Shreveport semi-weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-05-12
Our Chicago Correspondence.
CHICAGO, April &c, 1866

'Tis Spring, for the bright flowers arc
smiling 70 gay.
And nature looks fresh as when born,
As the tife-giving rain on the tender leaves
fall,
And the early birds welcome the morn.
Spring has come with all its
charming associations. The balmy
breeze watts its scented breath over
this world of ours; the warm sun
shine exhilerates our weary facul.
ties and throws a CLEAN of joy over
the saddened heart. To Southener
who undergoes the miseries of
northern winter, spring is indeed 2
welcome visitor-a pleasing remem-
brance Of scenes and associations Of
his own sunny land, though his ears
may fail to greet the sweet song of
the hooking bird, the chirp Of the
beautiful red bird, or the perfume Of
the magnolia and the many wild
flowers of his native woodlands. The
sunshine Of the inhospitable North
has but little charm for him; it's peo-
pie less sympathy; it's characteris-
tics no example in which his heart
can find a responsive pulsation,-a
stranger in strange land, it is no
wonder that the beauties Of spring
are to him a welcome guest.
1t is spring only in name here as
yet, for, although the season is al
ready a month advanced, the weather
is about six weeks behind time. Dear
reader, you need not be astonished
when l tell you that Jack Frost is
not an unusual visitor in these re-
gious IN June.
BY the way, the missionaries"
from Plymouth Rock has completely
"evangelized" the West, consequent
ly everything is done up in short or
der, whether in the line of business,
manufactures or agriculture. In the
first they stand unequaled. They
swap knives and horses, trade horses,
make toys, sell pork and beans (r4de
trichin@,) or water privilege :"
faster than it would take to tell it
In manufactures they can make a
hickory ham, beech nutmeg, pa
per-soled shoe, COW mixer, or a
patent baby-spanker" in still less
time, while an enterpr:sing son Of the
land Of steady habits has applied tor
patent for Il motion tina, " i'll fur
nish paper from wood. The result,
is that "kindhu" has rig Considerable
of late in this section, aud shoes
have taken a corresponding decline,
while collars can be had for u sOug.
The dignity Of labor saving glands
high.
The advent Of the cholera is looked
upon as fixed fact the coming sum
mer. You have already doubtless
heard Of the existence of the malady
at Cincinnati and other parts OF the
country. In the excitement attend.
ing its development the reports cir
culated are doubtless premature, in
fact. The unsurpassed tilthiness of
this city at present, presents an III
viting field for its "a, ages. Were i,
to come here, the mortality would be
fearful indeed, as but little prepare
ton seems to be making to ward off
the dreadful scourge.
Iii is amusing, to say the least, to
read the letters of some of the north.
ern newspaper correspondents in the
South. These modern wiseacres,
these sycophautic lick-spittles, these
wandering monomaniacs can see
nothing through their fanatical spec
tacles but what is inhuman, unmanly
and rebellious in the Southern peo-
pie. towards at heart, they had not
the manhood to lace the music of bat
tie, but when peace was once pro-
claimed, they rushed to The new Ell
dorado with satchels full of niger
equality tracts and New England ia
naticism, and because the people
would not swallow the sweet doses
administered by them, they COM
menced their old Trades of abus,.
such as only fanatical demagogues
and hypocritical doughfaces are ca.
pable Of conceiving. I have yet
failed to see one word of sympathy
for the poor and suffering one word
of encouragement to the Southern
people volunteered by them. Oh ia
naticism, thou devilish destroyer of
Justice and humanity!