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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-12-24
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A Merry Christmas Day

The year is slowly dying,
The moments swiftly flying
Upon their car away,
Where ancient wrenlhs are lying;
While every hope is signing
A merry Christmas Day.
AS rosy morn is breaking,
Each fluttering heart awaking,
Whom sleep has led astray,
Her lulling arms forsaking,
Sees JOY in soon partaking
A merry Christmas Day.
Now joy around is flowing,
And blushing checks are glowing,
Among the light and gay;
As zcphyrs lightly blowing,
Bright Hope is e'er foreshowiug
A merry Christmas day.
Some tender heart is heaving,
Some gentle maiden weaving
Her hopes without delay;
For Chronos is bcqueathing.
And fairy Hymen wreathing
A merry Christmas Dayl
The rosy and the blushing,
The youthful and the flushing,
The aged and the grey,
Each daily calling hushing,
In Pleasures circle rushing,
Enjoy Christmas Day.
So come ye lawyers prosing
With mortgages forcclosing,
From ru 'hing business stay -
Ye doctois all reposing,
Awake and stop your doing
This merry Christmas Day
Ye hoary merchants trading
In silks and colors fadirg,
Dcsist, as well We may,
" With bricks your pockets lading,"
Or luckless business wading,
This merry Christmas Day.
With golden edges fumbling,
Yc scholars, cease your rumbling
Along your rro>y way;
Awhile your classic stumbling
Rest, with your ccaseless grumbling,
This merry Christmas Day!
To lime vc aged clinging,
And yc that wreaihes are bringing
To Pleasures throne array
To all your garlands swinging,
We u'M, while Time is winging,
A Merry Christmas Day.
CALAMus CoLUMB.E
North Ferrishurgh, VT.
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I know thou hast Gone.
DY +. X. lIERvkY.


know thou hast gone to the home of thy rest
Then why should my soul be so sad 2
know thou hast gone where the weary are
blesr,
And the mourncr looks up and is glad.
Where love has put off, in the land of its birth,
The stain it had gathered in this;
And IIopc-the sweet singer that gladdencd
the earth,
Lies asleep in tho bosom OF blissl
know thou hast gone where thy forehead is
With the beauty that dwelt in thy soul:
marrcd,
Nor thy heart he flung back from its goal.
know thou hast drunk Of the Lcthc that flows
Through land where they do not forget,
That sheds over memory only repose,
And takes from it only regret
In thy far away dwelling, wherever il be-
/ believe thou hnst visions of ninc;
And the love that made all things as music to
me,
have not yet learned 10 resign.
In the hush Of the night on the waste of the sea,
Or along with the breeze on the hill;
have ever presence that whispers of Thee,
And my spirit lies down. and is still
Mine eye must be dark, that so long has been
dim,
Ere again it may gaze upon thine;
But my heart has revealings of thee and thy
home
In many token and sigh;
never look up with vow 10 the sky,
But light thy beauty is there
And hear low murm'ring like reply,
When Ipour out my spirit in prayer.
And though like mourner thai sits by atomb,
am wrapped in a mantle of care;
Yet the grief of my bosom-oh, call it not
gloom
Is not the black grief of despair.
By sorrow revealed, as the stars are by night,
Far of a bright vision appears,
And hope, like the rainbow, creature oflight
Is born-like the rainbow-in tears
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-12-24

The QUACKERY OF CoNvERsATIoY,-
A gentleman once called on Wilkes, and
NOT finding him at hOmc, sat down to await
his return, aud to amuse himself in the in,
terim took up French book Of anecdotes
many of which he observed were marked.
Mr.. Wilkes did not come back, and the gen.
teman went away. He met him, however,
with some mutual friends at dinner, ana to
his great amusement, heard all The anec-
doies which lie observed marked in the book,
most ingeniously introduced in the course of
the evening.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-12-24

TREES AROUND COUNTRY HOUSES
We are glad to see a great improvement in
taste, in respect to the selection OF trees
planted around houses in the country, par
ticulariy when the family makes it resi-
dencc for winter as well us summer In this
case they choose evergreens mostly, in order
to give cheerful aspect 20 their winter res
idencei which would appear dreary if lie.
ciduous trees alone surrounded the house, or
adorned the park.
No country in the world can show so nu-
merous and beautiful Il variety Of evergreens
as are indigenous TO the United Safes and
to these can lie added many of the mobiles,
aud most desirable from foreign countries
which flourish as well here as in their own
native homes. Perhaps the most beautiful,
hardy, and rapidly growing of these foreign
evergreens yet introduced into the United
States are the NoricaV Spruce, Japan Ceddr,
and the Deoddrd from the llimalaya noun
tains. We hear of several others that are
promising, as the Weeping Cypres, &c.
California is 10 longer foreign country,
but for a year past, or more, il has been one
of our glorious Union. Yet The trees there
are altogether as foreign in their aspect as if
they came from some distant region over the
water. From this great state, we hope, now
intercommunication is so rapid, hat ne shall
obtain some fine kinds of evergreens, TO add
beauty and variety 10 the parks and lawns
of the Atlantic region The Plow.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-12-24

Mr. Hussey, and hearing that his reapine
machine is the best for corn-cutlirg, will
feel obliged by one being sert Immediately,
as he wishes to cut his own corns. Mr.. Punch
wonl1 not have troubled the celebrated A
merican Hussey, but his own wife, Judy, is
such lazy Hussey that she will not perform
the operation required.
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eST II is said that printed declarations,
with blank forms, are TO be used by young
ladies who have lovers too omodest 10 propose
The ladies themselves fill out the blanks,
and of course no sensible man can refuse
signing them.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-12-24

IJA young clergymap.very deficient in lealn-
ing, complaining to DR.. johnson that some how
or other he had lost all bis Greek, II suppose"
said the DOCTOR " it was at the time lost my
great estate in Yorkshire"
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sY Punch, in the following waris to put
the new reaping machine TO a novel use
Mr.. Punch presents his compliments to
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10 Miss Bremen intends to publish book
Of travels in the United States, with specimens
of American authorship.
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-08-02

There was alittle woman as I've heard tell
She went to market her eggs for to sell:
She went to the market all on market day
And she fell asleep on the Kings Highway.
Along came pedler, by the name of Jim Snout.
lie cut off her peticoat all round about;
He cut her peticoats off above her knees
She began to shiver, and she began to freeze"
This melancholy incident in the history of the
little woman, who went to market in the usual
round of her avocation, is supposed by some Of
our contemporaries, to have been the origin of what
is now styled the Bloomer costume The mali
clous pedler Jim Stout, who with the malice of a.
torethought, committed the henious crime of shor
tening the-a h--no matter !--of the little
market woman is considered by them the inventor
of the ssshorts, . at least.
Its not laid down in "Mother Goose's, Ouarto
to or Melodies complete from which book of nur-
sery notorlety these verses are taken whether the
little woman put on pants or not The probability
is however, that she did. At all events, she was
sc much changed in appearance when she returned
home, that her faithful little dog was entirely out
OF his wits and received her with loud barking in
stead OF those waggings of the tail with which he
was formerly accustomed to greet her comings.-
Ii she really put on the petiloons, she was bona
fde full rugged Bloomer. If she did not she pre-
sented rather an awkard appearance If this
point could only be decided the origin of the a la
turk costume would be clear.
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By JOHN l. GUION, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF
MISSISSIPPI.
10 The Sherfs Of The several Counties of the Sate-Greeting
WHEREAS, at the late extraordinary session of the
w Legislature of this State, convened by the proc
amation of His Excelency the Governor to take into
consideration the alarming state of public affairs and
to provide for the safety and security of her citizens
am act was passed providing for Convention of the
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A: d. 1851 and of the sovereignty of Mississippi. the
thrty-fourth
JOHN /. GUION,
by THE Governor Acting Governor.
10. BELL, Secretary of State
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Gov. Tr0up to Col. Jackson.

LAURENS Co., 1st Oct. 1885,
MY Dear CoLonel.-If had been in Congress
and could nave voted for a Compromise at all, |
would have voted as you did If it had really
been Compromise, that is to say, mutual CON.
cessions and equivalents in good faith would
have voted for the Texas branch of the SYSTEM
If california had been RENTED or divided at 3s-
80, would have voted for it, (the Texan mem
bers voting for it, and prospect of Texan ratif-
catlon.) But never could have voted for it I'M
der the circumstances which must have induced
you to vote against it.
fst. The original fraud and falsehood of the
Executive movement, finally consummated by the
Legislature, by which we were robbed of the
whole of California
End. The spirit in which the Territorial Bills
were framed, which equally excluded us from those
Ierntorles-lt having been declared frankly bv
the most friendly of Northern men, that if we had
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wen as Dy the laws of nature, Wilmet Proyiso or
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Their language was, ''they never would Weld an
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making the one weaker and the other stronger
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give him money to buy territory to buy peace
that territory sooner or later to be used to rob and
plumber more. now and in all future time, not on,
~ OF territory. but of every thing which we hold
and watch they covet,
Texas has right, If she pleases, even to the det
rment OF the co.States having identical interests
TO sell her territory and with the certainty of thai
territory being used for sour annoyance; but YOU
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