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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 2, 3 January 1870, Page 2

An old woman named Celeste Le Noir v has just died iv New Orleans, who served in the great Napoleon's army, and was told by Napoleon, "My pretty girl, if you were not a womau, I would make a colonel of you," *' A blind, oyster-like, local patriotism, constitutes the pride of the mere savage. But a cultivated beiDg carries his country with him wherever he goes. He kuowg that the suu shines on other regions as well as his own; that the earth bears fruit as plentiful. He is aware that tbe elbowroom which is denied bim in one hemisphere is amply allowed him in another, and he feels confident that, to whatever shore he may be wafted, his own energy and endurance will be sure to carve out for . him a better existence than he could contrive ia his own overcrowded community. Hence, at all titiies, the freest, bravest, most enlightened races — those among whom the notions of self-dependence had .most widely and most deeply spread — haye been the colonisers of the carth — the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, -the medieeval Italians, the Spanish, and Portugese, the Dutch, the English. Close upon as follow those Teutonic and Scandinavian races which are nearest to us in kindred, and among whom practical popular education has made the greatest progress."