Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-07-31

and nothingness. Else why is il that the high
and glorious aspirations, which leap like an
gels from the temple of our hearts, are forever
wandering abroad unsatisfiedi WHY'S il that
the rainbow and the cloud come over us with
a beauty that is not of the earth, and then pass
off and leave us TO muse upon their faded
loneliness? Why is it that the stars which
"hold theii festivals around the midnight
Thrones" are set above the grasp of-our limit
ed faculties-forever mocking US with their
unapproaching glory? And finally, why is il
that bright forms of human beauty are presen-
ted to our view and then taken from us-lea-
wing the thousand streams of our affections to
flow back in an Alpine torrent upon our hearts!
We are born for higher destiny than that of
earth. There is realm, where the rainbow
never fades, where the stars will be spread out
before us like the islands that slumber on the
Ocean; and where the beautiful beings, which
here pass before us like visions, will stay in
our presence forever. Bright creature of my
dream-in that realm shall see the again.
Even now thy lost image is sometimes with
me. In the mysterious silence of midnight,
when streams are glowing in the light of the
many stars, that image comes floating up in
the beam that fingers around my pillow, and
stands before me in its pale dim loneliness, till
its own quiet spirit sinks like spell from hea-
ven upon my thoughts, and the grief Of years
2 is turned to dreams of blessedness and peace.
; Days and weeks passed on, and that sweet
l<x.rl Io. II I
] her as brother. She was wasting away by
f disease. The smile upon her lip was fainter
D the purple veins upon her cheek grew visible
} and the cadences of her voice became daily
D more weak and tremulous. On quiet eve
0 ming in the depth of June, | wandered gu
r with her little distance in the open air.
e was then she first told me the tale of her pas
t sion, and of the blight that had come dowl
like mildew upon her life. Love had been
portion of her existence. Its tendrils ha,
been twined around her heart in its earlies
/. years: and when they we're rent away, the
), left wound which flowed till all the spring
6 of her soul were blood. 81 am passing away,
said she, sand it should be SO. The wind
have gone over my life, and the bright bud
of hope and the sweet blossoms of passion art
:, scattered down, and lie whitening in the dust
!, or rotting away upon the chill waters of mem
DRY. And yet cannot 60 down among the
e tombs without tear. II is hard to take leave
: of the friends who love met is very hard t.
!. bid farewell to these scenes with which have
held communion from childhood, and which
:, from day to day, have caught the colour of my
life and sympathised with its joys and sorrows
;. The little grove where have so often strayed
;, with my buried Love, and where, at times
even now, the sweet tones of his voice seen
!, to come stealing around me till the whole al
becomes one intense and mournful melody
y that pensive star, which we used to watch il
j its rising, and on which my fancy can still
picture his form looking down upon me AM
:, beckoning me to his own bright home--ever,
flower, and tree, and rlvulet, on which tn
), memory of early love has set its undying sea
lei have become dear TO me- and cannot withou
= sigh, close my eyes on them forever"
III The following short paragraph we extrac
l. from the New Orleans Bulletin
IN "a large and fashionable party of ladies an
I'd gentlemen left the city on Saturday evenin
at last, via the Ponchartrain Rail Road, on
er pleasure trip to Pass Christian and the variou
ne watering places on the shores of the Lakes
as Among them was that talented and whole
It's souled Mississippian, SARGENT S. PRENTIss.-
IN We wish them cool breezes, good appetite
a. and few mosquitoes"
de CALHOUN ON NATIONAL BAxK.-"I migl
is say with truth that the Bank owes as n1uc
We to me as any other individual in the countr,
'e- and might even add. that had it not been f
vn nv efforts, ii would not have been chartere,