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in those days. The victorious leader
shall assemble the people atter the bat
tle, and address to them a speech in the
church.
So runs the above prophecy, accord
ing tothe concurring testimony ot many
peasants of that country. It was long
ago printed in a small pamphlet, in the
convent at Werl. Hut at the removal
of the convent, all its books were lost
or destroyed. The tradition, however,
remained among the peasantry, and has
even penetrated into France ; for when
French (troops?) came to Werl, they
inquired for the Birch-Tree. In Pome
rania also, natives of Westphalia, when
quartered there, have been questioned
about its position, it stood long be
tween Holtum and Kirch-Hemmerde,
villages lying between Unnaand Werl.
When it withered, anew one was. by
royal order, planted on the spot. This
proves that the government knew ot the
the prophecy or tradition, and telt an
interest in it. The people believe so
firmly in the prophecy, that the peas
antry near Werl even opposed the in
troduction ot new hymn-books, under
the impression that they were the pie
dicted new books. Bremen, Hultum,
Budberg, and Sbndern are villages near
Werl. A crucifix stands at Holtum
between two young lime-trees ; and a
brook there flows from west to east.
With one more extract we close our
notice of the article.
A prophecy, of date 1022, concern
ing certain months of a year not named.
The month of May shall earnestly
prepare for war. But it is not yet time.
June shall also invite to war, but still
it is not time. July will prove so cruel,
that many must part from wife and
child. In August, men shall every
where hear of war. September and
October shall bring great bloodshed.
Wonders shall be seen in November.
At this time the child is twenty-eight
years old, (the powerful monarch) whose
wet nurse shall be from the east. He
shall do great things.
Prophecies of the “ Powerful Mon
arch:”—
One prophet says — 41 1 Ie shall be of
un ancient noble house, and descended
from the top of the rocks. Ilis mother
shall be a twin. He will be Emperor
of the Holy Roman Empire, (the Ger
man Empire.) Ilolzhauser says, ‘He
shall be born in the bosom of the Catho
lic Churchhis name shall be, ‘The
Help of God.’
We have now given a sufficient
sketch of some of the more curious and
definite popular German prophecies.—
The Curate of Dortmund adds a con
siderable number of others, more vague,
mystical, and in some cases theological,
which we omit, as not adapted to our
present purpose ; and others, not bear
ing on Germany, of some interest—es
pecially a long one concerning Italy,
by the Fraciscan monk, Bartolomeo da
Saluzzi—which want of space prevents
us from discussing at this time.
Lei us now consider the foregoing
prophecies in general. We must admit,
as it seems to us, that there exists in
Germany unfulfilled popular prophecies
the authenticity of which is respecta
bly attested and generally admitted.
We further observe, that, taking the
w T hole of them, as far as known to us,
we can trace the following points per
vading t he entire series, more or less:—
1. A great war after a peace, about
this time.
2. It is preceded by political convul
sions, and lesser wars.
3. The East and North fight against
the South and West.
4. The latter finally prevail, under a
powerful prince, who unexpectedly
rises up.
5. The great struggle is short, and
occurs late in the year.
6. It is decided by the battle of the
Birch-Tree, near Werl.
7. After horrible devastations, and
murders, and burnings, caused by this
war, peace and prosperity return.
8. Priests are massacred and become
very 7 rare; but
9. One religion unites all men.
10. All this takes place soon after
the introduction of railways into Ger
many.
11. The present King of Prussia is
the last.
12. The “powerful prince” from the
South becomes Emperor of Germany.
13. France is, about this time, in
wardly divided.
14. The Russians come as enemies
to the Rhine, the French enter Germa
ny as friends—without entering into
further details. *
(general ißelertie.
CENTRAL AMERICA.
W e make the following extracts from
an article in the April number of the
Westminster Review , entitled “Junction
of the Atlantic and Pacific.”
Island of Manzanilla. —Speaking
of the proposed Panama railway, the
writer says:
The explorations for this survey have
led to the discovery of large groves of
mahogany, and rich mineral deposits,
“ the knowledge of which,” it is repre
sented, “will be highly important to the
company in locating lands under their
grantand with regard to the proposed
terminus of the railway on the Atlantic
side, on the island of Manzanilla, in
Navy Bay, we have the following char
acteristic speculations, which might,
perhaps, be taken as nothing more than
a rhapsody, were it not for our experi
ence of the way in which these Ameri
can visions are apt to produce their own
realization.
“ The harbour is accessible at ail seasons,
and with any wind perfectly secure, and capa
ble of containing 300 sail. Os the island, Mr.
Norris, the chief engineer of the Chagres divi
sion, says, ‘ in ten years 1 predict the whole
will be covered with houses, and the inhabitants
enjoying perfect health, with every luxury of a
southern clime.’ He add-, ‘I do consider it the
most eligible and perfect site for a city of any
size I have ever seen.’”
Nicaragua Ship Canal. —After ex
pressing, with the utmost confidence,
the opinion that the Canal will go on
certainly and speedily to its conclusion,
the reviewer says:
At the same time, although the view
is thus bright, there is no great likeli
hood that it will attract any amount of
English money. Faith, the great ele
ment. of all enterprises, has been de
stroyed in this country for many vears
to come; and not only is there no dis
position to enter upon the scheme
among ourselves, but there is a strong
tendency to suppose that others would
be equally timid, and to doubt if the
Americans would or even could carry
it out without “the aid of British capi
tal.'’ Such has been our step from the
sublime to the ridiculous, that we have
come to look upon the expenditure du
ring the next twelve years of a sum of
£4,000,000 (which is a little more than
half the amount of the railway calls
for the month of January, 1847), upon
the grandest public work that mankind
has ever contemplated, as something
that is really appalling from itstemeri
tv. and that is only to be carried out
by a congress of capitalists from all the
nations of the earth. In the United
States, however, the feeling is very dif
ferent ; and every year vast works are
quietly undertaken there, and carried
to completion in a way which would
surprise those numberless people who
are too apt complacently’ to believe
that all the world stands still except
when funds are sent from London, —
They have enjoyed prosperity since
1839; and although, of course, after
so long a period, their turn for a run of
madness must be approaching, there are
at present no signs of it, and no appre
hensions of its arrival for two or three
years. They are quite prepared, there
fore, to look confidently at any rational
project, however abroad, and nothing
could be presented to them which
would more enlist their commercial
aptitudes, their hard energy, and practi
cal benevolence, or their patriotic pride.
“ 1 would not speak of it,” said one of
their writers, a few years back, “with
sectional, or even national feeling ; but
if Europe is indifferent, it would be
glory surpassing the conquest of king
doms to make this greatest, enterprise
ever attempted by human force entire
ty our own.”
CAPABILITIES AND DESTINY OF CENTRAL
AMERICA.
That Central America possesses in
herently all the essentials to attract a
dense and vigorous population, is a fact
that has rarely been doubted by those
Europeans or Americans who have
visited the country, and all the publica
tions before us tend to confirm it. The
researches of Mr. Stephens showed that
it had been largely peopled by an abo
riginal race of a remarkable character,
and the size of its towns and its archi
tectural remains gives evidence of com
parative prosperity under the old Span
ish dominion. Leon, the principal city 7
of Nicaragua, was formerly noted for
its opulence, and once contained 50.000
inhabitants, who were among the most
peaceful iuid industrious people of the
country; while it has now, it is said by
Mr. Baily, not more than one-third of
that number, and half the place is in
ruins. This is simply owing to the
wretched revolutionary contests that
have gone on without intermission
since the declaration of independence,
and which are invariably got up by a
handful of military vagabonds, who
would be swept away in the course of
four-and-twenty hours, or who, rather,
would never dare to show their faces
if a hundred Englishmen or Americans
were in the district to stimulate the
well-disposed to confidence.
With regard to health, the varied
productions of Central America give
the best evidence that whenever the
country shall be opened up by roads
and steamboats, and all the locomotive
appliances of modern science, there will
be no condition of person who may
not, by ordinary attention to the natural
laws, enjoy in this territory all the phy
sical power of which his constitution
may be capable. Wherever it is pos
sible to reach, by a few hours’ journey,
districts in which wheat, barley, and all
the ordinary fruits and vegetables of
Europe may be grown in perfection,
there can be little fear that anything
will be wanting in the way of climate
to insure the preservation of bodily
vigour. Even in the present state,
Central America, on the whole, has no
bad reputation regarding health, al
though the advantages offered by its
configuration in enabling the innabi
tants to vary their climate according to
their requirements, might as well not
exist, since roads can scarcely be said
to be known, the best rate of progress
being about twenty miles a day, and
mule paths through thick woods, with
out resting-places at night, being usually
the only features of a traveller’s track.
\ et, on the banks of the San Juan,
and in other parts of Nicaragua, there
are elevations that would afford the
most beneficial sites for farms and re
sidences; while in Costa Rica, San Sal
vador, and indeed in all the States,
table lands more or less abound, where
any condition of climate may be ob
tained in a few hours. In Guatemala
may be seen fields of wheat and peach
trees, and large districts “resembling
the finest part of England on a magni
ficent scale.” Valuable mineral and
thermal springs are likewise distributed
over the various localities, and there
are other adjuncts of a curative kind,
which may possibly be found to yield
extensive results, and to present even
a temptation to some classes of inval
ids, Amongst these is an animal called
the manatee, between a quadruped and
a fish, about ten feet long, weighing
from 500 to 800 lbs., affording excel
lent food, and possessing a medicinal
quality apparently analagous to the
cod-liver oil, it being alleged to be
strikingly effectual as a speedy cure for
scorbutic or scrofulous disorders. “The
blood is said to become purified, and
the virulence of the complaint, thrown
to the surface of the body, quickly dis
appears.”
“Although Central America,” ob
serves Mr. Baily, “occupies the middle
space between the equator and the
tropic of Cancer, consequently lying
within the torrid zone, the temperature
may be said to be relatively mild, and,
taken altogether, it undoubtedly is sa
lubrious;’ and this, it must be remem
bered, is the testimony of an English
officer, who has resided in the country
from choice during the best part of his
life. The places most prejudicial to
health, lie on the northern coast and
the Mosquito shore, where endemic
and intermittent fevers are not unfre
quent. The Pacific coast is exposed to
a temperature equally high, or nearly
so; but is much more salubrious, and
seldom visited by epidemic or conta
gious diseases.
After giving brief descriptions of the
principle features of the several Central
American States, the writer thus pro
phecies :
In glancing at these leading character
istics of the various states of Central
America, the reader will speedily have
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
arrived at the conclusion that, in the
hands of Anglo-Saxon settlers, they
would long ere this have ranked amongst
the most beautiful and prosperous por
tions of the earth. But until now there
has been work for the race in higher
latitudes, and it will be from the pre
sent year that their rise will date. The
nature and rapidity of that rise will,
we believe, be such as has never yet
been witnessed in any analogous ease.
Emigration from the United Kingdom
has hitherto been confined to swarm--
of the poor, going out to fight the bat
tle of life in untilled solitudes, where
they might best enter upon it with un
burthened limbs; and although their
progress has been wonderful, and they
have caused cities and states to rise up
as if by magic, there have still been
rough elements in the whole proceed
ing which have left room for us to con
template the possibility, under more
favourable circumstances, of an equal
ly rapid progress, coupled with a far
higher and finer civilization. All sepa
ration of classes is bad, and the true
system of emigration, where the temp
tations for it exist, is that where the
rich and the poor, the educated and the
uneducated, go together. But the rich
and intelligent will go only from choice,
and they demand as inducements a
brighter sky, a more genial climate,
and facilities of communication. New
Zealand, from its possessions of the
two first recommendations, has already
attracted many, but its distance and
solitariness are fatal objections. Cen
tral America promises to fulfil every
required condition. In a short time
the active spirits from New York and
Boston, who are even now infusing new
life and hope into Jamaica, from mere
ly calling at that island in their way,
and stirring up its inhabitants to the
resources at their feet, over which they
have hitherto blindly moved, will have
displaced the spirit of anarchy by that
of enterprise. There will then be
abundant work for the labourer, and
temptations for all classes, even to the
highest. The merchant can seek no
broader field than one where lie can
deal with the meeting commerce of two
worlds, together with every variety of
teeming produce at his own door. The
agriculturist, the fisherman, the miner
and the engineer, will likewise find
greater stimulants and rewards than
can be met elsewhere. The artist will
be incited by scenery which in its con
densed grandeur and prolific beauty,
from the mountain Ysaleo in Salvador,
which burns incessantly as a natural
lighthouse on the Pacific, to the frosty
table-lands of Guatemala, combines,
like the soil and the climate of the
country, every feature that is otherwise
only to be witnessed by extended wan
dering. The naturalist, the geologist,
the astronomer, and the antiquarian
will here also have anew range; and
the man of so-called leisure, who in his
way unites the pursuits of all, will pro
portionably find the means of universal
gratification.
And in the narrow confines which
hold these advantages the people of ev
ery land and government are destined
to meet on common terms. The Rus
sian from Behring’s Straits, the China
man, the African from Jamaica, the
New Zealand sailor, the Dutchman
from Java, and the Malay from Singa
pore, will mingle with the Mestizoes
and Indians of the country, and each
contribute some peculiar influence which
w ill be controlled and tempered to the
exaltation of the whole by the predom
inant qualities of the American, the
Englishman, and the Spaniard. Is it
too much to suppose, that under these
circumstances a people may arise whose
influence upon human progress will be
of a more harmonious, and consequent
ly of a more powerful, kind than has
yet been told of?—that starting at the
birth of free-trade, and being themselves
indebted to a universal commerce for
their existences, they will constitute
the first community amongst whom
restrictions will be altogether unknown;
that guaranteed in their independence
by Great Britain and the United States,
and deriving their political inspirations
from a race amongst whom self-govern
ment is an instint, they will practically
carry out the peace doctrines to which
older nations are only as yet wistfully
approaching ; that aided and strength
ened by the confiding presence of peo
ple of every creed, the spirit of Chris
tian toleration will shine over all, and
win all by the practical manifestation
of its real nature ; and finally that the
union of freedom, wisdom and tolera
tion may find its happiest results in the
code of internal laws they may adopt,
so that amongst them, on the luxuriant
land hitherto made desolate by the sole
principle of bloody retaliation, the re
vengeful taking of human life may nev
er be known; and that they may be
the first to solve the problem—if
amongst those who profess Christ’s doc
trines it can be called a problem—of
coupling the good and reformation of
the offender with the improvement and
safety of society, and the exercise to
wards both, not of a sentimental, but
of a philosophical and all-pervading love?
To Remove Ink Stains from Paper
and Linen. —Take oxalic Acid one
drachm ; Cream of Tartar (Bitartrate
of Potash) half-a-drachm ; Salts of Sor
rel (Quadroxalate of Potash) one
drachm ; put the whole into a phial
w ith about a wine-glassful of water, in
which the materials will nearly dissolve.
Apply the solution to the ink stains
with a camel-hair brush or a feather. If
the stains are upon paper of a delicate
texture, or valuable prints, the parts
should be washed afterwards with clean
water, to remove the acid, using the
brush lightly, so as not to abrade the
paper. If upon linen, it may remain
till “the next wash.” This inode of
removing blots from letters and other
manuscripts, we consider superior to
“scratching out,” at all times unsightly;
the part, however, cannot be written
upon after this treatment without the
new ink mark disappearing like the
original. This solution has no effect
whatever upon printing or lithographic
inks.
■ ■
A Reduced Fair.— We know a
young lady, who, in her horror of Old-
Maidism, has engraved at the bottom
of her cards, “No reasonable offer will
be refused.”
A Nice Book for a Rainy Day. —
A country gentleman, when he came to
return a book, was asked what he
thought of it? “Oh! the style is very
good,” he said, “but I think there are
rather too many figures.” He had been
lent, by mistake, a Railway Guide.
(Original |3nrtrij.
For the Southern Literary Gazette.
MY BROTHER’S GRAVE.
O’er thy lone grave, in Western wilds.
The prairie grass is waving fret 1 .
And winds above a requium sing.
Murmuring thro’ the tall pine tree.
The Autumn’s richest tints are there.
The cheering sun, the clear blue sky :
But not a heart that knew thy worth
E’er breathes above thy grave a sigh.
O’er thy for grave, my brother, dear.
The wild fox takes its stealthy tread.
And in the soft, still summer night.
The fierce wolf howls above thy head.
No loving hand, with friendly care.
The wild weed plucks from ofT thy grave;
But in their rank luxurience there,
All mournfully they darkly wave.
I murmur not that thou art gone,
I know full well “ God called thee home.”
But oh! I grieve that thy dear form
Lies in that Western Prairies gloom.
LUCY.
For the Southern Literary Gazette.
THE WOODS.
I pine, I pine to be away,
In green woods bowers alone,
Where soothingly the breezes play.
In low and mellow tone.
I cannot bear, I cannot bear,
This endless human voice;
I would away, where wild flowers are,
And only birds rejoice.
I’m weary, weary of the smiles
That move the lips alone ;
Oh! what are vain, deceitful wiles
To true affection's tone!
1 cannot calmly sit aid think
While others are artund,
Or break the sordid earthly link
By which my soul is bound.
The woods,the woods r so cold and dark.
Should be my home for aye,
With not. a human eye to mark
My wild and bounding way.
Oh! freely, freely would I weep,
With no cold eye to nee,
O’er treasured mem’ries buried deep.
Os things that used to be.
FREDONIA.
(Original fentjs.
For the Southern Literary Gazette.
EGERIA:
Or, Voices from the Woods and Wayside.
NEW SERIES.
LII.
Moral Progress. Patriotism declaims
a great deal about our moral progress,
but is it so sure that we are making
any? Novelties of invention do not
establish the fact of moral superiority.
They simply confirm an old truth that
the worldly capacities of man are al
ways equal to his necessities and actual
condition. Our discoveries merely
seem to keep pace with our enlarging
empire and the wants that anew con
dition will naturally exhibit. These
necessities are really not of a kind to
bring out into more ample exercise the
moral energies of which our nature is
susceptible. They address themselves
to our economies, rather than to our
genius, except where the latter is in
spired by the ambition to gratify ani
mal passions or to overcome physical
impediments. Our progress seems to
be mechanical and animal, rather than
moral. In morals, 1 suspect that the
age is pretty much where it was a
thousand years ago. In what is the
morality of the British conquest over
the Chinese, superior to that of the
Norman sea-chivalry in the time of
Charlemagne? How is the Christianity
of French conquest in Algeria, superi
our to the ordinary moral exhibitions
of the British, French, Spanish and
Italian, during the reigns of Louis the
Twelfth, Henry the Eighth. Charles
the Bold, Ferdinand the Catholic and
Pope Julius IJ—or any reigns in Europe
for three hundred years before? And
the moral progress depends upon just
such comparisons. Does the question
show other results when it relates to
purely intellectual matters? The exact
sciences move in natural progression—
we may venture to say this, though
with some hesitation, since it is difficult
to say how much of the ancient inher
itance our own barbarous progenitors
destroyed—but for the inexact, which
are the truly moral portions of the
mental nature—those which we may
not group in a square or reckon by
figures—those which involve the attri
butes of taste, and appeal to the agency
of the imagination—these are, if not
absolutely retrograde, scarcely more
advanced than they were in the days of
Homer. The centuries seem to move
in a circle rather than to advance, and
we do little more than retrace their
ancient movements. Our discoveries
are such as we frequently find to have
been used three thousand years ago.
The ages seem to propose to them
selves no goal to which they advance
with steadfast direction. We set off,
every now and then, with a fresh im
pulse, as if the ground was new and
the pathway yet to be laid open, but
find ourselves, after a while, at the well
known starting place. We meet at
every step, the traces of some former
progress, if not of our own. Old re
cords freshen at every step, and, like
the traveller in the Arabian legend, we
find the barriers recede as we advance,
but still enough remain to show that
they at least are impassable. Time will
not suffer us to escape him. He travels
still in our company, and our defeats
only declare his limitations no less
than our own. Our stages are his
also, though our seasons vary, and we
have still a hope, which he does not
pretend to share. Indeed, Human Life,
it must not be forgotten, is nothing
more than human life. That we are
not all human, is a fact which does not
seem much to interfere with our merely
human progress. Here are our metes
and bounds—here rise our alps. Thus
far may we go and no farther. Life
makes but little progress out of the
path of time. ‘The Everlasting-to-be
which hath been,” is the destiny more
inflexible in the eye of mortal ambition
than any of the rest. It does not seem
to forbid improvement, but it prevents
advance. In vain do we enumerate
our achievements. We share them
only with the past. Our books, our
arts, our sciences, our skill, our valour,
our songs, our seers —they are those of
the buried ages. The giants who have
gone before ns in point of time, have
gone before us in achievements also.
We have superceded them with others,
but are we sure that we have surpassed
them in their inventions'? If we have
found some things of our own, we have
lost some of theirs, which were proba
bly quite as valuable, and certainly
quite as much suited to their wants as
the present are to ours. And who
shall pretend to say that our very dis
coveries have not simply arisen be
cause of our ill success in retracing
theirs. What, in fact, have we to brag
of? Nothing, perhaps, unless in some
vague conviction in our times, not of
reception in theirs, of a universal hu
manitv. To have discovered man, as
an estate, is something. Otherwise,
the ancients are still our tutors, our
models and our masters. We copy
their labours, while we clamor for
their immortality. We strive for the
eminence, and lo! we find old names
written on our monuments. We are
like the Pioneer, who, exploring what
he deems an unknown wilderness, finds,
suddenly, to his horror and surprise,
the gashes in the tree, of the very axe
w hich he carries upon his shoulder.
LIII.
Passions and Virtues. To survive
the passions, without having matured
the virtues,is to expend our capital with
out taking the customary securities.
LIV.
Love. Better love in vain than leave
the heart unemployed.
Hlnrkrii
THREE LITTLE GIRLS.
Gottwalt swore in his journal, that
there was nothing in the world more
lovely, more heart-touching, than the
sight of three such pretty, delicate
creatures, all of the same height; with
their little caps and aprons and little
round faces, and nothing to regret, but
that they were only drillings, and not
fifthlings, sixthlings, or even hundred
lings. He kissed them before the whole
room, and blushed deeply ; it was as
though he had touched with his lips the
tender, pale young mother. But chil
dren are always the truest Jacob’s lad
der to the mother’s heart. Such very
little girls are also an electrical pre
server for youths, who have not courage
to stand before grown-up maidens; a
beautiful conductor and non-conductor,
presented uneonsciouly lor the moment
of danger, they secretly and gladly
wonder how they can caress a little
thing so like a young maiden.
The little girls were soon at home
with Walt. Asa twin himself, he was,
he thought, more nearly related to the
drillings, than the other guests in the
room. To the great joy of the mother,
he gave them some money, for which
she bade them give him three kisses.
But W alt held back ; he would not al
low them, so early in life, to antici- j
pate the time when such precious ;
things would be made the subject of |
barter.— Rich ter.
GREEK BEAUTY.
“ Since, therefore, beauty was thus i
desired and prized by the Greeks, no
thing was concealed which could en- j
hance it. Every beautiful person sought
to become known to the whole nation
by this endowment, and especially to
please the artists, because they decreed
the prize of beauty; and for this very
reason, they had opportunity of seeing
beauty daily. Beauty was an excel
lence which led to fame ; for we find
that the Greek histories make mention
of those who were distinguished for it.
Some persons were even characterized
by a particular name, borrowed from
some beautiful portions of the body;
thus Demetrius Poliorcetes was named,
from the beauty of his eyelids, charita
ble-pharos, that is to say, ‘on whose
lids the Graces dwell.” It appears,
indeed, to have been a belief, that the
procreation of beautiful children might
be promoted by the distribution of
prizes for beauty, as there is reason to
infer from the contests of beauty which
were instituted in the remotest ages by
Cypselus, King of Arcadia, in the time
of the Heraclidee, on the banks of the
river Alpheus in Elis ; and also from
the fact that, at the festival of the Phi
lesian Apollo, a prize for the most ex
quisite kiss w as conferred on the youth
ful. Its assignment was subject to the
decision of a judge, as was probably
also the case at Megaro, at the tomb
of Diodes. At Sparta, and at Lesbos,
in the temple of Juno, and among the
citizens of Parrhasia, the women con
tended for the prize of beauty. The
regard for this quality was so general
and so strong, that, as Oppian declares,
the Spartan women placed in their
sleeping rooms an Apollo, or Bacchus,
or Nereus, or Narcissus, or Hyacinthus,
or Castor and Pollux, in order that thev
might bear beautiful children ”
. [ Winckleman.
PACKED UP AND DIRECTED.
The author of some modern farce
makes one of his heroes, an accom
plished Parisian duellist, console a
foreign coxcomb whom he has chal
lenged, by promising to have him “neat
ly packed up and directed.” Some
what after this fashion, men appear to
be dealt with in society. Because an
individual sees fit to connect himself
with a certain association, manifest an
interest in a specific object, or tempo
rarily display, with more than ordinary
force, a particular principle of his na
ture, he is at once classed, newly bap
tized with a party name, enrolled, sev
ered by an artificial distinction —in a
word “packed up and directed.” An
imaginary badge is affixed to him as
significant as the phylactery of the
pharisee, the star of courtly honour, or
the coloured ribbon denoting academic
or knightly preferment. To all the
general interests and purposes of social
life, he is proscribed. The usual
method of answering the question,
“ What sort of a person is ?” is to
designate the body political, scientific,
or otherwise, to which the individual is
attached. A fashionable votary refers
you to the “circle,” a religionest to the
“sect,” and an intellectualist to the
“schooleach “packs up and directs”
that most diverse, spontaneous and free
of human results —character, according
to his whim. — Tucker man.
A SIMILE.
Upon yon mountain’s distant head,
Where spotless snow’s forever white,
Where all is cold, and still and dead—
Late shines the sun’s departing light.
I
But far below those icy rocks,
The vales, in summer bloom arrayed—
Woods full of birds, and fields of flocks
Are dim with mist, or dark with shade.
’Tis thus, from warm and kindly hearts,
And eyes where generous meanings burn,
Earliest the light of life departs,
And lingers with the cold and stern.
[Bryant.
■
.Hilda ‘ifinrtlj liiiuttiing.
When a porcupine is irritated, he
erects his quills, but does not dart or
shoot them.
Black rats tire tamed in Germany,
and a bell being put about their necks,
they drive away other rats.
A toad was found at Organ in France,
i in a well, which had been covered up
for 150 years. It was torpid, but re
vived on being exposed.
Leuwenhoeck reckoned 17,000 divi
sions in the cornea of a butterfly, each
of which he thought a separate crys
talline lens. Spiders, dzc., are equally
provided for.
The planet Mercury has a swifter
motion in its revolution round the sun,
than that of an\V>ther planet; it being
more than thirty miles during each beat
of the pulse.
A fish in Java called the jaculator,
catches flies and insects by squirting
from its mouth some water, and seldom
misses its aim at the distance of five
or six feet, bringing down a fly with a
single drop.
Spiders have four paps for spinning
their threads, each pap having 1000
holes; and the fine web is itself the
union of 4000 threads. No spider
spins more than four webs, and when
the fourth has been destroyed, they
seize on the webs of others.
Bats and Dor-beetles.— These ani
mals, flitting about late in the evening,
in spring or autumn, foretel that the
next day will be fine. But if bats re
treat early to their hiding places, utter
ing their peculiar squeaking cry, bad
weather may be anticipated.
Food is generally dear in Paris.
Meat is very dear in all shapes and
forms. Cheese 8d to 20d (British) a
pound; bacon, 8d to 20d. Nothing in
food is cheap but bread, fruit and vege
tables, on which the poor, therefore,
wholly live. Vegetables are cheap,
plentiful and varied. Horse flesh is a
legalised substitute for ox beef.
Few insects live more than a year
in their perfect state, but often much
longer in their larva state. Their first
state is the egg, then the caterpillar,
than the chrysalis, or pupa, and finally
the perfect and procreative form. But
in these changes there are infinite de
grees and varieties of transition, all
which constitute the pleasing and very
instructive study of entomology.
S. B. Spaulding, of Brandon, Vt., has
discovered anew mineral paint, capa
ble of taking a great variety of shades,
and growing brighter by the action of
the atmospheie and weather. Although
the material is expensive, so small a
quantity suffices, that for two dollars
enough can be purchased to cover the
surface which w ould require a hundred
pounds of white lead. A green for
blinds, of equal durability, has been
discovered by him.
Mr. Remington, of Montgomery, has
discovered that by the simple addition
of a wheel at the bow of a steamboat,
connected with the wheels amidships,
shuffles the resistance of the water;
and the inventor is confident that with
his improvement, boats can be made to
ascend a current as rapidly as they can
descend —and that in either case the
resistance will be reduced to that of the
atmosphere.
In leaden coffins it is customary to j
make a number of holes underneath
the coffin plate, to give egress to the j
gases, which would else, by their accu-1
mulation, first bulge and then burst the ’
coffin. When this precaution is ne
glected, considerable danger ensues to
the grave-diggers, who have on many
occasions been seized with asphyxia, or
even killed on the spot, by the poison
ous gases emitted from a suddenly-burst
coffin. To escapedhese hazards, they
not uufrequently “tap” the coffins and
let out a jet of gas, w hich, being ignited,
burns from ten minutes to half an
hour.
Bodies have sometimes been found
in coffins in different positions to the
ordinary one in which they are placed;
but this is no sign of their having been
buried alive. “The motions observed
in corpses have arisen,” says the author
of an article in the Quarterly Review ,
on The Signs of Death, “from the gene
ration of gases;” and upon the authori
ty of M. Deverge, physician to the
Morgue at Paris, lie states that the
bodies laid out in that dreary spot, for
recognition, often make contortions
with their faces and movements of their
limbs. Violent and rapid diseases,
which kill speedily, are favourable to
the generation of these gases; and fre
quently the bodies of those who die of
them exhibit symptoms the most pain
ful to witness —such as bleeding at the
nose, mouth and ears, vomiting, &c.
51 (feolilrt of
DEPUTATION.
A FARCE,
AS PERFORMED AT HER MAJESTY’S CABINET THEATRE,
DOWNINO-STREET.
Scene —lnterior of the Premier’s Official Residence.
Time—Noon. Discovered in an uneasy chair, The
Premier.
Premier (solus). Hm ! Another de
putation. The greatest of all political
arts, is the art of saying nothing with
a grace, and being courteous with no
meaning. Just twelve. Here they
come.
[Door is thrown open, and the De
putation., consisting of Brown,
Jones, and Robinson, Black,
W hite, <ind Green, d’c. dr.,
duly announced, enter. Bows
are interchanged.
Brown. \our lordship is no doubt
aware that a meeting of the most om
inous magnitude has been held at —
Premier. Pardon me; I’m aware of
I nothing of the sort. Pray don’t assume
j that 1 know anything.
Brown. Why, my lord, our meet
ing was reported—eight columns of it
: 111
Jones. Eight ? Ten !
Brown. lam corrected—ten columns
in the newspapers of—
Premier. 1 never read the newspa
pers.
Brown. As you please ,my lord ;
nevertheless, at that meeting a memo
rial was adopted ; a memorial rehears
ing all the grievances of the land ; a
memorial, a copy of which I have the
honour to lay before your lordship.
Premier (running over the memorial).
Hm ! Ha! Os course, 1 never shirk
the responsibility of the executive gov
ernment ; but—pardon me —I can't
agree with your memorial. You say
here we have done nothing—now, I
think, we have done everything. There
is no reason that this slight variation of
opinion should create any difference be
tween us; by no means. 1 was always
for toleration —let us continue to en
joy our own sentiments —it is the privi
lege of a free country ; and the- glory
of Englishmen.
Jones. As for opinion, my lord ; my
opinion is, that there are no real opin
ions in the House of Commons reflect
ing the opinions of the people of Eng
land as at present constituted.
Premier. You see, there are two sides
to that question; the negative and the
affirmative; both of course can’t be
right; then, again, it is impossible that
both can be wrong.
Robinson. 1 assure you, my lord, I
am in the habit of travelling a good
deal in cabs; and there is not a cab
man—if you come to talk about oats
—that isn’t against free trade. Oats to
be sure are cheaper ; but then, because
they’re cheap, people want to ride for
nothing.
Brown. My lord, with ali respect
for my friend Robinson, 1 must say we
do not at this moment wish to launch
into the great sea of oats. There’s a
time coming for that. But I may be
allowed to observe to your lordship—
especially as you never see the papers,
and may have heard exaggerated re
ports —that though there were certain
frank-hearted farmers who talked of j
raising cavalry, and having a good
stand-up fight with the authorities, for
wheat at 50s. —that nevertheless, good
souls ! they never meant it. The J
words sounded a little strong —but on
ly fizz and froth, my lord ; no real trea
son my lord—nothing like it.
Premier. I assure you, Mr. Brown.
I have been too long in public life— j
have contested too many elections, not
to treat with extremest tolerance the
ebullition of public feeling. When on
the hustings, a bad egg has with me
gone for a bad egg, and nothing more
—and a dead cat has been a dead cat, i
and there’s an end. As I say, ebulli- ‘
tions of public feeling.—evidences, a
little strong to be sure, but still only
evidences, of the blessings of our in
com parable constitution.
Robinson. My lord, many of us are
magistrates, and however we may coun
tenance foul language at a public meet
ing—such as the last—we never fail
when on the bench to mulct offenders
in the sum of five shilling.
Premier. Sir, I have no doubt of it;
and with respect to the subject of this
memorial, all I can say is, if we’ve been
mistaken in our policy, we are evident
ly wrong. If, on the other hand, we
have not been mistaken—if we have
not hazarded reckless legislation, why,
then, it is more than probable we are
right.
Brown. My lord, we are penetrated
by your lordship’s condescension, and i
thank you heartily for—
Green (aside, and pulling Brown’s
skirts). Arn't you going to say some
thing about the Colonies ?
Brown (aside to Green). No; I j
thuoght that was you.
Green. Well, then, my lord, allow
me to say, that whilst you cut off'ne
groes from the West Indies, you can’t i
shut up the slave market of The Bra
zils. You —
[The Premier bows, and all the j
Deputation , except Green, moves
towards the door.
Green. Allow me to say that the
fight of freedom and slavery is in the
Englishman’s tea-cup, and—
[ The Premier bows, and Green
seeing himself about to be de
serted, joins the Deputation, who
immediately withdrew to the
King's Arms when having de
nounced “ the Traitor of Tam
worth,” they adjourn to three
cheers, which they “Register. 1
register.”
END OF FARCE.
The Railway Gastronomic Regen
erator. —Since Soyer’s resignation, the
most liberal offers have been made to
him by several Railway Companies to
join their Board of Directors. The
object of securing such a celebrated
chef de cuisine as Monsieur Soyer is
evidently to have the benefit of his
skill in “ cooking their accounts.”
Geography for Young Ladies.—
“Where’s Hatcham ?” enquired a
young lady upon meeting with the
name of that town in a newspaper. —
“Why, you stupid!” indignantly ex
claimed her brother, “ Hatcham is the
first stage after Engham to be sure,”
and the young lady believed it.
Down on the Nail.— The Nailmak
ers, we are sorry to say, have joined in
a very extensive strike. The only
strike we should have been glad to
hear of among the Nail makers, would
be their having hit the right nail on the
head.
___ ; gMtnft altar.
the SOUL’S
“The Soul’s Passing” is the title of a touch
ing poem in the London Athenaeum. \ | lu
band is looking upon the searce cold form f
his dead wife:
Take her faded hand in thine
Hand that no more answereth kindly
See the eyes, were wont to shine,
Uttering love, now staring blindly;
Tender-hearted, speech departed
Speech that echoed so divinely.
Runs no more the circling river,
Warming, brightening every part:
There it slumbereth cold forever
No more merry leap and stait,
No more flushing cheeks to blushing—
In its silent home the heart!
Hope not answers to your praying!
Cold, responseless lies she there ;
Death, that ever will be slaymg
Something gentle, something fair,
Came with numbers soft as slumbers—
She is with Him otherwhere.
Lesson for Sunday, June 30.
GOD’S CHILDREN
“ All thy children shall be taught ot’ the . —j
shall be the peace of thy ’
What glorious things are spoken of
Zion. her enemies shall be confounded,
her friends exalted, her subjects in
creased, and her God glorified. Our
text is one out of a rich cluster of pro
mises respecting the prosperity of the
church. Let us contemplate believers
in three ways.
The character they bear. They
are God's children. Observe
The change they experience. It is a
radical change, the heart being the sub
ject of it. They are born again, reno
vated by Divine grace, created anew
in Christ.
The conduct they display. They have
the feelings and dispositions of children,
and yield a dutiful obedience to the Di
vine commands.
The glories they anticipate. Being
children they become heirs. They have
much in possession, and more in pro
pec-t. By the designation of children
we are reminded of their present im
perfections. They are children in know
ledge, grace, and holiness; but soon
they shall attain to the stature of a per
fect man.
Tiie instructions they receive.—
They are taught of the Lord. The les
sons are important, the means are sim
ple, and the Teacher is Divine. The
best lessons are learnt, not in the schools
of the philosopher, but at the feet of
Jesus.
The blessing they enjoy. “Great
shall be the peace of thy children.”—
There is the enjoyment of peace in
themselves, and the pursuit of peace
with each other. Nothing can equal
that serenity of mind which results
from reconciliation with God. It is no!
like the stillness that precedes the
raging storm, but resembles thefaceof
nature, cal :n and serene, on a fine sum
mer’s evening.
“Thou great and good, thou just and wise.
Thou art my Father and my God ;
And I am thine, by sacred ties,
Thy son, thy servant, bought with blood.”
(Biiitnrs’ Ikpnrtnirnt.
WM. C. RICHARDS, Editor.
D. H. JACQUES, Associate Editor.
(Tljnrlrsfnn, #. €.:
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 18JJ
NOTES ON THE NORTH;
FROM THE EDITOR’S POCKET BOOK.
CHAPTER 111.
Travel from Philadelphia to New York-
Leap of the Locomotive — Broadway — Strut
Merchants —Anew “ Wrinkle" — Street
Sweepers — National Academy of Design—
The. Art Union—Miss Cushman's Farewell.
The amount of travel between Philadelphia
and New York is so great, that there are no
fewer than six daily lines between the two
cities. Os these, three are by steamboat and
railway, on what is called the Camden and
Amboy route; two are mail trains, upon a line
of railway, also belonging to the Camden and
Amboy Company, as far as Brunswick, in New
Jersey, and the sixth is a steamboat route,
down the river tqd bay and outside the Capes
By one of the first named lines, leaving the city
at half-past seven, we took our departure, oni
pleasant June morning, and crossing the rive:
in a steam ferry-boat, entered a comfortable cat
at Camden. New Jersey does not abound u
the picturesque, but green meadows and bloom
ing fields are always attractive.
At Hightstown, about half way to New
York, after the usual stay of two or three min
utes, we were further subjected to a very un
usual detention of three hours, by the uncere
monious descent of our locomotive into the
creek which flows through the village. In its
downward course, it carried with it the
and the luggage crates, scattering the latter in j
various directions and half burying itself in tie
bank of the stream. When the Engineer dis
covered that the locomotive was “olf the track. ,
and must go off the bridge, he instantly re I
versed his engine and sprang off himself, threb}
escaping with slight injury. Notwithstanding j
the crash, the roar of the escaping steam, and;
all other incidental signs of destruction, the j
damage after all was insignificant, being sum I
med up in the following items: a battered loco-1
motive and tender, and half a dozen crates o!
luggage turned topsy-turvey, but not otherwise
deranged! It was certainly a narrow escape I
from a serious catastrophe, which, however, if I
an exceedingly rare occurrence upon this road I
Another locomotive from Berdentown conveyed I
us safely to South Amboy, where we embarked I
on the steamer John Potter, and arrived in th-’ I
city to a late dinner. We found Broadway a-1
much obstructed as ever with paving-stones SB I -1
pyramids of building material. The R I
pavement is extending down in front ol TriniP-1
below which have been erected of late set era I
blocks of elegant wholesale stores, imparting I
quite anew aspect to that part of the city. “ I
encountered, moreover, the usual throng?
street hawkers, the news-boys with the “ E- Xir 1
Sun, Herald, Tribune and Express.” the can
boys, the tooth-pick and pocket comb mer
chants, and the men who hold out at the come* - I
a stick supporting a dozen or score of I
watches, hanging on gilt chains, fr a ?i*P tuC< I
a piece! We discovered, moreover, a ne '’ j
‘ wrinkle,’ consisting of six and twelve ineu aD w
one yard measures of brass, for three pence, si* I
pence and one shilling respectively- -^ s I
weather had fortunately been pleasant for 80111 I
days, we were spared the common pantomim I
of “ sweeping the crossings,” which every ‘ lslt ° J
must remark as a feature of Broadway i J
weather, for probably not one has escap'd 1
appealing look of the young girls, who, ha ■
footed and little more than halt clad, pb 11 I
brooms in the vicinity of the principal 1
and stop every other second or two, to hold “ I
their hands to the passer-by, who saves t *
boots at their expense ! We have been not
little amused to observe the effect of these mu®