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The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1860., [Electronic resource], Succession movement at the South. (search)
failure of his Lordship's mission, and the causes which led to it. In the course of his remarks he said that it would be very impolitic in the British Government to enter into a war with the Chinese. They could easily beat them at first, he said, but they would teach them how to fight, and when they had one learned their numbers, that they would become the most formidable people upon the face of the earth. Part of this prediction seems to becoming true. If the first war undertaken by England against China, about twenty years ago, her operations were confined to Canton and its vicinity. Her men-of-war easily sunk the wretched junks that attempted to oppose their advance, and her troops quite as easily dispersed the Chinese forces armed with matchlocks or bows and arrows, many of whom threw somersets and uttered terrible yells, helping, in their semi-barbarian ignorance, to frighten them from the field. The English troops could afford to laugh at their antics, and to boast that
The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1860., [Electronic resource], From Paraguay. (search)
Exhausting the soil. The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin remarks that in no country has the exhaustion of the soil been so rapid and so marked as in this country, the exhaustion prevailing alike in the Northern, the Middle, and the Southern States. The warning voice which Humboldt addressed to England, and to point out to her the inevitable consequences of the exhaustion of her soil — where more is done, probably, to replenish a single county in that country than to replenish any one of the States of this Union--might be received with tenfold emphasis in a land from which the woods have scarcely yet been cleared away, which we are depleting and robbing every day of its elements of vitality. In New England, says the Bulletin, the product of wheat fell off in ten years, from 1840, fifty per cent., from two million bushels to one million, and the decline has been going on since. If it is said that this is owing to the natural barrenness of New England and the diversion of indust