Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-06-04


almost all the earth drudges. The artist works
at his easel when he embodies new idea and
puts his soul into his paints he drudgcs whom
he reproduces old forms and colors for the
sake of making instead of creating a picture.
The author works when thoughts before unut-
tered glow upon his page-when the life within
presses out demanding utterance and so he
is driven to his pen. He drudges when sheets
are to be filled which 1t would be easier for him
to leave blank. The merchant works whenhis
schemes involve new combinations of facts or
laws of exchange, new balancing Of supply
against demand. He drudges when there is
no element but that Of mere gain in his plans.
The spirit works through the hands and
brain the latter unemployed by the former,
but still acting, drudge. Work must contain
some element of the new to him who does II (;
otherwise il is drudgery. Work lies outside of
your past experiences, drudgery within. Now
consider how few are blest with the lot of
workers, and what happiness is theirs in this
grand fact independent of all lesser conditions.
Artizans seldom work tillers of the earth not
often; women in tho lower places of life
scarcely ever out of the nursery. The masses
everywhere are drudges, whether idle or busy
ones, and only one in a thousand is blessed
with the privilege of working. We grow in
work, but We have to grow, il at all, In spite Of
drudgery. When soul works, it is borne along
the stream of life with a Niagara current at
its back when it drudges, the current is
aroused, and meets and bullets it with impos-
slbllities, imprisonments and hindrances.
Beholding the army OF drudges marching
ana countermarching over the earth, ono in.
voluntarily prays not to be of them yet he
inevitably has his place in their ranks unless
life has good-naturedly afforded him that to do
which is and always will remain, larger than his
soul. He shall only escape this weary lot by
faithfully searching out the nobest phase of his
employment and Frightening and perfecting
that. lie shall make the best and most beluti-
iul shoe, or coat, or implement of metal or
wood. He shall see what service he can put
into his productsi what of the highest elements
which they can embody he can enrich them
withal. He shall be an artist seeking the high
in his task and turning from all low or merely
passabe performances. And so shall he rise
into the glorious kingdom Of work whose re-
ward of taithiulness is growth, and whose rich
treasure is the consciousness of pure and true
devclopment.-LH Illustrated.
CROSSING OF RAILROAD TRAcKs.-The Court
Of appeals, New York, lays it down US a rule
OF law that an individual on approaching a
railroad track is bound to look if u train is ap-
preaching. The court says:
Railroads are among the best improvements
OF the great age Of progress. Public accom-
mediation, convenience, trade, commerce and
intercourse between one section of the coun-
try and the other, cirri.d on upon railroads,
demand that the greatest facilities ahould be
give to this method of conveyance and the
highest attainable rate of speed licensed. A
railroad is public affair, and none the less so
because it is constructed and operated by pri-
vatc capital and enterprise aud the permanent
affairs Of the public are not to be postponed
to the concerns of individuals. In view of the
great rate of speed demanded upon railroads
ny the spirit of tho age, and constituting one
OF the great advantages Of abroad travelling,
ana Ia view of the imminent danger from col
lision to the lives and limbs of the thousands
of persons adopting this method of travelling,
mold that no one has the right to cross a rail-
road track without taking every precaution to
safety. Tho same reason that hold railroad
companies to the strictest responsibility to the
passengers, imposes upon every ono who eros
rs the track of these great public thorough
fares more than ordinary care not to ieopar-
die the lives of those who are availing them
selves Of the benefit of this great modern inn
prOYement in the mode of travelling. 1t seems
to me that he who, without pausing or even
looking, will drive upon a railroad track is
guilty Of more than carclessness.
FOREIGN News. The steamship Arabia ar
rived at New York on Thursday, with later
foreign news. 1t is not of much consequence.
Russia, Spain and Sardinia are sending enyoys
to China, TO profit by tho English war. The
Spanish expedition against Mexico had not
sailed, but was all in roadines 81, and awaiting
orders. Tho Mexican Ambassador had arrived
ut Madrid and been received by the Minister
of Foreign Affairs. A conspiracy has been
detected in Spain to dethrOne the Queen, and
her husband is said to have been engaged In
it.. The Queen mother was also asked to min
gle with the conspirGtOrs, and did so, but when
she learned all the secrets she betrayed them.
In the Ncuichatul affair, a despatch has been
received from Berlin by the French govern
ment, notifying the tenor Of the King Of Prus-
sia's reply to Napoleon's autograph-letter.-
This reply is of so favorable character as to
remaining points at issue. 1t is reported that
Denmark is about to yield to tho question OF
the Holstcm constitution, mainly in accordance
with the good offices and recommendations of
the French government. Tho King of Prussia,
on the magnanimOus request Of Madame
llinckeldey has pardOned Herr Won Rochow,
who it will be remembered, killed her husband
in duel. From the Danubian Principalities,
it is reported that the Unionst party has split
itself into two-the one advocating the candi-
daturc OF foreign, the other OF a native prince.
News from Siberia speaks OF tho arrival of
two American COnsuls, who have made their
way up the River Amoor to IrSutSh.
The Chinese Herald confirms the report that
the tar-lnmed porcelain tower ri Nankn was
destroyed in November, during a bloody mas
sacre Of some 5000 or 5000 Imperial troops by
the insurgents, who had gained possession Of
tho city by treason,