Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1860-09-06
Fusion.

and carefully examine, with the aid OF a Gazet-
teer, its various more obscure divisions, will
be struck with the fact that little BY little,
weaker powers are rapidly yielding TO the more
powerful. petty oationalities are being absorbed
in great ones, and civilization is gradually TAX
ing the place of barbarism. The time is COM
ing when school geograp hies win no longer
present to the eyes ofthe pupil strange pictures
of men in strange dresses. The Italian will
no longer be being in fancy stage costame,
bearing long dagger; the German will no
more be seen in loog robes, smoking meer-
schaum aud wearing strange cap, as an old
fashioned school book Of our youth represented
him. The New Zealander, even, is now
changed being, and instead of msunching his |
enemies and hanging his hut around with dried
heads, he eats pork. runs saw-mills, is greatly
given to minor Protestant polemics, and wears
dress coat of Sunday.
Brooke, an adventurous Englishman, finds
his way into Borneo, and amid much fighting,
intrigues Of native princes, and with the aid
Of a little vigorous coup d. etat work Zone must
howl. fskeeping;wolf company con.rives to
become Rajah and put native princes down.
Cosmopolile Brooke makes the first point in
Sarawak establishes an Eoglish church. schools
aud extensive trade. century hence the
largest island on The face of the globe next TO
New Holland, will speak only English, instead
OF one huudred Dyak tongues. as well as Ma
FAY, Chinese, and Boogi-Ceabese languages.
The blood of the natives will be there, fused
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and language will be those of civilization.
The iron will. by which Russia says to those
ptoverbially iorlorn districts of the world,
Kamschatka and Chinese Tartary, " be ye set.
tied and civilized !" is well known. The edct
> has gone forth, and few years hence will see
I the Amoor civilized and thickly settled. "The
Gar has sad it," But if The world is amazed
! at the military exaciness with which the Amoor
4 country ia being brought into the world. what
!. would they Say if they knew the real history
of the hidden interior Of Russia, and what has
h been done there during the past half century /!
!. Here in the United States we have only had
! to turn few Insignificant Indians out, and
) turn the Anglo Saxon race IA, on the finest
. country on the face of the earth. But in Rus
a STA the sayages have had TO be Russianized (;
n dextrous intermixtures OF Bulgarian, Polish and
v Russian blood had TO be managed; incredible
: difficulties had 10 be surmounted but wonders
have been worked, and silently and unseen the
II tremendous mass of barbarism is slowly advan-
" cling towards Western Europeanism- "
but surely. So vast body does not move like
!. lghtning-e Pur 81 muope-and yet it doei
- move. fi.sss res t
4 japan, India. Algiers, a hundred places Sc,
!, a beginning which will have in all the same end
= ing. The latest news from Cochin China show
- fhat he's IA .s,s shas
= On the strength of q claim as frivolous as
- was daring, the French have fairly seized upo
4 and occupied a large, rich, populous and in
ne creibly fertile country. The French are look
o. ing forward, as The N. Y. Times shrewdly sug
20 gess, to vast trafice in the Northwestern
~ Pacific, now that China and Japan are opened
,rs and above all, now that Russia is determine
ne to have her great outlet, and her future gres
,w port 10 the Pacific. To facilitate this Paci6
ne trade. the French want line of colonies
ew They already have two 10 the island of RI
p. union and of Pondichery the new acquisition
ne gives them third, and The port of Hue j
we the new colony, will be Of vast power in the
ng hands.
OF Hue, though more extensively and skill
lug fully fortified than any ether place in Asia.
!, perhaps in Europe, will probably fall into Il
'he grasp of the allies without trouble. Its va
ar. walls. in The absence of more prodgious a
pm mament than the entire military Of AMMAN CT
fch furnish. are Of no strength 10 resist the Eur
pean slege.sFan; what she native soldiery
worth, we learn from the circumstance III
IA. the FIVE forts Of Turon fell without she assa
am ants losing man. The enterprise can ha
n but one result. The bsyonets ofthe allied COZ
, merce and Christianity will open AMMAN
'af The world. The missionary and the mercha
viii press 10. And the history of dsln
With people will be written by the historian Of u
Tor or three generations in the future.'
ear, Then there is our own California, aud Fl
the zier's River, and much more on that line
soil Coast, all DESTINED 10 be known in few We,
ime, as range of money king, ship-sending, n
such nufac,uring. planting, and newspaper prnti
aing countries. The elements of the change
than abundant, and itis coursing, not 10 The 81
cry course of centuries, but at headlong rate
nen- Then we shall hear of future Colsons and G
zanigas dellghtlng enraptured audiences
'ome Towns as YET to be of stately palaces and
eciaI gan tones aud brilliant fashions where q
ttbe there 10 scarcely seen The wondering dshern
silh or savage. The second and third class natl
VEINS are not. however, yielding moro to the 20,
have of the first class Ones than the first class O
s,,wn themselves are yielding 10 one greater DO,
has 1.-THE power OF assimilation, union and ident
Y, by Those who have seen bow all continental
time, rope 10 Frenchiiying, while France is clio
es.- but surely acquiring grayer and more No
year ern tone know this. The Frenchman of
,r the present day is no longer tho capering G
$50 BILE the petit maitre Of the old regime Ligh
a the he is he has more weight that that. LttI,
vless little We are all pproachng one common ST.
This ard. aud future ages may look back with v
these der on the time when men differ almost az
;osson mails differ.
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