Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-05

and luxurious saloons have vanished lik,
the airy structure ola dream, and its one,
proud glory, beauty and symmetry liz
buried in the accommodating dust of tn,
past. The cadences that rang and trem
bled upon the redolent air within its walls
more inspiriting and sweeter than the note.
of the harp of Tara, are hushed in an eter
nty of silence.
Hither old age repaired for relief from
care, solaoe for sorrow, yea, even to reaI
a rich harvest of content from ~disappoint,
ments, and gather strength and vigor from
the palsy and decrepitude of burdenine
years.
Here, too, came youth, with bounding
heart, burning brow and fiery eye, en-,
chanted with the Arcadian gorgeousness
and splendor, and made its c~loisters ring
with shouts and songs of mirth and glad
ness. For the most part the blood-rusted
steel of Mars lay sheathed in its archives.
Winter. robed it in shimmering sheen
and her crystal symbols of purity-Spring
festooned it with wreaths of blended myr.
tie and rose, and fecked its lawns and gar
lens with fora's glories-Summer, glad
dened with warm suns and refreshed with
cooling showers-Autumn, brought the
richest fruitage of soil, vine and tree to
crown its boards, and winter came again,
bowling and moaning in its coarse and
plaintive w~ind-voices, g requiem over its
fall, and spreading a feathery screen over
its ruins.
The year 1870 has fed with its lights
and shadows, joys and sorrows, hopes and
fears-aims successful and defeated-am-
billions attained and frustrated-aspira-
tons grati6ed and disappointed and its
deeds and achievements promotive of good
and of evil. To make the year memora-
BILE to each and all, some kind muse will
sing to Our hearts all these things, and stir
their deepest depths with revived recollec-
lions of our individual histories during
that round of our days.
We have a word to say for the old, de-
parted year. Admitting its errors, mis-
takes, sins and crimes, we plead its vir-
tues, vast energies and glorious achieve
ments. Whilst it has built many a jail
and ~penitentiary, it has also, erected many
a school house, college, and benifcent in
stitution. 1t has dismantled many a for
tress of error, and planted upon their sun
dered walls the ensign of truth and ad-
vancement. 1t has exploded many a fall
lacy and pierced the mask of many a de-
fusion, spun from the brain of the ~recluse,
misanthrope, the ignorant and wicked. 1t
has woven the web of over the
whole earth. Wherever its suns glowed,
from zone to zone, it sent the message of
a risen Lord, and unclogged minds strug-
CLING upward for the light of the Cross.
But we press the threshold of the New
Year. We are t~hronging the vestibule of
another of those temples reared along the
highway of human life and destiny. 1t
is gorgeous, palatial and resplendent. In
symmetry perfect-its loneliness u%nrival-
led, and its grandeur only to be surpassed
by that of its successors. Fancy has gar
nished its vaulted halls and chambers with
the richest splendor of her imagery, and
gave them the charms ofan Oriental vision
whilst from loftiest pedestal streams the
banner of a new era and an advanced civil
l%ization. Hope enters its bright portals
with a heart all aglow with exultation.-
The eagle eye of ambition blazes with the
fire ola new rapture and zeal, as he views
the magnificent structures in tie full con-
fdence that there is in store for him lau-
rels, crown and victories. Age seeks the
comforts and e~njoyments of its promised
repose, and youth, with foot-step of pri-
meval freedom, bonnds through its spa
cious and glittering n And philan-
thropy. in praise and gratitude lifts up the
arms of her comprehensive charity, allur-
ed. persuaded and emboldened to contin-
ue her assiduous efforts, until the parish of
the world is filled with the glory of her
c~onquests, and island shall echo to island,
and continents herald to continents the
glad tidings of her final and universal tri-
umph.
The new year will facilitate and COM
plete many of the grand enterprises be-
gan by the old. a renewed infusion of
ardor and zeal will quicken human thought
and steel new human energies. Art will
add new beauties to her galleries, and sci
ence learn new truths now undiscovered,
in the vast fields that lie before her
Commerce will expand her boundaries
and send her ships to unknown waters and
her steam engines to unknown wastes.-
And the religion of Jesus Christ ~panoplied
in immortal truth and love and armed
with the sword of Omnipotence, will pen
citrate to the heart of Heathendom, disi-
pate its glooms, overthrow its idolatries,
whilst the Sun of His Righteousness, with
increasing lustre, will she'd upon civilized
lands a richer splendor than they have
ever before enjoyed.
Tennessee.
NAsvILLPs Dee. 30.-The Court house
at Manchester was burned. The records
the ChanceeysC Court were destroyed.
Inhn Bell Crockett grandson of David