Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-04-15

US as hough the frigid zone was, in
wrath, going to make an attrck on the
equator itself. The Iice-bird of Green
land does not venture to follow, and
the ice boat. that once rode it in tri-
umph, now eroIches into some nook
and hugs the shore until Old Rivers
wrath is over past It is not like Old
Ocean, when she lifts her crested
waves up amid the black clouds of
bowling wrath and mingles her foams
with the thunderbolts, that weep on
in the joy OF their contract to do the
bidding of the Almighty hand but it,
in equal majesty, is going to seek its
level, and form its quiet union with
and make its home in the haven of
waters-the peace of the pacific. There
is majesty in its fullGess now; there
is majesty in its integrity. in its depth,
its strength, in the fabrics it bears up
on its bosom, as well as in its pro-
lOnged song and harmonious musical
roar. In any case its voice is sublime,
rich; whether it prolongs its requiem
dashing up some open gorge, or, in
fury, echoing from some mass of up
lifted rocks, or utters milder and
gentler voice by playing its gentle
ripple against the side of the strug
Cling vessel, lulling each voyager to
rest and to peace of mind, or it may
be by its melancholy tones, measured
within the labyriths of each wave-worn
cave, or playing backward its chorus
from some promfntory of rocks and
then dying away in the fading twilight
of the closing day.
1t lays the hand of a Master upon
all the elements about it to increase
its beauty and endow it with richness.
It borrows from the earth, the air, the
stars and the sky; the clouds proffer
their various shades of beauty, and
the rainbow lends its many colored
hues, while the stars themselves, like
joyous glittering brotherhood, all
join in throwing down their laughing
peace in its rejecting face, and the
sun delighting to play his beams, in
writing truth, and in glances of fire,
to dance to and fro and blaze and
wave and then come back in sparkling
light and diamond purity above thai
found in the Ironton coal-bin
In fact, Mr. Editor, this old Father
of Waters lacks nothing in the way o.
doing its part to perfect this north
western and south. western parts oil
tins American land, only to have some
wise and enterprising one spring up su
perior to Necho, who planned to unite
the Red Sea with the Mediterranean
by means of canal, who would unite
| (from manageable point at St. PauDtht
Mississippi River with Lake Superior
at Duluth. Then our grand highway
would be perfect; then we Eshould be
hold new wonders and new riches
the store house Of the coral-insec
would be ours; the glittering pearls
which adorn the crowns of princes
and are woven in the hair of nader
beauty, would at once be brought b.
the relentless hand of man from hid
den stores in oceans depth and spread
all over our land. Mines of diamond
deeper and richer than Ironton ha!
discovered would come Then every
landing along the Mississippi would
have its floating mine of wealth, which
the dew drop did not nourish nor the
sun light build, nor man SOW or cult
vate; hut that belongs to the ocear
depths and Mississippi channel unit
thrown up and out by the surges- or
dained for the purpose.
May progress: go on, and on, until
the lowest depths shall give up theil
dead, the islands shrink, the sun sick
ZEN, the heavens be rolled together as
scroll, the moon be blood, and there
shall be no more river or sea.
T. H. PHILLIPS.