The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-07-27

The English language does not contain ~
essay Of more power and truth than IS en-
braced in the following extract from recent
address by bishop Doane to bis pupils. Let
all concerned-and who is not?-read, pom
der and seriously reflect upon the lesson here
50 beautifully expressed. The bishop says,
the times are out Of joint. Corruption stalks
in high places. Licentiousness has well nigh
lost its shame. Infdelity is bold and brazen
faced The wave Of barbarianism is rolling
back upon us. For these things your own sex
are greatly answerable. Women are not true
to themselves. They wink at vice. They
make compromise with worldliness. they
tolerate irreligion, and they are victims Of I'm
faithfulness The stronger sex look for the
best things to the weaker. They have llhad
mothers. They have all had sisters. And
! if women were but true to God, true to
their position, true to themselves, they would
have strength from Him to hold the world in
check No woman can fall but by her own
consent. As at the first, the woman is tempt
brute, to do as tigers DO that can resist the
matchless majesty of a resolved woman. And
stronger than all law-stronger than anything
but God, where it is strong in His strength
would be the power of woman, to down rude
ness and to lay the bride upon licensciousness.
Butthe age is self-indulgent; and self-indu-
gence grows by what it feeds on. Women are
occupied By fashion. Women are slaves to
dress. Women are willing to be fattered.-
Women are careless of their companionship.
Women are INSCRIPTIONS in their amusements.
Young women set out for themselves; they
are very impatient of domestic restraints; they
are averse to domestic occupation; they vote
their home bore, they congregate away from
its control; they indulge in unreasonable hours;
they meet the other sex more than half way;
they make themselves debtors for their escort
10 places of resort; they permit the approaches
of familiarity; they tempt the hidden devil Of
their nature; they forget their bibles; they
forget their prayer books; they are women of
else they are is rather shaped by opportunity
than by themselves. In this way home is strip
ped Of its sanctity; in this way the female at
mosphere loses freshness and fragrance. The
woman is no longer what she was made to be
a help-mate 70 man; and man ceases 10 be
what God designed him for-her partner, her
prop and her protector.
General Sam Houston in recent address to
the citizens Of Nacogdochez, Texas, speaking
Of the great injuries that would result to the
south should the slave trade be reOpened, said,
your cotton would remain and rot upon your
wharves or in your gin-houses, because trans
portation would not pay, and ruin to your fnan-
cial interests will be the consequence. If ne
groes would be cheaper, money would be dear
er. tits easier now to buy negro at fifteen
hundred dollars than it was 20 years ago at
FIVE hundred dollars. Increase the produc-
ton of cotton at once ten-fold, as it would be-
and the demand falls off in proportion. The
yankees would then get your cotton at about
four cents per pound, and make it into calico
and red handkerchiefs to buy negroes with on
the coast of Africa, which they will bring
soutn 70 sen ior youI nora uv,,e,.s. suurI
ruinous policy | am opposed | do not 90 to
results that will accrue to the African. | will
not discuss its morality. That is question
with which ! have nothing to do Its practi-
cal effects upon us and our posterity are what
we are at first to look at 1t may be that the
African will be benefited; but it will be death
to the whites. These deluded men would bait
the south on to hasten dissolution of the
Union. Since 1885 the struggle Tor disunion
has been going on. That is what this means
The moment you ask the north TO concede to
your demands with reference to the opening of
-he slave trade, it will be the signal for bitter
ness and strife. We must have dissolution,
and then follows civil war You may take
al these men in their protean shapes. nullif-
,ationists, secessionists, African slave trade
men, but they all mean disunion | love my
whole country. | would pre-
serve it for posterity, as free and as pure as it
came to US and therefore oppose every thing
calculated to destroy it.
We learn by the Portland Argus, that an
important improvement has been made in that
place in steam boilers. The Argus says, the
people on our wharyes a few days since, were
much astonished at observing the steamboat
Tiger passing up and down the harbor with
nan sitting on the top Of the smoke pipe. On
Equiring, it was found that it was an expert
mental trip Of the boat with Blanchard's pa
ent boiler, furnished by the Portland compa-
~. The trial was understood to be very
one, and it is believed that the adop-
ion Of these boilers must result in very great
aving Of fuel In the Blanchard boiler, the
leat instead Of passing out of the smoke pipe,
IS is sometimes the case-wth a flame six to
en- feet in height, it is conducted through
leater for experimenting the steam, and thence
Trough another for heating the feed water
The heat is thus impaired where required, and
caves but little to escape Careful eYneri-