Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-06-13

"''u iNcs "l'hlh MS means but then he has a
growing family, and they are obliged to be pru-
dent, and there would be enough 10 saw he
oh9M TO have the office. And. besides. is he
not always working for the partyl writing in
the papers, and serving them every wayl And
who was ever Jackson man, but for what he
expected to get for IL No, no, my dear. mark
my words you won't be cold, before Lyman
Barton will be sending Off petition to Wash.
ing'on for the office, and signed by every Jack
son man in town"
II don't believe ii my dear don't feel as
II Lyman Barton would ask for the office"
"Well, my dear, you'll see, after you are
dead and gone, how it will be-you may laugh
i mean shall see, if | am spared-you al
ways have, colonel, just such blind faith in
every body"
MY faith is founded on reason and experi-
ence, my dear Through life ! have found
friends Kind to me beyond my deservinps, and
Tar beyond my expectations. have got pretty
near the other shore, and can't remember tha,
ever had an enemy"
"hlIe this conversation was in progress.
there was tefc-a-tetc, on which we dare not in
'rude, IN another apartment Of the house The
slight veil that had covered the hearts of our
true lovers dropped at the first touch. and both
finding a mine of the only riches they coveted,
dared be poor in this worlds poor sense
Secured by the good coonels indulgence. for
the present they were too happy to look beyond
the sunshine that played around them for any
dark enianglements TO which their path minht
conduct them. In any event they did not risk
the mseres Of dependence, nor the pains of
starvation. Nature, in our land spreads an
abundant table; and there is always a cover
awaiting the frugal and industrious laborer Tor
even gleaner) in her fruitful fields. Anythinr
short OF absolute want, perhaps even that, il
seemed TO our young friends happiness 10 en-.
counter together.
Oh ye perjured trafickers in marriage vows
ye buyers and sellers of hearis-hearts ,hey
are not articles Of commerce-buvers and SELL
ers OF the bodies that might envelope and con-
tam celestial spirits, eat, drink. and be merry,
for tomorrow We die Tomorrow your home
the temple Of the affections, which God himself
has consecrated, shall be their tomb. within
whose walls shall be endured the torpor of death
with acute consciousness of life
Our simple friends VOTED not of the miser
les of artificial life. These had never even
crossed the threshold of their lamentations.
The colonel gave his hearty consent for the ask.
ing and his prudent help-maie was too true
hearted woman to withhold hers. There are
those wise as scrpen,s, if not harmless as doves.
IN village life, and such shook their heads,
and wondered if the colonel calculated 10 live
and be postmaster forever! or if Loyd could
be such fcol as TO expect to succeed TO the
office, when every body knew it was lust as
good as promised to Mr. Barton! Loyd Bar
nard steady, consistent (our own side is al
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cies OF the Jackson party No, Loyd Barnard
INDUCED no such extravagant expectation. lie
had stood by old Massachusetts through her oh.
siinate or her consistent opposition 10 the gen.
erai government, and he expected to reap the
customary reward of such frmness or-preiu.
dice. To confess the truth, he thought little
about the future, and not at all of the Malhusian
theories. His present happiness was enough,
and it was frightened with the soft and equal
light of the past. As to Paulina, il was her
nature,
"Ne'er tn forgather wi sorrow and care
nut g'e them skelp as they're creepis' alang.r
The prelimlnaries being adjusted, il was
agreed on all hands that the wedding should
not be deferred. Quilts were quilted-the pub
llshment pasted on the church door-and the
wedding cake made. Never had the colonel
seemed better and brighter; his step was firm.
err his person more erect than usual; and his
face reflected the happiness of his children, as
a 10 AL -
sunshine.
AT this moment came one of those sudden
changes that mock at human calculations. An
epidemic influenza, fatal to the feeble and the
old, was passing over the whole country. Col
Barnard was one of its first victims. He died
alter week illness; and though he was some
years beyond the authorized period Of mortali-
ty, his death at this moment occasioned a gen.
eral shock, as if he had been cut of in the
Prine of life. All-even his enemies, we
should have said but enemies he had nome
spoke Of the event in subdued voice, and with
The sincerest expressions Of regret The grief
OF his own little family we have not space to
describe, or if we had, how could we depict the
desolation of home from which such foun-
tam OF love and goodness was suddenly remov-
ed! Notwithstanding the day of the funeral
was one of the coolest of severe January, the
mercury being some degrees below cipher, and
the gusty, cutting wind driving the snow into
bllows, numbers collected from the adjoining
towns TO pay the last tribute of respect TO the
good colonel
There is reality in the honor tha, is rem
dered at rustic funeral to poor, good man,
touching sincerity in sympathy where every
follower is a mourner.
The custom, growing in some of our cities,
of private funerals, of limiting the attendants
to the family and nearest friends of the deceas-
ed, is there in good taste. The parade of GER
emony, the pomp of numbers, the homage of
civiliiy, and all the show and tricks of hollow
conventional life, are never more out of place.
never more revolving, than where death has
come with its resislless power and awful truth.
But country funeral has, beside its quality of
general sorrow, somewhat Of the nature of the
Egyptian court that sat upon the merits Of the
dead. The simplicity and frankness of country
life has truly exhibited the character of the de.
parted, and if judged in gentleness (as all hu-