Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1859-01-27
Indestructibilitv of Mind

Man, at the age Of twenty, retains not
a particle in which his mind was inves-
ted when he was born. Nevertheless
at the age of eighty years, he is con-
scious of being the same individual he
was as far back as his memory can go
that is to say, to the period when he
was four or five years old. Whatever
it be, therefore, in which his concious-
ness of fidelity resides, it cannot consist
of a material substance, since, had it
been material, it must have been mate
rally changed, and the source of iden-
tity must have been destroyed 1t is,
consequently, an ETHEREAL spirit, and it
remains the same throughout all the al
terations that can take place in the bo-
dy; it is not dependant on the body Tor
its existence; and is thus calculated to
survive the eyer-changing frame by
which it is encircled. The frame be-
comes stiff, cold and motionless, when
the circulation of the blood ceases; it
is consigned to the earth, and is sepa-
rated by insects into thousand other
forms of matter but the mind under
goes no such transformation it is unas-
sailable by the worms. If matter, sub
ject as it is to perpetual changes,
do not and cannot possibly perish,
how can the mind perish, which
knows of no mutation? There is no
machinery prepared by which such an
object can be accomplished; nor could
machinery be prepared for such pur-
pose, without an entire supervision OF
the laws of nature. But as these laws
emanated from the wisdom of the Crea-
tor, they could not be altered, much less
subverted, without invoking the incon-
sistency into which il is impossible for
Divine wisdom to fall.
The DEAD OF l858.-The list Of those
who saw the opening, but were not per-
mitted to come SO near the close of the
present year as we now do, includes
many distinguished names. Of the
warriors who have yielded to the foe
they have so often defied, we have that
right hand of Austrian despotism, the
veteran Radetzy, who fought through
the Titanic days of the first Napoleon
Lord Lyons, one of the bravest men
that ever trod British deck; General
Quitman, who was the first to carry our
country's flag through the battered
walls of Montery and Mexico; Gen.
Of Texas, who won renown
on the same field of service Gen. Ha
verlock, the hero of the Indian war
and Commodore Jones, whose exploits
are the pride of our navy. Of states
men, the list shows the indomitable and
patriotic Benton, the eminent Turkish
Minister Redschild Pasho, the learned
Judge Duer, and the pure-minded Ben
iamin F. Butler, Of New York. Of men
who rendered valuable services to our
country in different capacities, we may
mention Gem. Perry, who opened Japan
to our commerce, Judge Jay of New
York, Hon. A. P. Bagby of Alabama,
Isaac Newton, of steamboat memory
on the Hudson, and benevolent Foster
Hale, the inventor of raised letters for
the use Of the blind. The list of dis
women who have deceased
during the year comprises the incom-
parable actress, Rachel; the remark
able traveller, Ida Pfeiffer, and the
Queen Mother Of Dude. Art has lost
AIRY Schaffer, the painter; music has
lost the great Lablache, and American
theology Drs. Taylor and Tyler. OF
notabilities departed are the Rev. Eleaz-
er Williams, bred Scot, NJ. Soper, and
Robert Owen, socialist.
THE USE OF LITTLE TIME.-One of
the hours, each day wasted on trifes or
Incidence, saved and daily devoted to
is enough to make an
ignorant man wise in ten years-to pro-
vide the luxury of intelligence to mind
torpid from lack Of thought--to bright
en- up and strengthen faculties perish