The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-08-19
rlne Cable OF the world.


? A living nerve has been unwouud from the An
b glo-Saxon heart and tied in u true love knot be-
tween the Old World and the New; Time turns
loiterer on its westward way, aud Sea, the narrow
selvedge of the globe
When tho Crystal Palace was opened in London
like great eye, its ratna painted with all forms
, of art aud science and industrial skill everywhere;
from the marble that only waited Divinity smile,
to kiudle into life, sing Memnouian, aud bid hu
manity make room for it in heart aud household,
20 the tall corn, that had waved its green sabres
and saluted prairie morning; from the India lace,
the woven air Of Dacca, that ono nights dews
could hide to the American canvas that stands
unrent, like II sea- birds wing, in the pipngs of
Cape Horn: when that great eye OF the laboring
Age thus flied with its shapes of beauty there
came to 1t IN sealed case, HANDFUL OF FLOWERS,
plucked from the bosom of the New, and sent all
fresh and fragrant as they were, II token to the
Old
We remembered what long years OF experiment
tai toll, alternately darkcued by defeat and bright
cned by glimmers of success, that little gift had
cost; what earnest workers, what horizon makers,
had died without the sight; what mines had been
wrought what !orgeS glowcd, what chemists stud
led, what Fultons trumphed; and of all these,
those western flowers were token, The leaves must
tnde, they said, but can we narrow space and lead
captive time, and lay them blooming yet within
that English heart beyond the sea?
1t seemed to us theu-that nosegay--likc a.
fresh thought, borne over the waters even as the
olive branch of DID, and like that branch, II token
of love and peace.
IL was bringing near OF the ends of the earth;
it was flower that had grown beside u kindred
SaXon's door; we were ueghbors; we were friends.
1t seems to US now-thlS Oceanic relegraph-a
kindred triumph though a closer bond. There
has been II wedding in the English household, and
; this morning the Old World woke like Adam, with
bride, aud found the New World sleeping by
: his side
To-day, we hope, but if not to-day, it not al
ready, then some other day, there shall come from
the court of ST. James, to the President oil this
Republic, the pleasant voice of woman: it shall
) bid him and it, GOOD morning and good NOR.
row!-a wish for now aud hope for then; it
shalt be the voice of Englaud's royal lady; and
then face to face in that sweet presence, as earn
est as prayer the President shall answer for him
self and for us, "God save the Queenr
:, And beyond the golden mantle of our western
noon, those words, the greeting and response shall
go down into the deep dry-shod rs went the Pill
| grms guided by the God of the Clcfed Sea; and
they shall como up, here and there, from the sublime
baptism with all the freshness and Freedom of II
spoken answer
And this is no achievement TO make mere won.
der; within the sea, set like precious writing in
a mighty emerald is one line more of the earthly
grow invetcrate now; no time for weaving dark
Suspicious web; no space to make the warm word
cold The azure curtain hung SO low between two
Continents, that its folds were trailing on the deep
a radiant hand has put aside, and IN the blue en-
brazurc like two friends, they stand and whisper
round the world.
Aud when We think Of those weary tossings on
the winter sea, month after month; when We re-
member how like the " Ancient Mariner" they
hung for hreathess weeks amid the summer cams.
that lay upon the waters like the Savior's ''peace
on stormy Galilee,
I Day after day. day after day.
They stuck nor breath, motion;
AS idle IA a painted ship
u Upon painted ocean,"
, when we think what they were bringing; some
times words OF cheer from friend to friend; moth
cr calling to her wandering son; pyodigals cry
OF II will 20 to my father syllables OF love and
hope; bread for the starving; work for the waiting;
I when we think ol those tomb-like gufs Of broad,
dumb days that lay between the uttered hope and
d the hungry heart, and then turn to these little
= families Of words that shall walk undismayed
a through the wilderness of the ocean plateau, in
J. the time OF heart beat we give Fancy iurlough
for here is fact whose far flung shadow it had
never painted.
The old Northron caught the Morning by its
wings and wresed from it the time and secret oI
its flight; Gaic hand stayed it as it flashed from
Il human face en- route for heaven again. and 10
upon the metallic plate, the counterfeit present
ment," an Engshmpn locked it up as he express
= ed it, in cell of iron, and the locomotive darted
i, like shuttle through the iron loom; an American
kindled glowing soul within the ribs Of oak, and
- sent the steamship painting round the world
= Greater than all these Is that American Prone
theus who brought down fire from heaven, aud
C lived to tell the story. What shalt we say Of hin
then, who played schoolmaster to those Ioud-voced
pF n,At thn tl,a l,,
|! wherein one Shakespeare wrote, one Milton sang
- who baptSed them in the Atlantic, by an Anglo
Saxon name, that they may go speaking forever
such words as hearth and heart, as home, hope
aud heaven.
A CABLE il is indeed! Science stood by and the
:, fingers Of hmity twisted every strand, To it is
Il attached the best bower" let down deep in the
hearts Of two great Nations, aud Its ukes arc EN-
e bedded among their living hbrcS And now swuua
it side by side in middle sea, The two great "Shp
Of State For naught that is ever named among
o men save Truth and Liberty, let that anchor bt
i weighed, bat Mother and Daughter be willing con
q sorts while lrom age to age the Muse of Histor,
d shall pass the words, by those books of hers
l. The who speak aloud for future times hear"
!, NOR YET, NOR YET, HAS THAT BEST BOWER coMi
II HoME"--Chicago Journat Aug 6.
p A SHoEMAKEn's PRoMsG--The Kinderhooi
5, Rough Notes tells the following about a shoe
!. maker who plies his awl in that village:
II Once upon time he promised to have apair o
boots finished at specified day for Ey Presiden
e Van Buren,, but failed TO have them when called
II for In the meantime the EX-Presdent started iol
g Europe, and was gone three years Upon his re-
d turn he called for his boots, and tod they were
: finished, 1oith the exception Of freeing om
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d "OFF WITH THE On Love And Ok WITH Tui
'e Ngw. The workmen engaged in eXcayaling
{, cellar in the rear of the Tract Society building
d Combi Thursday, uncovered IA tom5slone, date,
c 1916 the romance connected with which is this
Ell A young man employed in the vicinity at tina
Al time, was deprived by death of The young ady t,
Is whom hs was altached aud to commemorate he
S, memory caused this tombstone to DC made, anc