Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-02-14
For The St.ndsrd
+-- For the STANDARD.
DREAM LIFE-A Fable of the Seasons, by Ike Mar

Is like separating the tints of the Rainbow. Each
page is so beautiful, that if we select shall
neverbe able TO decide whether have not left 9th
ers still more beautiful unnotced. We therefore
oRly recommend those who wish really to enjoy the |
whole, to add it to their Libraries, and occasionally
live the days of their childhood by reading such
passages the following: .......-. ....
cit is ole garre, with big, brown rafters; and |
the boards between stained darkly with the rain
shower quickens its food, it if its
would come dashng through the shingles, upon you,
and upon your play. But it will not; for you know
that the old roof is strong and that it has kept you,
and all that love you. for long from the rain and
from the cold: you know that the hardest storms of
winter will only make little oozing leak, that tric-
kles down the brown stains.-lk tears. You love
that old garrett roof; and you nestle down under
its slope, with sense of its protecting power that
castle walls give to your maturer years. Aye,
your heart clings in boyhood to the rootree of the
old family garrett, with grateful affection, and an
earnest confidence that the after yeaTs-wiaever may
be their success. their honos-can recreate.
Under the rooftree of his home. the boy feels safe
and where, in the whole realm OF life, with its bitter
tolls, and its bitterer temptations will he feel safe
again?
But this you do not know. It seems only grand
old place and it is capital fun search in its
ners, and drag out Bit of quaint old furniture
with leg broken, and lay cushion across it, and
fix your Tens upon the lions. claws of the feet and
# se w ou
ronzing words to little Charlie. who isanounted up
on much humber horse,-to wit, decrepd nursery
chair,-as he of right should be, since he is three
I years your junior.
l know no nobler forage ground for romantic,
veniuresome, mschevous boy, than the garret of an
old family mansion, on day of Storm 1t is per
feet field Of chivary The heavy rafters, the dash
ing rain, tire piles of spare mattresses to carouse up
the big trunks to hide in the old white coats and
hats hanging in obscure corners-like ghcsls-are
great! And it is so far away from the old lady who
keeps rule in the nursery, that there is no possible
risk Of scoding for twisting off the fringe OF the
rug. There is. no baby in the garret to wake up:
There is no company in the garrett to be disturbed
| by the noise. There is no crotchety old uncle or
grandma. with their everlas;ing-' Boys, boys -
and then look of such horror!
| There is great fun in cropping through tall barrel
of books and pamphlets the look out for startling
pictures and there chesnus in the garnet, drying,
which you have discovered on ledge of the chim-
ney and you slide few into your pocket, and
MUNICH them quiety-giving now and then one to
Nelly, and begging her 10 keep sent-for you have
| great fear of its being forbidden fruit.
Old family garres have their stock, as said, of
casaway clothes of twenty years gone by and it is
| rare sport to Put them on, buttoning in pillow or
two for the sake of good funess, and then TO trick
out Nelly in some strange shaped headgear, and old
fashioned brocade peltcoat caught with pins and
In such guse, TO steal cautiously down. stairs and
creep silly into the sittingroom, half afraid of
scoding, and very sure of good fan-irying to Iook
very SOBER and yet almost ready to die with the laugh
that you know you will make. And your Mother
Grandmother's best bonnet; but Nelly's laughing
eyes forbid it utterly, and her Mother spoils all her
! scoldng with shower Of kisses.
Alter this you go, marching very statelily into the
nursery and utterly the old nurse, and make
deal OF wonderment for the staring half frightened
baby, who drops his rattle and makes bob at you
as IT ne would jump into your waistcoat pocket
Ike complains in his preliminary chat with his
reader that he has not been well used by some nqui
stve persons who enquire if his Reveries of Bach
eor are true, and very politely tells US he considers
is no need of asking about Dream Life. for the gaF-
ret experience is our own, and we doubt moi that of
many other of his readers, while natural and life
like are his other pictures, that know them to be
at least true to nature and almost fancy he has Da-
guerreotyPed our own dreams.
SCOTT AND JONES' A. a caucus of the wing men,
bers Of the legislature of this State, held the
ming of the 9th inst, Cat wha, place it does not ap
pearl General Winfield Scott, of the United States
army, was nominated for the Presidency, and James
G. Jones, Of Tennessee, for the vice Presidency
subject, of course, to the decision of the Wing Ma
tional Convention, which the caucus aforesad recon-
mends shall be holden at Philadelphia, on the 18th
day of June next, the anniversary of the battle of
Bunker Hill.
Great unanimity of sentiment is said to have pre-
vailed in respect to the expediency of nominating
Gen. Scott and an equal unanimiy In favor of the
gallant JOnes!" The chief merit claimed tor Gen.
Scott IS his military services, and the chief merit
claimed for Mr.. Jones is that he twice succeeded in
defeating MIR. Polk for governor of the decidedly
wing State of Tennessee.
The nomination of Scott by the whig members of
the Legislature of Maine is, under the circumstances
TeLtQOfe
tariff whig, too,) Willard Fillmore, the present
spectacle acting President of the United States, as
well as to the godke himself, who really deserves
better treatment from his northern federal friends
The nomination of Scott, moreover, has deeper sig
nfcance than appears thesuTface There is tine
ture of revenge in it-not, however, on the part OF
the mass of the wing party, but on the part of the
| wing fugle-men and wire-puers. The Fillmore ad-
mnstration, it will be recollected, cashiered those
leading wing organs, the Portland Advertiser and
kennebec Journal, account of their anti-fugitive-
slave law tendencies, and gave the publication of the
Immediately the heels of the disgrace of these
journals, movement set foot for the nomina.
ton of Gen. Scott and length the editor of the
Advertiser, who is ie-leader of the wing forces in
the legislature, has succeeded in obtaining his re-
venge, and showing Messrs. Fillmore and Webster
that, however much he may be despised in w ashing-
ton, he is some punkins among the wings of Maine.
Where were the editors of the Bangor W hg (the re-
cipient of the lost honors Of the journa) and the
Christian Mirror CHE successor of the Portland Ad-
vertiser) in this emergency Where were the Gus
tom-house gentry, who pretend to so much devotion
to Fillmore and Webster, and profess much opPo-
siton TO the Seward anii-fugitive law movement In
favor Of Scou2 .4ugtssfn Maine .ase.
The SULTAN AT A ROMAN CATHOLIC WEDDING.
The fourier de Marseilles that the Sultan has
attended the soemnzation of the MARRIAGE according
the rites OF the Roman Catholic Church, between
the son of M. r with the daughter of the Prince
of B.. The report had long been spread that the
Sultan intended to be present this ceremony, but
no one would believe that thing unprecedented
could take place. The Sultan, however, arrived at