The Arkansas advocate., 1836-12-02
For the Advocate. HYPNOTICS.--CONSUMPTION.


 HYPN0TICS.--CONS
 have been wanderer from days of early youth have plueked the grapes from inc vines of Ialy-tra- gefsed Rassias dreary provinces-haye eamped CT turf of Sierra Leone-and roamed o'er the many dvi- sons of our own fair country from Maine to Georgia and from the land of the border the shores laved by the pillows of the Pacific. In these my wan derngs l have the strong man perish in his strength, and the weak in his helpessness-I have seen the cholera in its progress oer globe claiming millions as its victms-i have behed the plague the Almghtys avenger, sweeping man from his birth place as dust by the whrwindl have been 10 the dwellings of the dead and have the betrayer and betrayed the moeker and the mooked-the proud afistocra and the humble mendicant--he sneerng atheIst--the low ly chrstian-the fair and fragile flower, and the hand that wrought its early doom, all there lng side by side in striking mockey of human plans and mortal vanity But amid any of theSe scenes has the eyanes- cence of ali earthly tieshe fraiiy of earthly hopes been so yIyldly impressed upon me when standing by the death bed of the coasnpt5ue. Oh! lis bitter bitter cup to quao watch the progress that this fell disease IS making in its attack upon of our circle te behold fading away in whom our hopes our sympathles and our feelings are centred--whom to save we would willingly yield our very being, and yet to know that human power, no earthly sacrifice could lengthen for brief moment the tenure that binds them to usto behold them forming bright v- sons, weaving gay garlands for futury, and in the full os their gratitude for those little attentions to pay which IS our only consoation promising future return, which we are but too well assured they will never live to perform. Such has been my ot. Of the many who n times past gathered, happy groupe, beneath the roof tree of my fathers mansion, all save one are gone. The parent stem and tender shoot alike have fallen. Upon a summers moonlight eye, as with my sole remaining sister returning from visit to the tomb of our family, for the first time meihought be- held the destroyer's mark within her eye Madly did my heart strive against the fiat that had gone orth and cursed the fate that brought together to sever us thus. But better feelings when in the silence of the night and the solitude of my chamber knelt in prayer. Earnestly did ask that the Almighty would spare the bud and take the riper flower. immediate Is removed her to sunnler cline, hoping to conquer or at least for time arrest its rapid progress but my efforts were of no avail, for slowly and surely she was nearing her home. It was at the close of sury day. and the sun setting as he only sets in an Italian sky, gliding each spre and dome, aud tower, and lofty palace roof around, and rendering the calm lagoon as 'twere sea oi molten gold, my sister sat by my side upon the terrace, and had been striving to win her thoughts from home "0h," said she sthe scene is n- deed beautiful, and this to the eye an Eden and vet when look upon these horoughfares and their prince y domes, and when enter their marble halls and their titled crowds. then am as stranger in strange land and though, dear brother her of old, thy home shall be my home, thy people my people, and thy God my God yet single leaf of the vine clad oak that sha dows our lowiy dwelling, would be dearer far to me than the coses gems that deck the haughtiest of her nobles. Twas but this night, while dwelling upon friends and home, the dark thought arose that oak and house nay never again behold but laughed 1t away, dear brother, for kaelO that there were many happy, happy hours n in fair land for me and thee But whenever shall be my lot, may l. with thee at my side, go hence at time like this, calmly the in- iant sinks to its evening rest in its mothers arms"
 turned away to conceal the agony that could not re- press; for fear that the thought which she lightly laughed away might prove prophetic, to my soul At length as the damps of evening warned me of exposure, turned to bid her seek shelter from the dew Seeing that she sumherng, stole near to waken her with kiss. The horror of that moment! was alone in the world-the last of my race!
 In change ot scene-in the pursuit literary fame in the excitement oi gambling, and the field, have sought togeilulness the memory of the past like busy phantom, has been ever before me- equally Vi sid in the silent watches of the night in the hour of ha zard and amid the din of battles and now that know that the destroyer of mine is claiming its last yciit do eloice-for. the heart of the worn mariner at tho close of long and disastrous voyage, beats not more joyuy at the approach of land aed the ending of his to than mine at the approach of that long looked fol period, the hour of death. REFLECTOR. l le( l&r
 Since lst January l63, ,4Os bushels of foreign wheat have been imported into the city of Baltimore.