The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-06-12
From the New York Star
THE AGE OF STEAM,
the present and Future compared

Looking lOWdIuS SuhuO"H 0iA
Aening, through a newly invented tele-
kone. / saw four hundred years into the
AZURE. and neither poet nor philosopher
N imagine the result OF my VISIONARY
Ejaculation the ration of improvement
Inherent on the generations VINO are 70
spcceed us, is truly wonderful Mans
oonu;tv continually improves upon IL
IL and ;s NO more likely to attain per-
80 o than sunrise will overtake sunset.
, gs's at first, terrified at my vision, the
|s,,ure being opuque and being filled up
Eith clouds, waterspouts, mist and logs,
r. bubbles and boilers, all mingled to-
Tethcr in perfect harmony, forming
heterogeneous mass of substances. The
thermometer was salamander high, blood
heat being zero, and the motion Of man
lent him cool. Hot water appeared to
- fying about in every direction like
snray from the hoaving pillows, which,
rpon close sight, was high-pressed
Individuals letting off steam, whizZing
about like streaks oflightning in all their
movements, appearing to be rather ma
ron of kindred flies than human beings.
Nobody thought of stopping to shake
hands as nowadays, or even to nod but
sUthe noise was like a thousand cotton
sDndIes, serpentine rockets or fiery pi-
ceons. Tracks Of railroad were in every
direction leading all over the world from
every door, lain so, GALL over like" that
the best geometrciaB could not devise
at what angles; every body seemed to be
running over every body, though nobody
upset anybody-each one was, to my
syesight, in hot water, trying, by steam
Inventions, to get out of it. The two
great oceans were filled up by digging
down the mountains, so that the earth
vas smooth as tennis ball railroads eros
sing it in latitudinal and longitudinal
Ines Man Of $500 is a renovated being,
having dropped his old-fashioned way Of
expressing himself and invented anew
bis articulation, has become worse than
d1mbness and charitable nature has an
asylum for those who talk. Nothing is
thought Of but steam-eating and drink
ing, sleeping, waking, talking, laughing,
writing and printing Steam, now, is a
mere swaddler, babe, nursling-four
hundred years hence, it will assume the
wisdom of grey-headed sage. Now, in
Improvements in the art of propelling
machinery by steam, we have only be-
gun 10 see day-light-then the sun of in
genuIty will be gradually rising to its
full meridian. The time is soon to come
thata drop of steam will be a fortune, a
taIlsman TO the possessor while it lasts ;
but the virtues of it vanish with the evap-
grafton. 1t is true that, in this age of
wonder, we have steam boats, steamships,
asam-presses and Steam-mills, and, united
with these, the republican privilege Of
being bowed to atoms then the art OF
blowing up may be lost the power of gun
powder forgotten, and murder and war
carried on altogether by steam. Is it a
matter of wonder that, in order to please
candy consumers, great mills have been
erected to refine the sweet sugar by
steam then the human mind will be re-
lined by the same vapoury process. Rich
men Of the present day have their coach,
es and swift horses-then all sorts of ami.
mails will be out of use, race horses, grey
hounds and antelopes, will be two hun.
d;ed years behind the age, being com
p.elely run out--every man will have
Instantly locomotive; in truth, he neeC
but swallow a drop Of hot W. .er, set his
machinery going, and he will distance
all hollow, any planet in its revolution
round the sun. Children will be little
Peelers, round Of earth by the equator
before breakfast, or between schools, by
way of pastime; and if the little roarel
can't beat a streak Of lightning, he viii
Oe called cripple. A tavern OF smokers
now, and all mankind in the cage o
Sleam," may be compared--a hearty
,augh at good joke, may be illustrated
Oy Inc increasing palpitation of higl
pressure valve, and burst of indigna
uon by tremendous explosion. If m.
VISION may be relied on as future Ger
'alhty, we shall be all screws, valves
PsoSSons, and boilers; and the most selfish
w %,l ehaeavor to get the greatest quantity
=. steam to overrun and upset his more
quIe' neighbours. The genius and The
PRODUCTIONS Of mankind will not be abb
" ~ pace more than a short-legged STRIP
ing with his roburst grandfather. TIL
race now is composed ofan extraordinar
sci oil lndlviduals-then each man will b
yGOAged to look up to himself as dwar
G . TO giant; or, like those planet
'nat overrate their motion and shoot fror
'neir spere, so man must run after hin
sell dragging the slowest part of hir
a,Ong like the draggle-tail Of an old-fasF
IN the present day, there are man
nllm?Ougs among men who profess muc
"nle they accomplish nothing; but on
ace Will be steamed into common homes
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