Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-07-27

stfument of this great NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the
torrid cline. children IF the burning vertical sun
Aad fitted them. BY centuries Of stern disciI hin,
fpr THE most noble work.
THE UsEs OF ASTRONOMY.
But for all the knlreds and tribes and tongues
OF men-each upon their own mcridlan--from tho
Arctic pole 10 the equator. from the equator Ia the
Antarctic pole the eternal sun strikes twelve at
noon, and the glorious consultations far up in the
everlasting belfries Of The skies chime twelve ut
midnight-twelve for the pale student over his
Pickering lamp; twelve amid the flaming q rlrs
IL Orion's bek II he crosses the meridian at thai
fated hour; twelve by the weary couch 81 Ian
gushing humanity; twelve in the star paved courts
of the Empyrenn; twelve for the heaving tides Of
the ocean; twelve for the weary nrm Of labor;
Twelve for the toiling brain: twelve for tbs watch
ing, waking. broken heart; twelve for the meteor
which blazes for n momcnt and expires, twelve
for the comet whose period is measured by sentu
RES twelve for every substantial, for every iinns
mary thing, which exits in the sense, the lntr-
leet. or the fancy and hch the speech or thought
of man. at the given meridian. refers To the laI.e
of time.
Yes, noble Calico, thou art right: r pm 81
muore. 1T does move" Bignts may make ilee
recant II; but it moves nevertheless. Yes, the
earth moves.and the planets maye-and the Nigh.
'ty waters move-and the great sweeping tides oi
mir move-nnd the empresof men move-aad the
world of though. moves, ever onwnri and upward
TO higher facts aud builder theories. The Inaui.i
,ion may seal thy lips but they can no more stop
the progress of the great truth programmed by
Coprrncus. and demonstrated by thee, than they
can stop tho revolving earth
Close now, venerable sage, TINT sghlcss. fear
full eve; it has seen what man never saw hciorc;
il hns seen enough. Hang up that poor little Nv
glass; il has done it's work, Not llc,.chril, nus
Ro-se have comparatively done more. Franc's-
cans and Dominicans deridc their discoveries now,
but the time will come when from two hundred
observatories of Europe and America The glori"ns
artillery oil science shall nightly assault tho skis,
but they shall gain no conquests in those Clutter
ing fields before which thine shall be iorgotten.
Rest in peace, great Columbus OF the heavens, like
him scorned, prosecuted broken hearted. In 9TH
or ages in distant hemis heres. when tho yoiarics
of science with solemn acts vt consecruion. shall
delicate their stately edifices to the cnu.e Of know
edge and trnh, thy name shall be mentioned witt
honor.
had occasions few weeks sincs, t, tnke the
early train from Providence to Boston: and tor
this purpose rose ut two o'clock IN the morning
Everything around WIS wrapt IN dni kne-- and
hushcd in silence, broken only by what seemed at
that hour the unenrhly clank and rush 81 the iran
1t WAS mild, serene. mid summer night. he ky
WAS without n cloud. the winds were whist. The
moon, then in tho last quarter, had u.t ri,cn.nod
The stars shonc with spectral lustrc hu, litlc al
fected by her presence. Jupi.er, tw" hours h,h,
was the herald OF tho day; the Pleiadcs Just
above the horz,n shed their sweet innuco,c
in the east: Lyra spatkled near the zenith,
from the naked eye IL the south; tie Steady
pointers, far beneath the pole, looked meckly
up from the depths of the north to their so,c-
reign.
Such was the glorious spectacle n, entered Che
ra A. "a nrncpplpu Tho IimiI !, tl
twilight became moro percepthc til, intense
blue 81 tho sky began To soften. tho smaller stnrs.
like those of the Plci.d meiel to- ether: bui
the bright consultations of the west nhd north rc-
NAMED unchanged. Steadily the w,ndrons trans
fguratiJn went ON. Hands Of aueei- lidlcu f"un
mortal eys shifted the scenery 81 the hca>cu>
the glores of night dissolved into the elorie. g.,
the dawn. Tho blue sky now turned more >oltl,
gray the great watch stars shut up heir hlv
eyes the east began 10 kindle Fnht streakS
of purple soon blushed along the sky the nh c
celestial concavc filed with the inflow ing tiIcs
Of the morning light. which rume puuaing down
from above in Que great ocean of radIcncc ill nt
length as we reached the Blue llls a FLASH of
purple fire bnzed out ir"m above The horizon aud
turned the dewy tenr drops OF flower anu leaf iul.
rutirs and diamonds. In few second, the eve
lasting gates Of the morning were thrown wije
open. and the Lord Of tho day arrnycl IN glrric.
100 severe f'r the gaze of man, logan hls course,
But light in the astronomers accept time he
eors to his delightful ahors when the busy wuili
goes In its rest. A dark pail sprends over the re-
sorts Of active lie: terrestrial objects hill nrd
valley, and rock and stream, and the noles If nc,
idlsapf ear but the curtain is drnwn up which
concealed tho heavenly hosts. There they shine
and there they move ns they moved nrd .hunc +,
the eyes Of Newton and Gulilea, ol X, pier nuI
coecrnicus, oi Ptolemy and llipparchus YES, ~
they moved aud shunc when the morning stnls
sang together and all the sons oi God shouted Tor
joy. All has changed on earth lut the surlou.
heavens remain unchanged The plough pts,e>
over the site Ct mighty CITIES; the homes Ut pow
erful nations are desoatc; the languages th,v
spoke are forgotten but the stars that shone /
them are shining for Us the same rrtlpsrs RAJ,
their steady cycle; the same equuoxcs call out
the f,wers of spring and senl the hu>lanlmnu
to the harvest; the sun pauses either tropic rs
he did when his course began /; and sun aud moon,
and planet and satellite, and star and constcin,.
ton and galaxy. sill bear witness to the power,
the wisdom. aud the love, which placed them in
the heavens, and uphold them there.
IllsroRY OF THE UNITED STATES, from the niscov.
cry oi the American Continent. By GE,RGr
BANCROFT. B,ston; Little Brown q Co 1860
We have received from the same publishers.
the 9Th and 9Th volumes OF this splendid work in
uniform sty lie and binding with the preceding W
I'uhce' ~ tiIo>c Nho iiHNe IcitN Tue NIS tHlbll-
Giles of ll,ldreh we need not say that il is abso-
lutely refreshing to turn to the brilliant, spark
ling pages OF Bancroft. where the details If what
might sometimes prove to lie dull narrative are
relieved by the graces Of cocution aud the most
polished diction. We present two specimens
from the 9th volume of the work the first. not so
much for it's surprising beauty, as for great
truth it enuuciates, which, it would be well for
those who are in the constant habit Of depreca-
ing the condition of the enslaved African. and of
Imngnit wing the danger To which the S.n h ia OK.