Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-11-09
OLD SERIES VOL. II, NO. =
AUTUMN OF THE YEAR.


dest OF the year" TO some, and to others the
sweetest, have come at last, with their gol.
den lines and fading verdure And how
brief has been the space since the bright
festival of spring time when tempest and
desolaiion were all forgotten amidst tho
sweet songs of birds in their shaded bowers,
of bliss! The child breath of nature i, inn
percepibly stealing over plant and flower,
the leafes hangs wrestling in the wind, and
the green carpet Of creation is beginning 10
wear yellowish or motley color-the index
of decay. This is season ever pregnant
with reflection, for all around and about us
tells Of the perishable nature of the things
of earth, To many who have already passed
rubicon Of middle life, and whose spirits
are depressed by difficulties, or broken by
unavailiug struggles, it is a season Of peculiar
melancholy, for it warns them that their
time for action has passed, that the advent
of lfe's winter is fast approaching. They
look back upon their bright sp,ing.,ime of
existence, when life wore the beauty Of pro-
mise, and mournfully contrast the joyous
past with the dreary present. To those, too,
who are but in lfe's prime, it lie, betimes
sadder TO look back on the fowery fields Of
existence through which they have bsen
rambling, and TO contrast them with the bea.
ten track they now tread, and the desola,e
prospect in perspective. Many bright orb
of hope that has once cheered them on tho
pathway of life, emi,s faining beam tho
horizon Of happiness recedes as they advance
towards it; the shadows will soon begin
usurp the iervor of monday. To many, the
pride of their youth have passed away and so
have their fondest dreams, and they feel
themselves TO be changed, and their faculties
of enjoyment diminished. and are filed with
a mixture Of worldly scorn and unavaiing
regret for the lovely season that has so brief
ly fitted away from them, never to be recall
led.
But the autumn with all its deepening sha.
dows is not wholly season of gloom, even
though the bowling blast and sere leaf do
remind MS of perished hopes and coming
death. In the fall of the year, even with ito
mournful decay, there is something which
charms the soul and sweetens human life;
for the rustic of the changing green, the
winds low sigh, the creaking door, the house.
cricket's prolonged chrp and the lit up
hearth, send our thoughts back on an errand
of memory TO those charming hours and hap.
py days Of youth and hope-days of child.
hood, OF innocence-when, with many be-
loved one from whom we have now parted,
we sat around the family hearthstone and
partook Of the feelings of other times
There is moral TO be gathered while con.
templating the changes of nature at the pres.
ent season of The year, for we are apt TO alb.
s,ract our thoughts from the perishabIe, to
turn from earth's ephemeral cnarms to the
more sublime beauties which lie beyond it.
In our contempations the belief steals upon
us that if the vital power is continually sus-
tanned year after year upon the face of the
earth, in the grass blade, in the forest, and in
the many forms Of nature--so also will there
come another existence 10 mans life, and tho
'oii uuSt VI VIII dsouiilC ioI
brighter and purer shape, be animated with
t new existence by the same power that gar
4 nishes so beautifully by the forests and the
7 howers.-NeU York Path Finder.
: STRIKING A LEAD.-The Dubuque Tribune
a says that ''a lead has just been stuck short
: distance north of that town by Mr.. Thomas
n Levins, which is said to be one of the largest,
n il not the largest, found in that vicinity.
), The opening that has been worked extends
n into large cave, which the fortunate finder
d estimates 10 contain no less than one million
y lbs. of The pure Gaena At present prices
e this would be worth some $4,000. Mr.. Le-
e win has been amongst the luckiest miners
/. who have ever tried these dggings. His
5. present discovery comes at very opportune
:, moment, 10 revive the dropping hopes Of our
4, hard working mining population generally"
a OTTER TO THE PATRIOT KossuTH.-It is
" stated in the New York "Journal of Com.
A. merce," that handsome offer to the illustri.
10 Gus Kossuih, has been made by noble.min.
II ded American of the city Of New York
d through l.. R. Breisach in effect, that il
"a Kossuih should choose TO come TO thi. coun.
or try, he will be presented gra,uilousy with
ID hundred acres Of fine land in the vicinity
IN of New York.
? AN auc,ioneer lately INDUCED in the fol
lowing little bit of the pathetic: Gentlemeu
q il my father or mother stood where you do
n and didn't buy these boots-when they wer.
d going for one dollar, should feel il my duty
If as son TO tell both Of 'em that they were