The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-14
RAYMOND a. CO.'S
n m ense M agerie
WILL enter washington on the Goth

WILL enter Washington on the goth
w of May, and exhibit for four days only,
(2Oth, 2lst, 22d, and 3d. on Four-and-a-half
street, near Pennsylvania avenue.
On the day Of their entrance into Washington the
procession will be joined by new accession Of an
imas, lately arrived in Philadelphia and New York,
and will Join the menagerie in this city, forming
better selection and greater variety of wild beasts
than was ever before exhibited in this place. The
ferocious lion used by Mr.. Carter in London, the
monster white bear from the Royal Garden in Paris,
together with twelve large wagon-loads of animals,
will be added 10 the menagerie at Washington. The
performance Of the celebrated Mr. Pierce with the
animals is of a superior kind. For description Of
animals and Mr.. Pierce's performance, the public
are respectfully referred to the bills posted in the
principal hotels
l-To the Public.-There is no study that
is more important to the youth Of a rising genera
ton or to adult age than that Of natural history.
II teaches hia superiority over the brute crea'
ton, and creates in his bosom a knowledge of the
wisdom and goodness and omnipresence of su-
preme and all-wise Creator. IL also teaches hi m
how entirely dependent he is on the providence Of
Cod it elevates his character, and hts him for the
discharge of the nobler duties of life.
In the beginning Of the world, as we are taught
BY the Holy Scriptures, God said unto man, "And
to every beast Of the EARTH and every fowl of the
air. and every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
wherein there is life surrender to thy control; and
thou shalt have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fows Of the air. and every thing that
moveth upon the earth, shalt thou have domln-
ion."
When this power and dominion was given by
the Almighty TO man, it was intended, by his wis
DOM that he unto whom he had confded 80 much
should become acquainted and familiar with the
subjects over which he should exercise his rule.
Hence it became necessary that man should study
the history of animated nature, make himself mas
ter of a science on which his own happiness de-
pended, and which, when developed, could not fail
to advance the great of civilization and learn
ing.
So fully was all this appreciated, in the early
stages of civilization religion, and light, that the
early founders of Christianity in Europe and Eng
and collected immense menagerles, to which they
introduced their children, and taught them that all
animated nature proved the existence of that God,
whose gospel they taught, and whose law was par
amount to all others, and must be obeyed
We read that St. Augustin, soon after he estab-
lished himself at Canterbury, and there reared the
blessed cross collected from all the remote nations
Of the earth that were accessible specimens Of the
animal world and taught his monks that the study
of natural history not only essential to common
Intelligence, but to the propagation of religion itself
In more recent times, all of the enlightened States
of Europe in obedience to the commands of their
sovereigns, have at vast labor and expense estab-
Iished institutes, made up of the ANNA! world, for
the purpose of aiding the propagation and advance
ment of science and useful knowledge. England
France, Italy Germnny-in fact, all modern Eu-
rope have, for centuries back paid unremtting at
tenton to this subject; and that nation of Europe
which has not its national historical institute is re-
garded as on that backward course that leads, in the
end to semi-barbaric ignorance and folly.
superior brass band is attached to the establish
ment.
May l4--tf