The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-02-04

'.Dnke OF Sonora And Gwin has already
commenced tolling the discounted Seces-
sionists who once shared with him the rule
Of Oalifornis into his new satraPy by prof,
fers Of rich mines, ample privileges: ana
ii tho prospect that many Of them will 90.
Of course, Max only cedes the northern
half Of his empire temporarily, or until he
can nav of the heavy debt incurred in con-
uusfing Mexico for him; but this viii de-
oeiye no one who recollects how the French
came TO b in Mexico at all. That debt
could never have been paid anyhow, and
its lq uidation il now moro hopeless than
before. There WIS bare chance that the.
unworked mines of the Northern depart
ments might somehow have enabled Max
TO reduce Il not discharge his debt; but that
has now vanished. Napoleon has taken
A:s pay; theIress of Maximilian's creditors
will wait long enough for theirs.
awin is man Of very considerable abii-
ity. sixty years Old, thoroughly unscrupu-
ious. as gre2tsa spenathrift as his new mas
tar. with q PASSION t,ike, that mastery for
GAM bling ad venture. He will attract col
ohists, and Develop the resources Of vice.
royalty, bit he viii never send dollar to
dukedon! will oatv!e al the horseleeches'
daughters il crying, 'Give! Oliver to the
unfortunate Finance Minister ut Paris
France may derive some trade from this
CRIB, especially ii it is made to include Mat
anbras and one or two other por:s on the
Gulf; bat not one dollar of all that her ruler
has spentin Mexico will ever come back
to her treasury.
! IL not all this menacing to us?
| In our view, none at all. We have but
TO be patient for q few years and Emperor
Max, Duke Gwin aud all their Tetlnue, will
vanish from the sci! Of Mexico. That conn
try viii not support those aspiring mag
nates--cannot be made to yield the reye-
nue. absolutely necessary 10 their existence
as po.enta,es. We might hold them on
their thrones by trying 10 push them Oft;
but We shall be wiser and let them severe
~ alone, and that seals their fate. Neither
EN- peroe nor Duke can wrench from his
subjects tie means Of maintaining his
sway, and France will very soon tire Of
supporting either. Only let them alone,
and they viii both be needy fngitives IN
IN. I. Tr:51ae.
TEST OF INSANITY. Perhaps noquestfon
has more often perplexed juries than the
question of insanity, and on no fact is the
testimony more variant and contradictory.
1t is said, however, that there is one inva-
riable test: insane persons never tell story
twice alike. DR.. Wigan says: II cannot
remem Der to have seen single instance Of
insanity, however slight, and however in
cogni1able by any butan experienced med
ical man, wherethe patient, alter relating
short history of his complaints, physical,
moral and social, could, on being requested
to repeat the narrative, follow the same Sc
ries. To repeat the game words, even with
the limited correctness Of sane person, is,
believe. always impossible in the very
mildest case Of INSANITY Shakespeare
knew Of this, for be makes Hamlet say,
whosessanitv was called in question
'Brine me the test,
And the matter viii le-woyd which madness
Would ganlbol FROM
--AontIly Religious Magazine.