Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1840-01-02
THURSDAY MORNING., JANUARY ?, ls4o.

SO. n m0D, VINO Is DISSATISFIED Win MN.
: self, and those around him., and laboring
under the darkening influence of disturb
} ed OF morose feelings, "may travel from
Dan TO Beersheba, and say it is all bar
rem, TO him it viii! appear so and the
effect would be the same If his journey
lay amidst The most delightful scenes oil
rural beauty. The seasons Of the year
all give their annual lessons for ins,ruc-
ton. Ii is our wisdom to regard them
carefully. Spring m us oil TO
cheerful activity, with assurance that our
labor will not be in vain. Summer per-
forms what Spring had promised, and
shews us the advantage Of listening to
early instruction, aud wisely improving it.
Ten thousand songsters are filing the
branches, with their animating strains OF
music and gratitude, and teaching us 10
enjoy, as they do, the countless blessings
and bouniies of nature their music is me-
yer failing-nor do we see it ending in
dlscords. Let us all, as we journey on
ward together through the year, learn to
tune our hearts as they do their voices,
and pass the heeting period in harmony,
and ia that cheerfuIness which the excel
lent Addison has honoreI, with the name
of a continual expression Of gratitude to
Heaven.
In Germany, the study and practice of
music are general among the people. Be-
sides other advantages, resulting from ma
king music a part of common education,
il is not romantic or utopiau 10 observe
hat it teaches how easily music-pure
and surprising music-may be made On
the same instrument, which. under an ig-
norant or purposed touch, will send forth
discords, in prodigious varieties. He who
has become acquainted with the instru.
ment, though not the master OF it, well
knows how to avoid those combinations
of sound which are painful TO the ear, and
often tend 10 disturb feelings and passions.
What tones are sweeter than those pro-
duced by the gentle brerze of Heaven, in
passing over the strings of the Eolian
Harp? The reason is, those strings are
so ai,uned as that their vibrations will not
respond except in notes of harmony bul
only discord the strings, by increasing
the tension Of some, and decreasing that
of others, and the sweetest zephyr Will
produce nothing but the vilest discords,
resembling angry passions. Let us then,
in our journey through the year on which
we have entered, acquire, as much MS pos
sible, n knowledge of the science and the
art of social and domestic moral music.
Let US learn to measure our time with
care, TO cultivate our voices, that they
may lose all %harshness let each attend
to his own part, and strive 10 excel in
that. Let us consider our feelings, pas.
sions, and dispositions, as the strings of
the Harp; and the ordinary events ollile,
as the bree yes which give vibration TO the
strings il! these strIngs-our feelings, pas
sions, ard dispositIons-are in proper tune
under due regulation, and preserving Il
Just relation each to all the others, we
have then all the elements OF moral mu-
sic, domestic and social, and IN a few
weeks, by due regard to all the principles
and arrangement, above mentioned, we
shall soon be good scholars, giving and
receiving all that pleasure which harmo.
nv can afford. and, as the sober Autumn
advances, our tastes for this kind Of mu-
sic will be more and more rlpened towards
perfection and when the cold December
evenings shall arrive, wo can listen 10
the angry music Of the elements abrond,
full of discordant strains, sweeping by our
peaceful homes, while, within them. all
may be the music ofthe heart, in its gent.
lest movements.
1t is n melancholy truth, that we, our.
selves, manufacture seven-eighths OF what
we are disposed 10 term our misfortunes
in this world. Want of precaution mars
our arrangements want of prudence
poses us to dangers which we might east.
~ have avoided want of patience often
hurries us into difficulties, aud disquali-
fes us TO bear them with calmness or de-
cency. Indulgence in follies and fashions
often plants the seed Of wasting disease.
lntemperance in our passions always is
f3!.owed by unwelcome sensations, and
sometimes with a sense Of shame. Stimu-
lants are succeeded by debility, and when
they are used TO excess, we know, and dali
~ witness, the dreadful results-if death
is not one OF them-eithcr the death Of
the offender, or Of some other, destroyed
by his hand, in the tempest Of infatuated
passions.-We are too often compelled to
mourn over the desolation they occasion
presenting, in one view,
acknowledgements family OF pain"
BREACH OF PRoMisE.-Our young la.
d;as IN this radiant country ueneraiiy oct