Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-04-18
CORRESPONDENCE.


Correspondence Of the Tribune
STAFFORD, Del, April 10, 1867.
From my place Of writing, in looking out
Of the large window which lights my room,
and as the eye wanders over the broad land |
scape spread out in such picturesque
scenery, involuntarily the pen drops and
am found musing within myself and exclaim-
ing How beautiful, how beautiful Ma
ture assisted by the genial rays of the sun
and April showers is clothing herself in gay
attire. The feathery tribe compelled by the
severity of winter, to find more congenial
homes in tropical chimes are with us again
cheering us with their merry warbling, re-
niinding us, of our duty to give praise and
thanks giving TO our Great Creator for al
lowing us, unworthy as we are, to behold
| the beauties of another Spring. How beau
| tiful are the trees just budding into life, the
orchards of our farmers clothing themselves
| in golden garments, while among the flower
| clad branches comes the music of the feath-
cry tribe interspersed with the humming of
myriads of honey gatherers who thus early
have commenced to replenish their waxen
cells; How sweet the music as it gently
l aodbb w US oh tuC passing DiCcLE uUt
that has soul within them, would not feel
like looking through nature up to natures
God?
Dye Denizens of the crowded Cities =
Throw aside your labor, and unburthen your
selves of all care, and come out Of your
crowded habitations of brick and mortar,
and enjoy yourselves in the country amongst
the peach orchards Of our State, where Ma
lures own casket of flowers shall be shower
ed upon you from thousands Of leafy boughs
and sylvan bowers. But, stop, truant
thoughts; come home again my mind has
been led far astray from my intended theme.
When commenced to pen this communica-
ton, Southern Delaware was to have been
the subject OF my jottings, but the clear sky,
the golden light OF setting sun, the spring
flowers the peach tree blossoms, the sweet
E singing birds, and the placid Nanticoke as it
gently moves on, has disturbed my equanimi
ty and the mind has wandered. Truly, the
people of this section of the State know moi
the advantages with which they are blessed.
Only those who have titled the hard sterile
hills of the North can truly appreciate thi.
level country; only those who have worked
amongst the rocks which abound in othel
r States know how easy it is to till the soil o
r Southern Delaware. Iffarmers the Nortl
but know the ease with which crop il
raised methinks the tide Of emigratin would
/ be southwark instead of westward. COM
1t on We hardy sons of toll, here is yet room 10
e you. Bring with you your northern ideas
i. stand by them in Delaware as in the North
70 and soon "the wilderness will be made t,
y bloom and blossom as the rose" the march O
y mind is steadily moving on in our little State
ii Towns and Villages are springing up as
10 by magic along our public thoroughfare
- wherever the locomotive is heard whethe
TO plunging through forest, or flying acros
" the plain.
$. Let our hardy pioneer friends before pun
:. chasing in the far of west, turn their after
y. ton to the thousands of untitled acres in on
ID State where nature with her noble rivers an
lie bays, and art with its railroads has brougf
or the whole Peninsula to the doors of the grea
:. est markets on the Continent. But no
ar Messrs. Editors must bring my rambling to
e. close since commencing my letter the shad,
of night have settled down upon the lar
re and all nature is lulled to sweet repose, dar
:, ness has hid from our view, the ocean
=, flowers, and bushed into silence the MARBLE
ne OF the leafy bowers; still we are led to e
10 claim in looking out on the glistening riv
or. beneathe the golden rays of refulgent mot
. on calm summer night -" How beautiful
lot how beautiful !"
SO RAMBLER"