Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-08-26

GREEN The DfVER.-1he New YORK
Courier and Inquirer gives the following
narrative of the decent Of Green the diver to
the Atlantic, lying at the bottom of Lake
Erie. Poor Green! his daring was too Sc
verely punished.
Mt many mouths since a vessel was lost
in a water whose depths al the place of the
laundering " : lat feet. There was a por-
ton Of the cargo so val able hat it became
advisable to use every effort possible TO re-
cover it. Twas scarcely possible to do any
thing. 1t was far beyond all ordinary means
of human action. il might be reached though
it would be a bold attempt by the diver. He
was sought and found and a recompense
which on land would be a ~pyincely one, was
guaranteed to him. Men will do more than
s.does become a man. for rich reward. 10
feed him with air, a powerful pump, worked
by six men was brought, and a ose double
strengthened, was made. Allthe appliances
that the mo t liberal management could sug-
gest were ready for his aid. He was surround
ed by intelligence and courage and humanity.
He dared the deep water once, twice, seven
times. The men at the brake ofthe air pump
wrought with the might of earnest strength
They fed the vital current to the bold diver
and he had the courage to trust them. Their
work was his breath. When he came up be
told the gentleman that superintended the
trial, that the air at that depth. a5 the ma
chinery forced it to him. cracked and hiased
like the FIRING Of hot fat, and that every
movement of the pump fell on his breast like
the blow of a crow bar! You go down nc
more fervme,'' said the kind hearted gentle
men WHO stood by him, as he came on deck
In the intensity of his experience, this tes
daring man hesought for the opportunits fol
another trial. The gentleman refused, bu
the diver insisted on going for himself. HI
went and returned a paralyxed man, and jus
holding life now crawls along. The clare
bottle at his girdle, corkcd tightly and embty
was filled when he came back, though TIN
cork was not disturbed. The water hadfor
ced itselfbeyond power of cork or glass.
HOLD ON.-Hold on to your tongue whel
you are just ready to swear, lie, speak harshly
or say any improper word. Hold on to you
hand when you are about to strike, pinch
scratch, steal, or do any disebedient or i'm
proper act. Hold on to your foot when yol
are on the point of kicking, running ava.
from duty, or pursuing the path of error
shame or crime, Hold ON to your tempe
when you are angry, excited or imposed upon
or others are angry about you. Hold on t
your heart when evil associations seek you
compaay, and invite you to jein them in thei
games, mirth and revelry. Hold On to you
good name at all times, for it is more valua
Bile to you than gold, high place or fashiona
BILE attire; Hold on to the truth, for it vii
serve you we'll and do you good through life
and through eternity. Hold on to your vii
tue it is above price to you in all times an
places. Hold on to your good character, 70
it is and ever will be your best wealth.
PoyERTY.-Start not at the labor door
of honest poverty it is to poverty that W
are indebted for the discovery of a new worlG
it made Franklin q Philosopher, Hogarth
painted, and Napoleon q eonqperer of Ell
rope. The. mightiest minds that ever as
tonished the civilized world, were raised i
the vale of poverty that was their incer
tive to act, their stimulous to glory and in
mortality. Pine not, then, your lot if you b
poor and y~irtnous q large fortune to a gid
dy youth is the most painful judgment an il
dulgent heaven ean infiet upon man. "'Th
inordinate love of wealth, so fatally preyalen
in modern time, when with a great majority
riches are a test of responsibility, and cas-
a tokeasbf worth and virtue, a cloak to scree
from crime-is worse than blear-eyed famine
more fatal than tKe fostering fold of q purpl
pegtilepce. Mourn NOT, then, that you ar
poor-push YOUR faculties into a holier spher
and reap abundant stores Of mental gain i
the extended field Of an enlightened mind.