The Greensborough patriot [March 20, 1852]

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YOL. XIII. GIIEENSBOROUGH, N. C, MARCH 20, 1852. NO. 070.
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»Ti» not fine feathers make One birda.
BY L. E. CARPENTER.
A peacock came, with il. plumage gay,
Strutting in retral pride one day,
Where a small bird hung in a gilded cage,
Whose song might a seraph's car engage :
The bird Bang on while the peacock stood
Vauntiag his plumes to the neighborhood ;
And the raidiant sun seemed not more bright
Than the bird that basked in his goldon light;
But the email bird sung in his own sweet words,
" T is not fine feathers make make line birds '.''
The peacock strutted—a bird so fair
Never before had ventured there,
While the small bird hung at a cottage door,—
And what conld a peacock wish for more J
Alas! the bird of the rainbow wing,
He wasn't contented—he Iried to sing !
And they who gazed on his beauty bright
Scared by his screaming, soon took llight,
While the small bird sang in hisown sweet words,
" "r ie not fine feathers make fine birds !"
Then pr"y thee lake waruing, maidens fair,
And still of the peacock's fate beware ;
Beauty and wealth won't win your way,
Though they're altired in plumage gay j
Something to charm, you ail must know.
Apart from fine feathers and outward show;
A talent, a grace, a gift of mind,
Or else poor beauty is left behind;
Whilelho small birds sing ir. their own true words
" T is not fine leathers make fine birds!"
led hot:. And yet how perfect the jeclusion ;
so that while there is granted a bare knowledge
of each other's existence, the possibility of any-more
intimate communion, without a change iu
present laws, is placed altogether beyond the
reach of hope. What immeasurable fields of
space intervene even between those that seem
tlieocarealto each other on the celestial canvass!"
THE LOVER AND THE HUSBAND.
In his ••Dream l.ife " Ik. Marvel thus sketch-es
in a pleasant vein, and with those i
WATTS' HYMNS.
BY MRS. H. A. DINISON.
A little, blue-eyed child, placed within onr
hands, yesierday," a small collection ofbjrWM
with which chMdren -once upon a time," were
familiar. In looking it over, how many an old,
forgotten scene flashed upon our memory, of
days when we marched with satchel, and, we
hope, a "shining morning face," to primary
school. That litile room over the grocer's shop,
Ihe stiff, low benches, and carved window-seals,
ulf-rnn contracted panes and dingy while walls, was not
. I by any means an earthly paradise, neither was
ceiled, humanizing incidents which have ever | (he ^^ ,evere per(0nage—who never, to our
gained the laughter anil good will of the world, knowledge, laid her sceptre, six : the rod, down,
save on the hand of some offending youngster—
an angel presence among us. The teachers of
to day are mostly blooming, bright looking young
creatures, with hopes as fresh as the wildest
dreamer's under their charge; but our teacher
was not youthful nor handsome, nor—may her
shade forgive us—amiable. But her frowns, or
'• pickled birch," or stamping, or ogre eye, did
not prevent us from enjoying many a treat over
our spelling book, for it contained some choice
gems of fine poetry, each of which is associated
in our minds, at Ihe present lime, with some pe-culiar
incident or youthful fancy. The litile
book which we law yesierday, and which now
lies open before us, contains all the lyric* of
which we speak; and one of iho most promi-nent
of these, because the earliest committed, is
ihe lover and Ihe oowly married man :
•• You grow unusually amiable and kind ; you
are earnest in your search of friends ; you shake
hands with your office boy, ae if he were your
second cousin. You joke cheerfully with the
stout washerwoman ; and give her a shilling over-change,
and insist upon her keeping ll| and grow
quite nicrrv at the recollcciion of it. You lap
your h.ckman on ihe shoulder very familiarly,
and tell him ho is a capital fellow : and don't al-low
him lo whip his horses, cxrepl when driving
to the post office. You even ask him to take a
glass of beer wilh you upon some chilly evening.
You drink to the health of his wife. He says
he has no wife—whereupon you lliink bun a
very miserable man ; and give him a dollar, by
way of consulalion.
•• You lliink all the editorials in ihe morning
papers arc remarkably well-written.—whether
upon your side or upon another. You think
■he slock-markel has a very cheerful look.—with
Erie—of which you are a large holder—down
to seventy-five. You wonder why you never
admired Mrs. Ilemans before, or Sloddarl, or
any of ihe real.
•• You give a pleasant twirl to your fingers, as
von saunter along the sirrct; am! say—but not
so loud as to be overheard—•• She is mine—she
is mine !"
•• You wonder if Frank ever loved Nelly one
hall as well as yon love Madge ! You feel quite
suic lie never did. You can hardly conceive
how il is, lhal Madge has nol been seized before
now by scores of enamored men, ami borne off,
like iheSabine women in Hontish history. You 1(,a^hers and parents combined.
" How doth the liltle busy beo
Improve each shining hour,'' &c*
sleps, was sure lo claim our sympathy ind re-gard.
Wc<l, most of these affecting litile hyms are
left out of our present school-books ; Ihey have
given place to newer, but not better literature;
children are seldom taught, now-a-days. to repeal
those graceful poems, which once learned, cannot
be forgotten, and which plant ihe seed ol morali-ty
and religion before parent or child are aware
of iheir existence. The cradle-hymn is gelling
obsolete; how holy the influence of lhal hymn
many an aged Chrialian pilgrim can attest; but
alas! Ethiopian melodies have usurped it; and
not as Ireqoently as formerly, do we see the good
matron sitting by the cradle aide, and singing, in
her soothing voice.
" Hush my dear, lie still and slumber,
Holy angels guard thy bed !
Heavenly blessings, without number,
Gently falling on thy head."
Out the present is an age of progress, and we
must expect Ihe car of change to push over ibis
ancient track, upon which the grass lhal yielded
to Ihe presure of the footsteps of patriarchs and
sages, has flourished so long; still, in our heart
wilh equal modesty and propriety, solicited the
attention lt> the weakest of all God's creatures,
except Joe Whcatnn. There is s lesson, as welt
as a laugh, in this slnry.—Methodist Protetlant.
he memory of ihoso beautiful lave ehall ever be keckiah.
Poetry Passing Away.
We trust the various Historical Societies are
preserving the records el Indian life, and the
poetic Indian names, for the reference of future
writers. Here are a few uf the designations ol
the Aborigines who lately visited Washington,
with the commissioners, to make a treaty for their
tribes:—
"From Ihe Cheyennes—The While Antelope,
or Voki-vocum-msst; Little duel, or Kai-ve-on-
nc-ve : Rides on the Clouds; or Va-ive-ah-toith.
-
Ampahoe*—Eagle's Head, or Nehu-nutha ;
The Storm, or No-co-bo-thu : Friday, or Wash.
The interpreter of these is Mr. Smith.
Sioux—One Horn, or Hakon-xelxe; Red
Skin, or Obalow Sha ; Shell Person, or I'on-has-kah-
wii-cah ; Elk on his Guard, or Eha-kah-a-kepi
green.—Boston Olive Iranch.
a hymn which almas', every grown person can
repeal. How happy have we oflen been, silting
In the sultry school-room, peering over ihe pic.
lure of the bee hive, ami ihe little children sup-posed
lo be repealing these lines. Our imagina-tion
would iransport us lo the pleasant fields, and
we would hear the hum of the bees, smell the
fresh clover, wonder if that vine hanging so lux-uriantly
around ihe hive was filled wilh luscious
purple grapes, and think how delightful it must
be to ail, as did the litile boy and girl, watching , Some masters and mtslrosscs can never lame
Ihe linv laborers all day long. Perhaps more : their birds—never gel them lo be on terms ol
love of industry was inculcated by that simple. 1 intimacy. The cause is evident. There is no
familiar h\ mn, than by all Ihe sage precepts of Mina between them.
Seoret of Taming Animalw.
We have no direct means of divining the
•• why and because " of certain predilections and
prejudices observable in birds and other a initials.
We daily see actions among them lor which we
cannot iu any way account. Thus, for instance,
if a dog enter a room full of company, you shall
presently observe him make a caieful tour of
the apartment, snuffing first at one, then at an-other,
of the assembled guests. Towards some
his lail will be seen lo wag, with every symptom
of kindness and good-will; whilst towards oth-ers
he will, wilh tail deflected, show untnislake-able
signs of suspicion, perhaps of disgust. De-pend
upon il, ihe animal's discernment is rarely
at fault. I would willingly be guided by such
a Mentor. Jusl so il is wilh the feathered race.
TID3 IMMENSITY OF SPACE.
An article in ihe March number of Harper's
New Monthly furnishes a belter illustration of day.
the immense di.tsnce. between ihe Systems of I months only grow longvthen you «,.
. , dav which is lo make her vours. 1
worlds in the universe, than wo have elsewhere
seen.
Is our globe,' this visible diurnal sphere," and
ihe worlds of mailer likeunlo it, all there is ol
the universe of God ? Are ihey nol, rather, a
small part of that universe I Arc there not more
refined Creations, which our gross faculiies can-not
perceive, but which aro beheld and enjoyed
by " spirit eves," in the awlu! sea of apace
where floats our material universe!
••But let us return from so fruitless an inquiry.
There is anollter idea suggesled by ihe coniem-plalion
of the heavens of no less interest, alihough
presenting a tery different, if nol an opposite as-pect.
It is the comparative NOTIIIMJXKSS of Ihe
tangible material universe, as contrasted wilh ihe
spare, or spaces, occupied even within its visible
boundaries. The distance of our sun from ihe
nearest fixed star (conjectured by astronomers lo
be Ihe star 81 C'ygni) is estimated at being al
least 80.000.000.000.000 of miles, or 000.000
diameters of the earth'B orbit, or about Silly mil-lion
diameters of the sun himself. Taking this
for the average distanco between the stars, al-though
it is doubiless much greater, and suppos-ing
them to be equal in magnitude lo each oilier,
and to the sun, we have ihcse most sinking res-ults.
The sun and the star in Cygnus (and BO
of Ihe others) would present the same relation as
lhal of two balls often inches diameter placed
len thouaond miles apart, or one a thousand miles
above ihe Norlh Pole, and the oilier a like dis-tance
below Ihe South Pole of our earlh. Pre-serving
the samo ratio, we might represent them
agaiu. by two half-inch bullets placed, ihe one at
Chicago, and ihe other on the lop of the City
Hall in the City of New York ; and so on. un-til
finally vvc would come down lo two points,
less than a thousandth part of an inch iu dia-meter,
requiring the microscope lo render them
visible, and silualcd at the distance of a mile as-under.
Suppose ihen an inch of the finest thread
of thistle-down cut into a thousand sections, anil
a globular space as Isrgc as the sphere ol our
chuckle over your future, like a boy who has
found a guinea in groping for sixpences. You
read over the marriage service,—thinking of the
lime when you will lake htr hand, and slip ihe
ring iinon her linger; and repeal after ihe cler-gyman—••
for richer—for poorer, tor beiier—for
worse!" A great deal ol •• worse " there will
be about il, vou think !
" Through all, your heart cleaves lo that sweet
age ol the beloved Madge, as light cleaves lo
The weeks leap wilh a bound ; and the
proach that
here are no '
As we turn over the pages, another litile les-son,
eugiaven as wilh a pen of fire upon our
memory, meets our eyes:
Asainibones—Goose, or Maw-gab. These
are under Ihe chargo of Mr. Tesson as interpre-ter.
Oitoes—Black Elk, or .Vah-rush-ah-me-nee,
and hia squaw, Moo-kah-pee, or Eagle Feather;
Black Bear, or Wah-aho-che-go.rah, and hia
tquaw, How-eh-pec, or Singing Bird. Thereare
fifteen of them in all, and are fine specimens of
the Indians of the Plains."
Their first impression of civilized regions is
curious:—
'• The journey, lo the Indians, since iheir ar.
rival in the settlements, has been one of great
wonder, and in some cases of alarm and fear.
Except what they had seen at Furl I.aramie and
Fort Kearny, they knew nothing of the while
man's lodges ; but their greatest aatonishmeni
was in seeing a steamboat, and iheir fears were
excessive upon going aboard ol il. They called
il (he lire-horse, and H was a considerable time
before ihey eould reconcile themselves lo • the
noise and confusion ' uf blowing off sieam, the
sieam-whislle, ringing ihe bell, elr. Al first the
motion of the boat made some of them sick ; but
Ihey are among ihe mosl intelligent of their re-ipective
tribes, aud in lime became reconciled
Theory of Humor.
To see a young ollicer of fourteen years of age
come into company in full uniform, and wilh such
a wig ae is worn by grave and respectable clergy-men
ndvansed in years, would make everybody
laugh, because it certainly is a very unusual com-bination
of objects, and auch aa would out alone
for us novelty by any particular purpose of utili-ty
to which it is subservient. Il is s complete
instance of incongruity.
Add ten years to Ihe aga of this incongruous
officer, the incongruity would be very family di-minished;
mske him eiithly years of age, and
a celebrated military chancier of the last reign,
snd the incongruity vanishes. I am not sure
thai we should not be father more disposed lo re-spect
Ihe peculiarity than lo langhalil. As you
increase Ihe incongruity, you increase the humor.
If a trsdssmsn of a corpulent sad respectable
appearance, with habilimema somewhat osients-tioua,
were to slide down gently in the mud, snd
decorate a pea-green coat, I am afraid wa should
all have Ihe barbarity to laugh. Ifhif hat and
wig. like treacherous servants, were to deseit
their falling master, il certainly would nol di-minish
our propensity lo laugh ; but if he were
to full into s violeut passion, and abuse every-body
about him, nobody could possibly resist toe
incongruity ofa pea-green tradesman, very re-spectable.
Billing in ihe mud. and threatening all
the passers-by wilh the effects of his wrath.
Here every incident heightens the humor of lbs
scene ; the gaiely of his tunic, the general respec-tability
of his appearance, the rills of muddy wa-ter
which trickle down hia cheeks, and the harm-less
violence of uis rsge ! But if, instead of ibis,
we were to observe a dustman falling into the
mud. it would hardly attract any attention, be-cause
the opposition of ideas ia so trifling, and
the incongruity so slight,—Sydney Smith.
" Lot does delight lo bark and bile,
For God hath made ihem so;
Let bears and lions growl and light,
For 'tis their nature lo.
" But children, you should never let
Such aaary nssrinnp rise;
Your litile hand* were never made
To tear each other's eyes.1'
feeling ol affection in common bclwc
They do not love their birds. The lalier know
as much, and arc assuredly aware that Ihey are . . -,-,
kepTaimply fo. ihe sake ol furni.hiug amuse- ■»« «•*■* ,**•/ •«» htnhly del,hl«l when 1 Ihey saw ihe 'fire-horse s brother (another steam-boat)
with a papoose' (ihe yawl) hiiched lo his
tail, ascending the river. Thus far, as soon as
iheir apprehensions of-dsnger had subsided, ihey
became quite inquisitive, and highly delighted
wilh everything ihey met with."
alteLtton.
menl.
1 have also noticed the same unerring sagacity
in squirrels, They would constantly detect any
person who might'be preparing or wishing to
play them off some practical joke, and would, to
DM great delight, fasten on ihem at once, paying
them handsomely and in full fur all favors about
lo be received ! It was. however, impossible
fur nic lo anger them. They, too, well knew
the friendliness of my disposition—seeing what
mrr) romps and gambols we had together, both
1 stairs, and in
se provision of
| nature, thus to endow our lillle friends wilh in-linetive
powers of perception. The face ia ihe
i i-idex of Iho mind. They read our character
and Ihey are almnsl sure 10 clan Har.l | ^^ ^ calc|| our c).e._Hilliam A"i<M, in
day WHICH to Bases "»i vuun. • »>•« -■»- ••« i i i - u it' merry sou gaiuuu.a .»*. •■■•-
flowers rare enough lo make bouquets for her; And here is Ihe picture, as old as uic lulls; , b day anu „(„„,, up ,uir,, down
diamonds ore loo dim for her to wear; pearls ! foui lillle boys, with heads and hands unnatural- > £•„.„. N„ doubt il is a wis
1 Iv large, and lighting most desperately. We I
] cannot now refrain from quoting these very lines
I everv lime we eee discord in a family of lillle
; ones
Immortal Walls! how
will look upon some conceit-; knew, and how right skilfully, to much the
ho has never been bevond lite ! chords ol youthful hearts ! Would tha: thy
'.I"1 the Gardener's Chronicle.
arc lame.
Andafler marriage, ihe weeks aro even
Bhorier than before; yon wonder why on earlh
all llic single men in lite world do nol rush 111-
mulluosly lo the Altar ; you look upon them all
as a travelled man
ed Dutch boor, who —
limits of his cabbage-garden. Married men, on ; teachings were every d
the contrary, vou regard as fellow-voyagers ;, aB ihey were of yore! I
■AS] look upon iheir wives-ugly as Ihey may be And here, coupled with a picture of a proud
-as, beer than none. . . , lady, in pli.ro. ^M>.™;£^ feat =
■y» household words," A Curious Wager.
The London Morning Posl thus describes the
You blush „i l.inle at first telling your butch-1 self in a cosily mirror
erwhat 'your wife ' would like ; you bargain | einf with
With ihe grocer for sugars and leas, and wonder | , w . ,j m|r mc„l9, ma,|e lo ,14. >i g;C,
if he knows thai you are a married man I \ ou j
praelice your new way of talk OJOB your office j Sec what a noble lesson ia laughl in the third
boy :—you lell him thai 'your wile' expecisyou and fourth verses :
home 10 dinner ; and arcastonisheJ lhal he does
nut stare lo hear yon say il
• How proud we are! how vain to show
Our clothes and call them rich and new;
When die poor sheep add silk worm wore
Thai very clothing lonjI b' e'fore.
The tnlip and the butterfly
Appear 111 ^a)er coals lhan I ;
Let me be dressed tine as I will,
FUSS, worms and Rowers exceed me still."
A vision ol late rising, and yawning, will
sleepy eyes and frelful murmuring*, comes will
the gentle v I of lhal kind mother, who.
You wonder if the people in ihe omnibus
know lhal Madge and yes are jusl married ; and
and ihe driver knows that the shilling you band
10 him is for -selfand wife!' You wonder if
anybody was ever so happy before, or ever will
be so happy again f
•• You enter-your name upon ihe holel books
as 'Clarence and bad]; ;' and come back lo
look al it,—wondering il'anvbmly else has notic-ed
il,—and thinking lhal 11 looks remarkably
well. You eannot help thinking that cveiy third
man you meet in iho hall, wishes he possessed
your wife :—nor do you think il very sinful in
him lo wish it. You fear il is placing Icinpla-lion
in ihe way of covetous men. to put Madge's
lillle gailcrs outside llic chamber-door al night.
'• Your home. when, it is entered, is jusl what
il should be:—quid, small,—with •»ett'hi»f Aittau^t'0Blli»iBtt>,K,B,«s, hisbe,:
she wishes, and nothing more than she wishes.
The sun strikes il in the happiest possible way ;
—Ihe piano is the swcetcsl u.ned iu the world ;
-.he library is slocked .0 a charm ;-and Mad- And so a, she continued, we saw the lazy,
ge, that blessed wile, is ih.-rc.—adorning and wretched creature, creeping round his garden 0-
giving life to il all. To lliink, even, of her pos- vergrown will, weed,, l„s efo.bes raffed, a
..We death, is a suffering you class wilh the in- . gourmand, a dreamer, a fil.hy. despised, unwor-
I will bet any man one hundred pounds that
he cannot make a million strokes wilh pen and
ink within a month." They were not to be
mero dots or scratches, but fair down strokes,
such as form ihe child's first lesson in writing.
A gentleman aeeepled the challenge. The month
allowed was ihe lunar month, of only twenty-cigbi
days ; so thai for ibe completion of the un-
Navigation ofthe Indus.
From the Goldsboro' Telegraph.
PROF. EMMONS' LECTURE.
Prof. Emmons delivered Lectures lo Ih. citi-zens
of this place on Friday and Saturday even-ingB
last. They were interesting, die latter es-pecially
so. Uf this, considering ihe important
nature of ihe subject. Agricultural Chemistry, we
will endeBvor to give a brief synopsis.
The Professor began by recapitulating hia lec-ture
of the previous evening. He had there
staled that constant cropping, where the products
were removed from the soil and no returns made,
would result in its inevitable impoveriel.ment antl
final exhaustion. This is clearly seen nol only
from experience, but from a consideration of the
nature and compoeiiion of soils. Soils are com-posed
of a variety of elements, some in large,
s^inie iii .mall proportions. The former, aueh
as silex or rand, aud alumina or clay, are com-paratively
valueless, il.cir principal purpose be-ing
to give texlure, consistency and substance to
The vaiious modes of native navigation are
very curiouB, and lo atrangera would seem par-liculary
dangerous, from ihe vast swarms of alii- ihe soil. Sand but seldom and elay never enters
galors ; but I did nut learn thai accidents oflen j into ihe composition of either plants or animsls.
happened from their extraordinary aquatie lac- | Bui on ihe olher hand, those elements which are
lice. One plan is 10 take the skin of a sheep or \ found in small quantities, such as ihe phosphates,
goat, as whole as possible, and making it into a soda, magnesia, potash, lime, lie., ire absolutely
ling, which ihey ingeniously contrive so to stilch . essential lo the plants upon which m.D snd olh-lhal
it is completely air-light, and which is in- j er animals subsist. The aocd and leaf, bone and
dated when required for use. It ia then laid on : nerves, blood and brain, all contain these cle-ll.
eir breast, and ihe MM fore-lega are brought I menls. Every crop that grows takes up a por-round
and fastened together behind ihe neck ; in ' lion of one or more of tli.se essential elements ;
like manner, Ibe Iwo hiud ones are passed round , since ihey exist in small quanlilie. they must of
the waisl, and lied behind the back ; the basket course be sooner or later entirely consumed, and
or parcel which Ihey carry is fastened either lo when ihis lakes place, Ihe plant, since they are
their shoulders, or fixed on Iheir lurband, and , essential lo its composition, neeeasarily rebuses to
ihey then lav themselves down upon iho waler, | grow. The system of cropping and resting mere-and
propel themselves by Uieir arms and legs al f \y postpones ihis inevitable result. By resting
a very rapid rale. This mode of travelling is | Ihe soil nothing is added iherelo. The only ef-common
10 iho couriers, the fishermen, aud even 1 feel is, that by ihe action of the atmosphere and
lo those who may occasionally require In cross 'other causes, its elements are brought into a Con-ine
river. There is another plan equally strange dition in which Ihey can be more readily absorb
ed. If, for instance, silex should be combined
wilh any of the essentials, il would be disunited
and more surprising 10 the European traveller,
rierlaking an average of 30,000'strokes per diem | which is by means of a large earthenware vessel,
was required. This, al 00 per minule, or 3,000 of a globular form, wilh sn opening al lop ; Ihe by lite aclion of ihe almosphere, and Ihe essen-per
hour—and neither the human inlellcct no. 1 traveller placea ihia primitive argosy wilh ihe I "al would bo ready lo be taken up by the roots
the human hand can be expecicd lo do more— ' opening against his chest, snd the air contained . "I the planl. This proco»e then, instead of pre-would
call for ten houre' labor in every four and ] within 11 is Biillicienl to bear up him and his fish-1 veuling exhaustion, only secures its more com-twenty.
Wilh a proper feeling of the respect
due 10 ihe observance of the Sabbath, ho deler-mined
lo abstain from his work on Ihe Sundays;
|ia|f' and by this determination he dismissed by 4 day
10 reprove, half lo amuse, would repeat, as she
smoothed back the langled hair, the whole ol
lhal instructive poem :
" This the voice ol ihe sluggard, 1 heard him com-plain.,
Ion have waked me too soon, I must slumber a-
Turns his sidus and Iu. shoulders, and his heavy
bead.''
'JSZ^jmS* mvisibl. jpeck.., di.-1 fcrnal lorlure. of *;«-«» W £• j^^^ZgtZ^l
lcr how you ever : erow up such a miserable sluggard, and be good
for nothing all her life,
'• No! thanks lo my friends for iheir care and iheir
breeding
Who loach .110 bolimes to love working and read-ing."
lauces from each other never less than a mile al
least, and we have a fair representation of the
visible universe—on a reduced scale, il is true,
yet still preserving all ihe relative magnitudes,
and ill the adjusted proportions of Ihe parts lo
each other, and 10 the whole. On any scale wc
may assume, all that parlakea, in Ihe lowest de-gree,
of sensible materiality, bears butan infjniics-twain
of heart and purpose,
for marriage ; and you wond*
wore ihem before!"
The Wifo of Sir John Franklin.
• ree, 0 scilsuue maier.aiiiv . UVMVVW, <»....-■..—- Eleanor Ann-P-ordcn was bor.n ITOS„.„,„S.h«e \\ n nail
unal proportion 1- whs. a,yrar. .0 be bu. vac.n. early manifested great lalen.s and .strongmem- I
■ pace. In this view of Ihe matter 11 becomes ' ory. and acquired a considerWe know ledge of ( ,. ,,„„. fiUr
We pass over,
.... is ihe rose, what a beautiful II
i;reek and oilier languages. Her lirsl poem, the
Veil*, was wrii.cn wben.be was seventeen.— descriptive of frail, earthly beauly, and
Her next was the Arctic Expedition, which led I „v,vllplleer . lako rav wuik ahroads,
lo her marriage with (-'apt Franklin. Ilerpr.n-i How many poor I seep'
cipal work is lb. epic Cojur de Leon, which ap-peared
in 1825. Her poems display much ele-gance,
spirit, and richness of imagination. The
tangoing incidents in her life wi find in a biog-raphical
dictionary. This lady has recently
Bp
more lhan a probability lhal thcie is no relative-ly
denser solidity than'this any where existing.
Even in Ihe hardest and apparently mosl impene-trable
mailer, ibe ul.imale panicles may be as
sparse in iheir relative positions, as are, lo each
other, the higher compound and component bodies
which wc know are dispersed al immense dis-tances
as mere points in apace,
Bui not to dwell on this idea, ibere is another
of a kindred nature lo which wo would call ai-lention.
although il must oflen have come home
10 every serious mind. Who can soberly con-template
Ihe mighty heavens without being struck
with what may be called the ISOLATION of lb.I asceria
universe, or rather, ol the inumerablc pa....
To the mosl ilioughilul : by the sale return ol her husband, anil all would
hopes being grail- read it. and vet it seems ever new ; 11 awakened humble that he would i„
, ihe most tender emotions; sell Joe « l.eaton, ibe wv-ke-iof atl t.od . STSS- I he lire shows through llic screen, yellow and
and come to lhal sad petition,
" Pily ihe sorrows ol a poor old man,"
which will live, and bo Ireasured as long aB ihe
llic period allowed him ; al [he same lime, by so
doing, he increased ihe daily average of his strokes
10 upwards of forly-one thousand. On llic first
day he cxeruted aboul fifty thousand strokes ;
OH ihe second nearly as many. Bui al length,
after many days, the hand became stiff and wea-ry,
ihe wrist swollen, and il required the almost
constant attendance of some assiduous relation or
friend to besprinkle it, without inlcrrupting its
progress over the paper, wilh a lotion calculated
10 relieve and invigorate it. On ihe twenty .third
day, the million strokes, exceeded by aome few
thousands, " in make assurance doubly sure,"
were accomplished ; and ihe pile, of paper lhal
exhibit litcm teslify 'lhal. lo Ihe ci.urageous heart,
the willing hand, and lite energetic mind, nothing
is impossible. These inlcresiing papers are nol
placed in llic archives ol ihe Ituyal Sociely, of
which Iheir author was a fellow, but were claim-ed
and received by tho person who paid Ihe
wager. ________^_
Sabbath I.itltr II riling.—•• Slrange," said
a postmaster, not long since, on a Monday morn-ing,
as he emptied a huge mass of Idler, from
his box, " that people will nol attend church 01.
Ihe Sabbath, instead of slaying al home lo wrile
letters." The ordinary number of packages
made up on other days was staled lo be aboul
forty ; on Mondays they soiueliuics amounted lo
one hundred anil Iweuiy-five, and usually arc
double Ihe number of those on oilier days of Ihe
week. Huvv many ol these leiieisare con.islenl
with die command 10 •• Keinembcr Iho Sabbath
day, 10 keep il holy !"
ing nel, and he boldly swims or sails—I know ■ pitta development in ihe end. Then eomes ihe
nol which 10 call il—up and down the river, pro- j question, the subject of ihe present lecture, bow
pelling himself by his legs, and casting his nel 1 are soils Iu be rcgenesaicd and presorved T The
mosl dexterously. 1 have seen few things any- j system of green crops, aB for instance, clover,
where which more excilcd my wonder lhan these buckwheat and peas, docs not effect this. The
two extraordiuarv filial, or buoys—lor they are I roots of these planls. especially the flrsl menltun-noihing
more—and the eaee and rapidity with | ed, strike deep into ihe earlh, and thereby bring
which ihe navigators darted from point 10 poiul I certain elements up to
was truly wonderful, particularly lu llic slra iger.
—Scents in a Soldier's f.ife.
the surlacc and within
reach of the roota of plaots, such as wheat, lie.,
which only penetrate the surface. But they do
nut add any of ihe expensive elements, as pot.
ash, (itc. Oypsum. (plaster of Paris.) is sorae-
I ours .owed with clover. This il good as far as
II goes, since II add. sulphuric arid and lime, the
taller of which is an " expensive " element, while
the former furnishes sulphur 10 certain constitu-ents
of plants, such as gluten. The farmers uf
Western New York use this method in iheculti-vaiion
of wheat, and maintain that nothing fur-ther
is necessary, thai by means of il, the soil will
always rcmian fertile. Fortunately for ihem.
Home.
A home ! il is ihe brighi. blessed, adorable
phanlom which MIS highest on ihe sunny horizon
lhal g.rdeih life ! When shall 11 be reached!
When shall il cease lo be a glittering day-dream,
and become fully and fairly yuursf
It ia nol the house, though lhal may have ils
charms; nor ihe fields, carefully tilled, and
streaked wilh your own foot paths; nor llic
uees, though their shadows be lo you like lhal | iheir soil is exceedingly rich, and as yet they do
of a greal rock in a weary land ; nor yet is it' not, perhaps for a long list, will nol discovsr «-
the fireside, with iu sweet blaze-play ; nor Ihe ; ny injurious effects. But in England, where lb.
pictures, which lell you of loved ones ; nor the < same sy slem i. pursued, the land has become, in
cherished brooks, but. more far thau all ll.esc— 1 some places, what the farmers call "clover siss."
11 is tho Presence ! The Lares of your worship I But it is really sick from exhaustion, since phoe-are
there; the allar of your confidence i. ibere ; ; phoric acid and soda l.avo been constantly taken
Ihe end of) our worldly faiih is there ; and a-i away wilboul any reiurn.
AffttttA Humility. —Rev. Jesso Lee, of early ' menl. Gud pily ihem !—as they
durntng il all. ami sending your blood 111 pas
sionale How, is ihe ccsiary of ihe conviciion
lhal there, at le.sl, you are beloved ; ibere you
are understood ; lhal there your errors will meet
ever with gentlest forgiveness; lhal there your
troubles will be smiled away, lhal there you
may unburden your soul, fearless of harsh, un-syinpalhisiug
car. ; and that there you may be
entirely and joyfully—yourself!
There may be those ol coarse mould—and I
have seen such even ill the disguise ol women
—who will reckon these feelings puling seull-havc
need of
rls of. Such devoted affection deserves to be rewarded
which il is composed. To llic mosl thoiw
spirit a aense of loneliness tnttsi be a main, il ..... rejoin lo bcarol her warm, -1 I
a predominant clement in such a survey. The Gad. So far. 11 II worthy ol 1
first impression from these -littering points in 1 tree, of Captain FraaUii baa been
space may, indeed, hi thai ol a social CongtegS- ] by vuiiin.in ve.-sils.
traded Ihe alleatieO and exeiled the ad.nira.inu English language is spoken. How wo Irace the
of iho civilized wurld by her energetic and per- fortune of ihe once happy farmer ; weep over
sevcrine effort, to .end rslisf loh.l adventurous ihe rum and desertion of bis sweet daughter, be- ••¥•"■" •— J' ",-
husband hi the frozen re-ions of the north, or to hold the poor, heart-broken wife, lingering it. ; Methodist notoriety, used 10 tell anecdotes al pily.
in his fat. and thl. of hi. companion,.- poverty anil sorrow, al last dying, and leaving a | limes, a. produc.ive ol in.lruciion .. ol levity.- . That .mag. by llic iirc.idc-calin. lov-
' grev-hairt'd pariner to llic mer<?it'. and cl.;irii.c>
of a cold world. Thuu»und<i of limci we have
!H!!I-He
would Bomeiiines refer lo a ccruiu Joe Ung, joy.ul, u iliere siill; it goes not, however
tVbM10.fi a prt-at-iiLT, who was so excessively ' my •{•■ru io«eu, because my wi.h, aud every
and again call him- \ will, keep il (her s unerring
a-predominan. „.cb Tin- ,,ed. .Ms wort^of t.uu: tin. th. *.ly . 1^^^'^;^:^,^^-^ | ^'."A coloured h, r once followed Joe m
'dun In ihrtadburc girminis and (altering . die ejurciw*. of the uiti'tug, who, HI his lurn. , ihui jgt i« njjetess.—RereritI of a liadnlor.
■fuck Mitral, which as :tbovc stated, his been
used like clover as a fcriiliier, fanners formerly
thought, would grow well anywhere upon any
kind of soil. Tltis proved to be a mistake, since
il contained a large proportion of the " expensive"
elements, and for this reason.it is welt used, siace
the roots, by (.inking deep, bring up for the use
of olher plants, elements which their roots would
not otherwise have reached.
Clover might be successfully introduced into
ihis fcoUnty. Major Collier had succeeded well
in ils cultivation by means of the nurl found in
large quantities upuu his estate. Oats might be
used wilh clover, in order lo protect it from tho
wind and cold.
Lands could be regenerated snd preserved in
a slate ol fertility, by the system of manuring.
Wilh llieeffeeU of Inter and barn yard manure,
il wet* veil ■Ogumted. I> would be unneces-sary
to speak of them. The excrements M
fowls add both the expensive antf nitrogenous cl-