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The Expositor, 1869-02-12, Page 4Punshon on 1sTiag4ra., Th&. Rev. W M Paiishen, who is eontributing a series .of letters to the Methodist ReCOITIOVI. th,US speaks pf this 'grand -phenomenon of ii.ature On my way fratit Buffalo to Toronto, I caught the first_sight of that wondrous vieion, -Which it is worth' .a pilgrimage from England to See:: I have since had-, an_ opportunity Of Makingit a study, and. my conviction is, that if there is anything in theworld which.. •defies at -once' description and analysis,. and whirl excites rn the beholder by tmi4s, ideas of grandeur, beauty;terror, pow r, sublimity,. _it is erapressed,in, that sale word, Niagara.' 'I have, seen it in. most of is summer -a,speets. I have gazed upon the raarvelloaS panorama from the rapide, abpve, td Vhe whirls pool,' three Miles below, I, If have look- , ectUpsto 'it from the river, and down -upon it froth the Terrapin Tower. I it bathe& in it light, and . been arenehed With it Spray. . I lave -.dreamed over it through tEe hot aftev- noon,_ and have heard it thundeiln thei watches of the rnght 0a tti 1 the head - Linde,. on all theistands,, I have stood -entranced and Wonderiag while the mist, - has shrouded it, and while th.esun has broken it into rainbows. I have 'seen fleeely as the an ow -Bake, deeping into the brightest emendd doxls- and leaden as the angriest. November -sky —but in in all its modethere is instruc- , tionse solemnity, delight.. Stable in its perpetual instability ; a thing to be - 'pondered in the heart,' like the revela- tion by the meek Virgin of. old; with no pride in the brilliaait hues -which are woven in its - eternal loon; •with no haSte in the Majestic roll Of its -waters; with no weariness:in its endlesS.psahn ; it remainthrough the eventftil years an. em.bodiment .of unconscious powei. a lively inspiration of, thought, and poetry, a-nd worshiP a magnificent apocalypse of God. On wonderful thing about Niagara is, that iVsutfrires all attempts to.'make it common. alp all show. places, it haesits Arab hordes • —Bedouins of the road, of the., care- • ' vansery, of the river. 'Ail along -the rine, from the burning- Spring te the ne- gro touters, :who press upon. you that 'there is no charge for ,the aharming aard down te the spot where, with subliii-kieontenaptaaf nature and indif- ference to truth, a. notice ,b,card- an- noundes, that 'The whirpool isa dosed • on Sundays.' Niagara is a grand insi- tution for making people -pay. Of course, also, it is the:excursion terminus .for all the country: round, awl during the season attracts crowds that, would make •Wodsysorth as angry 81, when he denounced the • rail way,- which Was t�' prefane his own sylph- haunted ty- dal-L--but these- cannot vulgarise rather it-- ennobles theta, kindlingin the'moSt insensate beast, an awe and rapture of which'they- hai.dly thought themselves capablle of before. I have yet to ee.i.t by moonlight, and in -win- ter. - • Tinder the combined influence of these. two conditions it must be :grand indeed. 1 cannot even confess to the digappointment l'vhich so, many affilan te be the first feeling of. the Tina, -en the Sight, of it I was deeply imoress- ed with it at the first, and. all after ex-. perieace has but deepened, my delight and: wonder. • The Farmertge.. Look once more at a finer spiritual result of the conditions of the.farmer's life. „See what prins be -wisely tskeS to secure a :perfect fruit. How cauti- ously he imports and .exaanines 'the stock how sagaciously he grafts and bude; how .he hides the tree from the frost and 'nurses it in the snn ; how he ponders and studies the habits and dis- • eases of that fruit; how he, toils to sur- round himself with perfect trees, that he may walk in the garden of the Hes- perides \Aram ever he- goes into has.own ordiard. At last he placks the- pear in trawli. It is • the glory of the Slab.% The dimensions of that fruit fly'.arOund the world by. Telegraph, over the lancl and, under the sea. It is photogr---aphed, engrave/d, -`atils1 described in a hundred horticultural papers • and 'thegadaes ; the mouthsof the public waters for that pear, and it bears thei, name of the .hap- py growei: for ever. t Is that all Is there nothing more I Look ! Not yet irte the farmer reaped all' his latrvest of success, not -titsted the finest flavor of fruit. But . when AVOR1110* .under the trees in the co )1 Of the day, God nteets Irina in the thoughts of his mind-a--fer when a man thinke'a lefty thought it is LS if God met him—and says to. 'you are a tree in my garden of the world, - and if you sought tIse Sweet fana of cheracter„ and a aioble life,' as carefully _ as you ti aui and Wate.r, and bad to produce a peer) 'the Wor1a4o.uld lie again what. it Was when 1W'aMd in. }Alen, Then the farther has -iseadned- the last lesson. of his. ealling;----then it. is the manhood and -moral development of the farmer himself, 19rotipsitt out by perpetual contsack with the beztatiful processes of natirea. which is the, crop d lasting valtiej that grows upon- his' farms—a crop Whose . fill vest is human (1.7172er. /- , •HE ..EziposiToTL: Death-Bed;atetrS. 1r David Brew - ter _ In an address lt)efore the Royal So7 day (Edinburgh) on the . late 'Sir Da - :arid 13rewSter, Sit J. y. Simpson gave the following account of the 'Christian death of that -eminent philosopher :---- "Like My former dear friend. and old schoel companion, Professor John Reid, fhe s seemed to be impressed with the idea that on of the great joys and .gle- ries of heaven wduld 'consiet in the re- velation of all the marvels and. myste- ries of creation and science by Aim by. •whom 'all things were made,' and who,. asProfessorGeorge Wilson held it, was not only the Head of the -Church, but the 'Head and origiu and:source of all science. '1 have, he remarked to me 'been' infinitely happy here ; but 1 soon shall' be infinitely liappier .With my Sa- viour and, fiyeatoit'. As ,deatit •drew • more and more nigh, the one idea Of his Saviour, and of his being speedily and eternally with IBM, grew, stronger and morp absorbing, A ,near conned tion, but not a relative, who in.- foi.me "years oftenlive,d, in his house, and lat- terly - formed one Of the watchers by his death' -bed, writes me • this 'charac- teristic anecdote: . 'When we were living in hisIOuse at St. An- drews, twelve years ago, -he *as much occupied with his microscope, and, as was his custum always, „ -he used to sit up studying it after the rat of the h.ou.seliold had !gone -to bed. I often crept .back into the room • on' the pre- tence' of haying letters. to • write or Something- else .to -finish, but just to watch. him. After a little he would forget that I was there. and I have of- ten seen him suddenly throw himself back jute hp cha.r, lift up his hands, and eidains''Good Goa Good God! how marvellou§ are thy works.'" • On Sunday morning I said to hin that it -had been given to hina • to show forth much of 'God's °.great and marvellous • works ; and he answered "kes,• and found them to be great and mar- • vellous, and I have felt them to be His:" As a physician, I have often watched by the dying, but I have neVeitseen a death. bed -scene more full of pure- love and faith than our late Plesident's was. His deathbed was in- deed a, sermon of unapproachable elo- (pence. a.nd pathos. For there lay- this grand and gifted old philoSopher, this hoary,loving votary, and arch -priest of !science, passing fearlessly through the valley of death; .sustained and gladden- ed. With the all-Siniple and all sufficient faith of a7 very child, and looking for- wai d. with undouded intellect and bright and - happy prospects to the mightTehange that .was abonk to carry him frem time to eternite • A Tale =of,pla-th. The Philadelphia Ledger says :—Roll of HonouriNo. 16 has . been published by the Quartermaster -General. It con- Uins the names of 20,504, soldiers buri- ed at Gettysburg, City Paint, Danville„, Glendale, Riehmond, and at various barracks and forts in New England, New York, PennsylvaniaJn form& lists the proportion of unknown occu- pants of graves was one third, lint in the present -dist i amounts to mere than one-half. • The total number of graves now r.cord-ed in printed rol14 reaches 155,003, of which 55,000 are Unknown. R is conjectured that the records of abiut 16 0,000 more gives of deceased soldiers and prisoners- of war are' yet to .be printed, inaldng 305,000 the whole munber graves of soldiers Who lost their lives during -she rebellion, and of these • abut 10,000 will retnain nameless. The whole. • number of 'soldiers who fell in the contest is estimated at 355,000, unaecotinted for. This discrepency is. explain td as follows in bat - tie and never buried, 25,000 •drowned, • 5, 000-, graves in remotelocaities and not yet &bid, 15,000 ; graves coveract [by, deposits of gravel by floods, 2,000, ' grave -s carried away by the caving in of river banks, 3,000. The number of soldiers whp died at home afters having been mustered out; from wounds or diseases contracted in the service is not I embraced in any of the a,bovo rolls or ' estimates." k MARKS OF THE •(.31-1 N 1::LEIVAN , man is a gentleman ho, without pro- vocation, would ti eikt witli the humblest of his' species. It is • a vulgarity for which, D.0 ac.3orriplis]i m ents of dress ot address can ever atone. Show .me the mon who eeiires,to make every one happy around him; and whose greatest solicithde is neve" to give just cause of offence to any one, and 1 will- shcw you a gent- e nan by nature and bY practice; ti o igh he- may nev er, have worn a suit of broade.loth, noreven heard af a lexicon: I am proud to say .for the honor bf our species, there are men, in "everty. throb of whose heart there is solicitude for the welfare of menkind, and whose 'every breath is [ posfumedawith kindness. a \A dandy, sw.oking .a cigar, having I entered a menagerie, the proprietor re- quested him to take the weed from his mouth, "let he should teach the oth'or monkeys Dad hablas. ' - 0*. Unhappy ,End of the' Author of •-` The Raven.' "My friend would he be who,would t, ke- a pistol and blow out my brains, 4d. thus relieve Me Of my misery." SL said Edgar Allen. _Poe. His lips cirled bitterly, These were his dying o1ord§. Suen Was the Unhappy state one whom dissipation Rad rooed of the pure enjoyments of life; anq bret tq hopeless rain., He had been reared ii. the moat elegant society, and educat- ed in the- most polished schools. He • possessed' .po4ic gifts of • nnwionted -4antrand bri Haney. •The production§ of his muse W' se few and fragmentary; melancholy proph ecies of What he might in *e been—In t they made him a mark- -e4 man amoi. g the lovers of poesy throughout the world. He lacked sym- metry• of character, and with • all of these advantages that he possessed over o hers, he was 'wayward as a youth, p ssionate in maturer Years, and always - u Manned at the sparkle of the intoxi- c, ting cups He blazed a while in the li erary firmament—the " comet of a. season,". but thcf left behind him an un - ..Worthy influence, a 4eproachfu1 perm - 1, and the tirdmonition - of 'a* fearful end. - He,' was inlaking.a journey when hs death oectiiired, and he was Occupi- ed with prepaptions ' for -his wedding ch y.. Better i ' impalseS -.warmed his hart and rtiolUed his passions at the. trought Of bis naip,tials, and as the sans licdit of the fiiture a4addened again the . Vp31011S of his MI Mdibgi olden ilays filled his fancy—day of .the tenderness of agnjugal love aard the sweet habitudes a domestic bli§s. He stopped , `at• the • city of Baltimere. He met old Com- panions, jolly fellows with whore he had passed convivial hours. : The in- t xicating cup giittered before him. Tie teniptation was too great. He -vs nid spend one more revel ere he en- -t red that plied. sphere -depicted in his d .eams. That cheerless . November n gist he was found- lying on the the street s upefied -with drink; covered with dirt, al d his face distorted with herror. His jovial companions had deserted hith. He was taken tcta hespital. A 'fear - nil dream arose iupon him and fired. $S brain. • Deliriwn, with her - thou- sand- demons, , darkened his intellect, once beautiful with airy theught and poetic fanetes. ..21:44ia. a -pety. ensues. A clergyman is sent for, ‘.‘ Sall I send for yout friends?" asked the -pious man. "Friends !" said the dying man, as the' the words were -a mockery, "my best fiiend would be he who would take a pts.. tol .and _ blow oat • my brains, and td us relieve :Me()buy misery." • We ls sit.Alen Cavil. at religion. • What _ a aticaSure, beyond rall- eaitimate, early - p ety would 1.14ve *been to..the soul of or Edgar Allen Poe—Rescue. • .1A- MAN WITH SIX WIVE& —The- Not - ti 1ghani Joto:44 says: "There iS now living, not a hundred miles from Shel- f rd, a man, the real . facts of whose • ii story we f)ropose to give - At the.age of twenty-five be was 'engaged, • and a ont to be married, to a Woman of the n4in of 'Walker, but she was taken a4ay by dea`ia Baying, followed ,bei: td the grave, and Mourned for her Some ti 10) be at last. became acquainted with, 'married a woman nainud Voce. After a few years she died. His next . wife was Of widow ' named : Vick Os ta ff.. *her a -few years she also died. He n xt, marrit d Vic.kerstaff, the sister of . Feeling almost dis eks she died . . - 1 hi • - last wife's husband. • Ina , few Av eouraged ty past experience, lie waited . :. awhile, but being lonely, lie again..Vn te ed into 'matrimony* with a woman m med Webster... After liziving enjoST- ed each. other's .coinp.any forseveral y arS, she Was also taken Ircliay by d atb. . Theissueof the -above marri- .ar es aresthree children, one by the first ' w fe and two bythe lagtIt is a re- markable fact that all the..deaths Were. froth decline. .The widower then com- menced a courtship with a woman tam- ec Holland, whose' husband bad euni- gt ted, and nothing.having been heard of himafor a- muliber of . years,. anat 1 th liking him dead, they iat, length be - cane mail and wife.- : They :lived in perfect harmony for two years, 30eli., totheir great consternation, her fernier htisband, after- a . lapse . of seventeen years, returned; and claimed her as his • lawful wife. They are now living to ,gether. 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Lie passions cif the the ninriner- 'open his --whttn. out on' the Stoq the soldier to, AlePtif,-3 battlefield, beguiles t6' tours ltround the canif -ens the labor of the, • loom. • in what delta not the influence ox th_woe)rTefore r,illtthecutluittivl things being coaxal should endeavor ti3 -wife—ODA TiOt only Ilt altyrnes, but the' mos, ,noti6nal melodies aUtt A singing wife t.empered one. It stan it should be so. • of such a woman'infl ber -own hapgy ands tions sNext to securin a musical wife,,and cry. house, if psiL • • S01.11e musical ink -mull -voice' of a good wife, 'notes of _a, well -tuned - the most -Potent iztik man. to his home in. ing, and 'keep the the family tirele temptation's paths. more perhaps -than 3.1t04: tO 1111A% truths brought under; are rn danger of groN Ina2ting utilitarian an people, -a, little inor • less, than the Indian9 -through 'our. fields, that refinemetit ana 'sic invariably pi ot tire science is an se of education. "---Ittd our rapidly rising to would buildin evet powerful organ, bo build a court house (10 so as s inattlr of as nitteho aS a matter reent It is tIJ.O d tors, who are presu taste and intelligen every .way the elx.w ing classes by opeinin to innocent 'reereat -Nor do I despair of. ot tbrng' in Canada: tries, free liimaties; qinti cheap' concerts; f working classes, pit Thig,fiest civil and rel the land, ttre fist x,)ix 4und are steadily ath (lestroying drunkel industry. 21usid, _handmaid of religio feihly fulfils its true it Itads us up to the • has so wonderfully the' human heart t 0.4atul and prolong •11} 'LALVIIT—It is .vinnot endure sha- humor-ed ways• am. 4ind when edneeits • to deceits, and tions are choking •NvorOly feelings along the laugh is. ante a. .Certait zsorts:- 'conflagrations E.e tirie to tisne ni th • lies grew nuinb m. Itilboul, like a we faina neeas burning down till it is clriv 'a sound Av3iippiri stirring effect 4 *but, after it was a i:rlie ienstfcu'wthtiieulauert's2 -ve )11 :cc:. est hooetfchk3:0317 iai n4 heeax rude revolutions be 3dnab1e alt -en f9da fl:3;(4tirt,iett_j:ttrto°v:eil 4o043 it. It `z4aa4 dignity s:Prlidet. be e y • anp s • :141's-citi414e14-kla.'6-Ys,IeliTen.veas 4a441iter at gen *e•tty plan in the flash of round. Even. • o . • liandgeon 41-r, the JYId Beecher, a