Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-12-27


ton will DC sensloy IelL here. -.
ly, however TO he short Of laborcrs for in pro-
portion TO the decline of our receipts from Ire
land those from Germany increase. These arc
likely to be stimulated still further by the effects
of the war. Should that last, and Austria and
Prussia become involved in it, Germany will not
be very desirable residence for men Of moder-
ale mean. and peaceful propensitics. We may
expect that the bulk of the small farmers and
mechanics will exchange the faderand, with its
taxes and bayonets, for free and cheap home in
Wisconsin or Illinois. Thus We shall not lose,
and Ireland at all events will gain by The events
of the last few years.-New York Herald.
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THE SNOW OF AGE.
We have just stumbled upon the following
pretty piece of mosaic, lying amid 4 multitude
of those less attractive:
"No snow falls lighter than the snow of age !;
but none is heavier, for it never mcts."
The figure is by no means noyel, but the
closing pnrt of the sentence is new as well rs
emphatic. The Scriptures represent age by the
almond-tree, which bears blossoms of the pur-
est white. "The almond-trce shall flourish =
the head shall be h9ary. Dickens says of one
of his characters whose hair was turning grey,
that it looked as if Time had lightly FLASHED his
SHOWS upon it in passing.
1T never melts"-no. never. Age is mex
orable; its wheels must move onward, they
know not any retrograde movement. The old
man may sit and sing-"l would Nc . boy
again." but he grows older as he sings. He may
read of The elixir of youth, but he cannot find
it he may sigh for the secret of the alchemy
which is able 10 make him young again, but
signing brings u not. He may gaze backward
with an eye of longing upon the rosy schemes
of early years, but MS one who gazes on his
home from the deck of departing ships, every
moment carrying him further and further away.
Poor old man he has little more to do than
die
at never melts." The snow of winter comes
and sheds its white blossoms upon valley and
mountain, but soon the sweet springs follows
and smiles it all away. Not so with that upon
the brow of the tottering veteran; there is no
Spring whose warmth can penetrate its eternal
frost. 1t came to stay; its single fakes fell
unnoticed, and now it is drilled there. We shall
see it Increase until we lay the old man in his
grave there it shall be absorbed by the eternal
darkness, for there is no age in Heaven.
Yet why speak of age in mournful strain ?
1t is beautiful, honorable, and eloquent Should
we sigh ut the proximity of death, when life
and the world are so full of emptiness? Let
the old exult because they are old; if any must
weep, let it be the young, at the long succession
of cares that are before them. Welcome the
snow, for it is the emblem of peace and Of rest
1t is but temporal crown, which shall fall at
the gates of Paradise, TO be replaced by a
brighter and better.
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THAcKERY says woman's heart is just like
lithopropher's stone-what is once written upon
it can't be rubbed out. This is so. Let an heir.
ess once fix her affections on stable boy, and
all the world will not get her thoughts above oat
boxes and curry combs;" what is written on hel
heart can't be rubbed out" This fact shows
itself, not only in love, but in religion. Mer
change their gods dozen times f; a woman never
To convert q Sister Of Charity to- -Methodisu
would require greater amount of power thar
you would have to make use of 10 overturn The
Pyramids.
GEN. Sam. Houston was baptiscd at Indepen
dence, Texas, few days ago, by immersipn,-
Heaven gets only the relics of sinners we serve
the devil until we get old, and then give tn
resdum to heaven. This, at least, is yer,
common.-Nfobila Tribune.