The union Democrat., 1855-10-13
Naturess Old Clothes.

AHCEC oIC bAotRs Va PSSfAS ASNN'SA SASPAae
about old ruins and monuments-who, if the,
find any evidence of life long extinct-and espe
cialy if it appear in the shape of human skull
instead of talking sensibly about it, as Hamlet
did about Yorick's, straightway proceed to hunt
up an owner therefor. If they happen, in theil
subterranean researches, 10 blunder into an old
forgotten aqueduct, they are in fever and 8
vault with an urn in it throws them into an &c
stacy. We have a few of these people among us
They are called antiquarians. but are at best
harmless creatures, never disturbing anybody or
thing that has anything to do. AS examples, the
editor of the Oregon irgus rhapsodises on the
discovery ofthe first fossilized mammoth grinder OF
the Mastodon Maximus, while hereabouts similar
curiosites. only n larger scale, were converted
into lime more than two years ago. Again, San
Diego paper dwels with equal delight upon the
exhumation of three human skeletons, in the
skulls of which, leach lack-ustre eyeless hole,
a golden bullet was found. Here was feast for
the organs of veneration and maryellousness,
almost equal to that afforded not long ago by the
unsepuchering of an old Etrurian King, and which
ended in one of the most successful efforts ever
made to defraud our common mother of what
properly was hers. The magic shroud wherewith
the dark Egyptian wrapped his cherished dead,
slowly unravels to the touch of time, and lets q
Cheops out; and even with us are attempts alike
vain to keep the dust to dust''-for such efforts
will never cease while affection continues to hide
away her loved and lost.
But, speaking of Hamlet-it has often occur
red to us that he must have been poor chemist,
or he never would have talked of human dust as
anything distinctive-never would have imagined
that Alexander dust turned to loam and the loan
grew into great demand among the brewers. He
never would have dreamed of using Caesars dust
to "patch wall" No! Nature does not do her
work so Slovenly. She has no "odds and ends,
no rubbish. Indeed, it was not Caesars property
at all; he had done with it and surrendered it,
and the meek violet that it turned to, and the
fringed cloud it foated away in, had the right OF
possession-welcome to it as Cesar was-hold-
ing it as Caesar did, until Nature gave them new
apparel, aud took, the old, perhaps to make a
beggar and prince of. All of the great Roman
that remains to-day-all that is left of him. in the
whole range of geography or geology, is simply
C-a.e-s-a-r
Let US not be misunderstood. We cannot but
regard with deep affection the sunken mound, the
subsidized billow of turf that marks the place of
what "was and is not We regard the spot
where we laid it, the pillow that we smoothed for
it, as hallowed from vulgar touch sacred from
vulgar gaze yet the clear eye of the chemist
farther into nature and her secrets, than the
eyes of other men. He has worthier view OF
the dignity of those cast-oft mautes of humanity
He sees,that dust. no idle relic there, but spark
ling obedent in the world of dew; red in the
rosebud pearly in the sky; golden in the grain,
and living everywhere. Every death, as We call
il, but another name would do as WELL is only
first month of spring-a change of wardrobe.
We might as well say that the tree which sheds
its leaves in autumn shall take them up again in
June, as to say that our mortal "wear" is to be
gathered up again and readjusted. No, the
foliage aud the form are alike new and fresh from
the hand of the Deity. With the bodies that once
were theirs, who died hundred years ago, there
has already been one resurrection, perhaps more.
They may have been raised in the springing corn
or the opening flower; raised in the morning
cloud or the evening dew; raised in some new
form, that in turn shall