Smyrna times., 1855-06-13
The Themes the World Thinks of.

There has been no period in many years
when the World has been so universally agita-
ted as now. H- -..s
family of Empires is shaken with the thun-
ders of the Crimea. The war, its slaughter,
its duration, its results. furnish themes for
thought and argument, for bitterness and tears,
from hall to howell They are talking of it in
English hedges and Galic vineyards; in Rus
sian SHOWS and Turkish mosques; on Change
in London, on the Bourse in Paris, in Wall
street in New York, on the Levee in New Or
! ieans. ri1t" "' ..a' -a.f2f" .'''.sr.. ~"
In half dozen languages, il Is thought of,
talked of, and written OF, but when they come
to mourn over it, no Gift of tongues" is de-
fnandedI il is uttered in the accents Of nature
To-day, no doubt, princes in palaces are pom.
dering what shall the end be: today, nC
doubt the Pioneer westward bound, sits be.
meath the white canvass Of his prairie craft
and reads from little blue paper published
away on the border, ''the' news by the last
steamer" :" t'.t. -#' r t.'
The influence OF that iron raiI. at Sebastopol
are not expended around its walls; they are
felt i'll far distant regions they bring exulta-
ton here and despair there; they quicken the
brain of spectators her, and sadden the heart:
Of mothers and widows everywhere. Now
they break in twain the staff on which some
life had leaned and loved and now they extin
guish a star just rising above the eastern hills
! or Just attaining the merdian'of manhood.
J They change the color Of the lives Of tens o
thousands of the fairest, and gentlest, and best
2 they have brought clouds in many a clear hea
5 ven, and but few bows Of promise wherewith
/, deck them they have left spring fields withou
' hlisbandman, and many a harvest song vii
lack voices to swell it. 1''' 20
, Meanwhile, the World is weary waiting ia
: the Rhae winter followed autumn, and sprin
I succeeds to winter, and the World is waitin
e still. y ''''' S'' "''4 '''''-' ''"' A''','
i But there is nYo 90 old Continental enthusiasm
It no established confidence IN the right, thi
IS makes cen feeble. sinews a strong as steel,
d and t6ickens, and summons up the most lyh
d phatic blood. The veteran leaders whose ver
n names would kindle a soul beneath the ribs
s, Death, are waiting for the final revellIe
y Time, and, therels,mo name,upder Heavsn,th
is like a. blast of tbato odd Scottish Bugle,7 s.
ot worth, q houssndImen.R ,aylaoo,a q, ya.5sg
ID The war is like the operations, in hui
I'd forge; it is systematic, muscular, Ponderou
y but, like themdit is unenthusiassie and labol
OF ons, .Nawand then amid the red light brig
Id spirits scntillate, onlyto go out in utter nigl
re If4onlyl they were. forging a great anchor
'lr ouae;goriousp sprnciPle that was tobe, rilet g.
ed in thelbosom Of humanity, and "bring TO- =. I
a tossed and waverng craft, freightedo withIit
les great crinciples of freedom, Freedoms self
Ike board, 1t would be quite another matter, q
cts attended, we fancy, with quite another irestl
vel Where are the rude Old songs, wrought
us of the hearts Of the people, that bsed to stirt
as armies Of old. IKE tile hRfnrling Of bahne
in that even mhaidens sung thto0gh tears press
ck, out BY partipgs, that children carrolled on th
le way 70 schq0l Such they may fS have g III +
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