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. , From Peterson's Magazine. SQUIRE RICHARDS' SECOND WIFE. 'What ? no, you don't say sol Squire Richards goin' to marry agin, and his wife only dead three months ! Goodness me!' " lis awful ! You may well be astonished. Mrs. Wilkes, it is terrible to think of I Such deception ! Why, at his wife's funeral, one would have thought him actually heart broken ; and then the crape on his hat is a half a yard deep !' 'Ah, me, Mrs. Hanson, there is no dependence to be put on 'pearanee. Tho world gets sinfuller and sinfuller every day, and it can't be covered up with silk or broadcloth. As I said to my husband, Mr. Wilkes, the other night; says I, 'Simon, things are coming to awful pass. Everybody will git into the State's prison in two years at this rate.' And says Simon, says he, 'I don't doubt it, Mariah.' " 'And you and Mr. Wilkes were right, perfectly right, it is just so. But this dreadful conduct of the Squire's has made me more conscious of the truth of it ! Strange that a sensible man should behave so 1' -'Yes, it is wonderful! But how did it get out so quick ? The Squire ain't no hand to tell of things, you know.' 'Betty Higgins found it outlast night She was taking tea at the widder Town's, you know she's almost always visiting somewhere, though I wouldn't mention it to a living person except you, Mrs. Wilkes, and while they were at supper the Squire rode by in a new buggygoing toward the depot People don't get new buggies for nothing, you know.' 'No, that they don't Mrs. Hanson widderers especially.' t ., 'Well, he wasn't gone more than half an hour 'fore back he came, driving upon the gallophe didn't use to abuse his horse when poor Mrs. Richards was alive and lo and behold ! sitting in the new buggy with him, and his arm actually around her waist, in broad day light I was a little girlish looking woman, in a pink dress and green silk bonnet ! Only think of it a pink dress and green silk bonnet! and his arm around her. It is abominable 1" 'My gracious goodness ! I want to know ! 'Yes, it's every word of it as true as our minister's discourses, and Mr. Sampwell never exagerates he's a fine man, Mrs. Wilkes and the widder Town and Betty ran up into the garret they can see Squire Richard's house plain from the garret windows and the Squire drove up to the front of the door, as if the

side door was not good enough 1 and then he got out of the door and lifted the woman on to the door stone 1 Took her right into his arms, in broad day-tight, and lifted her on to the door stone 1' 'My goodness ! as if she couldn't git out herself 1 It's indecent now, ain't it T 'To be sure it is, and he a middle aged man, and a member of the church 1 Mr. SampweB ought to know of it, so that he could preach a sermon on the duties of men to their families. Only think of poor, dead Mrs. Richards little daughter Elmetta being ruled by a step-mother hardly older than herself c It will break the poor child's heart 1' , There was a long and impressive silence, durina which the two amiable ladies regaled themselves with numerous pinches of snuff from a box which had made its appearance in the lap of Mrs. Wilkes. No doubt it helped to digest the momentous matter. 'Wal,' recommenced Mrs. Wilkes, 'I think such doin's is awful. Gettin' married agin afore his wife is cold!' ' 'Now, I suppose he'll say that he needed a housekeeper, but that's no excuse, for my Mary Elizabeth or your Julia Ann would have been glad to have gone. Mary Elizabeth is a terrible favorite with Elmetta, and Mary Elizabeth is a grand hand at managing children.' 'Yes, Mary Elizabeth is a fine girl, Mrs. Wilkes, but her health isn't hardly good enough to take so much care as there would be in Squire Richards' family with all his company; but, then, Julia Ann eould have done it well enough. Julia Ann is a remarkable hand for children can't help learning of them something all the time she is with them. Her example is so beautiful, you know.' . 'Well, for my part, I think somebody ought to go and talk to the Squire about it. It ain t right for us sisters in the church to let him ruin hisself and darter a marrying nobody knows who! He ought to be reasoned with! 'That's just what I think, Mrs. Wilkes, and I called over here on purpose to ask you to go with me to the Squire's to-morrow morning, and talk with him about it. It's the best we can do.' - 'I'll go, and be glad to ! I hope I'm never backward in doin' my duty.' - 'Weill must be going; I've made a long call; tomorrow morning at eight o'clock ; it's best to go early I will call over for you. Do come and see me, Mrs. Wilkes I You know it's an age since you have been to our house.' 'Dear me, Mrs. Hanson, I don't come half as often as I want to, but I'm ashamed to keep comin' all the time. As 1 told my husband, Mr. Wilkes, the other day, says I, Simon, I"m actilly afraid I shall wear my welcome out over to Mrs. Hanson's. And says he, says Simon, 'I shouldn't wonder it you did, Mariah." Eight o'clock the following morning found our friends Mrs. Wilkes and Mrs. Hanson standing on Squire Richards' front doorstep, (the side door wasn't good enough for the lady in pink, and of course it wasn't suitable for ladies of their 'calibre,') awaiting to be admitted. A frouzy-headed Irish girl answered their rap. ! 'Is Squire Richards in ? inquired Mrs. Hanson.' 'In ? to be sure he isl Safe in bed ma'am! Is it after seein' him thafye are?' 'Yes; we call to see him on important business,' replied Mrs Hanson, frigidly. 'Sure, thin, and I'll be after callin' him ; tho' the ould gentleman is sound aslape fur I heard him snorin' but gist now whin I cum fornint his bed room door. Come in with yees !' and Biddy ushered the ladies into a room where the breakfast table was standing in waiting for the family. ; i 'Hum !' said Mrs. Wilkes, looking significantly at the table, 'she can't be no great thing, lying abed till breakfast time ! Poor Mrs. Richards she used to be up . in season !' i ..t. . Just at this moment the Squire entered in elegant dishabille that is without a coat, and minus shoes and stockings. He advanced, holding out his hand cordially- , . . ". 1 'Good morning, ladies good morning; I'm a little late, you see. Hope you'll excuse my toilet ; the fact is, I sat up rather late last night, and felt drowsy this morning. Fine morning, isn't it ?' 'Very enchanting,' returned Mrs. Hanson, who greatly prided herself on the elegant propriety of her language, 'it is beautiful enough for a morning in the gorgeous clime of the Orientals. But to change the subject; we call on a matter of business ' 'What's the difficulty now Mrs. Hanson. A new carpet for the parsonage, or is fifty dollars wanted by the Missionary Society ? Come, speak out.' ' 'Ah, Squire, it is wuss than that !' put in-Mrs. Wilkes, no longer able to keep silence, 'it's something that consarns you, Squire consarns your everlastin' well bein' !' 'Indeed 1 Well, go on.'. The Squire nevertheless, looked as if surprised. Mrs. Hanson drew a long breath and began : 'Squire, we call to see if you were thinking of marrying again ? AVe ' 'You weren't goin to propose to me, were you ladies ? I should be exceedingly happy to receive such proposals, but I should have Deacon Hanson and Ma

jor Wilkes in my hair forthwith. It would not do, ladies!' 'No, we supposed you had already made your selection of the person who is to fill your dead wife's place, and we called to talk with you about her. We have understood that she is in your house, and if agreeable would like to see her. Our interest in yourself and motherless child has induced us to this.' Mrs Hanson spoke with solemn dignity, and evidently intended to impress the Squire powerfully with her manner. 'And we want to know where you got acquainted with her, Squire; and how old she is; and if she knows how to do housework ?' said Mrs. Wilkes. , vtHow did you learn anything of this ?' asked the Squire, evidently somewhat non plussed by the extraordinary knowledge of his affairs displayed by. his visitors.- . ....... , , i'We heard of your ridin' out with her, Squire ; she dresses all in pink, with a green silk bonnet ' Don't look very well, Squire, to see a man of your age ridin' out with such a young gall' , 'Well, ladies, suppose I should take a notion to get married ? You couldn't blame me, I think. Here I am with no house keeper, and an Irish girl to oversee things, and my home is none of the most orderly. Elmetta needs some one to care for her, and it wouldn't be in nature for a father to be unmindful of the interests of his child.' . ; ' 'Why no, of course not But then, if you need a housekeeper, mv Julia Ann would come and look after

things. She's a capital manager, and very fond of children, bhe and ilmetta eweet httle thing 1 would get on admirably.' ' : ' , 'Yes, or my Mary Elizabeth either. ; She'd be tickled to death to come. She thinks so much of Squire Richards and his little gal. And if I do say it, Mary Elizabeth is as nice a gal as there is anywhere.' ! 'Mary Elizabeth's health is too feeble for much exertion, Mrs. Wilkes ; you don't do right to put anything hard upon her, you know she has a pain in her side half the time.' Mrs. Hanson was determined to have it understood that the hope of the'Wilkeses was only an ornament to the world. . 'Well,' said the Squire at last ; 'I don't know what to think about it. I do not believe Elmetta would give up this 'lady in pink,' as you call her, at all J she has taken a wonderful nkmg to her. ' ' 'Where did she come from, Squire ? You ain' told us anything about her.' - 'To be sure, Mrs. Wilkes. Well, I found her in a milliners shop in the city of Portsmouth. 1 'In a milliner's shop ! .. Then she's a milliner, is she ? Well, I never.' 'Will you be so kind as to favor us with an intro duction t 1 should be happy to see her before I form an opinion of her character.' Mrs. Hanson's tone was very patronizing, and so the Squire seemed to think, lor he hesitated but a moment before he said : 'Well, Mrs. Hanson, it will be an advantage to her to form the acquaintance of such estimable ladies as my present company ; I will be very glad to present hes to you forthwith. Pray excuse me for a moment' 'Stop, Squire I' shouted Mrs. Wilkes, 'what's her name ?' . . " ' . . , , 'Jennie Ray,' returned the Squire,' disappearing in the passage. 'Jennie Rayl a reg'lar book name. ' She is some city highflyer I s'pose.' 'Very likely, Mrs. Wilkes, but I see the Squire's mind is made up, and it's no use to say anything. We must make the best of her.' ; ; J ust as Mrs. Hanson let fall this magnanimous speech, the door opened, and the Squire appeared. . , 'Ladies,' said the Squire bowing politely, permit me to present to you Miss Jennie Ray, my daughter's wax doll, which I purchased at Portsmouth last week, and which arrived day before yesterday at the depot, the cost of it was forty-five dollars, and at present I have no intention of making it my wife.' . Poor Mrs. Wilkes. Mortified Mrs. Hanson. With burning faces they took their leave ; and since then, I believe, they have miraculously minded their own business. t ..:,',' Squire Richards was somewhat eccentric, and knowing how busy-bodies gossiped about him, and having purchased a large wax doll for his little girl, the Idea struck him that it would be a fine joke on the scandalloving people of Wheatwould, to take it from the packing case and ride home with it in his buggy in full view of the public. We have seen the result , .The Squire is still unmarried, and bids fair to remain thus ; his widowed sister having established herself as mistress of his family. Mrs. Wilkes and Mrs. Hanson wouldn't like to have their unfortunate mistake made public, and I wish it, as a particular favor, that those who read this little sketch will keep it as private as possible. A Bygone hit at the Times. An old and respected citizen of Philadelphia has handed 'us a little volume called the Talisman, published in New York more than thirty years ago. Among its contents we find a quaint and pithy paper, entitled " The Devil's Pulpit," near the close of which the following passage occurs, while our friend conceived to be written m rather a predictive spirit, and by no means inapplicable to many of the faults and characteristic of the present times: - . ' ; . ' ; i . The Doctor now sat leisurely down, with his legs hanging over the precipice, supporting himself as he leaned backward, with his left hand, while he swung his cane to and fro, and remained some minutes in profound meditation. " Yes," said he, " I see how it is. These poor peoEle too must go the way of all flesh. Half a century ence they will be as wicked as the Londoners.' With the same vices, they will have more wit. But what of that? So much the worse for them. They will have their South Sea bubbles, their land bubbles, their bank bubbles, and all other manner of bubbles. , - " They'll have their Stock Market, their New Market; and there will be bulls and bears, lame ducks, rooks and pigeons in both of them. They will have lotteries, and operas, and elopements, and cracked poets, and ballets, and burlettas, and Italian singers, and French dancers. "And every second man in a good coat, will be a lawyer, or a broker, or an insolvent. And there will be no more cash payments ; but the women will wear cashmeres, and the men will drink champaigne.;:- And the girls, instead of learning to cook and mend clothes, will be taught to chatter French and worse Spanish, and to get their husbands into jail ; but there will bo no jails in those days ! for they will have bankrupt laws and three-quarter laws, and two-third laws, and the limits will be as big as the country ! " There will be no more comfortable tea-drinkings, and innocent dances, but they will have their balls, and their routs, and conversaziones, and fetes, and fiddelsticks. People will dine by candle light of weeks ; and nobody will go to church on afternoons on Sundays 1 Folks will be knowing in wines and cookery, and players, and paintings, and music, and know nothing of their own affairs. They will go to fashionable churches as an amusement, and to fashionable gaming houses as a business. The girls will learn to waltz of the Germans, and their mammas to flirt irom the French. The boys will all be men, and the old men will try to be boys. " Then they will have all manner of quackery, from a patent pair of loops to a patent way of paying off . .. 1 J-T-i J jL ... '11 A 1. V --1 the national aeui. jiuu uiey wiu run alter ine neeis of every quack who comes among them. And the doctors will quarrel about moonshine, and ruin the character of the profession by telling the truth about one another 1 But I shall be gone ere then : ' sufficient for the day, is the evil thereof !" '

, SPARE THE BIRDS. From an address before the Wabash Agricultural - Society, in 185 7, by Hon. John U. Pettit " ' Year by year, our orchards, are assailed by destroy

ing insects, and with increased violence. The enemy is protean." It does its outrages sometimes in one form, sometimes- in another, sometimes in gtrinnine the leaves, on which the larva; feed, whereby the trees die of consumption, for leaves are the lungs of trees; sometimes by depositing eggs in the green fruit, making it, like genius, die young; sometimes by laying eggs within the under cuticle of the leaves, as in the case of the locust, now perishing all around us; and sometmes, as in the case of the big borer, who caries a half inch augur with him, and enters the body of the tree and bores out the whole heart, making the whole tree as hollow as a pump log. No matter what may be the means, we are spectators of the melancholy fact that all our fruit trees are suffering from insect ravages. lhe best remedy tor .this, is birds, the farmers friends the field and orchard birds, tliat come to us, prophets of spring, out of the chill, raw, blue, sky of March, dressed iu painted plumage, and with bosoms full of happiness and song. At break of day they recite matins on the tree tops, and at its close, chant vespers of the same worship, still undiminished, whose whole litany is love, and the heart of man, if right will answer with its echo. Now all these field and orchard birds, that love- so much the habitation of man, and that always look on a farmer as . ap honest man,' and set up their domestic establishments as close to bis house as possible, in his lilacs and grape vines and goosberries, singing in his ear so many bewitching airs, only asking now and then a crumb ot bread for their children all these birds robin, oriole, linnet goldfinch, cat-bird, thrush, sparrow, bluejay, starling, bobolink, and woodpeckers, and sapsuckers, and the winged legion besides are friends of the fanner, and the cov enanted enemies of all flying and creeping things that annoy the orchards. If the farmer can persuade these cheap and efficient servants into his ministry, he is in a fair way of getting rid of the insect pests that are so various and persevering in doing him injury. . ,. ' There is a popular but unreasonable dislike felt to many of these birds. The farmer thinks well of the blackbird, on seeing him, in the spring, following industriously the furrow, and picking up the cut-worms. But he is regarded as a public enemy in autumn j when he musters his colonies from his summer haunts among the willows and alders that fringe the ponds and marshes and rivers, and leads them forth to visit and plunder the cornfields. The most hearty and persistant antipathy is indulged at the sapsucker, who, is always suspected of mischief, when seen running up and down and around the apple trees, and hammering their bark when, in tact, the sapsucker is only an inductive philosopher, and knows, by long study and practice that there is a worm inside, that stands; more in need of extraction than a bad tooth. .When we come to scrutinize them, all these apparent misdeeds are virtues, and the active instincts of these little families seem created for our use. A single household of these birds, father mother and little ones, is as good to an orchard as so many bushels of apples, and better than an insurance office for the perpetuity of the trees. If any person is skeptical of this, and at the same time wicked enough, let him kill any of these birds that have been named, and inquire how he lives, and he will find the little bosom full of slugs, snails, cat erpillars, and flies, slowly getting out of the way by an untiring digestion, to make room for an other meal. Each little feathered breast is a populous prison, where multitudinous insect enemies are shut up, to prevent them irom criminal enterprises on the orchard and ber ry bushes and grain fields. Therefore, in this econor mical view, pains should be taken to induce the birds to establish Colonies on our farms. Some of them, to be sure,, have appetites for cherries, raspberries and apples, but the inconsiderable tribute they exact is only a reasonable due lor the care, more sedulous than the owner's, that they take of the orchard; and hath not the Master said, "The laborer is worthy of his hire?" : i- . :- ...... l- - : .. These field and orchard birds very rarely build nests in the dense forests, or away from the protection and society of man. But, notwithstanding this, there is but one way to induce them to settle on the farm, and be engaged at the work of keeping the orchard clean. It is by multiplying thick-leaved trees and shrubbery and garden bushes, in convenient reach of the tarm-houses. . i! or, most ot the birds that pay us summer visits are householders, or expect to be, and will not be content if they cannot lease from the land lord shade and cover for themselves and little ones. Farmers must then provide trees, about their houses and fields, while youns orchards are erowino-, or predatory insects, defying all other vigilence, will lay them waste, because the birds are not present to be the avengers ot their havoc. Wabash Intelligencer. Snivelization. Whithersoever we go we meet with the sniveler. He stops us at the corner of the street to entrust us with his opinion. Ho fears that the morals and intelligence of the people are destroy ed by the election of some rogue to office. He tells us, just before church, that the last sermon of some transcendental preacher has given the death-blow to religion, and that the waves of atheism and the clouds of pantheism are to deluge and darken all the land In a time of general health, he speaks of the pestilence that is to be. The mail cannot be an hour too late, but he prattles of railroad accidents and steamboat dis asters, tie lears that a mend, who was married yes terday, will be a bankrupt in a year, and whimpers over the trials which he wilt then endure, tie is rid den with an eternal nightmare, and emits an eternal wail. Recklessness is a bad quality, and so is blind and extravagant hope ; but neither is so degrading or inglorious aiiu uiiu;ue as uespau. : , . We object to the sniveler, because he presents the anomaly of a being who has the power of motion with out possessing life. His insipid languor is worse than tumid strength. Better that a man should rant than whine, lhe person who has no bounding and . buoyant feeling in him, whose cheek never flushes at an ticipated good, whose blood never tingles and fires at the contemplation of a noble aim, who has no aspira tion and no great object in life, is only fit for the hospital or the band-box. Enterprise, confidence, a disposition to believe that good can be done, and indisjposition to believe that all good has been these con stitute important elements in the character of every man who is of use to the world. We want no wailing and whimpering about the absence of happiness, but a strong determination to abate misery- W hippie. "Friend B ,a Quaker of this vicinity," writes a western mend, "had a daughter who, tor some time, had attracted the admiration of a neighboring swain whose visits to the domieu of mend B were not altogether agreeable. The young man (whose name is T ) having made his appearance one first day after noon at the home of his lady-love, after discoursing with that amiable personage at length upon the weather, crops, etc., was invited to one side by Friend B , and addressed in the language of that worthy as follows: 'Thomas, if thee comes to my house as a friend and neighbor, it is all very well; but as for any thing farther, I just thought I would "nip it in the bud!'" , . ., , ' , "How do you and your friends feel now?" said an exultant politician in one of our western towns, to a rather irritable member of the defeated party. "I supnose," said the latter, "we feel iust as Lazarus did when

I he was licked by the dogs."

AN ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS : " Delivered in the Chapel of JV. W. C. University, May ' 5th, 1858, on the occasion of the third Anniversary of the Malhesian Society, by one of its memlers.t , BY. E. V. BLOUNT. Published by the request of the Rocletv. THE FORTRESS OF TRUTH. We live in a minature age. The motive powers of mind are becoming aroused. The sluggish hand and stupid intellect' have, forgotten their time-honored precepts and sacrificed their terror upon the shrine of reform. ' j ... ' Constantly we are met with most potent signs, rendering the conviction more and more firm, that our march is onward. The husbandman feels that, as yet, his presence is needed upon his fertile domain, but with suppressed emotion cons the daily, hoping for tij dings of' a recent discovery which will obviate the necessity. ' The chemist renders indignant the nubrile Miss, when arising from his much tortured crucible, be

announces to the shame of her virgin pride that her cherished jewels are nought but the combustible materials which feeds the flame. Leviathans furrow the, billows of every sea. The spirits of sages have become amphibious ; they not only float upon every breeze, but ere long will 'dart through oceans bed and infest the element in which hydra dwells. The grandest achievements of human genius will be accomplished when the great magnet shall span the depths of " old ocean o er, and serve as a connecting bnk between, world and world.'' The inquirer here to day may con verse freely with his itinerant brother, wandering; throughout the oriental clime, or perchance Bcated upon the summit of Mount Olli vet, the cradle of truth, wrapped in alt the solemnities ot that sacred spot. Time will be annihilated, distance destroyed, and the most powerful of former achievements viewed as the feebler machinations of an imbecile race. While thus hurled onward, convulsed by one eternal dream of progress, the jaded intellect might for a moment swerve from the well-beaten path, and view with mingled hope, and joy " the fortress ot truth. , . i Years had rolled by before much improvement was made in the scientific world. The primeval history of our race presents one continuous record of crude and savage deeds. For ages we trace our ancestral line, alighting upon but here and there . a fertile oasis, upon which to rest our weary gaze. ' . . , The dominant traits of man were mostly easily developed and his puerile genius was first skilled in conn tracting schemes by which to extend his sway and gain the ascendency over his fellow. : But not always thus was the " lord of creation" to, bow at the' shrine of his ambition and vindicate his own selfish designs. ' ' ' .' .... ' Nature and nature'B lawB lay hid in night, . , .,. '',!r' God said let Newton be, and all was light." ' '' A new era had dawned upon the world. Fiction, startled at the ingress of infant immortal, freed the minds of the superstitious rabble and was replaced by one enduring monument of truth. : From thence, we date the history of man proper. Anterior to this we saw but the spontaneous upheavings of untutored pas-, sions, now reason, arrayed in her regal robes, sways the actions and plans the career. At his inquiring command nature .yielded' up her axiomatic truths, arid even unfolded the hidden mysteries of her more complicated laws. ' Out from the J unsightly mass where chaos had forever reigned he " drew order and beauty. ' ' ' . '' . ' ., ' , ' He looked far down into the arcana of nature, and, there entranced an admiring world with the lovely jewels which he was enabled to unfold. Where e'er he ' went, with unering truth as his attendant, he left tho . impress of his searching and investigating mind, until now the nations of earth honor themselves by chanting ; a te deum of praise over his quiescent shades. Through his teachings a spirit of inquiry was aroused in the bosom of man, which ever since has been his most exalted characteristic. Regardless of the superstitions') of the past, he worships no more at the shrine of an-, tiquity, but stands forth in the person of his own Godlike independence. 1 ' ' ' 'J The fabled gods and goddesses of antiquity inspire wonder, but not admiration. With a single accent they' are all denounced, and he clings to truth as his an-" erring friend ; claiming that it has been favored with , an Achillean immersion and is therefore invulnerable. 1 Since the advent of truth into the world the noblest powers of mind have been engaged in its delineation.,' The whole scientific world is but a bundle ot truth. '; It has been augmented parcel by parcel, until now, , like the mountains which have been increased by an- ' nual deposits until they tower aloft and are wrapped ' in the clouds ; even so has truth been brought from its ' : lurking place and cast upon the altar of science, until, : iEtna-like, it stands an eternal monument of man's in-, vestigation. ' As the waters which periodically drench , our earth, are but the condensed vapor which arises from the ocean, and not a new creation, even so the particles of matter and the truths of nature are no more numerous now; 'than they, were when the fiat of' ah Omnipotent Eternal urshered world's into existence. '' ." '''' ' . " ,' : . " -, -The pons asinorum was first as true when Balaam ' spoke to Balak, as when Arehimides asked king Hiero for "a where to stand" that he might move the '; . world. But each of nature's noblemen, as he runs with ' ! hurried course his terrestrial career, has but an oppor- ' ' tunity to glance over the world of science and learn . its laws. During one short stay man can but glide ' 1 peacefully down the stream of time, and here and there , ' gather a few pebbles, which may lie unconcealed in the well-worn path of his predecessor, and thus con- ' struct a monument which may relume the course of , his future searches . ; . ' ' , "' . ' . ;"' "' . " ' l " In science, learning, all philosophy, ' , ' 1'ii Men labore'd hard, and labored all their days, ' "' tl. And dying sighed how little they bach done." i-c - .) Small though their labors may seem, yet constantly ' increasing, they have become more comely and attrac-. tive. All the sciencies chronicled in the various cy- ; clopedias of earth, date their parentage to merely in- '. dividuals. ' Had not the immortals, Herschel and Kep-, ler, lived, who while on earth dwelt in the skies, the I stars might have walked for ages throughout the ethe- ' rial vault, and man would still have been prone to bow n upon his idolatrous knee, and worshiped them as well ot ill-fated omens. ' Where the ignorant and superstiti- 1 ous had always turned and gazed, to see their eternal ruin melted in the skies, or balm of hope depicted in : the same, there we now behold beauty and harmony,1 ' and with their constant power is linked our continued " existence. ' - - 1 '- 11 -.! The stars are but so many steller suns, the heat of ' which being withdrawn all animated existence would instantly perish, and earth soon merge into her chaotic ! state. Revolving around throughout the interminable i fields of aerial space, we behold myriads of siderial '

worlds, and passing; on to the contemplation oi loiuer themes, we are environed in the ' music of the spheres, ' until we finally evaporate in the poetib consciousness ! of our own '! blissful ignorance." The silent intrepidi- , ty' of the theorizing mind has penetrated the lower ' ' strata of earth, until its wanton daring has been checked by the heated effervesence radiating from hercen-"' ter. ... .'.' - Were it not for the science of geology, a handmaid of truth, the earth would be passed recklessly over, and 1 1 not once would the discriminating eye be turned to- " wards those precious gems, which he concealed beneath ' her crust. Had not Werner, the great German geologist, elicited thought in such direction, the golden r jewels which now adorn the queens of earth would be ' tarnished in their unsightly beds. ! ! The murky waters of many an ocean would have ' washed undisturbed medals which now gleam in the '';

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