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POETRY.
THE COMET.
.f ROM A POEM CALLED MIDSUMMER DAY’S
DREAM.
BY EDWIN ATHERSTONE.
“ Then suddenly there came a fiery star,
Wandering from out its orbit, masterlcss.
The dwellers on the earth,—they were a
race
Mightier than yours,—look’d nightly on the
sky,
And their thoughts were troubled; night
by night the star
Grew brighter, larger;—waving flames
shot out,
That made the sky appear to shake and
quiver.
Night after night it grew; the stars were
quenched
Before its burning presence; the moon took
A paler—and a paler hue; men climbed
Upon the mountains qvery eve to watch
How it arose, and sat upon the ground
All night to gaze upon it. The day then
Became the time for sleeping; and they
woke' '
Froni/feverish rest at evening to look out
For-flie terrific visiter. Night by night
It silled and frightened;—all the firma
ment
Was kindled wfen it came. The waning
moon r ' v
riad died, away; and when she would have
i, come
A"a:n into the sky, men found her not.
Still, still the' heaven fire grew!—there
was no night,
But to the day succeeded a hew day
Of strange and terrible splendor. Dark
less ' 1
BecaXne a luxury, and men. would go
To caves and subterraneous depths to cool
Their hot and dazzled eyes. The beasts
of the field
Were restless and ur.easy, knowing not
Their hotir. for slumber; they went up and
down
Distractedly; and as they fed, would stop
And tremble, and look round as if they
feared
A lurking enemy. The things of prey,—
Monsters that earth now knows not,—came
abroad
When the red night sun had gone down;
for day
With its mild light less glared upon their
eyes
Thau the fire flashing firmament. Yet,—
yet
With every coming night the terrible star
Expanded; men had now no thought but
that;
All occupations were laid by;—the earth
left
Was
untilled, the voyagers on the
deeps
Forsook their ships, and got upon the land
To wait the unknown event. O’er all the
world
Unalterable terror reigned. Men now
By thousands and by tens of thousands,
met—
Wondering and prophesying. Day and
night
All habitable regions sent to heaven
Wailings, and lamentations, and loud
prayers.
The ethereal shapes that peopled earth, as
now,
Saw with astonishment, hut not with fear,
This strange disorder; for the wreck of
worlds
Injures not them. The spirits of the sun
Looked wondering down, expecting what
might come;
For right towards Earth the blazing Ter
ror held
Its awful course; and all the abyss of space
Resounded to the roaring of its fires.
; Yet once more
One fourth the
Ere it had
It rose on earthly eyes,
heavens
Was covered by its bulk,
reached
Its middle course, the huge ball almost fill
ed
The sky’s circumference;—and anon there
was
No sky {—nought but that terrible world of
fire
Glaring, and roaring,—and advancing
still!
Shot swiftly on again; the weaker earth,—*
Jarred from her orbit,—stood awhile-
turning
Backward upon her axis, vibrating
Down to her very centre; then went on
Faltering, swinging heavily to andtro
Upon her altered poles.
« Men saw not this; the insufferable heat
Had slain all things that lived. The grass
and herbs
First died!—the interminable forests next
Burst into flames;—down to their utmost
deeps
The oceans boiled,—spurting their bub
bling waves—
Rocking and wallowing higher than the
• hills—
The hills at last grew burning red;
And the whole earth seemed as it would
melt away.
“Intensest expectation now held all
The ethereal natures silent. From the
heights
Of space they looked, and waited for the
shock;
For in two right opposite courses the two
orbs
Rush’d toward each other, as two enemies
baste
To meet in deadly cdnflict. ’T was a sight
Sublime, yet sad, to see this beautiful earth
Stript of all verdure, empty of all life
Glowing beneath the comet’s terrible
breath
Like a huge coal of fire t
“They now draw nigh;
on tney came!—they
We looked
Rapidly rolling
struck—
The universe felt the shock,
to have seen
The earth shattered to dust, or home away
By that tremendous fire star;—but they
touched
Obliquely, and glanced off.. The comet
soon
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ON SEEING GOD.
A little boy said one day to his mo
ther—“Mamma, I want to see God.
You tell me there is a God, but 1 nev
er saw him, and you say we cannot
see him. Why can’t I see him?’ —
His mother replied—“Do you think
there is no God, because you cannot
see him?” “Why I do not knotv,”
said her son; “sometimes I doubt a-
bout it, and sometimes I don’t believe
it, and it always seems very strange.”
“I will try, then,” said his mother,
“to tell you something about it. You
know, my son, that you have a mind,
and 1 have a mind, and OvCry person
you see has a mind; but you never yet
saw a mind, not even your own. It
is not your body that thinks, and de
sires, and loves, and wishes; it is
your mind, or spirit. Now God is all*
spirit, or mind; and that infinite mind
has never been connected with a hu
man body, except when Christ was
Upon earth, and God was manifested
in flesh. Now you sec how God can
see us, and we not see him. If you
were blind, I could see your body, but
you,could hot see mine. When you
have eyes, you see my body only, not
my spirit. So, while I am close by
you in this room, you can hear my
voice, but you do not know my tlio’ts,
and I cannot know your thoughts.—
Ndvv, God is such a mind or spirit, as
yoiirs or mine; only he knows every
thing In one moment, and we know on
ly a few things all the days of our
life. You find it hard to tell how
God can be every where at the same
moment, and know all things at the
same time. Now, a body cannot he
in every place, nor even in two places
at the same moment. You cannot be
in the parlor, while you are in your
chamber. But you can be here, both
body and mind, and think of persons
and things in other places. You can,
without moving from your chair, think
of Philadelphia, and London, and
Madagascar; of Washington, in Con
gress Hall; of Buonaparte, at the
battle of Waterloo; and of John in the
Isle of Patmos. You can think of the
birds in the forest, the fishes at tjie
bottom of the sea, the moon in the*
sky, and the fixed stars, a great way
farther off than the moon. Just so
docs God think of, and know, all crea
tures, and all worlds.
“In several ways, however, God
knows things as you do not. You can
think of a distant, person, or place,
only as you have seen it, or as you have
had it described to you. God can see
and know all things just as they now
are, and without having a description,
or any information from others. You
cannot think of two persons or places
at a time. When you think of Lou
don, you cannot think of Philadelphia;
if you remember Washington, in Con
gress Hall, you cannot contemplate
John in Patmos. You must forget
the bottom of the ocean, when you
soar to the moon and stars. You can
not know minds but as their thoughts
and wishes are expressed; but God
can search every mind and every
heart, whether of men, or angels, or
devils, and observe all that is m them,
at ail times
“Wheu you think of Buonaparte,
that famous warrior, you can dislike
him. When you think of Paul, or
John, who went about preaching the
Gospel, and doing good, you can love
them. You love me, when I am ab
sent from you many miles; and you
hate swearers and liars, every time
you see them or read about them, or
only think of them. So the eyes of
the Lord are in every place, behold
ing the evil and the good. The Lord
lovetli the righteous, and hateth all
the workers of iniquity, throughout all
the earth.
“ Such is God; a pure spirit, an in
finite mind, searching the universe at
one glance, and looking into the dark
est corner of the heart of man. Who
will not stand in awe of God, and fear
to offend him? To him the darkness
and the light are both alike; and he
is so pure, that be hates sin with per
fect hatred. My son, you must re
member that liii always sees you, and
that you cannot go from ' his spirit or
flee from his presence.
“Perhaps you remember, that in
some places the Bible says, no man
hath seeii God, or can see him, and
live; and that in other places they
speak of our seeing him in peace, as
the only leaven. We cannot see him
Blind persons talk of going to see their
friends; and they mean that they will
associate and commune with them.—
In this sense, we must see or know
God; and to do this we must repent
and believe, for without holiness no
man shall see the Lord.”
YANKEE ROGUE OUTWITTED
A gentleman Of our State, whose
name we will call Harden, once held
a note against a knavish neighbour,
named Griffin* which had become, as
the phrase is, outlawed. Harden
was unwilling to believe Griffin scoun
drel enough to defraud him of the
debt, and had neglected to compel
him to pay it, although he was abun
dantly able. The law is, we believe,
that if a man acknowledges himself to
be indebted to a person before evi
dence, after the expiratjop pf the pe
riod allowed for the cojlectipn of a
debt, then the claim is valid; other
wise it must depend entirely upon the
honor of the debtor. Griffin ivas a-
ware that he held the staff in his own
hand, and he determined to use it.—
He would speak of his obligation to
Harden with perfect freedom, when
no one was present; acknowledge that
the debt was justly due, and declared
his intention of paying it eventually;
but maintained the most, obstinate si
lence when they were in company with
a third person. “Experience is the
prophet of events.” Harden was fi
nally convinced that Griffin meant to
cheat him out of his money; and with
true Yankee sagacity, set about con
triving some plan to outwit his frau'
dulent neighbor. He called on, Grif
fin one morning, with his sleigh, and
invited hint to take a ride. During
their ride, the old topic of the note
was introduced.
“Why really friend Griffin,” said
Harden, “it seems to me that
yeu ought to pay me that 500
dollars; it is no inconsiderable sum for
a farmer to lose. Tp be sure I have
no legal claim on you; but time has
not removed the moral obligation.”
“I will pay you as soon as I can
make it convenient,” said Griffin; “it
is as you say, a just debt; and you shall
have the money.”
“I intend to, and no thanks to your
honesty, neither,” coplly replied the
other.
“Mr. Derby, you have heard suf
ficient for our purpose.”
As he spoke, a hogshead which lay
in the slay suddenly “collapsed,” and
the person of a Deacon of the parish
presented itself to the gaze of the
swindling debtor. Griffin paid the
note without further evasion.—Mid
dlesex Gaz.
earth indurated, and fitted to hecota
a habitation for man. The hills the>
suppose, were formed by the agiti
tion ©f the waters. While the eartl,
was ijn its chaotic state, the wateri|
are represented as having been thro
into a state of great agitation, !i
that of a boiling liquid, and bei
driven by violent winds, the soft mu
was carried in various directions, an|
being deposited in different places,]
formed the mountains and hills which
now appear on the face of the eartfi.
When the Creator had formed the
red people from the ground, and fitted
t}ie earth for their residence, he told
them the earth would bring forth
spontaneously the cbesnut, hickory nut,
and acorn for their subsistence. Ac
cordingly, the Choctaws state, that in
ancient times, they lived principally
upon these productions of the earth.
And they suppose it was net till some,
time after they had been a people, F
that the corn, which now forms no in
considerable .part of their food, was(
discovered by means of a crow.
' They state, that at their first crea
tioq, both males and females went en
tirely naked. After some time,
though from what cause they do not
know, they began to use sdme cover
At first, the long moss, which
mg
abounds in southern climates, tied jjl
round their waists, formed their only HI
covering. At some later period, af
ter the invention of the bow and ar- |
row, when they had acquired skill in jjl
hunting wild beasts, they began to use * j
the skins of animals for clothing.
itya.
description of this place, having never seen
it. 1 regret that 1 am not. It is said to
have the appearance of being the work of
art. Its summit is level, containing an a-
rea of several acres. Near jthe centre is a
hole, w r hose depth has never been ascer
tained. Out of this hole, according to their
ancient traditions, the Choctaw’s originally
came.
with them bodily eyes, but our spirits
eo
may beoome acquainted with his spir
it, and have peace in believing in him.
We often speak of seeing our friends,
when wd mean visiting them, and en
joying tbeir society and friendship.—
Communicated for the Miss. Her. by Rev.
Alfred Wright.
CHOCTAWS.
Their Traditions respecting the Crea
tion of the World and of Men.
The Choctaws state that, at a re
mote period, the earth was a vast
plain, destitute of hills, and a mere
quagmire. The word, which 1 they
use to express this primitive State', is
applied to clotted blood, jelly, &c.
which will serve to explain what'their
ideas were. The earth in this chaotic
state, some of them suppose, was
produced 1 by the immediate power of
the C tea tor; but others, indeed the
majority with whom I have conversed
relative to this subject, have no know
ledge how the earth was produced in
this-state; nor do they appear ever to
have extended their thoughts so far
as to make a single inquiry with re
spect to it.
While the earth was in this situa
tion, a superior being, who is repre
sented to have been in appearance as
a red man, came down from above,
and alighting near the centre of the
Choctaw nation, threw up a large
mound, or hill', called in their language
Nunih waiya,* “stooping or sloping
hill;” When this was done, he caus
ed the red people to come out of it,
and when he supposed that a sufficient
number had come out, he stamped on
the ground with his foot. When this
signal of his power was given, some
were partly formed, others were just
raising their heads above the mud,
emerging into light, and struggling in
to life, all of whom perished. The
red people being thus formed from
the earth, and seated on the area of
the hill, their Creator told them that
they should live forever. But not un
derstanding him, they inquired what
he said, upon which he took away the
grant he had given them of immortali
ty, and told them they would become
subject to death.
After the formation of man from
the ground, the hills were formed, the
Political exclusion.
The editor of a paper, devoted with
warmth to politics, in a notice to cor
respondents, observes—“We have no
room for Truth this week; and our
remarks on Mr. Randolph’s speech
have necessarily excluded Justice.—
Pair play is inadmissible. Falsehood,
No. 5, shall appear in our next.
M
WARNING TO SNUFF TAKERS.
Mrs. Prench, of Dutton, was on
Friday last, seized with a violent fit
of sneezing in consequence of taking
a handful of Macauba at once, by
which she dislocated the vertebrae of
the neck.. On dissection, four pounds
and a half of pure snuff were found
stowed away in the place where the
brains ought to be.—Eng. Pap.
The following anecdote is related
by a physician of undoubted veracity:
“I was called a few days since to vis
it a sick child. The medicine which
I wished to administer was a fine pow
der, and must be mi$ed with some
moist substance. I asked the mother
of the child for an apple to roast.—
She had none. I then asked her for
some kind of sauce, but the reply
was as before-—we have none. If
you have any molases. honey, or milk,
cither will answer. We have neither.
Give me then a crumb of soft bread-r*-'
why, said she, we have none baked.
Supposing from the expression that
she had some ready for the oven, I
told her that it would do os well if it
was not baked. Ah! said she with
a tone that spoke her mortification,
we have neither bread nor meal, nor
grain, except a little corn wffiich I can
not have ground unless I carry j* to
mill on my back. Well then/said I,
have you any mn9 Oh, yes, said
she, as her countenance brightened,
we have a plenty of that; and started,
for the jug. I told her she might let
it remain, for I thought the sick child'
would do as w6ll without ruin.”
Extraordinaryi—A London editor
gives the following article: “We are
told there is a woman in a village in.
Glamorganshire, South Wales, whose
husband with the little fortune he got
with Her, bought a small farm. He
hardly closed the purchase, when
death closed his eyes. However, not
intimidated with’ this, the woman,
married a second husband, who sowed
it. He likewise died, and she tried 1
a third, who reaped it, but death soon
snatched him away. She then mar
ried a fourth, who thrashed it, but he
also followed the fate of his predeces
sors; and she is now married to a fifth
husband, with whom she is now en
joying tlie produce of it. All this hap
pened within eighteen months. ” *