111 11 11 ME 111 1111 71••• - , F. READ (!fc H. H. PRAIEFt, .EDI'I'ORS.' From the Home Journal. NO or THE SEMNO-MACHINE. ni GEOILCii P. NO.TtRIII.- . • x the Iron Needle-Woman I • • • .. Wrought.of sterner stuff than clay ; . ~ %ILA unlike the drudges human, .1 li elks *pry night nor day; ['Never s be'ddiug . tears , of sorrow : . , ' Never mounung friends untr ue, • . Weyer-caring for dm monow; .., 1 . 1 ... NeCer begging work to.deo. • . oreitovert*brings no disasteri- 1. Merrily I - glide afong, . • Yor nst t4l l )l.l**.sordid master, : ' Ivey tor% mewrong : - ' I. extortioners oppress me - . - -, , No insulting words I dre a d-- IST no thikli.en to distress tw - L. With unceasing Fries for bread. ,• , - . m of hardy form and feature, 1 , For endurance framed aright; ' • ` ' I'm hot pale misfortune's creature; ." • Iltom'd.lik's battle here to fightt sine's a.song el' cheerful measure, • And no undercurrents how To destroy the throb of pleasure 1 Whickthe poor so 'Seldom know. ' I n the hall thold my station, With the wealthy ones of earth, o commend meito-the nation - 1 For economy and worth, • . [While unpaid the female labor; 1 . In the attie-channber lone, - Where the smily of friend or neighbor , -Never fortituoment shone. creation is a blessing ' / • To the indigent secured, :ani‘hin , * 's the cares • distressing . -Which so many hare endured: t• ine are sinews superhuman, Ribs of oak and nerves of steel—: I'm the Iron Needle-Woman = -1 . Born to toil and not to feel: HON. GAIIISHA A. GROW, or - PENN'SYLVANI*. - 's preparing _ bitTraphical :sketches of triinkent ststennen in the thirtv-fifth Con- eps, we are constantly reinitidea df'the.ad va4tages whielia Republic confers *pop en ; ergctie and gifted rneti,:who, born itr,compar iti. e obscurity, might, under eitherAortns of . overnment, never rise above the ttkly strife oridaily bread, and, aceompliahinglio grand- •r purpose thairwresting by tereer struggle • bare subsistence.- for themselves -and (mill ; ics; Would . piss On into the silence of name ess! obscurity "unwept; unhonored, :-hrid un- • ',mg,' If 'Congress may be taken as a trite= i ion, the Republic: h'is nut so gruttly degen erated after all ;. for. many of the most prom tqnt legislat'orS. in bOth .braneggs are men hose rare genius; intense appllcation,. in limitable wilf, and unswerving rectitude ' ri've einibled tinro,,yi,rise ' -.m - :4i's, •.. 1 )nch, the fiter.pry, : l ,g,e, and the (arm; tol the 'solid dfgnitY whieh, after ; all,Erniking, -still appertains. to' American• Senators and . lepresentative4._ • - -t - Artiongthost.• who In elevating themselves' •viiillustrated the - true, worth of our insti i ions, we must award ti - very high place to h• Hon. Gahisha A. Grow. Mr. Grow was' trn in Ashfoid, Windham Cminty, Connect- - iv t, on the 31t ~c 1 Aurrust,..• 1823. His fa er, Joseph Grow, did when the subject of his memoir was only three years of age ; 7 -- e l aving The mother to prov:ide for a ftimily, ) sit children, of ,whom four were sons.— /•e, youngest child was only thiee ininiths d at:the time of. this sad bereavement, ,q id settling up the.affairs of -the family, it Was und there was barely enough of property •,_ • v u•- •I_ _indebtedness.' Fortunately ~.-.',,,,,:-: --.. iv -• a Woman of • remarable, en- _ gy and decision of 'character; instead, therefore, of losing all courage and bemoan- ' ir i g Icier lot,,she gathered her little flock about her and removed to the residence of her fa ter, Captain Samuel Robbins, win; lived in Voluitown, - in the_same county. - Here she trade and far iug ; . :A ehgaged in nd, to her li h t cce nnor be it said, suede not only in pro viding for her young family,. but also accu mulated a surplus, . which,afterward laid the fdundation for the prelent prosperous circuin-, etances of her-childreii. The best answer to • the inquiry "..What can woman do l" might given in the history of _ what this. brave • nd good' wernan dd. Unforiunately we re not Writing her history, and muse there*. 4. 14 '• pre content ourselves, with this meagre out line of the acconiplishments 'of-one woman, J -vile; we are happy to believe, is-but a rep. .esentative.of a great many others; that in i - . - ithe lowly bares,. and patient endurances, and 4 holy sacrifices of maternal love tire quite , icintent to have inscribed nPon their tomb _ -tones, "She bath done what-she 05'uld,!' but of whom history and God Will say; " Well done; good and faithful servant!" When Mr. Grow was eleven years of age. his mother'found that her industry and en terprise had enabled her to save a sufficient sum to defray 'the, expense of removal-to the and for the sake of; her -children she "Pest, 'determined' to make that. mat sacrifice.— Twenty-five yeas ego the tide of emigration was setting westward;, the Northeastern States had commenced tYpush out° advance parties of settlers, who, knowffig nothing of what they sh"Pold encounter, :struck boldly into the - forests and laid - the foutidatlqn of our IVestern_' prosperity. - There were no railroads then c to carry the emigranti in .a !few hours, Paid far a few - dollars, from We' valley of th 4 Co . quotient to the valley of the• Mississippi, but painfully and slowly , the car avans moved like snails toward the -Setting sun ; and when, the last good-by was.sild to I relatives, and - the last view had been taken of the old homestead, the emigrant felt that years must pass before he saw either and had faint hope of returning at all.: Despite these, serious drawback - Nam, Groat.: family started for the - West, and finallytotat up their-abode ir.- a • wild and. mountainous part of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania from its romantic beauty they Tamed "•`Glenwood-;"•and there is stiltthe residence of thdrbject of this - sketch. For.the next few ye rs Galustia - led- the Ordinary ! life. of farmers' boys, attending sebool when there was opportunity, and undergOing ; the noble diseiyline Which is afforded by wild mount, am scenery, to" a' .quick perceptive nature, njlich htti,alsc; something of-eultivation.• It is told of him in:those early,years. than he was ofteri in: the woods ftii a week or ten dayS, sleeping otf hem lock boughs.;. and trust ing to his own.skill•to provide ,hiS • I,lrin g in a region of country in which' lurp;. Vet' was aliundant'and gOod, the winter! oceu. paiioil of all the settlers *as the. cutting - of timb e r, to be,flPated in - the•sprin,g down the treilin on whiell/thei lived •to • the .Suscple; ilattni (of which; it %fits a tributary,) and on 1. 3.( 1 -4 lar ' 4lt; :at Baltimore and other . . . . 1 7 . - - - ',--- ' -' • . . . . . , ~. \ i ' r .. . . . I . . .... . , . . ~ . . . . . • ... 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The great event to which -Galusha, in common with the other boys, looked forward, waakto be permitted to accompany_ the lumbering fatties down the river. When he was about fourteen years of age the , deeired oriprtuni ty• came, and he accompanied -his brother Frederick to 'Port Deposit, in Maryland.— While here an incident occurred which fur nishes very decided testimony to the confi dence which his 'neighbors felt in Mr. Groom's integrity, and the high estimation in 'which the innate r shreivdnessa of the natives of the well-abOsed State of Connecticut was held twenty ears ago. A friend of the Grows. was anxious to send a - (=g0...0f lumber to Annapolis to be sold, and Intrusted our hero with the business. On arriving at his port he sought out a Mr. Claud, who - wished -to buy the , lumber, but almost feared to trade with such a young merchant. After asking his age,'residence, parentage, family connec tiohs, and a variety of test questions, it oc curred to him to ask, " Were you born in Penniylvania r -, GROli. "No, Sir, ism born in Con nect.. .icul." - -' ' CLAdD. " Oh yes, Ifunderstand it all now ; yes, I do want to buy .some 'lumber." It is needless to add, the cargo was sold to good advantage., , • ' At s venteen years of 'age, Mr.' Grow, be ing gen rously helped by his brothers, en tered t e freshman - class of Amherst Col lege', g uating in 1844. As, soon as his collegia course was completed, he com menced his political life by " stumping" co? Polk add Dallas. When the election was over heleotered the law office of F. B. Street er,- Esq ; late Solicitor to the Treasury, and was adi fitted to the bar in the autumn .of 1847. . in the spring of 1850 it was found that his close application to study while in Oil- Jege, and his subsequent confinement to his business, was impairing his originilly fine constiwtion, and he was forced to retire tot plariry froin,bis profession, to seek a recu peration of his 'physical powers in out-door . exercise: He accordingly returned to his mother's farm and resumed his place in the field. In the 41nter of 1850 he surveyed six thousand acres of land into small lots- .• In the summit of- 1850 ithe Democratic convention of . his county nominated him I . .unanimously for the Legislature, but he de ' dined._ In the autumn of the same year he was first fru:- cratl ot the district were.' divided, and had two candidates in the field, each claiming to be the regular nominee. - Eight days before the election both agreed Jo resign if Mr. Grog would be the candidate. II:4 was vis ited by a delegation, who found him not ex: actly like Cincinnatus, plowing, but working witka set of hands' on the public highway, rebuilding, a bridge that had been carried away by a fieshet. Ile heard their _propoi .4l and consented to be a candidate ; both the other candidates resigned as_ agreed upon, and a convention was called which nominated Mr. Qro,v/ just one week before the election. Ile was successful, having- a majority of twelve hundred and fifty votes ; .and in 1851 be took his seat, the youngest member of the thirty-second Congtes.s. The'secono time he was elected by a majority . of seven thousand five him - died ; the third time he was elected unanimously, on account of the satisfaction , with which men of all parties in his district regarded his strenuous opposition to the Kan sas-Nebraska Bill. The last occasion upon Which be asked for the votes of his constitu ency he -was elected by a larger vote-than he c r.ecerved *hens there was" no opposition.— During the Speakership of Mi. Banks,. Mr. Grow was Chairman ot the . Committee on Territories, one of The most important posi tions in the gift of the Speaker. Upon Mr. Banks's retirement•from exingress, Mr. Grow became virtolly the leader .-r ef, the • Opposi tion=an arduous post which he has always . 'filled so as not only .to win the applause of his friends but to gain the respect of his po• . litical opponents. hie received the Republi 7 ban vote for Speaker at the commencement of this session. In the summer of 1855 he visited Europe in Company with Hon. E. B. Morgan and Inn. B. Pringle, of New York, Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Illinois, and others. 'they )ntended to visit the Crimea, but were pre vented by the prevalence of _cholera. While in Paris, our Representatives were treated with great consideration-by the Emperor of the. French, being invited to the bail given in honor of Queen Victoria, who sifts then vis iting Napoleon. . - With the probability of a long life - before him, having thus early distinguished himself, it would be an idle speculation to Set lim . s to his future. He has already attained r a high positionSas a leader in debate and parliament ary tactics. We may reasonably ,anticipata 'more honors and,distinction for him ; but the pleasure of them for himself, and the - worth 1-of then,for others, will be found, in the facts of his strict personal uprightness and private integrity.—Harper's Weekly. A HEARTY LAUGH.—After all, what a cap ital, kindly, honest, glorious thing a good laugh is! • What a tonic! What a digester ! What a febrifuge ! What an exorciser' of evil spirits! : Better than a walk before breAllst„ or a nap after dinner. How it shuts the month of malice and opens the brow of kindness! : Whether itdiseortfithe gums of age, the grinders of folly, or the pearls of beauty; whether it racks - the sides and de forMs the countenance of vulgarity', or aim pies the visage of molstens•the eye of refine ment—in all its phases, and on all faces, con trolling, relaxing, overwhelming, convulsing, throwing the' human form into the happy shaking and - quaking ,of idiocy, and turning the huma:n countenance into something.-ap propriate to Billy Burtoreslransformation— under every circumstance, and everywhere a ' laugh is a gloiious thing. Like "a thing of beauty," it is a " joy forever." There is no remorse in it. Meares-no sting—except in the sides; and that gOes - ofE Even a single unparticipated laugh is a great affair to wit ness. But it is seldom single. It is more infectious than scarlet fever. - You tannot gravely contemplate a laugh. If there is one laugher and one witness, there are forthwith ' two laughers. And 90 on. - The convulsion is-propagated like sound. What _a thing it is when it beiximelepidemic!—Dublin Uni iersity 16.11c4zine. y is.the heart of a. tree like a dog's tail? Be9ause it is the farthest from the, bark. ' 6 .,!imEciOn fix Enid OR COMETS. . Tim grleat obserfry at Harvard College was established in 1 47. - Among the, many brilliant iscoveriei ade there since its es: tablishm nt, are no 1 sis than fourteen comets. Islihe were discovered by the indefatigable la bors of Mr, GeorgeP. Bond. The tenth was discovered' in Marc 1853 , by Mi. Charles W. Tuttle. The re 'ping four by Mr. Hon . ace P. Tittle. • • . . Few ii6•sons are r ware orate. patience and labor - ex l reised by the astronomer in making diecoveri of this land. ft requires several I s years' st dy and pr tice to qualify one to discover b telescopic comet: It is undoubt' edly easY to look* a comet already. visible to the naked eye in the heavens ; but when it is required to:di ver an unknown one, 'Wandering in its "1 ng travel of a thousand ' years" in the profo r nd abyss of space, the labor thch becomes truly prodigious. The• amount of physical suffering occasioned by exposure to all ki e .s of temperature, the bending and twistin g of the, body when ex amining near the pith , and the constant strain of the eye, ca not be fully understood ileand app l iated by ne unacquainted with an a s tronomer's. life. The altronomer, ith his telescope, begins at the going down o the aun, and examines, in zones,lwith the u most care and vigilance, i the starry vault, an continues till the "eke:. ling hours . ' bring" t sun to the eastern heel= zon, wheh star and oo met fade from his view, : It requiries several tgits to complete a thor ough stnivey of the.heavens ; and often these -nights 4 not foffo in succession, being in-' terrupted by the fu moon, by clouds, aura: vas, and !by various . ther meteorological ph°. nomena.; He is fre riently vexed by passing clouds, fleeting thro gh the midnight sky, and strong arid chilly 1? ezes of the night. Ilis labors are (*mini! . throughout - the year, and hisUnweariedxertions do not slacken during the long win t ry nights, when the frozen particles' of snow a 4:1 ice]; driven before the northern blast,, cau c the stars to sparkle with ii unusual lustre, and his breath to' congeal on the eye-Piece of th telescope: It frequently happens] that his la ors are not crowned with a discov e ry until after several years' search. Nothing can ex the sublime spectacle presentd, to the a tronomer under a clear midnight sky, 11.4 h sweeps athwart the gor geous eenstellationi in their "starry dance" around their appoited center. Occasionally. 4,.. &aft! of/ ce tihe vie pe is fi lled with the daz tec alinratant ]u numbered suns.of n It va gs- ety of rich andbea tile' colors: The field of the telescope ] kof n illumined by the sud i den transit of 4 . f., -off meteor, _invisible to the naked eye: Si metimes a large rinefalfs from the zafiith, an silently exploding,' fills the midnight -sky with a startling spectral light, The solitudit and silence of the night are broen, ,in spring, summer, and autumn, by_the t ow murmi ring voices of migrating birds, . and the l. f-supnressed buffeting of their Weary wings - which darkeit for a mo ment Elie field of t a telescope in their flight. - t These 'are the only living companions of the iastronOtner afloat n the sky at midnight. There is a momenta excitement when his wearied eye detecks a small wisp of • pale sentered light in the field of his telescope.— It is ‘,..ry comet-lice, hut he does not feel "quite.sore that he ,ts not tantalized with a nal tals—aicluster ofl suns—so remote as to de fy the utmost poer of assisted vision to re -1 solve it into its i n ividual components. He immurrately asce sins the exact position,. and examines the atalogues for information of its character.. - f it is unrecorded, he is obliged to bring, t e wondrous mechanism of human! hands tos assistance. The sidereal Clock, and the Tni utply graduated circles of his telescope, inf. m him of his right aseen. sionand declitlatpon. Usually the distance of the 'Unknown body is rigorously measured by thel micrometAr—a work of unsurpassed deliatcy---from a star in the same held. At the .end of several hours his labors are re warded by the discovery of a new nebula, or the slflw but decit five motion oYa new comet. It is a] moment cf intense feeling. A new globe• has hove: n sight-from the utmost bounds of humil vision. Whither has it come? and whither is it going? What is its distance from th il earth and from thO sun ? When! will it be nearest to the' earth, and when 1b the sun What are its velocity and magn'tude ? NV' it ever become visible to the n ked eve? nd has it -ever before ap pears within th memory of man, or on the rec.° sof histor • ? These are questions that he caiinot imme4ately answer. His mind, aidedlby the tno t powerful analysis, pene 4rateslinto the s ret workings of the Infinite Mindi and by aysterious process evolves the answers to is queries._ - Three compl to observations, made on 11:1 three ;different cl Lys, on. • longer intervals of time,lfurnish hi with the basis of his calcu latirMs of the unnowt; particulars of the corn et. They are t Amenity called the elements I of its] orbit. NN ith these three great celestial marks, he proce ds to the calculation of the elements, a wor of exceeding great labor and difficulty. It isit. problem of Pt re geometry • and the illustriobs Newton, who first solve d this Ito the gr t comet of 1680 ', pronounml it it " roble,ma 1 age difficalimum." A distin ,-guis ed American astronomer of the last cell ! tury ,(Rittenhou se, of Philadelphia,) was The first !American hat solved the problem. 'He , . , compt t het E l ements of the comet of 1770, and says of it, il a letter to the President of the' Amerktan Philosophical Social Society, "Herewith I send you the fruit ,of three or four days' labor, diving which I have cover ed sneets, acdterally drained my inkstand several times."l Oar celebrated countryman and neighbor , r. Bortiditch, computed the 3 elements of the great comet of 1807, and the ' stit greater Ott4 of 1811, the latter 'yet re me bered by till our aged citizens, as au turrital,lippearilig in the months of that year, whi , • _ I , , "Burn ,In the c ky, and from ita horrid hair shoo str and war." JO 9, the, earned world in 4tnerica and Eu l ope was nished• at the production of the leliptic elements of the.first comet of that 'year, by the, onderful Safford, then only fourteen y °Sage. No mathematical genus in the s t ory - of our race hal eve; a chiaved s uc h honor at co early an age. Th e l ate Ki g-of Denmark, a great patron of Estronomy,, n the lalt years of his life, de ,preed that a g ld Medal should be awarded .the first disco erg of a comet. Miss Maria )1611, of tucket, ai N oye r ed a comet in 1 13 ber, 184 , and received thereforeacoth t medal antwas-firither honored by being IME amp mom . OAMella VLLINEMT ONTROS _THURSDAY, MAY . I3, 1858. made a. member of the ,Amerieat Academy of Arts . and. Scierices. The King soon after deceased, and his successor appropriated his revenues to other pvposes. The discontin uance of the Denmark medal has not in the least degree abated the zeal of ! the astrono mere. ~The diScoverylor the some comet by different astronomers in different parts, of the world, on the same, night; or within a few dais of each other, sttesta.their unretnit4„g vigilance.--/iresoburypeq, Herald. A BALLAD. DT ALDRICIIis\ ;., • \ • Tax blaCklArd sing sm,the hazel dell \ And thessiatiricl 'ilts on the tree; \ ' . And Maud she war(b'. the merry, green-t•cood, Dowaty the swatter sea, ' . The blackbird lies wfieti it it sings of lore • And the steltrAtetil,r6re is he; And Maud is an arrapt,pirt v trod, As light as light 4 be), 0, blackbird, die in the hazel oieli I • • And, squirrel, starve on the tree • And Maud—you may walk in the merry gredn-wooll, You are nothing more to me . From the Coin der Etatg Unit PAINTING BY COMPULSION. AN artist of talent who has been. making studies in Algeria, s hss recently arrived in Paris, bringing from his artigie expedition real treasures of research and study ; land scapes, monuments, interiors, types of all races, costumes, animals and stull's. 'He has observed and collected everything, studied every thing, with intelligence and with his pencil, and has the materials for making a multitude of fine and'eurious pictures, Ile has brought also many things as mere curiosities, and among them is a set of very exact copies made hyilips of some original paintings which decoilita one of the pleasure houses of the ancient Deys, situated some hour's distance from Algiers: The copies at first appear singular, and they are so in factilint the circumstances under which the originals werQxecuted, are still more remarkable. It was in the first years of the preSent cen tury. The Dey of Algiers took a fancy to collect in,the Court of - the Kasauba all the European captives-that he had at that time in his power. He ranged them iti a line and .passed them slowly-ii.-"'""""." ••••• _ r ou know - how to paint ?" he - asked abruptly the first captive. "No" rfplied the prisoner, "1 don't know how to paitit. ' The Dey made a sign, and .a slave, armed with a long yatagnn, maktbe head of the captive fly. "Do you know Wow to paint?" asked the Dey of'the second prisoner. The lattT frightened at 'he spectacle he had just seen, covered with Wood, -and, Inn. ut,dorefk‘nd:rt g very well thetuestion, opened his-eyes wide without tnal,:irfir, any answer. Atoa signal his head flew off like that of the first. At the question, "Do you know how to paint?" the third, frightened out of his wits, answered, "Y,es, I believe I do, I think that" —"Ah, you are not gore," said the Dey, and a third head rolled in'the dust. . . "Do you know how to paint ?" asked the Dey, smiling, of the fourth prisoner. This fourth captive was a bold and fearless Paris ian, formerly a Paris street boy, who had very often stopped before the doors of wine merchants or restorateurs to see sir, paint ers illustrating the outside with bottles and full glasses, legs of bacon and venison pies. "Do you know how to paint?" cried ho.-. "Certainly I ;am the_best pupil of the il lustrious David, painter to the Emperor.— What do you wish for, most mild and clem ent Dey, speak and be obeyed." " You , §ball know immediately What I want," said . the Dey, and slent on with the review. The example of the Parisian had taught the others what was to be done. All replied that they knew how to paint. The Dey, en chanted with the success of his measures, put all the painters, (there were about thirty,) under The orders of the Parisian ; he then led this battalion of impromptu artist's . to one of his pleasure palaces, and directed them to-or nament the walls' with paintings like those whieh - decorate the palaces of European stav i ereigns. "I wish you to paint Mecca, the tomb of the Prophet, my principal naval vietoi and then anything you please, provided the paintings be worthy of me, if they arc not, I will cut off-all your heads." " Light Of lights, you, shall be satisfied," replied the Parisian. Colors and brushes were sent for; and our artists went to-work. The Parisian was not destitute of imagination. The Musselman re ligion-forbidding the representation of the human arra, the task was very much simpli fied. He painted the sea anti naval battles, where ships were to be seen, butnot asailor. Bullets and bomb's .were crossing each other -in the air, which was,dinkened by smoke and reddened by fire, but not an artilleryman was seen at the pieces. _Galling to his aid 'the recollections of his childhood, he Made skies of one Wight blue, in which he placed Mr. Sun, Madame Moon; and she Miss Stars. Then he painted the great phenomena of nature—storms. torrents, volcanoes in eruption, vomiting flame and smoke. The Parisian and his battalion of • painters made' use of the most lively and crude colors; the effect produced was not very harmbnious, but it was striking. The Dey was enchanted. Happily, strangers who were connoisseurs in painting, never penetrating into this pleas: tire palace, the voluptuous retreat where the favorites of the Dey passed the summer sea son, no criticism was inkle, and the Parisian passed, in the eyes of the Dey, for one of the greatest painters in France. Not Only he and his assistants kept their heads upon their shoulders, but to.rodard them' the Dey be stowed upon them their liberty. / It is these paintings which have been cop ied by a real artist. Strange .as they. are, there are some of them which shovi it singu lar intelligence on the part of ,the Parisian. These-pictures are, moreover, .l,:pry interest ing secttnens of what can be done, by the most absolute inexperience,and most cum plqn ignorance of art, haying to contend with ne- Cessity and strengthed with the -sentiment of the preservation of life. An Eastern paper says " there is a bank in -the W4i with a , cf,tpital stock or coon skins." ' , There is a bank nt the East with a capital stnek of codfish'. It is tho Bank or Newfoupdland, OM "DOUBTLESS al; have had, a sire awakened in their hearth teries of the " Mammoth Ca the dull sound - of the falling into the "Bottoniless Pit," a ing and leaping on its way't • sea of molten lava which g of, and which must be more than to describe, or to engag Charon, and explore the un of the cold, black "Styx," o tales of ancient " Indian tow or. of the cavern's maw, and race lived, and.when they such reveries, many have "S tance and expense render a to them impossible, horse near at hand a cave of almof portions Kid - features is four Slight find imperfect sketch acceptable to our readers. \ "llowe's Give': is situate COherskill, Scholtaric county NeW,York, - and deserves gencry4tWarded to it of est natural curiosity in the I_ and manY \ who have visited tucky,..prefer ,.. to linger here. The town 'it! easy of a Cherry_ Valley \ -or Canal safely landed, (for not hein nature's-labratory as it our own esperience,) , wo boo the " Cave House," and hay of clothes that seemed to h desperate struggJe fir exiStej clothes man, we descended' I and entered with a• shudder signed by the cold blast that wondrous boudoir of Dame 'ln "Entrance Hall" we , ind, after lighting our torch, to be n rocky passage, two ty feet in length, by thirty- Being satisfied with our v smell of dampness, we en ton Mil," which is one h and thirty wide ; here is a tile, resembling the Fathe • or what is really imagined His n,antle is falling in gr , about his comnianding pers faulets, removed from hanging on the wall beside posite side of. the wall hang distinctly visible: Nene b' •of twenty-five feet, is an which many-have taken thi that hind for life. The cerf in such a place, the . walls red glare of torches, the .ollieiatirm minister, must sl t, rids .of the-assembled guest pressions lasting as the grail opt" awn- fesp•flises. AJh small statue of a woman, —also a withered hand, wi tite germinations. " Hem next object of curiosity, in neuter mention save that Iv ed to the. walls, are image: trees, and fishes, until one believe that lie starids in n: of patterns, and these are c and white marble, in the ti the Creator's hand alone. the "Tunnel" we enter " chasm called the " Pirat; " Mount Blanc" behind ' " Rocky Mountains," el. rocks and scrambling th we g ained a t height of when we began our des of Jchosaphat," passing t iliiiii MYSTERIES OP HOW five hundred lind forty - fee five wide, through the, stream ripples and murm way, toward a cataract n man. But applying our ear d I wall, the distant roar of '0 ly heard, its height or depl very mystery attending interest to the hidden " Lake," a large body of litTe stone reservoir,- we boat. and as the torches' I the dark walls,-the eye is multitude and. beauty of ures on which - the light is statues, men, birds, beg seen on every side, and and admiration of all who the pleasure of a visit halls. In " Music formation, called the "IL ly a tort which, on being through the-cavern in ton and sounds of deepest pa ing tenderness. The rni the water sprites, or genii not been mTlected, and to the mountain, the high of the " Alps { ' have corm their summits we look f . _ a narrow passsage teWn i or,perhaps, channeled b and just wide enough 1.0 It time, so crooked that Ni three feet in advance, w namented with the tnos, of ; carving. We came way," which leads to thi s six hundred feet in h. , was ascertained by a flit ing satisfied with having and a half, we common when once again the su s our joy seemed too g Thoie granite domes a showed superhuMan ski teet'e own inspiring. ' wondrous fords of s work, and not tha-work tevdrippings'of ten t Lake and Wind:ng, Way the Hidden Waterfall feelings in our breast ti yet such pain, is delieio shine—the bright, gl , fields, the grass, the tre static joy, that only ti them. around can eve kpraFh poop.—The Sunday. - olutionary enthusiasm " hurrah for the gir "Thunder!" cries " that's too old. NO, .' of J 7 1". M"'" Why 'is coffee 1 • Pec*lst: it re. • PORDO 99 ,THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN-INTER- S CAVE. times, the de to see the mys 'e ;'? to listen to stone, dropped s it goes bound wards that vast logists tell us-1 asy to imagine 1 'the services of 'nown. wonders i listen to the 1 s'''in tile interi- 1 .onder how the ied.. Indulging 'ghed that . dis sit to this cave • in aware that •t fithulous pro- 1 d ; and even a f it may prOve. LIP:UT. MAURY 11.3 just sent' a report to the Secretary of the NasiNconceinirer the suh marine explorations made by the''North Pa cific Exploring Expedition, under the, corn mold of Lieut. Bridgers, and•from this vale- able document we take the following inter esting pate pet : \ • Deep sea soundings, with specimens of the bottom,:have also been returnett to this cape froin that expedition. They stere'tak en in the North Pacific with Brooke's appa ratus, arid have been studied through the mi-' croseope of Prof. Bailey at Wen Point. "They alt tell the same story. They teach us that the quict of the grave reigns every, wherein d r profound depths of the ocean ; that:the repose hereis beyond the• reach of the wind ; it is so perfect that none of the powers of earth, hiPIC I / 4 only the ,earthquake and, volcano, can disturb it. The specimens of deep sea roundings, for which we are in debted to the ingenuity of Lieut. BrOoke, are as pure and- aserce from the sand of the sea as the snow flake that falls when it is calm, upon the aea,,ik from the dust of the earth. Indeed, these soundings suggest the idea that' the sea, like the snow cloud with its flakes in a calm, is always letting fall upon its -bed, showers of these miciosconic shells; and we - May readily imagine that the "sunless wrecks" which strew its bottom, are, in the process of ages, hid under the fleecy cover. ing, presenting the rounding appearance which is seen over the body, of the- traveler who has perished in the .snow storm. The ocean, especially within and undar the fro Pies, swarms with De. The remains of its myri ads of moving thing's are conveyed ..by -cur rents, and scattered and-lodgedlirthe course of time all over ,its bottom. This' process, continued for ages, has covered the depths of the ocean as with a mantle, consisting of or ganisms as delicate as the mealed frost, and as the undrifted snow-flake on the mountain. Whenever this beautiful sounding-rod has reached the bottom of the deep sea, whethei in, the Atlantic 'or Pacifie, the bed of the ocean-has been found of a downlike softness. The'lead appears to sink many feet deep into the oozy matter there which•has been strain ed and filtered through the sea water. This matter consists of the skeletons anti' casts of insects of the sea of microscopic minuteness. 4 1fr`The fact that the earrents'do not reach dbwn to the betkinn of the deep sea, that there are no abrading agents at work there, save alone themiawing` tooth' of time, that a rope of sand, if e ' stretched\ upon the* bed of the ocean, would he a cable stong enough to hold, the longest telegraph that can drawi' *these with other discoveries made in the, course of- the investigations‘earried on in the hydrographical department Of \ this office con acnernnoilrimg,t,hdni r p ‘ 17:i . %( - 1 4 s t e i n cit oe tbn iit n a o l d redy cor respondence, 'are •like y to prove. in gtrau practical value and importance in submarine telegraphy.—a line of puniness only in the first stage of its infancy; but deeply interest ing to the whole human family ; for in its bearings and results it 'touches, most nearly the progress of 'man in the march that is lead ing him upward and onward. The notion was that a telegraphic cable must be of great strength to resist and withstand the forces of the sea. Whereupon the conducting wire, after being coated to' insulation With gu tt a per cha,'was-encased in a wire hawser or _cable stout enough to hold the largest "seventy four" to her, anchors. These cables were very expensive in their manufacture, bulky for stowage, unwieldy for handling and diffi cult to lay. It was such wire id cable that the Telegraphic Company lost in the lay- • ino• between Newfoundland and Cape Breton, in 1855 ; and it is such,a one—wire laid ; stiff ana larger than a man's arm—that the French have twice attempted to lay in the Mediterranean, and twice lost. " But- now we have learned, in the course of these iniesti?ations, that.all the obstacles interposed by the, sea to the lay hig of subma rine telegraphs lie-between the surface and the depth of a few hundred fathoms below.; and that these are not to be mastered by' force nor overcome by the tensile strength oft wire draWn ropes, but that, with a little arti 7 fice, they will yield to a mere thread.. It is the ' case ola man-ot-war and the little nauti lus in the hurricane; the one, weak in its strength is dashed to pieces; the other, strong in its weakness, resists the utmost violence of the storm, and rides as safely, througliit though there were no ragings in the sea.— Therefore, it may now be considered as a settled' principle in submarine telegraphy that the true character of a cable for the deep sea is not that of an iron rope as large as a man's arm, but a single copper wire, or a fascible of Wires coated with gutta-percha, pliant and supple, and not larger than a lady's fin-, ger. - in the toirn of. I in the State of lho; celebrity 5o " ,eing the great. Inited States ; !he eave . of Ken. ss either from arie. having able to de-zeri he ust need give -ed pur names at n 47 donned a. suit He suffered in a cc with the old. few stone steps (perhaps ma saluted IA thi Nature. ound ourselves, discovered 'it red .Ti w oo stone and . er,n4y" Vashing s. ndred r f t long beautiful, talae. of his Country, o be his statue. ceful folds from in, while hi 3 ep. shoulders, are iim. On the op. s " Lady Wash , th. :ample - cape ) at an elevation hat., kneeling at i , ,most holy ties, !•Lmony solemnized lazing witli the 4enin voice of the •3 amp . the Memo. r, "and produce im i Ito walls that eel'- . ie. :yammer] -is -a itttng in a ctlair i beafitifolstalac. • it's • Cell" is the t dFserves.no par { above us, attach of 'birds, beasts, s almost ready to I Lure's storehouse arved out . of black tchless - style of which is laiParascit,"'g through ' high and thirty- lidst of which _a rs in its darks.ome ever- yet seen by 1, 1 a fissure in the !‘aters was distinct h unknown. The renders additional waterfall. At the - ater reposing in A step into a large arid- glare Nis on liewildered by the he groups of fig- hrown. Cornices, I . and fishes, are I • • xcne the. wonder . , like u.s, experience . these enchanted Ineat by, is .a huge rp," weighing near ,truck, sends &shoes • of finest melody os and most-witch sical education of of this Wern, has they could not_go nd towering peaks them, and from down into a dar,k •s' Cave."...Leaving s, we toilet] up 'the mbering 0ve,14 huge ough chasms ; until five hundred feet, nt into the " Valley" e " Winding Nay" • ut of the solid roek, • a narrow stream, admit one person at -could see scarcely He the walls 'are or beautiful specimens o the " Gang " Rotunda,* a room ght, This altitude ht of rockets. Be• •enetrated four miles d our return • and, 's bright rayi fell on eat for utferance.— d . rock.iibbed halls I of the great archi ose sculptured and one seemed • angel's of change- 7 -• the wa ousand years. The A BEAUTIFUL ComrAmsox.--In a recently .published selection of "Things that struck me in Henry Ward Beecher's Sermons," we find the following ' "The sun dies not shine for, a few trees and flowers, but tor the wide world's joy.— The lonely pine on the mountain' top waves its sombre boughs and cries,-" Thou art my sun !" AndAkslittle meadow violet lifts its cup of bluerand whispers with_ its _perfumed breath, "Thou art my sun." • And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, "Thou art my :jun." Sp God sits, effulgent, in - Heaven,- not for a favored few, but for the, universe of life ; and there is no creature so . poor 'or so low that ho may not look up with child-like eon: fidence and say, "My father, thou art mine." excite out; interest; id mystic Harp stir 'lt.give us pain, and S. But it is the sun r.ioussunshine--the, •s, that give such (v., ,ose who live with know.—New Tod: has. in a fit of rev ayes s '76 I" , z New Jersey . paper, 6 o, hurrah fur oe like an axe with s dull rires to be around. \ \ l H. H. FRAZIER, PUBLISHER--'7VOlA,*o..iii. ESTING REVELATIONS lar Mr. Brandytoddy's three reasons for not drinking are very characteristic of that gentleman. ; - "Take something. to drink 1" said his friend to him one day. "No thank you," repliedlfi.l3. - " Nu! wily pot 1". inquired his 'friend in great amazement. , "In the first place," returned Mr: Arandy.... teddy; "I am secretary of temperauce so ciety that-meets to day, and. I must keserve my temperance character, In' t4e second place, this is the anniversary of my fither's death, and out of respect to Alin I have prom ised never to think on this day. Ant in the third place, I have just taken something.", rff".Some one says- of a certain congre gation, that. they pray on their knees on sun t days onitetr neighbors the rest . Of.tbe • Beek { • Ell MR , • A•ont Dt. Waterbtirei bictosi:e.! an il , ysidlogy and. . , .; Naocr,alllistory. ~. ,: -,-;:' •.* Y.. NATURAL NISTORY4ORTNE YOUNG ! , • I FAIR and softly Miss Ouitty,l ,cosnCiu4•• - -sit with•us a minute; Well ~ jgraeoth.. ye i pr., ~baelt- until you purr—beeome niegnetized,u • 'scar friends the mesmerists' wotilil- say, and ' 'then you.inust let us look at yourlbot, : that, . dainty little foot of yoomi k thntlottilta.teek nice care , to, keep from the.not._ . , - •\'''.. ~. ~ First let us look at the soft padaPhe,..\-to„ot-. tom, on; which A iretreild*. treads .-. - How noiselessly` she steals along through the *lit ~3Yhen. she appreaches, the long ears of the:, Iteathet,.\ though they can detect•the, slightlistlitaitie,:' .hear_no l souna When the ox or .rite horit(„, s \ - • moves u swifily , .Mlle very -earth iromblek ,:. beneath his it'ead•• but the svhole . ; eat tribe, • \ .. • t '" -- ' - death.'' steal on ken. prey and dotite thenvirk like stilinees., Both these`tribes ofrminiall sifeilike ,ilt, thii-th ' ey'vralk \ on the ends"oc tfiii;t4e=4--;e;.' that-ie, what corresponds to theines in man. ' .0.. Henee they are called \ digitigra,del ;to dis:' . tinguiSit them from such \ flatfooted . animals* as we, and the beats----the\p/nni(grairti; * The feet of digitrigrades ire all made eaglet - one plan. In the horse and ecnttheWe, rtailq are very thick 'and stout ;in •faet\arer. hoofs,. , and 'enclose the pad, which is then '.almost as i _ 'hard as horn, and is called the frog: \ \1,! . 1 thp: horse there is but one toe, and 'consequently .. , :but one toe nail on each Toot ..,, bet-Ost - 4 c, • is made very large and hard, iitorder tease s '' • fast tem-el on fi rm griaund. In this Teepeck- ii\ the foot of the horse corresponds in structure ; to the iron rails on a railroad ; while the o k yen foot of the ox abd other ruminating -anl-,* • mats more nearly corresponds/to the meetuiri- ; ism of a plank road. Hence the horse pre ? , fers dry, hard ground. and shuns wet, Swampy; places, for when his,foot is sunk in thii:!nite, , • it is very difficult to•daw out. '' -';,_ When the ox, however, treads on soft, , =ground, his split hoof' spre ads a little as it. - sinks into the earth,•se that when he begini; to extract it, it becomes smaller, and otp,ek . out more readily. Hence oxen are better. adapted than horses to boggy groin:Lao - T.4qt), snow, and this structure of the -foot allows ti(- a habit cows have of frequenting 'rnarsit.x . . - - pools in hot weather. In the reindeer, an-animal made. to inh'iibit,' • . , 1 - the polar regions, the two rudimentary toes{ above the heel, - which irl'oxeit rind swine are, ' called 'deur claws, are So large as to be used, - : lin deep snow, like the other toes; thus intik- - 1 ing the animal's.,,foot spread evier egrent sur- .. • face, like a snow-shoe'; yet when the-foot has ! -sink auto the snow, it is draw out as Taal. 4 -. ! ly as that of the ox. The - feet /if hiritt thet 1 , ii wade in marshes are made a ter the same, „ • •-•pfan, and for the stmt reason, • , '- ' When we place the finger on the pad en- . • der the cat's foot, and press gently • on the upper side of the toes with the thumb, four, * • sharp, claws .protrude. * Their po . ints are like* • needles. The doi , the enuirrel'.and the woodchuck also nave claws, but - tuly utu- .g, „exposed to the - weather end the dirt, that . they are dull. • how are the cat's claws kept •• sharp? - ' - , . • By a very simple and beautiful, arrange- . , meat. The last joint of the toe,. that . which, , supports the claw,doublq's backward and to one, -, side, into the space between two - toes; so that . ' when she walks be does not,, like other ani,,. imals, put that joint foremost, but rather the, second joint. When the pails: together with, •. •• the last joint, are doubled back in this way, - into the space between two toes, the cords% which run to them are placediat ;such disad l. :i i. vantage that they 'can Only r'ove the toes for. . i "the purpose - of walking. \Thep the cat-seir,... 4 : - es_ her prey, however, rellttleafasele throws, the last ,joint . of the toe, that'which supports . ,the claw, over into the same": position, Le in % • _ ,other antrnals, and then the elawls driv . in by the same musele•and with the- name pewee . - • with which the animal moves the foot. The ' .. , tiger wields these'terrible weaponswith' as much force as a horse kicks; so that a single ,', blow from the front side of one of his'elaws, - as the beast was leapingover, has been knciim i * to fracture the skull , of a man. - ' . • In animals animals like the squirrel, - made, to, ill- ' -t -" habit trees, the claws are intended fOr holding Last to the bark, and so ant not retractile like. r. thole, of the eat tribe. .ooe of the.. toeLelsti is turned - bickwards, he as .to let like tt • thurab in. linging to limbs and in holding nuts. By means of these thumb-like toes,. sqirrelerun down a tree almost, as readily es • up. ; k b„ . , ~ . . In the sloth, a South Ameriean animal that • lives almost 'exclusively in tram banging.bY its fire paws, the claws of the•fore-feet are enormously large inftl long-- .! =quite 'too large to be retracted like those of the cat. Whitt on the ground, they , must be doubled : direetz' ly under the foot, so thatsthe animel..watki - ' very awkwardly, as it w erd on its •knuelrles; . Mr. Jefferson, haviug disepsereil Setne'of • ' the claws and bones of the foot Oran' extinct, . animal of this sort, supposed theyiniiithave. -. • belonged to a kind of lion, as large' /9:1111 ele: phant. He sent the bones to M. Ctivifir, the , great French naturalist; whit,. on tlambint • , • . them, could find no marks of the bs6ktiolrl and sidewise joint, that exists in-tile`eaftribe, and so concluded - the .atilniftd to , lave beim - rather a huge sloth, than n Boni' ” ''. "-; "' -• ' hNTIPATIIIEL.-it.is.,edrrious note' the antipathies-of afferent persons. :Eyen.the greatest and Most distinguished„p4l.*e not altogether been free from certstip444k peculiarities. En% Johnion.wopla„nr# _e* ter a room with left lirt:foremor, lius Cteser Was almost alty‘fleed, the sound of thunder,•and alwaymr494.o% - Pet in a cellar or under ground, 4 1o, ; „illkiin Ike noise. , ' To Queen. Elizi►beth the iftpple.wnrd "-death" was full of horrors,' rand treinge.d;amd changed color, ; ticiring the word propOpnced:"MarshaT StOte,.. who met and overthrew opposing arrnles, fled and screamed with terror at the sightpt Peter the Great could never be'pefsuaq/ til cross a bridge and though he trie_4_lp.piaa. ter thaterror; he failed ttrdo so. Whenever he set foot on one he would ..shrieli out in distress and agony. at •iionid never ,help any one to salt at the table 'nor would be helped to 'any ltirriselC ,If any of the'arti ere h a ppened to be spilled on 'the 'table, he would jump up and leavahis meal unfinished. lar A Placerville loafer mistook a globs lau.p with lgtters oti Itjhr tbe queen of night ! and eselaimed cussed squiti bialy hainl stuck an aitirei*lOrdent on th!, Moon lit rianklin 83378, "If 4 man emp . ties id NINA into Ms heady 11 9 one 9 14 44 14 it from:MT.". EINI INE \^.l , MEUSE
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