The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-12-16
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Encamped about her, and each watching star
Gained brightness from the flashing arms
of winged and unsleeping sentinels.
When Items" fail why may we not
print impressions of the passing times,
and where startling events are lacking,
fill up with fancy, facts and scenes.
Here goes for copy" and our own dear
SCENES.
Some men are born to riches and some
to honors. but among all the kind ap
pointments of Providence one of the
kindest is to have our destiny cast amid
picturesque and beautiful scenery. This
is the blessed inheritance of Hickman
The rough and rugged bills that enclose
it, standing like the fragments of mighty
walls, are elegant observatories of the
magnifcence Of nature These scenes
breathe a mysterious influence into the
soul of man--and man's soul in turn in
spires her mute forms
Here are our ehurches-our houses Of
worship. Natures magnifcence suggests
worship, and it was in obedience to that
suggestion probably that the ancients
placed temples on the highest accessible
elevations. There, where the first beam
Of day touches, where the last twilight
fingers, aud over which the stars keep
their solemn watch, was their fitting sites
o, nature, in thy loneliness, how Ike
Some ancient temple of the Gothic form;
Lo yonder wood an endless labyrinth
OF cloister, shadowy aisle, and piilared arch.
But while Hickman has initiated the
ancieuts in erecting her temples, it Is a
sad commentary, that few of them are
regularly supplied with priests or minis
tiers. This is sinful neglect and needs
reforming. Hickman should sustain
regular pastors in all her churches. We
verify believe it will be bread cast upon
the waters, to be gathered up, increased,
in the future
MATERIAL FACTS.
We have passed that visionary period
incident to younger towns, which feeds
the hungry ambition of its citizens on
gigantic projects, promising metropolitan
population aud wealth; and yet while
We have learned the iuutility of such
schemes, we fear, the eoarser and more
dangerous metal of selfsbHess, possesses,
and is striking more fearfully at the Vi
tality of our community aud producing
more fearful results, than the high vision
airy glare which dazzles and deceives
younger corporations. Men Of property,
men of position and influence, must
work some little for the general good, if
they themselves would prosper to any
considerable extent Public enterprises,
that will increase trade and
the facilities for trade-that will benefit !
our neighbors-must be fostered and
encouraged. Increased facilities cost /
money, and the public spirited citizen
feels it his duty to share his proportion
Of such burdens. Under this idea, we
need more Manufacturing EstaJlish-
nents, FIRST. aud above Oh thiDg- else.
We need Levee to Madrid Bend, to
redeem aud populate our oyerfowed Dis
ricis, and to open cut TO Hickman an
entirely new AID rich field Of trade, now
.otally Inaccessible to u. We need
RAILROAD SOUTHWARK,
o hold trade we already have but which
: in danger of being cut of from Us by
rev railroad lines; and also, to open out
large feld in this direction.
These wants are attaiuable, but not to
'e realized in day or year; and when
obtained will not produce the fabulous
wealth held up to some communities
Hickman will never be as large as New
York. but a steady. healthy prosperity
nd large increase of population IS rea
oaable These facilities will bring ad-
antages much above what they vii
os, our people. But they have to be
aid form other words they viii cost
money.