New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-10-29
NIY FIRST LOW.

resbna.. or more repe,e with unstuded grace and
beauty. ,o,,r
The thochts of bygone years
Sill fling their shadows oe! my path.
And blind my cen wi tears;
They blind my cen wi saul, saut tears
And sair and sick pine,
As memory brngeth 10 my view
The bithe blinks o Lans-Syne. -Monter'ceh.
Gentle Reader do MT be frightened. am not going
&c inct upon you catalogue Of signs and tears and
The everlasting concomitants Of raven ueeses and
bright eyes. and all that ororn sort OF thng In when
youy regular tae.wrght deals withal. feel N retro
spectvc mood this afternoon az SIT welding my gray
soose quill open window near my table aud when
looketh toward the west the sun is rolns down Dea
the mountains in the distance and can peer over inc
roofs of the city beyond the river, and zee ms radiant
smiles quverng above long sweep Of waving lohhec.
eyer which agunst amber sky there are long bars ci
beautiful clouds of various shapes and sizes and IN lots
10 suit observers floating along turning their gay Dor
dcrs the breeze and apparently rejoicing in the proud
thought that there Is nothing brilliant as they Never
do look upon such but think OF the days be,
yond the food OF Time OF the verna shores oil ooyhooa
and YOUTH that have left forever and from whichever
Memory herself, that solemn and sad antiquarian main
scarcely flower left in her hand Many and sober
the reflections which glance al the evening west can
awaken In my mind Friends that are distant and hopes
that nrc dead never be revived with the fresh
ness whercwh they shonc of yore; ambition that wrs
thwarted confidence betrayed impressions changed ian
tastes dissolvcdhcse are few OF the associations WIN
which gaze upon the regions OF the setting sun lthlnk
how many visions that radiant thatcry sphcrc
have wrapped themselves in darkness aud made the
clouds their pavilion how the gorgeous creations have
disappeared like the golden cxhaatons oil the dawn or
the dews OF the evening" leaving the ,horougbare over
which was passing more arid and dreary
Now clever reader, who fances that lair words
butter no persnips and who is fond OF incident VIII be
likely to ask what all the preceding matter has to do
with my first love Nothing in particular. my good
friend il is only a sort OF overture to that delicious
symphony of details which shall arrange under
thine eye on these pages 1t is my wish to give preu-
Give auever deectabe cadence or two, before give
way 10 that narrative flood OF "Reminiscences, which VIII
bear thee nolens roleas onward over lis bosom and mar
vellouy endanger thy sensiblites II indeed thou art
Christian soul and thy heart be fashioned oil pcneira6e
materic.
take 1t Of course beloved reader that you have been
school. Did you experience any thing. in all
your days. so sweet Saturday afternoon, when the
school was kept only haliaday, and you could go OIL
with few boon good friends gathering strawberries IN
thc fields or filling your dinner basket with hedge black
berries tat grow along the borders of the meadows
and which you could take home and eat with white
bread and sweetest cream, oh delicious are those
days to my recollection feel at this moment KIND
Of juiclness about the thront simply from that rcmem
brance. .,.
fret lore began. II was my last Summer at school
was fifteen good looking boy them with rosy checks
collar Open tied with black ribbon and fastened below
with brooch which my father, honest man, gave my
mother in aaeir fret wooing was graceful enough Tor
ing the Winter previous TO make myself the fret among
the boys In the estimation OF the girls at the evening
weekly spelling schools in the young scholars eN
isence where II he be wight oil parts he cannot tail to
make his best qualities known
h. was ON one of those very Saturday afternoons
speak Of that first discovered the power OF that blear
eyed urchn CUPID in my soul. JULIA MAY, the com
panon of my rambe, OF those sweet caprcious
crestures that you cannot describe know OF no word
which can express her peculiar lovelness. she was
Young and what the rish call rtsiish being scarcely
fourteen years old She petite in form but her
hair parted richly her forehead and chung with
such bright brown lustrc about her downy truithke
cheeks her eyes OF such melting blue, Heavens
own color; her lips SO ripe, SO freshly red and her
smile sweet that my heurt was gone into her keep
Ing almost as soon knew each other Our scquant
snce began In the Winter OF those private little
eostmeless exhibitions Of thcatrcas with which coun
Try Sachers sometimes indulge their scholars The
teacher Che boarded with my father in the district and
his favorte) knew my prediction for uLi. and
he cas-. in OF those simple dialogues containing
only two nterlocutors. 1t was u wooins piece we
played 1t to perfection and there friendship cor.
dial and trusting. began. We shared in the triumph
which endeayors produced, and We regarded each
otheFthe more fondy that triumph was in unison.
One Saturday In June, the school was dismissed at
noon and as 1t a granted holiday and We had the
leave Of both Of parents JULIA MAY aud wander.
cd of together visit To cousin Lucys, nearly OF
yCLiAs age who was going to give streweerry.par
namely. invite few of her friends each with his own
cup or basket TO stray into OF the broad meadows
OF her father and after all had filled their vessels meet
In the middle of the largest meadow, by the side Of
clear atrca and underneath the shade OF wide beech
along whose fantastic roots it There AS was The
custom the lad and lass who filed their vessels the soon
est wont 10 repair and await the coming together
Of the bright young company to which they belonged
irecollect as ii I, wcro but yesterday. the kidding
delight with which set OF over the green fields 10
my cousins We Were alone, and We strayed along
through the vcrasn grass her white and soft little hand
claspcd In the meanwhile in mine, With what pleasure
did let down the bars OF every lot and assist heI
over the stile We did not hurry we felt that the
sense of existence in each others company pleas
are sufficient: hope swallowed up in present irui
ton. No stormy desires nor whitening passions stained
spontaneous affection: we knew that each loved
and was beloved, though confession had been nisdc
That was happy time reader and am sure never shall
witness its like again When YOU have read my whole
story. YOU viii think with me.
We reached my cousins just as the assembled compa
ny of young folks were on the point OF setting out
isasss upon the expedition These particulars may be
dry but my good friend, now honoring with peru
cal, we We're both children once; and have doubt:
about the purity OF his heart who cannot look back witt
delight upon the dreams OF his earlier wears: They
formed me morning OF our endless existence they has
their gef but they transient and they Gll
frausht with raptures which JOY OF
hood can parallel; sor then the heart WAS novel ans
its transports were new. although bright 10 endure
Whist though those days return no more,
Their sweet remembrance Is not vain,
For Heaven is waiting TO restore
Tho childhood OF the soul asaia"
And thus ends this little record OF tbs hoast Il VS.
but the simple precursor CT story which wold have
appeared in these pages had not the writer been esrN
called to renew the childhood Of his soul N bette
land
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AND Loss OK LlfE.-IhL
morning about 10 O'clock. there was large crowd
eneny OF our cedorea popuAauon ssseio.Se ", so 20
form ai the Corporation Ferry TO witness The depSr'an
Of some coored passengers, who were taken Oh iron
that spot in boat to be put on bosrd vessel in To-
streein bound TO Sew,OreaNs. As the boat showed on
the crowd rushed down upon the float attached to M
platform tha, was supported by kind OF prop be
meath which giving way under the pressure OF th'
weight above the aoAt dropped and the persons wht
crowded il were percptsted into the dock 10 iee
water The most distressing TO behold; bu
wesre happy TO learn that Was no wos' By The &C
manned on the platform the sufferers said to DO forty
6ftvwere all rescued with the exception OF
afree muls,to named Phis whose body recovered
and due efforts made 10 restore ME but was exanc;
also but is not ascerained. NorioS Herald OCT ~
YucArAa-The Secretary of the Treasury has
,sred crcular resembling the privilege granted 10 th