tering into it*? composition be expressed in fig- cannot see that he was injuring you, or minding 
the limits of a finite mind could never com-1 anybody’s business but his own.” 
“ But he had no right to be in my garden ?” 
“ Perhaps not; but suppose I should be passing 
it to-morrow morning, aud should be tempted by 
its beauty to climb the fence and walk in it, be¬ 
ing careful the while not to injure a flower, 
would you set Blitz on me, or scold me otf ?” 
“ Of course nut; how silly!—but that is alto¬ 
gether different." 
I should behave myself. So 
ures. 
prebend such force of quantity. Now, develop 
in our minds the thought that some of the other 
planetary bodies, which to the natural eye, ap¬ 
pear like little specks of light in the great sea 
above us. are as inconceivably greater than is 
ours, us is the whole surface of our globe greater 
than that of a square mile, while the mass of 
matter comprised in some groups of heavenly 
bodies, irrespective of the sun and the comets, 
exceeds that of the earth 2,500 limes, while the 
sun is more than 500 times as large as all these 
planets together, and more than 1,300,000 larger 
than the earth, and we have a faint conception 
of the extent of a single system. Now, the 
Telescope has brought within the sphere of 
human vision upwards of 200.000,000 of fixed 
stars, each of which is unquestionably a central 
Hin encircled with a vast, system of planets and 
satellites like our own king of day. Nor have 
we any reason to suppose that oveu telescopio 
vision has done anything more than to bring us 
within the more outskirts, or border territories of 
the creation of (ion. 
One groatleading fact which the telescope has 
revealed with almost undoubted certainty should 
not be overlooked in this connection. Each par¬ 
ticular system has its central sun, with its plan¬ 
ets and their satellites. The great revelation of 
the telescope, is this, that each one of these cen¬ 
tral orbs is but a satellite,of Borne other central 
orb, still more remote. Thus the whole material 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
THE REVELATIONS OF THE TELESCOPE, 
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. 
Man is the noblest work of God— a combina¬ 
tion of heaven and earth. No other phenomenon 
has God enthroned so high In glory as He has (hot 
To him has He 
made in His own image—Man, 
given countless agencies whereby the power of 
His wonders might be unfolded—entrusted to 
him keys which unlock the uttermost parts of 
His dominion. Geology travels the whole earth 
over, and brings from its extreme limits caskets 
of mineral and earthy knowledge. Botany gently 
and bids them tell to 
“How different 
did Bob until you insulted him.” 
“ I insulted him F 
“ Of course you did. I should have regarded 
it an insult had you treated me as you did him— 
so would you, had he treated you In like manner. 
Now I put it to you, Tom, would'nt you ?” 
Tom averted his face and did (not answer, but 
Charles continued— 
“ Tom, you said you never could bear Bon 
Blinkbye. Now, why not ? Has he ever done 
you an injury ?—or has ho done anything to any¬ 
body that should make you dislifc him ? Say 
Tom, haB he?" 
“No, Charley. T cannot say that he has; but 
you know ho is bad-looking, and poor, and-’’ 
“For shame! —fio on you. Poor! and b 
looking ! and you cannot bear him 1 Now see 
here: suppose your father should suddenly lose 
his property and become poor; and suppose 
some accident should happen to you by v-uich 
your face should bo badly disfigured; would that 
be any cause why your class-mates should de¬ 
spise you ?” 
“ That is impossible ?” 
* l Not at all; stranger things than that have 
Now tell me, would you think it 
wakes the tiny floweret! 
admiring throngs the beauties of their mission. I 
Micrography lends a willing hand, and through j 
its mirrored lenses the minute, invisible particles 
fl V from their concealment and lie in open beauty 
upon the delicate organs of sight; while Astron¬ 
omy —the key of keys—contented not with a 
terrestrial mission, opens the very heavens, and 
pourB upon us the balmy air of the far beyond. 
Boundless in their mysterious grandeur, its reve¬ 
lations are admired by the simplest minds, while 
from the sage a constant incense of adoration 
and praise asceuds to the altar ot their unrivaled 
beauty. 
Experience as well as philosophy teaches us 
that one of the earliest inquiries awakened in 
the mind is in reference to the host of starry 
choristers in the blue vault above us. Thelittle 
child, prattling upon its mother’s knee, looks out 
I iou the sparkling canopy, all decked withburn- 
g gems, and his little heart thrills with love as, 
those familiar words, heimpulsively exclaims: 
“Twinkle, twinkle, little Star ' 
Hgw T wrmd'r what you are, 
Up above the world no high ; 
Like a diamond in the sky.” 
eautiful thought 1 and the sentiment of every 
idividual, who, unassisted by telescopic art, 
iews the grandeur of the heavens with the nat- 
raleye, millions and millions of starry worlds, 
ith all their 'peculiar phenomena, sweeping 
cross the universe—what a panorama for thehu* 
tan eye!—what a field of inquiry for the hu- 
mn mind 1 Oh, it seems to me sometimes, when 
feast upon such glories, that they are little 
rorids of love, moulded in the (lame around 
Jon's throne, aud gently heid in His hands by 
nseen chords, kept strung by the breath of hap- 
iy augels, or in the beautiful language of Dr. A. 
J ahan “The canopy of heaven, in a cloudless 
light, appears as if some tall seraph, standing on 
me of the battlements of heaven had shaken his 
Town, and its countless pearls had failed thickly 
lpon the firmament.” I do not wonder that the 
poor heathens of ancient mythology, when they 
felt the glories of glittering worlds pierce their 
very souls, bowed the knee in humble reverence 
to the gods of their imagination. Nay! the bright 
radii, as they fell like pointed arrows into their 
ardent breasts, seemed all freighted with spirits 
of infinity, and soft-winged angels knelt beside 
starry rivulets and filled bright cups to bathe 
their devoted brows- 
Science has furnished us with means whereby 
we may not only pierce the dark obscurity which 
lies between us and other planets : measure the 
magnitude of the celestial orbs and count their 
glories; but actually traverse their several do¬ 
mains, analyze all their problems and become 
acquainted with their particular characters. Such 
is the. glorious missiou of the Telescope, To the 
astronomer it cornea freighted with wondrous 
revelations—the theme of his constant study and 
joy. It widens the narrow boundaries of his 
naked eye, and makes the tender retina grow 
young and the old blood with which it was 
bought The error put us on the defensive, and 
gave us the choice of position. From the mo¬ 
ment that our artillery and infantry rolled back 
through the main streetof Gettysburg and rolled 
out of the town to the circle of eminences south 
of it, we were not to attack, but to be attacked. 
The risks, the. difficulties and the disadvantages 
of the coming battle were the enemy's. Ours 
were the heights for artillery; ours the short, 
inside lines for maneuvering and re-enforcing; 
ours the cover of stone-walls, fences, and the 
crests of bills. The ground upon which we were 
driven to accept battle was wonderfully favora¬ 
ble to us. A popular descripliou of it would lie 
to say that it was in form an elongated and 
somewhat sharpened horseshoe, with the toe to 
Gettysburg and the heel to the south. 
Lee's plan of battle was simple. He massed 
his troops upon the east side of this shoe of posi¬ 
tion, and thundered on it obstinately to break it. 
The shelling of our batteries from the nearest 
overlooking hill, and the unflinching courage 
and complete discipline of the array of the Poto¬ 
mac, repelled the attack. It was renewed at the 
point uf the shoe—renewed desperately at the 
southwest heel—renewed on the western side 
with an effort consecrated to success by Ewell’s 
earnest oaths, aud on which the fate of the inva¬ 
sion of Pennsylvania was fully put at stake. 
Only a perfect infantry and an artillery educated 
in the midst of charges of hostile brigades could 
possibly have sustained thfe assault. Hancock's 
corns did sustain it. aud has covered itself with 
happened 
good cause why Cuarlks Rivers should shun 
you, if these misfortunes should come upon 
it is encircled. Is it not the home of those pure, story. Bob Blinkrye is a teliow wno nas muon 
blessed ones, who have washed their robes and good sense and good taste, too, and I consider 
made them white in the blood of the Lamb and him one of my best friends.” 
came out of groat tribulation ? Is it not the lo- “One of your best friends Charley ? ’ 
cation oftbe throne of God 1 O, fellow mortals, “ Yes sir: I have spent a great many pleasant 
have you not seen in the very depths of this in- hours with him in his garden. V on know father 
Unity—In the midst of all these systems—a bright used to own a farm adjoining his father’s place, 
palace—a glorious throne, and One who sat and when we used to work it, I used to bo down 
thereon like unto the God of Israel 1 Have you there a good deal, and we were often together. 
Only the other day I met him and told him 
about your garden—what a beautiful place it 
was, and urged him to visit it, and I have no 
doubt that is the reason he intruded upon your 
domain. So you see I am responsible for the 
mortal offence Bon Bmnkeye has given you, 
and youjhad better settle with me, Tom. So lay 
on ! I’ll take the punishment. But there must 
be one condition about it. You must get ac- 
Ho would not have treated 
not located, somewhere in the vast wilderness of 
stars, a peopled city, whose streets were of jasper 
and of pure gold, ami whose canopy like the 
tinted ruiubow V And have you not veiled your 
very faces as you beheld, wearing a crown of 
thorns, the Lamb,—The Holy One—before whom 
the very angels bowed with trailing wings and 
lowered harps, as they sang, with mute !ip», the 
praises of the God of Worlds 'l Oh, it is a 
solemn truth, and one with which we should all 
be content, that somewhere la the infinity above 
us, beyond the reach of earthly telescope—a good 
and great God presides—the author of all these 
living worlds—the lover of all that tills them— 
Mart Price. 
quainted with Bob 
you as you did him if you had visited his garden 
in the same manner; lie would not have regarded 
it any trespass.” 
«I’m a fool, Charley— a big fool. Yes, i’ll go 
and see Bob, and he will do right if he gives me 
a trouncing 1” 
“Impulsive as ever! You were going to 
trounce him; now you are going to beg him to 
trounce you, 
dlers in blue, and dead soldiers in gray— more 
marvellous to me than anything I have ever 
seen in war— are a ghastly and shocking testi¬ 
mony to the terrible fight, of the 2d corps that 
none will gainsay. That corps will ever have 
the distinction of breaking the pride and power 
of the rebel invasion. 
The battle commenced at daylight, on the side 
of the horse-shoe position, exactly opposite to 
that which Ewell had sworn to crush through. 
Musketry preceded the rising of the sun. A 
thick wood veiled this tight, but out of its leafy 
darkness arose the smoke and the surging and 
swelling of the fire, from intermittent to contin¬ 
uous and crushing, which told of the wise tactic? 
of the rebels of attacking in force and changing 
their troops. Seemingly the attack of the day 
was to be made through that wood. The demon-J 
stration was protracted—It was absolutely pre¬ 
parative; but there was no artillery fire accom¬ 
panying the musketry, aDd shrewd, officers in our 
western front mentioned, with the gravity due 
to the fact, that the rebels had felled trees at 
intervals upon the edge of the wood they occu¬ 
pied in face of our position. These were breast¬ 
works for the protection ot artillerymen. 
Suddenly, and about 1ft in the forenoon, the 
firing on the east side, and everywhere about our 
lines, ceased. A silence as of deep sleep fell 
upon the field of battle. Out- army cooked, ate 
and slumbered. The rebel army moved 120 guns 
our Father and our God 
Adrian, Mich., 1803. 
You were going to make 
a brute of yourself, and now that you are shown 
the folly of it, you want him to make a brute of 
himself.” 
“ How make a brute of himself ?” 
“Why, by whipping you. Do you know I 
think it the most ifoolish thing in the world for 
two boys to fight ? No matter what the provo- 
« Charley,” said Tom Defoe, one morning ca tion, it is silly and wicked—there is no excuse 
on their way to school, “ I feel just like fighting f or it.” 
—1 believe I shall whip Bob Blinkbye the first 
time I catch him. He deserves it” 
“ What for Tom?” 
“ W hy, ho insulted me, and beside that, he 
climbs into my garden aud picks my finest flow¬ 
ers. I cannot stand that, to say nothing of his 
impudence.” 
“ What made him insult you ?” 
“I don’t know. I caught him in my garden, 
and told him he must leave. I never could bear 
CHARLES RIVERS AND HIS THOUGHTS 
number seven. 
BY LEAD PENCIL, ESQ. 
stronger as, through its concave mirrors, itgath- 
ers all the rays of planetary mystery and im¬ 
presses them in beautiful imagery upon its sur¬ 
face. The plauets, all opaque in themselves, 
surrounding in beautiful harmony the sun from 
whose celestial light they draw their life ; the 
comets, with their eccentric orbits, now swiftly ap¬ 
proaching the sun,—as if trying their affectionate 
powers.—and now,—as if disappointed,—as swift¬ 
ly receding to the furthest limits'; the fixed stars, 
standing firm in all their dignity,—forcible em¬ 
blems of purpose and perseverance. The innu¬ 
merable clusters of lighted worlds, collossal 
abodes of Life and power ; the “Aurora Borealis,” 
with its fiery coronet, forming columns of oscilla¬ 
ting magnificence ; the satellites, whose domes¬ 
tic lamps which, in the absence of the great cen¬ 
tral lamp, bang suspended near the planets to 
which they severally belong ; while in their very 
midst, reigning independent in all his glory, the 
sun, the center of the system, the great nucleus, 
revolving around which are all the constc-llations 
of starry worlds .—this is the picture which grows 
“ But if-” 
“ No, there are uo ‘but if’s’ about it. It is bet¬ 
ter to suffer wrong than do wrong. Because the 
chap who strikes you does wrong, is it any rea¬ 
son why you should do a wicked unmanly act by 
striking back ?—for it is unmanly and no indica¬ 
tion of courage. And then, what good docs it 
do ? Do you feel any better after it is over 1 Is 
it any satisfaction to know that, yon are the big¬ 
gest brute, ami have whipped the boy who tights 
you ? How do you feel after It ? Don’t you feel 
just like a cur-dog, and not a bit like a man ? 
And sensible people regard you with just about 
as much respect as they do a fighting dog no 
I more, at least” 
depended, they say, upon the success of Lee’s 
attempt to transfer the seat of war from Virginia 
to the Northern Border States. A wounded 
rebel Colonel told roe that, in the first and second 
days’ fight, the rebel losses were between eleven 
and twelve thousand. Yesterday they were 
greater still. In one part of the field, in a space 
not more than twenty feet in circumference, in 
front of Gen. Gibbons’ division, I counted seven 
dead rebels, three of whom were piled on top of 
each other. And close by, in a spot not more 
than fifteen feet square, lay fifteen “graybacks,” 
stretched in death. These were the adventurous 
spirits, who, in the face of the horrible stream of 
canister, shell and musketry, scaled the fence 
wall in the attempt upon our batteries. Very 
large aumbers of wounded were also strewn 
around, not to mention more who had crawled 
away or been taken away. 
The field in front of the stone-wall was liter¬ 
ally covered with dead and wounded, a large 
proportion of whom were rebels. Where our 
“Well, I don’t know but you are right, Char¬ 
ley, bbt the Old Harry seems to take possession 
of me when I get mad.” 
“ The ‘OU1 Harry,’ as you call him, does take 
possession of you, and it Is your business to fight 
him off instead of fighting vonr playmates. It 
will require more courage and harder battles to 
conquer him, than it will to braise and deface 
your fellow-creatures. Just give the ‘ Old Har¬ 
ry’ the first five blows, and you will have no dis¬ 
position to strike anybody else.” 
TirM laughed and promised to try: said he 
was convinced everyday he was a great ninny. 
Would Charley go with him to see Bob Blink- 
mischief ? Did be start when you spoke to him 
and act guilty F 
“ No, I don't think he did: he straightened up 
and looked at me as if he thought he had as much 
right there as I.” 
“Did you give him any chance to explain why 
he was there, and what he wanted F 
•• No sir! I thought I had a right to oust him 
at once, and set about it” 
“ Don’t you believe Bon Blinkbye tikes flow¬ 
ers as much as you or I, Tom ?” 
“ Don’t know. If he does, why don’t he cul¬ 
tivate them, and mind his own business ?” 
“He has got a fine flower garden, and from 
what you have said of the whole transaction, I 
Where real true fortitude dwells, loyalty 
bounty, friendship and fidelity may be found. 
Wisdom.— The wise man applauds him whom 
he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world 
him who is most wealthy. 
The greater the difficulty, the more glory is 
there surrounding it Skilful pilots gain their 
reputation from storms and tempests. 
We should so live and lal>or that what came to 
U 3 as seed may go to the next generation as blos¬ 
soms, and what came to us as blossoms may go 
to them as fruit. 
