Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-11-06
WHOLE NO. 2, ,345.
New York Evening Post.

: AeEOnO bnc Sty4.
New York Evening Post.
In all the accounts given to us o
J the country beyond the Styx b,
, poets and seers there Is a certaiI
vagueness, a certain lack Of exacti
tude with reference to details, which
may be said to unfit existing trans
stygian geographical literature f0l
the uses of this realistic, scientific
fact-loving generation. The fullest
accounts given to us by the Greek
writers on the subject stop short al
the further side of Charon's ferry,
so far, at least as accurate geOgraph-
ical details are concerned, and no
later writers have done better. Mil
ton, indeed, set forth conjectural
cosmOgOny which Professor Mason
has .elucidated in his mastery way,
but Milton did not offer that as any
thing more than a poets concep-
tion.
1t is gratifying, therefore, to find
in pamphlet just published in
Washington some authoritativelyI
revealed details Of Hadean geogra-
ply, which rest upon the authority
of no less persons than Sir Isaac
Newton, Lord Bacon, Judge Ed
monds, William Penn and our own
Benjamin Franklin and George
Washington, all speaking through
Mr.. Seth briggs.
1t appears that the country be-
yOnd the river is divided very much
as our terrestrial globe is, and that
in nomenclature it follows the earth
ly pattern with a persistence which
does little credit to the originality
of its inhabitants. There is a Lon
don there, with population of one
million souls, but this is scant, in
asmuch as the English territory OF
which it is the capital numbers for
ty millions of people. Perhaps we
are to infer from this fact that the
city people have enough of metro
pOlitan life on earth and prefer a
country residence in their disem-
bodied state.
Spirits from the United States go |
to the fifth sphere, which is four
millions of miles from the earth. |
One thing which puzzles us about /
our future residence is that although |
it is sphere it is described as 1900 |
miles long and 1900 miles broad
and spheres of that peculiar shape
are nowhere described in those
mathematical works with which
we are familiar. The part of this
shaped sphere which be-
longs to the people of our country
is 200 miles square. 1t was first
cOlonized under Washington's lead
ership in the year 1850, and it now
thirty millions of inhabi-
tants. 1t has cotton and linen fac
tories employing eight thousand
and cotton grows with
out cultivation as Indian corn does.
There is a silver mine, and silver
dollars are coined by the departed
fathers, but they have so far adopt
ed modern notions Of finance that
they have paper money also. Let
us hope that it is better secured than
was the paper money that Wash
Ington and Franklin knew on earth.
The New Workers, we are told,
have "taken the lead" i'm the mat
Ter of building cities, but strangely
enough they have not managed to
make their own city pre-eminent
N size as they did on earth. The
duplicate New York has a popula-
ion OF only 1900 persons, while
he New Middletown, Connecticut,
las as many. Philadelphia falls
however, with 5000; New
BORT has $4,000, and other cities APP
1ear with populations varying from
900 to 5000 each.
Washington, it seems, had a rath-
n uncomfortable time since he left
story that he told to Mr.. briggs he
irst went to a place six millions of
niles from the earth, a diGtance +,
which, he assures Mr.. briggs, car
led him entirely above the clouds
and remained there fifty years
clothing or food, thereby
DIR. Tanners fast and
greatly exceeding that performance.
That was like Washington. He al I
ways did excel ordinary men in [
whatever he undertook. After that
experience Washington emigrated,
md "was assigned four acres of {
and to make a living FROM" At
his point the father of his country
puzzles us little. He has lived on
his small farm for thirty years, he :
avs, "without house, clothing, or {
ood," and we cannot guess in what 1
way he has 'lnade living" on az
arm which yields nothing. If he {
an live without house, clothing or
ood we do not understand what
reed he has of farm "to make a
living FROM" and as he was reput-
,d on earth to be rather thrifty
ultivator of the soil his utter fail
ire as an agriculturist in a new
which produces cotton and
indian corn without cultivation at
III is inexplicable. Pehaps it will
,e safer to pursue this investigation
10 further. 1t tends to perplex and I
sewilder one.