Newbern weekly progress., 1860-02-14

proper to say a little about u.s. The tight panta
looms lately in vogue numerically ridiculed
and our penchant for discussing Italian Opera,
and crlticising the female artlstes, was well,
will not repeat anything ridiculing my sex.
l must close by giving you rerbatims ct titeratin
letter written by of the g sovereigns" to his
Congressional Representative. Here it is:
''SUR:-I hey resuntly herd that guvunmen
is abowt to introwduse swarm uf italyun beas
fur the perpus of distrew bushun threw the kun
try aftur thay hev swarmd in the aggrikulture
Burow. Pleas bee sow code os two franck me
SHIRLEY
SALISBURY, Feb. 5th, 1860.
| Editor of the Progress The other day as
sat in my apartment gazing out upon the leaden
clouds that overhung the sky, and musing upon
melancholy things, heard little girl exclaim
"A bird sweet little birdie has come, Mama, to
pick the crumbs from the window sill.'' Her
own little hand had scattered them there with no
other purpose the restless ever do something
spirit of childhood. 4 glad smile broke on her
innocent features she gazed upon the sweet
creature as with merry twittering movements it
picked with its tiny bill noislessly one by one the
crumbs from the window, then with Joyous mo-
ton rapidly whirled its little form through the
cold piercing February air to its sheltering wood.
Something like shade of regret fell upon the
child's face; her short lived pleasure gone {;
the bird had flown. With disappointed look she
turned with that instinct peculiar to childhood in
search of other pleasures, at once innocent, pure
and heartfelt. This to Aany may seem a very
trivial incident, but to my mind it was the
camera rejecting images of the past. 1t set the
Kaleidoscope of memory in busy motion and
rapidly scene after scene passed in review Years
were annihilated, and again in childhood S days
watched the sweet birds, the moving array of
clouds thatalways seemed to our child's fancy as
mighty armies marshallng for combat. The
dancing waters mirroring the beautious face of
nature and bathing the gentle lowerets that dipp-
ed their tender petals to the cooling stream seem
ing ever the Nerieds of old, the water spirits
of which delighted to read Oft when seated
in some quiet spot meath the overshadowing
branches of favorite tree, and looking up with
childish love in our soul to the blue sky above
and listening the rustic of the leaves stirred by
the gentle zephyrs making music; [ have
dered if the vast overwhelming space was not
the home of those bright winged beings Gods
book told us of; and if the leaf music and low
breathing zephyrs were not the wavings of their
glorious wings as they moved through trackess
ether. At night restless with thought we lay
sleepless upon couch gazing out on the bright
stars that gemed that beautiful world of space,
and the soft silvery moonbeaus that floatel in
shining showers to earth; we fancieI the stars
were celestial eyes, and the moonbeams bright
gances sent from those eyes commissioned to
watch over earths sleepers. Even now this child
fancy steals in the still moonlight and l
delight to feel that such guardians near, that
heavenly wings around and angel eyes watch
I
the balmy morn to look upon nature in it's fresh
ness and beheld the shining deWdrops sparkling
like diamonds upon the flowers my imagination
viewed them as tear drops of angels, and the
question arose in my mind, did angels weep to-.
water the flowers? Holy beings I knew they
We're and did not shed such tears as sinful NOR
tails Of all the floral creation the moss rose par
ticuarly elected my childish love. I had heard
or read somewhere the beautiful fancy that it once
sheltered ar angel visitant to earth, and loved
to think that celestial beings gave the young buds
their beautiful covering OF soft green moss in
gratitude, to shelter them from the scorching
sunlight. | sometimes think if we would oftener
return in heart and memory to chidhood's haley
on days there would be many happier and better
men and women i'll the world. More Of the milk
of human kindness, more genial good nature, more
of the pure gold of charity. and less OF the iron OF
SGlhSnnoSS- w SnOuiu De more ike tiie Sieftl
God in whose image made and the world
nearer akin to that beauteous Eden which erring
man long since forfeited. We should know no
oppressor grinding with iron heel and indGnlita-
Bile will the lowly helpless sons and daughters of
that stern sire, poverty. No pampered aristocrat
would walk streets with patrician steps gath
ering up the folds of his purple to prevent con-
tamination from the beggar's rags. We should |
not see humble genius despised and lowly merit
neglected because the hearts Of their possessors |
are larger, but unfortunately their purses are
smaller than the money tyrants. We should see |
those from the hedges and highways of life bid
den to feasts instead of the worlds sc dubbed gen
tleman' who marches through fashion and luxu-
rvs halls to the ensapturing gingle of the dollars
brother; sectional differences and party efnds
would not threaten destruction to the peace and |
happiness of fair lands.
If the ruling spirits of cur own beloved country
would return in memory to the days when with |
childish enthusiasm and ardent interest they list.
times that tried mems souls,'' think you they
would igtly talk of dissolution; would they rath
er not shrink with fear and trembling, even with
awe, from severing one link in the glorious chain
of confederacy Would not the thought be tor
ture that the noble old eagle our Aegis that has
so long perched upon our flag staff should plume
his wings for flight, and away on some distant cliff
sit in sullen silence yea, despair, watching with
burning eve the strife, confusion, aye, the awful
darkness the terrible crash of all that's glorious
and grand, the pride of nations, the worlds re-
nowned, Liberty's stupendous temple. The
% land of the free and home of the brave; the
destruction of ali that is fair and beautiful among
the nations of the earth. Oh! will not 4mer'cans
by all the pure and holy associations of childhood
by the noble blood poured on Northern hills and
Southern plains, rally around glorious Con-
sttution and preserve it from the danger impe nd