under ctilliiic, producing wheat and 

 cotton. Advancing; fuiiliur, tiic vcjjcta- 

 tion seemed to be nioiiotoiious, and 

 niosfl}' covered with immense forests. 



430 Oi'iginal Poetry. [June I; 



of Vevay anil Gand, where attempts plains, woods, liamlels, rising towns, 

 liave been made to cultivate tiie viiu.-, and Iniiian camps. 

 ))ut witliout success. He came next to After a navigation of twcnly-four 

 Louisville, in Kcntuckj-, a large and days on t!ic jMississippi, Mr. N. entered 

 flourishing town, with a number of the Arkansa. The first habitations li>at 

 !»ankiiig-houses; their credit was at that he discovered formed a part of a little 

 time in a depreciated state. He then French settlement, where tiie land was 

 passed tlie Falls of the Ohio, the force 

 of which was much inferior totheexpec- 

 tations he had formed. The steam- 

 boats of New Orleans, wliicii come up ...v.... .J v....>,.^.. ...... ,.....,v,..o.^ .v.v^t.. 



t!)c Ohio, as far as Shippingsport, below where no pathway conid be discerned, 

 the Falls, aie from 300 to 500 tons; The author afterwards traces an out- 

 their passage back iseffectcd in eighteen line of the aiicient population on the 

 days. banks of the Mississ!p|)i. This is bor- 

 This traveller at lengtli reached the rowed from a Narrative of the F.xpedi- 

 mouth of the Ohio, and entered tiie tion of Ferdinand <Ie Soto, who sailed 

 Mississipi)i. The lands adjacent to Irum Cuba, in ISoO, with 1000 men, 

 these two rivers are not inhabited, on and, landing in Florida, penetrated to 

 account of the inundations; but they the Mississippi, and e\plorc<l many 

 altound in game. Here the navigation parts of the adjoining regions: of those 

 becomes diiTioult, and often dangerous, that attended him, only 113 returned. 

 IVom the trees dragged along by the cur- The author has arranged and siiaded, 

 rent, whici), meeting with obstruction, with distinctness and precision, two 

 adhere to the bottom of the river, most interesting to|)ics, — the gradations 

 forming a sort of dyke or rampart in the of a civilization, rapid in its progress; 

 channel. The banks both of (he Mis- and the primitive aspect of countries 

 sissippi and Ohio are interspersed with and inhabitants, as yet unexplored. 



ORIGINAL POETRY, 



EVENING CONSOLATIONS; 



EY J. K. PKIOR. 



THE snn has brightly snuk beneath 

 The mountains sjreen, 

 The clouds are woven into a wreath. 

 The earth and heavens between; 

 Peasants return to home's sweet spot. 

 And rest within the mansion cot. 



The fire is feeding on the hearth 



In tlanies of bhie. 

 And the smoke ascends like evening 

 niirlh 



When sympathies are trne ; 

 Like breath that runs from lips above 

 To yield its happiness of love. 



Calm is the passion which retires 



Content with life. 

 And a friend or two, whose incense fires 



Are never damp and rife ; 

 Whose minds in unison can play 

 The hnur-glass atom-sands away. 



Statesmen through midnight's hours may 

 speak, 

 Monarclis be gay ; 

 And ihe gamester, miser, reveller, seek 



Their fond bnt careful prey ; 

 Yet with friends, music, books, health, 



wine, 

 And Love's delights, — can Man repine ? 

 Idington. 



THE STREET-SWEEPERS ; 



BY JOHN WAYNE, 



Aiilhor of Ihe Poem of " the Siller Gun," ^a. 



In Summer's heat, in Winter's squalls. 

 And rain that freezes as it falls. 

 Among the hapless sons of Care, 

 Wlio claim our pity here and theie, 

 Behold iliat man, with shoeless feet, 

 Who swtcps the crossings of the street, — t 

 That man has once seen better da)s, 

 But fell by Trade's precarious ways ! 

 Behold his fellow-lab' rcr, too, 

 Who lust an arm at Waterloo ! 

 And, ah ! no longer stout and trim. 

 Yon sailor with the wooden limb. 

 Who, at the fight of Trafalgar, 

 Fought in great Nelson's ship of war! 

 O never, with indifF'rence, then. 

 Refuse a trifle to such men ; 

 Nor her, yon matron, sorely prest. 

 Who sweeps, and weeps, and does her 



best ; 

 Unfit, in any other wa)', 

 To earn a morsel for the day ! 

 Reverse of Fortune, old and poor, 

 Has brought her to the Work-house door; 

 Bnt, rather far than enter there, 

 She sweeps the streets in mute despair ! 



How happy those to whom is giv'n 

 A competence from gracious Heav'D ; 



But 



