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The beautiful fountain near Domremi, believed
to be haunted by fairies, was a favorite resort of
Jeanne d'Arc in her childhood. I have somewhere
seen a picture of her in which she is represented
sitting beside the fountain twining a wreath of
flowers.
"thou, the Shepherd s child,
Joan, the lowly dreamer of the wild."
What is that I see 1
A lonely fountain, fringed with moss and flowers,
A shadowy beechen iree
Through which the sunlight falls in mellow show
ers, A peasant-girl beside the clear, cool fountain sit
ting, A crown of purple hyacinths and shining laurels
knitting-
An ancient legend tells
How that old fount was peopled erst by Fairies ;
That the spirit of their spells,
And flowery rites, yet on its margin tarries
And that upon a summer eve, in the silent air still
lingers
The wild, sweet music of a band of fairy singers.
Bfrt this bright mortal face.
With such spirit-eyes, -and radiant forehead,
Such pure, majestic grace
Stamped on each limb, as sculptor .should have
borrmvM
A model for his ait ! A peasants daughter
Is she who leancth o'ei this silvery singing water!
How stately is Iter mien
How high the expression of each noble feature,
Albeit she hath but seen
Ti e spring-time bloom, ahat slrangely glorious
rrealure.
Yet on the firm, sweet lip, me thinks a tinge of
sadness
Trimly o'ershadoweth its otherwise calm glad
ness. Childlike she bendeth there,
With skillful fingers her rich chaplet twining;
Nor dreameth those blossoms are
Eaiblems of Glory, Fame, and Grief combining.
Around that fountain's brim, springs many a fairer
flower,
Yet as by prescience hast thou chosen thy being s
power :
Yes, on that girlish head
Shall rest a crown, a glittering crown of glory ;
And after years shall wed
Thy lofty deeds to fame, in song and story ;
The sculptor's art thy .form to statue-life shall
waken :
Joan, is thy young heart by such wild dreams now
shaken!
Methinks I see thee now
Imaged as in the famed Cathedral standing
The gold helm on thy brow,
The leader of the warriors round thee banding !
Thy snowy banner o'er the crowned monarch
streaming,
Thy inspired eyes with love and holy triumph
beaming". '
But even now doth fall
On Memory's dial-plate a darker vision
prison, and "judgement-hall .
' he radb-r-ihe fiery stake the fierce decision
BxvHUy before tne pass ! Joan ! 0 did thy child
hood . ' "
Shadow such fate beside that fountain in the wild
wood !
April, 1843.
A young man veiling his lady-love just ai
the time the family were at supper, was invited
to draw up his chair and lake sdmeihing to eat
with them. "No 1 thank you," said he, "I
have just lnken supper, and have a fritter left in
my focket, at the satin tune feeling in hispock
ri and 'producing ii, exhibiting it to the extreme
risibility f .ihoiuomriatiy.) -A,shar4p- lad -that !
Wuidvr $ W VVhH k&X he avus out. .
STROUDSB URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., "WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1843.
A notice of some of the most Important
The recent frightful earthquake in the West
Indies, by which about 10,000 persons were
destroyed in Guadeloupe, has imparted an unu
sual degree of interest to these extraordinary
phenomena of nature, jt will bo remembered
also that but a short period has elapsed, since
Cape Hayiien was destroyed with 10,000 peo
ple, while a year or two before, a similar ca
iamity occurred at Martinique. We have there
foro hunted up oaeorawo authorities, and pro
ceed to give a few interesting facts as to the
philosophy of earthquakes, and the most de
structive of which we have accounts. In the
Encyclopedia of Science, earthquakes are de
scribed as usuallv preceded by general stillness
in air, and unnatural agitation of the waters of
the ocean and lakes. The shock comes on with
a deep, rumbling noise, like that of a carriage
over a rough pavement, or with a tremendous
explosion resembling a discharge of artillery or
ihe bursting of a thunder cloud. Sometimes,
the earth is thrown up perpendicular, and
sometimes it rolls from side. A single shock
seldom lasts longer than a minute, but they fre-
quently follow one another at short intervals
for considerable length of time. During these
shocks, large chasms are made in the ground,
from which, sometimes, smoke and flames but
more frequently stones and torrents of water are
discharged. Cities arc sunk, the course of riv
ers' is changed, seas overflow the land, some
times disrupting the earth, and sometimes uni
ting islands .together. Professor Brands states
that the first earthquake worthy of notice, was
that which in A.D. 63, destroyed Hcrculaneutn
and Pompeii.
In the 4th and 5th centuries, leracc, Syria,
and Asia Minor suffered severely by these aw
ful visitations. On the 2Gth of January, A. D.
447, subterranean thunders were heard from the
Black to the Red Sea, the earth was convulsed
with intermissions for the space of six mtuiths,
and in Phrygia many large cities were swallow
ed up. May 30th, A. D. 205, the city of An
tioch was overwhelmed by a dreadful earth
quake, and 250,000 of its inhabitants crushed
in the ruins.
In 1S4G 7, severo earthquakes were expe
rienced in Asia Minor and Egypt, and in Cy
prus, Greece and Italy.
In 1692 the Island of Jamaica was visited
by a terrible earthquake, and the city of Port
Royal and a large tract of adjacent land, stink
into the sea.
In 1693, great earthquakes occurred in Sici
ly, which destroyed Catania, and 140 other
towns and villages,-with 100,000 of their in
habitants. In the 18th century, the world was convulsed
by trightful earthquakes.
In 174G, an earthquake laid waste Lower
Peru.
In 1750, the town of Conception, in Chili,
was destroyed.
In 1 755. the city of Lisbon was dreadfully in
jured. The shock continued only six minutes,
and 60,000 persons perished. The sea, it is
said, first retired and laid the bar dry then
rolled in, and rose 50 feet above its ordinary
level. The largest mountains in Portugal were
shaken, and some of them were opened at their
summits, and split and rent in a wonderful man
ner. During the catastrophe at Lisbon; an im
mense concourse of people fled to the now quay,
called Cays dc Prada, when the quay sunk,
and the multitude were precipitated into the
hideous abyss. On the spot, there is now wa
ter to the depth of 100 fathoms. This earth
quake was felt in various parts of the world,!
not only in Europe, but in the West Indies, j
and on Lake Ontario
We now quote
from
Brande's Encyclopedia
"In 1759, Syria wasgitatcd by violent earth
quakes, the shocks of which were protracted for
three months throughout a space of 10,000
square Jeasues, and levelled to the ground Ac
con, Saphat, Balbec, Damascus, Sidon, Tripo
li, and many other places. In each of these pla
ces many thousands of the inhabitants perished,
and in the valley of Balbeck alone, 20,000 men
are said to bo victims to the convulsion. In
176G, the I aland of Trinidad and part of Co
lumbia were agitated by earthquakes. In 1772,
the lof:y vocano of Papandayang, the highest
mountain in Java, disappeared and a circumja
cent area fifteen miles by six, was swallowed!
up. In 17S3, north eastern part of Sicily and
the southern poriion of Calabria were convulsed
by violent and oft repeated shocks, which over
threw tho town of Messina, and kitted many
thousands of tho inhabitants, as well as many
thousands in Calabria. In the samp years the
islands of Japan, Java in 1786, Sicily and the
Caraccus in 1750," Quebec in 1791, and the
Antilles and Peru in 1797, were violently agi
tated by convulsions of this kind. Since the
commencement of the present century, various
earthquakes have occured both in the Old and
Now World. - In 1811, violent eajiliquakes
shook the valley of the Mississippi, by which
ake of considerable extent disappeared, and
new ones were formed. In 1812, Caraccus
was destiroyed, and upwards of 12,000 of iis
inhabitants buried in the rums. In 1815 the
town of 'iiombora on t4tc .iglund of Sumbawa,
I I llll IM WW I IB I'll In IIL I i Mlii II II I
was completely destroyed by an earthquake,
which extended throughout an area of 100
miles in diameter, and destroyed 12,000. In
1819 a violent earthquake occurred at Cutch,
ir the Delta of the Indus, by which, amon
otner disastrous consequences, the principal
town, Bhoog, was converted into a heap of ru
ins, in lb22, Aleppo was destroyed by an
earthquake. In the same year Chili was visted
by a most destructive oarthquake, by which the
coast for 100 miles is stated to have sustained
an elevation of fronHwo to four feet, while about
a rriilo inward from Valparaiso jt was raised
six or seven feet. In 1827, Popayah and Bo
gota suffered severely from earthquakes, during
which great fissures opened in the elevated
plains around the latter city. In 1835, the
town of Conceptibn, in Chili, was' entirely de
molished by an earthquake. In 1837, the coun
tries along the extremities of the Mediterranean,
especially, Syria, were violently agitated by an
earthquake, which causeil great damage to ihe
towns of Damascus, Acre, Tyre and Sidon, and
entirely destroyed Tiberias and Safet. Such
aro some of the most violent earthquakes that
have occurred within th? period of authentic
history. The reader will find in Poggehdorfs
Annalen lists of the different earthquakes that
have taken place within ihe last twenty years;
and from these it will be observed that scarce
ly a month elapses'wilhout being signalized by
one or many convulsions in some part of the
globe, bhocks of earthquakes have at differ
ent times been felt in various partsj)f Britain,
and more particularly in Scotland; but they
have all fortunately been so insignificant, com
pared with those which have been experienced
in other countries, that we shall refrain from
entering into any details respecting them."
But perhaps the recent earthquake can be
traced with more accuracy than almost any oth
er that has occurred, certainly in modern times.
J t was felt in various parts of the Western
country at- Van Burcn, Arkansas, and at Ga
lena, Illinois and a comparison of accounts
as given in the newspapers, or as given by in
dividuals who pay attention to such matters,
would enable a careful observer, acquainted
with geology and familiar with the theories of
volcanoes, electricity, &c, to furnishing much
interesting information. Even a glance at the
map is sufficient to show that the progress of
this convulsion may in a great measure be
traced, especially as many captains who were
at sea at the time, have also since their return
given biief extracts from their log books show
ing that the great waters were agitated as far
as long. 35 3 W. We repeat a hope, therefore,
that Professor Espy, or soms other gentleman
whose opportunities arc rare for observing and
comparing all information as to phenomena of
this kind, will think it worth, while to pay due
attention to the subject.
We annex also a translation from a French
work, by Malte Brim, with which we have been
kindly furnished by an intelligent friend:
There is a dreadful phenomenon intimately
connected with volcanic eruptions-earthquakes,
those convulsive movements which shake off
the surface of the canh, whether in a horizontal
direction, with undulations similar to those of
the sea; or vertically, when a part of the ground
is raised up, and tho other part sinks down as
into a gulph ; or circularly, when pondrous
masses of rocks and earth revolvo as it were
on a pivot.
These are the three kinds of motion distin
guished by Italian writers who are well ac
quainted with these phenomena.
Earthquakes produce the most calamitous ef
fects. Thev often change the surface of a
country iri such a manner that it is difficult to
recognize it.
Enormous gaps appear to discover to the
eyes of the living the empire of the shades.
These fissures emit blueish flames and deadly
vapours; in the course of ages they form new
valleys. In other places mountains are swal
lowed up or overthrown; often detached from
one another, they glida along upon the lower
ground, and' as the forco with which they are
impelled redoubles at every moment, these am
bulatory rocks bound over both valleys and
Jiills. Here the vineyard descends from its
height and settles in the midst of fields of corn;
there, farms with their gardens, lifted' without
separating, become attached' to distant villages.
In one quarter, new lakes are formed in the
midt of the oarth; in another, rockst hitherto
invisible, suddenly rear their wet summits from
tho bosom of the foaming sea. Springs are
dried up, rive.rs disappear and lose themselres
under ground, others choked up by fragments
of rocks, spread out into vast marshes. New
springs gush out from the shattered sides of tho
mountain; incipient rivers struggle with youth
ful impetuosity, and endeavor to hollow out a
channel for ihemselves amid the ruins of cities,
palaces and temples. What makes earthquakes
still more dreadful is, that there are no signs
which unequivocally indicate either their ap
proach or their termirialion. They happen at
all seasons, and under every constitution of the
atmosphere. A subterraneous noiao indeed is
ihriir infalliblo forerunner,; but it is scarely
heard before the earth gives away.- Animals,
particularly 4iorscs, dogs, and .fowls, show by
L.-J1 WWILIUUJ
their terror a presentiment of their coming.
The barometer falls extremely low.
Earthquakes act with astonishing rapidity
It was one single shock which, on the 5th of
February, 1-783, overthrowed Calabria and de
stroyed Messina in less than two minutes. But
these agitations are-sometimes repeated lor tne
space of months and whole years, as in 1755.
The direction of earthquakes is one of the
most remarkable freaks in physical geography.
Sometimes we remark a central point where
the shocks are most violent; and this centre
sometimes changes its place, as if the subter
raneous force rebounded from one point to an
other; sometimes we can distinguish a certain
line along which this force seems to move.
The sphere of such a revolution seems pften
to embrace a fourth part of a terrestrial globe.
The earthquake which caused such devasta
tions at Lisbon was felt in Greenland, in the
East Indies, in Norway and. in Africa. That
of 1601 shook all Europe and a part of Asia.
In 1803 the shock was felt almost simulta
neously at Algiers, in Greece, at Constantino
ple, Bukarcst, Kiow, and Moscow.
No part of the globe appears to be exempted
from these terrible offects. The Alps contaiu
no trace of a volcanic agency, and yet they are
often shaken by earthquakes. The silver mine
at Kongsberg in Norway, was first opened up
to view by a shock in 1603. Even the frozen
zone is subject to earthquakes. Greenland
feels fre.quent shocks; and in 175S Lapland ex
perienced a violent commotion.
The sea often, but not always, shares in
the convulsions of the earth. In 1755 the wa
ters of the Tagus rose suddenly to 30 feet
above their ordinary level, and retired imme
diately with such force, that the middle of the
river was observed to be dry. Four minutes
afterwards the same phenomenon recurred, and
it was three times repeated.
Similar motions occurred the same day at
Maderia, at Gaudaloupe, and at Martinique.
In the erathquake which proved destructive to
Lima in 1746, the ocean had a movement of
the same nature; but proportionate to the mass
of water which was thrown into agitation, it
rushed forwards upon the land for the space of
several leagues. All the large vessels which
were in port of Callao were swallowed up; all
tho small craft were driven beyond the town.
Navigators assure us, that ships are very of
ten dreadfully tossed by a sudden and convul-
.1 t
sive motion in tne sea, very similar to uiose
which shake the land.. These agitations of the
sea perhaps take place, though there is no cor-:
responding shaking of the earth. At other
times, they are the effect of submarine shocks
in the very bottom of the ocean.
Tho causes of these catastrophes aro not
well ascertained. It appears that there are
several concurring causes of a very different
nature. ' Some slight shocks arise, without,
doubt, from fallings in of the ground and sub-
lprranp.niis sinkings, which take place alter
. . . a w i
great
droughts. At other times, the shocks
may be produced by the terrestrial and atmos
pherical electricity, which seeks to recover its
equilibrium. These phenomena, the reality of
which can scarcely be contested, depend upon
the temporary constitution of the seasons.
The most generally received opinion attrib
utes oarthquakes to elastic vapours enclosed in
subterraneous cavities ; whether they arise from
the abundance of rain collected in the craters
of volcanos, or are disengaged from tho mflam
mable substances with which the subterraneous
rivers or waters of the sea may come in con
tact, or finally, are extricated by the fermenta
tion of that subterraneous fluid, which Deluc
supposes to be the residue of the mother wa
ters of the globe. These vapors become dila
ted by heat, and m seeking an outlet they rise
up or shake the earth.
If ibis hypothesis bo true, as many circum
stances lead us to suppose, the Japanese have
not been wrong in saying that it is a great sub
marine dragon which raises up the eartn Dy us
breathing. A similar tradition prevails in the
mythology of tho Scandinavians. It is proba
bly in allusion to this, that Homer has given to
Neptuno the epithet of Ennosigaios, that is, he
who shakes the earth.
Soloquy.
To po to Texas or not to go that am the
questionwhether it are better to stay at homo
and bear theso ills what wo has got, or to take
un arms against a lot of Wexicans and Inginos,
and by fishting 'em kill 'em. To fight to fire
'taint nothing more, and hardly that but in
that fight of ourn, what bullets may come when
wo have shuffled off a shot or so, must oiu us
consider on't. Aye, there's where it rubs!
Rather guess we won't go, on the whole.
Mercury.
"Anything to nlease the child," as the nurse
said when sho gave the baby a razor to play
with.
1 wanted Miss S. to look at me and she did
yesterday. It made me think of Major Noah's
"new mode of curing' hydrophobia." "How
so ? Why" -he says cauterise and Lcaught-
her - eyes.
No: 8.
Corn.
Soak your seed in asolution of salt, saltpetre,
soot and copperas, made as follows. To every
10 gallons of boiling water, add 2 lbs. ."salt
petre, 4 lbs. of soot, and 2 lbs. of copperas ,
stir these until the salts are "dissolved, then put
in your corn, regulaiing the quantity so ihat ail
the grains will be covered. As you plant, iako
out the corn, and drain it in a basket ; then pre
pare a mixture of tar and water, uhi h-mirst
bo made thus to five gallons of boilmg wa e.,
add a pint of tar-; stir the whole well together
and when coul, put your corn into ii, and siir it
until all the grains are covered, then drain, awl
dry them in plaster or ashes, when ihey .wiil ho
ready for planting. The corn should remain in
the first soak 12 hours before any of it is plan
ted, and no more should bs taken out aivy'dny
than can be planted : the tarring and plastering
...ii i .i . :.. .. . l i
-SllOillU oe uouu ins1- ueiuiu w;e "lain is wuiuuu
for planting. No fears need be entertained of
the first soak destroying the vegetative powers
of the corn, for a week or so. Seed corn, Uiim
prepared, will be protected from birds and' ver
min, while its vegetating powers will bs great
ly accelerated.
" The following adice to farmers fro,m. tho
Gospel Banner is sensible and to the point I
The caterpillars may now be desiry'ed, and ho
time should bo lost in commencing and com
pleting the work of destruction :
" This is to be a great year for caterpillers
on fruit trees. The eggs were deposited on
the limbs about the first of July last, when the
weather was dry and warm, and afforded the
parents a fine time to provide for a numerous
progeny the ("then next year. If you will ex
amine your apple trees: you will find the limbs
greatly infested with the eggs. Now is the
time to destroy them: Do it before ihejuuds
swell. But how shall this be done ? By sim
ple means. Just make a strong ley, or soap
sudsstrong enough to bear an egg, and with a
brush or piece of cloih, wash the infested
limbs. The ley will kill every mother's son of
the eggs, and you will see no catterpillar's beds
upon them in May or June. Even without re
gard to caterpillars it is an excellent plan, ev
ery spring, .to wash trees wilh strong soap
suds. This will kill various sorts of insects in
the cess it will cleanse and renovate the
bark, and promote the health and fruitfulness
of the tree. Try it. Be not afraid of injuring
the tree, even if the ley is no strong as to blis
ter your hands. It will do no harm if applied
before the bud3 are much swollen-; but-it will
kill the young leaf.
st' or?.
" It's on at last !" she cried,
To her daughter standing by;
" It's on" the thought her utterance choaked,
While joy suffused her eye.
" What's on, dear mother ?" asked the maid,
(She smiled, and looked so sweet,) 5 .
" My bustle's on, you dunce," she said;
" Don't it stick out a feet V
ii-j
"I'm a regular boarder" as the pirate re
marked to a captain he had taken prisoner-
The chain of love is fading flowers, but'that
of wedlock is of gold lasting as well as beau
tiful. A Smart Ciild.
" Ma! what is the reason that Papa can.nev
er smoke a pipe alone V . .
"Nonsense, child, he often does."
" No, but he don't though, because he can't."
" How do you mean, child V
.. -Ml 1 . . :. .1 1 TT7-1T. Till
w . J 0- - - r , 1
tell you; because he requires tobacco alongv
with it."
(in1 (Hi vim "ivti ii uu. men iveu: i n
A Substitute for a Watcli. .
Irish ingenuity is well exemplified in tho
case of a celebrated son of" the sod, of whom
the poet sings
Bryan O'Lynn had no watch to put on, . :
So he scooped out a turnip to make him a one-:
Then he, clapped a cricket snug under the skin
" Whap ! they'll think it is tickin'," says. Bryan
O'Lynn.
Caution.
A young gentleman, in this city, received a
distressing injury, a few days since, while sha
king his pantaloons. The end of one of tho
legs flew into his face, driving a strap button
into one of his eyes, where it was so firmly
embedded that a violent jerk aepaiated it from
the strap, and left it in the eye ! which bled
profusely, of course, and threw the sufferer into
the most acute distress. Dr. Pennington being
immediately called in, found it completely in
serted under the outer skin or coat, and succeed
ed in withdrawing it with as little injury as
possible by the delicate use of his instrument.
There is some slight hope, we understand,
that the ball of tho eye may be preserved, but
the probability is that the sight is destroyed..
lyeioart; uauy Jiavennci.