The Arkansas advocate., 1833-12-25

--7.-,l -..-, things rightly, touching the veal "p's of the ComnlOn.',
 -rR,;stInas-merry Christmas has come, ..a inc year is slowly drawing to the end ;ts iourney, like weary traveller; and
 T, opicklv join those shadowy forms of s.rone ages, which people the indistinct I ..ahns . of the past. Itis curious reaec- .;on that, after the silent lapse oi some thou ,d years. we shall be the subjects of his- ..u-tbe gone--the dead-the hardly re- .anbered denizens of a Republic that qoas; ..d some careful historian will sit i'll his .nn.cbair, and grayely detail to the world .., doinps, much in the same manner as men now seek out and bring to light the = history of the Egyptians, the Persians, and E the Ghaideahs.
 This day, particularly, is one of those eras, which force man to look inward, .a to lose himself Ill reflection. 1t Is a q .semn fastivity throughout all Christen- 5on--and it is not the least of incentives 10 rood and generous feeling, to remember that in the joy and pleasure of this day, we share feeling common to millions. It is E Ete bond of brotherhood--it shows us, shat tho we may have wrestled with the E world til we fancy ourselves tired of it. tbo' we may be disgusted with life, and ] ready to embrace death as friend-none sueh, we trust, are among our readers Eitho' we have been so long away from the launts of our boyhood ard the friends oi our youth--still there is feeling common 10 us, to our friends, and to large portion # of mankind. The same gush of joy and Z fine excitement which aUe feel pouring thro' =our hearts to-day, Is felt by many thous- and hearts besides. The day is redolen1 of love and philanthropy; and we pity the man who does not feel the thought which Coerdge so beautifully expresses; #1IIe prayeth best, who loyeth best = aAll things, both great and small
 "For the great God that loyeth Us, aHe made and loyeth all."
 # Apart from the solemn and conseeratet character of this day, there Is Ill ii, 1t seems 10 US, a peculiar attraction to the people who compose this western dominion. We 1are all distant from the homes of our child hood--from our friends and relatives--ant this day we remember many merry christ 'z Es mas mas, winch we passed ere our hearts hat & grown eallous by contact with the world, O
 our feelings blunted by misfortune. It re calls nome most yiyidly to us--our quiet olt ancestors, who, on this day at least, indul
 ged themselves in having their descendenti
 about them, to partake of the Christina: feast. Ne remember our old play-fellows
 and the spots that we rambled over in boy
 lood-the skating--the sleigh ride--ant
 he thousand frolics from which Christina. look all restraint. All these things com, *3roal
 'fesh upon us--,ningled, it may be, witt Stnfls of pain, as we remember what W,
 uaFe lost, but pain softened down, till i #las half lost its character.
 se ourselves, dear Readers, on this dal Pa'aake of the general lllarity--and tho W, pfe at 1imes ofa splenetic humor, to-day Vt ease no feelings but pleasure and gratitude P''s trlte wish, but it is with earnestnes:
 la real feeling that We say to our friends
 'Ae'ever they may be, ape acish tlie,a MFR
 Rf CHRISTMAS.
 "e have not received the Presidents
 Message.
 *4
 ,ne steamer Compromise, on her way ur
 ,'S plaee' was stopped on account o
 .'W water, just below the Pine Bluffs
 saturday, l4th inst. Since then, man,
 "' passengers have arrived here by land
 4s 'iser Is yet low, so that she is unable
 tune up. We have heard that the .4r-
 's0s IS n the river.
 @eonslderation < of the great interest O
 '0's'sa news in this days paper, oul
 ss's W'li excuse the want Of variety ir
 ur columns.
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