American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-05-05

more beautiful than the following from the
Philadelphia Sun:
How grateful, reviving and delicious is the
sweet breath of lovely Spring. Every thing
now lives, moves, pants. glows, and signs. The
very blossoms seem full Of love, Flowers seem
things of life. The meadows smile with Joy.
The buds open their ruby lips to kiss the sweet
zephyr, and drink tbs pearly dew. All things
symphatse with this season of Nature s return
of life. Hearts expand. Minds grow more
elastic and vivid. Love opens the soul to all
the charms of beauty. Rapture pours her de-
licous sensations into the heart. We adore the
power of God in the resplendence of new
world, Weakening from theslumbers of the death
season. How all things start into being
What magic in the work. What charms
spread over the scene. Music is in the air
life in the trees-the songs Of birds salute the
bushing day-and all seem best. Hope lifts
her head to carol her song Of Joy. Labor sings
in the field. Age again revives and welcomes
the inspiring breeze leadeu with grateful per-
fumes. Sickness revives, and tingIng far its
cruLch, joins the dance on the green. Young
heats are light. Old hearts cast off their cares
and the resurrection of beauty typlies the
beauty OF mmortalIty-and cheers the heart of
man with certainty of Spring beyond the
tomb.
How lime steals on. Winter after winter
spring after spring-year after year. And
still the great machine endures, though the
atoms that make it, change one by one, but
leave it still the same. What marvel is Om-
Impotence. What miracle the little feverish
life of man. We live--we adorc--wc enjoy
we die. Move sleep-like the flowers that
never perish, but bloom with renewed beauty
each returning spring-We sleep, but to revive
in another and brighter mode Of being. What
a beautiful preigurement of the Immortality
of man is presented us in the charms of spring.
But yesterday, and all things seemed dead
The skeleton of the oak seemed to defy the
very power of God to clothe it, and yet it is
now clothing itself in a garment of verdure,
equal to a new existence. What miracles are
working around US. The hum of life sue
goods the silence of death. What myriads Of
insects buzz through the air. What shoals Of
fish glide through the water. What an infinite
variety of birds swell the chorus of melody in
the woods, where erst the silence of revelation
resigned, and eternal death seemed to have
spread her ebon pail over the copse of nature.
1t is in accordance with our ideas Of nature
to behold the ravages of decay. No one is
startled with the brown of autumn. But we
all standardization at the miracle of regenerat-
ed life. Decay is passive-regeneratio ac-
tive power. Say it is the law of nature-and
what's that law, but the omnipotent power of
God acting through His own laws
ITEMS OF News. 1t said that several gen
tlemen intend to erect at Reading, (Pa.) a
Rolling Mill of the first class, for the manulac-
ture of Boiler Plate and Sheet Iron.-Dia-
monds have been found in the Union Gold
Mines, in South Carolina.-The wires of the
Magnetic Telegraph line, between Baltimore
and Philadelphia, have been extended across
the Susquehanna river, OH Postt.-A pickle
rel, weighing IA l-2 lbs was caught few
days since just below South Hadley Fails
The Bristol Print Works, at Taunton, Mass,
turn out 1900 pieces of Mousseline de Lame
per week.-The clock intended to be placed
in the steeple of Trinity Church. New York,
weighs nearly 1000 pounds, and will cost
S5O0O.-Porter, the American giant, who
resides at Louisville, is seven feet and eight in
ches in height, weighs about two hundred and
fifty pounds, and is thrty-three years old
In GAINESVILLE, Co., on the cath ult., the to-
bacco and variety store of A. Merrick s. Co.,
was much injured by fre--loss is full $4,000.
"A sofa fty-ono feet long has been con-
structed at Savannah for the use of hotel
theGe.-Col. Todd, late Minister to Russia,
is now in Washington.-Th receipts at the
New York Custom House during last week
are estimated at $4,000.
Accomac county, Va, in forwarding the returns
of the recent election for member of the Legis-
lature, says.
"The Legislature of this State passed an ACT
at its last session, to refer to the people the
question of establishing free school system
in this county, and if they would sanction il
by majority Of two-thirds it should pass into
law, But to our utter establishment, the
school was lost The wealthy potion of the
community opposed it because they would be
taxed for its support, and great many of the
poorer, because of their ignorance. Is il mo-
"a burning and blasting shame" that the old
State Of Virginia, who has given birth to SC
: many great, good and learned men-such as
Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Clay and Har
rison, should refuse to sanction a free schoo
system, by which all-the poor as well as TIT
rich, should receive that which is so essential
especially to a Republican form of Government
"a good education"
ToRNADoN Texas. A tremendous lorna
; do swept over the upper portion of Fayett
county, Texas, week or two since, and dam
1 aged many of the plantations to great extent
n The gale was so violent that it uprooted larg
e trees, and tossed them about in the air as
: they were mere straws; fences were blown a
way and the rails were scattered in all direC
tons over the fields Torrents Of rain fell, ali
0 raised the streams in few hours so that the
:, overfiowed their banks in many places.
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