Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1846-10-16
AUTUMN.

Autumn is again upon us, but is ushered in with
fragrant breeZes, and with all the beauty and har.
mony Of gentle summer. As yet no chilling
blasts have come TO mar the beauty Of the wood
and plain, or still the songs of the thousand vocal
lists who swell their thrill Of praise in the dewy
eve. As yet all nature is clad in the pleasing
green Of summer, and the eye may wander far,
in vain, in search Of the change attributed 10 Au
tumn. And yet that change is at hand. The
death kne OF summer has been sounded, and
few more suns will mark The great decay, the
deatho all that now looks beautiful. A few more
suns, and the teahered warblers, whose silvery
songs delight us, as they come iraught with ma
ture's own musc,-will have flown 10 the far off
sunny south. The insects that give their con.
cers in the deep OF night, will all have ceased
some for9ver-some 10 awake again in the dawn
Of spring. How many Of US will ever hear their
voices again! In this decay, in this sleep OF ma
ture, how many Of US may sleep, also, that sleep
! from which we never wake within the bounds OF
timer How many or how few, God only knows.
There is something sol l9mn, pleasingIy solemn in
the contemplation of the changes Of autumn
To see each leaf and blade losing one hue and
assuming another. clinglng 10 the last to that
which bore it,-as if fearful Of the dissolution
which asSuredly awaits it-seems TO US a type Of
frail moralty-of man, when the hand of death
is on him-when he feels he is changing
he sees the grave vawn TO receive the all Of him
that will ever perish, yet cings TO life till the vital
spark is extinct and he falls 10 rise no more.
| How wonderful are the laws Of nature-what
lessons in the minutest things before us? Who
can contemplate theeterna law Of Order-which
rules this vast creation from the highest TO the
minutest, which sets and holds in motion worlds,
and sends forth each blade at its appointed time;
and not be made sensible, and not be struck with
that Almighty law. How regular are the seasons
in their eternal rounds! Each year is an age
each season a stage, Epoch, each fruitful of its
| kind and true TO the grand design.
| Spring comes to us full of smiles and Joy; CIV.
cry Thing seems eIated that it hath escaped the
icy hand Of winter; and the very streams seem
laughing as they go dancing on with their gentle
murmurS; the very birds sing more joyous Than
in other seasons, and there is freshness about all
nature, truly inspiring. Spring may be lkened
to youth-summer, to the prime o. liIe-autumn,
to the wane-and winter, to old age and dissolu.
tion. As Understanding inspiring in the fresh.
ness, the first budding Of spring, so there is some.
thing pleasant but solemn in the contemplation OF
autumn; pleasant, to behold the fruits, the toll OF
a season, the golden harvest, ready TO repay the
labor of the Neutrality-suspicious., that 1t is the
decay of the year; that nature is being stripped
of her beautiful apparel-that it is preparatory
to the death of the year.
In musing on antumn, our mind invariably re-
verts 10 the autumn Of life, with the thoughts Of
how few of US will ever see it-how few of US
will stand in that point of time, whence we can
Hook back to middle age, and mark ourselves
three score and ten. But let death and change
come when they may, we should ever be prePa-
red to meet them-in the sPring-in the summer
I-or in the autumn Of life. N-'
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;. GEORGIA ELEcTIoN..--T National Intelligen.
Ger of The 10Th inst. contains the following item
from the late Congressional election in Georgia,
extracted from the Savannah Georgian: ~
. FIRST Observation-Disclosures ,O04 votes poll.
ed yesterday in thisci.y for meuber.of Congress.
The following is the result. Mr, Coher{ {TIen,,,1
1856, Mr.. King (Whig) COG. ~. ;"