New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-22
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,urg. 4 Oh tIe usrt 81 the forndr ii took pIaes
ONE SINE back, when Count NAsselrode stated
o the representative Of Denmark at 81. Peters
,urgh that the Miastsr Of FinAnce would not
'e able to part with 60 large = sim as would be
'equired to capitalize Rus5ia'B contributions
hitherto made annually to the Sound Dues, and
hat therefore Russia would be ID favor Of their
on the present footing.
Since then, Neck klenburg- Schwerin has de-
Jared that she has no objections to offer to the
Sof Che Sound Duek aa at present
onstituted. I. This is easily ACCOUNTED for hy the
interest Mecklenburg has in the retention Of
be Elbe Dues, which must lEe given up at
nee as soon as the Sound Dues have been done
way with is understood tliat Lord ClaTen-
Oh has declared TO the Danigh Minister with
eferencs 50 the possibility Of any vessels Of the
United States passing the Sourd Or Belts With
,ut paying dues, thas whenever that should
ake place, no English minister would ba able "a
sny longer to submit to Englahd's paying any
The London Times closes q leading article
upon the subject Of the Souhd Dues, ss tot-
lows:
{ e haseyer justice there may be8in the ar-
guments which the Americans 90 psremptoriiy
urge, there can be no doubt but the payment Of
these dues consecrated by prescription, and JUS
titled by common sense, may fairly beidemsn-
ded. To such an extent. indeed, has this de-
mand been admitted by Great Britain, thas the
interest on Danish laana raiseE ir this country
has been guaranteed On TIL receips Of these
very Sound Dues. again, ths expense Of keep
ing up the aids to navigation would fall on
small and poor state, ahielE gains but little
from the trade Of its great d bighbors. NJ m
s Denmark has, howeVevs ground her claims
on 8 wrong basis She claNhs the right To stop
amy ship At pleasure, not beGauss she has built
lighthouses, hut becauaa she ID one of he
powers which hold the Street. She alleges that
| it is only of her fras bounEy that ship pres
eeeds, even when it has rid the dues. She
holds TO the theory that power possessing The
shores Of Strait may exclude all foreign Sas-
sels-a claim entirely ialefensible, aud one
which wonld, as Mr.. Marry urges, close the
Dardanelles and the StTkits Of Reggie, and
even the Mediterranean, IL the British once
| moro possessed Tangier. ssfg
| 6 If Denmark takes lowsr ground she viii
| have the world on her siNe. Every nation ID =
interested in preserving. the safs navigation OF
the Sound and Belts. and il willing 70 pay 8 fair
amount for such safety. The trade of the Baltic
will probably be vastly inEressed when thiawar
thas been brought to d cIoae, and We truas that
4 by that time Denmark Will have made ffalr
| terms with the naTions Of both the Old and New
/ World .--TCor London Times
Il l$&@ .5 sa.5; - tS3s #8sgts
The Governor Of alabama has vetoed ssAn act
to renew the loan to the Mobile and Ohio Bail
road Company Among other reasons he gives
the following: LIZ 5ss ssaz e r
This road is already completed over one hun-
i dred miles beyond the Aldbama line, and should
look to its own resources,or for did from other
States in which it les .F55
n The road has been SO constructed as to require
already heavy expenditures for repairs Large
and extraordinary Sums IRE paid TO Its otlcers.
The State has no power tp enquire into the man
y agement and condition o1 its affairs. WV
y Large donations Of LARD have been made for
the purpose Of the construction Of this read. g.
These lands have not, in good faith, been sp-=
piled to the objects Of this grant nor hare thes
public had any opportunity Of purchasing the
, lands for the purpose oE cultivation or private
use. IF they have been sold at all, they have
been sold privately and perhaps to parties in
terested in the management Of the adairg Of the
!, Company I had no means Of knowing aecu-
= rately what the Directors have done with these
1ands-Whether they hAEe sold any part Of the
: donation, or 20 whom but had the ], 10000
!. acres Of land been publicly offered for sale, at
| a minimum of three or four dollars per acre, or
= = even at a higher rate, The Company would have
= been able To have convicted the road, at least
! to the Tennessee line, long since, and would
y y have been ii receipt d. such an income as not
Y TO have been under thh necessity of calling on
the State Of Alabama, in the embarrassed state
~ Of her finances, for assistance. VS.
IN THE CYCLE OF ASnEAL AND VEGETABLE Lire.
"a In recent lecture Upon astronomy, Professor
n Loomis expressed the opinion that every mem
sst ber Of the solar system had originally very
rn high temperature, which is constantly under.
going the process Of cooling BY radiation From
an abstract Of the lecture we cut the following
- II this we're to proceed, as evidently it does
he without interruption, it will descend to pnin
se. st which all vitaity|is impossible and must o.
necessity cease. s$. 55s sy.g,
The era Of life, then, is that Of q temperature
adapted to animal existence, and is necessarily
short and bounded. It is the history of an era
r. of q temperature betFeen certain limits.
= The lecturer applied this postulate to Neptune
n. and showed what nobody denies,s that no being
IN like man can now exist upon that planet. He
yn passed On successfully to Jupiter, Mars, Venus
,ta and Mercury, assuming that the temperature O
e the planets exteriorto the earth is too low snt
ID that of the interior planets zoo high for vegeta
ria BILE and animal life. "A s*=t1
i'm The earth oecupiek the temperats zone Of oul
nd system. AS to the moon, the changes whiel
vn our earth's surface, charged with atmosphere
clouds, would continually present to 1unsrian
ok are never correspohdingly observed by us VIII
Ia gaze upon the moon. The moon has neither ct
are nosphere such as ours, nor twilight. Theequs
he torial temperature Of the moon must therefor
in be lower than that t|of the earth. The length Q
"a her day and night too. are other added condi
ne tions equally unfaTorahle either to animal o
ait vegetable life, a}564s5ss szgsf II 51 s.
,h- The surface of tile most distant planet may
1er possibly, once havb been the theatresef aetiv
to life -that is at q period, and during such pc
He riod as was determined by her cooling down an
his remaining at the temperature suitable for sue
er- circumstances. The gradual process of coolin
from radiation, Which is going on even now, i
vo,. time will stop the wheels Of vital existence.
IN course of time our own familiar earth become
in sufficiently cool; 1irgt, for the lower forms {
eve animal and vegetable life, and lastly for mai
,es the image of his Maker, and the depository
inv intellect and feeling. u ssss7 sss
orn The fate of other planets will ultimately b
ien come our Own. Lie extinct here may probabl
eii- be afterwards observed on Venus, and on Me-
rty curry, to subside even there into the chill
or death. In time even the body of the sun sui
, to sides into frigidity. Plants are constitute
for chiefly Of carbon; this they extract from Il
pis air, and chiefly when the sun is shining
VS. them. With his feebler radianoy follows t
use death Of vegetables. .sgsss 'ss.s s5#g 4eY
The analogy df the physical history Of o.
ions own earth, would lead US to form such o jud
Mr.. ment in referente to the other bodies Of o.
system. If it ba said water may be somethil
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