Worcester daily spy., 1861-11-06

BY ALBERT sUTLIFEE.
Here and there in the autumn
Flew the leaves, brown and red,
And fell like a royal garment
To cover the queenly dead
Some were as brown as berries
Some were as red as flame
And though they rustled like grayes-clothes
The passers passed the same.
Passed with their trailing riches
Into the noisy town,
With shiyering laughter mocking
The skies SO dusky and brown.
saw by the sIoping pathway,
Some tender flowers alone,
While the wind brought down new showers
Like sparks from furnace blown.
Up mid the tall dry grasses,
From the cold-hearied sod
With smile for the world a-dying,
And prayerful hands for God;
Cheer for my own dark sorrow,
Under those leaden skies
And look OF longing and waiting
In sweet, eXpectant eyes.
Above the bare twigs quyered
For the east blew damp and cold,
While the sad earth buried her daughters
Low in the chilly mold.
And I thought they were watching and wailing
Till all We're gone to rest,
Then, latest and loneliest, they would sleep,
Pressed to their mothers breast.
So, too, in this world of sorrow,
Some human flowers bloom late,
Silently leading upward
Their friends to the Beautiful Gate.
For all the broken hearted
Pouring their soothing bams-
Over the snowy bosom
Folding the quiet palms;
Until about their footsteps
The leaves of autumn blow,
And, drifting DER angel foreheads,
Gathers the winter snow.
Then thanked the holy Father
For all the blooms that be-
And chief for the autumn watchers,
These sisters of charity;
And for all the human flowers
That watch, and sleep, and wait,
Until, deep in the golden twilight
They enter the Beautiful Gate
DEATH OF THE LAST REVOLUTIONARY
PENsIoNER IN New HAMPsHIRE.-We learn
from correspondent that Lieut. Joel McGreg
ory died in Newport, N. H., October 81, aget
one hundred years, eleven months and nine
days. Lieut.. MeGregory was born in Enfield
Conn, 22d November, l760 He volunteered
in the army Of the Revolution, was taker
prisoner and confined in the "0ld Suga
House." New York, lor eight months. Hi
fare was barely sufficient to sustain life though
living animals were abundant on and abou
him. He has enjoyed good health in his las
years, though his mind has been somewhat
impaired. In olden time he worked at mai
making By hand, and has made .tacks SO small
that he could put one thousand of them in al
eggshell. For many years he has received
pension, which, with what he laid by in hi
younger years, has made his declining year
peaceful and happy. 1t is supposed that he i
the last surviving Revolutionary soldier il
New Hampshire. Boston Jonraal.
SAD Academia sad accident occurret
at Collinsvile, Ct, Sunday, which cast
gloom over the town. Enoch Hammond, for
merly of East Douglass, Mass, while catching
flood wood iD the river, was accidentally
drowned by having his boat broken in piece
| by coming in collision with a tree. He, ant
his companion, Mr.. Ellsworth, both caugh
hold of the tree, but MIR. Hammond was una
bic to retain his hold and dropped into til,
water, and although good swimmer was un
| able to keep above water in the rapid current
and was borne down and drowned. His wifi
and others on the bank, not two rods distant
were utterly unable to render him any assist
ance. His companion, Mr.. Ellsworth, though