The Van Buren press., 1860-03-16

sE-A Adsestisers are requesfed to hand in their ad-
per,isemenss By Wednesday, msrminy.
For the Van Barea Press,
Ma. Enron You may think that my
song ere this ought to have died into an
echo. Ferchance this would have been
better. ~ kind of underlined anxiety, an
undecipk4able propension to sweep the
dust, al years from pag& here and there IN
the book If past life, impelss me onward,
| My modns opeEansli on the cold shoet. ani
nj I 4fssSns5Sfc Of tic Inin may lack the at..
fractions both Of thought and diction RE-
fquisite for the adornment Of your paper
| There is one thought, however. that con
soles--I am not without company The
g strait gate of perfection in new apcri-
al correspondence admits only "here and
there traveller" My present article COM
inences at an anomalous place, inhabited by
! man, " ii it be lawful to call him man.
as Josephus says. to whom for the sake Of
| convenience l will give the cognomen of
Haberdashar. He had clever, pious wife
who seemed to be mortified at the disgust.
ing course Of one from whom she had a
right to expect better things. l soon found
from his empty, songish prattle that he
was bravado in the ranks of Universalism
lie was a snarlinS, tatbrained. fatwittea
creature, who, to have told the truth, no
doubt would have acknowledged the faith
ship of " generation of vipcrs," who
never dreamed of the wrath to come
1t is quantity said in common parlance
| that it takes vast variety of persons 10
constitute world. Truth, every word
truth" At late hour after having suffer
ed much "veXation Of spirit" from his
gaseous word-spouting and windy gasco-
nading, l retired to bed. judged from
the noise that whole posse conitatus had
turned themselves loose, and Were follow
ing an antedeluvian example, fiddling
and dancing, marrying and giving in mar
riage." The long night at last melted into
The golden smiles of day, and / bounded
away to greet more grateful sights AMI
sounds. Oh, the wealth of Nature, not
only in her dome of fiery fret etwork, but al
SO i'll her emerald wales, her hills, and her
CLASSY floods of rolling crystal. The over
hanging rocks arc browed with cedars tho
winds with busy fingers, awake the forest
harp, and the cool rills gush in limpid
sheets from the fssurcd rocks But the
country changes. l look back upon scene
of grandeur. Tho cone-lke mountains
seem to bo wrapped in gossamcr drapery
while their peaks Of adamant kiss the soft
biuo cheek Of heaven. am now in Car
roll county. Night brings lie to the house.
of Mr.. Hicks where every accommodation
is afforded that fatigucd nature demands.
He lives in the edge Of Marshalls prairie
and near Bluff Springs, at which there was
a tlourishing school. This point as Gar as
eligibility of location is concerned favors
the upbuilding of a school of no common
.,nara This i n ln.-,l,,
less fertile than lovely. The prairie land is
essentially different from what one would
expect any way conversant with Arkansas
The soil is deep, the top stratum very black
and resting upon tt firm foundation of clay.
The eye kindlcs as it rolls over these Po-
can-l like plains covered with waving grass,
jewelod with flowers, and dotted with FARMS
in which the luxuriant grain smiles in all
its summer pride. What is better calculat.
ted to expand the heart and heat the feelings
than to wander into these vast gardens in
early morn, see the grazing herds, hear the
melody of many-toned bells, listen to the
song of birds, and look around on the dew
pearled flowers all odorous as an angels
tresh-culled crown. The country around
was greatly excited. At this time the
Know Nothing contagion was doing its
deadly work. Men hitherto timid and re.
tired. were as boisterous as if they had
caught the fires Of political PentecOst.-
! The catalogue OF tyranism was crowded,
Some cried Eureka Eureka while tho
more reflective asked. what do thcso
things mean Amid it all the days pass
ell sweetly away like full round notes from
the great organ of life. Casting about mo
for something to read found the Ladies
) Companion" and in it found as bright a
gem as was ever dug from the mines of ora
tory. 1t was the lecture Of the immortal
Maflitt on the :" y lmighty Dollar" I
could but think of the dissimilarity be.
tween it and the contents Of our curreE.
magazines. How many spend their brains
upon paper to little or no purpose. How
many in the long list of authorship feed
their readers on the chaif and straw Of sense
instead of the pure grain. How many grow
blind, bald and toothess, feeding upon
bark, leaves and suckers from the tree Of
knowledge, when every limb above them
bends with golden fruit. This was the first
, and last time ever saw this lecture. In
some places he grew dark in his imagery as
the terrific banner of ruin unfurlcd over q
pallid world. In others sun-bursts of elo-
quencc and pictures OF celestial beauty
made my very eyes ache. AS an orator the
world has known but one Maffitt Crca-
!, tiOn seemed to cover before the storm of his
denunciations, as he rolled through tho
universe like planet on fire. When he
chose he would mount on pinions that fet-
ters could not bind-sing with the stars
| around the eternal thronc-hoat over un-
! tried seas of immensity, and shed an array
of streaming splendors upon the canvass
, bright a seraph's glance and gorgeous a.
the curtains that hang about the Pavilion
of the setting sun. TEMrus 'FUGIr.
n EE Some years since, some Chcrokc"
, Christians werc much tried with q brother
Indian who would fidllc Having failed TO