Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-10-31


which words are too feeble to describe.
| had occasion, few weeks since, to take
the early train from Providence to Bos-
ton, and for this purpose rose at two
o'clock in the morning. Everything
around was wrapped in darkness and
hushed in silence, broken only by what
seemed at that hour the unearthly elauk
and rush Of the train. It was a mild, Sc
rene, mid-summer's night,--the SKY was
without a cloud,-the winds were whist.
The moon, then in the last qaaaier, had
just risen, and the stars shone with a spec
trail lustre, but little affected by her pres
ence. Jupiter, two hours high, was the
herald of the day;-the Pleiades just
above the horizon, shed their sweet inau-
ence in the East; Lyra sparkled near
the zenith; Andromeda yelled her new
Undiscovered glories from the naked eye
in the South; the steady pointers, far
beneath the Pole, looked meekly up from
the depths of the North to their Sover-
eign.
Such was the glorious spectacle as /
entered the train. As we proceeded, the
timid approach Of twilight became more
perceptible; the intense blue Of the SKY
began to soften; the smaller stars, like
little children, went first to rest; the sis
ter-beams of the Pleiades soon melted
together; but the bright consultations OF
the West and North remained unchang-
ed. Steadily the wondrous transligura-
alton went on. Hands Of angles hidden
from mortal eyes shifted the scenery Of
the heavens the glories Of night dissoly-
ed into the glories of dawn. The blue
sky now turned more softly gray the
great watch-stars shut up their holy eyes ;
the East began to kindle. Faint streaks
of purple soon blushed along the sky; the
whole celestial concaye was filled with
the inhowing tides of the morning light,
which came pouring down from above in
one great ocean of radiance till at length,
as we reached the Blue Hills, a flash Of
purple fire blazed out from above the
horizon, and turned the dewy tear-drops
of flower and leaf into rubies and dia-
monds. In few seconds, the everlast-
ing gates Of the morning very thrown
wide open, and the lord of day, arrayed
in glories too severe for the gaze of man
began his course.
| do not wonder at the saperstitions
Of the ancient Magians, who in the morn.
ing of the world went up TO the hill-tops
Of Central Asia, and, ignorant ofthe true
God, adored the most glorious work ol
his hand. But am filed with amaze.
ment when | am told that in this enlight.
ened age and in the heart of the Chris.
tian world, there are persons who car
witness this daily manifestation Of tn,
power and wisdom of the Creator, ant
+ yet say in their hearts "There is n,
God"
We are brought to the bewildering
r concluson, that thousands Of the mist,
specs, the greater part Of them too fain
to be seen, TO be seen by the naked eye
are not each universe like our Sola
system, but each "swarm" Of universe
Of unappreciable magnitude (Humbold
> Cosmos III. Az The mind sinks over
powered by the contemplation. We re
peat the words, but they no longer con
! Yey distinct ideas to the understanding.
But, these conclusions, however vas
8 their cOmprehensions, carry US but an
other step forward in the realms of side
!. real astronomy. A proper motion il
4 space Of our sun and Of the fixed stars, a
we call them, has long been believed t
exist. Their vast distances only preyen
It's being more apparent. The great in
pFoyement in instruments Of measure
. ment within the last generation has no
only established the existence Of this ma
!. ton, but has pointed to the region in til
n starry vault around which our whole SC
Lar and stellar system with its myriad {
b. attendant planetary worlds appera TO :
. performing a mighty revolution.
then, we assume that outside Of the syi
ten to which We belong aud in which o.
sun Is bat star Ike Adebaran or 5
rius, the different Rebulm Of which y
have spoken,--thousands OF which sp'
. the eayens,--cohstitute each dislin
family Of uniyerses, NC must, followin
the guide Of anology, attribute 70 each
!, them also, beyond al the revolutions
!, their individual attendant planetary -
!. tens, great revolution, eomprrheudin
: the whole while the same eourse u a.
!. illogical reasoning would lead as still ia
fhar s,nsearI at.I Ia the Iasf aaalgsis. {,