Wisconsin Patriot (Newspaper) - December 24, 1859, Madison, Wisconsin BY CARPENTER MADISON SATURDAY DECEMBER 24 1859 40 I they have furnished tia an intellectual i by which we can sound the depths of se the earth and count the cycles of its indurance j In his hour of presumption and ignorance man haa tried to do more than this but though he j was not permitted to reach the Heavens with his tower of stone and haa tried in j vain to the ocean it wis given I him to ascend into the empyrean by chains of r thought which no lightning could fuse and no Man and Native Finer use of the English tongue haa been made than by Sir DAVID in his recent Inaugural Address at the opening of the Edinburgh University if we are to judge from the following STUDY OP THE SCIENCES The acquisition of the languages of Greece and Rome the art of rightly using your comet strike and though he haa not been powers and the rigorous methods which i allowed to grasp with an arm of flesh the are embalmed as the abstractions of number i ducts of other worlds or tread upon the and of magnitude are but the mental ladders ment of planets ha has been enabled by which we scale the precipice of truth with more than an eagle's eye the ascend to the intellectual regions above md mighty creations in the bosom of beyond as To such of you as ore about to j march intellectually over the Mosaics of systems and to follow the adventurous by the study if natural philosophy chemistry in a chariot can never be and natural history I cannot resist the of offering a word of counsel and agement There are no branches ot cal study which more imperatively demand the assistance of a public teacher than the sciences I have named Other departments of edge may to some extent be pursued in the closet but it is only by the aid of well-devised i apparatus by the exhibition of instruments and specimens of natural objects and by studying the productions of the material world in their own localities that a sound and practical Artificial of acquaintance with these sciences can be attained With such auxiliaries a wide field of edge will be spread out before you in which every fact you observe and every truth you learn frill surprise and delight you Creations of boundless extent displaying unlimited er matchless wisdom and overflowing cence will at every step surround you The infinitely great and infinitely little will compete for your admiration and in contemplating the great scheme of creation which these inquiries present to your minds you will not overlook the almost superhuman power by which it has been developed SCIENCE HAS DOSE Fixed upon the pedestal of his native earth and with DO other instrument but the eye and hud the genius of man has penetrated the dark and distant recesses of time and The finite has comprehended the infinite The being of a day has pierced backward into maeval time deciphering its subterranean and inditing its chronicle of countless ages In the ragged crust and shattered ment of our globe he has detected those tic forces by which oar seas and continents have changed which our mountain ges have emerged from the bed of the by which the gold and the silver the coal and the iron and the lime have been thrown into the hands of man as the materials of civilization by which mighty cycles of animal and vegetable life have been embalmed and ed In your astronomical studies the earth on which you dwell will stand forth in space a pended ball taking its place as one of the smallest of the planets and like them pursuing its appointed arbiter of times and seasons Beyond our planetary system now extended by the discovery of Neptune to millions of mile's from the sun and the vast expanse of the universe the telescope will exhibit to you new suns and systems of worlds infinite in number and variety sustaining doubtless myriads of living beings and pre- spheres for the exercise of Divine and beneficence GRAND OF WORLD In the blue heavens above in the earth beneath and in the social world around yon will find full scope for the exercise of your noblest faculties and n field ample enough for the widest range of invention and discovery Science has never derived any truth nor art any invention nor religion any bulwark nor humanity any boon from those presumptuous mystics who grovel amid nature's subverted in the caverns of the invisible world and attempting to storm the awful and impregnable sanctuary of the future If these views be sound the instruction of literary and theological students and indeed of the whole population in the grand truths of the material world becomes the duty of a Christian church and a Christian State The knowledge which used constitute a scholar and fit him for social and intellectual intercourse will not avail him under the present ascendancy ofj practical science Mew and gigantic inventions mark almost every pausing colossal tubular bridge conveying the monster train over an arm of the submarine cable carrying the pulse of speech beneath miles of monster ship freighted with thousands of lives and the huge rifle gun throwing its fatal but unchristian charge across miles of earth or of New arts too ful and ornamental hare sprang up luxuriantly around us New powers of nature have been evoked and man communicates with man across seas and continents with more certainty and speed than if ho had been endowed with the velocity of the or provided with the pinions of the eagle Whatever we are in short art and science surround us They have given birth to new and lucrative professions Whatever we pose to do they help us In our houses they greet us with light and heat When we travel we find them every stage On land and at ery harbor on our shores They stand be- side onr board every day and beside our couch by night To our they give the speed of lightning and to our the of the sun and though they cannot with the boasted lever of Archimedes to the earth or indicate the spot upon which we matt stand could we do it they have pat into oar of matchless power by which we can study the remotest worlds and We have been favored with a copy of a letter from Gov Wright of Indiana now U S Minis ter at Berlin to D Rowland Esq of It discusses several questions of est to farmers and horticulturists but we confine our extracts at present to what he upon the artificial production of Fish have been artificially increased and in China for centuries A litile more than a hundred years ago the subject began to j attract the attention of scientific men in many where the practice has already reached a high state of culture In England and France attention has been but recently directed to this branch of industry yet it is successfully in both countries and promises to become of the utmost importance to the world I will not attempt a description of the different modes pursued in France and Germany as you will find one better written and with details which I cannot go into in more than one of our journals I should like to have some of our western men who happen to be the owners of small lakes or ponds make the experiments for themselves The field for scientific is large and important and the results if successful cannot fail to be highly beneficial If all our bonds lakes brooks and rivers were stocked with the kinds of fish their in- crease secured by artificial means and ed from extirpation by wise legislative ions we should have a cheap and healthy article of food constantly at hand It is only a short time since salmon was a luxury in over Germany only to be enjoyed by the wealthy now it is within the means of the peasant as well as of the noble On the of last I had a salmon from Hanover on my table which weighed thirty-two pounds I send you the enclosed paragraph Irom an English paper as it not only serves to illustrate the practicability of the artificial propagation of fish but conveys a hint toward the stocking our great inland seas which should not be lost upon our At a recent sitting of the A tion Dr Cloquet read an interesting paper on a successful experiment recently made by M Coste in a pond situated at St one of the domains of the Emperor near St Cloud It had hitherto been considered impossible to produce salmon in a state of domesticity out their emigrating to the sea M ex- periment proves the contrary The small pond above alluded to in a shady valley does not cover a surface of more than two and a half acres Its greatest depth is six metres from which the bottom rises in a gentle slope to the grassy bunk It receives its waters by transudation from the high ground with which it ia surrounded Three years ago it was emptied for and when it afterwards aguin received its usual quantity of water M Coste stocked it with some trout which are The Frost The forth one clear And I ahall be out of sight So through the and over the In silence I'll take my way I will not go on like that train The Wind and the Snow the Hail and the Who make 30 much bustle and in But I'll be id -13 Then he to tin mountain anA powdered He en the and bougha he dreat In diamond beads and the breast Of the take he spread A of mail that it need not The downward point of many a spear That he margin far and at i- Vr a could us head He pent to the windows of those who ever each pne like a fairy crept he breathed wherever he stept By of the were seen Most th thure There were bet its of aud swarms of bees There we cities with temples and I All in Sjt he one thing thit waa fair the cupboard and Thai all to Now just to this of he I'll burst in three And the of wat left far in to tell them I'm t'so closs of afternoon the Litter part ot I vas on ick The ro solitary and rugged uu 1 wound along t gloomy pine and over abrupt and hills I 1 at inn a two-story brick little back from the road lu the I rose early and took a- from the window but the was very un- inviting Afar ia the moat distant part of the a min busily engaged in digging a grave was something within im- me to stroll forth and accost him 1 passed on to where the grave digger was suing his occupation He answered my ing salutation enough but continued in- tent upon work He was a man of about fifty years of age spare but strong with gray hair aud sunken cheeks and certain lines about the mouth which argued a propensity to indulge in dry jest though tho sternness of his gray eyes to contradict the tacit assertion An unpleasant morning work in the open said I He that the clouds shall not replied the grave Jigger still busily plying the spude Death abroad fair and toul d ly aa 1 vre that follow in his steps prepare for the dead rain or shine melancholy occupation A fic for a moralist Soms would find i pleasure ia it Deacon Giles I am sure would willingly be in my place now And why so Thia is for his wife replied the grave digger looking up from his occupation with a dry smile that wrinkled hia sallow cheeks and distorted his shrunken lips that his merriment was not infectious he resumed Lh and that so that in a very short time he had lowed the retting place of Deacon Giles This done he from the trench u lightness that surprised me nud walking a from the new made grave sat down it tombstone and beckoned me to I did so Young ruin slid he a sexton aud a digger if he is one who has a zeal for his calling becomes something of a historian amassing maay a curious tale find strange lawyer and physician of the place showed some willingness to afford him countenance but they soon dropped his acquaintance for they found the old man somewhat morose and reversed and moreover their vanity was ed by discovering the extent of his knowledge To the minister he would quote the Father and I the Scriptures in the original tongue and showed himself well arme J with the weapons of polemical controversy Ho astonished the lawyer with his profound acquaintance with jurisprudence and the was surprised at the extent of his cal knowledge So they all deserted him and the minister for the old man differed in some trifling of doctrine spoke very has arrived it is God that impels me to speak To win you I have lost my yes I am a She smiled upon me in the joyous affection of her young I gave her ibe fatal Adelaide clasped her white arms about my I tered the Take me to your I have lost my soul for you and mine you must She spread her long white said the sexton rising in the excitement of the moment and assuming the attitude he described and then continued he in a hollow voice at that moment came the thunder and the flash and the guilty woman fell dead on the floor The countenance of the narrator expressed average about a foot in length important circumstance which now four years old and about a foot and a half in length In Arril and May 1857 he added several thousand liliputian bred at the College de France two mouths before and notwithstanding the havoc committed by their voracious enemies the trout they have thriven so well that some time ago in the presence of Majesties upwards of two hundred kilo- grammes weight of these fish were brought up in a single draught of net They were on an But the most r M Coste re- marked on this occasion and which adds a new fact to science was that all these fish were in a state of reproduction the spawn which they contained had come to maturity and it has since been subjected to artificial fecundation the embryos resulting therefrom are so far de- that they must soon be hatched Hence it is proved that salmon may be propagated in close waters and also that salmon like trout begin to at the nge of eighteen months HE A So late as a ago on the 12th of October 1858 tho New and ingly of him and by and by all looked upon the all the horror that he felt self-educated farmer with eyes of aversion I And the I asked the husband But he cared not for that ior ho derived hia of the destroyer and the became consolation from loftier resources and in the of paths of science found a pleasure as He stands before was the thrilling in the pathless woods He instructed son answer A OF THE PRE- Springfield Journal tells the lowing story There are still quite a number of people ing in the rural districts who innocently im- agine that gas can be treated with as little mony as sperm so at least thought a Logan county gentleman who slept in the ican hotel in this city on Thursday night He came here on Tuesday for the purpose of being married and he carried out hia intentions ly for the same afternoon he was joined in what somebody has beautifully called the holy bands of matrimony Two other friends of our subjected to the same course of treatment at the same time At an early hour in the evening the three newly ded pairs retired to rest and the gentleman particularly referred to in this item blew out the gas in hia room instead of turning it off In less than five minutes afterwards the can hotel was impregnated from cellar to with an exceedingly unpleasant odor One of the proprietors Immediately started on a voyage of discovery and succeeded in the gas to the room of gentleman from the fertile county Logan He rapped at the door but the satisfaction he could get for a couple of was can't come in here before He finally succeeded in satisfying the Logan county man that he was on an errand of mercy and door was accordingly allowed to upon its iron hinges The odor that then am there ascended the nostrils of the proprietor o the hotel was of the awful kind but it subsided pretty soon after the gas burne was closed The Logan man to the proprietor of the hotel by saying you'll excuse me for all this trouble for it's the first time that I ever saw a light without in all his languages literature and j history were unfolded one by one to the soil of the solitary Yeirs rolled away and tho old man died He died when a storm convulsed the f ice of nature when the wind howled around his shattered dwelling and tho lightnings played above the roof and though he went to heaven in faith and purity the vulgar thought and said the evil one had claimed his own in tho thunder and commotion of the elements I cannot paint to you the of his son at hii bereavement He was for a time as one distracted He sought to bury his grief in his thirat for fame After his thirst was gratified he began lo yearn for the companionship of some sweet being of the other sex to share the laurels he had per consolation in his ear in moments of de- and to supply the void which the death of his old father had occasioned He would picture to himself the felicity of a refined intellectual and woman and as he had chosen for his motto what has been done may still be done he did not despair of cess In this village lived three sisters all beautiful and Their names were Adelaide and Madeline I can never forget the beauty of those young girls Mary was the youngest and a fairer haired more damsel never danced upon a green Adelaide was a few years older was dark haired and but cf the three Madeline the eldest possessed the moat fire spirit cultivation and intellectuality Their father was a man of taste and education and being somewhat above vulgar mitted the visits of the hero of my story When he found an affection springing up between Mary and the poet he did not withhold his consent from her marriage and the recluse bore to the solitary mansion the young bride of his Oh sir the house assumed a new appearance and without Roses bloomed in the garden jessamines peeped through the lattice and tho fields about it smiled with tho effects of careful cultivation Lights were set in the little parlor in the wick inside of it We the country don't have any such A STATEMENT and his wife were neglected what cared they Thair endearing and mutual affection made their homo a little death came to Eden fell suddenly sick and after a few hours sickness dieJ in tho arms of her husband and months rolled and the only of the to sit with the ily of the deceased and talk of the lost one At concerning the with whom he has j to Adelaide he offered his widowed to do living and drad For a man with a taste She came to his home like a dove bearing the of neace and consol ition But ork Tribune Old John Brown of of his of dom in Kansas were and are Republicans and migrated there under the impulse of Re- publican ideas and convictions Ain't there no exceptions to your law punching a fellow said scamp ton for his profession cannot provide for the 1 repose of his taking an in the manner of death and the con- cern of the who follow their remains so tearfully to the replied I taking a seat beside tae sexton methinks you could relate some inter- esting tales Again the withering smile I had before ob- served the face of the sexton as he au no story sir I deal in fact not fiction Yes yes I could chronicle some strange events But of all things I know there is nothing stranger to you than the melancholy history of the three brides The three brides Aye Do you see three hillocks yonder side by side There they sleep and will till the last tr comes wailing through the heart of those lone hills with a tone so strange and stirring that the dead will start from their graves at its first awful note Then will come the judgment and the retribution But to my tale observe fence in front and a few stunted apple on the ascent behind it It is sadly out of repair now and the Look there sir on yonder hill you may a little isolated house with a straggling den is all overgrown with weeds and brambles and the whole place has a desolate appearance If the wind were high now you might hear the old shutters against the sides tearing the grey shingles off the judge pose No sir no exceptions judge I guess you are mistaken for instance I should brandy a man what then levity m court sir Sheriff expose thia atmosphere Mr Bunce an elderly gentleman was taken in a fit yesterday near Dodge's on son street He was conveyed to Air store and was subsequently carried home whew expired night Mr had been ft resident of thia tillage for a number of yean Item ago there lived aa old man ai his son who cultivated the few acres cf land which belongs to it was a self taught man deeply versed in the mysteries of science and as he could tell the name of every flower that ed in tho wood and grew in the garden a used to sit up Lite nights at his books or ing the mystic story of the starry heavens men thought he was crazed or bewitched and ed him and even hated him as the ignorant ever shun and dread the enlightened A fen there were and among them the minister am evening nsd a time would the passer by 0 M Mitchell delivered on the garden strains i night in Philadelphia an astronomica re in which he gave the following statement had not long since met in St Louia man of great scientific attainments who for forty years had been engaged In Egypt in deci- the hieroglyphics of the This gentleman stated that he had lately un- ravelled the inscriptions upon the coffin of a mummy in the London museum in which he had discovered the key to all the astronomical knowledge of the Egyptians The zodiac with the exact position of the planets was ted on his coffin and the date to which they pointed was the autumnal equinox in the year 1723 before Christ or nearly 3600 years ago Professor Michel employed his assistants to ascertain the exact positions of the heavenly bodies belonging to our solar system on the equinox of that year 1722 B.C and send him a correct diagram of them without haTing com- his object in doing so In ance with this the calculations were made to his astonishment on comparing the result with the statements of his scientific friends ready referred to it was found that on the 7th of October 1722 B C the moon and planets had occupied the exact points in the heaven marked upon the coffin in the London Tom Toper was asked what he of the effects of hot drinks on the system Hot drinks said Mr Toper are bad edly bad Tea and coffee sir are hurtful And even hot very sup pose is injurious in own is good and merchants who advertise are selling large quantities o goods On Saturday last wo counted at one time eighty-five teams on the public square in front of cur office At the depot and mills there were many Sentinel couple of lately Boston and sat down to dine at the Reviere House balls were served at the tabl and one of the taking them fcr proceeded to break one in two Getting scent of it he turned to his part ner remarking in the most solemn manner Something dead in that AND Republican in Davenport Iowa says the crat of that city declares years from now John Brown will b looked upon as the greatest man that ever lived and the laurels of Washington ahall be from his unworthy brow and placed head of that blessed martyr John olive branch of peace and consol ition their bridal vras not ono of revelry and mirth for a sad recollection brooded over the hour Yet they lived happily the husband again smiled and with a new spring the roses in their girdon When the rose withered and the fell the mellow tum of the year Adelaide too sickened and died like her younger sister in the arms of aer and Madeline Perhaps you will think it strange that ter all that wretched survivor stood at the altar But ho was a mysterious being who thirsting for domestic was doomed ever to seek and never find it His third bride was Madeline I well re- member her Sho was a beauty in the sense of the word It may seem strange to you to hear the praise of beauty from such lips as but I canot avoid expatiating upon hers She was a proud with a tall commanding form and raven tresses that floated dark and cloud like over her shoulders Sbe was a singularly gifted woman of rare inspiration Sho loved the widower for his power and his fame and she him They were married in that church It was on a summer I recollect it During the ceremony the blackest cloud that I ever saw overspread the heavens a pall and at the moment when the bride pronounced her vow a clap of thunder shook the to the centre All the females shrieked but the bride made her response in a firm voice as she gazed upon her bridegroom He m irked a kiml oi incoherence in her expressions as she homeward surprised hira at he time Arriving at his house she shrunk upon threshold but this was the timidly ot maiden When they were alone he clasped her it was cold as ice he face said he what means tha the Your cheeks are as pale as your wedding The bride uttered a frantic shriek My she exclaimed no- no this is my The hour of con- State Throughout all the State of Wisconsin even in Madison the seat of the capitol there s ft prevailing that the condition of thia State was never so before so well off aa nqw and were ve to believe the Treasurer's latest which the people have gained thia hen indeed will the State appear rich rub ia urplus funds and abundant resources Bat when the truth is told U appears to be as poor a poverty By the last report of the r there was a in the general if we believe those whose who had against the State audited allowed and waea have been told that there was mot money enough in the Treasury to pay them then may we be that there is not ient on hand to pay the legitimate of on the State Government thia winter By that report there was also over sixty housand dollars in the School Fund ive of all resources and yet last week when mr vouchers were presented for advertising he forfeited school Mr Hastings very informed us that then is no money n the although we knew well that no appropriations had been made since his report and that the school lands in his county had been sold and in nanr he interest paid into the Treasury Now if there ia not in the treasury to paj ft trifling of advertising then it is tine fcr he people to ask where has the money gone? Where is the money that Hastings reported in he Treasury It either vat not there or ias it been loaned to certain banking I If ao can it be made available to pay the State expenses in time to save the issuing of State indebtedness 1 What will the people say and think when all Iht faett regarding the State finances are made public through the investigating com- t Did any person erer think that there was danger of Wisconsin becoming Does any one suppose there ia a probability of Hastings becoming a defaulter 1 We shall endeavor to inform our readers of a few troths that have come under our tion which may gire many a different opinion of State finances and light State Prairie du Courier Few AT be afraid of a little fun at home good Don't shut up your house lest the aim should fade roar carpets and your hearts lest a hearty laugh should shake down some of the musty old cob webs If you want to ruin you sons let them think that all mirth and social enjoyment moat be left on the hold when they come home at night When once a home ia regarded aa only a place to eat drink and sleep ia the work U begun that ends in and fun and relaxation somewhere If they do not find it at their own hearthstone it wiJl perhaps less able places Therefore let the fire burn brightly at night and make the delightful with all those little arts that parents so perfectly understand Don't repress the half an hoar of merriment round the lamp and of home blots out the remembrance of manr a care and annoyance during the day and the best safeguard they can take with them into the world is the unseen influence of a bright little domestic sanctum Though the grounds and tombs of the ackson family have been the Slate of Tennessee yet there have no improvement about them aud decay haa commenced its work about the fences and the It ia proposed by some to establish an Agricultural College on one portion of the Hermitage to instruct the children and of those who fought under him at New Orleans and all who may be entitled to privileges of the A SHOOTS Tan or HIS correspondent at Urbana Ohio furnishes the particulars of a recent ter near that place It appears that one John McDougall had eloped with a Misa and soon after deserted her He was not beard of for two years after until a few days since a brother of the betrayed woman met him Without delay he went to his honat and taking his gun confronted and told him must either marry his sister or die On McDougall refusing to adopt the former of these alternatives Jacobs shot him in the abdomen ran a little distance and then fell My God I am A large crowd attracted by the firing had now gathered round Jacobs attempted to escape but was overtaken arrested and put was seriously but not mortally wounded and is DOW recovering Misa Jacobs was vary much attacked to McDougall who is a young man of pre- possessing appearance with her brother were also very friendly until the quarrel took place i n Down East for the of bugs It u dims by wheel catches the draws a neat Hub punches grain of anenie down their throats
