Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-07-22
From the New York Mirror.
NOTHING TRUE BUT HEAVEN.
ssFare,eeH the Tranquil naind.''


Juan was fine, dashing, noble fellow, as
ever wooed or won a woman. There was no.
thing mean in his disposition. but his fault was
rather in the other extreme; for he was roman
tic, impetuous, and eternally animated by vi
vid and ungovernable feeling. think he would
not have knelt to the great Mogul, to have sa.
we'd his neck from the bow-string; and he of.
ten wondered why, to match his spirit, fate
had not given him the wings of the eagle, and
the strength of the lion. In such case he
would have raised pretty racket. indeed,
when his blood was up; for, although his ma
ture was full Of sweetness, yet, arouse him,
and it changed like soft spring day, when
the tempest shrouds the heavens in darkness,
and spreads ruin over the earth. Men Of his
Temperament are very apt to fall in love. They
will love any thing for the want of better. A
female fgue, with the slightest pretensions to
beauty---expressive eyes, sweetlips, and sum
ny forehead---a soft voice and gentle touch,
make sad havoc among their reasonable ideas,
even where there is no wit to enchant, or in
tellect to gain the sanction of their prudence.
But, o woman!..-when to the facinatons of
loneliness are added virtue, modesty, grace,
and eGucation---when sweet lips breathe out
smart replies, and flashing eyes beam with feel
| ing---when the workings Of the heart are made
almost visible by the bushes Of the cheek,
and the snowy hand traces fair sentiments m
characters as fair; if heaven had formed me
one of these harum-scarum fellows, 1could all
most wish never to set eyes on yon again.
! A creature like this---for we know there are
such--had been flung, at first by accident, and
afterwards by design, into Juan's society. 1t
was his first love. 1t had risen into rapture.
and been INDUCED in with an enthusiasm which
admitted ofno restraint. She was pretty enough
---for, although there was nothing extraordina-
ry in her appearance, one scarcely knew when
to withdraw his eyes from her soft and fault
less complexion:---her ringlets flowing sotree-
y around her snowy neck---her speaking. spark
| ling eyes; her cheeks, where health seemed
contending with pleasure---and her mouth,
changing with ever-varying expressions other
lively fancy and her aifectionate heart. He
was as excelling in his manly face and form
as she in her girlish beauty; and If ne had ga
zed upon her, and followed her graceful figure
with an emotion of deep tenderness, she, too,
had been conscious of thoughts new, pleasing,
and not to be repressed, as she observed his
handsome countenance, and listened to the
words which fell so eloquently from lips al
most as expressive as her own.
1t was now the travelling season OF summer.
The heat of the city, and the general languor
of business, induced many to steal brief and
merry visit to the green fields, and among the
breezy mountains; and, picking up all that can
awaken mirth, or contribute to pleasure, they
embark on board magnificent barges, for scenes
almost as beautiful as any in the world.
One afternoon, a very gay party came laugh
ing and chatting in their carriages to the bright
Hudson, and were soon the merriest Of all the
crowds that hronged the deck of the Lady
Clinton. Among them, and the happiest of
them all, were Julia and Juan. Many acquain-
tances they met, and much they observed to
excite interest among some hundreds Of both
sexes, crowded good naturally together---all
flying from business---all bent on pleasure.
How variously fortune issues her DEGREES! This
kind and happy multitude, thus exchanging
every office Of benevolence, might, by circum-
stances which have often before occurred, have
been arrayed against each other in the angry
baltic, anxious to steep their hands in blood.
So much is man the creature of circumstances.
But they were now destined to better enter
prise. The banners are fying---the music is
playing--'kerchiefs wave here ard there from
parting friends--and sweet young voices are
calling farewell, with mixture OF meryyment
and melancholy at which we scarcely know
whether 70 laugh or weep. And now the .,uge
engine commences its labor---the dock, crowd
ed with citizens, recedes rapidly from the sight.
The giant vessel ploughs her restless journey
along the noble sheet Of water, with its track
of white pillows behind behind, and the foam
dancing at the bow. A the wide, busy, and
roaring city lessons, house, steeple, cupola,
and dome are gone--and woods and fields are
around, and farm-houses with their pleasant
objects 1.-The cattle lowing from the shore---and
the sloping green hills, frightened with the
farewell rays of the sun, all appear, and pass
away like visions Of the fancy.
And now the sun 10 Fastening to his repose,
and seems wearied as he seeks his couch a
mong the western clouds; while the round
moon--so often gazed at by the melancholy,
and invoked by the inspired--beneath whose
pensive smile, lovers, poets, the solitary and
the froilcsome, OF all ages and climes, have
wondered, and then passed away--that has
seen so many stupendous enterprises ruined---
so MANY fair cities, with their thousands and
millions, melt away like dream---that has
shone on SO many Of the beautiful and the ena.
INQUIRED, on whose graves now it sfines--and
that now sees 80 many happy, whom 1t will
soon see no more--the changing, yet immortal
queen of night, already rose above the horizon.
| And now evening came gradually over the
face Of things; and the great earth, as u tired
with the ardour Of day, seemed turning 70 the
sofiness and silence Of night. AS the clouds
in the western heavens lost their gorgeous
hues, and all objects become tinged with the
moonlight, the passengers betook themselves eve
70 their various occupations. The men, hgnt,
ing their segars, collected in groups here and
there. and talked Of politics, trade, and all the
common.place topics Of the travellers CONVEX
sation. The ladies', with their gaiiants' were
also busy--walking, chatting, and laughing
reyivin1 old iOkAa and inventing neW---adml.