New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-09-14

hssss accomnaniment converting the huge cords
into GIGANTIC harp-strngs Of strangely mournfnl
and dismal tone, VARYING in note and loudncss as
vc few with arrow speed down the yratery way.
or struggled more slowly for a moment against
the towering mass of waters around, ere we were
! lifted and pushed on again by the rolling noun
tain behind Us
We should be glad to copy other e2tracts-es-
pccialy that narrating the loss of the Sailor Boy,
By falling overheard; but re have only room for
the following description Of the highest of the
Cape de Verd Islands
BaAvA AND FoGo.-When | came up and looked
southwark towards the two islands, | was at once
struck by disappearance Of Bravo, whichrose to a
great hight, little morcthan twelve miles off, show
ing an imposing mountain ridge with steep slope
into the sea at each end. Bat what astonishcd
me most was that Fogo was totally invisible,
I though as knew, much the highest and largest
of the two, and almost as nearas Bravo. | gazed
with all the power of my eyes, directly at the
place which all pointed out to me- and to which
several of those on deck very carefully directed
! nv sight,-but all in vain. | could sec nothing,
/ from the horizon upwards, but dense. dark blue,
hazv mass Of clouds, which my vision could not
penetrate. The surprise Of the other observers ct
!
! again and again they pointed to the place, assur-
! ing me that Togo was twice as conspicuous as
Bravo. How to account for It's vanishing IN this
manner from my near view, when had seen 1t
three or four hours before at nearly sixty miles
/ distancc,-I could not tell and was about CIV
ing up in despair, when those who watched the
direction of nv eyes said to me on don't look
high enough. Look up" At this, for the first
time let my eye range carelessly upward along
the cloud, TIL threw my head back as If to take
zenith observation, when IN an instant The
whole nonstrous sight burst on me with such
force that was almost overpowered with sur
prise There it rose on me, all at oncc,-flling
almost the whole hight Of heaven with It's vast
bulk,-the highest, the largest and the grandcst
object that had ever seen or have ever yet seen
on earth.
"Thc reason | did not see it sooner was-that,
having no idea of It's lnconceivablc bulk, had
been merely looking at the hazy cloud which
yelled its base and about halt It's altitude above
which I never thought OF looking Tor any
earthly object. But the moment caught the
sight of It's actual top, distinct, sharp and bold
against the clear, pure upper sky, 1t seemed to
me that we were directly under it. and that II al
most overhung the vessel. | can express the
emotions felt at the moment by no other term
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AMERICAN PouLTRY BooK.-lt is rather sur
prisng, considering the great value of the poultry
in this country, amounting, according to the late
census. to twelve millions of dollars, that no work
has heretofore appeared onits proper management.
Undoubtedly, the want Of such work has been
felt, and an attempt has now been made TO sup
ply ii in The American Poultry Book winch
the Mcssrs. Horpers have just published IN small
lSmo volume. The author (ho tries 10 pass him
self of as Mr.. Micajah K. Cock is retired gen.
tleman of this city, of great literary and scientific
abilities, and a very clever fellow, in the Yankee
sense of the term and he shows himself as per-
iectly at home in the poultry-yard as in the CON
rersa3iones of the dilettdnti Of Gotham.
NJ THE COTTAGE FIREsIDE is the title OF
very pleasant and instructive book for the young,
by Rev. Henry Duncan, just republslled from the
fifth Edinburgh Edition by Robert Garter, 50
Canal.slrcet
Il .JEssY ALLAN the Lame Girl, q story ior
children, by Grace Kennedy, has been Tcpub-
lished from the ninth Edinburgh Edition, by K.
Carter IS Canal street.
n PRorEssop LIEBIG, the popular writer upon
Agricultural Chemistry, when in Yorkshire, at
tending agricultural meetings, and is said to have
displayed every disposition TO communicate nior-
nation to all who asked He is quite young man,
80. and has done more than any other person
now living, to make two blades OF grass grow
where only one grew before Sir Humphrey
Dayv. before I.ebig was BON, lecturcd on Agrl
cultural Chemistry. But the German has re-
duccd to n practical system, what was not much
more than theory with Davv. At Edlnburg
and Aberdeen, there are now established universl-
tv prolcssorships Of agriculture, as well as at Ok
ford and Cambridge. This shows how completely
the public arc aware Of the Importance OF cult
waiting agriculture as a science. Capt. Barclay
has made fortune bv attending to the changes
of crops and breeding of stock. Let others take
the hint and do likewise. Farmers Cabmei.
~ The following is an extract from the let
ter Of the Paris Correspondent of the Boston At
las =
'vanderlyn is hard al work on his picture for
the capitol Hcaly has more portraits to paint
than he can executc-and report says that the
IIing has employed him 10 GO TO America and
paint series OF the portraits OF our most dlstn
cuishcd men, He is, undoubtedly, first rate
Artist.
"While at the American Legation, lew days
since, roughiooking backwoodsHan entered,
clad in homespun, with passport II one hand
and a French Dictionary in the other de wished
10 have the former ristd Where to" Jer
usaleln - GLOW arc you gong there Z" +" On
foot He was blacksmith from Ono, who had
been brought ont at camp meeting, and had
an undoubting belief in the speedy coming
Of the Saviour So he had left his family,
and managed to get here vie England. lie lett