The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-09-11


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rated and distinctly displsyed. shove a.,
there are forty-six muscles soma sns,-
omists make more-to extend. band. toc,
'clinch. unclinch, min. squeeze, and msie Ill
the movements which We can rive the arm,
and hand BY simply willing to do 50.
but IN order that the mind may hold posi.
tive control over those thirty differently fern.
ed bones By the forty six muscles, ofNhich
no two are alike, there arc long nerves rms
ming like teleeraphic wires from the arm nit
TO the smallest fbre Of every muscle. From
the plexns in the axilia, or srm-pit. the
nerves hold communication, through the in>
Prevention Of other nerve threads. with the
brain. One set OF nerves, or, rather, tele,
graph cords, convey messages to the fingers,
and another set send back word TO the brain
OF the reception of the order, and how bust.
ness Is transpiring.
Hesides these complications. 10 nonr;.b
and keep the several parts yitaliEed, there are
arteries, veins, lymphatics, sbserbeuts, ex.
halent tubes and tissues almost beyond emu
meration, TO keep the whole in working or
der. And when in good condition what pow
ert exerts 1t conveys an inefable lan>
guage, which even brute animals understand.
II menaces, invites, repels, or giyes oharsc-
ter and grandeur to the expressions Of IN or.
stor. II IS hammer, rice, a punch,
wrench, lever, . pry, force and mighty
power by (which the pyramids were reared,
eathedrals called into being from the hardest
quarries, and all that is amazing, surprising,
delicate. or calculated to advance civilization
in art, literature and science, is accomplished
by those wonderful instruments--the haude,
The FoRTs IN AND AROUND WAsnrsGTos.
The Washington correspondent Of the Cir.
cinnati Enquirer, says: The military depart
mens of the defenses of Washington is still
kept np in regular military style After the
close OF the war twenty of the thirty-tvo
forts by which the city is surrounded were
dismantled, but the forts themselves fearth,
works. were len standing. aud are generally
kept in state OF tolerabie preservation by
the owners OF the property on which they
stand. Many of them are quite large, with
high walls deep bitches, etc., and will re-
main for many years as mementoes Of fra
ternal strife which ii is to be hoped will new.
er be renewed. The remaining twelve forts,
the most important as defense, were retained,
and, with their full armament, are garrisoned
by detachments of regular troops. The
morning and evening gun from thsae forts is
distinctly heard III all parts OF the city, re-
mlpding ore Of the time when there was IN
almost continuous roar Of cannon from all
the thirtystwo forts, when artillery practice
was going on. The roads leading to these
forts constitute very pleasant drives from the
city and are much freauented. General
Canby was in command here until few DAYS
ago, when he was ordered to supercede Gen.
siokles, at Charleston He is succeeded here
by Gen. Emory. The number of troops in
and near Washington is about 200.
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MECHANICS WIVES. Speaking of the mid.
die ranks Of life, good writer observes:
There We behold woman in her glory; not
doll to carry silks and jewelry, not pups
pet to be dangled by tops, an idle to proiane
alteration, reverenced to day, discharged to-
morrow, always jostled out of place which
nature and society would assign her by sen.
suality, by conte mptf admired, but not re,
spected, desired, but not esteemed: ruling
by passion, not affection; ,mparting her
weakness and her consistency to the sex which
she would exalt, the source and mirror and
vanity. We see her as wife partakinR the
cares, and cheering the anxiety of hus,
band, dividing the labors by her domestic dill
igence, spresdings-her cheerfulness around,
for his sake sharing the decent rehnements
Of the world without being vain of them;
placing all her pride, all her Joy, all her hap.
piness in the merited appreciation of the man
she loves. AS mother, we find her the az
fectonate. The ardent nstructress Of the
children she has nurtured from their infancy;
training them mp to thought and virtue, to
meditation and benevot ence, addressing them
as rational beings, and preparing them to
become men and women in their turn. Me.
ehanics' daughters make the best wives in
me world.