The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-12-01
The News.

The News.
The Fulton brings dates from Havre to
the 18th and Southampton to the 18th,
with seventy-one passengers, 100000 in
specie and a very large and valuable car
60 of French merchandise The money
market was better than at last advices,
and the good effects of the suspension of
the banks charters were still showing
themselves everywhere throughout Great
Britain. Consols had advanced.
The steamer Northern Light, which
arrived at New York on Sunday night,
brought the California mails to the 5th
inst.,six hundred passengers and $780,
900. The news of the loss of the Central
America excited the most intense interest
in San Francisco and its minutest details
were sought with eagerness by thousands.
There has been trouble with the Indians
in Carson valley.
The specie line of the New York banks
yesterday showed round total of near
ly twenty-one millions of dollars. A re-
sumption Of specie payments it is said
will not take place earlier than the OPEN
ing of the year.
1t is thought unlikely that the Presi-
dents message will be sent to the press
in advance of it's delivery, as he desires to
keep it open till the last moment. Its
topics can now be only guessed at. Bnt
Washington correspondents are pretty
shrewd at that.
The captain of the Opelousas has been
acquitted.
The Louisiana sugar crop it is predict
ed will be short.
We have reports of marine disasters.
bV~ The chief danger to Republic,
the usual historical successor to which is
the Empire, lies in an exaggerated and pre-
posterous estimate of particular persons
passing, in its unhappy development, even
beyond enthusiasm to a devotedness
which becomes, very soon, nothing less
nor else than man-worship. Not to go
very far back into that record of the HAS
BEEN which is called history-to pause at
an era in the modern process of civiliza-
ton which is clouded by no mists of men
dacious legend or tradition-we see that
the strange and monstrous political para
dox of the French empire-a virtually
absolute dictatorship suddenly superve-
ming upon chaos of civil and social lib
eralism so extreme as to mount nearly to
anegation of government or anarchy
owes its malignant birth to an insane
veneration Of man, NAPOLEON the
Third, lacking in himself any substance
of greatness, but made regal in the eyes
Of the people through the avuncular shad-
ow of NAPOLEON the First.
Reverence for the great names in our
American annals-for those early heroes
of the State who bulded its solid mason
ry with the trowel and the sword in eth
er hand-and who have now passed to
their rest beyond our sight, is whole
some sentiment, and is fraught with no
grain of peril to the popular rights and
liberties. We can well afford it that
WASHINGTON and HANCOCK and ADAMS
and JEFFERSON, with all their compeers
whose names illustrate the annals of this
country, shall continue to receive, even
to the ''latest syllable Of tine," the rever-
ent honor of the nation. Apotheoses of
this kind do us no harm, but deepen,
rather, and expand our patriotism, hallow-
ing the land it is given us to dwell in and
giving us memories to fight for. We are
not of those curious sceptics who challenge
the general Judgment pronounced upon
the virtues of these dead brave men, nor
of those needless iconoclasts who would
| tear down their images from the plons
regard which enshrines them in our
hearts. Let this Olympus of departed
worthless remain forever, that haply 9TH
ers, of our day and hereafter, may be
stimulated to climb thither.
Anything like such sentiment, how