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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
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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
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