Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-06-29

I saw sir. in relation TO this matter, 1t the school
should grumble at it, the world will We,
clearly perceive what we [ll[he you t1ey1
mean. Ielooin
We have made room for some extracts from
the Official Report of the able Engineer CT the Un-
tied States upon the Chesapeake aud ONO lanai,
far as il has been executed. They bear honor
able testimony to the ability aud bde'ty WIN
which that work has been conducted.
A friend, who went up the Canal as far ar Sen
eca on Saturday, and returned delighted with his
excursion and especially with the passage between
Crommelin and Seneca, says that the incident OF
the trip which struck him most was the meeting
with a fiat rudely constructed boat, laden with
flour, which, from its appearance, was a stranger
in these parts, between whose conductor and a
person on board Of the packet-boat questions and
answers were interchanged as to the part oil the
country the boat came from. The result was,
that the boat was ascertained 10 have come down
the Shenandoah, Grum Rockingham county IN Vlr-
ginia. near Harrisonburg. The distance by the
mail route, from Washington, is lS6 miles; by
the river, probably many miles greater, being a
much greater distance than our informant suppos-
ed the Shenandoah,to be navigable.
National h~teMgeneer.
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Womda. Woman is 4 very nice and a very
complicated machine. iHer springs are Infinitely
delica,c and difc, from those of a man pretty
nearly as the work ola repeating watch does from
chat of town clock. Look at her body; how
delicateiy formed. Examine her senses; how ex-
euisite and nice! Observe her understanding:
how subtle aud acute! But look into !sr heart;
| there is the watch word, composed OF parts SO
minute in themselves. and SD wonderfully com
bined, that they must be seen by a microscopic
eye to be clearly coinprehended.
The perception of a woman Is as quick as light
nins-Her penetratiCn is intultlon-l had almost
said mstinct.-By a glance Of her eye she shall
draw a deep and just conclusion. Ask her how
she formed it she cannot answer the Question.
As the perception of woman Is Surprisingly
quick, so their souls and imasinations ARE uncom-
monty susceptible Few Of them have culture
enough to write; but when they do, how lively
are their pictures! how animated their descrip-
tons! But if few women write, they all talk;
and every man may Judge Of them in this point,
from every circle he goes into. Spirit IN con-
%versatidn depends entirely upon fancy, and wo-
man. all over the world talk better than men,
Have they a character to portray, or a figure to
describe. they give but those traits Of one or the
| other, and the character is known, or the figure
placed before your eyes. Why? From the mo-
meut Of susceptibility. their in,aginations, their
~fancics receive lively impressions from those
principal traits, and they paint those impressions
with the same viyacity with which they receive
them'
ca a woman of fancy warm in conversation,
shEI Snail produce a hundred charming images,
auiShg which there shall not be one indicate or
COSfse. Warm a man Oh the same subject; he
shall probably find stronger illusions, but shall
neither be So brilliant nor so chaste.- sherlock.
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Beamy.-Thc sketch of Flaxman, by far the
greatest Artist whom Britain has yet produced,
IS a most mastery piece Of composition, and in
dependently of the master may be read as a spe-
cimen of a single yet elegant style; take, for in
stanse, the following observations on one of Flax
mans lectures, in which he attempts to lay down
the principles Of Beauty.
These are fine passages and splendid authorities
vet mental beauty and personal beauty are Of
ten. too often found apart. The poets of Greece
sang, the philosophers wrote, and the scuIptors
carved in TIE spirit and meaning of their reli-
gion-it was addressed chiefly to the eye-took
up its abode in magnificent tempies-was visible
IN professions and solemn sacrifices; its voice
was heard in Oracles, to which the wlsest listen
ed, and the forms which it assumed were the no.
OleSt WHICH mans Inauguration CouIu conceive
This was the time when the beautiful was Identi.
fed with the best. In this the Heather differed
from the Christian; the former worshipped exter-
nal beauty, the latter adored the mental and di-
vine. The widest of all our enthusiasts never
insisted on the personal beauty of the Saviour Of
mankind, nor on the external loneliness OF his
apostles. Had Phidias carved the Christian Pa
triarchs, he would have made them naked men
of the race of Apollo. A hand not inferior
painted them; and the apostles of Raphael are
grave mems their Masters religion is stamped on
their brows, and they are covered soberly with
1t is a splendid theory which the
sons at least, if not the daughters, of man sell
dom realise, that the finest face goes with the
worthiest mind.
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Speaking of the frequency Of steam-boiler ex-
in this country, the Fredericksburg Are
ma remarks:-
"They certainly manage these things better
in England. In 1879. on the first introduction
Of Steam Navigation there, a dreadful accident, |
involving great loss of lives, occurred at Nor
An act of Parliament, of the provisions
which we are unacQuainted, was promptly pass