Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-08-11

Who on our rocks thy wreaths OF freedom fling
As on an altar can il be that We
| Have wasted inspiration on dead ears
! DuIed with the too familiar clank of chainsl
! The peoples heart is like harp for years
! Hung where some petrifyng torrent rains
Its snow endrusting spray; the pasied chords
Faint and more faint make answer to the tears
That drip upon them; idle are all words;
Only silver plectrum wakes the tone
Deep buried meath that ever thlckenng stone.
We are not free: Freedom doth not consist
In musjng with our faces towrd the Past,
While petty cares, and crawling interests, twist
Their spider threads about us, which at last
Grow strong as iron chains to cramp and bind
Freedom is re-created, year by year,
Iuhearts wide open on the Go lward side
In sous calm cadenced as the whirng sphere,
In minds that sway he future like tide;
No broadcast creeds can hold her and no codes,
She chooses men for her august abodes,
Building them fair and fronting to the dawn;
Yet. when we seek her, we but find few
Light footprints leading mornward through the
dew;
Before the day had risen, she was gone.
A nd we must follow; swiftly runs She on,
And, if our ST cps should slacken in despair
HALF turns her face halfsmiIes through her golden
hair,
Forever yielding, never wholly won;
That is not love which pauses in the race
Two close linked names on fleeing sand to trace
Freedom gained yesterday is no more ours,
Men gather but dry seeds of last year flowers;
Stlllthere's charm ungranteI, still grace,
Still rosy Hope the free, the unattained,
Makes US Possessions anguid hand let fall!
lis but fragment of ourselves is gained
The Future brings us more but never all
And, as tie finder Of some unknown realm,
Mounting a summit whence he thinks to see
On either side ofhim the imprisonng sea,
Behods, above the clouds that o,erwhem
The valley land. peak after snowy peak
Stretch out OF sight each like a silver helm
beneath lis plume of smoke, sublime and bleak,
And what he thought an island finds TO be
A continent to hIm first oped,-so we
Can from our height of Freedom look along
4 boundless future, ours if we be strong;
Or if we shrink, better remount our ships
And, fleeing Gods express design, trace back
The hero ireighted Nayfowers prophet track
TO Europe entering her blood rel eclipse.
INSTANCES OF PRESENTIMENT.
have heard of several cases of people
hurrving home from preSenlment Of fire
and Mr.. NJ. Catherwood was once, wher
absent from home, seized with such an anX
ety about his family, lhat, without being
able in any way to account for IT, he lcl
himself impelIed to fly to them and remove
them from their house they were inhablt
ing; one wing Of it which fell Immediately
afterwards. No notion of such a mlsGor
tune had ever before occurred to him, no
was there any reason whatever to expect II
the accident originating from some defect II
the foundation.
4 circumstance exactly similar 10 this, y
related by Professor Suing, of Prolesso
BhrOm, teacher of mathematics At Marburg
who being one evening i'll company, wa
suddenly seized with conviction that h
ought to 90 home. As, however, he wa
very comfortably taking tea, and had moth
ING to do AT home, he resisted the admom
ton: but it returned with such force that h
was at length obliged 10 yield. On reaching
his house, he found everything as he hat
lclti but he now felt himself urged TO re
move his bed from the corner IN which !
stood to another; but, as 1t had Away
stood there, he resisted this impulsion also
However, the resistance was vain: absur
as il seemed, he felt he must do II; so h
summoned the maid, and with her aid, IA
drew the bed to the other side of the room
after which he felt quite at ease, and return
ed TO spend the rest of the evening with hi
friends. At ten clock the party broke uf
and he retired home, went TO bed and I
sleep. In the middle Of the night he wa
awakened bv a loud crash, and on lookin
out he saw that large beam had faleI
! bringing part of the ceiling with it, and wa
! living exactly on the spot his bed had occI
| pied.
! One Of the most remarkable cases of pre-
! sentiment | know of, is that which occu
! re not very long since on board one OF he
maiesv's ships, when lying off Portsmouth
/ The officers being one day atthe mess iabl'
Young Lieutenant p. suddenly laid dow
! his knife and fork, pushed away his plat
and turned extremely pale. lie then ros
! from the table. covering his face with hand
and retired from the room. The presldel
of the mess, supposing linn TO BE i'll, SCI
one of the Young men TO inquire what wa
the matter. Al first, MIR. P.was unwilin
to speak bet on being pressed, he comics:
cd that he had been seized with SUE
den and irresistible impression that brotl
err he had then in India. was dead. ii
died" said he, "on the 18th of August,
six o clock, am perfectly certain ofit."-
No arguments could overthrow his convi
ton. which. I'm due course of post. was ven
fed to the letter. The Young man had di,
at Cawnpore. at the precise period mention
ed Mrs. Groves Night side of Natur
There are a set of >harpers hanging abo
the returning volunteers, as they pass HON
ward from \. Orleans. Their principal o.
iect is to purchase soldiers land warrant
some of which have been sold at $50. VIII,
they are worth from sl20 10 sl25. The
! real value was, of course. not known 10 4
moor soldiers who solid them.