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A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO POLITICS, AGRIGmTWIE, SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE*
VOL. 1.
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COVINGTON HERALD,
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Covington, (Newton County, Georgia,)
August 1935.
COVINGTON, {Neuton Count;,, Ga.,) SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1835.
S THE NEW-YORKER.
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From the N. Y Mechanic's Magazine.
THE MECHANISM OF MAN.
“ I am Jearfulty and wonder/idly made.”
Ps l cskxix, 14.
Fund atheist! could a giddy dopce
Os atoms blindly bulled, 1
Produce so regular, so fair,
So harmonized a world ?
Why do not Lyhia’s driving sands,
The sport of “very slortn,
A palace here, the child of chance,
Or there a temple form ?
Presumptuous wretch ! thys- if survey—
That lesser fabric sctin ;
Tell mo from whence the immortal dost,
The God; the reptile man !
Where wast thou, when the embryo earth
From chaos burst its way—
When slars exulting sang the morn,
And hailed the new-bjrn day 1
What fingers brace the tenter nerves,
Tlie iwistin? fibres spin I
Who clothes in flesh the hardening bone,
And weavosthe silken skin?
llow came the brain, and heating heart,
Life’s more mmediate throne,
(Where fatal every touch) to dwell
Immailed in solid bone ?
Who taught the wandering tides of blood
To leave the vital Urn—
Visit each limb in purple streams,
And faithfully return ?
llow know the nerves tn hear the will,
Tbe heavy limbs to wield ?
The longue ten thousand tastes discern,
Ten thousand accents yield )
How know the lungs to heave and pant ?
Or how the fringed lid
To gu .rd the careful eye, or brush
The sullied ball, unbid?
The delicate and winding ear
To image every sound—
The eye to catch ttie pleasing view,
And tell the senses round !
Who bids the babe, nov* latiujthcd in life,
Tim milky draught arrest,
And with its eager fingers press
The nectar-streaming breast?
Who, with a love too big for words,
The mother’s bosom warms,
Along the rugged paths of life,
To benr it in her arms ?
A God ! a God ! ereation shouts ;
A God ! each insect cries ;
He mould and in his palm the earth,
And hung it in the skies
TIIK~~ISSINARY HYMN.
BY BISHOP IIEHER.
From Greenland’s icy mountains,
From India’s coral strand,
Where Afric's sunnv foueiains,
Roll down their golden sand ;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call ua to deliver,
Their land from error’s chain.
What though the ppicy bronzes
Blow soft o’er Ceylon's isle,
Though cv’ry prospect pleases,
And only man is vile.
In vain with lavish kindness
. Th” gifts of God are shown ;
The heathen in his blinnnoss,
Bows dowr. to wood and stone.
Shall we whop# souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high,
Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life denv.
Salvation ! oh salvation !
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till each remotest nation
Has learnt Messiah’s name.
Waft, waft, ye winds, h>s story,
And you, ye waters, roll ;
Till like a s'-a of glory,
It spreads from pole to pole ;
Till o’er our ransoßioo nature,
The Lamb fir sinners slam,
Redeemer, King, Creator,
In bliss returns to reign.
From the Scientific Tracts.
CATACOMBS.
Tiic most ancient ca'acombs of which v/5
have any aceoun’ are tHose of the, Theban
kings, which have been traced by historical
writers during a period of three or four thou
sand years. The Egyptians embalmed the
bodies of the dead, and then deposited them
in catacombs excavated in the earth. The
whole chain of mountains in the vicinity of
Thebes is pene rated, for almost three-fourth’
of their height, by numerous openings, lead
ing to an immense labyrinth of catacombs.
The sarcophagi were long since violated
and the bodies of the kings carried away ;
but their immense size has always attracted
the admiration of travellers. One consists
ofamassof granite sixteen feet long, six
broad and eight high. The lid abo is a sin
gle block of stone, hearing the effigy of a king-
Mummies are still found in these Theban cat
acombs, resting on beds entirely formed of
small images of baked earth. They lie in
regular order on the ground.
Next to the Egyptian catacombs, the most
extensive are those of ancient Rome, which
are of great extent. It is supposed by some
that they stretch several leagues from the city.
Persons have been known to get lost in tbe
hazardous attempt to penetrate and exploro
these dark recesses without a guide.
The catncombs of Rome are long and nar
row galleries, sometimes crossing each other
ni right angles, and sometimes passing off
obliquely. Chambers often appear at each
side, and a glimmering light is admitted by
openings above, at intervals of about three
hu tired yards, but the iljjyrior ts perfectly
dark. The bodies are MjMprly arranged in
tiers by one another, sides of the
galleries. A writer who Has explored these
ancient mansions of the dead observes, “The
brick obstructing the aperture of a catacomb
being removed, a body, apparently that of a
young woman was discovered. Even nil her
teeth were preserved in her jaws. Her bones
were totally covered with stalactites, exhibit
ing a most singular spectacle. Another tomb
Was opened wherein a skeleton turned to.
wards the east was seen. The hands were
crossed on the breast, and but few teeth were
in thej .tvs. It seemed to be that of an old
man.
The catacombs, besides tombs, contain ed
ifices which were once churches. Burnt
bones mixed with ashes are found in vases ;
also V irions paintings in fresco, &c. Some
of tlm Roman Emperors were deposited in
the Vatican. The body of Honorius was dis
covered there 1144 years after his denth,
with many jewels and ornaments in his tomb,
amounting to forty, pounds of solid gold.
Tbe catacombs of-Syracuse still attract the
attention and admiration of travellers. They
are immense Bub’errnncous excavations of
rock, originally hewn out, it is supposed, for
the purpose of obtaining stones for building
It is also believed (hat they were, at a very
curly period, designed as places of sepulture
for the dead ; and multitudes,both of pagans
and Christians, have been buried in them
Bigelow, in his travels, has given a Very in
teresting description ofthetn. A small gothic
churehstands overthe descent which leads to
the catacombs. The avenues are narrow,
and hardly of sufficient height toallowa per
son to walk erect. Home of them are a mile
in length, and as they proceed they arc con
nee'ed with others, which branch off on both
sides, or cross them at every point of the
compass. At many places of intersection,
chambers have been made, like squares in a
city. The tombs occur atshort intervals, and
lino all tho passages. Som” ofthetn contain
twenty receptacles of human bodies. They,
are arranged aide by side, in cavities carved
with great regularity from a bed of rock The
largest tombs are from ten to twelve yard*
deep. The sepulchres of christ ans are easi-
Sr distinguished by the emblem of a cross, a
ove or a palm branch. Simotrccs a little
colored phial is found, which is supposed to
have contained tho blood, and to indicate tla
grave of a martyr. The primitive Christians
resorted to these retreats for security against
persecution, and to perform their rites of wor
ship.
Syracuse was founded by a colony of Co
rinthians, and subjected by the Romans 500
years after i's founding, and 212 years before
Christ. During the time of its greatest pros
pority, it embraced an area of twenty miles
in circuit, and its population was estimtted
at from six hundred thousand to one million.
The catacombs of Civita Ve ‘chia, in Mal
ta, have also been an object of great attraction
forages. They are very extensive, irregular
and intricate ; so much so that no one pre
sumes to explore them throughout. The ti
tie ofsubterranean city has been given to’
these caverns. The primitive Christians fled
to them for refuge. Afterwards other sects
sought them for the same purpose. The in
habitants of Malta have in later times retired
to ; hem for safety, during the invueions of
G-oihe, Vandals, Moors and Turks.
HYDRO-OXYGEN MICROSCOPE,
Now Exhibiting at the American Museum.
This instrument presents to our view a
world of wonders, I's magnifying .powers
arc astonishingly great. The spectators be
ing introduced into a room adapted to tho ex
hibition, the doors and windows are closed
to exclude the solar light ; the microscope is
ton opened and an intense light, formed by
•he combustion of oxygen gas, irradiates the
instrument and reflects upon a sheet of cau
vbsb of 240 feet what we may truly call a
new world. A single drop of water is mag
nified 2,400,640 tones. In this ocean, for
such it may be culled in comparison with the
incomprehensible diminutive tfb''B of animal
cule which te min myriads through it, we
see var ous species of living creatures sofne
apparently as large ns a dog. To give an ac
curate description oftheir shape is a thing
impossible. Some oftl.em appear with horns
which they bend to every shape ; some seem
to have but one leg and othe a s cm to have
three, some have bodies somewhat of the
shape of a tadpole ; others bear a distant re
semblance to a porpnise ; some exhibit the
shape of a catfish with the head of the grass
hopper, others resemble nothing tinder the
sun, but are wholly sue getter s. Th's drop,
or microscopic ocean, extends its forests far
and wide ; amongst their wide spreading
branch’s, those tribes of odd, ties, arc seen
gamboling, freaking, skipping, swimnvng.
While one stands tip-toe on some lofty branch
another is seen pouncing upon him from a
bove, and coming in contact, they glance
off, one this way,the oth t ‘hat. Theirhab
its appear to be wholly different fVom what
characterizes the animals of the visible crea
tion. Tbev seem to tte entire strangers to
I any social toolings ; each cine shuns the ap
proach of another, and the si ghtest touch
makes them spring and dart off, as if it were
electric.
The Hydrophi’us.or Water Devil, as Fie i9
called, is seen darting through the oceau de
vouring all before him.
The Skeleton Larvffi ofthe gnat is so pelln
cid that iis whole intomnl structuro is quite
visible. The motion of tbe heart and lungs,
and the circulation ofthe blood are distinctly
seen, together with the muscles, which are
lhe organs of its wonderfully rapid and pecu
liar motion.
The point of the finest needle looks likfc
the end of a club, while the sting of the bcA
slopes off into imperceptrbility.
Who can view this astonishing display of
tlie Divine power without being transported
with wonder, love and praise ! All nature
teems with God—if we extend our view to
the starry regions that are above us, the mind
is lost in wonder there.
Thesnn, which appears, owing to to the
immense nihtanco ui winch he teplaoed, but
as a small object, is, however, one million
three hundred l housand times larger than tho
earth. Great os is its magnitude, its loss
would be as little no'iccd by an intelligence
that could grasp the w hole creation, ns tho
1 ss of a drop of water from the ocean coal'd
be noticed by our eye.
Between the two extremes stands man,
with all the self-importance of monarch of this
sublunary world. On viewing these micros
copic myriads, imperceptible to the naked
eye, this thought suggests itself to IhomimJa—
“lf there were sensitive beings created by
God, whose bodies bore the same relation of
magnitude in regard to us, as our bodies bear
with respect to the animalcule which wo
have just described, man, then, in comparison
to those beings, wohld dwindle into atiimnl
eular,- unnoticed, and unsoen. Myriads of
then, might be inhaled into tho vortex of bm
capacious lungs, unseen, unfelt and unktiowir
to him.
How humiliating is the thought Land yet
how true the possibility ! If so diminutive
are we, if so much more insignificant thau
ihe atoms that float a'ongtlie air, when com
pared to a mere creature, however bulkier his
bodv in regard to ours, what must we appear
m that capacious eye oil whoso bright opt c
all creation is less than the point of the sting
of a bee, less than nnperceptibility itself?
MARRIAGE.
Marriage is to a woman nt once thelAppi
est and saddest event of her life; it is the
promise of future bliss, raised on the death tff
nil her present enjoyment. She quits her
borne—her parents—dier companions—her
occupations—her amusements—every thing
on which she hashiihe.to depended for com
fort— for aifect>on for kindness—foi fde'a
sure. Th” parent by whose advice she hais
been guided—the sister to whom sFt< had
dared to impart that every embryo thought
and feeling—the brotficr who had played
with her, by turns the counsellor and tlie
counselled—and tho younger children, to
whom she lies hitherto been the mother and
the playmate—all are to bo forsaken at ons
fell stroke—every former tie is loosened—
spring of every action is to be changed ;
yet site flies with joy in the untrodden path
before lie*; buoyed by the confidence of re
quited love, she bids a fond nr,d grateful adieu
to the Itfo that is past, arj turns with excited
hopes and joyous a o.Lc! pattnu ofthe happiness
to come. I l>n vvo to the man that can
blight Curb fair hopes—w ho can treacherous
lv Ime such a heart from its peaceful enjoy
ment, and tho watchful proteclttin of home
who can, cowan! Ike, break ttie illusions that
hnvo won her and destroy, the confidence
which love had inspired. Wo to him who
has too early withdrawn the tender plant
from the props and stays of riioral discipline
in which she Fiad been nurtured, and yet
make no effort to supply their places ; for on
him res's ihe responsibilities of her errors—
on him who has first taughl Iter, by his exam
pi'’ to grow car’ Ifess of her duty, and then ex
pose her with weakened spirit, and unsatis
fied heart, to the wide storms and the wily
temptations of a sinffil world.
The following is,the amendment ofthe ap--
propriaiion bill voted at ihe last session of
Congress, by ihe House of Representative®,
pl’ iiiß'liree millions of dollars at the dispo
sal of the President :
“See. 2. And be it further emrcled. That
the sum of three millions of dollars bo and
the same is hereby appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury, not otherwise appro
priated, to be expended, in whole or in pnr-t,
under tliedirection of the President ofthe
United Slates, for the military and naval ser.
vice, including fortifications and ordnance,
and increase of the Navy: Provided, 6tich
expenditures shall be rendered necessary for
the defence of the country prior to the next
meet ing of Congress.”
Those Senators who spoke it) opposition
to this enormous power, were Messrs. Web
ster, Cnlhoun, l-eigh. Southard, Clay, Pres
ton and VY'hite.
Those who advocated it in debate, were
Messrs. Wright, Lino, Buchanan and CutFi.
bert.
Those who voted fir the . appropriation)
wero Messrs. Benton, Black, Brown, Bueha-.
nan, C.uthbert, GrUn-ty, Hill, K me, King cf
Ala., King of Gn., Linn, McKean, Morris,
Robinson, Ruggles, Shepley, Talimadge,Tip
ton, Wright.—l 9.
Those who voted against it, were Messr.si
Bell, Bibb, Calhoun, Clay, Clayton, Ewi>g r
Frelmghuysen, Goldshorough, Hendricks,
Kent, Knight, Leigh, Manmjm, Moore, Nat>-
and iin, Poindexter, Porter, Prentiss, Prcs'on,
Robb ns, Silsbee, Smith, Southard, Swift,
Tomlinson, Tyler, Waggauva'ii, Wefolery
White—29
NO. 4.