there is, as before partially intimated, a purifying influence in the very atmosphere of knowledge, which tends not only to protect innocence, but directly to increase the strength of moral principle. The physical sciences, in particular, as a general thing, have a happy effect both on the mind and the heart. Connected as they are with Nature, and linked as she is to her Author, the scientific mind will often "look through" the former "up to" the latter. "The undevout astronomer is mad;" and more than that, he is miserably lonely. Only here and there an individual, except in "infidel France," thus exiles himself from God, from innocence and from happiness. THE HARPERS' SERIAL PUBLICATIONS.-We have this week received from Harper & Brothers, through the hands of Hawks, The Pictorial History of England, No. 7; The Statesmen of the Commonwealth of England, No. 3; Martin, or the Foundling, No 3 and The Illustrated Shakespeare, Nos. 107-8. The second work contains, in this number, the likeness of John Hampden, with his life, and also the lives of Sir Henry Vane, the Younger, and Henry Marten.— It is an excellent work. Nothing earthly can supply the place of knowledge, and, by preserving one's innocence, make him happy. To CORRESPONDENTS.-We hope the author of the Wealth and power are often tried, but they are miser-Niagara Fall's Serenade" will keep his harp off able substitutes: they fail to accomplish the end. It is the willow. the rich (the rich in a vulgar sense,) that oftenest hurry themselves out of the world by suicide: and many a stolid monarch, commencing h's reign in the dotage of youthful ignorance, has gone down to his grave in the misery of accumulated guilt. "A LEAF FROM THE LAST MOMENTS OF EDEN," will appear next week. Can we place los among our frequent contributors? We are looking for that poem. from our esteemed friend Hosmer. Why are some others so silent? THE WORLD'S CONVENTION, which assembled in London, on the 4th of August last, was attended by a large number of delegates from this country, among whom we notice the names of Elihu Burritt, Rev. Dr. Beecher, Rev. E. N. Kirk, Rev. Dr. Cox, Rev. Dr. Patton, G. L. Abbott, etc. etc. A number of stirring resolutions were passed upon the subject of temperance, and a epirit exhibited which we trust will exert an iufluence calculated to check the career of intemperance throughout the world. y. GOLD PEN MANUFACTORY.-Messrs. Hubbard & From what has been said, it may be inferred that the man of extensive literary attainments, having a broad field for his mental vision and many beautiful and chastening objects to arrest his attention, is in a measure protected from the snares that beset the path of innocence. It is even so. However low his station, his thoughts, much of the time, dwell in "high places." 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CHARLES ALDRICH is one of our authorised Travelling Agents, and persons having accounts with us, or wishing to subscribe for the Messenger, can transact all necessary business with him. ALONE. BY MISS CAMILLA TOULMIN. A thousand millions walk the earth, Yet the great God who made all things, To quit this lower sphere: (Though sheathed plumes the spirit hath, To float him o'er its burning path, Not wings to bear us far away, God gives his crea ures here, But tendrils of the heart which may Affections-sympathies divine- These are his gifts, that strongest glow Which can but half its radiance shew, Alone!-through childhood's lagging hours, Alone-for even then begin The discipline and wrong. Even in just p oportion due As the young heart is warm To mould to loftier things and true, Torn are the tendrils soft and strong, Alone! we never know how much, Till we that trial dare, When care, who heaps with stealthy touch, Bids us our burden bear, A fardel made of many things, Of sorrows unforeseen, And hopes whose knell kern memory rings, Life's errors wreck the litt e tore SCIENTIFIC.-An old lady who had been reading Locke's famous moon story very attentively, remarked with emphasis, that the idea of the moon's being in habited was too incredib e to believe; for," said she, "whit becomes of the people when the moon is nothing but a little streak?" COW RIDE BACKWARDS. During the Revolutionary war, when a corps of the American army were encamped near the borough of Elizabethtown, in New Jersey, an officer who was more of a devotee of Venus than of Mars, paid his address to a lady of distinction, whom he was in the habit of visiting nightly, in the cultivation of those kindly feelings which love so cordially aspires. On a discovery of the repeated absence of the officer, and of the place his interviews with his dulcinea were had, some waggish friends resolved to play off a handsome trick at his expense, which should force him froin a repetition of his amorous visita. The officer, it appears, rode a very small horse of the pony kind, which he always left untied, with the bridle reins over his neck, near the door, in order to mount and ride off without delay, when the business of courting and kissing was over; and the horse always remained unul backed by the owner, without attempt ing to change his po ition. On a certain very dark night, when the officer had as usual, gone to pay his devotions to the object of his affections, and was en. joying the approving smiles of the lovely lair, one, his waggish companions went privately to the house where the officer was, took his bridle and saddie from the horse, which they seat away, placed the bridle on the tail, the saddie on the back, and the cupper over the horns of a quiet old cow who stood peaceably chewing her cud, near the spot. Immediately therealter they retired s me distance from the house, and separating, raised the loud cry of alarm, that the enemy had landed, and were marching into the village. Our hero on hearing this, took counsel from his fears, and snatching a hasty kiss, he shot out of doors with the velocity of a musket ball, mounted into the saddle, with his back towards the head of the cow, and plunged his sharp spurs deep into her side, causing her to bawl out with excessive pain, and she darted off in her best gallop towards the camp. The officer still plying his spurs and with his wine and love on board -finding himself hurried rapidly backwards, mauger of all his efforts to advance, and hearing the repeated bawlings of the tortured beast, imagined that he was carried off by Magic, and roaring out most lustily that the devil had got nin was, carried into the very allign. ment of the camp. The sentinels, hearing the noise, discharged their pieces and fled; and alarm guns were fired, the druins beat, officers left their quarters, and cried turn out ! tura out! with all the strength of their lungs. The soldiers started from their sleep as if a ghost had crossed their dream-and the whole body running half naked, formed as quick a possible in gallant dishabille, prepared to repel the terrible invader. When lo! the ludicrous sigt soon presented itself to their eyes, of the gallant officer, mounted on an old cow, with his face towards her tail. Her tongue banging out-her sides gory with the gigling of the spurs, and he him. self almost deprived of reason, and half petrified with horror. A loud roar of laughter broke from the assem bled band, at the rider and his steed-the whole corps gave him three hearty chers as he bolted into camp. GEN. TAYLOR.-General Taylor reples to a letter He was carried to his quarters in triumph, there to from the Hon Go. Folsom, of New York, transmitdream of lover's metamorphoses, backward rides, ting the resolves of a meeting nominating him for the sternway a Ivances, and alarm of invasion, and thereby Presidency as follows: to garnish his mind with materials for writing a splen-, did treatise on the novel adventures of a cow story. DEATH AND DR. FRANKLIS.-Dr. Franklin at the death of his father, wrote, "We have lost a most dear and valuable relation; but it is the will of God and na Dear Sir: The mail of yesterday conveyed to me your letter of the 16th of July, accompanying a copy ture, that these mortal bodies be lait aside, when the of the resolutions recently adopted in New York city, and expressive of the approbation of a large number roul is to enter into real life. This present state is rather an embryo state-a preparation for living. A of citizens for the recent services of the Army of Ocman is not completely born until he is dead. Why cupation. For these expressions, our warmest gratitude is due, and will long be remembered as renewed then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals-a new member added to their society? incentives to exertion in the cause of the country. For your own very complimentary note, my personal We are spirits. Our bo ties are only lent to us, and that God should lend us bodies, while these can afford thanks are also due. Permit me to say, it is a source us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in do- of gratulation to me that the meeting refrained from ing good to our fellows, is a kind and benevolent net the meditated nomination. For the high office in question, I have no aspirations. The government has of God. When our bodies b come unfit for these poses, it is equally kind that a way be provided by assigned to me the arduous and responsible duty in which we can get rid of them. Death is that way.'' the prosecution of the existing war; in conducting it with honor to the country lie all my real aspira SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. pur. FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.We received late last evening, intelligence of the highest importance from the Rio Grande and the Cabinet at Washington. tions. It is with great pleasure, sir, that I thus acknowledge the gratitude of the army for the good opinion and cheerful approval of the citizens of New York city, with assurances of our warm appreciation and my own personal wishes for your prosperity in life. A Courier is now in this city, despatched by Gen. Taylor from the head quarters of the army, and we are informed, on the most reliable authority, that no pro- TERRIBLE STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.-At five o'clock posals for peace whatever, have yet been made by i- last evening, as the steamboat Excelsior, Capt. Nelther the Mexican or American Governments or by any son, which plies between N. Y. and Coxsackie, was of the accredited agents since Santa Anna's arrival in leaving the dock at the foot of Courtland street, her Mexico, and after he had sufficient time to make ad- boiler exploded with a terrible concussion, killing sev vances. if he intended to do so, toward our Govern-eral of her passengers and crew. The boat immedi ment. ately took fire from the effects of the explosion, driftThis news we had partly expected, but it is all ex-ing at the will of the elements, and for a moment it plained by the fact which the N. Y. Herald states was was feared those on board of her who had escaped the the first to proclaim no amity, that Santa Anna had original calamity would be engulfed in the flames. As given assurance to his friends that in returning to re- the wreck drifted down stream, it was feared she would sume the command of the army, he would most im-run afoul of the vessels at anchor in the stream. This plicitly follow the public will and inclination of Mexi-was prevented. she was overtaken by the steamer J. co in regard to the war. He is now waiting to learn the popular feeling. This is one item. A second item of intelligence brought by this courier, is, that the ministers of England, France and Spain in the Capitol of Mexico, had given the greatest assurances to Santa Anna that neither he nor his government shall receive from them one dollar, or the slightest encouragement in prosecuting this war. This arises evidently from the immense damages which ar- flowing to the commerce and mingling interests of those nations which are so seriously affected by existing hostilities. Fitch and conveyed to the Jersey shore. The boat was turned entirely to the water's edge. The bot was new, and put on the route in June last, but was not of the first cla s. She was engaged principally in cheap passage business between N. Y. and Catskill, and Coxsackie, and was owned by Hunt, Nelson and sons, of the latter place. She was valued at $35,000, and was but partially insured. The whole number of passengers on board probably did not exceed 40. The explosion shook the large steamers H. Hudson and Empire lying at the Courtland st. piers. The timbers were thrown high up into the air and the body of at least one person was seen timbers; the boiler was not seen after That part of it not broken to pieces The third item is, that up to last Tuesday, no decis-falling with the ion had been come to, by the Cabinet, to attack San the explosion. Juan D'Ulloa. If these facts be so, and we have them went to the bottom. on authority which we cannot but credit, the future is all uncertainty, but time, the great regulator, will de-al and taken care of. cide it.-N. Y. Herald. The sufferers were immediately taken to the hospi S. Slossin, aged 78 years, father-in-law of Mr. Da mon Gilbert, 1st Ward, was badly scalded, and died in a few minutes. Mr. Hull, passenger, living at No. 177, Lewis street, had his face very much battered, and his upper and lower jaws both broken in several places, has a deep injury on his thighs, and is burat on one knee. W. Van Wort, 1st Engineer, had both arms badly burnt, and was burnt on his back. G. Van Wort, 2d Engineer, brother of W. Van Wort, had his arms, legs, back and throat badly burnt. One of the firemen is missing-supposed to have been the body thrown up in the air at the time of the explosion. The cause is as yet unascertained. The 1st Engineer says there was but 18 inches of steam on just before the explosion. FROM THE SOUTH.-The Steamer Legare, at New Orleans from Vera Cruz, brings information of the entire loss of the United States brig Truxton, on the bar of Tuxpan river, 130 miles north of Vera Cruz. The Truxton was in shore protecting her boats, which were obtaining provisions, when she struck on the bar.Excepting Lieut. Hunter, and one boat's crew, the officers and crew surrendered to the Mexicans, and were very well treated. Lieut. Hunter put to sea, captured a Mexican schooner, and got on board the Princeton, went to the Truxton and found her entirely stripped, and her guns thrown overboard. The Princeton burat her. Her crew have been sent to Tampico. The Legare has despatches for our Commodore, supposed to relate to a three months' armistice with the Mexicans. About ten days since Santa Ana left Vera Cruz for the city of Mexico. Previous to which, however, he sent a polite invitation to Commodore Connor, to meet him on board the English frigate Endymion. The interview did not take place. A few days since, one of the English boats came rowed in a violent rain squall to the squadron of Cem. Conner. The next day a flag of truce was returned, but no rumor of the business has transpired. The frigate Potomac is nearly disabled by the sickness of the crew. The scurvy has broken out on board, and she has now 140 cases of this dreadful dis ease. MORMON AFFAIRS.-Warsaw, Sept. 1, 1846.-The Anti-Mormon posse moved from Carthage toward Nauvoo on Sunday morning last, and encamped on the Fort Madison road seven miles from Carthage, where they yet remian, and will not again take up their march until Thursday, awaiting in the meantime the reception of more reinforcements, and the receipt of some heavy artillery from St. Louis. Persons who left the camp to day, at 11 o'clock, say that the number is now about 800, a force which many cousider entirely adequate to enter Nauvoo with; but officers in command deem it best to march with such a number as will bear down all opposition, and at the same time accomplish their object with as small a loss of life as possible. The encampment, it is expected, will receive a large accession from the adjoining counties between now and the resumption of their march, persons from several of them having visited the posse, and found that it was the determination to enter Nauvoo certain this time. The Anti-Mormon camp is well supplied with provisions of all kinds, the citizens of the country freely contributing any thing in their possession to further the cause, without demanding or expecting any remuneration. A quantity of powder, canister shot and muskets, intended for Nauvoo, came up on Sunday night last, and while they were being put into the wagons to be conveyed there, affidavit was made hefore a magistrate that they were intended to be used for unlawful purpose, and they were accordingly stopped. Last evening a detachment from the Anti-Mormon camp went up the river opposite Keokuk, and succeeded in getting possesion of the whole and bringing them to the camp. One hundred and fifty men were sent out from Nauvoo during the night to intercept the party and recapture the ammunition, but the expedition failed, the Anti-Mormons taking a different road. This expedition is said by persons from Natvoo, to have been under the immediate command of Captain Backenstos, of the United States Army; if true it certainly presents a new feature in the history of the country-officers of the regular army, heretofere being compelled to abstain from all interference in the domestic quarrels of the people, unless ordered to do so by the regularly constituted authorities. Regular sentries are placed by the parties on the prairie between Nauvoo and the Anti-Mormon camp, and the pickets of each are alternately drven in during the night. In addition to what is here stated, we learn from the Quincy Whig of Wednesday, that Col. J. B. Chittenden, of Adams Co., one of the signers of the Address which we published two or three days ago, had been taken prisoner by the Mormons and was confined at Nauvoo. They sent out word, it is said, that if he would come into the city, they would negotiate peace. He did so, and when there they seized him as a pris oner. "Ist. That in cases of emergency delays are dangerous. 2d, That in order to carry out the resolves of the meeting, to assist in executing the laws of the State, it is essentially necessary that aid should be given those who are engaged in the legal discharge of their duty in Hancock County, opposed by a mob in Nauvoo-we therefore recommend that as many moun ted volunteers as can be mustered at the Court House, in Quincy, on Wednesday morning, the 2d inst., armed for the occasion, ready for marching to the scene of action, with four days provision. In the mean time, the committee will visit Carthage and meet the volunteers at Ursa at 11 o'clock on Wednesday and report as circumstances may require." LATER. Since our last, we hear from Hancock co., i that Col. John B. Chittenden, who had been captured by the Mormons, and detained, has been set at large. He was detained part of a day and one night-part of the time confined in a dark room-and was abused in the streets. Capt. Backenstos, one of Mr. Polk's Captains in In the new rifle regiments, still figures in these disturbances. Every day, it is said, he is to be seen at the head of an armed body of Mormons, reconnoitering the camp of the Anti-Mormons, at a respectable distance. By the officers of the Ocean Ware, we have accounts from the rebellious district up to Saturday eve ning. The Anti-Mormons are encamped about 12) miles from Nauvoo, in number twelve hundred, and daily increasing. It is said that two thousand have volunteered, and will soon be ready for service. REV. DAVID ABEEL, formerly missionary to China, after a lingering illness, has gone to his reward. His death took place at Albany on Friday the 5th inst.He led a life of disinterested piety, and died the death of the righteous. Earth can ill afford the loss of such men, but Heaven has a better claim upon them. His works will follow him. EXTENSIVE FOLLY.-Rev. M. Dean, Baptist mis. sionary, states that the Chinese are supposed to spend $360,000,000 for incense to burn before their idols. This is one dollar for every inhabitant in the empire, old and ng; and it is only for a single item in the suppof idolatry. LIBER PARTY NOMINATIONS.-The Convention at Canasta nominated for Governor Henry Bradley, of Yates Co., for Lieut. Governor, Wm. L. Chapin, of Albany, and for canal commissioners, James Sperry of Monroe Co, and John Thomas, of Cortland Co. We understand, says the Utica Gazette, that Alvan It was understood, that a Mr. Breeman arrived at Nauvoo on Saturday, from Springfield, with orders from Gov. Ford to take Major Parker and bring him forthwith into the presence of his Excellency. Re-Stewart declined being run again. port said that Mr. Parker never had any authority from the Governor to quiet the riots in Hancock co., except on his own responsibility—that is, that he would be allowed to raise volunteers, if he would agree to defray the expenses himself. It was also said, that Mr. Breman came prepared with orders from the Governor, to try and stop the Anti-Mormons from making a descent upon Nauvoo. APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.-Jeorge Pancroft of Mass., late Secretary of the Navy, Minister to Great Britain. John Y. Mason, of Va. to be Secretary of the Navy. A few enterprising Agents will find liberal encouragement, upon application at this office, to aid in the circulation of the Messenger." The Anti-Mormons were waiting the arrival of Mr. WM. S. VAN DUZEE, SURGEON DENTIST, Corner Main and a cannon with which to storm Nauvoo. Immediate- ATTENTION, PRINTERS: W. PRESCOTT & Co. Proprietors of the BUFFALO PRINTING NK MANUFACTORY, would respectfully inform Pr nters that they have on hand, and for sale, NEWS, Book, and COLORED INKS, warranted equal to the best manufactured in the United States, which they offer for sale cheaper than can be procured at any other establishment in the western country. PRINTERS' FURNISHING WAREHOUSE.-The subscribers are general agents for the sale of PLAIN, FANCY, METAL and Wood TYPES, Cuts, Borders, Brass Rules, Printing Presses, Colored, Printing and Marble Paper, Enamelled, Pearl Surface and Common Cards, embracing every article used in a Job or Newspaper Office, which they offer for sale at New York and Boston prices, adding transportation. The patronage of the printing public is WM. PRESCOTT & CO. respectfully solicited. TELEGRAGH TO CANADA.-It affords us great satisfaction to learn that there is great probability of the "lightning lines"the electric telegraph, being extended from the great cities of the United States to Montreal and Quebec. A gentleman is now in town, and has submitted proposals to the Board of Trade, for making an immediate commencement with this most important public work. We believe that the principle upon which he wishes to construct it, is, that their papers, send us a copy, and remit us $10, shall receive in a certain boaus should be paid him, amounting to about half the cost, by the citizens of Montreal. This sum would be, according to his calculation, from £3,000 to £5,000. The line will connect the cities throughout this vast continent in such a manner, that the news may be conveyed instantaneously between the most remote of them.-Montreal Herald, September 7th. the The jury in the libel case of Miss Murdock, vs. Publishers of the N. Y. 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