Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1853-02-17

MooRE's Last HouRs.-Thcre was
much that WAS very touching in The
closing portion OF poor Moore's lie.
We refer, oiconrsc, 10 Tom Moore, the
greatest OF The Irish hardS. For some
years before lis death, Moore's mind
gradually parted with lis glorious light
aud PASSED into shadow lie lever.
like Swift, become
"-----a drycler and show"
but TO the last retained Il GlImerirg OF
in,ell,c, lhat saved him from utter
lnbeciliy. He never entirely forgot his
friends, or cea,ed 10 enquire after them.
lie would also either sing Himself or ask
his wife 10 sing for Inn zone Of the
!avoritc airs OF his former days. Mrs.
Moore says that the day before iha, Oh
which he died he waILled music, thus
showing tlat the love lie lad so fond
ly cherished in health and through life
d I'd not d,s,rt him either in sickness or
in The hour OF death.
A Amid the decay and ruin o his
splendid faculties his heart WAS true to
is friendships and TO lis love OF music
llis affections survived his intellectual
ability, and, long after he ceased to
think. lie con,Inund to feel. Music
g.ca,ly delighted him when ,he power
to think was almost cxlinguished. The
Wild and sweet and plaInive strains to
which he had listen' d in other days,
these strains wrung from the bleeding
heart oi his country, continued 10 echo
though the deserted and desolate halls
%. his mind, and TO imparl to lis soul a
portion at least Of that exquisite plea
sure with which .D youth he had listen
ed To item. |: must have been sad
and yet beautiful spectacle to see the
glorious old bard, while sitting in The
darkness of mental eclipse, suddenly
oirn his dim eye and sing the airs with
which in many u festive scene lie had
the heart, and hidden ttars TO flow from
The eye Of beauty. Had Moore himself
seen in his better days any surh spccta-
c'", i, would have appealed with ire
sisiiblc io'cc to his sensibiIity, and he
would have wreathed chap!c, OF song
Of uudyng beauty abou, the brow of
the old bard. Who will do for Moore
what lie would have done 20 e>quIsitr'y
for another 2 LouiSriHe Jcmnh
SrABBlNG ArrAiR oN A SQUAD Boar.
A water un h,ard one oi Tie steam
boats OF the Fall River line vas stabbed
in the face hy an organ grinder,
during the passage from New York,
Monday night A parry ot foreigners
were on the deck carousiug AID making
merry. when The warcr went up a. sce
the fun. He WIS ordered of by the or
gan grlnd,r but not noyIng sn quickly
~ desired, the latter drew n knli,, stab
bed the waiter in the face, ana WAS pro-
ceeding to if1ic, other injuries when llc
was restrained by those rr' Sent
A FAgLr.--h Lobster who had hcen
takea 10y Fisherman. anc tuil,Ieu the
pam ol Loiling was restored to lite by
knd fairy and placed ia h.s native elc-
mrnt. Ills friends yaihCreI round him
auJ ,.i !oriy asked llini what he had
don, 10 v,n co. h,iute.' ,lrs brilliant red
coal. 'Oa Oh J nad 20 je b II d -
.IorGl-Envy no. inosc with superior
external advantages. toey may not have
gained them more easily ,a1n tic Lob
sier procured his red coat.
nS Jerome Bonapaite. tic ex.kinc
Of Wesiphala, is said to be v,Ivaiely
married to the Marchesa Bartolini, a
beautiful Florcnline widow oihish rank