The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-06-07
NAPOLEON BoNApAnrE's PRopnEcY-

| NAPOLEON BoNApAnrE's PRopnEcY-
| RUSSIA AND TuRKEY.-Ilis extract
from the lite Of the great Napoleon
will be read with particular interest
at this time. How near tie truth was
| he:
On another occasion he said to
| O'Meara, i'll the course of u few wears
Russia will have Cunstantinople the
greatest pat Turkey, and all Greece.
This | hold to be as certain as if it had
already taken place. Almost all the
caJoling and iatterinS which Alexan-
der practlccd towards me was to gain
my assent to effect this object. would
not consent, iorcsceing that the equili
brum OF Europe would be DESTROYED.
IN the natural course of things, in a
few years Turkey must fall to Russia.
Inc greatest part Of her population are
Greeks, who, you may say, are Rus
SLAMS. The powers it would injure,
and who could oppose it, arc England,
france, Prussia and Austria. Now, as
to Austria, it will be very easy for Il us
sla to engage her assistance by giving
her Servia and other provinces border
ing on the Austrian domiuions. reach
III near to Constaulinoplc. The only
hypothesis that England and France
viii ever DC allied with sincerity, will
be III order to prevent this. But even
this alliance would not avail. France.
England and Prussia united cannot
prevent it. Russia and Austri.. can
at any time effect it.
Once mistress OF Constanulc Rus.
sia gets all tAc commerce Of the Med.
'lerrancan, becomes IL great naval pow
or, ana Gpd Knows what may happen.
She qnarrcs with you, marches oil 20
India an army of scvelR' thousand
good soldiers, which to Russia is moth.
ing, and Il hundred thousand Canaillc,
Cossa cks end others, and England los
es India. Above all other powers
Russia is most to be feared, especially
by you. Her soldiers are Drawer than
the Austrians she has the power Of
raising as many as she pIeases. In
h,.ravery, the French and English sol.
uiers are the only ones to be coupnr.
ed to them. All this | foresaw. /
see INTO tuturity further than others,
and | wanted to establish d barrier
against these barLariants, by reestab.
fishing the kindom ofPoland. and put
ting Poniatowski at the head of it as
hmg. But your imbecies of Minis.
ters would not consent; hundred
years hence shall be applanded(c
cenSe' and Europe cspecllsY England
wi | lament that | did .U0' U0t succeed
when they see the finest countries in
Europe overcome, and prey to theso
northcrn barbarians, they will say,
"-Aupoleon wus right!"
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InE RAlNlSt TRsE.-The Island of
ticrro Is one of the most considerable
of the Canarics, aud conceive that
name t9ge given it upon this account
that its soil, not atlording SO much
as drop of fresh water seems to be OF
iron; and, indeed, there is in this Is.
land neither river, nor rivulct, nor we'll,
nor spring, save that only, towards the
sea side there are sulno wells; but thew
lie at such distance from the city that
the inhabitants can make no use there.
OF. But tlo great Preserver and Sus.
taIner OF all, remedies the incunveu.
lcncc by a way so extraordinary, that
q man will he forced to sit down and
acknowledge that He gives in this, an
undenlablo demonstration of His good
ness and infinite Providence.
For in the midst Of this Island there
isa treo which is the only one OF the
kind inasmuch as it has no resemblance
to those mentioned by US in this rcla.
ton nor TO any other known to us in Eu
rope The leaves of it are long and
narrow, and continue in constant
verdurc, winter and summer; and its
branches arc covered with cloud.
which Is never dispelled, but resolved
INC = moisture, which causcs to fall
from its leaves very clear water, and
that i'll such abundance that the els
terms, which arc placed at the root of
the tree to receive it, are never empty,
but Contain enough to supply both
man and beast.-Mundeislo.
CAUSES OF CRIME.--Of 24O conyicts
confined IN the tennessee penitentiary,
% were temperate before sentenced,
! and 2O2 incorporate and l27 were
| drunk when they committed crime
There are 43 whose fathers were tenn.
pcrate. lG7 whose fathers were intem.
peratc, of whom 10 were common
drunkalds. There are 3 who had u
classical education, I a common Eng.
l'sh education, l05 who can neither
read or white. Those statistics show