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titlmt gti. llt QuaUruplf Shtti not interest. We have received pressing inri-taiicn from the liaoptmanii tw visit it next Mitnn and Lrpe to do so. would lie to see the fields tilled by t.hexe Germans iLe otchaid6 SDd vice-yards ihty are peed sway this alariw'a asihereire to th et atents of musty text-books will bave al pasaed away, tnd that an accurate yet libera! scholarship instead of be.ng the exception 6Lall 1 the rule. For many jearaitwas couUsded that classical scholarship was oppOHed to a passnmate ityls of eloquenca.

but toe exmple of I'-tnck eo ott aa cued to support tois assertion, La. provjd to be its best refuUton it was found thst he had made a practice ot reading 3 tran.J-b. a of the Eoman kistorian Is ry. once a Tear and we cannot doubt that the luimiUo tyle of thia author, which cm mt hm star ia dark gats, when n. iUier star nor moon are Keen." Cmd.nal James Te Vilri, who 3jiribed cbout tie year li; nieniiois tha injtij neeiic in his history ot Jerusalem, an i adJs tiat it was ot indispensable utility t- tno who tiareled by sea.

Tbat it whs cert ualy known to the Northern nations as early as appears lrom orpaueus' it ol Norway, ftLo ttiis us that Jar I Sturla a en on the deatn of a certain Swedish Cont, was re-waided by a manner's compaiis, whica was di ubtless regarded as a gift of grfat valu 1 lavio Cioib, a Nespolitin no-ileman. who lived ir. the thirteenth century, has been re tie puiQen and sto of which thay have reason to I ofL It would rejoice us to that crly two years ago these smilin? fie'ds were an ni.tilkd wast; of prairie land. In time we will export to see flourishing manufactories on the wood -d streams which for aw r- Octets Bazaar om BLOSSOM. Oor live were eo complete.

With rfct eweet bni of oromi-e a nnr tile; wiihe we tbe Giver of the It d.ovptd and died. Onr tky wie overcist With (n, a beavy, deeo'm3g clTid of gtootn Vie Ccrmtd ah aod jay forever past-Car hearts a tuntt. Tbe pleasant apring time came. With ail its op'iiiog bads and fragrant flowers But no1 for us its un-hms far a cloud Had shaauwed ours. Onr pa 'h wi overgrown With weeds and brambles, aad we eooldaot see Augat fair bovond, hut made our moan boweainly.

of comrrerre than tie mariners" compass. VU-n tbe directive power or polarity ot toe agnet was discovered is nacertain, but iu Htirtu tive power sxms to have been known Iroiu the earliest acts. It is diaiiactly referred to ty liome Fytiiagoras, and Aristotle, l'bny 'Ut ons a chain of iron rins lrom one another, the firt mg upheld by a magnet or loadstone, bt. Aucunt.n meoUons statue sut-pendod trona a loai-'ore in the air, in tbe miudleof the temple of Serapia at Alexandria. Ihe power of the lodsloue.

liis the ek-ctucal one of ember, was to be ci racuious and eiiicacioua in the ore of certain diseases. Wben people do not understand any of the phenomena of nature, they regard thern with certain awe, and are very apt to pronounce twn miraculous, litiice, when tbe art of printing was discor-c-red, in the 11 tddle of the fifteenth csmary, many were disposed to consider it a msgi-eal art, and said tcere was cerat.nly a devil smcng the tjpes, troaa whica came the notion of an ideal printer's devil in oar modern ntwt-psper establishments a mischievous sprite wto, availing himself ot his opportunities, often seta society by the ear by bis Should re a of tLeir poession. lost even in nn .1 migaty im tier mcceed. the viror of tha Tew'ouic blood SMI'. WitLia the last month we have gw beyond th wintry experience of thj very d-est inhabitant Scow, not in sparse but in wnsHerall- volume coverinsthe earth to the deplh of several inches, in so a portions of tie interior.

tae.js.n heavy. Ice, thick almost enong'i f-r sk uerj if skates were to the foro. Altogether there Is LtUe left in cnr latitude of the sunny ISooth. As according to Keel us, the atoms which compose tie earth are in perpetual motion, who can say that we are not twisted ronnd 4o the north pole, and hare lost our climate. Bach hona fi le January does well enough for countries where the oldgentle-man is an expected guest, and is met with all kinds ol warmth-preserving appliance But hers we are not prepared for his marks of favor, and much prefer that he would keep fluence in directing that wonderftl eioquenc stirring appeals brought a nauita to arms.

gal ded by many as the inventor of the com-pas. Li. Gilbert affirms that Puulus Vetie-tus brought the compass from Cluna to Italy in u. Ludi estomanrjus asserts that about l-SUO he saw a pilot in the Last Iad.s direct his course by a magnetic needle, like those now in Uoe. I eter Adseger.

in a Latin still extmt in the Inivernty of Leytlen, not only de-senbes the mariner's compiM, but meutions tbe decimstion of the magnetic needle, end its actual deviation firm its meridian. The latter most therefore have been well known before the time of Christopher Columbus, to wtom that diocoterv of it has been erneraliv It would be easy, by glancing at the cir-enmstancea of the education too graat orators of all times and countries, to show that a classical education has proved of inestimable advantage to theia, lsth ia the cabinet and the forum. It will mark ansa-era in the history of human progress wb-a the claims of languages and ecu nee th ill Im thoroughly reconciled, and wtwa, hand ia hand, they shall move on in a inarch whose ultimate object is the conquest i the world. Thiri is the only means by wiict the barn era of sectarian prejudice ean be overthrown aad a hberal public opinion created. Withiut It is tbe winter now, Aed other fewer are drooping on tbe item.

At a her tkici are clouded, but our hearts iloiiiu not tor them For a tweet hope ia ours, A gltnou promue Utikics; ns to heaven; A heme awaits ae, an immortal home, Not knt, but given, Hia rifts are ours far ire Onr loves are sacred, preetoas His ii -ht Uux tod batb opened in that land of day. That woild of iijht. And wben we pas the tid, Which hat divides ns boa ibe other shore -Tte flewpr, a eariy bliRhted, at our side ill bloom once more. will load to new Hud useful enterprises. The FaiqueUique colony is a ii -tie seed, bat if it grows who can compute tlu advantages to re" suit to the country at large.

(ESOSE There are a refinement and classic beauty about the author of these stanzas sufficient to stamp Lim had Willia." Aytoun written nothing more) as the poet who was meet to fill plate vacated by Wjlson himself and that is saying much. But who was (Enone A fcir and hapless maidxn abandoned by Paris, ere he invaded the pUace of Menalaus, and tore sway Helen ete his treacherou act Lad roused all Greece to arms, and sealed the doom of Troy. We ill hear our KX On the holy mount of Ida, V. ber the pine aoi rypreea grow, Set a voting tnd lovetv iromaa, pmjf ever, weeping low. Drearnv turoughont tJi forest Lid i bo wind ot au mn blow, And the clouds auove were his usual distance.

The small beys, to be ears, srs happy at this unprecedented visitation. Hat then, io ever knew the "little romps nie," otherwise than happy when they can shout, and ran and play the mi' generally. We assisted at a game of snow-ball, when the storm came; first as a spectator and aftc-r- ascribed. c'nme r.re of opinion that it was impossible for Solomon to bave sent ships to Ophir, Tar-hbish and 1 arvaim (which lat they iinane to Lave been I'eru), without this useful in-stiumenb They insist that it was impossible for tbe ancients to have been ac uainte.l with the attractive virtue of the magnet and yet be ignorant of its poLd-ity; that this prop'rty of Mobile. MBS.

C. L. 8HACKLOCS. wards as a martyr. The jolly innocent I asV ed as if we would like to be snow-b tiled.

We, remembering that enow was miuaUy white and clean, and dic'n't stick, answered smtngeana incredible announcements. Lvnrjth.ng concealed from observation is wonderful, when it is first made known to us. Many call it a miracle, but there are rsaily no rmraclee in Eaturi. They belong to tbe supernatural or supra mundane sphere. Tbe bl nd man, restored to sight, looks on sunrise for the first tune as a great miracle.

The same may be said 01 hi first view of the stars. oih are brilliant testimonials to the Creator's power, which we behold every day of our lives without awakening in oar breasts the slightest emotions. Wherever we east our crew be it above, around us. or beneath our feet we behold similar testimonies. We have, however, gazed on them so long that we have come, at length, to regard them with lndifierence.

It is only tneir novelty, wnen fir-i beiield, that fctarties us, and leads us to attribute them to div.ne interposition, or to the penetrating acutcntss of a gen-us that is alwost divine. 6o, when th, a tractive power of the magnet was first discovered, it was regarded as son ething raculcua and when a aummnced to a eta-tied wotld that he could actually make wagnets, by imparting the magnetic intuence to bars of iron and steel it wns immediately reported, far and wide. this public opinion, ail ei arts of legu. latois tnd staterauea must ever be vaia ao act of lec-niature can create in intelligent public opinion, and, without this, any attempt at republican government will prove to be built on a foundation of aanX he importance of education, though olien acknowledged in general terms, is seldon thoroughly realized; and only tbe deep aid thouhunl student, who sees the influence which it has had oa the history of former tur es and kn the direction this influence im now taking, can forecast the events to me. It was this method of deep and systematic study of the conditions wb ch attended certain events which gave Burke that foresight aim or tantamount to prophei it was bis deep classical learning which put a proper enrb upon one ot tbe mostexub trmnt imaginations tver given to man; it wi his stndy of the great dialecticians which en ibled him to bake the foremost ace among 1 race of mem whose peers ths world has never seen.

It had been the custom to decry the study ol th ancient languages because tbey n- longer find utterance frtm the tongues of men; bat Ana ocamaadr roJ4 netfi. fr tht New Orleuw Saaaar Tlouw.1 THE MURDER OP ISTELECT. In a former paper, under the above caption, I discussed some of the general obnoxious features of tbe prevalent systems of education. Ite power wielded by the teacher in tae school-room is the greatest delegated to any human being; the ruler ot a nat.on may inflict inexpressible misery upon millions of human be.ngs, br.t the teacher can prevent this and make biai, instead, confer noun his country the inestimable ble-sii)gs of a'bened-ceLt rule. A tree aud manly criticism of the methods now in operation becomes a matter that we had no objection.

In fact, we rather think we cried come one coaie all," and threw ourself playfully into an arttuie. Flap, bang, came a tremendous ball into oar eyes. They smarted and tinlel, and lis ws opened cnr month to remoas trite, aauther took as against a tooth that had been aching for a week and went down our throat. The young had a system of attack which defied all oar rules of military stratepy. might Las wtll confess it was too mcca tne magnet is plainly reterrea to hy Wot), where the loadstone is mentioned by the name of Upaz, or the stone that turns itself.

It is, however, certain that tbe Romans, who conquered Jodea, were ignorant of this instrument. If known to them, tbey would have turned it to practical account. At whatever time it was invented, it was not generally used in navigation before the year 1 i-iU, and was among me first of that long line of discoveries which shed a blaze of light ov.t Lurope during the revival of letters aad sound philosophy after the dark ages. Lai win. in his Fro-Historic' expKSt-es ti opinion that the i'h aus, the great pioneers in nivigation, were acquainted with the polarity of tue magnet, and could not have carried on comnier i.il operations, on the extensive scile they did, without the of tbe mariner's compass.

As they were, fcr a long period, the only people that engaged ia commerce, aa I eu- i he deplores the desertion of one patwion. ately loved, and continues in the following stra.n my face do Ion per Moeaiini; Are my evt lonser nnt Ah ruj tein btve m.ia inem dimmt, And mycceeta ar and tma. 1 bv, wept un eariy wmn I ebalt weep the livntooir aiKtt Now I long or lien aaikneo. As I once have kmgea fur hgtiE." canst thou then be erae-l tsir and vouoz. as 1 bra fa lb on art mat a veritable mirac e-worker tad appeared, an 1 that society need not te startled txotn its propriety if the next thing he did was to r.ise the riea 1 to iite.

The tru'h is, the in consequence ol liis acaien aad iagtnuity, and Lis plica'ion of general law: jojei a monopoly of it. it is initei that fcr as. If we tnrntd sideways, a ball erash- ed against our ear; it we fronted them we went it blind, for there were William Tells in that crowd. When we turned oar buck in ignominious flight, we were bomburdel with balls which poured djen our back in icy streams, end smote onr legs until they aniveied sod grew feint. We found or too, that there was mud in tcutsnoT.

Very black and sticky mnd at that We hal entered tae circle of the Inferno, a wc'1-ilresse 1 respectable looking middle-aged in dividual -iilii a deal of kindly feeling in onr heart for the little sinners. We emerged, or rather tumbled out a dirty snow image, listless, dripping, bruited, with the naughtiest of nanghty words on oar hps. Is fact had we parsed the night in the gu ter, and beun knocked into a coetei hat by the police, we couldn't have looked mare like of paiumount importance; and, while thus criticising the systems employed, all honor, which it is iu our power to beetow, should be how ere npon that "noble army of martyrs, the teachers who wiel so responsible a power, and one whose exercise is attended by so many nnpleaa.nt circumstances. It is ray purpose, now, to go somewhat into the mmuta; of school life. Let us first take the ancient languages and see whether we can ciin n.

discover some gross errors in the generally eu ployrd methods of teaching them, there is a fierce conflict now going on in the tciucatioui.l world as to whether tue ancient lsngnnges Bbali be taught at ail; this coniict asansen, beyond all dou'it, from t.ieasiou id-ing errors which have so long pervaded the eommon system of teaching them and iu reading tne history of the controversy we know not which to wonder at more, tbe conservatism which has so long permitted the existence of these or the strengtn of the human intellect which has managed not to go into insanity from the tartueri to which it has been put. There are two ends which the teacher may have in view when teaching the ancient languages on the one hand he may wish to drive the scholar ahead merely to be able to say that he has taken him over just so much ground on the other, be may regard these studies as the means of Can it ibat in tbv boewn lae cold, so hard a heart 8he proceeds to narrate the fact that Tarij and Lersrlf bad been bred together, he hav. been the foster cbild of her mother. Tbat the had caiched him during slumber, -When the ot a dream pat.fed across his -atnreg like a ripple over glassy waters, when these dream were so pictured on the visage of him who slept that nhe read them in bis varying countenance. She told how, aniidttt etdars and olives, she hr.d sung to him of A.xac ne, and adds Then thire eyei would fill and glisten, eooiplaint ex Id eof en tne Thin hat wept for Anadne, Xbekeui' aeif mi'it weep for me! Eer recreant lover, she avers, may find theie is more truth than is generally supposed in the saying, that wrds are' fossil poetry.

We may. then, well and worthy of study languages which not only have record ad the teehnKS ot to of thegieatest nations which ever went conquest, but also preserved these conquests duni a period of diukness, when those who ImuI faitn ia the high destiny of tbe human race might well have despaired. We look w.th admiral oa upon a monument which com memorates the vtitues and achievements of one of th nrgLty dead. With how muca more admiration thould we look npon a mocument wiiich commemorates the virtues ami actuevemeaU 01 a race of heroes and statesmen; but which, more faithful to truth than the sculptured marble, also records the vices and errors for tbe warning and benefit of ages to come. Let 1 now take under consideration the matter ot text-books which is.

manifestly, one of prime importance. Two opposite and equally fi.tal errors have rendered worse than useless the majority of bcoks which have been issued for the nae of schools, the ono hanl the authors, writing their books merely with the purpose of making them seiL have told ns very httla about their subject, and have told a that little badly; in soma cases this doabUeM an from sheer ignorance. On the other hand, they bave attempted to make a show of their erudition, and thus mad it worse than ue- they wre jtalous of their pnvileg and if an invention important was actuady known to them, motives of interest would have led tuem to keep the owa secret, and carefully abt-ta from communi ating it to other n-iitns. To this it may be plied, that the i'na Diuaus Lad many liourbihiag cD'onios engaged ia tiade, and so vaiaab a si ret. if ihty pob.S4Sbed it.

would, in process of time, be buie to be disclosed by some of tuem, aud become generally known. Besides, tieir navigation was chiefly confined to tha sea-coast, tseir most hardy mariners seldom, if ever, venturing much oat of s.ght of land. Tie inference is almost irretdsiiole that the l'ba nieians, although d-serving of all praise ior their enterprising spirit, were ignorant of this great discovery. We may assign the period of the return of the European armies from their holy wars, in the East, as the most probable dace of a discovery so important to the int. rests of commerce.

The nations of the old world, who bad, by a singular intervention of Divine Providence, been brought into intimate association with each other, for the space of two centuries, were prepared, if ever, to realize the advantages of national intercourse, and ot carers lo purfacnler cases, was oiiiva little more know iLg than his less curious and less imlnttnoiis ue.liLors, and hud gotten ahead 01 tbtm for the t-'pace of a whole de jrje, in the great race of discovery, ion may jot down Lis discoveiy ss number one in the scale of inipoi lance, and his application of it to practical puipoties as an evidence of the greatness end to which a srec ess-mi explorer into ure a mysteries may attain in human estimation. It was the day wben men saw ghosts, and were frightened by hobgobiins, and wben, if they did not di sire to be scared out of ti -ir sevtn sensef, they were well prep ed to wonder, and delighted to wond whenev theastiologe-, necromancer or magnetizer was prepared to astonish them by souiettiing extraordinary. If Hercules was entitled to a place among the gods for his seven succassf al labors, the discoverer of the mysterious powen ot the magnet, was, in their opinion, well entitled at bast to a plae Limbo, along w.th the ghosts of Homer, Virgil, Dante and other poetic worthies, who, if we bebeve the author of the Divina Comedia, are gathered together in that not undesirable subterranean abode. a In all magnetic bodies, young gentlemen, there exist a substance which may be called acquiring a refining general culture and to enlighten our understanding by throwing up a disreputable vagiiliond. This is our experience of the late cold snap.

Ws don't doubt the juvenile party could tell a different tale of the glimpse of winter which has been vouchsafed us. One thing howeTer is Terr certain, that whether the enow was agreeable or not, the thaw is detestable. We cannot yet the amount of injury done to the early budding trees, but have heard of the orange trees in some localities as seriously injured. Perhaps not where they are protected by a large body of water, and near the Gulf coast, but farther in the interior where the culture of the tree to avail themselves of disclosure of one of the mysterious laws of the universe, which on 11 a "gut nose giare is removed by its distance from the present He wh) has the former object in view will make hia pupil read Horace merely to say that he has read him tbe exponent of the latter views will make him read the author as the exponent of one of the most retinud ages in the history of the world, and because the author himself was the bean ideal of the polished gentleman. He who holds the former view will ever bave his pupda carrying a load destined to press them to the ground at List his opponent will give his scholars an equal, nay, a greater load, but he will, at the same time, give them food to make their strength equal to the task.

Brother with fairer or newer lace than her own one with more melodious oice, rising with grander swe'l a she accompanies the warbling lyre be may find a spirit more eon" genial to his own in thu new love but, with prophetic eloquence, asserts that bis later choice will not love him half so well. Then indignation, mastering her wasted devotion, she sings Ob, thou hollow ahip, that be treat t'aru osr tbe faitblua deep WouUlt thou leave turn on soiae island here alone me wnters weep Wfeere no buman foo is moulded In tbe wet and yil)w sand Leave him there, tboa boiiow veeael! Ieave him on the IosJy strand 1 Tben hi a heart will mrslT eoften ben bn foolish pe decay. And older lure rekindle As tbe new one diet away. TinoDary kiila will hanathim, 111. lag from tbe sitsay soa, Aui hiM though will wander homeward, i nto Ida and to ma.

Ob, that like a tittle swallow, 1 coo.d reach tbat lonelr snot 1 uie magnetic nma, whose particles repel each other with force inversely as tbe distance. The particles of this fluid attract the particles of iron, and are attracted by thorn in retain with a aimilar force. The particles of iron pel each other according to the same law. The magnetic fluid moves through the cores lesa. Of the average ell asical text book Anthon's aeries may be taken as a fair extra-pie the coolness with which he borrows from other authors without givin them credit, is something astounding by i ljudicions translation he has tostersd a spir of dependence on others which is ruinous and he nsvar hints in his commentaries that the ancient languages have such a thin; as a grammar.

It is with revrret that I say tais of a man who was, doubtless, a fine echo ar bat while I believe in the principle tit mi niti bonum, 1 also think that regard for the cause of education re inires that this subjMt should be treated with un) loved hands. It is to be hoped that text-boc ks will boob ap would afterwards bind them more closely together. All honor to the unknown discoverer, whoever be might be But our gratitude is chiefly due to that great Being who has imparted to nature herself, in her hidden reccsaes, a force at once so subtle, powerful and beneficent. What is the mariner's compare that magical instrument wrthout which no navigator, in modem times, vestures to leave port, and traverse, without fear and with an assurance of safety, the boundless ocean, in search of a distant country It consists of a magnetic steel bar, attached to the under side of a card, divided into points and quarter points, and supported by a tine pin on which it turns freely, within a Lox covered with glass. By reason of the directive property of the magnet, the north point, which is commonly denoted by a Heur 1 he whole reasoning of modern educator has been vitiated by supposiog tbat the human mind, during the first years of iu existence, must needs wear a straight jacket, and that when it has reached mnturr years it of iron and soft steel with very hrtie obstruction, but its motion is more or less obstructed ss the steel increases in hardness or temper.

This is one of the g'eat laws of magnetic attraction, ard is said to have occupied no little of the attention of Sir Isaac Newton, whose life, you are aware, was devoted to investigating tbe physical laws of that great magnet, the earth, on which we reside. Fora long time it was supposed tbat iron, ste nickel and cobalt, were the only magnetic bodies, but in 1802, we learn, th a Co-lomb announced to the Institute of France, that all bodies whatever are subject to the magnetic inliuence, to such a degree as to be capable of accurate measurement." it in, however, the polarity and directive, as from tue attractive, power of the magnet that chiefly interests as is exposed to a great deal ot risk. It has always struck ns as very singular that the culture of the orange is not more extensive in Louisiana, isouie 'portions of the Mississippi coart, the cote d'or," as it was once called,) the Calcasieu eosntry that borders on the Gulf, the Mermentau, the lower Teche, in fact all the sea bordered parishes, axe peculiarly adapted to the growth of the orange, it is a certain crop, save in exceptional season; it always commands high market and requires little or no labor. Why is it not mora largely THE GERMAS iETTl.EMESl AT FAIol'E-TAlyCK. We were much pleased the other day to bear of the prosperity of this experimental colony at Faiqut taiqrie, in the parish of tit.

Landry, home time last spring about sixty pear which will enable us to drink at the loner of ancient llteratur without being, like Tantalus, tortured by' he ever reeedin water Gzaxaxictri tm the Mrm Onim Swads Tnml TUE VYISfi A 7TV.V.V. ST raWHtX A. D. lALDE.t. tit lis, is readily known, ihe circumference of the card is generally divided into thirty-two points, which, in the best compasses, are again subdivided into half points and quar AH bin errors would pardooed.

All tbe weary part forgot. Never bonid be wander from me Never abouid be mora depart For term anna woe 4 be bis priaoo, And his home would be my aeart. Tbna lamented fair Knooe. eemc ever, weepio Jaw, On tiie noly moont of laa, bue pine a id eypreae rrow. In the sfl'-sauie boiir Caaaanira t-liru ki ber proffaecy ol wo.

And ui i tbe pn wellin lJul tbe faithleM fans go. must be weighted to the ground instead of being left to its un trammeled strength and plume itself for a heavenward flight. The consequence has been tbat it has ever rw quired yeais for the very highest order of human intellect to recover from this poison, which they imbibed almost with their very milk. To what else are the Napoleonic and other wars to be traced than to the fact that it was taught, as an axiom, to the youth of both countries, that England and France were natural and irreconcilable enemies It should be himly impressed on the mind of every one who essays the teaching of the ancient languages that their prime object ia, not to tra philologists, but to turn out upon the world in thai our Texas laad, th la id of flower, her ber km star looks luwa with watcafal eves. ters.

These are reckoned suJicient for nautical purposes. On the inside of the box is drawn a dark vertical line, culled laboer'e point. This point, or rather line, aad the pin on which the card turns, are in the same line or place with the ship's keel; aad hence tbe point on the circumference of the card opposite to lubber's point, shows the angle which tte ship's course makes with the magnetic meridian, cabled tbe course of the ship." V. itti this simple instrument aa a guide, the ship is enabh to pursue its course in a cer in commerce and navigation, mention tne two together, because their relations are very mtimaie, so intimate that the rise and tall ot the ooe is srre to draw after it the rise and fall of the other. Let us eons dir.

th n. the The bounteous Aotuinn faces, Th sewers a band Which gav. but asked no coll aad polile Ilea. There is a dreamy light npor her far, A ivfteoed balo restt aroa id her oiw, Lis unto tbat which ia dean cold eiabrsc Cornea aft, 10 erown a Mun mathwr rw. In rxl a'ate ah lie'h on a bed polarity ot the magnet, the dmcovery of which created an trs tn the hisory of commerce sal Esvigatioo.

before it was understood, the report go that navigators employed ravens as a ubhtitute in guiding them scroti tbe trackless deep to tbeir desired haven. Th. so birds without any ot the for the -s of Mother arey chickens are said to sn iff the land from a great distance. This was tne reason why Noah ttentons 01 them tort a irom Fuiirth on Hulorj of rouimtr-f. 1ST rBOF.

D. K. WRTT AS KB. Whoever reviews the history of the arts and sciences will disco-er that they have olxyed the srae law A gradual development which appertains to ie progress of tha mind itself. Great truths are commanicated to the world exactly in proportion to iu state for receiving liieai.

lii tae i our- of our inquiries tain direction and reach its port, however uit-tant, without lad ore, notwithstanding the a orcis, ttnipenta and variable winds to wuien tcevenstlis of.cn exposed. hales, Anaxs-goras Ld others lauc.fully suppjsvt tbe in net to a MaL VV'e may be wall ntine Lowever, in compar.ng it to the gulating power cf iietson in tbe bum in breast, wck-b, ever looking; to God as its men ot enlightened minds and liberal culture; to exemplify, if he is studying trreek, all should not be considered as accomplished if the scholar can tmnsiate a chorun in a Greek tragedy; but he should be taught that in tae dismatic literature of a nation we may read its ii.ner Lie, and, thu putting our band upon the national heart, feels its ev-ry throb. There ia on object, however, so paramount in it importance tbat its attainment should be the guiding- Germans, more or lean, under the direction of Mr. T. Jabacher, settled there.

Mr. F. en. tered for them a large body of land (fourteen thousand acresi, of which each one cultivates certain portion, in projvortion, we believe, the force he can put in the field. Thus each man is secured a homestead of Li own, and the expenses of bringing him out, prodding him with agricultural implements, besides other necessaries, are to be reimbursed to Mr.

Fabacher oat of the first profits each tarm. Mr. F. and Lis tktaily make part of the colony, which lies tin miles north of the pro jested Texas raihcad. Ha is a can of for-tnLe and very advanced views; in fact, by his into trie O'l tbe umverne, we first reach the iiostuhte, sujget.ted by mere fancr ihe Ark the first gret ship that ever was coB'tructed in order to diwcover it tuo waters ot the rcoj were abated from the face of the oi nwi toKjci 01 uie classics it is.

bv Woven with nchi broidery of (fid Which her owa hands aav ruaaviii, while over head A purple cloud hanrs in vtium'naa foil A canopy of state: Her rrti elite rare Vi uh rtrhest rotors wove, aoxj 'itraad her fans Ci nioved by hnmihiogm of ia daliriag air, 1 or but no wateitc with sptsi-hs ehaiia. Can tliii death See 00 lir pmnaiv far A rlai-h of bewaty stow, arid ia her A lixht or Riory; ah 't but Uj trace vt iwiit iMC-y, coDiumpu i faiaity, let dietb she, a on whoa work wtl doo. oowo to al'imoer witb arwaa. WLi.e pa la wit a pinmir, ltd lead awa t-htiia his lat gloria 0 er her place of rat. pole is able to subdue and triumph o.er those pations which often agitate poor besides the mariner's eompasa, there are 1 thcr articles which compose the furniture of frequent translations, to ac luire a good, id-wmatic English style, and learn that, by translation, is meant, not merely a bterai rendering of the text, but the difficult art of harmonizing, as far as possible, the idioms of onr own with those of a fnrei-n anguage.

1 he history of nations is, to a greater extent than is generally auoooMeJ. wntteain these ear but the land bird returned to him, ending no reft for the le of its foot Frode, an Ice andic historian, born in the year ljus, snd who wrote a hixtory of the dineovr-y of Iceland, says that Yrlgerderson, a renowned viking or pirate, departed from ooland. 111 Norway, to seek tune in toe year tf. lie carried with him three ravecsae guides and, to coos rate them for his pnrpo off w-ed np a sacrifice in Iuionmnd, where his ah Isy, "for in tboe timts," says Frod 3, men hsd no loadstone in for-ign countries." It would appear, from tbe authon that the directive power of the magrwt was nn ler-stood, and employed to aome extent bv Oh beauteous matroe of th pitaiaf year. eii-ai pointed sbips, and which may pro-p ily be noticed in connection with it These a.e char te ane chart and Mercators '-ait the lo.c.er adapted to icpreeenta por-Lon of the earui's surlace near the equator, the latter to represent all the portions of the eaith, surf, ce.

Tbe use of the plane chrt i-, To rind the latitude of a place; The course and distance of two place; 3. The comn-e end distance given to find the ship flace. 2. The quadrant, employed to find the altitude of the sun. moon, a star or a planet, naapariaf uuh iuu oreaaiiaua wiui Band or next tbe prolbl, for woieb we are prepared to reasons of gre iter or less weigsii: an.l, at tie certain, which sflor is the higtiest aut.Kta.-t on to the miml, and fills it of ea with unbounded Ot litht There is a ie ret pleasure attendant on the earnest prow-cmiou of truth tor its own sake, beoau- we feel tbat we are animated by the motives, but tbe saiislectioa resulting Yioin a coufreuid occupation of the kind, nouiing eompar! to tha raptors experienced by the cue -stui dixcoverer of some great law of nature, of aome principle of grave importance, that ha-i never lore been disclosed to ihe world.

8uch an individual, witcout any undue exerrtse of vanity, reels that he is beneuctor of his aperies, and that he is at least eiitilleJ to tbe gratitadd of mankind, if not its houiagii. The Utter he is pretty nre to receive, though he is perhaps ready e'ntitled to nr. more cred.t for his discovery thun the Striiculturirt, who a -cid -nt-ally lights upxwi a gold ra.ne concealed, for a time, in the bowel of the ertb. The laws of nature, in all tlir admirable Diiiat ahewer thy jRa ch waitmf heart te cheer. And bieseed with goldea ruitare all th laad; irbre shall find anotne- to tb r-atbe soft je winl a njuim aad aod kv.

While cemle sorrow id( learfally. bhali mid the hghily i aiuoad snow. little idioms which remain tbe eternal framework of a language; and sinijl words photograph more clearly than aabt else mighty changes in tbe modes of thmking ot a nation There is, too, another discipiioe which the study ot tb class afford an 1 waicn is very g'nera ly overlooked; the companion of classic authors with the wr.trw of our own Lmnnge will ever be found mint fruitful of re suite, giving as it will, not only an erearaie scholarship in ancient bat also in contemp-raneoas literature. After alb the main object of the real student is to trace ths progress of human tboucht during the lapsing age the noblest kiia to tne latitude 01 a place at sea. a.

The sextant, employed to find tbe lonri-tude at sea by lunar Obsei vauoa. 4. Tbe telescope, to find tbe dint wees be. tweea the moon and any celestial object, as, for instance, the sum I esides theae instruments, with ths uses of which the nkibful navigttoris familiar, there are rule for obi 1 1 ue veiling, wm ward aail-icg. current sailing, middle latitude sailin r.

Fai jicn AnM or Evni.m Fatsios. Pari Ktir eaya. ror a anmhrf of jtmn past th a-bity of Franc ha gjv t( far faaa-oo of Ufa. a we hav ri to fraao for ta faabeo of dre. Ib Jiskey Out ha Ktrea great mpul tbit movmeeat, m4 ae i xh raciDg V4 beonn tb an torrltis tpirt par mariners as esrly as the 11th century.

Ferhaps ft knowledge of it am ng the Cl-inese may Lave ei.it-ted at a atill earlier period. If we accept the testimony of Di-balde, it was known to tbe Chinese in tbe eailiett ages, and was emp.oyed among them, on land, to guide travtlers a thousan i years before Christ. It is known that the Caine-te claim for themselves hi.hsr anti pxity and greater learning than any other nation, ancient or modern. It is pretty certain, an i now generally admitted that iey had the art of printing among them before it was piactictd in Europe, and it is at all unlikely that they were aornainfed wuh the directive power of the magnet, at an justly early, if not still ear her, du than toe art of printing, which is probably the of a ore recent civ.liitation- Tb-4 tbe manner's comps, nnd-ra dil-r- shrewdness and sound jnlgment, the very man qualified to try this experimental colony in Louisiana. These industrious people wJI inaugurate a new rystem ot farming among tUeir Creole neigtbors.

They work a field with the assiduous care usually bestowed upon a garden. They are thrifty, untirin. and prepared to turn everything to profitable account. The rfuse which would 1 thrown away by their neighbors is utilired by tbern in ways wliicli their old-wotld training Las made familiar to the commonest laborer. Mock (what they bave is very fine) is at.

tended to with scrupulous care. Their barns and stable are models of commodious aro'ar tectnre. The smallest of farm duties are attended to with the esactuess brought to bsar upon the greatest, aad above all things system, rigid and interpec, tnitmg, is at tae rwt of their daily labors. Of course they have a school, and prop erecting a chapel. Onr informant, who has visited this interesting colony, was struck by its Arcadian There was such kindly hospitality and geuial gaiety no locking forward with fena anxiety to the result of their labors, that niidi for wealth which makes the America speculator.

There was siirpiy a stendv, patient determ'-cation to make tie betit of the sod, ai-d a belief that strong Lands and willing hearts can accompli a deal by naite 1 Tort. We are watching this erperiment with livsly use to which arboiarwoip can be pat is, by showing tbe improvement which has, slowly but surely, been made in the affairs of Men to gain lor ourselves faith in the capabilities of man lr mental development; when a man Has aronired this fui.h in humanity which ao circniiM-ieoees em shake, be had acquired a treasure which will amply eotpenxat hia for Laung burned the midnseht oU in hu et-iietia-, tho wh prii mtm of la worid, 'apartamaaa' ot ol ar c.l to ew bumiv ad trym thmt Loriiah avsa.a. As aa t.ie tact opar. 1 kau rvrsl ohers Me Joeaew Club who bay 'ar o.tw IB K(tit sueet. parallel sailing, traverse sailing, and aae aaiiuie.

which ha is expeited not only to nn-den-iand, but be able to reduce to practice with facility; in addition to rule for deur-n-ining the height of tides, tbe time of hlgii water, of measuring a stip's co irsein a gives time, and the melhol of reducing po ots of con tMi to degreea by construction, by calculation, by inspection and by Gnnter's acde. In fctort, the able and reiiabl nav.gator niut be a thorough man of science. identcal in man.a;. was rnt naia a. bnt workings, existed long before tbe days of Newton, L-t jpUoe, Franklin, Ark-wnht, Iluruboldt, Davy, Morse or Foliou.

nd almost worship these men for their nc-fnl dieorie, and their ingenious fysteu-of ph.Wpfcy, bn, th rtiy di-eovered nutbini tiiat did not enat betore their time that waa actually new. however new it nurU to thea. Tiie-e ia nothing new. youne pentlemen, under the sun. eertamiy noiiuitg ik'w beyond the stars.

Tbe coerce ot cuture. on wbatfr aide we examine it tue ctnT ptital and eentr fu forces which govern heavenly bo Se in their titbits, the law of attraction aad trrwviiatioi whu pervwde thin mundane spheie, rem invariaVly tbe satis fro 95 age to Taa ilowers tude. mm lie, bat truth, wh.ch elac-tnfiee tbe world by its ires and ulen lor, ceTer itself suffer from the convulsion of ie elements bnt is the same fester Jay, to-day and forever. I erliaps there it no ooe discovery that bis cor.tr. tuu-d aioie to the prjTo aal and was IB common aw.

10 tie twelfth century, is testifies! by vanoas aa- thjrs of the best repot. Tans Goy of Hk kv.e from oe crack or ef la vi est nd, and. wwea fie the asao tai taoor. th-y refswa ark 1 vr e(iMor l'n-- 1 lit ny eu'ai dree frr km ti r- as Jockey Cfa IBerwia a aov te of iaai a) bemc obants 10 iiauort s.r i fo 001, or Vr ilwr eoate cut R-r ah 44, mm4 attrboi ts a Iwk ar.fia, neat. brt-a a thia very lar: cti wi.d li L'a aj.

mt oeO''(i if sbey l.4 (Si ib f7. 4.h rat or taU teawr aai av wia aat wt a ahort besw a'-la, ar priTtr () bib 10 Lt adco iw hr yaer -iporar a the h-ni-v ia cw- "at. fJM-sv ha I uf eeara e'h-T foamwt iv aa wtiy o-sr a -a, taj aa-ta btsd aariy a ia' a bay arfrt tv. tow ksowt. is im taint for th pii miW ah ar wi.id at hut sock-y Uia' starch.

Animated by this motive, the stu lent r-s Irom a mere machine into a thinkin? tirg rises from a mere hewer of wool and diawer of water, working with no settled object, iwo the pos.tioo man was deeiTied to occrpy aa -iLe teir of all the age" He vt.ius bis learning not be-aue it is aone-tfcirjt whi msoy of his do pofsers. Lot becaoso it asaata htm in lii mission of mercy to all men and lis elaris, mere than aavtmng else, ia calculated to m-ler iit-fc ttiu.m its by teaching bof are the bet of men fail into errors, au 1 tow weic-wary it to eTceirme ptiilnthro-py which do diiWrva-e of aaiacnxLty or of cd oaa circa luscnte. Let us Lope that ere many years bare 1 rovence. iu a poem emi.iHi lm iitbis Gcyof, in cu io quarto manuwnptof us t'r. Thorn Jleehan, ia till mn4 for Fibfrv.

tainkt that man is net rrow than woman, bnt ia eue reivno an imatdute eonrvotrs'ioi of power, he r. Ia 1 mt one mv as wr- itiad e-rtar-taoe odiii Ufa, he r- Ikl Tbe wear aad a-arof h)3 ei'ed siow ber pow of eodtraie. an 1 tbe tLirWnth century, now exunt toe Uoyal Library at Fans, says that 4'nav gi'or jkis- 1 scea a never failing metiod by vinae of ts I wsdwutiT, an uk brown ston. to which irin adberva of its own accord. The art eoa.iat ia rnbbing a nri: oa the tinrm- and to rr of children is meut -rwi, tee p-rf inure wbi anti kid a man fas wr.t.r ih4 neta as bos of ts luoi; walwrtai iv.Jvujes of 1 Tiai.

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