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TOtl VOLUME VIII. Pttblisljcti ttkckhj BY SWAlMfc SHERWOOD. 1'KU K. TIIIll.l llOl.l. \ll« A 1EIII, •t »J.M>, IT run WITUT* HI *<■«-» HTIITIIMTI HI s|-!'-i'1Ml' Fill-. A MM<"> 'h« f* °r,n* '<"tonKr '" °"1" * *t"*f? nine* within lb* enlnrriptinm year, will I* considered in-dicative of hit wish Is continue ihe paper. Immortality, nnmnuliiv ouliiiii* All puini, all tears, all lime all mm—«M peala Like Iho ctcrnsl thunders of the deep Into roy ears thialrulh—Thou li"st forever —[HtMP. Il appears lo my mind that no arguments in favor of the immortality of the soul can be given which will be of equal force, to those which rise up spontaneous in our breasts; nearly every man entertains the belief that death will not be the ter-mination of his existence ; atheistical notions are rarely entertained by uneducated people; those who permit their minds to run in the natural cur-rent will moat certainly arrive at the conviction of the existence of a future atate. ll is a mistaken idea that education is instrumental in discovering this important train to the human mind ; none nrrive at it more readily and certainly than the simple and uneducated. The Creator has not left a fact so essential to the hapincss of mankind as the immortality of the soul, to be acquired or established by the imperfect light of the human understanding, but he has infused into every man's soul an essence which, if unobstructed by the blinding; passions of our nature, will rise up of in own Accord, and proclaim itself immortal. It has often been expressed as a matter of wonder that men, possessed of great talents and learning, have sometimes been known to J*»y ibe existence of a future aja**i and at a superfi-cial view, it ii»— indeed appear (hat men who are capable of reasoning with profound sagacity upon ordinary matters, ought to be ibe best qual-ified to scan the mysteries by which our stale is environed ; but the truth is, these things are e-qually hidden from all lo whom (Jod chooses, that ihev should not be revealed; and men who •re reputed wise when they undertake to dip r.USS matters which they do not understand, argue with all the weakness and imbecility of Iho most finite mtnds. The immortality of ihe soul is of so great value that if we could form any thing like n proper •estimate of it—if we could have ihe long train of our future lives with the one hundredth part of, ihcir brilliancy revealed to us, we would be lost' m admiration and in transports; the affairs of this world would dwindle into insignificance ; and we mi"ht probably be induced to regard them wilh contempt. This is doubtless a reason why the glories of the future world are wiihheld from our •jew. HIIIIKKT MANS. Aid to Ireland. GREENSBOROUGH, NORTH-CAROLINA, APRIL 3, 1847. NUMBER 52 Anecdote with a Moral. When Charles the Second chartered the Royal Society, it is narrated of him that he was dis-posed to give the philosophers a royal, but at the aamc time a wholesome lecture : " Why is it my lords and gentlemen," said he, ■ thai if you fill a vessel with water to the very brim, so lhat il will nol hold a aingle drop more, yet, putting a lurbot into iho water, it shall not overflow!" Many were the sage conjectures I thai the fish would drink as much water as would compensate for his own bulk—that ho condensed the water to lhat amount—that the air-bladder had some-thing to do wilh the phenomenon—and a hun-dred others, which were propounded and aban-doned in their turn, much lo the amusement of ihe merry monarch. At length Mr. Wren, (af-terwards Sir Christopher) modestly asked : " But is your Majesty sure that such would be the case V " Aye, there," exclaimed his Majesty, smiling, "you have it: always, gentlemen, find out whether the thing be true, before you proceed to account for it:—then I shall not be ashamed of the charier I have givon you." The Song of the Sword. A PARODY. Weaiy, nnd wounded, and worn— Wounded and ready to die. A Balder they left oil alone and forlorn, On Ihe field of battle In lie. The dead nnd the dying alone CoulJ llieir piuetact and pity •fluid; WbiUt ...ill A sad and teriible lone. He eang Ibe aong of Ibe iword. Thai ihv Americans are the most sympathetic people on earth, is limply shown by the fact lhat iliis is ihe only nation on earth thai has thought of sending succor to starting Ireland, and succor —in national measure, hos been raised and sent by prompt and earnest popular enthusiasm. Rus-sia, France, nnd Germany, aro richer than we, Tiud nearer lo ihe sufferers. Thuy have no tie of blood, or hu>gungCi to draw them to ihe charily in question, it is true. But their rights and dignuy have been far more respected by Great Brilian than have ours, and they aro not insulted, as A-rnerica continually is, by the contempt of the Brit-ish Press, and the taunts in the speeches of the Kent-King of Ireland. All influences considered, thoN is more to check a national sympathy be-tween America and Great Bruian than between Great Bri'.ian and any other couniry of Europe. And yet what nation of Europe has sent a stiver of assistance to Ireland I Rich John Bull has two poo; brothers, Sawney and Patrick, and, Pat being at the point of star-vation on John's own estate, Yankee Doodle, who could look on at the rich brother's slow charily no longer, has sent over to his relief. Not wishing to figure as n tributary to rich John, however, h did not send in his own name as Yankee Doodle, I but simply as a brother man 10 Patrick. (And ! for this last point of delicacy and propriety, by the ' w«y. the press should thank Mr. Buckingham . ihe Senate Mr. Calhoun, and Ihe House of Rep-resentatives 'ohn Quincy Adams.) f/omc Journal. Beautiful Imaginings. A recent traveller gives an account that when lie was walking on the beach of Bruit, he over-took a colored woman with a tray on her head. Being asked what sho had to sell, she lowered the tray, and with reverend tenderness uncovered il. Il was the lifeless form of her babe, covered with a neat while robe, with a garland round the head, and flowers within the little hands that lay clasped upon its bosom. "Is thai your child?" asked the traveller. "It was mine a lew days ago," she replied, • but the Madonna has it for her angel how." "How beautifully you have laid it oulT" said he. "Ah!" she added, cheerfully, "what is lhat to •lie bright wings she wears in Heaven?" Fight! fight! fight! Though a thousand fathers die; Fight! fight! fight! Though thousands of children cry; Fight! fight! fight! Whilst mothers and wives lament; And fight! fight! fight! Whilst millions of meney are spent. Fight! fight! fight! Should the cause be foul or fair; Though all thai is gained is nn empty name, And a tax too great to bear; An empty name and a paltry fame, And thousands lying dead ; Whilst every glorious victory Must raise the prico of bread. War! war! war! Fire, and famine, and sword: Desolate fields and desolato towns. And thousands scattered nbroad. With never a home and never a shed : Whilst kingdoms perish and fall. And hundreds of thousands are lying dead— And all—fur nothing at all. Ah ! why should such mortals as I Kill those whom we never could hole! "I'is obey your commander or die— 'Tis Ihe law of ihe Sword and ihe Slate. For we are the veriest slaves That ever had their birth ; For to please the whim of a tyrant's will Is nil our use upon earth. War! war ! war ! Musket, and powder, and ball; Ah ! what do «» fight so for ? Ah ! why havo wc battles at «tlt 'Tis justice must bo done, they say, The nation's honor to keep : Alas! thai justice is so dear, And human lifo so cheap ! 'I'is snd that a Christian land— A professrdly Christian Stole, Should thus despise that high command— So useful and so great— I lelivered by Christ himself on earth Our constant guide lobe; To " Love our neighbors as ourselves, And bless our enemy." War! war! war '. Misery, murder, and crime, Are all the blessings I've seen in theo From my youth lo the present time ; Misery,murder, nnd crime. Crime, misery, murder, and woe; Ah! would I had known in my younger days. In my hours of boyish glee, A icmh of us misery ; I now had been joining a happy band Of wife and children dear, And 1 had died in my native land, Instead of dying hero. The Monkeys in Procession. A traveller in Africa was one day astonished to observe a vast procession of monkeys march-ing over a plain, with countenances indicative of the deepest sorrow. There was the little frisky green monkey—but his countenance waa grave and wo-begone I there was the red monkey, and the baboon, and the chimpaoze, and all seemed full of grief, as if some great calamity had be-fallen them. Instead of the leaps and frolics and grimaces usually seen among this fourhanded family, they marched forward with long and reg-ular 8tf>ps, to a grave and solemn tune, sung by a choir of appointed _howlcra. After marching a considerable distance, the vast procession, consis-ting of many thousand", approached a low mound of earth. Here the head of the train halted, and the rest came up and arranged ibcmselve, around the mound. Then the whole troop tol up a most piteous wail; then some of them began to dig in-to the mound of earth, and pretty aoon tbey dis-closed the half decayed skeleton of a monkey.— This was raised upon nn altar, and then all the monkeys bowed down to the bones, and paid them reverence. Then one of the most noted of the monkeys, a famous lawyer among them, stood up and made nn eloquent address. The monkevs, apes and baboons sobbed, and sighed, and howled, as the orator proceeded. At length he finished, with a pathetic and sublime flourish, and the congregation shed tears, and wiped their eyes, and then they laid the bones in the ground again, and then they heaped up the earth over it to a vast height; and they reared a monument upon it, wilh an inscription setting forth ihe vir-tues and services of the dead monkey, and then they all went away. After the multitude had dispersed, the travel-ler wont to the orator, and asked what all this meanl; 'whereupon he said, that rt wus the cus-tom, with the monkeys, when any one rose up among them of supreme sagacity, or superior ex-cellence, to envy and hate him—to persecute him and put him lo denth ; but after many years they llways dug up Ihe decayed bones and worship-ped them, lo testify their gratitude, and repair their injustice, by honoring ihe memory of the monkey that they had reviled while living. This sounded so ridiculous to the traveller lhat he laughed outright; but he was soon rebuked by ihe monkey, who spoke gravely aa follows: "your mirth, sir traveller, is ill-timed, and shows a want of due reflection. We monkeys are great imita-tors, and in this matter wo do but follow the fash-ion of our betters. Some monkeys have travelled as well as you, sir, and they tell us that mankind usually revile those who are remarkable for good-ness or greatness, while they are living, and of-ten bring them to a premature grave, either by persecution or neglect; but afterwards, when their bones are decayed, they make up for their folly and injustice, by paying great honor to the'r memory, digging up their remains, singing hymns, delivering orations, and erecting monu-ments over their ashes I" Women. • Women are better than men. What sacrifi-ces »rc Ihey not capable of making; how unself-ish are they in their affections; how abiding in their love! They enchant us by their beauty, and charm us by their conversation. They odd grace and a softer coloring to life, and assist us lo bear with its asperities. In our youth they are our in-structors, in sorrow our comforlers; in sickness the sweel beguilers of our misery. Whatever rs rough they refine. Whaleverof ruggednessthere is in our nalure they polish or remove. They are the only divinities on earth. Alas, that so many of them sre fallen divinities. But who is it that makes them so ? Who is it that lakes ad-vantage of their weakness, when lhat weakness should be their best claim to protection I Let him answer who abuses them. Among the various beautiful traits of their beautiful natures, that of maternal love should be noticed with peculiar ad-miration. I have heard of women haters, and am l(>ld lhat such a class of beings do exist. But surely they who hold the sex lightly, and who are accusto^'d to speak of them in terms of re-proach, can never P"e heen spectators of tho watchful lenderneas, the anxloi,'.' solicitude, dis-played in a thousand touching incidents, u. a mother fcr a child. They ean naver have wit-nessed the self-sacrificing devotion to her offspring, her patient anil even cheerful performance of the mnny laborious oflices ol educational training, or their tongues would falter in the utterance of one word of detraction. Musical Uiiis for Cows An accomplished nnd somewhat romantic French lady, on visiting1 the chateau of a dis-tinguished nobleman, says. " I have heard for the first time, an admirable and enchanting sound, which, if generally established, would add an in-expressible charm lo the other beauties of a rural life. This was no less than an inconsiderable herd of shining cows, each with a musical bell attached to her neck, attuned wilh the greatest nicely of several octaves high and low—forming a delicious, yea a kind of celestial music, the sweetness of which has a powerful effect on the imagination, and cannot bo listened lo without ex-periencing a sensible emotion." This, Mr. Editor, the farmers may say is all gammon, and will produce no butter and cheese; but allow me to tell you it is practicable, and I have but little doubt that many a gentlewoman after reading this, will huve musical bells attached visit Ihe denth bed of one of the faithful. 'Ihe people slond uncovered ns it paaarrl, Such en event bat nni occurred in England ;i ice ihe reCtf maiion. In Catholic countries these erremooirt are common. ORIGIN OF THK TI.IIM nrst.iN.— I'he city ol Mo-sal stands upon ihe right of the western hank rf ■ he Tiefis, opposite to the site of anrieri Nineveh. "All those cloths of gold which at caH •Mu-lin»'," save Marco Polo, "are tf the nionulurlure of Mo-sul." Il is very probable that the city ol Mosul, being at lhat lime one of the .principal centre pom of eastern commerce, may have five", the appel-lation to various productions ol ihe loom, conveyed thence lo Ihe Mediterranean. I.ATE EIBOPCIS HEWS. The steam packet Iliberniaarriveil.it Boston wilh dates from England to the 4th of March. Ireland and Irish affairs eWltloiM to be ihe thief topics of interest, nnd Famine yet stales uuchecked through the lind. The corn market hod slightly nd/anced. Cot- Church Melodies. ton hod decliued about id per pound. Con-to her cow,, and lhat the milk maids will employ p|aims „c |nnde ,„ lhe •« lhol so imlch U.M them in tuning ibeir voices to many a glee over I praj,, j8 ,cm from ,1,0 United States 10 Trench their well filled pails. A beautiful herd ofcows,' than to English ports. Large, orders it is said with iheso harmonic bells attuned with art, graz-1 hate com« oul °.v 1,l(" "earner. Very large) ingon their sunny green slopes, inlerspet.ed '. ?DiPm<,n, J s of V in fur ■M'"*' a"d F«**hy- C r j 1 , , . been mode at Constantinople. with copses of wood, and sylvan clumps, could ( Thl. ,r;,h p00r are emigrates in great num-never be observed by a lady of refined taste, wilh- hers, chiefly to Ihe United States—- tw/arlun-out awaking associations full of interest and of' autrlu," remarks a London paper, "iliey are the highest gratification.—American .0K.icul-' <>r«ho»e whose loss will he severely Ml," as they iurisl. possess some pecuniary means. Landlord! »'" _ I aiding their peasantry to emigrate. I-'rancc and mi >■ Germany are menaced with extensive emigre* 1IIC MOOn. lions to America. O'Connel is dying of dropsy. There are few- There is no limilotion 10 the ingenuity of er deaths from actual starvation in the large man, if we may form an opinion by the discover- ■ Cl"": bu',I,B *u"Ti8 .... ' ,-'.. '. ■"■" intense, than ever. HundSreldi*s a"r"ed''.y"ln' o e%tr£W"i. les which ha*, been elicited since the completion 1 day of slow starvation, of dysentery, and fever, of the immense telescope of Lord Rosse. In Iho ihe consequences Of insufficient nourishment, coarse of an examination of the moon by the aid Among others, the papers have the following „.,,.. of this wonderful instrument, the following facts ' P««iculars: Schull, County ol Cork. Feb. 'il. ,ak. ing8 beau- we.re...asc,ertained, :—ll a.pp.ea.re.d llkt a gbl.b,e of 1 LErr3is—*f1,J0X0J0'!p%e£rs&onsJChaveJ2alre2adiy. .pZeerlUsntedal Iinn , do we givo , moltensilvcr, and every object of the extern of one ]£„], a)one. Dublin, Feb. 29.—As the judge, The old, solemn church melodies—they are ol lilt Church what floors are of the fields : a fea lure, endearing, specializing, and ma tiful lhe whole. Not in •»■?• indeed them place and culture, associn.."? *■» with ; hundred yards was quite visiblo. Edifices, there-' of assize advance on their circuits, especially ' *"m OH" I1l1iWate!•W?.!'( f>oro,* o—fi ltlh.e e- i■ z -o.- noff Y\-""o-•_r"kl. M*\—t i'. ,n..s..>.ier-, or even of■ l hI e I! I-Ihe souitLh nnJd w-e-s■t , iilhey seem> .SItmrulaclki ■t■r•i.>t•|<) •nwt! w, *,, , nn VI lilt; 1 ■"— "•"**■< ■•■>•* ..*-*• >4ivi ■»•■ -..-.-— ----- L.ant to lhe i luins Of Wliitby Abbey, might be easily perceiv- al lhe le"ible condition of Ihe country. Mr. Ser-na. ani 10 MM j ,.;.„.J h„, ,!,.,„ ,„„. „„ '. geant Stock, who opened lhe commission for the i•sitrrej o01f gnoooodu, «c«d if ihevj had existed-—out mere was no apIp'e'a™r - ofewL-imerick1 , in adJd1ress_i:n..g_ t.1he Ag.rannndi The last of the Monteziimas. Weary, and wounded, and worn— Wounded, and ready lo die, A soldier Ihey left all alone and forlorn, lln the field of halite to lit; The dead and Ihe dying alone f'ould their presence and pily afford ;' WliiUi thua wilh sad and lerrilik- lone, (Oh.' would that rheae truths -weie inora nn. ■BCvy known.) . IIOSMIK lhc8onB of thcSworfl. ' . ' SET Rri.cs.—The man who intends to fegulalo ' his life by set rules, will find before he has trav-elled far along its path lhat thero aro but few When, you see a person continually barking rules which are not changed by '-circumstances or •tand abusing those possessed of influence..yo» persons.. _W« like to see ■ rmui'nothedged in'by »»>'kl»o* that liken dog altb^forte/tlwttiv.hej >u>t> but'tinting as lie goes along, to- git*-'ail blrtM hjrrisr- U- riti'te!.:ub. J,:. nri<U'.*«tr. thwr eluru U lhr> pathway. I ':•■ . An officer of tho U. S. army, writing from IV cos, (Mexico,) says : " Yesterday 1 spent lhe greater part ol the day clambering among tho ru-ins of Pecos. I wandered through the forsaken temple—magnificent in ns decay—I scrawled my name on its walls shot a dove in its doorway, and wrote my journal in a niche above the well where a lire was kepi burning for mo,L ih*n three hundred years. There are many legends our devetione, and blending with them our 1 of celestial things ; even as things pie eye, Got! has ordained theirs a ministry ui guuu,. *- 1 ••— ,'1"""'" 1 county and they enter and abide in our hearts like spirit, ance of that nalure; neither was any indication of jnry, said : •• No doubt lhe limes tie fenriul and ual monitors. ,ue r,'slcnee of water, or of an almosplierc.— I alarminrr in tho extreme. Every Fact that trans- Very miracles, in truth, are wrought at times There was a vast lumber of extinct volcanoes, [ P'™, and all the judges who have gone on the by them. 1 have heard . sailor lell how he could j -oral miles in breadih ; ...rough one of „,em &*£$** flttdTarth'have £. trace the growth of all his holiest affections to a 'here was a .mc, in continuance of one about one of,hc ;,,„„ ca|amilous description that could fall solitary strain of sacred music. He had been at: hundred and fifty miles in length, which ran in t upon a nation." variance wilh his kindred, had left his home in 1 straight direction like a rail-Way. The general \ We have information lhat thl constabulary re-anger, and. regardless of .in or shame, had mark- i appearance, however, was like one vast ruin of, Ports from Ireland stale that the number ol death, ed h„ wander^, .,hi,misguided impulse, had \ n-re; and many of the piece, of rock driven £* }gj£££^**$to'I dictated ; when once, after long years thus spent, °"1 of lhe volcanoes, appeared to be laid at vari in a strange land and amid a jargon of unknown tongues, he caught lhe echoes of a sacred and familiar tune. It thrilled upon hi, ears like mag-ic ; and before its note, had died away, there came thronging to his heart so many thousand blesse ' ous distances." The wonders of Electro Magnetism. I frightful amout oljifly thoUUBld permHI. LBTTBB nto.M A VOLUNTBBK. The Writer of lhe following went Trim *™^ I Surry county, N. C, (o S0111I1 Carolina, lust W e spent a very pleasant hour on Saturday, I fell, and while Ihere joined n company of recollections of home, and childhood, and beloved r" ,ne room °f"r. lioynton, in witnessing sev- volnnlcrs lor llie Mexionn vvtir. Tho loiter ones, ihey forced tears into his eyes. The little j crnl interesting nnd novel experiments in electro-. was sent lo hit brother, now rrMiient .in homely church, with iho village green encircling mngneiism. For inslance, we saw a piece of \ Ncwbeni, Va., who Ibrwi.nls It lor ptlblien-it around-ho saw it like a reality; iho nuiet Ilron weighing some four or si, ounces, suspended ' """• "i. Tiler Il.ttl lust friends mid ucqiiuiti-and lhe sanctity within, the murmur of praycr I in the air, resting upon nothing either above or £??1"^W "** h*Ve "" "PI""1 :"'>''" and benediction, and the singing of lhe sober | below'"' ^ ci.lur side, and depending for its'" choir, uproso ideally about hi-n ; and hi, father I"*"1""1 l*V T°" " tu"'fm of ''""'City. In and mother nnd little sister,, heretofore recalled Iilnoluer e«perimer.t, a smaller body wo, sus-in bitterness, came smiling up. as well defined ' rcnuc" '" hlW manner, nnd while thus de-and just a, beautiful a, ever they had seemed lo ■lacllcd from "" *l?iDl° influences, performed four him of old. I 'bo"81"111 rotary movements per minut- They His heart was changed and softened ; he could , mn •"••*••> ncw ,0 ,lie company, and the lalter nnt visit his accustoned haunt, lhat night; on ls cblm(,J 'o^ new lo thescieniificpublic. shipboard ho was sili-nt and dispirited, and not Syracuie Star. until they gained his native ohore, and ho hod oougln ilic homestead nut, and exchanged forgiv-ing words and mode redeeming promises, could concerning iho founding of thi, same I'ecos, but he be <|uite himself again. ihey are all so interwoven with the fiction com-! There used to frequent a little counlr" church inon to traditionary '.ales, that the truth cannot be ISLAND of Lonot, < i. if 11 .Mi (ICO, ? Feh'y 14th, I--I7. \ Dear Brother:—After a f:i ei-n days'voyage we arrived at tbit Island, where 1 >-' regimenla from different pan, of the I nfted Rimes are col-lecting. We had a toui'h vovnge: two Morir.s. It is almost impossible to describi the -ceue; somo were praying, some cursing ■-: I swearing, others so badly scared they had 111 minds of their own. As to my own pan I thought ihosc that were born 10 be shot would never be drowned. The waves would freanenily cover the vessel, '.hen again there would come srine waves that Living on 1 lie Water. Mr. Williams, in ''iiiectnros on the Domes1 ic hwhetllllte mountains which would lift the ship L,.if.e,o-f,l.b.e C. hi.ne.se, stales„lhat it is e,wslimaterQd [' t"idIfe*,I1h.0e'n"n°pfotntel.b.**o«t"h'er0,"s'i1sk!uernnm,g: ^all Tihe"m0e'"n'. found unless il be in i!ie hi«roelyphict which cov. er Ihe ceiling of trie crumbling temple, where re-pose the bone, of the descendant, of Montetu-raa. I will relate one as it was told to me :—- When Mexico was conquered and Monlezuma murdered, many of Ihe royal family lied, and passing into New Mexico, built the city and tem- „ , emvi uitii upon in.Massacl.uselu,abeautif..!:,11|f.crazedgirl,who " °PP0SI"' Canlon-""'. less lhan I except a few. and ihev «Otlld follow tho motions of tho choir as thev a.— 1 MH,U i"""! "*• on lbl! »'<>'er.-Their habi-1 and Marvel lhat they ,0 wistfully, and pore book with such earn wero so bn.lly n .).- -\ inls .-ii 1 ruitcd there 1 m,..r ' . 1 T '"6!tations aro n kind of boats or floating botwta, I ^'"h*D0 «bance to cook for two or ihreo dm.-.— .1.2V Kymn' wbich "e ""»"•«in w»» ia« «»rtt. The fty.w'™ T", *77 0",bw".!\ ",,,y "*•" ;t wondering eyes, she was , ».,. , , , killed bv the shocks ol the sluti. I he 1 vrpnis>i.« never unobserved. Bihhet lloovveedd lthhee sswweeeett SSccrriin| .u- nd,am°6" •*«* P1™ •»• »'»• U»*W is no ex- ,„.« frequently seen play in, ,nd thi M,,..- ral verse and solemn tones, it wa, said, as she loved existence ; and while other music oftentimes excited her to frenzy, t chant or Ihe singing of a pie of I'ecos. In the grand plaza ihey du( three hymn composed and toothed her always. Il was deep cisterns, all communicating wilh one anoth-er by underground passages. In thesa cisterns they kindled fires, which '.ever went out for more than three hundred years, indulging lhe vain su-perstition that Monlezuma would again visit them before the flame expired. It was only ten years ago that Qov. Armijo put a stop lo their devo-tions, and caused the (lame 10 bo extinguished. Only a peculiar kind of person wa, permitted to feed thi, lire, for they supposed that if any onoof lhe profanum vulgui descended into the cistern, he would be immediately swallowed by an im-mense serpent. One year's labor over the tire generally proved fatal, yet as fast as one devotee passed away, there were found many willing and anxious to supply his place. Hut disease and the wild mountain tribe of Apaches havo lopped olfallthe royal scions but two, and these have gone far beyond the Kio del Norte, and have re-kindled lhe flame over which will expire in a lew short years, the last of the Monlezuma,. As the rivers, farthest flowing, In the highest hills have birth: As the banyan blondest growing, - Oftenesl bows it, head to can!),— Bo the noblest minds press onward, Channels far of good.to trace* . Bu the largest hearts beOtt duwuwaiJ, '.'iKlmj uii '.in- human race. touching to see her with her pale face and strange spiritual eyes upraised, drinking in the deep rich harmonies. She had her own peculiar prejudices, withal, and when "Old Hundred" or •• Corona-tion," or any other grand old tune wa, sun", her face seemed actually illuminated. It is as sweet loo—lhe music we are wont to blend with Sabbath worship by the social fireside as in the church ; we love ii every where, for it will so linger in our hearts, nnd its influences arc all so strong and pure, it is ever unto us as a liv-ing presence, whose ministries but sanctify the time,and make themtnos'.spirit glad.—Saturday Courier. NAVIHATISO AOAINST Tin: WIND.—Gardner, in his travels in Brazil, relates an expedienl by which his Indian guides succeeded in navigating against a violent wind down one of the rivers of lhat country. They went ashore, and culling oil' a considerable quality of branches from the trees, which there grew in abundance, they tied them lightly around.the middle Wilh a cord, one end of which they attached lo the canoe. 'I'licn steering for that part of lao stream ttaMre the cur-rent wa, iho strongest, ihey threw she bundle overboard, which, froia itt green slate, sank jus, below the surface of the water, ami being thus secure from the influence cl the Wind,, the cam* was cjinvJ r ip.dly denn tbv stream. pense for ground; and Ihe boats are built cheaper | tine of our company wot buiied in Ihe mighty lhan houses, and nol so exposed lo the depreda- deep. tion of thieve,. Each of these boats usually con-tains ihree rooms. In the northern parts of the country, whero the boat, would bo injured by ice, this practice is not very common. It is reported that one ol lhe ships wa- lost in iho Mexican coast and lakeii by the Mexicans, the Captain killed nn-l hi, heart cul oui and put up for a targe'. // e trill fwi/ llirm fo{ that. This i.-dnnd is nne of the pretiiesl placet in thn „™. .. . 77" , world, about a mile S'lUare, ihiehly sel with " Hie world isn looking-glass, nnd gives back shrubs of various kinds, lemons, India rubber, lo every man the reflection of his own face. Frown and polinelto, wilh vines so thickly matted tlml it at it. and it will in turn look sourly upon you: is impossible to pet nlom. augh aland with it, and ills a jolly kind com-panion ; nnd so let all young persons take their choice." The leaves which autumn's tempests wither, The birds which ihen take wing. When wintry winds me past, come hither To welcome back the spring. When we lie duw-i of .1 night lite scorpioni and crabs ernwl over us. I have mode 111', !"■ I in the top of an India rubber tree, out ol Ihe w ty of lhe iiwrcta. We catch plenty ol fish. In bruisinc about : the coast, I lind in.i.iy curiosities and shells ol t.ll 'hind,. I have not ink und paper enough lo tell [ of nil that 1 have seen. 1 I am getting well of ihe influenza which hna made me very sick, no I have nothing 10 do but nay bo np- ■ .. a tic uniaiiiu PJMHI^ Ol A "' now possesses a greater degree of elaslici'y and a great" er Power ol resisting the alternations of heat and cold. .A chronometer wi't, a glass balance siirinc was sent lo tho 1W: Sea. and exposed to a com-petition wilh D':,c oilier chronometers and the re-sult ol th« experiment was 0 report in favor of lhe chror.oruo.ter with the glass spring. • . BraoULAa Movr.MENT.—What all the excite-ment in Kngland for lhe last fifty veers could not bring nboui for the Roman Catholics, the cli.iu-' ges iii ilje Government church, under I >r. Pu,ey, I 'ireet GLASS.—It is difficult 10 foresee to what perfec-1 tion the manufacture of glass may be brought ,0 , or cur'05'1" s-and to what purposes Ihe article may yet be an-I ™ S0 lu'rl'""" """ ' m',»l rl'"" plied. The balance spring ofn chronometer Is |Jro5",° •b«'Nineiy-si« Boj ,r... m 11 giineot,* )w made of glass, as'a suhsiiiuie for steel, and lnn vrl"'01"'"''''' 'i,v" '''■' '" "'"' ''■"■'' ■ ' •' usessrsaErenterdcRrveofrldtticihi nn.1 •> I...-., ' l.r«ma,n your , IcCilonale hrnther-, bave-rcry rranquilly and surprisingly introduced. It is tuled in an English papet thai iho blucha< - W.M I'.. I M'JIANK. Mr. JAMBS II. UNTIIAMK. . •■ •'■ ■'-' The plane', .>lercury, may nowbereen t-.i-;, the naked eye, from.abi 1.; suA*sel until halfiiasl seven, three or lour.degrcetlbc low IVDIU, atui it little 10the right. Lyelrihe godlegist, aeserti inot-'ilMM is motw coal in lhe ,uigle.Mate of Hi,,,.:, ,;u„ m ^ j;,. rope. 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Title | The Greensborough patriot [April 3, 1847] |
Date | 1847-04-03 |
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Swaim, Lyndon Sherwood, M.S. |
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Full text | TOtl VOLUME VIII. Pttblisljcti ttkckhj BY SWAlMfc SHERWOOD. 1'KU K. TIIIll.l llOl.l. \ll« A 1EIII, •t »J.M>, IT run WITUT* HI *<■«-» HTIITIIMTI HI s|-!'-i'1Ml' Fill-. A MM<"> 'h« f* °r,n* '<"tonKr '" °"1" * *t"*f? nine* within lb* enlnrriptinm year, will I* considered in-dicative of hit wish Is continue ihe paper. Immortality, nnmnuliiv ouliiiii* All puini, all tears, all lime all mm—«M peala Like Iho ctcrnsl thunders of the deep Into roy ears thialrulh—Thou li"st forever —[HtMP. Il appears lo my mind that no arguments in favor of the immortality of the soul can be given which will be of equal force, to those which rise up spontaneous in our breasts; nearly every man entertains the belief that death will not be the ter-mination of his existence ; atheistical notions are rarely entertained by uneducated people; those who permit their minds to run in the natural cur-rent will moat certainly arrive at the conviction of the existence of a future atate. ll is a mistaken idea that education is instrumental in discovering this important train to the human mind ; none nrrive at it more readily and certainly than the simple and uneducated. The Creator has not left a fact so essential to the hapincss of mankind as the immortality of the soul, to be acquired or established by the imperfect light of the human understanding, but he has infused into every man's soul an essence which, if unobstructed by the blinding; passions of our nature, will rise up of in own Accord, and proclaim itself immortal. It has often been expressed as a matter of wonder that men, possessed of great talents and learning, have sometimes been known to J*»y ibe existence of a future aja**i and at a superfi-cial view, it ii»— indeed appear (hat men who are capable of reasoning with profound sagacity upon ordinary matters, ought to be ibe best qual-ified to scan the mysteries by which our stale is environed ; but the truth is, these things are e-qually hidden from all lo whom (Jod chooses, that ihev should not be revealed; and men who •re reputed wise when they undertake to dip r.USS matters which they do not understand, argue with all the weakness and imbecility of Iho most finite mtnds. The immortality of ihe soul is of so great value that if we could form any thing like n proper •estimate of it—if we could have ihe long train of our future lives with the one hundredth part of, ihcir brilliancy revealed to us, we would be lost' m admiration and in transports; the affairs of this world would dwindle into insignificance ; and we mi"ht probably be induced to regard them wilh contempt. This is doubtless a reason why the glories of the future world are wiihheld from our •jew. HIIIIKKT MANS. Aid to Ireland. GREENSBOROUGH, NORTH-CAROLINA, APRIL 3, 1847. NUMBER 52 Anecdote with a Moral. When Charles the Second chartered the Royal Society, it is narrated of him that he was dis-posed to give the philosophers a royal, but at the aamc time a wholesome lecture : " Why is it my lords and gentlemen," said he, ■ thai if you fill a vessel with water to the very brim, so lhat il will nol hold a aingle drop more, yet, putting a lurbot into iho water, it shall not overflow!" Many were the sage conjectures I thai the fish would drink as much water as would compensate for his own bulk—that ho condensed the water to lhat amount—that the air-bladder had some-thing to do wilh the phenomenon—and a hun-dred others, which were propounded and aban-doned in their turn, much lo the amusement of ihe merry monarch. At length Mr. Wren, (af-terwards Sir Christopher) modestly asked : " But is your Majesty sure that such would be the case V " Aye, there," exclaimed his Majesty, smiling, "you have it: always, gentlemen, find out whether the thing be true, before you proceed to account for it:—then I shall not be ashamed of the charier I have givon you." The Song of the Sword. A PARODY. Weaiy, nnd wounded, and worn— Wounded and ready to die. A Balder they left oil alone and forlorn, On Ihe field of battle In lie. The dead nnd the dying alone CoulJ llieir piuetact and pity •fluid; WbiUt ...ill A sad and teriible lone. He eang Ibe aong of Ibe iword. Thai ihv Americans are the most sympathetic people on earth, is limply shown by the fact lhat iliis is ihe only nation on earth thai has thought of sending succor to starting Ireland, and succor —in national measure, hos been raised and sent by prompt and earnest popular enthusiasm. Rus-sia, France, nnd Germany, aro richer than we, Tiud nearer lo ihe sufferers. Thuy have no tie of blood, or hu>gungCi to draw them to ihe charily in question, it is true. But their rights and dignuy have been far more respected by Great Brilian than have ours, and they aro not insulted, as A-rnerica continually is, by the contempt of the Brit-ish Press, and the taunts in the speeches of the Kent-King of Ireland. All influences considered, thoN is more to check a national sympathy be-tween America and Great Bruian than between Great Bri'.ian and any other couniry of Europe. And yet what nation of Europe has sent a stiver of assistance to Ireland I Rich John Bull has two poo; brothers, Sawney and Patrick, and, Pat being at the point of star-vation on John's own estate, Yankee Doodle, who could look on at the rich brother's slow charily no longer, has sent over to his relief. Not wishing to figure as n tributary to rich John, however, h did not send in his own name as Yankee Doodle, I but simply as a brother man 10 Patrick. (And ! for this last point of delicacy and propriety, by the ' w«y. the press should thank Mr. Buckingham . ihe Senate Mr. Calhoun, and Ihe House of Rep-resentatives 'ohn Quincy Adams.) f/omc Journal. Beautiful Imaginings. A recent traveller gives an account that when lie was walking on the beach of Bruit, he over-took a colored woman with a tray on her head. Being asked what sho had to sell, she lowered the tray, and with reverend tenderness uncovered il. Il was the lifeless form of her babe, covered with a neat while robe, with a garland round the head, and flowers within the little hands that lay clasped upon its bosom. "Is thai your child?" asked the traveller. "It was mine a lew days ago," she replied, • but the Madonna has it for her angel how." "How beautifully you have laid it oulT" said he. "Ah!" she added, cheerfully, "what is lhat to •lie bright wings she wears in Heaven?" Fight! fight! fight! Though a thousand fathers die; Fight! fight! fight! Though thousands of children cry; Fight! fight! fight! Whilst mothers and wives lament; And fight! fight! fight! Whilst millions of meney are spent. Fight! fight! fight! Should the cause be foul or fair; Though all thai is gained is nn empty name, And a tax too great to bear; An empty name and a paltry fame, And thousands lying dead ; Whilst every glorious victory Must raise the prico of bread. War! war! war! Fire, and famine, and sword: Desolate fields and desolato towns. And thousands scattered nbroad. With never a home and never a shed : Whilst kingdoms perish and fall. And hundreds of thousands are lying dead— And all—fur nothing at all. Ah ! why should such mortals as I Kill those whom we never could hole! "I'is obey your commander or die— 'Tis Ihe law of ihe Sword and ihe Slate. For we are the veriest slaves That ever had their birth ; For to please the whim of a tyrant's will Is nil our use upon earth. War! war ! war ! Musket, and powder, and ball; Ah ! what do «» fight so for ? Ah ! why havo wc battles at «tlt 'Tis justice must bo done, they say, The nation's honor to keep : Alas! thai justice is so dear, And human lifo so cheap ! 'I'is snd that a Christian land— A professrdly Christian Stole, Should thus despise that high command— So useful and so great— I lelivered by Christ himself on earth Our constant guide lobe; To " Love our neighbors as ourselves, And bless our enemy." War! war! war '. Misery, murder, and crime, Are all the blessings I've seen in theo From my youth lo the present time ; Misery,murder, nnd crime. Crime, misery, murder, and woe; Ah! would I had known in my younger days. In my hours of boyish glee, A icmh of us misery ; I now had been joining a happy band Of wife and children dear, And 1 had died in my native land, Instead of dying hero. The Monkeys in Procession. A traveller in Africa was one day astonished to observe a vast procession of monkeys march-ing over a plain, with countenances indicative of the deepest sorrow. There was the little frisky green monkey—but his countenance waa grave and wo-begone I there was the red monkey, and the baboon, and the chimpaoze, and all seemed full of grief, as if some great calamity had be-fallen them. Instead of the leaps and frolics and grimaces usually seen among this fourhanded family, they marched forward with long and reg-ular 8tf>ps, to a grave and solemn tune, sung by a choir of appointed _howlcra. After marching a considerable distance, the vast procession, consis-ting of many thousand", approached a low mound of earth. Here the head of the train halted, and the rest came up and arranged ibcmselve, around the mound. Then the whole troop tol up a most piteous wail; then some of them began to dig in-to the mound of earth, and pretty aoon tbey dis-closed the half decayed skeleton of a monkey.— This was raised upon nn altar, and then all the monkeys bowed down to the bones, and paid them reverence. Then one of the most noted of the monkeys, a famous lawyer among them, stood up and made nn eloquent address. The monkevs, apes and baboons sobbed, and sighed, and howled, as the orator proceeded. At length he finished, with a pathetic and sublime flourish, and the congregation shed tears, and wiped their eyes, and then they laid the bones in the ground again, and then they heaped up the earth over it to a vast height; and they reared a monument upon it, wilh an inscription setting forth ihe vir-tues and services of the dead monkey, and then they all went away. After the multitude had dispersed, the travel-ler wont to the orator, and asked what all this meanl; 'whereupon he said, that rt wus the cus-tom, with the monkeys, when any one rose up among them of supreme sagacity, or superior ex-cellence, to envy and hate him—to persecute him and put him lo denth ; but after many years they llways dug up Ihe decayed bones and worship-ped them, lo testify their gratitude, and repair their injustice, by honoring ihe memory of the monkey that they had reviled while living. This sounded so ridiculous to the traveller lhat he laughed outright; but he was soon rebuked by ihe monkey, who spoke gravely aa follows: "your mirth, sir traveller, is ill-timed, and shows a want of due reflection. We monkeys are great imita-tors, and in this matter wo do but follow the fash-ion of our betters. Some monkeys have travelled as well as you, sir, and they tell us that mankind usually revile those who are remarkable for good-ness or greatness, while they are living, and of-ten bring them to a premature grave, either by persecution or neglect; but afterwards, when their bones are decayed, they make up for their folly and injustice, by paying great honor to the'r memory, digging up their remains, singing hymns, delivering orations, and erecting monu-ments over their ashes I" Women. • Women are better than men. What sacrifi-ces »rc Ihey not capable of making; how unself-ish are they in their affections; how abiding in their love! They enchant us by their beauty, and charm us by their conversation. They odd grace and a softer coloring to life, and assist us lo bear with its asperities. In our youth they are our in-structors, in sorrow our comforlers; in sickness the sweel beguilers of our misery. Whatever rs rough they refine. Whaleverof ruggednessthere is in our nalure they polish or remove. They are the only divinities on earth. Alas, that so many of them sre fallen divinities. But who is it that makes them so ? Who is it that lakes ad-vantage of their weakness, when lhat weakness should be their best claim to protection I Let him answer who abuses them. Among the various beautiful traits of their beautiful natures, that of maternal love should be noticed with peculiar ad-miration. I have heard of women haters, and am l(>ld lhat such a class of beings do exist. But surely they who hold the sex lightly, and who are accusto^'d to speak of them in terms of re-proach, can never P"e heen spectators of tho watchful lenderneas, the anxloi,'.' solicitude, dis-played in a thousand touching incidents, u. a mother fcr a child. They ean naver have wit-nessed the self-sacrificing devotion to her offspring, her patient anil even cheerful performance of the mnny laborious oflices ol educational training, or their tongues would falter in the utterance of one word of detraction. Musical Uiiis for Cows An accomplished nnd somewhat romantic French lady, on visiting1 the chateau of a dis-tinguished nobleman, says. " I have heard for the first time, an admirable and enchanting sound, which, if generally established, would add an in-expressible charm lo the other beauties of a rural life. This was no less than an inconsiderable herd of shining cows, each with a musical bell attached to her neck, attuned wilh the greatest nicely of several octaves high and low—forming a delicious, yea a kind of celestial music, the sweetness of which has a powerful effect on the imagination, and cannot bo listened lo without ex-periencing a sensible emotion." This, Mr. Editor, the farmers may say is all gammon, and will produce no butter and cheese; but allow me to tell you it is practicable, and I have but little doubt that many a gentlewoman after reading this, will huve musical bells attached visit Ihe denth bed of one of the faithful. 'Ihe people slond uncovered ns it paaarrl, Such en event bat nni occurred in England ;i ice ihe reCtf maiion. In Catholic countries these erremooirt are common. ORIGIN OF THK TI.IIM nrst.iN.— I'he city ol Mo-sal stands upon ihe right of the western hank rf ■ he Tiefis, opposite to the site of anrieri Nineveh. "All those cloths of gold which at caH •Mu-lin»'," save Marco Polo, "are tf the nionulurlure of Mo-sul." Il is very probable that the city ol Mosul, being at lhat lime one of the .principal centre pom of eastern commerce, may have five", the appel-lation to various productions ol ihe loom, conveyed thence lo Ihe Mediterranean. I.ATE EIBOPCIS HEWS. The steam packet Iliberniaarriveil.it Boston wilh dates from England to the 4th of March. Ireland and Irish affairs eWltloiM to be ihe thief topics of interest, nnd Famine yet stales uuchecked through the lind. The corn market hod slightly nd/anced. Cot- Church Melodies. ton hod decliued about id per pound. Con-to her cow,, and lhat the milk maids will employ p|aims „c |nnde ,„ lhe •« lhol so imlch U.M them in tuning ibeir voices to many a glee over I praj,, j8 ,cm from ,1,0 United States 10 Trench their well filled pails. A beautiful herd ofcows,' than to English ports. Large, orders it is said with iheso harmonic bells attuned with art, graz-1 hate com« oul °.v 1,l(" "earner. Very large) ingon their sunny green slopes, inlerspet.ed '. ?DiPm<,n, J s of V in fur ■M'"*' a"d F«**hy- C r j 1 , , . been mode at Constantinople. with copses of wood, and sylvan clumps, could ( Thl. ,r;,h p00r are emigrates in great num-never be observed by a lady of refined taste, wilh- hers, chiefly to Ihe United States—- tw/arlun-out awaking associations full of interest and of' autrlu," remarks a London paper, "iliey are the highest gratification.—American .0K.icul-' <>r«ho»e whose loss will he severely Ml," as they iurisl. possess some pecuniary means. Landlord! »'" _ I aiding their peasantry to emigrate. I-'rancc and mi >■ Germany are menaced with extensive emigre* 1IIC MOOn. lions to America. O'Connel is dying of dropsy. There are few- There is no limilotion 10 the ingenuity of er deaths from actual starvation in the large man, if we may form an opinion by the discover- ■ Cl"": bu',I,B *u"Ti8 .... ' ,-'.. '. ■"■" intense, than ever. HundSreldi*s a"r"ed''.y"ln' o e%tr£W"i. les which ha*, been elicited since the completion 1 day of slow starvation, of dysentery, and fever, of the immense telescope of Lord Rosse. In Iho ihe consequences Of insufficient nourishment, coarse of an examination of the moon by the aid Among others, the papers have the following „.,,.. of this wonderful instrument, the following facts ' P««iculars: Schull, County ol Cork. Feb. 'il. ,ak. ing8 beau- we.re...asc,ertained, :—ll a.pp.ea.re.d llkt a gbl.b,e of 1 LErr3is—*f1,J0X0J0'!p%e£rs&onsJChaveJ2alre2adiy. .pZeerlUsntedal Iinn , do we givo , moltensilvcr, and every object of the extern of one ]£„], a)one. Dublin, Feb. 29.—As the judge, The old, solemn church melodies—they are ol lilt Church what floors are of the fields : a fea lure, endearing, specializing, and ma tiful lhe whole. Not in •»■?• indeed them place and culture, associn.."? *■» with ; hundred yards was quite visiblo. Edifices, there-' of assize advance on their circuits, especially ' *"m OH" I1l1iWate!•W?.!'( f>oro,* o—fi ltlh.e e- i■ z -o.- noff Y\-""o-•_r"kl. M*\—t i'. ,n..s..>.ier-, or even of■ l hI e I! I-Ihe souitLh nnJd w-e-s■t , iilhey seem> .SItmrulaclki ■t■r•i.>t•|<) •nwt! w, *,, , nn VI lilt; 1 ■"— "•"**■< ■•■>•* ..*-*• >4ivi ■»•■ -..-.-— ----- L.ant to lhe i luins Of Wliitby Abbey, might be easily perceiv- al lhe le"ible condition of Ihe country. Mr. Ser-na. ani 10 MM j ,.;.„.J h„, ,!,.,„ ,„„. „„ '. geant Stock, who opened lhe commission for the i•sitrrej o01f gnoooodu, «c«d if ihevj had existed-—out mere was no apIp'e'a™r - ofewL-imerick1 , in adJd1ress_i:n..g_ t.1he Ag.rannndi The last of the Monteziimas. Weary, and wounded, and worn— Wounded, and ready lo die, A soldier Ihey left all alone and forlorn, lln the field of halite to lit; The dead and Ihe dying alone f'ould their presence and pily afford ;' WliiUi thua wilh sad and lerrilik- lone, (Oh.' would that rheae truths -weie inora nn. ■BCvy known.) . IIOSMIK lhc8onB of thcSworfl. ' . ' SET Rri.cs.—The man who intends to fegulalo ' his life by set rules, will find before he has trav-elled far along its path lhat thero aro but few When, you see a person continually barking rules which are not changed by '-circumstances or •tand abusing those possessed of influence..yo» persons.. _W« like to see ■ rmui'nothedged in'by »»>'kl»o* that liken dog altb^forte/tlwttiv.hej >u>t> but'tinting as lie goes along, to- git*-'ail blrtM hjrrisr- U- riti'te!.:ub. J,:. nri pathway. I ':•■ . An officer of tho U. S. army, writing from IV cos, (Mexico,) says : " Yesterday 1 spent lhe greater part ol the day clambering among tho ru-ins of Pecos. I wandered through the forsaken temple—magnificent in ns decay—I scrawled my name on its walls shot a dove in its doorway, and wrote my journal in a niche above the well where a lire was kepi burning for mo,L ih*n three hundred years. There are many legends our devetione, and blending with them our 1 of celestial things ; even as things pie eye, Got! has ordained theirs a ministry ui guuu,. *- 1 ••— ,'1"""'" 1 county and they enter and abide in our hearts like spirit, ance of that nalure; neither was any indication of jnry, said : •• No doubt lhe limes tie fenriul and ual monitors. ,ue r,'slcnee of water, or of an almosplierc.— I alarminrr in tho extreme. Every Fact that trans- Very miracles, in truth, are wrought at times There was a vast lumber of extinct volcanoes, [ P'™, and all the judges who have gone on the by them. 1 have heard . sailor lell how he could j -oral miles in breadih ; ...rough one of „,em &*£$** flttdTarth'have £. trace the growth of all his holiest affections to a 'here was a .mc, in continuance of one about one of,hc ;,,„„ ca|amilous description that could fall solitary strain of sacred music. He had been at: hundred and fifty miles in length, which ran in t upon a nation." variance wilh his kindred, had left his home in 1 straight direction like a rail-Way. The general \ We have information lhat thl constabulary re-anger, and. regardless of .in or shame, had mark- i appearance, however, was like one vast ruin of, Ports from Ireland stale that the number ol death, ed h„ wander^, .,hi,misguided impulse, had \ n-re; and many of the piece, of rock driven £* }gj£££^**$to'I dictated ; when once, after long years thus spent, °"1 of lhe volcanoes, appeared to be laid at vari in a strange land and amid a jargon of unknown tongues, he caught lhe echoes of a sacred and familiar tune. It thrilled upon hi, ears like mag-ic ; and before its note, had died away, there came thronging to his heart so many thousand blesse ' ous distances." The wonders of Electro Magnetism. I frightful amout oljifly thoUUBld permHI. LBTTBB nto.M A VOLUNTBBK. The Writer of lhe following went Trim *™^ I Surry county, N. C, (o S0111I1 Carolina, lust W e spent a very pleasant hour on Saturday, I fell, and while Ihere joined n company of recollections of home, and childhood, and beloved r" ,ne room °f"r. lioynton, in witnessing sev- volnnlcrs lor llie Mexionn vvtir. Tho loiter ones, ihey forced tears into his eyes. The little j crnl interesting nnd novel experiments in electro-. was sent lo hit brother, now rrMiient .in homely church, with iho village green encircling mngneiism. For inslance, we saw a piece of \ Ncwbeni, Va., who Ibrwi.nls It lor ptlblien-it around-ho saw it like a reality; iho nuiet Ilron weighing some four or si, ounces, suspended ' """• "i. Tiler Il.ttl lust friends mid ucqiiuiti-and lhe sanctity within, the murmur of praycr I in the air, resting upon nothing either above or £??1"^W "** h*Ve "" "PI""1 :"'>''" and benediction, and the singing of lhe sober | below'"' ^ ci.lur side, and depending for its'" choir, uproso ideally about hi-n ; and hi, father I"*"1""1 l*V T°" " tu"'fm of ''""'City. In and mother nnd little sister,, heretofore recalled Iilnoluer e«perimer.t, a smaller body wo, sus-in bitterness, came smiling up. as well defined ' rcnuc" '" hlW manner, nnd while thus de-and just a, beautiful a, ever they had seemed lo ■lacllcd from "" *l?iDl° influences, performed four him of old. I 'bo"81"111 rotary movements per minut- They His heart was changed and softened ; he could , mn •"••*••> ncw ,0 ,lie company, and the lalter nnt visit his accustoned haunt, lhat night; on ls cblm(,J 'o^ new lo thescieniificpublic. shipboard ho was sili-nt and dispirited, and not Syracuie Star. until they gained his native ohore, and ho hod oougln ilic homestead nut, and exchanged forgiv-ing words and mode redeeming promises, could concerning iho founding of thi, same I'ecos, but he be <|uite himself again. ihey are all so interwoven with the fiction com-! There used to frequent a little counlr" church inon to traditionary '.ales, that the truth cannot be ISLAND of Lonot, < i. if 11 .Mi (ICO, ? Feh'y 14th, I--I7. \ Dear Brother:—After a f:i ei-n days'voyage we arrived at tbit Island, where 1 >-' regimenla from different pan, of the I nfted Rimes are col-lecting. We had a toui'h vovnge: two Morir.s. It is almost impossible to describi the -ceue; somo were praying, some cursing ■-: I swearing, others so badly scared they had 111 minds of their own. As to my own pan I thought ihosc that were born 10 be shot would never be drowned. The waves would freanenily cover the vessel, '.hen again there would come srine waves that Living on 1 lie Water. Mr. Williams, in ''iiiectnros on the Domes1 ic hwhetllllte mountains which would lift the ship L,.if.e,o-f,l.b.e C. hi.ne.se, stales„lhat it is e,wslimaterQd [' t"idIfe*,I1h.0e'n"n°pfotntel.b.**o«t"h'er0,"s'i1sk!uernnm,g: ^all Tihe"m0e'"n'. found unless il be in i!ie hi«roelyphict which cov. er Ihe ceiling of trie crumbling temple, where re-pose the bone, of the descendant, of Montetu-raa. I will relate one as it was told to me :—- When Mexico was conquered and Monlezuma murdered, many of Ihe royal family lied, and passing into New Mexico, built the city and tem- „ , emvi uitii upon in.Massacl.uselu,abeautif..!:,11|f.crazedgirl,who " °PP0SI"' Canlon-""'. less lhan I except a few. and ihev «Otlld follow tho motions of tho choir as thev a.— 1 MH,U i"""! "*• on lbl! »'<>'er.-Their habi-1 and Marvel lhat they ,0 wistfully, and pore book with such earn wero so bn.lly n .).- -\ inls .-ii 1 ruitcd there 1 m,..r ' . 1 T '"6!tations aro n kind of boats or floating botwta, I ^'"h*D0 «bance to cook for two or ihreo dm.-.— .1.2V Kymn' wbich "e ""»"•«in w»» ia« «»rtt. The fty.w'™ T", *77 0",bw".!\ ",,,y "*•" ;t wondering eyes, she was , ».,. , , , killed bv the shocks ol the sluti. I he 1 vrpnis>i.« never unobserved. Bihhet lloovveedd lthhee sswweeeett SSccrriin| .u- nd,am°6" •*«* P1™ •»• »'»• U»*W is no ex- ,„.« frequently seen play in, ,nd thi M,,..- ral verse and solemn tones, it wa, said, as she loved existence ; and while other music oftentimes excited her to frenzy, t chant or Ihe singing of a pie of I'ecos. In the grand plaza ihey du( three hymn composed and toothed her always. Il was deep cisterns, all communicating wilh one anoth-er by underground passages. In thesa cisterns they kindled fires, which '.ever went out for more than three hundred years, indulging lhe vain su-perstition that Monlezuma would again visit them before the flame expired. It was only ten years ago that Qov. Armijo put a stop lo their devo-tions, and caused the (lame 10 bo extinguished. Only a peculiar kind of person wa, permitted to feed thi, lire, for they supposed that if any onoof lhe profanum vulgui descended into the cistern, he would be immediately swallowed by an im-mense serpent. One year's labor over the tire generally proved fatal, yet as fast as one devotee passed away, there were found many willing and anxious to supply his place. Hut disease and the wild mountain tribe of Apaches havo lopped olfallthe royal scions but two, and these have gone far beyond the Kio del Norte, and have re-kindled lhe flame over which will expire in a lew short years, the last of the Monlezuma,. As the rivers, farthest flowing, In the highest hills have birth: As the banyan blondest growing, - Oftenesl bows it, head to can!),— Bo the noblest minds press onward, Channels far of good.to trace* . Bu the largest hearts beOtt duwuwaiJ, '.'iKlmj uii '.in- human race. touching to see her with her pale face and strange spiritual eyes upraised, drinking in the deep rich harmonies. She had her own peculiar prejudices, withal, and when "Old Hundred" or •• Corona-tion," or any other grand old tune wa, sun", her face seemed actually illuminated. It is as sweet loo—lhe music we are wont to blend with Sabbath worship by the social fireside as in the church ; we love ii every where, for it will so linger in our hearts, nnd its influences arc all so strong and pure, it is ever unto us as a liv-ing presence, whose ministries but sanctify the time,and make themtnos'.spirit glad.—Saturday Courier. NAVIHATISO AOAINST Tin: WIND.—Gardner, in his travels in Brazil, relates an expedienl by which his Indian guides succeeded in navigating against a violent wind down one of the rivers of lhat country. They went ashore, and culling oil' a considerable quality of branches from the trees, which there grew in abundance, they tied them lightly around.the middle Wilh a cord, one end of which they attached lo the canoe. 'I'licn steering for that part of lao stream ttaMre the cur-rent wa, iho strongest, ihey threw she bundle overboard, which, froia itt green slate, sank jus, below the surface of the water, ami being thus secure from the influence cl the Wind,, the cam* was cjinvJ r ip.dly denn tbv stream. pense for ground; and Ihe boats are built cheaper | tine of our company wot buiied in Ihe mighty lhan houses, and nol so exposed lo the depreda- deep. tion of thieve,. Each of these boats usually con-tains ihree rooms. In the northern parts of the country, whero the boat, would bo injured by ice, this practice is not very common. It is reported that one ol lhe ships wa- lost in iho Mexican coast and lakeii by the Mexicans, the Captain killed nn-l hi, heart cul oui and put up for a targe'. // e trill fwi/ llirm fo{ that. This i.-dnnd is nne of the pretiiesl placet in thn „™. .. . 77" , world, about a mile S'lUare, ihiehly sel with " Hie world isn looking-glass, nnd gives back shrubs of various kinds, lemons, India rubber, lo every man the reflection of his own face. Frown and polinelto, wilh vines so thickly matted tlml it at it. and it will in turn look sourly upon you: is impossible to pet nlom. augh aland with it, and ills a jolly kind com-panion ; nnd so let all young persons take their choice." The leaves which autumn's tempests wither, The birds which ihen take wing. When wintry winds me past, come hither To welcome back the spring. When we lie duw-i of .1 night lite scorpioni and crabs ernwl over us. I have mode 111', !"■ I in the top of an India rubber tree, out ol Ihe w ty of lhe iiwrcta. We catch plenty ol fish. In bruisinc about : the coast, I lind in.i.iy curiosities and shells ol t.ll 'hind,. I have not ink und paper enough lo tell [ of nil that 1 have seen. 1 I am getting well of ihe influenza which hna made me very sick, no I have nothing 10 do but nay bo np- ■ .. a tic uniaiiiu PJMHI^ Ol A "' now possesses a greater degree of elaslici'y and a great" er Power ol resisting the alternations of heat and cold. .A chronometer wi't, a glass balance siirinc was sent lo tho 1W: Sea. and exposed to a com-petition wilh D':,c oilier chronometers and the re-sult ol th« experiment was 0 report in favor of lhe chror.oruo.ter with the glass spring. • . BraoULAa Movr.MENT.—What all the excite-ment in Kngland for lhe last fifty veers could not bring nboui for the Roman Catholics, the cli.iu-' ges iii ilje Government church, under I >r. Pu,ey, I 'ireet GLASS.—It is difficult 10 foresee to what perfec-1 tion the manufacture of glass may be brought ,0 , or cur'05'1" s-and to what purposes Ihe article may yet be an-I ™ S0 lu'rl'""" """ ' m',»l rl'"" plied. The balance spring ofn chronometer Is |Jro5",° •b«'Nineiy-si« Boj ,r... m 11 giineot,* )w made of glass, as'a suhsiiiuie for steel, and lnn vrl"'01"'"''''' 'i,v" '''■' '" "'"' ''■"■'' ■ ' •' usessrsaErenterdcRrveofrldtticihi nn.1 •> I...-., ' l.r«ma,n your , IcCilonale hrnther-, bave-rcry rranquilly and surprisingly introduced. It is tuled in an English papet thai iho blucha< - W.M I'.. I M'JIANK. Mr. JAMBS II. UNTIIAMK. . •■ •'■ ■'-' The plane', .>lercury, may nowbereen t-.i-;, the naked eye, from.abi 1.; suA*sel until halfiiasl seven, three or lour.degrcetlbc low IVDIU, atui it little 10the right. Lyelrihe godlegist, aeserti inot-'ilMM is motw coal in lhe ,uigle.Mate of Hi,,,.:, ,;u„ m ^ j;,. rope. ' ■" A sInp-o«ii. r •: !-..• •;. , .KHIto the l.ivi, t,.i„( ,„. nst .. 11 ■ arrn-d -hn • •!, n„- :.•„.,.,..,. •.,, .,... u). ; ,. l( . ^it p) cently contributed ••'-• 1 '• pan of ihe wsscaitiviir:.pidiytfae,nilK'jtream. :m Cit>i*, •'.ii;^t.ih„..{J|Wt,MI,,v;,M.|ii-: VM.,.-..,:.., ,:,c tlMI „,- |