Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-08-03

SPRING.-Ah! How wonderful Is the advent
of the Sprng!-The great ANIMAL miracle al
the poisoning of Aaron rod. repeated on myr-
lads and myriads of branches the gentle pro
gression and growth Of herbs flowers trees
gentle and irrepressble-which no force can
stay, no violence restrain, like love. that Wins is
way and cannot be withstood by any human
power-because itself is divine power II
spring came but once in a ccnrury. instead Of
once year. or burst forth with the sound of an
earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and
expectation would there be in all the hearts 10
behold the miraculous change?
THE END OF THE WoRLp.-To-dav. to-nlor-
row, every day, TO thousands the end ct the
world is close at hand. And why should we
fear it? We walk here as it were in the cryrts
OF life; at times, from the great cathedral above
rs, we can hear the organ and the charming
choir; we see the LIGHT stream through the omen
door, when some friend goes mp before Us ::
and shall We fear TO mount the narrow stair
case OF the grave, that leads US out Of this uncer-
tain twilight into the serene mansions of life
eternal?
NIGHT.-IIow absolute and omnipotcnt is the
silence of the night And yet the Stiffness seems
almost audible! From all the mcasureic-s
depths OF earth around us comes halt a half
sound. half whisper, as if we could hear the
ated things in the great miracle of nature. decay
and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending
the gradual lapse and running of the sand in
the great honr-glass of Time!
THE EMPTY SCHooLRo0M.-AH the bright
young faces were gone; all tie impatient littc
hearts were gone; all the fresh voices, shril bat
musical with the melody of chldhood.wcre gone
and the lately busy realm was given up TO the
silence, and the dusty sunshine and the old grey
flies that buzZed and bumped their heads agains,
the window panes.
INDIGESTION. - Thus he dallicd with his
thoughts and with all things, and wasted his
strength on trifies like the lazy sea that PLAYS
with lis pebbles on its beach. but under the in
spiration of the wind might lift great navies on
Its outstretched palms, and toss them into the
air as playthings.
GREAT MEN.-Great men stand like solitary
towers in the city of God, and secret passages
running deep beneath external nature Give their
thoughts intercourse with higher intelligence.
which strengthens and consoles them. and Of
which the laborers on the surface. 90 not even
dream.
The Course OF TmE.-Like an intimidation
of the Indus is the course of time. We look for
the homes of our childhood, they are gone
The loves and animosities of youth, where are
I they? Swept away like the camps that have
been pitched in the sandy ted OF the river.
The SETTING SUN.-The evening came
The setting sun stretched his celestial rods Of
light across the level landscape. and, like the
! Hebrew in Egypt. smote the rivers and the
brooks, and the ponds, and they became as blood
The life of Capt Thos. Richards, Of the
steamer Keystone State, was insured in the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. al
Buffalo. for So, o00-which amount will Of course
be received BY his widow.