The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-09
A beautiful Obituary.


little daughter, Nina, and thus he grieyes at the be-
reavement
cit was a morning of unusual brightness, when
the army of cherubs around the throne of God re-
ceved the little innocent, whose death is above
corded, as addition TO their number An 0cto-
ber's sun was gliding the east with magnificence
and sowing the earth with jewels of light the
Orient seemed TO be the opening Of the gates of
heaven 10 admit spirit Of purity from earth; and
the smile Of God, the only sun light that there ex
lists, gushed forth in spendor upon world. Just
the mountain. tops were glowing with the warm
beams Of the god Of day, did the messenger from
the Palace of the Omnipotent summon Nina Lip
pard 10 her Fathers presence Fitting time was il
for such transit And the spirit OF the lovely
babe, borne angels wings through the shower OF
sun rays, gazed upon the earth, thus shining in
autimnal beauty, bow her little heart may have
mourned nj being thus separated from so beautiful
place earth, we know not but VIC cannot but
think, that any such emotions lost in the inf
ntude of splendor and magnifcence that mus have
dazzed her eyes, as the everlasting gates Of heaven
were lifted up and she found herself cherub, with
golden harp IN her hand, and bowling before the
Creator Of all thingsp'
While on earth, she had exhibited unusual intel
ligence for so young child and her very face had
an expression far beyond her years. But now her
thoughtful eyes are glazed in death, her rosy lips
are pallid, and her round. dmped checks, bcref If
bloom, Swallowed by the ring of the Death Angel
II is sad, to the stranger, 20 think OF so gentle
and promising a child being soon blghted; but
TO the parents hearts how terrible the thought
Vainly would we follow the bent of our inclination
and minglc our tears with the bereaved! The
fountain of their grief has been unscaled and the
tomb alone can close il But how delightful task
is it, TO remind them. that while tears bedew their
cheeks, the face Of their sweet Nina, clothed IN
seraphc beauty is irradated with the smile Of God
as she strikes the cords Of her golden harp, and
raises her lspng accents in unison with that count
less throng which forever makes Heavens archie,
ring with the praise Of God! Why then weep
Description or a WATERsPoUT, seen by Dr.
r. NJ Stansbury on board the ship South Carolina
| in February, 1S49. Among the sights and won
ders of the tropical regions, have been favored
| with an opportunity 10 see two waterspouts;
was very complete, the other was disspatod before
| ii had reached the last stage Of formation. With
the first there was phenomenon which have not
| seen noticed in the accounts Of such objects.
| Around the base there cylinder of mist,
/ straight and smooth, like perpendicular rain
storm, cut off level nj half the height Of the spout.
II looked lift had raned upward from the ocean,
/ and the drops evaporated at the same level. The
| cloud sent down tapering spire Of dense mist,
while the ocean boiled from below; presently
stem of water 10 meet the cloudy spirc, aud the
union was completed; you saw dark tube, with
light case, as II cylinder Of pale light resided in
thick shell OF the darkest cloud matter Presently
| there a confused motion in the mass, the light
and the dark became mingled, and then the lighter
| part seemed 10 shoot upwards outside In spiral
strands into the cloud above In a moment after.
wards the upper part Of the column vanished, and
the lower part fell, and we happily too far of
| 10 havepractical evidence Of the commotion which
must have ensucd in the ocean surface round about
Some conecturod that VIC were two three miles or
|
Our age is steadily advancing towards good in
much but in one thing il shamcfully goes astray.
In its humanity, IL is grand-in lie lust OF gold,
most pitiful, most mean. With us the great 40
cial sin is pOvcrty-the great incentive 20 crime
| the possession Of wealth. Not for passion not in
madness, have any Of the late murders been com.
mitted. Simply, in some cases, TO gain a lew,
| very few, extra pounds, have VIC seen murderer
after murderer lift his guilty hand. Each crime j.
more revolving than It's prcdeccssor-each reycla-
ton more degrading 30 human nature than the
last Il was relief TO know in Annette Mycr aDo.
i Their motive than ayarice-sick and sated tho
world is with seeing life forever balanced against
money and found wanting, though the scales bc
filled with only penny pieces
As a stimulus to this modern vice, the discovery
Of California threatens 10 be disastrous 10 the higher
morality Of society; and il is with much the
sorrow feel in reading the statistics ~ pcsti
lcncc, that hear of tens Of thousands noC king
out Ia dig for gold rather than gain their bread in
manlier and nobler ways. For there Is much 20 DC
done yet in the world. There vast regions Of
untroddcn waste which with industry could BE-
made fruitful fields; and his conquest Of man over
nature, instead Of pcrpexing the world with fears
for the currency" and misgyings about the sdo-
, probation Of the circulating medium would give
food to the furnishing and labor 10 the unemployed
When such extrayagant prices are given for the
| most ordinary nCCCssdrlcs AT san franClECO,
| cannot but think how much better II would have
been if all the money that has been tdken Od TO Cal
ifornia TO amass more, had been applied Ia useful
purposes at home As il is, sec but little pro-
mise Of general advantage in this California fasci
| nation: and only hope that men may bring
more wisdom thence than they carry thither, and
that others may learn from their experience that
gold is not the ono Good Thing London Times
|
We understand that in Old Cambridge, but three
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