THE GOLD WATCH.
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THE GOLD WATCH.

 BY EDWARD EVERETT.

 have now in my hand gold watch, which combines establishment and utility in happy proportions, and is usually consid- cred very valuable appendage in the per- son of gentleman. Its hands, face, cham and case are of chased and furnished gold. Its gold seal sparkles with the ruby, the topaz, the sapphire, the emerald. l open it, and find that the works, without which this elegantly chased case would be mere shell, those hands motionless, and those figures without meaning, are made of brass. 1 in- vestgate further, and ask, what is the spring by which all these are put in motion, made of! am told it is made of steel. l ask what is steel! The reply is, that it is iron which has undergone certain process. So then find the main spring, without which the watch would be motionless, and its hands, figures and embellishments, but toys, is not of gold-that is not sufficiently good nor of brass, that would not debut of iron. Iron is therefore the only precious metal i; and this watch an apt emblem of society," Its hands are figures which toll the hour, re- semble the master spirits of the age, to whose movements every eye is directed.- It's useless, but sparkling seals, sapphires, ru- bies, topaz, and embellishments are the aris. tocracy. Its works of brass the middle class, by the increasing intelligence and power of which the master spirits of the age are nov ed and its iron main spring shut up in box always at work, but never thought of, eX- cept when it is disordered, broke, or wants winding up, symbolically the laborious class es, which like the main spring we wind up by the payment of wages and which class. es are shut up in obscurity, and though con- s!antly at work, and absolutely as necessary to the movement of society as the iron main spring is to the gold watch,are never thought of except when they require their wages, or are in some want or disorder of some kind or other.

 Tie number of theatres that have been turned into churches during the past year or two, has been so great that we really wish some one would collect the particulars and lay them before the public. Among the last sold has been the Fremont theatre in Bos- ton, which the owners have concluded to sell to the Baptist society under the charge of MT. Colver, for $50O0O The Fremont has been for years by far the most moral and correctly managed theatre in the United States and was calculated to stand as long as such an institution could be supported by legitimate means.

 We believe that close observer may dis cover that the wonderful fall of theatrical property, which has extended to England as we'll as over this country, has been brought about within the last seven or eight years, and mainly within the last three years The general introduction of French and Italian dancers, to dance, jump and caper half na- ked before fashionable audiences" to show the most disgusting exhibitions of immodesty and indecency amidst grounds of applause,' gradually nauseated the theatre going pub lie, and drove thousands away from the scenes of abomnation, but it was not until Fanny Elssler, "the divine Fanny" arrived to attract thousands of fools in her train and the thousands were thrown away upon her disgusting performances. and new wspaper puffs were kept up as if they would never end, that the eyes of the people were fair ly opened. They then snw tha, theatres had sunk to become nothing but the undis- guised nurseries of profigacy and vice. All who had any regard for moral propriety left them in body never 70 return. They have continued to sink until the profligate and worthless can sustain them no longer. Unless a complete reform of their charac- ter and management is made, the doom of the last must soon be recorded. Thus may it always be.-Po'krePsie Eagle.

 HISTORY OF NEwsPA2ER.-The decease of the venerable Noah Webster calls from the New York Commercial tribute to his honor from its editors. That paper was founded by Mir. Webster. and his death has reminded the present editors to give slight notice of its history. We copy a paragraph or two, to show what changes | time nas wrought, only promising that the paper was started in l797:-

 And here it may be noted as not little remarkable, considering how not only the world, but political parties are given to fiuc- tuation, that through all this lapse of time. and the changes of editors and proprietors, there has been no change in the political principles and conduct of the paper, down even to the present day. As Washington, and Jay, and Ellsworth, and Hamilton. and Marshall construed the Constitution. so do we construe it, and so have we and our pre- decessors opposed every change of the fun damental law-either of the Union or the States-whch they would have opposed.

 But in other respects there have been many changes. Originally, and for many years, the paper was published at four o'clock ..eariier if possible" Noac, if delayed later than two o'clock, the publication office is crowded to the utmost by persons impatient for the paper. At that period one regular carrier and two or three boys served the