SIM Eli =I C..Fa.REA:D H.H. FRAZIER,T,DITOit§:-: t. Fa the indeptiarnt itepuhliran. Tlii: BY N OB tell Ili; olio can thtliotif. That ticett and hidden spring;, The heart, theAutnan heart, '. - -That strange tnit•Steriens thirb Vain, rain thy ca-erg effort,' ' Thou canst net tell Ma-deep; ?( , 3r what briliit :geips bt 'beauty Parbiticath its waters sleep.; An] tho' so calm and May seem its placid That. not one Wave teeling - Thy ii-atchlui eye can. trace'; Facedown hew:7lth the surface , •-• Are waters *jth - nnieashig t3 llo - ; deet, and inir c Aty • And oh. that secret spring kr:viler nifty 'aeon to be; - When it cloth guLsh the warm it, - And gu-slies.bitt ter titre. teli me i wii;a tan iatifire ' . That deep'. and hidden spring, - The heart, the hunian heart; , • 'Thar Strange rn:l-SteriOus thihgti SeptAGth; 1818; . _ From atf.Y. E, Courier Equi 'THE FOUNTAIN Or YOITTIL . . • 1 •-' tlorida. • Lose before a Efiropean trod the Soil. of Florida; and its Very existence rasa mere .spetalattonimen's the attention of . tile Nil WOrld Wa?., direetell to it by strange sad stirring reports of its wealth and*heanty. *. •Its shorts were, invested with balomfAoinanee. There i iiere inysteridus •aci-oitntS Of its 'rich stores of Untold Wealth; et goitre streams whose etcar•d,,,eptits flaShed.l with diamonds - ; of majestic rivers' lined With ' pearls ;.o . f rich:in barbaric splendiir ; of paiiides rivaling, in-magnificence those of •the laces; and of:an Attee, ell-Mist:lon more siiperb and imposing -than • the: Weirla. had.. thin }:morn. more ,straitge,. more.-atir riii!,- than all else, was the:tale of the exist.' cue of the fabled fonntains or the old Ilea - then, - ,Nlvtliolegy, • whose Wondrous wafers elehry the marek of time, and stop the - prgress of deiay. tine .to tinge. and he who was bowed with yetifSind Weaknesses would . red aO•in the waritistideof youth and health in his veinsi and the zmpple strength_ of his manlier years renal. - Here. — Grace and t•auty might renew their charn.,,ainidlealth ar.d*;', oath become i mort...t 1:4110 best blood in old :I,zNin. Was fired. It nights made -teious b'y Ore- conquest of fern, left again their high-born dairies and their Andalusian hrtieS to 'achieve the proud title of " . Lin From the hardships, priva tions, the hostilities and sicknesses, of that 111-starred expedition scarcely one of •those brac'e men - returned.' The glories and splen. . k fairimil- diva f•-re the fearful, realities. which they experiL tor'ed. • The woridrous•watera of the *peipet rai fc'entain : maid riot restore strength and viant to bodies wasted by • starvation and • d,-ease. The "Land - of FloWers" gave her bosom only, fur their dead. *--• - • • A few days sfricel returned from a Visit to this famouslouittainZA.can vouch for its existence.. I suppose that. the efficacy of its I miraculous virtues has 1011g* 'since vanished. But its beauties ire so extraordiriery, and its, :whole nature so 'anomalous as to excite in the beholder no Ifttle admiration and, wonder. • "WshallarSprings, for se, the Indians ehris -, tened them, are situated - sixteen miles south,. from Tallahassee. They form the sources of RiVer, which, flowing directly' south twenty miles,-mingles with ihe..waters of the great Gulf. The springs,- covering an urea of some two hundred yards n eiream _fereliee. , are entirely - embosomed in a 'dense forest cf oak*ntid cypreSses, whose 'limbs ire hun4 with banners Of grey 'moss, Which . give a solemn, - sombre appearance to the sur roundings: - From the *shore you remark at once the SingulaeelearnesS'ofthe waters and • Zistinet:COli.Z . s of ,blue, aria, green which fearer in patches itsSurfaee: -.By means of a tough scow and a ;stalwart - negro at 'the sweeps, our party - Was soon afloat. - a ripple curled the smooth surface. , Stretched • • at-length upon the snioutli boards, Wegazed down into the `limpid depths; . By. actual meastirethent the hottom* Was two hundred and - eighty feet below us,•yet we could dis tinguist the min'utest .object: there. with the utmost precision. A hit of silver in gentle t4,d alto ions, Slipped.. tcthe -bottom, and tip - pared undiminished in Size., At times the N,yilite sands Were &eked:with :darteing shad , ews, or When at rest were tes•kireted iwith . Ituesof - every variety 4:d shade. Shells: and fialtesof mica radial ;d like prisms:, Insiorne Ilace¢ immense trees ..v• ere reclining upon ,'•, beds moss 'like giants a; rest. There-were* elevations and depressions, .huge ranges of rook, "and willeyS stretching in, pensive quietness betwerenl" There were abrupt precipices andloppliQ -:•crags "Lich overhung which no pluni-, ' fritA has. yet sounded, 'MoS_es and, water 'plants severed Other„ places, like forests of I"..rns. Therwaved their 'tops ns ffttitid I p) . .a.gviitle breeze. And there Were vast ••'• 'reops of fishes whose home %life we could inrik in upon Witbzut bras* • - of - etigiiette:— They seemed entirely Unconcerned; looking up at- us-With perfect indifference and - Moving tilentk en into the mossy forest beneath. A 'dozen yards distimt Was.•an ugly-looking: - alligator who eyed us wistfully.On a'near- . er approach be grikdually spuk . into the wa ter and disappeared -from, view in a bed of rushes. While - skirting alongtlieborderswe • vanie over the bones Of a Inastodop which we 'udged to be about eighty _feet_ beltiw •the, . surface. ThbY °lnsisted of portions of the _ • Jaw bone, with-SeVeral of ;he teeth in good preservatioe. SeYeral years since a gentle . Wan in thiS vicinity, by oteans:'of-4 - marine' - utheir, sueceeded ht recovering alargeigutin, My of these.bories., They are very calcare ous and crumble easily by, ,exPostire to. the air. These Springs are-no ordinary cut:lost, To the natural let and the man of science they sfford a 'subject for iavestigettion and\ interesting exploration. Thesonibre forests, • the cloudless heavens, the strangezwater fowls, assocmted'as they are with the. enjoy menu end plettWttrieS of a delightful party, will not sooii4ade frominy memory. lar The-best dsseription of weakness we have ever ,heard cotitained.., in the wag's query to: his wife, when she gave him some thin chicken broth, if she would not try to coax that chicken to wade throegi . the coup QWi • " • . • .., • • s , •" „ •y, ; '4l; • . ' • .• ai -'" qtr _ .1 • • • • t - ' • - • , . tintuieit Powers—tow to Keep. the Balance. A foie revio.Ornf a wtirk bk - a German with `bilge 7.narne—Ernest von Feuehterleben— gives .some thoughts on keePing . between all 'the powers Of The nAra and body. for instance i i~ Ono • 01 the most striking truths, indeed, irei•ettleif in. biography, is the- al need 'Of entire activity iii the functions of. the Mind, n—the actiop and reaction of.everY sentiinent 'and gift off oatnature; each; when • over-exp(oilitees a Morbid state of ke::lina• 'Whentotally neglected asserts itself. with a e - 4 ' VettllCM. thcongruotts force_ Let loose the votary Of a lienited•pnisuit„and .to what sin opPsite sphere.his mindinstantly reverts! The favtirite topib seamen 'on the ocean is ittral like; We have,neyei Itni.4n t sliipinas-. ter, howeve,r fund of his profession, Whose dream of the future was not a plage in the ; country andthe oversight of acres and herds. Statesmen; too, - from the not less agitated ; seas of pollt ins, tool( forward •to, and, releice in I the same ideal ..'An oVei'PliiSot fatiobintion drove Dr. Johnson - to his cat conviviality ; a reaction fe ar the intensity of reflective - eino thin inspired - Byron to fight in drecee. There are no hillS to-satisfy the the pie tiliTs_que in the. Low Countries — , and therefore, Idle Dutch sciught,in cojni• •A'clat natirre denied thei4t ih Made tip hy.tbe Nalit , `gated • ; splendor of -their - tulips for tne Rose*. of . .sesnic.divergitv • London: authors and artists, create the niost viyid - ,intilriors and pay the: most subtle to tiatnra tinder. a Cloudy; . .sky and in hitittlii a* , 4hile the-trop ical gehiii,s, bathed in die luxgries of cli `mate, eXpiinds its .energy in superstition t and vague Paul,.Joires; the lieu) °Saes permb battles ; heed Tboinson's SeaSonii; - - Bonaparte, whose greatest skill lay in material success, found his literary recrea tions in the wild rhapsodies Of. Ossian. It has become a proverb in -1 ,- ranee, tliet the Women mast successful.in the Oioii end tliar career by the most rigOrous devotion. Met apliysical Kant cheered himself with birds, I and our must laborious arid venerable jusi4 t irsed to steal aWi - ty lo the barn, and, recum bent cm -A bay mow, watch-the swallows - in the eayeS. Washington's first letters., after he had Sheathed his sword and retired to Mount. Vernon, allude to tire. strange feeling with which he awoke in the s morping and -realiied that'he had•no mareli to plti,.forage. to sap_ ply, and Military or civil duties to method-. ize ; and ,he soon began a systnnaticrigeletil- . tura! life ttit.silbstittite *rialiona-I duties. Sydney Smith talked - nonsens/ after ivriting-2 a 'chapter of moral philosophy ; and Ed:nuud I Keep used to - turn somersets after - perforrn ire, Lear, tilde Matthews, hav, ! 'ng kept the •Park Theatre in a roar all the evening, would aross the river and take a lonely midnight. alk, 'absorbed in melancholy reverie, along its harks. • •T„has ftblices Imo strong cretracters .settlt the , 'of-contra:it, and so preeerve the wholesome (,balance of the-mlhd and es"....epe the conse , quences of unused powers, such as drive weaker temperaments to despair or absurd ; ty. " The play of the mind between humor ;,rid :p4thos saves it from b i lling - morbid in tither - direetion. "Neat'ly all great writers who appeal ; strongly `-to • reflection - and sentiment, have ~.'Combined humor and pathos, Shakespeare, the best - English bards and novelists, the most delicate and intense artists,—Burns, Cowper Mood, and Lamb,—the most come • plete-antr genial men, 7 -Sir Thomas Afore. Jeremy Taylor, Sydney Sinitli e ,are familiar:. examples: The grim truth of Flogarth, the treechantsatire of Swift, and the classic pre eision of Addison; are each modified in del eame way. These opposite and alternate el. ements cooperate to prevent the mischief •nnused powers in genius; and where this ;not the - case, the . popular impression is iihr- rowed. , "National.defeets often result from unused powers ".The loft civic inertness to which the • Italians -have been consigned t by despotic rule ; habitually restraining executive talents and fOstering'„evasis e instinets, has keptin abeyance tho 4 faculties whin - find scope in public duty. and brought into sad relief mi , nute, superfiebil, and limited views, making intrigue, take the place of comprehensive and_ frank developtnent. The inordinate_ fl - df-de- Peridence and material activity of our y mine Wi.,:tern communities, .on the oth - er hand. deaden 'reverence 'and ideality. We once asked a prdperous emigrant . frum the Ea-f. who In college had given promise of a high nr'd refined intellectuality, what was the, re sult to his nature of tin years' residence in one of those new and flourishing to*ns of the 'West. 'As retards what is called success,' hereplied, .` rrk wildest dreams have been more than realized ; -but when 1 think what 1 am•now anti was when I left New England, l'sladder at the eclipse of those:thental.aspi rations which invested' consciousness With a kind of prophetic glory.'• Luxury in France has bred an invincible.trust in money, to ac t quire which the old chiS:alrie tones or the Gal lic mind has been subdued to a material let : el that thrives on• Phse. What Emerson calls the 'pluck' ofthe English character, by oveilay.h . g the sympathetic, has made.ungra c'ously 'prominent the self-preserving and self ,assertit g qualities. -Give play to manly• en ergy. in the Italian, to taste and veneration in the An, erican, to magnanimity and' truth in the krOneh, and to7humane refinement itrthe : British character,—in a word, call into se tion tyeir unused powers as :a national s iin 'pulse, and 1.1)e same complete -and grateful charm which we sometimes celebrate vidnals would redeemri and glorify a people. DANDIES - GOOD FOR SOMETIIngo...--The Au tocrat .0 : Oie Breakfast Table, in one of his . recent 4 r- pen_ touches,". thus discourses:— " Dandies are not good for . much, - .but they are good_ for something. They invent or keep in-circulation those cOnverstitional blank checksz.or counters, just spoken of, &referring to the contra use etslang or liashlphrases) which intellectual capitalists may 'sometimes find it Worth their while to borrow of them, They are too, in. keeping up -the stand ard of drept, which'but for them would de- Actiorato, and become What some old fool . would .have it, a . matter of convenience and not. of taste hod art, Elevens' sescitur non ' fit.''man is barn a dandy,-as he 'is ixwn a poet. There are heads: that 'can't wear hats; there are necks: - that can't fit- cravats; there ',are jaws 'that can't fill- out collars ; there are movements nothing can sUbdue to the gracious suavity, or- elegantJapgor, or stately. serenity, lielnnre Atfi r djirptent , . • H FREEDO BURNING OF THE iTEASER AUSTRIA.- • The Fatal Voyage. The Austri IA as commanded by Captain lleldttnann, a able and much esteemed offi cer. She isnown to have sailed from Hatri -41 burg on the Ist of September, and from • Southtimptonifor New torit -on the 4th.—z• .I,ler destruction must have occtirrl about the 14th or liith, as on the iiifter ay the ,onrning, *ln was seen by; pie Rosenheath. When she eft tiambny sae had 4 men and women a id 19 children in the Ist cabin ; 1-03 men . and women and S children in the 'ld cabin i anl 9.11 men and wOmen and 30 children as. s eerage passengers—:nuking in all 420. The , , crew consisted of about 100 perons ; bes,des which she may have taken at: . outhanipton some 50 or_6o extra steerage passenger g ; =hind in all 550 souls. We learn that the Consig"nees are'in some ,doubt about Ole number Of 'steerage passen gers, as oneitbeir letters from Hamburg states the nut Iherat only 220. The Austria had clght life boats, which could not contain any th4lol likeithe witnteer of passei . Ters she: had on Wart . DEC'S. IFTION OF TILE A UST RI A et the N. r. Hera id . , the Aus tria teas one the nen • si ea ron'At nt the only e'sta.di-hed litre between New y„rk and rlamhur.2, :called respectively the Sax nia,dhe onri Ihe Thminooa. Tire two first mentio n ed vessels ue i e t.0::11 7 Fie s;thileir of ea At other, and were hililt at the Clyde, near Glasgow. expressly for thekbusi• nets isithicb thee arc now em,aged. The Austriii was !rather lafger than ift%,gaxonia. aria t‘ as ah to accommodate ;the greater number of passengersi Her burden was 42.- 550 tons, length over all. 345 feet, her width lICTOSSI the beam toils 10 feet, and the distance front the promenade deck to the bot tom of her l4did, 50 feet: Site was alitio.t entjrelf:r composed of iron, not even the s;rtn•. chalms berm , of She was rig , :ed a s a V , at :me. and cmdd carry a .. .vast aliv;;:lit canvass. Ilerinachinery .wa4 on the newe-t. most approNted and most plan, , and her prieller was driven by what is term. s i ed by engineers a steam hammer ena,hie.-- the Austriallevl mr.deeks, none of which 1 wits a spar (tuck. They were a . promrnade deck, main deck, and lower deck, and each thcm was - dqvided from the one nett to it in - ; :Amore than' ordigiary distance. Her model and : general appearance was more tha.: of a mattniloth xacht than an ordinary steamship. Iles extentf,ng prow was ornamentedby an el egaptly; seal inn red ' rezre , tenlat iOn c,f the dont:le-headed eagle of the Austrian empire. and every fart of her exterior was plainly tastefully completed. fler internal fn. rangements were admirably suited to Main tain health uid comfort among her passen ger.. In the first Cabin fifty-roar passengers and cabin NT. , V'ere accommodations fin- 117 w 1111 e the slecra! , "o IIII0I:14 . (1 . a n ph. taxis for upwards t.,1 - 100 third I sell gers necoln m oci Cl:p ass e MID Nll-sniThtis.l two yearl •tt Monday, down just amused hi playing wi vil, an En Southamp Hum, a r at the tim ts.l by son inolunly . to aseerta dlarin,Avl i;;cin U room, an r•ame up ; the ail pa Captain a on time. lowed by (.-lire tin the Capta J we are al Jul V.' TIS sears MT: remote Captain, rna.ter.. put the s cccl in male board ap, I lieurzeh ed in lo others -swooned cnnsuvll of btinu; numher can boar enough -sel.:eq, EMI the say iu rum ME CI amn MOM'? n,aaamilr @LavER - v amp znaomaani AIONTROSE, THURSDAY,_ OCTOBER 7, 1858. ißil I kIENT or NIL - lIENItY A. F-YITI.I ry Au?uttus Sough ; of Cholsca , tts. who titer an ab:enee of about i 1 ~m lion e, w'as returning ;0 tho i `:user. ss s;that after d;tnier tea, opt. 13, 1 e - clone on, deck and sari AIM() t smoke-staek, where he ; self fur about half an ,hour, in • h one ofihe children of Mrs. INI. ,lish lady, who came on board at 'oil. A gen &Imam by the name 'of i i sident of Brooklyn, sat by his side • when the cry of " fire." was rais- i le persons forward. Mr. -Smith ktrang to his feet and ran foru'arl 1 whether there was any cause fur Iqt he discovered a volume of snap i ^ outfit the sky-light of the smilking- almost instantly. a-large flame he then turned to -go back toward It of the steamer, when he met the II told him that the steamer was 'he Captain It ; .tened forward, ful Mr. Smith, and on reaching the ap n7ll w ilia t he. li re was . as (' P 11 d i n ~. l i exc laimed " My. God 1. my God ! - lost 1" Every t how , ht. .was- then the best means otsescape frorn the t at, that tnoinent, as Mr. -Smith ling. the surface of the ocean for ic e of rescue, - he espied a vessel at distance. and ilointed out to tlr rho immediately rart.t:') the quartiAr -7 it was supposed. to instruct him to eamerahout and steer toward the sight. By this time the flank.: had h fearful progress that every one on , eared perfectly wild. Some gave 1 up to \despairat once; and engag ; and distressing-appeals of prayer ; !flaked -and screamed.; others again to become_ helpless, and almost un of the iawful fate that awaited them,' burned alive,- while but .a small comparatively of. the human beings had , ' presence of mind and firmness !o" go to work to save them- Ind .even those met with impediments 1 0 frequently qxist in' snub cases., to 1:g of life. , The buts, although ten er, capable of doing such effective Were found transfixed, as it -were, to ks on which they were kept ; as tho' been riveted to them with the ex that they would never' he required: -e, designed Ter the extinguishment of . out of order; nod the Captain, in. orlt,anizing'his'oflictrs and crew lip. c nefion in attempting to extinguish es, and, if- deemed 'impraetieable, in the'boat's_and in something like sys order endeavoring to transfer ale. ers ,women.and children first, to the }u zight, ivas.observed running about it( lathe vessel, apptireutl yin; wild and .e of selfeommtind as the most igno nigrant ott board. Children, were trod der foot by the elder,. unfeeling pas - some ran up aloft...into the rigging, ;,h they would be saved in that way ; I I wan ' began to dOff their heavy cloth- id 4 literal° prepare themselveafor the .orteejuinpin6overboard and running of-being picky. up. -Mr. 'Smith stood. r -a -few moments, undecided what to pursue, having -never before been, in so. -perilous a situation. While !.nteroplating the chances of savim•his [observed -the mate and a few patisen ;ito conld . speak the , English language, l .orinti totet . the &St boat off on the I 'd .e- • ' ft e, This movement-gave him some f effeetinglis eseape, and he immedi ran to the mate and Oornmeneed assist- In to let the hhat,:.vittich , Waif - one- of El lIIIS Francis's life-boats, opt of the cheeks: Just before the boat could-be moved from.its po sition, some twenty to thirty. persons took their seats in it,-and all the arguments that were used'to get them- out until the boat could be let t dowp, not only proved unavail ing,, but others crowded into it, increasing the Lumber to about fifty. Under these *cum stances the tackle was cut, and (limn went the boat NVith its !mem freight into the wa ter ; and when it came un again, it did so with a reduced number of occupants--from ten to fifteen having lost their hold, and the boat passing, rapilily toward the stern of the steamer, those who had fallen oVerimard were stecessartly left straggling in the water. No sooner laid the host sot fairly righted, than the' waves cansed by the propeller of the steamer cdpsized it ,again, tty • which occur.: rence the number in the boat was further re. duced. After dropping some distance astern of the steamer, the mate and those gentlemen who were co-operating With him in: its' man . aeoment,llien tried to free it from water by bailing it. out with their hands; but making very little progress toward neeomplishirig that object ; tit aecnrdance with', the suages thin. of Mr. Smith, the men divested them selves If . at's , i threW overboard all their chill ing. except such artit4s an were necessary to rover their -persons. But the water in the I~lneat tout t_ ! , r , to the gunwales ; she naturally sunk very low, and ::as, consequently, -al• most unionnageal de, because the'rew oars on heard could not he used With any eflitet.— The mate then se t crested the idea of intention-,1 ally ear;sizing the boat. and by some maneu- Y'-r. which he explained in English to those who understood him, try to _free the boat front some of the water. The expedient re, =tilted in the loss of about ten of the pa-ssen vers. sente . of wheni were too much exhaust ed to regain their hold of the boat-, while oth ers, owing, t;; thejr exhausted state, were una 7 We'. to hold themselves Up in the boat, and were drowned. . 1 The hark, which was • now coming ibewn toward 'them with a fair, but light breeze, began to be very plain in sight. When they tool: nitt Srtrne shirts and ehlorj-d handkerchiefs. fitstened them to an oar, and raised it up as a signal !o the.hark ; but, as it was then getting dusk, nest of the party be r:m to despair. The mate made a remark to the etreet that they; acre then probably seeino the sun set for the last time, trod the - majority -evidently believed sneh , to be the ease. The mate said that there 'was one more chance left fee them to try, if they lik ed to try it ; and that was, •fo have every one. except a young Bohemian girt, who had., heen badly burnt, get tout of the - boat, and: place the oars across the boat in such a man-, ncr as they could he taken hold of by thoS'e in the water to,a_id them in buoying them selves up, and pen, by_ keeping their 'legs and - feet in mourin, proilirl the boat and them selves ,This exocoriment tannimtmiore progress was made. About this time 0ne.:61 the Austria's pas's engeis was observed in the water near coed, lie was picked up, having suereede :tscapira from the steamer with a tile- re servera tin,tube about twenty InehZ's lo g. This the preserver suggested a new idea ? and a very happy one it proved to be. It was eat in two by the aid of a knife, and with the twn scraps thus forrited the water was ;win bailed out of the boat, when much het ter progress was made, and shortly after,- ward,-i in' quarter-master. who had saved him , s ekt by the application elan oar as a life ; preserver, was also picked tip, when the oar ' was likewise at, once rendered available in the pronnlsiori of the boat. Thee. with joy ful hearts, the whole party exerted them selves to the utmost. Mr. Smith took one oar ; Mr. Murrav'ot Alexandria, Va:, anoth: er; the mate at third. and several others fol lowed suit and putted vigordusly to the ves sel, Which proved to be the French bark Maurice, which they hailed, - were taken cin hi'ard, and supplied with food and : an awning shelter on deck fnr temporary, tecommoda tion, The vessel had hoisted lights to guide the wrecked' passencers-to it. Thus twenty• lour passengers. more than one-third of the entire number rescued, succeeded in saving themselves in this boat, after a perilous ex posure of nearly six' hours. ~ Shortly after reaching the bark, Mr. Smith went to lent; after tie lifeboat by which he had 'heen'saved, with a view of seeing wheth er it could not be. rendered instrumental in savin't! 'Alters whoseemnans and cries in the water for rissi.taneiAsitild bp heard, when he di,e q vered that the boat was missing. and learned that the oars had ,been brought tin board; the hawser cut, and the boat - allowed to go adrift. This movement on the pact, of some one is involved in some my;tery. The boat was.not injured in the least, and Va. ltie..of.domr: good service in saving life; And a crew to man it would doubtless have been found, had an,efflirt been made to do so. The wife and child of one •of the passen gers saved by this boat were drowned in it before the water was hailed out, they being too much-exhausted to hold up. •' The bark lay by the steamer all night in hopes of - saying more of her unfortunate passengers. Mr. Smith appeared ,, V. be . of tie opinion that there was wholesale Les of human life through mismanagement, and want of some person - of sufficient tv and iirmMss of nitud on board , to com mand obedience. i r-Fr Rest -7481: there is much in that word which is significant at ail times; nor, 'sinOe the world began, have greater sacrifices been made for freedom by the conscientious and the:bold, than have been made for rest by 'eV'en th e virtuous and the well-intention ed. It is scarcely unnatural that it should be so. Political struggles of a greatFcharac: ter are for the future rather than for the present, as the petty bquabbles of party poi. iticiens are for the present and never for the future. The-people who hkve suffered most 'in these great struggles are precisely those who reap the least.—Foster's - ' Statesmen of the Commonwealth o/ England, ro i — Old Mrs. Chickerberly says, she thihks it very dr9ll, that the 4th of July sho'd so often come no Sunday, or Sundays come so often on the 4th of July—she isn't sure which—and she says that 14.. Buck buinon, or the COugresalature; ought tu.do something about it. In her opinion; it takes all Sheol& fisAiioned.sperit and patrickism out . of_theAtk of Independence to have it come so—thiimix ing up of holidays and holy days; thislooking lit the minister when your mind is.running on ' malicious officers With feetteri in their caps; I and trying to sing psslins when one is all the time. thinking of"' Yankee • 1.41, 4, 0 3 - . . . , From the St. Louie De„Twat. The Late Balloon Ascension in Illinois— Authentic Particular's: The startling story of the late frightful as• cent of two small children alone in a• bal loon, has naturally excited some incredulity, which, in turn, has been increased, by 'the rather diverse necpunts given of the event. But the retnru to our city of the aeronaut; Mr. S. M. Brooks, enables us to give an' au thentic 'confirniation and true version of the thrilling narrative. This gentleman kindly i n for h is us - substantially as follows : Ile was to have ascended from. the Fair (-hounds at Centralia on Friday-, the 17th inst., but finding hiniself unwell, accepted the offer of 'another . aeronaut, Mr. Wilson, wlio, volunteered to take his'place in the - balloon. Mr. Wilson effected a beautiful ascent, at 54- p. m., floated . westward mid then south-east ward, rising two and a half miles, and at about di. p. -m, descended, sixteen miles south-eastward of the starting' point. -- Tie was caught ,by a tree about forty- fi ve rods from the farm-house of Mr. Benjamin liar. vey. The spot is some two miles and a half from Rome, Jefferson county." Mr. Harvey and his family,and others, gathered, and dis entangled the air-ship. They then pulled the car to the ground and some boys held the ropes as the voyageur alighted, and 'yi•hiledie was drawn off in conversation witic- , . the in. quisitive people, the balloon was 9 towed" to the house, and Mr. Harvey prepated to. have some sport-by 'rising the length of the I rope, to be pulled down. Proving too heavy to rise s he stepped out and put. in Mir three children—a lad of three war's, a girl of eight, and astill older , girl. At this point Mr. Wilson called out to those holding the ropes to be sure and hold fast. But the thretc Children were too heavy, and the eldek, was taken 'out. At' this instant, through the un watchfulness of the personssat the cords,'the balloon suddenly and very swiftly went up ! The anchor struck in a rail fence, but it tore away, while a cry of horror burst from the agoniZed group. The children screamed With horror, and the piteous. appeal, "..Pull me down, lather 1' as it instantly, grew fainter and fainter, rendered the parents, and indeed all present, for-the time perfectly frantic.— It was now past 7 o'clock, was, becoming dark, and the balloon was soon lost sight a. A. period of more intense wretchedness to the parental heart can scarcely be imagined. As-there was little wind, the balloon-,had gone almost directly upward, till its disap pearance in a south-easterly course. 'Mes sengers were dispatched through the region in every direction;and the alarm spread rap idly, creating everywhere the niost intense excitement. In all, quarters the men and , boys rallied in parties to scour the country and search the woods, in the expectation that ihn riptima _would, sometyherellescend and . . e subjected to te perils of rowning, or else of starving undiscovered. At Centralia, the -intelligence caused an in describable sensation. The popular anxiety —almost rig:)ny—ealled out Mr. •Brebks. who assured the people that the balloon wo'd probably descend within two or three hours, and within at Most. thirty miles of the point of starting. He also sent to the distracted parents‘the best assurances possible in the ease, informing them that there would be no danger except from a descent in "the woode,- 'w-hen the children might be with ,difficulty *found, end from the older child's first step: ping out and-.leaving the younger again to rise. Apart from these perils,, n themselves improbable, Mr. Brooks apprehended no danger to the little voyagers., Yet the idea het came current that they mustencounter a frie id atmosphere which they could not survive. . It was ali - lut 3_o'clock on Saturday morn ing that Mr. Ignatin Atchison,. living on Moore's prairie, eight miles from Mount Vernon, got up, he says, and went- out upon his porch " to, see the blazing star"—the comet. Arkimmensespecter rising from a tree, about twenty yards distant, rather ap- ' palled him, and he reentered the house, and waked his family. On his coming out again, •ri -weak and piterius voice called to him from i the specter, " Come-here and let us 'down ,•, I we're almost froze !" , Mr. Atchison s speedi ly perceived the astonishing nature. of the chse, mustered help, cut away se'veral limbs of the tree, and drew the car in safety to the ground I The little'boy was lifted out, and when placed upoi' his feet instantly ran for several yards, then 'turned, and for a. moment con templated the balloon with apparently in tense curiosity. The little girl. told their sorrows and adventthes with an almost brok en heart, to these people, who strangely in. deed,-had not heard of The disaster. - A messenger arrived at' Mr. Harvey's, .eighteen miles distant, at 2 p. m., ' with the transporting-tidings that the children were safe., We Will leaVe it to our reader's-heart to suggest the joy which the intelligence caused. It was late in the afternoon when the little ones arrived and were clasped once more in the embrace of their parents. The happy resulrwai received in Centralia and announced ,on Sunday morning in the churches amid' ecstacies of joy. The child ren Were brought there on Monday, and wel- Corned with rim firing of Cannop and- a ,gen- • era( jubilee. •Photogre portraits of arm Were:taken by Mr. WI B. Matthews,- ar.' tist in Centralia, and a vfkriety of presents were made to them. Tha\girl is named Martha Ann, and her little 'brother * David Isam. She says that he soon • .s'ed • himself to sleep, and that, she cried till she slept a' t. little, and thin awakened. in the tree Mr. Brooks affirms that the halloo must have descended by 11 o'clock of.- i !day \ night,. and hence hhd remained, in the tree ill its discovery through the 'kindness of "th - blazing star," and the astronomical wakeful ness of-Mr. Atchison. •••• - ... Mr. Brooks has the photographic portraits of the juvenile adventdrers, Which we sup pose may soon be seen by all-the curious at the St. Louis Musettrn. : • . - A 001 ONE.—Davy Crockett happened. to p sent at an exhibition of wild animalti, sot e time ago - in the city of Washington, where a monkey seemed to attract his par miller attention, and he abstractedly observ ed " If that fellow had oo a pair of spectacles he ,wenld look like Major Wright, of Ohio." Tho Major happeaed to - be just behind Crockett, and tapped Davy on the. rloulder. Turning around, Davy very krmallY re. marked "_lll be hanged, Major, - if I know, whose pardon to 35k, yows or the monkey's.. 1 ~ H . "fitAZIER, PUBIASIER,:kO:*'AZ I,- NO:. 40. EducaUonal. - 1 Editor. M. 3.. GORSE, "Learning by study must be teon ; - tea!-neer entairdfroOt dire to son." Gtnt'pel Bad Grammar. . . isTr nniusi,ng to oliservi the,hroad 'nf demarkation which exists between vulgar . ad. grammar, arid genteq had 'grammar, and OA characterizes the violation of alinost every rule: of 'syntax. : The vulgar speaker uses adjectives instead of adverbs,' and says, "This letter is-written shucking the gen- teel :speaker uses adverbs instead 'of adjee lives, and says, 0 This Writing looks shocking. t ly." TheTerpetrato's of the hitter Offence. may fancy they can s h ield themselvss behind the grdmmatical Jaw hich compels the,,etn. ployment of an adverb, not . an• ailjettive, to qualify a verb, and behind the first' role Of syntax which says, "a verb must agree with its nominative." BM ivhichis the nomina.. live in the expression ,alluded to ? Which performs the act Of looking, thei-]writing or the speaker? . To say that a thing looks when tralook at It:, is an idiom peculiar to . our lan. gunge, Ind some idimits are bot reducible to rules-; they are .converitional terms, Which pass current, like. bank notes, for sterling' they represent, but can not be submitted to the test of grammatical alchemy. It is imp-rop er, therefore, to,say "The queen looks beau tifully," "The flowers sniell sweetly," "This writingloOlis ~ h ockingly ;" because it is the speaker that performs the act of looking, smelling, Sze., not the no looked at, arid though, by an idlomatical construction neces sary to avoid cireorclocetion; the sentence imputes the act to the thing beheld, the quali fying word mtistexpress the quality" of the thing spoken: of, adjectizrely, instead ,bf_qtrali lying the act of the nominative understood, adverbicilly . . ' What an adjective is to a-nodn, an adverb is to a verb, and an adjective ex presses the quality of the thing, and an ad verb the manner of 'an . aetion. Consider. what it kryou wish to . ex press," the quality of a thing ; or the mariner of an action, and use an adjective or an adverb accordingly.. But beware that you'diseriminate justly ; for though you cannot say, " The queen looked majestically iit, her robes," because, here the aet of looking is by the spectator who looks at her,you canand*usisq,y, "The ,queen looked graccfally on the petitioner," "The queen looked I nercifidly on his prayer," because here the act of looking is performed by 4he queen. You cannot Say, "These flow ers:smell sweetly,"' because it is you that smell, and not, the flowers ; but you can say, " These flowersperfume, the air deliciously;'- because it is they that:impart the fragrance, not you. You - cannot say," This dress looks badly," becaue it is you that look, nit' the ...),—...,.., , Lao' ,y oti eon c.._y ; 0 , Thin drczo•fitei , ,,a. ly," because it is the dress that performs the act of fitting either well or ill, There are some peculiar lidionis which it would be .bet ter to,, avoid if possible;. but if you feel-corn oelled to use them, take them as they are=-- you cannot prune and refine them by the rules of syntax,iind to attempt to 'do so shows "rimorance as well as affeetation.—A Word'to e Wise. . . 110:13 Improprieties of Speech :A common er,,,r may- be-observed in the use of the ohjective case of personal, pronouns . instead of the nominative. A It, ifignires 0( her friend.: " Who was that ,gentlemto , walking with you yesterday '?" • " . It was.mv brother, who 'has just returnedlrom Europe:" "I? thought it was him (he), from his resem blance to your fither." .attempted to surprise me this evening, but as soon as I heard a lady's step Iknew it was her . .she)." The words in parenthesis are of. course the , proper ones to-be used in these 'exprf4sions. I will not suppose that you are so illiter ate as to say "We done this," "-You. done that," instead. of." We' did ,". You did . that;." and yet this gross bltinder i too com mon even among personS *claiming -to have some education..: " I did it," or- "-I "have. done it," is a phrase correct in -its formation, its application being, of course_ dependent on other circumstances. "You . hadn'tsmiyhe to do it," is another blunder that we sornetitnes hear. "-You ought not to do it," is the cor rect phrase. Be. on' your - guard against - the, misuse of language. - • If correct habit4f speech are not -.formed in youth, vicious habits will be, and theie may be difficult to cure.. Person's, long after they have been taught better, have been knowit to strive unsuccessfully to break themselves of saying he done it, for he did it; you hadn:t -ought, for you - ought not; why don't uou lay do:on; for ?Ay don't - .0t lie down, &c. Some .welf-cdueated persons, through the power •Of long habit, will persist in using :thew instead of shouied, as' the pre-, terit,of show; as. he sinew- the - -boolc, . instead. of he showed line hook, &e. Shell) is used in one instance by; Shakspeare. I= _ . . . -' :-.4ff` We propose insertiiig in- our col uinns front time to time a few .. ,uestions, for • _the consideration of our Teachers. These. questions will relate to Gramirlar, Mathe- \ maticit, and.ineience in general. We desire our friends te:be -prompt in forwe'rding an- . savers, and'thus cooperate sigh us in render. ing_thia department interesting and inStruct ive. . .. _. • - - I.s there, p)6perly; any Subjunctive Mode, in English ? 'ifs°, how is it formed and dis tinguished_?- •• - Are,.all singular nouns and pronouns, and phrases and clauses - which 'are-used -as nouns, taken together, when united by the Conitine don and ; . (except when the nouns United-de= note the same object; when they aro preceded; 1 h4r eackeverk, or no,, and when the two no ninatiies connected ctn emphatically. ,dis. tin,, ished ;) or, in-Other woleds, is . .the ,•fo' 'own) sentence,torreet .1r - ' "One ey on death, and one:1 'Becomes ix cola and immort Pttoniz* 0. I.— . Wln circle around: - cinch a log in'diaineter atne . ,en - d ar would roll, and. erine .bm starting . Iraomma.-No.:2t-- -= The 'it Is'.ot . angar'is'so'less4 l barrels, and the cityon'l kore "thitti.the irrice'of t , is the value Of sager:oo' at selutiOn,li.required4 .-...- 114 tr In :"theabiltiti= l 3l 340'intutbitants-fori:.eyni Congress. : .• The great'deinanti . uPOn the teacher. for, ;- immediate 'esti*, and ilie4lnost:',.'universal tendency ,to pfdge:hlin'.4.:St4 results alone, „ constitute one-of the greateSt : olistiteles in the „way of an'aectirate atid.'therottg'h process in • education: A toble'beildirig;doenot spring itp, gaudy and7.Showy, " in . , a night . V,' . . quires long and 'severe and lunch care arid pains, to lay' firm and_ lasting- foundations _ for a sohatantial - -edifice:; and, ,for .1); 'long time, the labor rnakekpO'.show, and a care less .., Observer:A:night : suppose:it to be useless. The oak, theihiekory, and every other hardy -tree, come tri their maturity slowly . ; to one who .cannot Komi' to wait. their process of growth seerris - iidiefisiand fur less satisfacto- ' ry than that of the locust,cii the white pine. _So, it requires a longer -tine, and more ; pes,erve,ring ahcl ; intelligent labor on the part of a teacher, to_c4ucate a pupil in the literal sense of the term, to give trim the power" of _ - using hiS own flibltics and of thinking ' and • judging fur . lam Self, than .'are- necessary in giving him a Oro* drill: over . the pre scribed, pages °la certain hook, committing to memory a certnin number of rules or fact:, and learning the performance of certain see problems. And then the former kind of teaching makes less Show- at examination, thaq a ,glib, thoughtless recitation,.' where • ; every question is promptly put and prompt ly answered.: The result is 'less gratifying to those who judge front present appeatances onl'?; and so the philosophical, • pains-taking teacher is often condemned, while he who is willing to follow the beateu track of the book, like the horse grinding in the mill, gains the applause of unthinking paretitaiand, too often, of those 'alio should know better, - the Sehool Committee. Thus, we 'sacrifice permanent and valuable results for .a poor exhibition 'of word-memory.—.Massachasetts Teacher. . : The following suggestions of a••eon, .-ten}Rorary, which have lately - fallen under` our observation, are highly valuable, as we can testify from exper'ente :. _ , • .... "First ° , never use a writing - -desk or . table with your face toward a .window. In such , ease the rays of light come directly upon' the pupil of the eyes, and; causing all unnatural and forced ,eontraaion -thereof, soon perma nently injure the sight. I` . 4 . ca t, when 'your table or,desk is near a, windo -,. sit so that your face turns from; not ttowlrd, , the win dow while you are writing. I your -face. ,is toward the window, the oblique rays. strike the eye and injure it nearly as much as. the . direct rays when you sit in front, of .t win-. flow. It is best always to sit or stand, while - 'readily, or writing, with the window behind' . : Iysou,;. and next.to that,. with the light 'coming, ' . kiver your left side; then - thelight Mimes,. -the paper or book,. and 'does *not. shine .ab ruokly upon the eyelball,___ f-• . . . •'1 "The same remarks'are tipplieable to , ar-!.- Oficial light. We'are‘oftan asked what is the best light—gas,• candles, oil, or cam- . pheuel Our answer .is,'it is immaterial ' which, provided the light of either be strong: enough, anti does not, flicker. A gafrfislttall. - ' burner should never be.used, fog reading or writing, because there is a constant osdillatika.' , or flickering of the 4 me. . Candles, unless they-have self eonsu :ng,wicks, which do not", require snuffing', shoul ndt be used. ,We need scarcely say that oil-wicks,, which` crust over and thus. diminish . the light, aro geed : for nothing; and the same is' trim of Om-, pounds of the nature of camphene, uniess'the, wicks are properly trimmed of all theirgaml ").Y dr"Poslt ,44 ‘ , ” - standing twenty-four hont'S- . " But 'whatever the arttnew light•used,:lk it strike the-paper'or book 'hick Yo'iVarena i ing wheneVer you can, from over • the- left shoulder. This can always lie done.!:lwith gas, , for that light is strong enougl4And. SOS' the light from camphene, oil, &c. - , ,prpirided it comes through a-circular burner_ like the argaud. But the Tight, whatever it Jie,,sheinlk nivays bo protected from the air in - the 1•9(.0 7 .by a glass chimney, so.that the light - rpik steady." . , - - ' 4':::, ME „„ • • 4” „ =1 +. , 0 MEE NEETEIIi . . POPULATION OV THE GLOBE.-. 4.4 1414111": . 5::.::", gaished Professor of the University .Of lin, Herr Dietrich, has lately producidT4l:: per in regard to the. - world's poptilatiOriAkid - ; ' it is generally • believed that it is.lll44*ost , catefully prepared and most reliable.:': - .4`OW that has yet appeared on-this subject. tlilter:;;. - ... -'some detailed estimates in reiard to the - Ars -. 7. - .. great divisions of the world, he arrives ut:ihe - . conclusion that the present 4poi•alattOlv is about,twelve hundred and eighty-threi34mit-:: - : lions, as foit.esis : Population of Europe, 272,000,51944:: - 4:' , Asia, '720,000,090 ;''of Am,erica, - 2(k0,00,- - :,°„;• 990; of Africa, 89,0011,000; of....Aliefrillit' • 2.900,000: qotal,population of titiOrill , 1,284,006,000.• " . .1.- 7 ' . The average number of deaths per annum, 'in certain places where records'. nre.„ltept.„. -is . about one to every forty inhabitants. At the r `. present time, the - nutr.ber of *dcatirkinott leer 'would be about 32,000,000; - *hietCip'..morit - ... than the entire ;population of thk; . Uttited -, ...' States. At this rate, the avanige-nnrob'er.ot deaths per day. is about 87-,701.; ttift.steritge , per hour about 3,853; the - .ay ragitt. - pir min-- . - ate, 61.. Thus at_ ersst, eVeri Seddtitt a Ii:- .: matt` life is elided.' As the Inr hs'onnsideriti. .- bly exceed the deaths, there are probably 10 :'..-..., ror_SO human beings i born per toiritiy,:•, ' . ' ..' W . ' If you. with to keep your mson-the fitrtn, you must put inore.intelle**qoui , farming. A bright ~- mind, as Wel l tts work, fOr o tliet - 11,ift.c4 - 31era routine will, not - ssitisryktipeAt*Milt i : lie: ,willing to : work Viltert Oink, :411;1,4sit,hif*a' . : I Otherwise . you efirkit*ltepir - 314 - *liotriiii4; He will be oft ore ypir,4l44):•: -- :,..TWeie: lore, read:and thik;40.1w0e,0111:3444#41 - :-: ifig-itad thinking on":y9rjar,inff;;ToilfAiiiv Will stay with, yoit=tkieu::! 4 „-A - - - -. ' IMO OE M Ii . t. 1 WIN • 4 diktat - 4 Qin:o4 l ' WilL*4 ll lAti4eate 441, (0031 4 0 1 001014: Joloo4,.l.kst 'be A 0460 3 , ftthe *,,t. It ; is Al ihmk .110 4-
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