Weekly Messenger, Volume 4, Number 198, Vevay, Switzerland County, 10 October 1835 — Page 2

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u-! ruhvidual who stepped into the cen(re .and

i oi, a .brought his hands over Ins head in an acute :r iiih power angle. At tins signal, each member of the -;. our re- company extended ins arms forward so as to 'rm an acute horizontal angle with the ex-va'!.-y ti. at ,.(.:, .i(V of the lingers, lint this was not the

only proof we had that' they were creatures of oi der and subordination. We had no opportunity of seeing them actually engaged in any work of industry or art; and .s far as we could judge, they spent their

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us in coiiecling various Iruits in the

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i'i iat upon the summits of princ'mles.

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But although evidently the highest

orui't- oi animal? in this rich valley, they were not it onlv occupants. Most of the other

1 golden light anhnals which we had discovered elsewhere, the ;aab ur.. in very distant regions, were collected here;

v-; i ; i ' i , ! i k e

' taa-j a MXUi :ivpeds. The most attractive of these was a u;t pari at itt;:ii while slag, with. lofSv spreading antlers

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i p .- . .)!. sis. ieet elegant creature trot up to the seated parties . aa.; gft)it taper-jof ihe semi-hum in beings I have described, v t. I ho iiiu i-iand browse the herbage close beside them, f ; . i-i. e in-: w about the least manifestation of fear on its a.- v as to em-. pari, or of notice on theirs. The universal :.t i.'h' ii .v. ana -late of amity atnont; all classes of lunar crea-s-miui. j lures, and die apparent absence of every carsome yellow j nivoruus or ferocious species, gave us the o u i p a r ! nie n t s, 1 1 1) os t refined pleasure, and doubly endeared to ; plan-.: inclining tojus (bis lovely nocturnal companion of our lar- ! ; ( m vod and ep;i-; ger but iess favored world. liver again, when I a tii i- of v ioloni iv j-'eye tl;o blue vault and bless the useful light,"' :u a coiiitno.i s iiiice jsbalj I recall the scenes of beauty, grandeur

i ai!;-. i'ii i:; wnieiyaiiJ lelieity, I have beheld upon the surface

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irch thev cn- S'' t''I'0U!, aaal air tnis'and cf the blest," around,;!? il hie-i without exulting in mv l,-nowledro nf it truth.

i till tli f':li-fMiil injmitirut tlii tn;l rnr.

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g it. This was the!

te iMi ce corners t.ierc ; tive valley, and a scientitk classification of ils apparently the same animal, vegetable, and mineral productions, al on.--; and ilu-rc rcit-j the astronomers closed their labors for the

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Ci:-!l Si-lO, rapi'a!"' o inmeat : of tb.C ed: It was

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' xc!,Cilini;i gracci- lil.e a half opened iiv from roof, at;d i:i several l onvolalions. t.d a? the flames, and the building it w;;3 oThe columns, six on

ere simple plain shaft5, without b stah. or any description of orwa any perceived in other parts

n on or

night: labors rather mental than physical, and oppressive from the extreme excitement which they naturally induced. A singul ir circumstance occurred the next day which threw the telescope quite out of use for nearly a week, by which time the moon could be no longer observed that month. The great lcn which was usually lowcied during the day, and placed horizontally, had, it is true, been lowered us ueual, but had been

inconsiderately left in a perpendicular posi

tion. Accordingly, shortly alter sunrise the next morning, ilerscht 1, and his assistants Dr.

Grant, and Messrs. Drummond aud Home,

who slept in bunglow erected a short distance from the observatory circle, were awakened by (he loud shouts of some Dutch farmers and domesticated Hottentots (who were passing

with their oxen to agricultural labor), that the big house was on lire! Dr. Herschel leap

ed out of bed from his brief slumbers, and

sure enough, saw his observatory enveloped in a cloud of smoke. Luckily it had been .,111 . i . . t

imcKiy covered within and without with a

coat of Roman plaster, or it would inevitably

have been destroyed with its inevitable contents; but, as it was, a hole fifteen feet in circumference had been burnt completely through the "rcflectiug chamber" which was attached to the side of the observatoiy nearest the lens, through the canvas field on which

had been exhibited so many wonders that will ever live in the history of mankind and through the outer wall. So fierce was the concentration of the solar rays through tbc gigantic lens, that a clump of trees standing in a line with them was set on fir?, and the plaster of the observatory walls, all round the orifice, was vitrified to blue glass. The lens he-

Put we had not fir to seek for inhabitants i ing almost immediately turned, and a brook of

o t!nsk' ale ol the Inal. I mmcu lately on water beinsr within a lew hundred yards, (be tire

side, and seemed to

aia neither seals, altars, nor offerings; but

ii w as a liuht aiw1 airy structure, nearly a hundred feet isiu'i from its white glistening floor to its glowing roof, and it stood upon a round green eminence on the eastern side of the val

ley. We afterwards however, discovered (wo other- which ero in every respect fac si:iiie- of tms one. but in neither did we perceive any v'sitant, except flocks of wild doves, which alighted upon its illustrious pinnacles. Had the devotees of these temples gone the M ay of alt living, or were the latter merely historical monuments? What did the ingeujous builders by the globe, surrounded by flames? Did thy, by this, record any past calamity of their world, or predict any future one of cov' I bv no means despaired of ultimately solving not or.lv these, but a thous

and other questions which present themselves ivpcctiag the. object in this planet, for not the millionth part of her surface, has yet been explored, and e have been more desirous of collecting the greatar possible number of new facts than indulging" speculative theories however seductive to the imagination.

tbc outer border of the wood which surrounded, at the ditanec of half a n ile, (he eminence on which the first of these temples stood,

we saw sever. il detached a-scmblies of beings whom we intanly recognized to he of the fan!-! species as our winged friends of the Ruhv Coiosrum, near the Lake Langrenus. Having adjusted (he instrument for a minute examination, we found that nea rly all the in

dividuals in these groups were of a large

Matuie than he former specimens, less dark in col r, a;.d in crry rrsp. ct an improved varied v of the race. They were r hie fly engaged in eating a large ol!ov fruit like a gourd, sections of which they dcxlerouly divided with their lingers and ate with rather uncouth voracity, throwing away the rind. A small red fruit, shaped hke a cucumber, which we

had often seen pendant from trees having a' broad dark leal, were also lying in heaps, in (lie centre of several of the festive groups; hut the only use they appeared to make of it was sucking" its joice, after rolling it between the palms of their hand-, and nibbling off an end. They seemed to be eminently happy, and even polite, for we saw, in many instances, individuals sitting nearest to these piles of fruit, fcelect the largest and brightest specimens, and thiow them archwise across the circle to some opposite friend or associates who had extracted the nutriment from those scattered around him. and which were frequently not a few. While thus engaged in their rural ban-

was soon extinguished, but the damage already

done was not inconsiderable, i he microscope

lenses had fortunately been removed for the purpose of being cleaned, but several of the metalic reflectors were so fused as to be rendered useless. Masons and carpenters were procured from Cape Town, and with all pos

sible despatch, and in about a week the whole

apparatus was again piepared lor operation The moon being now invisible, Dr. Hers

chel directed his inquiries to the primary planets of the system, and first to the planet Saturn. We need not say that this remarkable globe has for many ages been an object of the most ardent astronomical curiosity. The stupendous phenomenon of doubling having baffled the scrutiny and conjecture of many gen

erations of astronomers, was finally abandoned as inexplicable. It is well known that

ibis planet is ationcd in the system (.M)0 millions of miles distant Vom the sun, and having the immense diameter of 79,000 miles it is

more than 000 times larger than the earth

Its annual motion around the sun is not accom

plished in less than twenty-nine and a half of

our years, while its diurnal rotation upon its

axis is accomplished in lO.i. 10m., or consid

erably less than half of a terrestrial day. Il has not less than seven moons, the sixth and

seventh of which, were discovered by the el

der Herschel, in 1789. It is thwarted by

mysterious belts or bands of a yellowish tinge,

than that of the outer, being 20,000 miles;' and iis distance from the body of Saturn is more than 30,090. These rings are opaque, but so thin that their edge has not until now been discovered. Sir John Herschel's most interesting discovery with regard to this planet, is the demonstrated fact that these two rings are composed of the fragments of two destroyed worlds, formerly belonging to our sjlar system, which, on being exploded, were gathered around the immense body of Saturn by the attraction of gravity, and are kept from falling to its surface by the great centrifugal force created by its extraordinary rapidity on its axis. The inner ring was therefore the first of these destroyed worlds (the former station of which in the system is demonstrated in the argument which wc subjoin) which was accordingly carried round by the rotary force, and spread forth in the manner we see. The outer ring is another ring exploded in fragments, attracted by the law of gravity as in the former case, and kept from uniting with the inner ring by the centrifugal force of the latter. But the latter having a slower rotation than the planet, has an interior centrifugal force, and accordingly the space between the outer and inner ring is nearly ten times less (ban that between the inner ring and the body of Saturn. Having ascertained tbc mean destiny of the rings, as compared with the destiny of the planet, Sir, John Herschel has been enabled to effect the following beautiful demonstration. Dr. Herschel clearly ascertained that these

rings are composed of rocky strata, the skeletons of former globes lying in a state of wild and ghastly confusion, but not devoid of mountains and seas The belts across the body of Saturn, he has discovered to be the smoke of a number of immense volcanoes, carried in these straight lines by the intense velocity of the rotary motion. . And these also he has ascertained to be the causes of the pelts of Jupiter. But the portion of work which is devoted to this subject, and to the other planets, as also that which describes the astronomer's discoveries among the stars, is comparatively uninteresting to general readers, however highly it might interest others of scientific taste and mathematical acquirements. Ed. Sun. 4lIt was not until the new moon of the month of March, that the weather proved favorable to any continued series of lunar observations; aud Dr. Herschel hid been too ontb.i,-;..oivillj aPnoi bed In demonstrating bis brilliant discoveries in the southern constellations, and in constructiing tables and catalogues of his new stars, to avail himself of the few clear bights that intervened. On one of those, however, Mr. Drummond, myself, and Mr. Holmes made those discoveries near the' Bay of Rainbows, to which 1 have somewhere briefly alluded. The bay thus fancifully denominated is a part of the northern boundary of the first great ocean which I have lately described; and is marked in the chart with the letter O. The tract of country which we explored on this occasion is numbered 0, 5, 8, 9, in the catalogue, and the chief mountains to which these numbers are attached, are sevarally named Atlas,

Hercules, Heraclides, erus, and Herachdes Pulsus. Still farther north, of these is the island circle called Pythagoras, and numbered one; and yet nearer the meridian line is the mountainous district marked K, and called the Land of Drought, and Q, the Land of Hoar Prost; and certainly tbc name of the latter, however theologically bestowed, was not altogether inapplicable; for the lops of ils very lofty mountains were, evidently covered with snow, though the valleys surrounding them were teeming with the luxuriant fertili

ty of miusummer. But the region which we first particularly inspected was that of Hera

clides pulsus (So. 7), in which we found sev

eral new species of animals, all ol winch were

horned and ol a white or grey color; and Ibe remains of three ancient triangular temples

quest

s, or in so

ial

converse.

, they were al

ways seated witn their knees tlat ui on the

turf, and their feet brought evenly together in the fbim of a triangle. And for some mys

terious reason nr other, this figuie seemed to be an especial favorite among them; for we

which had long been in ruins. We (hence

traversed the country southeastward until we arrived at Atlas (No. 0), and it was in one of the noble vallics at the foot of the mountain that we found the very superior species of the Vespertiliohomo. In stature they did not excel those last described, but they were of infinitely greater petsonal beauty, and appeared in our eyes scarc ly less lovely than the

general representation ol angels ny i lie more imaginative schools of painters. Their social economy seemed to be regulated by laws or ceremonies exactly like those prevailing in

the Vale of the Triads, but their works ol art

were more numerous, and displayed a profi

ciency of skill quite incredible to all except

ictual observers. J shall, therelore, let the

first detailed account of them appear in Dr.

Herschcrs authenticated natural history ol this planet. Honor to the Blravo. Congress at its late session adopted the following resolution: A RESOLUTION presenting. gold medal to Geor' Croghan, and a sword to each of the officers under his command, for (heir gal

lantry and good conduct, in (he defence of

Fort Stephenson, in eighteen hundred ami thirteen. RrsolmL &-c. That the President of Hie U-

and is surrounded bv a double ring the out- nited States be requested to cause a gohi meu-

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snr.,1 milne in rli imoler. The outside diame- vices, anil nresented to Colonel Croghan, in

ter nt'th. i..nor rim U IS 1.000 miles, and the testimony of the high sense entertained b

breadth of tbc outer one being 7,-201) miles, Congress of his gallantry and L'ood conduct in the snare Imtwpon thorn is '2.800 miles. The the defence of For I Stephenson ; and that he

breadth of the inner ring s much greateriprcsent a sword to each, of the following offi

cers engaged in that afiair: to Captain Jamesj Hunter, to (he eldest male representative of Lieutenant Ber.jamin Johnston, and to Lieutenants Cyrus A. Baylor, John Meek, Ensipm

Joseph Duncan, and the nearest male representative of ensign Edmund Shipp, deceased.

Approved: l eoruary 13th, IS'-io. The gallant defence of Fort Stephenson, whether we take into consideration the cir

cumstances attending it, or the consequences

resulting irom it, was among the most brilliant achievements of the late war. To it ma)- be attributed the subsequent victory on the Lake, and the protection of the entire frontier. That (he main obiect of the British was an

attack on Eric, and the destrucUon or capture cfour naval stores at that place, is matter of history. In a despatch of (he 8th of July, Gen. de Rottenburg wrote to Commodore Barclay, as followsSr. Davis, ISth July, IS13. Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1 0t Ii insf. and have to inform you in reply thereto, that a force of nearly 100 men are directed to march in successive divisions upon Long Point, as detailed in my letter (o Geni. Procter of this day's date. 1 am fully impressed with the indispensable necessity of an attack upon Prcsquc" Isle (Erie.) and should have co-operated with you long ago, had I possessed the means of so doing I trust it will not yet be too late.

and that you will lose no time in making your arrangements ior taking up the troops from Long Point. 1 have (lie honor to be, Sir, Your most obt. serv't. FRANCIS 1L llOTTENP.URG. CoMMonoui: Uaih-lvy, occ. M. Gen. And Sir Geotge Provost, writing to General Proctor, on tluj I lib of July, lSl3,sas:

1 lie ordnance and naval stores you require must be taken from (be enemv, u-hoec resources on Luke Eric must become yours. am much mistaken if you do not find Captain Barclay well disposed to play that game.'' They made the attempt, and on (he 1 0th of August, (ion, De Rottenburg wrote (o Gen. Proctor: "I sincerely lament'that you have been compelled by your Indian force to under'ake an expedition contrary to your own judgment, and ultimately with inadequate numbers, the result ofuhich has been so disastrous. I knew by experience that no reliance can be placed on lr.di.-in3 ibt-j moxeoirat the moment when they are most wanted. This was after the attack had been made and failed; hut, had Fort Stevenson been carried, Erie would have fallen, our naval stores collected there, captured, and the supremacy of the Lake been lost. The consequences would have been fatal. The following is Col. Croghan's letter to the committee of the Senate : Gr.oRfii:TowN, 5th June. 1831. Sir: I received this morning the letter which you did me the honor to address to me yesterday. Tbc inquiries which (be military committe make of me in relation (o the affair

of Lower Sandusky, in August ISI3, I will endeavor to answer as succinctly as mav consist with perspicuity. On (he Olstof July, 181H, General Harrison, then at Lower Sadnusky, being informed by an express from Fort Meigs that (he enemy had invested the place with a force of .3000 regular troops and Indians, fell backup on Seneca Heights, leaving me in command of Fort Stevenson, (Lower Sandusky,) with a garrison of less than one hundred and forty ellectives. The Fort, a slight stoekade. flanked by four block hones, was at the time illy calculated for defence, it had no ditch or oilier outward defence to oppose an nssailin"

furce, and ils armament consisted only of one six pounder, seven charge of powder therefor, a pigol lead, 'afterwards cut up into slugs to serve as cann;s!er) and perhaps forty rounds per man of musket cartridges. On the departure, of Gen. Harrison, I (raced out a ditch about (lie work of six feet in width, and forthwith commenced its excava

tion with every pick, shovel and spade (bat could be found; axe men be ing at the time directed to cut away Ibe trees" and bushei to musket shot distance from I ho pickets. The work advanced rapidly, but at Ibe moment of its completion, on (he morning of the 30th of July. 1 received unorder from Gen. Harrison, elated the evening before, at Seneca, directing me to abandon the Fort, set lire lo il, and retre at to Head Quarters at Sene'IM I I . l 1 1

i . 1 lie: UIIK'I I ueici III! Ilea ai all K'711-. s

not (o carry into cili t ; but deeming it important lo know the sentiments of mv oflie is on the subject, I submitted without remark the onler to iheni far consideration and reply.

laeuts. Johnson and Itaylor, and LiKigns Ship and Duncan were for holding the place; Lieut. Mecks, audit is believed Cant. Hunter

and Lieut. Anthony were in favor of its abandonment; the two latter however did not nve an expression of their opinion . A few hours afte r my note ol refusal (. Gen. Harrison (which wasci"ir'icd in term, (hat the enemv could not and In alone could understand) 1 received an order to deliver up my command to an officer sent (o relieve me, an 1 report myself at his head quarters, which 1 did on the evening of that day. Early on the following morning 1 was remanded to my posl. and on reasMiiiiing tincommand I was highly gral iiied in witnessing the general satisfaction that seemed to pervade the garrison, and in re ceiv ing (he heartfelt greetings of (he four olheersjust mentioned, who had sustained me in (he course I had chosen to adopt.

On the following daj at noon, the advance" of the enemy made its appearance, and about three o'clock his whole force had invested the

fort, when after a surrender had been deman

ded and refused, a fire was opened from a gun-

ooai in me river, ana a nownzer placed under cover of a ravine, w ithin 150 yards of the place. No shots were returned by the fort; for in fruth such was the uire necessity for husbanding our ammunition, that I gave a positive order under r.o circumstances to fire at an enemy at a greater distance than thirtyfeet. Before day-light on the mornino- of the 2d of Augu-t, believing that a fire would be

concentrated upon the Block house (the N-

Lj.) contained our onlv piece ol artilliry, with

a view to dismount it, I directed it to be re

moved into (he Northern Block house, and

to be pointed so as to rake the ditch in the direction of the North West angle of the fort.

My anticipations were in due season realized; four guns upon the Block house first named

and with such precision as to plunge several

shot direct Iv through the embrasure at which

the piece had been standing.

After this, the enemy's fire was principally

directed against the North Western angle of

the I erf, with a view to eilecl a breach, which care was taken to prevent. About G o'clock in (he afternoon, the sound of a bugle gave no tice of some immediate movement, and in a few minuier. the enemy wnsseen advancing to (he nssr.ult in several columns. The North Eastern face commanded by Lieut. Johnson, was first attacked; but the attacking column was firmly received, and the Lieutenant being reinfored by Ensign Duncan, who came very promptly to his a.-si:-(ance w ith his whole command, was enabled in a few minutes to beat it back with a loss. The North Western angle was then rigorously assaulted; Lieut. Mecke, however, who commanded at (hat point, aided by (be advice of (he ever active and gallant Shipp, met the overwhelming force opposed to him with so deadly a lire of musketry as (o cause its recoil. In spite of every effort, ihc enemy gained the ditch, and was endeavoting to cut awnv the pickets, when he was slopped in his career by a destructive fire then opened upon him from the six pounder under the direction of Sergt. Weaver, (a volunteer,) with five or six Pittsburgh and Petersburg!) volunteers. The enemy behaved in the mort daring and determineel manner; but after (lie second discharge from ibe six pounder, it was clearly to lie bt.'t.' 1 1 lllll ilia ut;linncy couij nrnll liini nothing. Before (he firing had censed at this point, a column of '200 men advasiced against (he South Eastern face of the work, but it sbnred (he fate of the other cc lumns. Lieut. Bailor, who had charge of (hat part of (he line, being nidcel by the reserve under Ensign Duncan, (who had been previously ordered to afford relief wherever it was wanted,) soon compelled it lo relrcat precipitately and in confusion. Iliad ocular proof of (he gallantry of Lieut?. Johnson, Mccks and Bavlor, and Ensigns Shipp and Duncan. Capt. Hunter 1 did not

see during the assault, he being confined to the Block house upon the right of his company, but he doubtless performed his duty most fai lb fully. The consequences hinged upon (be attack on Sandukny. were important;, bad it succeeded, Gen. Harrison would most probably havc. been compelled to fall back upon upper Sandusky, thus leaving (he whole frontier open to (be incursions oi" the fndians: and the enemy flushed with success would have continued down (he lake hi prosecution of the ex-elusive-objects of the. campaign the destruction of (he stores and boats at Clev eland, and of the fleet under Commodore Perry at Eric, both of which would have been accomplished without any material loss. I may seem to attach ton much importance lo the allair, but not more I think (ban facts warrant. The British account? already before, (lie ce nunitlce, assure us that an attack on Erie was meditated , and that it was not made in consequence of the refusal of the Indians to pass down the south side of (he lake

without lust tak.ng 1 ort Sandusky: and ibe letter of ( ion. Duncan, also before the committee (and which can be confirmed by many now at the seat of Government.) is equally explicit as to the course (bat would probahfv bave been pursued by Gen. Harrison had Sandusky fa Ken. J I 'jive Ibe honor to be, Mot respect lii 1 1 y, Your obedient servant, G. CROGHAN. To the rim. IV. C. rrrslou. () he C '-'it imifd.'l

The Akin. S. C. Telegraph of the 1 lib inst. ays: Judge Linch pinned it into a chap a few davs ago down on the Runs in this district. We have not heard ail the particular.

iTbe follow was found in the crtt,x ...;(i.

ibe negroe s; and w hen detected, feigned partial insanity. There were two others of the like stamp detected about (be same time in Orangeburg di-hiet. We lean, that judge Hang presided there and passed sentence on C.H:.-i.Ti-.--The Cincinr.Ati. Gazelle, of the 17th inst.. savs, "Thf-sieaimboat Artist, .Vow I oui-ville, on vesSs-day;, picked up a child float.eg in the niver., seventeen miies below the c.ty. It was appanth. three or lour years e,, ,Ird in a. M ,1 t ltico frock, siuW on, but -,o slocking tVr hair. Sup-

r'" " ',0"" :,,ii, i i ir ,m some 'team

o .i . i no cur. 'j.? v.,; I.w

the Ohio f jund,"7

uorc

c.pjxxsita

Jin some t

with f women on lo wj.ci h k waV