New-York daily tribune., 1854-03-15

SPRING SIeSs-" Signs, hunters say, Of spring are
visible in the country The frozen streams unlocked
and singing right merry down the hills the little green
MOSES those miniature pines look grsensr than and
the bluebds have come their pinons all tinted with clear
heaven
But there aie shreds and patches Of wnter white gar
mepts yet and the brave little violet that we saw
on Sunday last will be wrapped in shroud
With the genial sun, of sportsmen in little, and
children of larger growth, are sollng through the
fields and groves owng piece or musket in hand wan
tony destroying every bird that dares to show himself on
his return TO his northern home We met fellow" yes
terday-"leaiher and prunella wouldn't make him any
tbipe else-with half dozen UueJirds dangling from
string Such fellows would rob their grandmothers and a
law and penalty should be made for their special benefit
All ure reIoices in the north coming aO and the poor
rejoice ard we rejoice with them Spring Is kind to the
poor throws open the windows of their gloomy little spart
ments ard .hines with warm golden radiance upsn the
damp floors and broken hearhs rpreyes them from crop
ing in the cutters and sitting the contents ofthe ash barrels
and bids them lay aside for while the old faded eoAks
and Withdraw the silent hand exenosd Tor the passing
charity.
But spring after all il only rehesrsing day two ana
the beautiful drama has yet begun Keen winds will
come vet from the chill north east and SHOWS will whir,
may be- after the fashion Of December There will be suf
ferng yet-hupgry children At ighiand chilled limbs in the
morning There will be mse appeals YET and open empty
hands and broken Glod bsss yoGs for sweet charity
Let the appeals be answered the hearts filed and the beat
tudes uttered.
NAVIGATION -Stroling along the Piers yesterday we
witnessed evidences everywhere that the river cra are
waking from their winters sleep and making ready to vi
brate 10 and fro along old Hudson Ike many pendnums
in clock makers window Steamers that have lain quietly
st their moongs for months srsin their ethers give
low and then long breath, send up cloudy breath or
two give their wheels half revolution forward and back
and lie still again Sail vessels planning up and making
ready for fair wind The painters and casrs are busy
brushes glide and hammers fall making merry music
in the spring Ike sr
Old Hrpsoys winter fr lie is nearly done, and he now
rolls as all well behaved rivers should brightly and steadily
an his WAY down to the sea But has mt he had rare Sport
all By himself How he lay for while like diamond
necklace In cry stal case how he dashed his icy setting to
fragments in mere wantoness how be turned mason and
architect and laid up the solid water into walls Ike
Gibraltar and piled it up in pyramids Ike Cheops Ceph
rapas how be bulk piers and dykes day and pulled
them all down Ike yands the next how be has rushed
and fosnsd and wet the feet of the old Kckerbocker and
into their cellars and ssorehouss and ignored his
banks and brought navigation to their very doors And
WHIST time be has had with his cebergs how e1pedi-
tously be "clesred" them for salt water how they
rolled and urched and crashed they weighed anchor
and set of on the voyage swapping twisted cables a.
thew had been slen threads and making many prizes Of
unwilling soops and sluggish canal boss But his holidays