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POUGHKEEPSIE EAGEE, PRINTED AMD PUBLISHED BY Platt &> Raixney) Eoery Wednesday morning, Main-st., Poughkeepsie At two dollars per annum. T H R E S H I N G M ACH INE AISD T O R S E P O W E R .— ^We c a n prove, b y L as many and as respectable wiinesses as any other persons, that our Machine can thresh as much in any given lime, and as well, as any other that can be produced in this county; that it works much easier, and with proper maiiagement.is as durable as any oth er. We have a few incomplete order for sale, at low prices, and will make others to order. R A Y M O N D & S T U R G E S . Poughkeepsie, July 6, 1835. _________ 76 Ca0le unable to say; but \from what has been stated a- bove, it is obvious that a new route has been open ed to the Polar sea, and that a large blank which form e rly struck the eye, bn surveying the map, will now. in a great-measure be filled up. Captain Back will, we believe, have much interesting infor mation to communicate, respecting his observations on the Aurora, the changes on the needle, as he drew Northward, &c. The extremest cold, expe rienced, we learn, was 70 deg. below zero. The expedition returned to Port Reliat^^ :e Ciyitam Bade left on the 20th A^2i. NEW AND IMPROVED PATENT THRASHING MACHINE ' H O R S E P O W E R .— T h e public ! informed that the subscribers have becor iroprietors of E llen’s 'Patent Thrashing jM chine and Horse Power, for ihe couniies of Dutchess a Putnam, excepting the towns of Rhinebeck and Cli ton, and they offer the Machine to the public with a full confidence ofits receiving full approbation and in full belief ofits being superior to any heretofore offer ed. Its simplicity of construction, and the ease with which it operates^ have generally given farmers the fullest confidence m its being the best now in use. They w ould furher s ta te , th a t they m a d e seventy-seven o f the above Machines last year, and sold them; that out of that number about a dozen were cast at the Mattc- awan foundry, in Fishkill. In consequence of some dif ficulty arising from the former castings.the subscribers were induced to try other castings, and the latter have so completely anstvered the purpose that they can with the fullest confidence make assurance that they will be durable. They have one out of the above dozen cast the Mateawan factory, with which tl VOL. VIII. [From Blackwood’s Magazine for July.] THE SHIP. Where art ihou going mighty ship ? Thy sails are on the wind, A n d the o c ean, with a roaring sw eep. Is racing on behind. POUGHKEEPSIE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1835. NO. 385. high tide was quite manifest upon the face of the vers had questioned or denied the existence of any' observed to immerse for a period of several sec- cliffs, for m o r e ith a n a h u n d r e d m iles ; y e t, diversi- h u m id a tm o s p h e re in th is p lan e t. | o n d s. The moon being now low on lier descent. Dr. Hcrschel inferred that the increasing refrarigibiliiy fied as Cleomci ta in in g lirly degrees :des, an iinn fiirther mense annullar >uth, in No. 11 j mountain, cor thy mast, round and thrashed ■did not cost six cents -'-in c is nothin- th o u s a n d ' they went a- aushels, which L o w Point L anding, in the town of J e xpense in repairs, and the m a - than wore b right. A n y one who .chine, can exam ine the above at ing put bring them as early as possi- :s to make. i those who have Low Point Landing, in the town of Fishkill, where the subscribers intend to keep them constantly on hand. They will also deliver them with all the apparatus to put in motion, and set them up, in any place within the district mentioned above. Orders received will be punelually attended to. As there arc a good many who have had our Ma chine, and intend to have the Matteawan ca in, they are requested to bring them as early ble, as the subscribers have many new one: The above Machine is calculated for ■ horses. For any particulars respecting it value, people in the eastern part of the county are re ferred to Messrs. John and Theodorus Purdy, Wash ington Hollow. GILBERT BUDD. \ JACOB BUDD. Low Point, (Fishkill,) July 1,1835. The following Certificate is from t had the Matteawan Casting. We, the subscribers, having purchased Thrashing Machines and Horse Power of Budd, Smith & Co. of Fishkill, called Allen’s patent, cast at the Matt foundry, in Fishkill, beg leave to slate, that wi satisfactorily tried them in thrashing our grain, and can safely recommend them to the public both for durability of casting, strength of machine and horse power, and simplicity of construction. The Machine is so con structed as not to require a machiiiest, in case of acci dent, to put it in order; the pinions being bored out, and the shafts turned and keyed on. We further state, that we have not seen any Thrashing Machine in our judgment exceeding the above, both in ease of horse power, neatness of \thrashing and labor of hands, the whole being portable, easily moved and quick set in motion. June27, 1S35. John P a n Poorhfs, Resolved Gardner, J W m . H . V a n Voorhis, Isaac 1 ). L y o n , Sylvanus Pine, Abraham Vermilyea, Shadrach R . Flagler, R ichard De W itt, Gilbert Flagler, Daniel Washburn, TO EARIWERS. T A N E ’S P a t e n t T H P v E S H I N G M A - M,si CHINE and Endless Chain HORSE POW ER.—The Farmers of Dutchess and Columbia coun ties are respectfully informed that the subscriber has become interested in the patent right to the manufac ture and sale of Lane’s Patent Thrashing Machine and Endless Chain HorsePower for the above coun- s. These Machines have been e.xhibited by Mes: The sea-birds wheel abot And the waters fly below. And the foaming billows, flashing Are leaping by thy prow. And midst the clouds ihy fluttering flag Is streaming strong and well. A s if to bid y o n beacon crag A last and gay farewell. Where art thou going? “Far away, To seek a distant shore— Gaze ye upon me while ye may, You will not see me more. My flag is dancing in the sky. My sails are on the breeze. And the wild bird screams exultingly, As we bound along the seas. A hundred guns are on my dock, A n d a thousand men below— And my wings are spread without a speck, As white as driven snow. Gaze while ye may—ye can but see My panoply and pride— Ye can but hear the hissing sea Dashed gaily from niy side. Hush! bootless sobs and yearning sighs, Ye broken hearts be still, Lest yonder landsman’s envious eyes Dream we have aught of ill— Lest he should think of care or wo, Amidst our gallant crow, Our souls that hear the blithe winds blow, With cheeks of ashen hue. Hurrah ! hurrah ! our homes we quit, And those who are therein— Will they be safe and standing yet, When we cross the waves again ? Hurrah! hurrah! a glorious land Is rising far away— What grave upon that stranger strand fshall wrap our unknown clay / Hurrah ! hurrah ! beneath our keel A thousand fathoms sleep— And fleets are there—but with hearts of steel, We’ll gaily o’er them sweep. On, on—the worm is at our heart, But the shout upon our lip— And who shall play the craven’s part In our proud and gallant ship ? And who shall let the groan be heard W^hich lips a re g n awed to save— O r the tears be seen that w ithout a word, A r c falling on the wave ? O n , on— the sea-I And the shore: And scarce the I Can see our h But sighs him as he turns away To trim his evening hearth. tiery was during ..this and a much :o, we perceived no trace of animal stence, n o tw ith s tan d i n g w e could co m m a n d at will a perspective or a foreground view of the whole. Mr. Holmes indeed, pronounced some tiguod with the excitement of the high en-j them, w h ich is eleven miles in extent, isdensely white objects of a circular form, which we saw at joyments we ^ d partaken, we mutually agreed to crowded with woods nearly to the summits of the some distance in the interior of a cavern, to be bo- call in the assistants at the lens, and reward their; iiills. Not a rod of vacant land, except the tops of nafide specimens of large cornu ammonis ; but to yigijant aUention with congratulat' - ' --------- . ■>. . . , , , • me they appeared merely large pebbles, which had been chafed and rolled there by the tides. Our chase o f animal life was not yet to be rewarded. Having continued this close inspaction nearly two hours, during which wo passed over a wide tract of country, chiefly of a nigged and apparently vol- map, about mid' .nic character; and having seen few additional tafe, and the Miare irieties of vegetation, except some species of lich- ever withoi , of the red some species of li ■ery where in great abundance, losed that we should take out all D red mountniiio, which in compliment to tl arms of ourrqyalpatron, ivedenominated “the Val ley of the Unicorn ; and it may be found in Blunt’s map, about midway between the Mare Fcecundi- which grew Dr. Ilerschel propi o u r lenses, give a rap id sp e e d to th e p a n o r a m a , a n d search for some of the principal valleys known to the astronomers, as the most likely method to re- ird our first night’s observations with the disci I beings. The lenses hei ween the Mare W Nectaris.” of the 11th a ral archway or flu'ough which over a prccipii then forms a 1ranching runs a rivGi I of grey rocks 80 feet in depth, and idling stream through a beautiful dug crea- ig the stork. y is a natu- feet high, and 100 wide; ir that discharges itself it in depth, ai jr unutterably glorious we found in accord: ting remo- )!y glor ery o f animated beings, ved, and the eflulgenceof c reflectors left undiininished, W( with our calculations, that our field of yievy^ < preliended about twenty five miles *of the lunar surface, with the distinctness both of outline and detail which^couid be procured of a terrestrial i jeet at the distance of two and a half miles : optical phenomenon which you will find demon- ■ated r in Note 5. This afforded us the best land- ws we had hitherto obtained, and althou lerated motion scape viev the accelh nights of the 11th and 12th being cloudy were unfavorable to observation ; but on those of the I3th and Hth fitrthcr animal discoverieg made of the most exciting interest to every 1: being. W e give them in ilie graphic language of our accomplished correspondent: “The astonishing and beautiful discoveries whic we had made during our first night’s observation, and the brilliant promise which they gave o-f the future, rendered every moonlight hour too precious lO-Jgcsif}ci\e us to the deprivation occasioned-^hy these two cloudy evenings; and they were not borne with strictly philosophical patience, notwith standing our attention was closely occupied in su perintending the erection of additional props and braces to the twenty-four feet lens, which we found had somewhat vibrated in a high wind that the morning of the 11th. The night ;h [January] was one of pearly purity an: liness. The moon ascended the firmament in , and the stars lugh on the morning of the 11th. Th e night of we 13th [January] was one of pearly purity and k liness. Th e moon ascended the firmament i gor geous splendor, and the s retiring around her, left her the unrivaled queen of the hemispher last night but one, in the presej ■ms a b stream through a bes campaign district for many miles. Within twenty miles of this cataract is the largest lake or rather inland sea, that h.-is been found throughout the sev en and a half millions of square miles v.liich this illuminated side of the moon contains. Its widtl front cast to west, is lc![) miles, and from north tc, south, 266 miles. Its shape to the northward, is not unlike that of the bay of Bengal, and it is stud ded with small islands, most of which are volanic, Two of these, on the eastern side, are now violent ly eruptive; but our lowest magnifying power vvas too great to examine them with convenience, on account of the cloud of smoke and ashes which be clouded our field of view: as seen by Lieut. Drum- inond, through our reflecting telescope of 2000 times, they exhibited great brilliancy. In a bay on the western side of this sea, is an island 55 miles long, of a crescent form, crowded through its entire sweep with the most superb and wonder ful natural beauties, both of vegetation and geolo- Its hills arc pinnacled with t.all quartz crys- o rich a yellow and orange hue that we at :ing the lenses, we found them in flocks over a ;at part of the valley. I need not say how desi rous we were of finding shepherds to these flocks, and even a man with blue apron and rolled up sleeves, would have been a welcome sight to us, if not to the sheep; but they fed in peace, lords of their own pastures, without either protector or de- yer in human shape. W e at length approached the level opening to the lake, where the valley narrows to a mile in width, and displays scenery, on both sides, pictur esque, and romantic beyond the powers of a prose description. Imagination, borne on the wings ol poetry, could alone gather similes \to portray the wild sublimity of this landscape, where dark lielie- loth crags stood over the brows of lofty precipices. 3 if ramparts in the sky; and forests seemed sus pended in mid air. On the eartern side there was one soaring crag, crested with trees, which hung o- ver in p, curve like three-fourths of a gothic arch, and b e in g o f a rich crim s o n color, its effect w a s arrived at Lachine, as already mentioned, t 6th inst. Thus has terminated an expedition undertaken from the most generous and lofty motives of which our nature is susceptible, pursued with the utmost ardor and zeal, and Conducted in safety through dangers and difficulties of no ordinary kind, with the most consummate wisdom. [From the Commercial Advertiser.] Important discovery, which it is hoped will put the question of smoking, being a poison, forever at to sec 120 y e a r s , th o u g h you stood Id b e in g o f a ric h erm is o n color, i t | effe c t w a s a Ihousm ffi mik^^^^^ icjL ion ofsuchyi^^^^^^^ m iie T c a s e \ u e a s ^ ^ ^ ^ tobacco s iL k < sociation of such grandeur with such beauty. perceive four successive flocks of largo winged creatures, wholly unlike any kind of birds, descend with a slow even motion from the clifls on the western side, and alight upon the iilain. They were first noticed by Dr. Herschel, who exclaimed, “ Now, gentlemen, my theories against 3 mur proofs, which 3 'ou have often found a pretty even bet, have here something worth looking a t : 1 was c .1. J.L - A IP ___ __ p ___ hnni'\' - lofty chain of obelisk-shaped, or very slem pyramids, standing in irregular groups, each com posed of about thirty or forty spires, every one of which was perfectly square, and as accurately truncated as the finest specimens of Cornish crystal. They were of a faint black hue, and very rcsplendant. I now thought that we had assuredly fallen on productions of art; but Dr. Herschel shrewdly remarked that if the lunarians could build thirty or forty miles of ongitude which would thence immedi ately ensue, Dr. Herschel informed us that he should direct our researches to the parts numbered 2, 11, 26 and 20 in Blunt’s map, and which arc respectively known in the modern catalogue by the names of Endyinion, Cleomedes, Longrenus, and Patavious. To the careful inspection of these, and the regions bet wen them and the extreme wes tern rim, hepropo.sed to devote the whole of this highly favorable night. Taking then our twenty- five mile breadth of her surface under the field and reducii first supposed them to be and they spritig^ip thus froi of hills which are covered as and orange hue that we al be pointed flames of fire: ^ smooth round brows with a velvet mantle, enchanting little valleys of this wind ing island, we could often see these splendid na ral spires, mounting in the midst of deep grt woods, like church steeples in the vale of West moreland. W e hero first noticed the bar palm- tree, which differs from that of our tropical latitudes only in the peculiarity of very large crimson flow ers, instead of the spadix protruded from the c< nion calx. W e, however, perceived no fruit any specimens we saw: a circumstance which attempted to account for froi e here something worth lool fident that if ever we found beings in human shape, it would be in this longitude, and that they would be provided by their Creator with some extraordi nary powers of locomotion : first exchange for my number D.” This lens being introduced, gave us a fine half mile distance; and we counted three parties of these creatures, of twelve, nine, and fif teen each, walking erect towards a small wood near base of the eastern precipices. Certainly they would never be out of her mouth. 1 asked long she had smoked, she answered, one hun dred and twenty years. Now, mark this, you intemperate mortals, who make smoking a church felony—not one of your anti-pipe associa tion,^ w ill live to sec 12 0 y e a r s , th o u g h yo u ion day sun, that if tobacco smoke is a poison, ■r case, at least, it is a very slow poison. Way, rerily believe, that her flesh, skin and hones e so complcUdy saturated ivitli the Inslnuaillig particles of this medicinal weed, that were she to die and be buried in one of our salt-petre caves in the west, she would remain in the same state of iucoiTuplion for five hundred years to come. You remember the old Indian squaw which we found sitting in a cave in Kentuk-y, about twenty years ago; when examined by Mitchell and other learn ed doctors in the laws of nature, they gave it as . their opinion, after carefully inspecting’(withmag- iiifyers) every inch ofr.ags and every strip of buffa lo hide, with which she was bound, that she must have sat there at least a thousand years. She has all the appearance of a living mummy. Her person may be said to be dead already, one limb pled, her Langsine sound, breathing free a ad now build thirty or forty miles of such monuments as view, and reducing it to a slow movement, we sc these, we should ere now have discovered others o f found the first very singularly shaped object less equivocal character. He pronounced them our inquiry. It is a highly mountainous distri formations, of probably the wii heed us not— es are sinking fast— landsm a n from his cot Fhat aught si Without 01 so proud and gay n earth.” quartz formations, of probably \the wine-colored amethyst speqies, and promised us, from these and other proofs which wc had obtained of the power ful action of the laws of chrystalization in this planet a rich :field of mineralogical study. On in troducing a lens, his conjecture was fully confirm ed : they were monstrous amethysts, of a diluted claret color, glowing in the intensestf light of the !un !—They varied in height from sixty to ninety rgh we saw several of a still more incredi- onfidently belived that nothing of the yet appeared will bear any comparison : for usefulness and durability, and the ctHunu tiers, as ■will in a short time, supersede all ol _. „ihines of the kind. He well be prepared during ensuing season to manufacture these machines to der, at his establishment in the town of Amenia, near the City Post-Office. CALVIN CHAMBERLIN. A m e n ia, D e c . SO, 1834. 49 Q j n H E undersigned, hav in g witnessed the JB. the operation of LANE’S patent THRESH ING MACHINE, and ENDLESS CHAIN HORSE POWER, and having carefully examine the same while exhibiting by Mr. Fuller, are fully sal isfied of its great superiority over any machine of the kind which has fallen under our observation. This machine performs its work very perfectly, and with sufficient rapidity. The horse power being perfectly simple in principle nnd construciion, and evidently of great strength and durability ; is apparently not liable to the too common objection of getting out of order, and requiring ^pairs, nnd the fact that the whole is so easily triyisportod, (requiring but little more room than for a horse to stand upon,) and that one horse performs the labor with much apparent ease, must command the admiration of every person who sees its operation. Wc can, therefore, confidently say that, in our opin ion, M e s s r s , Coit and F u l ler’s M a c h ine and H o rse Power is decidedly the best now in use, and deserves the attention and patronage of the grain growing far mers of our county. Jan. 12, 1835. Theodorus Storm, Morgan Carperter, Samuel Hunting, Stanford. John WilKinson, Gilberl Y. Wilkinson, Union V a le. Jaspor B u r tch, ) ' N E W S FROM T H E MOON. GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES LATELY MADE By Sir John Herschel, L. L. D., F. R. S ’, &c. AT THE CAPE OE GOOD HOPE. (From the Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Scienee. New Lunar Discoveries .—Until the ! January, the observations were chiefly dii the stars in the southern signs, in which without the aid o f tho hydro oxygen reflectors, a countless number of new stars and nebulte were discovered. But we shall defer our correspondent’s account of these to future pages, for the purpose of no Ic withholding from our readers the more gem and highly interesting discoveries which made in the lunar world. And for this purpose too, we shall defer Dr. Grant’s elaborate mathe matical details of the corrections which Sir John Herschel has made in the best tables of the moon’s topical, sideriai and synodick revolutions; am the phenomena of the syzygies on which a gi part of tho established lunar theory depends. feet, though\\ we r „ blc altitude. They were observed in a succession of valleys dNided by longitudinal lines of round breasted hills covered with verdure and nobly un dulated ; but, what is more remarkable, the val leys which contained these stupendous chrystals were invariably barren, and covered with stones of a ferruginous hue which were probably iron py rites, W e found that these curiosities were situa ted in a district elevated about half a mile above the valley off Mare Fucunditalis, of Mayer and Riccloi; the shores o f which soon hove in vicu But never was a name more inappropriately be stowed. From ‘Dan to Beersheba’ all was barren, —the seaboard was entirely composed of chalk and flint, and not a vestige of vegetation could be dis covered with our strongest glasses. The whole breadth of the northern extremity of this sea, which was about three hundred miles, having crossed onr plane, we entered upon a wild moun tainous region abounding with more extensive for ests of larger trees than we had before seen—the species of which I have no good anology to de scribe. In gentle contour they resembled our for- it they were much more subperb in fo- our inquiry. It is a highly mountainous district, the loftier chains of which approach each other in slender points, and are united by one mass of hills of great length and elevation; thus presenting a figure similar to that of a long skein of thread, bows of which have been gradually spread open from their connecting knot. The third oval looks also like a skein, and lies as if carelessly dropped from nature’s hand in connection with the other; hut that which might fancifully be suppo sed as having formed the second bow of thrs second skein, is cut open and lies in scattered threads smaller hills which cover a vast extent of level t< ritory.—The grond plan of these mountains isso re markable that it has been accurately represented in almost every linear map of the moon that has been drawn ; and in Blunts, which is the best, it agrees exactly with my dscription. Within the grasp, as it Wore, of the broken bow of hills last mentioned, stands an oval shaped mountain enclosing a val ley of an immense area, and having ou its western ridge, a volcano in a state of terrific eruption. To le northeast of this, across the broken, or what Holmes called “ the Vagabond mountains,” fruh imstance wl . ed to account for rctical) extremc.s in the lunar :ious kind of tree-melon we nevertheless t abundance, and in ception and maturity. The color of these wo( was a dark green, though not without occasioi admixtures of every tint of our forest seasons.— The hectic flush of autnipn was often seen kindled upon the check of earliest spring, and tlic gay dra pery of summer, in some places, surrounded t leafless a: ■e united hands in a circle of per- Of animals we saw only an ele- ^ ^ ‘ lut three feet high, like a miniature Zebra, which was always in small herds on the green sward of the hills; and two or ee kinds of long-tailed birds which we judged the great (theo- climatc. On a nevertheless saw indance, and in every stage of in- urity. The color of these woods vithor spring, summer, in some places, IS the victims of winter. It seemed I the seasons here united hands in a circle o petual harmony. O f anim: gant striped quadruped aboi miniature Zebra, which :rds on the green sward of three kinds of long-tailed birds which we judged to be golden and blue pheasants. On the shores, however, we saw countless multitudes of univalve shell fish, and among them some huge flat or .vhich all three of my associates declared to be ci 4ern precipices. were like human beings, for their wings h: disappeared and their attitude in walking was both erect and dignified. Having observed them at this distance for some minutes we introduced lens H. which brought them to the apparent proxlmi eighty yards: the highest clear magnitude sessed until the latter end of March, when feeted an improvement in the gas-burners, half of the first party had passed beyond c v.ass; but of all the other we had a perfectly dis tinct and deliberate view. They averaged four t in height, were covered, except on the face, di short and glossy copper-colored hair, and had wings composed of a thin membrane, withoi lying snugly upon their backs, from the shoulders to the calves of the legs. The 1 3 all along by tides: Mr. Holmes called “ the Vagabond mountains, the largest and last of which is marked F. in the lalougo, stalacliti were very cavernous, ies larger than a man’s 11 sides. Indeed catalougo, and fane Mortum or or mi uced by a ct ibre a title, n of which is marked F . in tt icifully denominated the Mai nonly the “Lake of di Mortum or or more comi Induced by a curiosity to divine the reason of so than by any more philosoph- o?so theory depends, e o’clock on the night ying been advanced with- ion, that tho astronomer the inspection of her ic power of his esc oak ; bul liage, having ical motive, we here first gen magnifiers to —Ourtwcnl hey were much more subperl [lossy leaves like those of the laurel, How flowers which hung in the Thomas I. Storm, A. B. Slockho m, Theodore Fowler, N S i n i r s ; ; , , , James Besley, Henry Conklin, Stephen B. Trowbridge John 'reller, A. G. Benedict, William T. Teller, Jacob Benner, Rhinebeck. Henry Staats, Caleb Mosher, George Shook, John Purdy, Red Hook. Washington. Peterr Feller,, Justus Boothe, Joshua Culver, Pine Plains. Trow ■hkeepsie. Jasp o r B u r tc h , ) M a rtin M . O v erocker, M ichael O v erocker, was about half past nine of the 10th, the moon having 1 in four days of her libration, i adjusted his instruments for tli eastern limb. The whole imi telescope was applied, and to its focal image abc one half of the power of his microscope. On : moving the screen of the latter, the field of view was covered throughout its entire area, with a be.autifully distinct and even vivid representation o{ basaltic rock. Its color was a greenish brown, and the width of the columns, as defined by their interstices on the canvass, was invariably twenty- eight inches. No fracture whatever, appeared in the mass first presented, but in a few seconds a shelving pile appeared o f five or six columns width, which showed their figure to be hexagonal, and their articulation^simijar to those of the basaltick sses o f yellow flowers which hung in ojien glades, from the branches to the ground. •S' ’ounded, except at narrow luth, by hills, red as the pu- passed, wc arrived at are- with utter astonishment. It ; s ; formation at i profusely cove ly similar,” siays 3,or or rose s was tl 1 world, iditi staffa. This prccipiti sred with a dark red fiower, under the guide altitude o f the k to be so cons could detain any peri lunar vi they iniglht tation, hov 'eckled a question luce them that the n Pete Feller Geo. C. Lashcrj This is to certify that having seen and examined Lane’s Patent Threshing Machine and Horse Power, while in operation, for several days, both al my own barn and in the neighborhood, I do believe that in point of convenience, durability, and in the manner of doing its work, it is far superior to any now in use, and that the adaptation of the Horse Power is one of the great est improvements (connected with the agricultural in terest) of the age. And I do further certify, that Mr. Fuller threshed, yesterday, with great ease, and under D a ted Fishkill, D e c . 24, 1834. ________________ M B E D F O R D CROWN GLA S S . T ^ S e i e ^ ^ D o c r E L L I S S ^ V E T ^ of i S length delfghted to pei keepsie, wholesale agent for the sale of this glass in forest. ‘-The trees,” i that place, and at our lowest factory prices. od of ten minutes, Thisglass is manufactured in Clinton county, New- York, from white flint sand, and is believed to be ful ly equal, or superior, to any Crown Glass ever offered to the public, either of foreign or domestic manufac ture. It combines all the requisites which distinguish a. perfect article of glass, and is particularly remarka ble for its beauty and evenness of surface, its transpa rency and lightness of color, its uncommon brilliancy, and its unusual thickness. Beauty, strength and weight 1 basalt: shelf V sd flo “precise s Dr. Grant, “to the Papaver Rhoe- as, rose poppy of our sublunary cornfields; and this was tho first organic production of nature in a foreign world, ever revealed to the eyes of men.” The rapidity of the moon’s ascension, or rather of the earths diurnal rotation, being nearly equal to five hundred yards in a second, would have ef fectually prevented the inspection or even the d\ y of objects so minute as these, but for t L-h constantly regulnti of tl Butut lens. B its open isummately perfect, that the object upon the field iriod they mig desire. Tht hich constantly regulates, the sextant, the required ion was found ever, which /v i e .'he specimen of they had alread' m glades, from t These mountaii gion which filled u was an oval valley, si: openings towards the south, by hills, red as the pu rest vermilion, and evidently chrystalized; for wherever a precipitous chasm appeared—and these chasms were'very frequent, and of immense depth, —the perpendicular sections presented conglom erated masses of polygon crystals evenly fitted to each other, and arranged in deep strata, which grew darker in color as they descended to the foui dations of tho precipice.—Innumerable cascadi were bursting from the breasts of every one of these cliffs, and some so near their summits, and with such great force, as to form arches many y a r d s in d iam e ter, I n e v e r w a s so vividly rem i n ded of Byron’s simile, “the tale of the white horse iij the Revciaitions.” At the foot of this bounda ry of hills was a perfect zone of woods surround ing the whole valley, which was about 18 or twen ty miles wide, at its greatest breadth, and about thirty in length. Small collections of trees of ev ery imaginable kind, were scattered about the whole luxuriant area; and here our magnifiers blest our panting hopes with specimens of con scious existence. In the shade of the woods on tho south-eastern side we beheld continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, having all the external characteristics of the bison, but more diminutive than any species of the bosgenus in •athcr than by any more ph 'e, we here first appli^ our hydro-oxy- lifiers to the local image of the great lens, enty-five miles portion of this great moun tain circus, had comprehended the whole of its area, and of course the two conical hills which rise within it about five miles from each o ther; but although this breadth o f view had heretofore gen erally presented its objects as if seen within a ter restrial distance of two and a half miles, we were, in this distance, unable to discern these central hills with any such degree of distinctness. There did not appeattobeany mist or smoke around them, as in the case of the volcano which we had left the southwest, and yet they were’coniparalivcly distinct upon the canvass. On sliding in the j ight lens the mystery was immediately solved. There were old craters of extinct vole from which still issued a heated though tr rent exhalation, that kept them in an apparently oscillatory or trembling motion, most unfavorable to examination. The craters of both of these hills, as nearly as we could judge from under this ob struction, were about fifteen fathom deep, devoid of any appearance of fire, and of nearly a yellowish while color throughout. The diameter of each Was about nine diameters of our painted circle, i nearly 430 feet; and the width ofthc rim surroui ding them about 1000 feet,—yet notwithstanding their narrow mouths, these two chimneys ofthc subterranean deep had evidently filled the whole area of the valley in which they stood with the la’ and ashes with which it was encumbered, and ven added to the height, if not indeed caused the existence of the oval chain of mountains which le clil dermined and yellow crystal thigh were shooting forth on all sides. Indeed ev ery foot of this island appeared to be crystalized ; masses of fallen crystals were found on every beach we explored, and beamed from every fractured head land. It was more like a creation of an ori ental fancy, than a distant variety of nature brought b 3 rthe powers of science to occular demonstraton. The striking dissiniilitudc of this island to everj- other we had found on these waters, and its near proximity to the main land, led us to suppose that it must some time have been a part of i t ; more es pecially as its crescent bay embraced the first of a chain of smaller ones which ran directly thither. This first one was a pure quartz rock, about three miles in circumference, towering in naked majes ty from the blue deep without cither shore or shel ter. But it glowed in the sun almost like a sapphire, as did all the lesser ones of whom it seemed the 3m, king. Our theory was'speedily confirmed; for all in the shore of the main land was baltlemented and in- spirtd with those unobtainable jewels of nature, and as we brought our field of view to include the utmost rim of the iliuniinated boundary of the pla net, we could still see them blazing in crowded bat talions as it were, throug.'i a region of hundreds of miles. In factwc could not conjecture where this georgeous land of enchantment terminated ; for as the rotary motion of the planet bore these mountain summits from our view, we became further fromom thehe we.stcrne.stcrn bound:undary. t w bo “ W c were admonished by this to lo.se no time in seeking the next proposed obj-ct of our search, the verge of the libration in longitude, and of which, for this reason. Dr. Herschel entertained some sin gular expectations. “ After a short delay in aJv.-xncing the observa- pon the levers, an.l in regul.iting tho lens,we our o’.ijecl and surveyed it. It was a dark V Like seventy miles long, bounded on the ind west, by red mountains of the moon has an atmi imilarly to our own, and irganised, and therel monstrated stituted sim ining orgaii«u-u, uuu i limal life. The basaltic er the inclined canvass p sive diameters, when a leyhi ■”i‘i losphere pable of lervers lew for :imcn o ly seen, had decided a q of too exciting an im terest to induce them to retard its exit. It had de- S * \ ed the species to which ' compared It. Jthad, live feature, which we ■arly every lunar quadruped we have discovered ■namely, a remarkable fleshy appendage over the whole breadth of the foreheae ,n any species of the bo tory. Itstail was like that of our bosgrunious; its semicircular horns, the hump on its should: , depths of its dew lap, and the length o fits shaggy hair, it closely resembled the species to which 1 first compared it. It had, however, onewidely distinc- • - ’ • ■ \ ’ ^ ’ in to . l y , / ■■■■■■ ■ •ossn iive diameters, great beauty, appeared, This was preceded by ai c rocks conyni ivass plane, through three when a verdant declivit eyes, crossing the whole bret and united to the cars. W e could most distinctlj’ this hairy veil, which was shaped like the nee of the oval chain of mountains which east, n:irth and west, by red mountains of the same them, averaged the height of 2800 feet, and Dr. about ICO inih s. This lake like that valley, opens Herschel conjectured from this, and the vast extent to the south upon a plain not more than 10 miles of their abutments, which ran for many miles iiitoj wiJe, whi.-h is here encircled by a truly magnifi- the country around them, that these volcanoes'cent amphrthcafre of the loftiest order of lunar it have been in full activity for a million of; hills. For a semi-cirde of six miles th: Lieutenant Drummond, however, rather ri->en, from llieir brow to thei: of this oval years. Lieutenant Drum supposed that the whole area of was but the exhausted crater of o which in expiring has left only th: itives of it dfafterward 'VbS this vast volcano, two imbecile Dr. able tl S 0 more. This was preceded by another mass of nearly tt form e r h e ig h t ; a t th e base o f w h ich th e y w e r e : length delighted to perceive that novelty, a lun: Ol ciiuiaiu lu ivcuic. ouuji;ci, unu ii la believed it will lose none ofits lustre by age. It is now in extensive use, and the subscribers would be happy to refer any individual who may require Crown Glass to numbers in the city of New-York, who have used large quantities ofRedford Glass. The arrange ments made with Dr. TR IV E T T are such that any quantity this market may require, will be forwarded to him at short notici' i Also, SARANA c c r o w n GLASS, a second quality article, suitable for stores, hotels and steam boats, for which purpose large and increasing quanti ties are applied. The Saranac Crown Glass can be afforded 40 per cent, less than Redford, and is a good and substantial article. Also, a quantity of EX T R A THICK CROWN GLASS, for green-houses and sky-lights, and for any purpose where uncommonly thick and stout glass is re quired. Dealers, contractors, and others interested in the u.se of an elegant and sub.stantial article, are respect fully invited to call at the stores of Doct. E. TKl Y- ETT and JAMES TRIVETT, Main-street, and s glass. CO( ive that novelty, a lunar , Dr. Grant, “for a peri- of ten minutes, were of one unvaried kind, and unlike any I have seen, except the largest class of yews in the English churchyards, which they in some respect resemble. These were fol lowed by a level green plain, which as measured by the painted circle on our canvass, of forty-nine feet, must have been more than a half a mile in breadth ; and then appeared asfine a forest of firs, unequivocal firs, as ever I have seen cherished in the bosom of my native mountains. Wearied with the long continuance of these, we greatly re duced the magnifying power of the microscope, without eclipsing either of the reflectors, and im mediately perceived, that we had been insensibly descending, as it were, a mountainous district of highly diversified and romantic character, and that we were on the verge of a lake, or inland sea; but of what relative locality or extent we were yet too greatly magnified to determine. On introdu cing^ the feeblest achromaticchromatic lensns we possessed,sed, a le we posses we found that the water, whose boundary we had just discovered, answered in general outline to the cars. W e c< 3 hairy veil, which was shaped iper front outline of the cap known to the ladies Mary Clueen of Scots cap, lifted and lowered by means of the ears. It immediately occurred to the acute mind of Dr. Heschel, that this was a providential contrivance to protect the eyes of the animal from the great extremes of light and dark- ess to which all the inhabitants of our side of the icon are personally subjected. The next animal perceived would be classed on earth as a monster. It was of a blueish lead col or, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined for ward from the perpendicular. The female was destitute of the horn and beard, but had a much longer tail. It was gregarious, and chiefly aboun ded on the acclivitous glades of the woods. In el egance of symetry it rivalled the antelope, aad like him it seemed an agile sprightly creature, running with great speed, and sp r in g in g from the g r e e n turf with all the unaccountable antics of a young Iamb or kitteiii. This beautiful creature afforded us the most exquisite amusement. The mimicry of its movements upon our white painted canvass, was as faithful and lumim '' ' \ ' ' within a few yards of a c Bcn pictured upon its tympai ttempting tio put our finger upon its beard, muld suddenly bound away into oblivion, as if ■ \ ’mpertinenct ■’ 1 : hut then walls of the Culoss:eum T the subliiiie altitu hills are ir base, as perpendicu- • at Rom: ri->en, froii ly as the outer w: here exhibiting the subliiiie a! thousand feet, in one smooth unb How nature disposed of the huge thus prodigally carried out, 1 knov. ..ui, ........ tain it is tiiat there arc no fragments of it left up- hi' plain, which is a declivity without a single; ad (xcept a billowy tract of wo:3dIand that 20, luJcof at least two inbroken surface.— c mass which she prominence except a billowy tract of wo: runs in many a v\i!d vagary of breadth of such extreme ,11 has. Tho- a “3 gister. He had no appearance old age on his person that this woman has. Parr, whose monumentis in Westminster Ab- id at the age of 152, and walked out a few I he died. * Says I, Joice, you must havq been in j'our 70ih year when Washington was born. How, then, could you nurse him. Says she, 1 was present at his birth, put on him his first clothes, and v him a dry nurse. Says I, do you belong i him a dry nurse. Says church 1 Says she, 1 am the Potomac more than £ few ladies old and y do you belong to any B.iptist; 1 was dipt in idled y e a r s ago. A was of a j^ellowish flesh color, was a slight im provement upon that of the largo orang outang, being more^ open and intelligent in its expression being more open and intelligent in its expres and having a mucli greater expansion of forehead. The mouth however, was very prominent though :Ii greater expai iwever, was very pro: somewhat relieved by a thick beard upon the cr jaw, and by lips far more human than those of an y specie.s o f th e sin iia g e n u s . In g e n e r a l metry of body and limbs they were infinitely rior to the oran iiant a hymn to a ned to electrify her i 1 thoi low- tnne. The She feebly joined lought were a midnight reveller ly- , and a company of his pot compan- is to stand around his bed, and all at once to strike up one of their bacchanalian songs, how the sound w o u ld grate upon his soul. Altogether, Joice is a sight well worth beholding —The appearance of her skin .is moro like tiie ing in her place ions to stand at ‘ri'orYo timorYn^oVtY^gVBO^^^^^^ ^ of smoked beef, than like a apparently not woolly, and arranged in t wo ------- semi-circles feet CO lifted in thcmiin as they were alternatcl' trranged 3sover thetemjile of the foi feet could only be seen as they w i walking; but, from what ' i so transient a view, they appeal and very protuberant at the heel. “ Whilst passing across the cant ever tve afterwards saw them, ihest evid(*nt!y engaged in conversation ; their gesti latihn more particularly tho varied action of tl hands and arnqs, appeared impassioned and em tw curious lead. Their alternatcl >uld sec ( ■ared tliii ss, nnd when- ■rcatures vyere L la lle t’s C o v e , I 2 t h A u g u s t. again^^ id arnqs, appeared impassioned and e phatic. VJe hencehence inferredferr that they were ration al being:ings, in d although n which al be and order as oi month on tl they were capable of prod' contrivance. The next vii was still moi a little lake, iat they were ratio perhaps of so high a ! discovered the ne> T he Piii.— a sort o f parallel.—A pig is a nnic abused animal. Every unthinking boy worries- aiid every urchin thr ....................... . they go through the immend __ , ------- r-j- ___ 1 tine taste, and devours 1 a thousand kinds of e luxurious than a pig who ■I of a long summer’s day. brick bat at them-^but ley go through the world and put up with every ing with a most commendable, philosophy. Tho gourmand, who boasts of his tine taste, and de\ pates, oineletls, sauces, and i meats, is not a whit more luxu lies in tho mud and water of a long summer’s day, and grunts at every one who goes by him. A pig is like apoliticidii. There is no hole so narrower igh, squealing The^next is.a se- ill more favorable. panded Icy to the large b margin a small w lad crossed id of till was on the borders stream, which we th irceived running down the val- eastern wood. Some of“these creatures hole business of their lives 1 they resemble an alderi more obstinate than a Dutchman, more perverse than a mule—and yet there is a laconic brevity about them in which they have the advantage of editors who vvrite long articles to let the people know that they are on the fence. Reader, did you ever drive a pig to market ? If you did you have observed how the little squealer ^ . ran from side to side of the road, like aned- cumstance of this membrane being continued from itor accommodating himself to the humors of his ne shoulders to the legs, united a! the way down, patrons. All at once he would dodge you. and rtin though gradually decreasing in width. The wings back with all his might—and if you had a cord to running down md having on its ^ Some of these ert id crossed this water and were lying like spread igles on the skirts of the wood. W e could then perceive that their wings possessed great expansion and were similar in structure to those of the hat, being a semitransparent membrane expanded in curvilineal divisions by means of straight ra united at the back by the dorsal intcgumei But what astonished us very much was the i e of this membrane beinj Icrs to the legs, united a High gradually decreasing in width. The wings ■med completely under the command of volition, for those of the creatures whom we saw bathing in the water, spread them instantly to their full width, w a v e d th e m as du c k s do th e ir s to sh a k e o f f the w a ter, and then as instantly closed them again in a compact form. Our further observation of the habits o f these creatures, who were of both sexes, led to results so very remarkable, that I prefer they should be first laid before the public in Dr. Her- Hchel’s own work, where 1 have reason to know they are fully and faithfully stated, however incre dulously they may be received.— ♦ Ybe three families then almo-s simultaneously spread their wings, and wore lost in the dark confines of the canvass, before we had time to breathe from our paralizing astonishment. W e scientifically denominated them the Vc.^per- tilio-homo, or man bat; and they are doubties- innocent and happy creatures, notwithstanding usements would but ill comport 1. The ■ They live in filth, and it is a se- nature to them ; and there is another point of isemblance. There is no animal that makes so luchuch noise att a trivialvial mishap—andishap—and nonene thathat m noise a a tri m no t gets ever it, and goes off quietly, so quickly, as a pig. The whole business of their lives is to get fat—and therein they resemble an alderman. They itinate than a Dutchman, more perve ith a! his neck, it was ley it, runs in many a v\dd vagary of breadth and course to the margin of (he lake. Tho tremendous height and expansion of this perpendicular mountain, with its bright fringe of fores som e of their amusements wou with our terrcstial notions cf decorum. The val- itsclf we call the Ruby Coliseum in comp” stupendous southern boundary, mile sweep of red precipices two thou.sai high. And the night or rather morning, b£ Ivanced, we postponed our tour to Petaviui 20,) until another opportunity.” ( Concluded next week.') i might—and if you had always about your legs. Almost every animal in the world goes outtof it more decently than the pig. lie makes as much noise about it as if his life was worth something— and squeals like vengeance to the last minute of his mortal existence. In this he is inconsislcnt, for he lose.s the character of a philosopher, which ho lias liilherto supported. lie does, indeed, “ screw liis courage to Hie sticking point,” but there it fails him. V\ e could never explain the thoughts of his death. It cannot be that his conscience troubles him, and forces him to set up so dolorous a lamen tation. It is as hard to get him to die, to put truth into the mouth of certain editors. Pigs are true republicans. They understand liberty and equtility to perfection—they have their rights and they defend them—they sleep after a true republi can fashion—and if one of their lirethren undertakes to disturb them of a cold niglit, they make as woful an outcry as did a neighbor of ours when he lost a “ fat job.” A pigs’s whole life is a farce—and ends y, the six land feet iieing far ius, (No himself af adopted this prob:ibIe theory, :h is, indeed, confirmed by the univer.sal geol ogy oftlie planet. There is scarcely a hundred miles of her surface, not even excepting her largest seas and lakes, in which circular or mountainous ridges may not easily be found, and many, very many, of these having numerous inclosed hills in full volcanic operations, which are now much low er than the surrounding circles, admit of no doubt fringe of forest tiiat each of these great f 11 (nations is the remains of open plain beneath, filled our cauvao-s witt ______ , o n e v a s t m o u n ta in w h ich h a s b u r n t i t s e lf o u t, a n d scape u n s u r p a s s e d in u n iq u e g r a n d e u r by a n y we em b a r k e d for E n g la n d , a t N e w - Y o r k , in th o L iv- left only these wide foundations ofits ancient gran- had beheld. Our twenty-five miles iierspcctive in- crpool packet of the 16th. The Montreal Gazette, denr, A direct proof of thi.s is afforded in a tre- eluded this remarkable mountain, toe plain, a ]>art! of Aug. 6th, gives the following abridged account .olcano now in its prime, which I shall of the lake, and the last graduated summits of the of Capt. Back’s movements lotice. W h a t gave the name of “ The, range of hills by which the latter is nearly sur- li.n 1 have rounded. W e ardently wished that all the world vai- II fat job.” A pigs’s whole life is a farce—and ei Pi*' in his being hung up by the heels with a stick in his m-)uth, subject to the orders of the “ Kitchen Cabinet .”—Arkansas Advocate. mendot hereaflf Lake of Death” to the annular mouiitai just described, was, I suppose, thcd.uk appearance I of the valley which it encloses, and which, to a more distant view than we obtained, certainly ex- ’ of the waters upon this; f is fertile to e; S the general as;iect planet. The surrounding country i cess; b tween this circle and No. 2 (Endymion)! which wc proposed first to examine, we counted not less than twelve luxuriant forests, divided by open plains, which waved in an ocean of verdure, and were probably prairies like those of North A- merica. In three of these wo discovered numer ous herds of quadrupeds similar to our friends the bisons in the Valley ofthc Unicorn, but of much just discovered, the Mare Nubium of Ri und away :onscious of our earthlv i examining the centre of this delightful val- ■e found! a large branching river, abounding Camara obscura, when bisons in the Valley ofthc Unicorn, but of mt Frequently when larger size; and scarcely a piece of woodland its beard, it curred in our panorama which did not dazzle vision with flocks of white or red bird: \ ' “At lazzle our upon the t prevent would to exam ine this gli ~OOK, LANE & CORNING. 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A beach of brill iant white sand, and girt with wild castellated rocks, apparently of green marble, varied at chasms, occurring every two or three hundred feet, with grotesque blocks‘ of chalk or gypsum, and feathered and festooned at the summits with the clustering foliage of unknown trees, moved along the bright wall of our apartment until we were speechless w ith a d m iratio n . The w a t e r 'wherever wo obtained a view of it, was nearly as blue as that of the deep ocean, and broke in large white billows upon the strand. Tho action of very and water-birds of numerous ipecies of gray pelican was the most ; but a white and black crane, with un- r long legs and bill, were also quite com- itched their pisciverous experiments a topes of catching sight of a lunar fish; [h we were not gratified in this respect, with which thej- nly beneath the lar the upper extremity of one of these o b tain e d a glim j mably mon. W ewat long time, in hopes of cal lUt although we wt M length we carefully explored the Endymion. W c found each of the three ovals volcanic and ster ile within; but without, most rich, throughout the level regions around them, in cver 3 '^ imaginable production of a bounteous soil. Dr, Herschel has classified not less than thirty eight species of for est trees, and nearly twice this number of plants, found in this tract alone, which .are widely different to those found in more equatorial latitudes. Of animals, he classified nine species of mammalia, and five of oviparia. Among the former is a small kind of rein-deer, the elk, the moose, tho horned bear, and the biped beaver. The last resembles the beaver of the earth in every other respect than in its destitution of a tail, audits invariable habit of walking upon only two feet. Itcarries its young i great velocity across the pebbly beach, and easy gliding motion. Its huts £ was lost sight of in the strong current which set ter and higher than those of ofif from this angle of the island. W e were savages and from th compelled, however, to leave this prolific valley un- ly all of them, ther_ explored, on account of clouds which were evident- quainted with the use of fire. Still accumulating in the lunar atmosphere, our own body c ranslucent. But this was itself! the beaver, iscovery, for more distant obser- j borders of lakes andjrivers. s young moves with an on s tr u c ted bet- its being ac- ise of fire. Still his heatf and differ only in the- p o in ts sta te d from t h a t and it was ncvi t o f er seen except on the J in which it has been led. W e ardently :ould view a scene so strangely grand, and our pulse beat high with the hope of one day exhibiting it to our countrymen in some part of our native was of course imt front of this mighty £ leaping cascades and most interiiiinable the canvass, we fie ,ely covered with tho ruby iphitheatre, its tall figures, ’ caverns. As its al- 3 measured off upon long flinesjjof some of the ho- rugged yellow metal, ha.iging from the crevices of the ho- the utmost activity built during the winter, but in rizonlal strata in wide net work, or straight pen- spring, finding that they had an insufficient supply :hes. Vie of course concluded that this of provisions, they could only take one with them. net wo] dant branches. W e of course was virgin gold, and wc had no the contrary. On searchir During the winter, tho expedition had to endure great privations and sufferings, owing to the scar city of food and the severity of the weather. On the 25th of April, 1833, being exactly one year af ter he had left Lachine, and during a very heavy snow storm, the despatch communicating Capt. Ross’s safe return was delivered to Capt. Back. The pri.Tiary object for which the journey was un dertaken being thus happily fulfilled by other a- gents, Capt. Back made preparations for comply in g -with th e secon d a ry part of his in s t r u c tio n s — the examination of (he coast between Point Turn- again and Ross’s Pillar. Several boats were with y built during the winter, but 5say-master lontrary. On searching the plain, over had observed tho woods roving in all if clouds in the sky, we v --------- e E wM . ' f a,“ f o S e d I r y ! i . 7 perpendicular parallel to each other. Its body was like that of a deer, but its fore legs were most dis proportion ally long, and its tail, which was very bushy and of snowy whiteness, curled high over its rump, and hung two or three feet by its side.— 3 colors were bright bay and white in hi itches, clearly defined, but of no regular peered, hree specimens of anotht veil known to us all that wi he r e c o g n itio n o f so f a m i lia r a n acq t in so distant a land. They were neither less three good large sheep, which would disgraced the farms of Leicestershire, or t! hies of Lcadenball market. W ith tht ild find no mark of d n tan c e lorenar I not have the sham- scru tin y w e could f ind n o m a r k these and those of oi n the appenda d isiinctioi native soil; the) liS append-age over the eyes, which I have of provLsions, they could only take one with them. It was not until the month of July, 1834, that the expedition got to open water on the Thlew-ee-cho- dezeth, or Great F ish River. Capt. Back, we be lieve, succeeded in determining that this river runs ird, and if Chapter on Eyes .—Our neighbour, Dr. Green ofthc Transcript, asks us why we think old Joice Heth’s eyes should have wasted away, and run out of their sockets, from the great activity of that jue, which is a more active Oman like, with its ceaseless s of the mind are no longer There is no speculation in yes,” which are now but the shrivelled mem- anes of the lids that once played in active raove- mt over the no doubt sparkling globes that they •merly enshrouded. The delicate texture of the eyeball, composed of thin perishable humors, and tire extreme sensibility ofits broad expanded tissue of nerve on the retina, as well also as the size of the optic nerve, and its immediate contiguity to the brain, from its being the most important of alt the organs of sense, ojipose it to a greater wear and tear, a more continued excitement, and a grea ter degree of consequent exhaustion—all tending towards destruction. Whereas, the tongue, where the sense of taste and power of articulation chiefly reside, is a stro n g , m u s c u la r, f ibrous m a s s o f flesh, calculated for hard duty, and too essential as an instrument of food in all of us, and as an instru ment of speech in the fair sex particularly, to be under any circumstances, during answered, Doctor?— N. Y. Star. :ve, succeeded in determining that this river the northward, and if we understand the pur- izingiy long port of the scanty information which has reached long spiral u.s, it has its source on a height of land, about 150 or 200 miles from Fort Reliance, the winter esta blishment of the expedition, at the eastern extrem ity of Great Slave Lake. Capt. Back is the first European who has visited Great Fish River, and amined its course to the Polar Seas. Its very ;tence -was doubted by m a n y g e o g ra p h e r s . It rid to be large, but dangerous of navigation— greatly impeded by ice, and Laving little but mounds of sand along its banks. It falls into the Polar Sea, at a point, as far as we can learn, that coincides very n e a r to the place a s s ig n e d to it by Captain Back and the Arctic Committee in Lon don, in their prospectus already referred to. F a r t h e r than this, we only know that the party of intrepid travellers bad to' encounter every ob stacle to which polar navigation is liable, and are led to believe that immense masses of companied by uncommohly'i a rrested their progress. How far the labors of the expedition will in- f th e lin e o f cos stent,th Sleeves .—It is stated in the annals of fashion, thatthe cruelly extravagant custom o f putting sev enteen yards of chintz into a pair of lady’s sleeves, is about to be reformed. The fashion was origin- started by an old maid with a wen upon her shoulder, for the purpose of concealing the de- lity. It has been followed to such a ridiculous nt,that ladies are absolutely precluded from fee- elves like Christians at the dinner or tea are forced consequently, to retire to the pantry, and eat by themselves in an undress; un le s s inileed some gallant suitor, or attentive domes tic shall be at hand, to place the food in a fair way to reach its destination. Should a lady fashionably attired, while at breakfast, undertake to reach after the toast or an egg, she would most certainly lose every drop of her coffee; for after having accom plished the object of her effort, s.he would find that h e r s leeve h a d obsorbed th e en tire c o n ten ts o f h< cup—and so at the dinner table; who hat one of tl with al] crease our knowledge o f t 0 at the dinner table; who has not seen those huge sleeves dripping and dangling 11 manner of -sauces and soups, gathered un- __ jciously'While'aftempiing- to -accomodate the pretty hand that protruded from its nether orifice, with a custard or a tart Nantucket Enquirer. ’Tis said that an eel was lately caught in the Thames river, in Connecticut, that weighed thirty-five pounds !
