Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-02-07
Beautiful Eleev.

She sleeps that still and placid sleep
For which the weary pant, in vain
And where the dews of evening weep
may not weep again;
o, never more, upon her grave,
Shall behold the wild flower wave!
They laid her where the and moon
Look on her tomb, with loving eye,
And have heard the breeze of June
Sweep Ger it-like q sigh!
And the wild rivers wailing song
Grow dirgelike it sweeps along!
And have dreampt in many dreamss
Of her-who dream to me,
And talked to her by sunny streams,
In crowds and by the sea
Till in my soul she grew eushrined,
young Egeria of the mind!
IT'S years ago land other eyes
Have flung their beauty DER my youth,
And have hung on other sighs
And sounds that seem like truth, Jos
And loved the music which they gave, 4
Like that which persisted in the grave. -
And have left the cold and Dead
To minge with the living cold
There is a weight around my head,
My heart is growing old .ss
o, for a refuge and home, 80
With thee, dear Ellen, in thy tomb.
Age sits upon my breast and brain, S'
My spirit fades before its time,
But they all thine again,
Lost partner of their prime
And thou are dearer, in thy shroud, -
Than all the false and living crowd? >,
Rise, gentle vision of the hours -.
Which go-like birds that come not back
And fling thy pail and funeral flowers -. .
On memory's wasted track!
o for the wings that made thee best
To Fly away and be at rest ~
THE INDIANS OF HoMBoLDr-We have been in
formed by gentleman of intelligence and observa-
ton, of interesting facts relative the Indians
in the vicinity of Eureka, Humboldt Bay. The
men go entirely unclad, all the females slightly
clothed The latter are said to be vestas in point
of virtue The dead are buried after the manner of
christian burials Formerly spot of ground in the
immediate vicinity of Eureka, was their buryng
ground. At present they bury their dead farther up
the bay, whittier they transport the deceased in "a
followed by long line of Others the train of
chanting the Indian dirge while they pad
die their slight crafts along the waters to the final
resting place. a grave is dug redwood plank or
board placed upon the bottom one at the head an
other at the foot, each side The body is then
deposited plank placed above, and then the grave
filed with earth, heaped up and rounded off after
manner, leaving the boards at the head and feet
like two grave stones.
They said to be worshipers of the Sun. In the
morning the old chiefs go down to the bay
sit down into the water. when the young pour
sand upon their head after which it is washed off
They said to keep Sunday relgousy and will not
visit the white settlements that day from which
circumstance informant thinks that California is
the land of Ophir of solomon. He says they could
not have derived their religious belief from the Je-
suits of Franciscan friars they dwet there.
But this would account for their keeping Sunday
instead of the Sal bath of the Jews. We are prom
ised very interesting items upon this subject.
San Francisco Alta California.
The Duke o wellington.
The Duke is the creature of method He suffers
nothing to disturb the terror of his course, eth
err in official or in houses hold existence There is
no occasion for him to weigh himself every day, or
take greater amount of exercise to-day than he
did yesterday, for the equilibrium of his health is
rgdy preserved through the uniformity his reg e.
punctuaty of his hours ofequitation Rising at four
o'clock in the morning, he lights his own fire. per-
forms his toilette, and proceeds to read write