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From "Rhyme, Romance and Revery."
JCAHLY RECOLLECTIONS
"O, life, how pleasant is thy lnoruingl"
In the whole human race, I believe
there are lew, indeed, who do not dwell
with pleasure on the recollections of
their early days. Fortune may have
smiled upon our more advanced years;
knowledge may have been acquired;
lame may have been won; yet, who j
would not sacrifice all he has attained
and acquired to return again to the
days of his infancy They live in the
memory with as much vididness as a
thing of yesterday; time passes over
them in vain; it may destroy all else,
hut the sports and scenes of childhood
ever occupy a green place in the mind;
distance has no effect on them age
cannot destroy them: even in our
dreams, they are with us, a throng of
sweet yet sorrowful remembrances.
If any one absent himself from the
place of his birth, for the period of ten
or a dozen years, what a change docs
he perceive on his return, both in the
inhabitants and scenery: most of the
companions of his young days arc
scattered far and wide, and those that
remain have thrown off their wonted
habits of gaiety and frankness, and a
formal and reserved greeting is all he
obtains from them. A dwelling, un
lovely in itself, yet endeared to him as
the scene of former mirth and festivity,
is now levelled with the dust, and a
more modern habitation usurps its
place fairer, perchance, to the view
of strange eyes, yet how much less
worthy of admiration does it seem to
him than the ancient tenement which
lives in his remembrance. A venera
ble tree, which has often been his pro
tector from the storm, and amid the
lofty branches of which he has achiev
ed many feats of boyish daring, has
fallen beneath the axe of the spoiler.
The little gafden-plot, which was so
much cherished and so assiduously
cultivated, is now uprooted, and its
very site undistinguishable. Even the
members of his own household is chan
ged; some have withered and died in
their spring; some have embarked on
the sea of commerce, and become es
tranged from their old affections; and
perhaps an aged grandsire, of whom
he was the favorite, has passed away,
with his silvery locks, benignant smile
and eloquent narrations, and sought
the habitation of "darkness and the
worm."
The mates of our boyhood; our ma
ny glad and careless schoolfellows,
how they were separated from us, all
to follow their destined avocations, un-
"i at last we also departed. What a
source of pleasure it is, when after a
lapse of years, we meet with a tellow
student with what delight do wedis'
course with him of by-gone days of
the little tricks of mischief we played
on the usher of that season of joy and
confusion, when we broke up for the
vacation and scampered away, like
captive birds flying to liberty and
green fields. But pleasing as it is to
meet with an old schoolfellow, there is
something sad intermixed with the
meeting: he may cast off his cares
and thoughts of business fur a short
period, whilst be talks.of times "depar
ted never to retnnT-lvet. vou eener
illy find him so tainted by mingling
with the shuffling crowd of this world's
iramc, that you look in vain for the
being who wati formerly all mirth and
happiness, whose laugh was the loud
est of all, who had not a shadow of
gloom in his composition, and who, if
he looked forward for a moment to tho
future, pictured nothing but an in
crease of felicity.
Never again shall I experience the
delight that dwelt in my boyish bosom,
when on my annual visit to a country
relative; never again shall I feel the
unmixed joy I then felt, as I mingled
with the haymakers, rolled in the new
mown hay, or climbed the drooping
fruit tree. I believe I have somewhere
read an anecdote of the celebrated Dr.
Johnson, who, being out with a friend
on a rural excursion, and coming to a
particular tree, immediately ascend
ed it, and began to swing himself to
and fro on one of its boughs. Oil his
companion expressing his surprise at
the circumstance, Johnson said it was
a tree on which he had often swung
when a boy, and he could not resist
the desire of again doing so. The
trundling hoop, the whirling top, the
bounding ball; these are all lost to mc;
but when I have seen a group of light
hearted youngsters engaged in any of
these amusements, I must confess I
have at times felt such an inclination
to join them, that had it not been for
very shame, I should have taken a part
amongst them. In after life we may
drink from the "founts of mind;" we
may derive a more refined pleasure
from books and olher sources; but, in
the whole round of man's enjoyments,
he will find none to equal those of his
boyhood. Winter amusements the
war of snowballs the accumulated
mass which became so ponderous by
rolling, that at last it resisted all our
efforts to move it; the rude form, fash
ioned fiom the white and feathery cle
ment, set up at night to frighten the
passers-by; the thrilling gratification
with which a circle of us gathered
round the blazing hearth, and listened
to talcs of npparations, haunted halls
and haunted chambers, until we fanci
ed every noise a hollow groan; and
when we crept fearfully into bed, bu
ried ourselves in the clothes, afraid of
encountering some glaring spectre.
Who would not again experience these
things? With what amazement have
I read the wonderful exploits of the
renowned "Jack the Giant Killer," or
the scarcely less celebrated ''Torn Ilic
athrift;" and how often have I figured
to myself the feats I might achieve, if
possessed of the invisible coat of the
one, or the surpassing strength of the
other. These romantic and extrava
gant notions have faded away like th ;
creations of a dream; it is true more.
rational ideas now fill their place in
the mind; but who docs not prefer
those boyish fancies to the dull and cold
reality that waits on maturer age;
Often do I visit the scenes of my
childhood.
I wander along the banks
of the stream where 1 used to launch
my mimic boats; I seek the leafy re
cesses, where I loved to read the wild
and wondrous tales, which were the
delijrht of my youth. I linger amid the
leafy labyrinths, where it was my wont!
to loiter in the long summer's day. , he had been the joy. Ihere he was
But the charm which of old haunted : killed and devoured, the eyrie being at
those scenes, I can find no more, the J a point which was lilctrally inacccssi
spcll which was around them has be-j hie to man, so that no relief could be
come powerless; the halo has depart- ' afforded. In tearing the child to pin
ed from them. Everything appears ces the eagle so placed the gay jack
as though it had dwindled into insitr-1 et in the nest that it became a fixture
nifir-iincpi niul vpt it U nnt. sn the
change is With myself. Is it that the
mind has expanded, that the intellect
has become enlarged? or is it that my
desires are less easilv satisfied: that
my wishes are more unbounded; that
my cravings increase with my years?
Alas! I fear it is man's nature never to
be contented with the present; to view
with indifference the blessings which
are in his power; but ever to be yearn
ing for that which he does not possess.
His memory either recurs to the past,
or he paints the future in colors too
flattering, and becomes the author of
his own disappointments. We are the
children of imagination; the real, the
tangible, loses its attractions; and on
things that are either difficult or im
possible to attain, do we fix our affec
tions. In the early years of life, our
desires and wishes are more circum
scribed, and, therefore, more easily
gratified. Our wants are provided for;
like the flowers, we neither toil nor
spin; the future is seldom looked for
ward to; there is no past to float on
the stream of memory, and destroy, by
contrast, the felicity of the present.
Thus it is, that the first stages exist
ence are generally those which yield
the most enjoyment; that they are the
times to which tend our fondest regrets;
and that we so often love to dwell on
the bright spring of youth, in the stor
my 6emon of our manhood.
THE WISH.
Say, what would bo thy first wish,
If a fairy said to llioe,
"Now, ask a boon; I'll grant it,
Whatever it may bo."
The first wish of thy heart, I think,
Muy easily be told
Confide in me deny it not
Thy wish would bo for gold.
"Oli, no thou art mistaken
That should not bo Iho boon
My thirst for this world's lucre
Is ever sated soon:
The only gold I prize, is such
As industry has brought;
And gold like that from fairy's hands
Would fruitlessly bo sought."
"Say, what then would thy first wish be:
Ambition's laurelled name
The pride of popularity,
The pinnaelo of fmno
Tho pampered board of luxury,
Where crowds of menials wait
Thy second wish would still be gold
To furnish forth thy state."
"Ah! no the days have long gone by,
When such had been my choice;
I ask not fame far more I prize
The self-approving voice.
My first wish should not bo for fame
My second not for gold
But listen to me patiently,
My wi.-ihes shall be told:
"Oh, give mo but a happy home,
To share with her 1 love
Oh, let me from her path of life
Each anxious care remove
And like tho sweet days of the past,
Muy wo have 'days in store,'
Oh, give me this and only this
I'll never ask for more."
A Good Reason. Mr. J. M. Patton,
Jr., of Richmond, Va.. declines to act
as a delegate to the Whig convention
to be held at Richmond, on the ground
that he i.s neither a Whig, a Democrat,
nornn American, but he add.-1:
1 have no hesitation in saying, that,
while I have
frreat
respect for Mr.
Buchanan, as at present advised, I pre
fer Mr. Fillmore to him, and I do so
upon the same principle on which you
would act if you had to make a shot
on which your life depended, and had
two lilies before you, one of which you
bad fully tried and knew to be good,
and the other of which, though highly
recommence!, vou eliel not know.
Tolv!!in; Incident. The saddest
story that we ever read is that of a
little, child in Switzerland, a pet boy.
whom his mother, one bright morn
ing rigged out in a beautiful jacket,
all shinning with silk and buttons, and
gay as mother's love could make it,
and then permitted him to go out and
play. He had scarcely steppeel lrom
the door of the "Swiss Cottage," when
an enormous eagle scooped him from
the earth, and bore him to its nest,
hi"h un among the mountains, and
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yet within sight of the house ol which
there, and whenever the wind blew
j it would flutter, and tho sun would
I shine upon its lovely trimmings and
' ornaments. For yc trs it was visible
; from the low lanels. long after the ca-
' gle had abandoned the nest. What a
. sight it must have been to the parents
ofthe victim.
At a Printer's Festival, held at Bos
ton a short time since, the following
capital toast was drank:
Tug Editor The man who is ex
pected to know everything, toll all he
knows and guess at the rest; to make
oath to his own good character; estab
lish the reputation of his neighbors,
ancl elect all candidates to office; to
blow up everyboely and reform the
world; to live for the benefit of others,
anel have the epitaph on his tomb
stone: "Here he lie his last; in short,
hn is n. locomotive running on the
track of public notoriety; his lever is
his pen; his boiler is filled with ink,
his tender is his scissors, and his driv
ing wheel is public opinion; whenever
he explodes it is caused by the non
payment of subscriptions.
The expectation of future happiness
is the best relief for anxious thoughts,
the most perfect cure for melancholy,
the rruido of life and the comfort of
death.
Utiles for the Journey of Lifts
The following rules from the papers
of Dr. West, according to his memo
randum, are thrown together as gen
eral way marks in the journey of life:
Never ridicule sacred things, or what
others may esteem as such, however
absurb they appear to be.
Never to show levity when people
are professedly engaged in worship.
Never to resent a supposed injury
till I know the views and motives of
the author of it. Not on any occa
sion to relate if.
Always to take the part of an ab
sent person, who is ceneured in com
pany, so far as truth and propriety
will allow.
Never to think the worse of anoth
er on account of hid differing with me
in political and religious opinions.
Not to dispute with a man more
than seventy years of age, nor with a
woman, nor an enthusiast.
Not to affect to be wity, or jest so
as to wound the feelings of another.
To say as little about myself and
those near me.
To aim at cheerfulness without lev
ity. Never to court the vanities of the
rich by flattering either their vanities
or their vices.
To speak with calmness and delib
eration on all occasions; especially in
circumstances which seem to irritate.
Frequently to review my conduct
and note my feelings.
Nienrr. How absolute an oinippo
tent is the silence of the night! And
yet the stillness seems almost
audible! From all the measurlcss
depths of air around comes a half
sound, half whisper, as if we could
hear the crumbling and falling away
of the earth and all created things in
the great miracle of nature, decay and
reproduction ever beginning, never
ending the gradual lapse and run
ning of the sauel in the great hour
t'lass of tune
Music serve's to make home pleas
ant by engaging many of its inmates
in a delightful recreation, and thus
dispelling tho sourness and gloom
which frequently rises from disputes,
from mortified vanity, from discontent
and ei.Yv
Practice and Prixitt. The Demo
cratic party resolves most valorotisly
against a protective tariff and intern
al improvements by the General Gov
ernment. This is precept. They
nominated for President Jas. Buchan
an, a man who voted for tho so called
abominable tariff bills; and for Vice
President they put forward John C.
Breekeniitlgn, who, during his brief
career, tried to &et an appropriation of
$150,0(11) for the improvement of ihe
Kentucky rievr. Verily, the practice
and precepts of Democracy are in won
derful harmony with each other.
Sk;ns of the Timrs. At a meeting
ofthe Bunker Hill American Council,
in Charleston, recently, a resolution
was adopted to sustain Fillmore and
Donelson.
The Old Line Whigs of Easton. Md.,
held a meeting a few days ago. They
endorse Fillmore and Donelson in the
Miuucab til Hi.? uuu ii i, v J 1'" n 1 u
delegates to the State convention who
are in favor of Fillmore.
AKentuckian was dining at a hotel
a few weeks ago while the New York
Legislature was sitting, where many
of the members were boarding. The
members were employing freely at the
table the terms by which they desig
nated each other in their debates,
thus:
"Will the member from Onedia have
the goodncs to pass the bread?"
"Will the member from St. Lawrence
hand the salt?' e&c;
The Kentuckian was not a little
disgusted, as he is apt to be with any
thing that savors of affectation, and in
stentorian tones he called to one of
the colored waiters:
"Will the member from Africa be so
good as to hand me that dish of ham?"
Mrs. Snikes says the reason chil
dren are sej bad, this generation is ow
ing to the wearing of gaiter shoes in
sfeael of the old fashioned slippers.
Mothers find it too much trouble to
undo gaiters to whip children, so they
go unpunished; but when site was a
child, the way the old slipper used to
its duty was a caution.
Hfi.vr in Missouri. The pro-slavery
weather is so hot in Missouri, that
the abolitionists find it impossible to-
remain thre lonerr than twenty-four'
hours. " '
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ADUKES8 TO THE AMEItiCAX
FLAK.
The following good one was indited
whilst the author was sitting on a
fence watching the object of his admi
ration floating from the top of a liber
ty pole:
O, mighty rag! O, bootoous poeso of kloth!
Mado up of red and white and blu stripes,
And stars painted on both sides
All hale! Agin I'm sittin in thi umbrojus
Shadder, and admirinof tho granger,
And suckin into my chist the gentle z.efferS
That are holdin you out well ni onto
Strata. Grate flag! when I shet
Mi i.e andlook at ye, and think
How as when you woe little, and not much
Bigger than a pcuse of kloth, and
Almost as tender as a sheto of paper, you
Wos karried nil thru tho revolution
Ary war, and son) few times sinco
Held up your head with difficulty, arid
How tremonjus you are now, i feel
Jest as if i shud bust and fli all round and want
To git down off the fense and git tdiot,
Or stab, or hit on the head with a stick of
Wood, or hung for my kuntry!
Prodijus banner! wouldn't I smile to ceo
A Chinymim, or a small unnatcherhzeu"
Furrinor undertaik to pull you down!
If a Chinyman, I would slai him, and kut
Off his kew, and boar itofi'in triumph!
Before I'd see a slit tore in ye, or the sakrilijua
Hands of a fo akuttin you up into bull it
Patchin, I'd braso my back ogin a waul, or a
House, or a fenso, or a board, as it might La,
And fiio.and scratch, and
Kick, and bile, and taro my kbase, and
Loozc mi hat, and hit him in the i,
And It row, and fall down, and git up
Again, and konlinuethe struggle for a huff" of
Throe quarters of an hour, or ontil I got
Severe ly wounded.
Terrific emblem! How proud ye louk,
And how ahnity sassy you waiv round,
A snappin, and krnkin, and skcerin uv bosses;
I ypose you almost tar'm lo git into a
File with homebody, and satisfyin your kar
Nivernus disposition by catin a whole uashun.
Groat ling! I don't know what maiks mo
Fool tho most patriotic you or tho 4:h of July;
Yuaint maid ofthosniuu kind of stuff', aliho'
Vu are about the faiv.e ago, and nr both
Sublime to kontemplatc.
But I must close, and waive my lust adoo,
However tryin to my feciins it may bo,
And git down off of tho fense, for already the
Sharp pints of tho pickets begin to stick mc,
And moke mct-kringe and hitch about, and
Thrt'tin to tore my Lloasc, and make mo holler!
The character of the young men ofa
coinunity depends much on that ofthe
young women. If the latter are culti
vated, intelligent, and accomplished,
the young men will feel the require
ment that they themselves .should be
upright, gentlemanly and refined; but
if their female friends are frivolous
and silly, the young men will be found
to be dissisipated and worthless. But
remember, always, that a sister is the
best guardian ofa brother's integrity.
She is the purest inculcator of a faith
m woman s purity. As a daughter,
she i.s the true light of the home. The
pride of a fathe r often is centered on
his daughter. She should therefore,
be the stun and substance of all.
ItiniNiJ the Ci'.Ni'.vuR. Henry Clay
said in 1850:
"Of all the bitterest enemies of the
unfortunate negro, there are none to
compare; with the Abolitionist, their
pretended friends, who, like the cen
taur of old, mount not tho back ofthe
horse, but of the negro, lo ride them
selves into power.'
At the Fremont ratification meeting
in Cincinnati on Monday night the
I whole German population, which has
hiiherto formed the greatest strength
ofthe Democratic party, went over to
Fremont in n body, lleemelin and
Hausserek, the leaders of the German
Democracy and among the ablest ora
tors in the countiy, made speeches and
pledgeel the whole German vote to thy
llepublican ticket.
Mr. Buchanan says he accept? the
nomination lor President "with diffi
dence." A man who has been seek
ing the Presidency for the but t wenty
five year., and who gave up his mis
sion as minister to London and came
home lor tho express purpose of pul
ling the wires to secure the Cincinnati
nomination, now saying he accepts the
nomination "with diffidence!"
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Briiuit A young inau who thinks
al 1 Democrats are " tirriners, sunl."I
, . , . ,.
was lorn in Amrrikv, but J ni a furri -
. .
nrr in nnuctnhr
eating wcct pot.ito-s
They are
.Nashville.
EaRJisli uittl American IZaUrau&w
A citizen of Franklin, Ten:1.., f rav
eling in Europe, thus writes to ".he
Weekly Raview, from London:
"After visiting the principal objects
of interest at Liverpool, I came here
by railway:- and speaking of tins
mode of travel, reminds mc of the dif
ferenee between the English and
American railways. Everything about;
the former seems to bo done1, with a
view to permanence and stability, ami
without regard to cost. All the reach?
have doub'e tracks, completely cnc.'o.-.;-ed,
either by hedges or fences, and all
crossings cither above or belo:v the
railway, so there is no danger from
collision or from stock getting on the
track. Tho sides of the. "fields" and
the banks ul' the cuts are till nicely
sodded with grass. Tho internal ar
rangements of the ears differs from
the American, in that the passengers
go in at the sides, und each car is di
vided into three or four different com
partments. Before starling these are
locked, and as the passengers cannot
get off the train until it is stopped, ac
cidents from that cause are rendered
impossible. A man feels about as
sa i'e in tho cars here, as he would in his
own house. A person can obtain ut
any of the stations, an insurance upon
his life to the amount of a thousand
pounds against accidents oeictirring
within two hundred miles, for three
pence."
Ben-ion and Buchanan. Benton, the
Frcesoiler, the gigantic" foe of the
South, the Wihnot Provisoist, was
welcomed to St. Louis by tho Conven
tion that ratified the nomination of
that wonderful friend of the South,
James Buchanan. Here is the resolu
tion, that Soul hern Democrats ought to
w car it in their hats like a railroad
ticket!
Re talced, That we do most cordial
ly welcome tho return of our illustri
ous ex-Senator, Thomas If. Benton,
and nan with gratitude his nomina
tion for ti:e ollice of Governor of Mis
souri: that his election will greatly
tend to restore peace and harmony,
not less fo the State than to the Dem
ocratic party; unci that the people
who have been so often betrayed in
in seeking to express their preference
inhis behalf will now take the matter
in their own hands, and elect, him to
the first post of honor in their gift.
Buchanan and Benton are walking
over Missouri with their arms around
each other's neck, the Siame'j Twins
of Freesoilijm. Memphis Jingle and
llivpdrcr.
M.SSAClIU;33l''r3 .1X11 SuCTII C.tKOU.S'A:
Did it over occur tei the reader, that
the time would come when South Car
olina would give Massachusetts and
the North an anti-slavery candidate
for Ihe Presidency.' If Fremont should
be elected, a native of Charleston will
have been the first abolition President
in the history of this government.
Of haters of the Yankeefied North,
she is the tuu'eest. She is fur! her, in
feeling, from the North than any oth
er Southern community. She will not
support her son. we gue-'s. MurqiUh
F,'tk and Jluqtiircr,
A Buchanan Okoan Suspesdki. The
publication ofthe Washington XsufLicl,
the organ of the Buchanan party at
Washington, has been suspended.
W.NTt::. Sevci'a! hundred ;ib!c
j bodied active men, to shout for Bush-
arum and circulate a patent litis ofthe
"Ten Cent" Statesman prodded they
can be engaged at tat ecu's u-day.
The wh-at crnps of 0!iio U said to
be iua very line condition. There arc
more acres covered with wheat in
Ohio than were ever before planted
in that Stall..
Cost ok the W.n. The London
Times estimates the cost ut" tho late
wr'.r to Great Britain at not much less
than one bundi .1 ! ; lillioiis pounds ster
ling. Immense a this W, the expend
iture of Great Britain in the dosing
u:ir of the; Napoleonic war exceeded
it very greatly.
JKn'.'i ll.vriFiciTWN. The Cerinriiis
of Cincinnati, a few thus sinee, r;t?i-
litd the U'ack Republican nomination.
i After being endorsed by Southern ant i-
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uo.d , thi'V 'ituet v turn round and c
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the whole German hog lor abolitien-
, "
: i win
lint:
in! 'i'lwt'n what ihe Am-iieim Vn.lv
jrn l"ld l! -im all the whil".
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