The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-22
TIE DAHL DISPATCH.


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Sos: ssI n.d ), the ass ely q New York %
nsy h ar tickisd with sweet sounds sgejsse 9,
red sctios. The amount = very connas ts ana tn
80 .ny,sos. Pie song birds except wnst one ssu
far nothing In the psrks-pot the iess as,v,Sss
eause 1t 10 eratutous nowevsrrn ma Srsonsntix
Surs.si nsrior music neither. But IL now appear.
he cnrous statiM in the Tribune, that tnat city ac-
tSsy IPs,isr, worth Of song birds in sdditaoa to
sHoss 81 Afresn and South American origin Of nearly
ssht thousand dollars worth more
h.ias eaa.res of course. which every family must
h.v.. If il has any. Ten thousand sig hundred Of
Ties. co. % nas: 100 SS e sn.,
from from Europe The African ant South American
bird are Of Is. un.d
rows white and red cardinals, grobriols nonpareiis
FIRE birds. Besides there are hundreds more Of do
blue robins. yellow birds red robes thrsshers, bsbo
links and multitude of other wild birds Bought and
sold IN New York in single year, costing probably
In Germany chiefly by traders who import them
They travel extensively for the purpose among the
villages fading generally but few in onepiace, and
arrive in New York with them at about this of
the year. North William street seems to be their
principal dspot.
Many have objections to bird imprisonment; it
may be INDUCED undoubtedly till they become NOR
bid and the story by Sterns of the poor Startling.
who was continually crying ~ can't get out, can't
and more sfectation But we rathsr think tina. the
musical Of the feathered rsce are quite a. well of
when cared for and caressed in lady's boudoir 90
when liable to want suffering, hostile attack, if
not actually murdered starved in the Hartz noun
aias Of Germany.
A bird IL chiefly to be admired for his plumege
or his song for TO his moral character there 10 not
much to be fsvorsbly said As far as our own obssr
walton extends, and we have watched the canary
forced to bear testimony to their ovsrbearng dspo-
ntion. They want generosity, encroachips
wherever they Gan be, envious and quarrelsome -
They are al this at times to the sentler, We cannot
say beautiful sex among them for in the festhered
srb. Of creatures the males are almost always the
abandonment.
1t IL common to say of children they are Is sweet
OF innocent % birds. 1t would be sad In opinion,
if they were not much more we believe they
witchns time whom Nature softens the chd's heart,
land older peoples also,) the half hour just previ
Gus to going to bed when spontaneous, irrepressi-
bic piety touches the childs heart. and warm emo
lions OF affection to parents and brothers and sis.
tors, and kindred, and especially to the Maker and
Protector OF all gush from its soul in full mingled
stream OF love and piety-at this blessed hour,
when the sweet child prepares to close its eye on
his parents and paythings for the slumbes of night
blessing and blest of ali-at this time does this
nv begin to poster and battle with its mate to see
which shall have the highest favorite part Of the
perch, The whole charming twilight 10 thus spent
in ssfsh quarrel which 10 ouly ended by the arri-
val of night which prevents their contending any
loneer, and leaves one of them expelled, perhaps,
entirely from the roost. N. B. There is one gallant
fellow among the birds, to wit, the barn door Geek
We hardly know how to account for the great an
nua Investment in song birds in the city of N York
II must be perhaps because they have such terri.
BILE amount of ugly noises there to neatraze Their
hearts must crave some other sounds than bswling
street men and boys, and women and girls. than
Ting carts and coaches and the thousand other dis
cords which New York flesh is heir to. II such /,
the case, then sing on, mslodieus Birds and crack
your cheeks. You have work before you that will
task all your powers.-Ne'cark Daily Adc