The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-11-07

Az uesftntru Wy GbWAW GshhEIkS ~ ntuohyS ~
the Inauguration Of the Dudley Observatory. was
yne Of tho eloquent orators mort finished and bril-
liant productions. We have only space for the
suhioined brief extracts: i
There is much, in every way, ii the CITY OF Flor
ence to excite the curiosity. TO kindle a. imagipation
and 70 crafty the taste. Sheltered on the nof by
the vneclad hills of Fiesole, whose Cycopean walls
carry back the antquary to ages before the Roman,
Itefore Che Etrusea1 power, The howtry cit flo,
ranza) covers the sunny banks II the Arno With its
stately palaces. Dark and frowning piles Of me-
ldayal structure, majestic dome, heprctofype of
st. Peters, basilicw which enshrine the ashes Of
some Of the mightiest Of the dead The stnne where
Dante stood to gaze on the campanile the house OF
Michael Angelo. still occupied by descendant Of
his lineage and name, his hammer, his chisel his
diyders his manuscript poems, oil as If he had left
them but yesterday--ary bridges which seem not
80 much 70 rest on the earth to hover over the
waters they span; the lovehest creations of ancient
art rescued from the graveofages again to "enclnt
the world;' the breathing marbles of Michael An
gelo, the glowing canvas If Raphael and Titian,
museums filled with medals and coins Of every noe
from Cyrus the younger, and gems and amulets and
vases from the sepulchres Of Egyptian Pharoahs
coeyal with Joseph, and Ehuscan Lucumons that
swayed Italy before the Romans, libraries stored
with the choicest texts of ancient Liter ature,-gar
dens of rose and orange and pomegranite and myr-
! tle--the verysair You breathe languid with music
and perfume, sush is Florence. But among all its
faeinations addressed to the sence, the memory and
the heart, there was none to which more frequently
gave u meditative honr during years resiidence
than to the spot where Calico Galile sleeps beneath
the marble floor of Santa Croce; no building on
which gaEed with greater reverence thar / did
upon the modest mansion OF Arcetri, villa at once
and prison. in which that venerable sage, BY COM
mand Of the Inquisition, passed the sad Closing
years of his life; the beloved daughter on whom he
had depended to smooth his passage TO the grave,
laid there before him; the eyes with which he had
discovered worlds before unknown quenched his
blindness.
i There was the house, "where,p said Milton.
(anorher Of those Of whom the world was not wor-
thyy"1 found and visited the famous Calico grown
on astronomy, otherwise than as the Dominican,
land franciscan licensers thought" prose works
vol. l. p. 3l3.) Great heavensi what a tribunal
] what q culprit. what a crime! Let us thank
thank God, my friends, that we live in the nine
teenth century. OF all the wonders of the ancien,
: or modern art,-statutes and paintings, and jewel.
and manuscript the admiration and delight OF ages
there was nothing thatI beheld with more affec
tomato awe, than that poor rough tube n few fee
!, in length-the work of his own hands-that yer,
"optc glass" through which the ct tuscan Artist,
viewed the moon, sssk
3 "At evening from top of Fiesole
8 Or in Valdarno, TO descry new lands,
Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe"
that poor little spy glass (for it is scarcely more
: though which the human eye rrst distinctly bchel,
the surface of the moonfrst discovered the phase
of VEINS. tho satellites Of Jupiter, and the seemn
handles Of Saturn, first penetrated the dusky dept
v OF the heavens. hrst pierced the clouds Of vsnc
j. error from wnich ne creation OF the world involve
r ms rs system OF the universe,
: mere arc occasions IN life in which great min
IS lives years Of rapt enjoyment in a moment / ca
n fancy the emotions of Calico. when first ts,sin
the newly 'tructed telescope to the heavens.
- saw tuiniied the grand prophecy of Copernicu
e ana oeheio the planet venus crescent like the moor
N IL was such another moment as that when the in
nloI'ni - u msn'. ana oMsourg received u
hrst cory Of tne nioie lneo tneir hands the wor
T. OF Their divine hrt-hke that when Coumbu
through he gray dawn Of the 18th OF October ~
" (Copermeus, at he aye OF 10, was then studel
to- a. Crscow oeheld the shores Ct San Salvador
r ike that when the law OF gravtaton first revealt
Franklin saw by the stiffenng fbr~s Of the hemp,
st cord oil ms KITE, that ne held the lightning in
in grasP;1-n !, ina. ~nen Leverrier received bat
rom Berlin the uoings tnat the predicted planet W
o. lo9ad' e
In fss, noble 1alileo' 'nou art night pa, 81 muo'
l., u uoes not ,nose. noes NAY make tnee reca
Y W 0us y moves nesein's'ess ss' tnc earth mov'
~ ana lne P,an.ts mose--ana me mighty waite
n move,-.and the greaI sweemng tides OF air mov
sana ene enplfes 'nsa movss'--ana the ~ ORD
"Arn ana upward 70 mig
no q iAc.s anu pp.u nv. 1He lnqusuoh IN
as scar my nps ous uey can no more sIo the prosre
ID ~ use s.sts Ia' ov Coperncus a.
OF relw;n, ear.b 1e' '''AA' ''''s can ''0p inc
est so r,lg eala'' j,
m. o,s1 ioM, 1'a. sseiisiess oea,l
ids eye !. nus seen VIM n1n never 9elore saw IL
h. seen suous' L1nS UP '1se PVT n.ele SPY ghss'
he vew done or us a os1e o ~
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