The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-27
MAaNo-ELEcTRIcITY..

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bold rugged shores Of the Mediterranean (or
to express its propar name in English, J
Earth-diyiding-sea' DO you ever recall
the beauties that nature has adorned herself
with. How high mountains, with Jagged
peaks, look down upon valleys, and how the
quiet wales occasionally peer through mon
strous ravines upon the seal DO you re-
member the coast Of Spain from Malaga to
Barcelona II you do, you can readily SUI
Ter memory to aid imagination, and behold
with me once more the romantic Moorish
coast Of Spain!
Yonder blue smoke curling so gracefully
far away in the almost faint purple distance
indicates the rich and fertile province Of Gre
nada-which with the whole country around
formed at the time our proud land was dis
covered by Columbus, a Moorish kingdom
Boabdil Ell Chico, its last king, Ga very
weak many yielded to Ferdinand and Isa-
bella conjoint monarchs Of CASTLE and Leon,
its empire, and his last sigh, and wandered
an outcast on the opposite shores Of Africa,
the victim Of his countrymen's treachery, a
sightless, helpless, wretch!
Scarcely had the flags Of Spain unfurled
their gorgeous folds over the fair provinces
they had wrested from the voluptuous Moor,
when the Cross (the blessed emblem Of
peace, love, and universal redemption) was
welded by naughty prelates under the sane
ton Of superstitious monarchs to the perpe-
tration Of cruelties, which outvied the gross
est errors Of the Crescent's rule The bloody
lnquistion took its seat amidst the fertility
Of those earthly paradises, and with deadly
blight made barren the once rich and magnifi-
cent farms ofthe industrious Moorish husband
man. Its banefnl influence shut up the doors
Of the temple Of science, asd philosophy be-
came heresy, and found its final career at the
burning stake Of ignorance and fanaticism
Loud prayed the Spanish trumpets oycl
that fair land, playing as il were the funeral
dirge Of death and despair to the former en-
lightened possessors Of the soil And the
rocky sides Of the deeply indented and ca
vern'd mountains, gave back in hollow
means natures indignant reply.
! The richness of all that section Of country
owes itself to the assistance Of Electricity
Its air is rendered temperate, and The rich
verdure that covers lis surface is hourly
nursed and cherished BY the endless care
Of The Electric fluid, which has its fixed home
on the jagged mountain tops, that like wall
environ this voluptuous spot Of earth.
The wanderer on the sea, at mid-night's
hour, can behold the busy lightnings playing
their pranks among those vast sierra's, and
"eyer and anon lighting in lurid streams
Of fercest fire the valleys far beneath them.
City, town, ard watch-tower are brilliantly
disclosed by them, and the trees and bound
aries Of fields are often perceptible through
their vivid aid The wary mariner some
/ times is startled into the belief their unusual
frequency forbodes storm, and the sea
Iesounds to the sturdy cry Of the hard-work-
ing seamen as they shorten sail for the ina
gined tempest's approach
This seemingly mad-cap fluid is busy DO
ing the greatest act of kindness to the dwell
lers therein, and increasingly expels the
rank vapors which would otherwise convert
this terrestrial Eden into Golgotha Spain
knows not as she should the value Of thy heal.
I thy aid; her poor ignorant peasant crosses HIM
self in terror al thy flash! Some Of her gen
t.y and mobiles are not much better informed
upon the subject And ! have seen when
| the healing cloud cast forth its radiant mes
senger, accompanied by the thunder's burst
Of applause, the proud hidalgo pale, and
mutter brief prayer against his best friend,
Electricity!
PIiestcrait and superstition are the enc
mics Of Sciences. and fair Liberty shrnks al
the wanton destruction ignorance produces
overthe once glorious country, now polit-
cal desolation. Let but the cords of cleo
tricity as Magnetic Telegraph bind that
region in their embrace, and scatter as they
do in our free home its intelligence, and the
Spanard, as well as the people Of every land
who will adopt its aid, must become the glo-
rious representatives Of the image Of their
Maker, lords Of the earth, masters of the
seeming mysteries Of nature--Free, brave,
and happy.
Life will be prolonged, and many dis
ease which now unimpeded carries Off its
hapess victim to premature grave, be stop
ped in full career by the vigiant, strong, and
ever conquering force Of Electricity
Great lightning shed Thy glorious fame,
9er every land land beneath The dazzling sun
Il
| And scatter science as its fluids run.
| No more shall hideous superstition reign,
| No more the stake the learned martyr slay
| No more disease consume in anguished pain,
The wearied sufferer on fe's highway
No more shall Tyranny exert Its cruel sway,
For Freedoms spear shall pierce its horrid form
Great Electricity Thou shall light the way
And Independence burst the midnight Storm
Doctor Emerson's Magno-E Electric baths,
to be had at Copp's Saloon, Washington
city The Doctor always in attendance.
New WAY TO oATcH A TnIEr.-In an account Of
the career and arrest OF young thief, who was
lately arrested at Lowell, for stealing gold watch
and breast pin of the Receiving ship Erankli, OF
the Charleston Navy Yard, we find the following In
relation TO the way he was detected tits somewhat
remarkable. The thief having considerable vanity
in his character dressed himself with good deal of
care placed the stolen breast pin in his BOSOM and
the witch guard lastefnlly about his vest, and had