Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-06-17

'sBut SO they all go-peli-meil. 1t IL
all taken ap With Princes Of " aie6 and
knoy not wnoial There is no real king
that viii be sought tor; though / do
know some nen who ere kings-ioyai
men in their workshops, discerning the
laws of this Universe aud ooeying them.
Alb, King is rare git, by The grace OF
God :"
l. must not be supposed that SUCH u
rades as these give any leea at all OF Mr.
Carlyle's conversation. Ii would be hard
to give right conception c. tie wealth
with which he showers his vlslter. Be-
tween the great heavy boulders OF his po-
litical Observation-Disclosures OF worthy
and unworthy substance, are beau
titul walks and swards, with which he re
stores and delights the soul be has just
wounded. sketches Of history, of persons
be has known. OF DR.. johnson, of London
subnrbs,-all these are etched with the
subtlety of Cruiksbank and the sentiment
of barley. He once so described the
.sloyal LADY of some hard but able man,
that | felt mist gathering in my eyes, as
when ! read in the Flight of the Duchess,
nThe little LAZY grew silent and thin,
Paling and ever palng.
Nothing could have been NOR" soft and
sustaining. and he al once filled the char
acter which Sterling in the Onyx Ring as
signs him.
No tribute TO he real and permanent
nobility of CARLYLE could be more impor
tant than this. that whilst others who
take up an opposition 20 the great tenden-
cies of the age u Universal Liberty are at
once abandoned and met as foes only by
liberals. there hss been disposition to
pardon it in Carlyle. The radicals here
are still his best friends, and they will not,
and they canno. give him up. The man
with ali these faults does stand SO grandiy
alone, in such absolute sincerity, IN such
sadness. He gains no princely chaplain
cies or profeseorships by opposing us; he
eVermore scOrns the rulers of those whom
he wishes ruled. so the best young men
here still love him and | have observed
the same feeling in America. Carlyle Is
now morbid but he cannot undo the
great work he has wrought,-who walked
up every sleeping mind IN bis generation,
even as Emerson purged and uplifted those
minds when they were awake. His NOR
bidness is the result of solitude; he has
thought too much, not purged his knowl-
edge by daily use, and SO is now ''sicklied
Ger with the pale cast of thought"
When be told Us how be had in some
late years purchased a horse and gone out
OF London, and discovered new world
to him Is kmuch.as ever did Columbus,
could not help wishing that | had an in
visible cap, that | might draw near to him
unperceived and whisper that perhaps
were he to go out among the men and wo
men within the city around him, be would
learn that they were more than the rats
aud lice he now seems to think them.
There are human heaths, and moors, and
parks, with beautiful gorse, and orchis.
and blue bells, quite discoverable all
around him.
When | went away from him, it was
breaking away from depressing tcscina-
ton. | found the armament more neces-
sarY, and looked up to the stars for help,
and all the way home this grand itace was
before me in Its subIime solitude, resem
ding more than any thing else the Old
Man OF the Mountain, up il our Northern
SHOWS, ever looking out from his bleak
height Tor the CONFUSION which shall
bring him deliverance. But until the
arch-angel is enthroned on earth, and the
arch-tiend bound a thousand years, he will
scOrn all relief and pleasure.
"Ruby wine is drunk by knaves,
sugar spends to Iatten slaves
Rose aud vine-leaf deck bufoons
Thunder-clouds are Joye's festoons.
DrOo plug oft in wreath of dread
Lightning -knotted round his head;
The hero fed on sweets,
Daily his own heart he eats,
Chambers of the great jaiIs
Anu mead WINDS rig hit for royal sails"