Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 20 May 1854 — Page 1

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The subject is already engagingmuch attention throughout the country, and were it not fnr the vexed question of slavery, there would scarcely be two opinions upon the propriety of the acquisition of Cuba. Congress has been discussing the matter somewhat, and in a recent speech, Mr. Slidell, of Louisiana, indulged in the following, among other remarks: "I counsel neither negotiation nor remonstrance on this subject. We have the remedy in our own hands. It is that indicated in the resolution which I have submitted. Arm the President with the simple power to unfetter the limbs of our people, and the government will have no occasion to put forth the energy of the nation. Individual enterprise and liberality will at oncc furnish the men and the material that will enable the native population of Cuba to shake off the voke of their transatlantic tyrants. I desire ni movement on the part ^"f our citizens until the Cubans shall have put their own shoulders to^ the wheel They have been reproached

animity, but let it

THE BLACK WARRIOR AFFAIR— SPAIN—CUBA. The latest advices from Madrid arc to the effect that all attempts on the part of the American Minister to secure an amicable ...... adjustment of the Black Warrior difficulty, opposition to a prohibitory liquor law, and

thus far proved abortive. The Span- other coercive measures, which has been ish government has refused, utterly, indem-, exhibited in various quarters, since the nilv for the past, or to give security for the merits of such questions have been under future The matter can not rest where it discussion, the popular will is strongly in is. The sentiments of the President's mes-, favor of a Temperance Reform.

on this subject met with a general and The advocates of Reform have met with almost unanimous response from the coin- antagonism in various degrees from cold try, and they are such as commit the Uni-. indifference to virulent and loud-spoken op ted States to the necessity of securing a re- position. That all the obstacles thrown in dress of the grievances of which we com- their way, have not arisen with those inplain, and also, for the insults upon our terested in maintaining the liquor traffic, or fla". If this be not rendered in an arnica- those wedded to the pleasures of the ineblJ3spirit—if it be refused to diplomacy, briating cup, all who have felt the public then there is but one alternative left, and pulse, must well know. Their most numethe sooner the Spanish government is made rous

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sisted upon even to the last resort, the soon- inasmuch as they are opposed to excess, er will it be brought to its senses. We: have forborne to seek redress for the wrong' inflicted upon our countrymen for so great a length of time, that the Spanish Ministry have doubtless imbibed the idea that the outrages of Cuba may be repeated with entire impunity. But we imagine that the haughty Dons will be brought to their senses by the energetic action of Mr. Soule, backed up by the message of President Pierce. The imbicility which characterized the last administration on this question is not to be repeated and if justice be not speedily rendered in the premises, Spain, will be dispoiled of her fairest possessions. In fact, the occupation of Cuba by the United States becomes a prime necessity, as a matter of self protection, if the Spain ish government refuses the guaranty demand. One half of the outrages that have been committed by Cuban authorities would have justly been considered casus belli, had one of the first powers been the aggressor. But this sort of game must cease. The •weakness of Spain will be her protection no longer, and the last advices are of a nature to lead us to the conclusion that the difficulties will soon be brought to a crisis.— Mr. Soule is not the man to be trifled with, and will not retire from the position he has taken. Spain will have to make full and ample reparation for the Black Warrior outrage, or lose Cuba. These are the alternatives presented her. It is supposed by many that she relics upon the "protection" of France and England, and trusts to their ''guaranty" of Cuba. But this reliance will be of little avail. The United States government will entirely ignore both France nnd England in the prosecution of our demands for redress, and proceed to secure indemnity without the least reference to them. They are not in a condition to interfere now even if they had a disposition. Spain leans upon a broken reed, one which will fail her in the time of her greatest need, if she relies upon those powers to protect her from the consequences of a noncompliance with our just demands.

their pusil-

once

be understood that

if, by their own efforts to vindicate their rights, they show themselves worthy of our sympathies, the arm of the federal government will not be interposed on behalf of their oppressors, in less than six months the flag of freedom, the "lone star," would wave over the whole island. The Moro may, perhaps, hold out somewhat longer. One thiug is certain, that despite all our statutes, your collectors, your marshals, your army and navy, if the revolutionary standard be once hoisted in Cuba, and maintained for a few short weeks, no no administration can prevent our citizens from rushing to the rescue in such numbers as will secure its triumph. A democratic President would not desire to do it. I deprecate as. much as any one can, such a contingency. There is but one mode to avert it. Entrust the power to suspend the neutrality laws to the President."

CALIFORNIA. POETRY.—The following is one stanza of a patriotic poetical production that appears in the Nevada Democrat:

Keep vonr eye fixed on tho American Eaglo. Whom we as the proud bird of destiny hail: -•^For that wise fowl you can never inveigle

I?v depositing salt ou his venerable tail. X. Y. Mirror.

/3T Strawberries are abundant in Nashville at twenty cents a quart.

From the I'arl^r MfiJTiizinn.

TEMPERANCE AND TEMPERANCE REFORMERS. We shall commence our remarks on this subject, with the proposition, which needs no demonstration, that, notwithstanding the

dangerous opponents are the in-

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them,

but are against them as far as the loss of their countenance and influence in the movement can do it an injury.

It may be worth the time expended on the subject, to ascertain the reasons of this opposition. There are many causes besides the one usually ascribed, namely, the love of evil in our fallen human nature.— It is quite true that we all inherit a natural dislike of restraint, coercion, or dictation and when our appetites are interfered with, this dislike is, of course, strongest.— Men, as a general thing—though there are brilliant exceptions—arc not sublimely virtuous enough to make the sacrifice demanded of them, in pronouncing in favor of a law which deprives them of a luxury highly prized, and never abused by themselves, for the sake of reforming a few drunkards, gifted with a free will like other men, and able to save themselves from the ruin attendant upon the abuse of liquor if they chose. This may be a selfish argument, but we know that it is one commonly used.

Another reason for the opposition admitted, is to be found, we have no doubt, in the modus operandi of the reformers. It is obnoxious to the multitude, and provocative of two kinds of feeling—each of which is sufficient to destroy all sympathy—wounded pride, and a sense of ridicule.

Every one who has listened to the discourses of professional temperance lecturers, and advocates of the Maine Law, even on the floors of Congress, or our houses of Legislature, will remember that abuse, denunciation, and exaggeration, occupy more of their time than logic or persuasive argument. All who do not agree to their propositions, arc visited with the heaviest wrath that over-wrought zeal, or passion, can suggest. The finest eloquence, overdone, glides very quickly (though imperceptibly, to the orator) from the sublime to the ridiculous a fact which easily accounts for the modicum of ridicule and satire that has been expended, from time to time, on the best of men, laboring in a good cause.

Intemperance of language, highly-color-ed illustrations, and enthusiasm that bordered on fanaticism, have eventuated in failure, in many cases, where, we verily believe, moderation would have insured success.

It must be remembered, that the class of men most easily captivated by any reform movement having novelty and plausibility to recommend it, is precisely that class easiest excited by enthusiastic appeals, exaggerated representations, and harrowing pictures. With these men, conquest is easy. But they are fortunately but the few. And it is not among such, that the most glorious consummation is to be hoped for. Their aid in a great cause, is but the value of so many individuals as they may happen to number: the moral power, which conviction of the truth of a cause, superinduced by argument and reflection, brings into it, is wanting. Their enthusiasm is contagious, to be sure, .and their faith will propagate but it will be in the ranks of men of their own temperament, for the most part. Thus, while the enthusiasm of Temperance Reformers is very great, their numbers are very small, and while their labors are wide-spread and meritorious, their influence is, unhappily, not commensurate.

Temperance Societies are unpopular.— There ii no denying it. The Maine Law is so, too, and, perhaps, deservedly. The people have noi'yet become convinced that "moral suasion," as it is called, has done its best, and proved failure. They are not satisfied that the exigencies of the ca^e demand a recourse to prohibitory legislation, and they are loth to surrender their liberty to manufacture and use, as they piease, the corn and grape, which grow so abundantly in their fertile State. Are not their feelings, on this point—or their prejudices, if you will call them so—entitled, to some consideration?

In the wholesale denunciation of Rum and Rumsellers, by the Reformers, there is one distinction that might be made, and wisely made, we think. It is that between the effect of drinking liquor and drinking poisonous, drugged liquor. If the Legislature were a«ked to enact such laws as would make the sale of the execrable stuffs which, under the enticing names of brandy, wine, whisky, ale and gin, are daily consuming the systems, and eating out the brains of our people, an act punishable like felony, the voice of the united nation would join in the prayer. This would be a prac­

tical step toward destroying the demon, drunkenness. It would be a protective measure, which like those that prohibit the sale of putrid meats in market, or selling by false weight, the people have a right to demand at the hands of their law-makers and there could be no opposition to it, on the ground of unconstitutionality. Or, the price of licences to vend the dangerous liquid, mi^ht be placed so high as to render the traffic unprofitable, compared with more honest occupations.

These will be stigmatized as half-mea-sures measures that "scotch the snake, not kill it." Granted but suppose we assert the impossibility of killing the snake, and declare, that, in the attempt to prohibit the use of intoxicating drinks altogether,

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the warfare will be eternal, and the victory never come. What then? It might be demonstrated that most of the miseries which follow the use of intoxicating drinks—the crime, the destitution, the recklessness, the insanity, the horrible idiocy, the early and dishonored graves— result from the use of impure liquors, substances extracted from poisonous drugs, and not from either the grape, the hop, or the corn ear. It was the refinement of later days, in the manufacture of liquors, which introduced that awful malady, known as mania a poslu, into this country. It was unknown here, when nothing but pure liquors were consumed. It is unknown still in countries where "domestic" liquor, and like horrible compounds, are strangers to the people.

IIow does it happen that so many Germans—at home a sober, though a drinking people—in this country become the victims of intoxication? Or that the Irish, with all their reputation for intemperance in their own land—"the land of whisky and shillelaghs," as it is called—are ten times more given to intoxication here and that thousands of them who were sober men at home become, after a brief residence in America, reckless and depraved drunkards?

It is because we have attained the acme of perfection in the manufacture of desperate and maddening poisons.

Now, we by no means assume that the abuse of liquor, however pure, does not produce the saddest results, and should not be resisted with all the force we can command: nor that the frequent use of liquor, as a beverage, should not be totally discour aged. But would it not be better to remove at once, by a means within our power, the awful miseries resulting from the use of vile poisons—as it is against vices born of them we are combatting? The question is, would it be practicable to obtain and enforce such laws as would drive out of the market, the cheap poisons, of which such fearful quantities are annually consumed, to the destruction of body and soul, the subversion of public peace, and the degrada tion of God's image? Would it not be more practicable, than to enforce a strict prohibitory law? And would not much, even though not all, the good we claim, be accomplished thereby?

The kind of reception the Maine Law met with, in the two sessions of our Legislature where its merits were discussed, ought to suffice to convince its friends that its passage, in its present form, is hopeless. But they will tell us, that such a Legislature must be created, as will enact it. This can only be done, of course, by first convincing the voters of the State, that such a law is necessary, and will be effective.— That task, we take it, has yet to be accomplished—nor do we see any strong indications of its speedy fulfillment.

New York, even though her Legislature enacted the arbitrary measure, has, by the veto of her Governor, annulled it, and on the very grounds which base the most strenuous opposition in our own State: its infringement on the liberty of the citizen, and the exposure of his home to the odious invasion of parties armed with a searchwarrant, against which the bill of rights so sacredly guards every man's household.— Among the reasons for vetoing the bill, Governor Seymour enumerates one, which has influenced some of the most sincere advocates of temperance, in their judgment on the Maine Law. He says: "The idea pervades the law that unusual, numerous, and severe penalties will lead to its enforcement but all experience shows that the undue severity of laws, defeats their execution. After the excitement which enacted them has passed away, no one feeTs disposed to enfore them for no law can be sustained which goes beyond public feeling and sentiment."

Just so: it is one of those violent paroxysms of public virtue, or public enthusiasm, whichever you will, after which, reaction is certain to follow. "I OTfre it to the subject and to the friends of the measure," says Governor Seymour, "to add the expression of my belief that habits of in-

The effort

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temperance can not be extirpated by pro-jfrom P1C edge of ^the hair on its hoofs to hibitory laws. They are not

consistent

with sound principles of legislation. Like inch, it will grow to the height of a hand decrees to regulate religious creeds or forms f°u^" inches, when its growth is matured, of worship, they provoke resistance where' Thus if the distance be found sixteen mthev are designed to enforce obedience.— ches, it will make a horse sixteen hands

to suppress intemperance by unu- high. By this means

which is not within its province to enact,

sual and arbitrarv measures, proves that somethmg about what sort of a horse, with the Legislature attempting to do that

CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, IND., MAY 20, 1854. ISO. 46,

countenance and support would be met with like fav

ern and Southern States. The measure

sold rum at an exhorbitant price, and oth ers have withheld and refused to sell—Voted that this town doth disapprove of any person asking or receiving a greater price than thirty-two dollars, (Supposed to be Continental money) per gallon by retail, for good West India Rum in proportion and also of any person withholding the same and that this town will treat with proper contempt, all persons who shall refuse to sell their rum, or shall sell the same at more than the above mentioned price.

How TO DETERMINE THE HEIGHT A COLT WILL ATTAIN WHEN FULL GROWN.—Mr. Jas. R. Martin, of Kingston, Kentucky, gives out the following upon this point, which is certainly novel, and perhaps it may be true: "I can tell you how any man may know, within half an inch, the height a colt will attain to when full grown. The rule may not hold good in every instance, but in nine out of ten it will. When the colt gets to be three years old, or as soon as it is perfectly straightened in its limbs, measure

the middle of the first joint and for every

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or its power to enforce." He is not alone in this opinion. have heard the same language from the & much tor knowing how to guess properiips of thopc who have addressed public as- a. a coit.

semblies, and appealed through temperance publications in favor of the cause. We know that the success of the law in Maine and Massachusetts will be cited, as it has been before, against this view. But we are not quite certain that morality in detail has been much advanced by the working of the law in these States. Public exhibitions of human degradation have indeed become less frequent and the community have been relieved from the pain of witnessing, and the expense of paying for, the consequences of crime attendant upon the abuse of liquor. But it is not improbable that hypocrisy and deceit have increased in an inverse ratio and that private debauchery in the homes of the people, and in presence of their youthful families and held her course, at a very low rate of speed wives, will not be substituted for the orgies but it soon beca/ne apparent that a continwhich used to make hideous the dens of

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the rumsellers. Moreover, we are by no lightest and most broken ice would tear the means certain, that laws which would find wheels from the sides, and every effort was

in New England, jthen made to extricate the ship from the or in the "West-1

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which will effect our purpose—namely, the 11'h, being then two degrees to the south suppression of intoxication—then, is the ward, and a half degree to the westward of measure we require, or we want

none

all. If legislation on this question is inex-1 evening a terrific gale, veering from the pedient, or impossible let us have an end of, southwest to northwest commenced, and agitation, and endeavor, bv educating the continued till the next day, and nautical people morally, up to a proper standard— men on board the Baltic agree that no ship by removing them, as much as possible, in the ice could have withstood that storm from temptation—and by sweeping out ofj There is just reason for fearing that the existence all tho destructive compounds, City of Glasgow was in the vicinity of that which convert them into drivelling idiots,! ice field and experienced that gale, afid or raving maniacs, preserve them from the, that the crushing mountains of ice upon horrors of a drunkard's life. the devoted ship caused her speedy destruction, as no skill, strength or power of

SINGULAR EXCITEMENT.—Theliquor ques- man could resist such a combination of eletion is no new case of popular excitement, mental strife. She left Liverpool on the as appears from the fact that the good peo- 1st, consequently on the 11th she must pie of New Haven as far back as 1779, have been within four or five days sail of were apparently as much concerned about, Philadelphia, which would bring her in the the price of rum as they are at the present neighborhood of the ice encountered by the day in reference to its use. At a meeting Baltic, and nearly at the same time. of that town held August, 1779, the following vote was passed: 'Whereas, complaint hath been made to

this meeting, that some persons have lately for her safety can no longer resist the in evitable conclusion that she has gone to the bottom with her precious freight."

And that Capt. Abel Burritt, Capt. Moses 'stars. It is good to get home again. The Gilbert, Dr. Levi Ives, and Capt. Peter very soil of my country is precious. I "lake Johnson be a committee to communicate

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this vote." thereof," After travelling about twenty thousand miles, and having visited twenty AGES OF ANIMALS. different countries, and enjoyed them all,

A bear rarely excecds twenty years a I come back with stronger love than ever dog lives twenty years a fox fourteen to for my own, my native land. no other sixteen lions are long lived. Pompey liv- land has God done so much. There arc ed to the age of seventy. The average age nobrighter skies than ours no nobler rivers, of cats is fifteen years a squirrel and hare lakes and hills no better men nor fairer woseven or eight years rabbits seven. Ele-jmen. In no other land is so much virtue, phants have been known to live to the great

age of four hundred years. When Alex- vice, ignorance, slavery, and misery. 0 ander the Great had conquered one Porus,' all ye people who in this goodly land do King of India, he took a great elephant,1 dwell, bless God and be content. Europe which had fought valiantly for the King, is a glorious land to travel in America is named him Ajax and dedicated him to the the land to live in. There Art has had her sun, and then let him go with this inscrip- home and workshop for successive centution: "Alexander, the son of Jupiter, hath ries her palaces, temples, and galleries are dedicated Ajax to the sun." This elephant rich in the accomplishments of there long was found with this inscription three hund- years. Wealth has gathered all that the wit red and fifty years after. Pigs have been and want of man suggests, and it is a luxuknown to live to the age of thirty years ry to go and see what wealth in the hands the rhinoceros to twenty. A horse has

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been known to live to the age of sixty-two,! stone—lines miles of walls with breathing but averages twenty-five to thirty. Camels pictures, and makes marble into forms of sometimes live to the age of one hundred. living beauty. But ours is the land to come Stags are long-lived. Sheep seldom ex- to to live in, to die in, and be buried in.— ceed the age of ten. Cows live about fit-j It is worth a journoy over sea to learn, as teen years. Cuvier considers it probable one can learn only by such a lesson, how that whales sometimes live one thousand! much our country does surpass all others years. The dolphin and porpoise attain the in the substantial requisites of rational enage of thirty. An eagle died at Vienna at jcyment. And it is worth the same toil to the age of one hundred and four years.— learn that Europe has that we have not, and Ravens frequently reach the age of one never will have, and yet is worth having.— hundred. Swans have been known to live three hundred years. Mr. Mallerton has the skeleton of a swan that attained the age of two hundred. Pelicans are long-lived. A tortoise has been known to live to the a^e of one hundred and seven.

a man may know

care, he ,s to expect fromi h,s colt,

years ago I bought two shabby-look

ing colts for twenty dollars each, and sold them recently for three hundred dollars.-

without regard to attaining a more east

longitude. She cleared the ice on the

at .her position three days before. On that

The Philadelphia Ledger says: "It painful to yield the last hope of a ship den with so many human souls, but desire

'•THE LAM) TO C03IK HOME TO." Rev. Mr. Prime, recently welcomed home from his foreign tour, writes thus in the New York Observer:

Home again! Thank God for that for a year of loving kindness here and away for a heart with no shadow on it when the wanderer comes: for spared lives restored health, and mercies more in number than the

pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust

(intelligence,

THE M1SSINCJ STEAMER. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. The missing steamer City of Glasgow, is HALIFAX, May 10. now finally given up for lost. It is presum-1 The Canada arrived from Liverpool at ed that she was caught among the ice, and i],is port at 7 o'clock this evening. She having forced her way into it for a consid- ]eft Liverpool On Saturday, April 20th. erable distance has been stove by it, in some ]S'0 intelligence as yet of the City of of the heavy weather that occurred during Glasgow. last month. She had on board nearly 400 The steamship Atlantic arrived at Livsouls, whose melancholy fate has brought crpool on Friday, the 28th. anguish to many a happy home and familyl News from the seat of war indicate incircle. In an article on the perils of the creased vigor oh the part of the allies.— sea. the New York Courier states ^hat the, 20,000 French and 8,000 English troops steamer Baltic sailed from New York on iia(i landed at OalapoJe. No event of imthe 4th of March last, and on the Oth en-' portanoe had occurred at Longamay. Art countered ice in lat. 40, long. 47. Having engagement had taken place near Kalafat then no definite idea of the quantity and without decisive results. It was reported extent of the ice, the Baltic for a few days (.hat the Russians had been defeated at

effort to force the ship through the

liberty, and happiness so little

a few can do how it builds up piles of

Thus the sea ought to make a man a warmer patriot than ever, while it takes the conceit out of him. if he thought there was nothing over there which his own country cannot beat. Then he comes home proud to call himself an American citizen, bnt less boastful than when he went abroad not that he loves his own country less, but because he loves foreign countries more than he did before he knew them. Old prejudices have pasedaw ay. New views of men, of government, of duty, have crept into his mind, making him charitable as well as patriotic, more republican than ever in his politics, but sure that republicanism is not the form of government for all the re.3t of mankind just yet.

F8- "I am happv, Ned, to hoar the re-

you that it is aroundless.'

Tscherramoda.

port that vou ha£ succeeded to a largo much, nor find ndei property." And I am sorry to tell ™".ch

jC5T" The Furnace is the title a newspa- there's the wife, who, when her work is per just started in Madison county, Mo.— done, has to sit down, with her hands in. It is democratic in politics, keeps up a blaz- her lap, and nothing to amuse her mind ing fire on whiggery, and is chuck full of from the toils and cares of the domestic brimstone. circle. Who would be without a newsptiper?—Franklin. ^DR. SIMPSON, of Edinburgh, it is said, has been working wonders with consump-' INFULX OF GOLD.—Thesteamers (i^or^o tive patients by having them well rubbed Law and North Star, which arrived at New with warm Olive oil. Some of the patients, York in the early part of the present week, it is said, have increased 13 lbs. weight in brodghtover SJ,000,000 in freight ar.d in seven weeks. the hands of passengers.

Sir Charles Napier ttas rft Stockholm ori the 27th of April. His fleet was about 5t? miles off thfe allied fleets.

The Russian forcc was withdrawn from Odessa April 20. The British steamer Fury cut out a Russian Merchahtmah' near the entrance of tho harbor of Sebastopol, under convey.

A Russian steamer and two frigates gave chase, but the Fury escaped after cutting her prize adrift.

A Russian war steamer from Archepele-" go, passed the Dardanelles and batteries, reaching the Black Sea in safety.

FHANCE—Continued activity prevailed iii shipping troops for the East. Marshal Arnaud embarked from Marseilles on the 27th.

Prince Napoleon has left Malta for Tur key. SPAIN—The London Times' Madrid correspondent says there has been five notes exchanged between Mr. Soule and the Spanish Government.

No. 1 by Mr. Soule states the complaints and reparation he is instructed to demand, requiring a positive reply in four hours.

No. 2 from the Spanish Government declares its inability to reply until the receipt of information from Cuba.

No. 3 from Mr. Soule charges the Spanish government with seeking to postpone a reply and insinuating that they received despatches from Havana but suppressed them.

No. 4 from the Spanish Government was so strong that it was thought Mr. Soulu would demand his passports.

No. 5 from Mr. Soule was iri mildef terms, but the contents have not transpiredThe Spanish look on the American ila:tn£ as overbearing and exorbitant.

Mr. Soule was present at a dinnerparty given by the British Minister. The marriage of the Emperor of Austrii* has taken place, and an amnesty granted! to 1100 persons.

ROME IIANKRI'PT.

Recent advices from Rome give a sad account of the financial condition of the Pope's 'emporal dominion's. Not only is His Holiness insolvent, but the affairs of the Roman States are in a desperate plight altogether. Politically, they have long been in a most critical, not to say hopeless state but financially, their position is now still more alarming. It is only by foreign bayonets that tho government of the Pontiff has been preserved—and such bayonets are still indispensible to its protection from anarchy but they who wield those weapons cannot live upon air—they must be fed, housed and clothed, the arms and ammunition must be provided for them. This requires large funds in addition to the ordinary requirements of tho Kingdom1. Had the Pope been unembarrassed at the outset, it would have been difficult enough to sustain so heavy a drain upon his exchequer: but already overhead and ears in debt, and the interest of his loans absorbing the bulk of his regular finance", it is now found impossible to go on much longer. What will be the ultimate issue of the crisis, it is not easy to predict in the present condition of Europe. Should Revolutions break out in Austria, in Itily. and in Hungary, as is not improbable—if a general war ensues, Rome will certainly find herself utterly defenceless. She would bo powerless, indeed, in such a conjecture, un-. der any circumstances of her own: but distitute as she is of the means of procuring assistance, and that which is now being withdrawn, as from the necessities-of the case, it will be, his Holiness can scarce! escape being left "naked to his enemies."

NEWSPAPERS.—A man eats up a pound of sugar and the pleasure he has enjoyed is ended but the information he gets from a newspaper is treasured up in the mind to be used whenever occasion or inclination calls for it. A newspaper is not the wisa man nor two men it is the wisdom of the age—of past ages too. A family I without a newspaper is always half an age 'behind the times in general information

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ones growing up in ignorance without 1 P. taste for reading. Besides all these evils,

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