Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-02
The Season.


The summer is ended, and autumn with it,
mellow light aud golden fruits is upon us
Another chapter Of the worlds history ha
been written. Since the passage of The verna
equinox, great and stirring events have trans
pired. Seventy summers are allotted to man
and to many, the one just closed, has been the
last. In the course Of it, many great and gooc
men have fallen, finished their labors, ended
their earthly harvest, and gone to receive thei
final reward; and among them were Kings
Lords, and Commons. The past season has
witnessed many changes in the old word, -
the Imprisonment of kossuth and his fellow pa
triots, in the heart Of Asia Minor, the degra.
dation of the butcher Hayn,u, the return of the
Pope to Rome, bloody battle between the
armies of Scheswig Holstein, the accession of
a new Emperor of China, the throwing off the
mask by Louis Napoleon, the death of Dr. Jud-
son, an eminent missionary, of Louis Philippe,
the ablest Prince Of his age, and of greater
fame than Sir Robert Peel; and last, but per-
haps not, and pearhaps least, the assembling
of Peace Congress at Frankfort on the maine.
On this side of the water, it has not been less
fruitful Of events. 1t has witnessed one of the
severest and most dangerous agitations that
ever shook the pillars of the Constitution, now
happily ended in a triumph of patriotism, and
general JOY and peace; the sudden death of the
President ofthese United States, and the quiet
accession OF his successOr-a man not less able
and worthy to hold thu reins Of Government
than his predecessor. 1t has seen the many
headed monsters of fanatcism and disunion
stricken down, and marked an era in our an
mails, one that will be looked back to by sue
ceeding generations, and from which will be
dated a new career in the path of our great
ness and glory. 1t has seen new, a glittering
and golden star added to our bright constel-
lation, that looks down upon the broad ex-
panse Of the Western Ocean, and even sheds its
light upon the Asiatic shores. 1thas witnessed
long train ofapilgrims, leaving their homes,
their kindreds, and all that civilized man most
prizes and holds most dear, and impelled by
some inevitable destiny, vending their way
across mighty rivers, over snow capped noun
tains, through cheerless vallies, and across
burning plains, in quest Of new home, under
the setting sun; it has witnessed thousands
falling and perishing by the roadside Of fati-'
que, famine, thirst and pestilence, and other
thousands, pressing on to fill their places, re-
gardless ofprivations and dangers, and thus the
astar Of empire westward its way" And it has
witnessed still other thousands focking from
the shores Of over burdened Europe to find a
refuge on our own. 1t has seen the time when
our ocean steamers have borne away the palm
from those Of England, and re-established our
empire on the waters. 1t has given birth to
new project the grand conceptions of an ocean
line between America and the Western Coast
Of Africa, to return the descendants of her sto-
len children to the land of their fathers, sup
press, the infamous traffic in slaves, build iup
new empire on the ruins of barbarism, ciyilize
benighted continent open new channels of
trade and commerce, and consummate the
greatest work of the age-while from the shores
Of the Pacific our navigators are swarming
among its islands and invading the borders Of
Asia. The past season has just afforded time
for progress in science, and considerably in the
arts. It has been signalized by the search for
Sir John Franklin, by the laying down of a
channel Of thought between England and the
Continent, by the arrival Of Jenny Lind in
America; by some true, and considerable false
progress, by the spread of the gospel among
the heather, and by the spread of socialism,
the newest form ofinfdelity among christians;
by an abortve attempt to break up the Wing
party, throw Clay and Webster and their
friends out of it, and organize new one on its
ruins; and by the Union of the superior and in
ferior democracy at SYRACUSE fitting end of
the chapter.-Aldany Register.