Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-10-27


tons of the wonderful works Of God, arc .calcu
lated to exalt and enoble the feelings Of man, ant
produce in his mind the strongest convictions o.
the omnipoteDcc and wisdom of his Creator.
A TRAVELLER.
~ We understand that there is series o.
Cascades on the Falling Spring Valley Noun
TAIN about three miles from Shumate's Tavern
in Greenbriar county, Virginia, well worthy OF at
tention. The highcst is said to be about l2t
feet. This cascade is scarcely known, and sci
dom visited by the foot Of the stranger.
LITERATURE and ART are the handmaids Of re
lioi,n and OF civilization. Many of the deter
mined "rough alleys" who repel the softer iniu
ences of civilized the thistle burr repes the
touch catch, the thistle does the fleece OF the
sheep, polish, from contact with the more hui
man world about them. Aud, hold science, art,
and literature in much contempt as they may,
! all derive benefits and neccssaries from 1t which
they could not live without. Honest Jack Tar,
who has little hypocrisy as any man breathing,
turns up his at the soft fingers and effenina-
CIV of the watch maker who keeps up the temper
aturc of the Indies in his shop at midwnter-yet
what would Jack do without his chronometer--his
compass-hs quadrant?
The business man, whose thoughts are involv
ed in schemes controlling thousands, regards the
pale artjZan lItteracur, painter, as forming set
of beings of inferior desires, and devoid of ambi-
H.
they do not possess his desire to pile gold on
pold-but remove the mechanic and the operative
manufacturer, and what becomes OF the merchant!
He is but mere factor-an agent for the sale and
distribution of the products of the labor and in
dustry of others. Labor and industry might ex-
st without literature and art-but It would be
such labor and such l-drectcd industry as are
found in a savage state of socety-requiring no
assistance from the Spectator articles he
cannot produce, and leaving no room for him.
Books and newspapers find their way into every
city and every siliage-every mansion, house,
hut, and isolated dwelling in the country-we had
! almost said world-but il is not time to speak so
wide vet Eva~,. 49, r,-.p~-..a, ..~,-
iior for good or for lila companion TO borrow q
figurc) never silent. Are such these without
their influence? And who the producers of
these SILENT vet loluacious agents? Nobody
knows the thousands of them. Hero and there
circumstances force toward, and the public
voice raised in his praise throws an Indirect ban
upon the unknown by name in the same profess
sion Who taught the public to appreciate the
labors OF those who arc celebrated? Who gave
the world n taste for reading? Who-but those
Of whom the world never thinks-the thousands who
.oil uuremi,tingly, (wihout benefit farther than
is derived by others without tenth Of their labor,
to spread tho various current topics OF news, SCI
ence politics, art, before readers who appropriate
the results of their labors without thought OF the
source.
llC busy world rC4aTuS pdiutoT, VI OtHcI
artist, as n sort Of drone in the hive. Without
these men. where would our buildings, public and
private, Chat have proportons) get those proper
tons! The Indians, from unknown time, have
bull, wigwams. wigwam Of the year A. D.
500 would be wigwam now. house OF the
same date would hardly be counted tenantable
Art. including painting, designing, and all other
branches, has, with the aid of science, recovered
all that man ever knew Of the essentials to COM
fort and the components of beauty. Art has lm-
nrovcd upon those models, and varied them to the
present wants OF the world.
Tho imperial purple may now be worn by the
family of the poorest citizen in republic
The fine linen Of Tyre was not shade inner than
is within any Iaborcrs reach at the present day.
The yiands that graced the table of Lucullus
were inferior in flavor. though not in price to the
meats that load the board of him who, in the
same situation of life in Rome would have been
led like hogs from the public granaries.--Living |
IS cheap informa ton is cheap; literature IS cheap;
amusement is cheap; and luxury is cheap. To
ctters to science: to art; we owe all this amei- |
ora,ion in the condition of the great family Of
man, These pursuits are the true conservative
Of tho republic. They weave about
he people a panoply which the designs OF the
would be dcspot cannot penetrate. Let then the
ahorer have his reward; not in mere dollars only,
or that he has now; but let the proper standing
10 accorded to these who are wasting themselves
n pursuits which 1t is theirs TO follow, while the
public reap the beDefit.-N. Y. Sun.
Mons INDIAN RELIcs--A visitor to the great
cave in Kentucky thus writes to the
louisville Literary Register:
There is not the shadow of "a doubtful that the
ave was once the habitation of the Indians. The
she's of their fires, and nnumerabie signs, pro-
lain it once thickly populated. Canes partly
,rnt. are found nearly over the whole explored
ave Mummies have been found and removed
Giants bones rest near the mouth. Last week
pair of mcccassins and reticule were found
xo miles from the mouth--all made Of very fine
ark or grass, and handsomely plated. The reti-
ulc is very handsome, about six inches IN length,
nth tassels and draw-strings. The moccasins
re not feows-one is small one, about eight
,ches long, and no doubt adorned and warmed
,e beautiful foot of princess. !,