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T II E HI EC3IB A WIC -A ftTS.
We make the following extracts from an Address
recently delivered by , EWABtf . ErEiifctfirvEsq,,
befitte the" Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic As-;
sociaiion, " held in Boston, and most earnestly do-'I
wt reccommend every young mechanic ihti whoe
hnnds this sheet nray fall to give it a careful perus
al. It is a glowing picture of the stienees and me
chanic arts, such a one as no mechanic can read
1 1 . -
withdut feeling justly proud of his profession.
Tirhe was when the calling of a mechanic was
deemed disreputable; when he. was sneered at by a
; ljrtan'orgtfns and . enses, -uriaTded. by the
arts,- the 'savage greatly excels the rjnos t
Improved civUized Tn.an. ' Thtrs mar with
one set of glasses, penetrates thfe secret
'organization of tlie minutest insect or plant,
uarKs the rise of the sap m the capillaries
6f a Wade-bf grass,cbunts the ptilsalions
of the heaft'in r an animaTcuie a Irivndred
limes smaller than the head of a pin t whiles
with ariotKer set of glasses he fills the heav
ens w ith a hundred raiUioris of starSv In vis-4
ible to the' naked eye. "r6 the savagcthe
wonders of the microscope sid theptetes
cope are unknown ; bathe can, by traces
Avhich etude our keenest vision, tell wheth
er it is ttie bot OF friend , or enemy which
has passed over the grass before his tent in
the silen of night;5 and he can fitid' his
way through the pathless and tangled for
est without a iuide. CTirilized tnah! with
his wheels and his steami runs a race with
the windsf but, left to the natural force, oT
his members, soon sinks from fatiguelie"
indefatigable saVage,- ignorant of- artificial
conveyance, buttlres, on foot, iheiound and
the horse ; and, while the famished childjpf
civilized life faints at the "delay of his; -periodical
meal, a three day s hunger makes no
impression on the iron frame of the poor
Indian. Civilised man, although surroun
ded by his arts;-with enjoy merits that seem
to render life a hundred fold morerccious,
ir.., nr;otnrifv . Knt thanks tn an enlightened
luium.g r t ,1 1 - 'i.,l-A T UZ-
n ... .1 urn tiirnr, uru in i rr . i uiir-Liiii 11 111 inn i it
ace. that time is no more ; the genius at franfchn . , - , ' - c V1'--
h ' . ... u I c - cious hours; and may well envy the physi-
nd Fulton has elevated the mechanical profession I . . , J j , , J .
ana r uuuu n r i ca training which enables his hardv broth-
to a height in the moral and intellectual world which
any class may be proud to attain. , -
Maysville Advocate,
" Man, with his unaided strength, can
lift but one or two hundred weight, and that
but for a moment; with his pulleys and
windlasses, he sets an obelisk upon its
base, a shaft of solid granite a hundred
feet hio-h. The dome of St. Peter's is
one hundred and twenty feet diameter; its
sides are twenty-two leetm thickness, .and
er of the forest, when occasion requires, to
bid defiance, night after night, to the ap
proach of weariness.
But this superiority which the savage
possesses over the civilized man,-- irt the
discipline of some of the natural capacities
them 'side by' side, and -" cautiously cidss!
them over" with' magieal dexterity, till
they .form a compact tissue? covered withT a
$oft down and a glossy lustre; smooth; im
pervious, flexible, in quantity sufficient'to
clothe a family for a year, :with less ex
pense ofhumaii labor, than- Would be re
quired to dress a single skin. ;
Consider the -steam engine. It is com
puted that the steam po we of Great Britain,
not including the labor economized by the
enginery jt puts in motion," performs annu
ally the work of a thousand men. In other
words the steam engine adds to the human
population of Great Britain another population,-one
million strong. Strong it may
well be cailedi What a population ! so
curiously organized, that they need neith
er luxuries nor Gomfort,-ithat they have
neither vices nor sorrows-subject to an
absolute control without despotism, labor
ing flight or day for their owners? without
the crimes and woes of slavery ; a frugal,
population, that wastes nothing and con
sumes nothing improductively ; an orderly
population, to which mobs and "riots arc
unknown; among which the peace is kept
.1. x !
wuaoui police, courts, prisons, or bayonets ;
and annually lavishing the products of one
million pairs of hands, to increase the com
forts of the fifteen or twenty millions of the
human population. And vet the steam en
gine, which makes this mighty addition to
the resources of civilization, is but a piece
of machinery. You all have seen it, both
in miniature and on a working scle, at the
halls. In the i miniaturf? model, (construct
ed by Mr. JNewcomb Ot Salem,) it can be
moved by the breath of the most delicate
pair of lips in this assembly ; and it could
easily be constructed of a size and power,
of our frame, is turned to little account ft which would rend these walls from .their
human impiovement and happiness, for foundation, and pile the root in ruins upon
want of those nrt? which crpate. comhine. 1 us-- And yet it is but a machine. There
is a cylinder and a piston ; there are tubes,
valvest.and pumps, water and a vessel to
boil it in. This'is the whole of that cit-
ground, and it was raised by hands as feeble (this superior training of his natural facilities
as these; The unaided force of the muscles j and senses,but from his possession of some
of the human hand is insufficient to break a ifew imperfect arts. The savage, needy at
fragment of marble, of any size, in pieces ; best, without his moccasins, his snow-shoes
i .. - . , . . & 1 I . . i n r 1. l i 1 1 Vs.
out, on a recent visit to tne oeaumui quar
ries in Sheffield, from which the columns
of the Girard Cdllege at Philadelphia are
taken, I saw masses of hundreds of tons,
which had been cleft from the quarry by a
very simple artificial process. Three mile3
an hour, 'for a considerable space of time,
and' with ample intervals for recreation,
food, and sleep, are the extreme limit of
the locomotive capacity of the strongest
frame, and this confined to the land. The
arts step in: by the application of one por
tion of tbem to the purposes of navigation,
man is wafted, night and day, alike waking
and sleeping, at the rate of eight or ten
miles an hour, over, the unfathomed ocean ;
and, by tlie combination of another portion
of the arts, he flies at the rate; of fifteen or
twenty miles an hour, and if need be, with
twice that rapidity, without moving a
muscle, from city to city. The capacity
of imparting thought, by intelligible 'signs,
to the minds of other - men, the canacitv
which lies at the foundation of all social
improvements, while unaided by artwas
confined within the limits of oral communi
cation and memory. The voice of wisdom
perished, not merely with the sage by
"iivui 11 waa uncieu, uui wuii inti very
breath of air on which it was borne. Art
came to the aid of the natural capacity ;
and, after a long series of successive im
provements, passing through the stao-G of
pictoral and symbolical representations of
mmgs me diflerent steps of f hieroglyphi-
lji wriuriff. (eacn ncpiinvmir nn mnht
C3' V "--!-' I1VJ A V r U w
and perpetuate the powers and' agents ; by
J which our wants are supplied. Even the
it ia cnannnrlpil in tho-'air at an plotfoilrtn rf fpv r.omfnrts of which his fnrloni condition
w K-" ... v..w .tww.. v. ... , -------- i . .... , .1-11 1 , f
three hundred .and twenty feet from the is susceptible, arcmostly derived,' not; from ! Sry, wuu wmni ine ssui anu muustry oi
me presciu ae are wonving ineir wonaers.
This is the whole of the agency which has
endowed modern art with its superhuman
capacities, and sent it out to traverse the
I continent and the ocean, with those capaci
ties which Komance has attributed to her
unearthly beings :
Trimp. tramp, along the land they ride,
Splash, splash, across the sea.
T 44 It is wholly impossible to calculate the
quantity of labor economized by all the
machinery which the steam engine puts In
motion. Mr. Baines states, that the spin
ning machinery of Great Britain, tended by
one hundred and, fifty thousand workmen,
produces as much yarn as could have
been produced by forty millions of men
with the one thread wheel ! " Dr. Buek-
land remarks, that it has been , supposed
that the amount of work now done by ma
chinery in England is equivalent to that of
between three and four hundred millions of
men by direct labor. ' '
Consider the influence on the affairs of
men, rn all their relations, of the invention
of the little machine which I hold in my
hands ; and other modern instruments for
the measurement of time, various spec!
mens of which are on exhibition in ihe
halls. 10 say nothing of the importance
of an accurate measurement of time in as
tronomical observations, -nothing of the
J appplicatlon of time-keepers to the purpo-
ises oi navigation, now vast musi De
the watch which was worn on the 8th of
September, 1755, j)y the unfortunate Baron
Dieskau, who received his" mortal wound
on that (lay Tr near, Iak Geo ifge, at tlie head
of his arrify; of French, andIndians, on tire
bre'aking rnit of tlie,seven years' van Jrhis
watch , w hich marked! th e - fierce , Jfe verish
moments,of tlie battle las calmly as it had!
uuue jluk wurscurttv years wnicn nave since,
elapsed, is still going ; but the watch-maker
and baron have now for more than three
fourths of a century been gone, where time
is no longer counted. Frederic the Great
was another and a vastly . more,. important
personage of the same war. His watch was
carried away from Potsdam by Napoleon,
wof on his rock in mid-ocean, was wont
to ponder on the hours; of alternate disaster;
and.tfiumph, which 'filled up the life of his
great fellaw-destroyer, and had been equally
counted on its dial-plate The courtiers
used to say, that this watch stopped o its
own accord, when Frederic died. . Short
sighted adulation ! for if it stopped at his
death, as if time was no; longer woith meas
uring, it was soon put in. motion, and went
on; as if nothing had happened. Portable
watches were probably; introduced in Eng
land in ihe time - of Shakespeare ; aud he
puts one into the hand iof his fantastic iest-
er, as the text of his morality. In truth, if
. i - i .- - - . i
we wisned to oorrow trpm the arts a solemn
monition of vanity of human things, the
clock might well give it to us. How often
does it not occur to the traveller in Europe,
as he hears the hour tolled from some , an
cient steeple,-' that iron tongue in the
tower of yonder old cathedral, unchangpd it
self, has had a voice for e very change m the
fortune of nations 1 It l(as chimed monarchs
to their tlfrones, and kh?lled them to. their
tombs ; and, from its watch-to ver in the
clouds, has, with the same sonorous and
impartial stoicism, measured out their little
hour of sorrow and gladness to coronation
;""t'eti;;.,?' seems, it her maran
persuasion t&at wc are in the i parlor." That nidit she went to bed W
4iA u ;w. -csv.C-':lJ
is a
rudiments of its economical uses. The pro
digious advances Jnafe in the arts ofjoco
motio'n,' teach nothing! more, clearly, : than
the proSaDiUty that they will he rendered
: vastly 'mdnr emclerf'R circulation of
ideas by means Tthe' prese i. probably,
destined to undergo jrreat enlarirement. An
alytical chemistry ha? within .tUe "last
M"iiy: jears, acquireo. instruments wnxcri
enable the'philosopher to unlock mysteries
of nature before unconceived of. TMachihe
ry of all kinds," and for feyery . purpose is
daily slmpTiffetljaud rendered more efficient.
Improved manipulp'tions are introduced in-'
to all (he arts; and each and all of these
changes operate as efficieirt creative causes
of further invention and discovery. -Besides
all that may be hoped for by the diligent
and ingenious nse of the "materials for im
provement afforded by thepresent state' of
the arts, the prbgress" of 'science teaches 'us
to believe 'that principles, elements &, pow
ers arc. in existence and operation around
us, of which we have "a very imperfect
knowledge whatever. 'Commdncing vvith
the Mariner's compass in the, middle ages,
a series Tof discoveries has'heen .made con
nected with magnetism, clcfctricity, galvan
ism, the polarity of light;, and the' electro
magnetic phenomena which'are occupying
so much attention' at the present day,-all of
which are more or less anolicable to tha
useful arts, andi; whieh may well produce
the conviction that, if in some respects .(vc
are at the meridian, we areii) other respects
in the dawn of science. In short, all art,
as I haVe said, is a creation of ther rhind of
man an essence of infinite capacity of im-
provement. ana it is oi tne nature oi eve
ry intelfigendp endowed yjXxi such a capa
city, ho we vet mature iriespect to jhe past,
to be at all times, in respect to the future,
in a state oi nopeiut iniancy. However vast
his dressed Buffalor skin, his hollowed tree
or bark canoe, his bow and arrow, his
tent and his fishing gear, would be a much
more abject being. And these - simple in
ventions, and the tools and skill required
by them, no doubt occupied a considerable
period in the early history of our race. But
the great difference between savage and
civilized life consists in the want of those
more improved arts, the products of which
we have been contemplating by which no
inconsiderable quantity of human power
and skill can be transferred to inanimate
tools and machinery, and perpetuated in
them; the arts wherebv the grasp of the
hand, which soon wearies, can be transfer
red to the iron gripe of the vice, the clamp,
the bolt, that never tire ; the arts by which
stone, and metal, nd leather, and wood,
may-be rhade-to perform the offices of poor
flesh and bone. The savage, when he has
parched his corn, puts it in a rude rribrtaf,
which with infinite toil he has scooped out of
a rock, and laboriously pounds it into meal. '
It is much, if, in this' way, he can prepare
food enough to keep him alive while he is
preparing it. -The civilized man, when he
has raised his corn, builds" a mill with a
water-wheel, and sets the indefatigable
stream to erindinsr his grain. There" are
long periods of time for its discoverv ' and j
-j'imcauon,; it devised a method of im
printing on a. material substance an intelli
gible sign, not; of things, but of sounds
forming the names of things; in other
words, it invented the A B C. With this
simple invention, and the. mechanical : con
trivances with ivhich it is carriedinto effect,!
ine mind of man was, I had almost said, re
created. The day before it was invented.
the voice of man, in its utmost stretch,
Loum be heard but bv a 'few thousands, in
tently listening for an hour or; two. during
now two or three laborers at work; one, it '
is true, with forces which soon weary, and
which can only be kept up by consuming
a part of the corn as fast as it can be made
into food ; but endowed with art untiring
and inexhaustible invention the other
the
aggregate effect on the affairs of life,
throughout the civilized vorld, ,and in the
progress of ages, of a convenient and porta
ble apparatus for measuring the lapse of
time? Who can calculate in how manytof
those critical mnctures " when affairs ot
and funeral, abdication and accession, revo-i the space measuretl behind, the space be
Luicm and restoration; victory, tumult, and j fore is imrrieasupahle; agd" though the mind
fire and, with like faithfulness, while 1 may estimate the progress it has made, the
speak, this little monitor by my side warns i boldest stretch of its powers is inadequate
r J:S. .: j u- l . ' . -
me uain. irum my uigressiuu anu uius me io measure tne progress oi wnicn it is ca-
i l a. i j . l. r i--T.pt f i , -
ncwaic icsx i uevuie uiucu oi my unci iiour, paoie.
even to its own c)mmenaation. Jet me
follow the silent monition, sustained, per
haps, by the impatience of the audience
and hasten to the la3t topic of my address."
"So numerous are the inventions and
discoveries that have been made in every
department, and to such perfection have
many arts been earned, that we may, per-
Lejrme say, then, Mr. President, and
Gentlemen of the Mechanic Association,
ersevere. Do any ask what you have
done, and what you are doing for the pub
lic good? Send them to your exhibition
rooms, and let them see the walls of the
temple of American Liberty ,t fitly "covered
with products, of American art. .And while
tired that she could hardly rest. ' She be
gan to think if kiltens werealways so tiredT.
and why it was that her mamma, did not
hear her say her prayers' as she didJEiriily.
Then sherreltecfed that kittens anducn;
things had noouis 'and could not gp tp!;
heaven when' they- died, and she almost5
wished tliit she had not chosen to be one,,
The next morning jtvjis very bright and Suri .
ny, and when .Mary awoke she 'foumFTieT
sisters almost ready to to the Sunday
School. ' She watched them eagerly5 some
time, and listened to the jbeatltiful'chime of
the church bells, then she thought of 5 her
beloved teacher am! class, and could hold
jout no loftger'. Bursting into a flood .of
tears, she threw hef anns around her rrio
therms heck, and besought her that she might
go,- sayirig she did tot wish to be,.ror
anything that would keep her from tiie?!,
Snnday'Schoof. v.'-'H;
' The lesson was a very good one, for
&ary became aft-industrious little girl, and
she ; would tell ouiiow, that she-feels very
grateful to Gol for giving her st kind moth
er that can directtherwhaHd do, and thai "
every littler irl and boy ought, to thank hin,
for giving' them souls, that may be constant-
ly increasing in knowledge and happiness;
andmen dwel with God, and that he has
not made them like brutes that can HDrolick-
ifor a few vears..and then die and nothinsr
more be known of them. SfJS. Visitor.
haps, be inclined to think that, in the arts, ! they..gae with admiration on .these crea
as on the surface of the elobe, of all the
brilliant discoveries in navigation in the
three last centuries, there is nothing left to
fiud out. Though it is probable that; 'in
particular things, no tnrther progress can
tions of the mechanical, arts of the country,
bid them remember that they are the pro
ductions of a people whose fathers were told
by the British ministry they should not
manufacture a hob-nail ! Dbes anV one
Negto gallantry. The buck negroes of
the North are coming. on pretty fair in payr
ing their addresses to the white ladies. A
person who was present at the burning of
the. Abolition Hall ;iu Philadelphia, tejls of
a dark Lothario who spruced up to a beau
tiful white young-lady, apparently of the
first respectability, who happened to be un
attended ahd, making his most coirdescou
ding kind of bow, he addressed her thus :
44MissjSally, mehsfb" de generous ihonor to
company you to de home, 6b your fathers,
and purtect you from de fierce rocity'ofdese?
childcn ob do-!oLii-T -ag. a'rtlifhr in dp
union ob colors, and shill always goTor Me
noxious nrfnciple of malgaTftbii. Your arm
Mjss; I be desended from debery fust fame-
lies ob de St. . Baboons in Flondy' -1 rue.
to her principles, Miss S. resolutely 'took
his arm, held on to it 44like grim death to a
dead nigger and they stalked off from the
crowd, a3 much pleased to all appearanco
with each other, as old mother Eve and the
Ourang Outang were. Picayune. .
l J". 1 p . -l. 1-
be made,(and even this I would not affirm, f5K m oisuain jor in great names wmc
nave inu:iidicu uic iii cviiaiiivs t j tu
patient fellow-laborers of wood and iron, weightiest import hnog upon the issue of
the steam, the wheel 'and the mill-stone.
without capacity for head work, are willinfg
to grind corn all day, and not ask a mouth
ful back by way of sustenance. Civilization
is kept up by storing the products of the
labor thus economized, and imparting a
share of it to those engaged in some other
pursuit, who gjve a portion of its products
in exchange for food. '
44 Take another illustratidh in the arts
employed in furnishing the clothing of man.
J be savage, when he has killed a Buffalo &
which alone his strength would enable him dried his" skin, prepares it with the manual
0 Utter a nirre;r nf ammAa rPt A-.t. I L " C :i p " . -
utter a succession of sounds. The dav
after the art of ; writing: was invented, ; he
stamps his tho'uffhts on a toll of oareh merit.
d they reach every city and hamlet of the
largest empire. The day before this in
vention, and the mind of one country was
w-w..Sw .iuiu me minus ot all pther conn
course
iiomave oeionged to one race. The dn-
after it, and Wisdom was endued with." K
A I gift of tongues, and spake by her interpfe
IS?"? all e tribes of kindred , men.
urn
ihe dav before this invpmmn i !:
u"t a ladinor tranitinn minSi.ti.: i -
r . O "7 -vrw, wjovatttty UeCOUllllff
Winter. COilld'ho nrpsprvod U,r u
niii was spoken or acted by the
greatest and wisest of men. the day af
taoor ot several weeks for a ffarment ; -a
substantial and sightly garment ; but it has
taken him a long time, and he has made
but ofie. The eivilized man, having a
w.orld of business on hrs hands, has contri
ved variety: o machines, ; which, rjetfojrmTtur( of a day, as he is", to imitate that su-
flP 5lmnc( oil 41; : ; ' ... I -. - ' - ' I '. . - .-. " I s-j- r .m.
p"r.f purposes 01 inter- Hng. He cuts a mass of curled wool troma circuit of five hundred, millions ,oi .miles,
se, tne tatnilies of man might as well the sheep's back, a cpftfuse'd irregular back to the- solstice at the appointed moment,
ih v r npifinrron ia ana . - rm i i . . - - . m . , ' -
heap of fibrous threads, wfiich wonld .seem without the loss of one second, no, not. the
to defy the skill and industry pf the arttfi-( millionth part of a second for the, ages on
cef. Ho iv long 'will it not take the 'busiest f ges'diiiing which it has travelled the era-
fi-
an hour, Prudence and Forecast Tiave tri
umphed over blind c'ausalty, by being en
abled to measure3 with precision the flight
of time, in its smallest subdivisions ! Is it
not something more than mere mechanism,
which watches with us by the sick-bed of
some cJeAr friend, through the livelong soli
tude of night, enables us to count, in the
slackening pulse, natufe'strenibliug steps
towards Tedovery.; and to administer "the
prescribed 'remedy 'kt the precise, perhaps
the critical, moment of its application ? By
means of a' watch i" puncttrality in all hisdu-.
ties, which, in jts perfection, is one of
the incommunicable attributes of Diety,
is brought," Ih ho mean, measure, within the
reach of man. He is "enabled, if he .will be
guided hy thi3 half-rational machine, cf ea
r it, Thought was imperishable; it sprung
new-found instruments of record and com
memoration, and, deserting the bod v as it
ivu lusj vocai organs into tne dust, it
carved OntheiverV nrraroslnno t rpU rlA
man bK-11 1 ii i: l' tt
. It is a aniv.nk.i i 1 1
a. . . uuimiitwjig renecnon,
attin raanv; tbinfro Ailv- u..
i "'6 UVUUCUV Kill nu-
pair ' !of fingers to place those piece.J
bres together, end to end, to lay theras.ide
by side, so as to give them substance," cp-
fherence, dimensions, to convert thehl in-
ta a covering and defence, excluding cold
and wet ! The savage,, in taking. the skin,
seems to have made the wiser choice.
Nature" has done the spinning and weaving
to his hand. But wait a moment; there
is a group of iron-fingered artificers in yon
der mill will sho iv you a wonder They
will, with a rapidity scarcely -eonceivabJe
"convert this oocouth- fibrous heap into a
eurly fibres into' long even threads, lay
pyreal road: " What a miracle' of art, . that
a man can teach Vfevy- brass, wheels, and a
little, piece of elastic steel, to ou t-calculate
himself; to give" him a rational answr to
one' of the most impdrtap,! question? which
concerns a being travelling towards eternity
What aunircle, that a man can put within
this little machine a spirit that measures th
flight of time with greater jaccum-t than
the unassisted -intellect off the profoundest
philosopherl which watches and moves
wherifsleep palsies alike tle hapd of the
maker and the mind of the contriver, nav,
with any confidence,) yet,' so far from con
sidering invention as exhausted, or art at a
stand, I believe there never was a moment
when greater improvements were to be ex
pected : and this for the very reason that
so much has already been done, that truth,
in its nature, is at once boundless and cre
ative, and that every existing art, invention,
and discovery, is but anj instrument of fur
ther improvement. Even when any par
ticular art or machine seems to have reach
ed the highest attainableipoint of excellence,
nothing is more likely than that it will, by
some wholly unexpected discovery or im
provement, be greatly advanced : or, that,
by accidental or natural association, it will
lead to some other very important improve
ment in a "branch of art wholly dissimilar j
or finally", that it will be superseded, by
something quite different, but producing' the
same result. Take, as an example, the art j
of printing. The simple process 01 print-.
ing with moveable types, and a press mov
ed by hand, does not seem, in the lapse of,
lour hundred years, to nave undergone any
very-material improvement ; but the intro
duction of solid plates, and the application
of artificial po wers to thepress, are improve
ments wholly disconnected, in their nature,
from the art of printingand yet adding .in
calculably to its efficacy and operative pow
er.:; In a word, the products of art are the
'creations of rational mind, 'working With in
telligent and diversified energy, in a thou
sand directions ; bounding from the ilia-
terial to the moral world, and back from
speculation to life ; producing, the roost
wonderful effects. on moral and social rela
tions by material means and again, in an
! ." .1 -Li-.i 1 ,.,v:.ij:i':.' .'i'
1 HI pro veil -pyiiuuai "4 uva vuiiuiuua imu-
ing Instruments and encouragement for new
im provements in mechanical' art. Iii this
mighty action anu rpacupn,. we are continu
ally borne on to results the most surprising.
Physical and moral causes and enects pro
duce moral" arid physical effiectsand causes.
and e very thing discovered tends to the dis
covery of something yet unknown. . It rare
ly," perhaps never, happens that any discov
ery or invention is wholly original ; as rare
ly, that it is final. ' As .some portion pf its
elements lay in previously existing .ideas,
so it will awaken hew conceptions in I the
inventive minjd. 1 The" most novel mechani
cal contrivance contains iwithih itself much
that was knoVn before Vand the mostseem-
him of Ark wright, and Watt, of Franklin,
of Whitney, and Fulton, whose memory
will dwell in the grateful recollections of
posterity, when the titled and laurelled des
troyers of mankind shall be remembered onr
ly with detestation. Mechanics of Ameri
ca, respect your calling, respect yourselves.
The cause of human improvement has no
firmer or more powerful friends. In the
great Temple of Nature, whose foundation
is the earth, whose pillars are the eternal
hilts, whose roof is the star-lit sky,
whose organ-tones are the wfiisperingbreeze
and the sounding stormjwhose architect
is God, there is no ministry more sacred
than that of the intelligent mechanic '."
f The exhibition wa3 hcldiri Fancoil Hall.
4 1 wish i Was a kitten."
4'l wish I was a kitten, said little Mary
E. to her mother, .one. day, 44l do wish -I
was a kitten, thin I could play all thetime,
jumping and running,, ana romnga Dan: on:
how, pretty she does, look! see, ma, only see
her play." ' Mary E. was a very good girl,
but excessively forid of play. , Her mamma
thought that all. little girls should se w a pait.
of the time, and she fitted her some nice
work that day, and had seated her on a stool
by her side.. For a. while she worked very
well;, but-pretty soon she grew , tired and
began to .wish she was a kitten, as. I told
you. Her mamma thought she would teach
her, a lesson, so she said, 44 well, Mary, yoii
may be "a kitten a week, if you. will finish
that work first." ;4Be a kitten'f 3aid Mary,
laughing, .44how can I be a kitten?", . 44 Why,
I mean you may act just like one, play all
the time and not sew, and we will call yon
kitty 440h, ma, t wish you woultJU it
would be so nice anu unny ; but do let n
be more than a , week, a week is not half
enough." " 44 Well, my dar, be , a kitten a ;
weeK, ana tnen uyou iiKe it, i may.ieiyou
be longer." 4 4 You are verv. good, said
Mary, and soon she finished her work and,
went to play, r irst sherolled her bait and
marbles about the room; then she played iii
the garden and chased butterflie? until 'she
auiteforffot.it was tea time.. Wheh-,he
went in she found her little sister gtJmily
had gpne to bed, and she. had. to go to Bet
sy, the domestic, to set her suooer as all
Riot. The sons of 44 Erin's green isley
to the number of forty or fifty who. are en
gaged on the public works in this city, Jiad
a nice hitot a row on rnday. evening last,
much to the annoyance of many four good -citizens,
and -the discomfort of sundry heads.
About twilight a fight commenced between
some of the laborers of the grade and some
strollirig oafcr, which soon grew -into k
general battle between the laborers on xne
side and loafers and citizens on the other ;
sticks, stones, brickbats and other missiles
were in great request for about an hour
when the affair began to assume a very
serious aspect and the Mayor deemed fit
prudent to order out the military. Capt, .
SteePs company of infantry promptly res- .
portded to the call, and were soon ott- thev: -ground
with muskets charged wiilr bail
partridges; ihey surrounded the quarters of
the rioters and after a parley, some, half
dozen of the Ting-leadersk.wcre - surrendered
to the police officers, ndtheH
ly dispersed; . .-r?'J yv-- - -
Those who surrendered were brought up. ;
before his honor the Mayor the ; nejitf ilay
and severally fined. -' ---y ' :
Maysville iKy.) Advoccttii -
nniforn mass ; they. -will draw out its short,! when the last steep has come over tfiera
both ! I saw the other day, at Stockbridge,
bgly perfect invention if we may judge 1 44kittys" do. Tlie next day tshe frolicked
theiuture ny tne past aomiis oi luiure
improvements For this" reason, the more
that is known, discovered and contrived
the ampler the materials out of which hew
discoveries, inventions, and improvements,
may be expected.
as much as ever. At noon some ladies call
ed, of whom she Was very fond. She heard
them ask for her and Was very much dis
appointed, though she could. harOyheJP
laughing, . when she heard her sister tell
them that 44 she was a kitty that week, arid
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