, 1859-05-30
AUSTRIA AND AMERICA.

Austrian rule iu 1laly is base imitation
the government Of American shareholders ovcsf
their chattcls. She claims with them tho right
to use the lash for a1l offences committed in
violation Of the rules and regulations which
she has established. Size divides with them
the ignomny Of subjecting women to tile dis
grace aud torture Of corporal chastiscment;
and, in common with them. she has earned the
execrations Of the whole civilized world for
the rigor and inhumauity with Which her bar
barous code is enli,rccd- We pint elsewhere
in this paper, an article from the London SPEC
tator-good hu,hority-in which tie fearful
ness other oppression is proved; and in which
the justice Of our comparison is established
In rcading the laws 1,y which the Italians arc
governed, one would suppose that the author
Of them had before linn an abstract 0! the
Legislation Of dozen Of our s4rce and enlight-
encd' slave States, BY which four millions Of
the people Of the Union are lld as things
without rights that white ,nen arc bound to
respect. Else wlat praise eau do justice to
that diabolical ingenuity which invented q sys-
TEN that is exceeded in atrocity ouly by the
onactucnts which great and powerful party.
llalf the proicsscdly religious press. and
large minority Of tho so-callcd Christians Of
this country are paord 10 defend? Let tho
reader Of the article to which We have re-
ferred, when his pulse 'luickens and his check
burns with shame, th:t humanity in this age
j. guilty Of crimes like these recitc,l, rcmcm.
ber that Austria is but ii feeble imitation after
nll-that hero in tho TEited States is the cen
trc and stronghold Of that infamous system,
of which even the blondicst Of European dcs.
potisms dare copy only lis least atrocious
parts
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD.
We are glad 10 Rec thAt the propoaition Of
the Directors Of the Illinois Central, for rzis-
ing $500. by seven per cent dehenturcs
at 85c, repayablc in July, 1861. at par is likely
to be favorab]y entertained in London: and
that the road will be relieved from its most
pressing etnbarrasstncnts aud enabled 10 keep
along comfortably, until tue iucrease Of trade
following the next crop makes it n paying con-
cern. The proposition however, when first
made, had vcry damaging effect upon the
price Of shares in tie London market. They
ran down Ut once to so; but when it was ILL.,
derstood that the loau would he taken, they as
suddenly 1eapcd up to IS. By tile next ar
rival, We shall probably hcas Of still greater
advance.
In the management Of tho Central, we know
not which most TO admjro-tl,e persistence ot
the Direction or tue stcadfast courage Of the
English capitalists who are c:4rrying on the
enterprise under thousand dicouragements
which they cannot fully understand. Nothing
but the never-say-die cuergy erinced in this
country, and the pluckiness OF John Bull,
have prevented the ruinous failure Of the mag
nihcent scheme. We have faith that the sauo
qualities in the managers aud their hackers
that have taken it through so many difficult
plnces, VIII at last make it an acknowledged
success. 4 total failure would entail conse-
quenccs upon Illinois which VIC do not lks to
contemplate