Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1860-01-05
CARRIERS ADDRESS.

III his dhhudi round, comes lie New year once
more;
And | come with nv dtty. as ever before.
And while am singing my smooth flowing rhymes
Just out with your purses and down with your
dimes.
And all, who a quarter ungrudgingly give,
Shall happy New Year from the Carrier receive.
And you cannot deny these the Carriers dues,
Since all The year round he has brought you the
news,
And am positive, too, that throughout The past
/ have brought you the news that you most like TO
hear
Wars and rumors Of wars are sure TO delight
The public taste most t,-although they can't cutie
Acknowledge The fact;-but we all are aware
That, OF all the news items, we never can spare
One speaking Of b!oodshetl-a railroad disaster.
A battle, prize fight, will sell the Times fas er.
Than items of crops, or the market reports,
Scientific discoveries, proceedings OF courts,
All The peaceful vocatlons you ever ind men al, or
Even the eloquent speech OF u Senator.
II was deemed by our President, soon IN the
season,
Necessary TO drub Paraguay into reason,
So fee: was dispatched 10 50 s;raightway about
IT,
But Lopez backed down into reason without il.
It's very provoking TO be bullied and leased
By cowaldlY cur you can ''flaX" when you
please;
Your offers Of friendship contemptuously sighted
Insulted, and dared, till your wrath is excited,
I'll. Vol. pull OF your coat and get ready fer fight
Then have yom opponent all trembling with
fright,
Come criaging, and bcgsing this once youIl excuse
him,
When from very contempt you cannot refuse him.
But 50 far as know, ii never rutes the calm
Placid iem3er of our most revered Uncle Sam
rhe people OF Europe, being eager for fight,
Their feuds in no peaceable way could sci right;
So little Sardinia, with France 10 stand by her,
Hurled defiance at Austria, and so raised the ire
OF the Austrian Emperor, that he needs must
show fight,
With tho E.saacing sword Of Napoleon IN sight.
And Napoleon. longing for fame on The field,
With Iov and eageruess scarcely concealed,
Fspouscs tie cause Of Sardinia's King,
While the world is aEaZe al this wonderful thing,
That the tyTant UsUrpcr Of france and Of Rome,
Should the friend OF Italian freedom become.
Ce. Iombarly roll The dark biliows OF War,
The cities Of Germany trcmhle afar.
The Austrian columns now ice in dismay,
Now, turning, they fight like chafed lions al bay
With carnage 'he fields Of Italy axe dyed,
And the tur5 llent Po rolls criInson red tide,
Till the EmFeIors, fearing The demon Of war
They had raised By their spells, it permitted too
.ar,
Migitnot down al ,heir bidding, las:ened peace
10 conclude,
And Inc Gamer thinks that in tAs they were
sllrewI.
Let Us turn 10 cur own lard from wandering
arar,
From the sad contemplation OF c'rii:=cf war.
We've had peace so long we'd scarce know what
fight meant,
B 1 we never lack means 10 get up an excitement
First fever was raised DER the gold al Pixies
Peak,
And thousands went thither their fortunes 10 seek;
AMI thousands more started, whs didn't get far,
Before they concluded the gold wasn't thor
Resolved twas humbug-but whether it was SC,
Hrmhug or old-bug-the Carrier don't know,
John Brown, in his efforts a; murder and trea-
son,
Raised alarming excitement, and not without rea-
son
Little reason, indeed. if clone lie had been,
Nor had symp1thy from his Republican KIN.
But still there IS reason 10 hope, we believe,
Some advantage we from this affair may receive,
Since Brown and his .sglorious co-patrlot band -
Have themselves sacrificed for the good of the land,
If not Oh an altar,
At least on a halter
Fanatics are towards and certain TO falter,
Ere so far they vii! follow their brave leader
Brown;
And much as they envy the m1yiyr lis crown,
Dr. the planter his "nisgers,o you may still set il
down,
That Yankee can never appreciate the use
Of running his own precious neck through a
moose.
Now turn we TO drop sad, sorrowfuI tear,
Where Science and Literature bend DER The bier |
IF their taynriteS denartpd 'i'ha DaiIOnS are
grieved--
Of Humboldt, ard Prescott, and irving bereaved. |
The honored, the useful, the loved and wise,
Death seizes away as his own lawful prize.
But immortal the heirloom they've left 10 the |
ages
The fire Of their genus lives IN their pages,
There are some things we thought to have told
you this year,
And which, | presume you expected to hear
The great Eastern, steamship, so long in prepar-
ing,
And finally filled, 'tis said, for sea-faring,-
Most wonderful event in all locomoton-
We expected 10 tell Of her crossing the ocean.
Mr.. Lope, who desires. 1t would seem TO be high,
Intended across the Atlantic 10 fly,
Ina monster balloon,
Half as large as the moon;-
q as soon think of crossing the sea in spoon,-
But the Fates, 1t Is evident, never designed
70 render illustrious the year hfty-nine,
By any such wonderful events as these,
And of course we must wait TILL the stern sisters
please.
20, farewell, kind reader-but secret for thee,
Sext New Year, I'll tell who'll next President be.
FThe more liquor a man drinks the
hirstier he grows.
Like a craft left by the tide upon the
each, he gets high and dry.
EWhen Lord Erskine heard that sorne-