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POETRY. 'Human Life—-By Bernard Barton Es*. “In the morning it flourisheth, amtgrow- eth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withevcth.”—Psalm xc. 6. I walk’d the fields at morning’s prime, The grass was ripe for mowing, The sky-lark sang nis matin chime, And all was brightly glowing. V \ml thus,’’ I cried, “(he ardent boy, His pulse with rapture beating, Deems Life’s inheritance is joy • The future proudly greeting.” I wandered forth at noon:—alas! On earth’s maternal bosom The srlhe had left the withering gras, Anti stretch’d the fading blossom. Anil thus, I thought with many a sigh, The hopes we fondly cherish, Li l^e flowers which blossom but to die, Seem only born to perish. Once more, at eve, abroad I stray’d, Through lonely hayfields musing; "While every breeze that round me play d Rich fragrance was diffusing. The perfumed air, the hush of eve, To purer hopes appealing O’er fho’ts perchance too prone to grieve, Scatter’d the balm of healing. for thus “the actions of the just,” When Memory hath inshrined them, f’en from the dark and silent dust, Their odour leave behind them. FROM THE NATIONAL GAZETTE. Oft when the glowing tints of Autumn’s Have o’er the west their golden radiance Soft as that hallowed light that hurst from *Whe^serajft minstrels to the shepherds sung— ... , When not a cloud has on the horizon hung; When stillness has her peaceful mantle spread, . . And calmed e’en whispering zephr into rest— Hushed each discordant note, and gently shed Her holv, happy influence o’er the breast; Thus have 1 thought the righteous seek repose, r Thus shine refulgent ere their labours close. But dearer far to me the evening hour, When, from the earth in massive columns roil’d High up the blue empyrean, vapours low vlj _ _ And leave below a glorious space of gold; For thus I’ve hop’d, though clogg’d with earthy mould, Tho’ Sin her cloudy veil around me cast,— When all my littlc'hour of life is told, And all my errings and repentings past— Thus have I hop’d shall Faith disperse the gloom, And thus with peaceful promise gild the tomb. C. DELWYNNE. mm ■‘TjaMtuaauMt frutia 0o©l ©y.IB EoJtWAST, £D<P AflACr" ©AC* ■SKoiSO-TOiT, D4Z XA*4A<r »y« (FvDt&y.M- y ^oiyS^lffT SbvUT <6Sl<bT»,Z«9A»l tfiSPT. 30. ADoByii TIv (FMK0-A44* QRA4A JF.C.GU DBI-FA OTiAJIra* (WBWOA4T, A* AP4 SPKT.0- <v» Dye. 31. 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The ‘following beautiful remarks are jmMhfi'pen (/Washington Irving, originally published in the An elec- tic Magazine. “In the present times, when popu» lar feeiing is gradually becomeing har- uened by war, and st liish by the ire- (tuent jeopardy ol hie or property , it is certaiiby an inauspicious moment to speak m behalf 01 a race oi bemgs, whose very existence has been pro nounced detrimental to public securi ty, Jbut it Is good at ah times to raise tne voice of truth, however feeble; to endeavor if possible to mitigate the fury ol passion and prejudice, and to turn aside the bloody hand ol violence. Little interest, however, can proba bly be awakened at present, in favor oi the misguiued tribes of Indians that have been drawn into the present wart The rights of the savage have seldom been deeply appreciated by the white oian—in peace he is the dupe o, mer cenary rapacity; in war he is regard ed -as a ferocious animal, whose death is a question of mere precaution and convenience. Man is cruelly waste ful of life when his own safety is en dangered and he is sheltered by impu nity—and little mercy is to he expect ed from lnm who feels the stirg oi the reptile, and is conscious of the .potvei to destroy. -Tt has been the lot. of the unfortu nate aborigines of this country, to be doubly wronged by the white men-— first, driven from their native soil by the sword of tbe invader, and then darkly slandered by the pen ol the his torian. The former has treated them like beasts of the forest; the latter, has written volumes to justify him in bis outrages. Tire former found it easi er to exterminate than to civilize; the latter to abuse than to discriminate.— The hideous appellations of savage &. pagan were sufficient to sand ion the deadly hostilities of both; and the poor. wandems of the foies’s were persecu ted and dishonored, not because they were guilty, but because they were ig norant. <‘The same prejudices seem to ex ist, in common circulation, at the pre sent day. We form our opinions of the Indian character from the misera ble hordes that - infest our frontiers.— These, however, are degenerate beings, enfeebled by the vices of society, without being benefited by its arts of living. The Independence of thought and action, that formed the main pil lar of their character, has been com pletely prostrated, and the whole mo ral fabric lies in ruins. Their spirits are debased by conscious inferiority, and their native courage completely daunted by the superior knowledge & power of their enlightened neighbours. Society has advanced upon them like a many-headed monster, breath ing every variety of misery. Before it, went forth pestilence, famine and the sword; and in its train came the slow, but exterminating curse of trade. What the former did not sweep away, the latter has gradually blighted. It has increased their wants, without increasing the means of grat ification. It has enervated their strength, multiplied their diseases, blasted the powers of their minds, 'md superinduced on their original barbarity the low vices of civilization. -’hey saw every one a round them sharing the same lot, en during the same hardships, liying in the same cabins, feeding on the same aliments, arrayed in the same rude garments. No roof then rose, but what was open to the houseless stran ger, no smoke curled among the trees,, but he was welcome to sit down, by its fire, and join the hunter in his re past. “For,” says an old historian of New-England, “their life is so void of care, and they are so loving also, that they make use of those things they enjoy as common goods, and therein so compassionate that rather than one should starve throughout, they would starve all; thus do they pass their time merrily, not regarding our pomp, but are better content w’ith their own, which some men esteem so meanly of,” Such were the Indians while in the pride and energy of primi tive simplicity: they resemble those wild plants that thrive best in the shades of the forests, but which shrink from the hand of cultivation, and per ish beneath the influence of the sun. ]to be continued.] tit FRECIPICE OF KOLAU From the Journal of Mr. (Stewart, late Missionary to tht Sandwich Islands, recently published— It seemed like enchantment, to find myself transported,' in the short space of an hour, from the dusty plain, stag nant pools, dreary beach, and various desolations of the sea-side, to the fresh ness and verdure, luxuriance and bloom of a woodland region, where the eye rested only on objects of gran deur and beauty, and the ear caught no sounds amid the solitude of the for est, but the chirping ofbirds, the mur mnrs of the mountain stream, or the dashing of the distant casc ade. The path we took led up the valley, immediately in the rear of the village. As this gradually contracted from a width of three to that of one mile, the scenery became more and more picturesque arid delightful, till at a distance of five miles from Honoruru, it far surpasses any thing l^have ever witnessed. The mountains are so lofty and so graceful in their outlines; so rich and beautiful in their foliage; so diversified by dark grottos, project ing cliffs and spouting waterfalls— while all below presents an exube rance of vegetation almost incredible; that I cannot but think it among the finest of the exhibitions of nature, in a state of undisturbed simplicity and wildness. Such was the character of the scenery for the two last miles of the walk, while our path led suc cessively through glnde, copse, and dell, and was frequently, for long dis tances together, entirely embow ered by the interlacing branches of the spreading hau-tree, species of hybiseus. After ascending from one of these dark passages, Mr. Bingham suddenly cautioned me against th'e violence of' the wind \ye should soon meet. At tant shores the peac<pil biller w « the Pacific Were rolling,' itt ever-vary ing and snowy brightness; while fails er stjll, the blue vjratqrs of the ocoan rose in gradual ascent, still apparent ly midway between heaven and earth, they met the ajsy, in a haziness that rendered eitllilr distinguishable from the other, only by the regularity of a scarcely discernible horizon. m To the right and to the left, within p a stones throw of the rock: on which lf a stood, two richly covered peaks rose! many thousand feet above my head; * 1 while beyond them, on cither side, summit after summit of mountains, whose broad bases were planted in the valley below, appeared in long per spective, still with a semicircle sweep / both terminated hr the sea by bold arid jl romantic headlands, rendered more « picturesqe by a partial continuation of w detached cliffs & islets. In full view ^ behind, was the bautiful valley thro’ vvhich we had ascended, gradually sinking, from the very spot on which we storid, to the ilOw miniature town and port of Honorurur, beyond which againros© “theMlimitable sea.” The sublimity pf the whole was not a little increased by the almost over whelming sounds of the trade wind, as it swept along the mountains, which resisted its progress' to ibis narrow pass, and through, which it rushed with irresistible velocity and power, bearing in its broad current and Whirl ing eddies, leaves, sand and even peb bles, which might claim the name of stones. Such was the effect of this, that though every thing far and near gleamed in the brightness of a cloud-* I ess sky and noon-day sun, I could aot resist the impression that we were standing amidst the ragings of a tem-' lest; an illusion not diminished by the harsh s . reams of the sea-gull and cry of the tropic bird os they passed us on rapid wing to the lof:y peaks above or hastened again to sail in the calmer regions beneath our-feet. None but mi atheist could have kept his thoughts from rising to that Being of majesty and power, who “founded | the earth arid hnng it upon nothing;” | “who formed the mountains and crea- L ted the wind;”—“ who shut up the itj sea, and said, hitherto shalt thou come, f but no farther; and here shall thy f« proud waves he staid.” And in the \ t lively contemplation of the marvellouB 1 wisdom and omnipotence that over- jf looks and upholds the mighty wonderj of the universe, we could not but Teel ' the force of humbling interrogative, “ 0 Lord, what is man, that THOtf art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou visitest him?” The battle that decided the fate of Oahu, in the conquests of Tamehame- ;m, ha, in which lie gained the victory that made him the sole monarch of the group, was fought in the valley lead ing from Honoruru to this pass. The king Oahu, after a desperate conflict, fell byavely at the head of his army; up on which a complete rout ensued. One party of more than three hundred warriors, fled towards this precipice, and were pursued so closely and with such relentless purpose, as to have been plunged, without, an exception, from the tremendous offsett to thfr depths below!—JVest. Rec. the same time, the rushing of heavy blasts was heard, intimating, like the roarings of a cataract, or the murmer- ings of a volcano, an approach to one of the most sublime phenomena of na ture; and on abruptly turning the an gle of a projecting rock,—with an ad miration approaching to terror-I found myself balancing in strongly conflicting currents of air, on the brink of a pre T eipice, little less than a thousand feet in perpendicular descent, without the parapet of a single stone to guard n- gainst the fatal consequences pf (. false step. Immediately before me, at the foot of this tremendous offset, in mns< perfect bird’s-eye view, ,-k>y a widely extended, cultivated and thickly it habited country, against whose dis- Jllonnt Ararat.-—Nothing can be more beautiful than the shape of Ara rat; nothing more awful than its height. All the surroumjing mountains sink in to insignificance when compared to it. It is perfect in all its parts. No rug ged features—no unnatural promin ences. Every thing is harmony; and all combines to render it one of the most interesting, objects in nature* Spreading origiii&lly from an immense base*, the slope towards its summit is easy and gradual, until it reaches the regions of snow, where it becomes more abrupt. As a foil to this stu pendous object, a small hill rises from the same base, similar in shape, arid in any other situation, entitled to, rank among high mountains,. No one since the flood seems to have been on the summit of Ararat. For the rapid as* cent of its spowjj the attempt itn certainly has asci times. When the ad' fort failed, it is noi one else has succet ml. — ANECDOTE. “Make way* gentlemen,” once ert* ed a Massachusetts representatives to the ponulncs, who were crowding him out of his place in the procession on election dav, “make way; we are" the representatives of the peoole.”—» “Make wav yourself,” replied a stur dy member of the throng, “we are th^ people themsehe#.” »appears to render le. No man, I it in modern turous TournelJ obable that any “ * ’Hie Jour* l