Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-17
NO.. 16.

| brushed carefully from hcr lOreneau, anu the
whole mass compactly secured if not, why
then her lovely tresses are soon hid in iunu-
merable bits of paper.
This task accomplished, night cap op-
pears, maybe edged with plain muslin, or
maybe with heavyla lace, which hides all, save
her own sweet countenance. AZ soon as she
ties the string, probably she takes peep in
her glass, and half bushes at what she sees.
The light is out-her fair, ds|icate form
gently presses the couch-and like dear,
innocent, lovely creature, as she is, she falls
gently into sleep, with sweet smile on her
still sweeter face. A man, of course, under
the same circumstances acts quite differently.
Every movement in his chamber indicates
the coarse, rough mould of his sullen nature
When all is ready, he snuffs out the candle
with his fingers, like a cannibal, and then
jumps into the bed like a savage. For few
moments he thinks Of all the piccadilloes he
may have committed during the day-vows
a VOW to amend soon, groans, turns over,
stretches himself, and then all is silent save
the heavy groaus of the slumberer.
THE DAYS" OF THE CREATION.
The Scientific American gives the follow
ing summary Of 4 recent article in the Bill
lioheca .Sacra, by Prof. Dana, of Yale COL
legc, on the harmony of science and revela-
ton in regard to the creation:
owe will now endcaror to present the
substance of Prof. Dana's account of the
history of creation, because it is the latest,
clearest and best We have seen, and must be
of interest to every son of Adam. He says
that geology proves our earth to have been at
one time fiery ball in space; then dry land
and seas appeared, with tropical cline over
the whole globe. At later period, noun
tains began to enlarge, the dry land to ex.
pand, a temperate climate to gather about
the poles, and tribes of animals became more
localized. Then, in the last age before man
the continents take their full breadth rivers
flow, everywhere valleys are formed, and
zonesof climate became nearly like our own,
and every region of the globe has its pecu-
liar fauna. Finally, the features, and cli-
mate, and life, attain all their present variety,
as man appears to take his place at the COM
mand of his Maker
ellis ideas regarding the production of
light are peculiar, and as We have seen the
same views before, and now find them en-
dorsed by Prof. Dana, we presume they are
accepted as the most correct theory Of light
by all who have paid any attention to the
subject. lie says, without mutual molec-
ular action, there could be neither light nor
heat But let it be endowed with intense
attraction of different degrees or conditions,
and it would produce light as the first effect
of mutual action begun. The command,
Let light be- was the summons to activity
in matter The plain meaning of this is,
that the matter composing the earth was in
existence before the law of gravity, and that
when it (matter) was endowed with gravity,
the mutual action resulting therefrom produ.
ced light; in other words, light is an effect
of the law of gravitation.
"The records of the rocks, Prof. Dana
asserts, declare that the creation of the an.
imal kingdom came not forth all at once, but
in long progression. There was an age when
shell.fsh, such as cuttle.fsh, corals and tri-
lobites, were dominant. The earth was then
too warm, and the atmosphere too impure for
more exalted FORMS This was the Silurian
age of geological science The next age
was when fishes filled the seas, which is the
Devonian of geology. Then followed anoth.
er, when reptiles, frogs and salamanders
commenced. Land plants then came forth,
and were of exuberant growth, to abstract
carbonic gas from the atmosphere and purify
the air. The vegetable products of that age
are now found in our coal fields. After this
came the Reptilian age when there we're
reptiles larger than whales in the water; le.
viathan reptiles on land, and flying reptiles
in the air.
"In each of these ages were distinct crea-
tions succeeding to determinations Of pre-
viously existing life Through the silurian
Devonian, Carbonifercus and Reptilian ages,
in America-6fteen times, at least, the seas
were swept of their species, and in the sue
ceeding epoch not a species Of the former
occurs All this occurred during the fifth
day of Genesis, according to the geologists,
which may have occupied a period of more
than million of our years.
"The next epoch, the stuth day, was the
advent of man, and the more perfect ami
mails, and Prof. Dana asserts, with other &c.
ologists, that sthe whole plan of creation
had evident reference to man, as the end
and crown of the animal KINGDOM and
science has no evidence that any living spe-
cies have been created since his appearance
on this globe.
"There is no dispute whatever in regard
to the order of creation; geologists assert
that the orders of creation described in Gene
sis, exactly accord with geological science,
and the records of the rocks and Scripture
are in perfect harmony. The only subject
of dispute, then, is in reference to the ques.
ton of time; therei is not, and cannot be, any
conflict between Science and Revelation"
WHAT REAL COURAGE Is-It is real
courage to wear old garments till you can at
ford to pay for new; to say no when you are
asked to lend " half q dollar" to even suf-