Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-10-29

Snlil~uueTly cease " w:
adam, thou hast often given me words
Of consolation. Is there aught can cheer
me, now that am 10 bid thee farewell!
..1hou seest yonder sun-thou wilt a.
gain see him rise and set-he is bidding
me las, adieu. Sense shall cease for
ever, and no Ugh. shall again enter these
eyes,"
The old man wiped the tears which
fell on the wrinkled brow Of his partner
A sudden light was on his coun'enance.
as if new lamp had been lit up in his
soul. Eve saw it, and it brought to her
CLEAN of hope she gazed on his face,
as if death had lent new powers 10 her
faded vision.
"Firs. of women" said Adam, ''claim
no pre-. eminence in guilt--together we
sinned and together we have borne the
punishment.
but there is redcmption-shere is
hope.
whilst thinking If the fearful change
which betokened TO my heart that its
partner was about to be taken away, a
heavenly light beamed on my thoughts.
and taught nue. 10 understand the visions
which have so often visited me on my
couch.
1--WE shall not die. There is costly
ransom provided. We must sleep under
the cold earth. but we shall rise again in
the freshness of that youth which we first
enjoyed; and purified from all sin.we shall
walk in our eden seven times more beau>
tiGul than when we roved amids, the fruits
and flowers. And there will be the thou
sands who inheriling our evil natures.
will have found powerful physician;
and there will be in tina: mighty physician,
whose presence shall wake ten thousand
harps to melody.
"rhis earth, too. so long, so grievously
cursed for our sin, will come forth pn:iti-
ed from every stain, and in more than the
beauty of its pristine youth.
Thou wilt 60 little before me to the
grave; out we shall rise together, with
the glad shout Of gra,i6ed publications; and
with us millions and millions of orr pos
terity ransomed from the curse.
Adam paused-his eye fell on the face
Of his wife-a smile seemed 10 play in
the brightness of hope on her pale lip;
but the heart had ceased 10 beat. and that
sleep had fallen on her which the trump
of the archaneel only shall disturb.
AN INCIDENT AND A MoRAL.-The fol.
lowing paragraphs are the climax of all
amusing article in the New York Mirror:
On a certain da:-a day never TO be
forgotten by me-news arrived in town
thai the Governor was dead. No sover
eign, prince, pontiff, or po,en'aie no the
face of the earth ever appeared so gigantic
and formidable TO my childish eye as Mat
harmless gentlemen, the Governor of Mas
sachuse.,s. Imagine the shock occasioned
by this announcement! S'raightway the
bells began tolling, people collected in
groups, quidnuncs secured from place to
place, gossips Chartered, children CAPPED in
dumb astonishment. aud I'D women with
dismal faces ran about croaking ''the Coz
enor is dead p 70 me these things seem
ed to betoken the general wreck of nature;
for how the order of 'he universe could SUBJ
sist after the death Of the Governor was be-
yond my comprehensions Iexpec.ed the
sun and moon TO fall, the stars 10 shoot
from their spheres, and my grandfalher's
milI-pona to upset. The horrible forebo-
dings under which lay down to sleep that
night are not TO be described. and it was a
long time ere | could close my eyes. In
the morning was awakened by dread
full rumbling noise. Governor Is dead!
exclaimed starting up in terrible fright.
The noise continued. listened, and dis
covered it to be nothing more than-my
old grandmother grinding coffee.
The effect of this prodigious anli-climax
can hardly be imagined; never in my life
was so puzzled and confounded as at the
first moment of this discovery. "What!'
said to myself, SIS the Governor dead.
and yet the people grind coffee! Then ii
seems we are 10 eat our breakfast, just as
if nothing had happened! Isl gre,,, man
of no more consequence than this :" A
new yof light broke in upon me, fell 10
bordering upon the occurrence, and five
minutes bordering completely demolished
the power supreme with which many
pompous owl had stalked through my imag-
inalion. From that moment governor,
town clerks. selectmen, representatives,
justices Of the peace. and great people OF
every degree, lost nine,enths Of their i'm
por;ance in my eyes, for plainly saw the
world could do without them.
How often in after life have applied the
moral Of this incident! How much moving
= Il IT
passed by with the remark. Tina, is
great affair, no donbt, but it won't sop a
coffee-mill.
THE UNATTENDED HEARsE.-Among