Daily Bulletin. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1, Friday, December 17, 1841 Page: 1 of 4
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Printed and Published every morning at One Dollar and Fifty Cents per month.
VOL. I.
AUSTIN CITY FRIDAY DECEMBER 17 1841.
NO. XVII.
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. THE DEATH "OF THE FLOWERS.
BY -WILLIAM C. BRYANT.
"The Death of the Flowers" by Bryant is the sweet
est description of the time: (November) which we'have
seen. Pkiladelph ia A in erica n .
The melancholy days are come
The saddest of the year
Of wailing winds and naked woods
And meadows brown and sear. .
lfcnp'd m the hollows of the grove
'- The witherd leaves lie dead ; -' . v .
- They rustle to the eddying gust
And to the rabbit's tread ;
The robin and the wren are flown. -And
from the shrub the jay " .
' And from the wood-top calls the crow
Through all the gloomy day.
Where are the flowers the fair young flowers
That lately sprung and stood ;
In brighter light and'softer airs ;
A beauteous sisterhood 1 '
' Alas ! they are all in their graves v ?
The gentle race of flowers -y
And lying in their lowly bed
With the fair and good of ours.
' The rain is foiling where they lie ; '.
But cold November ram . -
Calls not from out the earth ..
The lovely ones again. rf
; The wind-flower and the violet
They perish'd long ago "'
The wild rose and the orchis died- j-
Amid the summer's glow;
But on the hill the golden rod
And the aster in the wood
And the yellow sun-flower by the brook
In Autumn beauty stood
'Till fell the frost from the clear cold Heaven
As falls-the plague on men
And the brightness of their smiles was gone
From upland glade and glen.
And now when comes the calm mild day
As still such days will come
To call the squirrel and the bee
. From out their winter home
When the sound of dropping nuts is heard
Though all the trees are still
And twinkle in the smoky "light
The water of the rill .. .
The south wind searches for the flowers
Whose fragrance late he bore
And sighs to find them in the wood i
And by the stream no more. ....
. And then I thiuk of one who in
Her youthful beauty died ' tV
The fair meek blossom that grew up
And faded by my side :
- In the cold moist earth we laid her t
When the forest cast the leaf - N " .
And we wept that one so lovely
Should have a life so brief;
. Yet not unmeet it was that one
Like that young friend of ours -So
gentle and so beautiful
' Should perish with the flowers.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday Morning Dec. 16.
House met Roll called. Present Messrs. Speaker
Brown Cooke Dancy Daniels Darnell Dennis Fow-
ler Gaines Head Hewett Hunter Jones of Galveston
Jones of Gonzales Kuykendall Landrum McConnell
Morris Parker of Fort Bend Parker of Houston Pa-
tillo Pennell Porter Raymond Roberts Smith Van.
Ness. Van Zandt Wood and Wynns.
Bill for the relief of Josiah N. Beaty and others; or-
dered to be engrossed;
Mr. Wynns presented the petition of Thomas G.
Western : referred to .Committee on Claims and Ac-
counts. Mr. Wynns presented the petition of Adolphus Ste rne;
referred to Committee on Claims and Accounts.
Committee on Claims and Accounts reported favor-
ably on petition of L. Williams.
Sir. Jones presented the petition of sundry citizens of
Gonzales for a now county ; referred to a Special Com-
mittee. Mr. Porter presented the petition of sundry citizens
of the North-Eastern frontier.
Sir. Fowler offered a resolution that the House would
receive no more business after the 25th inst which re-
ceived two amendments and was then rejected.
Mr. Van Zandt moved to amend by adding "without
leave of the House."
Bill to give a salary to the Clerk of the Supreme
Court was passed.
Joint resolution requiring the Secretary of State to
suspend the printing of laws in the Spanish language
was laid on the table.
Bill to organize parts of the counties of Robertson
and Milam as' a Judicial county with the name of
Marlin was passed.
Joint resolution requesting the President to cany out
the arrangement entered into with Yucatan.
Mr. Van Ness presented a resolution requiring all
laws passed by Congress to be translated into the Span-
ish language immediately after its adjournment ; read
1st time.
The bill to repeal an act preventing the forced sale-
of slaves being called up; was liid on the table.
Bill to prevent fire-hunting; after a great deal of
amusing discussion and the adoption of an amendment
preventing its operation in all the. counties of the Re-
public except Houston Lamar Red River and prop-
ositions to refer it to the Committee on the -Judiciary
Foreign Relations Claims and Accounts 'Post Office
and Post Roads FinanceState of Republic and County
Boundaries was finally referred to a Select Committee..
Mr. Van Zandt of the Joint Committee to wait upon
the President reported that they had performed the
duty assigned them and had been informed by his Ex-
cellency that he would lay before Congress a message
but was unable to say on what day.
Bill for the relief M. Kloppenburgh war ordered to
be engrossed.
Mr. Roberts moved thata committee be appointed to
enquire into the official conduct of the Hon. John M-.
Hansford Judge of the 7th Judicial District and report
to this House as soon as practicable. :-
Mr. Wood introduced a bill to repeal the'law laying
up the navy in ordinary. :
Bill to permit Peggy Rankin to-emancipatea' certain
slave and her children was indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Van Ness introduced a resolution to enquire into
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Whiting, S. Daily Bulletin. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1, Friday, December 17, 1841, newspaper, December 17, 1841; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth80071/m1/1/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.