Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-04-27

share has never laeefated. Give me now
ancient deserts, wher / can conjure up at
pleasure the walls of Bsbyion, or the legions
OF Phsrsala-grandia sssd plains where fur.
rows convey Instruction, and where, mortal
as l ann, l trace tue blood, the tears, aud
sweat. Of human kind. Chsfeaubriasd.
cannot conceive the satistactio il can give
10 a generous and feeling heart, to trace the
last fragments Of a ruined city, or behold, re-
duced 10 desolation, fields that once waved in
golden harvest. To the eye Of reason aud
philosophy, a review may he desirable of the
revolutions OF Human society, in all the various
stages. from the savage horde to the most
reh'ed CIVILIZATION bat TO me il would Weld
more pain than ratification, to behold Rome,
Athens, or Jerusalem, i'm dust aud ashes. The
"reminiscences that should recall former great.
III -, mat would raise in imagination from the
tom6 Tie Pericles, Euripides, Macabces, the
ocipios or the Caesars, would excite rather a
lear OF bitter regret, tbaua pleasing sentiment
OF poetic entlnsiasni. on glaucing over the
ocean Of past time. l would rather indulge
my faucy in following the failure progress.
than IN surveying the wreck of human happi
ness; l would rather see one flourshing vii.
iaxe rising from the American wilderness,
IMAM behold the ruins at Balb-c. Palmyra and
Persepois. Like Chateaubrisnd,I have often
reposrd in tue woods and plains of North
America. in the silence of night, under the
g!ancss OF the swan of Leda, the CLEANS of
aniid the leaves of the forest or exhibiting the
iaiy pctdte OF the distant prairie. have
inns often. in the awful solitude of the cane
brake, or the cedar groves. contemplated the
rapta march OF active industry; l have fan
cieu the rise OF towns and villages, the clear.
ing OF fields, the creation OF rich harvests.
orchards. meadows and pastures. l have
heheid the deep gloom around me dispeIled,
the majestic but dreary forest Disappeared;
tue savage was turned into civilized man:
SCHOOLS. colleges, churches, aud legislative
Halls arose. The river upon whose banks now
grew the tangled vine, aud in whose waters
the ioathsome alligator Coated, became GOV.
cred with barques loaded with the produce of
IT'S shores / beard the songs of Joy and
gladness; behed fair science sled her
smiles upon happy AMI enlightened people.
neheid the heavenly form of religion, cloth.
ed IN the simple garb of love aud truth,
teaching the precepts of present aud eyerlast.
ing peace; saw liberty and law interposiny
between The shafts of oppression and the bo-
som OF Innorence; and saw the stern brow
OF justice believed with tear over The clras
tised victim.
Many were the long and tedious hours I
have thus beguiled, when no sound inter
rupted my Chain of reflection, exeept the
signing, OF the nightly breeze, and / have
enjoyed pleasure greater than ever man
felt amongst broken columns and d;sioint-
ed drcades.. have seen, on an immense sur
race. these warm anticipation realized In
west virginia, in west Pennsylvania, in Ken.
lucky, Ohio, Indiana 4, Illinois, Tennessee
Missouri. Mississippi. Louisiana, and AIabama
IN west Newfork, aIichiean and IN Canada. I
have Tor 50 years been awiihuess to the chaupe
OF wilderness to civilized garden. |
nave rCamed in forests, aud npon the same
ground now stand legi, lative halls. and fem
pies OF religion. New states have risen and
are daily rising upon this once dreary waste
am willing to leave the man UNI. nvied TO his
enyoymehts, who wonld prefer the barbaric
picture now presented by Greece, Asia Minor
SYRIA, and Palestine, to the glowing canvass
whose tinfs are daily becoming richer aud
stronger, upon the hill. of North America.
woaia raii,er read the immortal works of
Homer, Thucydides, or Demosthenes. upon
the banks of the Ohis or St Lawrence than
search tie deserted tombs of those mighty,
geniiIses III their now desolaic native i,nd
These men have left their bones TO oblivion:
their works they have bequeathed TO the hnmnn
race. Amid the thousand objects thar ar.
constantly before the mental eye ia this new
moral creation, none is more wonderful or
more aLnrinS than the existence more than
thousand semInaries Of education. where
less than thirty years past, stood no man,io,,
OF civilized man.
In THIS as IN every other of my works T
nave given my naked reflections TO the reader
Too much OF my life has been spent in actual
travelling, TO admit The order and polish OF a
winter who enjoyed more closet leisure but
70 relate what saw needed no, a finished er,,
1ition IL demanded respect for truth and
human esteem d respect, the sense of which
l uHSi never 10 rose, until cease TO exist a.
mong mankind. VIM DARRy
3Sesc York Jan. 4 1870
New ORLEANS, March 2G.--The following
iist compartments only portion of the houses
that have lately failed in France and ENGLAND
IN consequence of the fall of the French funds.
L his depreciation of the price of the funds is
NOT TO be ascribed. as some persons have al
Legged, to any general apprehension of the in.
stability of the government, but to the extra.
Vaeant prices that were paid for the stock that
went to make up the contributions 10 the al.
lies.
AT PARIS.
Martin de puech s. Co.
@. Dammeue.
PiTqueZG
howard, Bourdillon & Co.
DespreZ.
J. Recamier.
All NANTZ.
Bertrand & Feydeau
Ar MARSEILLES.
Vidal tils aine.
Montgomery, Fitch 81 Co.
Irarte.
Westzynilns Gil & Co.
AT LONDON.
p. Caumont
John y. David.
Sianniioftb, Blunt 81 Co. (Gazeste.
Communicated for the baltimore Fed. Gazette.
MANILA, NOV. IL, 1918.
Having been appointed by our government,
Consul at this place, aud having concluded to
transact commission business, take the liberty
To communicate to you such information re-
speciing the trade of this port as may be SER
viceable 10 you, should You think proper TO
engage in it. The increasing prodnce Of Ma
nil'', particularly III the article ofsugar, Offers
III my opinion better prospect for speculation
III this article Than in any port IN India. The
quality Is not believe exceeded by any manu-
featured this side the Cape of Good Hope, and
tor ensuing years may safely he calculated in
being had at s The picol Of i42 lbs. English,
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