Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-09-13
A NIGHTS TOURNEY IN MAINE.

The mail stage which left Watervie on Wednesday night,
the Sd Instant for Bangor had ratified the stony road that
stretches for fifty weary miles through that REGION until the
four inside passengers who had the hsdhood choose that
almost obsolete mode of conveyance had gradually sunk into
of troubled sumber, and the most garulous Of
the company had subsidized into welcome silence The sky
was clear with the exception Of here and there few light
aeecy clouds, through which the stars shone with hardly
diminished brightness lending the landscape
that peculiarly vague aractveness which vanishes with the
light that creates it.
AS the night wore away the soft DIR changed to
keen and chilling atmosphere, aud piercing wind added to
the discomfort of the passengers causing the oquscous
young gentleman shrink silently into his of the
COACH The driver beguilng the time with the ascns
ting society Of brisk young damse who sat with him upon
box, and for hours the coach rolled Nothing
the heavens the earth beokened the appearance of
any extraordinary phenomenon
Towards the hour OF that wtchng time Of night when
strange sights suited to the hour the stage stopped at
village inn midway the journey, and then was that
exclamation Of delighted SURPRISE which suddenly broke from
the only lady in the vehce reused her more drowsy fellow
travellers the sublime and extraordinary spec
tace that blessed their asonshed eyes, The heavens
were flaming and trembling in svery light FROM all paris
Of the horizon sheets Of delicate and varying fame rolled
quveng up the zenith, where huge ring Of pale golden
fire seemed absorb them Within its circle one little star
still shone All else had vanished.
The light clouds that had been drifting the sky had
sheIad together and covered the stars with thick veil
of bridal white the many
coIoed flames rembingy fitted with strange bssuy
can have no earthly counterpart and seemed each
change into hue Of still rarer lovelness.
Gradually the assumed graver aspect dark
cloud ia the northwest gave sill bolder relief the lurd
me that now cleaned athwa il, and from the fiery ring
zenith there shot rays of gorgeous crimson and purple
gave the whole eXpanse of the heavens still deeper
glow. Then again the miller tins came struggling up from
the horizon and followed the golden lights that flashed far
up to the magic circle.
The spot from which the four travellers gazed at this
drous spectacle seemed cuouy fitted by nature for the pur
pose The stage had halted rocky einence that
in the midst Of the pleasant village of Unity 10 the valley
beneath lay the little town, buried in profound repose
curtain OF thin mist had gathered it. half shroudng it in
vogue Darkness and rejecting back the changing light that
shone from this vast kaleidoscope Of heaven One might
imagine that the spirits OF the morrill, who seat these 6ery
roaping the sky, had spread veil Of clouds
the sumbering village conceal their goblin pyrotech
MICS from earthly ken Had this sublime sight been
from the summit of The Broken, where tho legends that be-
long ths locality prepare the vster Tor startling experiences
might have seemed extraordinary when viewed
from hilock in sober Of Unity and within the
boundaries OF the prosac Sae Of Maine Yet the quiet
village for the time spectral appearance and the gnar
ed Of the pine tree stumps which lay along the road
side assumed yet fantastic shapes the northern lights
STRAINED full upon them. No spendor Of those brilliant
nights when showers Of meteors hure the sky could
rival the unueabe oveness Of those changing scenes of
beauty.
AL tnlngs must eO0, eahn tno pteacnef. hbo Was
with this mysterious and beautiful phenomenon For an hour
adorned the heavens and the EARTH and then ased Slowly
the quveng lines Of light died away, The zeni,h golden fire
seemed to blond with the sky beyond the stars twnked
brightly through the riffs in the dying Clouds and the VISION
Of beauty faded from the Wow Of those who stood 10 the chill
morning air, rspt in wonder and sdmston faded from
their earthly sight, but the recollection Of ts uncsrthy beauty
will remain in their memories ill the journey OF life ended
and the noondsy and gnght Of this world sink alike
into oblivion. .5Ht 49, G{ tEs
Thus the gathered ample materials fnr future
rosp con. end turning TO the real and the pac
tca set forth anew upon their journey Through thriving
ugrs 30 full Of busy life by day, but at night silent tho
grave fra bridges tb crossed rushing streams, aud
through thick forests Of fragrant pines they kept on their
Tue superauve pessions admiration which language
boun uy supplies speedily exhausted by the COM
prehensve delight Of the party. and after Msser Loquacy
had regsied self for time with his spshy CONVEX
saon the weary travellers passed again though evere into
awoke at each o in the rocky road, longed heartily
for their journeys end, and reached Bangor.
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