The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-04-15
az BROKEN HOME.

A short time since, Ne left the cherished
idol Of our hearfh-csrcle IN the full PROMISE
of health aud lite, aud returned bu, 10 sec
him die! Oar home is dcsolate, for III
purest light has faded out. Willie is dead.
OGod! how we loved the boy! lie wa,
q child Of moro than rare promise--a brave,
beautiful, nob!e-hear,ed being, aud all man
hood in every pulse. Ills mind was al
most masculine, aud be wrest'ed with
death, With the calm paiieacc and jodg
ment Of maiurer years.
Would that 10 the spring.iine be hat
gone to his long nigh,-ress of death, wher
the flower and leaf aud tiny blade were
bursting out from their earth sleep L
clolhe the fields ia beauty. But il matter.
not. lie wandered not alone through The
dark valley, ssfor Of such is the kingdom q
Heaven The warm sunbeam aud rain
drop Of spring timer will deck the resting
place Of the li,tle sleeper in smiles. Lit
lie will he heed, however, either sunbeam
or cloud on earth, for there is no winter
shadow ia the eternal summer sky Of bliss.
Blessed hope thar death is not an ''eier
nal sleepr' The beautiful! tcnemen, OF a
soul Of two summers, win miugle with lis
pillow Of earth; but in the silence of the
night time. We shall. listen to the tripping
Of little feet, and the low whispering Of q
siivery vnice-to the sweet rushing Of two
liiile angel wings, and feel the pure touct
Of tiny palm upon the feverish cheek
One OF the strongest links Of earth has beer
broken but to bud Us The closer to Heaven
Gods will be donei
The little play things are all put away
A deep tide Outright hopes has been rolled
back upon the heart Crushed and broken
we bow 10 The storm that has swept oul
hearth, and thank God that there is bet
ter world than this for the child.
Wiliie,-our own loved, beautiful, ger.
tie boy,-good nishi!-Caynga Chief
SAD SrncrAcLE.-Under this caption
The Cincinnati Nonpareii describes scene
on the Louisville mail boat Telegraph, las,
Thursday. Two persons, q lady aud a
gentleman, came on board under charge
Of pslice officer. The writer continues
"l'he lady-beautiful she was--ap
preached passenger Of her sex, csclam
Jog, .sshat pretty lady! she'll soon bs
married, aud -, here she buried hel
face in her hands. aud sobbed aloud. calling
for Der Edgar. Edgar" She was usheres
into slaie-room By her attendants, snt
lost from our view.
The gentleman who was her compan
ion, in charge Of the officer, we next up
preached. He was seated in the gentle
meas cabin, with friend on each sid'
bathing bis eyes with wafer, while be wa
apparently lost to everything save the de
Iasien that Tom Benton wls after him
and ranfed to burn his eyes om.n
Go inquiry. we learned that both were
unaiics. en- route for The Asylum al Lex
ing,on. Ky, from Newport. The lady:
girl Of scarcely seventeen-xas Mis-
Ca,harine Hughes, just blooming forth 10
10 womsnhnod. who loved young maj
from Pa;ladelpbia. lie said be loved bel
--she believed him--and he sedaced he
afections-and she was in consequence
thereof bereit Of reason--a louaic.
The gentleman was Joseph Hemel
wright, an esteemed citizen Of Newport
who. by constan, study and reading, ha'
suddenly became insane. At the recen
election in that city, be otiicia,ed as Judge
and WIS highly complimen,ed for bis cor
RICHNESS, expedition, and precision in re
turns.