Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-03-07
From the Advocate Of Progression, Whitehall, ~ y.
The Western POefeSS.

10 us there ore many pleasing associations con
necied with he West. In happy childhood days We
rOamed its wdw God haunts aud traversed the banks
OF ITS meandeIing brooks in quest OF sport and re-
creation and now that manhood has ste en- DER Us
and distance placed barrier between those lived
grounds and our present enjoyment, take pleasure
in noting the gradual swell Of western thought.
| Literary minds alone confined To the East.
Now and then thrifty mental germ merges into ex-
isience in the far-of regions of shutdown whose IN
tellectna doors SAVIOR of sweetness and unus-
ual. But seldom have we met with possessed Of
natural talents equal to those Of Mrs. SARAH I. Boil
TON, of Indianapolis, Indiana, who probably possess
es more poetic taste and genius than many authors
who have attained 10 a much more extended reputa-
ton. With her advantages few indeed would have
arrived to the position she occupies in the lite
rary world. As an example of her beautiful dction,
simplicity and purity of thought, offer the follow
ing fugitive gem from her equally beauti.
ful productions -
| The Flower and the Starlight.
| From its home high. to gentle hJwer,
| That bIoomeJ in lonely grove.
| The starlight came at the twilight hour,
| Aud Whispered tale Of love.
| Then the blossoms heart, so still and cold,
| Grew warm TO its silent core,
| And gave out perfume, from its utmost fold,
| IL never exhaed before.
Aud the blossom slept, thIo' the summer night,
| la the smile OF The angel ray,
| Bot the morn with its ga ish light,
| And the soft stole away.
| Then the zephyr wOoed, as he wandered by
| Where the gentle fowret grew,
| But she gave no heed To its plsintive sigh
| Her heart 10 its love tue.
| And the sunbeam came, with a lovers art
| To caress the h,wei in vain;
| She folded her sweeis in her thrilling heaIt
| Till the starlight came sgaiu.
| Here is beauty and originality combined. None,
we believe, can become familiar with Mrs. Bottoms
talents without acknowledging their superiority. II
modern authors generally possessed such winning
gifts, the bards of yore would lose much of their hold
On the affections of the present generation H.
n The Cincinnati Enquirer shows up the dirty
work Of Northern Wing DOughface, follows.
What such selfinf,ted humbugger as Scion Robin
son may say the ISLANDERS he may utter against the
north, while endeavoring to gull Southerners out Of
their money-if that is the end he has in VIEWS
Of no consequence further. than it may tend tc
mislead and prejudice the South against the North
1t is well that the course of the gentleman should be
understood at home that he may win a due
ure of public contempt
WIG TRIcK.-One SCION ROBINSON, who is
travelling through the Southern States soliciting sub
scripons for sUme work in which he is interested. is
addressing letters through the Charleston Is. c. Mer
curry, to his g Northern Brethren" the folly q
their opposition 10 the further extension of slavery
The Morristown Jerseyman (Whig) refers to ihes
letters and speaks of them being addressed by ROB
INsoN to his " Northern Democratic Brethren" We
have an indstinct recollection that SCION ROBIN
SON during tie last Presidential election,
casiona correspondent (fom Indiana) of the Gazett
Of this city, und in his letters went il strong for TAY
LoR and FILLMORE.
Our aeghbor will correct US if we are wrong
We believe right in saying that ROBINSON is
| Wing, and - nothing shorter" Mr.. ROBINSON ihe
instead Of addressing his Democratic Brethren, mus
he addressing his Wing Brethren of the North Sucl
being the case, and the Jerseyman have drawn i'm
uginury picture of the Democrats, advise it TO
wise the following part of it and make the appropriate
corrections, by making his Wing friends occupy tn
position il has assumed for Democrats.
" Scion Robinson, a writer Of much merit, puts fey
questions TO his Northern Democratic Brethren throug
the columns of the Charleston Mercury which they wi
never answer correctly His greatest inquiry is: The
have star longer guide them but OFFICE. Havin
abandoned their old Jacksonian principles they
derng about like sheep without shepherd, and la,
retrieve their loss of Office, they throw up the
caps and shout idown with Southern savery-sea tn
negroes from their masters and bring them here wher
they enjoy freedomif that cannot be done, comps
these Southern nabobs TO set them Free when they ca
riot and destroy the property of the whites, and
enact the enormes of ST. Domingo"
PLANK RoADs.-Papers from all parts of the Stat,
contain accounts Of movements of the people in "a
vor of plank roads. We are glad to see the peopl
wide awake subject of such great interest to al
The Parke County Wing of the LIST, is nearly file
with matter of this kind. At a meeting held at Por
land Mills, the Indianapolis and Springfield. Ills
Plank Road Company organized. and effecti'
steps taken for speedy operations. At meeting
Rockville on Monday more than tsoenty-tioo housdr
dollars was subscribed as q beginning. Well dor