The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-01-01

,,. for tho Copitol, throu'n '"V KS Of ii
,hs midst Of n rnireage. Al 'ne ,,,to Single q
week will also be gi'' ~ '''''
Yc,r years Day.
q. the first Of a new ycar-thls IS IN
If Fory-six, winch has now dawre'
oin Law it be a happy year to our country
p ,- ,atrops and frlends-to all OF whom W.
-, haoov. thrice happy, happy New lear' ano
rs, maag returns OF H.
What ret,ospectons are afforded " ihe year ina
i aow slipped away for ever pay " me good OF
vi, live ior YER and the eNd be inferred with It's
booes The iournsL,~G above all others, has a
,unetlar 4 sresl N this day. The year is his pecu
r.,rno, -, Is the field in which he luxurlates-
~ the sky which he is ever contemplating.
n Nv the lxous captain OF one OF our packets
"a wf3 rise. Il midnight to watch the course of the
clouds, rs ascertain the state OF the weather. TO
catch hi breathing of the winds, watching the
porteutous lgns on the horizon, and the symptoms
a The lev ung so the journalist, conducting
ms bark he mighty sheet which watts the speedy
news n ouehou the landa-long the tempestuous
pecan IL the year, watches each day, every sgnif-
cant sign, and warns his readers of every approach
ing storm.
Such is the anxious task of the editor While
his readers take their the year round, and on
awaking IA the morning, find upon their tables every
day detailed account OF all that has been transact
ing above-around- before-behind them-in al
parts OF the world-G the next street, in the mex
county, IN the next State on the remote Gauges. or
among the handicapped Andes-as he peruses all
these things, over his spicy chocolate or balmy
Mocha-llttle, ah little does he think upon the
care, the toll, the labor the anxiety, the sleepless
nlgH,, the ever-waklng energies of the editor
In snort, we have passed through Forty-h il i
gone for ever, and who can write his obltuarv
Who can undertake to describe character a.
c1ingeluI, so tlucuatlng, deceitful-at on. time
iEomslng so much, then abruptly dashing TO the
fround the fragile cup OF expecation-at one time
= smiling and gay, at another so sombre. gloomy
nd black II Is gone, this changefu year-and.
lL-ader, If you would fully know its character. Won
VIII lind It written in the columns of the Ne,c York
Herald
But what prospects open before us What will
be the character OF this year, not as yet wenty-four
hours old, this infant OF promise and great expecta
ton we Judge by the past, we shall perhaps he
come too sanguIne and too bold in prognostcatinp
for the future. The light of splendid past sheds
81 the United States, and promises, like the golden
nues oil evening" lar and bright day for the MGR
row. What past, History presents no sucb snec.
acie tli now seventy years are scarcely gone by.
'he allotted years OF individual life, and within that
'imea nation has sprung into exlstence-has peopled
a hemisphere has spread its canvas over eyery
oceRn-has elevated its name above every other
people-has conquered the wildeness-has peopled
the desert-has ploughed up the waves and the
rivers, a!->carred life, liberty, peace, commerce,
MT and civilization INTO the remoest attitudes His
tory presents such similar spectacle Such a
progress OF handful of poor, outcast, prosecuted
Brltons coming in frail barque 10 land they knew
not WHITTIER cast like iorlorn and shlpwrecked ma
ruers, some on one spot and some on another,
some the shores OF James river, some on the
ock OF Plymouth-and these poor and helpless, and
desplsed wanderers, after few years rising into a
nation-then boldly encountering all the power,
force and fleets OF the country from whence they
had fed-then, after asserting their independence,
rushie on rapidly TO become what are now, a
people OF twenty millions. spread over a con-
tinent ot immense surface, a wonder 10 ourselves
ard { wonder to the world We repeat it
there i no similar thing recorded in all histo
~ And who is the man-who are the men or
The Do3y OF men, who shall say that they thought
ct al shat they planned it-hat they effected
lt-that they brought it all 10 pass Not one =
II is Power beyond all men'that has raised up this
country 10 be what il is, and who, we pray, may
continue 10 prosper and bless 1t, in spite OF human
foles and ignorance. With such wish, and such
prayer, for our beloved country, hail this day
the dawn OF a New Year, the beginning of FORTY
SIX.
MoRMoNs. principal leaders Of the Mormons
have been indicted tor counterieitng, by the grand
...r,. =, s,rinnhold ulinnir H.. &C., LII