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There is no knowing what can be accom we have made the 'effort,' and found the ex It contains a very graphic picture of the perfor debating-society; and in a style of easy versi satirical skill, the salient points of the writer's metropolitan readers will recognize in this sce displays at our college-commencements, when rain down upon the favored orator or poet: "THE all-important eve, at length, has 'Before the critics next we see him st The words that burn yet flutter in hi Words, stitched with ribbon, and a f For he's the beau of some fair friend Some second DORA, who thus seeks The laurels, which her hero soon sha Yet now demurely views the speake As though she really scarcely knew While, if her secret thought she dar "T would be, 'None here, to-night, lo And so he should; though once the A proverb: 'Handsome is as handso Yet now, good looks must also bear And ladies look beyond the head or His toilet has with nicest skill been His tout ensemble in the glass survey See with what happy skill his carele Has given a touch artistic to his hair And bear's oil' lately thine, O fai Shines on the raven or the auburn lo The collar stands so stiffly, that our Are painful for the safety of his ears An ample scarf around his neck is s Of fancy hue, brown, scarlet, blue, o A vest to match-of sombre black 1 Dress'd is the lecturer-we shall be Do not forget that 'tis as easy quite And ere you blame the work that others do, AVE seen one die—in the maturity of every power, in the earthly perfection of faculty; when many obstacles had been overcome, and many hard lessons had earned; when many experiments had made success easy; had given facility to vor and triumph to action; and when skill had been laboriously acquired in the use my powers. Friendship, and love, and conjugal and fraternal fondness, and infant ess, stretched out their hands to save him- but they could not save him—and d! Is there no land of the blessed for such to live in? Forbid it, reason, relibereaved affection - undying hope! It cannot be that such die, even from frail n memory, for ever!' ESE thoughts came forcibly to mind recently, as we stood by the bed hich lay all that was earthly of the late HEZEKIAH C. SEYMOUR, whose t demise has been mentioned in nearly all the public journals. Mr. OUR returned from Cincinnati, Ohio, to his residence at Piermont a before the Fourth of July, on which day he entertained a party of ladies entlemen at dinner. On the evening of the next day, he returned from York seriously indisposed, and the following day his complaint assumed ›rm of a virulent bilious dysentery, which, despite the assiduous attenand practised skill of his old friend and resident physician, Dr. HopSON, Doctors WHITING and PARKER of New-York, and the most watchful nurserminated fatally on the evening of the twenty-fourth. The night before ay of his death, some slight hopes had been kindled in the minds of mily and friends, that, although he was greatly prostrated, the sympof his disorder had taken a favorable turn. But at five o'clock on ay morning his faithful man EDWARD awoke us with the sad news: SEYMOUR is dying!' We repaired immediately to his beautiful resi; and as we walked up the slope of the hill, and looked off upon the contented fields of summer, with harvests ripe for the sickle, the disnountains, and the broad river upon which we had so often gazed with riend, we could not help thinking how hard a thing it was to pass on rnals. Mr. Piermont a the symp utiful resi- e, the dis- 'IN the year 1835, after having been engaged in similar other roads, Mr. SEYMOUR assumed the labors of Enginee Rail-road; acting in which capacity, he continued until he v intendent of the same great enterprise. He resigned this after elected State-Engineer and Surveyor, the duties of tire public acceptance. While holding this high and impo Chief Engineer of the Ontario, Huron, and Lake Simcoe running from Toronto to Lake Huron. This office he tr spring of 1852, upon becoming interested in important altogether an amount of expenditure exceeding thirty-five the more important of these are the great Ohio and Missis nati to Saint Louis, the Louisville and Nashville Rail-r between New-York and Boston. 'Mr. SEYMOUR was a man of quick discernment, corred cision. His forecast and sagacity were eminently displayed agement of all the public works with which he became discernment that the public are indebted for the introducti the New-York and Erie Rail-road, which has been followe the country. This great improvement was carried by a r and Board of Directors. Its simple reasoning overcame a 'As a scientific and practical engineer, he was held in t predictions of the results of the roads he constructed, w actual prophecies. No man in America exceeded him in constructing, equipping, and working rail-roads. He say and acted vigorously. 'He was a man of unswerving integrity, and conscientiou all the relations and the business of life. No man was mo his friends. He was frank, open-hearted, generous; and read these lines - -some made rich, and others in the way their good fortune entirely to their benefactor's unselfish di affectionate father, a kinder husband, a truer friend, a bette found. Grateful hearts will follow his remains to their 1 bitter, bitter tears will fall from many eyes upon the earl manly form. 'It is a consolation for his surviving friends to know, th conscientious, practical Christian. His life was one of ge 'his last end was peace.' Green be the turf that covers th and sweet the repose from which he will awake in 'anothe And there is his grave, in the cemetery of Rock a tip-toe and reach; and above them, too, rises 'the full corn in the ear.' Wait until the American Institute opens, and 'you will see what you shall e!' Eighteen-feet stalks, with stout ears upon them, or there is no truth in rophecy. That institution once threw out our invention of the 'Patent Back-Action Self-Acting Hen-Persuader:' let us see, anon, whether an arbiary committee, 'dressed in a little brief authority,' will dare to repudiate ATURE in the same way! Surely, as the ci-devant tragedian, MACREADY, ould say, 'They can-ah-not-a-do-it, ah!' -- WE hardly know how classify the style of the following. There is a touch of knight-errantry in it is also slightly oriental: likewise it smacks of LIPPARD: and it 'favors' ithal the celestial manner of Commissioner LIN, of China, in his vermillion dicts against opium: 'KING DUMDUDRUM arose, and wrapped around him the mantle of his wrath. He said, I will frown!' And he frowned, and sped him with rarefied celerity to the Hill of AVIUS. There, upon the top-most rock, he with his courtiers 'squenched' their tripodovical thirst. 'Again he frowned, so that his eye-brows and his mustachoes did mingle. King UNDUDRUM then drew forth his royal sabre, and treated it to a concoction of musquitoings, rubbed on with an illuminated brick-bat, from the hat of an Irish mayor, and id: 'STUBBS!' 'Again he speaks: "Bring forth the huge peretrinctum, and bind it fast to the geptach!' 'It was done! 'DUMDUDRUM is no more! His sceptre is in the mud: and pewter-shelled clams spect it not!' THE time is very soon coming, when the village of Piermont, in ockland county, and the beautiful and pleasant building-sites which sur›und it on every hand, will be filled with delightful country-residences. We know of no vicinity which presents so many advantages as this. And et there are very few persons who are aware of the fact. Seen from the road Tappaän-Zee, Piermont and its surroundings appear to be simply a nall village, at the foot of long, gradual declivities, and various heights ad most lovely sites for country-residences to be fou of the metropolis. Both the river and interior v the trees, the old primeval forest-trees, have been for shade; the cleared fields and meadows are rea rare fertility; the air pure, and the water good and its immediate vicinity are at present less accessi lages on the eastern bank of the Hudson; yet the three times each day, after a brief and delightfu by a small-boat ferry with the way-trains on th It needs only to be visited to be appreciated. W that, in less than six years, the situations we hav with country villas and neat cottage-residences. more to say upon this subject hereafter. ent says: 'I wish, my dear KNICKERBOCKER, to 1 the subject of Umbrellas, which Christian peopl make great pretensions have a slender appreciati somely engraved some time ago on Mount Sinai. demns a criminal to the penitentiary, if the law w he expounds, is often himself a thief. Will he te down that umbrellas are a thing in common?—th and appropriated, wherever found, without con honest people! is the Law of Umbrellas: 'SECTION I. IF you are away from home, and caught see an umbrella standing in some corner, for which the being much in need of it, to save you from a wet ja nie-that is stealing. 'SECTION II. If you have a cotton umbrella, and in cause the lights in the hall are dim, exchange it for stealing. 'SECTION III. If, in stress of weather, you borrow o insists on your taking it, and do not impress it upon y him the next day, that is- - stealing. 'SECTION IV. If you find a stray umbrella in your hou left, and you give it house-room without making an owner that is stealing. |