The Nevada Democrat., 1857-02-11

LONELINESS OF A POLAR NI0HT.-The plover, |
pbalarope and bunting, here rear their young |
untroubled by man. Aroung the margin Of the
pretty lakes formed by melting snow, upon the
terraces wild fowl of many sorts, the king and
common elder, the pintail duck, and the brent
goose. form their simple nests in spite of the
providing fox and piratical boatswan-blrd, (Ster-
corqyius pdrasatsca the former in quest of the pa
rent. and the latter of her eggs. And then
along the face of some beetling cliff, which,
fronting to the south, gives good promise OF
having water early at its base, clouds OF shrek
ing guls kittiwakes and burgomasters hold
noisy parliament. There was no night to over
shadow this scene. The sun rose high during
the day along the southern half OF the heavens
and slopcd without sitting towards the north
until midnight There was no darkness now, as
during winter there had been no light. Yet it
must not be supposed that in the Arctic regions,
there is not perceptible division of the day in
TO that portion of it intended for labor and that
for rest Between the hours of eight in the eve
ming and four in the morning, in spite OF the
sun sweeping through the heavens. there is
perceptble change. The lights more subdued,
the tints Of land and sea less strong shadows
less marked, the birds go as naturally to roost
as if it was dark, and nature is evidently repos-
| ing. Nothing can be more lovely than this Po-
| lar night. WHICH ~ nOL nlbHt, vi dS ~ nus poOh
beautifully described. 1.-THE long mild twilight,
which, like silver clasp unites to-day with
yesterday. when morning and evening sit to-
gether hand in hand beneath the starless sky OF
midnight" They who have once looked at
such landscape can never forget it-and
though, perhaps the penalties attached to such
a visit to these scenes may serve to check en-
thusiasm upon the subject of their attractions
yet those least susceptible to the impressions of
the wonderful and beautiful, must when stand
ing among the marvels of those distant regions,
have felt emphaticaly the truth of those elo-
quent sentences in our Bible. in which the Crea-
ton is described, and every phase of II declared
to be good and perfect,-McCIure's Discovery Of
the Northwest Passage.
THE MAN WITH THE Iron MAsK-The Pied
montese correspondent of Florentire paper,
the Spectators, writes from Pinerolon the once
famous fortress Of which little sub-Alpine town
it will be remembered that the MAN in the iron
Mask" passed eleven years Of his mysterious
imprisonment-tba the lOng-kept secret OF his
name and fate has at length been penetrated.
Sgnor GARLIC Mussi. whom the Piedmontese
writer calls "the learned and ndefatigable his
torian of Pinerolo," has, he says, in the course
of researches among the archives of the town,
met document which affords the long-sought
information. The facts discovered are declared
by Signor Muss to rest on unmistakeable and
irrefutible evidence; and he only waits in graft
flying the curiosity of the world, until he shall
have succeeded in finding publisher willing to
purchase the manuscript in which he has mar
rated his discovery. Let us hope that this sine
qua non may soon he met with.