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171 Evans At New Orleans, fifteen hundred miles from New York, you get, in your morning paper, whatever was known in London yesterday of English & European news. And this department of an American American journal contains a great deal more than we, in this country, are in the habit of seeing in the Times & other English papers, as the messages brought to us by the Atlantic cable; because we want intelligence only from the United State, whereas they wish to get from us not only what is going on in England, but in every part of Europe, & in fact in every part of the Old World. unclear, day after day, whether you be in the centre, or thousands of miles away, at some almost unknown extremity, of this vast transatlantic region, kept well-informed as to what is passing over almost all the Earth, one feels that there are agencies at work amongst us which in some respects render "the wisdom of the Ancients" a little obsolete. Formerly it would have been thought impossible to harmonize such discordant elements as the North & the South, How could they ever dwell together as brethren, who were locally so remote from each other, that while one was basking in a sub-tropical sun the other was shrinking from the nipping frosts of the severest inter; whose institutions, too & interests, & antecedents had all been dissimilar; & where differences at last had broken out into a fierce & sanguinary war? Could they ever be fused into a single homogeneous people?