Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-10-17
Autumn DaYs.

Autumn has really come! rear week
ago, my five-year-oId boy, with the in
tuitive perception of things whic causes
partridges' chicks to "break and take
cover" when suddenly startled, said
"Oh, wish the leaves would fall :" and
at the time there was nothing in the
conversation or in the sombre evening
sha lie of our broad, pleasant common to
suggest his words. But though the
gardens were never richer in floral
beauty, and though the frost has not yet
begun to trace upon our forest trees
the lines where beauty fingers until the
dead of winter, the spirit of the fall is
abroad in the air, and we all, consciously
or not, feel his influence. The flower
garden, which in May, modestly ap-
pealed to us through its delieately allied
tints of leaf and flower, now boldly
challenges. with strongly contrasted
hues, rich purple or yellow, or glossy or
dead green backgrounds, and will accept
no minor tribute of admiration. Thus
will stand through short, bright days,
the arstocratic dahlia, the yelvety mari
gold, and then ON some bright still
night, they too, will learn the great
mystery, and in the morning they will
hang their poor pow erless arms by their
sides, and olt of their dropping heads
SOW along the brown earth sadness and
the thoughts of death. But that is weeks
off as yet we hope and we will enjoy
what is, without borrowing trouble
What change has come over the corn,
too! Only a few short weeks ago, and,
as an imaginative writer has it, ''the
corn, thrusting its pointed shoots
through the surface earth, upon each tiny
bayonet point lmpailiDg the gaunt figure
of tamine;" then with rustling leaves
graceful head, nodding acquaintance to
its fellows for a season the ornament OF
the farm, now stands stripped 9ofits let
teriny and gliding, the incarnation of
the most prosaic fact by the most poeti-
cal of processes. Even in the narrow
road leading to our rivermeadows, bor-
dered by willows and backed by woods,
there is no mistake possible, for the new
smell of the willow is no more, but one
suggestive of passing on; and all the
wealth of odor with which this Chamber
ing grapevine endowed the neighborhood
making the nose, by she necessities oi
perspiration, wine-bibber, is gone, quite
gone. The boneset, with its reddish brown
tufted blossoms, the pendant elderberries
black and shining as the beads of a nun.
represent the department of w4ld howers
so far as this road is concearned, unless
one will penetrate into the near bog, anf
break into one of the cat-o'-nine tails
that stand so firmly, just out of reach
towering above the rsshes which sur
round, and lave heretofore kept pace
with them. But to one who had knowr
the country in the spring or early sum
mer, in no respect would the change
seem greater than in the animal life, ano
especially the birds. Where be now you
robbins, your sprrrows and your bobo
links, which were wont in the early
morning to give matinees from which
the listeners used never to come away
disappointed, nor performer to stay away
from sudden indisposltlon? Not one
and he who would find his old f;ivorlte'
must know where to look for them. M
sparrow still hangs about cur hedges
but he is mere bankrupt in the matte
of notes, and we keep him for the same
reason the broken soldier was klndl.
bade to stay. Thelpied bobolink, losing
hisiyocal powerand pretty dress abou
the same time, and having little left t.
recommend him. has taken himself ava.
to the marshes of Maryland, where, a
the reed bird, he will live for awhile, un
til the "western winds" of the later fal
compel him to farther migration, whe
he will turn up in Car olian, with anothe
alias and more flesh on his bones-th
rice-bird Of Charleston game supper
But Marmion at Lady Heron's ball wa
as little to be compared with Marmio
lying dead at Flodden, as is the epic,
rean tit-bit of these suppers to the ilttl
black and buff punched OF winged ecstac
that starts ont of our blooming app
trees in May, and sows the ar wiz VIII
pearls of melody, while he drops ra'n'