Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-01-24


ands known as West Indies, but no Spanish O
Portuguese flag now waves over any portion o
the Continent. Portuguese America, peaceablv
separated from the mother country, now consti.
tutes the Empire of Brazil, and is governed By
branch of the Portuguese royal house of Bra
ganza; while the vast region formerly constitu
ting Spanish America is now divided as follows
Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Up
per California have been acquired by the United
States while the residue of Mexico Central
America, Venezuela, New-Grenada, Quito, Pc
~, Chill, Buenos Ayres and their appendages
have become independent, and are striving, gen
orally with Indifferent success, to maintain Re
publican institutions, though with constant ten
dency, created by ignorance, incidence and su-
persttion, to degenerate into Military despotisms
Such Buenos Ayres appears now to be, while
Venezuela and Mexico have been frequently dis.
tracted by the arts and arms of Military Chief
tans. Central America has been torn 10 pieces
by the general causes above recited, and now
lies PROSTATE and powerless. Mexico exhibits
unequivocal symptoms of decrepitude and ap
preaching dissolution. Upper Peru has become
a separate Republic, now known as Bolivia
The Spanish Presidency of Quito is now the
Republic of Ecuador. Paraguay and Uruguay
have separated from Buenos Ayres, and each is
now independent, the latter known as the ORR.
entail Republic, though its peopeare more COM
monty Known as Monte Eideans,' from theil
capital. The extreme Southern portion of the
Continent, known to Europeans as Patagonia,
with great portion of the interior OF South A.
merica and the north part of America remain as
they were in 1900 in the undisturbed unques-
toned possession of the savage tribes who have
thlnly peopled them from time immemoral, anC
whose barbarous occupations of War and the
Chase forbid the hope OF their self-improyement.
The improperly termed West Indian Isles re-
main in good part as in 1900, save that Hayti
then in revolt against France, has achieved her
independence of both France and Spain, while
Slavery has been abolished throughout the isl
ands ruled by Great Britain. The continental
possessions Of Great Britain have improved con-
siderably in population and wealth; Upper Can.
ada Of late quite rapidly. Northward of lat sc
deg. the severity of the climate on this side and
the remoteness from civilized ard peopled coun.
tries on the other have prevented any considera.
bic settlement. Successive attempts to discov-
or Northwest passage around this Continent
from Europe to the North Pacific have led to nc
practical result.
Great Britain, already bareft of her most valu.
able colonies by the American Revolution, has
built up two new Empires within the present
century-the first by successive conquests and
annexations in Hisdostan, where her possessions
now cover territory as large as Europe South
of the Rhine and the Danube and paopled by
hardly less than One Hundred Millions of human
beings. From the Indus on the West to the Ir.
rawadi on the East, from the Ocean on the South
to the Himalayas on the North, almost the entire
continent is now under British rule In Austria
liza, still vaster and more prosperous though fan
less pOpuons British empire is now rapidly form
ing from what were in 1900 immense wilder
nessss, scanty inhabited by the lowest grade oil
savage beings and infected along the coasts By {
few cargoes of eXpatriated rascality The
growth of British Australia is now proceeding
with rapidity scarcely paralleled, and apparent:
ly with entire solidity and health.
The elimination decline and overthrow o.
Napoleon's colossal power belongs to the frs
quarter of the present Century. In 1890 First
Consul, in 1904 Emperor of the French, in 1911
master of nearly all Continental Europe except
Russia, with Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain al
his feet and even Russia, Turkey and the Uni:
ted States virtually his allies, and only England
stuboornly resisting his strides 10 universal do
mnon, 1914 saw him defeated and exiled 1915
discrowned prisoner for lite, and 1921 witness
ed his death ION lone, barren isle almost equ
distant from the Eastern and Western hemis-
pheres On his complete discontinue, Europe
reverted very nearly into the condition which il
exhibited prior to the outbreak Of the French Re
voution, France being restored to monarchy auC
reduced to her modern limits, Germany recon.
stituted despotic anarchy; Italy surrendered
to Austria and Absolutism; Poland left WRECK
and divided ruin; Turkey still further crippled
and Fastening to decay; while only Russia man
ifesed external growth combined with interna
vigor. Since Napoleon's death, Spain, Poland
Italy and Germany have by turns been the thea
ter of revolutionary connections looking TO Re-
publican Freedom but these ebulltions have all
been quenched in blood, and Monarchy, more Oh
less absolute in form, but generally despotic il
substance, is now the common law of the most
enlightened quarter of the Earth, save in France
and Switzerland. France is now nominally 4
Republic, but, practically ruled by the twin arts
tocracies of Muskclry and Money. to-day en-.
Joys far less real freedom than the smaller king
doms, Sardinia, Sweden and Denmark. Swift
zerland still retains her ancient liberties, though
convusad by Faction within and menaced by
banded Despotsms without. SO all on the con-
tinont seems fixed as Really would have II, but
it is only seeming. France is volcano ready
for eruption; her Millions will never acqulesce
in the arbitrary and unlawful robbery from near
lv half their number from the Right OF Suffrage
her Aristocratic predominsnce Is undermined by
intestine feuds, which will yet divorce the
Sword, the Money-Caest and the Miner from
their present alliance, and restore the rule of the
Masses; and the day which sees a Democratic
ascendency restored in Paris will arouse the re.
publcans Of Germany, Italy, Hungary, and per-
haps of Poland, to another vehement struggle
for the Liberties Of Mankind Despotism has
now the Bayonets and the Arsenals onits side as
ofyore: but in Popular Intelligence, in compre'
hension Of the Rights of Man and the necessary
iniquities Of hingcraft the world has made vas
progress since 1900. Catholic Emancipation il
ireland and Parliamentary Reform in Great Brit
ain are two of lis peaceful trophies. Such are
the Political Aspects on which opens the latter
half Of the Nineteenth Century.
A SCHooLMAsTER MURDERED By HIS ScHo-
LARs.-We learn that shocking murder occur
red in Goshen, on Wednesday last, under the
following circumstances A teacher in distric