The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-10-24

Bedford, on the subject of "Mystery,
Reason and Faith''-we find the fol-
lowing beautiful and apt illustrations:
Night comes down over a ship at
sea, and passenger fingers hour after
hour alone on the deck. The waters
plunge and welter and glide away be-
meath the keel. Above the sails tow
er up in the darkness, almost to the
sky, and their shadow falls as it were
a burden on the deck below. In the
clouded night no star is to be seen,
and as the ship changes her course
the passenger knows not which way
is east or West or North or South
What islands, what sunken rocks may
be on her course-or what that
course is or where they are, he knows
not. All around, to him, is mystery.
He bows down in the submission of
utter ignorance.
But men Of science have read the !
laws of the sky. And the next day
this passenger beholds the captain
looking at clock and taking note of
the place Of the sun, and with the aid
Of Il couple eff books, composed Of
rules and mathematical tables, making
calculations. And when he has com
pleted them, he is able to point almost
within hands breadth to the place
at which, after unnumbered windIngs,
he has arrived in the midst of the seas.
Storms may have beat and currents
drilted, but he knows where they are,
and the precise point, where a hun
dred leagues over the water, lies his
native shore. Here is Reason appre-
ciatmg and making use of the revela-
ton Gf we may SO call them) Of SCI
ence. a.--...
Night again shuts down over the
waste Of waves and the passenger be-
holds Il single seaman stand at the
wheel, and watch, hour after hour, as
it vibrates beneath a lamp, a little
needle, which points ever, as if it were
a living finger, to the steady pole.
: This man knows nothing of the rules
Of navigation, nothing of the course
of the sky. But reason and experience
. have given him Faith in the command
. ing officer Of the ship-faith in the
t laws that control her course-faith in
the unerring integrity of the little
, guide before him. And so without a
+ single doubt he steers his ship on, &C.
2 cording to prescribed direction
t through night and the waves. Anc
: that Faith is not disappointed. With
: the morning sun, he beholds far away
), the SUBMITS of the gray and misty
t highlands, rising like IL cloud on thu
e horizon; and as he nears them, thu
hills appear, and the lighthouse at TIN
t entrance of the harbor, and, sight 0
l. joy! the spires Of the churches and tn
l. shining roofs among which he strive
e to detect his own
v PATRONAGE TO PRlNrERs.-It is sal,
G that the day after Gen. Jackson's in
n auguration, twenty-four editors Q
+ newspapers marched in procession t.
Y the Presidents to get their pay. Poo
d old man, he was to be pitied. Anon
them was Noah, Of the Advocate, an
Hill, of the Patriot. Noah was ma
of ease, and to appearance well fed
e Hill was lean, lank, and lanthorn-jaN
d ed--a very Cassius. Noah, a shrewt
n cunning fellow, stopped the process
Ut ion and proposed different ORDER
IF "Here," said he, Chill, you are the u!
lie lest Of the clan, of hungry aspet
c. enough. | am fat and plump, you sha
ID lead us on, and as soon as the old Pr
S sident sees this picture of starvation
ID he will surrender at once" Well,
I'd worked to a charm. They entere
Id the palace in this order; the Presidel
G. was sent for and entered the room.-
rs He started back-"good God! gent
be tlemen, take all you want" The o
n hero, though his nerve never forsoe
at him in battle, could not stand this, b.
It, surrendered at once; and twent y-thr'
% of the twenty-four obtained offic
or and the twenty-fourth, Tor being lie
Sc out, let out the whole story!
ne
ed MARRIAGE IN HAsTE.-On Sunda
n the 22d inst. there was seen rushll
ot through Pennsylvania Avenue, Was
ny iington city, vehicular conveyan
ey that contained two ladies and ty
* gentlemen. One of the ladies look
ga anxious and confused; the ether h
ID; her face glowing with a mischievo
lot smile, expressive of the success
on some notable scheme. One of t
nd gentlemen looked as though he h
mt drawn a prize in the lottery; the bro
sh- of the other was clouded with the p'
tie, plexities of a charge d'afaires to t
de, court of Hymen. The carriage ste