Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-06-30

heard driving new piles incessantly--that
is sound that cannot be mu1ed. The
blocks Of granite settle unequally; that is
an irregularity which the martinez Car
himself cannot prohibit or punish. The
walls Of palaces crack, and novels sink down
endways into the bog, and and all the world
may see them melt down or be shored up.
The destruction will be horrible some day !;
and every inhabilant knows il, and only
hopes that the place may last bis time
But if west wind should carry up-not
the sea only, but those who are now riding
tha: sea-what then? This is what the
Car is listening FIR; the one other sound
the boom Of cannon--which might for
once rival in terror the roar of the sea-
From Cronstadt, l0 miles off the spire of
the admiralty and the gliltering cupolas
OF ST. Petersburg may be seen on a clear
day Cronstadt is nearer to st. Petersburg
than Gravesend is TO London. From st.
Petersburg the boom of such cannon as we
have sent there may be heard from Cron-
stadt, if we have the west wind for our her
aid Of approach. BY that time the fog will be
gone and the transparent twilight. Of that
latitude will have set in. The admirals
will have no more time for listening like the
Car Such chance as that wind would
ill the channels for them, and obviate their
chief difficulty. A very few hours of such
tide would suffice for their attempt upon
Cronstadt. The gun-boats of the enemy,
ambushed among the islands, and watching
with intense curiosity and awe the great
floating Notifications that we have sent
against their stationary one, must not, in
such case, come out, unless they would
be run down; and the sentries on the bas-
lions at Cronstadt would see with dismay
how rapidly the ordinary watermarks are
disappearing. Such wind would be the
best O. allies. But without it, we are dis
posed to believe that Cronstadt is, as is now
hlnted from the scene of action, mot i'm
pregnable." We hear much of the shall
lows there; but il is certain that the largest
Russians ships of war are built at St Pc
tersburg. as far as the hulis are concerned,
and then brought into the Cronstadt mar
bors TO be finished. They are brought by
the old fashioned machn ry Of "camels"
down the river, and then by means of the
great slip canal at Cronstadt, in:o the heart
OF that place. That canal--the one run
ming from the Middle Harbor--holds ten
large ships Of war at once The shadows
before Acre were thought to be an nsur.
mounlable difficulty before Sir c. Napier,
made wreck Of that marvellous fortitica-
ton We shall soon see whether, with the
added resources of fourteen years of naval
Improvement, he cannot deal with the shal.
lows of Cronsladt. The Gar permits no
sounding of the Neva. To sound the Neva
is death TO Russian subjects but it is given
out that the average depth is nine feet on
the bar, and twelve within We all know
what Russian figures are worth, and we
may be sure that the shalowest depth that
can be believed will be the one reported.
We know. too, that the range of difference
between the highest and the lowest water
is very great, and that the period of high
est water is just at hand. "Charley"
knows all this, and very much more more !;
and while he is walking the deck, and talk
ing to himself, he has his own plans for
making wind and tide serve him, We may
be sure. Everything is said to serve the
Napiers (as it generally serves other peo,
ple) when they are at their work.
And the watcher at the other end of that
Gulf who knows all this, and very much
more, how is it with him? Thus far in life,
he has never heard the truth on ethical sub
jects-has never conceived that be could
be in the wrong has never doubted his be-
ing able, if he chose bis time WELL to do
what he would, in and with the world. Is
the transparent twilight Of the spring night
The time when the reality of his own mind
and life is to dawn upon him? AS the fog
draws oil, is il carrying away the mists of
passion and drluson which have hitherto
clouded his mind? In that dim light do
the ghosts of his evil deeds rise before him.
and promise 10 sit heavy on his soul TO
morrow Do the hanged come down from
the gallows and the knouted up from the
depths of the mine; and the exileG from
the shores of the Polar Sea? Are the wo
men of Warsaw there, demanding their
children with heart-broken voices? Do
the insane shake their chains at him p
Can noble and serf for once speak their
minds TO him? Does the "sick man." not
dead, come aud show him his brawny arm
Is this. the vigil that the despot keeps
while listening for the boom of our cannon ?
If so, he is calling on all saints to help him
But to the hollow hearted, saints, and di-
viner beings than saints, are but ghosts
also. To so great sinner, in the hour
when fear brings conviction, there is moth,
ing present but his sins-,he whole array
of promising to "sit heavy on his
soul"