Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-07
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She comes, she comes the sable throne behold
| OF might primeyal and of Chaos old
Before her, Fsncy's gilded clouds decay,
And all its varying ratnbows die away.
| Wit shoots in vain its momentarv fires.
The meteor drops, and in fash expires
. As one by one at dread Medea's strain,
The sickening stars fade of the ETHEREAL plain!
As Argus eyes by Hermes' wand Oppressed,
Closed one by one to everlasting rest
mus, at her fell approach and secret might,
ART after art goes out, and all is night
See skulking faith to her old cavern fed,
Mountains OF casuistry heaped DER her head;
Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,
Shrlnks to her second cause and is no more.
Religion, blushing, wells her sacred fires,
And unawares Morality expires
Not public flame, nor private dares 10 shine,
MOI human spark is left, nor glimpse divine.
Lol thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored,
Light dies before thy uncreating word;
Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall,
And universal darkness covers all.
Our merchants generally should remem
Der the regular tobacco sale by J. nj. Car
sey, Son & Co., to-day at IL O'Clock. Nine
hogsheads were received for this market
yesterday.
Two young gentlemen of the city have
had a very unexpected bill presented to
them. They have been In the habit of pro-
tracing their visits into the 1--WE sma'
hours" and the young ladies' thought up
the Lest method of casting hint. The bill
is for gas and fuel, consumed after a rea-
sonable hour for retiring.
A good joke on eggs was perpetrated few
days ago in South Nashville. An individual
sucked seventeen dozen raw, and then left
for West Tennessee, where he expects to Iay
to, for the remainder of the egg season.
! A noticeable as well as novel improvement
! in South Nashville is a wood yard on Cher
/ ~ street, the pavement ornamented with
| colored Outposts. No impeachment to pedes-
TRANS.
Two sections Of the Exposition Building
have been raised, and the whole will be in
skeleton shape by the end of the week.
Jumping, a la bull-frog, has become a
! popular sport on College Hill.
! Our trade is daily increasing. A large
lot of whisky was yesterday shipped to Ar
! kansas, cedar ware to Missouri, and agri-
/ cultural implements to Texas.
An enthusiastic admirer of the govern
ment as it was formerly administered in the
! good old times was out last night on a
"corneT,' as it is called now, in a wholesale
| point Of view. he felt happy, and desiring
/ TO let his immediate friends know it, he
shouted out ICED bless the Union"-and
! American, echoed a little newsboy that
was passing through the street just in time
to hear the patriotic ''refrain."
/ Beware Of the Intoxicating cup" says
/ an exchange. We never found a cup that
! would intoxicate yet, it was always the
! COMPOUNDED contents that would trouble
! the understanding.
What beautiful metaphoTical expressions
have been uttered by the poets of old, and
| now rarely ever seen. Hear the Hindoo
poetJayadeva, in the Gita Govinda: "Whose
! mantle CLEANS like a dark blue cloud ilu.
mined with rainbows." "Lps brilliant
| and soft as dewy leaf" "Her face is like
a water-lly yelled in the dew of tears"
''Her eyes, like blne water-lillies, with bro
ken stalks, dropping lucid stream" Her
arms graceful as the stalks of the water
lilly, ana adorned with hands glowing like
the petals of that flower" Nov listen to
Virgil in the fourth book os the AEneid:
'She fosters the wound in her veins, and is
consumed by hidden 1re." "Winter and
watery Orion grew fierce upon the sea-"
First Tellus and Juno the marriage god
dess give sign: lghtnings glittered, and the
air conscious Of the nuptials, and from the
sumEnet Of the peak chanted the nymphs"
The fourth of March just past brings up
unple asant thoughts. We are reminded
that j n one short year that great and good
man, Grant, will leave the Presidential chair
TO bis, successor. Move slowly, time.
On Monday night last a fugitive from
justice, named Joe Bantill, said TO be from
Tenn essee, was arrested in Louisville by
deteS tives Bligh and Tiller, and lodged in
jail.
a temperance editor, in drawing atten-
ton 10 an article against ardent spirits in
one of his papers, says: "For the Effects
Of atemperance see our inside"
a fdir-haired, love-sick youth presented
his adOred, few days ago, with pair of
those new-fangled metallic garters. he
thol lght they were the latest thing in brace
let's, and he only discovered his mistake
upon requesting her TO ''try them on" He
does not 60 there any more.
\ minister once prayed 80, Lord, we
tn ank Thee for the goOdly number here to-
ME hi, and that Thou also art here, notwith-
stan ding the inclemency Of the weather"
i young gentleman who has Just married
4 little beauty, says: "She would have been
taller, but she is made of such precious
materiA) that nature couldn't afford it."
The D 7rtfOrdy Evening Post represents
that Mr.. Hubbard, the Democratic candi-
date in Com leCticuJ, was waited upon in
New York, TIE other day, by Herald re-
porter, who real uested him to sgive- his
opinions" to be published in the Herald. |
MIR. Hubbard loo. ked at the interviewer,and |
said: "My young friend, do you know !
what my profession is?' The Herald man |
replied in the negative. 81 am lawyer" !
r. D. "W hen / give an opinion |
| expect 10 be paid for it--lhat is my bust |
ness. | do not give opinions, unless TO per- !
S nal friends or charitable objects. have /
o5 the honor Of your acquaintance, and |
uI do net seem TO me to be an oh iect Of |
ii arity." Nj. Hubbard bowed and smiled. |
J lie Herald mau put up bis pencil and
IS nked, and then went in a disconsolate
/. ny and wet his whistle at the bar.
4 little boys grief upon being refused
permission TO attend the theatre, was in
part asSuaged by the assurance from his
mother that if be would dry his tears be
might 90 up the street, and see his father
nave tooth pulled.
\ Western girl who has been well brought |
Up, knocks down every man that kisses
DER, and she is 50 pretty that half
he married and all the sim
,le men in town have black eyes.
4 four cen year old Wisconsin lady has
completed her Two hun
lred and fifth dime novel.
Old Gent.-'B iddy, what is this you have
LmOng the stufffng ofthe turkeys?" Biddy
)-Ah, an sure, master, I'm oblig-
ID to you for fndin' my shignOn; I've been
ooking for it all day."
Discerning child [who has heard some re-
marks made by papa)-"Are you our new
lurse?" Yes dear" Well, then, I'm one
If those boys who can only be managed by
so you had better get some sponge
AXE and oranges at once"
1t is related that a Massachusetts school
,ov was asked by his teacher how many
olnmandments there were. Ten" was
he prompt reply. The teacher said there
ad been one added, and asked him what it
vas. The boy looked perplexed, scratched
lis head Z moment, and then triumphantly
eplied. The Fifteenth amendment" Il
The Charleston Courier, in a criticism of
Iadalne Janauschek's Mary Stuart, gushes
fer the following manner: "Last night
proud triumph for the drama.
'he gray traditions which yet hang with a
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