Washington telegraph., 1855-12-19
For the Islegraph.I
CAMpEN, Dec. IA, 1855.

blessed thing, for it joins together hearts,
which otherwise, distance would make
strangers-W the assistance of time. 1t
is TIE pioneer Of thought. carrying the pre-
eious treasures of the mind TO the warm
hearts Of cur friends, when far away. |
bless it, and love it, for its many sweet mo-
ments, dedicated to the souls confding lone
illness. In parting. it binds together-in
war, it makes peace-in solitude, it makes
company. Il is the minds telescope, by
which it is enabled to "speak" the barks of
those We love. far out on life's troubled sea
1t is the carrier-pigeon of the insulated
hearts sweet messages of concern. Noun
tains and rivers-years and distance. roll
away before its mystic influence. 1t is the
trump of the resurrection, sounding over the
waste of forgetfulness. causing Oblivion to
give up its dead.
never cease at any time TO think of you,
and my chief desire is. that you should not
be ignorant of tha; fact-and you are not
And as love hegets love. you are naturally
sohcitous about every affair which pertains
to me, and that portion of the map where l
inhabit am still here in the queen city
of Arkansas. living along at my leisure,
sometimes sitting, sometimes standing, like
an inieriorman at show When | was
young, (ah me j thought the world was
too slow, now knoto it is too fast The
rapidity of this age. seems to rle to prefer
NIT a sufficiently considerate application of
the too-tedious- to- mention blessings we en-
joy. From flower to flower We rush, crush
ing them IN our eager grasp. without spar
ing breath to inhale their fragrance This
is not right; and one or more wheels ought
to be locked. or we 60 deep into the swamp
Of error and confusion This is the i'm
preston this city makes on me- She is SO
blessed, she is absolutely distressed, \
MARI gable river is enough of itself to run
any community in the State crazy; but
when it comes to steamboats,. with apples,
oranges and oysters. the heart jumps, the
mouthy glands secrete their gratitude, and
the stomach sends word to the liver, the
blood and oil the dwellers in the gastric re-
gions, to come to the feast
LIES code may be hard one to live un-
/ der, but such times of refreshing, are saving
clauses Such times have been upon US,
but oh. it was trial at last DID CASPER
HAUsER know what to do with himself
when plunged. a full grown man. for the
Erst time, in the midst of the worlds glo-
ries? Well. they say he did not; he laugh
cd, cried, jumped, ran. hOoped and heller
ed! Does the wanderer Of the desert sip
dain:ily when he finds the long sought foun-
tain Then why should it be expected.that
we, whom the clouds had cas. upon this is
land sone fifteen moons ago, could, would,
or should. bail the return of commerce and
plenty. with the most approved examples of
inperturbablc dignity? Well, it scarnt So
at the goodies we went-oysters were put off
/ Ike JENNY LIND tickets, without better
bidl-doctors stood off-said, pitch in
boys .''-boys pitched in. fell foul on fam
ines cura.ivcs, d-foundercd Doctors
laughed-boys said, don't laugh, oh -
one said, cholera ,''-ano,her said "ccn
sumption I''
BoNAPARTE said, or they say he said,
that there is but one step from the sublime
to the ridiculous. / don't care whether
that is true. or not one thing know that
! there is but one belly5uA between famine
and founder
But this is not the way to fa.ten back the
withered victims of drought and dreariness
Nature. in all things. works by degrees and
in all her vast dominions, nothing comes to
sudden perfection, but an-earth9uake-
Nan has often profted by her examples,
and all those who teach that art is superior
to her, palm of upon the world sad IN
! stance of their cumbrous learning. Oh,
that the time would come up in the history
of this country, when we could get qsse- e1,
TO good eating. But it's over now. and We
all feel better-having been. no; out Of date,
but under prescription
With slight, clustering exceptions, the
last ten days have been as beautiful as sun
and sky could make them. These pretty
days Go very little for avigation-though
our sweet and unpretending Ouachita is
still $50 as to be about, shank ye" 1t is
said every body. sooner or later, will be ap-
preciated-(probably SO. haven't time to
discuss)-hence it may be SO with towns
and cities. Listen, Camden is twelve
years old by the watch-has never been vain
nor fattereG-pursued the uneven tenor of