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BY-CDSE DAYS AND THEE.
Oh ! let me sing one gentle strain
Of by goi e clays and ihee—
Ol days that ne'er will come again,
Vet's bright in memory.
Fond memory in the tun will keep
Tho cherished flowers there,
And softly o'er them bend and weep
With kitid and gentle care.
Her sighs will fan each leaflet light,
A lid tears as dew will he.
To keep them ever true and bright—
Those by-gone days with thee.
Like incense from that urn will rise
The light of oilier hours ;
Ah ! happy thoughts and tender tics
Are linked around those flower.
They will not wither, but will bloom
Till memory's urn is broken ;
Then, scattered faded o'er the tomb,
Of by-gone days a token.
EONA Cono.
WEALTH AND LABOR.
BY HON. It. U. O. COLBY.
There aro instances in this country of
enormous individual wealth—frequent in
stances of independent individual fortunes.
Hut who are they that possess, and whenco
did they derive Irom ? Ftom some old
ancestors, who won broad lands and proud
lilies in the field of battle—or in the Senate
—at the bar—or the counting house ? If
you look for such inherited fortunes as I
these, you will discover that they were long
since dismembered—that with every revo
lution of the seasons, they are diminishing
—and in a very few instances can one of
their descendants call the roof tree of his]
father's house his own.
No! These are the fruits of individual
industry, skid, or enterprise. And you
can seldom trace their history further
j back than to find them commanding a
trading sloop to tho West Indies, pur
chasing fur in small quantities on the
frontier, or selling excellent groceries at
a lirst-rate stand for busitie-s They are
self-made men—the architects of their
own fortunes ; and I yield a thousand-fold
more respect to such as they, than 1 can
over feel for one who owes Ins wealth and
his standing it. this world to the mere ac
cident ol birth ; and when their names are
uttered in the marts of commerce, and the
country ring? from side to side with the
story of their success, 1 leel that this, of all '
countries, is the best for human labor and
enterprise.
A very important and striking feature
in our political and social system, which,
indeed, is tho inevitable result of our in
stitutions and laws, is, that there is no
aristocracy amongst us—not even an ar
istocracy of wealth. An aristocracy can
not exist without peculiar and exclusive
privileges and rights, recognized, sanction
ed, and upheld by law. There cannot bo,
in this country, even a confederacy or
combination among the rich men to
acquire peculiar jtrivileges. They have
none to defend. There is no clanship, no
esprit de corps among them. They are
not like the hereditary nobles of Europe
whose names are enrolled in a heraldic
colleges, set apart from the rest of man
kind, designated by titles, marked by
badges of honor, bound together by inter
marriages, by a community of interests
and of feelings, a distinct order in the
state; nothing of all this, and they areas
mutable besides as the motes that float in
the summer air. Death is ever busily at
work in dismembering all overgrown for
tunes. Misfortunes, too—and, alas ! they
occasionally rain thick and fast, and do
their part in the ceaseless work of distribu
tion. The rich man of to-day is the poor
man of to-morrow.
.And, while, from those causes, multi
tudes are passing out, thousands are, in 1
the land, passing into this charmed circle;
for, those who commenced life with no
inheritance but poverty, aro urually the
individuals that rise to affluence. If a
'drawn between the two
claA. at apy given moment, and then
five pass away, I doubt whether
the Jgmlei portion could not be recog
nizcJsgH the same. Hundreds and hun>-
dredaTaould be found to have changed
to apeak of a clan of men
thus constituted as an aristocracy, is as
sound and sensible philosophy us to point
to the insects of sdtftmer as the emblems
of eternity.
Yes, ye laborers, thoi% is no land like
yours, it is yours to pMMM, to enjoy.
Here is a fair field for all to labor, in
whatever vocation they fKiife ail> l '' lo
rewards of diligence aro amplr and se
cure. There is not an aven®je wealth
or distinction which is a post
unattainable. There is no BttjWL for
any hostility or utikinducss of
tween tho rich and the laboring classes*
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, l'A., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1859.
but tho strongest reason, on tho contrary,
lor mutual friendship and the most cordial
union. It may well be questioned whether
they should ever be spoken ol as classes,
since the term prosupposes a lino of
demarcation, which cannot he drawn.
Moth are striving with the same eagerness
for the same object—some portion of
wealth—and both are interested in the
protection of property. If, instead of
spending time in mutual jealousies and
recriminations, they would join heart and
hand in all great and good undertaking,
the one contributing the means, the other
the skill and labor, they would accom
plish more for themselves and their coun
try in one year than by fifty years of dis
sension.
We should not forgot that there are
those who grace and gladden our festivi
ties by their presence; who do not mingle
with ns, indeed, in the walks of business,
hut exert a mcro potent influence upon
the atlairs of men than we aro always
willing to acknowledge ; whose empire is
absolute over the world of fashion ; whose
appearance in the mid.-t of dissensions is
like the radiant how that spans the 9lorm.
If their smiles do sometimes kindle dis
sensions, they oftener allay it, and 1 would
invoke their gentie influence in the work
of reforming the national manners. If
they would besiow more of their kind
regards upon their aihlctic and manly
forms that make our hill sides and valleys
laugh and ring with tho wealth of golden
harvests and less upon those whiskered
and bedizened apes that inlcst the drawing
room, we should love them better, and our
country would regard them as her jewels.
What honest vocation can he named that
does r.ot contribue, in a greater or less de
gree, to the enjoyment of man 1 It may be
humble, indeed, but it goes to swell the
mighty aggregate ; it may be a rill that
trickles from the mountain side, but it dif
fuses fertility through the valley, and min
gles its drops at last with the ocean. The
true American motto is and must be—mar
ked upon our loreheads, written upon otf
door posts—channelled in the earth, and
wafted upon the waves— INDUSTRY, LABOR
IS HONORABLE, and idleness is dishonorable
—and I care not if it be labor, whether it
be of the head or hands. Whitney, whose
cotton gin doubled the value of every acre
of land in the 8011 th, raised more cotton
with his head than any twenty men ever
raised with their hands, f.et me exhort
those of you who are devoted to intellectual
pursuits, to cherish, on your part, an ex
alted and just idea of manual labor, and to
make that opinion known in your works
nnd seen in the earnest of your actions.
The laboring men of this country arc vast
in number and respectable in character.
We owe to them, under l'rovidenee, the
most gladsome spectacle the sun beholds
in its course—a land of cultivated and fer
tile fields, an ocean while with canvass.
We owe to them the annual spectacle of
golden harvests, which carries plenty and
happiness alike to the palace and the cot
tage. We owe to them the fortresses that
guard our coasts—the ships that have borne
our flag to every clime and carried the
thunder of our cannon triumphant over the
waters of the deep.
Sir Walter Scott, a mere writer of poetry
and romance, has given employment to
ten thousand paper-makers, type-founders,
printers, tanners, book-binders; and beyond
that has awakened the love of elegant lite
rature in millions of minds. Sir Isaac Newton
spent his days partly in sleep, and his nights
in watching the stars in the midnight sky ;
and yet his discoveries have enabled the
mariner to pursue his forming pathway in
the deep, as safely as on the land, and thus
poured the products of every clime into the
lap of labor. The benefactions of these
men were indeed great and illustrious : but
there are men in our midst engaged in
similar pursuits every day of their lives,
bestowing the same kind of benefits on
mankind. The merchant's life is a life of
excitement and care, of risk and uncertainty,
bnt of '.ho first importance to every commu
nity ; as indispensible to the laborer as the
laborer is to him.
The village school master who devotes
tho years ol his youth or his manhood to
the exhausting drudgery of instruction;
who moulds the characters and fixes the
principles of an advancing generations—is
as eminently useful, though he sinks at
last into tho grave unhonored and unsung,
as the demagogues whose presence is
greeted in caucuses, or whose voice is
heard in the halls of legislauon, discussing
the constitutional power of Congress to buy
a penknife.
AN AMERICAN KACLK FOR TIIB KMPF.ROR OF
AUSTRIA.—A Richmond correspondent of
Ihe Petersburg Express says :
The Virginia Central brought down on its
train of yesterday afternoon a rare bird of
the faglo species. At the invitation of a
friend I visited this natural curiosity to-day.
It is of enormous size, resembles tho com
mon grey eagle so frequently caught in
Virginia, but is bicipitous, or double-headed
—and in this its peculiarity consists. The
two heads are clearly defined, and seom to
be perfect in all respects. It receives its
food with the same facility in either beak,
and apparently hears and sees alike through
all its eyes and ears. It was captured when
a mere fledgling, near Luray, Page county,
by Mr. Joannas Schwartzberger, and has
been carefully nurtured and fed by himself
and family ever since. Mr. S. has disposed
of this curious bird to the Austrian Consul
at Now Yoik, who intends presenting it to
Emperor, Francis Joseph.
A List of Wonders.
Among the thousands of marvelous in
ventions which American genius has pro
duced, within the last few years, are tho
following, compiled in an abstract from the
Patent Office Report. Read them over,and
then say if you can, that there is nothing
new under the sun.
The report explains the principle of the
I celebrated Hobb lock. Its 'unpickability'
j depends upon a secondary or false set of
tumblers, which prevent instruments used
in picking from reaching the real ones.—
Moreover, the lock is powder proof, and
may be loaded through the key-hole and
fired off till the burglar is tired of his fruit
less work, or fears that tho explosions will
to view his exprimeiits more witness than
he desires.
Doors and shutters have been patented
that cannot be broken through with either
pick or sledge-hammer. The burglar'a 'oc
cupation's gone.'
A harpoon is described which makes the
whale kill himself. The more he pulls the
line, the deeper goes the harpoon.
An ice-making machine has been paten
ted, which is worked by a steam-engine. Ir.
an experimental trial, it froze several bot
tles of sherry, and produced blocks of ice
the size of a cubic foot when the thermome
ter was up eighty degrees. It is calculated
that for every ton of coal put into the fur
nace, it will make a ton ot ice.
From Mr. Dale's examiners report, we
gather some idea of the value ol patents. —
A man who had make a slight improve
ment is straw-cutters, took a model of his
machine through the Western States, and
after a tour of eight mouths, returned with
forty thousand .dollars. Another man had
a machine to thrash and clean grain, which
in fifteen months he sold for sixty thousand
dollars. These aro ordinary cases—while
such inventions as tho telegraph, the plan
ing machine, and India rubber patents, are
worth millions each.
Examiner Lane's report describes new
electrical inventions. Among these is an
electrical whaling apparatus, by which lite
whale is literally 'shocked to death.' An
other is an electro magnetic alarm, which
rings bells and displays signals in caso of
fire and burglars. Another is an electric
clock, which wakes you tip, tells you what
timo il is, and lights a lamp (or you at any
hour you please.
There is a 'sound gatherer,' a sort of huge
trumpet, to be placed in front of a locomo
tive, bringing to the engineer's ear all the
noise ahead ; perfectly distinct, notwith
standing the noise of the train.
There is an invention that picks up pins
from a confused heap, turns them around
witli their heads up, and sticks them in pa
pers in regular rows.
Another goes through the wholo process
of cigar making, taking in leaves and turn
ing out finished cigars.
One machine cuts cheese ; another scours
knives and forks; another rocks the cradle :
and seven or eight lake in washing and
ironing.
There is a parlor chair patented that can
not be lipped back on two legs, and a rail
way chair that can be lipped. back to any
position without any legs at all.
Another patent is for a machine that
counts passengers in an omnibus and taku
their fares. When a very fat gentleman
gets in, it counts two and charges double.
There are a variety of guns patented that
load themselves, a fishing line that adjusts
its own bait, and a rat trap that throws
away the rat, and baits itself and stands
in the corner for another.
'J here is a machine also, by which a man
prints, instead of writes, his thoughts. It
is played like a piano-forte. And sheak
ing of pianos, it is estimated that nine thou
sand are made every year giving constant
employment to one thousand nine hundred
persons, costing over two millions of dollars.
HERE is a paragraph of plain talk to the
girls, by a anonymous author, which is
worth a library of Young Ladies, Friends, or
whatever may be the title of the wishy
washy compounds that are sold for the
benefit of that interesting portion of the
community : Men who are worth having,
want women for wives. A bundle of gew
gaws bound with a string of flats and qua
vers, sprinkled with cologne and sot in a
carmine saucisse—this is no help for a
man who expects to raise a family on veri
table bread and meat. The piano and lace
frames aro good in their places, and so aro
ribbons, trills and tinsels, but you cannot
make a dinner of tho former, nor a bed
blanket of the latter. And, awlul as the
idea may seem to you, both dinner and
bed-blanket are essential to domestic hap
piness. Lile has its realities as well as
fancies; but you may make it a matter of
decoration remembering the tassel curtains,
but forgeting the bedstead. Supposing a
man of good sense, and of course good
prospocts, to bo looking for a wife—what
chance have you to be chosen ? You may
trap him, but how much belter to make it
an object for him to catch you. Render
yourself worth catching, and you will need
no shrewd mother to help you to find a
market.
THE Second Annual Fair of tho Lycoming
County Agricultural Society, will be hold
at Kcpstone Park, Williamsport, on Tues
day, Wednesday, and Thursday, Oct. 24th,
25th, and 26th inst.
To VOUNG MEN ONLY. —When your lady
love can't be moved by any other process,
try the leavo-hor.
Trwtfe ami Rlffltl Go or Country.
Wlml n Lady Thinks of Hairy Fnces.
A disgusted fomulo at Xenia, Ohio, is ma
king a terrific crusade against hairy faced
men. Hear her:
What expression of kindness and mild
humanity can be observed in a face cover
ed with hair, from the nose down? Not
| any. As well might a poor rat look in the
' grizzly muzzle of a Scotch terrier for mercy
when about to be caught in his crushing
jaws, as to look for an expression of human
| kindness and sympathy in the lace of a hir
; sate man.
Who can apprcciato tlio value of a smile?
j It lightens up the countenance with ador
| ing sweetness, indicates a kind heart, and
radiates gladness to tin"*Sekrls of others,
' encourages the desponding, soothes tho af
! Dieted, cheers the sorrowing, disarms wrath,
f and kindles up genial sympathy and reci
procal rogard.
Hut a smile cannot crop out from tho face
' of a man, "bearded and moustached" like
1 the pard. You suppose, from the agitation
j of tall grass, that some animal was crawl-
I ing through it. So you may infer, from the
, whisking of hair, tnat a smile was burrow
ing along there somewhere, out of sight.—
| The smile of such a man cannot be distin
-1 guished from the grin of a ribbed nosed ba
' boon, which had burnt its mouth with a hot
| chestnut.
I The lips are capable of indicating a varie
!ly of passions and emotions. They can ex-
I press kindness, good humor, sweetness of
i disposition, sorrow, firmness, and disposi
tion, of character, or the manifest scorn,
[contempt, disdain, loathing, anger and
threaten like loaded revolvers. Tho chief
j expression of the best traits in Napoleon's
I nature were in his mouth and chin, which
he could clothe with so much sweet win
ning mute, persuasive elotptence as to ren
der his look irresistible. Hut when lip and
chin are covered with hair, you might as
well look for expression in the hole of a
bank swallow in the side of a gully, over
hung with a tuft ol grass.
The passions and affections have their
j poles in the face, firmness in the upper lip,
mirthfulness near the outer corners of the
mouth, and the affections in the edges of
j the lips, &e., hence the philosophy and de
| light el kissing ; the more intense the pas
I sion, the more soul-thrilling ami enraptur
| ing the kiss- Behold the lovely woman,
I with a lorm'shapec! by the hand of harmony,
regular features ri -K'. -,
| bright eyes beaming with intelligence, woll
j arranged pearly teeth, a soil delicate skin, a
j mouth like Cupid's bow, a nock like ivory,
a breast like alabaster, and the swelling un
dulations of love like snow, her lips like
two rosebuds moist with morning dew, and
her cheeks,
"Where tho live crimson through tho na
tive while,
Shooting over the face difiuses bloom,
And every nameless grace."
Radiant in beauty, she is surrounded by an
atmosphere of love, as a rose exhales fra
grance. Just think of one of these hair-fa
ced fellows attempting to kiss her—see
him pulling up htschevaux-de-frese ol bris
tles to reveal his wild, beast-looking, caver
nous slit of a mouth ! Halt, its abominable,
the idea is disgusting—nauseous—get out
—scat !
"Give us an otinco of civit, good apothe
cary, to sweeten my iitiugTtfcnion
Whom do moustaches and beards be
come ? Brigands, pirates, fillibustera, and
especial professional executioners. Jack
j Ketch, the hangman, would effectually con
! ceal all expressions of human sympathy
and compassion—causing him to look as
grim and unrelenting as death in whose
office he officiates.
Origlon of Printing.
The Art Journal says that it is partly to
the use of playing cards that we are indebt
ed for the invention which has been justly
regarded as one of the greatest benefits of
mankind. The first cards were printed
with the hand. They were subsequently
made more rapid by a process called sten
ciling—that is, by cutting the rude forms
through a piece of paistboard,parchment,or
thin metal, which, when placed on the
card board intended to receive the impres
sion, was brushed over with ink or color,
which paessed through tho cut-out lines,
and imparted the figure to the material be
neath. A farther improvement was made
by cutting the figure on blocks of wood and
literally printing them on cards. The card
blocks are supposed to have given the first
idea of wood engraving. When the peoplo
saw the effects of cutting the figures of the
cards upon blocks, they began the same
manner, and then applied the method to ot
her subjects, cutting in like manner the
few words of necessory explanation. This
practice further expanded itself into what
are called block books, consisting of picto
rial subjects, with copious explanatory texts.
Some one, at iontgth, hit upon the idea of
cutting the pages of a regular book on so
many blocks, of wood, and taking the im
pression on wood, aod paper or vellum, in
stead of Writing tho manuscript? and this
plan was soon further improved by cutting
letters or words on seperate pieces of wood
and sotting them up together so as to form
pages. The wood was subsequently su
perseded by mental aud thus originated
the noble art of Printing.
CF" " Thou rain'st in this bosom," as the
chap said when a basin of water was thrown
over him by tho lady he was serenading.
CF" It is a waste of raw materials to put
live dollars worth of beaver on ten cents
worth of brains.
BEAUTIFUL STANZAS.
Leaf by leaf the roses fall,
Drop by drop the springs run dry;
One by one, beyond recall,
Summer beauties fade and die;
Rut the roses bloom again,
And the spring will gush anew,
In the pleasant April rain
And the Summer sun and dew.
So in hours of deepest gloom,
When the spring of gladness fail,
And the roses in the bloom,
Droop like maidens wan and pale,
We shall find somo hope that lies
Like a silent gem apart,
Hidden far from careless eyes,
in tho garden of the heart.
Some s*eot hope to gladness wed,
That will spring alresh and new,
When grief's winter shall have fled,
Giving place to fain and dew—
Some sweet hope that breaths of spring,
Through tho weary, weary time
Budding for its blossoming,
In the spirit's glorious climo.
Experiences of Imprisonment.
The following is an extract from Count
Goufall Cottier's account of his imprison
ment :
"Fifteen years I existed in a dungeon ten
feet square ! During six years I had a com
panion ; during nine I was alone 1 I never
could rightly distinguish the face of htm
who shared my captivity, in the eternal
twilight of our cell. The first year we talk
ed incessantly together; wo related our past
lives our joys forever gone, over and over
again. Tho next year we communicated
to each other our thoughts and ideas on all
subjects. The third year we had no ideas
to communicate; we were beginning to lose
the power of reflection. The fourth, at au
interval of a month or two we would open
our lips to ask each other if it were possi
ble that the world went on as gay and bust
ling as when we formed a portion of man
kind. Tho fifth we were silent. The sixth
he was taken away—l never knew where—
to execution or liberty. But I was glad
when he was gone; even solitude was bet
ter than the pale, vacant face. One day (it
must have been a year or two after my
companion loft me) the dungeon door was
opened ; whence proceeding I know not,
the following words were uttered : "by or
der of his imperial majesty, I intimate to
you that your wile died a year ago." Then
the door was shut, and 1 heard no more ;
they had but flung this great agony upon
mo, and left tno alone with it."
TRUE GREATNESS.—Who are the truly
great ? Not always those who occupy a
high position among the sons of earth. It
may not bo those who have toiled ap edu
cation 's step and who have ascended to
what men call fames, highest pir.icle of re
nown, whose elotjuence enchains the mind
of millions, ami who sways them at his
will. It may not be him who has thousands
of votaries that bow at his shrino, for wealth
and friends may gain man a high position,
midst his fellow-men, even if not deserving.
It is not always those that occupy the high
est position that are most deserving, very
far from it. The truly great are those that
do not strive to obtain a high position among
the sons cf earth, but whose greatest object
and motto is to do good and to benefit his
fellow-men, regardless of self and the opi
nions of tho fashionable and wealthy ones
of earth. Live not for thy self but for oth
ers, is the rule which he is striving to carry
out; and when lie shall enter the scenes of
another life, for his noble actions and phil
anthropic zeal, he 6halt receive a never
failing crown of glory. Wo need build no
monuments to such worth as this—monu
ments that would pierce even to the clouds
would be far too insignificant: their monu
ments are there noble deeds imperishably
engravon in tho hearts of those whom they
have benefit ed. I.et us so live that when
we have finished this life, we shall be en
abled to say we have done right, and be
this the enduring monument to perpetuate
our name.
ANECDOTE OF GOVERNOR SEWARD.—Coz
zens, in his last I Vine Press, tells an old
story, which he says few persons have not
heard. When Governor of New York, Se
ward, in those pre-railroad days, had occa
sion to visit a certain part of the Stale, ar.d
accordingly mounted upon the top of the
mail coach, in order that he might enjoy his
cigar and the scenery. The driver was an
inquisitive fellow aud his passenger humor
ed him.
" Land agent 1" said the driver.
" No," quoth Seward.
" Selling goods ?"
" No."
" Traveling preacher?"
" No."
" Circus?''
" No."
" What, then ?" said tho baffled driver,
" what is your business ?" " Governor,"
replied Seward, with a tranquil pufl. " Go
vernor o' what?" " Governor of the Slate
of New York," replied the smoking passen
ger with composure. "Getaout!" "Well,
I can couvinco you of that," said Seward,
" for horo is a man on tho road with whom
I am acquainted," and, as the stage passed
by, he saluted him. " Good morning, Mr.
Bunker, I want to ask you a question—am 1
not the Governor of the State of New York."
" No, by thunder !" was Bunker's unex
pected answer. " Who is, then V said the
startled smoker. " Thurlow Weed 1"
CF" There is a man in Exeter whose mo
mory is so short that it only reaches to his
knees. Ter consequence, he has not paid
for his last pair of boots
A Thrilling Adventure,
A merchant who wished to celebrate his
daughter's wedding, collected a party of her
young companions They circled around
her, wishing much happiness to the youth
lul bride and her chosen one. Her father
gazed proudly oil the lovely bride, and hop
ed that as bright prospects for the future
might open for the rest of his children, who
were playing among the guests. Passing
through the hall of the basement, he met a
servant, who was carrying a lighted candle
in Iter hand and without a candlestick. He
blamed her for such conduct, and went into
the kitchen to see about snpper. Tho girl
soon returned, hut without the candle- The
merchant immediately recollected that sev
eral barrels of gunpowder had been placed
in the cellar during the day, and that one
had been opened.
" Where is your candle ?" hejinquired in
the utmost alarm.
" I couldn't bring it np with mo, for my
arms were full of wood," replied the girl.
" Where did you put it 1"
" Well, I'd no candle stick, so 1 stuck it
in somo black eand(tliat's in tho small bar
rel."
Here master dashed down the stairs—the
passage was long and dark—his knees
threatened to give way—his breath was |
choked—his flesh seemed dry and parched,
as if he clearly felt the suffocating blast of
death. At the end of the cellar, under the
very room where his children and their
friends were reveling in felicity, he saw the
open barrel of powder full to the >op: the
candle stuck loosely in the grain, with a
long red snuff of burnt wick ; this sight
seemed to wither all his powers; tho
laughter of the company struck upon his
ear like tho knell of death. He stood a
moment unable to move. The music com
menced above, the feet of the dancers re
sponding with vivacity; the floor shook,
and the loose bottles jingled with the mo
tion. He fancied that the candle moved
was falling; with desperate energy he
sprang forward—but how to remove it; the
slightest touch would cause the red hot
wick to fall into the powder. With une
qualled presence of mind, he placed a hand
on each side of tho candle, with the open
palm upwards, and the fingers pointed to
wards the object ol his care, which as his
hands met, were secured in the clasping of
his fingers, aml-snfuiy moved away from its
dangerous position. When he reached the
head of the stairs he smiled at his previous
alarm—but the re-action was too powerful,
and he fell into fits of the most violent
laughter. He was conveyed to his bed
senseless, and many weeks elapsed ero his
nerves recovered sufficiently to allow him
to resume his business.
Weislit of the World.
Copernicus first distinctly demonstrated
that the apparent terrestrial plain was really
a free and indepndent material mass, mov
ing ill a definable path through space.
Then Newton explained that it was sub
stantial and heavy, and because it was un
supported by props and chains; that, in
fact, as a massive body, it is falling forever
through the void; but that, as it falls it
sweeps round the sun in a never-ending
circuit, attracted towards it by magnet-like
energy, but kept off from it by the force of
its centrifugal movement. Next, Snell and
l'icard, measured the dimensions of the hea
vy and falling mass, and found that it was a
spherical body, with a girdle of 25,000
miles. Subsequently to this, Baily contriv
ed a pair of scales tha'. enabled him approxi
mately to weigh the vast sphere; and he as
certained that it had within itself somewhere
about 1,256,105,670,000 000,000,0C0,000tons
ol water. Toihese discoveriesFoncault has
recently added demonstration to the actual
senses of the fact, that the massive sphere is
working on itself as it falls through space
and round the sun, so that point after point
of its vast surface is brought in succession
into the genial influence of its sunshine ; an
inverting atmosphere ol commingled vapor
and air is made to present clouds, winds,
and rain, and the inverted surface to bear
vegetable forms and animated creatures in
great diversity. Tho world is, then, a large,
solid sphere, invested with a loosened shell
of transparent, elastic, easily-moving vapor,
and whirling through space within the do
mains of sunshine ; so that by the combined
action of the transparent mobile vapor and
tho stimulant sunshine, organized creatures
may grow and live on its surface, and those
vital changes may be diffused,among which
conscious and mental life Btand as the
highest results.— Ediniurg Review.
GV On the Cincinnati and Dayton Rail
road, the other day, a lady and gentleman
were seated together, and facing them on
the opposite seat sat two gentleman, edi
tors of two German papers. When near
Dayton the train passed through a long,
dark bridge. Amid the thundering and rat
tling of tho cars, a very suspicious concus
sion was heard by those nearest the lady
and gentleman alluded to. As they emerg
ed into the daylight, one of the German
editors slowly drew his spectacles down
over his nose, and exclaimed,— Veil, 1
link dat ish a bad bridge. 1 hear himcrack
one, two, thiee, four times !
|-jr I' Oh, Jacob," said a master to his
apprentice, "it is wonderful to see what a
quantity you can oat." " Yes, sir," said the
boy; " 1 have been practising ever since I
was a child."
[Two Hollar? per Jtrfhim
NUMBER 38;
Tribute lo Womaii.
The closing pari of General Houston's
Nacogdoches speech Is one of tlie most elo
quent tributes to woman wc have ever read.
The following is an extract:
Ladies,! know tha' politics are always un
interesting to you, yet 1 believe you have in
the general result an abiding interest. It 18
always a gratification to me to behold my
faireountrywomen in assemblages likethese.
It is a guarrantce that their husbands and fa
thers and brothers arc men of intelligence
and refinements, who appreciate their mem
tal capacities, and desire their countcnaiico
in their undertakings. Your presence exer
cises a calming influence upon those antago
nisms, which aro too often engendered in
the heat of political contests. All parlies
desire your approving smile, and therefore
all are encourage.d by your presence. I
know that in the direct administration of po
litical affairs you have no share; but yet,
reigning as you do, supreme in the realm of
love, your influence often controls the desti
ny of nations. Woman's love is the great
lever which rouses man to action. The gen
eral, as he plans the etrategetie combina
tions which are to insure victory, looks for
ward to a recompense dearer than the lau
rels upon his brow ; the soldier as he frud
ges along on the weary march, or mingles in
the scenes of the battle-field, even with death
around him, forgets awhile the carnage, and
turns his thoughts lo the fond girl lie left
behind him; the mariner, tempest tossed,
driven by the rude waves, sings merrily aloft
as lie thinks of the littlo cottage by tho
shore, where his wife and doar ones await
him; the statesman, as he devises amid
deep and painlul thought, plans of govern
ment, which aro to tell upon his own and
his country's fame, never loses sight of the
boys which await him when cabinet councils
aro over, and lie enters the portals of home;
tho sentinel, as he paces his weary watch,
loves the moonlight tramp, that he may look
beneath its rays at the dear momento of a
mother's or a sister's love. Over man, in all
his relationships, the influence of woman
hangs like a charm. Deprive us of your in
fluence, which dignifies aud stimulates us to
noble deeds, and we become worse than
barbarians. Let it bo ours, and we can
brave the - cannon's mouth, or face danger
in ten thousand forms. You stimulate ua
to all that is good. You check us in ig
noble purposes. You have also an im
portant influence upon posterity. The
early impressions which the child receives
from you outlive all the wisdom of latter
days. Sages may reason, and philosoph
ers may teach, but the voice, which we
heard, in infancy will ever come to our
ears, b earing a mother's words and a mo
ther's counsel. Continue to instil ir.to your
children virtue and patriotism. Imbue them
with proper veneration for the fathers of
liberty. Teach them to love their
country, and labor for its good, as the great
aim of thoir ambition. Bid them proudly
maintain our institutions. Point them to
the deeds of their ancestors. Make these
their escutcheon, and bid them hand it
down to their children as free from stain as
it came to them. l)o this, ladies, and your
influence will not be lost in the futuro. In
the language of tho poet, it will etill bo
said:
" Woman is lovely to the sight,
As gentle as the dews of even,
As bright as morning's earliest light,
And spotless as the snows of ticaveu."
TUB A URORA BOREAMS AND THE TELEGRAPH .
—During the auroral display on Thursday
night in Boston some curious phenomena
were witnessed in connection with the te
legraph wires. The following conversation,
says the Boston Traveler, between the Bos
ton and Portland operators on the American
telegraph line, will give an idea of the effect
of the Aurora Borealis on the working tele
graph wires:
Boston operator, (to Portland operator,)
" Please cut off your battery entirely from
the line lor fifteen minutes.
Boston—" Mine is disconnected, and we
are working with the auroral current. How
do you receive my writing?"
Portland—" Belter than with our batteries
on. Current comes and goes gradually."
Boston—" My current is very strong at
times, and can work belter without batteries,
as the Aurora seems to neutralize and aug
ment our batteries alternately, making cur
rent too strong at times for our relay mag
nets. Suppose we work with batteries
while we are aficcted by this trouble."
Portland—" Very well. Shall Igo ahead
with business 1"
' Boston—" Yes. Go ahead."
The wire was then worked for about two
hours without the usual batteries, on tho
aurora current, working better than with
tho batteries connected. The current vari
ed, increasing and decreasing alternately,
but, by graduating the adjustment to the
current, a sufficient steady effect was ob
tained to work tho line very well. Thie is
tho first instance on record of more than a
word or two, having been transmitted with
the auroral current. The usual effects of
tho electric storm wero also manifested,
as reversing tho poles of tho batteries, &o.
ViT "Why don't you go to work, and
stop picking your nose Boy.—" It's my
noso, aint it, and it's tho Fourth of July, too,
I'll pick thunder out on't,if I've a mind to."
THE British Army at present consist# of
246,412 men, of whom 119,551 are stationed
abroad. This includes the whole available
force, militia, volunteers, rifle corpe, enrol
j led pensioners, &c., &c.