Mobile register and journal., 1845-04-12

been much admired for hls laconic bulletin of the bat tle-"We have met the enemy and they are ours. Rui here WIS mention made ot conquest ,he SturTis and sunken rorks were omiited no chromium nor the tidinRs they had borne such rsks the waves, from dwellers the islands and distant shores; no eulugy for their se-denying abors; and no eommendation for the benefit of ofcommerce-meTe- ly a name and pnrt-"We have arrived"
 There WAS poetry in that naked list of sh,ps, and the less so an imag ginative mind. that it was unwrtten. Those sails, Tapping in tue harbor but yesterday, filled wiih the whirw Ind's blast those tall lately green in the forests, and the blrhs singing among the branches; those hus that had batIled with wind and wave; those crews who were dear the eye of beauty and the heart 0i atfec tion-coud read this list of ships m port unmo'' edl Ought not my bosom to glow with admiration l of noble dongl Ought not, with the crews and their friends, give thanks for Almighty protection Ought not rejoice in signifcan, token of the enterprise and power of mani OHgh not 10 offer silent prayer for each sailor and passenger, away from home, country and friends, and so soon to tempt i again the dangers of tile deePi
 thought, too, of those we esHels whose wOult never again be thus placed in print-barques lha had ioundered sea with al their freight of loving and aspiring hearts. called to mind how anxious | ly, for many weary week and month, the marine list would be perused by those already widows ant orphans, though they knew il not.
 | Reader, look not lightly upon the marine list though you have no friends upon the sea, remembe | ihat others have. GrudRe not the little space whicl the sallor asks of the landsBa, merely to put tht name of his ship in ihe newspaper. world of ad venture Is associated with the list. Day dreams an6 night visions upon the deep; prayer and the sing ing of sacred hymns. and the reading Oi he Bible and the conversion to God, going upon the track | less sea.
 Think of the sailor when the storm is ioud ana think of him. also when the winds are at resi. anG his vessel is becalined a furnished Vi ih sun. beams Read the marine list pass il not by, though you do know uoi soul upon the ocean; read IL, fol the sake of the sailor and his friends read il, iha you may learn to sympathize with the seaman read it, that you may catch some of the subImitv the sea. and give wings to an imagination whicl must be crippled b., sole contact with the land.
 Each vessel may be likened to world-far lk the globes air, they solitary travellers ihroug space; like them, they sink fall with their inhabi tants; and like them. they among ihe stars cast their shadows the sea.
 | Many book has been published and many rite eulpgised for composition. possessing not uiihe the beauty, the fancy, the truth, lhe subdung n,eres of a marine list. Disasters and wrecks are some times particularly stated, but not often; a cable lost man overbOsr', a sea sweeping the entire waic from the deck, is all that is ", len. rejoice, th, in day where wr,,ers welI so long upon 2 sIngl idea when the composers of story books for cbile have no,hing they write nothing, for the magina ton; that have marine list, that gives us leuv to think our own thoughts and to use our wing in the realms of fancy.