The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-12-19
From the Chicago Journal.
A New Book with New Thought IL.

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grave subject, with grave title, par
of which is Cline and Eternity, =" tn,
volume Is not at hand, so we cannot Civ,
it accurately.
The writer-nO matter who he is
was lilustrating--no matter what--wher
he threw out the following thought, aus
our readers will make allowance fol
what ii suffers at our hands in express.
ion.
1t has been proved that light flies up
on a wing tina. bears it nearly 300 ,00C
miles for each tick of a time-piece. II
has also been demonstrated that certain
stars are at such far removes from our
little dusky homestead of earth. that
three years, ten, thirty, one hundred,
nay one thousand years, respectively
would be occupied by the swift messcn-
ger In passing the blue abyss between
them and our waiting eyes.
1t has thence been reasonably infcrr-
cd that the star three years Journey
from US, might have been extinguishcd
by breath of Omnipotcnce, three years
ago, and yet the light that left it then on
ITS earth-Ward errand, would but now
trcmb!e upon the up;urncd eye, and the
image of star, that star, SO long num-
bered among the things that were, would
glitter on that bit of weaving from God s
loom, the retina Of the human eve.
There is nothing new in ali this, for
every school-boy knows it, but the wri-
ter takes up tih the thread of thought,
where all the world had left ii, and car
ries IT step, only step farther, and 10 /!
a new and beautiful idea. Says he,
these things being true, and earth itself
making one in the bright companion
ship Of stars, then should being gifted
with an angels wings-and why may
not the spirit be thus borne view this
earth from a point so remote that ten
years would clapse ere the light would
reach it from this globe, then, that be-
ing would see earth as it was ten years
ago. The flowers Of that long gone
summer would still enamel the fields he
gazed on; and the faces Of friends that
within ten years had been "changcd, "
and gone to mingIe with their kindred
dust, he would still see, warmed and
kindled with life and hope And sup
pose, he could still hy on with the speed
of thought, outstripping ''the swilt-wing-
cd arrows Of light, until four hundro
and fifty-serou years journey removed,
and what a sight would then be present.
ed, for the images of those long-perlshed
scenes would still float In the faint undu-
latlons of light somewhere-dim, wan
dering but not lost. A new and wilder
ness world not yet awakened from the
cradic-sleep of nature might lie mapped
out beneath him--he might behold the
bark OF Columbus as it grated upon the
inhospitable shore. And farther yet, as
he passed along that beam of light, he
might 60, till the pillared fire III the des-
ert, and the pilgrim train and Miriam 5
minstrel form and the Red Mans yet
unsettled waters, trembled on his won-
dering yislon--or the rising walls of
Rome, or any glorious scene in the vol
ume Of light-recorded time; back I'M
til the planet gIittered with the waters
of the dcluge, and the lone bark rocked
upon that shoreless sea. We had not
time either to select or to arrange the
illustrations, but they are sufficient to
exemplify the thought.
A startling possibility is also revealed
and one, which as it occurred TO us. pro-
duced q strange and indescribable i'm
preston; it is this: Suppose man who
had worn the harness of this mortal life.
the allotted three-scOre years and ten,
should be released by death, aud his free
and winged spirit, gifted with powers OF
vision before unknown, should soar away
towards that glorious centre which no
eye has seen, that glitters somewhere
near the throne ofDeity, and as it slanc-
ed ever and anon toward the home il
was leaving, it might see the frame it
dwclt in, yet animate, see it in the prime.
ere frosts had glittered upon the hair or
time had traced its autograph upon the
brow, and again, with the glowing cheek
and the beating heart of youth; once
more on the threshold of bounding boy
hood, the future all ahght before him,
and yc: again, when pillowed upon the
bosom of his mother, a newcomer and
a stranger upon the earth
And thus may it be that time and
times changes are daguerreotyped-
thus that the grand panorama of all the
ages that have passed, from that high
choral hour, when the stars of morning
sang a cradlc-song over the yonng
earth, to the moment when we penned
these lines, may be revealed to-day to
many a vision, here and there in the Uni.
verse of God.
VEGETABLE DER is well hit off by
the celebrated writer, Mr. Slick Sam
met a Grahamite in his travels, and thus
describes him:
ellis skin looked like a full grown
bladder arter some of the air had leaked
out, kinder wrink!ed and rumpled, and
his eyes looked as lamp that's living
on a small allowance of lie He put me
in mind of a pair of kitchen tongs, all
legs, shaft and head, and no belly! 6
real gander-guited looking creature, as
!. hollow as a bamboo walkingcane, ant
twice as yaler. He actually looked as i
! he had hpen nicked off n rack at Goa