Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-15
SOME OLD NEwsPaPERs.

 l Plea for war-A Communication | Which Appeared in the Journal l Nearly a Century Ago-Another old | Paper, ssThe Sun of Liberty,s For 1 merIy Published in New Haven The Conjunction of Venus and Herschol.
 A most interesting article appeared in he CONNECTICUT JOURNAL of January 30, 800, a copy of which Is in the possession # nr. Homer Fl. Peck of this city. t is a communication dated at New York January 2s, and gives some good req ons why war is preferable to peace. It is .s follows:
 Speculations on the probable conse- ,uences of the war in Europe have almost 'eased to occupy American newspapers. lthis extraordinary contest all the rules of slculation have failed. When the war will ome to close or how, or what will be theoosition of the parties, no man pre- tends t<know or conjecture. There are, ought no to wish it concluded, among others the blowing:
 In the hst place, the public papers
 would becom dry and anintsresting. We
 love to read O battles, blood and bullets.
 provided they aa not too near, and an sc.
 tion between tWsfrigates excitss ten times
 more curiosity an unrest than She discoy-
 cry of the longAqde would. When the
 war mnenced l. America in Y775 the
 death of half ozen men alarnhd the
 whole continent aness set all the .ells
 a,rinsing; NOW are our appetites ,or blood and battles becom> so vorsoious tbt
 less than It, 900 or %, ,000nen slauohteres in day by Suwarrow O sNsssena. with the death of Jubert or htxe. will Tot serve for single coffee houscrelish. Secondly, War furnishes a yery general
 subsistence tormany idle genttmen. who
 have not talents or inclination b, do any other business and without such smploy-
 ment would become gamblers, horse
 5ockies and speculators, in which oocupa-
 tlon they would do ten times more mischief
 than in armies.
 Thirdly, Armies take from -ocfety tn, idle, low, thievish. miserable wretches
 who in time of pesre live by petty vices o1
 are subsisted h che public; and set them
 to cut each .eners' throat. By many people
 this is 4aot the cheapest, as 1t is csrtainIy the most honorable way of executing the rasoaIs. 'Ae
 Fourthly, If there were no war in Europe, the French would have no pIausi. pie pretext for sending powerful and popu- lar characters to Cayenne or the Guil- iotlne; turbulent seoundrels always 6nd- ing an apology in state necessity. for tramplng on law, justice and honest
 Fifthly, If the war should coma to |. oiose the brltlsh minister would have no to fire the Tower guns and gratity the citizens of London with briI- liant liluminations on account of the splen- qlo victories in Italy, Switzerland and Holland.
 Sixthly, Had there been DO war of tbs present kind we should in America have nad occasion to learn affections of foreion nanons for our commerce. and their ingenuity ln II nndlng reasons for robbing our merchants roles T enuin 1ana or science on the subjects of sation, expatriation, indefatIgable Obligation of M egance, etc, etc, would have been still buried our lawyers might yet have been Ignorant of eIi ms mass or legal principles; and our merc1apts nhght hI still have trudged on in the old unfashon 1oie opinlon that man who owns propertv o. me high seas has right to it-a cIownish Ssin- os vant6T 1nw66r.hy of any man of spirit and fsaion abor, provisions, rents, etc, would :all to the | ,ld standard. What melancheI, time must 1 hat De- when bushel of whes.. VIII not bring ,e purchased for half dosar!-Besides all great opportunities for speculrion must then cease! l1Re marRets e fill ens poekets WGrs wIs heir old channel. and every body must expect to l get rich only b. steady industry and gradual | neansl W6a' shocking time must that be,
 Eighthly, fl no war had occurred we should ot have Aad any excuse for the importation of he yeioW lever, and our importation folks 7oule nave been as helpless as our forefathers ze,e zet m l6s9 and i732, when the same fever came IT. NF fL,a It down by pestilence, before any intercourse l as opened with the West Indies ar to be a wonderful blessing, and to Wish uey # ay continue, till it shall cease to be blessinp
 eean next oldest paper after this in Mr. Pecks sptember 9, 1901. Iu the heading it is announced | aG tne paper IS printed at New Haven every etto etutnesuay, Tsd.. Dy & Samuel Morse. The papers unity are confederates, no subjects; and their erg is ;ssryants, not masters 1t contains % gen ,i the news Of the day.
 The I; CoNNEcT1cuT JOURNAL of November 12. snersi pesoseo priMneiPaliy ne to an account of he a8eP4aef B O., dated octoSer
 printed in italics, gives some idea of the ca ea9 racers of those days. It reads ''The ship ternoon from Hamburg, last from Cowes in l oSys. London papers to the 18th of Septem- l < have nay 1itt 1een received by this arrival They le last papers state that Mir. Addington had 'lgned his position as prime minister aud that l mt. oA soNerh- \ dispatch dated Georgeton, November 9 ia of l 1 sfe eTest dey io any interested in astronomy .The IVY discovered planet, Herschel, will he in l 1Junctlon with the planet Venus on the 30th I or ms month at about 20 minutes mast 6 me morning.. Venus at this time will be about ( degree northerly of Hersche As this nsw . met IS not so easily distinguished as the other [ nets or the polar system, 1t nay be acceptable the curious to be informed of this phnnome. D.. 2; Herschel was discovered by pr. Herschel l ! lIol. It IS probable it had been often seen | ore, and considered as a fixed star c
 distance from the sun is about 10 es greater than that of this earth IF F resore appears small. It's diameter is more z, n four times that of the earth Six moons ar l elites attend it: Its light is of bluish wbite o our and in brilIiancy is between the light of F moon and Venus sn' oi | r .ls said that the moons move in a retrograde T 'ctlon, or from east to west. This is a snp1I. k circumstance. For all other moons hitherto | n ,overs9 Tn the solar system move from west r aso. s. Ihe period or year of HerseheI Is equal .oouI eighty Of our years"
 n old subscriber to the COURIER writes that il pa9er @ mas come to the same house to father h ana grandson for the last twenty-fiye wears oally. He also sends us an old receipt for aj ? o Tor subscr1ption to the JOURNAL from May l G, osI' 10 may 2, 1898, and signed Ely Stone for f, lus h DOW, March 25 1S2S '"