Washington telegraph., 1851-03-05

written documents in his possession, he
ascertained the name and history of the
imprisoned ship and of her unfortunate
master, and found that she had been fro
zen thirteen years previous to the time OF
his discovering her among the ice.
Westminster RevieaO.
What they Think of Uncle Sam Abroad.
The following from the Dublin Nation,
is not only correct in its conclusions re-
specting this country, but manifests
spirit so republican in its tendency, as to
lead 10 the belief, that such sentiments,
put forth under the very nose of the
British Lion. are becoming the ruling
instituted between the "Serf Empire" Of
the east, and our own country. are graphic
in their truth, and the significant inter-
rogatories propounded to the grave
powers" of Europe are full of meaning
and interest:
"In the east there is arising a colossal
centaur called the Russian Empire. With
a civilized head and front, it has the
thews and sinews of a huge barbaric
body. There one mau's brains moves
70,000,000. There all the traditions of
the people are of aggression and con-
quest in the west. There but two ranks
are distinguished and soldiers.
There the map Of the future includes
Constantinople and Vienna as out-posts
OF St. Petersburg.
In the west an opposing and still more
wonderful American empire is emerging.
We Islanders have no conception of the
extraordinary events which amid the
silence Of the earth are daily adding TO
the power and pride Of this gigantic
nation. Within three years, territories
more extensive than these three Kingdoms,
France, and Italy put together. have
been quietly in almost "matter of course"
fashion, annexed to the Union.
In seventy years, seventeen new sover-
eighties, the smallest of them larger than
Great Britain, have peacefully united
themselves to the federation. No stand
ing army was raised, no national debt
sunk, no great exertion was made, but
there they are. And the last mail, brings
us news of the organization of three
more great States about to be joined to
thirty. Minnesota in the northwest;
Deseret in the south west, and California
on the shore of the Pacific. These three
States will cover an area equal TO one
half of the European continent.
Nor is this mere addition on the map
1t is not piling baron Pelien upon un-
cultivated Ossa. 1t is an actual conquest
of new strength and resources. Already
has Minnesota its capitalist. Paul
which has its churches. schools, journals,
parties, interests and speculations. The
Mormon founders of Deseret are doing
what the puritans did in Massachusetts
two centuries ago taking care to possess
themselves of the best lands and waters
in their new State. Instead of becom-
ing a lawless horde Of Adventures; the
settlers of California are founding cities,
electing delegates. magistrates, shertis
and Congressman as methodically and
intently as if they trod the beaten paths
of life on the Atlantic shore of the con-
tinent.
Aud with this increase of territory there
is a commensurate increase of industry
in the older States. BY recent statistics
we perceive that manufactures are rapid
| ly increasing in what were the Southern
| States-mos: so in the Carolinas ard
| Georgia. The cotton mill is now built
| beside the cotton feld-a formidable sign
for Liverpool shippers and Manchester
mill owners. In the Northern and East
| ern States every torrent is trained to
work Sampson like in the mill.
The census of 1850 about to be taken
in the United States. will show growth
of numbers, territory. and industry entire
ly unexpected in human history. Let
"the gray powers of the old world look
| to it-let the statesmen of France, Ger
many and Russia read the census care
fully, though it should startle them. Let
despotism count every man of these mil
| lions as mortal enemy, and every acre
! of that vast commonwealth as an inheri-
tance of mankind most gauged in the
cause Of freedom.
Let EnglanG's ministers too read and
ponder we'll on this, and ask themselves
| whether with this sea and land rival
arising against England, they can afford
by legalizing famine, to force one half our
race to flee for home and laws into the
arms and service of that r.val already so
| formidable?
| But let Ireland take it to heart above
all. Let her learn that the growth OF
| nations has not ceased. Fertile energy
and will that will not bend, Still build
| States, whether in the wide pampas of
the New World, or the studded and
strengthened regions of the old. America
is as grand field for human enterprise
as when the ships of Columbus first near
| ed the shores of Guanihani."
The lady who would become really
| eanfifnl must make the cultivation of