Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-10-21
Dsatlp Ten1PaD
=, EsD>y. OtronEk -, 1918

sense III tins specimen ot Il hCrus wonderful
Wisdom. but that j. probably cw fault. Yet
j, is .sonlrwht singular, tina, lite whole world
sees, occasionally, evidences that all its gov
eminent, is not even able 10 keep the people,
in which tho world in tie ss,ise iie means.
consists, Ia proper TRIMS not able 20 securv
lite and property lo the lawful poss,ssor.-
About an average al thirty duels per month
are fought In Louisiana and Mississippi. some
Engagement are bloodless. i'm otl,,rs am y,,n
or les IS Topped. and in Others. say two =
month, life Is taken. This Is wtomg in the
eye oi God and all reasonable men, and arises
without doubt, from ,od,it of governmental
restraints. Thousands az mcn lose their prom
etty--their hard eailiings annually. and arc
reduced TO beggary. This is because the laws
arc not ADEQUATE Ia secure thcif rights. Tic
Lord only kaows then, why cnd Row lhc
world is governed too much, unless it is that
too many mon arc appointed To govern, and
feed on the public plumber from the hard earn
inss of the people.
3c this as il may, however, it does seem
That the world is governed Ivy about as poor
Specimens vi humanity as can well be magin.
cd. JAMES X. FOLK, is now President of the
entted States. lie holds. as the iudcrcn-
dcnce spccch-makcrs say, '.thc first office nn
the world Well, what is lIc2 II, has
never done ANYTHING TO distinguish him from
The mass of political skirnislcrs that food
this HAPPY country. IL was lawyer End
never distinguished himself. lie was i'm
Congress and was never know n 70 utter or
Originate my kcas Yet In is President of
great people. Jones is President OF Texas
that was. He was very decent school-tea-
cher, but nothing else. Gen. Somebody.
Greatly, we cannot now think of his raapA,) is
President of Mexico. England is governed
by young woman that has children. loves
hunting ottero, deer and pheasants, riding OH
railroads ami or horseback, and is, wi,hal.
very clever country girl, wlp has enough PIN
monoy'to muhe very pretty sRoM sad sci
die fashions for the commons in bonnet and
shawlS. Spain Is governed by Queen who
loves sugar candy asd bon bonS, and the Queen
OF Portugal drinks Porter and swings on a rome
or gate with great gsto. Germany is gov
erned as doubic-eDtry book keeper would
: say, by ''Sun.lrics,' and Ft,,cc ths /, rfYv
shrewd and money lowing king who has real
Is been very industrious in manufacturing
humbugs for the good people and saving ,son
@? ~ the operation. Russia has upo.r her
Nirone u very respectable tyr5nt. who mana.
gcs toget up railroads andkcep down the pco
pie, IN stylt equal TO any other nun who
has welded the sccptrc OVER that bcnigbted.
oodntry for series of years.
In vicw al all these facts; We have come to
10 the conclusion, tl,eu Tire world, whether
governed too much or not, is governed bv the
smallest matcaol Of ANY world we ever saw.
The Washington' Union now secrs dispos-
cd to threaten Mexico little. and intimatos
that some pretty significant Representations
will be made on the meeting of Conercss.-
Adverting 10 our relations with that country
the official editor says
''Thc Executive cannot trclarr ,,sr !,
cannot make war 1T can take no hostile ,n,a
.stires that will lead to war Itcould NOT pro
perry drive the M'Xi"dns fromanv post on the
east side oi tho Rio Gramdc. for thai, ,yould he
an act OF wal AMI tn President has no right
tomakc 1T. But coudnot permit the M9y
lcan troops, IN amy considerable force and i'm
hostile array, To cross the BIO Grandc. for that
too woud'be an act oliver on. their, mart and
our executive Is bound 90 stand on the dclon.
slvc: Tn case, however, wHl be altered IN
on the meeting OF Congress 'i,ey hold the
thunderbolt OF war in thcir hands. TNey can
declare w'.F, and they can call all tic rili-5ry
energies ct tile pe"pl TO rally under thc ca
Sics OF the republit. let Mexico hen look
10 iut9re events. IS for her 10 say whether
sac WIZ in d frank spirit, opcu tie door of
negotiation whether she will. hold ont the
otive braneh--or whether she will continue 10
array her troops and utter lcr gascansdrs--
and whether she will wait the decisive action
OF the Congress OF the Unitcd'Stat~.?
TIE TRIP OF TIE GREAT BRITAIN
"A passenger ON board Tire Gr,at Britain
gives the New York Mornfss TcN4a Iettc,
describing the passage from Liecrpool. from
which we eNtractthc Glowing relative FOL her
running III among tie s'isils of NaotucI.,
ana subsequent accident to her propeller.
'.on the morning of the lth inst. rom. nor.
nation scized ON nSny trembling heart from,
"a new source of alarm Jus, a. he iron
Snmtlcttcd hand ot.thc commandment resounds
al the door, at the suppcrsccn in The n,,r,
oi Don Giovanni 80 LAUNDERING i,ou ku1,Is,
Were ielt AMI heirl da,liing against llIc bof.
tom oi our vessel, and it soon became e,;I..n,
mat our propeller, which. with us i,oueus,.
iangS, fifteen feet ,inciFcustcrcncc. Of solid
ron an1 said to weigh several tons. aud which
revolyos az ~, rctc of from 10 to 30 r,s,,l,
lions ~ nitrate, was, from some di.t,,,t,;,,,
ta,'Sc, daslling It's iron arms against the Lnt'
tom OF The vessel Well was il for rs fl,t
ron met non and that the propeller proved
Inc weaker .coIibatabt. and soon psvr ,,n 49,,
o"n''S,' WIN tss was said aite-.cxa, zfr1ioiO
one ol us six taugs broken op anJ snoiL,5
doubleduP in the evening att.o time man,
a lace turned palcas the contest gss r.pe,,,j
and winch again terminated Niih ne,v,l,,,,,,,c
90 the propeller.
1bis morning. howcveG oubhed rsriaLi,o
ia the grncril AID satisfactory belief flu,t ~
spite al adverse vs. igds dYu,so,J .-,,,. -