Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1855 — Political Government [ARTICLE]

Political Government

govermneut:—Monarchy, in which a single person.reigns, t which the eldehi and wusqat and Democracy which the supreme authority is lodge d in of the people. The most. writer of antiquity, as Plato, Afisftot)c? Polybius, and Plutarch, give ,%j preference to the first kind, as ding. the. thp fewes.t all agree—an.d it cannot be toos|beh i#cu|cated—that the eqd ail government, and the duty of every one .inye|fed(wifc &be the form jt is to use Lis utmost endeavors to render those under . his command ,fi§pM£n d jus.t,hy on the one side safety and tranquility, with the advantages and conveniences of life; and on the ether, all means and helps that may contribute to making them virtuous. As the pilot's aim, says Cicero, is to steer his -ves'sid liapjuiy IqUcport, Uriph®sician’s to preserve <>r restore health, the general’s of an army to t obfayi vioUry; so a prince, and every man who. governs others, to .make tfie utility of the .governed his ultiumte aimG aud to r«rieniber4hat the I supreme law of every ment is £ oo <i the public, Salus : thnt |)re“ greatest ana ;j mott . nijijbfle function in the world, is to bi* the author of ’the happiness of a nation. 1 Plafe in .a hundred piac.es esteems i • as nothing the most shining qualities tend to promote the two great ~eris* I - mentioned, the virtue : and happiness of the people; mil futes.at large, in the first book of his Republic, one who advaut^d., i t kat suhjecta wqrg fdr’the prince and not the prince for his subjects; and that whatever,promo ted'the interests of the prince <ir couunonwealth, ought to be deemed Just ai?4 nJ 'i” In the distinctions which have been made upon the several forms of governihenL it hH T UjaL would be the flWt should unite in itself, by a happy mixture of institutions, aIL|K4J;es, and exclu4p: all the inconvenien.ce's of the rest', and aimpst.aU. tlje ancients have believed, that the Lacecimmonian gpvCrnmen|. capie nearest to jperfection. — Holliiil

Bering “an evening with Madame Pfeiffer,’’ a Qorrespopdent of the Transcript.writes the following:; ; ' “Of alt the countyies. I have ever visited,” said Madame Pfeiffer, “of aTI the viel r iirirnc>rarplace's I have) ever seen or heard of, in savage or civilized land, the gapbling saloons in California are the worst' I went there jri company with friends; the •_clortt*3 were opeh; everything invited entrance.. Splendor in every form; temptation riiost subtile and powerful, combined to lure the soul ahd body to destruction—splendid curtains, carpets, exquisitely painted ' pictures, whose subjects were so impure, that I involuntarily placed my hands over my eyes; wine, liquors of all kinds, free, and to be had for the asking, all combined to lure the poor mortal to sin and death. Yet all was so Voluptuously respectable, so perfect in good taste, so confined in appearand®, so beautiful to the. eye, that its influence stolb into the soul, like the deadly poison of the Upas tree. What wonder if, with awaken-’ ed passions, and brain ipsane by |jr l quor, alhjred By lovely ydung women, who preside at the table and overlook’the game, with gold around and oh every side of him, the poor victim rashfed to the gambling tab|e for a hew 'Excitement and Tor a new phase of stfihul.ation?” asked Madame Pfeiffer, of aft the countries she had seen, which she would prefer as a residence, quite aside from her love of her native land, (which is, I think, Prussia.) — She said, “Ceylon, the Island of Ceylon; the climate is so fine, the country so beautiful, the peole so kind, hospitable, and corteous.” RosfeWps iM WniTEii.- The wife of Mr,Bolomon Rose, of Cincinnati, 0., made her husband fi Christmas present of three blooming boy's: The Suri of thatcity thinks this a pretty fair specimen of budding fdr a winter. £ju -J— '.i’A HoRACfc cpon the stage.—lt is said that Solon Robirtson is dramatizing PartOhV "ttfe of HorareGreeley”for Wallach's theatre. New York. '