Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-01-03
CARRIERS ADDRESS
TO THE PATRONS OF
THE GLASGOW WEEKLY TIMES,
JANUARY 4, 1856.

lime" beats all sailors, steamers, and what not,
And for quick trips outruns them all dot.
And now, my friends, the day has dawncd again,
That wakes 10 life within my puzzled brain
All the poetic fire that possess,
Howe'er, tits not brush heap fire, guess;
Ne'er having slept upon Parnassus' height
Consequently I'm not poet-quite;
Yet in magination's drean-like flight
sometimes dream of Byron and Kirk White,
Of Dryden, and of the illustrious Pope
Not Rome's great Pope, you think not 50, | hope:
Therefore, on this occasion I will try
To String the lyre,' and most melodioUSly
Greet the New Year in pure poetic style,
Lingering on each bye-goIe scene awhile!
Then first, with reference 10 our present fix,
Just launched upon the wave of sc,
A voyage TO make-and strangely Il is true,
The world at large makes up the varied crew:
So here we go-steam up--the plank pulled in,
All hands on board, and off we sail aganl
Ere long upon the vast and boundless tide,
Well soon be lost, or else triumphant rides
Soon from our view must fade the distant shore,
Once lost TO sight, mankind can view no more;
A trip of pleasure we would have indeed.
If powers that rule our earnest pray'rs would
heed.
But what prophetic eve can look beyond
The vast, the wide, the deep and salty poni
To view the breakers, and the snags 10 marx,
That may impede the progress Of our Bark?
But here, last, long look behind we'll cast,
" ct scenes remembered IN inc 'DuTleu DlS',
And whilst "a farewell 10 the year we sing,
Well hail another's dawn, rejoicing!
And proudly, too. that we have 'trutteG through
o. X. the dawn of '56 to view!
Hnzza for usl we're fright side up" at last,
With skies all bright and seas all smooth as glass
But Friends since last we met, twelve months ago;
Twas New Years morn of 80 you know,
Full many note your CARRIER Boy since then,
Has registered Of matters and of men,
For us some changes rare have taken place,
Some changes, too, for all of Adams race;
Some friends are gone--to some life's scenes are
DER.
In deaths long sleep they lie, TO wake no more;
Whilst some like phantom's on lifes siv'ry stream
Seem floating down without troubled dream.
But as for matters National and State,
For men and measures of more sound than lce -ht.
Fve much to say, but cannot compass here,
Half that I'd like for you to know, fear;
But when | write my poem on the "Times.'
I'll string these matters all in glowing rhymes;
III tell you then how Benton's fame saved in,'
The why's and wherefores that his schemes won't
win;
And how he humbug'd Locofoco cliques--
How now he bears their fatal, fatal kicks
But if you'd read until your eyes turn blue,
Just get his Book straigRtway and read it through
For that-the great ~ am II did," and ''mne y
In volume vlcs the Holy Book Divine;
And Shakspeare's quill a stump must surely be
In writing half as many lines as he;
n IaJ Pr!Ilfr INK, rear WIN soon be 'FGSe,
mieI,s 81 ils secoi'u 'Ci"H!e mus place.
o. Eui be. no ~ yer t,aS al "t" away
They both have swept off Cattle by the score,
And both have ragged. hope 10 rage no more
But nowlt seems, in this enlightened day,
hI' an our lolNs nave caught ahoher ray,
5 3i,t l.'u s'linPse, hot al tLe near I'm sure,
nu' az Il So,'.t",nS never seen Oe!0Fej
II n"oH -,o'n"T 's-', oteF 50 mar" 10 md
ti"S st'PP =" S''i' dN,T Ioi Va OeiuTe laalIklhu,
~ S',e M'"e WoIiu aI las. mas got sIgnt
el .oAI. III M majestic Pc" ana might.
some VINO Cou'I not STAND me glare OF open day,
nave era" Is"e" oaVN"dI"S--aS I've heard Them
toUN ~ 'leIl "ct;S' al" i;Ee scared 'aOH"s ice,
Ahu an because 'Hty C"uid not Leaders be.
TH II ulal leas peneG.h whose DF'liiaIt stars,
Ne Me- sIis ol irteEoni i"u7.' Irouf glorious wars,
L. scb ~ i,, u s ny s''
We're told that lately down in TsfTsrscn
Orr .,viso and great amos, mot to ,,oDd.. o
The affairs of State aud sneacbei tboro 10 ,r,l,o
For BynromLe and tbeir sdoore.t cor,r,,. S ),
Well of ali the glorious tEings the,,,vo Iore
Pm not apprised as VET. bnt / for one
Have notircd mo matter zrbat Their n y, il
They mnst he maid and smoke tbnir C,,G, S;rcs.
Whist we with Nrot ,,nt0 nnst cnnteHte fare
ChoJnnngna and neacb is all Tho 90 Jo,,r re-
Ro, ST turkey there. and nork and hoans ~, haro
No odds--i6e peonle;s rchiN-wbv need iyo caro.
Enwe,ar Pm Glad the trur,7 not n opa bI,s.
Has sont Nissouri,s mama 81 b;gb ~ Iast.'
with rail Ro,Is now ,ye snroly1 vii Lo i1oss,l
aItho, For cash ncrcbance scwotrbat Hstras'.
And emnt,, nocl,rte NAV a,TbiI, ,ra,,air VS. -
And ..raIiS for ala ;, our nrofts MAY, cnrtsH
rho Roads the Roads. we cannot 10 without
Oar roorisoro too Ease, Cor tbot To G"rGt
Tlongh our Missouri iq n NIGHT stroan,
.D,ne nat,,re;, neyor had - Jisj,,,t -,
ne LaIf or'r want. mr. eso ,arIr. .j s,I,
Sbo ,n;ht have Jr, tbesn strearos f,or, roIo
And sTra,J ont Iates and f>oJ -ooJ harb ~ ~
For lLoats slitTs and stenmsrs t Ia.s tra
Ara fr,SnJs fbis ,,or,, (,ro.t LIZ.
In c,sb she m;rbt have saved Our foiGs tG,t ,,,,.
But other matters OF a graver kind.
Attr; cts at present every body's mind.
For every breeze that's waited DER the n.i,
Brings echoing thunders pceling Il nd ,,o;m'
From fields Of carnage, W. era tho tn,oT ne .ou
Spreads wild alarr, o,o~ tror,blir,. 49, - m"'
And n3w at last we have beheId III toII "'"''
OF Russ,uis boost and nriJo-N SoLastonoIt
Ani tmrni,o lion toIrarJs tbo co. 90 s,itn
..spsrI' - van, nnnn tho bor;, ~ sum
oo,r,,,,, II; si,it M o,ar tho ,,ost,, ,,,;,
EI, a ~ IN !,
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He III 81 .,i f 80, H. ~ t''u
Rnt If those Yankee devils that 90 there -'''''