Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-02
YOUTHFUL DAYS.

uoW pure IN spiTIts UUW JuyOuo III '"e ~"'o
phisticated simplicity Of an overf1owihg heart. Gre
the sports of early youth! 1t is the very MAY
Of life.' when its atmosphere is bland, ITS blue
sky serenely cloudless, and the beams OF cheer
full and vivlfying sun shine forth on its path II
is the spring. tide Of our existence, when the wa
tiers of happiness come swelling up IN the soul in
the unstinled abundance of their freshue S.
There is no after period of our journey ON earth,
which in blended vivacty and purity of pleasure.
attached to the mere enjoyment of life, can equal
our juvenile days. Goldsmith hath said.
sThe sports of childhood satisfy the child
But they do more. Thew awaken in the breasts
of the mature. the thoughtful, even the busiest of
the devotees of worldly pursuit, delightful remi.
niscences of those gladstone hours. when time
was to them, also, full of mellow brightness,
like fowery slope on the hill side gilded by the
morning sunbeams. Who, as-he witnessed the
gay laugh. lhp light step. the gesture redolent
OF ioy, has not felt the 'melanchUly WISH rise
unbidden to his lips. that
'He were the little trAer again,
Who could be pleased SO lightly
For time, or he carries US onward in his flight.
brings Us to deeper fountains Of happiness, to
pleasures of more thrilling and Absorbing IN
terest, to enoyments lifted higher up in the scale
of moral and intellectual mrasurement,-f he.
open to u. he means of usefulness to others and
OF honor To ourselves -ii he spread before us4kne,
hopes and aspirations Of religion, the bril- s0f
prospects Of wealth. power. fame. and whatso.
ever else attracts and animates the grown, full.
snuled man,--if our being gain expansion BY age.
not only Tor the responsible duties of life but al
so for corresponding sources of interest and fell.
city in concurrent acquisition of domestic peace
and of the power Of benefitting or enlighteDins
our fellows, -grant. say, that all this be so:--
and yet, at every remove from the careless gale
ty Of youth. has not the sphere of our sorrows be-
come enlarged with expansibiliy equal to that of
our joys? And if so. who then would cling to
life for Iife's own Cushing.
Three steamboats, burnt. The Louisville
(Ky.) Advertiser of the god ut. has the follow.
ing particulars of the destruction by fire Of three
steamboats,, lying at that city:
About ten O'Clock last evening the steamer
Sentinel took fire while at the wharf in front of
this city. The flames spread with such rapJity
that in less than ten minutes thp Delphine above,
aud the Rambler below. were also on fire, and
the three boats were burned in about an hour to
the waters edge. the Sentinel had a full freight
for New Orleans. th- Rambler had on board seve.
raj hundred barrels OF whskey, and the Del.
pine had Just received about twenty tons freight
from New Orleans for Cincinnati.
The engines, greatly damaged, will be saved.
The cargoes have been entirely lost. Passen-
gers had barely time to make their escape, leav-
ing baggage, clothing aud money on board -
There were about twelve steam boats lying in
port at the time. and it was with difficulty those
on fire we're separated from the others.
Nnior Eaton.-We have reason to believe
tAaln ysry ooIalr and ungenerou. W akee
circulation OF reports, wholly unfounded, that he
would not continue to BE- candidate for the Sen.
ate of the United States; and public print has
recently gone 80 far as to announce, without the
slightest authority, that his recent election to
the presidency of the Chesapeake and 0hIo Ca.
nal Company would tend to withdraw him from
the contest This premature aud unauthorized
annunclation, it is subsequently acknowledged,
VAS not based upon any Information on the sub.
ject, but seems 10 have been founded merely on
the differences of the writer To put an end,
therefore, to all such Impressions, lnsnuatons
and reports, as unfounded as they are uhgener.
Gus. we state distinctly and emphatically upon the
highest authority, that Major EATON does not
infendfo rithdraW from tine contest. The two
offices are in no respect incompatible, and his
election to the one will not change his detern.
nation of continuing candidate for the other. -
Col. MERCER has been a member of Congress
during the whole period 10 which he has pres.
ded over the Company. The duties of the off
ces do not at all conflict with each other, and !
may be efficiently discharged BY the same ind-
vidual
As we are "fully authorized" to make the
foregoing annuncaton. common Justice requires
that all who have aided in circulating rumors of
Major EAToE's intended withdrawal, will now
give them prompt and explicit contradiction
Nashville Rep
Tie Rail Road.-A reference to the advertise
ment of the Company, in our columns this morn
ing. will shew that this all important work is siea
dily. certainly and rapidly progressing. The
Cars now run to B!ackvile, 80 miles from
with the mail--thus tOo thirds of the |
york is ENTIRELY COMPLETED, and we
unders md that most Of the wood work on the
portion Of the read is also finished;
nj thot tho T,cEoo oil DIo,. 4 -, ,>:a Ill.