Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-08-06

OuF nrsl edFlhly care Is ABOUT the DdEY anu
very dear sweet chill she is; while write
she 10 laughing up in my face as she sits on
her mothers lap, little dreaming that | am
writing about her. She is no ordinary child
assure, you though she is only ten weeks
old. She has already discovered that she
has hands, and spends an hour or two every
day in their examination. The red tassei
that hangs to the window blind also receives
a liberal share of attention. She is evil
IDENTITY much interested in the laws of mo-
ton and gravitation for she is always best
pleased to look at the aforesaid tassel when
it is swinging backward and forward. Now
perhaps you suppose she is SO young, that
she has produced no sensation in the world,
bas you are quite mistaken. The fact is;
our house previously SO quiet has been turned
upside down by her arrival. The furnitu re
of several rooms have been shifted to suit the
convenience of the baby. When an ex-
carsion, or anything pleasant is planned, the
question aways arises--hoW will it affect
the baby! We had previously spent cur
summers in the city, amid the quiet comfort
of our own dwelling, but now that the baby
is here she must have country air.
Well the 4tb of July was at hand, and So
we thought it best for the baby u celebrate
Independence Gan article by the way that
Babies iaherently possess enough Of, for
there are no greater despots in the world
than these dear little creaeures) in Connect
cut; that her first Inspirations on the great
birthday of her native land, might be drawn
from the free hills of good old New Eng
land. Here am tempted to branch off to
an essay on the fact that liberty usually
dwells among the hills-citing Scotland,
Switzerland and Circassia as examples; but
| must return to the baby. The morning of
the Sd July was memorable in Our little
household. The weather the day before
had been the su beet of anxious speculation
bat the merning itself put all speculation at
rest, COR the rain was pouring down in tor
rents. This was discouraging bat not fatal
to our attentions for Mrs. Sueoks and [ are
not to be put out by a shower when our
minds are made up, and | am happy to say
tina. the baby eviaces the same decided tenn
on all occasions that call for
prompt and emphatic decision. By the 1av,
the reader may as well be told, what per-
haps he may have already discovered, viz,
that our baby is no common child. She is
not one of your fat, greasy looking young
ones, that remind Us of roll of butter with
little inGentations to Indicate the wherea-
bouts of the mouth and eyes; nor one of
your thin cross things that cry one half the
Tune and fret the other half; bat a firm, COM
pact well made up little girl. with big bright
blue eyes and a most amiable disposition.-
OF course on this morning she was wide a.
wake and as we'll posted up on what was
going on as as any young person of her age
could be. Mrs. Snooks is q very prompt
woman and never keeps her husband waiting,
so the last pink ribbon was tied in the Ba-
by's dress and the last smoothing given to
the incipient locks of hair with which the
crown of the head is ador ned, long before
the hour for departure had arrived.
The baby fell asleep in the cars before
they got off, but the noise of passing through
a deep cut in the rocks awakened her. In
her astonishment aud terror she opened her
big blue eyes to the utmost that their big
ness would allow. For a moment feared
she would lose her reason, or be thrown in
to fit--but carefully reasoned the matter
with her in a jocular manner, and soon
smile playing across her features showed
me that she was perfectly convinced Her
first Journey was performed with the utmost
good nature, she bids fair to become an ex-
cellent traveller. Alighting from the train.
we were soon on our way to the residence
of our venerable relatives. The delightful
aroma of new made hay, perhaps the most
agreeable fragrance that can greet the OIL
factories Of denizen of the city, assured US
that We wefs iii the country. To my de-
light | found the cherries were ripe and
seemed to be awiting my arrival to be eaten.
Now | would not speak for the rest of man.
kind, b ut for myself there are few places
where l fees so much at home as in a cher
ry tree. Such privilege had not enjoyed
for many years, and did not allow it to pass
without due improvement. A good dinner
followed, such dinner as can only be found
in New England, and we all did it ample
justice.
The fourth Of July falling this year on d
Sabbath--at the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Churc b (old school1 held at
New Orleans in May last-a resolution was
adopted that it be spent as day of special
prayer for the land in which we dWell--that
God would pardon our national sins and
save us from that headlong course of ruin,
that our unexampied prosperity is, in the o.
pinion of some, rapidly sending US. The
Presbyterian Clergyman here one of tn e
the mcst able and venerable of her ministers,
improved the occasion in most faithful
manner, by giving his people an earnest ez-
hortaton on the sins and follies of the pres
ent day. He pointed out the sad condition
of our public morals, the corruption alike
in the Federal, State and Municipal govern
ments. The tampering with justice and the
teebleness OF the justiciary. The extraya.
gance and love oe display y visible in all
ranks. The anxiety and corroding care WIS.,
ible in the countenances of business men,
and the hazardous specuiations into which
they are rushing to support this extrava-
gance on the part of their families. Then
he coutrasted this lavish display with the
small amount contributed to religious and
benevolent purposes, in proportion to its
wealth, by the church. Although these dis.
courses were marked with great power anG
eloquence, and were listened to with marked
attention and interest, the hour of l2-mid
night-was scarcely passed when the pat.
riotism of young America, kept in through
the Sabbath by the face OF public opinion
or the fear of the law, burst out with ire
menduous force in the firing of powder
crackers, pistols and cannon. A procession
composed no doubt of "lewd fellows of the
baser sort" passed along the noble avenue
in front of us like so many fiends let loose
from hell, rendering night hideous with thei
yeiis. 1t was evident they were in higt
spirits--spirits alcoholic as well as animal
This was of course Young Americas per
formance, and in the language of the loca
paper of the town "From that time ther,
was no sleep, no rest within the limits o
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