The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-12

| On bust canvas is sketched the last IN
spiration of Scheffer's genius the last and the
completest revelation, in an incomplete form,
!. of Schefers individuality. Below is being en-
acted
| "--the riddle of this painful earth"
Martyrs, heroes, the good, the great the SUI.
ferers in the cause of God and man those who
| have loved who have hoped, who have striven.
who have aspired, lay crushed and FRUSTRATED
by death, by tyranny, by persecution, by ingrati.
tude, by injustice; they have drunk the cup OF
suffering to the dregs 1t is finished" and
they gave up the ghost. But not to lie long in
" cold obstruction" "Can these bones live ?"
Like the prophet of old, we witness their re.
suscitstion they wake, they move, power
not their own raises them on their feet; they
look upwsrds-eyes, hands, souls, are lifted
slowly, surely, irresistibly, they mount, they
mount to where the Saviour awaits them, and
gradually as they emerge from the vapors OF
blood and fire, and smoke, to where the eight
of His countenance" CLEANS on them, their
| faces change and calm, and grow serene, hope
fol- satisfied, radiant; and among archangels
and all the host of Heaven they learn the mean.
ing of the words " When Death shall be swal.
lowed up in Victory" Such is the plan of Les
DOuleuyes de la Terre, one of the greatest pic.
lures ever imagined by man.
three bales of cotton from New York, four
bales from Virginia and Maryland, and three
| from North Carolina. In 1884, the year after
the treaty which closed the Revolutionary war,
| and secured the recognition of American in.
| dependence by Great Britain, a vessel that car
ried eight bales of cotton from the United
States to Liverpool was seized in that port, on
the ground that so large a quantity of cotton in
a single cargo could not be the produce of the
| United States-so humble were the beginnings
of this now extended culture. The invention
of the cottongin by Whitney, in 1893, by
cleansing the cotton at a very cheap rate, most
| powerfully stimulated production, and became
an efficient cause of perpetuating Slavery in O
Republic. Mr.. Burn, in his valuable statistics
of the cotton trade, states that the cotton wool
imported into England in 1871 only amounted
to IA, 603 bales in 1856, it had reached the
enormous quantity of 1900 900 bales-an ex-
ample of extended commerce, in 30 compare
lively short period, without a parallel In
the same year, the consumption in France, in
the North of Europe, in other foreign ports,
and in the United States, amounted to
| 100000 bales, making the total crop of the
year 1855, 3,475,O00 bales, the produce Of
| slave labor.
| Many Of our readers are aware that Mr.. Rarey
has been trying his skill of late upon zebra
the property of the Geological Society of Lon
don and they are also, no doubt, aware that
| whatever success may have attended the few
| previous attempts made to subdue this wild
animal, they have never terminated in any
practical result. Whether, in the case of his
perfect subsection, the zebra could be made to
breed in this country, and be used for purposes
of draught, we are not prepared to say, bat the
experiment now tried upon the animal under
| &c ,pf L..
the power Of the horse-tamer in manner both
unnecessary and gratuitously difficult.
The animal in question was brought into the
enclosure al the Roundhouse in Kinnertou
street, London. He was saddled and bridled,
and carried groom upon his back, while Mr.
Rarey walked at his head. His action was
steady, and he appeared, for so far, to be under
control but q peculiar noise, which resembles
neither the neigh of the horse nor the BRAY of
the donkey, but is more ike the long, impatient
grunt of pig, pretty clearly told the spectator
that he was not yet quite tit for civilized life
In fact, his tanner says, that of all the animals
he ever had to deal WITH this zebra is by far the
most impracticabe; aud he thinks that he
might have operated in the same space of time
with more success upon tiger taken from a
cage than upon this most obstinate beast. Mr..
Rarey however, has done much-he has broken
the zebra Of biting. The animal now follows
his trainer about the enclosure, and makes no
attempt to eat him up. He, however, is very
active with his heels, and much watchfulness
SCENE to be necessary in order to avoid them.
AS proof of The value of the system, this ex-
pertinent, we have already said is interesting
but time expended upon so ferocious and obsti-
nate brute, who really has nothing in his
favor beyond the beautiful stripes Of his coat,
appears, for any useful purpose, to be quite
thrown away. Mr.. Rsrey is confident of sue
cess.
1t is said that Mr.. Levers transatlantic
scheme has quite csptivated several wealthy
spectators III Liverpool aud Manchester, and
that they have offered to join in it; but Mr. |
Lever is averse to receiving any assistance,
and has expressed his determination to carry
out his projects unaded. 1t is his intention
to give grand fete ON board the American |
Empire, and an excursion trip to Arran, on |
the 22d instant, when he will be honored with |
the presence of the Duke of Wellington, his |
Excellency the Earl of Eglnton, and Mr.. Oar. |
gan. If nothing interferes with his arrange. |
ments, Mr. Lever will soon after take the |
American Empire to the Thames, when, it is |
confidently expected, her Majesty will visit |
that vessel, as mark of her appreciation of
MIR. Levers enterprise.
a curious story Is current about Fuad ia. |
sha. 1t s said that the real cause of his in |
disposition is grief on hearing that his only |
daughter has been compelled to enter the Sui |
tan's harem. Fuad, who is more of an Euro |
pean than Turk, and who had given his |
daughter an excellent education, had hoped for |
her brighter fate than the satisfaction of the |
Padishah's " sensual phantasy."
Since 1850, the time occupied by steamers
crossing the Atlantic between Liverpool and |
New York is shortened by two days. The |
amount of fuel consumed by the steamships |
which perform the voyages 80 shortened, is twice
that which was required by the steamers which
ran between New York and Liverpool previous
to 1850.
Count de Laradel, the proprietor of the lakes
containing boracic acid, fer which Tuscany is
so celebrated, has just died at Florence. The
immense fortune he has left behind is the re-
salt Of the profits realized from the extraction
of the substance, for which he invented most
ingenious and economical contrivances.
An interesting communication on the Sub
Alpine tunnel has been received by the Acad-
envy of Sciences, from M. Menabrea, one of the
most distinguished members of the Piedmon-
tese Parliament 1t was stated, several months
ago. that the immense work of boring a tunnel
urder the Alps, between Modane and Bardone-
che, had com meneed. Two kinds of perfora-
tors, worked by condensed air instead of steam
are employed, one invented by Mr.. Bartlett, the