Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-03-03

TO wenn tho heart from trapsitory things,
Aud turn to heaven. Upon a bill remote,
+ NIB ,soined in n brotherhood of trees,
The ruined church appeaoed. The wooden stile
IInd rotted to its fall. the leaning fence
Crenked in the wind of summer. Grass had
grown,
Across the path and ventured to the door.
Lnxuriant boughs lay on the swagging roof'
Which like the face of some old rock appeared.
Rugged and brown and covered DER with moss,
Dripping with moisture. Thorugh the shatter-
ed panes
The swallow passed with straw upon her bill
Or enrthworm for her young. The prowng poor
Had borne the shutters to their winter fire.
The humber graves that once we're decked with
flowers.
The head boards gone. the footstones all displa-
cod,
We're suoken deep and full Of withered leaves.
The slender railing that had once enclosed
The separate family had fallen down
And let the intruder in. Rankly the weeds
Der topped the battered monuments OF stono.
The rural records of forgotten things.
Such was tho spot and there in autumn time
When parting sunshine clad the distant hills
In all the golden draperty of eve,
Have | recned aud by suggestive power
Called up the mighty spiri, of the Past
For my companion. Warming Memory
Reli, the pleasing pictures that for years,
Were latent on the canvass of the soul.
The vesp.s of rank decay were gone;
I he simillng Sabbath brought the eager crowd
To the old church again. The rustic vehicles
Gronncd o'er the rocky road. Along the renee
And by the trees the patient horses stood.
The plnin old elder of tho flock there
Close to the desk and lined the ancient psalm;
The porily matron in her snowy cap,
Slyly obse,vant ot the rrnnking boy;
The bare armed infant in the nurses lap;
The buxom girls, unconsclenee OF thtir cnarms'
OF nrchlv initiative of the town.
Tho awkward STRIPPING whose untutored faoe
Betrayed his artless love; the minister.
With kindly look and gentle words for all.
| heard the prayer and the concluding hymn,
Whose echo fingered round the juttlng caves
Aud dipi away into the quiet wood.
But with the glimmering of the twilight hour
The spell would break and tho approaching
shades.
Unpeople tho old church agau
Though human footstep rarely treads the scene
Mature hath left her soundstand colors there,
And many beautiful forms Of forest life
surround the spot and everinore MAINTAIN
Inandihle worship of the Deity,
The birds fulfill their offices OF love.
In esory nook. The plaintive stock dove COOS,
All tho bright noon day from the rustliDg OAK
Tho truant bee and velvet butterfly
Fit DER the rugged mounds. From bench to
bench.
The n.hv spider draws his fmy snare;
Epiovs the sunny beam. In tho still night
The edrcary owl and lone y whip-poor- Will
Moan to each other on the shuddering AR.
The dews come softly to the horny walls
Aud moonlight sleeps upon the silent floor.
Shelby Co, Kentucky l.'
BRrIsER TO MS MAJESTY. .-Yankee Sullivan
has received the well deserved reward for bis
unremittng exertions in the science OF wh'cn no .
is n professor. We learn by recent accounts
from the Pacific that he is now attached to the
court of the King of the Sandwich Islands,
.Repus Professor of the Manly Art of Sef-de-
fence" Beside giving lessons to the family OF
the King he is also constant attendant upon
His Majesty. in other words, his bottle holder
q report says that he holds the bottle very WELL
excepting toward the close of the day,when MS
| grasp becomes unsteady There is now no know
ing to what digni,ies Yankee Sullivan may aspire
| Famous as he has become by his previous labors,
! (the laborer was worthy of his Hyer,) he may
| vet become Kings son n-aw, and IT he does
not each tho throne himself, perhaps Viceroy'
in which case, we presume. from his rather iras-
chile tendencies he will be denonlnated MS VICE.
Riled Iighness.--N. y. Pic.
COL FREMoNr-AND HIS MARIposAs.-We
learn from Washington. that the President sign
ed with his own hnnd the patent confirming Col,,
onel Fremont's title to his great Mariposas claim
! in California. This nice little estate contains
! upwards Of seventy square miles, situated ABOUT
| two hundred and fifty miles easterly from San
| Francisco Messrs Palmer, Cook, &c. the Cal
! ifornia bankers, own one undivided half OF the
tract AID Col j. c. Fremont the other, which,
many persons believe makes him the richest man
| in the world. .
Col Fremont bought this immense gold regoln
! in 1916 for the SUN of $4,000. and was iaugned
nj for the recklessness of his Investment. AZ mas
already yielded some thirty five millions OF DOL
lcrs, and its resources both mineral and agricui-
! turnl ara said tn be xha stable. COl. Fo>
mont IL a phenomenal man. in character, adven-
| ture aud forfune.-N. /. MirroT
| sOs
| Ap.RTy ySoLp.-About thirty miles from Wilm-
! ipotop.and On the banks of what is called North
! east lived three fellows. respectively Barham,
! Stone. and Grey They came down to Whining
ton in a small row boat and made fast to the
wharf They had time of it in the city,but fear
ing they would be dry before getting home. they
procured jug of whiskey, and after dark. Of .
black too they embai in their, boat expec-
ting TO reach home in the morning. They rOwed
away with all the energy that three half tipsy
fellows could muster, keeping up their spirits in
the darkness by pouring the spirits down. At
break of day they thought they must oe near
home aud seeing through the dim gray OF the
morning u house ON the river side Stone said:
| "Well. Barham, we've got to your place at
last"
! If this is my house," said Barham. some body
| has been putting up lot of out houses since 1
/ went away Yesterday; but III go ashore and look
! about and see where We are it you'll hold her
! to-" .at aat
Barham disembarks, takes observation, and
soon comes stumbling along back. and says;
"Well I'll be whipped if we amt at Whining.
| al, h,ath has no