New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-31


circles in the heavens bright dice unobscured by the
iairtss. trace Of cloud sir. Her VOL
canoes s,e dead, her ragged slopes and The seams
through her hills spd plains all sharp and distinct, for
ber oceans did not roll and her surface long
eno,gh 10 81 Doth is frshorn features Frozen TO her
core every substance hard her gases converted
into that syer dust axi glazing which renders her -
brilliantly rcsp'endent she Is indeed htly to Be person
fed BY that chilly Disns Of whom classic poets viii
sing when their tine comes. Leave her now behind
away, and back again in Arno Mundi 922. B. c. SS2.
An, here are are changes indeed Men Msthusesah,
in bic youthful prime At two hundred and thirty ove,
walks firmly on tie plain handsome in his blsk beard
ard mus,sche and sunburnt features while little La-
meehe who has not yet ST; aimed hs hurdredth birthday
s actively driving together the herds for toe nignt.
White-hea old Adam himself sits pens've in the
door Of the goat skin tent contemplating he declining
sum- and meditstrg over his his long life; regretiiog,
let US hope his frs. foolish and ineIcussole ohense,
and net ess his later weakness in perpetuang race of
such idestined creatures Perhaps, however, he re-
proaches biuuelf not very severely this sccount,
for does appear that he his contemporaries an
tcips.e any worse evils than those OF this hsrdwork
ing and ehld-besrirg hfe So :sr a. these are con-
cerped, he doubtless think, them tolersble enough,
are nearly done in eight years he and his Eve
will have pss sed TO ha, vet loney other world where
scarey any of mortal origin await their coming, except
poor Abel cent solitary across the dark river seven
hundred years before. Strange, that biz of ground
no larger than New England family cemetery shoud
a. yet be ample roo n for all the dead Of earth!
, Most of the world is yet seen by our comet to be
| teuantless save by the lower races-broad grassy
plains vast silent forests not smoke rising from then
whole expsnse round ard round the globe! Few,
indeed. are the eyes which follow With wonder the
sre smuy phantom as i. turns short round The sum- and
recedes for another twentyour hundred and seventy
years.
Ammo Mundi 1892 BIC. 6l2. Here comes the
"shoet of ages dim again. Lo! Egypts pyramids
| thousands of years old already, her temples finished
her rock-tombs filled with countless mummies, put
carefully away bdipg the time for their expected re-
animation before OSIRIS. India and Chins d'nsely
peopled. with settled laws and governments, and q
moral code to which Confucus is shortly to add If hs
has not already added the first distinct expression ct
the Golden Rule Troy town was taken five hundred
years ago. Agamemnon and his brave predecessors
ard their good blades have been dust and rust for
many day. Good King David has been gathered 70
his fathers these four centuries Carthage, Greece,
Assyrs in great fame, though the last declining
and her scuptured walls being buried, where they
will lie till Laysrd cones to dig in Birs Nimroud.
There are crisp headed negroes, black enough, in
Africa doing nothing of consequence. Whist may he
absolutely going on in American forests not told,
but individually there are grsndfsthers OF our own
hunting on the Baltcs shores Struggling lclothsd,
in the woods of Gau OF Britain.
Thus far we had written, when Thurston, or, a. he
likes to be called Thorsteip, came into our room Tor
an evening hour His hobby is his own ancestry,
traced through we know not what vague traditions,
doubtful pathological whimseys, and archaeological
spcOn ard holding Nth Spstes ts.1sS 1sh os 70 bs 9,
chIouoogies Of panimse earth and her brute populs-
ton, with which geological specuators busy them
selves. Picking up the loose sheets lying on our
table, he read them over with remarks more laconic
than complimentary, and with especially uncvil hints
at the state Of the brains Of people particularly inter
ested in lunar changes. Coming 10 the end Of what
was written and fred by the hints therein contained
about his an estos he set of in long monologue on
that fascinating topic, and became uncOmmonly
eunest on the obscure history Of the approaching ho
day, which, he will maintain is but new and ennebled
Observance of venerable festival which his ancestral
"roughs' had celebrated in their own pagan way,
about the time Of the last previous appearance Of
Donats comet. Being con,radcted moderately and
udicouiy be at last attained to such pitch Of enthu
aaem that he went away to return with what he had
never been suspected of before-a string of verses,
which he offered q concluding grace TO our letter.
insisting in spite Of remonstrance, that they would
form capital ending for anything published at this
season. and only too good and sensible for what
in this case, would precede them. They are sccord-
ngly appended, to the necessary postpOnsmsnt Of
what further might have been said Of sphere and
s inhabitants at the visitation last referred TO- as well
as at thoee of 1853 and 1923. Mr.. Thorstein has
bellshed his contentious production, by way Of title,
with one Of the hslfdozen scraps Of Latin which yet
adhere to him. tattered remnants Of bis olden college
gown, always scsnty, and now even more 90 than the
garments Of his lanented progenitors, and styles it
| DIES NATALIs INvICTI SOILS.
The startaper brightly glow,
The organ pess the exaltng hymn;
| Ny thoughts, from all the Presents show,
Go bsck TO ages far and dim.
Remember how the morow's morn
Was kept as festive BY the Nile,
When Egypt deemed as newly born
Her god Of warm benignaDt smile.
| How BY the Gspges holy stream,
| Az the Glow sostice reached iu end,
The people blessed the Frightening beam,
And offered s its from friend 10 friesd.
How Persis's priesthood myrtle crowned,
| To meet that withdrawing chill,
Uprs,ed their hymns Of joyful sound
Upon the eastward fronting hill
How Rome her Ssturnsis knew,
! When slave and master mingled free,
| And reveled all the short day through
With dance, and march Of mystery.
How our own fathers, waiting long
Upon their Saxon forestplsin,
Behed, and hailed with shoat and song.
The sun, returning north again;