Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-12-01
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, SrrPr1c-On a road side, trendng North ana
soutl. is little graveyard; you get into VI aVe
bv stile in low wall Of loose stone II dead oy
q gateway. with crumbling piers and lew stchs ol
L6gvood stretched across II. Wltillh Is pam
cS5rcb slate.roofed, built OF lime stone ana
white-washed but, yet though o' u hrd 80
showing signs of decay-around IL proau pave
ont nf tomb.stones some old, gray, deiaced, ana
;,b inscrintions as illegble as the memory oil toe
Loneatb is faded away-some iTesh from the chISeE
and rudely carved-here ana lheie ii'tc To1uen .H
cross stuck upright at a grave head anu theh
oip many n mound with nothing to mark where
noor humanity sleeps but a II c headStohe' IL WAS
4 bazy dav and the Sabbath day-ihountllhS 10
tho soutbward the ocean to the WestWalu-horth
III wy bleak Storm beaten waste, and eastward
nin onntrv clad in gTeen-thatched cabins here
5 t5oreo Slated mansion also, and then ruins OF
hnrcb hes and old baronal halls all round
Sos tbere they stand as stands lofty mind,
Worn. but uustooping to the baser crowd,
All tenantless save TO the crannying wind,
Or boldinr dark communion with the cloud.
There was a day when they were young and proud,
Ranners on high, and battles passed below;
But they who fought are IN bloody shroud
And those which waved are shredless dust ere now,
And the bleak battements shall bear no future blow.
On that Sabbath day two young men were sitting on
tomb in that little grave yard One with blue eyes,
dark hair a smooth cheek, oval face and slender
FORM was looking, dreamily, toward the sea. The
other, with gray eyes fair hair, cheek slightly ireck-
fully and sadly into the face of him who was dream
ilv Gazing on the ocean, At that moment there
broke on the silence the tone of a distant village
bell "Awaking with a start, the dreamer eXclaim-
ed, There is the bell of the believer. Oh, that
could but believe" And then there gathered in the
corner of his beautiful eye and there trckled down
his cheek a scalding tear. He was unhappy be-
cause his soul was unsettled rs 10 religious belief
and that dread state had deprived him OF the hope
of possessing one whom he dearly loved. "W-g,
that l.alia no hpt luN
msapplied the gifts which God has given you. You
have read ever eagerly the vile philosophy of a Vol
taire and Kant and the stupid teachings OF Paine
and Voney, but the sublime works of the christian
you cast aside.
II was Spring day. Smoke was issuing from
the funnel OF an ocean steamer beside a stone pier
in large city, y young man, escorted by a few
friends tender ahd beautiful sister and two other
relatives, going on board that steamer y
voice behind him caused him To turn round. An
eager grasp of the hand-an alectionate eXclana'
ton of joy at meeting again-and the two friends
who sat i'm the graveyard on the Sabbath day, were
together But the paddles reyOlve, the last farewell
is spoken, and they part forever.
Somewhere in Florence there is grave-the
grave of one who died of broken heart. He of the
blue eye and smooth cheek sleeps there. Separated
bv disbelief from her he loved, worn out by ANXIOUS
thought, consumption seized him, and sunny Italy
could not save him; and 50 he sleeps for aye.
In grave, in a green island, under marble slab
on which many a virtue j. recounted, there rests
until the last trump shall sound, beautiful GIRL
She was the beloved of him who sleeps in Florence.
This tale is true rs is many another We have told
and we are reminded Of il by the beautiful advice
which DR.. IIoge gave the young men in the school
of the Teachers Union on Tuesday night last. when
he impressed on his auditors that the true wisdom
was the fear of God. Read report in another col
umn.
Goal HEAD.-Twenty four little gOrSOons som"
sauatted on their launches on the cartlen toor;
some seated on bosses seats about the size and shape
of n cheese, and made of twisted straw some
pcrched on sOds of turf, and some clustered rOund
the hob" roasting their shina-a red headed, one
eyed, brOad-shOuldcred, ruddy-checked Old leli0w,
with frrZe coat knee hreeches and brOenc@, sitting
in a straw -botOmcd chair, and with a CG'Ii y
Spciin" book in hand and rattan IN the other
all these enclosed in four mud walls, with t!iatched
roof above them-thercs hedge-school. \
party OF young men vi the better class s0-cailcd'
are entering the little door RehdrSe, boys re-
harse Micliy MulOwney, why arn't you rehdrS'Hg
Won spalpeenl Come up here-hould out your isi.
" Share / am sur hard can, sur; hut there's
Tommy Murphy was Stlckin pins IN me SUI. -
Take that and that, You blguard, you; and now
90 to your SaG, and learn to behave yourself alore
gentcmin the next time
:. Nav 90 out sur ~ "Tisn't your turn, you spal-
peen, you " Begor, it is sur, and shnra There
Paddy Griffin cum in wild de bone sur, S"lt o
conscrpt pas-) Give me the bone Paddy, but
Paddy wouldn't and SO Paddy hit the other chap
with he bone, and, pillalu, in moment there was
an uproar Old coal IIead set to whaling all round
with his rattan--the GOiSoOns let fly bosses and turf
at each Others heads; the visitors cleared out, some
of the ngbuyN fell in and, while yon'd lac saying
Jack Robinson, there was Il slnndy thal womb do
credit to Rockets. But like everything else IL came
to an end and two of the party of the better
class" being doctors lent hand to patching heads
aud setting homes; hut, unfortunately, they had no
medicines plaster ut hand. Pity that there was
not some drug store close by like the fine one re-
Gently opened by Moseby X Blunt 9G Main street,
where You can find all kinds Of drugs of good
quality and well put up together with prompt and
polite attention at the hands of the proprleOs, who
are worthy gentlemen. and skilled in their prOfes-
sion. Read advertisement.