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THE PLANET WE LIVE ON.
This, “farm of the Earth," inclosed in
a ring-fence r of air, turns out to be a
much more valuable piece of real estate
than our*progenitors supposed it to be.—
Nay, even our papas had no idea twenty
years ago-that we, their sons, were born
to such a goodly inheritance. V/e don't
know what was the estimated - value of
the globe sixteen or seventeen years ago
but it has certainly appreciated several
hundred per cent* within that time. —
California began to feast our eyes with
its riches iu 1811), anti Australia soon
. followed suit with its golden .dowry.
From that time until now Madame Terra,
lilts been indeed a Lady Bountiful, and
what further she may have in store for
her enterprising family it is in yam to
attempt to guess. We have nothing to
guide us in .our surmises save the “lamp
of experience,” and that for several years
past has been such - in out-and-out lamp
of Aladdin that, if we art* to judge of the
future* by the past, the next generation
will epjoy all the luxury and magnifi
cence attributed by Fenelon to the fa
mous land of Cocaigue. We .must give
up .calling wealthy people the “upper
crustit is the lower crust fellows that
are making fortunes. . Our respected an -
cestoYs merely cultivated the surface of
the earth; we gather our golden harvest
from the interior. The mole must hence
forth be our “totem.” The road to rich
es is a “bore.” Instead*of putting'our
shoulders to the wheel we rely upon the
“shafts. ” Facilis decensus averni must be
expunged from our proverbial philosophy
and we must say instead “it is easy de-
into wealth.” Poor men in
Pennsylvania make deep holes in the
earth, and, like the genii, or an Eastern
story,, surrounded by a cloud of inflam
mable vapor, up comes an oleaginous
Plutus through every orifice. It is very
nice. ' Would that our lot had been cast
in greasy Carbondale or kerosenie Scran
toiu
We have exported twenty-three mil
lions of gallons of petroleum to Europe
within a year. ‘‘Think of that, Master
Brook 1” Verily v we are a burning and
shining light among the nations
Widows of the world, bring hither your
cruses ; we can fill them. Virgins who
Wish to/keep lamps trimmed and ig
nited, we can supply you with the nec
essary combustible. The dark ages can
never more return ; oil is too plentiful
for that Leviathan, hide thy dimin
ished head ; its contents are of small
consequence. . .The earth takes the shine
out of the sea, and “pirmaceti” is no
longer “the soVereigu st thing in the
world.” Weep, Nantucket, ami lay up
thy ships in ordinary. Turn thy uar-
into picksJand augurs and proceed
to perforate. Perchance under those
barren rocks of thine lies more “ile’
than there is >in all the whale* of the
Bea. Let thy shibboleth still be “There
she spouts ! ’ but let it be spoken of the
greasy earth, not of the monsters of the
deep.
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 8, 1865.
The latest news is that “signs” of pe
troleum have been discovered at Hobo
ken and all along the Highlands to PicT
mont. “Pro-di-gioits!” We think of
“sinking a well” in our sub-cellar. It
smells very strong ®f carburet ted hydro
gen. It 1 may proceed from a leak in the
gas-pipe, but then again it may not
Seriously speaking, this sudden access
of material wealth comes m the very
nick of time, if we may use the word
Nick in connection with tfuch a god
send.
It is all nonsense to call this ptenet
the solid earth ; it is simply an immense
hollow sphere filled with oil, worth —un-
manufactured- fifty cents a gallon. In
the old world they can’t* get at it, how
ever, the crust of the earth being thickest
on tiiat side- We are all made men—
not a doubt of it. Let us keep “pegging
away” at the deposit. Let us di* and*
vnjoy ohr' otivm pum dignitatis. — N. Yt
Sh/iday Time*l*
Kissing iz one of those fu things that
iz eazier dun than deskiibed; in sack,
;abo.ut the onia way tew describe it weft
’iz tew do it well. • It iz. vythout doubt,ft
yerry anshunt enterprize; and judgeing
from what we kno ov human na‘ur in
this latitude, it must bay struk Adam as
a good investment .when he fust diskov
(cred hiz wife. If Adam didu t kiss Eve
at sight, he ain't the man I take him tew
be ; and if Eve didin relish it, it must
hay bin bekause it w r an’t well dii. Thar
iz one thing about kissing in the lump,
different from the rest ov the fine arts,
and that in, it don t reijuire enny eciika
shun tew dew it; i hav even thort that
the more unedikatedit waz did (provided
it didn’t, miss the mark} the more touch
ing it waz tew behold. But kissing iz a
good deal like eating ; thare is not much
fun (when a person iz hungry) in stand
nnd see it did by auuther fellow,
it it iz did ever so well. It is one oy the
cheapess and healthyess luxurys ov the
season, and don’t show enny disposishun
tew go out ov faslfipn, and will keep
sweet in enny climate. Upouthe wfoole,
jt yu examine kissing in the lump, cluss
jy> yu will be led tew exclaim: Fustly,
that it iz az eazy tew hav it did as it iz
handy tew de.wit. Sekundly, that; it iz
like Lowper’s tea, it cures a man without
corning him; and, Thirdly, it iz a frugal,
highly consentrated, and raverend luxu-
Ft
IN DKTAUB.
When we cum tew thro oph glittering
gpueralitys and approach our snlyeok iu
singlti tile, it iz then that the divinitee ov
the art seems to be spotted; and reveals
tew us awl the shades ov pomp and
sirkuinstanze, from the sublime and ten
der, clear down tew the redikilus and
lull. Mother s kiss and little baby’s kiss
are az pure az the utterance oy augells ;
so is ihe ai tless kiss over sister Mary
and couzih Fanny ; but 1 thare iz one
cold, blu, lean kiss', that always makes
me shiver tew see. Two persons (by
the fetnail purswashui 3 who hay wit
nesst a grate imuuy younger and more
pulpy uuze, meet in some publik plase,
and not having saw each uther for M
SAYINGS OF
1 Kissing Considered. , 4 ‘ Man waz
made tew mourn,” So' warbled' Bums,
‘and woman waz made tew kiss,” So
warbles Billings. One of these . eenli
inents haz bin alreddy immortalized, and
the other i intend shall be at soon aztpe
Legislate? meets/ I am hot, vet imict
how i shall’bring the mat’tcr bcfoir that
honorabel boddy ; but i dev km > how the
honorabel boddy seals on the subject,
and how thd’ will act ever thaiiuv a
Igood chanse. To give a fertile "and
golden opinyun, upofi kiSsing iu the
jump, and kissing in detail, requires a
Unfair dV truth, and soring experience in
telling it, and alio ov taste, and sum ex
perience in tasting.
V IN THE LUMP,
Hours tha kiss immegiately ; then tha
fork about the weather, and the young
Jnari who pireached Yesterday, and then’J
thar kis9- itomegiatrfiy, and then thar
blush and lalf at what * they sa tew each
other, and kiss, jagin immegiately. I
would not object tew awl this if it want
sick a ov sweetness on the dessart
hir. lam willing tew be sbrorn that tills
kindov kissing alwus put me in mind ov
two olde flints triemg tew strike fire.
How different this from the konuubial
kiss i lastdiites. , I knu he waat
ja husband jist got back from a bizzness
tower, hi hiz haste. He passt me at the
komer below, and awl unexpekted en
countered biz wife, and az natural az the
bee tew the flower, tha flu together
Thare want enuy, thing sentimen
tal about that kiss; thare want
jenny thing criminal about it.—
It rang out on the air a* clear az
jthe challenge ova periiee officer—it
foiled a whole blocks Thare*want mutch
dollar, bonnett and muxed
tup a, barricade qv edging; and frizzled
Tucker. It want the fust ope, it was tew
Iweil’dkf for ihat.* It want the sipping
ov’lwo treifibling Id vers, afraid ov the
echo fit want studdyed' out nor stwlen,
but*it was full k>v bemcht ripened and
.fifruggU? . which- made me
hanker for—for,.one oph from the eune.
klist one more h mark ftndT am thru. —
iTkafo.iz one kind that haz
alwus been deemed ex:ra hazrdus (on
\ akount Ov' ft r£) and Wat is kissing jure
nabtir'B wife; Gifting tlie wife’s con
sent don't seem make the matter
. emiyAhe less risky.— 'Troy AW*.
\ Inflammable Public Buildings— The
Smithsonian Institute -in . Washington,
built St great*'tost, and which was a re
! pository of science,' works of art and ob
jects of natural history, was very badly
injured by the on Tuesday last. Consid
ering, tin: purposes for which this buiici
mg was (rectffo, 'ami the endurable char
acter which this institution is designed
to esuibrishyit aeemsr-culpuble that it was
not erected of liiateildt which would
have resisted the action ot fire and wa
ter. Contributions from ali parts of the
world were made to its museum; its
pictures wCre of value, its statuary the
mod, expensive, and its records, papers,
philosophic*!.apparatus ?md
Ugry ami collect ions oi diff rent, countries
were inestimable. Yet ail Uu re, and the
.building itself' were liable to destruction
from the simple fact of hurl.!! g a tire in a
-stove in one of the rooms ol the institu
tion. Where ft) much was at stake, we
should think that it ought to have enter
;ed into the plans of the originators ol
such a building to make it entirely ffre
j proof, and secure it against any such ac
cident. The destruction is attributed to
;tlie, scarcity of water iu Washington
City, but more is due apparently to the
absence of forethought in its builders,
who in expending a very large sum of
money upon its erection, forgot the es
sential fact of security.
It is said in a Richmond paper that
when Bragg declared lie could hold W il
mingtou, everybody in it who wanted to
remain *ln ttie. Confederacy began to
bundle hp his goods and property for the
jpurpose of haying Braggs assertions
h tve so often tailed that the rebels inter*
prat his words just .the reverse of what
ne says. This is a very , unsatisfactory
feeling to have in relation to one of their
principal Generals,who turns up so often
in command of posts of danger; but his
frequent misfortunes coulu not very well
create greater public confidence in his
words. _, ,
A modern French writer says: “A.
physician prescribing for a sick man al
ways remimiß me ot a ch ild snuffing a
C mdle —it is ten to one but he snuffs it
out.” •
D*. Own and His Schemes.— When
it became pretty certain that the con
spiracy of the oligarchy was about to
culminate in war, Dr. Gwin, foreseeing a
long and bloody contest, made up his
inind to emigrate to Mexico. His sub
sequent arrest by the United States au
thorities and his thorough personal sym>.
patliy with the Southern rebel leaders
rather than with their rebellion quick -
ened his purpose. Ere going to Europe
he made up uis mind to bring about, it
possible, French governmental protec
tion of his vast scheme of colonization.
From a knowledge of his plans aud of
his ability in such matters, and his energy
of character, we do not doubt that Las
lias had more influence in setting Maxi
milian on the Mexican throne, and in
ducing Louis Napokon to connect him
isclf so thoroughly as he has done w-Uv
.that adventure, than any other living
man. We believe he expects—foresee
ing the turn the affairs of the rebels have
taken—to surround himself With their
(tiiscomfiUed. and escaped leaders, ami to
receive a vast horde ot their followers as
hia colonists. As soon as Ricfi
mond may tall they will doubtless hoc it
to him like bees seeking anew home.
ihe spring. While he may be personally
indisposed to get into a war with us, Ids
surroundings will make it extremely rift*
[detail tor him to avoid so doing. It wo
are soon successful in crushing the pow
er of the rebellion, to continue the wur
.on an imposing scale, we do .not belieVd
our government will be able to prevent
.American national hostility to the
of Louis Napoleon m Mexico
from culminating in war between our
California and that of France and I)jri
Gwin.' The Doctor s purpose is, how
ever, doubtless to assimilate the iusiittr
tions of his colony as nearly as. possible
to those of our California, save and ex
cepting in the mat ter, of ,its sum earn
government, which he aims to hold as
absolute viceroy lor Lotfts Nrspolton for
iite. tShould his colony receive a consid
erable accession of population front otif
Western coast arid the loyal States, and
an affiliation between that ot ifa
settlers and its Southern reiugees- took
place, in case of eventual wnr bhtWean.
us aud France, growing* oiit of
Louis Napoleon’s Mexican pranks, the*
cfiances are ten to one that he will find
his colony, despite kil be can do for
Louis Napoleon, earnestly second ng our
national endeavors •to drive the
latter’s troops and Maximilian and
his surroundings out of Mexico.—
llis colony will do so, 1 if but to get lid of
the form ol their- supreme government,
which is all of imperialism or monarchy
that will exist in that quarter under
Gwin s adroit management of his agency
lor Louis Napoleon.- View the matter
as we may, it is pregnant with vast
i events —events which (if he effects such
a lodgement as he and the French Em
peror propose on the Pacific coast) yyill
surely shape Mexico's future, if not our
own. It will also greatly affect the in-4
ture of more or less of the governments:
of Europe; as France, if defeated in
|j ouis Napoleon’s current hazaidotis
scheme, will be immensely weakened
financially, industriously and as a mili
tary Power. Oh the other band, if she
succeeds in Mexico, it will only be after
such a victory over us as w ill make her
the overshadowing Power on the Euro-*
pean 'Continent, and the United States a
far weaker Power than is as yet general
ly comprehended on this side of the At
lantic. !, . . . •••.»! i )
\V e know nothing as yet of the viewa
of the Uqited States government aria
tins scheme qf Louis Napoleon and Dr..
<3hsin, hnd write of it now only from a
recollection of the Doctor's plan's uh tir
purposes entertained three or lour j<ara
ago, and then deemed by us mo?t un
likely to be carried out, as it seems they
have been.
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