The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-23
NATIVE, and to the manner born,

With q single bound IRON the spring
board Of authorship, has taken high rank
among writer's of fiction, exterting favora-
bic critics rs from Northern aud Southern
reviewers.
may also observe with pride that other
ladies of our State have successfully en-
gagged in authorship, producing poems and
prosaic works equal to the best Amlr eau
authors.
Mrs. Virginia Frantz, wife of the noted
editor OF the Brandon Republican, the
r derc Dhu Of the Mississippi press, has
writ en- q volume or more of choice poems,
appearing occasionally in the r public N
IN time to be Te-pubIished as Il Southern
amulet.
Mrs. Clptain Fred Beall, of West Point.
was a sweet songstress an1 lyric writer dur
ing all the period of the war and ministered
angel-Iike to many wearied soldier,
Taking his rest with his martial cloak
around him"
So, also, Mrs. G Gnodyear, nee Miss Bette
Lane, the Bonnie Belle of Rankin county,
"Culls from Faucy's pictured urn
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn
Miss Maud Smith, daughter of the late
Chief Justice, and now edtress of the New
Idea," a monthly cornucopia of literary
gems, has penetrated many an ice-bOund
heart with her New Ideas" indelibly i'm
pressed by her flowing Saxon locks and ten
der orbs Of blue.
The Press Association authors all them
selves, have brought out Miss johnnie
Hunt, 'The Hill City Muse" OF Vick,burg,
Miss Downing aud Miss Louise Clark, o..
HInd-, and others, in poetic addresses OF
undoubted merit, delivered before the as
sOuiatiOn.
Other young ladies
With poe,'s eye, in a fne frenzy rolling"
Are peering- above the literary horizon,
s0On to
Shake their ambro,ial locks and give the
world nod"
But, have omitted the poetic gem of the
State. Pearl Rivers"-Mlss Poitevent-
now Mrs. Nicholson, cditress of the New
Orleans Plciyune, long the pet mockiug
bird Of The valley of the Pearle-the sweet
est singer in all the South-whO has quietly
nestled in the Bosom of established fame and
become the editress of the Daily and Week
~ Picayune Its name should be changed
TO Pearl Rivers"
Nor are the young gentlemen of our State
negligent of poetic as ,ciation with their Sis
ters of the Art Divine.
William Walter H1skins, famed editor of
the Lexington Advertiser and the Corinthi-
an, has published a volume of rare poems,
among them atlantis" based on the elias,
sic legends of that prehistoric Empire, To-
Gated in the center of the Atlantic ocean
alluded to by classic writers as the Hesper
ides or E!ysian fields, but by conyulslon
of nature, long since
"In the deep bosom of the ocean buried
The poem is learnedly classic an epic of
great credit to the writer.
Col. Z. L. Ross, of the Cantoh Nail, with
eagle plume has put ahoat flock OF elysiam
birds, all sweet singers. His ode to the
heroes of the "lost cause" is credit to the
living and the lost, and ranks with the he
roles of Sir Walter Scott.
Our learned, polished, and classic Histo-
rian aud Biographer, Col. Claiborne, has
also drank deeply of the Pierian spring.
Most of his poems are unpublished OF
those escaping his escroitoir | recall his
grand ode to the Flag of the Union, writ
ten and published at time when the stars
and stripes and stars and bars were in daily
hostile collision, alternately capturing the
one the other-a production not inferior to
KEYS celebrated ''Star Spangled Banner"
His "Maid of Pascagoula," is a twin sis
ter of Byron's Maid of Athens and Saragos-
.a-his "Gone Before" an inspired pen
nairting of the present and future life
reminding US OF the visits OF Homer, Vir- |
I'll, Dante and Byron to the mystic world |
Sor their great epics. :.
n.n-distinguished in the Mexican war al |
1 Nnp IaVlRF
tud afterwards at the battles OF the Ma 1nal
Bridge, Chepuitepec, the GArrltl de Bsilin,
inat capture of the Cttv of NJ sxico, and as
Military Governor of Mexico pending neso-
iatiuns for peace, is Il brilliant resume OF
he campaigns ofGenerals Taylor and Scott.
Tbe repulse and defeat OF SaLta Anna by
he former-and the naval assault and cap
ure of the fortified Castle of s IN Juan de
JlIoa before Vera Cruz; the taking Of that
.ity the march to the City of Mexico;
md the final conquest of the nation itself
With only Il 600 men under Scotia feat
# arms that astonished and electrified the
military wnrld-a pen-painting equal to the
.reat events displayed, Incorporating The
lame of the author farever with the most
laring. chivalrous and successful military
.x.loits of the age. His last great work,
he History of Mississippi, now going
through the press at jackson, iu three large
,olumes, compares we'll with the classic
histories of European authors IN which the
people of Mississippi are reviving from the
,lo9m of their defeat in the civil war and
lighting their battles successfully over again
With Col Claiborne-their popular Com
Chief Had CJl. Claiborne lived
n the days of Herodalas, he would have
,aen the peer Of that classic historian and
NV studied by the stud .nts Of all nations.
Ranked as YOU now ars with Mississippi
minors 81 distinguished. yourself aud they
bould feel bound by obligations OF public
,oli..y too sacred for omissinn-tO exert all
,our powers Of body and mini to place
.f;ssi.sippi at the head OF the literary arls-
,cracy OF the Union.
Illuminated as your paths are BY the light
+ other days, coupled With the heruism ana
hiyaIry of the Mississippi and Confederate
,ldiey-C Commanded and Caremanders, the
a,st between the Northern and southern
Repubiics so fresh in the memories oi us sii
-, resplendent in gorgeous battlehelds ana
immortal naval engagenlents-so steitA.eu
gith deeds OF chiyalrous and noble daring
) hoth parties to the conhict-blendlng
.arf,,I and bloody tragedy with brilliant
ramalit. romance-iurnish themes ana
/, ) raeters for literary reproduction, M
nnaled by the ancient or middle ages.
7 I2s,aamher 4 we'll written novel is but
nather form of Epic Poem intended % iorm I.
Is morals and affect the mind into ways q
irtue. Il. r,..lv.
Twas the poets that gave y sne EsAas.s ~
+ navid and the songs Of Soiomon--tne
.s,,; rad anthems Of the Christian Naria.
.fhe religions Of all Idolatrous Natlons-
.ss;s,.ss Sc divine inspirations are the
,.sss.l;d sctions Of their Epic Poets. Inc
I 1shaloeies Of the Greeks and Romans
5 Ieng doninatinr the Earth more by force E
& sssSss than moral truthk and con- Flctlons
- noetIe nislions ii thalf hardsl nov