The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-05

With stricken hearts, Oh, God, to thee,
Beneath whose feet the stars are dust,
We bow. and ask that thou will be
Through every i'll our stay and trust
A DAUGHrER.-Boys may not lack affection
but they may lack tenderness. They may moi
be wanting in inclination to contribute their qua
to to the Paradise Of Home, but they may be
wanting in the ability to carry out their indca-
ton. The son of household is like young
and vigorous sapling-the daughter is like a
fragile flower.
We know home which once reioiced in the
sunny smiles and the musical accents of an on
ly daughter She was lovely child---uoman-
ly beyond her years
"Full of gentleness, of calmest hope,
Of sweet and quiet joyn'
The child never breathed who evinced more
ahectionate reverence, or a more reverential af-
lection for her parents than did she. Instead
of waiting for their commands, she anticipated
them-instead of lingering until they made
known their wishes, she studied their wishes
out. Morning broke not in that household un-
til she awoke-the night was not dark until her
eyes were closed How they loved her! did
her father and her mother; and of how many
blessed pictures of the future was she the sub
ject 'tIt is fearful thing that love and death
dwell in the same world says Mrs. Hemans.
Fearful It is maddening--it Isl q truth
that is linked with despair.
Suddenly, like thiefin the night, there came
messenger from heaven for the child-saying
that the Lord had need of her. She meekly
bowed her head-breathed out her little life
and at midnight, event forth to meet The bride
Tho 1,c IL 1orf ,of
the last day of the month was followed by her
DEATH She went, and came back no more!
Years have worn away since them but still
there is agony in the household whoseIsun went
down when she departed The family circle
is ncomplete-there is no daughter there!--
The form that once was hers reposes among
the congenial charms of nature and art; they
have made the place of her rest beautiful. If
the grass grows rank upon her grave lit is be-
cause tits kept wet with tears.
Of truth, ga home without girl in it is
only half blesto-itis an orchard without bios
SONS, and spring without song. A house
full of sons is like Lebanon With its cedars, but
daughters by the Preside are like roses in shar-
on. r
Lewis, the legislative wag Of the North Mis-
ssslppi Union, told the following good one up
on the Mississippi Legislature, in his correspond
ence with his paper:
A friend "norated" the following sanec-
dote," which started the buttons, to US the 9TH
er evening. For many years heretofore he has
been member of the house from one of the
lower counties, which boasts of a hundred
votes or SO, a person, named M He was a
member many years before lie ever opened his
mouth except to say "Aye" and "No," and
put something into it, the latter very praise
worthy, and agreeably and highly useful pro-
ceedng, except at Snagler's Once upon
time Ms county received, not a ''irst rate no.
tice." as the newspapers say, which il became
necessary for him to answer 1t was affirmed
that the county did not pay taxes enough to
pay the member-that he, M, was lax upon
the treasury-and that if he Would accept the
proposition, the Legislature woEld give him an
order on his sheriff, to collect the taxes and let
him stay at home hereafter
III. rose in defence-his maiden speech
''Mr. Chairman, the peoples of my county
are poor, but honest"
He was interrupted by c.! from Monroe,
who with stentorian voice criediout:
"Did the honorable gentleman say his peo-
pie were poor?"
eyes"
"And honest?''
YES
Then they are in awful bad tx"
The house shook; G. sat down. ! NJ, like
the boy whom the calf ran over, had net word
to say. His first speech was his last one
A curious trick has just been played off at
Berlin, in order to bring into disrepuAe new
enormous slouched riding hat which is now in
vogue among the fair fashionables of the Prus-
sian capital. A few days sinces at tile usual
hour for walking on the frcqueRted promenade
Of the Tilleuls, rag -gatherer. with her bas-
ket at her back, was observed walking up and
down with her head covered with one Of those
appendages. An inquiry was entered into by
the police, when it was ascertained that two
gentlemen, meeting the woman had taken her
into shop and furnished her wath the hat, at
the expense of thirty seven francs, and given
her crown piece to go and walk with it among
the fashionables, which the woman readily
consented to do.
An amusing incident occurred recently in re-
gard to "PoWers' Fisher Boy" "A gentleman
who set high value On his copy Of this grace
full work. before starting to Europe had it care
fully shrouded in cotton and deposited in
box. A gang of juvenile burglars invaded his
premises, broke open the box and thought,
from its weight, to find plate within; but, when
the white visage of the marble Sleeper caught
their eyes, by the dim lightof lantern, think
ing they had disturbed corpser they iropped
their thieving tools, and incontinently fed
without particle Of spoil
A poor sailor wrecked On an unknown coast
wandered about in momentary apprehension
of being seized by savages, when he Suddenly
came in sight of gallows. 'tAh,' said he,
"thank God I am in christian country"
A culprit being asked what he had to say
why sentence of death should not beIrecord-
ed against him, replied: "He had nothing to
say, as too much had been said about it al
ready"
What is more beautiful and poetic thane th
child's idea of ice ssWater going to saeepp'
The following notice was affixed to shop
d Leeds:-This Ouse Lett HinquirI Neck's
Doar,"
The question asked by hospital physici-
in was: sI1ow many deaths?" Nine. Why, :
ordered medicine fer ten.'' eyes, but one
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