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The whole art of Government consists in the srt of being honest. Jefferson.
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VOL 7.
STROUDSBURGj MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1846.
No. 28..;?-
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What shall be the end of these tiling?
When an other life is added
To the hearing turbid mass :
When another breath of boing
Stains creation's tarnished glass,
When the firs; cry, weak and piteous,
Heralds long-enduring pain,
And a soul from non-existenco
Springs, that ne'er can die again ;
When the mother's passionate welcome
Sorrow-like bursts forth in tears,
And the sire's self gratulation
Prophesies of future years
It is well we cannot see
What the end shall be.
"When across the infant features
Trembles the faint dawn of mind;
'When the heart looks from the windows
Of the eyes that wore so blind;
When the incoherent murmurs
Syllable each swallowed thought,
To the fond ear of affection
With a boundless promise fraught,
Kindling great hopes for to-morrow
From that dull uncertain ray,
As by glimmering of the twilight
Is foreshown the perfect day
It is well we cannot see
What the end shall be.
When the boy upon the threshold
Of his all comprising home,
Parts aside the arm maternal
That enlocks him ere he roam ;
When the canvass of his vessel
Flutters to the favoring gules,
Years of solitary exile
Had behind its sunny sails;
"When his pulses beat with ardor,
And his sinews stretch for toil,
And a hundred bold emprises
Lure him to that eastern soil
It is tfell we cannot see
What the end shall be.
When the youth beside the maiden
Looks into her credulous eyes;
When the heart upon the surface
Shines too happy to be wise;
He by speeches less than gestures
Hinteth what her hopes expound,
Laying out the waste hereafter
Like enchanted garden-ground;
He may palter so do many ;
She may suffer so must all ;
Both may yet, world-disappointed,
This lost hour of lore recall
It is well we cannot see ,
What the end shall be.
When the altar of religion
Greets the expectant bridal pair;
When the vow that lasts till dying
Vibrates on the sacred air;
When man's lavish protestations
Doubt of after-change, defy, (
Comforting the frailer spirit
Bound his servitor for ay;
When beneath love's silver moonbeams
Many rocks in shadow sleep
Undiscovered till possession
.Shows the dangers of the deep
It is well we cannot see
i What the end shalhbe.
Whatsoever is beginning
That is wrought by human skill,
Every daring emanation
Of the mind's ambitious will
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Etery first impulse of passion
Gusli of lo.ve..or.t.wj
saw
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Every launch upon the waters,
Wide horizoned by our fate;
Every venture in the chances
Of life's sad, oft-desperate,, game,
Whatsoever be our motive,
Whatsoever be our aim
It is well we cannot see
What the end shall be.
IiCverrier An Apostrophe.
The following dithyrambic fragment is quo
ted frop the proof sheets of a work eniitled
"Contempjations of Nature," now in the course
of preparation for publication. The reader
must stippoe himself to be taking a mental
survey of the Stellar creatfon, while ascending,
in imagination, toward the Milky-way just after
starting from the planet Uranus. To feel all
a j the force of several passages of this energetic
; and highly colored improvisation to the new
world so marvelously discovered, ihe reader
; must remember that I jcverriei' prophesied pa.n-
et is at least 220 times more voluminous than
the Earth; its distance from the Sun 3,750 mil
j lions of miles; the time of its sidereal revolution
j no les than 217 years; that it has a luminous
i ring, like Saturn, and satellites recently dis-
covered ; and that in a 'conspiracy' headed, it i
j is said, by Sir John Herschel and two other
j English Aitronomers, John Bull has lately been
j warmly engaged in trying "to despoil Leverrier,
and the French, of all the honors attached to
this most brilliant of human discoveries, in at
tributing the same to an obscure collegiate of
Cambridge "
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Hail to thee! watchful guardian of our solar
limits hail to thee! How solemnly majestic
are thy silent steps through these etherial fields
of unbounded space; how slow thy gravitating
course around the ruling orb of this planetary j such reuari of speed nol even the straight
system; how limpid and serene the reflected!,; iMalhemalician3 discovered this not ma-
light with which thou shinest at this extreme
verge of the solar universe !
Roll on !
Roll on in thy silent promenade.
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around the starry skies roll on ! !
Hail to thee ! glorious meter of the human
mind's extent, unwearied strength, and power
hail to thee ! By the prophetic announce
ment of thy unthought-of existence, thy immor
tal discorerer has made of thee, in these path-
J less wildernesses of immensity, an everlasting
token of Man's loftiest flight in the daring as
cension of his soaring intellect. Does not, in
deed, the revelation of thy mysterious presence
in the stellar universe exceed, in grandeur and
importance, the most brilliant achievements of
Man's untiring genius ?
Roll on ! Roll on in thy silent promenade
around the starry skies roll on ! !
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Hail to thee ! Heaven's first-born world in
our solar creation hail to thee ! How re
splendent the whirling rings of golden light
which gird thy equatorial regions; how verdant
the tragrant meauows, teeming with Mowers
gay, which wrap thy temperate zones ; how
;.;...-.. vuc it...u iiuh u.eauuenng .tiro j
thy swarded glades and vales; how romantic;
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and inviting thy shady bovvers and sylvan re
treats ; how charmingly silent thy calm and
dewy nights; how inspiring the reflecting satel
lites which light thy lordly sphere !
Roll on ! Roll on in thy silent promenade
around the starry skies roll on ! !
IV.
Hail to thee! stupendous orb: among the
planetary beings thou art a mighty one hail to
ihee! How expanded the fertile valleys that
furrow thy earthly crust; how broad and deep
thy, tempestuous oceans, thy purple lakes, thy
inland seas how luxuriant their scattered isles;
how sublime thy Winter gales and storms, thy
roaring cataracts, ihy "irrupting" volcanoes;
how grand, how majestic, the mountain chains
stretched on thy gorgeous continents; the lofty
peaks towering above thy floating clouds; ihe
ever-flowing rivers winding around their bases;
how immense thy impenetrable forests, thy ver
dant plains, thy pathless deserts ; how varied,
how curious, how innumerable, thy countless
myriads of terraqueous hosts, of aquatic multi
tudes, of a;rial populations !
Roll on ! Roll on in thy silent promenade
around 'he starry skiesroll on I Carry on,
through the eternal course of time, around the
constellated heavens, the tidings of man's re-
joicings at the wondrous announcement of thy
unexpected existence roll on! roll on!!
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And thou, 0 Leverrier ! thou Columbus of
the skies, hail to thee ! hail to thy happy gen
ius! In foretelling, as thou hast done, the mar
velous existence of this planetary being, thou
hast immortalized thy name, honored thy coun
try, thy age, and thy race; thou hast raised man
to the loftiest altitude attainable by a finite being
to the nearest step approaching the level of
a demi-god ! And the homasepf mankind is
therefore justly due to thy astounding genius
hail to thee! hail to thy well-earned fame !!
Glance with pity at thy envious neighbors,
proud Albion's grasping sons, in their fruitless
endeavors to despoil thee of thy transcendent
discovery. Let them, in their insatiable ambi
tion, frown at its Gallic origin. Posterity, rat
ifying the judgment of thy nobler contempora
ries, will spurn at these unjust attempts, and,
crowning thy immortal name with everlasting
glory, will, with one voice, proclaim thy undi
vided right to the praise of future ages. Hail
to thee ! hail to thee ! hail to thy well earned
fame !!
Gallo-America.vus.
Facts in Natural History.
BY PROFESSOR MAPES.
I mention these facts only in the hope of
showing that there is pleasure in studying the
sciences, and when we come to natural history
; we shall find the study of that more amusing.
The animal and vegetable worlds are well
worthy of observation. Probably you all know
what is meant by a cycloid. If we make a spot
on the periphery of a wheel travelling on a
plane, the figure which that spot describes is a
cycloid. Now there is no figure in which a
, body can be moved with so much velocity and
ny years ago ; but nature's God taught it to the
I eaolc before mathematics wero invented : and
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ii'hon hn nnolp nnnnrns nnnn Ills nrpv. lifi flft-
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scribes the figure of a cycloid.
A globe placed in water, or in air, in moving
meets with resistance, and its velocity will be
retarded. If you alter the globe to the form of
an egg, there will be less resistance. And
then there is a form called the solid of least re
sistance, which mathematicians studied for ma
ny years to discover; and when they had dis
covered it, they found they had the form of a
fish's head ! Nature had "rigged out the fish"
with such a figure.
The feathers of birds, and each particular
part of them are arranged at such angles as to ! leaves the grub state it becomes a queen bee,
bo most efficient in assisting flight. The hu- J and they always suffer themselves to be gov
man eye has a mirror, on which the objects arei erned by her.
reflected, and a nerve by which these reflections
are conveyeu io uie urain, anu uius wo are en-
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abled to take an interest in the objects which i
i pass oeiore tne eve. iow, when it is too con-
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fault ; and if it be not convex enough, or if we
' wish to look at objects at different distances,
we ue g,ass(JS of (,mjrelv anmher descriplion,
Rn, M hir(ls BSmnnl p, snfirInplfls. rrtV:
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dence has given them a method of sufficiency
They have the power of contracting the eye, of
making it more convex, so as to see the specks
floating in the atmosphere, and catch them for
food ; and also for flattening the eye to see a
great distance, and observe whether any vulture
or other enemy is threatening to destroy them.
In addition to this they have a film or coating
which can suddenly be thrown over the e)e to
protect il; because at the velocity at which they
fly, and with the delicate texture of iheir eye,
the least speck of dust would act upon it as a
penknife thrust into the human eye. This film
is to protect the eye, and ihe same thing exists
to some extent in that of the horse. The horse
has a large eye very liable to take dust. This
coating in the horse's eye, is called the haw,
or third eyelid, and if you will watch closely,
you may see it descend and return with elec
tric velocity. It clears away the dust and pro
tects the eye from injury. If the eye should
catch cold, the haw hardens and projects, and
ignorant persons cut it off, and thus destroy
this safeguard.
In this way are the principles of science ap
plied to almost everything. You wish to pack
the greatest amount of bulk in (he smallest
space. The forms of eylenders.' leave large
spaces between them. Mathematicians labor
ed for a long time to find what figure could be
used so.as to lose no space ; and at last found
that it was the six-sided figure, and also that
three planes ending in a point formed the strong
est roof or floor. The honey bee discovered
the same things a good whsle ago. Honey
comb is made up of six-sided figures, and the
roof is built with three plane surfaces coming
to a point.
If a flexible vessel be emptied of air, its sides
will be almost crushed together by the pressure
of the atmosphere. And if a lube partly filled
with fluid be emptied of its air, the fluid will
rise to the top. The bee understands this ; and
when he comes to the cup of the tall honey
suckle, and finds that he cannot reach the
sweet matter at its bottom, he thrusts in his
body, shuts up the flower, and then exhausts the
air, and so possesses himself of the dust and
honev of the flower. The feet of flies and liz-
ards are constructed on a similar principle, and j
they thus walk with ease on glass or a ceiling.
Their feet are made so as to create a vacuum
beneath them, and so they have the pressure of
the atmosphere, of fifteen pounds to the square
inch, to enable them to hold on' The cat has
the same power to a less extent.
Plants require the sunlight, and some flowers
turn themselves towards the sun as it travels
round from east to west. The sun-flower does
this, and so does a field of clover. These facts,
though we have not yet got at the reason of
them, are still extremely interesting.
The gastric juice is worthy of remark. It is
a tasteless, colorless, inodorous, limpid ftuid,
like water, and is adapted in different animals
to different purposes. In the hyena, and other
carniverous animals, it will not dissolve live
flesh, but will dissolve dead flesh. These
creatures then live upon other animals, and
even bones are soluable in their gastric juice,
while it will not dissolve vegetables at all.
On the other hand, some animals live entirely
on vegetables, and their gastric juice will not
dissolve animal food.
We cannot alter the nature of an animal by
' changing its food. It will slill belong to the
family. In this particular bees are belter in
structed. When they lose their queen bee
which is an entirely different animal from the
working bee if you present another to them
within twenty-four hours they will not accept
of her nor obey her They prefer taking an
ordinary grub, before it becomes a flier, and
feeding it with a particular kind of food, and
treating il in a particular way; and when it
The habits of ants are extremely curious.-
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we all nave nearu oi ant nouses, sometimes
twenty feet in diameter, filled with halls and
rooms of great size and strength. These and
beaver dams are constructed upon strictly me
chanical principles.
In some insects species of the males have
wings while the females have none. This is
the case with the glow worm, and the female
has the property of emitting phosphorescent
light, and were it not for this the gentleman
glow worm would never find the way to his la
dy's chamber. The ostrich, like the cherubim,
is not provided with the means of sitting down.
She cannot, therefore, hatch her eggs, but bu
ries them in the hot sand, and leaves nature to
hatch them for her. Some birds build no nests ;
like the cucoo, which deposits her eggs in the
nests of other birds bui she knows enough al
ways to select the nests of birds thai have bills
shaped like her own, for then she is assured
her young will have the same kind of food as
she herself would procure.
Kn ickerbocker Magazine.
Squahtown Debates. Is pumpkin pize
pison, or am they hol.esum witals? Decided
in the negative.
Which is generally the easiest to file a
newspaper or a saw ? Decided to be undeci
dable, any how.
Which is tho most profitablest to heal a
corn or toe a boot ? Answer both.
If a man should see his father hanging him
self, and his mother a stickin' of herself with a
fork, which would he save first? Decided in
the affirmative unanimously: -
Geography.
Teacher. Glass in jography come forward.
What is jography?
First Pupil. Gerogriffy is a de4crip!jinwo4y
ihe sun, moon,, and stars.
T. You can lake your'seat, and-stay in af
ter school's out. -
T. Jonah Spriggins, what rs?jograpliy?
2nd P. A description of the United State '
and Mexico. '
T. How is the United Stares bounties! ?
P. Bounded on the North by the North1
Pole, 'mi the East by Europe, Asia and Africa
on the South it is not bounded at all, and on
the West by all Creation.
T. That's a good boy, you shall be elevated.1
What is ihe most remarkable productions? '
3d P. Live Yankees, punkins and robacker.
T. What is said of the inhabitants 1
Hh P. 'Tis said they're licking ihe Mexi
cans. T. Where is Mexico ?
P. Down by General Taylor.
T. How is it bounded ?
P. On the North bv the American arrnv. on
the East by the yellow fever and Com. Conner,
on the South by earthquakes and burning moun
tains, on the West by Commodore Stockton.
T. What is the chief productions 1
5th P. Revolutions and changes of Government.
T. What is the Government 1
P. Lunar it' changes monthly.'
T. What is the inhabitants renmkablef6r
Will j. . iJVH.UlltUUUII
T. You can dodge. 1
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Moral Courage in Every Bay XJfc.
Have the courage m discharge a debt while
you have the money in your pocket.
Have the courage to do without that which
you do not need, however much your eyes may
covet it.
Have the courage to speak your mind, when it
is necessary you should do so, and to hold your
tongue when it is prudent you should doo.
Have the courage io peak to a friend in a
"seedy" coat, even though you are in company
with a rich one, and richly attired.
Have the. courage to own that you are poor,
and thus disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
Have the courage to make a will, and a just
I one.
Have the courage to tell a man why you will
not lend him your money.
Have the courage to "cut" ihe most agreea
ble acquaintance you have, when you are con
vinced that he lacks principle. " A friend
should bear with a friend's infirmities," but not
with his vices.
Have the courage Jo show vour resnect for
fa whatever euiso it annears: and vour
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contempt for dishonesty and duplicity, by whom
soever exhibited.
Have the courage to wear your old clothes
until you can pay for new ones.
Have the courage to obey your Maker, at the
risk of being ridiculed by man.
Have the courage to lake a good paper, and
to pay for it annually in advance.
A Yankee Trick.
The Hanford Times reminds us of. ihe de
vice of a gentleman in a neighboring town, last
fall, to fill his cellar with first-rate potatoes, at
a ery low price. It will be recollected thai
potatoes generally weie not of the best quality,
and the price high. The gentleman gave no
tice that he had a particular desire to get a spe
cimcn of the best sort of potatoes raised that
season, and accordingly offered three dollars for
the best peck of potatoes that should be emptied
into his cellar he being the judge. The po
tatoes came pouring in, peck after peck those
farmers who had different sorts bringing, a perk
of each, and of the very best of ihe lot. Tim
gentleman soon found thai he had a cellar full
offirsi rate potatoes, when he shut his doors,
and paid three dollars to the farmer who hat.
left the besi peck, according to his judgment.
He had potatoes to sell in ihe spring.
11 Boots, Boots !" A Mrs. Boots, of thi
State, has left her husband and strayed io parts
unknown. Wo presume the pair are rights and
lefts. We cannoi say, however, that Mr.
Boois is right'" -but there is no mistake thji
Mr. Boots is left.
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