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From Graham's Magazine for Jul•
THE BUILDERS.
HENRY W. LONGFELLO7
All 4, architects of Fate,
Ocing in these walls of Time;
Spume kith massive deeds and great,
Sent with ornaments of rhyme.
Nothilt; useless is, nor loco ;
Eanla thing in its place is hest :
And %film seems but idle show
Str4tgtheas and supports the rest.
A
For tile structure that NAT raise,
Tulle is tiith materials -tilled;
Our tttdays and yesterdays
Aregthe blocks with which we build
Truly *hope and fashion these;
Lenie no yawning gaps between:
Thinlstot, because no man sees,
Suet) things will ivinain unseen.
In th4elder days Of Art, -
Paaftlers wrought wah greatest care
Each Minute and unseen part;
Forthe Gods see everywhere.
Let u4do our work as well;
Both the unseen and the seen;
Make he house, where gods inay dwell,
Be4dith.l, entire and clean.
Else *r 1in... , are incomplete,
8 -u.ing is these walls of Time,
Broktt suer-ways. 'here the feet
titulable as they seek to climb.
Build c, then, strong and sure,
WitMirrn and ample base ;
Andlending and secure
fib 'to-morrow find ith place.
•
Thus 'thine can we attain
To arse tunnels, where the eye
world as one vast plain •
or boundless reach of sky.
Seea •
And
TICE-PEEPING.
EERIE
G. W. PATTEN, U. S. A
Butterfly ! butterfli ! minion of 'light !
Floating like ' issmner fastirom the sight!
Tell me, come whisper, e'er further you rove,
Have you met , ye journey'd the smile of my Jove?
'• Where,' er 'hy mistress, she stood nut, I ween,
This morn I past, at the lattice of green :
For I peep4at each crevice, but naught could I see,
Save the fat - mignonette and the sweet-scented
pea "
Humming-bint! humming-binl! gentlest of wing!
Sipping the stteets„./rvn t each delicate thing!
t.v.ty, ere you xitil to your nest in the grote,
Have ye hearit at the lattice the voice of my lov'e
"'That I've peeped at each casement the morning
F breeze kilows,'
For it bowl to my kisses the tulip and rose;
But naught4tave I heard at the porch of thy fnir,
Save the bur.z of the bee as he whizz'd thrMtgb
the air."
Butterfly, but rfly! fading in blue!
Ilumming-birt humming-bird_ sipping the dew!
Brang ye-no vi:nrd of my mistress to-clay
o'er tlle hill to,,you cottage, away !
There where the pinny and prince's red plume
'oath her so 4 culture have blush'd into bloom,
Hoveraronthilter and flutter above,
'Till you eateti through the lattice a peep of my lore
Fort Origaral", N. Y.
Ineidents of the War.
The favoite eirrespontient of the "_..New York Spirit
of the Times, in his last letter from Matamor as,
tis es several nkw and interesting incidents a the late
battles. We Libjoin two of his anecdotes. The
.t
Lieutetumt 11 / Ys alluded to is the son of General
1111. EL HA rqiof Venongo county, in this State, and
at present Muilial of the Western District 'of Penn
t. irania Tilt Father is worthy of such it son.
In me chart, led by the gallant Nifl r, in the front
rank
,was binitlf. poor INGE and U. SACKETT. When
MAT gate tls word "charge !" Sacker's horse being
a little the qu.(tkest, got the start_ In the midst of
ashower of gr'"pe , :day said to S. '• Sackett tha's not
fate' you too the jump on me l" Lt. Sackett's horse
was almost a the moment shot, and fell upon the
Lieut„ who
e - th great tlificulty disengaged himself
vith.the loss pf his sword. lie took another horse
and sword frin a dragoon, and agaiti joined in the
't
fight. 'i
Corporal Flia£l., of the 4th Infantry, with ten men;
came up totent lists of the 4th, and exclaimed
" Lieutenant,' if we had an officer to lead ns, we
could take that piece r referring to . one which was
pouring the leaden messengers of death" into our
poor fellows. "You shall not say you had no officer
to lead you, drporid, follow Mx!" was the reply of
the 'fearless 14 is ; and away they dashed and storm
ed the battery and took it!
fiuch, is thefr.„dibre of the American officer and sol
dier. It musi not he thought that the enemy did
not fight. Tliey fought at first like devils! the piles
of woundpd along their lines tell how they stood up
to it The Trimpico regiment, and the 6th and 10th
Infantry, appT i lr to have steered the most. You may
imagine how desperate was our charge, when laten
t
lion the fort apt six out °Nile eight pieces that were
taken were loinied.•
Yorso O,ARTAL gent.eman of the army,
stationed at iflferson Barracks, relates the following
wrth regard t 4 a EMI (in his twelfth year,) of the gal
lant 1 - looe, of pompany C. Stli littentry, who, in the
charge of his i^eginient against -the enemy's battery
on the 9th ulfi lost his right arm by a cannon ball.
"!You itav4 i lieard S., that your father was wound
ed 41 the latet l iiiattie in Texas ("
"'Yes. sir, l 4 heard that he was slightly wounded."
"your fat4r. was mach more severely wounded
thus we had 'Leen informel of, but he is now re-
Paled as geititig well. Your father had his right
"nivhattereiklby a cannon ball, and it became ne
trasary to amputate it ; but thank God, he is getting
well, and will soon join your mother at home." The
hone fellow'syes instantly filled with tears, and al
ter 4 few moieties silence ; he anxiously inquired :
" Will fath4 now have to leave the army,; will he
have to giv'e Op his comptinyr
No, nay diar boy, he will not unless he desires
•
" I know ice will not desire it," was theitistantre
mnit, " for ithen his wouialca.l arm is heah:l, he can
Put his swortton the other side, and draw it with
6 kft kand A'—St Louis Rosalie ..
gIIMMINIIINIM ' :
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VOL. 1.
.ifisccllattn.
RAMBLES A.13011T PARIS.
AS REV. J. T. RRADI.ET
- There can scarcely be two- things more
dissimilar in their outward appearance and
inward arrangement than a prison and a
palace, yet in Paris one associates them to
gether more frequently than anything else:
In this guy capital, the palace has not only ,
frequently been the prison of its inmates, but
the portico to a gloomier dungeon. In the
revolution, a palace•wtts the most dangerous
residence one could occupy ; and there was
not a poverty-stricken wretch in Paris who
did not feel more secure than those who oc
cupied it. From a palace to prison, was
then a shim step, tiud from the prlon to
the scaffold a shorter still.
First iii the list coupes the palace Of the
Tuileries, the residence of the Kin. , and
court. Ido not design to describe t his e ' in
detail, for it would be indefinite in the first
-place, and hence dry and uninteresting, in
the 'second place. This magnificent palace
fronts the garden of the Tuileries on one
side, and he Place du Carrousel on the oth
er. In 1416, the Spot to which it stands
Was a tile field, where all the tiles with
which Paris is supplied were made, and had
been made for centuries. Those portions of
the field not occupied with the tile makers,
and their clay and kilns, were used as a
place of deposite for carrion, and rubbish of
every sort. Francis L built the first house
upon it in 1518, and Catherine de Medici,
in 1564, began the present edifice. - After
she had proceeded awhile she became alarm
ed at the prediction of an astrologer, and
stopped. Henry IV, took it up again, and
finally, under Louis XIII., it was completed.
It is a noble building, though 'of no particu
lar order, or rather of all orders combined.
Each story shows the. taste of the age in
which it was'erected. The columns of the
lower one are lonic, of the second Corinthi
an, and iii the third Composite, all and each
corresponding to the epoch in which they
were built': Its front towardsthe garden is
very imposing and over its solid walls may
yet be traced the fierce hand-writing of the
revolution: .The frenzied mob that thunder
ed against it might not have been able to
write, but they have left their mark, which
no, one can mistake. The entire length of
the front is a thousand feet, while the build
ing is a little over a hundred feet deep. Its
interior is divided into private and public
royal apartments—salons, etc., etc. The
Louis Philippe gallery is lighted on one side
only, and by immense windows, - while on
the other side of the room, opposite them
and equally large,
,are arrang,ed looking-
glasses in the panel.., i.ighteen feet high, and
seven feet wide—single, solid plates. • Hem,
too, is the, silver statute' of peace voted to ,
Napoleon; by the city, after the peace of
Amiens. •
The garden in front of it, with its statues,
shaded walks, long avenues and fountains, f
have described before. The other side of
the palace fronts the Place du Carrousel,
beyond which is the Palace of the Louvre.
This " Place" derived its name from a in-and
tournament which Loins X IV. held there
nearly two hundred ' years nvo. On the
eastern side, the inferpal machine exploded,
destined to kill Napoleon, and in its place
now rises the triumphal arch, erected-by the
emperor in the days of his 'power. Eight
Corinthian columns of red marble support
the entablature of this arch, and above them
are bas-relief• representing great events in
Napoleon's life. Theie is the battle of Aus
terlitz, the capitulation of Ulm, the entrance
into Vienna and Munich, and ths interview
of the Emperor', forming in all rather a cu
rious comment on the!infernal machine.
On the farther si,ic _ stands the Palace of
the Louvre. It was begun h' Francis 1.,
but when Napoleon came into power, the
roof was not vet on. One of the things that
arrested my attention most, was the bullet
marks on the walls, left there in the last
French revolution, of 1830. The madden
ed populace swanned itip to it, as they had
formerly done, in the first revolution, and
hailed bullets on its massive walls. The
Swiss guards defended it. and, mindful of
the fate of their comrades half a century
befprc, and determined not to he massacred
in detail, as they had been, hurled death on
the assailants. Those who fell were buried
here, , and• every year, at the anniversary Of
ther death, a solemn service is performed on
the spot *here they: died. This_palace is
pot so large as that of the Tuileices,Nits front
being little over half aS long as the ter.
It is a fine building, bat interesting , chiefly
for the triu.seumsit contains. Hefe you may
wander, day after day,! through the halls of
paintings and statuary, and ever find some
thing new and beautiful. A little removed
from these two palaceti, on the other side of
the Rue Rivoli and Rue St. Honore, block
ed in with houses, stands the Palais Royal.
The orgies this old palace witnessed under
the Regent, and after Wards under the Duke
of Orleans, otherwise called Egalite, are
perhaps Without a parallel, if we except
those of the Medici in 'the Ducal palace of
Florence. Scenes of.,' debauchery and of
shame, revelries and drunkenness, such as
would disgrace the initiates of a 'brothel,
were enacted here in gilded, tapestried
rooms, hung in costly 4urtains, and decora
ted with all that art could lavish upoii them. ,
But come, stroll area - ad these royal Aar;
dens, seven hundred feet long and three
hundred feet broad, lined with little trees,
and fencing in floer-gitrdens and fountains:
It is a Jtily evening; and the cool summer
air is breathing freshness over the crowds of
loungers that throng the open area. There
are four little parillionS in which a man site
to let out Papers to reed at a cent eaeli
Around thui your smell politicians are as
senibled, reading and talking, all hours
the day. Were p4ficril as cheap as in NeW
York, thiaiwould/not he very profitablebusi4
ness, for, e4ch would .64 instead of hire his
paper for 4 penny, butiliereit if a taoney. :
Making affair. - Such r a throng is always
"EVERY liIFFERENCE OF OPINION IS NOT A. DIFFERENCE OF PRINCIPLE."--JEFTEkSON
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ONTR,OSE, PA.. THURSDAY JULY 16 1846.
.
Fund here in the, evening, that the Mere
While7e of allowing men to let out chairs
sibd furnish refreshment yields the down
1 ore than five thouiand dollars a year.--
his garden is entirely surrounded by houses,
i kith -the first story an open gallery, in which.
tie can promenade at his leisure, looking in
•the gray shops that line it. Here, too, are
El
rrstaurants and cafes in any quantity, fur
mshing your dinners at any price. You
may step into this elegant one, and a little
sup, - a beef-steak, with a slight desert, will
.st you a dollar. But a few steps fiulther
( i is a sign which says, a dinner with 'five
urges for two francs and a half, or about
:
flrty-six cents, and there is another, furnish
ik; an equal number of dishes, with Wine,
-fin. two francs, or thirty-seven and a half
sicnts. if you have a mind to try this cheap
linner, step in and call for a two-franc 41in
itrs There is no deception—the five di'shes
ild wine come on in solemn order, but if
Aka eat it, shut your 'eyes, " and ask no
( nestions," not "fr conscience," but for
Oomach's sake. Your mutton may have
lfeen cut from the ham of a dog, and thts va:
&us dishes so disguised in cooking, and
ii
t'ith sauce, are just-as likely to be hashof
q ists as anythingelse. If you get the re
,
rise of some rich man's table, be thankful
s' d say nothing: The wine you need not
l . e n temperance man to refuse, though you
'lust be an out and out toper if you can
I' luster courage to swallow it. Still it is
1 ell to make the experiment of one such
c inner to know what it is You need not
iit itit is worth two francs to look at it
The gallery on the south, called the gal
.ry or Orleans, "Oalerie Gthans," three
undred feet long and forty wide, is the
:ost beautiful of all, and almost bewilders
i m as you walk through it. Many a time
we I wandered backwards and forwards
re, thinking the while I must be in a glass
Ilei.y. Thr hark part of it is composed of
I prit shops, with the windows fairly flash
] with the gay and costly things that
orn thetn-L.all * fancy articles, designed for
!lament and show, while between IV win
ws is neither wood nor stone, bat splen
mirror; tilling the place .of panels.—
ben the brilliant lights are burning., and
• gay crowd are strolling about it, it is
i 01 e of the most picturesque scenes imagina
-1 bi-. The Palais Royal has been called the
c: pito! of Park and rightly enough, too,
ft i it is the concentrated gaiety of the city.
Goinv.out in the Rue St. Honore, where
it nearly Pins Rue Rivoli opposite the Place
d, Carrousel, let us go down the side of the
palace of the Tuileries, and entering the
gardens, stroll towards the Champs Elysees.
T l he Rue St. Honore g,im•s direct to the pal
ao.e oldie Elysres Mail-bon, but the route
aTough these magnificent grounds is jut as
ar, and far more pleasant. Strolling
tirrough one of these shaded avenues of the
grirden. we emeriti at the firther end on to
de Place de Concorde, the commencement
of the Champs Ely sees. pause here a mo
ment, I always do, though it be the hun
dredth time, and look hack on the dial of the
chock that is placed in the facade ,of the
ufteries. Here the guillotine stood, drench
ei in blood, and nil tbat cery dial did the
e ecutioner look when 111 P head of the king
1 sto fill. If that old dial could speak, it
c uld tell tales that freeze one's blood. You
1
n ed not shudder as you cress this place of
t Jrible remetuli.ances, for care has been ta
k nto call them to mind. Two beautiful
a d highly ornamented fountains are throw
ii 0. their bright waters around, making a
niurinur like music ; but though they flow a
tl usand years, they cannot wash the blood
ot of these stone.
Me-oanni(ii.e,
on
g iritildown tlehmaTropsnEolyosetiitse
" ahtis d' Elysees Bourbon." The building ,
w the right on ght
handi r.
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is fine, but it is the associations that make
it interesting. During the revolution, it, be
came the governmental printing-house. Af
tc.rWards,Murat bought it and lived in it,
after lie married the sister of Napoleon.—
Many of his improveme,nts remain, and one
rdoin is furnished to resemble a silken pent.
I was done by the wife of Murat, with
',Oki' to welcome h e r kingly husband as
Id , returned from one of his victorious coin
pliigas. After he was made King of Na
ples, it reverted-to the government,•and be
citme the favorite residence of Napoleon.
here is the Salon des Aides-dc-Camp, where
he used to dine with his family on Sundays,
mid there the Salon de Reception, his cann
el chamber, and near by the Salon des tl-av
a Is. here, too, is the bed-room and thy
✓ ry bed on which the fugitive emperor Slept
flirthe last time, as he fled from the fatal
1
bfittle of Waterloo. The room is in blue
aid gold, and the recess where the - bed
stiands is magnificent, but the last night 'the
firm of the emperor reclined there, sleep
teas far from its silken folds. His — throne
a d crown lay crashed. and trampled onl the
b rd-fought field, and the sun of his power
hltd set for ever. The Emperor of Rtissia
iddged in this palace when the allied triops
opcupied Paris the first time, and here iNa-
Odeon lived during the hundred days after
II returned from Elba. lie left it after his
ml overthrow, to give place to-Wellington,
ho sat here and mused over the crisis he
had passed, and the world-wide renown he
Id gained. Old Palace ! I should - think
i would hardly know its own Politics bv!this
time. To entertain loyally so many.(iii
la
tint.kinds of-kings and heroes, and 11
them all with ectbal grace, argues a Heil
iiy. of opinion qua! to Tallyrand.
1 Opposite the Camps Elysees, the o
4de of the Seine, is the Palais Bourbon,'
tin g uished now chiefly as the seat of .
Chamber of Deputies. The famous 01
liof Five Hinitired used to sit here,
ow the five hundred aad twenty-nine
.sentanves of France meet in Cong
lithin its walls. It is hardly worth gi
iier, but its beautiful white front, adot
id' columns, has a fine..effect when vie
unit this side of the river . .
i Opposite the Tuileries, on the farther
df the Seine, though out of sight, and a 1
$-tiv from the !maks of the river. stands
l
n o ble palace of the Luxembourg. I have
spoken oti this l?efore, when describing the
debates in the Chamber of Peers, and only
refer to it now in the list of palaces. In the
days : of the French republic, the Directory
occupied it as the place of their sitting, and
now the imbecile and almost helpless Peers
legish i ne in its balls. •
With a trip to Versailles I will close up
(figaratiody speaking) the palaces of Paris.
This is about twelve miles from Paris, with
a railroad leading to it each side of the river,
so that you can go one side of the Seine,
and return on the other. I took the railroad
as lianas St. Cloud, or about half way, and
stopped to see this other royal though rather
petit kialace. The magnificent grounds in me more than anything *else. It
Was a.scorehing day, and I strolled under
the shades of the green trees in perfiwt
light. -J ust as I was approaching one of the
cascades, I heard music, sounding like hu-
Man voices singing, though the echo . took
singular toile. 1 Evandered about hither and,
thither, but could not, for the life of me, tell
wh e nce the sound Caine, ' At length I came
upon it deep recess in a high bank, looking
like a'dry cascade r ,and lo !_ there sat a sister
of charity, .with several girls .and young
women about her, knitting, and sewing, and
dinging together. They made the woods
ring again, while the deep cavern-like re
des.. they were in, by confining the sound,
and sending, it upward instead of outward,
Produced a singuLar effect upon the ear.
• I walked through the grand park a mile
to Sevres to see the famous porcelain man
ufactory. Ido not design to describe this
manufitctory, but the great show-room is
magnificent. Such costly•and richly orna
rimmed vessels and bijouterie I never saw
4el'ore. The best painters are employed,
:Ind some of the diignl; are most exquisitely
tine:laid. A 1111111 could spend a fortune here
viitliuut gratil:ying his taste. This is
the best porcelain manufactory in Europe:
Here are kept also all the specimens of por
celain-in the wurid, as well as of the first
ariety ever glazed to France. No one vis
iting Paris should fail of seeing* them.
From this place I took the cars to Ver
sailles, and in a few minutes went rattling ,
into the miserable, iiirsaken-liwking little
villaim that bears that 'none. Soon after I
VMS luukiva on the palace of palaces in
France. Ido not di sign either to describe
this immense pile of buildings. Henry
the' glorious Harry of Na; acre.," used to
vallopni yr its site in the chase. It has pas-.
sad through many changes, but now presents
a richness and wealth of exterior surpass ed
by fi•w : pal ices in the V. wid. You approach
ed it through the ample Place 'dimes, and
rater the spacious ecurt through groups of
, aatues looknur down on .von as you pass.
The man from - is li.l !Mildred
. f.et long,
flanked by wings, each two hundred and
sixty feet in length. I eanint even go over
the naines of the ahnost endless rooms in
this pile of buildings. It is estimated that,
one travels seven miles to pass through them
all. I can travel that far in the woods with
out fatigue, bat to go that distance through
<nineties of paimmig-s, and statues, and, de
irand v tnrnished apart:liens, tilled with works
or art, is quite another thing. Seven miles
of si , lit-seeing in a single stretch was too
touch for my nerves, so I selected those
rooms most worthy ofattention, and avoided
the rest.
The historical gallery interested me most.
Here are the pictures oral! Napoleon's great
baffles: Indeed, it might be called the Na
poleon gallery. All the pomp and magnifi
cence of a great battle-field meet vou at ev
ery step. But I was most interested in a
group of paintings representing Napoleon
amid his most distinguished marshals, both
in their youth and in the full maturity of
Years. There stands the young Lieutenant
Bonaparte, thin, sallow, with his long hair
carelessly thrown about his grave and
thoughtful face, and by its side the emperor,
in the plentitude of his power and splendor
of his royal - robes. There, too, is the sub-
Lieutenant Lannes, the fierY-hearted youth,
and that same lieutenant r.s the Duke of
Montibello, and Marshal the empire. In
the same group is the under-Lieutenant;
Murat, tall and handsome, and liery ; and
by his side, Murat, as king of Naples, gm ,
geously apparelled, furnishipg strong and
striking contrasts—histories in - themselves.
There also were Bernadotte and Soult, in
the same double aspect, and, last of all,
Louis Phillippe, as lieutenant and as King
Of France. The grand Galeric des Glaces
is one Elf the finest rooms in the world. It
is '?4;; feet high.
,Seventeeii immense win
dows light it on one side, while opposite
them are seventeen eqtfnlly large mirrors.
Sixty columns of red marble, with bases and
eapitals of gilt bronze, fill np the spaces be ,
rween the windows and mirrors, while sim
ilar columns adorn the entrance. You wan
der confused through this wilderness of
apartments, filled With works of art, and it
es a relief when you emerge on to one of the
balconies, and look off on the apparently
timitleSs gardens and parks that spread away
from the palace. Immense basins of water,
little canals, fountains, jets, arches, and a
whole forest of statuary, rise on the view,
baffling all description, mid astonishing y,ou
with the; prodigality of wealth they exhibit.
There iS a beautifid orangCric, garden of or
ange trees, sunk deep down amid walls, to
which you dela:end by flights of a hundred
and three steps. 'Here is 'one orange tree
more than four hundred years old, that still
i.lrakeS its greiM crown antong its children..
On one Side of these extensive grounds are
two rn:val buildings, cancel,' the great and lit
tle Trial - Mits. In the garden of the little
(Petit) Triation is a weeping willow, plant
ed by the handaf Marie _Antoinette. here,
in her days ofd darkness and sorrow, she used
to come and it, and weep'over her misfor
tunes. ; willow, it almost seems to.
speak of its Mistress, as it stands drooping
alone.!
her
Idir
the
[in
land
!wig
ned
vcd
But:I rtave tarried so long around the
palateo of.Paiis, that I lutist dismiss its
prisoni without u description. There are
right Pris'onsin thu. ciiv, 'whose walls hare
ISi(1(
ong
the
. , .
•1 • I
se, .e of sut - Tering, more cries and
gr iitnessed more unhallowed 'revel
rk scenes of shame, than the like num
ber in 'tiny other part of the world. During
theß Volution, they were crowded with in
mates who, in thek!frenzy of desperation, en
acted cenes that day would blush to look
upon, vltile the ministers who trod
.France;
like a vine-press, beneath Weir feet, made
the fotindations flat with the blood .of the
slain. There is La: Forge, which forms so
conspiimons a tigtire in one of Eugene Sue's
works. ) Here, too; is the conciergerie into
which ,Marie Antoinette !was hurried from
her palace and layi for two months and ' a
half, aid left it onlito Mount the sciifibld.
Here, 00, pined the princess Eliiabeth a
weary captive, and,:last Of all, it ~ received
the inhuman Robespierre from whence he
was taken to the scaffold. This prison has
been the scene of Many a terrible massacre.
In the one of 1792, two liundrethandthiity
nine wore murdered at mice, and rivulets of
blood poured op eVery side, from its gloomy
walls. , Here, too, is the -never-to-be-forgot;
ten Ahbaye, with its gloomy underground
dungeons, iihich performed so tragical a
part itt the Revolution. I have previoaly
described some of the terrific, scenes this
prison has witnessed. One cannot look on
it ,without shuddering, -and turns away,
wondering if the . men hurrying past him
are or the same species with those who have
made this prison such a blot on humanity.
Ali ! this Paris is full of extremes. Its
population rush into pleasure or into massa
eres with equal readiness—turn dandies or
tigers in a tnomentare carried away by
romantic sentiments, otie day, and by the
most ferocious feelings that ever tilled the
bosoM of a fiend,
.the next—gay, dancing
popinjays, in the Morning,. and heroes at
night—votaries of pleasure, and profound
mathematicians, rit'ingling the Strangest qual
ities, and exhibiting the strangest history of,
any people on the face of the earth.
Le It gives us pleasure to lay before our
i L t
readers the following articl . from the Lu
zerne Democrat, relating t he celebrated
Artist, GEO. CATLIN, Esq.—an honor to his
county and his .country. If we-mistake not,
we recognize. in- the 'style of the writer, an
other gentleman who spent his boyhood days
on the airy hills of Susquehanna, and who
has since arose, thijugh ilia different sphere,
step by step on tha Temple of Faille, with
Mr. C,ltlitt: i l'
• Catlin's Indiai3 Gallery.
Mr. George Catlin, %vim is-now at' Paris,
has pr..s;Mted a Memorial to the Congress
of the Uuited States, asking that the Gov
cr.:nue:it shall purehase,of Will his Indian
G.,llery, the -repumnon of which is already
f.:miliar to our readers. This collection, as
he states in his Memorial, consists of" near
ly 6:t( pan i tings of portraiture and costumes
of ferty-eight different tribes, and the must
extensive and %Iduable collection of weapons
and other manufaCtures of the North Amer
ican Indians, ihaOnis ever been made,to
the latter department of which several very
valuable collections haie been added in
England by purch'ase ;" and he also States.
that in the accumulation of this collection
he spent the " entilre exertions of eight years
of his life, and an expenditure of more than
*20,000." He is! anxious that the United
States Government should be the owners of .
this vast collection. He offers the Gallery
f0r.565,000, and yin add to it, his efforts to
comple it during pie remainder Of his life,
thus rendering it Worthy of the archives of a
great nation, and io he, hereafter, d proud
relic of the young 4 days of the American
Republic. This offer is not made out of
motives of cupidity. and selfishness.. An of
fer, equally advantageous, has already been
made by the British GovernMent. Now with
a love for_ his own country, he asks that his
collection tiny be, •penikanently estdblished
in its appropriate place, under the cure of
the Got eminent, and its the Capital of the
Union. We hope the purchase will be made,
without reluctance, by Congress. The col
lection embraces varieties, whose likeness
will disappear as the
,red men Jade- away.
This gallery constitutes in a brief, the entire
timid of the Indians life, and a retrospective
view of that fated race, When they built their
wigwams in this Valley; when their birchen_
skiffs dotted alike the smooth watetis of the
Susquehanna, and the mountain *ayes of
the Allegheny and Conemaugh. On our
hill-side glades, giew the isolated etninfteld
of the poor savage; centuries ago, and Where
our giirdens flourish, arid, eitii , s grow, the
step of civilization iras trodden down the
lonely grave, of- an olden race. What can
therefOre, be more appropriate thaO to pre
serve the relics of a people, whose existence
will henceforth - live only in the slutdOws of
the pait. As curiosities to posterity, they .are
invaluable—as matters of history important,
and as a tribute to our national regard for
genius and worth, will add honor to the
name of the American Union. .
Accompanying the memorial of Mr. Cof
fin, is !la memorial• from eleven American
Artists'', of 'distinction, now at Paris' from
which we take the' following extract t ; -.
- "Tile Italian who wishes to portray the
History of Rome, finds remnants of her sons
in the Vatican ;- • ! -the :French Artiat can
study the Ancient. Gauls in the Museum of
Louvre; and the. Tower of London is rich
in the armor and weapons of the.; Saxon
race. t Your tnethorialists therefore most
respcdtfully trtist that Mr. Catlin's collection .
may ate purclkasdd and cherished Illy the
Fe& al Goyernmiint, beat nucleus," - .for a Na
tional Museum, (where Americtqt Artists
may freely stddyj that bold race ! Who once
held possession oli oar cOuntry, and whO are
so fast disappenrii 4 * beftire the ti 4 of civili
zation!. Witl4mt !such a collect*, few of
the glorious pagea of our history C.iitt be ll
histrated, whilb the like mode.Of it here, by
F rinuilt Artist-, in recordininpoii: canvass
the American discoverics Of their 'Conntry
men!n the last 'ccutiwy,shoWs its hum':
tancel .
Thie acquisition of the collectjon will also
•
, .
Adverti: :Metal; conspienausl l , . inserted at the tum
id rates of 1
TWENTY-F . /YE CF:TS' addition for ..11eti subsequent
snnre for the first. and
-
insertion. 1r
Yearly- Advertiseinente,- with the privileg; of al-
teratiomnoi to exceed
Quarter Column, with the paper, per year, . e,3 00 Column do ' • -•do- a oo
One Column, do do- 15. 00
Business Cards, do do . 300
Alt other", advertisements inserted rat reasonabl e •
rates. 1
NO. 5.
Advertis' einetralAionld be murked moth the num
ber of.,iesetibtis
secure to :our country; the . continned-ser
vices of its author, whose ambition seems to
be still to labor for its ettlargettient, and
whose ability to do so with success and tirith
profit to kis country, we think is well attett
ed by the deflection he has made, by years
of toil,.anil often- of hardtihip, entirely_ un-.
aided by public or private patronage."
But there are other considerations. Mr.
Catlin is tomtive artist. His early days were
even among
. the hills/Ind *alleys of our own
Northern Pennsylvania. :J in the schoolboy
days of the writer, whick,Were spent in Sus
quelianna County, we had a child's ac
quaintance with the first efihrts of young Cat
lin's genius. . He lvas a son of the, ate Put
nam Catlia, ofthe village otGreat Bend. We
recollect to have seen the first touches Ofhis
pencil in the portraiture of a 'little girl, who
delighted as she had the right to call, him
Uncle. It was indeed a rough draft. On
ly a few 'years since, in a random visit to
the same humble dwellingi, I saw the little
picture ha;iiging upon the .parlor wall, pre
cisely as when it took the ntipretended 'fin
ish front Oadin's untutored pencil. We at
once flattered the girl, whose face it presum
ed, in an earlier day, to have represented;
by remarking that she bar] grown muck
prettier ofllate, or the portrait an - awkward:
representation. But even t that time, the
picture was revered, as aelic of the boy. -
hood of genius* when it was wild . without
tunbition. Although now, the eccentric lad,
had grown a man and in the pursuit of his
favorite study, had acquired i fame, whiCh
will he claimed by ,the American people;
and be redorded in our an n als of genius.
EsTents'in a !011ikle Life.;
Dr. nervy, a. Baptist clergyman, one hund
red and eleven years old, preached on the
11th ult. in the Tabernacle. As he sat On
the platforin, he did not appear so old ; bht
when he rose, his short and stunted figure,
diminised;!not enfebled by 'age, and the tones
of his voice—his hesitancy, broken syllables,
and snow !white hair—all testified his ex
treme old Mtge. He preaChed on• Tempei l ,
ance=said he was an uneducated man--r—
-finally., when requested to give some account
of his own life, he observed that he could
recollect the events of a hundred years ago— .
that he was a poor boy, working out about,
and had Ailed the Minute Men during the
Revolution, and served under several coin
menders; *as employed in various services,
and has Bunted Indians itt this 'State, and
tories also, When he spoke of the coun
try and the war, his voice strengthened--he.
was more erect and vigurous,and the,lires of
youth began to rekindle. He said the Lord
had bequeathed us a glorious country and
he who would not defend that country in
war, as well as in peace, Was unworthy the
name of a 'Ecitiken; our country first, our fami
lies and fiiesides ! These sentiments, uttered
with the feebleness ofone hundred and eleven
years, by ti venerable patriot of the Revolu
tion, prodhced a thrill among the audience.
His circuinstanceS are straitened, and the
religious - f l . sirtion of our wealthy city should
visit and •aid him. He has no flocks and
herds and! wealth, as our father Abraham
had at his; years.
°What strange events have crowded history
the lonklife of this venerable man He
was born thee years only after Washington.
Georg It was on the Englith throne; Louis
XV:, on dint of France; Ferdinand VI. tea •
of! Phillip iv., ruled in. Spain and Fiederieli
the Great; had just commenced his feign.
The Emptess Catherine held' sway in Rus
sia, Poland was a mighty and independent ,
kingdom under Agustus of Saxony. The
population ofthe thirteen Colonies woe a lit
tle rising two millions; and from-the banks
of the Hudson, sti4tcbang west to t i e Missis
sippi, was! an. unbroken, forest, tilled:. with a
savage foe; where the white man dared -not
venture.' France on the north,' and Spain on
the south,! owned the largest portion of our
Continent; and the existence of Oregon was
then unknown. New llolland, the islands
in the - Socith Sea and of the Indian Archi
pelago, were as yet untroden by civilized
man. The National debt of England was
less than !L6i/N(1,000, and the Stuart dy
nasty had not g iven up their :pretensions to
the throne!. Turkey wad the terror of the •
civilized World, and the gold Spain
ally received from her - South American COl
onies exceeded the income of any Other Na
tion. Steam, electricity, and railroads, were
inventions df the future. • •
And now ; what has this old Mali seen, in his
single life 3 Five sovereigns"on the English
throne, on e of whom reigned sixty-years?. The
dynasty. of France completely c4tigeit after
two revelations? Napoleon had risen, like a
brilliant meteor, and passed away as quieklvl, •
Poland blotted out of the bit of Nations; and -•
Spain and Turkey imbecile and weak to the
extremest degree. -France and Spain no lon
ger -own an acre of ground On our -Conti
neat, and England driven lout of her thirteen -?
Colonies; Where now exist twenty nine Stated,
and: twenty millions of people. . Steam pew . :,
etrates to the sources of the, Mississippi, and'
electricity', outstrips the wind in its tidings. •
This good old clergyman might say, in did
words of'llarzillai,• as he gazes round on bid
native land, blessed' in the greatestdegree:— •
4‘ Lord, now, let thy servent depart in pence,
for-mine :eyed have seen : thy salvation."—
N. E-Akssitiger. • .
CO,• . , ,
is. an error to suppose
that conversation is talking. 'A more
portent thing is_ to iliten: Aise.reetly,
beau said, ", that to succeed in this'worldi- it
is necessary. to satirist .to be taught
things' which; you tindersuunl, hy. persons
who knoW nothing :Aleut than." Flatteri.
is the, : Sniitli_ path to success; and-the intr#ts
refined and gratifying__cOmPhitictit. SP II Pitt,
pay, is.to„listeti." Arnyere sitys,‘"The
wit of . ciikeversation . bonsists in fiedingik in
otlierk mere, than tit shelving a great deal:
your's - elf; he who fives t~roui your,conyersa
tioa iileatOd :with linnselt and. his,,Own wit,
is perfeetly well plensed l i : Mast
Hien had `rather pleaStrtlion admire' you, and.
seek less beinstrticted;-nay,
than to be approve( and
.apidanded. The
most'dcliiinte please is to please-anther."
'4 . :errs of Adyrtising.