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DEATH OF GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR

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DEATH OF GEN ZACHARY TAYLOR
ELEVENTH PRESIDENT OF TIE UNITED STATES
There is sorrow, and the voice Of mourn.
ing is heard in the land, for again one of the
great hath fallen! Cen Taylor, after few
hours illness, died in Washington on the
9th instant of Chronic Dyscn,ary.
No intelligence could have been more
startling, for none could have been more
unexpected Than this. In the yigor of
health, in the pride of his power, who look
ed for him to die! To be ;tricken down in
the hour iii which the gaol was won, the
saol fol- which all the hard battles of life
had been fought, and TO have the half tasted
goblet dashed from his lips by the rude
ha"d Of remorseless DEATH
But yesterday and he was a prince a
mong the people, one Of the pow erful of
earth, whose smiles are Fortunes and whose
frowns are Fatcs; but now he has passed
away to tho silent land, and has become
nothing among the millions of the dead.
The heart which was so big with life has
ceased to beat and has become forever still;
the restless spirit which no energy could
tame bath taken its flight to the land of
souls, and as the body es lifeless and cold,
a corpse in the house of death, the lockers
on may see how that power can pass as
shadow away, and how that frame can be-
come as nothing to the dead Though one
OF its great ones hath fallen, after few
days of affected grief, the world will go on
as before. seeming not to feel, or at
least not 10 care for the loss. True, i'm
mense crowds in carriages, on horse
and on foot followed the hcarse to the grave.
True, many grave men in pulpits and in
public halls declare to multitudes Of ofsolemn
visnged men and gaily dressed women, that
the eyes of people are wet with tears, and
that nation is mourning and will not be
comforted because of the loss of its noblest
son. True, the people who listen seem to
believe the words of the speakers, and to
look about them as though they actually ex-
pcctcd to find the disconsolate mourners.
Who wceps with long and unalleviatcd
grief for the death of any mortal being?
And so, after few sighs and tears, the
world will 60 on as before; childhood will
laugh and doteage will gable, men will
drink, and sing, and sleep in security as be-
fore; manhood will plot, and plan and win;
the fcllon will hang on the gibbot, the bride
will blush at the alter; honesty will toll in
the sunlight to accomplish its own noble
but selfish ends, while ambition will still
work its secret, dark and midnight mach
inations; thus, in spite Of ali that is said and
sung, the world will be ungratcful to the
mighty Past in the glory of the great Pres
ent. and though he had stinted his soul and
ground bis heart to win the worlds rcmcm.
brance, yet the world will forget, and save
ing tho marble column will be a little high.
er, his grave will look like the unknown
graves which will lie scattered around it.
CASE BEARING SEEp.~-We learn from
an exchange paper that the cane in East
Tennessee is bearing, this season, great
quantities Of seed, which resemble rye in
size and appearance. and which, upon ac-
tusl experiment, has been found to yield as
fine -four as the latter grain; and equally as
palatable upon being made into bread. =.
We notice these facts for the purpose Of OBJ
serving that, 10 the astonishment Of the
oldest inhabitant. tho same phenomehon
has been observed in many prts Of lliis
District. where the cane which has borne
seed is said 70 be dying.
In some Countries. aud we belteycin
parts Of Floridasnd Louisiapa, thctaue IT