The Feliciana Democrat., 1858-08-07

India still continues disturbed. and. between drink
ing, fever and cholera our army mcltS away. Our
bravest have tallcn and still one hundred victories
have Eanedus sure ipuhuld over MI alien race. The
Srpoy enemy nowhere presents Il firm front, but har
asses rs by guerilla warfare, and hy obstinate
resistance in struggling or,rcsses Our own conduct
is not dctensible The permitted conduct of our ar
my would stamp US with eternal disgrace IL we were
dealing with any civilized power Onl British troops
give 10 quartcr-cVufy action Is followed by m uds
crmlnae slaughter Of hundreds and thousands the
route OF our army Is indicated by hlackencd c0rpscs
the prey OF the hidcous vulturc and aeka aud ruined
villages soaked IN blood. Our allies, the savage
Ghoorkcs and Sikhs are totally unrcstruincd they
spare neither age nor and welding naked swords
they rush upon the plunderer with demoniac cries.
The sack of Lucknow, and the horrors after the
sau were too horrible for the pen of the Times
correspondent TO describe. which hestacd not at the
carnage of Sebasopol our mode of conducting
Eastern wars appears not TO have improved with the
advance oi the l9th century Lucknow saw two hun.
drcd thousand armed mon destroy her ancient places
aud hold their hdcons orgies In her sacred temples
From henccionlth our rule in India must hc the
rigid one Of the sword, Already we have one hun
dred thousand men IN arms on the contincnt-thc
bone and sinew OF our population drained away, and
still the India authorities cry "giyc, give
But at the present time, according to this British
writer the standing menace of Great Britain is France
with her snpendous war-like preparations. The
trade Of the French empire is paralyzcd, her exchc
qucrs exhausted. and yet her armamcnts are being
monthly increased She has now an army Of $50
900 men aud naval force cf 10000, while her armed
steamships carry more guns tEan our own. At the
present time all France rings with martial prepare
ton portion ofthc army has been called from
y o,,rro,s o,,ftro or,iy,,s 80 ,.,,in,. It.,
uiyht !, M doc. .y,rl, !, co,.trro,i,, ,ar,a.
scs and bomb nroofaoa,inc bott.rio. nc ,,voleo,.
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,ybarycs b,yo i,. hco, con,lcto1 fron uhic, 50
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IhE ABOLITION EXPERIMENT y JAaAIcA.-Thc sub
Get OF colored emigration, says the \. '. Herald
from the United States 70 Jnmaicais again tho sub
Jec OF agitation in that Island aud We have report
Of The proceedings at public meeting held in King.
ton on the subject.
Ihe state o. Affairs shown TO exist and the admis.
sion made hy ihe speaker 10 thl. meeting in relation
Y" ~ '''. ~ So N't''"""'''' b'"'I"ilA' "lt VI hu
extraordinary character Jamaica itseliis acknowl-
edged to continue is recession towards larbarisin ;
Liberia i pronounced to hea humhug, both as q coun-
try and az social community the free negroes Of The
North are rejected as vicious aud worthless and those
oi the South are pronounced 10 he the only ones it.
ted 70 become colonsts o this admission n strong
h"' ihoF'ct compliment s PAD 70 the eilce, otSon
efh legislation ana edntaiion upon tie negro nature
ana y s ho The lcsssignlcaut that il comes from the
eolored humanitarans themselves.
But the most extraordinary fact developed nj thi.
meeting is one stated by the Hon. Robert Osborn
lie informs rs that the last census showed that the
average OF the females 10 the males in jamaica was
three 70 one. What the cause Of this immense dis
proportion Of sexes he does not tell and he prob
ably does not tell it, because if fold it would mill
tate seriously against The object of The meeting which
s 70 tree colorcd emigration to the island from
this country. We know the cause for it has foimcd
one Of the prominent fact that have struck us in our
studies Of the social phenomena of the West Indies
'''' w 'i,'"'' nun ~ ~ "e'"uSe 'he Jamaica
81 W. "'''''t II 'aiha'cah paradise aud
y" ~ 'py eohn'Fy "heff ne can obtain employment
"""s' "nh' h''o' ihe Nidlhg Of the Panama
r IN H4ft