north-can-
not fail to be considered evil omens for the
future; and, in contrast with the contented
prosperous and thriving condition Of our labor,
to suggest that a misrepresentation and misrep-
resentation Of the south has prevailed.
The contrast, SO favorable to the south, should
convince all southern men that steady, persist
ent devotion, to the work Of developing our
vast resources, is the true policy for our future
Improvement.
The Wilkinson Miss Gazette, of the goth
ult., contains the particulars Of the horrid mur-
der Of a little boy eight years old, son Of Mr..
Francis Best, Of that place, by a negro servant.
On Friday evening, the litde boy was absent
from his fathers house for an unusual length of
time, when search was made, and his l~ifeless
body found horribly mangled. Suspicion rest
ing upon a slave of Mr.. b., named Stephen, he
was arrested, whereupon a large body Of citi-
zens assembled for the purpose Of lynching him.
but they were dissuaded from doing so by the
mayor and sheriff. The Gazette says:
Stephen, the h~eartless murderer. soon after
being conducted to Jail, made a full confession
ofhis guilt. and stated the brutal means he had
employed ID the consummation Of the diaboli-
cal act. He said in substance that the child
had threatened to say something on him, when
he managed to draw him inside the building.
struck him on the back part of the head or
neck with a brick-which blow stunned the
little fellow and felIed him to the ground-and
perceiying that his victim yet exhibited signs
Of life. he jumped upon him and choked him
TO DEATH
The city council of Cincinnati has lately
adopted a resolution to legal pro
ceedings to prevent tie lease or occupancy Of the
mansion house of the late Charles McMicken.
Mr.. D. P. StIle, one Of the legal heirs, in
right of his wife, cites the terms Of the bill
giving FIVE years of occupancy to his nephew,
and niece, his wife, and assures the city coun-
Gil that he shall continue to occupy the man
Son, 'if the city council shall pass a pile Of
resolutions equal to the tower Of Pisa"
The proceedings which have been taken since
the death Of MeMicken, indicate the necessity
of rich men, while living, performing their chart
ties themselves, while the entire terms Of the
will show an absence Of the first elements in
the testator OF true b~eneyolence, which never
neglects to provide for those who have claims
from ties of blood.
From JAPAN.-A letter from Hong Kong,
January IA, says that thirteen vessels have left
China for Nagasaki within the last two months,
and that strong. indications exist Of a very fan
trade ~springing up. One of these vessels, the
American ship Florence, Capt. DeMerrick, the
lrst modern trading vessel visiting Japan, OBJ
tanned at once a cargo Of ten thousand piculs
Of vegetable wax, about 100000 pounds.
which cost but 81 the picul, and which sells ii
Europe at from $500, 000-a very fair balance
for one shin while hundreds-of others are Ivino