The Nevada journal., 1858-10-29
Missouri Gazette.

ago. Ihe sheet IS Just the size OF TOOL
soap. is printed with fair long primer
type, and little discolored by time. At
the time it was printed St. Louis was a
village in Louisiana Territory. The
copy before us is number three of volume
one, and was printed by Joseph Charless,
printer to the territory" The entire
matter would occupy about half a
page of the JOURNAL, and is filled al
most entirely by accounts of the war
then raging between England and
France, under the auspices of the Em-
peror Napoleon and speculations upon
the probabilities of war between Eng
land and the United States. The "Ber-
lin DEGREES" "orders in council" and
embargo" by the various governments,
and rival confscations and inhospitalities
make the little sheet a mirror of stirring
times, but sad commercial depression.
The latest news from Europe is by
way of Philadelphia, June 26th, being
forty days from Liverpool and thirty
from Philadelphia.
A letter from an officer in Sir John
Duckworth's expedition which remained
several days off Chesapeake Bay, COM
plains bitterly of the unhospitality and
ill-humor of the yankees" and pre-
diets that war with them is inevitable.
He says I'VE should have gone in, but
the Yankees would not let us have a pi-
lot, nor supply us with water and provis-
ions, which forced us to be content to live
upon half our usual allowance; they
would not give us a single pint of water,
nor cabbage stalk"
The English paper, publishing the
above letter comments at length upon
the cours of the Americans and breathes
threatnings ofvenge anee. 1t says "The
Frenchifed government of the United
States has so far resigned itself to the
baseful influence of the cabinet Of the
TuiIleries, that nothing but salutary
chastisement will bring it to a due sense
of the pernicious error into which its un-
natural iropensities have permitted it to
be led. If America will have a war
with Great Britain, she will have herself
only to blame for the consequences.
A few short months of
war would convince these politicons of
the folly of measuring their puny
strength with the colossal power of the
British Empire"
A few short years thereafter the
strength of the United States and the
British Empire was measured on land
and sea, and the records of that memor-
able conflict have ever been distasteful
to English ears.
An extract from another English pa.
per speculates upon the "obvious deter
mination of Bonaparte to use every eff
fort for hurrying North America into
war with England, that he may be ena-
bled to embody the numerous French
now in the United States, into an army
for invading Mexico in conjunction with
the Americans, whence he could after
wards send troops into the different parts
Of South America Speculations by
the English upon Bonaparte's intentions
excused their continual warfare upon
him, and many an expedition was hurled
at his power, when the motive was as
wild as the one given in the above ex-
extract. Napoleon was new and start
ling phenomenon to the English gov
ernment and people. With unannointed
hand he dashed crowns to the earth,
and then picked them up to place them
on the brows of his favorite WARRIORS
But much of this was in spite of himself.
War after war was instigated by Eng
land to crush him, on pretences far from
truth or probability as time has since
shown, and this in spite of his noble ap-
peal to the imbecile King of Great Brit
ain. "Sire, shall war be eternal Z" Re-
relling such attacks he Frustrated his
foes till the continual drains upon his
empire, the cost of victories, exhausted
his power.
Several accounts are given of patri-
otic celebrations of the 4th of July just
passed. One at the village of Harrison,
Indiana territory" seems to have been
very spirited. Some of the toasts were
as follows
The People of the United States
sovereignty and strength are theirs, and
usurpation shall bow before them"
The American Fair-May they be
prudent maids, loving wives, tender
mothers and exemplary matrons."
The orator of the day gave the fol-