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[From the Louisville Journal.]
THE BOMB AND BIRD.
Before the White-House portals
The careless eyes behold
Three iron halls uplifted
Adusk in summer gold.
in dreamy mood I wandered
At Satbath sunset there
While the wild city's murmur
Humm'd, vaguely, everywhere
"P,tack seeds of desolation,"
I said, "by War's red hand
Sown in the fierce Sirocco .
Over the wasted Lund !
"Unholy with the holy,
What do ye here to day,
'Symbols of awful battle
In Sabbath's peaceful ray?"
Angel of Dusk and darkness,
I heard thy woful breath
(With noise of all earth's battles)
Answer: `•Let there be deisth !"
I thought of many o
•Where.spraag terrific light
Over wide woods and [bushes
Fiercetircflics lit the night.
3 saw beleaguered bastions
Leap up from dreams of May,
'Wide rivers all transfigured
Awake in dreadful day.
~leleep in peacelnlsunshine
Gliramer , d the wstrlike things:
Into their hollow horror
Flew tenderest sufhtner wings I
Deep in tine awfultlyambers
To guard the giant Death, •
'The wren her nest had builded
And dwelt with loving breath
Angel of Restrrrection!
Over all buried strife,
heard thy bird-song whisper,
weegy, " Let there be life."
A RAT SUCKING A Cow.—A corres
pondent of the London Field wrote to
that paper the following:—On going in
to my own cowshed a short time since
to see a newly•calve,dcow, I found her
lying down, quietly *hewing the cud,.
and to my astonizili ren , observed a
huge rat tying at full length between
her hind legs, sucking vigorously at one
of her teats. My first impression was
that the rat was dead, however he got
there ; but I soon discovered the bright
eye of the rat turned toward me, the
point of the
,cow's teat in his mouth,
and the quick suction movement of his
jaws and throat. So fascinated did the
rat appear with his refreshing occupa•
tion, that he took no further notice of
my entrance than by watching me out of
the corner of one eye, and was not even
disturbed by my calling to the garden
er, at the lower end of the yard, to come
and witness the novel sight. His excla
mation on seeing it was, " Well, sir, I'm
sure I never did see such a thing in my
life." Nor was it until he stooped with
the intention of seizing the thief by the
tail that the rat attempted to move.—
He then sprang suddenly from his soft
bed, and made a dash toward the corner
of the pen, where he quickly met with
the reward of his temeritz, and was
knocked over with a stick. It had been
remarked that the cow seemed to have
less milk than she should have had so
soon after calving, and it may readily be
supposed that the supply was actually
and perhaps materially diminished by
the visits of this audacious thief, and
others, no doubt, of his thievish frater
nity, to the friendly fountain.
DE:lmm; I.3olollAL.—There is a man
in Loraine county, Ohio, who, having
been examined by the drafting Surgeon
for various diseases, and pronounced
sound as to all of them, fell back upon
the morals of the question, and declared
a draft immoral and unconstitutional,
bec use it was a game of chance.
fur The rebels are unable to conceal
the fact that they mean to have a mdn
archical Government. Their" cat is too
ibg for their bag.
ajobtptubtnt Verutstlintitia 4ourra4 gtVottV to Volitits, Niteraturt, Agriculture, Ittos of the PIIV,
[WRITTEN FOR THE HARLETTIAN. j
REFLECTIONS IN A POTTERY.
• "Hath not the potter power over the
clay, of the same lump to make , one,.ves
eel unto honor, and another unto dishon :
or." In business perigrinations.through
the suburbs of the city, I approached a
pottery, and being in a reflective mood I
entered in, and for nearly a whole hour
1 stood and observed the various opper
ations of the workman, from the temper
ing of the- crude material, up through
all its various stages cf progress, until
it termiaated in smoothly and sytnetri
cally finishedpots,—and this too, in an al
most endless variety of sizes antiticorms.
How simple seemed the process; and
how few the mechanical imPlements re
quired, thought I, in making a pot.—
Only the two naked hands, which the
Lord has given to all perfectly termed
men ; a piece of wire about two feet in
length ; and a circular horizontally re
volving platform—that is all— saving a
rude and simply constructed tubular
press, through which the clay is forced
in the kneading process. Surely, tho't
I, any simpleton can make a pot—/ can
make a pot; and yet, upon continued
observation and reflection, I found that
it required a combination of mechanical
and mental power to produce a pot, that
I little dreamed of is the beginning.—
How many men can perform a rotary
motion around the crown of their heads
with one hand, and with the other tap
themselves upon the breast, without ex
periencing an almost irresistable incli
nation for both hands to perform the
same motion ? This must be also the
first experiences of the potter, in a
greater or less degree—although no one
has told me so—for the rotary motion of
the lump of clay upon the circular plat
form, ned the - treading motion of the
foot which produces the former, must be
akin to the two opposite or diverse mo-
Units before alluded to. 'Upon a closer
scanning of the countenance of the pot
ter, I found that it exhibited energies,
that indicated the stronger workings and
determinations of the inner will ; and
that when be placed the lump of clay
upon the platform, the
- size and form of
the pot seemed to be already built up in
his mind, and to have a real spiritual
existence there, even though it zever
should have been u:tiatted in a mate
rial form. The whole controlling pow
er, over the mass of unformed matter
before him, seemed to consist in a con
centrated and steady determination of
the mind to a single purpose, and that
purpose the formation-Of a vessel of a
particular form and .capacity; and an
energetic perseverance in that direction
alway produced the desired result. But
this poWer over the lump of unformed
clay was not acquired in a moment, nor
in u day, a week, a month ; nor yet per
haps in a year. The ability to form a
pot, and to attain to that degree of pro
ficiency in the art, which was exhibited
to me on this occasion, must have come
I "little by little," after the potter had re
ceived "line upon line" of instruction
front a colapetent master or Teacher.—
And doubtless after "precept upon pre.
cept" had been laid down to him, he for
a long time felt that same awkwardneis
and inability that the--young apprentice
or student in any other art or science
does that sympathetic disposition
which the one hand manifests to follow
the motions of the other, to the total de
feat or frustration of the object aimed
at,—instead of the concentration of
those combinations of power, which are
necessary in producing perfect hartno
ny, beauty, and form. By unbending
and unyielding energies however, all
directed to*ards a common end, and
that end the perfect control of the un
tempered clay from where it reposed an
integral portion of "mother earth" to
where it adorned the shelves of the dell- 1
vender's sliop—a degree of proficiency
was acquired in the end, that gave the
potter a perfect masterly power over
his work, reflection approximately, the.
Creator in the creature. But, I ob
served too, that before the potter at
tempts to form a vessel, he first kneads
and tempers his clay, very much after
the manner that an energetic and fru
gal housewife would knead and temper,
her dough for a batch of bread. This
process, although more laborious, seem
ed still more simple than the forming
process, and yet, it also, required much
energy and patient experience to gain a
perfect practical knowledge of.
Witnessing these things for the first
time, during a life that had been gra
ciously prolonged already to half a cen
tury, and musing upon the apostolic
quotation with which-I have introduced
these reflections, I mentally ejaculated,
-"Are not all men in some sense pot
ters?" Are we not every day of our
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MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1862.
lives engaged in forming vessels to hon
or or to dishonor? Let every individual'
mind, carry these questions to every in
dividual heart, and ponder them there—
let all the motives, aims, and ends of
life, and all the biases, prejudices, and
inclinations that constitute the starting
point of those motives, aims and ends,
be ciiieigned .before the tribunal of
an illuminated human judgement ; and
doubtless such an array of contorted and,
mishappen forms will be exhibited there
as will fill the mind with undisguised
astonishment, if not with uncontrolable
dismay. If men were asked individual
ly and in detail, whether they had suffi
cient moral control over their actions
to abstain from lying, from stealing,
from the commission of adultery, and
from murder, they most undoubtedly
would answer—with emphasis if not with,
indignation—in.the affirmative ; and yet
those same men might assert in a gener
al way, that no man gun keep the com
mandments—that no man has sufficient
control over his moral nature, to make,
of it a vessel either of honor or dishon
or. Nevertheless we are, consciously
or unconsciously, giving . forms •to oar
minds,,that will stand out in bold re
lief, when our disembodied spirits shall
have assumed that undisguisable status,
which characterizes the inhabitants of
an eternal world. Look at the energy,
the industry, and the perseverance with
which men pursue a course of evil, and
the perverse habits of life which are en
gendered by such a course. Is not this
giving a spacial form to their minds and
their affections for which they saay with
justice be held personally respousiblel
and can any one doubt that an opposite
course, as- earnestly and as persevering
ly pursued, whould have been crowned
with the blessings of an opposite result?
This forming process is continually, go
ing on, and the material, whether for
good or evil, is more susceptable and
more impressible during the ductilaty of
youth, than it is during the induration
of age ; and therfore it behooves ns all
to examine ourselves daily.—and
by that lumen which. can , only now
reflect itself through the pages of Holy
Writ— in order that we may see the
formative tendencies of our Minds, and
if necessary, change- them from vessels
of dishonor to those of honor. This is
a work that cannot be done by proxy.—
Each individual, by the help of God,
must do it for himielf. There is a gen
eral an'd perpetual influx from heaven
into the minds of men, which manifests
itself according to the particular recip
iency of the individual, and that recip
iency is according te the receiving ves
sel which he has formed. If "acing in
"freedom according
,to reason," he has
formed of his mind a vessel of honor,
then its contents will be ultimated in a
life of goodness and usefulness ; but if,
acting under the "slavery of insanity" he
has formed a vessel of dis-honor of his
mind, then its ultimations will only be
evil and nnuseful. The formative pro
cess of the mind, and hence of the char
acter of the man, has also its first be
gineing-a, or incipient, stages, just as,the
mechanical process, of ferming the ves
sels of the potter his. First, there is
the crude untempeted clay, which may
be regarded as analagous to the un
sophisticated state of the mind of child
hood when it possesses, as yet, nothing
bat bare possibilities, and which—accor
'ding to the correspondential relations
existing between mind and matter,—
signifies the lowest state of natural good,.
of which the uniustructed and unregen-.
erate mind, can at all be susceptable.--,
That species of "good whereof the, mind,
or man of the church, is formed :'—that
is, good for the sake or love of good,
good that is done from disinterested"
motives, or singleness of purpose : "con
sequently the goed of charity." But
still only tt latent or.powerless good lin;
til tempered with the waters , of truth,
as it comes down from. the fountain of :
truth, just as the potter -makes use of
natural water, as it flows .from its four'.
fain,. to temper and knead the crude
mass which he digs out of the bowels of.
the earth, imparting to it that duatility
which renders it capable of being moul,.
ded by his hands into almost any and
every conceivable form. But until the
crude earth has imbibed - the water, and,
until the two elements become perfectly
incorporated, it, does not Sem:tire the
consistency that. is necessary in forming
it into symetrical receiving and contain
ing vessels. Even so the intermixture
and patient and persevering kneading of
goodness and truth, in their due Propor
tions, in the human mind, givee, that,
mind a capacity to be formed into a re-4
c,eiving vessel—a vessel which, if formecl,
in 'Obedience 'the Oraclesof Diviue
Truth, becomes a vessel of honor, but if
perversly formed in obedience to the
dictates and behests of mere human self
hood, must necessarily be a vessel of
dishonor. The . potter does• not make
the earth, the water, the clay, nor any
other elementary principle or chemical
substance that enters into the composi
tion of a pot, nor any implement that is
necessary in forming one. He, only, by
the will-power, which has been vouch-
sated to. all men, concentrates the ener
gies of . his mind upon . the material which
he finds in tile vast storehouse of nature
--farnighed to his, hand, by the Creative
energies of an infinite and incomprehen
sible mind : and out of these, through
the exercise of hatuan volition, he pro
duces the tangible evidences'of his handi
work. Through "line gpork line," "pre
cept upon precept," and "here a little,
and there a little" he acquires knozoi
edge, 'and this is a "lamp, to his feet and
a light to his path," in the execution of
the determinations' of
, the will. And
Yet, although the appearance is that man
does all these things of himself alone, he
nevertheless, has no pewer that ,origin- .
ates with himself; and he is only a re-
Cipionfof life and power'fiom his 'Crea
tor. His own co-operation with the op
erations 'of the Infinite, is all that he is
capable of 'contributing, and yet, he
must exercise hii energies es if every
thing proceeded 'from himself, and as if
success depended upon himself aloue,—
other Wise he'could not 'work at all. Af=
.
ter the potter has formed his vessel out
of 'the-material, and through the mechan
ical forces which had' an existence long
anterior to . his own ; if he is wise he
naY, "I did this through the
o&s
exercise of powers that originated with
in me ;" but he will rather eay, "by the
help of God I have acquired, through
experience, the necessary directing for
ces to accomplish this thing—by that
'same help I have formed these vessels,
and to that Help all the glory, and hon
or, and power is due." SUrely then
every man is a potter—every man, wo
man and child'is engaged every day of
their lives, in giving form, tone, and Con
sistency, to their, habits of thought,• of
,feeling, and of - action. They are doing
this "little by little," like everything
else is acquired—some more rapidly
than others-'but still not immediately,
but, gradually and progressively, either
upward or downwards. There is first
the seed, then the blade, "then the ear,
then the full.corn in the oar."
As I left the Pottery deeply reflect
ing upon these things; I could not- help
asking myself, what, sort of a vessel I
had been forming out of the elementary
prbaeiples of my_ own iniud for the last
quarter of a century. Was it beautiful
and symetrical, and calculated to con
tain that which was "just, humane, and
kind"—that which was. pure, elevated,
and charitable ? or was it distorted and
mishappen, and only the receptacle of
that which was unjust, inhuman,and fe
rocious.; that which was, impure, de
graded, and, selfish ? In reply to these
interogations something seemed to say
—"Write these things,".—and," He that
!lath ears to hear let him hear!'
GRANTELLUS.
Major-General JesseL. Reno, who
fell at the battle in Middletown Valley,
on Sunday, was a resident of Pennsylva
nia, though: born in Virginia, and a
graduate of West_ _Point. lle w,as-cap
tain of,orrlance when the war. brake out,
but wasrarade a Brigadier-General ofVol
unteers, and was attached.to. Burnside's
command. _He showed.rare qualities as
a General-in the. engagement is, North
Carolina, and was a soldier who , enjoyed
:the - confidence as he inspired, the ,cour
age:of his soldiers. He had war for his
courage and ability, and, was wounded
at Obapnltepec. General. Burnside re- .
garded him as one of his most valuable
and reliable officer".
Cr A novel experiment is to be tried
by a steam fishing vessel lately fitted
up at Leith. Her travling gear, which
is very heavy, is to be wound up by a
capstan' driven 14 'steam power, and - all
living fish thus taken will be put into a
well; or salt water aquarium, having a
'Constant circulation of water' through it,
. _
and flats, ,the fish will be 'kept in exis
toiegntitil'bfought to market. This is
saitiln - biS'the first direct applfcation of
the steam engine to the purpose of catch
ing fish ' •
- _An-exciting hoax was,played upon
the Evening. Post a few evenings since,
directing on authority.of • Rrovout biar
shal Kennedy;. the removal from the
bulletin of the:xepertAhat Gen, McClel.
lee had been-put:in chief comandaver
the arnties.otgifenia, q m ikely„tp , 4o=
courage enlistments." The reasoniig
was sound if the report was not.
Mstalolll:Leca April 17~ 1854_
Shoeblaeking an Elephant.
"I don't understand what malted your
animals look so bright:" said Casper
one day to one of the keepers.
"Come here to morrow moraing early
when we make their toilets, and you'll
see," replied he laughing. "Why
there's that old hog of a Hon, he's as sav
age and snaptions before he has his med
icine, as a corporal ; and looks-as old as
Methusalem until we arrange his beard
and get him up for the day. As for the
elephant—ugh I"
Casper's curiosity was aroused, and
the next - morning, early, he was in the
menagerie. The first sight that struck
his eye was the elephant,- kneeled over
oa one side, and waving his trunk about
evidently as a sign• of distress.; while his
keeper and another man were—blacking
pot•and brushes-in—going all over him,
froni stem to stern.
"Good day," said .the keeper to bile
"hdre's a pair of boots for you-? put out
side the doe to be blacked every morn
ing, for five francs a day. It's thirdear
est job .I ever umlertook—and the boots
are ungrateful I Here: Pierre," he con
tinned, to the man who helped him, "he
shines enough ; take away the brushes,
and bring me the sand-paper, to rub.up
his tusks.- Talk about polished bears 1
I believe, myself, that we beat all other
shows to pieces on this pint. Some
beasts are more knowing than others;.
for.example, them monkeys • in that cage,
there. Give that big fbol of shimpanzy,
that brush, Pierre, • and - let the gentle
man see him operate on t'other mon
keya." '
Pierre gave the large rininkey.a.brnsh
and, to Casper's astonishment, 'he ElaYt
the animal seize it with one paw, then
sipringing forward, catch a snoall monkey
with the other paw, and, holding bim
&own in spite of - his struggles, idminis
ter so complete a brushing : over his en
tire body - that every hair received a
touch. The other monkeys in the cage,
Were in the wildest excitement, evident
ly knowing from experience that they
would all have to pass under the large
one's hand's ; and when he had giTen a
final polish to the small one, ho com
menced giving a- chase for his mate
an aged female, who, evidently disliking
the ordeal; commenced aseries - of ground
and lofty tumblings that would have
made the fortune of even the distinguish
ed Leotard. In vain,-after a prolonged
chase, in -which the inhabitants of the
cages flew around so fast that it appear
to be full of flying legs, tails and fur, the
large monkey seized the female, and,
regardless of her attempts to liberate
herself, he brushed ler from head to foot
to the great delight of a Swiss soldier,
an infantry corporal, who had entered
the menagerie a few minutes before the
grind hunt conmenced.
"Ma voi I" said the Swiss, pronounc
ing French with a broad German ac
cent, "it would keef me krate pleshur to
have dat pig monkey in my compay,
He would mak' First raat private."
The keeper, who was still polishing
away with sandpaper at the elephant's
tusks, and who evidently regarded the
the &tidier with great contempt and
said to him
"Tie would have been there long since
—only he knows too much"
"Ma voi I thath the reason-you're drain
ing him fora Vrenc,la gaystlry kompany,
Veil, I likes dat."
"Oh no," said the keeper, "his .
an't, going to allow him enter our
arty."
"Veil, what are his "principles I" ,
"To Serve those.who pay bast I" quoth
the Frenchman, who, in the firm- faith
that hailed said a geed thing, called to
Pierre to help him adorn "the Boni. and
turning his back on. the. Swiss, who ; in
revenge, amused -himself feeding the
monkeys with an old button; stump of a
cigar and various wads of paper.
The keeper theagaN : e the lion" itnar
colic, and after this medicine, combed
out his'mane and tail, waxed his mus
tache, and thus made his toilet far the
day. The tiger and leopards bad their
stripes and spots touched up once a week
with hair dye, and as this was not the
dayappointed, Casper'miSsed this .part of
the exhibition. The hyenas submitted
to be brushed down, but showed strong
symptoms of, mutiny, having their -teeth
rubbed, with a tooth, brush and thei r _
nails pared.
In half an hour more the keepees.la- ,
hors were over, and casper,_giVing "him
a present for inviting him to aSsistcas a
spectator at ,la toiletti Bien bete or
beastly dressing, off to breakfast
evidently thinking:that art was not dead
in that-menagerie; whatever Boejean
might , say o' its state'of' . linaltlitib the:
_world - at" late.
"To think,".solilogniied sCasper,."to
think or ilia a bootlegs' thing - if, is to
sboeblask o'er an elephant 1"
NO. 9.
Java Coffee and Pepper.
In extent, Javains about seven hun
dred miles in length and varies from
eighty to one hundred and forty miles
in width. Its area is less than twenty
thousand sqnare miles. The face of the
country is more or less broken by moun
tains, but the soil generally is rich and
productive. The produce are rice sugar
coffee, pepper, spices, and a profusion of
the finest tropical fruit. Coffee is cul
tivated to as great perfection as in any
other part of the world. It grows
upon large bushels and the grains of cof
fee are formed two in a berry about the
size and shape of our common plum.—
The akin of the berry is about as thick
as that of the plum, and the color, when
ripe, a pale scarlet.
The bush is very productive. livery
branch is loaded with the berries, which
grow two in a place on the opposite side
of each other, and about an inch and a
half apart. When ripe the skin bursts
open and the grains of coffee falls out
upon the ground; but a - more generally
way is to spread something under the
bush and shake the coffee down. After
the outer skin is taken off there remains
a kind of husk over each kernal which
is broken off (after being well dried in
the sun) by heavy rollers. The coffee
after thii needs winnowing in order to
be freed froin the broken particles of the
bush. It has been said by some writers
than one bush with another, will not
av
erage more than a pound of coffee.
Black pepper is also raised to POMO
extent on the island of Java; Sumatra,
which lies just across the straits, is by
far the most celebrated fer this commo
dity. Her pepper is perhaps, the finest
and most abundant of any one country
in the world. Black pepper grows on a
vine very much like our grape vines.—
The pepper grows and looks, when grown
very much like our currants. There is
this differesee, however, the currant has
each its own distinct stem, but the pep
per has not, every grain grows hard oa
to one common stem, just as each grain
of Indian corn does on the cob. The
color of the pepper, when first ripe, is
almost a bright red, and changed to the
dead black by being exposed to the heat
of the Ben.
The white pepper is nothing more than
the common Week with the outer skin
taken off. It is first soaked until ibis
skin bursts open, which is then rubbed
off and the grain dried. The white is
not considered so pungent as the black,
though it is nicer and more expensive
as more labor is necessary in order to
prepare it.
gar Nine out of every ten horseman
start in their .seat whenever a horse
shies, and then the horse is either by
whip or spur driven up to the object.
This makes horses look at any very sin
gular object with more nervousness, for
they expect a thrashing at the same
moment. The rider should neither sby
himself, nor notice it in his horse, and
far legs punish him. -
air A little fellow, weeping most pit
eously,was suddenly interrupted by some
amusing occurrence. Ho !gushed his
cries for a moment—the train of thought
was broken. "Ma," said he, renewing
dais snuffle, and wishing to haVe his cry
out, "Ma—ugh I ugh I what was I crying
about just now 2"
Air A little ten-year-old of our etc
quaintance, while playing with a dog,
discovered for the first time that the an
imal had claws, whereupon he ran into
the house, exclaiming with open eyed
wonder, "0, mother, Fido has got teeth
in his toes !"
"Snobbs," said Mrs. Snobbs to
her husl:T.nd, the other day, after the
ball. "Suobhg, why did you dance with
every lady in the room last night loofore
you neticedme r "Why, my dear,'
said the devoted Snobbs, "I was only
practicing what we do at the table--re
serve the best for the last." •
tgr A writer in the- Richmond Dis
patch threatens the "cutting off of the
ears and noses of the Yankees." But, if
the poor fellows' noses are cut off, what
will they have to talk through ?
li r A- female rebel may put on ao
many airs' as she pleases. but we take
the responsibility of telling he.ille;is "no
gentleman."
ar A writer in the Atltle•Nontirly
says that'"taxation is no liiirds6,..„ 4Ve
wish then he would take our shiin . Orit.
'l l lir. The meat ^ties lasted more than a
Sear,but awe - .slon't - believe that it will
condone lOpeetibuigh to become chronic .
er Our armies won't hang fire ; they
will bennore likely to bang fire-eaters.