The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-08-17

ana pesenng asuriace greater than that OF the presenl
area oi London The present Of New Orleans may,
without dihcully, and in the of human affairs
comfortably contain 1000 900. inhabitants. The present
population during the business may be safely es
mated al not less than l75 900.
IHE WHOLE STORY in A NUT sHELL.--The Albany
koiekerboeker. under the head OF " Independence and
Progress" tells the whole story OF nations birth
and greatness and progress in the and sciences in
remarkable short paragraph for theme so compreben
ove The Style is rather Tscy. bat decidedly TO the
point;
seventy seven years ago day since Uncle Sam
was toIn and what eventual seventy yeaIs they
nase oeen. seventy seven years ago Tue United States
was remote circumstance they now compose The sec
ond commercial nation in the world In three quarters
OF century they have Tevoutionzed the world, built
up an empire, licked our mother, and fenced in CONT
nent In less time than il took Melhuseah 10 get of
swaddling clothes we have made more canals, tanned
more hghinlng and harnessed more steam, and at a
greater cost in money than the whole revenues Of the
world could have paid for the day he got GU, OF his time
In seventy live years have only changed The poll
ics OF The EARTH but is wearing appare-coilon shirts
being as much the offspring OF the United States as bal
ot-boxes and democracy. Since The fourth of july
776, the whole world has been school, and, what is
better, has learned more common sense than was taught
IN Inc previous four thousand Years. The problem OF
self.governnent has been solved and it's truth made i'm
mortal as Washington or yellow lis adaptation 10
all the wants OF the more aspiring nation has been made
NEST sgnally manifest Under lis harmonious working
republic has grown up in an ordinary lifetime that
would have taken any other system OF government a
Thousand Years 70 have brought about Yes in less
time than II has taken green house plants arrive
At maturity we have built nation that has spread itself
from Maine 70 Mexico from the Atlantic the Pacific
nation thai has caugh. more whales licked Mex
leans. planted more telegraph posts, and owns more
steamboats,, than any nation that has ever lived ever
will live For all this. we again say, thank God, and
praise Thomas Jefferson"
RETURN OF YOUNG ADvENruRER.--Fve year ago
upon the receipt of the first news of the discovery OF
gold in CALIFORNIA; boy OF fourteen years of age might
be seen patiently laboring among the s.umps on a new
piece Of land in Michigan He was an intelligent. in
duslrious and good boy. liked By the neighbos and
idoized by his immediate friends He was seized With
the gold fever, and Norval 'ongcd to follow to
The field some wake lord" he did TO get into Cali
lorna placer But how 10 get there was the question
His entire capital consisted of two pigs, calf and
hall dozen chickens. thres-monhs colt, homespun
sui, Of coihes and dollar and half which he was
keeping for the approaching Fourth OF July But 70 he
must and 20 he did, sort of cook and bottle wash
er" for party Of adventures who took the overland
route. He made the journey in good health reached the
mines in good season. labored hard any one of his
mature associates, and, after having chseed the hearts
Of the cold folks at home" by than golden re-
mtance, is now on his way back with his pockets re-
specially "ful OF rocks TO make the family happy by
the return OF SO good and SO loving brother
MArHEMArlcs- heard story the other day-new
10 us, though il may be old to othersworih relating
young collegiate, who had just graduated, was taking
his fret breakfast after that important event with his
venerable parents "Well, John" said The old gentle.
man, cell US something Of your learning" "Why,
father, that would take great while; for | know
good deal OF the classics, The languages. philosophy
mathematics, &C." "What are mathematics John !"
Mathematics Why, for instance, take those two eggs
there. This is egg, and that toe two and one
are three. So by mathematics enabled 10 show
that there three eggs the table when you supposed
there were but two" Every well, John very well,
indeed And to show you my opinion OF mathematics,
will give your mother egg will take the second
and you m1y h1ue hs third. had no idea farming was
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