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~ poetryt "
S r 111 N G .
"The bursting buds look tip
To greet the sunlight, while it lingers yet
On tho warm hill hide?niul the violet
Opens ita azure cup
Meekly, and countless wild flowery wako to fling
Tlieir earliest inccnso on the gales of spring. |
Continual songs arise
From universal Nature?b'rds anil streams
Mingle their voices, and the glad earth 6cems
A second Paradise!
Thrico blessed epringl-thou bcar'st gifts divine!
Buushiiie and song, and frngrnnco --arc all thine.
Nor unto earth alone?
Thou ha9t a blessing for the human heart,
r~- si ' ?
fnmuu ivi iiu wuuuuH niui HCiUiiig lor its 8111i\rt
Tolling of Winter flowi,
And bringing hope upon thy rainbow wing
Type of Eternal Life?thrico blcsscil Spriugl"
YOUTH "AND AGE.
DT C1IAUI.1-.S (TWAIN.
The proudest poetry of youth '
Is?" IKould I were a man!"
The golden years that lie between ,
Youth, like a dream, would spnn.
"Tin in its thought?'tis in its heart?
'Tis ever on its tongue;
But oh, the poetry of ago,
It ia?" When I teas youngF'
Thus, in tho morn oflifc, our foot
Would distant pathways find,
Tho aun still face to faco wo meet,
Hie shadow falls behind!
jjui wnen tno morn of life is o'er,
Antl nature grows less kind,
SPlie length'ning shadow crccp3 before,
The sunlight falls behind!
With many * murmur, slow and sad,
The stream of life flows on;
That which we prized not whon wo had
Is doubly prized when gone!
And many a sad and solemn truth
Li9s written on life's page.
T> IV. .T> ~r V/...1U '
uuvnccu u?o x uuu j 01 1 vmiu,
And 'Poetry 01 AgoV
London Literary Gazetto.
A LOVE SONG.
She who sleeps upon my heart,
Was the first to win it;
She who sleeps upon my breast
Ever reigns within it;
She who kiuscs oft my lips
Wakes their warmest bleating;
CTIIU WHO ris.tiM wiiuiiimy in inn
Feels their closost pressing.
Other days than tlicso shall come?
Days that may bo dreary;
Other lioura (shall greet us yot,
Hours that may be weary;
Still that heart shall be thy homo;#
Still that breast thy pillow;
Still those lips meet thine as oft
As billow billow mceteth billow.
Sleep, then, on my happy heart,
?inc? thy lovo has won it;
Dream, then, on my loyal breast,
None but tliotj best done It;
And when ago our bloom shall change
"With its wintry weather,
May we in the eolf-uamo gravo
4 J , ilaep And dream together.
X -
T^o neighbors went to law about a lot of
f,'. boards, one asserting that ho Ua?l delivered so
ha other contended that ho had
. i^p.iv<j4 a lean number. Tho coso wont to
mpj^ ftttd U>e plaintiff brought up a witness .
intfypf^^roromn tuod straight to tho contents
pf {(ttfji'ta .u obargod. Tho defendant, nken
, i i !,' ;if, j D;fii? collected hte feeuitiM ?bm*
torly at random I"
>w," said tho lawyer,
I . ' "how many'pro twice five!" Tho witness hosist
behind him, softly whins'
^ p< rod in his ear, "eleven." "Eleven, by jingl"
Mtd the mW confident wltaew, "and nobody
K' n, who wfla lately reprieved. ns
hb stated, tfie rtlght before his exocutton, and
& . #ho*uhecl togetfldofhi* wife, wrote to her
as follow*: "I ww yesterday hangod, and died
R Ilk* ? b?roi dft m 1 did, and boor it like ft man."
FOREIGN xVEWS. It
Baltimore, May 1. f
The steamship Cumbria, about whoso *
safety some apprehensions began to be *
entertained, arrived safely at Halifax on
Monday nfternoon. She brings dates
from Liverpool to the 13th of April. She ^
left that nort acrain at 0 o'clock P. M. i
I C ~ 1 j
for New-York. Below will be found ^
such items of her news ns have come to
hand. *
Commercial. ?
Liverpool, April 13, 1850. y
Cotton is on the advance, and since the u
ouiiiui^ ui uiu jiuwr icu pnuva IUIVU yum; v
up Jd.
Fair Orleans wore soiling at 1-Jd.; Mobile
at G j-.; Uplands Ofld. r
Flour is stendy at previous rates. ?
The Coftb market is dull, and prices ''
arc lower. ^
_ t
a
second despatch. r
Baltimore, May 1-9 p. m. j.
The accounts from the Manufacturing e
Districts represent very little improvement.
Facfories design resuming the
working on t>h<rt time. I
Sales of cotton for the past week amount 1
to forlv-two thousand bales.
v ~ n
The Greek question remains unsettled. J
Serious apprehensions are entertained of ^
a rupture between Russia and England, 0
regarding the aftairs in Grecce. Russia *
promises Greece assistance, in tlio event
of England's continuing the blockade of '
her ports, which she is determined to do.
Ireland is poorer and more oppressed
than ever. r
The weather in England is pleasant, and 1
tho crops flourishing i-nely.
[Colunibia, Telegraph. j
e
Gen. McDuffik, in company with Col. ^
Singleton, passed the night in our Village, *
fin Rundav nirrth List, nn liia whv In liia t
residence m Abbeville. Though perhaps r
feebler in health, his mind seems to have ?
improved, sincc he passed through here 11
in October last. His recollcction of per- ^
sons and events is better, and his conver- 0
sation more connected. v
[Edgefield Advertiser. c
The Nightingale at Stockholm.?From
11. _ T 1 I _f .1. - XT f
UlC UUIlUUIl VUIIVH[)UllUt;ilt(! Ill U1U rtt'ff *
York Herald we take the following ao- *
count of the appearance of Jenny Lind at 1
the Swedish capital: *
'A strange excitement pervaded Stockholm?every
one was on tbo gut uive to 1
hear Jenny sing. r
'When will slio appear in public?' 1
'When shall we again have tho chanco (
of hearing obr little favoiite ot post *
years?' were the questions every where s
heard.
'Meanwhile the manager of the Couit
Theatre had called upon her to arrange
for the first night of her appearance.
'This was soon done. She was to oppear
as Agatha, in 'Der Fieyschutz/ the
character in which, when yet nchiid, she
had fascinated tho ears of Stockholm.
At length the night drew near. Such a
tumi t as then took place in the streets
of the Swedish capital was, possibly,
nevornearu in mem. ivi iour ociocK, 1
the nvenues leading to t)ie tlveatro were ^
crowded, and when thri doors were 4
opcnnd at eix o'clock, the people crowd- I
eu into it with as great a rush as they: I
were, subsecmently, to exhibit on similar r
occasions in London. Iler reception was 1
so warm and enthusiastic that for fweral ?
minutes tho attempt to comm -h * hor 1
part would have been useless in the ex- 8
treme. And when her first air had boon
sung, such a burst of applause welcomed c
it as has rarejy been heard within the ^
walls of a thoatrc. Criticism of such an c
appearance would be worso than useless. '
It was a triumph. Sho had but to sin^ 0
to be overwhelmed with applause. Iler v
talents as ; i actress were also now ob- <3
served more keenly than they had before ?
been; and when a burst of IFebor's midody
camo from her, it seemed as though
those who heard would have never ceascd [
from their extacy. Such was the first
Eublic reception of this great singer, on
er return to her own native city; and <]
when, that night, sho retired to rest, it ?
must have been with a keen feeling that n
she had, for the first time, drunken, and ^
drunken deeply, from that cup which j
wns for the remainder of her lifn tn hn _
ever filled with that most precious of
wines?the wine of popular celebrity. fi
'On the following day she was waited t
upon by tho chamberlain of his Swedish t
majosty, who came to request her to 0
sing at court. f(
This she did in tho following week, and g
then for the first time she received per t
sonal compliments from many of ihoso -Xl
who had promoted (ho child's early in- fl
erests. She, moreover, had tho satis*
action of hearing from tho Swedish king
he first prophecy of that after success
vhich was to make her the most cclebraed
singer of modern Europo,
'Go on as you havo begun, Mademoiselle
Lind,' snid the monarch, 'and I
on you mat your reputation will not bo
imitod to Germany and to Sweden,
fou will enrapture the whole of the
nusical continent.'
'Jenny bowed to him. What could
he say to such a prediction. She must
liivn lmvr> oftfln t.lionorlit, nf if. in nflnr
oars, when borne upon the wings of her
iwn genius, sho had ascended to the
opitjost pinnacle of fame,'
The Telegraph in Iiussia.?The Jourinl
dos Debuts ctatcs that the Emperor
>f Russia intends to put St. Petersburg
i\ direct communication with Berlin and
/ ienna, by means of a line of electric
elegraph, which will pass by Warsaw
mil RaoAn' tnnrnrda flin canifjila nf f3r?*_
nnny, and that he has already entered
uto the preliminary negotiations for the
ixecution of this undertaking,
Female Editors.?There are six p.v
)ers in the United States under the ediorinl
charge of ladies. They arc,
The Pittsburg Visiter, Mrs. Swisshelm.
["lie Windham County Democrat, CVt.)
tfrs. J. C. H. Nichols. The Lily, Scnica
Falls,) 3/rs. Bioomer. Tho Lancaser
Gazette, (Pa.) Mrs. Pierson. Tho
fazoo Whig, Mrs. Horn. iThc rnounain
itough, ATr*j. Prcwctt.
A Large Hammer.?Thw LonuOii corespondent
of the Philadelphia North
Vniericnn writes that .Messrs. Nasmyth
k Gaskill, the celebrated machinists of
u <11 1Vs3 M7-0 VVJ I | Ul u UliUlllldUtUUII^ i V
iteam hammer for an establishment at
STew York. It weighs six tons, and will
)C shipped In a few days from Liverpool
o its destination. It is the largest lmmner
that has evor been made in England,
rise machinery by which it will be work
s brought to such perfection that a thick
>ar of iron can be sundered by one blow
if the hammer, or an egg placed in a
vine glass can be chipped at the top, with>ut
breaking the glass.
How Siioe-Pkqs aue Made.?The
ollowing interesting sketch of a factory
vhere 1,000 bushels of pegs arc made anmally.
at Vienna Village, Kennebec couny,
is from the Maine Farmer:
Tho logs are sawed in blocks of suitable
ength for tho pegs, and tho ends are placed
smooth. Grooves are then cut out
>n tho end of these blocks, crossing each
>ther at the right angles, and those form
ho points of tho peg3. They are then
tpnnrntarl liv snlittinnr t.lin nrcnniofl
blocks, a knife being introduced between
;ncb row of points, corresponding with
,he grooving. All these operatisns are
performed by the machinery with tho utnost
precision nnd celerity. The pegs
ire then bleached, dried, nnd prepared
or the market. Wo do not know what
urther improvements can bo made in tho
nanufacture of shoo pegs. We recollect
he time when the 'sons of Crispin' made
heir own pegs?splitting them from the
)lock, and pointing them with the shoe
mife. The machinery in tho above esablishment,
we will venture to say is ca>ab!e
of turnincr off more Decs in one dav.
1 \
han all the shoemakers 111 the State could
nake in the old way in the same time,
vliilo the machine pegs are altogether
iuperior. The machinery here used was
nvented nnd patented by a New-IIamphire
Yankee.
Mr. Thomas C. Norri*, tho proprietor
if this factory, informed us that since
September last, he had sent 127 barrols
?f shce pegs and pins for cabinet work to
Winchester, England. Ho has further
>rders from tho snme placo which ho is
mablo to supply at present, in conscience
of tho watoi being so low in tho
tream that he could not keep his works
a operation through tho winter.
r Mrespondenco of tlic Charleston Courier.")
WA8iiiNGTO?v April 10.
Tho week opens brightly. Whatever
liscontents have prevailed they are now
icarly extinguished. Nothing could be
noro auspioious than the agreement of
ho members of tho Committee, ten of
ho thirteen being present, to a scheme of
ompromise.
My letter of yesterday briofly stated
h j provisions of tho scheme. The whole
hing is boooming easy. Somo days ago,
iiuro wero uu?* twwitjf xiuunuui xycuiu*
ratic members who could bo vouched
t>r, a8 certain supporters of this or any
o liboral bchomo. Now, wo can count
hirty, Tho p ^sn~<) of the bill proposed
? beyond a doubt, Mr. Benton will ravo
ind rngo, but who will regard bim? He
lms already given us his programme. |
Tho nuisance must be tolerated. If he j
abstain from open violence, his opposition I
will be of no account. Wo cannot this j
morning, ccuntup more than twelve Sen- !
ators wlr> will, with Mv. Benton, resist '
the propositions of the committee. The j
country may be congratulated upon the
happy result. Those who doubted, at
any time, the strength and durability of j
our institutions, nave been agreeably disappointed.
The Union i? broader and
stronger than it ever wiu* before.
Tlio three bills of Mr. GMay's Commit
tee will now pass the Senate?that is, in
a month, and the House will easily pass
them. Paction is dying away. It fades (
before strong and free opinion.
I am glad to seo that Mr. //"unter's bill,
to establish a Board of vlccounts, is to
conic up for consideration, in the 8enato,
to-morrow. The arguments in favor of
the measure are not to be answered. Experience
has proved that Congress is a |
most unfit tribunal for the adjudication of
private claims. No bills of the kind can
pass without log-rolling. A laige and
doubtful cl? im is better than any of the
legion of small and just ones.
The Census bill is (o be again debated
to-dav. Nothino" ran nass without. n lnmr
J o I " 'O |
talk. Yet every body knows that tho
Census must be taken. The hundred
questions aro opposed by n few. They
are admirably devised for the purpose of '
exhibiting tho resources and social im- I
piovcment of tho country. The last
Census embraced many useful statistics,
for which wo were indebted to the late
and lamented Mr. Legarf.
Four public officers resigned during the j
last week, in order to go to California.
Amontj them is Mr. Gretnhow, the accomplished
and veteran translator for the
State Department. Mr. Clavton has an
pointed in his place Mr. Walsh, a son of
the United States Consul at Paris.
IIoxo it works.? White slavery?Tho
New York Tribune draws tho following
forcible picturo of the state of social progress
in that metropolis.
Can any Southern ci^y famish a parallel?
or any plantation afford an oftset?
Contrast tho condition of these white
slaves?slaves in tho worst sense, and to I
shame, sin and misery?with that of our
black bondsmen, and then let the question
be put which of two must be most
pleasant and grateful to tho oyo of Omnipotence.
Lot tho Philanthropy and
Charity, clamorous for the abolition of
things abroad?look to the abolition of
evils at homo?and both will have
I enough to do:?Telegraph.
'The lato official expositions by our
Chief of Police of tho abominations and
horrors of New York Vagrancy have
justly shocked and thrilled the souls of
Christian Philanthropy. To think for
one moment of the trifles and frivolities
thnt engnge the attention of the gTeat
majority of our city's residents?tho staple
of party and ball-room conversation,
of tea-table gossip and social conference
?while this awful dosocration and ruin
of human sonlsin thousands is proceeding
all around us?to think how stockjobbers,
speculators, <kc. pursue their
several schemings'?of the gaudy, emyty
glitter of fashion's heartless votaries, the
joyous notes of tho viol and the play of
the dancer's nimble feet, while all around
nnd beneath little children of four to ten
VMrs flrft flriv<?n fnrlll in fliniionndi! fmm
deds of squalid ignorance and depravity
to procure by beggary, peddling, theft or
prostitution the means of preserving their
own wretched existence and sustaining
the infernal alcoholic firo which is slowly
consuming their fiendish parents or keepers?to
consider that such is in verity the
education of a large mrjority of tho children
living in our city, while many more
are sent into the streets to learn their
manners and their morals from these
victims of utter depravity, while destitution,
squalor, semi-intoxication, morosencss
and strife ar tho spoctaelcs daily
afforded them at home; aro not theso
p.nniitrh In drivft frnm tlm nunu nf I
o 1- '? "J *"*
the compassionate, and impel tbeui almost
to despair?'
From the Telegraph.
FREE-SOIL FIRST-FRUITS,
Tho persecution of the Mormons, who
were driven by mob-violence, and with
every aggravation of cruel outrago, from
their city of Nauvoo, by the citizens of
the Freesoil State of Illinois, ii familiar 1
In oji.fii nnn
It was one of tho first fruits of froesoil! ]
?and from a personal sojourn for a
short timo among that people, in that
city, wo know that tho sad story of their |
wrongs, and tho brutality practised towards
them?oven their women and
childron?have ncvor yet been fully and
faith full chronicled: and probably never
will.
If the true features of that transaction
should ever be faithfully depicted, it
would stand as an enduring blot?a black
stain on the page of our country's history.
From their houses and homesseads
that wretched people were expelled by
brute force, sanctioned by the forms of
law, and driven forth into the wilderness
to herd with wild boasts.
Had they even been guilty of all the
offences which their enemies assigned as
the cause of this treatment, they were
still human beings, and deserved to be
treated as such; but a pack of wolves nev
cr worried a flock of sheep with more
bloody ferocity, than did these volunteers
in the Mormon war of expatriation. Tho
chargcs against them, if trun, wcro such
as were cognizable by courts of justice,
and punishable by law; but even after tho
Mormon leader, Smith, had surrtn 'crcd
liim qolf nil uiulnv O Innrnl vnnvtoihnn
organized, mob tore him from the very
jail, and murdered him in cold blood near
that stronghold of justice. The expulsion
of his people followed?the shepherd
disposed of, the terrified flock were
an easy prey, and the survivors who escaped
the summary execution of'Uolt's
code' and Howie-knife morality, were allowed
to carry no other wropeity with
them from the Frcesoil of Illinois except
their lives.
Had such scencs been enacted in the
slave States?had the sufferers only been
of a difforont color, or could political cup
ital have been made out of it, the land,
would have rung with the recital of theae
deeds, and tne halls of Congress have
ro-echoed to the waitings of canting political
Pharisees, mourning over the
wrongs of these 'men and brethren.' But
the faces of the victims were, unfortunate
ly, white?they wielded no politienl power;
and members of Congress could gain
no weight, or influence, or popularity, by
becoming the champions of their cause.
*1 ? 1 1
ncutu tiiu awunjr mugs una noisp tongues
from that section, now so busily trumpeting
Freesoil docrtines, and the enormity
of Southern misdoings, were as silent on
this topic, then and ever since, as brass
bolls with their'clappers out.
Moreover, the Mormons professed a
'shockingcreed.' nndTan \inpopular ono
?and these ninns missir?nnri..o *
, ,.UOV
own lives were so strictly in conformity
to the lessons of scripture, adopting the
doctrine (charged on the Mormons) that
'the earth is the saints' and the fatness
thereof'?and furthermore, that 'they
were the saints'?endowed themselves
forcibly of the property of the Mormons,
even to the jewelry of their women?forwhici{
the people thus robbed have never
as vet been indemnified.
.1 A -M il f ' ' '
./imi yet wun inesc nicts {never dciueds
so far as we have seen) staring them full
in the face, tho jSfenators from Illinois,
Douglas and Shields, presume to read
moral lectures to tho Southern States,
whose escutcheons were never sullied by
such stains: and tho Colonel Bakers and
Wentworths, et id omne genus, in the
House, from the same section, hold up
hands and eyes in holy horror at our social
system, and seek to indoctrinate us
with the jKeuliar blessings of Freesoil
jjuiiuBupuy.
But it may bo said that these outrages
wero committed in the infancy of tho
?tatc, and that tliero was palliation for
them in the conduct of tho Mormons..
These apologies may be plausible, but
are they true?
The mormon outrage was perpetrated
not ten years ago?and the recent mails
have brought us a recital of a repetition of
the same scenes, enacted almost on tho
same theatro, against an unoffending Swedish
Colony?without even the apology
of religious fanaticism to be setup in extenuation.
In this crso thn mitrnem lma
been peipetnued on Women ancT Children
mainly, as tho following statement
taken from the St. Louis Republican of
the Oth inst. will prove. Whore are tho
Regiments that tho "gallant Col. Baker,"
ana that Paladin of AAilitia-men "CoK
Bissell," said could bo so easily raisod ta
tho requisition of tho Chief Magistrate?
If their ohajrity would only begin at 'ionio>
-r.it wou?d be bolte/ far for tho repute
t.irvn ftf (IiaIi' f>nno>iliu>ii(a an/1 llmii
.. ?*uv* VUV1? W ?T ^
. %. .
A Jolly Life.?Insocts generally
must Icod a truly jovial life. Think what
it must bo to lodge in a lily. Imagine n
palace of ivory or pear), with pillars of
silver and capitals of gold all exlmling
sunh a porfumo as never arose from hu-?
man censor. Fancy, again, the fun of
tucKing yourselves up for the night in the
folds of a rose, rockcd to sleep by tho
gentlo sighs of summer air, nothing to da
when you awake but to waih yourself jt>
u dew drop, and fall t i and eat your bvd?
clothes!