Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 111, Ed. 1 Friday, November 17, 1865 Page: 1 of 4
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Some two jwn ago a current newspaper
item oon talari the information thai a new
foot, a ladj, and bearing Ibe unique and
•masloal title of Jean Ingelow, was attract-
ing attentien in England. This item was
moon followed across the Alan tic by several
|Mri.n «y ind beautiiul poems, which w
copied everywhere. and increased the rising
Aaartean owriosity in rsgard to their author.
'English literary productions of genius
asest! and find, always, as good a market
with us as in Kngland, and sometimes a
fetter one. Consequently, the Roberta
Brothers, of Boston, haatened to offer to
«ha American public the new poems, in a
dainty little volume Of tinMd paper, bound
In green and gold vellum. The popularity
«f the book was instantaneous and extraor-
dinary. By ail critics and in all literary
circles it was received with delight and
generous praise. With joyful surprise and
hearty enthusiasm it was owned upon all
aides that a saw star bad arisen, coming -ap
with such a ateady, clear, intense and aweet
sparkle ss proved it no false meteor, and
mmmAm good its right to shine in recognised
constellations. f
Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Mrs. Howe
«nd others of our leading writers, hastened
fey [autographic communications to Miss
Ingelow, to proffer their friendship, and to
eeoognixe her genius. She replied with
oodest thanks, and expressed the hope of
presently giving to the world something
jet more worthy of herself. So tar she has
not done this. A volume of her prose
oketcbes with the deprecating unambitious
title of "Studies for Stories," has been re-
'ceived by the public with the disappoint-
> stent and neglect which its barren incident,
- erode style, and stiff moralising merited.
But her one inimitable, delightful volume
of poetry remains; nothing can spoil that,
and we wait patiently for the time when ahe
will give uaita equal or superior.
She can.do this. The mature thought,
> «ar«Ail polish, and nice artistic finish of her
took ahour (hat she came before the publio
with no raahnees, haste, or praaumption,
that she puta km no plea of geniua to offset
earslnssnns and credences, that ske owns the
aseeealty of thought and labor. She proves
hehwlf old enough and wise enough to catch
-awl crystallise into delietoua rhyme and
mnHflnirn* rhythm still more new phase
♦ of Modern life, assre aabOeUes of new phil-
osophies, social truths and fresh specula
vtions; to throw a transfiguring lustre over
4he dear eld religion we anchor by. and U
tall with now eweet nans and music the old
eternal stories «V I*
Add to this awoly thai her atoms are not
aXhaMted, ths lavish prodigality of her las.
agin^tlon, the perfedtty original and abound-
ing aiubicof her sasasures,—peculisr music
th* hsr ear atea* baa caught—snd lastly,
the choioensas and wanHh of hsr vocabu-
lary, and we aire justified in assuming the
ekttitnde of *e hungry end unsatisfied
OUvur Twist.
KOthlQg is known of the private history
aal life of Joan Ingelow. Although aoU
oiled, she has refused to satisfy the ourieai
tj of hsr hnmrloan friends upon this sub-
ject 19m Uvea at KonsingtooC, and her
poasas are dedioatad to hsr brother. Her
hook betrays no youthfalnees or rawness,
but culture and experisoee. Many of her
poem an oOidButlly records of personal
history, but so idealised, so elevated Into
the region of pure art, that their exaot truth
of feet always evades the reader's grasp.
A good example of this is the first poem In
the book, entiled "Divided." We have wit-
ssaay dlsousslons over the hidden
l ef this remarkable poem, but few
on posltlvs that they hold the key to It
Ao n thing of art we oount it perfect and
«nq«s, aad without any analytic dwelling
upon theme unity with which its idea Is
conceived and elaborated, we quote a little
of It aa fekty nheracti letii of the author's
delicious melody and rich coloring.
and elevated expression;
but surcharged with iotenseness,
which make it worthy of Mrs. Browning—
an extreme affirmation for us, for we con-
sider the latter the world's one Shakapear-
ean woman, and the greatest yet nude
known to literature. Witness this picture
of the mountains:
Ue nUm*ot- rhoatlrcapM
th4t th«n,theirthunder-
A tw«itilSlUe ^ ,,lrpl®' *** soldea slopes
AndCTO^«Urre rTOW °od'* mtlu belli tod his
He fra11 n°1' that drop on them like
Aho ?rke tne°thelr flr tor«"t**ad feed their uuuw
°r y™ ■ "* « up v*Ufe«. and ret wrecked awl go
the,r cruel tren*th: then he
wroi« no more.
That would delight Buskin, and well en-
dures comparison with his glowing periods,
concerning "mountain glory" and "moun-
tain gloom."
For the merriest, gushingest, most liquid
caroling that ever embodied the ecstacy of
childhood and dreams of youth, we refer to
the first four of the "Songs of Seven," and
for tender recount of the shadows and losses
of later life, to the last three of them.
"The High Tide on the Coast of Lincoln-
shire" tells an exciting incident with spirit
in a quaint style, and making use of extra
rhymes and repetitions which only genius
can venture upon with any success. One
of the longest poems in the book and one
of tbo sweetest love stories that have been
sung for many a day, is '<1116 Four
Bridges." The tale falters and eddies
along, taking to itself a marvelous store of
ornamentation and delicate elaboration
which we must be in a dolct far niente mood
to enjoy, but which, vieWted from the pro-
per stand-point, is free from anything me-
retricious.
The Letter L" is, par excellence,, our
favorite—lull of the daintiest beauties, the
deftest une of picture-words, the rarest
rhythm and the purest sentiment. The
scene opens upon the Isle of Wight, by the
seaside, with '''two silent girls" and "a
thoughtful man" for person#
*1116 happy wave row up and rape,
I<ike service belli a loaf way oft v
And down a little freshet sprang,
from money trough,
"And splashed into a rain of spray.
And fretted on with daylight's loan.
Boca owe so many blue-bells lay
Leaaiag across.
Js
wrm^^^i^Tw^^tW rain.
Where thy last farewell was said;
But perhaps I shall meet thee and know thee
Mala
When the sea fires op hsr dead."
e martins gosstp'd la the sun,
id pairs of chattering doves Bew by.
sailing brigs rock'd softly oa
"Blue martins
And
And si
ta company.
"WUd oheny bonghs above as spread
The whitest shade was ever seen.
And flicker, Stoker, come aad fled.
Sun spots between."
The man in a reverie, and not minding
the queetioning glances of one of the
girls, who loves him, draws upon the sand
the letter L., which steads for Lenore, the
proud beauty who won and threw away
his hearf years before. The letter awakes
him with "a ruddy flush about his brow,"
and in a kind of allegory he tells his own
history, and asks if one has the right to
marry where he does not love. In differ
ent ways both girls answer yes, and so he
marries the one that loves him. Some
yean after Leaope comes back, and seeks
fo regain her sway over him. He has al-
ways cherished her image, but now her
presence dispels the illusion; he allows her
to see this, and she leavee him chagrined
aad defeated. He gaxee at his wife and ex
ife, how beautiful you
closer at her side m
"My wife, how b<
Then closer at
•The hold brown
domes to ate, hi
woman from after.
me, blind.
My own wife's ftioe.
TWffib3£M:siS,~
And pause aad shimmer in the sun.
And GUI a jala.
It led me to the sandy shore.
We sang together It, and I—
"The daylight comes—the dark is o'er T
The shadows fly.'
f lost it on the sandy shore;
"O wife !" its latest murmurs MI,
"Owlfe W M, and fear no more
"Brothers, and a Sermon" oonteins
la it a
woSfld do nsUnae to the
poem, which, Ukea<
* Us trellis,
au
eld fishermsa's prayer rehearsed with a
simple, terse, deep and intense pa-
thos, entirely unequalled by anything with
whiah we are familiar la modern poetry.
We intended to quote it but have only
room for the following splendid song ta-
ken from a long poem entitled "Sapper at
the Mill.'
" Where sparrows build and the leaves break forth
My old sorrow wakes and cries.
For 1 know there Is dawn in the fer, flur north.
Aad a scarlet aaa doth rise;
) a scarlet fleece the sno*-fle!d spreads.
Uks
Am the-for founts run free:
And the bergs begin to bow their 1
And plunge aad sail la the sea.
heads.
"Oh, my lest lev®, and rar own, own love,
tad my love that loved
Aad my love that loved
i there aever a chink la
Where they listed for w
rSsssa^siii
me sot
_ the world above
words from below T
I grieved thee sore :
I said;
:
" ThM didst Mt thy foot on the ship and sail
T^^r-feRTaUavaU.
HeweeaJdTkjww-I aheald lave thee away
When I did not love thee saserT
The strength of the tie of " dear Kindred
blood," as it was tenderly expressed by
Daniel Webster in the grand wihter of his
Ufe, is one of the most remarkable facts,
one of the highest excellencies, one of the
most spiritual beauties of human nature.
Although often manifested in rude, selfish,
ambitious, and even wicked and dishonor-
able ways, it is nevertheless the golden band
by which heaven binds the souls of men
together, and to itself. It is never wholly
broken, in all its mysterious threads, until
the soul is utterl^ separated from all good,
however often and severely it msy be
wrenched, and fretted, and bruised. It is
not subject to our will, our reason, our pre-
judices, or our passions. It is as much an
tegral part of the soul as the blood is of the
body. It is part of the very
fibre of our being, and when it
is destroyed the soul is destroyed.
A ruined or destroyed soul has no natu-
ral affection; and as long as natural af-
fection exists, there is hope of the soul in
which it exists. Temptations, passions,
sins, collisions, wrongs, misunder-
standings may, and do, separate between
those who inherit the same blood, and or-
dinary friendship between them may cease
to exist; but the original tie and sympa-
thy of kinship is no more destroyed than
the kinship itself. The latent affection
is never beyons susceptibility to a suffi-
cient appeal to family blood, in bebalf of
sorrows,interests, dangers, hopes, in which
all oommon kindred are necessarily in-
volved.
It may bo cultivated, beautified, made
fruitful; it may be neglected, degraded,
and become barren. In proportion to its
native strength, tbo richness of the spiritu-
al soil in which it grows, the sweetness of
the kindred atmosphere in which it flourish-
es, and the earnestness- and appropriate-
ness of the culture it receives, is the sus-
ceptibility of the soul to all the virtues and
all the graces. And the hopes of the vir-
tues and graces decline w its decline,
and are weak with its weakness.
It is divine in its origin, nature, aud
ends. It is a precious element of that
grand realm of Tue Bkautifli. with which
God has surrounded, transfigured, blessed
and glorified this hard, sorrowful, work-day
world. It is the first method of Ood in the
divine culture of the human race. It is the
first divine inspiration the human heart ev-
er receives. When, at the fiat of the Al-
mighty, "holy light" first illuminated and
warmed the dark, sad world, "the morning
stars sang together, and the sons of God
shouted for jo ."
The little, and yet grand world, of every
human heart witnesses a miracle equally as
glorious when those peculiar twin beams of
beauty and love, which wake up natural
affections' first dawn on It, in the first in-
spiration of the young babe toward
its mother. (The mother is always both
beautiful and lovely in the heart of the babe;
aad should be in all hearts.) This first in-
spiration is the first method by which the
love of God himself touches the human spir-
it It is the first method, also, by which it
is brought into sympathy with all beauty
aad goodness. It becomes the fountain of
whatever nobleness, truthfulness, chivalry,
poetry, virtue, religion the soul ever subse-
quently knows or enjoys.
An important question is presented to
oar readers this morning in the advertising
columns of the Telegraph, a question ren-
dered the more pressing by the season of
the ysar in whioh so many dwellings and
stores have been destroyed by fire in this
city. Every man should insure and do it
without delay. We take pleasure In re-
oomtnending the companies represented by
John Dioklnson & Co., of this city as un-
surpassed, both for promptness and fair-
aeaa In settling their terms.
Branard & Co., are before our readers
this morning with a notice of their busi-
ness preliminary to a fuller aooount soon
to follow. Meanwhile those desiring to
know more about it will do well to oall.
They have aow on hand aad about to ar-
rive one of the finest stocks of groceries
ever brought to Texas.
The Proclamation of the Governor, the
substance of, whioh had reached us by
telegraph, and the whole of which was
promised us for yesterday morning's pa-
per, failed to reaoh the offioe in oonse-
quenoe of some difficulty ea the Telegraph
line. Hence, the non-appearance of U
although we had already alluded to it as
being la the paper. The information we
gave, however, was correct.
of ladle* to be appended to
fas behalf of Mr. Dams, are
comiag la by hundreds to Mrs. M. J.
Young. The ladies of Jefferson have
sent two hundred and seven names, with
additional petitions, to be attaohed to the
original one. Lei every lady in the State
who wishes to take part in this movement
send in her name at onoe to Mrs. Toung.
The excellent preparatian of Dr. Chapin,
by the use of which he gained so great a
popularity in the treatment and cure of
Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Constipation,
and Palpitation of the heart, and all dis-
eases arising through indigestion and Tor-
pid Liver, was none other than what is
now put up under the name of Red Jacket
Stomach Bitter*. v
i^SKAT Rkply.—,ll dislike your saw
that my teeth are going. "So don't," sai
a young lady to her beau. "Not «so dont,'
but, 'So-zo-dont' you should have said,"
he replied. The damsel pouted, but took
the hint. Nor need it be said, that the bal-
samic preparation arrested the evil; though
it could *?ot quite repair the damage al-
ready done.
Asthma, which is so distrsssing at this
season, can be relieved and cured by usine
MARSDEN'S PECTORAL BALM. Phy-
sicians recommend it as a reliable, safe and
prompt remedy.
For Bile by all Druggists.
Much has been said, and volumes could
be writteu, on the serious effects attendant
upon not attending immediately totheaf-
fections of the bowels. Death may soon
follow, or if not, a long and tedious illness.
There is one certain way in which to obvi-
ate thif>, it is to purchase and use MARS-
DEN'S CARMINATIVE SYRUP.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
re you. Insured awtiiiHt loss by fire?
Will, ARBUCKLE k CO.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AND DKAI.KKS IN
GENfRAL MERCHANDISE,
Man Antonio, Texas.
re yon Insured a^ainxt Ions by Are ?
l novl8-dlw
JUST RECEIVED.
Ex. Steamer Wilmington,
FROM QBR MANUFACTORY IN NEW TOOK,
A fresh supply of
S1DK SADDLES, HORSE BLANKET8,
WNIPO, BRIDLES,
Saddle Wallet-, Buckles, Curry Combs, Ac.
nov!7-tf AMBLER, ALLEN it CO.
Are y m Insured against loss by fire f
novl8-dlw
For Sate at a Bargain.
| LAND CERTIFICATE—containing 11170
acres of land—to be sold at a sacrifice.
Also, a lot in the town of Bastrop, on Main Street-
one of the best building lots in the place.
Apply to THEO. BERING,
ovlO-d&twlt* At this Office.
i re yon Insured against loss by fire V
L n<fvl8-dlw
Elementary Spel-
ter*.
RECEIVED direct from the publishers, a
UP sufficient supply of the above popular Spellers to
meet all demandB from schools and country merchants.
I buy a* low, and can live as cheap, and will sell for
.s small profits as any other partr in Texas.
novl8-lt JAMES BURKE.
A re you Insured against loss by fire t
nov!8-dlw
Open, until 9 o'clock at night,
FROM this date until the end of the ensuing holi-
days. my Book Store will be kept open from day-
light until 8 o'clock at night; and for country dealers
wishing to do their trading in the evening^until 19
o'clock.
novl8-d4ctw
JAMES
re you Insured against loss by fire ?
l novl8-dlw
Strayed,
ON the 6th instant, a large SORREL PONY, brand-
ed with the figure 4 on left shoulder—blaze tace—
one white hind leg and two white feet. h«h 0n a sad-
dle and bridle. A liberal reward will be given for his
delivery to E. 8 MALL WOOD,
novl8-d3t' At this Office.
JAMBS A. McKBE.
Qeneral
COMMISSION, RECEIVING AND fORWARDINO
MeroliazLt,
Uendiey's Building. Strand, Galveston.
-HT Agent- lor. Mnrrr.vV Line *of New York and
alv« t >" Preset-. ane21 d3m
BISOOB &
WIOLBSALB
Grocers and Cotton Factors,
IS New Levee aad iSFaltoa Streets,
New OauAss.
HAVE resumed basinet, and solicit tbe patroaaci
of their old friends aad tbe pablle of Texas.
Jaiv 25
J. D. ULAia, w. snraa, "" '
Natchitoches Parish, I*. New Orieaas. La
JAMBS D. BLAIB & CO„
(Successors t j A. J. Hugely A Co.)
COTTON FACTORS
AUD
■alt
rOensrsi OouuuiMion XsrehAnta,
4S #tr t, N. (V
dSm
WILLIAM B. HBAD.
SDWAan a. acirr.
HUNT & READ,
Wholesale Dealers la
Wo. SI MAGAZINE Street, N. O. La.
toHT Careftil atteattoa paid to all orfan eatrssM
_ William K. Bead, formerly with Qeq H. tlsblal
HOUSTON.
brehond & ca
MORRIS' BUILOING,
MAIN STREET,
HOUSTON,
klo & Retail
MAIMS m
family groceries
AMD
CONFECTIONERY
BREMOND & CO
MORRIS1 BUILDING, MAIN STREET
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