New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-02
NKw.YORK, SATURDAY E,sNIsG, JANUARY g. Isa,.
'Tw. thus with hin,-he felt ,hst passion sweep

Twas thus with hin--he felt thst passion sweep
In fury Ter his desolsted mind
And bear away like the remorseiess deep
The idols In is sanctuary enshrined;
But. mid hose ruins, shook and undermined.
Ills soul looked up to the blue vsut-he cried.
Lead thou. o God, thy creature trembling blind
lie who hath felt himself 70 Thee allied
Ia still Thy scrsant-lct him in Thy strength abide
How peaceful through the tcrnpests riited walls
The hrst blue gleam Of heaven meets the sight
How tentcrly The earliest sunbeam FALL
More dear than all it, brotherhood Of light
Upon the sHiitreccding skirts Of Night
How gently hangs the rainbow coored ray
How musical the streamlets tones unite
With gisddened Natures ringing rUundclsy,
While the low sobbng clouds in white robes steal away
But clearer than the sky's celestial blue,
That tells Of peeceiuncss beyond the gloom
Than the peucid sunbeam looking through
The curtained cloud upon some loved ones tomb
LOyoier than new born Summers earliest bloom
Is the deep calm when tempted man hath prayed,
When Hopes young smile his darkness doth nume
When PASSIONS waves by Chnsts pale feet are laid
And his stl voice replies, RS J. be not afraid
And that calm fell upon him-snd that
There broke sun Of gladness To- the boy
Hath started from the hilock where he sat,
And cries in accents Of familiar joy
see see, our friend whose sidance shall destroy
Thy moody mouuiulness = . horseinsh came
With priceless tidngs free from doubts alloy
NV GRACIOUS mistress rrccts thy honoied name
Tins night her willing viii hear thee plead Thy claim
Having copied so largely from this Poem wo
have not space Tor any description OF its subse-
q,4ent parts. We cannot even notice the touching
legend which suggested its title. bat must content
ourselves with recommending the book to al lovers
of cool Poetry. Some OF the minor pieces in the
volume are exceedingly beautiful.
HEhT MAGNLTIsI And ElEcTRiCIry-proL
NoIfoni Of Delaware College has recently developed
cesin novel and interesting ideas concerning the nature
OF Heat Electricity and Magnetism which seem cacu-
lated to throw light upon the whole circle Of the
Natural Sciences We understand that he submitted
op0se to tle Philosophical Society at their last meeting
He holds that the phenomena Of light heat electricity
and Magnetism alike due 10 1e fluctuations OF the
ether Of space and the vibrations OF the particles IF
bodies lie conceiycs that the waves propagated from
the vibrating particles OF seltuminous body differ Ia
time and intensity OF vibration with the depth OF the
particles below the surface and differ in intensity Of
vibration from particle 20 another Al the depth
and that The reiractne absorbing &c actions Of other
bodies upon the waves vary with their Intensity and
time Of vibration. lie supposcs that selfluminous
bodies may be considered divided for certain depth,
into saros OF anina the fret OF which (Which i in
general much the thckest omts waves Of simple heat
snd the others in succession those Of red yellow, blue
and porhops violet ighhc other coiors in the spec
trum hong formed by combinations Of these. Below
the oae which sends violet light he places that OF the
chemical rays Waves of simple dark heat differ
from those of light in having greater intensity and
longer time of vibration. 1ihe various actions Of Dir
ferent bodies upon light end heat are placed upon the
general grounds. and the correspondence ~ wen
differences oi the phenomena OF these impondcrable
agents explained.
The various phenomena Of electricity he attributes 10
the impu.siyc actions OF p0lanzcd waves. excited in
general by the mutual actions Of contiguous surfaces,
with o. without the aid Of friction. lie thus explains
the mechanical and chemical actions OF galyanic cur
rents, the attractions, rcpulsions &c. OF electrified
bodies, and capillary and endosmOse and eNosmOsc at
fractions
The magnetism Of the earth receives an explanation
from thesame general views. This s attributed chiefly
to the vibrations Of the particles at the earih surface
and to amoderato depth below it, induced by the I'm
pulsiye actions of certain transmitted from the
sun. These vibrations diminish in intensity with the
temperature of the earth, from the equator toward the
poles
These fundamental ideas lead readily 10 q complete
explanation OF the polarity and dip Of the magnetic
needle the variations of its decnston in passing from
point to another ON the earhs surface, and the
periodical well rs irregular variations Of the position
OF the needle They also reveal the cause Of the con
necton between the magnetism and temperature OF the
earth shown by the correspondence in form between
the lines al equal magnetic force traced upon the earth
and those OF equal temperature the coincidence Of the
magnetic pole with the pole OF greatest cold &C. Prof
Norton has also formed upon the same general princ'
plies theory OF the Aurora Borealis, which, while
II accounts for all It's luminous phenomena. furnishes
satisfactory explanation of the disturbances OF the mag
nctc needle connected with this meteor. II.
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