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,EI r, JENNINGS & co. 23l BFoad-

w va fALsdcsn Ho.eD solicit the attention Of
s,utsern spS Wessrn dealers 10 tho most az1e ave as
srtsoel 81 AT quality Ready msde Clothing "a ihs
ks which viii 10 soid iof cash o. sppro,e1 col.' i
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INSURANCE.
Once OF nc 49, ~.
GROCRRS, FIRE INSURANCE. %.

Once OF -
CROCRRS' FIRE INSURANCE W
w No a Wsll-sL corner Of feAi-si
CAPITAL $500 900. -,
At an election held his day The l2oras sSnsCs.sr
woe chosen Directors OF hi, Company Tor ne y'
sampson Moore Hoses Taylor, George haool,
Rsri Sherman, Marshall PepOon, Ifsnea ottiseuy,
Peter MAdn AisHsnder n 0rHnt Shas sur , snss.
anfua Etnry Asa \ Porter, yainee n ~ So
Ucnry Edsy isaAc Taylor, Wlln"s q s,s 9ssss
MOORE fsq. wss unenmousJ fetise.n1 t $500. y
he company MlLTORSalfb seofo'AJ
un iii. Cn,npsny santrues 20 insure nuldinEs
Mstsbsndisa Household furniture, NH'e'"s W ~,
90 h. most hvursbls Al ipsses promptly
anl PAID.
KNION MUTUAL INSURANCE
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CAPITAL AHp AssTra, ~G0O 900. 49,
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DHILADELPHIA AND LIVER

PHILADELPHIA AND LIVER
POOL LIRE OF STEAMSHIPS
cry or GLASGOW. l,Gi0 tnns. Capt n MsiseHA
PERNBYL VkNIA, AGO tuna, Capt W. 4, htotoeb0ry
cry or PHILADELPHIA ts9 tnna-
Two OF tbs above ships are n9w beirg boiL and WI
~, riaeed on lhe lice during The ensuing supmcf
~ cry OF GLASGOW. Capt aAisewt, Va's
ofthe Great Western, - 10 lnisnded IN 'An a. sndef-
W ~. -, rar .pEi FatA TaoN Liyuaroois
ssin,slnv s,h Marda. MetnesssY' az eSefs~f'
RATEs or FAssA0h
vVoM rHtbApsrfaiA FHos hNstfs.e,
s.ia.,n- i,Q Eeliass sa,,.sn,. - Neiseas
f-.,i,-...... e, aellase Cabs. ~. ,la Hpifeea
w5a.a aiasin.lsae ferisions zn uaids Tee y, US
u't.s. =, ti..asfs wl,ith esr ~ hal s,afS
E,,.i sises sss- aahigs ry t1,~sea sesf'e 49, 49,
Sow. Have. RHeg3snl letssr asisesles a,i s.ss
Mii,s,arsaf rats ~ vhsk s,~r's sAA - saiffSs %
T,a,,, ssa feegs ~ So ass \, FAiisasipess s9st
Me- v's wa 4 asrissl ssesF@s x rsssessys 49,
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AZ estls s'ssir ss-s Fts osas'r1sso@s ss~ s'sss'
sssS u ii n. s.+i.A .4cs, ~ t>t =.
s.y.sil.-s4 5atssy- $40 ~ csFs.-1 ~ essA 49,
F,li.s, -. ~ sy...s -as ~ ~. YrfNfskA
al X. "a 49,. "a - as.. y, - s<>e-s- - Es-ss
v-li III, n - .y-,-s~l wsA e-ooc..s ae 4sscsseA
si..a ts,sT 3 s,'S ! -. vsy, va ~ Fss-A.
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MAIL LINE between

OCULAR MAIL LINE between
Ia BOSTON and REW.Y DIRK via sToNIn1TOn ene
PpOVIOFNCE : The steamers @. tANDEhsILf Ano
CoHMOnOKE leave Pier No. 2, North River, daily a.
oclock IN TIE C.. Vanderbilt CaptNa Joel Stone 90
NooSsv. WeSnesdays anc fridays. the Commodore Cap
lan WIN H. Frazee. on Tuesdays. Tha5s1sY. and SsF
urdsys On the suyn a. these steamers stonisssoo'
pssssnees proceed oy Railroad 10 Providence ano pou'
This Il The most direct route from N.~-Iorx 70 en
FoT passage Ac apply board o. Il tho ofce 10 sseS
pla
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GARLIC III. Lsolss.

CLOTHING AND TAILORING
NCONWAY, lss Ful'on-st, near Broadway, nas 9,,tV
Costs Vests aud Psrs q every descnpnoa fesoy ua.ei
togrtber wild speudd stock Of the very besi ffenen
Esgsb ard Anls.rnn Cloths, Csssu srcs and Nesunss
inr diEg evs-ybng fashionssie and durable nfsIIae
~. - 80. - st,e.-s ~ mf 3lnoDds
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SCIENTIFICALLY
" sTIMONIALS OF ABILITY AND RECON-
MFNDATfON
NEw YosE, Nov. 50, 100.

NEW YORK NV. o., lcS'
aAdiusing Specaces 10 vision requires great sig nrnt
nm AN. nst Of the Optcisr Msny sights are ilasd an9
scme totally lost for want OF this We. the uGdersg ed
consider Il Of the utmost impcrlance 10 the
pubic to have good spectsces and accurately tpPSo
M SKCTT de Versi 40 Interesting and nsfucuvs fu,-
lie LecnTe on the subject In The Society Library orosl-
vay Nov 90 1880 He is well acquainted wtn inc Sc
spce Therefore we recommend him as very competent
prsctiea, Opucian George Wilkes, M D. - LAgattI'
krrs,ou To The NewYoIk Eye and Ear bhrnsryi Apfs'
han, Dubois, NJ ID 6O9 HOuson-st Consulting surgeon 70
The Ne York nsution fO he Bind and SURGEON 10 me
Eve and Ear Iu6rmary; lease Wood D % sst 6foAi-
"a aV President OF the NewYOfk Academy OF mencine
spS Consulting Physician the lnsutuOa for mo bn1
VIM Darling, M D. s26 WOOser-at, Anatomlcai Demoa-
stral or 10 the New York University Medical C"usge
Nov 80, 1850 Mr. ekOff Is an Agrre2D,s lecturer,
has pad abusual attention 10 the sdhect end ls ceve
lp,ieiap w CLAY WALLACE N o. ~ f0ui1h'sI
All spectacles purchased from Prot ShOIt VII Dc n1-
eapReo free of cosl il not satisfactory. he repairs
~ fis glasses into parties own frames, Snc always sa
ats the Spectscles 10 the Eyes on The mos. approved
ppepes that have been discovered is anceni AM mod
e science -. ,,A....- ~,
m3 PAWN Tblms
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HHRTFORD-Direct. TT

n Steamer HERO, Capt n Mag, VII ~, lssyo non
East River steamboat place. fecf SIP for hauoro eycLy
Nonday and Friday Afternoon, NJ O'clock FOR further
Information inquire on board, or of SAxrONk WEBB
MIL IL. oousR@
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CLENFIELD STARCH.-The ladies

Osre respectfully requested 10 make a trial Of the
GLERFIELD PATENT DoUBLEREFlNED POW
DER STARCH, which, for domestic u'e' now sands un'
rivaled; ~
Copy Of Testimonial from the Lady Of w Chsmhers
ESQ ~ GlenormiEOp one OF the Puhifhere OF Chsin-
bens edinburgh JO0rnsl": . -
o. ENoRsIsroR Dee. a. 1880 -Mrs Chambers offers
De Al lhas IA 10 WotheTs for package OF 0ensd
Pseut Starch and begs 10 say that her Lsuodes sscr
months experience, considers ls species OF Sacn
by far the best she hes ever used III
Sold by the following, aud 9ro;ers generay; n. a
Kerr 746 Broadway; 3 v COrwln, 81 Broadway
I'm Cook 755 Brosdway; w COrwi0, csc Broad way
Cbesier Drieps 6sl Broadway; D Cobb $50 Brosdw1y
/ o. Fowler $50 and 428 Greenwchs aud 10Y " ao1st
u " Carew 10 Bowerv; Park Tford. S'xth-av.i \.
Rilev 1856 Eigmhsv Joha Galloway, i65 Ninth ~ =
Taylor Avenus d; y. Cumbie DrlgRist, corner Bow,
ery and HousoD-st J, Mills coroer msison ana lanes ~
Hail SIi Bleecker Agent, GEO WALKER, "a Ploe-sA'
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FINANCIAL.

FENHE PEOPLES BANK OF THE
q CITY or NETWORK. March %, 1851 This Sank
will opened for The transaction Of business on IT, Eo
DAY NEXT the Isl Of April 81 their Banking House. l75
Csnas between Narck ard Hads0n wheo The second
iosiel!ment Of 20 per cert will he payable.
JOHN P. YELYERTON, President
G DE ANGELS Cashier. ~ u
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-29
TTBE GREAT EXHIBITION IN

a LonC on IN lGJiOne Of the most remarkable on)ecu
OF tie Exhibition N oldOl ia 1851 and IN which The IN
glsh n RspfacgTers win show great superiority, are
without doubt the tine Cotton stockings OF the
OF MORLEY. LAdies Win thanh Us to have called tnsf
attention 90 X be informed thal every A'tcs o I'm
sh fine STOCKING sud HOSIERY manufacture IL 10 be found
OF Inc most exquisite quality at III DIAMS 1853 Rnd leo
oxford 81 LoppoR, established since 175o
I'm IStDA lStW
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SUMMER ARRANGEMENT-Com-

NOn and amer March IS 1851, leave whitehall a. 3 II,
l. s and O'clcck. Leave Van DeTsh al 10 Il tsnd
60'ciock MIS-
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CiOlirs HOuss
DROOKS BROTHERS, llG and llo
EDChouv.u eorss Of Csiesrnc-st hew, York desire
10 irfstse heir fucs and customers la LDey "a 10y
r., ssIs AZ stensig, al yErod sork u READY MADE
CLOTBiaC, embracing fssy q9sy and asscr 49,.
NEFCHAhF TAILOR NOTIFY would lnVNn 'sPD
- ,sse. a. sesr ,sistie ~ GOODS ipf he season
sEeA ksgs bses c1sl1liy procured Ios his Department
NIL la
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DASos For SALE and % hire. al Z
PIANOs.--

u hrJsyn oypos.ie he AsOf hooss, from a 70 ~
tsyeslnrosewOo,l Gn6 fesiogeny cAsas
MIS- 81 JAMS THOaPsOs. iste TsiE1sz \ Esndal.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-29

EREIGHT REDUCED.-On and after
A. he lat o. Ap, tho rates Of feigh bstween NEW.
VORR and BOSTON by Ihs FALL RIVER LINE wlii
be reduced Shippers procure me Lsw iafn 9u .ss
On application 10 TlsDALE BORDEN, 7o& IL "es''"
MI n
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ETEVEfANR TS}lrMbCs AND

rLENEit ANn tt4lMBbs AM
= ri~cswwltt ra,frcsD- gys-e5 = s'cs.-''--
- -e--~r.rt 49, ~ ~ scfhr I'd N>1r1 t.rrtg
= y X 4 vi. ,ae Cou =, re fsn1s Aisrn ~ ~
~ = -. F'ss-r--- s'-i, - rta--r tt--s
1sfEs CtretrSl wn m tr-;. ~ fIr ~ ~
~ 80 co. NJ n rSrnt1H r., - rf-Tecrs'o wv
"a y.asfreep "a rrssI L...-L - .-1,-..s-.
~ $500 - NJ Lave = ~ = 80 y 49,
Ne I.sisIf ~ p X 1'-Ioch D. N. hli'f'' - N
rs1t.A q. "a 4s,ats va SaIssssTgs, z, y
ocissi n tT7.l y c'sysasf s's o'r'S7f . MFRS
fyA ,.s P4asa.rs xa4,s -ks,ysy ssc.S y
Ile,s.l :, s-4 4.si n - -. "a pvf.p1h = -
1rt..s 81 C.s 49,, ~ --tA ~ .. ~. ~, go
49, - Z s-...,l - * isl y y s1fv@ ~
Rsf' % --.,a 't'-s. aErErsT1s.
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NOR LIVERPOOL.-- United states
Il Mail Steamship ARCTIC, Capt Jas. c. Lnee=fets
steamship vii depart with he msi for furope PoalHsey
on WEDNESDAY, April q u O'CLOCK N, irem ns
berth Al he foot Of CanAst No berIh secured al sed
for AL letters and papers muss pass hroagn mo foss
Office FOR freight or passage, having unequaet sscons
niodaions for elegance and comfort apply 10 EDWAhO
X COLLINS, 50 WNl-si Positively % freight VII Dc
received sner Monday evening Mach 81. Tho steamer
Baltic will succeed The Arctic. and sal April Is mo
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PIANOS.

pHrO FORTE.-Ladies will receive
n torush iasiraeoc on ne Piano stast a. ihsf own
or lh,iezhrTs residspcs, By iDqsF.nk a. y ki1g.ti
mXlx
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ENOR BRIDGEPOkT.-Fare so cents.
IL Connecting win The HousAionic and Nangsfuek
Railroad The steamer ANsONIA Capt T. ID. wilcox,
win leave PeckslP on Tuesdays, Thursdsys ssa sstar
dkys Al ~ O'Clock, NJ; returning viii leave hnloed
Wharf Bridgepor on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays
Al lO4 A NJ For freight OF passage, apply 70 THOMAS
LOCkYER 4 co, liz Soalh-sI or 10 ne Japan 90
board B-freight taken al the lowest rstes NIL I'M
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OHAWLS AND MANTHLAS.-E.
INDIA RUBBER GOODS-Msnufac-

INDIA RUBBER GUUUS-MendIac-
u tured under GOODYEARs Patent. The Newark
India RuOhel Manufacturing Company store 59 Maiden
lane New-Yo,k; factory, Newark Ne ~Jersey TN J
Comp6py are mBIu fscurers and loesse dealers in al
the different erees row manufactured urdsr Goodyesrs
Patent arc guarantee al their gOcdE As bling eqnsi 10
qualify repre- aertsOn Merchants are reqlespo 70 CAL
XII Scods axe wsrrsned TO sisut any cinste The mOst
liberal lennG 70 country dealers -
BIRAH HUTCHINSON President,
WARREN AcKERMAE Secretary. u2t2bO&5LWE
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MORNING LINE FOR ALBANY

lVh Tba rew ard elegant Steamer REINDEER, Capt
Albert DEeRoor Will leave He~ York rom pier oot Of
Murray al every Monday "Wednesday and fndsy morn
ing al o'clock returning, Alsany fuesdays.
THURSDAYS and at tue sage hour, making NE
usual landings each way. ~ aess served on board.
N b Forfurther iuformsron apply TO JAMES BisdOr
q co. 5 Beaver st, New orb. mh.s u
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-08-27
law of Newspapers,

l. Subscribers who do not give express no
&c TO the contrary, are considered as wish in
continue their subscription.
2. If subscribers order the discontlnuance OF
their papers, the publisher may continue to send
them till all that is due be paid.
Q. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their papers from the Office to which they arc
directed, they are held responsible till they
have scltlcd their bills and ordered their papers
discontinued.
4. If subscribers move TO other places, with
out informing the publisher. and the paper i
sent TO the former direction, they are held re
sponshle.
5. The courts have decided that refusing to
take n paper from the Office or removing and
leaving tuncaled for, is prima facia evidence
of intentional fraud.
6. A Postmaster ncglectng to inform pub
ishcr when his paper is not taken from the Of
flee, makes himself liable for his subscription
price.
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Mr.. Thackerays Sixth and Last Lect ure.

Laurence Slerne, the FIRST of the two
humoroists who formed the subject
Of Mr.. Thackeray's lecture yesterday.
is evidently less a favorite with the lec-
turer than even William Congreve.
Reviewing his private life, he finds that
pretentions to refined feelings are but
hollow looks with contemp, on his a.
vowed weariness of his wife and his at
tachment to Mrs. Draper, better known
as" Eliza j" aud comes 10 the conclu-
sion that he is n, heart vain, wicked and
false. The same qualities which dis6g>
ure Stearne's biography are also TO be
found influencing his writings, where
again, amid many passages of surpas,
sing lumor and genuine love, the same
hollowness is manifest. Mr.. Thacke-
ray told the story of French actor,
who, in his presence. amused the COM
pany after dinner by telling pathetic
tale, which elected tears from all the
hearers, but still more copious tears
from the narrator himself This power
Of culiivaiing the sensibillties, so as TO
make them a marketable article, was
greatly developed in Slcrne. There
was something genuine at bottom, but
with such exaggerated emotions il was
hard TO discover what was real and what
was spurious. Sterne had lucrative
gift OF weeping, and you always feel
that he is staring into his readers face
to ascertaine if he has produced the de,
sired effect. Do cry" he seems to
say, you know you can't resist me.p
Swift and Rabelais laughed out with a
loud hearty laugh, but in Sterne all was
prepared. His jesls were made in cold
blood; he was literary posture master.
who deliberately spread his carpet before
he commenced his tricks. The cele-
braled story of the Z" Dead ASS" is al,
ter all, an absurd exhibition of a don,
key in herse, with the coneomilan,
pomp of muurners, feathers, aud white
handkerchiefs Then Sterne's comic al
stories always give the notion of latent
corruption "a hint of an impure press
ence ; the Sdtyr's eyes leer out from the
page. While abiding 10 this defect
Mr.. Thackeray took occasion 10 alIude
to the author of Dapid Cope, fcM as
purely innocent recreation 10
his readers.
Oliver Goldsmith, the other hero, was
held up as the anlithesis to Sterne,-as
the simple, natural man, whom every
one must love perforce the man, who
having passed merry childhnod in bis
hnnb'e home and then ballIed through
a series Of great difficulties. always wore
the memory of that first hume abou, him
as a rslic, and died with Il on his hear.
The charm Of Goldsmith consists nj The
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-08-27
A New Motive Power.

Stephen p. Andrews writes to the New
York Tribune of the discovery and embryo
invention of new motor, now beginning TO
be known as Sawyer s Gwynne's Pressure
Engine. The inventors believe that, after
eight years of trial, they have thoroughly
tested in practice every roiot involved in
the proposed machinery The following
will explain the invention:
Some eight years ago 1t occurred to Mr..
Sawyer that there were some curious fea-
tures about centrifugal force. which did not
seem 10 him to he accounted for by the or
binary theory by Which it is mixed up with
and made part of momentum. \ thorough
examination Of the subject by The aid of the
books threw 10 light on the subject In a
work of five hundred pages upon mechani>
cal philosophy, you will perhaps find half a
taee orly upon the central forces. Consul
tation with many of the luminaries OF sci
ence in this country showed him that they
knew quito as little on the subject as he
knew himself
Practical mechanics were equally ignorant
Of The laws of this power, with which they
had nothing TO do, except 10 fight it in its
tendency TO break up their machinery,
which it would frequently. unexpectedly and
disastrously do Still, all the books contained
the one principle, that centrifugal force in
creases in the ratio of the square of the ve-
locity of the rotation of a wheel, yon fourfold
the centrifugal force 1t WAS obvious TO Mr..
Sawyer, that ii did moi require four times
the power TO double the velocity of the wheel:
but even upon this point no specific and
satisfactory information could be found in
the books. Hence he was driven to the
conclusion that no complete set of scientific
experiments upon the whole subject had
ever been made and that he must explore
the field for himself.
The following are results TO which he has
been led after not less than one thousand
different experiments, conducted during
eight years, which he now puts before the
scientific world, aud which he is willing TO
stand or fall by. For myself, venture to
affirm, that he now knows more in relation
to the whole subject OF centrifugal force
than the whole world beside and in my
opinion it would be becoming, in scientific
men and others, first 10 learn of him what
he knows practically and experimenially,
before assaiing his positions upon tho basis
Of the cid stock of information, which was
no, sufficient 10 satisfy him before he began
his Investigations.
/. Centrifugal force increases in the raio
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The floating Gardens of Mexico.

The greater part Of the vegetables con-
sumed in Mexico are cultivated IN tho
Chinampas, called by Europeans floating
gardens. They are of Two kinds some are
movable, and frequently driven up and down
by the wind, others firm, and fixed to tine
shore. The former only can be termed
floating, but the number Of these is daily
essening.
The ingenious invention of the cbnampas
is traceable TO the fourteenth century, and
The idea was probably suggested TO the
Aztecas by nature itself. On the marshy
banks of the lakes Of Xochimilcho and Gala
co, the waters, in their periodical swelings,
thrown up clods and mounds of earth, COW
cred with grass and tangled roots. These
masses, after floating for long time up and
down, the sport Of every breeze, sometimes
form into groups of small islets. A tribe, too
weak and insignificant 10 establish any settle
ment on the main land, took advantage OF
this portion of the soil hus accidentally
placed at their disposal. aud the possession
Of which was not likely TO be disputed. The
most ancient chinampas were only turf
mounds arIiicialy joined, and then TILED
and planted by the Aztecas. These floating
island are found in every zone. Humboldt
describes those he saw at Qeilo, in the river
Guayaquil, as being about twenty feet long,
floating about in the middle OF the stream,
and full Of The bamboo the Pistid stateOteS,
and other plants, whose roots are knotty.
and disposed 10 inierwine. They are also
TO be found in the small lake called Laga di
Aqua Sofia of Tiyoli, near the Baths of
Agrippa, composed Of sulphur, of carbonate
of lime, and of the leaves of the Uica Me'-
mails. and shifting from place TO place at
every breath of wind.
The industry of the Aztecan nation has
brought TO great perfection the idea suggest
ed by the masses of earth broken of from
the banks of the rivers. The floating gar.
dens found by the Spanisrds in grea, mum.
bers, and many of which are still to oe found
in the Lake of CaIaco, were sort OF RATS
formed Of reeds, rushes, and rough, prickly.
tangling shrubs, aud covered by the Indians
with layer of rich earth impregnated with
muriale of soda. This salt is gradually ex-
lracted from the soil by watering il with the
water OF the lake, ,& tho ground is more or le,s
fertlized, according to lhe more or less Ere.
quent application of this lye-for such, even
When salt, the water becomes by filtration
through the soil. The chinampss sometimes
contain hut for the Indian in charge of
group of these floating gardens, which can
be towed or impelled by long poles at pleas
ure, from one side of the river TO the other
but most OF those now known by the name
are fixed and as this haI pens jus, in pro
portion 10 the DISTANCE of the fresh>water
lake from the saltwater lafe. many are to
be found along the Vega, in the marshy soil
between the Lake of Calseo and the Lake
Of rezcuco Each chinsrnpa forms paral-
telegram, three hnrlrsd feet long and about
twenty in breadth, and Ia separated from its
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-08-27
August.
BY WILLIAM d. GALLAGHER

Dust on thy mantle dust,
Bright Summer, on thy livery Of green
a tarnish, as Of rust,
Dims thy late brilliant sheen;
And thy young glorics-leaf, ana bud and
flower
Change cometh over them with every hour.
Thee hath The August sun
Looked on with hot, and fierce, and brassy
face;
And still and lazily run,
Scarce whispering IN their pace
The half dried rivulcts, that lately sent
A shout of eladness up, as on they went.
Flame-ike, the long midday,
With not so much of sweet air as hath stirred
The down upon the spray
Where rests the painting bird,
Doing away the hot and tedious noon
With ftful twit,er, sadly out Of tune.
Seeds in the sutryair,
And gossamer web-work on the sleeping trees
Fen the tall pines that rear
Their plumes to catch the breeze,
The slightest breeze from the unircshening
west,
Parakc the general langusr and deep rest
Happy, as man may be,
Stretched OH lis back, in homey bean vine
bower,
While the voluptuous bee
Robs each surrounding flower,
,Iy u cl %
breast,
The husbardman enjoys his noon day rest.
Against the h,zy sky
The thin and feecy clouds unmovng resti
Beneath them far, vet high
In the dim, distant west,
The vnlurc, seeming thence its carrion fare,
Sails, slowly circling in the sunny air.
Sobeily, in the shade,
Repose the patient COW and to.worn OK,
Orin the shoal stream wade,
Sheltered by jutting rocks;
The feccy hook, hy-scourged and restless, rush
Madly from fence to fence, from bush to bush.
Tcdiously pass the hours
And vegetation wills, with blistercd root,
And droop the t!irsting flowers,
Where the slant sunbeams shoot;
But Of each tall old tree the lengthcning line,
Slow creeping eastward, marks the days de-
line
Faster, along the plain,
Moves now the shade and on the meadows
edge;
The kline are forth again,
The bird fits in the hedge.
Now in the molten west sinks the hot sun.
Welcome, mild eve the sutry day is done.
Pies rtly comest thou,
Dew Of the evening, TO the cuspd-up grass
And the curl'd corn blades bow,
As the light breezes pass,
That their parch'd lips may feel thee and ex-
pand,
Thou sweet reviver of the feverd land