, er . . ' . . . ' . . ... . _ . . R „ . . .:. . - 'b . ..... ~. ! ._ nn: , .., 1n - ... .'7. 1 .. St . ' air , ..,:...: a . . H.,.. • . • . . . . „ . . .'' ,• . . • -f , •-- '.., . : . .• .. . . .. - , - . ~ . . . .. . • . . ~, al, f qi:t.l • .. 4 ..:. 1 , . . . ..... . .. ............,.... ~.. • •••.... .. .. .. .... . .. . . _ ED; 'A. tiusaLKA, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR VOL. XVIII.-4.1 LITERARY NOTICE. TEIE and Phrenakos mian Societies of Pennnsylvania College, will celebrate their Annual Liter ary Contest, on Wednesday evening, .9pril 14th, 1847; the performances to commence at 7 1-2 o'clock. The exercises will con oiSt of Essays, Orations, and a debate on the following question, viz: "Can the Drama be made subservient to Intellectual and Moral Culture ?" The Intervals will be enlivened by suita ble musk, which has been procured for the occasion. The lovers of literature, and the public generally, are respectfully invited to attend. _jr JOHN A. BRADSHAWE, . - 1 1; • LEWIS P. FIERY, Joint Com .1 •.,' MOSES W. MERRYMAN, qf C. WILSON HILL, JACOB IL HECK, i the Societ's HENRY JACOBS, BRIGADE INSPECTOR. - To the enrolled inhabitants of the Second Brigade Fifth Division Pennsylvania Militia. AT the solicitation of numerous friends, I odder myself as a candidate for the office of • Brigade Inspector, for the unexpired term of Major Morrison resigned. Should, the voters of the - Bri 'gale deem me worthy of an election, my i best endeavors will be exerted to do the duties of the office with fidelity. March 19, 1847 To the enrolled inhabitants of the 2(1 Bri gade, sth Division, P. M. 11EL 1 . 40 W,SOLDTERS and VOTERS: —Through the solicitation of many of my friends; I offer mysollas a candi date for • Brigade Inspector, at the election on the 12th of April next. Should I be elected, I feel satisfied, from my long experience and a determination to an honest, faithful and prompt discharge o the several duties, to be able to satisfrall. WM. W. HAMERSLY. Petersburg, (Y. S.) March 26.—te To the enrolled inhabitants of the 2d Bri gade 5111 Division, p. 11,1. FELLow:CITIZENS and Soldiers : —Encouraged by the 'Solicitations of a number of Friends, I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Brigade Inspector, • at the ensuing election, and respectfully solicit your suffrages. Should you deem me worthy of your confidence. and elect me to said office, I pledge myself to per form its duties with promptness and fidel ity. : HENRY HARTZELL. Menallen tp., Adams county, April 2, 1847. TO THE ENROLLED INH.4 Bl- TINTS OF THE 2(1 . BRIG. DE. Would tender my most sincere ac knowledgments for past favors ; and would now inform them, that, if elected, I will cheerfully serve them in the capaci ty of BRIGADE INSPECTOR for the remainder of the term. They can there fore consider me as a candidate.-: SAMMEL E. HALL. April 2. • Tax Collectors, Take Notice. ALL Taxes on duplicates in the hands of former Collectors up to the present year will be.roquired to be paid at or be fore the approaching April Court. All Collectors who shall not then have settled their duplicatesmay expect to be proceed cd against according to law. - J. CUNNINGHAM, JOSEPIL FINK, Comm's A. HEINTZELMAN, J. AUOIIINBAUGII, Clerk. March 12.-4 t ASSIGNEE'S NOTICE. .1711 HE Subscriber, having been appoint ed, under a deed of voluntary .as signment, Assignee ofJoaErn STansantron, , of Mountpleasant township, Adams coun- Ay, notice is hereby given to all who are ;indebted to the said Joseph' Strasbaugh, to (call and 'make payment to the subscriber, residing in said townphip, and those hay .ing claims upon him to present thein pro perly authenticated, for settlement. ,GEORGE lIAGARMAN, dissignee.. :March 19, • P• . D 1 C ONAUG H IT, ATTORNEY .BT Lint': CIFFICE in the S. W. corner of the ,Public Square, one door West of G. Arneld'ip t •Starb, formerly occupied as a Law Qtride by JOHN WCONAUOHY, Esq., deed. Ile solicits, and by prompt and faithful attention to bus,rness in his profes sion, it will be his entWavor to merit, con fidence and patronage. - • • 1111:7°D; M'CONAVGIIy will also attend promptly to all business entrusted to him as ktfleiit and Solicitor for . PATENTS AND PENSIONS. • ife has tmidc arrangements, through which he eau ftirniSh iery desirable facilities to applienuts,nd entirely relieve them frain 'the necessity of a journey ;6, Washington, on aPplication, personally or by letter. (lettysbuffr, April 2, 1547. tf I JOHN SCOTT their turn, much to the amusement of the merry monarch. At length, Mr. Wren (afterward's Sir. Christopher) modestly asked, "But is your Majesty sure that such will be the easel" "Aye, there," exclaim ed his Majestly, laughing, “you have it; always, gentlemen, find out if a thing be true, before you proceed to account for it ; then I shall not be ashamed of the charter I have given you." STRENGTH OF THE HUMAN FRAME.—Ope of the most remarkable and inexplicable experiments relative to the strength of the human frame is that in which a heavy man may be raised with the greatest facil ity when he is lifted up the instant that hisNown lungs and 'those of the persons who raise him are inflated with air. The heaviest person in the pity lies down up on two chairs, 'his legs ,being supported by one and his‘bfick by the other. Four per sons, one at each leg and at each shoulder, then try to raise hint, and find his weight to be very great, from the difficulty they experienced in supporting him. When he is •replaced in the chair, each of the four personi take hold of him as before, and the person gives two signals by clap ping his hands. At the first signal, lie himself and his four bearers begin to draw a long breath, and when the •inhalation is completed, or the lungs filled, the second signal is given for raising the person from the chair. To ,his own surprise and that of his bearers, he rises with the greatest facility, as if he were no heavier then a feather. Sometimes when one of the bearers performs his part illy by making the inhaling out of time,. the part of the body which he tries to raise is left behind. The experiment was performed at Venice, by sustaining the heaviest man in the par ty on the joints of the fingers of six per-' sons. It is stated that the experiment) will not succeed if the person to be lifted be placed on a board, and the strength of the individuals applied to the board.—Jl - of Sir D. Brewster's. Natural Magic. LOWELL MANUFACTURES.-By the an nual statement of the Lowell manufacturers if appears there are thirteen manufacturing corporations in that city; embracing a cap ital stock of $11,490,000,.. and numbering 45 mills. These mills employ 7,945 fe male and 3,340 male operatives. There are other manufacturing establishments in the city not incorporated; employing a cap ital 'of $310,750, and about 1000 , hands. Twe new Cotton Mills. are nearly ready fur, operation. One built by the •Merri mack Company, to contain 23,424 spin dies and 640 looms, and one built by the Hamilton . Compaiiy of sufficient capacity for 20,000 spindles and .400 looms. IN .1840, .the number of deaths, in f4ow ell. Mass., was only 590 among a popular tion 0f28,841, ozone to every 41.:78 pprsons. • ..0E Algiers was invaded by,the French, fteen years_age; upwards et 50,000. sol diers have been slain. IT 'is est Immo& that over 35,000 :l'etters, and about-200,000 nOwspaiera;.poss daily. through the Post offi c e in l!ibm, York. From Godey's Reprint of Blackwood's Lady's Magazine. STANZA S. Full many a year has passed away * -- - N Since last I wandered here, And heard, as now, yon village chimes `• Fall sweetly on mine car. Scenes of my yOuth, ye look as fair • As when, in frolic wild, I roved amidst your peaceful fields, A gay and laughing child ! Mine own tree, which floved so well— Its leaves and fresh and green ; The bower I formed is blooming still, For there no blight has been. But I have mingled with the world, And for my Once light heart, I have brought back a sadden'd one, • Whence care will.not depart. Alas! for all my joyous thoughts, They soon turned to decay ; And my bright hopes of love and fahie Poss'd one by one away ! Upon the treach'rous sea of life, That looked so smooth and clear, I fearless launched my little bark, ,j Nor deemed the storms wore near. Bur soon, too soon—a tempest ruse, The skies were overcast; • And my poor little fragile hark Smik, crc that storm was past. And now, although my heart is sad, I—l have burst the spell Of life's enchanting vanities, Which once I loved so well. Shall I, then, murmur at the ills Which still around me lie; Or grieve that sorrow's lingering clouds Obscure life's evening sky ? No ! rather deem them mercies sent, In every rolling year, . . To teach this weak and erring heart, Its rest must not be here. A STORY WITH A MORAL Who Charles the Second chartered the Royal Society, it is narrated of him, that he was disposed to give philosophers a royal, but at the same time .wholesome lecture: • Why is it,Thiy - liirds and gentlemen, said he, that if you fill a vessel with water to the very brim, so that it will not hold a single drop More, yet putting a turbot in to the water it will not overflow the ves sel ?" Many were the sage conjectures : that thefish would dr.ink..as much water as compensated for its own bulk— , -that it condensed the water to that amount-4that the air bladder had somthing to do with the phenomenon—and a hundred others, which were propounded and abandoned in GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVEN NG, APRIL" 9, 1847, . The following is translated (rom a French paper : They used to say that every soldier car ried in a cartridge box a marshal's l i baton. Might not one say in thesp days, Otat ev ery chorister carries in his ' wind-pipe' a fortune l- Here is one example at least: About thirty years ago, in a little city of Italy, at Bergame, by a singular contrast, the company '.at the Opera House was quite indifferent while the choristers•were excellent. It could scarcely have been otherwise, since the greater part of the choristers have since become distinguish ed 'composers. Donizetti, Cruvelli, Leo dori, Blanche, Mari, and Delci, commen ced by singing in the choruses at Bergame. There were among others, at that epoch, a young man, very poor, very modest, and greatly beloved by his comrades. In Ita ly, the orchestra and the choristers are worse paid than in . France, if possible.— 1 You enter a boot-maker's shop, the mas ter is the first violin. The apprentices relax themselves after a day's work, by playing the clarionet, the hautboy, or the timbrels, in the evening at the theatre.— One young man, in order to assist his Old mother, united the functions of chorister to the more lucrative employment of journey man tailor. , One day when le had taken to N ozari's house a pair of pantaloons. that illustrious singer, after looking at him very earnestly Said to him very kindly : • "It appears to me, my good fellow, that I haveseen_you somewhere,". Quite likely, sir ; you may haVe seen me at the theatre, where I take part ikthe choruses." "Have you a gond - voitel" - "Not remarkably, sir; I can, with great difficulty, reach. so!." "Let me sec," said 'Nozari, going to the, piano; "begin the gainut." Our choriSter obeyed, hut when he reached so!, he stopped short, out of breath. "Sound la—coine try." •""Sir, I cannot." "Sound la, you foul." "La, la la." "Sound si." "My dear sir, I cannot.". "Sound si, I tell you, or by my soul ll—"- "Don't get angry, sir; I'll try—la, si, a, so, do." "I told you so," said • Nozari, with a voice of triumph; "and now, my good fel low, I will say only one word to you. If you will only study and practice, you will become the first tenor in Italy." Nozari was right. The poor chorister who, to tain his bread, had to mend breeches, possesses now a fortune of two millions and is called Rubini. YANKEE Tatetc.—Uncle Eb, as we used to call him, among lots of good qualitiei, had a failing. He did love good liquor, bUt such was the state of his credit that no one would trust him. He, therefore, one day resorted to a trick to answer the great desire of his appetite. He took two case bottles, put a quart of water in one of them, put one of them in each pocket, and start ed for the store. "I'll take a quart of your rum," said uncle Eb, as he placed the empty bottle on the counter. The ruin was put up and the bottle replaced in 'his pocket, when uncle Eb pulled from his purse what a to distance might seem to be a quarter of a dollar. "This is nothing hut tin, Eb," said the trader, "Eh, now, it's a quarter," said uncle Eb. •It's tin," said the trader, "I shan't take it." "It's all I've gOt." "Very well, you can't have the rum." Uncle Eb, without much de murring, pulled from his liocket the quart of water. The trader took it, poured it into his rum barrel. and off walked uncle Eb, chuckling. THE LICENSE QUESTION.-A committee of the citizens of Butler addressed inqui ries to the Commissioners of the county, as to the expenses incurred by that coun ty, for criminal prosecutions, resulting from intemperance. The Commissioners reply, that the expenses of the county, for five years since 1842, have been $11,001,! —an average of over $2,000 a year!— They attribute thr&fourths of this crimi nal business to drinking and drunkenness. In their estimate, they include none of the expenses of levying and collecting this, a mount. HORRORS OF INTEMPERANCE.—The vdwel ling house of Caleb Russel, iii. West" Hur ley, Ulster county, was deStroyed by fire •on. Saturday night, and Mr. Russel, while in a state of Intoxication, perished in. the flames. A grandson of Mr.'Russell, about five years old, the only inmate of the luiuse at the time, made his his escape unhart. When he discovered that the house was oil fire, he implored his grandfather , to.es crpe, but the unfortunate mar4 l ,mit being able to realize tie extent of.histdanger, re f Used and perished a ViCtirnito liquor. - HORRID MURDER.—Anegra man named Sam. belonging to Miss MeDaniel,,living near,Washington; Franklin county,..Mo„ ,recently broke into a.house of a German, named Atiringliii.absence, for the purpace of . plunder, and after attempting. to eut2,the.throatof a:Young,spa ofSil ryn; dragged ,his mother out of . the hair:and:beat her-Maine QUI-With a club./ , The fiend ~WBEl'arres,ted and. it-was supposed: would b.p.put to'sleatOrtlio, - pulace. • "FEARLESS .AND FREE." ONLY TRY. Prof. Mitchell on Astronomy. • Frioic TIM N. -Y. °asuman. The course of lectures by Prof. Mitchell, of Cin cinnati, was closed on Friday evening of last week. here.ivere three only in number, and were listen ed to with intense interest and satisfaction by the Most intellectual and numerous audiences over con vened for scientific instruction in the Broadway Tabernaele fi ' It was a cause of universal regret that the Professor's engagements prevented him from proceeding with the theme on which he had made so brilliant an opening, as, the desire for More was' stimulated by the sublime and wonderful exhibi' lions which his lectures presented. At the close a series ofeompli Mentary resolutions, moved by the Hon. B. F. Butler, was unanimously adopted, and the Professor retired with the warm est assurances of respect and gratitude. • We arc aware that the sketches below are far from doing justice to these learned and•eloquent lec tures, but they will serve to indicate the' train of thought pursued, and to give the reader some,idea of the subject , unfolded by tho recent progress in the science of Astronomy : FIRST LECTURE.--The science Which claims our attention to-night is the science of the stars. From the earliest ages these bright and beautiful-orbs have fixed the at tention, fasted the gaze, and excited the curiosity of every contemplative mind. The science of astronomy owes its or- I igin not to necessity, but the curiosity of man :--a curiosity. that leads him up through the works of creaio4 creation's God.— From the time thn - ars, as they arose and silently pursued their way through the heavens, Were an object of contemplation to the Chaldean shepherds, down to the. modern - aetrOnoiner, - This science has been increasing, developing and expending, until it has become the exponent of the highest poivers of thelniman intellect. It has en to the mind mighty problems, in there- Solution of which the most, wonderful - works I of art have been employed,- and. the most pOiverful analysis exhibited, and toits pro-- secution the greatest intellects that have graced our eartlf;have given their vast poW ers and their unremitting,eflbrts. In looking out upon the heavens, we fired the stars scattered profusely—some shining with great brilliancy, and: others barely visible to the eye. ;Here and there .we notice beautiful clusters and combina tions, but we detect no order, no system. How is it that mind; out of this chaos, has brought order, simplicity and beauty, and selected, out of the vast number, of stars, those which are linked togetherin a migh- I - ty system. In the solution of this prob lem, Mind has brought to its aid the Teles cope, an instrument that causes worlds far distant in space to stand before the eye and there rest subject to the scrutinizing I gaze of man; and enables " us to measure their motions and determine the period of their revolutions. . . The revelations of the Telescope do not satisfy the intellect of man. He goes baek ward. He begins with a train of reason ing based on the Hoek of Truth. He ri ses, laying one stone upon another, till front the summit of a mathematical.pyra mid he lOOks out into space, and-sees all clear and bright and be.autifulhefere him. We have, in this course, remarked the eloquent lecturer, but two points to illus trate: The first is the character andpOW er of the Telescope. The second.is the 1 character and power of the mental machi nery. . . 1610 the world was astounded by the discoveriei of Gallileo, who had suc ceeded in' constructing i telescope which not. Only assisted the sight, but alniost gave ' a new sight by bringing from the depths of space objects that were not known to have existence. Copernicus. had already revealed, the true system of tlie..universe :1 but the truth was not secured till Gallileo, !pointing his telescope to the heavens, re- I vealed facts that demonstrated the truth of the Copernican theory. Turning the tel escope upon Jupiter, Gallileo observed I three brigtit stars occupying a 'position near the planet. Observing them on the folloWing night, he finde . they have shifted ; their places.-, On the third . night they have I all disappeared, and in place of them he beholds a-new star. ; The conviction now flashes upon his mind that-these stars arc four moons revolving .about Jupiter, gui ded by its attraction. 'Here was revealed by the telescope a miniature system like our own. Gallileo next examines :Venus, and finds_that it actually presents the same , phases Copernicus predictedit- would, if' human skill, should ever, so assist our vi sion ap.to bring it.under a careful examina: I tion.• Such are some of the sublime rev elations TelescOpe, with incredibletoil, construct ed a telescope, Magnified thirty times, but now we have instruments that: Magnify, six thousand times. ;. [Prof. M. here des cribed the manner in which the-VariouS . difficulties that met the astronomer in the constructien of Powerful refracting teles 7 copes, were overcome.] second first class oteleseepet is the reflector's. To thii class, helOngs. Sir Herschel's powerful telesc ope, which has a sp.eculum'fOni feet iii'dietne; I Pr and a focal distance of forty 'fejt. liersehefg rem conceived, the:idea that stars, aregrouped together clus ,tera throughout space., To ascertain the. trutlt... , Oftlits:enneeptlenOte:talceS* . ,tOlea:•' reoPe r ,and Goa , it upon - the .mpst brilliant pert, of the Mflky:Way l iand thafthiS one fintid red,' beiii Nl' stars . .: takee.4. more] :tierfill." t o les; eOpe, tem, iteW star§ tippeiirenntttheother6' grow brighter.z He now takes ,his forty feet telescope and sees air - clear, the stars* slatting like diamonds, while in ,the shade beyond all is blank. This at once Settles the question. The stars' nre...grOnpetl to gether in mighty elpsters inanteriiely dis 7 tant 'from each other in space. ,But We - do not stop. here. Leaving' the ,tottfirnes of our own universe we sweep . on through' space, millions upon millions .of miles,' till; looking back, we seethe stars that corn pOse. our system lying in-one , vast Ouster ; but before us all is yet blank, save' some thin' hazy spots that loom up in the distance.— Bring to our aid the telescope; . lo ! thou sands of suns and stars. burst, upon Our view. Here is 'another universe'; and there is not merely 'one,they are more-nu merous than the stars An our system.— There is one in the Constellation Hercu les, which, examined with the mighty tel. eicope we use,.i's seen to contain one thou sand stars, occupying so' mien- a field-in space that it would scent you' might grasp. it in your hands. Yet, they are so far sop. arated that light, which travels 12,000,000 mileS in 'a minute, requires ten-thousand years in passing between its most"distant stars. These faCts'are startling,. but the evidence of their truth is irresistible. ' Lord Ross-has recently constructed telescope having a speculum six feet ameter and a focal distance of sixty 'feet.-- The power of this 'instrument is almost in credible. Such is its • capacity that Were a star of - the first magnitude . removed . to w such a distance that its light would be sit.. ty thousand years in travelling to . our earth; this telescope would reveal it. With such an instrument it' is not wonderful that grand -discoveries ~should 'be - It' has re-, vealed the constitution . of.. the-wonderful;, in:the constellation ofOrion. this is only: one' of tritiniPhs; It Has gone on frond point to. point; 'revealing combinations of Stars wonderful beyontl what the imagination can conceive. . And still greater triumphs await it in future. SECOND LECTURE.—In my, la.st lecture I attempted to - give-you some idea of the power. of-the_telescopo, '.uttfolding ; to you the results that have — b,een : achieved through .its instrumentality. By the. Aid of . this : ,ipstrument we have, penetrated from point to : point, from stay, tq.s an from cluster to.cluster; Until..the_:distattee becomes so great that,.fight upon its tire less wing almost refuses to,pass;the, nigh= ty interval. But in all this, We,,hatie said nothing of the laws 1,11 a; 095*,t,11,95' in their mystic flight throughapace; make = ing the melody of motion, if net the fan cied music of the Spheres'. ''or 3 ,tr,loo years-the eye gazed upon theSp bright ,and beautiful orbS,. and deterinined approxi mately their distances and periodiclimes and..yet it knew .tiothing of , the law thai controlled, all, their various 'and coinplioa ted motions. Copernicus announced the :t'rue system of the universe : hut, it remained, for the powerful genius of Kepler, .after years o wearisome labor and . study, to evolve, the law by which it is possible to_account for and determine the movements of the plan ets. Kepler found that their orbits l instead of being circular, ate eliptical, and that a line drawn fioni' the sun out-to the 'planet, would, as the planet moved round the sun; describe equal areas in equal times.. Hav- ing discovered these two grandlaws, Kep ler' was snlimpreaeed with then. beauty that, occurred 'to him that there' ' might possibly be some law uniting these ' . bright worlds. together _in one grand system; and that some relation eiisted' 'between:: their Whiffle iime . and their relatiie distances, which; if 'ascertained, would 'enable him, when knowing one to detaiminethe other. After seventeen years of unremittingatten tion to this subject, he reached this grand result, viz: the squares of : the periodie time of planets are , always proportion ed to the cybei of their : distances., When Kepler reached these resultS,.the 'prablein of the universe 'was resolved: But some- thing more:was to beaccomplished: : HoW are the, planets kept in .their orbits? '.r . Con- Centrating the'eUergies of his inighlYintel lect upon this grand. questimi l Newton fi nally rose to the' great truth 'cif 'titiiVereal gravitatiOn. Finding that thOlaiv, Ofgrav ity regulates the movements of the moon, he extended his'observations tothe planets, and attempted to determine the curves of their revolution... The 'next great pOintis, if bodies are mutually aeted . upon each other, to determine the , effdet produeed. Let us wing . our flight in itnagicatiOn to the sun: - there we find a globe, 880,000 miles in dianteter.' Here, tire fik.• ' Ninety-46c milliona'of miles from the 'sun We fix our . eye . upini globe stationary in space. lf a force, Should :be:eOmmunica ted to that . bOdy, it -- Wcinld' 'Mime off' in a: straight line . tlirough spear: 'but theattrac tion of the . sukeeizes" it, 'and Llo! a• . Planet heated in the'liaht Ort'he'Sna'wheels iii an undeviating orbit around its centre. Now if we had .but one Sim and this`planet;iiges' might yid' away,. and 'yet' The phtne't , hnve the,q,atrip orbit ; but . -aiOund this planet *loon, and is the primarypli pet takes itiotirseareu tic' the suti; the moan' . is hway from theplatteti aria 'her?. are introduced disturbing causes. - ,Yet it matters not ficiw coiriplex ces may be, anhlysis can' trace' thein''Out oven though` tind be ifdditd.-I'Ptins;`liy,icetintetif'ciiiijriiiillte tpatics,'-yve,have not only alfirstiikbr the p4ifand'ptbselii; bitt;'whiit is I fildr? wdn d6rfill still, chii'rulf. - lincV 'the' tu'rlEY, and pittligtiiiiilt hbibfitti. Cliktainty i iii thit •fre to :talc's Ailitibierther?lfutr- 1TE19013-4WO DOLLARS PER .41,NPitig W 40 - 11 . E laffq , I shallinga of the hltstitef Stirrllniveirse: r 'fhetientainder of thin*turiiiiiii up with an account of the disc&ifeeilftlie asteroids, of Herschell, and planet Leverrier and With'it'elekeriptio the lecturers observations on this planet. Turtle . Lnerunn.—Tonight:we ,leatfe our own system, and go into the depths of. space, till the bud dwindles into estarand the mighty orbit of the planet. Leverrier sinks into a speck. We examinethe suns; that fill Apace, determine hew' theyaredis tributed and their 'distances: The earth is 8,000 miles in diameter.: The Moon,. it, 240;000 Miles from the Earth, and revolves., around:it. Here we have a little system; Jupiter has four moons. • Herewe 'have ei system more eompleic and .more beautifuli fin tothe sun; 4 , hich is a mighty globe-82,-. 000 miles in diameter.. Around him all the planets are circling. ~ Thoneands. of / come* 'move about him, now. plunging, down almost peipendicular to the plane i'of • - the eliptic, and coming •to their: perihelion;' and then sweeping ont into spacer farther: than the telescope can follow them.: Here is a still grander system, burone of t he , in finite number that lie scattered in the infin— itude of space. . • • In order to determine the scale-of therP.' niverse, it is necessary to determine the. distance of , sonic of the fi x ed stars. Two spectators;atdlflerent stations on the earth, by observiug at the same _instant the ap parent position of the moon in the heavens, give us data`in constructing a triangle', hav ing the diameter of the earth for' its base, which given us the distance of the moon. 13nt the diameter of the Earth is too small' abase in determining the distance of the stars. The astronomer is upon the Earth. and he makes this his moving observatory: The diameter of theEartles . orbit is' 2oo,- , 000,000 of miles. The astronomer takes 4rt observation on a fixed 'star, marks its: position in the heavens, and • waits; six months, till - the "earth' `is in , the -opposite part of her orbit. then observes the , star again. Bet with this immense base,- no instrument can detect the minutest an 'The lines drawn from the exteMitiert of the earth's orbit to the star are madly: parallel. It seems now that no More-can be done. • . Sir 'William Herschel found that; some of the stars'•which appear to be double are in reality separate. By measuring the , distances between these stant,Aol9 tionfi to time, as the earth moves around the sun Herschel! found, e his nstani sh mem, iliat they changed their position:anti that they were in' reality revolving :about each other. This discovery.: operated up on the world like an electric. shock: : , .But it was not till Fraunhofer had elinstructed micorneter that Astronomers hadthe.pow• er oT measuring minute distarices. With this instrument a series of obiervatienn were inede upon the star No. 61 Cignite from which its Oarallax and diameter 'were deduced. Its diameter is 200,000,000 of _A globe large enough to fill upthe orbit of the earth at'the distanc e of tliiSstar, give only parallix ohlktif 6=lo of a decond. 'The whole of our solai eye terilwhen•scen 'lran 'this s ta r w ould 'sink into a point. ' infinite 'space belongs to liifittite "power ,elotie... He has filled it with 'net systems of weeds, and' the; distance Of thete -ep ic* from each otheribeard the same pro portion to their mightYdimetisions•thit the disth,hce of the plapits from the Soh do to their dianieters. -As .the •suns and their satellites in our own systeth are 'grchiped teat,* so * as to constitute one'system, do arethe'mighty SystemB.in space all united in one incomprehensible System,:ohedieitt , to one creator. , • We are thus associated .ivith. the Stars that surround us in one common brothee ' hood: We are ,to .spenkJo-night of the eenire df one' of one of these -"systems of worlds. The grand centre - dr all- Created things , is heyintd thelimits of,human itiVee tigation-the dey' will never come sillehit shall be found--4t is a mystery the finest mind shall' never solve. God called. one man 'into the vestibule of Heaven. - To his servants, he said, strip from himhis clothes flesh; but touch not his human heart,— Thus prepared he was borne by in rapid flight through space. Some times he passed through a wilderness of darkness and sometimes among , myriads of sphered; on the right hand:and on the left . toWered mighty 'constellations where height iiratitivallowed up by depth tinfiith ornable' and Aefith, profound, 'by. heights unmeasurable, and thus careering, from in finite to'infinite, the cry arose ihatiother worlds liore'niiiterionti were:at handThe' than mitv'-' shrunk back ; tshuddered and iVept and said, insufferable itt the glory of dod, let me lie down in .the graVe,' let rfie:hide in dust from' his:brightness, and from The stitis . there cameA:voiie ~ , Thd min epeSketh We are:2lOt left alone to the revelations of deiencer.-- The •inind' crushed beneath :their, power i.seliiims, 4 '4lVlCen Iconsider Hpaswee, the 'work hi thrfingerm.thelnee4fejka the stars which thotr, hasi-ordaineiti whet is inattllietrthou art: - mindfuteChit4 son of man that "thonmjsitett a Wheat Hetnediel leanclAhat i _thi;Mare" letetriteittheit positioit AhozAappt - 490itt: kurst upon him that they were 41111217 q , thfeftle weettr *en* sliglOwer visitlyMenliehal,.but it was take wi p#- gitomreyirk Rttedta wha sh s ' minis tiorsoboitiiiih7thifT44 attiring': ''knottier 'Russian Astronomer elletkog- 41 41*?, 1 7fliette-tiel 4 114 0 111 414, s; liar our atydietikdsppy,tlig: v... 1 - 4.. 40 =Er
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