The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-04-24

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when she engaged Napoleon single handed.
and was utterly subdued in single brief
campaign commencing with the double
route of Jenna and Auerstadt. and CLOSING
with the French armies victorious on her
eastern frontier. This completed the vir-
tual conquest of all Germany by Napoleon,
Austria having been fully crushed by him
IN the battle of Aus,erltz, Dec. 3, 1905.
Fhty years ago, George LII. was in the
midst OF his reign over the British En-
pire, with Pitt and Fox, the leaders of the
Tory and Wing parties at the heighth of
their iiie long struggle. They both died
suddenly SIX years afterward. Trafalgar
was yet untought, but Nelson was already
idolIzed for his victories of Cape St. Vim
cent, Aboukir, &c. His attack on Copen-
hagen was not made till April, 1901.
All this Continent, south and west as
well as north OF the one million square
miles belonging to the United States, (since
increased to 3,250,000.) was claimed by
various European powers as their repect-
I've colonial Possessions-all north of US
las now except a vaguely defined and
/ inhospilable portion Of the North West
/ Coast, belonging 10 Great Britain, while
Spain and Portugal, except small portion
oil the eastern coast of South America w.
ing between the mouths of Orinoco and
the Amazon, which was shared by Eng
land, France and Holland, and known as
British, French and Dutch Guiana. This
small portion is still European; with most
of tie islands known as West Indies, but
no Spanish or Portuguese flag now waves
over any portion of the Continent. Portu-
guese America, peaceably separated from
the mother country, now constitutes the
Empire OF Brazil, and is governed by
{ branch OF the Portuguese royal house of
Braganza; while the vast region formerly
constituting Spanish America is now di-
vidsd- as follows: Louisiana, Florida,
Texas, New Mexico and Upper Califor-
MIA have been acquired by the United
States: while the residue of Mexico,
Central America, Venezuela, -Grena-
da, Quito, Peru, Chill, Buenos Ayres and
their appendages, have become independ-
ent, and are striving, generally with indif-
ierent success, 10 maintain Republican in
sutuIlons, though with a constant tendency,
created by ignorance, Incidence and super
slItlon, to degenerate into military despo-
tlsms. Such Buenos Ayres appears now
10 be, while Venezuela aud Mexico have
been frequently distracted by the arts and
arms of military chieflans. Central Am
erica has been torn TO pieces by the gene
raj causes above rected, ard now lies
PROSTATE and powerless. Mexico exhibits
unequivocal symptoms of decreptitude and
approaching dissolution. Upper Peru has
become separate Republic. now known
as Bolivia. The Spanish Presidency of
Quito is now the Republic of Ecuador.
Paragua and Uragua have separated from
Buenos Ayres, and each is now independ-
ent, the latter known as "the Oriental
Republic though the people are more
commonly known as s.Monte Videans,"
from their capitol. The extreme southern
portion of the Continent, known 10 Euro
peaus as patagonia" with a great por-
ton of the interior of South America, and
the north part of North America, remain
as they were in 1900, in the undisturbed,
unquestoned possession of the savage
tribes who have thinly peopled them from
! time Immemorial, and whose barbarous
occupations of war and the chase forbid
the hope of their self-improvement. The
! improperly termed West Indian Isles re-
main in good part as in 1900, save that
Haytl, then in revolt against France, has
achieved her independence of both France
and Spain, while slavery has been abol
lshed throughout the islands ruled by
I Great Britain. The continental possessions
of Great Britain have improved consider
ably in population and wealth; Upper
Canada of late quite rapidly. Northward
OF latitude 5O0 the severity of the climate
on this side and the remo,eness from civil
lied and peopled countries on the other,
have prevented any considerable settle.
ment. Successive attempts TO discover a
Northwest passage around this Continent
from Europe TO the North Pacific have
! led TO no practical result.
Great Britain. already bereft of her
most valuable colonies by the American
/ Revolution, has built up two new Empires
within the present century-the first by
) successive conquests and annexations in
Hindoostan, where her possessions now
cover territory as large as Europe south
of the Rhine and the Danube, and peoped
| by hardly less than one hundred millions
of human beings. From the Indus on the
west to the Irawadi 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 Australia, a
still vas'er and more prosperous, though