Des Arc citizen., 1859-02-18
DIES T2CJ. ARKANSAS, FEI3RU1ATS4 1S.1 1s59.


 evacuation of Spain set at liberty num- Der of the English regiments for the American war. Among these the S5th Highlanders, composed of men-by very curious coincident regard being had to the patroness of Uncle Toms Gabin-taken from the lands of the since famous Duch- ess of Sutherland, and devoted to the ag- grandizemente of aristocratic interesss,was sent to attack New Orleans, and although stimulated by the device of the leader of 4 Packenham, sbooty and beauty" met with a bloody defeat before the troops of Jack son. The same men who had so often defeated the French rear guards in spain, went down in platoons before the Amerl- lean rifles in Louisiana, thus bitterly iul- filling the forecast of Napoleon. Spain l followed the example of France, and ce- Ided Florida. The "march of Empire" since moved the boundary from the Sabine to the Brazos, and run the line due west to the Pacific. Mexico has been relt from Spain, and is now as it were knocking at the door of the Union. Dangers in ternal and external surround and over shadow the last remains of her Indian Empire, while every steamer from Eu- rope brings forebodings ofa new European war, which may require all the resources of Spain to keep her aaoat during the storm, without the dead weight of Cuba on her back. Happy will she be If among ther statesmen some spark of the sagaclty and decision of Napoleon may be found before 1t is too late. The debate in Mad rid upon that passage of the Presidents Message which is in relation to Cuba, is a rare example of Spanish bombast. To hear those Dons one would suppose that an offer to buy Cuba on the part of the same customer to whom they had sold Florida, is a disgrace to move the world One of the papers, the Fenip, goes into rhapsody over what Spain was, very much in the style of the spendthrift who moral izes over the last pistole remaining from a magnificent inheritance:
 1 "When the greedy hands of the North American Union areready 10 be stretched out towards our precious Antilles which is nearly all that remains to us of the l Spanish Empire the New World !; when the United States are openly seeking to tadd at our expense one more star to those with which thelr flag is studded t will not be inexpepient to look back upon the Spain of our forefaihers, when it occupied the eighth part of the known world, when it's inhabitants were 70,000,00Q, and its di- mensions comprised space of S00,00O square miles" That " inheritance" pass ed away in the following manner: 1565-Mata surrendered to Knights of St.. 1620-Navarre and Bearne ceded to France. 1640-Portugal was lost.
 1649-R -Rousselon lost.
 1648- Netherlands became independent
 l626- Barbadoes seized by the English | 1665--Jamaica < 'S i"
 17O4-Gibraltar l" C
 l1718-Lucas " 1"
 lI759-D De,ninicia |" fs ss
 l1797-Trinidad :" !"
 17th Century-New Grenada, Guadaoupe,
 and half St. Domingo seized by the French 1800-Louisiana seized by the French. 18th Century-Sardinia cededt to Duke of Savoy
 {" Gran and Mazaiquin ceded to l Morocco.
 " North of Italy ceded to the
 Bourbons.
 1 I1759-Naples and Sicily emancipated. I319--Florda sold to United States
 1S21--Half St. Domingo lost.
 1825-Mexico finally lost. <.
 The list of seizures by England and France is rather full, and some portions l (like Malta that England did not seize direct, she stole afterwards. France and Austria are now ready to fight over Italy. | Of all that vast Empire divided up among so many plunderers, the only portion ,t., TT.,.toJ ocecoecad pf was bought and paid for in hard cash. The time has now come when Spanish I abuse makes the government no longer tol- erable in Cuba. The United States offer a round sum of money in compensation for the Island, and the Spaniards howl over 1t as most unbearable insult, and H the robber who holds still two-thirds as the old patrimony, which they stole, join in the chorus, and echo, "unbearable insult, 7
 It must be admitted that while England holds Spanish property, which she seized without compensation, she must feel In- suited and debased to see the United States refuse any domain that they do not pay for. Curiously, the newspapers Tn the United States which represent the plum der" party take the same view, justIiying those who stole Spanish domains, and de- nouncing those who offer to buy and pay for it.
 TIE MEDICINE OF LAUGHTER. -lt IS recorded of Dr. Griffin, (saysa writer in the Atlantic. that when President of the Andover Theological Seminary, he con vened the students at his room one even . ing. and told them he had observed thai