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The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-05-11
NEN G0NEECTI0NERY End BlkERY.

F. W. SPILKER,
Texas street. near Edwards, On the building formerly
occupied by the Shreveport Democrat,)
s~aa RESPECTFULLY informs the ladies and $50,
ssT gentlemen of Shreveport and Ky Yicin- lslas58
Liz ity that he is prepared to furnish IN
them with every description Of CAKES, C0NFEC-
TIONERY, CANDIES, SWEETMEATS, Sc. Being a
practical coneconer he feels assured of his ability to
give satisfaction
Fresh Bread baked every day.
He will keep on hand an assortment Of choice Fan
cy Groceries, CordiaIs, Fruits in their own Juice
Syrups, etc. etc.
t. Orders for Weddings, Parties, Dinners, etc.,
promptly attended to On very moderate terms. octl3
Chairs! Chairsi!
"a JUsr received by steamers THO and Lucy Eol
", combe-50 dozen Split bottom Chairs, different
n qualities; 3 dozen Spi-bottom Rockers; Is doz
Cane-seat Chairs such as maple, gmded oak, walnut,
cottage and bannister chairs. small lot Of Child
ren,s Chairs. All Of which viii be sold VERY Low for
cash. reb21 WIN. ENDERS.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-05-11

Superior Cutlery.
~ y Jusr received direct from the manufac-
@E turers, Sheffield, an extensive assort-
ment Of superior Razors. Pocke Knives,
Scissors, etc., etc, made order expressly for this
market, and for sale By
aug4 MILLER & MORRIS, Druggists
VXTE are prepared to furnish our customers and
w friends with Begging and Rope.
HOWELL & BUCKEER,
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-05-11

NASTINGS, 61c.-ln store and for sale
" $50 kegs Nails;
30 kegs Spikes, wrought and cut
20 kegs Iron Nuts;
10 tons assorted Tennessee Irons
3 tons assorted Castings;
$50 Crate Bars;
40 Wash Kettles. HOWELL s. BUCKNER
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-05-11

ts, BOOTS, SHOES AND RUSSETS-A gem
aR4 eral assortment, embracing every size and
! a. quality ust received and for sale at the
lowest prices bv FORD & SMITH,
sept23 On the Legee.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

REDUCTION OF POSTAGE Tc GyRMAYY BY
BREMEN OR HAMBURG MAIL.-The postal
administration of Thurn and Taxis, in
Frankfort Main, has recently reduced
the German postage upon letters for or from
the United States, sent via Bremen or Ham,
burg, to the uniform rate of five cents, and
consequently the single rate of half an ounce
or under, for letters between the United
States and Frankfort Main, Saxe-Co-
burg Gotha, Saxe-AIeiningin, Saxe-Weimar,
Hessc-Cassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Lippe.Let-
mold, and Lippe- Buckeburg, will hereafter
be 10 instead of 81 eents-pre-payment OPP
tional.
The reduced rate Of Is cents, via Bremen
or Hamburg, is now extended TO all the
States belonging to the German-Austrian
postal union, except the Grand Duchies OF
Baden and Luxembourg. The postage to Ba-
den and Luxembourg is 90 cents the single
ratc-pre- repayment optional. ~
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29
M If Legislatures are the fittest bodie


M II Legislatures are the fttest bodies
for amending and changing State Constr
tuition, they are the most competent assem-
blages to frame and construct one. Why
then have the peopleof the Union, and every
State in il assembled at great cost and much
trouble conventions to elaborate and estab-
lish their fundamental laws. 1t is unfortu-
nate that the folly of such proceedings dis
closed to us by the. lights that now radiate
from some of our small contemporaries, was
not disclosed to US before. The people of
country might have been saved an infinite
amount of trouble and expense; the State
of Indiana could have saved at least the
100000 spent upon the convention of
1851. In all correct theories Of govern
ment, il is an established principle, that, to
give a government, or any department of it,
the rigM power to define and establish its
own authority is TO create despotism. The
Legislature is the chief power in our form of
government 1t is the department that needs
most.frequent changes and refornations in
the progress of the State. To make it the
sole Judge of its own reform, as well as the
changes to be made in other departments, is
TO make it the supreme, or over-shadowing
power in the government. 1t precludes, ut
least, any hope of reform in the Legislative
department or check upon its power
The provision for changing the fun
damental law Of State by Legislative
authority IS wrong in principle and most
detrimental in practice. II destroys the
moral authority Of n constitution, and gives
it little more sanctity than a Legislative
enactment 1t gives TO the State govern
ment--,he subject upon which the constitu-
ton is 10 operate-the sole power to change
the law that regulates itself. If it be wise
to entrust the Legislature with the sole
power 10 enact changes IN the constitution
in regard to its own department, why not
elothe the executive and the Judiciary with
the discretion Of initiating all reforms in
their respective departments They are
composed of salaried officers, with not half
enough to do, and they could do the work
without costing the State even the per diem
wages charged by the Legislature. As our
eotemporaries seem TO think the only con-
sideration of HoOsier, in discussing fun
damental principle Of right, is the saving Of
few dollars, we give them the benefit Of
this suggestion.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29
A FRAup.-Somc days ago, letter ap-

n fRACD.-OOuc uayS ~, iessNi "P-
peared in the Henderson Reporfer, purport-
ing TO be written in this city, on the 10th
Of July, and signed by HEINRICH KLcrr, de-
claring that certain Germans Of this city
were active in trying TO influence tue votes
of their fellow countrymen in Henderson
county, in the approaching State election. -
The.statements of the letter were believed
to be utterly false, and the letter was thought
to be fiction, the product of the futile
brain of the editor Of the Reporter. We
had yesterday occasion to make search for
this Mr.. Heinrich Klopp; after the most dill
igent inquiry among our oldest German
citizen-those familiar with all the German
resident-we could get no trace of any such
man. The city officers-those of our citi-
zens brought most in contact with all class
es of our people-the City Clerk, who has
three times assessed the city for property
and polls, and not long since took most
thorough and complete census of the city,
say they never heard of such man. We
concluded, therefore, that Mr.. Klopp is a
myth--a fgurant of the poet yirginius
Hutchins brain, who has attempted frand
upon the honest German voters of Hender-
son county. - -
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29
IEor lie Jollrnni.

For us Journal.
EDITOR JOURNAL II find my name used
in yesterdays Journal in an article relating
to the Mayors salary. fully agree with
the quotation from the Enquirer in your
paper that his salary should be raised to a
sum sufficient to induce him to retain
his position as Mayor. And / fully COIN
eide with the Mayors views ofretrench-
inent in the expenditures of the city; but
I do not think the Mayer or any business
man. considers it retrenchment to deprive
an efficient officer OF his pay. Because you
deserve good streets, does it follow that you
alone must work in the streets without pay
Ny idea of retrenehment is, that by having
responsible, honest and efficient officers, and
paying them well for their services, we
shall save thousands every year to the city,
And my opinion is that Mayor Bakers SER
vices woule be cheap to the city at $1,000.
And believe that three-fourths of the tax
payers of the city think the same. And if
there is to be a committee appointed, with
myself at the head, | hope it may be to in
duce the Council to give Mr. Baker such q
salary as will induce him to devote his en-
tire time to the business of the city. And
my word for it, in less than three years, you
will see retrenchment ia the right direction
H.Q. WHEELER.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

BEr Acommission from the United States
District Court, before which the case Of the
Rock Island Bridge at Davenport is pending
have been in session Mt West Point, taking
the dispositions of two officers of the United
States Engineer corps who made, last year,
survey of the bridge under the authority
of the War Department. These officers
state that the present location of the bridge
is serious obstruction TO the navigation OF
the river; and further, that it has been i'm
properly constructed-the surveys having
been made for its present location upon the
ice, without calculating for the strength Of
the current in sinking its piers, and their
report is against the bridge as nuisance
A new bridge, they state, can be located
about two and half miles south Of the
present site, without any obstruction to the
navigation.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

ne. The belief that Douglas will secure
the nomination at Charleston daily gains
confidence. The free States have a majori-
ty of delegates, and the machinery of the
party in nearly all of them is in the hands,
or can be controlled, by the Douglas men,
He has, besides, a number of very active,
devoted, partizans a. the South, adherents
from Washington, New York, and Illinois,
in the shape of young lawyers, doctors, and
business men, whom ne has been enlisting
and colonizizing a tue South for the last
ten years. TEey have been among the most
active politicians in their respective dis
tricts. ThosG who know them may read
their names in almost every political con-
vention in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
and Georgia; and some of these men will be
in the Convention. His adherents are pro-
claiming everywhere that he is the only
candidate that can secure success. This,
with the Office holders and the timid in the
rank and file, are all powerful reasons for
uniting on him.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29
Th..Yo,y England of the south.

: The extract given below is from Report
OF the Committee on Railroads made to the
I,egisiature Of North Carolina in lS56-7.-
The region referred TO includes The 100000
acres recently purchased by Prof David
Christy, in Cherokee Co, y. I.
The committee deem IL proper to mention
somcof the rcsouroe west of the Blue Ridge,
and advantages resulting TO the improve
ments of North Carolina, and to the portion
OF the Allegheny range fmountains, as wei
as to the whole State, from the connection
The portion of the State situated west OF tue
Blue Ridge is larger than some OF the States
of this Union. 1t is properly the New Eng
land of the South. a soil more fertile,
productions of the soil the same, mineral
productions far superior, water power Tor
manufacturing purposes equal ifnot superior
| TO that of New England; climate more
salubrious, because free from the evil effects
of the extremes fheat and cold.
- This New England of the South Is the
center of the Southern country, midway
between Beaufort Harbor on the Atlantic
Ocean and Memphis, on the Mississippi river
and also between Charleston and Savannah
on the Southern Atlantic, and Cincinnati
and louisville, on the Ohio river. Being
supplied with mineral springs and warm
springs, and surrounded by mountain scene
| nv superior to any on the Allegheny range
| of mountains, with which every slavehold-
ing State in the Union will be connected III
the next six years, unless North Carolina
should prove to be the Rip Van Wrinkle OF
the South, and fail TO complete her eonnec-
ton, that portion OF this State must become
the summer residedence Of southern people,
and the center Of Southern manufactures.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29


SAD STORIES, like the following, arc daily
read in the local columns of our exchanges,
which disclose how much woe and human
suffering remains around unknown to those
who are spending their sympathies on OBJ
jscts of charity and commiseration affair Off:
"On the old Manchester road leading
from st. Louis, there is a deserted and di-
lapidated log house. Leaning against the
wall Of that hOnse, AMI half covered with
loose hay, was found, Saturday morning, q
dead old man. His name could not be as
certained, but he had been seen two or three
days ago in that neighborhood, saying that
| he was on his way to the County Farm. He
was quite emaciated, and must have died of
want and exhaustion in the lonely spot.
Such was the verdict rendered in the iu-
QueSt
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29
pT Many of the candid Democratic

M. Many of the candid Democratic
Southern papers confess that they look for
ward to the Charleston Convention as the
event that, by developing the discordant el-
ements Of the party, is TO disorganize ana
destroy it. The Northern Democracy VIII
60 down to the Convention with Squa''e'
Sovereignty as the fundamental article OF
its platform. The Southern faction viii go
intoit with the determination to insist upon
Congressional right of intervention. The
latter cannot, If they would, admit the
Douglas doctrine of popular sovereignty;
their principles and antecedents forbid it; If
they were to concede it to the North, the
Southern Opposition would "cut under "
them on the negro question, and defeat
them in nearly every Southern State. II
the Northern Democracy were to yield to
the doctrine of Congressional Protection, it
would be overthrovn in every free State
To reconcile the factions, and bridge the
gulf between them, it is recommended by
the advocates of reconciliation, that the
Convention shall nominate candidates for
President and Vice President the least OBJ
iectionable TO either division, and make no
attempt TO construct platform. This course,
il is alleged, would result virtually in dis
solution of the party. It would be con-
fession, from the highest tribunal OF the
party, that they advocate no common sys-
TEN of principles or policy. No party could
hope to succeed before the country with
such an open avowal that its members were
held together only by the "adhesive power
of lust for Office and spoils.
The Convention must sacrifice one or the
other of its wings, and it seems inevitable
that the party will be divided into two
hostile factions In view of this result,
many of the leading Opposition papers at
the South have suggested that convention
be held in July, 1860, of the conservative
Opposition and moderate Democrats, for
putting forth Presidential candidate in
opposition to the ultra Republican, and the
slavery party. The Memphis Bulletin thinks
thegermso of sucha Union party existin every
section of the country. They are in Mas
sachusetts and in Tennessee, in Maine and
in Texas. The whole Opposition of the
South-it says-will rally to its standard,
and the conservative men of the North OF
all parties will join its ranks. Some such
Convention will most probably meet and it
will embrace many Northern Democrats
The time has come for the people TO assert
their supremacy over the politicians. The
preservation of the Government itself de-
nands it.. 1t is time the office-holders were
taught that the places they fill do not belong
to them, but to the people. ae
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

COMING HOME "wITH A Rush" The
steamers Golden Gate and Cortez, from San
Francisco, on the 9th inst, we see, are repre-
sented TO have nine hundred passengers, al
for New York. This wholesale refiux OF
the tide Of emigration would seem TO indi-
cate that California is not all that the fan
cies of some people had painted it.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

S@~ \ new secret political organization
has sprung up in Mexico, composed entirely
Of the women of the country, who are better
men than theindolent, stupid beings bearing
that title, with whom they live. lisa rule
of the society that each member shall try
to influence her husband TO embrace the
views Of the lodge. They have consdcra-
BILE fund of money on hand, and their rami-
fcations throughost the States ofJalisco and
Guadalajara are reported TO be very extern
sive. These politicians are firm friends of
the church and priesthood.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

@ Last spring, Selma Carney, n mu-
latto woman, was emancipated from slave
ry, with three daughters and one son, mt
Bayou Sara, and they were taken TO Gin
cinnati, where they have since resided
On Tuesday last Selma packed mp her traps
and took passage with her offspring on the
steamer Jesse X. Bell TO return to servitnle.
She said she wouid rather he slave in the
South than live fine lady in Cincinnati.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

Hea- A tornado at Decatur, Alabama,
last week, made Il complete wreck of the
magnificent railroad bridge that crosses the
Tennessee river at that place. The terrific
force of the wind swept away the whole
structure from eight span, each Of so feet.
The abutments were uninjured. The cost
of demonstrating the bridge is estimated at
$4,000 or $4,000.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29
nm Tho yn1rnoI nf EonleS falle ns tho,

m- The Journal of Naples tells US That
yesnvius is. getting more and more out OF
sorts, and is fretting and tuning at a very
violent rate. The river of lava running out
of the lower openings OF the crater is al
ready more than three miles long, and is
widening and deepening every day. 1t is
destroying orchards and vineyards, and it
will be piece of good fortune if the DAM
age is not much greater, as the stream con-
tinues 10 roll towards the sea.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

ONO LIFE AND Trust CoMpANY.-Officia
notification has been given that the liabili-
ties Of the company are about $2,453,0CO
that they have assets which may euable
them in certain contingency to declare q
dividend of five per cent.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

n@- The Nashville Patriot announces the
sentence to the penitentiary for five years, of
James r. Tarlton, of Campbell county,
Tenn, who has already served FIVE TERMS
extending over nearly the whole of the last
twenty-seven years. ..t...
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

BGs~ The Pawnee war in Nebraska has
ended Gov. Black, at the head of $40 VOL
untesrs, followed and attacked 1000 of the
Pawnees, defeated them with considerable
loss, and compelled them to surrender up
all their stock, ammunition, provisions, sc.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

: s6- Monsieur Blondin has concluded to
reside permanently at Niagara. Probably
his object in the arrangement is to take his
regular morning and evening walks upon his
tight rope across the river. He thinks it is
too common and vulgar TO walk upon the
ground aa- Ac ti--
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

gD~ Aaron Fox, an old man living near
Springfield, H., was shot dead by his SON.
in-law, Sidney Branch Fox, on Saturday
evening last. The murderer, on being AZ
rested, said that he committed the act be.
cause the DECEASED threatened to kill him.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

H@- U. s. Senator Wade, of Ohio, has
written letter TO the Land Reform Com
mittee, of New York, taking grounds that
Congress should give the public lands in
limited quantities to actual settlers. The
Pacific Railroad grant, he says, is the only
land monopoly he has voted for.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

neg We see by letters from the coast OF
Texas that while we were enduring a heat,
in June and July, from $50 to lOo0, the
people on the shores of the Gulf were en-
joying delightful breezes, with thermom-
eter ranging from 100 to s2o, only.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

nJ An election is TO be held in ST. Louis
on Monday next, to test the sense of the vo-
tiers upon ibe question Of allowing the sale
OF liquor on Sunday.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29
Wheat Crou of 1850.

The wheat crop of this country, just har7
vested, is set down at Two hundred and one
million Of bushels, or about forty millions of
barrels, or one aud thrce-6fths ola barrel OF
-four for every one of The twenty-five mil
lions Of people in this country. 7 his would
not seem TO be great deal more than our
wants would require, and itwould not be il
we had not the cereals, and particularly the
great crop of Indian corn to help out the
supply. q: ,.--, ..
The following table shows the amount OF
wheat raisad In leka ani esn.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

No. At a meeting in indianapolis, on
Saturday, the Douglas hen carried their
ticket for delegates TO the State Democratic
Convention, TO be held OH the 9th of Janu-
arynex to nominate candidates for State
officers
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

neA. Miss Florence Nightingale is so ex.
tremly i'll that the worst results are appre-
hended. Her strength is diminished sadly
She has been moved from Highgate to Lon
don. but is now confined TO her room.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

= 1sHr During the session of the Circuit
Court, in Tenn, Judge Walker fined a Ger
tain pious individual, once in good standing
$50 for kissing respectable lady against
her wish or consent. f-.s 80.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

s4- The blackberry crop of Indiana is
estimated in value at half million of dol
lars Before the age of railroads it was COM
paratively valuelesS. CA,
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

Hy~ There was twelve hours rain in
Southern kentucky and Northern Tennessee
on Sunday last.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29
NoOTICE OF aU.9RDI.I.V's' Sal
Guardian of the minor heirs OF
Martin Refs, deceased.


IHD.nE.S1STI.9TO SHIRLEY 5
81 virtue Of an order of the Court OF Common
Pleas OF Vanderburgh county, I will sell ut public
auction, at the Court House Door in Evansville,
the 10th of September, 1852 part of the S. r. qr OF
Section No. ., township south, range 10 west,
containing three acres, adjoining lands OF Peter
Sharp, \. W. Brinlmeysr, ana lying on the road
leading from the Poor House 10 the residence 81
Edgar g. Dunk Said premises will hc Sold in sub
divisions, q IAaI of which he seen by calling
upon nae. -#
Terms OF sale, one-thirl cash balance 10 AMI
Is months from day Of SALE the purchaser fsiVin <
notes with approved security, waving all reiiei
from valuation appraisement laws, With interest
ira,n the dav of sale BRACKET MILLS,
jy2S-td Admir- of AdolnlI Brinkman.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29

s6r Old Buck is at Bedford Springs, gay
rs q lark, and even condescends to dance
occasionally in the great saloon in which
the nightly chops take ploce.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-29
The Madison Courier says

The estimate is too low for Indiana. In
1858, 100000 of bushels was the product.
The product Of ls59.will be at least co.
100000 bushels.