Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-10-12
NUMBER 81
Wonders of Observation-Disclosures
DesCrip1iOn.

Description.
By wILLIAM WIRT.
twas pleasant evening in the month Of
May; and my sweet child, my RosaIie, and I,
mounted TO the castles top, 10 enjoy the
breeze that played around it,and to admire the
unclouded ornament thRt RloHed and spark
led with unusual lustre from pole to pole
The atmosphere was in lis finest aud nurest
state of vision; the milky way was distinctly
developed throughout It's whole extent every
planet and every star above the horizon, how
ever near and brilliant or distant and faint,
lent its lambent light or twinkinq rag % give
variety and beauty to the hemisphere; while
the round, bright moon. ESQ distinctly defined
we're the lines Of her figure, and 90 clearly
visible even the rotundity of her form) seem
ed to hang off from the azure vault suspend.
ed in midway air; or STOPPING forward from
the 6rmament her fair and radiant face, as Il
to court and return our gaze.
We amused ourselves for some Tins 10 ob.
serving through a telescope the planet Jupiter.
sailing in silen. majesty, with his squadron
of satellites, along the vast ocean Of space be.
tween us and the fixed stars; aud admired
the felicity Of that design BY which those dis
tant bodies had been parcclsed out and ar
ranged into consultations. so as to have not
only been beacons to the ancient navigator,
but, as it were, for landmarks to astronomers
at this day enabling them, though in differ
ease the place and motion of those planets,
comets and magnificent meteoFs, " hich infabit,
reyolve and play in the intermediate space.
We recalled and dwelt with delight on the
rise and progress of astronomy on that series
ages, which display in so strong a light the
force and reach of the human mind; and on
those bold conjectures and sublime reyeEies.
which seem to tower even to the confines Of
divinity, and denote the high destiny to which
mortals tend:-tbat thought for instance.
which is said to have been frst started By
/ Pythagoras, and which modern astronomers
approve; that the stars which Ne call 6xeds
although they appear to US to be nothing
more than large spangles Of various sizes
glittering on the same concsye surface, are.
nevertheless, bodies as large as our sun, shin
ing like him with original and not reflected
| light, placed at incalculable distances asuHder
and each star the solar centre ofa system Of
| planets which revolve around It rs the planets
belonging to our system do around the sun;
that this is the case not only with all the stara
which our eyes discern in the armament, OF
which the telescope has brought within the
sphere of our vision, but according 70 the
modern improvements Of this thought that
there are probably other stars whose light has
not reached US, although light moves with q
velocity million times greater than that of a
cannon ball; that those luminous appearances
which we observe in the armament, ike fakes
of thin white cloud, are windows as Il we're
which open to other frmaments, far, far be-
yond the ken Of human eye or the power Of
optical instruments, lighted up, Ike ours with
hosts Of stars or suns; that this scheme goes
on through infinite space, which Is filed with
thousand upon thousands Of thousands Of
those suns attended by ten thousand times
ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet
calm, regular and harmonious, invariably
keeping the paths prescriped to them; and
these worlds peopled with myriads Of inteIi-
gent beings.
One would think that this conception, thus
extended, would be bold enough to satisfy
the whole enterprise of the human imagina-
zion But what an accession Of glory and
magni6cence does DR. Hershell superadd 10 X.
when instead of supposing all those suns liked
and the motion confirmed to their respective
planet, he lossens those mnlhsudinous suns
themselves from their station, sets them al in
motion with their splendid retinue Of planets
and satellites, and imagines them. thus atsen-
ded, to perform a stupendous revolution, sys-
tenn above system, around some grander un.
known centre, somewhere inj the boundless
abyss of space: and when, carrying on the
process, you suppose even that centre itself
not stationary, but also counterpoised by other
masses in the immensity of space, with which,
attended by theL accumulated trains Of
PLANETS, sun and adamauiue spheres,
Wheeling unshaken through the void inmeHses'
it maintains harmonious concert. surrounding
in its vast career some other centre still more
remote and stupeudous, which, in its turn
"You overwhelm me-" cried Rosalie, as I was
laboring to pursue the immense concatena-
| ton; srny mind is bewildered. and lost ia the
effort to follow you, and finds no point on
which to rest it weary wing. !" yet there is
a point, my dear Rosalie the throne Of the
Most High. Imagine that the ultimate centre
TO which this vast and inconceivably magniG-
cent and august apparatus is attached and
around which it is continually revolving Oil
what spectacle for cherubim and seraphIm.
and the spirits of the just made perfect who
dwell on the right hand of that throne, If. as.
may be and probably is the case, their eyes
are permitted to pierce through the whole,
and take in at one glance, allits order. beauty.
sublimty and glory and their ears to distin-
guish that celestial harmony, unheard By Us.
ia which those vast globes, as they roll on IN
their respective orbits. continually hymn their
great Creators praiseP
The secret of Excellence.