The Wilmingtonian., 1823-11-06


,affle all human efforts in their attempts
% remove them, are occasioned by negli-
,ence now. All preparations for winter
should commence in this month, and nj
until that season shall literally
arrive.
AUTUMN.
To those lovers of rural scenery whol
are of a serious, meditatve cast, the pre-
sent season of the year is peculiar
Iy pleasing. "Tis true, that it produces
not that blithsome, joyous spirit, which
is felt whilst we behold and admire the ex-
glorious of spring; and that ex-
hilarates in summer, as we rambe through
verdant meadows, OF recline upon the
grass covered banks of some softly MUIR
muring rivulet, or wander through the gay
parterre, where flowers disclose their beau
ties and exhale their fragrancc-but t
creates kind of feeling and leads to re-
Elections, that are profitable; and after
the mind is fitted to receive and weigh the
truths it would inculcate, it ceases to be
either painful or irksOme to dwell upon its|
Just and sober admonitions.
A few weeks ago. passed Sabbath
with one ofmy neighbouring friends. The
day was unusually serene and pleasant.
Scarcely was there cloud to break the
of the blue expanse of heaven.
The frost had despoiled the trees OF ver-
ldure and light breeze that played
among the branches, was depriving them
of their variegated foliage.
l could not help admiring the appear
ance of the trees that covered the side and
crowned the summit of distant hill
The yellow leaves of the birch, the russet
of the oak, the crimson of the maple, and
the green of the spruce or pine, were init
mately blended it was, in fact, a perspec-
tive, which the pencil would as vainly at.
tempt to initiate. as the pen to describe
But when thought of the cause Of this
gorgeous scenery; when | reflected that
vegetative life was fastening 70 its annual
extinction; that what | saw was made
thus beauteOus by its death; that ere long
the bleak winds of winter will sweep o'el
a leailcss and dreary forest; and that, eve,
,lthen, saw evidence Ui its mutation in tn,
scared leaves that gentle motion of thu
: air, whirled from their parent stems
; was almost unwarily led to compare witt
. what was witnessed, the circumstance
which characterize the residence Of maj
in the present world.
A little while since, thought, and tn
'Iwithered leaves that are now i1utterng be
: fore me, were hale and vigorous, and firm
in their attachment to their native branch
es but few hours of frost has weakene
this atiinity-and now the fitful summon
I of each passing breeze, hurls them in my
riads to the ground--there to decompos
and mingle with their pristine element
So it is with mana transient sicknes
!chiIls the warm current of his existence
wastes his strength, and ultimately III
lcasps the golden chain which binds h
,pirit to mortality, and dust to dus
lshes to ashes,' witnesses that his body
e restored to its parent earth; and soon
=. .mouders back to its undistlnguished or
is gin. But the grave does not contain a
10 that constituted the man--the soul, th
e which never dies, or decays, will still liz
n retain its vigour; and exist forever
a. The unexpected sound OF bell rouse
he me from the reverie into which l had ia
ofllen; withdrew from the scene which b;
been the object of my contemplation
and turning towards the street, beheld
large assemblage of the villagers-the N
e' lancholy chime again broke upon my c
es, 1T was funeral knell and what S;
'e, was procession, conveying the visible
,"' mains of husband, friend, to the re
ling place-of ALL.
sn' All (! thought |, is not this an apt CO
III ment upon the truths which have be
no. lconsidering; demonstration of the iu
u.s. ness of the assertion, We all do fnae a
",,lteat! PHlLo
o' VermOnt Inteltigsnc
inel
uo- WINCHESTER, Oct. q
be- ASErronE.--A letter lately passed throug
,rit post office in this valley, on which was the
rtv lowing endorsements This with haste-do
M detan this letter as you do some,imes-I
'"''Ih haste" The clerk, to resent the afront, ad
the following: "Their air CRATE menny Fl
ri a. Il