Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1855-03-01
From the Detroit Advertiser.
THE LAMENTATI0N Oh NE. D0ESTICES.
SEVENTY HUNDRED AND ONE.
NARROW STREET, NEW YORK,
Jan.'23. 1855.


jan %, 1855.
Sorrow is upon the heart.a heavy grief
upon the soul. and a grea. affection in
the home Of me; Doeslicks. Ny friend,
the charm of my chamber, the comfort OF
my lonely hours, the treasure of my heart
the light Of my eyes, the sunshine of my
existence. the borrower OF my clean
shirts, and my Sunday pantaloons the per-
manent clothing and fancy goods debtor
Of my life. is no more. My sac'cloth gar
ment is as ye: not complete, nv tailor
having disappointed me; but dus; and ash
es lie in alternate strata, undiSturbed upon
The head of me. Doesticks. Weep with
mo sympathzing world, bear helping
hand TO lift away this load of sorrowful
sorrow, OF woful wo. OF bitter bitterness,
o. agonizng agony, Of wretched wretch
edness. and TO riuring torture, which now
afflictS with direiul weight the head of me,
Doesticks. grieve. | mourn, lament,
| weep, suffer- pine, droop. sink.
despair. | wrthe in agony. feel bad.
Damphoo OF has departed this life.
He is buried. but he is no, dead; he is
entombed. but he is still alive. After a
metropoli tan existence Of few months
had partially relieved him Of his rural yer.
dure, after having seen with appre ciaiing
eyes the suburbs of town which alone
contains the entire aud undivided Ele-
plant he has voluntarily exiled himself
10 stagnan. village in the western vii
derness-a seepily ambitious little town
let, vainly for many years aspiring TO
the dignity of city hood-but which sill
remains very baby of O city. not yet
(metuphorically speaking) divested Of
those rudimentary triangular garments
peculiar to weakliugs in an undevealoped
state-without energy enough to cry
when i, is hut, or goaheadism enough
TO keep his nose clean.
A somuambulistic town--for iii spite
Of ali The efforts made for its Qualification,
i; hos obstina,ely refused to shake off its
municipal drowsiness-a very Rip Van
Wrinkle of 4 town. now in the midst OF
its twenty years nap. and which will
arouse sometime and find itself so dilapid
| ated that its former friends won't recog
nlze it-a town which actunlizes that IA
! bic Of the hare and tortoiSe--and, trust
ing in its capability Of speed. has gone
fast asleep at the beginning of the course,
only to awake some future day 10 the
| fact iha, all her tortoise neighbors have
passed it on The way, and i. has been dis
| tanced in the race. rather than be disturb
ed in its comfortable snooZe. 4 very sep
ulchre Of q town, nto which, if a would
be voyager in the stream OF earnest life
| be cast away and stranded. he is as much
lost TO the really lining world, as if he
were embalmed with oriental spices, and
| she!ved away in the darkest tomb of the
Pharaoh's, A town whose future great
ness exists only in the imag nation Of its
deluded habiters. whose enterprise and
public spirit are as fabulous as the Pho
nix. A town which will never be city.
save in name. until telegraphs, railroads
colleges. churches. libraries aud ware
hsuses become indigenous 10 the soil OF
the Wolverines. and spring like mush-
rooms from tho earth. without the aid o;
the human mind TO plan. of human will
to urge the work. or human hand 20 place
ono single stone.
For, sooner than this dormant town
shall be mstured into fourishing ci,y
by the men who now doze away Their
time within its sleepy limits. the dead
men Of Greenwood shall rise from their
messy graves, and pile their marble mon
uments int bridesmaids market house,
Yet here has the late lamented Dam
phool resolved 10 bury himself. stablish-
ing thereby an undispuied title 20 the
name he bears: and can only hope thai
in his exile some stray newspaper may be
wrecked within his reach, that he may
come TO know the present heartfelt Ia
ment OF me, Doesticks.
have ever tried, 0! mighty Dsmphoo
to forgive thy faults, and overlook tn.
frailties.
Some have insinuated that thou wer
selfish, even unto meanness--''quis 1
8a5e?" Some have said that thou vert 10
zy. blu: such have never seen thee eat
What though thou vert foPpish to de
gree!--I could forgive thy Shanghas coat
Thy two acre turn down collars; and tn,
pantaloons SO tight thou hadst TO pull
them on with boot hooks; thy gorgeou
cravat. with its projecting bow on eithe
side like silken wing: thy lemon colore'
kids; thy cambria handkerchief drippin;
with compounds to me unknown; and H.
blanket shawl, which made thee resembl
half-breed Sco,chman. / could overlook
the boarding-school-is ism of the Miss Ma q
eyish Journal" filled with poetry rejec
ted of the press, with unmeaning prose
: with dyspeptic complaints of hard for
tune, of bilious repinings at thy lot, ant
all the senseles silluess which thou dds
inscribe therein. could endure the at
fected airs thou didst assume before tn
lady boarders. that they might think an
call thee Poet; the alb stracted air. the ap
pearance of being lost in thought and tn
sudden recovery ofthy truant wits. wit
. spasmodc start; the shirt collar loose a
the neck. and turned romantically dowl
over the ceai; the long hair brushed bacl
behind thy noticeable ears. TO show III
marble forehead" could admire tn,
self.appreciation of personal charm
which made thee certain all the youn,
ladies were smitten unto matrimony will
| e.