The Litchfield County post., 1829-01-01
HttrhftRIn Gouutp 99oat.
LITCHFIELD, JANUARY l, 1929.
NEW YEARS DAY.


 "This dav Time winds tn exhausted chain,
 To run the twevemonth's length again;
 I see the old bald pated fellow.
 With ardent eyes comp exon sai'ow'
 Adust the unimpaird machine,
 T" wheel the equal 4"'' r".'nc' r
 And wha. is this days strong suggestion
 +sThe passing moments all we rest on "
 Rest op-for what? what do we herel
 Or why regard the passing year
 Will Time, amus'd VI 'i nroverhd lore,
 Add to our date momen' more
 few days maya few years must
 Repues uS n the silent dnst.'-BURNs.
 Another year has rolled away into the ocean of the past, sweeping muit;tudes into its obvious depths forever "Tme rolls his ceaseIess course" onward over decaying ages needing not the rise and fall of empires, dsregarding the miseries of mankind, pros srang alike the klng and the beggar the p'ince and the peasant, rue!. and ruled. Since the world was created his uninterrupted and indetermnabe career has been mark ed by decay, desolation, and death- The nobles, works of art have been lcvelled by his mighty sweep; and even Nature bears his impress. But man most has felt his whitening inAuence.- Where now are those powerful nations ofod Greece. Rome, Carthage, Egypt, and others? Swept into ob- lions dark waters, existing only in name Empires have been like figures made in sand upon the sea- ehore of which the tide of time has left traces but the recollection of having bcen. Despots have tram pled upon the liberties and lives of mankind; but Time has laid low both the oppressor aad the oppres- scd And his indestructibe chariot now rolls o''- ward with the same devastating and steady progress at present, it did in former ages. How many, who entered ron the past year flush with health and buc, ant with hope with fire in their eye and vlgor in their step; the sun of whose happiness shone as brightly and the horizon of whose prospects as unc'ouded as any who at present bask in prosperity, now sleep with the "forgotten dead, leach in his narrow cell forever ad,'' equally unconscious of the happiness or woe of those who mourned their depar- ture. The number who are destined to 'SeeP m s'- lence" with them the 'ron tongue o Time" tolls she departure of the present year, is known only to Him who scaRneh h;"rity at glance.
 In entering upon tHg commend cement ot another year, it is natural to take retrospective view of the principal incidents ofthe last. The of the past year in the Old War'd. haze been fraught with in- tense interest. Greece,-onc the favorlte land oi sae<Oen orators ard poets and the cradle of liter ature which mas for many centuries been groan- ing under the t amy and oppression of the rue be- lievsrs' of the Fa-e Prophet" and for few years past has been struggling single handed against her powerful oppressors with spirit worthy her Spar tan ancestors, but her resourCtt nearly exhausted and the nope of her almost crushed beneath the weight of power by which they were overborne, is now free. The standard of the Cross floats tri- umphantIy over every batement, and the Crescent is only unured where the infatuated disciples of Ma homet repoee in the pride of ignorance, guided by the precepts of the Koran. Not single hostile Turk or Egyptian at present be found in the Morea. This important result has been effected by the combined efforts of France, England, and Russia. The EgyP- tians have been coerced into cessation of hos'itIes and Ibrahm Pacha forced to retire to his own shores with the shattered rem aims of his army.
 The Northern Autocrat and Grand Turk now engaged in a mighty struggle, and the ancient en- mity of the Muscovite and Moslem is revived and burns fercer than ever. The "begnnings of strife" which have already taken place. are only the prelude to more desperate than has ever before oc- cured between the descendants of the Czars and the children of the Prophet. But the Turks who were once an overmach for the Russians, not so pow erfuI as they were formerly, when they penetrated into the very heart of Europe and established them selves in Vienna. The scmitar of the Ottoman is not so formidable now, when in former years it was wieded against the armies of Chrstendom by the in- vincibe arm of the hery Janissary. It is not match for the pike of the Cossack and the bayonet of the Russian. But it is inposs he to foresee what conca- tenat;on of circumstances may yet plunge all Europe into the struggle.
 The affairs of the other nations of Europe present nothing unusual in their appearance, if we except the Kingdom of Great Britain. An excitement prevails p Ireland among the Roman Catholics of all classes, which if not aI'ayed will burst out into flame, to which the scenes of l79s will bear no comparison. Although no acts of open rebellion have yet transpi red, that country is evidently the of terrible convuison: the present state of public feeling is like the lurid calm which precedes the tornado. The Catholic Question must be disposed of else rebellion will be the consequence.
 But our own country presents happy exempli6ca-