The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1839-11-07
VIM. s. MYERS.
Secretary.
WARSIN ENGLAND.

A London paper Of August l9lh, con
tains Table of the Wars in Great
Britain since tho revolution in 1888,
with tho sums expended 10 each war,
and The progress of taxes and ofthe ma
tonal debt; The war of the Revolution
1888, which lasted nine years, cost SO
millions of pounds. The war Of the
Spanish Succession, Of eleven years,
cost 62 millions and half. The Span
ish war, 1898, and the war Of the Aus.
trim Succession, l74l, ofnine years,
costr64 Gsill,ons. The seyen years.
war with the French, Spaniards, AUS
TRANS, and Russians, 1856, cost liz
millions. The American War, ITS,
ofeight years, cost l36 millions. The
war oflhe French Revolution, 1893, in
which France lost all her power in In
dia, lasted nine years, aud cost 464
millions. The war against Bonaparte,
which began in 1903, and lasted IL
years, the three last OF which was with
the United States, cost 1859 millions.
The total of expenditure was two thou
sand and twenty three millions five hun.
dred thousand pounds sterling or eight
thousand nine hundred and ninety three
millions three hundred and thrty-three
Thousand dollars. And 65 years OF
war 10 rs of peace +; almost one half the
time spent in war. May il not be
truly said cr the English, ,hat.. they have
been bloody menl The same paper
makes these reflections on the facts sia>
ted:
''Ii appears from the above details
that we hsve made much greater sacri.
fees to Moloch than our ancestors, ,anG
that the deg radiation of the poor, and
rise in the price OF the staff of life, have
been The result of our national expeD.
dnuIe IN war, the total amount Of which
exceeds two thousand million pounds!
of the l4O years which have passed
since the revolution, 65 have been pas
eed in war, aud Is in peace: in the 65
years of war, S34 millions and half OF
pounds slellug Of debt have incurred,
of which debt there have been paid of
in the 65 years Of peace about 40 mill
hons, leaving the present National
debt about 900 milioes.
The following letter was written by the Rev.
D. d. Fisher, of Lockport N. Y. announcing the
death OF Mrs. Amelia Sophia Colt of Lewis
town N. Y. to her Father, the Rev. Joel By
ington of this village; but late Minister of Lew
istown.
Aged "a years.
Rev. and dear Brother,
Having boen your Sue
cessor in the ministry, among this people, and
intimately acquainted with some of your dear
children, is sufficient apology, if any is need
ed, why should vrite you. But strong rea-
sons exist w., !, oud arrest your attention az
"THERE are more things in heaveu1
earth than are dreamed ofiO our philol
ophy," and among these may be place
the marvel and mystery Of the soaS. Il
Island Of 81; Brandan. Every schoo
hoy can enumeraie and call by name Il
CaDnar'es, the Fortune Islands Of Il
sncien,s; which, according to some il
genous and speculative minds, are me-
wrecks and remnsnis Of the vast IsIar
ofAtalantis, mentioned by Pla'soa ha
ing been swallowed up by the ocean :
Whoever has read the history of thOl
isles, will'ramember the wonders told
another Island, seen occasonOlly fro
their shores, SIrsachins away in u