From the Cincinnati Chronicle,

 4 MAY nEnRNrNG.
From the Cincinnati Chronicle.

 A MAY MORNING. . MAy, the queen of Months, with her buds and flowers and balmy gales, smiles once more upon us.

 'sFis SrRING-TIDE now the butterfly more

 bright,

 Wheels e'er the cowslips, in the rainbow

 light,

 The lamb, the colt, the blaok-bird in the

 brake,

 Seem all yernal feeling to partake, While swallows twitter in the earliest ray. Many time and oft have poets sung, in weod-notes wild, the charms of fitfui April Eith her budding leaves, her sun shine and her showers, stoutly claiming for her, the queenly appeilation, so ap- propriately bestowed upon her younger sister. Vain and fruitless eHort. For ourselves, it is frankly confessed, we en- tertain no particular predilections for April. She has too many associations with sturdy old Hyems, who, -<s Lingering on the verge of Spring ketlres reluctant, and from time to time, Looks back, while at his keen and chilling

 breath

 Fair Flora siekens.o

 There is something, moreover, in the changeful, laughing, fearful month of April, so like one of your beautiful half spoiled eapricious girls, who cries and smiles and pouts, all in the same hour, that the one, invariably reminds us of the other. And to be candid, We are not quite certain that this circumstance. has not contributed little in strength ening cur preferences fer May. It It is true that the fair caprlcious beings off this neither planet, do not at present, in spire us with any positive degree of dread; for time, the great certiher of all things, has taught us, that their win- hing smiles are neither the harbingers of cloudless sunshine, nor their moody tears the precursors of dire calamity. Stiil, however. the recoilections of boy ish days, although as indistinct and feet ing as the visions of the night, recal now and then the shadowy images of cruel tiirtations and cold-hearted girls, whose happiness consisted in raising their poor victims to the pinnacle of hope, that they might enjoy the luxury of casting them into the gulf of despair, where they re- mained perfectly miserable for at least "a week. But let this pass; thanks to a lucky star, our brow is free from care and our neck from the chains of matri- mony. There is, moreover, abundant consolation in an old adage, which, as 1t stands in. our venaeular, is 50 hornely, that we have caused it to be printed in French,

 ell encore 'aussi bons poissons dans la mer que ceux qui out etc pris." | Our theme then is May, blooming, peerless May, when, as Lord Bacon has beautifully said, the "perfume of tie flowers comes and goes like the warb- ling of music" Whose heart does not leap ssi.hh with delight on the opening of this month, when all nature smiles in her livery of green, and every plant and shrub, and tree, is clad in the robe ol youth and beauty? We speak not to those who slumber away their mornings in bed, or loiter the live long day, over the brick pavements and gravelly walks of our city. We are holding discourse with those who leave their couch witt the dawn of morning, and wander tc the surrounding hills, just as

 Gray twilight steals along the Easterr

 sky,

 And morn's pale blushing tints still deeper

 grow

 Should we be chosen as the pioneer of this class of our readers, we have in store for them many delightful rambles. This morning we will lead them to the hill which stretches itself beyond oui 1 Northern Liberties westward from the residence of the late James Keys, Esq I The ascent through the ravine on it .eastern side is by no means fatiguing l even for the ladies, while the attainnen I of its summit is rich in much that i l pleasant, beautiful, and magnificent 1 Here, beneath the towering trees tha for ages have watched the flow of ou majestic Ohio, as it's wayeiess current glide like eternity, perpetually onward to the mighty ocean, how delightful t sseeline upen the velYst grass amid th'