THE EARTH AND THE STARS.
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 BY CHARLES MAcXAY. Said the Earth to the Stars. "oh my sisters. Fellow travellers through this dread immensty' Send voice to my spirit ard derlare,

 II. serenely ssyc smile on me. and fair. Ye are dwellings fer all miseries. like me! "Oh tell me # in you, my glorious slsters' Rule, ,vyan, like the one enthrcned here II death has ever entered in your clim's, fad suffering, and calamity. and crimes Eve, rob you nf the children that you rear: " Oh tell me il in you, my myriad sisters. The weak are ~ver t,ampled by the strong! II mallue, an intolerance. and hate,

 And warfare. and ambition [" be gr at. Ever Cause the righ, To suffer from the wrong :" Oh tell m'. silent sisters. are ye happy Are the nulii.u es that lv.. bcnesih your ski's Full ti knowledge, u.,at cursed i'y such ban As man has pv.r i.su d against man; Are they happy .are they lo.ins. are they w'se' Said the Stars to the Earth. 70 m"urnfnl sister. Rolling calmly through the cAi'" intn'y, We have r,Iled for countless ages on cur

 track.

 Ever ronwsrd-?ressing onward-never back {; There is progress both fOv Us and for thee. "There is neither standing still nor reisosres. Ip the laws of eternal severance;

 And death itsel., which prompts thes 10 re.

 pine,

 Is nc evil unto thee or thine. But step from good 10 better; an advance. "Thou wilt make, oh though foolish little sis'

 ter,

 The full cycle of thy glory. in thy time;

 We are rolling on in ours for evermore; Lsok ne, backward-see eternity before, And lgee thyself of sorr"w and ct crime. "Cod who made thee, never meant shee'

 mournful sister,

 To be filled with sin and grief eternally; Aud the children that are born upon thy

 breast

 Shall, in the fitness of their destiny be blrst There is progress for the Stars. and for thee" The Smithsonian Secre'Gry.-Professo' 1Ienry, of Princeton, has been appointed .Smjthsonian Secretary. He is a person "i nrLouu | scientific attain nnents, not bellies ieures SC holar, of literally educated man. Aa Anti SlaUery C"l'ny.-A compan, of Pennsylvanians, belonging io the Society - of friends, have purchased ihe Woodian estate. comprising two thousand acres iu Fairfax conn,y. Va. and will ses'le on the lani. aud prsceel to its cultivation, cy tof' miuS nurseries, gardens. &c.

 Mde Wssk. Representative elect Tor Nes York. ia bis last s Subaerranean" adse"''

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