Indiana Palladium, Volume 6, Number 19, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 15 May 1830 — Page 4

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Tb following is fl.jppoeed to hare been the reflations 01 uu ur uciu bed; composed and written by one who most sincerely sympathize, with her affection.te mother in the loss of so am.able . child. O health! why hast thou from me fled! D-st thm disdain cny irksome bed? Art thou forever gone? Wilt thou for millions now prepare, The blessings which I used to- share, And not to me return? When thou wert with me on my bed. My eyes were lively, cheeks Were red, With blushes of the rose; But or how chang'dl since thou art gone, Efy eyes seem plaintive, cheeks are wan, And banished sweet repose. Siy, why hastlihou forsaken me. Is it because I slighted thee, Npr own'd thy placid worth? Thou sweetest gift i hat heaven bestowr, Confer on me thy sweet repose. Thou calmer of the earth. Dnt scorn to prove my nightly friend Bu night and day on me attend. To so th my aching breast; 0 mk" my downy pillow soft, And urive these raging fevers on, Which so dtsfurb my rest. Another irksome day is gone, Aod dreary night again comes on, And wilt thou not return? 01 some sweet anodyne apply, ?5or leave me ihus in agony, Until the approaching morn! 3ome, O tbou charming welcome guest! Companion of all earthly rest, Vty humble dwelling find! Dispel thes? dreary painful hours. And cheer with thy consoling powers-, My much tormented mind! Why did I crave the dawn of dny, And Phoebus witW h'13 golden ray They no relief have given. O health! thy 'alm could set me free From these keen pngs of agony, Tbou gracious gift cf Heaven! O tell me whither hast thou gone! For thee I pant, for thee I moan. Thy aid I now implore; Thou art forever gone away In anguish tow I hea' thee say Farewell we meet no more! O! mother dear I know my doom, My body's hastening to the tomb, In silence there to lie! But when I'm gone grieve not for me, Fur then 1 shall my father see. And rest with him on high. And you, my loving mother sweet, Id that bright world 1 hope to meet, Where all is joy and love; So mother pry be reconciled, Tis God that calls your darling child, To dwell with Dim above. STEAM. 1 bad a dream, which was not all a dream. Byron, Modern philosophy, en on, Will hi the rate she's rushing on Yoke lightning to her rail road car, Af i. ittog like a shooting star, Swiff 9 a sular radiation Kido tue grand circuit of creation! Anon. I have a bilious friend, who is a great admirer and imitator of Lord Byron; ihat is he aff cts misanthropy, masticates tobacco, has his shirts made without collars, calls himself a miserable man, and writes poetry with a glass of gm-nnd-water before him. His gin, thnugh &r from first-rate, is better than bis poetry; the latter, indeed, being worse than that of many authors of the present day, and scarcely til evn for an album; however, he docs not think so, and makes a great quantity. At his lodging", a few evenings ago, among other morbid productions, he read me one entitled "Steam," written in very blank verse, and evidently modelled after the noble poet's "Darkness," in which he takes a bird's-eye view of the world two or three centuries hence, descibes things in general, and comes to a conclusion with ''Steam was the universe!" Whether it was the fumes arising from- this piece of 'written' or whether I had unconsciously imbibed more hollands than my temperate habits allowed of, I cannot say, but T certainly retired to bed like O'hello, "perplexed in the extreme." -There was no "dreamless sleep" for me that night, and Queen Mab drove full gallop through every nook and cranny of my brain. Strange and fantastical vision floated before me; till at length came one with all the force and clearness of reality. - I thought I stood upon a gpntle swell of ground, and looked down on the scene beneath me. ft was a pleasant 8ightr and yet a stranger might have passed it by unheeded: but to me it was as the green spot in the desert, for there I recognized the haunts of my boyhood. There was the wild common on which I had so often scampered "frae mornin' sun till dine," skirted bv the old wood, through which the burn stole tinkling to the neighboring iver. There wa the little ivy covered chotch with its modest spire and immovable weathercock, and clustering aroui d I-tv the village thai I knew con tained so manv kind and loving hearts. All looked iut a it did on the sum mer morning wbei I left it, and went a wandering over this weary world. To me the very trees possessed an individ Dalit? : the brat ches of the old oak (there was but one) seemed to nod fa miliarly towards me, the music of the rippling water fell pleasantly upon my

ear, and the passing breeze murmured of "home, sweet home." The balmy air was laden with the hum of unseen ; i a the fragrance of

ihnnSnH mmmon herbs and flowers; an(J to the pace looked pret(jer aQC peasan(er (nan tney nave since . Aa , anzeAm the "womanish ' d dim sight, and 1 ? ' 0f the heart which felt that vearning every man who has a soul feels let him go where he will, or reason how he will on once more beholding the spot where the only pure, unsullied part of his existence passed away. Suddenly the scene changed. The quiet, smiling village vanished, and a dusty, crowded city occupied its place. The wood was gone the brook dried up, and the common cut to pieces and covered with a kind of iron gangway. Hooked upon the surrounding country, if country it coald be called, where vegetable nature had ceased to exist. Tne neat, trim gardens, the verdant lawns and swelling uplands, the sweet scented meadows and waving cornfields were all swept away, and fruit, and flowers, and herbage, appeared to be things uncared forand unknown. Hou ses and factories, and turnpikes and rail-roads, were scattered all around, and along the latter, as if propelled by some unseen, infernal power, monstrous machines flew with inconceivable swiftness. People were crowding and j istling each other on all sides. I min gled with them, but they were not like thoso I had formerly known, they walked, tafked, and transacted business of all kinds with astonishing celerity. Every thing was done in a hurry, they eat, drank, and slept in a hurry; they danced, sung, and made love in a hurry; they married, died, and were burned in a hurry, and resurrection men bad them out of their graves before they well knew they were in them. Whatever was done was done upon the high-pressure principle.- No person stopped to speak to another in the street; but they moved rapidly on their way, the men talked faster than women do now, and the women talked twice as fast as ever. Many were bald, and on asking the reason, I was given to under&tand that they had been great travellers, and that the rapidity of modern conveyances literally ecalped those who journeyed much in them, sweeping whiskers,- eyebrows,- eyelashes, in fact every thing in any way moveable, from their faces. Animal life appeared to be extinct; carts and carriages came rattling down the highways horseless and driverless, &, wheelbarrows trundled along without any visible agency. Nature was out of fashion, and the world seemed to get along tolerably wtjl without her. At the foot of the street my attention was attracted by a house they were building of prodigious dimensions, being not less than seventeen stories high. On the top of it several men were at work, when dreadful to relate, the foot of one of them slipped, and he was precipitated to the earth with a fearful crush. Judge of my horror and indignation on observing the crowd pass unheeding by, scarcely deigning to cast a look on their fellow creature, who doubtless lay weltering in bis blood, and the rest of the work men went on with their several avocations without a moment's pause in consequence of the accident. On approaching the spot, I heard several in passing murmur the most incomprehensible observations. "Only a steam man," said one. "Won't cost much, 7 said another. "His boiler overcharged, 1 suppose," cried a third, "the way in which all these accidents happen!" and true enough, there lay a man of tin and sheet-iron, weltering in hot water. The superintendant of the concernrwho was not a steam man, but made of the present materials, gave it as his opinion that the springs were damaged, and the steam vessels a little raptured, but not much harm done,and straightway sent the corpse to the blacksmith's (who was a flesh and blood man) to be repaired. Here was then a new version of the old Greek fable and modern Prometheuses were actually as "plentiful as blackberies." In fact, I found upon enquiry, that society was divided into two gieat classes, living and "locomotive" men, the latter being much the better and honester people of the two; and a fashionable political economist of the name of jVlalthus, a lineal descendant of an ancient, and it appears rather inconsistent system monger, had just published an elaborate pamphlet, showing the manifold advantages of propagating thoseno-provender consuming individuals in preference to any others. So that it appeared, that any industrious mechanic might in three months have a full grown family about him, with a full and comfortable assurance that, as the man says in Chrononhotonthologos, "they wen? all his own and none of his neighbors'." These things astonished, but they also perplexed and wearied me. My spirit grew sick, and I longed for the old world again, and its quiet and peaceanie modes oi enjoyment, l naa no fellowship with the two new races of beings around me7 and nature and her

charms were no more. AH things seemed forced, unnatural unreal indeed, little better than barefaced impositions. I sought the banks of my native river; it alone remained unchanged. The noble stream flowed gently and tranquilly as of yore, but even here impertinent man had been at work, and pernicious railroads were formed to its very verge. I iucautiously crossed one of them, trusting to my preconceived notions of time and space,the abhorred

engine being three quarters of a mile from me, but scarcely had I stepped over, when it flew whizzing past the spot I bad just quitted, and catching me in its eddy, spun me around like a top under the lash. It was laden w ith passengers, and went with headlong fury straight towards the river. Its fate seemed inevitable another instant and it would be immersed in the waves, when lo! it suddenly sunk into the bosom of the earth, and in three seconds was ascending a perpendicular hill on the opposite bank of the river. I was petrified, and g; zed around with an air of helples3 bewilderment, when a gentleman, who was doubtless astonished at my astonishment, shouted in passing, "What's the fellow staring at?" and another asked "if I had never seen a tunnel before?" Like Lear, "my wits Uegan to turn?" I wished for some place where I might hide myself from all around, and turned instinctively to the spot where the village ale house used to stand. But where, alas! was the neat thatched cottage that was wont so often to "Impart An hour's importance to the pocr man's heart?" Gone ! 3nd in its place stood a huge fabric, labelled "Grand Union Rail Road Hotel." But here also wassleam,steam, nothing but steam! The rooms were heated by steam, the beda were made aod aired by steam, and instead of a pretty, red-lipped, rosy-cheeked chambermaid, there was an accurate machine man smoothing down the pillows and bolsters with mathematical precision; the victuals were cooked by steam, yea, even the meat roasted by steam; instead of the clean-swept hearth "With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay There wa9 a patent steam-stove, and the place was altogether hotter than any decent man would ever expect to have any thing to do with. Books and papers lay scattered on a table. I took up one of the latter; it was filled with strange new phrases, all more or less relating to steam, of which ! knew nothing, but as far as I could make out the English of the several items, they ran somewhat thus: "Another shocking catastrophe .As the warranted-safe locomotive-smoke-consuming,' fuel-providing steam carriage Lightning, was proceeding at its usual three-quarter 6peed of one hundred and twenty-seven miles an hour, at the junction of the Hannington and Shpsby rail-roads, it unfortunately came in contact with the steam carriage Snail, going about one hundred and live miles per hour. Of course both vehicles with their passengers were instantaneously reduced to an impalpable powder. The friends of the deceased have the consolation of knowing that no blame can possibly attach to the intelligent proprietors of the Lightning, it having been clearly ascertained that those of the Snail started their carriage full two seconds before the time agreed on, in order lo obviate in some degree, the delay to which passengers were unavoidably subjected by the clumsy construction and tedious pace of their vehicle." "Melancholy accident, As a beautiful and accomplished young lady of the name of Jimps, a passenger in the Swift-a8-thought-lacomotive was endeavoring to catch a flying glimpse of the new Steam University, her breathing aparalus unfortunately slipped from her mouth, and she was a corpse in three quarters of a second. A young gentleman who bad been tenderly attached to her for several days, in the agony of bis feelings withdrew bis air tube and called for help; he of course shared a similar fate. Too much praise cannot be given to the rest of the passengers, who with inimitable presence of mind, prudently held their breathing-bladders to their mouths during the whole of this trying scene," &c. A Liverpool paper stated that "The stock for the grand Liverpool and Doublin tunnel under the Irish channel, is nearly filled up." And a Glasgow one advocated the necessity of a floating wooden rail road between Scotland and the Isle of Man, in order to do away with the tiresome steam boat navigation. I took up a volume of poems, but the similes and metaphora were all steam; all their ideas of strength, and power and swiftness, referred to steam only, and a sluggish man was compared to a greyhound. I looked into a modern dictionary for some light on these subjects but got none, except finding hundreds of curious definitions, such as these: "Horse, s, an animal of which but little is gow kcown. Old writers affirm

that there was at cna tima saveral thousand in the country." "Tree, s, vegetable production; once plentiful in these parts, and still to be found iu remote districts." "Tranquility, s, obsolete; an unnatural state of existence to which the aucients were very partial. The word is to be met with in several old authors," &c. Szc, In despair I threw down the book and rushed out of the house. It was midday, but a large theatre was open and the people were pouring in. I entered with the rest and found that whatever

changes had taken place, money was still money. They were playing Hamlet by steam, and this was better than any purpose to which I had seen it applied. The automatons really got along wonderfully well, their speaking faculties being arranged upon the barrel organ principle, greatly improved, and they roared, and bellowed, and strutted ,iand swung their arms to & fro as sensibly as many admired actors. Unfortunately in the grave scene owing: to some mechanical misconstruction, Hamlet exploded, and in doing so, entirely demolished one of the grave diggers, and o injured the rest of the dramatis persona? that they went ofTone after the other like so many crackers, filling the house with heated vapour. I made my escape, but on reaching the street, things were ten times worse than ever. It was the hour for stopping and starting the several carriages, and no language can describe the state of the atmosphere. Steam was generating and evaporating on all sides ihe bright sun was obscured the people looked parboiled, and the neighboring fisherman's lobsters changed color on the instant; even the steam inhabitants appeared uncomfortably hot. I could scarcely breathe there was a blowing, a roaring, a hissing, a fizzing, a whizzn g going on all around fires were blazing, water was bubbling, boilers were bursting when, lo! I suddenly awoke and found myself in a state of profuse perspiration. I started up, ran to the window and saw several milkmen and bakers' carts, and horses in them, trotting merily along. I was a thankful man. I put on my clothes, and while doing so, made up my mind to read no more manuscript poems, and eschew giu-andwa-terfor the time to come. C. Origin of names, phrases, and customs. Days of the zveek: The Sun, Mon, Tuisco, Wodeu, Tnor, Fng, and Seater, were Saxon God?, to each of whom one day in the week was consecrated ; Sun's day, Moon's day, Tubco's day, Woden's day, Thor's day, Fnga's day, and Skater's day. Hence Uk names of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Massachusetts. The land in this state was mostly purchased of Masassiot, the chief ofthe Mount Haup Indians;and IIJC liauic nas uiuuuuii lauu uvui wis, and gradually changed to Massachusetts. Vermont. From two French words signifying Green Mountains. Connecticut. The name of this state is probably derived from Cannonicus, an Indian sachem, who owned land on the Connecticut. Pennsylvania. This word means the woods or Forests of Penn. Maryland So called in honor of the English Queen Alary. Carolina So called in honor of the English Queen Caroline. Georgia So called in honor of Geo. 111. king of England. Louisiana. It first belonged to the French, who named it in memory of their king Loui?. Boston. Mr. Cotton the first minister in Boston, New England, came from Boston in Old England; and the town was named in memory of his native place. Philadelphia. From two Greek words meaning the brotherhood of love. It was founded by Wm. Penn, the celebrated Quaker, who gave it this name to indicate the harmony and kinduess of the Quaker Society. Baltimore. Takes its name from its founder, George Calvert, Lard Baltimore. New Paper. A new weekly paper is proposed in N. Haven, entitled the "sitting Room,''1 by Mr. Charles Adams. What next! this comes near the "Political Gridiron" for originality ; and we may prepare shortly to behold the "Literary Kitchen" with its various departments, 8uch as the poetical Frying-pan, the wash-tub of selected matter, the oven of criticism and the editorial toaster. Bali. A mer A bad executive, A gentleman finished an eulogium on a lady with the following words: "Ah, sir! nothing beats a good wife." "I beg your pardon," rejoined a byestander, a bad husband does." A person preaching on the depravity ofthe age, said that little children who could neither speak nor walk, hvere, to be seen running about the trets cursing and swearing.

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