Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1837-11-04

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be attended TO.
TPhe following beautiful lines " to an only brother
were furnished US by a young lady Of this town for
whose ronA oni ,.,l-s.-n, literary matters,
we have great respect. They breathe throughout
the unimpassioncI love Of devoted and affection
ate sister
TO An ONLY BROTHER
Brother, my dearest brother, when a few short
months have flown,
| shall gaze on thy speaking face, and hear thy
voices tone;
SWcccr than music on the car, those tones again will
come,
Breathing of chidhoods freshness and Of child,
hoods happy home.
For when last heard thee, dearest the world to me
was bright,
Aal my young spirit reye'd then in visions ofde-
li1ht,
AMI amid the scenes loved, as ne 'cr may love
again,
] heard thy words of tenderness, ere grief had LEFT
IT'S stain.
We've changed since then, my brotlcr-on thy
brow there is the trace
OF manhood's deeper feeling, and around thy form
its grace;
And the dark lustre of thine eye, in boyhood8 hap
py years,
Perchance hath vanished, in an age when smiles are
changed to tears.
And too, the light hearted gill, am grown woman
now
The brightness of mine eye is dim, and care is on
my brow;
The tones of laughter gushing out, in music free
and wild,
nClo ,,,Iu,, I ,o,oa1 a, l. :. ..-...- 49,.
a child.
Few months have pnsse,, am, we have learned ifas
misery and Wo---
Too soon we learned the lesson that in age weer
doomd to know
And amid the cold and sordid, we've learned our
hearts TO steel,
And youths fresh and warm emotions have labored
TO conceal.
But oh, feel my brother, in that hour odeep delight
In thy warm embrace will vanish my spirits long
dark night;
And the feelings ofmy grlhood again will freely flow,
As feel thy kisses on my cheek, thy warm breath
on my brow.
Tor you TOO, dearest brother, in thy long deserted
home
In sisters fond carcsscs, shall brighter Gclinrs
come;
Oh in my spirit do feel, in that bright hour of 10y,
Again I'll be in heart girl, and thou happy boy.
Oct so, 1887. ''"'* go.
4 distant correspondent selected the following
exquisite poecal efusion for the Democrat. 1t is
from the pen of that gifted authoress, Mrs. ABDY.]
SONG OF THE sEA-suELL.
| come from the ocean--a biIlow passed DER me,
And covered with sea-weeds, and glittering foam
oil nm ,Jc on1o cfrot hnvo.
To deck the gay halls of his iar-distant home;
( Encompassed by exquisite myrtes and roses,
Y Stlll STILL in the deep am pinng to be,
Y And the low voice within me my feeling dlscoseS,
And evermore murmurs the sounds of the sea.
VI he sIV-lark at morn pours a carol OF pleasure,
at eve, the sad nightingale MARBLES her note;
The harp in our halls nightly sounds glad measure
And beautys sweet songs on the air lightly ioat
Yet sigh for the loud-breaking pillows that tosseo
q long to the cool coral caverns 10 flee, Tine
And when guests with oficious intrusion accost me
M answer them still in the strains of the sea.
Since left the blue deep am ever regrcttng,
And mingled with men in the regions above,
have known them the ties they once CHERISHED
forgetting,
Oft trust to new friendship, and cling to new love
a "! IS 1t so hard to preserve true devotion?
Let mortas who doubt seek lesson of me,
anu no language is mine but the sounds Of the sea
IA Truth stranger than Fiction. Warren
n town Reporter contains an account Of huly dis
4 tressing occurrence which happened in Nas
county, few days ago. Two children Of wild
II ow lady went to hens nest, near house, AM
x on putting their hands in tho nest, were bitten b.
n rattlo-snake, which had 81 rattles; and thei
\ mother on going out found them both dead nea
! the spot The afflicted mother returned to tn
house, when horror to relate, she found her young
" or child scalded to death.-.naedgerille Rec.
A good Paraphfase.--On the eve of battle
Il an officer came to ask permission TO 60 and Sc
III his father who was on his death bed; "go' sal
Il SAID the General smiling sarcastlcally, 'you homo
U your father and mother that your days may
" long in the land"
Human nature is like bad clock-It ma
" happen TO be right now and then or be made I
strike the hour; but its inward frame is to &
wrong.
Right Of Petuior.-IIousc of Representative
October, 6--correspondence Of the New York Eve
y ming Post:
ii Mr. Wise presented petition from sund
women OF Halifax, N. g., praying Congress
NJ provide suitable husbands, at the public expens
a Tor the female petitioners Of the north on the SUI
III Joct ofslayery."
Hiss Vilberforce.-When Mr.. Wilberfor'
was a candidate for Hull, his sister, who one d.
accompanied him, was applauded by the lrcem'
with loud huzza, and the cry Of "Miss WILDE
iofee forever" upon which, she wittlly reptile
"No,--l hope NOT Miss Wlberforce loreyerF
hehg for the Cramp i" Siotnach.-Wai
water sweetencd with moIassas or coarse brow
sugar taken freely, will often remove ctamp
III 'Ae stomach when opium and other powerful me
c'nes have failed Yaa. Former.