Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-10-09
THE PARTERRE.
Fragment of Poem, by John II. Ridge

A mightier monarch is that subtler thing.
Which gives to human thought its thoughtswift
wing;
Which speaks in thunder, like a God.
Or humbly stoops TO kiss the lifted rod;
Ascends to Nights dim, solitary throne,
And drapes II with spendor not its own
A CHASTITY grandeur and q glorious sheen.
Through which the pale stars tremble, as they're
seen;
Descends to fire the far horizons rim.
And paints Mount Fnas In the cloudland grim;
Or, proud to own fair Sciences rightful sway,
Low bends along the electric wire to play,
And, helping out the ever wondrolis plan.
Becomes in sooth, an errand-boy for man!
This power it was, which, not content with aught
As yet achieved by human will or thought.
Disdained the slow account OF months or days,
In navigation of the ocean-ways;
And days would shorten into hours and these
To minutes, in the face of angered seas
If thought might not be borne upon the foam
Offurrowing keel, with speed that thought should
roam,
1t then should walk, like light, the Oceans bed
And laugh to scorn the winds and waves Ter head!
Beneath the reach of storm or wreck, down where
The skeletons of men and nayies are,
Its silent steps should be; while o'or its path
The monsters of the deep, in sport or wrath.
The waters lashed, till like pot should boil
The sea, and fierce ARIoN paw th' up-cast spoil
America to thee belongs the praise
OF this great. crowning deed of modern days.
Twas FRANKLIN called the wonder from on high.
Twas MORSE who babe IL on mans errands fly
Twas he foretold its pathway meath the sea;
A daring FIELD fulfilled the prophecy!
Twas fitting that great, free land. like this.
Should give the Lightping's voice to Liberty,
Should wing the heralds of Earths happiness,
And sing, beneath the ever sounding sea,
The fair, the bright milenial days to be.
Now may, ere long, the sword be sheathed, to rust
The helmet laid in undistinguished dust
The thund'rous chariot pause in mid career,
Its crimsoned wheels no more through blood to
steer;
The red-hoofed stecd from fields OF death be led.
Or turned to pasture where the armies bled;
For Nation unto Nation soon shall be
Together brought in knitted unity,
And man be bound to man, by that strong chain,
Which, linking land to land and main to main,
! Shall vibrate to the voice of Peace, and be
A throbbing heart-strng of HUMANITY!
MARYsvILLE, Sept. 26th, 1858.
WHAT WOMEN DIp.-The Hesperian pays tho
ladies of Weaverville the following well-earned
tribute, which we submit without remark except
that they should not fail to obtain and read
publication, edited by woman OF so much re-
fnement
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we heard that the women Of Weaverville, them
selves, designed building church, and now wc
understand the glorious work Is finished. and al
ready have its walls been consecrated by Prayer
to the Living God and this is woman's work.
They carried around the subscription, contracted
with workmen, and absolutely built the church
by their own energies.
Where was the like ever heard of before? An
cient history affords no parallel, and modern his
tory--full as IL Is OF tales OF woman's herosm
urI ai.tl de Ina. h..
with her own hands, she HAS BUILT AN ALTAR rS-
TO Con. Surely the sight of that spre, pointing
heaven ward, will hll the mind Of every behold
er with reverence and holy aspirations; and @
the sounds of that church going bell falls upon
the ears of the multitude, they will listen to tho
call and reverently go forth to the house OF pray
err Our heart swells with emotion when
slider that to the altar that womens hands have
reared, will be brought young children to receive
the holy waters OF baptism Before this altar
shall be pledged the VOWS of loving hearts, and
here for many generations yet TO come shall kneel
hungering, thirsting souls, who shall he fed with
the bread wch is His body and freely given 10
drink of the Waters of Life "
SPECTRE OF THE SKY The Marysville Erprew
asks: Where, In the range Of the English Ian
guage, can so much eloquence and subllmity bo
found, in the same number of words. as in tn"
following allrsion to the comet now observable
in the heavens, by Col. E. D. Baker. In his late
Grafton in San Francisco,
1--WE see, in the predicted return of the rushing,
blazing comet through the sky, the march OF
heavenly messenger along Its appointed way and
around its predestined orbit. For three hundred
years he has travelled amid the regions of infinite
space. Lone, wandering but not lost he has
left behind him shining suns, blazing stars. and
cleaning consultations; now nearer to the Eter-
nal Throne, and again on the confines Of the
universe. He returns, with visage radiant and
benign; he returns, with unimpeded march and
way; he returns, the majestic, swift
electric telegraph of the Almighty, bearing upon
his flaming front the tidlngs that, throughout tho
universe, there is still peace and orders that, amid
the immeasurable domlnions OF the Great King.
His rule is still perfect; that suns, and stars. and
systems tread their endless circle and obey the
Eternal law"
THREE WONDERS IN THE SKY.-Onc evening
this week. we gazed upon three heavenly objects
that are not often seen together: the round, full
moon, yellow as gold and shorn OF all her tresser
just rising from her grey chambers behind tho
eastern hills; Venus, the evening star, the efful-
gent planet of love- gistenlng 10 the western sky
like huge diamond; and the comet--a Jewell
hilted sword with its point presented at the breast
of the great Bear-falling toward the horizon in
the northwest.
The Almighty afforded this item-a mere hint
of the magnihcenoe OF space, furnished, as that
Is with myriad many colored suns, with feecy
embryo worlds, with strange, erratic messengers
that do His will, with belted globes and zones Of
powdered stars, and astral systems numberless.
that move harmoniously around the centre Of al
infinite circumference which has no outer rim!
Hydraulic Press.
HIGH WIND Edmund Randolph recently made
a speech five days long In the u s. Circuit Court