The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-05-11

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Bans Britain, vent down The Mississippi %
New Osieeas
Hs abbrsviates the nams Of the river. b.
Gauss. like The bard Of Tipperary, hs could met
and rhyme for The full word:
Twas vintry morning, - ths clock ssrsek ten.
That Ne LEFT 81. LOUIS, two dsjected men;-
Casing on the river, thick With yslsow mud.
And dreaming Of disaster, IRE and fog, and Hood;
OF boilers ever bursting. Of snAgs that break
The whssl,
And sawysr, ripping steamboats,, through oil
their length Of keel
Yst on cupboard stepping, W dismissed our
fears,
And behsld through sunlight in the upper
Lissls cSsraSs, waving high their golden wings.
Guarding 90 from evil and ito hidden springs;
So on Heaven reliant, thinking Of our weans,
Thiaking Of our tsas-lovss. We sailed for New
soa.hvAsd, ever Inward, In our gallant ship,
Eisseisg. stssa;sg, psasiag, do.sn tie Aississip.
= blaze Of glory shons the sun that day;
In . blaze Of beauty. fresh ~ Aowery Nay,
4 maid from Alabama came tripping on eur
Bright ~ heaven above us-pure without .
speck,
Singing songs sill twilight freely Is the lark
That for inner gladness sings, though none may
bark,
Songs Of young s6scsion, mournful songs Of
home,
Songs Of happy sadness, when the fansies roam
Fron th' oppressive Real of the fairy Far
Shining through the Future, slvery a. star
And the sun departed In his crimson robe,
Leaving Sleep, bic vieeroy, 70 refresh the globe;
Thus We travelled soashward, in our gallant ship,
Nessisq. filing, dsssssiag. doea tie Aississip.
Brightly rose the morning DER the struggling
town,
Where the broad Ohio pours its waters down
TO the niasissippi, rolling ~ before,
Seeming mono the wider for increase Of store;
Asd they said, ''These houses scattered on the
strand
Take their name from Cairo, in the Eastern land,
And shall be city at some future day,
1ightier than Cairo, dead and passed away"
And We thought it might be, a. We gazed
awhile -
And We thought it might not, ere We passed a
And our paddles padded through the turbid
As We Aoated downwards in golden dream;
Southwark, ever southwark, in our painting ship, |
dling, daUdling, loe6ng dosn ths Mississip.
Sometimes in Missouri We delayed an hour,
Taking in . cargo-butter, corn and flour;
Sometimes in Kentucky shipped pile Of logs,
Sometimes sheep or turkeys, once drove Of
Rushiessly the uiggers drove them down the
bank, |
Stubbornly the porkers eyed the narrow plank,
Till at length, rebell'ous, snufiug danger near,
They turned their long shouts landward, and
grunsed outtheir fear,
And the white-seethcd niggers, grinning with
delight
Rode them, and bestrode them, and charged !.
them in the eight;
And then came sbrill lamen.ing. and agony and
wall,
And pummcllng, and hosting, and tugging at
the tail,
Until the swine we're conquered; and southwark
passed our ship,
Painting, SCANNING, sHorting, dOsn the Nississip
Three days on the river-nights and mornings
three,
Ere we stopped at Memphis, the port of Ten.
nessee,
Aud wondered why they gave it such name of
old renown,-
dreary, dingy, muddy, melancholy town,
But rich in bales Of cotton, Ger all the landing
spread,
And bound for merry England. to earn the peo-
pies bread
And here. oh shame to Freedom! that boasts
with tongue and pen,
We took on board 'cargo" Of miserable men;
freight Of human creatures, bartered, bought
and Sold
Like hogs, or sheep, or poultry-the living
blood for gold
And then groaued remoneful, and thought, in
. pity strong,
A curse might fall upon us for suffering the
A curse upon the cargo, curse upon the ship,
Pointing, moaniig, grooming, oos0" the Mississip.
Weary were the marshes. stretching far and
wide;
Weary were the vood-piles, suewn upon the |
bank 9
Weary were the cane-groves, growing wild and i
dank; q
Weary we're the tree.stumps, charred and black I
with Ere;
spire =
Weary were the log .huts, built upon the sand;
Weary were the waters, weary was the land; +,
Weary was the cabin with its gilded wall;
Weary was the deck We trod-weary-weary
all
Nothing seemed 20 pleasant to hope for or to
keep,
Nothing in the wide world SO beautiful as sleep,
we journeyed southward in our lazy ship,
Da''tliing, idling, locfng, dos'" she. Mis'issip.
Whence the sound Of musici Whence the mer.
~ laugh? {
Surely boon companions, who jest and sing and
quaG?
No the slaves rejoicng-happisr than the free, v
With guitar and banjo, and burst Of revelry,
aark the vosleysd laughter! bark the joyous n
shoatl b
aark the niger chorus ringing sharply out &
Merry is the bondsman; gloomy 10 his lord, Il
For merciful is Justice and kind is Fates award.
And tiOd ~hO ever tempers the winter to the !,
shorn, ii
Dulls the edge Of Sorrow to these His lambs Il
torlorn-- -
And gives them cheerful natures and thoughts !,
that never soar
Into that dark Tomorrow which wiser men de-
plore.
80 sing, ye carlees negroes, in our joyous ship.
Floating. s:eaAaing dancing, down the Hississip.
On the seventh day morning We entered New II
The joyous Crescent City, Queen among
the Queens;
Md say her pleasant harbor alive with tapering 81
spars, U
With ''union jacks" from England, aud Haunting 81
''s.ripes and stars - IL
md oil her swarmiug Lesee, Tor miles upon the X
shore.- r.
suzzing, humming, surgins with Trades inces- al
SAINT roar, e.
With negroes hosting hoghesds, and casks of h,
e pork and oil, !,
'r rolling bales Of cotton, and singing their -,
toll; y.
And ownwards-widening DOWN ards-.hc =. a.
broad majestic river, ",
lasting not, nor lingering but rolling on forever ~
md here. from travel resting, in soft ambrosal 10
hours, Gu
We plucked the growing orange aud gathered In
summer flowers, es
nd thanked our trusty Capsain-our pilot bl
and our ship hs
or bearing ~ in safety dozen the Mssissip. m
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The BURxIxG NoUErAIx-As 10 generally a
nown. there 10 . vein Of coal located above or
.ter level in the Broad Mountain, about seven ed
lilies from this borough. and near Heckscher- an
lille, which for twenty one years has been On N