The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-23

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and mainland visitors and about one
hundred and fifty guests could be ac-
commodated with well furnished rooms,
and excellent fare; but northern troops
were often quartered there, in loating
idleness, and soon the various apart
ments were Quilted, and their naked
walls begrimed with black paint and
charcoal carricatures, which it required
many appliances of the whitewash
brush to efface. Most of the portable
furniture was taken away under orders
from post officer whose name will
, live in infamy here while the present
generation lasts. The country citizens
do not complain of any harsh or unkind
treatment by the department comnan-
ders, to whose military regime they
J were so long subjected; but these petty
spoliations were never known at dis
trict headquarters, and the enriched
beneficiary was permitted to depart
"unwhipt of justice"
No human foresight could have guard
ed against the secret rascalities that were
perpetrated by some of these subordinate
officers when left alone; and this little
incident is mentioned in no spirit of re-
proach to the higher officials in COM
mand.
The father and grandfather of the Sc
veral Cobb households, is a patriarch of
three score and ten, but with all the
suppleness of muscle and sinew that
usually attaches to eighteen years. He
can dance jig, or Fishers Hornpipe
with the agility of equity Lark" in AL
loway's haunted Kirk, and "beat husky"
to the good old Virginiatune of "Ginny,
is your Ashcake done.n
| tIfrl,o Bowel ora oil oont1opop in fhe
rough-gems thatonly required collision
with the school desk to bring their
brightness out. Intermarriage with ami
able wives has done much to rub away
the gnarly protuberances from their
hardy forms. #......#
r / understand that large improve
ments are contemplated for the next
! season. The present buildings will be
, refurnished, and additional ones pu
. up. Plenty of boats will be kept in at
O tendance upon cunning parties, and til,
0 disciples of Isaac Walton will find fish
| ing sport enough to crafty the most in
ordinate appetites for such fun. ...
g Diseased i'm almost every organ of th,
. animal economy, and bored in every
: Joint by the screw augers Of RELENTLESS
, rheumatism, that denied me even tn,
: boon of beach promenade, my very
thoughts became wrapt in deep and i'm
: penetrable gloom. For many weeks no
n a CLEAN of sunlight swept across tn
4 dark perspective before me and no kin
h dred ties were near to minister at IN.
g sick couch. Only confirmed hypo
" chondriac, whose gallantry had bee
n swallowed in selfish repinings, wOul
If ever have committed such crude pencil
h ings as follow to a young lady's album
!, xvi, Il. ~ NJ lr,i;tor thot oro ,rrox,
t more and more tenacious of life as il
v little span dwindles down to a mel
e mathematical point 3?
a COINS Island June TO- 1865.
g Miss x y X x, and have rashly prom
d warehouse turned out to Craze or di
d upon his native pastures, that sue
: youthful pranks ill befit wheezend lung
i and equity pOsterns. f
Remember, dear girl, that three scoI
n years and a tried brain have left but
8 small margin from which to Gull flower.
! suited to the fastidious and imaginativ
r taste ofyouth. The rough plOughsharet
y time has long since passed through tn
: little garden hedge, where l could one
!, espy so many varied and fragrant beat
\ ties and now, naked stems and willie
d leaves are its only adornments. For M,
Y the modest violet no longer peeps OF
i from its silky mantle of green, to wo
and coquet with the soft sunshine 8
! April noon; nor does the graceful COW
' slip any more assume the golden hue c
{ springs bright morn. The Unborn worn
. of decay blurs, to my cankered vision
| the blush and bloom of the opening rose
s and the soft-tnted lily has ceased to out
s vie, in deicacy of polish, the rude strok
4 of the painters brush. Yon full-orbe,
t moon wears darker livery than o
. yore, and the rich, bright beams of til
= morning sun come TO me, ''sicklied ole
Y with the pale cast of thought"
AS the elasticity of manhood CONCEAL
: into the decripitude Of age, or fell dis
: ease stamps its gangrened hue upon tn
+ fair landscape around us, and a deeI
Q sepulchral voice from the vaults {
If buried time forbids us
o To gather shells upon youths pebbly shore,'
It our days of poetry fade into things tina
It were; and their peopled phantoms wi
g no more come back at memory's bid
If ding. Like spirits, impaled beneath tn
"vasty Deep they heed no call upo
II the living stage again. Hope grows pa
1t sled before the barren future, on wllic
If it once delighted to revel; and its riches
N gems "pale their Intellectual fires' be-
,s side the rust of buried years. To m
n morbid fancies, decay and the gloom {
$: the grave are pictured on every page {
., natures grand and unrivalled album
IS and would not transfer its ghostly in
l. ages to the little volume before mt
It These unwritten leaves should not b
t. Scared by thoughts that can find no RI
e sponsive echo in your own chaste an
II beautiful dreams; and / would that tim
i might finish his beaten journey, an
l. leave no stain of sin or sorrow upo
It them. No cloud of care should darke
O thy vet unsullied brow; nor should tn
:. lev hand of misfortune affiX its within
J. burrows there. S'.
T. Earth should put on no sombre shad
n to mar its ever-varying pictures, Will
II every sinless joy that can gladden. tn
l. human heart, should still point you
n thoughts in pious devotion, from natul
Is ND to NATURES God" In every piece ,
IS His handiwork-in every sketch frol
l. that master pencil lies food for gratefl
ID and admiring contemplation. From I'll
tender blade of grass, or tiny fiowre
that we daily trample under foot,
those far off t'"Ht 8.
"Mysterious worlds, untravelId by the sun,
r. Where times far wandering tide hath never rum"
o. we NAV trace the supernal wisdom al