The Republican journal., 1869-08-19
will sweep Oh to the valley OF the ,lppe

it will sweep Oh to the valley Of the upper
Missouri.
Think Of it, young men of the East, you
who are measuring off tape for young ladies,
shut up in a store through the long and wearl-
some hours, barely earning your living.
Throw down the yardstick and come out here
if you would be men. Let the fresh breeze
fan your brow, take hold of the pillow, bend
down for q few years to hard work with
determination to win, and success will attend
your effort.
Is this letter too enthusiastic? VIII those
who read it say she has lost his head and
gone daft out there on the prairies?n Not
quite. | am an observer here, as have been
in other lands. | have ridden many times
over the great States Of the Northwest have
seen the riches Of Santa Clara and Napa west
Of the Sierra Ncvadas have looked out over
the meadows Of Yangtc-ze and the Nile, and
can say with honest conviction, that for one
who has had q home in New England, |
have seen nowhere so inviting a field as that
Of Nmnesota-none with greater undcyel-
oped wealth, none with such prospect of
quick development. CARLETON.
A WORLD ON FIRE.
On the 18th of May, 1866, q great contla-
grafton, infinitely larger than that of London
vi hONtON, WIS ttllHOulittN - USE lllC en-
preston OF u distinguish astronomer, u world
was found to be on fire. A star, which till
then had shone meekly and unobtrusively in
the Corona Borealis, suddenly blazed up in
to luminaly of the second magnitude In
the course Of three days from its discovery
in this new character by Mr.. Birmingham, at
Tuan, it had declined to the third or even
fourth order of brilliancy. In twelve days,
dating from its sppariton in the Irish heavens,
it had sunk TO the eighth rank, and it went ON
waning until the Goth of June, when it ceased
to be observable except through the mcdtln
of the telescope. This was a remarkable.
though certainly not an unprecedented pro
cecdmg on the part of a star; but one sinnu-
lar circumstance in its behavior was that,
after the lapse Of nearly two months, il be
gan TO blaze up again, though not with equal
ardor, and, after maintaining its glow for u
few weeks and passing through sundry
phases Of color it gradually paled its fires
and returned to its former insignifcancc.
How many years had elapsed since this
awful conllagration actually took place it
would be presumptuous to guess; but it mu st
be remembered that dcws from the heavens.
though carried by the tleetcst of messengers,
light; reach us long after the event has tram
spired, and that the same celestial courier is
still dropping the tidings at each station it
reaches in PAGES, until it sinks exhausted by
the length of its flight. Now when this object
was examined as it was promptly and eagerly
by Professor Miller. and Mr.. Higgins, they
found to their great wonder that it yielded two
spectra-the one imposed upon the other
though obviously independent. There was
the prismatic ribbon crossed by dark lines
which belongs to the sun and stars generally
but there was another in which four bright
lines figured; and there, accord ing to the
canona of Interpretation, previously mention
ed, indicated that some luminous case gaseS)
was also pouring out its light from the sur
face of the orb.
Two of the lines spelled out hydrogen in
the spectral language. What the other two
signied did not then appear, but, in Us much
us those four strcaks were brighter than the
rest of the spectrum. the source from which
they came must obviously have been more
intensely heated than the underly parts, or
photasphcre, from which the normal stellar
light proceeded. And as the star had sud
denly famed up, was it not natural SUPPOSE
ton that it had become cnwrappcd in burning
hydrogen, which, in consequence of some
great convulsion, had been liberated in pro-
digouS quantities, and then, combining with
other elements, had set this hapless world on
fire. In such Il fierce contlagration the COM
bustible gas would, therefore, begin to dc
cline. subject us in this case, to Il second cTup-
ton, which occasioncd the renewed outburst
al light on the goth of August.
BY such 4 catastrophe il is moi wholly irl
possible that our own globe may some tilno
be r;lyaged, for if a word from the Almighty
were to unloose for 4 few moments the bonds
of affinity which unite the clements Of water
OF the ocean on the land and the moisture
in the air-a single spark would bring them
together with 4 fury which would kindle the
funeral pyre OF the human race, and be fatal
to the planet and all the works that are there
in. 1t cannot but be a startling fact for US
that in Wonder doomed and distant world we
have, probably, seen in oNi own day a reali-
zation of the fearful picture sketchcd by l'e-
ter, ''when the heavens Cor atmospheric be
inc on fire shall be dissolved, and the Gle
mcnts shall all melt with tervent heat" And
il we regard it as the centre of 4 system, il is
impossible TO think without horror of the fate
of the numerous globes around il when over
whelmed by this sudden detuge OF light and
caoric. British Quarterly Review.
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