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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1872.
HORO Y
P. M. WHITMAN,
WATCHMAKER & ENGRAVER,
MIVU'S BULGING, BAY ST.
NTT-ILL GIVE HIS PERSONXL ATTENf?
lion to the repairing of of Watches,
CI. eks and Jewelry. Ornamental and plain
Engraving done at short notice.
Gentleman having fine watches can test them
a' this establishment by one of HOWARD &
CO.'S $500 REGULATORS. jau.4-tf.
G. J l"I>W,
CLERK OF COURT Jk REGISTER OF DEEDS
AKD
^ UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER.
CONVEYANCING.
Office in the Court House. 0et,2t*f
A. S. HITCHCOCK,
^ ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAAV.
IBovnty, Tension and Ci.aim Agent. |
BEAUFORT, S, C.
Dec lyr.
M, POLL1TZER,
COTTON FACTOR
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
BEAUFORT, S. C.
Sept.4.
II. 31. STUART 31. D.,
BEAUFORT, S. C.
Corner of Bay and Eighth Streets,
Dealer in
DRUC1S. (HK3ITCALS
FAMILY MKDICIMCS
FYY1 Y a Jul TOILET Articles,
f sT \Tlt?N Kit V, Pi'.HFl'MKIt Y,
Bltl'SlltC", &< ., &c.,
Together with mary other articles too numerous to
% in ntiou. All of which will be sold at i lie Jo west
price for ca h. Thy.>i< iuu* prescriptions car. uITy
ompounded. lib 11
L I ME! LIME!!
rpilK BEST BRANDS STOVE LIME CONSTANTLY
I on baud an 1 for sale a. low pries for cash.
WWTEIUUISE. Bay st.
T O B ACGO.
rp;i, >TA\I>AK1> MtAXDS OF VIRCIMA I'M (J
JL Tol>a co, in C i ldi s.< ?* *. and llalf-Kox s.rc- i a
dfreet f.o 11 thr* tuunufaetiircrs1 agents, rorn.de in ^uaul tic*
to th trade at lowest whol.price.
^ <i. WATliKlIOUSK. Bay st.
11.1 YAM(J.ITS.
A largo lot just received by the schooner
Altooni. Fur stile cheap while landing, fur
cash onl/.
FIRA1TOE A.TD WOODED WARE.
Chamber sets. Bedsteads, Ch lirs, Tubs,
Pails and Wrapping Paper.
G. WATEKHOUSE,
Doc. 7tf Bay St.
SAXTOA HOUSE.
BEAUFORT, S. C.
0?V*> CSV O
'J'HIS HOUSE SITUATED-OX BAY
St. commands a fine view of
BEAUFORT RIVER,
and man* of the S*n htawlx. The travelling public wil;
find here a desirable and
C o X V E X I E X T II O M E ,
and the invalid will find no better or no more healtlifu
climate on the
S 0 U T II E R X C 0 A S T
to spend the winter. The House is within five n in ite>
walk of Steam Boat, and fifteen minutes walk of l.'ai
Road commuuieation. A good
L I V E R V S T A B L E
has just been added to the House.
Western Union Telegraph Office on first floor.
M M KING MAX.
Pkopuiktok:
QNE THOUSAND SWEET ORANGE
Trkks for sale, from one to three years olil. Will be
* transplanted if desired. Apply to
B. B. SAMS.
, Oet.26 Bay St reet.
S. MAYO,
BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C.
I DIET DDDX3,
TINWARE, I1AKI>\V ARK, AND WOODK\
U ARE.
U^U W.~*L?
CIGARS $ TOBACCO,
NET YARNS, FISH LINES,
AND CORDAGE.
c; l a ss;
PAINTS AND OILi3,
WHITE LEAD AM) Tl'RPESTISE.
Special attention given to mixing Paints,
and glass ut to order at any size.
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ENDEAVOii.
A moaning cry, as the world ro. A by,
Through giiom of oloud and glory of *ky,
King# in my ears forever;
And I know not what It profits a man
To plough and sow, to study and plan,
Aiid reap the harvest never.
/.bide, in truth, abide,"
Spolte a low voice at usy side,
"Abidethou, anl endeavor."
And even though, after care and toil
I should see my hopes from a kindly soil
Though late, yet blosaomlng ever,
Perchance the prize wote not worth the pain,
Perchance this fretting and wasting of brain,
<V'ityi its t-ue guerdon never.
"Abide, in love abide,"
The tender voice replied,
"Abide thou, and endeavor."
" Strive, endeavor ; it profits more
To tight and fail, than on Time's dull shore
To sit an idler ever;
For to him who bears his arm to the strifo,
Firm to Ids post in the battle of life,
The victory falleth never.
"Therefore, In faith abide,"
The earnest voice ?:ill cried,
"Abide thou, and endeavor "
Historical.
he ssi a.
The youthful Alexand er for whose e'e
vat ion the deposition and death of his unfortunate
lather had been projected,
though tilled with horror at the fatal result,
was proc'a rned, amid jjreat exulta1
on of hip people, and on the 2-itli of
March, 1^01, ascended the throne of all the
dlusjiias. It was, however, ominously re
marked bv a lad/ ol rana, in uju lUluua*
t;on, that the "young emperor walked
preceded by the as-assins of his grandfather,
followed by those of his father, and
surrounded by his own.'
The policv of Russia changed forthwith.
Alliance with Fnghutd was iininediately
made, and Lostilii.it s with France, as a
iuut:er of couiue, soon followed. In the
account of the latter natb n, the vars,
treaties, and political relations of Frame
and Russia, during the remainder of the
career of Ma;>olcon, will be found briefly
nairated. In the splendid and overwhelming
victory of Austerl.tz, decisive
of the fate of Austr a, the two uorihern
sovereigns ay completely at the mercy of
their imperial victor from the south;
and A exunder was happy to retire, with
the remaiudcr of his Ibices, to his own
dotuiuions.
After the campaign of Prussia, in ISCfi,
when that nat.on, in an incredibly slp'rt
spare of time, was defeated a. d c< n.jueied
by Ma; imicji, furtherand lm-st sanguinary
hosti.it ies, high y disas rous to tiie C/.ar,
occurred b tweeu France and Russia.
Alexander, seeing bis forces again and
again defeated, and de. irons of kiuie to
pursue li.s ambitious design on Turkey,
now changed ids policy entirely. lie entered
into stri t alliume and apparently
per.-on 1 friendship with the "Alan of Destiny."
befote whom every throne on the
cont nent, e c?-pt liis own, hud totti red to
the ground. By the treaty of Tilsit, in
13d,, a.i the ambitious schemes of Napoleon
\\e e tecogni ed by the Czar, and exteu.ive
pans lor on ,uest and paitition
w to agitated by the fftperial a..ies. '1 he
"" " una a liliith-J and
j e :iue j wiu > oi i i.'uw
\vi li such a support, seemed secure of controlling.
with hardly an eil'ort, that of ull
couth.eu at Europe.
Mutual jealousy, ere long, broke up
these premising projects. .Napoleon perceived
that lie had lent a too hasty enco
irag inent lo the designs of his ally upon
Turkey: and that the laissian empire,
once in possession of a loot hold on the
Med terraue.'.n, might become too pieponderant
lor the san tv of his own possessions.
iiis refusal to i emit tlie spoliation
of the -u tun. combined with the un
pipnlariiy in hussia ol the new alliance
ana the acts restiic ing commercial int. rcour
e, estr n.o the i u siuu .-ovettign,
ami pre i Uated hostilities. Negotiation
was .or a long time tarried on between
.i... ,?v? ..-c ?.acli :op ji time siiunniiiir
IIU" l?>' | . _
the responsibility of again commuting
Liir ?4 e t?i a general war.
All attempts at a jacilic arrangement,
however, proved fruitless; and in the
summer of 1S12, the French Enn>eror,
with nearly half a luiliiou ol men, set out
upon h s mcmoiab e expedition to conquer
the wi d- of the No thern empire.
The sanguinary b ittle of Borodino, on the
blh of JrVj teinbi r, opened his way to the
ancient capital of liussia; and on the 11th,
with the army under his immediate command
reduced by lighting and hardship
to about an hundred ill u.-ami men. he en
tend,*.o.- ow.aud took up hi-quarters in
the i . peria p. la e of the Kremlin.
i ho city was deserted except by rulTians
and uic 11 .iuries; and the meiuoiable conl.agii.tn
u wii.ch, dunng the next four
d ys, i..id it in ashes, disc ucerted all the
p ans - f .Napo eon and rendered retreat in
evl.uh.e alter a m nui parse i in va n and
f4uii e a attempts at Defoliation with llie
i. ar. u do knew his uovautafe too well to
treat, he i rencli army, in time divisions,
com nit need a retr >f rude movenieni toward
the troii tier The horn r.-of tli s disastrous
retreat, a<?fravated by a winter
uiiu ua y ear y and severe, peliaps surpa>
. nythuif recorded in the ca amities
01 wariare. i'ay alter day, the uniortuu
t o.ue.sol the (irund imy," accustomed
to tne mi uer climates ot .taly und
i runce, s.i.iK in fi'< at numbers bj. tue
road-side, or pe:islied iu bravely but vain- li
ly reacting the attack of the llueaiau I
forces. At the passage of the Beresina, F
effected before a greatly superior force of h
the enemy, such numbers perished, that, ii
according to the Russian official account^ ii
thirty-6ir thousand bodies were counted f]
on the thawing of the river, in the follow- t
ing spring. p
The downfall of the European Fuprem- c
acy of France, for which these ca'amitous I
events were the signal, almost immediate- p
ly succeeded ; and after a series of cam- p
paigns, dreadfully destructive of human v
life, the allied sovereigns, among them r
the Czar Alexander, entered the French p
capitol in triumph, and imposed upon the p
nation the antiquated sway of the Bour- ?
bons. Some magnanimity ai:d remem- q
brance of former friendship induced the p
Russian monarch to effect a somewhat p
considerate arrai gemeut in behalf of the p
abdicated einj eror ; and the sovereignty ' t
of Elba, which was thus assigned to p
him, afforded not long after, the means of 0
that memorable enterprise, which for a p
brief jeriod pla;ed him once more on the r
imperial throne, and resulted in an overthroy
m<>re utterly complete and final. ^
The Emperor Alexander, In 18tio,(quite n
contrary to anticipation and to the fre- ^
quent fate of Russian scv. reigns.) died a
natural dea'h?a fever, with which he
was Attacked in journeying through an g
unlnalthy province of l is empire, proving
speedily fatal. His brother Nicholas, ^
who sue eeded him, proved a prince of
great intelligence and legislative talent, ^
but ambitious, unprincipled and apparently
remorseless in the extreme. The ^
cruelt es iu .icte 1 by his authority upon t(
tin* unfortunate Poles, who, in 18:30, made c
abra?e but unsuccessful attempt to' regain j
their nationality, must forever fttamp his
memory with the deepest odium and ab v
horence. ^
The prostttt Cr.ar has displayed great fl
liberality and enterprise in intr. dncing
arts and improvements into his lnimenn? ^
. &
dom nions. Mechanica genius lias been ^
most liborally <*ncouraged, and several ^
Americans have acquired high station or ,
emolument. ;
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Absent** of Mind.
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The rorgotfulness arising from sheer t
Absence ot mi d is different in its natuie f
from any other, 'i he man may be in good li
health and may be the reverse of stupid. t
lull he is s i absorbed in a particular train i ti
of thought as to be nearly oblivious to sur- k
round ng sayings and doings. Sydney e
cou th c'ted two instances of ale-en o of o
nvnl which struck his fancy. "I heard 1
o. a clergy man who went jogging nloi g h
the road till he came to a turnpike ; f
' ^ hat is to pay ?' ' Pay, Sir. for what f
asked the turnpike-mar. 'Why, for my n
. i , x- cut Wlmt
" 'O ' u? isura it'lir umcr, * *?
J:or o? There is no horse, ?ir.' 'No
horse. God bless me,'said he, sud'enly
look in g down between his legs, ' I thought
I was on horseback.' I ord Dudley was
one of the most absent men I think lever
met in society. One day he met me in '
tlie street and invited me to meet myself.
' Dins wi:h me 'o day ; d ne with mo. and
I will get Sydney Smith to meet you.' I
admitted the temjtation he held out to
me, but said, I was engaged to meet him
ehewhere. Another time in meeting mo
he put IDs arm through mine, muttering, *
*1 do ,'t mind wa king with him a littlo
way; I'll walk with him as far as the end
of tbe street.' He very nearly overset my
giavity once in the pulpit. He was sitting
immediately under me, apparently very 11
a tentive, when sudlonly be took up h s 0
P'i. fc as if he had been in the House of
Commons, and, tapping the ground with c
it, cried out iu a low but very audible 8
whisper, 'Hear, hear."' An absence of
mind more or loss similar has often been 8
displayed by men habituated to deep
study. Donienichino, tho great Italian fc
painter, became to al sorbed in his own
picture of the Martyrdom of Saint Andrew u
that he retDed, with the fiercest passion,
a soldier who was represented insulting
or mocking the saint. Caracci, who c
present-, was so struck with Donienichino s '
excited expression of face that he after- 11
ward adopted it ns an impersonation of
rnge. Crebillon, the French dramatist,
imj atientlj said to a frien I who entered
his ft idy, " Don't disturb me; tli.s is a moment
of exquisito happiness; I am go!n{
to hang a villainous minister, and to ban- *
isit a stupid one!" Isaac D'Israeli says: f
?' It has been tokl of a modern astron- nier v
tliat one Summer night, when he was v
wit lid rawing to his chamber, the bright- c<
ness of the heavens showed a phenome- c
na. He j-assed the whole night in yb- h
serving it; and when they came to him c
early in the morning and found him in 11
the r-amo attitude, he said, like one who 0
had been co'lecting his thoughts for a ^
few moments, ' Jt must be thus : but I wiil 11
-? ? jj tnn lure ' He had ^
j m' ivj uru uc-avnc AV
j g&'i'd the entire night in meditation, and J>
was not aware of it. Tr. Ftukely called
uj on Sir Isaac Newton, and was told that ^
Sir Isaac would come to him directly. ^
The waiting was long and tedious, (inner a
was brought in, and Stukelv. feeling c
hungry, sat down and nearly demolish'd
a tem; ting roast fowl. Newton at length v
anoeared. and. seeing the empty dish. e*. v
claimed, " I protest 1 had forgotten that I ^
- - ? - - e
,ad eaten my dinner!" The Count De
irancas, a .friend of La Bruyenne and
locliefoueauld, was one day reading in
is study, when a nurse brought in a litt'e
afant; he put down his book, took up the
afant, and caressed it admiringly. A
riend came in, and Brancaa threw down
he l>aby on the table, thinking it was a
ook, not detecting his error until a loud
ry announced it. On another occasion
locliefoucau'd crossed the street to greet'
im. Brancas said, "God help you, my
oor man!" Rochefoucauld smiled, and
ras about to speak, when the other interupted
him: "I told you that I had notliag
for you ; there is no use in your teasag
me; why don't yon try to get work?
'uch lazy idlers as you make the streets
uite disagreeable." Rochefoucnu'd's
learty laugh at length roused him from
lis reverie^ Men have been known to exlibit
such instances of absence of mii.d as
he following: Taking out a watch, lookng
at it, and then asking, " Wha's
'clock?" going to a house where friends
" 1 ' I??rr tlior
ave uveu, uira luigcmug
emoved; going up to dress for dinner
>rgatiing the main purpose in view, an I
etting into bed instead; taking imagiary
pinches of snuff while talking, forciting
all the time that the box is empty.
leTenteen Hnndrcd Years In an Oreo.
One house in Pompeii had evidently
een in a state of repair when the volcao
6torm buried it. Painters and decora5rs
and cleaners were masters of the sifr
ation. The household gods were all in
isorder, and the family, if not out of
awn, must have been undergoing that
ondition of m sery which spring eleanags
and o her like infections inevitably
ntail. Pa'nters' pots and brushes and
rorkmens' tools were scattered al?out.
'ell tale spots of whitewash starred wall
nd floor. Such domestic implements as
ots and kettles had been bundled up in
corner all by ihemtelves, and the cook
run nowhere. Dinner, however, had not
een forgotten. A solitary pot stood
immering (if ever it did simmer) on the
tove. And there was a bronze dish in
raiting betore the oven, and on the dish
, suckling p'g a 1 ready to be-baked. But
be oven wus already engaged with its
ull complement of bread ; so the sucking
pig had to wait, /.nd it never ended
the oven, and the loaves were never
ikon out till after a sojourn of seventeen
lundred years! They had been cooking
ver since November 20, A. r., 79. M. Pirelli
has them now in li s mine un at
'oinpo i, tweuty-one of them rather
ard, of course, and black, but in a perect
state of pre.-erva io:v.
Poiintnn a C nltn n!? Ttni^ai*v Inift A
L 41 I 11 111 ? Ik V4I1VUIUV J 1U IV u
detective.
Many years ago Ma,or Stone, of ih?
fifteenth British Hussars, then stationed
u India, had a gold watch and chain
tolea from his drawing room taole. Colacting
all the native servants, of whom he
ad tiny susp.cioa, toge.her, and ma.ing
hem join hands, he told them that
decently his (iod would give them a
hock which would, however, be harmless
o all but the culpr.t: but that, if he were
.niong them, he worn 1, in about an hour,
urn green and silently die. The bla< k
ellows grinned incredulously, when the
r.res of a very powerful battery, | repar?d
nd concealed below the table, were
wrought in contact with tl.e two en i
tun. . So severe was the shock that three
f them fell to tile ground. The Ma^or
hen remarked that if the guilty one
ame toliim withiu half an hour lie wou.d
.pply an antidote which would pave his
ife. '1 he ell'ect of the shock upon the
uperstitious thief was so great as to inuco
belief in the prospect of turning
;reen, and dying, and .he shortly came,
iratch aud chain in hand, to beg for
lercy and the antidote.
Recenly, a similar attempt by a policts
nan, in India, to bring a woman to the
onfessional was not so satisfactory. The
roraan died through fright, and the poceman
was brought to answer a charge
homicide.
A Horse That Wouldn't Go.
A few days ago, a commercial gent'**nnn
ras sojourning at a certain inn in llereord,
where he chanced to fall iu company
mh a respectable tradesman of the place,
dio, by the bye, is celebtated as a practU
a! joker. Over the discussion of a g asa
'f the conversation turned ujon
orsemansliip, and it was evident that the
oinmercial "gent" thought bin??!f no
lean equestrian. A bet was propoood by
ur fellow-citizen, that he hail a horse at
oiiifl which tne traveler could not "ide &
lile between that time and six a*i*ock in
he e\ening, it being then aboi<t three
. M. The bet was readily accepted, and
ie tradennen agreed to proceed home to
ridle and saddle this " unmanageable
rute," and to prepare hint for a start;
nd while he was so doing, the commer
ial gentleman was to prepare himself for
hat the other had led kim to expect
rould prove "a great undertaking." He
ra* soon booted and spurred, and with a
eavy whip in his baud; and looking an
Viestrian all over, he proceeded to the
door of the tradesman, which was to l>o
his "starting post." While wondering
within h raself what kind of Koglnanta Lo
was going to mount that cou'd not be made
to travel a mi'e in three hours, and thinking
that, perhaps, lie might be such aiv
other as "John A'Duck'a mare." who
would not suffer any person to rice li.T
but John A'Duck ; behold ! the horse was
brought forth. The gentleman's chagrin
may be easily imag'n"d when he be lurid
brought into the street, not a horse of flesh
and blood, but a wooden horte, such ns
housewives and laundresses use to dry
their clothes on, all saddled and bridled.
We need not sayi that to ride such a
" horse," even a mile in three boors, was
more than the best of equestr'ans conld be
expected to perform. Our hero did not
attempt it; and consequent'y, l* l.Lsbci.
Worth, the Mm WPlfner of Paris.
Ambassadors' w.ves and Courtlad.es
nsed to go to take tea with the fellow,
and dspute the honor of filling his cup or
putting sugar into it. I once went in'.o
his shop?a sort of drawing room hung
round wi.h dresses; I found him lolling
on a cha r, his legs crosse 1 before the fire.
Around him were a bevy of women, some
pretty, some ugly, lis ening to hisobeerva
tions with the rapt attention of the disciples
of a page. He called them up before
lrm like -thiol gTls, and a tor inspecting
them, praised or blamed their
dresses. One, a pretty yo;;ng girl, found
favor in lTs eyes, nnd he told her that ho
must dream and meditate several days
over her, in order to find the insp'rat on
to make a gown worthy of her. " Why
do you wear these ugly gloves ?" he sa'd
to another; "never let me see you n
gloves of that color aga'n." fclio was a
very grand lady, but she slipped off her
gloves, and put tl o n in her pocket with
a guilty look. When thero was go ng to
be a ball at Court, ladies u5ed to go dowa
on their knees to him to make tlicm beautiful.
For some time he declined to dress
any longer the wife of a groat Imperial
dignitary who had not been gafbc'ently
humble toward him ; she came to h m In
tears, but lie was obdurate, and be only
consented at last to make a gown for her
on condition that t-lie would put jt on for
the first I'me in his shop. The Empr rs,
who dealt w'.th him, sent to tell IT in that
if he d d not aba'e li s prices she would
leave lrm. "You cannot," ho replied,
and in fact she could not, for she 8 ood by
h m to 1 lie lat-t. A morning dre.^s by th's
art's', wortli in reality about ?4,cost ?30;
an evening dross, tawdry with flounces,
ribbons nnd bad lace, could not be had
1 n-a rri. .1
.uu irr Aiu. i unu mo nuwui biuiij rutjj d
iu Paris where, as at this man-milliner's,
the goods are not better than elsewhere,
but where they cost about t -n times their
value. T hey are patronized by fools with
more money than wits, and chietly by foreign
fools.
Keep Out of Debt.
Ha'f the perplexity, annoyance, and
trouble that men have in this world is in
consequence of getting into debt. It
seems to be natu.al for some people to
buy and incur obligations without measure,
so long as they can avoid paying
ready cash. Give ong of this sort a
chance to buy on credit, and the questions
of price and conditions of payment are
matters that he cares but little about. But
what a crop of trouble springs up from
the seed of debt. How many sleepless
nights result from it# How many gray
hairs it brings, and how often it shortens
life?sometimes leading men to commit
suicide or murder. And yet, how easy a
thing it is to keep clear of this tertiblo
monster; Every young man should f? rm
a fixed and unalterable d- term nation, bj.
fore commencing h's active business career,
not to incur one penny of indeltednoaj
nnrtar nnv r ircumstances. \p\-?r
iiUCO "MV4V. ? m.j . v . v.
borrow. Never buy anything unlets you
have the money to pav for it at once. Fay
no attent on to "splendid opportunities,"
"bargains," " rare chnnces," and the like.
Such affairs are only the traps which
debt sefs to catch victims. If you see
anything that you would like to buy, or if
any offer is made that you would like to
accept, lo >k, first, at your money pi e,
an 1 make the answer depend upon tlmt.
Always pay as you go. If you are short
of money, you gunge your demands accordingly.
F< ster habits of economy, live
w'.thin your means, buy nothing that you
cannot propeily aiford. and you will go on
through life free from tho m'sericB and
troubles that ever beset tbe path of the
debtor.
^ An
Immense Aqnnrinnu
A romnanr was latplv formed in T.on
don, with a capital of ?12.000, to make at
the Northern end of the Crystal Palace
(partly burnt down in 1863) an aquarium
of large si/.e, which is nearly finished, and
will soon he opened. It contains all the
uccessire improvements which experience
has suggested since 1846. The aquarium,
connected with the Palace itself by
stairs, is 312 feet long and 20 feet high,
and i9 in width 53 feet in some places, and
35 in othtra. The pablic portions of the
building consist of three rooms?a saloon,
"uicu I iiij uwrr|)DCc uit'ueuios iyt
long and 16 12 feet broad , a ffouth room,
lea via r a floor space of 30 feet long and
8 1-2 f< et b oal; and a North room, with
a floor s-pnee of 14 feet long and 8 1-3 feet . *
broad. Ii? sides these, there are, in the
part not shown to tho public, a work
room, a steam-eng'ne and boiler-room, an
apartment to contain the heating apparatus,
two Btore room?, an attendants' gallery
running from end to end of the entire
building, and an oilice.
There are 150,000 gallons of sea water,
weighing 700 ton?, of which 1CO.OO& gallons
are in a reservoir below the saloon,
and 20,000 gallons are distributed among
60 tanks containing the animals. These
tanks are of various dimensions and proportions,
varying from 75 gallons to 4,000
each, and ranging in depth vertically from
6 inches to 6 feet of water, and therefore
tliev will suit the requirements of a great
nuthber and largo variety of creatures
from sponges to fishes. TI19 sea water is
raised into these tanks from the leservoir
below the saloon, and it liows through
and among thom, fulling down a succession
of levels, so that in its progress it
may do ns much work as possible, until it
enters the reservo r from whence it cnino,
and from wh'ch it is aga n pumped and
pumped by steam power, at the rate of
from 5,0*0 to 10/00 gallons r.n hour, continuously
day and night; and by means
of this aerating motion, coupled with the
oxygenation of growing plants, no change
of wa'er will be needed, and the quantity
(brought, from Brighton by Mr. Hudson)
wiil be used year after rear indefinitely,
the loss of fresh water by evaporation being
supplied weekly by the addition of
an e-jual quantity of water distilled ou the
premises.
One novel feature in the undertaking is
that most of the parts of i? are in duplicate.
Thus, there are two steam engines^
each of three-lierse power, and especially
arranged for continuous anl economical
action; two steam-engine boilers, two
pumps, and tw> distinct sets of receptacles
for an.mals; tanks 1 to 38 being for
the public exhibition of an'ma's, and tanks
89 to 60 being not publicly exhibited, but
intended to contain collections of creatures
purchas'd when they are cheap, or at seasons
when their transport by rail is easy.
The use of this power in reserve in the
machinery is so th it if any accident happens
to one part of it, the other portion is
ready to take i's place, and thus the uninterrupted
motion of the sea will be so
far represented.
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The fire.it Mission of Women.
Gieat indeed is tlie trsk assigned to women.
Who can elevate its dignity ? Not
to make laws, not to lead armies, not to
govern empires; but form those by whom
laws are made, armies led, and empires
governed ; to guard against the slightest
taint of lolily infirmity, tie frail, yet
spotless creature, whose moral, no less
than physical being must be derive! from
lier; to inspire those principles, to incul
cate those doctrines, to animate those sentiments
which generations yet unborn,
and nations yet uncivilized, will learn to
Mors; to soften firmness into mercy, and
chasten honor into refinement; to exalt
generosity into a virtue with a soothing
care ; to al ay the anguish of the min i; by
her tenderness to disarm pa.-..-icu ; by her
purity to triumph over sense ; to cheer the
scholar s'n'ring under his toil; to be a
compensation for friends that are perfidio
is?for happiness that has passed away.
Such is her vocation. The coudi of the
to tured sufferer, rlie prison of the deseTted
friend, the cross of the rejected Saviour?these
are theatres on which her great- .
est triumphs have been achieved. Such is
her destiny; to visit the fores ken, to tend
the neglected ; when monarch# abandon,
when counsellors betray, when justice
profe' u'es, when brethren and disciples
fie.*, to remain unshaken and ut changed,
and to exhibit to this lower world a tvpo
of that love, constant, pure, and ineffable
which in another wo are taught to believo
the tett ef virtue.
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4 riet< res.
A room with pictures in it, and a room
without pictures, differ by nearly as much
as a room with windows and a room without
windows; Nothing, we think, is more
Melancholy, panic ulai ly to a pen-on who
lias to pass much time in his room, than
blank walls; for pictures are loopholes of
escape to the soul, leading it to otli r
e ones and otlirr sphere. It is such an
inexpressible relief to a persou engaged in
writing, or eveu reading, on looking up,
to tlnd ids soul es-aping, as it were,
through the frame of an exquisite picture,
to other beautiful, and peiliaps Idyllic
scenes, where the fancy for a moment
may revel, refreshed and delighted. Is it
winter in your world ? Perhaps it is summer
in the picture; what a churming momentary
change and contrast! And thus
pictures are consolers of loneliness; they
are a sweet Cattery to the soul; they are
a relief to the jaded mind ; they are windows
to the imprisoned thought; they arc
bo-.ks; they are histories and sermons,
which we can read without the trouble oI
turning over the Iiaves.
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