The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-07-01

setting out on journey, would sca for Ms
wings as familiarity as lie then ordered his coach
or his horse. How near the bantsring predi,;-
ton, half jest, half earnest, Of this scientific
churchrnan has come to ful6Iment. the balloon,
the steam-engine, and the ''iron HORSE" viii
testify .--Nearenosgh certainly, tossye thecred-
Il Of the prophet.
Change, improvement, progress, are abroad |
upon the earth, ami in little while the I'd Is ard
stains ard ruin which time has wrought will
disappear, and the venerable old world, win lock
again as trim, ~ neat, and tidy, as brush and
newest broom make ID. "Tesr away bro
Their Martin, nesa mind so you tear sway."--
this world Of ouyineeds renovation. and to ra-
new we must first destroy. The old coat has
been patched and darned and secured so often,
that 1t In mere waste of labor to attempt its fur
Their repair; The very gilt buttons must be din
carded;--ws mat have a spick- and-span new
s,coIored. fIz trimming. 10 match.
Every body, everywhere, is coming out In en-
tire new fashionslsl Cossume- and custom. are
ing revolutonized radically. The aturbaned
Turk"so picturesque history books and plays,
has put off turban, and cashmere, and slipper,
and walks abroad In round hat, frockcoat and
patsnt-issthers; sits on a chair, smokes havan-
nah instead Of narghiles, and eats from French
china with knives and forks instead OF fingers
How tbs Hours in Paradise are to distinguish
them from the adbgs OF christians" is net
for us to say. Tn New Zsalander has ceased
to traffic In PrS heads, and tarpaulia
hats, check shirts duck trousers, have com
Y He'd the ingeniSsl artist who lived by tattoe-
to live by his wits. Hindoo wives blaze up
whIle their haybands live. and the flame
tdfsx earIor want of'iasi when they expire. Thu
unhappy Irish have forsworn potatoes and pot
cen, and taken TO griddle-eakes and Cruel, and
''thelegilimats spi,s of rebellion. n
In France, blous Ieather-aprons, and "ats.
liers naiionaux" hive superseded Court dresses,
perfumsd linen-casnbrics. and the Academic
Royale. The peet, who sang Of"the spIendor of
the East" and fouad inspiration in the hallowed
land over which Time and Change had swept
In vain, has songhta new Hyppocrene in the
briery re'lm of Politics, and the eulogist Of the
past Is the apostle Ofprogress The astronomer
points his telescope pnly 10 Mars for hints for
II u
an Italian earnpaign, with an occasional aide
look at Mercury, br plausible diplomatic
suggestion to justifya raid upon his nsighbors.
Everybody complains that eyerybody's char
ges are too high by half. and everybody demands
that every body's wages shall be doubled. Every
body is indignant that the treasury is empty and
yet everybody-thats, the "privileged orders, %
the OEUrssrs-insistslPOn full measure, and prays
INCREASINGLY:
"Lord, send Is weeks Of Sundays,
A saints cay every day,
Shirts gratis, ditto breeches,
No work, aid double pay"
kings and mobiles ars tumblsd about as children
tumble apples on the grass. Popes are no longer
'niallible; and cardinals and bishops are bundled
out OF their Sees with no more ceremony than
would be shown 70 the merest layman. Ii Is
gratifying, however, 20 note that the Waitonian
injunction when inqaling frog, "hande him
senderiy and as though you loved him." is
strictly observed, th "obnoxious" are stripped
anc squeezed gently, and turned out 10 ''fresh
WOODS and pasturesnew," TO Craze with what
appetite they can master.
Inc phiegmahc Gfman is bubbling up like
one Oh ms own "bnnnens," and hopes, when
me uoeoied waters fubside, for a Brighter and
oeuer iuin-e. The ifry and impassiOned Italian
mas let his strength and Gas at the stroke of an
eneaanier's wand sceptre and tnple-crown,
hoay abuse, and .sbsrbarian insalsnee.', have
melted away before The anlor Of his enthusiasm.
and the stem loftines of his burmese. Even
the per6dlous Sardinian Prince has become The
bear-ldeal of patrol King.
There too, by the blhe Kgean, in the "climeofI
the unioFgotten brav," the "Klepiocracy'' of
Greece are about to strike for more plentiful
picNngs under child of their own choosing. |
Otho has doubtless BEN warned ere this. and
must needs follow the Iatemal or ayuncular ex |
ample, and abdicate. He may fee 10 Switzer-
land and condole with he Bayarian inamorato
who, like true MinnaingeI, lost his kingdom
for mistress, and wascontent 10 lose II. Or
bet,et still, amid the treasures of art in Munich
and inspired by its delci.us beer, he may qualify
himself to build in BETTE taste, and for a more
successful renovation ofGreek antiquities in the
event of a restoration
VI all Europe, the MlScOyIte alone sticks tol
oldcustoms, worships &c Car, believes in The
knont, and the right divine Of aogging his bet
ter hall. But "the whirigig OF time viii bring
about his revenges;" andf'the rugged Russian
bear will dance TO nrIner tune, and show
his leader, "cham he meyer so wisely" s,pir-
ouette' not Of his teaching.
On our side of the waer the piebald people
south Of US are in fate of fermentation.
quicsened doubtless, by he philanthropic sha.
king we have given then, and our benevolent
efforts toilet in upon themwith the points of our
bayondts, LANCER portioRof the breath of free
dom and the light Of civilization. If Las Casas.
The venerable "apostle o. the Indians" could
revisiiour planct, how woid he rejoice to see the
tetters fall from the downtrodden Indian; and /,
he abungnal lonls Of the soil once more erect
and free, as when the robbeE-chivalry Of Spain
Inst seized and appropriated their birthright.
fhe spectacle would, we arefain to believe. be
'addenad BY the remernbl Dc that to save one
ace he had, more than al ther, helped to con-
dgn to y bondage as CALLING those meek and pa
ient 'fmages Of God carved in ebony snatch
n by fspaninna h.aa-, x-ss., f.ocaoIn, fnends,
sisl natAvel land. IA
But III sober seriousness while We hope That
his glorious opportunity Of proving the condi-
ION of the masses may n. misused or lost
We yet fear that some of'the Isaders in thesel !.
movements, have been actdatednnore by motives .