5 . 14...', etitb.,,...--•:ft• : .ci)ti.l.llic - (ii . ' ' -'; ' ' ' ...... . :. 0:: i:itiliti ED. A w DUE:MED, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR VOL. XVII.-511 [ Fro:n Blackwood's Magaitne 1103;01t To TOE PLOW. 'Though clouds o'ercast our native sky, And seem to dim the sun. We will not down in auger lie, . Or deem the day is dune : The rural arts we loved before No less •we'll cherish now ; And crown the banquet, as of yore, With honor to the Plow. In these fair fields, whose peaceful spoils To faith and hope are given, We'll seek the prim with honest toil, And leave the rest to Heaven. We'll gird us to our work like men Who owe a holy vow; And if in joy we meet again, Give Honor to the Plow. Let Art, arra2.'''ll in magic power, With Labor hand in hand, Co forth, and now in peril's hour, F.: 4 listain a sinking,.land, Let never Sloth tonierve the Arm, Or Fear the spirit cow; These words alone should tvork a charm— All Ilonor to the Plow. The heath redress the meadow drain, The latent swamp explore, AIM o'er the long-expecting plain Dill'use the quickening store; Then fearless urge the furr - ow deep, Up to the mountain's brow, And when the rich iesults you reap, (live Ilonor to the Plow. So still shall Health by pastures green And nodding harvest roam, And still behind her rustic Herman shall Virtue find a home ; A lid while their bowers the louses build Betteath the neighboring bough, Shall Wally a grateful verse be filled With honor to the Plow. [ Prom the hume Journal A SI:111LITUDFI. I saw two little streawlets pring front a mountain's side— .A nil mingling into one, they !Mined A river deep and wide— I through a flowery plain below In gentle t‘ avelets seemed to llow. At eve. a pasting zephyr, As from an orange glade, "Willi pinions light as_ether, Upon its bosom played— Then, rising from its dimpled breast, It calmly floated to the west. ;Still, Onward toward the ocean, With riwilcS sparkling bright— The stream .with gentle twit, Puttied in a flood of light -I:oiled on through mountain, vale awl cave, Until it met the ocean ‘vavc; The feeble rays of moonlight Upon its waters shone, scintillatiots pure and bright, 'Along gems and diamonds thrown— And oil its surktee, seared and dry, A withered trofcaine floating by. I paused—reflected—wondered, What this cold typity'; A ul us I thought and pondered, A voice made this reply , .: "The stream is Time—the with! red leaf Ja Mat, whose s:ay on earth is brief!" /lilt TICK "STALL AND BANNER. " Miscellaneous. Enigma. I am Composed of 1,7 letters. My 1, 11, :1, 15, 5, is a kind of tree. 2, 12, 4,9, 7, l•r, I I, is a lady's name, • 3, I I. 12, 17, is it kind of paper. 4,3, 4, 12, 10, is a county it, Ohio. 5, 15, 3,7, 10, 6, is a garden root. 6, 17, 2, 14, 4, is the name of a :lento animas. 7, 14, 3, 1:1, 15, 11, 4, is one of the U. States. 8, 13, 9, 17. is the name of a flower, 9,7, 8, .1, 1,6, is a Want or shrub. 10, 15, 5,3, 7, 14, 2, is a previous stone. 11 ; 4, 16, 9, 17, is a county in Ceorgia. 12, 15, :3, I I, 7, 16, 4, is a rieh wine. 13, 14, 3, 15, 8, is a river in Sweden. 14. 4, 14, 1. 17, is a town in France. 15, 14, 4, 14, 15, is a kind of fruit. 16, 4,9, 8, 10, is a county in Missouri. 17, 2, 14, 11, 10, 2,7, is a river in Russia. 31y whole is the narne'of a Female Institution In Pennsylvania. Mountjoy, Lancaster co., Pa., PO). 26, 1847. roil Tit!: "wr %It Asti ILAN:VEIL." College Life. The more I think of it, the more hilly am I Convinced that College Lifo is but a dieamy, hall conscious state of existence, from o inch Com mencement Day is but the awakening. The stu dent dwells within a charmed circle. Ile lives in a would of his own—a world of fancy and imagi nation. ifs is a life of pleasure, because it is' one of pleasant pursuits and delightlul associat ion His heart is young and buoyant. His feelings are fresh and elastic—his hopes bright and beau tiful as the gorgeoui of the sunset sky, "When on 'earth tho golden king of day Flings his last lingering, parting ray. Hope to him paints the future with colors of rain bow hue, whilst Ambition, standing at his elbow points to the glittering heights "Where Fama's proud temple shines afar," and prompts him to turn his eye upward wifitthe most flattering prospects of success. Ile has Left hip home, his parents, his brothers and sisters, his pi:Lk-mates, all that ate neat and dear to him, to sojourn for a time among swingers. Ile limns with ardent desires aster knowledge. Ile has the m Pit exalted idea of Colege and College Life.— Ile regards students to a superior order of beings, he aisociation with whom he is to become caw eialized, and raised above the common level. lie looks at every thing through the coloied specta ee of Idealism. Ile arrives at Co:lege, shuts , himself out from the world, buries himself with hi s h o3 ks, and for a time forgets all.that is going on around. lie sAndies hard and makes rapid pro gress. Ile receives the plaudits of his Professors and acipit es the respect of his classmate's, for his . diligence an d a c c uracy. Ii is talents place him on a respectable footing. His application entitles him to the highest rank and it is conceded to him. Be passes suceessfulily through the several Col lege Classes, receive; the well-meant, but often misdirected complim !lilts of his fellows, and a t l engt h co mes out on Commencement Day, with a flaming - oration, the like of which the world nev ur saw. lie has dreamed‘hituseff great. De has heard his voice - mit the floor of Congress, chaining a Nation's Repiesentatives at the opening of his : lips. lie now presents himself before the world, !i , a ca ndidate for its honors and fame. De is no lon ger the trembling, hoping expectant No Ihe has pretendons upon which to rest his claims. 'Yon ire nut question the assumptions with ‘vhicli he com,e , before you. lie ha: his Di p'oma and must 7 14ceed. Liut lit bed,. that ‘vliilzt ; been at College the world has not stood still.— Ofd Time has nut stopped his glass to await his ent,ance upon the stage. Ile entered College a boy, with the feelings of n boy. de comes out a m.lll, with the feelings id' a man, and most be called on to act his part among nn n. Ile must act, yet he knows not how to act. Ile must act like a man, yet he knows not the deeds of a Mall. Ile is like a man walkine , in the dm!: mer pound abounding in ''snates antrpit-falls. lie must feel every step berme he dates to take it. Ilis head is perhao -crammed ttith twisty lore culled from tkeek and Latin antiquarians. but he finds him self in neither Greece or Rome, and theletoreAris totelian precepts or Platonian philosophy avail him little. Ile soon finds that he learned et cry thing but that which is most important to him as a "citizen of the world," viz. how to Ike in the ; world. This he may learn. can learn, must learn , only by coming in corract with men. At last our student conies to the conclusion that he most lite like other men. Whilst at College , lie found that st i ,d en j es " here not so e therize] in their nature, that they did vol supply their physical winos, as be had suppostd, from the ainhiosial sweets of science.; that they drank of, other springs besides Ilelicon, ate of other apples besides those l'rom the gardens of the Ilespciides, wore fond tt orshippers at other shrine tieides those of the Moses; that instead of being High Ihiests of Knowledge admitted to her Shekitiah.! the majority of students arc but sopeinumerariesl —nolo hangers-on—employed in cleansing her , courts ail polishing her stones. Now that be is in the world, that he is faith' awaked Irmo his dream, he finds theit making his Commencement • speech tt•as but the harbinger of evil. an Epime- , Oleos to open Pandora's box of ills and se.. them 'to distill bing his pe:ice. Ile at length comes to the conclusion to take the %%odd as he finds it, and cons des bilmell with the reflection that there are roan). others in the same ptedicament Feb. :25, IS•17. -' Eel:. 11/ It TII E "S .1.11 BANN VII ".1.111 sfirlt is lia:itre's law tliriar. that th,), , 14 hu gi tar her, Callao! r l , uunr bud L Re% ou. oi 1,1;m) Ma. Enitrou : Von are the guardian of the public %%eal, and it must be one of your rich, st pieaSlifeUto_cherish the noble and good, encourage tne.desponding, adriso the perplexed, and, in pllif ministerial chaige, scatter• the warm suu•shioe of stnilea :1;:d love tmon the ladeless loses of the heart. lam a matilon of sweet sixteen, and, in the eyes of my lover, ant possessed of a the usand graces and beauties of person, and winning virtues of an artless and innocent disposition. Iniked, my bosom is lull 01 love !Or him, A pure and humble worshiper at the shrine of my soul, he pour;- out the warm gushing stream of his idolatry, %% ith all toe natural simplicity of aneast• ern devotion. Being a young man of parts, amia ble manners, and sit vet tempered, and stitlrtl, of comely person and gallant beating, my depend 'lit and sympathetic being , could not but yield to the column:Mitzi of his kindred spirit. and desire to lean up.m his friendly to rn, and listen. to the son accents of his till-told love. Our good or evil des tiny having early led our childish loot steps in the snore path of young lite, obedient to the di divine laws of nature. like two leaping streamlets, we struggled lor meeting, and mingling the gen tle current of our it 1111141 11111,t1, Iluwcd till ill a heaving fullness to the broad wave of an infinite union. Thus we %vete.; tato young. loving. careless, thoughtless ones, living but to lute, and loving that we lived. But our black (Lily ‘‘ as come. The suspicions of a proud and clue! fattier were aroused, and they tote my poor innocent Jemmy. limo toy heat t-st ings aahem he had budded and grown into my very self. Oh! how toy eyes long to gaze mum his kind, forgiving face, and 1 would be Si) happy if I could meet has %vain' embrace, until feel again his breath play` upon my ehee!i, muftis lips with mine in gentle non filets num 0. Yes, Mr. Editor, having an nub minted conti deuce in your pre it go t:lnesi , aunt ‘visdoto and be lieving that you have all especial concern t tor all who are in distress, mud particularly for the t oub• los of dkconsolato lovers, I am moved by the te• listless pleading , of my wounded affections, to lay aide my mai Icily reserve awl confide to your keeping . the story of my sail bole Iteatt. Aunt 1111 W, you can hill upon some plan to sate:: the angel and prida of my dear hard-hearted old lath er,that he may listen to the story of our young , Roos, and consummate our wishes, you shall live for ever, green in the memory of a love-sick and sorrowing gill liottpinurg, Fel, 1 , ,17 Ilumni.n.—What has man to boast of? Honors tarnish,, and wealth -takes wings. A few days—a sigh—.a d isa ppoi nt ent—a groan—and human life is gone. liana' 611 the'stage of exisienct —loch about for a few moments—pluck a dower to-day and a thorn to-morrow—and drop Wand are gone. The child that is born to-day, crowds off the sire of yesterday, and is himself forgotten to-morrow. Such is life. '•:1 little rule—a little sway, A sintlteain in a %%inter's day— Is all the proud and wigly have Between the cradle and the grave"— wrote John Dyer, more than a century ago, and the lines aro as true now as when they were penned. B humble, then, C) man! boast not wealth and honor,—strive not for possessions and renown—for ere the dawn ing of another day the mandate may have gone forth and you be swept from the stage of life, TUE K»u AND TII one of his excursions (luring harvest, the king of England passed a field where he saw only one woman working. Ills Majesty usked her where her companions were. "They have gone to sec the king," she replied. "And why did you uot.go with them?" added the king, • 6.1 would not give a pin to soc him !" .replied the wom;►n ; ""besides the fowls who have gone to the city, 1%•iIl lose a day's work, and that is wore thai► I can do : for have live children to whom I must give bread." "Very Geed," said the king, putting some money in her Imed, "you can toll your comrades %vim vent to see the kings that the king came to see you," The Jews have a pt. - overt) that "he who breeds not up his son to some occupation, makes him a thief," and the Arabians say that ~ a n idle person is the devil's logs," • - GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY iVENING, MARCH 5, 1847. There arc many young persons of ro mantic tel that look forward to the attainment of the highest ends olhuman life, without dreaming ofthe price that ntust be paid for them. 'l'hey arc forever build ing castles in the air. The future is their dreamy home. Their hnagination is more potent than Aladin's lamp. They dwell in cloud-land and fill their own gorgeous creations. To their ardent spir its, tune and distance are nothin!:; they pass through space with fairy speed, and bear down barriers with a giant's arm.— Alas ! that they should wake from these en= chant:news, and say "lo! it was but a dream." 1 Irust that none of you breathe this sen timental atmosphere; but are you not inhab iting one as dense and not so romantic ! you are looking forward to success ; l lave you calculated the cost! have you prepa red the instruments ? The edifice olvour fortunes is to he reared by yourselves : Have you laid the foundation t 1 trust, at least, that your experience thus for will en force the lesson that labor is the price of suceer!s, Even in -the narrow field to ti Rich you have hitherto been confined, you must have discovered that it is impossible to get something for nothing - ; that the Di vine declaration “thou shalt oat thy bread by the sweat of thy brow" hag nut lost its force; and that it applies as well to the nourishment of the iotolleet as to the sus- temeAre of the body, In the mininthre world where you have spent the last few years, you have seen these great truths ex., emplitied. You have seen Mediocrity out: strip Genius. You have seen high am bition, unsustained by perseverimr labor. degenerate into-an idle longing. •without purposes and without fruits, Von have seen the fabric of knowledge rising up, slowly but surely, under the hand of anti= rho , industry ; while on the other hand, wit and talent have stood among the scat tered elements of the building, wasting WIN' after day, and year after year, and all the time hardly laying one stone upon an other. What you have beheld here, gen tkmen, is what you will ever se,o, in die course of human life. Look out into the great world and see, W lin are the great men ? Who have been the leaders, the re formers, the thinkers, the heroes of man kind? Ily what pro , ...ess was their being built op—the Plams, the Cieeros, the Pairds, the !ladies, (Inints of their kind? \\'as it by dreams and visions, by sloth and sell indulgence ()yew up Luther's noble heart in ease \\'as Wesley's iron fibre the product of repose? You have com muned i h great men to little purpose if you have not learned that, however they may have differed, in one respect thee wore all alike. Their sinews grew by labor, The record of their lives is but a register of their deeds. End.iwed, by nature, it my have been, with high powers, they did not suffer, them to lie rotting in in dolence ; but with manful heart and strong hand, fulfilled theirmission ollahor by day and by night, Their works do follow them. TIES Cl.. 11" 111 Ult . all ClNtivill bpitet .l ., in NetF lemi4. on Ow Milt, In la% ttl Ili relict to I Della ,:l : First came the mpirldess Orator of the West-111:Nnv CLAY. I I is presence 1: ind led a perfect furor in the ‘'itst aesCl lbinge. Though silvered over with the snows of seventy winters, his noble and command ing brow, and still erect figure—his flash ing eye and genius beaming face, declared ADAMONIA the orator trite loco quarter Of a century has filled the world with the renown of his eloquence—who has alternately held list ening Sonates and applauding crowds en enchained by his transcendent eloquence, until he may claim the prize and distillation of Orator of the Age and of the Country,— Henry Clay addressed he assemblage with all the grace, ease, fervor and pathos, and in that incomparable voice, still main taining its wonted rich, varied and dulcet tones, which thirty years ago, wielded the reason and feelings of the people, and of the people's 4 representa lives. lie spoke fiur about fifteen minutes, in most excellent taste, and to the purpose. Ins language was pure, plain, nervous, and his sentiments were full of kind-heartedness, sympathy and philanthrophy. Mr. Clay's speech was received with the most rapturous (' pressions of delight and satigfaetion by the audience. ExciFAni,r..—Whilst a regiment of vol unteer:3 w o re marching through Carnargo, a Captain [a strict disciplinnrian,] obser ving that one of the drums did not beat, or dyed a lieutenant to enquire the reason.— on being interrogated, whis pered to the lieutenant, "I have two ducks and a turkey in my drum and the turkey is for the Captain." This being whispered fo the captain, he'exclaimed, "why did'ut L the drummer soy lie was lame? Ido not want any of my men to do their duty when they arc not able." (1001) ADVICE TO CHILDREN. - LOVO Virtue, said a father to his children, and never abandon her; 'the pleasures she will procure us, are more solid than those the flattering World presents to us. Riches are perishable, a trifle may deprive us of them. Virtue alone, is a refuge from all vicisitudcs; she , teaches us to be moderate in prosperity, and not to be discouraged in adversity. She is the source of delight to good men, and forces even the wit:Led-to pN her homage. "FEARLESS AND FREE." LABOR 111 - PROF. M'CLINTOCR An Eloquent Passage.. We have ken favored with a copy of an Ad• dre.ss, entitled "Our Country—lts Dangers and Destiny,' as recently delivered to the Cadets of the Norwich University by Tneopholis Fisk. Esq.— It contains intich that may be read with pleasure, and com mended with colithienze, and is creditable. in the highe, , t degree to its author. We annex its closing passage. From the mouldering sepuleheres of the glorious dead come words of counsel to guard and guide us in our course. Tho past lifts up her beacon-light to show the perils that beset our path. Thehes' timed arches, Corinth's pillared aisles, where now the twining serpent distils his hissing venom..tell a tale out. nation should profit by. In the flu solitudes of 'time, where now the tiger dwells, once stood domes - and towers; where once stood swarming cities, now the foxes burrow; the jackal holds his unscared feast upon the mounds piled upon human bones; the bat and night-birds dwell in the courts where pomp amid feast held revel; old! Rome flings no banners from her moulder ing walls; tinder the shattered roofs of her : temple dome the swallow builds: no eam p tires blaze as in her,days of pride, her le gions march to battle no more. What I tones of %ranting - her ruins tell ! The Gaul in his shaggy strength, the Vandal in his sunless cave, the Lainbard in his den, no longer swarm upon the world like a lo cust cloud; the voice of conquest is mute in Greece; Carthage boasts no more of her thousand triumphs; despair in her, black dwellings has long since drained the hitter cup of desolation. The pride of the' world, the Tadmor of the desert, tells its tale ; Palmyra's silent palaces, Judea's for saken hills and homes, all tell of dust and B:lA.4l4)th—of blood and tearsof a star less night that knows no coming morti.--:, Let the faded glories of the past, the voice- 1 less_solittules of by-gone days, admonish and instruct those of us who it linger up on the shores of thne. Let shattered em pires counsel 'build our hopes on a sorer foundation than earth's crumbling , vanities ; let its disseminate the principles of virtue, diffuse the light, of knowledge, throwrhout the land our fathers' blood re deeemed, until oppression and fraud shall cease throughokt the' world ; until liberty shall become the hirthri , cht of every- land; that wherever glory's banner shall be t u t- ; furled, there shall ring the Watch-word Of mc flee. OIV to tipbH Cat. Sometime during the war with Great Britain. the - Regiment of Intantry was stationed near Boston, 011 1)r. (Nave to his ashes) was surgeon to the Regiment. The. Doctor N% as an old gen tleman of very precise and formal'man ners, who stood a great deal upon his dig nity of deportment; and was, in his own estimation, one of the literati of the Army. Nevertheless he was fond of a joke, provi ded it was not:perpetrated at his expense, It is well known, in the "01(1 scho)," th it at the commencement of the war, a number at' citizens were appointed officers is the army, w h o werJ more noted for their chivalry than for the correctness of, their orthography. The Doctor took lit tic to conceal his oontempt fur the •'flew set." - - dav, at mess, after the decanter had made sundry pCraMinlialiolls on the table, Capt. a brave and accomplished officer, and a great wag, remarked to the Doctor—who had been somewhat severe in his remarks on the literary deficiencies of some of the new officers : "Doctor, Ore you acquainted with Capt. 0—?" "Yes, I know him Avell, " replied the Doctor, “he's one of the new sot, but what of hint f" "Nothing in particular ;" replied Capt. Si. "I have just received a letter from him, and I'll ‘vager.you a dozen of old Port, that you can't guess in four guesses how he Spells cat." "Done," said the Doctor, "it's a wager." "Well, commence guesing," said "K-a double t,"' "No." "K-a-t-e." "No—try again." "Well, then," resumed the Doctor, "C a double t." "No, that's not the way—try agout— ies your last guess." ' , No," said S, "that's not the way, you have lost the wager." "Well," said the Doctor, with much pctulence of manner, •show in the devil floes he,spell it I" "Why, he spelt it C-a-1," replied S. with the utmost - gravity. Amid the roar of the mess, and almost chocking with rage, the Doctor sprang to his feet, exclaiming— " Capt. S„ I am too old a man to be tri fled with in this manner:: A western preacher, in his efforts to give his hearers the most enchanting idea of Heaven, hold forth thus t "Be assured hrethrdn, any description falls short of the reality, as, Little Mud Creek is transcend ed by the Mississippi ! Heaven is—Hea ven: Heaven is—oh! my dear hearers it is a Kentucky of a place ! The - following receipt for making old silk look as good as new, is from a recent publication: Unpick the dress, put it into a tub, and cover it with Cold water ; let it remain in an hour; dip it up and down but (lo not ring it, hang it up to drain, iron it very damp and it will look beautiful. Speech of Mr. Prentiss. i the name of our common humanity, wage The following beautiful and thrilling speech teas, war against this despot famine, Let us, made by the lion. S, S. PassToo4, at a meeting.' in God's name, "east our bread upon the recently held at New Orleans fur the relief of star- waters," and if we are selfish ,enough,to sin g Ireland: I desire it, we may recollect the promise that. FELLOW CITIZENS.: It is no ordinary it shall return to us after many days. , cause which•has brought together this vast ; If benevolence be not a sufficient ineen, assemblage on the present occasion. We live to action, we should be generous from have met, not to prepare ourselves for common decency : for out of this famine. political contests, tier to celebrate the a- we are adding millions to our fortunes. - chievements of those gallant men who have Every article of food, of' which we have a planted our victorious standards in the superabundance, has been doubled in value ,v heart of an enemy's Country. We have by the very distress we are now called assembled not to respond to shouts of tri- upon to alleviate. We cannot do less, in loth front the West, but to answer the crycommon honesty, than to divide among of want and suffering which comes from , the starving poor of Ireland a portion, of the East. The Old Word stretches out the gains we are making out of titelr TO' her arms to the New. The starving pa- ) fortunes. Give, then, generously and, frees rent supplicates the young and vigorous) ly. Recollect that in so doing you are ex child fur bread. There lies upon the oth- ,•ercising one of the most god-like qualities er side of the wide Atlantic a beautiful is- of your nature, and at the same time en-. land, famous in story and in song. Its a- joying one of the greatest luxuries.of lea is not so groat /IS that of the State of We 'ought to thank ow maker that, he has Louisiana, while its population is almost permitted us to exercise equally with him, half drat of the Union. It has given to self - that noblest el even the Divine attri, the world more than its share - of genius ' boles, benevolence. Go home and look at and of greatness, It has been prolific in I your family, smiling in rosy health, Mid statesmen, warriors and poets, Its brave then think of the pale, famine-pinched and generous sons have fought success- cheeks of the poor children of Ireland fully all battles but their own: In wit and and I know yon will give, according to 'humor it has no equal ; lade its harp, ! your store, eves a bountiful Providence like its history, moves to tears by its sweet has given to you—not grudgingly, but with k but molancholly pathos. Into this fair re- !all open hand ; for the quality of benevo-. gion God has seen lit to send the most ter- knee, like that of mercy, rible of all those fearful ministers who fut. "Is not strained. lit his inscrutable decrees. The earth has drepseth i like b the g t e i ntle t f w ro ic rn e H b raven . , failed to give her increase ; 1. the ...1:1n M " liCsseltlitPanciethalt be n eath yes, surd him that takes." - 'nether has forgotten her offspring, and her Let me now refer to the words of ono breast no longer affords them their accts to whom Ireland has given birth. , Witlva tamed nourishment. Famine, gaunt and genious prolific, as her own luxuriant soil, ghastly famine, has seized a nation with its , • 11 whom all the finest attributes of the soul strangling grasp ; and unhappy Ireland in the sad woes of the present, forgets fora are blended In harmony ; a - rich silk of vas !wing . dyes, showing some new, color in moment the gloomy history of ihe past.— every tint of light and sliado,_and .under. We have assembled, fellow-citizens, toek- every hue of Heaven. Music, eloquence, press.our sincere sympathy for the stifl'ef and the sweet title of song,. flim from .his lugs of our brethven, and to unite in ells its Boni in qujok stICCOWnin, in 'some new for their one thosef beauty, some new melody, in each capiice eases in which ire may, wallow impiety, ;of fancy, and under every' change of eir, " ss ""l e ' " 5 it Wur° ' t h e f"" Pawl- eumstanees. That son of Ireland has said, deuce'. Who knows but what one of the nThe baby was_sleping, - very objects of this great calamity is to • Its mother was weeping," test the benevolence and worthiness of us.: Can we not,;from the magic mirror of the upon whom unlimited abundance has been imagination, conjure up the.fair young in, showered t In the name, thorn, of common faint hushed in sweet repose—the haggard, humanity, I invoke your aid in bdhalf of anxious, tender the of e poor mOther starving Ireland. lie who is able and will.' o'er the smiling face of her child, with not give for such a sacred purpose, is not - squalid misery before her and bun.,a man, and has no right to 'wear the form, ger stalking around to teal , lie should be sent book to Nature's. mint, , "cis said - that in tropical climes .a lover. and reissued as a counterfeit on humanity, i flower sometinieS springs from the. ruined. of Nature's baser metal. , and withered trunk of a tree blasted by the : "11 it is terrible, that this health lightning from Heaven . ; tenderer and dear s world, whirl' the good God has given us, er is that flower to those who look upon and in which there is plenty for us all, that , it, nd obserVe in its opening petals. the, men should (lie ot starvation ! In these signs of a premature decay, which it caught days, when improvement in agriculture from the source of its eNiitence and may, and the mechanical arts have quadrupled we not apply in that beauteous fancy, of the productiveness of' labor ; when it is the poet, the Angel's whisper to the sleep, manifest that the earth prodoeos every year, ing bribe, and assume that it is telling it more than sufficient 3- to clothe and feed all of this bounteous land, of the love anti her thronging millions, it is a shame anti a charity of its people, the riot; productions disgrace that the word starvation has not of' its teeming valleys,_ wafted on the inter: long since become obsolete, or only retain- nal waters of the country to the mighty' ed to explain the dim legends of a barbar• marts of commerce—that it whispers, too, ous a4e. Yoe who have never been be- of noble and generous souls collected here. yond the precincts of our own favored to-night to chase that haggard hunger from country ; you, more especially, who have ! the weeping mothers of "poor old Ireland." always lived in this great valley of the When it realised in fact as well as Mississippi—the cornucopia of the world in fancy, that each of thorn may —who see each day poured into the lap ! "While closely carressitig of your city food sufficient to assuage the •ller child with a blessing, hunger. of a nation, can form but an Say, I tinew that the angels were whise'ring to thee." feet idea of the horrors of famine—of the terror which strikes men's souls when they cry in vain for bread. When a man dies of disease, Ito :11011e endures the pain.— Around his pillow aro gathered sympathi zing f riuuds, w ho , if t hey cannot keep hack thedeadly in3ssenger, cover his face and conceal the horrors of his visage, as he de , livers his stern mandate. • In battle, in the fullness of his pride and strength, little reeks the soldier whether the hissing bullet sing his sudden regoiam, or the ehor& of life are severed by the sharp steel, Ilut Inc who dies of hunger, wrestles alone, day after day, with his grim and unrelentiog enemy; Ile has no friends to cheer him in the terrible conflict ; for if' he had friends how could he die of hun ger? He has not the hot blood of the sol dier to maintain him ; for his foe, yarn piro like, has ,exhausted his veins, Famine comes not 'up like a brave enemy, storm ing, by a sudden onset, the fortress that re sists—Famine besieges. Ile draws his lines around the doomed garrison ; lieetts oil all supplies t he never summons to surrender, for he gives no quarter. Alas ! for poor human natnre, how can it sustain this fearful warfare ? Day by day the blood recedes : the flesh deserts ; the mus - :Cies relax, and the sinews grow powerless. At last the mind,' Which at first had brave, ly nerved itself for the contest, gives way under the mysterious influences which goy ern its union with the body. Then he be, gins to doubt the existence of an OVotruling Providence ; hates his fellow men,Anti glares upon them with the longings of a cannibal, and, it may be, dies blaspheming, Who will hesitate to • give his mite, to avert such awful results ? Surety not you, citizens . ;of New Orleans, ;ever famed lor your deeds of benevolence and charity, Freely have your hearts and purses open ed, heretofore, to the salts of suffering hus inanity, Nobly„diil you _respond. to 'op pressed Greece and struggling, oland.,— Within grin's borders is an enemy more cruel than the - Turk ; more tyranicalsthan theßussian. Bread is the only weapOn that can conquer him. Let'us then load ships with this glorious munition, and in TF:RMS-TWO noLLAER PER ANNV)I.) MIIOLE NO. 883. , The power of music is exeMplified . an incident which happened ifl Italy, The immense army of Bonaparte, in attempt" lug to cross the snowy Alps, became be-It numbed with cold, and nearly frozen, had lain down to perildi mon ;befit! eternal snows, The great general, with a sopa= ty and a mind to meet every emergency, ordered his band of music to play with spirit and animation th i ely celebrated mar, tial air, It was perferfW. and the °Peet was without a precedent, It warmed their souls with the fire of patriotic devotion, a, roused their tlying energies, they sprang to their feet, and the march was accomplish, od with success, In the reign.of Henry the Eighth, it is affirmed that no fewer than seventy-two thousand criminals were hanged, Sir Thomas Moore trescribss them as tolling by scores upon gibbets all over the count try. Even in the days of , Queen Pass," the 6:.'C'eu . liens were front three to' four hundred annually. People were then hung for almost every species of crime; ao4 those who remained unhung were no bet; ter that the gallows had so many victims; Of late years, however, lawmakers hove a6knowledged the truth that. tho worst nag of a man is to hong him. A volunteer writing froM Parcae, co, says that he attended service in out 'of the Catholic Churches there, and after the the ceremonies were IWOr, was politely in. vited into the sacriSly by the attending priest. There he and his brother were regaled with cigars, Iv hie ad bvßhdji The priost was talkative kris! and 'A(011 good company, The t‘hoys7:will•kil4i ly "join his church," .. • A small. Society of Flinn!:lt IfQ ilt''r ping in Baltimore, and Intlnbarincifi goo souls, adults and children, tice, • contributed the vary_ handsamai—iipli Or $l3OO in aid of the poor'aflrnbandk4Z is indeed most creditable. ittle not-only . of the nit* weild but of tlyt. 0143-.llb have acted in the nobles' Ipilti l-01 4 commencement of the famine - ant unfortunate children 111 gki!&.;„ 3 ~ Gr~~+~~.ays~
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