DOOM OF THE FOREST. I. Is it the autumn sun On the old forest shines? Is it the tempest dun No; 'tis a fiercer light, Blasting the wildwood flowers, II. The Fire-King's banner furled, Lords of a vanished world, Ye feared not flaming ranks, III. Ye saw the Red men quail, Like leaves on autumn gale, To rest in wintry wo: Go, on their westward train, DISCORDANT "NOTES ON VIRGINIA" FROM A SCOTCH FIDDLE. "Nemo me impune lacessit." [Free (and easy) translation]: Don't touch me, or you'll get the Scotch fiddle. IF Charles Lamb were alive now, he would put down the existence and circulation of the N.Y. Herald as a popular error, and probably, in his excessive good humor, (very much needed in speaking of such a subject,) would devote a few pages of manuscript to the raising of some good jokes on the fulcrum-unsteady though it be—which the career of that journal might afford. The editor is a phenomenon in his nature, and exhibits all the deteriorating qualities which poor human nature affords. If a man is down, he kicks him. He is never game," but always strikes "below the belt." Whether this depends on a strange ubiquity of vision, which is everywhere but where it ought to be, or whether, like le Chourineur, in the Mystères de Paris, when his passion is up, he sees red and strikes at random, anywhere, so that he strikes-whether it is from either of those causes, a deformity of soul or a deformity of body, we know not, nor care to inquire, but can not pass over the evidence which would indicate that it is from a prolific admixture of both. Any comment on the following extracts is unnecessary, and would only "spoil the broth." "He [the New-York Herald reporter] is not the ambassador of any clique of NewYork politicians detailed to Virginia to aid the defeat of Mr. Wise. We suspect that to effect that object no such extraneous assistance will be needed; but we can't help it if Mr. Wise presses the result." NY. Herald, Jan. 30, 1855. "Mr. Wise has made one great mistakea mistake which is bound to destroy him, and into which he was led by his impetuosity, his morbid ambition to distinguish himself in a new cause, and his general want of discretion. Henry A. Wise has attacked the Know-Nothings; he has made himself the avowed champion of the adopted citizens."-New-York Herald, Feb. 1, 1855. "Mr. Wise in the Virginia canvass initiates the great Democratic movement for 1856."-N.Y. Herald, June 2. "As a national party, this American organization will require a thorough overhauling."-N. Y. Herald, May 26. "With regard to foreigners, there must also be some pruning of the present KnowNothing platform before it can be made to dovetail with the express stipulations of the federal Constitution."-N. Y. Herald, May 26. "The defeat of Mr. Wise and the old rotten democracy by a large majority in Virginia will not only be a great and powerful revolution," etc., etc.-N. Y. Herald, April 27, 1855. "The seditious agitations of Seward, Hale, Giddings, and such, in the North, are scarcely more despicable than the in flammable fustian of such demagogues as Rhett, Jeff. Davis, and Wise, in the South." -N. Y. Herald, Feb. 15. "The most excited orgies of Tammany Hall, drunk from the treacheries of a disastrous election, have never been disgraced with lower or meaner vulgarity."—N. Y. Herald, Feb. 15. "Sorry that it [Wise's speech at Alexandria] holds out so little hope of Mr. Wise's election. But we can't help it. Seward may; let him apply to Seward."N. Y. Herald, Feb. 11, 1855. "The Old Dominion' is a term which has become identified in the public mind with the highest statesmanship as well as the loftiest chivalry. * * * * * * * How widely different from this majestic and exalted statesmanship of the Old Dominion is the stamping demagogism of the present day! How strikingly this decadence from strength to imbecility is illustrated in the present champion of the Virginia democracy-Henry A. Wise!"-N. Y. Herald, Feb. 15, 1855. "And this was the Mr. Wise that we expected to encounter. The real article falls as far below the attractive description as one of Barnum's humbugs."-N. Y. Herald, Feb. 15, 1855. "It is evident that he [Wise] is to be defeated. New-Hampshire has spoken; so look out for a tremendous echo from the 'Old Dominion."-N. Y. Herald, March 12, 1855. "The Old Dominion is lost to Mr. Wise beyond all recovery. What is to be done?" -N. Y. Herald, April 6, 1855. "Mr. Wise is upon a fool's errand."N.Y. Ilerald, May 1, 1855. "He predicted that he would be elected by from fifteen to twenty thousand majority. * * Mr. Wise will be wiser after the election."-N. Y. Herald, May 12, 1855. * "It is high time that this stuff should be stopped. We have made asses of ourselves pretty freely- -we Christians-since the days of Luther, about our theological quarrel.” LET us go bravely down into the wars, Where the great battles of the world are fought, We may not win the loftiest meeds of all; In guerdon of our struggles for the right. Or wealth, or power, or love's rose-tinted wreath— |