The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser., 1853-12-20


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IA Hditor's Chair-A Retrospect.
d AT length, and at great length it is, we once
1 more occupy our accustomed chair-editoriaI.
AZ are glad to resume it, for our banishment
llas ,peenio and in many respects vexatious,
F&Stw We had neither voice nor choice the pes
Hence came, and all the usual avenues and
stloroughfires Of business were suddenly ST.
1 aW and gloomy. The merchant fled his
i 4founter the lawyer his desk, the mechanic
droppcd bis tools, the printer his composing
8fick, Our streets, stores and off ccs were de-
J. sefted, and most Of our citizens were away in
u The dliierentparts Of the country, where kind
4 nessand hospitality offered them retreat
4. thus weeks and months passed away, and
though the great Destroycr's harvest has been
lesSpentifnl here than elsewhere, yet, all this
!. time, the ban Of the plaguesmitten was upon
US, and as little intercourse held with our town
as with Che leprous districts Of Asatic cities
h And now, as we ouce more on our return oc-
cupy our Z chair" what melancholy eviden-
ses Of deaths doings, of sorrow, suffering and
N1susting disease, surround US; all of which
lave visited this fair land since last we occu-
pied this seat. All around us lie, in confusion
piled masses of exchanges, which have accu-
i inulated in our absence scarcely one of which
) we eah.examne without meeting still the woe
burdened tale Of their columns, at which the
s. heart sickens, so many names Of friends and
Of promineht citizens, but lately vigorous in
lusty life, the cordial grasp Of whose hands we
seem still 70 feel, but above whose graves
Nfhe ,t 8'.. g,,g.
lo 1Night dew has wept'
and on which the grass Is already spnnging,
That we seem TO have lived long years, rather
than these few weeks or months during which
8 thereapcr death has gathered his bounteous
! harscst home. aeas
I 4 Here We see a paper which, in its accounts
! of the pestilcnce march, chronicles among the
&ctins one we intimately knew and sincerely
3 Owed a friend with whoni, many time aud
I61 we have taken "sweet counsel whom
j 16 loved as a brother, but whose voice no lon,
4sef cchoing in our hearing friendships hearty
tones now sweclls the symp onies Of the up
per and eternal world. There an exchange
tells Of one, well known to fame, fortunes ia
sorite, filing large place in the public mind
Swhc, at the stern bidding, paused in mid ca
]. beer and like the eagle, arrow-pierced in hi
lofty fight fell and was forever lost to morta
/. vision and there brief announcement tell
Of the conclusion Of charities mercy's deeds
i ever practiced by one who performed kline
Jets, raised the fallen, bound up the wounded
gand comforted the stricken for very love Of hu
I Imam kind; bnt now he who labored 70
no reward receives reccmpense at the hand
Of him who "seeth not as man seeth." AM
here, again, is the sad story told of how one
young, gentle and beautiful, looking forth up
8onlthe world with smiles aud bright anticpa
ti6ns, whom many had learned to love an
sought to I" WOO and win"--whose favored pc
lion seemed TO secure her from the breath {
stsestlence, and win only liies joys and choices
Blessings for her own how she, too, at th
plaques mysterious touch, withcred and pas
ID away. We learntooof opening manhooc
Just starting in the race for name and place
+ for Iaonors gucrdon--on whose hopes the fl
= #ue lookcd smilingly, and in whose pro
<ets friends rejoiccd and were justly proud
= = feves already deserted in the distance Il
- foportions Of lames glorious temple, an
i q 'nas eagerly stretching towards il, Ell
s. a a. he was on The stream which flowt
: Iz Il % is base; we learn, how this, all the
Rsese suddenly wrecked end hopelessly e
! hlphed. Aud then what, perhaps, is mour
Attest of all Is the Gall, at their posts gallar
il working IN their masters cause, encountt
~ disease, squahd misery, and death,
those intrepid ministers Of Christ who hone'
i gelt 4 iheir duty 70 remain where dang
f..nd tl.c,n, and trust 10 omniseience the {
s.r;,,s q their lives moarnfnly crowded
81. fortiot, Of The dark record. Thus it
mourning lrsii and anguish blasted hopes, stEick
....,. aid bowed head. desolate hcst'