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The First English Poet.

At Il festival in Scotland, a
gentleman responded to the
sentiment, The poets of Eng
land said the earliest English
poet that they could go back to
was C@dmon, though it was
supposed that there were some
few before him ; but there were
doubts entertained as to that.
C@dmon was a cowberd, and
was so ignorant that he was
despised by his fellows. 1t was
the custom in those days to
meet around the social or do
nestle board, and while away
the time by singing, or telling
romantic stories and playing
the harp, which on these occa-
sions was passed from one to the
other. Cedmon so much dread
ed the harp being handed to
him that he often tried to get
out of the way, and left the
company and hid himself. On
one Of these occasions he left the
hall and went out to the fields,
where he fell asleep beside the
cows. While sleeping, Wis
ion appeared to him and asked
him to sing song. C@dmon
said he could not. The strang-
IContinued on fourth page.l
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light-a great translator of hu.
manitV2

. WV " o'A~5Ae-'SA VI Au
manity?
If thought is free on earth.
yet ignorance limits its grasp,
for this is the condition of finite
being; but, in the land Of souls,
not only is freedom retained,
but power impaired, by which
angelic intelligence dignifies
the frail journeyer from this
lower earth, now become i'm
mortal. How the released
mind will there drink in deep
draughts Of the knowledge for
which it thirsted. How thought
will revel in beautiful clucida-
tons concerning a Providence,
which often seemed partial, Sc
we're, unjust even, to short
sighted, human comprehension.
There, the great book of past
life, its little aims, its binding
trivialities and curiousdelusions
will be read Alright, and expan-
ded thought will sit in sublime
developm ent on the cleaning
brow of him that was a man.
In minds loftiest flights,
while a denizen of earth, wear
mess supervenes-a clog of
mortality drags US down to this
neither sphere-and he who
sometimes thinks nobly oftener
thinks meanly. But what shall
cumber the research of thought?
Wisdom, light, certainty, will
sweetly dawn on celestial facul-
ties, once clouded with error
and enfeebled by doubt.
Then onward roll, ye stormy hours,
Your gloom will soon be vain
Think on the balmy land of flowers
Ills ours ere long to gain.
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pox, and if | don't catch 'em
both, it's because There's a
little cherub that sits up aloft,
to keep watch for poor mother
less babies.
Sometimes she leaves me alone
in the room with a CRATE fire.
| always put my fingers into
it, and they always burn.
Once mamma found it out and
| had a different Bridget. They
are all alike; they come from
the intelligence Office, and are
rough and coarse, and smell of
smoke, and take care of me for
money and not love. The new
one is sleepy, and mods over
and props me sometimes.
One got tipsy and lay on me.
Some day one will tumble down
stairs with her big feet and
slipshod shoes, and break my
neck, | dare say.
A father, too, 7 have a right
to a father. Mine is a Wall
Street man, he goes out early
and comes home to dinner. I
should think he might be very
nice TO know, but I'm not &C
quainted with him; he has nice
black whiskers, and he laughs
and says, hello, old fellow
when we meet, and / try to tell
him about Bridget;and my feel
ings overpower me, and | cry
and he says, take the little
rascal away, Bridget.
One dreadful thing / do
have; it is a family doctor, he
says I'm a very fine child, and
does dreadful things to me.
Once he lanced my gums, once
he vaccinated me. After that
! had a sore arm, and Bird
gets blue merino hurts it.
In summer there used to be
some comfort in going out in
my perambulator, and seeing
that after all | was not worse
off than other babies, all given
over to Bridgets, whom l met;
but now it's winter, and l have
to stay in my nursery, in al
flannel shawl, and do nothing
but think; and I've decided |
that l must have my rights. |
A whole mother ought to be-
long to every baby; and al
Bridget is an imposition, A
]ady's baby ought to lie some |
times in lady's arms, and be |
talked to by lady. When
am able to speak, | shall say |
what Bridget says, and with
her accent, and then | shall
be scolded, as if it were my |
fault. That's the way with my |
brother Tom.
Here l lie now, while Brid-
get talks to the milkman in
the area. I'm hungry, and
damp and wretched. I'm tired |
of being in the cradle, and l |
shall hurt myself if | roll out. |
I want the big orange on the
mantlepiece, and to sitin some |
bodv's lap and have my feet |
tossed, and hear, Little pig |
goes to Market but mamma |
is at political meeting, and
papa in Wall Street, and |
Bridget in the area, and who
cares for what l want? Rights!
| wonder where my rights are?
Nobody talks about them. No |
ma tier, I'll yell till / get EN-. |
P. ST. have yelled, and |
Bridget has given me drops. |
No matter, when l am a man,
III go in for the rights of ba-
bies. I'm going to sleep.
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A BABY'S STORY.

I amt very old to write-l'm
only one! 1t was my birthday
yesterday, and | don't have
milk out of my bottle any more
Il have bread and milk out OF
q bowl. Bridget ties my bib
under my chin and feeds me
very tast-she dosen't under
stan d that l ought to have
time to swallow. When l shut
my lips and putter, she says,
'There now! take your supper
good, like darlin'l' $ l can t
swallow a whole bowl, at q
time; and | cry, and she gives
me shake. After that 1 have
the stomach ache.
Lying awake with it in one
night began to think ! hadn't
my rights, and | want 'em.
How to get 'em l don't know.
| cry all l can-but that's no
use. l kick, too-but what
comes of it? They only give
me drops to make me sleep;
then / feel hot, and sick, and
stupid all the next day. One
of my rights is not to have
drops: but there now, how am
| not to have 'en? There it
comes again!
The most comfortable thing
| ever had was an India rubber
bottle. What are mothels
made for, if a baby's isn't to
have one? Who invented nurs-
ing bottles? | hate him, who
ever he was.
| have a mother, you know
"a lady who says she is, comes
in sometimes and tells other
ladies that she is mot content
cd with Bridget Neither am
l, for that matter; but you see
my mother is not thinking of
my rights, but of hers. She
wants to vote, and wanting to
do it takes great deal of time.
She writes, too, for the news
papers. When | want to find
out whether she is really my
mother, and begin to talk to
her, she says Bridget, you
must really take that darlin'
child away--he disturbes me
dreadfully!'
Bridget is big and coarse;
her great knobs Of knuckles
hurt me. She ties strings too
tight, and joys me too hard.
Ny own mother is soft and
fair, and her skin is like silk,
and | like to touch her. I'm
lady's baby, and one OF my
rights is, that a lady should
handle and dandle me- No one
sees it. I'm put off by Brid-
get. - M
Mamma don't like to sit at
the table with Bridget, but she
lets her feed me. Perhaps |
have aristocratic notions, too;
who cares fro themp. .-
One day Bridget had a big
pewter breastpin, with a yellow
stone in it, on her collar, and
it kept scratching my head;
nobody knew it. One day she
took me out in my wagon and
upset me; no one knew that
either ..dsf rs5 sr.s sm
She takes me out to her cou-
sins shanty where little Pat
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THOUGHT.

Gan tnougnG De cOntr0lleQ !!
By what strange process does it
spring into existence, either
emerging from the dim halls of
reverie, crowded with ghostly
half formed images, or by sud-
den outburst, like lightning
from the bosom of a cloud?
Slowly matured by a tireless
! course of study, may not this
faculty, most divine in man,
yield to discipline, and, like a
tanned lion, obey his will? We
greatly doubt it, and concur in
an old Scottish adage, fraught
with the practically and good
sense of that astute and philo-
sophical people, that Thought
is free, aye free as the noun
: tain winds which sing along the
defles Of their rocky Businesses,
or that circumambient element
breathed by men everywhere.
We arrive at certain conclu-
sions by a process of reasoning,
but how much has feeling, cir
eumstances, or prejudice inhu-
enced final opinion? Even
then doubts intervene to mar
the stability of a conclusion,
seemingly fixed, and thought,
a wandering Eros, fits away in
pursuit Of truth, grasping at
last, by intuition, that which
laborious investigation vainly
sought to establish. Chainless
thought ever asserts its power.
Bounding into the future, and
climbing sublime heights, it
may revel in the supernal bliss
and immortal beauty OF "a cline
where bloom the deathless roses
Of Paradise, whose cities are
guarded by gates Of pearl and
travelsed by streets Of gold.
Again, that incompiehensible
power we call thought, imagi-
nation or conception, reverts to
the past, not now creating it,
revives former time, and is call
ed memory. Sadly sweet are
it's mellowed and etherealized
pictures of that which was and
is not. With unsparring hand
it dissects our cruelty to the
lost Emerald verdure on their
mute graves tells no tale, it
may be, Of the enduring love we
outraged, the trust we disap-
pointed, the affection We repell-
ed; but a trumpet-voice is in our
heart, and we hear a pitiful
wall which is SO voiceless to all
beside. Thought is tyrant
then; remorse and despair his
gloomy companions.
The subtle agencies which
combine to create and direct
thought, either in regard to
past, present or future, no met
aphysician can analyz re or de-
fine; but all, except hardened
skeptics, concur in the opinion
that this endowment of man ar
CUES his immortality, and is a
sure indication that, in his en-
bryo existence, there is a great
principle lifting man from the
dimly understood things OF
present life to a life Of gods
His faculties, imperfectly de-
veloped during this transient
existence, can only be fully ex-
banded in nobler sphere. 1t
is for this reason that great men
look complacently on the grim
and CHASTITY porter who unlocks
the chambers of the tomb. =
Should he not rather be viewed
as q white-robed messenger Of
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Clothing.
GREAT FALL STOCK OF
CLOTHING 4!

"A. w. M Z L T. s
ga HAS JUST RETURNED FROM
&A the Factories with the largest and
VA ,best stock of
LIE. GENTS CLOTHING
ever offered in the Norfolk market, which
he has bought CHEAP, and designs to
aston1sh the people with the LOW
PRICES he intends selling at.
The finest stock OF
CLIO r Fl N G
ever brought to this market can now be
found at his store. and the prices are as
tonishjng low.
Gentlemen are invited to call and ex-
anime
A. W. MILLS,
Gents Clothter,
20. IL Main street,
nol4 Head of Market Square,
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From the American Union
CALL NE DARLING.

Call me darling, darling, call me,
Speak it tenderly once more,
AS you used to when we parted
Nightly at my iather's door;
Then your arms entwineo me tondly,
And your cheek was laid ON line;
0 my darling! call me darling,
Gently, as In dear "lang syne.,
Call me darling, darling, call me,
Though thy love be dead ana cold,
l would hear the fond, fond pet name,
Spoken softly, as of old;
Heed my pieadings, now. o heed them,
While my eyes are free from tears;
O my darlingl call me darling,
Kindly, as in other years
Call me darling, darling, call me,
It will, love, blest hours recall
Though for years you have not loved me
Pve been faithful through them all,
For the sake Of children buried,
Little children, one, two, three
0 my darling, call me darling,
In the accents dear to me.
Call me darling, darling, call me,
1t will soothe the fever fame,
Could hear thy accents lowly
Syllable the old pet name;
Years ago my roses faded.
White hairs CLEAN the dark among,
But my darling, call me darling,
Though | am no longer young.
Call me darling, darling, call me,
Though to night I'm fever. flu he'd,
Pale will be my cheeks Tomorrow,
And my pleadings will be hushed.
Through long years of silent sorrow
have loved the pet name so;
Then. my darling, call me darling,
Speak it gently, ere 60.
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NOTICE! NOTICE.
the undersigned respectfully solicits
all kinds of
COPYING WORE
Which will be done neatly, promptly
a d at reasonable rates. He will also
WRITE BUSINESS, LOVE AND OTHER
LETTERS,
Tor all parties, irrespective of color, at the
most communicating terms, according u
the length and general character of the
letter. All kinds of a'
PRINTING, JOB WORK AND BOOK
BINDING
attended. with dispatch, and at reduced
prices.
ADVERTISEMENTS (
WRITTEN IN RHYME OR PROSE.
He hopes his friends and the public
generally will give him call. Apply to
VIM. II. HOLSTEAD,
DAY BOOK Once,
BAIT Roanoke Avenue.
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EOR SALE OR EXCHANGES
FOR CITY PROPERTY,

a FARM situated on Bay Side Road,
Princess anne county, CONTAINING about
~ acres, about miles from the cisy of
Noriolk: about " acres of this land is
cleared and ncultivation The remainder
consist of Building of Six Rooms. "a ith
necessary Out Houses. and the land je
ply to -lT : '' @>o'
my4s1m ,-,. THIS OFFICE. 4
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CREAT TTRAC 40 n

STILL THEY COME
Receiving this DAY. ,...
100 lbs superior Fresh Roll huJter,
10 tuus superior New York Stale hue'
ter, ,to,n
N packages prime Virginia Noun
tain Butter.
s tierces superior Sugar Cured Hams
3tierces superior Sugar Cured Shoul-
3t,erces sn perior Sugar Cured b eak-
$3.50 fast KacOn, 81
5tierces Extra Family Leaf Lard,
S tierces Extra Family Baltimore
en- Jc,xtr TPl inc Smithfield Fl ANS,
All of which have been selected o y one "a
OF the firm in person, and purcnassss11 I Oi,
the Lowest Prices TOR CASH, anu VIII ND US
sold Correspondingly Low. Call soon anu
examine for yourselves
AYDLOTT & WHITEHukSI,
Nos. rs and % City Market,
apl2 and 81 East Market square
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NEW PATENT PIANOS
RAVEN @ BACON,
Established 1922
w A Il e Il o U M 9
No. ga and 64e Broadway, ". !.

No. ga and GAG Broadway, ". 3.
Manufacturers of Piano Fortes, Wi
their Patent Combination
Sounding-boardS.
PATENTED AUGUST l4TH, 1866
This invention, introduced exclusive
into our Pianos, is of the greatest advan
tage to the tone of the Instrument, as j.
affects the sounding board, the very sou
OF the Piano, and produces thereby pure
liquid tone greatly superior in quality
and power to that of the Ordinar- Piano
The sounding-board released from IL
connection with the Plano case, and rest,
ing upon under sounding boards, is re.
ieved from the rightly caused by sucl
connection. and Its v1bratory quality IN
creased. .
Orr Pianos are drst-class in every IL
specG, and purchasers will have not cnl3
our own guarantee OF the reputation q
the instrument, obtained from the. ex pe,
rience of our patrons who have used then
for a generation. All lovers OF this EN- /
nently household instrument, as we'll a.
parties proposing TO purchase new Pi mo,
are invited to call and examine our as
sortment. an9-r*wlv !
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A. GRAVES,
1869. j. D.GALE, 1869
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN

.aaal IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
ENGLISH, GERMAN AND AMERICAN
HAkDW ARE
Has always on hand a iull supply OF
goods for the season, VIZ
ElWen's Wedding and Killing Hoes,
Caststeel GRUB and Wedding Hoes,
Anles' long and snort handle Spades and
Shovels,
RowIand's do do do,
Long and short handle Manure Forks,
Ship Carpenters Axes, Adzes,
House Carpenters do do,
Cow Ties, Trace and Black Band Chains
Virginia PaJen and Yankee Axes. and
o good supply of General Hardware ana
House Furnishing Goods.
Give me call at the
CHEAP HARDWARE STORE,
fb4-p&wtf No. II East side Market Sqr.
ys,AE NORFOLK AND GhEAI
WESTERN RAILROAD. - ersCns
desiring to subscribe To the CAPITAL
STOCK Of this Company can do SO by call
ING at the Banking p nse OIL BurrLss
Harrison d. Co., where {. list OF subscrip.
Iions has been opened.
AZ the completion OF this road Will IN
s,,sa the co1lrnercial future o! Norfolk
ana Ports Mouth, it is to be hoped thai the
Subscriptions from our cltizens Will De
iiiHpfE'fA''JC q DAVID FERGUSON,
s.,,,,.,r " Agent.
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Business Cards.

VIRGINIA IRON WORKS!
WIN, PETIT & THOS. W. GOODWIN,
PRorRIETORs.
MANUFACTURERS OF STEAM FIRE
ENGINES, ALL KINDS OF HIGH
AND LOW PRESSURE
STEAM ENGINES AND BOILERS,
SAW GRIST and SUGAR MILLS,
SHAFTlNG and PULLEYS,
CASTINGS and FORGINGS of all kinds,
East Wide Water street,
NORFOLK, VA.
Particular attention given to the repairs
of STEAMBOATS, and Machinery of every
description. sept29-tf
The New York herald., 1869-12-18
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

PROBABLE INFANT1ClDR.-The body OF an infant
tween Third and Lexington avenues. last night.
SLIGHT KEROSENE LAMP FIRE.-Last night kero-
sene lamp exploded at No. $40 Fifth street doing
slight damage to julius Leopold's property in the
basement.
STAGE ACCIDENr.-Last evening Patrick Murray,
o child aged thirteen years nvlng in Eighteenth
street. near First avenue, run over by stage NJ
the corner OF Thirteenth street ana Broadway. lie
received serious injuries.
TILL TAPPING.-The till OF the grocery ana variety
store at No. 424 West Twenty y-seventn street was
robbed OF a small amount Of money last night about
SIX O'Clock. The family were IN back room. The
attention OF the little BOY who attends In the grocery
the thief moved In reaching across the counter A
companion was seen holding the door aiar. On the
alarm being given the seamps made OF with their
booty and escaped across the street IN the darkness
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS Ann Williams,
OF Flshklll, fell In fit yesterday and was sent TO
Bellevue Hospital.
Patrick Cotton, bartender attempted to commit
suicide at his room, No. 80 East Broadway, yester-
day, by shooting himself. The effort proved fall-
ure and he was sent to Bellevue Hospital.
John Broderick, OF 529 second avenue, received
serious injuries by falling from coal cart ana was
sent to Bellevue.
The remains OF an unknown man, dressed IN dark
clothes, about fifty years OF aye, were found in tue
water at pier 40 North river.
slight lire last night In James Wells hair store,
All Broome street, inflicted $3.50 loss: covered by
$500 insurance IN the security Insurance Company.
The New York herald., 1869-12-18
PERSONAL iNTELLIGENCE.
Sigcl was o general at %.

Sigcl was o general at %.
Wagner Is writing history OF music.
Ben Woods lottery taxed $50, 00) year.
Two genuine japanese keep tea store IN Chicago
OF course they draw.
General w. J. Hardee has been elected pSesident
OF the Historical Association OF Alabama
Susan B. says she lean have susan Anthony on
her tombstone, and not rect OF some fool OF man"
A defauting Austrian bank clerk has been passing
himself off in the 'ryrol as nephew OF General
Grant.
Among those who drew large prizes in the last
Prussian lottery were . prostitute aud TWO Berlin
nackmen.
young lady. aged seventeen. has been arrested
IN Bunaio for bigamy. She began marrying Ut the
age Of fourteen.
SIR Isaac Newton's house and observatory in
London, are for sale, the church winch owns them
having fallen into pecuniary straits
Lord Lytton, IL Is said likely 10 have the Grand
Cross OF The Order OF -. Michael and N. George,
vacant by the death OF the Earl OF Derby.
The new Italian royal baby has been ehristened d
with the names OF Vittorio Emanuel Ferdnando
Mara Geunaro the last being the OF the patron
saint Of Naples, wnere he was born.
The Japanese who recently visited Omaha made
bee line from the railway depot TO Che nearest billiard
saloon as soon as they aiignted from the cars.
Garabaldi Is about to appear as y novelist His
work ID founded facts, and bears largely on the
social and ecclesiastical condition of modern Italy.
Not content with young American chief admiral
the Japanese have placed their land forces untler
the command OF New York colonel OF volunteers
Some months ago DIR. Moody OF Walnut Bend
Ark. had hts right arm torn of In q saw mill. few
days ago, on entering the mill. for the first time
since receiving his injury, his empty sleeve caught
IN band and ne was whirled over tue shaft and In
afantly Killed.
The New York herald., 1869-12-18
HOST By His OWN PETA10.

A New York Lawyer SsurbIes on Jersey
Justice-Thc Result Of Trying to sHuagcr-
mngger'' Case.
Two men named Phillips ana Wilson were arrested
about ten days ago by Captain J. q. Nettesblp, at
Newark n j., for selling illegmate wniskcy whole.
sale. They were committed to await examination:
but in the meantime lawyer OF New York. named
Harris Lowenberg, who keeps an office at 1873 Nassau
street. came to thler rescue, at least attempt it,
Captain Nett!eshp s one OF the Treasury detectives
Id Colonel Whitney's force, and has been employed
in the neghb0rhOod OF Newark hunting up The ene-
mics OF the revenue. Lawyer Lowenberg, knowfng
that no law could screen Phillips ana Wilson from
their fate resolved to tempt the integrity of Nette
ship and see IL for consideration Of q few hundred
dollars he could not be induced TO let his clients or
The trial was failure, ana IN place OF succeeding in
Clearing his clients and making pile in stamps ana
reputation, he found himself under arrest on the
charge OF seeking TO corrupt a government officer
and was ned TO answer in $4,000. along with man
named Newton Phillips, whom he brought
rom New York TO furnish straw bail for his clients.
Captain Nettleshfp hosted the crafty Israelite on
MS own petard and Commissioner Whitehead or
Newark. before whom the facts OF the case were
detailed, sternly reminded the trembling limb OF the
law that he In the awful State OF Jersey where
justice Is neither blind halt but alive and spry
and kicking. and forever sharpening ts two edged
sword on the grindstone OF popular appreciation
For Lowenberg the prospect lowers.
The New York herald., 1869-12-18
PENMS YLvANiA.

Another Mining Cnsualty-Tho AvOndale Dis.
aster in Mininture-One Man Perishes.
SCRANTON, Dec II, 1859.
The engine house OF the Jersey coal mlne operated
by the Delaware, Lackawanna and western Railroad
Company, took fire about half-pasr four O'Clock on
Thursday afternoon. The house was located In the
mine at the end Of tunnel about $50 feet long, and
at the head OF slope leading down to the chambers
Three men were shut IN the nine, and 1t was sup
posed that they had pershed but they succeeded In
getting out safely ABOUT two O'Clock on Friday
morning. man named John J. Waman, who went
into an air shaft to search for the men, was over
come with foul air and perished. His remains we're
recovered at four O'Clock on Friday morning. after
the Hre was nearly quenched. He leaves wife and
three children. The engines were mostly destroyed
ana the fire will cause detention OF from three to
f0ur weeks. The mine was producing 100 tons OF
coal per day There was another avenue Of escape
but u was filled with smoke from the fre.