The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-01-09

For this;,nd nothing more"
In our national industries Gods hant
has been seen 10 mercy. While famine
has afflicted Persia the horn Of plenty has
hung high in our States. From the granite
hills Of Maine to the sunny Savanahs OF the
gulf, agricultural prosperity has prevailed
Along the slopes of the Atlantic, over the
broad prairics aaukiog the Mississippi and
across the plains ofthe Pacific, the husband
man sowcd in abundance, -gonia sunshine
smiled on the new turned earth, refresh
ing showers baptized the swelling grain, =
corn, wheat and other staple cereals have
tossed their bearded tops in the breeze aud
the barns of the nation groan to-day witt
grain. Our manufactures have generally
been constantly engaged. Water wheeI
aud spndlc;-sewio machine aud printing
press have sung to audiences that Gilmore
never approzimatcd aud their song has
been swcetcr to myriads of dependent fam
lies than the ballads Of Hewitt.
Commercially we owe debt OF graft
tude We cannot cancel. Our merchant
ships have spread their snowy wings o.
canvas over every ocean aud carried ouI
superabundaa: home com%oai!iss to the
ends Of Garth. Back hare they been wat
ted by prosperous winds laden with con.
-tributiODs for our citizens sent from for
eigd shores. No priyaeer has tracked
Istsiiet stli ID slkss qrii aaliaa
torch vraPped,iu a mantle of Gre IheiI
freight Of wealth.
Our national batIlc6elds have been con-
yerted iuto waving grain. Flowers have
twined themselves around broken drum
heads and the ground squirrel has lodged
in the half buried cannon, pleased with
its lion home. The arms of the nation
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have been stacked in undisturbed quiet and
the battle flags of regiments furled away
amid the curiosiiiCs Of museums.
"The Blue and gray;th sleep to-day
Meath many trampled clod;
And side by side just where they died,
They wait the tramp of God.
Their ears are dull to conflicts hull
Orbrttlc's widest fray;
While Others weep they calmly Sleep
Those brave men, blue and gray"
This day groets US as the billows o.
party contention are falling into profound
caImneSs. Men of every hue Of poIitica
faith are looking out on our national fu'
turO hopefully Our revenues are to some
extent, decreasing our national debt. Our
magnificent territories are being rapidly
developed. Our climate is unsurpassed BY
that Of any people on the globe. Church
es, colleges, free schools, and printing
presses are multiplying all over cur broac
domain, notwithstanding the terrible
coufagration that recently visited our mos
polished city Boston-thc large loss BY
fire in New York, during the past week
despite the unparalleled epidemic tha
has crippled transportation by horse pow
er all over the country; and notwithstand
ing that we have been bcreaved Of states
men like Seward and Greeley, general
like Meade, and eminent men in all pro
fcssions, God has so marvoIously favored
US that We may appropriately sing:
"ogive thanks" etc.
To lbe brotherhood of Masons aud Odt
Fellows tue past year has been memora
bic one. The increase of membership
in both these Orders has been unprcce
dcnted; their many kind Offices to the dis
tressed, the sick, the dead, the widow and
the orphan, have added to the worth thes'
Orders, which ought to more than coun
tcract the Misrepresentation Of malice. -
Amid tho malignant shafts Of ridiCulc anc
the contemptuous curl of the lip Of criti
cism, these Orders have stood in calm tri
umph,-stoOd fty described by a grea
poet when he wrote:
"As some tall cliifth rears lis awful firm,
Swells from the vale and midway leaves th
storm,
Though round its brow the rolling clouds MAJ
spread,
Elernbl sunshine settles on lis head"