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37" Ordinary ArvrnnsFMfT insetted, and Job Uobk
lecuted, at the established frier.
Tho Wind and the Breeze.
A mighty wlmlnuntrnging by,
Unit awondrom Bight ;
Stout trcr Lent thrir br.inchon lufh;
IhirK cloudsif dut whirled through the iky,
Arid nanglit around in" could 1 spy,
Hut trophic of in might.
A tittle brcora pawd contly u'er,
Irarcil) lizard It tread;
Yet freihrtPFi to the flovwra it huts,
A nd through the open cottage dour
Thrir Iraurancf fl.mtrdin once nut
Around the kk inan'i JteaJ.
Thou thought I - it m ro (frond, I know,
J hi ttronfi pruud wind to he ;
1 ut. bkttt r Jar, uhduid tu go
Along th path of human woe,
I.iku the rm t J hravz , soioft an J low,
In its pwval ministry,
machinery?"
by c. li. roiiNKY.
A deputation of Indians to Washington,
a few years since, were conducted through
the city to Be such objects as would inter
est thcm,aud among the places visited was
the Navy Yard, where after an inspect on
of the paraphci inilia of war, they were ta
ki'ii to a room in which a steam engine was
at work. Though they had been examin
ing many things that to them were won
di'iful, then: was none of them impre.-'scd
tliem hj deeply as tho engine ; and after a
lulled oli-truitiuii of it for come moments
tin rrmarkrd to tin ir iuteipreter, that
lli.-y were now convinced that tho pale fa-e-s
wrre iii'it in power to the Ciieat Spirit
uli'). to them, seemed embodied in the in
gfiiimii pit ee of mechaiiNm before them
If tin- untutored sons ol the forest are ca
pibl- of discriminating works bearing the
iiiipriii of mind, from mere baubles and
dixpl.iv. those who have been brought up
in the lijjht ol civilization, should reitainly
t ike an interest in the labors of the meeh
auist, and study the amazing powers with
which he invests inanimate matter, and the
stupendous ret,ults which flow from his
devices. Though it has been common to
disparage and underrate the degree of in
tvlleet necessary to the production of tho
useful, and iu many instances, wonderful
combinations, that are originated by the
jnind of the inventor, and fashioned into
material forms by his hands, such works
nevertheless, emaiiuato fiom mental re
rourees as vigorous and imaginative, as
glowing as those that waited on the pencils
of Raplieal and Angelo, aud on the muse
of Shakspeare and Milton From whence
but such an oasis flowed the grand aud
imposing ideas, of which we behold the
embodiments in the Ocean Steamer, swift
)y pursuing its conne over the waves of
the mighty deip iu defiance of tho mount
ain billows an angry tempests, that stalk
about it ; tho locomotive, belching fire and
fcinoke from its nostrils, as it rushes on
ward with lightning speed, with long trains
like huge serpents sweeping after it; the
amazing machine to calculate astronomi
cal and navigation tables, as well as logar
ithmic and tables of tho powers aud pro
duct of numbers, a creation replete with
tho richest imagery, culled from the pro
lific field that yield inventors, whether
delineatod on canvass iu a poem, or em
braced in a machine : the latho for copy
ing statuary, with which tho works of the
sculptor, costing the labor of months and
years, and bo duplicated in tho durablo
materials of marble and metals ; and ma
ny othor equally ingenious and astounding
mechanisms. Ou what productions of a
purely ideal noturo has intellect lavished
more grandeur, than on thoso enumerated!
On nono that como within tho widest range
of reading and observation ; aud why then
pivn fiirrfliinv in tlin eroneou9 imnressions
ofsomofew conservators of musty lore.that
mind cau gather but few and meagre tro
phies in mechanical pursuits? To young
men, especially, wo would say emphatical
ly, heed not such an opinion, for it has an
In 170U Richard Arkwright obtained his Jarged demand for raw materials, and
patent for the spinning frame, by which a particularly for cotton, tho culturo and
great number of threads of any degree of j cleaning of which, without the aid of ma
fineness and anrdness can bo spun, requir-l chjncry, was tedious and unprofitable.
ing no other attendance than feeding with ! Separating one pound of cotton from the
cotton i and Dailies, in his work on cotton j Beed by hand, used to bo a day's work for
manufacture, estimated tho number of op-
eratives, as oarly as 1603, m tho spinning
PJills of England, at 150,000, who with
the .ngemous machinery, originated by
Arkwright, could produce as much yarn
as forty millions of spinners would witli
tlio old fashion one-thread wheel. To
convert the large production of yarn into
c'oth, consequent on Ark Wright's inven
tions, was a contingency next to bo provi
ded for, and this was effectually accom
plished by Edmund Cartwright's power
loom, patented in 1787. IIo also invented
the wool comber, and was distinguished
cmauatiou of minds of shallow mould, and
of that bigoted class, who look upon tho
noblest of tho arts without tho elevating
emotion and sentiment that spring from
true souls, despite the groisncss that sur
round them.
Tho age of machinery was inaugurated
nearly a century ago by the inventions of
James Watt, who found the steam engine
a rude, imperfect and impracticable ma
chine. After year of experiment and
research, he bequeathed to the world the
engine in all the perfections of principle
that we behold it now j and though it has
since his day, been produced in much more
extended forms, and adorned with rich
trappings, it has not undergone an iota of
change in principles since it passed tho or-
deal of his fruitful genius. Contrasting
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tho plll-llltl ns if Pfllnii frnut tin, linmla nrl
Watt, with the unwieldly and destructive
machine it was before
he touched it with I
the wand of his inventive mind, we are on
abled to appreciate the value of his labors,
which, if not embalmed in lofty poetry and
proau, as is the heroi-m that overcast the
face of humanity with gloom, aud is nour
ished by the tuarsof Ihe widow and orphan
are nevertheless destined to an immortali
ty as enduring as civilization itself.
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an imperfect atinosphereie engine, m which I
steam of a slight pressure was used to form
:t vaceuui, he transformed it into what its
name implies, by using steam of double
tho pressure that was employed buforc,and
made it act on both sides of the piston in
stead of one only,and applied it to the two
Pnlil tiiii-nnun nf nvortniff t tirnjanrii !n mm
euu ol the stcaui eyunuer, while by con-i
detisasiou it is producing a vaccum in the ! , . , . .
other end. Instrad of condensing the,0' rieheat pattern., and other styles of
slnan, i tho ovllndnr nt lnr. Inc. of ' gOO.1. wbich.bclcro tLoadvCUt of tho Jac
te.nnerature. he nrevented that waste bv '
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condensing it in a seperate vessel, termed i
li e hot will. He demonstrated the feafi-1
bility of using steam of very high pre.-suro
through our own countryman, Oliver!
Evain, led the way in tha application
adapted the engine to rotary motion, and
crowned it with the elegant automaton do
vice, styled tho govonwr, by which the
ihrotlle vtdvi that admits the steam to tho
cylinder is worked and the speed of the
engine regulated. But as a complete anat
oiny of the enijiue would occupy to in
spaco here, we commend it to the study of.
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all who have any pre'cmions to intelligence
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doing more to equalie the couditionof men
and t ) promote civilization, than all tho
tine spun political theories that ever were
written. A machine is certainly worthy
of scrutiny aud admiration that conveys us
with a speed of forty and fifty miles an
film Mik-n nil ,iiiiri'T m ;iii n.ri'iu'v iii;ir. w
hour, from place to place, coins the bullion
of idea through the printing pr.ss into tho
currency of information, drives the loom,
latho, fan, pump,saw, plane aud other ap- i
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nliencea unnumbered : and vet oulv the:
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tliri.slinlil nf it. , ill.. i.in wlin 0111 Imimil In
illimitable field of the future achievmonts
of the steam engine, freighted as it is to be j
with messages of regeneration to the mil-1
lions who are groping iu barbarism boyond
tho palo of Christianity, aud destined to
make tho circuit of the earth, through sol
itude now undisturbed in their primeval
aspect, save by tho rude wigwam of the
Indian and the hut of tho Caft're.
The engine endowed with superior pow
er, or created anew . and started on its
womicroin maua,it is intercsuug to trace
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the attendants, t iat snrumr ui) nrounu the
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great centre of mechanism, in tho forms of,
nf u.i.m..larv stmnn
not" only as a mechanics, but as a poet and
fine literary scholar. Ho was au acquaint
ance of Robert Fulton, who, thero are
grounds for supposing, was stimulated in
his pursuit as au inventor by a model of a
steam barge which Cartwright made and
exhibited to him, in 1703, whilo Fulton
was prosecuting his studici under Bonja
min West, iu London. Tho increased fac
ilities for spinning and weaving wero fol
lowed as a natural conscquenco by an en
Ono woman; and prior to the discovery of
a machine to do this work, tho American
trado iu cotton only amounted to 133,328
pounds, in 1702, whila our export of this
staple to Great Britain alone, in 1814
reached 517, G22 pounds. Tho immense
iucrcase and prosperous phase of the cot
ton trade, was brought about by tho ingo
nuity of Eli Whitney, a young man of
Massachusetts, who, after having educated
himself, on paying for his courso at Yalo
College, with his earnings in the way of
manufacturing nails and bounct pins, set
out for tho South, In the capacity of a
teacher. While residing with tho family
of Gen. Green, near Savannah, in 1703,
he invented the cotton gi;i, which with a
motive power, equal to two horses, will
clean the seed from five thousand pounds
of cotton in one day. Tho genius of
Whitney not only unfolded boundless
stores of wealth to tho Southern States,
but by mcaus of their vastly increased sup
ply of cheap cotton, rendered merchanta
ble by the gtVi, ho gave impetus to tho
overshadowing manufacturing spirit of
Manchester and Leeds, and prepare tho
way of the supply of cotton for tho spin
dle and loom of Europe aud America.
In 1797, Amos Whittemore, also of New
England, completed his extraordinary card
iiinnlitnn wlitnti lit n tnrlno P I it r-A.tt it.i
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movements, holds the sheets of leather.
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pierces the holes in it, draws tne wire
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earn Willi :i luunsiuu iiuu uAui-iuuts uuij
wonderful ; so much so, that tho Hon. Ed
ward Everett said there was nothing to
which he could compare the machine but to
the human system, and has cushiincd it in
his eloquence, aud thrown additional charms
around the labor and ingenuity of Whitto-
'more, i no spirit or invention, having star-
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of master minds, in different parts of the
! world, was not deterred from visiting
France, even when tho reign of peace and
the arts was usurped by military despotism.
' No event connected with the reign of Nnpo-
1 1 loon the first, possesses more interest than
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of the nniuent alone, but the almost mirucu
lous inventive powers of a Frenchman, have
placed them within the reach of nearly all
classes. This loom was originally intended
to weave nets; aud tho Emperor hearing of
its magical structure and capabilities sum
moned Jacquard, through the Perfect of
Lyons, to appear before him. The median
ist was hurried off to Paris without an ex'
planatiou, and when in the presence of Na-
poleon,ho was confounded and shocked by
, the impious questions of the notorious Car
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i not. ''lie a knot in a strctchcl stnn." In
this conservatory of the jilacc, Jacquaru
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same time to weave a shawl for the Em
press Joscplicue ; and the machine so alter'
ed and constructed, under the very shadow
I of a throne, is tho one of worldwide ecleb-
1 r!ta"J wI!!cU h" cnfcrre;!',loroL;,cfit'!,
on Franco than all tho warlike exploits of
her renowned Emperor. Other inventions,
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.atho for turning shoe lats and g"n stocks,
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plaining, morticing, diilling and nail ma
chines, might bo included iu this catalogue,
with tho interesting and instructive inci
dents connected with their invention, but to
attempt such a history in my rambling
sketch, would bo as vain as tho effort to
crowd the noblest triumphs of civilization,
of tho last hundred years, within thg same
.t-(.iim-.!liA.l mill iinvrnw litmfq
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From tho standing point of tho present
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, lull n lmlr ffintiiri- linu- pnlmil'ililn t in linn'
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that are grouped ,n proiue.on on tho field of
vision, and easily recognized as tlio ncu
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fruits of machinery. Amongst them wo
behold fields more thoroughly cultivated
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municatiou between communities. States
aud nations, wearing apparel of various
textures of cloth, tilks and sattins, fur
nished at prices that enable all classes, in
our country especially, to appear in vest
ments, which before tho era of the spinniug
jenny, power loom and cotton gin were
confined to tho uso of tho opulent; and
ether similar advantages and blessings.
If the great movements of industry and
and progress, that derive their pulsations
fioni machinery, aro eusccptiblo of inter
pretation or point to any thing, what else
can it bo, but the rapid approach of tho
time, when the bond of pcaco and brother
hood will exist between all nations, and
when mind shall be clothed universally in
the free oujoyucut of its noble attributes
and lofty aspirations ? To aid in this great
work is tho duty of every ouc, and partic
ularly of thoso who arc young and vigor
ous in mind and body, who should gather
inspiration from tho hum of industry that
greots us on all sides, and oontributo their
aid, cither of head or hand, to the great
aggregato of effort that is demanded by
tho ago, to promoto the accomplishment of
tho moral and physical improvements on
tho tapis j and in tho languago of Osgood,
Work for tome good to It ever an flowly.
t'li'riili tome llawt'r bdccriiluvtly.
Labor I A!l labor fa noble anil holy.
Lebanon Courier.
Blessings of a Rural Life.
Cultivate a love for tho country; tho
scrcuo joys which a rural lifo can afford
are prsferablo to tho noisy, and alas, too ;
oftcu, vicious gratifications which wo sock
amid tho whirl of a city life. Tho city as
it were tho soul's affections to the earth
the business too often hides from our eyes
the fair face of Nature, and lead us to
forget the glorious God that made us, and
to whom we are indebted for life, aud all
things.
Vapid, empty and artificial are tho joys
of a city life when compared with tho sa
cred delights which a rural residence can
ivo to a mind rightly constituted. Soli
tary communion with Nature is ono of tho
holiest dclii-hts which the world can be-
stow a delight which is sure to benefit
the world which enjoys it. Purity is en-
stamped on Nature's form, and communion
with her is pure, and lovely aud of good
report.
In every season of the year a residence
in the country has a bcneCcial effect ou
the human soul. In Spring when trees
again put ou their singing robes, and mur
mur forth the praises of Him who made
them. Spring has a tendency to give
buoyancy to the spirits that heart is cal
lous which does not awake and sing when
all things around are beaming with hopo
aud promise
in Summer, the blushing flowers arc I
seen amid the rural retreats, and seem,
methinks, like stolen glories from Para
disc ; then the singing birds trill forth
melodies, the purest and sweetest ever
heard on earth, which may .well raise tho
tlioughts.away from this vanishing world
of ours to the glory land beyond.
In Autumn tho country teaches us wis
dom lessons ; the whispers that are heard
when tho leaves are falling, seem, me
thinks, sweet echoes from tho angel world,
telling that wo, too, must fade and vanish
like the leaves of the forest, and be found
no more on earth at all.
In winter, wo are led to revere the wis
dom and power of Him who docth all
things well who hath hid tho flowers bo-
ncath a snow mautlo to enhance our joys
on again beholding them ; and who sends
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To the thoughtful mind, reflections such
as aro suggested by a rural life, which
should not be decried as listless and lin
Llcasant Communion with Natnrn can
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in the pursuit of the pleasure of a city
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The Ciioctaws. The Choctaw Nation
seems to be a model community. All
lands, it is said, arc hcid in common, and
each Indian, or those connected with him
by affinity or consanguinity, settle down,
aud uo ono is allowed to como noarcr than
a quai tcr of a mile of this enclosure ; and
that is his claim, and he is protected in his
possession by the laws of the nation, as
though it wero his in feo simple. Mer
chants, mechanics, professional men, ma'
, cuiuiats, tc., are auoweu 10 nvo mere ov
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1 permit from tho Council, but no one is al-
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q ifa
family outiido of his trade or profession.
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officer is poured out, and iffouud in any
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wagon, water-craft, or on horseback, tho '
whole establishment is confiscated to the
use of the Nation.
A Sheriffs officer was sent to execute a
writ against a Quaker. On arriving at the
houso ho saw tho Quaker's wife, who in
reply to tho inquiry whether her husband
was at home, answered in tho affirmative,
at the samo timo requesting him to be
seated, and her husband would speedily sco
him. Tho officer waited patiently for somo
time, but tho Quakeress coming into the
room, he reminded her of her promise,
that ho should seo hor husband. "Nay
friend, I promised that ho should sco thee.
Ho has seen thee, IIo did not like thy
looks, therefore ho avoided thco, and has
left tho house by another path,"
Tlio Princo's Visits to tho Uni
ted States.
i.vritEssroxs of ekousii observers.
From the Correspondence of the London Tlmef .
THE JOUIINEY TlIROUCm PENNSYLVANIA.
Harrisburg, Oct. 2d. Pittsburgh
was reached in tho night. Thero was an
immenso crowd waiting to see 'the Prince,'
as a matter of courso, who escorted him
rather boisterously up to tho handsomo
and comfortable hotel whore ho was to
stay for tho night, and which takes its
namo from tho banks of the river on
which Pittsburgh is built, tho Monongahcla
House. This was much inferior to the
Durnet House, at Cincinnati, iu external
appearance, as it was superior iu real eom
fort, which is saying a great deal in a few
words. From daybreak next morning,
tliero was an immenso crowd round tho
hotel, which for a time prevented all ve
hicles coming to tho door. At last, how
ever, tho Prince got into his carriage, and
would have driven round the town, but for
the mistaken politeness of tho Mayor, who
turned out some fine compauies of the
malitia to precede tho cortege with their
bands at a slow march. An arrangement
to which, as a kind of State reception, his
Royal Highness was disinclicd, aud which
as affording all i'lttslmrgli an opportunity
of keeping pace side by side with his Roy
al Highness, must have been in the highest
degree uncomfortable aud cmbarrassin
As with everything clso, however, tho
Prince bore this slow, trying ordeal, with
hundreds staring close into his faco for j
more than an hour and a half, with a mod-
est, good humored courtesy, which won,
the hearts of all certainly, I have never
seen his frank, dignified kindness appear
to greater advantago than it did ou this
occasion. In Pittsburgh itself, of course
there was nothing to see beyond a popu-
lous thriving "coal and iron town," whero
the air aud buildings are blacker, theugh i
with far less cause than those or Sheffield,
aud where she sooty mud is paramount in
all the streets. At 1 o'clock tho Royal
train started for Harrisburg, tho band of
the fine campany of Malitia playing a-
maioje ne t.oublierai." that beautiful Ca
nadian air with which all the British towns
in North America took lcavo of their Roy -
al guest.
This day's journey of 230 miles was by
tho Pennsylvania Central Railway, not
only through Pennsylvania, but actually
up aud across tho Allegheny Mountains, j always at so stoop an incline that, even with
propably tho most difficult route for a the brakes on, the train blides down at al
railway that ever was attempted, and ' most full speed. Round Ketauning Point
certainly ono the cencry of which is not to there is one incline with two awfully sudden
bo equalled from any railway in the whole curve., where in little more than a mile tho
world.
For a few miles tho land through which
the line passes is neither very rich looking
nor very picturesque, being merely fields
dotted with autumn foliascd trees, and
here and there a huge black smoky mound
near tho shalts of coalpits. After passing
tho great Cambria Ironworks, however it and the other cast,
soon changes, and the track lays for miles J At tho pretty little village of Altona,
between mountains, and up a gorge, cloth- l where tliero is ono 6f the best railway ho
ed from baso to summit with tho densost tcls in the kingdom, the party were to have
foliage. At any timo of tho year such a ' slopped for dinner. This intention, how-
ravine would bo grand and beautiful, but
now, wh;u tho coming winter has roused
tho forest into a quick warm life of color
and robed the mountains in celestial tints
like rainbows, thero was a solemn gorge
ousncss about the past that is utterly inde
scribable. The eyo ranged over mount-
aiu and valley till the mind was saturated Juniata river, and thence by the broad, j but theso were the rare exceptions to cou
with their burning richness, and you turn- shallow stream of tho Susquehanna, filled . duct. The dresses of very many certainly
cd as if for relief from the great sheen of .with its thousands of little marshy islands, showed an utter dinregard of the ordinary
tints to look upon tho soft unfathomable At 1 1 tho train reached Harrisburg the , usages of society on those cceasions; but
bluo of the distant ranges, or watches the legislative capital of Pennsylvania, aod, I mere dresses mado very little difference,
stripes of fleecy mist gathering with tho like most legislative capitals in this coun-1 and, after all, it must be remembered that
fall of night, draping the hills in silvery
streaks, like the hazo over Turner's gorge
ous paintings. This was the entrance which
begins tho asccut of tho Alleghany Mouut
ains, up which aud amid such scenes the
train began to wind. For long, long miles
it puffed and toiled, aud struggled painful
ly upwards, but always shut iu between
these masses of colored hill3,strctching up
wards on each sido like feathery tapestry.
At last tho train emerged from the gorge
ous degle ncr Kittannicg Mountain, half
way up tho summit of tho Alloghanics,and
nearly 1,800 feet abovo the levol of the line
at Pittsburg. What a view was got hero I
It was liko looking down through a prism
upon tho landscape from the summit of the
Rigi Kulm, Distance had softened off
tho warm, deep, bright glow of tho chang
ing trees iuto a rich mazo of gentle color,
so varied yet so equal iu its yariations,that
it seemed liko ono grand arabesquo of na
turo, a vast pasture, which covered the
very mountains, and shono up through the
oft blue mists that gathered in tho valleys
n glcaim of color liko jowela under water
Tho sun had set but its train of rainbow
light was still brilliant in the west, shed
ding a farewell fervor over tho hills, and
gliding down tho valleys in silent yellow
beams, filling them with an atmos
phere of gold. On one side in tho distance
all was light and life, and gorgeous rays ;
while up iu the cast remorseless night camo
crowding on, stifling out the brilliant wood
land with a dull gray haze, and making
tho mountains loom heavily through tho
darkness from tho heavens like clouds of a
coming storm. Close and sheer abovo the
train rose a precipice, worried and riven
into such fantastic ruins as only tho decay
of mountains show staiucd with raw
blotches, whoso watercourse trickled down
into old gray pinuaclos, draped with a si
lent moss, and here and thero long cree
pers dropping softly down from stono to
stone iu rills of vegetation, rustling and
waving gently with tho wiud. Abovo tho
rock, like sunset clouds, tho forest roso in
all itjs glory, with festoous of glowing
weeds, like old tern banners, hanging in
melancholy grandeur from their boughs,
with clumps of underwood, and sweet wild
flowers still alive with bloom, with hum
ble, timid willows, bending in low obei
sance before these severe lords of the
woods; tho dark, tall, sombre, unchaning
pine. Maple and sumachs, swamp ash
and hemlocks, oaks, sycamores, larches,
chestnuts, and aspens, all crowded togeth
er in every form and hue of leaf, in every
shape of branch, huddling their tinted
leaves together like a huge pavillion, to
screen in and shroud from view tho deep,
i long, silent vistas that wandered into
j darkness between their stems. There was
such a life of color, such a death of sound
,upou tho scene, that even the rush of the
river below came up hushed like a fading
breeze, aud it seemed as if all nature, with
tho coming darkness, had sunk to slumber.
There were no stars iu the heavens, but
little dots of light shone out like spangles
over tho plain below, marking where cot
tages stood, with here and there a little
constellation, showing where a rising vil-
lage straggled loosely round in picturesque
confusion.
Tho Prince saw the whole of this graud
panorama, to tlio very best advantage, for
1 at the commencement of the ascent ho left
his carriage and proceeded to tho engine,
on which ho rode till tho whole of tho
Allechanies had been crossed, lho des-
cent from tho summit is 12 miles in length,
j way descends 1)0 feet. This path, wind-
ug rouud the edge of a tcrrifio precipice,
is o-ieof tho most awful railway passages 1 .
cvor saw or heard of. Some idea may be
formed of the sharp nature of the curve
'when two trains travel for miles in the
samo direction, though one is going west
j ever, was abandoned, for it was nightfall
and Harrisburg was still somo lbO miloi
distant, so the train was pushed on through
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rows," amid much the same rich magnifi-
ceueo of scenery as on the Hudson, at West
Point. From this it traversed along the
try, small, quiet, and rather faded look -
mg. Unly a short stay, merely to get a
night's rest, is to bo made by tho Royal
party, and to morrow tho endless jonrney
ing commence with the routo to Washing
ton. ThE I'lUNCE's IlECKrTION AT WASH
INGTON. Tho Princo has arrivod at this
strauge city, whose streets of ill-built houses
connect the most noble public buildings,
and where one has to admiro the city as a
city always in tho future tense. It will
and must iu history bo one of the gaeatcst
capitals that tho world has sceu, but as yet
it seems to want a deal of buildiug, altera'
tious, and improvements boforo it can be a
worthy legislative centre of this great em
pire Another hour, however, must suffice
for recording my impression of this great,
strange, unequal city, for I havo barely
timo now to do moro than jot down a few
incidents of the prince's reception.
That there was a great crowd at the
station may of courso be taken for granted
but it wa3 well railed off, and no hustling,
J as with Iho mob3 of Detroit and St Louis,
was allowed at any lime. General Cass,
Secretary of State, with Mr. James Buchan.
an and James Buchanan Henry, nephews
of tho President, wero on tho platform,
and received his royal highness aa ho
alighted from the train. Thero was a very
brief pause wkilo General Cass, on the part
of the chief magistrate of the United Statos,
cordially welcomed tho royal udtor to
Washington, and a few introductions took
place, but there was no ceremony or delay
of any kind, and tho party at once entered
tho President's carriage and drove t. tho
White House. They arrived at tho czectl
tivo mansion soon aficr 4 o'clock. Tho
President, as regal and as venerable in his
appcaranoo as any king who ever woro a
crown, stood just inside the portal of tho
White House, and as the Princo stepped
forward shook him by the hand with a
cordiality of welcome that was unmistak
able. It was more a meeting between pri
vate friends aud gentlemen than a really
historical reception given by tho chief of
the greatest republic to tho heir of tho
greatest monarchy in the world. Tho Presi
dent led his guest at once to tho blue draw
ing room, whero he introduced Miis Lane.
his uiecj, and Mrs. Ellis, niece of tho lato
Vice President King. But beyond theso
few facts I know nothing, except that all
tho guests at the White House are staying
there without formality, and as any other
party of distinguished travelers whom it
might please tho President to entertain.
Only ouo exception is made to the general
rule of affairs at tho executive raa-Bionj
and that Is while the Princo stays thero it
is no longer an open honso to all, but police
aro stationed round it, and nono except
those invited aro allowed to enter. Many
m.mbers of tho royal suite, who could not
be accommodated at tho President's man
sion, arc staying with Lord Lyons. This
morning his royal highness went over the
Capitol, aud visited tho Senate Chamber
and Chamber of tho Hall of Representa
tives, with some other of tho magnificent
public buildings hero. Afterwards thero
was a levee, at which everybody came that
wanted, and to which many camo that wero
not wanted, if one might judge from their
extremely negligee costumo. Tbero were
plenty of ladies there in bonnets and shawls,
and some individuals who sauntered into
the room with their bauds in their pockets,
aud who otherwise conducted themslvcs
in a way which, certainly, as far as I have
. seen, in not useful among the American
gentlemen who unfortunately do chew to
bacco. The President did not remain in
any special place, or take a prominent
pirt in ihe reception at a'l. Like his
chief guests, he was dressed in black, tho'
not in full dress a sort of male rlcmi
toilcltc, which was quite sufficient for tha
occasion. People passed in gazed at tho
Prince, bowed to him and tho President
and then passed out. Iu fact it seemed
, li" a reception than a mixed deputation,
I Ironi winch ladies were not excluded. It
was not agood time oftheyearin which to
give such a levee, for Washington is almost
empty now,comparcd to what it generally is.
There was a total absence of formality
or restriction either as to dress or person
of any kind, and yet, as a rule, thero was
a quiet decorum iu manners, which, con-
siitenng that all who chose to come might
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j oral asdeinblago in Europe. Hero and
there could be seen something very cutre,
. and as I have intimated, even offensivo,
, it was oarly in tho day.
A Vermont horsejockcy, boasting ono
day of his horse, gravely asserted that
when ho was but thrco years old, tho
lightning killed the old mare, and chased
the colt all round the pasture without gel
ting in a striking distance of him,
A cutb Yankee, iu Kan?as, sells liquor
in a gun barrel, iustead of a glass, that ho
may avoid the law, and made it appear,
beyond dispute, that ho is telling by the
barrel.
A good minister in a country villago
lately prayed fervently for those of his
congregation 'who were too proud to kneel
aud too lazy too stand.'
Always do as tho sun does look al
tho bright side of everything. For while
it is just as cheap, it is three times as good
for digestion.
If you wish to cure a tcolding Trifc,
never fail to laujrh at her with all vonr
might until che ceases then kiss her.
Sure cure,