The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1841-01-08

6ut the question arsse-SEwhere were they ~
They saw below them ranges Of for. St. wide
Piaihs, and large spaces covered with snow,
giving the rather startling imp essio that they
mad passed the bounds of civilized Europe and
were hoVerng over the deserts Of Poland or the
StePPes OF Russia However, theY now resolved
uP descendingj and after two attempts BAT
fed by the failure of the wind and tbe nature
of the ground, aIighted at half past six ii die
morning, in the Grand Duchy Of Nassau, and
about two leagues from Wellburg The voyage
occupied about eighteen hours, and was in ex-
tent about five hundred British miles.
DOMESTIC INFLUENCE or CHILDREN.
BY r. H. DANA.
The relations of parents and children are the
hottest IN our lives; and there are no pleasures
OF cares, OF thoughts connected with the world,
winch remind US SO soon of another. The help
less infancy of children sets cur own death be-
fore us, ben they will be left to world to which
we would moi trust ourselves; and the thought
Of the character they may take in alter lie,
brings with At the question, what awaits them in
another. Though there is melancholy il t'is,
ITS seriousness has religious tend ncy aud
the responsibility which man has laid himself
under, begets resoluteness of character. q sense
that this world was not made to Idle IN and q
feeling OF dignity that he Is acting f0r great
end. How heavily does one toll who laoors only
Tor himself; and how is he cast down bv -ae
thought OF what worthless creature il Is all
for!
We have heard of the sameness Of domestic
/ hte He must have dull head and IL s aeart
VINO grows weary OF it man who moral z.s
| teeingly; and has proueness 70 see a beauty
and fitness in all Gods works, may an daily
food for his mind even in an infant In ITS inn5-
cent sleep, when it SEEMS like soms blessed
thing dropped from the clouds, with ti1ts so del
Icate, and with its peaceful breathing, we can
hardly thlHk oft as CT mortal mould, it looks 50
Like pure spirit made visible for our delight
'tHeaven lies about as in our infancy p saws
| Wordsworth And who of us, that IS not too
| good to be conscious of his own wees, who has
not felt rebuked and humbled under the clear and
| open countenanee of a child?-who that has not
felt his impurities foul upon him in the presence
/ of sinless child? These feelings make Tn, best
lesson that can be taught man; and tell HIM in
| way which all else he has read or heard never
could, how paltry is all the show of intellect
compared with a pure and good heart. lie that
will humble himself and go to child for instrue
ton, will come away wiser man.
If children can make wiser, they surely can
make US better. There is no one more to be en-
WED than good natured man watching the wor-
kings of children's minds, or overlooking their
play. Their eagerness, curious about every
thing, making out by quick imagir atom what
they see but part of-their fsnciful combins-
tons and magic inventions, creating out of ordi-
| nary circumstances, and the common things
which surround them, strange events and little
ideal worlds, and these all working in mystery
70 maCuTeQ thought, Is STUDY enough Tue
most acute minds, and should teach US, also, not
toe sficiously to regulate what we little uR-
derstand. The still musing and deep abstraction
in which they sometimes sit, affect play
full mockery of older heads. These little philos-
Lophers have no foolish system, with all its pride
and jargon, confusing their brains There Is
the natural movement of the soul, intense with
new life, and busy after truth, working to some
\ purpose, though withsut a,Isoise.
w len children are lying about seemingly
a and Ha,ll Ill -. L
dened by time and safety, forget that they are
all sensation, that their outstretched bodies are
drinking in from the common sun and air, that
| every sound is taken note of by the ear, that
every floating shadow and passing form come
and touch at the sleepy eye, and that the little
circumstances Of the material world about them
make their best school, and will be the instruc-
tors and formers of their characters for life
And it is delightful TO look ON and see how
busily the whole acts, with its countless parts
fitted TO each other, and moving III harmony.
! There are none fus who have stolen soliiy-be-
hind child when laboring IN a sunny corner,
digging lIlliputian well, or fencing in a six-
inch barn yard, and listened to his so.noqaies,
and his dialogues with some imaginary bslng,
without our hearts being touched by Il. Nor
have we observed the flush which crossed his
face when finding himself betrayed, without
seeing in it the delicacy and prop:ietY OF The
after man.
4 man have many vices upon him, and have
waked long in a bad course, yet Il ne has a
, love OF Chiiiren, and can take pleasure in thcii
t talk aud play, there is something still lett in
him TO act upon-somethihg winch love
sim plicity and TRUTH have seen cue inv ON
some low vice had become Eabit, uake him
self the plaything OF a set OF riotaus rhiidr n,
! with as much delight in his counteuance ~ ii
nothing but goodness had ever been Expressed
in it; and have felt as much OF kindness and
sympathy toward him, as l have Of retol,ing
toward another who has gone thfou n life
| with all due propriety, with cold and super.
cilious bearing towards children, which makes
them shrinking and still. | have kD )wn one
like the latter, attempt with uncoutn conde-
| scension, to court an open hearted child, who
| would draw back wi b an instructive aversion;
and have felt as if there were curse upon
him. Better to be driven out from among men,
than to be dsliked of children.
+ GoLcowDAH The fortress of Golcondah lies
about five miles to the northwest of the city
of Hyderabad, and is the place OF safety where
the treasures of the Nizam are commonly de-
posted Though having no particular claims
TO be considered place of any great strength,
it is so jealousy guarded, that European is,
| under no pretext, ever suffered TO enter its
precincts; and instances have occurred OF parties
of officers who had come to spend the day
amongst the neighhoring tombs having been
fired at from the walls OF the tort, for having
presumed to approach them loo nearly.
The TREE SNAKE.-Sv called frcm the
propensity it is said TO possess of darling from
a branch Of tree, whereit usually lies coiled
/ 40. and fastening on the eye OF the paseel by.
i is of bright green color, generally between
/ three OF foar feet in length, and said 10 be ven
omous, though on one occasion / was bitten
by one without feeling any bad effects, having,
however, taken the precaution to suck the
/ wound.
| Music AND CooEEsY.-fnc most siugular spit
in the world, il that Of the Count de Castel Ma
| STA, one ofthe most epulent Lords OF Treviso.--
| This spit turns one hundred and thirty different
roasts at once, and plays twenty-four tunes; and
| whatever il MAY s corresponds to certain de-