~:.:. •-••• •.: •-. I . I '. • • .-.E.,.•i ~.,••• .._. . . •,-•.', •S• ''••.. . -•- •• • , • •. ,•.- .-.- I - -,'-..E: •• • . • „.. -,.:. ~.• .1:. -,, •If • . • .t. _•:•'• II ~---- ~ . . , :. ... . . ... . . •••: •••- , • I , . . .. . . . . . , _ ::: • •••.. _ . . .., , _ . . . :••••••.• . _ ' I -.•i, ' •• . 31 . , '•• i . . • - • •. 1 ••••-, I '1 - . • -... . ~ .., . __ • .„ • . - ', - .. ~ . . _ . S. B. k E, B, CHASE, PROPRIETORS, W@2 - Te.r. ion rue 981tOCIlla. : A Carol for the ?few roar. happy-New Year" is the song wit - sing, With lope gaily pinioned on fluttering wing, lint the spirit seems floating all spotleesind clear. Far hack in the past of the dying Old Year.. . • In a vision I saw something more than ideal, /lope, Faith, Love, and Truth,!twes a d ream of the real, Ss it bidding farewell to the weary old weeper, Wlto.bel4 on hie bosom the lovely young sleeper.' Anti Memory, -half etailing throsigh, tears stood apart, . Vittra book in her hand which was 'ahaped like '4l, heart, - Twaa peociled with ann-light and clasped by a tear, All lettered before her the hopes 041ast year. Some pages were spdltsa and white as a shroud, Unstained by a sorrow—andiran'd by a cloud, Rut many—too many the leati.ets ' l traced, Ouse mirrored in smiles, but by tears , now ef faced. ['heie were tracings of eadness on cheeks that were wet, At pLgt ar,c cata rtever-for.get, Ah ! ba:ro , w had biosstmled from seeds of pure Hope's smiling bad proved but a treacherous kiss The vows lightly made like the breath of the air, And as easily brokeu were all letteied there; The flowers that had perished—the lights that had fled, And tressel of hiair,from the brows af the dead As I viewed diets, strange blendingsof raptures and fears, - One page rose before me all blinded hy teats, 'Twee written with blood which the poor pen had dip'd From hearts which of sorrow tho bitterest dregs 'Twasof one who was with Ins a short year ago, In beauty and youth still a mounter below, She met ma in sadness and crushed back a tear, While sweetly she wished me a ‘! Happy New Year." Cat she arooped, sank, and tried, and we laid ber Lo rest., rted placed the turf lightly upon her point; breast Woile we tried to look upward forgetting the clod, For our Saviour before the dark valley hod trod. Alt: sometimes in fancy on pinions of love, Through the stars I can see her bend down from above, As though she would chide the heart swelling dispair, Of the loved ones on earth who would follow' her there. • And in this struts vision I caught jnst a gleam Of the coming 4•Neir Year," and 'twas bright Loa dream, Of the Sammer's sweet softtiess--the . young pane' pure brepth— Of the Aztumu's sad hiding—and Winter's cold death. - All! grant when this "New Yen?' shall bid us farewell And the same merry echo shall joyously swell That heavenly lesson we better may knew, Ot pat lent endurance while lingering below. But again we remember the song ti-e And a joyous wish to oar friends we bring. For the Present a smile—for:the Past not a trar— Brute hearts for the Future, and a 4. Happy,New Prom the Tribune. PLEASURE AND VETT. BY IL S. CIIILTON. Ws [net, and loved, and parted—the old story ; A bright-eyed maiden the. and I a youth Who worshipped at her shrine, and thought the . glory That dwelt about her was the light of truth. 0, the vas fair as aughlof poet's dreaming, And harlarge eyes were lustrous as the light That stream's frorn-Ere's first Start whose gentle . beaming Poore a mild radiance romid the brow of night. lisr speech was soft and 'musical as singing, Aid even now, after long, weary years; 1 bear its Over tones—like sweet bells ringing In the far Chapel or my wasted years. 'But she was false as fair—the" maid leherished— And in my hour of sorest need she lied, 'And left me in a maxi where I lied perished, flit for au angel who my footatops led: An angel woman, in whose large calm eyes Deemed the pure lutes of a spotless soul, -rued as the star that Mimi in Northernskie-: The God-fed Pharos of the frosty pole. Thoeth cold at first, seen through the clearer air In alba! I breathe, a matchless beauty now ' - Lives in her-perfect form, and flowing hair, And in the whiteness of her ample brow. 0, ye who worship Pleasure, know that beauty Flews (torn within, and'inakes the features fair; Bee well, and in the plainerface of Duty Thou'lt find each race as angel faces wear!, Tennyson contrpmtes the foltowing , 'Stam m to one of the ten. Annualslor . , Itisl Come not, when I am dead,* To drop thy foolish tears' upon my grave, To temple round my' falling head, • And rex the unhappy dust.thoutvoldst not' - save, Them let the wind sweep, and the plovertry ;, But go, thou by. Child; if it were thine error-or thi crime I cre.no longer being all noblest; Wed nhom Thou wilff but lutu sick Oritime, _lnd I desire to ,rest;.. Pation, weak heart, and leave inn ivbtit Go by -- 13 0 ! ) ,Y l . • DrawavlD vo Pc:mum Tylvm iloVlaton2l, UMtII I I.M. POI% TUC DEM -rmeo tr,guonamo A Tale oil the, Texan nevelutlon. BY CHARLEY CRAYON. . • - - (comsurn.) . . Clara was, is yet, gneonseions" of her eons"- ins feelings, while, within her heart, raged 4 flam:of affection that she• strove in .vain to subdue The lofty spirit of Aumbis ; his wild enthueiasm, his every thought flashing with the inspiration of Nature and his every heart throb swelling high with - sympathy; all, all conspired ter increase the fervor of her afree= tion-more and still, more. • Ber 'wishes, the'ts and impulses took the 'impress of his, thougii herself uneenselous of the fact. tie WAS what her fancy had ever pictured as the Pay excel- loco of nobleness, of virtue, of man. Not a thought, he uttered that did . not soon to bass pure as though dropped from an angere lips; not a word spoke he that, did not fall an her ear sweeter than .music. When :he sat and gazed silently into her mildly . floating oyes, she sometimes fancied she could read in that gaze a multitude of deep emotions struggling for utterance: And then, as though.,to divert his mind froin what site thought to be unwel dome,' glo4i)my thoughts; In the artlessness of - - innocence itself, by a witching smile or a des- ture all facination; or perchance by the out burst ofsome enthusiastic thought, she would break the spell that bound him, and en exclamation of half unmeaning .adiuiration would escape his lips. . - . • Thus these two beings grew up together, till their whole natures seemed run together in onemould of congeniality. As 'before' inti mated, Clara possessed something more than Mere personal attractions: ihtellectuhf zo6oiripliments . 7ere.of.itie 4i4ht or*: She was emphatically' Natures own 01Id:. Every tbou'alit breathed of nobleness- of a proud:spirit : and a loftypubition,, .;11 . odestand gentle, sbe was dignified; gTaeeful land enthu siastic. Though - Atnulus by natilia :inherited many of thesn qualities,' his constant attenil ance with Clara imbued him still .tiore with these characteristics. She inspir.4 his natti7 rally ambitiogs,temperament riitt .ict9:re fer venev—a mOre ardent emulation, be . great. She taught . him to despisethe..grt;velling in instinct that governs the 'great ma. ? of Man kind, imd hinds them fasti.c . the:fetter; ti*i": Eersiency ; knowing no loftier alto, no hiller ;aspirations than'those that govern the brtite creation,—to all the baser passions, rand die without leaving ri record that they have been,=—not one deed as an offspring, wor thy of immortal minds. The language of her heart found a response in his, and ho caught up the inspirations of her lofty mind as they dropped in .words;—they found a lodging place in his tnemory—they influenced his thols and actions. • Amulus now grew 'sad and theughtful.— Ile was unhappy. HiS mind was - o'ereherp;Od and he laaew of no perion an earth to whom he could summon courage sufileient to. reveal the emotions that struggldd in hiS . boiem; in deed, there was but one whom be 'would have know the secret, and te.that one he could eon fide every. thing else, save t./i4, which .haunted his waking hours and 'drop:: sleep from: his presence. thoUghthe:ihat she might know the whole; but nhp-;sueh s :wish for then Wonldlife . bnbittei indeed.-' , Tier)-prond spirit would 'neverlo4ou . roe,7as:other - than, the boyish eeinpanlon'efleigirlish days;-and the stern rebuke, the cold repulse would ipiiie OrerwlielnicwOuld rive any soul asundei:;shoula it fall front her lips or be met in her reproach.; ful gaze. She cannot, shall not know it; it shall never escape my lips; she shall 'ever re *in ignorant of a truth, stranger indeed thazt , fiction; and, if possible, stringer than the re ality itself. Hush then, my heart this Wild tumult of wild 'emotioni; be still the herte purest affection ' and let not love,- but friend .ship only dwell there. • • Vain efrort, to 4rives Love from its throne and valuer still the attempt to seat friearlship in its place. That - is 100 inferior in its order; by far-too little tinged with * sympathy to fill the void that's roade by smothered nffection.--1 Crush, if you will the fondest, the first . , hope of nut; sever the strongest tier rob tht heart of sympathy and' drive from it the •affeetions that like fatality have been nursed; then fill- the 'home of all these With cold, calculating, con ventionsa friendship. ; Hurl' the planets from' their course and supply .the void with sand grains!' • • - • Clara noticed -the change that had so re leently tome over the spirit of her "cousin;, yet !knew not its cause ; She - taw that: be was melancholy, was unhappy, .and tbis 'threw a shade over her feeling' Every means !Yu, I resorted to' by.the - artless; minding girl,,:toe. move the - dark shadows from mind; to spire: lam with courage, ith.liappinesa-- I'4hen 'Amulus Weill - retire by himself/it som bre'rilood, to muse on the unweleome c thqughts that crowded men him with"crashing .weight; they:et:ad often • unbidden tit liepritseuee, rate his drooping henti, _implant carelesskiss nn "Lis cheelt;ltken'Aarits utaaliii i e . end ngitated, with fondness of s 'jean. - And th ; 4 0%! mbe'sa7: Qf;iore•-• moment: ed_?/9 11 i,1 6 YiPg 0111 4_ Te4ureiszi*Wad for, oFegtlits:lykole cfnuOnlince - ,axid then half sadly away; leavinghispale andlrow alliCillitlea*d lest climeisii ,l 44i, be= ar s tadY' woofing .1411-/tit46itig4 *rid ; AI", ere ' ll ig - '0 , ..1" 6 # 1 4,#0144 11 0t;:41ft4;iit tie same eat ' 6 0 6 1 4 4 1 0 11 .0WP:1-#;v0 4 t isit* -' o;* that nor' Milne** vi*: .' :'; • - r ••' CII/LPTEIt-lIL . ",,A-ettike emotion stir s within . linl—more ". , . 70,4 mpre, F orapssipnerer waled before." r : One evening Aniulris 'was sitting, alone on ,the . plaz.r,alin 'front . of his father's 'dwelling,' watching ilie-glorious day-king air. he dropped to rest hOlird the western mountains, tinging the bro* - e(eir'en:with a flood 'of gorgeous golden 110 ' Fixed as a- statue; motionless; 1 and pale as imarble ;- his ' cies seemed riveted] - . .. on the disfa n t heavens, and through his :brain (coursed a `rifultitirde'of Arangethou,ghts..• ..- , . `.' : [ The stut dii;appearcd—was, gone—and the irilf crloornSqusk shadow; 'flitted lbont fan- I t.istically, Ice* hovering,nearer quite.darkenedl the air and throw a hard-like spell on all around; and still them lie saf,_ unmoved, gazing on va.. enity. .The' oft breath of evening flOated 1 noiselessly , carelessly playing among the bight-bleomi g flowers, then eddying up, rus- 1 b i tied merrily '/among the noble old ekes and orange trees,that adorned the green spreading lawn' - From the dlitint pil l age choir, rose the • •'' solemn Vesper hyran,lnoatin,r; out on the pleas.; , ant wind and echoin dirge-like through, the hollow air, as its plain‘ive numbers died- away,l full, solemn and mearnfully in the distahee The hunt OfNature tnitkled with the dashing music of the waterfall, and the low,' complain-, ing murmurs of the wantlering-' rill, tumbling ; along its pebbly bed; idpi the' whipperwili struck up a glad cherus fr&.m the' depths of his 'forest home. These:ill fell ifuliCoded on the ear olAniulus,', and bound'him in 'with a mesmeric spell: Strange power of hurttan thought!' limy long he would hive renained thus it is impossible to divine. Soft steps glided *near ; a form that looked half-angel, in the shadows of evenini, npproaChed amia gentle Land was placed . on his brow; sweet,kailvely,topes saluted him.' He started lika 4e.racail;neil from a troubled, dreamy sleep; at for rao . ' ment,looked wildly around, when :s eyesinet the soft bewitching gaze'of Clara. ',With the sudden impulse of a madman dm clasped her hlsinisom in a rude and eisionate embrace. She Struggled froth his gr:.sp, and her,queenly form, , _seemed flit up with more than 14 accus tomed dfg%ity.. Her eyes, fora momenktiash ea with.pcsgon, then o cold' haughtinc,4 play ed on her feature.s.,Amulus ;wed on herfor , bidd i ng:face an instant,thensank, back tooth:m icas as death.. His brain reeled and /Ls haart grewisielt waa-to him r.slhou,gh the inoi. tal iger.y of a whole waa„ .ctrwled an one moment lie stanoriered out the name'ot Clara. - Her looks assumed their wonted love • For well do. vanished frotrns enhance The charms of every brightened dance; And dearer seems each dawning For having last its light awhile." She, rushed forward, threw heiself upon his bosom - and wept convulsively—shti knew not why ! . The silence was broken by the musical voice of Clara. "Forgive me; dearest cousin, if I have •pained you.; I would not cause one sigh to embitter a moment of your existence." "Noble girl," 'responded Amulna, "your heart is the abode of loveliness, the home of the g,faies—tifey'color your every thought and • constitute your being.' ; "Come Amulus," said she, in a beseeching tone;" dust melancholy to , the, winds, and „let us stroll .to our lovely rtreat yonder, for in truth .this is. a lovely eve; and I'll strike 'the g 'Oar foryou. and we'll Inf. so happy." knaulus rose from his seat Without making j ni l 'reply with . Clara t caning on his arm, turned towards the arbor.- . 1 Sha ;seemed More thcM.ttsnalfly buoYant in splrits, and whea they arrivtid nttlie dear 'old spot,. the rich, mellow tone of her voice rang onithe empty air More full, Moro free than ever. 4 - I . ol'o list cousin while lu strike these sound ing strings,7 mellifluous strains of that Llone: harp rose fult ...Of 'Sweetest melody, and floated - Out on. the pa sing'zepher so bland and-plaintive, that Arintlus felt his whole soul enraptured. ther(brelte fcrth the clear, sweet tones ef tiara's voice; 4fit accomPinintent :to a seraph's lyre. • ' • • O Love i in such a Wilderness as this, %There transport and security entwine ; Here is the empire of thrperfeil bliss, And bere than art a god indeed divine. , ~ Hera shall no forms abridge, no'hoors confine ' The views, the walks, that boundless joy inspire, Roll on, ye days of - raptured inflaence, shine ! Nor blind with ecstasy's celestial fire' Shall lots -behold the .park of i earth-born_ brae expire. , i , : I The ichoittgs of her voiee - died .alvay in soft, blandirig cadences, and then all was still as the, abode of death-spirits. The full moon poured a Good or mellow light o'er the; i earth; and her scintilated beams streamed through the latticed roof, of the old 'arbor, covero only- by the' creeping vines:flu-a wove it over like a net 'work.. The blending star rays Spread with ( chry4aline the dew-petaled flowers, and gloss ed their folding leaves with silver. Amulus spoke not, moved not,land in the dewy light of thati plesmat ':eve, Clam gazed 'on him. '; No sound was heard savethe wil&lieatip,,r , of his, bursfing heart. The iflence 11-0 'bro'en, yi clai.. • l, ~., : ,- , ~ . -a 4 11 * w ii i . t*E54l -- P.t.th opes4o- 1 1 it;vofenilorainiMi of 111;linun(ihne! or -why this ineliiiaolitthit'seetii#toii*, : iiiiipf 'nun. ~ , , , - - , , -? "'i:- ;: ::s ; ,iiiinlttii midi**li4 ll :o0 1 4- 4/41 itiii;iiiii , 146iit.ff,Iiiriiiii4 4 4A4K..# ilib,thitut:;:j44.6&,. ~,44),,,*.ii,* 04Laa0,40$ ii4iitietailotn 6 W.; - :oiult,t*litkuk '-4 iii.*Olii,l*- - **:lo.4l*o-404 s i ta' , . .06 1:4 , '. af04.4:4441 1 -: , ,fotitiottPlitigOi_ ti t *itsakili*.oo**4 - #* 1 : 1 1 ) :4 - 0400. ' - --.-. ikiithiti44446 - 4 - PiAkii*. ('''l 4. 7 ~ ''.'"...:- •_- ?.. ' ' ,::'''-'',"'L..-::' MONTROSE' PA ,r THURSDAY, JANUARY% 1851 I ry ill; 'whether iniaged Or real; thatl dixrkaned , y4l; aspirations; were known .to `me. ir•You . heaitated not then to pour out the 4e*st .6..1 eret. of your heart ; whileo? , iiii, and you alone I Were a witness of that Which , burled 'rano.' Mow often .in this lovely bower have 'we re .vettled- heart-seerets to each other,hen grief . i we ighed down our spirits, tut . then, as our sym pathies Miligleefogetifer, IiAW light grew our i hearts, even like as the StenalLeloml; that over-I spreads. the sky with thickest gloom is chased 'tiivaiby the breath of theWhirlwink' revealing 1 the glorious sunlight in grea6' lieu' uq•,.'so have' enr apiritS often felt lichterand still More joy -1 ous when their gushing waters have fliwed free ly together. 'The heart musthave a confidant or tis unhappy; and now my oWn partakes deep-, ly of your sombre mood. ~.peak, cousin, l nd , tell me, can I not as of. yer,:;:by some means assuage Your grief and Coles the storm that .• - I c rabs in your breast." SIM was tatinuing when she was interrupted by Amulu.s., , ' :. " Clam, dearest Clara; yen shall know the W 1 .le for lis your right tO know it.' But I i i feel that you'll elide my foelishness land load{ Me down with reproaches. This mental agony i I can endure no longer, and life can bo no more intolerable though .I know the wort; for sus-, tense ia.agony of itself, and bears with crush-1 ing weight." ' 1 I His tongue was loosed; and all reserve van-1 ished. ,He poured out his &Mil ; he told her of ; This love with eloquence, made more ;eloquence , by the throng_of lent up plosions to vhich he I had new given vent. r "The ocean has its ebbingsr:eo has grief-- ! • Taus - .vent to anguish if!ttvae not relief." ' Continued ho; "blame uric not, turn not on melhat coldlook you gave me•yonder:twonld I freeze my blood. 'Blame Mc not, I say, foil's! , that noble spirit of yours I:lave. 'TiSthat has chained me, and thegtmerow.,iinpulseS of your : heart that' have , draWit - out lhe purest :ace. ; lions of mine. lem the sb . :vi) to a passion of • which , I never drearned, and the strength oil which I never knew till noiy. It is stronger ! than the, strings of life,, and Wants only to be; deprivoroltheiobject around which it, twines ; _., to snap them - esunder'. ' He added iruchlnore,ond when he: conclu- I clod, rose tip; crossed the arbor and seated him I 'self by tiMside - of the astonished maiden, aisli I tears of job; and kisses blended there, rind An ulna was happy: ,' Need 144:that Clara's bap.. L,l)iiiei9;too. :ol 4 l ie tueits:ai - V , k . :,Lk, , ; his,.:; .' It was late that 'night When those two joy ous'hearts lcft,that old arbor, that had been the lone witness of otrang,e events. The Past, the eventful Past occupied fora tong time, their thoughts and engrossed their eonversa tion.' Then Up came the futere as tho Ugh sail ing on pinions of lil,iht; - and what a host 'of 'airy castles were .builded there; - for,. fancy's' 'busy hand was present and wove many a fairy 1 guilded web. Net a thought that did not seem I all joy, all fondness. No anticipations so wild, so tanciful as. not to Seem reality, of ;which the 1 world was a wide.reahm and theMagain the! vital. was struck and the seraph-like Voice of Clara warbled forth the language of lie F soul. ~ flow sweetly cloth the . , moon-beams smile ! TO'night upon yen leafy isle: Oft in my. fancy's•wanderinge, I've Wished that little isle had wings !. And we within its fairy bowers Were wafted off to seas unknown, Where not a pulse should beat but ours; , . And we might litre, love; die alone. Far from the cruel and the cold— .. Whore the bright eyes of angels only ! !I , Should come around us to behold A paredire so pure and.lonely!" • i —Thus: passed the happy hours awaY, when, rising from the old, now doubly endeared arbor, like angel lovers, they sought the Mansion where they had Passed their childhood days, and gave themsclres r.why to pleasant dreams. • [ro , an c0n.u.1.4..n.] : ' • ' ry Who can be surprised Mat the. Masses of Great Britain, are in a state of destitution and misery . ? With a population of $l,OOO - in England, Ireland, and Seotlancl, Great Britain paid, in 184.7, .C 56,000,000 or 8280,- 000,000 taxes. Of t is €45,000,000 Ukas de rived from property= the tax of aristocracy and gentry—while' $235,030,000 MIS deriveil from trade :and industry, or rather from the sweat and blood of the la:Lasses. William, the blor. man, who founded. in the. tenth century, the system of English takationt is generally i called a robber, but in. the Period o'f centuries,andl from his conquest to 4600, Ituglish tate..4never rose in a single year above $3,000,000. George I. raised them to $'20, 1 000,00t - ); George 4, the odious tyrant,who sought to'sftangle our. liber. - ty, raised them to $15,0150)00; Geprga IV, in 1820, raised them to $270,000,000,11-03 1847, they were increased lor.$280;000,000, Which, divided among the:Poittlition of Gi:A.At Britain is 840 30 - to everyman, woMan, and -1. As Van angel spoke, - I hear the &ileum sound." It is a siptal demanding despatch t, causing man's hopes and fears Pa start up Err* fliel r repose; and amid thu bright:mu told- hkssing,s of anopening yar, lidding idarbe tbonghtfal pin' his 'rejoicings, -• ,' ,•.; • • 1:-.•„, , ,04 The New Yearalso bideVlarf venom* end nothing ii-perminm4 here 11' 4 3borir- * ia P°thing constant Int chaage,:",f The'y ra,is • modeN. ofre.rolfte) .: ** B itt Lts;WORDS OP 'W 4 ISMINGII L i" -I l t 11- ef 41%8 'pa . itottill*Y l 4. l inKlik B 4 - * macp!hajvidat'si• .40 41 4 414, ) s f attc o l.* infinite Moment that on shcadd piverlY, cod- w he'4,,k i i? ' - - '.11+,04-Asa mate the immense vain ot 'your mational tie. andowsco i '' - 'l . l l /0 ion to your u?llective tuul intliidna' li,aP* moo ley pegs; that4uu should chi ireut t l 4, 4 1 : 81 tfigek.„ tud and Immovable gitahMeg tO :j6i 4 irie: ~ 7 '', tailing ioursaves t° *II* " 6 "l"it 44 lel° ii7Clivi• thellalhaum or rYoUr. political arity #4,+ ,1 mg perity.Avatchifor its pr o'" -1` + 'ens anus i dble°'4 3l tenaPg'i*, 3l o iio al4 , *nate , evei 15 :ifig*kni 4 1 0 'lt '' ,113 ;141, 10 In 'are i r''rbO-- - nntito Aduidoie4'llull'Ult l 4 4 laili Tithbfia,4l4 :4 oK 4 4; l l 44l C lAig*, ilti*Oviiit i tt etr/cr tai istetiaol44644: - 0 1 0 14.11113r- O rtkiatu *: - - ' -'41011401 ~..,- a ilfrin6 lo, . 46- t. ' '. l q‘, 4 !_. lie : t Y, itielii*:::***t i liw .i tryounz-mo,vitationt..,.4,-.46:ii, ....._.„,_. ~..t .:v ~ ,",, ..r,r --se..z - •1.- --.• - , .. ,,, ,,, - --,.5 ; .". 1 , 4 P-47,,, 4' I. 4 2 ; th=t '-iM. - . ~k ' '' :::-17 7.- • a ' '''' . 7 "7 4 -: ; 7. 771'. IM. 112C'Pei ; 1 ' a - iiilii p ,,. Ilk ~,, , = --., ,r, ~, ~ -,,, ,„_.' 71 ~ - , 112M111TEti, MEE% zap. amtarlirrs. ViLIE NOV; PA UIS -Tit lit StIOLD. "': , k.srt AD Lf."4".1 ,Ties threshold of-a, New -Year is ti pausing spot in `Mates , esistence;where ho can scan the past and ponder the futute..Up to this thresh: old the old Year'comessand taring foro mo ment cht,thOfuture,` which` it Cannot . entei', it turns away to lie' dawn With' the years' that 1 haVe alrelidy 'Mandrel! round the earth. As, We look on its retiring, form, .wo see-its giant shadowliung ..over'the past, as it slowly, sinks into its grave. , to wait its resurrection with- "the years beyond the flood." Wine we look, and muse, - the New Year, approaches fresh from the hand of Time, With, its brow unsea ted and unwrinkled by the Months that must , leave their furrows there t` and 'With On'tye bright With the light of hope and promise, ex tends its welcome hand to ,the Weary genera.: tions that conic to meet it. • Say what men will oflife,' the 'voice of the, New Year is Cheerful mid con, atulatory.-:-. 1 The Old Year is sad with tnemoriestheNcW. cheerful with hope, and with the - sante! Spirit and the same cheerfulness'.do Ice extend the 'hand to our friends, and echo Its voice o f eon gratulation—reiterate its,words of promise.— There is "a time .to weep and a time to-laugh," land if one spot in our existence is ,more prop er than any other for .the formeriit is when we bury the Old Year.. The monuments that line its pathway stand over lost-friends, disappoint. od hopes and 'broken promiSea. There - is so the good that could' have been done • and was not—the error eotnmitt,sd that, can never be recalled—the pleasure we received" gone, with : the objects -that, creat4 the' hourithat we squandered, • lost beyond, the! power, of redemption, and, why should no not ; Ibe sad ? , But as we turn to the New Year, we! may smile at its words of encouragement: Its lap is full of blessings, mind life again offers us the power of doing good. -With! our animosi ties buried, we may start, with fresh resolu dohs and fresh encouragements.- : We can, if we will, help, the• weary, feed the hungry, cheer the lonely-hearted, ! brighten the hut 'of 'poverty,. and turn the erring and the wicked 'to paths of truth. and happiness. ! The. warm 'grasp of thoserWe love tells of the pleasures of I friendship that era !in store; %while the' glad countenances about us are but indices of the blessings with which the - year promises 'to '!!These'gitli are to 'tc,fa cir to our bosoms with hope, in order ta'Strength-' en us for the struggles we. arelia enter upon. Cheerful hope is ,as Powerful* ally as stern resolve in accomplishing good, both to our selves and others, therefore let the heart bright, en up with the. encouraging words the New Year whispers, in our ears: Besides, the plans of Deity are to move . on towards their eon summation, and we are reserved to: aid their progress and receive in our bwn hearts the reward- of doing good. 'The weary earth staggers blindly on in its Path, yet'eaelt ye.sr breaks one of the linksof its fetters, l lHrtens - s up one new star in its henven, and sends it one step farther on tow,arai the paradise it lost.— All hail, then, the New Year, with , its untried scenes "and neWekperienees! ' Still it is with thoug,htful feelings wa should cast our eye btiforeus. The great;thitigS of this life do'tiot , hap Pen in cycles, but in!single years.. In a single year the !ied swept tin) world, and a new year ;rose race , and a new earth. In a single year the Son,of God was born on the plains of Asia. ' Within - each year transpire all the events that go :to raake IM the history of man. In.some single year 19ve occurred all the famines and pestilences and earthquakes that, have sWept, men 'into eternity, ln a single year did Christ die to redeem n World. ' In a single year has each man entered upon. his changeless state..'. then, in some one year all thkgrent events of life have transpired, and all that Makes epa to tis..trpl.transpire, how appropriate, to mal, the threshold of the New Year a breath . . and hurried spot—a thinking place in oar feverish and hurried existence. Akwe'pass thrinigh , tirne; it is to ns as if a bell was 'suspended in the dome of the vast sky. Through the revolving year it Kann motionless and silent, but as the rear departs it swings, seeding its deep and solemn peal round the :wide -earth echoing uA.yetir 110 near .. , IT3 riotlumultuons and-alarming to : the pui-1 the air its , richest perfumo; .strike;dowa•leilit ward senses . The„uprear of battle 7 —tia sound )hood as he inflater!' his fran bark on the event- of fulling armies—the terror of the advancing fulwaters of life:' and'whttrtheiieat warrior earthquake, and all the din and' jar of outward returns frem the Ound - Of his esploitsyceveiedl life, ire not. after all, the solcuinities•of life.— ,Kith glory, conquer hini, oliviirioiler; Mai halal The changes that ought to- atrrest thought and third thy . prisdner ! ' •'• ' ',' •l'• •,;:- I' ;'-' ,, i -awaken emotion are unobtrusive and noiseless 44 The tiercc the stareinais ids",:i . l - 44 - 3 :'1; i,i,,,ii';''l Alt his cares bow, are hvir, his Tait bilttli *a; ea a passing breath. The old yeir dies rith out a 'struggle, and the 'new eary is born in si- N A ,Ti l e k eettY p h = mtu if t ai t icacilairc ia d a ' a ,„ fi a ,i t s "C f knee, We see not the' thresheld over which '„.i .. nr , 77 4 ,1.,,,........ di .,:, --- --- ,,,,tr: - ' " we step, br the reSponsibilities on which' we ' - 7:T:' a t '""l B44 ," ' .,l ' . . `r ,v., " ,_ 4 , ` ' ' .. 9! .e l___ . i c , " of_, ree— -1 are to - cuter. The change _ptises over:us ° ,..°1"-,. ° ` ~v`i.v".:'`` station= ".•''''' 9° ``eal e ' 4 ` et i t with the new life that is begun, as well as the '.`'''''. `.." ° •! °l " for.._ i . .i. , , !V" ' ilF.. ri ttartl,dclit ' AO:ra piano of artinct cartel:lust thou shalt reiline. Lilla.4oo change that has passed over all the Deity from their progress , are not: seen and matter ll'n7 brilliant his career, or hw a r " 44C1 ' cannot be felt, unless the - soul win . stop to molt splendid his. taleasorrust •In pro.,At time, be encircled within_the2mitir of - :Ogee) think of itself, and of the life that is fluctuat. ~ , , spot. of earth :-,- : .•.. - •:'l. ; -; I •;'...', l •-.. - ing around us. ' ' „ The boast of haiitt The New l'eur 'should alio; remind us that -And an that beauty, 11 i: 1 h :e t * tf - rete -, :. the number of years are limited, and their sol- Await alike MeaftMe l ho a ri k r 77! ,-- j13 ,.. , 5 . r !,777 elan revolution is soon to cease. Soon the Ttl.O paths of gloty'leitti bottoltse Otis.: -,:,".. archangerivho stands and .pres on the dials Slt.ep on, noblir,dead of 'IMO; teel'ig i n ' l - 11 ' face, which yonder stands before, the San of Your 1 14 rest, and lain& Your dot ,vfdth AO I Ilighicousnesa, and , , free soil of Columbia, . falba iranewedgirries where Americans have . laid:*. ' Sleepoti, while in; the inmost recesses ototrihearli,Yeiti 'names are cherished! • ; -:i '<'- • 7 ":t., ",compates Timea,.seasons, years, deetinies, Anti slowly numbers o'er the Mighty cycler; Of Eternity—" ' I • shall see the last ray - that :fills on l‘the: gn0.. 1 mon Of Time," and seiiina his 'rtruttipet: and sending it; rapid' blast over the i earth, shall swear that "Time shall be no longer." The threshold of the New yeai.it a t4'puoilt -0 ful place, full of hope und.promise, but full of reflection too.. It bids man ,"•throw empires away and, be ..bhameless," but Ilene :squander his.hdurri. ' • ' I asked nn:aged man, withloary hair, as he Stood trembling betiveen tWil years, }Ottawas time?--"Time (Im‘teplied) is the warp Of life; oli tell the young and gay to weave it The New . Year speaks also"ofa resurrection. When charges shall cease, :tad Time;,nliieh thelast thing that diei;altall cease'to be, the triMlife, cif man begins. As. from the grave l of the gm, the New Year, arises, so' from the grave - of Time itself shall ,the spirit of man ascend to a life that is perma.neut as-the throne it surrounds, - Amid the changes and losses and dismtointments and discouragementa that envelope and confuse as here, this thought comes like the Saviour's voice ovttr'the turbn lent waters of Galilee, saying, "Peace be still" --“ there is a birth which never dies, a piam.,, ise which hexer disppoints, and 'a, life Which never ends.". : _ . - _ TUE DISTEVGC/STIEUDEAD OF ISbO. They have fallen! Nay, not tilien in the es timation of their countrymen—,for their mem ,ories will ever flourish in grateful remenlbrance —but their names have been stricken frotn..the roll of . living gmutness, and the tomb, that loted teneme.ntiif mortality, ,has claimed; its own. -Death, clad in his gloomy 'robes, ha.' s wan dered in the midst of eloquence,of valor, of erudition, and of Worth, Spreading .disrMay around. -Wherever . ix? .has roamed he hae uiused havoc. On ' the brosv of talent he staMped his signet, and powerless :heearne the lips of eloquence;_ he grasped the hand or. the warrior, and closed his ears to the sound of the drum and the tumult of battle, 7 • ! They have fallonl—but not until 'Fam6 had enrolled their names high, 'very high, in her Temple,' so grand and so towering--the Moues of TaylOr,-Calhorin, Elmore, Prentiss, King, Mason, Osgood; Fuller and Jones. Twelve short moats ago, and Zachary Tay lor stockl• before the world 14' the illustrican; chief of o mighty nation, blessed with the love and reerence of millions of freemen; and in the tranquil enjoyment of every earthly bliss,— a few more weeks glide away and becoine lost in the revolution of time, and all that is left of 1 the President and the Hero, bid dust mtivis'on to the last.resting,place of inortality, i t n :rep! magnificenceoYl hi more than kingly splendtir for his mound IS)ianored by thp . iisier i imd;tbe lunnble; and moiiteno . by _,lte terii, Otriff(Se gait.' -- -, - . ; '..... ':.-,: ,•.;/ : • Cll after all the toile of 5014 . i .:. - .l' l t 1 1 " . lbw hlebt the tqlive mau iiyg ll lhu 4 0 F0,4 J Ilia bieris's tritimilmOsi— , r, - ) ;, libigfiiii-liglottliskii>gotits 1 1, , , ro i , a-li:; - 4.04. ,-I:i_ti.z.:.: r't'l - - , , t,.•,.. ; ' .11,3=4illOttieRti• r s OPt s iat -01 6 114411 $C e t*PW tilt tomb othei*olitil , Ok*Pßion.). o * itioisittpint v ibotuhipxt, , ittgei,iiiii giiiiio . 44.4***submart,i,be , iiiiidi s cOmtki:ttai: Itsiltmed iiiiiiiilarthiand istr "iriss , bird Otiti 4 , ii . tiiiirlAnie, :,,,.;;', : :,f,...-:-:, -12Siti..7. - . i.AitAitt 1 thiiu 11 9iF.tt. ,'Oli f. 42*, th;.tftlelatil 1... u. , i. 4,,v04 ~-,l4l4 lo . fo ilv s i i : i i is, . i i ii i i f i i • 1 6--ii k oi r *V v • ' 0 4411 # 14 01- i **l% - .YAbt# o l ll 4 l o' r , to t nit . .1004.41444,. -,AA3ki-o,s'24tOW 11. Such is mortal's flontinibreath Such fa WS and sualvii death. His sword was in his hind, - Still.warm With_ recent 'fight Ready that moment at command.. Through rock and steel to smite . 7 ty.-..rp t..t' - . : , ,i . w.trq': , .=:. ' ir1:0 efl.! JlLflt'll fr. .;.; .:,'.. , 10171 .!,:i ,i" voLumE 'III. nun "Bury me la ttis coriteun . 0 ,;. - , There - 'was sorrow 'there,pird, tel*vrereArt, every eye; and there' werciA ow, halt,s4rgicp ed sobbing's, heard from ` every; coiner. of , the roan ; but the -.little sufferer :ryas :still OM young spirit was just onthe verge: of depart ure:. The mother imp bez,tding'oor:it• le ( all the Speechless yearnings of nutternailo4,ivgla one irm , under its pillow, and, with 'tihioti'e% unconsciously drawing 'the' littlejilyi,iHiP,'4ll clOser and' cIOSer to herb;';emn, ; r,eor, 'thfogf • in: the bright and dewyrnoriting:if It:4-4'oll6n "Cii out Wand itft pher,iiite . t he : fie 4; mut. , .... ,. white he was there engaged. inisjahor,ltiW • patted around among the tneado!* Anvers, and had ;duck its bosom' full, t alt lits brunisbcd ' tresses, withi t emmine-and. lily-tidal , , thin , and, returning tired tolls father's side,the /Md. lifted it upon the, loaded cart;' but 'tll`titiettlill the road had • shaken , it • fi.orn Its ;Seat; and i ihe ponderous, iron rimmed wheelti . hadgrauhdvit down into the yery . e.dri'PatliLluni'' the' 'We Crushed, creature was iiiihit f i - '''`'!:''` i '! 7 l We bad all gatheredmi:eiosety,l),,e4- side, and mere banging 0v0.0e4.91 1 : 1 E 941•40 see it it yet breathed, when c o slight aigv . ep l e g t came' over its lips, and its eyes Nitilt 24=4 ,ThPU-W.as to vnieni.butithetii isras-sometilliag 'beneath its eyelidi which Smother could alorte interpret. Its lips trerabled agsin, nnii , Wi.'iill • held our breath-4ts eyes opened -a little Thi ther, and'then we heard the: deParting "spirit whisper in that ear Which touched'th4e4ah'y lips : ,( Mother ! ' metheri• don't lefth`erit' , , , 4 ry meaway down to thei&li;oold.grayO,ya4. but b ury me in :the g a r ain-L-ii, the iirden mother." • v A little -. sister, 'who*, eyes. t werg „raining sim . 7.-n with the, melting of the hearti bad:lentil. up to,the bed-side, Int, 'taking up• the haraliEf the dying girl,m'obbed.aloud in itS.,leari-.:Altt lia! Julia! can'tkliu speakteatntoinette 1 1 4 _ : The last flattering Pulsation 'of •bifidring•rai ture struggled hard to enable that: little' ,iiiiiilt to utter one more wishi'aq a word —*A •86,1 was on its lips'as if Wilts ii!ired: a goln a : Burt/ riieln the iarded,'MOther4briry me itl the- r .", multi' quivering One' ,ever its .Ilinbs: 77 one feeble : struggle,endPil viraP4ititrv-.44;1741: Nes. Pirernm•roks :'Liisi. "..:—Reitardetlie ' newspaper praises of JennyJand'SlfliiiimOlett disposition, - Igrs.' Partington'eamp . :a . t/Ce coin, Plimen t u7'exPre,"i?fi.iti 7e4P11 to ,the i`ifcl - in her_bosioin," Which the. Sw nightingale cherished toWarhs the•ii.ifcirt %-• and needy. Infoluntarily,,raising .per cle:s, and looking the very- personifieati • iof. amazement, the good old lady repeated....; "A feller feeling in her bosom! - 'lii . . -dr. ' that aint just the way the fellemusediti s. lito • , when I was a girl r. :• • ' ' • • i'' • I''' 1• ":.. And then she re44tcpited kiteefittudibilid ' • k e pt on reading: re. ::,- .it:,• ! t....?...ke0i-til-r; .hor. . • • • ' - --' .• •tt, tfi !,i • nili 94.t a- i4r,, . s ..A- drunken ANYer.PACIA9O O IO 0/ 11 04 - was oWerved irttheznhilSon, him thus," I will:beim wltce.eiii:a . ti- the day oojutmote 4'4l,ll44titeifilliOd;WS : ::.`:l fisid Withdrunkei ' ,;; ' t ,i l. - "''. :, A t :.A 4. ,".i: - P' , : /'if .. , _4l4iiiet ;. 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