New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-10

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sr.s. nys,.ry Of cur bti,g. BY thu u,s Of q fes
v..ttsn or yrI:sc h1ss paper, 60 Eks esco otssr
tls. ir isrguss With which ~ sfe rn'suic Ar-wi
r4,e Macy or q Jsparese nsruacrp,-thsre see-s
scerce pry cifsrrce between them tbs rnssen
;r,steihle Mysterious mental ssssrcs, compared
v;th vhiob a Tertune, sourd, lurS rs,abor
is s-oss ard material, expresses tseH 10 tos eye
ty tie gert'e irnpu<e, TIE sot vibrations Wnict
he ,ips lrpsIt 10 the elastic cir, it expreesee
itsslf "a Ire ear. To give the -poken word duration
I t-srs!st- II ITO written chsrecter; 70 give TIE
written s'gn v'tsi euphssie, l trerslats It into
yoos. speece. BY ere tivns at, TIE dead letter,
charged with liyirg meaning, sourds through ecoo
irc hs t. ard vIrs or s.orrs lts vsy to sym2e,he,ic
t,sr.s; BIZ another TIE teetIrg vsyeets OF the cir
s.e CIV =tA;,ed ito most msrveious psrrne nence,
AID become nrerE hsbls gems OF thought vhcee us-
ter 70 spse Of tine csu cbscsre; while, o9 the unon
of 10th th. neon prehepsble beirg the mind, gently
voo@d tn ID TIE yessl chamber, Of our irmoet nature,
ccrse forth Ike b'ice soorreo 70: her ioroy spouse,
lewoid; ad in the rob yesture OF conversston OF
erEuueh. Of s.cSIerce, OF poetry, CT sorgi 70 wax
N him ,te bc.y or the sec uded paths q life; 70 IL
truct arc delight tie living generations; ethereal a.
e,ces a. they are, to cutivs columns Of brsss aud
pyrsmds Of gs! te, and n descend IN eterna youth
tte uIeneirg highways OF the sRes.
Do4a !. set m much that the skil Of rer has "a
th.ss latter DAYS confrived tee Of cornmuai.
eating gence aG est With the rspdty OF thouget,
scrtes tie eIpspse If continents ard beneath the
depth CT oceans By the electric vire Ths.a meseags
6;trstcred flom Pcston a. midday Will 30 fsr out
ire sun as 70 reach ST. Louis hour before he
arrives at that meridisnl IL is pucb--aud we con-
teutlste viii just smszemeDt the wordeifai sppars-
tus Which wien laid dcvras eoocer or ister IL per-
hsps will be 90 az 10 coLrect the three ccn,ireoa-
nav. ey possibility, serd Ire beginning Of such
se1ier ce ss an rov forouncng erornd the terrs-
cueous gote RI retain it to the lips OF the speaker
Before lie hss s uterence But tais AnsLin
apparatus Is but Lother torn OF langusgei u fsnS
teQence OILY ss trsbsnits words. IL is Ike speeca
Ike tie pen, Ike tie press, another piece ei ms
clirery by which Isl guge is conveyed from plsce to
place. Tie rssDy wonderful thing is Language 'sei,
ty which thought L msce sensible and commune leo
from mind 10 mind not only IN the great vlrg COO
e,egst;on Of tts civilized word fcr the time belfg hat
,t,cseh the vast general assembly Of the ages, by
which we sre able ct this moment not Only 10 hsen TO
81 TIE crest ut.eranees wicn e s
but TO soar With Milton to the green elcs OF
in tie corning Of creations TO descend vltn ante 10
tie depths of reral vice. TO listen 10 tie thundefs Of
Tuly sId Demo enes, and, by the gcden CHAIN OF
etymooRy trece tie affinity and descent OF nations
back through the labyrinth Of the past, almost to the
cradle CT the race.
he'd in my hard a portion Of tie Identical elsc-
trcsl cable, given by my friend, Mr.. Peabody,
which is row [ApIi - iS57lin progress of manufao-
tuYe 10 conn ect America with Europe. l read upon
it the following words "a part Of the submarine
" electric telegraph cable, Manufactured by Messra
"Glsss Co. Of London, for the Atlantic Telegraph
Company TO conrect st Johns, Newfoundland, with
"Vs,eIte Irelspd distance OF sixteen hundred and
"fo.y rauios OF nineteen hur ired statute miles"
Dces 1t seem all but incredible to you that intelligence
should travel for two thousand miles, along those
slerder copper yires far down in ell but fsthomsss
Atlantic before penetrated by sught pertaining
to humanity, cave when some fornderng vessei mas
plunged With her ksp'ees company to the eternal
silence ard darkness Of the abyss Does It seem,
say all but miracle Of art, that the thoughts OF v-
rg eL-tle thoughts that we think up here on the
ssrhs suIfaoe IN ne cheerful light OF dsy-about the
mskets ard the exchanges ard the sessors, and the
tecoLa, ard tie tres.iea, and the ware and ali the
1,xI lailx ia chr Cl lpt 10
with elemental fpsrks, shoot with fiery speed in
moment, in the twinking of an eye, from hemisphere
10 he upt ere, far down among tie uncout monsters
ttst wsow in the netheI seas, along the
wreck-psyed Aoor, through the oczy. dungeons
II the rSyess deepi-thst the lset Intel
bgerce OF the crops, whose dan' ng tssses Will IN
few months be ooquettng with the west WIND on these
boundess praires. should go isstng along the slmy
decks Of cid suiken gelleons which nave been rotng
for ages; tha. messsges OF frerdshp and love, from
VAIN living bosoms, shorld burn over the cold green
as ours burtt as the eternal gufs coted ard roared
over them, centuries sgol Behold another phenome-
non Of suIeiy not lees surprsing-an intellectual
electrical tsegsBh-t may 50 cal IT not less mar
yslous, The li.rie yolure which hold In my hand
contains the two linnoit- poems Of Homer, those
world renowned strains, which one OF the imperial
mind Of race, not fT from thirty Centuries ago,
poured forth il the delighted eals OF heroic Greece
Of its yoppg Ia:cr glo sirg golden lase sds
-tnat sovereign wrath Of Achilles, which
"----sh.l bum uaquenchsbly,
Urtil sse ste1-al doom sal! be
tie parting OF Hector ard Ardromache-a scene to
which the sad experience Of three thousand Yeas
ccud not add Gle image Of tenderness and sorrow;
the threats Of Jupiter 70 the agestruck Scds, while
every peak CT Olympus was ablsze with his IespinS
thurdtis; the ptteus suppicatioIs OF aged Pnan,
kissing tie hard and bathing with his Tears the zee,
of The cruel chi ain who hsd dragged the Torn
BODY of his noble son three times rouud the IIan
wal; the weary and sorrowiu xanderngs OF
Clysses which every subsequent age OF nianAins
has retrsced with deigat-tnese al, Ike the cum
Iircly imprisoned airs of musica! bcX, breathe 70
IA IN one perennial stain of melody from within
the covers of this small volume. Dy the oInpie
agercy OF twenty-four little merkf stamped On tns
written or the printed page, the immortal Iessna
has f,shed down TO us through the vicisSituees OF
empires and eras; across the vast e1parse OF en-
hshteped and benighted periods OF history; from
region 10 region, f0m his own rocky islet 10 the
A'cesn TO shores unknown, undreamed OF, by hln;
beneath the overwhelming hlows Of three thousand
years, where peoples whole have sunk; and 1t nov
BIRDS tcgether by the golden wires Of intellect and
taste the mind OF Europe and America, at this merid-
isu of their refinement, with the mind OF every inter-
yenng age Of literary culture back to the cradle OF
infant Greece Ara while at places of educ.tion,
We oiigenrly investigate the wonderful properties 0,
matter developed in the phenomena of the physical
word, shall we ro my friends, Deem portion Of our
time ard attention well be1towed upon the miracles o.
tie t-ord, written ard spoker-the phenomena o.
language which lie at TIE foundation OF AL our htef
lectusl Improvement, Of all our Literature and scenes,
il word Of al rational Communication between uan
ard man,
THE ODE FOR THE OCCASION.
The following ode, written by Mr.. Ralph Waldo
Emerson for Fourth of uy celebration in Ccncord,n