Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-06-28
GENIUS sLUMBERINC.

ss.i& 2stt ass BY J. G. PERcIvAL. o.
He sleeps, forgetfu Of his once bright FAME;
lie has no feelings of the glory gone;
He hasno eye to catch the mountain flame,
h THAT once in transport drew his spirit-on;
He lies in dull, oblivious dreams, nor cares
Who the wreathed laurel bears.
And yet, not all forgotten sleeps he there;
There are who still remember how he bore
Upwards his daring pinions, till the air
Seemed living with the crown Of light he wore
There are who, now his early sun has set,
Nor can nor will forget.
He sleeps-and yet, around the sightless eye
And the pressed lip darkened glory plays;
Though the high powers in dull oblivion lie,
There hovers still the light of other days:
Deep in that soul a spirit not Of ealth,
Still struggles for its birth.
He will not sleep forever, but will rise
Fresh to more daring labors: now, even now,
AS the close shrouding mist of morning flies,
The gathered slumber leaves his lifted brow;
From his halfopened eyes, in fuller beams,
His weakened spirit streams.
Yes, he will break his sleep; the spell is gone;
The deadly charm departed; see him fling
Proudly his letters by, and hurry on,
Keen as the famishcd eagle darts her wing
The goal is still before him, and the prize
Still woes his eager eyes.
IIe r,ashas Ear.lA o.aea,,Ar, s..AlI aLA, .~lso
They, who, with feeble pace, still kept their way,
When he forgot the contest-shall they take,
Now he renews the race, the victor's bay !?
Still let them strive-when he collect height,
He still asserts his right.
TIE spirit cannort always sleep in dust,
Whose essence is ethereal; they may try
To darken and degrade it; it may rust,
Dimly awhile but cannot wholly die;
And when it wakens, it will send its fire
Intenscr forth and higher.
EDITORIAL QuARRELs. late num-
Der Of the N. Y. Atlas, we find some SEN
sible remarks on this subject, from which
we quote:-
"To find the cause Of the unfavorable
nnintpn a..ss;i I, tho od;,or;al fra.
es OF our citizens warus the eoitoriai It'd
terrlitv, we must look to many of the edl-
tors themselves, and TO those very quar-
rels and disputes, as paraded forth in their
newspapers. A sensible writer and friend
of ours, has remarked that i! is because so
low a standard has been established in re-
gard TO the efforts of editors, that so many
men of the strongest intellect and charac>
tiers have sought distinction in other voca-
tons, less influential but supposed to be
more honorable.
Let editors of newspapers cease to ex-
cite the contemp. Of the intelligent by
chickering's and bIackguardism. Let them
hold the same rules in their professional
intercourse, that gentlemen do in their
nersonal; and the result will be, not only
the higher elevation of their business IN
tho eraelatien Of merit, bat a moro just amt
friendly feeling between them individual
ly. =.
A man or woman of good breeding in
variably shuns the making of a scene
before the eyes of stranger. Nothing
on earth is more vulgar than the thrustlng
of ones choleric humors or fretful abuse
upon the path of the ears of strangers
Blu, how much worse is it, when editors
make hundreds and thousands OF readers
the spectators of their wre,ched battling
of their broadsides of dirty words! NC
wonder that the press is below par!
Rnt is there any necessity of editors for
getting that they are, or should be, gentle
men and men Of breeding? If they fight
let il no, be drunken scuffle, but acour
,eous passage at aims. Such is huma'
nature that sharp and brilliant tourna
ment, in literature, between two dlslin
puished intellects, masters Of the game, l
not unpali,able. But who cares for tn
nersonal differences between two newspa
ner publishers, or newspaper editors
| Explosion OF A CAMpHENE, LAMP
One of the students of Yale College wa
seriously burned in the hand and arm' an
4 otherwise injured on Friday night, by III
explosion of the vapors of the camphen'
with which he was replenishing his lamp
He was in the act Of pouring out fires
supply, holding the can in one hand an
the ui1screwed top of the lighted lamp
the other. Hardly had he elevated II
; can TO the lamp and inclined !: to nor