The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-04-22
The Two Joshuas.

State are greatly exercised to understand which
OF the Joshuas claiming their obedience is real
ly the Lords Amounted. They dwell both by
the pleasant banks of the swift-fowing Kenne-
bee, even the stream that drains the famous
Moosehead Lake,-the river that runs through
Spraguevie, where crazy-headed Kennebeck-
ers sllde over the dam in punts, and get so per-
Vaded oy the subject that they say and think
nothing but dam for weeks together. Just be-
low the dam dweleth Governor Joshua,-calm.
SERENE cheerful, and confident in his leader
ship. Above towards the source of that sa-
cred stream, and Nye to Tconic, is the abiding
place of Sir Joshua-herce, impetuous, and in
his own opinion, resistless.
Nothing is likely to so sorely perplex the an
nointed in their coming contest with the unre-
generate as that of choosing between these
prophets and leaders. As the fight bids fair to
call for pretty long days work, which of them
can control the sun and moon? and what kind
of heavenly bodies will they recognize? The
metrical tragedy tells US that
| THE that rose last night,
Round as my shield, had not yet filled her horn,' sc.
Now Sir Joshua tells US that this is all VIZ ong
that the moon had no right to fill horn, or
take horn, or have anything to do with horn.
1t makes dissipated planet Of her, and dissi-
patton he can't and won't abide. If he should
have occasion to bid the moon stand still in the
valley, to help out the light she wou Id be like
| ly to 60 Keeling about under the influence of
her horns, and be Of no service. Gov. Joshua,
on the contrary, thinks horn or two won't do
any harm, and that it isn't worth while to send a
! State Constable with a search warrant after the
planet. He honestly believes that an infrequent
horn Of moderate size condlces to health-and
! that the beaming face of the jolly old moon and
the longevity of the man therein fully prove it,
In short he believes in things as the Lord made
| them, and means that, if tie Ticonic man in
sists on attempting to improve the works of
| the Creator, there will really be, as the song
! says
Tempest in yon horned moon,
And lightning in you Cloud
| Sir Joshua objects to having the assistance
of the sun, too. 1t has got spots, and he be-
lieves in spotess things, like his own party.
The light and heat of the SUI, too, are stimu-
lating-and he utterly rejects stmulants
Even navigators, when at sea, get out a glass
and take the sun. That lumnary has also been
detected in violating the Maine law, by assist
ing at vinous fermentation. Conspring with
the atmosphere it has promoted ntemperance
by making wines, cider and small beer. And
as cncher on these offending bodies Ae sum-
mons in one Tennyson, an Englishman, who
testiies that on one occasion, at sea
FAR ran the naked moou across
The hcaving oceans houseless field
Would planet Of modesty and propriety have
done that? Again as to tie SUM- the same wit
ness says
GLOW oft we saw the sun retire,
And burn the threshold of the night
Fail from his ocean lane Of fire.
And sleep beneath his piarcd light
lsan't that Just like a truaken man reeng
off to bed!
To which, all and singular, Gov. Joshua
pleads the general issue, as aforesaid.
How shall the perplexity OF the saints be al
layed?
The kennebec Journal, whose editor recently
left Knox County for a more profitable locality,
draws wonderful differences because the Messrs
Noyes, Of the Patriot, have also left and gone
to Saco where they expect to do better 1t
asserts that the Democracy Of the County do
not support ministers or newspapers, but do
support grogshops, and adds, awe presume
there is not republican grogshop in Knox
| County" There is no doubt of the Journals
presumpton-in fact there is little else in the
article alluded to. The facts regarding the
Patriot are that the publishers agreed to issue
| for one year a Democratic newspaper, and car
rled out the contract Then they stopped it,
because they could do better elsewhere.
Suppose it should be argued that the Repub-
lican party of Knox is going to seed because it
permitted the editor of the Free Press to be
transplanted to another locality ?-and that,
because he couldn't flourish there, irreligion
and intemperance prevail in that party? There
is nothing very wonderful in either occurrence
but the ostrich Of the Journal with his head
in the kennebec sand seems unconscious of
the exposure he is making Of his rear
Cuban affairs are daily getting more and
more complicated. Spain is syraining every
nerve to save the island from which she de-
rives SO large a revenue. Ships and troops
are continually arriving, while the most
rigorous measures are taken AGAINST tboca