The south-western., 1870-03-30
Hold, Enough" ="

Inc tee9raphlc Item IN our paper OF yesterday dated
Washington, March 25th, announcing that the st. Do
mngo treaty is regarded as certain Of failure is graft
flying to US. President Grant is said to favor the ac-
QUESTION Of the island. What will the man do with
it? He has already more territory than he can say
grace over. That worthless waste Alaska, for the
purchase Of which Seward insists on being immortal
ized is about to be declared county and placed un-
der the jurisdiction Of Washington Territory Seward
has not forgotten that the purchase of Louisiana lent
lQstre to the administration Of Jefferson and the an
nexation Of Texas to that Of Polk and what must he do
but attempt to furbsh his cankered reputation by the
purchase of slice of Iusre. He affected beautiful
cheerfulness the Introduction of that delightful
country into uncles family and when he posted off
there with such haste to prove his faith by his works
many of his warm cs-montane friends, especially in
the South, really concerned about his departure,
and distressed at the prospect of losing him ct
zen and land agent whose place could never be filed
The wanderer has returned. What tiding8 does he
bring from his Dorado? Is he pregnant with glaring
lies as to how the land lies or did his imagination lie
to him about the lying Of the land? As our friend
Lincoln wont to say, reminded Of little
joke. Somewhere about eighteen years ago, a Shreve
port grocer, named Donnc, whom many doubtless,
remember, made present of kit Of tongues and
sounds" We wholly ignorant of the force and
meaning of tongues and sounds. To be sure we had
heard in our time Of womans tongue had eaten beef
and buffalo tongues and had crossed Long Island Sound
twice. Besides tongues and sounds fried at dinner
that day, we had as guest young friend, Who like
Mr.. Nathaniel WnkIe felt delicacy in acknowledging
ignorance any subject whether it embraced the art
of skating or shooting rocks. There was a dstrust
nd the table of tongues and sounds which inspired
Mr.. Wrinkles prototype with profound disgust
Tongues and sounds why he was raised on tongues
and sounds, The greatest dciicacy in the world
dish for Epcurus. And many tongue and sound
disappeared between the lips that had so eloquenty
sounded their praise short time after dinner miss
ing Winkle from the circle, went around in search
of him. And where do you suppose fonnd him?
Behind the house. puking
No health bulletins have been Issued reporting the
condition of Mr. Sewards stomach but since his repast
on seals, walruscs and Alaska dirt he has many a
tine, we suspect, " called for York"
| We would be willing to gamble, in a small way, that
Seward has been telling Grant some great cockanda-
bull story about this iutre business especially if Sew
ard has lost his tail in the Alaska stccrap and Grant
wants pa to let him buy place if Nose, he
moughtn't go.'
Seriously, however, when is this Wild hunt after
rory to have an end? "Wil the line stretch out to
the crack of doom?' The camel is groaning already
and few more feathers will break his back The earth
is not large enough to safe American greed The
Union, ere many years, by its immense weight its