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J8LY 30. 



MOORE'S KTOAL EFEW-YORKER. 



Sjjicc from Nan Cooks. 



Sural Life in Cabs. 



Puom B. H. Daka'b new book, "To C*toan<l 

 Back," we derivo the following picture: 



As we leave Matanzas, we rise on »d ascending 

 grade, wd the bay and the ci.y lie »P™ bcf < ,rc U! - 

 The bay is deep on the western shore, under (he 

 Hdge of the Cumbre, and tbere 



»-,<!, :< 



,■ llir- 



a this 



shallow 

 ,ky and light, li 

 Toe lighters, wilb sail and 

 i (be quays and tl 



low. All is prellj, and quiet, ana warm, but the 

 ■cenchfli none of those regal points that an im- 

 press themselves "P°t> ,ll « imagination aDd mem- 



I am now to get my first view of the interior of 



Cuba. 

 The aii 



mid l 



Bofi clouds float midway in the serene sky. 

 aun shines fair and bright, and the luxuriance 

 s perpetual summer carers the luce of oat u 

 These strange palm-trees everywhere! I cam 

 yet feel at home among them. Many of the oil 

 trees are like our own, and, though tropical 

 foci, look to the eye as though they might gr 

 as well in Now England as here. Hut the royal 

 palm looks so intensely and exclusively tropi 

 It cannot grow beyond this narrow boll ol 

 earth's surface. Its long, ihin body, so slra 

 and so suionib, swathed from the foot in a I 

 bandage of gray canvas, leaving only it* d 

 green neck, and over that its crest and plun 

 of deep-green leaves! It gives no shade, 

 bears no fruit that id valued by man. And it 

 no beauty to atone for those wants. Yet it 

 more than heuuly— a strange fascination ovei 



eye 



tnd t 



lancy, tl 

 poked or forgot 



.ill i 



soious of its want of uiefulncss for food or shade, 

 yet has a digni'y of its own, a pride of unmixed 

 blood and royal descent— the hidalgo of the soil. 

 What arc those groves and clusters of small 

 growth, looking like Indian corn in a stale of 



a trunk, a thin soft coating half changed to bark, 

 and the ears of com turning into melons ! Those 



of green and yellow fruits plainly enough indicate, 

 when you cimie nearer. Bui that sad, weeping 



of the 





Iti 



the coc 



oat An 



melon been 





he hard 



shell we 





Othc 





es there 





atom 



orms 



and 



loliage, 



ut they 



nm N 



ewE 



gla 



d or Ne 



w York 



forms ui 



1 colors— the 



white, t 





be pink 





due. The tr 





full of bird 



1 of all 



plunm-i 



There is o 



ne like 



iur brilliu.ii 





I CBDUO 





otes To 



the clatte 



of the 



train. Stone fences, 



neatly laid up, run 



across 



the color 

 but Of 8 



s— not of our cold, bluish-gray granite, 

 as a friend once said, of a miser's eye, 

 )fi, warm brown and russet, and well 



overgrown with creepe 



jd hrre 



are clump 



fl o7the 



primorango tree, with its dense and deep-green 

 polished foliage gleaming with golden fruit. Now 

 wo come to acres upon acres of iho sugar-cane, 

 looking at a distance like Gelds of overgrown 

 kroom-eorn. It grows to the height of eight or 

 ten feet, and very thick. An army could be hid- 

 den in it. This soil must be deeply and intensely 

 ferula. 



There's! the end of an avenue of palms, in a 



ncsl of shade trees, is a group of white buildings, 



with a sen of cane-fields about it, with one high 



furnoce-chimney, pouring out its volume of black 



smoke. This is s sugar plantation— my first sight 



ningenio; and the chimney is lor the steam 



e sugar-house. It is the height of the 



gar season, nad the untiring engine toils and 



»okcs day and nighl. Ox-carts, loaded with 



nc, are moving slowly to the sngar-Iiouse from 



e held., . urid about the house, and iu the fields. 



works of t 



s attitudes and r 



negroes— me 



l,h,|. 



: the c 



e the 



ing the mill and the furnace. It is a busy scene 

 of distant industry, in the afternoon sun of a lan- 

 guid Cuban day. 



Now these groups of while one-story buildings 

 become more Irequebt, sometimes very near each 

 other, all having the same character — the group 

 of white buildings, the mill, with its tall furnuce- 

 chimne)-, and the look of a distillery, and all dif- 

 fering from e aeh other only in the number and 

 e\t.jui m the buildings, or in the ornament and 

 comfort of shade trees and avenues about them. 

 Some are approached by broad alleys of the palm, 

 or mango, „r orDU g e and huye gardcnB arourjd 

 them, aud stand under clusters and shade-trees; 

 while other, gutter in the hot sun. on the flat sea 

 Ofcane.field,, wi.h only . lUl le oasis of shade 

 trees and fruit trees tmmediate], ,bont the bouse. 



I now begin to feel that 1 an, i„ Cuba-in the 

 tropical, rich, sugar-grow.ng, slave-lilled Cuba. 

 Tho Poetry of Nature. 



What is it that imparts 



H is not in Nature itself; it 



organized 





flow, 



: deep sailh i 



, and the 



i in the t 

 lives Mid breathes: external nature 

 storehouse °f subjects and models, an 

 until these in called up as images, and invented 

 <"w "U,. i, B ut that never was Ofl Iu 



sed to be of the earth earthly, and 



from the atWreal stuff uf which the visions of 



»"1» Nay. it is not mainly through 



> faculty to which the sights and 



MY NATIVE HILLS. 



My na - live hills arc dear to me: Each val - le, „ml each .train,, Each ol.l gnarled oak, each spreading „„,, Like well !,„„,„ /■ j a 

 Each .ha • dy nook, each moss-grown rock, Round where the pathway leads, The pa, - l,„e where l!,e llcecy flock In "uie, ,°fc -[ fe°edT 



m s ^f+fkz ^ Bel m i a - s ~^0l^m^m 



<''Sil,l'™"X '•■''•" tL " 1 " K ""* 5„ ff" rie " """'""f "»»"• B"t hnnj, my mind ,. think the more Of home, and all it, ^Tr" 



4. Whilst me-mry or - net me once more To plea - .UK, lj ,,■ - ,„,, , mk those days are o'er, Aral ne - ver can re . S n ' 



5. Yet still I lovfl mv m;i . Hip !>,ll. Anil j/iiiH u.r,nr.. =r I t-l- __ _ .. ■ ., .' . * 



■ Vet still I love my |t« - live lulls. And thatl where'er I 



, the murm'ring rills, And my own happy home! 



SipS 



mm -J; : • m : - :i"^mgim^^mm 



the images of a nature not present, but seen wi 

 the mind, that tho landscape pleases, or tho 

 find beauty in its woods or beside its stream 

 the impressivi 





inhlfi u 



'.I 



with signs, each of which has its own sign, fie 

 and becomes poetry in the miud wben read 

 geology is simply tho key by which myria 



the signs, hither to undecipherable, can be unlocked 

 nod perused, and thus a now province added to 

 poetical domain. Wc are told by travelers that 

 rocks of the wilderness of Sinai are lettered 

 • with strange characters, inscribed during 

 forty yours' nandorings of Israel ! They tes- 



tify. 





, of i 





when the cloud - o'enthodoncd tobernacli 



id the tents of the desert; and who shall dare 

 ' whether to the scholar who could dive into 



their hidden meanings they might not be found 

 barged with the very songs sung of old by Moses 



and by Miriam, when the sea rolled over the pride 

 Egypt? To the geologist every rock bears its 



inscription, en g i uved in ancient liioro^'lvr.ljio tliur- 

 lhe Creator's journeyings of 



old, of the laws which He gave, 



Ho 







He 



Trough t — of mute prophecies wrapped up in type 

 md symbol— of earth gulfs that opened, and of 

 eptilcs lhat flew— of fiery plogucs that devastated 

 .he dry land, and of hosts more numerous than 

 that of Pharonh, that "sank like lead in the 



.ighty 



ad, bai 



i degn 



ieroglyph.es, we must be permitted to refer, in 

 iserung the poetry of our science, to the sublimo 

 ivulattotia with which Ihey are charged, and tha 



vid imaginery which they conjure up.— Enaij* 

 ithelatc linen Mn.lbh. 



Books Received. 



Onem uuo Diffusion .,1 1',,,',',,,,'r "i u ul ' [viS. [!,', 

 j;y] N,-. Y..rk;l>. Appiu.oi. \, <Jo. Kucnesttr- 



,ives of the Querns o» Sootlano nod English 



(in-uV llVriJli!!""jV> : .v"-''.'-, 'n',,hM.',M,'.' l n!w,' , iJ'i J l 

 ■' I'U- Lne-.nl lh<- •! - ..I I „-l.,n.r ] Vol. VIII. 



,ov* ("L'Smnuf."! Frum tho French of U. J. 



,',,'l'tu'..' u:,l," "! ,.' ,'1 '!..«,', ''i L .',.-"lraW«ldt"c , ic* 

 llii..... p|. L «t.'} Kew Y..ft: UudJ and Corielon. 



Trip. By 



Kiitjl 



|]Jn, 





0.] N.-w fork: 



" lllhU.f) I 



1] Nuw York: Uarp.T.t Bros. li..ch- 



K'j-'ii. -[. r — Dewbv. 



>; "r, etorirt of tho Stru^clf 



I'll-- It..) 1,1 .ir'.tu m'.u,'" 



[lOm-i. pj,.4Tu.] New York: 



y EnOAE Am.en Pom. With 



3ri Socho"ter^D S wa PP ' "^ S ' 



1. 



le Prtnco N*roi.*ON-Loi'in Uunhai 

 ISM. Translated by j un A. Di 

 Now York: D. Applulon & Co. Eoc 



STONE ABEOW HEADS-HOW MADE. 



Tub heads of Indian arrows, spears, javelii 

 Ac, often found in many parts of our contine 

 have been admired; but the process of forming 

 them conjectured. The Hon. Caleb Lyon, on 

 recent visit to California, met with a party 1 

 Shasta Indians, and ascertained that they sti 

 used those weapons, which in most tribes ha* 

 been superseded by rifles, or at least by iroi 

 pointed arrows and spears. He found a man wL 

 could manufacture thmi, and saw bim at work i 

 all parts of the process. The description whic 

 Lyon wrote and communicated to the America 

 Kitiuiiliiyical Sock'ty, through Dr. E. H. Davis w 

 copy below; 



The Shasta In 

 floor, and laying 



dian seated himself upon the 

 the stone anvil upon his knee 

 mpact talcose slate, with one 



blow of bis agate chisel he separated the ob- 

 sidian pebble into two parts, then giving smother 

 blow to the fractured side he split off a slab 

 some fourth of an inch in thickness. Holding 

 the piece against the anvil with tho thumb and 

 finger of his left baud be commenced a scries of 



continuous blows, every one of which chipped 

 oil' fragments of ihe brittle substance. It grad- 



ually assumed the required shape. After tii 



of the arrow head (the whole being 

 only little over an inch in leugth,) he began 



t in little over an hour he produced 11 perfect 

 idian arrow bead. I then requested him to 

 vc me one from ihe remains of a broken por- 

 bottle, which (after two failures) he succeed- 

 ed in doing. He gave as a reason for his ill 

 es, he did not understand the grain of the 

 No sculptor ever handled a chisel with 

 greater precision, or more carefully measured the 

 ight and effect of every blow, than (his ingenious 

 ,ian, for even among them, arrow-miiking u a 

 iinct trade or profession, but in which lew 

 liu excellence, lie understand the capacity of 

 material he wrought, and before striking the 

 first blow, by surveying the pebble, bo could jndgc 

 f its availability as well as the sculptor judges of 

 lie perfectness of a block of 1'arian. In a mo- 

 icnt, all that I had read upon this subject, writ- 

 en by learned uud speculative antiquarians of the 

 nrdcniog of copper, for the working of flint 

 xes, spears, chisels, and arrow heads vanished 

 cforo tho simplest mechanical process. libit that 

 lie world hud been better served had they driven 

 ho pen less and the plow more. — A'. Y. Courier 

 and Enquirer. 



1 III. ■ 



nnol Bapsn 



... r >< 



sjiiy of Prophecy, fcy U. 6. Fuiaa, B. D. First 

 1: D. Appleion & Co, Rochester— A oahs tt 



,ut For.wiRp; or, Waiting In iho Light. A 

 ! f-r stt.ool Girl, ..fall agea, B\ Lire, Kilk.- 

 Smwt, »uihor of '• Irish Amy," 'The Sign ot mo 

 »i" '-Kiuy Maynard," eld [lOmo.— pp. 8*5.1 

 '•>n: Henry U„yi. n<>rht-!<(cr— Dewtv. 

 V k?* w tKe«l for the W«UJ, llj the Author 

 ne ' " 7 '""'"-nc"." ■■ Beamy of the B ■-■««," 

 1 1. ..rv U..JL E«h> 



™A A K eD * ,1UT °ft'o, The OlU-nOK- Edited Ij 

 ih«b>r— wr'm H ""' '" : °Uwi DlUon A Oft 



WALKING. 



Or all forms of exercise, walking is the most 

 useful, as it brings into play the greatest nutubir 



also leaves free scope to the external mr uses', 

 lite allowing of simultaneous occupation of the 

 nd. Another advantage is that it admits of 

 mplete regulation, both in degree and duration, 

 according to the strength, time, or wishes of each 

 idual. Those who have weak lungs or heart 

 be satisfied with gi'uilc walking, and on level 

 ground. Although conducive to mental activity, 

 often ndvisable to keep the mind free from 

 t or sustained thought when walking, fleucc 

 the advantage of a companion with whom checr- 

 conversation can be kept up, or observing sur- 

 nding objects, wheihcr in town or country, so 

 o divert the mind from study and care. The 

 "suits of natural history are good in this way, 

 and hence also the chief hygienic cfl'ect of shoot- 

 ing and Cold sports, excitement and diversion of 

 mind accompanying the actual exerche. Those 

 who nre engaged in bns in ess, where the dwelling 

 aud the place of business are at a distance from 

 their place of residence, ought to walk at least 

 part of the way, both in the morning and ufter- 

 if confined within doora during the day. 



L1iLT.11 v mid prof( 



than they generally do. The time 



the mind will always be revived 



greater energy. The 



system.— 8eUct«l. 



ght to walk n 



I lust, , 



SODDEN WHITENING OP THE HATR , 



A cofiHEsrosoENT of the Medical Times having 

 asked for authentic instauces of hair becoming grey 

 Within the space of one night, Mr. D. Parry, staff 

 surgeon at Aldershott, writes the following very 

 remarkable account of a case of which he says he 

 made a memoranda shortly after the occurrence :— 

 On February 13, 1858, the column under General 

 Franks, in the South Oude, was engaged with a 

 rebel force at the villago of Chanda, and several 

 prisoners were taken ; one of them, a Sepoy of the 

 Bengal army, was brought before the authorities 

 for examination, and I being present had an oppor- 

 tunity of watching from the commencement the 

 fact that I am about to record. Divested of his 

 uniform, and stripped completely naked, he was 

 surrounded by tho soldiers, and then first appa- 

 rently became alive to the dangers of his position ; 

 lie trembled violently, intense horror and despair 

 were depicted on his countenance, and although he 

 answered the quo tii 11 iHiiiJdri'HM-d to him, beseemed 

 almost stupefied with fear; while under observa- 

 tion, within the space of hulf an hour, his hair be- 

 came grey on every portion of bis head, it having 

 been, when first seen by us, the glossy jet black of 

 the Uengalec, aged about 24. The attention of the 

 bystanders was first attracted by the sergeant, 

 whose prisoner be was, exclaiming, "He is turning 

 grey," and I, with several other persnns, watched 

 its progress. Gradually, but decidedly, the change 

 went on, and a uniform greyish color was com- 

 pleted within the period above named. 



PLEASDHE. 



oploi 



I'i.kwhij 1 



UK,]," 



very variety of form. To 

 e it seems to exist in hoards of gold ; to another 

 hastily squandering such a prize. One pursues 

 ; phantom as it glides through his fancy lo the 

 notber debases every noble fao- 

 o the extreme of human degra- 

 dation, to attain the same object. Pleasure is not 

 found by those who most eagerly seek her. The 

 rich often deny themselves the necessaries of life 

 to amass their worshiped gold, or spoil tho appe- 

 tite and stupefy the sensibilities willi indulgence. 

 The man nfyriii-n roaches the long sought goal, 

 enjoy the anticipated pleasure, but 

 te, that the "coy prudt" has erer 

 been near him till his ambition was gratified, and 

 then lea him. 



The youth throws off all restraint and follows 

 desire through every form of excitement, but never 

 can secure pleasure in his grasp; it is still before 

 him, still beyond him. Heonly reaches the misery 

 that ever follows in its shadow. Unman nature is 

 so arranged that excitement soon loses its effect 

 iflooi: pursued. Strong and unnatural excite- 

 ment consumes the natural healthy action of tho 

 and leaves them to droop aud despond. 



ulty of the ! 





MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA 



GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 



My 6, 14,0, 



is a river 



a Africa. 



Jy 1, 8, 13, 





r In Europe. 



Mys.l:,,!! 







My 3, 11.fi. 







My 111,11, » 



1:, fi, 11, : 



s u gulf in Europe. 



though of great »l*c, by a 



ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, flic, IN No. 497, 



Lord Btboi 

 gen. 



who suffered I 

 t to be I 





passions, and spent his lifetime in their gratifica- 

 tion, was ever unhappy. Bdrxs, equally eminent 

 for genius, yielded to his strong social impulses', 

 and was intemperate, nc has given the most ac- 

 curate delineations of the pure pleasures of Life in 

 his poetry, but he has given an equally prominent 

 example, in his life, otthoiropposile. Perhaps no 

 Poet ever excelled him in picturing "the native 

 feelings strong, the guileless ways," of a manly 

 heart. His poetry was the language of a warm, 

 generous heart, aud though remarkable for tho 

 bright sunshine which pervades it, its author was 

 far from being happy. He felt that intense an- 

 guish which only a noble heart can feel, when it 

 has been carried away by generous impulses. — 

 Others, after spending a lifetime in pursuit of 

 pleasure, with the advantages of talent, wealth 

 and fame, acknowledge their unhappioess, and 

 say they have spent their lifetime in seeking pleas- 

 ure where it was not to be found. A volume 

 might bo tilled with such results to pleasure seek- 

 ers. The history of mankiud, thus fur, has clearly 

 proved that the road to happiness runs parallel 

 with the IIiiile rule, " lie temperate in all tbingB." 



HIGH NOTIONS. 



Notions." A person would naturally bo led to 

 think by reading his flowery description of farm- 

 ing that it is one of the most delightful occupa- 

 tions on tho face of the earth. " Cutrs," 'ike 

 many others of his class, has gathered his impres- 

 sions and opinions by visiting the farm iu the 

 summer season, when Nature is clothed in her 

 finest dress, when farming would be a very Use 

 thing, if it consisted only in sitting under shade 

 and takiug rides a 



tho ladies, Ac. Tin 

 cured by taking a lira) grasp 

 plow, and laboring 

 barley fields. I 





! tin- f 



with 



the handles of the 

 eats in the hay and 

 put through 

 would be 



Wllllll-.- T 



.1 life, j 



tiho 



farmer's boys work out their destiny in their own 

 way, which many of them will do, in spite of nil 

 opposition. Let none of our young men yield 

 themselves to thi* " ot.'/w,;, " influence— which ia 

 afloat in our hind, and tends to smother tho exer- 

 tions of many that arc struggling to choose their 

 atvo occupation, and prepare to wield on influence 

 that will be beneficial to mankind— lo the benight- 

 ed millions that erenow struggling in Ihedorkncss 



8 D igbt- w. I 



tCo.,N. 7., I8W. 



■"'or was ffirine away estates and 



domunis with Idvuh prndigahiv, b'eforo netting 



■ 



"bal !»' reaerv-ed foi bimscll ii..i-.--.-wa» hissole 



;ply. And the whole secret ol h» wondronj 



of insaiiiil.l..' oonciucat, fearli 1 1 iotwpldlty 



