The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-02-01

LETTERS OF GEORGE iii. TO LORD NoRTH.--
If American readers desire to be enlightened
as to where to lay the blame of the policy
which resulted in the war of independence,
and of the infatuation which urged on the
continuance Of the struggle, they will find III
the Letters of George III. to Lord North -
! edited by Lord Brougham,) the solution of
the problem; and that it was the insane oh
stinacy Of the monarch, and not the hostil-
/ ity of North to the colonies, Gas many have
| supposed, } which produced the result so la
mentable TO England. Lord North was weak
enough to allow himself to be governed by
the King, instead of perssting in resigning
and throwing the government into the hands
of the opposition. A late English critic re-
marks ''North's principal fault lay in his
excessive acquiescence in tire obstinacy of
the miserable king, whose conduct can only
be palliated by the recollection of the mad
ness which exhibited itself so fercely few
years afterwards, and which had probably
been all along exercising its influence on his
actions. The minister frequently requested
permission to resign the king exerted all
his authority to prevent him. The monarch
is found plumply declaring his willingness to
sacrifice everything to his personal humor.-
Thus in one Of his letters, he says: ono adj
vantage to my country, nor personal danger
to myself, can make me address myself to
Lord Chatham, or any other branch of the
opposition" And so the sad game went on.
Criterion.
ENGLISH School TEACHING. - Cooks
Quarto Geography recently published in
London, work of considerable pretensions,
gives some valuable information to young
EnplanH inv ~ tp +h,o IL
es that sin the isle of Orleans, at the mouth
of the Mississippi, is the town of New Or
leaps the capital of louisiana" The Young
men of Virginia ssare gamblers, cock fight
ers and horse Jockeys. Their passion for
these diversions, not only inhumanly barbar-
Gus, but beneath the dignity of a man Of
sense, is so predominant that they even ad-
vertise their matches in the public papers,"
But of New Englanders it declare that from
"lazlness, inattentlCn and want of acquain-
tanee with mankind, many people have ac-
customed themselves to peculiar phrases,
and TO pronounce certain words in drawl-
ing manner" The people Of Maine, "accord-
ing to appearances, are wretched In the ex-
IRENE. Their chief provision is a dirty,
dark colored rye-meal. and if they eat any
meat, II Is to prevent their sheep becoming
more numerous than they desire, rather than
for the pleasures of good meal. Their
common beverage is grog, or mixture OF
rum and whisky with water "Massaehu-
sets is the only State in the Union in which
there are no slaves"
MILITARY ANEcporE.-A Paris correspond
ent of the New York Stats Zeituraq, under
date of Dec. 2Sth, writes
1t is fact sufficiently proved, that upon
Bosquet's division being ordered TO the at
tack upon the Malakof, they resolutely re-
fused to 20 forward TO the milk and-water
tune of"Patant pour la Syrie," and so vo
ciferously demanded the ''Marsei llaise," that
the musicians and commanders, Bosquet in
Guided, were forced to yield.
Bosquet, the only French General who has
exhibited genius during the campagn--to
whom, in fact, the Allies owe all the success
they have achieved-is not allowed to come
to Paris. He is constrained to remain at
Pau, ''for the benefit of his health
''Such IRE the trumphs of Napoleon the
Little y
GALrIER, a late French traveller, complains
bitterly in his ssWanderings in SPAIN Of
the absence Of romance in the most advanc-
ed countries of Europe. He went to Spain
on purpose to be robbed by banditti, or get
strangled or killed In some dreadful adven-
ture, but he could not succeed even there,
for the men Of Spain are actually beginning
to wear black hats, and the women to carry
bonnets on the back of their heads. as gip-
sizes do their children, and he was quite disap-
pointed.
fT At the funeral Of the late DR.. Choules,
in Newport, his remains were laid in front of
the pulpit, clothed in the dress in which he
appeared when he preached his last sermon
to the people of his charge. All bells in the
city were tolled, and business generally was
suspended.
IT Sensible, amiable, and conscientious
young ladies of generous disposition, are
invariably fond Of reading newspapers. This
sort make the best wives.
c1T magazine report of the fashions
says, ''there is not much change in the gen.
tlemen's pantaloons his month"
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