Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 April 1854 — Page 1

I I E I E O S I I I S ./.*• BY THOMAS HOOD. "Jbrowncd drowned !"—IlamUt.

One more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunntc, Gone to her death

Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care FashionM so slenderly, •Young and so fair!

.Look at her garments Clinging like cercmonts ••v.r* Whilst the r-nve constantly

Drips from her clothing Take her up instantly, Loving, not loathing.—

Touch her not scornfully Think of her mournfully, Gently and humanly Not of the stains of her,. All that remains of her Now, is pure womanly.—

Make no deep scrutiny Into her mutiny Rash and undutiful Past all dishonor. Death has left on her

sis Only the beautiful.

Still, for all slips of hers, One of Eve's family— "Wipe these poor lips of hers Oozing so clammily.

Loop up her tresses Escaped from the comb, Her fair auburn tresses Whilst wonderment gucMei Where was her home?

•s: Who was her father? Who was her motherl Hod she a sister?

Had she a brother? Or was there a dearer one •••Still. and a nearer one

Yet, than nil other?

Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! C) it was pitiful I Near a whole city full, Home PIIC had none 1

Sisterly, brotherly, fatherly, motherly, Feelings lintl changed: Love by harsh evidence, Thrown from its eminenco •liven God's providcnco Becming estranged.

Where the lamps quiver Bo far in the river, With many alight From window and easement, From garret to basement, fchc stood, with amazement, Houseless by night. ••.,

The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river:. Mad from life's history, Olad to death's mystery, ,£wift to be hurled—

Any where, anywhero Out of the world

In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The. rough river ran,— •Over the brink of it, Picture it,—think of it, Dissolute man Xave in it. drink of it Then, if you can

Take her up tenderly, J.ift her with care Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair

Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently,—kindly,— iSinoothe, and compose them And her eyes close them, Staring so blindly!

Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring Lnst look of despairing Fixed on futurity.

Terishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity. Burning insanity, Into lior rest.— Cross her hands humbly,

As if praying dumbly, Over her breast

Owning her weakness, Her evil behavior, And leavine. with m«e*kDess, Her sins to her Saviour

A WONDERFUL MEMORY.—We arc acquainted with a young man, a clerk in this city, who oncc committed to memory, in a single evening, a whole page of the New York Journal of Commerce, and repeated the same with great exactness. In the company of a number of literary young men, he defied any one present to repeat a line of poetry from any standard work,' the next line of which he could not recite, and also give the nams of the author.— Some hundred of quotations were made and in each instance the right author was named, and the connecting lines given.— The power of retention in this person's memory tras most remarkable, as the above named facts abundantly prore.—Boston Trans.

LOUIS NAPOLEON

It is undoubtedly too soon to predict what position the Emperor of France is to occupy upon the pages of History but, if •we mistake not, a great chancre nan be noticed in the opinions of the civilized world with regard to their estimate of his character. For several years previous to his accession to the throne, the English, and of course the French journals, were accustomed to represent him as an imbecile adventurer, whose aspirations after royal power were to be regarded as the hallucinations of a diseased imagination.

His career thus far has completely falsified this low estimate of Napoleon, and he has already shown himself to be a man of marked ability. Events in Europe now promise to furnish ample scope for the full development of his energies. England has declared war against Russia, and doubtless the next steamer will bring us news that Francehas made a similar declaration. The Emperor of Russia is by common conscnt regarded as a man of commanding genius, and is an opponent worthy the genius of Napoleon the First. The statesmen of England and the Emperor of France have therefore a foe worthy of their steel, and if Louis Napoleon has oven a tithe of the talents of his uncle, some of the most exciting pages in the world's history will be written within the next few months. All the arts of diplomacy have been exhausted and the great powers of Europe have doubtless ere this determined to stake thousands of lives and millions of money on the chances of a general war.- The conflict .must be terrible. For nearly forty years these nations have enjoyed comparative repose, and now when their energies have been fairly restored and another generation has been reared and is ready to be disciplined for mortal conflict, if the leaders in the coming struggle have the genius to direct and control the elements of human passion and to lead their followers on to victory and to Eflory, posterity will inscribe their names high upon the records of fame.

quire in the approaching conflict. Like his great uncle he may put himself at the head of the monarchies of Europe, and, if he lives, exert a controlling influence in the affairs of the civilized world for the next quarter of a century. Has he the genius and energy to do it? We shall see..

NEW COINS.—Mr. Gwin, of California, has introduced into the Senate an idea relative to a larger denomination of gold coin, namely: that Congress shall authorize a single coin worth S100, to be called "Union 850, to be called a "Half Union." and 345, to be called a Quarter Union." This is to supply the wants of the Pacific States, where paper money is not tolerated, and where, to facilitate the counting and passing of heavy sums of money, the large denomination is needed.

waged successful war against her. If you desire peace you must be convinced that there are but two powers in existence— God in Heaven and the Emperor upon earth."

Groate's The lives of ne-ily two millions of our countrymen are dependent upon the cotton crop of America their destiny may be said, without any sort of hyperbole, to hang upon a thread. "Should any dire calamity befall the land of cotton, a thousand of our merchant ships wauld rot idly in dock ten thousand mills must stop their busy looms and two million mouths would starve for lack of food to food them."

Among all the actors in the great drama that is now opening before us, none has a better opportunity to distinguish himself than the Emperor of France. Queen Victoria will be directed by her ministers, and at best each can only claim a secondary position. England, it is true, may produce some great captain, some Wellington to lead her armies, but there is no one to divide with Napoleon the glory he may ac- Orderlies deeper than in mere "signs l.il-p and "pass-words, and accordingly that a mere expose of them, whether true or

STRANGE PROCLAMATION'. There is a'ries in height from one to seven feet the proclamation extant, addressed by Russia leaf resembles that of a pear, while the trunk to the Circassian chief in 1837, in which it and branches look like those of the orange is asked "Are you aware that if the tree. The upper side of the leaf is thinly Heavens should fall, Russia could prop coated with a gum having the appearance of them with her bayonets? The English oil, and of the consistance of houey. Handin av be good mechanic artizans, but power dwells only with Russia. No country ever

03" Charles Dicken in a late number, of 1 handed to several persons, with a request} his Ilouuschold works, after enumerating! that they would tell by the smell what it in a to a as A re el "Let any social or physical convulsion lighted with the fragrance, but gave differvisit the nited States, and England would ent answers as to its character. Some said feel the shock from Land's End to John 0' itsmelled like ripe pears some said that it'

XiT Admiral Napier, who commands the British fleet in the Baltic, the Philadelphia Ledger says, figured in the war against the United States in 1812, and not very creditably, as he was joined with Cochrane! found in other places. and Cockburn in making war upon the

farm-houses and hen-roosts of the irginia f0r some rears, but has not attracted at-

TIIE KNOW-NOTHINGS

The Philadelphia Register is down on the Know-Nothings, and the editor has temerity to enter even the sanctum, sanctorum of the craft and discover to the public gaze their sacred mysteries. He gives the following as the sL'ns of recormition "When ah acquaintance scratches his left eyebrow with his right forefinger, and looks straight into your eyes, you may be sure he has not known enough to keep out of bad company. Or if, when he shakes hands with you, he presses with his middle finger the lowest joint of your little finger, lie is certainly an ignoramus after the new fashion. In the latter case, say whefe did you get that he will answer 'I don't know.' This is untrue.But to be even with him, you must tell the same fib by replying 'I don't know either.' After these preliminaries, enter into conversation with him, and you will find that he really knows very little about the society into which be has been inveigled, and little suspects that he is under the orders of that notorious scrapegrace, Ned Buntline, Commander-in-chief at New York Head Quarters."

To ^ain admission into a Lodge or Council, the writer continues "Rap at the outer door several times in quick succession. As the door-keeper peeps through the wicket, ask him What meets here to-night? He will answer I don't know.' Reply I am one,' and he will open the door. Rap four times slowly and distinctly at the second door. On its being opened, whisper to the conductor' Thirteen' and pass in.

If you wish to retire before the adjournment, salute the President, who sits at one end of the room, and the Vice President, who sits at the other, by placing your right hand on your left breast, and as you pass out, whisper to the door-keeper the word

Thirteen'—supposed to have reference to the old Thirteen States. The Know-Nothings' have great faith in the mysterious virtue of the number three. They have three degrees, and, after taking one, three weeks must elapse before another can be taken. Three times three makes nine, a number whose magical power is acknowledged by all professors of the Black Art."

We have not yet joined, and therefore "not knowing" can't say how near the Register is to the truth but our way of thinking is that the secret and soul of the

feigned, will not amount to much, in the way of arresting their spread and progress. —Miners' Journal.

A NEW TREE.

A beautiful tree, unknown to other parts of the union, is thus described in the Oregon Times:

Mr. Quincy A. Brooks has placed before us the branch of a tree or arboret, accompanied by the following communication:

A strange and beautiful tree has been discovered in Washington Territory, which is not known to exist in any other part of the habitable globe. The tree is destined, Ij think, to make some noise in the world.— It is remarkable, because its like is not to be found elsewhere, and on account of its' great beauty and fragrance. The tree va-

ling them causes the gum to adhere slightly to the fingers. The gum, as well as the leaf and bark, is highly odorous. The fragrance, which is1 quite strong, resembles that of bergamot, or ripe fruit, and a few leaves are sufficient to, perfume a room. A leaf fully wrapped up! in paper so as to be entirely concealed, was

was bergamot whilst others thought it I smelled like ripe apples. The flower semblcs that of the white jessamine.

This will certainly make a very beautiful! and desirable ornamental tree to grow in our irardens, around our dwellings, near the

O ,0 parlor window, or to form a choice bower.— Its intrinsic value for these purposes is greatly enhanced by the consideration that it is an evergreen. The specimen is brought from my farm, and is taken from a grove of

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about a quarter an acre. The plant is very rare, even here. The oldest settlers of the country say they never saw it growing elsewhere. Still, I have no doubt it will be

tention until rccentlr.

farmers. One of his letters, Ingersoll's history mentions, taken daring the war, dated June 24, 1814, says: "Here I am in Lynnhaven bay, the clippers sailing every day, and losing them for been rather outshone in want of fast sailors. I have petitioned the' the object of his anger. Prince Regent in behalf of the whole of usj "Yes," said his friend quietly, for a good slice of prize money. Excuse West-pointer." this hasty scrawl. I am in a d—n bad humorv hariog just returned from an unsuc-

It. has been known

the priests of the Mission of St. Joseph,

f3T "What an insufferable puppy that young officer is," said Brown, who had the ball room bv

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ccssiu chase. census recently taken, the population of Wo hope he will find the Baltic service Cleveland is ascertained to be over 50,000. calculated to put him in a better humor. In 18.50 it was 17.000.

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|f rROPIlETiC JUSTICE. Not the least interesting point of view in which we may regard the approaching European war. the key-note of which is now reverberating along the shores of the Baltic and Euxine, is an example of that retributive justice, often mentioned in the books, but so rare in the [transactions of individual life, and rarer still in the great game of national politics.

England, at the opening of the present century, directed all her almost exhaustless energies, poured out the biood of her people with lavish recklessness, and mortgaged the national revenues—which, as was once remarked by Joseph Bonaparte, "is but another word for* the life-blood of nations"—for the one object of breaking down the only government in all Europe deriving its powers from the consent of

treasuries of the bankrupt dynasties, and placed in the hands of Russia and Austria the map of Europe, to re-arrange it as they would. The object was achieved, after a struggle for which the history of the human race affords no parallel Napoleon was overthrown—Prometheus was chained to his island rock but since then England has been compelled to maintain a perpetual watch over the ambitious powers to whose advantage all that was gained by the fall of France enured: Russia and Austria

justice which commends the poisoned chalice back to our own lips."

pend( I T^L,- Ol

he establi

the present. tive of popular sovereignty—holding the imperial sceptre by the "divine right" of

mate re-production of that government which she once wasted four thousand million of dollars to break down, and preparing to expend as much more to curb and restrain the very powers which then she built up. fVnd, true to her instincts, she will now

Italians—because Verily, she "learns nothing, and forgets nothing."—Toledo Republican.

Ax EXTRAORDINARY TIME PIECE.—There is now in the possession of, and manufactured by Mr. Collings, silver smith, of Glou-

mechanism—an eight-day clock, with dead beat escapement maintaining power, chimes the quarters, plays sixteen tunes in twelve hours, or will play, at any time required. The hands go round as follows: One, once

a a a

and falls, lifting the ships at high water

tide, as if it were in motion, and as it recedes leaving these little automatum ships 1

dry on the sands. It shows the hour of the

day, day of the week, month of the year,

In the day of the month there is a provision 1

strikes or not, chimes or not, as you wish

it it has the equation table, showing the'

he said, (we quote from memory.) to re-! minded female)—and have reached thenestablish the kingdom of Poland, with Po-1 highest development and bright consumniatowski for king, as a check upon the I mate blossoming in a "Garison.an of Losambition of Russia but

your imbeciles of

ministers (the English would not permit it." hays the moon. The future was not so much their care as ou will not condemn nor wonder at the Nanoleon was a renresenta- zeal of a stranger and a refugee, for that

CTLIU LOFT UUUIIUUV TY -.1 N O

poleon, everything must be sacrificed, and miration became a passion and the passion lie 'Vm A.lon-o fhf nmtfn l«d me far, and cost me dear but the dear"A hundred l.encc," said Xapo-1« «»«?«.

leon, "England will see tliat 1 was right." proudly I chcnsli now my old fa.lh and Eno-land is blest with too liberal an endow-: hope, now when the banner I gazed on so ment of native stupidity to see anything of .long from hopeless distance, w.th "the de-

coin the life-blood of her people, rather 5 350 QOQ

than place her superfluous munitions in the

ccstershire, Eng., almost ingenious piece of immense force to protect lur

week one, once a month one, once a year. j]

It shows the moon's age the time of rising

beautiful workmanship, and performs most ,,bTl

A FREE GOSPEL.—The Louisville Examiner tells a storv of a church member had openin ing his purse. taken his place near the preacher's stand, and was making his response with great admiration. After a burst of burning eloquence from the preacher, he clasped his hands, and cried out in a kind of ecstacy: "Yes, thank God! I have been a Christian for twenty-five years, and it hasn't cost me twenty-five cents "Bless your stingy sotil was the prcacher's emphatic reply.

JtiT Nature is superior to aft fa'ih in her, and success is vours.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of

the governed for this, she filled the the House, be, and they are hereby ap-1 entirely avoiding the use of coffcr dams.pointed, to transmit a copy of these resolu- There is ncf question abotit the prafc'ticabilitions to John Mitchell. t' Ity and superiority of ift/n tunnels overall

feeding on English blood and treasure, had! drawn mine from some considerable study top of the arch, in place of the foot-way.—" grown° from pigmies to giants and Fate of history and politics in ancient and mod-il would not in any event recommend runhas been working out that even-handed crn times, and not exclusively from the ning locomotives through, but simply tho newspapers of Old England—the lecturers cars, by atmospheric pressure, as has been of New England, and the Gospel according!done in other instances. This would dis-

In the terrible conflicts that followed his to apostles of "Progress." Once for|pense with the necessity of a foot-way, a* disastrous Russian campaign, Napoleon a".

.™fuse

t0 bullcvc th:lt Iumia

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ton, howling against the Lnion, as a dog

Union. In my case, it is not unnatural.me, from my childhood, the United

the kind but, what answers the same pur- sire of the moth for the star," gleams and Jeruatu pose, she is driven by the pressure of eir-1 waves above me at last. May the color, of 1 oc ,1 ,1 nnrl nnw God's bow be torn asunder ere the Stripes would si cumstanccs to act as if she did see and now,^s oow oe torn asunuer ere u,e o.npes we find her allving herself with the legiti-, of that Majestic bannei.

Mr.

hands of those who would fight the battle jsnotjess j.000,000 c'f men, of which free of cost the Ilungaiians, I oles, and 75^ 000 are infantry, and 250,000 l.orse. she detests revolutions.

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and setting of the sun, the time of high and ^xt to impossible. The spell that binds low water, half ebb and half flood and, by

many

a beautiful contii\ancc, there is a part broken and ^triarchy and revolution dissolve which represents the water, which rises

an ia

made for the long and short months. It sender cars in order to accommodate the shows the twelve signs of the zodiac it

ncrcas

ocomo

JOHN MITCHELL AT THE SOUTH jFflOJECT OF AN IRON TUNNEL UN' The following ^solutions, inviting John HER TIIE HEI5 OF THE OHIO ILLYER? Mitchell to the seat of government of Lou-j Mr. Hitchcock, erf Chicago, ha9 sfcht a isiana, were passed by the Legislature of communication to the fcity authorities of that State, and on the 11th of March were Cincinnati, with the dl-sign of an iron tunduly approved by the Governor. ncl for the tunneling of thfc Chicago river

Mitchell promises, at an carlv day

to endeavor iana.

to visit the Capita! of Louis-

RUsi.\—IIEII EXTENT AND RESOURCES.— The Empire is vast in extent, and its resources incalculable. Russia in Europe covers 1,500,000 square miles—in Asia,

ne uin{ rct ail

eighty thousand young

men, and ten thousand oflicers are constantly in the military schools supported by the government. But a small portion of the frontiers of this vast empire are liable to be assailed by a foreign foe—nature Ins placed thereto harries insurmountable.

south-western frontiers, it is solely for stfch soldiers as Napoleon the First to attempt to penetrate her interior with any hope of success. Russia may be checked in her ambitious designs upon neighboring nations

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conquest, subjugation

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Representatives of the State of Louisiana, een feet high—footage eight feet wide.— in General Assembly convened. That the The tunnel to be entirely constructed distinguished patriot and exile, John Mitch-'cast or wrought iron. He says: ell, in consideration of his exalted charac-1 "Permit me to call your attention to my ter, his pre-eminent ability, and just and plan for building a ttmnel under the OhiJ expanded national sentiments, as particu- river, opposite your city, it is proposed larly exemplified in his late letters on the to use either cast or wrought iron. I prosubject of Southern institutions, be, and is pose to build a tube of iron of any desired hereby invited to the scat of government of dimensions, and sink it in the bed of the this State. 'fiver, in sections, as low as may be found

Be it further resolved etc., That a com-' practicable, by first dredging A channel,mittee of two members on the part of the deep enough to admit of the top being sunk Senate, and three members on the part of below, or even with the bed of the river,-

On the 30th of March, this document other materials, besides being about 100 was forwarded to Mr. Mitchell by the com- jper cent, cheaper. By my design accbramittees of the Senate and House of Repre- Ipanying this, it will be seen that I put tho' sentatives appointed for that purpose. {foot-way at the top of my arch, the arch

In the Citizen of the 15th inst., Mr. being as near a parabolic ctirte as practiMitchell replies. The following paragraphs cable, combining strength and cheapness, are pithy: "It is presumed that the design will an-

If mv conclusions differ from those of jswer for your city unless it is proposed to lay several politicians, orators and philosophers down a railway through the tunft'cl, wherf of these parts, perhaps it is because I have I would propose putting thfe track itt the

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The military force

tff Russ commaml of lhe Emperor

slavery to the few may yet be

jf^mpirc. Until this is accomplished,

Russia mll3t

be watched and feared.

RE LOCOMOTIVES—A CITY COM/NO WEST

Iy A SINGLE WEEK

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Michigan Southern Railroad C'om-

contracted for seventy new pas-

rr travel that was pressing west-

a They have also ordered twenty new

difference of clock and sun every day in the best east manufactures. They are intend- [might, and let the great culprit Fee at once year. Every portion of the clock is of a I

ec to run CJfpress

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accurately. abundantly able to°do. Six of them are

have

He had on one occasion \hcelve thousand passengers arrived from the profit to be keenly sensitive to wrong. east by this road during the last week—a Now that we have thrown away the scabcitv in the short space of six days. It bard, and .stand face to face with our insowould b« a enrious item if we could know nt antagonist, ft only remains to disabuse where aU these people are going and whence him thoroughly of this imaginary estimate they came. We leave th°t to\he research- of our temper and power. That we havef es of some inquisitive Yankee.— Chicayo no doubt wi 1 be done, but it !l be done

are six'een feet wide, eight-

wisdom {passengers could go through very expedi-

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also propose to mako heapesti

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that

a tunnel can be constructed with much lestf expense, and more convenient for the public than a bridge."—Scientific American.

[From the London Times. March 29.] War is declared. A pcace which ha^ lasted the unexampled period c'f thirty-nino years, which many fondly hoped was id

man can tell bnt which is too likely to* proJuce disasters and sufferings, of whiclr

and «_»r« mere, fully spared the foreknowledge

It is not for us to attempt to lift up the veil of a futurity, which mtfst b'ft sad in many respects nor is there any need. No alis left us the decision has been out of our hands and, unless wo ubniit, with our allies, to crouch under the insolent dictation of a barbaric power, and sec the liberties of Europe disappear under the tramp of the Cossack, we had no other course than to do what has now bec-n done in sad and solemn form.— The sight of the document we publish today will call many to their sem-es who to the last have speculated on tiie chances of war as a still remote contingency, or havo looked at it only in its holyday aspects.

If the mere sight of a manifesto, to which we arc happily so little used, might sober the most thoughtless, the perusal of it will remove every scruple from those who do not think all war unjustifiable. The document does justice to the long and anxious efforts of France and England to heal tho rupture which the Czar had all along determined never should be healed, except by the subjugation of a neighbor against whom he had no longer a quarrel. With a simple collation of dates it convicts tho d: ring attempts of the Emperor to falsify,' the chronology of the ncgoliaiiori, and throw* on us the odium of provoking the war.—•' It meets with a just rebuke the impudent hypocrisy with which Russia has claimed

be the friend of religion and truth, when

berment by external force is it was spurning the pure precepts of the one

—\v noticed last week

nd ou train nK the laws of the other.There is not an Englishman whose thoughts'':1 are still free, and whose hand is not lied bv some fanatical theory, who will not respond heart and soul to this solemn appeal.

The greater part of us will only be called on to endure sacrifices, and thankful should we be that our part in the noble struggle i* not more severe. But those sacrifices all will make cheerfully and ungrudgingly, from the conviction that Heaven has put them upon us, and that the only way to

?^ve ourselves, and fulfill our part in the

of the largest cla«s from the 1 tf-rrihlc drama, is to strike with nil our

trains on that

road I

the strong determination and the tremen-

thin*- which they will bejdous power he has presumed to set, at

now at Buffalo on their way to Toledo.— 1 decisive sU-p. he Russian has evidently 'am- Most of the passenger trains came in last'concluded that we preferred negotiation to who 1 week with two locomotives, and the reason action the very population of St. eteis-|

always been more remarkable forifoi this great increase of power will be un-• burg has been taught that, we are too com-, ing his mouth to say amen than open- derstood when it is known that nearl* 1 mercial to be real warriors, and too fond of?

Dem. Press. the more readily by our gallant fleet ana IJ army if it be ^nown that all England follows Lord Bvron gives this account of a her sons to baitle, and iil prosecute their party with Sheridan: "It was first silent, cause and avenge their death, till soon oi£ then ta!!:y, then argumentive, then dispu- late the rights ot nations and the liberties or tatious, then unintelligible, then altogeth- Europe receive afresh sanction in the sij*err,- then inarticulately, then drink."' punishment of the gignntu: offender.

nought. We have been slow to take tho