The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-08-10
Editorial Brepties.

| oy altiuent-So says Inc auu YET Ill lLe
same paper another paragraph which ends thus
When the great Napoleon set out on his fatal Rus
sian campaign, we read that he gaily earroled,
"Mal5rok sen va-t-en guerre."
1t is notable circumstance that much of the Prussian
cotton trade is located just in that part of the kingdom
which seems destined to be the seat of war This is
Rhenish Prussia, and in Cologne, Barmen, Elber-
field Gadbach, and Lennep the manufacture of cotton
goods is indusriouslT carried on In Saxony in ST.
lesa and in Berlin there also cotton factories and
in Saxony numerous manufactures of the celebrate
Saxony woolens-about the best article of the kind
made.
Who can say but the presnt war in Europe may
prove blessing to the South in political point of
view, if injurious in financial one? 1t will give our
Northern enemies something to think about, some
thing over which to shed crocodile tears of sympathy,
and thus their minds may be- partially at least diverted
from petty and mean prosecutions of the Southern
people. Who knows, we again ask, but this war will
prove blessing in dsguise-quieu sabe2
The Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat declined to pub.
lsh an announcement that John c. Burruss, Unver.
sast preacher, would preach in that place. upon the
ground that there is and ought to be- hell for some
people, and that it is derogatory to the honor of God
that there should not be hell
By the same token, our belief in such locality has
been greatly strengthened by the war for where else
you see, could the Radicals go?
| Washington correspondent of the Little Rock
Gazette argues that although the bill to enforce the
Fifteenth Amendment is the most unrepubcan and
most Infamous of all the acts of Congress- vet if the
Democracy of Arkansas do not have fair registration
under it, it will be their fault and if this be had
and an honest vote poed without Interruption aud
without fraud, the Radical party will not have one
voice in the Forty Second Congress
Paquemine correspondent of the Picayune states
that coco grass be extermnated by laying coat
of rice straw two three feet thick over the
ground, and permitting it to rot there. He further
says that his grandmother used to assert that this
pest made its first appearance in the State soon after
the great hurricane which swept over Southern
Louisiana on the 9th of August, 1872 We hav'nt a
very vivid recollection OF that wind.
correspondent of the Galveston News says that mill
tia matters are not running smooth at Austin He
ton as Major General would be accepted The ad-
journment resolution provided that the Legislature
would adjourn on the 1st of August to meet at JEFF.
ferson the first Monday in December.
The Tyler Index says that Governor Davis has en-
deared himself to every honest in Texas by veto
ing the Southern Pacific Railroad BILL which, accord.
ing to the Index, twas conceived in niquity brought
forth in sin, and reared amid corruption" That
paper thinks it will hardly pass over the veto
The friends of this bill certainly failed to offer Davis
douceur sufficiently tempting.
l The New York Sun suggests to persons who are
called upon to pay income tax, to accompany their
payment with protest against the constutonaty OF
the law requiring it, as there is no doubt that the
act will be aside later by the Supreme
Court and then whatever have been paid under
it with protest will have to be refunded, whereas, if
10 protest is made, the payer is without remedy"
France lost $4,000 men during the Crmean strug.
gle; the Italian campaigns carried off 10000 of
Napoleons braves while 65 900 Frenchmen were sac
rifced in the Chinese and Mexican wars The open
ing war is assuming such mammoth proportions that
Napoleons losses now promise to exceed all these
| figures aggregated
An underground dispatch says that Gen. Beauregard
has been offered high commission in the French army,
but overground dispatches of the Sd say that both
his and Gen. Lees services have been rejected We
have no idea that those of the latter prof
fered.
The white people of Quincy, Illinois, over-fas-
tidious Recently when the first colored juror sum-
moned made his appearance in court, five jurors, al
ready sworn in, left the box.
We shall have to send Burnside on to reconstruct
those fellows yet.
The police jury of the parish of Rapdes, at a late
session. recalled its former ordinance submitting to the
people the question of voting 100000 to aid what is
called the Back Bone Railroad. The Democrat is just
little severe upon that body for its terg versaton.
There was paragraph in our dispatches from Lon
don, which says England is exporting heavily to
Germany which Immediately forwarded to the
army" This may or may not be an important item.
At all events we can form no idea from the telegram
achat is exported.
death having recently resulted in New York from
druggists mistaking Tinct opii compt," harm
less prescription for "Tinct opii ct camp, which
killed the patient the city is excited the subject of
Latin prescriptions by physicians I'D demands re-
form in this custom.
The hottest place in England, it seems, is London
The average heat in that city during the first week of
the present month 90.2 degrees Fahrenheit. The
lowest average in England during the same time was
1873 degrees, and the locality of Liverpool.
The Texas papers are discussing the subject of the
Governors power to fill vacancies in office. We can
assure them that it will be done--t is part of the
programme Our Governor even appoints ward con-
stables.
The St. Louis Tribune, Radical paper with all the
offensive features of the party, habituay styles the
Republican and Democrat "blankets." They are no
doubt wet blankets to the prosperity of the Tribune
We cannot understand many Of the German names
found in our dispatches, across counter; and how
can be expected to understand them across the At
lantic?
Mrs NJ. A. McGee, relict of Abner MCGEE, late OF
Montgomery county, Ala, died in Lo wndes county, on
the 7tb ut., in the 72d year of her age.
NJ. H. Crowell has been appointed Z. s. Commls'
sioner for this district and is duly qualified and ready
for light work.
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