described the figure of a bow-knot in the air. This was witnessed with astonishment by every one in the room. Mr. Noddy, seeing the wonderful effect of the experiment, signified a wish to bear a part in the operation, to which Dr. Humm very politely consented. Mr. Noddy therefore proceeded to magnetise the cat from the tip of the lower jaw, under the chin, across the trachea and thorax, down to the heel of the right paw: the cat immediately gave a loud mew, which in a sleeping cat must have been a sure sign that something ailed her. Mr. Noddy then willed her nose to be in a rat-hole, which took immediate effect by the cat's snapping sharply at his fore finger. This astonished the company a second time, and Dr. Humm made a third experiment by willing the cat to be thrown souse into Frog Fond. The Rev. Mr. Fogbrain immediately let go her fore paws, and strange to say, they began pad, padding, as if attempting to swim. The murmurs of admiration that ran round the company at this wonderful sight are not to be described. "She swims! she swims!" exclaimed every one; the proof was complete; most of the spectators could hear the splashing of the water in the pond, and some even imagined they could see the boys chucking stones at her. After this had been displayed to the full satisfaction of the company, Dr. Humm willed her to come safe ashore; notwithstanding, her paws continued to paddle, but this was easily accounted for, as the doctor assured us she would stand perfectly still as soon as she got her land-legs on. "Various other experiments followed, which we have not space to describe in detail. Dr. Scantiwit willed the cat to be in a mustard pot, whereupon she immediately gave a loud sneeze, and made an immensely wry face. Mr. Milksop willed her to be lapping cream, on which she gave a hearty purr and licked her chops three times. Mr. Dryasdust willed her to scratch his wig, and at the same moment felt a sharp tingling under his skull-bone, by which he was convinced he had something there, &c. &c." Your Committee having laid before the Society these wonderful experiments, recommend that Dr. Humm, and each of the individuals who assisted as above, be presented with the Freedom of the Corporation of Fool's Paradise. Your Committee would recommend to the respectful notice of the Society the various public Lecturers of this portion of the country, and in particular, those who treat of German metaphysics, Coleridgeism, optimism, and similar ultramundane exaltations of the human intellect. Your Committee suggest that a prize be proposed the ensuing year for the best dissertation on the following subject:- "The influence of transcendental Metaphysics on the growth of Cabbages." They recommend that each transcendentalist be presented with a broomstick of not-walnut for the purpose of flying through the air. Your Committe would trespass too far upon the time of the Society, were they to enumerate at length all the matters which deserve their attention. They are obliged reluctantly, therefore, to pass with a bare mention, the great number of old women, quid-nuncs, schemers, dreamers, steamers, system-mongers, method-mongers, improvers-of-society, &c., who are now exercising so vast an influence in this country. They recommend that a medal be struck, emblematical of the whole of this enlightened community; the said medal to bear on one side the figure of a toad just ready to jump, with the legend, "Sedet, eternumque sedebit," in allusion to the march of intellect; and on the reverse, the figure of a corn-stalk monument, with the words “Ære perennius,” in allusion to the lasting fame of all march-of-intellect people. THE MISSION OF IRIS. VERSIFIED FROM THE GERMAN OF LESSING. PLUTO to Mercury thus said, 66 My Furies now are growing old; I need some new ones in their stead,They're worn out, if the truth be told. "Go, then, and from the realms of earth Soon after, Juno Iris prayed To seek amongst the mortal throng, Three virgins pure, with manners staid, All chaste as ice-in virtue strong. "Thou knowest well what I require,- In every realm, from shore to shore, To Juno she returned again. "O chastity! O virtue's throne!" Cried Heaven's Queen-" Can it be true "Goddess, alas! I might have brought Three maids of manners most austere, Most strict, most modest-who had sought To banish Venus from their sphere "Who never on a man had smiled And not one single thought of love In tales that oft to passion move. "But then, alas, I came too late!" That Mercury my prize should gain. "Pluto required them." "Pluto? Say, How could these virtuous mortals aid Pluto's dark projects?" "Goddess, they Already have been Furies made." May, 1842. MARIPOSA. EMIGRATION TO AMERICA. Ar a time when thousands are seeking homes in America, it will be gratifying to many to ascertain to what part of the Union they may safely trust their capital and labour; and we are pleased, therefore, to present below, copied from the Harrisburgh Reporter, a brief statement of the resources of Pennsylvania, where many an emigrant has reared his family, from small means, to wealth and a station such as is but seldom attainable in Great Britain.. "The State of Pennsylvania is inhabited by 1,724,033 of free people, industrious and enterprising. In 1790, the number was only 434,373. "We have more than 28,000,000 acres of land, and under better cultivation than any in this union, and constantly improving. It is worth at least 700,000,000 dollars. We have more than 300,000 houses, worth 300,000,000 dollars; and barns, work-shops, stores, furnaces, forges, factories, and mills, worth 200,000,000 dollars more. Nor has our public debt been contracted for nothing. Our rail-roads and canals extend, not only to our coal and iron mines, but are designed to connect the waters of the great Lakes and the great Ohio and Mississippi vallies, with the waters of the Delaware and the Chesapeake. They intersect the State in every direction, from west to east and from north to south. Including State and Company works, we have more than one thousand miles of canals and seven hundred miles of rail-roads, completed and in operation, and costing more than 100,000,000 dollars. Some portions of these works are not yet profitable, in consequence of the unfinished links, and yet the tolls will this year, on the State works of about seven hundred miles, exceed a million of dollars. "The value of the anthracite coal mines upon the Schuylkill, the Lehigh, the Swatara, the Wisconisco, the Shamokin, the Susquehanna, and the Lackawanna, which are but just beginning to pour down their mineral wealth to the markets upon the ocean, is incalculable. In 1820 the trade commenced, and 365 tons were sent to market, from the Lehigh. In 1825 the trade commenced upon the Schuylkill. The Schuylkill canal was then finished. There are now about 55 miles of rail-roads branching from the canals to the several mines, and 45 miles of rail-roads under ground. About eighteen hundred cars are employed in conveying the coal from the mines to the canal, and between eight and nine hundred boats are used in conveying the coal to Philadelphia. The arrival of vessels annually in the Schuylkill for the conveyance of Schuylkill coal to other States, will number about 3,100. One hundred and seventy sloops, schooners, and barges, arrived in two days last week. The Schuylkill mines will this year produce more than 500,000 tons, and the other anthracite mining districts about the same quantity, making 1,000,000 tons, of which about 800,000 will be exported to other States. "The coal trade is but yet in its infancy, and increasing rapidly. The use of anthracite coal in steamboats is taking the place of wood in the Eastern waters, and will be used in the steamers of the ocean, as the safest and cheapest fuel. It is also coming into use in driving machinery and making iron. The mines upon the Swatara are capable of producing as much as the Schuyl kill, and so are those of the Lehigh, the Wisconisco, the Shamokin, and the Susquehanna: and the Schuylkill is capable of producing four times the amount that is now mined. Improvements will soon be completed to all these mining districts. What then will be the annual worth of the anthracite coal of Pennsylvania that will be carried upon her public works! "But we have not only anthracite, but according to our State geologist, more bituminous coal than all Europe. Our State canals intersect this bituminous coal-field in all directions. All Europe contains about 2,000 square miles of bituminous coal-land. Pennsylvania has 10,000 square miles, or 6,400,000 acres. It is estimated by our State geologist, that the great western bituminous coal-field of Pennsylvania contains THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLIONS OF TONS! Ten thousand times more than England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland! "This vast mineral wealth, without the public improvements, would have been dead capital for ever. According to the returns of the County Commissioners to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, there was mined in 1838, in Pennsylvania, west of the Allegheny mountain, more than 2,000,000 tons of bituminous coal! Not one ton of this reached the Atlantic market. About nine-tenths of it was consumed in domestic purposes at home, in furnaces and rolling mills, and in driving machinery. One-tenth, or 200,000 tons, were shipped down the Ohio and Mississippi. What this trade will be when the great valley is filled with population, wealth, and refinement-when western Pennsylvania becomes the manufacturing dependence of the western states— can hardly be conjectured. "Nor is this great bituminous coal-field entirely separated from the Atlantic. We have abundance of bituminous coal, the nearest in the United States, of any quantity, to Tide Water. The Virginia and Maryland mines on the Potomac, are from 180 to 200 miles from sloop navigation at Georgetown. The completion last year of the Tide Water canal from Havre de Grace, in Maryland, to the Pennsylvania canal at Columbia, has this year, for the first time, opened a navigation for the bituminous coal of the Juniata, and the west branch of the Susquehanna, to the Chesapeake. It is estimated that the trade will this year reach 100,000 tons. The amount is unlimited which can be sent from these places on our canals to market. A rail-road has been constructed forty miles long, from the northern end of our coal basin to Corning, on the Chemung canal of New York, leading into Seneca Lake.-There are now six locomotives and between 300 and 400 cars on this road, conveying coal from our Blosburg mines into the State of New York. "The quantity of iron produced in Pennsylvania, is equal to about one-third of the product of the whole Union. Her iron is superior in quality to any other. According to the remarks of the Hon. James Irwin in a late speech in congress, we had in 1839, 210 charcoal furnaces producing 98,350 tons of pig metal, and 70,000 tons of this was converted into bar-iron by forges and rolling mills. More than 15,000 workmen, together making 90,000 people with their families, consumed annually 7,000,000 dollars' worth of agricultural produce and merchandise. The number has increased greatly since, by the establishment of anthracite furnaces. "The amount of bar and pig iron is now worth about 7,000,000 dollars. According to the returns to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, there was manufactured in 1838, 50,558 tons of castings in thirty-six counties, valued at 5,805,599 dollars. Add estimated value of cast-iron in sixteen counties, at least 1,194,000 dollars, and the amount of bar, pig, and cast iron in Pennsylvania is worth 14,000,000 dollars. A considerable amount of Jersey iron is made into castings and rolled into bars in Philadelphia, and a quantity of the pigs of the Western Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky, are made into castings and rolled into bars at Pittsburg. "To conclude, who does not feel proud of this picture of Pennsylvania? She has all the resources of a great nation within herself, for happiness in peace, for power in war. She is capable of maintaining 30,000,000 of people within her borders, of feeding and clothing them herself, and making the surrounding states her tributaries. Her water power upon the Susquehanna and her hundred branches, upon the Delaware and Schuylkill and their tributaries, and upon the streams that make the Allegheny and Monongahela, is capable of performing the labour of 400,000,000 men. What her steam power can do in her anthracite coal-fields, and upon her 10,000 square miles of bituminous coal-lands, it is impossible to calculate.” TWO SONNETS. BY ISAAC CLARKE PRAY. DEMOCRACY. DEMOCRACY! a word to cheat the mass, Beneath its banners thousands congregate, The actions of the true, the good, and great. LIBERTY. THE name of tyrant, is a spell to raise Within the soul a lightning, which will dart Of dooming sloth, and never heed the slope Where perishes at once the breath of liberty. |