Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-08-24

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Beside this iosmins ocean hay
Its blue horizon spreading,
We meet to CELEBRATE to dqy
more than golden wedding;
W hich more substantial joy yin bring
To millions democratic,
Than his who once, with marriage ring.
Espoused tie Adriatic-
Wen may the proud imperial SEA
To-day bis FOceexalt
He bids 10 bis nupial feast.
We sit above the salt;
we cannot tell with what wealth
This triumph vet sdai freight Us.
Nor measure tiis high tide Of joy
by BsteheIIcr's apparatus
When, mile BY mile The massive wire
sank PlaShing through the brine.
Hearts rose aud EN- Ike drifting ships,
eI n u, me- 5IS oPSs .1 IoT ne P5sss', Linz
When quite gains, their wishes,
Came squirting down ocean hoOr
The OddestO OF odd fishes.
A school Of ulaekereI got dismissed .
To ponder this new study;
The sleEivcs paused amid theirdrink
And thought their heads were muddy;
The Holsters turned, in sudden fears,
The whales she'd spernaceti tears
Till all tbs sea oiled
The frightened soles together came
In one substantial body;
Zach cod looked bluer than blue pills,
Or harrens fillcoidy;
The .9,i great sea "a, serpent err FonderRg asked
The cells giant brother knew
And stopped to see him broIl.
The black fish turned 5 little pale.
(As big as ships jolly boai9
And trembed al frOm head 10 tail,
The melancholy halibnt;
The oysters got up from their beds
With rather sleepy faces;
The places tapped their startled fus,
And went to other places
But when the fret brief message went.
Through the wide Wuery bounds
10 den0nsi stralghtHay we're Transformed
The oceans tongues and sounds,
Till (Ehile old huukers Of the deep
Were wondering and gulphing)
Young sgordfsh sent by telegraph
challenge % young sculpng
And when they understood the thing
The Satsry fun grew better,
The seals desired to stamp themselves
On every passing letter;
The grave white bears swimming down
To inquire for Doctor Kane,
While the frightened herrngs only asked
What ddlngs nom the Seine
Mid these dispatches soon will come
chaos Of news human
When man shall telegraph to man,
And (tenderer Eoris) to WOmsn,
And some viii write to creditors,
And some will write Ia lovers,
And foreign flying doves send back
Kind thoughts for Pdgeon Cove ers.
And we. Who by the eternal sea
And float at anchor safely Ger
''This bank and shoal Of Tine
We seem 70 see relotest lands
No through shadoWy vistss,
But linked IN sympathetic hands
The farthest worlds grow sisters.
thousand tender longings shoot
Along the quiverng wire,
A thousand hearts pulsations beat
In all its throbs Of IRE
The wanderer now No longer "dIass
Each day lenghening chain"
Ills hammered electric links
And sunk beneath the main.
Sfehinks, from England's shores there come
COngratulary elappiHgs
Old oceans grown q medium,
We all shall hear the "rappingz.''
Two continents are linked at last
By moorngs strong and stable,
And hopes symbolic anchornow
Is fastened 10 the cable
Tais was received with great satisfaction.
Rev Dr. Chaplin then delivered an grafton After
humorous introduction, remarks on the magnitude
Of the great achievement Mr.. proceeded to con
slider it in four aspects: its uhly In its bearing
upon commerce and social intercourse; its poetry,
illustrated 10 the submify, perseverance and wonder
Of The work; its humanity in its influence upon civ
ization and progress and its diDiaeHess, in which
he treated the great theme in its FrOvidenal aspects
He closed such an Grafton only DR.. Chaplin can
deliver, With an sPostrOPhe to the ocean and the
telegraphio wire.
UlIod Save The Queen" with the following addi-
tioual verse by DR.. Chaplin, was then sung in fine
| style:-
God keep all in peace,
Both realms between.
Long may tic iryn hand
suetch forth from stral d % strandl
God bless athcraIdi
God save the Queen
Next was a ''Masqus' called "Neplune versus
News" Neptune, BY DR.. was eXeellenily done;
as also Gurus Field BY Mr. i. Yankee Doodle was
sung which concluded the exercises At sunset
fifteen guns we're fred from an old captured cannon
thirteen for the original states, and one each for
England and America In the evening we had q
grand display Of fireworks which went of gloriousy
and the hotel was illuminated from the lower TO the
upper story.
There may be much grander displays in different
cities Of our country, but sure none viii give
more satisfaction than did the celebration Pigeon
Cove F.H.C.
Az IsousroUs HrporuEsr, KuooKrD rs THE HrAD