{ title: 'Oneida telegraph. volume (Oneida, N.Y.) 1851-1854, February 14, 1852, Page 1, Image 1', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about NYS Historic Newspapers - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84031876/1852-02-14/ed-1/seq-1/png/', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84031876/1852-02-14/ed-1/seq-1.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84031876/1852-02-14/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84031876/1852-02-14/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
Image provided by: Oneida Public Library
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER; DEVOTED TO LITERARY, SCIEXTIKK', AORICULTUUAL, POLITICAL, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. VOL. 1. ONEIDA, MADISON COUNTY, N. Y., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1852. NO. 18. THE ONEIDA TELEGRAPH Will be published every Saturday at Oneida, (De- , pot,) Madiaon Co., N. Y. ». H. FROST, Editor 4t Proprietor. A. K. EATON, Conductor of Scientific Department. OFFICE—No. 2, EMPIRE BU>CK , (up stairs.) TERMS—One dollar and Twenty-five Cents per annual, in advance, to office and mail subscribers, One Dollar and Fifty Cents, in advance, t o Village subscribers, who receive their paper by the Carrier Where ten or more copies are sent by mail to one office, they will be funnelled at One Dollar each, and the person obtaining the names and sending us the money, shall receive a copy for his trouble. Where payment is delayed beyond three months twenty-five cents will be charged in addition to the nbove rates; and fifty cents additional if delayed beyond six months. Good inducements will be offered to agents to csuvass for subscribers. RATES OF AD\ KKTISI N U. One Square, 3 Weeks, *1 00. 3 Months, ... 3.00. B \ - - 5.00. 1 Tear, 8.00. A lil>oraI discount made to thoso who advertise by the year All communications must be po$t-pard\ TJ'^Vt^ ^ V U vfr Unate nThttcrufaV^T^£lw» ^ \ ou hls be ^ -o »«* 8 °i' suddenly broken by a loud .cream, so near victims of this «cond.t><m-ot-everybody ques- 3^™^ tbat Ll * ^Mion gradually canie to and so startling, that it nearly .ends you over Uon, so clearly proposed, and in countless m -! „™^\^J \7J h * u d luxury She Sd ' erge | on i P ° S,UV ? <, e8tUUt '°\ = -d ho sat d.s-, the iron ra ilw|. The next moment a check not hesitate; sbo turned her house into a I C0U * 0 ,' a '' Q '. v i ,n a little garret one morning.quite is felt,.and then the heavy grating sound of lodging-house, sank the pride of rank.attendcd | 8t , .\ ™* cnd for tT ! e m f n \ of contriving \ the breaks is heard as they crowd against the .1 j . _ e i . ii I What Goetlin fnoetinnslv onlln/1 \ fl,a /lcK™k»_ to the duties of such a station,and—what was the result 1 When, at the end of three years, M. de G recovered his pension, he owed nobody a farthing, and the arrears sufficed to \ l \° T\ T llg,U ' n{ ? dovve/oneof h.s daughters about to marry Hi ^, ar V^ W0C ^ C ^ r ' i'-i u ' • • ' • u r, ru • - - .... ^ a shent nt cirri.hourri wwi, ,„ A...,„ 1 comotive with now feelings. Ihere is a gran deur in its uncouth shape, a sublimity in it *pow ^attrtj. For the Oneida Telegraph Home musing's. I am sitting. Sabbath evening, In our parlor, quaint and plain— Nought disturbing, but the creaking Of the grape-vine nt the pane. Charmingly at her melodeon— Lyra sings a sweet refrain , Till tho music, of her making, Waketh music in my brnin. Now she ploys a glorious anthein. And my spirit—borno sublime, FreU the thoughts it longed to utter,— Flow in free melodious rhyme Swoop tho keys ' my sweet mspircr, Itain the wild uotes in a shower— Miiiic is a thought-creator. Love and song have wondrous power. J.IHI ' That anthem's martial measures,— Mingle with the drifting gale, M'lulo my thoughts with them are drifting, ( Her mountain plain and vale 1 have read to-day of Kossuth— I'lending from a heart inspired, l'.ir litit Kuther-lnnd, whose altars J!y unhallowed hands arc lired Pleading in the Home of Freemen, That the free their aid impart, Till he stirs impetuous beatings In humanity's great heart. I have read how Slavic butchers Lately filled his mother's grave, While her Hero son was exiled From the land he yet shall save Now I seem to stand and listen To the Magyar's prophet-speech— Words to thrill the hearts of millions Whom his voice shall never reach. 1 ean read mnwritUn torrote Where those lines deep-furrowed he— Glow* there not a Martyr-spirit, In that burning, dauntless eye 1 Is this planet God-forsaken ? Is the golden chain of love Snapped, that binds each circling system To the throne of light above ( Lyra, pl»y for me no longer' Ixsst the fever of my brain. To a passion-waking war-song. Change the glory of that strain God is just and fool Oppression From his murders yet shall eease. While we staunch the wounds of Freedom I^et us pray for holy peace, When the free fraternal nation* Laying by their bloody »trife Shall with shouting, hail the morning Of the Earth's Millennial life. G stances so inefficiently and indefinitely answer ed. To multiply dismal examples of such sad cases of people ruined, starved, and in a vari ety of ways fearfully embarrassed and tor mented during the process of expectation, by the policy of cowardly sloth or feeble hesita tion, might indeed \ point a moral,\ but would scarcely \ adorn a tale.\ It is doubt less an advantage to know how to avoid er rors, but it is decidedly a much greater advan tage to loarn practical truth. We shall,there- foro, leave the dark side of tho argument with full confidence to the memories, experience, and imaginations of our readers, and- dwell rather—as both a more salutary and interest ing consideration—on the brighter side, in ca ses of successful repartee to the grand query, which our limited personal observation has enabled us to collect. Besides, there is noth ing more attractive or exciting about mtellec; tual inertia. The contract tatvyegJLac.Uye re sistance and active endurance LS Srnt between a machine at lest and a machine in motion. Who that has visited the Great Exhibition can have failed to remark the difference of inter est aroused in the two cases 1 What else cau ses the perambulating dealer in artificial spi ders suspended from threads to command so great a patronage from the juvenile population of Paris or London ? What else constitutes the superiority of an advertising van over a stationary poster ? What sells Alexandre Dumas' novels, and makes a balloon ascent such a favorite spectacle ? \ Work, man \' said the philosopher ; \ hast thou not all eter- [ nity to rest in ?\ And to work, according to j Mill's \ Political economy,\ is to move , there fore, perpetual motion is the greut ideal pro- ble of mechanicians. Tho first cause in our museum is that of a German officer He was sent to the coast of Africa on an exploring expedition, through the agency of parti pretre, or Jesuit party in France, with whose machmatious against Louis Phillippo's government he had become accidently acquainted The Jesuits, finding linn opposed to their plans, determined to re move liim from the scene of action In con sequence of this determinations, it so happen ed that the captain of this vessel in which he went out set sail one fine morning, leaving our j friend on shore to the society and care of the I native negro population His black acquain I tances for some tunc treated him with marked j civility ; but as the. return of the ship became more and more problematical, familiarity be- • gan to breed its usual progeny, anil the un happy German found himself in a most pain- I ful position. Hitherto he had not been treat - ! ed with actual disrespect; but when King Roc i ca-Bocca one day cut him in the most une quivocal manner, he found himself so utterly i neglected, that the sensation of being a no- ! body- a nobody too amongst niggars '—for i tho moment completely overcame him. A | fri ble rav of hope was excited shortly aftcr- ' wards in Ins despondent heart bv a hint gatli ] cred from the signs made by the negro m | whose hut he lived, that a project was ( nlcred [ what Goctho facetiously called \ the delightr Turning over his scan- -what was i & , i . , <• . „ , nil habit of existing. owed ' ^ rc,niims of clothes and other possessions, m ' that the\ sixtee . , ' the vain hope of lighting upon something of'something less tharrtwenty-flve minutes. You wheels. You have stopped Drawing a long breath, you look at your watch and discover that the sixteen miles have been traversed in Ranees was an English gentlemen,who, having left the army at the instance of a rich father ing w, had the misfortune subsequeutl} to of fend the irascible old gentleman so utterlv, that the latter suddenly withdrew In'-, allow ance of.£1000 per annum, and left our friend to shift for himself III* own mean*, never very great, were entirely exhaused He knew too well tho impracticable temper of Ins fatli IO suddenly took\ up ' dismounted turn and look at that grim lo- gentleman of large fortune, who had become ? \ he ? t f t card \ b ? art | wl ' ie \'\ h »PP™ f *7* ' acquainted w.th her by lodgmg ,,i their house, he , hnd de ^T ? r \ he f ket f ies , at \ wh ' ch 16 , \ i v » H i wi.h Mnie. de G 's fash.ouatlc friends thought 7 a \ ,nd 'f re \ ^ \ e h » d °; identl >' er 7°? neverex P er,<.nced. You endow it wuh her conduct very shocking. But what might' ~' a l{ nn « ft™*™' a 1 bs \ r '! • \] iat ™ <™se,o,. S ness, and it seems to yem the most i,„„„ ,/.i„ f. m ; T ,„ f plain from the odd smile wInch irradiated his determined and fearless,—tho maddest croa have become ot tho family in three years ot {• ... ,i . , , , , . , ... , , _„ „ rictitionmo- ? I ,eatures - \ e descended the stairs to borrow ture in the universe, and you turn away re- { . 10 f e . ,„,„„„.. of his landlady—what ? A shilling ?—by no ' solved never again to mount his back. But / Arrain: one of our most intimate acouain- 1 „ „ . - ,, , ,, , , h / ' , t 9 . „ „ ,, i„„„ b - • - - • 1 1 means. A needle and thread, and a pair of I you understand how engineers como to lova scissors. Then ho took out ins box of water- [their engines, and spoak of thorn as hvo crea- colors and set to work. To design a picture ? tures, using such endeanng epithets as you —Not a bit of it, to make dunung-dolls '— [hear employed towards a half tamed lion or Yes, the man without a profession had found .elephant. a trade B\ the tune, it was dusk he had ! - \ made several figures with movable legs and ! The Arctic Expedition. arms ; one bore u rude resemblance to Napo- I Dr. KANE, who was nttached to the Ameri- leon ; another, with scarcely excusable license, cau Exploring Expedition, is dulivcrin^ a represented the pope : a third held the very • \N'T ~ ii'\ ~\ \'' n r~i i~\ I devil up to ridicule , and a fourth bore a hid- h.m. He also knew that by his wife a settle- 1 0Qm rl ^ mh]ancl f tbe ^ kmg of ^tor* himself! They wore but rude pnxluctiona as He also knew that by his wife's settle ment he should be rich at the death of the old man, who had already passed his soventicth year He could n.ot borrow money, for ho had been soverely wounded in 8yria, and the in surance offices refused hun ; but he felt a spring of life and youth within hun that mocked their calculations. Ho took things cheerfully, and resolved to work for his living Ho answered unnumbered adverttHemcnts ,and made incessant applications for all sorts of sit uations. At length matters came to a crisis . his money was nearly gone, time pressed , his wife and child must be supported. A scat —not in parliament, hut nn the ho\ of an om nibus was offered him. He accepted it. The pay wiw equivalent to three guineas a wook. It was hard work, but ho t>tuck to it man fully Not uufrequeiitly it was his lot to dnvo gentlemen who had dined at his table and drunk his wine in former dap Ho nov- er blushed at their recognition ; he thought working easier than begging For nearly ten )ears ho uudurcd nearly ull the ups and downs of omnibus life. At last the tough old fath er-in-law, who, during the wholo interval, had never relented, died ; and our hero came into tbe possession of some £1500 a year, which ho enjoyB to tho present moment. Suppose he hnd borrowod and drawn bills instead of working during those ten years, as many have done who had expectancies before thcm.wliere would he havo beon on his exit from the Queen's Bench at tho expiration of the peri od 1 In the hands of the Philistines, or of the Jews .' Our next spe> uneii is that of a now success ful author, who, owing to the peculiarity of his st) le, fell, notwithstanding rather a dash ing debut, into great difficulty and distress,— Ilia family withdrew all support, becauso he abandoned tho more regular prospects of the. legal profession for thy more ambitious but less ci runn career of literature. He felt that he had the sturl m hun to make a popular writer, but he w.w also compelled to admit that popularity was uot in his case to be the work of a day Tho rug anyustae dumi grew closer and closer , and though not objecting to dispense with tho supposed necessity of din ing, he felt that bread and cheese, in the liter- l. works of art, but there was a spirit and ex pression about them that the toynhops rarely exhibit. Tho ingenious manufacturer then sallied forth with his merchandize. With in an hour afterwards he might have beon soon drning a bargain with a vagrant dealer in \odd notions,\ as the Yaukees would call them It is unnecessary to pursue our artist through all his industrial progress. Enough that he LS now ono of the most successful the- atrual machinists, and in tho possession of a wife, a house, and a comfortable, ineoiue. Ho, too, had prospects, and he still has them—as far off as ever Fortunately for him, he \prospected\ on his own account, and found a \ diggm \ TIK ru H alwa)s something to be done if people mil onl) set about finding it out, and the »bailees are ever in favor of aetiuty.— Whatever brings 1 a man in contact witft his fellows may lead to fortune. Every day brtngs uew opportunities to the soeml worker, and no man, if he has seriously considered the subject.Jticed e\ er be at a loss as to wunt to do in the meantime Volition is primitive mo tion, and whejre thore is a will there is a way where the n high quarters of gi\mg him a coat of lamp black, and selling him as a slave, but this was abandoned by its originators, possibly for want of opportunity to carry it out. Now a chargo of gunpowder left to give away, the black men bad also worshipped him as an in-, ~ carnation of the Miimbo-Jumbo adored bv I nl »<*<-pt*t»>n of the term, were really indis- their fathers. Reflecting on this, it occurred I P cnsabl ,°, U ' ex,sUlllw ' 1,0M&! ' one dft - v ' ho to h.m that if, by any possibility, he could ' ,ln 0810,1 I,ls s \ lllar > lm,fl rov ^ pnntiiig contrive to manufacture a fresh supply of the valued commodity, his fortunes would be com paratively secure- , No sooner had this idea arisen m his brain, 1 Ao ' tor inu,],:r,lt0 than, with prodigious perseverence, he pro ceeded to work towards its realization The that at the Ac, voting ' of a hundred cards, announcing \ classical school of Mr , irentltinen were instructed in all its branches, ! Ac, for the moderate sum of two shillings ' wcekh \ Thoe cards he dibtributed by the Hgtlic) of the | course of lectures ou tho interesting subject at tho Smithsonian Institute iit Wushuigtoti. We find in the National Intelligencer a brief report of the first two lectures, from which we | extract tho following — \ The topic is full of interest. I\or the first time we were made.^ware of the geographical importance of the Arctic ocean—an ocean whose area exceeds four and a half millions of square miles, and whose tributary rivers drain a larger country than the Indus, the Ganges, the Mississippi, and the Oronoco combined. \ In discussing the much vexed question of the cut bono of these Arctic expeditions, Dr. Kane, after citing in detail their valuable con tributions to general science, observed that the cod fishery of Newfoundland grew out of the voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert; tho north west passage of Daris-opened tho whale-fish ery of West Greenland ; and Frobisher pion eered Hudson to that great bay, which now margins tho most lucrative fur company of the ago. ^ : \Sir John Franklin was last seen m Baffin's Bay, in July, 1846, moored to au iceberg and awaiting an opening to the West. By a strange coincidence^the, Amonpaa «xpediUo* was im prisoned for two successive seasons at the same spot. The next traces of his onward l projtrrono woro tho aa\\ lueinoiialo of Ills first w inter encampment, at the mouth of Welling ton Channel, a large inlet opening towards the North , aud here Dr. Kane, after describ ing the sreno, which he was among tho first to v isit, expressed his conviction that tho mis sing vessels had proceeded in the early sum mer of 1«40, up this inlet to the North. This seems to us oxtromely probable. The Ameri can expedition, in fact, drifted helplessly m this vory direction. They attained a latitude (75° 26 north) never before attained in this meridian by keel of Christian ship, and thore mhcatod the worst of it was, that he knew the nattve names , all difficulties. Having once conveyed his de sign to the negroes, he found thorn eager to assist him, though, as difficulty after difficulty arose, it required all the confidence of courage \il energy to control their savage nii- The first batch was a failure, and it. inilkiimu in the suburban, and he oc soiu« what poor neighborhood, in wh u n u a Locomotive. BY J T IIEADLF.Y Speakingof railroad travelling, it has al way s seemed strange to me that the world will in sist that it is a humdrum matter in its monot ony, vory hku boating on the canal. Leaving the disscussion respecting inside passengers alone, at present, let ono who thinks to mount a locomotive beside the engineer at midnight, and fly across the country at tho rate of thir ty-five or forty miles an hour, and the time occupied in changing his opinion will not be worth mentioning. It is not easy to obtain permission to do >o , but once there, place a firm grip on the iron railing, present the least possible surf-ice to the wind, and then look out upon the flying earth. As the hugo driving wheels begin to revolvo you instinctively shrink back from their dangerous proximity. But as they gather force and velocity, you are struck with a doop heavy jar beneath your feet so unlike that of a car. Faster, faster fly tbe wheels till nothing but dashing steel glan- co.s before your bewildered eyea, and you turn away to tho scene before and around you.— It !•> midnight, and not a < loud obsuires the wintry sk\ The air is pulseless and still, and vet tin- wind i> roanu^ hko tha sea about M>U. i » . •' . , . , , ... •«•,.».„. i . i tuoft conclusive, shows that this was the pas- ami it is with a gisping effort von cati Ii )oiir i ' < a few of the English officers dirler with Jmn was convinced that food, fuel and clothing— the throe great contributors to human e *i»t- ence—were here in superabundant plenty. In answer to the supposition of the entire destruction of the vessels and crews of Sir John Franklin by shipwreck, or the attack* of the ice, Dr. Kane said that wind and storm* were rare^nnd that the simultaneous destruc tion of both vessels was hard to realise ; but even supposing that wind should have foun dered the ships, or that tbe ice should have crushed them, that same ice would serve, in either case, as a means of escape. In 1882, more than ono thousand whalers were cast out shelterless upon tho ice in Baffin's Bay. Yet only seven perished. The interesting question of an open «<* around the pole was then taken up. After citing the theoretical arguments in favor of such a body of water, which we cannot here rev ic\v, Dr Kane mentioned that the Ameri can expedition, under Lieutenant Do Haven, hud actually seen from their most northern point that unmtstakable sign, the dark cloud known as the \ voater-sky\ and Capt. Penny, an energetic whaler, for whose views Dr. Kane seeuiod to have a great respect, confirmed this \sky\ by sighting tho water itself Huch an opon sea has beon vaguely called a Polynyn, or Pohniya^—a term from the Rus sian, which implies an open space. Dr. Kane cannot think that, in a literal sense, sucha sea exists in regions where the menu temperature is so far below tho point of congelation. He fully advocated, however, the existence of a comparatively iceJeas sea, in which the drift never agglutinates. It is in this region, not far to the north and west of tho point which tho American Expe dition reached, that ho supposes Sir Joan Franklin and his companions to bo immured ; surrounded by seal, and tho resource* before described, but unable to leave their hunting ground and cross tho frigid \ Sahara\ which, intervenes between them and tho world from which they are shut out. LIBERTY AND DEATH.—Tho following heart rending narrative wi» given by I**ac Johnsoa and wife, just from Slavery: \ They wore hold as property in the State of Mississppi, a short time scince, »nd were tho parents of an only child, which wat about thirteen months old. A few day* before^ay started on their hazardous voyage to GaoPka, tho mother learned that »h« w a* sold to a slave- trader, who intended to seperatfi her from her beloved child and husband, never more to see them on earth. But thoy resolved on running away to Canada, with thoir only child, or per ish by tho way. They succeded in crowing over the line into what is called > free State (Indiana,) with their child, whero they were chased until their babe was sacrificed on the bloo .lv .liter of .Slavery. On seeing that they wero closely pursued, they broke and ran to a cornfield—the wife first got over the fence, and the husband handed her tho child, with which 'ho ran as fast as »ho eould. Bhe heard tho purvuer saying, \ stop, stop, or I will shoot you down ,\ and before sho had proceeded far a «•.•••» fired, and tho ohild was »hot dead fiom her back—nnd the ball which passed saw the dark water aky that i Pohjna or open sea advocated by Liout. Mau-, n rv It was this uainful and helpless drift to | 7 iv i' \\'* l\\\ ,u ' I, riom ner IHICK— mivi - , the North that urged upm Dr Kane and Ins | tlirou ^ u lhe child's neck, cutoff one corner oi comrades tho conviction of Fiaiiklm having • .... _ At this moment tho motft- preceded them upon this verj passage Franklin WHS ordered by the British Admi ralty to proceed through Lancaster Sound for some three hundred and fifty miles, to a Capo | called Walker, llieuco ho was to steer to the i nPr re | 1v f Isouthwurd and westward towards Behring's' j Straits. Failing to accomplish tins, ho was ! ordered to attempt a passago to tho North by Wellington Channel Dr. Kane, bv a senna of practical arguments which seem to us al- JSt breath Thodemo,', vou bestride basal length I \ 'i 1 ^ h ?, ttd ;'P t «< i : i .\» <J V'^' nl ^°l^ b in opinion, that the recent imblicalious of the British press fully sustain tins view. The j.o sitiou of Sir John Franklin's first winter quar ters, at the very mouth of this channel, is con to the fact of that judicious com CIUMVO as acquired tho velouiv he v\at> stiwuig urier, and • . - . from Ins uplifted lead, streams of lire are is- neither of charcoal, sulphur, nor nitre. No a, P ,c<1 / '\\\P 1 * \ f rooms ! 1 ' the , ,nodoral0 s„ing-tl.e sparU .ire fallingm showers about matter; his stern volition was proof against, !\ e,lt ? f , ReW1 * hrilm F< wookly. It was not' M tll( h m(>Ur ^ wre llloim . ntari K _»„ , fi„ ! long before a tew pupils made, one by one, , mritI11 „ over b your h^.i, wu ,|„ the i 0ll „ c „f. As they were mostly the sons of petty trades- J wrlthes wlth fierce and rapid contortions.- 1 maTukr h . wm 6 contemplated lUfutureuavi- men round about, lie raised no objection to j 0l|) ull> r0 „ nMliag Uiundcuug on, urn and hopeful energy to control their savage im- j tak,n S 0,,t ,ho,r \fhool.ng HI kind, and by tins | sW||d tt |th a vice ., |ke » ^ rali f patience. The first batch was a failure, and it mean3 cnrnod at ^ \ R,,bsl 1 sU \\-\ ?« '\^ : am! gaze around you. Quiet farm houses blot was only by pretending that it was yet unfin- P ros P el ; 0 » s »™« L a » d P\b wher. d.s-; thc 4Urf)l( . e A mom( , nti M(i thcn ar0 lost , lke .shed he, was enabled t4 try a second, in which f overud 1 ,,w la ^' U \T.f . BuL \ ur th ; s * e \ u *> I the sparks in thedistance. A wnle fbre-Htnsai . - , .. -u-L._„,..„ wi.„ .,.„ ; he might not improbably have shared the fate { b( , foro %f)l , but , 1(ik0 Llmo only f dra8ing l 0 of Chutterton and others, .eas uiiscnipi.U s , ,| Hnco - llirougJl lU Jark com der.s before >ou to a resource for the \meantime —that' • ? -ii ... i .1 i .i... er fell down with her lifeless babo, when she wit, rushed upon by two whitemon who com menced Irving to bind her with ropes, but when she ITHHI for help her husband came to Tho contest was desperate for a ffw minutes; the wife and husband both fought until thov brought down one of tho party, nnd his companion fled and left him.— 1'hu husband and wife^fearing that they would soon be surrounded and overpowered, and Boo ing that (heir little one was dead, and that they could do it no good, they roluetnntly left , it lying by the villian who tbo't it. Fortunate- I ly for them, thoy soon found a dopot o f the I underground railroad, and one o f tbe oonduct- j ors thereof was kind enough to put on an «x- I tra train, which soon landed them on a soil where \ no slave can breathe.\ We deeply K C MILLVILIX, Jan. 2 4 1852, JQwitllownrui. he triumphed over all obstacles. When tho I negroes had realljjjoaded their muskets with , his powder, and fired them off in celebration ; of the event, thoy indeed revered the stranger | as a superior nnd marvellous being. For near- '' ly eighteen months the German remained on I the coast It was a port rarely visited, anil ! tfie negroes would not allow him to make any From. Chambers' Journal. What to 4o in the Memmlime ? It has been frequently remarked by a phil osopher of our acquaintance, whose only fault is impracticability, that in life there is but <>no real difficulty ; thai is simpTy—what to do in the meantime? The thesis require* no demonstration. It come* Lome to the experi ence of every man who hears it uttered.— From tho chimney to the cellars of the socie ty, great and small, scholars and clowns, all classes of struggling humanity are painfully alivo to its truth. The men to whom tho question is pre-emi nently embarrassing are those who have eith er pecuiary expectancies or poaseu talent* of some particular kind, on whose recognition by others their material prosperity depends. It may T>e laid down as a genoral axiom, in such cases, that the worst thing a man can do is to wait, and the best thing he can do is to work ; that is to say, that in nine cases out of tea, doing something has a great advantage over notking. Such an assertion would appear a mere obvious truism, and one requiring neith er proof or illustration, were it not greriou&ly palpable to the student of the great book of life—the unwritten biographical dictionary of tbe world—that an opposite system is too of- attcmpt to travel to a more frequented p Thus tieo continuedd too makee g«'T^er fo. , - fron) ^ barbarous friends, and to live, according to nnunn,.««. , ?overcu nis intern iuc-uu». IUI *.u*. ie might not improbably have shared the fat jf Chutterton and others, Jess unscriipulou as to a resource for the \meantime\—thr | rock on which so many an embryo gemus ' founders. | Tho misfortune of our next case was, uot , that he abandoned the law, but that the law abandoned /uin He was a solicitor in a coun- | trv town, where the people were cither so lit tle nn lined to litigation, or so happy in not Thus h continue t mak gunpowder iorhib | their notions, \like a prince,\ for to do King; »aut of clients, and, as aoaatural consequence, Bocca-Bocca justice, when he learned our 1 '>ei.«>k himself to the metropolis— friend's value, hi- treated him like a man and a brother. What might have been life Tale had he awaited in idle despondency tho arrival of. Ir a vessel f Aa it was, the negroes crowded tho LV 1 beach, and fired off repeated salvos at his de- tart* and jellies was precisely at that epoch m parture. Doubtless his name will descend [ w » n t of a foreman aud book-keeper, his last through many a dusky generation as tho J p«\\iie nmnster hav»ug' eniij^rateil to America teacher of that art which thoy still practise, ' ' betook himself to tho ineFropohs—that Mecca cum Medina of all desperate pilgrims in search of fickle fortune. There hre «nly available fnend was A pastrycook in a large way of uwness. It so happened that tho man of carrying on a lucrative commerce in gunpow der with tho neighboring tribes. A small square chest of gold-dust, which the escaped victim of Jesuit fraud brought llfcct to Eu rope, was inappropriate proof of tho policy of doing something \ in the meantime,\ while waiting, ho rever anxiously, to do something else. We know another case in point, ajso con nected, with the late king of tin French. <M. de G was, on the downfall of that mo# arch, in possession of a very handsome pen sion for past services. The revolution came, and his pension was suspended. His wife was a woman of energy; she saw that th» pension might be recovered by making proper repre sentations in the right quarters ; but she also with a viow to a more independent career.— Our ex-lawyer, feeling the consumption of tarts to be more immediately certain tha* the demand for writs, proposed, to his friend's amazement, for tho vacant past, and so well did he fill it, that in a few yeai| he had saved enough of money to start again in his profes sion. The pnstrv-cool aod-pis friend* hscame client*, and he is at present a Anving attor- nay in Lincoln's Inn, none the worse a lawyer fonp%aetocal knowledgo «f the fakt tiled *y those oysters whose shells are the proverbial heritage of his patron* A still morejungular resource was that of a young gentleomb, of no particular profession, who, haviDg disposed somehow or other in are hauguig in mid heaven, and glaueing like an arrow along the side of a cliff Tho next moment you are startled by a deep rumbling sound bcnem^li you—you turn, and a cold deep river is rolling its sluggish waters through the valley. Through death-like swamps and gloomy gorges—across fearful charms and wide plains you da«h and roar till a strong feeling of bewilderment steals over tho senses. But the roar, winch at first startiad, at length becomes monotonous, and an atmosphere of mystery sorrounls)ou. Only two beings are your companions—the -fireman who, mteruV only on gratiffftg tho voracity of this huge monster, is constantly leaping up and down from the pile of wood, •rowdmg the fuel dawn, the fiery throat. Ho sees and hears nothing around hun. He lias one thin^. to do, hig whole soul is dev'otod to the work. The other companion is the engineer. He too has for gotten your txisteoce, tsad leaning against the iron rail, stands motionless as a bronie statue, peering into tho darkness ahead to see if dan ger lurks there—one hand grasping tbo lever that reverses Ihe^engine, while the other at short intervals taps, taps lfa« \valve to see if all is clear. All this increases 4he strangeness and mysteqi of the soene^and you at last turn anxioul£ to tho sky, to aeeif that fcoo partakes of this wjkf whirl and intenso action. But tho stars sfiine calrufy*down, anrf retain their same position in, the heavens. They -ar* at last fijtnsV ktfd.Jhss of .all, tha* half ««aaumexL| moon shows her disc abovn the eaaurn honri- ' - \ 4 - ethir- s, . BympatbiBO with them in their bereavement, gation It wa* the alternative enjoined by his wll]|e wo tlnnk ^ wou i d ^ far tetter that ton \ orders,\ and tbe lecturer detailed many facts thrfrjferid children should perish by the way- to s hovv that it was af.wonte alternative Dr. ] tuun for OIl0 ^ ^0 ^ „ ll0 South- Kane, in investigating tho natural la»s which . eru ainierv.— Voice of the Fugitive. regulatu th« tec-drift, showed that the eastern ' sides of this channel nro earlier and more fro • TI.UUKK J N ORKOO.V —Some of the sprue* quently open than the westorn. and the no- and fir trees in Oregon, shoot up to the height culinr position of Sir John Franklin enabled j of three hundred feet, without throwing out a him to sec and take advantage of the very bent of thmi early opening*. Ad<$lo this the hinguhir and perplexing (act that Franklin left uo written record of his in tentions, and it really seems as if tho ieo had suddenly onened to tho North, nnd that Sir John, with his daring and energetic prompti tude, had pushed into this new water, without delaying to give to the world behind him a notice of his course. Certain it is*that the deserted encampment bears marks of hasty dcpartnro, forcing us to tho conclusion that Sir ' ot air, anu in a ww uuui» u J<*n Franklm has six years sgo reached the,'so that it falls.— Eoch. Dem region north of this ice-bouud >«H has since been unable, to retisfn. Cart : he havo survived I This question was then takeu UD by Dr. Kane iu a manner that any large lateral branches. A drawing of a tree ten feet in diameter at the base and 230 feet high, was engravod for a London pictorial paper. They are found upon the ground, nenr the coast, three- hundred teet long. The keel of the steamer Lot Whitcouib is made of ths trunk of a single tree, ouo hundred sod sixty feet iu length. To fed tho spruce timber, a%. ger holes aro bored iu tho trunk near th>feot, so that they meet in tho center. A fire i» then kmdkil, which is kept ap by the draught of air, and in n few hours t£e tree is burned up by surprised us. Wo were unprepared for the re sources which that region ovidently possesses for tho snjiport of humatfclifes Narwhal, white whale* aud seal—th#-latter*\ n extreme abund ance—crowd the waters of Wellington Chan nel ; Indeed, it wasclescribod as a regioa \ teem ing v W t antmaOi/e.' n The migratislp of tho eidox dock, tpe brent goose, and twauk —a bird about ta^aizeof our teal— were absoluto- lv wonder/uT' Tfk fatty envenspo of these pXb f JS3^TrfV;«f mcsdo-r. Jzon, a^u are glad to find that somejipg inherence, found himself what is technicalIy|I. tranquil in view. But the short revone It tranqu marine animals, known as bluBber, supplies light and heat, their furs warm and well adapt ed clothing, their flesh wholesome an <Ljuiti- scorbutiq food; whik the snow hat, orTgtoe of tV ftsquimauSt, furnishes a dry and onm forW &e housing. In a word, 9 T. Kane an nounced that \ after a careful comparison of all the -nitursl resources of this region,' ho SNOW FIFTEEN FKBT D«KP .—Major Nor- cross informs us that there are four feet of snow on a level at Mooaehoad Lake, and that tha suow between 4bis and that point is piUd up in tbo road fifteen feet deep io some nines** and for miles it lion even with the (ops of ths> fence posts.— Bangor Democrat. £jTThe principal ooin in circuistiwi in California is fifty dollar gold piecon, whkh tfiftjr call tlugt. No one objects to receive toem; but to got these pieces changed for 'suMMr <x >in, or, in other words, to run thai slo£» inio grape or cannister, involves a lossof thrn* dol lars and a half per slug, which the CsJi<on)ians < do object to. Tne cost of trying the Michigan Rnilroatt Oaaspirntors, amoanted to 131,861 36. SHi is nil legally chargeable to the cofntT''of VHyne, but the Compnoy Toluj(arWnniMi\i to pay $27,420 61. ^
