Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-12-14

For wandering smiles of cloudIess mirth
Der thy glad features beaming,
Say, not a thought form of earth
Alloys thine hour OF dreaming!
Mayhap, afar on unseen wings,
Thy snless spirit soaring, a-. -.es-s
Now hears the burst from golden springs,
Where angels are adorng. a-
And with the pure heliacal throng .#-
Around their Maker prasng,
The joyous heart may join the song
Ten thousand tongues are raising
Sleep lovely babe for times cold touch
Shall make these visions wither;
Youth and the dreams which charm so much,
Shall fade and fly together
Then, sleep-while sleep is pure and mild,
Ere earthly ties grow stronger,
When thou shalt be more child, =
And dream of Heaven no longer
AMERICAN SAILORS ON ExHIBITIoN.-Late news
from Lahaina received at New London, Connecticut
makes mention of the arrival at the former place of
the American whaler Minerva, Capt SEABURY.-
Capt. S. reports hearing from the Alert. GREEN. in
the first part of the season, being the Tartary
Coast, sent two boats crews in after wood. They
not returning expected, he sent the third
boat, which was also detained. The ship was thus
left with single boats crew, and continued standing
off and on for two weeks or more before he had any
intelligence of the boats. They finally all returned
to the ship, and related that when they landed the
natives made them prisoners, and took them back
through the country and villages for the purpose Of
erhitiOn. They were treated in the kindest manner
during their imprisonment. When their keepers had
exhibited them to their satisfaction, they restored
their boats with every article belonging to them
Not even the smallest article missing.
A LEGAL ANEcDorE-Recently, while attending
court held in ! county, where Judge 5. presided
very plain question was presented for the decision
of the court 1t argued deliberately the wrong
side and when the opposition attorney Ca real Paddy
who had just waded through Blackstone and Chitty,
so to obtain license to reply, he stop
ped by his honor who informed him that his opinion
was made up against him, that he would have no
further argument. Paddy laid his hand slowly upon
a volume of Blackstone, and opened where the leaf
was carefully turned down, and commenced reading
the law directly in conflict with the opinion of the
court.
" Stop, SIR cried the Judge, 81 have decided the
case, and my mind is no longer open to conviction
nor will have any further argument the ease'
s:Oh' said the lawyer, q did not intend to argue
the point nor did expect to convince your honor
only wanted to show the court what blasted fool
Blackstone was
Such shout of laughter as went up from every
part Of the courthouse beyond the of the
sheriff or the court control for some minutes when
Paddy fined dollar for his SANDER of Blackstone
and the court then adjourned to liquor.
CURSE OF Ill GOTTEN WEALTH-There is such
goes along with i'll gotten estate that he that
leaves such to his child doth but cheat and de-
ceive him, makes him believe that he has left him
wealth, but has withal put such canker in the bow
els of it, that it was to eat it out Would to
be generally taken notice of! Then surely parents
would not account it reasonable motive for Just
dealing that they may thus provide for their chill
dren for this is not a way of providing for them
nay it's the way to spoil them of whatever they may
have lawfully gathered for them the least mite of
unlawful gain being of the nature of leaven, which
sours the whole lump, and bringeth down curse
upon all man pOssesseth.
IRISH DENIAL-An Irish boy who was trying to
get place, denied that he was an Irish boy. Il
don't know what you mean by not being an Irish
man, said the gentleman, who was about hiring
sOch your honor that's all,' said the boy, "small
blame to that. Suppose had been born in stable,
would have been horse?
CoLoRING BLUE-An exchange gives the following
directions for simple blue dye ready for at all
times Put one ounce of pulverized indigo into
three ounces of oil of vitrio The bottle should not
be more than one-third full it sometimes ferments
Let it stand at least two weeks, the older the better
Shake it we'll once day, for week or more if two
thick, add water. This mixture, with warm water
and alum will color any shade of blue in five min
utes.
THE PLANETARY SYSTEM, AS IT Is Now UNDERSTOOD
Sir j. Herchel has lately expressed his opinion that
it impossible any longer to attempt the explanation
of the movements of all the heavenly bodies by SIM
pie attraction, understood in the Newtonan theory
these comets with their trains perversely turned
from the sum- deranging sadly, our systematic views
Nor are there writes Humboldt) any constant rea.
tons between the distances of the planets from
the central body round which they revolve and the
absolute magnitudes densites times of rotation,
centrcities and incnatiOns of orbit and of axis
We find Mars, though more distant from the sun than
either the Earth or Venus inferior to them in magn
tude Saturn is less than Jupiter and yet much lar
ger than Uranus. The of the telescope planets
which nconsiderably in point of volume, veweC
in the series of distances commencing from the sun
before Jupiter the greatest in size of all the
planetary bodies Remarkable is the small density
of all the colossal planets which farthest from tn
sum- yet neither in this respect recognize an,
regular succession Uranus appears to be denser thar
Saturn and Though the inner group of planets die
but little from each other in this particular fnt
both Venus and Mars less dense than the Earth
which is situated between them The time of rota
ton increases on the whole with increasing solar dis
lance but yet it is greater in Mars than in tn
Earth, and in Saturn than in Jupiter. After othel
remarks of the same character, he adds: " The plan
etary SYSTEM in its relations of absolute magnitude
relative position of the axis density time of rotation
and different degrees IF eccentricity of the orbits has
to our apprehension, nothing of natural neees
sity than the relative distribution of land and waite
on the surface of GLOBE the CONFORMATION of con
tinents or the elevation of mountain chains. N
general law in these respects is discoverable eithe
in the regions of space in the Irregularities of tn
crust of the earth.'
i LONG BEARD-The Cincinnati Enquirer saw
man short time since with large waving bear
and heavy moustaehe, which he vowed he would ney
er cut off until Henry Clay was elected President
the United States. What hirsute monster he wi
be by and by!
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.-In * Sketches of Re
form and Reformers,' by H. B. STANTON, we find th
following statement of the amount paid to the Epis
/ copal Clergy and Bishops of England. It will b
found interesting, showing the vast amount raise
for the annual support of the State Church Of tina
country:
i "The annual revenue of the whole body of tn