Locomotive, Volume 7, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1848 — Page 1

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EDITED BY A LADY. Saturday, December 23, 1848. Farewell. . Stolen from an Album. . Farewell ! that word brings many a sigh From friendship's shrine, the heart, And fills with trembling tear's the eyes Of loved ones doomed to part. - We feel with anguish starting From its pearly fount a tear, As we breathe this word when parting From those by us held dear. Farewell ! what bitter pangs arise When that sad word is spoken ; . By it how many 'ties are severed .How many hearts are broken ! - But round the heart there is a spell As calm as summer's even, Which seems to say there's no farewell, Or parting scene in Heaven. 1 L. J. II.

To Miss Kate, Lexington, Kentucky. Oh! there are many to be loved, 1 Few to be loved as thou, Few to be thought of when away, ' As thou art thought of now. When first we met, to each" unknown, Our hearts held sweet commune, Though not. a word, or sigh escaped Those lips of rosy bloom. ' The silent, blushing glance exchanged More eloquent than words, Lends deeper rapture to the heart, -Than heaven on earth affords. Long since we parted 'gainst our will We dried the tears of love, And every hope that fortune gave, Was blasted from above. iVe wandered in other climes I've stray'dMy sorrow to efface,

No balm of Giliad can I find, To ease my aching breast. If Fate, the faithful thus.enlink, . Their friendship, but to part, Oh! why, why is their memory So sacred to the heart ? Why does the love of childhood ' In sweeter beauty seem, -Restored awhile, in happiness, In every pleasing dream ? .. When time with thee shall be no more; Thy blissful life shall cease, May'st thou a precious pearl be cast, On the bright shores of peace. - ' J. M. M.

Adjusting the Mouth. The London Gazette contains some important information for., the ladies, with regard to the manner of placing their . lips when they desire to look amiable, dignified, &c. It says that when a lady would compose her mouth to a bland and serene character, she should, just before entering the room, say Besom, and keep the expression into which the mouth subsides until the desired effect upon the company is evident. If, on the other hand, she wishes to assume a distinguished and somewhat noble bearing, not suggestive of sweetness, she should say. Brush, the result, of which is infallible. If she would make her mouth small and pretty, she must say Flip, but if the mouth be already too small, and needs enlarging, she must say Cabbage. Ladies, when having their daguerreotypes taken, may observe these rules with some advantage.

At a debating Society in this city, a resolution was offered that one speech should be taken down, and sent to the Locomotive for publication. The speaker arose with all the dignity of a new-made councilman, and after several preparatory "a-hems," delivered himself to the following effect. For the Locomotive . Mr. President : I arise afore you and this society, to express, mong the rest, my opinions of-the credif I has experienced.for Columbus, and I want you to comprehend, I does not wish, tell you Idont, to take away from the credit of Gineral Washington. If Columbus had not discovered America, would any of his men ever have done it, or any living man in those times? I say, if thar were ever a man to discover such a world as the United States and Mexico Mr. President, I say wait a moment before he discovered America, as my worthy colleg says, after sailing for soma purty length of time his men and troops come to great confusion ; and they rip and swore most voraciously, they would go home. " Now you see I have destroyed the gentlemen and his arguing. Columbus was the b'hoy for to discover America. I tell you the King of Spain couldn't have beat up men enough in a day to have done it I permit, sir, that many men had sailed

round the earth, but did they discover America? You may say, thar were Captain Cook, yes, but prehaps he would have been too late to get his supper, and I'll succeed when I get the cobwebs out of my throat. If Columbus had not discovered America by his surprising polotician skill, would Washington ever have fought for it; that is, a protected it by his force? As well as I can think, I remember of reading of it when I was a boy, Columbus went from King to King, to get a ship and some men to go a sailing in. But I say Washington had twenty-seven ginerals to defend this country with, and the United States. My friend says Columbus had nothing to be afeared of, and he would, yes as leave swim across the ocean on a clap board, as face d cannon. I tell him the compass dos vary; and it sometimes knocks, the men and vessels to destruction, and that too, sir, in salt water. But there was no saltwater for to drown Washington. . He had rifles, and muskets, and firearms. He was not feared of water ?you might as well tell me he drunk the ashes in that stove. Gineral Washington didn't gain the battle.' Were vou ever at the battle of Buena Vista, where we

killed the Mexicans so motally fast, that thar ghosts darkened the air? - General Wool didn't gain that battle; no sir, the soldiers gained it. '. . Columbus had a few men, and sailors, and ships, and the ocean beat against it, and almost knocked it to pieces. But we are here on hard land, not salt water, and we can stay here, if we don't take a running start and leave it, and I say Columbus is the man that deserves 'the praise. ' lie is the cause of our freedom and our intelligence the tyrants' gravo digger and burien done more good than Lafayette, and outstripped Washington, and consequently was the cause of all our good, except bringing the cursed niggers among us. I feel mighty eloquent to-night, Mr. President, but my ideas are run out, and as the Locomotive is on hands,' I must leave off by saying Columbus was the b'hoy for to discover America. For the Loccmothe. Gents : One sees 'much of the different pha-; ses of .human life by " miscellaneous mingling." Life is so antithetically mixed up, that we are not surprised, but pained, at the striking contrast we see exhibited everyday. 'Tis but a thin, partitition that divides the good from the evil. We see much to admire and love; too much to condemn and abhor. Here we find a spot glowing in the soft sunshine; there a place dreary and desolate. There flowers are blooming, scattering their fragrance on the air ; here weeds, whose noxious exhalations sicken and disgust. On one page we find records of all that's beautiful and lovely, on another, much that's detestable and repulsive. Darkness and light, clouds and sunshine, hurry each -other like the shifting scenes of a play. I indulged in such thoughts the other evening while at the dance. The young, the gay, the beautiful were there, engaged right merrily in chasing "the glowing hours with flying feet." Who could look on that scene of gaiety and pleasureof female loveliness and manly pride of buoyant. hearts, on which a shadow never rested of lovely faces, beaming with happy smiles of innocent pleasure and gladsome mirth, "Nor feel the heart can never all grow old." But in coming years, a green spot will exist in