The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-03-13
OUR COLUMBUS LETTER.


- The stormy March has come at last,
With wind and clouds and changing skies."
The lines commencing "thusly'
could not have been rendered NOR,
literally true than by the manner il
which the "blustering month has jus
been ushered in upon US. She came il
her first morning, clad with ''the beau
Itiful snow clear and cold, beautiful
and pure. The sun, for little while
shone brightly, and. vanished th'
snow. Then a cloud, as it were, o
sorrow, came slowly over the face o
nature, and gathered and thickeneC
and darkened, until filled to overflow
ling and the earth was drenched witt
, natures tears. All the evening Ions
| it continued to rain and your CORES
pondent lay till far into the night
listening to the steady, gentle music
of the rain, until finally lulled tc
sleep, and sleeping, dreaming still o.
the "gentle patter, patter, patter o
the ram on the roof"
But "every sleep has its waking
except, indeed, it is that "last long
sleep. from which there is no waking;;'
even from that it's said there will one
day be "great happy waking" but
of this none know of a certainty, and
every dream must have an end
Some dreams are blended with GER
tain reality which makes them not al
together dreams. A certain bard, OF
considerable note, tells US at least,
that he had a dream (Which was not
all q dream" and no doubt all dreams
are more or less affected in this way,
at times. So my dream, like other
dreams, came to an end. L awoke.
1t matters not how long l had been
sleeping, or how long dreaming. 1t
is sufficient to know that awoke, to
the consciousness thst there was still
the "patter, patter, patter of the
rain," but instead of "on the roof"
the pattering came with SLOW, ,stesdy,
but not musical, pat, patter, patter-
ing full upon my face. And thus
was ended dream which was not all
a dream.
Morning came again and revealed
the fact that the cold north wind had
changed the rain to snow and that
the earth was again robed in mantle
of white.
"0h! the snow, the bea tifnl snow,
Filling the sky and earth below" &C.,
all day 1t came,
"Dsncing,
Flirting,
Skipping along"
And those who felt inclined, and had
the necessary rigs, or the 'schink" to
pay for their use, were soon out en-
deavoring to extract enjoyment
from the beautiful snow in the way
of sleigh-rlding. and the voices and
the merry ringing laugh of the belles,
keeping time with the jingling of the
bells, chimed merrily.
This morning comes in clear, fros
ty and cold, and the natural impulse
upon going forth from the comfoss
of a good warm fire into the street
is to shield the ears with warmly nit
tened hands. The warm sunny days
we have had during the past two
weeks caused many to believe that
Spring was near at hand. To such
the sudden cold snap came very un
expectedly, and they think it could
have been got along without just as
well as not. They feel disposed to
shift the blame upon Mr.. Ground
Hog for getting up and beholding his
on the morning of the I'd of
February. / feel rather lenient to-
ward the ground hog, and disposed
to forgive him this time and give him
another trial ,forreally l don't think he
meant to be quite SO freezing toward
us. There is kindly CLEAN in the
sky this morning and no doubt ere
many days we will again be greeted
by the warm sunshine and the songs
of the early birds of Spring.
News items are not very plenty
Just now. The Impeachment ques-
ton causes some excitement, partic-
ularly among the friends of 81, An
drew Johnson" They have held a
few indignation meetings at which
speeches were made against Con-
gress and all who uphold that body,
&C., and it is reported that Col. (self
appointed, of course) E. T. Delany,
The Finnegan Head Center, here and
1t. Col. (also self appointed) Tom.
Thurman, "neffu" of the Judge,
tried to raise regiment of Johnson
for the purpose of march
ing to Washington, and maintaining
Andy in the White House at all haz-
ards. But. owing to some cause, per-
,aps the thought of the expedition
,sing too hazardous q one, they have
,een unable to to get a single recruit,
ave one "Willism," whose surname
s "Goat'', who consented to go as
file closer" The immortal 81. n"
las partially agreed to go as chap
ain, but thinks the compensation is
Iot sufficient. AS yet their efforts
ave not met with "signal success"
DIR. w. r. Thrall, yesterday, en-
cred upon the duties of his Office as
'rivate Secretary to Governor Hayes.
lay success attend him.
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COLUMBUS, O., March 5, 1868.