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The "Lvtahiz Star. - .; 1 J ' i: The brilliant ereninr Star io night, lea rni thro' the unkr air f ; At tho' some aeraph in hi Bight Through the unclouded f4 realm flight" -; : Ilaa paused an instant there: Had paused, and silently sqrveytii ; The dreaming world below j Then flown awaj to Edan'a ahada Where liring waten' flow: , Mcthinlt3, Borne bright, onearthl gem "Ftll from his flashing diadem, For when h winged bis flight afar Thro' the enchanted air, A light remained ; Thd Evening Star , y JShonc forth serenely tlicre. i : : . 2 I N '. ',Tis thua Vu great the godfl depart And leave a beacon light. To cheer the pilgrim's drooping heart ' ; And guida bis feet aripht. - Hence we rerere the Sayt the Seer . Of ercrjr age and cljinie j Whoa golden gems stilli sparkle here i upon me strand oi time I EXTRACTS FROM THE Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, OSLITSftKD BtrORI THE KIW jVOBS STAT I AORtCCI TCRAt SOCIETY, OCTOBER 9, 1857. CONCLUDED ' A celebrated aliepUcal jhiloaopher of the last century the historian ttume thought to demolish the credibility of he Christian Revela tion, by the concise argument: "It id contrary to experience that a nnrnqle should be true, but not contrary to experience that testimony ahoulo be false. , . 1 , a ; . . - DkI this philosopher ever contemplate the lndcap at the doe of the year, when seedn Jind grains, and fruits haveripencd, and stalks bare withered, and lavi have fallen, and winter h forced her icy tjurb even into the roaring jiwa of Nigara,arjj aheeted half a con tinent in her glittering shjroud, and all this teeming vegetation and orgnnized life are locked in cold and marble obstruction; and, after week upon week, ar4 month uport month have swept with sleet, And chilly rain. and howling storm, over the earth and riveted their cryst.il bolta upon the door of nature's sepulchcrt when the Min at length begins to wh'eeUin higher circles through the sky, and softejr winds to . breathe over mcliing now, did oe ever behold the long-hidden earth at length j appear, and foon the timid gras peep forth.'and anoathe autum rtal wheat bdjjin to paint the field, and "velvet leaflets to burt from purpje bud.4, throughout the reviving forest; and then the ml'oweoil to open its fruitful bosom to every grain and seed dropped from the planter's! hand, buried but to pring,up sgin, clothed with a new, mysteri ous befng; and then, aa more fervid suns inflame the' air, and softer showere diitil from the clouds, and gentler dewsrfiig their pearl on twig and tendril, did he ever watch i tho ripen ing grain and fruit,, pendent from stalk, and ine, and tree ; tba meadow, the 6eld, the pas tnre, the grove, each afttJr his kind arrayed In myriad-tinted garments, instinct with circulat ing life; seven millions of counted leaves on a aingla tree, each of whichj is a system whose xquiite complication puts to ham the shrewdest cunning of the human band ; every planted seed and grain, which had Wen loaned to the earth, compounding ts pious usury thirty, sixty, a hundred fold-all harmoniously adaoted to the sustenance of living nature the bread of a hungry world ; here a tHIed cornfield, whose yellow blades are nodding with the food of mm; wiera an unpianiea wilderness the great Father's farm where he who j hears the raven's cry has cultivatecj, with his own hand, his merriful crop of bertiea. ind , nn ni acorns, and seed, for the humbler families of animated nature the solemn elephant, the browsing deer, tho wild pigeon, whose flatter ing caravan darkens the ky ; the merry equir rel, who bounds from branch lo bianch, in the joy of his HtUe life .has he seen all this does he se it every year, and month, and day does he live' and move, and breathe, and think, in this atmosphere of wondcrU-Mmself the greatest wonder of all, whose smallest fiber and Mnteat pulsation is as mnch a tnyatcry as the blazing glorks ofOrion'a belt aril does be still main tain that a miratle is contrary to' experience t If he ha, and if he doe, then let him go, in the 6 lame of Heaven, and say that it is contrary to experience that the august! Power which turns' the clos of the earth into the daily bread of a thousand million souls could teed flve thousand in the wilderness I , ;-." 4,"v-. -f- Oae mors suggestion, my friends, and I re lUve your patience. As a; work of art, I know; few thing mora pleading j to the eye, or more capaU'a of affording acopo and gratification to ft tatefortho beautiful, - than a well-situated. well-cultivated farm. The man Of refinement will han with never-wcaricd gaze on a land acapo" by Claude or ralvator; the price of. a ttclion of he zoost fcrtild land In the TTast roold cot purchases, few i iut toT the eanvas on which these ereat artists havis di. picted a rnra) scene. ;But nature has forms and proportions beyond the painter's skill; her divine pencil touches the landscape witih living lights and shadows, never mingled on his pallet What is there oil earth which can more entirely charm the eye, or gratify the tasks, than a noble farm? It stands upon the aouthem slope, gradually rUbg withTariegated ascent' from the plain, aheltered from; the north-western winds by woody heights, broken here and there with moss-covered- boulderf, which jmpart variety and strength to the; outline. The native forest has been cleared trom the greater part of the frrm, but a snitable portion, carefully tended, remains in wood for economical purposes, and to give a picturesque effect to the landscape. The eye ranges round three fourths of the horizon over a fertile expanses-bright with the cheerful waters of a rippling stream," k gener ous river, or a gleaming lake; dotted with ham lets, each with its modest spire; and, if the farm lies in the vicinity of the coast, a distant glimpse from the high grounds, of the mysteri ous, evtrlasting sea, completes the prospect. It is situated off the high road, but near enouch to the village to be easily accessible- to the hurch, the school-house, the posl-bSBce. the railroad, a sociable neighbor, or a : travelliiur friend. It consists in due proportion of pasture and tillage, meadow and woodland! field and garden. A substantial dwelling, : w iih every thing for convenience,1 and nothing for ambi- lion witn me htting appendagesof stable, and Darn, and corn-barn, and other farm buildings, not forgetting a spring-house, with a living fountain of water occupies upon a gravely knoll, a position well chosen to command the whole estate. A few iftcrea nn the, frnnf n rA on the sides of the dwelling, set apart to gratify the eye with the choicer forms of rural beauty, are adorned witha stately avenue, with ncble solitary trees, with graceful clumps, shady walks, a velvet lawn, a brook murmuring over n pebbly bed, here and there a erand rock. whose cool shadow at sunset streams across the field; all displaying in the real loveliness of nature, the original j of those landscapes of which art in its perfection srrives to give us the counterfeit presentment. Animals of select breed, sueli as Paul Potter; and Morland, and Landseer, and Rosa Bonheur, never painted, roam the pa-tures, or jfill the hurdles and the stalls; the plow walks in rustic majesty across the plain, and opens the genial bosom .of the earth to the sun and air ; nature's holy sacra ment of seed-time is solemnized beneath the vaulted cathedral sky silent dews, and gentle powers, and kindly sunshine, shed their sweet influence on the teeminj soil : sprineinsr verdure ,c!othes the plain ; golden wavelets, driven bv the west wind, run over the joyoua wheat field; tne tall maize flaunts in her crimpy leaves and nodding tassels ; while we labor and while we rest, while we wake and while we sleep, God's du-miMtry, which we can not see, goes on be neath the clods; myriads nnd myriads of vital cells ferment with elemental life; germ and fta.k, and leaf and flower, and silk' and! tassel, and grain and fruit, grow op from the common earth the mowing machine and; the reaper mute rivals of human I industry, "perform their gladsome task ; . the Well-piled wagoV brings home the ripened treasures of the vear: the bow of promise fulfilled spans the' foreground of me picture, and tne gracious covenant is redeem ed, that while the earth remaioeth, summer and winter, heat and cold, and day and night, and seed time and harvest, shall not fail" ; For the Leisure Hour. A Forgrotten Poet. A short time ago, while ransacking an old book-case, I chanced to find ; a musty, worm eaten folio, entitled " Jcvenilu," beina "Po ems on various subjects ofDevo'ion and Vir tue," written by one Thomas Gibbons, and published in London, in the year 1750. Curi osity prompted me to examine it," although I doubted not that the bard was but one of the many, wlwse parting effusions had been justly vuu6cu w uuhuuii, me reader can there fore imagine my surprise and delight, at find ne caa ( Uama AMi) " 1 1. IM nig ovvci u5 uu uiere, ;iiKe oases m Sa hara, many sweet flowers of song. To rescue ihesc (if I may) from the dust in which thev have slumbered for more than a century, is a pleasing labor an effort whie-h, whether abi r tive or no, carries with it its own reward, in the motive in which it originates. The poems contained in this Volume which are chiefly tnose anccuuons ano mannerisms, which so strongly characterize the ' poets of the earlier half of. the 18.h century . 'J ' I Our religious poets are but seldom, read "and many ask 'why is this!" The question is one quite easy of solution! All religious poems are in a greater or lea decree varanhrases and . k " , . , , " . f . -1 -; ' nence are onlv trnlv iw(icoi wUn than ..&oca to be barst)hrKtT ' Fvoro flitAitrAnf t sacred sang sees and acknowledges at once the immeasurable superiority of the poetry of the Bible, over that of any bard, however cifted. K - j 1 w. j iiiivtijgvu iivibl whose inspiration is' not in its strictest sense divine. To the same.eause; in part; we ma trace the doctrine of ; what we pajidoxicalll Urat didactic poetry which is poeticil onl poetical only i -.'i. .T i . - where no obtrusive didactiei aim of the true poet is not immediately 14 to teach." His sole purpose is either the creation or manifestation of 4,the beautiful n fori beau ty's sake alonej and thus to enkindle a live of the beautiful inf others. j j Never has j a true poet arisen, who haa" not, however imperceptibly, -thus' and only! ths, exerted an elevating, ennobling and refining influence upon our race. l was led into this digression by ! the involuntary, regret, which every lover o poetry will feel upon reading this volume, thjit the poet had not stricy con fined himself tofmore co ngenial themes. J I say congeuial because in the two quotations that follow, he evinces a thorough! consciousness of the character and extent of bis poeUc endow ments, and trul indicates their proper sphere of action, bn page 80, the poet, eulogizing ome nobler bard, concludes his tribute j with these modest, graceful lines :j 1, ; "Meantime,'notemurods of highest paise, At sweet Parnabus' flowery foot I lie, ' And drink enraptured the descending lays, Or m short flights my tender pinions try : ! So in the hnrnhl valo th i;r 1 While the strodg eagle sails i along the sides." Again, on pafre 62. ( " I ' I am only fit to sing j ; " j J On a softlji8peaking string, - 1 Golden halyest of the plains, : . j Bleating flecks, and sporting swains, 1 - Blushing .roses violets blue, V v; Bathing infthe mornino-dftw ? ? ? , Or the stream, whose purling maze ; 0'er the thirsty meadow plays. - I AiMjr reaumine passages l cite below, jaone wiU deny, had Gibbons acted upon the convic tion here explained, that he might have attained with; ease, an camable position araon? thk ni. itti pueis oi ijnugiana. i quote at random j f 1. ,"And May, with Pink and Rose perfumed, j Q m.uuuvu auu uiuuiueu. I 2 For here in childhoods dawning day. passed the live-lorro- Now searched the mazv slmoc For nesta or flegpd, or fresh with younw; vji iuuuu,iue svrearaa umaithtul brink, Where linnets dropt their flight to drink. itjuciitucu uib ivug nmv rusn to snare wmyta musicians of tlie uir 1 3. " T?nt. srm Soft-gliding on ja zephyr's wing, i . uuies Dioommg, young and gay." , . , : f. - I .4. "Here paused the Angel: as when vernal gales ?hat all the inorninr wandrrffl V.q nA And-dipt their; jtvings inievery choice perfume. ak uuuu-uay t i ueam, nusn every murmuring I breath, j And not a motion stirs thro' earth or skies I I . .5. , ,, j " Stay,-sweetest; Philomel, and cheer The solitarv Pilerrim's par. M ' 'Till Morn, in orient gold arrayed jiwaKes me tenants oj the shade. The poet in i another : nlaee antlv stvlpq- Nightengale "Djaughter of Harmony and Night." "Now on the gj-assy turf he'springs, x-oise3 ana piajfs ms quivenng wings, f Eves Ihe blue tfack. Redundant pours his warbled note'." " From the soft! scenes of rural iovs t a i i - L. ii- - . -I J J ujr iu uurrjr, spjoKe ana noise; Bat still one thought relieves my painl l nat summers will return again." Leaving unnoticed an admirable translation of one of Virgil's Georgies. I quote entire lines written, ffon the ! Singing of a Robin" Sept. 1747: m f : . - : "j: : f f. - H ; j. " Now to some (tree's aspiring bough That drops its faded leaves below, Or to some barn's straw-covered height The Red-breast wings his evening flight. Pleased I attend his tuneful throat. ' 1 i rr aue n inter shivers in his note, Prophetic of long months of gloom, : Tempests, and fleets, and snows to' come. Stay, feathered .Innocent, and sing, Till Nature wakes the! blooming Spring; ' And, while the 3ark denies his song, Do thou thj living strains prolong How glad, sweet Warbler, should I be, ; .. -Could I but mingle joys with thee ; And, While lifek wintry state remains, Charm the dnll shades, and sooth my pains"! The line italicized is highly poetical. I will conclude these extracts," by quoting a passage of even remarlcable beauty from a poem en titled A V lew from Hay Cliff" near Dover :" i 'The heaving waves that with eternal "roar In restf ess conflict tumble to the shore, -Now faintlv bt6ak unon the listanin fr As when the Be'p, when verdure crowns the year; ,uing me mpaus io sip tne dews ot morn,' : With lonely pleasure blows his murmuring horn Small as a t'eatber in the boundless space The wanton seq-gull wings its airy race; NowlighUg shjots along the liquid plain, And novo exulting seems to rise aaain. . . , " ivu;vauva-wjngs expanaea wide, " aiU nj.uoawng casue on tne tide, i stinnira vivi i-H. - mi . - f . : l The shore. tpilJhftreirL1 m,rfi jk7m t ' 1 wumtwa nsyuwo ofl OwJbj 1 Arroear like Fairi' ihrrf Avnetxr like Fairipj Amf Homeward rehlming at the glimpse of day ; While toe must "seem tot their uplijied eyes Pirn da the birds that roaming i thro' ihe sJcie On some aerialattlemeht ' atighi-Z. : - - -And almost mock the dazzled search of sighty Maker Supreme I at whose omnific call .- c How great ait jf hen t who5ell-axveying eye 1 - I L - I , . I I . .. . , ii - - - - I ! ..!'-U'i;. 1..' - . -. f : f : ! ' Extends its Wmi )im'ni.lf i.t iMmAnn.4w And, hid within the hollow of whose hand, Seas are a drop, and these, proud mounds, a sand I Slightly modified this poem would do honor to any poet living or deadj TheJ first line in italics is an admirable echo' of sound to sense I look in yain for another passage in the volume, its'equal id melody, of one so deeply : imbued with the spirit of poesy. I will shortly: present the reader a few, selections ; from thos which may be strictly I termed, devotional and tiegiac. i i . : ..j i . ' i m i I ; , iFor the Leisure ;i- I " " ! Guano. Hour. , ah classes are subject to prejudices. , Farm- ers not less so than others. ; And in this 'sec tion, at this time, they seem to be laboring un der quite an extensive one towards a fertilizer, which if prpperly used, mustfcontinue to be, as it has been in; times past,' of great service to our country. I allude to guano. y - Many ofouriarmers seem to have "no definite' idea of what it really k .They call it a stimulant-ran excitor, cccand seem to' think that! it has the same effect' on land that alcohol has on man that it calls fflrth for a kiwrt time! an unusual amount of strength and then leaves it m a similar, weakened and: depressed condi-J uon. iney speak as though, the inorganic worldjwas under the sWirunlihiIh the organic; but they do not push tU fiW " . ' "plain. They doriot carry out the anahgy-h P T J." any. 1 For they will have fit, Zt he ' fw ffld .PPeara from, the which has been intoxicated hy this ktmiu ani " of stable manure, without for fiveor six arsdoes noleVer 'jft1'"'': VP afterwards remains in an i ImnnvprivVioH mA J , 3 I1 afterwards remains in ruined stated -I f They,' there ore, with a pions regard for pos- lenty, abstam trom the use of this "poison." And, finding, they cannot raise at home, ma nure in sufficient quantity with their axe wage eternal ffr a tobacco crop war against our no" ble forestj-slay the trees and exhaust the land- as'did thfrir fathers before them. Doubtless, thinking by this means to lay their descendants under never ending oblfgatiorj. 5 ) But it is now gettingo be time for our" for est to be f pared. What we have is not much more than adequate to the supply of timber and fuel. Our object should be, not to increase the barren and desolate appearance of our country ; but to improve and beautify the waste lands. If we do this We have enough already! up w uur presence ana even a much denser population. Nw how U this to be done ?: There is byt one wy; and that is bv returning to the soil those Ingredients which we have withdrawn and therains have washed away. And these are the inirredients of trains plahts and mssesi .whic-l bU- oL,; 0""C ajiur saving served their proper and necessary uses, are-found ignore comnletelv in the farm, pen and stables than elsewhere.1 At therefore, becomes our interest to raise and save all that we possibly can in this wav Rnf irequentiy at er we have saved all we possibly. e - ' . - t- ' f. : ' ' ' . i . J - " can. it is lounri in lip: iricnffi;Ar, ti j ' i . ; - r- """"incui, j.uen ana then only is1 the time io buy these imrrerhW, or in other words manures! And not then: unless they clearly .repay. ; Those will produce' the finest growth which contain the inin-MliPiir. of the plants grown. Tn Selecting them we suouia ouy such as are the most permanent improvers such as will not even prospectively injure the land. And if there be any (?) that will exhaust the vigor of the land, as alcohol does that of man, we should'not touch it. ; -Now such is thought! to :be the si with GuanoJ by a large number of our farmers. But that this is true, is both contrary to experience and to science. Even inorth Carolinia' it has ueeu usea in several counties and more espe cially in Warron, for twelve or fifteen years, with no such effect , I speak this from person al observation. : , .-. I . 'J , . It has been msed in Perue since long before tins continent was discovered. It was used in the time of the Im-as. When Pizarro landed m mat country he found an edict: attaching capital punishment to any one found destroy ng uie iiowi j on . the Uuano - inlands. And " tult"er protection even everseers were appointed over each province,' so highly was lueu manure esteemed at that time. And Rin thi. fomu ..Jtk. . . . Z:i r7Z IHr chA in i r ,. - , . . 1 " jU1. : in reru, lis maiorv wi J hA Hr-Tr r ii,ogeaeieienous influeLces confidently Dredicted in w,n uonL iiuuujf.iruiiij vr i "t - ' .b o uunu oe expectea mat the 8am ;it , - - - , crops will grow better and better everv vear on the aamelund under the consent and ex- u -? "V , Q - ' -eluivp ii,p nf S nt nt CX obeying-a- law of mature, actually returhes to ClUSlVe Ue OI ItllS mantll-o nnr m-i'l oimk V . . . . .7. !' . f : a wpni T a general thin, tho a uymIoi. n tu. mh l" r: 7, " r J 7 nure, whether obtained from the stable or farm Fc... ,roiauonoi crops is lound necessarr on ordinarv lands nnr nli',M.nnM.tj L , : -T , ----- It rnajbe granted that Guano is less perma- nt in its eflects, under one annlination tbn nent in its effects' under one application, than stable or farm-pen manure f under, the.; same i but this is readily accounted for. ; It is. in a more concentrated and t more finely powdered state, and therefore more quickly; and more per fectly appropriated by the plant , , But before saying more, let me ask what is i Guano? :It is nothing morn wn 'Wc iu tu, excrement of tlie aea fowl, whosv; food is fishi r; f0od 13 fi5hV Now would any one expect his land to be injured by the scrapings of hii chicken house! Does the fish offal, esteemed U higbly, is manure, by our eastern farmers injure their land f TkaH 1 i. W1- Ui.l. ! ! . - - " and these two manures! ""Dj" uwue auierence between Gnano All abound in phos- phatic and, amonical salts.: which are the- mnf necessary ingredients J ofj good j soilthe best food for plants and thefore IcapiUl man ores. But, scientifically, what j is Guano f Here is an analysis from Leibig's (Chemistry, the hih- 'j vu ai Bucn suiiecis. . itr . - ' 1 . .it:,. I vaier or Amonia, ; Oxatate1of AWi.ia, . Oxatate.of Lime. . 9 0 10 0 7 0 6 0 2 6 5 5 3 g " 4 ,2 4 3. 4 7 66 7 : Phosphate of Amonia, Phbsph te of Magnesia and Lime Sulphate f Lime, Sulphate of Soda, Sal Amoniac, Phospha e of Lime, Clay and Sand, f Organic ;matter not estimated 1 contaming12 per: cent, of mati J lers insoluble in watr i S,i.,J ble salts of . iron in small uan- f 33 3 wues. ivaier.. . : ;.-r.t l - 1 ue amoniacal form a lar .the soluble' materials :form at1 least one-half of "! , f " f , 1. . at:,e"t Could we expect more Guano! j Manures are not stimulants, but the food of nlanta A AA iLL L . 1 r rr I vjov wuh;u re me most I i 7 " nwu 01, me man; soluble are the most easily appropriated and rerd llawkai a altogether the most pro assimilated ! hv ihA rTnnt ! Ita J lound student assimilated; by. the plant j and are therefore be: Tond all qjiestioa the first as a natural couse quence to disappear from the soil. But not only is Guano,! as W whole, a. most excellent and powerful fertilizer, but alo everv single ingredient of which! it is composed would make a desirable application to land. Then who would tear to use it after its clear mrfit have been fully j established ?j and what then more evident than the absurdity of calling such a comnosition a mpn dimni.Mt a ...n i . uiu4uiui , XI 3 Well might you call meat and bread, 'so' necessary to. the sustenance of num a -stimulant' For there is not a, ear of corn or, a stalk of tobacco that j the articles And every does not contain at least half o contained in the above ! analysis. , owiuiio luwicuieub,: in some shape, enters into some of our products. ;; It seemi to me that a little examination of these facts piust remove 'a preiudice existing in the minds of many, towrdsr (Guano; for it must have. its origin alone, in ignorance of its irue composition. :. I" It may be said, moreover, that1 those heana i ! of mnnures, found . upon jthe Peruvian coasisj are but another form in which nature has an ticipated the wants of man. jThia among sev ral others is an instance Of herj provision for Jheir supply ages before tjiey were felt Thus on the same great plan, were' Btored away be- neatn Uie eart :s crusts, the fossil remains of an extinct animal, and vegi table kingdom, which are now, dug up to supply man with fuel, in the place Of that great forest which he has con sumed, and to . renovate those lands which he has exhausted by coltivationJ I In England, at this time, there are hid beneath her surface the bones of an animal world, sufiicient, not only to restore the. phosphates to her' soil, which have beer, removed in the form of grain, but to, ItAlVkmA nn imnnvt.J . -4:T - ir ' ! ... It is ; most wtonishingljjbeautiful to behold how things travel as in a circle, and how nature restores the equilibrium in her processes, which nave Deen once Cisturbed.- The organic world is ever in a state of decayreatorine to the in organic what it;i has taken awayU The plant laicesup from mother earth its food : the ani mal consumes the plant;1 and n.other earth,' to .assert her supremacy and collect her- debts, quietly recefves them both into her bap. I The ingredients of the hills; are dissolved out by the rams, and then nurry alon? the rills. down the creeks - thence to be transferred to. A iueuce io mingle, witn othera.that tk. J A1 . . . haie preceded therein the bosom of old ocean. rm.:.. i . - . - ' Anere lueJ a" unire in feeOms the sea-pUntsl .w.h'-'tn iht. Ur... f . ""-" formations, are yielded tip food to the fishes. Ana thes last are not permitted to escape . but Mf ..d..: ' 1- , . . , I lrtU wpwves vo camiverous wras ana descend Ll .uL? : .J: - ,w i .l tne whence it proceeded, to clothe them I -. . . r! " Wlth their primitive beauty ind fertility, j ' p '- . i i - 3 f4 r-j: a. il I & , l. ' m ' - j -iT-: ieu Ane courts in JNew-Xorlc are lnterminablv te- dious. Judge Davies, who nas inore of Youn I a :L u: u ' ZZLiLi 1.. America in him than any judge on the Bench does all he can to make the tardy, advocates justice hurry up their . march-? To allow, the long-winded to know bow the time passes, the judge has placed an hour-glass before the .bar. Bliss, was on the floor. 'He talked and talked , - ; ;r gLuuutu, AilUWIl as . ilL$ and It Seemed that be would mrr stnr.. .Tndo-n Edmoad3-ras x to tut couH-not gatni .Mr. Bliss had'cotaliia 'argument.,t Breaking out in a poetic Spirit, Jndge Edmonds committed the following couplet. i "nd while the glass holds out.to run, ' A . ,f Endless Blus has just began' , ; "Eer. Frtocit L. Hawks, D. D. rper. Francii L. Tlaws, D. Dn one of th rtost remarkable men I have ever known, I, hard at work on his new rolnma of IFistory of North-Carolina. I repeat It, Dr. Hawks is most certainly, a remarkable 'pan. How be can -possibly find time to write anvthW i k- shape of solid history is surprising to all who anow orm. imagine an author seated at hia table in the deep seclusion of Lis stud v. wmM- from the accustomed walk' of the house, any Cv u irom mirusion, except through hU famUy servants, deeply eniajred in an IntrW. - difficult point, which has probably ptrzzled the .u w many oaiore LImi In the very mlist . of bis profonndest study, a call comes, WhidT Will take no excuse, nc-evasion, no put-off In less than an hour, another conies; in fire ' minutes, another; in half an hour.sUIl another ' and so goes the day. And as goes this day, J goes to-morrow, and the t.cxl, and the next jThey are his parishioners,fand will Dot be put ." off! What can any man do under soch "circum stances? Dr. Hawks is eminent' m literary man; he is a dose student, and profound" " thinker, oi he could never accomplish one,' twentieth part of thatwh'ih he does so well His Japan Expedition is ajjcoloasal monumeU to his name. I saw him the other day, an hoar before he went to administer the last sad oflScea to his departed friend,! the late Com.. Perryv He spoke eloquently and impressively 0f hfs SOPial lrtn with mnA 1 . ....t auiuir&iioa oi, ue man; I v. und student in America History, that this, " "any other country, has ever produced. Tf.it or were not robbing the Church. I w'onM tQ?ee eminent divine! transplanted into an -yyiupiwu) vnair oi History, in either th T.: tr- - ... y mciiny qi Virginia, whither my heart yearn mly turns, or to old Yale or Harrawr. would be a field fitted to; the display , of his splendd acquirements. Bve the wavA it nt discreditabie that we have-not a sinirle Chair nf American History in all our Univeraidwi . Colleges, combined?" . j K T Correspondent of Richmond Whig's j , m letter of a Dying Wife. .1 The following most .touchimr fninnhht m-.- etter Irpra a dying wife to her hn,.n,i . the Nashville Gazette) wal found bv him, months after her death, between the a rejigions volume which she was very fond of Fru8.ng. ane letter, which was literallr dinr . with tear-marks, was writien loner hefnr husband was aware that the grasp of fatal dis- ease oaa instened upon the lovely form of his- . wwe, wno aiea at the early age of nineteen 44 When this shall reach your eye, dear George,, someday, when you are tuminirover flra rotiV of the past, I shall have passed away Arererr and the cold, white stone IwlU be keeping ita lonely watch over the lipl you have so often presseo, ana the sod will be growing greeti that ' shall hide forever from yoir sight the dust of one who has often nesUedjcloae to your warm heart: F or many long and sleepless nights, when all besides my thoughts were ' at restf I have wrestled with the nsaousess of ap proaching death," untfl at last it has formed fcseEf " upon my mind; and although to you and to Others it mi?ht now seem but tW ;.' J w W uvi IV U0 iinagining of a girl, yet, dear George, it is so I Many weary nights have I, passed in the endea. voir to reconcile myself to .leaving you, whom I love so well, and this bright world of sunshine; and beauty; and hard indeed it is (o atruggTe on silently and alone, with the sure eonrfciion that I am about to leave alj forever tnd gO dowr irftq the dark valley 1 But I know in whom I liare believedj and, leaning on His arm. 4 1 fear . . ... - i - no evil.- uo not blame m fr Uimirw. -rt this from yon. : How could I anbitet-weo.: r,f all Others, to such sorrow! as I fe! at parting,', wura time will on make it apparent to you S I could have wished to live, if only to be at yomr side when your time shalf come. and. nillowinflr jour head upon my breast, wipe the deab aamps rrom your brow, and usher your depart ing spirit into its Maker's presence, embalmed tq woman's holiest prayer. But -it i not to be and I submit, Yours isthe priTHege of w;atchiog, Ihrough long and drearv nirhta. for the spirit final flight, and :f transferring xaf sinfcing head from your breast to my Fhvbnr's bosom I Aud you aball share my last though, and tlie la&t faint pressoris of the band, and the last feeble kiss shall he 'yours, and even a ben C .nesh and heart fchall havl failed me, my .eyes sluai rest.on yours until glazed by death; and our spirits t-biill hold ne last communkn until, ' gently fading from my view the last of earih) you shall mingle with tfte first bright glimpser of the .unfading glories ;tbe better world.' where partings are unknown. .Well do I know the spot, my dear Georgej-where you will lay ' toe ; often, we stood by the place, and. we J nuiverictrflashea thmn-iKo i .-a v- vfaicnea e meucrw. sunset, a it glanced in. l tUh Vi nMr.n .I, ". j m. . ! ' 1 of burnished gold, each perhaps,' has thought - is
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