Year: 1859




tLet us trace the history of a single pine tree of
t. oolite, as indicated By its petrited remains
His gnared and twisted trunk once anchored its
roots amid the crannes of precpice of dark grew
sandstone, that rose over some nameess stream of
the Oolite, in what is now the North of Scotland
The rock, which, notwithstanding its dingy color
was deposit of the lower old red sandstone formed
number Of the fish beds Of that system beds that
were charged then, as now, with numerous fossils,
as strange and obsolete in the creation Of the Oote
as in the creation which at present exists 1t was
a firm, undestructible stone, covered by thin
barren soil and the twisted rootlets of the pine, re-
Jected and thrown backward from its more solid
planes, had to penetrate into its narrow assures for
straitened and meagre subsistence.


The tree grew but slowly; in considerably more
than half century it had attained to a diameter
OF little more than ten inches, foot over the soil
and its bent and twisted form gave evidence of the
life Of hardship to which it was exposed 1t was.
IN truth picturesque rag of a tree, that for the
hrst few feet twisted itself round like an overborne
wrestler struggling to escape from under his enc
my, and then struck out an abrupt ANGLE and
stretched itself like bent arm over the stream
Inc seasons passed over 1t; every opening spring
gave lts lIlnge OF tcnderer green to its Spiky fU
age, and every returning autumn saw it shed its
cones into the stream below. MANY delicate fern
sprang up and decayed around its gnarled and fan
tastc root, single leaved and simple of form like
the scolopeldria of our caverns and rock recesses
or tretted into many slim pnnatc leaflet like the
minute mGlden-hdir or the graceful lqdy fern. Fly-
ing reptiles have perched among its bouphs; the
hght-winged dragon-tiy has parted on wings of
gauze through the opening of its lesser twigs; the
tortoise and the Lizard have hvbernatcd during
the chils of winter amid the hollows of its roots
for many years it formed of the minor features
in wild and picturesque scene, on which human
eye ne er looked; and at length, touched By decay
its upper branches began to wither and bleach
white in the winds of heaven; when shaken by
sudden hurricane that came roaring adown the ra-
vine, the of rock in which it had been anchored
gave way, and, bearing fast ammed among its roots
a nr1t tnf fI,T iot Er.1 Al.
and from which we read portion of its story, it
was precipitated into the foaming torrent. Dancing
on the eddies, or lingering amid the pools or shoot
ing arrow-like adOwn the rapids, it at length finds
its way to the sea; and after sailing over beds OF
massive coral-the ponderous hastrea and more
delicate ThdmRdstred-and after disturbing the Email
losaur and the Baemnite in their deep green haunts
1t sinks, saturated with water, into bed Of
ceouS mud, to make its appearance after long ages,
in the world of mana marble mummy of the old
oolite torests-and to be curousy interrogated re-
garding its character and history"


The "ARABIAN NGGHrs" AT FoRTy AND FornTrev
"A quarterly reviewer thus compares the effect of
these tales upon the man of forty, with the marie
charm they exercised npon the boy of fourteen:


"lo see these things as they were to US, must
turn back in imagination to the gates of life and
recall the freshness of our youth. Later on in
life, the most unlimited accumulation of precious
stones loses its power of producing an effect and
no reverses OF fortune are extraordinary enough
to startle us. The suddenly revealed treasures
the gorgeous palaces with doors of sandal-wood
tretted ceilings, and jewelled couches, the high
bosomed virgins, the obedience of the genii, and
the state of kings-these things come not near u.s.
We have Tossed the sublime egotism of our early
years, and acknowledged that such splendid posses
sions are too good for US. Fate has already as
signed us our moderate share, and set with some
sufficient detnteneSs the limits of ambition and
our hopes. Who are we between thirty and forty
that we should pull up a fat stone with ring
in it, and find steps leading to cavern stored with
the precious rarties of an Eastern fancy wake in
the night, and trcmble with sweet amaZement to
behold the fair paragon of China sleeping bv our
sideP Enough for us If we sold out before the fall
OF cOnsOls, and il the single partner to whom we
limit our admiration of female beauty, preserve
moderate share of those fair proportions and serene
disposition with which she adorned the early days
OF courtship. But there time with US when
the arabian Nights were not so much story as
dream, when, with the same dim miugIiug of den-
titles which have sometimes in Sleep. il is not
Aladdin, but oursef and yet not ourself but Alad-
din, who gazes on the iewe-beariug fruit-trecs
marries the Sultan's daughter and controls the re-
sources of the lamp; we suffer and triumph with
Sinbad, taste vicissitudes with Camayalzaman
enjoy the shrinking fonduess of Zabube, travel
upon the enchanted carpet, or mount the ivinr
horse. To read of these things was sort of intel
leetual hasheesh-an Intoxicating stmulant to that
early imagination which does not consciously sub
due other things into its own forms, but delights
to lose itself IN suggestions from without"


CRICKEr.- ELEVEN OF ENGLAND rs. TWENTY-FIVE
OF AMERICA.-The cricketers of this country are
patiently awaiting the arrival of the "Al England
EleYen,' who are expected here about the com
mencement of next month. The arrangements are
concluded to the satisfaction of all parties concern
ed, and we have no doubt that the cricket match
which will be played in this country and in Canada
will be the most interesting ever known The
Americans in this match will have to exert all their
cricketng power and skill, if they hope to succeed
against their powerful opponents, who are the
plckpQ plnVnD
we have before stated their first match will be pay-
ed in Canada. This instead of detractinr from the
interest of the match, will most asSuredlv be in
creased, each game is played and the result
known. Some idea may be formed of their charac-
ters as PLAYERS which the English Eleven sustain
when we state that in match played between the
All England Eleven, and twenty-five of the South
Club, in Lincolnshire, some years ago, Parr the
then greatest batman that ever lived, scored from
his own bat l24 while the twenty two of the South
with celebrated batter and bowler from Sussex
given in) made only lis. Their bowlers are also
picked from the best in England, and their fielding,
Wlcket-Eeeplng, and long-stopping, are seldom
equalled, and never exceed.


NOVEL ADvERrIsEMENT.-Th most remarkable
among the many remarkable advertisements which
aaly ytall under notice in hundreds OF exchanges
from every section of the country, is the one De
low


ga pew is for sale in the Westinghouse OF the
hrst parish in Amherst. The man that owns the
pew owns the right of a space Just as long as the
pew is from the bottom oftbe meeting house to the
top or roof and he go as much higher as he can
get IL and man reDept w and be- good m man he will Go @
to heaven if God lets him go. Let man start from
the right place, let him go right, keep right, do
right and he will go to heaven at last and my pew
is as good place to start from as any pew in the
Westinghouse"


DELIBERATE REPUDIATIoN.-The vote of New Lon
don, Conn. on the subject of repudiating certain
bonds of the city in aid of Railroad, stood 42l in
favor of the resolution, and 494 against it-a ma
jority of 73 in favor of Reputation. This result is
a disgrace to the people producing it, and we had
hoped better things when they actually came to
vote upon the subject,-Bostoa Courier.