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TEE DEATH OE THE OLD YEAR
List I list ! • what fearful . tone *as that which
Upon the wind of midnight? Nature sounds
No knel! o'er earth for tEe departed year,
Yet when its lastbreath passed late the void
Of the by-gone eternity, I heard
Echoed:Within the chambers of my 'soul
A sound, perchance the shadow of a sound,
Wild, strange and dismal, as it were a wail,
A low and blended wail, from all the graves
And sepulchres of ocean and of earth
Upon the stilly air. Oh was it not
The solemn voice of old Eternity
Uttering Orie cry, one wild and deep lament,
For his dead child!
The year, alas ! is gone
Forever from the world ! He seemed too
strong, '
Too mighty e'er to die. He laid his hand
On breathing millions, and they sank beneath
The' reen grass of the grave, he blew around
The trumpet-blast of battle, and dark-hosts
Met in the mortal shock, and when the flame
And smoke of conflict had gone by, they lay
Liko autumn's red leaves on the plain; he
passed
O'er earth and,at each wave of his broad-wings,
Volcano, earthquake, whirlwind, storm; and
flood
Sprang up beneath their silent spell and wrought
The fearful errands gf their destiny ;
Yet now his own great mission done, he lies
On scorched and broken pinions with the dead,
There, there to sleep.
What is time?
A giant power, stern, vast, and bodiless,
That we may feel bat never see. We gaze
With aching eyes into the past, and there
We see a thousand shapes of light and gloom
Floating like atoms in the, pallid beams
Of mournful memory, but the perished yeas
Is all unseen. From thence we sadly turn,
And, gazing on the future, we behold
Dim, countless phantoms trooping from its
dark
Unfathomed ocean to the lonely shore
Of earthly being, but the coming years
Are all invisible. And then we pause
And gaze above, around, beneath, and lo
Our eyes are startled: by the mighty deeds
Of the now passing time : the iron weight
Of his stern presence rests upon our souls ;
We feel the awful spectre touch our brows
With his cold death-like finger; and we hear
The deep. and mingled roar that rises up
From all his mighty doings on our earth ;
And yet he has no form to cast its gleam
Or shadow on...ypur sight..
The parted year
Called forth fiom NV* blooming Paradise
Of sweet Spring-flowethe waved his autumn
wand
And they were not. He woke in human souls
Myriads-of hopes and joys and burning loves,
That seemed like things of immortality—
He tonehed them and they died. Another year,
The gift of God, is cast beneath the skies, .
And what is darkly hidden in the still
And-silent depths of its mysterious months, ,
We may'not know—thank God, we may not
- know. .
We only know that with each passing month
And day and hour, the low, deep wail of grief,
The maddened cry of aptly, the shout
Of fierce ambition, the loturthlinder - shock .
Of bloody Conflict,and,the knell of death
Will echo, each, in one brief moment o'er
The sea of time, and then•he swallowed up
And lost forever in the onward sweep
Of Its unpitying weird.
The midnight skies,
Are weeping silent tears as if they. grieved
For ,the old year, and the pale stars rook . sad
And tremble, as if living,Sorrowing hearts
Were thrObbing in their breasts. In vain I in
Vain I , 1. •
The' faded-year is nothingmow.. The iloWers,
The birds, the waves, the • thousand melodies
Of vernal life and nature will come beck,
But he returns no more. The winds:••may
search
For him in their far journeyings ; the grand
Old ocean with its thunder tones may call.
For ever to him in its ceaseless dash
Beneath the heavens; the bright and burning
stars
With their high tones of Eden minstelsy
May speak his name in their eternal svep
Along their flaming paths; the comets wild
May seek him by the baleful blaze they spread
Through realms of ancient night; but /lone of
these::
Shall ever'fin4 hitcy for he liveth not.
In all the universe of God. Years die,
And centuries die, and there will come a day
When the dread angel of the Apocalypse;
Standing on land and sea, will lift his band
And swear that time shall be no more,
- Yet thou,
Oh man, will never die. The earth will pass
Like a wild dream away, the very heavens
Be rolled together as a scroll, but lie,
Beneath whose feet the sun and stars are dust,
Rath said that thou shall never die. Those
great
And awful words of the Omnipotent
Are caught up and re-echoed to thy soul
By all'the world of nature. A deep voice,
That tells thee of thy immortality,
.peaks in the breeze and in the hurricane ;
Blends with the-gentle music of the stream,
The loud rush of the cataract ; the peal
From the dark bosom of the cloud, and all
The thousand mystic cadences of night,
Deep mingles with the everlasting roar
Of-ocean in his wild unrest, and swells
Forever in the angel-symphonies
Sung./sy the stars around the midnight throne.
The Honduras Government has
pardonod Colonel , It udler; who was cap
tured along with Walker.
BY GEO. D. PRENTICE
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MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 186}.
[Fait " Tim W.tExilt MARIETTIAN."
CLEVER FELLOWS.
"say what you will, he's a d--dolever fellow.F
- - - - That's so."
There is a deeper and a more signifi
cant truth, contained and exin.essed in
the above brief lines, than many'of those
persons imagine, upon the end of whose
tongues they sit so frequently and so
trippingly, almost every day of their
lives. Is it not possible, that there may
be few other men who are more effectu
ally and more peculiarly damned, - than
those whose entire energies and substan
ces have become - exhausted, in the sui
cidal effort to win the empty title of, or
being what the world denominates, "a
clever fellow ?". The bare suggestion,
that such a thing may be, seems like a
harsh saying in connection with such a
subject ; but, when we desire to present
a naked and unadorned truth, with the
hope that it may be seen and acknowl
edged as truth, we must not disguise it,
by clothing it in such a garb as would
destroy its potency, and divest it of its
penetrating power. "He who spake as
never man spake," never minced his
words, but called all things, at once, by
such names as their internal qualities in
dicated them to be, no matter how fair
they may have appeared externally: "He
that believeth shall be saved, but he that
believeth not shall be damned," might
probably have been spoken in more eu
phoneous language, or in words more
musical to tho sensuous ear, than those
in which we find them recorded in the
sacred oracles, but then possibly the axe
would not have been so effectually laid
at the root of the tree, or its office so
clearly comprehended, as in the words
employed. But, like prisons, and pains
and penalties in the life of the world,
those words are only terrible to the ha
bitually evil, and to perverse violators
of law and order ; to those whose walk
and conversation is in the fear of the let
ter and the spirit of the law, or who are
"a law unto themselves," they are only
regarded as reactive consequences upon
the heads of evil doers, in accordance
with the immutable principles of truth.
But wo are digressing, and returning to
the subject again, we by no means wish
to be understood as saying, that all clever
fellows are necessarily the subjects of the
condemnation alluded to, for, as it is
among all other characters and condi
tions of men, there must needs be a va
riety of shades and grades of quality,
corresponding to the motives by which
men are actuated in their daily lives.—
But, let men coolly and calmly reflect
Upon their own characters and conduct,
and also upon those of other men, with
whom they may have had social and com
mercial intercourse, and if it does not be
come apimrent that the greater number
of those acts which gain for the actors
the name of a clever fellow, aro as cold,
as selfish, as calculating, and as ulterior
in all their aims and ends, as any that
can possibly disgrace the name and sen
timent of - humanity, then they must be
too deeply immersed in the false surroud
ings of a perverted understanding, to be
cognizent of anything that is evil.-
"Clever fellows"—so called, by a soft
of common consent, claim piiviliges and
iminunitieS, that ardaccorded tit no other
members'of the community, no• matter
how worthy.or how needy they may be.;
and this same unlimited„ and indiscrimi
nate indulgence of clever fellowS'by , ,so
ciety, makes them the most exacting and
presumptuous individuala that promen
ade the avenues of life—Xodest.worth
often shrinks abashed from such a pres
ence, and would be a stonished'atits own
imperiousness were it ;but - .to Seek the
"little finger" of. that "whole hand,"
which is so arrogantly monopolized by
the clever fellow. Is this spurious clever
fellowship to be approved, or condemn
ed ? and are its influences upon its vic
tims and -upon itself, a blessing or a
curse ? It is vary probable' that,ander
all these circumstances, clever fellows
may, from the want of a proper andliza
tion of their intentions, believe that they
are acting disinterestedly, honestly, and
humanely ; and the society and commu
nity in which they move, may also ac
quiesce in that belief.
But, suppose we particularize, drawing
upon our imagination, assisted by life
experiences, for cases in detail, to illus
trate our general thought—let us , see.
One man, by fair or foul means, obtains
an office of responsibility and great trust ;
in which he has the control and dis
bursement of large amounts of money,
which is to be honestly and legally ap
prOpriated, so as ,to subserve the inter
ests , Of the community. and the govern
ment or institution from which he derives
his authority, or his official function - ;
and,
in that office, and with the literals
•
it places under his control, he forthwith
commences the business, of building up
the character and calling of a, clever fel
low, in order •that he may be .enabled to
attain a higher position in office or in
society—a position that perhaps until
now, had never entered his. mind. Nor
will he be -long in drawing around him a
host of sham or. "sunshine" friends, who
without stint will award to him, with an
abjurgation, the title and position he is
so ambitious.of attaining, at least so long
as his power, his influence, and his mate
rial moans continue to flow, whether
they be his own honestly earned dollars,
or those confided to his charge for, the
use of others. No one can doubt that
such a man, and by such a course, may
attain his end, so far as wining a title is
concerned ; but can it not also be seen
how effectually such a man brings con
demnation upon himself—and not only
upon himself, but upon his family and
his true friends, by such a procedure.—
It will be apparent that such an individ
ual is literally damned ; for; the end
must come—a denouncement must take
place—and then the loss of reputation
"of honor and of just renown," the loss
of an unsullied conscience, and the self
abasement and self-condemnation which
are the consequences of detection and
exposure, is surely a damnation of the
deepest dye ; and one that, often hurries
the poor subject of it into the eternal
presence perhaps to encounter one more
deeper still. It is very true, that men
in such positions and with the opportu
nities they afford, are also -influenced in
in their conduct by motives of_self-ag
grandizement, luxurious.living, and ex
cessiveand expensive appointments; but
the means thus squandered are in many
—if not in the majority of instances—far
less than those expended in the insane
effort to be considered and called by
everOody a clever fellow.
-Another man starts out into business
under the most favorable auspices, and
launches his craft—of whatever depth or
capacity it may ho—upon the broad com
mercial ocean, with a fair wind and tide
before him, and a clear blue sky above
him ; thinking only of the distant haven
in whose secure and placid waters he
soon expects to be anchored without a
- peradventure or encountering a super
vening storm. That portle most cer
tainly would have reached sooner or la:,
ter, and with as much of the cargo that
he started out with, as would be condu
cive to his best interests, and to his
present and future happiness, were it not
for the fatal error he committed, by turn
ing his attention from his compass and
steering his craft by that, to the glitter
ing but worthless bauble of becoming a
clever fellow. It is so grateful to the
vanity of man to be regarded as a clever
fellow, that its allurements becomes irre
sistalle to the poor subject of them,
when surrounded by the fawning syco
phants which such a presence never fails
to attract within its sphere. Patrons
to such a man will no doubt come in
swarms—much larger swarms than when
his motives of action are dictated by a
plain and inflexible sense of duty—for
the whole community will have "horses
to hold, babies to mind, bundles to carry,
or axes to grind." Neither will it . be
long before -the clever fellow will be
compelled to "rob Peter to pay Paul,"
for his flatterers will not all exercise the
same degree of influence over him=--some
will be nearer to the throne, and some
•
farther away ; some will be in a condition
occasionally to give—expecting not less
than thrice its value in return—but
others, and by far the larger portion,
will only and always think of receiving.
Many of the insects that thus gather
around a clever fellow are void of a sting,
and are therefore comparatively harm
less, but they nevertheless all exhaust
and annoy, and each adds its mite to
that general damnation of character and
substance, which must inevitably follow
in their wake. Look abroad and see
how many of the sons of men have been
compelled to retire from the arena of
trade and commerce prematurely, freer
the disabling effects, growing out of vain
attempts to win the worthless, and al
ways equivocal, title of a clever fellow.
A third individual may have received
what is termed a finished education—
• may have been the favorite graduate of
some learned institution or college, and
may possess all the untried and unform
ed essentials of a nseful and efficent cit
izenship in any of the various walks of
life. Ile may be the possessor of ample
material means and a respectable parent
age, and large , and influential familyscon
nections. Under all these circumstan
ces it would seem a miracle that he
should not succeed in life and bo the
progenitor, not only of a respectable
posterity, but also of the i4ai..l the !pock
One Dollar a Year_
and the trutlis"whielr contribute to the
wellbeing of that posterity, in time and
in eternity. But elatel bar to all this,
is, perhaps, the narne . of a "clever fellow"
which he won at college or seminary:—
The time and'Men& necessary to stistain
successfully such acliaracter absorbs the
whole man and all his energies, both
physical and mental, and leaves very•lit
tle to be devoted to' the maturing, per
fecting, and carrying. into practical op
eration, those virtues and principles,
which in an elementary forM had been
inculcated and partially appropriated,
during the earlier years of youth and ,
manhood. This state of things if per
sisted in, brings the usual damning ef
fects in its train ; even if the surround
ings of such a man shoUld he too refined,
externally, to indulge in obscurity or ob
jurgation ; for, there are such things in
the world as "whited sepulchers" that
are filled with "rottenness and dead
mons bones ;" and refinedlieentiousness
or evil in any form, is more sweeping
and farther reaching in its dainnation—
and also damns its victims lower—than
that which has been indulged in more
grossly and revoltingly because more ig
norantly. The consequences and the
injuries incidental to a fall, are always
proportioned to the elevation from which
the individual has fallen, and every deep
observer of the progress which men are
making in this world, is compelled to
look with sadness upon the moral skele
tons that here and there abound in so'ci
ety, who are the unworthy representa
tives of the once opulent and elite of
the land, but who have fallen victims to
excesses; growing out of attempts,'suc
cessful or adverse;to becomein tiatne, a
clever fellow. But it may be asked, are
there 'no truly clever fellows? or is it
criminal and therefore necessarily dam
ning to become such ? To the first ques
tion we are happy to answer, yeel
to the second we unhesitatingly and un
eqUivocally answer, no ;—notwithstand--
ing it has passed into a proverb, that
"worth makes the man the want of it the
fellow."
There are clever fellows by scores in
this world ; more than have ever receiv
ed any credit for being such, and whose
actions being governed by a high sense
of duty towards all classes of society,
they never court any credit for being
such. With such persons charity al
ways begins at home, but instead- of end
ing there, it goes out wherever it may
lawfully find anything to do, by and
through lawful means. The truly clever
fellow is always - charitable ; not alone
that kind of charity which seeks, to make
a display of almsgiving ; but a charity
that-has regard -to the sentiments, the
feelings, the opinions, and the.rights of
others. The truly clever fellow also only
gives that which is his own, or that which
has been placed in his charge to give in
some other name ;. and -to ,givo it under
such circumstances and at such times as
will subserve the greatest use. It need
scarcely be asserted that the larger mn
ber of those who , have earned the: rep
tatien of being clever-fellbsis, have 'done
it at therexPense of Othershave given .
and in one way or another Squandereil at
haphazzard, the Substance that never
belonged to them,' and for which they
hive never been able to make an ad -
Tide return-Lthis need not be asserted
here at any.lenglh, for it-is too apparent
to the most superficial observer.
Yes, there are legitimate clever fel
lows—thanks for these green spots in the
social desert—there are clever, fellows,
but they are those who are actuated by
a sense of sterling and inflexible, yet
chartable duty, in their intercourse with
their fellow men,
ttir There was an old Farmer who had
one hen that, not content with her
proper sphere of action, was continually
endeavoring to crow. At last, after re
peated attempts, she succeeded in mak
ing something like a crow. The farmer
was taking his breakfast at the time, and
hearing the noise went out, but soon re
turned,- bearing in his hand the crowing
hen, minus her head. " There," said he,
I'm willing hens should do most- any
thing, but I ain't willing they should
crow ; it's setting a bad example."
.itirMrs. Gaines' great suit is set down
for trial in January, in the 'Supreme
CourtjNo. 66 on the calendar. It in
volves about two-thirds of the city of
New Orleans. All parties lave arrived
in Washington, and are preparing for
the case. • '
MEM
;Er Queen Victoria-Is a -goCni Woman
•
—she bonght, ilea Wealsteads
and presented them to the 4poor fe4le
of Balmoral,.
FRANCE AND SECESSION : The New
York Comthercial. Advertiser, in a very
ante articleon theinterference of France,.
IXES
The pbsition of France and of Louis
Napoleon towards the seceding States,
is . nciw a topic of conversation as it has
heretofore been of speciltilion.: Reliable
intelligence has been received to the er•
feet that the Emperor of France declines
to pave the. way for negotiations with
South Carolina. OverturCs have already
been made to him and , his recognition
has been solicited. He states that even
if the ind,ppendence of South Carolina,
and if a southern confederation is recog
nized by the northern States and by the
rest of the Union, France cannot toler
ate the idea on which this separate es•
istence is based, and she will not endorse
the system of slavery or the revival of
the slave trade. This intelligence is
rather dampening to the heated spirits of
the secessionists, who had Counted con
fidently upon French 'sympathy, and, if
necessary, intervention. But the whole
policy of France is in the line of human
ity, and against such a denial of rights as
is contemplated arid maintained by the
south.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE: On Thurs
day evening of last week the marriage of
Mr. A. Berghmans, the Secretary of the
Belgian Legation at Washington, to
Miss Lily Macalester, daughter of Chas.
Macalester, Esq., of Philadelphia ; and
Vice Regent of the Ladies' Mount Ver
non Association, took place at the resi
dence of Mr. Macalester. The ceremony
was performed by the 'Protestant as well
as the Catholic form, the civil service
having previously been performed, as in
European Catholic countries. The bride
was attended by seven bridesmaids, the
first being Miss Harriet Lane, the niece
of the President of the United States.—
The groomsmen were all , gentlemen at
tached to the Diplomatic-service. The
bride and groom departed for a brief vis
it-to New York. The 'trousseau, of the
bride, and the dresses of herself and her
attendants at the wedding are described
as surpassingly beautiful.
ar Wm. Smithinian, who is a na
tive of England, a millwright, for many
years a resident of Juneau county, Wis.,
arrived at St. Louis last week from Mem
phis, and exhibited the marks of fearful
lashing and abuse received at a place
called Sanatobia Station, in Mississippi,
on the Tennessee
_and Mississippi' -Rail
road. lle was Charged, on arriving at
Sanatobia, with tampering with a slave,
and although protesting"entire innocence,
was taken out, stripped, received two--
hundred lashes, and `afterwards 'tarred
and feathered, and threatened' with hang
ing if he did not leave :in five ',minuets.
The Southern people have an-wytiya.fors
obtaining all 'the dyrdente they itatt -to _
convict any obnoxioUS man ofa cflied.—
They sieze a slave, threaten and lash him,
till, to escape insufferable torture or
death, he "confesses" that the l ivtite ob
ject of hate had `i tampereiP With him,
and theUthe crime is stiftelentlY proved •
to justify indignity, brutal abuse, and ev
en actual murder. We read of Such .ati
torted confessions id' the dark ages Of
rope with indignatiodand horreOftit
this is the " dark age " in the eitreMe
South. They talk-of our- laws as " in
famous," while they Abel:l - selves - regard
their own laws - but as ropes of timid in
cases where Northern men should be
protectee ' "
Cr The Smithsonian Institute is pre
paring, by order of Congress, a most in
teresting report on agricultural meteor
ology, which will be a welcome boon to
our farmers. Besides
.meteorological
statistics collected during the last ten
years, at nearly four bundred stations, it
will contain the arrivals and departure
of birds, fishes and migratory animals,
and also a time of planting and harvest
ing of crops, &c., at the different points
of the United. States. .
RANTELLus
go' A Bangor, 'Me., bully attacked
Smith, the razor Strop man, with EL tor
rent- of abuse. Unable to stand" it 'shy
longer, Smith put down his bo:sliet, took
off his glasses, and said—" 11Sy frignd;
only get mad, once in fourteen years, :lAA
this is my time—Pcn!mad nll thriaisti.."
With this remark, ho p~chBl aid
whipped the fellow taltgiti ftil
the conceit out of' •
*V . A. French machinist,-named-Baird,
has *it invented &mover/Met; fottin'sjo,
which is said tee loe a terrible anachine,
propelled •by.ptealh. , It -id. dionnted :on
wheels; ,and at- - :seme4 future' day ke
expedited into an 'enemy's camp; to deal
out the destroying- missiles with which
it is well supplied.
NO. 25.