Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-12

There is evening twilight Of the heart,
When Its wild passion waves are lulled to rest
AS fades the day BEEN in the rosy west.
It's with q nameless feeling of regret
We gaze upon them they melt away
And fonldy would we bid them linger yet,
But Hope is round us with her angels Law,
Mailing afar some happier moonlight hour
Dear are her whispers still though lost their power
In youth, the cheek was crimson'd with her glow:
Her smiles was loveliest then ; her matin-song
Was heavens own music, and the note of woe
Was all unheard her sunny bowers among,
Lifes little world of bliss was newly born
We knew not cared not, it Yves born to die
Flushed with the cool breeze and the dews of morn
With dancing heart we gazed on the pure sky,
And mock the passing cloud that dimm'd its blue
Like our own sorrow then-as feeting and as few
And manhood felt her sway too-on the eve
Half realized her earthly dreams most bright,
Her promised bower of happiness seem'd NIGH
It's days of joy, its vigis of delight;
And though at times might lower the thunder storm,
And the red lghtnings threaten, still the air
Was bamy with her breath, and her loved FORM
The rainbow of the heart, was lowering there.
IT'S in lifes noontide she is nearest seen,
Her wreath the summer flower her robe of green
But though less dazzling in her twilight dress,
There's more of heavens pure beam about her now;
The angel smile of tranquil loneliness,
Which the heart worships glowing on her brow.
The smile shall brighten the dim evening star,
That points our destined tomb, nor eer depart
Till the faint light of life is fed afar,
And hushed the last deep beating of the heart
The meteor bearer of our parting breath
moonhea,n in the midnight cloud of DEATH
The HOMES OF THE Poor IN New YoRK-Tbe Tri-
bune says it is estimated that in the first second fourth
fifth and sixth Wards only of that city, there are about
$50 lodging houses OF very inferior character The
average number Of male and female dodgers every night
throughout the year, said to be about 25 or total Of
II $50 persons.
Three thousand pay as high as cents per night for
the prvt ges peculiar to lodging house at that price
four thousand pay cents and the remainder II cents
per night. Thus about 800 for three cent beds $240
for hndc nd for . ho1c
of $780, paid every night for the meanest kind of &C.
commodaton in the name of lodgings. The amount an
nualy, excepting every seventh night, which, in most
cases, is thrown in the most magnanimous propretos
is not less than $264000 More than half of this sum-
at least $l50000 of this amount besides large quaint
ties of clothing and vctuas procured from people
who pay more than shilling night for their odg-
ingS rents
A large number of the three cents places are under
ground; the Accommodations being "a kind of fire in
other several shavngs covered over with
fabrics of questionable character the relics of chair
STOOL and mayhap, table of incalculable origin" The
eight of the world is occasionally admitted by door
if anything should steal otherwise abstract the bun
die of shavings from the window, then for time light
gets in by tYegitimate channel The ventilation of the
premises need not be described.
In the sixpenny houses, shavngs straw, and various
other collections of material constitute the rest
ing spot for dodgers In many of them the
aspect is much the that presented by the fore
castle of English vessel excepting the absence of de
cent white wash. Hammocks may be observed sung
between the riders of the apartment while regions ofdark
lay beyond human scan the interior of which the
boldness OF exploration only would be able to describe
The shilling, twelve cent houses, are generally on
respectable SCALE The sheets the beds are not
allowed to be cleaned oftner than once in six weeks
Not than four persons expected to sleep one
bed at the same time and five six beds may be found
in some rooms large enough for two persons only under
ordinary circumstances. In many of these houses rum
is so much to the sacrifice of the peace of the
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