The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-10-07


The following eloquent extract, from an ora
ton delivered BY Edward Everett should be
read by every one, he says -.
bore in my hand portion Of the identical
electrical cable given me by my FRIEND, Mr..
Peabody, which 10 now in progress Of manu-
| facturc, to connect America with Europe.
read upon it the following words -" A part Of
the submarine electric telegraph cable manufac.
tused by Messrs. Glass Co., of London, for
the Atlantic Telegraph Company, to connect
St. Johns, Newfoundland, with Valentia, Ire
land, . distance of sixteen hundred statute
miles"
Does it seem al but incredible to you that
Intelligence should travel for two thousand
miles, along tue slender copper wires, far down
in the all but fathomless Atlantic, never before
penetrated by aught pertaining to humanity,
save when foundering vessel has plunged with
her hopeless company TO the eternal silence and
darkness Of the abyss?
Does it seem, say, all but miracle Of art,
that the thoughts OF living men-the thoughts
that We think here on the earths surface in the
cheerful light Of the day-about the markets
and exchanges, and the seasons and the elcc-
tons, and the treaties aud the wars, and all the
fond nothings Of daily life, should clothe them.
selves with elemental sparks, and shoot with
6ery speed in o moment, in q twinkling of an
eye, from hemisphere to hemisphere far down
among the uncouth monsters that wallow in the
neither seas. along wreck.payed floor. through
the eozy dungeons Of the rayless deep-that
The last intelligence Of the crops, whose dancing
tassels will 10 few months be coquetting with
the west wind on these boundless prairies,
should 60 flashing along the slimy decks of
sunken galleons, which have been rotting for
ages that message Of friendship and love from
bosoms should burn over the cold bones Of man
and woman, whose hearts, once - ours, burst
- the eternal gulfs closed and reared over them,
Centuries ago.
NucLEUs : Ecao.-This paper, which We
have noticed Is published ct Preparation, Non
one county, had some strange kind Of reli-
gious "quirk TO it that We could mot exactly
make OPT II had an article about the IS Death
Of the Devil" an advertisement of book, pub
lishsd BY the editor, entitled "Ths Law and
Covenants Of Israel Written to Ephrairn, from.
Jehovah, the Mighty God Of Jacob" and sundry
evidences about it Of . strange fanaticism. II
did mot, however, surprise 10 at all to find these
victims Of . strange fanaticism going their
death on Pro-Slavery politics. Samuels and
Gillaspy, and the local ticket, divide their at
tention with the "Angel Baneemy," and all the
folde-rol Of . newly invented theology. We
find that the concern 10 Mormon. They are
anxious TO purify ana regenerate tine worid!
Of course such men do mot ecruple to lie about
the designs Of the " Black Rspublcans,"
through that terrible instrument, the New Con
stitution, to institute an equality between the
white and black races; and the chaste and pure
minded polygamiss are good deal exercised
about the "amalgamatiOn tendencies Of thas
same horrible party. II the Devil i dead, -
the Father Of Liars, he has left progeny %
worthy Of himself q Preparation, that his
friends have no occasion 70 mourn his demise.