Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Daniel Boone and his wife were removed from their graves. The remains were placed in new coffins prepared for their reception, and conveyed to Kentucky, where they were re-interred, with appropriate ceremonies, in the cemetery at Frankfort on the twentieth of August, 1845. By Edward Robeson Taylor. He walked beneath the raven’s wing A wayward child in lightless gloom, And there hie trancing songs did sing And weave his haunting tales of doom. He drank from Beauty’s honey-cup, Pressed to his eager lips by Art, Until her nectar swallowed up The very substance of his heart. Upon her lines his structure grew, In form most cunningly designed, While demons that he nurtured slew The peace and sweetness of his mind. With hopeless sighs and bitter tears He filled his sad, remorseful hours, Yet reared the while, for all the years, His beauty-crowned, enchanted towers. DONIPHAN’S EXPEDITION. By John T. Hughes. From Doniphan’s Expedition, by John T. Hughes. Cincinnati: J. A. and U. P. James. Copyright, 1847, by J. A. and U. P. James. HE passage, by the American Congress, of the Resolutions of Annexation, by which the Republic of Texas was incorporated into the Union as one of the States, having merged her sovereignty into that of our own government, was the prime cause which led to the recent war with Mexico. However, the more immediate cause of the war may be traced to the occupation, by the American army, of the strip of disputed territory lying between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. Bigoted and insulting Mexico, always prompt to manifest her hostility towards this government, sought the earliest plausible pretext for declaring war against the United States. This declaration of war by the Mexican government (which bore date in April 1846),…