Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1843-01-17

Il Decidedly the best eulogy upon thu
past, that we have seen, is the following
from The New Orleans Bulletin:
The Last Day of The Year Z There i
something startling in thecapabilily will
! which God has etdoNed us, to calculate
the passage Of Time-to mark its pro
gress..and SO to consider it, as to be able
to apply the process Of generalization -
A something which cannot be seen, MOI
smellej, nor heard, nor touched, nor las.
ted, has, by the inelable ability Of the
human intellect, become matter not OF
human consideration alone, but of actual
'tsmall ialk.o What Time sit? is ques
ton from the child 1Tthe nursery and
The cook 10 the kitchen, up 10 the stales-
man in our national councils, and astron.
omers upon the peaks Of mountains. 1t
is a conception general also, TO the people
Of the whole workI-from the lcelander
who calculates sA months Of life at a
sitting, to the seaman whose chronometer
only varies two seconds ia a year. Look
also at the division of this inlangi Bile
SOMETHING into seconds, minutes, days,
months, years, cycles and centuries.--
We look upon the months by name, as il
were, and can almost clasp them in
menta embrace. We can rail and scoId
at them, or flatter and londie them, as
they fling gall or roses over our way of
life We give them place, order and pc
sllon. We also Undue them with color
and other characteristics. Who does not
conceive that they stand in regular order,
like scholars in classes--"ObD- JANUARY"
al The "head," grum and suIky, and "OLD
DECEMBER" al the (oot--cold, silent, and
repplSive? We give.them color and sex:
JANUARY" is male, Of an ashy hue
"FEBRUARY" sort of rowdy boy, with
running at the nose Ibis hat crown flap. !
ping up, and his raj mants ragged and Of
dirty peagreen color "MARcH,"
roysterous, windy chap, with his hair
flying over and into his face, and his gar"
ments of dull gray. "APRIL," cons
plete hoyden--a girl in boys clothes -of
a bright, radiant dsposition--fond of
flowers and frolic, and liable toquick ex,
tremes Of smiles and tears She is Of
whltlsh color as to dress. MAY" the
maiden -redoleni Of natural graces, is
clad in the party colored robes, whose
likeness is drawn from budding branches
md sprlnging flowers "JUNE," full
grown woman--of amorous tendencies-J
warm in her attachments, and clad in
sreen-lyng her down in the GOODNESS OF
aIIng waters and signing by the lapsing +.
vavele,s Of soft streams, 'JULY,n a bold,
lot hunter, clothed in yellow with his
andals on--traversing rocks and nouns
aims, and searching game in the dry beds
i departed rivers. AUGUST" a quiet
aintlng dreamer--clad in the hue of1he
aiding leaf, and the ripening grain, and a
elbow who vagaries his hot.llle away, IA
sleep and lossitrde. "SEPTEM,
iER," clothed in cool and sombre attire
emoved equi distant from the maid and
he mairon. A female at IA time oil lltel
which brings the first Impression ofswos +
manly duty, YET in which the delights Of |
,irlhood are yet rememhercd;a pensiye,
elicate musing creature lulled into
ften contemplation by the fading nature
round her. 'tOcToBER," in dark russell
own, treading softly among the ripened
elds, with her green sandals on--a mn. n
ron and moiherly--wilh an DYE. to the
,arn and the binn, and the pultry yard
NOVEMBER" another hunter, like July, /,
nut cold, determined, silent one He
cams slowly, and is sure OF his aim
lis dress is buckskin. "DEcEMBEap we
.an only depict as feeble, chilled, surly :
Id man. His face is all wrinkles, and =
lis heart all stone. He cares nothing :
bout the "young' thingsm which bayo
'receded him, and whiIepreparing TO give !
eng 10 another familyor "monlhs,'' in 9
he capacity of.father and mother, he .
cells rot the. pride of the first, nor the !
nxiety Of the second 81 will 90 10 my ?
rave alone" says he; "they will be glad q
Q hear of my death" And SO, Deem q
'er, looking much like King Lear on the z
tage, and feeling something as King y
Lear did, when he found out show sharp, Z
= than, a serpent's tooth it is, to have =
hankless child" @onds his lonely way =
through dry thickets, and over gathering =
no~s, and across ice bound streams, I'M Y
\ he reaches the last verge ofthe year; 7
so weak then, that a little "Second Of a.
me" pushes him off The precpice at IL Z
clock atnlght. He leaps into eternity q
the midst of.lhick darkness, and alp y
ears no more, FOREVER! y
mn = - - mi
Our exchange papers from the North Of
fn and Middle States are filled with al
ollces OF Very excellent dividends, de- Il
AIRED ready y be paid BY divers banks NJ
nd insurance companes.S Stockholders al