merry man mad, a lover more enamored, and a religious man more devout. That it can soothe grief, and exhilerate the depressed spirit, who that has an ear for melody, or a heart to feel has not experienced? That it enlivens what was gay before, and can make even buffoonery tolerable, who that has listened to it amid the festival, or during a pantomine, will venture to deny?-To its martial effects the annals of war fully testify, and few are found so low in spirit as not to have felt a kind of inspiration of courage from the sound of a march or the note of a patriotic air.

The powerful influence of national or domestic music over the mind, is strikingly evinced in the instance of the Scottish Highlanders and natives of Switzerland, certain tunes, associated with their homes and country, being played in their hearing, causes so violent a desire to revisit them as to induce the deepest melancholy— even terminating in death when circumstances prevent their desire from being accomplished. If facts of this kind are too notorious to bear an explanation, which would lead at once to the most trite topics, what a scope must there be within the power of music, for effects the most salutary to the human mind-from the exhibition of the mere lively tune, to the sublimity of the anthem from the insinuation of tender passion, to the excitement of martial ardor.

It is not surprising, therefore, that physicians and philosophers should esteem music as not the least powerful of the means calculated to exhilirate a sorrowful heart and to lighten and divert, if not to remove, those intense cares and anxious thoughts, which lead to melancholy. Music, remarks old Burton, is the medicine of the mind-it rouses and revives the languishing soul; affects not only the ears, but the very arteries; awakens the dormant powers of life, raises the animal spirits, and renders the dull, severe, and sorrowful mind, erect and nimble. According to Cassiodorus, it will not only expel the severest grief, soften the most violent hatred, mitigate the sharpest spleen, but extenuate fear and fury, appease cruelty, abate heaviness, and bring the mind to quietude and rest.

RECOLLECTIONS OF HOME.

Among the pleasures of the mind, there are few which afford more unalloyed gratification, than that which arises from the remembrance of the loved and familiar objects of home, combined, as they always are, with the memory of the innocent delights of our childhood. This is one of the few pleasures of which the heart cannot be deprived-which the darkest shades of misfortune serve to bring out into a fuller relief-and which the uninterrupted passage of the current of time tends only to polish and to brighten. When wearied with the tumult of the world, and sick of the anxieties and sorrows of life, the thoughts may return with delight to the pleasures of childhood, and banquet unsated on the recollections of youth. Who does not remember the companions of his early years-and the mother who watched over his dangers-and the father who counselled him-and the master who instructed himand the sister whose sweet voice reproved his wildness? Who does not remember the tree under which he played-and the house in which he lived? Who has not returned, in sun-light and in sleep, to the scenes of his earliest and purest joys, and to the green and humble mounds where his sorrows have gone forth over the loved and the lost who were dear to his soul? And who does not love to indulge these remembrances, though they bring swelling tides to his heart and tears to his eyes? And whose ideas are so limited that he does not extend his thoughts to the days and the dwellings of his ancestors, until he seems to become a portion of the mountain and the stream, and to prolong his existence through the centuries which are passed?

SIGHS OF CHILDHOOD

The harp of sorrow utters no note so deeply distressing, so thrillingly pathetic, as the sighs of childhood. Tears and cries are the natural expressions of their vehement feelings, and they speak grief as transient as snow-flakes in a sunny sky; but sighs are the language of a heart grown old-they are taught by blighted hope and chilled affection. What has happy childhood to do with sighs?

FALLS AT ITHACA, N. Y.

WITH A VIEW OF THE UPPER CHASM OF FALL RIVER.

The high fall of Fall river is the first which strikes the eye on riding from the steam-boat landing to the village. Its height is 116 feet, and its breadth is proportionate. Two immense piles of rock enclose the stream, and on the right hand high up the bank a mill race is seen winding round a point of the bank, suspended in mid air, and now and then an adventurous visiter carefully treading his way along the dizzy path. This raceway was built in an extraordinary manner. A person let himself down from a tree standing on a high point above, and swinging over the giddy steep, he there dug out places in the rock in which to fasten the principal supporters of the race. The view from this point is grand and impressive. A short distance from this, up the rocky bed of the creek, the visiter proceeds until his steps are arrested by another splendid fall; the bank presenting the most curious forms, the most surprising arrangement of strata, and crowned with all the glories of forest vegetation. The fall is beautiful; it is not so high as the preceding, but it is more wild; the water pours over in large sheets, commencing as it were from the topmost ledge, and then spreading out widely and boldly below. The basin in which the water falls is also very picturesque.

Above this, at about thirty yards distance, is another very much of the character of the falls at Trenton, where points of the rock intervene between and separate the principal chutes. This is a very interesting part of the route up the bed of the river, and by this time the tourist is willing to sit down and take breath, that he may proceed to the next fall that awaits his research.

Beyond this is still another, being the uppermost of all; a manufactory of rifles was formerly established at the summit. The bank here is barren and steeper than below, and the volume of water pours down almost in one sheet. It is one of the highest of them all, and is very imposing in its appearance. The five falls we have thus partially described have a descent of 438 feet in the

short space of one mile! and afford an unbounded variety of the wild and wonderful, as well as of the beautiful. The falls upon the Cascadillo are not less fine, though upon a smaller scale. We shall notice but two of these at this time. The one is an apparent chasm of rock, and falls nearly perpendicular; the edges of the bank are rugged and broken, coming close to the edge of the fall, and seem to confine it there. The tall pine, the hemlock, and the spruce, overshadow the amphitheatre into which the waters pour. A beautiful little island, well known as the Tea Island, is much frequented during the pleasant afternoon of summer by the ladies of the village, who there prepare the fragrant beverage, and do the honors of this natural saloon to the attendant beaux. The other fall on this creek is a bolder and a more striking one; it is a handsome sheet of water, and bursts over the ledge of rocks with great force.--Beyond this are others equally attractive.

The preceding engraving is a view of the upper chasm of Fall River.

CABINET OF NATURE.

IMMENSE QUANTITY OF MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE; Or, Illustrations of the Omnipotence of the Deity.

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In order to feel the full force of the impression made by such contemplations, the mind must pause at every step, in its excursions, through the boundless regions of material existence: for it is not by a mere attention to the figures and numbers by which the magnitudes of the great bodies of the universe are expressed, that we arrive at the most distinct and ample conceptions of ob jects so grand and overwhelming. The mind, in its intellectual range, must dwell on every individual scene it contemplates, and on the various objects of which it is composed. It must add scene to scene, magnitude to magnitude, and compare smaller objects with greater -a range of mountains with the whole earth, the earth with the planet Jupiter, Jupiter with the sun, the sun with a thousand stars, a thousand stars with 80 millions.