The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-10-14
Por the National Era.
SABBATH EVENING MUSINGS

no" many scenes come crowding on my musings,
This damp, dark, Sabbath night
Passing on swiftly through the mind, and losing
Themselves among crowd Of phantoms light,
Called into being by the ran-drops falling.
Or by the far-off winds low moan,
Like to lost spirits one another calling
Through the thick darkness over all things thrown
But when the wind comes nearer with its siyhing
And the tall leahess trees their branches swing
thnk OF Northern SHOWS, and sailors diving
Among the icebergs, in the Arctic ring.
And Runic rhymes of the fierce, iar-haired Morse.
man,
And Odin and his seven sons hear.
And dark pine forests and spectral horsemen,
Pass, till my mind is filed with pleasing fear
Then all is hushed, and to mo comes the sorrow,
The cares, and trials, that to earth belong;
see no JOY in looking towards the morrow
hear but one sad, melancholy song
Of free spirit which in light rcjoices,
BY earthly passions drawn aback-
OF halfheard whisperings of glad angel voices
Mixed with mans curses - hardened deep and
black.
But then the sound of rain-drops, louder growing,
Causes moro wave of fancy's wand
| see stream in the far desert flowing,
And springs of water in a thirsty land
And Judah's leaf.crowned palms, in beauty growing
In clusters by the sacred Jordans tide
Add soft winds over Syrian roses blowing,
And sunset clouds in gold and purple dyed
And still the rain keeps softly, gently dropping,
Bringing each moment some new thought that
burns
Thiekening each moment-neyer never stopping
Like kaleidoscope that over turns,
Until tho mind, o'erwhelmed, shuts out tho sight,
And in an instant all is vanished quito.
MAUDE
WmMor's DIsrRIcT.-rhe Peoples Journal,
Potter county, Pa. says that David Wilmot has
not made single Pierce and King speech in
the district, during the canvass. A meeting of
the Free Democracy of Bradford county was
announced for the 25th September, at TOwanda.
EBEN NEWTON, nominated in Mr. Giddings's
district for Congress by the Wings declines
that nomination, and offers himself, simply Gas
candidate of the people of the district
JUDGE SpALDING, of Ohio, an eloquent sup
porter of Gen. Cass in l84S, but now cham
pion of the Free Democracy, sends greeting to
his brethren in Pennsylvania, as follows:
Tell them that the true Democratic sent-
ment in Ohio will develop itself in November,
in the shape of fifty thousand honest votes for
John p Hale, of New Hampshire
B. c. EASTMAN, Representative in Congress
from Wisconsin, has been re-nominated by the
Democrats of his district At their Convention,
d resolution was introduced in favor of the Bal
tmore platform; but three cheers were given
for the nominee, and the meeting adjourned
without taking any action on the resolution.
The Practical Observer, a Democratic paper
published at Valparaiso, Indiana, publishes the
three platforms, commends the Pittsburgh plat
FORM as eminently sound and Democratic, but
says of the others:
Both the Baltimore platforms, as will be
seen, uphold slavery and slave-catching by the
National Government and by the people of
the free States, and attempt to suppress the
free discussion of the subject and for this rea.
son we entirely repudiate them both, as anti.
Democratic And we have scarcely seen man
who approves those pro-slavery resolutions
Ex-senator HANNEGAN, who killed Capt
Duncan in drunken spree, is again ut large
the jury having failed to find an indictment
against him! So, when one man wants to des
patch another in Indiana, with IMMUNITY, lie
him first get drunk.