Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-12-28
6 Communicated. /.
For the Telegraph.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 22. 1855.

ire CINcINNAT1, Dec. 22. 1883.
Mr.. EDIToR: Ihave concluded To com
plyswith your request. and send you an
eristle from this Queen of the West" at
least. enthusiastically. -5;Tsa.
cannot promise you succession OF
sensations, such as newspaper cores
pondents are generally expected to furnish.
because my inventive genius is not ode
veloped," and that branch of education
which enables one to "See what is not to
be seen" was sadly neglecad in my youth.
When you get tired. therefore, ofmy prosy
style, just shut down the gate. and you
~ill save your unambitious correspondent
one sheet of paper and three cent post
office stamp per week. If you want
g. "Tal $ of Antr'es wild,
| 'tl+4 sof Anthrspephigi,
| "a Aud men whose heads
I.,4,r. ,. Go down between their
You must engage the services Of some
one else. Ny province lies in another di-
Erection. a.n -'e 1883 'i'irs @
But, here, am met with two great OBJ
Istacles, which, l believe, others have en-
countered before me. First. What to
write about. And second. What not to
write about. For, as by the terms Of our
stipulation. l am never to exceed the linn
, its of one sheet. am, per force, compelled
to study brevity, and must omit many
things that otherw Use might find theil
way to Immortality through the columns
of tie great paper-the .Meigs Go. 1sle-
graPh.
Well, what is now exciting the creates
interest in this great city. taking into The
account all its population, including thu
Juveniles, is the near approach of thu
Christmas Holidays.
What a singular spectacle is presented
! to the mind Of an observer on the annua
return of this festival, and what a study o
human nature it presents. How few thinl
of the significance of the event commem
. ora ed, or Of which the 25th of Decembe
is the anniversary.
Eeighteer hundred and 6fty-eight year
lago, when the world wide Roman Empir
: held, as one of its more insignificant prov
: inces, the mighty nation over which Davi
Z and Solomon once reigned, and on the eve
ming Of which next Saturday will be til
S anniversary, weary and travel-worn, hun
n CRY, faint, and requiring rest and repose
= poor man and his wife, on the way t
! Jerusalem, in obedience to the laws an
) Icustoms Of their country. turned aside
e the town Of Bethlehem. to find the needle
\ refreshmentand rest. Passing through tn
. principal streets they found other an
A wealthier travellers had monopolIzed th
,r hotels and places of Iefreshments,8 al
r they, as humble foot passengers, could i'm
y no accommodations. At last, arrived I
: tie end of the street, and unable to procee
:. Further, they were permitted 10 take she
re ter in the stable e.ofa an obscure inn. -a:
e, There, on that night, unnotTced and III
cared for. so far ss The busy multitude WI
~ concerned, was born into the world, as HI
s. been every night since, what seemed 70
a. tie son of very poor, and very obscu
ID parents. True, from far-@A countr
eh whore few men still enjoyed the know
ofledge of an almost-forgotten Revelatip
O. wise ones, led by a Divine impulse. we
on their way to pay their worship to Il
ce Lord of tke Universe, disguised in q
re habilime,lts of this unnoliced infant. .Tru
+ on the plains Of Judea. some humble b
fIpure minded shepherds had their Spirilu
ic leyes and ears so far opened as to see q
n messengers from another sphere. and he
n the announcement from the lips of angel
~ ~ tbatip tliissarne child was the end ofprop
n. ecy--the wnrld's grent delivcrer. But &
n world knew him not.