Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-09-10

! the fishes, with distendcd fms, pause
/ in their course and stare at it v ith
great google eyes, shocked at this
invasion of their special province by
a race Of outsiders who in this last
FIELD of speculation have gone into it
little DEEPER than ever the enter
prise of man carried him before but
the favorite theme for the artists seems
to he the landing of the cable in Trim
ity Bay, with portraits Of Mr.. Field,
Capt. Hudson, and others, all perfect
ly correct-copied, from Harper's
Weekly and Frank Leslie, who deal
only in verities LIT were vain for
any one less than reporter to attempt
| a description of the thousand and one
contrivances to do honor to the great
event, and also to create little pri-
vate thunder for the good of trade.
The most profitable dodge is that Of
exhibiting pieces of the cable itself,
and retailing it out at dollar an
inch or, cut up into short sections,
for charms" with small gold rims,
at FIVE dollars each. A very fair spec
ulation, considering the price at which
they bought it-sixty cents foot !.....
4 grand torchlight procession, and
general light-up, will close the pro-
ceedings of the day; including, also, q
grand pyrotechnic display by Prof."
Jackson.
We are celebrating q very great
event, truly, but there are few of those
who join in the general enthusiasm
who will estimate it by the proper
standard. Not one in every thousand
looks upon it as intended for any other
purpose, or capable of attaining any
other end, than the uses of commerce
aua diplomacy. do not presume, CT
course, that it is to be USED in any
other way, but its mission will be none
the less effective because carried on
silently, while it is answering the end
for which it was designed by those
who had the boldness to conceive, and
the nerve and perseverance to carry
it to completion.
The telegraphic column Of an eve
ming paper which has just been put
into my hand, contains a despatch
from London THIS MORNING! To one
who has toiled across that long track
from shore to shore, and counted the
weary miles as they we're passed over.
and seen old ocean in its widest
grandeur, the thought is almost over
whelming. For more than SIXTY
DAYS AND NIGHTS, | have been on the
Atlantic in one trip from England to
America; and yet, at four o'clock to-
day, am reading despatch penned
in London not sIX HOURS ago!
In the midst of all the bold flights
of eloquence which have been employ
ed to describe the great event and its
consequences, it would be presumption
in me to stop for a moment to give you
my speculations, and indeed the ina
ginatlon Of any man must fall short
Of just comprehension of what it is
going to perform but can not help
at least throwing up my hat with the
rest though | can not begin to describe
my feelings.
When the whole race shall have
been united in one great community;
when the knowledge of the Lord
shall cover the earth :" when the man
of sin shall no longer reign, and the
groans of the oppressed shall have
ceased We shall have some data on
which to found an estimate of the i'm
portance of consummation which
has been so ''devoutly wished"
While the savans of the old world
the continental world-fret their
brains to produce substitute for the
diamond, and are content to employ
their capital in the preservation of
crumbling frescoes and collections of
smoky pictures while they rest their
greatness on the building of mighty
docks, and magnificent palaces, where
luxury and pride produce effeminacy,
and crime let it be still
the object Of the Anslo-Saxon to push
forward these mighty works for which
he has been so distinguished, and which
are every day bringing our race nearer
10 the great poin. of complete emaE-
cipation. Yours. S.H.F.